Athenae Oxonienses.  
An Exact HISTORY OF ALL THE Writers and Bishops Who have had their EDUCATION in The most ancient and famous University OF OXFORD, FROM The Fifteenth Year of King Henry the Seventh, Dom. 1500, to the End of the Year 1690.  
REPRESENTING The Birth, Fortune, Preferment, and Death of all those AUTHORS and PRELATES, the great Accidents of their LIVES, and the Fate and Character of their WRITINGS.  
To which are added, The FASTI or Annals, of the said University, For the same time.  
The First VOLUME, Extending to the 16 th'. Year of King Charles I. Dom. 1640. 
— Antiquam exquirite Matrem.  Virgil.  
LONDON: Printed for THO. BENNET at the Half-Moon in S. Paul's Churchyard. MDCXCI.  
TO THE Most High, Mighty, and Illustrious PRINCE JAMES Duke, Marquess, and Earl of Ormonde,  
Earl of Brecknock and Ossory, etc. Gentleman of the Bedchamber to His Majesty, Knight of the Most Noble Order of the Garter, and Chancellor of the Famous University of OXFORD.  
TO THE Right Worshipful JONATHAN EDWARD'S Doctor of Divinity, and Principal of Jesus College, his Worthy Vicechancellor.  
AND To the Worshipful The Doctors, the Proctors, and Masters, Members of the venerable Convocation of the said University.  
The Author doth humbly dedicate these his ATHENAE and FASTI OXONIENSES.   

The PREFACE  
IT is well known, that the Author of this Work hath through the whole course of his life, declined the pursuit of any private interest or advantage, and hath only, according to his abilities, endeavoured to promote the honour and glory of that Nation where he had been born; and more especially of that University wherein he was educated. His early application, or as some call it, his natural propensity to Histories and Antiquities made him more fit to serve his Country in that, than in any other St●●y; and that part of Antiquity, which was most useful in its self, and which yet lay most neglected became the immediate object of his care, as that which not only deserved, but required and wanted the greatest industry.  
The University of Oxford had now flourished for many Centuries, its Members had been great and famous; their works wanted neither value nor number, and therefore nothing seemed more necessary for the increase of its glory, and for the true knowledge of its strength than a Register of its Heroes and an exact survey of its powers: It was requisite then, not only that the Writers of this University, and the Characters of their works should be perpetuated to posterity, but that a History of all Cardinals, Archbishops, and Bishops, as well in this Nation as beyond the Seas; all of them formerly Members of this University, should at the same time and by the same hand be attempted, and carried on; and that lastly the account of any remarkable Persons, that would not fall under those heads, might be reserved to, and digested under the Fasti, or Annals of the University. So that upon the whole, not only the lives of the Authors, and the fate of their Writings, but the succession of all eminent Men in Oxford, the decay and growth, the rise and progress of learning, might at one view in due order of time distinctly appear. It is a wonder indeed that among all the members of that Body▪ who have signalised their learning and industry in all professions, and almost upon all subjects; the entire glory of this Work should be left to this Author, and that no part of literature should be left wholly uncultivated in that famous Society; but the Memoires of the University itself, and the History of Learning therein. Somewhat indeed in defence of the antiquity of the place had before, by Mr. Twine and others been successfully undertaken and performed; but it was a far more easy and less useful enquiry to look into the Original of this Society, than to record the Acts of its Members, to discover the head of this Fountain, than to trace all its Channels: Since therefore this Work seemed for the most part new, and as yet untouched, it was once the Author's design to Commence with the time of K. Alfred, and from thence to have brought down the concurrent History of the University and Learning together. But afterwards when he had considered not only that the famous Antiquary Jo. Leland, and his followers Bale, Pits, and Dr. Fran. Godwin, had in a great measure anticipated the former part of his design, but that the Records and Registers themselves, upon which his Relations are chiefly founded, were in those times either wholly lost, or at least dark and imperfect; He thought fit to begin with the 15th Century, and to ascend no higher than his Records would lead him. However, since a great and noble part of the History of Learning, would upon so late a date of this Work be wholly omitted, it was esteemed requisite that a short and full relation of all Authors and Works, which before that time had been published in this Island should supply that loss, and render the work itself more perfect and entire.  
This Introduction the Reader may expect before the 2d. Vol. At present nothing more remains for the subject of this Preface, than to give a short account of the design of this work, of the management and language of it, and to add somewhat concerning the Author.  
As to the design, it must be owned that since an entire Collection of all passages relating to eminent Authors was intended; some circumstances have a place here which at first view may seem trivial and immaterial. It ought therefore to be considered, that those little accidents however mean in themselves, yet in respect of the Persons and of the works which they attend, oftentimes become considerable. In a common repertory any redundance or superfluity of matter, however too severely blamed by nice palates, is such a fault as is not far removed from an excellence. The work is fitted for all Men in all faculties, and therefore those of one profession should not be displeased, if somewhat be inserted, which however useless to them, may be chosen and admired by others. In all Commentaries and Journals which afford Materials for History, there ought not only to be somewhat rude and naked, which may afterwards be polished; somewhat rough and plain, that may be beautified and improved; but somewhat at least little, and seemingly immaterial than may upon occasion judiciously be chosen, or sometimes perhaps with no less prudence, rejected. Such general collections are read by most Men with different designs; and therefore however easy it may be for any Man to discover an omission; it is very hard for any one Reader to pronounce one single passage in them wholly superfluous. 'Tis true indeed, that Men who after a great search and enquiry into Records, have found but somewhat that might as well have been spared, naturally choose rather to trespass on the Reader, than to pass sentence on their own discoveries; and this, if any blemish, is so common to this Author with all other famous Antiquaries, from Plutarch, and Athenaeus down to Selden, and Dugdale; that his Title to that name might well be disputed if he should be without it.  
2ly. The management of such a Work as this must necessarily depend as upon a search into ancient Records, so upon a Commerce with those Relations and Friends of the deceased Authors which had survived them. Those of the Ch. of Rome, to which this Author applied himself, have been communicative and industrious in furnishing Materials for this Work; and therefore if any thing more largely be said of the Members of that Communion than may be thought necessary, it ought to be imputed to the ready concurrence of that party towards a Work of this nature, rather than to any propensity of the Author to that Religion. The Nonconform●sts, who bear some s●are in this Work, have been as usually, so little Friends to the carrying on of a public design, and to that free intercourse, which ought to be maintained between all learned Men, that very few, and those unsatisfactory relations could be obtained from them; and therefore a true, but no very large nor favourable account of their Writings ought to be expected from him. And lastly, as to those of the Church of England, they have generally behaved themselves so well, that they have no need to desire flattery no● have any reason h●●e to complain of Calumny. It is to be hoped therefore, since this Author hath endeavoured to show himself just and indifferent to Men of all professions; his love of impartiality will not be mistaken for want of Religion. All good Antiquaries, Men of enlarged Souls, and of an even temper; however of divers professions, have always been of the same Principle: They all equally sacrificed to Truth and Learning; and suffered not their private Opinions to put a bias on their History. And whoever will compare the Cento's of Bale, and Pits, with the excellent Works of Leland and Camden, must necessarily discern, how near an Alliance there is between Zeal and Ignorance, and between Learning and Moderation.  
3. As to the Language, the Reader may expect such Words as are suitable to the character of the Work, and of the Person. It is impossible to think that men who always converse with old Authors, should not learn the dialect of their Acquaintance. An old Word is retained by an Antiquary with as much Religion as a Relic; and few are by him received as English, but such as have been naturalised by Speneer. Language is the dress of the Thoughts as well as clothes of the Person; and therefore the Expressions of an Antiquary ought to be privileged, as well as his Garb. Words are neither good nor bad if abstracted from Things; and therefore they, as all Ornaments, have no beauty in themselves, but receive it by accidents as gracefully suited, and applied to the Subject. Originals are best expressed, as found, without Alteration; and it is not only a misspent, but ridiculous labour, to change the old Expressions of a Deed; and to put a new Stamp upon a Medal. Thus much hath in short been said of the Book, and somewhat that may prevent Objections may without suspicion of Vanity be added concerning the Author of it. When this Work some years since was first undertaken, he not only consulted all the Registers relating to the University, but all other Writings and Records, MS. and printed, whether in the Bodleian, Norfolk, or Cottonian Libraries, whether in the Tower, Exchequer, Paper Office, or elsewhere, that could give him any notice of these Authors, or let him into the true knowledge of their Lives, Preferments, and Writings. The Registers of the ancient Churches and Cathedrals were diligently consulted; the Wills of the deceased persons were at the Prerogative Office examined; the Windows of Churches, Epitaphs and Inscriptions, have been searched; the Genealogy of the Authors at the Herald's Office hath been nquired into; and no method hath been unattempted which could contribute to a true History of these Writers, or ascertain the least date and circumstance of their Lives. This extraordinary care and unwearied industry, was undertaken without any other motive than a love to Truth, and without any other prospect, than the benefit of Posterity. The Author never enjoyed any Preferment, nor pursued any; he lived as a Recluse from the World, so independent of it; and therefore it is not to be wondered if he takes such a liberty of Speech as most other Authors, out of Prudence, Cunning, or Design, have usually declined. It might be fit perhaps that some harsh Expressions might be allayed; that a few severe Reflections might be softened, and that some Passages at last, which seem too hardly charged on men otherwise creditable, might be wholly omitted: but at the same time it is not to be denied, That Faults ought no more to be concealed than Virtues, and that whatever it may be in a Painter, it is no excellence in an Historian to throw a veil on Deformities.  
If lastly, There should be any defect or failure; if Truth, which is often too strictly pursued, should in one single instance, or some little circumstance, be mistaken; it is at least, certainly a just Request, that in so great and tedious a Work, which oftentimes and almost every where deserves praise, any small Errors may be entitled to Pardon.  
A farther discourse of the nature of these Books in general, and of the use of this in particular, is reserved to the second Volume; in the mean time all judicious men must be satisfied that the History of Learning, which hath hitherto been so much wanting in England, is now at last so far advanced; and that the Materials at least of so great and so useful a Work are ready, and prepared.  
In other Countries, particularly in France, Italy, and the Northern Nations, now above fifty years, the most famous Writers have employed their care in the account of Authors and Books, and have thought it more necessary to number and marshal than to increase the Forces of the Commonwealth of Learning.  
In England in the mean time an Account of Learning was more defective even than our Civil History: Our Authors had been as famous as our Heroes; our Writings were as successful as our Battles; and yet the Annals of both were so imperfect, that either generally we had no representation of them at all, or such an one as traduced the Original. As to our Heroes indeed, Tho an universal History to the discredit of this Nation, be yet to be desired, and in all probability will be long expected, yet some independent Relations that give account of one great Action, or perhaps of one particular Reign, may with honour be remembered; but as to our Author's, after the ancient Discoveries of Boston and Leland, there hath been nothing attempted but some rude and disproportionable draughts of mean and ignorant Designers. However now at last it must be owned, That if this Essay may not be just and complete, yet the first Lineaments are so faithfully and exactly drawn, that the finishing strokes may without difficulty be added, and perhaps without loss expected; and that so regular a design is here presented to your view, as may encourage at least the future industry of the best Artist, if not supersede it.   

ERRATA.  
By the Absence of the Author from the Press, many Faults have been committed in the printing this Book; most of which, especially those that are notorious, follow. Pag Line. Error. Correction. 2 7 from the top Puritanorum aliorum Puritanorum sive aliorum ibid. 9 from top citation relation 3 13 from top The case of showing case showing 14 36 from bot. ●erdinandus Ferdinandus 16 20 from top Will. Coley Hen. Coley. 28 24 from bot. Exhileraverit Exhilaraverit 33 18 from top implyments. employments 45 4 from bot. genere generis 46 32 from bot. quendam quandam 48 23 from top Palsgrauf Palsgrave 52 9 from bot. Solopian Salopian 64 27 from bot. Horologeorum Horologiorum 66 13 from bot. locupletus locupletatus 67 18 from bot. collorary corollary 68 16 from bot. Lectore Lectori ibid. 13 from bot. antiquarum antiquorum 70 20 from bot. plano plane 75 15 from top Papiculorum Papicolarum 89 in marg. 158 1558 96 in marg. 5121 121 99 28 from top but that of it which was left part but that part of it which was left 106 3 from bot. Bemardine Bernardine 107 21 from bot. Cathral Cathedral 111 19 from bot. Melanctonum Melanctonem 119 4 from bot. transegit transigit 141 in marg. 183 to be set opposite to Jo. Parkhurst. 142 24 from top Obscurity obscenity 155 17 from top Exilis Exulis 157 19 from bot. per fide pro fide 158 29 from top caluit calluit 160 4 from top besece beseech 168 in marg. 158 1581. 171 29 from bot. Sacrorum Sacrarum ibid. 5 from bot. librandus liberandus 174 40 from top Tresmagistus Tresmegistus 179 22 from bot. reipub. repub. 180 5 from top Bosgrace Bosgrave ibid. 41 from top occidendum Occidendam 181 2 from bot. ipsius inscriptae ipsius nomine inscriptae. 183 10 from bot. fond, a B fond as B 188 in marg. 238 to be set opposite to Jo. Field. 192 in marg. Clar. 1580 Claer. 1588. 194 24 from top Stoke Tatmach Stoke-Talmach ibid. 33 from bot. Amoratto Amoretto 219 alias 5 from top Gesnaro Gesnero 201 ibid. 22 from top Pombrochian Pembrochian Pag. Line. Error. Correction. 222 21 from top perfectus professus 231 31 from top Hexamiter Hexameter 234 29 from top republica reipub. ib. 49 from top Turcorum Turcarum ib. 50 from bot. concensione consentione ib. 23 from bot. Women Woman 235 23 from bot. Rosial Rossall ib. 39 from bot. Academy Academy 242 30 from top upon whereupon 243 25 from top though through ib. 30 from bot. prastontiss prastantiss 252 29 from bot. 1272 1572 260 13 from top Dobon Dobson 269 38 from bot. Elegantio Elegantia 272 12 from top Dormon Dorman ib. 17 from top Norten Norton 277 8 from top to to 279 29 from bot. Weevon Weever ib. 23 from bot. Edes Eedes 389 10 from bot. Sentence Sentences ib. 11 from bot. read Reader ib. 12 from bot. Acts Arts 290 37 from bot. trund turned 296 13 from top venestum Venustum 304 36 from top sermonum sermonem ib. 27 from bot. Iscamus Iscanus 309 17 from top his the 316 11 from bot. Juridicum Juridica ib. 9 from bot. defendetur defenditur 335 33 from top it in 336 40 from top Old Philip Philip 345 10 from bot. Relationem Relationum 346 10. 16. 21. 2. 3. 4. 3. 4. 5.  fr. the top Bunnry Bunney 355 15 from top 359 4 from top there thence 361 29 from top discouse discourse 364 31 from top imparted imparked ib. 35 from bot. a act take away a 370 24 from top. was he he was 374 2 from bot. magna magni 375 4 from top Speech Speeches ib. 6 from top Speeches Speech 383 33 from top Magd. Coll. Magd. Hall. 390 30 from bot. Nich. Torporley Nath. Toperley 395 17 from bot. Notes Votes 398 38 from top linea. linia 415 18 from bot. Religularibus Regularibus ib. 17 from bot. obitat obital 416 23 from bot. credulous incredulous 430 17 from top Monutague Montague 439 33 from top both but 441 12 from bot. Harnet Harsnet 445 25 from bot. Assasianate Assassinate ib. 9 from bot. attainted tainted 449 3 from bot. Ecclesiam Ecclesiarum 455 17 from top Turnball Turnbull 456 42 from top Balstrode Balstrode 464 13 from top care ear 470 11 from bot. Vniversam Vniversum 477 39 from top carl curl 480 4 from top of learnedest of the learnedest 518 34 from top addition addiction 525 32 from bot. Victa Vecta ib. 30 from bot. preficium perficiam 528 34 from top 1633 1636 ib. 33 from bot. Sunnilbank Sunnibank 531 35 from bot. Reipub. Repub. 536 in marg. 163— 4 1639— 40 538 31 from bot. Burlow Barlow 554 20 from top Kicomaing Kilcomaing 566 27 from top Bostou Boston 591 9 from top Gheest Gheast 614 30 from top Thorp-Thales Thorp-Thules 640 15 from bot. Ma●●ore Marmore 644 39 from bot. Hutcon Hutton 681 32 from top Prebendary Prebendship. ib. 44 from top Budlyngham Bullyngham 698 22 from top Roch. Harford Rich. Harford 706 36 from top Turnball Turnbull 764 37 from top Boughton Montague 782 22 from top Belcher Belchier 788 22 from top Giles thorn Will. Thorn 825 26 from bot. Sea-blood Sea of blood  
In pag. 579. lin. 2. from the bottom, is this gross mistake— Within the Parish Church of S. James in Longdon he bequeathed, etc. which is to be read thus— Within the Parish Church of S. James in Longdon before mentioned. For the use of which Chapel and the Parishioners of Longdon he bequeathed, etc.  
Also in pag. 816. is this mistake, 
 Doct. of Phys. 
 

June 21. Dan. Price of Ex. Coll.  
June 21. Lew. Bayly of Ex. Coll.   
 Which is to be read thus, 
 Doct. of Phys. 
 Mar. ult. Tob. Venner of S. Alb. Hall, who accumulated the degrees in Physic.  
Doct. of Diu. 
 

June 21. Dan. Price of Ex. Coll. etc.  
June 21. Lew. Bayly of Ex. Coll. etc.     

ATHENAE OXONIENSES  
The History of the Writers of the University of Oxford, from the Year of our Lord 1500, to the end of 1640.  

Vol. I.  
UNIVERSITY of OXFORD the most noble Theatre and Emporium of all good Sciences, the very Source and most clear Spring of good Literature and Wisdom; from whence Religion, Civility, and Learning, have spread most plentifully through all Parts thereof, and beyond the Seas; hath these things following, going under her name as Author.  
Epistolae ad Magnates & alios; in two Volumes in Folio. The first written on Parchment, begins in 20. Hen. 5. Dom. 1422. and ends in 18. Hen. 7. Dom. 1503, which is two Years and more beyond the time wherein I begin this work. This Book endorsed with the Letter F, was chiefly written by the Hand of one John Farley, the public Scribe or Registrary of the University of Oxon. and is at this time kept in the School-Tower, among the Books and Records of the said University. The second Vol. which is written on Paper, begins about the latter end of the 24. Hen. 7. Dom. 1508, and is continued to 1597, and hath added to it certain Epistles of a later date. This Book endorsed with the Letters F F, was borrowed from the School-Tower by Dr. Tho. James, the first Keeper of the Bodleian Library; who afterwards putting it into the Archives thereof, did enter it, as a Manuscript belonging thereunto, into the Bodleian Catalogue of Books, Printed in 4to. An. 1620. The continuation of the University Epistles (mostly Penned by the public Orator) are remitted into the Books of Acts of Convocation that follow F F. To pass by the Sentence or Opinion of the University of Oxon. concerning the divorce between King Henry 8. and Queen Catherine, dated 8. Apr. 1530, and their Sentence in order to the expelling or ejecting the Pope's Authority from England dat. 24. July 1534. (both which contain but little more matter than two Programmas) I shall set down other things going under her name of a laterdate, as,  
An answer to the humble Petition of the Ministers of England, desiring Reformation of certain Ceremonies and abuses in the Church. Oxon. 1603. and 1604. in four or five Sheets in Quarto.  
Decretum ●amnans propositiones Neotericorum, sive Jesuitarum, sive Puritanorum, aliorum cujuscunque generis Scriptorum— dat. 6. Jun. 1622. Oxon. 1622. in one Sheet in 4to. see the full Citation of the said Decree and Propositions in Hist. & Antiq. Uniu. Oxon. lib. 1. p. 327.  
Epistola ad reverendiss. in Christo patrem D. Gul. Archipras. Cantuar. dat. 10. Nou. 1640. It was Printed at the end of the said Archb. Letter, which he sent with divers MSS. to the University of Oxon.  
Humble Petition to the Parliament in behalf of Episcopacy and Cathedrals.— that. 24. Apr. 1641. Oxon. 1641. Printed in one Sheet in 4to. as also on a broad side of a Sheet. It was answered by a certain Anonymus, but very sillily.  
Epistola ad ampliss. & reverendiss. D. Gul. Archipraes'. Cant. dat. 6. Jul. 1641. It was Printed at the end of the said Archbishop's Letter, by which he resigned his Office of Chancellor of the University of Oxon. This Epistle was published by command of the Chief Members of the said University, upon occasion of a base Libel and Forgery that was Printed by Anon. under the said title. Oxon. 1641. in one Sheet and half.  
Reasons of their present judgement concerning (1) The Solemn League and Covenant. (2) The Negative Oath, and (3) The Ordinances concerning Discipline and Worship, approved by general consent in a full Convocation, on the first of June 1647. Oxon. 1647. in five Sheets and half in 4to. These Reasons (which were for the most part drawn up by the Profound and Learned Dr. Rob. Sanderson of Linc. Coll.) were afterwards translated into several Languages and published.  
Answer to the Petition, Articles of grievance, and Reasons of the City of Oxon, presented to the Committee for regulating the University of Oxford, 24. July 1649. Oxon. 1649. and 1678. 4to. This Answer was drawn up by Dr. Gerard Langbaine of Queens Coll. but published in the Name of the University of Oxon. The said Petition of the City of Oxon (the general part of which, were then Presbyterians, or at least very Factious) was for the diminishing, and taking away, several of the Liberties and Privileges of the University.  
Judgement and Decree passed in the Convocation 21. July 1683. against certain pernicious Books and damnable Doctrines, destructive to the Sacred Persons of Princes, their State and Government, and of all Humane Society— Printed at the Theatre in Oxon. in Latin and English in three Sheets in Folio. 1683.  
Humble Address and Recognition Presented to His Sacred Majesty James 2. King of England, etc. according to an Act of Convocation, bearing date 21. Feb. 1684— 'Tis Printed in Latin and English; and was set before the Verses, made by several Members of the University on the said Kings coming to the Crown of Great Britain, Fol.  
The Case of showing, that the City of Oxford is not concerned to oppose the Confirmation of their Charters by Parliament; presented to the Honourable House of Commons, 24 Jan. 1689. Oxon. 1690. in 2 Sheets in Fol. and in two and an half in 4 to. drawn up by Ja. Harrington M. A. of Christ Church.  
Judicium & decretum latum in Convocatione habita Aug. 19 an. 1690. contra propositiones quasdam impias & haereticas, exscriptas & citatas ex libello quodam infami haud ita pridem intra dictam Academiam perfidè typis mandato, ac divulgato, evi tit. est, The naked Gospel. Quae praecipua fidei nostrae mysteria in Ecclesia Catholica, ac speciatim Anglicana, semper retenta & conservata, impugnant ac labefactant. Oxon. 1690. in two Sheets in Fol. This Book called The Naked Gospel was written by Arth. Bury D. D. Rector of Exeter Coll. and by him was first made public in the beginning (in Apr.) of the same Year: And though it is said in the Title Page to be Printed at London, yet it was really Printed at Oxon, by virtue of his Authority, as being then Pro-Vice-Chancellor. But before Twenty Copies of it had been dispersed, the Author, by the persuasion of some of his Friends, made certain alterations for the best, as he thought, in one or more Sheets in the middle of the said Book; and thereupon several Copies so altered were exposed to sale; yet in the Month of May following, the remaining Copies of the Impression not altered were dispersed abroad. The said Book was publicly Burnt in the School-quadrangle, just after the said Decree had passed: Whereupon about three days after, the Author of it dispersed in Manuscript, his Apology for writing the said Book called The Naked Gospel; the beginning of which is this: The design of the Book and the occasion of it were as followeth; when the King had called a Convocation to reconcile, as it was hoped, to the Church of England the several Sects, etc. In which Apology, the Author saith, that certain Persons to him unknown, got a Copy of the said Book unaltered, and Printed it at London.  
As for the several Books of Verses, which were published on various occasions, under the Name of the University of Oxon, are not to be remembered here, because the Names of all, or at least most of, the Persons that had composed Copies of Verses, have their Names set at the end of them.  
WILLIAM BEETHS, a Person Famous for his great knowledge in the Theological faculty, was Educated from his Youth among the Dominicans, commonly called Blackfriars, then noted in England and elsewhere, for their Religion and Learning; and in the prime of his Years, obtained much of his Learning in the College or Convent belonging to that Order, in the South Suburb of Oxon. In his middle Age, he being then accounted by those of his Society, a Person of great Discretion and Prudence, as well as of Learning; he was Elected by them their Provincial Minister; that is the chief Governor or Master of them and their Order in England; which laudable Office he executed for some Years with great approbation. He hath written according to Anton. 
a In Bibliotheca Ordinis Fratrum Praedicatorum, edit. Parisiis 1585. in octavo, p. 97.  Senensis. 
 Comment. sup. 4. libros sententiarum. 
 Tract. de unitate formarum. 
 Lecturae Scholasticae, 
Claruit 1501.  and other things which I have not yet seen. This William Beeths was in great renown among Learned Men, especially among those of his Order, in the Reign of K. H. 7. of England, but when he died it appears not.  
JOHN PERCEVALL discovered even in his Childhood an early affection to Learning, and when at the Age of about Twenty, he diligently applied his Muse to Philosophical Learning in the Universities of England, especially in this of Oxon; wherein he obtained a considerable competency in humane and Divine Learning. At riper Years, he, upon mature consideration, entered 
b Joh. Baleus in lib. De Scriptorib. maj. Britanniae, cent. 8. num. 51.  into the most Holy Order of the Carthusians; and soon after by a severe and strict life among them, mostly by fasting and a continual and religious contemplation; his divine Soul was at length totally refined and fitted for the Society of the Saints in Heaven. He hath transmitted to Posterity,  
Compendium divini amoris. Par. 1530. in Oct. This Book was Printed elsewhere before that time.  
Epistolae ad solitarios; besides other things as 'tis said, but such I have not yet seen: Theodor. Petreius in his Bibliotheca 
c Edit. Colon. 1609 in octavo, p. 212.  Cartusiana, 
Claruit 1502.  tells us, that this John Percevall was Prior of the Carthusians at Paris, in the Year 1550, but my Author (Jo. Baleus) before quoted, mentions no such matter, only that he was a bare Carthusian; and that he was in great esteem among Men for his Piety and Learning Fifty Years before that time. The Reader is now to know that contemporary with the former, lived another John Percevall Doctor of Divinity of Oxon, and by order a Franciscan or Grey Friar; who being a Person of great note among his Brethren, or among those of his Society, was elected the Seven and Fortieth Provincial Minister of them; but what relation there was between this and the former, it appears not. This John Percevall the Franciscan died at London, and was buried in the Church of the Franciscans, now commonly called Christ-Church within Newgate; whereupon Hen. Standish D. D. (whom I shall mention elsewhere) succeeded him in the Provincialship. It is also farther to be noted, that whereas a Learned 
d Francisc. à Sancta clara in Supplement. Historiae Provinciae Angliae, edit. Duac. in fol. 1671. p. 7. b.  Author tells us, that this John Percevall succeeded in that honourable Office, one Will. Goddard a Doctor of Divinity of Oxon, it is a great mistake, for that Will. Goddard whom he sets down to have been Provincial Minister, was only Warden or Guardian 
e Ut in quodam Manuscripto continent. Monumenta in Ecclesia Fratrum minorum (vel Franciscanorion) Londi●●. MS. in Biblioth. Cottoniana, sub effigy Vitellii, F. 12.  of the House or College of Franciscans at London beforementioned, (to which he was a Benefactor) who dying 26. 
f Ibid.  Sept. 1485. was Buried in the Chapel of the Apostles, joining to the Church of the said House. As for the famous Dr. Will. Goddard, who was the 
g Ibid.  Provincial Minister of the Franciscans, he 
h Ibid.  died 30 Octob. 1437. and was buried in the said Church, on the right side of the Tomb of Sir John hastings: So that I believe two, three, or more were Provincials between this last Dr. Goddards death, and the time when Dr. John Percevall took the Provincialship upon him.  
ROBERT BALE called by some Robert Bale Junior, because there was another of both his Names, a Lawyer of London, and before him in time, was born in the County of Norfolk, entered, when Young, among the Carmes or Carmelites, commonly called White-friar's, in the City of Norwych; spent some time for the sake of Study, among those of his Order, living in the North Suburb of Oxon, where he improved himself much in the faculty of Theology; as, I presume, he did partly at Cambridge among those of his Society there. Afterwards he became Prior of the Carmes at Burnham in his own Country, where he was had in veneration by them and others for his great love towards Learning and Learned Men. All the time that he could procure, he greedily spent in his beloved Study of Divinity, and Histories both Divine and Profane; and having to his great expense obtained a considerable Library of Books, they, at length, came after his Death to that of the Carmes at Burnham. He hath written,  
annal perbreves Ordinis Carmelitarum. The beginning of which is, Anno Mundi 3042. Helias Thesb. etc.  
Historia Heliae Prophetae. The beginning of which is, Ecce ego mitto, etc.  
Officium Simonis Angli. The beginning of which is, Simon pater inclytus, etc. This famous Simon was Simon Stock, the most noted and religious Brother of the Carmes that ever was; the first of all his Order that took a degree in this University, as I have told 
i In Hist. & Antiq. Vniu. Oxon. lib. 1. p. 99 a.  you elsewhere; and the same, who many Years after his death was Canonised. Besides the said Books, he the said Rob. Bale composed Several. Sermons, which went from hand to hand, as one 
k V●le Baleum in lib. De Scrip. maj. Brit. u● sup. Cont. 11. num. 59  of his Order will farther tell you, who addeth, year 1503 that he giving way to fate in Fifteen hundred and three which was about the 18th. Year of K. Hen. 7. was buried in his Monastery of Burnham before-mentioned.  
RICHARD BARDNEY was born at, or near to, Bardney in Lincolnshire; became when Young, a Monk of the Order of St. Benedict in his own Country, received his Learning in the supreme faculty among those of his Society in Oxon, and afterwards retiring to his Monastery, wrote in Verse,  
Vita Roberti Grostest quondam Episcopi Lincolniensis. 'Tis as yet in Manuscript, and was finished by the Author in 1503. he being then Bachelaur of Divinity, and by him dedicated to Will. Smythe Bishop of Lincoln. The beginning of this Book is Lincolniensis apex presul sacrate Wilelme, etc. Many fabulous things are inserted therein, not at all agreeable to so profound and subtle a Philosopher as Grostest was; who in his Life and Actions did very humbly 
l Tho. Bradwardin in lib. 3. De libero arbitrio contra Pelapium.  imitate, or at least endeavoured so to do, St. Austin Archbishop of Canterbury. The said Author Bardney tells us, that Grestest was Born at Stow in Lincolnshire, which no Author besides himself, hath in the least mentioned, and other matters of him which are false, though some are true, 
Claruit 1504  and fit to be mentioned in History. What else our Author Bardney hath written, I know not as yet, nor any thing else of him; only, that he was in good esteem for some parts of Learning, especially by those of his Society, during the time that King Henry 7. lived; but when he died it appears not.  
DONALD O-FIHELY, a Person much valued among his Countrymen, for his unwearied industry in matters relating to History and Antiquity; was Born of an Ancient Family in the County of Cork in Ireland: whence in his Youthful Years being sent to Oxon, improved himself much in Academical Learning; but whether he took a Degree, we have no Register that testifies it. Afterwards receding to his Native Country, he wrote in his own Language.  
The Annals of Ireland— drawn down with great care and labour to his time, and by him Dedicated to his Patron, and Favourer of his Muse Florence Mac Mahoun. This Book, which doth as yet, as I conceive, continue in MS, was in the Custody of one Flor. Mac Carty in 1626., as the Antiquary 
m Jacob. Waraeus in lib. 1. De Scriptorib. Hibern. cap. 11.  of Ireland attesteth; who adds, that this our Author O Fihely did write the said Annals about the latter end of the last, or in the beginning of this Century, which we are now upon: So that I presume, that he was living in Fifteen hundred and five, 
Claruit 1505.  and that he wrote, as 'tis probable, other things, but lost. In this Man's time, I find many noted Persons of Ireland to have studied in this University; who, as it seems, have either been Writers, Bishops, or Statesmen in that Kingdom; but most of their Christian Names being deficient, I cannot justly particularise them, or say that this was afterwards a Writer, or that a Bishop, etc.  
STEPHEN HAWES, or Hawys originally descended, as it seems, from the Haws of Haws in the Bushes in the County of Suffolk; was instructed in all such Literature as this University could at that time afford, but whether he took a Degree, we have no Register to show it. Afterwards in his Travels through England, Scotland, and France; visiting the receptacles of good Letters, did much advance the Foundation of Literature that he had laid in this place; so that after his return, he being esteemed a complete Gentleman, a Master of several Languages, especially of the French, and above all, for his most excellent vein in Poetry; he was received into the Court of King Henry 7. who being a great encourager of Learning, and a judicious understander of Men, was by him made 
n Jo●. Baleus ut supra, cent. 8. num. 58. where 'tis said that the King called St. Hawes ab interiori camera ad secretum cubiculum.  at length one of the Grooms of his Chamber, and highly esteemed by him for his facetions' discourse, and prodigious memory; which last did evidently appear in this, that he could repeat by heart most of our English Poets; especially Jo. Lydgate a Monk of Bury, whom he made equal in some respects, with Geff. Chaucer. He hath transmitted to Posterity several Books in English, some of which are in Verse, and somein Prose, as,  
The pastime of pleasure; or, the History of Grand Amour, and la bell Pucell, containing the knowledge of the seven Sciences, and the course of Man's Life in this World. Lond. 1555. quart. Written in English Verse, and finished by the Author 21. Henry 7. Dom. 150 5/6. About which time it was first of all, I suppose, made public. It is adorned with Wooden Cuts to make the Reader understand the Story the better, and Printed in an old English Character. But such is the fate of Poetry, that this Book which in the time of Henry 7. and 8. was taken into the Hands of all ingenious Men, is now thought but Worthy of a Ballad-mongers Stall. He hath also written (1) The Exemplar of Virtue. (2) Delight of the Soul. (3) Consolation of Lovers. (4) The Crystalline Temple, etc. one or more of which were written in Latin. 
Claruit 1506.  This Author was in great value among ingenious Men, in the latter end of Henry 7. but when he died I know not as yet.  
WILLIAM GALEON a Norfolk Man Born, did in his Manly Years, take upon him the Habit of the Friars of the Order of St. Austin the Hermit at Lynn Regis in his own Country; Studied several Years in this University among the Brethren of that Order in their College there, proceeded 
o Ibid. in Bal. cent. 8. num. 91.  Doctor of Divinity at Oxon, and at length was made Provincial of his Order, that is the chief Governor of the said Brethren, living in the Province of England; he being then accounted a most eminent Person for Literature and Piety, and the prime example among those of his Society for all kind of Virtue and Learning. He hath written and left to Posterity, Lectiones in Theologia. 
 Disputationes Variae.  
Course of Sermons for the whole Year, Preached to the People.— Besides other things which I have not yet seen. He paid his last debt to Nature at Lynn before-mentioned in Fifteen hundred and seven, year 1507 (22. and 23. of Hen 7.) and was buried in the Church there belonging to the Friars of St. Austin. Joseph. Pamphilus' Bishop of Segni saith 
p In Chron. ord. Fratrum eremit. Edit. Romae 1581. in qu. Fol. 92. b.  that he died in 1500, Aged 90 Years, but falsely, for all Authors, except himself, say otherwise.  
JOHN SOWLE, a Carme of London, was for some time a Student in the Sacred Faculty among those of his Order in Oxon, took one, if not both the Degrees, in the said Faculty in this University, in the Reign, as I conceive, of Henry 7. being then a very famous Preacher, and not only followed by the Secular Priests, but by many of the Religious Orders. He was a great admirer, and a Preacher up of the Doctrine of S. Paul, and endeavoured to his utmost, to frame his life according to it, and to make others do the like, and therefore much honoured and valued by Dr. John Colet, the learned and religious Dean of S. Paul's Cathedral. He hath Written according to Baleus 
q In cent. 9 Script. maj. Britan. num. 13.  these things following, 
 Sermons ex D▪ Paulo. 
 Divisiones Thematum.  
A course of Sermons for the year— Besides other matters relating to Divinity. year 1508 He departed this mortal life in Fifteen hundred and eight, which was the last year of King Henry 7. and was buried among the Carmes, commonly called the White Friars in their Convent near Fleetstreet, in the Suburb of London, leaving then the Character behind him of a most Pious and Religious Father.  
EDMUND DUDLEY, Son of John Dudley Esquire, Second Son of John Lord Dudley, of Dudley Castle in Staffordshire, became a Student in this University about 1478. went afterwards, as it seems, to Greys-Inn in Holborn near London, where he in a short time became so noted a Proficient in the Municipal Law; that King Henry 7. taking notice of him, did 
r Pol. Virgil. in Lib. 26. Angl. Hist.  for his singular prudence and faithfulness, make choice of him to be one of his Privy Council in the first year of his Reign, Dom. 1486. Dudley being then but twenty four years of age. Soon after, he discerning the King to be of a frugal disposition, did, to gain his favour the more, project the taking advantage against such as had transgressed the Penal Laws, by exacting from them the Forfeitures according to those Statutes. In which employment he had for his assistant one Sir Richard Emson, another Lawyer, Son of a Sieve-maker of Tocester in Northamptonshire. Both which being constituted by the said King his Judices fiscales, as one 
s Idem ibid.  is pleased to style them, (Dudley being then 
t Franc. Bacon Vis●. S. Alban, in his History of Henry 7. Printed at London in folio 1622. p. 209.  a person that could put hateful business into good language) they became so extremely hated of all people, that they were forced many times to go guarded in the Streets. In the 19 of Henry 7. he being Speaker of the House of Commons in Parliament, should have been made Sergeant at Law on the 13. of November the same year, but (for what reason it appears not) he did petition that he might be discharged from assuming that Degree, which was accordingly done to his desire, and in the 22. of the said Kings Reign, he 
u In the third Tom. of the Baronage of England, p. 217. b.  obtained the Stewardship of the Rape of Hastings in Sussex. He hath written 
w Baleus ut supra, Cent. 11. nu. 84.  a Book Entit.  
Arbour Reipublicae, etc. It is penned in a Juridic Stile, and is now, or at least lately was, reserved, as a choice Monument, in the Cottonian Library. Whether ever Printed, I cannot tell. At length after King Henry 7. (who favoured his actions because he brought Grist to his Mill) being dead, his Successor King Henry 8. did, for the People's satisfaction, issue out his special Precept for the Execution of the said Dudley, than a Prisoner in the Tower of London. Whereupon he had his Head smitten off on Tower-Hill, 28. Aug. 2. Henry 8. being the year of our Lord fifteen hundred and ten, year 1510 leaving then behind him several Sons, the eldest of which was John, afterwards Duke of Northumberland, Father to Ambrose Dudley, Earl of Warwick, and to Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester.  
JOHN HOLTE, called by some Holtigena, was born in the County of Sussex, and from being Usher of the School joining to the common gate of S. Mary Magdalen College, and Bachelaur of Arts, was elected Probationer of the said College in 1490. and within the compass of an year following was admitted true and perpetual Fellow thereof. Afterwards he took the Degree of Master of Arts, and carried on the profession of Pedagogy so zealous, that by his admirable way of teaching the Faculty of Grammar, many from his School were transplanted to several Colleges and Halls in this University, that were afterwards eminent in the Nation. Since which time, and that of King Henry 7. hath been a singular care of Royal Authority, and of worthy learned men to lay a solid Foundation of all kind of Learning, by producing a right Grammar-Institution. For though before the said King's time a great part of our English men had little leisure, and less care of good Arts, yet when the Houses of York and Lancaster were united by the Counsel of Dr. John Moreton, Bishon of Ely, and the times thereupon became more peaceable, our Author Holte made a Grammar, Entit.  
Lac Puerorum, etc. Printed about the year 1497. and Dedicated to the said Moreton, than Archbishop of Canterbury. Which Grammar (Printed also with the Works of John Stanbridge) being the first of note, or most fit for use, that was ever Printed in England, was much used and taken into the hands of all sorts of Scholars. Afterwards the said Stanbridge, and his Scholar Robert Whittington, with others, did put forth divers Treaties of Grammar, but more especially Dr. John Colet, the learned Dean of S. Paul's Cathedral, who compiled the Eight parts of Speech, and William Lilye, the first Master of S. Paul's School, an English Syntax: whereunto Cardinal Thomas Wolsey did afterwards prefix an Epistle, and directions for teaching the eight Classes or Forms in Ipswich School. The learned Erasmus also, entreated 
a See in the Preface of Tho. Hayne to his Gramm●● Latinae compendium▪ Printed 1640. in octavo. From which Pref. one John Twell● a Schoolmaster in, or near, Newarke, hath furnished himself with many materials for his Preface to his Grammatica Reformata,— Lond. 1883● in octavo, but without any acknowledgement on his part.  by Dr. Colet, to revise Lilies Syntax, made a new Latin Syntax, in 1513. upon which Henry Prime, a Schoolmaster in a certain Monastery, and Leonard Cox of Carleon in Monmouthshire Commented; the former in 1539. and the other in 1540 But these things being spoken by the by, I shall only say that our Author Holte being esteemed the most eminent Grammarian of his time, there is no doubt but that he did Compose other things belonging to Grammar, which perhaps are now quite lost, 
Clar. 1511.  and past recovery, as the time of his death, and place of burial is. One Holte, who was Master to Sir Thomas More, Lord Chancellor of England, did publish an Accedence and Grammar about the same time that Lac Puerorum was made extant. Which Holte is in the 
* Printed at London in 1682 See there among the English Books in quarto, numb. 310.  Auction Catalogue of Mr. Richard Smith, sometimes Secondary of the Poultry Compter, written Nich. Holt. Qu. whether not mistaken for John.  
NICHOLAS MAGWIRE, was born in Idron within the Kingdom of Ireland, Educated 
b Jac. Waraeus Eq. Au●. in Commant. de praesulibus Hiberniae. Dublin 1665. p. 156.  among the Oxonians, and took one or more Degrees. Afterwards returning to his Country, he was made Prebendary of Hillard, in the Diocese of Laighlin, being then, and after, accounted famous among his Countrymen for his great Learning, and constant Preaching among them. In 1490. he was, by provision from the Pope, promoted to the Bishopric of Laighlin, aged about thirty one years. Where being settled, he began to write several Books, but being untimely snatched away by death, finished only these following.  
Chronicon Hiberniae, (of which Thaddeus Dowling made use, when he Composed his Annals Hiberniae) and, Vita Milonis de Rupe Episc. quondan Laighliensis.  
This our Author Magwire, year 1512 died in fifteen hundred and twelve, (4. Hen. 8.) and was buried, as it seems, in his own Church of Laighlin. In his Bishopric succeeded one Thomas Halsey Doctor of both the Laws, whom I shall remember in his proper place, among the Bishops, that have received their Education in Oxon.  
MAURITIUS de PORTU, otherwise called O-Fihely, who, in his time, was, for his great Learning and Virtue, called and written by many The Flower of the World, was born 
c Idem Wareus in lib. 1. De Scriptoribus Hibern. cap. 12. & in Com. de praesulib. Heb. ut sup. p. 250.  in the County of Cork near to a celebrated Port called Baltimore in Ireland, where the ancient Seat of the O-Fihely's was placed, instructed for some time in Grammaticals and Trivials in this University, and not unlikely in other Learning (after he had taken upon him the Habit of S. Francis) in the Convent of the Brethren of that Order situated in the South Suburb of Oxon, wherein the person that he admired beyond all the World (John Duns Scotus) had spent some years in Religion and Learning, and in the Library of which place many of his Books had been Religiously preserved. From Oxon he Traveled into Italy, and settling in the University of Padöua or Milan, then flourishing in Learning, made very great proficiency in Philosophy in the Monastery of the Franciscans called S. Antony, and at riper years applied himself severely to the study of Metaphysics, School-Divinity, and above all to the Doctrine of John Duns, whom he had in so great veneration, that he was in a manner besotted with his Subtleties. After he had taken the Degree of Doctor of Divinity (in which Faculty he for some time Read with great applause among the Brethren) he became known to, and much respected by, Pope Julius 2. who, for a reward of his Learning and Virtues, conferred on him the Archbishopric of Tuam in Ireland in the year 1506. In 1512. he was present at the two first Sessions of the Council of Lateran, and in the year following, minding to return to his Native Country, he obtained a Faculty from the Pope, of granting Indulgences to all such that should retire to Tuam to hear the first Mass that he should Celebrate there: but at his arrival at Galloway, being overtaken with a deadly Disease, died before he could Celebrate it. His Works, which have been much admired, and taken into the Hands of all Catholics, are mostly these.  
Expositio (sive lectura) accuratiss, in questiones dialecticas Divi Johan. Scoti in Isagogen Porphyrii. Ferrar. 1499. Ven. 1512. etc. fol.  
Commentaria Doctoris Subtilis Johan. Scoti in xii. lib. Metaphysicae Aristotelis Emendata, & Quotationibus, Concordantiis, atque Annotationibus decorata. Venet. 1507. fol. These Comments were made to the new Translation of, and the many Additions made to, the said twelve Books, by that most famous Disciple of Duns Scotus, named Antonius Andreas, a Franciscan of the Province of Arragon.  
Epithomata in insigne formalitatum opus de ment Doctoris Subtilis, etc. Ven. 1514. fol.  
Dictionarium Sacrae Scripturae universis conoionatoribus apprimè utile & necessarium. Venet. 1603. fol. This Dictionary reaches but to the latter end of the Letter E. to the Word Exnitguere.  
Enchiridion fidei. Printed in 1509.  
Epistolae diversae ad Jo. Camersium, with several other things, besides his postillizing the whole Doctrine of Duns Scotus, and his subtle Comments on his Vniversals, as Ant. Possevinus in his Apparatus Sacer, will farther tell you. He gave way to fate at Galloway, before he could reach to Tuam (as it is already told you) to the great reluctancy of all learned Men, especially those of his own Country, and of Padöua, on the eighth of the Cal. of June, in Fifteen hundred and thirteen; year 1513 whereupon his body was buried in the Church of the Franciscans, commonly called the Grey Friars, at Galloway. In the See of Tuam succeeded one Thomas O-Mullaly, commonly called Laly; which Surname occurring often in our Registers and Records, there is no doubt but that he had received some knowledge of good Letters among us.  
HENRY BRADSHAW was born in the ancient Town of West-Chester, commonly called the City of Chester, and being much addicted to Religion and Learning, when a Youth, was received among the Benedictine Monks of S. Werbergs Monastery in the said City. Thence at riper years he was sent to Gloucester College, in the Suburb of Oxon, where after he had passed his course in Theology among the Novices of his Order, he returned to his Cell at S. Werberg, and in his elder years wrote, De antiquitate & magnificentia Urbis Cestriae.  
Chronicon, etc. and translated from Latin into English, a Book which he thus entitled. The life of the glorious Virgin S. Werberg: Also many Miracles that God hath showed for her. Lond. 1521. qu. He died in Fifteen hundred and thirteen (5. Henry 8) and was buried in his Monastery, year 1513 leaving then behind him other matters to posterity, but the subject of which they Treat, I know not.  
JOHN HARLEY, of the Order of the Preaching or Dominican, commonly called Black, Friars, did also pass his course in the supreme Faculty among those of his Order in the College pertaining to them, sometimes situated and being in the South Suburb of Oxon; where making great proficiency in his Profession, was at length honoured with the Degree of Doctor of Divinity, being then accounted one of the prime Theologists of his Order, not only for Learning, but for conspicuous Virtue, sanctimony of Life, and acuteness in all Subtleties, and Scholastical Disputations. He hath written according to Anton. 
e In bib. Ord. fratrum praedicatorum, ut sup. p. 141.  Senensis, a Brother of the said Order. 
 Bina Commentaria super 4. libros Sententiarum. 
 Tract. de Praedestinatione Dei. 
 Quodlibeta varia. The time when he left this vain and transitory life my Author Anton. Senen. tells me not, only that his name sounded high, and was in great renown for his erudition, 
Clar. 1515.  and most refined sanctity of life, in Fifteen hundred and fifteen, which was the seventh year of King Henry 8. of England.  
THOMAS FICH was an Irish Man born, and a Student for some time in Oxon, as certain imperfect Notes show, but what Degree he took, I find not. Afterwards upon his return into his Country, being then, if not some years before, a Canon Regular, he became Subprior of the Cathedral Church of the Holy Trinity in Dublin, and in his elder years wrote,  
De rebus Ecclesiae Cath. SS. Trinit. Dublin, lib. 1. It is in MS. and was sometimes in the Library of Sir James Ware, who saith it was usually called The White Book, and takes it to be the same 
f See in his first Book De Scriptoribus Hibern. cap. 12.  with the Obital Book of that Church, for in his time it was written, as by the Character it appears, being at this day reserved as a great rarity in the Library of Trinity College near Dublin. This person, Tho. Fich, who is supposed to have written other things, gave way to far on the sixteenth of the Cal. of Febr. in Fifteen hundred and seventeen, year 1517 which was the ninth year of King Henry 8. and was buried in the aforesaid Cathedral Church.  
GEORGE COGLEY another Irish Man, but later in time than the former, did spend some time in the study of the Civil Law among the Oxonians, and after his return to his own Country, became a Public Notary, and Registrary to the Bishop's Court at Meath; where having opportunity, time, and place to peruse the Registers of that Church, wrote and commended to Posterity,  
Catalogus Episcoporum Midensium, MS. Sometimes in the Library of Sir James Ware, Knight. This Catalogue commences with Simon Rochfort, (or the Rupe forti) who was the first of English Men that obtained the Bishopric of Meath, in 1194. or thereabouts, and reaches down to Hugh Ynge, who became Bishop in 1511. A Copy of this catalogue, 
Clar. 1518.  if not the Original, was sometimes in the hands of the famous Dr. Usher, Bishop of the said place, who communicated it to Sir James Ware, when he was composing his two Books De Script Hibern.  
JOHN COLET, the eldest Son of Sir Henry Colet, sometimes twice Lord Mayor of London, (by Christiana his chaste and faithful Wife) Son of Robert Colet of Wendover in Buckinghamshire, was born in London, (in the Parish of S. Antholin as it seems) in the year 1466. was Educated in Grammaticals, partly in London or Westminster, and being fitted for greater Learning, was sent to the Habitation of the Muses, the University of Oxon, about 1483. (at which time one or more of his Surname were of S. Mary Magdalen College) where, after he had spent seven years in Logicals and Philosophicals, was Licenced to proceed in Arts, being about that time so tightly Learned, that all Tully's Works were as familiar to him, as his Epistles. He was also no stranger to Plato and Plotinus, whom he not only read, but conferred and paralleled, perusing the one, as a Commentary on the other. And as for the Mathematics, there was scarce any part thereof, wherein he was not seen above his years. Having thus obtained a most admirable competency in Learning at home, he Traveled into Foreign Countries to improve it by seeing the variety of Learning: As first into France, where at Paris he advanced himself much in Divinity, and in Italy he prosecuted his Studies therein so effectually, that there were none of his time went beyond him either in that Faculty, or for the Reading of the Ancients, particularly Dionysius Areopagita, Origen, S. Cyprian, S. Ambrose, S. Hierome, S. Austin, etc. But as for Thomas Aquinas, Jo. Duns Scotus, and other Schoolmen, he seemed not to delight in. After his return from Italy, he retired again to his Mother the University of Oxon, where he publicly and freely without stipend or reward, Expounded all S. Paul's Epistles, about 1497. 98. 99 etc. in which years, Erasmus Rot. studied (perhaps our Author Colet too) in the College of S. Marry the Virgin, a Nursery for the Canon Regulars of the Order of S. Austin. Which most learned person did make this report of Colet, that there was neither Doctor, Abbat, or Master in the whole University, who frequented not, and (which was more) took Notes of his Lectures. In 1493. he was, upon the resignation of Christoph. Urswyke, admitted by proxy (being then absent) Prebendary of Botevant in the Church of York, in 1502 he became Preb. of Durnesford in the Church of Salisbury, on the resignation of Rich. Rauson, and about the year 1504 being then Doctor of Divinity, he was by King Henry 7. made Dean of S. Paul's Cathedral in the place of Rob. Sherebourne, promoted to the See of S. David. After his settlement in Paul's, he according to the blessed example of S. Paul, became a free and constant Preacher of the Gospel, by Preaching every Holiday in the Cathedral, (not customary in those times) besides his Sermons at Court, (which made him be loved of the King) and in many other Churches in the City. In his own Church he Expounded the Scriptures, not by retail but wholesale, running over sometimes a whole Epistle: which, with his Sermons elsewhere, were much frequented by Courtiers and Citizens, and more especially for this cause, that the strict disciplinee of his Life, did regularly corespond with the integrity of his Doctrine. In 1512. (4. Hen. 8.) he was at the charge of 4500 l. for the Founding a Free-School in the East part of S. Paul's Churchyard for three hundred fifty and three poor men's Children, to be taught free in the School, appointing a Master, Usher, and a Chaplain, with sufficient stipends to endure for ever, and committed the oversight of it to the Mercers of London, whom he endowed with an hundred and twenty pounds yearly for the maîntenance thereof. He also at the same time gave Orders for the Scholars, whereby also the Schoolmasters themselves should be directed. As for the Rents, they being much increased since, more comes to the Schoolmaster than the whole endowment. The first Master was William lily, the famous Grammarian, who before had privately taught Grammar elsewhere (2) John Retwise, 1522. (3.) Richard Jones, 1532. (4.) Thomas Freeman, 1549. (5.) John Cook, 1559. (6.) Will. Malyn, 1573. (7.) William Harrison, 1581. (8.) Rich. Mulcaster, 1596. (9) Alexander Gill, signior, 1608. (10.) Alexander Gill, jun. 1635. (11.) John Largley, 1640. (12.) Sam. Crumbleholme, of C. C. C. Ox. 1657. (13.) Thomas Gale of Trin. Coll. in Cambridge. Our Author Colet was accounted one of the lights of Learning of his time, and therefore entirely beloved of Erasmus, who 
g See in the Epistles of E●as. Printed 1642. from p. 702. to 712.  wrote his Life (which I have seen, and in some things follow) Thomas Lynacre, Sir Thomas Mere, Richard Paice his successor in the Deanery of S. Paul's, William Latymer, William Grocyn and others. As for the things that he wrote, they are many, which being found in his Study after his death, few understood them, because written only for his own understanding with intentions, if life had been spared, that they should have been all fairly transcribed and published. The most part follow. 
 Orationes duae ad Clerum in Convocatione, An 1511. etc. Lond. in oct. One of them was also Printed in three Sheets in quarto by Rich. Pynson. 
 Comment. in Ecclesiasticam D. Dionysiii Hierarchiam, MS. 
 Comment. in Proverbia Salomonis. 
 Comment. in Evang. S. Matthei. 
 Comment. in Epistolas D. Pauli. 
  
The said Com. on the Epistles of S. Paul, are said to be in MS. in the Library of Bennet Coll. in Cambridge. 
 Com. in Precationem Dominic. Symbolum fidei.  
The first of these two last is translated into English.  
Breviloquium dictorum Christi.  
De Reformidatione Christi.  
Conciones Ordinariae. Extraordinariae.  
Some of these, I think, are published.  
Epistolae ad Erasmum. Some of these, if not all, are published in the Epistles of Erasmus.  
De Moribus componendis.  
Grammatices rudimenta. Lond. 1539. oct. This, I think, is called Paul's Accidence, etc.  
E●●●olae ad Thom. Taylerum.  
Daily Devotions: or, the Christians Morning and Evening Sacrifice, etc. Printed at London several times in twelves and sixteens. Before one Impression, if not more, of this Book, is Dr. Colet's Life, t●●ely and imperfectly written by Thomas Fuller of Waltham in Essex, being mostly the same with that in his Abel Redivivus.  
Monition to a godly life. London 1534. 1563. etc. oct. This without doubt is the same with A right fruitful admonition concerning the order of a good Christian. Man's life, etc. London 1577. oct.  
Sermon of Conforming and Reforming, made to the Convocation in S. Paul 's Church, on Rom. 12. 2. An. 1511. This was also published at Cambridge, in 1661. in octavo, by Thomas Smith of Christ's Coll. there, with Notes, of his making, put to it, and the Particulars of his Life in English, framed from some of the Epistles of Erasmus.  
Responsio ad argumenta Erasmiana de taedio & pavore Christi. This is mentioned in the thirty first Book of the Epistles of Erasmus, ep. 46. The Titles of other Books written by Dr. Colet, you may see in John Bale's Book De Script. Maj. Britan. Cent. 8 nu. 63. At length our learned Author discovering the sweeting Sickness to grow upon him, he retired to his Lodgings that he had built in the Monastery of the Carthusians at Sheen near to Richmond in Surrey: where spending the little remainder of his days in Devotion, surrendered up at length his last breath to him that first gave it, year 1519 on the 16. of September in Fifteen hundred and nineteen. Afterwards his body was carried to London, and by the care of his old decrepit Mother, it was buried in the Cathedral Church of S. Paul, nigh to the Image of S. W●gefort. Soon after was a comely Monument set over his Grave, near to the little one which he had set up in his life time, between the Choir and the South Isle: which Monument remaining whole and entire till 1666. was then consumed in the dreadful Conflagration that happened in the City of London. But before that time it was carefully preserved in Effigy by the industrious Pen of Mr. (since Sir) William Dugdale in his History of S. Paul's Cathedral. Printed at London in fol. 1658. In the last 
b In Offic. Praerog. Cantuar. Secus Ecc D. Pauli, in r●g. Ayloff, qu. 22.  Will and Testament of the said Dr. Colet, dated 22. Aug. and proved the 5. of October, in 1519. I find this passage— Item, The New Testament, and other of my making, written in Parchment, as Comments of Paul's Epistles, and Abbreviations, with many such other, I Will shall be disposed at the disposition of my Executors, etc. His body which was closed up in a leaden Coffin of six feet and two Inches long, and of three feet and two inches broad, was laid up and enclosed in the Wall, near to the place where his Monument was afterwards put. In 1680. or thereabouts, when the Wall was taken down, the said Coffin was discovered (for it laid in the said Wall about two feet and an half above the surface of the floor) whereon was a plate of Lead fastened, with an Inscription engraven thereon, showing the name of the person thee deposited, his Father's name, his Dignity, Obits, benefaction, etc. Some of the Royal Society, who out of curiosity went to see it, did thrust a probe or little stick into a chink of the Cousin, which bringing out some moisture with it, found it of an ironish taste, and fancied that the body felt soft and pappy like Brawn.  
JOHN CONSTABLE, Son of Roger Constable by Isabel his Wife, was born in London, Educated in Grammaticals under William lily, in Academicals in an ancient Hostile sometimes called Byham, afterwards corruptly Bohem, Hall, opposite to Merton Coll. Church, under the tuition, as I conceive, of Mr. John Plaisted the chief Moderator thereof. About the time that he had taken the Degree of Master of Arts, which was in 1515. (7. Hen. 8) he left the University, being then accounted an excellent Poet and Rhetorician, and had some preferment conferred upon him, but what, I know not. He hath written and published.  
Querela Veritatis. The beginning of which is Destinavimus tibi hunc nostrum, etc. Joh. Bradford, the Protestant Martyr, wrote a Book Entit. The complaint of Verity, etc. Lond. 1559. in oct. Whether in imitation of the former, I know not.  
Epigrammata. Lond. 1520. qu. which Book of Epigrams I have seen in the Bodleian Library, given thereunto by that curious collector of Books, Democritus Junior. Other things, as I conceive he hath written, but of what Subject I cannot yet tell; nor can I say any more of John Constable, only this, that one of both his Names, who was Doctor of Decrees, fourth Son of Sir● Rob. Constable of Flamburgh in Yorkshire Knight, and Residentiary of the Church of Lincoln, became Dean of the said Church, in the Year 1514. who dying 15. Jul. 1528. recommended his Body to be buried in the Cathedral Church of our Lady of Lincoln, near to the Corpse of George Fitz-Hugh sometimes Dean thereof, who was buried in the Body of the said Church: 
Clar. 1520▪  What relation our Author Jo. Constable the Poet (who was in great renown among learned Men in Fifteen hundred and twenty) had to John Constable the Dean, I cannot yet find. In the Reign of Queen Elizabeth, lived one Henry Constable. a noted English Poet, not unfitly ranked with Sir Edw. Dyer Chancellor of the most noble Order of the Garter, a poetical Writer, and of good esteem in the said Queen's time, as living in the 39 Year of her Reign. The said Henry Constable, who had spent some time among the Oxonian Muses, was a great Master of the English Tongue; and there was no Gentleman of our Nation, had a more pure, quick, and higher delivery of conceit than he; witness among all others, that Sonnet of his before the poetical Translation called The Furies, made by King James the First of England, while he was King of the Scots. He hath also several Sonnets extant, written to Sir Phil. Sidney; some of which are set before the Apology for Poetry, written by the said Knight.  
THOMAS BRYNKNELL, a Person of great Literature, and a most skilful interpreter of the sacred Writ, had most of his Education in Lincoln Coll. whence being taken to govern the Free-School joining to that of S. Mary Magd. did exercise such an admirable way of teaching there, that many were by him fitted for the University. In 1507. he proceeded in Divinity, and being afterwards a commoner for some time of University Coll. became so much known to, and respected by, Cardinal Wolsey, (who if I mistake not conferred some dignity on him) that he was represented to the King as one of those most fit Persons in the University to encounter Mart. Luther▪ Whereupon in the Year 1521. he being then Reader of the Cardinal's Divinity Lecture, which was by him founded in the University 3 or 4 Years before, he wrote a Learned piece, entit.  
Tractatus contra doctrinam Martini Lutheri. Whether Printed I know not; 
Claruit 1521.  sure I am, that 'tis commended for a good Book in one of our public 
f In Reg. Epistolarum FF. ep. 89. vide etiam in ep. 90.  Registers. What other Books he wrote, I cannot tell, nor when he died, or where buried.  
WILLIAM GROCYN, a most singular light of learning in his time, received his first breath in the City of Bristol in Somersetshire, was educated in Grammaticals in Wykehams' School near Winchester, made true and perpetual fellow of New Coll. after he had served two Years of probation, in 1467, and in 1479, being then M. of A. he was presented by the Warden and Society of that House to the Rectory of Newton Longvill in Bucks. But his Residence being mostly in Oxon. the Society of Magd. Coll. made choice of him to be their Divinity Reade●, about the beginning of the Reign of King Rich. 3. which King coming soon after to Oxon, and taking up his lodging in that College; he was pleased to hear our Author Grocyn, and some others of that House dispute: And being much delighted with their disputations, especially with those of Grocyn, which were in Divinity, he did most graciously 
g Vide Hist. & Antiq. Vniu. Oxon. lib. 1. p. 233. a.  reward them. But Grocyn leaving his Readers place in Magd. Coll. in the beginning of the Year 1488, being then accounted excellent in the Latin and Greek Tongues according to the then knowledge of them, he did, for the farther accomplishment of himself in those critical studies, take a Journey into Italy; where by the helps of Demetrius Calchondile and Politian, he obtained his design. So that returning into his own Country, and at length to Oxon, he became 
h Rot. Comput. Rectorum Coll. Exon, in thesaur. ibid.  a Sojournor in Exeter Coll. in the Year 1491. or thereabouts, took a Degree in Divinity at it 
i In reg. antiq. coll. Merton. fol. 49. a.  seems, taught and read the Greek Tongue to the Oxonians after that way, which had not before, I suppose, been taught in their University, became a familiar Friend of, or rather Tutor to, Erasmus, and a Person in eminent renown for his learning— Recens tunc ex Italiâ venerat Grocinus (saith 
k In lib. cui tit. De Tribus Thomis, in Tho. More, cap. 1.  Stapleton) qui primus eâ aetate Graecas literas in Angliam invexerat, Oxoniique publicè professus fuerat, à cujus sodali Thoma Lynacro, (Morus) Graecas literas Oxonii didicit. In 1504 or thereabouts, he resigned his rectory of Newton Longvill, being about that time made Master of the College of all-hallows at Maidston in Kent, yet continued mostly in Oxon, for several Years after. He hath written, Tract. contra hostiolum Jo. Wyclevi. Epistolae ad Erasmum & alios. Grammatica. Vulgaria Puerorum.  
Epigrammata, with other things which are mentioned by Leland and Bale. While Dr. Colet was Dean of St. Paul's, our Author Grocyn did read in his open Lecture in that Cathedral the Book of Dionysius Areopagita, commonly called Hierarchia Ecclesiastica, (for the reading of the Holy Scripture, in the said Cathedral was not in use) and in the very first entry of his Preface, cried out with great vehemency against them whosoever they were, which either denied or stood in doubt of the Authority of that Book; in the number of whom he noted Laur▪ Valla, and divers other of like judgement. But afterwards the said Grocyn, when he had continued a few Weeks in his reading thereof, and had farther considered of the matter, he utterly altered and recanted his former sentence; protesting openly, that the said Book, in his judgement, was never written by that Author, whom we read in the Acts of the Apostles to be called Dionysius Areopagita. He the said Grocyn died at Maidstone beforementioned, in the beginning of the Year Fifteen hundred twenty and two, year 1522 aged 80 or more. Whereupon his Body was Buried at the Stall-end, in the high Choir of the Coll. of Allhallows before-mentioned. Thomas Lynacre the Famous Physician was his Executor, to whom he left considerable Legacies; and William lily the Grammarian, who was his Godson, had a little Memorial bequeathed to him in his last Will which I have 
l In Offic praerog. Cant, in reg. Ayloff ut supra Qu. 30.  seen. To, and with, this Grocyn, and other eminent Scholars of England, who were of his time, was well known, and familiar, Andrea's Ammonius a Clerk of Luca in Italy, Son of Elizab. de Harena, or Arena, a grave Matron of that place; which Andrew, who was an Apostolic Prothonotary, Collector for the Pope in England, Latin Secretary to King Henry 8. and a Learned Man, did, as I have just reason to conceive, spend some time in Oxon for the sake of Study, while Grocyn, or at least Erasmus were conversant there: But being not certain of the matter, I shall only say, that Ammonius dying in Septemb. 1517. (9 Henry 8.) being then Prebendary of Fordington and Writhlington in the Church of Salisbury, (which Dignity was conferred upon him, on the Death of Gendesalvus Ferdinandus 17 Jul. 1513.) was Buried in the King's Chapel of the Blessed Virgin Mary and St. Stephen, situate and being within the Palace of Westminster; leaving then a considerable part of his Wealth, to his Executor Mr. Peter de Vannes an Italian, his Sister's Son, whom I shall mention elsewhere.  
WILLIAM lily was born at Odyham in Hampshire, Elected one of the Demies or Semi-commoners of St. Mary Magd. Coll. in 1486. Aged 18 Years, took, as it seems, one Degree in Arts; and then giving a farewell to the University, went for Religion sake to Jerusalem; where, after he had paid his Vows, put in at his return at the Isle of Rhodes, and making some stay there, he learned the Latin and Greek Tongues exactly: which matter hath seemed strange to some, forasmuch as Rhodes was not Rhodes in that Age, except some great Critic was casually there. Thence he went to Rome, where he heard Joh. Sulpitius and Pomponius Sabinus, great Masters of Latin in those days Read and Teach. After his return he settled in London, and taught Grammar, Poetry, and Rhetoric with good success. At length Dr. John Colet Dean of St. Paul's Cathedral, made him the First Master of the School, which he had Founded in the Yard, belonging to the said Cathedral, in the Year 1512. where teaching about Ten Years, many issued thence, who were afterwards serviceable in the Church and State. He hath written many things in English and Latin, and in Verse and Prose; among which are these.  
An Introduction to the Eight Parts of Speech— This is generally said to be written by Lilye; yet some there are, that stick not to tell us, that the said Introduction was written by Dr. Colet or Dau. Tolley.  
The Construction of the Eight Parts of Speech,— This also goes under the Name of Lilye.  
Monita Paedagogica, seu Carmen de moribus, ad suos discipulos. The beginning of which is, Qui mihi discipulus, etc.  
Brevissima Institutio, seu ratio Grammatices cognoscendae, ad omnium puerorum utilitatem praescripta, etc. This contains the four Parts of Grammar, viz. (1) Orthographia. (2) Etymologia, (3) Syntaxis, and fourthly Prosodia. In which Book or Books (very many times Printed) that part in Verse, called Propria quae Maribus, etc. and another called, As in praesenti, etc. were afterwards published by John Ritwise (Lilye's Successor in Colet's School) with an Interpretation of the words in them, about the Year 1530. (22. Hen. 8.)  
Omnium nominum in regulis contentorum, tum Heteroclitorum ac Verborum, interpretatio aliqua.  
All these beforementioned were published at London 1513, and afterwards in 1520, and had additions and annotations put to them by Ritwise before mentioned, Tho. Robertson, etc. Tho the rules in them were excellent in that Age; yet they have been much meliorated, and more compendiously methodised by very many since, even to these our days.  
In aenigmatica Antibossicon Primum, Secundum, Tertium, ad Guliel. Hormannum. Lond. 1521. qu.  
The said three Antibossicons are witrily written in an elegant Style, and neat Verse, not only against the said Horman, but also against Rob. Whittington a Laureate Grammarian & Rhetorician: The beginning of them is Non Hormanne latet, etc. In which Antibossicons, the said Whitting●on had, under the feigned name of Bossus, much provoked lily with scoffs and biting Verses.  
Poemata varia. Printed with the said Antibossicons. De laudibus Deiparae Virgins.  
Apologia ad John Skeltonum. Rob. Whittington.  
Besides these, he hath written other things, as Baleus and Pitseus will tell you, and hath made several translations from Greek into Latin, and from Italian into English. At length this Learned Author being infected with the Plague, died of it to the great grief of Learned Men, on the fifth of the Cal. 
152 2/3.  of Mar. in Fifteen hundred twenty and two, and was buried in the North-yard, belonging to the Cath. Church of St. Paul; leaving then behind him a Son named George (begotten on the body of his Wife Agnes) whom I shall hereafter mention, and Peter a Dignitarie, as it seems, in the Church of Canterbury, Father of another Peter Lilye D. D. sometimes Fellow of Jesus Coll. in Cambridge, afterwards a Brother of the Hospital, called the Savoy in the Strand near London, Prebendary of St. Paul's Cathedral, and of the Church of Sarum, Archdeacon of Taunton, and a Writer of certain Books, as (1) Conciones duae, una inscripta Pax Liliana, in Act. 15 39 Altera Columba Ecclesiae, in John 19 9 10.— Lond. 1619. qu. published by his Widow Dorothy (2) Two Sermons, 1. A preparative Lily to cure Souls, on Mark 16. 6. and the other, How to seek and find Christ on Luke 24. 5. Both Printed at Lond. in 1619. qu. published by his said Widow Dorothy, whose Daughter Mary hath Verses before, in commendation of, them. This Dr. Peter lily gave way to fate in the latter end of 1614 (12. Jac. 1.) and was buried in the Church belonging to the Savoy beforementioned. Will. lily the Grammarian had a Daughter named Dionysia, who was married to his Usher John Ritwise or Rightwyse, afterwards Master of St. Paul's School, on the Death of his Father-in Law; and a most eminent Grammarian in his Generation. This Person by the way I must tell you, was born at Sawl in Norfolk, educated in Eton School near Windsor, elected into Kings Coll. in Cambridge an. 1507. made the Tragedy of Dido out of Virgil; and acted the same with the Scholars of his School before Cardinal Wolsey with great applause. One Rich. Jones Succeeded him in the Government of St. Paul's School, 1532. (24. Hen. 8.) in which Year Ritwise perhaps died. Afterwards his Widow Dionysia took to her second Husband James Jacob, who was one of the Masters of the said School, by whom he had a Son called Polydore Jacob. In the next Centery after the Death of our Famous Will. Lilye, appeared as a Comet to the Vulgar from Leicestershire, one of both his Names, a great pretender to Astrology and Physic, and in ●uch considering his Education, which was without the help of an Academy, he was eminent. He began to write, much about the time when the grand Rebellion commenced, wrote in favour of the Long Parliament and their proceedings, and many notorious matters against the Royal Family; which being highly resented by the generous Loyalist, he was aimed at upon His Majesty's Restauration in 1660. to be brought to condign punishment: But upon the Intercession of George Wharton (to whom lily had been civil in the times of Usurpation) and others, he escaped, and continued in writing his Ephemerideses to the time of his Death. This Person who pretended much to Prophecy (of which he hath published several, Pamphlets, especially in his said Ephemerideses) and had exercised the trade of Conjuration among ignorant People, died at Walton upon Thames in Surrey (where he had purchased a fair Estate, with the Moneys he had got, by imposing on the Vulgar with his Juggles) on the 9th day of June, an. 1681. Aged near 80 Years, and was buried in the middle of the Church there, towards the North Wall. Soon after, was a black Marble Stone, with an Inscription thereon, laid over his Grave by his Friend Elias Ashmole Esq. A little before his Death, he did adopt for his Son by the Name of Merlin Junior, one Will. Coley a Tailor by Trade, and a Native of Magd. Parish in the North Suburb of Oxon, and at the same time gave him the Impression of his Ephemeris, after it had been Printed for 36 Years, which Coley continues to this day. The Writings of this Lily being too many to be here inserted, I shall only give you the canting and amusing Titles of some, as (1) England's Prophetical Merlin, (2) English Merlin revived, etc. (3) Storry Messenger; or an interpretation of the strange Apparition of three Suns, (4) A Collection of Ancient and Modern Prophecies, etc. (5) Astrological Prediction of the occurrences in England (6) The World's Catastrophe (7) Monarchy and no Monarchy, etc. (8) Annus tenebrosus, or the dark Year, etc. (9) Christian Astrology, etc.  
JOHN STANBRIDGE another noted Grammarian of his time, was born at Heyford in Northamptonshire, educated in Trivials in Whykehams' School near Winchester, admitted, after two Years of probation, true and perpetual Fellow of New College, in the Year 1481, left it Five Years after, and being naturally delighted in the faculty of Grammar (though then Bac. of Arts) he was made first Usher of the Free-School joining to Magd. Coll. (for so he occurs in the Year 1488.) and after the Death of Job. Anwykyll, chief Master thereof; in which employment, he continued, if I mistake not, to the time of his Death, and became so happy in the practice of his profession, that many Persons, who proved afterwards eminent, acknowledged to have received instruction from him. Among such Rob. Whittington was one, by whose endeavours, as also those of Stanbridge, Will. Horman, and Will. Lilye, (all Oxford Students) the Latin tongue was much refined and amended. This Jo. Stanbridge was a right worthy Lover of his faculty, and an indefatigable Man in teaching and writing, as it may appear by those things that he hath published, very grateful to the Muses and public concerns. The last of which he consulted more than his own private interest; and when in his old Age, he should have withdrawn himself from his profession (which is esteemed by the generality a drudgery) and have lived upon what he had gotten in his younger Years, he refused it, lived poor and bare to his last, yet with a juvenile and cheerful Spirit. He hath written,  
Embryon relimatum, sive Vocabularium Metricum. This I have seen Printed in an old English Character, about 1522. in qu. In the title of which, is the Author's Picture (Printed from a Wooden Cut) sitting in a Chair with his Gown on, and a Hood on his Shoulders, but no Cap on his Head, only a close one, like to a Curlot. This Book was viewed and corrected in Qu. Elizabeth's time by Thomas Newton of Cheshire, who hath an 
m Vide Illustrium aliquot Anglorum encomia, per Thom. Newton Lond. 1589. p. 128.  Encomium upon it: Afterwards enlarged, and made to run in complete Verse, by that noted Grammarian John Brinsley, sometimes a Schoolmaster and Minister in Great Yarmouth in Norfolk, an. 1636. I mean the same Brinsley, who married the Sister of Dr. Jos. Hall Bishop of Norwich, and wrote and published several Books of Divinity and Grammar besides translations. Stanbridge also wrote, Parvulorum Institutiones. De ordine constructionum.  
Vulgaria. With other things which I have not yet seen. 
Clar. 1522.  He lived beyond the Year Fifteen hundred twenty and two, but when he died, or where he was buried, (unless in Magd. Coll. Chap. or Yard belonging thereunto) I know not. One Thomas Stanbridge, his Kinsman I think, took the Degree of Master of Arts in this University an. 1518. being then a noted Schoolmaster of Benbury in Oxfordshire, who dying 1522, left several Books to the Coll. of which he had been Fellow; which, if I mistake not, was Magd. College.  
NICHOLAS VAUX, Son of Sir Will. Vaux of Harwedon in Northamptonshire by Catherine his Wife 
* Inter cod. MS. in Coll. Armorum Lond G. 4. fol. 6.  Daughter of Gregory Penystone of Curtesels in Piedmont, a Province of Italy, was born in that County (Northamptonshire) and in his juvenile Years, was sent to Oxon, where by reading Humane and Romantic, rather than Philosophical, Authors, advanced his Genie very much in Poetry and History. In his riper Years he followed the Camp, did King Hen. 7. noted service in the Battle of Stoke (near Newark) in the second Year of his Reign, and thereupon he received the Honour of Knighthood. In the 17th Year of that King's Reign, he appeared like a Star at the Marriage of Prince Arthur, for the Gown of Purple Velvet which he then wore, was valued at a Thousand pounds, besides a Collar of SS about his Neck, which weighed Eight hundred pounds in Nobles. In the 1. Hen. 8. he was made Lieutenant of the Castle of Guisnes in Picardy, and in the 5th of that King's Reign, he was at the Siege of Turwyn. In the 10th, he was one of the Ambassadors then sent into France, for confirming the Articles of Peace, between King Hen. 8. and the French; and in the 11th, was one of the Commissioners appointed to make preparation for that famous interview near Guisnes, between King Hen. 8. and the King of France. After which he grew into such high esteem at Court, that in the 15. Hen. 8. he was advanced 
n See the Baronage of England, Tom. 3. p. 304. b.  to the dignity of a Baron of this Realm, by the Name and Title of Nicholas Lord Vaux of Harwedon. It is reported by a certain 
o The Author of The art of English Poesy. See in Theatr. poetarum. pr. 1675. p. 230.  Author, that his fancy laid chiefly in the facility of his meeter, and the aptness of his descriptions, such as he takes upon him to make; namely, in sundry of his Songs, wherein he showeth the counterfeit action very lively and pleasantly. His Book, or Books of Poetry I have not yet seen, only many of his Copies of Verses, in a Book Intit. The Paradise of dainty devises, etc. Printed at Lond. 1578. in qu. Among them I find some, which have these Titles set to them, (1) A Copy made In his extreme sickness, which is the eighth Copy in that Book (2) His desire to exchange life, numb. 17. (3) Of sufferance cometh ease. numb. 41. (4) No pleasure without some pain. fol. 36. b. (5) A lover disdained complaineth, fol. 51. a. (6) Of a contented mind. (7) Try before you trust. (8) He renounceth all the effects of love. (9) Bethinking himself of his end, he writeth thus, etc. There goes a doleful dutty also under his Name beginning thus, I loathe that I did love, etc. which was thought by some to be made upon his Death bed. At length after this learned and valiant Lord had enjoyed his Honour but a very little time; he gave way to fate in May or June, in Fiveteen hundred twenty and three; year 1523 whereupon his Body was buried, as it seems, at Harwedon beforementioned, (where he founded a Chantry for one Priest to sing Mass for his Soul, in the Parish Church there;) or else in the Church of the Black Friars at London.  
THOMAS LYNACRE born, as 'tis said, 
p Job. Caius in Hist. Cantab. lib. 2. p. 126.  at Canterbury, but descended from the Lynacre's of Lynacre Hall in the Parish of Chesterfield in Derbyshire, (which may be the reason why Holinshed, and others that follow him, say, that he was born in the Town of Derby) was chosen Fellow of Allsouls Coll. in 1484 where by his close retirement, he improved himself very much in Literature, and in few Years after, much more by his Travels into Italy, where taking, I suppose, the Degree of Doctor of Physic, became intimate with Persons famous for learning there. The chief Cities of his residence were at Rome and Florence; at the last of which places, being countenaneed by Laurence Medici's Duke thereof, had for his instructors Demetrius and Politian; and at Rome he became familiar with the learned Hermolaus Barbarus, who directed him very freely in his Studies. After his return into his own Country, he was incorporated Doctor of Physic in this University, read a shagling Lecture in that faculty, became Tutor to Prince Arthur, and to his Princess Catherine for the Italian Tongue, Physician to King Hen. 7. (as some say) afterwards to King Hen. 8, one of the chief Founders of the Coll. of Physicians in Knightridersstreet in London, (of which he was the first Precedent) and at length in Holy Orders, and a Priest. In 1519. Apr. 29. he was admitted 
q Reg. Vicecanc. Eccles. Eborac. incipiens 1504  Chauntor of the Church of York, in the place of Joh. Perot, who died in Febr. going before; but Lynacre resigning that place in Nou. following, was succeeded therein by Rich. Wyatt. D. D. who was admitted thereunto 13. of the same Month. At the same time our Author Lynacre had other Dignities in the Church, but at what place I cannot justly say. He was great with, and highly admired by, Sir Tho. More, (whom formerly he had taught Greek) Erasmus, Grocyn, Latimer, Tonstall, and who not. He was one of the first English Men that brought polite learning into our Nation, and it hath been justly questioned by some of the Goliahs of learning, whether he was a better Latinist or Grecian, or a better Grammarian or Physician. Sure it is that he being a general Scholar of his time, and esteemed the Honour of the Nation, was much reverenced by the Oxonians; especially upon reading his Medicinal Lectures among them gratus, and generally by all Persons of Honour, and others for his happy practice among them. He hath written,  
The Rudiments of Grammar. Lond. in aedib. Pynsonianis. Turned into Latin by George Buchanan a Scot— Par. 1533. and 50. in oct. Which Book hath ever since been the Cynosura for many of our best Grammarians.  
Compendious Regiment, or a dietary of health, used at Mountpillour. Lond. by Rob. Wyer, in 8vo.  
De Emendatâ Structurâ Latini sermonis, libri sex. Several times Printed, as at Paris 1532. 43. 50, etc. Col. Agrip. 1555, etc. all in 8vo. recognised and amended by Joachim Camerarius— Lips. 1591. oct. The said 6 Books were originally made for the use of the Lady Mary the King's Daughter, the same, I think, who was afterwards Queen, and are much commended by Jo. 
* In Principum ac illustrium aliquot & eruditorum in Anglia virorum, enomi●s, Trophaeis, etc. Lond. 1589. p. 43.  Leland. He also translated from Greek into Latin several of the works of Claud. Galen, among which were those De temperamentis & de inaequali temperie. lib. 3. Venet. 1498. Which Latin Translation, as 'tis said, speaks better than the Original. He also translated into the said Language Procli Diadochi Sphaera. Venet. 1500 fol. Dedicated to Prince Arthur by a large Epist. or Praef. that. at Lond. 6. call. Sept. with other things, which you may see in Baleus and Pitseus. This Dr. Lynacre died 20. Octob. year 1524 in Fiveteen hundred twenty and four, and was buried in the Cathedral of St. Paul within the City of London, before the Rood of the North Door, between the long Form and the Wall, directly against the said Rood. Over his Grave was afterwards a comely Monument, erected at the charge of that eminent Physcian and Antiquary Dr. John Cay of Cambridge; out of the Epitaph of which I am instructed in these matters concerning Lynacre, viz. That he was a most skilful Critic in the Greek and Latin, and an excellent Physician besides, (being Physician to King Hen. 8.) who in his Generation did many miraculous Cures, and restored several to life when help was past, and even at the very point of death He translated Galen's works out of Greek into Latin with singular perspicuity and clearness. He also compiled a most excellent piece for the rectifying of the frame, and module of the Latin Tongue. He gave two Lectures to the University of Oxon, and one to Cambridge.— He was a perfect hater of all indirect, or fraudulent dealings, being sincerely faithful to his Friends, and well beloved of all ranks and degrees of Men, etc. As for the two Physic Lectures, which he gave to the University of Oxon, I have largely mentioned 
r In Hist. & Antiq. Vniu. Oxon. lib. 2. p. 4●  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 Barns 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. Nou. 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. John's 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. Alban Hall, 9 Aug. 1619. He died at bath about the 23. May 1636. and was buried in the Church of St. Peter and Paul there, having before resigned this Lecture. (6) John Bainbridge M. D. 25. May 1635. (7) Edw. Greaves M. D. of Allsouls Coll. 14. Nou. 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 Paul's School, by whose endeavours 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. 
Claruit 1524.  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 Friar, 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, 
Claruit 1525.  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 famed 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 annexed, he was admitted thereunto by the Name of Will. Multon 15. Jul. 1498. This Person whom some call 
k Sixt. Senensis in Bib. Sancta. col. 1586. lib. 4. p. 243. a. Anton. Senensis in Bib. Ord. praedicatorum. Par. 1585. p. 100  Gul. Melitona, report withal, that he was Chancellor of Paris, and by Order a Dominican, but how true it is (seeing that Baleus 
l In cent. 9 num. 12. Scriptum Maj. Britan.  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, etc. Sermons in Evangelia.  
Com. in Pentateuchum, with other things mentioned by 
* Ibid.  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 Skelton's of Cumberland; and having been educated in this University, as Job. Baleus 
n In lib. De Scriptoribus Anglicis, M S. inter cod. M S S. Selden, in bib. Bodl. p. 69. b.  attests, who styles 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 Diocese, 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 
o Regist. Hadr. de Castello Episc. B. & Wellen. sub an. 1512.  Vicar of Dulting in the Diocese 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, Archdeacon's, 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 
p Reg. Congregat. Uniu. Oxon. notat. cum litera H. sub an. 1518.  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 
q Reg. Tho. Wolsey Episc. Bath & Wells. an. 1519.  find him to be made Rector of Westquamtoked in the said Diocese, by the Name and Title of John Skelton Bach. of Decrees, and in 1525. Rector 
r Reg. Joh. Clerk Ep. Bath & Wells an. 1525.  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 Abbot, and continued there to the time of his Death. Erasmus in an Epistle to King Hen. 8. doth style this Poet Britannicarum Literarum lumen & decus, and of the like opinion were many of his time; yet the generality said, that his witty discourses were biting, his laughter opprobrious and scornful, and his jokes commonly sharp and reflecting. He hath written, besides translations, 50 several things upon various Subjects, as well in Prose as Verse, among which are these. 
 A Comedy of Virtue. 
 A Comedy of good Order. 
 Meditation on St. Anne. 
 On the Virgin of Kent. 
 Sonners on Dame Anne. 
 Elynor Rummin (or Elynour of Rumming) the famous Alewife of England— This was several times Printed, and one Impression, which was the last I think, was made at London 1624. in 2 Sheets and an half in 4to. In the Title Page is the Picture of an old ill-favoured Woman, holding in her hand a black Pot of Ale, and underneath her these Verses are written, 
When Skelton wore the Laurel Crown,  
My Ale put all the Alewives down.   
This Book is the same, I conceive, which some Authors call The tunning of Elynor Rumpkin. He hath also written, 
 The Peregrination of humane Life. 
 Solitary Sonnets. 
 The art of Dying well. 
 The art of Speaking eloquently. 
 Manners and fashions of the Court. 
 Reasons why he goeth not to the Court. 
 Invective against Will. Lilye the Grammarian— This being written in Verse and very carping, was returned in its kind by the Grammarian,  
Epitaphs on several Kings, Princes, and Nobles— Two or more of which you may see in a Book intit. Reges, Reginae, Nobiles & alii in Eccl. collegiata B. Petri Westmonast. sepulti, usque ad an. 1600. published by Will. Camden— Lond. 1600. qu. See more in Will. Baldewyn among these Writers under the Year 1564. I have seen another Book of Skelton bearing this title.  
Here after followeth a little Book called Colyn-Clout, compiled by Master Skelton Poet Laureate— Printed in an old Engl. Char. at London in 8vo without date, by Abraham Veal, much about the time, as I conceive, of the Author's death. The beginning of it is, 
What can it avail  
To drive forth a snail  
Or to make a Sail, etc.   
Poetical Fancies and Satyrs. Lond. 1512. oct.  
Verses on the creation of Arthur Pr. of Wales— and other things which are slightly and unsatisfactorily set down by Baleus and his follower Pitseus. At length, our Poet dying in his Sanctuary, was buried in the Chancel of the Church of St. Margaret within the City of Westminster, in Fifteen hundred twenty and nine. year 1529 (21. Hen. 8.) Over his Grave was this Inscription soon after put. Johannes Skeltonus Vates pierius hic situs est. Animam egit (ejicit) XXI Junii an. Dom. MDXXIX. Near to his Body was afterwards buried an old Courtpoet called Tho. Churchyard, and not in the Church Porch, as certain old Rhimes tell you, beginning thus.  
Come Allecto, and lend me thy torch, To find a Churchyard in a Church-porch.  
I find another Joh. Skelton, who lived in the time of King Hen. 4 but he was a D. of D. and a Dominican (as I 
n In Hist. & Antiq. Vniu. Ox. lib. 1. p. 65. a. b.  have elsewhere told you) and therefore I conceive it the reason why Baleus styleth 
o In cent. 8. num. 66.  this Poet Dr. of Divinity, which no other Author beside himself doth. Another Job. Skelton I find, who was confirmed Abbot of Whitby in Yorkshire (upon the Death of Tho. Bolton) by the Archb. of York, 6. Nou. 1413.  
THOMAS SPENSER Son of Leonard Spenser of the City of Norwich, having from his Youth been much addicted to learning and piety, especially the last, became afterwards a Carthusian in the Monastery of that Order at Henton in Somersetshire; whence for a time he receded to Oxon, (as several of his Order did) to improve himself, or to pass a course, in Theology. After his return he obtained so much leisure from his divine exercise, as to 
p Baleus ut sup. cent. 9 num. 6. & Theod. Petreius in Bib. Cartusiana, edit. col. 1609. p. 294.  write several matters relating to his faculty; among which were, Comment, in Epist. D. Pauli ad Galatas.  
Trialogue between Tho. Bilney, Hugh Latimer, and W. Repps— Which Book was written partly to show the great complaints of Bilney and Latimer two Protestants, had against the said Repps a Roman Catholic, the same Person, I presume, who became Bishop of Norwich, in 1536. As for our Author Spenser, he gave up the ghost (after he had spent most of his time in the severities belonging to his Order) year 1529 in Fifteen hundred twenty and nine, and was buried in his Monastery of Henton beforementioned, leaving behind him a most rare example of Piety.  
ROBERT WHITYNTON or Whittington was born in the City of Lichfield, educated partly in Grammaticals under John Stanbridge in the School joining to the common gate of Magd. Coll. and afterwards made a considerable progress in Logicals and Philosophicals, but in what Coll. or Hall, it appears not. However his delight being much in the teaching of Youth, he became so excellent in that way, that it was thought, especially by those that favoured him, that he surpassed W. Lilye. In the beginning of the Year 1513. (5. Hen. 8.) he 
q Reg. cong●eg. Uniu. Ox. notat. cum lit G. fol. 173. b.  supplicated the venerable Congregation of Regent's, under the name and title of Rob. Whytingdon a secular Chaplain, and a Scholar of the Art of Rhetoric, that whereas he had spent 14 Years in the study of the said Art, and 12 Years in the informing of Boys, it might be sufficient for him that he might be laureated. This supplicat being granted, he was (after he had composed 100 Verses, which were stuck up in public places, especially on the door or doors of St. Mary's Church) very solemnly crowned, or his temples adorned, with a wreath of Laurel, that is doctorated in the Arts of Grammar and Rhetoric 4 July the same Year. At the same time also he was admitted to the reading of any of the Logical Books of Aristotle, that is to the degree of Bach. of Arts, which was then esteemed equal with the degree of Doctor of Grammar, or Rhetoric. From that time he always wrote himself in several of his works Protovates Angliae, which was much stomached by Will. Horman and W. Lilye, and scorned by others of his profession, who knew him to be conceited, and to set an high value upon himself, more than he should have done. He was then notwithstanding esteemed by many for his great skill he had in the Greek and Latin tongues, for his lepid and jocular discourse also, but much blamed by Scholars for the biting and sharp reflections used in it, and in his Books against several noted Persons of his Age. His writings were many, of which some were against W. Lilye, Rob. Aldridge, and Will. Horman, who esteemed him a Man of great vanities, a Catalogue of some of which follow.  
De difficultate justitiae servandae, in reipublicae administratione, MS. in 4to. written in verse to and in praise of, Cardinal Tho. Wolsey. The beginning of which is, Quae res in terris, etc. Before it is an Epigram, and an Epistle in Prose, written on, and to, the said Cardinal by our Author Whitynton.  
De quatuor virtutibus Cardineis. MS. written to the said Cardinal in prose: The beginning is, Cum tuas multifarias virtutes, etc. These two bound together, are in Bodlies' Library.  
Vulgaria, & de institutione Grammaticulorum opusculum, libello suo de concinnitate Grammatices accommodatum, & in quatuor partes digestum. Printed at Lond. by Wynand de word, 1524 in Lat. and Engl. having been printed several times before. 'Tis the same, if I mistake not, with his Grammar printed at Lond. 1500. qu.  
Secunda pars Grammatices, de syllaba & ejus quantitate. Lond. 1516 qu. With which is bound up this following.  
Whittintoni editio cum interpretamento Francisci Nigri Diomedes de accentu in pedestri oratione potius quam soluta observando. Printed there the same Year.  
De nominum appellativorum, Deorum, Dearum, Heroum, Heroinarum, locorumque synonimis. Lond. (1514) qu.  
De Epithetis Deorum, Dearum, Heroum, Heroine. clar. virorum, & Animalium.  
De variandi formulis tam pedestri, quam soluto sermone.  
Experientiae de virtutis immortalitate.  
De veterum Romanorum Magistratibus. These four last were printed with his De nominum appellativorum, etc.  
De octo partibus orationis. Lond. 1513. 23. etc. qu.  
De nominum generibus. Lond. 1521. 24 etc. qu.  
De preteritis & supinis. Lond. 1524. qu.  
De nominum declinatione. Lond. 1522. qu.  
De Heteroclitis. Lond. 1524. qu.  
Syntaxis. Lond. 1524. qu.  
Epistola ad Gul. Hormannum. Lond. 1521. qu.  
Responsiva contra Gul. Hormanni invectivas literas. Lond. 1521. qu. in long and short verses; with other things, which may be seen in Baleus, 
Clar. 1530.  who tells us, that he was in great renown for his learning in Fifteen hundred and thirty, (22. Hen. 8.) but when he died, or where he was buried, I cannot yet find. See more of him in W. Lilye, and Will. Horman.  
ROBERT SHIRWODE received his first breath in the City of Coventry, whence being translated to the University of Oxon, made a considerable progress in Logicals, but more by far in the Hebrew and Greek Languages. Thence, in his mature Years, he went to Louvain in Brabant, where about the Year 1519. he 
a Valer. Andreas in Fastis Acad. Louvain. Edit. 1650. p. 284.  succeeded Rob. Wakfeld an English Man in the reading the Hebrew Lecture to the Academians of that place. But he reading there only for a Month, went to other Universities, and had a Book of his composition published bearing this title.  
Liber Hebraeorum Concionatoris, seu Ecclesiasticen, nuper ad veritatem Hebraicam recognitus, cum nonnullis annotationibus Chaldaicis, & quorundam Rabbinorum sententiis, textus obscuros aliquos litteraliter explanantibus. Antw. 1523. qu. Dedicated to one Joh. Webe (whom he calls Monachorum decus) Prior of the Monastery of the Benedictins at Coventry. In the title of which Book he is not styled Doctor, and therefore I presume he had that degree conferred on him after that, time but in what University, I cannot yet tell. Job. 
b In cent. 11. num. 90.  Baleus and his follower 
c In Aet. 16. nu. 934.  Pitseus do stile him Doctor Oxoniensis, but the truth is, in all my researches, I cannot find that he took that degree there, unless under another name. He the said Dr. Shirewood hath also various Sermons extant, as those Author's report, 
Clar. 1530.  who also tell us that he was in high esteem among learned Men in Fifteen hundred and thirty, but when he died, or where he was buried, I am altogether as yet ignorant.  
JOHN SKUISH a Cornish Man born, was conversant for a time among the Oxonian Muses, either in Exeter Coll. or in Hart Hall, but whether he took a degree, it appears not. However by the help of an happy Genie, accompanied with industry, prudence, and dexterity, he obtained a Name among Men, and was held in great esteem by several of the Nobility for his proficiency in various sorts of Learning. At length being received into the Family of the great Cardinal Thomas Wolsey, was by him entrusted with many matters of consequence. All which he performing with singular fidelity, was made one of his Cabinet Council, and by him promoted to places of trust. At leisure times he improved his natural Genie by the reading of Histories, as well Ancient as Modern; which at length being made easy to him by the help of a good memory composed 
d Ib. in Io. Bal. cent. 9 num. 19  several little Books, as,  
Chronicorum Epitome, in one Book.  
De bello Trojano, 
Clar. 1530.  lib. 1. and, as 'tis probable, other things in the time of Hen. 8, and before and after the said Cardinal's fall. The time when he surrendered up his last breath is yet unknown, as also the place of his Sepulture.  
SIMON FISH, a zealous Man for the Reformation of abuses in the Church, was born in Kent, and after he had been instructed in Academical Learning, he retired to Greys' Inn in Holbourn to obtain knowledge in the municipal Law. About which time one Mr. Roose or Roe, having composed a Play, wherein one part deeply reflected on Cardinal Wolsey, he undertook, when divers refused, to act it: For which being soon after forced to leave the Nation, he found out Will. Tyndale in Germany, with whom for a time he sorted himself. In 1527, or thereabouts, he made a little Book entit.  
The supplication of Beggars— The beginning of which is, Most lamentably complaineth their woeful misery, etc. It containeth a great deal of bitter stuff against Bishops, Abbats, Priors, Monks, Friars, etc. and indeed against the generality of the Clergy. In 1528, a Copy of it was sent to the Lady Anne Bulleyne; which, after perusal, she gave it to the King, who did not dislike it, and soon after were divers Copies scattered in London streets, which was complained of by the Cardinal to the said King. Afterwards the Cardinal being out of favour, the Author Fish was sent for home, and graciously countenanced by the King for what he had done. About which time he translated from Dutch into English, The sum of the Scriptures, which was also published and well approved. At length being overtaken by the Pest, year 1531 died of it in Fifteen hundred thirty and one, and was buried in the Church of St. Dunstan (in the West.) Afterwards James Baynham, Son of Sir Alex. Baynham of Glocestershire Knight, Married his Widow; which James being a zealous Protestant, suffered death soon after in the Flames, as you may see in the Acts and Mon. of the Church, written by Jo. Fox.  
JOHN BATMANSON, a Person most noted while living, for his great Piety and Learning, did, after he had been instructed in Sophistry, enter into the most holy Order of the Carthusians, abiding in the House commonly called the Charter-house near to London. In his elder Years he became the Head or Prior of that House, and about that time, or rather before, was conversant in the Theological faculty with us, but whether he took a degree therein, (though supplicate he did to oppose in Divinity) it appears not. This Person being intimate with Dr. Edw. Lee, afterwards Archbish. of York, did, at his entreaty, write,  
Animadversiones in annotat. Erasmi in Nou. Testam. Which animadversions he retracted in another piece.  
Tract. contra a Doctrinam M. Lutheri. This also he retracted in another Book.  
Comment. in Contica Canticorum. Proverbia Salomonis.  
Institutions for Novices.  
Of the contempt of the World.  
De Christo duodeni, a Homily.— Other things he hath written which Jo. 
e Ib. cent. 9 nu. 14.  Baleus and Theod. 
f In Bib. Cartus. ut sup. p. 157.  Petreius do mention; the last of which saith that he died 16. Nou. in Fifteen hundred thirty and one, year 1531 and that he was buried in the Chapel belonging to the Charter-house. John Houghton Prior of Beauvale in Nottinghamshire, sometimes a Carthusian of the said House, was elected Prior in his place, and about 4 Years after suffered death by hanging for denying the King's Supremacy.  
RICHARD KEDERMYSTER, a Worcestershire Man born, taking his Surname, as I conceive, from a Mercat Town so called in that County, was at 15 Years of Age received into the Monastery of Benedictines at Winchcomb in Glocestershire, and at 19 sent to Gloucester Coll. in the N. W. suburb of Oxon. to obtain Theological and other Learning, (in which College was an apartment belonging to the said Monastery, called Winchcomb Lodgings) where spending three Years and an half, was sent for home, at which time being about 22 Years of Age; he was by the favour of his Patron and fautor of his Studies John Twynning Lord Abbot, and by the Decree of the Chapter, of the said Monastery of Winchcomb, made Scholar or Pastor thereof. In the 3. of Hen. 7. Dom. 1487. he was elected Lord Abbot on the Death of the said Twynning, and how he made it flourish like to a little University, you may see elsewhere 
g In Hist, & Antiq. Vnivers. Oxon. lib. 1. p. 248. a.  In the Year 1500, being then D. D. he traveled to Rome, where tarrying more than a Year, did improve himself much in learning and experience. Afterwards he became a frequent Preacher, and a great Man in the Court of King Hen. 8. In the seventh Year of that King, Dom. 1515. he Preached a Sermon at Paul's cross, while the Parliament sat, in maintenance of the exemption of the Clergy from temporal Judges: At which time were great agitations between the Clergy and Seculars concerning divers ecclesiastical liberties: whereupon 
h Rob. Keilwey in Relationibus quorundam casuum select. etc. fol. 181.  arising a great dispute between those Parties, one Dr. Hen. Standish Guardian of the Convent of the Franciscans in London, did, in an Assembly of Bishops, Judges, and others, maintain the contrary. Soon after there was a grand Committee of Bishops and Judges in the House of the Blackfriars in London assembled, to discuss that matter; which being ended, Articles were exhibited against the said Standish for being a promoter of all evils. Many other things may be said of our Author Kedermyster, as they were noted by himself in his Life, written in the History or Catalogue of the Abbats of Winchcomb; (which History I shall anon mention) but that Book being burnt, and when I saw it, I did not in the least dream that I should write these Athenae Oxonienses, they are therefore here omitted. The Books that he wrote are these.  
Tractatus contra doctrinam M. Lutheri. Finished in the Year 1521. See in Hist. & Ant. Uniu. Oxon. lib. 1. p. 247, and lib. 2. p. 35. a. wherein is mention made of his Book De veniis, which, I presume, is the same with that against Luther. I have also seen a register sometime belonging to Winchcomb Abbey, which was totally composed by our Author, an. 1523, containing first,  
Historia fundationis Manasterii de Winchcomb, in come. Glouc. The beginning of the Preface to which is, Quoniam antiqua testimonia de prima nostri Winchelcombensis caenobii institutione, etc. Which Preface, with part of the History, you may see in the first Vol. of Monasticon Anglicanum. p. 188. And secondly,  
Catalogus, vel Historia Abbatum Monast. de Winchcomb in come. Glouc. This Cat. or History commences from one German, who was appointed Abbot of Winchcomb by S. Oswald Bishop of Worcester, in the 7 Year of K. Edgar, a. Dom. 988. and reaches down to the Author Rich. Kedermyster. In the said Register also (which contains these matters) lib. 1. fol. XI. is set down at large the story of the Life of St. Patrick, and of the antiquity of Glastenbury Abbey, which you may see in Monast. Anglic. vol. 1. p. 11. Also Renovatio privilegiorum, chartarum, ac aliorum munimentorum Monasterii de Winchcomb, etc. This Register of Winchcomb, (in which these things are) containing at least, 5 Books, or Parts, came after the dissolution of the Abbey there, into obscure hands. At length it being produced by an ordinary Farmer at an Assize held at Gloucester, for the proof of some matter then in question, at which Sir Will. Morton Lord of the site of Winchcomb Abbey was present; he, by some device got it out of the Farmer's hands, as belonging more properly to him, and kept it sometimes in his House at Kidlingtom in Oxfordshire, and sometimes in his Lodgings at Sergeants Inn in Fleetstreet London. But so it was, that the said Sir William, (who was one of the Justices of the King's Bench) being in his Norfolk Circuit at what time the dreadful conflagration of London happened (which was Sept. 2. 3. etc. 1666.) the said Book, with other of his goods, and the Inn itself was totally consumed to ashes. Whether there be any other Copy left, I am not certain: sure it is, that Dr. Sam. Fell of Ch. Ch. in Oxon. had a Copy of it (written either in velum or Parchment) about 1630, as by some notes taken thence (as then remaining in his custody) which I have seen, doth manifestly appear; but from whence he had it, or to whom it did afterwards return (for I think he borrowed it) I know not. Sir Will. Moreton also showed to me in his House at Kidlington several extracts made from that Copy which was sometimes in his hands, written by one of his Clerks, but, in many material things, false. Which extracts, I presume, are in the hands of his Son Sir James Moreton. As for our learned and curious Author Rich. Kedermyster, he gave way to fate, to the great reluctancy of all that knew the virtue and piety of the Man, year 1531 in Fifteen hundred thirty and one, or thereabouts; and was buried in his own Church of Winchcomb Abbey: On which Church, he had before done great cost, and enclosed 
i Joh. Leland in his Itineraries in come. Gloc. MS. in Archiv. Bib. Bod.  the Abbey itself towards the Town with a main stone Wall, ex quadrato saxon.  
RICHARD PAICE Pace or Pacey, so many ways I find him written, was one of the lights of learning in his time, and therefore commended 
k Vide Epist. Erasmi lib. 11. ep. 3. etc.  by Erasmus, (who among several things that he saith of him is, that he was utriusque literaturae callentissimus) and all other Heroes of learning in that Age. When he was a Boy he became à manu Minister (as he himself 
l In lib. De fructu qui ex doctrina percipitur, p. 27.  saith) to Tho. Langton Bishop of Winchester, and was trained up at School, with others, at his charge: Which Bishop also perceiving him to profit in Music above his Years (for those under his patronage did learn, if capable, that faculty also) did often express to his Attendants about him, that seeing he did overcome Music easily, his Genie therefore was born to greater Studies. In short time after, he sent him to Padöua in Italy (which was then most flourishing in literature) to obtain, or rather advance himself in, good letters, and allowed him an yearly Pension to defray his Charges. While he was conversant with the Muses there, he was much instructed in his Studies by Cuthb. Tonstall, and Will. Latymer, whom he calls his Praeceptores; and whether he took a Degree there, I find not. After his return into England, he retired to Oxon (where, as I conceive, he had studied for some time before he traveled) and settled for a time, as 'tis supposed, in Queens Coll. (of which his Patron T. Langton had been Provost) and soon after was received into the service of Dr. (afterward Cardinal) Christopher Bambridge, who succeeded his said Patron in that Provostship, as I have elsewhere 
m In Hist. & Antiq. Vniu. Oxon. lib. 2. p. 116. a.  told you. From the service of the said Cardinal, he was received into the Royal Court, where his parts being soon discovered, and his accomplishments made known to the King, was by him made Secretary of State, and employed in matters of high concern. In the beginning of 1514, he was admitted Prebendary of Bugthorpe in the Church of York, in the place of Thom. Wolsey, consecrated Bishop of Linc. and on the 20. of May the same Year, he was made Archdeacon of Dorset, upon the resignation of Dr. Rob. Langton sometimes of Queens Coll. in this University. Afterwards he was sent in one or more Embassies by the King, which he performed with very great honour to himself and the English Nation. In 1519, he became Dean of St. Paul's Cathedral within the City of London, on the Death of Dr. Joh. Colet, and about that time Dean of Exeter; but whether he was ever Dean of Salisbury it appeareth not. 'Tis true that Edward Lord Herbert of Cherbury doth say in the Life and Reign of King Hen. 8. 
n Printed at Lond. 1649. p. 405.  under the Year 1536. that Pet. Vannes then Archdeacon of Worcester, was not long before that time made co-adjutor to Rich. Pace Dean of Salisbury, being then thought commonly distracted and out of his Wits. But how that can be, I cannot find, for (1) it doth evidently appear from the Registers of that Church, that one Raymund Pade had that Deanery conferred upon him 19 Jan. 1522. (2) That in the said Registers no mention at all is made of R. Pace as Dean, and thirdly, that Pet. Vannes beforementioned became Dean of the said Church by virtue of the King's Letters, on 3. Feb. 1539. in the place, as 'tis supposed, of the said Pade, at which time R. Pace had been dead 7 Years. In 1521, he being made Prebendary of Comb and Harnham in the said Church of Sarum, he showed himself 
* Lib. Epist. Uniu. Oxon. FF. ep. 85. & in reg. Congreg. H. fol. 74. b.  serviceable to the University of Oxon; the Members of which, would then have had him to adorn their Lycaeum with a degree, if certain customs belonging thereunto did not hinder him. Afterwards our Author Paice, who was then esteemed by all ripe in wit, learning, and eloquence, and very expert in Foreign Languages, was sent in the King's Affairs Ambassador to Venice: which function there he so discharged, that it is hard to say, whether he procured more commendation or admiration among the Venetians, both for dexterity of his wit, and especially for the singular promptness in the Italian tongue, wherein he seemed nothing inferior, neither to Pet. Vannes here in England, the King's Secretary for the Italian tongue, nor yet to any other, which were the best for that tongue in all Venice. For opinion and fame of learning he was so generally accepted, not only here in England with Lynacre, Grocin, Sir Tho. More and others, but also known and reported abroad in such manner, that in the great Volume of Erasmus his Epistles, he wrote almost to none so many, as he wrote to this our Author Paice. It must be now noted, that while he continued at Venice he grew much out of favour with Cardinal Wolsey, first for showing his readiness to assist Charles Duke of Bourbon with Money, while the said Cardinal (who had little or no affection for that Duke) did under hand keep back a vast sum of Money, which K. Hen. 8. had sent to the said Duke to carry on his War near Pavia, against Francis 1. K. of France, and secondly for his negligence in advancing the said Cardinal's designs to succeed in the Papacy P. Adrian the 6. who died 1523. I say for these two reasons especially, he was so much inflamed against Paice, that he forthwith took such causes, that for the space almost of two Years, he had neither writing from the King or Council how he should proceed in his Affairs at Venice, nor any allowance for his diet, notwithstanding he had sent Letters for the same to England very often. Upon this, and especially upon some private intimation from his Friends at home, he took such an inward thought and conceit that his wits began to fail him. It is 
n See in Jo. Fox this Book of Acts and Mon. of the Church, etc. in Hen. 8.  reported that the Venetian Ambassador residing in London repaired to the Cardinal, and desired to know of him, whether he would command any thing to the English Ambassador at Venice: Whereupon he made answer Paceus decepit Regem. Which words coming to Paice's knowledge, so deeply pierced his stomach, that he in a manner fell quite besides himself. Soon after his frenzy, and the reason thereof, being made known to the King, he was forthwith sent for home, and by the Kings command he was so carefully attended by his Physicians, that in short time he came to his wits again, and began to study the Hebrew Language with Rob. Wakfeld. About that time the Cardinal being absent, Paice's Friends found such means, that he was brought to the King then residing at Richmond, where they had private discourse for two hours or more, not without great rejoicing to His Majesty, to see him so well amended in his senses. Afterwards the Cardinal hearing what had passed, and suspecting that he had disclosed somewhat to the King, which he would not have known, as also doubting the King would take Paice into favour again, began in short time after to quarrel, and to pick up matters to lay to Paice's charge; whereas he should have rather cleared himself of those things, which Paice laid unto him before the King, and then to have proceeded accordingly. But so it was, that when the King had willed the Cardinal to purge himself of those things, which Paice had rightly charged him withal, he sitting in judgement with the Duke of Norfolk, and other States of the Realm, not as a Defendant, but as a Judge in his own cause, did so bear out himself, and weighed down Paice, that he was forthwith commanded to the Tower of London as Prisoner; where he continuing for the space of two Years or thereabouts, was at length by the Kings command discharged. While he was in his disconsolate condition, he was so deeply sensible of his case, that he was more distracted in his wits than before, and so continued to his dying day, though now and then, which was rarely, he would discourse very rationally. Some time before his Death, he resigned up his Deaneries, viz. that of St. Paul, and that of Exeter, in the first of which succeeded, if I am not mistaken, Dr. Rich. Samson, who was afterwards B. of Lichfield and Coventry, and in the other Reginald Pole. The Books which this our eminent Author hath written and translated are many, some of which, not all, follow.  
De fructu qui ex doctrina percipitur liber. Basil. 1517. qu. dedicated to Dr. Jo. Colet Dean of Paul's. It was written by the Author at Constance, while he remained Ambassador in Helvetia. But therein inveighing much (as 'tis observed by 
o Baleus & Pitseus, etc.  some) against drunkenness, as a great obstacle to the obtaining of knowledge, the Drunkards of Constance were so sensible of it, that they made a sharp answer to his Book, apologizing for themselves, and their customs in drinking.  
Oratio de pace nuperrime composita & faedore percusso, inter Henricum Angliae regem, & Francorum reg. Christianiss. in aede Pauli Lond. habita. Lond. 1518. qu.  
Epistolae ad Edw. Leeum Ep. ad Erasmum Rot. Lond. 1520. qu.  
These Epistles are in a Book entit. Epistolae aliquot eruditorum virorum, etc. mentioned in Edw. Lee under the Year 1544.  
Praefatio in Ecclesiasticen recognitum ad Hebraicam veritatem, & collatum cum translatione lxx Interpretum & manifesta explicatione causarum erroris ubicunque incidit. where printed or when, 'tis not expressed. In the writing of this piece, which is printed in quarto, he was assisted by Rob. Wakfeld.  
Exemplum literarum ad Regem Hen. 8. an. 1526. See in the said Wakfelds Book entit. Syntagma de Hebraeorum codicum incorruptione. He also wrote a Book against the unlawfulness of the King's Marriage with Catherine, the Wife of his Brother Prince Arthur, in 1527. in which Book he was also assisted by Wakfeld. Other things are mentioned by Baleus and Pitseus very tritely, and with little satisfaction to the Reader, (as they do all or most of the titles of Books belonging to the Writers, that they set down in their respective works) but such I have not yet seen. He hath also made several translations, among which is that from English into Latin of the Sermon of John Fisher B. of Rochester, which he Preached at London, on that day when the Writings of Martin Luther were publicly burnt, on Joh. 15. 26.— Printed, at Cambr. in Feb. 1521. qu. Before which is a large Epistle to the Reader, written by one Nich. Wilson of the University of Cambridge. He also made a translation from Greek into Latin of Plutarch's work De commodo ex inimicis capiendo; dedicated to Card. Bainbridge. At length this most excellent Person, who was admirably well versed in the Greek and Hebrew Tongues, in all kind of polite literature, and in civil Affairs, retiring to Stepney near London for health's sake, concluded his last day there, to the great reluctancy of all learned Men, year 1532 in Fifteen hundred thirty and two, being then scarce 50 Years of Age: Whereupon his body was buried in the Chancel of the Church there, near to the great Altar, and had soon after an Epitaph put over his Grave, consisting of 12 Verses, which for brevity sake, I shall now pass by, as also that admirable and just encomium 
p In Principum ac illustrium aliquot & eruditorum in Anglia virorum encomiis.— Lond. 1589. p. 25.  which Jo. Leland his Friend made on his return from Venice. I find one John Pace, who, from Eton School, was elected Scholar of Kings Coll. in Cambridge. 1539. or thereabouts, went away Fellow, became Jester to K. Hen. 8. for a time, and afterwards to the Duke of Norfolk, but what relation he had to Rich. Paice our learned Author, who, if I mistake not, was born at, or near, Winchester, I know not.  
THOMAS LUPSET Son of Will. Lupset Citizen and Goldsmith of London, by Alice his Wife, was born in London, particularly in the Parish of St. Mildrid in Breadstreet, (where the Father lived when Thomas was born, but lived in his last days, and died in 1522, in the Parish of St. Vedastus in Cheep) taken into the care and protection of Dr. Joh. Colet, and educated in Grammar learning under Will. Lilye; which is the reason why the said Doctor calls him in his last Will, his Scholar. But whether from W. Lilies School he went to this University, or to that of Cambridge, is doubtful. Dr. Jo. Cay the 
r In Hist. Cantab. p. 59  Antiquary doth tell you that he was educated in Pembroke Hall there, (though Bale and Pits are silent in it) but what his Authority is for that report, he tells us not. Howsoever it is, sure I am, and shall be, till I am convinced to the contrary, that he took the Degree of Bac. of Arts at Paris, and soon after coming into England, he fixed in the University of Oxon, particularly in Corp. Chr. Coll. about the Year 1519, and soon after he succeeded Jo. Clement in the Rhetoric Lecture of Card. Wolsey. To which Cardinal, the University having had occasion to write, make this mention of our Author Lupset in an 
s In reg. Epist. Uniu. Oxon. FF. Ep. 83.  Epistle dated 7. Id. May, 1521— Nam immortalis beneficii loco accepimus, quod benignissima tua beneficentia in communem rei literariae usum dignata sit Lupsetum ad nos remittere, quem etsi semper habuimus charissimum, nunc tamen quia à tuâ majestate tam amanter commendatum, multò arctiùs amplectimur. Illud autem supra quam credi potest nos omnes exhileraverit, quòd prudentissima tua authoritas ex omnium animis abstulerit scrupulos quibus anxiè alligabimur ordinariis lectionibus, quas jam prorsus extraordinarias utinam tua prudentia vel penitus ab omni ordine abigeret, vel in meliorem redigeret, etc. Sir Tho. More also in an Epist, to Erasmus, doth make 
t Vide Hist. & Antiq. Vniu. Ox. lib. 2. p. 36. a.  honourable mention of him, and his reading in both the Tongues at Oxon. But Lupset's desire being bend to proceed in Arts, he supplicated 
u Reg. Congreg. H. fol. 63. b.  the venerable Regent's met in Congregation 2. June 1521. that whereas he had spent four Years in Study at Paris and in Oxon, it might be sufficient for him that he might be admitted to proceed in the faculty of Arts. Which supplication of his being granted, he was licenced to proceed on the 19 of the same Month, and on the 9 July following, he did really stand in the Act then celebrated. Afterwards he became famous in this University, and other places of Literature, (especially after he had performed the Office of Secretary to Rich. Paice, when he was Ambassador to the Venetian) and by his conversation with eminent Men, did make great progress in Sciences: He hath written,  
A Treatise of charity.  
An exhortation to young Men, persuading them to walk honestly.  
A Treatise teaching how to die well— These three little Books were printed at London, 1546. and 1560. in 8vo. He hath also translated into English, (1) St. Chrysostom's Sermon (or Homely) teaching that no Man is hurt but by himself. (2) Sermon of St. Cyprian of the mortality of Man. (3) Picus Earl of Mirandula his rules of a godly life. (4) The gathered Councils of Isidore. Which four translations were printed at Lond. 1560. in 8vo. He hath also written.  
Epistolae variae ad Edw. Leium, Nisenum & Paynellum. Written from C. C. C. in Oxon, as by their dates it appears. Those to Edw. Lee (Archb. of York) were written in behalf of Erasmus, (between whom and the said Lee were learned bicker) and are printed in a Book entit. Epistolae aliquot eruditorum virorum, ex quibus perspicuum, quanta sit Edwardi Lei virulentia. Basil. 1520. qu. Which virulence was against Erasmus.  
In Ciceronis philippicas.  
Sermons ad Clerum: Preached mostly at Calais. See the titles of other of his labours in Pitseus. This Tho. Lupset submitted to the stroke of Death 27. Decemb. in Fifteen hundred thirty and two, year 1532 aged 36 or thereabouts, (having two Years before been admitted Prebendary of Roscombe in the Church of Salisbury, on the Death of John Fox Archdeacon of Winchester) and was buried in the Church of St. Alphaghe or Elphaghe within Cripplegate in London. (which Church was translated afterwards, to the Church now called St. Alphaghe by Zion Coll.) Over his Grave, though there be no memory of him by Inscription, yet Joh. Leland celebrates him in his Encomia, Trophaea, etc. Near to his Grave was the body of Alice Lupset his Widow, buried in 1545.  
JOHN BOURCHIER Lord berner's, Son of Humph. Bourchier, eldest Son of Sir Joh. Bourchier Knight, Lord berner's of Hertfordshire, the fourth Son of William Earl of Ewe, by Anne his Wife, Daughter of Tho. de Wodestock Duke of Gloucester, the sixth Son of K. Edw. 3. was instructed in several sorts of learning in this University in the latter end of K. Edw. 4; in whose Reign and before, were the Sons of divers of the English Nobility, educated in Academical literature in Balliol Coll. wherein, as 'tis probable, this our Author was instructed also. After he had left the University, he traveled into divers Countries, and returned a Master of several Languages and a complete Gentleman. But that which made him first known to the World, was his valour showed in quelling the fury of the Rebels in Cornwall and Devon, under the conduct of Michael Joseph a Blacksmith, about 1495, whereby he greatly gained the favour of K. Hen. 7. In the 6. Hen. 8. he was made 
* Baronage of England. Tom. 2. p. 133. a.  Chancellor of the King's Exchequer for life, and about that time attended the Lady Mary, (the King's Sister) into France, in order to her Marriage with K. Lewis 12. Afterwards being made Lieutenant of Calais, and the Marches adjoining, in France, spent most of his time there, and wrote,  
Of the duties of the Inhabitants of Calais.  
Comedy called Ite in vineam meam. Usually acted in the great Church at Calais after vespers. He also translated into English (1) The life of Sir Arthur an Armorican Knight (2) The famous exploits of Hugh of Bourdeaux. (3) The castle of Love, a Romance: And besides something of Marc. Aur. Ant. must not be forgotten that noted translation of his, which he performed at the command of K. Hen. 8. viz. The Chronicles of France and England, composed originally in the French Tongue by Sir Joh. Frossard Canon and Treasurer of Chinay, Clerk and Servant to K. Edw. 3. as also to Queen Philippe. These Chronicles have been more than once, if I mistake not, printed in English, in an English Letter, in fol. This worthy Lord Sir Joh. Bourchier died 
a Bal. De Script. maj. Britan. cent. 9 nu. 1.  at Calais beforemention'd 16 March in Fifteen hundred thirty and two, 
1532/33.  aged 63 or thereabouts. Whereupon his body was buried in the Parish Church of our Lady there; where was, if not still, a comely Mon. over his Grave.  
JOHN FRYTH, Son of Rich. Fryth an Inholder of Sevenoake in Kent was born there, (some say 
* See Jo. Fox in his Append. at the end of the Acts and Mon. of the Ch.  at Westram in the said County) and educated in Kings Coll. in Cambridge till he was Bachelaur of Arts. Afterwards being incited to go to Oxon for preferment, was for his towardly parts made one of the junior Canons of Cardinal Wolsey's College, and soon after, viz. in Dec. 1525. he was with other Cantabrigians incorporated in the same degree of Bachelaur. But before that time falling into the acquaintance of Will. Tyndale a zealous Lutheran, they conferred together privately about the abuses in Religion: So that in short time after he being by him converted to his opinion, Fryth made a public profession of it. Whereupon being seized and examined by the Commissary of the University, he was imprisoned within the limits of the said College. At length being freed thence, in 1528, or thereabouts, he went beyond the Seas, where improving himself much in his religious opinions, returned into England about two Years after, leaving his Wife behind. But then again finding few Friends there that favoured his opinions, he wandered to and fro; and in fine, was taken for a Vagabond at Reading in Berks. set in the Stocks, and endured misery for want of relief. At that time his condition being made known to Leonard Cox the Schoolmaster of that Town, who presently understood the merits of the Person by his discourse, procured his releasement, refreshed his hungry stomach, and gave him money. Afterwards he went to London, where endeavouring to gain Proselytes, he was by the care of Sir Tho. More Lord Chancellor, seized and sent Prisoner to the Tower, where he had several disputes with Sir Tho. and others. At length being examined by the Bishops sitting in St. Paul's Cath. who persuaded him to recant his opinions but in vain, they condemned him to be burnt. So that being delivered to the L. Mayor and Sheriffs, was committed to Newgate, where he remained in the Dungeon till he was conveyed thence to be burnt. His works are,  
Treatise of Purgatory.  
Answer to Joh. Rastal's Dialogues of Purgatory— This Jo. Rastal was Son in-Law to Sir Tho. More.  
Answer to Sir Tho. More's Dialogue concerning Heresies.  
Answer to Joh. Fisher B. of Rochester.  
The Subsidy or Bulwark to his first Book against Jo. Rastal.  
His judgement upon Will. Tracy of Todington in Glocestershire his Testament, an. 1531.  
Letter unto the faithful followers of Christ's Gospel— Written from his Prison in the Tower, 1532.  
A Mirror, or Glass to know thyself— Written in the Tower, 1532.  
Mirror or Looking-glass, wherein you may behold the Sacrament of Baptism— Written 1533.  
An Antithesis between Christ and the Pope.  
Of the Sacrament of the body and blood of Christ, in answer to Sir Thom. More's letter, which he wrote against the first little treatise of Fryth, made concerning the Sacrament etc. an. 1533. Lond. 1548. oct.  
Articles, wherefore he died— Written in Newgate Prison 23. June 1533. All which treatises, were reprinted at London in fol. an. 1573. He also translated into English Patrick's places written by Patr. Hamilton. At length after he had remained in the said Prison about a Fortnight or more, he was carried thence to Smithfield on the 4. year 1533 July in Fifteen hundred thirty and three, where he suffered Death by burning. See more of him in Jo. Fox his Book of Acts and Mon. of the Church, etc. under the Year 1533, and in Rob. Persons his animadversions on Fox's words concerning Fryth in The third part of a treatise entit. Of three conversions of England. Chapt. 11. p. 45. 46, etc. as also in Joh. Gwynneth among these Writers under the Year 1557.  
JOHN ROPER born in Berks. in the Dioc. of Sarum, was first a Semicommoner or Demy of Magd. Coll. and afterwards being M. of A. was admitted perpetual Fellow of that House, in 1483. When he was some Years standing in that degree, he was made Reader of Philosophy, and when Bach. of Divinity, Reader of the Sentences, or Divinity, in the said College. In 1502, he was confirmed Margaret Professor by the Foundress of that Lecture, was afterwards Vicar of St. Mary's Church in Oxon, Principal of Salesurry, and George Hall in that Parish, Doctor of Divinity, Canon of the Coll. founded by K. Hen. 8. (now Ch. Ch.) in Oxon, to which he was admitted 1532, and Rector of Witney Church in Oxfordshire. This Person who was esteemed one of the eminent Theologists of this University, was appointed by the King in 1521. to write,  
Tract. contra Doctrinam Mart. Lutheri. Which, whether ever printed, I know not. He was a zealous Enemy against the King's divorce from Queen Catherine, in the Year 1530, but did not dare to write openly, or publish any thing against it, though Preach he did. This learned Person died in the Month of May, year 1534 in Fifteen hundred thirty and four, and was, as I conceive, buried in Magd. Coll. Chappel.  
JOHN ALLEN had his first Academical Education in this University, whence going to Cambridge, was there made M. of Arts, as 'tis said, though I rather think Bach. of the Laws. Afterwards he was sent to the Pope at Rome, by Dr. Warham Archb. of Canterbury, about certain matters relating to the Church, where remaining about 9 Years, was in that time created Doctor of the Laws, either there, or in an University in Italy. After his return he became Chaplain to Cardinal Wolsey, who knew him, as I conceive, while he was in Oxon, was Judge of his Court as he was Legat à latere, (but in that Office he was thought to be a perjured and wicked Person) and assisted him in visiting first, and afterwards in that great matter of dissolving, 40 little Monasteries at least, for the erection of his Coll at Oxon, and that at Ipswych. In the latter end of the Year 1525, he was incorporated LL. Dr. of this University, on the 13. March 1528. he was consecrated Archb. of Dublin, and about that time was made Chancellor of Ireland. He hath Written,  
Epistola de Pallii significatione activa & passiva. Penned by him when he received the Pall to be Archbishop.  
De consuetudinibus ac statutis in tuitoriis causis observandis. Besides other things concerning the Church. At length being taken in a time of rebellion by Tho. Fitz-Gerard or Gerald, eldest Son to the Earl of Kildare, was by his command most cruelly 
b Jac. Waraeus in Comment. de praesulib. Hibern. Edit. 1665. p. 118, 119.  murdered, by being brained like an Ox, at Tartaine in Ireland, 28. Jul. in Fifteen hundred thirty and four, year 1534 aged 58. The whole story of which, several of the Irish Chronicles will tell you. See more among the Bishops under the Year 1534.  
WILLIAM HORMAN was born within the City of Salisbury, educated in Grammar learning in Wykehams' School near Winchester, made true and perpetual Fellow of New Coll. in 1477. which place he resigning in 1485, (being then M. of A.) he became Schoolmaster and Fellow of Eton Coll. near Windsor, and at length Vice provost of the same College. In which place spending many Years in pleasant retirement, became one of the most general Scholars of his time, as may appear by the diffusiveness of his Learning, and Books written in all faculties. All the Academical Education that he received was in the University of Oxon, where he also took the Degrees in Divinity: So that whereas Joh. 
c In cent. 8. Script. Maj. Britan. num. 70.  Baleus and Jo. 
d In Aet. 16. ●c●ipt. Ang l. nu. 590.  Pitseus say that he was of Kings Coll. in Cambridge, is false, being led, I presume, into that error, from one Godfrey Harman a Cantabrigian; who, from being a Junior Canon of Cardinal Coll. in Oxon, was made Fellow of Eton Coll. beforemention'd, where he died and was buried in 1533. As for our Author Will. Horman he hath written many things, of which I can only give you an account of some, as they follow.  
Antibossicon ad Gul. Lilium. Lond. 1521. qu.  
Apologeticon contra Rob. Whittintoni Protovatis Angliae incivilem indoctanque criminationem. Lond. 1521. qu. part. 2. Before the said Books is printed from a Wooden Cut the Picture of a Bear baited by six Dogs, and at the end is some of Whittington's poety taken in pieces by Horman, and by him severely answered.  
Vulgaria puerorum, etc. They are elegant sentences written in English and Latin, and dedicated to Will Atwater Bishop of Lincoln.  
Compendium Hist. Gul. Malmsburiensis.  
Epitome Historiae Joh. Pici come. Mirandulae.  
Elegiae in mort. Gul. Lilii.  
Anatomia membrorum hominis. In one Book.  
Anatomia corporis humani. In two Books. The titles of the rest you may see in Jo. 
e In cent. 8. ut sup. num. 70.  Baleus; and therefore, I can say no more of our Author Horman, than this, that he paid his last debt to nature on the 12. year 1535 Apr. in Fifteen hundred thirty and five, and was buried in the Chapel of Eton Coll. beforemention'd. Over his Grave are certain Verses engraven on a brass plate, the two first of which run thus.  
Hâc Hormannus humo requiescit amice viator,  
Pene annos numerant lustra vicena suos.  
The rest you may see in Hist. & Antiq. Uniu. Oxon. lib. 2. p. 135.  
THOMAS MORE one of the greatest prodigies of Wit and Learning that this Nation ever before his time produced, Son of Sir Joh. More Knight, one of the Justices of the King's Bench, was born in Milk-street within the City of London, an. 1480. trained up in Grammar learning in St. Anthony's School there, and afterwards received into the Family of Card. Joh. Moreton Archb. of Canterbury, merely for the towardliness of his Person, and the great hopes that the pregnancy of his parts then promised. About the Year 1497. 'tis said by some late Authors 
f Tho. More Gr. Grandson to Sir Thomas, in The Life of Sir Tho. More, printed about the Year 1627. cap. 1. p. 20. and J. H. in The Life (also) of the said Sir Tho. printed at Lond. in 8vo. an. 1662. p. 4.  that that worthy Cardinal did send him to Canterbury College in Oxon, to obtain Academical Learning, but upon what grounds they report so, it appears not. Miles Windsor (whom I shall mention among these Writers under the Year 1624.) who came to the University of Oxon, in the time of Queen Mary, doth 
g In Collectaneis quibusdam ad rem Historic. & Antiq. pertinent. MS. penes me A. W Vide etiam B. Twynum in Apol. Antiq. Acad. Oxon. lib. 3. Sect. 311.  tell us more than once that he had his Chamber, and studied in the Hall of St. Marry the Virgin, and constant tradition doth say the like, and 'twas never reported to the contrary, before those two Authors here cited (Tho. More and J. H.) published their respective Books. What continuance Sir Tho. made in Oxon, or whether he took a Degree, it appears not, neither can we find means to resolve us, because the University Registers of that Age are deficient. However, this is certain, that at what time our Author studied in this University, Grocynus read publicly the Greek Tongue there; whom, he constantly hearing, became a great proficient in that Language, and other sorts of Learning by the helps of Lynacre his Tutor; then, if I mistake not, Fellow of Allsouls Coll. From Oxon he removed to an Inn of Chancery at London called New Inn, where continuing for a time according to the manner and custom of those that intended to make a proficiency in the municipal Laws, translated himself to Lincoln's Inn, where easily conquering those Studies, was at length called to the Bar. Afterwards growing into great favour with K. Hen. 8. who highly valued him for his Learning, Wisdom, Experience, and extraordinary gifts of nature that he was endowed with, conferred these honours and employments successively upon him, viz. the Mastership of the Request, the intrusting him in several Embrassies, the honour of Knighthood, the Treasureship of the Exchequer, Chancellorship of the Duchy of Lancaster, the Embassage to the Emperor and French King, and at length upon the removal of Cardinal Wolsey, had the great Seal delivered to him 25. Oct. 21. Hen. 8. and then also declared High Chancellor of England; in which last office no Person ever before did carry himself more uprightly, or with greater liking to the generality of People, than he. On the 16. May 24. Hen. 8. he delivered up the great Seal to the King at his Manor House called York-place near Westminster, in the presence of Thomas Duke of Norfolk, upon the foresight of some evil matters that were like to come to pass, and on the 20. of the same Month the said Seal was delivered by the King, in his Manor of Pleasaunce, otherwise called East-Greenwych to Sir Thomas Audley Knight. After this, Sir Thomas retired to his House 
h The same House where Sir Joh. Danvers lately lived, where two Pyramids are at the gate.  at Chelsey near London, where continuing for a time in the enjoyment of his Muse, not without severe devotion, was at length, for not acknowledging the King's Supermacy over the Church of England, committed Prisoner to the Tower of London; where remaining several Months very close, to the endangering of his health, his Daughter Margaret, Wife of William Roper of Tenham and Eltham in Kent, wrote a Letter to Thomas Cromwell chief Secretary of State, (the contents of which I have 
i In the Paper Office at Whitehall.  seen) entreating him to be good to her Father in Prison, kept so close that his health is utterly decayed. Another also I have seen from Dame Alice More his Wife to the aforesaid Cromwell, beseeching him to be good to her poor old Husband, whose close keeping, destroys his body. Also the be good to her and hers, considering their necessity— For my good Master (saith she) as I would be saved before our Lord, I am driven to that point, that I am fain to make sale of certain employments and old stuff to find Mr. More, and me, and my poor household with, etc. with other like matters written by that whining Woman, which I shall now for brevity omit, and only at present tell the Reader that no Man was more patient, pious, and severe in the course of his life than he. He was also very meek, humble, charitable, and a despiser of the things of this World, and nothing was wanting in him to make a complete Christian. His parts were great and profound, his skill in Divinity, municipal Laws, the Latin and Greek Languages, in Poesy, Mathematics and what not, was excellent and without compare. All which endowments made him not only beloved of Kings and Nobles, but of the lights of Learning of his time, as Erasmus, Colet, Tonstal B. of Durham, Fisher B. of Rochester, Grocyn, Lynacre, Liyle, Paice, Elyot, Lupset, Leland, etc. most of which, especially Foreign Writers, have celebrated his Memory in their respective Works, and all ingenious Scholars at this time bear a great respect to his Name and Lucubrations. He hath written in English.  
A merry jest how a Sergeant would learn to play a Friar.— Written in Verse.  
Verses on a hanging of a painted Cloth in his Father's House.— Containing 9 Pagiants, and Verses in each.  
Lamentation on the Death of Elizabeth Wife of King Hen. 7. An. 1503.  
Verses on the Book of Fortune.  
These four beforegoing, being written in his Youth, are not numbered among his Works.  
History of K. Rich. 3.— This, which was never quite finished, is the same, I presume, that is entitled The tragical History of K. Rich. 3. printed under Sir Thom. More's Name at London 1651. in 8vo. His Great Grandson 
k Tho. More in The Life of Sir Tho. More; at the later end.  saith, that he did not only write elegantly the Life of Rich. 3. in English, (which is abroad in print tho corrupted and vitiated) but in Latin also, not yet printed.  
Memorare novissima.  
Dialogue concerning Heresies and matters of Religion.  
Supplication of Souls, made against the supplication of Beggars.— This is sometimes called The supplication of Purgatory, written against that of Beggars, made by Sim. Fish of Greys' Inn Gent.  
The confutation of Tyndale's Answer of Sir Th. More's Dialogues.  
The second part of the confutation— Written 1533.  
Answer to Joh. Fryth's Book made against the Blessed Sacrament— Written the same Year.  
An Apology— This was written against a Book intit. A Treatise of the division between the spirituality and temporality. Against which Apology, was published a Book called Salem & Bizance, written Dialogue-wise. Lond. 1533. oct.  
The debellacyon of Salem and Bizance. Lond. 1533. oct  
Answer to the first part of the poisoned Book, which a nameless Heretic hath named, The Supper of our Lord.  
Treatise upon the passion of Christ.  
A 

Godly instruction.  
Godly meditation.  
Devout Prayer.  
Letter to his Lady his Wife.    
Certain Letters written by him, after he had given over the Office of Lord Chancellor.  
Certain Letters written by him while he was Prisoner in the Tower.— All which treatises were collected and printed in one Vol. at London, an. 1557. fol. Among them are,  
A godly instruction— written in Lat.  
His Epitaph— In Lat. See the Copy of it in Joh. Weevers Book entitled, Ancient funeral Monuments. p. 522, 523, and in the beginning of Maur. Channy or Chawney his Historia aliquot nostri saeculi martyrum. printed 1550. in qu. He hath also translated into English (1) The life of Joh. Picus Earl of Mirandula. (2) An exposition of a part. of the possion of Christ.  
His Latin Works, besides those two little things before-mentioned are these.  
De optimo repub. statu, deque nova insula Utopia, libellus aureus, etc. Basil. 1518. there again 1563, both in qu. and at Oxon 1663. in oct. Translated into English, with notes added to it in the Margin, by Ralph Robinson of C. C. C.— Lond. 1557. oct. Published also at the same place 1639. in oct. by one Bernard Alsop, who dedicates it to Cressacre More of More-place in Northmimes in Hertfordshire Esq. one of the posterity, and next in blood to our Author Sir Tho. More. The said Utopia also was published in Italian, at Venice 1548.  
Epigrammata. Bas. 1518. 1563. oct. Lond. 1638, etc.  
Progimnasmata. Bas. 1563.  
Responsio ad convitia Martint Lutheri. written in the Year 1523. This I take to be the same with Vindicatio Henrici 8. Regis Angliae & Galliae, à calumniis Lutheri. Lond. 1523. qu. published under the name of Gul. Rosseus.  
Quod pro fide mors fugienda non est. Written in the Tower of London, 1534.  
Precationes ex Psalmis. Collected there the same Year.  
Imploratio divini auxilii contra tentationem, cum insultatione contra Demons, ex spe & fiducia in Deum. Lugd. 1572. He also translated from Greek into Lat. Dialogi Luciani, with other matters of that Author— Bas. 1563. All which (except Precationes ex psalmis, beforemention'd) together with his History of K. Rich. 3. and his Expositio passionis Domini, were printed at Louvain, 1566.  
Epistolae. Bas. Lond. 1642.  
Epistola ad Acad. Oxon, an. 1519. Ox. 1633. qu. See in Tho. James under the Year 1638.  
History of the pitiful life, and unfortunate death of Edward 5. and the than Duke of York his Brother. Lond. 1651. oct. This last being in English, and published the last of all his Works; I do therefore put it here. At length this our worthy Author being brought to his trial in Westminster-hall, was there for Treason (for denying the King's Supremacy) condemned to be hanged, drawn, and quartered. But that Sentence being mitigated by the K. he only lost his Head on Tower-hill 6. July, in Fifteen hundred thirty and five. year 1535 Soon after his Body was buried in the Chapel belonging to the Tower called St. Peter ad Vincula, by the care of his Daughter Margaret, to which place, as 'tis said, she afterwards removed the Body of John Fisher B. of Rochester, who being beheaded for the same matter on 22. June going before, was buried in the Churchyard of Allhallows Barkin. But More's Body continuing not long in that Chapel, was by the said Margaret removed to Chelsey Church near London, and there deposited on the South side of the Choir or Chancel. Over it is a large Epitaph made by himself, after he had given up his Chancellorship, which is printed in several Books and by several Authors. As for his head, it was set upon a pole on London-bridge, where abiding about 14 days, was then privily bought by the said Margaret, and by her for a time carefully preserved in a leaden Box, but afterwards with great devotion, 'twas put into a Vault (the burying place of the Ropers) under a Chapel joining to St. Dunstan's Church in Canterbury,] where it doth yet remain, standing in the said Box on the Coffin of Margaret his Daughter buried there. Much more, as 'tis probable, I could say of his Death and Burial, could I see a Book intit. Expositio fidelis de morte Thomae Mori. Printed in 8vo. in the Year 1536. but the Book is very scarce, and I could never see no more of it than the bare title. One More of Hertfordshire (descended from him) had one of his Chaps, and was by his among other rarities carefully preserved till the Rebellion broke out in 1642. Jasper and Ellis Heywood, Jesuits, Sons of Joh. Heywood the noted Poet in the time of Hen. 8 had one of the teeth of the said Sir Tho. More, but they being loath to part with their right to each other, the tooth 
l Ib. in Si● Tho. Moor's life before mentioned.  fell asunder and divided of itself. The said Sir Thomas had issue by his first Wife Jane, the Daughter of John Cowlt of Cowlts Hall in Essex three Daughters, and one Son named John, who being little better than an Idiot, (as 'tis said) took to Wife in his Father's life time Anne, Daughter and sole Heir of Edward Cressacre of Baronburgh in Yorkshire, by whom he had issue (1) Thomas, (right Heir of his Father and Grandfather) who had 13 Children, of which Five were Sons. The four eldest lived in voluntary contempt, and loathed the World, before the World fawned on them. The first was Thomas, born anew, and baptised on that day of the Year (6. July) on which Sir Thomas suffered death. This Thomas having the Estate come to him, married, 
* So he saith in the said life.  and had several Children, but being a most zealous Catholic, and constantly affected to the French Nation and Crown, did at his own cost and charge, with unwearied industry, assemble all the English Persons of note that were then in and about Rome to supplicate his Holiness for a dispatch of a contract between the K. of England and Henrietta Maria of France an. 1624-25. which being done, the said Thomas, who was the Mouth or Speaker for the said English Persons, died XI. April (according to the account followed at Rome) an. 1625. aged 59 and was buried in the middle almost of the Church of St. Lewis in Rome, leaving then behind him the life of his Gr. Grandfather Sir Tho. More's, incomparably well written, published (at London I think) in 4to, about 1627. and dedicated to Henrietta Maria beforementioned. Over the said Tho. Moor's Grave, was soon after laid a monumental Stone at the charge of the English Clergy at Rome, and an Epitaph engraven thereon, a Copy of which was sent to me by I know not whom, (as several things of that nature are, from other places) running thus. D. O. M. S. Thomae Moro dioc. Ebor. Anglo, magni illius Thomae Mori Angliae Cancellarii & Martyris pronepoti atque haeredi, viro probitate & pietate insigni; qui, raro admodum, apud Britannos exemplo, in fratrem natu minorem, amplum transcripsit patrimonium, & presbyter Romae factus, inde fuisse sedis Apostolicae in patriam profectus, plusculos annos, strenuam fidei propagandae navavit operam: postea cleri Anglicani negotia septem annos Romae, & 5 in Hispaniâ P. P. Paulo 5to, & Gregorio 15 summa cum integritate & industria suisque sumptibus procuravit. Tandem de subrogando Anglis Episcopo ad Urbanum 8 missus negotio feliciter confecto laborum mercedem recepturus, ex hac vita migravit, XI. Apr. An. 1625. aet. suae 59 Clerus Anglicanus moestus P.— The second Son of the said Joh. More (Son of Sir Thomas) was Augustine, who died unmarried. The third was Thomas the second, or Thomas junior, born at Chelsey 8. Aug. 23. Hen. 8. who, when he came to man's Estate, 
m Tho. More in the life of Sir Tho. More, p. 361  degenerated from the Catholic Religion, and lived and died a professed Minister, leaving Issue several Children, of whom the eldest Cressacre More (who was born at Baronburgh in Yorkshire 3. July 1572.) lived afterwards 
n Ib. p. 361.  in no commendable fashion. The fourth was Edward, 
o Ib. p. 360, 361.  born after Sir Thomas his death, and having not his blessing as Thomas (the first) and Augustin in bad, degenerated from the Catholic Religion. The fifth was Bartholomew, who died young of the Plague in London. The Pictures of most of these Moors, mentioned here by me, viz. of Sir Joh. More the Father, and his Lady, Sir Thomas the Son, and his Lady, John the Grandson, Margaret, Elizabeth, and Cicely, the Grand Daughters, etc. were most admirably well depicted by the curious hand of Hans Holbin, well known to, and acquainted with, Sir Thomas More. Which piece, being an original, remaineth to this day (1689) in the House ●f the Lenthals at Besills-Lee near to Abendon in Berks. Round which is an Inscription, showing the names and matches of those that are there depicted, but now scarce legible. To conclude, if any curious Person is desirous to know more of this noted Author Sir Tho. More, who hath been, and yet is, wonderfully celebrated throughout the learned World, let him consult (1) His life 
p MS. in archiv. bib. Bod.  written by Will. Roper beforementioned. (2) Dr. Tho. Stapleton his Book 
q Edit. Duac. 1588. & Col, Agrip. 1599  entit. De tribus Thomis, mostly as to this Sir Tho. More, taken from that written by Roper. (3) His life written by Thom. More beforementioned, much of which is taken from the former two. (4) His life 
r Printed at Lond. 1662. oct.  written by J. H. (Haddesdon I think) collected from Stapleton and More, especially the last, which was, and is scarce to be had. (5) A Book written by Maur. Channey or Chawney, sometimes a Carthusian near London, intit. Historia aliquot nostri saeculi, etc. which Book, and its Author, I shall mention elsewhere. (6) His life intit. The mirror of virtue in worldly greatness. Paris 1616. in oct. (7) A MS. of his life (whether a Copy of that MS. written by Roper I know not) in the Library of the Free-School at Colchester. The Reader is now to know that Will. Roper beforementioned who married Margaret More, was born in Kent, and educated for a time in one of the Universities. Afterwards he succeeded his Father John Roper in the Office of Prothonotary of the King's Bench; which, after he had kept and faithfully performed 54 Years, he resigned it to his Son Thom. Roper. The said William was very bountiful both at home and abroad, merciful, meek, and a Staff to such that were poor, oppressed, and imprisoned. At length after he had lived a Widower 33 Years, and 82 in this vain World, he submitted to fate 4. Januar. 1577. Whereupon his body was buried next to that of Margaret his Wife, in a Vault under a Chapel joining to the Chancel belonging to the Church of St. Dunstan in Canterbury. The life of Sir Tho. More beforementioned, written by this Will. Roper, I have several times perused, the beginning of which is, Forasmuch as Sir Tho. More Knight, etc.  
HENRY STANDISH descended from a right Ancient Family of his Name in Lancashire, became, when young, a Franciscan or Greyfrier, but in what convent, I know not as yet, studied for some time in the convent of his Order at Oxon, and partly at Cambridge, proceeded D. of D. of this University, as a certain Register 
a Reg. fratrum Minorum, Lond. MS, in bib. Cotton. sub Effig. Vitellii. F. 12. fol. 68  belonging to his Order tells us, made Guardian of the Franciscan convent in London, Provincial of his Order, and in 1519. being nominated Bishop of St. Asaph, received consecration thereunto in the conventual Church of the Franciscans at Oxon beforementioned, on the eleventh of July the same Year. In 1526, he, with Sir John Baker were sent Ambassadors to Denmark, and in 1530, he was one of the Bishops that assisted and directed Qu. Catherine in the suit concerning her divorce from K. Hen. 8. He was esteemed a learned Man of his time, and a most zealous favourer and assertor of the Catholic Religion; for which, had he lived longer, he would have suffered much. He hath written,  
Several Sermons preached to the People.  
Treatise against Erasmus his translation of the New Testament.— With other things, as 'tis probable. He gave up the Ghost at London, in the beginning of August in Fifteen hundred thirty and five: year 1535 Whereupon his body was buried in the Church of the Franciscans, commonly called Greyfriers in the said City, now known by the name of Christ-Church. Over his Grave was soon after a Tomb erected with the 13 l. 6. s. 8 d. which he bequeathed for that purpose. He gave 
b Reg. Hogen in offic. praerog. Cantuar. Qu. 26.  40 l. to pave the Choir of the Cath of St. Asaph, and for other necessaries; five marks to the Franciscans of Oxon to be prayed for; ten marks also for the reparation of their Church, and for the building of an Isle joining to the said Church forty pounds. For exhibition of Scholars in Oxon forty pounds, besides legacies to Ralph Standish Lord of Standish in Lancashire his near Kinsman, to Agnes Worthington his Sister, and Will. Standish his natural Brother. See more of this H. Standish in Rich. Kedermyster, under the Year 1531.  
JOHN KYNTON was by rule or order a Minorite or Greyfrier, and being a Man of parts, and noted for his proficiency in Divinity, the Society of Magd. Coll. made choice of him to be their Reader of that faculty within their House. Which Office he performing with great honour for several Years, the Doctors and Bach. of Diu. of the University, elected him Margaret Professor in the place of Joh. Roper, being then D. of D. and a Person of great note in the University. He wrote at the command of the King, an. 1521.  
Tract. contra doctrinam Mart. Lutheri. Whether this, or any thing else that he did write, were ever printed, I know not. 
1535-36.  He died in Fifteen hundred thirty and five, and was, as I conceive, buried in the Chapel of Durham, now Trinity, College in Oxon. for on a little Grave-stone there, yet remaining, is written this. Obiit Johannes Kynton Frater minor, sacrae Theologiae professor, 20. Januar. 1535.  
WILLIAM TYNDALE, otherwise called Hitchins, was born on the borders of. Wales, brought up from a Child in Grammar, Logic, and Philosophy in this University, particularly for the most part in St. Mary magdalen's Hall; where, having sucked in the Doctrine of Luther, read it privately to certain Students, and to some of the Junior Fellows of Magd. Coll. adjoining. Whether he took a Degree, either by the name of Tyndale or Hitchins, it doth not appear in our Registers, and whether he was one of the Junior Canons of Cardinal Wolsey's Coll. as some think, there is no ground or footstep left to persuade us to it. From Oxon he went to Cambridge, where being well ripened in God's word, he was entertained by one Sir Joh. Welch a Knight of Glocestershire, and by him made Tutor to his Children. While he continued there, he showed himself so much a friend to Luther, and foe to the Pope, before several Abbats, Doctors, and other Men of the Clergy living in the neighbourhood, that he was forced merely for the security of his Person to leave that place. So that journeying to London, he endeavoured to get into the Family of Cuthb. Tonstall Bishop thereof; but being frustrated of his design, he was desirous for the good of his Country to translate the New Testament into English, but finding no place to do it in England, he left his native Country and went into Germany, where setting on the work, he finished it in the Year 1527, which was the first translation of it made into English. Afterwards going on with the Old Test. He finished the five Books of Moses with sundry prologues before every one of them, besides other treatises written there. Which being sent into England, did, as esteemed by the then Clergy thereof, prove very mischievous to the whole Nation: Insomuch, that the King was forced to put out a Proclamation, prohibiting the buying and reading the said translation or translations. Afterwards the King and Council, finding that he would do much harm if not removed out of the way, they sent to the Emperor's Attorney at Brussels to have him seized: Whereupon our Author who was then at Antwerp, being snapped by two Catchpoles, appointed by one Hen. Philipps an English Man, sent thither on purpose to find him out, was, after examination, sent to Prison in the Castle of Filford 18 Miles distant from Antwerp, where continuing for some time, did at length suffer death, (notwithstanding great intercessions were made for him by the English Merchants abiding in that Country) as I shall tell you anon. He hath written,  
Protestation touching the Resurrection of the Bodies, and the State of Souls after this life.  
Preface to the five Books of Moses called Genesis— Written in the Year 1530. Jan. 17.  
Prologue showing the use of the Scripture.  
Prologues to the five Books of Moses.  
Certain hard words expounded in the first, second, and fourth, Book of Moses.  
Prologue upon the Prophet Ionas, the four Evangelists, upon the Epistles of St. Paul, the Epistles of St. Peter, and the 3 Epistles of St. John.  
The Parable of the wicked Mammon— Published 1527. May 8.  
The obedience of a Christian Man, and how Christian Rulers ought to govern— Published 1528. Oct. 2. and 1561. in oct.  
An Exposition on the 5. 6. and 7 Chapters of St. Matthews Gospel.  
Answer to Sir Tho. Moor's Dialogues.— An. 1530.  
The practice of papistical Prelates.— An. 1530. 'Tis about the divorce of K. H. 8.  
A path way into the Holy Scriptures.  
Exposition of the first Epistle of St. John— Published in Sept. 1531. in oct.  
Exposition on Mr. Will. Tracies Will. Noremberg. 1546. oct.  
Fruitful treatise upon Signs and Sacraments.  
Two Letters to Joh. Fryth Prisoner in the Tower.  
All which were printed in one Vol. in fol. 1573. He is also supposed to be Author of,  
The Supper of the Lord, after the true meaning of the 6th of John, and the eleventh of the 1. of Cor. And incidently in the exposition of the Supper is confuted, the Letter of Sir Tho. More against Jo. Fryth— Written Apr. 5. an. 1533. This Person Will. Tyndale was first strangled by the hands of the common Hangman, and then burnt near to Filford Castle before-mentioned, in Fifteen hundred thirty and six. year 1536 See his Story at large in Joh. Fox his Book of Acts and Monuments of the Church, etc. and in Rob. Persons his answer thereunto in The third part of a Treatise intit. of three conversions of England, etc. Printed 1604 chap. 14 p. 170. 171.  
DESIDERIUS ERASMUS ROTERODAMUS, a great and wonderful light of Learning, and therefore invited and drawn by Kings and Princes into Germany, Italy, England, and other Regions of Europe, was born at Rotterdam in Holland 28. of Oct. 1467. This Person though educated in all kind of Learning beyond the Seas, yet he must have a place in these Athenae, because he had studied in this University, particularly in St. Mary's Coll. a place for Canon Regulars of the Order of St. Austin (whose great Gate is almost opposite to that of New Inn) in the Years 1497. 98, and part, if not all of 1499. and as some think in the Year 1518 or 19 when Card. Wolsey founded his Lectures in this University, at which time Erasmus read 
c Ut in notis quibusdam Br. Twyni, MS.  certain Lectures in the public refectory of Corp. Ch. Coll. The reason of his continuance and studying here, I have told 
d In Hist. & Antiq. Vniu. Oxon. lib. 1. p. 237.  you elsewhere, and therefore all that I shall now say of him is, that his works are printed in 9 Volumes, in which are his dissertation De taedio & pavore Christi, and certain Epistles, which he wrote in the said Coll. of St. Mary, and that dying at Basil in Germany, year 1536 on the 12 of July in Fifteen hundred thirty and six, was buried in the Cathedral Church there: Soon after was a conspicuous Monument, with an Inscription, put over his Grave, the contents of which, I shall now for brevity sake omit. His life is twice, or more, written in Latin, though not so well as it should be, and once or more in English, which is the reason that I have spoken but briefly of him in this place.  
JOHN RASTALL was a Londoner born, and educated for a time in Grammaticals and Philosophicals in this University. Afterwards returning to his native place, he set up the Trade of Printing, being then esteemed a profession fit for any Scholar or ingenious Man. This Person being noted for his Piety and Learning, became intimate with Sir Tho. More, whose Sister Elizabeth he took to Wife, and by daily conference with that most learned Knight, he improved his knowledge in various sorts of Learning, besides what knowledge he before had gotten in the Mathematics. He was a zealous Man for the Catholic cause, and a great hater of the proceedings of King Hen. 8. as to his divorce, and for his ejecting the Pope's power from the Nation. His Writings are,  
Natura naturata. 'Tis a large and ingenious Comedy containing a description of three parts of the World, viz. Asia, Africa, and Europe, adorned with Figures and Cuts.  
Canon's Astrologici.  
Dialogues concerning Purgatory, in 3. Books.  
Apology written against Joh. Fryth.— Which two last, were in vindication of Joh. Fisher B. of Rochester, and Sir Thom. More.  
The rules of a good life.  
Anglorum Regum Chronicon. with others; but as for the Book of Law terms, said by 
e In cent. 8. nu. 74.  Bale to be written by this Author, is false; for they were written by his Son William, as I shall tell you under the Year 1565. This Joh. Rastall died at London, year 1536 in Fifteen hundred thirty and six, leaving behind him Issue Will. Rastall before mentioned, and John Rastall a Justice of Peace, who had Issue a Daughter named Elizabeth, the Wife of Rob. Lougher L L. D. Chancellor of the Dioc. of Exeter.  
JOHN RYCKS being much addicted in his Youth to Piety and Learning was entered into the Order of the Minorites or Grey friars, and among them in Oxon he did spend some time in good Letters. At length in his last days, (being then esteemed a placid old Man) when he saw the Pope and his Religion begin to decline in England, he became a zealous Protestant, and wrote in the English Tongue,  
The image of divine Love.  
Against the blasphemies of the Papists.— And translated into English, Prognosticon of Otho of Brunfeild, which he dedicated to Thomas Cromwell. Other things he wrote as my 
† Baleus, in Script. maj. Brit. p. 101. post cent. 12.  Author saith, who adds that he died at London in Fifteen hundred thirty and six, year 1536 which was the eight and twentieth Year of K. Hen. 8.  
FRANCIS BYGOD a Yorkshire Man born, spent some time among the Oxonian Muses, but whether he took a Degree, it doth not appear. Afterwards he received the honour of Knighthood from the King, and wrote,  
A Treatise concerning impropriations of Benefices— The Epistle before which, dedicated to K. Hen. 8. is printed (or reprinted) at the latter end of Sir Hen. Spelman's Larger work of Tithes, by the care of Jerem. Stephens, an. 1647. The said Treatise seems to have been written after the breach which K. Hen. 8. made with the Pope, his Marriage with Anna Bolein, and the Birth of Q. Elizabeth, as 'tis conjectured by circumstances. The Author's purpose was chiefly bend against the Monasteries, who had unjustly gotten very many Parsonages into their possession, as it had been complained of long before his time, especially be Dr. Tho. 
* Vide Hist, & Antiq. Vniu. Oxon. lib. 1. p. 220. a. & 242.  Gascoigne a Yorkshire Man born. The said Bygod translated also certain Latin Books into English, which I have not yet seen. At length being found very active in the commotions in Yorkshire called The holy pilgrimage, an. 1536, (at which time he with his party endeavoured to surprise Hull) was thereupon apprehended, imprisoned, and at length executed at Tyburn near to London, with other Knights and Esquires, in the Month of June in Fifteen hundred thirty and seven, year 1537 which was the nine and twentieth Year of K. Hen. 8.  
ROBERT WAKFELD, a Northern Man born, and the greatest Linguist of his time, was as he saith, 
a At the end of his paraph in Ecclesiast.  ex fidelibus natus fidelis, ex Christianis Christianus, and afterwards being fitted for the University, he was sent to Cambridge, where he took one or more degrees in Arts. But his desire being solely bend to improve his natural Genie in the Tongues, he went to travel, and in short time attained to a very considerable knowledge in the Greek, Hebrew, Chaldaic, and Syriac Tongues. About that time he read and taught the said Tongues at Tubing in Germany, at Paris, and in 1519, I find 
b In Fastis Lovan. per Val. Andream, Printed 1650. p. 283.  him to be Hebr. Professor at Louvain in Brabant, in the place of one Matthew Adrian: But continuing there only 4 Months, he returned into England, where being made known to the King by his great friend and admirer Rich. Paice Dean of St. Paul's, he was made one of his Chaplams, took the Degree of Bach. of Divinity, was beloved of many, and patronised in his studies by Thom. Bulleyn Earl of Wilts. When the unlawfulness of Matrimony between the King and Catherine of Spain, Widow of his Brother Prince Arthur was called into question, he began to defend the Queen's cause, and therefore gained the love of many, b●t being afterwards courted by fair promises to change his mind, and the rather because of his great skill in the Tongues and Divinity, and therefore able to say more than another Man, he came over to the King's Party, whereby he gained the hatred of many. I have seen 
c At the end of his Kotser Codicis.  a Letter written by him to the King, dated from Zion in Middlesex, 1527. wherein he tells him, that he will defend his cause or question in all the Universities in Christendom, etc. and afterwards tells him, that, if the People should know that he, who began to defend the Queen's cause, not knowing that she was carnally know of Pr. Arthur his Brother, should now write against it, surely he should be stoned of them to death, or else have such a slander and obloquy raised upon him, that he would rather die a thousand times than suffer it, etc. Afterwards upon the entreaty of the University of Oxon made to the King, Wakfeld was sent thither about 1530. and at his first coming he made a public Speech in the Hall of the Coll. of K. Hen. 8. (since called Ch. Church) before the University, and afterwards read publicly the Hebrew Lecture there, as his Brother Tho. Wakfeld did at Cambridge by the King's Authority, beginning to read there in 1540 In 1532, he was made by the King the twelfth or junior Canon of his College at Oxon, founded on the site of that of the Cardinal, and in the same Year, he was incorporated B. of Divinity. So that continuing there some Years after, and-instructing many in the Tongues, I have therefore put him among the Oxford Writers. In 1536, when he saw the King make havoc of Religious Houses, he carefully preserved divers Books of Greek and Hebrew, especially those in the Library of Ramsey abbey, which were partly composed by Laur. Holbeach a Monk of that place, in the Reign of Hen. 4. among which was his Hebrew Dictionary. As for the works of Wakfeld they are mostly these that follow.  
Oratio de laudibus & utilitate trium Linguarum, Arabicae, Chaldaicae, & Hebraicae, atque idiomatibus hebraicis quae in utroque testamento inveniuntur. Printed by Winand word in qu.  
Paraphrasis in librum Koheleth (quem vulgo Ecclesiasten vocant) succincta, clara atque fidelis. Printed in a black char. in qu.  
Kotser codicis, quo praeter ecclesiae sacrosanctae decretum, probatur conjugium cum fratria carnaliter cognita, illicitum omnino, inhibitum, interdictumque esse tum naturae jure, tum jure divino, legeque evangelica atque consuetudine catholica ecclesiae orthodoxae. Printed at Lond. (1528) in qu. This is the same with his Book entit. by Bale and Pits, De non ducenda Fratria.  
Syntagma de hebraeorum codicum incorruptione. Printed in qu. In which Book are several things against Joh. Fisher B. of Rochester concerning Matrimony, and the unlawfulness of the Kings Marrying with his Brother's Wife.  
Oratio Oxonii habita in Coll. Regio. Printed with the former in qu.  
De Laudibus Agriculturae.  
Epistolae ad D. Th. Bulleyn comitem Wilts. Joh. Fisherum Ep. Roff. Rich. Paceum, etc. Besides other things mentioned 
c In Bale cent. 9 nu. 73. & in Pits, aet. 16. nu. 957.  elsewhere, which I have not yet seen. He died at London on the eighth day of Octob. year 1537 in Fifteen hundred thirty and seven, leaving Thomas his Brother his Heir, but where he was buried I cannot yet tell. Jo. Leland in one 
d In 4. tom. collect. p. 328.  of his Books gives him the name of Polypus, noting thereby, he way of contumely, that he was a crafty man for craftily conveying away the Hebrew Dictionary beforementioned. Rich. Paice Dean of Paul's, in a Letter 
e At the end of Wakfeld's Kotfer codicis, etc. See also in Rich. Paice his Pref. in ecclesiasten recognitum, etc.  to K. H. 8. dat. at Zion 1527. saith that Rob. Wakfeld is a Person of excellent learning as well in Divinity, as in wonderful knowledge of many and divers Languages. The University of Oxon in an 
f Vid. Hist. & Antiq. Vniu. Oxon. lib. 2. p. 38. b.  Epistle to the said King, doth also say, that besides his various accomplishments, he gives place to none for his admirable knowledge in the Hebrew, Syriac and Arabic Tongues.  
JOHN CLAYMOND, who used to write himself Eucharistiae servus, because he frequently received the blessed Sacrament, and in the latter part of his life took it every day, was the Son of Joh. Claymond and Alice his Wife, sufficient Inhabitants of Frampton in Lincolnshire, in which Town this our Author Joh. Claymond received his first breath. From thence, when he was a Boy, he was sent to Oxon, where, after he had completed his Grammar learning in the School near to Magd. Coll. great Gate, (being then within, and not without, the said Gate,) he was made Demie first, and in 1488, perpetual Fellow of that College. About that time entering into holy Orders, and becoming famous for his great learning, piety, and gravity, was constituted Precedent of the said College, about 1504, took the Degree of Bach. of Divinity three Years after, and within three more after that time, supplicated the venerable Congregation of Regent's, that he might be licenced to proceed in that faculty, but whether he was admitted it appears not. About that time several Dignities, and Ecclesiastical Benefices 
a Vide ibid. lib. 2. p. 214. b.  were bestowed on him, among which were the Rectory of West-mongton in Somersetshire, (which he obtained by the resignation of the Honourable Rich. Grey, from Richard the Abbot, and the Convent of Glastenbury in the Month of July 1506.) the Prebendship of Whitchurch in the Cathedral Church of Wells, (to which belongs the Church of Beningar in Somersetshire) and the vicarage of the Collegiate Church of Norton in the Dioc. of Durham, which he resigned in 1518, reserving to himself any yearly pension from it of 20 Marks, to be paid by the Abbot and Convent of Selby (of the Order of St. Bennet) in Yorkshire. At length upon the desire of Rich. Fox. Bishop of Winchester, he left his Presidentship of Magd. Coll. and was by him made Precedent of that of C. C. when founded by him, an. 1516. Which place being of less value than the former, the said Bishop did in recompense, give him the rich Rectory of Clyve (called by some Bishops Clyve) in Glocestershire, which he kept to his dying day. He was a Person of great gravity, of most exact example in his life and conversation, very charitable and devout, and had nothing wanting in him to complete a Theologist. And as he was esteemed a learned Divine by some, so a better Philosopher by others, as it appears by his Book intit.  
Notae & observationes in Plinii naturalem historiam. In 4. Volumes in MS. in C. C. Coll. Library. Of which Book and its Author hear what Mich. Neander 
b In Succincta explicatione Orbis terrae. Lips. 1597. p. 410.  saith— de quo nobis retulit aliquando Operinus noster, quòd in totum Plinii opus eruditos commentarios scripserit, & ad se excudendos jam pridem miserit, cur autem non fuerint excusi ab Operino, puto sumptus ad tantum optis imprimendum defuisse, etc. Dr. Jo. Cay the Antiquary of Cambridge doth 
c In lib. suo, cui tit. est, De libris suis propriis— Lond. 1570. p. 13. a.  speak something to the same purpose, who styles them Scholia eruditiss. viri Johan. Claymondi in omnes Caii Plinii Naturalis Historiae libros, etc. but adds that the Scholia on the two first Books were lost after his death. He (Claymond) also wrote, 

In MS. and not, as I conceive, printed.  
Comment. in Aulii Gellii Noctes Atticas.  
Com. in Plautum.  
Epistolae ad Simon. Grinaeum.    
A Treatise of repentance— This is in MS. written with his own hand, in 4 sheets in fol. which I have in my Library of MSS. The beginning of it is, It is the property and condition of every wise Man, etc. At length arriving to a good old Age, paid his last debt to nature, 19 Nou. year 1537 in Fifteen hundred thirty and seven, and was buried in the choir of C. C. Coll. under that very place where the Rectors of the choir sing the Psalm, intit. Venite exultemus. Over his Grave was soon after a Marble stone laid, with an Inscription thereon, provided and made by himself, with void spaces left for the day and year when he died, to be filled up by his Executor, or Overseer of his Will, but were never performed. The Copy of the Inscription, you may see in Hist. & Antiq. Uniu. Oxon. lib. 2. p. 244. b. his Character and Encomium in Jo. 
* In Encomiis, Trephaeis, etc. illustr. virorum, etc. Lond. 1589. p. 43, etc.  Leland, and his benefactions to Magdalen, Corp. Christi, and Brasenose, Colleges in the aforesaid Hist. & Antiq.  
JOHN HELYAR a Hampshire Man born, was admitted Probationer Fellow of Corpus Ch. Coll. 1. June 1522. and Bach. of Arts in Jul. 1524. But instead of having that degree completed by Determination in the Lent following in the public Schools, he had the Degree of M. of A. conferred upon him, being then taken into the patronage of the magnificent and generous Cardinal Tho. Wolsey, who held him in high value for his extraordinary sufficiencies in the Lat. Greek and Hebrew Tongues. In all which, especially in Poetry, and Humanity, he was so well versed, that he exceeded most, if not all Persons of his time. Whether the said Cardinal did afterwards promote him to a Canonry or Readers place in his new Coll. at Oxon, I know not. Sure I am that after his fall, our Author supplicated to be admitted to the reading of the sentences, and about the same time wrote,  
Comment. in Ciceronem pro M. Marcello.  
Scholia in Sophoclem.  
Com. in Epistolas Ovidii.  
Epitaphium D. Erasmi Roterodami. Written in Gr. and Lat. with other things, besides his translation from Greek into Lat. St. Chrysostom's Tract. De providentia & fato, etc. This our Author Helyar, 
Clar. 1537.  who had acquaintance with the said Erasmus, was held in admiration by all the Vertuosis, in the 29. Hen. 8.  
JOHN FORESTE or Forest, whose surname had, several Years before he was born, lived within the City of Oxon, (but whether of his Family I cannot yet tell) was from his Childhood educated in Piety and Learning. Afterwards when he attained to the 17th Year of his Age, he took upon him the habit of St. Francis at Greenwich in Kent as it seems, and at about 26 Years of Age, was instructed in Theological Studies for a time, among the Brethren of that Order living without Watergate in the South Suburb of Oxon. What Degrees he took here, it appears not; yet sure I am that in order for the taking of the Degree of Bach. Diu. he supplicated the Ven. Regent's that he might be admitted to oppose in that faculty, but whether he was admitted, it appears not, and so consequently that he was not Bachelaur, much less Doctor, as some report, unless in another University beyond the Seas, for at Cambridge he had not that Degree conferred upon him, if the Tables at the end of Antiquitates Britannicae are right. Afterwards he was taken into the Service of Queen Catherine the Consort of King Hen. 8. whose love being great towards virtue and learning, she made him her Confessor. About that time he was constituted the one and fortieth Provincial Minister of his Order, as an eminent 
d Franc. à S. Clara in Supplimento Historiae Provinciae Angliae, Edit. Duac. 1671. p. 8. a.  Brother thereof, doth really suppose from certain Writings relating to the quarrels between the Order and Card. Wolsey. Which Provincialship had before been enjoyed by Steph. Baron Confessor to K. Hen. 8. and sometimes a frequent Preacher in the University of Cambridge. Soon after, when that good Queen was to be divorced from the said King, this our Author Forest showed himself a zealous Enemy against it, and in few Years after, when the King was intent to eject the Pope and his power from England, he, out of a passionate zeal which he had for the Catholic Religion, did in secret confession declare to many of the King's Subjects, that the King was not Supreme Head of the Church, whereas before he had been sworn to the said Supremacy. These matters coming to the knowledge of the King's Council, he was examined by certain Persons appointed by them, to whom he made answer, that he took the Oath with his outward man, but his inward man never consented thereunto. Afterwards, being further accused of divers heretical Opinions, (as they were then called) he submitted himself to the punishment of the Church: So that his abjuration being sent to him to be read, he utterly refused it. Whereupon his confinement in the Prison called Newgate, being made more close, these Verses were wrote on him by a Protestant. 
Forest the Friar that obstinate Liar,  
That wilfully will be dead,  
Incontinently, the Gospel doth deny,  
The King to be Supreme Head.   
About the same time he took a great deal of pains in writing a Book (whether in English or Latin I know not) entit. by Latin Writers,  
De autoritate Ecclesiae & Pontificis Maximi. The beginning of which is this, Nemo sibi sumat honorem, nisi fuerit vocatus à Deo tanquam Aaron, etc. In which Book he inveighed 
e See more in a Book intit. Hist. Ecclesiastica de Martyrto Fr. ord. Minorum, etc. per Tho. Bouchier edit. Ingols. in 120. an. 1583. part. 2. fol. 26. 27.  much against the pride and impiety of the King, because that without any call he did not scruple to entitle himself, The Head of the Church of England, and to take upon him that, which he was not capable of, whereas if he had thought himself a true Member of the Cath. Church, he should have given God thanks that he was so, and to have rested therein without endeavouring to tear it to pieces, etc. The contents of this Book (which was ready for the Press, but whether ever printed in England I cannot tell) coming to the knowledge of certain inquisitors, and at length to the King's ear, he was forthwith condemned to die, and having some days allowed him to make his peace with God and all Men, he wrote,  
Several Letters.— Some of which I have seen printed in Latin, as first, His Answer to the Letter which Qu. Catherine sent to him. (2) An answer to the Letter written to him by Elizab. Hammon Maid (of honour) to the said Queen. (3) Answer to the Letter of Tho. Abel, who was executed two Years after for denying the King's Supremacy, with several others, which he wrote to comfort the afflicted Catholics. At length being drawn upon a Sledge from his Prison to Smithfield, where a pair of Gallows was set up to receive him, he was hanged thereon by the middle and armpits quick; and under the Gallows a Fire being made, he was burnt, and utterly consumed to ashes, year 1538 May in Fifteen hundred thirty and eight, aged 60, and in the 43 Year of his professed and religious estate. At the time he was to suffer, and before he went up the Ladder, Hugh Latymer B. of Worcester did from a Pulpit set up there, near to the Gallows, Preach a Sermon purposely to move him to repentance, but all availed nothing. He had then several discourses with that Bishop, which were verbatim taken by some of the Brethren of his order. In conclusion Latymer asked him what state he would die in. Whereupon Forest with a loud voice answered 
f Job. Stow in his Annals of England, under the Year 1538.  if an Angel should come down from heaven to teach him any other Doctrine than he had received, and believed from his Youth, be would not now believe him; and that if his body should be cut joint after joint, or member after member, burnt, hanged, or what pain soever might be done to his body, he would never turn from his old profession, etc. and added, that seven years past, he (Latymer) durst not have made such a Sermon for his life. This being said, he was conducted from the place where he stood, which was erected above the People, to the Gallows and there suffered.  
ANTHONY FITZHERBERT whose great Learning in the Wisdom of the Law, both the judicial Court of Pleas, wherein he sat Justice a long time, and also those exact Books of our Common Law by him tightly penned and published, do sufficiently Witness, was born of, (being the Son of Ralph Fitzherbert, Esq.) and descended from, a right Ancient Family living at Norbury in Derbyshire, laid a Foundation of Learning in this University, on which he built a firm structure in after times, but in what House here, or in what Inn of Court afterwards, it appears not. Sure it is that having made a most fruitful progress in his Studies, he was constituted Sergeant at Law 18. Nou. 2. Hen. 8. Dom. 1510, one of the King's Sergeants six Years after, (being about that time made a Knight) and in 1522. one of the Justices of the Common-pleas, and not of the Kings-bench, as one 
g W, D●gd. in Chronica Ser. at the end of Orig. Jurid.  doth falsely report. In which place, carrying himself with great prudence, justice, and knowledge, became at length the Oracle of the Law, and was admired by all for his profundity in it. His works are,  
Grand abridgement of the common Law contained in the Year Books, and other Books of Law, Readins, and Records. Lond. 1516. 1565. fol. afterwards in qu. divided into several parts or vol. From which abridgement and others, Rich Bellew of Lincoln's Inn, did collect cases adjudged in the time of K. Rich. 2.  
A Calendar or Index.— See in Will. Rast all.  
Magna charta, cum diversis aliis statut is. Lond. 1519. in 12.  
Office and authority of Justices of Peace. Lond. 1547. and 63. qu. enlarged by Rich. Crompton Esq:— Lond. 1583. qu. etc.  
Office of Sheriffs, Bailiffs, Escheators, Constables, Coroners, etc.— Printed several times with the former.  
Of the diversity of courts.— Compiled 21. H. 8. So Sir Edw. Coke in his Reports Vol. 10. in the Proem.  
Natura Brevium Novel. Printed at Lond. 26. Hen. 8. and afterwards several times in oct. and qu. corrected and revised, with a Table added, by Will. Rastall. Printed also several times in French in oct. etc. The same is also translated into English, and hath added thereunto the authorities in Law, and some other Cases and Notes, etc. See more in Will. Rastall, under the Year 1565. This Natura Brevium is esteemed an exact work, excellently well penned, and hath been much admired by the noted Men in the common Law.  
Of the surveving of Lands. Lond. 1567.  
The Book of Husbandry very profitable and necessary for all Persons— Printed in the Reign of Queen Mary, and in the beginning of Queen Eliz. This Book I have seen more than once, under Anth. Fitzherberts' name, yet there are not wanting some who say 'twas penned by his Brother Job. Fitzherbert. This famous Lawyer Ant. Fitzherbert, who had been an enemy to Card. Wolsey, paid his last debt to nature in 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 beforementioned. Soon after was a blue Marblestone 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, Friar, was entered in his manly Years among the Brethren of that Order at Bristol, 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 public Register, and in Nou. 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 complete that Degree. So that how it comes to pass, that a certain 
h Franc. Godwin ep. Landav. in Comment. de praesulibus Angl. in Roff.  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 
i Pat 27. Hen. 8. p. 1.  made to him of the temporalities of that See, 4. Oct. 27. Hen. 8. Dom. 1535, where being settled he wrote,  
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 wrote,  
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 
k Printed at Lond 1553 fol. 90. b. , 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 
a In Hist. Maj. Britan. lib. 1. cap. 5.  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 
b In Archiv. tur. Scholar  under the hand-writing of our Antiquary Brian Twine, 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 
c Ibid. in Hist. Maj. Brit. lib. 3. cap. 1. campanis caenobii de Osneya nullae in Anglia meliores putantur.  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 public in the Coll. of Montacute beforementioned.  
In quartum sententiarum quaestiones utilissimae, Par. 1516. and 19 fol. dedicated to Gavin 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 Abbot 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 
d Dr. Joh. Sporswood in his Hist. of the Church of Scotland, lib. 2. sub. an. 1539.  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 Sermons 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, 
Clar. 1539.  and died there being of good Age, but when, I cannot yet find. George Buchanan was his Scholar and bestoweth 
e In Rerum Scoticarum Hist. lib. 7.  on him this Charater, in study Theologiae, magnum nomen me puero habuit, yet in his Epigrams 
f Lib. 1.  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 Diocese of London) by Alice his Wife Daugh. of Will. Lovel 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 
n Baronage of England, Tom. 3. p. 307. a.  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 acknowledgement of his Supremacy in this Realm would be in danger; and in the 25. of the said King was judgement 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 Dramatic Poetry, and his elder with that which was divine, and therefore worthily characterized 
o Baleus ut supra p. 106. post cent. 12.  to be vir litter 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. 
Clar. 1539.  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 wrote 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 himself solely up to Divinity and in that faculty he became a noted Disputant. On the 2. of Nou. 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. powel 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 showed himself very zealous in disputing and writing against M. Luther, his Disciples, and Doctrine, for which the University of Oxon did not only congratulate 
p In Fpist. Uniu. Oxon FF. Ep. 88  him for his pains, but also in an Epistle 
q Ibid. ep. 87.  to the said Bishop Audley they thus honourably speak of him— res ea Oxoniensium quorundam ingeniis discutienda permittitur, inter quos eximius ille Edoardus powel, 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, etc. Farther also when the University wrote to K. Hen. 8. to certify 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 
r Ibid. ep. 89.  of our Author powel and his Book— Editionem tamen Doctoris Poveli, tanquam praecipuam, & lucidam quendam gemmam visum est nobis seligere; is siquidem ut est vir summâ gravitate & erudition, 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, etc. As for the title of the said Book it runs thus.  
Propugnaculum summi sacerdotii Evangelici ac septenari● 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 'tis 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 pleased him by writing against Luther) he was committed to Prison, and having received sentence to die, was on the 30. July in Fifteen hundred and forty, hanged, year 1542 drawn, and quartered in Smithfield near London, with Tho. Abel whom I am about to name, and Rich. Fetherston, guilty of the same crime. This Dr. Edw. powel 
s Reg. Act. cur Canc, Oxon, notat cum lit. ● invers. p. 18.  bestowed at least 30 l. about the time when he was licenced 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. Mary's Churchyard, joining on the North side to the Chancel of St. Mari●● Church 22. Hen. 7. Dom. 15 6/7.  
THOMAS ABEL or Able took the Degrees in Arts, that of Master being completed 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 
t T●o, Bouchier in Hist. Eccies. de Martyrio Frat. Ord. Minorum Divi Francisci— Ingols. 1583. in 12. part. 2. fol. 42. b.  Author to be vir longe doctissimus, qui Reginae aliquando in Musicorum tacta & inguis, operam suam navaret. In 1529. and 30, he showed 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 wrote,  
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 hanged, drawn, and quartered in Smithfield, year 1540 30. Jul. in Fifteen hundred and and forty, having before, as 'tis thought, written other things, but lost. I find another Tho. Able, who hath written against the Gangraena of Tho. Edward's, 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 Chapel or Church of which place, his Father and Mother 
* In Offic. Praerog cant. in reg. Alinger Qu. 29.  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 Barrister and a Counsellor of note, being then esteemed eminent not only in the Common, but also in the Civil, Law; by which afterwards, he obtained immortal fame among the Citizens of London. Besides this his profound knowledge, he was admirably well read in Philosophy, and the liberal Sciences, which made his company desired by Scholars and Clergy. He lived always a single Man, was an adorer of Chastity and chaste Men, and showed himself generous in his profession to those that stood in need of it, for very seldom or never did he take a fee. What he got, and what he could spare out of his paternal estate, he expended in purchasing Books. So that several Years before he died, his Library exceeded any one or two, that belonged to a Person or Persons of his profession. Every night after his business was past, he read a Chapter in the Bible to those that belonged to him, and the Substance thereof he expounded to them. By the doing of which, and his interposing himself in matters relating to Religion and the Clergy, some R. Catholics have thought that he halted in his Opinion, that is, that he was inclined to the way of Heretics. His Writings are many, partly written in Latin and partly in English, the titles of some of which are these.  
Dialogus de fundamentis Legum Angliae & de conscientia. Lond. 1528. 1598. 1604. 1613, etc. oct. This is the Book which is commonly called Doctor and Student, being a Dialogue between a Doctor of Diu. and a Student in the common Laws of England. With the edition of the said Book 1528. I have seen this Book following bound with several Copies of it. Principia five maximae Legum Angliae, à Gallico illo (ut fertur) sermone collecta, & sic in Latinum translata, non solum generosis studentibus, verum etiam terrarum dominis & possessoribus summè necessaria.— Printted by Rich Lant 24. Dec. 38. Hen. 8. Dom. 1546. in oct. Whether this Book, which is printed in an English Character as the Dialogue is, was compiled by Seintgerman I know not: certain I am, that the English Copy of Dialogus, etc. called, Doctor and Student, etc. Printed at Lond. in oct. an. 1604. contains two Books of Dialogues, the first of which hath 32 Chapters (whereas the Latin impression of 1528, and 1604. contains but 24, and the second 55 Chapters. Among other things that the said Seintgerman hath written are,  
Of the power of the Clergy according to the Law.  
Treatise showing that the Clergy cannot make Laws.  
Treatise of the Church and the meaning thereof.  
Treatise of the Sacraments thereof.  
apology written to Sir Tho. More.  
Dialogue concerning the power which belongs to the Clergy, and the power which belongs to the People— With several other things which are 
† In cent. 8. Joh. Balei De scriptorib. Maj. Britan num. 75.  mentioned in another place. At length this worthy Person dying in Sept. (the 28 day saith Baleus 
‡ Ibidem.  who falsely adds 1539.) in Fifteen hundred and forty, year 1540 was buried, not far from the Grave of Tho. Lupset, in the Church of St. Alphage within Cripplegate, in the City of London. Which Church was afterwards translated to that Church now called St. Alphage near Zion College. In the last will 
* Ibid. in reg. Alinger, ut supra.  and Testament of the said Seintgerman, dated 10. July, 32. Hen. 8. Dom. 1540, and proved 30. May 1541. it appears that he was not only a Benefactor to the Church of Shilton beforementioned, but also to that at Laleford (Lawford) in Warwickshire, and to the Church at Cathorp in Leicestershire, at which Towns, 'tis probable, he had Lands and Inheritances.  
JOHN PALSGRAUF was born in London, and educated in Grammar learning there, studied Logic and Philosophy at Cambridge till he was Bach. of Arts. Afterwards he went to Paris, where spending several Years also in Philosophical and other learning, took the Degree of Master of the said faculty, and became so excellent in the French tongue, that he was thought fit to be Tutor to the Daughter of K. Hen. 7. called the Lady Mary, when she was about to be married to Lewis the 12. K. of France. But that King dying soon after, the said Palsgrave came with her into England, taught the French Language to divers of our young Nobility, and became well beneficed In 1531. he settled in Oxon for a time, and the next Year being incorporated Master of the faculty of Arts, was in few days after admitted to the reading of the Sentences, that is to the Degree of Bach. of Divinity, he being then Chaplain to K. Hen. 8. and esteemed the first Author of our Nation, or of the French Men, that had reduced the French tongue under certain rules, and the first in that kind of exercise that did begin to labour, as it plainly appears by his most laborious piece intit.  
Lesclarcissement de la Language Francois. Lond. 1530. in three Books in a thick fol. Before which the Author hath a large Introduction in English; after which follows, (1) A table of Substantives. (2) A table of Adjectives. (3) The Pronoun. (4) The Numerals, etc. I never yet saw but one Copy of this Book, which being filled with Marginal Notes (by whom I know not) in a scribbling hand, was bought by the learned Selden, and in his Library at Oxon. I perused it. The said Joh. Palsgrave hath also written Several Epistles, and published a translation of a Book intit. Ecphrastes Anglica in comoediam Acolasti. Or, the Comedy of Acolastus translated into our English tongue, after such a manner as Children are taught in the Grammar School; first word by word as the Latin lieth, and afterwards according to the sense and meaning of the Latin sentences, etc. Lond. 1540 in qu. The said Comedy was made by one Will. Fullonius Hagiensis, an. 1529, and was living when it was put into English by Palsgrave, 
Clar. 1540  who was in great renown among Men for his Learning, in Fifteen hundred and forty, which was the two and thirtieth Year of King Hen. 8.  
LEONARD COX, second Son of Laurence Cox (by Elizab. his Wife Daugh. of— Willey) Son of Job. Cox of Monmouth, was born in Monmouthshire, educated in Cambridge till he was Bach. of Arts, went to Oxon in 1528. where making some stay for the sake of study, was incorporated in the same Degree in the Year following, and intending to make a longer stay, he supplicated for the Degree of Master of Arts, but whether admitted it appears not. About the same time he was a Schoolmaster at Reading in Berks. and was there in much esteem when Joh. Fryth the Martyr was taken for a Vagabond, and set in the Stocks; to whom, for his learning and nothing else, he showed singular courtesies, as I have already told you in John Fryth. Afterwards he traveled into France, Germany, Poland, and Hungary, taught there the Tongues, and became more eminent in Foreign Countries than at home; which Joh. Leland the Antiquarian-Poet seems to intimate in these Verses 
u In Eucomiis, Trophies, etc. illustr. & erudit. virorum in Anglia— Edit. 1589. p. 50.  written to him. 
Inclyta Sarmaticae Cracovia gloria gentis,  
Virtutes novit, Cox diserte tuas.  
Novit & eloquii Phaenix utriusque Melancthon,  
Quam te Phaebus amet, pieriusque chorus.  
Parga tuas cecinit, cecinitque Lutetia Laudes,  
Urbs ergo doctos officiosa viros.  
Talia cum constent, etc.   
In the Year 1540 (32. Hen. 8.) I find that he was living at Carleon in his native Country, where I think he taught School, and the same Year to publish,  
Commentaries on Will. Lily's construction of the eight parts of Speech.— Besides which, he had before in the said Year, translated from Greek into Latin, Marcus Eremita de Lege & Spiritu, and from Lat. into English, The paraphrase of St. Paul's Epistle to Titus, written by Erasmus Roterod. with whom he was well 
w Vide Epist. Erasm. lib. 19 ep. 15.  acquainted. Baleus tells 
x In cent. 9 Script. Maj. Britan. num. 31.  us that the said Cox was from his Youth instructed in all liberal arts, that he was a Grammarian, Rhetorician, Poet, Divine, and a Preacher of God's word. Also that he had written against those, who in his time wrote of Justification by works, and that he was in high esteem among learned Men in Fifteen hundred and forty. 
Clar. 1540  All which works, besides Verses of divers kinds, and Epistles, were by him written before the end of that Year; as also Latin Verses occasionally set before Books that were published, particularly before John Palsgrave's Lesclarcissement, an. 1530. He was living in the Reign of Ed. 6. but when, or where, he died, I cannot yet tell. He left behind him a Son named Francis Cox, who proceeded D. of D. as a Member of New Coll. in the Year 1594, and he a Son named William, who was a Divine of Chichester in Sussex.  
THOMAS WYATT the delight of the Muses and of Mankind, Son of Henr. Wyatt of Allington Castle in Kent Knight and Banneret, by Anne his Wife Daughter of Joh. Skinner of Surrey, was born of an ancient and gentile Family in the said County of Kent, sent to Cambridge to be initiated in Academical Learning, transplanted thence to Oxon purposely to advance himself in knowledge by the hearing of the Cardinal's Lectures, then lately settled there; but whether he took a Degree with us, or at Cambridge, I find not as yet. Afterwards he being sent to travel, he returned an accomplished Gentleman, and was esteemed by all those that knew him to be a Person adorned with the endowments as well of body and mind, as of fortune. By the daily and unwearied practice of the two former, while he was in his travels, and after his return, he became not only well skilled in military matters, but also in several Arts and Tongues: And as esteemed strong and valiant in body, so powerful in mind and counsel. At length he with Hen. Haward or Howard Earl of Surrey, (who also had travelled into Italy, and there tasted the sweet and stately measures and style of the Italian Poesy) being esteemed to be the first refiners of the English Tongue, Wyatt was introduced into the Court, was beloved of K. Hen. 8. who honoured him with the Degree of Knighthood, and sent him in several Embassies beyond the Seas, which he very prudently performed with great trust to the honour of his Master. But that which is here to be in a special manner marked, was his admirable skill in Poetry, which in his first Years of reason he expressed in several amorous Songs and Poems: With which, as also his witty jests, the King himself being in an high manner delighted, they were so much admired by the Men of that, and the next Age, (though I presume they are now lost) that some have not stuck to report, that as Maecenas, Ovid, Tibullus, etc. have been among the Latins most famous for Elegy; So Sir Tho. Wyatt the elder, Henry Haward Earl of Surrey, Sir Franc. Brian of the Privy Chamber to K. Hen. 8. (and a Traveller in 1528) Sir Phil. Sidney, George Gascoigne Esq etc. have among the English been most passionate to bemoan the perplexities of Love. For his translation also of David's Psalms into English meeter, and other of his Poetry, Leland the Antiquarian— Poet 
a In Naeniis in mort. Tho. Viati, edit. Lond. 1542. P. 4. Vide etiam in Encomiis suis illustr. virorum, etc. p. 47.  forbears not to compare him to Dant and Petrarch thus.  
Bellum suo merrito, etc. translated by another hand as followeth. 
Let Florence fair her Dantes justly boast,  
And royal Rome her Petrarches numbered feet;  
In English Wyatt both of them doth coast  
In whom all grateful eloquence doth meet.   
In his younger Years, as I have told youbefore, he composed.  
Several Songs and Poems— Many of which are in the 
b Printed at Lond. in oct. an. 1565 and 1587.  Songs and Sonnets of Hen. Haward Earl of Surrey, Son of that victorious Prince, the Duke of Norfolk, and Father of that learned Howard (sometimes his most lively Image) Henry Earl of Northampton. Which incomparable Earl of Surrey (who entirely loved our Author Sir Tho. Wyatt) hath among other things translated Virgil's Aeneids; the first and second Book whereof, he hath admirably rendered almost line for line. Sir Th. Wyatt also in his elder Years translated into English meeter, (1) The penitential Psalms, in one Book. (2) The whole Psaltery of David: in praise of which last, is an Encomium in the Songs 
c Printed at Lond. 1587. fol. 16.  and Sonnets of the Earl of Surrey beforementioned. At length our Author Wyatt being sent by the King towards Falmouth in Cornwall, to conduct Montmorantius surnamed à Courriers thence to London, (for he came from Spain in an Embassy) did, by endeavouring and labouring to please the King, rather than to consult his own health, make more haste than good speed: For by too much riding (which was not necessarily required) in a very hot season, he fell into a violent Fever. Whereupon putting in at a market Town called Shirebourn in Dorsetshire, was within few days after cut off from among the living in the 38 Year of his Age to the great reluctancy of the King, Kingdom, his Friends, and all that knew the great worth and virtues of the Person. He was buried in the great Church there, year 1541 in Summer time, in Fifteen hundred forty and one, and the next Year was a little Book of Verses, published on his death by his great admirer John Leland, entit. Naenia. Before the first page of which, is Sir Thomas' face, with a long curled beard (like to a Man of 80 Years of Age) printed from a wooden cut, engraved from his face, which was painted by a Dutchman commonly called Hans Holbin. At the same time was an Epitaph made on him by the 
d In the said Songs and Sonnets fol. 84.  Earl of Surrey, as it seems, another also by Sir Tho. 
e In lib. suo cui tit. est, De illustrium quorundam encomits, cum Epigram. & Epitaphiis nonnullis. Lond. 1579. qu. p. 358.  Chaloner in long and short Verses, and a third, which was a large one in Prose, by his entire Friend Sir Joh. Mason (Chancellor of this University 1553.) a Copy of which I have seen, and in some things do follow it in my aforesaid discourse. This Sir Tho. Wyatt left behind him a Son of both his names, begotten on the body of his Wife Elizabeth, Daughter of Thom. Brook Lord Cobham, who being a Commotioner in the Reign of Qu. Marry, lost his Head, and left issue by Jane his Wife Daughter and Coheir of Will. Hawte of Bourn Kt. a Son named Geor Wyatt of Boxley in Kent Esq restored 13. Elizab. I find another Tho. Wyatt to have been a Student in Cambridge 1587., in which Year he had a Copy of Verses put into Acadedemiae Cantabrigiensis Lachrymae, tumulo D. Philippi Sydneii sacratae. Published by Alex. Nevil.  
RICHARD TURPIN was descended from an ancient Family of his name living at Knaptoft in Leicestershire (extracted from that of the Turpins' of Whitchester in Northumberland) and educated for a time in Grammatical and Academical Learning in this University. Whence being taken before he was honoured with a Degree, spent afterwards his chief time in Military Affairs at Calais in France, under King Hen. 8. He hath written,  
A Chronicle— containing matters only of his time; 
154●.  and dying at Calais before mentioned in Fifteen hundred forty and one (33. Hen. 8.) was buried in the Church of St. Nicholas there, leaving then behind him the Character of a Worthy Gentleman.  
RICHARD WHYTFORDE, who in his Writings styles himself the Wretch of Zion was educated for a time among the Oxonians, but whether he took a Degree, we have no record that shows it. Afterwards he was received into the Family of Rich. Fox Bishop of Winchester, and by him was made his Chaplain about the latter end of Hen. 7. at which time he became acquainted with Sir Tho. More, than a Young Man, between whom was great amity. Afterwards Whytforde being minded to leave the World and all hopes of preferment, entered himself a Monk of the Order of St. Brigit in the Monastery called Zion near to Brentford in Middlesex. About which time being known to Scholars for his divine learning (for in Philosophy he was but little versed) and most sincere holiness, he became acquainted with that great light of learning Erasmus, who sometimes mentions him in his Epistles, and advises him thus, Cura at valeas teque tua Philosophia oblectes, etc. But such was his ill fortune, that he lived to see himself turned out of his Cell, and the Cell itself converted to a profane use. Whereupon one Will. Mountjoy descended of a noble race, received him into his Family, and made him his Confessor, which is all that I know of him at present, only that he wrote and translated these things following.  
Work of preparation unto the Communion, and also for Householders to govern their Families. Lond. in oct. When printed I know not; for the Copy that I saw was imperfect.  
A Book called the Pipe or Ton of the life of perfection. A work of the three Vows of Religion, contrary to the great Heretics the Lutherans. Lond. 1532. qu. The reason of the title is this. The Author compares the life of perfection to precious Wine kept in a Pipe or Ton, made as it were of three plain boards, viz. the three Vows of Obedience, wilful poverty and chastity; which are bound together, as with hoops, by their rules, as of St. Austin, Benedict, Francis, Basil. Which hoops are knit, as with wykers, with the holy ceremonies of Religion, contained in the Statutes, Constitutions, Injunctions, and Customs of every Monastery. This allegory he seems to prosecute throughout the whole work. His main aim is to commend and defend the religious Orders, and those three monastic Vows, against the objections of the Lutherans.  
Treatise of patience. Also a work of divers impediments and lets of perfection. Lond. 1541. qu.  
The Martiriloge after the use of the Church of Salisbury, and as it is read in Zion, with additions. Lond. in qu.  
Solitary Meditations.  
Psaltery of Jesus— Printed several times in Engl. and French. He also translated from Latin into English. (1) St. Austin's rule. Lond. 1525. qu. to which also he put notes. This was done before by another hand, but being not well understood by the Nuns of Zion, they desired him to do it better, which he accordingly did, and dedicated it to them. 
Clar. 1541.  (2) St. Bonaventure his lessons entitled Alphabetum Religiosorum. Lond. 1532. qu. with other things, as 'tis probable. The Reader is now to know that there was another Richard Whytforde, a wealthy Clerk, possessed of Lands in Hope, Hopedale, and Whytforde in Flintshire; as also of Lands in Farnworth and Widdous in Lancashire, who in his last days entering himself a Brother into the Monastery of Zion beforementioned, died and was buried there 3. Hen. 8. Dom. 1511. But this R. Whytforde, who seems to have been born in Flintshire, was no writer, only Uncle to Rich. Whytforde before mentioned; who upon his Uncle's account, and because of his benefaction to Zion, was entered a Brother there, being originally, as I suppose, of Whytforde in Flintshire.  
JOHN SHEPREVE or Shepery was born in, or near to, the 
f His Surname and Family did live at Sugworth in the Parish of Rodley in the time of Qa. Elizab. and before.  Parish of Radley, about a mile or two distant from Abendon in Berks; admitted Probationer-Fellow of Corpus Ch. Coll. in the Year 1528. aged 19 or thereabouts, took the Degrees in Arts, that of Master being completed 1533, about which time he was Greek Reader in the said College, and afterwards Hebrew Professor of the University, in the place of Rob. Wakfeld, about 1538. Three Years after, he did, with leave from the chief Members of the University, begin to expound in the public Schools the Book of Genesis in the Hebrew Language, and would have gone forward with the Books that follow, had not death prevented him. He was one of the skilfullest Linguists (his Age being considered) that ever was in Oxon before his time, and was thought to surpass Origen in Memory. So excellent a Poet also he was, that his equal scarce could be found, it having been an ordinary matter with him to compose 100 very good Verses every day at vacant hours, some of which are extant. Several Authors have celebrated his Memory in their respective Books of Poems, particularly John Leland in his 
g Edit. Lond. 1589. p. 81.  Encomia illustrium & eruditorum in Angliâ virorum, etc. and in his 
b Edit. Lond. 1546.  Cygnia Cantio; in the last of which he styles him Decus atriusque linguae: Also Dr. Joh. White in his 
i Ed. ib. 1553. qu. fol. 89.  Diacosio-Martyrion, who entitles him trium Linguarum peritissimus, and others. Among the Books that he hath written, these only I have seen, viz.  
Summa & synopsis Novi Testamenti disticis ducentis sexaginta comprehensa. First of all published by John Parkhurst at Strasburgh about 1556. in oct. with some of his Serious Epigrams at the end, taken from his Ludicra or Epigram. Juvenilia, which I shall hereafter mention under him the said Parkhurst. Afterwards the said Summa & synopsis were printed at Lond. 1560. and at Oxon. 1586. in oct. which last edition was reviewed and corrected by Dr. Laur. Humphrey. They are also printed, if I mistake not, in a Book called Gemma Fabri. Lond. 1598. and were by the Author composed to no other end but to assist the memories of Novices and Candidates in Divinity.  
Hippolytus Ovidianae Phaedrae respondens. Before which, our Author hath a Preface to the Epistle of Hippolytus to Phaedra, contained in about 350 long and short Verses, written to one Mr. Guade a pious Priest and Chaplain to K. Hen. 8. This Preface with the Book itself, 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, etc. 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, etc. besides compositions in Poetry and Prose, which after the Author's death came into the hands of George Etheridge beforementioned; who promised in the Year 1584. to make them public, but what hindered him, unless death, I know not. As for our Author Sheperey he gave way to fate 
k Geo. Edrycus vulgo Etheridge in Epist ad Lectorem praefix. Hypolit. Ovid. Phaed. resp.  at Agmundesham commonly called Amersham in Bucks. in the Month of July in fifteen hundred forty and two, year 1542 and was buried, I presume, 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 Kitchen to K. Hen. 8. and is styled by Erasmus 
l In Epist. lib. 15. Epist. 14.  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. 
Clar. 1542.  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 Household of K. Hen. 8. (the same Will. Thynne, I mean, who died 10. Aug. 1546. and was buried in the Church of all-hallows Barkin in London) I am yet to learn. I find another Will. Thynne Esq Brother to Sir John Thynne Knight, who after he had travelled through most parts of Europe, returned an accomplished 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 armed cap a pee) he performed excellent service in the Battle 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 called 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 surrendered 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 beformentioned, namely for Tho. Thynne of Langleat in Wilts. Esq sometimes a Gent. Com. of Ch. Ch. who was barbarously murdered in the Pall-mall by a Germane, 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 suffered 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 style 
m In Cygn. Cautione.  him, not without desert, Nitor artium bonarum. He hath written, Piscator, or, the Fisher caught, a Comedy.  
An Introduction to Rhetoric.  
Poema de vero crucifixo.  
Epigrammata varia. and other things, which I have not yet seen. 
Clar. 1543.  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' accounts of that House. I presume he died shortly after, and not in 1541, as Bale and Pits do tell you.  
EDWARD LOE Son of Rich. Lee of Lee-magna in Kent Esq Son of Sir Rich. Loe 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 'tis 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 
n Fr. Godwinus in Comment. de praesulib. Angl. Edit. 1616. p. 86 in Eborac.  reports, being probably driven hence by Pests that frequently then happened 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, etc. thereof, in his Edition of Antiquitates Britannicae, etc. 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 doubtful; yet there be not wanting some that say, that though he was a learned Man, yet he was not a fit match for that polite Person. Not long after, the K. employed him in several Embassies, particularly in that to the Emperor with Sir Franc. Pointz, and in another with the Lord Morley, and Sir Will. Hussey into Germany to Don Ferdinando Duke of Austria, with the Order of the Garter, an. 1523, and a third with Stokesley B. of London, and Thom. Earl of Wilts. to the Pope at Bononie, about the intricate matter of Marriage with Qu. Catherine, an. 1529. In which Year, in the beginning of Febr. he became Chancellor of the Church of Salisbury by the resignation of Thom. Winter, and was succeeded in that dignity by Edw. Farmer, in Decemb. 1531. After his return from the last Embassy, he was made Archbishop of York an. 1531. was incorporated D. of D. of this University in the latter end of October (which Degree he had received in a transmarine University, while he was an Ambassador, by actual creation) and on the 5. of Dec. following, in the same Year, he had 
o Rot. Pat. 23. Hen. 8. p. ●.  restitution made to him of the temporalities belonging to that See. He was a great Divine, and very well seen in all kind of Learning, famous as well for his Wisdom as virtue, and holiness of life, a continual Preacher of the Gospel, a Man very liberal to the poor, and exceedingly beloved of all sorts of Men, who greatly missed and bemoaned the want of him, when dead. He hath written,  
Comment. in universum in Pentateuchum Mosys. MS. See in Rog. Aschams Epistles, lib. 2. in an Epist, Cuidam amico Eborac.  
Apologia contra quorundam columnias. Lovan. 1520. in quarto.  
Index annotationum prioris libri. Printed there the same Year.  
Epistola nuncupatoria ad Desid. Erasmum. There the same Year.  
Annotationum libri duo, alter in annotationes prioris editionis Novi Testam. D. Erasmi; alter in annotat. posterior is editionis ejusdem. Pr. there the same Year.  
Epistola Apologetica, quâ respondet D. Erasmi Epistolas. There the same Year. In which Year also (1520.) was published a Book in qu. at Basil entit. Epistolae aliquot eruditorum virorum, ex quibus perspicuum sit Edwardi Lei virulentia. They were written to show the great anger and spleen, that the said Lee bore against Erasmus and some of his Writings, mostly by Sir Tho. More, Tho. Lupset, Rich. Paice, Ulricus Huttenus Esq and Jo. Sapidus.  
Epistolae Sexcentae.  
Epicedia clarorum virorum, besides other things which I have not yet seen. This Dr. Lee Archb. of York died 13. Sept. year 1544 in Fifteen hundred forty and four, aged 62. and was buried in the middle of the South Isle, above the Choir of the Cath Church there. Over his Grave, as there is a little Inscription to continue his memory at that place, so in the Windows of the Founder's Chamber at Magd. College (over the great Gate leading into the quadrangle) are these two Verses set up under his Arms (impaled by those of the See of York) by Dr. Laur. Humphrey, an. 1556. 
Unus erat Leyus velut inter sydera Phoebus,  
Sic vicit socios temporis ipse sui.   
In the said Windows, Dr. Humphrey caused to be put up the Arms of all such Bishops that had been educated in Magd. Coll. even to his time, an. 1566. I have seen several Letters written by this Dr. Lee to K. H. 8. and in one he wonders, that the Pope's Supremacy should be a cause for Martyrdom, and that Fisher Bishop of Rochester should die in defence of it, when in other matters of faith, and errors against the same, he hath dissembled, and hath not been content with such as have written against them for the favour he bore to the Party, in whose Books they are found, etc.  
JOHAN. LUDOVIC VIVES was born at Valenza in Spain, educated in Grammar learning there, but in Logic at Paris, at which time all good Arts were banished thence, and the Students totally bend on Sophistical Cavils. Soon after being taken off from those vain babble, he applied himself to the Study of Humanity, and became (his Age considered) noted for it. Afterwards he went to the University of Louvain, where he seriously applied himself too Lat. and Gr. learning, and sought out all ways to be acquainted with polite and learned Men, being then, by that time, so polite himself, that in detestation of his former errors in following vain sophistry, he wrote a Book Contra Pseudo-Dialecticos. At riper Years he applied himself to the study of the Civil Law and of Divinity, and to the searching of the Writings of all the learned Doctors of the Church by the advice of Des. Erasmus, who had a particular respect for him for mending and correcting some of his Writings, and collecting his Adages. On the 4. July 1517. he was made (being then at Louvain) one of the first Fellows of Corp. Chr. Coll. in Oxon. by the Founder thereof. By which time his fame being spread over England, and the more for this reason that Catherine of Spain, the first Wife of K. Hen. 8. had a peculiar respect for him, and cherished his Muse, he was invited into England by Cardinal Wolsey (as it seems) in the Year 1523, and coming to Oxon in Aug. or Sept did 
p See Hist. & Antiq. Vnivers. Oxon. lib. 2. p. 36. a.  read the said Cardinal's lecture of Humanity in the Hall of the said College, and that (as 'tis said) of the Civil Law before the Members of the University. Farther also to add grace and honour to him, it pleased K. Hen. 8. Qu. Catherine, and the prime Persons of their Courts to be (as 
q Brian. 〈◊〉 in Ap 1. lib. 3. §. 210. etc.  some report) his Auditors about the latter end of the v Year, he having been solemnly incorporated Doctor of the Civil Law before, as he had stood in another University. While he remained here he wrote his Books De ratione studii puerilis, and De consultatione, and became so much admired by the Academians, for his great learning and eloquence, (and the more for this reason, that their studies were then wholly bend towards Humanity) that they revived the Degrees of Grammar, Rhetoric, and Poetry, which had been before much neglected. Afterwards he retired to Bruges in Flanders from whence he came, where, about that time he took to him a Wife, but the next Year, viz. in March 152 4-5 he was at Oxon again, as it appears from an Epistle to K. Hen. 8. dated then thence, at which time, if I mistake not, he continued his Lectures either in Humanity or the Civil Law, and was constituted Tutor for the Latin tongue to the Young Lady Mary Dau. of King Hen. 8. His Writings are many, being mostly printed in two Tomes at Basil 1555, but lest I should break the Method that I have hitherto followed, I shall make a recital of some.  
Jesus Christi triumphans. Wrote at Paris in Apr. 1514.  
De initiis, sectis, & laudibus philosophiae lib. 1.  
De tempore quo natus est Christus.  
Virgins Deiparae Oratio.  
Fabula de homine.  
Written and finished at Louvain. 1518.  
Pompeius' fugiens.  
Liber in Pseudo-Dialectios.  
Veritas sucata, seu in triumphum prae lectio.  
Written at Louvain. 1519.  
Praelectio in somnium Scipionis apud Ciceronem. Written at Louvain 1520.  
Declamationes septem. Finished at Bruges.  
In Suetonium quaedam. Finished at Louvain.  
1521.  
De consultatione. Fin. at Oxon. 1523.  
De institutione feminae Christianae. lib. 3. Written to Catherine Qu. of England from Bruges 1523.  
De ratione studii puerilis. Dedicated by his Epist. dat. at Oxon. non. Oct. an. 1523 to Catherine Qu. of England his only Patroness.  
Introductio ad sapientiam. Written at Bruges, 1524.  
Satellitium animi, vel symbola. Ded. to Princess Mary Dau. of K. Hen. 8. from Bruges 1524.  
Epist. ad Hen. 8. dat. Ox. 12. Mar. 1525.  
De concordia & discordia. lib. 4  
De subventione pauperum.  
Written at Bruges 1526.  
De passione Christi meditatio.  
De sudore Jesu Christi, sacrum diurnum.  
At Bruges 1529.  
De corruptis artibus. Tom. 3.  
De disputatione. lib. 1.  
At Burges 1531.  
De ratione dicendi. lib. 3. At Brug. 1532.  
De communione rerum ad Germanos inferiores: At Bruges 1535.  
Exercitationes animi in Deum. At Antw. Aug. 1535.  
Preces & meditationes diurnae. At Bruges 1535.  
Exercitatio linguae latinae. Written at Breda 1538.  
De anima & vita. lib. 3. At Bruges: 1538. With many other things, which for brevity sake I shall now omit. He also translated into Latin, Isocrates his Nicocles, dedicated to Card. Wolsey, by his Epist. dat. at Oxon 15. Dec. 1523. with other translations which I also shall omit. As to the time of this worthy Author's death, many Writers differ, and the just day or year is yet uncertain. Anton. Postevin saith he died at Bruges in Flanders 1536. or therebouts, having left off writing in 1535. Ludovic. Guicciard in his description of Bruges reports it, an. 1540 Thuanus who saith he was a Professor at Louvain, tells us that he died there 1541, and Job. white in his Diacosio-Martyrion printed 1553, would have it at Brussels 1545. Which last Author being before all the former in time, and perhaps may know, or remember Vives, ought therefore to be believed before the rest. But these matters notwithstanding being uncertain, I shall venture to put his death under Fifteen hundred forty and four, year 1544 which being at Bruges, was buried in the Church of St. Donantius there. See more of him in a Book intit. Bibliotheca Hispanica. Printed at Rome in two Tomes in fol. 1672. Tom. 1. p. 552, 553, etc. Both which Tomes were written by Nicholaus Antonius Hispalensis, J. C. Kt. of the Order of St. James.  
ROBERT SHYNGLETON descended from a good Family of his name living in Lancashire, was always esteemed an ingenious Man while he resided in the University, but whether he was honoured with a Degree, it appears not. Afterwards being a Priest and a Requent Preacher, he took occasion to reflect on the times, and certain Persons, in his Sermons. For which being called to an account and committed, was forced, with two other Persons, to make his palinody before a Convention of certain Bishops at London, an. 1543. (35. H. 8.) His works are these.  
Treatise 

Of the seven Churches.  
Of the Holy Ghost.    
Comment on, or explanation of, certain Prophecies— The two first were formerly, (perhaps still) in the King's Library at Westminster. The last giving high offence, as containing many treasonable matters, and most severe reflections, the Author was 
* Jo. Baleus in Script. Maj. Britan. p. 105. inter cent. 12. & 13.  hanged for it at London in Fifteen hundred forty and four. year 1544 Anton. Possevinus styles 
† In Apparat. sac. Tom. 2. in lit. R.  him a Martyr for the Rom. Cath. Cause, and John Pitseus omits 
‖ In lib. De illustr. Angl. script.  him as being an Heretic, or at least for the honourable mention made of him by Jo. Bale.  
WILLIAM LATYMER became Fellow of Allsouls Coll. in 1489, whence, after he had spent some Years in Logicals and Philosophicals, he traveled into Italy, and settling at Padöua for a time, did much advance his learning, especially in the Greek tongue. After his return, he was incorporated M. of A. as it seems, became most eminent, and was worthily numbered among the lights of learning in his time by Jo. Leland, as I have elsewhere 
r Vide Hist. & Antiq. Vniu. Oxon. lib. 1. p. 263. b. & l. 2. p. 177. b. Vide etiam in Lelandi Eucomiis, p. 18.  told you. About the beginning of Hen. 8. he was Master or Tutor to Reynold Pole (afterwards Cardinal, and Archb. of Canterbury) by whose endeavours he had some preferment in the Church conferred upon him. He was learned in all sacred and profane Letters, and, as Erasmus saith, was verè Thologus integritate vitae conspicuus. 'Tis said also that he hath written several things, but what they are except,  
Epistolae ad Erasmum; I know not. However he with Lynacre and Grocin did undertake the translation of all Aristotle's works into Latin, but the latter being taken away by death before they were half finished, Latymer desisted and would not go any farther, as being perhaps terrified with the immense labour to be taken therein. He died very aged at his Rectory of Seyntbury near to Camden in Glocestershire, (which he kept with that of Wotton under Edge, and a Prebendship in the Church of Salisbury) about the Month of Sept. year 1545 in Fifteen hundred forty and five, and was buried in the Chancel of the Church there, dedicated to St. Nicholas. Over his Grave was a Marblestone soon after laid, with a large Inscription on a brass plate, fastened thereunto, which hath been long since taken away and defaced. I have seen a Copy 
s In Offic. Praerog. Cant. in reg. Pinning, Qu. 38.  of his Will, whereby he gave (with certain conditions) all his Greek and Lat. Books to Allsouls, and Corp. Chr. Coll. in Oxon. yet whether they received them it appears not. I find one Will. Latymer D. D. to have been Dean of Peterborough (in the place of Job. Boxhall ejected, an. 1560) and Archdeacon of Westminster, who dying in the Summer time (after 29. July) 1583, was buried in the Choir of the Cath. Ch. of Peterborough beneath the Pulpit; but of what kin he was to the former I know not. He was succeeded in the said Deanery by Rich. Fletcher D. D. of Bennet Coll. in Cambridge, afterwards B. of London.  
THOMAS SOLME, called by some Sulmo, Sowlman, and Solimont, was born in the Isle of Gernsey, educated for a time in this University, and was afterwards Secretary of the French tongue to King Hen. 8. This Person who was much conversant in English History, wrote,  
The acts and guests of St. Thomas Archbishop of Canterbury.  
Select antiquities relating to Britain.— And dying in fifteen 
t Bal. cent. 9 nu. 32.  hundred forty and five, year 1545 was buried in the Monastery of the Carmes or Carmelites at London, leaving behind him the Character 
u In Encomiis illustr. virorum, per Jo. Leland. p. 31.  of a learned Man. I find one Tho. Solme to be Author of a Treatise entit. The Lord's Flail; being an exposition on the commandments. Printed at Basil in oct. but when, (unless in the time of Qu. Mary) the beginning or end of the Book shows not. One Tho. Somus a Preacher in the time of Ed. 6. hath English Verses at the end of Will. Turner's Book entit. A preservative or treacle, printed in oct. an. 1551. Whether these two last be one and the same Person I know not; nor can I be positive in it, whether Tho. Solme Author of the Lords Flail, be the same with Thom. Solme the Historian.  
THOMAS LANKET or Lanquet, whose place of nativity, or Hall or Coll. wherein he studied, being yet uncertain, I shall only say that he being a studious Young Man and curious searcher into ancient History, laid the Foundation of a great work, I mean a Chronicle consisting of two parts, reaching from the beginning of the World to the time of our Saviour, and was proceeding with a third part, but death preventing the completing thereof, Thom. Croper of Magd. Coll. finished and entitled it,  
Lanquets Chronicle— See more in Tho. Cooper under the Year 1594. Lanquet also wrote,  
Treatise of the Conquest of Boulogne— When, or where printed I know not, nor any thing else of the Author, year 1545 only that he 
w Pits, in Aet. 16. num. 967.  died at London in Fifteen hundred forty and Five; which was the seven and thirtieth Year of K. H. 8. but in what Church or Yard he was buried, I cannot tell.  
THOMAS ELYOT was born (as 'tis said) of a Knightly Family in Suffolk, and educated 
x Milo Windsere, in collectaneis suis ad rem Historic. pertinent. MS. penes me.  in Academical learning in the Hall of St. Marry the Virgin, where he obtained a considerable proficiency in Logic and Philosophy. The Year when he first began to salute the Muses, it cannot, through the deficiency of record, be well known, unless it should be about the Year 1514, for four Years after, an. 1518, I find 
y In reg. Congregat. H. sub an. 1518.  one Tho. Elyot to be admitted ad lecturam alicujus libri facultatis artium Logices Aristotelis, which is the admission to the Degree of Bach. of Arts, and in the time of Lent the same Year, he did complete that Degree by Determination in School-street. It doth also 
z Ibid sub an. 1524.  appear that the said Tho. Elyot was in the beginning of Aug. an. 1524. admitted ad lecturam alicujus libri Institutionem, that is to the Degree of Bach. of the Civil Law. Now if we could find, that Sir Tho. Elyot was about 50 Years of Age when he died, than we may certainly conclude that Elyot the Bac. of Arts and of the Civil Law, might be the same with him, otherwise we cannot well do it. After he had left the University, he traveled beyond the Seas, and upon his return was introduced into the Court: Whereupon being made known to the King, (a lover of Scholars) who found him to be a Person of good parts, conferred on him the honour of Knighthood, and employed him in certain Embassies bejond the Seas, particularly to the Emperor Charles the 5th. at what time his great Friend and Crony Sir Tho. More was beheaded. He was a very good Grammarian, Gracian, Poet, Philosopher, Physician, and what not to complete a Gentleman. He was admired by, and beloved of, Scholars, and his memory was celebrated by them in their respective works, particularly by 
* In Excomiis erudit. v●●corum, ut supra. p. 83.  Leland his contemporary. The truth is, his Learning in all kind of knowledge, brought much honour to all the Gentry and Nobility of England. He hath transmitted to posterity,  
The Castle of health. Lond. 1541. 1572. 80. 95, etc. in oct.  
The Governor, in 3 Books. Lond. 1544 47. 80. etc. in oct.  
Of the Education of Children. Lond. in qu.  
Banquet of sapience. Lond. in oct.  
Preservative against the fear of death.  
De rebus memorabilibus Angliae. For the completing of which, he had read and perused many old Monuments of England. See in Rog. Ascham's Treatise of Archery, in two Books. p. 28.  
A Defence, or Apology for good Women.  
Bibliotheca Eliotae. Elyots Library, or Dictionary. Lond. 1541. etc. fol. Which work, Thom. Cooper augmented, and enriched with 33000 words and phrases, besides a fuller account of the true signification of words. Sir Tho. Elyot also translated from Greek into English, The Image of Governance, compiled of the Arts and Sciences by Emperor Alexander Severus. Lond. 1556, 1594, etc. oct. and from Lat. into Engl. (1) St. Cypreans Sermon of the mortality of Man. Lond. 1534 in oct. (2) The rule of a Christian life, written by Picus Earl of Mirandula. Printed there the same Year in oct. See more among the translations of Tho. Lupset. numb. 38. This worthy Knight (who was a servant to the King) was buried in the Church of Carleton in Cambridgshire (of which County he had been Sheriff) 25. March in Fifteen hundred forty and six, year 1546 and had soon after a Monument put over his Grave. Besides several Manors that he had in Cambridgshire, he had one or more in Hampshire.  
JOHN LONGLAND received his first breath in a Mercat Town called Henly in Oxfordshire, was first made a Semicommoner or Demie, and afterwards Fellow, of Magdalen College: About which time being Master of Arts and in Orders, he addicted himself very severely to study and devotion, and became famous for his exemplary life and conversation. In 1505, he was made Principal of Magd. Hall, in 1510 (2. Hen. 8.) he was admitted to the reading of the sentences, and in the Year after he proceeded in Divinity. In Decemb. an. 1514, he succeeded Dr. Will. Atwater in the Deanery of Salisbury, and in 1519, he was made Canon of Windsor: At which time he being in great favour with the King for his excellent way of Preaching, he did not only make him his Confessor, but also, upon the death of Atwater, Bishop of Lincoln, and about that time Lord Almoner. To the same See therefore he being consecrated 5. May 1521 had restitution 
a Rot. p●t. 13. H. 8. p. 1.  made to him of the temporalities belonging thereunto 26. June following. In 1528. or thereabouts, he was the first Man of account that mentioned a divorce to the King, to be between him and his Qu. Catherine; for which afterwards, when it was known, he was much blamed, and the more, because he took all occasions to forward, and not in the least to contradict, it. In 1532, he was elected Chancellor of the University of Oxen, which office he keeping to his dying day, showed himself a special Friend thereunto in maintaining it privileges, and in exhibiting (as he had done before) to the wants of certain Scholars, and in solely maintaining others. I have seen divers Epistles written to him from the venerable House of Regent's and Non-Regents, wherein they, in an high manner, do proclaim his Religion and Doctrine, and do not stick to compare 
b In reg. Epist FF. ep. 93. 145. etc.  him to Joseph the Patriarch. His writings are these.  
Declamatio (five concio) coram reverendiss. in Ch. patribus. Domino, D. Thomâ Rom. Ecclesiae Presbytero Cardinali, Ebor. Archiep. etc. & laurentio Cardinali, sedis Apost. de latere quoque Legato, principio visitationis Ordinis S. Benedicti apud Westmonasterium initae, 10. Jan. 1519. in Gen. 18. Descendam & videbo, etc.  
Concio babita coram eruditiff. Oxoniae Academiae auditorio in jaciendo collegii Cardinalis fundamento, an. 1525. in Prov. 9 Sapientia aedificavit sibi domum.  
Concio habita coram celeberrimo conventu, tum Archiepiscoporum, cum Episcoporum, caeteraeque multitudinis in occidentalis caenobii (Westminster) Sanctuario, 27 Nou. 1527. in Psal. 101. Tu exurgens Domine misereberis Zion.  
These three Latin Sermons beforementioned, were printed at London in fol. by Rich. Pynsen the King's Printer, and dedicated by the Author of them to Dr. Warham Archbishop of Canterbury.  
Quinque sermones sextis Quadragesimae feriis, habiti coram R. Hen. 8. an. 1517. Prima in Ezeck. 18. Anima quae peccaverit, ipsa morietur. Reliquae in Matth. 21. Regnum Dei dabitur genti facienti fructus ejus.— Printed by Rich. Pynson beforementioned, and by their Author dedicated to Rich. Kedermyster Abbot of Winchcomb. All the said Sermons are on one volume in fol. but not said when printed.  
Expositio concionalis Psalmi sexti: an. 1518.  
Expositio conc. 2di. Psalmi paenitentialis, coram Regia Majestate. an. 1519. This is Psal. 31.  
Conciones expositativae in tertium Psalmum penitent. coram R. Maj. an. 1520. This is Psal 37.  
Conciones expos. in 50 Psal. penitent. coram Rege; an. 1521, & 1522.  
All which Expositions and Sermons, were, except the first, printed at London in fol. by Rob. Redman 1532. But the Reader is to note, that all the Latin Sermons and Expositions that I have mentioned under this Author Longland, having been all or most preached in the English tongue, were translated into Lat. by Thom. Key of Allsouls Coll. as I shall tell you when I come to him.  
Sermon before the King on Good Friday, on Heb. 13. 10. 11. 12. 13. Lond. 1538. qu. A Copy of which, or at least part, you may see in J. Fox's Book of the Acts and Mon. of the Church, etc. This Dr. Longland departed this mortal life on the 7. of May in Fifteen hundred forty and seven: year 1547 Whereupon his body being opened, his bowels were taken out and buried in the Church of Wooburne in Bedfordshire, (where he died) his heart in the Cathedral of Lincoln, under the blessed Sacrament of the high Altar, and his body in the Chapel of Eton Coll. near Windsor, of which probably he had been Fellow. Over his Grave was a Marblestone soon after laid, with an Inscription thereon, a Copy of which is printed in Hist. & Antiq. Uniu. Oxon, lib. 2. p. 193. b. 194. a. In the Cath. Church at Lincoln, near to the South door, (but somewhat Westward) was a fair Tomb of Marble, in the form of an Altar, built in an arch in the Wall for the said B Longland. On the Frieze above the same, is this Inscription, Longa terra mensura ejus, Dominus dedit. On the South side thereof is a beautiful Chapel, wherein hath been a Chantry for the said Bishop, as some think. He gave divers Books to Magd. Coll. Library, some to that of Oriel, and others to the Students of Durham (now Trinity) Coll. in Oxon. He gave also the second Bell at Wooburne of fine metal silver found, which was always afterwards called Bishop longland's. Bell. He built an Alms house at the place of his nativity (Henly) Southward of the Chancel, but for how many poor People, or with what revenue he endowed it, (having been originally large) I know not. Sure I am that now seven Persons live therein, and have weekly but six pence a piece for their allowance, and is governed by the Corporation there.  
ARTHUR KELTON seems to have been born of a gentile Family in Shorpshire, though said to be a Welsh Man; and, after he had made a considerable progress in Arts, applied his mind mostly to the reading of the Histories of Britain, wherein he much excelled in his riper Years. But being withal very poetically given, he must forsooth write and publish his Lucubrations in verse; whereby for rhyme sake, many material matters, and the due timing of them, are omitted, and so consquently rejected by Historians and Antiquaries, as his  
Chronicle of the Brutes. Lond. 1547 in oct. Printed in an old English Character. The Preface of which, being also written in Verse, is by the Author directed to K. Ed. 6. At the end of the said Chronicle is,  
A Genealogy of the Brutes— This is drawn from Ofiris the first King of Egypt down to K. Ed. 6. of England, and contains but about 32 Generations, which shows that the Author was ignorant in Genealogies. He hath also written another Book of Poetry in praise of the Welsh Men, dedicated to Sir Will. Herbert, but this I have not yet seen, 
Clar. 1548.  nor other (if any) of his things in Prose. He was living at Shrewsbury in the time of King Ed. 6. and, for aught I know to the contrary died also, and was buried, there.  
ANDREW BOARD, who writes himself Andreas Perforatus, was born, as it seems, at Pevensey commonly called Pensey in Sussex, and not unlikely educated in Wykehams' School near to Winchester, brought up at Oxford, (as 
c In his Introduction to knowledge, cap. 35.  he saith) but in what house, unless in Hart. Hall I know not. Before he had taken a Degree, he entered himself a Brother of the Carthusian Order at, or near to, London; where continuing till he was wearied out with the seventy of that Order, he left it, and for a time applied his Muse to the Study of Physic in this University. Soon after, having a rambling head, and an unconstant mind, he traveled through most parts of Eurepe (thorough and round about Christendom, and out of Christendom, as he 
d Ibid. cap. 7.  saith) and into some parts of Africa. At length upon his return, he settled at Winchester, where he practised his faculty, and was much celebrated for his good success therein. In 1541. and 42, I find him living at Mountpelier in France, at which time, I presume, he took the Degree of Doctor of Physic, and soon after being incorporated in the same Degree at Oxon, lived for a time at Pevensey in Sussex, and afterwards at his beloved City of Winchester; where, as at other places, it was his custom to drink water three days in a week, to wear constantly a shirt of hair, and every night to hang his shroud and socking or burial-sheet at his beds feet, according as he had done, as I conceive, while he was a Carthusian. He always professed Celibacy, and did zealously write against such Monks, Priests, and Friars, that violated their Vow by Marriage, as many did when their respective Houses were dissolved by King Hen. 8. But that matter being irksome to many in those days, was the reason, I think, why a Calvinstical 
e Joh. Ponet B. of Winchester.  Bishop, (who was then, as it seems, married,) fell foul upon him by reporting 
f In his Apology fully answering, etc. Tho. Martin's Book, etc. Printed 1555. p 32. See more in T●●. Martin.  openly that under colour of virginity and strictness of life, he kept three Whores at once in his Chamber at Winchester, to serve not only himself, but also to help the Virgin Priests, etc. about 1547. How true this is I cannot say, (though the matter as the Bishop reports, was examined before several Justices of Peace) because the Book here quoted, contains a great deal of passion, and but little better language, than that of Foul-mouthed Bale, not only against him (And. Board) but also against Dr. Joh. Story, Dr. Th. Martin, etc. The first of whom, he saith, kept a Wench called Magd. Bowyer living in Grandpoole in the Suburbs of Oxon, and the other, another called Alice Lamb, living at the Christopher Inn in the said City. But letting these matters pass, (notwithstanding I have read elsewhere, that the said three Whores, as the Bishop calls them, were only Patients, that occasionally recurred to his house) I cannot otherwise but say, that our Author Board, was esteemed a noted Poet, a witty and ingenious Person, and an excellent Physician of his time; and that he is reported by some to have been, not only Physician to K. Hen. 8. but also a Member of the College of Physicians at London, to whom he dedicated his breviary of Health. He hath written,  
A Book of the introduction of knowledge, the which doth teach a Man to speak part of all manner of Languages, and to know the usage and fashion of all manner of Counties, and for to know the most part of all manner of coins of money. Lond. 1542. qu. Dedicated to the Lady Mary Daughter of K. Hen. 8. by an Epist. dat. at Mountpelyer 3. May 1542. This Book is partly written in Verse, and partly in Prose, contained in 39 Chapters; every one of which hath in its beginning the Picture of a Man, sometimes two or three, Printed from a wooden cut. Before the first Chapter, which treateth of the natural disposition of an English man, is the picture of a naked Man with a piece of cloth lying on his right arm, and a pair of Scissors in his left hand, with a Copy of Verses Printed under him, the two first of which are these,  
I am an English Man, and naked I stand here, Musing in my mind, what raiment I shall were.  
Before the seventh Chapter is the picture of our Author Board standing in a Pew, with a Canopy over it, having a Gown on, with sleeves a little wider than an ordinary coat, a Laurel on his Head, and a Book before him on a desk, with this title of the said Chapter under him. The VII. Chapyter showeth how the auctor of this Book had dwelled in Scotland, and other Lands, and did go thorough and round about Christendom and out of Christendom, declaring the properties of all the Regions, Countries, and Provinces the which he did travel thorough. He hath also written,  
The Breviary of health, wherein are remedies for all manner of sicknesses and diseases, which may be in Man or Woman, expressing the obscure terms of Greek, Lat. Barbary and English, concerning Physic and Chirurgery. Lond. 1547. 48. 57 87, etc. in qu. in four Books.  
Dietary of health. Lond. 1576. oct. Sec. Edition.  
The merry tales of the mad Men of Gotham— Printed at London in the time of K. Hen. 8. in whose Reign and after, it was accounted a Book full of wit and mirth by Scholars; and Gentlemen. Afterwards, being often printed, is now sold only on the stalls of Ballad-singers.  
A right pleasant and merry history of the Mylner of Abington, with his Wife and his fair Daughter, and of two poor Scholars of Cambridge— Pr. at Lond. by Rich. Jones in qu. Andr. Boards name is not to it, but the Copy of the Book which I saw, did belong to Th. Newton of Cheshire, whom I shall hereafter mention, and by him 'tis written in the title that Dr. Borde was the Author. He hath also written a Book of Prognostics, another of Urines, and a third of Every Region, Country, and Province, which shows the Miles, Leeges, distance from City to City, and from Town to Town, with the noted things in the said Cities and Towns. This last, the Author lent to Thom. Cromwell of Bishops-Waltham near to Winchester, written fairly with his own hand, but he afterwards being taken up with State-affairs, and matters of high concern, lost the Book to the great grief of the Author, otherwise he would have published it. At length after many rambles to and fro in this World, he was made 
g In Reg. Populwell in offic. Praerog. Cant. Qu. 29.  Prisoner in the close wards of the Fleet in London, (the reason why, I cannot justly say) where dying in the Month of Apr. in Fifteen hundred forty and nine, year 1549 was buried, as I conceive, in the Church or Yard of St. Bride, otherwise St. Bridget, for in that Parish is the Prison called the Fleet situated. In his Will 
b Ibid.  dated the eleventh of Apr. an. 1549. and proved the 25. of the same Month and in the same Year, he did constitute one Ric. Matthew, (without the addition of Nephew, Kinsman, or natural Son) his Heir, left him his two tenements in the Sooke in the Town of Lynne in Norfolk, his tenements with appurtenances which he had by the death of his Brother, in Pevens●y, and his House and Chattels in and near Winchester. Joh. Bale in the very ill Language that he gives of Dr. Borde, saith 
* In lib. De script. maj. Britan. p. 105. post cent. 12.  that the Brothelhouse which he kept for his Brother-Virgins being discovered, took physical poison to hasten his death, which was, as he saith, (but false) in 1548. This is the language of one who had been a Bishop in Ireland.  
WILLIAM HUGH a Yorkshire Man 
‡ Ibid. cent. 9 num. 72.  born, was educated in Logic and PhilosophY in C. Chr. Coll. but whether in the condition of a Chorister, Clerk, or Chaplain, I know not. In the Year 1543, he took the Degree of M. of Arts, being about that time compelled to bestow in a manner all his time in teaching Young Scholars. Afterwards he was favoured in his studies by the Lady Denny living at Court, to whom, I suppose, he was Chaplain. He hath written,  
The troubled Man's Medicine, wherein we may learn patiently to suffer all kind of adversity. In two parts. Lond. 1567. oct. the 2. or 3. edit. He also translated into English, a Book intit. by him thus. A Book of Bertram the Priest entreating of the body and blood of Christ, written to Charles the Great 700 Years ago. Lond. 1548. oct. This Book was reviewed and corrected by Tho. Wilcocks' a Minister in Lond. printed at Lond. 1582. oct. published again with some alterations, refinements, and corrections from the errors of the former translation, with an addition of Two short discourses against purgatory and invocation of Saints. By S. D.— Lond. 1686. oct. To which is prefixed the large Preface of Sir Humph. Lynd. and a dedicatory epistle of S. D. to Sir S. B. But these translations being esteemed by many not to be well done, Will. Hopkins Bac. of Diu. and Prebendary of Worcester (sometimes of Trin. Coll. in Oxon) made and published another the same Year. See more in Humph. Lynd under the Year 1636. Our Author Hugh hath written, and translated, as 'tis said, other things, but such I have not yet seen, nor know I any thing more of him, than this, that he died by a rupture of a vein in Corpus Chr. Coll. before 
i Jo. Bale in lib. MS. De Scriptorib Anglicis, Inter Cod. MS. Selden. in bib. Bod. p. 201. b.  the Feast of St. Michael in Fifteen hundred forty and nine. year 1549 So that I presume he was buried in the Chapel or Cloister belonging to the said House, if the Author saith true that he died therein.  
THOMAS STERNHOLD was in all likelihood 
k Vide Balium in't. Script. maj. Britan. cent. 9 nu. 79.  born in Hampshire, but whether educated in Wykeham's School near Winchester, is as yet doubtful. Sure it is, that he having spent some time in this University, left it without the honour of a Degree, and retiring to the Court of K. Hen. 8. was made Groom of the Robes to him, and when that King died he left him in his Will 100 Marks. Afterwards he continued in that office under K. Ed. 6. at which time he was in some esteem in the Royal Court for his grave vein in Poetry, and other trivial Learning. But being a most zealous Reformer; and a very strict liver, he became so scandalised the amorous and obscene Songs used in the Court, that he forsooth turned into English meeter 51 of David's Psalms, and caused musical notes to be set to them, thinking thereby that the Courtiers would sing them instead of their sonnets, but did not, only some few excepted. However the Poetry and Music being admirable, and the best that was made and composed in those times, they were thought fit afterwards to be sung in all Parochial Churches, as they do yet continue. All those Psalms which he put into rhyme, have the Letters T. S. set before, to distinguish, them from others. What other Poetry, or what Prose this our Poet Sternhold hath composed, and left behind, I know not, nor any thing else of him, only that he died in London or Westminster, year 1549 in Fifteen hundred forty and nine. By his last Will and 
l In office Praerog. Cant. in reg. Populwell. Qu. 37.  Testament dat. 22. Aug. and proved 12. of Sept. an. 1549, wherein he is styled Groom of the King's Majesty's Robes, it appears that he died seized of Lands in Slacksted in Hampshire, of the Farms of Conynger, Willersley, and Holgreaves in the same County, and of Lands in the Parish of Bodmin and elsewhere in Cornwall. Contemporary with Sternhold was Joh. Hopkyns, who is styled to be 
m Baleus in Script. maj. Britan. p. 113. inter cent. 12. & 13.  Britanicarum Poetarum sui temporis non infimus, as indeed by the generality living in the Reign of Ed. 6. he was so, if not more, esteemed. He turned into Meeter 58 of David's Psalms, which are to this day sung in Churches; and in all editions, of the said Psalms, his (which he translated) hath set before them the two Letters J. H. Whether this Poet, who was living in the 3. and 4. of Phil. and Mary, Dom. 1556, and after, was of this University of Oxon, I dare not yet affirm. However the Reader is to know that one Joh. Hopkyns was admitted Bach. of Arts thereof 36. Hen. 8. Dom. 1544. which he completed the same Year by Determination. I find also one Job. Hopkyns of Waldingfeild in Suffolk Clerk, who dying in Octob. 1570, was buried in the Churchyard there, leaving then behind him a Son to be brought 
n Ib. in Off-Praerog. in reg. Lion, Qu. 36.  up in learning. Besides these two, I find others to have had hands in making the said Psalms to run in meeter, as (1) Will. Whittyngham afterwards the unworthy Dean of Durbam, whom I shall hereafter mention; and (2) Tho. Norton of Sharpenhaule or Sharpenhoe in Bedfordshire a forward and busy Calvinist in the beginning of Qu. Elizabeth's Reign, who then was accounted eminent for his Poetry and making of Tragedies, as I shall tell you in Tho. Sakvile under the Year 1608. This T. Norton, who seems to have been a Barrister, made 27 of the said Psalms of David to run in rhyme, but whether he was educated in this University, is to me as yet uncertain. As for other works of his that are published, which are now in a manner lost, are these (1) An Epistle to the Queen's poor deceived Subjects of the North Country, drawn into Rebellion by the Earls of Northumberland and Westmoreland. Lond. 1569. oct. (2) A warning against the dangerous practices of the Papists, etc. (2) A Bull granted by the Pope to Dr. Harding, etc. and others, by reconcilement, and assoiling of English Papists to undermine faith and allegiance to the Queen; with a true declaration of the intention, etc. (4) A disclosing of the great Ball, and certain calves that he hath gotten, and especially the monster Bull that roared at my Lord Bishop's gate. (5) An addition declaratory to the Bulls, with a searching of the maze. All which five pieces, were printed at Lond. in oct. an. 1569. He also translated from Lat. into English. (1) Epistle to Edw. Duke of Somerset. Lond. 1550. oct. written by Pet. Martyr. (2) Institutions of Christian Religion. Lond. 1587. qu. written by Jo. Calvin. (3) The larger Catechism. Lond. 1571. qu. written by Alex. Nowell, besides other things which I have not yet seen.  
JOHN HERON a Kentish Man born, near of kin to Sir Jo. Heron Kt. Master of the Jewelhouse to K. Hen. 8. and of the same Family with those of Barming in Kent, was elected Fellow of Allsouls Coll. in 1538, took the Degrees in Arts, that of Master being completed in 1544; at which time he was in great esteem for his singular skill in the Latin Tongue, for in that Language Baleus tells 
o Int. Script. Maj. Britan. ut supr. Cent. 9 nu. 59  us, that he wrote several things, which he had not seen, and had translated others from the English into the Latin Tongue; one of which was Explicatio petititoria adversus expilatores plebis; written originally by Rob. Crowley, as I shall tell you when I come to him. I find one Joh. Heron of Chiselhurst in Kent to have been tampering much with Necromancy, to the great affrightment of his Neighbours. Whereupon being complained of to the higher Powers, he was bound in a 
p Papers of State, at Whiteha●l.  Bond of an 100 Marks an. 1540, not to practise again Necromancy, Astronomy, Calculations, and other experiments, etc. Whether this Jo. Heron be the same with the former, I know not. Sure I am that this Heron the Conjuror was not unknown to Job. Waller and Will. Cobbie two young Fellows of Kings Coll. in Cambridge, who studied and were conversant in the Black art, in the Reign of Ed. 6.  
RICHARD SHERRY or Shirrie became a Demie or Semicommoner of Magd. Coll. about the Year 1522, took the Degrees in Arts, that of Master being completed 1531. About which time he was either Usher or Master of the School joining to the said College; but whether ever Fellow thereof, I find not. He was a Person elegantly learned, as 
* Int. Script. Maj. Britan. p. 107. in't. cent. 12. & 13.  Bale saith, and hath written,  
A Treatise of Schemes and Tropes. Lond. 1550. (oct.) gathered out of the best Grammarians and Orators. He hath also translated from Lat. into English. (1) A declamation showing that Children should from their Infancy be gently brought up in learning. Lond. 1550. (oct.) (2) Homilies on the sixth of St. John. Lond. 1550. in oct. Written by John Brentius. 
Clar. 1550.  (3) The Letter of St. Basil the Great to Gregory Nazianzen, showing that many hundred years ago, certain godly Men used the life commonly called monastical. 
Clar. 1550.  Lond. in oct. This our Author Shirrie hath written and translated other things, which made him to be much esteemed by learned Men in the Reign of K. Ed. 6.  
JOHN GRIFFIN or Griffith a Welsh Man born, and a Monk of the Order of Cistercians in the Monastery of Hales Owen in Worcestershire, was educated among those of his Order in the College of St. Bernard in the North Suburb of Oxon, but what degree he took I cannot yet find. Several of both his names, and of his time have taken Degrees in the Canon Law and Divinity, but which of them is this that I am now upon, I cannot say. He is reported to have been a pious and learned Man, but being unacquainted with the dealings of the World had like to have been drawn over to the Reformed Religion, but was in due time 
m Jo. Pits. in Aet. 16. nu. 983.  fastened in his faith again to the great joy of the Rom. Catholics, who held him to be a most excellent Preacher, whether in the Lat. or English tongue. He hath published,  
Conciones aestuales.  
Conciones hiemals. 
Clar. 1550.  With other things which I have not yet seen. As for the time of his death and place of burial, I cannot yet find, he having been several Years thrust out of his Monastery at the dissolution of Religious Houses. He was living in the Reign of K. Ed. 6. and perhaps in that of Qu. Mary.  
NICHOLAS KRACH, or Karche, or Chracher, Kratcher, or Kratzer, (so many ways I find him written) was born at Munchen in Bavaria, and educated in the Universities of Colen and Wyttenberg till he was Bach. of Arts: Afterwards coming into England; and at length to the knowledge of Fox Bishop of Winchester, was made by him Fellow of his College called Corpus Christi, and admitted thereunto on the fourth of July 1517. About that time he reading Astronomy in the University by the command of K. Hen. 8. was soon after made by Cardinal Wolsey his Mathematic Reader when he first settled his Lectures there. In Feb. 1522. he was incorporated Bach. of Arts, as he had stood at Colen and Wyttenberg, and in the same Month was licenced to proceed in Arts; which Degree he completed in an Act celebrated 23. March following, being then esteemed— ita 
n Vid. praefat. ad Guidon. Bonatum de Astronomia, edit Bas. 1550.  bonus & probus, ut majore quam Mathematicorum fortuna sit dignus, & ita suae Artis peritus, ut solus isthic artifex habere debeat. He wrote at the desire of Will. Tyler one of the Grooms of K. Hen. 8. his Belchamber.  
Canon's Horopti. MS. This Book which is dedicated to K. Hen. 8. in Corp. Chr. Coll. Library; and no doubt there is, but that other Copies of it are in other places.  
De Compositione Horologeorum. MS. in the said Library. This is generally said to be his, as the Annotation at the end, may in part prove it. He made the old Dial, which is at this day in C. C. C. Garden, and that standing on a Pillar in St. Mary's South Churchyard in the High Streat of the City of Oxon. On which, soon after, was hung up the Universities condemnation of the Doctrine of Luther. This famous Mathematician of his time, 
Clar. 1550.  was living in the Year 1550. (4 Ed. 6.) and after his death, (which I think soon followed) many of his Books came into the hands of that eminent Mathematician Dr. John Dee, and some into those of Dr. Rich. Forster a noted Physician, and Mathematician also. See more of this Nich. Kratzer, in Hist. & Antiq. Uniu. Oxon. lib. 1. p. 247. b. lib. 2. p. 35. b.  
DAVID CLAPHAM the eldest Son and Heir of Job. Claph. and he the fourth Son of Tho. Claph. of Beamesley in Yorkshire Esq; was born, as I conceive, in that County, and after he had spent some time in Trivials, did solely addict his mind to the study of the Civil Law, but whether he took a Degree in that faculty in doth not appear. Afterwards he retired to Doctor's Commons, became a noted Proctor in the Arches, and for his ingenuity and good natural parts was beloved of Sir Will. Cecil Secretary of State to K. Ed. 6. and other noted Men of that time— praeter Legis peritiam, in qua plurimum excellebat (as one 
o Joh. Bale in cent. 9 nu. 44.  who knew him well tell us) in diversis scientiis eruditus fuit. He hath translated from Latin into English. (1) A Treatise of Nobility. (2) The excellency of Womenkind. Both Printed at Lond. 1542. in oct. and written originally by Corn. Agrippa. (3) The praise of Matrimony. Lond. in oct. written by the said Agrippa and Erasmus. What other things he hath translated, or what he hath written I know not, nor any thing else of him, only that, after by his endeavours he had obtained a considerable Estate, he concluded his last day in his House near to Doct. Com. year 1551 on the 14 of July in Fifteen hundred fifty and one. Whereupon his body was buried in the then now Church of St. Faith under part of the Cath. Church of St. Paul within the City of London, leaving behind him several Children which he had by Joan his Wife; the eldest of which was Thomas, whose posterity did lately remain at Helpeston in Northamptonshire.  
ANTHONY COPE 
* Ut inter Cod. MSS. Radul. Sheldon de Beoly in Coll. Armorum. Lond. num. 113. p. 56.  Son of Will. Cope or Coope of Banbury in Oxfordshire Esq; sometimes Cofferer to K. Hen. 7. by Joan his second Wife, Daughter and Heir of John Spencer of Hodnell (in Warwickshire) was educated in this University, but in what Coll. unless in Oriel, wherein studied several of his Surname in the time of K. Hen. 8. and K. Ed. 6. I know not. Afterwards he went into France, Germany, Italy, and elsewhere; in which places visiting the Universities, and joining his company to the most learned Men of them, became an accomplished Gentleman, wrote several things beyond the Seas, as well as at home, as it appears from certain Authors, and from an Epigram made in his praise by Joh. Bapt. Mantuan. Among them is only this 
o Ibid. in Bal. ut sup. cent. 11. num. 93.  known to Authors.  
Godly meditations on 20 select Psalms, necessary for them that desire to have the dark words of the Prophet declared. Also for those that delight in the contemplation of the spiritual meaning of them. Lond. 1547. qu. The twenty Psalms that the meditations are on, are the 1. 6. 12. 13. 23. 32. 49. 51. 73. 84. 90. 102. 103. 104. 116. 121. 130. 138. 139. 146. Afterwards he received the honour of Knighthood, and dying in Summer time in Fifteen hundred fifty and one, year 1551 was buried in the Chancel of the Parish Church of Hanwell near to Banbury in Oxfordshire, leaving then behind him a Son named Edward. As for Will. Cope or Coope Cofferer to K. Hen. 7. before-mentioned, he purchased an Estate in, and near to, Banbury, and dying 7. Apr. 1513. was buried in the Church at Banbury, I find one Michael Cope to have been a zealous Calvinist at Geneva and other places, a frequent Preacher in the French Tongue and Author in the French Language of (1) A faithful and familiar exposition on Ecclesiastes, an. 1557. Which edition being amended and corrected, was published again at Geneva, 1563. in qu. (2) A godly and learned exposition upon the Proverbs of Sol●m●n. When this last was first Printed, I know not. Sure 'tis, that being translated into English by one Marcelline Outred for the benefit of his Countrymen, was Printed at London in 1580. in a thick qu. Whether this Mich. Cope was of the same Family with that of Sir Anthony's before-mentioned, or was educated in Oxon. I cannot yet tell.  
JOHN REDMAN or Redmayne, descended from those of his name in Yorkshire, was near allied to Cuthb. Tonstall Bishop of Durham, by whose counsel and advice he became conversant from his Childhood in the Study of Learning. At the first Foundation of Corp. Ch. Coll. he was a Student 
p Ut in quibusd. Excerptis sive collect. Tho. Cati Antiquarii Oxon. MS. quondam in bib. Tho. Allen.  there for some time under the care and government of Mr. J. Claymond the first Precedent: Thence he went to Paris, where he improved his Studies till he was 21 Years of Age. Afterwards returning to his native Country of England, he settled in St. John's Coll. in Cambridge, where by his and Joh. Cheeks example of excellency in learning, of godliness in living, of diligence in studying, of counsel in exhorting by good order in all things, were bred up so many learned Men in that one Coll. as 'twas thought by 
* Rog. Ascham in his Schoolmaster, etc. edit. 1589. fol. 19 b.  one, the whole University of Louvain in many Years was never able to afford. In 1537, he commenced Doctor of Divinity, and about that time was made Orator of that University, and afterwards the first Master or Head of Trinity Coll. and a Dignitary in the Church. But that which is most observable, is that when he came first to that University, being then very well versed in the Greek and Lat. tongues, and adorned with knowledge by the diligent reading of Cicero, it so fell out, that Joh. Cheek and Tho. Smyth (being at that time young Men, but afterwards Knights) were stirred up with a kind of emulation of his parts, and the honour that was daily done unto him. Whereupon being very desirous to follow that which he had gained, and then did profess and teach; they threw aside their sordid barbarisms, and applied themselves to the Eloquence of Plato, Aristotle, and Cicero. The truth is, by Redman's profound knowledge in the Tongues, Humanity and Divinity, he obtained many admirers, and thereby gained Proselytes to the great advantage of the refinement of the Gr. and Lat. Tongues in the University of Cambridge. He hath written,  
Opus de justificatione. Antw. 1555. qu.  
Hymnus in quo peccator justificationem quaerens, rudi imagine describitur. Printed with the former work.  
The complaint of Grace; containing in it much godly learning, and verity of matter. Lond. 1556. in oct. published by Tho. Smith Servant to Qu. Mary. This, I suppose, is the same Book with that which Bale and Pits entitle De gratia, lib. 1. translated into English by Joh. Young of Cambridge. This Dr. Redman also took pains in compiling the first edition of the Liturgy, or Common-prayer, in the Year 1549. and dying in the College of Westminster (of which he was Prebendary) was buried in the North Isle of the Abby-Church there dedicated to St. Peter, about the latter end of Nou. year 1551 in Fifteen hundred fifty and one, aged 52. See more of him in Lelands 
q Pag. 46.  Encomia, and in the Epistles 
r Lib. 1. ep. 5.  of Roger Ascham his sometimes friend and crony, as also in Joh. Fox his Book of Acts and Monuments of the Church, etc. where you'll find 
s In the Year 1551.  his conference or communication had with Rich. Wilks, 2. Nou. 1551 the Doctor being then sick at Westminster; and another conference with Mr. Alex. Nowell then Schoolmaster in Westminster and certain others, with notes of his censure and judgement touching certain points of Christ's Religion; which was made when the Doctor laid on his Deathbed. Whether this John Redmayne was Archdeacon of Taunton, and Preb. of Mylverton in the Church of Wells, in the time of Ed. 6. I cannot justly say, because he died in 1551, and that those Dignities were not filled up till May 1554. when then John Fitz-James was collated to them per mortem Johannis Redmayne See more in the Fasti, an. 1508. 1524. and 1543.  
DAVID TOLLEY or Talley called by Leland the Antiquary Tavelegus, and by himself Taulaeus, was born at a market Town called Kingsbridge in Devonshire, became a Student of this University about 1517. (9 H. 8.) took the Degrees of Arts, as a Member of the Hall of St. Marry the Virgin, that of Master being completed 1527. About that time he applied his Genie to the faculty of Medicine, took the Degree of Bachelaur, and in 1534. and before, he was dispensed with by the venerable Regent's to proceed in the said faculty; but whether he was admitted or proceeded, it doth not appear. Sure I am, that he was then noted to be very able for the practice therein in this University, accounted also a good Latinist and Grecian, and to be a Person 
* Ibid. in Bulco de Script. Maj. Britan. cent. 9 nu. 52.  praeclari ingenii, atque optimarum artium cognitione locupletus. He hath written,  
Progymnasmata Grammaticae Graecae. Written for the use of Prince Ed. and to him dedicated by the Author, with an Epistle before it beginning thus, Octavus jam agitur annus, etc.  
Grammatica Regia.  
Themata Homeri. With other matters pertaining to Grammar. In 1547. or thereabouts, I find this Dau. Tolley to be made one of the signior Students of Ch. Ch. by the name of David Towle, (being then 41 Years of Age) after K. Hen. 8. had settled the Cathedral there; at which time and before, 
Clar. 155●.  he taught Grammar to young Students of this University. When he died I know not, nor any thing else of him, only that his name occurs among the signior Students that were Theologists of that house, in the Years 1551. and 52. Joh. Baleus in his Manuscript 
† Inter cod. MS. Selden. p. 33. b.  De Scriptoribus Anglicis styles this Dau. Tolley, Angliae Papistarum Malleus, being probably then (temp. Ed. 6.) so accounted, but in his Printed Book published at Basil 1559, he mentioneth no such matter, which makes me think that Tolley conformed in the time of Qu. Mary. if he was then living.  
JOHN MORWEN or Morenus as he writes himself, was a Devonian born, admitted Scholar of Corp. Chr. Coll. 23. Feb. 1535. and afterwards Fellow, and Master of Arts. About which time entering into holy Orders, he became noted soon after for his profoundness in Divinity, and his great knowledge in the Greek tongue, being in the latter end of King Hen. 8. Reader thereof in his College, and a private instructor of John Jewel, though afterwards a hater of his Opinions. In 1551, he was admitted Bach. of Divin. and about the same time studied Physic, as having no good wishes for reformation, which tended to the ruin, (as he thought) of the Church. He is styled by a learned 
* Laur. Humph. in Vita Joh. Juelli, p. 25.  Author, not of his opinion, to be homo Graecè doctus, sed idem Graecorum more leviculus & bibaculus, etc. Afterwards he was patronised in his studies by Will. Roper Esq; whose Daughter, by Margaret his Wife, (Daughter of Sir Thomas More) he instructed in the Latin and Greek tongues. He hath written several things, but whether extant, I know not. Among them are, 
 Epistolae ad D. Will. Roperum. 
 Epitaphia diversa. 
 Opuscula Graece & Latinè. Written with his own hand, and said (
‖ Rob. Hag in Cat. Scholar & Soc. Coll. C. C. Ox. MS.  to be (though I cannot yet in all my searches find them) in the Bodleian Library. He also translated into English several of the Greek and Latin Orations, made by the said Daughter of Will. Roper, as by his Epistles in appears. 
Clar. 1551.  What became of this Joh. Morwen when Qu. Elizabeth came to the Crown (if he lived to that time) I cannot tell, unless he was received into the Family of the said Roper a great lover of learning, and a reliever and comforter of distressed Catholics.  
JOHN LELAND or Leyland, that singular light and ornament of Great Britain, was born in London, but in what Parish, or Year, it appears not, howbeit the day of his Birth, he himself is pleased to tell 
s In Encomiis, trophaeis, etc. edit. 1589. p. 31.  us. In his younger Years being deprived of his relations, he was taken into the protection of one Tho. Miles a great favourer of learning, who not only exhibited to his wants, but also took care to have him instructed in Grammar, and other juvenile learning, under the famous Will. Lilye. From his School he was sent to Cambridge, where, as he himself saith, he received the first seeds of Academical Learning in Christ's College, and from thence, as in another place he tells us, he went to Oxon, but to what College or Hall therein, he adds not. Howbeit by sure tradition from Thom. Key of Allsouls College to Thom. Allen of Glocest. Hall, it appears that he spent several Years in study in the said Coll. of Allsouls, which is also noted by Will. Burton the Antiquary of Leicestershire in the Collorary of some part of Leland's Life before the first tome of his Collections. After he had spent some time there, he journied to Paris, where he profited himself much by the reading and learning of Budaeus, Faber, Paulus Aemilius, and Ruellus. Returning thence he entered into Holy Orders, became Chaplain to K. Hen. 8. and Rector of Poppeling (sometimes written Poppering and Pepling) in the Marches of Calais. Afterwards he became Library-keeper to that King, and had a Commission from him under the broad Seal, an. reg. 25. Dom. 1533. whereby he was impowered to make a search after England's Antiquities, and peruse the Libraries of all Cathedrals, Abbeys, Priories, Colleges, etc. as also all places wherein Records, Writings, and secrets of Antiquity were reposed. Whereupon, in few Years after, obtaining a special 
t Pat. 28. Hen. 8. part. 1.  dispensation 12. Jul. 28. Hen. 8. to keep a Curate at Poppeling, and make his residence in England, or elsewhere at his own liberty, he spent more than six Years in rambling to and fro in this Nation, and in making researches into the bowels of antiquity, undertaking so immense a task, that the very thoughts of completing it, did, as 'tis said, distract him. At the time of the dissolution of Monasteries, he saw with very great pity what havoc was made of ancient Monuments of learning, and if no remedy should be taken, they would all perish. Whereupon, for prevention sake, he wrote a Letter 
u Among the Papers of state.  to Cromwell the prime Secretary, dat. 16. July, wherein he entreats him to give him aid and assistance in bringing to light many ancient Authors, and in sending them to the King's Library; who, he knew well, had no little esteem for them, and adds that— it would be a great profit to Students, and honour to this Realm; whereas now the Germans perceiving our deridiousness and negligence, do senddayly young Scholars hither, that spoileth them, and cutteth them out of Libraries, returning home and putting them abroad as Monuments of their own Country, etc. On the 3. of Apr. 33. Hen. 8. Dom. 1542. he was 
w Pat. 33. Hen. 8. p. 6.  presented to the Rectory of Hasely near to, and in the County of, Oxon; and in the beginning of the said Month 1543, the King 
x Pat. 34. Hen. 8. part. 8.  gave to him by the name of Job. Leland Scholar, and the King's Chaplain a Canonry or Prebendship of King's College (now Ch. Ch.) in Oxon; and about that time the Prebendship of East-Knoll and W. Knoll near to Salisbury in Wiltshire; but the Canonry of Ch. Ch. he lost in 1545, upon the surrender of that College to the King, and in lieu thereof had no pension allowed him as other Canons had, but preferment elsewhere. At length having made a grand collection of antiquities, he retired to his habitation in the Parish of St. Michael in le Querne in London, where spending about six Years more in composing such Books that he had promised to the King, did at length (upon a foresight that he was not able to perform his promise, or as the Roman Catholics say, that he had degenerated from the ancient Religion) fall distracted and lost his sense, being but a little before esteemed a Person of a clear judgement and of great insight to discern between substantial and superficial learning. This his distemper being made known to the King and his Council, His Majesty by Letters Patent 
y Pat. 5. Ed. 6. part. 6.  dat. 21. March 5. Ed. 6. Dom. 1550. did grant the custody of him by the name of John Laylond Junior, of St. Michael's Parish in le Querne, London, Clerk, to his Brother John Laylond signior, and for his maintenance to receive the profits of Hasely, Poppling, E. Knoll, and W. Knoll beforementioned. He was esteemed by the generality of Scholars of his time an excellent Orator and Poet, learned in the Greek, Latin, French, Italian, Spanish, British, Saxon, Welsh, and Scotish Tongues, a most diligent searcher into antiquity, and a favourer and lover of all those that bent their minds that way. His enemies, or such that cared not for him, as Pol. Virgil, Dr. Jo. Cay, etc. did use to say that he was a vain glorious Person, and that he promised more than ever he was able to perform, and others, that his Poetical wit made him so conceited, that it was the chief reason of his frenzy. He hath written,  
Naenia in mortem Thomae Viati equitis incomparabilis. Lond. 1542. 'Tis a Lat. Poem in one sheet and an half in qu.  
Genethliacom illustriss. Eadverdi principis Cambriae, Ducis Coriniae & Comitis Palatini, etc. Printed 1543. A Lat. Poem in 4. sheets in qu.  
Syllabus & interpretatio antiquarum dictionum, quae passim per libellum (praedictum) lectore occurrunt. Printed with the former, an. 1543.  
Assertio inclytiss. Arturii regis Britanniae. Lond. 1544. qu.  
Elenchus antiquarum nominum. Printed with the Assertio inc.  
Cygnea Cantio. Lond. 1545. 'Tis a Lat. Poem in about 5 sheet in qu. There again 1658. in oct.  
Commentarii in Cyg. cantionem indices Britannicae antiquitatis locupletissimi. Printed with the two said Editions of Cyg. Cant.  
Laudatio pacis. Lond. 1546. A Lat Poem in 2 sh. in qu.  
A New-years-gift to K. Hen. 8. (37 Year of his Reign) concerning his laborious journey and search for England's antiquities. Lond. 1549. Oct. Published with annotations thereon by Joh. Bale, who hath added thereunto of his own. A register of the names of English Writers, whom the second part of his work, De Scriptorib. Britanniae, shall comprehend.  
Principum ac illustrium aliquot & eruditorum in Angliâ virorum, Encomia, Trophaea, Genethliaca, & Epithalamia, etc. Lond. 1589. qu. Published by Tho. Newton of Cheshire.  
These are all the Books composed by him, that are published. Those that he left behind him in MS. are these following.  
Collectaneorum volumen primum. Collections from various Authors, viz. from Chronologies, ancient Charters, Leiger-Books, Histories, Annals, public and private Writings, etc.— Written with Lelands own hand (mostly in Latin) in folio, containing 913 pages, and all collected from MSS. and nothing from Authors that were then Printed. There are in this Book many needless additions and illustrations put in by Will. Burton of Lindley, whom I shall anon mention, who hath written some part of the life of Leland before, and has made a useful index to, it.  
Collect. vol. 2. Collections from various Authors in MS. viz. Chronologies, Annals, etc. in fol. containing 382. pages.  
Collect. vol. 3. Containing the Catalogues of MSS. in the Libraries of several religious Houses, Cathedrals, Colleges, etc. Collections also from Monkish Authors concerning the foundations, restaurations, etc. of religious places, and other matters of considerable moment. In p. 117, is part of an Itinerary through Devonshire, and p. 127, etc. is something of Kent. In p. 149, etc. is something of Herefordshire, and p. 204, of Lincolnshire. Afterwards follow the meaning and original of words from several old Dictionaries. This vol. contains in writing under Lelands' hand 287 pages in fol. and hath at the end his New-years-gift to K. Hen. 8.  
Collect. vol. 4. Containing the lives and characters of most of the eminent Writers of England; written in Latin with Leland's own hand, an. 1546. and containeth 354 pages in fol. One or more Copies of this Book, are in private hands.  
An Itinerary throughout most parts of England.— In five volumes in qu. This Iter was begun about 38. H. 8. Dom. 1538, and the volumes were written with his own hand; but by the negligence of those, who have had the custody of them, after the Author's death, most of them have taken wet and are not legible. About the Year 1631. Will. Burton before-mentioned caused all the said five volumes to be transcribed into one folio; which, with the originals, were, by him soon after, given to the public Library of Oxon.  
Collections concerning English Families and their originals, of relations of matters of antiquity from divers Persons, of Towns and religious Houses, (which he accidentally found in record, or by tradition) of Rivers in several Counties, and also collections from various MSS. etc.— All which, are contained in two quartoes under Leland's hand writing, and go under the names of the sixth and seventh volumes of his Itineraries, and stand and are mixed with the other five, in the Archives of the public Library.  
Collectiones ex antiquissimis authoribus desumptae, quae ad Britanniam spectant. MS. in Cotton' s Library under Julius C. 6.  
Codrus sive liber contra Polydorum Virgilium de erroribus in scriptis suis. MS. An exemplar of which I have seen.  
Naenia in mort. Hen. Duddelegi (Dudley) Equitis. MS. in qu.  
Bononia Gallomastix, in laudem victoris feliciss. Hen. 8. Anglici, Francici, Scottici, etc. MS. in qu. With other things, which you may see in Balcus and Pitseus. All which MSS. and collections, with many other matters of moment, were, after Leland's death, taken (by command from Ed. 6) into the custody of Sir John Cheek Tutor to the said King; who not long after gave the four tomes or vol. of his collections beforementioned to Humph. Purefoy Esq; (afterwards of the Privy Council to Queen Elizabeth in the North parts of England) whose Son Tho. Purefoy of Barwell in Leicestershire, giving them to Will. Burt●n of Lyndley in the same County, in the Year 1612, came many Years after by his gift (when he had made use of them in compiling his Description of Leicestershire) to the Bodlcian or pub. Library at Oxon, together with the Itinerary in five (with the other two) quartoes, where they yet (in the Archives of that Library) remain. As for some other of his Collections, they came after the death of Sir John Cheek into the hands of Will. Lord Pagit, and Sir Will. Cecyll, but to whom, from them, I find not. Perhaps among the said Collect. were those that came afterwards into Sir Rob. Cotton's hands, and the Itinerary into those of Will. Burton beforementioned. Howsoever it is, sure I am, that several eminent Antiquaries have made use of them, especially Joh. Bale in his second edition of British Writer, but not in the same words that Leland wrote. For as he delivered things impartially and in smooth language, so Bale quite contrary, and full 
* Vide Jo. Pits De illustr. Angl. script. p. 53.  of scurrilities. Camden also, though now and then he doth mention his Author Leland, yet he made 
† See in Ralph Brooks Discovery of errors in Camden's Britannia.  considerable use of his Collections in the composing of his Britannia. Sir Will. Dugdale hath perused them several times, and made great use of them in his Antiquities of Warwickshire, and in his volumes called, The Baronage of England, but withal quotes him honestly for every thing that he hath taken from them. To conclude, this great Antiquary J. Leland dying on the 18 day of April in Fifteen hundred fifty and two, year 1552 was buried in the Church of St. Michael's in le Querne, in London. Which Church having been situated near to the old cross in West-cheap, and not far from the East part of St. Paul's Cathedral, was totally burnt down in the grand conflagration, an. 1666. So that soon after its Parish being united to another, the foundation of the said Church was levelled, and pitched with Stones, as the rest of the street adjoining was; and at the East-end where stood the Altar, or thereabouts, was erected a Conduit of stone to serve the inhabitants of the neighbourhood with water.  
JOHN CLERKE, who is reported by a learned 
a Rich. Paice in lib. cui●tit est. De fructu qui ex doctrina percipitur, etc. Bas. 1517. p. 24.  Author to be descended from famous and noble lineage, was educated in Grammaticals, Logicals, and Philosophicals among the Oxonians for a time, but in what House, I cannot as yet tell. Afterwards he travelled into several Countries, fell into the company and acquaintance of Rich. Paice, (mentioned under the Year 1532.) studied together in Italy, and contracted between them such a faithful and constant friendship, that the like could not be read in any Author. All things were in a manner common between them, and what was by either read or observed, was forthwith communicated to each others great advantage. After his return to his native Country, he was highly esteemed for his accomplishments, especially for his exact knowledge in the Latin, French, and Italian, Tongues: Whereupon being taken into the service of Thomas the great and mighty Duke of Norfolk, was by him made his Secretary, (a place of credit and considerable profit) and introduced into the acquaintance of most of the Nobility that frequented the Court. He hath transmitted to posterity,  
Opusculum plano divinum de mortuorum resurrectione & extremo judicio, in quatuor linguis succinctè conscriptum (viz. Lat. Angl. Ital. Gall.)— Lond. 1545. and 47. in qu.  
Declaration of certain Articles, with a recital of the capital errors against the same. Lond. 1546. in oct.  
Meditations on death.  


declinatione verborum.  
De Italica  
De Gallica    
He hath also translated from French into English, A treatise of Nobility, with other things written and translated, which I have not yet seen. At length being clapped up Prisoner within the Tower of London (whether for matters of Religion, or any other thing I know not) did to avoid public shame, (as 'tis thought) hang himself in his Chamber with his girdle, on the tenth of May in Fifteen hundred fifty and two; year 1552 leaving this character behind him by a Calvinistical 
‖ Joh Fox in his Acts and Mon. of the Church, under the Year 1558.  Author, that he was an open Enemy to the Gospel and all godly Preachers. The Reader is to note that several of both his names occur in records, as first Joh. Clerk a Berkshire Man born, who became Fellow of Magd. Coll. 1482. (2) Joh. Clerk, of the same Coll. as it seems, who proceeded M. of A. 1516. (3) Joh. Clerk a Cambridge Man, afterwards Bishop of B. and Wells, whom I shall elsewhere mention. (4) Joh. Clerk, who was originally of Cambridge, afterwards of Cardinal College in Oxon, and incorporated M. of A. 1525, but ejected the said Coll. soon after for Lutherisme. (5) Joh. Clerk a Benedictine Monk, incorporated Bach. of Divinity 13. July 1538, as he before had stood at Cambridge, proceeded in that faculty at Oxon within few days after, and stood in an Act to complete that Degree 29. of the same Month in the said Year. But of all the said Joh. Clerks, not one, as I conceive is Joh. Clerke the writer, except you'll say the second.  
ALEXANDER de BARKLAY, who seems to have been born at, or near, a Town so called in Somersetshire, was for a time educated in this University; particularly, as it seems, in Oriel Coll. of which his great Patron and Favourer of his studies, Tho. Cornish Bishop of Tyne was then Provost. Afterwards he travelled beyond the Seas, and at his return became, by the said Bishops endeavours (to whom he was Chaplain) one of the Priests of the College of St. Mary at Otery in Devonshire, founded by Joh. Grandison B. of Exeter. But his Patron dying soon after, he entered into the Order of St. Benedict or into that of St. Francis (as one, 
‡ Jo. Bale ut supra, cent. 9 num. 66.  who gives him an ill report because he lived and died a single Man, tells us) but at what place I know not. Sure 'tis that living to see his Monastery dissolved, he being about that time Doctor of Divinity, became Vicar of Much Badew in Essex, and in 1546 Vicar of the Church of St. Matthew the Apostle at Wokey in Somersetshire on the death of Mr. Rich. Eryngton, which I think was all the preferment that he had to the time of his death. In his younger days he was esteemed a good Poet and Orator, as several specimen of his composition in those faculties showed, but when Years came on, he spent his time mostly in pious matters and in reading the Histories of Saints. His works are,  
The figure of our Mother Holy Church, oppressed by the French King— Printed at London by Rich. Pynson in qu.  
The miseries, or miserable lives of Courtiers— Besides his answer to Job. Skelton the Poet and other things, which I have not yet seen. He translated from Lat. into English, The lives of St. Margaret, St. Catherine, St. Etheldreda, St. George, etc. Several things also of Jo. Bapt. Fiera Mantuam, and other matters as Baleus 
b In cent. 9 num. 66. ut supra.  tells you. But above all must not be forgotten his translation out of Latin, French, and Dutch into the English Language, a Book intit. The Ship of Fools, an. 1508. Printed at Lond. by Pitch. Pynson, 1509. fol. and dedicated by the translator to the said Tho. Cornish B. of Tyne and suffragan Bishop of Wells. This translation is adorned with great variety of Pictures printed from wooden cuts, which could not be but very delightful to the Reader in those days. The original Author of that Book was one Sebastian Brantius, much famed in his time for his excellent works. As for his translator Dr. Barklay who also translated from French into English The Castle of Labour, lived to be an aged Man, and dying at a Mercat Town called Croyden in Surrey before the 10. of June (for on that day his 
c In Offic. praerog. Cant. in reg powel Queen 17.  will was proved) in Fifteen hundred fifty and two, was buried in the Church there, year 1552 leaving then behind him among some the character of a good Scholar.  
EDWARD SEYMOURE, Son of Sir Joh. Seymoure of Wolfhall in Wilts. Knight, was educated in trivials, and partly in quadrivials for some time in this University, and whether he afterwards studied in Cambridge (of which he was Chancellor in the Reign of Edw. 6.) I cannot say. If so, 'tis very strange that one that had conversed with the Muses of both Universities, should be so unlearned (as one 
* Rob. Parsons in his Treatise of three conversions, Vol. 1. part. 1. ch. 12. §. 31.  who was an enemy to his memory reports) that he could scarce write or read. Afterwards K. Hen. 8. marrying his Sister Jane, he ascended to, and obtained great, honours and places in the Realm of England, as all Histories will tell you. While he was Lord Protector, there went under his name,  
Epistola Exhortatoria ad pacem, missa ad nobilitatem ac plebem, universumque populum regni Scotiae. Lond. 1548. qu. In which Year also came out his Expedition into Scotland, written by another hand. After he was committed Prisoner to the Tower of London for divers miscarriages in his Government, he made very great show of sanctity, and seemed not to omit any opportunity, whereby he might employ his time religiously, as it well appears by a Book that he then wrote entitled,  
A spiritual and most precious Pearl, teaching all Men to love and embrace the cross as a most sweet and necessary thing, etc. Lond, 1550 oct. At that time, before, and after, he was much courted by John Calvin and Peter Martyr, as being the chief Person that carried on the reformation. The former wrote to him the said Protector, An Epistle of godly consolation, 22. Oct. 1549. Writ before the time and knowledge of his trouble. Which Epistle being delivered to him in the time of his trouble, was translated by him from French into English.— Printed at Lond. 1550. oct. The other (P. Martyr) wrote an Epistle to him about the same time in the Lat. tongue; which being much pleasing to him, was by his desire translated into English by that noted Zealot Thom. Norton.— Printed 1550. in oct. From which Epistles it doth plainly appear what great respects they (Calvin and Martyr) and their Parties had for him, and what solemn wishes and prayers they continually sent forth for his welfare and blessed proceedings in the Reformation then in hand. This great Person, who was also Duke of Somerset, died on Tower-hill near London, by the stroke of the axe, 22. January, in Fifteen hundred fifty and two, 
1552-53.  which was the sixth Year of K. Ed. 6. but where he was buried, I cannot yet tell.  
NICHOLAS UDALL whom Leland 
d In Encomiis, trophaeis, etc. ut supra, p. 12. 33. 62.  styles Odovallus, was born in Hampshire, and descended from those of his name, living sometimes at Wykeham in the said County, was admitted Scholar of Corp. Ch. Coll. in June 1520. aged 15 or more, Probationer Fellow in Sept. 1524. being then Bach. of Arts, and two Years after supplicated for the Degree of Master, but took it not at that time, being, as 'tis probable, denied, because he was much addicted to the opinions of Luther. Afterwards he obtained the Mastership of Eton School near Windsor, and proceeded in Arts 1534, but in 1540-41 had like to have lost that place as being suspected to be conscious to a robbery committed by two Scholars of his School, who having stole images, plate, and other matters belonging to the College of Eton, were with Udall examined 
e As in the Papers of state, in the Paper office at Whitehall.  by His Majesty's Council, in the beginning of March that Year. What became of the matter I know not; sure 'tis, that our Author Udall was made Canon of Windsor, in the beginning of Edw. 6. and is styled by a certain 
f Jo. Baleus ut sup. cent. 9 nu. 45.  Author to be Elegantissimus omnium bonarum literarum magister & earum felicissimus interpres. He hath written,  
Flowers for Latin speaking, selected and gathered out of Terence, and the same translated into English, together with the exposition, etc. newly corrected— When this was first Printed I cannot tell. That Edit. which I have seen, was Printed at Lond. 1568. in oct. Which Book being esteemed good in its time, and very useful for young Scholars Joh. 
g In Encom. p. 62.  Leland and Tho. 
h In Encom. illustrium aliquot virorum, edit. 1589. p. 128  Newton wrote Verses in commendation of it, not only set before the Book, but Printed in their respective Encomia's, &c.  
Commentary on the Apothegms of Erasmus.  
Epistolae & Carmina ad 

Gul. Hormannum.  
Joh. Lelandum.    
Comedies, Epistles, and divers Verses.— He also translated into English at the request of Qu. Cather. Parr (1) Paraphrase on the Gospels and the Acts of the Apostles. Lond. 1551. fol. written by Erasmus. (2) Pet. Martyrs Treatise, wherein he openly in the Uniu. of Oxon. declared his whole and determinate judgement concerning the Sacrament of the Lord's Supper. Lond. in qu. and (3ly.) The Tragedy of Popery, 
Clar. 1552.  and other things, as Bale will tell you. When this our Author Udall died, I know not, nor any thing else of him, only that his Memory is celebrated by polite Verses, written by Joh. 
I In Encom. ut sup. p. 12. 33. 62.  Leland, Joh. 
k In Epigram. p. 61. etc.  Parkhurst, and Tho. 
l In Encom. ut sup. p. 128.  Newton of Chestire, to which I refer to the Reader. I have seen 
m In Office Praerog. Cant. in lib. quodam Administrationum ibid. incipient primo. Januar. 1571.  the Copy of a commission granted in the beginning of the Year 1572, to one Catherine Yerbury, otherwise Udall, Daugh. of Nich. Udall of Fen in Somersetshire, giving her power to administer the goods, debts, and chattels, of him the said Nich. Udall lately deceased: Whether this Nic. Udall be the same with him that was the Writer, the Reader is to judge.  
RALPH RADCLIFF was born of, and descended from, an ancient Family of his name in Cheshire, received part of his Academical Education in this University, particularly, as I conceive, in Brasenose Coll. about the time of its first foundation, but whether he took a Degree it appears not. The genie of this Person being strangely addicted to the instruction of Youth, he obtained part of the Carmes House at Huchin or Hitchin in Hertfordshire, an. 1538. being about that time dissolved, wherein he not only opened a School, but framed out a lower room into a Stage for his Scholars to act Latin and English Comedies, to the end that they might be emboldened for speaking and pronunciation. Which practice being used by them several Years, his School was in great renown, he grew rich and was had in much veneration in the neighbourhood. He had many Tragedies, Comedies, Epistles, Orations, etc. laying by him in the time of K. Ed. 6. which, as he would often tell his Friends, he would never publish till they had remained by him 9 Years: And whether they were ever published, I cannot yet learn. The titles of some of his labours were these. 

Dives and Lazarus, a Comedy.  
Patient Greseld, Com.  
Friendship of Titus and Gisippus, Com.  
Chaucer's Melibie, Com.  
Job's afflictions, Trag.  
Delivery of Susanna from the Elders.  
The burning of Sodom.  
Pugna nominis & verbi.  
De pueroum institutione.  
Epistolae ad Tyrones.  
Epigrammata, etc.  — With other things which may be seen in 
n In lib de Script. Maj. Brit. cen. 8. nu 98.  Baleus, 
Clar. 1553  who further tells us, that he was in great renown at Huchin in Fifteen hundred fifty and three, He lived several Years after, died and was buried there, but when, I cannot yet learn. One or more of his descendants, (for he was married and had issue) were Knights, particularly Sir Edw. Radcliff of Hitchin, living in the time of K. James 1.  
JOHN RHESE or ap Rise, or Prize, or Priseus, so many ways I find him written by Authors, was born of a gentile and ancient Family in Wales, but in what County, is yet uncertain, or in what House in Oxon educated, unless in the ancient hostile called Broadgates (now Pembroke Coll.) wherein several of both his names and time have studied. Among them was John Prise Bac. of the Civil Law, who in the Year 1530. supplicated for the Degree of Bac. of Can. Law, and two Years after John ap Rice a secular Chaplain, was admitted to the same Degree, which probably may be the same with Joh. Price Bach. of the Civil Law. Farther also I find, that in 1523. one John Prise of Allsouls Coll. was admitted Bach. of the Civil Law, and that he died 1554 And in 1534. occurs another Joh. Price (of Broadgates' Hall I think) who was admitted Bach. of the Civil Law without any title added to it, which perhaps may be the Author, that I am further to mention; who being encouraged in his studies by William Earl of Pembroke, made great advances therein, especially as to the Histories and Antiquities of his own Country. In 1546. March 2. he, with many others, received the honour of Knighthood from the hands of Edward Lord Protector of England. About which time our Author observing the great and manifold errors, which were made by Pol. Virgil in his Historiae Anglicae Libri 27, wherein many things redounded to the dishonour of the British Nation, he thereupon published, 
 Fides Historiae Britannicae. 
 Defensio Regis Arthuri. And wrote about the Year 1553. (1. Mar.) a Book intit. 
 Historiae Britannicae defensio. But the Author dying before he could have it published, was at length, in the Year 1573. put out in qu. under the name of Joh. Priseus, by his Son Rich. Prise D. D. He the said Sir John did also write,  
A description of Cambria, now called Wales.— Augmented and made perfect by Humph. Lloyd, and set before the History of Cambria: which was translated into English by the said Lloyd, and augmented, corrected, and published by Dau. powel, an. 1584. The said Description of Cambria was Printed again at Oxon. 1663. in two sheets and an half in qu. under the title of A description of Wales, but it doth so much differ in words from the former, that many Readers are apt to take it for another thing.  
Tractatus de Eucharistia. 
Clar. 1553.  This I have not yet seen, only a bare mention of it by Baleus 
o Ibid. cent. 9 num. 47.  Nor do I know any thing else of the Author, only that he died in Qu. Mary's days. But where, or the particular Day, Month, or Year, when, I know not.  
WILLIAM THOMAS, a Welsh Man born, or at least of Welsh extract, was educated in all kind of learning fit for a Gentleman, but what Degree he took I know not. One of both his names was admitted Bach. of the Canon Law, in the beginning of Dec. 1529. but whether the same, I dare not yet affirm. In 1544, he was constrained by some misfortune to abandon the place of his nativity, and in Feb. 1546. when the news of the death of King Hen. 8. came into Italy, he was at Bologna la Grassa, where being in the company of several Gentlemen, he entered into discourse in defence of the said King, whose honour there had been wrongfully touched. Which discourse he afterwards drew up by way of Dialogue, directing it to Pietro Aretino the well known Tuscan Poet, as famous for his Satirical wit, as infamous for his life and death. Afterwards, if not before, he lived at Padöua, where he gathered many materials for his Italian Dictionary and Grammar, and in 1549, I meet with him returned to London, where he wrote his short, but methodical History of Italy. About that time his name being highly famed for his travels through France and Italy, his knowledge in several of the modern tongues, and in other sorts of learning, he was made Clerk of the Council to K. Ed. 6. but upon his death, falling into the displeasure of Qu. Marry, and so consequently deprived of his place, and all hopes of other employment in the Court, he thereupon designed her murder, (one saith 
p Ibid. in Barnes p. 110. inter cent. 12. & 13.  that the design was against Steph. Gardiner Bishop of Winchester) for which he was sent Prisoner to the Tower of London, on the 20. Feb. 1553. in the company of Will. Winter, and Sir Nich. Throckmorton committed to that place also. On the 26. of the same Month, being much conscious to himself that he should suffer a shameful death, he endeavoured to make away with himself, by thrusting a knife into his body under his paps, but the wound did not prove mortal. On the 9 of May 1554. he was arraigned and condemned at the Guild hall in Lond. and on the 18. of the same Month, he was drawn from the Tower to Tyburn; where after he had made a Speech in defence of himself, he told the company that he died for his Country. He was a Man of a hot fiery spirit, had sucked in damnable principles, by his frequent conversation with Christoph. Goodman, that violent enemy to the rule of Women, and one of more misguided zeal, than true Religion and Wisdom. This Will. Thomas hath written,  
The History of Italy; a Book exceeding profitable to be read, because it intreateth of the estate of many and divers Commonwealths, how they have been, and now be governed, Lond. 1561. qu. Dedic. to John Earl of Warwick, by an Epistle dated 20. Sept. 1549.  
Principle rules of the Italian Grammar, with a Dictionary for the better understanding of Boccace, Petrarcha, and Dante. Lond. 1550. 1567. qu.  
Le peregrynne— written at Bologn la Grassa. 'Tis a MS. in Bod. Lib. qu. D. 23. Th. fol. 71. The beginning of it is, Constrained by misfortune to habandon the place of my nativity, etc. In the title page are these Verses. 
He that dyeth with honour, liveth for ever.  
And the defamed dead, recovereth never.   
This Book called Le perigrynne is about to be translated into Lat. with a design to be remitted in the third Tome of Fasciculus, collected by Edw. Brown of Christ's College in Cambridge.  
Common place of state— Written for the use of King Ed. 6. wherein 'tis discoursed whether it be expedient to vary with the time; with some others writings, which I once saw in the Cottonian Library under Vespasians head D. 18 The title of this Book with other matters relating to Will. Thomas, I did formerly communicate to H. Foulis when he was gathering materials for an History of the Romish treasons, not dreaming then that I should afterwards make use of them as I have done now. I am verily persuaded, that there are in being other Books of this W. Thomas, either public, or in MS. in private hands, which time, may hereafter produce. So that now I shall only say, that he suffered death at Tybourne beforementioned by hanging, drawing, and quartering, 18. May in Fifteen hundred fifty and four, year 1554 leaving then behind him the character by some, of a Person of good parts. What became of his quarters I know not.  
THOMAS SWINERTON was descended from an ancient Family of his name living in Staffordshire, but whether born in that County, I cannot tell, and educated partly in Cambridge, but mostly in Oxon in all good arts, and in the tongues. Afterwards taking holy Orders, he began to see the light of the Gospel, while Sir Tho. More was Lord Chancellor of England, in whose time many Heretics, as they were then called, were imprisoned and brought into trouble. Whereupon being resolved, to gain what Proselytes he could to his Religion, he changed his name to Joh. Roberts, and under that name, he not only taught God's word in several places, chiefly at Ipswych in Suffolk, and Sandwich in Kent, but also published and translated several things, as,  
A muster of Schismatic Bishops, otherwise naming themselves Popes.— Printed in oct.  
The Plots of Papists— entitled by a certain 
* 〈…〉 cent. 11. 〈…〉 Britan. num 99  Author De Papiculorum susurris. And translated into English The History of the life of Hildebrand called Gregory the 7. written in Latin by Beno a Cardinal, and also The life of Hen 4. Emperor of Rome and Almain. Which Henry was imprisoned and deposed by the said Pope. Both these translations were Printed in oct. and much valued in the time when they were made extant. When Qu. Mary came to the Crown, and Religion thereupon altered, our Author Thom. Swinerton fled beyond the Seas, but being overtaken with a certain distemper at Emden in East Friesland in Fifteen hundred fifty and four, year 1554 died, and was there buried the same Year, to the great reluctancy of all those exiles that were there and in those parts.  
JOHN HOPER or Hooper, noted to posterity for his manful and painful suffering of death for the Protestant Cause, received his first breath in Somersetshire, and his Academical Education in Oxon, but in what House there, unless in that of Merton, I cannot yet tell. He had an Uncle or near Kinsman of both his names, who was born in the Dioc. of Wells, made Master-Fellow of that House in the Year 1513, and this Joh. Hoper, whom we are further to mention, being sent to the University the Year following, might probably be put under his tuition in the said Coll. or at least in St. Alban Hall, of which he was then (notwithstanding Fellow of Mert●n Coll.) Principal. But these matters remaining yet uncertain, I shall proceed to what is extant on record. In the latter end therefore of 1518. he was admitted Bach. of Arts, which was the highest Degree he took in this University, and about the same time completed it by Determination. What became of him afterwards I cannot justly say. Howbeit there is not wanting an Author 
q John 〈…〉 Lond. 〈…〉 p. 5●3.  who reports that he was of the number of Cistercians commonly called White Monks, and had so continued for some Years. Which report, I presume is true, because in all my searches, I cannot find him a Curate, Vicar, or Parson. But so it was that he being weary of that Order, he left it, and repairing to Oxon, was, as the R. Catholics say, infected with Lutherisme by Books brought from Germany; and in short time became a thoroughpaced Protestant, if not worse as they further add. In the Year 1539 or thereabouts, at which time the Statute of six articles came forth, he left what he had, and got himself into the service of Sir John Arundel a very Catholic Knight, (afterwards put to death with the Protector, by the Duke of Northumberland in K. Edward's days) and was his Chaplain and Steward of his House. But being discovered by him to be a Protestant, he was forced to leave that harbour, and to go into France: where staying for some time in dislike of many matters there, he returned into England, and lived with a Gentleman called Seintlow. But at length his living with him being known, he was sought after to be apprehended. Whereupon he put on a Mariner's habit, made himself Master of a Boat and went into Ireland, and from thence took a larger journey into Zuitzerland, where he became acquainted with Bullinger, Scholar and Successor of Zuinglius' Chair, first at Basill, and afterward at Zurich, where also 
r Jo. Fox in Act. & Mon. Eccles. sub. an. 1555.  by his Council and Doctrine, be married a Wife, which was a Burgundian, and applied very studiously the Hebrew tongue. When K. Ed. 6. came to the Crown, he returned soon after into England, and settling for a time in London, Preached to the People there very frequently, and sometimes against pluralities. In 1549. he became an accuser of Bishop Bonner, when he was to be deprived of his Bishopric, which made him far the worse when Qu. Mary came to the Crown. In 1550. he, by the help of his former Master Sir Joh. Arundel, who could do all at that time with the Earl of Warwick, (afterwards Duke of Northumberland) was nominated and elected Bishop of Gloucester, but when he should come to be consecrated or invested by Dr. Cranmer Archb. of Canterbury, and Rydley B. of London, (who maligned him for his worse than Calvinistical Principles) they would not do it, except he would conform himself in all points to them, both in apparel and opinions, but he obstinately refusing a Rochet, was thereupon 
* Brief discourse of the troubles at Frankford, etc. Printed 1575. p. 42.  confined to custody. At length by the Earl of Warwick's intercession to Cranmer, and the King's Letters to dispense with those matters and ceremonies (which J. Fox usually calls trifles and superstitions) he was consecrated Bishop of the said See, 8. March 1550. At which time (as 'tis said) Hoper, after much hanging off, did take 
s Vide. Tert. part. trac●atus de tribus conversionib. Angl. cap. 6.  the Oath of Supremacy, and afterwards when he Preacher at Court, he did once for formality sake appear in a Shymar, with a white linen rochet under it, but much ashamed at the strangeness thereof, as Fox saith. Being settled in the See of Gloucester, which was looked upon as a poor pittance for so great a Clerk, who had suffered so much for the Cause, the Earl of Warwick got for him another Bishopric much better than the former, called Worcester; of which place being 
t Pat. 6. Ed. 6. p. 1.  declared Bishop, 20. May 6. Ed. 6. Dom. 1552. (the Bishop thereof N. Heath being then a Prisoner in the Fleet) had liberty then given to him to keep it in Commendam with Gloucester. While he was Bishop he Preached often, visited his Dioceses, kept good hospitality for the poorer sort of People, and was beloved by many. But when Qu. Mary began to Reign, which was in July 1553, he was pursevanted up to London, in the latter end of August, and on the first of Sept. following, was committed Prisoner to the Fleet; where remaining some Months, was at length examined several times, and required to recant his opinions. But standing constant and resolute to them, was condemned first to be burnt, in Januar. 1554, and then in Feb following was degraded. The next day he was conducted towards Gloucester, where being arrived, he suffered death soon after with great courage. He was a Person of good parts, well versed in the Greek and Hebrew tongues, a tolerable Philosopher, but a better Theologist, had not his Principles been too rigid and dissenting from the English Church, as appointed by King Edw. 6. His Writings are mostly these.  
Answer to the Lord Winchester's Book, entit. A detection of the Devil's Sophestry, wherewith he robbeth the unlearned of the true belief in the Sacrament of the altar, Zurich 1547. qu.  
A declaration of Christ and his office. Zur. 1547. oct. Dedicated to Edw. Duke of Somerset. 8. Dec. 1547. Afterwards corrected by Christoph. Rosdell, and reprinted in twelves.  
Lesson of the Incarnation of Christ. Lond. 1549. oct.  
Sermons on Ionas. Lond. 1550. oct.  
A godly confession and protestation of the Christian Faith, wherein is declared what a Christian Man is bound to believe of God, his King, his Neighbour, and himself. Lond. 1550. oct.  
Homely to be read in the time of the pestilence, and a most present remedy for the same.— Print. 1553. qu.  
Various Letters written in Prison— See in Joh. Fox's Book of The Acts and Monuments of the Church under the Year 1555.  
Epistola ad Episcopos, Decanos, Archidiaconos, & caet. Cleri ordines in Synodo Londinensi congregatos, an. 1554. The beginning is Non vos latet, etc. Printed by Ja. Fox at the end of the Book of Acts and Mon.  
Exhortation to patience, sent to his Wife Anne— See there in Fox under the Year. (1555.)  
Certain sentences written in Prison. Lond. 1559. oct.  
Speech at his death.  
An apology against the untrue and slanderous report made of him, that he should be a maintainer and encourager of such that cursed the Queen's Highness, that then was, Queen Mary, etc. Lond. 1562. oct. To which are added two or three of his Letters written in Prison.  
Comfortable expositions on the 23, 62, 73, and 77 Psalms. Lond. 1580. qu.  
Annotations on the 13 Ch. to the Romans. Lond. 1583.  
Twelve Lectures upon the Creed. Lond. 1581. oct.  
Confession of the Christian Faith, containing 100 Articles, according to the order of the Creed of the Apostles. Lond. 1581. oct. 1584. qu. Annexed to John Baker's Lectures on the Creed. These 100 Articles were before Printed, viz. an. 1550. in oct.  
Declaration of the 10 holy Commandments of Almighty God. Lond. 1550. and 88 oct. With other things which I have not yet seen, the trite or slender titles of which, you may see in 
* In lib de Script. Maj. Britan. cent. 8. num. 85.  Baleus. He also translated from Lat. into English, Turtullians' second Book to his Wife, concerning the choice of a Husband or Wife. Lond. 1550. oct. and perhaps other things. At length he suffered death in the flames near to the College of Priests in the City of Gloucester, on Saturday the ninth of Febr. in Fifteen hundred fifty and four, 
1554-55.  (1. and 2. of Philip and Mary) being then near sixty Years of Age, and much lamented by those that pretended to Reformation.  
EDWARD WOTTON, Son of Rich. Wotton. superior Beadle of Divinity of this University of Oxon, by Margaret his Wife, was born within the City of Oxon. particularly, as I conceive, in the Parish of St. Marry the Virgin, wherein his Father lived and had Houses in Catstreet. After he had been educated in the Grammar School joining to Magd. Coll. he was first made Semicommoner or Demie of that House, and after he had taken the Degree of Bach. of Arts (which was 1513.) he was, as I conceive, made Fellow. At length upon the desire of John Claymond, and Rob. Morwent, who knew the singular virtues and learning of the Person, he left that Coll. and by the favour of that most worthy Person Bishop Fox, Founder of that of Corp. Christi, was made socius compar thereof, with leave to travel into Italy for three Years, an. 1520. So that after he had read the Greek Lecture there for some time, he journied into Italy, studied Physic, and took the Degree of Doctor in that faculty at Padöua. After his return he was settled Greek Reader of his Coll. was incorporated in the same Degree in the latter end of 1525, was made Physician to K. Hen. 8. and not only became famous for his happy practice in that faculty in these parts, and afterwards in London (for he was one of the College of Physicians there) but also for his great knowledge in Philosophy and things natural. He hath transmitted to posterity,  
De differentiis Animalium, lib. 10. Par. 1552. fol. By the publishing of which he obtained a famous name among learned Men, especially with Mich. Neander, who 
† In Succinct. explicat. orbis terrae,— Lips. 1597. p. 410.  saith that no Author hath written of Animals more learned and elegant than Wottonus. See more in Thom Mouffet under the Year 1590. What other things the said Wotton hath published, I know not, nor anything else of him, or his, only (1) That he dying 5. Octob. year 1555 in Fifteen hundred fifty and five, in the climacterical Year of his Age, (63) was buried in St. Alban Church in Woodstreet, in the City of London (2) That Catherine his Widow dying 4 Dec. 1558. was buried by him, and both had a stone, with an inscription thereon, laid over their Graves. But that part of it which remained an 100 Years after, was totally consumed in the grand conflagration of London, an. 1666. (3) That he is much celebrated by the Antiquarian Poet John Leland 
a In Encomiis, Trophaeis, etc. edit. Lond. 1589. p. 65.  under the name of Eadverdus Ododunus. (4) That among the Children he left behind him, (for he had a numerous issue) Brian Wotton LL. Bach. and Fellow of New Coll. was one, who bequeathed his Body to be buried in the yard belonging to St. Alban Church beforementioned. Another was called Hen. Wotton, first a Student of Ch. Ch. and afterwards Proctor of the University, Greek Reader and Fellow of Corp. Chr. Coll. who proceeding in the faculty of Physic an. 1567. became afterwards famous for the practice thereof.  
NICHOLAS RYDLEY was born of an ancient and gentile Family at Willymondswyke in Northumberland, educated in Grammatical Learning at Newcastle upon Tyne, in Academical at Cambridge, till he was Bach. of Arts. Afterwards going to Oxon, he was 
b Reg. actorum Coll. Vnivers. p. 5.  elected into one of Walt. Skyrlaw's Fellowship of University Coll. 13. Apr. 1521. Which place he keeping but a little while (and therefore the Members of that House can hardly lay claim to him) he returned to Cambridge, where he became D. of D. and Master of Pembroke Hall. Afterwards he was made Chaplain to K. Ed. 6. and at length through Rochester (the temporalities of which See were 
c Pat. 1. Ed. 6. p. 1.  restored to him 27. Sept. 1547.) became Bishop of London 1549. He was a Person small in stature, but great in learning, and profoundly read in Divinity— quo viro (as 
d Tho. Caius in Assert. Antiq. Acad. Oxon. Lond. 1574. in qu. p. 27.  one who knew him saith) nihil integrius, & omnibus egregiis dotibus ornatius Anglia nostra multis hisce retro saeculis habuit, etc. Among several things that he wrote, were these.  
Treatise concerning images, not to be set up, nor worshipped, in Churches.— Written in the time of K. Ed. 6.  
Brief declaration of the Lords Supper— Printed 1555. and 1586. oct. Written by him while he was a Prisoner in Oxon. It was translated into Lat. by Will. Whittyngham, bearing this title: Assertio de coena Dominica. Genev. 1556. Answered by another Book entit. Confutatio Catholica Nich. Rydley de Eucharistia. Par. 1556. qu. Written by Alban Langdale D. D. of St. John's College in Cambridge.  
Certain godly and comfortable conferences between him and Mr. Hugh Latymer, during the time of their imprisonment. Lond. 1555. 56. and 74 in oct.  
A friendly farewell, written during his imprisonment at Oxford, unto all his true Lovers, a little before his death. Lond. 1559. oct.  
A piteous lamentation of the miserable state of the Church of England, in the time of the late revolt from the Gospel. Lond. in oct.  
A comparison between the comfortable Doctrine of the Gospel and the traditions of Popish Religion.— Print. with the former.  
An account of a disputation at Oxford, an. 1554 Oxon. 1688. qu. Written in Latin, and published from the Original MS: by Gilb. Ironside D. D. Warden of Wadham Col. and then Vicehanc. of the Uniu. of Oxon.  
Treatise of the blessed Sacrament— The beginning of which is Many things confound the real memory, etc. published with the former, by the aforesaid Person, from an original MS. to which he added, A Letter written by Mr. Jo. Bradford the Martyr, never before Printed.  
Letter of reconciliation written to Bishop Hooper. Lond. 1689. qu. published by Sam. Johnson, Author of the Short account of the life of Julian the Apostate. Lond. 1682. oct. He the said Dr. Rydley had a hand also in the compiling of the Common Prayer-Book, now in use among us, has also disputations, arguings, communications, and conferences about matters of Religion, in the Book of Acts and Monuments of the Church, written by John Fox. In which Book under the Years 1554. and 55. you may see a full account of his sufferings, and afterwards of his burning near to Balliol College in Oxon. year 1555 on the 16. of Oct in Fifteen hundred fifty and five, which was the second and third Years of K. Philip and Qu. Mary.  
JOHN PHILPOT, Son of Sir Pet. Philpot Knight of the Bath, and twice Sheriff of Hampshire, was born at Compton in that County, educated in Grammaticals in Wykehams' School near Winchester, admitted true and perpetual Fellow of New Coll. in the Year 1534, had a Civilians place there, and took (as 'tis said) the Degree of Bach. of the Laws, but whether in this University, it appears not in the registers thereof. However, he was then esteemed a good Civilian, and admirably well skilled in the Greek and Hebrew tongues. In 1541, his Fellowship became void because of absence, being then (I presume) in his travels in Italy. After his return, retiring to Winchester, he read Lectures in the Cathedral there on the Epistle of St. Paul to the Romans: Which, though they were done gratis, were not acceptable to the Catholic Clergy or Citizens of that place. In the time of Edw. 6. he became Archdeacon of Winchester in the place of one Will. Bolen, who succeeded Rich. Pates upon his resignation an. 1529. In 1553, he let drop certain passages in a convocation of the Clergy savouring of Heresy, as 'twas then (temp. Mariae) accounted. Whereupon being imprisoned, he was after an Year and a half confinement, examined in points of faith by the Bishop of London, and his assistants; who finding him obstinate in his opinions, and past all recantation, was by them condemned to be burned. He hath written,  
Epistolae Hebraicae. lib. 1.  
De proprietate Linguarum. lib. 1.  
An apology for spitting upon an Arrian, with an invective against the Arrians, and an admonition to all that be faithful in Christ to beware of them, and of other late sprung Heresies.— Printed at London in 3 Sheets in oct. at the end of The examinations of John Philpot, etc. which examinations were afterwards remitted by John Fox into the Book of Acts and Mon. of the Church, etc. but not the Apology.  

Supplication to K. Philip and Qu. Mary.  
Letters to the Lady Vane.  
Letters to the Christian congregation.  
Exhortation to his Sister. 

See the said Book of John Fox, under the Year 1555.     
Oration— The beginning of which is, 'Tis a lamentable thing to behold at this present in England the faithless departing, etc. This is in MS. in Bodly's Library qu. D. 23. Th. bound with John Bradford's (the Martyr) Treatise of predestination, with an answer to certain enormities calumniously gathered of one to slander God's truth. MS. The said Joh. Philpot hath also translated into English. (1) Calvinus Homilies. (2) chrysostom against Heresies; with other things which I have not yet seen. He suffered death in Smithfield by burning, year 1555 on the 18. Decemb. in Fifteen hundred fifty and five. See his story in Joh. Fox before mentioned, under the Year 1555. and Rob. Parsons his answer to it in The third part of a treatise intit. of three conversions of England,, etc. Printed 1604. chap. 16. p. 286. 287, etc. and elsewhere. In the Archdeaconry of Winchester, succeeded Mr. Philpot one Steph. Cheston LL. Bach. Prebendary of the same place, who dying 1571. Dr. Joh. Ebden Preb. of the said Church of Winton also succeeded.  
ROBERT ALDRICH, or Aldrisius as some call him, was born at Burnham in Bucks. educated in Grammar learning in Eton School, elected Scholar of Kings Coll. in Cambridge in the Year 1507, where he took the Degrees in Arts, and about that time was styled by Erasmus in a certain Epistle, blandae eloquentiae juvenis. Afterwards he became Proctor of the said University, Schoolmaster of Eton, Fellow of the College there, and at length Provost. In 1529, he retired to Oxon, where he was incorporated Bach. of Diu. as he had stood at Cambridge, and soon after performing his exercise for the Degree of Doctor in that faculty, he was licenced to proceed in April 1530. Which Degree being completed by standing in the Act, which was shortly after celebrated, is the reason why I put him in these Athenae Oxon. About the same time he was made Archdeacon of Colchester, and in 1534. May 7. he was installed Canon of Windsor, and in the same Year constituted Registrary of the most noble order of the Garter. In 1537, Jul. 18. he was 
† Fr. Gedwin in Com. de praesul. Augl. in't. ●pisc. Cu●leol.  consecrated Bishop of Carlisle, in the place of Joh. Kyte deceased, from which time to that of his death, though there were many changes in the Church and State, yet he ran through all, and so consequently complied with them. His works are many, but all that I have seen, are only these.  
Epistola ad Gul. Hormannum.— The beginning of which is Suscipies Hormanne tue, etc. 'Tis written in Lat. Verse, and is remitted into the Book called Antibossicon, mentioned in Will, Horman among these Writers, under the Year 1535.  
Epigrammata varia, And certain matters against Rob. Whittington. He gave way to fate at Horncastle in Lincolnshire (where was then an house belonging to the Bishop of Carlisle) on the fifth day of March, 
1555-56.  in Fifteen hundred fifty and five, and was, as I suppose, buried there. John Leland the Antiquarian Poet was his familiar acquaintance, and therefore having had experience of his most admirable parts and learning, did, not without just desert, commend them to posterity in his Encomia (*) Trophaea, etc. illustrium aliquot & eruditorum in Anglia virorum, etc. to which I refer the Reader.  
JOHN PROCTOR, a Somersetshire Man born, was elected Scholar of Corpus Christi Coll. in Jan. 1536, and when Bach. of Arts, Fellow of Allsouls, with Joh. Watson, was was afterwards Bishop of Winchester. This Person who was Master of Arts in 1544, I take to be the same John Proctor that was soon after School Master of Tunbridge in Kent, who wrote and published.  
The Fall of the late Arrian, Lond. 1549. oct.  
History of Wyat's Rebellion, and Conference with the degenerate and seditious, for the search and cause of their great disorder. Lond. 
Clar. 1555.  1554. 55. tw. In the beginning of the first Vol. of Rap. Holinsheds' Chronicle, are the names of such Authors from whence he chiefly compiled that Chron. and among them is William Proctor's Book called the History of Wyat's Rebellion. Which should have been Joh. Proctor.  
JOHN STANDISH was born of, and descended from, an ancient and gentile family of his name living in Lancashire, and at about 17 Years of Age, in 1524, he was by the care of his Uncle Dr. Henry Standish Bishop of St. Asaph sent to Brasenose College, where making great proficiency in Logic, was elected Scholar of that of Corp. Chr. in Januar. 1528. partly by the endeavours made in his behalf of one Mr. Edw. Standish Fellow of Brasenose (who was either his Brother or Uncle) and partly by the said Doctor. After he was settled in that Coll. he went through the usual classes of Logic and Philosophy with unwearied industry, became a most noted Disputant, took the Degrees in Arts, holy Orders, and drudging much in the faculty of Divinity, proceeded Doctor therein, an. 1542. at which time he was one of the Fellows of Whyttingdon Coll. in London; and having a Chamber in Brasenose, took Commons there when he receded to the University for conversation sake with Men and Books. In the time of K. Edw. 6. he seemed to be a zealous Reformer, was then, if not before, made Rector of Wygan in his own Country, and took to him a Wife, who lived not long with him, for when Qu. Mary came to the Crown they were separated. In 1550. Aug. 2. he was installed the second Canon of the eighth Canonry of the Church of Worcester in the place of Rog. Stanford deceased. When Qu. Mary ruled the Sceptre, he wheeled about, and seeing what great mischief was like to follow upon the translation of the Bible into the English tongue in the time of K. Ed. 6. and before, bestirred himself so much about it, that he found means to have the matter proposed in Parliament, in the beginning of Queen Mary, that all such Bibles that were in the English tongue should be prohibited and burned. This being very displeasing to many, he was hated of them, and therefore one 
e J. Baleus in lib De Scriptorib. maj. Britan p. 111. in't. cent. 12. & 13.  after his usual manner calls him Morio and Scurra, and another 
f Mich. Wood in his Epistle to the Reader before Stephen Gardiner's Oration De vera obedientia, Printed at Rouen 1553. oct.  as foul'mouthed as he, Dr. Inkpot and a blenking Coxcomb, who married against his conscience, (as he saith) more fit to make a riding fool, than Chaplain for a King.— This being the language of two zealous reformers, incited one 
g Jo. Pits. De illustr. Angl. script. aet. 16. num. 1001.  of another opinion, who was after them in time, to characterize our Author Standish to be Vir doctrina, pietate, fide, & divinae gloriae zelo conspicu●s. His works are,  
A little treatise against the protestation of Rob. Barnes at the time of his death. Lond. 1540 oct. Which R. Barnes was burned in Smithfield 3. Jul. 32. Hen. 8. Dom. 1540 Soon after came out a confutation of the said little treatise, in oct.  
Treatise of the Union of the Church. Lond. 1556. Written to Card. Pole.  
Treatise against the translation of the Bible in the vulgar Language— with other things, as 'tis probable, which I have not yet seen. He paid his last debt to nature about the beginning of the Year Fifteen hundred fifty and six, year 1556 but whether buried at Worcester or Wygan, I know not. In his Canonry succeeded one Leonard Pollard Bach. of Diu. and Chaplain to Dr. Pates Bishop of Worcester, who having written Five Sermons, were, after they had been revised by Dr. Bonner B. of Lond. printed there 1556 in qu. This Pollard who was not of the University of Oxon, that I can find, died about the beginning of March the same Year, (1556) having enjoyed his Canonry but few Months. Of the same Family of Standish, I find another very active Person of his time named Rich. Standish LL. D. and Parson of Standish in Lancashire, (but his education had been in Cambridge,) who dying at London in his Lodging in, or near to, Pater-noster-row, in the Winter time 1552, was, as 'tis probable, buried in the Church of St. Faith under the Cathedral of St. Paul.  
JOHN BIRD received his first breath within the City of Coventrie, descended, if I mistake not, from the ancient Family of his name in Cheshire, educated in Theologicals in the House or Coll. of the Carmes (he being one of that order) in the University of Oxon. where making considerable proficiency in his studies, was admitted to oppose in Divinity in the public School of that faculty, in the beginning of May 1510, and in June following was admitted to the reading of the Sentences. In 1513, he proceeded in the said faculty, and three Years after was made Provincial of his Order throughout England. But he enjoying that office only three Years, was succeeded therein by one Rob. Lesbury, who keeping it till 1522, Bird came in again and continued Provincial till the dissolution of Monasteries. When the Pope was like to lose his Power in England, be became a zealous Preacher for the King's Supremacy; for which, being rewarded with a Bishopric in Ireland, as Baleus saith, (who calls it 
h Baleus ut sup cent. xi. nu. 41. p. 61.  Episcopatus Penricensis, though Waraeus remembers no such place) was translated thence to Bangor an. 1539, The temporalities of which See, he 
i Pat. 31. Hen. 8. p. 3.  received by the title of the King's Chaplain only, without that of Episc. Penricensis, on the 9 Sept. the same Year. In 1541, he was translated to Chester, made the first Bishop thereof, and paid his obedience to the Archb. of York 13. Apr. 1542, where he continued till the Reign of Qu. Mary. He wrote and published,  
Lectures on St. Paul.  
De fide justificante. lib. 1.  
Learned homilies— With an Epicede on one Edmund in Prose. At length when Queen Mary came to the Crown, he was (notwithstanding he complied with that time) deprived of his Bishopric for being married, and living at Chester with his Wife, year 1556 till Fifteen hundred fifty and six, than died but in an obscure condition. Whereupon his Body was buried in the Cathedral Church there. In the said See succeeded Dr. George Cootes, as I shall tell you when I come to speak of the Bishops, under the Year 1555.  
RICHARD MORYSINE or Morison was born in Oxfordshire as 'tis 
k See in the Second vol. of Chronicles published by Rap. Holinshed, p. 1168.  reported; spent several Years in this University in Logicals and Philosophicals, took a Degree in Arts, afterwards traveled, and making great improvement in the Latin and Greek tongues, became an accomplished Gentleman, and well known among the great Men of his time. In 1537, Jul. 17. he being newly returned from Padöua, was made Prebendary of Yatminster secunda in the Church of Salisbury, on the promotion of Reginald Pole: Which Dignity he keeping till 1539. Hen. Cole of New Coll. succeeded. At length being commended for a Person of worth and parts to K. Hen 8. was by him sent Ambassador to the Emperor Charles the 5. as he was 
l Vid. S●e●●an. in Comment. lib. 24. 25.  afterwards by K. Ed. 6. In whose Reign being a Person zealous for reformation, was by him appointed one of the number of such that were to reform this University of Oxon, an. 1549. At which time he showed himself a great friend to, and a Protector of, Pet. Martyr, when he encountered the Trimviris in a solemn disputation in the Divinity School. Afterwards having the honour of Knighthood conferred upon him, being then esteemed a great learned Man, he went into Italy, and in his return died in Germany, as I shall anon tell you. His works are partly these.  
Apomaxis calumniarum convitiorumque, quibus Johan. Coclaeus homo Theologus, exiguus artium professor, etc. Henrici 8. nomen obscurare, rerum gestarum gloriam faedare, nuper edita, non tam ad regem, quam in regis invidiam, epistola studuit. Lond. 1537. qu. Dedicated to Tho. Cromwell Secretary of State.  
An exhortation to stir all English Men to the defence of their Country. Lond. 1539. oct.  
Invective against the great and detestable vice, treason, etc. Lond. 1539. oct.  
Comfortable consolation for the birth of Prince Edward, rather than sorrow for the death of Qu. Jane.— with other things which Baleus 
m In lib. De Script. ut snpr. cent. 8 num. 91.  mentions. He also wrote several Verses, which were sent by him to the Oxonians: Of which, and his published Books, (much esteemed by K. Hen. 8) John Leland hath exercised his Muse in his Encomia. The said Sir Rich. Morysine hath also translated into English. (1) The Epist. of Joh. Sturmius to the Cardinals and Bishops that were chosen by the Bishop of Rome to search out the abuses of the Church. Lond. 1538. oct. (2) The Symbols of Lud. Vives, much about the same time; with other matters which I have not yet seen. He gave way to fate at Strasburgh (being then there in voluntary exile for the Protestant Religion which he professed) on the 17. March, 
155●●.  in Fifteen hundred fifty and six, but whether buried there, I know not. He left behind him a Son named Charles, begotten on the body of his Wife Dame Bridget, and a natural Son named Marcellus Morysine, besides two Daughters, begotten on the body of one, or more Concubines. Joh. Hales a noted Scholar of that time (to whom he gave his Books) was one of his Executors, as having always been an entire friend to him. Bernardine Ochine also, with his Wife and Children, did taste sufficiently of his liberality: The same Bernard, I mean, who was Author of the Dialogue of the unjust usurped primacy of the Bishop of Rome, translated from Latin by John Ponet, (afterwards B. of Winchester) Lond. 1549. qu. The said Sir R. Morysine had a fair 
n Ut in reg. Wrastley in offic. praer●g. Cant. Qu. 28.  estate, most of which was obtained by his own endeavours, as the Manor of Whitesbury or Whichbury with all its appurtenances in Wilts. and Hampshire, the Manor of East-Chinnock in Somersetshire, the Manor of Cashiobury in Hertfordshire (where he had began to build a stately House,) etc. All which descended to his Posterity.  
JOHN HUNTINGTON was educated for sometime in good arts, but whether he took a Degree here, it appears not, only that while he continued in this University he was noted among his contemporaries for a tolerable Poet. His works are,  
Epitaphium Ricardi Pacaei. car. 1. The beginning of which is, Noscitur omnis homo, etc.  
Humanae vitae deploratio. car. 1. The beginning is, Nunc ubi magnanimi, etc.  
The Genealogy of Heresies.  
De lapsu philosophiae, besides several Sermons. In 1553. Decemb. 3. he was brought before her Majesty's Council, for composing a rhyme against Dr. Stokes and the Sacrament, but making a recantation, and an humble submission for what he had done, with a promise to amend, as well in Doctrine, (for he was a godly Preacher) as in way of living, was suffered to depart. Afterwards he left the Nation, and lived mostly in Germany with Joh. 
Clar. 1556.  Bale, who calls him his beloved Son in Christ.  
RICHARD TRACY, Son of Will. Son of Hen. Tracy, was born of, and descended from, an ancient and gentile Family living at Todyngton in Glocestershire, (the body of which William was taken out of the grave, and burned in the time of Hen. 8. for a Will that he made, then savouring of Heresy.) was conversant among the Muses for a time, took a Degree in Arts, and became noted for his pregnant parts. Afterwards his learning being much improved in his elder years by reading and experience, he became noted for it, an enemy to the Roman Church, and a zealous Reformer, as it may partly appear by his Writings, the titles of which follow.  
Of the preparation to the cross and to death, and of the comfort under the cross and death; in two Books. Lond. 1540 in oct. Dedic. to Thom. Lord Cromwell. Which Book, wrapped up in canvas, being found in the belly of a Cod, when brought from Lin-Regis in Norfolk to Cambridge Mercat to be sold on Midsummer Eve 1626., it was reprinted soon after, (as 'tis said) under the name of Joh. frith.  
The proof and declaration of this proposition, Faith only justifyeth— Not said when or where Printed. 'Tis in oct. and ded. to K. Hen. 8.  
Treatise of the errors and blindness of the Popish Clergy.  
Declaration of the Sacrament. Lond. 1548 oct.  
Confutation of the articles of Papism.— With other things, as 'tis probable, which I have not yet seen, only know that some of them were prohibited to be read by the Proclamation of K. 
C●ar. 1557.  Hen. 8. The Author was living in an absconded condition in Fifteen hundred fifty and six, (which was the 3. and 4. of Philip and Marie) and perhaps was in being several years after.  
JOHN GWYNNETH was a Welsh Man born, and though of very poor parentage, yet of most excellent natural parts, and exceeding apt to embrace any kind of juvenile learning. But so it was, that he having little or nothing to maintain him in his studies at Oxon, he was exhibited to by an Ecclesiastical Maecenas, who well knew that his abilities were such, that in future time he might be an Ornament to the Cath. Church by writing against the Heretics, as they were then called. The younger years of this Gwynneth were adorned with all kind of polite literature, and his elder, with the reading of the Scriptures, and conversation with Books, written by, and against the Lutherans and Zwinglians. At length perceiving full well what ground their Doctrine had gotten, he wrote,  
Declaration of the state, wherein Heretics do lead their lives. Lond. in qu.  
Detection of that part of Fryths Book which he termeth His foundation. Lond. 1554. oct. Printed also, if I mistake not, before that time.  
Against Joh. Fryth, on the Sacrament of the Altar. Lond. 1557. qu. Printed also, I think before that time.  
Declaration of the notable victory given of God to Qu. Marry, showed in the Church of Luton 
o In Bedfordshire.  22. July in the first Year of her Reign. 
C●ar. 1557.  Lond. (1554) oct. with other things, as 'tis probable, which I have not yet seen. This Joh. Gwynneth, I take to be the same with Jo. Gwynneth a Secular Priest, who for his great proficiency, and works performed, in the faculty of Music, had the Degree of Doctor of the said faculty conferred upon him by the Members of this University, an. 1531. See more in the Fasti under that Year.  
WILLIAM PIE, a Suffolk Man born, was elected Fellow of Oriel Coll. in 1529, and after he had continued in the Degree of Master some years, he studied Physic, became thrice Proctor of the University, and, as it seems, D. of D. On the 7. of Oct. 1545. he became Archdeacon of Berkshire, upon the resignation of Dr. Jo. Crayford, and in the Reign of Ed. 6. a pretender to reformation; but when Qu. Mary succeeded, he changed his mind, was in the beginning of her Reign, not only made Dean of Chichester, in the place, if I mistake not, of Barthelm. Traheron, but also 
p Reg. Gilb. Bourne Ep. B. & Well. (quod ●●●pit 20. Ap. 1551) sub an 1554.  Prebendary of Lytton in the Church of Wells, upon the deprivation of Will. Wrythiosley, and Rector of Chedsey in Somersetshire, on the deprivation also of Mr. Nich. Mason. All that I have seen of his labours, are only these following.  
Oratio coram patribus & clero habita, etc. in Oct. 1553. Lond. 1553. in tw.  
Disputation with Archb. Cranmer and B. Latymer at Oxon— part of which you may see in the Book of Acts and Mon. by Joh. Fox, under the Year 1554. When this learned Person and celebrated Preacher died, unless in Fifteen hundred fifty and seven, year 1557 I know not, not any thing else, only an Epigram written upon him by a Poet 
* Ut in Offic. Armorum, G. 5. fol. 103.  of his time and acquaintance, which shall serve for his Epitaph. 
Cum pia vita siet, pia cum doceasque popellum,  
Jure videre mihi nomine, reque pius.   
In his Archdeaconry succeeded Tho. white LL. D. of New Coll. 24. Sept. 1557, but who in his Deanery, I cannot justly tell.  
WILLIAM PERYN of the same Family, as I conceive, with those of Brockton in Shropshire, who 
* Joh. Parkurst in Ludicris sive Epigram— Lond. 1573. p. 93.  are descended from a gentile Family of that name in Derbyshire, did spend some time, when he was young, among the Brethren of the Order of St. Dominick, commonly called Black Friars in their Coll. at Oxon, of which Order he was a most zealous member. Afterwards retiring to the House of that Order in London, lived there, and became a violent Preacher against such that were called Heretics, especially about the time when K. Hen. 8. renounced the Pope's power in England; for which his zeal, he was forced to leave the Nation for some Years. In the beginning of 1543, he supplicated to be admitted to the reading of the Sentences; whose desire being granted, as it seems, he was about that time admitted Bach. of Divinity. In the Reign of Ed. 6. he either absconded, or retired beyond the Seas, but when Qu. Mary came to rule the Sceptre, he appeared openly, was then (if not happily before) made Prior of the Black Friars of Great St. Barthelmew in Smithfield so I find it mentioned, where he lived in great repute during her Reign. He hath written and published,  
Three godly and most learned Sermons of the most honourable and blessed Sacrament of the Altar, Preached in the Hospital of S. Anthony in London, on Hoc est corpus meum, etc. Lond. 1546. 48. oct. dedic. to his special good Lord and Master Edm. Bonner B. of London.  
Spiritual exercises and Goostly meditations, and a near way to come to perfection and life contemplative, etc. Lond. 1557, and at Caen in Normandy 1598. oct. dedicated by the Author to the devout and religious Sisters Catherine Palmer of the Order of St. Bridget in Dermount, and to Dorothy Clement of the Order of St. 
Clar. 1557.  Clare in Lovayne. He published also a Book in defence, and for the frequent celebrating, of the Mass; but that I have not yet seen. At length when Qu. Elizabeth came to the Crown (at which time he is said to be living) he was put to more trouble, and not unlikely did retire beyond the Sea again.  
ROBERT RECORD received his first breath among the Cambrians, but in what County I cannot in all my searches find, notwithstanding he was descended from a gentile Family. About 1525, he first saluted the Oxonian Muses, and in 1531, he was elected Fellow of Allsouls Col. being then Bach. of Arts, but whether he took the Magisterial Degree in that faculty, the public Registers show not. Sure I am that making Physic his Profession, he went to Cambridge, where he was honoured with the Degree of Doctor in that faculty, an. 1545. and honoured of all that knew him for his great knowledge in several Arts and Sciences. 'Tis said that while he was of Allsouls Coll. and afterwards when he retired from Cambr. to this University, he publicly taught Arithmetic, and the grounds of Mathematics, with the art of true accounting. All which he rendered so clear and obvious to capacities, that none ever did the like before him in the memory of Man. The truth is, he was endowed with rare knowledge in Arithmetical and Geometrical proportions touching the statute of coinage, and the standard thereof; and for natural Philosophy, Astrology, Cosmography, etc. and other polite and unusual learning of that time, most Authors give him great commendations. He hath written,  
The grounds of Arts, teaching the perfect work and practice in Arithmetic in whole numbers and in fractions.— When this was first published I know not: Sure it is, that this Book coming into the hands of the famous Mathematician Dr. John Dee, he did correct and augment it. Afterwards it was augmented (1) By John Mellis a Schoolmaster.— Lond. 1590. oct. (2) By Rob Norton. (3) By Rob. Hartwell practitioner in Mathematics in London, and (4) by R. C. etc. All which augmentations or additions were printed together at Lond. in a thick oct. an. 1623. He also published the second part of Arithmetic entitled  
The Whetstone of wit, containing the extraction of roots, the cossick practice, with the rules of equation and works of surde numbers. Lond. 1557. qu. etc.  
The path way to knowledge, containing the first Principles of Geometry, as they may be most aptly applied unto practice, both for the use of instruments Geometrical, and Astronomical, and also for projection of platts in every kind. Lond. 1551. qu.  
The castle of knowledge, containing the explication of the Sphere, both celestial and material, and divers other things incident thereunto, etc. Lond. 1556. fol. and 1596. qu.  
The urinal of physic, of the judicial of Urines— Repr. at Lond. 1582. etc. oct. Many other things he hath written as Baleus and Pitseus will tell you, as (1) Of the Eucharist. (2) Of auricular confession. (3) The image of a true Commonwealth. (4) Of Anatomy; with several other, but such I have not yet seen, and therefore cannot give you the true titles, or time when they (if ever) were printed. All that I can say of him more, is, that he concluded his last day in the Prison called the Kings-bench (being there I presume, detained for debt) in the beginning of the Year Fifteen hundred fifty and eight, but where he was buried, unless in the Church or Yard of St. George in Southwark, (wherein, I conceive the said Prison then was situated) I know not.  
RICHARD CROAK, or Crocus as he writes himself, was a Londoner born, admitted Scholar of Kings Coll. in Cambridge 4. Apr. 1506. went thence, during the time of his Scholarship, to Oxon, was a Scholar or Student in the Greek tongue under famous Will Grocyn, and other Oxford Men; in which Language excelling, he went beyond the Seas, and became public Reader thereof at Lipsick in Germany, being the first of all, as 'tis said, that taught the Greek tongue there. Afterwards, having first spent some time in other places, he was invited home, and by recommendations made to the King of his great sufficiencies in the Greek and Latin tongue, and in Oratory, he became great in favour with him and most of the Nobility that were learned. Afterwards upon the entreaties of Jo. Fisher B. of Rochester he returned to Cambridge, where he was made Orator about 1522, and Greek Professor next after Erasmus. So that in time, by his diligent teaching and instructing, the knowledge of the Greek tongue, or the true and genuine Greek was there, with much ado, planted. In 1524, he commenced D. of D. at Cambridge, being then, or about that time, Tutor to the Duke of Richmond, and beneficed, if not dignified in the Church. Afterwards, he was employed by the King to go to several places in Italy, especially to the University of Padôua, to agitate about the matter of the unlawfulness of the King's Marriage with his Brother's Widow. After his return, the University of Oxford (as a certain 
* Tho. Hatcher in cat. praeposit. soc. & schol. Coll. Regal. Cant. MS. sub an. 15●6.  Writer tells you) by great means and favourable friends and fair promises of large allowance, invited him thither to be their Reader. The time when he came to Oxon, was in the beginning of 1532, in which Year K. Hen. 8. by his Charter dated 18. Jul. did convert Cardinal Wolsey's College into that of King's Coll. or that founded by King Hen. 8. In which Year he was not only incorporated D. of D. as he had stood at Cambridge, but was made the third Canon of the twelve of the said foundation, but whether he was a Reader I cannot in all my searches find. In the latter end of the same Year the new Dean Dr. Jo. Hygden died, and thereupon the Canons wrote to Tho. Cromwell Secretary of State, that he would interceded with the King that Dr. Croke might succeed him, but for what reason it was, that he was put aside, I cannot justly say. Sure I am, that Dr. Croak continued Canon of the said College, till it was about to be converted into a Cathedral, an. 1545, and then having an yearly pension of six and twenty pounds thirteen shillings and four pence, allowed to him in recompense of his Canonry, he retired to Exeter Coll. where he lived in the condition of a Sojournour many years, and was not at all made a Canon of the Cathedral founded by K. H. 8. He hath written,  
Oratio de Graecarum disciplinarum laudibus. Dedicated to Nicholas Bishop of Ely by an Epist. before it dated call. Jul. 1519. 'Tis Printed in qu. but where, or when, I cannot tell.  
Oratio qua Cantabrigienses est hortatus, ne Graecarum literarum desertores essent. Printed with the former oration. Before, and at the end of the said two Orations, Gilb. Ducher hath an Epistle in praise of Croke and his learning. 
 Introductiones ad linguam Graecam. 
 Elementa Gram. Graecae. 
 De verborum c●●structione, besides translations made from Greek into Latin from Theod. Gaza and Elysius' Calentinus. As for those things he wrote against Leland while he continued in Oxon as a certain Author tells us, are no more, as I suppose, than scoffs in Verse, or repartees made on him for changing his Religion, and thereupon died distracted, whereas Dr. Croak made no change, as 'tis said, but died in that Faith, which he in the beginning had received, year 1558 in Fifteen hundred fifty and eight. A Copy of his last Will and Testament 
† In Offic. praereg. Cant. in reg. Noodes, Queen 28.  which I have seen, dated 21, Aug. and proved 29. of the same Month, an. 1558. I find that he was Parson of Long Buckby in Northamptonshire, but cannot find the Church or Yard wherein he would have his body to be buried, only that he died in London, leaving behind him a Brother named Rob. Croak of Water-Horton in Warwickshire.  
JOHN ROBYNS a Staffordshire Man born, became a Student in this University, an. 1516, or thereabouts, was elected Fellow of Allsouls Coll. 1520. and afterwards took the Degrees in Arts and holy Orders. But such was his vigorous genie, that by the force thereof being conducted to the pleasant studies of Mathematics and Astrology, he made so great a progress in them, that he became the ablest Person in his time for those studies, not excepted his friend Record, whose learning was more general. At length taking the Degree of Bach. of Divinity in 1531, he was the Year following made by K. Hen. 8. (to whom he was Chaplain) one of the Canons of his College in Oxon, and in Decemb. 1543 Canon of Windsor, (upon the death of Dr. Rich. Rawson, who was also Archdeacon of Essex) and in fine Chaplain to Qu. Marry, who had him in great veneration for his learning. Among several things that he hath written relating to Astrology, I find these following. 
 De culminatione fixarum stellarum, etc. 
 De ortu & occasu stellarum fixarum, etc. 
 Annotationes Astrologicae, etc. lib. 3. 
 Annotationes de Edwardo VI. 
 Tractatus de prognosticatione per Ecclipsin. All which Books, that are in MS. were sometimes in the choice Library of Mr. Tho. Allen of Gloucester Hall. After his death, they coming into the hands of Sir Ken. Digby, were by him given to the Bodleian Library, where they yet remain. 'Tis said also, that he the said Robyns hath written a Book intit. De portentosis cometis, but such a thing I have not yet seen, nor do I know any thing else of the Author, only that paying his last debt to nature 25. Aug. in Fifteen hundred fifty and eight, year 1558 was buried in the Chapel of St. George at Windsor. Over his Grave was soon after a Marblestone laid, with a large inscription thereon, part of which you may read in Hist. & Antiq. Uniu. Oxon. lib. 2. p. 178. b.  
WILLIAM STAUNFORD Son of Will. Staunford of London Mercer, 
* Int. cod. MS. Rad. Sheldon de Beoly in come. Wig. Arm. in coll. Armorum Lond. num. 133. p. 146.  (by Margaret his Wife, Daugh. and Heir of— Gedney of London) Son of Rob. Staunford of Rowley in Staffordshire, was born in the County of Middlesex 22. Aug. 1509. (1. Hen. 8.) received so much literature among the Oxonians that enabled him sooner than another Person to conquer the rudiments of the municipal Law in Greys-Inn near London. In the 36. of Hen. 8. he was elected Autumn Reader of that House, but did not read because of the pestilence then in those parts, yet in the Lent following he did perform that office with great credit and honour. In the 5. Ed. 6. he was Double-Reader of that Inn in the time of Lent, and the next Year was called by writ to be Sergeant at Law. In 1553, (1o Mariae) he was made the Queen's Sergeant, and the next Year was not only constituted one of the Justices of the Common-pleas (some say of the Common-bench) but also dubbed a Knight, being then in high esteem for his great abilities in his profession, especially for the Books that he about that time composed, taken then, especially in after Ages, into the hands of the most learned in the Law, which have ever since made him famous among them and others. The titles are,  
Pleas of the Crown, divided into several titles and common places. Lond. 1557. qu. etc. In some impressions, they are divided into two Volumes.  
Exposition of the King's Prerogative, collected out of the abridgement of Anth. Fitzherbert, and other old Writers of the Laws of England. Lond. 1567. 68 etc. qu. Besides other Books which have not been yet Printed. This noted Lawyer, who was a zealous R. Cath. departed this mortal life on the 28. year 1558 Aug. in Fifteen hundred fifty and eight. Whereupon his body was buried in the Church of Hadley in Middlesex. I have seen a Copy of his 
a In 〈◊〉. p●gerog. Cant. in Reg. Noodes, part. 2. Qu. 53.  Will, wherein the styles himself one of the Justices of the Common-pleas under the King and Queen, and desires that his Body may be buried in the Parish Church of Islyngdon, Hadley or Houndsworth. His posterity remaineth in Staffordshire, Warwickshire, and elsewhere, to this day.  
ROBERT TALBOT was very much esteemed in his time, and after, for his singular knowledge in the antiquities of England, and for his care in preserving and collecting ancient Books and Monuments decayed by time. His cronie John Leland is full 
b In 〈…〉 & 〈…〉 Angl.— Lond. 1589. p. 75. & alibi.  of his praises; and not a little are Joh. 
c In lib. Descript cent▪ 9 nu 49.  Baleus, Joh. 
d In lib. 2. Antiq. Cant.  Cajus, Abr. 
e In Sinon. G●●gr. in Sessoriac●m.  Ortelius, Camden and others; the last of which styles 
f In Br●an. in l●●nis. See also in 〈◊〉 Lambards' Perambulation of Kent, in 〈◊〉, and elsewhere.  him Vir antiquitatis bene peritus, & in hac Angliae parte (meaning in the Iceni, i. e. Norfolk, Suffolk, etc.) versatissimus. He the said Talbot was born at Thorpe in Northamptonshire, but whether at Thorpe Mandevil or Thorpe Longa. I know not, and seems to be of the same Family with the Talbots of Grafton. He was educated in Grammaticals in Wykeham's School near to Winchester, in Logicals and Philosophicals in New Coll. of which he became Fellow (after he had served two Years of probation) an. 1523. and left it 5 Years after, being then only Bach. of Arts, supplicated for the Degree of Master 1529, but not admitted, as I can find in the Register of that time. However, that he was written Master and Doctor afterwards, it doth manifestly appear in various writings, so that I presume he took those Degrees elsewhere. On the 23. Jun. 1541 he was admitted to a Prebendship in the Church of Wells, called Wedmer secunda, and on the 9 Apr. 1. Ed. 6. Dom. 1547. the Dean and Chapter of Norwych did by their Letters Pat. confer a Prebendship, or office of Treasurer of their Church on him, void by the death of one Will. Herydans. On the 27. Aug. 5. and 6. of Phil. and Mary, Dom. 1558. he gave to John Harpesfeild Dean, and to the said Chapter of the Cath. of Norwych three Acres of Land in Lakenham, and soon after died, as I shall tell you afterwards. But that which is chiefly to be noted is, that during his abode at Norwych, he wrote a Book thus intit.  
Roberti Talboti Annotationes in eam partem Itinerarii Antonini quae ad Britanniam pertinent. The beginning of which is, Itinera hic sunt in Britanniâ numero xv. etc. It endeth at the word Luguvallo, at the end of the fifth Itinerary, and goeth no farther. Which Book the learned Camden in his Britannia, and Will. Burton in his Commentary on Antoninus his Itinerary, and others, did much use. It is not Printed, but remains in MS. in obscure places: And for aught I know there are but three Copies of it in being, viz. one in the Library of Bennet Coll. in Cambridge, another in that of Sir Joh. Cotton at Westminster (which, if I mistake not, did sometimes belong to Mr. Tho. Allen of Glouc. Hall, got out of his hands by Rich. James of C. C. C. for the said Library) and a third in Bodlyes' Vatican. Our Author Talbot hath also written a Book called,  
Aurum ex stercore, vel de Aenigmaticis & propheticis. MS collected from old Books of verses and rhymes, that have been long since lost. The beginning of which is, Certain non est rarum, etc. In this Book are verses called Magistrates, every one of which was worth an ordinary Groat. Mr. Allen before mentioned, had a Copy of, valued, it much and would often repeat verses thence at times of refection, but where that Copy is now, I know not. Sure I am, that one written in qu. in the archives of C. C. C. bound with the observations from humanity Authors made by John Twine, was given thereunto by Brian his Grandson. Our Author Talbot hath also made choice Collections  
De Chartis quibusdam Regum Britannorum. MS. in the Library of Bennet Coll. in Cambridge. What else he hath written I know not, nor any thing more of him, only that he took his last farewell of this World a little after the 27. year 1558 Aug. in Fifteen hundred fifty and eight, and was buried in the Cathedral Church there, as I have been instructed from the researches of Mr. (afterwards Dr.) Hump. Prideaux Prebendary of that Church, made from several Registers and Charters belonging thereunto. By Rob. Talbot's 
g In Offic. praerog. Cant. in reg. Lostes Qu. 6.  Will dated 20. Aug. 1558, which is almost three Months before Qu. Mary died, he left the best and rerest of his MSS. to New Coll. in Oxon. Which MSS. did then lie at Thorpe and Cranesley; and maintenance also for an Anniversary to be kept at Thorpe for himself, Father, Mother, his Brother John, and for his Uncle Sir Rich. Whitryns. Which Anniversary was to be performed for the present by Sir Christopher his Priest at Thorpe beforementioned. But this last, I presume, was never performed. The Reader is to know, now I am got into the name of Talbot, that after Rob. Talbots time lived one Tho. Talbot commonly called Limping Talbot, from a lameness in one of his legs, Son of John Talbot of Salebury in Lancashire Esq; (who died 30. Aug. 1551.) which Thomas being promoted to the Clerkship of the Records in the Tower of London, did at length, by the help of a good memory, become a most excellent Genealogist, and a Man of singular skill in our antiquities. Camden in his Britannia 
h In fine cap. intit. Law courts of England.  doth acknowledge his help in the succession of the Earls of each County since the Norman conquest, and Tho. Abingdon the sometimes Antiquary of Worcestershire, in his MS. History of the Bishops of Worcester saith thus of him,— But these first (meaning the first Bishops of Worcester) I had out of the Collections of an excellent Antiquary Mr. Thomas Talbot, who gathered the same out of a Leaguer of the Priory of Worcester, which I think is now perished. He left choice Collections behind him, some of which coming into the hands of Sir Rob. Cotton, he put them into his 
i Sub Effig. Vespasia● D. 21.  Library as choice Monuments, and being bound in one Volume in fol are thus intit. by a 
k Sir Will. Dugdale,  late hand. Analecta quamplurima diversi generis, viz. ex quibusdam chronicis, cartis, aliisque autenticis registris. Epitaphia, Gencalogiae & alia ad rem historicam spectantia, besides several Collections of Antiquities in Yorkshire. I have seen also in the Sheldonian 
l Col. MS. nu 72 & 222.  Library, now reposed in the Herald's Office, divers of his Collections, viz. among them is a thin fol. intit. Escaetorum inquisitiones de tempore Reg. Ed. 4. etc. Now whether this Tho. Talbot, who was living, an. 1580, and for aught that I know, was living ten Years after, was of kin to Robert beforementioned, I know not, nor can I safely believe that he is the same Thomas Talbot, who was admitted Bach. of Arts of Oxon. in July 1533. I find another Tho. Talbot to have been born in the said County of Lancaster, and entered into the Society of Jesus an. 1598. aged 26. who, after he had wrote several Books, died in 1652, but this Person was not, as I can yet learn, originally bred among us.  
HENRY Lord STAFFORD the only Son of Edward Duke of Bucks. (attained, and executed for treason in 1521.) was one of the most accomplished Persons of his time, and though not the inheritor of his Father's honours, yet he was a Man of great virtue, learning, and piety. In his younger years he received his education in both the Universities, especially in that of Cambridge, to which his Father had been a benefactor; where by the care of good Tutors he attained to a considerable knowledge in the Latin tongue; and in that language he wrote several things, as 'tis said, as well in verse as prose, but such I have not yet seen. He translated into English a Book intit. De vera differentia regiae potestatis & ecclesiasticae, & quae sit ipsa veritas ac virtus utriusque etc. Written by Edward Fox Bishop of Hereford. This translation was printed in oct. but when, it appears not in the Book. He also translated Erasmus his Two Epistles, wherein is declared the brainsick headiness of the Lutherans, etc. Lond. 1553. oct. and other things which I have not yet seen. This noble Lord gave way to fate 
* Baleus in't. Script. May. Britan. pag. 112. in't. cent. 12. & 13.  in Fifteen hundred fifty and eight, but where buried I cannot yet tell, nor in what County born, unless in Staffordshire, wherein he was possessor of many Lands.  
ROBERT BROKE or Brook Son of Thom. Broke of Claverley in Shropshire, year 5121 by Margaret his Wife, Daughter of Hugh Grosvenor of Farmot in the said County, was born, as I conceive, at Claverley, laid a foundation of Literature at Oxon; which was a great advantage to him when he studied the municipal Laws in the Middle Temple, where he became the compleatest Lawyer of his time. In 1542, he was elected Autumn or Summer Reader of that House, and in the latter end of the Year (in Lent) 1550, he was elected Double-Reader. In 1552, he was by writ called to be Sergeant at Law, and in 1553, being the first Year of Qu. Marry, he was made Lord Chief Justice of the Common pleas (and not of the Common-bench as some say) and about that time received the honour of Knighthood from that Queen: In whose Reign, and after, he was held in high value for his profound knowledge in the Law, and for his just and upright dealing in all matters relating to the profession thereof. He hath written,  
An abridgement, containing an abstract of the Year— Books till the time of Qu. Marie. Lond. 1573. fol. 76, 86, etc. qu.  
Certain cases adjudged in the time of K. Hen. 8. Ed. 6. and Qu. Marry, from 6. Hen. 8. to the 4. of Qu. Marie- Lond. 1578. 1604. 25. etc. in oct. The original title of this Book is in French Ascuns novel cases, etc.  
Reading on the Statute of limitations 32. H. 8. c. 2. Lond. 1647. oct. Printed I think before that time. This Sir Rob. Broke, who was a zealous Cathol. died, as it seems, in Aug. or Sept. year 1558 in Fifteen hundred fifty and eight, but where buried I cannot yet tell. In his Will 
m Ib. in Offic. praerog. ut sup. in reg. Noodes, part. 2.  proved. 12. Oct. the same Year, he several times remembers the Church and Poor of Putney near London. I find another of both his names, who is written Esquire, Sergeant at Law and Recorder of London, under whose name was published, Reading upon the statute of Magna Charta, chap. 16. Lond. 1641. qu. before which time the Author was dead. Whether the same with Rob. Brook of Brasenose, who was admitted Master of Arts 1584. I think not. As for Sir Rob. Broke the Judge, he obtained a fair estate by his endeavours, which he left to his posterity, remaining at Madeley in Shropshire, and at one or two places in Suffolk.  
PAUL BUSH was born of honest and sufficient Parents, became a Student in this University about the Year 1513, and five years after took the Degree of Bach. of Arts, being then numbered among the celebrated Poets of the University. Afterwards he applied his mind to the supreme faculty, entered into the Order of the Bonhom's, studied among the Friars of the Order of St. Austin (now Wadham Coll.) in the North suburb of Oxon, and at length became Provincial of his Order, that is of Bonhoms. This Person being noted in his time for his great learning in Divinity and Physics, was by K. Hen. 8. made the first Bishop of Bristol, after he had placed an Episcopal See there, an. 1542, and by the name and title of Paulus Bush capellan●s Regis & S. Theologiae Bacalaureus had restitution 
s Pat. 34. Hen. 8. p. 2.  made to him of the Temporalities belonging to that See, 16. June in the same Year. But he taking to him a Wife (whom one 
t Jo. Pi●sens in lib De 〈◊〉 Angliae Scriptorib. aet. 16 num 997.  calls a Concubine) in the days of K. Ed. 6. was deprived of his Bishopric by Qu. Mary, an. 1553, whereupon he spent the remaining part of his days at Bristol. He hath written several things in Divinity and Medicine, as well in verse as prose, of which number these are some.  
An exhortation to Margaret Burges, Wife to Jo. Burges Clothier of Kingswood in the County of Wilts. Lond. temp. Ed. 6. in oct.  
Notes on the Psalm, beginning with Miserere mei Deus, etc.  
Treatise in praise of the Cross.  
Dialogues between Christ and the Virgin Mary.  
Treatise of salves and curing remedies,— besides Poems of divers kinds, which I have not yet seen. At length taking his last farewell of this World on the eleventh of Octob. year 1558 in Fifteen hundred fifty and eight, aged 68 years, was buried on the North side of the choir (near to the entrance leading into the North Isle) of the Cath. Church at Bristol. Over his grave was soon after erected a low altar tomb, and on it was fastened his statue in his Episcopal Robes lying on his back. On the 4 corners of the Tomb, were erected four small Pillars, bearing a Canopy; about which is this written. Hic jacet D. Paulus Bush primus hujus Ecclesiae Episcopus, qui obut undec. die Octob. an. Dom. 1558. aetatisque suae 68 cujus animae propitietur Christus. About the tomb, beneath the statue, are certain verses engraven on three sides thereof, (the fourth joining to the Wall) some of which follow. 
Agnus qui primam nostrum sua tempora miram  
Indueret, jacet hic Bristoliense decus.  
A patre Bush dictus, Paulum baptisma vocavit,  
Virtus implevit nomen uterque Pari.  
Paulus, etc.  
Ille animos verbis, impensos pavit egenos, Hinc fructum arbusto portulit ille suo.  
Ut madidos, arbusta tegunt, sic foedere rupto Inter discords pacificator erat.   
This Monument was erected near to the stone, under which his sometimes Wife called Edyth Ashley was buried, who died 8. Oct. 1553.  
ROBERT WARDE, a native of the Dioc. of Durham, was elected Probationer-Fellow of Merton College in 1536, he being then Masters standing or more, and three years after proceeded in Arts. About that time he became a shagling Lecturer in Philosophy before the University in the public Schools, a profound Disputant in Philosophical matters, and homo semper nimium Metaphysicus, as one 
o Laur. Humphredus in Vita Jo. Juelle: edit. 1573. p. 10●.  doth deservedly stile him. He was the chief man that disputed with Bishop Rydley in the Divinity School, an. 1554. as I have elsewhere told 
* In Hist. & Antiq. Vniu. Oxon, lib. 1. p 277.  you. And Joh. Fox who hath a full relation 
p In Act & Man. Eccles. sub an. 1554  of the said disputation, saith of this our Author thus. Mr. Ward amplified so largely his words, and so high he climbed into the Heavens with Duns his Ladder, and not with the Scriptures, that it is to be marvelled how he could come down again without falling, etc. But what Fox hath ironically said concerning this matter, is fully answered by one 
q Rob. Persons in his 〈◊〉 of ten public 〈◊〉: Printed 1604. cap. 4. p 222. and cap. 5. p 311. 312.  of Wards persuasion. As for the works that this our Author hath written, I never saw any, and therefore cannot give you the titles, only say with our old, and later, Catalogue or Register of Fellows of Merton Coll. that he wrote,  
Dialectica & Philosophica quaedam, etc.— Joh. Fo● beforementioned hath published,  
His disputation with B. Nich. Rydley in the Divinity-School at Oxon.— Which you may see in the Book of Acts and Mon. of the Church, under the Year 1554. A little before Qu. Elizab. came to the Crown, Mr. Warde (who seems to have been then Bach. of Diu.) traveled to Rome, where paying his last debt to nature on the 14. Oct. in Fifteen hundred fifty and eight, year 1558 was there buried; but in what Church or Chapel I know not. Whereupon the report of it coming to Oxon his exequys were celebrated 
r Reg. 1. Act. societ. coll. Mert. fol. 32●. a.  by the Society of Merton College 17. Novemb. following, according to our account. Of the same Family (though remote) was Will. Warde, alias Walker, alias Slaughter, Son of Mr. Rob. Warde of the County of Cumberland, who having spent 7 years in studying the Arts in Brasnose Coll. traveled into Spain with one Mr. Dutton a R. Cath. and there became one of his opinion. Afterwards he returned into England to settle his concerns, went beyond Sea again, and upon a Commission received, he returned into his own Country a second time to convert Persons to his profession; but being taken after he had been a Priest 24 years, was imprisoned in Newgate. Soon after being tried for his life, he was executed at Tybourne on Monday 26. July 1641.  
JOHN HOLYMAN, a most stout Champion of his time in his Preachings and Writings against the Lutherans, was born at Codyngton near to Hadenham in Buckinghamshire, educated in Wykeham's School near Winchester, made perpetual Fellow of New Coll. in 1512, took a Degree in the Canon Law, afterwards that of M. of A. left the Coll. about 1526. being then Bach. of Divinity and beneficed. But being desirous of the conversation of learned Men and Books, entered 
† Rot. camp. Rectorum Coll. Exon in scaccar. ibid.  himself in the condition of a Sojournour in Exeter Coll. where he continued for some time. At length he became a Monk of St. Mary's Abbey at Reading in Berks, and in 1530 proceeded in Divinity, at which time Hugh Abbot of the said Monastery, wrote to the University in 
‡ In lib. Epist. Uniu. Oxon. FF. sol. 101. 102.  Epistle, wherein our Author is thus charactarized— Dominus Holymannus, non vitâ minus quam eruditione Theologus insignis, Londini nuper è suggesto Paulino cencionatus est: tam frequenti hominum conventu, tantâ admiratione, tam magnâ apud omnes gratiâ, ut jamdudum nemo, qui christum sincerè praedicat, majorem ab illo populo, vel laudem vel amorem consecutus est, etc. The said Epistle was written, as I have 
* In Hist. & Antiq. Vniu. Oxon. lib 1. p. 252 a lib 2. p. 95 b.  elsewhere told you, in the Year 1530. to the end that the University would be pleased to dispense with him from Preaching at Oxon for the Degree of D. of Divinity, and that instead thereof he might Preach at London, upon pretence that the City was much polluted with Luther's Doctrine. In 1535, he was ejected from his Abbey, because of the dissolution thereof for a profane use, and lived afterwards partly at Hanborough near to Woodstock in Oxfordshire (of which place he seems to have been Rector) and partly in Exeter Coll. in 1554, he was promoted to the See of Bristol, upon the deprivation of Paul Bush the first Bishop thereof; the Temporalities of which See being given 
‖ Pat. 1. &. 2. Ph. & Mar. p 1.  to him 28. Nou. the same Year, sat there to the time of his death in good repute. He hath written,  
Tract. contra doctrinam M. Lutheri.  
Defensio matrimonii Reginae Catherinae cum Rege Henrico octavo, lib. 1. with other things which I have not yet seen. This Person who was a most zealous Catholic, gave way to fate either in, or near to, Oxon, much about the time, when his Predicessor P. Bush died, and was according to his will, as I presume, buried in the Chancel of the Church of Hanborough beforementioned, in Fifteen hundred fifty and eight. year 1558 Mr. Alexand. Belsire sometimes Fellow of New College, afterwards the first Precedent of that of St. John Bapt. who was his great Friend and Overseer of his last Will, was buried near to him, in 1567., being, while living, seldom from him. The said Bishop Holyman in his last 
a In Off●c prae●og. in reg. We●●s, Qu. 38.  Will and Testament dated 4 June 1558, and proved 16. Feb. following, did give to the College near to Winchester the works of St. Augustine, St. Jerome, St. Cyprian, St. Cecil, Tertullian, Ireneus, etc. Which afterwards were chained in the Library there.  
RICHARD TURNER, a Staffordshire Man born, was educated in Magd. College; of which house he became afterwards Fellow, and esteemed in the University, especially by the reformed party, a right godly and learned Man, and a good Preacher. Afterwards he belonged to the Church at Windsor, where he helped Jo. Merbeck in making the Concordance of the Bible. But when Qu. Mary came to the Crown he fled beyond Seas, and settling at Basil in Germany, was a frequent Preacher among the English exiles, for whose sake he composed,  
An Exposition on the Epistle of St. Paul to the 

Ephesians.  
Hebrews.    
Expos. on the Gen. Epist. of St. James.— These expositions which were read at Basil, were fit for the Press in 1558, but whether they were ever afterwards Printed; I know not. In the said Year, Baleus tells 
b Int. Script. Major. Britan. p. 113.  us, that he was living at Basil, and Joh. Fox doth further 
c In his Acts and Monof the Church, etc. in the story of Joh. Merbeck.  inform us that he died in Exile. So I presume, that he concluded his last day between the beginning of Fifteen hundred fifty and eight, year 1558 and the Month of Novemb. the same year; in which Month Qu. Elizab. came to the Crown of England, and soon after the exiles returned to their Country.  
REYNOLD POLE whose piety, learning, and integrity of life did make him more illustrious than the splendour of his royal blood, was a younger Son of Sir Ric. Pole Knight of the Garter (Cousin german to K. Hen. 7.) by Margaret his Wife, Daughter of George Duke of Clarence, younger Brother to K. Ed. 4. The birth of this most noble Person, was, as a learned 
u Will. Camden in Britannia in Staffordsh.  Author reports, at Stoverton Castle in Staffordshire, or as another 
w See in the third vol. of a Book intit. Florum Historiae sacri collegii S. R. E. Cardinalium— Par. 1660. pag. 225. written by Ludou. Doni D' attichi, etc.  who was a Foreigner tells us, (but false, as I presume) at London in the Month of March 1500. His education in Grammatical learning was partly in the Carmes House (commonly called White Friars) in the North suburb of Oxon, and his Academical in the Coll. of St. Mary Magdalen, where continuing for some time, he was admitted to the reading of any of the Logical Books of Aristotle, that is to the Degree of Bach. of Arts, an. 1515. In which year he supplicated the venerable Congregation of Regent's, that he might wear panni pretiosi and pellurae pretiosae, and be admitted to enter into the Library. How long he tarried in that Coll. after he had taken his Degree, or whether he took the Degree of Master of Arts, or a Degree in any other faculty, it appears not in our Registers. In the Year 1517. March 19 he was made Prebendary of Roscombe in the Church of Salisbury, in 1519. Apr. 10. Preb. of Yatminster secunda in the said Church, and on the 14 of Feb. 1523, he was admitted Fellow of Corp. Chr. College by command from the founder: Which place, I presume, he never enjoyed, being then absent, if not happily Dean of Winbourne Minster in Dorsetshire, from whence he was promoted to be Dean of Exeter. Afterwards, his life being chiefly spent in Italy, he became by the favour of the Pope, Cardinal of St. Nereus and Achilleus, afterwards of St. Mary in Cosmedin, and at length of St. Prisca, was employed also by him in several Embassies to the French King, and to the Emperor, and lastly after the said Pope's death (Paul 3.) he was in the Conclave of Cardinals chose twice by them to succeed him, an. 1549. But he, upon some account, refusing both the elections, craved licence to depart unto a certain Monastery in the Territory of Verona, there to spend the remainder of his days. To which place afterwards retiring, he exercised himself for some years, in great devotion and retiredness. At length the news of K. Edw. death being brought of him, and that Qu. Mary had obtained the Crown, he procured of P. Julius 3. licence to be sent his Legate into England, to reconcile that Nation to the Romish See, and the rather for this cause, that being 
x See in the History of the Council of Trent, written by Pietro Soave Polano, and translated into English by Sir Nath. Brent— Lond. 1620. p. 384.  not in holy orders, (though a Cardinal) he might be in a capacity (being one of the three that were named) to marry the Queen. Soon after coming into England (the Queen being then married) he was elected Chancellor of this University, and was made Archb. of Canterbury in the place of Cranmer; to which he was consecrated 22. March 1555. (being about that time 
y Pat. 2. & 3. Phil. & Mar. p. 1.  invested with the Temporalities of that See) and kept it to his dying day. He was a Person of great learning, eloquence and judgement, of singular piety, charity, and exemplary life, as several Writers tell us, who add also, that he was an excellent Canonist, and well read in the Laws of ecclesiastical polity, as may partly be seen in the Books written by him, which are these.  
Pro unitate ecclesiastica, ad Hen. 8. Rom. in fol.  
Oratio ad Imperatorem, contra Evangelicos, cum Scholiis Athanasii. Print. 1554. in qu.  
Oration of Speech in the Parliament House, 27. Nou. 1554.— The contents of which you may see in John Fox his Book of Acts and Monuments of the Church, etc. under that year.  
Letter to P. Julius 3. touching the restoring of the Realm of England— dated on the last of Nou. 1554. See there again under the same year.  
Unitatis Ecclesiasticae defensio, etc. lib. 4. Argent. 1555. fol. Ingolst. 1587. oct.  
Oratio in materia de pace. Ven. 1558. qu.  
Reformatio Angliae ex decretis Reg. poli, an. 1556. Rom. 1562. qu. Lov. 1569. oct.  
De concilio, lib. 1. Rom. 1562. qu. Lov. 1567. fol. & 69. oct. etc. This is printed in Canon's & Decreta concilii Tridentini, published by Philip Labbe— Par. 1667. fol.  
De Baptismo Constantini Imperatoris. Printed with the former Book.  
De summi pontificis officio & potestate. Lov. 1569. oct.  
A Treatise of Justification. Lov. 1569. qu. in two Books. This was found among the Writings of Card. Pole, remaining in the custody of Mr. Hen. Pining, Chamberlain and receiver general to the said Cardinal, then lately deceased at Louvain. With it were Printed and bound certain translations touching the said matter of justification, viz. (1) The sixth Session of the general Council of Trent, which is of justification, with the Canons of the same Session. (2) A Treatise of St. Augustin that famous Doctor, by him intit. Of faith and works, etc.— Which translations were made by the Cardinal, who sat several times in the said Council. (3) A Sermon of St. chrysostom, of praying unto God. (4) A Serm. of St. Basil of Fasting. (5) Certain Sermons of St. Leo the great, of the same argument. (6) A notable Sermon of St. Cyprian of Almesdeeds. He also (Card. Pole) had been several years gathering and obtaining from divers learned Persons, the various readings, emendations, castigations, etc. of Cicero's works, with intentions to have published a complete Copy of them, but death seizing on him unexpectedly, that good work was stopped, and what are become of the papers of corrections, I know not. This great Person who was in an high manner venerated by all Men (though extremely hated by K. Hen. 8.) yielded to nature 18. Nou. early in the morning, (being the very next day that Qu. Mary died) in Fifteen hundred fifty and eight, aged 58. years: Whereupon his body being carried to Canterbury in the latter end of Decemb. year 1558 following, was buried with solemnity in the Cathedral there, within the Chapel of St. Thomas the Martyr, being, as yet (1689.) the last Archb. of that See that hath been there buried. See more of him in his life written in the Italian tongue by Ludou. Bacatellus sometimes Domestic to this great Cardinal, and afterwards advanced to the Archbishopric of Rhaguse for his rare piety and learning; translated into Latin by Andr. Duditius S●ordellatus Episc. Tininiensis— Ven. 1563. qu. Who afterwards left his Religion and became a Protestant and Socinian.  
HUGH WESTON was a Leycestershire Man born, entered a Student in Balliol Coll. about 1526, took the Degree of Bach. of Arts 1530, about which time being chose Fellow of Lincoln Coll. (I mean into one of those Fellowships founded by Edw. Derby) he proceeded in his Faculty, studied Physic, and was afterwards one of the Proctors of the University. In 1538, he was elected Rector of the said College, was admitted the year after to the reading of the sentences, and in 1540 he proceeded in Divinity. About which time he was made Margaret Professor, Archdeacon of Colchester, and Rector of Cliff in Kent. In the first of Qu. Marry he had the Deanery of Westminster bestowed on him, in the place of Dr. Ric. Cox, was made prolecutor of the convocation of the whole Clergy of the Diocese of Canterbury; where in speaking and acting he behaved himself with great commendation. The same year being forced to leave the said Deanery to make room for Dr. Joh. Fekenham the former Abbot of Westminster and the Monks, had that of Windbore bestowed upon him, an. 1556. But being taken in adultery (as some say) was deprived of the said Deanery by Card. Pole Archb. of Canterbury, in 1557. Whereupon looking on himself as much abused, did appeal to an higher Power. So that being about to take a journey to Rome to complain to his holiness, was seized, and clapped up Prisoner within the Tower of London, where as I conceive he died. Jo. Leland 
a In Principum ac illustr. aliquot virorum, etc. Encomiis. p. 86. & in Cygnea Cant. edit. Lond, 1658. p. 22.  gives him the character of a noted Preacher and Orator of his time, and seems to intimate that he had written several Books. Jo. Bale, who speaks well of few Men, saith 
b In his Declaration of Edm. Bonner's articles— Lond. 1561. fol. 69.  that he had been sore bitten with a Winchester goose, and was not as yet (1554) healed thereof: And tells us of his old familiar Mary Huckvale of Oxford and of his provider Goodwife Person, and Chrystian Thompson the Widow, and I know not what. Another 
c Mich. Wood a Printer, in his epist. to the Reader before Steph. Garamers' Oration de vera obedientia, p●. at Rouen, 1553.  equal with Bale in scurrilities, saith that Hugh Weston is a drunken burnt tail man, a bawdy beast, a lecherous locust, a companion with courtesans of Coleman hedge— more meet to be coupled with his old playfellow and pack-borse Goodwife Hugfaile at Oxon, at the tail of a Cart, than to be reverenced and reputed a Maiden Priest in good Queen mary's Court. But to let pass this brutish language, more fit to be spoken at Billingsgate than by a Person that made Divinity his delight, I must tell you that there goes under this Dr. Weston's name,  
Oratio coram patribus & clero habita 16. Oct. 1553. The beginning of which is Cum Demosthenes totius Graeciae lumen, etc. Lond. 1553. oct.  
Disputations with Cranmer, Ridley and Latimer in the Diunity School at Oxon. an. 1554.— At which time he was Moderator in the disputations of several Doctors had with them, as you may see at large in Joh. Fox his Book of Acts and Monuments of the Church, etc. wherein are also several conferences, and discourses of the said H. Weston had with other Persons. At length he giving way to fate within the Tower of London, (as it seems) in the Month of Decemb. year 1558 in Fifteen hundred fifty and eight, was buried before the image of the Crucifix, in the middle of the Church belonging to the Hospital of the Savoy, situated in the Strand near to London. In his will dat. 26. Nou. 1558, made within the Tower of London, he bestowed most of his wealth on pious and public uses, took a great deal of care about the ceremoney to be performed at his burial, and for the praying for his Soul by several Persons in several places, as moneys for a Dirige and Mass to be performed (1) By the Master and Fellows of Balliol Coll. (2) By the Rector and Fellows of Lincoln Coll. (3) By the Chapl. or Priest of the University of Oxon. (4) By the Priest at Islip near Oxon. of which perhaps he had been Rector (5) By the Priest of Burton Novery in Leycestershire, at which place (if I mistake not) he had received his first breath, because his Brethren lived there, etc. with many other things therein, which not only showed him to be a zealous Catholic, but also a Person of a public spirit.  
WILLIAM FORREST was related to John Forrest before-mentioned, but where born, I cannot justly say, spent several years in study among the Oxonians, and was there a Student, when the question was discussed among the Doctors and Masters concerning the divorce of King Hen. 8. from his Royal Consort Qu. Catherine in 1530, as in the life of the said Queen (which I shall anon mention) appeareth. He was a Priest, and had preferment in the Church, was well skilled in Music and Poetry, had a collection of the choicest compositions in Music that were then in use: Which coming after his death into the hands of Dr. Heather founder of the Musical Praxis in this University, he gave them to the public School thereof, where they yet continue, and are kept only as matters of antiquity. Among them are the compositions of Joh. Taverner of Boston, sometimes Organist of Cardinal Coll. in Oxon; of Joh. Merbeck Org. of Windsor, Rob. Fairfax a Doctor of Music of Cambridge, Dr. Christ. Tie, Joh. Sheppard, John Norman, etc. All the Books that our Author Forrest hath composed (which have as yet come to my view) were written in English Poetry, such as was commonly used in the Reigns of Hen. 8. and Ed. 6. The titles of which follow.  
A true and most notable History of a right noble and famous Lady, produced in Spain, entitled the second Gresield, practised not long out of this time, in much part tragedous, as delectable both to hearers and readers— This is a MS. containing the life of Queen Catherine, the first Wife of K. Hen. 8. and is by the Author dedicated to Qu. Marry, he being then Chaplain to her. 'tis a broad thin Folio, written very fairly on Vellum, and seems to be the very same (it being now my proper Book) that the Author presented to the said Queen. There be many things in it, that are very zealously written against the Heretics of those times, as he calls them, which plainly shows him to be entirely devoted to the Church of Rome. And though there be no great strains in it, yet the historical part of it is good, (if not too much partiality therein) and I have discovered from the said Book, many things relating to the Affairs of Oxon, acted during the time of the said divorce, which I could never see elsewhere. The beginning of the prologue to Qu. Mary is this, As nature hath no inclination, etc. and of the work itself, Writers have many endeavoured their pains, etc. Throughout the whole History, the Author makes use of the name of Grysild the second for Qu. Catherine, and the name of Walter for K. Hen. 8. At the end of it (contained in 20 Chapters) is this written, Here endeth the History of Grysilde the seconde, duly meaning Qu. Catharine, Mother to our most dread Sovereign Lady Qu. Marry, fynysched the 25. day of June, the Year of hour Lord. 1558. by the simple and unlearned Sir William Forrest Preeiste, propria manus.— At the end of the said History, is written in verse also,  
An Oration consolatory to Queen Mary— 'Tis contained in six leaves, and hath this beginning, Among much inward profound perpending, etc. This Book richly bound in laced Satin, hath on every brass boss at each corner, this sentence embossed in an English Character, Ave Maria, Gratia plena. Our Author Forrest hath also written in old English verse,  
The tragedious Troubles of the most chaste and innocent Joseph, Son to the holy Patriarch Jacob— MS. in two vol. in fol. dedicated to Thom. Haward Duke of Norfolk, written curiously on Vellum, and sometime in the Library of Joh. Theyer of Coopershill near to the City of Gloucester, Gent. Which, with the rest of the MSS belonging to that person, coming by sale into the hands of Rob. Scot of London, Bookseller, he sold them for the use of the King's Library at S. James. Robert Earl of Alesbury had a Copy of the said History of Joseph, but whether it was the very same that belonged to Mr. Theyer, I cannot justly say. He had also these following MSS written by the said Will. Forrest, viz.  
Poems upon several Occasions— MS. fol.  
Certain meditations and Prayers necessary of a Christian— MS. fol. in prose and verse.  
Treatise of Heretics and their properties. Of faith, works, and justification.  
Glass of charity on the seven penitential Psalms.  
Consolation against temptation. Of Penance.  
Against desperation of the last judgement. A Mirror of Christianity.  
That Heretics are not to be disputed withal.  
Several Tracts in defence of the Articles of the Church of Rome.  
MS. in two vol. in fol.  
What other Books he hath written, I know not, nor any thing else of him, only that he was in great esteem among the Rom. 
Clar. 1558.  Catholics in Fifteen hundred fifty and eight, which was part of the last Year of Queen Mary, and part of the first of Qu. Elizabeth.  
JOHN FEILD a Londoner born, was, as it seems, educated in this University, because I find several of both his names and of his time to have taken one degree or more therein, and one John Feild to have supplicated for a degree in Arts in the month of July 1519. Afterterwards leaving the University, he went to another, as 'tis probable, and at length retiring to his native place wrote and published,  
Ephemeris pro an. 1557. To which is prefixed a Learned Epistle written by Dr. Jo. Dee.  
Fphemerides trium annorum, an. 1558, 59 & 60, etc. ex Erasmi Reìnholdi tabulis accuratissimè ad meridianum Civitatis Londinensis, supputatae. Lond. 1558. Octob. 28. in qu.  
Canon Ascensionum obliquarum cujusvis stellae non excedentis 8 gradus Latitudinis confectus. Printed with the Ephemerideses.  
Tabula stellarum fixarum insigniorum, qua & ortus, occasus, ac utriusque caete meditationes earum ad ooulum patebant, etc. Printed with the said Ephemerideses also. What else he hath published I find not, nor any thing memorable of him besides, only that he was much in renown for his learning in the Reign of Q. Marry, and beginning of Queen Elizabeth. I find another John Field or Felled, 
Clar. 1558.  who was a Citizen of London, a zealous Protestant and a great enemy to Sir Thomas More, John Fisher Bishop of Rochester, and John Rastal; who having published certain matters, is numbered among the English writers by John Bale, 
* In lib. De Script. Maj. Brit. p. 104. inter cent. 12. & 13.  who tells us that he died at London, an. 1546. See another John Field under the year 1587.  
JOHN PLOUGH Son of Christopher Plough of the Borough of Nottingham, and Nephew to John Plough Rector of St. Peter's Church in the said Town, was born there, spent several years in obtaining Academical learning in this University, supplicated in the latter end of 1543. for the degree of Bach. of the Civil-Law, but whether he was ever admitted it appears not. At that time, if I mistake not, he was Rector of the said Church, the advouson of which for one turn, his Uncle bought for him of Thomas Hobson the Prior, and Convent, of Lenton, before the year 1538, for in that year the Uncle died. Afterwards our Author John Plough became a zealous Minister of God's word in the time of King Edward VI but flying beyond the Sea in Queen Mary's Reign, wrote one or more of the Books following at Basil, where he mostly resided.  
An Apology for the Protestants— Written in answer to a Book against the English Protestants that was penned and published by one Miles Hogeard of London Hosier, the first Trader of Mechanic that appeared in Print for the Catholic cause, I mean one that had not received any Monastical or Academical breeding. Beside our Author Plough, wrote against him one William k an Exile at Frankford in the Reign of Queen Mary, and Robert Crowley. The said Plough also wrote,  
Treatise against the mitred men in the Popish Kingdom.  
The sound of the doleful Trumpet— When or where, either of these three was printed, I cannot tell, for I have not yet seen them. 
Clar. 1558.  He was living at Basil in great esteem among the Exiled Protestants in the latter end of Queen Mary, and whether he lived to return when Queen Elizabeth succeeded, I cannot yet find.  
GEORGE LILYE Son of William Lilye the famous Grammarian, whom I have before mentioned, was born, as I conceive, near to S. Paul's Cathedral within the City of London, educated for a time, as it seems, in Magdalen Coll. which house was seldom or never without a Lilye (understand me not that it bears Three Lilies for its Arms) from the first foundation thereof to the latter end of Queen Elizabeth. After he had left the University without a degree, he traveled to Rome, where he was received with all humanity into the protection of Cardinal Pole, and became noted there for his singular parts in various sorts of Learning. Some time after his return he was made Canon of S. Paul's Cathedral, and afterwards Prebendary of Canterbury; which last dignity, he had, I suppose, by the gift of the said Cardinal when he was Archbishop of that place. While he was Canon of S. Paul he set up a Monument to the memory of his learned Father, in the Inscription of which, this George is styled Canon of that Church. His writings are,  
Anglorum Regum Chronices Epitome. Ven. 1548. Francof. 1565. qu. Bas. 1577. etc.  
Lancastrii & Eboracensis de regno contentiones.  
Regum Angliae Genealogia.  
Both Printed with the former Book.  
Elogia Virorum illustrium.  
Cat. sive Series Pontificum & Caesarum Romanorum, besides a Table or Map of Britain, with other things which I have not yet seen. At length taking his last farewell of this world in the beginning of the year, fifteen hundred fifty and nine, year 1559 (which was the first year of Queen Elizabeth) was buried, as I suppose, near the body of his Father.  
CUTHBERT TONSTALL a singular ornament to his native Country, and a person (notwithstanding the baseness of his birth, being begotten 
a Will. Harrison in his Historical Descript. of the Island of Britain, lib. 1. cap. 24.  by one Tonstall, upon a Daughter of the Comers, as Leland saith) of great learning and judgement, received his first breath at Hatchford in Richmondshire, in the year 1476. or thereabouts, became a Student in the University of Oxon. about 1491, particulary, as some 
b Brian. Twine in Antiq. Acad. Oxon. Apol. lib. 3. sect 242, & Mil. Windsor Alumnus Coll. Ball. in initio Mariae Reginae, in Collectaneis suis, MS.  will have it, in Balliol College, and whether he took a degree, or degrees, we have no Register of that time to show it. Afterwards, as 'tis farther added, he was forced to leave Oxon. because of a Plague that happened in his time, and went to Cambridge, but making no long stay there, he traveled to the University of Padoüa in Italy, then most flourishing in Literature; where he became noted to all ingenious men for his forward and pregnant parts. After his return, being then, as it seems, Doctor of the Laws, but not of Cambridge, he had divers dignities and places of trust conferred upon him successively: Among which I find the Archdeaconry of Chester to be one, a Prebendship in the Church of York another, the Vicarship General to Dr. Warham Archbishop of Canterbury a third. Afterwards he was Master of the Rolls, keeper of the Privy Seal; was employed in one or more Embasies, made Dean of Salisbury in the place of Dr. Joh. Longland, in the Month of June 1521, and at length Bishop of London, to which See he was consecrated 19 Octob. 1522. Whereupon his Deanery was bestowed on one Reymund Pade, in January following. Two years after, he, with Sir Rich. Wingfield Knight of the Garter and Chancellor of the Duchy of Lanc. were sent Ambassadors into Spain, and in 1530. he was translated to Durham. From which See being ejected for his Religion in the time of K. Ed. 6. was restored by Queen Mary in the beginning of her Reign, but thrust out thence again in 1559. when Qu. Elizabeth was settled in her Throne. He was a Man passing well seen in all kind of more polished literature, a Person very rare and admirable, and in whom, no Man in his time did reprehend any thing, but his Religion, except foul-mouthed Bale, who calls him 
d In lib. De illust. script. cent. 9 nu. 34.  Melancholicus & Saturninus somniator atque excogitator omnium malorum, and another 
e Mich. Wood in his Epist. to the Reader before his translation of Steph. Gardiner's Oration, De vera obedientia, Printed at Rouen, 1553. in oct.  as bad as he, who runs upon the same strain— a still dreaming Saturn— a plotter of Mischief, and I know not what. There was scarce any kind of good literature, in which he was not excellent. He was a very good Grecian and Ebritian, an eloquent Rhetorician, a skilful Mathematician, a noted Civilian and Canonist, and a profound Divine. But that which maketh for his greatest commendation, is, that Erasmus was his friend, and he a fast friend to Erasmus, in an Epistle to whom from Sir Thom. More, I find this character of Tonstall, that As there was no Man more adorned with knowledge and good literature, no Man more severe and of greater integrity for his life and manners; so there was no Man a more sweet and pleasant companion, with whom a Man would rather choose to converse. He hath written and published,  
De arte supputandi, lib. 4. Lond. 1522. qu. dedic. to Sir Tho. More. Afterwards it was printed at several places beyond the Seas. I find honourable mention of it in the Preface of Sim. Grynaeus to Euclid in Greek, with the Scholia of Theon on it. Which Book was published by the said Grynaeus and dedicated to Tonstall.  
In laudem matrimonii. Oratio habita in sponsalibus Mariae filiae Hen. 8. & Francisci Francorum Regis primogeniti. Lond. 1518. qu.  
Sermon on Palm-Sunday before K. Hen. 8. on Philippians 2. from ver. 5. to 12. Lond. 1539. and 1633. qu.  
De veritate corporis & sanguinis Domini in Eucharistiâ, lib. 2. Lutet. 1554. in qu. Concerning the printing, and authenticalness of the said Book, you may see at large in Dr. George Carleton's Life of Bern. Gilpin, printed at Lond. 1628. p. 12. 13. 33.  
Compendium in decem libros Ethicorum Aristotelis. Par. 1554. oct.  
Contra impios Blasphematores dei predestinationis opus. Antw. 1555. qu.  
Godly and devout prayers in English and Lat.— Printed 1558. in oct.  
His and the Letter of Joh. Stokesley B. of Lond. to Cardinal Reginald Pole. Lond. 1560. and 79. qu. The beginning is, For the good will we have born to you, etc. It shows the Bishop of Rome to have no special superiority over other Bishops. He hath also made two thousand faults and noted many corruptions in William Tyndales translation of the New Testament, and hath written several Epistles to Budeus, and a Book against the Supremacy of the Bishop of Rome, as Bale saith; which, as I conceive, is his Letter to Card. Pole before-mentioned. But that, or his faults on Tyndale, or Epistles, I have not yet seen. At length being deprived of his Bishopric of Durham (as I have before told you) about Midsummer, in 1559. was then, as 'tis said, committed to free custody at Lambeth with Matthew Archb. of Canterbury, but how that can be, seeing that the said Matthew was not consecrated Archbishop till 17. Dec. 1559. I cannot yet perceive. With him also, 'tis farther said, that he continued four Months, and that dying on the 18. year 1559 of Nou. in Fifteen hundred fifty and nine (which was a full month before Dr. Matthew Parker was consecrated) was buried at the charges of the said Matthew in the Chancel of the Parochial Church of Lambeth in Surrey. Over his grave was a fair Marble stone soon after laid, with an Epitaph engraven thereon, made by Dr. Walter Haddon an admirer of his learning and virtues. Joh. Leland who calls him Dunostallus hath bestowed a collation (not without desert) upon him, as also upon his Friend Budaeus beforementioned, which you may see in his Encomia, Trophaea, etc. p. 45.  
JOHN BEKINSAU, a younger Son of Joh. Bekinsau an inhabitant of Hampshire, but a native of Bekinsau in Lancashire, where his name was ancient and gentile, received his first breath at Broadchalke in Wilts. and his Grammatical education in Wykeham's School near Winchester. At which place being made soon ripe for the University, was sent to New Coll. where after he had served two Years of probation, was admitted perpetual Fellow, in 1520. In 1526. he completed the degree of M. of A. being that year about to take a journey beyond the Seas for the sake of study, as one of the University registers informs me; at which time he was esteemed in his Coll. a most admirable Grecian. But whether he did then, or after, perform his journey, it doth not farther appear there. Sure I am that I find it entered upon 
† In Offic. Armorum Londini in Reg. vel lib. C. fol 72. b.  record that John Beconsaw second Son of John Beconsaw of Hartley-Wespell in Hampshire, (born at Beconsaw in Lancashire) was Reader of the Greek Lecture at Paris, and afterwards came over and died at Sherburne in Hampshire. In 1538. John Bekinsau left his Fellowship of New Coll. because he had then taken a Wife, but what preferment or employment he had afterwards, I know not. At that time he was acquainted with, and had in veneration by, the most learned Men of the Nation, among whom was John Leland the famous Antiquary and Historian, who in his 
* In Encomiis, Trophaeis, etc. eruditorum in Anglia virorum. p. 91.  Poetry doth speak several things to his honour, of his being bred in Oxon, and of his studying at Paris, with several other things, which show him to have been a great Scholar. In 1546. when he saw that the Pope's power was quite exterminated, he wrote a Book entit.  
De supremo & absoluto Regis imperio. Lond. 1546. oct. Printed also in the first vol. of Monarchia S. Romani imperii, etc. by Melchior Goldast. Hamensfeldius— Franc. 1621. fol. The Author Bekinsau did dedicate it to K. Hen. 8. with whom, as also with K. Ed. 6. he was in some value; but when Qu. Mary came to the Crown, and endeavoured to alter all what her Father and Brother had done, as to the reformation of the Church; then did he wheel about, change his mind, and became a zealous Person for the Church of Rome, and a hater of Protestants. After Queen Elizabeth was fettled in the Throne, he retired to an obscure Town called Sherbourne in Hampshire, where giving way to fate in great discontent, was buried in the Church of that place 20. year 1559 Decemb. in Fifteen hundred fifty and nine, aged about 63 years, leaving then behind him this character among the R. Catholics, that As he was a learned Man, so might he have been promoted according to his deserts, had his principles been constant.  
ALBAYN'S HILL was a Britain born, as 
f Joh. Bale in lib. De script. c●nt. 9 nu 38.  one that knew him tellus, partly educated in this, and partly in another University, (beyond the Sea, as it seems) where applying his studies to the faculty of Physic he proceeded Doctor, and became famous for it at London, not only for the Theoretic but practic part, and much beloved and admired by all learned Men, especially by Dr. John Cay and Dr. Joh. Friar two eminent Physicians of Cambridge. One 
g Bassian Lan●●s de Placentia, in 〈◊〉 corp. 〈◊〉 lib. 2. cap. XI.  that lived in his time styles him Medicus nobilissimus atque optimus, & in omni literarum genere maxime versatus, and tells us, that he wrote several things on Galen, which are printed, and by others cited. This is all that I know of this learned Person, only that he died 26 Dec. in Fifteen hundred fifty and nine, year 1559 and that he was buried not far from the grave of his friend and contemporary Dr. Edw. Wotton in the Church of St. Alban situated in Woodstreet in London; in which Parish he had lived many years in great respect, and was esteemed one of the chief Parishioners. Alice his Widow, who died on the last day of May 1580. was buried by him, and both had a substantial Grave-stone, with an inscription on it, laid over them, but that of it which was left part in 1666. was utterly consumed in the grand conflagration of London.  
NICHOLAS BRIGHAM Esquire, was born, if I mistake not, at, or near to, Caversham in Oxfordshire, (where his elder Brother Thom. Brigham had lands of inheritance, and died there 6. Ed. 6. but descended from those of Brigham in Yorks.) received his Academical education in this University, particularly, as I conceive, in Hart Hall, wherein I find several of his Surname (without Christian names before them) to have studied in the time of Hen. 8. but whether he took a Degree, it doth not appear in our registers that are somewhat imperfect in the latter end of that King's Reign. When he continued in the University, and afterwards in one of the Inns of Court, he exercised his muse much in Poetry, and took great delight in the works of Jeffry Chaucer: For whose memory he had so great a respect, that he removed his bones into the South cross Isle or trancept of St. Peter's Church in Westminster, in the Year 1556. Which being so done, he erected a comely Monument over them, with Chaucer's Effigies, and an Epitaph in Prose and Verse; which to this day remains against the East Wall of the said Isle. At riper years our Author Brigham addicted himself much to the study of the municipal Law, became noted for it, and without doubt had not death snatched him untimely away, he would have communicated some Specimen of that faculty to the World. His genie also was much inclined to English History, in which faculty he published a Book, which some 
h Joh. Bale. & Joh. 〈◊〉  entitle,  
De venationibus rerum memorabilum. It contains the discovery or finding out of several memories of eminent Men of, and things done in, England. Which being perused by John Bale, he hath culled out many things thence for his purpose, and quotes it when he hath occasion to mention several eminent Writers. See in his Book De Scriptorib. Maj. Britan. cent. 10. nu. 72. cent. 11. num. 6. 42. 52. 95. etc. and in cent. 12. nu. 24. 79. 82. 95. etc.  
Memoires by way of Dia●e, in 12 Books.— And wrote also his youth.  
Miscellaneous Poems.— with other things which I have not seen, being, as I suppose, irrecoverable and quite lost. This ingenious and curious Person, who was admirably well versed in Histories and Antiquities, yielded up his last breath to the great regret of all those that knew his worth, within the City of Westminster in the month of Dec. in Fifteen hundred fifty and nine, year 1559 (which was the second year of Queen Elizabeth) but where buried, unless near to the bones of Chaucer, I cannot tell.  
JOHN white Brother to Sir Joh. white L. Mayor of London an. 1563. Son of Rob. white of Farnham in Surrey, Son of Joh. white of the same place; Son of Thom. white of Purvyle in Hampshire, was born at Farnham before mentioned, educated in Grammar learning in Wykeham's School near Winchester, admitted true and perpetual Fellow of New Coll. in 1527, took the Degrees in Arts, that of Master being completed in an Act celebrated 23 March 1533-4 left his Fellowship in 1534. being about that time Master of the said School, in the place of Rich. Tuchiner. Afterwards he was made Warden of the College near to Winchester, was elected Bishop of Lincoln upon the deprivation of Dr. Joh. Tayler; the Temporalities of which were 
i Pat. 1. R. Mar. p. 1.  restored to him 2. May 1554, he being then Bach. of Divinity. In the beginning of Octob. 1555. he was incorporated Doctor of his faculty, and soon after, upon the death of Dr. St. Gardiner he was translated to Winchester, the Temporalities of which, were also restored 
k Pat. 3. & 4. R. Phil. & Mar. p 6.  to him, 30. May 1557. Of some of which gradual rises Dr. Christoph. Johnson one of his successors in the Mastership of Winchester School, made this distich.  
Me puero custos, Ludi paulo ante Magister Vitus, & hâc demum praesul in urbe fuit.  
He was a Man of an austere life, and much more mortified to the World than Step. Gardiner his Predecessor. He was eminent also for piety and learning, was an eloquent Orator, a solid Divine, a nervous Preacher, & poetica facultate, ut tempora ferebant, tolerabilis, as Camden 
l Camden in Annal. Elizab. sub an. 1559.  tells us. His fame and actions did well answer his name, and so did all Men say, how contrary soever to him in Religion, only for one black Sermon that he made, he gave offence, yet for the colour, it may be said he kept decorum, because it was a funeral Sermon of a great Queen by birth and marriage, I mean Qu. Mary: The offence taken against him was this. His 
m See in the Brief view of the state of the Church of England, etc. by Jo. Harrington Knight, Lond. 1653. p. 59 60.  Text was out of Eccles. 4. 2. Laudavi mortuos magis quam viventes, & feliciorem utroque judicave qui nec dum damnatus est. And speaking of Qu. Marry her high parentage, her bountiful disposition, her great gravity, her rare devotion, (praying so much, as, he affirmed, that her knees were hard with kneeling) her justice and clemency in restoring noble houses to her own private loss and hindrance, and lastly her grievous and patient death, he fell into such an unfeigned weeping, that for a long space he could not speak. Then recovering himself, he said she had left a Sister to succeed her, a Lady of great worth also, whom, they were now bound to obey; for saith he, melior est canis vivus leone mortuo, and I hope so shall Reign well and prosperously over us, but I must say still with my Text Laudavi mortuos magis quam viventes, for certain it is Maria optimam partem elegit. Afterwards Queen Elizabeth taking just indignation, 〈◊〉, partly for his Sermon, and partly for that he was a zealous Man for the R. Catholic cause, and an enemy to the reformers of Religion, commit him to custody; and for threatening (as 'tis said) to excommunicate her, (as Watson Bishop of Lincoln did) was deprived of his Bishopric, for which he paid yearly 1000 l. to Cardinal Pole to keep up his state and dignity. His works are,  
Diacosio Martyrion, i. e. ducentorum virorum testimonia, de veritate corporis, & sanguinis Christi in Eucharistiâ, ante triennium, adversus Petr. Martyrem, ex professo conscriptum, sed nunc primum in lucem editum. Lond. 1553. qu. in Lat. verse.  
Epistola Petro Martyri. This is printed with the former Book, and treateth mostly of Martyrs disputation at Oxon. in K. Edward's days, and is in vindication of Dr. Rich. Smith, who disputed with, and baffled, him.  
Epigrammatum, lib. 1. Carmina in Matrimon. Philippi Regis, cum Maria Regina Angliae.  
Sermon Preached at the Funeral of Qu. Mary 13. Dec. 1558. on Eccles. 4. 2.— MS. in the Libr. sometimes of Rich. Smith Secondary of the Poultrey-Compter. You'll find also several of his discourses in the Acts and Mon. of the Church, etc. published by Joh. Fox, and also his discourse with Bishop Rydley at Oxon 30. Sept. 1555, when he was about to be burnt, exhorting him to return from his Heresy, as he then termed it. See also in Rob. Persons his animadversions on that discourse in The third part of a treatise intit. Of three conversions of England, etc. Printed 1604. Chap. 14. p. 209. At length our Author Jo. white being deprived of his Bishopric in June 1559. he retired to his Sister's house at Southwarnborow in Hampshire, where spending the little remainder of his days in great sanctity and recluseness, 
1559-60.  gave way to fate on the eleventh day of January following. Whereupon his body was soon after carried to Winchester, and buried in the Cathedral there according to his will, which partly runs thus— My desire is to be buried in that my Cathedral of Winchester, ut in novissima die resurgam cum patribus & filiis quorum fidem teneo, etc. While he was Warden of the Coll. near Winchester, and dreamed not in the least to be removed thence to a Bishopric, he provided a Tomb stone for himself to be laid on the ground in the Chapel belonging to the said Coll. with intentions to be buried under it, by the care of his Heir and Executor, whensoever it should please God to call him out of this transitory life, and caused to be engraven twenty long and short verses of his own composition, under his picture, engraven on a brass plate, and fastened to the said stone. The two first are these.  
Hic tegor hic post fata Whitus propono jacere Scriptor Johannis carminis ipse mei.  
But being afterwards contrary to all expectation promoted successively to two Bishoprics by Qu. Mary, his mind was altered, as I have before told you. He gave to Wykeham's Coll. near Winchester his Mitre and Crosier staff, a silver tankard guilt, a basin and eure of silver, a Turkey-carpet and other choice goods; and some years before his death he was a Benefactor to New Coll. as you may see in Hist. & Antiq. Univers. Oxon. lib. 2. p. 131. b.  
JAMES break another most zealous Bishop for the Rom. Catholic cause, was born in Hampshire in the Month of May 1512, admitted Scholar of Corp. Chr. Coll. 1528, and Fellow in Jan. 1531, being then Bach. of Arts. Afterwards proceeding in his faculty, he applied his studies to Divinity, took the degrees in that faculty, that of Doctor being completed 1546. The next Year he was made Master of Balliol Coll. and at length by Qu. Mary Bishop of Gloucester; to which See being elected after the deprivation of Joh. Hoper, had restitution 
n P●t. 1. Reg. 〈◊〉, p. 1.  made to him of the Temporalities belonging thereunto, 8. May 1554, and in the Year following he was delegated by the Pope for the examining and trying of Cranmer, Rydley and Latimer, when they stood up for, and were ready to die in defence of, the Protestant Religion. He was a Person very learned in the time he lived, an eloquent Preacher, and a zealous maintainer of the R. C. Religion, as well in his Sermons as Writings: Some of which are published, as,  
Sermon at Paul's Cross in the first Year of Qu. Marry, on Matth. 9 18. Lond. 1553. 54 oct.  
Oration in S. Mary's Church in Oxon, 12. March 1555, to Thom. Cranmer Archbishop of Canterbury— The beginning is, My Lord, at this present we are come to you as commissioners, etc.  
Oration in closing up the examination of Th. Cranmer Archbishop of Cant.— The beg. is, Mr. Cranmer (I cannot otherwise, considering your obstinacy) I am right sorry, etc. These two Orations are printed by John Fox in his Book of Acts and Monuments of the Church, etc. (wherein you'll find some of his discourses with Rydley) after they had been published by themselves. What else is extant under his name, I know not, nor anything of him besides, only that he dying in the beginning of Feb. (about Candlemass) in Fifteen hundred fifty and nine (which was the second year of Qu. 
1559-60.  Elizabeth) was buried in a stone Coffin in his Cathedral Church at Gloucester, but hath no memory over his Grave.  
ROGER EDGEWORTH another zealot, and a frequent Preacher against Protestants, called in his time Heretics, was born at Holt castle within the Marches of Wales, became a student in Oxon about 1503, took a degree in Arts in 1507, and the Year after was elected Fellow of Or●el College, to which place he was a benefactor at the time of his death. Afterwards, proceeding in the said faculty, he took holy orders, and became a noted Preacher in the University and elsewhere. In 1519, he was admitted to the reading of the Sentences, and afterwards became very well dignified, as Canon of Salisbury, Well and Bristol, (being then D. of D) Residentiary of the Cathedral of Wells, and Chancellor of the same Church. The last of which dignities was 
p Reg. Gilb. Bourne Ep. B & Wells, quod incipit 20. Ap● 1551.  conferred on him 30. Apr. 1554 upon the deprivation of Joh. Tayler alias Card-maker. Besides all these he was Vicar also of St. Cuthberts' Church in Wells, to which he was admitted, 3. Oct. 1543, upon the death of Joh. Southwode LL. D. When King Hen. 8. had extirpated the Pope's power, he seemed to be very moderate, and also in the Reign of K. Ed. 6. but when Qu. Mary succeeded, he showed himself a most zealous Person for the Roman Catholic Religion, and a great enemy to Luther and Reformers. His works are,  
Sermons fruitful, godly and learned Lond. 1557. qu. containing (1) A declaration of the seven gifts of the holy ghost. (2) A Homely of the articles of Christian Faith. (3) Homely of Ceremonies and of man's Laws. (4) A perfect exposition of St. Peter's first Epistle in XX treatises or Sermons. What other things he hath published I cannot yet find, neither should I have known any thing of the said Fruitful Sermons, had I not accidentally seen them in that choice collection of Books in Balliol Coll. Library, given thereunto by the no less curious, than learned Sir Thom. Wendy Knight of the Bath, sometimes Gentleman-commoner of the said House. This Dr. Edgeworth took his last farewell of this World in the beginning of the Year Fifteen hundred and sixty, year 1560 and was directly buried before the choir door in the Cathedral Church at Wells: Whereupon Dr. Gilbert Bourne Bishop of that place, did present or collate to the said Chancellourship of the Church of Wells, one Gilbert Bournford Bachelaur of Divinity, on the second day of April in the same Year.  
THOMAS PHAYER was born in Wales, particularly, as it seems, in Pembrokeshire, had his Academical education among the Oxonians, whom, after some years, he left, and retired to the Inns of Court, (Lincoln's Inn as I conceive) where at length he attained to a considerable knowledge in the municipal Laws. Afterwards, being a Person of a mutable mind, he eagerly addicted his Muse to the study of Medicine, took the Degrees in that faculty in this University, that of Doctor being completed in an Act celebrated 21. Mar. 1558-9. at which time he was much famed among the Academians for his sufficiencies in the Art of Poetry, which afterwards were made public. He hath committed to posterity these Books following of his writing and translation.  
Of the nature of Writts.— Whether the same with that written by the great Lawyer Anth. Fitzherbert, who lived before Phayers time, I know not.  
Exemplars of common places for the writing of several sorts of Instruments— It is the same which we now call A Book of precedents. I have a MS. lying by me written on parchment in the time of H. 6. or Ed. 4. containing Copies of all matters to be used by Lawyers, but who the compiler of it was, I cannot tell. In the beginning of it, is written in a pretty ancient character, George Hardley.  
A goodly brief treatise of the pestilence, with the causes, signs and cures of the same. Lond. 1544. and 46. oct.  
Declaration of the veins of man's body, and to what diseases and infirmities the opening of every one of them do serve.— This is printed with the former Book, an. 1544. etc.  
A Book of children— And this also, which treats of the grief and diseases of Children.  
Remedies, or prescriptions of Physic for the Body— Published by Hen. Holland, 1603. whom I shall mention at the end of Hen. Holland, under the Year 1625. He also translated from French into English, The regiment of Life. Lond. 1544. and 46. oct. and from Lat. into English, Nine Books of Virgil's Aencidos. The three first of which were by him finished in the Forest of Kilgarran in Pembrokshire, in the Year 1555. The fourth at the same place, an. 1556. The fifth in 1557, being ended 3. May, just after the translator had undergone a great danger at Ca●rmerden. The sixth and seventh were also finished by him in the same Year and in the same place. The eighth, there also in Kilgarran forest, an. 1558. The ninth was ended 3. Apr. 1560. The tenth was begun by him in the said Year, but died, as it seems, before he could go through it. Afterwards a young Physician named Tho. Twine meeting with the aforesaid translations in MS. he finished the said tenth Aeneid, 23. May, an. 1573. Which being done he translated the eleventh, twelfth, and thirteenth Aeneidos, and published them altogether, an. 1584. as I shall tell you elsewhere. As for Dr. Phaer he ended his days at Kilgarran beforementioned, after the 12. of Aug. (on which day his last will 
q In Offic. praereg. Cant. in reg. Lostes. Qu. 23.  and testament was dated) in Fifteen hundred and sixty, year 1560 and was buried in the Parish Church of that place. Over his grave was a Marblestone soon after laid, with an Epitaph engraven thereon, made and devised by his good friend Mr. George Ferrer of Lincoln's. Inn, but what the contents of it are, I know not, nor of any other Epitaph made for him, only 
r In lib. suo cui tu est De illustrium quorundam encomiis & Epitaphits nonmillis, etc. Lond. 1579 qu. p. 356. 357.  that by Sir Thom. Chaloner a most noted Latin Poet of his time, who having been well acquainted with the Doctor, doth in a pathetical manner highly commend him for his learning and great skill in Physic. He the said Doctor left behind him a Widow named Anne, and two Daughters, Eleanor the Wife of Gruffith ap Eynon, and Mary.  
THOMAS ROBERTSON was a Yorkshire Man born, (either at, or near, Wakefeild) was originally, I think, of Queens, afterwards Demie or Semicommoner of Magdalen, College, Master of the School joining to it in the place of Joh. Stanbridge, Master of Arts 1525, at which time he was a great Oppugner 
s Reg. Uniu. Ox. H. fol. 138. b.  and Vilifier of the Questionists in the University, and at length Fellow of the said House. In 1539, he being about that time Treasurer of the Church of Salisbury in the place of Dr. Rich. Samson, supplicated the venerab. congreg. of the Regent's to be admitted to the reading of the Sentences, being then esteemed Flos & decus Oxonii, but whether he was admitted it appears not; and in 1540, he, by the favour of Longland Bishop of Lincoln, was made Archdeacon of Leycester in the place of Will. More Suffragan Bishop of Colchester deceased, in which dignity being installed 5. March the same Year, enjoyed it to 1560. as I shall anon tell you. In 1546. Jun. 3. he was instituted Vicar of Wakefield beforementioned, on the death of Dr. Tho. Knolles, by the presentation thereunto of Joh. Chambre M. D. Dean, and the convent, of the King's Chapel of the Virgin Mary and St. Stephen within the Palace of Westminster. Whereupon in the beginning of 1548. he gave up the Treasurership of Salibury, in which Dignity Thom. Stevens succeeded, 28. May the same Year. He the said Robertson was an exact Grammarian and Humanitian, and went, as 'twas thought, beyond his two Predecessors in Magd. College School, in the education of Youth. In 1532, he Printed a Comment on the rules which Will. lily wrote in verse, and added thereunto Quae Genus, and the versifying rules, dedicating it to Bishop Longland before mentioned, with reference to Henly School, which, some think, was founded, or at least enlarged, by Longland. From whose pains (I mean of Robertson) and also the variety of other men's labours in Grammar, of whom Joh. Stanbridge, Rob. Whittington, Joh. Colet and Lilye were of the number, sprang a great diversity in the course of teaching; which King Hen. 8. intending to reform, caused sundry learned Men (of whom Dr. Rich. Cox Tutor to K. Ed. 6. is supposed to be one) to reduce the former attempts in this kind into one body of Grammar, which they jointly did in 1545, being that now in use, and first authorised by K. Hen. 8. Howbeit soon after it was thought too prolix, for in the Reign of Ed. 6. John Fox of Magd. Coll. did set forth Tables of Grammar, subscribed in Print by eight Lords of the Privy Council; which Tables were quickly laid aside, as being far more too short, than K. Hen. 8. his Grammar was too long. Since which time many learned Men in England, and far more abroad, have spent much profitable study in this Art and the method thereof, as we well know. In the 3. of Ed. 6. Dom. 1549. he the said Thom. Robertson was one of the number appointed by the K. and his Council to compile and frame the Liturgy of the Church, which we now call the Common-Prayers, and in the Year 1557. Jul. 23. he had the Deanery of Durham conferred on him by the Queen, being then void upon the promotion of Dr. Tho. Watson to the See of Lincoln, (who had been instituted in the said Deanery by Tonstall Bishop of Durham 18. Nou. 1553. upon the deprivation of Dr. Rob. Horn) at which time being greatly in respect for his piety and learning, the Queen would have had him taken a Bishopric, but he modestly refused it. His works are,  
Annotationes in librum Guliel, Lilii de Latinorum nominum generibus, de verborum praeteritis & supinis, etc.  
De nominibus heteroclitis opusculum, cum annotationibus.  
De verbis defectivis append, interjectis etiam sparsim ubi opus videbatur, annotatiunculis.  
Compendium sive de arte versificandi, cum annotationibus additis. All which Books were printed together at Basil 1532. qu. What other things he hath published I know not, nor any thing else of him, only that he was forced first to leave the Deanery of Durham to make room for Dr. Horn, about the latter end of 1559, (who being soon after made Bishop of Winchester, Robertson might, if he would have taken the Oath of Supremacy, have came in again, but he refused it, whereupon Ralph skinner of Oxon succeeded) and secondly to resign his Archdeaconry of Leycester, to prevent ejection: so that the said Dignity lying void for some time, Rich Barber LL. D. was installed therein 24. Dec. 1560. What afterwards became of Tho. Robertson, 
Clar. 1560.  or where, or when, he died, let others seek, for I am totally ignorant. John Parkhurst B. of Norwich, sometimes his Scholar, hath an Epigram on him in praise of his learning, which may serve instead of his Epitaph, if you think fit.  
WILLIAM CHEADSEY, a Somersetshire Man born, was admitted Scholar of Corp. Chr. Coll. 16. March 1528. aged 18. or thereabouts, Probationer-Fellow 13. Oct. 1531 and two years after complete Fellow. In 1534, he proceeded in Arts, and in 1542, he was admitted to the reading of the Sentences, being about that time Chaplain to Dr. Bonner B. of London; who having a special respect for his learning, and zeal for the R. Catholic Religion, he made him not only Archdeacon of Middlesex, but Prebendary of St. Paul's Cathedral. In 1546 he proceeded in Divinity, having about that time subscribed to the 34 Articles, and three years after did learnedly dispute with Pet. Martyr in the Divinity School. From which time (an. 1549) he seemed so moderate in his Religion in the remaining part of the Reign of K. Ed. 6. that the Protestants took him to be one of their number. In the beginning of Qu. Marry he was made Canon of Windsor, showed himself a zealous Man against the Professors of Protestancy, and in 1557, had a Canonry of Ch. Ch. in Oxon conferred on him after the death of James Curthopp. In 1558, he was elected Precedent of Corp. Ch. Coll. and on the 15. Sept. in the same Year he was admitted thereunto, but removed from it the next Year by the Commissioners sent by Qu. Elizabeth to visit the University. About that time he was appointed one of the number of the R. Catholic Divines to repair to London, to dispute with those of the Protestant Party, when the said Queen was setting on foot a Reformation in the Church of England. He was by the Protestants accounted a very mutable and unconstant Man in his Religion, but by the Rom. Catholics not, but rather a great stickler for their Religion and the chief prop in his time in the University for the cause, as it appeared not only in his opposition of P. Martyr but of the three Bishops that were burnt in Oxon. He was a learned Man, a deep Divine, an excellent Disputant, and a characterised by John Leland 
t In. Crg. Cant. edit. Lond. 1658. p. 22.  to be resonae Scholae columna. His works are,  
Serm. on Matth. 22. 15.— Printed 1545. in oct.  
Disputatio de Eucharistiae Sacramento in Uniu. Oxon, habita contra D. Pet. Martyrem, 29. Maii & Jun. 1. an. 1549. Lond. 1549. qu. Which disputation hath also been printed once at least among Pet. Martyr's works, but whether true according to the Author's Copy, I leave it to others to judge. 'Tis also translated into English.  
Dispution with John Philpot concerning the real presence in the Sacrament, in Octob. 1553.  
Disp. with Archb. Cranmer at Oxon, an. 1554.  
Communication with B. Rydley, an. 1555.— See more in the Acts and Monuments of the Church, etc. written by Jo. Fox, wherein you'll find several of his discourses with, and examination of, Protestant Martyrs. At length he was deprived of most, if not all, of his spiritualities, and committed a Prisoner to the Fleet in London; where, 
Clar. 1561.  as 'tis supposed by some, he died soon after. However in my searches into obscure 
* In a certain Book of Wills and Testaments, beginning an. 1569. in the custody of Mr. Ben. Cooper Registrary to the Office belonging to the Bishop and Archdeac. of Oxon.  Writings, I find that one John Joanes a Priest, living at, or near, Thame in Oxfordshire, did by his last Will dated 27. of Aug. and proved the 16. of Oct. following, an. 1574, bequeath to Mr. Dr. Chedsey twenty shillings. By which it appears, that he was then living, but where, I find not, nor when he died.  
BARTHOLOMEW TRAHERON commonly called Trahern, was born in Cornwall, or at least originally descended from an ancient Family of his name living in that County, educated in Logicals and Philosophicals for the most part with us, either in Exeter Coll. or Hart hall, where he attained to some eminence in the Lat. and Greek Tongues. But being desirous to improve himself in greater matters, and to see the fashions of the World, he traveled into Germany, and thence into Italy, where he was an auditor and an admirer of many famous Men: By whose excellent Lectures, and his indefatigable industry, he became a complete Person and much respected by Scholars. Afterwards he returned into his own Country, entered into holy Orders and was made Library keeper to K. Ed. 6. who, finding him to be a Person of Merit, conferred 
u Bal. de Scripe. maj. Britain. cent. 8. nu▪ 9  the Deanery of Chichester on him, about 1551. But when Qu. Mary came to the Crown he left his preferments, and as a voluntary exile went into Germany, where accompanying other English Exiles, that had fled thence for Religion sake, continued there till the death of Qu. Marry, and then returning, was restored to what he had lost, and without doubt was rewarded with more. While he was beyond the Sea, he exercised himself much in writing matters in verse and prose, in both which he wrote several things with great happiness, especially those to his Brother Thomas to embrace the true Doctrine of Jesus Christ, that is to leave the R. Catholic Church, turn Protestant and come over to him. Among many things that he wrote, were,  
Paraenesis lib. 1. Written to his Brother Thomas.  
Carmina in mortem Henrici Dudlaei.  
Analysis Scoparum Johannis Cochlei.  
Exposition of a part of S. John's Gospel made in sundry Readins in the English Congregation against the Arrians— Printed the second time in an. 1558. oct. The Readins were ten, and they were performed in the English Congregation beyond the Sea.  
Exposition on the fourth Chapter of S. John's Revelations, which treateth of the providence of God, made before his Countrymen in Germany— Printed 1557. in oct. Lond. 1577. and 83. in oct.  
Treatise of Repentance— besides other things, which are mentioned by Jo. Bate. He also translated into English The chirurgery of Joh. de Vigo. 
Clar. 1561.  Lond. 1580. qu. 2 Edit. and the said Vigo's Little Practice. Lond. 1562. in octavo. In which year (which was part of the third and fourth of Qu. Elizabeth) Barth. Traberon was, if I mistake not, living.  
HENRY PENDLETON, a zealous man for the R. Cath. Cause, was born in Lancashire, became a Student in Brasnose Coll. about the year 1538, took the Degrees in Arts, and afterwards those in Divinity in the Reign of K. Ed. 6. he being then beneficed and dignified in the Church. In the Reign of Qu. Marry he showed himself so grand a Zealot for the Cause then professed in several Sermons by him preached, that when in one by him delivered at Paul's Cross, (which was very sharp against the Heretics, as they were then called) a Gun was discharged at, but missed, him. Under his Name were these things following printed.  
Homilies to be read in the Churches within the dioc. of London. Lond. 1554. 55. qu.  
Communication between him and Mr. Lour. Sanders.  
Disputation between him and Mr. Joh. Bradford.  
Protestants. an. 1555.  
The Contents or part of which Communic and Disput. you may see in the book of Acts and Mon. of the Church, etc. and also Pendleton's Arguings with Bartlet Green, and certain Protestant Martyrs. Other things he hath written, which I have not yet seen, and was always accounted a learned Doctor of his time, and so endeared to the Cath. Religion, that he made a solemn Protestation in Qu. Mary's Reign, that he would see the nntermost drop of his Grease molten away, and the last gobbet of his Flesh consumed to Ashes before he would forsake God and his truth. 
Clar. 1561.  He lived after Qu. Elizabeth came to the Crown, and was imprisoned for a time, but when, or where he died, I know not.  
PETER MARTYR who is to have a place in these Athenae, was born 
w 〈…〉  in the great and rich City of Florence in Italy, in Sept. (on the Nativity of the Virgin Marie) an. 1500, educated in several sorts of Learning in that City by the great care of his Father Steph. Vermilius, became a Canon regular of the Order of S. Austin at 16 years of age in the Coll. at Fiesoli, more than a mile distant from Florence. After he had spent three years there, he was sent to Milan to enlarge his Learning, that University then being in a flourishing Condition, and settling in the Monastery of St. John de Verdera of the same Order of S. Austin, spent almost 8 years in philosophical Studies, and all other Arts, especially in the Greek Tongue and Poets; which at length he conquered. At 26 years of age he began to preach, and the first time he performed that Office was in the Church of St. Afra in Brescia, and afterwards frequently in the most famous Cities of Italy, However, all the time that he could obtain from his Function was spent in sacred Learning, Philosophy, and in obtaining the Hebrew Tongue. At length being cried up for a celebrated Scholar, he was made Abbot of Spoleto in the Duchy of L'Ombria in Italy, where he continued three years. Thence he was translated to Naples, and there became Abbot of the Monastery of his Order called St. Peter ad aram, being of greater profit and a far more pleasant place than Spoleto. After he had been settled there for some time, he began to see the verity of the Gospel, especially after he had read some of the Works of Bucer and Zwinglius. Three years being spent there also, he fell into a dangerous Sickness, but the strength of Nature overcoming it, he was advised by his Physicians to take better Air than what Naples afforded. To that end therefore, that he might with convenience be absent from his Cure, the Fathers chose him General Visitor of their Order, that is of the Order of S. Austin, and soon after was elected Prior of S. Fridian within the City of Luca, which is a place of great dignity, having Episcopal Jurisdiction in the middle part of the said City. Being settled at that place, he instituted a most admirable way of Studies for the younger sort at Luca: but at length his Opinions, as to Heresy (than so called) being discovered, snares were laid for him, so that being not in a capacity to speak his mind, he, by the advice of certain Friends, committed the best part of his Library to the Custody of one of them, gave another part to the Coll. and forthwith left Luca, and went to Pisa; whence he wrote Letters to Card. Pole showing the Reasons of his Departure. Afterwards he went into Schwitzerlands, and fixed for some time at Zurich. Thence to Strasburgh, where for about five years he read and taught sacred Letters; in which time he took to Wife (he being near 50 years of Age) one Cath. Dampmartin, causing thereupon his Enemies to say that he left his Order and Monastic Vows purposely for the sake of a Woman. Which Wife, after she had lived with him about 8 years, died at Oxon, as I shall anon tell you. In 1547 he was invited into England by Edward Lord Protector and Dr. Cranmer Archb. of Canterbury, to the end that his Assistance might be used to carry on a Reformation in the Church. In the Month of Dec. the same year, he, with Bemnardine Ochine, another Italian, arrived in England, and retiring to Lambeth were kindly received by Archb. Cranmer, and entertained there for some time. About the latter end of the same year, in Feb. or beginning of March, Martyr went to Oxon, was incorporated Doctor of Diu. as he had stood at Milan, and tho addicted more to the Zwinglian than to the Lutheran Doctrines in point of the Sacrament, was in the beginning of the year following appointed by the King to read a public Lecture to the Academians in the Divinity School, and for his reward to have an Annuity of 40 Marks. What followed, and how he and his Adversaries behaved themselves thereupon, I have largely told 
x In Hist. & Antiq. Vniu. Oxon. lib. 1. p. 267.  you elsewhere. In the same year (1548) upon the receding from the University of Dr. Rich. Smyth the King's Professor of Divinity, that Lecture, with the profits belonging thereunto, was conferred by the King on Martyr, and in the year following, being much troubled with the R. Catholics (as in all the year before) he disputed publicly with three of the most eminent of them, as I have also told 
y Ib. p. 268.  you in the same place. In the year 1550 he had a Canonrie of Ch. Ch. bestowed upon him by the King, on the death of Mr. Will. Haynes, whereupon being installed 20 January the same year, entered into his Lodgings belonging to him, then joining on the North side to Ch. Ch. great Gate leading into Fish-street. With him also settled his beloved Wife Catherine, as the Wife of Dr. Rich. Cox did about the same time with him in the Deans Lodgings, being the first Women, as 'twas observed, that resided in any Coll. or Hall in Oxon. By whose Example, it was not only permitted that any Canon beside, might marry if he please, but also a Head of a Coll. or Hall, whereby other Women or idle Huswives were tolerated (if the said Head allowed it) to serve in them. Which act (beside their permitting of bawling Children to come among them) was looked upon as such a damnable matter by the R. Catholics and others too, that they usually styled them Concubines, and the Lodgings that entertained them and their Children Stews and Conyburies. While Martyr continued in the said Lodgings (whose Windows were next to Fish-street) he continually, especially in the night time, received very opprobrious Language from the R. Catholics, as well Scholars as Laics, and often had his Windows broken. So that his Studies and Sleep being often disturbed, he changed his Lodgings, which were those belonging to the Canons of the first Canonry, for those in the Cloister, which belonged to those of the second, being formerly the very same which belonged to the Prior of S. Frideswide: in which being settled, he spent the remaining part of his Abode in Oxon in Peace. However, for the severer enjoyment of his Thoughts and Studies, he erected a Fabric of Stone in his Garden, situated on the East side of his Lodgings, wherein he partly composed his Commentary on the first Ep. to the Corinthians, and certain Epistles to learned men, which were afterwards printed. This Fabric, which contained two Stories, stood till the latter end of March 1684, at which time they were plucked down by that Canon that was Owner of the Lodgings to which the Garden and Fabric appertained. About that time Martyr's Wife dying, she was buried in the Cathral Church, near to the place where S. Frideswydes Relics had been reposed; but four years after, or thereabouts, her body was taken up, thrown out of the Church with scorn, and buried in a Dunghill; but when Qu. Elizab. came to the Crown, the body was taken up again and reburied, as I have elsewhere 
a In Hist. & Antiq. Ox. lib. 1. p. 279. b.  at large told you. After the death of K. Edward 6. and Religion altered when his Sister Mary was settled in the Throne, Pet. Martyr left Oxon, went to London and so to Lambeth: and obtaining his safe Conduct from the Qu. he left England and went to Strasburgh from whence he came, where he taught Philosophy and Divinity for some time. Thence he travelled to Zurich an. 1556. where he met with Joh. Juell and several exiled Divines of England, and took to his second Wife one Catherina Merenda. While he continued there, Maximilian Celsus an exiled Count, and the chief Minister of the Italian Church at Geneva died; whereupon being invited to take his place upon him, refused it for several Reasons. When Qu. Mary died, Queen Elizabeth invited him to return into England, and there to accept of what Preferment he pleased; but he fearing another mutation, he modestly refused it. To pass by several other matters not now fit to be related, I shall give you the Titles of some of his Works, as they follow.  
Comment. in Epist S. Paulis ad Romanos. Bas. 1558. fol. translated into Engl. by H. B.— Lond. 1568 fol.  
Com. in priorem ad Corinth, Epistolam. Written at Oxon. and ded. to K. Ed. 6. Printed several times at Zurich in fol.  
Defensio doctrinae veteris & Apostolicae de Sacramento Eucharisticae adversus Step. Gardineri librum, sub nomine M. Antonii Constantii editum, etc. Printed in fol. 1502 in four parts.  
Tractatio de Sacramento Eucharistiae habita Oxonii, cum jam absolvisset interpretationem xi Capitis prioris Epistolae ad Corinthios. Printed 1562. fol. Translated into English and printed at Lond. in qu.  
Disputatio de Eucharistiae Sacramento habita in Schola Theol. Oxon. Printed 1562, and translated into English.  
Com. in Genesin. Tig. 1579. fol.  
Com. in lib. Judicum. Tig. 1582. fol. which is the second or third Impression. Translated into English and printed at Lond. in fol. 1564.  
Com. in lib. duos posteriores Regum Heid. 1599 fol.  
Com. in Samuelis Prophetae libros duos. Tig. 1595. fol.  
Loci communes sacrarum literarum. Tig. 1587. fol. Translated into English and printed at Lond. in fol.  
De lib. arbitio.  
De providentia & praedestinat.  
Tig. 1587. fol.  
An Deus sit causa & author peccati.  
An missa sit sacrificium.  
Ib. eod. an. fol.  
Theses propofitae ad disputandum publicè in Schola Argentinensi, an. 1543. Ib. eod. an. fol.  


Ib. eod. an. fol.  
Oratio de Utilitate & dignitate sacri Ministerii.  
Oratio de Morte Christi.  
Oratio de Resurrectione Christi.    
These three last are also translated into English, and printed at Lond. in fol. 1583.  
Sermo in xx cap. Johan. Christus die unto Sabbat. etc. 'Tis translated into English, and printed 1583.  
Exhortatio ad sacrarum literarum studium. Translated also into English.  
Oratio quam Tiguri primam habuit, cum in locum D. Conradi Pellicani successiscet. Translated also into English.  
Adhortatio ad coenam Domini Mysticam. Translated also.  
Epistolae Theologicae. Some of which were written at Oxon. and also translated into English and published. Note that P. Martyr's Common places, and all those things that follow, which I have said were translated, were put into the English Tongue by Anth. Marten Gentleman, Sewer to her Majesty— Lond. 1583. fol. One Anth. Marten of London was Father to Sir Hen. Marten, as I shall tell you among these Writers, ann. 1641. Whether the same with the Translator, I cannot yet tell.  
Praeces ex Psalmis Davidis desumptae. Tig. 1566. 80. Translated into Engl. by Charles Glemham Gent.  
De votis monasticis & coeleb. Socerdotum.  
Defensio sui, contra R. Smithaei duos libellos de coelibatu sacerdotum & vot. monast. Bas. 1559. oct.  
Aristotelis Ethicae cum illis in Sacra Scriptura collatae, etc.  
Comm. in Lament. Jer. Prophet. Tig. 1629. qu. corrected and published by Joh. Rodolph. Stuckius of Zurich, sometimes a Sojournour of Exeter Coll. He the said P. Martyr also wrote an Epist. to Edward L. Protector of England; translated into Engl. by Tho. Norton.— Lond. 1550. oct. Also of The use and abuse of Dancing; translated into Engl. by J. R. printed at Lond. in oct. and lastly, An Exposition on the Creed; translated by T. E, printed at Lond. in qu. At length after many Rambles and changes of Places (he having been, as it evidently appears, a person of an unsettled Brain) resigned up his last breath at Zurich on the 12th day of Nou. in fifteen hundred sixty and two, year 1562 and was buried there with all the Solemnity fitting for so learned and great a Clerk as he was.  
THOMAS GIBSON, a noted Physician of the Age he lived in, was 
b Bate de Script. cent 9 n▪ 54.  born at Morpeth in Northumberland, and for a year, or years, was, as I conceive, educated here, because that several of both his Names and Time, were conversant with the Muses in this University; but whether he took a degree, or was licenced to practise Physic, it appears not. Afterwards he being noted for his extraordinary success in curing Diseases, was very much resorted to by great, as well as ordinary, People, especially by those of the reformed Party, he being one himself, and a great Enemy to the R. Cath. Bishops; in spite and envy to whom, he wrote,  
A History of the Treasons of the Bishops from the Norman Conquest to his time.— Whether this was printed, I know not, because had it been so, there's no doubt but inveterate Prynn would have found it, to gain matter thence, when he composed his Book of the same Subject. He also wrote,  
An Herbal.  
Treatise against unskilful Alchemists.  
Treat of curing common Diseases.  
Of the Ceremonies used by Popes.— besides other things, and had laid the Foundation of a little Book to show the Various States that Brittany hath been in, which he divided into five Parts; but whether he completed it, is uncertain. 
Clar. 1562.  He lived after Qu. Eliz. came to the Crown, being then in his middle Age, but when he died it appears not. 'Tis said, that because divers Persons had meddled with the applying of dark Prophecies, purposely to advance the Fame and Glory of Charles then Emperor, so one Tho. Gibson did endeavour to do the like to promote the Glory of Hen. 8. of England; which Th. Gibson we are to understand to be the same with Th. Gibson before mentioned.  
PETER de SOTHO, or Soto, was born in a certain City in Spain called Cordova, became, when young, a Dominican in the House or Coll. of that Order dedicated to St. Stephen, within the famous University of Salamanca, where prosecuting his natural Genie with unwearied industry in the Faculty of Divinity, became a Doctor thereof, and a most eminent ornament to his Order. Afterwards his fame being spread in the Royal Court, he became Confessor to the King of Spain, and at length to Charles the Emperor of the Romans, with whom going into Germany, he showed himself in many respects very serviceable against such that were called Heretics there. At length Philip K. of Spain marrying with Mary Qu. of England, he was one of those noted Divines that came with him, having then obtained Eminency among the Learned for his Books written against John Brentius, accounted among the R. Catholics a Person very well versed in matters of controversy. Afterwards he, with Joh. de Villa Garcia, and one or more, being sent to the University of Oxon by public authority to read, preach, and teach there, to the end that they might undo and invalidate all what Pet. Martyr and others had done in the Reign of King Ed. 6. he accordingly went, preached often, read Lectures on St. Thomas, whose works had been with scorn cast out from all, or most, Libraries in this University in the time of Ed. 6. and was ready upon all turns and occasions to instruct and resolve doubts, nay and for some time did read the public Hebrew Lecture to the Academians, while Mr. Bruerne the Reg. Professor was absent. In a word there was nothing wanting on his part, and though he had no Canonry of Ch. Ch. or Headship bestowed on him, yet he had a considerable revenue allowed him out of the King's Exchequer. His works are,  
Institutiones Christianae. Aug. 1548. Antw. 1557. in 16ᵒ divided into 3 Books.  
Adversus Job. Brentium. Antw. 1552. in 16ᵒ.  
Defensio Catholicae confessiovis, & Scholoiorum circa confessionem illustriss. Ducis Wirtembergensis nomine editam, adversus prolegomena Brentit. Antw. 1557.  
Doctrinae Catholicae compendium, in usum plebis Christianae recte instituend. Diling. 1560. in tw.  
De sacerdotum institutione. libri 3. With other things, as 'tis probable, which I have not yet seen. After the death of Qu. Marry, he returned with K. Philip into Spain, and thence went, according to command, to the great Council or Synod held in the City of Trent, called commonly among Foreigners Trento, sometimes a part of Italy, but since of Germany, where by too much agitation and concernment, he contracted a disease, which brought him to his grave in that City, in the Month of Apr. in Fifteen hundred sixty and three. About three days before his death, year 1563 and some time before, the Synod began to be troubled among themselves for a small cause, and did give much matter of discourse. Which coming to the knowledge of Sotho, he thereupon did dictate and subscribe a Letter to be sent to the Pope; in which, by way of confession, he declared his opinion concerning the points controverted in Council, and did particularly exhort his Holiness to consent, that residence and the institution of Bishops might be declared to be de jure divino. The Letter was sent to the Pope, and Friar Ludou. Soto his companion, kept a Copy of it; who thinking to honour the memory of his Friend, began to 
* Vide Hist. Conc. Trident. Lib. 7. per Pet. Paul. 〈◊〉.  spread it, which caused offence in some, and curiosity in others, to get a Copy of it, when called in. I find one Frater Petrus a Soto Major, who wrote a Book entit. Prima secundae Divi Thomae, quam quarto nonas Junii interpretandum suscepit, an 1563. The beginning of which is, Quastio prima, quae est de ultimo fine hujus vitae in communi, etc. But this Peter who was Author of the said Book (which is in MS. in Bodley's Library) must not be taken to be the same with the former Peter, whom I have at large mentioned, because, as 'tis before told you in the title, the said Peter began to write the said Book on the fourth of the nonce of June 1563, which was some Weeks after the death of Pet. de Soto.  
RICHARD SMYTH the greatest pillar for the Roman man Catholic cause in his time, was born in Worcestershire, admitted Probationer-Fellow of Merton Coll. in the beginning of the Year 1527, Master of Arts 1530, and the Year after was (on the resignation of Rob. Taylor Fellow of the said Coll) unanimously chosen the public Scribe or Registrary of the University. Afterwards he became Rector of Cuxham in Oxfordshire for a time, Principal of St. Alban hall, Divinity Reader of Magd. College, the King's Professor of Divinity in the said University and Doctor of that faculty. But being forced to leave his Professorship in the Reign of K. Edw. 6. to make room for P. Martyr, he went to Louvain in Brabant, where being received 
c Vale●. Andrea's in Fastis Academicis 〈…〉 edit. 1650. p. 85.  with solemnity, became public Professor of Divinity there for a time, and read openly on the Apocalypses of St. John. When Qu. Mary was advanced to the Crown, he was not only restored to his Professorship in the University of Oxon, but also was made one of the Chaplains to that Queen, and Canon of Christ Church. In 1559, Qu. Elizabeth being then in the Throne, he lost those, with other, preferments, (of which the Rectory or Headship of Whittingdon Coll. in Lond. was one) and was committed to custody with Matthew Archbishop of Canterbury; by whose persuasions he recanted what he had written in defence of the celibacy of Priests. See more of this matter in a Book intit. De antiquitate Britannicae Ecclesiae etc. in Matheo.— Printed about 1572-3. being the first impression of that Book. Afterwards our Author R. Smyth giving Matthew the slip, he went to Douai in Flanders, and was constituted Dean of S. Peter's Church at that place by Philip K. of Spain, who erecting an Academy there about that time, made him the first King's Professor thereof. He was by those of his persuasion accounted the best Schoolman of his time, a subtle disputant, and admirably well read in the Fathers and Councils, which did evidently appear in his disputations in the Divinity School with Pet. Martyr, whom, as the R. Cath. Writers of his time say 
d Joh. white ep 〈…〉 in initio libri sui cui tit. est Diacosio-Marryier. edit. 〈…〉  he did in a most egregious manner baffle several times. The wholly story of it you may see elsewhere 
e 〈◊〉 Hist. & Antiq. Vniu. Ox. Lib. 1. p. 267.  and therefore I shall not make a recital of it now, only say that the Protestant 
f 〈…〉 Vica Jo. Juelli, edit. 1573. p. 42. & alii.  Writers report, that he was more a Sophister than Divine, that he was non-plused several times by Martyr, and that he was a goggle-eyed fellow and very inconstant in his Opinion. As for his Writings they are these.  
Assertion and defence of the Sacrament of the Altar. Lond. 1546. oct.  
Defence of the sacrifice of the Mass. Lond. 1546. oct.  
An answer to all Martin Luther's, and his Scholar's reasons made against the sacrifice of the Mass, etc.— Printed with the Defence beforementioned.  
Brief treatise setting forth divers truths necessary both to be believed of all christian People and kept also, which 〈◊〉 are not expressed in the Scripture, but left to the Church by the Apostles tradition, Lond. 1547. oct.  
Declaration upon his retractation made at Paul's cross 15. May 1547. Lond. 1547. oct. This retraction was for certain articles contained in two Books of his making, viz. one in Defence of the sacrifice of the Mass, and that called, as it seems, A brief treatise etc. wherein he endeavoured to prove, that unwritten verities ought to be believed under pain of damnation.  
Diatriba de hominis justificatione contra Pet. Martyrem Louvain 1550. oct.  
Defensio caelibatûs sacerdotum contra P. Mart. Lov. 1550. oct. Printed also as it seems at Paris the same year.  
Confutatio quorundam articularum de votis monasticis Pet. Martyris Itali. These two last, being printed at Louvain in one Vol. are very full of faults by the negligence of the Printer, and absence of the Author, who pretended they were printed against his Will, and wished afterwards that he had never made them, because he was then persuaded with himself, that the Priests of England made a vow (a religious vow) when they were made Priests; which he perceived afterwards was not true. This he told Dr. Cranmer Archb. of Canterbury in a certain 
g See in the Hist. of the reformation of the Church of England, part. 2. pag. 208. numb. 54.  letter, when he heard that he the said Cranmer had made a Collection of (or answer to) the aforesaid Books De caelibatu & votis monasticis.  
Disputation with Bish. Rydley in the Diu. School at Oxon; his Sermon at his and Latimers' burning, with Speeches, Orations, etc.— See in Joh. Fox his Book of the Acts and Mon. of the Church.  
A bucklar of Cath. Faith of Christ's Church, containing divers matters, now of late called into controversy by the new Gospelers. Lond. 1555. in two books or parts. The things controverted were (1) Whether a man may keep God's commandments. (2) Concerning works of supererogation. (3) Concerning purgatory. (4) The sign of the cross and crucifex, etc.  
Refutatio luculenta crassae & exitiosae haeresis Johannis Calvini & Christop. Carlili Angli, qua astruunt Christum non discendisse ad inferos alios, quam ad infernum infimum. Printed 1562. The said tenet that Christ descended into hell was maintained in a Commencement held at Cambridge, in 1552. by the said Carlisle, and opposed then in disputations by Sir Joh. Cheek: Whereupon Smyth wrote the Refutation beforementioned. Afterwards Christoph. Carlisle came out with a book entit. Concerning the immediate going to Heaven of the souls of the faithful Fathers before Christ, and concerning his descent into hell, etc. Lond. 1582. oct. (sec. edit) I find one Christopher Carlisle to have lived for some time at Barham in Kent, whence removing to the Parish of St. Botolph near Billingsgate in London, died there in the beginning of the Year 1596, leaving then behind him a Relict called Marie. Whether this Chr. Carlisle be the same with the former, I cannot tell. Another also of both his names lived in his time, whose warlike skill was sufficiently tried in the Low Countries, France and Ireland, and in America at Carthage and Santo Dominico, an. 1585.: Which worthy Soldier died 
* Camden in Annal. Regin. Elizab. an. 1593.  about the Year 1593. R. Smyth hath also written,  
De missae sacrificio contra Melanctonum, Calvinum & alios. Lov. 1562. oct.  
De Infantium baptismo, contra Calvinum. Printed there the same Year.  
Defensio externi & visibilis sacerdotii, & propugnatio altarium, cum confutatione communionis Calvinianae. Ibid.  
Confutatio earum quae Philip. Melancthon objecit contra propitiatorium missae sacrificium. Ibid.  
De libero hominis arbitrio contra Calvinum. Lov. 1563. oct. and other things, which you may see in Pitseus. This learned Doctor gave way to fate on the seventh of the ides of July (according to the account followed at Douai) in Fifteen hundred sixty and three, year 1563 aged 63. Whereupon his body was buried in the Chapel of our Lady joining to the Church of St. Peter at Douai beforementioned. Several of both his names have been Writers, but they being after him in time, I shall mention them in their respective places.  
THOMAS PAYNELL, or Paganell, descended from an ancient Family of his name living in Lincolnshire, was from his youth always exercised in virtue and good letters. While he was in his juvenile years he was made a Canon Regular of Merton Priory in Surrey, the monastics of which place having had interest in the College of St. Marry the Virgin situated in the Parish of St. Michael and St. Peter in the Bailiff, (built purposely for the training up of young Can. Reg. in Philosophical, or Theological learning, or both) he was sent thither, where improving himself much in Divine learning, returned to his Monastery, and a little before the dissolution of that and others, became Prior of a certain Monastery of Canon Regulars near to London as Baleus 
b In lib. the Script. cent. 9 nu. 71.  saith, though the name of the place he tells us not. But being soon after ejected, when his Monastery was to be employed for a laical use, had a pension allowed him during his life: Whereupon retiring to London, and sometimes to Oxon, had the more leisure to write and translate Books; the titles of which follow.  
Pandicts of the Evangelical Law. Lond. 1553. oct.  
The pithy and most notable sayings of all the Scripture, after the manner of common places, etc. newly augmented and corrected. Lond. 1560. oct.  
A Table of many matters contained in the english works of Sir Tho. More.— This is set before the said works that were published by Will. Rastell, an. 1557.  
A fruitful Book of the common places of all St. Paul's Epistles, right necessary for all sorts of People, etc. Lond. 1562. oct.  
Preface to the Book of measuring of Land, as well of Woodland as Plowland— Printed at Lond. in the time of Hen. 8. in oct. The Book itself was written by Sir Rich. de Benese sometimes Canon of Merton Priory, but corrected and made fit for the press by Paynell. In the Year 1519. one Rich. de Benese a secular Chaplain supplicated the Ven. congregation for the Degree of Bach. of Arts, but whether the same with the writer, I cannot justly say, because he is written secular Chaplain. Neither can I say that Rich. Benese Clerk, Parson of Long Ditton in Surrey in the time of H. 8. be the same also; who in his last 
i In Offic. praerog. Cant. in reg. allen, Qu. 47.  Will and Test. dated 3. Nou. 1546. and proved 20. Oct. 1547. doth bequeath his body to be buried in the yard belonging to the Church there. Our Author Thom. Paynell did also translate from Lat. into English (1) Of the contempt of the world. Lond. 1533. oct. written by Erasmus. (2) Of the Medicine Guacum and of the French disease, etc. Lond. 1536. and 1539. oct. written by Ulrich Hutten a Knight of Almain. It treateth of the wood called Guacum which healeth the French Pox, the Gout, Stone, Palsy, etc. (3) Of the comparison of a Virgin and a Martyr. Lond. 1537. oct. written by Erasmus. This translation is dedicated to John Ramsey Lord Prior of Merton. (4) Sermon on the Lord's Prayer. Lond. 1539. oct. written by St. Cyprian, (5) A faithful and true story of the destruction of Troy. Lond. 1553. oct. written by Danus Phrigius. (6) A devout prayer, expedient for those that prepare themselves to say Mass, etc. Lond. 1555. oct. written by St. Ambrose. (7) Brief chronicle of all the Earls of Holland. Lond. 1557. oct. written by Hadrianus Barlandus. (8.) Salerni sanit, regim. The Regiment of health, teaching all People how to govern them in health. Lond. 1558 oct. (9) Of the examples of virtue and vice. Lond. 1561. oct. written by Nich. Hannape. (10) Fruitful treatise of well living, containing the whole sum and effect of all virtue. Printed at Lond in oct. written by St. Bernard. (11) The Precepts teaching a Prince or a noble estate his duty. print. in oct. written originally in Greek by Agapetus. He also translated from French into English (1) The civility of Chidhood, with the discipline and institution of Children. Lond. 1560. oct (2) The assault of Heaven. Lond. in qu. besides other translations which you may see 
* In Bal. ut sup.  elsewhere. In my searches I once saw a Will 
k Ib. in Off. praerog. in reg. Stevenson Qu. 7.  without date, made for Thom. Paynell Priest, born at, or near to Bothby-Paynell in Lincolnshire, afterwards-Parson (as it seems) of Cotyngam lying between Hull and Beverley in Yorkshire, to which place he was a Benefactor, and left considerable Legacies to 20 poor Maidens born, and dwelling, there. He gave to St. John's Coll. in Oxon (wherein, as it seems, he had studied in his elderly years in the latter end of H. 8. and in the time of Ed. 6. at which time it was called St. Bernard's Coll.) all his Books in his Chamber at London, and desired that at his Funeral, a Sermon be Preached by a Catholic Doctor, or a Bach. of Divinity, etc. This will, which seems to have been made at London, was proved in the Prerogative Court of Conterbury, on the 22 of March (according to the English account) in Fifteen hundred sixty and three. year 1563 I do, and always did, take it to be made for Thom. Paynell the writer, and conclude thence that he died in the Winter time 1563. but where buried I cannot tell.  
EDWARD FERRER, a most ingenious Man of his time, was of the same Family with those of Baldesley-Clenton in Warwickshire, but the name of the particular place where he was born, or the name of the House in Oxon, wherein educated, I cannot justly say. Sure it is that he continued there several years, being then in much esteem for his Poetry, and about the time that he left the Uniu. wrote,  
Several Tragedies.  
Com. or Interludes.  
All which being written with much skill, and magnificence in his meeter, gave the King so much good recreation, (as the Author 
† See more in Theat. Poetarum, written by Edw. Phillip's, Pr. at Lond. 1675. p. 211.  of the Art of English Poesy saith) as he had thereby many good rewards, and adds farther, that for such things, as he hath seen, of his writing, and of the writing of Tho. Sackvile, they deserve the price, etc. Our Author Ferrer hath also written these two Poems following, viz.  
The fall of Rob. Tresilian Chief Justice of England,— and,  
The unlawful murder of Tho. of Woodstok Duke of Gloucester— with several other things which I have not yet seen, and was Author, as one 
* Franc. M●res, in the second part of Wit's Commonwealth.  or more writers say, of a Book intit. A mirror for Magistrates. Lond. 1559, Published by Will. Baldwin, whom I shall anon mention. In which Mirror are involved the two Poems before-mentioned, and other things of the composition of the said E. Ferrer, 
Cler. 1564.  who was in great renown in Fifteen hundred sixty and four, being, if I mistake not, the same Edw. Ferrer of Baldesley Clinton, who died and was buried there, in that year, leaving behind him a Son named Henry, whom I shall mention under the Year 1633.  
WILLIAM BALDEWYN, who seems to have been a Western Man born, spent several years in Logic and Philosophy in this University, being the same Will. Baldwyn (as 'tis probable) who supplicated the venerable congregation of Regent's that he might take a Degree in Arts, in Jan. 1532, but whether it was granted, or that he took such a Degree it appears not in the Register of that time. After he had left the University (being then accounted a noted Poet of that time) he became a Schoolmaster and a Minister, and a Writer of divers Books, the titles of which follow.  
Of moral Philosophy, or the lives and sayings of Philosophers, Emperors, Kings, etc.— Several times printed at London in qu.  
Precepts and Counsels of the Philosophers.  
Phraiselike declaration in English meeter, on the Canticles or Ballads of Solomon. Lond. 1549. qu.  
The use of Adages.  
Similes and Proverbs.  
Comedies.  
When printed, or where, I cannot find.  
A mirror for Magistrates, wherein may be seen by example of others, with how grievous plagues, vices are punished, etc. Lond. 1559. qu. in an old English Character. It is a piece of historical poetry relating the Acts of unfortunate English Men, commencing with the fall of Rob. Tresilian Chief Justice of England, and ending with George Plantagenet third Son of the Duke of York, and hath added in the end from Jo. Skelton the Poet, the story in verse of K. Ed. 4. his sudden death in the midst of his prosperity. In the Epistle to the Reader, subscribed by the Author Baldwyn, he tell us he had a second part to print, reaching down with his stories of unfortunate Men to Queen Mary's time, but whether it was printed, I know not, for I have not yet seen it. This Book, or another bearing the same title, written by John Higens, is commended by several Authors, 
Clar. 1564.  particularly by him that wrote Hypercritica 
l Hypercritica: or a rule of judgement for writing, or reading our histores. etc. Add. 4. MS. penes me. A. W.  for a good piece of poety. As for Baldewyn he lived, as 'tis said, some years after Qu. Eliz. came to the Crown, but when he died it appears not.  
WILLIAM RASTALL Son of John Rastall of London Printer, by Elizabeth his Wife, Sister to Sir Thomas More Knight, sometimes Lord Chancellor of England, was born in the City of London, and educated in Grammar learning there. In 1525 or thereabouts, being then in the year of his age 17, he was sent to the Univers. of Oxon, where laying a considerable foundation in Logic and Philosophy, left it without a Degree, went to Lincoln's Inn, and there by the help of his Academical education, he made a considerable progress in the municipal Laws of the Nation, and in 1 Edw. 6. he became Autumn or Summer Reader of that House. But Religion being then about to be altered, he, with his ingenious and learned Wife Wenefrid Daughter of Jo. Clement (of whom I shall speak in 1572.) left the Nation and went to the University of Louvain in Brabant, where continuing all the time of that King's Reign, returned when Qu. Mary came to the Crown, was made Sergeant at Law in 1554, and a little before the said Queen's death, one of the Justices of the Common-pleas. At length Religion altering again after Elizab. became Queen of England, he returned to Louvain before mentioned, where he continued till the time of his death. He hath written,  
The Chartuary. Lond. 1534.  
A Table collected of the years of our Lord God, and of the years of the Kings of England, from the first of Will. the Conqueror: showing how the years of our Lord God, and the years of the Kings of England, concur and agree together; by which table it may quickly be accounted how many years, months, and days be past since the making of any evidences. Lond. 1563. oct. Continued by another hand and printed there again in oct. 1607. It was also printed there a third time 1639. in a large oct. corrected and continued by the famous Almanac-maker John Booker born at Manchester in Lancashire, 23. Mar. 1601. and bred a Clerk under an Alderman of London; who, after he had published several matters of his Profession (of which The bloody Irish Almanac, was one, printed at London, 1646. in 11. Sh. in qu.) gave way to fate on the sixth of the ides of April an. 1667. and received sepulture in the Church of St. James in Duke-place, Lond. Whereupon a Marblestone was soon after laid overhis grave at the charge of his great admirer Elias Ashmole Esq. The said Table of years, is now involved and swallowed up in a Book entitled Chronica juridicalia: or, a general Calendar of the Years of our Lord God, and those of several Kings of England, etc. with a Chronological table of the Lord Chancellors and Lord Keepers, Justices of the Kings-bench, Common pleas, Barons of the Exehecquer, etc. Lond. 1685. oct. By whom this Book was transcribed, I know not yet: evident it is, that it consists only of Rastalls Tables, and Sir Will. Dugdale's Chronica series, etc. at the end of his Origines juridiciales, etc. and published by some downright plagiary purposely to get a little money. Our Author Rastall hath also written and published,  
Terms of the English Law: Or les termes de la ley— several times printed.  
A collection in English, of the statutes now in force, continued from the beginning of Magna Charta, made 9 Hen. 3. to the 4 and 5 of Phil. and Mary. Lond. 1559. 83. fol. Continued by another hand to the 43 of Queen Elizab. Lond. 1603. etc. fol.  
A collection of entries, of declarations, bars, replications, rejoinders, issues, verdicts, etc. Lond. 1566. 96. etc. fol. He also corrected and published a Book entit. La Novel natura brevium monsieur Anton. Fitzherbert, etc. des choses notabiles contenus en ycel novelment, etc. To which he also added a table. This Book was printed several times; one of which editions came out at Lond. 1598. oct. He also composed two tables, one of which contains the principal matters concerning pleas of the Crown, and the other of all the principal cases contained in a Book called, The book of affizes and pleas of the Crown, etc. and a Table to Fitzherbert's Grand abridgement of the Law.  
Life of Sir Thom. More Knight.— Whether printed I cannot tell. Sure I am that Rastall collected all such works of Sir Tho. More that were wrote in English— Lond. 1557. fol. As for those things written against Jewel, which go under the name of Rastall, are not to be understood as written by this Will. Rastall, as a certain Author 
m Joh. Pits. De illustr. Angl. Script. aet. 16. nu. 1014.  would have it, but by John Rastal a Theologist, as I shall tell you under the Year 1600. This our Author Will. Rastall, who was accounted a most eminent Lawyer of his time and a grand zealot for the R. Catholic Religion, died at Louvain beforementioned 27. Aug. in Fifteen hundred sixty and five: year 1565 whereupon his body was buried within the Church of St. Peter there, on the right hand of the Altar of the Virgin Mary, near to the body of Wenefred his Wife, who was buried there in July 1553. He had a Brother named Joh. Rastall who was a Justice of the Peace, Father to Elizabeth Rastall, the Wife of Rob. Longher LL. D. as I have elsewhere told you.  
JOHN pullen, a Yorkshire Man born, was educated in New Coll. of which he was either Clerk or Chaplain, or both successively, and in the Year 1547. being then 3 years standing Master of Arts and thirty years of Age, was admitted one of the Signior Students, of Ch. Ch. and much in esteem for his Lat. and English Poetry. About that time he became a frequent Preacher and a zealous Reformer, but when Qu. Mary came to the Crown, he absconded and preached privately to the brethren in the Parish of St. Michael on Cornhill in London, where I find him in 1556. Afterwards he was forced beyond the Seas to Geneva, but returned when Qu. Elizab. was in the regal Throne, and had the Archdeaconry of Colchester bestowed on him, (lately enjoyed by Dr. Hugh. Weston) besides other spiritualities. He hath written,  
Tract against the Arrians.— And translated into English verse. (1) The Ecclesiastes of Solomon. (2) Hist. of Susanna. (3) Hist. of Judith. (4) Hist. of Hester. (5) Testament of the 12. Patriarches. He went the way of all flesh, year 1565 in Fifteen hundred sixty and five, which is all I know of him, only that after his death fell out a controversy among his Relations for his estate, under pretence that his Children were illegitimate, because he had taken to him a Wife in K. Edward's Reign. The Reader is to understand that there was one John Pollayne an Oxfordshire Man born, elected and admitted Prob. Fellow of Merton Coll. in 1507. but what he hath written I know not, he being altogether different from the former, notwithstanding Baleus is pleased to tell 
n In lib. De script. cent. 9 nu. 83.  us, that the said former pullen the Writer, was of Merton Coll. which is false.  
THOMAS CHALONER Son of Reg. Chaloner, (by Margaret his Wife Daughter of Rich. Middleton) Son of Tho. Chaloner, second Son of Rice Chaloner of Denbigh in Wales, was born in London, educated in both the Universities, especially in that of Cambridge, where for a time he devoted himself to the Muses, as he did afterwards to Mars. After he had left the University, he travelled beyond the Seas in the company of Sir Hen. Knevet Ambassador from K. Hen. 8. to the Emperor Charles 5. Which Emperor, T. Chaloner did afterwards serve in the expedition of Algiers, where being 
* Camden in Annal. R. Elizab. an. 1565.  Shipwrecked, did, after he had sworn till his strength and his arms failed him, catch hold of a Cable with his teeth, and so escaped, but not without the loss of some of them. In the beginning of K. Ed. 6. he received the honour of Knighthood in the camp besides Rokesborough, immediately after the battle of Musselborough, (wherein he had showed great valour) from Edward Duke of Somerset Lord Protector of England, 27. Sept. 1547. and soon after was by him made one of the Clerks of the Privy Council. In the time of Qu. Marry he mostly lived in a retired and studious condition, but in the very beginning of Qu. Elizabeth an. 1558. he went on an honourable Embassy to the Emperor Ferdinand, such esteem than had the Queen for his port, carriage and admirable parts, and about an year after was sent ordinary Ambassador to Philip K. of Spain, where he continued 4 years, in which time, at leisure hours, he wrote his Book of a Commonwealth (which I shall anon mention) in elegant and learned verse, whilst (as he saith in his Preface to it) be lived in Winter in a stove, and in Summer in a barn. Soon after his return from Spain he ended his days, as I shall tell you by and by, having before written several things, as,  
A little Dictionary for Children.  
De Rep. Anglorum instauranda, lib. 10. Lond. 1579. qu. Which Book was by him began 25. Dec. 1562. and ended 21. Jul. 1564.  
De illustrium quorundam encorniis, cum epigram. & epitaphiis nonnullis. Printed with De Rep. Angl.  
Voyage to Algiers with the Emperor, an. 1541.— See in the first vol. of R. Hakluyts voyages. He also translated from Lat. into English. (1) The office of Servants. Lond. 1543. oct. written by Gilb. Cognatus: which translation is dedicated to Sir H. Knevet beforementioned. (2) The praise of folly. Lond. 1549. qu. written by Erasmus. What other things he hath written and translated, I know not, nor any thing else of him, only that he died in his house in St. John's near London on the nonce of Octob. year 1565 in Fifteen hundred sixty and Five, and was buried with a sumptuous Funeral according to his worth in the Cath. Ch. of St. Paul within the said City of London. His Son Thomas I shall mention among these Writers under the Year 1615. and his Grandson Edward under 1625.  
JOHN HEYWOOD or Heewood, a most noted Poet and jester of his time, was born in the City of London, and notwithstanding he is said to be 
o Baleus p. 110. inter cent. 12. & 13.  Civis Londinensis, yet he laid a foundation of learning in this University, particularly, as it seems, in that ancient Hostile called Broadgates in St. Aldates' Parish: But the crabbedness of Logic not suiting with his airy genie, he retired to his native place, and became noted to all witty Men, especially to Sir Tho. More, (with whom he was very familiar) wrote several matters of Poetry, and was the first, as some say, (but I think false) that wrote English plays, taking opportunity thence to make notable work with the Clergy. He had admirable skill also in instrumental and vocal Music, but whether he made any compositions in either, I find not. He was in much esteem with K. H. 8. for the mirth and quickness of his conceits, and though he had little learning in him, yet he was by that King well rewarded. After Qu. Mary came to the Crown, he was much valued by her, often had the honour to wait on, and exercise his fancy before, her; which he did, even to the time that she lay langushing on her deathbed. After her decease he left the Nation for Religion sake, and settled at Mechlin in Brabant, which is a wonder to some, who will allow no Religion in Poets, that this Person should above all of his Profession be a voluntary exile for it. He hath written,  
The Play called the four PP. being a new and merry interlude of a Palmer, Pardoner, Apothecary and Pedlar— Printed at London in an old Engl. character in qu. and hath in the title page the pictures of three Men (there should be 4) in old fashioned habits, wrought off from a wooden cut.  


Interludes, printed at London.  
The Play Of love.  
The Play Of weather.  
The Play Between John the Husband and Tib the Wife.    


Interludes, Printed at Lond.  
Play between the Pardoner and the Friar, the Curate and neighbour Prat  
Play of gentleness and nobility in two parts.    
The Pinner of Wakefeld, a Comedy.  
Philotas' Scotch, a Com.— I have seen also an interlude of youth; Printed at Lond. in an old English Char. temp. Hen. 8. but whether Jo. Heywood was the Author of it, I know not. He also wrote,  
A Dialogue containing the number in effect of all the proverbs in the English tongue, compact in a matter concerning two manner of marriages, corrected and somewhat augmented by the Author. Lond. 1547. and 1598. in two parts in qu. All written in old English verse, and printed in an English Character.  
Three hundred Epigrams upon 300 Proverbs. Lond. without date, and there again 1598. qu. All in old English character.  
The fourth hundred of Epigrams. Lond. without date, and there again 1598. qu.  
The Fifth six hundred of Epigr. Land. 1598. qu.  
The Spider and the Flie. A parable of the Spider and the Flie. Lond. 1556. in a pretty thick qu. and all in old English verse. Before the title, is the picture of Jo. Heywood from head to foot printed from a wooden Cut, with a fur-gown on, representing the fashion of that almost belonging to a Master of Arts, but the bottom of the sleeves reach no lower than his knees. On his head is a round cap, his chin and lips are close shaved, and hath a dagger hanging at his girdle. After the Preface, which is in verse, follows a table of all the Chapters in the Book, then follows his picture again, as is before described. In the beginning of every chapter (in number 77.) is the Author's picture either standing or sitting before a table, with a Book on it, and the representation of a window near it, with cobwebs, flies, and spiders in it. 'Tis one of the first printed Books in the English tongue that hath many Cuts; and no doubt there is, but that it was in high value in Qu. Mary's Reign, as the Author of it was, who ending his days at Mechlin, year 1565 about Fifteen hundred sixty and five, was buried there, leaving behind him several Children, to whom he had given liberal education: among which were Ellis, and Jaspar, Heywood, the former Bach. of the Civil Law, the other M. of Arts, of this University, and both afterwards noted Jesuits.  
THOMAS HOBY of Bysham near to Maidenhead in Berks. Son of Will. Hoby of Leonminster commonly called Lemster in Herefordishire, was born, as I conceive, in Herefordshire, and after he had spent some time among the Oxonian Muses, he went beyond the Seas, lived in France, Italy, and other Country's several years, became a perfect Master of the Languages there spoken, and at length returned a complete Gentleman, well furnished with learning, and for a time settled at Bysham. Afterwards being introduced into the Court, he became so much esteemed by Qu. Elizabeth, that she not only conferred the honour of Knighthood upon, but sent, him Embasslador to the French King, an. 1565 or thereabouts; where acting too zealous for his Mistress, he was cut off in the prime of his years. What he hath written, I know not: Sure I am that he hath translated from Italian into English Il cortagiano, seu de Aulico written by 〈◊〉 Castiglione, and from Lat. into English. (1) 〈◊〉 to the Church of England, for the restitution of Christian Religion. Lond. in oct. without date: written in Lat. by Martin Bucer. (2) Answer unto the two railing Epistles of Steph. Gardiner B. of Winchester concerning the married state of Priests and cloisterers. Lond. in oct. without date: written also in Lat. by the said Bucer. They were both printed in an English character, after the Author's death, (as it seems) which happing at Paris on Saturday 
* Lib. Certif. in Coll. Armorum, J. 13 fol. 77. ●.  13. July, between five and six in the morning (to the great reluctancy of all good Men, nay, to the Queen herself) in Fifteen hundred sixty and six, year 1566 aged 36 years, his body thereupon was conveyed into England, and at length to Bysham, where resting till his Widow Elizabeth, Daughter of Sir Anth. Coke of Geddy-hall in Essex Knight, had built a Chapel on the South side of the Chancel there, was put into a Vault underneath it. Which being so done, the said Widow caused the body of his elder Brother Sir Philip Hoby a zealous Protestant in Qu. Mary's Reign, (who dying issueless 31 May 1558. aged 53. made his Brother Sir Tho. before-mentioned his Heir) to be removed from under the Chancel, and to be laid by it in the said Vault. That also being done, she at her own charges caused a fair Table Monument breast-high to be erected over them, with their statuas from head to foot laying thereon, and a large inscription in English prose and verse to be engraven, which for brevity sake I shall now pass by. This Sir Tho. Hoby left behind him several Children, of whom the eldest was Edward, as I shall tell you more hereafter in the latter end of the Year 1616.  
RICHARD EDWARD'S, a Somersetshire Man born, was admitted Scholar of Corp. Chr. Coll. under the tuition of George Etheridge, on the eleventh of May 1540, Student of the upper table of Christ Church at its foundation by K. Hen. 8. in the beginning of the Year 1547. aged 24, and the same Year took the Degree of M. of Arts. In the beginning of Qu. Elizabeth, he was made one of the Gentlemen of her Chapel, and Master of the Children there, being then esteemed not only an excellent Musician, but an exact Poet, as many of his compositions in Music (for he was not only skilled in the practical but theoretical part) and Poetry do show, for which he was highly valued by those that knew him, especially his associates in Lincoln's Inn (of which he was a member, and in some respects an Ornament) and much lamented by them, and all ingenious Men of his time, when he died. He hath written,  
Damon and Pythias, a Com.— Acted at Court and in the University.  
Palaemon and Arcyte, a Com. in two parts.— Acted before Qu. Elizab. in Ch. Ch. hall 1566. which gave her so much content, that sending for the Author thereof, she was pleased to give him many thanks, with promise of reward for his pains: And then making a pause, said to him and her retinue standing about her, these matters relating to the said Play, which had entertained her with great delight for two nights in the said hall. By Palaemon— I warrant he dellieth not in love, when he was in love indeed. By Arcyte he was a right martial Knight, having a swa●t countenance and a manly Face. By Trecatio— Gods pity what a knave it is? By Peritbous his throwing St. Edward's rich cloak into the funeral fire, which a slander by would have sta●d by the arm, with an oath, go fool— he knoweth his part I'll warrant you, etc.— In the said play was acted a cry of hounds in the quadrant, upon the train of a fox in the hunting of Theseus: with which, the young Scholars who stood in the remoter parts of the stage, and in the windows, were so much taken and surprised (supposing it had been real) that they cried out, there, there,— he's caught, he's caught.— All which the Queen merrily beholding, said, O excellent! those boys in very troth are ready to leap out of the windows to follow the hounds.— This part being repeated before certain Courtiers in the lodgings of Mr. Rog. Marbeck one of the Canons of Ch. Ch. by the players in their gowns (for they were all Scholars that acted, among whom were Miles Windsor and Thom. Twine of C. C. C.) before the Queen came to Oxon, was by them so well liked, that they said it far surpassed Dam●n and Pythias, than which, they thought, nothing could be better. Likewise some said that if the Author did proceed to make more plays before his death, he would run mad. But this it seems was the last, for he lived not to finish others that he had laying by him. He also wrote,  
Several Poems in Engl. and Latin— Those that speak English are for the most part extant in a Book intit. The paradise of dainty devises. Lond. 1578. qu. Which Book being mostly written by him, was published by Hen. D'isle a Printer, with other men's Poems mixed among them. Among which, are those of Edward Vere Earl of Oxford, the best for Comedy in his time, who died an aged Man 24 June 1604. Will. Hunnys (a crony of Tho. Newton the Lat Poet) who hath about nine Copies in the said collection; Jasp. Heywood, Nich. Lord Vaux, Franc. Kynwelmersh who hath about 8 Copies therein, R. Hall, R. Hill, T. Martial, Tho Churchyard a Salopian, Lodowyke Lloyd, one Y●oop, and several others. At length this noted Poet and Comedian, R. Edward's, made his last Exit before he arrived to his middle age, year 1566 in Fifteen hundred sixty and six, or thereabouts. When he was in the extremity of his sickness, he composed 
* George Gasc●●gne the Poet, in his Epist. to the young Gentlemen, set before his works.— Lond. 15●●. qu.  a noted Poem called Edward's Soulknil or the Souls knell, which was commended for a good piece. One George Turbervile in his Book of Epitaphs, Epigrams, Songs, Sonnets, etc. (which I shall hereafter mention) printed at Lond. the second time 1570, hath an Epitaph on his death, made by Tho. Twine of C. C. Coll. and another by himself.  
ROBERT POINTZ to whom Alderli● in Glocestershire (where his Family was gentile) gave breath, and Wykehams' School near to Winehester education, was admitted perpetual Fellow of New Coll. in 1554 took the Degrees in Arts, that of Master being conferred upon him in 1560, but went away before he completed it by standing in the Comitia. Afterwards leaving his Relations, Country, and all future expectation, for Religion sake, settled at Louvain in Brabant, as it seems, became a Student in Divinity, and published,  
Testimonies for the real presence of Christ's body and blood in the blessed Sacrament of the Altar, set forth at large and faithfully translated out of six ancient Fathers, which lived far within six hundred years. Lov. 1566. oct.  
Certain notes declaring the force of those testimonies, and detecting sometimes the Sacramentaries false dealing— Printed with the former book.  
Miracles performed by the Eucharist— This last with other things that he hath written, 
Clar. 1566.  as 'tis said, I have not yet seen. An 100 years after this R. Pointz. lived another of both his names, and of the same Family, a writer also, and a Knight of the Bath, whom I shall remember hereafter.  
ANTHONY BROWNE Son of Sir Weston Browne of Abbesroding and of Langenhoo in Essex Knight, (by Eliz. his Wife one of the Daughters of Will. Mordant of Turwey in Bedfordsh. Esq;) Son 
* Cod. MS. D. Will. Dugdale in Museo Ashmoleano. E. 2. fol. 91. a.  of Rob. Browne, (by Mary his Wife Daughter and Heir of Sir Thomas Charlton) Son of Rob. Browne of Wakefield in Yorkshire, (by Joan Kirkham his second Wife) Son of another Rob. Browne of the West Country, was born in Essex, and being made soon ripe for the University, was sent thereunto; but before he had taken a Degree he was transplanted to the Middle Temple; of which, after he had been some years an Inner Barrister, he was elected summer-Reader 1ᵒ Mariae, but did not read till the Lent following. In the 2 Year of the said Queen's Reign he with several others were by writ called to the Degree of Sergeant at Law, and was the ancientest of the call, and soon after was made Sergeant to the King and Queen. In oct. 1558. (5. and 6. of Ph. and Mar.) he was made Lord Chief Justice of the Common-pleas, but the said Qu. Mary dying soon after, and Elizabeth succeeding, she removed him thence and placed in his room Sir James Dyer. Whereupon A. Browne was made for a time (as it seems) a Justice of the Common-pleas, and soon after one of the Justices of the Common-bench, in which dignity he died; having, but an year before his death, received the honour of Knighthood from the Queen at the Parliament house. Edom. Plowden the famous Lawyer doth give this 
a In his Commentaries or Reports of divers cases. Printed at Lond. 1599 ●ol. 356. a.  testimony of him that he was a Judge of a profound genie and great eloquence: And all eminent Men of that Age did esteem him as able a Person as any that lived in Qu. Elizabeth's time, and therefore fit to have obliged posterity by his Pen, had not too much modesty laid in the way. What he did as to that, was concealed, and partly published under another name, as his Arguments for Marie Queen of Scots her right of Succession to the Crown of England, which were published by Joh. Lesley Bishop of Rosse, as I shall tell you in Morgan Philipps under the Year 1577. Besides which, there is a folio MS. at this day in a private hand entit.  
A discourse upon certain points touching the inheritance of the Crown— conceived by Sir Anth. Brown Justice. Which Book coming into the hands of Sir Nich. Bacon L. Keeper of England, was by him answered, and perhaps therein are contained the Arguments before mentioned. Our Author Sir Anthony wrote a Book also against Rob. Dudley Earl of Leycester, as one 
b Dr. Matthew Pateuson, in his Book intit. Jerusalem and Babel, or the image of both Churches▪ Lond. 1653. second 〈◊〉 p. 587.  reports, but what the contents of it are, he mentions not. At length having always lived a R. Catholic, he gave way to fate 
c Lib. Certes. in Col●▪ Arm. ut sup. J. 5. fol. 150. a.  at his house in the Parish of Southweld in Essex on the 6. of May in Fifteen hundred sixty and seven; year 1567. whereupon his body was buried in the Chancel of the Church there, on the tenth of June following. What Epitaph was put over his Grave, I know not: Sure it is, that these verses were made on him several years after his death, which may serve for one.  
Elizabetha nonum regni dum transegit annum  
Gentis & Anglorum regia sceptra tenet,  
Antonium rapiunt Maii mala sydera Brownum  
Legum qui vivus gloria magna fuit.  
On the 9 Nou. in the same Year in which Sir Anthony died, Joan his Widow, Daughter of Will. Farington of Farington in Lancashire (and formerly the Widow of Charles Both Esq;) died, and the 22 of the same Month was buried near to the grave of her second husband Sir Anthony beforementioned, who was Nephew to Sir Humph. Browne of the Middle Temple, made Sergeant at Law 23. Hen. 8. one of the Justices of the Kings-bench 34. Hen. 8. and continued in that place till 5 Elizab. at which time he died, being about 33 Years after he was made a Sergeant.  
WILLIAM SALESBURY, a most exact Critic in British antiquities, was born of an ancient and gentile Family in Denbighshire, spent several year in Academical learning either in St. Alban, or Broadgates, hall, or both. Thence he went to an Inn of Chancery in Holborn near London, called Thavies Inn, where he studied and made sufficient progress in the common Law; and thence, as 'tis probable, to Lincoln's Inn. Afterwards he applied his muse to the searching of Histories, especially those belonging to his own Country, wherein he became so curious and critical that he wrote and published,  
A Dictionary in English and Welsh, much necessary to all such Welshmen, as will speedily learn the English tongue, thought by the King's Majesty very meet to be set forth to the use of his gracious Subjects in Wales. Lond. 1547. qu. whereunto is prefixed,  
A little treatise of the English pronunciation of the Letters— From the said Dictionary, and treatise, Dr. Joh. Davies obtained many materials when he was making his Dictionarium Britannico-latinum.  
A plain and familiar introduction, teaching how to pronounce the Letters in the British tongue, now commonly called Welsh, whereby an English Man shall not only with ease read the said tongue rightly, but etc. Lond. 1550. qu. Afterwards perused and augmented by the Author, Lond. 1567. in 7. sh. in qu.  
Battery of the Popes bottereulx, commonly called the High Altar. Lond. 1550. in oct. He also published The Laws of Howell Da, 
Clar. 1567.  and other things relating to his own Country, which I have not yet seen. He was living in the house of Humph. Toy a Bookseller in St. Paul's Ch. yard in London, in Fifteen hundred sixty and seven, (which was part of the ninth and tenth years of Qu. Elizabeth) being then esteemed a Person to be much meriting of the Church and British tongue, but when he died, I find not.  
ARMIGELL WADE or Waad, a Yorkshire Man born, spent some years in Logic and Philosophy, in St. Mary Magd. Coll. as it seems, took a Degree in Arts 1531, went afterwards to one of the Inns of Court, traveled into various Countries, and after his return became Clerk of the counsel to K. Hen. 8. and afterwards to K. Ed. 6. He is 
f In his Epitaph, printed by Joh. Norden in his Historical and Chorographical descript. of Middlesex. Lond. 1593. in qu. p. 22.  charactarized thus— Qui in maximarum artium disciplinis, prudentiaque civili instructissimus, plurimarum linguarum callentissimus, legationibus honoratissimis perfunctus, & inter Britunnos Indiarum Americ●rum explorator primus. He made many observations in his travels, especially in America, (being the first English Man that discovered it) which are remitted into the Volumes of voyages collected and published by another hand. This Person, who was a Justice of Peace for the County of Middlesex, died at Belsie or Belsise in the Parish of Hampsted in the said County, 20. June in Fifteen hundred sixty and eight, year 1568 and was buried in the Chancel of the Church at Hampsted. Soon after was a fair Monument of Alabaster erected over his grave by Sir Will. Waad his eldest Son, Clerk of the Counsel to Qu. Elizabeth.  
WILLIAM TURNER, a noted and forward Theologist and Physician of his time, was born at Morpeth in Northumberland, educated in Cambridge in Trivials, and afterwards for a time in the study of Medicine. This Person who was very conceited of his own worth, hot headed, a busy body, and much addicted to the opinions of Luther, would needs in the height of his study of Physic turn Theologist, but always refused the usual ceremonies to be observed in order to his being made Priest: And whether he had orders conferred upon him according to the R. Cath. manner, appears not. Sure it is that while he was a young Man, he went unsent for, through many parts of the Nation, and Preached the Word of God, not only in Towns and Villages, but also in Cities. In his rambles he settled for a time in Oxon, among several of his Countrymen that he found there, purposely for the conversation of Men and Books, which is one reason I put him here, the other I shall tell you anon. But whether he took a Degree in Arts or Medicine I cannot yet find. At the same time, and after, following his old trade of preaching without a call, he was imprisoned and kept in close durance for a considerable time. At length being let loose, and banished, he traveled into Italy, and at Ferrara he was made a Doctor of Physic, and as much there in esteem for his faculty, as after his return into England he was among the reformed party. In the latter end of K. Hen. 8. he lived at Colen and other places in Germany, where he published one or more Books: and returning to his native Country when K. Ed. 6. reigned, had not only the Prebendship of Botevant in the Church of York bestowed on him by the Archb. of that place, but a Canonry of Windsor, and the Deanery of Wells by the King. About which time, though the day, or month, or scarce the Year appears, he was incorporated Doctor of Physic with us, which is another reason I put him here; for if I could have found the certain time, (which appears not because the Register of that King's Reign is imperfect) I would have remitted him into the Fasti. About that time he procured a licence to read and to preach, as many Laymen did that were Scholars, practised his faculty among the Nobility and Gentry, and became Physician to Edward Duke of Somerset, L Protector of England. After Q. Mary came to the Crown he left the Nation once more, went into Germany with several English Theologists, thence to Rome and afterwards for a time settled in Basil. But when Qu. Eliz. succeeded, he returned and was restored to his Deanery, and had other spiritualities, I presume, conferred upon him, being then a Person had in much esteem for his two faculties, and for the great benefit he did by them, especially in his writings, to the Church and commonwealth. The titles of those Books published under his name are these.  
The hunting of the Romish Fox, which more than 7 years hath been hid among the Bishops of England, after that the King's highness had commanded him (Turner) to be driven out of his Realm. Basil. 1543. oct. Published under the name of Will Wraughton.  
Avium praecipuarum, quarum apud Plinium & Aristotelem mentio est, brevis & succincta historia. Colon. 1544. in tw.  
Rescuing of the Romish Fox; otherwise called the Examination of the hunter, devised by Steph. Gardiner Doctor and defender of the Pope's Canon Law, and his ungodly Ceremonies— Printed 1545. in oct. published also under the name of W. Wraughton.  
The hunting of the Romish Wolf— Printed beyond the Sea in oct.  
Dialogue, wherein is contained the examination of the Mass, and of that kind of Priesthood, which is ordained to say Mass, and to offer up for the remission of sin, the body and blood of Christ again. Lond. in oct.  
New Herbal, wherein are contained the names of herbs in Greek, Lat. Engl. Dutch, French, and in the Apothecaries and Herbaries, with the properties, degrees, and natural places of the same. Lond. 1551. and 68 fol. It must be now noted, that after this violent and busy Person had got a licence to read and preach, it happened that in a Lecture of his delivered at Thistleworth near to London, he did therein inveigh much against the Poison of Pelagius, which had then infected the People very much in all parts of the Nation. This Lecture of his being answered in print by one who was his auditor, he staightway come out with a reply entit.  
A Preservative, or treacle against the poison of Pelagius, lately renewed and stirred up again, by the furious sect of the Anabaptists. Lond. 1551. in tw. which Book being dedicated to Hugh Latimer was ushered into the world by several copies of Lat. and Eng. verses set before, and at the end of, it; made by Nich. Grimoald of Merton Coll Tho. Norton of Sharpenhoe, Randol Hurleston or Huddleston and Tho. Soame a Preacher. Afterwards our Author Turner published,  
A new Book of spiritual Physic for divers diseases of the Nobility and Gentlemen of England— Said to be printed at Rome. but false, an. 1555. oct. by Marcus Antonius Constantius, otherwise called Thraso miles gloriosus. 'Tis printed in an English Character, and in the title are 4 Lat. verses directed by Turner, ad nobilem Britannum.  
The hunting of the Fox and the Wolf, because they did make havoc of the Sheep of Jesus Christ— printed in oct.  
A Book of the natures and properties, as well of the Baths of England, as of other Baths in Germany and Italy. Collen 1562. in a thin fol. and in an Eng. Char.  
Treatise of the Bath at Baeth in England— Printed with the former Book.  
Of the nature of all waters— Printed with the former also.  
The nature of wines, commonly used here in England, with a confutation of them that hold, that Rhenish and other small Wines, ought not to be drunken, either of them that have the stone, the rheum, or other diseases. Lond. 1568. oct.  
Of the nature and virtue of treacle— Printed with the next Book going before.  
The rare treasure of English Baths. Lond. 1587. qu.— Several things in this Book, were published from his former Books of Baths. He also translated into English, (1) A comparison between the old learning and the new. Printed in Southwark an. 1538. originally written by Urb. Regius. (2) The Palsgraves' catechismi. Lond. 1572. oct. What else he hath written and translated, you may see in Joh. Bale, cent. 8. nu. 95. At length after all the rambles and troubles that our Author Turner had made and did endure, he did quietly lay down his head, and departed this life 7. year 1568 July in Fifteen hundred sixty and eight. Whereupon his body was buried in the Chancel of the Church of St. Olaves in Hertstreet in London, leaving then behind him several Children, of whom Peter, a Doctor of Physic was one, Father to Samuel and Peter; as I shall tell you elsewhere.  
WILLIAM BARLOWE was bred a Canon Regular of the order of St. Austin in the Monastery of St. Osith in Essex, and partly among those of his order in Oxon (where besides a nursery for, was an Abbey and Priory of, that order) and there obtained a competency in Theology, of which faculty, as 'tis said, he was a Doctor. Afterwards he was made Prior of the Canons of his Order living at Bysham near Maidenhead in Berkshire, and by that name and title he was sent in an Embassy to Scotland, as I shall tell you elsewhere. About the time of the dissolution of his Priory, he was elected to the Episcopal See of St. Asaph; the temporalities of which being 
i Pat. 27. Hen. 8. p. 2.  delivered to him on the second day of Febr. 27. Hen. 8. Dom. 1535. he was consecrated 
k Fr. Godw. in Com. de praesul. Angl. inter Ep●●c. Asaphenses.  to the said See 22. of the same Month. Thence he was translated to St. David's in the Month of Apr. 1536. and thence to Bath and Wells in 1547, being then a zealous Professor and Preacher of the reformed Religion. In 1553, upon Qu. Mary's coming to the Crown, he was deprived of his Bishopric for being married; whereupon retiring with many others into Germany under pretence of Religion, lived there in a poor and exile condition. At length when Qu. Elizab. succeeded, he was made Bishop of Chichester, in Decemb. 1559, (where he sat to the time of his death) and in 1560, he was made the first Canon or Prebendary of the first stall, in the collegiat Church of St. Peter in Westminster, then founded by Qu. Elizabeth; which Dignity he held with his Bishopric five years. His works are these.  
A Dialogue describing the original ground of these Lutheran factions and many of their abuses. Lond. 1553. in oct. Printed in an English Char.  
Christian Homilies.  
Cosmography— which two last I have not yet seen. He departed this mortal life in the Month of Aug. in Fifteen hundred sixty and eight, year 1568 and was buried, as I suppose, in the Cath. Ch. at Chichester. After this William Barlowe had been a Prior and a Bishop, he took to Wife one Agatha Wellesbourne, by whom he had issue five Daughters that were all married to Bishops, viz. (1) Anne, who, after she had buried her first Husband named Austin Bradbridge bridge of Chichester, sometimes Fellow of New College, married Harbert Westphaling Bishop of Hereford (2) Elizabeth Wife of Will. Day Dean of Windsor, afterwards Bishop of Winchester. (3) Margaret Wife of Will. Overton B. of Lichf. and Cou. (4) Frances, who after she had buried her first Husband named Matthew Parker a younger Son of Dr. Matthew Parker Archb. of Canterbury, was married to Toby Matthew, who died Archb. of York. (5) Antonia the Wife of Will. Wykeham Bishop of Winchester. The said Will. Barlowe had also a Son of both his names, whom I shall mention in his proper place.  
JOHN MAN being the next according to time to be mentioned, I must tell you that he was born in the Parish of Lacocke in Wiltshire, elected from Winchester School, Probationer of New Coll. in 1529. and was made perpetual Fellow two Years after. In 1537, he proceeded in Arts, was the Southern Proctor of the University three years after, and in 1547, he was made Principal of Whitehall, since involved into Jesus Coll. After Qu. Elizabeth was settled in the Throne, he became Chaplain to Dr. Parker Archb. of Canterbury, who having a respect for, did put, him in Warden of Merton Coll. 1562. upon a dissent among the Fellows in an Election of one for that office, as I have told 
* In Hist. & Antiq. Uniu. Ox. lib. 1. p. 285. a.  you at large elsewhere. In 1565, he was made Dean of Gloucester in the place of Will. Jennings deceased, (who from being a Monk of that place, was made the first Dean 1541.) and in 1567. in the Month of Aug. he was sent by the Queen her Ambassador to the K. of Spain, who the Year before had sent to our Queen his Ambassador called Goseman or Gooseman de Sylva, Dean (as 'twas said) of Toledo. Of which Ambassadors Qu. Eliz. used merrily to say, that as her Brother the K. of Spain had sent to her a Goosman, so she had sent to him a Man goose. While he continued at Madrid in Spain in the quality of an Ambassador, he was accused 
† Camd. in Reg. Elizab. sub an. 1569.  to have spoken somewhat unreverently of the Pope. Whereupon he was excluded from the Court, and afterwards thrust out of Madrid into a Country Village, his Servants compelled to be present at Mass, and the exercise of his own Religion forbidden; and this whether in more hatred to the Queen of England, or to Religion, I cannot say; whereas she in the mean time had showed all kindness to Goseman the Spanish Ambassador, allowing him his own Religion. This Man-goose, hath (as I have been informed) written and translated several things, but none have I yet seen, only his translation from Latin into English of Common places of Christian Religion, gathered by Wolfg. Musculus, etc. Lond. 1563. fol. and 1573. in a thick qu. He paid his last debt to nature at London, 18. March in Fifteen hundred sixty and eight, 
156 8/9.  and received sepulture in the Chancel of St. Ann's Church near Aldersgate in the same City, leaving issue by his Wife Frances Dau. of Edm. Herenden of London Mercer, several Children; some of whose posterity, do now, or at least did lately, live at Hatfield-Braddock in Essex. In his Deanery of Gloucester succeeded Dr. Tho. Cooper, afterwards B. of Winchester, and in the Wardenship of Merton Coll. Dr. Tho. Bickley afterwards B. of Chichester. Besides this Jo. Man, I find another of both his names of New Coll. born at Writtle in Essex, who, being LL. B. was presented by the Warden and Fellows of the said Coll. to the rectory of Great-Horwood in Bucks. an. 1551, where he died 1565.  
EDMUND BONNER, a Person much esteemed by those of his profession for the zeal he bore to the R. Catholic cause, was the natural Son of George Savage Priest, Parson of Davenham in Cheshire, natural Son of Sir Job. Savage of Clifton in the said County, Knight of the Garter, and one of the counsel to K. Hen. 7. Which Geo. Savage Priest had seven natural Children by three sundry Women, viz. (1) George Savage Chancellor of Chester (2) Joh. Wymesley Parson of Torperley in Cheshire, who was made Archdeacon of London by his Brother Ed. Bonner. (3) Randal Savage of Lodge in the said County. (4) Edm. Bonner (of whom we are to make further mention) begotten on the body of Elizab. Frodsham, who was the Wife (after Bonner had been begotten) of Edm. Bonner a Sawyer living with a Gentleman called Armingham of Potter's Hanley in Worcestershire, besides three Daughters named Margaret, Ellen, and Elizabeth. Our Author, who was called by his supposed Father's name, Edm. Bonner, was born either at Elmeley, or at Potters-Hanley in Worcestershire, and in 1512 or thereabouts, became a Student of Broadgates' hall, (now Pembroke Coll.) being then a noted nursery for Civilians and Canonists. Soon after, having made a sufficient progress in Philosophy and the Laws, he was on the 12. June admitted Bach. of the Canon, and on the 13. of July following, an. 1519. Bach. of the Civil, Law. About that time he entered into Holy Orders, and performed many matters, relating to his faculty, in the Dioc. of Worcester, by the appointment of the then Bishop. In 1525, he was licenced to proceed in the Civil Law, and about that time obtained the rectories of Ripple, Bledon, Dereham, Cheswick, and Cherriburton (in Yorks.) Afterwards he was one of the King's Chaplains, a favourer of the Lutherans, of the divorce between the K. and Catherine of Spain, a favourer of the Kings proceedings in expelling the Pope's authority from the Kingdom of England, and Master of the Faculties under Dr. Cranmer Archb. of Canterbury. In 1535, he became Archdeacon of Leycester in the place of Edw. Fox promoted to the See of Hereford (which Fox had been installed in that Archdeaconry, upon the resignation of Steph. Gardener LL. D. 27. Sept. 1531.) and by the endeavours of Thom. Cromwell Secretary of State, he was employed Ambassador to the Kings of Denmark and France, to the Pope, and to the Emperor of Germany, and made Bishop of Hereford 1538: the temporalities of which See were 
a Pat. 30. Hen. 8. p. 2.  restored to him by the K. 4. March the same Year. But before he was consecrated thereunto, he was elected Bishop of London 1. Oct. 1539, (being then in an Embassy) had restitution 
b Pat. 31. Hen. 8. p. 3.  made of the Temporalities belonging thereunto 18 Nou. following, and was consecrated 3. Apr. 1540 After the death of K. Hen. 8. and Religion being about to be reform by K. Ed. 6. Bonner seemed at first to be forward for it, but recanting what he had done, he was enjoined to preach a Sermon at Paul's cross, (to make farther trial perhaps of his humour) wherein leaving out the article of the King's authority, was, upon the complaints of Joh. Hooper and Will. (some call him Hugh) 
c One Will. Latimer was Dean of Peterborough, an. 1560. whether the same, I know not.  Latymer Bach. of Diu. and Parson of St. Laurence Pountney (who prosecuted him very zealously for it, and his slowness in forwarding reformation in his Diocese) first committed Prisoner to the Marshalsea 20. Sept. and in the beginning of Oct. following an. 1549. was deprived of his Bishopric. Soon after which time, his Mother Elizab. Frodsham died and was buried at Fulham, at whose Funeral, Bonner, though a Prisoner, gave to several Persons mourning coats. In the beginning of Aug. 1553. he was released out of the Marshalsea, and restored to his Bishopric by Qu. Mary, in whose Reign he showed himself severe (being put upon it by public authority) against the Protestants, as may be fully seen in Joh. Fox his Book of the Acts and Mon. of the Church. As for the writings of the said Bonner, they are many, but all that I have yet seen, are only these, viz.  
Preface to the oration of Stephen Bish. of Winchester concerning true obedience— Printed at London. in Lat. 1534. 35, and at Hamburgh 1536. oct. Translated and imprinted by a most zealous enemy to the Papists called Mich. Wood, who wrote a bitter and libellous Epistle before, and a conclusion after, it, to the Reader— Print. at Rouen 1553. oct. I have seen another translation of it (perhaps by the same hand) without the said lib. Epist. printed in oct. an. 1536. In the said Pref. written by Bonner are several matters against the Pope's power in England, and in defence of the King's divorce from Qu. Catherine.  
Several Letters to the Lord Tho. Cromwell. an. 1538.  
A declaration to the Lord Th. Crom. describing to him the evil behaviour of Steph▪ Bish. of Winchester, an. 1538— These two last are mentioned in the Acts and Mon. of the Church, under that year.  
Responsum & exhortatio. Lond. 1553. in oct. Which answer, and exhortation to the Clergy in praise of Priesthood, beginning Dum tacitus apud me considero, etc. were uttered by our Author after Joh. Harpesfield had finished his Sermon to the Clergy in St. Paul's Cath. in Lond. 16. Oct. 1553, and the orations ended of John Wymesley Archdeacon of London beforementioned, and of Hugh Weston Dean of Westminster. All which were printed and bound together in one volume.  
Articles (in number 37.) to be enquired of in his general visitation exercised by him in the City and Dioc. of Lond. an. 1554— These being very unusual articles, I do therefore here set them down, especially for this reason, that Jo. Bale hath commented on them with a great deal of raillery in a Book entit. A Declaration of Edmund Bonner's articles. Lond. 1561. oct.  
A profitable and necessary doctrine (or Catechism) with certain Homilies adjoined thereunto, for the instruction and information of the People within the Dioc. of Lond. Lond. 1554. 55. qu. Or thus. A necessary doctrine containing an exposition on the Creed, seven Sacraments, ten commandments, the pater noster, Ave Maria and the seven deadly sins.  
Various letters, declarations, arguings, disputes, etc.— As in the said Book of Acts and Mon.  
After Qu. Elizab. came to the Crown, he was for denying the Oath of Supreamacy deprived of his Bishopric again, as he himself hath set it down in a spare leaf before Eusebius his Ch. Hist. with Ruffinus his commentary, printed at Basil, in the Year 1528. Which Book I, some years ago, bought for the sake of the note, which he had written, running thus. Litera dominicali A. an. dom. MDLIX die Maii XXX vocatus ad concilium, recusavi praestare juramentum, & omnino deprivatus. Afterwards being committed to his former prison, the Marshalsea in Southwark near London, continued there in a cheerful and contented condition till the time of his death: which therefore made those that did not care for him, say, that he was like Dionysius the Tyrant of Syracuse, who being cruel and peremptory in prosperity, was both patient and pleasant in adversity. 'Tis said that Dr. Bonner being sometimes allowed liberty, he would walk, as his occasions served, in the street, and sometimes wearing his tippet, one begged it of him (in scoff) to line a coat, no (saith he) but thou shalt have a fools head to line thy cap. To another that bid him Good morrow Bishop quondam, he straight replied Farewell knave semper. Which answers are Epigrammatized by an admired 
d Sir Joh. Harrington in his Epigrams, lib. 4. Epig. 15.  Muse of our Nation in his time. When another Person showed the said Bonner his own picture in the Acts and Mon. of the Church, etc. commonly called the Book of Martyrs, on purpose to vex him, he merrily laughed and said a vengeance on the fool, how could he get my picture drawn so right? And when one asked him, if he were not ashamed to whip a Man with a beard, he laughed and told him, his beard was grown since, but (said 
e See the same Author in his Brief view of the state of the Church of England, etc. Lond. 1653. p. 16.  he) if thou hadst been in his case, thou wouldst have thought it a good commutation of penance to have thy bum beaten, to save thy body from burning, etc.— He gave way to fate in the aforesaid Prison 5. Sept. year 1569 in Fifteen hundred sixty and nine, and was at midnight buried near to the bodies of other Prisoners in the Cemitery belonging to St. George's Church in Southwark, in which Parish the Marshalsea is situated. He had caused formerly two of his Nephews (Sons of one of his Sisters beforementioned) to be educated in Broadgates' hall, one of which was named Will. Darbyshire, who, by his Uncle's favour, became Prebendary of St. Paul's Cathedral, and dying in Broadgates, was buried in St. Aldates' Church adjoining, 3. July 1552. The other was Tho. Darbyshire, who proceeded Doctor of Laws, as a Member of Broadgates, in 1555, under which year you may see more of him in the Fasti.  
ANDREW KINGSMYLL Son of John Kingsmyll of Sidmanton in Hampshire, was born there, or in that County, elected Fellow of Allsouls Coll. from that of Corp. Chr. in 1558, studied the Civil Law, wherein he attained to a considerable knowledge, and was admitted to the reading of any Book of the Institutions in that faculty, in the beginning of the Year 1563. About that time also he exercised himself much in the Scriptures, and having a great memory, could readily rehearse memoriter in the Greek tongue St. Paul's Epistles to the Romans and Galatians, and St. John's first Canonical Epistle, besides other Chapters of the Old and New Test. and several Psalms. He exercised himself also by writing of sundry matters that he might grow in judgement, readiness, and aptness to teach others, if at any time he should be called thereunto; whereof a little treatise entit. A view of Man's estate, etc. yieldeth some proof, which he wrote at about 22 years of Age. He esteemed not so much the preferment and profit, whereunto many ways he might easily have attained by the profession of the Law, as the comfortable assurance (which he usually urged) and blessed hope of life eternal. Wherefore to further himself therein, he sought not only the exact knowledge of the Greek and Hebrew tongues, but also for a time to live in some one of the best reformed Churches, where he might both by the doctrine and discipline of the Gospel, be daily confirmed in the true worship of God, and well prepared for the Ministry of the Church. For this end he settled in Geneva, where he remained the space of three years, being well liked by the learned and godly there. From thence he removed to Losanne; where being too good for this world, ended this mortal life, leaving behind him a rare example of godliness among the Calvinistical Brethren there. He hath written.  
A view of man's estate, wherein the great mercy of God in man's free justification is showed. Lond. 1574. 1580 etc. oct.  
A godly advice touching marriage. Lond. 1580. oct.  
Excellent and comfortable treatise for all such as are any manner of way either troubled in mind or afflicted in body. Lond. 1578. oct.  
Godly and learned exhortation to bear patiently all afflictions for the Gospel of Jes. Ch. (on Gal. 6. 14.)  
Conference between a godly learned Christian and an afflicted conscience concerning a conflict had with Satan. All which, and I think a Sermon on S. Joh. 3. 16. printed in oct. were published, after the Author's death, by his friend and contemporary Franc. mills a Kentish Man, M. of A. and Fel. of Alls. C. As for the Author, he surrendered up his last breath, in the prime of his years, at Losanne, (and therefore the more lemented by the brethren,) in the Month of Sept. in Fifteen hundred sixty and nine, year 1569 leaving behind him an excellent pattern of his virtues and piety, which all should, but few did, imitate. It must be now known that in the beginning of the Reign of Queen Elizabeth, the Uniu. of Oxon was so empty (after the R. Cath. had left it upon the alteration of Religion) that there was very seldom a Sermon preached in the University Church called Sr. Marry, and what was done in that kind, was sometimes by Laurence Humphrey Precedent of Magd. C. and Thom. Samson Dean of Ch. Ch. But they being often absent, a young Man of Allsouls Coll. would often step up and Preach to the admiration of all his auditors. This young Man, whom, as Sir Hen. Savile Warden of Merton Coll. (who came to the University in 1561.) use to style the young Bachelaur of Alls. Coll. I take to be Andrew Kingsmyll Bach. of Law, and none else.  
WILLIAM TRESHAM Son of Rich. Tresham by Rose his Wife, Daughter of Tho. Billing Esq; was born of, and descended from, a knightly Family of his name living at Newton in Northamptonshire, educated in Grammar and Logic in this University, elected Probat. Fellow of Merton Coll. in 1515, and at some years standing in the Degree of Master of Arts, he was unanimously chosen Registrary of this University, in the latter end of 1523. Afterwards he was made one of the Canons of the first foundation of the Coll at Oxon. founded by K. Hen. 8. an. 1532, being about that time a Doctor of Diu. and in great repute for his learning, as also much noted for his taking part with K. Hen. 8. in the matter of divorce from Qu. Catherine: And being also esteemed an active and forward Man, had the office of Commissary (the same now with that of Vicechancellor) of the University conferred upon him, which he executed with great commendation for several years. When K. Hen. 8. founded the Bishopric of Oxon, and settled the Cathedral on the ruins of Osney Abbey, by his Charter dated the first of Sept. an. 1542 he made this Dr. Tresham one of the Canons, where continuing till the Cathedral was translated to his Coll. Called Ch. Church, he was made the first Canon of the second Prebendship or Canonry there; and afterwards had under his name these things published.  
Disputatio de Eucharistiae sacramento in Universitate Oxon. habita contra Pet. Martyrem, 28. May 1549. Lond. 1549. qu. which disputation hath been printed once at least among Pet. Martyr's works, but whether true according to the MS. copy in Corp. Ch. Coll. Library, I doubt it. 'Tis also translated into English, and printed with the disputations of Will. Cheadsey and Morg. Philipps— Lond. 1568 fol. After this disputation was concluded to his great credit, we find him to have suffered imprisonment several times in the Reign of K. Ed. 6. After Qu. Mary came to the Crown he had.  
A disputation with Archb. Cranmer, Bishop Ridley, and B. Latymer in the Diu. School at Oxon, an. 1554.— Printed for the most part in Joh. Fox his Book of the Acts and Mon. of the Church, etc. At length after Qu. Eliz. came to the Crown, he was, for denying the Oath of Supremacy, deprived of his Canonry of Ch. Ch. in 1560, and committed to custody at Lambeth, with Matthew Archb. of Canterbury. Afterwards being released thence, upon security given that he would not concern himself in word or action for the future against the Religion then established, he retired to his rectory of Bugbrook in Northamptonshire, (conferred upon him by the King 1541.) and remained there for some time; but at length was deprived of that also, as the records of the Registraries office belonging to the Church of Peterborough do testify. He paid his last debt to nature in Fifteen hundred sixty and nine, year 1569 and was buried in the middle of the Chancel of the Church at Bugbrook beforementioned, (saith 
f Leon. Hutten in Cat. Dec. & can. Aed. ch. MS.  one who lived near his time) though upon search in the register belonging to that Church, his name (perhaps upon neglect) is not to be seen therein. Of this zealous Person for the R. Cath. cause, I have several times made mention in Hist. & Antiq. Uniu. Oxon. lib. 1. p. 268. a. b. 275. a. and in lib. 2. p. 257. b. 258. a. 422. a. b. etc.  
WILLIAM ALLEY received his first breath at Wycombe (Great Wycombe) in Bucks. was educated in Eton School near to Windsor, admitted into Kings Coll. in Cambridge, in the Year 1528, took one Degree in Arts in that University, retired to Oxon, where he spent some time to make a farther progress in Academical studies. Afterwards he married, was beneficed, and became a zealous reformer: But when Qu. Mary came to the Crown, he left his cure, traveled from place to place in the North parts of England where he was not known, and by his sometimes practising of Physic and teaching of youths, he obtained a comfortable subsistence for himself and his Wife. When Qu. Eliz. succeeded, he read the Divinity Lecture in St. Paul's Cathedral in London: which being admirably well performed, he was called thence to be Bishop of Exeter; to which See being consecrated 14. Jul. 1560. had the Temporalities thereof 
* Pat. 2. Elizab. p. 14.  given to him 26. Aug. following. In Nou. 1561 he supplicated the venerable congregation of Regent's of this University that the Degree of Bach. of Divinity might be conferred on him: which being granted, he supplicated for that of Doctor; and that being granted also, he was admitted to them both successively, without any mention at all of Incorporation. He was a Person Universally learned, especially in Divinity and in the tongues, Preached almost every Holiday, and read a Lecture every day while he lived at Exeter. He hath written,  
The poor man's Library, a rhapsody or miscellany, in two tomes. The first containeth seven Lectures upon the first Epistle of St. Peter, read publicly in St. Paul's Cath. in London, an. 1560. The second containeth 5. Lectures upon the said first Epist. read in the same place. Lond. 1571. fol.  
Hebrew Grammar— Whether ever printed, I know not. He took his last farewell of this world on the 15. day of April in Fifteen hundred and seventy, year 1570 and was buried in the middle almost of the Presbytery or Choir, (not far from that place where Woolton one of his Successors was afterwards buried) leaving behind him a Son named Rog. Alley Archdeacon of Cornwall. Soon after was a Mon. put over his grave, with an inscription thereon, wherein 'tis said that he was acerrimus Evangelicae veritatis propugnator, morum probitate praecelibris, bonarum disciplinarum mirabili scientia clarus, etc.  
JAMES CALFHILL, a Shropshire Man born, made his first entry into the University, an. 1545 or thereabouts, and after the last foundation of Ch. Ch. had been finished by K. Hen. 8. he was soon after made a Student thereof, an. 1548. aged 18. where going through the usual Classes of Logic and Philosophy, proceeded M. of Arts, and was Junior of the Act celebrated in St. Mary's Church, 18. Jul. 1552. From the time that he was first made Student of Ch. Ch. he always gave great hopes that he would prove a considerable Person in his time, being composed from his youth to gravity, and endowed with an acute genie and a quick vigour of mind. In 1560 he was made the second Canon of the second Prebendship of the said Church, was admitted to the reading of the Sentences the Year following, and afterwards became Doctor of D. Dean or Rector of Bocking in Essex, Archdeacon of Colchester (in the place, as it seems, of Joh. pullen deceased) and at length upon the translation of Dr. Edwin Sandys from Worcester to London in 1570 he was nominated by the Queen to succeed him, but before consecration thereunto, he died. He was in his younger days a noted Poet and Comedian, and in his elder, an exact Disputant, and had an excellent faculty in speaking and preaching. He hath transmitted to posterity,  
Querela Oxoniensis Academiae ad Cant abrigiam. Lond. 1552. qu. 'Tis a Lat. Poem written on the death of Henry and Charles Brandon Sons of Charles Duke of Suffolk, who died of the sweeting sickness in the Bishop of Lincoln's house at Bugden, 14. July 1551.  
Historia de exhumatione Catherinae nuper uxoris Pet. Martyris. Printed 1562. in oct.  
Answer to John martials treatise of the cross. Lond. 1565. qu.)  
Progne, a Tragedy.— Written in Lat. but whether ever printed, I know not.  
Poemata varia. This ingenious Person died at Bocking before mentioned, (having a little before resigned his Canonship of Ch. Ch.) and was buried in the Chancel of the Church there, year 1570 22. Aug. in Fifteen hundred and seventy, saith the register belonging to that Church, which I suspect is false, because there was a commission 
g In a Book of Administrations in the Will-Office near St. Paul's Cath. in Lond. beginning in Dec. 1559. fol 162 a.  issued out from the Prerogative Court of Canterbury at Lond. to Margaret his Widow dated 21. Aug. 1570. to administer the goods, debts, and chattels of him the said Dr. Jam Calfhill lately Archd. of Essex (as there he is styled) deceased. So I presume he died about the beginning of that Month.  
JOHN BOXALL was born at Bramshoot in Hampshire, educated in Grammar learning in W. of Wykehams' School near to Winchester, admitted perpetual Fellow of New Coll. an. 1542, took the Degrees in Arts, being then accounted one of the subtlest Disputants in the University. Afterwards he entered into holy orders, but did not preach in the Reign of K. Ed. 6. When Qu. Mary came to the Crown, he was made Archdeacon of Ely, (in the place, as I suppose, of Dr. Hen. Cole) her Secretary of State, Prebendary of Winchester, and Warden of Winchester Coll. 1554, in the place of Joh. white made B. of Linc. About that time being appointed one of the prime Preachers of the Nation to hold forth at Paul's Cross to revive the Catholic Religion, which had been eclipsed in K. Edward's Reign, had, while he was preaching, (as one 
n Joh. Pit. in Append. Cent. 2. nu. 86.  saith) a dagger flung at him, but I presume false, because the generality of writers say that that act was committed on Gilb. Bourne. In July 1557 he was made Dean of Peterborough in the place of Jam. Curthopp deceased, and on the 20. Dec. following he was installed Dean of Norwych in the place of Joh. Christopherson made B. of Chichester, and about the same time Dean of Windsor; in which place being installed, he was sworn Scribe or Registrary of the most noble order of the Garter 6. Feb. 1557. and the Year following was actually created D. of Diu. and made Prebendary of York, and Sarum, After Qu. Elizab. came to the Crown he was deprived of the Deanery of Windsor (that of Norwych he gave up before Qu. Mary's death) and George Carew succeeding him in 1559, he was admitted and sworn thereunto, 22 Apr. 1560. About that time he was also deprived of the Deanery of Peterborough, whereupon the Queen bestowed it on Will. Latymer D. D. 1560, which, together with the Church itself, he had likely to have lost upon information given to the Queen that it was ruinous and no prayers said therein, but upon better information from Latymer, the great Peer that begged it withdrew, and nothing more was done in the matter. As for Boxall, he being thus deprived, he was committed to free custody in the Archb. house at Lambeth, with Thirlby B. of Ely, Tonstall B. of Durham and others; but soon after being overtaken with a dangerous fever, had liberty to go over the water to London, and settling in the house of a near relation recovered, and enjoyed himself in great retiredness for some years after. He is said by a noted 
o In a Book entit. The execution of Justice in England for maintenance of ●ub. and Christian p●●ce, etc. Printed at Lond. the second time in oct. an. 1583. p. 34.  Author to have been a Person of great modesty, learning, and knowledge, and by another, 
p M. Parker in Antiq. Eccles. Britan. edit. 1●●2. vel 73. in Matheo.  greater than he, that there was in him tanquàm à natura ingenita modestia comitasque summa, qua quoscunque notos ad se diligendum astrinxit. One 
q Jo. Pits ut supra.  of his persuasion, who highly extolleth him for his eloquence and learning, saith that he wrote several things, but they perishing with the Author, never saw light. The truth is, that in all my searches I could never see any thing under his name but a Latin Sermon, which he preached, as it seems, in London, where it was afterwards printed in oct. but upon what subject I cannot tell, nor any thing else of the Author, only that he died in London towards the latter end of the Year Fifteen hundred and seventy, year 1570 for on the 28. March 1571. there was a Commission 
q In a Book of A●●m ●●strations in the Will-Office near to St. Paul's Cath. beginning in Decemb. 1559. fol. 171. b.  granted from the Prerogative Court of Canterbury to Edmund and Rich. Boxall natural and legitimate brothers of him the said Joh. Boxall Clerk, lately deceased in the City of London, to administer his goods, debts, Chattels, etc.  
HUMPHREY LHUYD or Lhoyd, Son and Heir of Rob. Lhoyd al●as Rossenhall of the ancient Borough of Denbigh in Denhighshire, by Joan his Wife, Daughter of Lewis Pigott, was born at Denhigh beforementioned, but in what house of learning in Oxon, he first of all applied himself to Academical studies, I know not: Sure it is, that after he had taken the Degree of Bach. of Arts, which was in 1547, I find him by the name of Humphrey Lhoyd to be a Commoner in Brasnose Coll. and in the Year 1551 to proceed in Arts as a Member of that House; at which time, as it seems, he studied Physic, being then ripe in years. Afterwards retiring to his own Country, lived mostly within the walls of Denbigh Castle, practised his faculty, and sometimes that of Music for diversion sake, being then esteemed a well bred Gentleman. He was a passing right Antiquary, and a Person of great skill and knowledge in British affairs. The learned Camden styles 
h In Britan. in cap. 1. De primis Inco●s, & in cap 4. De 〈◊〉 Britan.  him a learned Britain, and for knowledge in Antiquities reputed by our Countrymen, to carry, after a sort, with him, all the credit and honour, etc. He hath written,  
An Almanac and Calendar, containing the day, hour, and minute of the change of the Moon for ever, and the sign that she is in for these three years, with the natures of the signs and planets, with dyvers other things, as it doth plainly appear in the Preface— This was the first thing that our Author published, as it appears in the said Preface, but when, or where, it was printed, the imperfect copy, (which is in oct.) from whence I had the title, shows not.  
Commentarioli Britannicae descriptionis fragmentum. Col. Agrip. 1572. in tw. Dedicated to his dear and intimate friend Abr. Ortelius of Antwerp, in the Year 1568. Translated into English by Tho. Twine, who entitles it The Breviary of Britain. Lond. 1573. oct.  
De Mona Druidum insula, antiquitati suae restituta. Written in an Epistle to the said Ortelius, dated 5. Apr. 1568.  
De Armamentario Romano. These two last are printed at the end of Historiae Britannicae defensio, written by Sir Joh. Prise— Lond. 1573. qu.  
Chronicon Walliae, à Rege Cadwalladero, usque ad an. Dom. 1294. MS. in Cottons Library, under Caligula, A. 6. He also translated from Lat. into English. (1) The judgement of Urines. Lond. 1551. oct. (2) The History of Cambria now called Wales. Afterwards corrected, augmented, finished and continued by David powel— Lond. 1584. qu. (3) The treasure of health containing many profitable Medicines. Lond. 1585. oct. written by Pet. Hispanus. To which translation our Author Lhuyd added the causes and signs of every disease, with the Aphorisms of Hypocrates. These are all, I think, that he hath written and translated, for among my searches I have seen no more, nor do I know any thing else of the Author, only that he paid his last debt to nature, year 1570 about Fifteen hundred and seventy, and was buried in the Church of Whitchurch near Denbigh beforementioned. Soon after was a Monument of Alabaster, set up in the wall, over his grave to his memory: On which was portrayed his Effigies in a praying posture, with a desk, and a book laying thereon, before him, a sword by his side, but nothing else military in his habit. Under his said Effigies is a plain free stone in the said wall, whereon are engraven eight barbarous English verses: The two first of which run thus.  
The corpse and earthly shape doth rest. Here tomyd in your sight Of Humphrey Lloid Mr. of Art. A famus worthy Wight.  
In the last verse is mention made of an Epitaph annexed, but where that was written, unless on the stone lying on his grave, (wherein probably the day and year of his death were set down) I cannot tell. Many years before his death he took to Wife Barbara Daughter of George Lumley and Sister to John Lord Lumley; by whom he had issue Splendian and John, who both died without issue, Henry an inhabitant of Cheame in Surrey, and Jane the Wife of Rob. Coytmore.  
LAURENCE VAUS, Vaux or Vaulx, so many ways I find him written, was born near to Blackrode in Lancashire, received his Academical education in Oxon, partly, as it seems, in Queens Coll. but mostly in that of Corp. Ch. were he was either Clerk or Chorister, and much favoured by Jam. Brokes Fellow of that house. How long he continued there, or whether he took a Degree in Arts it appears not. About the Year 1540 he applied his studies to the Theological faculty and was made a Priest, being then esteemed 
i Anon. MS. the quibusd. script. Angl. in man●b. quondam Gul. Crowe Ludimag. Cro●on.  to be Vir eximiae doctrinae pro instruendâ in fide catholicâ juventute. Afterwards he became Chaplain to the said Brokes when he was Bishop of Gloc●ster, Warden of Manchester Coll. in his own Country on the death of George Collier (of the Family of the Colliers near to Stone in Staffordshire) in the beginning of the Reign of Queen Mary, and in 1556 he was admitted to the reading of the Sentences in this University. Upon the coming to the Crown of Qu. Eliz. and the reformation of Religion that followed, he left his preferment (in which Will. Byrch of the Family of Byrch hall in Lanc. succeeded 2. Eliz.) and went into Ireland, where he was despoiled of all he had by thiefs, and narrowly escaped death. Thence he went into the Low Countries, where, at Louvain, he was made a Monk, as 
k Joh. Pits. De illustr. Angl. Script. aet. 16. nu. 1016.  one saith, of the order of St. Dionyse, meaning, I suppose, of the Cenobie of St. Dionyse, because there is no such order; where he wrote,  
A Catechism, or a christian doctrine necessary for Children and ignorant People. Lov. 1567. Antw. 1574. printed again 1583. 1599 etc. all in oct. and tw.  
An instruction of the laudable customs used in the Cath. Church— This is some editions is entit. The use and meaning of holy Ceremonies in God's Church.  
Godly contemplations for the unlearned— These two last are printed with one, two, or more of the editions of the Catechism.  
Certain brief notes of divers godly matters— Printed with the Catechism in 1583— 99 oct. At length our. Author Vaux making a return into England to propagate his, and strengthen others in, Religion, was apprehended, and imprisoned in the Gatehouse at Westminster, where he 
l In Lanc. visit. in the Heralds off. C. 37. at the end.  died in great necessity, about the Year, as I find 
m Ibid. in P●●s at supra.  it reported, year 1570 Fifteen hundred and seventy; but where buried, I cannot justly say, because the register of St. Margaret's Church (wherein the Prison called the Gatehouse before-mentioned is situated) makes no mention of him in that Year, three years before, or three years after, as I have been informed by the Letters of Dr. Simon Patrick Prebendary of St. Peter's Church in the said City, and Dean of Peterborough, afterwards Bishop of Chichester.  
RICHARD SHAGENS who is written in one of our registers Schaftnes, was born in Ireland, became Fellow of Balliol Coll. in 1556 being then Bach. of Arts, a noted disputant and an excellent Philosopher. In 1560 he took the Degree of Master, and four years after resigniag his Fellowship, he retired into his native Country, where he gained a good report for his noted parts in speaking and penning. Rich. Stanyhurst his countryman saith 
r In Discript. Hibern. cap. 7.  that he was afterwards Schoolmaster in Ireland and a learned and a virtuous Man, but telleth us not what he hath written, and therefore I suppose that what he did of that nature, 
Clar. 1570.  was after Stanyhurst had given the said character of him. Contemporary with this Shaghens, or a little before, were Students in Oxon, these Irish Men following (1) Patrick Cusack a Gentleman born, who, after he had left Oxon was a Schoolmaster in Dublin, where his 
s Ibid.  admirable learning gave great light to his Country, but employed his studies rather in instructing of Scholars than in penning of Books. He wrote in Lat. Diversa Epigrammata. (2) One Dormer a Civilian, who was born at Rosse, and wrote 
t Ib.  in Ballad royal The decay of Ross. (3) One Sheine, who wrote 
u Ib.  De republica. See more among the Bishops, under the Year 1582 and in the Fasti, 1523. (4) Peter Lombard a most learned Man of his time, but did not take any Degree. See more of him in Pet. White among the writers, under the Year 1590. (5) Elias Sheth, who wrote Divers Sonnets. (6) One Taylor a Bach. of Arts, who proceeded in the University and wrote Epigrammata diversa. What his Christian name was I cannot justly say, because many of his Surname and time did proceed Masters in this University, as Tho. Taylor in 1539. Will. Tailor 1541. and 1551. and Tho. Taylor of Alls. Coll. 1563. Whether this last be the same Th. Taylor who was a Lancashire Man born and chosen Fellow thereof 1557. or another, chosen in 1562, I know not. Many other Irish Men were also conversant in studies here, even till an University was founded at Dublin, after which time we had but few.  
JOHN STORY, a most noted Civilian and Canononist of his time, was educated in Philosophical learning, and in the rudiments of the Civil Law in an ancient hostile for Civilians called Henxey hall in St. Aldates' Parish in Oxon; where making great proficiency, he was admitted Bach. of the Civil Law in 1531. In 1535 when K. Hen. 8. first founded certain Lectures in the University, he appointed Job. Story to read that of the Civil Law, and in 1537 he became Principal of Broadgates' hall, being also about that time Moderator of one of the Civil Law Schools. In 1538 he proceeded in his faculty, and afterwards performing excellent service at the Siege of Bologne in Picardy, in the administration of the Civil Law under the Lord Martial there; the King in consideration thereof, did renew his former grant of the said Lecture in form of Letters Pat. for the term of life of the said John, in the Year 1546 or thereabouts, joining with him for his ease, Mr. Rob. Weston Fellow of Alls. College. When Qu. Marie came to the Crown, she renewed his patent again, but soon after resigning his professorship, because he had got greater preferment at London, and the Chancellourship of the Dioc. of Oxon. if I mistake not, became a zealous Man in the Religion then professed, and an eager enemy against the poor Protestants, as the Histories of those times will tell you. I find published under his name these things following.  
Oration against Th. Cranmer Archb. of Canterbury, in 1556.  
Discourse with Joh. Philpot the Martyr about matters of Religion, and with others.  
Answer to Examinations during his imprisonment in the tower of London, in 1570.  
Speech at his execution at Tybourne 1o; June 1571.— with other things (of which some relate to his profession) that I have not yet seen. When Qu. Elizab. came to the Crown, he was imprisoned, but soon after broke out, and going beyond the Sea, continued an enemy to the Protestants there, became 
t Vide A●●●al. Camde●, sub an. 1569. & 1571.  a sworn servant to the Duke of Alva at Antwerp, and from him received a special commission to search the Ships for goods forfeited, and and for English Books; in which service he did very great harm to the English Protestants. At length being invited under hand to search the Ship of one Parker an English Man, went unwarily therein: Whereupon Parker causing the hatches to be shut when Story was searching under deck, he hoist sail and brought him Prisoner into England about the beginning of Decemb. 1570. So that being clapped up close Prisoner within the Tower of London, did undergo there several examinations. At length being brought to a trial, and steadfastly denying to take the Oath of Supremacy (as he had done several times before within the Tower) he was drawn thence on a hurdle to Tybourne, on the first day of June in Fifteen hundred seventy and one, year 1571 (having been prayed for and animated in his faith by Joh. Feckenham Prisoner in the said Tower) where, after he had spoken a large speech, which was unexpected, and therefore not interrupted, he was for a little time hanged; but before he was half dead, he was cut down, and when the Executioner cut off his privy members, he rose up with alacrity, and gave him a blow on the ear. But his bowels being soon after drawed out of his belly, and his body quartered, his head was set upon London bridge, and his quarters were hanged on 4 gates of the City. Several of his treasons and conspiracies against the English Nation you may see in a pamphlet printed in oct. an. 1571, bearing this title. A copy of a letter sent by a Gentleman, student in the laws of the realm, to a friend of his concerning Dr. Story. And what relates to him as praise worthy, you may see in Concertatio 
a Printed at Trier in Germ. 1594. qu. fol. 43. 44.  Ecclesiae Catholicae in Anglica, taken from Nichol. Sanders his seventh Book De visibili Monarchia. His Martyrdom is imprinted, or represented 
b Anthony Monday in his English Roman life— Lond. 1590. qu. p. 25.  in the English Coll. at Rome, and he is called with the two Notons, Joh. Felton and others, Saints. The Franciscans have a great respect for his memory also, because he had been a lay-brother of that Order, and had done several signal services for them.  
JOHN JEWEL one of the greatest lights that the reformed Church of England hath produced, was born at Buden in the Parish of Berinerber in Devon. 24. May 1522. His Father was Joh ' Jewel, and his Mother of the Family of the Bellamy's, who sparing neither labour or charge for his education, was at length, by the care of Joh. Bellamy his uncle, educated in Grammar learning first at Branton, then at Southmoulton, and at length at Barnstaple, in his own Country, under one Walt. Bowen. In which last School being made ripe for the University, he was sent to Oxon. in July 1535 and being entered into Merton Coll. under the tuition of John Parkhurst, (afterwards B. of Norwych) was by him made his Portionist, now called Postmaster, and by his care and severe tuition laid the foundation for greater learning that followed. In the Year 1539. after he (upon examination) had showed himself a youth of great hopes, he was admitted Scholar of C. C. Coll. 19 Aug. and the Year after was made Bach. of Arts. So that being put into a capacity by that Degree of taking Pupils, many resorted to him, whom he mostly instructed in private in Protestant principles, and in public in Humanity, he being about that time Rhetoric reader in his Coll. In 1544 he was licenced to proceed in Arts, which he completed in an Act celebrated 9 Feb. the same year. When K. Hen. 8. was dead, he showed himself more openly to be a Protestant; and upon P. Martyr's arrival at Oxon, to be an admirer and hearer of him, whose Notary he was when he disputed with Tresham, Cheadsey and Morgan. In 1550 he was admitted to the reading of the Sentences, and during the Reign of K. Ed. 6. became a zealous promoter of reformation, and a Preacher and Catechiser at Sunningwel near Abendon in Berks. Soon after Qu. Mary came to the Crown, he was forced to leave the Nation, and retire first to Frankfort with Henry the eldest Son of Sir Franc. Knollys, Rob. Horn, and Edwin Sandys, and afterwards to Strasburgh with Joh. Poynet, Edmund Grindal, Joh. Cheek, etc. After Qu. Mary's death he returned in 1558, and in the Year following he was rewarded with the Bishopric of Salisbury for his great learning and sufferings, being about that time appointed one of the Protestant Divines to encounter those of the Romish persuasion when Qu. Elizab. was about to settle a reformation in the Church of England. In 1560 he preached at Paul's cross on the second Sunday before Easter, on 1. Cor. 11. 23. For I have received of the Lord, that which also I have delivered unto you, etc. In which Sermon he showed himself the first, who made a public challenge to all the Rom. Catholics in the world, to produce but one clear and evident testimony out of any Father, or famous writer, who flourished within 500 years after Christ, for any one of the many articles which the Romanists at this day maintain against the Church of England, and upon any good proof of any such one allegation to yield up the bucklers and reconcile himself to Rome. Now tho Thom. Harding and some others undertook him about the controverted articles, yet, as those of the reformed party say, they came off so poorly, and Jewel on the contrary so amazed them with a cloud of witnesses in every point in question, that no 
c Vide Godwinum De Praesul. Angl. in Sarisb. p. 409.  one thing in that age, gave the papacy so deadly a wound as the said challenge at Paul's cross, so confidently made and bravely maintained. This say the Protestant writers; but let us hear what a grand 
d Rob. Persons in A relation of a trial made before the K. of France, an. 1600. between the Bishop of Eureux and the Lord Plessis Mornay— Printed 1604. p. 53. 54. etc.  zealot for the Romish cause saith concerning the said matter— After this Man (meaning B. Nich. Rydley) stepped to Paul's cross in the beginning of Qu. Elizabeth's days, about the Year 1559 and 1560 Mr. Joh. Jewel, otherwise called Bishop of Salisbury, and he proceeded yet farther in this brag and fiction, (meaning that what the Fathers said, made for the Protestants) for he protested there, even with feigned tears, that if any one authority, place, sentence or asseveration of any one Father, Doctor, Council, or authentical History, within the first 600 years after Christ, could be brought forth by any man living for any one of those points of Catholic Religion (which he there recited) to be in controversy, that then plainly and sincerely he would subscribe. Against which vain and shameless brag, when Dr. Harding and divers other learned men of our side, began to write from Lovayne, and to bring forth authorities of all Fathers, Doctors, Councils and Histories in great abundance, the first effect of this challenge, that appeared to the world, was a severe proclamation, that no such book written in English by the Catholic party should be received or read in England, under great punishments. By which Provision Mr. Jewel thinking meetly well defenced, he plied the pulpit often, and renewed his challenges many times, and perceiving notwithstanding that Dr. Hardyngs confutation was come into England, he answered the same with a long volume of Rhetorical words, and stuffed the Margin thereof with the show of infinite Authors, as though the whole world had been for him, and none for the other side: And with this he deceived the People then, and doth to this day, such I mean that have not commodity or learning, or other means to examine those places, and to find out the manifold lies and falsifications therein contained. And this was the gain by all likelihood that Mr. Jewel pretended to his cause by that work, knowing full well that this sort of Men is far the greater, which would be gained and settled in his doctrine before the learneder sort (who are but few in comparison of the other) could have time, books, and commodity to discover and refute him, and when they should do it, they should hardly be believed &c.— How many learned Men lightly of our Nation have taken upon them seriously to go over that book of Mr. Jewels, and to examine it by the Authors themselves with any indifferency of mind, have for the most part been thereby converted to Catholic Religion, though never so great Protestants before: Of which sort I have heard relation of many, but of some I can testify myself, for that I have heard it from their own mouths, who of earnest Protestants were made most zealous Catholics by that means principally; of which number I think it not inconvenient to name here some two or three, omitting others, which for just respects may not be named. The first of them is Sir Tho. Copley, made Lord afterwards in his banishment by the King of France, who oftentimes hath related unto one, with much comfort of his soul, how that being a zealous Protestant, and very familiar to Robert the late Earl of Leycester in the beginning of Qu. Elizabeth's days, when Mr. Jewels book was newly come forth, he being also learned himself in the Latin tongue, took pains to examine certain leaves thereof, and finding many falsehoods therein, which were inexcusable (as they seemed to him) he conferred the same with the said Earl, who willed him that the next time Mr. Jewel dined at his table, he should take occasion after dinner to propose the same, which he did soon after: And receiving certain trifling answers from Mr. Jewel, he waxed more hot, and urged the matter more earnestly: which Jewel perceiving, told him in effect That Papists were Papists, and so they were to be dealt withal; and other answer he could not get. Which thing made the good Gentleman to make a new resolution with himself, and to take that happy course which he did to leave his Country and many great commodities, which he enjoyed therein, to enjoy the liberty of conscience, and so both lived and died in voluntary banishment, etc. The second example which I remember of mine own knowledge is Mr. Doctor Stevens, a learned Man yet alive, who being Secretary or Chaplain to Mr. Jewel, and a forward Man in the Protestant Religion at that time, espied certain false allegations in his Master's book, whilst it was under the print in London, whereof advertising him by Letters, (for that he supposed it might be by oversight) the other commanded notwithstanding the print to go forward, and passed it over as it was. Which this Man seeing, that had a conscience, and sought the truth indeed, resolved to take another way of finding it out: And having found it in the Cath. Church, where only it was to be found, he resolved also to follow it, and so he did, and went voluntarily into banishment for the same, where yet he liveth to this day in France, etc.— As for the third example, which is Will. Rainolds, I shall remember from my before quoted Author, when I come to speak of him, and in the mean time proceed to speak of Jewel. In the beginning therefore of the Year 1565, he, though absent, was actually created Doctor of Diu. and the year following, when the Queen was entertained by the Oxonian Muses, he showed himself a profound Theologist in moderating at Divinity disputations in St. Mary's Church. The learned Camden 
e In Britan. in Wilts, in Sarisb. ibid.  saith that he was a wonderful, great and deep Divine, a most stout and earnest maintainer of our reformed Religion against the adversaries, by his learned books. That he was a Man 
f Idom in Annal. R. Elizab. sub an. 1571. ad sin.  of a singular ingeny, of exquisite erudition in Theologicals and of great piety. As for Jewels writings the titles of them follow.  
Exhortatio ad Oxonienses. See in his life written by Laurence Humphrey, printed in 1573. p. 35.  
Exhortatio in Coll. Corp. Ch. sive concio in fundatoris Foxi Commemorationem. See there again p. 45. 46. etc.  
Concio in templo B. Mariae Virg. Oxon, an. 1550 in 1. Pet. 4. 11. preached for his Degree of Bach. of Diu. A Copy of which is printed in his life, written by L. H. beforementioned, p. 49. Translated into English by R. V.— Lond. 1586. oct.  
Oratio in Aula C. C. Chr. spoken to the society, when he was ejected from among them, in 1554.  
Epistola ad Scipionem Patritium Venetum de causis cur Episcopi Angliae ad concilium Tridentinum non convenirent, an, 1559. This also is printed in an appendix to the second edit. of the translation of the Hist. of the Council of Trent, made by Sir Nath. Brent— Lond. 1629. fol.  
Letters between him and Dr. Hen. Cole upon occasion of a Sermon that Mr. Jewel preached before the Queen and her Council. Lond. 1560. oct. This Letter-Combat began 18. March 1559 and continued till 18. May 1560.  
Sermon at Paul's cross the second Sunday before Easther an. 1560, on 1. Cor. 11. 23. Lond. 1560. oct. In which he gave out a bold challenge against the Papists, as I have before told you.  
Apologia Ecclesiae Anglicanae. Lond. 1562. oct. Which book was so much esteemed by the Men of Zurich and all Protestants, that it was translated almost into all tongues, to the end that it might be generally known. The Council of Trent held at that time, saw, and censured, it, and appointed a Frenchman and an Italian to answer it, but they hung back, and would, or rather could, not. It was several times printed in England, and beyond the Seas, and in Greek at Oxon. 1614 oct. This book was, soon after its first publication, translated into English by Anon. with this title. An Apology or answer in defence of the Church of England concerning the state of Religion used in the same. Lond. 1562. qu. But Tho. Harding coming out with a confutation of it, our Author published,  
A defence of the Apology of the Church of England, containing an answer to a certain book lately set forth by Mr. Harding, and entit. A confutation, etc. in 6 parts Lond. 1564. 67. fol. Translated into Lat. by Tho. Braddock Bach. of Diu. and Fellow of Christ's Coll in Cambr.— printed beyond the Seas 1600 fol. Soon after the first publication of the said Defence, Harding publishing A detection of certain errors in the said Defence, our Author came out with,  
An answer to Mr. Hardings book entit. A Detection of certain errors, etc. Lond. 1565. Lov. 1568. Afterwards followed,  
A reply to Mr. Hardings answer: By perusing whereof the discreet and diligent reader may easily see the weak and unstable grounds of the Rom. Religion, in 27. Articles. Lond. 1566. fol. Therein also is an answer to Mr. Hardyngs preface to his aforesaid answer. This reply of Jewel, is translated into Lat. by Will. Whitaker Fellow of Trinity Coll. in Camb.— Genev. 1585. fol. and with it is printed his Apology.  
A view of a seditious Bull sent into England from Pius 5. Bishop of Rome an. 1569. Delivered in certain Sermons in the Cath. Ch. of Sarum, 1570. Lond. 1582. oct.  
A treatise of the Holy Scripture, gathered out of his Sermons preached at Salisbury 1570. Lond. 1582. oct.  
Exposition on the two Epistles of the Apostle St. Paul to the Thessalonians. Lond. 1594. oct.  
A Treatise of the Sacraments, gathered out of his Sermons.— Lond. 1583. oct.  
Certain Sermons preached before the Qu. Majesty at Paul's cross and elsewhere— They are in number at least 13, viz. on Josh. 6. 1. 2. 3.— Haggat; 1. ver. 2. 3. 4.— Psal. 69. 
g This on Psal. 69. ver. 9 was reprinted by itself, an. 1641. in qu. with an answer of the same author to some frivolous objections against the government of the Church.  9 etc. All which Books, (the five first excepted) Sermons, and Apolgie, are printed in one Vol. in fol— Lond. 1609. with an abstract of his life set before them (but full of faults) written by Don. Featly. Besides them he hath left behind him these MSS, which, as I conceive are not yet printed, viz.  
A paraphrastical exposition of the Epistles and Gospels throughout the whole Year.  
A continuate exposition of the Creed, Lords prayer, and 10 Commandments.  
Commentary upon the Epistle to the Galathians.  
Com. on the Epist. of St. Peter.— At length this worthy prelate paying his last debt to nature at Monkton-Farley 23. year 1571 Sept. in Fifteen hundred seventy and one, was buried almost in the middle of the Choir of his Cathedral at Salisbury. At which time Giles Laurence Archdeacon of Wilts. preached the funeral Sermon, and Will. Holcot of Buckland in Berks. (formerly a Lay-preacher) administered at the funeral. See more of Joh. Jewels works in Job. Garbrand under the Year 1589.  
DAVID WHITHEAD, a great light of learning and a most heavenly professor of Diu. of his time, was of the same family with those of Tuderley in Hampshire, and, when at ripe years, was educated in all kind of learning and virtue in this 
h H. Holland in lib. cui tit, est Herologia Anglica, etc. edit. in fol. 1620. p. 195.  University, but whether in Brasenose or Alls. Coll. as some surmise, I find not. What Degrees he took it doth not appear, or whether he was admitted to the reading of the Sentences, because in the latter end of Hen. 8. and all the time of K. Ed. 6. the public registers are very imperfect. In the time of Hen. 8. he was Chaplain to Anna Bulleyne, by whose means he had some preferment in the Church; and in the beginning of Qu. Marry, he among several zealous Protestants went to Frankfort in voluntary exile; where, being in great esteem with the English congregation wrote,  
Lections and Homilies on St. Paul's Epistles— In A brief discourse of the Troubles began at Frankfort in Germany, etc. printed 1575. you'll find several of his discourses, and answers to the objections of Dr. Rob. Horn concerning matters of discipline and worship. See there in p. 128. 129. etc. 146. 147. etc. After his return into England, he had a hand in the third edition of the English Liturgy, in 1559, and was chosen one of the Disputants against the R. Cath Bishops. So that in his discourses showing himself a deep Divine, the Qu. thereupon had so great an esteem for him, that she offered him the Archbishopric of Canterbury, but he refused it, as about the same time he did the Mastership of the Hospital called the Savoy in the Strand near to London, affirming that he could live plentifully on the preaching of the Gospel without either. So that whether he had any spiritualities of note conferred on him, is yet doubtful, he being much delighted in travelling to and fro to preach the word of God in those places, where he thought it was wanting. His life was spent in celibacy, as it became a true Theologist, and therefore the better esteemed by the Queen, who had no great affection for such Priests that were married. He was conducted by death to the habitation prepared for old age, in Fifteen hundred seventy and one, year 1571 but in what Church, or Chapel buried, I know not. Take therefore this for his Epitaph, which was made by one 
i Joh. Parkhurst in Epigram. juvenil. Lond. 1573. p. 61.  of his acquaintance. 
Nominis unatui est Album, caput altera pars est.  
Quadrant in mores scilicet ista tuos.  
Candidius nihil esse potest nam moribus ist is:  
Dulce vocant omnes te lepidumque caput.   
THOMAS KEY or Cay, whose name, and the same bearers of arms, though they have continued for several generations at Woodsome or Wodersome and elsewhere in Yorkshire; yet I cannot say that this our Author was born there, because the statutes of Allsouls Coll. (of which he was Fellow) oblige the society to choose their Members from the Province of Canterbury. His Relations therefore having in his time (and perhaps before) lived in Lincolnshire, I shall appoint that County for his native place, but the house of Learning in Oxon. of which he was originally a student, I cannot assign, unless University Coll. Howsoever it is, sure I am, that he was in 1525 elected Fellow of Alls. Coll being then about 3 years standing in the University, where running through the several Classes of Logic and Philosophy, took the Degrees in Arts, and made so great a proficiency in his studies, that he became an eminent Latinist, Grecian, Poet and Orator, excellent also for all kind of worth, and at length antiquitatum nostratium plane helluo, as one 
k Ric-Stanyhurst in praelat ad Harmon, in Porphir. constitutiones— Edit. 1570.  is pleased to style him. In the Year 1534 he was unanimously chosen Scribe or Registrary of the University, being then esteemed most worthy of that place, because he had a command of his tongue and pen: For in his time, and long before, it was commonly the Registraries office to speech it before, and write Epistles (as the Orator doth now) to, great personages. But as he was excellent in those matters, so to the contrary in the performance of his Registraries place. For whether it was upon a foresight of the utter ruin of the University, which was intended, as he thought, by the Reformers, (for he lived in the changeable times of Religion) or his being besotted with a certain crime, which he could not avoid till old age cured it, he became so careless in committing the acts of congregation and convocation to writing, that divers articles being publicly put up against him by the Masters, he was deprived of that place in 1552, and Will. Standish M. of A. of Magd. Coll. succeeded by virtue of the King's Letters, sent to the University in Oct. 1543 for the next reversion of that office. In 1559 he was made Prebendary of Stratton in the Church of Sarum, by virtue of the Queen's Letters, dated in Dec. the same year, in 1561 he was elected the Head or Master of Uniu. Coll. (to which he was afterwards a considerable benefactor) and upon the death of Pet. Vannes, (whom I shall anon mention) which happened in the beginning of 1563 he became Rector of the rich Church of Tredington in the County and Dioc. of Worcester: All which he kept to his dying day. He hath written.  
Assertio antiquitatis Oxoniensis Academiae. Finished on the first of Sept. 1566, as a copy thereof under his own hand in my possession, attesteth. Which book being written within the space of seven days, was by him presented in MS. to Qu. Elizab. at her being entertained by the University in the said month of Sept. A copy of which book coming into the hands of Joh. Cay Doctor of Physic of Cambridge, he wrote an answer to it in a book entit. De antiquitate Cantabrigiensis Academiae, and were both by him published (contrary to the knowledge of our Author Cay of Oxon) under the name of Londinensis— Lond. 1568. in oct. and there again under the name of Joh. cain's an. 1574 in qu. Whereupon our Author being unwilling to sit down, and see himself so unworthily dealt withal, wrote a reply soon after the first edition of his Assertio was printed, bearing this title.  
Examen judicii Cantabrigiensis cujusdam, qui se Londinensem dicit, nuper de origine utriusque Academiae Lati. Before which is written an Apology for himself why he wrote his Assertio, and why the said Reply. But this book being never printed, there only went about from hand to hand some MS. Copies of it; one of them Mr. Tho. Allen of Glocester-hall, and another Mr. Miles Windsor of Corp. Ch. Coll. had in their respective libraries. From one of which Copies, I remember formerly I took some notes, being then in other hands, but where either of those Copies are now, in truth I cannot tell. Our Author Th. Key translated from Lat. into English Erasmus his Paraphrase on St. Mark, being that part of the New Test. which he was desired to translate by Qu. Catherine Pare. Also from English into Lat. The Sermons of Dr. Jo. Longland Bishop of Lincoln; from Greek into Lat. Aristotle's book De mirabilibus mundi, dedicated to the Archbishop of Canterbury; Euripides his Tragedies, and the third oration of Isocrates, called Nicocles; with other things which I have not yet seen. At length arriving to the age of Man, he concluded his last day in his Lodgings in Univers. Coll. about the middle of the month of May in Fifteen hundred seventy and two, year 1572 and was buried on the 20 of the same month under the North wall of the alley or isle, joining on the North side of the body of the Church of St. Peter in the East, near to, and within, the East gate of the City of Oxon. Over his grave, though there was never any Epitaph to celebrate his memory, yet certain noted 
l Joh. Leland in Illustr, & eruditorum in Angl. Virorum Encomiis, etc. Lond. 1589. p. 95. & in Epigram. Job. Parkhursti Lond. 1573. p. 79. & 121.  Poets of his time have done it in their respective works, by Encomia's and Epigrams, to which I refer the curious reader, as they are cited in the margin. As for Pet. Vannes, whom I have beforementioned, he was the Son of Steph. de Vannes of the City of Luca in Italy, was brought into England by Andrew Ammonius his Mother's brother, and made Secretary of the Latin tongue to K. Hen. 8. who sent him to Rome with Steph. Gardiner and others, to solicit the Pope for a divorce from Qu. Catherine. In the Year 1527. March 5. he was made Prebendary of South Grantham in the Church of Sarum, upon the resignation of one Will. Burbanke, and in 1529. Dec. 4. Preb. of Bedwyn in the same Church, on the resignation of Thom. Winter. In 1534 he was made Archdeacon of Worcester in the place of Dr. Will. Cleybroke deceased, and the same year Feb. 25. was admitted Preb. of Bool in the Church of York. In Feb. 1539, he, by virtue of the King's Letters, became Dean of Salisbury, but whether in the place of Reymund Pade who obtained that Deanery in Januar. 1522. I cannot tell, nor do I know yet to the contrary, but that he was deprived of that Dignity in the beginning of the Reign of K. Edw. 6. because that one Tho. Cole is said 
m In A brief discourse of the troubles began at Frankford, etc. printed 1575. qu.  to be Dean of Salisbury in that King's time. Howsoever it is, sure I am that Vannes was Dean in the time of Qu. Marry, and beginning of Qu. Elizabeth, and that several years before, viz. in 1543. March 12. he was made Preb. of Shipton (Shipton under wood) in the said Ch. of Sarum, on the death of Dr. Joh. London, that in 1545 he occurs one of the Canons of the Coll. of K. Hen. 8. at Oxon, and soon after Rector of Tredington in the Dioc. of Worcester. On the sixth day of May 1563 he resigned his Deanery of Salisbury, and in few days after died either in London or Westminster, leaving then all his wealth to his heir called Benedict Hudson alias Vannes. This Peter Vannes being well known to Joh. Leland, he is therefore by him 
n In Encomiis, etc. ut supra, p. 27.  numbered among the famous Men living in the Reign of K. Hen. 8. He was also much in favour with Cardinal Wolsey, to whom he wrote divers letters while he continued in Rome an. 1528 giving him an account of the affairs of that place, and how matters went relating to the divorce between K. H. 8. and Qu. Catherine.  
JOHN CLEMENT had his original education in this University, but in what house, it appears no more, than the place where he was born, which is altogether, as yet, unknown to me. Afterwards being acquainted with Sir. Tho. More for the pregnant parts that were visible in him, was by him appointed to be tutor to his Children, and afterwards to Margaret his Daughter. About the Year 1519 he settled in Corp. Ch. Coll. being about that time constituted 
n Vide Hist. & Antiq. Vniu. Oxon. lib 2 p. 36 〈◊〉.  by Card. Wolsey his Rhetoric reader in the University, and afterwards that of Greek; both which he performed with great applause to the benefit of the Academians. In the Reign of K. Ed. 6. he being than one of the Coll. of Physicians at London, he left his native Country for Religion sake, and then, if I mistake not, he took the Degree of Doctor of Physic beyond the Seas. Afterwards, returning in the time of Qu. Marry, he practised his faculty with good success in Essex near London, but when Qu. Elizab. came to the Crown, and a reformation of Religion followed, he left England once more, and spent the remainder of his days beyond the Seas. He hath written,  
Epigrammatum & aliorum carminum, lib. 1. And did translate from Gr. into Lat (1) The Epistles of Greg. Nazian. (2) The Homilies of Nicephorus Calixtus of the Greek Saints. (3) The Epistles of Pope Celestin the first, to cyril Bishop of Alexandria, besides other matters which I have not yet seen. He died at Mechlin in Brahant (the place wherein he had lived several years, and had practised his faculty) on the first day of July in Fifteen hundred seventy and two, year 1572 and was 
o 〈◊〉 De illustr. Angl. Script. at 16 nu. 1018.  buried near to the tabernacle in St. Rumbolds Church there, and close to the grave of his sometimes beloved Wife Margaret, who died 6. July 1570, I mean that Margaret, on whose Marriage with Jo. Clement, the Antiquarian 
p 〈◊〉 Leland ut sup. in Encom. Troph. Epithalamus. etc. p. 38.  Poet hath bestowed a Song.  
THOMAS HARDING was born at Beconton in Devonsh educated in Wykehams' School near Winchester, became true and perpetual Fellow of New Coll. (after he had served two years of probation) an. 1536, took the Degrees in Arts, that of Master being completed in 1542, at which time being esteemed a knowing Person in the Tongues, he was by the favour of K. Hen. 8. made Hebrew Professor of the University, and shortly after became Chaplain to Hen. Grey Marquis of Dorchester, afterwards Duke of Suffolk. In the Reign of Ed. 6. he was a Protestant, and seemed forward 
* See more at large concerning that matter in Laur. Hum●●●● book 〈…〉 edit. 1573. p. 138. 139.  for a reformation, but after his death and Q●. Mary's settlement in the throne, he wheeled about, became Prebendary of Winchester, proceeded in Divinity, and on the 17. Jul. 1555 was made Treasurer of the Church of Salisbury, in the place of Rich. Arche. After Qu. Elizabeth had for some time swayed the Sceptre, he was deprived of his Treasureship, and Tho. Lancaster (the same Person, I think, who had been deprived of the Bishopric of Kildare in the Reign of Queen Mary for being married) was put into it in the beginning of Jan. 1559. So that our Author Harding relinquishing his other spiritualities, (all matters being then involved in controversies) he upon pretence of some danger that was likely to ensue, went beyond the Seas to Brabant, where settling at Louvain, he became the target of Popery, and a zealous assertor of his Religion in writing these Books following.  
An answer to Mr. Jewels challenge. Lov. 1564. qu. Whereupon Jewel came out with a Reply.  
rejoinder to Mr. Jewels reply: By perusing whereof the discreet and diligent reader may easily see the answer to his insolent challenge justified, and his objections against the Mass, etc. Antwerp. 1566. in a thick qu.  
Another rejoinder to Mr. Jewels reply against the sacrifice of the Mass. Lov. 1567. qu.  
Confutation of a book called An Apology of the Church of England. Ant. 1563. 65. qu. Which apology being written by Mr. Jewel, he came out with his Defence, as I have before told you.  
Detection of errors and lies in Mr. Jewels Book called A Defence of the Apology, etc. Lov. 1564.  
Answer touching certain untruths which Mr. Jo. Jewel charged him with, in his late Sermon at Paul's cross, 8. Jul. 1565. Antw. 26. Jul. 1565 in qu. and oct. with other things which I have not yet seen. Most of the afore mentioned books, were by his Countryman Will. Rainolds turned into Latin, but money being wanting, their publication was therefore hindered. This learned Man Dr. Harding died at Louvain in the sixtieth Year of his Age, or thereabouts, year 1572 in Fifteen hundred seventy and two; whereupon his body was buried in the Church of St. Gertrude there, on the 16 day of Septemb. the same year. Soon after was a monument with a large inscription thereon, set over his grave; a Copy of which I have 
q In Jo. Pits. ut sup. aet. 16. nu. 1019.  seen, as also a great Encomium of him by one 
r Jo. Leland in Encom. ut sup p. ●3 vide etiam in Cyg. Cant. script. per eund. Lelandum.  who well knew him, which, for brevity sake, I shall now omit.  
JOHN HALES or Hails a younger Son of Tho. Hales of Halesplace in Halden in Kent, was born in that County, and commonly called Club-foot Hales, because in his younger days he had got that deformity by a wound from his own dagger at the bottom of his foot. This Person being very much addicted to Letters from his childhood, was sent to this University for a time, but to what Coll. unless to that of Brasnose (wherein several of his Surname and time studied) I know not. Yet so it was that he having a happy memory, accompanied with incredible industry, became admirably well skilled in the Lat. Greek, and Hebrew tongues, and at length in the municipal Laws, and in Antiquities; which made him admired by all ingenious Men of his time. In the Reign of K. Hen. 8. he was Clerk of the Hemper for several years, obtained a fair estate in Warwickshire and elsewhere upon the dissolution of Monasteries and Chantries, founded a Free-School at Coventry, and for the use of the youth to be taught there, did write,  
Introductiones ad Grammaticam.— partly in Engl. and partly in Latin. He wrote also,  
High way to Nobility. Lond. in qu. And about that time translated into English Precepts for the preservation of good health. Lond. 1543. oct. written by Plutarch. When Qu. Mary came to the Crown he fled beyond Sea as a voluntary Exile, and settling at Frankfort in Germany we find him a zealous Man for the uniting of the Exiles there in peace. See more in a book entit. A brief discourse of the troubles at Frankford in Germany. printed 1575. in qu. p. 44. 45. etc. 92. etc. When Qu. Elizabeth succeeded he returned, and the first thing that made him then to be noted was,  
An Oration to Qu. Eliz. at her first entrance to her Reign, an. 1558.— It was not spoken, but delivered in writing to her by a certain noble Man. The beginning of it is, Albeit there be innumerable gifts, etc.  
He also wrote a little book in favour of the house of Suffolk, especially of the Children of Edw. Seymour Earl of Hertford, eldest Son of Edward Duke of Somerset, who was married to the Lady Cath. Grey, Dau. of Hen. Duke of Suff. (of near alliance in blood to the Queen) in his house in Cannon row within the City of Westminster, in Oct. 1560. The effect of which, was to derive the title of the Crown of England, in case Qu. Eliz. should die without issue, to the house of Suffolk. This Marriage, notwithstanding the Archb. of Cant. did by his sentence pronounce unlawful, yet our Author Hales, who was esteemed a Man very opiniotive, though otherwise very learned, did maintain in the said book that their sole consent did legitimate their conjunction. Which pamphlet flying abroad, came strait way to the Court: Whereupon the Queen and the Nobles being highly offended, the Author was quickly discovered, and forthwith imprisoned in the Tower of London. Soon after Sir Nich. Bacon then Lord Keeper was presumed to have had a finger in it, for which he was like to have lost his office, if Sir Ant. Browne who had been L. Ch. Justice of the Common-pleas in Qu. Mary's time, would have accepted of it; which her Majesty offered to him, and the Earl of Leycester earnestly exhorted him to take it; but he refused it, for that he was of a different Religion from the State; and so Sir Nic. Bacon remained in his place, at the great instance of Sir Will. Cecil, (afterwards L. Treasurer) who, though he was to be privy to the said book, yet was the matter so wisely laid upon Hales and Bacon, that Sir Will. was kept free, thereby to have the more authority and grace to procure the others pardon, as he did. Soon after Jo. Lesley Bishop of Ross, a great creature of Mary Queen of Scots, did answer that Book, for which he got the good will of many, though, of others, not. As for our Author Hales, he gave way to fate on the fifth of the calends of January in Fifteen hundred seventy and two; year 1571 whereupon his body was buried in the Chancel of the Church of St. Peter's poor in London. He died without issue, so that his estate which chiefly laid in Warwickshire, of which his principal house in Coventry, called Hales place, otherwise the White Friars was part, went to John, Son of his Brother Christopher Hales, (sometimes also an Exile at Frankfort) whose posterity doth remain there to this day.  
ELIZE HEYWOOD sometimes written Ellis Heewood, Son of Job. Heywood the famous Epigrammatist, was born in London, and by the indulgence of his Father was carefully educated in juvenile learning in that City, and in Academical in Oxon. In 1547 he was elected Probationer-Fellow of Allsouls Coll. where spending some time in Logicals and Philosophicals, he applied his genie to the study of the Laws, in which faculty he took one degree, an. 1552, being the sixth year of K. Ed. 6. Afterwards he traveled into France and Italy, continued for some time at Florence, being patronised by Card Pole; and became such an exact Master of the Italian tongue, that he wrote a book in that Language entitled,  
Il Moro, lib. 2. Fiorenz. 1556 in octavo. This book which is dedicated to the said Cardinal contains a discourse, fancied to be in the house of Sir Tho. More sometimes L. Chanc. of England, and in consolation with him. Besides this book, he wrote, as 'tis said, other things in Italian, or in Lat. or in his mother tongue, which being printed beyond the Sea, we seldom or never see them in these parts. About that time our Author receiving instructions concerning matters of faith from an English Man called Hall, he went into the Low Countries, and at Antwerp performed the office of Preacher, and Prefectship of the spirit. Thence he went to Louvain, where he died in the twelfth year, after his ingress into the society of Jesus; year 1572 which was about Fifteen hundred seventy and two. He had a younger brother named Jasper, bred also in Oxford, and leaving the Nation for Religion sake, entered himself into the said Society, as I shall tell you under the Year 1597. num. 295.  
NICHOLAS GRIMALD, or Grimoald received his first being in this world in Huntingdonshire, and his first Academical education in Christ's Coll. in Cambridge, where taking the Degree of Bach. of Arts, went to Oxon, and was incorporated there in the said Degree in Apr. 1542. In the next month he was chosen Probationer Fellow of Merton Coll. he being then in the 23 year of his age. In 1544 he proceeded in Arts, and 1547 when the Coll. of King Hen. 8. was to be settled and replenished with Students, he was put in there as a Senior, or Theologist, (accounted then only honorary) and the rather for this reason, because he about that time, did read a public Lecture to the Academians in the large refectory of that place. All that I have yet seen of his writings are these.  
Archipropheta, Tragedy, jam recens in lucem edita. Colon. 1548. in oct.  
Oratio ad Pontifices, Londini in aede Paulina, an. 1553. 17. Id. Apr. in Synodo publica. Lond. 1583. oct.  
In P. V. Maronis quatuor libros Georgicorum in oratione soluta paraphrasis elegantissima, Oxonii in Aede Christi, 2. Ed. 6. confecta. Lond. 1591. oct.  
Fama, come.  
Troilus Chauceri, come.— with several such like things, which you may see in 
r In cent. 8. nu. 99  Baleus, who also tells 
s In lib. suo MS. De Scriptoribus Anglicis, inter cod. MS. Selden. in bib. Bed. p. 135. b.  us elsewhere that he wrote in English a Book intit. Vox. populi; or, The People's complaint, etc. which was against Rectors, Vicars, Archdeacon's, Deans, etc. for living remote from their Flocks, and for not performing the duty belonging to their respective offices. He hath also divers Lat. and English copies of verses, occasionally printed before, and in commendation of, other men's works; and has also translated from Lat. 
Clar. 1573.  into English, Cicero's three books of duties to Marcus his Son. Lond. 1558. oct. with other things from Greek. He was in great esteem among Men in the fifteenth year of Qu. Elizabeth.  
LEWIS EVANS was a Monmouthshire Man born, as it seems, and mostly educated in Oxon: Afterwards being a forward and zealous Man for the R. Cath. Religion at London (where he had got some employment) was brought into trouble by Dr. Grindal Bishop of that place. So that being forced to fly, he went beyond the Sea, and settled for a time at Antwerp: where to show his zeal for the cause, he translated a Book from Lat. into English, entit. Certain tables set forth by Will Bishop of Rurimund in Gelderland, wherein is detected and made manifest the doting dangerous doctrine, and heinous heresies of the rash rabblement of the heretics. This book was by Lew. Evans entit.  
The betraying of the beastl; iness of the Heretics, etc. Antw. 1565 in tw. Afterwards the said Evans being reconciled to the Ch. of England by some of his friends; did, to show his zeal for the love he had to it, write and publish a book as full of ill language against the Roman Catholics, as the other was as full of good for them, entitled.  
The Castle of Christianity, detecting the long erring estate, as well of the Rom. Church, as of the Bishop of Rome. Lond. 1568. oct. Which being dedicated to Queen Elizab. he saith in his Epistle to her, that he himself had once drank of the puddle of ignorance, of the mud of idolatry, of the pond of superstition, etc. whereupon great distaste being taken by the R. Catholics, the common report flew abroad by their endeavours, that he was gone over again to the Church of Rome, in which being settled, he died in great ease and content. These reports being often told to Evans while he was in Oxon, by the learnedest there, he soon after published a book entit.  
The hateful hypocrisy and rebellion of Romish Prelates. Lond. 1570 in tw. to which he added these two treatises following:  
A view of certain rebellions and their ends.  
Four paradoxes. First a Bishop and a Minister is all one. (2) A Bishop, etc.— Afterwards, if I mistake not, our Author Evans was a Schoolmaster, and was the same Person, I think, that revised and increased with phrases and necessary additions, 
Clar. 1573.  A short dictionary for young beginners, compiled at first by John Withals, and by him published at Lond. 1566. in qu. but when the additions of Evans came out, I find not. Afterwards the said Dictionary was augmented with more than 600 rythmical verses (whereof many are proverbial) by Abr. Fleming a native of London, printed at Lond. 1594 qu. In my travels and searches I find one Lew. Evans a Flintshire Man, to be a Student of Ch. Ch. in the time of Ed. 6. and to have taken the Degrees in Arts, (that of Master being completed 1557) but this Person, I presume, is not the Author, because the Author doth not style himself in his Books Bach. or Master of Arts. Another Lew. Evans a Brecknockshire Man, became Fellow of Oriel C. an. 1566, Mast. of Arts 1570 and resigned his Fellowship 1577. A third, who was a Monmovehshire Man, was matriculated as a Member of Gloc. hall, 1574, aged 28. And a fourth also I find to be a Minister of God's word, who in the 31 year of his age, or more, was matric as a member of the same Hall, and as a Native of Monmouthshire, an. 1581. and in 1585. took the Deg. of M. of A. Whether either of these was the Author beforementioned, is to me as yet doubtful, or whether the same with Lew. Evans, who, by the favour of Dr. Piers B. of Sarum became Prebend of Warmister, in that Church, an. 1583, (which he resigned in May 1598.) I cannot tell: or whether the same with Lew. Evans Clerk, Parson of Westmeane in Hampshire, who died there, about the beginning of 1601, leaving then behind him a Wife and Children, and houses in Winchester.  
JOHN PARKHURST Son of George Parkhurst, was born at Guildford in Surrey, sent, when very young, to Oxon, where he was educated in Grammar learning in the School joining to Magd. Coll. common gate, under the famous 
† Vide in Epigram. Jo. Parkhurst. p. 28.  Mr. Thom. Robertson, was elected Probationer Fellow of Merton Coll. in 1529, and three years after proceeding in Arts, entered into holy orders, though better than for poetry and oratory, than Divinity. At length he became Rector of the rich Church of Cleve (called by some Bishops Cleve) in Glocestershire, where he did a great deal of good by his hospitality and charity. After the death of K. Ed. 6. he left all for Religion sake, and went into voluntary exile to Zurich, where remaining till the death of Qu. Marry, not without great dangers and afflictions, returned when Qu. Eliz. succeeded, and was by her made Bishop of Norwych: To which See being elected 13. Apr. was consecrated on the first of Sept. and installed by John Salisbury Dean of that Church, 27 of the same month, an. 1560, and about six years after was made D. of D. He hath written and published,  
Epigrammata in mortem duorum fratrum Suffolciensium, Caroli & Henrici Brandon. Lond. 1552. qu. They were the Sons of Charles Brandon Duke of Suffolk, and died of the sweeting sickness. Some of which Epigrams were afterwards published in his Ludicra, which I am now to mention.  
Ludicra sive Epigrammata juvenilia. Lond. 1573. qu. Which book tho written in his younger days, and contains therein more obscurity than the Epigrams of Martial (as some say, though I myself cannot perceive it) yet while he was Bishop he must needs have it printed, alleging that he would not be like Heliodorus to lose his Bishopric for it. He also viewed, took pains about, and published John Shepreve his Dislicks on the New Test. and added thereunto of his own,  
Epigrammata Seria. Lond. 1560. oct. Most of which seem to be taken from his former book, while it remained in MS. See more in Job. Shepreve, under the Year 1542. At length this Bishop yielded up his last breath in Fifteen hundred seaventy and four, 
157●.  and was buried in the body or middle Isle of the Cath. Ch. at Norwych. Over his grave was soon after a fair monument of marble raised between two pillars on the S. side of the said middle Isle: on which Mon. was his proportion engraven on brass; with a gown and square cap on, holding his hands together in a praying posture, with this inscription engraven on brass also, but taken away in the civil war. Johannes Parkhurstus Theologiae professor, Gylfordiae natus, Oxoniae educatus, temporibus Mariae Reginae pro nitida conscientia Tigurinae vixit exul voluntarius. Postea praesul factus, sanctissime hanc rexit ecclesiam 16 annis, & mortuus est secundo die Februarii, an. 1574. aetatis suae 63. Another inscription which is on one of the said pillars runs thus. Viro bono, docto ac pio Johanni Parkhursto Episcopo vigilantissimo, Georgius Gardiner posuit hoc. Which George 
* The said Dr. Gardiner was buried on the S. side of the South isle of the Cath. Ch. of Norwych; over whose grave was this inscription put in an arch of the wall. Georgius Gardiner Barvici natus, Cantabrig●e 〈◊〉 primo minor 〈◊〉, 2ᵒ Praebendarius, 3ᵒ Archidiac. 〈◊〉. & demum 28. Nou. an. 1573 factus est sacellanus D. Regine & Decanus hujer Ecclesiae, in quo loco per 16 annos arexit. He died in winter time, 1589.  Gardiner, who was D. of D. was installed Dean of Norwych 24. Dec. 1573, in the place of John Salisbury deceased. Ralf Gualther, Father and Son, both of Zurich, and entirely beloved of this our Author Parkhurst have written 
a Edit, Tiguri 1576. in qu.  Epiceds on his death; which, if they could be procured, (being very scarce) might satisfy a curious reader concerning some actions of him the said Parkhurst.  
LEONARD DIGGES second Son of James Digges of Digges Court in the Parish of Berham in Kent, by Philippe his second Wife Daughter of John Engham of Chart in the said County, was born in the Province of Kent, particularly, as it seems, at Digges Court, educated for a time in this University, (but in what house, unless in Uniu. Coll. I know not) where laying a foundation of greater learning, departed without a Degree, and afterwards became a most excellent Mathematician, a skilful Architect, and a most expert surveyour of Land. At length lest it should be thought that he studied only for himself, and not for the benefit of others, he published a book entit.  
Tectonicon: Briefly showing the exact measuring, and speedy reckoning of all manner of lands, squares, timber, stones, steeples, etc. Lond. 1556. qu. Augmented, and published again by his Son Tho. Digges— Lond. 1592. qu.  
Printed there again 1647 qu. Our Author Leon. Digges wrote also,  
A Geometrical practical treatise named Pantometria, in 3. books.— Which being attempted in his younger years, his said Son Thomas supplied such parts of it after his death, as were left obscure and imperfect, adjoining thereunto, A discourse Geometrical of the five regular and Platonical bodies, containing sundry Theorical and Practical propositions arising by mutual conference of these solides, Inscription, Circumscription, and Transformation. Lond. 1591. fol.  
Prognostication everlasting, of right good effect: or, choice rules to judge the weather by the Sun, Moon, Stars, etc. Lond. 1555— 56. and 64 qu. corrected and augmented by his said Son Thomas, with divers general tables and many compendious rules— Lond. 1592. qu. what else he wrote, 
Clar. 1574.  I find not, nor certainly when he died, unless about the Year Fifteen hundred seventy and four, or whether his death was at Eltham in Kent, or at another place. There is some memory of him and his Family (in whose veins hereditary learning doth seem to run) on a Monument in Chilham Church in Kent, not to show that he was buried there, but to show the genealogy of his Family, set up by his Grandson Dudley Digges (of whom I shall make mention in 1638) which being too long for this place, I shall pass it by at present for brevity sake.  
RICHARD WILLS who in his books writes himself Willeius, which is the reason why some call him Willey, was a Western Man born, educated in Grammar learning in Wykehams' School near to Winchester, and in Academical for a time, in his Coll. at Oxon, but before he took a Degree, or was made Fellow, he left the University, and traveled into France, Germany and Italy; where spending some years in several Universities, returned an accomplished Gentleman: And being noted for his admirable dexterity, and honourable advance in the Latin Empire, as Joh. Brownswerd was at the same time, wrote and published,  

Lond. 1573. oct.  
Poematum liber ad Gul. Baronem Burghleium.  
De re poetica disputatio.  
In suorum poemat. Librum Scholia.   
With other things, as 'tis probable, but such I have not yet seen. In the Year 1574 Apr. 24. he by the name and title of Rich. Wills Master of Arts of the University of Mentz in Bavaria, supplicated the ven. congregation of Regent's that he might be incorporated into the same Degree in this University; but the said Regent's suspecting his opinions, did grant his desire conditionally. (1) That he produce a testimony of his creation under the seal of the University of Mentz. (2) That he render a testimony of his faith before the Vicechanc. 
Clar. 1574.  and Proctors, and (3) That he acknowledge the Queen to be his legitimate Governess, or Monarch of all England, etc. whether he performed these conditions, or was really incorporated, appears not in any of the registers.  
RICHARD TAVERNER Son of Joh. Taverner of Brisley in Norfolk, was born at Brisley, or else in that County, in the Year 1505, descended from an ancient Family of his name living sometimes at North Elmham near to Brisley beforementioned, educated for a time in Logic in Bennet Coll. in Cambridge, but before he had consummated an year and an half there, did, with others of that University go to Oxon, for preferment about the same time that Card. Wolsey did begin his Coll. there. At length being admitted one of the Junior Canons of that Coll. he took the Degree of Bach. of Arts in the Year 1529 and about that time obtaining a competent knowledge in Philosophy, the Greek tongue and Divinity, left Oxon some time before the said Coll. came into the King's hands by Wolsey's fall, and forthwith went to an Inn of Chancery near London called Staire Inn, otherwise Strand Inn, (pulled down when Edw. D. of Somerset built Somerset house in the Strand or Strand) and thence to the Inner Temple (for before his time and some years, after, students were not admitted into the Inns of Court, before they had read the ground of Law in one of the Inns of Chancery) where his humour was to quote the Law in Greek, when he read any thing thereof. In 1534 he went to the Court, and was there taken into the attendance of Tho. Cromwell then Principal Secretary to K. Hen. 8. by whose commendation, he was afterwards made by the said King one of the Clerks of the Signet in ordinary, an. 1537. Which place he kept till the first of Q. Marry, having been in good repute not only with K. Hen. 8. but also with K. Edw. 6. and most of all with Edw. Duke of Somerset Lord Protector. In 1552, he, though a mere Layman, obtained by the name of Rich. Taverner Master of Arts (being Master of Arts of both the Universities) a special licence subscribed by K. Ed. 6. to Preach in any place of his dominions, and the more for this reason because the scarcity and slackness of Preachers was so great, that some of the King's Chaplains were appointed to ride circuit about the Kingdom to preach to the People, especially against Popery. I have been informed by some notes of him, written by his 
b Franc. Taverner of Hexton in Hertfordsh. Esq. in a fol. MS. by him written, an. 1636. entit. The genealogy of the family of the Taverners of Northelmham in Norfolk, faithfully collected out of records and private evidence, etc.  Grandson, that he preached before the King at Court, and in some public places in the Kingdom, wearing a velvet bonnet or round cap, a damask gown, and a chain of gold about his neck; in which habit he was seen, and heard, preaching several times in St. Mary's Church in Oxon. in the beginning of Qu. Eliz. In like manner other Lay-Gentlemen, such that had been educated in the Universities, did either preach, or else write books concerning controversies in Religion, or else make translations from Divinity books. Will. Holcot of Buckland in Berks. Esq; (whom I have mentioned in Joh. Jewel) sometimes of Uniu. Coll. was often seen in the same habit in Pulpits in London, and in his own Country, and would often give the printed Catechisms in the book of Common-Prayer to Children as he walked in London streets to learn without book, and would after call out those children and examine them, and for encouragement would give, especially to the poorer sort of them, money, silk points, ribbons, etc. Sir Tho. More also, after he was called to the bar in Lincoln's Inn, did for a considerable time read a public Lecture out of St. Austin De civitate Dei, in the Church of St. Laurence in the Old Jewrie, to which the learneder sort in the City of London would resort. Afterwards also, when he was L. Chanc. of England, he wrote treatises against the Lutherans, and when at home on Sundays he would sit in the choir in a surplice and sing service. But to return; as for our Author Rich. Taverner, he, for security sake when Qu. Mary came to the Crown, did recede to his house called Norbiton hall in Surrey, where he mostly continued all her Reign. But when Qu. Elizab. succeeded, he presented to her a gratulatory Epistle in Latin; by which being made more known to her than formerly, she had so great respect for, and confidence in, him, that she not only offered to him the Degree of Knighthood, but put him into the commission of peace for the County of Oxon, (wherein he had several manors that had belonged to religious houses) entrusted him with a considerable share of the concerns thereof, and in the 12 Year of her Reign, Dom. 1569 made him High Sherriff of the said County. In which office he appeared in St. Mary's Pulpit with his sword by his side (as 'tis said) and a chain of gold hanging about his neck and preached to the Scholars a Sermon (there being then a great scarcity of Divines in the University) beginning thus. Arriving at the mount of St. Mary's, in the stony 
c St. Mary's Pulpit was then of fine carved Ashler stone, joining to the upper pillar of the South side of the body of the Church: which Pulpit was taken away when Dr. Joh. Owen was Vicechanc. about 1654., and a framed pulpit of wood was set on the pedestal that upheld the frame of stone.  stage where I now stand, I have brought you some five biscuits, baked in the oven of charity, carefully conserved for the chickens of the Church, the sparrows of the spirit, and the sweet swallows of salvation, etc. Which way of preaching was then mostly in fashion, and commended by the generality of Scholars. This Rich. Taverner hath written and published,  
The sum or pith of the 150 Psalms of David, reduced into a form of prayers and meditations, with other certain godly orisons, etc. Lond. 1539. oct.  
Recognition or correction of the Bible after the best exemplars. Lond. 1539 fol. Allowed to be publicly read in Churches in the English tongue, with an Epist. dedic. to the King, whose servant Taverner then was. But after the death of the Lord Cromwell the King's Secretary, a. 1540, the Bishops caused the Printers of the Bible in the Engl. tongue to be imprisoned and punished, and this our Author for his labours was committed Prisoner to the Tower of London; but he so well acquitted himself, that he was shortly after released, and restored to his place in Court and in the King's favour.  
The Epistles and Gospels, with a brief postil upon the same, from Advent to Low Sunday (which is the Winter part) drawn forth by divers learned Men for the singular commodity of all good Christian Persons, and namely of Priests and Curates. Lond 1540 qu.  
The Epist. and Gosp. with a brief postil upon the same, from after Easther till Advent (which is the summer part) set. forth, etc. Lond. 1540 qu.  
Fruit of faith, containing all the prayers of the holy Fathers, Patriarches, Prophets, Judges, Kings, renowned Men, and Women in the Old and New Test. Lond. 1582. in tw. Various Poems in Latin and English.  
Hortus sapientiae. lib. 2. Sententiarum flores. In Catonis disticha. lib. 4. In Mimum publianum. Catechismus fidei. These are mentioned by Jo. Bale 
d In cent. 8. num. 96.  but I have not yet seen any of them, and therefore I cannot tell you whether they are in Engl. or Lat.  
He also translated from Lat. into English (1) Rob. Capito (Grosthead) his prayers on the Psalms. Lond. 1539. oct. (2) Confession of the Germans exhibited to the Emperor Charles 5. in the Council of Augusta in the Year 1530, to which is added, The Apology of Melancton of the said confession. Lond. 1536 in oct. Translated at the command of the Lord Cromwell Lord Privy Seal, (3) Common places of Scripture orderly and after a compendious form of teaching, etc. Lond. 1577. oct. Written by Erasmus Sarcerius (4) An introduction to a Christian concord and unity in matters of Religion. Translated from Erasm. Roterd. De sarciendâ ecclesiae concordiâ. Which translation was done by our Author upon K. Hen. the eighth, his coming into the Parliament house an. 1545, at which time he exhorted the members thereof (of which number R. Taverner our Author was one) to charity, unity and concord. At length after he had lived beyond the age of Man, and had been a zealous promoter of reformation and the Protestant Religion, laid down his head in peace, and willingly resigned up his last breath at Woodeaton near to, and in the County of, Oxford, in the mannour-house now standing there, (which he did build from the ground, about 1544) on the 14 day of July in Fifteen hundred seventy and five. Whereupon his body being conveyed to the Church there by two Heralds or Officers of Arms about 5 days after, year 1575. was buried in the Chancel with great solemnity near to the body of his first Wife Margaret. Soon after the said Officers caused to be hung up, on the North wall of the said Chancel, an helmet, standard, pennon and other cognisances belonging to Esquires. All which continued there several years after the Restauration of K. Ch. 2. and then were pulled down by Mr. Joh. Nurse the Lord of that manor, to make room for a monument and banners for his Relations. He the said Rich. Taverner had married two wives; the first was Margaret Dau. of Walt. Lambert Esq. by whom he had several Sons, whose male issue is now, as I conceive, worn out, except that of Peter his second Son of Hexton in Hertfordsh. His second Wife was Mary Daughter of Sir Joh. Harcourt, of the noble and ancient family of the Harcourts of Stanton-Harcourt in Oxfordshire, by whom having only one Daughter that survived, named Penelopie, she was married to my Grandfather (by the Mother's side) named Robert Le Petite, commonly called Petty of Wifald near to Henlie, and of Cottesford near Bister, in Oxfordshire Gentleman, a younger Son of Joh. Pettie of Tetsworth and Stocke-Talmache near Thame in the said County Esq. The next Brother in order to the said Rich. Taverner, was named Roger, born in Norfolk also, and educated for a time in Cambridge, afterwards surveyour general on this side of the river Trent of the King's woods to Hen. 8. Ed. 6. and Qu. Elizabeth, who in the Year 1560 wrote a 
e See in Dr. Tho. James his Rologa Oxonie-Cantabrig, printed at Lond. 1600. p. 94. num. 343, who there entitles the book De fame; and saith it was written by Robert (instead of Roger) Taverner: Followed by Joh. Pits in append. ad lib. De illustr. Angl. Scriptorib. p. 903.  book De fame, viz. of the means to prevent famine in this land, dedicated to Qu. Elizab. who delivering it to Dr. Parker Archb. of Canterbury, he gave it afterwards with many other MSS. to Bennet Coll. Library in Cambridge, where it now remains, and hath had this testimony given of the writer by some of that house in the beginning of Ch. 1. that though the Author was no professed Scholar, yet he was competently learned, well versed in the affairs of the Commonwealth, and of the Estates of Kingdoms in Foreign parts, and that the book was worthy of publication. He died at Upminster in Essex (where he had a fair Estate) and was buried in the Church there, in 1582, leaving behind him a Son named John, who in 1600 published a little treatise concerning The making of ponds, breeding and feeding of fish, and planting of fruits, etc. printed several times. Which John succeeded his Father in the surveyourship beforementioned, and dying in 1606 was, as I conceive, buried by his Father, leaving then behind him a Son named Roger, living 1636.  
HENRY BULL, a Warwickshire Man born, became Demie of Magd. Coll. in 1535 or thereabouts, perpetual Fellow in 1540 being then Bach of Arts, and afterwards a zealous 
* See Hist. & Antiq. Vniu. Oxon. lib. 1. p. 271.  Man for reformation in K. Edw. days, an exile in the time of Qu. Marry, and a double, if not a treble, beneficed Man in the Reign of Qu. Eliz. He hath transmitted to posterity,  
Christian prayers and holy meditations, as well for private as public exercise, gathered out of the most godly learned of our time— Printed at Lond. several times; one edit. bears date 1584. another 92. a third in 1605. and all either in oct. or 16ᵒ.  
Lydlies' prayers, with certain godly additions.— He also translated from Lat. into English A commentary upon the 15 Psalms called Psalmi Graduum, that is Psalms of degrees, from Psal. 120 to Psal. 133, faithfully copied out of the Lectures of Dr. Mart. Luther. Lond. 1577. qu. etc. Published with an Epistle before it by Joh. Fox the Martyrologist, at which time the translator had been dead about two or three years, for if I mistake not, he gave way to fate about Fifteen hundred seventy and five. year 1575. One of both his names, who was a rich Physician of London, died there in June (or thereabouts) in 1577, but of what kin to the former, I know not.  
NICHOLAS WHITHALK, a Theologist of Losanne, studied several years in Merton Coll. for the sake of the Warden thereof Dr. Bickley, with whom he had contracted an acquaintance while he was an Exile in the time of Qu. Marry, but whether he took a degree, though supplicate he did for one, it appears not. He hath written,  
Christianae fidei ac verae religionis compendium, in locos communes digestum, 
Clar. 1575.  & nunc primum in vulgus emissum. Lond. 1575. oct. Dedic. to Sir Will. Cecil Lord Burleigh. No doubt there is but he hath published other things, but such I have not yet seen.  
LAURENCE NOWELL the third Son of John Nowell of Great Meerley in Lancashire (where his ancestors had lived several generations before him) by Dowsabell his Wife, Daughter of Thomas Hesketh of Rufford in the said County Esq. was born, as I conceive, at Great Meerley before-mentioned, or at least in the said County, sent to Brasnose Coll. to obtain Academical learning, about 1536, where applying his Muse to the study of Logic for a little while, went to Cambridge, where taking the Degree of Bach. of Arts, returned to Oxon. and was incorporated in the said Degree in July 1542. In the year following he was licenced to proceed in Arts, and about that time being in sacred orders became Master of the Free-school at Sutton-Colfield in Warwickshire, where he continued for some years. In the Reign of Qu. Marry he absconded for a time in the house of Sir Joh. Perrot called Carew Castle in Pembrokeshire, where, besides that Knight, he found two of his persuasion, viz. Mr. Perrot (Sir John's Uncle) who had been reader of the Greek tongue in the Reign of K. Ed. 6. and another Gent. called Banister: But before that Queen died, he went into Garmany, where finding out his Brother Alexander Nowell, sorted himself among the English Exiles there. After Qu. Elizabeth came to the Crown he was made Archdeacon of Derby and Dean of Lichfield, which he kept (with one or more benefices, besides that Prebendship of Ampleford in the Ch. of York, which he obtained upon the relignation of Will. Day Bach. of Diu. 27. May 1566.) to his dying day. He was a most diligent searcher into venerable antiquity, a right learned Clerk also in the Saxon Language, and was one of the first that recalled the study thereof. When he abode in Lincoln's Inn, in the lodgings of one of his brethren, who was a Counsellor of note there, he was a tutor in those studies to Will. Lambard the Antiquary of Kent, who was esteemed the second best in them, and made use of his assistance and notes when he compiled his book De priscis Anglorum legibus. Our famous Antiquary Will. Camden tells 
f In Britannia in Cornwall.  us that he (Laur. Nowell) was a Man of good note for his singular learning, and was the first in our age that brought into ure again, and revived the Language of our Ancestors the Saxons, which through disuse lay forlet and buried in oblivion. He hath written,  
Vocabularium Saxonium, or a Saxon English Dictionary.— Written in 1567. 'Tis a MS. in qu. and was sometimes in the hands of the learned Selden, but now in Bodlies' Library. Franc. Junius who maketh honourable mention of the Author, had a Copy of it, and Will. Somner the Antiquary of Canterbury made use of the original when he compiled his Saxon Dictionary. He also (L. Nowell) made several collections from antique historical MSS. which, as rarities, are kept to this day in the Cottonian Library. One of them is thus entitled.  
Collectanea ex Chronicis Gregorii Caerquent Monachi Coenobii Glocestrensis, ab an. 681. ad an. 1290. 'Tis under Vespasians head A. 5. with other collections out of the Registers of Worcester and Gloucester. This eminent Antiquary died, as it seems, year 1576 in Fifteen hundred seventy and six, (his will being dated 7. Oct. the same year) aged 60 or more, but where buried unless in the Cath. Ch. at Lichfield I cannot tell. He left behind him a Son of both his names, who was a Commoner of Brasnose Coll. 1590. aged 18, and had, if I mistake not, for his successor in his Deanery one George 
* The said George Bulleyn became Rector of Bangor on the translation of Will. Chaderton from the See of 〈◊〉 to Li●● in June. an 1575.  Bulleyn D. D. who dying in Januar. 1602, was succeeded by Dr. Will. Tooker. One Hen. Boleyne D. D. was sometimes Chauntor and Residentiary of Lincoln, Archdeacon of Chichester and Rector of Borneford, who died 1491. but what relation George had to this Henry, I know not.  
GERARD LEGH Son of Hen. Legh or Leigh of London, natural or base Son of Randal Legh, (by his Concubine one Woodroffs Widow of Derby) second Son of Sir Edm. Legh of Baguly in Cheshire Knight, (living 39 H. 6.) was born in London, where being trained up for a time in Grammaticals, was sent to Oxon to complete them, and to obtain so much of the Logicals that he might the better conquer the rudiments of the municipal Law; for, if I am not mistaken, he studied for some time in one of the Inns of Court. But such was the vigour of his natural genius to Heraldry, Genealogies, and History, that he postponed those beneficial studies and totally gave himself up to those of honour and less benefit. All that he hath published is that fruitful and worthy treatise, entit.  
The Accedence of Armoury. Lond. 1568. and 1612. in qu. Which being the first book of that nature that was ever printed in the English tongue, was a pattern or platform to those that came after, viz. to Will. Wyrley in his True use of Armoury. Printed 1592. qu. to Joh. Boswell when he wrote his Works of Armoury in 3 books. Lond. 1597. qu. and to others. In the beginning of Apr. 1577. there was some dispute made among the relations of the said Ger. Legh who should administer his goods, debts, chattels, etc. So that I presume he died in Fifteen hundred seventy and six; year 1576 (18. Elizab.) which is all that I yet know of him, or his works.  
WILLIAM BLANDIE was born at Newbury in Berkshire, educated in Wyk●hams School near to Winchester, elected Probatione-Fellow of New Coll. in 1563, took one Degree in Arts three years after, and the same year was removed thence by the Bishop of Winton in his visitation of that Coll. but for what reason, unless for Popery, I cannot tell. About the same time he went to London, became Fellow of the Middle Temple, and afterwards translated from Lat. into English The five Books of Hicronimus Os●rius, containing a discourse of Civil and Christian Nobility. 
Clar. 1576.  Lond. 1576. qu. What other things he hath translated, or whether he hath written of any Subject I cannot tell.  
ANTHONY RUSSHE, a florid and frequent Preacher of his time, was born in the Diocese of Norwych, admitted Probationer-Fellow of Magd. Coll. in July 1554, did complete the Degree of Master of Arts 1558, and soon after quitting his Fellowship, became Chaplain to Qu. Elizabeth, Dean of Chichester (in the place perhaps of Barth. Traheron) Doctor of Divinity, and in the Year 1567. Canon of Windsor. He hath written,  
A Precedent for a Prince: wherein is to be seen by the testimony of ancient writers, the duty of Kings, Princes and Governors. Lond. 1566. in qu. and other things, as I conceive, but such I have not yet seen. He paid his last debt to nature on the first day of April, year 1577 in Fifteen hundred seventy and seven, aged 40 or more, and was buried in the Chapel of St. George at Windsor. Over his grave is an Epitaph containing a great Elegy of him, which for brevity sake I shall now omit, and in the mean time proceed to the next writer in order to be mentioned.  
RALPH GUALTHER Son of the famous Ralph Gualther was born at Zurich in Helvetia, spent several years in this University, (mostly in Merton Coll.) took the Degree of Master of Arts in 1573, and then returning to Zurich became Minister of St. Peter's Church there, where he was held in great admiration for his quick and forward parts. He hath written,  
Elegia de militia Christianorum in his terris adversus satanem, carnem, & mundum militantium.  
Epitaphium in Hen. Bullengeri obitum, written in Greek.  
Epicedium in obitum Joh. Parkhursti Episcopi Nordovicensis. Tigur. 1576. qu.  
Argos Helvetia. Sive carmen de Tigurinorum navigatione Tiguro Argentoratum usque uno die confecta.  
Carmina in imagines Doctorum nostri seculi virorum.  
Varia Epigrammata & Epitaphia. At length having spent his short life in learning and virtuous industry, surrendered up his pious Soul to him that gave it, year 1577 in Fifteen hundred seventy and seven, aged 25 or thereabouts. Whereupon his body was buried, as 'tis said, in St. Peter's Church beforementioned; at which time the chief Scholars there did much bewail his loss by their Poetry. A certain 
* Edward Leigh in his Treatise of religion and learning, etc. p. 216.  Author tells us that this Ralph Gualther the Son, hath written Homilies on the lesser Prophets, but such I have not yet seen. The Father hath, and therefore I suppose there is a mistake in the matter.  
MORGAN PHILIPPS or Philip Morgan a Monmouthshire Man born in the Dioc. of Landaff, became a student in the University in 1533 or thereabouts, made so great a progress in Logic and Philosophy, and became so quick and undermining a Disputant, that when he was Bach. of Arts, he was commonly called Morgan the Sophister. In the Year 1538 he was elected Fellow of Oriel Coll. being then an year standing in the Degree of Bachelaur, and taking that of Master of Arts, he entered into the sacred function. In 1546 he was made Principal of St. Mary's Hall, and three years after was one of the Triumvirs that undertook a public disputation in the Divinity School with Pet. Martyr. In 1550 he resigned his Principality, being then Bach. of Diu. and in the beginning of Qu. Mary's Reign he became Chauntor of St. David's Cathedral. Whereupon, and because of his absence from Oriel Coll. for more time than was allowed, he was denounced non socitis in 1554. In the beginning of Qu. Elizabeth he left his preferment, friends, and country for Religion sake, spent most of his time at Louvain and Douai, and wrote several books, as 'tis said, but I have seen only these following, which go under his name, viz.  
Defence of the honour of Mary Queen of Scotland, with a declaration of her right, title, and interest to the Crown of England. Leig. 1571. in 2 books in oct.  
A treatise showing that the regiment of Women is conformable to the Law of God and nature, in one book. Ib. 1571. oct.  
These two treatises, containing three books, were published under his name, but written as a noted 
g Camden in Annal. Reg. Elizab. sub an. 1569. & Gul. Udall qui illum lequitur in Hist. Vitae & mortis Mariae Scotorum Regine- Lond. 1636. Angl. oct. p. 145.  Author tells us by Joh. Lesley Bishop of Rosse in Scotland, upon occasion of sundry Pamphlets that came out against the marriage of Mary Qu. of Scots to be had with the Duke of Norfolk, and the right by which she claimed to become heir unto England. Which Bishop, as 'tis farther added, did afterwards ingeniously acknowledge in his Commentaries, that he had his arguments for her right of succession secretly from Sir Anth. Browne Chief Justice of the Common-pleas, and from Sergeant Joh. Carryll an excellent common Lawyer of the Inner Temple. So that if Morg. Philipps was not the Author of the said treatises, I cannot justly say that he wrote any thing else, only his,  
Disputatio de Eucharistiae Sacramento in Uniu. Oxon habita contra D. Pet. Martyrem, 31. Maii, an. 1549. Lond. 1549. qu. etc. See more in Pet. Martyr an. 1562. and in Will. Tresham 1569 etc. But let our Author Camden, and his follower here quoted, say what of Leslie's being the Author of those books, and other judge of the matter, as he, and they, please; while I tell you that a writer 
h R. Doleman alias Rob. Persons in his conference about the next succession to the Crown of England, part. 2. cap. 1.  before Camden in time, and equal with him in learning, as to the studies he professed, reports, that the said Morgan Philipps a Man of good account for learning among those that knew him, was thought to have written the said treatises (divided into three books) by the advice and assistance of Sir Anth. Browne: which thing is made the more credible by the many authorities of our common Law, which there are alleged. The first book doth endeavour to clear Mary Q. of Scots for the murder of the Lord Darley her Husband, which by many was laid against her. The second doth handle her title to the Crown of England, and the third doth answer the book of Joh. Knox the Scot, entit. Against the monstrous government of Women. But not long after the said book was published, John Lesley Bishop of Ross in Scotland (who at that time was Ambassador for the said Qu. of Scots in England) did more largely handle in the second book of a treatise which he published, her title to the Crown of England, etc. Thus he; so that according to this Author's opinion here quoted, Lesley had no hand in the said treatises, but in another different from them, which I think is most true. At length, after our Author Morg. Philipps had suffered about 17 years' exile, died at Louvain, year 1577 or rather at Douai in Fifteen hundred seventy and seven; for on the 15. Feb. the same years, was a Commission 
i Reg. of Administrations in the Will-Office, Lond. which begins 1. Jan. 1571. fol. 141. b.  granted from the Prerogative Court of Canterbury to George farmer of Estneston in Northamptonshire Esq. to administer the goods, debts, chattels, etc. of Morgan Philipps Clerk, sometimes Chauntor of the Cath. Ch. of St. David, who lately died in parts beyond the Seas.  
THOMAS DORMAN was born at Berchamstede in Hertfordsh. partly educated in the Free-School there under Mr. Rich. Reve a Protestant, by the care and exhibition of his Uncle Tho. Dorman of Agmondesham alias Amersham in the Country of Bucks. and partly in Wykehams' School near to Winchester. At length being made full ripe for the University, he was elected Probationer-Fellow of New Coll. but leaving that house before he was made complete Fellow, (upon what account I know not) was after Qu. Mary came to the Crown, elected Fellow of Allsouls Coll. in 1554, where following his studies with indefatigable industry, was admitted in the University to the reading of any book of the institutions of the Civil Law, an. 1558. But upon the alteration of Religion which soon followed in the beginning of Qu. Eliz. he left all he had in the University, his friends, country and patrimony, and went to Antwerp, where being encouraged in his studies by Dr. Tho. Harding, than an Exile in those parts, (and therefore zealously took his part against Jewel,) became Bach. and at length Doctor of Divinity. He hath written,  
A proof of certain articles in religion denied by Mr. Jewel. Antw. 1564. qu.  
A request to Mr. Jewel that he keep his promise made by solemn protestation in his late Sermon at Paul's cross, 15 June 1567. Lond. 1567. oct.  
Disproof of Mr. Alex. Nowells reproof. Antw. 1565 qu. Besides other things, which being printed beyond the Seas, we seldom see them in these parts. As for the death of this our learned and pious Author, year 1577 which happened at Tournay in the Law Countries about Fifteen hundred seventy and seven, this note following written in a MS. remaining in the English Coll. of Seculars at Douai, doth intimate thus of it. Thomas Dormannus vir doctus, qui unum aut alterum librum edidit contra Haereticos, postea fuit pastor in civitate Tornacensi, & ibidem obiit circa an. 1577.  
GEORGE GASCOIGNE an Esquire and an Essex Man born, had his education in both the Universities, chiefly, as I conceive, in Cambridge; whence being translated to Greys' Inn to study the municipal Law, made less progress in that profession than in Logic, which was but little, for having a rambling and unfixed head he left that place, went to various Cities in Holland, and became a Soldier of note, which he afterwards professed as much, or more, as learning, and therefore made him to take this motto Tam Marti quam Mercurio. From thence he went into France to visit the fashions of the royal Court there, where he fell in love with a Scottish Dame. At length being weary of those vanities, and his rambles in other Countries, he returned into England, and retiring to Greys' Inn again, was esteemed by all ingenious Men there, to be a Person of breeding, eloquent, and witty, the most passionate among them to bewail and bemoan by his dexterous Pen the perplexities of love, and the best of his time for his activity in advancing the stage part. Afterwards receding to his patrimony at Walthamstow in the Forest, within the Province of Essex, (at which place if I mistake not he was born) he published several matters, among which are these that follow.  
Flowers— Poems so called. The first of which is entit. The anatomy of a Lover. The second The arraignment of a Lover. The third The passion of a Lover; and the last is, The Lover encouraged by former examples, determineth to make virtue of necessity. Several of these Poems are contained in those made by him called The Devises.  
The delectable history of sundry adventures passed by Dan Barthelmew of Bath— This is written in verse.  
The Reporter, or the Reporters conclusion— This is also a Poem.  
Fruits of War, written upon this Theme, Dulce bellum inexpertis.— Began to be written at Delft in Holland.  
Herbs— Poems so called. In which are several translations as I shall tell you anon, and several copies of verses that are in The Devises.  
Weeds— Poems so called, with several things intermixed in prose.  
The Divises— These are also Poems; among which are various copies of verses made by our Author on certain Themes given by several Gentlemen, among which are Francis and Anthony Kynwelmersh, Essexians and noted Poets of their times, (the former having had several Poems printed in a Book entit. The paradise of dainty Devises. Lond. 1578) Alex. Nevil of Cambridge, Richard Courtop, etc.  
The steel Glass. A Satire. Lond. 1576. qu. Before which is the Author's picture in armour, with a ruff and a large beard. On his right hand hangs a musket and bandeliers, on his left stands books and inkhorn, and under him is written Tam Marti quam Mercurio. Among several commendatory verses set before it, Walt. Rawley of the Middle Temple hath one.  
The complaint of Phylomene. An Elegy. Lond. 1576. qu. This Elegy was begun in Apr. 1562, continued in Apr. 1575., and finished the 3 day of the same month 1576.  
Discourse of the adventures of Mr. F. J. (Freeman Jones)— Written mostly in prose, about 1572.  
Glass of government. A tragical comedy so entit. because therein are handled as well the rewards of virtue, as also the punishment for vice. Lond. 1575. qu. Written partly in rhyme, but mostly in prose.  
Princely pleasures at Kenilworth castle— A mask written in verse and prose. 'Tis a relation of the entertainment of Qu. Elizabeth given to her there by Robert Earl of Leycester, 9 10. 11. etc. of July 1575.  
Certain notes of instruction concerning the making of verse or rhyme in English— This is written in prose. He also translated from Italian into English (1) The suppeses, a Comedy. Originally written by Aristo. This Com. was set out by Gascoigne, and publicly acted at Greys' Inn, in 1566. 'Tis among his Poems called Herbs (2) The pleasant fable of Ferdinando Jeronimi and Leonora de Valesco. Transl. from the riding tales of Bartello. 'Tis among Gascoignes Poems called Weeds: And from Greek into English, Jocasta, a Tragedy; written by Euripides. This also was set out by Gascoigne and publicly acted in Greys' Inn, 1566. In this translation the said Gascoigne had the assistance of Francis Kynwelmersh before mentioned, who translated about half of it. The Epilogue was written by an ingenious Gentleman of the said Inn called Christoph. Yeluerton, afterwards an eminent Counsellor, a Knight and a Judge, who dying at Easton Maudit in Northamptonshire 1607 left behind him several Sons, of whom Henry was the eldest, afterwards a Knight and a Judge also, as I shall tell you elsewhere. This Trag is among Gascoignes Poems called Herbs. All which poems and translations being gathered together, were printed in an English character in two vol. in qu. One of which was printed at London about 1577, and the other there (after the Author's death) an. 1587., at which time it was ushered into the world by various copies of verses written by the Poets of that time. As for the Author of them, he made his last exit, or yielded to nature, in his middle age, at his house in Walthamstow beforementioned, in Octob. or Nou. in Fifteen hundred seventy and eight, year 1578 and was buried, as I suppose, in the Church there. I find another George Gascoigne Esq. but later in time than the former, of whom, I know nothing, only but that he was of the Middle Temple, and that he died about 1619.  
JOHN HARPESFEILD, a grand zealot for the Rom. Cath. Religion, was born in the Parish of St. Mary Magdalen (in Old Fish-street) within the City of London, educated in Grammar learning in Wykehams' School near to Winchester, admitted perpetual Fellow of New. Coll. in 1534, took the Degrees in Arts, holy Orders, was made Chaplain to Bonner Bishop of London, and left his Fellowship about 1551, being then beneficed in London. About 1554 (he being then D. of D.) he was made by his Patron Archdeacon of that place, in the room of Joh. Wymesley of less activity by far than Harpesfeild; and it was then (temp. Mariae Reg.) observed that as Dr. Bonner B. of London showed himself the most severe of all Bishops against Heretics, as they were then called, so our Author Harpesfeild of all Archdeacon's, which was the reason he fared the worse for it upon the change of Religion. In 1558, some months before Qu. Mary died, he became Dean of Ch. Ch. in Norwych, upon the resignation of John Boxall, but forced to leave that dignity in the beginning of 1560 to make room for John Salisbury suffragan Bishop of Thetford, who had been ejected in the first year of Qu. Mary. I find published under this Doctor Harpesfeilds' name these things following.  
Concio ad clerum in Ecclesia S. Pauli, 16. Oct. 1553 in Act. cap. 20. 28. Lond. 1553. oct.  
Homilies to be read in Churches within the dioc. of London. Lond. 1554-55. At the end of Bonner's Catechism.  
Disputations for the degree of Doctor of Divinity, 19 Apr. 1554— Printed in the Acts and Mon. of the Church, by Joh. Fox: In which disputation Archb. Cranmer bore a part.  
Disputes, talk, arguings, examinations, letters, etc.— Printed also in the said book of Acts and Mon. After Qu. Elizabeth came to the Crown, he was committed Prisoner to the Fleet, where continuing for an year or more, was released upon security given that he should not act, speak, or write against the doctrine of the Church of England. Whereupon retiring to the house of a near relation of his, dwelling within the Parish of St. Sepulchre in the Suburb of London, spent the remainder of his days in great retiredness and devotion. At length paying his last debt to nature in Fifteen hundred seventy and eight, year 1578 was buried, as I conceive, in the Church of that Parish. On the 5. Dec. in the same year, one Anne Worsop the nearest of kin to him, had 
a In a book of Administrations in the Will-office, beginning 1. Jan. 1571,  a Commission granted to her from the Prerogative Court of Canterbury to administer the goods, debts and chattels of Joh. Harpesfeild D. D. of the Parish of St. Sepulchre in Lond. lately deceased; so that I presume he died either in Oct. or Nou. going before. He had a brother named Nicholas, whom I shall remember under the Year 1583.  
JOHN FOWLER was born in the City of Bristol, educated in Wykehams' School near Winchester, admitted Fellow of New Coll. after he had served two years of probation, in 1555, resigned it in 1559 and the year after took the Degree of Master of Arts, but did not complete it by standing in the Comitia. About that time leaving England, he took upon him the trade of printing, partly at Antwerp and partly at Louvain, whereby he did signal service for the R. Catholics in printing their books for the vindication of their cause against the Protestants in England. He was well skilled in the Greek and Latin tongues, a tolerable Poet and Orator, and a Theologist not to be contemned. So learned he was also in Criticisms, and other polite learning, that he might have passed for another Robert, or Henry, Stephens, Printers. He did diligently peruse the Theological sums of St. Thomas of Aquine, and with a most excellent method did reduce them into a Compendium. To which he gave this title,  
Loca communia Theologica, etc. lib. 1. He wrote also,  
Additiones in Chronica Genebrandi.  
A Psalter for Catholics— Answered by Tho. Samson sometimes Dean of Ch. Ch.  
Epigrams and other verses— He also translated from Lat. into English, The Epistle of Osorius; and The oration of Pet. Frarin of Antwerp against the unlawful insurrections of the Protestants under pretence to reform Religion. Antw. 1566. oct. answered by Will. Fulke of Cambridge. At length giving way to fate at Newmarck called by some Krainburg in Germany, 
1578-79  13. Febr. in Fifteen hundred seventy and eight, was buried in the Ch. yard of St. John the Evangelist there, near to the body of John Harrys, sometimes Father to Alice his Wife.  
GEORGE FERRER seems to have been born at or near to St. Alban in Hertfordshire, was educated for a time in Oxon. whence going to Lincoln's Inn, did, after he was Barrister, became as eminent for the Law, as before he was for his Poetry, having been as much celebrated for it by the learned of his time as any. This Person, though he hath not writ much, as I can yet find, yet he is numbered among the 
b Joh. Leland in Principum ac illustrium aliquot & eruditorum in Anglia virorum, Encomiis, Trophaeis, etc. Edit. Lond. 1589. p 99  the illustrious and learned Men of the Age he lived in, by Joh. Leland the Antiquary. He hath written,  
Miscellany of Poems.— And translated from French into Latin The Statutes called Magna Charta. The beginning of which is Hic habes candid lector, leges, etc. He ended his days at Flamsted in Hertfordshire, in the beginning of the Year Fifteen hundred seventy and nine, year 1579 and was, as I conceive, buried there. You may see more of him, his character and employments in the Author before quoted. In the Year 1542 I find one George Feres Burgess for Plymouth to sit in a Parliament then held; whether the same I know not.  
WILLIAM WHITTYNGHAM Son of Will. Whittyngham Gent. (by his Wife the Daughter of Haughton of Haughton Tower) Son. of Will. Whittyngham of Over, Son of Seth Whittyngham of Swanlow in Cheshire, was born in the City of Chester, became a Commoner of Brasnose Coll. in the sixteenth year of his age 1540 or thereabouts, where being put under a careful Tutor, did make great proficiency in learning. In 1545 he was elected Fellow of Allsouls College, being then Bach. of Arts, in which faculty proceeding two years after, was made one of the Signior Students of Ch. Church, at what time it was founded by K. Hen. 8. and endeavoured by him to be replenished with the choicest Scholars in the University. On the 17. May 1550 he had leave granted to him to travel for 3 years by the Dean and Canons of the said house; whereupon he went into France, and remaining in the company of learned Men there for some time, had intentions to go into Italy, but being prevented by sickness (which took him at Lions) he spent some time among the Students in Paris, but chiefly in the University of Orleans. About that time, if I mistake not, he took to Wife Catherine the Daughter of Lewis Jacqueine, by his Wife, the heir of Gouteron Lord of Ingrue and Turvyle near to the said City of Orleans. After he had spent more than an year there, he went to certain Universities in Germany, and thence to Geneva, where tarrying till towards the latter end of K. Ed. 6. he returned into England. But that King dying, and Religion seeming to put on another face, he went with other company into France, where hearing soon after that certain Protestant Divines of England were for Religion sake fled to Frankfort, and were about, with licence from the Magistrate, to settle a Church there, did hasten thither and entered himself into their association: But they dissenting among themselves concerning matters pertaining to Religion, were forced to disjoin, and those that did best like of the forms of government of the Church of England in the days of K. Ed. 6. were to remain at Frankfort, and those that liked better the order and discipline of the Church at Geneva, were to go to that place, among whom Whittyngham was one and the chiefest, as you may farther see in a book entit. A brief discourse of the troubles begun at Frankford 1554— Printed 1575., wherein the opposite and restless humour of this Person may easily be discerned. Soon after their settlement at Geneva, John Knox a Scot, Minister of the English congregation there, was to leave that place and return to his Country; so that Whittyngham being looked upon as the fittest Person to succeed, was earnestly desired by Joh. Calvin to take that employment upon him, but he alleging that in his former travels and observations, with the learning of several languages, he had fitted himself more for state employment than that, he modestly denied it. At length Calvin urging him farther, he was thereupon made a Minister according to the Geneva fashion and then took the employment upon him. Soon after Miles Coverdale, Christop. Goodman, Anth. Gilby, Tho. Samson, Wil Cole of C. C. Coll. and this our Author Whittyngham undertook the translation of the English Bible, but before the greater part was finished, Qu. Maary died. So that the Protestant Religion appearing again in England, the exiled Divines left Frankfort and Geneva and returned into England. Howbeit Whittyngham with one or two more being resolved to go through with the work, did tarry at Geneva an year and an half after Qu. Elizab. came to the Crown. At the same time also he turned into metre those Psalms that we to this day sing in our Churches, inscribed with W. W. They are in number five, of which the 119 Psalm is one, as large as 22 other Psalms, as also the ten commandments, and a prayer, at the end of the book of Psalms. At length Whittyngham returning into England, he was appointed to go in company with Francis Earl of Bedford to condole the death of the French King, an 1560, and soon after to go with Ambrose Earl of Warwick to Newhaven to be preacher there, while the said Earl defended it against the French. Where, though he showed himself ready in his function, yet he spared not to persuade the English from Uniformity, and observance of the rites and ceremonies of the Church. Notwithstanding this, so great a respect had the said Earl for him, that upon writing to his Brother Robert Earl of Leycester, he procured for him from the Queen the Deanery of Durham, in 1563, in the place of Ralf Skinner. Which Deanery the Queen having partly promised Dr. Tho. Wilson one of the Secretaries of State, was forced by the over-intreaties of the said Earl to give it to Whittyngham, who enjoying it about 16 years, was then succeeded by the said Wilson, who enjoyed it not two years. After Whittyngham had remained there for some time, Sir Will. Cecil Secretary of State was made Lord Treasurer, in whose place Whittyngham was among others nominated, and had he stirred in it and made interest with his friend Robert Earl of Leycester, he might have obtained it. About the same time the order of the sacerdotal vestures being generally established for Churchmen, and so pressed that they that would not use the same, should not be permitted to exercise their Ministry, he then, and not before, submitted himself thereunto. And being upbraided therewith for so doing by one that had been with him at Geneva, he answered that he, and others, knew, and had heard John Calvin say that for external matters of Order, they might not neglect their Ministry, for so should they for tithing of Mint, neglect the greater things of the Law. And as concerning singing in the Church, Whittyngham did so far allow of it, that he was very careful to provide the best songs and anthems that could be got out of the Queen's Chapel to furnish his choir withal, himself being skilful in Music. To pass by the good service he did his Country against the Popish rebels in the North-parts of England in 1569, and his Church of Durham in repelling the Archbishop of York his visiting it, an. 1578. I shall only take notice that whereas he is styled by certain Authors 
c Rich. Bancroft in his Dangerous positions lib. 2. cap. 1. and others.  the false and unworthy Dean of Durham, was because he was only Master of Arts, the statutes of the Ch. of Durham requiring that the Dean thereof should be Bach. of Divinity at least, that he was not a Minister according to the form of the Church of England, but of Geneva, and that he was but a lukewarm conformist at the best. The public works that he hath done as to learning are, (1) His Translation of the Geneva Bible (2) His turning into Meter several of the Psalms of David, as I have before told you. (3) His translation into Latin the Liturgy of the Church of Geneva. (4) Nich. Rydleys Declaration of the Lords Supper. Genev. 1556. To which Whittyngham put 
d Bal. cent. 8. num. 87. in append.  a Preface of his own making. (5) N. Rydlies protestation: This I have not yet seen, and know nothing more of it. (6) His translation from Lat into English of The Book of prayer, or the English Liturgy: See more in A brief discourse of the troubles begun at Frankford, 1554, etc. Printed 1575. p. 34. 35. He also wrote the Preface to Christoph. Goodman's book entit. How superior powers ought to be obeyed, etc. with several other things, which are not yet, as I conceive, published. As for the works of impiety that he performed while he sat Dean of Durham, were very many; among which I shall tell you of these. Most of the Priors of Durham, having been buried in coffins of stone, and some in marble, and each coffin covered with a plank of marble, or freestone, which laid level with the paving of the Church (for anciently Men of note that were laid in such coffins, were buried no deeper in the ground, than the breadth of a plank, to be laid over them even with the surface of the pavement) he caused some of them to be plucked-up, and appointed them to be used as troughs for horses to drink in, or hogs to feed in. All the marble and freestones also that covered them, and other graves, he caused to be taken away and broken, some of which served to make pavement in his house. He also defaced all such stones as had any pictures of brass, or other imagery work, or chalice wrought, engraven upon them; and the residue he took away, and employed them to his own use, and did make a washing-house of them at the end of the Centory-garth. So that it could not afterwards be discerned that ever any were buried in the said Centory-garth, it was so plain and strait. The truth is, ●e could not 
e See a book entit. The ancient rites and monuments of the monastical and Cath. Ch. of Durham. Lond. 1672 in oct. p. 101. Which book was written by Anon (one that had belonged to the choir of Durham, at the dissolution of Abbeys) and published by Jo. Davies of 〈◊〉.  abide any thing that appertained to a goodly religiousness, or Monastical life. Within the said Abbey-church of Durham were two holy-water stones of fine marble, very artificially made and engraven, and bossed with hollow bosses, upon the over-sides of the stones, very curiously wrought. They were both of the same work, but one much greater than the other. Both these were taken away by this unworthy Dean Whittyngham, and carried into his kitchen, and employed to profane uses by his Servants, steeping their beef and salt fish in them, having a conveyance in the bottoms of them to let forth the water, as they had when they were in the Church to let out holy water, etc. He also caused the image of St. Cuthbert (which before had been removed from its proper place by Dean Rob. Horn, who also had a hand in such impieties) and also other ancient monuments to be defaced, and broken all to pieces, to the intent that there should be no memory of that holy Man, or of any other who had been famous in the Church and great benefactors thereunto (as the Priors, his Predecessors were) left whole and undefaced. I say it again that he did this to the end that no memory or token of that holy Man St. Cuthbert should be left, who was sent, and brought thither by the power and will of Almighty God, and was thereupon the occasion of the erection of the monastical Church of Durham, where the Clergy and Servants have all their Livings and Commodities from that time to this day. At length after his many rambles in this world, both beyond and within the Seas, and his too to forward zeal for the promoting his Calvinistical (if not worse) opinion, whereby much mischief happened to the Church of England, he did unwillingly (being then full of worldly troubles) submit himself to the stroke of death, on the tenth day of June in Fifteen hundred seventy and nine, year 1579 and was buried in the Cath. Church of Durham. Soon after was a tombstone laid over his grave, with an Epitaph of 12 long and short verses engraven on a brass plate, fastened thereunto; which, with most if not all of the monuments which were set up after his time, were miserably defaced by the Scots when they invaded England in 1640. The first four verses run thus. 
Quae Whittinghami cernis monumenta sepulti,  
Et vitae & mortis sunt monumenta piae.  
Anglia testis erat, testis quoque Gallia vitae  
Exilis, haec vidit Praesulis illa decus.   
So that as he before had in a woeful manner violated the monuments of his predecessors and others, so was his by Invaders, and nothing now left to preserve his memory, or Person to show the place where his carcase was lodged.  
HENRY COLE, a zealous maintainer for a time of the Rom. Cath. Religion, was born at Godsbyll in the Isle of Wight in Hampshire, educated in Wykehams' School near Winchester, admitted true and perpetual Fellow of New Coll. in 1523, studied the Civil Law, traveled some years after into Italy, was at Padöuo, where he advanced his studies, and afterwards, notwithstanding all this, he did acknowledge K. Hen. 8. to be the supreme head of the Church in England. In 1540, he being then returned and settled in London, he took the Degree of Doctor of the Civil Law, and the same year resigned his Fellowship, being then an Advocate in the Court of Arches, Prebendary of Salisbury, and about that time Archdeacon of Ely in the place (as it seems) of Rich. Cox. In 1542 he was elected Warden of New Coll. and in 45 he was made Rector of Newton Longvill in Bucks. Soon after when K. Ed. 6. came to the Crown, he was altogether for reformation, was an admirer of Pet. Martyr, was a frequenter of Protestant service and a receiver of the holy communion according to their way, did after preach up reformation in the Church of St. Martin commonly called Carfax in Oxon, did approve of the proceedings of King Ed. 6. and other matters as a learned and puritannical 
* Laur 〈◊〉 in Vita & Mart Jo. Juelli, printed 1573. p. 129 13●●. 131.  Author tells you. In 1551. (5. Ed. 6.) he resigned his Wardenship, and the year after the aforesaid Rectory. In 1554 (2. Mariae) he was made Provost of Eton Coll. (in the place of Tho. Smith LL. D. of Cambridge) of which house he had been Fellow, and the same year had the Degree of Doct. of Diu. conferred upon him. Soon after he was appointed one of the Commissioners to visit the University of Cambridge, became Dean of St. Paul's Cathedral on the removal of Feckenham to Westminster an. 1556, Vicar general of the spiritualities under Card. Pole Archb. of Cant. and in 1558 one of the overseers of the said Cardinals will. I find extant under Dr. Coles name these things following.  
Letters to Joh. Jewel Bishop of Salisbury, upon occasion of a Sermon that the said Bishop preached before the Queen's Majesty and her honourable Counsel, an. 1560. Lond. 1560 in a pretty thick oct. It was afterwards remitted into Jewels works. I find also that divers letters of Dr. Cole were sent to Bishop Jewel after he had preached at Paul's cross on the second Sunday before Esther in the year 1560, which are also printed.  
Disputation with Archb. Cranmer and Bish. Rydley in the Diu. School at Oxon, an. 1554— Printed in the Acts and Mon. of the Church.  
Funeral Sermon at the burning of Dr. Tho. Cranmer Archb. of Canterbury.— He hath also other things extant, which I have not yet seen. After Qu. Elizab. came to the Crown, he, with Jo. white B. of Winchester, and five more most zealous Cath. Divines, did dispute with as many Protestant Divines concerning matters of Religion, when Qu. Elizab. was about to make a reformation in the Church of England. But that disputation coming to nothing, he was deprived of his Deanery to make room for Dr. Will May Master of Trin. Coll. in Cambridge, who dying about the beginning of 1561. Alex. Nowell succeeded him. About that time Dr. Cole was imprisoned, but where I cannot tell: Sure I am that he died in or near to the Compter in Woodstreet within the City of London, in the month of Decemb. year 1579 in Fifteen hundred seventy and nine, but where buried by his Executor Humph. Moseley Secondary of the said Compter, I know not. Joh. Leland the Antiquary was Dr. Cole's acquaintance, and having had experience of his learning, hath eternised his memory among other learned Men of our Nation and of his time, in his book of Encomia's 
f In Principum ac illustrium, etc. in Auglia virorum encomiis, trophaetis, etc. Lond. 1, 89. p. 79.  to which the curious reader may recur if he please, wherein he'll find a just character of this our Author Dr. Cole and his learning.  
PETER MORWYN or Morwing, a zealous reformer of his time, was born in Lincolnshire, made perpetual Fellow of Magd. Coll. in 1552, being then Bach of Arts, and in the year after supplicating some few days before K. Edward's death that he might proceed in that faculty, did obtain his desire: But that King then dying and Morwyn foreseeing that Religion would alter, he was not presented to that Degree. Soon after, he, and others of his society, consulting how to withdraw themselves in private, obtained leave to be absent for a time, but to what place Morwyn went beyond the Seas (for he was a voluntary exile in Germany) I find not. Sure it is that after Qu. Elizab. came to the Crown, he retired to his Coll. and in 1559 was presented to the Degree of Master, and became renowned among the Academians for his great knowledge in the Lat. and Greek tongues and poetry. When Dr. Bentham was promoted to the See of Lichfield he made him his Chaplain, and upon the next vacancy, Prebendary and Canon of the said Church, and well beneficed near to that place. He hath translated into English. (1) A compendious and most marvellous history of the latter times of the Jews common weal, beginning where the Bible and Scriptures leave, and continuing to the utter subversion and last destruction of that Country and People. Lond. 1558-61. and 1593., in oct. Written in Hebrew by Joseph Ben. Gorion. (2) The treasure of Enonimus containing the wonderful hid secrets of nature, touching the most apt times to prepare and distil Medicines. Lond. 1565. qu. besides other books, which I have not yet seen. 
Clar. 1579.  He was living at, or near to, Lichfield in the month of May, in Fifteen hundred seventy and nine, in which year he was appointed one of the administrators of the goods, chattels, etc. of the said Bish Bentham, but how long he lived after that year, I cannot tell, nor where his relics were lodged.  
JOHN LISTER was descended from those of his name in Yorkshire spent some years among the Oxonians, and wrote,  
A rule to bring up children; wherein is declared how the Father opposeth the Son in the Holy Scripture, whereby all Parents may be taught how to bring up their Children— Printed 
Clar. 1579.  at Lond. in oct. about 1580. What other things he hath written and published I cannot yet  
JOHN ROGERS called by some Joh. Rogers the second, because one of both his names (of Pembr. Hall in Cambr.) was a writer in the Reign of Ed. 6. and a Martyr for the Protestant cause in the time of Qu. Marry, was educated for some years in this University, but whether in Qu. Coll. where one of both his names was Fellow and proceeded Master of Arts, in 1556, or another Joh. Rogers (of Mert. Coll. I think) who was admitted Master in 1576, I cannot justly say. Sure I am that Joh. Rogers of Oxon. wrote and published these treatises following.  
The displaying of an horrible sect of gross and wicked heretics, naming themselves the Family of Love, etc. Lond. 1579. oct.  
The lives of the Authors of the Family of Love.— Printed with the former.  
Answer to certain Letters maintaining the opinions of those of the Family of Love— Printed also with the former, and in the same year. What else this Author hath published I cannot yet find, 
Clar. 1579.  nor when, or where he died. I find one John Rogers to be a Signior Student of St. Alban hall 1569, which perhaps may be the same with him of Mert. Coll. because that when any Postmaster, or Student there, taketh the Degree of Bach. of Arts, they commonly recede to the said Hall, which joins to the Coll. of Merton.  
ALAN COPE to whom the City of London gave his first breath, was made perpetual Fellow of Magd. Coll. in 1549, and Master of Arts in 52, being that year Senior of the Act celebrated 18. July. In 1558 he was unanimously chosen Signior Proctor of the University, and in less than two years after, when he saw that the R. Cath. Religion would be silenced in England, he obtained leave to absent himself for a time from the said College. Whereupon waiting for a prosperous gale, shipped himself beyond the Seas, and at length went to Rome; where, though he before, had for the space of 5 years, studied the Civil Law in this University, he was actually created, (as 'tis said) Doctor or Bach. of Diu. and became one of the Canons of St. Peter's Church there. Vir fuit eximii ingenii, (as one 
g Anon. MS. quandam in manibus Gul. Crowe. Ludimagistri Cro●●●  saith) qui post magnos in Ecclesiâ dei per side Catholicâ tuendâ susceptos labores, scripsit opus quoddam insigne intitulat.  
Historiae Evangelicae veritas. Seu singularia vitae Domini Jesu Christi, eo ordine quo gesta fuerunt recensita, & ipsis quatuor Evangelistarum verbis contexta, etc. Lov. 1572, and at Douai 1603. qu. He also published under his name,  
Sex Dialogi, etc. Antw. 1566. But those Dialogues were written by Nich. Harpesfeild, as I shall tell you in my discourse of him. As for A. Cope he surrendered up his last breath at Rome about Fifteen hundred and eighty, year 1580 and was buried in the Chapel belonging to the English Hospital or Coll. there, leaving behind him, a most admirable exemplar of virtue, which many did endeavour to follow, but could not accomplish their desires.  
DAVID de la HYDE was admitted Probationer-Fellow of Merton Coll. 1549, proceeded Master of Arts four years after, being then admired and much adored for his most excellent faculty in disputing, which he exercised as well in the public Schools, as at home. Soon after he was licenced by the Society of his Coll. to study the Civil Law, but took no Degree therein in this University: And being ejected the Coll. for denying the Queen's Supremacy over the Ch. of England in 1560, he went thereupon into Ireland; where, if I mistake not, he was born, and prosecuting his studies there, as he had done in Oxon. became an exquisite and profound Clerk, well read in the Greek and Lat. tongues, expert in the Mathematics, a proper Antiquary, and an exact Divine. His pen was not lazy (as one 
h Rich. Stan●hurst in Descrip. Hybern. cap. 7.  saith) but daily breeding of learned books. He wrote,  
Schemata Rhetorica in tabulam contracta. And an oration also entit.  
De Ligno & Faeno. Spoken in praise of Mr. Jasper Heywood, who was in the time of Qu. Mary Rex regni fabarum in Merten College; which was no other than a Christmas Lord, 
Clar. 1580.  or a Lord or King of misrule. He hath written many other things, which being done and printed beyond the Seas, we see them but seldom, or never, in these parts.  
JAMES WALSH an Irish Man born, was educated in this University, but what Degrees he took there, I find not. In the Year 1572 and belike before, he had a Chamber, and took his commons in Hart hall, being then a Student in Divinity with Mr. Leonard Fitz-Simons his Countryman. Both whom are entitled Magistri that year in the 
i Reg. Matric. P. pag. 745.  Matricula of the University, under Aula cervina. The said Jam. Walsh hath written,  
Epigrammata diversa. With other things of the like nature, and translated into English The Topography of Ireland, written in Lat. by Silu. Giraldus. Which translation with Scholia's was made also much about the same time by Jo●. Hooker alias Vowel of the City of Exeter, 
Clar. 1580.  as you may see elsewhere. In the time of this Jam. Walsh, studied in Hart hall also, divers of his Country men of Ireland, some of whom having been afterwards Men of note, or else writers, you shall have their names as they follow. (1) David Clere, Bach. of Arts 1565. (2) Nich. Clere of the County of Kilkenny, matriculated 1567. aged 19 (3) David Sutton a Gentleman's Son of Kildare, 1571 aged 16. (4) Pet. Nangle a Gent. Son of Dublin, 1571. aged 15 (5) Rich. Walsh a Merchant's Son of Waterford, aged 15. an. 1572. (6) Rob. Boteler a Merch. Son of the said City aged 23. an. 1572. (7) George Sherlock the Son of a Merchant also of the same City, at. 17. an. 1572. (8) Rich. Masterson a Gent. Son of Wexford. aet. 15. an. 1573. (9) Nich. Gaydon an Esq. Son of Dublin, aet. 19 an. 1574. (10) Tho. Finglas a Gent. Son of Finglas near to Dublin, aet. 18. an. 1571. (11) Will. Nugent a Gent Son of Meath, or of the County of Meath, aet. 21. an. 1571. With several others of a later date, as Alex. Barrington a Gentleman's Son of Ireland, aet. 18. an. 1583. etc.  
LEONARD FITZSIMONS was born in the Diocese and County of Dublin in Ireland, admitted Scholar of Trinity Coll. (from that of Corp. Ch. of which he was Clerk) 17 June 1558, aged 17, and the next year was made Fellow, being then Bach. of Arts. In 1563 he proceeded in that faculty, but being a R. Cath. in his heart, and therefore unwilling to take holy Orders according to the Church of England, left his Fellowship and retired to Hart hall about 1571. At length going into his own Country, had some employment conferred upon him, and was in his latter years, as I conceive, a Rom. Priest. He is charactarized by one 
k Ri●. Stany●. ut sup. cap. 7.  who knew him, to be profundus clericus, qui utrasque linguas, Theologiam & Mathematicam admodum caluit & coluit. And there is no doubt but that he hath written and published several Books, which being printed beyond the Sea, we seldom see them in these parts. He was famous and noted for his learning in Ireland in Fifteen hundred and eighty, 
Clar. 1580.  but when he died, or where his relics were lodged, I cannot tell. One Hen. Fitzsimons, a famous Jesuit was also educated in Hart hall, as I shall tell you elsewhere.  
JOHN SECURIS, a Wiltshire Man born and a most noted Person for his admirable parts while he studied in New Coll. in the time of Ed. 6 (but not in the condition of a Fellow) did retire to Paris for the improvement of his studies, where applying his muse to the faculties of Physic and Astronomy, became a diligent hearer of the Lectures of Dr. Jacobus Silvius of high learning and famous memory, the reader of the Physic lecture in that University, who usually had a thousand auditors every time he read. After he had completed his studies there, he returned into England and settled within the City of Salisbury, where he was much frequented for his great knowledge in Medicine, and wrote,  
Several Prognosticons— One of which for the Year 1580 I have seen, and to it is joined  
A compendium; or, brief instruction how to keep a moderate diet— In the title of the said Prognosticon he writes himself Master of Arts and Physic, but whether he took those Degrees in Oxon. I cannot tell, because the register containing the acts of Congregation and Convocation, is almost totally neglected during the Reign of Ed. 6. In the Preface to the said Compendium, he tells us that in his time fell near to Salisbury hailstones as big as a child's fist of 3 or four years old. Our Author Securis hath also written,  
A detection and querimonie of the daily enormities and abuses committed in Physic, concerning the three parts thereof, that is of the Physicians part, the part of Surgeons and the part of Apothecaries. Lond. 1566. in oct. Dedicated in a Lat. Epist. to both the Universities, Oxford (of which he saith he was an Alumnus) and Cambridge. 
Clar. 1580.  After which follows a Preface to the reader in old English verse, and at the end of the book is a peroration to both the Universities. Contemporary with this noted Author Securis, was another ginger called Evans Lloyd a Welsh Man, educated in Logicals and Philosophicals in Oriel Coll. but took no Degree here. Afterwards retiring to the great City, wrote several Ephemerideses, which were much valued in their time; one of them written for the Year 1582. I have seen, supputated especially for the elevation and meridian of London, but may generally serve for all England. It was printed there the same year, and approved by Dr. John Dee, with whom, as also with Securis, he had acquaintance.  
NICHOLAS QUEMERFORD was born in the City of Waterford in Ireland, took a Degree in Arts 1562 after he had spent at least 4 years in this University in pecking and hewing at Logic and Philosophy: Which Degree being completed by Determination, he went into his own Country, entered into the sacred function and had preferment there, but turned out from it because of his Religion. He wrote in English a pithy and learned treatise, very tightly penned as one 
l Idem ibid.  saith, entitled.  
Answers to certain questions propounded by the Citizens of Waterford.— Also  
Divers Sermons.— Soon after he left his Country for the sake of Religion, went to the University of Louvain in Brabant, where he was promoted to the Degree of Doctor of Divinity 23. June 1576, 
Clar. 1580.  and afterwards, as 'tis said, wrote and published divers other things. See more in Peter White, under the Year 1599 To him I now add his great friend and countryman Rob. Garvey of the Diocese of Kilkenny, who was elected Fellow of Oriel Coll. 1563, proceeded Master of Arts three years after, and became noted for his skill in both the Laws, and for a volubility in the English and latin tongues, as my Author 
m Id. ib. cap. 7.  an Irish Man tells me, but whether he published any thing I know not, nor any thing else of him, only that he died in Ireland about 1579.  
MAWRICE CHAWNEY, Chamney, Chancy, or Channy, so many ways I find him written, was from his juvenile years a Carthustan Monk in the house of that order near London, (now called by some the Charter-house, and by others Suttons Hospital) the Brethren of which place, as of others in England, did commonly study in an ancient place of Literature near to London Coll. alias Burnells Inn within this University, and no doubt there is but that this M. Chawney did receive instruction in Theological matters therein, or at least in some other house of learning in Oxon. But so it was, that at the dissolution of religious houses by K. Hen. 8. he, with his brethren (18 in number) being committed to custody for denying the King's Supremacy over the Ch. of England, did at length with much difficulty escape out of prison, and so consequently death, which all the rest suffered at several times, before the Year 1539. At length settling himself at Bruges in Flanders became Prior of some of his English Brethren (of the same order) there: And from him do our English Carthusians beyond the Sea at Neoport in Flanders derive their succession in the said house near London, to this day, having always been by them esteemed a most devout and pious Person. He hath written a book entit.  
Historia aliquot nostri saeculi Martyrum cum pia, tum lectu jucunda nunquam antehaec typis excusa. Printed (at Mentz in Bavaria as it seems) an. 1550 in qu. and dedicated by Vitus à Dulken Prior of the Carthusians of St. Michael near to Mentz. and William à Sittatis Procurator of the said house, to Theodore Loher à Stratis Prior of the Carthusians house of St. Marry the Virgin in Buxia near to Memmingen in Schawben a Province of Germany. This book contains (1) The Epitaph of Sir Tho. More, written by himself in Latin, fixed over his grave in Chelsey Church near to London. (2) The captivity and martyrdom of John Fisher B. of Rochester. (3) The captain. and mart. of the said Sir Th. More, sometimes L. Chanc. of England. (4) The martyrdom of Reynold Brigitt a pious Divine, and of other. (5) The passion of 18 Carthusians of London, beginning with the life and passion of John Houghton the Prior of them all, contained in 14 Chapters, etc. This passion and martyrdom of the said Carthusians was by the care of our Author represented 
n Theod. Petreius in Biblioth. Carthusiana, edit. Col. 1609. p. 245, 246.  in figures; and being afterwards engraven on copper, were printed at Colon. Ub. about 1608. He also reviewed, corrected, and put some additions to a book entit. Vita Carthusiana, written by Peter Suitor Prior of the Carthusians at Paris, an. 1522. Which being so done, he wrote the Epistle dedicatory before it; all printed together at Louvain, 1572. in oct. Our Author Chancaeus (as he writes himself in that book) was then living in his Cell at Bruges beforementioned, with several English Carthusians under his government. I have seen a MS. written by our Author Chancaeus, bearing this title,  
The divine cloud of unknowing— The beginning of which is, Goostly friend in God, I pray the and besece the that thou wilt have a busy beholding to the course and manntr of thy calling, etc. It containeth 75 Chapters, and with i is bound his Epistle of private counsel, the beginning of which is, Goostly friend in God, as touching thy inward occupation, etc. And at the end of the book is this written. Liber domus Salvatoris beatissimae virginis Mariae juxta London Ordinis Carthusiani, per M. Chawncy, quem exaravit secundum Willmum Exm●use. The said Exmeuse or ex Mewe, who had been bred in Christ's Coll. in Cambridge did enter himself a Carthusian of the said house near London in the 28 year of his age, being then sufficiently versed in the Gr. and Lat. tongues. Afterwards he was made Vicar, and thence removed to be Procurator thereof: And being one of the number that denied the King's Supremacy, suffered death by hanging, drawing and quartering, 19 June 1535. As for our Author Chancy he submitted to fate on the 12. July in Fifteen hundred eighty and one, year 1581. according to the account followed in Flanders. Whereupon his body was buried, as I suppose, in the Chapel belonging to the Carthusians at Bruges beforementioned He hath left behind him a most celebrated name for his rare piety, which is preserved among those of his profession at Bruges, Neôport in Flanders, and at other places. Neither is it denied by any knowing and moderate Protestants but that his name is worthy to be kept in everlasting remembrance.  
RICHARD DAVYES, a Welsh Man born, was educated, as it seems, in New Inn, but what Degrees he took in Arts, it appears not. In Qu. Mary's Reign he retired beyond the Seas upon account of Religion, whence returning in the beginning of Qu. Elizabeth, was elected Bishop of St. Asaph on the deprivation of Tho. Goldwell; the temporalities of which See he receiving 
o Pat. 2. Elizab. p. 14.  29. March. 1560, was the year following translated to the See of St. David, and in 1566 was actually created Doctor of Divinity. He hath published several things, among which are,  
Epistle to all the Welsh, especially within his Diocese, wishing a renewing of the ancient Cath. faith by the light of the Gospel of Christ.— Printed and bound with the New Test. in Welsh, a 1567. It was printed also among other things, and published by Charles Edward's a Welsh Man.— Ox. 1671. in oct.  
Funeral Sermon preached 26. Nou. 1576. in the Parish Church of Caermerthen at the burial of Walt. Earl of Essex, on Rev. 14. 13. Lond. 1577. qu. Whereunto is added a genealogical Epitaph with memorial on the said Count, but these were made by other Men. This Bishop paid his last debt to nature about the month of Octob. in Fifteen hundred eighty and one, year 1581. aged about 80 years, and was buried in the Parish Church of Abergwilly in Caermerthenshire, leaving then behind him a Widow called Dorothy, and several Children.  
JOHN TWINE Son of William, Son of John, Son of Nicholas, Son of Sir Brian Twine of Long Parish in Hampshire Knight, was born at Bolingdon in the same County, educated, as it seems, in New Inn, where applying his studies to the Civil Law, was admitted to the reading of any of the Books of Institutions, an. 1524. at which time the said Inn was replenished, and did excellently flourish with Civilians. After he had left the University he became supreme Moderator of the Free-school within the cemitery gate at Canterbury, and in 1553 Mayor of that City. At length growing rich (for his School was very much frequented by the youth of the neighbourhood, many of which went afterwards to the Universities) he purchased Lands at Preston and Hardacre in Kent, which he left to his posterity. He was a Person well read in Greek and Lat. Authors, in the histories and antiquities of our Nation, and much valued for his abilities in other matters by the learned Men of his age, particularly by his acquaintance 
p In Principum ac illustrium, etc. in Auglia virorum eucomus, trophaeis, etc. Lond. 1589. p. 83.  Joh. Leland, who numbers him among the illustrious worthies of his time. He hath written,  
De rebus Albionicis, Britannicis atque Anglicis commentariorum libri duo. Lond. 1590. in oct. written to his Son Thomas; who afterwards, with an Epistle, made it public. Our Author John Twine hath also written and collected divers things of antiquities, which are dispersed in several hands, and some of them descending to his Grandson Brian Twine, he gave them at his death to the Library of C. C. Coll. At length our Author arriving to a good old age, year 1581. gave way to fate 24. Novemb. in Fifteen hundred eighty and one, and received sepulture in the Chancel of the Church of St. Paul within the City of Canterbury. Over his grave is an inscription, wherein he is styled Armiger, and said to have been Mayor of Canterbury in the time of Wyatts rebellion, in the beginning of Qu. Mary. This Epitaph being written in verse, I shall now omit, and commend you to that just Encomium of him given by Leland before mentioned. By Alice his Wife (who died 20. Oct. 1567. aged 60 and in the 43 year of her Wedlock) Daughter of Will. Piper of Canterbury he had issue divers Sons. The first was Laurence Twine who was Fellow of Allsouls Coll. and Bach. of the Civil Law, an ingenious Poet of his time, as several copies of verses, set before books, written in commendation of their respective Anthors, do sufficiently attest. He was a married Man, lived at Hardacre in Kent, and left issue behind him at his death several Children. The second was Tho. Twine beforementioned, whom I shall mention under the Year 1613. The third was John Twine whose ingenuity also is scattered in several copies of verses before books in the time of Qu. Elizabeth; and the fourth was Nicholas, of whom I know nothing.  
RICHARD COX was born, as 'tis 
q In Cat. praeposit. soc. & schol. coll. Regal. Cant. MS. sub an. 1519.  said, at Whaddon in Bucks. elected from Eton School, Scholar of Kings Coll. in Cambridge, in 1519, where taking the Degree of Bach. of Arts, went to Oxon for preferment, was made one of the junior Canons of the Cardinal Coll. and in Decemb. 1525, was, with other Cantabrigians incorporated in the same Degree. About that time he supplicated that he might answer at the Austin Friary (now called Disputations in Augustine's) and answer the Masters in formal disputations, which was granted conditionally that he also oppose at the said Friary. This exercise being by him performed in order to the taking of his Master's Degree, he was licenced to proceed in Arts, 8. Feb. following, and accordingly did proceed in an Act celebrated 2. July 1526. Soon after being notoriously known to be a follower and abettor of the opinions of Luther, he was forced to leave Oxon, and some years after became Master of Eton School near to Windsor, where by his diligent instruction, the boys profited much. About the Year 1537 he proceeded D. of D. at Cambridge, became Archdeacon of Ely, in the room, as it seems, of Tho. Thirlby promoted to the See of Westminster, and afterwards was incorporated at Oxon in the Degree of Doctor. In 1543. Jan. 8. he was made Dean of the new erected Cathedral of Osney near Oxon, and in 1546 when that See was translated to Ch. Ch. he was also made Dean there. In 1547 he was chosen Chancellor of the University of Oxford, being in great favour with the then K. Ed. 6. By which election it fell out, that as the Oxonians enjoyed one that had been partly educated in Cambridge, so it was with the Cantabrigians in former time by their election of John Bromyerd an Oxonian and an eminent writer in the Reign of Rich. 2. and since by their election of Dr. Thomas Ruthal in the Reign of Hen. 7. But what mad work this Dr. Cox did in Oxon while he sat Chancellor, by being the chief Man that worked a reformation, I have elsewhere 
r In Hist. & Antiq. Vniu. Oxon. lib. 1. p. 269. 270. 271. etc.  told you. In 1548. July 16. he was installed Canon of Windsor in the place of Dr. Thomas Magnus, who resigned that dignity in 1547, and about that time was made one of the Privy Council, Almoner to the King and Dean of Westminster: But when Qu. Mary came to the Crown, he, among others, fled to Frankfort in Germany, where he showed 
s Brief discourse of the troubles begun at Frankford, 1554— Printed 1575. p. 38. 39  himself among the English Exiles a zealous Man for the Common Prayer, as used in the days of K. Ed. 6. against Joh. Knox a Scot and a violent Calvinist. When Qu. Elizabeth succeeded in the Empire, he was appointed the chief of the Protestant Divines to encounter those of the Rom. persuasion in a disputation, when that Queen was about to settle a reformation in the Church of England. But that disputation coming to nothing, he was made Bishop of Ely, to which See he was consecrated 21. Dec. 1559; yet, whether it was for his retiredness, or small hospitality, or the spoil he was said to make of his woods and parks, feeding his Family with powdered venison, he was but in little favour with the said Queen. At Cambridge he was esteemed a good Scholar, and a better Poet than Dr. Wal. Haddon, who called him Master, as having been either his Scholar or Servant. There goes under this Dr. Coxe's names,  
Oration at the beginning of the disputation of Dr. Tresham and others with Pet. Martyr.  
Oration at the conclusion of the disputation— These two orations, which are in latin, were printed 1549. in qu. and afterwards among Pet. Martyr's works. Dr. Cox also had a considerable hand in framing the first Liturgy of the Church of England, and a hand in the third an. 1559, and also turned into metre the Lords Prayer, at the end of the Psalms of David, besides other works not yet remembered by public Authors. He yielded up his last breath (22. Jul. year 1581. in Fifteen hundred eighty and one, and was buried in the Cath. Church of Ely near to the monument of Bishop Goodrig. I find another Rich. Cox who was living (and a writer) in the t●me of the former, but that Rich. Cox which Joh. Leland the Antiquary and Poet doth so much 
t In Encomiis, trophaeis, etc. ut supra. p. 89.  celebrate for his faith and integrity in a copy of verses written to Thom. Legh of Adlington Esq. must be understood of Bishop Cox before mentioned.  
NICHOLAS SAUNDERS the most noted defender of the R. Cath. cause in his time, was born at Charlewood in Surrey, educated in Grammar learning in Wykehams' School near Winchester, admitted true and perpetual Fellow of New Coll. an. 1548, Bach. of the Laws 3 year after and about 1557, Shagling Lecturer, or as he himself 
u In visib. Monarchia Eccles. lib. 7. num. 1833.  saith tanquam regius professor juris canonici. But Religion putting on another face in the beginning of Q. Eliz. he left England about 1560, and going to Rome was made Priest and D. of D. and soon after went with Cardinal Stanislaus Hosius to the Council of Trent, where he showed himself to be a Man of great parts by his several disputations and arguings. Which Cardinal having an especial respect for, made him his individual comparison in his journey into Poland, Prussia and Lithuania. As for the chief actions of his life that followed, his Sister's Son John Pitseus, will tell 
w In illusr. Angliae scriptorib. aet. 16. num. 1025.  you. But that which I must not forget now to let you know, is, that when he was a Nuntio from P. Gregory 13 into Ireland (where he, with 3 Ships full of Spaniards landed at Smerwick in Kerrey, about the first of July 1579) to encourage the Irish there to take up arms and rebel against Qu. Elizabeth, was (after they, with the said Spaniards had been overcome by the English) forced to abscond in caves, dens, woods, etc. At length after two years' time, being not able to hold out longer, did miserably perish by hunger and cold, at the same time as my Author saith (but as it seems false) that Gerald Fitz-Gerald Earl of Desmond chief captain of the rebels was taken in a poor cottage and killed. Of which matter hear what the learned Canmden 
x In Annal. Reg. Elizab. sub an. 1583.  tells us— The principal of whom (meaning the priests that persuaded the said Earlto forfeit his allegiance to his Prince) was Nich. Saunders an English Man, who, very near at the same instant of time, was miserably famished to death, when, forsaken of all, and troubled in mind for the bad success of the rebellion, he wandered up and down among woods, forests and mountains, and found no comfort or relief. In his pouch were found several speeches, and letters, made and written to confirm the rebels, stuffed with large promises from the Bishop of Rome and the Spaniard. Thus the divine justice (if a Man may judge) stopped that mouth with hunger, which had been always open to encourage rebellions, and to belch forth malicious lies and slanders. For (to omit other things) he was the first Man that broached that abominable lie concerning the birth of Qu. Elizabeth's Mother, which no Man in those days (though the hatred and the malice of the Papists was then fresh against her, and might remember it) ever knew, England in full forty years after never heard of, the computation of time doth egregiously convince of falsehood and vanity; and he, forgetting himself, (which a liar should not do) doth himself plainly confute, etc. The things that he hath written are mostly these.  
The supper of our Lord set forth according to the truth of the Gospel and Cath. Faith, with a confutation of such false doctrines, as the Apology of the Church of England, Mr. Al. Nowells challenge or Mr. Jewels reply have uttered touching the real presence of Christ in the Sacrament. In seven books. Louvain. 1566 in a thick qu. Answered by Will. Fulke of Cambridge.  
A Treatise of the images of Christ, and of his Saints; and that it is unlawful to break them, and lawful to honour them. With a confutation of such false doctrine as Mr. Jewel hath uttered in his reply concerning that matter. Lov. 1567. oct.  
Brief declaration, which is the true Church of Christ— This is written by way of preface to the Treatise of the images, etc.  
The rock of the Church, wherein the primacy of St. Peter and of his Successors the Bishops of Rome is proved our of God's word. Lov. 1567., and St. Omer 1624. in oct. Answered by the said W. Fulke.  
Brief treatise of Usury, Lov. 1568. oct.  
De typicâ & honorariâ imaginum adoratione, lib. 2. Lov. 1569. oct.  
Sacrificii missae ac ejus partium explicatio. Lov. 1569. oct.  
Tractatus utilis, quod Dominus in sexto capite Johannis de sacramento Eucharistiae propriè sit locutus. Antw. 1570. in tw.  
De visibili Monarchiâ Ecclesiae, lib. 8. etc. Lov. 1571. ‛ Antw. 1581. Wiceburg 1592. fol. In which book, written before the Author went into Ireland, he doth avow the Bull of P. Pius 5. against Qu. Elizab. to have been lawful, and affirmeth that by virtue thereof, one Dr. Nich. Moreton an old English fugitive and conspirator was sent from Rome into the north parts of England to stir up the first rebellion there, whereof Charles Nevile Earl of Westmoreland was a head captain. And thereby it may manifestly appear to all Men how the said Bull was the ground of the rebellions both in England and Ireland.  
De clavae David, seu regno Christi lib. 6. contra columnias Acleri pro visibili Ecclesiae Monarchiâ. Wiceburg. 1592. fol.  
De origine ac progressu schismatis Anglicani, lib. 3. quibus historia continetur maxima ecclesiastica, annorum 60 lectu dignissima, etc. Col. Agrip. 1585. Rom. 1586. Ingolst. 1588. Col. Agrip. 1590. etc. oct. Which book being left in many places imperfect, was supplied, augmented and corrected by Edw. Rishton Afterwards the book being translated into French, and printed 1673-4, gave occasion to Gilbert Burnet D. D. to write his two volumes of The History of the reformation of the Church of England. In the appendix to the first of which, you may read more of Saunders and his work de Schismate, as also of Edw. Rishton and his corrections and additions of, and to, that book.  
De justificatione contra colloquium Altenburgense lib. 6. in quibus, etc. Aug. Treu. 1585. in a thick oct. This sometimes goes under the title of De Lutheranorum dissidiis circa justificationem. Col. Ag. 1594. oct.  
De militantis Ecclesiae Rom. potestate. Rom. 1603. qu.  
De martyrio quorundam temp. Hen. 8. & Elizab. printed 1610. oct. with other things which I have not yet seen, the titles of which you may see in 
a In lib. De illustr. Augl. script. aet. 16. nu. 1025.  Joh. Pitseus, who tells us that he died in Ireland about 1580. yet Edw. Rishton who was his contemporary and knew him well, saith in the preface to the first edition of the book De orig. & progressu schism. printed at Col. Agrip. 1585. that he died in Ireland (in the County of Kerrey) in Fifteen hundred eighty and one. year 1581. So that how it comes to pass that Camden should say 
b In Annal. Reg. Elizab. sub. an. 1583.  that he died in 1583, I cannot justly tell, unless his information was, that he died at that instant of ●●me (as is before said) when the E. of Desmond was killed, which was 
c Ibid. & in Hibernia, in come. Kerriae.  1583 as he saith. The reader must now know, that whereas Camden (whom I follow in some things) tells us that our Author N. Saunders was miserably ramished to death, seems to be contrary to what a certain 
d Philip Osullie●an B●arrus Hibernus, in lib. cui tit. est, Historiae 〈◊〉 Ibe●●ae come pendeen. Ulyssippon, 1621. in oct. Tom. 2. lib 4. cap. 16.  Author of Camden's time reports, but he being one of Saunder's persuasion may perhaps not be believed by many. He tells us that before the end of the said war, wherein Desmond was killed, Saunders was overtaken with the flux, (a usual disease with strangers in Ireland) and though he was strong, and in the judgement of all near to him, far from the approach of death, yet in the beginning of the night he desired Cornelius the Bishop (titular) of Killaloa to give him the extreme unction, for, saith he, this night I shall die, having received a call from my Creator. Whereupon Cornelius made answer that there was no need of it, seeing that his body was strong, and no sign of death near it. Notwithstanding this, his disease pressing forward, he was anointed in the middle of the night, and about the time of Cock-crowing he surrendered up his Soul to God. In the night following he was carried to his grave by 4 Irish chevaliers, whereof Dermitius Osullevan (father to the Author, whom I here quote) was one, and was buried by certain Priests according to their manner, his body having been exposed to the sight of certain Persons as well of England as of Ireland, who for privacy sake, were prohibited their presence at his funeral. Afterwards Cornelius went into Spain and died at Lisbon, an. 1617. Thus in effect the said Author, who tells us not the name of the place where he died, or was buried, neither the time when.  
EDMOND CAMPIAN another stiff defender of the R. Cath. Religion, was born in London on St. Paul's day in Jan. 1540 educated in School-learning among the blue coats in Ch. Ch. Hospital within the said City, spoke an eloquent oration before Qu. Mary there at her first coming to the Crown, an. 1553, put in Scholar of St. John's Coll. by the worthy founder thereof at its first foundation, took the Degree of Master of Arts in 1564, and was Junior of the Act celebrated on the 19 of Feb. the same year; at which time speaking one or more most admirable orations, to the envy of his contemporaries, caused one 
* Tob. Matthew in Coneione Apologet. edit. Oxon. 1638. p. 61.  of them, who was afterwards an Archbishop to say, that rather than he would omit the opportunity to show his parts and dominare in una atque altera conciuncula, did take the oath against the Pope's Supremacy, and against his conscience. Soon after, if not before, he took holy orders according to the Church of England from the hands of Rich. Cheyney Bishop of Gloucester, (who had encouraged him in his studies) and became a florid Preacher. In 1566 when Qu. Elizab. was entertained by the University of Oxon, he did not only make an eloquent oration before her at her first entry, but also was Respondent in the Philosophy Act in St. Mary's Church, performed by him with great applause from that Queen and the learned auditory. In 1568 he was the junior Proctor of the University, being the first of his Coll. who did undergo that office, and in the Year following he took a journey into Ireland, where improving his time very industriously, did, by the help of his admirable parts, write in short time a history of that Country; but then he being discovered to have left the Church of England and to labour for Proselytes, was seized, and detained for a time; but getting loose from his keepers, did with much ado obtain footing on the British shore, an. 1571, where making but short stay, took shipping again and went into the Low Countries, and settling for a time in the English Coll. at Douai made an open recantation of his heresy, as they there styled it, studied Divinity and had the Degree of Bach. of that faculty conferred upon him. Thence he went to Rome, where he was admitted into the Society of Jesus, in 1573, and being esteemed by the General of that order to be a Person every way complete, was sent into Germany, where living for some time at Brune and afterwards at Vienna, composed a Tragedy called Nectar & Ambrosia, acted before the Emperor with great applause. Soon after settling at Pragne in Bohemia, where had been newly erected a College for Jesuits, taught there, for about 6 years' time, Philosophy and Rhetoric and became amongst them a constant Preacher in the Latin tongue. At length being called thence to Rome, was, with Father Persons, sent at the command of P. Gregory 13 into England, in 1580, where arriving at Dover, on the day next following that of St. John Baptist, was the day after that received with great joy by the Catholics in London. Afterwards he printed privately and by stealth his neat well penned book called Rationes decem, of which many copies were dispersed in St. Mary's Church at an Act-time, an. 1581. by one who was sometimes a Member of St. John's Coll. (in the time of Campian) named Will. Hartley a R. Priest, a native of Nottinghamshire, and a learned Man, who being taken in short time after, was imprisoned, and in Feb. 1584. being released, was (with other Priests and Jesuits) put on Shipboard at Tower-wharf, and thence at the Queen's charge was wafted over the Seas to Normandy, where he and his company were left to their shifts. Afterwards it being commonly known that Campian was in England, great inquisition was made after him. At length at the desire and insinuation of Walsingham Secretary of State, one George Eliot a Priest-catcher (sometimes a zealous Catholic) undertook, for a considerable reward, to find him out. But all his search in London availing not, he did at length, upon some intimation received, go into Berks. where with his attendants, making great inquiries, did with much ado find him out (disguised like a Roister, as 'tis said) in the house of Edw. Yates Esq. at Lyford, a little before which time Persons the Jesuit, who had been with, and accompanied, him in his travels to and fro, had left him, and diverted his course towards Kent. So that being carried as a Prisoner with triumph through Abendon, Henly, Colebroke, and so through part of London with a paper fastened to his hat, and a writing thereon to show to the People that he was Edm. Campian a most pernicious Jesuit, was chapped up a close Prisoner within the Tower of London, where he did undergo many examinations from several People, abuses, wrackings, tortures and I know not what; but scarcely answered the expectation raised of, when certain Divines disputed with, him. About which time a little Pamphlet was published in oct. containing a discourse of his apprehension, which I have not yet seen. All writers, whether Protestant or Popish, say that he was a Man of most admirable parts, an elegant Orator, a subtle Philosopher and disputant, and an exact Preacher whether in English, or Lat. tongue, of a sweet disposition, and a well polished Man. A certain 
f Tho. Fuller in his Ch. Hist. lib. 4. p. 114.  writer saith he was of a sweet nature constantly carrying about him the charms of a plausible behaviour of a fluent tongue and good parts, and another 
g Rich. Stanyhurst in Descript, Hybern.  who was his most beloved friend, saith that he was upright in conscience, deep in judgement, and ripe in Eloquence. As for the works by him written, and published under his name, they are these.  
Nectar & Ambrosia, Trag.— Much praised by Greg. Martin.  
Rationes decem oblati certaminis in causa fidei, redditae Academicis Angliae. Printed first of all privately in the house of one Stonor a Cath. Gent. living near to Henly in Oxfordshire, an. 1581., afterwards, at least five times, publicly beyond the Seas, (of which once was at Aug. Treu. 1583 in Concertat. Eccles. Cath.) and at length were translated into English— Lond. 1687. qu. These reasons were very learnedly answered by Will. Whittaker of Cambridge, and replied upon by John Durey a Scot; which Durey was answered by Dr. Laur. Humphrey.  
Nine articles directed to the Lords of the Privy Council, an. 1581.— See more in Mer. Hanmer, under the Year 1604, and in Rob. Persons, an. 1610.  
Various conferences concerning Religion, had with Protestant Divines in the Tower of London, on the last of Aug. and on the 18, 23, and 27. of Septemb. 1581. Lond. 1583. qu. Among those Divines that he disputed with, were Alex. Nowell Dean of St. Paul's Cath. and Will. Day Dean of Windsor.  
The History of Ireland, in two books— Written 1570. The MS. or original of which, being in the Cottonian 
h Sub effig. Vitelli●, F. 6.  Library, was afterwards published by Sir James Ware of Dublin Knight— Dubl. 1633. fol.  
Chronologia Universalis. Much commended by Greg. Martin beforementioned.  
Narratio de divortio Hen. 8. Regis ab uxore Catherina. Printed at the end of Nic. Harpesfeild's Ch. History, at Douai, by the care of Rich. Gibbon a Jesuit, who also added thereunto a Lat. translation of John Speeds Catalogue of religious Houses, Colleges, and Hospitals in England and Wales. 

Ingolst. 1602. oct.  
Orationes.  
Epistolae.  
Tractatus de imitatione Rhetoricâ.    
Among which orations, are those (as I suppose) which he made at the funeral of Sir Tho. white, and of the Lady Amey Robsert the first Wife of Robert Earl of Leycester, whose body having been at first buried in Comnore Church near Abendon, (for there she died, or rather was murdered, in the manor house there belonging to Anth. Forster Gent. 8. Sept. 1560) was taken up, and reburied in the Church of St. Marry the Virgin, in Oxon.  
Literae ad Rich. Chenaeum Episc. Glocestr. The beginning, of which is, Non me nunc & alium, etc.  
Letters to Everard Mercurian, General of the Society of Jesus, giving an account of his proceedings in England, an. 1580.— Printed in Lat. in Concertatio Eccles. Cath. in Anglia, part 1. p. 3. and elsewhere. Besides all these, are other things of our Author Compian, which I have not yet seen, that were collected and published among some of his works by Silvester à Petra Sancta a Jesuit of Italy, printed at Antw. 1631. in tw. but those things being scarce and rare to be had, I can make no farther report of them, nor their Author, only that he, with other Rom. Priests, having been found guilty of treason according to the Act of 25. Ed. 3. and of adhering to the Bishop of Rome, the Queen's Enemy, and of coming into England to disturb the peace and quiet of the Realm etc. were executed at Tybourne near London on the first of Decemb. in Fifteen hundred eighty and one, year 1581. but what afterwards became of Campians carcase I know not. Paul Bombin a Jesuit hath written his Life and Martyrdom, published at Antw. 1618. in 12ᵒ. and afterwards at Mantua an. 1620. in oct. But that Pamphlet, which I have several years looked after, but in vain, is the Report of the death and martyrdom of E. Campian, R. Sherwyn and A. Briant, printed in English, in oct. soon after their death. The two last of which I am now about to mention.  
RALPH SHERWYN, where born unless in the Western parts of England I know not, was made Fellow of Exeter Coll. by Sir Will. Petre a principal benefactor thereunto, in July 1568, went through with great industry the several classes of Logic and Philosophy, and in 1574 proceeding in Arts, was made Senior of the Act celebrated 26 July the same year, being then accounted an acute Philosopher, and an excellent Grecian and Hebritian. Afterwards he, (with Joh. Currey M. of A. and Fellow of the said Coll.) obtaining leave to travel beyond the Seas in July 1575., left the University, utterly renounced the Religion, in which he had been mostly educated, went to Douai, spent some time in the study of Divinity in the English Coll. there, and was made Priest with Laur. Johnson (who afterwards was hanged by the name of Richardson) 23. March 1576/7. In that place (and for a time in the English Coll. at Rome) he continued in making progress in divine studies till about the beginning of 1580, and then instead of going into England with certain Persons of his society into the Mission, he went to Rheimes upon public concerns to be had with Thom. Goldwell Bishop of St. Asaph then there, who being at that time in a sickly condition, and therefore not able to serve Sherwin and his Brethren as to Episcopal confirmation and other matters relating to the mission, he waited upon the said Bishop in the quality of a Chaplain during his sickness. Afterwards being well, and sent for to Rome, Sherwin went into England, and before he was quite settled in London, he was taken in the house of one Roscarriot or Roscarrock, committed Prisoner to the Marshalsea, and had fetters fastened to his legs. While he continued there he had notice once or twice that he should prepare himself to dispute with certain Protestant Divines; whereupon showing himself very ready to encounter them, he was translated to the Tower of London, where, after he had many questions proposed to him concerning Campian, Persons and other Priests, he showed himself afterwards to be a Man of parts, and one that needed not to be ashamed of his education in Exeter College. At length after he had continued there more than an year in great misery, was at length tried for his life, and refusing several times the Oath of Supremacy and going to hear service in the Protestant Churches, was condemned to die. His writings are,  
Discourse in the tower of London with Edm. Campian the Jesuit.  
● account of the disputations in Wisbich Castle between Will. Fulk of Cambridge and certain R. Priests who were Prisoners there.— These two are not printed, but kept in MS. as choice relics among R. Cath. beyond the Sea. Where, or else in the Tower, Rich. Stanyhurst saw them.  
Epistles and Letters to divers Persons— Two of which are in a book entit. Concertatio Ecclesiae Catholicae. Aug. Treu. 1594. fol. 71. 72. etc. See more of him in the latter end of Pet. White, under the Year 1590. At length being found guilty of high treason, was hanged, drawn, and quartered at Tyburn 1. year 1581. Decemb. in Fifteen hundred eighty and one. At the same time suffered Edm. Campian beforementioned, who was much pitied by all learned Men, especially by his contemporaries in Oxon, as Sherwyn was, who had been very often a companion with Campian in his travels. Alex. Briant also (whom I am now about to mention) did suffer at the same time, and though not so much commiserated by Scholars, yet by many others, because he was, as the character went on both sides, juvenis pulcherrimus, vultu innocens & prope angelico, etc. Contemporary with Ralph Sherwyn was one Martin Ayray, who, after he had left this University, was one of the first that was brought up in the English Coll. at Rome, and was companion there with the said Sherwyn. Afterwards he became a good workman in England and of great edification for divers years (as those of his opinion say) both before he was taken, and afterwards in Prison. He was living in 1602 which was the last year of Qu. Elizab. at which time he was Provost of the English Church and residence of St. George in St. Lucar of Spain.  
ALEXANDER BRIANT received his first breath in Somersetshire, was admitted a Student of Hart hall about Lent-term in 1573-74 aged 17 or more, where being trained up under a tutor sufficiently addicted to Popery, left the University and went to Rheimes and afterwards to Douai: At the last of which places taking the Priesthood on him, he returned into his own Country, an. 1579. and settling for a time in Somersetshire, converted the Father of Rob. Persons the Jusuit, to the R. Cath. Religion. On the 28. Apr. 1581. he was taken in the night time in his Lodging by one Norton, who took away 3 l. in money from him, besides clothes, and conducting him to a Magistrate, was after examination, committed close Prisoner to the Compter in London, where enduring great misery till the morrow after the Ascension, was removed to the Tower of London, and there (as 
k Card. Will. Allen in his Modest defence of Engl. Cath. that suffer for their faith, etc. written against The execution of Justice. p. 11.  'tis reported) he was tormented with needles thrust under his nails, racked also otherwise in cruel sort, and specially punished by two whole days and nights with famine, which they did attribute to obstinacy, but indeed (sustained in Christ's quarrel) it was most honourable constancy. While he was in Prison he wrote 
l Concertatio Eccles. Catholicae in Anglia adversus Calvino-papistas, etc. Aug. Treu. 1583. p. 229. Ibid iterum 1594 fol. 74. 75. ,  
Literae ad reverendos patres societatis Jesu in Anglia degentes. The beginning of which is, Quoties mecum cogito reverendi patres, etc. They were written purposely that they would be pleased to receive him into the Order of Jesus before he died, which accordingly they did to his great comfort.  
Several Letters to his friends, and afflicted Catholics— Whether extant I know not. At length being found guilty of high treason at a Sessions in London, he was hanged, drawn, and quartered at Tyburn, on the first day of Dec. year 1581. in Fifteen hundred eighty and one; whereupon his quarters were hanged up for a time in public places. He had for his Tutor in Hart hall (after he had continued there for some time) one Rich. Holtbie born at Fraiton in Yorkshire, educated for a time in Cambridge, and afterwards going to Oxon, settled in the said hall, an. 1574 aged 21. and more; but departing without any Degree in this University, he went beyond the Seas to Douai, then to Rheimes and other places, became a noted Jesuit and spun out his time to a fair age. The reader is now to know, that during the principality of Philip Rondell of Hart hall, who had weathered out several changes of Religion (though in his heart he was a Papist, but durst not show it) many Persons who were afterwards noted in the Rom. Church, were educated under him, but they having not exercised their pens upon any subject that I can yet find, I can claim no pretence to set them down among such writers that that ancient house of learning hath sent into the learned world.  
JAMES DYER second Son of Rich. Dyer of Wymaulton in Somersetshire Esq. by his Wife the Dau. of one Waiton of the said County, was born, as I conceive, at Wymaulton, but in what house he was educated in Oxon (for he was a Commoner for some time there) it appears not, notwithstanding tradition tells us in Broadgates' hall. From thence, without the honour of a Degree, he went to the Middle Temple, where making great proficiency in the municipal Laws, was, after he had continued for some time in the Degree of Barrister, elected Autumn, or Summer, Reader of that house 6. Ed. 6. and about the same time was by writ called to the Degree of Sergeant at Law. In the Reign of Qu. Marry he was made a Justice of the Common pleas, (being about that time a Knight and Recorder of Cambridge) and in the beginning of Qu. Elizabeth Lord Chief Justice of that Court, in the place of Sir Anth, Browne, and not Lord Ch. Justice of the Kings-bench as one 
m Sir Will. Dugdale in his Chron. series at the end of Orig. Jurid sub an. 1559.  doth falsely report. As for his writings which show him a great and eminent Sage of the Law, and a Person of great abilities are these.  
Reports: or, a collection of Cases, with divers resolutions and judgements given upon solemn arguments, etc. and the reasons and causes of the said resolutions and judgements, in the Reigns of K. Hen. 8. Ed. 6. Phil. and Mary and Qu. Eliz. Lond. 1601. 1621. etc. fol. Abridged by Sir Tho. Ireland of Greys-Inn, (the same Person who abridged the Eleven Books of Reports of Sir Edw. Coke) and by another, with a table made to them: printed by Rich. Tothill.  
Learned reading upon the useful statute of 32. Hen. 8. chap. 1. of Wills, and of 34 and 35. Hen. 8. chap. 5. for the explanation of that statute. Lond. 1648. qu. At length this great Lawyer having arrived to a good old age, paid his last debt to nature at Stowton in Hunting donshire (where he had purchased an estate) on the 24. March in Fifteen hundred eighty and one, 
158.  whereupon his body was buried in the Parish Church of Much Stowton in the said County, near to that of his Wife, on the 9 day of Apr. 1582. His said Wife was named Margaret Dau. of Sir Maurice Abarrow of Hampshire Knight, Widow of Sir Tho. Eliot of Carleton in Cambridgeshire, (by whom she had 3 Sons but all died without issue) which Margaret 
n Lib. Certis. in Coll. Arm. Lond. J. 5. fol. 14.  died 25. Aug. 1569, but having had no Children by Sir James went after his death to Richard, Son of his Brother Laurence Dyer, whose posterity are at this time Baronet's in Somersetshire.  
RICHARD BRISTOL another most zealous Person for the R. Cath. cause, was born of honest Parents within the City of Worcester, educated in Grammar learning under one Rog. Golbourne M. A. (the same I think who was a Reader in St. Bernard's Coll. in the Year 1540) saluted the Oxonian Muses in 1555, but whether he was then entered into Exeter Coll. I know not. One Bristol I find to be Chaplain of Ch. Ch. in 1549. 50. and 51. but him I cannot take to be the same with the former, because he of Ch. Ch. seems then to be Master of Arts. As for our R. Bristol he took the Degree of Bach. of Arts in the beginning of the Year 1559, that also of Master in 1562, and was Junior of the Act celebrated 13 of July the same Year, at which time he was entered in the Proctor's book as a member of Ch. Ch. About that time, having obtained great credit among the Academians, for his admirable speeches spoken while Junior of the Act, he applied himself to the study of Divinity, became noted in the University for his acute parts, and being recommended therefore to that singular lover of learning Sir Will. Petre, was by him promoted to one of his Scholarships or Fellowships in Exeter Coll. in July 1567., where exercising himself much in Theology, did in a set disputation in the Divinity School put the King's Professor (L. Humphrey) to a nonplus, as those of our Author's persuasion do report. At length being convinced that he had erred in his opinion, left the Coll. in 1569, his Religion, and the Kingdom, went to Louvain and became acquainted with Dr. William Allen, who made him the first Moderator (or Perfect of studies) in the English Coll. by him founded at Douai, took upon him the Priesthood, being the first in that Coll. that did so, and read the public lecture of Divinity there. In 1573 his said Scholarship or Fellowship of Ex. Coll. being pronounced void, because he had been absent several years, John Petre Son of Sir W. Petre beforementioned did put into his room Mr. Oliver Whiddon Archdeacon of Totness 27. Oct. but resigned it in the latter end of Nou. following. Afterwards upon Dr. Allens instituting another Seminary at Rheimes, Bristol was sent for, and the care of that place was committed to him also, in 1579, while another was his substitute at Douai: About which time he took the Degrees in Divinity, partly at Douai and partly at Louvain, and became famous in those parts for his Religion and learning. He hath written,  
A brief treatise of divers plain and sure ways to find out the truth in this doubtful and dangerous time of heresy, containing sundry motives unto the Cath. Faith; or, considerations to move a Man to believe the Catholics, and not the Heretics. Antw. 1599 in tw. and before, at another place. Dr. W. Allens testimony of this treatise is prefixed, that. 30. Apr. 1574, wherein he saith that the said book contains with great perspicuity, order, and art divers most excellent works, whereby to discern in Religion the true judgement of the Catholic Church from the false vanity of the Heretics, etc. that it is also in all points Catholic, learned and worthy to be read and printed. These motives were answered by Dr. Will. Fulke of Cambridge.  
Reply to Will. Fulke, in defence of Dr. Allens scroll of articles, and book of Purgatory. Lov. 1580. qu. Whereupon Dr. Fulke came out with a rejoinder the Year following.  
Anti-Heretica Motiva, omnibus catholicae doctrinae orthodoxis cultoribus pernecessaria. Atrebat. 1608. in two tomes in qu. This large book, which contains most, if not all the former motives, was translated into Lat. by Thom. Worthington a Secular Priest (afterwards a Jesuit) an. 1606. and by him published at Arras two years after.  
Demands (51 in number) to be proposed by Catholics to the Heretics.— Several times printed in oct. This also was answered in a book entit. To the seminary Priests late come over, some like Gentlemen, etc. Lond. 1592. qu.  
A defence of the Bull of P. Pius 5.— He also collected and for the most part wrote Annotations on the New Testament, translated into English at Rheimes. And was also as it seems Author of,  
Veritates aureae S. R. ecclesiae autoritatibus vet. patrum, etc. Printed 1616. qu. for the name of R. Bristous Anglus is set to that Book. At length after our Author had lived at Rheimes about two years, went privately into England (by his Physician's advice) for health's sake in 1581., and going to London, was kindly received by, and entertained in the Family of, one Bellamy, (Rob. or Jerome Bellamy as it seems) a sincere and constant Lover of R. Catholics and their Religion. But his distemper being gone too far, died the year following, and was by Bellamy buried pivately, year 1582 but where, unless near to Harrow on the hill in Middlesex, where the Bellamy's had a seat and Lands, I know not. In the Year 1682 I received a note from one of the English Coll. in Douai, whereby I was instructed that Rich. Bristol was made D. of D. at Douai, from whence he was sent into England, where he died not far from London 18. Oct. 1581. But this note I reject, because that what I have said already of his death, I had from the writings of one that knew him, viz. Tho. Worthington, who published his Motives.  
GREGORY MARTIN received his first breath at Macksfield near to Winchelsey in Sussex, was put in one of the original Scholars of S. John's Coll. by the Founder thereof Sir Tho. White, in 1557, where going thro' the usual forms of Logic and Philosophy with incredible industry, took the degree of Master of Arts, 1564. Afterwards he was taken into the Family of Thomas the great and mighty Duke of Norfolk to be Tutor to his Son the Lord Philip (afterwards Earl of Surrey) and his Brethren; where continuing for some years, it happened in that time that the said Duke came to Oxon, and giving a visit to S. John's Coll. had an eloquent Speech delivered before him by one of that Society, wherein, of Gr. Martin, he said thus— Habes illustrissime Dux, Hebraeum nostrum, Graecum nostrum, Poetam nostrum, decus & gloriam nostram. After he had done with his service in the said Duke's Family, and received sufficient rewards for his pains, he went beyond the Seas, and renouncing his Religion openly, (for before he was but a Catholic in private) he retired to Douai, where applying his mind to the studies of Divinity, was made a Licentiat in that Faculty, in 1575. Afterwards going into Italy, he went to Rome to do his Devotions to the places and Temples of the Apostles, but making no long stay there, he went to Rheimes in France, where fixing his station in the English Coll. became public Professor, and one of the Divinity-Readers there. He was a most excellent Linguist, exactly read and versed in the Sacred Scriptures, and went beyond all of his time in humane literature, whether in Poetry or Prose. As for those things he hath written, they have been, and are, taken into the hands of Men of his profession, but all that I have seen of them, are only these.  
A treatise of Schism, showing that all Catholics ought in any wise to abstain altogether from heretical Conventicles, viz. their Prayers, Sermons, etc. Douai 1578. oct.  
A discovery of the manifold corruptions of the Holy Scripture by the Heretics of our days, especially the English Sectaries, and of their foul dealing herein by partial and false translations, etc. Rheims, 1582. oct. Answered in a book entitled, A defence of the sincere and true translations of the Holy Scriptures into the English tongue, etc. Lond. 1583. oct. Written by Will. Fulke D. D. Master of Pembroke hall in Cambridge.  
Treatise of Christian Peregrination and relics— Printed 1583. oct.  
Epistles to certain of his friends— The last of which (which is the largest) dat. 15. Oct. 1575. was written to Dr. Tho. white then lately Warden of New Coll. touching his following the world, and dissembling in Religion against his conscience and knowledge.  
Of the love of the soul, with questions to the Protestants— Printed at Rouen in Normandy. He hath also written other books which remain in MS. in several Libraries beyond the Sea, as I conceive, treating of Divinity, In the Year 1584. was set forth a certain book which one 
* Gul. Camden in Annal. sub. an. 1584.  calls a horrid piece of Popish malice against Queen Elizab. wherein her Gentlewomen were exhorted to act the like against the Queen, as Judith had done with applause and commendations against Holofernes. The Author was never discovered, but the suspicion lighted upon Gregory Martin, (one very learned in the Greek and Lat. tongues) as my Author before quoted saith, but how he could be Author, having been dead two years before that time, I cannot say. He also was the chief Man that translated the New Testament; printed at Rheims 1582, for which work his name remains precious to this day among those of his party. He also made other translations, which are preserved in MS. in certain Libraries, among which is the Tragedy of Cyrus' King of Persia, which is, as some say, in the Library of St. John's Coll. in Oxon. See the titles of other books, which are remembered by one 
o ●o. Priseus in lib. De illustr. Angl. script. aet. 16. nu. 1031.  that knew him, while I in the mean time tell you, that our Author dying 28. year 1582 Octob. in Fifteen hundred eighty and two, was buried in the Parish Church of St. Stephen at Rheimes There is an Epitaph over his grave comprehended in 16 verses, the two first of which are these.  
Quem tulit umbrosis tenerum Southsaxia sylvis, Gallica qua spectat regna Britannus ager.  
The rest I shall now omit for brevity sake and proceed to the next in order, who was a Romanist also.  
WILLIAM HEART, a most zealous young Man for the R. Cath. Cause, was born in Somersetshire, entered in his puerile years into Lincoln Coll. an. 1572, where after he had been instructed in Grammar and Logic, left it without a Degree, his relations and Country, and going beyond the Seas to Douai, completed his studies in Philosophy. Afterwards he traveled to Rome, studied Divinity and was there made a Priest. At length being sent into the mission of England before he was 24 years of age, settled in Yorkshire, where he administered comfort to the afflicted Catholics for a considerable time, with little or no interruption. At length being taken and imprisoned at York, he wrote,  
Letters to certain Catholics.  
Letters to his spiritual Sons.  
Letters to the afflicted Cath. and to those that suffer in Prison.  
Letters to a noble Matron— All which, at least 10 in number, were as I presume written by him in the English tongue. The Latin copies, with many things of their Author, you may see in a book entit. Concertatio Ecclesiae Catholicae in Anglia, p. 104. mentioned in Joh. Bridgwater among the writers following, under the Year 1594. This Will. Hart was hanged, drawn, and quartered, for being a R. Priest, 
1582-83.  at York, on the 15 of March in Fifteen hundred eighty and two, and his quarters afterwards hanged up in public places. In his time were several young Scholars of Lincoln Coll. educated, and afterwards professed themselves openly to be R. Catholics, having received instructions from some of the Fellows that were inclined that way, but chiefly from the Rector thereof Job. Bridgwater beforementioned, who always at last his Rectory to prevent expulsion. Some of them I shall mention, as they lay in my way.  
NICHOLAS HARPESFEILD an eminent Theologist, well skilled in both the Laws, and in Greek, History, and Poetry; in all, or most of which faculties, having written very well, do report him renowned by those of his own persuasion. His first being in this World, he received in the Parish of St. Marry Magd. (in Old Fish-street) within the City of London, and his Grammaticals in Wykehams' School near to Winchester. In 1536 he was admitted true and perpetual Fellow of New Coll. (after he had served 2 years of probation there) about which time having with great industry gone through all the parts of Philosophy, he applied himself to the study of the Civil and Canon Law, wherein he became very eminent. In 1544, he being then Bach. of the Civ. Law of about an year standing, was admitted Principal of an ancient hostile (mostly for Civilians) called White hall (on the Site of which, Jesus Coll. was afterwards partly built) and in 1546 he was appointed by K. Hen. 8. to be the King's Professor of the Greek tongue in the University. In 1553 he left his Fellowship, took the Degree of Doctor of his faculty, and had then considerable practice in the Court of Arches. In 1554 he was made Archdeacon of Canterbury in the place of Edm. Crammer, (Brother to the Archb.) deprived for being married, and in the beginning of Qu. Elizab. he was one of the 7 R. Cath. Divines who were to dispute with those of the Protestant party concerning matters of Religion, when Qu. Eliz. was setting on foot a reformation in the Church of England. But that matter coming to nothing, he was soon after imprisoned for denying the Queen's Supremacy over the Church, and thereupon had opportunity given to write several books, some of which follow.  
Dialogi sex, contra summi pontificatûs, monasticae vitae, sanctorum, sacrorum imaginum, oppugnatores & pseudomartyres. Antw. 1566. qu. Which book being put into the hands of his friend Alan Cope, he put it out under his name, lest danger should befall the Author in Prison. See before in Alan Cope, an. 1580. Our Author Harpesfeild wrote also,  
Historia Anglicana Ecclesiastica, à primis gentis susceptae fi dei incunabilis, ad nostra fere tempora deducta. Duac. 1622. fol. published by Rich. Gibbon a Jesuit. 'Tis a book no less learnedly, than painfully performed, and abating his partiality to his own interest, he well deserves of all posterity. The original of this Ecclesiastical history, written with the Authors own hand, is in the Cottonian Library, under Vitellius. C. 9 num. 12. and a copy of it in two volumes is in the Archbishop's Library at Lambeth, L. 3. and 4. But in that copy in the Cottonian, are several things expunged by the Licenser, and not at all remitted into the printed copy. Among which are these to be in p. 422. cap. 2. lin. 4. and to come in between the words inter exitialem, and Qui omnis, etc.— Non ignoro magna Innocentium Romanum pontificem invidiâ propter Johannem (meaning K. John of Engl.) apud quosdam laborare (quâ de re non est hic disceptandi locus, neque ego quidem idoneus arbiter, neque volo eam mihi quam non habeo, jurisdictionem prorogare) qui ut non forsan omni culpâ immodicaque cupiditate librandus sit, it a certe Johannes, qui, etc. Also in the same page and chapter, in the last line from the bottom, saving one, are these words omitted between Innocentio suggerente and Stephanum Langtonum— aut ut quidam tradunt pontificiarum dirarum terroribus expriment— There are many other things of the like nature omitted in the printed copy, which the MS. in Cottons Libr. had in it before they were expunged, especially matters that laid open the discords, broils, and ambitious poverty of the begging Friars.  
Historia haeresis Wicliffianae. Published by the said Gibbon with the former book; a MS. copy of which is also in Lambeth Library, l. 5.  
Chronicon à diluvio Noae ad an. 1559. Written in lat. verse, and is at this time in the Cottonian Library, under Vitellius C. 9 nu. 11.  
Impugnatio contra Bullam Honorii papae primi ad Cantabrigiam. MS.  
A treatise concerning marriage, ocasioned by the pretended divorce between K. Hen. 8. and Qu. Catherine. In 3 books— MS. in New Coll. Library. The beginning of the Epistle to the Reader is, It is an old saying, etc. and of the work itself; Forasmuch as this matter is incident to the life and doings of Sir Tho. More, etc. At the end of the said book is this note. This copy was taken from the original, which was found by Mr. Topcliff in the house of William, sometimes servant to the said Dr. Harpesfield, who confessed that two lines of the said original, were of his said Masters own hand writing. What other things, he hath written, whether published, or in MS. I know not, nor any thing else of him, only that after he had been a Prisoner in London, more than 20 years, year 1583 he gave way to fate in Fifteen hundred eighty and three, having had this Encomium given to him by the Antiquarian-Poet 
p In Cygn, Cant.  Joh. Leland— Atticae Linguae interpres facilis, disertus, aptus. I find 
q Reg. act. O King ep. B. & Well.  another Nich. Harpesfeild who was bred in Oxon. and being 24 years of age 1496 became about that time Minister of Uphill in Somersetshire by the presentation of Joan the relict of Edward Viscount L'isle, and Rector of Ashrengney alias Ryngesash in the Dioc. of Exeter; but what relation the former I had to this, know not.  
JOHN nicols, a busy and forward Welsh Man, was born near to Dunraven, or, as the R. Cath. writers say, at Cowbridge, in Glamorganshire, did first of all apply his muse to Academical learning in White hall where Jesus Coll. now stands, in the Year of his age 16. where spending one year, he translated himself to Brasnose Coll. and continued there till he was Bachelaurs standing. Afterwards leaving the University without a Degree, he went into his own Country, where at first he taught a Gentleman's Children, and then became Curate of Withicombe under one Mr. Jones Vicar of Taunte● in Somersetshire. From thence he removed to Whitestanton, where he exercised his function till 1577, at which time being possessed with certain motives, left the Church of England, went to London and shipped himself for Antwerp, where tarrying for some time, he went to Rheimes and at length to Rome. So that assoon as he was settled, and had gained an opportunity, he offered himself to the inquisition, made a recantation of his heresy, as 'tis there called, and forthwith was not only received into the bosom of the holy Cath. Church, but also as a member into the English Coll. at that place; where, after he had continued about two years, did, under pretence of going to Rheimes, return into England, was seized on at Islyngton by London, sent Prisoner to the Tower, and there recanted his R. Cath. opinions before Sir Owen Hopton Lieutenant thereof, several courtiers, and others. After which he published these books.  
His pilgrimage, wherein is displayed the lives of the proud Popes, ambitious Cardinals, lecherous Bishops, fat bellied Monks, and hypocritical Jesuits. Lond. 1581. oct.  
Declaration of his recantation, wherein he desireth to be reconciled, and received as a member into the true Church of Christ in England. Lond. 1581. oct. Soon after came out A confutation of Job. nicols his recantation, etc. written by Anonymus, but answered by an old puritan called Dudley Fenner, Lond. 1583. qu. Which Fenner a noted dissenter from the Church of England died at Middleborough in Zealand, in the winter time, an. 1589.  
Oration and Sermon pronounced before the Cardinals, an. 1578.— or as another title saith. An oration and sermon made at Rome by commandment of the four Cardinals and the Dominican inquisitor, etc. Lond. 1581. oct. After which the R. Catholics taking these things as unworthily and falsely done, one of them named Rob. Persons a Jesuit published a book against him entit. A discovery of Jo. nicols Minister, misreported a Jesuit. Printed 1581. in oct. After which, nicols to vindicate himself, published,  
An answer to an infamous libel maliciously written and cast abroad against him. Lond. 1581. oct. Notwithstanding which, and the endeavours of D. Fenner and other Puritans, who laboured to strengthen him in his Faith, yet he went beyond the Sea again, but upon what account I know not, though I am apt not to think, upon any design of turning Mahometan, as N. Saunders or rather his continuator Rishton is pleased to tell 
r In lib. 3. de schism. Angl.  us. However it is, sure I am, that being got as far as Rouen in Normandy, he was there seized on, clapped up in Prison, an. 1582 and like to pay for his old tales against the Romanists. Soon after came out a Pamphlet entit. A report of the apprehension and imprisonment of Jo. nicols Minister, at Rouen, and his confession, etc. Printed 1583 in oct. In this perplexity and restraint, the said Rishton tells us how nicols recanted all that he had formerly divulged, was either through vain glory, envy, fear, or hopes of reward. About that time he also wrote,  
Literae ad D. Gul. Alanum. Printed at the end of Saunders his third book De schism, Anglican. Col. Agr. 1590. and  
Literae aliae ad eundem Alanum, 19 Feb. 1583. Printed there also in the same edition. After which follows,  
Confessio publica Job. Nicolai; qua fatetur se multa mendacia contra summum Pontificem, Cardinals, & Catholicos Anglos protulisse to tempore, quo in Anglia● versabatur, etc. What became of him afterwards I cannot find, 
Clar. 1583.  nor do I know any more of him only this, that it doth appear from his writings that he was an inconstant Man in his Religion, timorous, vainglorious, and a mere braggadocio. I find another Job. nicols, who was born in Norwych, educated in Cambridge, and from the Popish Religion wherein he was trained up, became a zealous Protestant, but he lived and died before the time of the former Jo. nicols. See more in Jo. Bale, cent. 9 nu. 26.  
THOMAS HETH, or Heath well known to, and respected by, Dr. Job. Dee and Mr. Tho. Allen, was born in the City of London, admitted Probationer-Fellow of Allsouls Coll. in 1567., proceeded in Arts 1579, being then in great repute for his admirable skill in Astronomical and Physical affairs. The products of which are,  
A manifest and apparent confutation of an Astrological discourse lately published to the discomfort (without cause) of the weak and simple sort.  
Brief Prognostication, or Astronomical prediction of the conjunction of the two superior Planets, Saturn and Jupiter, which shall be in 1583. Apr. 29. etc.— Printed with the former book. Both these were written 25 March the same year, to Sir George Carey Knight, Knight-Marshal of her Majesty's most honourable household, who was a cherisher of the muse of our Author, and printed at Lond. 1583. oct. The said Astrological discourse, which our Author answered, was written in the beginning of January, an. 1582. upon the great and notable conjunction of the two superior Planets, Saturn and Jupiter, which was to happen 28 Apr. (Heth saith 29.) 1583, by Rich. Harvey a native of Saffron-Walden in Essex, Brother to Dr. Gabr Harvey, and a Student in Cambridge, particularly, as I conceive, in Trinity hall, afterwards a professed Divine, and a Man of note. Upon the coming out of the said Astrological discourse, the common sort of People were driven out of their wits, and knew not what to do. But when nothing happened, which was therein predicted, they fell to their former security, and condemned the discoverer of extreme madness and folly. Whereupon Tom Nash did register 
s In his Apology of Peirce Penniless, or strange news, etc. Printed 1593. in qu.  down the infinite scorn that the whole realm entertained it with, the adages also that ran upon it, with Tarlton's and Eldertons nigrum theta set to it. What became of our Author Tho. Heath I know not, nor of another Tho. Heath Bach. of Arts of Magd. hall, an. 1570, whom my friend takes to be the Astronomer, and not him of Alls. Coll. but mistaken, as I conceive, for certain reasons, not necessary to be now set down. Heath the Astronomer was in great renown among those of his profession in Fifteen hundred eighty and three, 
Clar. 1583.  but when he died, or where he was buried, I cannot justly say. As for Rich. Harvey beforementioned, it was the very selfsame Person who read the Philosophy Lecture at Cambridge, and the same whom the whole University histat, if you'll believe that noted Buffoon 
t Ibid.  Tho. Nash his contemporary there; who farther adds, that Tarlton at the theatre made jests of him, and W. Elderton consumed his ale-cramn'd-nose to nothing, in bearbaiting him with whole bundles of ballads. 'Twas the same Ric. Harvey also that set Aristotle with his heels upward on the School-gates at Cambridge, and asses ears on his head, a thing that the said Tom did in perpetuam rei memoriam 
u See Th. Nashes book intit. Have with you to Saffron-Walden, etc.  record: And the same Person who coming to take one Smiths (a young Bachelaur of Trinity Coll.) questions, cried out, when he durst not venture on them, Aquila non capit muscas; and so gave them to him again. Whereunto, the other (being a lustily big-boned fellow, and a Goliath or Behemoth in comparison of him) straight retorted, nec eliphas mures, and thereupon parted. The same Dick Harvey also, of whom Christoph. Marlo was wont to say that he was an ass and good for nothing but to preach of the iron age. But to let pass other matters which these vain Men report of Rich. Harvey, it is fit that the reader should know some of the other works that he hath done, which show him quite another Person that what they make him to be, as (1) A discourse of the eclipse of the Sun which happened in 1582, as also A compendious table of phlebotomy. Both printed at the end of the Astrological discourse. Lond. 1583. oct. (2) Ephemeron, sive Paean, in gratiam propurgatae, reformataeque Dialecticae. Lond. 1582. oct. (3) Theological discourse of the Lamb of God, and his enemies. Containing a brief commentary of Christian faith; together with a detection of old and new barbarism. Lond. 1590. qu. and fourthly was, as I conceive, the Author of another book entit. Philadelphus; or, a defence of Brutes and the Brutans' history. Lond. 1593. qu. This Rich. Harvey had a Brother named John Harvey a Cambridge Man also, who wrote An addition to the late discourse upon the great conjunction of Saturn and Jupiter. Lond. 1583. oct. which discourse, as I have told you before, was written by his Brother Richard, and thereunto was adjoined by John his translation of Hermes Tresmagistus his Jatromathematica, and was afterwards Author of A discursive problem concerning prophecies, how far they are to be credited, according to the surest rules of Diu. Phil. Astrol. and other learning, etc. Lond. 1588. qu.  
THOMAS MARTIN, a younger Son of Tho. Martin Gent. was born at Cerneley commonly called Cearne in Dorsetshire, educated in Wykebams' School near to Winchester, admitted true and perpetual Fellow of New Coll. after he had served two years of probation, an. 1539, where applying his genius to the faculty of the Civ. Law, made great proficiency therein. At length obtaining leave to travel, went as a Tutor to certain young Gentlemen into France, where making his chief residence in the University of Bourges, took the Degree of Doctor in the same faculty there. Of whose behaviour and manner of life, while he continued there, is a testimony 
w In Jo. Bales Declaration of Edm. Bonner's articles, concerning the Clergy of London Diocese, etc. Lond. 1561. in oct. fol. 42. 43. etc. 46. 47. etc.  extant, written by Francis B●ldwin of Arras, Doctor of the Civ. Law and public Reader at Bourges. But forasmuch as the said Baldwin was an ill natured, turbulent and quarrelfom Man, as I understand from other places, and Jo. Bale the publisher of the said testimony (full of ill language) as bad almost as he, and one that speaks well of no R. Catholic, not so much as of Sir Tho. More, Cuthb. Tonstal Cardinal Job. Fisher, etc. especially of those that wrote against Priests marriages, as our Author Thom Martin did, they therefore, I presume, are not to be believed, though there is no doubt but that Martin had his faults as well as they. Besides what is in that testimony, Bale calls him 
x Ibid. fol. 76. b.  a known pedant or paederastes, the subtle 
y Ib. fol. 39 a.  summener of Berkshire and the clerk protector of the Pope's Sodomites under Winchester a polytick 
z Ib.  Gentleman that runs with all winds— the great 
a Ib. fol. 15. a.  Hercules and mighty defender of stinking buggeries, etc. besides other ill language 
b In lib. De script. May. Brit. cent. 9 nu. 98.  elsewhere. But if you'll consult Pitseus you'll find him quite another Man, as others also of his persuasion make him, which I shall now omit. In 1553 he resigned his Fellowship, being then in good practice in the Court of Arches and an officer in the Archdeacon's Court of Berks. In the Year 1555 he was incorporated Doctor of the Civil Law in this University, about which time being in favour with Dr. Bonner's Bishop of London and with Gardiner B. of Winton, became Chancellor to the last, and of noted repute during the Reign of Qu. Marry, who had so great a respect for him and his abilities, that she commissionated him with Dr. Story to go to Oxon to try and examine Archb. Cranmer. He published, 
b In lib. De script. Maj. Brit. cent. 9 nu. 98.   
A treatise proving that the marriage of Priests and professed Persons, is no marriage, but altogether unlawful. Lond. 1554. qu. Whereupon Joh. Ponet or Poynet Bishop of Winton, came out with an answer thus entit. An apology fully answering by Scriptures and ancient Doctors a blasphemous book gathered by Dr. Steph. Gardiner, Dr. Rich. Smyth, Albertus Pighius and other Papists, as by their books appears, and of late set forth under the name of Tho. Martin Doct. of the Civ. Law, etc. Printed beyond the Sea, an. 1555-56. in oct. In which book, fol. 9 Ponet saith thus— Thy book hath betrayed thee Martin, for thy fondness was not known before it came abroad, but assoon as that showed itself in men's hands, they might easily perceive that in playing the Christmas Lords minion in New Coll. in Oxon in thy fool's coat, thou didst learn thy boldness, and began to put off all shame, and to put on all impudence.— By the aforesaid title we are given to understand, as if B. Gardiner, Dr. Smyth, etc. were Authors of, or at least had considerable hands in, it; with whom agrees Baleus 
c In his Declaration of Bonner's articles, as before, fol. 15. a. 57 b. 71. b. 76. b.  beforementioned, who styles Martin, Winchester's voice, but whether true I cannot say it. The book hath been commended by many learned Persons, and no doubt but he had helps in it, but whether by any of the former, is doubtful. About the same time came out another answer entit. A defence of Priests marriages, established by the imperial laws of the Realm of England, etc. printed in qu. To which though no name is set to it, yet it is 
* See Dr. Jo. Cosin's book intit. Apology for sundry proceedings by jurisdiction Ecclesiastical, etc. Printed 1593. in qu part 2. chap. 12. p. 109.  said to be written by Dr. Matthew Parker, who was afterwards Archb. of Canterbury. The same year Tho. Martin put out,  
A confutation of Dr. Joh. Poyners' book entit. A defence for the marriage of Priests, etc. Lond. 1555 (cue) He hath also extant,  
Oration to Dr. Cranmer Archbishop, 12 March 1555.— The beginning of which is, Albeit there are two governments etc.  
Discourse between him and Archbishop Cranmer concerning conscience and matters of Religion— The beginning is Mr. Cranmer you have told here a long glorious tale, etc. Which oration and discourse you may see in the Acts and Mon. of the Ch. by Jo. Fox, under the Year 1555, besides Examinations and Conferences, under the Year 1556.  
Vita Gul. Wicami Wintoniensis Episc. Lond. 1597, Ox, 1690 in a large qu. Printed after the death of the Author, who took much of his matter from the life of the said Bishop written by Tho. Chandler 
d Vide Hist. & Antiq. Vniu. Oxon, lib. 2. p. 134. a.  sometimes Warden of New Coll. There is a copy of this book in the Library of the said Coll. and in a leaf before the title, are curiously delineated with a Pen the effigies of the said W. Wykeham setting in a chair. On the right hand is Chichley founder of Alls. and on the left, Waynfleet of Magdalen, College; both holding the pictures of their respective Colleges in their hands, and presenting them, as 'twere, to the founder of New Coll. they having had their education therein. As for our Author Th. Martin, he concluded his last day in Fifteen hundred eighty and four, year 1584. for in that year several books, of his gift, or bequest, were sent to New Coll. Library, to be there reposed for the use of the Fellows thereof. In my former searches among records I 
† In a book of Administrations in the Will-Office near Paul's Cath. in London, beginning in Januar. 1580. fol. 108. b.  found one Joan the relict of Tho. Martin lately of Isfield in Sussex, to have received a commission from the Prerogative Court of Canterbury, dated 26. June 1584. to administer the goods, debts, chattels, etc. of the said Th. Martin lately deceased, but without the addition of Doctor of Civil Law, or of that of Gent. or Esq. However he may be the same with the Doctor, because, as I have observed, many whose names have been odious among some, or have retired in private because of their Religion, their names in wills or administration are barely written without addition of a title, or town sometimes, only in general of the County.  
EDMUND PLOWDEN Son of Humph. Plowden by Elizab. his Wife, Daughter of Joh. Sturey of Rosshall in Shropshire, was born of an ancient and gentile Family at Plowden in the said County, spent 3 years in the study of Arts, Philosophy and Medicine at Cambridge, and afterwards, as I conceive, was entered into the Inns of Court. Soon after coming to Oxon, he spent 4 years more in the same studies there, and in Nou. an. 1552 he was admitted to practise Chirurgery and Physic by the Ven. Convoc. of the said University. But as about that time Dr. Tho. Phaer did change his studies from common Law to Physic, so did our Author Plowden from Physic to the common Law, being then about 35 years of age. In 1557 he became Autumn or Summer reader of the Middle Temple, and three years after Lent reader, being then a Sergeant at, and accounted the Oracle of the, Law. He hath written in old French,  
The Commentaries or Reports of divers cases, being matters in Law, and of arguments thereupon; in the times of the Reigns of K. Ed. 6. Qu. Marry and Qu. Elizabeth: In two parts. Lond. 1571. 78. 99 etc. fol. To which was a table made by Will. Fleetwood Recorder of Lond. They are esteemed exquisite and elaborate commentaries and are of high account with all professors of the Law. Afterwards they were abridged in the French tongue— Lond. 1659. oct. (and several times before) translated by Fabian Hicks Esq. and printed also in oct. There goes also under our Author Plowdens name,  
Plowdens Queries, or a moot-book of choice cases useful for the young Students of the common Law— This was several times printed, and afterwards translated from French into English, methodised and enlarged by H. B. of Lincoln's Inn Esq.— Lond. 1662. oct. At length, as this famous Lawyer Plowden mostly lived a R. Cath. in his heart, so he died in that faith, on the sixth day of Feb. in Fifteen hundred eighty and four, 
158●.  and was buried in the Church belonging to the Temples between the body of Catherine his Wife (Dau. of Will. Sheldon of Beoly in Worcestershire Esque) and the North wall, near the East end of the choir; leaving then this character 
† In Annal. Reg. Elizab. pro Gul. Camd. an. 1584.  behind him, (which shall serve instead of his Epitaph, notwithstanding there is one already over his grave) that ut in juris Anglicani scientia, de qua scriptis bene meruit, facile princeps; ita vitae integritate inter homines suae professionis nulli secundus. He left behind him a fair estate in lands lying at Plowden beforementioned, at Shiplake in Oxfordshire, and at Burfield in Berks, as also a Son of both his names to enjoy it, who dying in less than two years after his Father, did bequeath 
* In reg. Rutland in offic. praerog. Cant. Qu. 1.  his body to be buried in the Chapel of the Bow built and erected by his ancestors (wherein some of them were buried) joining to the Church of North Lydbury (near to which place is the Village called Plowden situated) in Shropshire. The name and posterity of this Edm. Plowden do now remain at Shiplake in Oxfordshire.  
PATRICK PLUNKET Baron of Dunsanie in Ireland, Son of Rob. Plunket Baron of the same place (who died 1. Elizab.) was educated in Grammar learning at Ratough 
e Ric. Stanyhurst in Descript. Hibern. cap. 7.  under one Staghens, and from thence was sent to Oxon to obtain Logicals and Philosophicals, but to what house there, unless to Gloucester hall, (where many of his Countrymen, and some of his Surname studied in the time of Qu. Elizab. as I shall anon inform you) I cannot justly tell, or whether to Uniu. Coll. when Richard Stanyhurst (who calls him his Brother) studied there, I am as yet ignorant. Howsoever it was, sure I am, that by the care of his Father-in-law Sir Christoph. Barnwell Kt. he was maintained according to his condition for some years in this University, where profiting much in several sorts of learning, though honoured not, or was honoured with, any Degree, did afterwards compose several things fit for the press, which 
f Ibidem.  by reason of his bashful modesty, or modest bashfulness were wrongfully imprisoned, and in a manner stifled in shadowed couches— I doubt not, (as my Author 
g Ibid.  adds) but what by his fame and renown in Learning, he shall be answerable to his desert and value in writing, etc. This worthy Baron who was of ancient extract in Ireland, and of the R. Cath. Religion, was a Person noted in his Country for his great possessions there, for his good natural parts, 
Clar. 1584.  and renowned therefore among the learned in Fifteen hundred eighty and four: In which year, and after, he had books dedicated to him, as being not only a learned Person himself, but also a Patron of learning and learned Men. While he studied in this University, were eight of his Countrymen of Glouc. hall matriculated in 1574, having been Students there some years before, as Walter, Henry, and Joh. Talbot of gentile extraction, the first of which was then 21 years of age, and the other two 20. Edw. Plunket a Gentleman's Son, of 20 years of age; Christoph. Galway and John Martill, Sons of Plebeians, the former 19, the other 20, years of age; and one Pendergast and Whitty the Sons of Gent. the former 22, the other 21, years of age. Besides these were several other Irish Men matriculated as members of that Hall during the Reign of Qu. Elizab. as (1) Rich. white a Gentleman's Son, aged 21. an. 1578. (2) Giles Hovenden of Leis in King's County, the Son of a Gent. an. 1582. aged 26. (3) Gerard Salwey of (Dromore) an Esq; Son, the same year, aged 14. with others, to the beginning of K. James his Reign, which for brevity sake I now omit. Of the said Baron Plunkets Family was descended that most ven. and religious Dr. Oliver Plunket titular Primate of Ireland, who being found by some Persons to have been deeply engaged in the Popish Plot in Ireland, an. 1678. 79, was brought over into England, where receiving sentence to die in Westminster hall, was accordingly hanged, drawn, and quartered at Tyburn on the first day of July 1681; whereupon his quarters only (not his head) were buried in the yard of St. Giles Church in the Fields near to London, by the bodies of the five Jesuits, that were a little before executed, and buried under the North wall of the said Yard. In the said place Plunkets quarters continuing till the fanatical plot broke out in 1683, they were taken up and conveyed beyond the Sea to the Monastery of the Benedictines (of which order he was a Brother) at Lambspring in Germany, where they were with great ceremony and devotion re-buried. Before I speak of the next writer, the reader may be pleased to know farther of this Plunket, that when the Lady D. D. had borrowed 200 Crowns of an Irish Priest at Bologna; she, rather than repay that sum procured the Archbishopric of Armagh (to which the Primacy of Ireland is annexed) for the said Plunket by the means of Cardinal Rospigloisi; who, though he would not be at the congregation that day, wherein that matter was to be done, yet he made Card. Chigi do it; and when Card. Barbarini opposed the nomination, Chigi told the said Cardinal that it must be so: This was about 1669.  
JOHN de FECKENHAM was so called because he was born of poor Parents living in a cottage, or poor house, joining to the Forest of Feckenham in Worcestershire, though his right name was Howman. While he was a Child, he was very apt to learn, having a natural genie to good letters, and to any thing that seemed good; which being perceived by the Priest of his Parish, he was by the endeavours and persuasions of one or more considerable Persons taken into Evesham Monastery in the said County, the Abbot and Monks of which, were of the Order of St. Benedict. When he arrived to the age of about 18 he was sent by his Abbot to Gloucester Coll. in this University, where there was a particular apartment for the young Monks of that Abbey to lodge in, and to continue there for certain years, purposely to obtain Academical, or at least Theological, learning. Afterwards, he being called home by his Abbot to make room for other Monks to succeed in the said apartment, his Abbey was soon after dissolved, viz. 17 Nou. 1535 at which time he had an allowance 
h Clem. Reyner De Antiq. Ord. Bened. in Angl. etc. Tract. 1 Sect. 3. p. 233, 234.  made to him from the Exchequer of an annual pension of 100 florins during his natural life. Whereupon retiring to the said Coll. of Gloc. again, I find 
i In reg. Act. cur. Canc. Ox. notat. in dors. cum lit. B invers fol. 194. b.  him there in 1537, in which year he subscribed by the name of John Feckenham to a certain composition then made between Rob. Joseph Prior of the said Coll. and 29 Students thereof on the one part (of which number Feckenham was one of the Seniors) and threeof the Signior Bedells of the University on the other; and in the Year 1539 he was admitted to the reading of the Sentences, being about that time Chaplain to Dr. John Bell Bishop of Worcester. But that Bishop giving up his place in few years after, our Author Feckenham was entertained by Dr. Bonner B. of London, with whom continuing till 1549 (at which time he was deprived of his Bishopric and put into the Marshalsea) he was committed Prisoner to the Tower of London, occasioned, as 'tis said, by Mr. Rob. Horn, afterwards B. of Winchester. Soon after he was released, or rather borrowed thence for a time by Sir Philip Hobie, for no other reason but to dispute about matters of Religion to satisfy Protestants, who then thought that their Religion could not be denied. The first disputation that he had with the chief of that party was at the Savoy in the house of the E. of Bedford. The second in the house of Sir Will. Cecil in Canon rue, and the third in that of Sir John Cheek at the Carmes (or White friars) lately dissolved. These three disputations which were well carried on with great vigour and dexterity, especially by Feckenham, were prorogued to other places, as first to Pershore in Worcestershire, in which town was then lately a famous Monastery of the Benedictines standing, and in the said County was Feckenham then beneficed. At which place, I say, Hooper Bishop of Gloucester and Worcester did dispute with him, he being then in visiting his Diocese, and received satisfaction from what he then said. The next was in the Cath. Ch. of Worcester, where Jo. Jewel did, as 'tis reported, (but I think false) oppose him. When these things were done he was remanded to his Prison in the Tower, where continuing till the first year of Q. Marry, was then released, and not only made Dean of St. Paul's Cathedral, but soon after (in Nou. 1556) Abbot of Westminster and Chaplain to that Queen. In 1554 he was in Oxon and openly disputed with Cranmer, Ridley, and Latymer about matters of Religion before they were to sacrifice their lives in the fire, and in the beginning of 1556 he was actually created Doctor of Divinity, being then in wonderful esteem for his learning, piety, charity, humility and other virtues. All the time of Qu. Mary's Reign he employed himself in doing good offices for the afflicted Protestants from the highest to the lowest, and did interceded with the Queen for the Lady Elizabeth, for which he gained her displeasure for a time. After the said Lady Elizab. came to the Crown, and Religion about to be altered, he denied the Queen's Supremacy over the Church of England, in 1559. About that time he planted the elms, which do yet, or did lately, grow in the garden belonging to the Coll. of Westminster. But the Queen having a very great respect for his learning and virtuous life, as also for his former tenderness of her, sent for, and had private discourse with, him; but what it was, none yet do positively know, though there be not wanting some that say, that she offered to him the Archbishopric of Canterbury, if he would take the oath and conform to the Church of England, which he refused. The year after, he was committed Prisoner again to the Tower, and about that time did undergo several disputes with Protestant Divines about Religion, but was not suffered to be one of those that were publicly to dispute with the said Divines when the Queen was setting on foot a reformation in the Church of England. In the winter time 1563 he was committed to free custody with Dr. Horn B. of Winchester, who, as the R. Catholics say, did deal uncivilly and falsely with him: But tarrying with that Bishop only one Winter, he was sent to the Tower again, thence after some time to the Marshalsea, then to a private house in Holbourn, and in 1580 to Wisbich castle in Cambridgshire, where he remained to the time of his death in great devotion and sanctity of life. Under his name, do go these things following.  
A conference dialoguewise held between the Lady Jane Dudley and Mr. Jo. Feckenham four days before her death, touching her faith and belief of the Sacrament and her Religion. Lond. 1554. oct. There again 1625. qu. Jo. Fox entitles this little book A communication between Mr. Feckenham and the Lady Jane Grey, before she was to be beheaded, 12. Feb. 1553.  
Speech in the House of Lords, an 1553.  
Two Homilies on the first, second, and third article of the Creed. Lond. in qu.  
Oratio funebris in exequiis Ducissae Parmae, Caroli quinti filiae & Belgii Gubernatricis.  
Sermon at the Exequy of Joan Queen of Spain, etc. on Deut. 32. 28. 29. Lond. 1555. oct.  
The declaration of such scruples and stays of conscience touching the Oath of Supremacy, delivered by writing to Dr. Horn of Winchester. Lond. in qu. Answered by the said Horn, an. 1566. qu. refuted by Tho. Stapleton the year after.  
Objections or Assertions made against Mr. Joh. Goughe's Sermon preached in the Tower of London, 15. Jan. 1570.— Soon after was published by the said Gough, An answer to certain assertions of Mr. Fecknam, which of late be made against a godly Sermon etc. Lond. 1570. oct.  
Caveat Emptor— This I have not yet seen.  
Commentarii in psalmos Davidis. This was seen in MS. in the hands of the Author (while he was a Prisoner at London) by Rich. Stanyhurst, but lost with other things, (as 'tis conceived) among which was his Treatise of the Eucharist, written against Joh. Hooper. At length after our Author had seen many changes in Religion and had continued steadfast in that, wherein he was educated, surrendered up his pious Soul to him that gave it, within the precincts of Wisbich castle beforementioned, year 1585. in Fifteen hundred eighty and five; and soon after, was buried, but where, unless in the Parish Church there, I cannot tell; leaving then behind him this character, that he was a Person full of offices of piety and humility, and was always ready, though of a contrary opinion, to do good to the Protestant party, especially in the Reign of Q. Marry when they suffered. Our celebrated Antiquary W. Camden tells 
k In Annal. Reg. Elizab. sub an. 1559.  us that he was a learned and good Man, lived a long while, did a great deal of good to the poor, and always solicited the minds of his adversaries to good will.  
RICHARD CALDWALL or Chaldwell, a Staffordsh. Man born, was educated in Brasenose College, of which he was afterwards Fellow, took the Degree of M. of Arts, entered upon the Physic line, and in the 32 year of his age became one of the Signior Students of Ch. Ch. a little after its last foundation by K. Hen. 8. an. 1547. Afterwards he took the Degrees in the said faculty and became so highly valued for his learning, and happy practice therein, that he was examined, approved and admitted into the Physicians Coll. at London and made censor of it in one and the same day. Six weeks after he was chosen one of the Elects of the said Coll. and in 1570 Precedent thereof. He hath written several matters relating to his profession, but whether extant I cannot tell. All that I have seen of his labours is his translation into English of The tables of surgery, briefly comprehending the whole art and practice thereof, etc. Lond. 1585. fol. Written originally by Horatio More, a Florentine Physician. As for his death, which happened in Fifteen hundred eighty and five, year 1585. and other of his works, let the learned Camden tell 
l Ibid. sub an. 1585.  you in these words— Ne inter hos, licet minoris notae, silendus hoc etiam anno fato fanctus Richardis Chaldwellus è Coll. Aenei Nasi Oxoniae Med. Doctor, qui ut de reipub. bene mereretur (adscito in partem honoris Barone Lumleio) lectionem Chriurgicam honesto salario in Medicorum collegio Londini à Thoma Linacro fundato instituit. Juxtaque ad Sancti Benedicti inhumatur, monumento laqueis, plintheiss, & carchesiis, scamno Hypocratis, glossocomtis & aliis chirurgicis ex Bribasio & Galeno machinamentis exornato. The Coll. of Physicians was then in Knight-riders-street in London, not far from the Church of St. Benedict near Paul's Wharf.  
EDWARD RISHTON of a right ancient Family in Lancashire, became a Student in the University about 1568 particularly, as it seems, in Brasenose College, where after he had spent some years in Philosophy and Mathematics, supplicated the Ven. congr. of Regent's in Apr. 1572 for the Degree of Bach. of Arts, having performed all excercise requisite thereunto, but whether he was admitted it appears not in the University registers. Afterwards he left his native Country and Friends, and went to Douai, where studying for some time in the English Coll. was made M. of A. Thence he went to Rome in 1577 and after he had consummated certain studies in Divinity, was made 
m Jo. Pits. De illustr. Aug. script. Aet. 16. num. 1035.  a Priest in 1580 or thereabouts. Soon after he was sent into the Mission of England, but before he was quite settled, he was taken and kept close Prisoner in the Tower of London and elsewhere 3 or 4 years. At length being released, his life spared, and he condemned to banishment with Jam. Bosgrace a Jesuit, John Hart and others, he went into France, and settled for a time in the University of Pont-à-musson in Lorraine to the end that he might proceed in the study of Divinity and take a Degree or Degrees therein; but the plague being then there and he careless to avoid it in time, was infected therewith and soon after died. This is that Edw. Rishton, qui impie ingratus (as one 
n Camden ut sup. sub an 1584.  saith) in Principem cui vitam debuit, publicatis scriptis malitiae virus illico evomuit. The titles of the said writings are these.  
Synopsis rerum ecclesiastiearum, ad an. chr. 1577. Whether in Engl. or Lat. I know not, for I have not yet seen it.  
Profession of his faith made manifest, and confirmed by 24 reasons (or motives)— It must be now known that Nich. Saunders left behind him at his death two imperfect books De schismate Anglicano; with the beginning of the third, commencing with the Reign of Q. Elizabeth, which coming into the hands of our Author Rishton after he had suffered imprisonment for some time in England, he supplied what was defective in them, corrected and caused them to be published at Colen. 1585. to which he added of his own composition, besides the third book, which was in a manner all his,  
Rerum pro religione catholica ac inturri Londinensi gestarum ab an. 1580. ad an. usque 1585. indiculus seu diarium, with a preface to it.  
Religiosorum & sacerdotum nomina, qui pro defensione primatus Rom. Ecclesiae per Martyrium consummati sunt, sub Henrico 8. Angliae rege, etc. Mostly taken out of Saunders his book De visibili Monarchia Ecclesiae, etc. These additions, with the book De Schismate, having undergone several impressions, as I have told you elsewhere, have been since added to them (1) An appendix, which makes a fourth book, exerpted from certain of the works of Peter Ribadeneira a Jesuit (2) Summarium rationum, quibus Cancellarius Angliae & Prolocutor Puckeringius Elizabethae Angliae Reginae persuaserunt occidendum esse Mariam Stuartum Scotiae Reginam, etc. Which being published in English were translated into Latin, and had added thereunto, Supplicium & mors Reginae Scotiae, etc. by the labour of Romoald Scot (3) Epistola Doctoris Johannis Pistorii Nidani ad D. Jacobum Grynaeum Ministri verbi Ecclesiae Basiliensis. (4) Mariae Stuartae Reg. Scotiae innocens à cade Darlean●, etc. written by Obertus Barnestapolius. Which four things being added to Rishtons additions to Saunders book De Schismate, were all printed together at Colen 1628. in a thick oct. What other things our Author Rishton hath extant, I know not, nor any thing else of him, only that he dying near to St. Manhou after, year 1585. or about, Fifteen hundred eighty and five (in his flight from Pont-à-mosson to avoid the pest) was buried there by the care 
o Jo. Pits. ut sup.  of Joh. Barnes an English exile, the same, I suppose, with John Barnes the Benedictine Monk, whom I shall mention elsewhere. I find one Edw. Risden a Secular Priest of the English Coll. at Douai in this Man's time, who was afterwards of the Order of Carthusians, but he being descended from the Risdens or Risdons of Devonshire, must not be taken to be the same (as some are apt to do) with Edw. Rishton beforementioned. I find also one Edw. Risden or Risdon a Devonian to have been Fellow of Exeter Coll. and Master of Arts 1566, which probably may be the same with the Carthusians; sed Qu.  
HENRY SIDNEY who was learned in many languages, and a great lover of learning, was born of, and descended from, a noble Family of his name living at Cranleigh in Surrey, became a Student in New Coll. (as it seems) in 1543 or thereabouts, but making no long stay there, he went to the Court, where he became a companion to Prince Edward (afterwards King Ed. 6.) and by him much esteemed. In the third year of that King's Reign he received the honour of Knighthood, and was forthwith, being then about 22 years of age, sent Ambassador into France, where he behaved himself far beyond his years. In the 2 and 3 of Phil. and Mary he was made general Governor of all the Kings and Queens revenues, within the Realm of Ireland, and about two years after Lord Justice thereof. In the 2 of Qu. Elizab. he was 
q Raphael Holinshed in his Descript and Chron. of England p. 1550. etc. See in the third tome of The Baronage of England p. 411. a.  appointed Lord Precedent of the Marches of Wales, and 4 years after was made Knight of the honourable order of the Garter, having before been employed in one or more Embassies. In 1568, in the month of Apr. he was constituted Deputy of Ireland, and in Aug. the same year, being then at Oxon. he was actually created Master of Arts. Afterwards he was Lord Justice again and twice Deputy of the said Kingdom, etc. This Person hath written many things, which chiefly continue at this time in MS. All that I have seen are,  
A godly letter to his Son Philip. Lond. 1592. oct. Since which time have been other letters of his to the said Person made extant; two of which I have 
r See in the Collection of Letters at the end of Archb. Ushers life, printed in fol. at Lond. 1636. num. 15. 16.  seen without date, as that which begins thus, Son Philip I have received two letters from you. And the other My Son, the virtuous inclination of thy matchless mother, etc. He hath also written,  
Miscellanies of Irish affairs— MS. and caused also the Statutes of Ireland to be first published in print. He paid his last debt to nature in the Bishop's Palace at Worcester in his return from Ludlow, on 
s So in an old book of Funeral certificates, communicated to me by Sir Hen. St. George Kt. Clar. K. of Arms, fol 63. a.  the fourth day of May in Fifteen hundred eighty and six, year 1586 and was buried 21. of June following in the Church at Penshurst in Kent, he having some years before obtained the manor thereof to him and his posterity for ever. The character given of him by one 
t Edm. Campian in his Hist. of Ireland, lib. 2. at the end. p. 138.  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 chaste 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. Catholic, 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 Nou. 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, entered 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 Catholic faith and obedience. Four years being spent in that Country, not without some danger, he went to Louvain, where he met with Rob. Persons about to enter into the said Society, whom he strengthened 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 
u Pet. Ribadeneira in Bib. scriptorum ●oc. Jesus in Lit. G.  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 Britain 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 account 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-lived Ornament of his noble Family, and the Marcellus of the English Nation, hath deserved, and without dispute or envy enjoyed, the most exalted praises of his own and of succeeding Ages. The Poets of his time, especially Spencer, dramatic him not only as a Patron, but a Master; and he was almost the only Person in any age (I will not except Maecenas) 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 withal 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 wished that his life might be written by some judicious hand, and that the imperfect essay of Sir Fulk Grevill L Brook might be supplied; In the mean time I am forced 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 beforementioned by the Lady Mary his Wife, eldest Daughter of Joh. Dudley Duke of Northumberland, was born, as 'tis supposed, at Penshurst in Kent, 29. Nou. 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 Ambassador there from the Queen of England. Thence he went through Lorraine, and by Strasburgh and Heydelburg to Frankfort in Sept. or Oct. following, as his said 
w Printed at Lond. 1652 in oct. c p 1. p. 8 9  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 
x Pag. 11. etc.  concerning Languets coming into England in Februar. 1578, at which time, 'tis 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 Ca●●mire, with whom he came, went away so suddenly, that Languet could not take leave of him. In the Year 1576 he was sent 
y Camden in Annal. Reg. Elizab. sub an. 1576.  by the Queen to Rodolph the Emperor 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 in the L●wcountries for the K. of Spain, and William Prince of Aurange or Orange; by the former of which, though at first he was lightly esteemed, upon the account of his youth, yet after some discourse he found himself so strucken with him, that the beholders wondered to see what tribute that brave and high minded Prince paid to his worth, giving more honour and respect to him, in his private capacity, than to the Ambassadors of mighty Princes. In the Year 1579, he, though neither Magistrate or Counsellor, did show himself, for several weighty reasons, opposite to the Queens matching with the Duke of Anjou, which he very pithily expressed by a due address of his humble reasons to her, as may be fully seen in a book called 
a Part. 3. p. 201.  Cabola. The said address was written at the desire of some great personage, his Uncle Robert (I suppose) Earl of Leycester; upon which a great quarrel happened between him and Edw. Vere Earl of Oxford. This, as I conceive, might occasion his retirement from Court next Summer, an. 1580, wherein perhaps he wrote that pleasant Romance called Arcadia. In 1581. the treatise of marriage was renewed, and our Author Sidney with Fulk Grevill 
b Vid. Annal. Camdeni. sub an. 1581.  were two of the tilters at the entertainment of the French Ambassador; and at the departure of the Duke of Anjou from England in Febr. the same year, he attended him to 
c Ibid. an. 1582.  Antwerp. On the 8. Janu. 1582 he with Peregrine Bertie received the honour of Knighthood from the Queen, and in the beginning of 1585. he designed an expedition with Sir Francis Drake into America, but being hindered by the Queen (in whose opinion he was so highly prized that she thought the Court deficient without him) he was in Octob. following made Governor of Flushing, about that time delivered to the Queen for one of the cautionary towns, and General of the Horse. In both which places of great trust, his carriage testified to the world wisdom and valour, with addition of honour to his country by them; and especially the more, when in July 1586 he surprised Axil, and preserved the lives and honour of the English Army at the enterprise of Gravelin. So that whereas (through the fame of his high deserts) he was then, or rather before, in election for the Crown of Poland, the Queen of England refused to further his advancement, not out of emulation, but out of fear to lose the jewel of her times. What can be said more? He was a Statesman, Soldier, and Scholar, a complete Master of matter and language, as his immortal Pen shows. His Pen and his Sword have rendered him famous enough. He died by the one, and by the other he'll ever live, as having been hitherto highly extolled for it by the Pens of Princes. This is the happiness of art, that although the sword doth archieve the honour, yet the arts do record it, and no Pen hath made it better known than his own, in that book called Arcadia. Certain it is, he was a noble and matchless Gentleman; and it may be justly said without hyperboles of fiction, as it was of Cato Uticensis that he seemed to be born to that only which be went about. His written works are these.  
The Countess of Pembrokes Arcadia— Several times printed at London in quarto and fol. Which being the most celebrated Romance that was ever written, was consecrated to his noble, virtuous and learned Sister Mary, the Wife of Henry Earl of Pembroke, who having lived to a very fair age, died in her house in Aldersgate-street in London 25. Sept. 1621. whereupon her body was buried in the Cathedral Church of Salisbury among the graves of the Pembrochian Family. This Arcadia, though then, and since, it was, and is, taken into the hands of all ingenious Men, and said by one living at, or near, the time when first published, to be a book most famous for rich conceit and splendour of courtly expressions, yet the Author was not so fond, a B. Heliodorus was of his amorous work, for he desired 
e See Edw. Le●gh's Treatise of religion and tearning.— Lond. 1656. fol. lib. 5. p. 324.  when he died (having first consulted with a Minister about it) to have had it suppressed. One who writes himself G. M. 
f Perhaps Gervase Markham, qu.  wrote the second and last part of the first book of the said Arcadia, making thereby a complete end of the first History— Lond. 1613. qu. And in the eighth edit. printed at Lond. 1633. Sir W. A. Knight made a supplement of a defect in the third part of the History, and R. B. of Linc. Inn Esq; added then a sixth book thereunto. In 1662. came out the said Arcadia again, in 6 books; with several of his other works added to them. In 1624. it was printed in French, in 3. vol. or parts in oct. and hath, as I have been informed, undergone several impressions in France. It hath been also printed once or more in the Dutch language and in others. Sir Philip also wrote,  
A dissuasive Letter to Queen Elizab. her marriage with monsieur of France, etc.— 'Tis in a book called Scrinia Ceciliana Lond. 1663. qu.  
Astrophel and Stella; wherein the excellency of sweet poesy is concluded. Lond. 1591. qu. Said to be written for the sake of one whom he entirely loved, viz. the Lady Rich, by whom was understood Philoclea in the Arcadia.  
An Apology for poetry. Lond. 1595. qu. in prose. There is a book in being called The Art of English Poesy, not written by Sidney, as some have thought, but rather by one Puttenham sometimes a Gentleman Pensioner to Qu. Elizab.  
Sonnets.  
Remedy for love.  
At the end of the 11th. edit of Arcadia, Lond. 1662. fol.  
Ourania, a Poem. Lond. 1606. published by N. B.  
An Essay upon valour— so I find it mentioned in Cottoni posthuma, yet others say it was written by Sir Thom. Overbury Quaere.  
Almonzor and Almanzaida, a Novel. Lond. 1678. oct. This book coming out so late, it is to be enquired, whether Sir Philip Sidneys name is not set to it for sale-sake, being a usual thing in these days to set a great name to a book, and to enhance the price of it by the esteem of the supposed Author.  
England's Helicon; or, a collection of Songs— Sir Philip Sidneys name is also put to it, as being the Author of most of the said Songs. 'Twas printed at Lond. in qu.  
Instructions describing what special observations are to be taken by Travellers in all nations, states, and countries— This book which is printed in 12o, hath the names of Robert Earl of Essex and Sir Philip Sidney put to it, but may be questioned whether either had a hand in it. He also translated from French into English, A work containing the trueness of Christian Religion against Atheists etc. written originally by Philip Morney. But the said translation being left imperfect by Sidney, Arthur Golding finished it.— Lond. 1587. qu. He also (Sidney) turned the Psalms of David into English verse, which are in MS. in the Library of the Earl of Pembroke at Wilton, curiously bound in a crimson velvet cover, left thereunto by his Sister Mary Countess of Pembroke. At length Sir Philip being wounded in the battle at Zutphen, while he was getting up the third horse (having had two slain under him before) on the 22 Septemb. year 1586 in Fifteen hundred eighty and six, he was carried to Arnheim, where languishing under his wound 25 days or thereabouts, he died on the sixteenth of October following. This was that Sidney, whom, as Gods will was, he should be therefore born into the world, even 
g Camdeni Britan. in Kent.  to show unto our age a sample of ancient virtues: so his good pleasure was, before any looked for it, to call for him again, and take him out of the world as being more worthy of Heaven than Earth. Soon after his death, his body was brought to Flushing, and being embarked with great solemnity on the first of November, landed at Tower Wharf on the sixth day of the said month. Thence 'twas conveyed to the Minories without Aldgate, where it lay in state for some time till his magnificent funeral in St. Paul's Cathedral 16. of Feb. following; which, as many Princes have not exceeded in the solemnity, so few have equalled in the sorrow for his loss. He was buried near to that place which his Father-in-law Sir Francis Walsingham had designed (as I have heard) to be entombed in, without any monument or inscription save only a copy of English verses written on a wooden table, that were divers years after his death put over his grave. When his said Father-in-law was buried in that place afterwards, there was a fair tomb designed for them both, and epitaphs composed by Dr. Jo. Rainolds, a copy of which for Sidney you may see 
h In Hist. & Antiq Vniv Ox. lib. 2. p. 265. b.  elsewhere. James King of Scots, afterwards of England honoured him with an Epitaph of his composition. The muses of Oxon also lamenting much for his loss, composed verses to his memory; (printed at Ox. 1587. qu.) among which I find Cardinal Wolsey's Daughter lamenting the loss of her Alumnus. Those of New Coll. in their Peplus 
i Edit. Ox. 1587. qu.  Sidnaei, dedicated to Henry Earl of Pembroke (who married Sir Philip's Sister) as having been formerly of that house, did bewail his death. The most ingenious of Cambridge University did also exercise their fancies; made public by Alex. Nevil a member thereof— Lond. 1587. qu. besides several private Persons, among which, was L. B. who wrote a pastoral Elegy and Eglogue on his death, entit. Astrophel, printed at the end of Edm. Spencer's Poetry called Colin clouts, etc. Lond. 1595. qu. The said Sir Philip left behind him a Daughter named Elizabeth, who being born in 1585., Scipio Gentilis an eminent Civilian wrote a Lat. Poem on her nativity entit. Nereus, sive de natali Elizabethae, illustriss. Philippi Sydnaei filiae Lond. 1586. in one sh. in qu. She was afterwards married to Rog. Manors Earl of Rutland, but died without issue by him.  
THOMAS BOURCHIER was descended from those of his name who were Earls of Bath, but in what County born, I cannot yet tell, received some parts of literature in this University, particularly, as I conceive, in Magd. Coll. yet took no Degree there, unless in the Reign of Edw. 6. when the common register of the University was in a manner totally neglected. Afterwards upon pretence of being weary of the heresy, as he called it, that in his time was practised in England, he went beyond the Seas, settled in Paris, took upon him then, if not before, the habit of St. Francis, and lived as a Brother in the house of that order there, where also others of his Country lived, and at length became Doctor of Divinity of the Sorbon, at which time he was held in great esteem for his Religion and learning. Afterwards going to Rome he lived among those of his order in the Monastery called by Latin Authors Ara coeli, and at length became Penitentiary to the Church of St. John Lateran there. He hath written.  
Historia Ecclesiastica de Martyrio fratrum ordinis Minorum Divi Francisci de observantia, qui partim in Anglia sub Henrico 8, Rege, partim in Belgio sub Principe Auriaco, partim & in Hybernia tempore Elizabethae regnantis Reginae, passi sunt ab an. 1536. ad an. 1582. Par. 1582. and 1586. in oct. Ingolst. 1583. in tw. The names of those English Men that suffered Martyrdom in England, were Father Anton. Brorbe, or, as some call him, Brockby, Tho. Cortt, Thom. Belchiam and Father John Forest. All which were executed in 1537. and 38. What other things our Author Bourchier hath written, I cannot tell, nor any thing else of him, only, year 1586 that he departed this mortal life 
* Jo. Pitseus in lib. De illustr. Angl. script. aet. 16. num. 1036.  about Fifteen hundred eighty and fix, and was buried either in the Church of St. John Lateran, or in that belonging to the Monastery called Ara coeli beforementioned.  
THOMAS BRASBRIDGE, a Northamptonshire Man born, was elected Demie of Magd. Coll. by the endeavours of Peter Morwing, an. 1553, aged 16, where after he had continued a sedulous Student for some years, was elected Probationer-Fellow of Allsouls College in 1558. Thence also he returned to Magd. Coll. of which he became Fellow in 1562, and soon after proceeding in Arts, applied his mind partly to Divinity and partly to Physic. In 1574 he supplicated to be admitted to the reading of the Sentences, but whether he was really admitted it appears not. The next year he resigned his Fellowship, having a spiritual cure, or School, or both, conferred on him at, or near to, Banbury in Oxfordshire, where, as it seems, he practised Physic. His works are,  
The poor Man's Jewel, viz. a Treatise of the pestilence. To which is annexed a Declaration of the virtues of the herbs Carduus benedictus and Angelica, etc.— Lond. 1578. and 91. in oct.  
Questiones in Officia M. T. Ciceronis, etc. 
Clar. 1586.  etc. Oxon. 1615. oct Dedicated to Dr. Laur. Hamphrey Precedent of Magd. Coll. an. 1586. What other things he published, I cannot yet tell, nor any thing of his latter end.  
JOHN FOX the noted Martyriologist, was born at St. botolph's town commonly called Boston in Lincolnshire, an. 1517, became a Student of Brasenose Coll. at about 16 years of age under the inspection and patronage of Mr. Joh. Hawarden Fellow thereof. Afterwards he was elected Fellow of Magd. Coll. and proceeded Master of Arts in 1543, which was the highest Degree he attained to in this University, being then esteemed eminent for his learning and knowledge in the three tongues. About that time King Hen. 8. setting up a mongrel Religion in the Land, which our Author did not like by showing his opinion in several respects, especially by absenting himself from the Chapel, did, with others of the same mind, resign his Fellowship about St. Mary Magd. day in 1545, merely as 'twas thought to prevent expulsion. Afterwards he was entertained for a time in the house of Sir Thom. Lucy in Warwickshire, where, as 'tis said, he took to him a Wife, and then went to Riegate in Surrey to be tutor and teacher to the children of the Duke of Norfolk; where remaining for some time, was the first Man (as 'tis said) that ever preached the Gospel in that place, even when the Roman Catholic Religion was in great strength. But Gardiner Bishop of Winchester having notice of, caused search to be made after, him. Whereupon the said Duke being careful of, sent, him safely into Germany; where, in the City of Basil he became a most painful labourer at his Pen in the house of Operinus a learned Printer. Being then about 30 years of age, he had read over all that either the Greek, or Latin Fathers had left in their writings, the Schoolmen in their disputations, the Councils in their Acts or the Consistory in their Decrees, and acquired no mean skill in the Hebrew tongue. After King Hen. 8. had been dead some time, he returned to Magd. Coll. whence, after a little stay, he went again to his charge at Riegate, and there remaining till after Queen Mary came to the Crown, left England once more, and retired to his old Landlord at Basil, where continuing a severe drudge at his book till Queen Elizabeth was settled in the Throne, he returned to his Country and was received by the said Duke, then living at his manor place called Christ Church in London, who very bountifully entertained him. From that house he traveled weekly every Monday to the house of John Day the Printer to consummate his Acts and Monuments of the Church, and other works in English and Latin. But as for the preferments he then enjoyed, (for he was offered to accept in a manner what he pleased) were only the Prebendship of Shipton in the Church of Salisbury (which he obtained on the death of Peter Vannes, in the month of May 1563) and as some say, the Vicarage of St. Giles near Cripplegate in London, but this last, I suppose, he kept (if he had it at all) but a little while in the beginning of Queen Elizabeth, being always averse to subscribe to the Canons, (though tendered to him by Parker Archbishop of Canterbury) and to the ceremonies, in some part, of the Church. He was a Person of good natural endowments, a sagacious searcher into historical antiquity, incomparably charitable, of exemplary life and conversation, but a severe Calvinist and a very bitter enemy in his writings (exceeding the rules of charity, as 'tis conceived by some) against the Rom. Catholic party. He hath written,  
De Christo triumphante, Comaedia. Lond. 1551. Bas. 1556. oct. etc. Written at Basil in the house of Operinus beforementioned, translated into English by Rich. Day or D'aiia, Son of John Day the noted Printer in Queen Elizabeth's Reign, with this title, Christ Jesus triumphant, wherein is described the glorious triumph and conquest of Christ, over sin, death and the Law, etc. Lond. 1579 and 1607 oct. Which Ric. Day, by the way it must be noted, was bred a Scholar in Kings Coll. in Cambridge, and afterwads exercised the place of Minister at Riegate in Surrey, in the room of our Author Fox, but soon after leaving that profession, followed the trade of Printing, and lived several years near to Aldersgate in London where his Father had lived before. In 1672 it was published again at Lond. in oct. and dedicated to all Schoolmasters, to the end that it might be admitted into their respective Schools for the eminent elegance of its style, by T. C. Mast. of Arts of Sidney Coll. in Cambridge.  
De censurâ seu excommunicatione ecclesiasticâ, interpellatio ad Archiep. Cantuar. Lond. 1551. oct.  
Tables of Grammar. Lond. 1552.  
Commentarii rerum in Ecclesia gestarum, maximarumque per totam Europam, persecutionum à Wiclevi temproibus, ad hanc usque aetatem descript. Argent. 1554. oct. in one book. To which the Author added 5 more books; all printed together at Basil 1559. fol.  
Articuli, seu Aphorismi aliquot Job. Wiclevi sparsim ex variis illius opusculis excerpti per adversarios Papicolas, ac concilio Constantiensi exhibiti.  
Collectanea quaedom ex Reginaldi Pecoki Episc. Cicestrensis opusculis exustis conservata, & ex antiquo psegmate transcripta.  
Opistographia ad Oxonienses. These three last are printed with his Commentarii.  
Locorum communium Legicalium tituli & ordinationes 150, ad seriem praedicamentorum decem descripti, etc. Bas. 1557. qu.  
Probationes & resolutiones de re & materiâ sacramenti Eucharistici. Lond. 1563. or thereabouts.  
Acts and Monuments of matters most special and memorable, happening in the Church, with an universal history of the same. Wherein is set forth at large the whole race and course from the primitive age to these later times of ours, etc.— Lond. 1583. in two vol. in fol. the 4th edition. There again 1596, etc. Printed also in 3. Volumes 1632, etc. In the Year 1684 the said book came out again in 3 volumes with copper cuts, the former editions having only wooden. The undertakers of which impression had in a manner obtained a promise from King Charles 2. to revive the order in Queen Elizabeth's time of placing the said book of Acts and Monuments in the common Halls of Archbishops, Bishops, Deans, Archdeacon's, Heads of Colleges, etc. according to the Canons of Dr. Matthew Parker Archbishop of Canterbury, an. 1571, to the end that they might not be losers by the said impression, etc. As our Author Fox hath taken a great deal of pains in the said volumes and showed sometimes much judgement in his labours, so hath he committed many errors therein, by trusting to the relations of poor simple People, and in making such Martyrs that were living after the first edition of his book came forth, though afterwards by him excused and omitted. Nay Father Parsons, if he may be believed, tells us of his wilful corruptions and falsifications of Authors, particularly Ven. Bede, of his tergiversation, impertinent and ignorant arguments, contempt of antiquity, his rejection of our ancient Historiographers and I know not what. But these matters being beyond my Province to mention, I shall only refer the reader to the two parts of conversions in the first volume of those three called, A treatise of three conversions of England, etc. where he may not only find much discourse concerning the said book, or volumes of Acts and Mon. but also of the Author of them, as the index at the latter end will direct him. See also the said Parsons his Relation of a trial held in France about religion— Printed 1604. p. 59 60.  
De Christo crucifixo: Concio in die Paracev. in 2. Cor. cap 5. ver. 20. 21. Lond. 1571. qu. Printed also in English— Lond. 1609. oct.  
De Oliuâ Evangelica: Concio in baptismo Judaei habita Londini 1. Apr. cum narratione capitis XI. D. Pauli ad Romanos. Lond. 1578. Translated into English by Jam. Bell. To which Latin Sermon is an appendix De Christo triumphante, which is the same I have mentioned before.  
Concerning man's election to salvation. Lond. 1581. oct.  
Certain notes of election, added to Beza his treatise of predestination. Lond. 1581. oct.  
De Christo gratis justificante, contra Jesuitus Lond. 1583. oct.  
Disputatio contra Jesuitas & eorum argumenta, quibus inhaeren●●n justitiam ex Aristotile confirmant. Rupell. 1585. oct  
Eicasmi, seu meditation●s in Apocal. S. Johannis Apostoli & Evangelistae. Lond. 1587. fol. Genev. 1596. oct.  
Papa consutatus: vel sacra & Apostolica Ecclesia papam confutans. Translated into English by James Bell a great admirer of Joh. Fox— pr. at Lond. in qu.  
Brief exhortation, fruitful and meet to be read in the time of God's visitation, where Ministers do lack, or otherwise cannot be present to comfort them. Lond. in oct. He translated also from English into Latin. Concio funebris in obitum Augustae memoriae Ferdinandi Caesaris recens defuncti, in Eccles. Cath. S. Pauli habitae 3. Oct. 1564. Also from Latin into English. (1) A Sermon of Joh. Oecolampadius to young Men and Maidens. Lond. in tw. (2) An instruction of Christian Faith, how to lay hold upon the promise of God and not to doubt of our salvation. Or otherwise thus. Necessary instructions of faith and hope for Christians to hold fast, and not to doubt, etc. Lond. 1579. sec. edit. in oct. Written by Urbanus Regius. He finished also and completed An answer Apologetical to Hierome Osorius his slanderous invective. Lond. 1577, and 1581. qu. (began in Latin by Walt. Haddon LL D.) and published, The four Evangelists in the old Saxon tongue, with the English thereunto adjoined. Lond. 1571. qu. What else he wrote and translated you may see in 
* In lib. De script. Maj. Britan. cent. 9 num. 92.  Baleus; but the reader is to understand that several of those books that he mentions, were never printed. At length after our Author had spent 70 years or more in this vain and transitory world, he yielded to nature on the 18. Apr. in Fifteen hundred eighty and seven, and was buried in the Chancel of the Church of St. Giles without Cripplegate beforementioned. year 1587. Over his grave is set up an inscription to his memory on the South wall, a copy of which you may see in Hist. & Antiq. Uniu. Oxon. lib. 2 p. 195. but not one word of him (which is a wonder to me) is mentioned in the Annals of Q. Elizab. written by Will. Camden, or by any Epigrammatist of his time, only Joh. Parkhurst, who was his acquaintance in this University. He left behind him a Son named Samuel, born in the City of Norwych, made Demie of Magd. Coll. 1576. aged 15, afterwards Fellow of that House and Master of Arts, who about 1610 wrote The life of his Father Joh. Fox, which is set in Latin and English before the second Volume of Acts and Monuments, printed at Lond. 1641. I find one Joh. Fox to be Author of Time and the end of time, in 2 discourses, printed at Lond. in 12o, but that Joh. Fox was later in time than the former. While Joh. Fox the Martyriologist was Prebendary of Sarum, he settled the Corpse belonging thereunto (which is the impropriation of Shipton Underwood near Burford in Oxfordshire) on his Son: whose Granddaughter named Anne, Heir to her Father Tho. Fox, was married to Sir Ric. Willis of Ditton in Essex Knight and Baronet, sometimes Colonel-general of the Counties of Linc. Nott. and Rutland, and Governor of the Town and Castle of Newark, who, or at least his Son Tho. Fox Willis, enjoyeth it to this day. an. 1690.  
JOHN FIELD was a noted Scholar of his time in this University, but in what house he studied, I cannot yet tell. One of both his names was admitted Fellow of Lincoln Coll. in the Year 1555, but took no Degree, if the register saith right. Another took the Degree of Bach. of Arts 1564, and that of Master three years after. And a third Jo. Field took the Degree of Bach. of Arts only, in 1570. Which of these three was afterwards John Field the famous Preacher and Minister of St. Giles Cripplegate in London (who saith in one of his books, which I shall anon mention, that he was educated in Oxon) I cannot justly say, unless it be he that was Mast. of Arts. The works of that Joh. Field, who saith that he was of the Uniu. of Oxon, are these,  
Prayers and meditations for the use of private families, and sundry other Persons according to their divers states and occasions. Lond. 1581. 85. 1601. etc. in tw.  
Caveat for Persons, Owlet and the rest of the dark brood. Lond. 1581. oct.  
Exposition of the Symbol of the Apostles. Lond. 1581. oct.  
Godly Exhortation by occasion of a late judgement of God showed at Paris garden, 13. Januar. 1583. upon divers Persons, whereof some were killed, and many hurt at a Bearbaiting, etc. Lond. 1583. oct. Printed there again 1588. with this title. A declaration of the Judgement of God showed at Paris garden, etc. The said Jo. Field also hath translated into English. (1) A treatise of Christian righteousness. Lond. 1577. oct. Written in French by Mr. J. de L'espine. (2) Notable treatise of the Church, in which are handled all the principal questions that have been moved in our time concerning that matter. Lond. 1579. oct. Written in French by Phil. de Mornay. (3) Sermons on Jacob and Esau, on Gen. 25. ver. 12. to the 38. verse of 27. of Gen. Lond. 1579. qu. Written by Joh. Calvin. (4) Four Sermons entreating of matters very profitable for our time, (the first of which is on Psal. 16. 3.) With a brief exposition of the 87 Psalm. Lond. 1579. qu. Written in French by John Calvin. (5) Second part of questions which is concerning the Sacraments. Lond. 1580. Written by Theod. Beza. (6) Com. on the Creed. Lond. 1582. oct. Written by Gasp. Olevian. (7) Prayers used at the end of the readings upon the Prophet Hosea. Lond, 1583. in 16. Which prayers were made and written by J. Calvin. (8) Christian Meditations, on the 6. 25 and 32 Psalms. Lond. in 16o. written by P. Pilesson, etc. besides other things which I have not yet seen. At length our Author Field dying about his middle age, in the latter end of the year (after the 16. year 1586 Febr.) Fifteen hundred eighty and seven, was buried in the Church of St. Giles before mentioned, leaving behind him several Children, of which the eldest was named Theophilus Field, educated in Cambridge, afterwards Chaplain to King James the first, Bishop of Landaff and at length of Hereford, as I shall more at large tell you elsewhere.  
WILLIAM HARRISON was a Londoner born, educated in Grammar learning at Westminster under Mr. Alex. Nowell in the latter end of King Hen. 8. or beginning of King Edw. 6. sent to Oxon to obtain Academical learning, but to what house therein, unless Ch. Ch. I cannot justly tell. From Oxon he went to Cambridge, and making some stay there, became at length domestic Chaplain to Sir Will. Brook Knight, Lord Warden of the Cinque ports and Baron of Cobham in Kent; who, if I mistake not, preferred him to a benefice. He hath written,  
Historical description of the Island of Britain: with a brief rehearsal of the nature and qualities of the People of England, and such commodities as are to be found in the same. In 3. books— They were first published in the first and second volume of Chronicles that go under the name of Raphael Holinshed, printed at Lond. 1577. in fol. and there again in 1587. with augmentations by Jo. Hooker alias Vowel. The collection is made from divers choice Authors, many of which were then in MS.  
A Chronologie.— Gathered and compiled with most exquisite diligence, after the example of Gerardus Mercator, and other late Chronoligers: So saith Raph. Holinshed in his Preface to the third volume of Chronicles. What he hath written besides, 
Clar. 1587.  I know not, nor any thing else, but that he was living in Fifteen hundred eighty and seven. I find one Will. Harrison born in the Dioc. of London, elected Bachelaur-Fellow of Merton Coll. 1557, admitted M. of Arts in 1560, being then beneficed near to Northampton, but he dying 1564 cannot be understood to be the same with the writer. Another Will. Harrison I find to be installed Canon of Windsor, 1586. being about that time Rector of Radwynter, (in Essex) who dying 1593. was buried at Windsor, leaving behind him several Children which he had by his Wife Marian Daughter of Will. Isebrand of Anderne near to Guisnes in Picardy. Whether this Will. Harrison be the same with the writer, I cannot tell.  
WILLIAM WATKINSON was educated in Ch. Ch. became Prebendary of Milverton in the Church of Wells after he had taken the Degree of Bach. of Arts, afterwards he was one of the Proctors, and Bach. of Divinity of this University. He hath translated into English. (1) Of the happiness of this our age, and the ingratitude of Men to God for his benefits. Lond. 1578. qu. Written by Joh. Rivius. (2) Meditations on the 32. Psalm. Lond. 1579. 
Clar. 1587.  oct. and other things, which I have not yet seen. How long he lived beyond Fifteen hundred eighty and seven (29. Elizab.) in which year he took the Degree of Bach. of Diu. I know not.  
ULPIAN FULWELL, a Somersethire Man born, and a Gentleman's Son, became a Commoner of St. Mary's Hall, in the Year 1578 aged 32 but whether he took any Degree among us, it appears not. While he continued in the said House, where he was esteemed a Person of ingenuity by his contemporaries, he partly wrote,  
The eighth liberal science, called Ars adulandi, or, the Art of flattery— Printed 1579. qu. Afterwards having learned the art of Poetry among the Academians, he wrote and published,  
A pleasant interlude, intit. Like will to like, quoth the Devil to the Collier. Wherein is declared what punishment follows those that will rather live licentiously, that esteem and follow good counsel. Lond. 1587. qu. 
Clar. 1587.  Written in time, and printed in an English Character. The name of Ulp. Fulwell stands quoted by Jo. Speed in his life of K. Ed. 6. in his Chronicle, and therefore I suppose he hath other things printed, for I cannot conceive that Joh. Speed should quote him for any thing out of the two former books.  
ROBERT CROWLEY, or Croleus as he writes himself, a very forward Man for reformation in the time of K. Ed. 6. and Qu. Elizab. was 
a Reg. 3. electionum soc. C. Magd. an. 1542.  born in Glocestershire, became a Student in the University about 1534, and was soon after made Demie of Magd. Coll. ●● 1542, he being then Bach. of Arts, was made Probationer-fellow of the said House by the name of Rob. Crule, but whether he took the Degree of Master of Arts it appears not; for likely it is, that he left the University when K. Hen. 8. began to settle a mongrel Religion in the Nation. When K. Ed. 6. began to Reign, he exercised the profession of Printing in Ely rends in Holbourn near to London, sold books, and at leisure times exercised the gift of Preaching in the great City and elsewhere: But upon the succession of Queen Mary, he, among several English Protestants, lest the Kingdom, went to Frankfort in Germany and settled there purposely to enjoy the Religion which had been practised in England in the days of K. Ed. 6. After her decease he returned, and had several benefices bestowed on him, among which was the Vicarage of St. Giles by Cripplegate in London, (of which Church he wrote himself Vicar 1566.) where continuing his pretended gifts in preaching, was followed and respected by the neighbourhood of those parts, and by others for his skill in rhymes and poetry. He hath written,  
The Supper of the Lord after the true meaning of the sixth of John, and the XI of the 1 Epist to the Corinthians, etc. And incidently in the exposition of the Supper, is confuted the Letter of Mr. Tho. More against Joh. Frith— Printed 5. Apr. 1533 in a small oct.  
Confutation of Nich. Shaxton Bishop of Sarum, his recantation of 13 Articles, at the burning of Mistress Anne Askew. Lond. 1546. (oct.)  
Explicatio petitoria (ad Parliamentum) adversus expilatores plebis.— Printed in the Engl. tongue 1548 in oct. Translated into Lat. by John Heron.  
Confutation of Miles Hoggard's wicked ballad made in defence of transubstantation of the Sacrament. Lond. 1548. oct.  
The voice of the last Trumpet blown by the seventh Angel, &c, containing 12 several lessons. Lond. 1549. oct. Written in metre.  
Pleasure and pain, heaven and hell. Remember these four and all shall be well. Lond. 1550 51. in oct. Written in metre.  
Way to wealth, wherein is plainly taught a most present remedy for sedition. Lond. 1550. oct.  
One and thirty Epigrams, wherein are briefly touched so many abuses, that may, and aught to, be put away. Lond. 1550. in tw. This was printed by the Author (Crowley) in his house in Ely rends beforementioned.  
An apology of those English Preachers and Writers, which Cerberus the threeheaded dog of hell, chargeth with false doctrine under the name of Predestination. Lond. 1566. qu. Of which book you may see more in Canterbury's doom, written by Will. Prynne, p. 169.  
Of the signs and tokens of the latter day. Lond. 1567. oct.  
A setting open of the subtle sophistry of Tho. Watson D. D. which he used in his two Sermons preached before Qu. May in Lent 1553 concerning the real presence in the Sacrament. Lond. 1569. qu.  
Sermon in the Chapel at Gild hall in London 29. Sept. 1574. before the Lord Mayor and the whole state of the City, on Psalm 139. ver. 21. 22. 23. 24. etc. Lond. 1575. oct.  
Answer to Tho. Pound his six reasons, wherein he showeth that the Scriptures must be judged by the Church. Lond. 1581. qu.  
Brief discourse concerning those four usual notes whereby Christ's Catholic Church is known, etc. Lond. 1581. qu.  
Replication to that lewd answer which Friar Joh. Francis (of the Minimies' order in Nigeon near Paris) hath made to a letter that his Mother caused to be sent to him out of England. Lond. 1586. qu.  
Deliberate answer to a Papist, proving that Papists are Antichristian Schismatics, and that religious Protestants are indeed right Catholics. Lond. 1587. qu.  
The School of virtue and book of good nurture, teaching Children and Youths their duties. Lond. 1588. oct. etc. This book is composed in Engl. metre, hath at the end of it certain prayers and graces, and is at this day commonly sold at the stalls of Ballad singers.  
Dialogue between Lent and Liberty, wherein is declared that Lent is a mere invention of Man. Lond. in oct. He also translated into English the Psalter of David; The Litany with Hymns, and turned into metre David's Psalms. All printed in the time of Ed. 6. in qu. an. 1549. etc. He also first of all published The Visions of Pierce Ploughman. Lond. 1550. qu. Which hath since, been once or twice made extant with corrections. At length this most zealous Person having lived to a fair age, mostly spent in continual action for the settlement and propagation of the Protestant Religion, submitted to the stroke of death in Fifteen hundred eighty and eight, year 1588. and was buried in the Chancel of the Church dedicated to St. Giles, situated and being near to Cripplegate in Lond. Over his grave was soon after a monumental stone laid, with this inscription engraven on a brass plate fastened thereunto. Here lieth the body of Robert Crowley Clerk, late Vicar of this Parish, who departed this life the 18 day of June, an. dom. 1588.  
GEORGE ETHRYG, or Etheridge, or, as he writes himself in Latin, Edrycus, was born in a market town in Oxfordshire called Thame, admitted Scholar of C. C. Coll. in Nou. 1534, being then put under the tuition of John Shepreve, and in Feb. 1539 was made Probationer-Fellow. In 1543 he was licenced to proceed in Arts, and two years after was admitted to the reading of any of the Books of Aphorisms of Hypocrates. At length being esteemed by all to be a most excellent Grecian, he was made the King's Professor of that language in the University about 1553, and kept that lecture till some time after Qu. Elizab. came to the Crown; and then, because he had been a forward Person against the Protestants in Qu. Mary's Reign, was forced to leave it. So that following the practice of his faculty of Medicine with good success in, and near, Oxon, especially among those of his opinion, gained a considerable stock of wealth. He mostly lived, and kept a Family in an ancient decayed place of literature called George hall opposite almost to the South end of Catstreet in St. Mary's Parish in Oxon, in which he took to him (in the condition of Sojournours) the Sons of divers Catholic Gentlemen to be instructed in several arts and sciences; among whom was Will. Gifford afterwards Archbishop of Rheimes, who received from him rudiments in Grammar, Music, and partly in Logic. He constantly adhered to the R. Catholic Religion, wherein he had been zealously educated, for which he suffered at the reformation by losing his lecture (perhaps his Fellowship too) and by continual imprisonments to be great impoverishment of his health and estate. In a word, he was esteemed by most Persons, especially by those of his opinion, a noted Mathematician, well skilled in vocal and instrumental Music, an eminent Hebrician, Grecian, and Poet, and above all an excellent Physician, as it appears in certain books of his composition, the titles of which follow.  
Musical compositions.  
Diversa Carmina.  
MS.  
Acta Henrici octavi, carmine Graec. Presented in MS. 
† Vide. Hist. & Antiq. Uniu. Ox. lib. 1. p. 289. a.  to Qu. Elizabeth when she was in Oxon. 1566.  
Hypomnemata quaedam in aliquot libros Pauli Aeginetae, seu observationes medicamentorum quae hâc aetate in usu sunt. Lond. 1588. oct. He also turned the Psalms of David into a short form of Hebrew verse, and translated most, if not all, of the works of Justin Martyr from Greek into Latin, with other things, which I have not yet seen. He was living an ancient Man in fifteen hundred eighty and eight, 
Clar. 1588.  but when, or where he died, I know not, nor where buried unless in the ayard of St. Mary's Church in Oxon, in which his Father and Mother were before buried. John Leland who was his familiar friend did celebrate his memory 
* In Princ. & illustr. aliquot & erudit. in Angl. virorum encomii, etc. Lond. 1589. p. 111.  by verse while he lived, and told him thus. 
Scripsisti juvenis multâ cum laude libellos,  
Qui Regi eximiè perplacuere meo.   
PETER LEVENS or Levins was born at, or near, Eske in Yorkshire, became a Student in the University, an. 1552, was elected probationer-Fellow of Madg. Coll. into a Yorkshire place 18. Jan. 1557. being then Bach. of Arts, and on the 19 Jan. 1559, was admitted true and perpetual Fellow. In 1560. he left his fellowship, and one Thomas Dunne M. A: succeeded him, but whether our Author Levens proceeded in Arts, or took a degree in Physic, or was licenced to practise that Faculty, it appears not in our Registers. Afterwards he taught a Grammar-School, and practised Physic, which is all I know of him, only that he wrote and published these things following.  
A Dictionary of English and Latin words, etc. the English going before the Latin; necessary for Scholars that want variety of words, and for such as use to write in English metre. Lond. 1570. in 18. sh. in qu.  
A right profitable book for all diseases called the Pathway to health; wherein are most excellent and approved medicines of great virtue, as also notable potions and drinks, and for the Distilling of divers waters, and making of Oils and other comfortable receipts, Lond. 1587. qu. The Author is styled in the title page Master of Arts of Oxon. and student in Physic and chirurgery. 
Clar. 1580.  This Book was afterwards several times printed with corrections; and one Edition came out at Lond. 1664. what else Peter Levens hath written I cannot yet tell.  
THOMAS SAMPSON was born about the year 1517 educated in Grammar and Academical learning amongst the Oxonian Muses, afterwards studied the municipal Laws in one of the Temples, where being converted to the Protestant Religion, did shortly after, as 'tis said, convert John Bradford the Martyr. Whereupon they both taking Orders from Nich. Ridley Bishop of London, became noted Preachers in the Reign of Ed. 6, and about that time Samson, as 'tis said, was made Dean of Chichester. In the beginning of Qu. Marry he absconded, at which time being well acquainted with one Rich. Chambers a zealous Protestant, they collected moneys in the City of London from the well affected there, to be distributed among such poor Scholars of each University, that were haters of the Roman Catholic Religion. Which matter being at length discovered, he, with his wife the Niece of Hugh Latimer were forced with Chambers to go beyond the Seas to Strasburge, where wholly applying himself to the study of Divinity, as much advanced in the knowledge thereof by his often associating himself with learned Tremelius. After Queen Elizabeth came to the Crown he returned to his native country, and became a frequent Preacher in London and much followed by the reformed party there, and afterwards in the north parts of England. In 1560. the Queen designed him to be Bishop of Norwich, but he altogether refused it, for no other reason, as 'twas supposed, but that he was much disaffected to the Hierarchy and Ceremonies of the Church of England. In the latter end of the said year (in the beginning of March) he supplicated the venerable congregation of Regent's of this University, that whereas he had for the space of 16 years studied Divinity he might be admitted to the reading of Epistles of S. Paul, that is to the degree of Bach. of Divinity which was before the time of Reformation, to the reading of the Book of Sentences. This supplicat was granted by, notwithstanding he had taken no Degree before among, them, as it appears from the public Registers. In the same congregation he supplicated also that after he was admitted Bach. of Divinity he might have liberty to proceed in the same Faculty; but to that no answer was given. Afterwards he supplicated that he might not only use the habit of Master of Arts in the time of his admission to the Degree of Bach. of Divinity, but afterwards also while he continued in that state. Which request, though granted simpliciter, yet it doth not appear that he was admitted to that Degree. In Michaelmas term, 1561. he was installed Dean of Christ Church in Oxon, in the place of Dr. George Carew, and soon after in the month of November he supplicated the congregation of Regent's, that it might be lawful for him to Preach within the limits of the University in a doctoral habit. Which desire, being, as they thought, unreasonable, yet because he was a Dean they granted it only to continue till the Act following. At that time there being a great scarcity of Divines in the University, and but very few Masters, he the said Samson and Laur. Humphrey of Magd. Coll. another severe Calvinist, preached by turns every Lord's day either at St. Mary's or elsewhere to the Academians, and soon after got another brother of Allsouls Coll. (as 'tis said) to join with them, but who that was, unless Andrew Kingsmyll LL. B. who afterwards out of pure sanctity went to Geneva, I know not. But Samson being too severe a Calvinist, if not worse, to govern such a noted Coll. as Ch. Ch. (for he was an enemy to Organs, ornaments of the Church, clerical vestments, the square cap, (he always in imitation of Humphrey wearing the round cap) and rather a persuader from, than encourager, to use them) he was at length, after a great many of admonitions from authority to conform, and entreaties from certain Bishops so to do, removed from his Deanery by the sentence of Matthew Archbishop of Canterbury, an. 1564. Afterwards he obtained the Mastership of the Hospital of Will. de Wygston at Leycester, (besides the Penitentiaryship, or the Prebend of St. Pancras in the Cathedral Church of St. Paul) where continuing for some time in teaching, he was by the leave and favour of the Queen permitted to be a Theological Lecturer in Whittingdon Coll. in London: but before he had enjoyed that place 6 years, he was taken with the palsy. Whereupon retiring to his hospital spent the remaining part of his days in preaching and writing. Those works that go under his name are these.  
Letter to the professors of Christ's Gospel, in the Parish of Allhallows in Bredstreet, Lond. Strasburg 1554 oct.  
A warning to take heed of Fowler's Psalter. Lond. 1578. oct. See in John Fowler under the Year 1578.  
Brief collection of the Church and Ceremonies thereof. Lond. 1581. oct.  
Prayers and meditations Apostolic: gathered and framed out of the Epistles of the Apostles, etc. Lond. 1592. in 16ᵒ. He also corrected, and caused to be published Two Sermons, the first of repentance, the other of the Lords Supper. Lond. 1581. oct. written by his friend Joh. Bradford, with other things of that Author. At length Tho. Samson having lived beyond the age of Man in a perpetual motion (as 'twere) for the carrying on of the holy cause, laid down his head, and gave up the ghost on the 9 Apr. in Fifteen hundred eighty and nine, year 1589 whereupon his body was buried in the Chapel of the Hospital of Will. de Wygston beforementioned. Over his grave was a monument soon after fastened to the South wall thereof, with an inscription on it, erected by his Sons John and Nathaniel Samson. A copy of which, with other matters of the said Author, which I have not here mentioned, you may see in Hist. & Antiq. Uniu. Ox. lib. 2. p. 254. From this Tho. Samson, is, if I mistake not, descended Tho. Samson a pretender to Poetry, Author of Fortune's fashion portrayed in the troubles of Lady Elizab. Grace, Wife of Edw. 4. Lond. 1613. qu. a Poem. dedicated to Henr. Pilkington of Gadsby in Leicestershire.  
JOHN BROWNSWERD or Brunswerdus as he writes himself, a most noted Master of the Latin Tongue, was born, as I conceive, in Cheshire, and had a considerable part of his education in this University, but mostly, as 'tis thought, in Cambridge, where, I presume, he took one, or more Degrees. After his retreat thence, he settled at Macclesfield in Cheshire, where he taught the Free-school with very good success, and having obtained a good report, and honourable advancement in the Latin Empire, was deservedly numbered amongst the best Latin Poets that lived in the Reign of Qu. Elizab. His works are,  
Progymnasmata aliquot poemata. Lond. 1590. qu. with other things which I have not yet seen. He took his last farewell of this world on the 15. Apr. year 1589 in Fifteen hundred eighty and nine, and was buried in the Chancel of the Church of Macclesfield before-mentioned. In which year Tho. Newton his sometimes Scholar did publish a book of Encomia's of certain illustrious Men of England, in which he hath this Distich of Brownswerd. 
Rhetora, Grammaticum, Polyhistora teque poetam  
Quis negat: is lippus, luscus, obesus, iners.   
And soon after, the said Newton, whose respect to his memory was great, set up a Monument on the South wall of the said Chancel, with an inscription thereon, styling Brownswerd, Vir pius & doctus, and concluding with these two verses. 
Alpha poetarum, Coryphaeus Grammaticorum,  
Flos Paedagogor●a hac sepelitur humo.   
GEORGE PETTIE, a younger Son of John le Petite or Petty of Tetsworth and Stoke-Tatmach in Oxfordshire Esq; was born in that County, and at about 16 years of age, an. 1564 was a Scholar or Student of Ch. Ch. under Mr. Tho. Barnard Canon thereof, and took one Degree in Arts as a member of that house in the latter end of the Year 1568. Soon after he left the University, traveled beyond the Seas, and at length became excellent for his passionate penning of amorous stories, equal for poetical invention with his dear Friend Will. Gager, and as much commended for his neat stile as any of his time. He hath written a book intit.  
A Petite palace of Petty his pleasure, containing many pretty stories in comely colours and most delightful discourses— Printed at Lond. twice at least in an English character, one of which editions bears date, 1608. in qu. written in imitation of a book intit. The palace of pleasure beautified, adorned and well furnished with pleasant histories and excellent Novels, etc. Lond. 1569. qu. written by Will. Painter Clerk of the ordinance and armoury within the Tower of London. The aforesaid Petite palace, etc. I have in my study, and for the respect I bear to the name of the Author (he having been uncle to my Mother Maria la Petite) I will keep it, but 'tis so far now from being excellent or fine, that it is more fit to be read by a Schoolboy, or rustical amoratto, than by a Gent. of mode or language. The said George Petty translated from French into English, (with a preface of his own put to it,) The civile conversation of M. Stephen Guazzo, in 4. books.— Lond. 1586. qu. written originally in the Italian tongue, which I have also. Three of the said books were translated by the said Petty, the fourth was begun by him, but finished by Barthelm. Young of the Middle Temple Gentleman, being the same Barthelmew, as I think, who lived afterwards at Ashurst in Kent, and died therein 1621. What other matters G. Pettie hath written, or translated, I cannot tell, nor do I know any thing material of him besides, only that he died in the prime of his years at Plymouth in Devonshire (being then a Captain and a Man of note) about the latter end of July in Fifteen hundred eighty and nine, year 1589 and was buried, as I have been told, in the great Church there. The Lands which he had by his Father's gift in Aston-Rowant, in Kingston in the Parish thereof, and at Tetsworth in Oxfordshire, he gave to his Brother Christopher Pettie.  
JOHN GARBRAND alias Herks Son of Garbrand Herks a Dutch Man and Bookseller living sometimes in St. Mary's Parish in Oxon, was born within the City of Oxon, educated in Grammar learning in Wykehams' School near Winchester, admitted perpetual Fellow of New Coll. an. 1562, being esteemed then a good Poet. Afterwards, he, by the favour of Bishop Jewel (who had been well acquainted with his Father while he lived in the University) became Prebendary of Yatesbury in the Church of Salisbury, on the resignation of Tho. white LL. D. in Nou. 1565, being then only Bach. of Arts, and Prebendary of Minor pars Altaris in the said Church. In 1567. he left his Coll. and on the 18. of March 1568 he was made Preb. of Chute and Cheesenbury in the said Church of Sarum, on the deprivation of Joh. Fuller, Garbrand being then Rector of North-Crowley in Bucks. In 1582 he took the Degrees in Divinity, was then accounted an eminent Theologist and a noted Preacher, but withal a severe Puritan. He hath gathered together, corrected and completed several things of the said B. Jewel, whom he in a marvellous manner had admired, as ay A view of a seditious bull sent into England from Pius 5. Pope of Rome, an. 1569. (2) A short treatise of the Holy Scriptures. Lond 1582. oct. Both which Jewel delivered in divers Sermons in the Cathedral Church of Salisbury, an. 1570. (3) An exposition on the two Epistles to the Thessalonians. Lond. in oct. (4) Certain Sermons preached at Paul's Cross. Lond. 1583. oct. They are in number six. (5) Treatise of the Sacraments, gathered out of certain Sermons preached at Salisbury. Lond. 1583. oct. This Dr. Garbrand died in the Winter time (about Christmas) in Fifteen hundred eighty and nine, year 1589 and was buried in the Church of North-Crowley beforementioned. He gave by his will several books to New Coll. Library: And all such books and papers that were given to him by B. Jewel, as also all such loose sheets which he the said Garbrand had drawn for common places, gathered out of that Bishop's books, he gave to Rob. Chaloner and John Rainolds Doctors of Divinity.  
LAURENCE HUMPHREY, or Humfredus as he sometimes writes himself, was born at a market Town called Newport Paynell in Bucks. educated in Latin and Greek learning at Cambridge, made Demie of Magd. Coll. in Oxon, 1547, perpetual Fellow two years after, (being then Bach. of Arts) and Master of the said faculty in 1552. About that time he was made Greek reader of his Coll. took holy orders and became a zealous and forward student in the Theological faculty. In June 1555 (2. and 3. of Phil. and Mary) the Precedent, Vicepresident, Deans, etc. of that Coll. gave leave 
* Reg. act. Coll. Magd. fol. 11. a.  to the said Humphrey, who in the opinion of all was much commended for his life and conversation, as also for the excellency of his learning and wit, that he might freely for the cause of study travel into trasmarine parts for one year, conditionally that he contain himself from those places that are suspected to be heretical or favourers of heresy, and that also he refrain from the company, who are, or were authors of heresy or heretical opinions, etc. Which leave being procured, he went forthwith to Zurich and associated himself with the English exiles there, that had fled from the Nation for Religion sake. After the death of Qu. Marry he returned to his Coll. and was restored to his Fellowship, having been expelled thence because he did not return thereunto, after his time of leave was expired. In the Year 1560 he was constituted the Queen's Professor of Divinity in the University of Oxon, being then about 34 years of age, at which time was a very great scarcity of Theologists throughout the body of Students, and in the year following he was elected Precedent of his Coll. In 1562 he took the Degrees in Divinity, and in 1570 he was made Dean of Gloucester upon the promotion of Dr. Tho. Cooper to the See of Lincoln. In 1580 he was constituted Dean of Winchester, in the place of Dr. Joh. Watson promoted to the See of Winchester, which was the highest preferment he had among the Clergy; and the reason for it (as 'twas guested) was, because that in matter of ceremony or indifferency, he altogether consented not to the Church of England. For the truth is, that from the City of Zurich (remarkable for the Preachings and death of Zwinglius) and the correspondence that he had at Geneva, he brought back with him at his return into England so much of the Calvinian both in doctrine and discipline, that the best that could be said of him was, that he was a moderate and conscientious Nonconformist. Whence 'twas that by his being many years' Precedent of Magd. College, public Professor of Diu. in the University and several times Vicechancellor, he did not only, upon advantage issuing from those place, stock his Coll. with a generation of Nonconformists, which could not be rooted out in many years after his decease, but sowed also in the Divinity School such seeds of Calvinisme, and laboured to create in the younger sort such a strong hatred against the Papists, as if nothing but divine truths were to be found in the one, and nothing but abominations were to be seen in the other. This was the opinion of several eminent Divines of the Church of England, yet one 
a Gabr. Harvey LL. D. Oxon. in his Pierce's supererogation, etc. Lond. 1573. qu. p. 92.  that lived in his time and knew him, saith that he and Dr. Will. Fulke of Cambridge, whom he styles standard bearers for a long time of the Nonconformists, did grow conformable in the end, as they grew riper in experience and sager in judgement: Howsoever it was, sure it is, that Humphrey was a great and general Scholar, an able linguist, a deep Divine, and for his excellency of stile, exactness of method and substance of matters in his writings, he went beyond most of our Theologists. An eminent 
b Tob. Matthew in Conc. Apologetica, edit. Oxon. 1628. p. 75.  Archbishop who knew him well saith that be (Dr. Humphrey) had read more Fathers, than Campian the Jesuit ever saw, devoured more than he ever tasted, and that he had taught more in this University than he either had learned or heard. Dr. Humphrey hath written,  
Epistola de Graecis literis, & Homeri lectione & imitatione, ad Praesidem & Socios Coll. B. Mar. Magd. Oxon. Set before a book intit. Cornu copiae, etc. written by Hadrian Junius— Bas. 1558. The beginning of the said Epistle is Patriae communis nostrae, etc.  
De religionis conservatione & reformatione deque primatu Regum. Bas. 1559. oct.  
De ratione interpretandi authores. Bas. 1559. oct. At the end of which is the Prophecy of Obadiah in Hebr. and Lat. and Philo de judice in Greek and Latin; done by our Author Humphrey.  
Optimates sive de nobilitate, ejusque antiquâ origine, natura, officiis, disciplina, etc. lib. 3. Bas. 1560. oct. At the end of which is Humphries translation from Greek into Lat. of Philo Judaeus his book De nobilitate. Optimates was afterwards translated into English by Anon. and printed at Lond. 1563. oct.  
Oratio Woodstochiae habita ad illustriss. R. Elizab. 31. Aug. 1572. Lond. 1572. in 3 sh. or more in qu.  
Johannis Juelli Angli, Episc. Sarisburiensis vita & mors, ejusque verae doctrinae defensio, etc. Lond. 1573. qu. From which is taken an abstract of the said Bishop's life, published in oct. in the English tongue, by one who writes himself a Person of quality, an 1685, put at the end of a translation into English of Jewels Apology and his Epistle to Scipio.  
Orat. in Aula Woodstoc. hab. ad illustr. R. Elizab. an. 1575. Lond. 1575. qu. The beginning is Eloquar an sileam, etc.  
De fermento vitando: concio in Math. 16. Marc. 8. Luc. 12. Jesus dixit illis, videte & cavete à fermento Pharisaeorum. Lond. 1582. Rupel. 1585. oct.  
Jesuitismi pars prima: sive de praxi Rom. curiae contra respubls. & principes, etc. Lond. 1582. in a large oct.  
Jesuitismi pars secunda: Puritano-papismi, seu doctrinae Jesuiticae aliquot rationibus ab Edm. Campiano comprehensae, & à Joh. Duraeo defensae, confutatio, etc. Lond. 1584. in a large oct.  
Apologetica Epistola ad Academiae Oxoniensis Cancellarium. Rupel. 1585. oct.  
Seven Sermons against treason 1 Sam. cap. 26. 8. 9 10. 11, etc. Lond. 1588. oct.  
Concio in die Cinerum. Pr. in oct. He also (with Rob. Crowley) hath written a book against that of Miles Hoggeard, published in Qu. Mary's Reign against the Protestants, and other things which I have not yet seen: And reviewed, corrected and published Joh. Shepreves book intit. Summa & Synopsis N. Testamenti, etc. At length after Dr. Humphrey had spent most part of his time in a studious and retired condition, though with little comfort of his Wife and male Children, he departed this mortal life on the kalends of Febr. 
1589-90.  in Fifteen hundred eighty and nine, aged 63, and was buried at the upper end of the inner Chapel of Magd. Coll. Soon after was a comely mon, set over his grave, in the South wall; which, when the said Chap. was adorned, and paved with Marble, was removed, and set up on the S. wall of the outer Chapel: The inscription of which, you may read in Hist. & Antiq. Uniu. Oxon. lib. 2. p. 208. b. and some things said of him in lib. 1. p. 287. a. 288. a. b. 292. a. 304. a. 310. a etc. He took to Wife in the beginning of Qu. Elizabeth one Joan the Daughter of Andr. Inkfordby of Ipswych in Suffolk by whom he had 7 Sons and 5 Daughters, She died 27. Aug. 1611. aged 74 and was buried in the Chancel of Steple Barton Church in Oxfordshire; over whose grave her eldest Dau. called Justina the Wife of Caspar Dormer of the said place Esque erected a fair Monument, as she had before done over that of her Father in Magd. Coll. Chappel.  
JOHN-BANISTER was born of honest and wealthy Parents, but in what County I know not; studied Logicals for a time in this University; afterwards entering upon the Physic line, solely gave himself up to the study of that faculty and chirurgery. In 1573 he was licenced by this University to practice Physic; about which time being settled in the ancient borough of Nottingham lived there many years in great esteem, and was wonderfully followed by all sorts of People for his happy practice in that and chirurgery. His works are,  
A needful, new, and necessary treatise of chirurgery, briefly comprehending the general and particular curation of ulcers. Lond. 1575. oct.  
Certain experiments of his own invention, etc.  
History of Man, sucked from the sap of the most approved Anatomists, etc. in 9 books— Lond. 1578. in a thin fol.  
Compendious chirurgery, gathered and translated especially out of Wecker, etc. Lond. 1585. in tw.  
Antidotary chirurgical, containing variety of all sorts of Medicines, 
Clar. 1589.  etc. Lond. 1589. oct. What other books he hath published I know not, nor any thing else of him, only that he was in great renown in the middle of the Reign of Qu. Elizabeth. several years after his death came out his works in six books, as 

1 Of tumors in general and particular  
2 Of Wounds in general and particular  
3 Of Ulcers in general and particular  
4 Of Fractures and Luxations, (5) Of the curation of Ulcers, and (6) antidotary, beforemention'd. All which six books were printed at Lond. 1633. qu.    
THOMAS RANDOLPHE Son of Averey Randolphe of Badlesmere in Kent, was born in that County, made Student of Ch. Ch. when K. Hen. 8. turned it into a Cathedral, admitted Bach. of the Civil Law 1547 and about that time was made a public notary. In 1549. Nou. 20. he succeeded Rob. Weston in the principality of Broadgates' hall, which he kept till 1553, and then Tho. Stempe LL. D. was admitted into his place. In the Reign of Qu. Elizab. he being then Doctor of his faculty, he was 
c Camd. in 〈◊〉 Elizab. an. 1590.  employed in several Embassies, as thrice to the Peers in Scotland, thrice to Q. Mary of Scotland, after her return from France; seven times to K. James the 6. of Scotland, thrice to John Basilides Emperor of Russia, once to Charles the 9 of France and again to Hen. 3. The Queen of England, who knighted him, rewarded these his services with the Chamberlains office in the Exchequer, heretofore a place of great honour and worth, the Mastership or office of controller general of the Post horses, and with some small Land. He hath written,  
An account of his Embassage to the Emperor of Russia, an. 1568.— Remitted into the first vol. of Rich. Hakeluyts voyages. Lond. 1598. He then (in 1568) procured privileges from the Emperor of Russia for the English Merchants trafficking there.  
Instructions given to, and notes to be observed by, James Bassendine, Jam. Woodcock and Rich. Browne for the searching of the Sea, and border of the coast, from the river Pechora, to the Eastwards, an. 1588.— There was then a commission granted to Sir Thom. Randolphe for the searching of those parts, but he entrusted the matter with the 3 Persons beforementioned. See more in the said vol. of voyages by R. Hakeluyt. At length after Sir Thomas had painfully spent his time in sundry and frequent Embassies, and in continual services of his Prince and Country, at home and abroad, he quietly surrendered up his last breath in his house at St. Peter's hill near to Paul's Wharf in London, year 1590. on the 8. of June in Fifteen hundred and ninety, aged 67, (leaving then behind him several Children that he had by two Wives) whereupon his body, accompanied by one or two Heralds of arms, was buried 6. July following in the Church of St. Peter near to the said Wharf. Besides this Tho. Randolphe a Statesman, hath been another of both his names of a later date, and a most celebrated Poet of his time; of whom, by the way, I desire the reader to know these matters following, viz. that he was born at Newnham near to Daintry in Northamptonshire, 15 June 1605, Son of Will. Rondolphe of Hams near to Lewis in Sussex (Steward to Edw. Lord Zouch) by Elizabeth his Wife, Dau. of Tho. Smith of Newnham before mentioned, educated in Westminster School, and went thence (being one of the King's Scholars) to Trinity Coll. in Cambridge 1623. of which he became Fellow. Afterwards he commenced Master of Arts, in which Degree he was incorporated at Oxon, became famous for his ingenuity, an adopted Son of Benj. Johnson, and accounted one of the most pregnant wits of his age; the quickness of which was first discovered when he was about 9 or 10 years old, when then he wrote the History of the incarnation of our Saviour, in verse, which is at this day preserved in MS. under his own hand writing. When he arrived to Man's Estate, and perhaps before, he wrote (1) Poems. (2) The Muse's Looking-glass, a Comedy. (3) Amyntas or the impossible dowry, a Pastoral. (4) Aristippus, or the jovial Philosopher, etc. Trag. presented in a private show. (5) The conceited Pedlar; presented in a strange show.— Lond. 1630. qu. (6) Jealous Lovers, Tr. Com. (7) hay for honesty, down with knavery. Com. Translated out of Aristophanes his Plutus: Augmented and published by F. J. Lond. 1651. qu. All which, except the last, were gathered together, and printed in one vol. by the care of his Brother Rob. Randolphe Student of Ch. Ch. in Oxon. being then commended to the world by divers Poets of the said University. Several other things of the like nature, were expected from the said young Poet Th. Randolphe, but by indulging himself too much with the liberal conversation of his admirers (a thing incident to Poets) brought him untimely to his end, in the House of Will. Stafford of Blatherwyke in Northamptonshire Esq; (having spent some time in that of his Father at Little Houghton in the said County in his delightful studies) Whereupon his body being buried in an Isle, joining to the Church at that place (among those of the Staffords) on the 17 day of March, a 1634, had soon after a Monument of white Marble, wreathed about with laurel, erected over his grave, at the charge of Sir Christopher (afterwards Lord) Hatton of Kirby. The inscription on which, in Lat. and Engl. ver. was made by the Poet's Friend Pet. Hausted of Cambridge.  
DAVID POWELL, a learned searcher into the bowels of venerable antiquity, and the most skilful Person in British histories that his time produced, was born in Denbighshire, entered a Member of this University in 1566 or thereabouts, but in what Coll. or Hall resident, I know not. Sure 'tis that as soon as Jesus Coll. was founded (1571) he translated himself thereunto, took the Degrees in Arts as a Member thereof, holy Orders, and at length was made Vicar of Ruabon in his own Country. About that time he had conferred on him a Dignity in one of the Cathed. in Wales (St. Asaph I think) grew famous for his learning, and soon after took the Degrees in Divinity. His works are,  
Annotationes in itinerarium Cambriae, scriptum per Silu. Giraldum Cambrensem. Lond. 1585. oct. Franc. 1603.  
Annot. in Cambr. descriptionem, script. per Silu. Giraldum.  
De Britannica historia rectè intelligenda, Epistola ad Gul, Fleetwoodum civet. Lond. Recordatorem. Which two last books are printed with his Annotationes in Itin. Cambr. He also took a great deal of pains in making a Welsh Dictionary, but died before he could perfect it; corrected also and published Historia Britannica, written by Ponticus Virunnius, in 6 books,— Lond. 1585. oct. And amended and augmented The History of Combria now called Wales; which was translated into English by Humph. Lhoyd Gent.— Lond. 1584. qu. This History of Cambria was originally written in Latin by Caradoc a Monk of Lancarvan, and by him continued till the Year 1156. Afterwards being yearly augmented by several hands, was, as I have told you, translated into English by H. Lhoyd as you may see under the Year 1570, but he dying before he could come near to the end of it, 'twas finished by our Author D. powel, and by him published. What else he hath transmitted to posterity, I find not, nor any thing more of him, only that he was buried in his Church of Ruabon (as the Ancients there say, though the register not, because 'tis imperfect) about Fifteen hundred and ninety, year 1590. and that his Son Sam. powel succeeded him in the Vicarage of that Village. They add also that he had left behind him several things sit to be printed, but what became of them after his death they could not tell. The next that 〈…〉 is one, who was accounted an eminent Scholar of his time, as by the generality of writers is confessed.  
DANIEL ROGERS, a most accomplished Gent. of his time, who puts in some of his writings the addition of Albimontanus to his name, was the Son of John Rogers (by his Wife Adriana Prat alias de Weyden) Son of Joh. Rogers of Derytend in the Parish of Aston in Warwickshire, was by his Father's care strictly educated in juvenile learning, but at the coming to the Crown of Q. Marry, being then about 13 years of age, he went with his Father, as it seems, beyond the Seas for Religion sake; where settling at Francfort, obtained great knowledge in humane learning, especially in the Greek tongue. After his return in the beginning of Q. Elizabeth, he was sent to Oxon, but to what particular Hall or Coll. therein, I know not. In July 1561 he was admitted Bach. of Arts, and in the beginning of Aug. following was licenced to proceed in the same faculty; the first of which Degrees he completed not by Determination, nor the other by standing in the Comitia. Afterwards taking to Wife Susan Dau. of Nicasius Yetswiert secretary of the French tongue to Q. Eliz. and one of the Clerks of the signet, was introduced into the Court, where his most admirable parts being quickly discerned, he became one of the Clerks of the Council to that Queen, and often employed by her in 
d Ibid. in Annalib. Camdeni, an. 1575. 77. & 88 vide Jac. Aug. Thuan. in Historiarum suit temp. lib. 89. p. 264.  Embassies, as into the Netherlands an. 1575., to Don Joh. of Austria 1577, and to the K. of Denmark in 1588. He was a very good Man, excellently well learned, a good Lat. Poet, and one that was especially beloved by the famous Antiquary and Historian W. Camden, for whose sake he had laid the foundation of,  
A discouse concerning the Acts of the Britain's, the form of their Commonwealth, and the order and laws by which they lived— Which discourse he intended to communicate to the said Camden, to have it inserted in his Britannia, but he died 
e Idem Camden in Britannia in cap. de morib. & consuetudinibus Britannorum.  before 'twas finished. He wrote also,  
Odae, Epigrammata, Epitaphia, etc. in laudem & mortem Johannis Juelli Episc. Sarisbur. See at the end of the said Jewels life written by L. Humphrey. He hath also published certain Latin Poems, which are quoted by the said Camden in his discourse 
f lb. in Belgic.  of the City of Salisbury, and Poems in English mentioned by other Persons with great commendation, but these I have not yet seen. He hath also Lat. verses occasionally printed in other Authors, as before Ortelius his Theatrum orbis terrarum, and an Epigram to the University of Oxon, in Ralph Agas his Accurate description (or Type) of the said University, an. 1578. He yielded up his last breath to him that gave it, on the 11th of Febr. 
1590-91.  in Fifteen hundred and ninety; whereupon his body accompanied by an Herald or two, was buried on Shrove-tuesday the 16 of the same month near to that of Nicas. Yetswiert beforementioned in the Church of Sunbury near to Hampton-court in Middlesex. I find another Dan. Roger's later in time than the former, who among several things that he hath published are, (1) David's cost, wherein every one who is desirous to serve God aright, may see what it must cost him. Lond. 1619. oct. being the effect of certain Sermons. (2) A practical Catechism. Lond. 1633. (3) Lectures upon the History of Naaman the Syrian, his disease and cure. Lond. 1642— 50. fol. (4) Matrimonial honour, or the crown and comfort of marriage, etc. Lond 1642. qu. with other things which I have not yet seen. But this D. Rogers who was a Man of most rare parts, was educated in Christ's Coll. in Cambridge, afterwards a Minister and Bach. of Diu. and I think the same, who was Parson of Haversham in Bucks. qu.  
ARTHUR FAUNT, a most noted Jesuit of his time, Son of Will. Faunt of Foston in Leicestershire Esq. was born of an ancient and gentile Family living at that place, an. 1554, and being very studious and delighted in Letters while he was a Child, became fit for Academical studies at 14 years of age. Whereupon being sent to Merton Coll. in 1568 he was committed to the tuition of the most noted Philosopher of that house named Joh. Potts; who, though he had been before ejected by Mr. Jo. Man the Warden, yet was he permitted to attend his Pupil, whom he before had instructed in Grammar in the Country. But the said Potts being a R. Cath. or else an hearty wellwisher to the Popish Religion, he took away his Pupil from the said Coll. with the advice of his relations (who were Catholics also) and in the beginning of 1570 conducted him to Louvain in Brabant, where entering him into the Coll. of the Jesuits the same year, left him and went into Ireland. In the said Coll. he continued till he was Bach. of Arts; at which time, having a desire to travel, he went to Paris, where he remained for a time. Thence he went to Mynchen or Munchen a City and University in Bavaria, where William Duke of that Province, did, for the towardliness that he saw in him, choose him for his Scholar, and maintained him in the said University. While he continued there, he took the Degree of Master of Arts, and then having an ardent desire to study Divinity, he departed thence in the Year 1575., went to the English Coll. of Jesuits at Rome, made a very forward progress in that faculty, and changed his name to Laurence Arthur Faunt. Not long after, he was constituted Divinity reader in the said Coll. and was in very great favour with P. Greg. 13. who, had he lived a little longer, would, as 'twas then supposed, have honoured our profound Author Faunt with a Cardinals cap. However in token of his love, he gave him, on his humble desire, licence to make a seal, that by virtue of it, which should be set to a writing to be drawn up by him, any of his Countrymen (whose welfare he ever tendered) might with safety pass through any Country, without peril of the Spanish inquisition, or any danger else whatsoever. In the mean time the K. of Poland having settled a Coll. for Jesuits at Posna, a City in his Dominions, our Author was sent by the said Pope to be Governor thereof. So that leaving Rome in order for that employment 10. June 1581., he was not long after received there with ceremony. Where, for his great learning, gravity, wisdom, and his religious life and conversation, he was held in great esteem by the spiritual and temporal estates of that Nation. While he remained there, he wrote several books, among which these following are some.  
Doctrina Catholica de Sanctorum invocatione, & veneratione, etc. Posnan. 1584. oct.  
Coenae Lutheranorum & Calvinianorum oppugnatio. part. 2. Posnan. 15986. qu.  
Catholicae Eucharistiae defensio. Printed with Caena, etc.  
Apologia Libri sui de invoc. & venerat. Sanctorum contra falsas Danielis Tossani criminationes, etc. Col. Agrip. 1589. in oct. He also wrote without his name set to it,  
Tractatus de controversiis in ordinem ecclesiasticum & secularem in Polonia. Print. an. 1592. in qu. With other things which the Bib. script. of his society will tell you. This worthy Person, who was much celebrated in his time, gave way to fate at Vilna the chief City of the Province of Lithuania in Poland, on the 28. Febr. according to the account there followed, 
1592/9●.  in Fifteen hundred ninety and one, (which is ninety with us) after he had religiously served in the society of Jesus about 25 years, to their great renown and honour. The next Person in order to be mentioned is one, as famous in his way, as the former, but of the reformed Religion.  
THOMAS MOUFET or Muffet was born in London, in or near St. leonard's Shoreditch, as I conceive, because his name and relations lived in that Parish, and one John Muffet died there in 1596. After he had been educated in Grammar learning in that City, he spent some time in this University, afterwards traveled into divers Countries in Europe, where he became known to the most eminent Men, especially Physicians and Chemists of that time, and was doctorated in Physic in some noted University in his travels. After his return, he fell into very great practice within the City of his nativity, became much honoured and beloved by Peregrine Bertie Lord Willoughby of Eresbie, and esteemed the famous ornament of the body of Physicians, and the true pattern of all polite and solid Literature. He hath written,  
De jure & praestantia Chemicorum Medicamentorum dialogus Apologeticus. Francof 1584. Ursell. 1602. oct. and in the first volume of Theatrum Chemicum, Argent. 1623. oct. pag. 70.  
Epistolae quinque Medicinales. Most of which wer● written to one whom the Author calls Philalethes a Germane Chemist. They were printed with the former book in that impression of 1602, and I think elsewhere.  
Nosomantica Hippocratea; sive Hippocratis prognostica cuncta, ex omnibus ipsius scriptis methodicè digesta, etc. Franc. 1588. oct. in 9 books. He also, by his great labour and charge, did enlarge, and finish, Insectorum sive minimorum Animalum Theatrum; olim ab Edw. Wottono, Conrado Gesnaro, Thomaque Pennio inchoatum. Which Book the Author leaving behind him in MS. at his Death, it came some years after into the hands of Sir Theod. de Mayern, Knight, who published it in Fol. at Lond, 1634. with an Epistle Dedicatory before, and Preface to, it: But before that time some imperfect Copies of it were published by Laur Scholzius, an. 1598., etc. This Book was published in the English Tongue at Lond. 1658. Fol. by J. R. M. D. Dr. Moufet hath written also,  
Health's improvement; or, Rules comprising and discovering the nature, method, and manner of preparing all sorts of Food used in this Nation.— This was corrected and enlarged by Christoph. Bennet— Lond. 1655. 4to. Whatelse our Author Moufet hath written, I know not, nor any thing more of him, only that in his latter days he lived much at Bulbridge, near Wilton in Wilts. as a retainer to the Pombrochian Family; from which he had an yearly Pension allowed to him to his last day, mostly by the favour of that incomparable Lady, Mary Countess of Pembroke. He concluded his last day towards the latter end of Q. Elizabeth, 
Clar. 1590.  and was, as I have been credibly informed by one or more ancient Men that belonged to the said Family, buried at Wilton. Contemporary with him was Joh. Securis an eminent Physician of Sarum, whom I have mentioned before.  
PETER WHITE, noted for his excellency in Humane Learning while he continued in the University, was born in the Diocese of Waterford in Ireland, elected Fellow of Oriel Col. An. 1551. and in the year 1555. was admitted Master of Arts. About the beginning of Queen Elizabeth's Reign he returned to his Native Country, and became the Happy Schoolmaster of M●ster, and Dean of Waterford for a time. From which last place being ejected for his Religion, about 1565. he continued notwithstanding in his beloved Faculty of Pedagogy, which was then accounted a most excellent Employment in Ireland by the Catholics; especially for this Reason, that the Sons of Noblemen and Gentlemen might be trained up in their Religion, and so consequently keep out Protestancy. His School was, during his time, in a flourishing condition, and by his care and industry many learned Persons issued thence. Among such (not that I shall mention Rich. Stanyhurst. of whom I shall speak hereafter) was one Peter Lombard born in Waterford, who afterwards studied at Louvain in Brabant; where, after he had spent two years and an half in Philosophy, he was chosen 
g Ric. Stanyhurst in Descript. Hibern. cap. 7.  when he proceeded Master of Arts, Primus Vniversitatis, by the uniform consent of the Four Principals; which preferment did not happen in such sort for many years before. About that time the said Lombard wrote Carmen heroicum in Doctoratum Nicholai Quemerfordi, with other things afterwards, which were much valued at Louvain; but such I have not yet seen. See another Pet. Lombard in my discourse of Will. Camden. As for P. White, he hath written, 
Epitome copiae Erasmi. lib. 1.  
Epit. figurarum Rhetoricarum. lib. 1.  
Annotationes in Orat. pro Archiâ poetâ.  
Annot. in Orat. pro T. A. Milone.   
Epigrammata diversa. lib. 1. He lived, as I guess, to the latter end of Q. Elizabeth; 
Clas. 1590.  but the particular time when he died, I find not. Equal in time with the said Pet. White, was another of both his Names, an English-Man born, and a severe Calvinist; who, among several things that he hath written, published a Book, entitled. An Answer to certain crabbed Questions, pretending a Real Presence in the Sacrament, together with a discovery of the Jesuitical Opinion of Justification, guilfully uttered by Sherwin at the time of his Execution. Lond. 1582. oct. Also A Sermon against Idolatry, on Apoc. 1. 12, 13. Lond. 1581. oct. etc. Whether he was an Oxford Man, I cannot yet find.  
THOMAS NEALE was born at Yeate in Glocestershire, sped a Child into the College near Winchester, by the endeavours of his Mother's Brother Alex. Belsire Fellow of New College, where profiting exceedingly in Grammar Learning in the School there, was chosen Probationer of New College in 1538. and two years after was admitted true and perpetual Fellow of the said House. Afterwards prosecuting his Studies with great industry, took the degree of Master of Arts, in 1546, Holy Orders, and soon after became an able Theologist, and admirably well skilled in the Greek and Hebrew Languages; the last of which he read to several young Scholars in the University, particularly to Bern. Gilpin of Queen's College. About that time Sir Tho. white (who was afterwards Founder of S. John's College) having had notice of his pregnant Parts and Virtues, did for an encouragement allow unto him an yearly Pension of 10. l. In the beginning of Q. Marry he became Chaplain to Dr. Bonner's Bishop of London, and in 1556. being newly returned from Paris, and other places in France, he was admitted to the reading of the Sentences, being then Rector of Thenforth in Northamptonshire. But when Q. Elizabeth came to the Crown, and he thereupon bereft of his Lord and Patron Bonner, he betook himself to Oxon; and in 1559. he was made the Queen's Professor of the Hebrew Lecture, entered himself a Commoner of Hart Hall, and built little Lodgings opposite thereunto, joining to the West end of New Col. Cloister, wherein he lived several years; but his Religion being more Catholic than Protestant, he left Oxon, as he had done his Lecture before; and being of a timorous Nature, and always dreading of being called into Question for his seldom frequenting the Church, and receiving the Sacrament, he retired to an obscure Village, called Cassington, distant from Oxon, North-West, about 4 miles, where purchasing an House, at the end thereof next to Einsham, spent the remainder of his Days in Study and Devotion. As he was accounted by many an eminent Theologist and Linguist, so by some a tolerable Philosopher, Poet, and Geographer. He hath written,  
Dialogus in adventum sereniss. Reginae Elizabethae gratulatorius, inter eandem Reginam & D. Rob. Dudleium comitem Leicestriae, & Acad. Oxon. Cancellarium. 'Tis a 4to. MS. 
h In Archivis bib. Bod.  written in 1566. in long and short Verses, and hath this beginning, Siccine chara tuis, etc. In this Book are contained, besides the said Dialogues, the Pictures, or Effigies of all the Colleges and Schools then in being, with long and short Verses under them, showing by whom they were founded, and when.  
A Table, or Map, describing the Colleges and Halls in Oxon, with Verses underneath each.— This Map was hung up for two or three days on St. Mary's Church door, when Q. Elizabeth was entertained at Oxon, in Sept. 1566. which she several times viewed. I take it to be the same, containing the pictures of the Colleges and Halls, which one Mr. Will Nutburne, sometimes Commoner of St. John's Col. gave thereunto, and the same which usually hung in the President's Lodgings; but by a decree 
i Reg. Secund. col. S. Jo●. p. 60●  made by that Society, 28 Aug. 1616. it was given to Sir Tho. Lake Secretary to his Majesty King James I. and one of the Privy Council; whereupon Sir Thomas gave to that College 20 l. towards the reparation of their Buildings, situated between their Common Hall, and their Public Gate. Our Author Th. Neale made a translation also of all the Prophets out of the Hebrew, which he presented to Q. Elizabeth, when she was entertained at Oxon, in 1566, and translated from that Tongue several of the Rabbins into Latin, which he dedicated to the great Cardinal Pole: What else he hath performed, either in writing or translating, I cannot tell, neither any thing material of him besides; only, (1) That he is noted by some Writers, to be the Original Reporter of the Consecration of Matthew Parker to the See of Canterbury, at the Nags-Head-Tavern in Cheapside, which since is manifestly made a mere Forgery, 
Clar. 1590.  and (2) That in the year fifteen hundred and ninety, he being then seventy one years of age, and did put up a Monument for himself, with an inscription on a Brass plate fastened thereunto, at the upper end of the Body of Cassington Church, over the Seat which belonged to the House where he lived, (for he sometimes went to Church,) with intentions to be buried under the said Seat; but when he died, or was buried, the Register of that place, which is very imperfect, tells us not. The Copy of the inscription is printed in Hist. & Antiq. Vniu. Oxon. lib. 2. p. 139. a. One Tho. Neale of Yeate in Glocestershire (where our Author was born) dying in 1590. his Window named Christiana had a Commission granted 
k Book of Administrations in the Will-Office before quoted, beginning in Jan. 1586.  to her to administer the Goods, Debts, and Chattels of him the said Thomas lately deceased, dated 23 Sept. the same year. Whether it be meant of our Author, I cannot justly say, because I could never learn that he was ever married.  
ANTHONY de CORRO, or Antonius Corranus, or Corrano, Son of Ant. Corranus Doctor of the Laws, was born at Sevil in Spain, educated there from his Childhood in the R. Catholic Religion, and was at length an Ascetic, but whether a Monk or Friar, I know not. Afterwards he left his Order and Religion, and being desirous to embrace the Reformed Doctrine, fled from his Country, went into England, in 1570. or thereabouts, and at length to London, where he became a frequent Preacher. In 1571. he was made Reader of Divinity in the Temple, by the favour of Dr. Edwin Sandys Bishop of London; in which Office he continued about three years. In the beginning of March, 1575. he was 
l Reg. Uniu. Oxon. KK. fol. 207.  recommended to the University of Oxon, by Rob. E. of Leicester Chanc. thereof, to the end that he might proceed Doctor of Divinity at the next Act, have the charges of his Degrees remitted, and that he be dispensed with for taking the Degree in order. In the beginning of April following a Convocation was solemnised, wherein the Chancellor's Letters being read concerning the said matter, a Dispensation was proposed, that he, the said Corranus, might proceed; but the House demurring upon it, was at length granted with this condition, that he purge himself of Heretical Opinions before the next Act. This they did for this cause, that the Chancellor had designed him to read Divinity in the University, and to allot him a Catechist Lecture, upon some consultation (as was pretended) for the utter extirpation of the R. Catholic Religion from the University. This being the seeming design, as it was afterwards the real intention of the Queen's Council, and High Commissioners, to plant him among the Accademians; you cannot imagine what Fears and Jealousies were raised in the Heads of the old Puritanical Doctors and others, who were fully bend to root out the dregs of Popery in the University, lest that which they laboured in, should be frustrated by a Stranger. I have seen a Copy of a Letter written by Jo. Rainolds of Corpus Christi College, to Dr. Laur. Humphrey then Vice-chancelour, dated June 7. wherein several things being said of Corrano and his Doctrine, you shall have the Contents only. (1) That if Corano be settled in the University, it is to be feared that it will raise such Flames therein, that they will not easily be quenched. (2) 'Tis requisite that it be really known, whether he be able to show that he be lawfully called to the Ministry of the Gospel, and charge of teaching publicly, either by the order of any Christian Church beyond the Sea, or by the Authority of the Church of England, or whether Ordained by a Bishop; of which matters there be some that doubt. And if he be not, how can he read? And if he be, it would be well if it be known. (3) That he is evilly thought of for Heresy of the French Church and others: And Beza doth publicly 
m Bezae Epist. 58. 59  charge him of it in an Epistle of his that is extant. (4) That he is supposed to be tainted with Pelagianism, which partly appears from certain Tables which he brought with him, and afterwards scattered abroad. On which, a certain Person of sound judgement made such Notes, that from thence one may evidently perceive, that Corrano's obscure speeches in the said Tables, do give just suspicion of very great Heresies, about Predestination and Justification by Faith, two the chief Points of Christian Religion, etc. And therefore it is hoped, that as you were a means to remove Franc. Puccius, so you will endeavour to stop Corrano from coming among us, who is thought to be a Master of Puccius, etc. Thus in brief from Job. Rainolds. But notwithstanding all the endeavours to keep him out, he was at length admitted, after he had fleed himself from Heresy, and became Reader of Divinity to the Students in Gloucester, St. Mary's, and Hart, Hall, lived as a Student in Ch. Ch. in 1579. if not before, of which House he occurs Censor Theologicus, in 1581., 82, 83, 84, and 85. being then also Prebendary of the Prebend of Harlesten, belonging to the Cathedral of St. Paul. In 1579. he stirred again for the Degree of Doctor of Divinity; but I cannot yet find that he was admitted, (notwithstanding he styles himself Doctor of that Faculty, in his Dialogus Theologicus, an. 1574.) and in the year 1582. in April he laid under the censure of Heresy again, upon which arose some trouble, but soon after quieted, and he restored to the good Opinion of the generality of Scholars and others. His Works are these:  
An Epistle, or godly Admonition, sent to the Pastors of the Flemish Church in Antwerp, exhorting them to concord with other Ministers.— This was originally written in Latin; but the Copy of it have not yet seen. Translated into English by Geofry Fenton— Lond. 1570. oct.  
Tabulae divinorum operum, de humani generis creatione.— Printed 1574. etc. oct. Translated also into English, under the Title of Tables of God's Works, etc.  
Dialogus Theologicus, quo Epistola D. Pauli Apost. ad Romanos explanatur: Collect. ex praelectionibus Corran. Lond. 1574. oct. printed in English there, 1579. oct.  
Articuli fidei orthodoxae, quam ille perfectus est. Printed with Dial. Theol.  
Supplication to the King of Spain; wherein is showed the Sum of Religion, for the Profession whereof the Protestants do suffer Persecution in the Low Countries. Lond, 1577. oct. 'Twas written in Latin and French; but who put it into English, I know not, unless the Author.  
Notae in concionem Solomonis de summo hominis bono, quam Hebraei cohelet, Graeci & Latini Ecclesiastem vocant.— Lond. 1579. and 81. in oct. The version of which into Latin was done by Corranus also. The said Notes were adorned with a learned Analasis by Abrah. Scultet. Printed at Francf. 1618. oct.  
Sermons on Ecclesiastes.— Abridged by Thomas Pitt— Oxon. 1585. oct. which is called by some Pitt's Paraphrase on Ecclesiastes.  
A Spanish Grammar, with certain rules, for teaching both the Spanish and French Tongues.— Put into English by Joh. Thorius, as I shall tell you when I come to him. Printed at Lond. 1590. qu. What other things Corrano hath written, I find not, nor any thing else of him; only that he dying at London, March 30. or thereabouts, in one thousand five hundred ninety and one, year 1591. aged 64. was buried in the Church of S. Andrew; but whether in that in Holbourn, or in that by the Wardrobe, I know not, (perhaps in the last) leaving then behind him a Wife of no good repute, and a Daughter named Susan; which, if the same that was at Woman's Estate in Oxon, a little before her Father's Death, was (if any credit might be given to a Libel of that time, made by an Oxf. Scholar) of a light reputation.  
JOHN MOLYNS, Molens or Mullins, so many ways I find him written, was born in Sommersetshire, elected Probat. Fellow of Magd. College in 1541. and afterwards being Bach. of Divinity, became a zealous Man for Reformation. In the Reign of Q. Marry he left the Nation for Religion sake, and settled at Zurick, where he was esteemed 
* Preface to the Brief Discourse of the troubles began at Francsort, An. 1554. Printed in 4to. An. 1575.  a learned Man of credit and Authority, being there, as it is said, Greek Reader among the Natives of England: But when Q. Elizabeth came to the Crwon, he returned, was made Archdeacon of London, in the place of Jo. Harpesfield deprived, and Canon of the Cathedral Church of St. Paul, where he was much reverenced for his great Learning and frequent Preaching. One 
† Laeur. Hunmfredus in Vita & Mort. Jo. Juclli. Edit. 1573. p. 73.  that knew him well gave this Character of him. Johannes Molinsaeus Archidiaeconus Ecclesiae Paulinae, qui nulli injuriam fecerat, qui prodesse omnibus studuerat, qui Philosophiae, Theologiae, Linguarum studio sc totum tradiderat, qui nihil commeritus est nisi quod, ut Aristides, justus, ut olim Christiani veteres, & nunc (meaning in the beginning of Q. Mary's Reign) missae interesse recusaret, eandem & ancipitem fortunam subire compulsus est; meaning also that he was forced to leave his Fellowship of Magd. College, and seek his Fortune elsewhere, with Arth. Saul, Pet. Morwin, and other learned and pious Fellows of that House, who soon after went as voluntary Exiles into Germany. He hath written and published several Books; yet in all my searches I can only find extant,  
Carmina Lat. & Graec. in mortem duorum fratrum Suffolciensium Henrici & Caroli Brandon, etc. Printed 1552. in two sheets, in qu.  
Sermons, etc. He concluded his last day on the eleventh of the Cal. of June, in one thousand five hundred ninety and one, year 1591. and was buried in the North Isle, joining to the Choir of the Cathedral Church of St. Paul, within the City of London, leaving then behind him a Daughter named Mary, Wife of Walt, Chetwind of Ingestry in Staffordshire. Over his Grave was soon after a flat stone laid, with his Image thereon, engraven on a Brass plate, and an Epitaph under it, the beginning of which runs thus, 
Clarus Johannes vitae moderamine Mullins,  
Doctrinae insignis plenusque senilibus annis.  
Qui. etc.   
He gave by Will 200 l. to purchase Lands worth 12 l. per An. for an exhibition to be given to two Scholars of Magd. College in Oxon, each to have 6 l. which, if I mistake not, continueth to this day. In his Archdeaconry of London succeeded Theophilus Aylmer, Son of Dr. Jo. Aylmer Bishop of London.  
CHRISTOPHER HATTON, Son of Will. Hatton of Holdenby in Northamptonshire, Son of John, Son of Hen Hatton, by Eliz. his Wife, Sister and Heir of Will. Holdenby of Holdenby before-mentioned, was born at Holdenby, became a Gentleman-Commoner of S. Mary's Hall, in the Reign of Q. Marry, at which time Will. Alan (afterwards a Cardinal) presided it. Thence, without a Degree, he went to the Inner-Temple; afterwards became successively one of the Queen's Gentlemen Pensioners, Gentleman of the Privy Chamber, Captain of the Band of Pensioners, a Knight, Vice-chamberlain of the Queen's Household, one of the Privy Council, Lord Chancellor of England, Knight of the Garter, and Chancellor of this University. He was a Man 
n Camden in Britan. in come. Northampt.  to say nothing of him, but that which in truth is due, for Religion and Godliness right devout, of approved faithfulness to the State, of incorrupt, Equity, for Alms deeds of all others most bountiful, and one (which is not the least part of his praise) that was most willing and ready to support and maintain Learning, etc. He was also somewhat 
o Idem in Annal. Reg. Elizab. sub An. 1591.  inclined to the Popish Party, by reason his Natural Clemency could not be drawn into a Persuasion, that in case of Religion, Men should be burnt, hanged, or quartered. And therefore it was that one 
p Pet. Ribadeneira in Append. ad N. Sanderum de Schism. Anglic.  reporteth that he always was in animo Catholicus; and another 
q See in Leycester's Commonwealth, printed 1641. p. 149.  that he was of such credit and favour in Rome, as if he was the greatest Papist in England. He wrote, as it is said, several things pertaining to the Law, but none of them are extant; only this, if I may say it is his, and not his Name set to it for sale sake.  
A Treatise concerning Statutes, or Acts of Parliament, and the Exposition thereof. Lond. 1677. oct. Whether ever before printed, I know not.  
Speeches spoken during the time of his Chancelorship— MS. This great and worthy Person died on the 20th. of November in one thousand five hundred ninety and one, year 1591. aged 51. and was buried in the upper part of St. Paul's Cathedral in London, on the 16th. of December following. Soon after came out a little Book of Verses made on his Death, by several Hands, intit. Musarum plangores. Christopher Lord Hatton, Son of John Hatton, the nearest Knsman of the Male Line to the aforesaid Sir Christopher, was not of St. Mary's Hall, but of Jesus College in Cambridge, and afterwards a Doctor of the Civil Law of Oxon, as I shall elsewhere tell you. He published the Psalms of David, with Titles and Collects, according to the matter of each Psalm. Printed at Oxon, 1644. in oct. and afterwards enlarged and published several times. These Collects or Prayers at the end of every Psalm, were compiled by Dr. Jeremiah Taylor, and so were the Devotions for the help and assistance of all Christian People, which are at the end of every impression of the aforesaid Book; yet notwithstanding they go all under the Name of the aforesaid Christop. L. Hatton, (having his Arms in the Title of them,) who dying 4 July 1670. being then, or lately, a Member of the Privy Council to his Majesty, was buried in a private Chapel of the Collegiate Church at Westminster (dedicated to St. Peter) opposite to the Capella Regum, on the North side. See more in Jer. Taylor, under the year 1667.  
BARTHELMEW CHAMBERLAINE was born of, and descended from an ancient and gentile Family in Oxfordshire, admitted Scholar of Trinity Col. 7. June 1563. aged 17 years, Probationer in 67, and Fellow the year after. About that time entering into Holy Orders, he became a noted Preacher in these parts, took both the Degrees in Divinity, that of Doctor being completed 579. before which time he was beneficed and dignified in the Church, but where, I cannot justly say. He hath written and published.  
Several Sermons, as, (1) The Passion of Christ, and benefits thereby, on Heb. 9 28. Lond. 1581. and 1613. oct. (2) Concio ad Academicos Oxomienses in Comitiis, An. 1576. Lond. 1584. qu. (3) Sermon at Paul's, on Amos 3. 6. Lond. 1589. oct. (4) Sermon at Farington in Berks, 
Clar. 1591.  on— Lond. 1571. oct. with others, which I have not yet seen. Between the time of the first coming of the said Barth. Chamberlain to Trinity College, to the year 1578. I find seven of his Surname to be Students in the said College, and some after; but cannot in all my searches find out George Chamberlain, who was afterwards Bishop of Ypre, and whether he ever abode in this University in the condition of a Student, I cannot justly say it. The said George Chamberlain was the eldest Son of George Chamberlain Esque (by his Wife, the Daughter of Moses Pring of Gaunt in Flanders) and he the second Son of Sir Leonard Chamberlain of Oxfordshire Knight, Governor of the Isle of Guernsey, who died there 2. Eliz. From which Sir Leonard are the Chamberlains of Sherburn in the said County descended; the Heiress general of which Family, named Elizabeth, was married to John Nevile, Baron of Abergavenny. The said George Chamberlatine who was Bishop of Ypre, was born at Gaunt before-mentioned, An. 1576. and being bred up ro Learning and Religion, became successively Canon, Archdeacon, and Dean of St. Bavon in Gaunt, and at length, in 1626. was made Bishop of Ypre within the Province of Machlin in Brabant, on the Death of Antonius de Hennin; where being settled he became much admired (as he was partly before) for his great Piety, for his voluble Preaching in five Languages at least, and beloved of Kings and Princes, etc. Had I time, and room allowed, I would give you a Copy of an Epitaph made on, by one that knew and much admired, him; wherein, no doubt, but that high character of his Piety, Learning, and Worth, is justly said; but I must hasten, and tell you that he dying, to the reluctancy of all that knew him, on the 19 Dec. according to the account followed at Ypre, in 1634. aged 58 years, one month, and 19 days, was buried in his own Cathedral. Some years before his Death he came into England, purposely to resign up his Heirship of his Estate at Sherburn before-mentioned, and elsewhere, which belonged to the noble Family of the Chamberlains, sometimes Barons of Tanquervil in Normandy, he being the first and true Heir: And this he did for Religion sake, and purposely to avoid the encumbrances of earthly things. See more of him in Athenae Belgicae, etc. written by Franc. Sweertius, printed at Antwerp, 1628. where you will find several things that he had written and published.  
ROBERT GWINN, a Welsh Man born, took one degree in Arts, 1568. and in 1571. leaving the University, went with Thom. Crowther another Batchelaur, to Douai, where being admitted into the English College, made very great progress in Divinity. Afterwards Gwinn returning into England, and settling in Wales in the condition of a Secular Priest, did write several Pious Works in the Welsh Tongue, as Anton. Possivinus tells 
* In Apparat. Sac. de Scriptorth 〈◊〉 Edit. Col. Agrip. 1608. Tom. 2. p. 342.  us, but the Titles of them he omits; and also translated from the English into the Welsh Language, A Christian Directory or Exercise guiding Men to Eternal Salvation, commonly called the Resolution: 
Clar▪ 1591.  Written by Rob. Persons the Jesuit. which Translation was much used and valued, and so consequently did a great deal of good among the Welsh People. See more in Jo. Davies under the year 1634.  
WALTER BALEY or Bailey, Son of Henry Baley of Warnwell in Dorsetshire, was born at Portsham in that County, educated in Wykchams School 〈◊〉 Winifrid chester, admitted perpetual fellow of New College after he had served two years of probation, an. 1550, tok the degrees in Arts, entered upon the Physic line, was admitied to practise that faculty while he was Proctor of the University, in the year 1558, and about that time was made Prebendary of Dultingcote alias Dulcot, etc. in the Church of Wells, which he resigned in 1579. In 1561 he was made the Queen's Professor of Physic in this University, proceeded in that faculty two years after, and at length became Physician to Qu. Elizabeth, and much resorted to for his practice. He hath written,  
A discourse of three kinds of Pepper in common use— Printed 1588., in oct. dedicated to Sir Jo. Horsey, Knight.  
Brief Treatise of the preservation of the Eyesight— Printed in the Reign of Qu. Eliz. in tw. and at Oxon 1616, and 1654. in oct. etc. In that Edition of 1616 was printed another or second Treatise of the Eyesight, collected from Fernclius and Riolanus, but by whom, I know not. They both now go under the name of Bailey, who hath also written,  
Directions for health, natural and artificial; with Medicines for all diseases of the Eyes— Printed 1626., in qu.  
Explicatio Galeni de potu convaelescentium & senum, & praecipuè de nosti ae Alae & Biriae paratione, etc. MS. in qu. sometimes in the Library of Robert Earl of Aylesbury. He the said Dr. Bailey surrendered up his last breath, March 3. in fifteen hundred ninty and two, aged 63, and was buried in the inner Chapel of New Coll. 
159 2●3.  whose Epitaph you may read in Hist. & Antiq. Vniu. Oxon. lib. 2. p. 152. b. His posterity do live at this day at Ducklington near to Witney in Oxfordshire, some of whom have been Justices of the Peace for the said County.  
FRANCIS PUCCIUS Filidinus was born of the noble and renowned family of the Puccii at Florence, from which had sprung before his time three Cardinals; educated from his Childhood in good Letters and in the R. Cath. Religion, exercised the trade of Merchandise at Lions, where many differences and disputes arising concerning Religion, which were not then quite sopited, our Author Puccius, who was only a Spectator, laid aside his trade, and totally applied himself to the study of Sacred Letters, to the end that he might perfectly understand the grounds of his belief, and what was professed by the Protestants. At length being satisfied in Conscience that those of the Ro. Church were in an error, he left France and Italy, retired into England, and being seemingly a Protestant, he went to the University of Oxon, got himself, thro' commendations of his sincerity, to be entered into a Coll. or Hall, wherein he studied Philosophy and Divinity very severely, and took the degree of Master of Arts, an. 1574. About which time, maintaining certain opinions contrary to those of the Grandees of the said University, (which were Calvinistical) especially the fide in dcum, quae & qualis sit, had many private disputes with Theologists there, and at length public. Which disputes being altogether displeasing to them, who esteemed them ridiculous, and the author no better than an arrogant and an opinionative person, they found means to remove him from the University, much about the same time that he was endeavouring to be a Theol. or Catechistical Lecturer, lest his Doctrine should take root among the juniors. For at that time they being very zealous for a thro' Reformation, were jealous of all strangers that came among them, and particularly of him, whom they well knew to have been a zealous Papist, and then no well-grounded Protestant. From Oxford he went to London, had several disputes there also, and became acquainted with Ant. Corrano, who living about that time in Oxon also, his person could never be well relished among them. Afterwards Puccius went 
a Vide in Epistalis Faeust. Socini ad amico— Racou. 1618. in oct. Ep. 3. ad Math Radecium. p. 102, etc.  to Basil in Germany, upon the invitation of Francisc. Bettus a Roman, then living there; where meeting also with Faustus Socirus, they had many discourses concerning the adventures of 〈◊〉 England, and at length had several disputes 
* These disputes are remitted into the Biblietheca Fratrum P●l●norum, with this title, De statu frimi hominis 〈◊〉 disputatio, quam Faust. S●●inus per scripia habuit. 〈◊〉 per blore●●. an. 1578.  〈◊〉 himself; with which, he seeming 〈◊〉 Puccius wrote ten arguments de 〈…〉 primi hominis ante peccatum. All which being answered by Socinus, were by him, with several disputations that had passed between them, made public. Afterwards Puccius was forced to leave Basil. because he had printed certain Theses to be disputed on, in which he asserted universum humanum genus in ipso matris utero efficaciter particeps esse beneficiis Christi & vitae immortalis & beatae, etc. Whereupon he went into England, and so to London, where he began to publish his paradoxical opinions, and that with such confidence, as if, Orpheus▪ like, he meant to charm all to follow him; but his waters being narrowly watched, he was seized on, imprisoned, and suffered several calamities, otherwise Oxford would have once more tasted of his Doctrine. Afterwards, being let loose, he went into Flanders and Holland, where he corresponded by Letters with Socinus. From Holland he went to Antwerp, where he did the like, and had several cavilling disputes not only with such that he esteemed heterodox, but with those of his own opinion. Thence he removed to Cracaw in Poland, where he had frequent disputes with the Jesuits, and others, nay and with some of his own persuasion, (Socinus being there also) and wrote several matters in the Italian Tongue against the Church of Rome, in 1585. While he continued in the said City of Cracaw, it happened that he became acquainted with two persons that had come to that place with Albertus Alaskie, Prince (or Vaywood) of Sirad, when he left England. Their names were John Dee and Edward Kelley, Magicians; who having partly known Puccius in England, did entertain 
b See the Relation of what 〈…〉 and some Spirits. etc. Lond. 1659. 〈◊〉 p. 400. 410. 413, 419, 〈◊〉 etc.  and admit him into their secrets, with great hope of some good to be done by his fellowship; and in August the same year, he was actually with them at Prague in Bohemia (to which place they conveyed him) while certain Spirits appeared to them, Kelley being then Seer, and Dee an observer or writer down of what was said by the Spirits, and Kelley's seeing and interpreting. At length Puccius did not deal truly and sincerely with them, which much troubled Dee; and thereupon he desired to be rid of him. Puccius therefore perceiving it, wrote a large and submissive Letter to the said Dee and Kelly; and among other things, gave him a very punctual account of what had passed between Philip Bishop of Placentià (who was sent by the Pope, as his Nuncio, to have the said Magicians banished, or else sent to Rome) and himself, concerning their cause, apparitions, high attempts, etc. But so it was, that whither by the persuasions of the said Nuncio, or some things uttered by the Spirits, that all the World should at length come to the Church of Rome, he forthwith recanted before certain Rom. Priests, and became a zealous Papist, and at length a Priest. All that I have seen of his works, besides what are already mentioned, are,  
De Christi Salvatoris efficacitate in omnibus & singulis hominibus, quatenus homines sunt, assertio Catholica, etc. Goudae 1592. oct. Ded. to P. Clem. 8.  
Epistola ad Jo. Dee & Edw. Kelly. Dat. at Prag. 15. Cal. oct. 1585. 'Tis a large Epistle in Latin, and is the same with the submissive Letter before mentioned. After the year fifteen hundred and ninty two, 
Clar. 1592.  he went to Rome, and became Secretary to Cardinal Pompeius Arragon, from whom he expected great matters, but death snatching him untimely away, in the midst of his aspiring thoughts, about the year 1600, was buried in the Church of St. Onuphrius in Rome. I have more than twice sent to that place for the day and year of his death, with a copy of his Epitaph, but as yet I have received no answer. Therefore take this Epitome made for him, which I have met 
c 〈…〉 〈◊〉 in Select. 〈◊〉 detum, Col. Agup. 1626. p. 106. 〈◊〉 Nath. 〈◊〉 in 〈◊〉 in Europt 〈◊〉 deli●iis, Edit. 〈◊〉  with elsewhere. 
Inveni portum, spes & fortuna valete,  
Nil mihi vobiscum, ludite nunc alios.   
HENRY SALESBURY, born of, and descended from, a right ancient family of his name living in Denbigbshire, became a commoner of S. Alban hall in 1581., aged 20 years, took one degree in Arts, and no more, in this University, entered on the Physic line, practised afterwards in his own country, and was esteemed by the learned not only an eminent Physician, but a curious Critic, especially as to matters relating to the Antiquities and Language of his country. He l●th written,  
Dictionarium Britannicum. Which being left 〈◊〉 in MS, came into the hands of Job. Davies, who made great use of it when he was 〈◊〉 his Dictionary in British and Lat. and in Lat. and British. What our author Salesbury hath written besides, 
Clar. 1592.  or when he died, I find not, nor any thing else of him, only that he was of the same family with, and very nearly related to, Will. Salesbury, whom I have mentioned under the year 1567., from whose endeavours this H. Salesbury found divers materials when he was composing his Dictionary before-mentioned, and perhaps had received instruction from his own Person, in matters relating to British affairs.  
ISAAC COLFE, fourth Son of Amandus' Colfe alias Colt of Calais in France, and of the City of Canterbury in England, was born in Kent, particulary, as I suppose, in the said City, become a Commoner of Broadgates' Hall in the beginning of the year 1576. took the Degrees in Arts, Holy Orders, and was afterwards beneficed, if not dignified, in his own Country. His Works are,  
Sermon 17. Nou. 1587. on Psal. 118. 22. to the end of 26. Lond. in oct.  
A Comfortable Treatise of the Temptation of Christ. Lond. 1592. 
Clar. 1592.  in oct. with other things, as 'tis probable, which I have not yet seen. His eldest Brother Rich. Colfe was born at Calais. educated in Ch. Ch. in this University, and was afterwards Doctor of Divinity, as I shall elsewhere tell you. He left behind him several Sons, among whom were Isaac of Ch. Ch. and Jacob of All Souls Col.  
JOHN PENRY or ap Henry, that is the Son of Henry, better known by the Name of Martin Marprelate, or Marpriest, as having been a Plague to the Bishops and Ministers of his time than by his own; was born and bred, as he used to say, in the Mountains of Wales; particularly, as others say, in the County of Brecknock, became a Subsizer of Peter House in Cambridge, about 1578. At which time as one 
d Cu●bb. Curry-Knave in his Al●● for a paras printed at Lond. in Qu. fol. 14.  a saith) he was as arrant a Papist as ever came out of Wales, and that he would have run a false Gallop over his Beads with any Man in England, and help the Priest, for a shift, to say Mass at midnight, etc. In 1583. or thereabouts, he took a Degree in Arts in that University, and afterwards did perform some, or most, of the Exercise requisite for Master; but leaving the said University abruptly, (for what cause I know not) he retired to Oxon; and getting himself to be entered a Commoner of St. Alban's Hall, (notwithstanding the vigour of Puritanism did then Reign among the Heads of the University, which makes me to think that Penry was not then inclined to Popery) he continued there for some time, finished the remaining part of his Exercise, and in the beginning of July 1586. he was licenced to proceed in Arts, as a Member of the said Hall, and on the eleventh of the said Month completed that Degree in an Act celebrated in the Church of St. Mary. About that time he took Holy Orders, did Preach in Oxon, and afterwards in Cambridge, and was esteemed by many a tolerable Scholar, an edifying Preacher, and a good Man; but being a Person full of Welsh Blood, of a hot and restless Head, did, upon some discontent, change the course of his Life, and became a most notorious Anabaptist, (of which Party he was in his time the Coryphaeus) and in some sort a Brownist, and the most bitter Enemy to the Church of England, as any that appeared in the long Reign of Q. Elizabeth. He hath written.  
A view of some part of such Public Wants and Disorders as are in the Service of God, within her Majesty's Country of Wales; with an Humble Petition to the High Court of Parliament for their speedy redress— Printed 1588. in oct. Therein is showed not only the necessity of Reforming the State of Religion among that People; but also the only way, in regard of substance, to bring that Reformation to pass.  
A defence of that which hath been written in the questions of the ignorant Ministry, and the communicating with them.— Printed 1588. in oct. written against Rob. Some, D. D. of Cambridge, who published the same year, A Treatise deciding several questions concerning the Ministry, Sacrament, and Church. Lond. in qu. As also A confutation of some of Mr. Penry's Errors. About that time J. G. of Oxon published a Book entit. Mr. Some laid open in his Colours; wherein the indifferent Reader may easily see, how wretchedly and loosely he hath handled the Cause against Mr. Penry.— Printed in oct. Penry hath also written,  
Exhortation unto the Governors and People of her Majesty's Country of Wales, to labour earnestly to have the Preaching of the Gospel planted among them.— Printed (1588.) in oct.  
Theses Martinianae, i. e. certain demonstrative conclusions set down and collected by Martin Marprelate the Great, serving as a manifest and sufficient confutation of all that ever the College of Catercaps, with their whole Band of Clergy-Priests, have, or can bring for the defence of their ambitious and Antichristian relacy.— Published by Martin Junior, 1589. in oct. and dedicated to John Kankerbury; that is, John Archbishop of Canterbury. At the end of which Book Martin Junior hath an Epilogue.  
The just censure and reproof of Mart. Marprelate to Martin Junior.— Printed with the former.  
Protestation of Mart Marprelate: Wherein, notwithstanding the surprising of the Printer, he maketh it known unto the World, that he feareth neither proud Priest, Antichristian Pope, Tyrannous Prelate, nor godless Catercap, etc.— Printed (1589.) in 120. by stealth, and very full of faults.  
Dialogue, wherein is plainly laid open the tyrannical dealings of the Lords Bishops against God's Children.— Printed (1589.) in qu. Therein are several reflecting stories on Dr. Martin Culpeper Warden of New College, and on Dr. Nich. Bond of Magd. College, and on his excellent dancing. This scandalous Dialogue, (which was reprinted when the Long-Parliament began, An. 1640. purposely to spite Archbishop Laud and the Bishops) was, with other like stuff of the said Mart. Marprelate, answered by T. C. that is, Thom. Cooper, in his Admonition to the People of England, etc. See more in Tho. Cooper under the year 1594.  
Treatise wherein is manifestly proved, that Reformation, and those that sincerely favour the same, are unjustly charged to be Enemies unto her Majesty and the State.— Printed 1590. in qu. This was answered in a Book, intit. Pasquil's Apology, the first part, wherein he renders a reason of his long silence, and gallops the Field with the Treatise of Reformation. Printed where I was, and where I shall be ready by the help of God and my Muse, to send you a may-game of Martinism, An. 1590. qu.  
Hay ' any work for a Cooper, etc.— This was written against Dr. Tho. Coper before-mentioned, and said to be printed in Europe, not far from some of the bouncing Priests, An. 1590. qu.  
Epitome of the first Book of Dr. John Bridges, against the Puritans.— Printed in qu.  
Oh! read over Dr. Joh. Bridges, for it is a worthy Work.— This was written against Dr. Bridges, Bishop of Oxon, and said to be printed over Sea in Europe, within two furlongs of a bouncing Priest, at the cost and charges of Mart. Marprelate, Gent. in qu.  
Epistles to the terrible Priests in the Convocation House.— in qu.  
The State of the Church of England.— in oct.  
Petition for Peace.— in oct.  
His Apology.— This I have not yet seen.  
Of Prelatic Ministry.— Printed 1609. in qu.  
History of Corah, Dathan, and Abiram, Numb. 16. Ch. Applied to the Prelacy Ministry, and Church Assemblies of England.— Printed 16. 9 qu. This Book being left imperfect by the Author when he was seized and imprisoned, was published by one of his 〈◊〉 who saith in the Title that it was written by Joh. 〈◊〉, a 〈◊〉 of Jesus Christ; and in the Epistle to the Reader, 〈…〉 was a godly Man, learned zealous, and of a 〈…〉 carriage and courage.— That with all 〈…〉 he endeavoured to have the Gospel preached 〈◊〉 among his poor Country Men, whose Case he 〈…〉 passion of, in that they wanted the 〈◊〉 of 〈…〉 After all this, God using him as a 〈…〉 more clear manifestation of 〈…〉 imprisioned, condemned, and excuted, and so 〈…〉 dom for the Name of Christ etc. These 〈…〉 Titles I have here set down, are all 〈…〉 knowledge, if not too many 〈…〉 Author of which did in most of them 〈…〉 of England, and its Members, that 〈…〉 
Sir Edwin 〈…〉 p. 100LS.  Roman 〈…〉 of them in their Books, and Marprelate for a grave Author and Witness, etc. But this the Reader is to understand, that the learned and sober Men did answer most, or all of the said Books, (which were printed by stealth, partly in that nest of rigid Puritans and Schismatics at Fawsly in Northamptonshire, and partly at Coventry, and elsewhere,) because they knew Penry to have more than ordinary Learning in him; yet they did not so much work on the Author and his Disciples, make them ridiculous, and put him and them to silence, more than those Answers which were written in a buffooning stile; as (1) that written by Tom Nash, intit. Pap with an hatchet: alias, A Fig for my Godson: Or, Crack me this Nut: Or, A Country Cuff; that is, A sound Box of the Ear for the Idiot Martin to hold his Peace: Written by one that dares call a Dog, a Dog.— Imprinted by John Ancke, etc. And are to be sold at the Sign of the Crabtree Cudgel in Thwack-coat-Lane. (2) That entit. Martin's months mind, etc. pr. 1589. in qu. (3) That called, The return of the renowned Cavaliero Pasquil of England, from the other side of the Seas; and his meeting with Marforius at London upon the Royal Exchange, etc. Lond. 1589. qu. against Martin and Martinism. (4) Another entit. A countercuff given to Martin Junior, etc. by the Pasquil of Engl. Cavaliero, etc. Lond. 1589. qu. (5) That entit. The first part of Pasquill's Apology, which I have before mentioned. (6) A certain Oxford Scholar, under the Name of Cuthbert Curry-Knave; who in his Book called, An Almond for a Parrot, or an Alms for Mart. Marprelate, etc. Printed in qu. doth most egregiously run Martin down. I say, that these Buffoonries and Pasquil's did more nonplus Penry and his Disciples, and so consequently made their Doctrine more ridiculous among the common sort, than any grave or learned Answer could do; as in some part did A. L. who entitles himself Anti-Martinus, in his Monitio ad adolescentes utriusque Academia. Lond. 1589. qu. At length our Author Penry being apprehended at Stepney, near to London, (after his return from beyond the Sea,) for his writing and publishing infamous Books and Libels, and the Religion then established, was (after condemnation rto die for the same) hanged at St. Thomas à Water, on the 29. year 1593. May, in fifteen hundred ninety and three. He was adjudged at the King's Bench, by Sir Jo. Popham, Knight, L. Ch. Justice of that Court, and the rest of the Judges there assembled, on the 25. of the said Month of May, but was not executed on the next day after judgement, as it was expected, nor the second, nor the third day after; But when Men looked least for the same (as one 
* Author of the Preface to 〈◊〉 Dathan, and Abiram, etc.  saith) then was he brought forth, being at dinner, (as I have heard,) by a Warrant under the Hands of John Archbishop of Canterbury, Sir John Puckering Knight, Lord Keeper of the Great Seal, and Sir John Popham aforesaid; and the matter being carried after a close manner, he was suddenly conveyed to the place of Execution, where he was as hastily bereft of his Life, and not suffered (though he desired it) to make declaration of his Faith towards God, or of his Allegiance to her Majesty, etc. Thus by the Death of this forward and zealous Person, with the condemnation of John Vdal, and Henry Barrow before that time, the neck of the Plots of the fiery Non-conformists were broken, and their brags turned into Preaching of Preces and Lachrymae, as the only means for Christian Subjects.  
WILLIAM FLEETWOOD was born of, (being a natural Son) and descended from, the Fleet woods of Penwortham, and they from those of Heskyn, in Lancashire; educated for a time in this University, (either in Brasnose. Coll. or Broadgates' Hall) left it without a degree, and retired to the Middle Temple, where by continual industry, advanced by good natural parts, he attained to the name of an eminent Lawyer. In 5 of Eliz. he was elected Autumn or Summer-Reader of that house, and in the year following Autumn-Reader again; but he omitting one of those times to read, he was in the 11th year of the said Queen, elected Double Reader thereof in Lent. About that time being made Recorder of London, he was afterwards by Writ, called to the degree of Sergeant at Law, An. 1580. and in 1592. he was made the Queen's Sergeant. He was a learned Man and a good Antiquary; but a marvellous, merry, and pleasant conceit: And as touching his Learning, Justice, and Elocution, I cannot better describe them, than a Poet 
e Tho. Newton in Illustrum aliquot Anglorum Encomiis. Lond. 1589. p. 121.  of those days hath done in certain Verses, beginning thus, 
Ipse forem brevibus gyaris & carrere dignus,  
Culleolo insutus, si te mea musa sileret, etc.   
As for his Writings they were many, but none of them (only one) were published till after his Death, some of which are these.  
Elenchus Annalium Regum Edwardi 5. Rich. 3. Hen. 7. & 8. Lond. 1579. and 1597. in tw. Dedicated to Sir Tho. Bronley Lord Chancellor of England. This is called among the Lawyers, Table to the Annals, (or Year-Book) of Edw. 5. Rich. 3. etc.  
The office of a Justice of Peace: Together with instructions how, and in what manner, Statutes shall be expounded Lond. 1658. Oct.  
Observations upon the Eyte of Pickering, Lambert's Areheion, etc. MS. Fol. sometimes in the Library of Rich. Smith Secondary of the Poultrey-Compter, with other things which I have not yet seen. This eminent Lawyer did mostly dwell in London, in a street called Noble-street, within Aldersgate-ward, in an house which himself newly built, wherein he died, but was buried, as I suppose, in the Church at Great Missenden in Buckinghamshire, (where he had purchased an estate) in the latter end of fifteen hundred nienty and three, 
159 3●4  for on the 7th of March that year, was a commission 
f In a Book of Administrations in the Will-Office, near Paul's in Lond. beginning in Jan. 1591. fol. 90.  granted from the Prorogative Court of Canterbury, to Mariana his Widow (daughter of Joh. Barley of Kingsey in the said county) to administer the goods, debts, and chattels of her Husband Will. Fleetwood, lately deceased. He left behind him two Sons, whereof Sir Will. Fleetwood, Knight, was one, who succeeded him in the Estate at Missenden, and the other was Sir Thomas of the Middle-Temple, afterwards Attorney to Prince Henry. He had also divers Daughters, one whereof was married to Sir David Foulis Knight and Baronet, and another to Sir Tho. Chaloner▪ Tutor to the said Prince, Son of the learned Sir Tho. Chaloner Knight.  
JOHN WOOLTON was born at a Market Town in Lancashire, called Wigan or Wiggen, entered 
g Reg. antiq. coll. Aenean. fol. 90. b.  a Student in Brasnose Col. 26. Oct. 1553. aged 18, or thereabouts, having perhaps wore a Gown in the University before that time, supplicated for the Degree of Bach of Arts, in the beginning of 1555. but it doth not appear that he was admitted. Afterwards, as it is said, he went to, or with, his Uncle Alex. Nowell into Germany; to which place several Protestants of England had receded as voluntary Exiles. In the beginning of Q. Eliz. he returned, and in 1563. being about that time Canon Residentiary of Exeter, he was admitted by the Name of John Wolton, Bach. of Arts to the Church of Spaxton in the Diocese of Wells. In April 1574. he supplicated the venerable congregation of Regent's, that he might be admitted to the reading of the Sentences; but whether his desire was granted, or he admitted, it appears not. In May 1575. being then Warden of Manchester College in his own Country, he supplicated under the Name of John Wolton a Minister of God's Word, and sometimes a Student of this University, that he might be licenced to proceed in Divinity; but whether that also was granted, it doth not appear. Sure it is, that he being then the designed Bishop of Exeter, was consecrated thereunto in the beginning of August following. He was a Person of great Piety and Reason, and an earnest assertor of conformity against the Opposers thereof, for which he was blamed by many, but commended by more, after his Death. He hath written,  
The armour of proof; showing the firm sortress of defence and haven of rest, in these troublesome times, Lond. 1576. oct.  
Of the immortality of the Sou; wherein is declared the Origin, Nature, and Power of the same, etc.  
Christian Manual: Or, the Life and Manners of true Christians; wherein is declared how needful it is for the Children of God, to manifest their Faith by their Works.  
Castle for Christians, and Fortress for the Faithful, besieged and defended now almost 6000 years.  
New Anatomy of the whole Man, as well of his Body, as of his Soul; declaring the condition and constitution of the same, in his first creation, corruption, regeneration, and glorifiration.  
Discourse of the conscience; wherein is declared the unspeakable joys and comfort of a good conscience, and the grief of an evil conscience.— All which six Treatises were printed at London, in oct. An. 1576. At length he having sat Bishop about 14 years with great commendations, died on the 13th. of March, in fifteen hundred. ninety and three, 
159 3●4.  and was buried in his Cathedral Church at Exeter, on the South side of the Presbytery or Choir, leaving then a Son behind him named John, Fellow of Allsouls college, Master of Arts, and a Graduate in Physic. Over his Grave was a Monument soon after erected, with an inscription thereon, containing six Verses, two of which run thus: 
Ingenium, genium, mores, pietatis honore,  
Eloquiumque pium busta perusta tegent.   
THOMAS WATSON a Londoner born, did spend some time in this University, not in Logic and Philosophy, as he ought to have done; but in the smooth and pleasant studies of Poetry and Romance, whereby he obtained an honourable Name among the Students in those Faculties. Afterwards retiring to the Metropolis, studied the Common Law at riper years, and for a diversion wrote,  
Ecloga in obitum D. Francisci Walsingham Eq. aur. Lond. 1590. in two sheets in qu.  
Amintae Gaudia. Lond. 1592. qu. Written in Lat. Hexamiter, and dedicated to the incomparable Mary Countess of Pembroke, who was a Patroness of his Studies. He hath written other things of that Nature or Strain, and something pertaining to Pastoral, which I have not yet seen, 
Clar. 1593.  and was highly valued among ingenious Men, in the latter end of Q. Elizabeth. I shall make mention of another Tho. Watson (who in his younger years was a Poet also) in the Fasti following, among the Incorporations of the year 1554.  
HENRY SMITH, Son of Erasmus Smith of Bosworth, Son of Joh. Smith, alias Harrys of Withcock, in Leicestershire, was matriculated 
h Lib. Matric. P. p. 389.  as a Member of Lincoln Col. in 1575. thus, Henricus Smithe Leicestrensis generosus, Aetat. 15. What stay he made in the same House; or whether he was the same He● Smyth, who received 
i Reg. antiq. coll. Ae●. fol. 38.  the Benefaction of Jo. Claymond, in Bras. Col. An. 1574. or took the Degree of Batchelaur of Arts, it appears not. Sure it is, that having some Ecclesiastical employment conferred upon him, was absent from the University for some time; and at length, in 1583. did take the Degree of Master of Arts, as a Member of Hart Hall, being then esteemed the Miracle and Wonder of his Age, for his prodigious Memory, and for his fluent, eloquent, and practical way of Preaching Afterwards he became Lecturer of St. Clement's Danes without Temple-Bar, near London, where being much frequented by the Puritanical Party, was by them esteemed (as he was by the generality) the prime Preacher of the Nation, which his Sermons, taken into the Hands of all People, did show. Some of them were printed in 1591., 92, and 93, while he lived; but after his Death, 40 or more were collected into one Volume, and printed at London in 1594. in qu. Among them are (1) A preparative to Marriage. (2) Treatise on the Lord's Supper. (3) Examination of Usury. (4) Benefit of Contentation. (5) Affivity of the Faithful. (6) Christians Sacrifice. (7) Trial of Spirits (8) Wedding Garment. (9) Way to walk in. (10) Pride of Nebuchadu●zzar, etc. There hath been also printed, of late times, a Quarto Volume, containing 53 Sermons, besides Discourses, Prayers, Letters, etc. Among which is God's Arrows against Atheists, etc. which hath been translated and printed in Lat. at Openkeim, beyond Sea, An. 1614 oct. All written by the said Henry Smith; among which are those numbered, that were printed 1594. This Person was in very great renown among Men in fifteen hundred ninety and three; 
Clar. 1593.  in which year, if I mistake not, he died, aged 34. but where he was buried, the Register of St. Clement's before-mentioned, tells us not; for his Brother, who lived to about the time of the Restauration of King Charles 2. did assure my Friend, that he retired for Health's sake out of the said Parish, and died in another more remote.  
THOMAS COUPER, or Cooper, was born within the City of Oxon, educated in Grammar Learning in the School joining to St. Mary Magd. Col. being then a Choirister of that House; where with very great industry, making proficiency beyond his years, was elected Probationer in 1539. and in the year following perpetual Fellow of the said House. Afterwards proceeding in the Faculty of Arts, he was made Master of the School wherein he had been educated; left his Fellowship about 1546. and gave himself solely up to the studies of Humanity and Medicine. In the Reign of Q. Marry, he being then inclined to the Protestant Religion, he took, as it seems, a Degree in Physic, and practised that Faculty in Oxon; but when she was dead, he re-assumed his former Faculty of Divinity, became a frequent Preacher, took the Degrees in that Faculty in the latter end of 1566. being about that time made Dean of Ch. Ch. in Oxon, and was several years after Vice-chancelour of the University. In 1569. he was made Dean of Gloucester, in the place of John Man deceased, and in 1570. Feb. 24. he was consecrated Bishop of Lincoln. In 1584. he was translated to Winchester; where, as in most parts of the Nation, he became much noted for his Learning and sanctity of Life. I have heard some reverend and ancient Divines of this University say, (as they had heard it from others who knew the Man,) that at what time Dr. Cooper was to leave Oxon, to go to the See of dincoln, he did humbly confess, in his farewell Sermon to the University, That he was born of very mean Parents in Catstreet, 
k His Father was a poor Tailor, living in 〈◊〉 mostly situated in St. Mary's Parish.  that he had undergone several mean and servile Offices in Magdalen College, till by the favour of Friends he was advanced to be Fellow and Schoolmaster, etc. And so going forward with a recital of the chief parts of his Life, did, in conclusion, humbly acknowledge God's great providence towards him, praying withal That he would be pleased to prosper him in that great Employment, which was put upon him, etc. Of this Person much may be said, and perhaps some wrong might redound to his memory, if I should say little; for he was indeed a reverend man, very well learned, and exceeding industrious, as it appears by that great Dictionary, which yet bears his Name, and was the cause of his preferment; the foundation of which was taken from Sir Tho. Eliot's Dictionary, and the materials, for the most part, from Rob. Stephens' Thesaurus, and Joh. Frisius' Lat. and Germ. Dictionary. The course of his Life in Oxon, was very commendable, and, in some sort, Saintlike, if it be Saintlike to live unreprovable, to bear a cross patiently, and to forgive great Injuries freely, this Man's example was without pattern. The Truth is, he being little acquainted with the World of Men, he did unhappily marry an Oxford Woman, who proved too light for his gravity, and in the end became so notorious for her ill living, that the Libels that then came forth, did sound out her infamy; especially that made by Th' Bulkley of Alis. col. which tells us, That a certain Person. 
l Tho. 〈◊〉 Can. of 〈◊〉 some time's Fellow of Alls. Col.  did so much frequent her Company, that at length he was bound in a bond of 100 l. not to come near her. Nay, another 
* Sir 〈…〉 in his brief view of the State of the Church of England, & ●. Lo●d. 〈◊〉 o●t. p 64.  tells us, That the whole University in reverence of the Man, and indignity of the matter, offered him to separate his Wife from him by public Authority and to set him free, being the innocent P●rts. But he would by no means agree thereto, alleging, he knew his own infirmity, that be could not live unmarried, and to divorce, and marry again, he would not charge his conscience with so great a scandal. He hath written▪  
The Epitome of Chronicles, from the 17th. year after Christ, to 1540 and thence afterwards to the year 156●. Lond. 1560. qu. The Reader is to note that one Th● Lanquet, a young Man of 24 years of Age, had composed a Chron. consisting of two parts, reaching from the beginning of the World to the time of our Saviour; and was proceeding on a third part; but death cutting him off in his eager pursuit of the work, in 1545. our Author Cooper undertook to finish it; and his part, which is the third, contains almost thrice as much as the two parts of 〈◊〉 All which being finished, a third Person, contrary to the Mind of Cooper, published all the parts, under the Title of Lanquet's Chronicle, an. 1559. which being very full of faults, our Author made a view and correction of, and published them in the year following, under the general Title of Coper's Chronicle, etc. with a running Title of Lanquet's Chronicle at the top of every leaf of the first and second part, and The Epitome of Chronicles at the top of every leaf of the third part, which, as I have told you, was composed by Cooper; who hath further written,  
Thesaurus linguae Romanae & Britannicae, etc. Lond. 1565. in a large fol. This is commonly called Cooper's Dictionary, which was so much esteemed by Q. Elizabeth, that ever after she endeavoured to promote the Author as high in the Church as she could. Of this Dictionary see more in Tho. Eliot, under the year 1546.  
Dictionarium Historicum & Poeticum. Printed with the former Book.  
A brief exposition of such Chapters of the Old Testament, as usually are read in the Church at Common Prayer, on the Sundays throughout the year. Lond. 1573. qu.  
Sermon at Lincoln 1575. on Matth. 16. 26, 27. Lond. in oct.  
Twelve Sermons on Rom. 1. 16. Matth. 7. 15, 16. on 1 Cor. 10. 1. 3. 5. Matth. 13. 3. 5. and Joh. 8. 46. Lond. 1580. qu.  
An admonition to the People of England; wherein are answered, not only the slanderous untruths, reproachfully uttered by Martin the Libeler, but also many other crimes by some of his Brood, objected generally against all Bishops, etc. Lond. 1589. qu. This Book was written after Mart. Marprelate had writ his Libel, which some (playing with Martin at his wone weapon) answered pleasantly both in Rhyme and Prose. But this our Author, the Bishop, with Authority and Gravity confuted him sound in this Book; whereupon Martin replied in a Book enit. Ha'y any Work for a Cooper, etc. At length this reverend and holy Bishop paying his last Debt to Nature at Winchester, year 1594 29. Apr. in fifteen hundred ninety and four, was buried on the South side of the Choir, a little above the Bishop's Seat, belonging to the Cathedral there. Over his Grave was soon after laid a flat Marble, with an inscription thereon in Prose and Verse, a Copy of which you may read in Hist. & Antiq. Vniu. Oxon. lib. 2. p. 197. a. He left behind him a Widow named Amey, and two Daughters, one of which, named Elizabeth, was the Wife of D●● Joh. Belly, sometimes Provost of Oriel Col. afterward, Chanclour of the Dicocess of Lincoln, the other was Mary the Wife of John Gouldwell Gent.  
WILLIAM RAINOLDS, second Son of Rich. R●●●●ids, a sufficient Farmer, third Son of Rich. Rainolds, was born at Pynhoc alias Pynhawes (the Seat of his Ancestors) near to the City of Exeter in Devonshire, educated in School learning in Wykeham's Coll. near Winchester, elected Probationer of New Coll. in 1560. and two years after was admitted perpetual Fellow. In that House, where then was a severe Discipline kept up, he became a most noted Philosopher, a quick Disputant, and one much noted for his sincere love to the Protestant Cause. In 1566. he proceeded Master of Arts, and about that time he took Holy Orders In 1572. he left his Fellowship, and retiring to Hart Hall, lived there in the quality of a Commoner: All which time he was earnest for Reformation, while John his Brother of C. C. Coll. stood affected to the Roman Catholic Religion, as it is said, This difference in judgement proved a firebal of Contention between, and engaged, them in a strong Duel, and set Disputes; whereupon both being strengthened by each 〈◊〉 Arguments, our Author Willaim turned a zealous Catholic, and John a strong Puritan. Whereupon Dr. Will. Alabaster a learned Divine, and an excellent Poet, made an Epigram on them, a copy of which you may see 
m In ●ist. & Antiq liniv. Oxon. lib. 2. p. 139. a.  elsewhere. This is the reason commonly received among Protestants, for each others conversion, but false▪ for the dispute was, if you will believe one that then lived, between John, and Edmund, Rainolds of C. C. C●ll. as I have told 
n Ibid. 〈◊〉 p. 300. b.  you elsewhere. So that now there being no pretence left for William's conversion by disputing with his Brother John, you may take this reason following, different from the other, if your charity will permit you to believe a R. Catholic 
o Rob. Persons in A relation of a trial made before the K. of France, between the Bishops of Eureux and the Lord Plessis Mornay. Printed 1604. p. 57 58.  Author, as he had received it from the mouth or Pen of Will. Rainolds, which is this— Mr. William Rainolds being first an earnest Professor and Preacher of the Protestant Religion in England, and much engaged among the Puritans in Northamptonshire, (as he was wont to tell,) he fell in the end to read over Mr. Jewel ' s Book, and did translate some part thereof into Latin; but before he had passed half over, he found such stuff, as made him greatly mistake of the whole Religion, and so he, leaving his hopes and commodities in England, went over the Sea, and the last year of Jubilee, to wit, 1575. he came to Rome, and brought that Book with him, and presented both himself and it to the Tribunal of the Inquitsition, of his own free motion and accord, where I guess the Book remaineth still, if it be not burned; and himself after absolution received for his former Errors (which he with great humility and zeal required, and myself also at that time spoke with him in that place) he returned into France and Flanders, and there lived many years, with singular edification for his rare Virtue and Learning, etc. Thus a zealous Romanist, whom I have here quoted in the Margin. Afterwards our Author Will. Rainolds went to Rheimes in France, where being kindly received by Dr. Will. Allen Precedent of the English College there, was shortly after made Professor or Reader of Divinity, and of the Hebrew Tongue. Afterwards he went to Antwerp, where he wrote, mostly under the Name of Will. Rosseus, these things following:  
Resutation of Mr. W. Whittaker's Civils against the Annotations of the New Testament. Par. 1583. oct.  
De justa republicae Christiane in reges impios & haereticos Authoritate. Antw. 1592. oct. etc.  
Catholic Faith concerning Christ's last Supper, against Berengarius and Bruce. Antw. 1593. oct. This Bruce was the same, as it seems, with Rob. Bruce a Scotch Minister.  
Paraphrase on the New Testament— MS. in the English coll. of Benedictines at Deiulward in Lorraine.  
Calvino-Turcismus, i. e. Calvinisticae perfidiae cum Mahumetanâ collatio, & dilucida utriusque sectae confutatio. Antw. 1597. Col. Agr. 1603. oct in four Books. Which Books being left imperfect, were corrected, finished, and published, out of his Notes, by his dear Friend Will. Gifford Dean of St. Peter's Church at L'isle. This Book endeavours to prove that Calvin's Religion is worse in condition, and less probable in reason, than that of the Turks, and hath less ground and substance therein, than the other, The copies of which, stealing over the Sea into England, were answered by one who writes himself T. M. S. in a Book bearing this Title, De Turco-Papismo. Hoc est de Turcorum & Papistarum adversus Christi Ecclesiam & fidem conjuratione, eorumque in Religione & moribus concensione & similitudine. Lond. 1598., 99 qu. ibid. 1604 in oct. To which Book are added 4 more against the said Calvino-Turcismus. In the Preface to the first that came forth, the Author saith, that Will. Rainolds his going over to the Church of Rome, was because he was not compos mentis, as being somewhat distracted for the love of the Wife of one M. a famous Women of Oxon, etc. The said Rainolds also translated from English into Latin all the Works of Tho. Harding, with a large Preface to them, as I have elsewhere told you; but for want of Money they could not be Printed: Also Dr. Will. Allen's Book entit. A true, sincere and modest defence of English Catholics, etc. which Book W. Rainolds did also much increase. And what else he hath written, Pitscus will 
* In lib. Dr. illustr. Angl. Script. Aet. 16. nu. 1040.  tell you, who adds that he deceasing at Antwerp in Flanders, year 1594 in fifteen hundred ninety and four, was buried in the Chancel of the Church of the Bigwins there, on the South side of the Altar. Soon after was a stone laid over his Grave, with this inscription thereon. Honorabili Domino D. Gulielmo Reginaldo, alias Ressaeo pio exuli Auglo, viro doctissimo, & hujus Ecclesiae Ministro. Obiit 24. Aug. 1594, etc. T●●w. Rainolds had five Brothers, the eldest of which was named Hierom Fellow of C. C. College, and Master of Arts in 1557. who continuing in the Roman Catholic Religion, practised Physic in the beginning of Q. Elizabeth's Reign; but soon after left the University, and whether he went beyond the Seas, and was Doctorated there, I cannot tell. Under this Hierom Rainolds, our Author William, who was the next Brother, did receive most of his tuition, while he was a Junior in Oxon. The third Brother was Edm. Rainolds before-mentioned, Fellow of C. C. College also, who leaving that House because he was in animo Catholicus, retired to Gloucester Hall, where living many years in the condition of a Tutor, died a wealthy Man. The fourth Brother was James Rainolds, Master of Arts, and Fellow of Exeter Coll. The fifth and youngest was Nicholas, who lived at Pynhaws on the Lands of his Ancestors, Father to Will. Rainolds of Cassington near to Woodstock in Oxfordshire Gentleman, sometimes a Member of Gloucester Hall, (under his Uncle Edmund,) from whom I formerly received a writing under his hand, concerning his Ancestors and Relations for three Generations above him, part of which is here mentioned.  
WILLIAM ALLYN Allen or Alan, so many ways I find him written, was the second Son of John Allen, (by Joanet or Jennet Lyster his Wife, Sister of Tho. Lyster of Westby in Yorkshire,) the Son of George Allen of Staffordshire, who having an Uncle, or near Kinsman, called Allen Abbot of Delawise, settled at Rossal in Lancashire, by the endeavours of the said Abbot, who demised to him divers Lands there, which belonged to his Monastery. At that place (Rosial) was Will. Allyn or Alan, whom we are farther to mention, born; and being arrived to about the fifteenth year of his age, was sent to Oxford in 1547. entered into Oriel Coll. and committed to the tuition of Morgan Philips, the chiefest Tutor than in that House; under whom having profited to a miracle in Logic and Philosophy, was unanimously elected Fellow of that Coll. in 1550. (4. Ed. 6.) Four years after he proceeded in Arts, and stood in that Act, wherein proceeded Tho. Harding and Nich. Harpesfield, two noted Writers, the former being then a Proceeder in Divinity, and the other in the Civil Law. In 1556. or thereabouts, he became Principal of St. Mary's Hall, and in that and the year following, one of the Proctors of the University. In 1558. or thereabouts, he was made Canon of York; but soon after upon the coming to the Crown by Q. Elizabeth, and the alteration of Religion that followed, he left his Country and Preferment about 1560. and going beyond the Seas, he retired to Louvain, than an eminent Acamedy, especially for the study of Divinity, to which place did several eminent Theologists repair for a time, (as Saunders, Harding, Dorman, Rastal, etc.) purposely to avoid the places infected with Heresy, as they called it. While he continued at Louvain, he wrote 
* Nic. Fitzberber. in E●●. Vit. Carl. A●ani, p. 39  a Book in the English Tongue against Mr. Jewel, treating of Purgatory, which afterwards was Printed. About that time falling into a grievous disease, by too careful attending a Pupil of his of gentile extraction in England, had advice given him by his Physicians to retire to his Native Country for Health's sake. Whereupon returning into England, he kept himself unknown till he had recovered his former strength; and then endeavouring to reconcile People to the Church of Rome, and to terrify them from going to the Meetings of Heretics, as he styled them, was forced by the Magistrates to leave that harbour, Lancashire. So that going to a certain place near Oxon, he practised the like, and wrote two Books in English, one Of the Authority of the Priesthood, and the other Of Indulgences. From thence he removed his Quarters to the County of Norfolk, and lived sometimes in the House of the Duke of that Name, and sometimes near it, where he wrote Certain brief Reasons concerning Catholic Faith; whereby the vanity of Heresy, and excellency of Catholic Faith (as therein it is said) were evidently set down, purposely to settle such who were wavering in other Opinion. Afterwards, though advantage was given to him to return to Louvain, by the opportunity of a Ship then going from England; yet he neglected it, and went near to Oxon again, went to the University, and meeting with one of his Contemporaries, did work so much upon him by his discourse, that he promised him to abstain for the future from Protestant Company, and their Meetings. Which act of his, being made known to the Parents of the said Contemporary, they prosecuted Allyn so close that he was forced to leave England, after he had continued there about three years. So that retiring to a certain Monastery at M●chlin in Brabant, became a Divinity Reader there; which Office he performed with great commendations for some time. Afterwards being desirous to go to Rome, in the company of Dr. Jo. Vendivile, the King's Professor at Douai (afterwards Bishop of Tournay) did make some advance that way; but for certain Reasons that then passed between them, Allyn turned his Face and went to Douai, (at which place in Academy was settled about 1562.) where he studied Divinity, became Doctor of that Faculty, and so much esteemed for his rare and active Parts, that he was made Canon of the Church of Cambray. Afterwards by his endeavours he began a Seminary at Douai, about 1568. to receive all such learned English Catholics that had fled their Country for Religion sake, where soon after they framed for themselves a common Discipline, after the manner of a College, and got the Pope to assign them an yearly Pension. Soon after our author Allyn being made Canon of Rheimes, he procured another Seminary to be erected there by the Guises, Kinsmen to Mary Q. of Scots: For the Netherlands, wherein Douai is situated, being run into confusion, the English Fugitives or Scholars were banished thence, by the command of Don Lewis de Requesens; so that thence going to Rheimes they settled there for a time. Afterwards our active Author began another Seminary at Rome, and two in Spain, to the end that English Youths might be trained up, purposely to keep up the Roman Catholic Religion in England. At length for these his great and indefatigable labours, he was created a Priest Cardinal of St. Martin in montibus, by Pope Sixtus 5. on the 28. July, according to our account, An. 1587. and two years after was made Archbishop of Mechlin, or Machlin, the Metropolis of Brabant. The character given of this Man, by several of our English Authors of the reformed Party, is, That he, with R. Persons the Jesuit, and others, did 
q Vide C●m●. Annal. A. Elizab. sub An. 1589.  lay in continual wait for the destruction of Prince and People of England, and who by exciting both Foreigners abroad, and natural Subjects at home, plotted the reducement of the R. Religion to its ancient vigour, etc. Farther 
r Ibid. sao An. 1594.  also, That after he had put off both his love to his Country, and his obedience to his Prince, he incensed the Spaniard and the Pope of Rome to assault England: And to that purpose adjoined himself to all pernicious consultations about that matter, after that Pope Sixtus 5. had bestowed on him the title of Cardinal, and the Spaniard had gave him an Abbacy in the Kingdom of Naples, and nominated him Archbishop of Machlin. When the Bull of Excommunication against Q. Elizabeth, at that time that the great Navy was provided for England, came forth, he brought it into the Low Countries, and caused it to be printed in English. Withal he wrote an Admonition to the Englishmen, that they should stick to the Pope and Spaniard; but being deceived of all his hopes, he returned again back to Rome, where, being wearied with the discords, hatreds, and dissensions of the English Runaways, both Scholars and Nobles, at last he died in the 63 year of his Age, etc. Another 
s Fr. Godwinus in come. defrayal. Angl. ad finem. intes Cardinals.  saith, That he was so ill deserving to be accounted English, as that like another Herostratus, he endeavoured to raise a combustion in the Church and State, etc. But let Writers say what they please; certain it is, that he was an active Man, and of great parts, and high prudence: that he was Religious and Zealous in his Profession, restless till he had performed what he had undertaken, that he was very affable, gentile, and winning, and that his personage was handsome and proper, which with an innate gravity, commanded respect from those that came near, or had to do with, him. His Works as to learning, are these,  
A defence of the Doctrine of Catholics concerning Purgatory, and Prayers for the Dead. Antw. 1565. in oct. Brief Reasons concerning Cath. Faith.  
Treatise made in defence of the lawful Power and Authority of Priesthood to remit Sins. Lov. 1567. oct.  
The People's duty for confession of their Sins to God's Ministers.— Printed with the Treatise made, etc.  
The Church's meaning concerning Indulgences, commonly called Pope's Pardons.— Printed also with the Treatise made, etc. Which three last were answered by Dr. Will. Fulke of Cambridge.  
De 

Antw. 1576. qu,  
Sacramentis in genere.  
Sacramento Eucharistiae.  
Sacrificio Euch.    
Apology and true declaration of the institution and endeavours of the two English Colleges, the one in Rome, the other now resident in Rheims; against certain finiste. informations given up against the same.— Printed at Mounts in He●●cault, 1581. in a large oct. This Books is said by 
t Anon. in lib. cui tit, Hypercritica, or a rule of Judgement, etc. MS. address 4. Sect. 2.  one to be a princely, grave, and flourishing piece of natural and exquisite English.  
Apologia pro sacerdotibus Societatis Jesus, & Seminariorum alumnis contra Edicta Regia. Printed in a Book entit. Concertatio Ecclesiae Catholicae, etc. Aug. Treu. 1583. in oct. & 1594. in qu. part. 3.  
Piissima admonitio & consolatio verè Christiana ad afflictos Catholicos Angliae. Printed also in the said Book.  
A true, sincere, and modest defence of the English Catholics that suffer for their Faith both at home and abroad, against a slanderous Libel entit. The Execution of Justice in England.— Not expressed where, or when, Printed; but by the character and some passages therein, is showed that it was Printed beyond the Seas, about 1583. in oct. Printed also in Latin, at Ingolst. 1584. in oct. and in a Book entit. Concertat. Eccles. Cath. in Anglia, etc. 1594. This defence was answered by Dr. Tho. Bilson, in the third part of his Book of the Supremacy, or in that Book called, The true difference between Christian Subjection, and unchristian Rebellion. As for The Execution of Justice, which the defence answers, was written, as it was then, and since, reported, by Sir Will. Cecil Lord Burleigh. The second impression of which, made at Lond. 1583. in five sheets in oct. I have, and bears this Title, The execution of Justice in England for maintenance of Public and Christian Peace, against certain stirs of sedition, and adherents to the Traitors and Enemies of the Realm, without any persecution of them for questions of Religion, as is falsely reported, etc.  
Epistola de Daventriae ditione. Cracov. 1588. in oct. Printed also about that time in English. It must be noted that in 1587. Will. Stanley, and Rowl. York, Englishmen, did traitorously deliver up a Fort near Zutphen, and the strong Garrison of Daventry to the Spaniard; whereupon our Author Dr. Allyn, did (being provoked by the Bull of Pius 5. against Q. Elizabeth) not only commend the Treason, but excited others, in the said Epistle to the like exploit or perfidiousness, as if they were neither bound to serve nor obey an excommunicated Queen. At which time the said Allyn dispatched away divers Priests to Rowl. York, whose Regiment of 13 hundred consisted all of English and Irish, to be Chaplains and Confessors to them. In the year 1588. our author Allyn compiled a Book to be published when the Spaniard should arrive into England, to stir up all the English Papists to take up Arms against the Queen. The first part of the said Book was intit.  
A declaration of the Sentence of Sixtus 5.— Grounded on the said Pope's Crusaido, whereby he gave plenary Indulgence and Pardon of all Sins to all that gave their helping hand to deprive Q. Elizabeth of her Kingdom. The second part was entit.  
An admonition to the Nobility and People of England.— Which Book, or Books, coming straightway to the knowledge of the Queen, she dispatched away 
u Camd. ut sup. in Annal. sub. An. 1588.  D. Val. Dale to the Prince of Parma, Viceroy of the Low Countries for the King of Spain; who being introduced into his presence, he did mildly expostulate with him about the said Book or Books, written by Allyn, wherein, as Dale said, he exhorted the Nobility and People of England and Ireland to join with the Spanish Forces under him, the said Prince, to invade England, etc. but he pretended he knew nothing of such a Book, and so sent him away unsatisfied. However so it was, that presently upon the overthrow of the great invincible Armado, under their heroical Adlantado, certain Roman Catholics procured the whole impression to be burned, saving some few that had been sent abroad beforehand to Friends, and such as had otherwise been conveyed away by the Printer, and others in secret wise. What else our Author Allyn hath written, Joh. Pitseus, who 
w In lib. De illustr. Angl. Script. Aet. 16. Nu. 1041.  speaks very honourably of him, will tell you; who adds that he gave up the ghost on the 6 of O●●ob. according to our account, in fifteen hundred ninety and four, and was buried in the Church or Chapel of the English College at Rome, where there is an Epitaph for him, which being printed by two several Authors at least, I shall now pass it by. The Jesuits triumphed openly (as one 
x Tho. Bell in his Anatomy of Popish Tyran●t, lib. 2. cap. 2. parag. 1.  saith) at his Death, and among other of the calumniations against him, they said, That God had taken him away in a good time; for if he had lived longer he would have disgraced himself, and lost the credit which he had got. In one or more Books containing the lives, or at least characters, with the Arms, of the Popes and Cardinals of Rome, it appears that the Arms of Cardinal Allyn, are Argent 3 Coneys or Rabbits passant Sable; yet the ancient Arms belonging to the Allens or Allyns of Staffordshire (from whom he is descended) are Parted per Chevron Gules and Ermine two Lion's heads erased, in the upper part, or. The next Card. that the English Nation hath been honoured with, is Philip Howard, third Son of Henry Earl of Arundel, and younger Brother to Henry Earl of Norwich and Duke of Norfolk; who at this day is living at Rome. He was born in Arundel House, in the Parish of St. Clement Danes without Temple-Bar near London, an. 1629. and there educated under several Tutors, till he was 14 years of age. At length, upon the eruption of the Civil War, he left the Nation, and traveled with his Grandfather Thomas Earl of Arundel into Italy, and at 15 years of age became a Dominician, or Black-Frier, at Cremona. After several years spent there, he returned into England, and upon the Marriage of King Charles 2. with Katherine the Infanta of Portugal, he became Lord Almoner to her, and continued in her service several years. Afterwards, upon the People's being exasperated against Popery, he quitted that Noble Office, and went to Bornheim in Flanders, where having a Convent of English Friars of his Order, had not continued there long, but at the desire of his sometimes Tutor, than Confessor to Pope Clement 10. had a Cardinal's Cap sent to him by the said Pope in the month of May, 1675. by his Messenger Signior Con, at which time Father Howard was at Antwerp with the Bishop of that place. By virtue of which, and the instrument with it, he was made Cardinal Priest, Sub tt. Ecclesiae S. Mariae supra Minervam: which Church was in most ancient time built upon the ruins of the Temple of Minerva at Rome, where the said Card. is now generally styled The Cardinal of Norfolk, and by some The Cardinal of England. Afterwards taking his journey towards Rome, he was attended by his Uncle William Viscount Stafford (beheaded in 1680. upon account of being engaged in the Popish Plot) Mr. John Howard Son of the said William, Lord Thomas Howard Nephew to the said Cardinal, and younger Brother to the present Duke of Norfolk, Signior Con beforementioned, Dr. Joh. Laybourne Precedent of the English or Clergy College at Douai, than Secretary or Auditor to the Cardinal, and others. He took his journey through Flanders to Douai, where he was with great solemnity received and lodged in the said Coll. The next day he designing to visit the College of English Benedictines at that place, he was received by the whole Convent in their Church, in a solemn procession with Copes, a Te Deum, and other Ceremonies, as appointed in the Ritual, for such receptions. From the Church he was conducted into the Cloister, and entertained with a banquet, and a Panigyrick spoken to him, by a Student of that college. All which was so well performed, that Vis● Sta●●ord was pleased to say, that it was the only fit reception his Eminence had met with in all his journey. Afterwards his Eminence went to Paris, where he continued for some time incognito. At length, with other Nobility and Persons of Quality added to the former company, he journeyed to Rome, and made his entry for the defraying of which and his journey, he had the assistance of the Pope, and not of King Charles 2. and Queen Catherine, as the common report then went.  
ADAM HILL, a most noted and eloquent Preacher of his time, was elected Fellow of Balliol Coll. in 1568. being that Bachelaur of Arts, stood in the Act to complete the degree of Master of that Faculty in 1572. and on the 12. of Jan. following, he resigned his Fellowship. About that time, he being noted for his practical way of Preaching, he became Vicar of Westbury in Wilts, (in which County he was, as it is probable, born) Parson of Goosage in Dorsetshire, and at length Prebendary of Gillyngham Minor in, and Succentor of, the Cath. Church of Salisbury. In 1591. he took the degrees in Divinity, and had he not been untimely snatched away by Death, he would have been advanced to an high degree in the Church. He hath written and published.  
Several Sermons: Among which are, (1) Godly Sermon showing the Fruits of Peace and War, on 2 Cor. 20. 1 Lond. 1588. oct. (2) Serm. On Gen. 18. 21, 22. Lond. 1593. oct. (3) Serm. concerning Christ's descent into Hell, Preached 28. Feb. 1589. but on what Subject I cannot tell, for I have not yet seen it. It was answered by Alex. Humo a Scot; whereupon our Author Hill came out with a Book intit.  
A defence of the Article, Christ descended into Hell, with an Answer to the arguments objected against the truth of the said Doctrine, by one Alexand. Hume, etc.— Lond. 1592. (cue). Afterwards Hume came out with A Rejoinder, wherein the answer to Dr. Hylls' Sermon is justly defended. Printed 1593. qu. But before our author Hill could come out with another answer, he gave way to fate; which happening at Salisbury about the 16. of Febr. in fifteen hundred ninety and four, was buried in the Cath. Church there, 
1594-5  on the nineteenth day of the same Month. Soon after his dignity or dignities in the said Church were bestowed on one Tho. Crump. As for the said Alex. Hume he was Master of Arts of the University of St. Andrew in Scotland, was incorporated here, as I shall tell you in the Fasti; and wrote, besides what is before mentioned, 
a Reg. antiq. coll. Aenean. fol. 88 b.  A Treatise of Conscience, etc. (2) Treatise of the Felicity of the World to come, etc. (3) Four discourses of praises unto God, etc. All which were printed at London in 1594. in oct.  
JOHN THORIE or Thorius, Son of John Thorius Doctor of Physic, who entitles himself, Balliolanus Flandrus, was born in London, matriculated in this University, as a Member of Ch. Ch. 1 Oct. 1586. aged 18. but whether he took a degree, it appears not, though in one of his Books he writes himself a Graduate of Oxenford. He was a Person well skilled in certain Tongues, and a noted Poet of his time, as several pieces of his, then published, show. All the things that I have seen of his writing or translating are these.  
A Spanish Dictionary. Lond. 1590. qu. Added to his translation into English of a Spanish Grammar, written by Auth. de Corro; which Dictionary contains the explication of all the Spanish Words cited in the said Grammar, and is as a Key to open every thing therein.  
Letters and Sonnets to Gabr. Harvey, An. 1593.— See at the end of a book, entit. Pierces Superarogation; written by the said Harvey: And at the end of another called▪ Have with you to Saffron Walden, etc. written by Tho. Nash anoted Poet of his time, and a Dramatic Writer, as his published Comedies show. Our author Thorius also translated from Spanish into English, a book entit. The Counsellor: A Treatise of Councils and Counsellors of Princes. Lond. 1589. qu. written by Barth. Philip. L. L. D. and another entit. The Sergeant Major; or, a Dialogue of the Office of a Sergeant Major. Lond. 1590. qu. Written in Spanish by Francisco Valdes Master of the Camp. 
〈◊〉 1●●4.  I shall make mention of another Joh. Thorius in the Fasti, 1627. and of the Name of Thoris in other years there, and elsewhere; but whether the Thoryes of Boston and Ingoldmells in Lincoluishire, who lived there in the time of Queen Elizabeth and King James. I. and after, were of Kin to the aforesaid Joh. Thorie, I know not. Besides all these, I find one Raphaei Thorius. commonly called Thoris, a Frenchman, whom I shall set down among he Writers under the year 1625.  
JOHN BRIDGWATER▪ or Aquepontanus as he writes himself, was born 
a Reg. antiq. coll. Aenean. fol. 88 b.  in Yorkshire, as the Reg. here quoted saith, but descended from those of his name in Somersetshire, applied his Muse to Accademical Studies, at his first coming to Oxon, in Hart Hall; whence translating himself to Brasenose soon after, took the degrees in Arts, that of Master being completed in 1556. and about that time entered into Holy Orders. In 1562. May 1. he was admitted 
b Reg. Gilb. Berkley ep. B. & Wells, An. 1562. etc.  to the Rectory of Wotto●-Courtney in the Diocese of Wells; and on the 14. Apr. 1563. he was elected Rector of Lincoln College, on the resignation of Dr. Francis Babington. On the 23. of May following he was 
c Ibid.  admitted Rector of Luccomb, in the said Diocese of Wells, being then also Archdeacon of Rochester, and soon after being made Canon Residentiary of Wells, was admitted Rector 
d Ibid.  of Porlock in the Diocese thereof, 16. Apr. 1565. In 1570. Nou. 28. he was 
e Ibid.  admitted Master of the Hospital of St. Catherine neay to Be●mystre, and in 1572. March 29. to the 
f Ib. sub an. 1572.  Prebendship of Bishops Compton in the Church of Wells. In 1574. he resigned his Rectory of Lincoln College, to prevent, as I presume, expulsion, because he was actually, or very near it, a Roman Catholic, and had given great encouragement, during his Government, to the Students under him, to embrace Religion. The same year he left Oxon, carried away with him several Goods belonging to the said College, and taking with him certain young Scholars, left all his preferments, acquaintance, and relations, and went beyond the Sea to Rheimes: Where continuing for a time, did at length (as it is said) enter himself into the Society of Jesus. He was esteemed by those of his Profession a good Scholar, and well read in various Authors, as many of his Writings show; all which being published beyond the Sea, I have only seen these following:  
Confutatio virulentae disputationis Theologica, in qua Georgius Sohn professor Academiae Heidelbergensis conatus est docere Pontificem Romanum esse Antichristum à Prophetis & Apostolis praedictum. Aut. Treu. 1589. qu. It must be now known that one Joh. Gibbon a Jesuit, and John Fen, having taken a great deal of pains in writing the lives and sufferings of several Popish Martyrs, with other matters relating to the Roman Catholic cause; their labours were published under this Title, Concertatio Ecclesiae Catholicae in Anglia adversus Calvino-Papistas, & Puritanoes, etc. Aug. Treu. 1583. in a prerty thick oct. But many things therein being wanting, or defective, our author Bridgwater took more pains in enlarging, and adding to it other matters, with an account of 100 or more Popish Martyrs, which were partly written by the said Gibbon and Fenne; which being so done, it was printed with this Title, like almost to the former, viz.  
Concertatio Ecclesiae Catholicae in Anglia adversus Calvino-Papistas & Puritanoes sub Elizabetha Regina, quorundam hominum doctrina & sanctitate illustrium renovata & recognita, etc. Aug. Treu. 1594. in a thick qu. and divided in 3 parts. The Preface to it, dedicated to John Archbishop of Trier; was writ by our author, who subscribes himself at the end, by the Name of Joh. Aquepontanus, who hath also written,  
Apologia Martyrum, qua ipsorum innocentia variis rationibus demonstratur, etc. Printed in the third part of the said Concertatio Ecc. Cath.  
De persecutione Anglicana.— So Pet. Ribadeneira; 
h In Cat. 〈◊〉 Scriptorum soc. 〈◊〉— Lugd. 1609. 〈◊〉  but his continuatour Phil. Alegamb doth 
* In l●●b. Script. 〈◊〉 Jesus in he R. in 〈…〉.  attribute that work to Rob. Persins, Entitling it De presecutione Anglicana Epistola, etc. It is printed in the first part of Concertatio Ecclesiae Catholicae.  
A Treatise or Discourse against the six articles, which are wont to be proposed to Martyrs.— This I have not yet seen; nor do I know any thing more of the author, only that he was living in great esteem at Trier in Germany, in fifteen hundred ninety and four. From the said Concertatio Eccles. Cath. 
Clar. 1594.  did Thom. Worthington take most of his materials when he composed his Catalogus Martyrum pro religione in Angliae accisorum, etc. Which, though but a six penny book when it first came forth, yet eleven shillings and more was given for it in a certain Auction, An. 1682. as I shall tell you when I come to speak of the said Worthington.  
GEORGE TURBERVILE (de turbida villa) a younger Son of Nich. Turbervile of Whitchurch in Dorsetshire, Son of Hen. Turb. of the said place, and he the fifth Son of Joh. Turbervile of Bear Regis (a right ancient and gentile Family) in Dorsetshire, was born at Whit●●urch before-mentioned, educated in W●keham's School near to Winchester, became perpet●● Fellow of New Coll. 1561. left it before he was graduated the year following, and went to one of the Inns of Court, where he was much admired for his excellencies in the art of Poetry. Afterwards being esteemed a Person fit for business, as having a good and ready command of his Pen, he was entertained by Tho. Randolph Esq; to be his Secretary, when he received commission from Queen Elizabeth to go Ambassador to the Emperor of Russia. After our author's arrival at that place, he did at spare hours exercise his muse, and wrote, Poems describing the places and manners of the country and people of Russia, an. 1568.— Written to Edw. Dancie, Edm. Spencer, etc. at London. See in the Voyages of R. Hakeluyt, printed 1598. vol. 1. p. 384, 385, etc. After his return he was esteemed a most accomplished Gentleman, and his company was much sought after and desired by all ingenious men; especially upon his publication of his Labours, entit.  
Epitaphs, Epigrams, Songs, and Sonnets. Lond. 1570. oct. Some, if not most, of which were published a little before that time. This Book was the same, as I conceive, which was printed with additions, under his name, in oct. An. 1587. with this Title, Tragical Tales, Epitaphs, and Sonnets, etc. He also translated in English, The Eglogues of John Bapt. Fiera Mantuan. Lond. 1594. Which Eglogues Turbervile turned in English Verse, and added an argument to every Eglogue: Also about the same time, he translated into English Verse, and set out, The Heroical Epistles of the learned Poet, Pub. Ovid. Naso: with Aul. Sabinus Answers to certain of the same. Printed in oct. twice as it seems, one edition whereof came out at Lond. 1600. The said Eglogues were afterwards translated by another hand; but not without the help of that translation of Turbervile, though not acknowledged. The person that performed it was Tho. Harvey, who writes himself Gent. But whether the same Tho. Harvey who was Master of Arts, the first Master of Kington School in Herefordshire, (founded 1620.) and the author of The Synagogue, in imitation of divine Herbert, I know not. As for George Turbervile he lived and was in great esteem among ingenious men, 
Clar. 1594.  in fifteen hundred ninety and four, (36. Reg. Elizab.) but when he died I cannot yet learn. I find one George Turbervile to be author of (1) Essays politic and moral. Printed 1608. in oct. (2) The noble art of Venery, or hunting and hawking. Printed with figures in 1611. in qu. etc. Whether George Turbervile beforementioned was the author of the said two books, or another of both his names, who was a Dorsetshire man born, and a Commoner of Glouc. Hall, An. 1581. aged 18. or a third G. Turbervile who was born in the said County, and became a Student in Magd. Hall 1595. aged 17. I cannot justly tell you, unless I could see and peruse the said two books, of which I am as yet totally ignorant.  
HENRY WALPOOLE elder Brother to Mich. and Rich. Walpoole Jesuits, was born in the County of Norfolk, educated in both the Universities, but in what College or Hall in Oxon, it doth not appear, because not matriculated; so that his stay here being, I presume, but short, nothing occurs memorable of him, only that he was inclined to Puritanism. which made Pasquil in his Apology 
i The first part of Pa●quill● Apology, written against Jo. Penry's Trevise of 〈◊〉.— Printed at Lond. in qu. An 1590. 〈◊〉 5.  to challenge Oxford men to inquire and tell him, whether the said Walpoole was not a Puritan when he forsook them. Soon after his retirement from the University, he became so zealous a Roman Catholic, that endeavouring to persuade others to his Opinion, he was forced to leave his station: whereupon going to Rome, he was entered into the Society of Jesus, in 1584. aged 25 years; where continuing for some time, he went afterwards into Spain, and when he had spent certain years there, he journeyed into Holland, where he suffered much upon account of Religion. In 1593. he was sent into England, was seized on at his first entry therein, and carried to York, where he was imprisoned for denying the Queen's Supremacy over the Church of England. The next year he was sent to London, and committed Prisoner to the Tower, where he suffered much misery. After an years durance there, (in which time several Ministers were with, to persuade, him to recant, but in vain,) he was sent back to York. where he suffered death, as I shall tell you anon. He hath written in English Verse,  
The Martyrdom of Edm. Campian the Jesuit.— and other things that are not printed, having been secured, by certain Protestants, when the author was imprisoned at York; at which place, he was hanged, drawn, and quartered for Treason, on the 17. Apr. in fifteen hundred ninety and five. year 1595 See more of him in a book intit. Bibl. Script. Soc. Jesus, written originally by Pet. Ribadeneira.— Lugd. 1609. in oct. continued by Philip Alcgambc.— Antw. 1643. fol. and at length by Nath. Sotvellus, commonly called Southwell, of the Family of the Southwells in Norfolk.— Rom. 1676. fol. See also in Historia Provinciae Anglicanae Soc. Jesus. lib. 5. nu. 33, 34. written by Henry More an Englishman, a descendant from Sir Tho. More, sometimes L. Chanc. of England. Which Hen. tells us, that the said Hen. Walpoole was educated in Cambridge, without any notice taken of Oxon. The learned Camden in his Annals of Queen Elizabeth, doth make mention of one of the Walpooles, an 1598. but which, I cannot yet tell.  
JOHN HARTE was educated in most kinds of literature in Oxon; but in what College or Hall I cannot find. One Mr. Harte was a Sojournour of Exeter College, An. 1551. (5. Ed. 6.) but him I take to be too soon for our author, who was but a young Man when he encountered Dr. Jo. Rainolds in a disputation. What degrees he took here, it appears not, though those of his Profession (the Jesuits) tell 
k Vide Hen. Morum in Hist. Provinc. Angl. Soc. Jesus. lib. 4. num. 13.  us, that he was Bachelaur of Divinity of Oxon; yet upon the strict perusal of our Registers, I cannot find the least authority for it. After he had left this University, being then, and before, very unsettled and wavering in mind, he went beyond the Seas, changed his Religion, took priestly Orders, and was sent into the Mission of England; but soon after taken and committed to Prison, to a filthy dungeon, as a noted 
l Card. Will. Alan in his Answer to the Libel, entit. The Execution of Justice, p. 14, etc.  author tells us; who adds that after he (whom he calls the happy young Confessor) had been often by Famine tormented, was unexpectedly brought out to encounter Joh. Rainolds beforementioned, An. 1583. or thereabouts. Which disputation being smartly held on both sides, those of Harte's Persuasion say that Rainolds was foiled; though, the opposite, not; upon some years after was published,  
The sum of a conference between Joh. Rainolds and Jo. Hart, touching the Head, and the Faith of the Church, etc. Lond. 1588. qu. See more in Jo. Rainolds, under the year 1607. Afterwards our Author Harte, who is styled by a learned 
m Gul. Camdenus in Annal. R. Eliz. part 3. sub an. 1584.  Author, Vir praecaeteris doctissimus, being banished with divers other R. Priests, in 1584. he went to Verdune, where he entered into the Society of Jesus. Thence he was called to Rome, where making some stay till authority commanded him thence, he went into Poland, and settled for a time at Jareslaw. At length giving way to Fate on the 14. of the Cal. of Aug. in fifteen hundred ninety and five, year 1595 or thereabouts, was buried at Jareslaw, or Joreslaw. Seven years after his Body was taken up, and translated to another place belonging to the Jesuits, who had an high esteem for his Person while living, sanctity of Life and Learning, and when dead for his memory. I find another John Hart, who was Chester Herald, and wrote and published, An Orthography, containing the due Order and Reason how to write or paint the Image of Man's Voice, most like to the Life or Nature. Lond. 1569. And another Jo. Hart of later time, who, among other Books, did publish, The burning Bush not consumed, wherein one may judge whether he be the Child of God or not. Lond. 1641. 2. fourth edit. But whether this last, who was a zealous Puritan, (if not worse,) or the former, who was an Herald, were of this University, I know not as yet.  
THOMAS DIGGES, Son of Leonard Digges, mentioned before under the year 1574. by Sarah his Wife, Sister to Jam. and Tho. Wilford, two most valiant Knights of Hartridge in the Parish of Crainbrook in Kent, was born in that County, and for a time educated among the Oxonian Muses, but in what House I cannot yet tell, neither whether he be the same Mr. Digges which the famous Lampoon or Libel, made by Th. Bulkley, in the time of Q. Elizabeth, (on several Scholars and others of Oxon,) points at. However, of this I am sure, he the said Tho. Digges did spend his younger years, even from his Cradle, in the Liberal Sciences; especially in searching the most difficult and curious demonstrations Mathematical, by the assistance of the practices, observations, monuments, and conferences of his Father. He was a Person of great Piety, well skilled in matters relating to Soldiers, and War, (having been Muster-master General of all Q. Elizabeth's Forces in the Low Countries,) and learned to a miracle in Mathematical Sciences, which made him much esteemed by Joh. Dee, Tho. Allen and others. He hath transmitted to Posterity,  
Alae sive scalae Mathamaticae. Lond. 1573. qu. Of which Work Tycho Brahe 
n In lib. suo De nova Stella, lib. 1. cap. 9  giveth a favourable and ingenious censure.  
An Arithmetical Military Treatise, containing so much of Arithmetic, as is necessary towards Military Discipline. Lond. 1579. qu.  
Geometrical Treatise named Stratiaticos, requisite for the perfection of Soldiers. Lond. 1579. qu. This was first of all attempted by his Father, but finished by this our author Thomas his Son; afterwards corrected and amended, and sundry additions put to it.— Lond. 1590. qu.  
Perfect description of Celestial Orbs, according to the most ancient Doctrine of the Pythagoreans, etc. Lond. 1592. qu. set at the end of his Father's Prognostication.  
Humble motives for association to maintain Religion established.— Printed 1601. in oct. To which is added his Letter to the same purpose to the Archbishops and Bishops of England.  
England's Defence: a Treatise concerning Invasion: or, a brief discourse of what orders were best for the repulsing of Foreign Enemies, if any time they should invade us by Sea in Kent, or elsewhere.— Written 1599 but not printed till 1686. which was at Lond. in 5 sheets in fol. Besides these and his Nova corpora, etc. he had several Mathematical Treatises lying by him, which were fit for the Press, and by him intended for public view; but being diverted by Lawsuits, his intentions were not only stopped, but the happy Society of the Mathematical Muses were discontinued. He concluded his last day on the 24. year 1595 of Aug. in fifteen hundred ninety and five, and was buried in the Chancel of the Church of S. Marry the Virgin in Aldermanburic in the City of London. On the North wall of the said Chancel was soon after set up a fair monument to his memory; which continuing till 1666. was in the beginning of Sept. in that year, consumed with the Church itself in the dismal conflagration that then happened in London. You may see more of this Tho. Digges in my discourse of his Father Len. Digges under the year 1574.  
EDWARD KELLEY otherwise Talbot was born in the City of Worcester, at about 4 of the clock in the afternoon, on the first day of Aug. in 1555. (3 of Q Mary) whose Nativity being afterwards calculated, it did appear that he was born to be a man of clear understanding, quick apprehension, of an excellent wit, and of great propensity to Philosophical studies and the mysteries of Nature. This Person, being about 17 years of age, at which time he had attained to a competency of Grammar Learning at Worcester and elsewhere, he was sent to Oxon, but to what House I cannot tell. However I have been informed by an ancient Bach. of Divinity, who in his younger years had been an ●manuensis to Mr. Tho. Allen of Gloucester Hall, that he (Kelley) had spent some time in that House: Whereupon I recurring to the Matricula, could not find the name of Kelley, only Talbot of Ireland, three of which Name were Students there in 1573,— 74, etc. about which time Mr. (afterwards Sir) John Davies was instructed in the Mathematics by the said Allen. But this relation having been somewhat dubiously delivered to me, I must tell you, that Kelley having an unsettled mind, left Oxon abruptly, without being entered into the Matricula, and in his rambles in Lancashire, committing certain soul matters, lost both his Ears at Lancaster, and about that time caused, by his incantations, a poor Man that had been buried in the yard belonging to Law-church, near to Walton in the dale, to be taken out of his grave, and to answer to such questions that he then proposed to him. The story of which, being to me incredible, I shall refer you to the Writer 
o Jo. Weever in his Discourse of ancient Funeral Monuments. Lond. 1631. fol. p. 45, 46.  of it, who is too credulous in many matters. About that time our author Kelley became intimate with Dr. John Dee the famous Mathematician, with whom continuing several years in Philosophical Studies, and Chemical Experiments, they both became very famous among Scholars, and therefore noted by Persons of high and noble extraction, one for the Mathematics, and the other for Chemistry; for though Dee was the most eminent man in his time for the first, yet Kelly went far beyond him in the latter, as by the sequel it will appear. 'Tis reported by a certain 
p Elias Ashmole in his Theatrum Chemicum Britannicuam. Lond. 1652. qu. p. 481.  Rosacrucian that they were so strangely fortunate, as to find a very large quantity of the Elixir in some part of the ruins of Glastenbury Abbey, which was so incredibly rich in virtue, that they lost much in making projection, by way of trial, before they found out the height of that medicine. In the beginning of 1583. Dr. J. Dee having contracted with certain Spirits to act and converse with them, he appointed his Friend Kelley to be his Seer or Skryer, or Speculator, that is to take notice what the Spirits said, and to tell it to Dee, while he wrote down in a Book what was dictated to him. Soon after Dee and Kelley being made known to, and acquainted with, the learned and most noble Polonian, named Albert Alaskie Prince of Sirad, who was come into England. to see the fashions of the Court, and to admire the Wisdom of the Queen, he thereupon had so great respect for them, (himself being a Mathematician,) that in Sept. following when he left England he took them and their Wives with him in the same Ship, and travelling with him afterwards by Land, he saw them safely conveyed to Cracaw in Poland. Where continuing for some time, they removed to Prague; and at length, in Sept. 1586. to Trebona in Bohemia: at all which places though Kelley was several times troublesome, inconstant, and false to Dee, yet he mostly performed the office of Skryer. And further, that notwithstanding Dee took the said Spirits to be Angelical, yet Kelley not, but rather mere delusions of the Devil, which hath been since confirmed by Dr. Meric Casaubon, who published the Relation of Dr. Dee's conversing with Spirits. At Trebona Kelley 
q Ibid.  made projection 9 Dec. 1586. with one small grain of the Elixir (in proportion no bigger than the least grain of sand) upon one ounce and a quarter of common Mercury, and it produced almost an ounce of most pure Gold. At another time he made projection upon a piece of metal cut out of a Warming-pan, and without his touching or handling it, or melting the metal, (only warming it in the fire,) the Elixir being put thereon, it was transmuted into pure Silver. The said Warming-pan and piece were sent to Q. Elizabeth by her Ambassador then residing at Prague, that by fitting the piece, with the place whence it was cut out, it might exactly appear to be a part of the said Warming-pan. At another time Kelley, who was openly profuse beyond the modest limits of a sober Philosopher, did give away in Gold-wyer-rings (or rings twisted with three Gold-wyers) at the Marriage of one of his Maid Servants, to the value of 4000 l. but this I think was acted after Dee had left him at Trebona, (which was in May 1589.) otherwise it had not been done, and so consequently Rodolph 2. Emperor of Germany (who had a great respect for him and Dee) would not for his Prodigality, or open management of the secret, or rather, as some say, for a chemical cheat put upon him, have committed him to close custody. The Writings of Kelley that are made public are these,  
Poem of Chemistry.— Pr. in Theat. Chemic. Britannicum. an. 1652.  
Poem of the Philosophers-Stone.— Written to his Friend G. S. Gent. Printed there also.  
De lapide Philosophorum, Hamb. 1676. in oct. Qu. Whether this be not falsely fathered on him. He hath also several Lat. and Engl. discourses in a Book intit. A true and faithful relation of what passed, for many years, between Dr. Joh. Dee and some Spirits, etc. Lond. 1659. fol. Published by Dr. Meric Casaubon before-mentioned. At length our author Kelley (who had been Knighted by the Emperor, as it seems) being imprisoned the second time (at Prague) by the aforesaid Emperor, after he had been at Liberty for some Months, and in a manner had crept into his favour, attempted an escape out of an high Window by tying his sheets together, after he had divided each into two parts at least; but he being too weighty for them, he fell to the ground before he was half way down; so that bruising his Body and breaking his Legs, he 
r Ibid.  died soon after in Octob. as it seem, in fifteen hundred ninety and five; year 1595 for on the 25. Nou. following the news of his death came to Dr. Dee then in England, which he inserted in his Diary thus, Nou. 25. an. 1595. news that Sir F. K. was slain. Jo. Weever before quoted tells 
s In his Discourse before-mentioned.  us otherwise. viz. That Q. Elizabeth sent very secretly Capt. Peter Gwinne with some others, to persuade Kelly to return back to his Native Country; which he was willing to do; and thinking to escape away in the night, by stealth, as he was clambering over a wall in his own House in Prague, (which bears his name to this day, and which sometimes was an old Sanctuary,) he fell down from the battlements, broke his Legs, and bruised his Body, of which hurts within a while after he died, etc. Thus Weever beforementioned, a Lancashire man born, educated in Queen's coll. in Cambrige, under the tuition of Dr. Rob. Pearson Archdeacon of Suffolk, afterwards a great traveller beyond the Seas, and collector of several Epitaphs of Englishmen that he met with in his rambles. Soon after his return, he traveled though most parts of England, for the obtaining of English Antiquities, and through some of Scotland, being encouraged thereunto by those excellent Antiquaries Sir Rob. Cotton and Joh. Selden. At length after he had arrived to the 56 years of his age, his little body being then in a manner worn out with continual motion, he yielded to nature in his house in Clerkenwelclose near to London, an. 1632. Whereupon his body was buried towards the west end of the Church of St. James in Clerkenwel. As for Edw. Kelley beforementioned you may see more of him before, in Franc. Puccius, and afterwards (under the year 1651.) in Arth. Dee.  
ROGER WILLIAMS Son of Tho. Williams of Penrose in Monmouthshire, by Elianour his Wife, daughter of Sir Will. Vaughan Knight, was born in that County, of a Family rather ancient than wealthy, and being from his childhood more given to Military, than Scholastical, matters; yet for form sake he was sent to the University; but to what house therein, unless to Brasenose, whereof one of both his Names, and a Welshman, was a Student in 1554. (2. of Q. Mary) I know not. Soon after he left Oxon, became a Soldier of Fortune under the Duke of Alva, ran through all the degrees of Military Offices, was a Colonel in the French and Belgic Wars, and might have been sided with the best of those times, if his discretion could have but well tempered his hot furious valour, which was the reason that Q. Elizabeth would not commit any place, or Employment, of great trust to his care. In 1586. he had the Honour of Knighthood conferred upon him, was then beloved of all Soldiers, and so much noted for his martial prowess, that he went beyond the commendation of Panegyric, which was specified in the said year, when at midnight he assaulted the Camp of the Prince of Parma near Venlow, slew some of the Enemies, and pierced the Tent of the General, as a noted 
t Camden in Annal. Reg. Eliz. sub an. 1586. vide etiam sub an. 1581.  author tells us. He hath written,  
The Actions of the Low Countries.— Printed at Lond. in time of Q. Eliz. as it seems, and 1618. qu. The author being unlearned, and only tutored by experience, hath penned the said History with very exquisite judgement, he being an actor in the said Actions or Wars.  
A brief discourse of War, with his opinion concerning some part of martial discipline. Lond. 1590. qu. In this excellent book the author defends the military art of his, against that of former, days; but to the great envy then, and discontent of some old-beaten Soldiers, and the Lovers of Archery. He paid his last debt to Nature in his House in the Parish of St. Benedict, near to Paul's Wharf in London, in the month of Decemb. in fifteen hundred ninety and five, year 1595 and was buried on the 23. of the same month, by the care of Tho. powel of Vsk in Monmouthshire, and Jelly Merick of the Parish of St. Clement's without Temple-Bar, Gent. (his Kinsmen) within the Cath. Ch. of St. Paul; at whose Funeral Rob. Earl of Essex, and all the warlike men of the City of London mourned. Whether any Epitaph was ever set over his grave, I know not: Sure it is that one 
u ●o. Stradlingus in lib. 1. Epigram. p. 31.  who knew him, hath commended to Posterity a learned Epigram on him, the beginning of which is,  
Quid tumulum lachrymis violas, & murmur vexas  
Fortissimi manes Ducis? etc.  
You may be pleased to satisfy yourself concerning this valiant Colonel, in a Book intit. A true discourse historical of the succeeding Governors of the Netherlands, and the Civil Ware there began in the year 1565. etc. Translated and collected by Tho. Churchyard Esq; and Rich. Ro. out of the reverend E. M. of Antwerp his 15 books of his Historia Belgica, etc. Lond. 1602. I find another Rog. William's later in time than the former, an inhabitant of Providence in New England, and author of (1) A Key to the Language of New England. Lond. 1643. oct. (2) The hireling Ministry none of Christ: or, a discourse of the propagation of the Gospel of Christ Jesus. Lond. 1652. qu. etc. But of what University the said Williams was, if of any, I know not; or whether a real Fanatic or Jesuit.  
HENRY UNTON was born of an ancient and gentile Family at Wadley near Faringdon in Berkshire, educated in Oriel coll. under Mr. Rich. Pygot one of that Society, left it without a degree and traveled. After his return, being esteemed a Person well qualified, had some Employment under Sir Christopher Hatton L. Chancellor, who quickly finding him to be a man of business and experience, commended him to the Queen, who in 1586. not only conferred on him the Honour of Knighthood, but sent him afterwards twice in the quality of an Ambassador to the King of France, where he behaved himself right stoutly in behalf of his Mistress, particularly for some injury done to her by the Duke of Guise, an. 1592. This person, who was actually created M. of A. of this University, before he went into France, hath written,  
An account of his Embassy: or, a Diary containing his Commission, Instructions, Expenses, and Transactions; as also Letters from, or to, him, from July 13. an 1591. to June 12. an. 1592. MS. in bib. Bod. He also made a Diary for his last Embassy, which continued to the time of his Death, but that I have not yet seen. He gave way to Fate in the King of France's Camp, lying before Lafere, on the 23. March in fifteen hundred ninety and five; 
1595-6.  whereupon his Body being conveyed into England, was buried on the 8. July following, in a Chapel joining to the North side of the Church of Faringdon beforementioned. Soon after was a noble Monument set over his grave, with this inscription, containing certain matters relating to him, which I have not yet mentioned. Virtuti & honori Sacrum. Henrico Vntono Eq. Aurate, Edovardi Vntoni, Eq. Aur. filio, ex Annâ Comitissâ Warwici, filiâ Edovardi de Sancto Mauro Ducis Sommersetti & Angliae Protectoris, qui optimarum artium studiis a primâ aetate in Academiâ Oxon institutus, magnam orbis Christiani partem perlustravit, ob virtutem bellicam in Zutphaniae obsidione, dignitate equestri donatus, propter singularem prudentiam, spectatum sidem, & multiplicem rerum usum iterum Legatus à Sereniss. Angliae Reginâ ad Christianiss. Regem missus in Galliam, è quâ ad celestem patriam migravit 23. Mart. an. 1596. etc. The Muses of Oxon had so great a respect for the memory of this most worthy Person, that a book of Verses on his death, came out soon after under their name, intit. Funebria nobiliss. ac praestomtiss. Eq. D. Henrici Vntoni ad Gallos bis legati regii, etc. à Musis Oxon apparata.  
WILLIAM MIDDLETON, the third Son of Rich. Middleton of Denbigh, (by Jane his Wife, Daughter of Hugh Dryhurst of the same place,) fourth Son of Foulk Middleton of Denbigh beforementioned, the third Son of Dau. Middleton of Gwenock, Recordator of North-Wales, was born in Denbighshire, and educated for a time among the Oxonians, but whether in Jesus coll. at its first foundation, as probably it might be so, or whether he took more than one degree, I know not. Afterwards he traveled into various parts of the World, exercised himself in fears of Arms, became the most noted Bard of his Country; and though a Soldier and a Captain by profession, (having had the command of a Ship for several years,) yet all the time he got, was bestowed in exercising his Poetical fancy. The Works of him that I have seen are these.  
Bardoniaeth: or, the Art of Welsh poetry. Lond. 1593. qu. in 3 sh. and half. This book which is written in Welsh, he styles the first book, or part, as if there was a second to be published. He also translated into the Welsh tongue the Psalms of David, running in excellent Meter. Which noble work he performed apud se●tum insulam occidentalium Indorum, and finished it there 24. Jan. in fifteen hundred ninety and five. 
Clar. 1595.  This translation coming into the hands of his Countryman Tho. Salisbury, was, with the help of his Friend Tho. Middleton Citizen of London, and kinsman to the author, published at Lond. 1603. qu. Before which time the author, as it seems, was dead. In my searches I find another Will. Middleton Bach. of Divinity and Minister of Hardwick in Cambridgshire, author of Papisto mastix: or, the Protestants Religion defended, etc. Lond. 1606. qu. and of other things, but what relation there was between the former and this (who seems to have been educated in Cambridge) I know not.  
JOHN SMYTHE, or Smith, Son of Sir Clem. Smythe of Little Badew in Essex, by Dorothy his Wife, Sister to Edw. Seymour Duke of Somerset, (whose Sister Jane Seymour was the third Wife of K. Hen. 8.) was born as it seems, in Essex, and laid the foundation of Literature in Oxon, but in what house, 'tis difficult to find, because both his Names are very common. Afterwards being martially inclined, he traveled into various countries, exercised himself in feats of arms, and became as well a complete Soldier, as Gentleman. At length he was made a Knight by Qu. Elizabeth, and by her sent Ambassador into Spain, in 1576, as being a person of a Spanish port and demeanour, and well known to the Spaniard, who held him, as their King did, in high value, and especially for this reason, that he was first cousin to K. Ed. 6. His works are,  
Discourse concerning the forms and effect of divers Weapons, and other very important Matters Military; greatly mistaken by divers of our men of War in their days, and chiefly of the Musket, Calyver and Longbow, etc. Lond. 1589. and 1590. qu.  
Certain Instructions, Observations, and Orders Military, requisite for all Chieftains, Captains, higher and lower Officers. Composed 1591. Lond. 1594. 95. qu.  
Instructions for Enrolling and Mustering— Printed with Certain Instructions, etc. What other books of his are published, I cannot yet find, nor exactly when he died, only that he was living and in great esteem among Soldiers and learned men in fifteen hundred ninety and five. 
Clar. 1595.  Besides this, was another Sir Joh. Smyth equal in time with him, eldest Son of Tho. Smyth of Ostinhanger in Kent Esq. and brother to Sir Thomas of Bidborough in the same County, whom I shall mention elsewhere. Which Sir John dying in the beginning of 1609. was buried in Ashford Church in the said County, leaving Issue, as it seems, Tho. Smyth of Ostenhanger, afterwards Knight of the Bath and Viscount Stranford in Ireland; who dying 30. June 1635. was buried in his Chapel joining to the said Church of Ashford. But this Sir John was no writer, nor of the same Family, because he was descended from the Smyths of Corshan in Wiltshire; whereas Sir John who was the Writer and Soldier, was Grandson to Tho. Smyth of Ravinhall in Essex, and he a Discendant from John Carrington, who fled for a time from England, and changed his Name to Smyth, for adhering to the deposed King Rich. 2. Further also I find another John Smyth commonly called Captain Smyth, who wrote (1.) A Map of Virginia, with a Description of the Country, the Commodities, People, Government, and Religion. Oxon. 1612. qu. (2.) New England's Trials, etc. Lond. 1620. qu. (3.) General History of Virginia, etc. Lond. 1624. qu. (4.) Travels in Europe, etc. Lond. 1630. with other things, but this Captain Smyth was a Cheshire man, and whether he had received any Education in this University of Oxon, I cannot say to the contrary.  
JOHN PRIME, Son of Rob. Prime, a Fletcher, was born in the Parish of Halywell in the North Suburb of Oxford, received his Grammatical Literature in Wykehams' School near to Winchester, admitted perpetual Fellow of New Col. in 1570. took the degrees in Arts, holy Orders and became a noted puritanical Preacher in the City of his Nativity, and much favoured by Dr. Cooper Bishop of Winchester. In 1589. he proceeded in Divinity, being at that time Vicar of Adderbury alias Eabburbury in Oxfordshire, where he became much followed for his edifying way of preaching. He hath written,  
A short treatise of Sacraments generally, and in special of Baptism, and of the Supper. Lond. 1582. oct.  
Treatise of nature and grace. Lond. 1583, oct.  
Sermon briefly comparing the State of King Solomon and his Subjects together with the condition of Queen Elizabeth and her People, preached at S. Mary's in Oxon. 17. Nou. 1585. on 1 Kings 10. 9 Oxon. 1585. oct.  
Exposition on the Galathians. Ox. 1587. oct.  
The consolations of David applied to Queen Elizabeth, in a Sermon at S. Mary's in Oxon. 17. Nou. 1588. on Psal. 23. 4. Oxon. 1588. oct. These, as I think, were all the books and Sermons that he hath published, though he intended more had he not been cut off in his middle Age. At length after he had been Vicar of Adderbury about 7 years, he concluded his last day there about the 12 of April in fifteen hundred ninety and six, year 1596 and was buried in the Church of that place, but hath neither Epitaph or Inscription over his Grave.  
FRANCIS KNOLLIS, Son of Robert Knollis of Rotherfield-Gray, commonly called Grays, near to Henly in Oxfordshire, did receive for a time his Grammatical and Dialectical Education in this University, particularly, as it seems, in Magd. coll. Afterwards he retired to his patrimony, and at length to the court, and became one of the Gentlemen Pensioners to K. Hen. 8. in the latter end of his reign. When a reformation was set on foot by King Ed. 6. he was so zealous for the religion then professed, as that, when Qu. Mary began to reign and grow severe towards the Reformed party, he 
* Camden in Annal. Reg. Eliz. sub an. 15. 6. vide etiam in Baro●●g. Angl. To. 3. p. 412.  fled into Germany, where he sorted himself for a time among several of the English Divines that went away about the same time for conscience sake. After the death of that Queen, he returned, and became so much in esteem by Q. Elizabeth (who stood totally affected to the reformation) as that in the first year of her reign, he was made choice of, for one of her privy Council, and shortly after that, she made him Vice-chamberlain of her household, and employed him in matters of concern beyond the Seas. In 1566. he was actually created Master of Arts, being then chief Steward of the City of Oxon, Captain of the Halbertiers, and about that time 
† Ib. in Ca●d. an. 1566.  Treasurer of the Queen's Chamber in the place of Sir John Mason deceased. Afterwards he was trusted with the custody of Mary Qu. of Scots, while she was a prisoner in Bolton-castle in Yorkshire, and in the 29. Elizab. being then a Knight, he was one of those, who by commission sat in judgement upon the said Queen at Foderingey. At length he was made Treasurer of her Majesty's Household, and Knight of the most noble Order of the Garter, being always by many accounted a faithful subject, an honest and learned man, and a person of great prudence and wisdom; and by others so a great a friend to Calvin in his heart (whose principles he embraced while he lived at Geneva) that he was never a cordial friend to Episcopacy, but rather a patron of the Non-conformists, which appeared by several of his actions while he was a privy Counsellor. His writings are these.  
Treatise against the usurpation of Papal Bishops— Printed 1608. in oct. some attribute it to Jo. Rainolds the famous Divine.  
A General Survey of the Isle of Wight, with all the Castles and Fortresses near adjoining— This is a MS. in fol. and was sometimes in the Lib. of Arthur E. of Anglesey: From whence we may suppose that the author had some office in, or relating to, the said Isle, but what, in truth I cannot tell. I have seen also several of his speeches spoken in Parliaments, letters of state, and letters written by him to the said Jo. Rainolds, between whom there was great amity and intercourse, but few or none, of those letters or speeches, I think, are printed. At length paying his last debt to nature in the Summer time (before Septemb.) year 1595 in fifteen hundred ninety and six, was, as I presume, buried at Grays before mentioned. By his Wife Catherine daughter of Will. Cary Esque by Mary his Wife, daughter of Thom. Bolein Earl of Wiltshire, as also Sister to the Lady Anne Bolein second Wife to K. Hen. 8. he had issue Henry his Eldest Son, bred in the Free-School joining to Maga. College under the care, as it 
* Vide Pi●s. De illustr. Angl. Script. aet. 16. nu. 9●6. p. ●32  seems, of Tho. Robertson. Afterwards he went with his Father and others into Germany, and at his return, if not happily before, became a Commoner of the said College, where he obtained so much literature as afterwards to gain the character by a learned 
† 〈…〉 in Vita & morte Jo. Juelli, edit. 〈◊〉 p. 87, 88  Author of homo virtute & animi dotibus non infimus, and of homo religionis studiosissimus & liberalissima literatura egregic ditatus, etc. But he dying without issue, the estate went to the next Son called William, afterwards Earl of Ba●bury, He had another Son named Francis, 2 Knight, whom I shall mention elsewhere, as also a fourth, who was a member of the said College; and all four admired by some, and envied by others, for their great virtue and towardliness.  
JOHN SMITH was a Berkshire man born as it seems, became Fellow of St. John's coll. in the Founder's time, Master of Arts in in 1560. and afterwards Schoolmaster at, and Vicar of the Church of St. Laurence in, Reading in the aforesaid County. He hath written,  
The Doctrine of Prayer in general for all men, that is universally for all Mankind, etc. Lond. 1595. qu. What else he hath published I know not, being a difficult matter to distinguish his Works from others of both his names and time: And whether he was author of The use of the Gospel, printed 1580. in qu. which is said to be written by Jo. Smith, I cannot tell. The said Joh. Smith of Reading, did give way to Fate there, and was buried in his Church of St. Laurence; 
Clar. 1596.  but when, it appears not; leaving then behind him a Son of both his Names, Scholar of St. John's coll. an. 1600. which he left after he was M. of A. to prevent expulsion. I find another John Smith, who hath published, (1) The bright Morning Star; or, the resolution and exposition of the 22 Psalm. Cambr. 1603. in tw. (2) A pattern of true Prayer, being an exposition or commentary on the Lord's Prayer, etc. Lond. 1605. and 1624. oct. besides other things. But in his Epistle Dedicatory, before the said Exposition, it appears that he was then (1605, and before) a Lecture in the City of Lincoln, and that he had received part of his education in Cambridge. I shall make mention of another Joh. Smith of St. John's coll. under the year 1616.  
PETER BALES (Balesius) a most dextrous Person in his profession, to the great wonder of Scholars and others, spent several years in Sciences among the Oxonians, particularly, as it seems, in Gloucester hall. But that study which he used for a diversion only, proved at length an employment of ptofit. His Works are these.  
The art of Brachygraphy, that is to write as fast as a man speaketh treatably. Lond. 1597. in tw. 2 edit.  
The order of Orthography.  
The Key of Calygraphy; that is of fair Writing.  
Printed with the former.  
Before these Treatises are 18 copies of Verses made in praise of them; four whereof, or more, were made by the Students of Glouc. hall, (among whom Edw. Mychilbourne a most noted Poet of his time hath two) and three, or more, by the Students of St. John's Col. who are proprietaries of that hall. What afterwards became of the said Balesius, 
Clar. 1596.  (who was engaged in the Earl of Essex his treasons, An. 1600.) I cannot tell, nor whether he published any other matters. I find one of both his Names, a Divine, who published (1.) The Lord's prayer pleading for better entertainment. Lond. 1643. qu. 'Tis a Sermon as it seems, on Luke 11. 2. (2.) Infirmities inducing to Conformity, on Jam. 3. 2. Printed 1650. qu. and other things. Whether this Peter Bales was Son or kinsman to the former, I cannot tell.  
FRANCIS CLERKE, or Clerk, was originally of Oxon, but making little stay there, he retired to Doctor's Commons in London, and for about 40 years practised the Civil Law in the most famous Courts in England, as in the Court of Arches, Admiralty, Audience, Prerogative, and Consistoral of the Bishop of London, besides his employment divers times in the Ecclesiastical Causes of the delegated Power of the King, and chief Commissioners. In 1594. he having then practised his Faculty 35 years at 〈◊〉, had the degree of Bach. of Civil Law conferred upon him, by the venerable Convocation of Doctors and Masters, not by way of creation, but, as the Register saith, by admission to the reading of the imperial institutions, though no exercise he did for it in this University. The reason for this their Civility, was, that he had performed the part of chief Proctor for the said University, by virtue of Letters and their common Seal, in all their concerns in the aforesaid Courts. He hath written,  
Praxis tam jus dicentibus, quam aliis omnibus, qui in foro Ecclesiastico versantur, apprime utilis. This book was finished by the Author, and made ready for the press, in April 1596. 
Clar. 1596.  but what diverted him from the publication thereof (unless death) I know not. Afterwards several imperfect Copies of it flying abroad, one, supposed to be true, came into the hands of Tho. Bladen, D. D. Dean of Ardfort in Ireland and Chaplain to the Duke of Ormond, who caused it to be printed at Dublin in 1666. qu.  
Praxis curiae Admiralitatis Angliae. Dubl. 1666. qu. published by the said Doctor. But the Copy from whence that Edition was published, being, as 'twas pretended, false in many matters, a better Copy was published at London, 1667. in 8vo. by E. S. One Sir Franc. Clerk of Bedfordshire Knight, was a benefactor to Sidney Col. in Cambridge, though not educated there, whom I take to be the same with Sir Francis Clerk of Merton Priory or Abbey in Surrey (Son of Barthol. Clerk mentioned in the Fasti under the year 1574.) quite different from the Writer.  
JOHN MARSHAL, a zealous man for the R. Cath. Cause, was born at Dalysford in Worcestershire, near Chippingnorton in the County of Oxon; educated in Grammatical learning in Wykeham's School near Winchester, admitted perpetual Fellow of New coll. after he had served two years of probation, an. 1551. took the degree of Bach. of the Civil Law five years after, about which time he was made Usher, or second Master, of the aforesaid School under Tho. Hide, whom I shall anon mention. In the beginning of Q. Eliz. he left his Employment, Fellowship, and at length the Kingdom, and going beyond the Seas to Louvain, he made proficiency there in the studies of Divinity, and at length by the procurement of Lewis Owen Archdeacon of Cambray, (afterwards Bishop of Cassano) he was made Canon of St. Peter's Church at L'isle in Flanders. Which place he keeping eight years, resigned it, (being then D. of D.) to the end that he might give himself solely upto his devotions, and prepare himself for another World. He hath written,  
A Treatise of the Cross, gathered out of the Scriptures, Councils, and ancient Fathers of the primitive Church. Antw. 1564. in oct. Whereupon Jam. Calfhill of Ch. Ch. making an answer to it, our Author came out with a reply intit.  
A reply to Mr. Calfhills blasphemous answer against the Treatise of the Cross. Lov. 1566. qu. Afterwards he wrote,  
Treatise of the tonsure of the Clerks.— Left imperfect and therefore never printed. He departed this mortal Life at L'isle beforementioned, (to the great grief of the R. Catholics,) in the Arms or Embraces of Will, Gifford Dean of that Church, year 1597 on the 3. of Apr. 
a Jo. Pits in lib. De illustr. Angl. Scriptorih. Aet. 16. nu. 1045.  in fifteen hundred ninety and seven, and was buried in the Collegiate Church of St. Peter beforementioned. At his death he bequeathed a rich ring, with a stone in it, to adorn a piece of our Saviour's Cross, in the Cathedral there. Whose Will being performed by the said Gifford, that bequest was esteemed as a Trophy of Victory over Calfhill, and is at this day, as I have been informed, preserved as a choice relic there.  
THOMAS HIDE, a noted Rom. Priest of his time, was born at a Market Town called Newbury in Berks. Descended from the ancient and gentile Family of his Name in that County, educated in Wykehams' School, admitted perpetual fellow of New Col. 1543, took the degrees in Arts, that of master being completed 1549. In the year after he le●t his Fellowship, was made Prebendary of Winchester, and in 1552. succeeded Will. Everard in the chief mastership of the said School, where continuing till Qu. Elizab. came to the Crown, he left all he had, and all he pretended to, for Conscience sake, and going beyond the Seas, spent the remainder of his time partly at Douai and partly at Louvain. He was a Person of a strict life and conversation, as those of his 
b Ibid.  Persuasion say, of great gravity of severity, and a lover of virtue and virtuous men. He hath written,  
A consolatory Epistle to the afflicted Catholics. Lov. in oct. and other things as I have been told, but such I have not yet seen: which if printed, few or no copies come into England. He died at Douai in Flanders in the house of Alice Fowler, the Widow of John Fowler an Englishman, on the 9 year 1597 May in fifteen hundred ninety and seven, and was buried in the Chapel of the Virgin Mary within the Church of St. James there, near to the horn of the Gospel; leaving then behind him this character, that he was a most fierce hater of Vice and a capital Enemy to Sects and Heresies.  
CHRISTOPHER JOHNSON, a most excellent Latin Poet, Philosopher and Physician of his time, was born at Kiddesley in Derbyshire, education in Wykeham's School before-mentioned, made perpetual Fellow of New coll. in 1555. (2. and 3. of Ph. and Mar.) left it after he was M. of Arts, and in 1560. became chief Master of the said School, in the place of Tho. Hyde; where, by his industry and admirable way of teaching, were many good Scholars sent to the Universities. All the time that he could get at vacant hours, he spent upon his beloved study of Physic, which he practised in the City of Winchester, but not to the neglect of his School. At length taking the degree of Doctor of that Faculty, did shortly after resign his School, and repairing to London practised with good success in the Parish of St. Dunstan's in the West, where being accounted eminent, was admitted, as it seems, a Member of the Coll. of Physicians. He hath written and published,  
Ortus atque vita Gul. Wykehami Winton Episcopi. Written in 140 long and short Verses, 14. Dec. 1564.— Printed (1) on the broadside of a sheet of Paper, with Wykehams' Arms encompassed with the Garter before them. (2) At the end of the Latin Poems of Rich. Willeius, Lond. 1573. And (3) in a Book intit. A brief view of the State of the Church of England, as it stood in Queen Elizabeth's and King James' Reign, etc. Lond. 1653. oct. p. 37, 38. Written by Sir Jo. Harrington Knight, an. 1608. and made public by Joh. Chetwind his Daughter's Son, than no Friend to the Church of England.  
Custodum sive Praefidum Coll. Winton. Series. Written in Verse also, and put at the end of the said Lat. Poems.  
Didasculorum Coll. Wint. omnium Elenchus. In Verse also, at the end of the said Poems.  
Counsel against the Plague, or any other infectious Disease. Lond. 1577. oct.  
Question, Whether a man for preservation may be purged in Dog-days or no?— Printed with the Counsel, etc.  
Ranarum & murium pugna, Latino versu donata ex Homero. Lond. 1580. in about 3 sh. in qu. with other things as it is probable, but such I have not yet seen. See more of him in Rich. White, under the year 1612. This Dr. Johnson died in the beginning of July. year 1597 in fifteen hundred ninety and seven, within the Parish of St. Dunstan before-mentioned; whereupon his Body was buried in the Church there, (as it seems,) situated and being in Fleetstreet. He died wealthy, left several Sons and Daughters behind him, and Mr. Joh. Heath his Son in Law, a Student in Physic, his Executor; who had all his Physical and Philosophical Books, and succeeded him in his Practice.  
JASPER HEYWOOD a acquaint Poet in his younger days, Son of Joh. Heywood the Famous Epigrammatist of his time, was born in London, sent to the University at about 12 years of age, an. 1547. educated in Grammar, as well as in Logic, there, took a degree in Arts in 1553. and forthwith was elected Probationer-Fellow of Merton coll. where remaining about 5 years, (in all which time he bore away the Bell in disputations at home and in the public Schools,) did, upon a third admonition from the Warden and Society of that house for several misdemeanours, (for he and his Brother Ellis Heywood were for a time very wild, to the great grief of their Father,) resign his Fellowship, to prevent expulsion, on the 4. Apr. 1558. In June following he took the degree of Master, and in Nou. ensuing, he was elected Fellow of Alls. coll. where abiding for a little while, left the University, and soon after England, and entered himself into the Society of Jesus. But before he left us he wrote and translated these things following.  
Various Poems and Devises.— Some of which are Printed in a Book intit. The Paradise of dainty Devises. Collected and Printed by Hen. D'isle of London Printer, an. 1573. in qu. He also translated into English Verse (1) Thyestes', the second Tragedy of Seneca. Lond. 1560. oct. Published again with other Tragedies of that author, by Thom. Newton.— Lond. 1581. qu. as I shall tell you when I come to him, in an. 1607. (2) Hercules furens, another Trag. of Seneca: And (3) Troas a third, published also by the said Newton, 1581. qu. In 1561. our Poet left England, and was made a Priest after the R. Cath. fashion, and in 1562. being then at Rome, he was entered into the Society of Jesus 21. May, in the then professed house of the Jesuits there. After he had spent two years in the study of Divinity among them, he was sent to Diling in Switzerland, where he continued about 17 years in explaining and discussing controverted questions among those he called Heretics, in which time he was promoted to the degree of D. of Divinity, and of the four Vows. At length P. Gregory 13. calling him away in 1581. he sent him, with others the same year, into the mission of England, and the rather, because the Brethren there told his Holiness, That the Harvest was great, and the Labourers few. Being settled then in the Metropolis of his own Country, and esteemed the Chief or Provincial of the Jesuits in England, it was noted 
c See in Tho. Bell's Anatomy of Pepish Tyranny. Lond. 1603. lib. 1. p. 9 and in lib. 2. p. 25.  by all that knew him, That he kept many Men, Horses, and Coaches, that also his port and carriage was more Baron-like than Priestlike, etc. At length going into France about public matters relating to the Order, was, when ready to land in Normandy, drove back by a contrary wind on the English shore; where being taken and examined, was, with 19 more R. Priests put into a Ship, and set on shore in France, in Feb. 1584. Upon his being taken and committed to Prison, and the Earl of Warwick's offer thereupon to relieve his necessity, he made a copy of verses, mentioned by a noted 
d Sir Jo. Harr●ngton in his Epigrams, lib. 3. Epig. 1.  Poet of his time, concluding with these two:  
— Thanks to that Lord that will me good; For I want all things saving Hay and Wood Afterwards he went to the City of Dole, where he was troubled much with Witches, thence to Rome, and at length fixed in the City of Naples, where, as at Rome he became familiarly known to that zealous R. Catholic Joh. Pitseus, who speaks by the by very honourably of him. What he wrote or published after he became a Jesuit, I know not. Sure it is, if one 
e Hen. Morus in Hist. ●rovinc. Argl. Soc. Jesus. lib. 4. nu. 11. sub an. 158●.  says true, that this our author was most critical in the Hebrew Language, and that he did make and digest an easy and short method (reduced into Tables) for Novices to learn that Language; which I suppose was a Compendium of a Hebrew Grammar. He paid his last debt to Nature at Naples on the 9 of Jan. according to the account there followed, in fifteen hundred ninety and eight, 
1597-98.  which is 97 with us, and was buried, as I have been informed, in the college of the Jesuits there. He left behind him several of his Labours in writing, some of which are preserved as rarities; but whether any of them have been since printed, I cannot justly tell. His elder Brother Ellis Heywood, I have mentioned before, under the year 1272. num. 180.  
HENRY PERRY a Welshman born, was educated in Gloucester hall, took the degrees in Arts, was beneficed in his own Country, and as a Member of Jesus coll. took the degree of Bach. of Diu. 1597. He hath written,  
A British Dictionary. 
Clar. 1597.  MS.— Involved in Dictionarium Britannico-Latinum, published by Dr. Joh. Davies, who saith in the Preface to that Book, that this our author Perry was Virro Languarum cognitione insignis, which is all I know of him.  
CHARLES' PINNER an eminent Preacher in the time of Q. Elizabeth, received his first breath in the ancient Borough of Southampton in Hampshire, educated in Wykeham's School, made perpetual Fellow of New coll. 1575. took one degree in the Civil Law, and soon after became Minister of Wooten-Basset in Wiltshire, where being much resorted to for his edifying way of Preaching, (especially by the Puritan,) did, for the satisfaction of the neighbourhood and others, publish.  
Several Sermons, as (1) Sermon upon the Words of St. Paul the Apost. unto Tim. Ep. 1. 4. 8. Oxon 1597. oct. (2) Honour all Men, love brotherly Fellowship, on 1 Pet. 2. 17. Oxon 1597. in oct. (3) Serm. at Marlborough in Wilts, on 1 Tim. 
Clar. 1597.  4. 16.— Printed in oct. about the same time. Besides these, it is said he hath published more, but such I have not yet seen, nor do I know any thing else of the author, only that he was much, in esteem in the latter end of Q. Elizabeth.  
PHILIP. FERDINANDUS, a Polonian born, originally (as it seems) a Jew, afterwards a R. Catholic, and at length a Protestant, entered into this University in a poor and obscure condition, initiated in Academical learning by the exhibition of certain Doctors, of whom Dr. Ayray and Dr. Rainolds were of the number, who perceiving that his excellency lay in the Hebrew Language, put upon him the Office of teaching it privately in several colleges and halls. At length being registered among 
f Lib. Matric. P. pag. 707.  the Students of the University, after he had taken the Oath of Supremacy, and the usual Oath to the University, did translate into Latin, Haec sunt verba dei, etc. praecepta in Monte Sinai data Judaeis sunt 613, quorum 365 negativa, & 248 affirmativa; collecta per Pharisaeum Magistrum Abrahamum filium Kattani, & impressa in bibliis Bombergiensibus, anno à Mundo creato 5288. Venetiis, ab authore Vox Dei appellata. 
Clar. 1597.  Afterwards Ferdinandus went to Cambridge, where the said translation was printed in qu. 1597. he being then about 42 years of age, and an instructor, as I suppose, of the Hebrew Language, which is all that I know of him and his Works.  
WILLIAM SHEPREVE, or Shepery, (who writes himself in Latin Scepraeus,) Nephew to John Shepreve, mentioned under the year 1542. num. 68 was born near Abendon in Berkshire, admitted Scholar of C. C. coll. in Feb. 1554. aged 14. or thereabouts, Probationer in Nou. 1558. and Bach. of Arts the year following, which was the highest degree he took in this University: For being a zealous Catholic he left it before he was Master, went beyond the Seas, and at length, settling in Rome, was exhibited to by Cardinal Gabr. Palaeot Archb. of Bononia, in whose Family he lived several years. He had the degree of D. of Diu. conferred upon him at Rome, as it seems, where he was accounted the most skilful person in divers Tongues of his time, and the worthy ornament of the English Exiles. He hath written,  
Miscellanea celebrium sententiarum Sacrae Scripturae. vol. 1. MS.  
Commentarii in Epist. D. Pauli ad Rom. ex Latino, Graeco, Syriaco, Aethiopico. vol. 1. MS.  
Notae in omnes Epistolas D. Pauli & canonicas, de differentiis textûs Latini à Graeco & Syriaco. vol. 1. MS.  
Expositio locorum difficilium in officio B. Mariae. vol. 1. MS.  
Connexio literalis Psalmorum in officio B. Mar. Virg. & eorum corroboratio ex variis linguis Graec. Hebr. Syriac. Chald. Arab. Aethiop. etc. Rom. 1596. qu. What else this curious, most critical and learned person hath written I know not, nor any thing more of him, only that died at Rome, in aedibus S. Severiani, to the very great reluctancy of those that knew him, year 1598. in fifteen hundred ninety and eight, and was buried, as I presume, either in the Church of that Parish, wherein the said house was situated, or in the Chapel of the English coll. there. The Reader is now to know that one Will. Shepreve, or Shepery, who was elected Probationer of Exeter coll. 17. Octob. 1559. was admitted perpetual Fellow thereof 16. Nou. the next year: And being admitted Bach. of Arts in the beginning of Dec. 1561. took no higher degree, but left his Fellowship in 1568. This William Shepreve I take to be quite different from the former, and though of kin to him, and a, good Scholar, yet I know nothing that he hath published.  
THOMAS STAPLETON, the most learned R. Catholic of all his time, Son of Will. Stapleton, was born of a gentile Family at Henfield in Sussex, obtained the first rudiments of Grammar at Canterbury, under John Twine a noted Master there, completed them at Wyk●ham's School near Winchester, admitted perpetual Fellow of New coll. in 1554. made Prebendary or Canon of Chichester a little before Q. Mary died, being then but Bach. of Arts. But when Q. Elizabeth came to the Crown, and Religion thereupon began to put on another Face, our author not only, but his Father and Family, left the Nation, and went to Louvain; where being settled, our author (the Son) applied himself with great zeal to the study of Theology, and in short time making great proficiency therein, he went to Paris to complete his knowledge in the sacred Tongues. Afterwards for devotion sake he journeyed to Rome, and in short time after returning to Louvain he settled himself there for a time, to answer Bishop Jewel, and to translate Bede's Ch. History into English, to the end that Q. Elizabeth (to whom he dedicated it) might see and understand the ancient Faith and Religion of our Ancestors, with other things. A little before that time an University being erected at Douai, he hastened thither at the desire of Dr. Will. Allen; and for a time performed the Office of Catechist Reader at Anchine near to that place. Afterwards taking the degrees in Divinity, as Bachelaur, Licentiat, and Doctor, under Matthew Galen Provost of the Church of St. Amoure, and Chancellor of the University at Douai, had a Canonry bestowed on him in the said Church by Galen, and was made the King's Professor of Divinity of the said University. Afterwards being minded to put himself into a Religious Order, he renounced his Canonry and Professorship, and entered into the Society of Jesus at Douai. But after a long and diligent probation, finding that Order not to agree with his genie and course of Life, he left it and returned to his former way of teaching, to the great joy of many, and became a Canon once more of the said Church of St. Amoure. At length being called to Louvain, he was made the King's Professor of Divinity, and wrote there several matters against Dr. W. Whittaker of Cambridge: so that his Fame in short time being over all those parts, and he in great esteem with the King of Spain, had the Deanery of the Church of Hilverbeck in Kampenland in Brabant bestowed on him, little enough, God wot, for such a rare and most learned Clerk as he was. In all kind of literature he obtained such perfection that he was numbered among the most learned men of that age. And it was generally thought that he deserved a Cardinal's cap before Allen; but so it was that his ability being eclipsed by the activity of the other, he did not rise higher than a Dean. Pope Clement 8. was so much delighted with his learned Works, that he commanded them to be read daily at times of his refection, and invited him to Rome with a design to conser on him the place of Apostolical Protonotary, and, as some say, to make him a Cardinal. Cardinal Perron also, who was very knowing in the controversies of his time, was wont to postpone all Writers of controversies in comparison of those of Stapleton, which he took to be the best of his time, and before. To pass by all commendations given of him by men of his persuasion, I shall conclude with those of his Antagonist Whittaker, who 
h In cont. 1. q. 3. cap. 3.  saith, Stapletonus hanc cansum (de traditionibus) omnium acutissimè ac accuratissimè tractavit, etc. And elsewhere 
* In epist. ded. lib. De Scriptura.  speaking of the opinion as well of Papists as Protestants in divers matters, saith modestly that he (Whittaker) differed as much from Stapleton in many things as to knowledge, as Troilus from Achilles. He hath written and translated many things, most of which were printed in four large volumes in fol. at Paris 1620. The Titles of them are these.  
De principiis fidei doctrinalibus, lib. 12. Par. 1579. and 82. etc.  
Defensio successionis Ecclesiasticae. lib. 1.  
Relectio principiorum fidei doctrinalium. Antw. 1592.  
Defensio anthoritatis Ecclesiasticae contra Gul. Whittakerum Anglo-Calvinistam.  
Triplicatio pro Ecclesiae authotitate adversus eundem Whittakerum.  
These five Treatises beforementioned are printed in the first vol. of his Works.  
De universae justificationis doctrinà hodie controvers. lib. 12.  
Speculum pravitatis haeriticae per orationes quasi ad oculus demonstratae. Duac. 1580.  
Orationes funebres. Antw. 1577.  
Orationes Academicae Miscellaneae. Some of which were published 1602.  
Orationes Catecheticae sive manuale peccatorum de septem peccatis capitalibus. Antw. 1598.  
De magnitudine Romanae Ecclesiae, lib. 2. Antw. 1599 qu.  
Fortress of Faith first planted amongst us Englishmen, etc. Antw. 1565. qu. Which learned Treatise the author wrote upon occasion of his translating of Bede's Ch. History into English, wherein he endeavours to show that the same Faith was professed in the primitive times as in his. When the learned Usher of Ireland was Bach. of Arts, he read over this book several times, and mistrusting the quotations of ancient authors therein, did put 
† Nic. Benard in his Life and Death of Dr. Jam. Usher, printed 1656. p. 28.  him upon reading the Fathers.  
The horn-blast: or, a reply to the answer of Rob. Horn the false B. of Winchester: In 4 Books. Lov. 1567.  
Discourse of Protestancy, and the first authors of it.  
These 9 Treatises immediately going before, are in the second vol. of his Works.  


Antw. 1595.  
Antidota Evangelica in Mathaeum.  
In Marcum.  
In Lucam.  
In Johan.    
Antidota Apostolica in Act. Apost. Tom. 1. Antw. 1595.  
In Epist. Pauli ad Romanos. Tom. 2. Ibid. 1595.  
In duas Epistolas ad Corinthios. Tom. 3. Ib. 1598. & 1600.  
These before-going are in the third vol. of his Works.  


Antw. 1521. Venet. 1594.  
Promptuarium in Evangelia Dominicalia. pars Hymalis.  
Promptuarium in Evangelia Dominicalia. pars Aestualis.  
Prompt. Catholicum in Evangelia Dominicalia totius anni. Col. 1592. etc. 1602. pars Hymalis.  
Prompt. Catholicum in Evangelia Dominicalia totius anni. Col. 1592. etc. 1602. pars Aestualis.    
Prompt. Cath. super Evang. ferialia totius Quadrages.  
Prompt. Cath. sup. Evang in festis SS. totius anni.  
Tres Thomae, seu res gestae S. Thomae Apost. S. Tho. Archiep. Cant. & Tho. Mori Angliae Cancellarii. Duac. 1588. etc.  
These five last are in the fourth vol. of his Works.  
De justificatione. Par. 1582.  
Return of untruths against Mr. Jewel. (Antw. 1566.) He also translated from Lat. into English, The History of the Church of England. Antw. 1565. qu. written by Ven. Bede. Which translation (with some notes added in the margin by Stapleton) is 
l See in selden's Pref. to the Decem Scriptores, printed at Lond. 1652. p. 9, 10.  censured by the learned Selden as not altogether true. He translated also Fred. Staphyles large vol. De desidiis Haereticorum. Antw. 1565. but this I have not yet seen. At length after our author Stapleton had arrived to the sixty third year of his age, did end his days at Louvain, to the great grief of all learned Catholics, on the 12. Oct. (according to the account there followed) in fifteen hundred ninety and eight, year 1598. and was buried in the Church of St. Peter there. Soon after was put over his grave a monument, with a large inscription thereon, containing in brief the succession of his Employments in the Universities and Church, here and beyond the Seas; a copy of which you may see 
m In Jo. Pits. De illustr. Angl. Script. Aet. 16. nu. 1046.  elsewhere. The next, according to time, that is to crave a place among these Writers, was a learned Sage of the Law.  
THOMAS OWEN Son of Rich. Owen Gent. by Mary his Wife, one of the Daughters and Coheirs of Tho. Oteley of Shropshire Esq; was born at, or near to, Condover in that county, and for some time was conversant among the Muses either in Broadgates' hall, or in Ch. Church. From thence (having first taken a degree in Arts as it seems) he retired to Lincoln's Inn, where by his unwearied industry, advanced by a good natural genie and judgement, he became a noted Counsellor, and much resorted to for his advice. In 25. Elizab. dom. 1583. he was elected Lent-Reader of that house, in 1590. he was by Writ called to the degree of Sergeant at Law, and about that time made the Queen's Sergeant, and at length one of the Justices of the Common Pleas, and not of the King's Bench as one 
n Will. Dugdale in chronica serie, at the end of Orig. Jurid.  falsely tells us; which last place he executed for 5 years with great integrity, equity, and prudence. He was a learned man, and a great lover of learning and those that professed it; but all the Writings which I have seen of his that are extant, are only  
Reports in the Common Pleas, wherein are many choice Cases, most of them throughly argued by the learned Sergeants, and after argued and resolved by the grave Judges of those times, with many Cases, wherein the differences in the Year-books are reconciled and explained. Lond. 1656. fol. What else is published under his Name I know not, nor any more of him, only that he dying 21. Decemb. in fifteen hundred ninety and eight, year 1598. was buried on the S. side of the Choir of St. Peter's Church in Westminster. Over his grave was soon after erected a noble monument of Alabaster, Marble, and divers coloured stones, adorned with Arms, and gilt with Gold, with his Image in scarlet robes lying thereon, which remains to this day. He left behind him a Son named named Roger, who was a Knight, and 
o Camden, in Britan. in Salop.  for his manifold learning, a right Worthy Son of so Good a Father. This Sir Roger, who had been a Gent. Com. of Ch. Church, and a great Friend to the Clergy, by vindicating them when aspersed in open Parliament, 11 Jac. 1. died in a distracted condition, to their great reluctancy, 29. May, being Holy Thursday, in 1617.  
MICHAEL MASCHIART, a most excellent Latin Poet of his time, was born in the Parish of St. Thomas within the City of Salisbury, educated in Wykeham's School, admitted perpetual Fellow of New coll. 1562. became Vicar of Writtle in Essex in 1572. being then Bach. of the Civil Law, and two years after proceeded Doctor of that Faculty, at which time he was not only esteemed an able Civilian, but also excellent in all kind of Humane learning. He hath written,  
Poemata varia. This book I have not yet seen, and therefore know not whether that be the true title. Nor indeed should I have known that he had written any thing, had not the learned Camden told me so in his Britannia, wherein are by him inserted several Verses taken from Maschiart to adorn his discourse of Clarindon Park in Wiltshire. This learned Doctor died at Writtle before-mentioned, in the latter end of the year (about Christmas) of fifteen hundred ninety and eight, year 1598. and was buried in the Church there, as I have been informed. In that Vicarige succeeded a learned Doctor of Divinity named John Lloyd, whom, and his Works, I shall mention among these Writers under the year 1603.  
STEPHEN GOSSON, a Kentish man born, was admitted Scholar of C. Ch. coll. 4. Apr. 1572. aged 16. or thereabouts, took one degree in Arts four years after, left the University without completing that degree by Determination, and went to the great City, where he was noted for his admirable penning of Pastorals, being so excellent therein, that he was ranked with Sir Ph. Sidney, Tho. Chaloner, Edm. Spencer, Abrah. France, and Rich. Bernfield, noted Poets of their time. Thence, as he saith, he went to a worshipful Gentleman in the Country to teach his Sons, where he continued till he showed his great dislike of Plays, having his mind then quite alienated from them. So that the Gentleman being weary of his company, Gosson left him, took Orders, and at length became Parson of Great Wigborow in Essex. He hath written and published,  
The School of abuse, containing a pleasant invective against Poets, Pipers, Players, Jesters, and such like Caterpillars of the Commonwealth, etc. Lond. 1579. and 1585. in oct. dedicated to Sir Ph. Sidney.  
Plays confuted in five actions; proving that they are not to be suffered in a Christian Commonwealth: By the way, both the cavils of Tho. Lodge, and the Play of Plays, written in their defence, and other objections of Players Friends, are truly set down, and directly answered.— Dedicated to Sir Franc. Walsingham, but when printed it appears not.  
The Trumpet of War, 
Clar. 1598.  Serm. at Paul's Cross 7. May 1598. on 2 Chron. ch. 20. ver. 20. Lond. 1598. oct. As for the Pastorals, Comedies, Tragedies, or Poetry, (some of which he hath written,) I have not yet seen, either printed, or In Manuscript.  
JOHN LYLIE, or lily, a Kentish man born, became a Student in Magd. coll. in the beginning of 1569. aged 16. or thereabouts, and was afterwards, as I conceive, either one of the Demies or Clerks of that house; but always averse to the crabbed studies of Logic and Philosophy. For so it was that his genie being naturally bend to the pleasant paths of Poetry, (as if Apollo had given to him a wreath of his own Bays, without snatching or struggling,) did in a manner neglect Accademical studies, yet not so much but that he took the degrees in Arts, that of Master being completed 1575. At which time, as he was esteemed in the University a noted Wit, so afterwards was he in the Court of Q. Elizabeth, where he was also reputed a rare Poet, witty, comical, and facetious. His Works are these.  
Galathea.  
Love's Metamorphosis.  
Midas.  
Endymion, or the man in the Moon.  
Mother Bombie.  
Maid's Metamorphosis,  
Sappho and Phao.  
Woman in the Moon.  
Warning for fair Women.  
Alexander and Campaspe.  
All which are Comedies, and most of them having been published in the Reign of Q. Elizabeth, six were reprinted at London in oct. an. 1632. by the care of Hen. Blount Esq; afterwards a Knight, under the title of Court Comedies, which before had crowned the author with applause, and the Auditors of them with pleasure.  
Euphues and his England; containing his voyage and adventures, mixed with sundry pretty discourses of honest love, the description of the Country, the Court, and the manner of that Isle, etc. Lond. 1580. and 82. in two parts, in a large oct. The first part is dedicated to Edw. Vere E. of Oxon, a noted Poet, and encourager of learning in his time, and the last to the University of Oxon. These two parts were published again with corrections and amendments at Lond. 1606. and 1636. qu.  
Euphues: The Anatomy of Wit, or the delights of Wit in Youth, etc. Lond. 1581. qu. corrected and amended Lond. 1606. 1623. and 30. qu. To these books of Euphues, 'tis said, that our Nation is indebted for a new English in them, which the Flower of the Youth thereof learned. All the Ladies than were Scholars to them and their author, and that Beauty in Court which could not parley Euphuism, was as little regarded, as those now there that cannot speak French. 
Clar. 1598.  What other Books, Comedies, or Trag. our author hath written, I cannot find, nor when he died, or where buried, only that he lived till towards the latter end of Q. Elizabeth, if not beyond, for he was in being in 1597. when the Woman in the Moon was published. It is said also that he wrote something against Mart. Marprelate, in defence of Dr. Cooper Bishop of Winton, but what, I cannot tell, unless it be any of those answers, which I have mentioned in John Penry, alias M. Marprelate, under the year 1593. Quere.  
RICHARD HAYDOCK was born at Grewel in Hampshire, educated in Grammar learning in Wykeham's School near to Winchester, admitted perpetual Fellow of New coll. in 1590. took the degrees in Arts, and traveled for some time beyond the Seas. At his return he studied Physic, took one degree in that Faculty, and in 1605. left the college, and settling in the City of Salisbury practised Physic there many years. He hath translated from Italian into English, 
Clar. 1598.  A Tract containing the Arts of curious Painting, Graving, and Building. Oxon. 1598. fol. Written originally by Joh. Paul Lomatius. This translation, which hath in the title page the picture of Ric. Haydock, is by him dedicated to Tho. Bodley Esq; a favourer of his Muse, as Dr. Joh. Case, and other chief men of the University then in being were; not only for his learning, but for his great curiosity in painting and engraving, for which among many he was esteemed eminent. This is that Rich. Haydock, whom a certain 
* Arthur Wilson in his History of Great Britain, or of the Reign of K. Jam. I. Lond. 1653. p 111.  author reports, that he would practise Physic in the daytime, and Preach in his sleep in the night, about the beginning of the Reign of K. James 1. The whole story of which, being too large for this place, I shall refer the Reader to him, who errs in several particulars of it, especially in that, that when Haydock had ingeniously confessed the cheat to the King, (who made a discovery of it,) his Majesty thereupon gave him preferment in the Church. He was not in Orders, but lived always a Physician of good repute at Salisbury, and retiring for a time to London, died and was buried there, a little before the Grand Rebellion broke out, as I have been informed by those that knew the Man. The Reader is now to note that one Ric. Haydock translated from Italian into English, An ample declaration of the Christian Doctrine. Douai 1604. intw. written by Card. Rob. Bellarmine. But this person, who was a Doctor of Divinity, a Rom. Catholic, and had spent most of his time beyond the Seas in the English Seminaries, must not be taken to be the same with the former, who was a Physician, as some have done.  
REYNOLDE SCOT, a younger Son of Sir John Scot of Scots-hall, near to Smeeth in Kent, by his Wife, Daughter of Reynolde Pimp of Pimps-court Knight, was born in that County, and at about 17 years of age was sent to Oxon, particularly, as it seems, to Hart hall, where several of his Countrymen and name studied in the latter end of K. Hen. 8. and in the Reign of Ed. 6. etc. Afterwards he retired to his native Country without the honour of a degree, and settled at Smeeth, where he found great encouragement in his studies from his kinsman Sir Tho. Scot About which time taking to him a Wife, he gave himself up solely to solid reading, to the perusing of obscure authors that had by the generality of Scholars been neglected, and at times of leisure to husbandry and gardening, as it may partly appear from these books following,  
A perfect platform of a Hop-garden, and necessary instructions for the making and maintenance thereof, with notes and rules for reformation of all abuses, etc. Lond. 1576. qu. the 2. edit. as it seems.  
The discovery of Witchcraft; wherein the lewd dealing of Witches, and Witchmongers is notably detected, the knavery of Conjurers, the impiety of Inchantors, the folly of Soothsayers, etc. With many other things are opened, which have long been hidden, howbeit very necessary to be known. Lond. 1584. qu. in 16 books.  
Discourse upon Devils and Spirits— In this, and the former, both printed together, it plainly appears that the author was very well versed in many choice books, and that his search into them was so profound, that nothing slipped his Pen that might make for his purpose. Further also in the said Discovery and Discourse, though he holds that Witches are not such that were in his time, and before, commonly executed for Witches; or that Witches were, or are not; yet they, which were written for the instruction of all Judges and Justices of that age, (being the first of that nature that were published in the Mother tongue,) did for a time make great impressions in the Magistracy and Clergy, though afterwards condemned by James King of Scots (the same who succeeded Qu. Elizabeth in the Monarchy of England) in his Preface to Damonology, printed under his Name at Edinburgh in 1597. qu. and by several others since, among whom was Rich. Bernard of Batcomb, in his Epist. Ded. before his Guide to Grand Jurymen, etc. Lond. 1627. in oct. What else our author Scot hath written, I cannot yet tell, nor any thing else of him, only but that he died in Sept. year 1599 or Oct. in fifteen hundred ninety and nine, and was buried among his Ancestors in the Church at Smeeth beforementioned. In the time of the said Reynold Scot and before, have been conversant among the Muses in Hart hall, the Sackviles of Sussex, the Colepepers of Kent and Sussex, the Sedlies of Kent, and the Scots beforementioned, with others of inferior note of the said Counties.  
ROBERT TURNER was born at Barnstaple in Devonshire, (to which place, if I mistake not, his Father came from St. Andrews in Scotland,) and educated for a time in Exeter coll. But leaving the University without a degree, (wherein he 
a In Epist. suis, nu. 78. p. 480.  saith he spent his time in trifles and toys,) and afterwards his Country and Parents for Religion sake, went first into France, afterwards into Italy, and at length to Rome, where he spent some time in the Liberal Arts in the Germane coll. there. Afterwards being made Priest he applied himself more severely to the study of Divinity, and in fine was made Doctor of that Faculty. This person hath several times confessed that he had been Scholar to Edm. Campian the Jesuit, but whether in St. John's coll. or in that of the English at Rome, is yet uncertain. Sure it is, that for the great respect he had to his memory, he published not only several of his Works after his death, but also his Life. At length, after many travels, and services done for the Cause, he was made Professor of Eloquence and Ethics in, and afterwards Rector of, the University of Ingolstade in Bavaria, and in short time after one of the Privy Council to William Duke of that place, but falling into his displeasure, he left him, and retired for a time to Paris. About an year or two after, he returned into that Country again, was made Canon of Breslaw in Silesia, and afterwards Secretary for the Latin Tongue to Ferdinando of Gratz, who had an especial esteem for him, as all others of his persuasion had. His Works are these.  


Ingoldstad. 1602. etc. oct.  
Commentarii in quaedam S. Scripturae loca.  
Vita Edm. Campiani. This I have not yet seen.  
Vit. & Martyrium Mariae Reg. Scotiae.  
Orationes Septendecem.  
Tractatus Septem.  
Epistolarum centuriae duae.    
Oratio & Epistola de vitae & morte D. Martini à Schamberg Episcopi Eustad. Ingol. 1590.  
Funebris oratio in Principem Estensem. Antw. 1598. with other things, as one 
b Job. Pits. in lib. De illustr. Angliae Script. Aet. 16. nu. 1404.  who knew him well tells you, who adds, that he died at Gratz. in Istria 28. Nou. in fifteen hundred ninety and nine, year 1599 and was buried there. I find one Rob. Turner who (among several things) wrote A description of the little World, or Body, of Man; which being printed in oct. an. 1654. must not be taken as written by the former Robert, because there is 54 years' distance between them.  
JOHN CASE, more esteemed beyond, than within, the Seas, was born at a Market-Town in Oxfordshire called Woodstock, educated there in the English, but in the Latin Tongue partly in New college School, and partly in that at Ch. Church, of both which places he was successively a Choirister. In 1564. he was elected Scholar of St. John's coll. and was afterwards Fellow, Master of Arts, and the most noted Disputant and Philosopher that ever before set foot in that college. But so it was, that being Popishly affected, he left his Fellowship and married, and with leave from the Chancellor and Scholars of the University, he read Logic and Philosophy to young men (mostly of the R. C. Religion) in a private house in St. Mary Magd. Parish, particularly in his latter days in that large tenement situated on the North side of the Inn called the George; wherein, having had disputations, declamations, and other exercises, as in colleges and halls, many eminent men issued thence. He wrote several Treatises for their use, which afterwards he published, as commentaries on Aristotle's Organon, Ethics, Politics, economics, and Physics, which were taken into the hands also of most of the Juniors of the University, though since slighted and looked upon as empty things. As for his knowledge in the Faculty of Medicine, (of which he became Doctor, 1589. he being made that year Prebendary of North-Aulton in the Ch. of Sarum) he was much respected, and by his practice therein and reading to Scholars obtaining a fair Estate, he bestowed much of it on pious uses, as I have elsewhere told 
c In Hist. & Antiq. Uniu. Oxon. lib. 1. p. 309. a. & in lib. 2. p. 303. b. 311. a.  you. He was a man of an innocent, meek, religious, and a studious Life, of a facete and affable conversation, a lover of Scholars, beloved by them again, and had in high veneration. His Works are,  
Summa veterum interpretum in Vniversam Dialecticam Aristotelis. Lond. 1584. Ox. 1592. and 98. qu.  
Speculum moralium quaestionum in Vnivers. Ethicam Aristot. Ox. 1585. qu.  
Sphaera●civitatis sive de politiâ. Ox. 1588. etc. qu. in eight books. It was then printed by Joseph Barnes Printer to the University of Oxford; but the said book undergoing several impressions afterwards beyond the Seas, Barns put up 
d Reg. Uniu. Oxon. L. fol. 246. a.  a Petition to the University in 1590. desiring that every Bachelaur of Arts that should hereafter determine, should take off one copy of the said book from his hands, which was granted.  
Apoligia Musices tum vocalis quam instrumentalis & mixtae. Ox. 1588. oct. I have a book in my Library, entitled, The praise of Music; wherein, besides the Antiquity and Dignity, etc. is declared the sober aend lawful use of the same in the Congregation and Church of God. Ox. 1586. oct. It was written by an Oxford Scholar then lately deceased, but what was his Name, I cannot in all my searches find. 'Twas printed and published by the said Joseph Barnes, who putting a Dedic. Epist. before it to Sir Walt. Raleigh, with his name subscribed, he is therefore in several Auction Catalogues said to be the author of it.  
Thesaurus Oeconomiae, seu commentarius in Oeconomica Arist. etc. Ox. 1597. qu. in two books.  
Appendix Thes. Oeconom. Printed with the former book.  
Reflexus speculi moralis, seu comm. in magna moralia Arist. Ox. 1596. oct.  
Lapis Philosophicus, seu comm. in octo libros Physicorum Arist. Ox. 1599 qu.  
Ancilla Philosophiae, seu Epitome in 8. lib. Arist. Ox. 1599 qu.  


MS.  
Apologia Academiarum.  
Rebellionis vindiciae.    
What other things he hath written or published, it doth not yet appear to me, though there is no doubt but something in MS. hath escaped my sight. At length our author, after he had attained to about the sixtieth year of his age, surrendered up his last breathe in his house in Magd. Parish before-mentioned, 
1599-1600.  23. January in fifteen hundred ninety and nine; whereupon his Body was solemnly interred in the Chapel of St. John's coll. before-mentioned, and had soon after a comely Monument set over his Grave the inscription on which, you may read in Hist. & Antiq. Vniu. Oxon. lib. 2. p. 312. b. The said Dr. Case (whose picture did hang many years after in that house, where he died) married Elizabeth, the Widow of one Dobon the Keeper of Bocardo Prison, 30. Dec. 1574. whose Daughter Ann Dobson (for Dr. Case had no Children by her) was married to Barthelm. Warner Doctor of Physic of St. John's coll. 30. Sept. 1583. who having none but Daughters by her that survived, one was married to Tho. Clayton Dr. of Physic, and Master of Pemb. coll. another to John Speed, Dr. of the said Faculty, of St. John's coll. (Son of Joh. Speed the Chronologer,) a third to Will. Taylor Dr. of Physic of the said coll. and a fourth to Anthony Clopton D. D. of C. C. coll. and Rector of Childrey in Berks.  
GEORGE PEELE was, if I mistake not, a Devonian born, whence being sent to Broadgates' hall, was after some time, made Student of Ch. Ch. 1573. or thereabouts, where going through the several forms of Logic and Philosophy, took the degrees in Arts, that of Master being completed 1579. At which time, as he was esteemed a most noted Poet in the University, so afterwards in the Metropolis, where he knew also what belonged to the Stage part as well as any there. His Comedies and Tragedies were often acted with great applause, and did endure reading, with due commendation, many years after their author's death. Those that I have seen are only these following.  


Lond. 1593. qu.  
The famous Chronicle of K. Ed. 1.  
Surnamed Edw. Longshank.  
Life of Llewellin Rebel in Wales.    
The sinking of Q. Elinor at Charing-cross, and of her rising again at Potters-Hith, now named Queen-Hith. Lond. 1593. qu. This, and a Ballad of the same subject, are now usually sold by Ballad-singers or Ballad-mongers.  
The love of K. David and fair Bethsheba, with the Tragedy of Absalon, etc. Lond. 1599 qu.  
Alphonsus' Emperor of Germany, Trag.— Besides these Plays, he hath several Poems extant, as that entit.  
A farewell to Sir Joh. Norrys and Sir Fr. Drake. Lond. in qu. and some remnants of Pastoral Poetry extant in a collection intit. England's Helicon, but such I have not yet seen, nor his book of Jests or Clinches, which at length was sold on the stalls of Ballad-mongers. This person was living, 
Clar. 1599  in his middle age, in the latter end of Q. Elizabeth, but when, or where he died I cannot tell; for so it is, and always hath been, that most Poets die poor, and consequently obscurely, and a hard matter it is to trace them to their Graves.  
FABIAN à NIPHO, Son of James à Nipho, was born in Italy, left his Country for Religion sake, went to London, where obtaining Letters of recommendation 
e Reg. congr. & Convoc. Oxon. KK. fol. 24●. a▪  from Robert Earl of Leicester, Chanc. of this Uniu. dat. 19 Oct. 1581. he retired to Oxon for relief. So that by virtue of those Letters, wherein the Members thereof found, that he was a person recommended to them for his great skill in Physic and Philosophy, they were pleased to confer on him the degree of Bachelaur of Physic in January following, and permitted him to read a Shagling Lecture in that Faculty, to gain contributions from the Students thereof. How long he continued with us, I know not, nor how long he read that Lecture. Sure it is (if you'll believe him) That he having suffered oppression by the wickedness of certain People in England, (upon what account he tells us not, unless we suppose that they suspected him to be a Papist, and so dealt with him accordingly,) he retired to Leyden in Holland; where, (as it farther appears) after he had made himself to be believed, that he was an honest man, the States encouraged his Studies, and forthwith he wrote a book, which he dedicated to them, bearing this title: Ophinus, 
Clar. 1599  seu de caelesti animarum progenie divinatio. Lugd. Bat. 1599 qu. There is no doubt but that he hath published other things, but such I have not yet seen; neither do I yet know to the contrary, but that he made a return again to this University.  
THOMAS WILCOCKS, or Wilcox, a grave and reverend Divine in the Reign of Q. Elizabeth, was originally of St. Johas coll. but whether ever Fellow thereof, their Register shows not. His Name stands in the 
* Reg. P. pag. 235.  Matricula of the University, sub tit. coll. S. Jo. Bapt. in the year 1564. but I cannot find him Graduated in the public Register, of that time, belonging to the University. One Tho. Wilcocks a Kentish man, was, as a Member of St. Alban hall, admitted Master of Arts in Febr. 1589. But this I cannot affirm to be the same with the former, unless we suppose him to be about 40 years of age when he took that degree, as many did in those times at that age, after they had been Parsons or Dignitaries many years. As for Tho. Wilcocks, whom we are farther to mention, he retired to London, after he had left the University, where he became a very painful Minister of God's Word, a frequent Writer and Translator, and was much resorted to, by wavering and dubious Persons, for relief and settlement of their Consciences. His Writings are,  
Exposition on the book of Canticles, or Solomon's Song. Lond. 1585. qu.  
Exposition on certain Verses of the 8. Chap. of the Rom. namely upon Vers. 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23. Lond. 1587. oct.  
Short and sound Commentary on the Prov. of Solomon. Lond. 1589. qu.  
Expos. on the whole book of Psalms, wherein is contained the division and sense of every Psalm, etc. Lond. 1591. qu. All these were reprinted in one fol. at Lond. 1624. by the care of Dr. Jo. Burges, who married the author's Daughter, and had this general Title put to them, The Works of the Reverend Divine Mr. Tho. Wilcocks.  
Summary and short meditations touching certain points of Christian Religion. Lond. 1579. oct.  
Concordance, or Table, containing the principal words, and matters, which are comprehended in the New Testament. Lond. 1579. oct.  
Answer to Banister the Libertine. Lond. 1581. oct.  
Glafs for Gamesters, and namely for such as delight in Cards and Dice, wherein they may see not only the vanity, but also the vileness of those Plays, plainly discovered and overthrown by the Word of God. Lond. 1581. oct.  
Form of preparation to the Lord's Supper. Lond. in oct.  
On the substance of the Lord's Supper, shortly and sound set forth, together with, etc. Lond. 1581. oct.  
Comfortable Letter for afflicted Consciences, written to a godly man greatly touched that way. Lond. 1584. in tw.  
Three large Letters for instruction and comfort of such as are distressed in Conscience, etc. Lond. 1589. oct.  
Narration of a fearful Fire at Wooburn in Bedfordsh. Lond. 1595. oct.  
He also translated into English, (1) A Catechism. Lond. 1578. oct. originally written by Joh. Fountein. (2) Three propositions, the first on the 1. Chap. of St. Joh. ver. 1. to 5. etc. Lond. 1580. written by Jo. Calvin. (3) Treatise of the Church, wherein the godly may discern the true Church from the Romish, etc. Lond. 1582. oct. written by Bertrand de Loques. (4) Discourse of the true visible marks of the Cath. Church. Lond. in oct. written by Theod. Beza. (5) Two Sermons on the Sacrament of the Lord's Supper. Lond. 1588. oct. written by the said Beza; whereunto is added, The substance of the Lord's Supper, mentioned before. (6) Bertram the Priest concerning the Body and Blood of Christ, etc. Lond. 1582. oct. See more in Will. Hugh under the year 1549. (7) Meditations on Psal. 101. Lond. 1599 oct. written in French by Phil. Mornay Lord of Plessis. What else our author hath written and translated I know not, nor any thing of him beside; 
Clar. 1599  only that he was living and much in esteem in fifteen hundred ninety and nine. Two or more of his Surname 
g Reg. Uniu. GG. p. 76.  studied in Broadgates' hall in the time of K. Ed. 6. whose Christian Names being not in a possibility to be discovered, I cannot judge farther of them.  
RICHARD HOOKER, that rare and admirable Theologist, was born in, or near to, the City of Exeter, about the time of Easter, an. 1554. (of which City some of his Name and Family have been Mayors,) was exhibited to while a Schoolboy by John Jewel. B. of Sarum, became one of the Clerks of C. C. coll. in 1567. Scholar 24. Dec. in 73. Fellow and Master of Arts in 77. DeputyProfessor of the Hebrew Language in the University 14. July 1579. entered into Orders, and became a frequent Preacher, married a clownish silly Woman and withal a mere Xantippe, became Rector of Drayton-Beauchamp in Bucks. an. 1584. Master of the Temple in the year following, in the place of Rich. Alvey Bach. of Diu. deceased, (who was the first Canon of the fifth stall in the collegiat Church of St. Peter in Westminster,) Rector of Boscomb in Wiltshire, Subdean of the Church of Salisbury, and prebendary of Netherhaven in the same Church, (both which he obtained by the resignation of Dr. Nich. Balgay, in July 1591.) and at length Rector of Bishops-Bourne near Canterbury, by the presentation thereunto of the Queen, in 1595. There hath been no learned college in the World, that hath yet yielded at one time almost, and from one County three such Divines as Jewel, Hooker, and Rainolds, of the second of which hear I pray what the learned 
h In Annal. Reg. Elizabeth sub an. 1599  Camden saith. In this year (meaning 1599 which is false,) died too many in that one Rich. Hooker, born in Devonshire, and bred in C. C. coll. in Oxford, a Divine very moderate, temperate, and meek, and virtuous even to the best imitation; and besides very famous for his learned works, as his Books of Ecclesiastical Policy, set forth in the English, but worthy to speak Latin, do testify of him, etc. At Boscomb he continued till he had finished four of his eight proposed books of the Laws of Ecclesiastical Policy, which were entered into the Register in Stationer's hall, 9 March 1592. and afterwards came out with this Title.  
The Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity, in four books. Lond. 1594. fol. To which he added a fifth book, (which is larger than the first four,) printed by its self at Lond. 1597. fol. Part of the first four being read by Dr. Tho. Stapleton, in Latin, to P. Clement 8. who before had heard much in their commendation, he the said Pope in conclusion said thus, There is no learning that this Man hath not searched into, nothing too hard 〈◊〉 his Understanding: This man indeed deserves the Name of an Author.— His books will get reverence by age, for there are in them such seeds of Eternity, that if the rest b● like this, they shall last till the last Fire shall consume all learning, etc. At the same time K. James of Scotland (afterwards of England) did put an high esteem upon the said books, and usually said, They were the pictures of a Divine Soul in every page of Truth and Reason. King Ch. 1. had read them over several times, was well versed in, and commended, them to be read by the Prince, (afterwards K. Ch. 2.) and his other Children, next to the Bible. The learned Usher Primate of Ireland, Morton B. of Durham, Hales of Eton, etc. had the same high opinion of the author and his Works, and Gauden Bishop of Worcester said, he had been highly esteemed of all prudent, peaceable, and impartial Readers. But before the fifth book had been extant two years, was published a Pamphlet intit. A Christian Letter of certain English Protestants, unfeigned Lovers of the present state of Religion, authorized and professed in England, unto that reverend and learned man Mr. Hooker, requiring resolution in certain matters of Doctrine expressly contained in his five books of Ecclesiastical Polity.— Printed 1599 in qu. which matters of Doctrine, as they say, seem to overthrow the foundation of Christian Religion, and of the Church among us. But therein it doth appear, that their ignorant malice hath done him great honour; who in an argument so distasted by them, and coming with a proud confidence to reprehend, have only carped sillily at some things, neither of moment or importance, whereof humility and charity would have craved no answer. But these being willing and desirous to find something to oppose, have only discovered Mr hooker's great, mature, and grave judgement, and their own small, undigested and shallow learning. Soon after came out an answer to the said letter, entit. A just and temperate defence of the 5 books of Ecclesiastical polity, etc. against an uncharitable letter of certain English protestants, etc. Lond. 1603. qu. written and published by Will. Covel D. D. born in Lancashi●e near the place where Dr. Chaderton B. of Lincoln received his first breath, bred in Christ's and Queens college. in Cambridge, and a writer of other books that came out soon after. As for the other three books of Ecclesiastical Policy, which our author Hooker completed before his death, they with the consent of his unlucky Widow, were seized on in his study soon after his decease, by Will. Charke a noted Puritan, and another Minister that lived near to Canterbury; who making the silly Woman believe that they were writings not fit to be seen, did either burn them in the place, or convey them away secretly: So that the foul copy being only remaining, with many interlinings, Dr. Joh. Spenser of C. C. coll. in Oxon. his ancient and entire Friend, got it into his hands, who using the assistance of Hen. Jackson of the said coll. as an Aman●ensis, and otherwise, did complete it as much as could be, and kept it by him till his latter end, with an intent that it should be published, but upon what account he was hindered I cannot tell. Sure it is, that when he lay on his deathbed, he bequeathed the said copy, (containing the three last books) fairly transcribed by the hand of the said H. Jackson, to Dr. Jo. King B. of London. After his death the copy rested in the hands of his Son Henry (who became B. of Chichester 1641.) till Dr. Abbot Archb. of Canterbury commanded them out of his custody, authorising Dr. Joh. Barcham to require and bring them to him to Lambeth, which accordingly was done. The said Archbishop esteeming them as rarities, did put them into the Library there, where remaining till the decollation of Archb. Laud, were then by the Brethren of the Predominant Faction, given, 
i Dr. Hen. King in his Letter to Is. Walton, 13. Nou. 1664. set before Mr. hooker's Life published in 1665. by the said Walton.  with the Library, to that most notorious Villain Hugh Peter, as a reward for his remarkable service in those sad times of the Church's confusion. And though they could hardly fall into a fouler hand, yet there wanted not other endeavours to corrupt and make them speak that Language for which the Faction then fought, which was to subject the Sovereign Power to the People. From the said copy several transcripts were taken, not only, I presume, while it remained in the said Library, but while it continued in the hands of Peter's, differing much in words. There was a copy of the sixth and eighth books published at London in 1648. in qu. and said by the Editor of them to be collected and compared with five copies, viz. with that in Bodley's Library, that at Lambeth, that in Bish. Andrew's, that in Archb. usher's Library, and in that of the Lord Edw. Conway at Ragley; but whether the publisher may be believed I know not. Sure I am that the said three last books, which are said to be true and genuine, (but from whence obtained I cannot tell,) were published by Dr. Joh. Gauden under this title.  
The Works of Mr. Rich. Hooker (that learned, godly, judicious, and eloquent Divine) vindicating the Church of England as truly Christian and duly reform, in eight books of Ecclesiastical Polity, now completed, as with the sixth and eighth, so with the seventh, etc. out of his own MSS. never before published, with an account of his holy Life and happy Death. Lond. 1662. fol. But whether the said MSS. were of his own hand-writing, we have good reason to question, as also the greater part of his Life, which he the said Gauden hath falsely written; who with great confidence hath used divers arguments to satisfy the World, that the before-mentioned three books were penned by Mr. Hooker, notwithstanding those poisonous assertions against the Regal Power, which are to be found in them. Now although this is generally confessed, that the said three books are not genuine, yet some Nonconformists, and among these chief Mr. Rich. Baxter, do 
k Fascicul. Literarum, etc. by Jo. Hinkley. Lond. 1680. in oct. p. 107.  urge seemingly probable reasons to induce a belief that these posthumous books, as published by Dr. Gauden, are to be accounted the true and authentic Writings of Mr. Hooker; yet this must be known, that the reason why the said Mr. Baxter contends so eagerly for their genuineness, is because the said three books, but more especially the eighth, do contain certain popular and false Principles, concerning the true Nature of the Legislative Power, the Original of Government, and the Office of Kings itself, as derived from the People. And on this account it is, that he seems to take a more than ordinary delight in so often telling the World, that the Abettors of these seditious positions have so great a Chruch-man, 
l Ib. in Fasc. p. 102, 103, 104, 105, 106. and in the Second part of the Nonconformists plea for peace, etc. Lond. 1680. in qu. p. 54. 64. and elsewhere in the said Book.  as our author was justly esteemed, on their side. It was these and such like Prelatist's principles as he 
m Ib. p. 100  saith (meaning, I guess, Bish. Jewel, but chiefly Bish. Bilson in his book of Christian Subjection, etc. which he frequently citys as defending the resistance of Superiors in some cases, and such like pernicious tenets, and whom he usually joins with Mr. Hooker in quotations of 
n Nonconsormists plea for peace. Lond. 1679. in oct. in the 4. pag. of the Pref. and in 124 of the book. See Fascit. Litter. ut sup. p. 100, 101, 102. and in the Apol. for Nonconformists Ministry, etc. Lond. 1681. qu. p. 146.  this kind) that led him to what he did, and wrote in the book of Holy Commonwealth, which he hath retracted. And that he may charge these destructive Assertions home on our author, he 
o In his Pref. to the 4. part of his book called Christian Directory, or a sum of practical Theology. Which 4. part is by him intit. Christian Politics. Lond. 1673. fol.  saith, if any do causelessly question whether the eighth imperfect book be in those dangerous passages above-mentioned his own, let them remember that the sum of them is in his first book, which is old, and highly honoured by the Prelatists: And after all this, to show himself an Enemy to the above-named Principles, he examines and confutes 
p In the fourth part of Christian Directory, chap. 3.  the first and eighth books so far, as they make for popularity, (with some strictures intermixed on Bishop Bilson's false Notes of subjection,) whereby he makes but a scanty satisfaction for the malignant influence those many traitorous opinions, with which his Political Aphorisms are fraught, have had on the minds of many giddy People, towards the withdrawing them from yielding cheerful obedience to their lawful Superiors; and this, notwithstanding he hath sometime since, called this piece in. The eighth book is commonly supposed to have been first published, together with the sixth and seventh, by Bish. Gauden, yet Mr. Baxter 
q In Nonconformists plea for peace, p. 124.  affirms that the said eighth book was in print long before that time; which is true, for the sixth and eighth were printed at Lond. 1648. in qu. nay all the eight books, with certain Tractates and Sermons, together with the author's Life, were published in two vol. in fol. 1617. As for the other Books and Sermons, that our author Hooker hath written, are these following.  
Answer to a supplication preferred by Mr. Walt. Travers to the H. H. Lords of the Privy Council. Oxon. 1612. qu.  
Causes of contention concerning Church-Government. Oxon. 1641. qu.  
As for his Sermons they are these, (1) Discourse of Justification, Works, and how the foundation of Faith is overthrown, on Abak. 1. 4. Oxon. 1612. qu. (2) Of the Nature of Pride, on Abak. 2. 4. Oxon. 1612. qu. (3) Remedy against Sorrow and Fear: Fun. Sermon on Joh. 14. 27. Ox. 1612. qu. (4) Of the certainty and perpetuity of Faith in the Elect, on Abak. 1. 4. (5) Two Sermons upon part of St. Jude's Epistle, viz. ver. 17, 18, 19, 20, 21. Oxon. 1614 qu. All which Sermons (with Wickliffs' Wicket) were published by Henry Jackson Fellow of C. C. coll. reprinted at London (the Wicket excepted) an. 1622. fol. at the end of the five books of Ecclesiastical Policy, etc. and again at the end of the eight books, Lond. 1682. fol. (6) Serm. on Matth. 7. 7. Found in the study of Dr. Andrews Bishop of Winchester, and published by Isaac Walton, at the end of Dr. Saunderson's Life. Lond. 1678. oct. What other things our most renowned author Hooker hath extant, I know not, nor any thing else of him, only that paying his last debt to Nature on the second of Nou. year 1600 in sixteen hundred, (leaving then behind him the character of Schismaticorum Malleus,) was buried in the Chancel of the Church of Bishops-Bourne in Kent before-mentioned. Over his Grave was, 35 years after, a Monument erected by Will. Cowper Esq; with the Statue of Bust of the Defunct to the middle part of his Body● From which Statue was taken the picture of him, set before his Life, written by the said Isaac Walton, of whom by the way I desire the Reader to know, that he was born in the ancient Borough of Stafford, in Aug. 1593. that he was by Trade a Sempster in Chancery-lane in London, where continuing till about 1643. (at which time he found it dangerous for honest men to be there,) he left that City, and lived sometimes at Stafford, and elsewhere, but mostly in the Families of the eminent Clergymen of England, of whom he was much beloved. He hath written the lives of Dr. Joh. Donne, Sir Hen. Wotton, Mr. Rich. Hooker, Mr. George Herbert, and of Dr. Rob. Sanderson sometimes B. of Lincoln: All which are well done, considering the education of the author; as also The complete Angler, or the contemplative Man's recreation, etc. He ended his days (in the great Frost) at Winchester, in the house of Dr. Will. Hawkins, Prebendary of the Church there, (who had married his Daughter,) on the 15. Dec. 1683. and was buried in the Cath. Ch. at that place.  
GEORGE CRANMER, a Gent. sometimes of singular hopes, eldest Son of Tho. Cranmer, Son of Edm. Cranmer Archdeacon of Canterbury, (who died in the beginning of 1571.) Brother to Tho. Archb. of that place, was born in Kent, admitted Scholar of C. Ch. Coll. 10. Jan. 1577. aged 13. or thereabouts, and was then, or soon after, put under the tuition of the famous Mr. Rich. Hooker, who found him afterwards very useful to him when he was compiling the books of Ecclesiastical Policy. In 1583. he was admitted Probationer-Fellow of that house, and six years after was licenced to proceed in Arts. About which time he betook himself to the service of Will. Davison Esq; one of the Secretaries of State: After whose removal he went in place of Secretary with Sir Hen. Killigrew in his Embassage into France, and after his death he accompanied that worthy and learned Gent. Sir Edwin Sandys in his travels into France, Germany, Italy, and other parts, for the space of three years. After his return he was sought out by the most Noble Charles Blount, Lord Mountjoy, with whom he went into Ireland in the quality of Secretary, where he remained until his unfortunate Death. He hath written,  
Letter to Mr. Richard Hooker concerning the new Church discipline, Feb. 1598. Lond. 1641. 42. qu. Remitted into the Life of R. Hooker, written by Is. Walton.— Lond. 1670. p. 123. Our author Cranmer hath written other things, as I have heard Mr. Walton say, but are kept private to the great prejudice of the public. He was slain in a Battle near Carlingford in Ireland, between the English and the Rebels there, on the 13. of Nou. in sixteen hundred, year 1600 as it is attested by 
r In A●●al. Reg. Elizab. sub an. 1600.  Camden, speaking of the said Battle, thus— Cecidit tamen ex Anglis, praeter alios, Cranmerus Prorege ab Epistolis, vir eruditissimus, & ipsi eo nomine longè charissimus. I find another George Cranmer, who was born at Wingham in Kent, admitted perpetual Fellow of New coll. in 1559. and died in 1563. but he hath written nothing.  
JOHN RASTELL, a most noted Enemy in his writings to B. John Jewel, was born within the City of Gloucester, trained up in Wykeham's School, admitted perpetual Fellow of New coll. in 1549. took the degrees in Arts, that of Master being completed in 1555. and about that time Sacred Orders. In 1560. he left his coll. (wherein he had always been accounted an excellent Disputant,) his Friends, and native Country, and went to Louvain, where, and at Antwerp, he published certain books against B. Jewel, being then a candidate of the Fac. of Theology. Afterwards he went to Rome, and in 1568. he was, with his Brother, or near Kinsman, admitted into the Society of Jesus. Whereupon, because a way had not then been opened for the Jesuits into England, he went into Germany to perform offices pertaining to his Order. But being initiated in the Priesthood before his ingress into the Society, and having performed the office of Confessor in the place of one Hall, was sent to Auspurge, and at length became Rector of the coll. of Jesuits at Ingolstadt. He hath written,  
Confutation of a Sermon pronounced by Mr. Jewel at Paul's Cross. Antw. 1564.  
Copy of a challenge taken out of the confutation of Mr. Jewels Sermon. Antw. 1565. oct.  
Reply against an answer (falsely intit.) A defence of the Truth. Antw. 1565. oct.  
Brief view of the false wares packed up in the nameless Apology of the Church of England. Lov. 1567. oct.  
Treatise entit. Beware of Mr. Jewel. Antw. 1566. oct. This Jo. Rastell, who perhaps hath written other things; died in a good old age at Ingolstadt about the year sixteen hundred, year 1600 and was buried in the coll. of the Jesuits there. Several of these books beforementioned, are attributed by a certain 
s Jo. Pits. in lib. De ●llustr Ang●. Script. A●t. 16. nu. 101●.  author to Will. Rastell a Judge, but false. See more under the year 1565. where you will justly find what belongs to him.  
HENRY PRICE was born in London, became Scholar of St. John's coll. in 1584. aged 18. afterwards Fellow, M. of A. and Chaplain to Sir Hen. Lea of Oxfordshire. At length taking the degree of Bac. of Diu. became Rector of Fleetmarston in Bucks, a noted Preacher, and an elegant Lat. Poet. His Works are,  
Epicedium in obitum Henrici Comitis Derbeiensis. Oxon. 1593. qu.  
The Eagles flight; Serm. at Paul's Cross, on Luke 17. 37. Lond. 1599 oct. He died at Woodstock in Oxfordshire, 2. Feb. 
1600-1.  in sixteen hundred, aged 34. or thereabouts, and was buried in St. John's coll. Chappel. Over his Grave was a Mon. soon after erected, at the charge of the Precedent and Society, who were his Heirs; a copy of the inscription on which you may read in Hist. & Antiq. Vnivers. Oxon. lib. 2. p. 312. He left behind him several Sermons, which were esteemed by some, worthy of the Press, one of which I have 
t In bib. D. Tho. Barlow, MS.  seen, written on Rom. 7. 24. Preached an. 1594.  
THOMAS WILLIAMS, a Welshman born, did spend several years among the Oxonians, but whether in Brasenose coll. where one of both his Names took the degree of Master of Arts in 1573. I cannot tell. Afterwards he entered on the Physic line, but took no degree in that Faculty, retired into his Country and practised there. This person who was also a curious Critic in his mother-tongue, wrote,  
Dictionarium Latino-Britannicum. A work of many years labour; which being left imperfect in some places, was reviewed and corrected by Dr. Jo. Davies, and by him published in 1632. who tells us that he said Williams was much encouraged in his studies by the Father of Sir RichWynne Knight and Baronet, to whom he did intend to dedicate, had he lived to have finished, it. He tells us also that the said Th. Williams was living and in great renown in his own Country in sixteen hundred, 
Clar. 1600.  but when he died he adds not. I find another Tho. Williams who was elected Probat. Fellow of Merton coll. in 1562. studied Physic several years, took the degree of Bach. of that Faculty in 1575. and died in his coll. 1579. being then accounted a learned Physician. But this person was no author, and whether a Welshman, I cannot yet find. A third Tho. Williams was of Broadgates' hall, and as the eldest Son of an Esq; took the degree of Bach. of Arts, in the beginning of July in 1592. besides several others of a later date, and another before, who wrote Rules of the Italian Grammar. Lond. 1567. etc.  
HENRY CUFF a most excellent Grecian, is said by an Historian 
u Will. Sanderson in The lives of Mary Q. of Scots and K. Jam. Printed 1656. p. 238.  of no great note, to be base by Birth; meaning, I presume, that his birth was mean. If so, then let it be known from the 
w In the Visitation Book of Sommersetshire, made 1573.  Records in the Coll. of Arms, that his birth was gentile in Sommersetshire, that his Predecessors for 4 Generations before him lived at Creech near to Taunton in the said County in good esteem, and that his Ancestor Joh. Cuff, who lived sometimes at Ilchester, and sometimes at Creech, where he had good inheritances, had a Coat of Arms granted to him and his posterity by Christop. Barker Garter King of Arms, 36. Hen. 8. and so consequently was made a Gentleman. At 26 years of age, in 1586. he the said Hen. Cuff was chosen Prob. Fellow of Merton coll. (having a little before been forced to resign his Fellowship of Trin. coll. for speaking certain matters (though true) that redounded to the great discredit of the Founder Sir Tho. Pope,) and two years after, was not only made Master-Fellow, but also M. of A. In which time he occasionally showed himself a rare Grecian, Philosopher, and Disputant. Afterwards he was Greek Professor, and Proctor of the University, and at length Secretary to that unfortunate Count Robert Earl of Essex. As he was a person of good parts, so was he ambitious withal, and pretended to be well seen in the rules of Policy, believed by many that he was so, (because smothered under the habit of a Scholar,) especially by his great Patron, which brought him the sooner to the block. He wrote in the year 1600,  
The differences of the ages of man's life. Lond. 1607. and 1633. in oct.  
The original, causes, progress, and end of Man's life.— Printed with the former book, and other things which he left fit for the Press, but never published. Afterwards he being found guilty of Treason for conspiring with the said Rob. E. of Essex, to seize on the Queen and change the Government, he was hanged at Tyburn near London, 30. March in sixteen hundred and one: year 1601 So that his body being afterwards buried obscurely without a Memorial or Epitaph, be pleased to take this for him, made by 
x Jo. Owen. in lib. 1. Epigr. ad Hen. Principem Cambr. nu. 107.  one that knew him well. 
Doctus eras Graecè, felixque tibi fuit Alpha?  
At fuit infelix Omega, Cuffe, tuum.   
The execution of which person, and his unhappy end, is brought in by a certain author 
y Fr. Osborn in his first part of Advice to a Son. chap. 4.  as a very proper and suitable instance to verify the great reasonableness of one of his advices to his Son, thus,— Mingle not your interest with a great Man's, made desperate by debt, or Court-injuries, whose breaking out prove fatal to their wisest followers and friends: averred in the last Earl of Essex but one, where 
z Jelly Merick, Son of Dr. Rowl. Merick sometimes Bish. of Bangor, which Jelly was Knighted by the said E. of Essex at the sacking of Cadiz, an. 1596.  Merick his Steward, and Cuff his Secretary, though of excellent parts, were both hanged. For such unconcocted Rebellions turn seldom to the hurt of any, but the parties that promote them; being commonly guided by the directions of their Enemies, as this was by 
a Sir Rob. Cecil, afterwards Earl of Salisbury.  Cecil, whose creatures persuaded Essex to this inconsiderate attempt, etc. that is, to seize the Queen and change the Government. Thus far Francis Osborn here quoted, of whom and his Works the Reader may please by the way (if not too tedious) to know these things, That he was younger Brother to Sir. Pet. Osborn, and both the Sons of Sir John Osborn of Chicksand near Shefford in Bedfordshire; which Sir John and his Father did both enjoy a quiet, happy, and plentiful Fortune under Q. Elizabeth: That he was bred mostly at home, not so much as in a Free School or University, being altogether void of such kind of Faculties that Universities afford. At ripe years he frequented the Court, became a Servant in the Pembrochian Family, and at length Master of the Horse to that most Noble Count William Earl of Pembroke. In 1641. he ran with the times, having been Pruitanically educated, had public employments then, and under Oliver, conferred upon him; and in his last days lived in Oxon purposely to Print certain books of his compostion that then laid by him, and to have an eye on his Son John, whom he got by the favour of the Parliamentarian Visitors, to be Fellow of Allsouls coll. 1648. Those things of his, which I have seen extant, are these, (1) A seasonable expostulation with the Netherlands, declaring their ingratitude to, and the necessity with their agreement with, the Commonwealth of England. Ox. 1652. qu. in two sh. and half. (2) Persuasive to mutual compliance under the present Government. Ox. 1652. qu. in two sh. (3) Plea for a Free State compared with Monarchy.— Printed with the former, in 4 sh. qu. (4) The private Christians non ultra; or, a plea for the Lay-man's interpreting the Scriptures. Ox. 1656. in 3 sh. and half, in qu. There is no name to it, only strongly reported to be Fr. Osborn's. (5) Advice to a Son, in two parts. The first was printed at Ox. in oct. an. 1656. and within 2 years after were five more impressions of it. The second part was printed at Ox. 1658. oct. but being not so well liked as the first, I cannot justly say whether it had a second impression. Both, especially the first, being greedily bought up, and admired in Oxon, especially by young Scholars, it was then noted among the Godly Ministers, that they did instill principles of Atheism into them. Whereupon a public complaint being put up against the said books to the than Vicechanc. Dr. Jo. Conant, there was a proposal made to have them publicly burnt. But it taking no effect, it was ordered 27. July 1658. that no bookseller's, or any other persons should sell the books; which afterwards made them sell the better. (6) Political reflections upon the Government of the Turks; to which are added in the same book or vol. A discourse upon Nich. Machiavelli.— Observations upon the K. of Sweden's descent into Germany.— Discourse upon Piso and Vindex, who both conspired the death of Nero.— The greatness and corruption of the Court of Rome.— Discourse upon the election of P. Leo XI.— Political occasions of the defection from the Church of Rome.— Discourse in vindication of Mart. Luther. All these were printed at Ox. in oct. at least 3 times. (7) Traditional Memoires on the Reign of Q. Eliz. Lond. 1658. oct. (8) Trad. Mem. on the Reign of K. James. Lond. 1658. oct. (9) Miscellany of sundry Essays, Paradoxes, and Problematical Discourses, Letters, and Characters. Lond. 1659. oct. (10) Deductions from the History of the Earl of Essex, who was executed for Treason under the Reign of Q. Eliz. Lond. 1659. oct. These are all that I have seen, and whether he hath any others published, I cannot say. After his death appeared in public a book intit. A modest plea for an equal Commonwealth against Monarchy, etc. with other things added to it, as, An Apology for younger Brothers, and A lift at Tithes. All printed twice in 1659. in qu. and oct. These three Treatises, though they were published by another person as his, yet some Scholars, more envious than prudent, did not stick to say, that the publisher found them among the papers of Fr. Osborn (with whom he had intimate acquaintance) after his death, and disguising the Language, or making some alterations in, published, them as his own. However all that knew him well and were intimate with him, (as the writer of these matters was,) knew him able to write such a book as that was. As for Fr. Osborn he died at Nether-worton near to Dedington in Oxfordshire, in the house of Will. Draper Esq (an Oliverian Colonel) whose Sister he had married, on the eleventh of Feb. 1658-9. aged 70. or thereabouts, and was buried in the Church there. Over his Grave is a Monument, with an inscription, but the contents I know not yet.  
RICHARD LATEWAR, a Londoner born, educated in Merchant-Taylors School, became Scholar of St. John's coll. 1580. and eight years after M. of Arts, and a noted Preacher. In 1593. he was elected one of the Proctors of the University, being about that time Rector of Hopton in Suffolk. Afterwards he became Rector of Finchley in Middlesex, D. of D. and at length Chaplain to the illustrious Hero, Charles Lord Mountjoy, Lieutenant of Ireland. He was a most ingenious Latin Poet, as his Epigrams, and copies of Verses, occasionally printed in books published in his life-time, do show. He composed,  
Carmen 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Coll. S. John Bapt. Which was restored and augmented by Rich. Andrews, M. D. and Fellow of the said coll.  
Conc. Lat. ad Academicos Oxon. 1594. It was Preached when he was admitted Bac. of Diu. but upon what subject, or when printed, I know not, for I have not yet seen it. What other things of his are published I cannot find; neither is there any need to be said more of him, than what the learned 
b In Annal. Reg. Elizab. sub an. 1600.  Camden hath delivered of the overthrow of the Rebels in Ireland, near to Carlingford, given by the L. Mountjoy before-mentioned, thus, On the English side (saith he) there were slain Latewar D. of Diu. and Chaplain to the Deputy, and Cranmer his Secretary, both most learned men, and for that much beloved of him, besides some others also, etc. But the time that he appoints for his death is false, for whereas he saith it was in 1600. it was not till the year following, being then buried in the Church at Armagh. year 1601 Soon after was erected an honorary Monument for him in St. John's coll. Chappel, with a handsome inscription thereon; (a copy of which you may see 
c In Hist. & Anti● Univers. Oxon. lib. 2. p. 313. a.  elsewhere.) But whereas it is said, that he died on the 27. July 1601. aged 41. is false, as it seems; for 
d Fines Morison in his book, intit. The Rebellion of Hugh Earl of Tyrone in Ireland. Lond. 1617. lib. ● cap. 1. an. 1601.  one that was upon the place when he received his death's wound, tells us, that he was shot at Benburb, July 16. and died the day following, an. 1601. See more in the Affaniae of a celebrated Lat. 
e Car. Fitz-geofridus ex aul. Lat. Port.  Poet of his time, named Fitz-Geffry, wherein, among the Cenotaphs, at the end, you will find one upon this Latewar, which without flattery, was justly written.  
HUGH LLOYD, a most admired Grammarian of the age he lived in, was born at Llynn in Caernarvonshire, educated in Wykeham's School, admitted perpetual Fellow of New coll. in 1564. promoted to the Chancellourship of Rochester in 1578. being then Bach. of the Civil Law. Afterwards he was made chief Master of Wykeham's School near Winchester before-mentioned, was admitted Doctor of his Faculty in 1588. being then noted to be not only eminent in Divinity and the Civil Law, but also for his admirable sufficiencies in the Greek and Lat. tongues. He hath written several books, but all that I have seen are only these following, viz.  
Phrases Elegantiores ex Caesaris Commentariis, Cicerone aliisque, in usum Scholae Winton. Oxon. 1654. in a large oct.  
Dictata. Printed with the former. Both which were published by John Lamphire M. of A. sometimes Fellow of New coll. afterwards Dr. of Physic, History Professor and Principal of Hart hall. The said Dr. Lloyd departed this mortal life, year 1601 on the 17. Octob. in sixteen hundred and one, and was buried in New coll. outer Chapel. See his Epitaph in Hist. & Antiq. Vniu. Oxon. lib. 2. p. 153. He had a Brother named Joh. Lloyd who was Fellow of Alls. coll. Doctor of the Civil Law, and Judge of the Admiralty; but whether he was of any kin to Hugh Lloyd D. D. of Barton-Segrave in Northamptonshire, who succeeded Dr. Will. Swaddon in the Archdeaconry of Worcester, 18. Aug. 1623. and died in July 1629. I know not.  
EDWARD GRANT or Grant the most noted Latinist and Grecian of his time, was educated in Grammar learning in the coll. School at Westminster, spent several years in the study of Logic and Philosophy, either in Ch. Ch. or Broadgates' hall, took the degrees in Arts, that of Master being completed in 1572. and about that time became the learned Master of the said School; whence, by his sedulous endeavours, many persons went away well grounded in learning, who were afterwards eminent in Church and State. In 1577. he was made Canon or Prebendary of the twelfth and last Stall in the collegiate Ch. at Westminster, in the place of Tho. Wat's D. D. (who had succeeded in that Stall Gabr. Goodman 1561. in which year the said Goodman was made Dean,) and about that time being admitted Bach. of Diu. of Cambridge, was incorporated in that degree with us, in the year 1579. He was afterwards Doctor of that Faculty, but not of this University, was esteemed a most noted Latin Poet, as several of his copies of verses, printed in various books, show, and was well skilled in all kind of humane literature. He hath written,  
Grecae linguae specilegium, etc. Lond. 1575. qu. Contracted by his learned Usher Will. Camden. He also collected, viewed, and received and corrected all Rog. Aschams Epistles and Poetry, and at the end added of his (graunt's) composition,  
Oratio de vita & obitu Rogeri Aschami, ac dictionis Elegantio, cum adhortatione ad Adolescentulos. Lond. 1577. oct. What else he hath published I know not, nor any thing material of him besides, only (1) That he resigning his Mastership of Westm. School about the Month of Feb. 1592. was succeeded therein by Will. Camden. (2) That dying in Sept. year 1601 or Octob. in sixteen hundred and one, was buried in St. Peter's Church at Westminster; whereupon his Canonry was bestowed on Will. Barlow D. D. Now I am got into the Name of Grant, I cannot without the guilt of concealment, but to let you know some things of the most ingenious person (considering his education and employment) that his time hath produced. His name is Joh. Grant, born at the sign of the Seven Stars in Birchin-lane, within the Parish of St. Michael-Cornhil in London, between 7 and 8 of the clock in the morn. of the 24. of Apr. 1620. (Son of Hen. Grant a Hampshire man,) educated while a boy in English learning, bound an Apprentice to a Haberdasher of small wares, which Trade he mostly followed, though free of the Draper's company. Afterwards he went through all the Offices of the City, as far as a Common-Council-man, bearing that Office two years. He was also Captain of the Trained-band several years, and Major of it two or three, and then laid down his Trade, and all public Employments upon account of Religion. For though he was Pruitanically bred, and had several years taken Sermon notes, by his most dextrous and incomparable faculty in shortwriting, and afterwards did profess himself for some time a Socinian, yet in his latter days he turned Rom. Catholic; in which Persuasion he zealously lived, for some time, and died. He hath written, (1) Natural and Political Observations, made upon the Bills of Mortality, etc. Lond. 1661. and 62. in qu. afterwards in oct. with several additions; done upon certain hints and advice of Sir Will. Petty. (2) Observations on the advance of Excise. And (3) something about Religion, but these two are not yet printed. He died on the 18. of April (being Easter-Even) 1674. and was buried four days after in St. Dunstan's Church in Fleetstreet, in the body thereof, under the Pews, towards the Gallery on the North side, London. At which time his body was attended with a great number of ingenious persons; and among others (with tears) was that great Vertuoso Sir Will. Petty beforementioned. The said Joh. Grant was an ingenious and studious Person, generally beloved, was a faithful Friend, a great Peacemaker, and one that had often been chosen for his prudence and justness an Arbitrator: But above all his excellent working head was much commended, and the rather for this reason, that it was for the public good of learning, which is very rare in a Trader or Mechanic.  
JOHN HOOKER alias Vowel, sometimes written Vowel alias Hooker, was born within the City of Exeter, educated in Grammar and Logic for a time in this University, either in Exeter, or C. C. coll. but whether he took a degree, our Registers, which are in the time of K. Ed. 6. very imperfect, show not. Afterwards retiring to his Native place, he became the first Chamberlain thereof, an. 1554. about which time applying himself to the study of Astronomy, and English History, became noted in his time for them, especially after he had published his labours for the benefit of Posterity in these books following.  
Order and usage of keeping the Parliaments in England. Lond. 1572. qu.  
The Events of Comets, or blazing Stars, made upon the sight of the Comet Pagonia, which appeared in the month of Nou. and Dec. 1577. Lond. in oct.  
An addition to the Chronicles of Ireland from 1546. where they ended, to the year 1568. Lond. 1587. fol. This addition is in the second vol. of the Chronicles, first collected and published by Raphael Holinshed, Will. Harrison and others. The said Chronicles of Ireland did begin, an. 1186. about which time Giraldus Cambrensis concluded his Irish History, and were continued by several hands to the said year 1546.  
A Catalogue or History of the Bishops of Exeter, from Werestan (as he calls him) to John Woolton, an. 1579.— Remitted into the third vol. of Ra. Holinshed's Chronicles, Lond. 1587. fol. pag. 1300. He also translated into English the Irish History of Giraldus beforementioned, and put Scholias to the same; which being by him dedicated to Sir Walt. Raleigh with a large Epistle, were remitted into the second vol. of the Chronicles of Ra. Holinshed, Will. Harrison and others. Lond. 1587. fol. He also took great pains in augmenting and continuing to the year 1586. the said first and second vol. of Chronicles, which were also printed at London 1587. fol. The first impression of the said Chronicles were made at Lond. 1577. in fol. by the said R. Holinshed, descended from those of his name that lived at Boseley in Cheshire, educated in one of the Universities, was a Minister of God's Word, as I have heard, and died at Bramcote in Warwickshire, towards the latter end of 1580. Whereupon all or most of his notes, collections, books, and MSS. came into the hands of Thom. Burdet Esq; an inhabitant, if not Lord, of the said Town of Bramcote. As for our author John Hooker, he lived to a fair age, and dying in Nou. year 1601 in sixteen hundred and one, was buried at Exeter. He gave up his Chamberlains place about a quarter of a year before he died, and was succeeded therein by Will. Tickell. There hath been two of the hooker's that have been Mayors of Exeter, viz. Joh. Hooker in 1490. and Rob. Hooker in 1529. from one, or both, of which, I presume, our author Joh. Hooker was descended, as also Rich. Hooker the eminent author of Eccles. Policy.  
CROMWELL LEA a younger Son of Sir Anth. Lea or Lee of Burston in Bucks. Knight, (by his Wife the Daughter of Sir Thomas Wyatt Knight,) descended from the Lees of Quarendon in the said County, was educated in all inferior Arts in this University, and afterwards travelling and spending several years in Italy, he attained to so great knowledge in the common Language of that Country, that at his return he wrote,  
A Dictionary in Italian and English.— Which though it reaches but to the Word Tralingnato, and so consequently wanteth the following Letters to the end of the Alphabet, yet it is as big as a Church-Bible. This book the author giving in MS. to the Library of St. John's coll. in this University, (of which coll. he had been sometimes a Commoner, about its first foundation,) the Society did so highly value it, that one of them named Tho. Pothecary, M. of A. and Bach. of the Civil Law, did transcribe it in a very fair character. Which being so done, it was reposed in their Library as a choice thing, and is at this day among the printed books, B. 31. This Crom. Lea, who had married Mary, the Relict of Rich. Taverner, mentioned under the year 1575. died at his house in Halywell, in the North Suburb of Oxon, about the beginning of Winter in sixteen hundred and one, year 1601 but where buried I know not. Whereupon this Epitaph was made on him by an Oxford Scholar, 
Here lieth old Cromwell,  
Who, living, loved the Bum well.  
When he died he gave nothing to the poor,  
But half to his Bastards, and half to his Whore.   
JOHN CHARDON or Charldon a Devonian born, became a Sojourner of Exeter coll. in 1562. or thereabouts, made Probationer thereof, 3. March 1564. perpetual Fellow in Octob. two years after, entered into Holy Orders in Aug. 1567. being then Bach. of Arts, and resigned his Fellowship on the 6. Apr. in the year after. About that time being beneficed in his own Country, particularly within the City of Exeter, he proceeded soon after in Arts, became a noted Preacher, and wonderfully followed for his edifying Sermons. In 1581. he was admitted to the reading of the Sentences, (or the Epistles of St. Paul, as it was then among the Puritans styled,) proceeded in Divinity five years after, and in 1596. in May, he was consecrated Bishop of Down and Connor, in the Church of St. Patrick at Dublin in Ireland. All that are extant of his writing, are only,  
Several Sermons, Preached in the Churches of St. Peter in Exeter, St. mary's in Oxon, and at S. Pauls-Cross in the City of Lond. viz. (1) Sermon of the World, on Luke 21. 25. Lond. 1580. oct. (2) Serm. at S. Mar. in Ox. on Joh. 9 1, 2, 3. Ox. 1586. oct. (3) Serm. at S. Mar. Ox. 11. Dec. 1586. on Joh. 9 4, 5, 6, 7. Lond. 1587. oct. (4) Serm. at Pauls-cross 29. May 1586. on Matth. 6. 19, 20, 21. Lond. 1586. oct. (5) Fun. Serm. on 1 Thes. 4. from 13. to 18. verse. Ox. 1586. oct. He hath another Sermon extant on Isay 1. ver. 1, 2. Lond. 1595. but this, and others, which he hath printed, as I conceive, I have not yet seen nor do I know any thing of him besides, save only that he died in Ireland, in sixteen hundred and one; year 1601 but where buried, unless in his own Cath. Church, I cannot tell. The next in order, according to time, to be mentioned, is a most reverend and learned Divine, and an ornament to his profession in the long Reign of Q. Elizabeth.  
ALEXANDER NOWELL, the second Son of John Nowell of Great Meerley in Lancashire, was born in that County in 1511. and at 13 years of age became a Commoner of Brasmose college, where profiting much in Grammar, Logic, and Philosophy, took the degree of Bach. of Arts in 1536. He was afterwards Fellow of that house, Master of Arts, and grew very famous for Religion and Learning. In the Reign of Ed. 6. and perhaps before, he taught School at Westminster, where he very zealously trained the Youth up in Protestant principles; but when Q. Mary began to Reign, he, among other Divines, much averse to the R. Cath. Religion, did leave the Kingdom. for Conscience sake, and lived, as opportunity served, in Germany. Upon the coming of Q. Elizabeth to the Crown, he returned, and was made the first Canon of the seventh Stall in the collegiate Church of St. Peter in Westminster, a 1560. and soon after about the beginning of the year 1561. he was made Dean of St. Paul's Cathedral in the place of Will. May, L. L. D. Master of Trin. coll. in Cambr. (the same, who in 1549. had a hand in compiling the first Edition of the Common Prayer, and in correcting the the third Edit. in 1559.) So that Nowell, being settled in the Deanery of Paul's, resigned Westminster, and afterwards became a frequent and painful Preacher, and a zealous writer against certain English Catholics that had fled their Country upon account of Religion. For 30 years together he Preached the first and last Sermons in the time of Lent before the Queen, wherein he dealt plainly and faithfully with her, without dislike. In 1594. Apr. 28. he was installed Canon of Windsor, in the place of Rich. Reve Bach. of Diu. deceased, in the year after, Sept. 6. he was elected Principal of Brasnose coll. and in oct. following he was actually created D. of Divinity, with allowance of Seniority over all the Doctors then in the University, not only in regard had to his age, but Dignity in the Church. He was, in the time he lived, a learned Man, charitable to the poor, especially if they had any thing of a Scholar in them, and a great comforter of afflicted Consciences. His Works are,  
A reproof of a book intit. A proof of certain Articles in Religion, denied by Master Jewel, set forth by Tho. Dorman Bach. of Diu. Lond. 1565. qu.  
Reproof of Mr. Dormans' proof continued, with a defence of the chief authority of Princes, as well in causes Ecclesiastical, as Civil, within their Dominions, by Mr. Dorman maliciously impugned. Lond. 1566. qu.  
Confutation as well of Mr. Dormons last book intit. A defence, etc. as also of Dr. Saunder's Causes of Transubstantiation. Lond. 1567. qu.  
Catechismus, sive prima institutio disciplinaque pietatis Chistianae, Latinè explicata. Lond. 1570, 71, 74, 76. qu. There again 1590. 1603. etc. oct. Translated into English by Tho. Norten, Lond. 1571. and into Greek by Will. Whittaker, an. 1575. etc.  
Catechismus parvus pueris primum, qui ediscatur, proponendus in Scholis. Lond. 1574. 78. oct. etc. Written in Lat. and Greek. Translated also into English by another person.— Lond. 1587. oct. etc. and into Hebrew by Anon; but this last I have not yet seen.  
Conference had with Edm. Campian Jesuit, in the Tower of London, ult. Aug. 1581. Lond. 1583. qu. See more in Joh. Redman under the year 1551. This reverend Dr. Nowell died in a good old age, on the 13. Feb. in sixteen hundred and one, 
1601-02.  and was buried in the Chapel of the Virgin Mary within the Cathedral of St. Paul. Soon after was a comely Monument set over his Grave, with an inscription thereon in Prose and Verse, a copy of which you may see in Jo. Stow's Survey of London, and elsewhere: And of his benefaction to Brasnose coll. and other matters you may read in Hist. & Antiq. Vniu. Ox. lib. 2. p. 214. b. 225. b. In his Deanty of St. Paul succeeded Joh. Overhall, the King's Professor of Diu. in Cambridge, a general learned Scholar, preferred to it by the commendations (to the Queen) of Sir Fulk Grevill his Patron.  
HARBERT WESTPHALING, Son of Harbert Westphaling, Son of Harbert a Native of Westphalia in Germany, from whom, by a popular Error, the Son who lived mostly in London, and this his Grandson, were called Westphaling. At 15 years of age, in 1547. which was the year after K. Hen. 8. had put his last hand to the foundation of Ch. Church, he was made one of the Students thereof, took the degrees in Arts, (that of Master being completed in 1555.) applied his studies to the Supreme Faculty, was admitted to the reading of the Sentences in Dec. 1561. and in the beginning of March following he was installed Canon of the said Church, being about that time Rector of Brightwell near Watlington in the County of Oxon. In 1565. he was licenced to proceed in his Faculty, in the year following he learnedly 
a See Hist. & Antiq. Uniu. Oxon. lib. 1. p. 305. b.  disputed before Q. Elizabeth in S. Mary's Church, and in the beginning of 1577. he was installed Canon of Windsor, in the place of Dr. Ant. Rush deceased. In 1585. Dec. 12. he was consecrated Bishop of Hereford, (in which County he had several Lands and Inheritances,) where, as throughout the Nation, he was esteemed a person of great gravity, integrity, and most worthy of his Function. He hath written,  
Treatise of Reformation in Religion, divided in seven Sermons, Preached in Oxford, on Matth. 21. 12, 13. Lond. 1582. qu.  
Two Sermons touching the Supper of, the Lord, on 1 Cor. 11. 28, 29. and on Matth. 26. v. 26, 27, 28. Lond. 1582. qu. and perhaps other things, but such I have not yet seen. He paid his last debt to Nature on the first day of March in sixteen hundred and one, and was buried in the North transcept of the Cath. 
1601-02.  at Hereford. In his Will he bequeathed the Manor of batch in Herefordshire to Jesus coll. for the maintenance of two Fellows and two Scholars, conditionally that his kindred be preferred to the said places before all others. His picture is painted on the Wall in the School-Gallery at Oxon. next to that of Dr. E●des, as having in his time been a famous Theologist.  
CHRISTOPHER GOODMAN was born in Cheshire, particularly, as I conceive, within the City of Chester, became a Student in Brasnose coll. 1536. aged seventeen or thereabouts, took one degree in Arts, but was never, as I can yet find, Fellow of that House. In 1544. he proceeded in that faculty, and three years after was constituted one of the Signior Students of Ch. Church, being then newly founded by K. Hen. 8. In the year 1551. or thereabouts, he was admitted to the reading of the Sentences, at which time he was (as 'tis said) Reader of the Divinity Lesson in the University, but whether of that founded by the Lady Margaret, or by K. H. 8. seems as yet doubtful. In the beginning of Q. Marry he left the University, and went with several Academians beyond the Sea for Religion sake, but dissenting from the chief body of them assembled at Frankfort, he did with Whittyngham, Knox, Gilby, etc. retire to Geneva, as may be farther seen in a book intit. A brief discourse of the troubles began at Frankfort, etc. printed 1575. qu. wherein, as in other places, the turbulent spirit of this person may be discerned. A noted 
b Rob. Persons in his second Vol. of Three conversions of England, etc. printed 1604. p. 220.  author tells us that he was a most pernicious fellow, for that he not only practised against the life of Q. Marry, but wrote also that most seditious known Libel against the regiment of Women, etc. This Goodman (I say) being a furious hot spirit, and guilty in conscience of wicked attempts (but especially as was thought, of the conspiracy with Will. Thomas, that would have killed Q. Mary) ran out of England to Geneva, in the beginning of Q. Mary's reign, and there joined with Joh. Knox (as quiet a spirit as himself) that was the firebrand of his country of Scotland, etc. The truth is, Goodman was a most violent Nonconformist, and for rigidness in opinion, he went beyond his friend Calvin, who remembers, 
c Lib. Epist. Jo. Calv. num. 306.  and mentions, him in his Epistles, 1561. There was no man more ready than he, (as Knox was for Scotland) to oppose in the beginning of Q. Eliz. the settlement of the Ch. of England according to the way used in the time of K. Ed. 6. What his preferments were, when the said Queen came to the crown, and where (if any) they were, unless at Chester, or in the county, I know not. Sure I am that when Sir Hen. Sidney was Deputy of Ireland, and had much to do with the popish rebels there, Goodman showed his faithful diligence in that service. His works are these:  
How superior powers ought to be obeyed of their subjects, and wherein they may be lawfully by God's word, be disobeyed and resisted. Genev. 1558. in tw. etc. W. Whittyngham hath a preface to it.  
The first blast of the trumpet against the monstrous regiment of Women— Printed beyond Sea 1558. oct. wherein Qu. Mary is called a wicked woman, traitress, bastard, Proserpina, etc. But most of his doctrines in the said two books, being destructive to the sacred persons of princes, and their state and government, were not only 
d See Dangerous positions, etc. Lond. 1591. lib. 2. cap. 1.  condemned by the Episcopal Clergy of England in the time of Q. Elizab. and after, but also by the judgement and decree of the University of Oxon, passed in their convocation held 21. Jul. 1683. Nay, The first blast of the trumpet, etc. was esteemed by all, especially the R. Catholics, a wicked, seditious and base book, and not fit to be taken into the hands of a Christian, and the rather for this reason, because as a 
e See at the end of Pet. Frarins' Oration against the unlawful insurrections of the Protestants, etc. Antw. 1566.  Poet of that time saith, No Queen in her Kingdom, can or aught to sit fast, If Knocks or Goodman's books blow any true blast. He hath also written,  
A commentary on Amos— This I have not yet seen: Nor can I say any thing else of him, only that when he laid on his Deathbed at Chester, year 1602 in sixteen hundred and two, he was visited by Mr. Jam. Usher (afterwards Archb. of Armagh) at what time he came from Ireland into England to buy books for Dublin Library; several of whose stories he heard with great delight, which he would afterwards, when an ancient man, repeat to his friends. He the said Goodman died that year, and was, as I have been informed by some of his relations, buried in the Church of St. Werberg in Chester. His sometimes friend and crony Job. Parkhurst hath an 
f In Epigram. Juvenil. Lond. 1573. p. 57  Epigram upon him, which you may take instead of an Epitaph.  
Nemo bonus, Servator ait, sed solus Olympum Qui regit, is bonus est: Gudmane, nemo bonus.  
Yet an English Presbyterian 
g Edw. Leigh in his Treatise of religion and learning. lib. 4. cap. 2.  who saith that Goodman was a learned Scotch Divine; was according to his name good and holy.  
WILLIAM HARRYS became Fellow of Lincoln Coll. about 1567. being then Bach. of Arts: Afterwards taking the degree of Master, he left the Coll. his friends, religion, and the little all he had, and went to the English College then newly erected at Douai, where spending divers years in the study of Theology, was at length made a Priest. Afterwards returning to his native country to serve the afflicted Catholics and gain Proselytes, lived there several years, and composed a large volume intit.  
The Theatre or Mirror of the most true and ancient Church of Great Britain, founded by Apostolical men, and propagated from generation to generation, even to our time, by most holy Doctors and Catholics, in 10 books— What else he wrote I find not, not any thing material of him besides, year 1602 only that he died in England in sixteen hundred and two. Contemporary with him was Thomas Martial, Bach. of Arts 1562. and about that time Fellow of the said college; but soon after leaving his Fellowship, he went to Louvain, where he entered into the Society of Jesus. Afterwards he went to Douai, where he spent 9 years in reading and explaining Philosophy, and at length became Confessor to the English coll. at Rome, where he died in 1589. leaving behind him the character of a learned person.  
HAYWORD TOWNSHEND eldest Son of Sir Hen. Townshend Knight, Justice of Chester, by Susan his first Wife, daughter of Sir Rowland Hayward of London Knight, was a Shropshire man born, became a Gentleman Commoner of St. Mary's Hall, about the beginning of the year 1590. took one degree in Arts, being about that time a Student in the Municipal Law in Lincolns-Inn, and was afterwards a Barrister. In 1601. he was elected a Burgess for Bishop's Castle in his own country, to serve in that Parliament which began at Westminster 27. Oct. the same year, where showing himself an observing man, made an Historical collection of the proceedings therein, to which adding other collections for three Parliaments preceding, viz. (1.) For that which began 4. Feb. 1588. (2.) For that which began 19 Feb. 1592. and thirdly, for that which commenced 9 Feb. 1597. he made a complete collection in folio. At length when the press; was open, and the author had been dead many years, his labours were published under this title:  
Historical collections: or, an exact account of the proceedings of the four last Parliaments of Q. Elizabeth, wherein is contained the complete Journals both of Lords and Commons, taken from the original records of their Houses. As also the more particular behaviours of the worthy Members, during all the last notable sessions, etc. Lond. 
Clar. 1602.  1680. fol. In the title of which book the publisher hath set down Heywood, instead of Hayward, Townshend: whose time of death though unknown to me, yet sure I am that he died without Issue, some years before 1623. See more in Will. Monson under the year 1606. In 1681. was published in octavo a book intit. The connexion, being choice collections of some remarkable passages in K. James his reign, etc. which may supply the vacancy between Townshend and rushworth's collections; but who the author of it was I cannot tell. 'Tis a trite thing.  
WILLIAM FULBECK a younger Son, if I mistake not, of Thom. Fulbeck who died in his Mayoralty of the City of Lincoln 1566. was born in that City, particularly, as it seems, in the parish of St. Benedict, wherein his Father lived and died, became a commoner of St. Alban Hall in 1577. aged 17. admitted Scholar of C. C. coll. 23. January 1579. took the degree of Bach. of Arts two years after, and then translated himself to Gloucester Hall: Where continuing a severe Student till he had taken the degree of M. of Arts, and had completed it by standing in the Act 1584. he went to Greys-Inn in Holbourn near to London, where he addressed himself to the study of the Municipal Laws; and, as 'tis said, had the degree of Doctor of the Civil Law conferred on him elsewhere, but at what place, or by whom, I cannot yet find. He hath written,  
Christian Ethics: or, Moral Philosophy, containing the difference or opposition of virtue and voluptuousness. Lond. 1587. oct.  
An historical collection of the continued Factions, Tumults and Massacres of the Romans and Italians, during the space of 120 years, before the peaceable Empire of Augustus Caesar, etc. Lond. 1600. oct. and 1601. in qu.  
A parallel or conference of the Civil Law, the Canon Law, and the Common Law of this Realm; wherein the agreement and disagreement of these three Laws, and the causes and reasons of the said agreement are opened and discussed in sundry Dialogues. Lond. 1602. qu. in 2 parts. But this book lying dead on the Booksellers hands, he put a new Title to the first part, as if the whole had been reprinted at London 1618. but to the second not, leaving the old Title bearing date 1602.  
The Pandects of the Laws of Nations; or, the discourses of the Matters in Law, wherein the Nations of the World do agree. Lond. 1602. qu. What else he hath written I know not, 
Clar. 1602.  nor when, or where, he died. One Henry Fulbeck, related to the said William, hath published, A direction or preparation to the study of the Civil Law; wherein is showed what things ought to be observed, and what ought to be eschewed and avoided. Printed at Lond. in oct. much about the time that the former was.  
SAMPSON ERDESWICKE, Son of Hugh Erdeswicke Esq was born at Sandon in Staffordshire, studied in the condition of a Gent. Com. in Brasnose coll. 
h Reg. 1. coll. Aenean. fol. 91. a.  in 1553, and 54. (1. and 2. of Q. Marry,) where he laid the foundation of some learning that advanced him to greater in future times. Afterwards he retired to his Patrimony at Sandon, where applying his Muse to that kind of learning which his genie led him to, became at length a Gentleman well accomplished with many virtuous qualities. He was very well versed in Histories, but more in Antiquities, especially in those of his own County; and therefore styled by the learned Camden, 
i In Britannia, in come. Staff.  A very great Lover and diligent Searcher of venerable Antiquity, adding, that in this regard he is no less worthy of remembrance, than for that he is directly in the Male-line descended from Sir Hugh Vernon, Baron of Shipbrook, the name being changed, by the use of that age, according to sundry habitations, first into Holgrave, and afterwards into Erdeswicke. At length for the tender respect he had to his Native Country, and desiring much the honour of it, wrote,  
A short view of Staffordshire, containing the Antiquities of the same County.— MS. The beginning of which is, Sir, having disposed with myself to take a farther view of the Shires of Staffordshire and Chester, etc. It was begun about the year 1593. and continued by him to his death, from ancient Evidences and Records, with brevity, clearness, and truth. The original of this, or at least a copy, is in the hands of Walt. Chetwind of Ingestre in Staffordshire Esq who is, and hath been several years, in the collecting of the Antiquities of that County.  
Collections of Genealogies, Monuments, Arms, etc.— MSS. Some of which are in the hands of the said W. Chetwind, and elsewhere and have been used by divers Antiquaries. It is said also that our author Erdeswicke wrote a book intit. The true use of Armoury, published under the name of Will. Wyrley, an. 1592. (as I shall more at large tell you hereafter,) but let that report remain with its author, while I tell you that Erdeswicke submitted to the stroke of death on the eleventh of Apr. year 1603 in sixteen hundred and three, and was buried under a goodly Monument of Freestone, with his proportion thereon, erected by himself in his life-time, in the Church of Sandon before-mentioned. Which Church was, a little before, new glazed and repaired by him. See more of him in William Wyrley among these Writers, under the year 1617.  
THOMAS D'OYLIE descended from a right ancient Family of his name living or Oxfordshire, was born in that County, elected Probationer-Fellow of Magd, coll. an. 1563. and after he had taken the Magisterial degree, entered on the Physic line, traveled and became Doctor of his Faculty in the University of Basil. Afterwards settling in London, he became one of the College of Physicians, and much frequented for his successful Practice in his Faculty. He had a chief hand in a book intit.  
Bibliotheca Hispanica; containing a Grammar with a Dictionary in Spanish, English, and Latin. Lond. 1591. qu. in two parts. This book was published by one Rich. Percyvall Gent. who had another hand in it, yet with the advice and conference of Dr. D'oylie, who dying in the beginning of the year sixteen hundred and three, year 1603 was buried in the Church of Little S. Barthelmew in London, leaving then behind him a Son named Francis, born 8. Feb. 1597. and a daughter married to Hugh Cressy a Counsellor, Father to Hugh Cressy a Benedictine Monk.  
WILLIAM GILBERT, Son of Hierom Gilbert of Colchester in Essex, was born there, and educated in both the Universities, but whether in Oxon first or in Cambridge, I cannot justly tell. Afterwards he traveled beyond the Seas, where, I presume, he had the degree of Doctor of Physic conferred upon him, and at his return being famed for his learning, depth in Philosophy, and admirable skill in Chemistry, became one of the Coll. of Physicians in Lond. and Physician in Ord. to Q. Elizabeth, who had so high a value for him, that she allowed him an annual Pension to encourage his studies. He hath written,  
De magnete magneticisque corporibus & de magno magnete tellure; Physiologia nova. Lond. 1600. fol. To which book the author added an Appendix of 6 or 8 sheets, but whether printed I cannot tell.  
De mundo nostro sublunari, Philosophia nova. Amstel. 1651. qu. Published from a MS. in the Library of the Famous Sir Will. Boswell Knight. He also was the first that invented the making, description, and use of the two most ingenious and necessary instruments for Seamen, to find out thereby the Latitude of any place upon the help of the Sun, Moon, and Stars. Which invention was published by one Tho. Blondeville,— Lond. 1602. qu. This Dr. Gilbert gave way to fate in the Summer time in sixteen hundred and three, year 1603 having always lived a single life: Whereupon his body was buried in the Parish Church of the Holy Trinity in Colchester, in which Parish he was born, and accounted the chief person thereof. By his last Will and Test. he gave all his books in his Library, his Globes, Instruments, and Cabinet of Minerals to the Coll. of Physicians; which part of his Will was exactly performed by his Brethren, viz. William (so he is written in his Will) a Proctor in the Arches, Hierom, Ambrose, and George, who participated of his Estate. The picture of this famous Doctor, drawn to the life, is hanging in the School-Gallery at Oxon, which shows him to have been of statute tall, and of a cheerful complexion.  
JOHN LLOYD, or Lhuyd, nearly related to Humph. Lhuyd, mentioned under the year 1570. was born in the ancient Borough of Denbigh in Denbighshire in Wales, educated in Wykehams' School, admitted perpetual Fellow of New coll. in 1579. took the degrees in Arts, was Junior of the Act in 1585. and soon after became in eminent Preacher. In 1595. he proceeded in Divinity, became Vicar of Writtle in Essex, on the death of Dr. Maschiart, 1598. and was in high esteem there, in the Neighbourhood, and the University, for his rare Learning and excellent way of Preaching. He hath published,  
Interpretatio Latina, cum Scholiis in Flau. Josaphum de Macabaeis, seu de rationis imperio, etc. Oxon. 1590. oct. Done by the help of an excellent Exemplar, more corrected and complete than ever before. He also was the first that published Barlaamus de Papae Principatu, Gracè & Latinè. Oxon 1592. What other things he hath written and published, I now not, not any thing else material of him, only this, that he paid his last debt to Nature at Writtle before-mentioned, in sixteen hundred and three, year 1603 and was buried in the Church there. He was succeeded in that Vicaridg by Matthew Davies Doct. of Diu. by the gift of the Warden, and the Society of New college, of which he was Fellow, and continued there to the time of his death, an. 1624. Soon after succeeded Dr. Joh. South the King's Professor of the Greek Tongue in this University.  
EDWARD PHILIPS was entered a Student into Broadgates' hall (now Pembro●e coll.) in 1574. took the degrees in Arts, and became a Preacher at St. Saviour's in Southwark near to London, where he was by those of his large Auditory (mostly zealous Puritans) esteemed A person zealous of the truth of God, powerful in his calling, faithful in his message, powerful in his Speech, careful of his flock, peaceable and blameless in his life, and comfortable and constant in his death. While he lived, it doth not appear that he published anything, but after his death a certain Gentleman of Greys-Inn named Hen. Yeluerton (afterwards a Judge) Son of Judge Christopher Yeluerton, published,  
Two and thirty godly and learned Sermons. Lond. 1605. qu. The first of which is on Matth. 1. ver. 1. (2.) On Matth. 1. 18, 19, 20, 21, etc. All which Sermons were taken from the author's mouth by the pen of the said Yeluerton. This Edw. Philips who was a zealous Calvinist (as Yeluerton then was, and both bitter enemies to popery) died, year 1603 as I guess, in sixteen hundred and three, or thereabouts, and received sepulture in the Church before mentioned. Whether any thing else, besides the said Sermons were published after Phillps his death, that were of his speaking or writing, I cannot tell.  
HUMPHREY ELY brother to Will. Ely sometimes precedent of S. John's coll. was born in Herefordshire, and from being a Student in Brasnose, was chose Scholar of S. John's coll. before mentioned, in 1566. But before he took a degree, or (as I think) was made Fellow, he left that place, and giving a farewell to his friends, country, and religion, he crossed the Seas, settled at Douai, studied the Civil Law and became Licentiat therein. Afterwards he went to Rome, with his great friend Dr. Will. Allen, where being made Doctor of his faculty, he returned into France, and settling at Rheimes, was wholly taken up for a time in the correcting and printing the said Allens books. At length upon the breaking out of the civil dissensions in that country, he was called into Lorraine in 1588. About which time he was made the public and the Duke's professor of the Civil Law in the University of Pont à Mousson, where he continued till the day of his death. He was by those of his religion esteemed a wise and learned Priest, of sincere honesty, void of dissimulation, full of zeal to the truth, and equity, etc. But that which is mostly to be noted of him, is that upon a controversy that 
k Jo. Pits. De illustr. Angl. Script. Aet. 17. nu. 1053.  arose among the English popish Clergy concerning the receiving of an Archpriest into England, and the power that was to be allotted to him, he wrote, with a long preface to it,  
Certain brief notes upon a brief apology set out under the name of the priests, united to the Archpriest. Paris about 1602— 3. in tw. and oct. which book (written against Fa. Persons) I once saw among many other rarities of the like nature in Balliol coll. Library, given thereunto by that curious collector of choice books Sir Tho. Wendy of Haselingfield in Cambridgeshire, Knight of the Bath, sometimes Gentleman commoner of the said House. Our author Ely hath written other books, as 'tis said, but such I have not yet seen, nor can I say any more of him at this time, 
1603-4.  only that he dying at Pont à Mousson on the Ides of of March in sixteen hundred and three, was buried there in the church of the Nuns called Clarissaes, that is of the order of S. Clare. Over his grave was soon after a monument put, with a large inscription thereon, which for brevity sake I shall now omit.  
THOMAS FLOYD a Welshman became a Batler or Commoner of New Inn in the beginning of 1589. took one degree in Arts, which being completed by Determination, he translated himself to Jesus coll. and as a member and fellow of that house took the degree of Master, and afterwards wrote,  
The picture of a perfect Commonwealth, describing as well the offices of Princes and inferior Magistrates over their Subjects, as also the duties of Subjects towards their Governors, etc. Lond. 1600. in tw. He hath written, as 'tis probable, other things, but what, I cannot tell, only certain Latin Poety scattered in several books, 
C●a▪ 1603.  particularly in that intit. Academia Oxoniensis pietas erga Jacobum Regem an. 1603. I find three or more of both his names, his contemporaries, and Welsh-men also of Jesus, college, but whether either of them hath any thing extant I cannot tell.  
JOHN CHAMBER a person for his life and learning worthily honoured by all that knew him, was born in Yorkshire, and in the year 1569. was, though Merton coll. had then no Lands in that county, chosen purely for his merits, by the consent of all the Society, Probationer-Fellow of the said house. In which place, as also in that of Bach. fellow, he went beyond all of the same election for subtle disputations, and knowledge in the Greek tongue. After he had taken the degree of Master, in 1573. he applied his Muse to the study of Medicine and Astronomy; about which time he read publicly on the Almagest of Ptolemy. In the year 1582. he became fellow of Eton coll. near to Windsor, being then in holy orders, and two years after supplicated the congregation of Ven. Regent's, that he might be admitted to the reading of any of the books of Hypocrates: But whether he was admitted, it appears not in any of the registers of that time. In 1601. he being then famed for his learning, he was made canon of Windsor in the place of Rog. Browne B. D. (sometimes of King's coll. in Cambridge) deceased; which, with Eton, he held to his dying day. He hath written,  
Scholia ad Barlaami Monachi Logisticam Astronomiam. Par. 1600. qu. Which book he also translated from Greek into Latin,  
Treatise against Judicial Astrology. Lond. 1601. qu. In which book having done no less than a christian learned man ought to have done, he had reason to look for another reward of his labours than he found. For instead of thanks and commendation for his labours so well placed, he was roughly entertained by Sir Christop. Heyden Knight (sometimes of Cambridge University, afterwards High-Steward of the Cath. Ch. of Norwych) in his Defence of judicial Astrology. Cambr. 1603. qu. a work full of no common reading, and carried on with no mean arguments. But our author not living to see his reply published, he was some years after defended by his friend George Carleton, as I shall tell you under the year 1628. As for Sir Cristop. Heyden, who was a man of parts, and had been Knighted at the sacking of Cadiz by Rob. Earl of Essex in 1596. was of Baconsthorp in Norfolk, and died (in the winter time as it seems) in 1623. The reply which our author wrote, but could not live to put it in the press, hath this title:  
A confutation of Astrological Daemonology, or the Devil's School, in defence of a treatise intit. Against judiciary Astrology; and oppugned in the name of Sir Ch. Heyden Knight.— This is a MS. very fairly written in fol. richly bound and gilded, dedicated by the author to K. James, with an Epistle dated from Windsor Chappel 2. Feb. 1603. The beginning of which is, In the midst of all my pains and labours (most puissant and renowned Prince) etc. and the beginning of the work itself is, In the setting down and delivery of Arts, Galen, in his book intit. Ars Medicinalis, etc. 'Twas the very same book, as it seems, that was given to the King, which coming into the hands of Sir Hen. Savile, he gave it to his Mathematical Library in Oxon.  
Astronomiaes encomium, ante annos 27. peroratum, quo tempore Prolomei Almagestum, in Vniversitate Oxon enarravit. Lond. 1601. in Lat. and Engl. These I think are all the things that our author Jo. Chamber hath either written or published; and therefore I have nothing more to say, only that he yielding up his last breath at Windsor on the first of August, in sixteen hundred and four, year 1604 was buried on the north side of the entrance into the Choir of S. George's Chapel there. Over his grave was soon after a plain marble laid, whereon is ensculpt the figure of a man in a mantle, bearing an Escutcheon of S. George's arms, with this inscription under him. Johanni Chamber, Socio primum collegii Mertonensis, an. 1569. dein Etonensis, an. 1582. postremum canonico hujus Ecclesia, an. 1601. Theologo, Medico, Mathematico insigni. Henricus Nevil & Henricus Savile Milites posuere. Natus apud Swillington in Com. Ebor. an. 1546. Mense Maio, obiit Etonae an. 1604. ineunte Augusto; corpus hoc marmore humatum jacit. Praeter alia Legavit moriens collegio Mertonensi Mille Libras. The said thousand pounds were by him given to Merton coll. to purchase Lands in Yorkshire, on this condition, that two Scholarships of the said college should be supplied out of Eton School by the nomination and election of the provost of King's coll. in Cambridge, and the provost of Eton. This gift was soon after settled, and the two Scholars were successively added to the number of the 12 Postmasters of the said house of Merton.  
MEREDITH HANMER Son of Tho. Hanmer, commonly called Ginta Hanmer, of Porkington in Shropshire, was born in that county, but descended from the Hanmers of Hanmer in Flintshire, became chaplain of C. C. coll. in Apr. 1567. took the degrees in Arts, and after some yeas spent in that house, was made Vicar of S. leonard's Shoreditch in London: Among the inhabitants of which place he left an ill name, for that he converted the brass of several ancient monuments there, into coin for his own use, as an observing 
a Joh. Weever in his Ancient funeral Monuments, etc. printed 1631. p. 427.  author tells us. In 1581. and 82. he took the degrees of Divinity; about which time he went into Ireland, and at length became Treasurer of the Church of the Holy Trinity (now called Ch. Church) in Dublin, which he kept to his dying day. He was esteemed an exact Disputant, a good Preacher, Grecian, and excellent for Ecclesiastical and Civil Histories. He hath written,  
Confutation and answer of the great brags and challenge of Mr. Campion the Jesuit, containing 9 articles, by him directed to the Lords of the Privy Council. Lond. 1581. oct.  
The Jesuits banner, displaying their original and success, their vow, and other their hypocrisy and superstition, their doctrine and positions. Lond. 1581. qu.  
A confutation of a brief censure upon two books, written in answer to Mr. Campions offer of disputation-Printed with The Jesuits banner, etc. soon after came out A defence of the Censure, etc. See more in Rob. Persons under the year 1610.  
The Chronicle of Ireland, in two parts— The second of which was printed at Dublin in 1633. fol.  
Sermon at the baptising of a Turk, on Math. 5. 15. Lond. 1586. oct.  
An Ephemeris of the Saints of Ireland.  
A Chronography, with a supputation of the years from the beginning of the World unto the birth of Christ, and continued from the birth of Christ (where Eusebius chiefly, Socrates, Evagrius and Dorotheus, after him do write) unto the twelfth year of the reign of Mauritius the Emperor, being the full time of 600 years, wanting five, after Christ. All chiefly collected out of Eusebius, Socrates and Evangrius, Lond. 1585. etc. fol. Besides these, he hath translated from Greek into English (1) The ancient Ecclesiastical histories of the first six hundred years after Christ, originally written by Eusebius, Socrates and Evagrius. Lond. 1577. 85. etc. fol. (2) The lives, ends and Martyrdoms of the Prophets, Apostles, and 70 disciples of Christ, originally written by Dorotheus Bishop of Tyrus— Printed with the former translation. This Dr. Hanmer, as it appears, had translated all the Church Historians except Eusebius his four books concerning the life of Emperor Constantine, and the two orations subjoined thereunto, which were afterwards done by Wye Saltonstal, and printed in a fifth edition of Hanmers' translation— London 1650. fol. At length Dr. Hanmer being suddenly bereavest of his life by the plague raging in Dublin, before he attained to the sixtieth year of his age, year 1604 in sixteen hundred and four, was, as I presume, buried in the Church of the Holy Trinity there. Joh. Weevon, whom I have here quoted, tells us 
b Ibid. ut Sup.  that he ended his days in Ireland ignominiously, but what his meaning is to say so, I cannot tell, unless the plague came upon him as a judgement for the sacrilege he committed while he was Vicar of S. leonard's Church before mentioned. Qu.  
RICHARD EDES whose name, and brother's posterity did lately, if not still, live at Sewell in Bedfordshire, was born perhaps in that county, and being made full ripe for the University in Westminster School, was elected Student of Ch. Church in 1571. where going thro' the usual Classes of Logic and Philosophy, proceeded in Arts in 1578. being then Junior in comitiis, or, of the Act that year. About the same time taking the sacred function on him, he became a most noted and celebrated preacher, was admitted to the reading of the sentences in 1584. (being that year installed Preb. of Yatminster prima in the Church of Sarum) made chaplain to Q. Elizabeth, Canon of Ch. Ch. in the l●tter end of 1586. and in 89. Doct. of Divinity. In the latter end of 1596. he was made Dean of Worcester in the place of Dr. Franc. Willys deceased, being then and ever after, to his death (for he ●as also chapl. to K. James. 1.) held in great admiration at Court, not only for his preaching, but most excellent and polite discourse. His younger years he spent in poetical fancies and composing of plays, (mostly Tragedies) but at riper, he became a pious and grave Divine, an ornament to his profession, and a grace to the pulpit. No two men were ever more intimate than he and Tob. Mathews Dean of Ch. Ch. for they entirely loved each other for virtue and ingenuity sake: and when Mathews was to remove to the Deanery of Durham in 1584. our author Eedes intended to have him on his way thither for ones days journey; but so betrayed were they by the sweetness of each others company, and their own friendship, that he not only brought him to Durham, but for a pleasant pennace 
c See A brief view of the State of the Church of England. etc. by Sir Joh. Harrington— Lond. 1653. oct. p. 147.  wrote their whole journey in latin verse, intit. Iter boreale, several copies of which did afterwards fly abroad. Then also, and before in their youthful acquaintance, passed so many pretty apothegms between, that if a collection had been made of, them, they would have filled a manual. His works are,  
Iter boreale. MS. The beginning of which is Quid mihi cum Musis? quid cum borealibus oris? A copy of this written by an unknown hand, I have in my little Library.  
Various Poems— MS. in Lat. and Engl.  
Six learned and godly Sermons, preached some of them before K. James, and some before Q. Elizabeth. Lond. 1604. oct. The two first are called, The duty of a King, on Micah. 6. 8. (3) A fruitful Meditation upon the sickness, on Micah. 6. 13. (4) The principal care of Princes to be nurses of the Church, on Isay 49. 23. (5) Of the difference of good and evil, on Isay 5. 20. (6) Of heavenly conversations, on Phil. 3. 20, 21.  
Three Sermons. Lond. 1627. qu. One of which is on Ephes. 2. ver. 19 to 33. Another on Eph. 5. 15, etc. This learned Doctor died at Worcester, on the nineteenth of Nou. year 1604 in sixteen hundred and four, and was buried in the chapel at the east end of the choir, leaving behind him a Widow named Margaret, daughter of Dr. Harb. Westphaling Bishop of Hereford; who soon after was at the charge of putting a monument over his Grave, with an inscription thereon, containing a dialogue in verse between the Passenger and the Monument; a copy of which, you may see in Hist. & Antiq. Vniu. Oxon. lib. 2. p. 266. b. In this Deanery of Worcester succeeded James Montague D. D. of Cambridge, who being made Bishop of B. and Wells, was succeeded in the said Deanery by Arth. Lake D. D. 23. Apr. 1608. who succeeded him also in B. and W. as I shall tell you elsewhere.  
THOMAS STORER Son of John Storer a Londoner, was elected Student of Ch. Ch. 1587. or thereabouts, took the degrees in Arts, that of Master being completed 1594. at which time he was had in great renown for his most excellent vein in poesy, not only expressed in verses printed in several books, made occasionally by the members of the University, but for that writ in English verse intit.  
The life and death of Tho. Wolsey Cardinal. Divided into 3 parts; his aspiring, triumph and death. Lond. 1599 in ten sheets in qu. Which book being perused by the learned Dr. Alberic. Gentilis, he doth occasionally make 
d In lib. cu● tit. est. Laudes Academiae per●finae & Ox●niensis— H●nnon. 1625. p. 41.  this mention of Wolsey and our author— Atque o utinem etc. quod Wolsaeo, aedificatori magnificentissimi collegii Christi, praestitum ab ingenioso poeta est, etc. The truth is Storer obtained from the then Academians great credit for that work, (particularly from his friend Ch. Fitzgeoffry 
e In Affanis, etc. Oxon. 1601. lib. 2.  the poet of Broadgates' hall) but more among others for his  
Pastoral Airs and Madrigals— which were afterwards remitted into a book called England's Hol●con. What other things this ingenious person hath extant, I know not, nor any thing else of him, only that he died in the parish of St. Michael Basinghaugh within the City of London, in November, year 1604 in sixteen hundred and four, and was, as I conceive buried in the Church there. Divers copies of verses were made on his death by his acquaintance in this University and elsewhere, but are not, as I conceive, printed.  
RICHARD TURNBULL was born in Lincolnshire, admitted Scholar of C. C. coll. 9 Nou. 1566. aged 16. or thereabouts, and was afterwards made Fellow. M. of Arts and a Priest. At length being beneficed in London, where he was much followed for his edifying way of preaching, wrote and published,  
An exposition on the canonical Epistle of St. James. Lond. 1591. oct. in 28 Sermons▪ Exposition on the Canon. Epist. of St. Judas.— In 10 Sermons. Printed there the same year in oct.  
Four Sermons on Psal. 15.— Which Sermons, with the former Expositions, were printed in quarto at Lond. 1606. 
Clar. 1604.  the author being then dead. I find that one Will. Turnfull L. L. Bac. was installed Preb. of Worcester 1557. which he resigned in 1558. being then Parson of Fladbury in Worcestershire, and that he died in Jul. or Aug. 1573. Whether this William was a writer, or had any relation to Richard beforementioned, it doth not yet appear to me.  
WILLIAM HUBBOCKE was born in the County Palatine of Durham, elected from Magd. hall to be Scholar of Corp. Ch. coll. in the Month of Octob. 1581. aged 21 years, took the degrees in Arts, and was afterwards beneficed, and in great repute for his learning. He hath written and published,  
An Oration gratulatory to K. James 12. of Febr. when his Majesty entered the Tower of London in order to his Coronation, etc. Oxon. 1604. qu. The Title is in English, but the Oration is in good Latin.  
Several Sermons.— One of which is on 1 Pet. 
Clar. 1604.  3. 21, 22. What other things he hath published, I know not, nor the time, or place, when, and where, he died.  
EDMOND ANDERSON a Cadet of a gentile Family living in the Parish of Broughton in Lincolnshire, as being a younger Son of Thomas Anderson (descended from the Addersons of Scotland,) who lived first in Northumberland, and afterwards at Broughton beforementioned, did spend some time in Oxon, (in Linc. coll. as it seems,) from whence being sent to the Inner Temple, did, by his indefatigable study, obtain great knowledge in the Municipal Laws. In the 9 of Q Eliz. he was either Lent, or Summer, Reader of that House, in the 16. Double Reader, and in the 19 of the said Queen's Reign Sergeant at Law. In 1582. he was made L. Ch. Justice of the Common Pleas, in the place of Sir Jam. Dyer deceased; and in the year following he was made a Knight, being then esteemed a zealous promoter of the established discipline of the Church of England, as afterwards a severe prosecutor, in his Circuits, of the Brownists. In 1586. he sat in judgement on Mary Q. of Scots, at which time he was Chief Justicer of the Bench, as a certain 
f Camden in Annal. Reg. Elizab. sub an. 1586. Vide in Chronserie per Gul. Dugdale sub an. 1582.  author styles him, being then a learned Man of the Law. He wrote much, but nothing is printed under his name, only,  
Reports of many principle Cases argued and adjudged in the time of Q. Elizabeth in the Common Bench. Lond. 1664. fol.  
Resolutions and judgements on the cases and matters agitated in all the Courts at Westminster in the latter end of the Reign of Q. Elizabeth.— Collected by Joh. Goldesburg Esque and by him published at Lond. in qu. This Sir Edm. Anderson died at London on the first of August in sixteen hundred and five, year 1605 and on the 5. of Sept. following, his Funerals were solemnised 
g Lib. Certif. in Offic. Armorum, l. 16. p. 212.  at Eyworth or Eworth in Bedfordshire, (where he had an Estate,) leaving issue several Sons, whose Posterity remaineth there, and elsewhere, to this day. In the place of Lord Chief Justice of the Common Pleas 
h Camlen in Annal. Reg. Jac. 1. MS. sub an. 1605.  succeeded Sir Francis Gaudy of the Inner Temple.  
RALPH WARCUPP, Son and Heir of Cuthb. Warcupp of English in Oxfordshire Esq; descended from those of Warcupp in Yorkshire, became a Student of Ch. Ch. in 1561. or thereabouts, took one degree in Arts, went to travel, and became in time the most accomplished Gentleman of the age he lived in, and Master of several Languages. Afterwards settling in his Native Country, he became Justice of Peace, and Parliamentarian Knight for Oxfordshire, in that Convention met at Westminster 43. Eliz. In the beginning of K. James' Reign, he was by him designed Ambassador either to France or Spain, and had gone, but was prevented by death. He hath written and translated several things, as 'tis said, but I have only seen his translation of Prayers on the Psalms. Lond. 1571. in sixteens, written originally by August. Marlorat. He died much lamented in the sixtieth year of his age, on the Ides of Aug. in sixteen hundred and five, and was buried in the Chancel year 1605 of Nuffield near to English beforementioned. Soon after came out a little 
i Printed at Oxon. 1605.  book of verses on his death, made by sixteen of the Members of New coll. (of which Will. Kingsmill his Kinsman was one, and the chief,) from whence may be collected that the said R. Warcupp was the most complete Esquire of his time.  
FRANCIS TRESHAM Esq Son of Sir Tho. Tresham Knight, (who died 11. Sept. 1605.) and he the Son of Sir John Tresham of Rushton in Northamptonshire, was born in that County, where his Family was ancient, gentile, and knightly, educated either in St. John's coll. or Gloc. hall, or both; in which he laid the foundation of some learning, that he afterwards improved by experience. He hath written, as 'tis supposed,  
A Treatise aghast Lying and fraudulent Equivocation.— MS. among those given by Dr. Laud Archb. of Canterbury to Bodlies' Library. See more in George Blackwell under the year 1612. After the Gunpowder Treason was discovered, the said book was found by Sir Edw. Coke in a Chamber in the Inner Temple where Sir John Tresham used to lie, 5. Dec. 1605. The said Fr. Tresham wrote.  
De Officio Principis Christiani. In which he maintains the lawfulness of deposing Kings, an obstinate Heretic having no right to Dominion. At length this person, who was a strict R. Catholic, being deeply engaged in the Gunpowder-Treason, (as he had before been in that of Robert Earl of Essex, in 1600.) was taken and committed Prisoner to the Tower of London, where he died of the Stranguary say some, others, that he murdered himself; yet a venerable 
* Godf. Goodman Bish of of Gloc in his Review of the Court of K. James by Sir A. W.— MS. in bib. Bo●. 75, 76.  author tells us, that he being sick in the Tower, and Dr. Will. Butler the great Physician of Cambridge coming to visit him, as his fashion was, gave him a piece of very pure Gold to put in his mouth; and upon taking out of that Gold, Butler said he was poisoned. He died on the 20. of Nou. year 1605 in sixteen hundred and five, aged 38. or thereabouts. Whereupon his head being cut off, and set with the rest of the heads of the Conspirators on London Bridge; his body, I suppose, was buried within the Precincts of the Chapel of St. Peter ad vincula within the Tower of London. Quere. This Francis Tresham was the person who 
† Ibid. p. 73.  wrote the Letter to the Lord Mount-Eagle, who lived then at bednal green near Algate, who communicating it to the Secretary of State, and he to the King, the Plot for blowing up the Parliament House was thereupon discovered. See in Tho. Habington under the year 1647.  
CHARLES' TURNHULL, a Lincolnshire man born, was admitted Scholar of C. C. coll. 24. Dec. 1573. took the degrees in Arts, that of Master being completed 1581. about which time he was made Fellow of the said coll. and became Famous for his admirable knowledge in the Mathematic Science. He hath written,  
A perfect and easy Treatise of the use of the Celestial Globe, written as well for an introduction to the unskilful in Astronomy, as for the use of such as be exercised in the art of Navigation. Lond. 1597. oct. Which I think was the second Edition. 
Clar. 1605.  He also built and made those several sorts of dials that stand upon a Pillar in the middle of C. C. coll. Quadrangle, an. 1605. What other things he wrote, or when he died, I cannot yet find. See more in Rob. Hag, an. 1629.  
AEGEON ASKEW, a person as well read in the Fathers, Commentators, and Schoolmen, as any man of his age in the University, was born in Lancashire, became a Student in the University in 1593. aged 17. or thereabouts, Chaplain of Queen's coll. in 98. being then Bach. of Arts. Afterwards proceeding in that Faculty he became a noted Preacher, and a great admirer of Dr. Jo. Raynolds, and Ric. Crakenthorpe. In the beginning of the Reign of K. James he lest the college, and retiring to Greenwich in Kent, became Minister, I think, of that place. His works are,  
Of brotherly reconcilement, in several Sermons Preached in Oxon. Lond. 1605. qu. The author then lived at Greenwich.  
An Apology, of the use of the Fathers and secular learning, in Sermons.— In which two books is showed much reading in ancient authors of the Church, 
Clar. 1605.  and indeed beyond his age. What became of him, when he left Greenwich, I know not, for he died not there, as I have been informed by an ingenious person 
i Joh. Evelin of Says Court Esq  who lives in those parts.  
THOMAS KINGSMILL born of, and descended from, an ancient and gentile Family of his name, living at Sidmanton in Hampshire, became a Student in this University in 1555. or thereabouts, and Fellow of Magd. coll. in 1560. being then Bachelaur of Arts. In 1565. he was elected Public Orator, and in 69. he was made Hebrew Professor of the University. In 1572. he was a candidate for the degree of Bachelaur of Diu. but whether he was really admitted, I find not. Soon after being distempered in brain by too much lucubration, the famous Mr. Rich. Hooker of C. C. coll. supplied his place of Professor in 1579. and for some years following. What became of him afterwards, I know not, nor any thing else of him, only that he recovering his Senses, wrote and published,  
A complaint against Security. Lond. 1602. oct.  
Classicum Paenitentiale. Ox. 1605. qu.  
Tractatus de Scandalo. Printed with the Classicum. There was another Tho. Kingsmill who was M. 
Clar. 1605.  of A. Preacher of God's Word at Hyth, one of the Cinque Ports in Kent, an 1631. and the publisher of a Sermon called The Drunkard's Cup, on Prov. 23. 21. Lond. 1631. oct. but whether he hath published any thing else, or was of this University, I cannot justly say it.  
THOMAS CAREW descended from an ancient and gentile Family of his name living in Devonshire and Cornwall was educated for a time, either in Broadgates' hall, or Exeter coll. but took no degree here: Afterwards taking upon him the Sacred Function, became a Minister of God's Word, a frequent Preacher, and a publisher of,  
Several Sermons, as (1) Serm. on Psal. 90. 12. (2) Serm. on S. Jo. 3. 3. called Necessity of Man's renovation. (3) Serm. on 1 Tim. 3. 16. (4) On 1 Pet. 3. 3. 4 (5) On Jam. 5. from ver. 1. to 5. Which five Sermons were published in oct. an. 1603.  
Four godly Sermons, viz. (1) Against Popery, or false Religion, on Matth. 16. 18. 19 (2) Against Atheism, the Enemy to Religion, on Psal. 53. 1. (3) Against Hypocrisy, the counterfeit of Religion, 
Clar. 1605.  on Matth. 7. 5. (4) Against Apostasy, the falling from Religion, on Matth. 12. 31. 32. Which four Sermons were published at Lond. in oct. an. 1605. and dedicated by the author to Sir George Carew Baron of Clopton, Lord Precedent of Monster, Vice-Chamberlain and Receiver-general to the Queen's Majesty, and Lieutenant of the Ordinance.  
FRANCIS TRIGGE, a noted and godly Preacher, did first begin to be conversant among the Oxonian Muses in University coll▪ an. 1564. aged 17. or thereabouts, took the degrees in Arts, entered into the Sacred Function, and at length became Rector of Wellbourne near to Beckyngham in Lincolnshire; in which County, if I mistake not, he was born. His Works are,  
An Apology showing that the days wherein we live are more good and blessed, than those of our Forefathers. Lond. 1589. qu.  
Analysis capitis 24 Evangelii secundum Matthaeum, etc. Oxon. 1591.  
Comment. in cap. 12. ad Rom. Ox. 1590.  
Comemnt. in Rev. S. Joh. Printed 1590.  
Serm. Preached at Grantham, an. 1592. on Isay 24. 1. 2. 3. Ox. 1594. oct.  
Touchstone of Cath. Faith.— Printed 1599 qu.  
The true Catholic form, according to the truth of the Scriptures. Lond. 1602. qu. At length paying his last debt to Nature at Welbourne before-mentioned, was buried in the Chancel of the Church there, on the 12. of May, in sixteen hundred and six. year 1606 He was the first Founder of the Library at Grantham in Lincolnshire, on the wall of which are these Verses written, which you shall have instead of his Epitaph. 
Optima Franciscus donavit Biblia Triggus,  
Welbourniae quondam concionator amans.  
Plurima permultis largitus munera Sanctis,  
The saurum nobis condidit usque Sacrum.  
Sic pie talis opus voluit, sic pignus amoris,  
Sic Christum coluit, sic docet esse pium.   
Beside the said Benefaction, he, and his Wive's Mother named Elizab. Hussey of Hunnington, gave to the poor of Grantham, 3. lib. 6 sol. 8. den. per an. and for so doing they are entered among the Benefactors. There goes about those parts a memorable story, concerning the prediction of the death of this our author, (a very strict Puritan in his time;) but whether any credence may be given to it, forasmuch as 'tis propagated by dissenting Brethren, I doubt it, and therefore I shall now pass it by.  
JOHN ARGALL, third Son of Thom. Argall by Margaret his Wife, Daughter of John Talkarne of the County of Cornwall, was born in London, entered a Student in Ch. Ch. in the latter end of Q. Marry, took the degrees in Arts, that of Master being completed in 1565. and was Senior of the Act, celebrated the 18. of Feb. the same year. Afterwards he studied the Supreme Faculty, was admitted to the reading of the Sentences, and at length became Parson of a Market Town in Suffolk called Halesworth. He was always esteemed a noted Disputant during his stay in the University, was a great Actor in Plays at Ch. Ch. (particularly when the Queen was entertained there 1566.) and when at ripe years a tolerable Theologist and Preacher. But so much was he devoted to his studies, that being withal unmindful of the things of his World, he lived and died like a Philosopher. He hath written and published,  
De vera paenitentia. Lond. 1604 oct.  
Introductio ad artem Dialecticam. Lond. 1605. oct. In which book (ver facete and pleasant) the author saith of himself in the Postpredicaments 
a Vide Hist. & Antiq. Uniu. Ox. lib. 2. p. 266. b.  under Simul tempore, that whereas the great God had raised many of his Cronies and Contemporaries to high dignities in the Church, as Dr. Tho. Bilson to the See of Winton, Mart. Heton to Ely, Hen. Robinson to Carlisle, Tob. Mathews to Durham, etc. yet he an unworthy and poor old Man, was still detained in the chains of poverty for his great and innumerable sins, that he might repent with the Prodigal Son, and at length by God's favour obtain Salvation. What other things he hath written, I know not, nor any thing else of him, only that he was reputed, by the neighbouring Ministers of Halesworth, a great Scholar, and that being at a Feast at Cheston (a mile distant from that Town) he died suddenly at the Table. Afterwards his body being carried to Halesworth, it was buried in the Church there 8. year 1606 Octob. in sixteen hundred and six. Now I am got into the name of Argall, I must let the Reader know, that in my searches I find one Rich. Argall to be noted in the Reign of K. Jam. 1. for an excellent divine Poet, having been much encouraged in his studies by Dr. Jo. King Bishop of London, but in what house educated in Oxon, where he spent some time in study, I cannot now tell you. He wrote and published, (1) The Song of Songs, which was solomon's, metaphrased in English heroics, by way of dialogue. Lond. 1621. qu. dedic. to Hen. King, Archd. of Colchester, Son to the Bishop of Lond. (2) The Bride's ornament; Poetical Essays upon a Divine Subject. In two books, Lond. 1621. qu. The first dedic. to Jo. Argall Esq the other to Philip, Brother to Henry, King. (3) Funeral Elegy consecrated to the memory of his ever honoured Lord John King late B. of London, etc. 1621. He also wrote a Book of Meditations of Knowledge, Zeal, Temperance, Bounty, and Joy And another containing Meditations of Prudence, Obedience, Meekness, God's Word, and Prayer. Which two books of Meditations were intended by the author for the Press, at the same time with the former Poetry: But the ever lamented loss of his most honoured Lord (which did change all his Joys into Sorrows, and Songs to Lamentation) did defert their publication, and whether they were afterwards published, I know not.  
HENRY BILLINGSLEY, Son of 
b See in Stew's Survey of London, in the chap. or part of temporal Government.  Roger Billingsley of the City of Canterbury, did spend some time among the Muses in this University, as others did who were afterwards Traders in London, particularly 
* See Hist. & Antiq. univ. Ox. lib. 2. p. 343. b.  Benedict Burnham of St. Alban hall, afterwards a rich Citizen, Sheriff, and Alderman of London. But before our author Billingsley had continued there three years, (in which time, as 'tis probable, he became known to an eminent Mathematician called Whytehead, then, or lately, a Friar of the Order of St. Augustine in Oxon,) he was taken thence and bound an Apprentice to an Haberdasher, as it seems, in London. Afterwards setting up for himself, he became so rich, that he was made successively Sheriff, Alderman, one of the Queen's Customers in the Port of London, and at length 1596. Lord Mayor thereof, and a Knight. But the chief matter which I am to let the Reader know concerning him, is, that when the said Whytehead was put to his shifts, after the demolition of his house in the latter end of Hen. 8. he was received by Billingsley into his Family, and by him maintained in his old age in his house in London. In which time he learned Mathematics of him, and became so excellent in them, that he went beyond many of his time, whether Laymen, or professed Scholars. When Whytchead died he gave his Scholar all his Mathematical observations that he had made and collected, together with his notes on Euclids Elements, which he had with great pains drawn up and digested. Afterwards our author Billingstey translated the said Elements into English, and added thereunto plain Declarations and Examples, manifold additions, Scholias, annotations, and inventions from the best Mathematicians, both in time past, and in the age he lived in. Which being done, he published them under this title.  
The Elements of Geometry of the mos ancient Philosopher Euclid of Megara, faithfully translated into the English tongue: Whereunto are added certain Scholias, annotations, etc. Lond. 1570. fol. To which book Dr. Joh. Dce did put a large Mathematical Preface, containing a great deal of Learning pertaining to that Science. As for Billingsley he departed this mortal life in a good old age, 22. year 1606 Nou. in sixteen hundred and six, and some weeks after his body was buried in a little Vault under his Pew in the Church of S. Catherine Colman in London. What, or where, was the end of Whytehead, I cannot tell, yet thus much I know, that what I have said relating to him and Billingsley concerning Mathematics, I had from the Mathematical observations 
c Ms. in Archiv. coll. c. c.  of our Antiquary Brian Twine, and he from the information of that noted Mathematician Mr. Th. Allen of Glouc. hall, and he from an eminent Physician called Reb. Barnes M. D. who was elected Fellow of Merton coll. 29. Hen. 8. dom. 1537. and remembered, and had some acquaintance with, Whytehead and Billingsley. I find also one Rob. Billingsley, who was not long since a teacher of Arithmetic and Mathematics, and author of a little book of Arith. and Algebra, called An Idea of Arithmetic, etc. Whether he was descended from, or related to, Sir Henry, I know not.  
JOHN SAVILE, (elder Brother to Sir Henry) Son of Henry Savile of Over-Bradley in Staneland near to Eland (not far from Halifax) in Yorkshire, Esq; was born in that County, particularly, as it seems, at Over-Bradley, became a Commoner of Brasnose coll. in 1561. or thereabouts; where laying a considerable foundation of Acad. learning, was taken thence before he could attain to a degree in the University, and sent to the Middle-Temple, where making great proficiency in the Municipal Laws, was called to the Bar, fell into considerable Practice, became Autumn-reader of that house, 28 Elizab. dom. 1586. Steward of the Seignory or Lordship of Wakefield in his own Country, called to the degree and honour of the Coif in 1594 made one of the Barons of the Exchequer, 98. and about that time one of the Justices of Assize. When K. James came to the Crown, he not only continued him in his Baron's place 4. Apr. but also conferred on him, just before his Coronation, the honour of Knighthood, 23. July following, an. 1603. being then one of the Judges that was to attend that Solemnity. He left behind him, at his death, certain things fit for the Press, of which only this following is as yet made public.  
Reports of divers special Cases, as well in the Court of Common P●eas, as of the Exchequer, in the time of Q. Elizabeth. Lond. 1675. in a thin fol. Printed in old French in a black character, and published by John Richardson of the Inner-Temple. Sir Jo. Savile paid his last debt to nature at London on the 2. 
1606-7.  of Feb. in sixteen hundred and six, aged 61. whereupon his body was buried in the Church of St. Dunstan's in the West in Fleetstreet, London, and his heart carried to Medley in Yorkshire, where it was buried in an Isle joining on the South side of the Church belonging to that place. Soon after was a very fair Monument erected over it, with the Effigics thereon of the Defunct in his Judge's Robes, (cut out from stone,) laying thereon. The Reader is to know, that there was one John Savile a great pretender to Poetry, in the beginning of the Reign of K. James 1. patronised in his studies by his kinsman, (a young Spark,) called George Savile, Son of Sir George Savile Knight: which John wrote among several things, K. James his entertainment at Theobalds', with his welcome to London, and a salutory Poem. Lond. 1603. qu. This I thought fit to let the Reader know, lest Posterity may take him to be the same with Sir Jo. Savile beforementioned. The Name and Family of the Saviles are numerous in Yorkshire, and pretend to be descended from the Savelli in Italy, a Family accounted by some to be the ancientest in the World; having been in Italy about 3000 years; some of which have been Consuls before, and after, the time of our Saviour. But how any of our Saviles in England can make it out, that they are descended from the said Family of the Savelli, I cannot in the least conjecture, (being the name of a Town,) nor can I believe it, no more, than that the Corbets of Shropsphire are descended from the Corvinoes, another ancient Family in Italy.  
GEORGE CORYAT received his first being in this World in the Parish of St. Thomas within the City Salisbury, educated in Grammaticals in Wykehams' School, admitted perpetual Fellow of New coll. in 1562. took the degrees in Arts, and in June 1570. became Rector of Odcombe in Sommersetshire on the death of Tho. Reade, and at length Bach. of Divinity. In 1594, he was made Prebendary of Warthill in the Church of York, and had some other Dignity, but what I cannot tell. He was a person much commended in his time for his fine fancy in Latin Poetry, and for certain matters which he had written, quoted by John 
d In Speculo Moralium, lib. 4. cap. 2.  Case the Philosopher, Jam. 
e In octavo libro De celeberrimis Academ. Col. Agrip. 1602. p. 450, 451.  Middendorp, Joh. 
f In lib. 1. de Antiq. Acad. Cant. p. 45. & alibi.  Cay and others. All that I have seen of his composition, are only these things following.  
Poemata varia Latina, Lond. 1611. qu. Published by his Son Thomas after his death, and by him intit. Posthuma fragmenta Poematum.  
Descriptio Angliae, Scotiae, & Hiberniae. Written in Lat. verse as it seems, and dedicated to Q. Elizabeth. He died in the Parsonage house at Odcombe, on the fourth of March in sixteen hundred and six: 
1606-7  whereupon his Son Tom, upon some design, preserving his body from stench above ground, till the 14 of Apr. following, was then buried in the Chancel of the Church at Odcombe; at which time one Gibbs Gollop M. A. who was admitted to that Rectory, 23. Mar. 1606 did officiate. Gertrude Widow of the said G. Coryate lived many years after at Odcombe, and near to it, where dying, was buried near to the Relics of her Husband, on the 3. Apr. 1645. (21. Car. 1.) as I have been informed by the searches, by Mr. Humph. Hody M. A. of Wadham coll. a Native of Odcombe. At the same time that George Coryat was elected Prob. Fellow of New coll. was elected also one John Mundyn, born at Maperton in Dorsetshire, who being a Civilian, and not conforming himself to the Protestant Religion, was ejected thence by the B. of Winchester in his Visitation of that coll. 1566. Afterwards he went beyond the Seas, was made a Seminary Priest, and sent into the Mission of England: But being taken on Hounslow-heath, in his journey from Winchester to London, was by Sir Fr. Walsingham Secretary of State committed to Prison. Afterwards being convicted according to the Law against Seminaries, was (with 4 other Priests) executed at Tybourne 12 Feb. 1583. See more in a book intit. Concertatio Eccles. Catholicae in Anglia. Printed at Trier 1594. fol. 140, 141.  
WILLIAM BURTON, a Native of the City of Winchester, was educated in Wykchams School there, admitted perpetual Fellow of New coll. 1563. and left that house after he had taken one degree in Arts. This person I take to be the same Will. Burton who was a Minister in Bristol, and afterwards at Reading in Berks. And author of these things following.  
Several Sermons, as (1) Sermon Preached at Norwith 21. of Dec. 1589. on Jer. 3. 14. Lond. in oct. (2) david's Evidence; or, the assurance of God's love, in 7 Sermons on Psal. 41. 11, 12, 13. Lond. 1592. oct. 1602. qu. (3) A Caveat for Sureties, two Serm. at Bristol on Prov. 6. from 1. to the 5. verse. Lond. 1593. oct. 1602. qu. (4) The rousing of the Sluggard, in 7 Sermons, on Prov. 6. from 6. to the 11. verse. Lond. 1595. oct. (5) Sermons on the Church's Love to Christ her Husband, on Cant. 3. 1, 2, 3, 4. Lond. 1595. oct. and 1602. qu. These Sermons are intit. God's Wooing his Church. (6) david's Thanksgiving for the arraignment of the Man of Earth, two Sermons on Psal. 10. 17, 18. Lond. 1598. oct. dedicated to Sir Will. Periam Knight, Lord Chief Baron of the Exchequer, a favourer of the author's Muse, (7) Ten Sermons, on Matthew 5. 3, 4. Lond. 1602. qu. (8) The Anatomy of Beliel, in 10 Sermons on Prov. 6. 12, 13, 14, 15. Lond. 1602. qu. dedic. to Ralph Warcupp of English in Oxfordshire Esque a great favourer of the author.  
Catechism containing certain Questions and Answers concerning the knowledge of God, and the right use of the Law. Lond. 1591. oct.  
Conclusions of Peace between God and Man, containing comfortable meditations for the Children of God, on Prov. 7. 1, 2. Lond. 1595. oct. and 1602. qu.  
Exposition of the Lords Prayer, drawn into Questions and Answers. Lond. 1594. oct. 1602. qu.  
Certain Questions and Answers concerning the attributes of God. Lond. 1602. qu. second edit.  
Questions and Answers concerning the right use of the Law of God. Lond. 1602. qu.  
An Abstract of the Doctrine of the Sabbath, briefly, yet fully and plainly, 
Clar. 1606.  set forth. Lond. 1606. oct. These are all, and enough, which I have seen published by Will. Burton a Minister in Bristol, and afterwards in Reading. Whether he be the same Will. Burton of the Parish of St. Sepulchre without Newgate in Lond. Clerk, who 
h Book of Administrat. in the Will-Office near S. Paul's Cath. beginning in Jan. 1614  died in that Parish in Oct. or Nou. in 1612. (16. Jac. 1.) and left behind a Widow called Dorothy, I know not.  
WILLIAM MONSON, a Lincolnshire Man born, a Knight's Son, and of the same Family with those of South Carleton in that County, was a Gent. Com. or at least a Commoner of Balliol coll. where he continued for at least two years. But his mind being more Martial than Mercurial, he applied himself to Sea-service, wherein he attained to great perfection, was a Captain 
i Camd. in Annal. Reg. Eliz. an. 1597. 1602. etc.  in several Expeditions against the Spaniard, Vice-Admiral and Admiral. In 1594. he was actually created Master of Arts, and in 1596. he received the Honour of Knighthood from Robert Earl of Essex at the Sacking of Cadiz. In 1602. when Ireland was cleared of the Spanish Forces, he was appointed Vice-Admiral under Sir Rich. Levison Admiral to carry on the War by Sea against the Spaniard, lest they should invade England, wherein he performed most admirable Service, especially in the taking of a great Carack of 1600 Tun from them at Cezimbria against Barbarum, the Promontory of Portugal. This heroical person left behind him at his death, written with his own hand,  
A true and exact account of the Wars with Spain, in the Reign of Q. Elizabeth, being the particulars of what happened between the English and Spanish Fleets, from the year 1585. to 1602. showing the expeditions, attempts, etc. Lond. 1682. fol. dedicated to his Son John Monson. In some copies of this book the Title runs thus, A particular and exact account of the last xvii. years of Qu. Elizabeth's Reign, both Military and Civil. Lond. 1682. fol. The first written by Sir Will. Monson, the other by Heywood Townshend. This worthy Knight was in great renown in the beginning of the Reign of K. 
Clar. 1606.  James 1. and the last time I find him mentioned in his Sea-service, is in 1605. in which year he conveyed over Sea Edward the old Earl of Hertford, when he was sent Ambassador to the Archduke for the confirming of a Peace: In which Voyage, it is observed by a certain 
k Sir Ant. Welden in The court and character of K. James. Lond. 1650. oct. p. 48, 49.  person that the Royal Ships of England did then (being the first time as he saith) suffer an indignity and affront from a Dutch Man of War, as he passed by them without vailing. Of the same Family was Will. Monson a Knight or Esq; (Father to Will. Monson Visc. Castlemaine) who died in the Parish of St. Martin's in the Fields near London, in January, or thereabouts, 1642.  
EDWARD FORSET, a Gentleman's Son of Lincolnshire, and of the same Family with the Forsets of Billesby in that County, became a Commoner of Linc. coll. in 1590. or thereabouts, aged 18. but leaving that house without the honour of a degree, retired at length to his Patrimony, and wrote,  
A comparative discourse of the bodies natural and politic. Wherein, out of the principles of nature, is set forth the true form of a Common-weal, with the duty of the Subjects, and the right of the Sovereign, etc. Lond. 1606. qu. 
Clar. 1606.  and other things as 'tis probable, but such I have not yet seen. The next person that must begin the year of 1607. was in his time esteemed a most excellent Latinist and Poet, as was by all acknowledged.  
THOMAS NEWTON, the eldest Son of Edw. Netwon of Butley in the Parish of Presbury in Cheshire (descended originally from the Newtons' of Newtons') by Alice his Wife, was born in that County, educated in Grammaticals under John Brownswerd, (whom I have mentioned under the year 1589.) sent while very young to Oxon, but making little stay there, he went to Cambridge, where he settled in Queen's coll. and became so much renowned for his Latin Poetry, that he was numbered by Scholars of his time among the most noted Poets in that Language. Afterwards taking Oxon in his way, (where he continued for some time,) he retired to his own Country, taught School at Macclesfield, or near it, with good success, practised Physic, and was encouraged in his undertake by Robert Earl of Essex. At length being benificed at Ilford in Essex, taught School there also, as it seems, and continued at that place to the time of his death. This person hath written several things, and translated more, the titles of which, such that have come to my hands, you shall have, tho' he is rather to be numbered among the writers of Cambridge than of Oxon.  
A notable History of the Saracens, etc. drawn out of August. Curio, in 3 books. Lond. 1575. qu.  
A summary or brief Chronicle of the Saracens and Turks, continued from the birth of Mahomet, to an. 1575.— Printed with the former book.  
Approved Medicines and cordial Precepts, with the Nature and Symptoms, etc. Lond. 1580. oct.  
Illustrium aliquot Anglorum Encomia. Lond. 1589. qu. At the end of Jo. Letands Encomia, Trophaea, etc.  
Atropoion Delion: Or, the death of Delia, with the tears of her Funeral. A poetical excusive discourse of our late Elizabeth. Lond. 1603. qu.  
A pleasant new History: Or, a fragrant Posy made of three flowers, Rosa, Rosalynd, and Rosemary. Lond. 1604. He also viewed and corrected Embryon relimatum, written by Joh. Stanbridge, and was author, as a certain 
m Edw. Phillips in his Theatrum Poetanum, or collect. of Poets, etc. Lond. 1675. oct. p. 182. among the modern Poets.  writer saith, of two Tragedies, viz. of the first and second parts of Tamerline the great Scythian Emperor, but false. For in Tho. Newtons' time the said two parts were performed by Christop. Marlo, sometimes a Student in Cambridge; afterwards, first an actor on the stage, then, (as Shakespeare, whose contemporary he was,) a maker of Plays, tho' inferior both in fancy and merit. This Marlo, by the way it must be known, was author (besides the said two Tragedies) of (1) The rich Jew of Malta. Trag. published at Lond. by Tho. Heywood. (2) The tragical History of the life and death of Dr. Jo. Faustus, several times printed. (3) Lusts dominion, etc. Trag. Lond. 1661. oct. then published by Franc. Kirkman, Junior, a Bookseller, and a great Trader in Plays. From which Tragedy was another stolen, or at least the better part, intit. Abdelazer, or the Moors revenge. Lond. 1677. published under the name of Mistress Aphora Behn. (4) Trag. of K. Ed. 2. (5) Trag. of Dido Qu. of Carthage. In the composure of which Tom Nash joined with him. But in the end, so it was, that this Marlo giving too large a swing to his own wit, and suffering his lust to have the full reins, fell to that outrage and extremity, as Jodelle a French tragical Poet did, (being an Epicure and an Atheist,) that he denied God and his Son Christ, and not only in word blasphemed the Trinity, but also (as 'twas credibly 
n See in Tho. Beards Theatre of God's Judgements, lib. 1. chap. 23.  reported) wrote divers discourses against it, affirming Our Saviour to be a deceiver, and Moses to be conjurer: The holy Bible also to contain only vain and idle stories, and all religion but a device of policy. But see the end of this person, which was noted by all, especially the Precisian. For so it fell out, that he being deeply in love with a certain Woman, had for his Rival a bawdy serving man, one rather fit to be a Pimp, than an ingenious Amoretto as Marlo conceived himself to be. Whereupon Marlo taking it to be an high affront, rushed in upon, to stab, him, with his dagger: But the serving man being very quick, so avoided the stroke, that with all catching hold of Marlo's wrist, he stabbed his own dagger into his own head, in such sort, that notwithstanding all the means of surgery that could be wrought, he shortly after died of his wound, before the year 1593. Some time before his death he had begun and made a considerable progess in the Poem called Hero and Leander, which was afterwards finished by George Chapman, who fell short (as 'tis said) of the spirit and invention of Marlo in the performance thereof. It was printed at Lond. 1606. in qu. and whether before that time, I know not. But all this I speak by the by. Our author Tho. Newton, whom and his works I am further to mention, hath also translated from Latin into English. (1) A direction for the health of magistrates and students, namely, such as be in the consistent age, or near thereunto. Lond. 1574. in tw. written by Gul. Gratarolus. (2) Commentary or exposition upon the two Epistles general of S. Peter and that of S. Judas; gathered out of the lectures and preachings of Dr. Martin Luther by Anonymus. Lond. 1581. qu. (3) Touchstone of Complexions, containing most easy rules, and ready tokens, whereby every man may know as well the exact state, habit, disposition and constitution of his body outwardly, as also the inclinations, etc. of the mind inwardly. Lond. 1581. oct. written by Levinus Lemnius. (4) Third Tragedy of L. Ann. Seneca, enter it. Thebais. Lond. 1581. qu. in old verse, and printed in an English character. Note that the fourth, seventh, eight 
o The eighth Trag. called Agamemnon was first of all published by the said 〈◊〉 at Lond. 1566. 〈◊〉 tw.  and tenth Tragedys, of the said author, were in the like manner translated by John Studley of Trin. coll. in Cambridge, a noted Poet in Qu. Elizabeth's time. The fifth called Oedipus was translated by Alex. Nevil of Cambridge, the same person I mean, who was author of Kettus, sive de furoribus Norfolciensium, etc. lib. 1. an. 1582. The 9th Trag. was translated by Tho. Nuce, contemporary with Studley and Nevil, and three more by Jasp. Heywood, as I have told you elsewhere. (5) Of christian friendship, etc. with an invective against Diceplay and other profane games. Lond. 1586. oct. written by Lamb. Danaeus. (6) Trial and examination of a man's own self, etc. Lond. 1587. tw. by Andr. Hiperius. (7) Herbal of the Bible, containing a plain and familiar exposition of such similitudes, parables, etc. that are borrowed and taken from Herbs, Plants, etc. Lond. 1587. oct. by Levinus Lemnius. These are all the translations, as I conceive, that Tho. Newton hath made. At length having otten a considerable estate by his endeavours, concluded his last day at Little Ilford in Essex in the month of May in sixteen hundred and seven, and was buried in the Church belonging to that Village, year 1607 leaving behind him a Son named Abel, and a Legacy to the parishioners of the said place to buy ornaments for their Church.  
JOHN RAINOLDS, called by Latin writers Reginaldus, the fifth Son of Rich. Rainolds, and he (who was younger Brother to Thom. Rainolds D. D. and Warden of Merton coll.) the third Son of another Richard, was born at Pinhoe, alias Pinhawes near to the City of Excester in Devonshire, became a Student in Merton coll. 1562. aged 13. or thereabouts, admitted Scholar of C. C. coll. 29. Apr. 63. Prob. Fellow 11. Oct. 66. and six years after proceeded in Acts, being then Signior of the Act, and about that time Greek reader in his college. In 1579. he was admitted to the reading of the sentence, and six years after proceeded in Divinity, being then in great esteem for his profound learning. In 1598. he was made Dean of Lincola in the place of one Ralph Griffyn; about which time he lodged and studied in Queen's coll. But being unwilling to part with an Academical Life, he changed that Deanery in the year following, with Will. Cole for the Presidentship of C. C. coll. where being settled he had more leisure to follow his studies and have the communication of learned men, than at Lincoln. So temperate then were his affections, notwithstanding of very severe conversation, that he made choice rather to be Head of that House, than to be made a Bishop, which Queen Elizabeth offered to him. He was a person of prodigious reading 
p Dan. Featly in Funebri orat. D. Rainoldi.  and doctrine, and the very treasury of erudition: and what Tully spoke of Pompey's noble exploits in War, that they could not be matched by the valiant acts of all the Roman Commanders in one year, nor in all years, by the prowess of one Commander; so it might be truly said of Jewel, Hooker and this our author Rainolds that they could not be paralleled by the Students of all countries, brought up in one college, nor the Students in all Colleges, born in one County. The two former mainly opposed the enemies of the doctrine, the third, of the discipline, of the Church of England with like happy success, and they were all three in several kinds very eminent if not equal. As Jewel's same grew from the Rhetoric Lecture, which he read with singular applause, and Hooker's from the Logic, so Rainolds from the Greek, in C. C. coll. The Author that he read was Aristotle, whose three incomparable books of Rhetoric he illustrated with so excellent a Commentary so richly fraught with all polite literature, that as well in the Commentary, as in the Text, a man may find a golden river of things and words, which the Prince of Orators tells us of. As for his memory also, it is most certain 
q See in Dr. Georg● Hakewill's Apol. of the power and prov. of God in the govern●m. of the world, printed 1635. p. 154.  that he excelled to the astonishment of all that were inwardly acquainted with him, not only for S. Augustins' Works, but all classic Authors. So that in this respect, it may be truly said of him, which hath been applied to some others, that he was a living Library and a third University. I have heard it very credibly reported, that upon occasion of some Writings which passed to and fro, between him and Dr. Gentilis then Professor of the civil Law, in the University of Oxon, that he publicly avowed that he thought Dr. Rainolds had read and did remember more of the civil and canon Law, than himself, tho' they were his profession: Dr. Hall also Bishop of Norwich reports 
r In his First Decad. ep. 7.  that he alone was a well furnished Library, full of all faculties, of all studies, of all learning;— the memory and reading of that man were near to a Miracle, etc. The truth is he was most prodigiously seen in all kind of Learning, and had turned over all Writers Profane, Ecclesiastical, and Divine, all the Counsels, Fathers and Histories of the Church. He was also most excellent in all Tongues, of a sharp and nimble wit, of mature judgement, indefatigable industry, exceeding therein Origen surnamed Adamantius, and so well seen in all Arts and Sciences, as if he had spent his whole time in each of them. The learned Cracanthorp tell 
s In Delens Eccles. An●s. etc. cap. 69.  us also, that for virtue, probity, integrity, and which is above all, piety and sanctiy of life, he was so eminent and conspicuous, that as Nazianzen speaketh of Athanasius, it might be said of him, to name Rainolds is to commend virtue itself. In a word, nothing can be spoken against him, only that he with Tho. Spark were the pillars of Puritanisme, and grand favourers of Nonconformity, as the general part of writers say, yet 
t See The friendly debate betw. a Conformist and Non- 〈◊〉 mist, part 2. Lond. 1669. 5th edit. p. 201.  one of late date reports that Rainolds professed h●mself a Conformist, and died so. His works are,  
Sermon of the destruction of the Idumaeans, on Obad ver. 5, 6. Lond. 1584. oct.  
Sex Theses de S. Scripturâ & Ecclesiâ. Rupellae 1586. Lond. 1602. oct. printed in English at London 1598. qu. with a defence of such things as Tho. Stapleton and Greg. Mar●● have carped at therein.  
Sermon preached to the public assembly of Scholars in the University of Oxon. ult. Aug. 1586. upon occasion of their meeting to give thanks for the late detection and apprehension of Traitors, who wickedly conspired against the Queen's Majesty, etc. on Psal. 18. 48, 49, 50, 51. Oxon 1586. oct.  
Orationes duae in coll. Corp. Ch. Ox. 1587. oct.  
Sum of a conference between Joh. Rainolds and Joh. Hart, touching the Head and the Faith of the Church, etc. Lond. 1588. 98. and 1609. qu. approved (as 'tis said) by Joh. Hart to be a true conference, and translated into Latin by Hen. Parry of C. C. C.  
De Romanae, Ecclesiae idolatriâ, in cultu Sanctorum, Reliquiarum, Imaginum, etc. lib. 2. Oxon. 1596. qu.  
The overthrow of Stage-Plays, by way of controversy betwixt Dr. Gager and Dr. Rainolds, wherein all the reasons that can be made for them, are notably refuted, etc.— Finished 1593. and said to be printed at Middelberg in 1599 qu. Printed also at Ox. 1629. qu. whereunto are added certain latin Letters between him and Dr. Alb. Gentilis, concerning the same matter. See more in Will. Gager, under the year 1610.  
Apologia Thesium de Sacra Scripturâ & Ecclesiâ. Lond. 1602. oct.  
Epistle to Tho. Pie— at the end of Rob. Burhills book intit. In controversiam etc. in sex commentationes. Oxon. 1606. qu. written upon Pies submitting his lat. Epistle against Dr. Howson's Thesis, to his censure and approbation. It contains also several emendations and corrections of Pies Epistle, before it went to the Press. See more in Tho. Pie, under the year 1609.  
Defence of the judgement of the reformed Churches, that a man may lawfully, not only put away his wife for her adultery, but also marry another: wherein Rob. Bellarmine the Jesuits latin treatise, and an English pamphlet of a nameless author, maintaining the contrary, are confuted— printed 1609. qu.  
Consura librorum Apocryphorum veteris Testamenti, adversus Pontificios, imprimis Robertum Bellarmin, etc. Oppenhiem 1611. Tom. 2. Which book was consulted by Matthew Pool when he composed his third volume of Sinopsis, who saith that the said Censura, etc. was written multijugâ & stupendâ erudition, etc. which is very true, for the author was seven years in writing and composing it.  
The prophecy of Obadiah, opened and applied in sundry learned and gracious Sermons, preached at Allhallows and S. Mary's in Oxon. Oxon. 1613. qu. Published by Will. Hind of Queen's coll.  
Letter to his friend containing his advice for the study of Divinity, dat. 4. Jul. 1577. Lond. 1613. in tw. in one sheet.  
Orationes duodecem in C. C. C. Oxon. 1614 and 28. in oct. Among which are the two before mentioned, printed. The rest were corrected and published by Hen. Jackson Bach. of Divinity. The first of those which Jackson published, which is the third of the said twelve, and hath this beginning Si quis adsit in hoc conventu, etc. was translated into English by Joh. Leycester of Cheshire, for the use all such that affect the studies of Logic and Philosophy— Lond. 1638. in tw.  
Epistolae ad Guliel. Rainoldum fratrmm suum, Guliel. Whitakerum, & Elizab. Reginam. Printed with Orationes duodecem.  
The discovery of the man of sin, a Sermon on 2 Thes. 2. 3. Ox. 1614 qu. published by Will. Hind before mentioned.  
Letter to Sir Franc. Knollys concerning some passages in Dr. Rich. bancroft's Serm. at Pauls-cross, 9 Feb. 1588. Lond. 1641. qu.  
The original of Bishops and Metrapolitans briefly laid down. Ox. 1641. qu. 'Tis but a little thing, and included in Archb. Ushers discourse of that matter. Other titles have it thus. Dr. Rainolds his jugment touching the original of Episcopacy, more largely confirmed out of antiquity by James Usher Archbish. of Armagh.  
Judgement concerning Episcopacy, whether it be God's ordinance. In a Letter to Sir Franc. Knollys Kt. 19 Sept. 1598. Lond. 1641. qu. which Sir Franc. was Son of Sir Fr. Knoll●s Knight.  
Prophesy of Haggai interpreted, and applied in 15. Sermons. Lond. 1649. qu. Published by Edw. Leigh Esquire, who had the Copy from Nath. Hind a Minister of Staffordshire, Son of Will. Hind before mentioned, who had viewed and perfected it. What else is printed under Rainolds name, unless a Treatise against the Racovian Catechism (as some say, which I doubt) I know not. Among the MSS. which he left behind him, I find these.  
Commentarii in tres lib. Aristot. de Rhetorica.  
Answer to Nich. Saunders his books De Schismate Anglicano, in defence of our reformation, etc.  
Defence of our English Liturgy against Rob. Browne his Schismatical book.— This Brown, who was a Knight's Son of Rutlandshire, and educated in Cambridge, and afterwards Father of the Sect called Brownists, did use to say that the true Protestants had no Church in England, yet afterwards he found the way into their Church and became Pastor of a place in Northamptonshire called Aychurch: Bonum nomen, bonum omen, & quantum mutatus ab illo. And then he used to say that there was no Church in England 〈◊〉 his, and that was A Church. He died in Prison in 〈…〉 (after he had been in very many before) about the year of his age 80. and the year of our Lord 1630. or, as some say, 34.  
Treatise of the beginning and progress of Popish errors, and that for the first 300. years after Christ, Bishops ruled their own Dioceses, without subjection to the Pope.  
Collectaye● quaedam, potissimè Theologica. MS. in the Libr. of Dr. Tho. Barlow.  
Collectanea continent. diversa Rhetorica & Theologica. MS. in oct. in the same Library: Where also I have seen some of his Orations and Declamations, which have not been yet printed. He also translated into Latin Plutarch's two books, viz. (1) De utilitate ex hostibus capienda. (2) De morbis animi & corporis. This last was also translated by the before-mentioned. Hen. Jackson, some time after Rainolds' death, but differs much, by the comparing, which I have made, between them. Our author Rainolds also translated into Latin Maximus Tyrius his Three Disputations: Which Translations, with his Epistles to his Brother William, Will. Whittaker and Q. Elizabeth, are printed at the end of his Orationes duodecem.— Oxon. 1628. oct. The translation of Plutarch's two books, were also printed at Ox. 1614 in oct. At length after he had lived many years a severe Student, and a mortified devout person, he surrendered up his last breath to him that first gave it, 〈◊〉 Thursday next after the Ascension, being then the 21. of May, 
16●●  in the year sixteen hundred and seven. On the Monday following his corpse was carried to S. Mary's Church, where a Funeral Sermon was Preached by Dr. Hen. Ayray the Vicechancellor. Which being ended, the corpse was removed into the Chancel of the said Church, where Isaac Wake the Orator of the University made an elegant Oration in praise of the Defunct. Which being ended also, it was carried to C. C. coll. where (the Chapel being not spacious enough) an Oration was excellently well delivered from a Pew, covered with mourning, in the middle of the Quadrangle, by Dan. Featley Fellow of that house, containing a brief History of the life and death of our most admired author. He was buried in the inner Chapel of the said coll. under the North wall, and had a Monument, with his bust, fastened to the said Wall, by Dr. Joh. Spenser his Successor in the Presidenship of the said coll. with an inscription thereon in golden letters; a copy of which you may see in Hist. & Antiq. Vniu. Oxon. lib. 2. p. 244. b.  
THOMAS COGAN, a Somersetshire Man born, 
36●  of the same Family with those of Chard, was elected Fellow of Oriel coll. 1563. being then Bach. of Arts. Afterwards proceeding in that Faculty, he entered on the Physic line, and took a degree in that Faculty 1574. The year after he resigned his Fellowship, being about that time chief Master of the School at Manchester in Lancashire, where also he practised his Faculty with good success. He hath written,  
The Haven of Health, made for the comfort of Students, and consequently for all those that have a care of their health, etc. Lond. 1586. qu. there again 1605. and 1612. qu.  
A preservative from the pestilence, with a short censure of the late Sickness at Oxford.— Printed with the former. The said Sickness happened in. 1575.  
Epistolarum familiarium Cicero●is Epitome, secund●m tria genera libro secundo Epist. 3. proposita. Cantab. 1602. oct.  
Epistolae item aliae familiares Cicero●is 〈…〉 genera, demonstrativum, deliberativum, & 〈◊〉 redactor.  
Orationes aliquot faciliores Cicero●is, in 〈◊〉 tria genera Rhetoribus usitata, depositae. What other things he wrote, I know not, nor any thing else of him, only that he deceased at Manchester, 
16●●  in sixteen hundred and seven, and was buried in the Church there 10. June. leaving behind him the character of an able Physician and Latinist, a good Neighbour, and an honest Man.  
JOHN POPHAM, 
〈◊〉  second Son of Edw. Popham Esque of the ancient and gentile Family of his Name living at Huntw●rthy in Somersetshire, spent some time in ●ludy among the Oxonians, particularly, as it seems, in 〈◊〉 coll. being then observed to be given at leisure hours to manly Sports and Encounters. Afterwards he retired to the Middle-Temple, lived a loose life for a time, but taking up soon after, his juvenile humour was reduced to gravity. So that making great proficiency in his studies, became a Barrister, Summer or Autumn-reader of the said Inn, an. 1568. Sergeant at Law soon after, Solicitor General in 1579. Attorney General two years after, and Treasurer of the Middle-Temple. In 1592. he was made L. Ch. Justice of the King's Bench, as 
a In Annal. Reg. Elizab. an. 1592. vide etiam in Britannia in come. Som.  Camden tells us, (tho' others 
b Dugdale in chron. sei● ad finem Orig. jurid. an. 1592. & alii.  say of the Common Pleas) in the place of Sir Christop. Wray deceased, and the same year hereceived the honour of Knighthood from her Majesty. While he held that honourable office of L. Ch. Justice, he administered it towards Malefacters with such wholesome and available severity, that England was beholding unto him a long time for a part of her private Peace and home Security. For the truth is, the Land in his days did swarm with Thiefs and Robbers, (whose ways and courses he well understood when he was a young Man,) some of whom being condemned by him to die, did gain their Pardons, not from Qu. Elizabeth, but from K. James; which being soon discovered to be prejudicial to Justice, and the Ministers thereof, this our worthy Judge complained to the King of it: Whereupon granting of Pardons were not so often afterwards issued out. His works that are extant are these.  
Reports and Cases adjudged in the time of Q. Elizabeth. Lond. 1656. fol. To which are added Remarkable Cases and Reports of other learned Pens since his death. These Reports were afterwards printed again.  
Resolutions and Judgements upon Cases and Matters agitated in all Courts at Westminster in the latter end of Qu. Elizabeth. Lond. in qu. collected by Joh. Goldeshurg Esque one of the Protonotaries of the Common Pleas. At length our author Popham dying on the 10. of June in sixteen hundred and seven, year 1607 aged 76 years, was buried in the South Isle of the Church at Wellington in Somersetshire: Which Town, he had, for several years before, graced by his habitation. By his last Will and Test. dated 21. Sept. 1604. and proved 17. June 1608. (wherein he styles himself Chief Justice of the Pleas,) he makes provision for an Hospital to be at Wellington for 6 Men, and 6 Women, and for other works of Charity. Afterwards was a noble Monument erected over his grave; with a short inscription thereon, wherein he is said to have been Privy Councillor to Queen Elizabeth and King James.  
HENRY LIGHT Esq; Son of John, Son of Tho. Light, was born of, and descended from, an ancient Family of his name living at Lytes-Carey in Somersetshire, became a Student of this University in the latter end of Hen. 8. about the year 1546. but in what coll. or hall, I know not as yet, or whether he took a degree, the Registers of that time, and in Ed. 6. being very imperfect. After he had spent some years in Logic and Philosophy, and in other good learning, he traveled into Foreign Countries, and at length retired to his Patrimony, where, by the advantage of a good foundation of literature made in the University and abroad, he became a most excellent Scholar in several sorts of learning, as by these books following it appears, most of which I have seen and perused.  
Records of the true original of the noble Britain's that sprang of the remains of the Trojans, taken out of Oblivion's treasure— MS. The beginning of which is Isis the principal river of Britain, etc. The copy of this that I saw, was written with the authors own hand very neatly, an. 1592., the character small, lines close, some words in red Ink, and others only scored with it.  
The mystical Oxon. of Oxonford, alias a true and most ancient record of the original of Oxford and all Britain. Or rather thus. Certain brief conjectural notes touching the original of the University of Oxon, and also of all Britain called Albania and Calydonia Sylva.— MS. The beginning of which is, The ancient City and famous University of Oxford in Britain, etc. The copy also of this that I saw was written with the authors own hand in 1592. like the former. The said two books being written in a small character and very close, are contained but in a little quantity of Paper. In the last of which, are many pretty fancies which may be of some use as occasion shall serve, by way of reply for Oxon, against the far fetched antiquities of Cambridge. They were both sometimes in the library of Miles Windsor formerly fellow of C. C. coll. after whose death they came into the hands of Br. Twine, and after his, to the University of Oxon.  
The light of Britain, being a short sum of the old English History— Dedicated to Qu. Elizabeth. He also translated from French into English, The History of Plants, wherein is contained the whole discourse and perfect description of all sorts of Herbs and Plants, etc. Lond. 1578. fol. written by Rembert Dodonaeus. It was then printed with Sculptures from wooden cuts; and without Sculptures by Ninion Newton— Lond. 1589. qu. printed the third time in fol. at Lond. 1619. This book which hath been taken into the hands of curious Physicians, had an Epigram 
* In illustrum aliquot Anglorum encomiis, p. 134  made on its first edition by that noted Poet Tho. Newton, friend to the Translator. What else our author Hen. Light hath written and translated I know not, nor any thing of him besides, only that paying his last debt to nature in sixteen hundred and seven, 
16●7.  aged 78. was buried in the north Isle of the Church of Charlton-Makerel in Somerset-shire; which Isle belongs to the Lytes of Lytes Carey. He left behind him two Sons, (or more) one was named Thomas, of whom I shall speak elsewhere, and the other Henry Light Gent. a teacher sometimes of Arithmetic in London, who published a book entit. The art of Ten and Decimal Arithmetic. Lond. 1619. oct.  
GABRIEL POWELL, Son of Deu. powel mentioned under the year 1590. was born at Ruabon in Denbighshire (of which place his Father was Vicar) and baptised there 13. Jan. 1575. educated in Grammar learning in those parts, entered into Jesus coll. in Lent term 1592. took the degree of Bach. of Arts, and then departed for a time. It must now be known that Gabr. Goodman Dean of Westminster having founded a Free School at Ruthyn in Denbighshire, in 1595. he appointed one Rob. Griffith to be the first Master thereof. To him succeeded Rich. Parry, afterwards Dean of Bangor and B. of St. Asaph, and to him, as 'tis said, Gabr. powel our author, but in what year, I find not. Sure 'tis, that while he remained in the Country, he did exercise himself much in the reading of the Fathers, and in the studies of Philosophy, and laid a foundation for several books that he intended afterwards to publish. But being not in a possibility of completing his endeavours where he remained, he therefore retired to Oxon, became a Commoner of St. Mary's hall, published certain books while he was there, and supplicated to be Bach. of Divinity, but whether really admitted, it appears not. So that his name being famous for those things he had published, especially among the Puritans, Dr. Rich. Vaughan B. of London called him thence, and made him his domestic Chaplain, gave him a Dignity, and would have done much for him had he lived, but he dying in 1607. our author lived not long after. He was esteemed a Prodigy of Learning in his time, being but a little above 30 years of age when he died; and 'tis thought, had he lived to the age of man, he would have gone beyond Jo. Rainolds or any of the learned Heroes of that age. His works are these.  
The resolved Christian, exhorting to resolution, etc. Lond. 1602. oct. third edit. There again 1616. etc.  
Prodromus. A Logical resolution of the first Chapter of the Epist. of St. Paul to the Rom. Lond. 1600. Ox. 1602. oct. Printed there again in Lat. 1615. oct.  
Theological and Scholastical Positions concerning Usury.— Pr. with Prodromus.  
The Catholics supplication to the King for toleration of Catholic Religion, with Notes and Observations in the Margin. Lond. 1603. qu.  
A Supplicatory parallel-wise, or Counterpoise of the Protesatants to the said King.— Printed with the Cath. supplic.  
Reasons on both sides for, and against, toleration of divers religions— pr. with the Cath. suppl.  
A consideration of Papists reasons of state and religion, for a toleration of Popery in England, intimated in their supplication to the Kings Maj. and the state of the present Parliament. Oxon 1604. qu.  
The unlawfulness and danger of toleration of divers religions, and connivance to contrary worship in one monarchy or kingdom. printed 1605. qu.  
Refutation of an Epistle Apologetical, written by a Puritan-Papist to persuade the permission of the promiscuous use and profession of all sorts of Heresies, etc. Lond. 1605. qu.  
Consideration of the deprived and silenced Ministers arguments for their restitution to the use and liberty of their Ministry, exhibited in their late supplication to this present Parliament. Lond. 1606. qu.  
Disputationes Theologicae de Antichristo & ejus Ecclesiae, lib. 2. Lond. 1605. 06. oct. In the Preface to this book, dedicated to the University of Oxford, the author doth enumerate all those of the said University that have wrote or acted against the Pope and Court of Rome. But therein having fixed most of them on certain colleges and halls, as if they had studied and been educated in them, hath committed many errors. Among them are, (1) That Gualo Britannus studied in the King's hall in Oxon, before 1170. (2) That John Baconthorpe was of Oriel college, which cannot be, because he was a Carme, and was in great renown before that coll. was founded. (3) That Cardinal Philip Repingdon was of Merton coll. whereas it appears from Record that he was of Broadgates' hall, now Pemb. coll. (4) That Pet. pain and Hen. Parker were of Alls. coll. whereas they were in great renown, and far in years before that coll. was erected, etc.  
De Adiaph ●is these Theologicae & Scholasticae, etc. Lond 1606. Translated into English by T. J. of Oxon.— Lond. 1607. qu.  
Rejoinder unto the mild defence, justifying the consideration of the silenced Ministers supplication to the Parliament.  
Comment on the Decalogue— Printed in oct. This I have not yet seen, and other things, which probably he hath written. He departed this mortal life at London, in sixteen hundred and seven, year 1609 but where buried, I know not yet. His Patron Dr. Vaughan Bishop of London died in the beginning of that year, and Gabr. powel died very shortly after, as I have been informed by one or more ancient Divines that remembered him.  
JAMES BISSE, a Somersetshire Man born, was elected Demy of Magd. coll. in 1570. aged 18. made Fellow when Bach. of Arts, in 74. and proceeding in that degree three years after, became a noted Preacher here and at London, Subdean and Canon Residentiary of Wells, where he was much followed for his fluent and eloquent way of Preaching, and well beneficed in that Diocese. This person who proceeded D. of D. in 1596. hath published several Sermons, and perhaps other things, but all that I have hitherto seen are only,  
Two Sermons: One at Paul's Cross, on John 6. 27. The other at Ch. Ch. in London on the same subject. Lond. 1585. oct. He died about the beginning of Dec. in sixteen hundred and seven, year 1607 and was buried, as I presume, at Wells. He had a Son, or near Kinsman, of both his names, who became Rector of Croscombe in the said Dioc. 1623. on the death of Will. Rogers.  
RICHARD PARKS, a Lancashire Man born, was chosen Scholar (King's Scholar) of Brasnose coll. 1574. aged 16. entered into Holy Orders when Bach. of Arts, and proceeding in that degree 1585. became a godly Divine, a noted Preacher, and admirably well read in Theological and Polemical authors. His works are,  
An Apology of three Testimonies of Holy Scripture, concerning the Article of our Creed, [He descended into Hell] first impugned by certain objections sent in writing by a Minister unto a Gent. in the Country, and lately seconded by a printed Pamphlet, under the name of Limbomastix. Lond. 1607. qu. Answered by Andr. Willet of Cambridge in his Loidromastix.  
A second book containing a Rejoinder to a reply made against the former book, lately published in a printed Pamphlet intit. 
Clar. 1607.  Limbomastix. Lond. 1607. qu. The same year was published at Cambr. in qu. A Scourge for a Railer, written by the said Willet, against our author Parks. What else he hath written, it appears not, nor any thing besides.  
THOMAS LEYSON, an eminent Poet and Physician of his time, received his first breath at Neath in Glamo●●●shire, was educated in Grammaticals in the famous School of Will. of W●behm, admitted perpetual Fellow of New coll. 1569. took the degrees in Arts, entered on the Physic line, and in 1583. was Proctor of the University, in which year he showed himself an exact Disputant before Alb. Alaskie Prince of Sirad, when he was entertained by the Oxonian Muses. About that time taking one degree in Physic, he settled within the City of Bath, where he became as much noted for his happy success in the practice of Physic, as before he was for his Lat. Poetry in the University. He wrote in Lat.  
Poem describing the scite and beauty of St. Donats' Castle in Glamorganshire.— Which Poem coming to the sight of Dr. John David Rhese his worthy acquaintance, who styles it Venestum Poema, he turned it into Welsh, and gave the author of it this character, Vir cûm rci medicae, tùm Poetices merilissimus. I have seen much of his Poetry scattered in several books; which, if gathered together, might make a pretty Manual. Sir John Harrington the famous Epigrammatist, had an especial respect for his learning, and so had Sir Edw. straddling of St. Donats' Castle, who never failed in all his life-time to encourage learning and ingenuity. Joh. straddling also, whom I shall anon mention, hath several Epigrams written unto him, one 
* In lib. 1. Epigram.  especially, upon the sending to him a Poem of a Crott, which was paraphrased by Charles Thynne. This Mr. Leyson died at Bath, 
Clar. 160●.  and was buried in St. James' Church there, near to the body of his Wife; but the year when, I cannot tell. I have been credibly informed by several Scholars of Wales, that he hath written divers other things, but what, they could not justly tell me.  
SIMON HARWARD, whose native place is to me as yet unknown, became one of the Chaplains of New coll. in 1577. was incorporated Bach. of Arts the same year, as he had stood elsewhere, but in what Uniu. or Academy, it appears not. Afterwards he proceeded in Arts as a Member of the said coll. left the University soon after, and became a Preacher at Warington in Lancashire. Thence he removed to Bansted in Surrey about the latter end of Q. Elizabeth, and thence, having a rambling head, to Tanridge in the same County, where I find him in 1604. to be a Schoolmaster, and, as it seems, a practitioner in Physic. His works are these.  
Two godly Sermons Preached at Manchester in Lanc. The first containeth a reproof of the subtle practices of dissembling Neuters, and politic Worldlings, on Rom. 10. 19 The other, a charge and instruction to all unlearned, negligent, and dissolute Ministers, on Luke 20. 2. Lond. 1582. oct.  
Exhortation to the common People to seek their amendment by Prayer with God— Printed with the two Sermons before-mentioned. He purposed then also to write the second part of the aforesaid Text on Rom. 10. 19 but because he had occasion to entreat more at large of that article of Justification in another work, which he did determine to publish, he then thought good to omit it for that time.  
Sermons, viz. one Preached at Crowhurst, on Psal 1. ver. 1. Lond. 1592. oct. and another on 1 Sam. 12. 19— Printed 1590. in octavo. etc.  
Solace for a Soldier and Sailor, containing an Apology out of the Word of God, how we are to esteem of the valiant attempts of Noblemen and Gent. of England, which incur so many dangers on the Seas to abridge the proud Power of Spain. Lond. 1592. qu.  
Phlebotomy: or, a Treatise of letting Blood. Lond. 1601. Oct.  
Discourse concerning the Soul and Spirit of Man, wherein is described the Essence and Dignity thereof, etc. Lond. 1614 oct.  
Discourse of the several kinds and causes of Lightning. Written by occasion of a fearful Lightning, 17. Nou. 1606. Which in short time burned the Spire-steeple of Blechingley in Surrey, and in the same, welt into infinite fragments a goodly ring of Bells. Lond. 1607. in three sh in qu.  
A most profitable new Treatise from approved experience of the art of propagating Plants. Lond. 1623. qu This was published after the author's death (as it seems) by one Will. 
Clar. 1607.  Lawson, at the end of his New Orchard and Garden, etc. What other things our author S. 〈◊〉 hath written, I cannot yet find; nor do I know how to trace him to his grave, because he died not at Tanridge, as a worthy Knight of that Town (Sir W. Hayward) hath informed me, but removed thence to another place, which I think was Blechingley beforementioned.  
THOMAS SACKVILE, a person born to good Letters, received his first being at, or near, Withyam in the County of Sussex, educated in this University in the time of Q. Marry, (in Hart hall, as it seems,) where he became an excellent Poet. Afterwards he retired for a time to Cambridge, where he had the degree of M. of A. conferred upon him. About the same time, being a Student in the Inner Temple, he became a Barrister, traveled into Foreign parts, and was detained 
c Tho. Mills in his Cat. of Honour, p. 412.  for a time a Prisoner in Rome; whence, his liberty was procured for his return into England, to possess the vast inheritance left to him by his Father, an. 1566. The next year he was advanced to the degree and title of the Lord Buckhurst; and after he had been employed in several Embassies, (particularly into France 1571.) he was incorporated M. of A. of this University in Jan. 1591. having a little before been chosen Chancellor thereof. In the 41. of Q. Elizabeth he was constituted Lord Treasurer of England, and in the beginning of K. James was created Earl of Dorset. From his puerile years to his last, he was a continual favourer and furtherer of learning: And having been in his younger days poetically inclined, did write, while he continued in Oxon, several Latin and English Poems, which though published, either by themselves, or mixed among other men's Poems, yet I presume they are lost or forgotten, as having either no name to them, or that the copies are worn out. He had also an excellent faculty in composing Tragedies, and was esteemed the best of his time for that part of the Stage. But what remains of his labours in that way, that are extant, I could never see but this following.  
The Tragedy of Ferrex and Porrex Sons to Gorboduc King of Britain.— Acted before the Queen by the Gentlemen of the Inner Temple, at Whitehall, 18. Jan. 1561. It was printed at Lond. without the consent of the authors, and so consequently very imperfectly, an. 1565. Afterwards being made perfect, it was printed there again in 1570. or thereabouts, and after in qu. In the composure of this Tragedy (written in old English rhyme) our outhor Sackvile had the assistance of Tho. Norton, who made the three first Acts, I mean the same Norton who made some of the Psalms of David to run in rhyme, as I have told you before. However Sackvile being afterwards a noted Man in the Eye of Q. Elizabeth, (to whom he was an Ally,) and in the State, the composition of the whole was attributed to him, and the ingenious men of that age did esteem the said Tragedy to be the best of its time, even in Sir Philip Sidney's judgement, who tells 
d In his Apology for Poetry. Lond. 1595. qu.  us, that it is full of stately Speeches, and well sounding Phrases, climbing to the height of Seneca's stile, and as full of notable morality, which it doth most delightfully teach, and so obtain the very and of Po●sie; yet in truth it is very desectious in the circumstances, etc. Our author Sackvile also wrote,  
Induction to the Mirror of Magistrates.— Not to that Mirror published by Will. Baldwyn, but to that, I suppose, which was published by Joh. Higens an eminent Poet of his time, whom I shall farther mention in Rich. nicols, an. 1615. Which Induction, with the Mirror itself, were highly valued by Scholars in the time of Q. Elizabeth. What else this Noble Person hath made public, I know not, nor any thing besides material of him, only that dying suddenly at the Council board (being one of the Privy Council to K. James) on the 19 year 1608 of Apr. in sixteen hundred and eight, was buried in the Church of Withyam's beforementioned. From him is lineally descended Charles Sackvile, now Earl of Dorset and Middlesex, a person that hath been highly esteemed for his admirable vein in Poetry, and other polite learning, as several things of his composition, while Lord Buckhurst, show,  
LAURENCE TOMSON was born in Northamptonshire, elected Demy of Magd. coll. 1556. aged 17. and soon after being a great proficient in Logic and Philosophy was admitted Probationer, 11. Sept. 1559. and the year after perpetual fellow of the said coll. In 1564. he proceeded in Arts, was with Sir Tho. Hoby in his Embassy to France; and in 1568. he resigned his fellowship. What became of him afterward, let his Epitaph following speak, while I tell you that he translated from Lat. into English (1) Sermons on the Epistles to Timothy and Titus. Lond. 1579. qu. written by John Calvin. (2) Version and annotations on the New Test. Lond. 1589. in oct. Which version and annot. were made in lat. by Theod. Beza. He also translated from French into English (1) A Treatise of the excellency of a Christian man. Lond. 1576. and 85. in oct. written by Monsieur Peter de la Place one of the King's Council, and chief Precedent of the Court of Aides in Paris. (2) The life and death of Pet. de la Place, etc. Lond. 1576. and 85. in oct. What other things he hath translated, or what he hath written, I cannot tell. year 1608 He concluded his last day in sixteen hundred and eight, and was buried in the Chancel of the Church at Chertsey in Surrey. Over his grave was this Epitaph soon after fastened on the east wall of the said chancel. Laurentio Tomsono honesta Tomsoniorum familia in agro Northamptoniensi oriundo, in collegio Magdal. Oxon. educato, perigrinatione Sueviae, Russiae, Daeniae, Germaniae, Italiae, Galliae nobilitato: duodecem linguarum cognitione instructo; Theologiae, Juris civilis & municipalis nostri, totiusque literaturae politioris scientiae claro: ingenii acumine, disputandi subtilitate, cloquenai suavitate & lepore, virtute omni pietateque insigni: linguae Hebraicae publica Genevae professione celebri: accurata Novi Testamenti translatione notabili: In politicis apud Walsinghamam Elizabethae Reginae Scribam pracipuum diu multumque exercitato: post cujus mortem vitae privatae umbratilisque jucunditate annos XX. 
e Sir Fr. Walsingham died 1590. and therefore he lived not there 20. years.  continuos Lalamiae Middlisexiae persuncto, & septuagenario placidissime religiosissmoque desuncto quarto calendas Aprilis an. 1608. Vxor Jana, & Jana filia ex quinque una superstes filiabus amoris ergo posuerunt & pietatis. The report at Chersey is, that he built the House which now stands on the top of S. Anns-hill in Chertsey parish, out of the ruins of S. Anns-chappel, and on the very place where that chapel stood; having a prospect into several Counties: In which House, the Inhabitants of the neighbourhood will tell you that this learned author died.  
WILLIAM WARFORD received his first breath in that part of Bristol which is in Sommersetshire, was admitted a Scholar of Trinity coll. 13. June 1576. probationer two years after, being then Bach. of Arts, Fellow 1579. and Master of Arts in 82. But having more a mind to the Ro. Cath. religion, in which he was partly educated, than to Protestancy, he left the college, his friends and the nation, went to Rome, and obtaining entrance into the English coll. there, profited very much in Divinity. At length being ordained Priest, he was sent into the mission of England, where making but little stay, he returned to Rome, and in the year 1594. he was entered into the society of Jesus. Afterwards being sent by his Superiors into Spain, he spent the remainder of his time in the English Seminaries there. He hath written,  
A short institution containing the chief mysteries of Christian religion, collected from the holy Scriptures and Fathers. Sevil 1600. and at S. Omers in 1616. Translated into Latin by Tho. More a Jesuit, descended from the famous Sir Tho. More, sometimes L. Chancellor of England;— Printed at S. Omers in 1617. The said Warford also translated into English several of the Histories of Saints, written by Pet. Ribadeneira, but died, before he could finish them, at Valladolid in Spain on the 3. Nou. (according the account there followed) in sixteen hundred and eight, and was buried in the college of the Jesuits there, year 1608 leaving behind him other matters, which were in a manner fit for the Press, and the character among those of his profession of a godly and learned man.  
WILLIAM WILKES, a most excellent preacher in the Court of K. James 1. was born within the diocese of Lichfeild and Coventry, elected Probationer-fellow of Merton coll. in 1572. entered into the sacred function when Master of Arts, and in 1580. became Vicar of the Church of S. Peter in the East, within the City of Oxon, by the presentation thereunto of the Warden and Society of the said coll. where for his excellent Sermons he was much frequented by Scholars and Citizens. Afterwards taking the degrees in Divinity he resigned the said Church, being well beneficed in Wiltshire, and dignified. After K. James came to the English Crown, he was made one of his Chaplains in ordinary, preached often before him to his great content, and wrote  
Of obedience or Ecclesiastical union▪ Lond. 1605. oct.  
A second memento for Magistrates, directing how to reduce all offenders; and being reduced, how to preserve them in the Unity and Love both in Church and Commonwealth. Lond. 1608. (oct.) As for the first memento I have not yet seen, unless it be meant of the book Of Obedience, etc. 
Clar. 1608.  He died at Barford S. Martin's in Wiltshire, of which he was Rector, leaving behind him one only daughter named Mary, who was married to John Marston of the City of Coventry, Gentleman. Which John dying 25 June 1634. was buried in the Church belonging to the Temples in London, near to the body of John Marston his Father, sometimes a Counsellor of the Middle Temple.  
JEREMY CORDEROY, a Gentleman's son of Wiltshire, of the same family with those of Chute in that County, became a Commoner of S. Albans-hall, in 1577. or thereabouts, took the degrees in Arts, studied Divinity many years, and being a frequent preacher in Oxon, was made one of the Chaplains of Merton coll. in 1590., at which time, and during his stay in Oxon, (which was at least 13 years after) his life and conversation was without exception. He hath written,  
A short dialogue, wherein is proved, that no man can be saved without good works, Oxon. 1604. in tw. sec. edit. The dialogue is between a Gallant and a Scholar. He wrote another book also, intit.  
A warning for worldlings, or a comfort to the godly and a terror to the wicked, in a dialogue between a Scholar and Traveller. 
Clar. 1608.  Lond. 1608. in tw. At which time though the author was a deserving person, yet he was not preferred to a living, and whether he was afterwards, (he being scrupulous of taking one) I know not, nor of any other books that he hath published.  
BARNABY BARNES, a younger son of Rich. Barnes Bishop of Durham, was a Yorkshire-man born, and at about 17. years of age 1586. became a student in Brasn. coll. but left the University without a degree, and what became of him afterwards I know not. His works are these.  
A divine Century of spiritual Sonnets. Lond. 1595. dedicated to Tob. Matthews B. of Durham.  
Four books of Offices; enabling private persons for the special service of all good Princes and policies. Lond. 1606. Fol.  
The Devil's charter: a Trag. containing the life and death of P. Alex. 6. 
Clar. 1608.  Lond. 1607. oct. One Barnaby Barnes of the City of Coventry died in the time of the civil War (about 1644.) leaving behind him a widow named Margery, but what relation there was between this and the former Barnaby, or whether the same, I cannot tell.  
WILLIAM OVERTON, one of the prime preachers in the reign of Q. Elizabeth, was born in London, became Demy or Semicommoner of Magd. coll. 25. Jul. 1539. aged 15, Perpetual-fellow in 1551. being then Bach. of Arts. Afterwards proceeding in that faculty, he took holy orders, left the coll. and absented himself during the reign of Qu. Mary. In 1565 he took the degrees in Divinity, being then well beneficed and dignified, and in 1579. was made Bishop of Lichfield and Coventry, where he was much commended for his hospitality to the poor, and the good reparation he kept of his house, which a married Bishop, as he was, seldom did, or doth. He hath published,  
Sermon against discord, on Rom. 16. vers. 17. Lond. in oct.  
Oratio doctiss. & graviss. habita in domo capitulari Lichfield ad Praebendarios & reliquum clerum in visitatione Ecclesiae suae cathedralis congregatum, an. 1600. Lond. 1600. He died in a good old age in the beginning of April, in sixteen hundred and nine, year 1609 and was buried in the Church of Eccleshall in Staffordshire, near to the bodies of his two Wives. In the See of Lichfield succeeded Dr. Rob. Abbot, as I shall tell you elsewhere.  
EDWARD straddling, son of Sir Tho. straddling Knight by Cath. his Wife, Daughter of Sir Tho Gamage of Coyty Knight, was born of, and lineally descended from, an ancient and Knightly family of his name living at S. Donates' castle in Glamorganshire, educated in several sorts of learning in this University, but before he took a degree, he left it, traveled into various Countries, spent some time at Rome, returned an accomplished Gentleman, and retiring to his Patrimony, which was large, did build a firm structure upon that foundation of literature that he had laid here and elsewhere. In 1575. or the year after, he received the Honour of Knighthood, was made a Justice of Peace, became a very useful Man in his Country, and was at the charge of such Herculean 
a See in Jo. Strading Epigrams, lib. 4. p. 151. 161. etc.  works for the public good, that no Man in his time went beyond him. But above all he is to be remembered for his singular knowledge in the British Language and Antiquities, for his eminent encouragement of learning and learned Men, and for his great expense and indefatigable industry in collecting together several Monuments and ancient Manuscripts of Learning and Antiquity. All which with other books were reduced into a well ordered Library at St. Donates', to the great credit and renown of that place and his Family. He hath written,  
A Welsh Grammar.— When or where printed I know not. Of which book, written mostly in Latin, one of his 
b Humph. Prichard in his Pref. to Dr. Jo. D●● Rhese his book, intit. Cambrobritanicae Cymeraecave linguae institutione, etc. Lond. 1592.  Countrymen gives this character. Hae institutiones Grammaticae adeò concinnè sunt compositae, & omnibus suis numeris absolutae, ut nec eis addi quicquam, nec ab eye demi (meo judicio) quicquam poterit; nisi secundam hujus operis author in posterume editionem maturet. He hath also written,  
The winning of the Lordship of Glamorgan or Morgannwe out of the Welshmen's hands, etc.— Of which book you may see more in The History of Cambria, now called Wales, etc. Printed 1584. p. 122. and 141. This learned and worthy person hath written other things, but such I have not yet seen, nor can I say more him, only that he paid his last debt to nature in the Summer time, in sixteen hundred and nine, year 1609 aged 80. or more, and was buried in a Chapel built by his Father, (dedicated to the Virgin Mary,) joining to the Parish Church of St. Donate, between the bodies of his Great-Grandfather and Grandmother on the North side, and the body of his Father on the South side. He died without Male Issue, whereupon the Estate went to his next Kinsman Sir John straddling Knight, who was soon after made a Baronet: From whom was descended Sir Edw. straddling Baronet, (a Colonel in the Army of K. Ch. 1.) buried in Jesus coll. Chappel, 21. June 1644.  
MICHAEL RENNIGER, commonly called Rhanger, received his first being in this World in Hampshire, became perpetual Fellow of Magd. coll. in 1547. afterwards Master of Arts, and a Preacher in the Reign of K. Ed. 6. being then esteemed by those that knew him a person truly pious, and of singular erudition. But when Q. Mary came to the Crown, he, with others of the said coll. voluntarily left the Land for Religion sake, and lived mostly at Strasburg in Germany. After her death he returned, was made one of the Chaplains to Q. Elizabeth, became a zealous assertor of the Protestant Religion, but refusing considerable preferments that were then offered to him, he accepted only of a Prebendship in the Church of Winchester for the present, as also the Rectory of Crawley near to the said City. In the year 1573. he took the degrees in Divinity, and in 75. was upon the resignation of Dr. Joh. Ebden made Archdeacon of Winchester. His Works are,  
Carmina in mortem duorum fratrum Suffolciensium Henrici & Caroli Brandon, etc. Lond. 1552. qu.  
De Pii V. & Gregorii XIII. furoribus contra Elizabetham Reginam Angliae. Lond. 1582. oct.  
An Exhortation to true Love, Loyalty, and Fidelity to her Majesty. Lond. 1587. oct.  
Treatise against Treasons, Rebellions, and such Disloyalties.— Printed with the Exhortation to, etc.  
Syntagma hortationum ad Jacobum Regem Angliae. Lond. 1604. oct. and translated from English into Latin, An apology or defence of Priests Marriages, written by Joh. Poynet or Ponet B. of Winchester. The other Works, done by him, may be seen in a certain 
* Joh. Baleus, in cent. Script. Maj. Brit. 9 nu. 73.  author who knew Rhenniger well, which made him therefore say of him,— In omni bonarum literarum ac linguarum genere ita se exercuit, ut famam non vulgarem inde meruit. He died on the 26. of Aug. year 1609 in sixteen hundred and nine, aged 89 years. and was buried in the Chancel of his Church at Crawley beforementioned, under the Communion Table. Over his Grave was soon after a Marble Stone laid, with an inscription thereon in prose and verse; a copy of which you may see in Hist. & Antiq. Vniu. Oxon. lib. 2. p. 197. b. This Dr. Rhenniger died rich, left a fair Estate, (some of which laid in Lincolnshire,) and a Son named Samuel to enjoy it. In his Archdeaconry of Winchester succeeded Dr. Ranulph Barlow of Cambridge.  
THOMAS SMITH was born of sufficient Parents in a Town called Abendon in B●rkshire, educated in Grammar learning there, (in the Free School founded by Joh. Royse, Citizen and Mercer of London, an. 1563.) became a Student of Ch. Ch. in 1570. took the degrees in Arts, that of Master being completed in 78. and six years after was elected one of the Proctors of the University. About that time, he being esteemed a religious and a discreet Gentleman, was made Secretary to that popular Count Robert Earl of Essex, who had an especial respect for him. So that being thereupon introduced into the Court, raised himself merely by his own merits to considerable eminency, as first to be Clerk to the High Court of Parliament, afterwards to be one of the Clerks of the Council, a Knight in 1603. Secretary of the Latin Tongue, and one of the Masters of the Requests. 'Tis supposed by some, and confidently reported by others that are learned, that though he lived not to publish any thing, yet several matters he left behind him fit for the Press, but of what Subject or Faculty they treat, I could never learn. He deceased in the prime of his years (whereby a stop was given to his father promotion) at his house called Parson's Green near to London, 28. Nou. in sixteen hundred and nine; year 1609 whereupon his body was buried in the Parish Church of Fulham in Middlesex on the 7. of Dec. following. Over his grave was soon after erected a comely monument by his disconsolate Widow Frances the Daughter of William Lord Chandois, (afterwards the Wife of Thom. Earl of Exeter,) by whom he had a Son named Robert, who was entered a Gent. Com. of Ch. Ch. in Mich. Term, an. 1620. aged 15. and became an Inheritor for a time several Lands which his Father left to him, particularly the Manor of Barwick upon Tease in Yorks. The said Sir Thomas 
a Reg. Dorse● in Oss. c. prorog. Cant. 〈◊〉. 113.  bequeathed a considerable sum of Money to this University to buy books for the new or East part of the Public Library, as also a Mathematical instrument gilt, besides 100 l. to the poor of Abenaon for their relief. All which was accordingly done and settled by his younger Brother Rich. Smith, sometimes a Member of Ch. Ch. also, who had been prime Mourner at his Brother's Funeral.  
I find another Sir Tho. Smyth to have been of Bidborough in Kent, second Son of Tho. Smith of Ostenhanger in the same County Esq (who dying 
b Lib. Certif. in Offic. Arm. 〈◊〉. 10. fol. 33.  7. June 1591. was buried in the Church of Ashsord adjoining) Son of John Smith of Corsham in Wilts, Gent. Which Sir Thomas (who had 
c Vid. Camd. in Annal. Reg. Elizab. an. 1590.  sarmed the Customs in the Reign of Q. Elizabeth, and therefore by some called Customer Smith) was so much in favour with K. James that he sent him Ambassador 
d Idem Camd. in Annal. Reg. Jac. 1. MS. sub an. 1604.  to the Emperor of Russia 19 Mar. 1604. From whence returning he was made Governor of the Society of Merchants trading to the East-Indies, Mus●●ie, the French and Summer Islands, and Treasurer for the Colonies and Companies of Virginia. There goes under this Man's name a book intit. Sir Thomas Smith's voyage and entertainment in Russia, with the tragical ends of two Emperors, and one Empress, within one Month, during his being there, etc. Lond. 1605. qu. But him I take not to be the author, because it was published unknown to him, and without his consent. What else I find of him is, that his fair and magnificent house at Deptford near to London was burnt 
e lb. sub. an. 1619.  on 30. Jan. 1618. and that upon several complaints against him for certain frauds used by him, in withdrawing sums of Money in his Rectorship, and place of Treasurer, before mentioned, he was 
f Ib. eod. an.  removed from those employments, in Apr. 1619. His eldest Son, Sir Joh. Smith, married Isabel Daughter of Rob. Earl of Warwick, and another the Natural Daughter of Charles Blount Lord Mountjoy, without the consent of his Father, in Nou. 1618. but in the middle of July following, he, upon some discontent, left 
g Ibid.  England without taking leave of his Father or Wife.  
Besides these two, I find another famous Sir Tho. Smith, who went before them, not only in time, but eminence. His native place was Saffron-Walden in Essex, his Parents John Smith of the same place, and Agnes the Daughter and Heir of one Charnock Gent. and the place of Academical education, Queen's coll. in Cambridge, where at riper years he was made choice of (such was his proficiency in learning) to be sent into Italy at the King's charges, and there to be educated in certain kinds of learning, which our Universities at home could not then yield, or rather for the complete polishing of his parts and studies. After his return he became so eminent for his acquired learning, that he was not only made the public Orator of Cambridge, but also the King's Professor of the Greek Tongue, and at length the King's Professor of the Civil Law, in which Faculty he was incorporated Doctor at Cambridge, in 1542. and afterwards at Oxon, but the particular time when, it appears not, through the imperfectness of the Registers of that time. In the Reign of Ed. 6. he found so much favour with the Duke of Somerset, that he was made one of the Secretaries (Sir Will. Cecil being the other) to that King, a Knight, Steward of the Stanneries, and Dean of Carlisle in the place of one Lancelot Salkeld then ejected. About the same time also he 
h Camd. in Annal. Reg. Eliz. sub an. 1577,  became Provost of Eton coll. whereof he had very well merited, but when Q. Mary came to the Crown she deprived him of those dignities, assigning him an 100 l. per an. Pension for his Life, howbeit on condition that he should not depart the Realm. In the beginning of Q. Elizabeth, he was called again to the service of the Commonwealth, was restored to his Deanery, was present with the Divines at the correcting of the English Liturgy, and afterwards with great commendations performed several Embassies. At length being one of the Secretaries of State again, and Chancellor of the Order of the Garter, and several times a Parliament-man, became very beneficial to the Commonwealth of learning, by procuring the Laws concerning Corn for the colleges of Students in both the Universities. This person who was a noted Orator, Grecian, and Civilian, and worthy to be remembered for other learning, hath written, (1) The Commonwealth of England, and the manner and government thereof, in 3 books. Printed in an old Engl. character at Lond. 1583. 94. in qu. and several times in oct. notwithstanding it was left unfinished by the author. Translated into Lat. by Dr. Jo. Budden, who caused it to be printed at Lond. in oct. 'Twas also published in Lat. by Joh. Laet of Antwerp, at Leyden 1630. in tw. (2) De recta & emendata linguae Graecae pronuntiatione, ad Gardinerum Ep. Winton, Epistola. Lutet. 1568. qu. (3) De recta & emendata linguae Anglicae scriptione. Printed dialogue ways with the former book. (4) De re nummaria. (5) The Authority, form and manner of holding Parliaments. This book being lately (1685.) published, may be doubted whether Sir Tho. Smith was the author of it. He hath also extant Many Letters in the Complete Ambassador, etc. collected by Sir Dudley Digges. He departed this mortal life in the climecterical year of his age, in the month of July 1577. and was buried in the Church of Theydon-Mount, or Theydon at Mount in Essex. All his Latin and Greek books he gave to Queen's coll. in Cambridge, as also a great Globe of his own making, besides maintenance for two Scholars to come from Saffron-Walden to that house. There was a very fair monument ordered to be put over the bodies of him and his Wife, and no doubt there is but that it was done accordingly, yet what the Inscription on it is, I cannot yet learn, not any thing else of him, only that Jo. L●●and doth highly extol him, in his 
i In Princicum ac illustrium aliquct & eruditorum Anglia vir orum encomiis, etc. Lond. 1589. qu. p. 87.  Encomiaes of illustrious and learned men of England.  
JOHN SANSBURY, or Sandsbury, an eminent and ingenious Latin Poet, was born in London, educated in Merchant-Taylors School, became Scholar of S. John's coll. in Midsummer Term, an. 1593. aged 17. took the degrees in Arts, became Vicar of the Church of S. Giles in the North Suburb of Oxon, 1607. and the year after was admitted Bach. of Divinity. He hath written,  
Ilium in Italiam. Oxonia ad protectionem regis sui omnium optimi filia, pedi sequa. Oxon. 1608. oct. In the said book are the Arms of each coll. and verses under them.  
Tragediae diversae. MS. Acted several times by the Scholars of the aforesaid coll. in their common refectory in the time of Christmas. He was buried in the Church of S. Giles before-mentioned, in the month of Jan. in sixteen hundred and nine. 
1609-10.  The next writer, according to time, that is to be mentioned is one, that had learning enough to be a Dean or Bishop, yet could never rise higher than a Vicar and Pedagogue. His name is,  
THOMAS PIE, born at Darlaston-near Wednesbury in Staffordshire, educated for the most part in Logicals and Philosophicals in Merton coll. of which he became one of the Chaplains in 1581. being then esteemed among the learned to be one of them. Afterwards taking the degrees in Divinity as a Member of that house, he became Vicar and Schoolmaster of Bexhill near Hastings in Sussex about 1590. being then, and before, accounted an eminent Linguist, excellent in Sacred Chronology, in Ecclesiastical Histories and Polemical Divinity. His works are,  
A computation from the beginning of time to Christ, by ten Articles. Lond. 1597. qu.  
A confirmation of the same for the times controverted before Christ: As also that there wanteth a year after Christ in the usual computation.— Printed with the former book, and both under the general title of An Hourglass.  
Epistola ad ornatiss. virum D. ` Johan. Howsonum S. T. D. Acad. Oxon Procancellarium, qua dogma ejus novum & admirabile de Juderum divortiis refutatur & suus SS. Scripturae nativus sensus ab ejus glossematis vindicatur. Lond. 1603. qu.  
Epistola responsoria ad clariss. virum D. Alb. Gentilem, MS. 'Tis on the same subject with the former, and are both answered by Rob. Burhill.  
Scholastical determination of Usury. Lond. 1604. qu.  
Answer to a Treatise written in defence of Usury.— Printed there the same year. He gave way to fate at Bexhill, 
1609-10.  in the latter end of sixteen hundred and nine, at which time, he by his Will (dated 20. Dec. and proved 20. March, a 1609.) desired that his body might be buried in the School house at Bexhill before-mentioned, lately repaired and new paved by him. In his said Will he leaves certain moneys to the poor of Brightling near Battle in Sussex, at which place, as 'tis probable, he had a Cure. About two years before his death he bestowed much money in building the Campanile or Tower at Darleston before-mentioned, which before was built of timber.  
JOHN AGLIONBY was born of a gentile Family in Cumberland, became a Student in Queen's coll. in 1583. where, after he had gone through the servile duties several years, was made Fellow; whereupon entering into Holy Orders became a most polite and learned Preacher. Afterwards travelling, he was introduced into the acquaintance of Cardinal Bellarmine, who showing to him the picture of the profound William Whittaker of Cambrige, which hung up in his Library, told him, pointing to the picture, that he was the most learned Heretic that ever he read, or to that effect. After his return he was made Chaplain in Ordinary to Q. Elizabeth, took the degree of D. of D. in 1600. was made Principal of S. Edmund's hall the year after, being about that time Rector of Islip near to, and in the County of, Oxon, and soon after Chaplain in Ord. to K. James 1. He was a person well accomplished with all kind of learning, profoundly read in the Fathers, and in School-Divinity, an exact Linguist, and of an aquiline acumen, as one 
a Is. Wake in lib. cui tit. Rex Platonicus, in act. Secundae diei.  who is profuse in his praise tells you. What he hath published I find not; however the reason why I set him down here, is, that he had a most considerable hand in the translation of the New Testament, appointed by K. James, in 1604. which is all that I know material of him, saving only that he dying at Islip, to the very great reluctancy of all learned and good men, on the 6. Febr. 
1609-10.  in sixteen hundred and nine, aged 43. was buried in the Chancel of the Church there. Soon after was set up an Inscription, to his memory, on the East wall of the said Chancel, (by his Widow I think,) wherein being nothing of him, but what I have mentioned already, I shall pass it by for brevity sake.  
JOHN DAVID RHESE, or Jo. David or Davis, was born at Lanvaethley in the Isle of Anglesey, elected Student of Ch. Ch. after he had been conversant among the Oxonians for 3 or more years, in the month of Dec. 1555. aged 21. traveled beyond the Seas before he took a degree in this University, became Doctor of Physic of Senes or Sienna in Tuscany, and public Moderator of the School at Pistoia in that Country, whose Language there, which is Italian, he understood as well as any native. Afterwards he returned to his Country, where he practised his Faculty with admirable success, and was held in high esteem by learned men, for his exquisite knowledge in all kind of literature, especially for Physic, Poetry, the Grammatical part of the Welsh Tongue, and curiosity in various Criticisms; yet by the generality, he being not understood, his rare parts and curious learning was in a manner buried where he lived. He hath written in the Florentine Language,  
Rules for the obtaining of the Latin Tongue.— Printed at Venice: And in Latin these two books following.  
De Italicae linguae pronuntiatione. Printed at Milan. Both which were, in their time, held in great repute by the Italians, and the last by Strangers that occasionally traveled into Italy.  
Cambro-Britannicae Cymraecaeve linguae institutiones & rudimenta, &c, ad intelligend. Biblia sacra nuper in Cambro-Brittannicum sermonum eleganter versa. Lond. 1592. fol. Written to Sir Edw. straddling of S. Donats' Castle in Glamorganshire, a great favourer and furtherer of learning, as I have elsewhere told you. Before which book is a large Preface, written by Humph. Prichard of Bangor in North Wales, sometimes an Oxford Scholar. Our author Rhese hath also written in the British Language.  
Compendium of Aristotle's Metaphysics.— MS. formerly in Jesus coll. Library. In which book the author saith that the British Language is as copious in expressing congruous terms, as the Greek, or any Language whatsoever. He hath written other excellent things, but are lost, as I have been assured by Olor Iscamus, and therefore I cannot say any thing else of him, only that he died a Rom. Cath. (as he had lived) at, or near, Brecknock, (where he mostly dwelled and practised Physic) in the Reign of K. James 1. Scil. about sixteen hundred and nine, 
Clar. 1609.  and that he is much celebrated by 
b In lib. 1. Epigram.  straddling the Epigiammatist for his learning, while he lived, who styles 
c In lib. 1. De via & more contemnend.  him Novum antiquae linguae lumen, and by Camden who calls him, 
d See in the Additional collection of Letters, at the end of Dr. Jam. ushers life, printed in fol. 1686. let. 2. p. 2.  Clariss. & eruditissimus linguae vir D. Johannes David. See more of him in Tho. Leyson under the year 1607.  
ROBERT PERSONS, or Parsons, a most noted and learned writer of his time, and the ornament of the English Nation in the opinion of those of his Society, must according to time have the next place to be mentioned. Concerning whom several R. Priests and others, who have written bitterly against, and scurrilously of, him, have peremptorily said, (as Tho. 
e In the Anatomy of Popish Tyrannv. Lond. 1603. lib. 2. chap. 5. sect. 1.  Bell and Tho. 
f In the Life of Father Parsons, at the end of The Jesuits downfall. Ox. 1612. p. 52.  James from them hath done the like,) that he was basely born of mean parentage at Stokersey in Sommersetshire, that his supposed Father was a Blacksmith, his right, the Parish Priest of Stokersey; by means whereof he was binominous, sometimes called Rob. Parsons, sometimes Rob. Cowbuck, etc. that he was 
g See Camden's Annals of Q. Eliz. under the year 1602. and in watson's Quodlibets of State.  one of the dregs of the Commonalty, a Fellow of a most seditious disposition, a Sycophant, an Equivocator, and one that would set Kingdoms to sale, etc. But these things, with many other, not now to be named, having been written out of malice against him, I shall by no means follow, or embrace them for truths, but receded to that collection of his life, which I have made partly from his own writings, partly from record, and partly from impartial Writers. Born therefore he was 
n Rob. Persons in his Manifestation of Folly. Printed 1602. fol. 89. b. cap. 7.  at Stowey commonly called Nether-Stowey near to Bridgewater in Somersetshire, an. 1546. His Father was a Plebeian of honest repute, and an enemy to the Church of Rome, but by Alex. Bryant reconciled thereunto. His mother was a known grave Matron living divers years in flight and banishment for Religion, died therein at London, very aged, about 1599 The Son Robert being a child of very great towardliness and exceeding apt to learn, was by his Father's edeavours trained up in the English tongue, and having a good memory, could repeat what he had read once or twice, very readily. About that time it happened that one John Hayward a virtuous good Priest, who before had been a Canon Regular in Devonshire, became Vicar of Nether-Stowey, who perceiving that Robert had pregnant parts, did teach him the Latin tongue, and after had a special affection for him; for he living to the beginning of the year 1575. endeavoured to get him into Balliol coll. did exhibit unto him, as 'tis said, and was not against the resignation which he made of his fellowship. In the latter end of 1563. our author R. Parson's being fitted for Academical learning was sent to the said coll. but whether he was at his first coming a Servitor, or Scholar, I know not. Sure it is, that by the help of good natural parts, accompanied with unwearied industry, he became in short time a smart Disputant, not only in the coll. but public Schools, as occasion served. In the latter end of May 1568. he was admitted Bach. of Arts, and the same year Probationer-Fellow of the said college; which being terminated, he was made Chaplain-Fellow, and so consequently (I presume) went into Orders, being then a noted Tutor in the coll. In Michaelmas-Term 1572. he was admitted Master of Arts, stood in the Act celebrated 12. Oct. 1573. and on the 13. of Feb. following he resigned his Fellowship of his own accord (as the Register of Bal. coll. 
o Reg. Actor coll. Ball. p. 125. See the whole story of his expulsion, which was no other than an resignation in Fa. Persons Brief Apology, fol. 192, 193, 194. etc.  saith, though certain authors tell us, that he resigned to prevent Expulsion) being then, if not before, about to change his Religion. In June 1574. he left England, went to Calis and thence to Antwerp; at which place after he had continued for some weeks, he diverted himself for a time with a journey to Louvain, where, being no sooner arrived, but he fell into the company of Father Will. Good his Country man, by whom he was kindly received, and with him spent some days in spiritual exercise. So that whereas then, and before, he had addicted his mind to the study of Physic, and did intend to prosecute it at Milan, (to which place he had then intentions to go) he, by Goods advice, made some doubt of that matter. At length he went there, and was for some time not only conversant in that faculty, but also in the Civil Law. Upon second thoughts he relinquished those studies, went to the English coll. at Rome, was there admitted into the Society of Jesus 4. July 1575. went thro' the several Classes of Dinivity, and in 1580. journied into England with Edm. Campian and others to advance the Romish affairs, with power then given by P. Greg. 13. for moderating the severe Bull of P. Pius 5. While he continued there, which was in the quality of a Superior, he traveled up and down in the Country to gentlemen's houses, disguised in the habit sometimes of a Soldier, sometimes like a Gentleman, and at other times like a Minister and an Apparator. And being a person of a seditious and turbulent spirit and armed with a confident boldness, tampered 
p Camden in Annal. Reg. Eliz. Sub an. 1580.  so far with the R. Catholics about deposing Qu. Elizabeth that some of them (as they afterwards confessed) thought to have delivered him up into the Magistrates hands. About which time Campian being seized and committed, he made haste out of England for fear of being snapped also, and forthwith went to Rome, where making profession of the four vows, he was constituted Rector of the English coll. there, an. 1587. Afterwards he went into Spain, where by his great learning expressed in disputing, writing, and promoting the Cause, he became known to, and respected by, the King of that place. About 1597. he returned to Rome, in hopes of a Cardinal's Cap, but missing it, died, as 'tis said, with grief. He was a restless active man, and though of a violent fierce nature and rough behaviour, yet he was more zealous for the promoting of the Jesuits interest than any of, and perhaps before, his time; witness his unwearied endeavours of instituting Novices of the Society at Sevill, Valladolid, Cadiz, Lisbon, Douai, S. Omers, and at Rome. Also his continual publishing of books, as well in the Latin, as in the English, tongue, which did no great good to the Church of England, and the noted professors thereof. And lastly his endeavours of keeping Spain and England in difference, and of his inciting the Spaniard to invade England or Ireland again, of breaking the lawful Succession of the Crown, by confirming the right of it to a Daughter of Spain, and what not to promote the interest of that Country and his Society. As for those books which he hath written (published either without a name, or else in the names of other persons,) I shall here give you the titles of as many that have come to my hands, and they are these.  
A brief discourse containing the reasons, why Catholics refuse to go to Church— Said to be Printed at Douai, but really at Lond. 1580. in oct. Published under the name of Jo. Owlet, and dedicated to Q. Eliz. with a large Epist. subscribed by the said J. Owlet. See more in the Fasti, 1569. I have seen a book in Bodlies Lib. (being one of the Copies which was seized before the title page was printed) entitled in the first page of the book itself, thus, Reasons that Catholics ought in any wise to abstain from heretical conventicles. The running title at the top of every leaf of the book is A Treatise of Schism. Printed at London by Will. Carter, (executed for Treason in the year 1584.) who confessed, when that book came to be seized on in his house on Tower-hill near London, that there had been printed 1250. Copies of the said book. At that time the Searchers found the original, sent from Rheimes, and allowed under Dr. Will. Allens own hand to be truly Catholic and fit to be published. This book without doubt is the same which a certain 
q Ant. Possivin in Apparat. Sac. Tom. 2. in Rob. Persons.  author styles Nine reasons why Catholics should abstain from heretical Conventicles, said by him to be written by Rob. Parsons. The same year that the Brief discourse containing, etc. was published, came out an answer to it intit. A check to Mr. Owlets Shreechings to her Majesty, etc. but whether any reply followed I know not. The next books that F. Parsons wrote were,  
Reasons for his coming into the mission of England, with a proffer or challenge to dispute with the Protestants.— This book or Treatise, though afterwards put under the name of Rob. Persons in the Bib. Soc. Jesus, yet in the answer to it made by Mer. Hanmer and Will. Charke, it is by them said to be written by E. Campian.  
Brief Censure given upon the two books of W. Charke and M. Hanmer, written against the Reasons and Proffer. Lond. 1581. (oct.) To which W. Chark made a reply, Printed in oct.  
A discovery of Joh. Nichols Minister, misreported a Jesuit— Printed 1581. in octav. Answered by Tho. Lupton in a book intit. Answer against a Jesuits book, entit. A discovery, etc. Lond. 1582. qu. See more in Joh. nichols an. 1583.  
A defence of the Censure, given upon two books of Will. Charke and Meredith Hanmer Ministers, which they wrote against Mr. Edmund Campian Priest, of the Society of Jesus and against his offer of disputation— Printed 1582. oct. Taken in hand since the death of Campian. Against this book came out another intit. A treatise against the defence of the censure, etc. Cambr. 1586. oct.  
De persecutione Anglicanâ Epistola. Quâ explicantur afflictiones, aerumnae & calamitates gravissimae, etc. Rom. & Ingolst. 1582. Printed also in a book intit. Concertatio Ecclesiae Catholicae in Angliâ, etc. Aug. Treu. 1583. in oct. p. 79. Both which editions, the former I am sure, were published under the name of the English coll. at Rome. See more in Joh. Bridgewater, an. 1594.  
A Christian directory or exercise guiding men to eternal Salvation, commonly called The Resolution— First published in 1583. in oct. From which edition and book, were framed two more, published An. 1584. One of which was done by a catholic Gent. living at Rouen in Normandy, full of errors, but in sense the same. Another by Edm. Bunny of Merton coll. in Oxon, but all altered to the Protestant use, as may be seen in the Preface to Rob. Persons' edition of the same book in the year 1585.  
The second part of a Christian directory or exercise, etc. Lond. 1594, 92. in tw. Printed also in 1650. in a large oct. But these two parts, as it seems, being falsely printed at London, the author came out again with them, bearing this title.  
A Christian directory, guiding men to their Salvation; divided into three books. The first thereof pertaining to Resolution, is only contained in this volume, and divided into two parts, and set forth now again with many corrections and additions by the author himself, with reproof of the falsified edition lately published by Mr. Edm. Bunny. Louvain 1598. in a thick oct. etc. These books of Resolution, won our author (Persons) a great deal of praise, not only in the judgement of R. Catholics, but of very learned Protestants. Yet not to heap more praises upon him than he justly deserves, his Enemies, and those of the Protestant party, say, that he was but a Collector or Translator at most, and that the book was not of his own absolute invention, but taken out of other authors. They say farther also, that his praise was for well translating, close, couching, and packing it up together in a very smooth stile, and singular good method; and add, that the platform of the said Resolution was laid to his hand, by L. de Granada, who gave him the principal grounds and matter thereof, and the penning by one Brinkley, etc.  
Responsio ad Elizabethae Reginae edictum contra Catholicos. Rom. 1593. in oct. etc. Published under the name of Andr. Philopater.  
A conference about the next succession of the Crown of England, in two parts.— Printed 1593., 94. in oct. under the name of N. Doleman, and is known by the name of The book of titles. The first part is for chastising of Kings, and proceeding against them, etc. and was reprinted before the time that K. Ch. 1. was beheaded, by Rob. Ibbotson living in Smithfield, under this title, Several Speeches made at a conference; or Several Speeches delivered at a conference concerning the power of Parliament to proceed against their King, for misgovernment. The second part was to prove that the Infanta of Spain was the legal Heir to the Crown of England; the penning whereof did much endear him to the K. of Spain. But so soon as this book peeped forth, which was accounted a most heinous and scandalous thing, the Parliament enacted 35. Elizab. that whosoever should be found to have it in his house should be guilty of High Treason. And whether the Printer of it was hanged, drawn, and quartered (as some say he was) I cannot affirm it. K. Charles 1. in his 
a Printed by R. Royston, p. 125.  Messages for Peace, doth mention and insist upon that book called Several Speeches, etc. and Mr. W. Prynne in his Speech to the Committee 4. Dec. 1648. affirmed 
b p. 108. 109.  that he himself and others did complain of it, but nothing was done to vindicate the houses from that gross imputation, etc. The said Conference about the next Succession, etc. put out under the name of Doleman, was answered by Sir Joh. Hayward Knight, LL. D. an. 1603. under this title, The right of Succession asserted, etc. Which answer was reprinted for the satisfaction of the zealous promoters of the Bill of Exclusion.— Lond. 1683. oct. The Conference itself also was reprinted at Lond. 1683. oct. purposely to lay open the author's pernicious Doctrines in that juncture of time when the Parliament was zealously bend to exclude James D. of York from the Imperial Crown of England. And how much some of the then Fanatical applauded pieces in Politics have traded with, and been beholding to, that Conference, written by Doleman alias Persons, (notwithstanding their pretendedly great hatred of, and seeming enmity to, Popery,) by asserting many of the self same most damnable and destructive Principles, laid down therein, is at large, by a just and faithful comparing of them together, made apparent in a piece intit. The Apostate Protestant, in a Letter to a Friend occasioned by the late reprinting of Doleman. Lond. 1682. in 8 sh. in qu. Said to have been wrote by Edw. Pelling Rector of S. Martin's Church near Ludgate in London, Chaplain to the Duke of Somerset, and a Wiltshire man born. Among the said Fanatical applauded pieces in Politics before-mentioned, must be reckoned a Pamplet intit. A brief History of Succession, collected out of the Records, and the most authentic Historians. Written for the satisfaction of George Earl of Hallifax, in 5 sh. in fol. To which, though no place or time was set, to show when or where 'twas printed, yet, as I then observed, 'twas published in 1680. It was answered by Rob. Brady Doctor of Physic, Master of Gonvil and Caius coll. and the King's Professor of Physic in the University of Cambridge, and Burgess for that University to sit in the Parliament that began at Oxon. 21. March. 1680. in a book intit: The great point of Succession discussed, etc. Lond. 1681. in a thin fol. and by another excellent tract written by Anon, called Religion and Loyalty supporting each other. Another Pamphlet also, which was mostly borrowed from Doleman alias Persons was that intit. The great and weighty considerations relating to the Duke of York, or Successor of the Crown, etc. considered. Lond. 1680. in 9 sh. in fol. which is quoted also in the Brief History of Succession, before-mentioned. Which Great and weighty considerations, etc. consisidered, were reprinted at Lond. 1682. in oct. and annexed to the second edition of the Postscript, written by Thom. Hunt of Gray's Inn Esq who, therein, though he makes use of Doleman'S Principles, yet in a new Epistle before the said second edition of the Considerations, he owns them to be his. This person (Tho. Hunt) who had an ingenious Pen, and was commonly called Postscript Hunt, was forced to leave England in the Fanatical Plot, which broke out 12. June 1683. Afterwards settling at Vtrecht in Holland, we heard no more of him till Sept. 1688. and then an express coming to my hands, dated 13. of that month, I was thereby instructed that he then died lately at Vtrecht before-mentioned, being big with expectation of returning shortly after to his native Country, under the conduct of the Prince of Orange, then about to make his expedition into England. But to return, I find other noted Pamphlets, which were about that time published by some ill designed Scribblers, who are shown to have taken many of their dangerous tenets thence, I mean from Doleman alias Persons, which is a well furnished common-place-book for such turbulent authors to enlarge on, as their respective projects and interests should suggest. Also that John bradshaw's long Speech spoken at the condemnation of K. Ch. 1. and also the Treatise concerning the broken Succession of the Crown of England 
c Printed at Lond. 1655. qu.  etc. to make way for Oliver the Usurper, were mostly taken out of Doleman alias Persons, may be seen in Dr. George Hicks' Sermon 
d Printed at Lond. 1682. first edit. p. 28.  on the 30. Jan. 1681. before the L. Mayor of London. The truth of this, as to the last, a note placed at the end of the said Treatise, hath put beyond all doubt. At length several positions in the said Conference written by Persons, being looked upon as dangerous and destructive to the Sacred Persons of Princes, their State and Government, by the University of Oxford, particularly that which saith, Birthright and Proximity of Blood do give no title to Rule or Government, etc. the Members thereof condemned them, and that in particular, by their judgement and decree passed in Convocation 21. July 1683. Which being so done, they caused the book itself to be publicly burnt in their School-quadrangle. As for the other books that our author Rob. Persons hath written, are these following.  
A temperate Wardword to the turbulent and seditious Watchword of Sir Franc. Hastings Knight, etc.— Printed 1599 qu. under the name of N. Dolman, that is Vir dolorum, in respect of the grief and sorrow that Fa. Persons bore in his heart for the affliction and calamity of his Country, as a certain author tells me, though 
e Vide Comdonum in 〈◊〉 Reg. El●zab. sub an. 1594.  others say that the reason why he put the name of Doleman to some of his books, was because he bore great malice to, and hated him, Card. Allen, and Sir Fr. Inglefield as bitter Enemies. Of this Nic. Dolman, who was a grave Priest, and of a mild disposition, you may read in a book intit. A relation of a Faction began at Wisbich, 1595, etc. p. 12, 13, 14, etc. 32. 47, etc.  
A copy of a Letter written by a Master of Arts of Cambridge, to his Friend in London, concerning some talk passed of late between two worshipful and grave men, about the present state, and some proceedings of the Earl of Leicester and his Friends in England, etc.— Written in 1584. but the certain year when prin●ed, unless in 1600. I cannot tell. It was also printed in oct. (as the other was) in 1631. and hath this running title on the top of every leaf of the book, A Letter of State of a Scholar of Cambridge. The first edit and perhaps the second, was printed beyond the Seas, and most of the copies being sent into England bound, with the outside of the leaves coloured with green, the book was commonly called Father Persons Green-coat. 'Tis the same book with that intit. Leicester's Commonwealth, being a dialogue between a Scholar, a Gent. and a Lawyer. Lond. 1641. qu. This book, tho' commonly reported to be Persons, (and that he had most of his materials for the composition thereof from Sir Will. Cecil Lord Burleigh,) which, I presume, did arise from Dr. Tho. James his affirmation 
f In the life of Fa. Persons, printed at the end of The Jesuits Downfall, ah. 1612. p. 55, 56, etc.  that he was the author of it, yet Persons himself saith in his Preface to the Warnword to Sir Franc. Hastings Wastword, that he did not write Leicester's Commonwealth, And certainly if he had been the author it, Pitseus, and Ribadeneira with his Continuators, would have mentioned it in their respective Catalogues of our author's works, whereas they are altogether silent in that matter.  
Liecesters' Commonwealth. Lond. 1641. oct. written in verse. This is a small thing, and containeth not the same sense with the former.  
Leicester's Ghost.— in verse also. To both which, though the name of Rob. Persons Jesuit, is set in the title, yet I cannot any where find that he was the author.  
Apologetical Epistle to the Lords of her Maj. Council, in defence of his Resolution in Religion.— Printed 1601. oct.  
Brief apology or defence of the Catholic Ecclesiastical Hierarchy and Subordination in England, erected these later years by P. Clem. 8. and impugned by certain Libels printed and published of late, etc. S. Omer 1601. in oct. Soon after were certain notes wrote on this by Humph. Ely.  
Manifestation of the folly and bad spirit of certain in England, calling them Secular Priests— Printed 1602. qu. This is called a Libel in a Reply made to it by W. C. printed 1603. qu. And it was animadverted upon by A. C. in his Second Letter to his dis-jesuited Kinsman, concerning the appeal, state, Jesuits, etc. Printed 1602. qu.  
A Decachordon of 10 Quodlibetical Questions, about the contentions between the Seminary Priests and the Jesuits.— Printed 1602. qu.  
De perigrinatione lib. 1. Printed in tw. This I have not yet seen, and therefore know not whether it be in Lat. or Engl.  
The Warnword to Sir Franc. Hastings Wastword.— Pr. 1602. in oct.  
Answer to O. E. whether Papists ' or Protestants be true Catholics.— Pr. (1603.) in ect.  
Treatise of the three conversions from Paganism to Christian Religion— Published under the name of N. D. that is Nic. Doleman, in three Volumes in oct. The first Vol. which containeth two parts of the said treatise, was printed at S. Omers an. 1603. The second Vol. which containeth the third part of the treatise, and an Examen of the Calendar or Catalogue of Protestant Saints, Martyrs, and Confessors, devised by Joh. Fox, etc. for the first six months, was printed at the said place in 1604. And the third Vol. which containeth also the third part of the treatise, and an Examen of the said Calendar of John Fox for the last six months, was printed at the same place in the same year, under the initial Letters of N. D. When the said three Volumes were first published, they were sold in Oxon for 20 shillings, but some years after the Restauration of K. Ch. 2. I bought them for 3 sh. The same year (1604) came out Around answer to Parsons, alias Doleman the Noddy, in qu. but whither to any of the former treatises, I know not.  
A relation of a trial made before the K. of France, upon the year 1600. between the Bishop of Eureux and the Lord Pleffis Mornay; about certain points of corrupting and falsifying authors, whereof the said Plessis was openly convicted. S. Omers 1604 in oct. Published under the initial Letters of N. D.  
A defence of the precedent relation of a conference about Religion— Printed with the Relation of a Trial, etc.  
Review of ten public disputations or conferences, held within the compass of four years, under K. Ed. and Q. Marry, concerning some principal points in Religion, especially of the Sacrament and Sacrifice of the Altar. S. Omer 1604. in oct. under the name of N. D.  
Forerunner of Bell's downfall; or an answer to Tho. Bells downfall of Popery— Pr. 1605. in oct.  
An answer to the fifth part of Reports lately set forth by Sir Edw. Coke Knight, the King's Attorney Gen. etc. S. Omer 1606. in qu. Published under the name of a Cath. Divine.  
De Sacris alienis non adeundis, quaestiones duae: Ad usum praximque Angliae breviter explicatae. Audomar 1607. in oct.  
Treatise tending to mitigation towards Cath. Subjects in England, against Tho. Morton— Pr. 1607. qu. The said Morton was afterwards Bishop of Durham.  
The judgement of a Catholic Gent. concerning K. James his Apology for the oath of Allegiance. S. Omer 1608. in qu. Answered by Will. Barlow Bishop of Lincoln.  
Sober reckoning with Mr. Tho. Morton— Pr. 1609. qu.  
Discussion of Mr. Barlowes answer to The judgement of a Catholic Englishman concerning the Oath of Allegiance. S. Omer 1612. This book being almost finished before Persons' death, was afterwards completed and published by Tho. Fitzherbert. See more in Tho. Fitzherbert under the year 1640.  
The Liturgy of the Mass, of the Sacrament of the Mass— Pr. 1620. in qu.  
A memorial for reformation: or, a remembrance for them that shall live when Catholic Religion shall be restored in England, in 3 parts.— 'Tis the same, I suppose, that is called The high Court or Council of Reformation for England. The author of it, though twenty years (as 'tis said) in compiling it, (all which time and after, it was secretly kept) yet it was never printed in his time. 'Twas finished by him 1596. and, as I have been informed, 'twas published some years after his death. At length a copy of it coming into his hands of Edw. Gee Rector of S. Benedict, near Paul's Wharf in Lond. and Chaplain in Ord. to K. Will. and Qu. Marry, he published it under this title: A Memorial of the Reformation of England; containing certain notes and advertisements, which seem might be proposed in the first Parliament, and National Council of our Country, after God of his mercy, shall restore it to the Catholic Faith, for the better establishment and preservation of the said Religion. Lond. 1690. oct. To which the said Edw. Gee hath put before it an Introduction, and added some Animadversions.  
Controversiae nostri temporis in Epitomen redactae. MS. in Balliol coll. Library, written with the authors own hand. In the front of which is this written: Compilator hujusce Epitomes est Robertus Personius, ut patet ex Johanne Rainold● in censura librorum Apochryphorum, praelectione secunda, pag. 22. ex editione Hieronimi Galleri in nobili Openhemio. He also translated from English into the Spanish tongue, A relation of certain Martyrs in England. Madrid 1590. oct. At length after he had spent his life in continual agitation for the cause, gave up the ghost at Rome 15 Ap. according to the account there followed, which is the fifth day of the same month with us, in sixteen hundred and ten, and was buried in the Church or Chappel belonging to the English coll. year 1610 there. Soon after was a monument put over his Grave, with a large inscription thereon, which for brevity sake I shall now pass by. In the Rectorship of the said English coll. succeeded Tho. Owen a Welshman.  
RICHARD KNOLLES of the same family with those of his name, living at Cold-Ashby in Northamptonshire, made his first entry into this University, in 1560. or thereabouts, took one degree in Arts four years after, and then was elected Fellow of Lincoln college, where, after he had proceeded in that faculty, did purpose to perform (if God granted him life) something that might be profitable to the Christian Commonwealth, as in time God should give him means and occasions. In the mean while Sir Peter Manwood of S. Stephen's near to Canterbury, Knight of the Bath, minding to be a favourer of his studies, called him from the University, and was by 〈◊〉 preferred to be Master of the Free-School at Sandwich in Kent, where being settled, he did much good in his Profession, and sent many Young men to the Universities. And though he was there in a world of troubles and cares, and in a place that afforded no means of comfort to proceed in great works, yet he performed much for the benefit of History at his vacant hours, upon the desire of the said Sir Peter, as it doth appear by these his works following.  
The history of the Turks, Lond. 1610. etc. fol. which book he composed in about 12 years' time. And though it all goes under his name, yet some there be that think he was not the sole author of it, because therein are found divers translations of Arabic Histories, in which Language he was not at all seen, as some that knew him have averred. In other editions of this book, for there have been at least five, it beareth this title, The general History of the Turks, from the first beginning of that Nation, to the rising of the Ottoman Family, etc. It hath been continued from Knolles' death by several hands; and one continuation was made from the year 1628. to the end of the year 1637. collected out of the dispatches of Sir Pet. Wyche Kt. Embass. at constantinople, and others, by Tho. Nabbes a writer (for the most part comical) to the English Stage in the Reign of K. Ch. 1. A continuation of the Turkish Hist. from 1623. to 1677. was made by Paul Rycaut Esq late Consul at Smyrna— Lond. 1679.  
The Lives and Conquests of the Ottoman Kings and Emperors, to the year 1610. Lond. 1621. Continued from that time (1610.) to 1621. by another hand.  
A brief discourse of the greatness of the Turkish Empire, and where the greatest strength thereof consisteth, etc.  
Grammat. Latin, Graecae & Hebr. compendium, cum radicibus. Lond. in oct. He also translated from the French and Lat. copies into English, The six books of a Commonwealth. Lond. 1606. fol. written by Joh. Bodin a famous Lawyer. At length this our author Knolles dying at Sandwich, before he had quite attained to the age of Man, in sixteen hundred and ten, year 1610 was buried in St. Mary's Church there, on the second of July the same year, leaving behind him the character of an industrious, learned, and religious person.  
FRANCIS HASTINGS, fifth Son of Francis Earl of Huntingdon, was born, as it seems, in Leicestershire, where his Father mostly lived, educated in Madg. coll. under the tuition of Dr. Laur. Humphrey, in the beginning of Q. Elizabeth's Reign, from whom sucking in many Calvinistical Opinions, proved, when he was ripe in years, a severe Puritan and Predestinatian, (as his elder Brother George was, who was trained up at Geneva under Theod. Beza,) and a most zealous Man for the reformed Religion. Two other Brothers also were as zealous for the Church of Rome, yet all for a time lived friendly together. Afterwards our author Francis was Knighted by Q. Elizabeth, and being several times chosen a Parliament-man in her Reign, became a frequent Speaker in them, and at first a violent Man against the Papists, though afterwards a favourer, especially at that time when he and Sir Rich. Knightly of Northamptonshire presented a Petition to the Parliament for favour, or a toleration to be given to them. Whereby it appeared then to the observer, that the Putitan could join with the Papist against the Church of England. He was a learned Gentleman, well read in authors, especially in those relating to the controversies between the Protestants and Papists, as it appears by his works, the titles of which follow.  
The Watchword to all truehearted Englishmen. Lond. 1598. oct. Which title did imitate that belonging to a book printed at Lond. in qu. an. 1584. running thus, A Watchword to England to beware of Traitors, and treacherous practices, etc. But the Watchword of Sir F. Hastings being answered by Nic. Doleman alias Rob. Persons in his Temperate Wardword, our author came out with.  
An a●●logy or defence of the Watchword, against the virulent and seditious Wardword, published by an English Spaniard under the title of N. D. Lond. 1600 qu. In which year came out also another book in defence of Hastings, intit. A brief reply to a certain odious and scandalous Libel, lately published by a seditious Jesuit calling himself, N. D. etc. entit. A temperate Wardword.— Printed at Lond. in qu. but who the author of it was, I know not. Another also who writes himself O. E. published a second reply the same year against the said Temperate Wardword. Against which, or another book relating to the said controversy, came out, A confutation of a vaunting challenge made by O. E. unto N. D. Pr. 1603. in oct. written by W. R. a Rom. Catholic. Our author Sir Francis also wrote,  
The Wastword, etc.— Pr. at Lond. 1601. oct. Answered by Persons' book called The Warnword, an. 1602.  
Meditations.— Printed several times in 16ᵒ.  
Several Speeches in Parliament.— Some of which are printed in H. Townshends Collections.  
Remonstrance to his Majesty and Privy Council on the behalf of persecuted Protestants, setting forth his Maj. interest, laying safely in protecting them, and encouraging the preaching of the Gospel, and in being more watchful against the Papists.— MS. in qu.  
Discourse of Predestination.— MS. in the hands of the present Earl of Huntingdon, with other things. All or most of which books were written at North-Cadbury in Somersetshire, where he mostly lived after he was married, being also a Justice of Peace for that County. He died in the month of Sept. in sixteen hundred and ten, year 1610 and was buried on the 22. of the said month in the Chancel of N. Cadbury Church, near to the body of his Lady, who died 14. June 1596. To the memory of whom, Sir Francis put up a Monument in the wall over her grave, with an inscription thereon, engraven on a Brass plate, leaving then a blank for his own Name to be put after his death, but was never performed.  
NATHANIEL POWNOLL, a Kentish Man born, (in, or near, Canterbury,) was entered a Batler of Broadgates' hall in Michaelmas-Term, an. 1599 aged 15. and two years after was made a Student of Ch. Ch. where being an indefatigable plodder at his book, and running through with wonderful diligence all the forms of Philosophy, took the degree of M. of Arts, an. 1607. His life, as it deserved well of all, so it was covetous of no Man's commendation, himself being as far from pride, as his desert was near it. He lived constantly in the University 10 years, in which time he learned eight Languages, watched often, daily exercised, always studied, insomuch that he made an end of himself in an over fervent desire to benefit others. And though he had, out of himself, sweat all his Oil for his Lamp, and had laid the Sun a-bed by his labours, yet he never durst adventure to do that, after all these studies done and ended, which our young Novices, doing nothing, count nothing to do; but still thought himself as unfit, as he knew all men were unworthy, of so high an Honour, as to be the Angels of God. And since in him so great examples of piety, knowledge, industry, and unaffected modesty have been long since fallen asleep, there is no other way left but to commend the titles of his Monuments to posterity, which are these.  
The young Divines Apology for his continuance in the University.  
Meditations on the Sacred Calling of the Ministry.  
Comment or Meditation on the first seven Penitential Psalms of David.  
His daily Sacrifice.— All which were printed at Cambridge, an. 1612. and the two first at Oxon. 1658. oct. He died in the prime of his years, to the great grief of those who well knew his piety and admirable parts, about the year sixteen hundred and ten, year 1610 but where buried, unless in the Cath. of Ch. Ch. I know not. One Nathaniel Pownoll of the City of Bristol Gent. Registrarie of the Diocese of Bristol died 28. March 1611. and was buried in the Chancel of Little S. Augustine's Church there, but of what kin he was to the former, I know not.  
NICHOLAS HILL, a native of the City of London, was educated in Grammaticals in Merchant-Taylors School, in Academicals in St. John's coll. of which he became Scholar in 1587. and in that of his age 17. In 1592. he took a degree in Arts, being then Fellow of that house, left it before he proceeded in that Faculty, and applying himself to the study of the Lullian doctrine, became most eminent in it. About that time he was a great favourite of Edward the poetical 〈…〉 of Oxford, spent some time with him, while 〈◊〉 co●●umed his Estate beyond the Sea and at home. After that count's death, or rather before, he was taken into the re●●●ue of that most noble and generous person Henry 〈◊〉 of Northumberland, with whom he continued for some time in great esteem. At length being suspected to comply with certain Traitors against K. James fled beyond the Seas and there died. He hath written a book intit.  
Philosophia Epicurca, Democritana, T 〈…〉 a simpliciter, non e 〈…〉 a Par. 1601. 〈…〉 Dedicated to his little Son Laurence Hill. 〈…〉 edit. and perhaps with others, is printed, 〈…〉 prae 〈…〉 io cui 〈…〉 hands of his Widow, various matters under his own hand-writing, but nothing that I can learn, fit for the Press. Among them are imperfect papers concerning the Eternity, infinity, etc. of the World, and others of the Essence of God, etc. Some of which coming into the hands of William Backhouse of Swallowfield in Berks. Esq from the Widow of the said Nich. Hill, living behind Bow Church in London, about 1636. various copies were taken of them, and Edm. Earl of Mulgrave about that time having a copy, another was taken thence by one Dr. Joh. Everard, part of which I have seen under another hand. This is all, of truth, that I know of Nich. Hill, only that his name is mentioned by 
* In his Epigrams numb. 134.  Ben. Johnson thus. 
— Those Atomies ridiculous,  
Whereof old Democrite, and Hill Nicholis,  
One said, the other swore, the World consists.   
There are several traditions going from Man to Man concerning this Nich. Hill, one of which is this, that while he was Secretary to the Earl of Oxford beforementioned, he, among other accounts, brought in this to him, Item for making a man. 10l.— 0— 0. Which, he being required to explain by the Count, he said he had merely out of charity given that sum to a poor man, who had several times told him, that ten pounds would make him a man. Another is this, which I had from Dr. Joseph Maynard, sometimes Rector of Exeter coll. (younger Brother to Sir Joh. Maynard Sergeant at Law,) who had it from Mr. Rob. Hues author of the book De Globis, (an intimate acquaintance of Hill,) while he continued in Oxon in his last days, that is to say, That he was one of those learned men who lived with the Earl of Northumberland, that he fell into a Conspiracy with one Basset, who pretended some right to the Crown. Upon which he was forced to fly into Holland, where he settled at Rotterdam, with his Son Laurence, and practised Physic. At length his said Son dying there of the Plague, did so much afflict him, that he went into an Apothecary's shop, swallowed poison, and died in the place, etc. which by several is supposed to be about sixteen hundred and ten. year 1610 But leaving these reports to such that delight in them, and are apt to snap at any thing to please themselves, I shall only say that our author Hill was a person of good parts, but humorous, that he had a peculiar and affected way, different from others, in his writings, that he entertained fantastical notions in Philosophy, and that as he had lived most of his time in the Romish Persuasion, so he died, but cannot be convinced that he should die the death of a Fool or a Madman.  
WILLIAM GAGER was elected a Student of Ch. Church from Westminster School in 1574. took the degrees in Arts, and afterwards entering on the Law line, took the degrees in that Faculty also, in 1589. About which time, being famed for his excellencies therein, became Chancellor of the Diocese of Ely, and much respected by the Bishop thereof Dr. Martin Heton. He was an excellent Poet, (especially in the Lat. tongue, as several copies of verses, printed occasionally in various books, show,) and reputed the best Comedian of his time, whether it was Edward Earl of Oxford, Will. Rowley the once ornament for wit and ingenuity of Pembroke hall in Cambridge, Rich. Edward's, Joh. Lylie, Tho. Lodge, Geor Gascoigne, Will. Shakespeare, Tho. Nash, or Joh. Heywood. He was also a man of great gifts, a good Scholar, and an honest person, and (as it should seem by Dr. Joh. Rainolds' several answers and replies to what this Doctor hath written,) hath said more for the defence of Plays than can be well said again by any Man that should succeed or come after him. The cause for the defence of Plays was very wittily and Scholarlike maintained between the said two Doctors for some time, but upon the rejoinder of Rainolds, Gager did let go his hold, and in a Christian modesty and humility yielded to the truth, and quite altered his judgement. He hath written several Plays, among which are,  
Ulysses redux.  
Rivales. Both which were several times acted in the large Refectory, of Ch. Ch. but whether ever printed, I cannot yet tell. The last was acted before Albert Alaskie Prince of Sirad, a most learned Polonian, in June 1583. in which year he purposely came into England, to do his devotions to, and admire the wisdom of, Queen Elizabeth. After he had beheld and heard the Play with great delight in the said Refectory, he gave many thanks in his own person to the author.  
Meleager, Trag. Written also in Latin, as the two former were, and acted publicly in Ch. Ch. hall, an. 1581. or thereabouts, before the Earl of Pembroke, Rob. Earl of Leicester Chanc. of the Uniu. of Ox. Sir Ph. Sidney, and many other considerable persons. This Tragedy giving great delight, was shortly after acted there again, and at length in 1592. 'twas printed at Oxon in oct. to the great content of Scholars. A copy of the said Tragedy, with two letters, being sent by the author to Dr. Jo. Rainolds, (in which letters, as I conceive, were many things said in defence of Theatre sights, stageplays, etc.) the said Doctor drew up an answer, dated at Queen's coll. 10. Jul. 1592. Whereupon our author Gager making a reply, with a desire to Rainolds to forbear any farther writing against him, yet Rainolds came out with a rejoinder in July 1593. As for Gagers' letters and reply, I think they were not printed, for among my searches, I could never see a copy of them. The answer of Rainolds with his rejoinder, I am sure were printed under the title of, The overthrow of stageplays, etc. This is all that I know of our author Gager, only that he was living in, 
Clar. 1610.  or near to, the City of Ely, in sixteen hundred and ten, and that he wrote the Latin Epistle before the book of verses made by the University of Oxon. intit. Exequiae D. Philippi Sidnaei. Oxon. 1587. qu. In which book also he hath copies of verses on the death of that famous Knight; who, while he was in being, had a very great respect for the learning and virtues of Gager; of whom you may see more in Joh. Rainolds, under the year 1607. and in Will. Heale, who next follows. In 1615. was published a book at London in qu. intit. A refutation of the Apology for Actors, but by whom written I know not, for only the two letters J. G. are set to it.  
WILLIAM HEALE, a zealous maintainer of the honour of the Female Sex, was a Devonian born, being originally descended from an ancient and gentile Family of his name, living at South-Heale in the same County, became a Sojourner of Exeter coll. in 1599 aged 18. took the degrees in Arts, and became Chaplain-Fellow of that house, wherein he wrote and compiled,  
An apology for Woman: Or, an opposition to Mr. Doctor G. (Gager) his assertion, 
Clar. 1610.  who held in the Act at Oxon. an. 1608. That it was lawful for Husbands to beat their Wives. Oxon. 1609. qu. What preferment he afterwards had in the Church, or whether he wrote any thing else, I find not. He was always esteemed an ingenious Man, but weak, as being too much devoted to the fem. Sex.  
ALBERICUS GENTILIS, the most noted and famous Civilian, and the grand ornament of the University in his time, Brother to the eminent writer Scipio Gentilis, and both the Sons of Matthew Gentilis Doctor of Physic, by Lucretia his Wife, was born at La Chastell St. Genes in a Province of Italy called La Marca d' Ancona, educated mostly in the University of Perugia, where being made Doctor of the Civil Law, in 1572. aged 21. soon after left his Country for Religion sake, with his Father and younger Brother Scipio beforementioned. The Father and Scipio settled in Germany, but Albericus going into England found relief from several persons in London, and, by recommendations, obtained the patronage of Robert Dudley Earl of Leicester, Chancellor of the University of Oxon. But our learned author being desirous to lead an Academical life, he procured the Chancellors letters for that purpose, dated 24. Nou. 1580. wherein it appears, that he left his Country for Religion sake, and that his desire was to bestow some time in reading and other exercises of his profession in the University, etc. Soon after the date of the said letters, he journeyed to Oxon, and by the favour of Dr. Dan. Donne Principal of New Inn, and his successor Mr. Price, he had a convenient Chamber allowed to him in the said Inn, and not only moneys given towards his maintenance by several Societies, but soon after 6 l.— 13 s.— 4 d. per an. from the common Chest of the University. In the latter end of 1580, he was incorporated Doctor of the Civil Law of this University, as he had stood before in that of Perugia; and after he had continued some years in the said Inn, where he wrote certain books, and laid the foundation of others (of which the Students thereof have gloried in my hearing) he receded either to C. C. coll. or to Ch. Ch. and became the flower of the University for his profession. In 1587. the Queen gave 
a Vide Hist. & Antiq. Uniu. Oxon. lib. 2. p. 40.  him the Lecture of the Civil Law for his farther encouragement, which he executed for about 24 years with great applause. As for the books by him published, which speak him most learned beyond the Seas, were all written in the University of Oxon; the titles of which are these.  
De juris interpretibus, dialogi sex. Lond. 1582. qu. Dedicated to Rob. E. of Leicester, being the authors first fruits of his lucubrations.  
Lectionum & Epistolarum quae ad jus civile pertinent lib. 1. Lond. 1583. oct.  
De legationibus lib. 3. Lond. 1585. qu. Hannou. 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. etc.  
De jure belli come. sec. Lond. 1588. qu. etc.  
De jure belli come. ter. Lond. 1589. qu. etc.  
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. Hannou. 1599 oct. etc.  
Disputationes duae. 1. De Actoribus & Spectatoribus fabularum non notandis. 2. De abusu mendacii. Hannou. 1599 oct. etc.  
Duae literae ad Joh. Rainoldum de Ludio Scenicis. Middleb. 1599 Ox. 1629. qu. They are at the end of a book called, The overthrow of stageplays. 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 pàrergica. This disputation, with the other immediately going before, are remitted into the fifth vol. of Critics, p. 8073, 8093.  
Disputationum de nuptiis libri seven. Hannou. 1601. oct. etc.  
Lectionis Virgilianae variae liber. Hannou. 1603. Written to Rob. Gentilis his Son.  
Ad tit. cod. de Maleficis & Math. de caeteris similibus commentarius. Hannou. 1604.  
Item Argumenti ejusd. commentatio ad lib. 3. cod. de professoribus & medicis. Han. 1604.  
Laudes Academiae Perusianae & Oxoniensis. Hanou. 1605. oct. Dedicated to Dr. Ralph Hutchinson Precedent of S. John's coll. by Rob. Gentilis his Son, than 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. Hannou. 1605. oct.  
Disp. 3. 1. De ●●testate Regis absolutâ. 2. De union 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. Hannou. 1607.  
Epistola ad Joh. Howsonum S. T. P. In which Epistle our author doth learnedly interpose his judgement concerning Dr. Pies book of divorce. Printed at the end of Dr. Burhills book intit. In controversiarum, etc. an. 1606. qu. See more in Tho. Pie, an. 1609. and in Rob. Burhill, an. 1641. The Reader is to note, that besides the answers of Pie and Gentilis, one Joh. Dove did prepare a third answer, but whether it was ever printed, I cannot tell.  
Hispanicae advocationis libri 2. Hannou. 1613. qu.  
Comm. in tit. Digestorum & verborum significatione. Hannou. 1614 qu.  
Discourse of Marriages by proxy— Written to Egerton L. Chancellor 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 
* In Offic. prerog. in Reg. Cope, part. 2. qu. 12.  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, etc. 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 remembered Alb. Gentilis, be right, it is evident, that he the said Alb. Gentilis died in Oxon. He left behind him a Widow 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 Carlisle in Cumberland Esq was born in that City, or at least in the County, educated in Grammaticals in Eton School near Windsor, elected Scholar of King's 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 licenced to proceed in that Faculty in Dec. 1556. Which degree being completed 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. Laurence 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. John's 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. Paul's 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. etc. oct. Written in long and short vers. He died at Stanford-riuèrs before-mentioned, 15. Apr. in sixteen hundred and eleven, year 1611 (having resigned Paul's 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, etc.  
JAMES COOK, who writes himself Cocus, received his first breath at Chale in the Isle of Wight, his Grammatical education in Wykehams' School, his Academical in New coll. of which he became perpetual Fellow in 1592. being then accounted a good Latin Poet, as several of his copies, which afterwards were printed, testify. In 1608. he proceeded in the Civil Law, being about that time Rector of Houghton in Hampshire, and in good esteem for his profession and excellencies in the Greek tongue. His works are,  
Juridicum trium questionum ad majestatem pertinentium determinatio, in quarum primâ & ultimâ processus judicialis contra H. Garnetum institutus ex jure civili & canonico defendetur, etc. Oxon. 1608. qu. Dedicated to Bilson Bishop of Winchester, to whom he was then Chaplain.  
Poematavaria. year 1611 He gave up the ghost in sixteen hundred and eleven, but where buried, unless in his Church of Houghton, I know not. One James Co●k of Warwick Chirurgeon, and a pretender to Physic, hath published certain matters relating to Physic and Chirurgery, in the Reign of Oliver and after; and therefore not to be taken for the same with the Civilian.  
JOHN BLAGRAVE, the second Son of John Blagrave of Bulmarsh Court, near to Sonning in Berkshire, by Ann his Wife Daughter of Sir Auth. Hungerford of Downe-Ampney in Gloucestershire Knight, was born in Berks. educated in School-learning at Reading, in Philosophical among the Oxonians, particularly, as it seems, in St. John's coll. about the time of its first Foundation. But leaving Oxon without the honour of a degree, retired to his Patrimony which was at Southcote Lodge in the Parish of S. Mary at Reading, and prosecuted with great Zeal his Mathematical Genie to so considerable an height, that he was esteemed the flower of Mathematicians of his age. He hath written and published these books following.  
A mathematical Jewel, showing the making and most excellent use of an Instrument so called: the use of which Jewel, is so abundant, that it leadeth the direct pathway through the whole art of Astronomy, Cosmography, Geography, etc. Lond. 1585. fol.  
Of the making and use of the Familiar Staff so called, as well for that it may be made usually and familiarly to walk with, as for that it performeth the Geometrical mensurations of all altitudes, etc. Lond. 1590. qu.  
Astrolabium Vranicum generale. A necessary and pleasant Solace and Recreation for Navigators in their long journeying, containing the use of an Instrument or general Astrolabe, etc. compiled 1596.— Printed in qu.  
The Art of dialing in two parts. The first showing plainly, etc. Lond. 1609. qu. with other things as 'tis probable which I have not yet seen. This worthy Mathematician, who had a most generous love for his kindred, gave way to fate in sixteen hundred and eleven, year 1611 and was buried in the Church of S. Laurence within the ancient Borough of Reading. Soon after was a fair Monument erected in the Wall (with his Bust to the middle) over-against the Desk there, where his Mother was before buried. Part of the Epitaph which is engraven under his said Bust or proportion, runs thus. Johannes Blagravius totus Matthematicus, cum matre Sepultus: Obiit 9 Aug. 1611. 
Here lies his Corpse, which living had a Spirit,  
Wherein much worthy knowledge did inherit.  
By which, with zeal, one God he did adore,  
Left for Maid-Servants, and to feed the Poor, etc.   
From one of the brethren of this Mathematician, was descended Daniel Blagrave a Counsellor at Law, who running with the rout in the beginning of the Rebellion, was chosen a Burgess for Reading, to serve as a Recruiter in the Parliament, began at Westminster 3. Nou. 1640. About the same time he was made Steward of Reading and Treasurer of Berks, and had given to him the Exegenters' Office of the Common Pleas, than esteemed 500 l. per an. Afterwards he was one of the Judges of K. Ch. 1. bought the King's Fee-Farm of the great Manor of Sonning beforementioned, and other Estates at very easy rates, was Master extraordinary in Chancery, a constant Rumper, and a great persecutor of the ministers in and near, Reading, especially when an Act of Parliament issued out for the ejection of such, whom they then (1654.) called Scandalous, ignorant and insufficient Ministers and Schoolmasters. At length upon the approach of his Majesty's Restauration, in 1659-60 he fled from the justice, retired to Acon in Germany, where living some years under a disguised name, died in an obscure condition, an. 1668. and was buried in a certain piece of ground, somewhat distant from that City, appointed to receive the bodies of such whom they there call Heretics.  
RALPH BUCKLAND, an Esquires Son, was born of, and descended from, an ancient and gentile family of his name (living at West-Harptre) in Somersetshire, became a Commoner of Mag. coll. in Mich. term, 1579. aged 15 or thereabouts, but before he took a degree, he went to London and studied the municipal Laws for some time. At length being inflamed with a love to the Rom. Cath. Religion, he left his Parents, Country, and the prospect of a fair Inheritance, (for he was the first Heir to his Father) and went forthwith (by the instigation without doubt of some Priest) to the English coll. at Rheimes; in which place, and at Rome he spent about 7 years in the eager obtaining of knowledge in Philosophy and Divinity. Afterwards being made Priest and sent into the mission of England, lived chiefly, I presume, in his own Country, and spent above 20. years in doing offices belonging to his profession. The things that he hath written and published are these.  
Seven sparks of the enkindled Soul.  
Four lamentations, which composed in the hard times of Qu. Elizabeth, may be used at all times, when the Church happeneth to be extremely pesecuted.  
●Drawn out of the holy Scriptures after the form of Psalms.— Printed in twelves.  
In the Title, or end, of these two little things (with which was printed A Jesus Psalter, but by whom written, or published it appears not) there is no place or time mentioned, where, or when, they were printed, neither is the Epistle dedicatory to his Mother B. B. dated: However that they were printed after K. James 1. came to the Crown of England, appears in the first Psalm p. 12. thus By the hand of thy great Servant James, Shake off our Yoke: that we may find him an honourable Comforter,— Beautify him with a name, more precious than his Crown: by the true name of a good King, etc. A Copy of the said two little things, which contain Ejaculations very full of most servant devotion for the reconcilement of England and Scotland to the Rom. Church, coming afterwards into the hands of the most learned Dr. Usher Primate of Ireland, he took occasion in a 
* MS. in bib. Tho. Martial nuper Rect. coll. Linc.  Sermon preached in S. Mary's Church in Oxon, 5. Nou. 1640. to tell the learned Auditory then present, that the said two books having been printed at Rome in 1603. or thereabouts, the Gunpowder-Treason which was discovered two years after in England, was then there known, and Prayers sent up to God Almighty for a prosperous success thereof, from certain passages therein (drawn, as 'tis said in the title, out of the holy Scripture) which he then publicly read before them, some, i' not all, of which are these.— Psal. 2. p. 25 confirm their hearts in hope: for the redemption is not far off. The year of visitation draweth to an end: and jubulation is at hand.— Psal. 2. p. 32. But the memory of novelties shall perish with a crack: as a ruinous house falling to the ground.— Ibid. p. 33. He will come as a flame that burneth out beyond the Furnace, etc. His fury shall fly forth as Thunder.— Psal. 4. p. 54. The crack was heard into all Lands; and made Nations quake for fear.— Ibid. p. 66. In a moment canst thou crush her bones, etc. All which passages, delivered from the Pulpit, by that learned and godly Archbishop, being then generally believed, I must make bold to tell the Reader, being an eager pursuer of Truth, that by the several Copies of the said Books which I have seen, it doth not appear at all, that they were printed at Rome, or elsewhere: and if it may really be guessed by the make or mould of the Letter, wherewith they were printed, I should rather take them (as one or more Doctors of this University do the like) to have been printed, either at Rheimes or Douai, or not unlikely at Antwerp; for at Rome there were seldom before that time, then, or since, such sine or clear letters used, as, by multitudes of Books, which I have seen, that were printed at that place, appears, nor indeed ever were, or are, any English Books printed there. Our author Buckland hath also written,  
An Embassage from Heaven, wherein our Lord Christ giveth to understand his indignation against all such, as being catholickly minded, dare yield their presence to the rites and public prayers of the Malignant Church— Printed in octavo, but where, or when, it appears not, either in the beginning, or end, of the said Book. He also translated from Lat. into English a Book entit. De persecutione Vandelica. lib. 3. Written by Victor Bishop of Biserte or Benserte in Africa. Which Bishop was in great renown according to Bellarmine 
† In lib. cui tit. est. De Scriptoribus Ecclesiast— Col. Agrip. 1631. p. 156.  an. Ch. 490. Also the six Tomes of Laur. Surius entit. De vitis Sanctorum. Which translation I have seen often quoted, under the name of Robert (instead of Ralph) Buckland. What else our zealous Author hath written and translated, I find not as yet, nor any thing else of him, only that he dying in sixteen hundred and eleven, year 1611 was buried, I presume, in his own Country near to the Graves of his Ancestors, who were all zealous R. Catholics, but since not. He left behind him among the Brethren the character of a most pious and seraphical person, a person who went beyond all of his time for fervent devotion.  
FRANCIS THYNNE was lineally descended from Thom. at the Inn, otherwise Thynne, of Stretton in Shropshire, Son of Ralph Botevill of the same place, descended from an ancient and gentile Family of his name living elsewhere, was educated in Grammaticals in Tunbridge School in Kent, (in which County, as it seems, he was born,) where being fitted for higher learning by Jo. Proctor Master thereof, (whom I have mentioned elsewhere,) was thence sent to this University, at which time several of his Surname of Wilts, studied there, and one of both his names, and a Knight's Son of the same County, was a Commoner of Magd. coll. in 1577. Whether our author Franc. Thynne went afterwards to Cambridge, or was originally a Student there before he came to Oxon, I cannot justly say it. Sure it is, that his Genie tempting him to leave the crabbedness of Logic and Philosophy, and to embrace those delightful studies of Histories and Genealogies, he became at length one of the Officers of Arms, by the title of Blanch-Lyon, and afterwards Herald by that of Lancaster, which he kept to his dying day. His works are,  
The Annals of Scotland in some part, continued from the time in which Ra. Holinshed left, being an. 1571. unto the year 1586. Lond. 1586. fol. There are also the catalogues of the Protectors, Governors or Regent's of Scotland during the King's Minority, or the Minority of several Kings, or their insufficiency of Government. There are also the catalogues of all Dukes of Scotland by creation or descent, of the Chancellors of Scotland, Archbishops of St. Andrews, and divers writers of Scotland.  
Catalogue of English Cardinals.— Set down in R. Holinsheds' Chron. at the end of Q. Mary: Used and followed in many things by Francis Bishop of Landaff, in his Cat. or Hist. of them, at the end of his book De Praesubibus Angliae Com.  
Cat. of the Lord Chancellors of England.— MS. From which, as also from the endeavours made that way by Rob. Glover sometimes Somerset Herald, and of Tho. Talbot formerly Clerk of the Records in the Tower of London, John Philpot, Som. Herald, did frame his Cat. of the Chanc. of England, etc. Lond. 1636. qu.  
The perfect Ambassador, treating of the antiquity, privileges and behaviour of men belonging to that function, etc.— This was published in 12ᵒ. in the times of the late Usurpation, and therefore is supposed to be very imperfect.  
A discourse of Arms, wherein is showed the blazon, and cause of divers English, Forreign, and devised Coats, together with certain Ensigns, Banners, Devises, and Supporters, of the Kings of England.— MS. sometimes in the Library of Ralph Sheldon of Beoly Esq now (by his gift 1684.) among the books of the College of Arms near St. Paul's Cath. in London. The beginning of this MS. written to Sir Will. Cecyll Lord Burghley, is this, I present unto your rare judgement (right honourable and my singular good Lord) no vulgar conceit of Armoury, etc. The discourse is dated from Clarkenwell-Green, 5. Jan. 1593.  
Several collections of Antiquities, notes concerning Arms, monumental Inscriptions, etc.— MS. in Cottons Lib. under Cleopatra. C. 3. p. 62.  
Miscellanies of the Treasury.— MS. written to Tho. Lord Buckhurst, an. 1599  
Epitaphia, sive monumenta Sepulchrorum Anglicè & Latinè, quam Gallicè.— MS. in a thin fol. in the hands of Sir Henry St. George Clarenceaux K. of Arms. The said Inscriptions, with Arms and Epitaphs, were collected in his travels through several parts of England, and through some of France, and have been ever acceptable to such curious men, and Antiquaries, that have had the happiness to see them. Several of his collections were transferred to obscure hands, which without doubt would be useful if they might be perused; but 'tis feared by some, that they are turned to waste paper. I have seen divers collections of Monuments, made by him from Peterborough Cath. in 1592. several of which Mon. were lost and defaced before Sir Will. Dugdale, or Sim. Gunton made their respective surveys of that ancient Edifice, an. 1640. 41. What other things our author Thynne hath written I know not, nor any thing else of him, year 1611 only that he died in sixteen hundred and eleven. But that which I have forgotten to let the Reader know farther of him, is, that he had several Notes on, and corrections of, Chaucer's Works lying by him; with the helps of which, he did intend to put out that author, with a comment in our English tongue, as the Italians have Peteark and others in their language. But he having been taken off from that good work, he did assist Tho. Speght of Cambridge with his notes and directions, as also with considerable materials for the writing Chaucer's life. Whereupon the said Speght published that author again in 1602. (having in the former edition 1597. had the notes and corrections of Joh. Stow the Chronologer for his assistance,) whereby most of Chaucer's old Words were restored, and Proverbs and Sentences marked. See more in Will. Thynne, under the year 1542. from whom, if I mistake not, this Francis was descended.  
THOMAS HOLLAND was born at Ludlow in Shropshire, elected Socius Sacerdotalis, commonly called Chaplain Fellow of Balliol coll. 13. Jan. 1573. being then Bach. of Arts, and a most noted disputant in that house, and in 1575. proceeding in that Faculty, he became a solid Preacher. Afterwards he took the degrees in Divinity, left his Fellowship in 1583. succeeded Dr. Humphrey in the Divinity-chair 1589. and Glazier in the Rectory of Exeter coll. an. 1592. In which house continuing almost 20 years, appeared in sight under him at one time these noted Scholars, Edw. Chetwind, Dan. and Samp. Price, Rich. Carpenter, Tho. Winniff, Joh. Fleming, Joh. Standard, Joh. Whetcombe, Joh. Prideaux, etc. all Doctors of Divinity. Sim. Baskervill, Rob. Vilvaine, etc. eminent Physicians, with others, to the great credit of our common Mother. This learned Dr. Holland did not, as some, only sip of learning, or at the best drink thereof, but was mersus in Libris; so that the Scholar in him, drowned almost all other relations. He was esteemed by the precise men of his time, and after, another Apollo's, mighty in Scriptures, and so familiar with the Fathers, as if he himself was a Father, and in the Schoolmen, as if he had been a Seraphical Doctor. He hath published,  
Oratio cum Henricus Episc. Sarisburiensis gradum Doctoris susceperet habita. Oxon. 1599 qu.  
Serm. on Matth. 12. 42. Oxon. 1601. qu. He had also a considerable hand in the translation of the Bible, appointed by K. Jam. 1. an. 1604. and left behind him at his death, several things fit for the Press. He departed this mortal life on the 17. of March in sixteen hundred and eleven, 
1611-12.  and was on the 26. of the said month (an. 1612.) buried in the Chancel of St. Mary's Church in Oxon; where being then present all the degrees of the University, Dr. Kilbie Rector of Linc. coll. laid open to them, in a Sermon, the great learning and virtues of him the said Dr. Holland.  
JOHN FEN, a noted translator from Lat. and Ital. into English, and from English into Latin, was born at Montacute near Wells in Somersetshire, educated in the rudiments of Grammar and Music, in the condition of a Choirister within the Precincts of the Cathedral there. Afterwards at riper years he was sent by his Relations to Wykehams' School near Winchester, to the end that he might be fitted for the University. Where, in a short time making great proficiency, he was elected Probationer of New coll. in 1550. (4. Ed. 6.) and two years after being made perpetual Fellow, was then appointed one of those that were to study the Civil Law, which the statute of that house styles Civilistae, but whether he took a degree in that Faculty, it doth not appear in the University Registers. In the Reign of Q. Marry he became Schoolmaster of St. Edmundsbury in Suffolk; where, by his excellent faculty in teaching, the boys were advanced very much in Grammatical learning. But upon the alteration of Religion in the beginning of Q. Elizab. he was forced thence by the giddy zeal of two Scots, that were then settled in those parts. At length he gave a farewell to England, went into the Low Countries, and afterwards into Italy, where spending 4 years in study, returned to the Low Countries again, where, partly at Louvain (at which place he was at length made Confessor to the English Nuns) and partly in the City's adjacent, he spent about 50 years, as an exiled person, doing extraordinary benefit in the way he professed. He hath written,  
Vitae quorundam Martyrum Angliae.— Which, with other matters by him written, may be seen a book intit. Concertatio Eccles. Catholicae in Anglia, etc. See more in Joh. Bridgewater, an. 1594. He also translated from English into Latin several of the Books of Cardinal Joh. Fisher, as, (1) Commentary on the Seven Penitential Psalms. Which book Fisher wrote at the desire of Margaret Countess of Richmind.— Pr. 1509. in qu. (2) Sermon of the Passion of our Saviour. (3) Serm. concerning the justice of the Pharisees and Christians, etc. Also from Lat. into Engl. (1) The Catechism of the Council of Trent. (2) A learned and very eloquent treatise, written by Hieron. Osorius, Bishop of Sylva in Portugal, wherein he confuteth a certain answer, made by Mr. Walt. Haddon, against the Epistle of the said Bishop unto the Queens Maj. Lov. 1568. oct. in 3 books. And lastly from Italian into English, (1) The life of the Blessed Virgin S. Catherine of Sienna.— Print. 1609. oct. originally written by Dr. Caterinus Senensis. (2) Treatise of tribulation. Written by Caccia Guerra. (3) The 15 Mysteries of the rosary. Written by Gasp. Loart. And, lastly, collected from divers ancient English books, Spiritual Treatises, for the use of the Nuns of the Order of St. Bridgit, and other things which I have not yet seen. 
Clar. 1 611.  He ended his days at Louvain, after the year sixteen hundred and eleven, and was, as I presume, buried within the precincts of the Monastery belonging to the English Nuns there. He had a younger Brother named Rob. Fen, who was admitted perpetual Fellow of New coll. in 1555. but removed thence, by the Queen's Commissioners, for being a R. Catholic an. 1562. having a little before been honoured with the degree of Bach. of the Civil Law. Another Brother also he had, called James Fen, who was first a Choirister of New coll. and afterwards Scholar of that of C. C. an. 1554. but put aside from the degree of B. of Arts, and from his place in the said coll. for refusing to take the Oath of Supremacy. Afterwards he settled in Gloucester hall, where he had several Pupils committed to his charge, and was had in great respect by the Seniors of that house. Thence, being forced, he retired to his native Country, (Somersetshire) where he taught a private School, and soon after married. But his Wife dying, he went beyond the Seas, settled at Rheimes for a time, and was made a Priest. Afterwards returning into England, he settled in his native Country, but being soon after apprehended, was conveyed to London, and there kept in prison several weeks. At length being condemned to die, according to the Statute against Seminaries, was executed at Tybourne with George Haddock, Tho. Emerferd, and Joh. Nutter, 12. Febr. 1582/3. All which are enrolled among the R. C. Martyrs, that suffered during the Reign of Q. Elizabeth.  
JOHN CARTWRIGHT, who seems to have been descended from the Cartwrights of Washbourne in Glocestershire, received his Academical education in Magd. coll. but whether he took a degree in this University, it appears not. Afterwards he traveled, was, as it seems, in holy Orders, and after his return published these books following.  
The Preachers travels: Wherein is set down a true Journal to the confines of the E. Indies through the great Countries of Syria, Mesopotamia, Armenia, Media, Hyrcania, and Parthia, etc.  
A relation of Sir Anth. Sherley's entertainment in the Court of the K. of Persia.  
Description of the Port in the Persian Gulf commodious for the East-India Merchants of England.  
Rehearsal of some gross absurdities in the Turkish Alcoran.— Which four Treatises were printed in one vol. at London, 
Cla●. 1611.  1611. in qu. At which time the author of them was living in Southwark near London. Afterwards the said treatises being contracted, were remitted into Sam. Purcha●s second part of Pilgrims, lib. 9 p. 1422. Lond. 1625. fol.  
JOHN BOND (Bondius) a most noted critic in Greek and Latin learning of his time, was born in Somersetshire, educated in Grammaticals in Wykehams' School near Winton, became a Student in this University about the nineteenth year of his age, an. 1569. took a degree in Arts 4 years after, being either one of the Clerks or Chaplains of New coll. and much noted for his proficiency in Academical learning. In 1579. he proceeded in Arts, and had soon after the Mastership of the Free-School of Taunton St. Mary● Madg. in his own, Country conferred on him by the Warden and Society of New coll. At which place continuing many years, he did exercise such an admirable way of teaching, that many departed thence so excellently well grounded in humane learning, that they proved afterwards eminent either in Church or State. At length being in a manner worn out with the drudgery of a School, he did for diversion, I cannot say profit, practice Physic, though he had taken no degree in that Faculty in this University, and became at length Chief Secretary to the Lord Chancellor of England (Egerton) if one 
* Tho. Coryat in his Letters from the Court of the Great Mogul, etc. Lond. 1616. p. 45.  of his admirers may be credited. As for his writings, which are used by the Juniors of our Universities, and in many Free-Schools, and more admired and printed beyond the Seas, than in England, they are these.  
Commentarii in Poemata Q. Horatij Flacci. Printed 1606. oct. and several times after beyond the Sea, and at London.  
Comment. in sex Satyras A. Persii. Lond. 1614 oct. published after the author's death by Rog. Prows, who married his Daughter Elizabeth. He hath at least written, if not published, other things, but such I have not yet seen. He yielded up his last breath on the third of Aug. in sixteen hundred and twelve, year 1612 (being then possessed of several lands and tenements in Taunton, Wilton near Taunton, and in Newenton,) and was buried in the Chancel of the Church at Taunton beforementioned. Over his grave was this Epitaph soon after put. 
Qui Medicus doctus prudentis nomine clarus,  
Eloquii splendour, Pieridumque decus.  
Virtutis cultor, pietatis vixit amicus,  
Hoc jacet in tumulo spiritus alta tenet.   
The Reader is now to know that there was another John Bond, but after the time of the former, Son of Dennis Bond of Dorchester in Dorsetshire, who having been educated in his youthful years under John White, commonly called The Patriarch of Dorchester, and from him sucked in most dangerous principles, was sent to Cambridge, and placed, I think, in S. John's coll. where he took the degree of Bach. of Civ. Law. Afterwards he was made a Lecturer in the City of Exeter, and carried himself conformable for a season. But when the times turned, in 1641. and he saw that the Puritan began to be uppermost, then did he Preach very seditiously, and published what he had said under this title, A door of Hope: Also holy and loyal activity. Two Treatises delivered in several Sermons in Exeter. The first on Psal. 126. 1, 2. and the other on Exod. 17. 11.— Lond. 1641. qu. Both which do contain most scandalous and rebellious stuff, besides what he preached in a Serm. in the said City before the Deputy-lieutenants.— Lond. 1643. qu. So that having thus began his pranks, and showed himself a zealous Brother for the Cause, and a rank Covenanteer, he was made Preacher or Minister of the Savoy in the Strand near London, (in the place of Joh. White beforementioned, when he passed over the water to Lambeth, to take possession of the Rectory there, belonging to Dr. Dan. Featly,) one of the Assembly of Divines, and about that time Doctor of the Laws. This J. Bond, by the way you must know, being scarce warm in the Pulpit, but he began to threaten Heaven with some of his Divinity, by telling the auditory with great zeal, that they ought to contribute, and pray, and do all they were able to bring in their Brethren of Scotland, for the settling of God's Cause; I say this is God's Cause, and if ever God had any Cause, this is it; and if this be not God's Cause, than God is no God for me, but the Devil is got up into Heaven, etc. About the same time he became a frequent Preacher before the Long-Parliament, and hath 3 or more Sermons preached before the Members thereof published, as, (1) Salvation in a mystery, etc. on Jer. 45. 25. Lond. 1644. qu. It was a Fast Serm. pr. before the H. of Commons, 27. Mar. 1644. (2) Ortus occidentalis, or a dawning in the West, etc. on Isa. 25. 9 Lond. 1645. qu. 'Twas a Thanksgiving Serm. for the Parliament Forces their gaining of bath, Bridgwater, Sherbourne Castle, etc. preached before the H. of Commons 22. Aug. 1645. and on the eleventh of Dec. following the said Jo. Bond was made Master of the Hospital called the Savoy under the great Seal. (3) A Thanksgiving Serm. before the H. of Com. on Psal. 50. 23. Lond. 1648. qu. preached on the 19 Jul. 1648. In which year he had a Serm. published, intit. Grapes among Thorns, preached before the H. of Commons. In all which Sermons, as in others, which he delivered in London and Westminster, are contained many strange positions, rebellious doctrines, religious canting, and I know not what. About that time he was made 
* One Joh. Bond Doct. of the Law, was a Recruiter in the Long-Parliament for Melcombe Regis in Dorsetshire, and so he continued till 1653.  Master of Trinity hall in Cambridge, which Mr. Jo. Selden refused, and in 1654. he was made an assistant to the Commissioners of Middlesex and Westminster, for the ejection of such, whom they then called scandalous and ignorant Ministers and Schoolmasters. These things I thought fit to let the Reader know, that posterity may distinguish between the said two Bonds, the first a polite and rare critic, whose labours have advanced the Commonwealth of learning very much; and the other an impudent, canting, and blasphemous person; who by his doctrine did lead People to Rebellion, advance the cause of Satan much, and in fine, by his, and the endeavours of his Brethren, brought all things to ruin, merely to advance their unsatiable and ambitious desires. He lived, as I conceive, to the Restauration of K. Ch. 2. an. 1660. being then about 49 years of age; but when, or where he died, I cannot yet learn. His Father Dennis Bond before-mentioned, who was Son of Joh. Bond of Lutton in Dorsetshire, and he the Son of Dennis of the same place, was bred up to the Trade of a Woollendraper in Dorchester; being then a constant hearer and admirer of Jo. White aforesaid, was elected Burgess (with Denzil Hollis) for the Borough of Dorchester (of which he was then Alderman) to serve in that unhappy Parliament which began at Westminster 3. Nou. 1640. In which, showing himself an active person, first under the opinion of a Presbyterian, and afterwards of an Independent, was designed and pricked down for one of the Judges of K. Ch. 1. an. 1648. but whether he sat, when Sentence was passed upon him, I cannot justly say it, notwithstanding one or more authors say, that he did then sit, and was numbered among the Judges. On the 14. Feb. next following the decollation of that King, he was appointed one of the 30 persons for the Council of State, and ever after showed himself a Devoto to Oliver's interest. On the 30. of Aug. 1658. being then Monday, and the windiest day that had before happened for 20 years, he paid his last debt to nature, being then tormented with the Strangury and much anxiety of Spirit. At which time, as the then vulgar talk was, the Devil came to take away Oliv. Cromwell, who then lay on his deathbed, but being not prepared for him, he gave Bond for his future appearance, and accordingly on Friday following being the 3. of Sept. he made good his promise. The carcase of Dennis Bond was buried in the Abbey Church of St. Peter at Westminster, where continuing about three years, was (with the bodies of other Cromwellians) taken up in the month of Sept. 1661. and buried in St. Margaret's Churchyard adjoining, before the backdoor of the lodgings belonging to one of the Canons of Westminster. I find one John Bond to be author of a Pamphlet intit. A whip for the Judges, Bishops, and Papists, etc. Lond. 1641. Of another also called, The downfall of the old Common-Counsel-Men.— Pr. there the same year, and of a third intit. The Poet's recantation. Lond. 1642. qu. but I take this John Bond to be different from the other Joh. who was a Presbyterian, and afterwards an Independent. I find another John Bond later than all the former, who is now, or at least was lately, a Barrister of Grays-inn, who wrote and published, A complete Guide for Justices of the Peace, etc. in two parts. Lond. 1685. in oct.  
RICHARD white, or Vitus as he writes himself, the Son of Henry 
† The said Hon. white died in the Siege of Boulogne, an. 1544.  white of Basingstoke in Hampshire, (by Agnes his Wife, Daughter of Rich. Capelin of Hampshire,) the Son of Tho. white, the Son of Jenkin (sometimes called John) white, (who had almost half the Town of Basingstoke in his own possession,) the Son of Tho. white of Purvyle in Hampshire, (which Thomas was Gr. Grandfather to John white sometime Bishop of Winton.) was born in the Town of Basingstoke before-mentioned, trained up in Grammar learning in Wykehams' School, admitted perpetual Fellow of New coll. in 1557. took one degree in Arts, but before he had that of Master conferred on him, he absented himself from his college, and the time limited for his absence being spent, his place was pronounced void in 1564. A little before that time he went to Louvain, and afterwards to Milan in Italy, where applying his Muse to the study of the Civil and Canon Law, became Doctor of them. At length going to Douai he was constituted the King's Professor of those Laws, (in which place he continued above 20 years,) married two rich Wives, (of which one was an Inheretrix) grew wealthy, was made by order of the Pope Magnificus Rector, though out of his ordinary turn, and about the same time was created Comes Palatinus. Which title is commonly conferred by the Imperials on their Professors. At length having buried two Wives, he was by the dispensation of P. Clem. 8. made a Priest, and about the same time had a Canonry in St. Peter's Church in Douai bestowed on him. The first thing that made him known to curious Scholars, was his exposition of an ancient enigmatical Epitaph, which was in his time remaining near to Bononia, the title of which is,  
Aelia Laelia Crispis.— Epitaphium antiquum in agro Bononiensi adhuc videtur; à diversis hactenus interpretatum variè: novissimè autem a Ric. Vito Basingstochio, amicorum precibus explicatum. Patau. 1568. in 6 sh. and a half in qu. dedicated to Christop. Johnson chief Master of Winchester School. Afterwards he wrote and published,  
Orationes quinque, de circulo artium & Philosophia— De eloquentia & Cicerone.— Pro divitiis Regum,— Pro doctoratu,— De studiorum sinibus, cum notis. Attrebat. 1596. oct. The two first, which were spoken at Louvain, were published by Christoph. Johnson before-mentioned, about 1564. and commanded by him to be read publicly in the said School near Winton. by the Scholars.  
Notae ad leges Decemvirorum in xii. tabulis. Attrebat. 1597. oct.  
Historiarum Brittanniae libri, 1. Ab origine ad Brutum. 2. Ab illo ad Malmutium. 3. Ab hoc ad Heliam. 4. Ab isto ad Lucium. 5. Ab eo ad Constantium, cum notis antiquitatum Britannicarum. Attreb. 1597. oct.  
Historiarum Britanniae liber sextus. Quo vis armorum in campis, & authoritas literarum in Scholis, atque religio Christiana in orbe terrarum publicata, demonstratur: cum notis. Duac. 1598. oct.  
Histor. Britan. lib. 7. Quo versus ad eam insulam Saxenicam ingressus, & permansio declaratio; cum notis. Duac. 1600. oct.  
Hist. Brit. lib. 8. Quo vera causa excidii, regni Britonum in insula demonstratur; cum notis. Duac. 1600. oct.  
Hist. Brit. lib. nonus. Quo fundamenta regni & Ecclesiae Anglorum in insulâ Brit. exponuntur, cum notis. Duac. 1602. oct. After this last was published, all the nine books were bound together, and had this general title put to them. Historiarum Britannicae Insulae ab origine mundi ad annum Domine octingentesimum, libri novem priores. Duac. 1602. in a thick oct. Before the Preface to the Reader is the author's picture, and before the beginning of the work itself, are his arms, viz. Parted per chevron embatled arg. and gull, three races, leaved vert, counter-changed of the field, on a chief of the second, a Lion passant, or; all within a bordure Ermine. The crest is, A Stork or Crane standing, resting its right foot on the top of an hourglass. With this Motto under all●, Plus vigila. Allowed to our author Count Rich. white, with two Dragons for the Supporters, by Sir Will. Dethick, Garter, principal King of Arms, in allusion to the Arms of his Kinsman, Dr. John white sometimes Bishop of Winton, whose Arms are quite different from those of his Brother, Sir Joh. white Lord Mayor of London, an 1563.  
Explicatio brevis privilegiorum juris & consuetudinis circa ven. sacramentum Eucharistiae. Duac. 1609. oct.  
De reliquiis & veneratione sanctorum. Duac. 1609. and other things as you may elsewhere 
† In Jo. Pits. De illustr. Angl. Script. aet. 17. nu. 1057.  see. At length this learned person dying at Douai, 
16●2.  in sixteen hundred and twelve or thereabouts, was buried in the Parish Church of S. James there. Contemporary with him in New coll. was one Will. Pomerell Chaplain of that house, who taking the degree of Bach. of Arts in 1557. went afterwards to his native Country of Ireland and became benefited in Drogheda. From thence he went to Louvain, where by continual hearing of Lectures and Disputations, more than by private study he obtained great knowledge in Divinity, gaining thereby (as 'twas usually said of him) all his learning b● hearsay. He died at Louvain in 1573. being then Bach. of Diu.  
NICHOLAS FITZHERBERT, second Son of John Fitzherbert, second Son of Sir Anth. Fitzherbert, Knight, (the great Lawyer,) Son of Ralph Fitzherbert of Norbury in Derbyshire Esq was a Student in Exeter coll. and exhibited to by Sir Will. Petre, about 1568. but what continuance he made there, I know not. Sure 'tis, that his bare name stands in the Register called Matricula, under the title of Coll. Exon, in 1571. and 72. he being then the Signior Under-graduat of that College. About that time he left his native Country, Parents and Patrimony for Religion sake, and went beyond the Seas as a voluntary Exile. At first he settled at Bononia in Italy, purposely to obtain the knowledge of the Civil Law, and was living there in 1580. Not long after he went to Rome, took up his station there, and in the year 1587. began to live in the Court of Will. Alan the Cardinal of England, (whose person and virtues he much adored,) and continued with him till the time of his death, being then accounted eminent for his knowledge in both the Laws, and for humane literature. His works are,  
Oxoniensis in Anglia Academiae descriptio. Rom. 1602. in 3 sh. and a half, in oct.  
De antiquitate & continuatione Catholicae Religionis in Anglia. Rom. 1608. in oct.  
Vita Cardinalis Alani Epitome. He also translated from the Italian, into the Latin tongue, Joh. Casa Galateus de moribus. Rom. 1595. He was drowned in a journey taken from Rome in sixteen hundred and twelve, year 1612 but where, or in what Church, buried, I know not, nor what his employment was after the death of the said Cardinal, notwithstanding I have sent more than once to the English coll. at Rome for resolution, but have received no answer.  
GEORGE BLACKWELL, a Middlesex Man born, was admitted Scholar of Trinity coll. at 17 years of age, 27. May 1562. Probationer in 65. being then Bach. of Arts, perpetual Fellow the year following, and Master of his Faculty in 67. But his mind being more addicted to the Catholic, than Reform, Religion, he left his Fellowship, and retired to Gloucester hall for a time, where he was held in good repute by Edm. Rainolds and Th. Allen, the two learned Seniors. Afterwards going beyond the Seas, where he spent some time in one of the English Seminaries, newly erected to receive exiled Catholics of the English Nation, was at length in the year 1598. constituted by Henry Cardinal Cajetane Protector of the English Nation at Rome, (with leave first obtained from P. Clem. 8.) the Superior of the of the English Clergy, with the Power and Name of Archpriest of England, and by the said Pope made Notary of the Apostolic Seat. This matter being taken very ill by the Ecclesiastical Papists of our Nation, and the rather for this reason, that Blackwell was altogether at the beck of Henr. Garnet Provincial of the Jesuits of England, they fell 
a Vide Com'd. Annai. Reg. Eliz. sub an 1602. See also A relation of a Faction began at Wisbich, an 1595. etc. Printed 1601. p. 57  together by the Ears in their own Country in a most grievous manner. For the Jesuits against the Secular Priests fought continually with sharp pens, poisoned tongues, and contumelious books, insomuch that they detracted in an high degree from Blackwells' authority. Hereupon he degraded them of their Faculties, so that afterwards they appealing to the Pope of Rome, he caused them in a book to be declared Schismatics and Heretics. This aspersion they soon wiped off, having the censure of the University of Paris approving the same, which was answered by Blackwell, as I shall tell you anon. The office of Archpriest he kept till 1607. at which time George Birket a learned Priest succeeded. And the reason of the change was, because our author having been taken near Clerkenwell by London 24. June the same year, was committed first to the Gatehouse in Westminster, and afterwards to the Clink in Southwork, and consequently deprived of liberty required to act in his Office. Soon after, upon his taking the oath of Allegiance, he was freed from the Clink, and set at liberty. Concerning which matter there was a book published intit. The examination of George Blackwell, upon occasion of his answering a Letter sent by Cardinal Bellarmine, who blamed him for taking the oath of Allegiance. Lond. 1607. qu. As for those things which were written by our author Blackwell, who was by those of his persuasion, and others too, accounted a learned and pious Man, and a good Preacher, the titles of them follow.  
Letter to Card. Cajetane in commendation of the English Jesuits.— Written 1596.  
Answers upon sundry Examinations, while he was a Prisoner. Lond. 1607. qu.  
Approbation of the Oath of Allegiance.) Printed with the Answers upon, etc.  
Letters to the Romish Priests touching the lawfulness of taking the Oath of Allegiance.  
Another to the same purpose.  
Epistolae ad Anglos Pontificios. Lond. 1609. qu.  
Epistolae ad Rob. Card. Bellarminum See more in the third tome of the works 
b Francof. 1613: in fol.  of Melch. Goldasti Haiminsfeldii. from pag. 565. to 605.  
Answer to the Censure of Paris in suspending the Secular Priest's obedience to his authority.— that. 29. May 1600. Replied upon by Joh. Dorel or Darrel Dean of Again, the same year. See more in a book intit. Relation of a Faction begun at Wisbich, in 1595. etc. Printed 1601. in qu. p. 81. Afterwards was a book printed intit. In Geor Blackvellum quaestio bipartita, written by Joh. Milson.— Lond. 1609. but whether it relates to the said controversy, I cannot tell, for I have not yet seen it.  
A Treatise against Lying, and fraudulent Dissimulation.— MS. among those given to Bodies Lib. by Archb. Laud, 40. E. 45. At the end of which is the approbation of the book written by the hand of Blackwell, and subscribed by him as fit for the Press. So that no other name being put to it, hath caused our Librarians to insert him in the Catalogue of MSS. as the author of it; whereas he was not, but rather Franc. Tresham, as I have told you elsewhere. He, the said Blackwell died suddenly (having been much troubled with swooning fits) on the 12. of Januar. in sixteen hundred and twelve, 
1612-33.  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, though 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. Marry 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, though 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, (than 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. Marry he returned into England with his Father, and was sent to Magd. coll. in 1559. where making great proficiency in Logic 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 persuasion of some of the Fellows of that house, and for his private exercise, did read publicly 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 completed, 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 employ himself, and all his cares, in the public 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 politics 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 Bristol, (the rich Widow, as I have heard, of one Ball) was employed by the Queen to Frederick K. of Denmark, Julius Duke of Brunswyke, William Landgrave of Hesse, and other Germane 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 United 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. Cecil. But the Earl of Essex commending him also to the Queen in a higher manner, not without biting calumniations of Cecil, Burleigh found means to divert the Queen's mind from him, supposing that Essex endeavoured to gain him to his party against Burleigh and Cecil. 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 
* In Hist. & Antiq. Uniu. Oxon. lib. 1. p. 308. lib. 2. p. 50. 51.  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 public 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, 
1612-13  and was buried with very great solemnity at the upper end of Merton coll. Choir. The manner of which you may see at large in Hist. & Antiq. Vniu. 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 and speak a Speech in praise of Sir Tho. Bodley, every year on the 8. of Nou. (on which day the Visitation of his Library is commonly made,) to be nominated by the Dean of Ch. Ch. and confirmed by the Vicechancellor for the time being. But the said gift was not to take place till the death of his Widow. At length upon her decease, which was at Great Wolford in Warwickshire, 11. Nou. 1681. (she being then the Wife of Tho. Keyt of that place Gent.) the said annuity fell to the University. Whereupon the year following, Dr. Fell Dean of Ch. Ch. nominating one of his own house, (Tho. Spark M. A.) there was a solemn Speech made by him in the Schola Linguarum, on the 8. Nou. 1682. Which Speech is yet continued by Ch. Ch. 
c Viz. Zacheus Isham, an. 1683. Char. Hickman, 1684. Tho. Newey, 1685. Tho. Burton. 1686. Will. Bedford, 1687. Rich. Blak●way, 1688. Rog. Altham, Jun. 1689. Edw. Wake, 1690.  men, without any regard had to those of Allsouls coll. wherein Dr. Morris had much of his education, and had been Chaplain thereof, or to any Master of another coll. or hall. The said Sir Thom. Bodley had a younger Brother named Josias Bodley, who having received part of his education in Merton coll. became afterwards a Soldier of note in Ireland, a Knight, and Overseer of the Trenches when the English laid Siege to Kingsale, Baltamore, Berehaven, and Castlehaven in Ireland, holden against them by the Irish, assisted by the Spaniard, an. 1601. at which time Bodley behaved himself bravely both in their Works and Battle. He left behind him to posterity, (1) Observations concerning the Fortresses of Ireland, and the British Colonies of Ulster. MS. fol. sometimes in the Library of Sir Jam▪ Ware, now perhaps in that of Henry E. of Clarendon. (2) A jocular description of a journey by him taken to Lecale in Ulster. an. 1602. MS. Sometimes in the same Library.  
WILLIAM WARMINGTON a Dorsetshire Man born, was, as a Member of Hart hall, (then presided by one, who was always in animo Catholicus,) matriculated, 20. Dec. 1577. aged 21. or more, having been there a Student for some time before. Shortly after he left the Nation, and his Religion, and spending some yees in a Seminary, in Philosophical and Theological studies, was made a Priest, and sent into the Mission of England; but being soon after taken, he was with others conveyed on Shipboard in the Month of Feb. 1584. and sent beyond the Seas with great menaces of utter ruin, if they return again. Afterwards being noted in Foreign Countries by those of his own Nation for his learning and piety, he was made Chaplain to Cardinal W. Alan, with whom continuing till about the time of his death, did return again into England, being then, as he styles himself, An Oblate of the holy Congregation of S. Ambrose, and did execute his Function very zealously among the Brethren. At length being apprehended by two Pursuivants 24. Mar. 1607. and committed Prisoner to the Clinke in Southwark, the next day, according to the English account, by the Bishop of London's order, he entered somewhat more deeply into consideration of the controversy about the Oath of Allegiance, than he had done before, while at liberty. So that in the end making sufficient proof of his Loyalty towards his Majesty, by accepting of the Oath, when it was required of him, he did thereupon premeditate and provide reasons for so doing; and at length reducing into method, for the help of his memory, certain notes in scattered papers that he had collected concerning that matter, did frame thence a complete discourse. At length, after it had laid by him for some time, did publish it under this title, though he knew 'twould displease his Holiness, who in his breves had either admonished or prohibited all Rom. Catholics to take the Oath of Allegiance, or to teach the lawfulness of it.  
A moderate defence of the Oath of Allegiance: Wherein the author proveth the said Oath to be most lawful, notwithstanding the Pope's Breves, etc.— Printed by permission of the Superiors, in 1612. qu. Whereunto is added, The Oration of P. Sixtus 5. in the Consistory of Rome, upon the Murder of K. Hen. 3. the French King, by a Friar.  
Strange Reports, or News from Rome.— Printed with the former book. 
Clar. 1612.  Upon the publishing, of these things, the Friends of the author Warmington, and his kindred of the Rom. Persuasion, became his Enemies, and withdrew from him all the benevolence they used to allow him. Warmington therefore being put to his shifts for maintenance, for this his Loyalty and Obediencce, petitioned 
d Rog. Widdrington in his Disputatio Theologica de jur. fidel. cap. to Sect. 4. p. 397.  the King for some allowance. His petition thereupon was received, and he commended by his Majesty to Dr. Bilson Bishop of Winchester, with order to take him to himself to his own house, there to provide for him. The Bishop obeyed, Warmington lived with him, wanted nothing, had his liberty as he pleased, and freedom of his Religion.  
ROBERT WOLCOMBE or Wollocombe born of, and descended from, the ancient and gentile family of the Wollocombes of Wollocombe in Devonshire, was educated for a time in Exeter coll. left the University without a degree, and became beneficed in his own Country, where he was much resorted to, especially by the precise Party, for his frequent and edifying way of Preaching. His works are,  
Sinners Salve, which applied and practised, as well of impenitent, may be moved to conversion, as the penitent armed against disputation. Lond. 1595. in tw.  
Armour for the Soul against the assaults of Death. Printed with Sinners Salve, etc.  
A glass for the Godly; containing many comfortable Treatises to persuade man from the love of this World, to the love of the world to come, etc. Lond. 1612. oct. in two Parts. The first dedicated to Sir Edw. Seymour of Bury-pomery in Devon. containeth 7 Treatises, which are no other than the effect of Sermons. The first is entit. The seeking of Heaven, on Mat. 6. 33. The second part dedicated to Sir Edw. Giles Kt. containeth likewise 7 Treatises, the first of which is entit. Spiritual balm for the afflicted, on Joh. 16. 20.  
A Letter to a pensive friend— Printed and bound with the former parts. He also translated from Lat. into English The restitution of a Sinner, entit. The restoring again of him that was fallen. Lond. 1581. oct. Written by St. John Chrisostome. 
Clar. 1612.  What other things he hath written and translated, I cannot tell, nor when he died. I find one of both his names, a Minister's Son of Devonshire, to have been matriculated as a member of Exeter coll. an. 1584. aged 16. which I take to be Son to the Writer.  
THOMAS TWINE, Son of Joh. Twine mentioned under the year 1581. was born in the City of Canterbury, admitted Scholar of C. C. coll. 6. Jul. 1560. and Probationer 9 Nou. 1564. being then Bac. of Arts. Afterwards proceeding in his Faculty, he applied his Muse to the study of Medicine, retired to Cambridge, where he continued for a time, and then settling at Lewes in Sussex where his Patron Tho. Lord Buckhurst lived, practised his faculty and became successful therein. In 1593. he was admitted Bach. of Physic of this University, and afterwards being doctorated at Cambridge; was famed not only for Medicine, but Astrology, and much respected by Dee and Allen. He hath written,  
Almanacs and Prognostications for divers years— Printed in the time of Qu. Elizabeth, and then much valued, as Dees were.  
The garland of godly flowers, carefully collected out of the Garden of the holy Scripture, etc. Lond. 1589. in tw. And did also translate from Lat. into English (1) The breviary of Britain, etc. containing a learned discourse of the variable estate and alteration thereof. etc. Lond. 1573. oct. written by Hump. Lhuyd. This translation being esteemed very good of its time, was ushered into the world by the copies of Verses of Thom. Brown Prebendary, and Edw. Grant Schoolmaster, of Westminster, Lodowick Lhuyd, Laurence and Joh. Twine brethren to the Translator. (2) The dialogue of witches, in fort-time called Lot-tellers, now commonly called Sorcerers. Lond. 1575. oct. written by Lamb. Danaeus. (3) Christian natural Philosophy concerning the form, knowledge, and use of all things created, etc. Lond. 1578. qu. written by the said Danaeus. (4) New counsel against the Plague. Lond▪ in oct. written by Pet. Droet. (5) The Tragedies of Tyrants, exercised upon the Church of God, from the birth of Christ, to 1572. Lond. 1575. oct. written by Hen. Bullenger. (6) Physic against fortune, as well prosperous as adverse. Lib. 2. Lond. 1579. qu. written by Franc. petrarch. (6) The eleventh, 12. and 13. books of Virgil's Aeneids. Lond. 1584. and 1620. qu. Which translation shows him (Tho. Twine) to be a tolerable English Poet. The nine first Books of the said author were translated by Thom. Phaeer, as I have before told you, under the year 1560. the tenth also was begun by him, but he dying before he had done half of it, was taken in hand by our author Twine, and by him finished 23. May 1573. At length after he had obtained a considerable Estate by his practice at Lewes in Sussex before mentioned, died there on the first of Aug. in sixteen hundred and thirteen, year 2613 aged 70. whereupon his body was buried in the Chancel of the Church, usually called S. Anne, but more properly S. Peter and S. Marry Westout in Lewes. Over his Grave was soon after a brass fixed to the East wall of the said Chancel, having engraven thereon 14 verses; a copy of which, you may read in Hist. & Antiq. Vniu. Oxon. lib. 2. p. 238. a.  
JOHN WILLIAMS, A Caermarthenshire man born, became a Student in the University 1569. was elected Fellow of Allsouls coll. in 1579. being then Master of Arts. Afterwards he was made Parson of Llanderico, Margaret Professor, Dean of Bangor (in the place of Rich. Parry promoted to the See of S. Asaph) Doctor of Diu. and at length Principal of Jesus coll. He hath written,  
De Christi justitia & in regno spirituali Ecclesiae pastorum officio, concio ad clerum Oxon. in cap. 10. Rev. vers. 1. Oxon. 1597. qu. He also published Rog. Bacon's book De retardandis senectutis accidentibus, & sensibus confirmandis. Oxon. 1590. in oct. He died on the fourth of Sept. in sixteen hundred and thirteen, year 1613 and was buried, as I suppose, in the Church of S. Michael in Oxon. In his Margaret Professorship succeeded Dr. Seb. Benefield, in his Deanery Edm. Griffith, and in his Principality Griffith powel, of all whom, mention shall be made in their respective places.  
THOMAS OVERBURY, Son of Nich. Overbury of Boorton on the hill near to Morton in Marsh in Gloucestershire Esquire, by Mary his Wife Daughter of Giles Palmer of Compton-Scorfen in the Parish of Ilmington in Warwickshire, was born at Compton-Scorfen in the house of his Mother's Father, and educated partly in Grammar learning in those parts. In Michaelmas Term an. 1595. he became a Gent. Commoner of Queen's coll. in the year of his age 14. where by the benefit of a good Tutor and severe discipline, he made great proficiency in Logic and Philosophy. In 1598. he, as a Squire's Son, took the degree of Bach. of Arts, which being completed by Determination in the Lent following, he left the University, and settled for a time in one of the Temples, where he had before been entered in order to study the municipal Laws. Afterwards he traveled for a time, and returned a most accomplished person, which the happiness of his Pen both in Poetry and Prose doth declare. About the time of the Coronation of King Jam. 1. he became familiar with Sir Rob. Car Kt. of the bath, who perceiving him to be a person of good parts and abilities, and withal sober and studious, did take him nearer to, and made, him his bosom friend. Soon after Car being in great favour with the King, he not only procured Overbury to be Knighted at Greenwich 19 June 1608. but his Father to be made one of the Judges in Wales about that time. But so it was that a familiarity b'ing made between Car then Viscount Rochester, and the Lady Frances Daughter of Thomas Earl of Suffolk and Wife of Robert E. of Essex, it did so much distaste Overbury, who knew her to be a Woman of no good reputation, that he endeavoured out of pure affection and friendship to dissuade Car from her company, fearing withal (upon very good grounds then on foot) that he might in the end marry her, and so consequently ruin his honour and himself, adding, that if he went on in that business, he would do well to loo● to his standing. Which advice Car taking impatiently, because thereby he had touched the Lady in her honour, discovered all to her, Whereupon she thinking that he might prove a great obstacle to their enjoyment of each other, and to the marriage then designed, she never ceased, till she had procured his overthrow. It happening therefore about that time, that Overbury being designed to be sent Ambassador into Russia by the King, which was proposed to him by the Lord Chancellor, and the Earl of Pembroke; Car, (whose counsel he asked) advised him to refuse the service, by making some fair excuse. Which advice he followed, supposing that it did proceed out of kindness; but for his refusal he was committed to the Tower 21. Apr. 1613. Soon after he being closely confined, she by her instruments endeavoured to work his ruin by Poison, (the particulars of which are now too many to enumerate) but Nature being very strong in Overbury, it was repelled by breaking out in botches and blains on his Body. At length by a poisoned Clyster given to him under pretence of curing him, he was dispatched in Sept. following. But before two Months were passed, all being discovered, his death was closely examined, and several persons being found guilty of, and consenting to, it, were afterwards executed, viz. Sir Jervice Elwaies Lieutenant of the Tower consenting, Rich. Weston and James Franklin, who attended Overbury in his Chamber, and gave him the Meats and Broths wherein the poison was mingled, and Anne Turner Widow, the preparer of them, actually concerned in the matter. Some time after, Car, than Earl of Somerset, and his Lady Frances before-mentioned, were brought to their trials for contriving his death, and hiting others to make him away; who being both found guilty, had the sentence of death passed on them, but through the clemency of the King being spared, they were only banished the Court. As for our author Overbury, who in learning and judgement excelled any of his years, (which, as 'twas generally thought, made him while living in the Court to be proud, to overvalue himself, undervalue others, and affected, as 'twere, with a kind of insolence,) hath written,  
A Wife. Being a most exquisite and singular Poem of the choice of a Wife, etc.— Printed several times at Lond. while the author lived. In 1614 it was printed there again in qu. being the fourth or fifth impression, bearing this title, A Wife, now the Widow of Sir Tho. Overbury, being, etc.  
Characters: Or, witty descriptions of the properties of sundry persons.— Which Characters, as 'tis observed, were the first that were written and published in England. To them are added, (1) Certain Edicts from a Parliament in Utopia; written by the Lady Southwell. (2) News from any whence; or old truth under a supposal of novelty, occasioned by divers Essays and private passages of Wit, between sundry Gentlemen upon that subject. (3) Paradoxes, as they were spoken in a Mask before his Majesty at Whitehall. (4) The Mountebanks Receipts. (5) Songs.  
Of the remedy of Love: In two parts. A Poem. Lond. 1620. in about 2 sh. in oct.  
Observations in his travels upon the state of the 17. Provinces, as they stood, an. 1609.— Printed 1627. qu. This goes under his name, but doubted by some, whether he wrote it.  
Observations upon the Provinces united. And on the state of France. Lond. 1651. oct. with his picture before it, a. aetat. 32. This also is doubted, whether ever he wrote it.  
The arraignment and conviction of Sir Walt. Ralegh at the King's Bench Bar at Winchester, 17. Nou. 1603. etc. Lond. 1648. in 5 sh. in qu. Said to be copied by Sir Tho. Overbury, but doubtful. He yielded up his last breath, occasioned by poison, as I have before told you, on the 15. Sept. in sixteen hundred and thirteen, year 1613 and was buried, as some authors say, presently and very unreverently in a pit digged in an obscure and mean place. But the Register of the Tower. Chappel, dedicated to S. Peter ad vincula, saith he was buried in the said Chapel 15. Sept. (being the day of his death) an. 1613. as I have been informed by the Letters of that learned Gent. Sir Edw. Sherburne Knight, late Clerk of his Maj. Ordinance and Armouries within the Kingdom of England. Over his Grave though no memory by writing was ever put, yet Ben. Johnson's Epigram 
a In the first vol. of his works, Epigr. 113.  written to him will eternize it, and other verses by the Wits of his time, set before his Poem called A Wife, and in particular that Epigram written by Owen 
b In Epigram. ad Hen. Princ. Wall. etc. nu. 48. See also in Char. Fitz-Geoffry's Affania. etc. lib. 1.  the Welsh Bard, running thus. 
Vxorem angelico describis carmine talem,  
Qualem oratorem Tullius, ore potens.  
Qualem describis, quamvis tibi nuberet Vxor,  
Aequalis tale non foret illa viro.   
Our author Sir Tho. Overbury had a Nephew of both his names, a Knight, and Justice of the Peace for the County of Gloucester, who lived, and enjoyed the inheritance of the Overbury's at Boorton on the hill before-mentioned. He wrote, (1) A true and perfect account of the examination, trial, condemnation, and execution of Joan Perry and her two Sons John and Rich. Perry, for the supposed Murder of Will. Harrison Gent, etc. Lond. 1676. in 4 sh. and half in qu. Written by way of Letter to Thom. Shirley Doctor of Physic in London. (2) Queries proposed to the serious consideration of those who impose upon others in things of divine and supernatural revelation, and prosecute any upon the aecount of Religion; with a desire of their candid and christian resolution thereof. Printed 1677. Answered by George Vernon Rect. of Boorton on the water, the same year, in his Ataxiae obstaculum. Whereupon Sir Tho. came out with a reply intit. Ratiocinium vernaculum: or a Reply to Ataxiae obstaculum. Being a pretended answer to certain Queries dispersed in some parts in Gloucestershire. Lond. 1678. oct. This Sir Tho. Overbury was not educated in any University, only was a great Traveller in parts beyond the Seas, and afterwards a favourer of Protestant Dissenters; which is all I know of him, only-that he sold his Inheritance at Boorton on the hill to Alex. Popham Esq about 1680. and afterwards retiring to an Estate that he had at Adminton in Queinton Parish in Gloucestershire, died there 28. Feb. 1680. and was buried in Queinton Church.  
JOHN HARMAR, a most noted Latinist, Grecian, and Divine, was born at a Market Town called Newbury in Berks, educated in Grammaticals in Wykehams' School, admitted perpetual Fellow of New coll. 1574. took the degrees in Arts, was made the King's Professor of the Greek Tongue in this University, 1585. (being then in holy Orders,) one of the Proctors thereof two years after, chief Master of Winchester School for nine years, Warden of the coll. there 17 years, and at length Doctor of Divinity, being always accounted a most solid Theologist, admirably well read in the Fathers and Schoolmen, and in his younger years a subtle Aristotelian. The chief actions of his Life, an account of his travels, of his disputing at Paris with the great Doctors of the Rom. Party, and also of the things that he had written and published, his Nephew John Harmar (whom I shall mention under the year 1670.) promised to give unto me a full narration in writing; but sickness, and death soon after, following, prevented him. He hath published, (1) Chrysostomi Archiep. Constant, Homeliae sex, ex MSS. cod. in bib. coll. Novi. Oxon. 1586. (2) Chrysostomi Homeliae ad populum Antiochenum, omnes, exceptâ primâ, cum Latinâ versione Homeliae decimae nonae, quae in latinis etiam exemplaribus hactenus desiderata est. Lond. 1590. He also translated from French into English, Sermons on the three first Chapters of the Canticles. Ox. 1587., qu. Written by Theod. Beza: And from Lat. into English, Sermons on the 10. Commandments. Lord. 1581. qu. written by Joh. Calvin; and had a prime hand in the translation of the New Testament into English, at the command of K. Jam. 1. an. 1604. At length paying his last debt to nature on the eleventh of Oct. in sixteen hundred and thirteen, year 1613 was buried at the upper end of New coll. Choir. His Epitaph you may read in a book intit. Historia & Antiquit. Vniu. Oxon. lib. 2. p. 152. a. He was a considerable Benefactor to the Libraries of both Wykehams' colleges.  
EDWARD BREREWOOD, Son of Rob. Br. Wet-Glover, thrice Mayor of the City of Chester, was born, and educated in Grammar learning, there; applied his Muse to Academical studies in Brasenose coll. in the latter end of 1581. aged 16. or thereabouts, where continuing an indefatigable Student several years, took the degrees in Arts, and then, as 'tis said, translated himself to St. Mary's hall. In 1596. he became the first Astronomy Professor in Gresham coll. in London; wherein, as in Oxon, he always led a retired and private course of Life, delighting with profound speculations, and the diligent searching out of hidden verities. It was also observed, that though he never published any thing, while he enjoyed this earthly Tabernacle, yet to avoid the fruitless curiosity of that which some take upon them, to know only that they may know, he was ever most ready in private, either by conference or writing to instruct others, repairing unto them, if they were desirous of his resolution in any doubtful points of learning, within the ample circuit of his deep apprehension. The things that he wrote were many, the first of which that was published, was, as I conceive, this.  
De ponderibus, & pretiis veterum nummorum, eorumque cum recentioribus collatione, lib. 1. Lond. 1614 qu. Published by his Nephew Rob. Brerewood of Chester, who was Commoner of Bras. coll 1605. aged 17. Remitted into the eighth vol. of the Critics, and in the Apparatus before the first vol. of the Polyglot Bible. He also wrote,  
Inquiries touching the diversity of Languages, and Religion, through the chief parts of the World. Lond. 1614 23. 35. etc. qu. and in 1647. etc. in oct. published by the said Rob. Brerewood, who, if I mistake not, hath written a large and learned Preface to it.  
Elementa Legicae in gratiam studiosae juventutis in Acad. Oxon. Lond. 1614 and 15. etc. in oct.  
Tractatus quidem Logici de Praedicabilibus & Praedicamentis. Oxon. 1628. 37. etc. oct.  
Treatise of the Sabbath. Oxon. 1630. qu. Which coming in MS. into the hands of Nich. Byfield a Minister in Chester, and by him answered, was replied upon by our author in,  
A second Treatise of the Sabbath, Ox. 1632. qu. The Puritans, it seems, than (before our author's death 1613.) did verily think there was a Plot against the power of godliness, but could never be pulled down, whilst the Sabbath stood upright, and therefore the Patrons of impiety (as they said) did rightly project to take that out of the way, which stood so much in theirs. Rich. Byfield did vindicate his Brother against Brerewood, and Joh. Ley wrote partly against him in his Sunday a Sabbath. An old and zealous Puritan named Theophilus Brabourne, an obscure Schoolmaster, or, as some say, a Minister of Suffolk, was very stiff for a Sabbath in his books published 1628. and 31. and endeavoured to take off all objections that might be said against one; yet by maintaining the indispensable morality of the fourth Commandment, and consequently the necessary observation of the Jewish Sabbath, did incline several of his Readers to Judaisme. Tho. Broad, who was esteemed an Anti-Sabbatarian, did write almost to the same effect that Brerewood did, though Brerewood's first book did descent from his opinions in those points, opposed by George Abbot in his Vindiciae Sabbathi, wherein are also surveyed all the rest that then had lately written on that subject concerning the Sabbath, viz. Francis White B. of Ely, Pet. Heylyn D. D. and Christop. Dow, whose several treatises on the said subject, he calls Anti-Sabbatarian.  
Tractatus duo, quorum primus est de meteoris, secundus de oculo. Oxon. 1631. Published by Tho. Sixesmith M. A. and Fellow of Bras. coll.  
Commentarii in Ethica Aristotelis. Ox. 1640. qu. Published by the said Sixesmith, and 'tis called by some Brerewood de moribus. The original MS. of which, written with his own hand, in the smallest and neatest character, that mine eyes ever yet beheld, was by him finished 27. Oct. 1586.  
The Patriarchal Government of the ancient Church, declared by way of answer unto four questions, etc. Ox. 1641. qu. He ended his days in Gresham coll. of a Fever, to the great reluctancy of all good men, that knew the learning and the excellencies of the person, year 1613 on the fourth of Nou. in sixteen hundred and thirteen, and was buried the eighth day of the same month, near to the Readers Pew, in the Chancel of the Church of Great S. Helen, within the City of London. In his Lectureship of Astronomy in the said coll. succeeded Edm. Gunter, as I shall tell you elsewhere.  
WILLIAM WESTERMAN was entered a Commoner of Gloucester hall, in the latter end of 1583. took one degree in Arts, translated himself to Oriel coll. proceeded in that Faculty, and by continual study and unwearied industry, he became a proficient in Divinity, and Minister of Sanbridge in Hertfordshire. Afterwards his merits introducing him to the knowledge of Dr. Abbot Archbishop of Canterbury, was by him made his Chaplain, so that taking the degree of Doctor of Diu. was also by him preferred to a Dignity. He hath published.  
Several Sermons, as, (1) A prohibition of revenge, on Rev. 12. 19 Lond. 1600. oct. (2) Sword of maintenance, on Amos 5. 15. Lond. 1600. oct. (3) Faithful Subject, or Mephibosheth, on 2 Sam. 19 29, 30. Lond. 1608. oct. (4) Salomon's Porch, or a Caveat, etc. on Eccles. 4. 17. Lond. 1608. oct. (5) jacob's Well, 
Clar. 1613.  on Joh. 4. 6. Lond. 1613. oct. etc. What other things he hath published, I know not, nor any thing else of the author.  
JOHN DUNSTER, born of a Family of his name living at Doneat near to Ilminster in Somersetshire, was made Demy of Magd. coll. in 1598. aged 16. perpetual Fellow 1602. afterwards Master of Arts, Proctor of the University 1611. and at length Chaplain to Archb. Abbot, who bestowed on him a Benefice or Dignity about 1613. in which year Dunster resigned his Fellowship. He hath published,  
Caesar's Penny, Serm. on 1 Pet. 2. 13, 14. Oxon. 1610. oct.  
Prodromus. Or a literal exposition of the 79 Psalms, concerning the destruction of Jerusalem. 
Clar. 1613.  Lond. 1613. oct. In his younger days, being esteemed a noted Poet by his Contemporaries, had several copies of verses printed in various books, especially in that made by the Society of Magd. coll. on the death of a noble young Man of that house named Will. Grey, Son of Arth. Grey Baron of Wilton, who died 18. Feb. 1605.  
WILLIAM SYMONDS, an Oxfordshire Man born, was elected Demy of Magd. coll. in 1573. and perpetual Fellow six years after, but whether he was M. of A. it appears not. About the time that he was made Fellow, he entered into holy Orders, and had a Spiritual Cure bestowed on him at Halton Holgate in Lincolnshire, by Sir Rob. Bertie Lord Willoughby; where continuing several years, was called thence and became at length Preacher at S. Saviour's Church in Southwark, and D. and D. 1613. He was a person of an holy life, grave and moderate in his carriage, painful in the Ministry, well learned and of rare understanding in Prophetical Scriptures. He hath written,  
Pisgah Evangelica, according to the method of the Revelation, presenting the History of the Church, and those Canaanites over whom she shall triumph. Lond. 1605. qu.  
Virginia. Serm. at White-chappel in the presence of many honourable and worshipful, 
Clar. 1613.  the Adventurers and Planters for Virginia, 25. Apr. 1609. on Gen. 12. 1, 2, 3. Lond. 1609. qu. What other things he published, I cannot yet find, nor to what year he lived.  
WILLIAM CHEEK, who writes and entitles himself Austro-Britannus, became a Student in Magd. coll. in the beginning of the year 1592. took one degree in Arts, as a Member of Madg. hall, in Lent Term 1595. which being completed by Determination, he left the University, and afterwards wrote and published certain matters, of which, one is intit.  
Anagrammata & Chronogrammat a Regia. 
Clar. 1613.  Lond. 1613. oct. In which book are several copies of Latin and Greek verses, which show the author to have been a good Poet in the time he lived.  
ROBERT HOVEDEN, a Kentish Man born, was elected Fellow of Allsouls coll. in 1565. took the degrees in Arts, that of Master being completed in 1570. and in the year following, being then 27 years of age, he was elected and confirmed Warden of the said coll. About the same time entering into holy Orders, he was made Domestic Chaplain to Matthew Archb. of Canterbury, afterwards Prebendary of the Cath. there, Prebendary of Henstridge in the Church of Wells, Prebendary of Clifton in the Church of Lincoln, and at length Doctor of Diu. He hath written,  
Henrici Chichleii Cantuar. Archiepiscopi, collegiique Omnium Animarum apud Oxonienses fundatoris vita. Written in Dec. 1574. and hath this beginning, Henricus Chichleius in pago prope Northamptoniam, etc. It is a short thing, and is kept in MS. under the author's hand in Alls. coll. and served as an Apparatus of a larger life, written by Dr. Arth. Duck.  
Catalogus Custodum & Sociorum coll. Om. Animarum.— MS. It commences at the foundation of the college, and reaches down to Hoveden's days, and by others continued to these times. This Catalogue, though it is trite and slender, and now and then faulty, yet it hath instructed me in many things, when I was in composing this and a precedent work. It is commonly in the custody of the Warden, and hath in the beginning of it the life of the Founder beforementioned. This worthy Doctor died on the 25. of March in sixteen hundred and fourteen, and was buried towards the upper end of Alls. coll. chapel. year 1614 A copy of his Epitaph you may see in Hist. & Antiq. Vnivers. Oxon. lib. 2. p. 185. a.  
JOHN SPENSER, a Suffolk man born, was originally one of the Clerks of C. C. coll. and being Bach. of Arts in 1577. was elected Greek Reader of the same, 9 June in the year following, not without great opposition of Mr. Joh. Rainolds whose resignation it was. On the 7. May 1579. he was admitted Fellow, and the year after took the degree of Master of Arts. So that entering into Orders he became a noted Preacher, Chaplain to K. Jam. 1. and a great admirer of Rich. Hooker and Rainolds before mentioned. On the death of the last he was elected Precedent of the said coll. and reverenced by all good men for his knowledge, learning and piety. At the time of his death he left several things fit for the Press, among which was a Sermon published by Hamlet Marshal his Curate, bearing this title.  
A learned and godly Sermon at Paul's Cross on Esay 5. 2. 3. Lond. 1615. qu. But this is not all that he is to be remembered for, for, for several years before his death, he took extraordinary pains, together with a most judicious and complete Divine named R. Hooker before mentioned, about the compiling of a learned and profitable work, which he published, (I mean some of the books of Ecclesiastical Policy) yet would not he be moved to put his name to though he had a special hand in, it, and therefore it fell out that tulit alter honores. Our Author Spenser also, did about four years after Hooker's death publish the five Books of Eccles. Policy together in one Volume, with an Epistle before them, subscribed by J. S. and reprinted at London with some of his smaller works (which had been before published) by Hen. Jackson, an. 1622. fol. He the said Dr. Spenser gave way to fate 3. Apr. it sixteen hundred and fourteen, year 1614 and was buried in Corp. Ch. coll. Chappel. Over his Grave is a fair Monument, with his bust, and an inscription; a copy of which you may read in Histor. & Antiq. Vnivers. Oxon. lib. 2. p. 244. b. His Picture is painted on the Wall of the School gallery in Oxon, among our eniment English Divines.  
WILLIAM Bath, was born within the City of Dublin in Ireland, Studied several years in this University with indefatigable industry, but whether in any of the three houses wherein Irish men of his time studied, viz. in Vniu. coll. Hart, or Glocester-hall, or whether he took a degree, I find not. Afterwards, under pretence of being weary with the Heresy professed in England (as he usually called it) left the Nation, the Religion that he was brought up to, and entered himself into the Society of Jesus, in 1596. being then between 30. and 40. years of age. After he had spent some time in that order, he was sent from Flanders to Milan to increase his studies: which being completed, he went into Spain, where at Salamanca he presided the Seminary of that Nation ad formationem spiritus. He was endowed with a most ardent zeal for the obtaining of Souls, and was beloved of, and respected by, not only those of his own Order, but of other Orders for his singular virtues and excellencies of good conditions. He hath written  
Introduction to the Art of Music, wherein are set down exact and easy rules, with arguments and their solutions, for such as seek to know the reason of the truth: which rules, he means, whereby any by his own industry, may shortly, easily, and regularly, attain to all such things, as to this Art do belong. Lond. 1584. qu. This book he wrote while he was a young Student in Oxford, being then much delighted in the faculty of Music.  
Janua linguarum: seu modus maxime accomodatus, quo patefit aditus ad omnes linguas intelligendas. Salam. 1611. Published by the care of the Irish Fathers of the Jesuits Order living at Salamanca, and is used at this time there for the instruction of Youth. He also wrote in the Spanish Tongue.  
Preparation for the administering of the Sacrament, with greater facility and fruit of repentance, than hath been already done. Milan. 1604. Published by Joseph Creswell under the name of Pet. Manrique. He also (W. Bath) wrote in English, but his name not put to it,  
A methodical institution concerning the chief mystesteries of Christian Religion.  
Method for the performing of general Confession.— At length our author taking a journey to Madrid in Spain about several concerns of the Order, died there 17 June in sixteen hundred and fourteen (according to the account there followed) and was buried, year 1614 I presume, among the brethren in their house there, who had a most entire respect for him and his learning, while he was living.  
JOHN REINOLDS, the most noted Epigrammatist next to Joh. Owen and Sir Jo. Harrington of his time, received his first being in this world at Tuddington in Bedfordshire, was elected Probationer of New coll. from Wykeham's School near to Winchester, in 1600. and two years after was admitted Perpetual fellow, being then noted for a good Grecian, Orator, and Poet. Afterwards he took the degree of Bach. of the Civil Law, and wrote and published,  
Disticha classis Epigrammatum, sive carminum inscriptorum. Centuriae duae. The first part was printed at Oxon 1611. in oct. and contains an 110. Epigrams concerning the British and English Kings, each Epigarm consisting but of two Verses. The other part was printed at the same place in 1612. in oct. Besides which Epigrams, he hath much of his Poetry printed in divers books, particularly in that made by certain fellows of New coll. on the death of Ralph Warcup, Esq an. 1605, wherein he flourishes in his Greek Poetry. He ended his days in the prime of his years in sixteen hundred and fourteen, and was buried, year 1614 as it seems, in New coll Cloister. I find another of both his names and equal almost in time with him, who was born within the City of Excester, and by the books that he published, had gained a famous name among the vulgar Scholars, Gentlemen, and Women of love and mode. The titles of them are (1) The triumphs of God's revenge, against the crying and execrable sin of Murder, etc. Lond. 1621. qu. the first book. Five more came out afterwards at several times, mostly taken from French printed copies, which he had gathered in his Travels into France. All the six books, were printed at London in one fol. 1635. and several times after. At length the sixth edition being adorned with Cuts, was published at Lond. 1679. fol. by Sam. Pordage of Lincoln's Inn, Son of Joh. Pordage Rector of Bradfield in Berks. and formerly Head Steward of the lands to old Philip Earl of Pembroke. (2) Gods revenge against the abominable sin of Adultery, containing ten several Histories. Lond. 1679. fol. This being never printed before, was illustrated with Cuts, and published by the said Sam. Pordage with the former book. (3) The flower of fidelity: Displaying in a continuate history, the various adventures of three foreign Princes. Lond. 1650. oct. Dedicated to his Father-in-law Rich. Waltham Esq Justice of Peace of Devon. and other things which I have not yet seen. Among the translations that he hath made from French into English is A Treatise of the Court, written by Monsieur de Refuges, and by the Translator dedicated to Prince Charles, afterwards K. Ch. 1. Whether the said John Reynolds was ever a Student in Oxon, I cannot in my searches yet find. However some of the Ancients of Exeter coll. who knew the man, have averred it several times, that he had received some Accademical education, but before he could take a degree, was called away to travel into France. He was living in the times of Usurpation, but whether in those of the restauration of K. Ch. 2. I cannot tell.  
ARTHUR HOPTON, fifth Son of Sir Arth. Hopton Knight of the Bath, (by Rachel his Wife, daughter of Edm. Hall of Gretford in Lincolnshire) Son of Sir Owen Hopton, sometimes Lieutenant of the Tower near London, was born in Somersetshire, (at Wytham as it seems) became a Gent. Commoner of Lincoln coll in Michaelmas Term, an. 1604. aged 15. or more; where falling under the tuition of a noted and careful Tutor, became the miracle of his age for learning. In 1607. he was admitted Bach. of Arts, and then left the University to the great sorrow of those who knew the wonderful pregnancy of his parts. Afterwards he settled in London, in one of the Temples as I conceive, where he was much admired and beloved by Selden and all the noted men of that time, who held him in great value not only for his ancient and gentile Extraction, but for the marvellous forwardness of his Mathematical genie, which led him to perform those matters at one or two and twenty years of age, which others of forty or fifty could not do, as in these Books following of his composition may appear.  
Baculum Geodaticum sive Viaticum. Or, the Geodetical Staff containing eight books. Lond. 1610. in a pretty thick qu.  
Speculum Topographicum. Or, the Topographical Glass; containing the use of the Topographical Glass, Theodelitus, plain Table and Circumferentor, etc. Lond. 1611. qu.  
A Concordancy of years; containing a new, easy, and a most exact computation of time, according to the English account. Lond. 1616. oct. To which were additions made by Joh. Penkethman. Lond. 1635. in qu. in one sh. and half. He hath also divers copies of verses scattered in books, which show that he was a tolerable Poet of his time. He ended his days in the prime of his years, within the Parish of St. Clement's Danes, without Temple-Bar near to London, in the month of Nou. in sixteen hundred and fourteen, year 1614 and was buried (if I mistake not) in the Church there. His untimely death, as I have been informed by those that remember him, was much regretted by all those, who were acquainted with him, and knew his extraordinary worth. His Nephew Ralph Hopton, Son of his Brother Robert, was a Gent. Com. also of Linc. coll. and after the Rebellion broke out in 1642. he was a General of an Army under K. Ch. 1. and by him made a Baron.  
ROBERT COOK, who writes himself Cocus, was born at, or near to, Beeston in Yorkshire, was entered a Student in Brasenose coll. in 1567. aged 17. or thereabouts, where, with unwearied diligence, travelling through the various Classes of Logic and Philosophy, he became the most noted Disputant of his time. On the 2. Dec. 1573. he was unanimously elected Probationer-Fellow of that coll. and three years after took the degree of M. of A. About which time entering into Holy Orders, and being noted for his admirable learning, was therefore elected one of the Proctors of the University: In which office he behaved himself so admirably well, that his house gained credit by it. In 1584. he was admitted to the reading of the Sentences, and in the beginning of June 1590. resigning his Fellowship, retired to his new obtained Vicarage of Leedes in Yorkshire; where making the best advantage of his time, became a Man learned in the Church, singularly well studied in the disquisition of antiquity, especially for the discerning of the proper works of the Fathers from the forged and counterfeit, as it may appear in a book which he wrote, intit.  
Censura quorundam Scriptorum quae sub nominibus Sanctorum, & veterum auctorum, à Pontificiis passim in eorum Scriptis, sed potissimum in quaestionibus hodie controversis citari solent. Lond. 1614 and 23. qu. Which is all I think he hath published. He gave way to fate at Leedes beforementioned, on the first of Jan. in sixteen hundred and fourteen, 
1614-15.  and was buried the day following in the Church there. Alex. Cook his Brother, whom I shall mention under the year 1632. succeeded him in the Vicarage of Leedes, and there died.  
MATHEW SLADE, second 
a So I find it in the Pedigree of the Slades (of 17. or more generations.) sent to me from Amsterdam by some of the Slades living there, in Ap. 1690.  Son of Joh. Slade of the West Country, Son of Joh. Slade of Roughley in Staffordshire, the second Son of Joh. Slade of the ancient and gentile Family of the Slades of Norton-Slade in Lancashire, was born in Devonshire, became a Batler of St. Alban hall in 1584. and in that of his age 17. took a degree in Arts four years after, and about that time was a candidate for a Fellowship of Morton coll. but what put him by, unless the want of Friends, for Philosophy he had sufficient, I know not. Afterwards he retired to his native Country, taught School for a time, and Married, as I shall anon tell you. At length upon an invitation, he went to Amsterdam in Holland, where by the High and Mighty States he became Rector of the learned Academy or Gymnasium, situated and being in the old part of that famous City; where he was esteemed, by all that knew him, an excellent Latinist, a good Grecian, one well read in profound authors, a stiff Enemy to the Socinians, and a walking Library. His works are these:  
Cum Conrado Vorstio S. T. D. de blasphemiis, haeresibus, & atheismis à Jacobo Rege Angliae 1. in ejusd. Vorstii de dei tractatu, etc. Scholasticae disputationis pars prima. In qua fides Orthodoxa de vera immensitate & infinitate triunius dei opponitur, etc. Amstel. 1612. qu.  
Appendix prioris disceptationis. Amstel. 1614 qu. Which is set before this book following.  
Disceptationis cum Conrado Vorstio S. T. D. pars altera, de immutabilitate & simplicitate dei: Qua docetur R. Jac. 1. just & merito notasse blasphemum Vorsti dogma. Deum esse mutabilem & accedentibus subjectum adserentis. Amstel. 1614 qu.  
C. Vorstii & F. Socini concentus, sive Bicinii exemplum: cum rerum, verborum atque testium Syllabo. Printed with the former, viz. Disceptationis altera pars. 
Clar. 1614  These things were replied upon by Vorstius, in 1615. but whether our author Slade put out a rejoinder, I know not as yet, or any thing else that he hath published. He took to Wife Alethea Daughter of Rich. Kirford of, or near to, Honiton in Devon. on the 20. of Sept. 1593. by whom he had Issue Cornelius Slade born in Amsterdam 14. of Oct. 1599 and made Rector of the Gymnasium there, (perhaps on the death of his Father) on the 9 of May 1628. who taking to Wife Gertrude the Daughter of Luke Ambrose a Preacher of Amsterdam, begot on her, among other Children, Matthew Slade born 9 of June 1628. and being strictly educated in learning, became a Doctor of Physic and a learned Man, and thereupon often mentioned with honour by Swammerdam, as also by Scrader, who dedicates a book to him. This Matthew Slade did publish, under the borrowed name of Theodorus Aldes (Slade) Anglus, a book intit. Dissertatio Epistolica de Generatione Animalium contra Harveium. Amstel. 1666. in tw. Reprinted with other Anatomical Works at Francfort, twice in the year 1668. in qu. and is extant in the Bibliotheca Anatomica. The Collectors of which have unveiled him, and put him down under his true name Mattheus Sladus Amstelodamensis M. D. He hath also written Observationes in Ovem. Amstel. 1673. in tw. which is also in the said Bibliotheque, and Sciagraphia nutritionis Foetus in utero; & de ejus urinâ. Ibid. At length coming into England in Sept. or Oct. 1689. retired to Oxon in Dec. following to see it, the Colleges, Libraries, and learned Men there: And after he had tarried at that place about a fortnight, went in the Stage-coach towards London, but being taken suddenly with an Apoplectical fit on Shotover hill, two miles distant from Oxon, died thereof before he came to Wheatley, on Friday the twentieth day of the same month, being the Eve of St. Thomas the Apostle. Whereupon his body being lodged in a common Inn there, was, by the care of James Tyrrell Esq and Dr. Edw. Bernard one of the Savilian Professors, conveyed thence the next day to the Angel Inn in Oxon, where lying till the day following, was buried in the yard (near to, and behind the West door leading therein,) belonging to the Church of St. Peter in the East; at which time were present certain Doctors of, and Graduates in, Physic, and Masters of Arts.  
THOMAS FREEMAN, a Gloucestershire Man born, of the same Family with those of Batsford and Todenham near to Morton in Marsh, became a Student in Magd. coll. an. 1607. aged 16 years, or thereabouts, and Bach. of Arts four years after. At length retiring to the great City, and setting up for a Poet, was shortly after held in esteem by Sam. Daniel, Owen the Epigrammatist, Dr. Joh. Donn, Shakespeare, George Chapman, Tho. Heywood the Playmaker and others. To some of whole judgements he submitted these his two books of Epigrams following.  
Rub, and a great Cast. In 100 Epigrams. Lond. 1614 qu.  
Run, and a great Cast. The second bowl, in an 100 Epigrams. 
Clar. 1614 — Printed with the former Epigrams, and both dedicated to Thomas Lord Windsor, who seemed to patronise his studies. The reason for Rub and Run, he gives in these four verses. 
Sphaera mihi; calamus, mundi sunt crimina, nodi,  
Ipse sed est mundus, Sphaeromachia mihi.  
Sive manere Jubes, Lector, seu currere spaeram  
Lusori pariter, cur mane que placent.   
THOMAS CHALONER, Son of Sir Thom. Chaloner Knight, by Ethelreda his Wife, Daughter of Edward Frodsham of Elton in Cheshire, was educated in Magd. coll. where he was held in esteem for his Poetry; but taking no degree, traveled beyond the Seas, and at his return became a complete Gentleman. In 1591. he received the honour of Knighthood, and being esteemed a learned, prudent, and sober person, when K. James the first came to the English Crown, he therefore by him was appointed Tator (and afterwards Chamberlain) to his Son Prince Henry the lively joy and delight of Britain, and about that time was actually created Master of Arts, as in the Fasti, under the year 1605. I shall tell you. This person, who was a learned searcher into Nature's Works, did first discover an Allum-mine near to Gisburgh in Yorkshire, (being possessed of Land there,) about the latter end of Q. Elizabeth; but being adjudged to be a Mine-Royal, was rent by several, and little benefit came to Sir Thomas. At length the Long Parliament which began in 1640. voted it a Monopoly, and restored the benefit thereof to the former Proprietaries. He hath written several things, but all that I have seen is only,  
The Virtue of Nitre, wherein is declared the sundry cures by the same effected. Lond. 1584. qu. and other matters pertaining to Virtuosity, and something, as it seems, to Pastoral, but whether extant, I cannot tell. He died about the 17. Nou. in sixteen hundred and fifteen, year 1615 and was buried in the Parish Church of Cheswich in Middlesex, near to the body of Elizabeth his first Wife, Daughter of Will. Fleetwood, sometimes Recorder of London, by whom he had Issue Will. Chaloner of Gisburgh in Yorkshire, soon after his Father's death made a Baronet, Thomas, James, etc. which two last were of the number of Judges that sat in Judgement on King Charles 1. of Blessed Memory, as I shall tell you at large. He had also several Children by his second Wife Judith, Daughter of Will. Blount of London, some of whose Posterity (as I think) liveth at, or near, Steeple-Claydon in Bucks, where Sir Thomas had a fair Estate.  
JOHN DRUSIUS, or Driesschus, commonly called Ʋander Driesche the most noted Critic, Linguist, and Theologist of his time, was born at Oudenard a City of Flanders, situated between Gaunt and Tourney, 28. June 1550. educated in Grammar learning in Gaunt, in Academical in the University of Louvain, where he took the degree of B●ch. of Arts. About which time his Father Clement Driesche, being proscribed for Religion, and deprived of his Estate, fled into England, and took this his Son with him. When he came to London he met with Anth. Cevallerius a Professor at Caen in Normandy, exceeding skilful in the Hebrew Tongue, who reading there to several Scholars and Laics, our author attended him, went also with him to Cambridge, where he read the said Language, and afterwards for a time into France, and by his diligence became an exact proficient in the Hebrew, as well as in the Greek, Language. Soon after he returned to London, and when he purposed to go back into France he heard of the Massacre at Paris, which made him alter his mind. So that turning his course to Oxon, in the beginning of the year 1572. he was entertained by the Society of Morton coll. admitted to the degree of Bach. of Arts, as a Member of that house, in July the same year, and in the beginning of Aug. following had a Chamber set apart 
a Reg. 2. Act. coll. M●rton, p. 27. 35. 47. 53, etc.  for him by the Society; who then also decreed that he should have forty shillings yearly allowed to him, so long as he read a Hebrew Lecture in their common Refectory. For 4 years, at least, he lived in the said house, and constantly read (as he did sometimes to the Scholars of Magd. coll. upon the desire of Dr. Laur. Humphrey Precedent thereof) either Hebrew, Chalde, or Syriack Lectures. In 1573. he was, as a Member of the said house of Merton, licenced to proceed in Arts, and in the year following was 
b Reg. Uniu. Oxon. KK. fol. 177. b.  recommended by the Chancellor of the University to the Members of Convocation, that he might publicly read the Syriack Language in one of the public Schools, and that for his pains he receive a competent stipend. Soon after, upon consideration of the matter, they allowed him twenty marks to be equally gathered from among them, and ordered that the same respect be given to him, as to any of the Lecturers. In 1576. he left Oxon, and in the year following the States of Holland chose him to be the Professor in Hebrew, Chalde, and Syriack in the University of Leydon. Soon after, being Married, the States of Friesland, who had erected an University at Franeker, invited him thither to be a Professor; where continuing many years, was held in high esteem of all Scholars and Foreigners, that repaired thither. He was an excellent Hebrician, and well versed in the Rabbins, and hath given great light to a large part of the Scriptures, as these books following shows most of which are remitted into the several Tomes of the Critics.  
Comm. ad Voces Hebraicas Novi Testum. viz. pars prior.  
Com. ad Voc. Hebr. N. Test. viz. pars posterior. Antw. 1582. qu. Both printed together at Franek. 1616. fol.  
Quaestionum Hebraicarum libri 3. In quibus varia S. Scripturae explicantur. Lugd. 1583. oct.  
Animadversionum lib. 2. Lugd. 1585. oct.  
Com. in librum Esther. Lugd. Bat. 1586. oct. Additiones Apocryphae latinè versae, cum Scholiis.  
Miscellanea locutionum Sacrarum. Franek. 1586. oct.  
Versio & Com. in lib. Ruth, ejusque translatio Graeca cum notis ad candem. Franek. 1586. oct. etc.  
Alphabetum Hebraicum vetus, & veterum Gnomae Heb. Lat. Franek. 1587.  
Parallela, seu locorum vet. Testamenti quae Novo citantur, conjuncta commemoratio. Franek. 1588. qu.  
Proverbiorum sacrorum classes 2. seu explicatio Proverb. Salomonis. Franek. 1590. qu.  
Lectiones in Amos, Nahum, Habuc, Sophoniam, Joel, Jonam, & Abdiam. Lugd. Bat. 1591. oct. etc.  
Liber Tobias Graecè, cum castigationibus. Franek. 1591. qu.  
Lectiones in Jonam. Lugd. Bat. 1591. oct.  
Observationum Sacrarum lib. 16. Franek. 1594. oct.  
Carmina Hebraica in obitum Jos. Scaligeri. Franek. 1591. qu.  
De quaesitis per Epistolam. Printed 1595. oct.  
Ecclesiastices Graecè, cum version & notis. Franek. 1596. qu.  
Versio & Scholia ad Proverbia Ben-Syrae. Franek. 1597. qu.  
Adagiorum Hebraicorum Decuriae aliquot, cum Scholiis.  
Quaest. Hebr. lib. 3. Franek. 1599 oct.  
Lectiones in Hoseam. Lugd. Bat. 1599 oct.  
Versio & notae ad librum Hasmonaeorum seu priorem Machabaeorum. Franek. 1600. qu.  
Grammatica Chaldaica ex tabb. Merceri descripta. Franek. 1602. oct.  
De Hasidaeis. Franek. 1603. oct.  
De nomine Elohim. Franek. 1604. oct.  
De nomine Tetragrammato, cum Scholiis in Pauli Burgensis 12. questiones de eodem subjecto. Franek. 1604. oct. Amst. 1634. qu.  
Comm. de 3 sectis Judaeorum, contra Serarium. Franek. 1605.  
Comm. de sectis Judaicis, viz. de Hasidaeis, & de 3. sectis Judaeorum, & spicilegium Tribaeresii Nic. Serarii. Franek. 1603. and 1605. oct. Arnh. 1619. qu.  
Respons. ad Nic. Seraerii Minerval. Franek. 1606. oct.  
Notae ad Sulpitii severi historiam sacram. Franek. 1607. oct.  
Opuscula Grammaticalia. Franek. 1609. qu.  
Annot. in Nou. Test. sive praeteritorum libri 10. Franek. 1612. qu. etc.  
Annot. pars altera. Franek. 1616. qu.  
Apothegmata Hebraeorum ac Arabum, ex variis authoribus collecta, Lat. Franek. 1612. qu. etc.  
De Patriarchâ Henoch & ejus libro: ubi etiam de libris in S. Scriptura memoratis qui nunc interciderunt. Franek. 1615. qu.  
Comm. in difficiliora loca Pentateuchi. Franek. 1617. qu.  
Comm. in difficiliora loca Josuae, Judicum, & Samuches. Franek. 1618.  
Vet. Gr. Interp. fragm. in vetus Test. cum notis. Arnh. 1622. qu.  
Com. seu Lectiones in 12 Prophetas Minores. Amstel. 1627. Published with additions and amended by Sixt. Amama.  
Annot. in librum Kohèleth seu Ecclesiasten. Amstel. 1635.  
Versio & Scholia in lib. Job. Amstel. 1636.  
Veterum Interpretum Graecorum fragmenta in Pentateuchum, cum notis.  
Conjectanea in Graecam editionem 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 lxx.  
Tetragrammaticon: sive de nomine dei proprio, etc. Amstel. 1634. qu.  
Historia Ruth Graece ad exemplar Complutense cum Latina version ex Ebraeo, & cum comment. Amstel. 1632. qu.  
Animadversionum libri duo pro emendatione 〈◊〉 Ebr. & veterum Interpr. in plurimis locis S. Scripturae. Amstel. 1634. qu.  
Grammatica linguae s●●ctae. Franek. 1612. qu. Catechesis religionis christianae Heb. Gr. & Lat. pr. 1591. oct. Other things, as 'tis probable, he hath published, but such I have not yet seen. He surrendered up his pious soul to God: 
1615-16.  on this 12. of Feb. in sixteen hundred and fifteen, and was buried, as I suppose, at Franeker, after he had lived there a most severe student, and in continual labour for the good and benefit of Literature about 31. years. He left behind him a Son of both his names, bred partly in this University, but not to be numbered among most learned men, especially such as was his Father, as also a Daughter named Agnes, the wife of Abel Curiander author of the Latin life of his Father-in-Law Joh. Drusius, printed at Franaker 1616. qu. In which the Reader may see more of his life and works, than are here set down by me.  
THOMAS ROGERS, a most admirable Theologist, an excellent Preacher, and well deserving every way of the sacred Function, was born, as I conceive, in Cheshire, and came full ripe to the University before 1568. About which time being made one the Students of Ch. Ch. took holy Orders very early, and afterwards the degree of Master of Arts, Scil. an. 1576. before which time, he was a sedulous and constant Preacher of God's word. What his preferments were successively afterwards, I know not, only that he was Chaplain to Doctor Bancroft Bishop of London, and at length Rector of Horninger near to S. edmond's Bury in Suffolk, where and in the neighbourhood, he was always held in great esteem for his learning and holiness of life and conversation. His works are these.  
A Philosophical discourse, entit. The Anatomy of the mind. Lond. 1576. oct. Before which is a copy of Verses in praise of it, written by his Contemporary Will. Camden of Ch. Ch.  
Of the end of the world, and second coming of Christ, etc. Lond. 1577. qu.  
The English Creed; wherein is contained in tables an exposition on the articles which every man is to subscribe unto. Where the articles are expounded by Scripture, and the confessions of all the reformed Churches and Heresies are displayed. Lond. 1579. and 85. fol.  
General Session, containing an apology of the comfortable doctrine concerning the end of the world and seccond coming of Christ. Lond. 1581. qu.  
The English Creed; consisting with the true ancient Catholic and Apostolic Church in all the points and articles of Religion, which every christian is to know, and believe, that would be saved, etc.— In two parts. The first printed at London in 1585. the second there 1587. and both in fol.  
An Exposition on the 39 Articles of the Church of England. Lond. 1586. etc. qu. Which book, at the first appearance, met not with that welcome entertainment, which seemed due to the author's endeavours. For besides the two extremes, Papists and Schismatics, who were highly enraged, many Protestants of a middle temper were much offended thereat. Some conceived it presumption for a private Minister to make himself the mouth of the Church, to render her sense in matters of so high-concernment. Others were 
* See Tho. ●ullers Ch. Hist. lib. 9 an. 1584.  offended, that his interpretation confined the charitable latitude, formerly allowed in those Articles. Howsoever it was, sure it is, the work in some years, wrought itself in good esteem, as dedicated to, and countenanced by, Dr. Bancroft beforementioned.  
A golden Chain taken out of the rich treasure house of the Psalms of David. Lond. 1587. in tw.  
The Peerless of K. Soleman, gathered into common places— Taken from the Proverbs of the said King, printed with the former book.  
Historical dialogue touching Antichrist and Popery; drawn and published for the comfort of our Church, etc. Lond. 1589. oct.  
Serm. on 12. Rom. ver. 6. 7. 8. Lond. 1590. qu.  
Miles Christianus, Or, a defence of all necessary writings and writers, written against an Epistle prefixed to a Catechism made by Miles Moses. Lond. 1590. qu. This Miles Moses was Bach. of Diu. and published besides the former things, The arraignment of Usury in six Sermons. Lond. 1595. qu.  
Table of the lawful use of an oath, and the cursed state of vain Swearers. Lond.  
Two dealogues. Lond. 1608. He also translated into English. (1) A discourse of the end of the world and second coming of Christ. Lond. 1577. 78. oct. written by Schelto à Geveren of Emden in Friesland. (2) General discourse of the damnable sect of Usurers, etc. Lond. 1578. qu. written by Philip Caesar. To which is added, A treatise of the lawful use of riches: written by Nich. Heming. (3) The profession of the true Church, and Popery compared. Lond. 1578. oct. (4) Exposition on the 84. Psalm. Lond. 1581. oct. written by Nic. Heming for the instruction of the ignorant in the grounds of Religion; and confutation of the Jews, Turks, etc. (5) S. Augustins' heavenly meditations, called, A private talk with God. Lond. 1581. in tw. Purified by our Translator T. Rogers, and adorned with annotations of Scripture. (6) Of the foolishness of men and women in putting off the amendment of their lives from day to day. Lond. 1583. and 86. oct. written Joh. Rivius. (7) Of the imitation of Christ, Lond. 1584. 89. in tw. written in three books by Tho. de Kempis; and for the worthiness thereof oft since translated into sundry Languages. Now newly translated by Tho. Rogers, corrected, and with most ample Texts and Sentences of holy Scripture illustrated. (8) A method to Mortification, called heretofore The contempt of the World, etc. Lond. 1586. in tw. written by Didac. Stella. (9) S. Augustins' Prayers. Lond. 1591. in tw. etc. Purged by our Translator (T. Rogers) from divers superstitious points, and adorned with manifold places of Scripture. (10) A manual containing special and picked meditations and godly prayers. Lond. 1591. in tw. with corrections by the Translator. (11) Enemy of security; or, a daily exercise of godly meditations. Lond. 1580. and 91. in tw. written by Joh. Avenar public Professor of the Hebrew tongue in the University of Witeberge. (12) Enemy to Atheism: or, christian godly prayers for all degrees. Lond. 1591. in tw. written in the Germane Language by Jo. Avenar, translated out of Lat. by our author T. Rogers. (13) Soliloquium animae: The fourth book of the imitation of Christ. Lond. 1592. in tw. written by Th. de Kempis before mentioned. What other thing our author hath written and translated, I know not; Nor any thing else of him, only that he was a zealous opposer of the doctrine of the Sabbath, and the first that publicly stood up against Dr. Nich. Bownds opinion of it in his Preface to the Exposition on the 39 Articles, etc. which made the other party, (the Puritan) angry, and so far to be enraged, as maliciously to asperse and blemish him. 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 mentioned, otherwise called Horningshearth: whereupon his body was buried in the Chancel of the Church there, under a rough, unpolished and broken Grave-stone, without name or Epitaph, 22. Febr. in sixteen hundred and fifteen, as the Register of that Church tells us; 
1616-16.  which, I presume, follows the English account, 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 entitled The tears or lamentations of a sorrowful Soul. Lond. 1612. qu. written by Sir Will. Leighton Knight, one of his Majesty's band of Pensioners. To which, the said Tho. Roger's added of his own composition, a Poem called Glocesters' mite. But this Tho. Rogers is quite different from the Divine before mentioned.  
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 entered a Student in Mag. coll. in Michaelmas-Term, but making little stay there he retired to Madge hall and took the degree of Bach. of Arts in 1606. being then numbered 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 Cuckoo, 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 night's 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 mirror of Magistrates, written in Verse by John Higens of Winceham, an. 1586. qu. This mirror, which was esteemed the best piece of Poetry of those times, (if Albion's 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 virtuous and noble Lady, 
Clar. 1615.  late deceased, the Lady Honour Hay. Lond. 1615. oct. I find another Rich. Niccolls who is styled the Elder, and of the Inner Temple Gent. who wrote (1) A Treatise setting forth the mystery of our Salvation. (2) A day Star for dark wand'ring souls: showing the light by a christian controversy. Both which were published after the author's 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, applied his eager mind to Academical studies in Ch. Ch. an. 1598. aged 16. took the degrees in Arts, that of Master being completed 1607. and afterwards published,  
Verba dierum: Or the days report of God's glory, in four Sermons or Lectures upon one text in the University of Oxon. 
Clar. 1615.  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 mentioned.  
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 completed 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, 
Clar. 1615.  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 Majesty's Privy Counsellors. 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. Spark were upholders of Puritanism and Nonconformity. In his younger years he was infinitely studious and industrious in Poetry, Philosophy and Physics, and in his elder in Divinity. To which last his genie chiefly inviting him, he became so complete in it, so well skilled 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 Soldier, 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 Pope's Censure, and Jesuits Sophisms in their Apology and defence of English Catholics. Also a demonstration that the things reform in the Church of England by the Laws of this realm, are truly Catholic, against the late Rhemish Testament. Oxon. 1585. Lond. 1586. in 4. parts, in a thick oct. In the third part of which, is answered Dr. Will. Allens Defence of Engl. Cath. before mentioned. It must be now noted that whereas in England the interest of the State had a great influence upon the doctrine of Obedience, Qu. Elizabeth therefore conceiving it convenient for her worldly designs to take on her the protection of the Low-Countries against the King of Spain, did employ our author Bilson to write the said book of Christian subjection, etc. In which, to justify the revolt of Holland, he gave strange liberty in many cases, especially concerning religion, for Subjects to cast off their obedience. But this book which served her designs for the present, did contribute much to the ruin of her Successor K. Ch. 1. (which one 
* Hug. Paul. de Cressey in his Exomologesis, etc. cap. 11.  calls a just judgement of God) For there is not any book that the Presbyterians have made more dangerous use of against their Prince (Ch. 1.) than that which his predecessor commanded to be written to justify her against the King of Spain. However our authors (Bilson) Successor in Winchester, I mean Dr. Morley 
a In his Vindication of himself against divers scandalous reflections made upon him by Mr. Rich. Baxter, cap. 3. Sect. 6.  saith that though Bishop Bilson was in an error, yet he was not so much for the resisting of Kings, as Mr. Rich. Baxter is.  
Of the perpetual government of Christ his Church, wherein are handled, the fatherly superiority which God first established in the Patriarches, and after continued in the tribe of Levi, etc. Also the points in question at this day touching the Jewish Synedrion, etc. Lond. 1593. qu. etc. Printed in Lat. at Lond. 1610.  
The effect of certain Sermons touching the full redempton of mankind by the death and blood of Ch. Jesus; wherein besides the merit of Christ's sufferings, the manner of his offering, the power of his death, the comfort of his Cross, the glory of his Resurrection are handled, etc. Lond. 1599 qu. The clearing of certain objections made against the aforesaid doctrine.— The said Sermons being preached at Paul's Cross, made great alarms among the puritanical brethren. Whereupon they mustering their forces and comparing their notes, sent them to Hen. Jacob an old Dessenter, to have them published, with his collections, under his own name. But the matter of the controversy coming to the Queen's knowledge, (she being at Farnham castle belonging to the B. of Winchester) she signified her pleasure to Bilson that he should neither desert the doctrine, nor suffer the Function, which he had exercised in the Church of England, to be trodden and trampled under foot by unquiet men, who both abhorred the truth and despised authority. Upon which command, the Bishop did set himself upon the writing of that learned Treatise (chiefly also delivered by him in Sermons) entitled,  
A survey of Christ's sufferings and descent into Hell. Lond. 1604. fol. See more in Hen. Jacob. He also published,  
Sermon at Westm. before K. and Qu. at their Coronation S. James day, 28. Jul. 1603. on Rom. 13. 1. Lond. 1603: oct. and wrote, 

MS. in my Libr.  
Orationes.  
Carmina varia.  
Vulgaria, etc.    
He also, with Dr. Miles Smith, added the last hand in the translation of the Bible, commanded by K. James 1. At length after he had gone through many employments, and had lived in continual drudgery, as 'twere, for the public good, surrendered up his pious soul to God on the 18. year 1616 of June in sixteen hundred and sixteen, and was buried saith 
* Fr. Gedwin in Append. ad. Come de. praesul. Angliae.  one, on the south side of Westminster Abbey Church near to the Monument of K. Rich. 2. or as the Register hath it, near to the entrance into S. Edmund's Chapel. One John Dunbar a Scot, who writes himself Megalo-Britannus, hath a learned Epigram 
b In lib. Epigr. Lond. 1616. in oct. cent. 2. Epig. 40.  on him, which may serve for his Epitaph.  
JOHN PITS, or Pitsous as he writes himself, a grand zealot for the Ro. Cath. cause, Son of Hen. Pits by Elizabeth his Wife, sister to Dr. Nich. Saunders, was bron at a market Town called Aulton in Hampshire, educated in juvenile learning in Wykeham's School near to Winton, admitted Probationer-fellow of New coll. in 1578. being then about 18. years of age, but leaving that house before he was admitted perpetual Fellow, which was to be in 1580. he went beyond the Seas as a voluntary Exile, and going to Douai was kindly received there by the learned Tho. Stapleton, who then gave him advice what course to take relating to his studies. Thence he went to Rheimes, and after one year spent in the English college he was sent to Rome and continued in the English coll. there also in the zealous prosecution of the studies of Philosophy and Divinity for seven years, and was made a Priest. Thence he returned to Rheimes where he taught Rhetoric and Greek for two years. But troubles arising in France, he withdrew himself into Lorraine, and took the degree of Master of Arts (which before he had neglected) at Pont-a-musson, and was soon after made Bach. of Divinity. Thence taking a journey into High Germany, he continued at Trier an year and an half, where after he had performed certain exercise, he was made a Licentiat of Divinity. Thence, after he had seen several of the best Cities in Germany, he removed to Ingolstadt in Bavaria; where remaining 3 years, did in that time, after he had performed solemn disputations, take the degree of Doctor of his faculty. So that by that time having viewed several parts of Italy and Germany and had learned their Languages, he returned to Lorraine; where, by Charles Cardinal of Lorraine he was made Canon of Verdun. After two years spent there, he was called thence by the illustrious Princess Antonia, Daughter to the Duke of Lorraine and Wife to the D. of Cleve, and was by her made her Confessor. And that he might be the better serviceable to her, he learned the French Tongue most accurately; so that it was usual with him afterwards to preach in that Language. In her service continuing about 12 years, he had leisure to turn over the Histories of England, whether Ecclesiastic or Republic. Whence making several collections and observations, he wrote and digested four great Volumes. One was of the Kings, another of the Bishops, a third of Apostolical, and a fourth of illustrious and learned, men of this Nation. At 12 years' end the said Duchess dying, he went a third time into Lorraine, where by the favour of John Bishop of Toul sometimes his Scholar, he was promoted to the Deanery of Liverdune of considerable value; which, with a Canonry, and an Officialship of the said Church, he kept to his dying day. He hath written,  
De legibus, Tract. Th●ologicus. Treu. 1592.  
De beatitudine; Tr. Th. Ingols. 1595.  
De Peregrinatiene, lib. 7. Dusseld. 1604. in tw. dedicated to Antonia Duchess of Cleve.  
Relationem Historicarum de Rebus Anglicis, tom. 1. quatuor partes complectens, etc. Par. 1619. in a thick qu. published by Dr. Will. Bishop, of whom I shall speak elsewhere. This book is the same with that De illustribus Angliae Scriptoribus, commonly called Pitseus de Scriptoribus. And hath in the beginning of it certain prolegomina, containing (1) De laudibus Historiae. (2) De antiquitate Ecclesiae Britanniae. (3) De Academiis, tam antiquis Britonam, quam recentioribus Anglorum. This is the first part. The second part containeth the lives and characters of English Writers. The third containeth an Appendix, of which I shall speak more anon; and the fourth, fifteen indices, which are, as 'twere, the Epitome of memorable things of the said first tome. Concerning which, I shall make these observations following. (1) That according to the time wherein 'twas written, things are expressed in eloquent Latin. (2) That the most part thereof, especially concerning the Writers is taken from Joh. Bale's book De Scriptoribus majoris Britanniae, notwithstanding he declares 
c In prima parte Relat. Historic. p. 53: 54. etc.  an abhorrence of him and his book. (2) That therein he omitts Wycleve and all the Wyclevists, Irish, and Scotch Writers, which Bale for the most part commemorates; and in their room he gives us an account of R. Cath. Writers, such for the most part, that had left their Country upon the reformation of religion made by Q. Elizabeth, and after, which is the best and most desired part of his book. (3) That several Writers in the Appendix, are taken from a book entit. Ecclogua Oxonio— Cantabrigensis, written by Tho. James of New coll. Of which book also he makes use, when he tells you in what Libraries the MSS. of certain authors, which he mentions, are preserved. (4) That though he pretends to give you an account only of R. Cath. Writers, especially about the time that reformations were made, or endeavoured to be made, yet he sets down (for want of full information I presume) some that were sincere Protestants, or at least more Protestants than Papists, as Sir Anth. Cope who died 1551. Joh. Redman who died the same year. Tho. Key or Cay Master of Vniu. coll. who died 1572. Joh. Leland the Antiquary, Rob. Record Mathematician, Dr. Alb. Hill an intimate acquaintance with Jo. Bradford the Martyr, Joh. Cay the Antiquary of Cambridge, Pet. Morwyn or Morwing of Magd. coll. etc. and in the Appendix George Coriat, rather a Puritan, than a true Son of the Church of England, Robert (for Roger) Taverner, whom I have mentioned in Rich. Taverner, an. 1575. Timothy Bright of Cambridge Doct. of Physic, and Rector of Methley in Yorkshire, by the death of Otho Hunt, in July 1591. Tho. Mouffet. a Doctor of Physic contemporary with the former, Joh. Huntingdon a zealous reformer and the beloved Son in Christ of Joh. Bale. See among the Writers under the year 1556. etc. (5) That whereas he pretends to follow Jo. Leland his Collectanea de Scriptoribus Angliae, (for very many times he familiarly mentions and quotes them,) 'tis only that he may avoid the naming of Bale, for whom all R. Catholics, nay zealous Protestants have little or no kindness at all, because his book is stuffed with revile and such Language that befits rather a Huckster at Billingsgate, than the meanest or worst of Scholars. The truth is our author Pits never saw the said Collectanea, he being but 20 years of age, or little more, when he left the Nation, neither was it in his power afterwards, if he had been in England, because they were kept in such private hands, that few Protestant Antiquaries, and none of those of the Church of Rome, could see or peruse them. (6) That in the said tome are very many errors, misnomers, etc. and so consequently in Bale, whom he follows, too many now to reckon; and how he and Bale are most egregiously deceived in what they mention of Amphibalus 
d Vide Pits nu. 56. nu. 59  Junior, and of Gildas Badonicus you may at large see in the learned Usserius, in his book De primordiis Ecclesiarum, etc. printed in qu. an. 1639. p. 539. 533, 477. 539, 557. and 1144. (7) That whereas Pits pretends to set down in the said book or tome, only English Writers, he hath mixed among them some that are out landish; among which are these. Herbertus Losinga, num. 182. born, as he saith, in Suffolk, but false, for the MS. which I follow in my marginal notes and additions of, and to, the Bishops of Norwich, mentioned by Franc. Bishop of Landaff in his book De Praesulibus Angliae Commentarius, saith that he was born in Pago Oxinnensi, or Oximensi in Normannia.— Jo. Erigena, nu. 133. said by him, and many others to be born in the City of S. David in Wales, but the generality say in Ireland. etc. At the end of the book of illustrious Writers, our author Pits hath,  
Appendix illustrium scriptorum trecentorum octoginta circiter, ordine alphabetico per centurias continens. Made up mostly from Bale, and partly from Dr. Tho. James his Ecloga beforementioned. But therein are many authors put, which are before in the work itself, De script. illust. Angliae, as (1) Godfridus Historicus, cent. 2. num. 94. p. 844. is the same with Godfridus Arturius, or de Monmouth, in the body of the work, nu. 212. (2) Gualt. Cepton, cent. 2. nu. 4. p. 846. the same with Walter Catton in the body, nu. 550. (3) Guliel. Califord, cent. 2. nu. 18. p. 851. is the same with Gul. Cockisford, nu. 653. (4) Guliel. de Dunclmo cent. 2. nu. 27. is the same with Gul. Shirwood in the body of the work, nu. 348. (5) Gul. Worcestrius, c. 2. nu. 53. the same with Gul. Buttonerus in the work itself, nu. 848. p. 648. (6) Joh. Anglicus, cent. 2. nu. 78. seems to be the same with Joh. Hoveden, nu. 396. P. 356. (7) Joh. de Alton, cent. 2. nu. 94. seems to be the same with Joh. Acton, nu. 416. p. 372. (8) Joh. Yorcus, cent. 3. nu. 10. is the same with Joh. Eboracensis in the same Appendix, p. 874. nu. 1. (9) Joh. Vton, cent. 3. nu. 35. is the same with Joh. Stone in the body of the work, nu. 862. p. 657. (10) Rich. de Montibus, cent. 3. nu. 80. seems to be the same with Will. de Montibus, nu. 302. p. 285. (11) Rich. Ruys, c. 3. nu. 92. the same with Rich. Rufus, nu. 380. p. 348. (12) Rob. Bridlington, c. 3. nu. 100 the same with Rob. Scriba, nu. 244. P. 242. (13) Rob. Cestrensis c. 4. nu. 2. the same with Rog. Cestrensis, nu. 514. p. 438. (14) Miserorum Simplissimus, c. 3. nu. 52. seems to be the same with Joh. Wethamstede, nu. 818. P. 630. (15) Rob. Dominicanus, c. 4. nu. 8. the same with Rob. Holcot, nu. 333. p. 463. (16) Rob. Herefordiensis, c. 4. nu. 11. the same with Rob. Foliot B. of Hereford. nu. 236. p. 236. (17) Robertus Prior, c. 4. nu. 13. is the same with Rob. Canutus, nu. 234. p. 234. Which R. Canutus also is supposed to be the same with Rich. Greekladensis, p. 397. nu. 448. and that Rich. to be the same with Rob. Greekladensis, mentioned by Leland in vol. 3. collect. p. 36. where 'tis said that the said Rob. wrote 40 Homilies, and a Tract De connubio Jacob, which makes me think that the said Robert Prior, may be the same with the said Rob. Greeklade, and the same R. Greeklade to be the same with Rob. Canutus. (18) Rog. Junius, c. 4. nu. 23. seems to be the same with Rog. Herefordiensis, nu. 238. p. 237. See more fully in Hist. & Antiq. Vniu. Oxon. lib. 1. p. 53. (19) Roger Varro, c. 4. nu. 27. seems to be the same with Gul. de Waria, nu. 384. p. 349. (20) Simon Dominicanus, c. 4. nu. 35. is the same with Sim. Henton, nu. 591. p. 486. (21) Steph. Anglicus, cent. 4. nu. 38. seems to be the same with Steph. Langton, nu. 326. p. 302. (22) Tho. Wicket, c. 4. nu. 68 the same with Tho. Wiccius, nu. 425. p. 379, (23) Anonymus alter, c. 1. nu. 20. the same with Rich. Canonicus, nu. 283. p. 267. etc. And as our author Pits hath repeated many writers in the said Appendix, which were before in the work itself, so hath he mixed a great many outlandish writers among them, supposing them to be English, among whom are, (1) Alacenus, cent. 1. nu. 8. who was an Arabian, as from his works may be gathered. (2) Anonymus Sacerdos, c. 1. nu. 26. who hath written, In Apocalypsim S. Johannis. lib. 8. Which book divers writers do attribute to Peter Scaliger Bishop of Verona. (3) Joh. de Muriis, c. 2. nu. 97. Who was a French man of Paris. (4) Joh. Major, c. 3. nu. 15. he was a Scot born. (5) Joh. Mearus, c. 3. nu. 18. whom I take to be Joh. de Meara an Irish man. (6) Guido Folla Episc. Eliensis, c. 2. nu. 13. He is the same with Guido Elnensis in Majorica, who sometimes writes himself Guido Perpinian Elnensis. No Guido Folla was ever Bish. of Ely. (7) Gilla Lincolniensis, c. 2. nu. 93. He was an Irish Man, was Bishop of Limerick, and died about 1139. (8) Anton. Pacinus, c. 1. nu. 28. he was an Italian. etc. At length after our author Jo. Pits had spent most of his time in rambling, and but little at Liverdune, he gave way to fate there, on the 17. Octob. according to the account there followed, in sixteen hundred and sixteen, year 1616 whereupon his body was buried in the collegiate Ch. at that place, and had soon after this inscription put over his grave: Hic jacet D. Pittz, quondam Decanus, Officialis, & Canonicus hujus Ecclesiae, Doctor SS. Theologiae, qui decessit ex hâc vita 17. Oct. an. 1616. As for the other volumes, which our author saith he hath written, viz. a vol. of the Kings, another of the Bishops, and a third of Apostolical men, of England; they were not buried with him, as he desired, in case he should not live to finish them, but were saved, and are to this day preserved as rarities in the Archives of the Coll. or Church at Liverdune. One of the said volumes, if not more, were used and quoted by Edward Maihew a Benedictine Monk, sometimes Scholar to our author Pitscus, in a book which he published at Rheimes, an. 1619. intit. Congregationis Anglicanae Ordinis S. Benedicti Trophaea. Which Maihew was a Salisbury Man born, and a professed Monk of the Congregation at Cassino, called by the French Mount-Cassin, about 48 miles distant from Naples. The other book of Bishops, which our author wrote, and often refers to, in his book De scriptoribus, is chiefly a collection taken from the Catalogue of the Bishops of England, published by Francis Godwin Subdean of Exeter, a 1601. as I have been informed by one that hath seen and perused the book.  
HENRY AIRAY was born in Westmoreland, educated in Grammatical learning by the care of Bernard Gilpin the northern Apostle, and by him sent to S. Edmund's hall, an. 1579. aged 19 or thereabouts, of whose benefaction he did not only then participate, but also of his Legacies in his last Will, dated 27. Oct. 1582. Soon after our author Airay was translated to Queen's coll. where he became Pauper Puer Serviens, that is, a poor serving Child that waits on the Fellows in the Common hall, at Meals, and in their Chambers, and do other servile work about the College. After he was Bachelaurs standing, in 1583. he was made Pauper Puer, or Tabardus or Tabardarius; that is, a Tabarder or Tabitter, (so called because anciently they wore Coats, or upper Gowns, much according to the fashion of those belonging to Heralds,) and in the year 1586, Master of Arts and Fellow. Which servile work belonging to Pauper Puer Serviens, when Undergraduats, all are to undergo before they can be Fellows. About the time he was Master, he entered into Holy Orders, and became a frequent and zealous Preacher in the University, particularly in the Church of S. Peter in the East, joining to Qu. coll. and taking the degree of B. of Diu. in 1594. was four years after chose Provost of his College. In 1600. he proceeded in Divinity, and six years after did undergo the office of Vicechancellor, wherein, as always before, he showed himself a zealous Calvinist, 
e See Hist. & Antiq. Univers. Oxon. lib. 1. 〈…〉  and a great maintainer of such that were of his mind, which then went beyond the number of those that were true English Ch. men. He is reported by those of his party, especially such that had an admiration for him, that he condemned himself to obscurity, and affected a retired and a private life, but being generally noted and esteemed for his holiness, integrity, learning, gravity, and indefatigable pains in the discharge of his Ministerial Function, etc. he could not hide himself from the eyes of the World. Also that by his singular wisdom and dexterity in the Government of his College, many learned Ministers were sent thence into the Church, and many worthy Gentlemen into the Commonwealth, etc. To pass by other commendations, which are needless now to repeat, I shall only tell you of his writings, which were published after his death, viz.  
Lectures upon the whole Epistle of St. Paul to the Philippians. Lond. 1618. qu. Which Lectures having been Preached in the Church of St. Peter in the East in Oxon, were published after his death by Christop. Potter Fellow of Queen's coll. with an Epistle before them of his composition.  
The just and necessary Apology touching his suit in Law for the Rectory of Charlton on Otmore on Oxfordshire. Lond. 1621. oct. Published also by the said Potter, a great admirer of this author and his doctrine.  
Treatise against bowing at the Name of Jesus— When printed I know not, for I have not yet seen it. Tho. Beacon, an old Calvinist, had long before written on that subject, and about Airay's time Dr. W. Whittaker, and Andr. Wille●, did the like. As for our author he died in Queen's coll. on the sixth of the Ides of Octob. year 1616 in sixteen hundred and sixteen, aged 57 and was buried in the inner Chapel of the said coll. Over his grave was soon after put two Monuments, one on the ground, and another in the South wall, with inscriptions on both of them, the copies of which you may see in Hist. & Antiq. Vnivers. Oxon. lib. 2. p. 124. b.  
FRANCIS TATE, Son of Barthelm. Tate of Delapre in Northamptonshire Esq was born there, or at least in that County, became a Commoner of Magd. coll. in 1577. aged 17. where laying a foundation of learning, for a greater structure to be erected thereon, departed without a degree to the Middle Temple 〈…〉 became a noted Counsellor, a person of great 〈…〉 in the Law, and eminent for his knowledge in 〈◊〉, and in the Saxon Language. In the latter ●nd of Q▪ Elizabeth he was a Parliament Man, and in the 5. Jac. 1. he was Lent-Reader of the Middle Temple, and about that time one of the Justice's Itinerant for S. Wales. He hath written several matters relating to Antiquity, which being crept into private hands, the public is thereby robbed of the benefit of them. However some of them I have seen, which bear these titles.  
Nomina Hydarum in come. Northampton.— MS. much used by Augustine Vincent Son of Will. Vincent of Wellingborough and Thingdon in Northamptonshire, in his intended Survey or Antiquities of Northamptonshire. I have a copy of this lying by me.  
Explanation of the abbreviated words in Domsday book.— Used also the by said Vincent, who after he had been Rogue Croix and Windsor Herald, as also had published, A discovery of Errors in two Editions of the Catalogue of Nobility, written by Ralph Brook, did yield to nature on the 11. Jan. in 1625. and was buried in the Church of St. Bennet near to Paul's Wharf in London. The said two MSS. of Franc. Tate were reserved as rarities in the Library of Christop. Lord Hatton of Kirkly in Northamptonshire, but where they are now, I know not.  
His opinion touching the antiquity, power, order, state, manner, persons, and proceedings of the High Court of Parliament in England.— See more in Joh. Doderidge, under the year 1628.  
Learned Speeches in Parliaments, held in the latter end of Q. Elizab. and in the Reign of K. Jam. 1.— with other things which I have not yet seen. He lived a single Man, and dying so on the 
f Camden in Annal. Reg. Jac. 1. MS. sub. an. 1616.  16. Nou. in sixteen hundred and sixteen, year 1616 was buried, I suppose, in the Church belonging to the Temples. He had a Nephew, Son of his elder Brother Sir William Tate of Delapre, called Zouch Tate, who became a Gentleman Com. of Trinity coll. in 1621. aged 15. but took no degree. In 1640. he was chosen a Burgess for Northampton to serve in that unhappy Parliament, which began at Westminster 3. Nou. the same year, where siding with the Factious Crew, took the Covenant, and became a zealous Enemy to the King and his Cause. Two or more Speeches of his are printed, one of which was spoken in a Common Hall at London 3. Jul. 1645. containing Observations on the King and Queen's Cabinet of Letters.— Lond. 1645. qu. Which Speech, with that of John L'isle and Rich. Browne, were animadverted upon by Tho. Browne of Ch. Ch. as hereafter it shall be told you. There were also Annotations printed at the end of the said Cabinet of Letters taken at Naseby Battle, where the King was worsted.— Printed at Lond. 1645. qu. but who the author of them was I cannot tell.  
RICHARD FIELD, received his first being in this World in the County of Hertford, was entered a Student in Magd. coll. in 1577. where continuing in drudging at his book, till he was about Bachelaurs standing, retired to Magd. hall, took the degrees in Arts, and afterwards for about 7 years was not only a daily Reader of Logic and Philosophy, but also a Moderator, and every Sunday a discusser of controversies against Bellarmine, and other Pontificians, before his Fellow-Aularians and many others. Afterwards being Bach. of Divinity, he became first a Reader thereof in the Cath. Church of Winchester, and afterwards in Lincoln's Inn; and when Doctor, Chaplain in Ordinary to Queen Elizab. and after her death to K. James; the last of whom not only gave him a Prebendship of Windsor, on the death of Jo. Chamber, an. 1604. but also the Deanery of Gloucester, in 1609. in the place of Dr. Tho. Morton promoted to the Deanery of Winchester. Both which he kept, with the Rectory of Burcleere or Burrowcleere in Hampshire, and all little enough for the encouragement of so right learned a Man as this our author Dr. Field was, who in his time was esteemed a principal mountainer of Protestancy, a powerful Preacher, a profound Schoolman, exact Disputant, and so admirable well knowing in the Controversies between the Protestants and the Papists, that few or none went beyond him in his time, as it doth plainly appear in these his labours.  
Of the Church, four books. Lond. 1606. fol. To which he added a fifth book.— Lond. 1610. fol. with an Appendix containing, A defence of such passages of the former books that have been excepted against, or wrested, to the maintenance of the Romish Errors. All which were reprinted at Oxon, 1628. fol. He also published,  
A Sermon Preached before the King at Whitehall, on Judas ver. 3. Lond. 1604. qu. He surrendered up his pious Soul to the great God that first gave it, on the 21. Nou. in sixteen hundred and sixteen, year 1616 (being then reviewing the said books, and about to give answer to such that had oppugned them,) and was buried in the outer Chapel of St. George at Windsor, a little below the Choir. Over his grave was soon after laid a plank of black Marble, and thereon this inscription engraven on a Copper plate fastened thereunto. Richardus Field hujus olim coll. canonicus, & Ecclesiae Glocestrensis Decanus, verè Doctor Theologiae, & author librorum quinque de Ecclesia. una cum Elizabetha Harrisia Sanctissima & Charissima conjuge, ex qua sex reliquit filios, filiam unicam. Hic sub communi marmore expectant Christi reditum, qui faelicitatem, quam ingressi sunt, adventu suo perficeat, ac consummet. Obierunt in Domino, ille an sal. 1616. aetatis suae 55. Haec an. sal. 1614 aetatis suae 41. In Dr. Field's Deanery of Gloucester succeeded Dr. William Land, and in his Canonry of Windsor, Edm. Wilson Doctor of Physic and Fellow of King's coll. in Cambridge.  
RICHARD HAKLUYT was born of, and descended from, an ancient and gentile Family of his name living at Yetton in Herefordshire, elected Student of Ch. Ch. from Westminster School, in 1570. took the degrees in Arts, lived for some time in the Middle Temple, where, I presume, he studied the Municipal Law. Afterwards he entered into holy Orders, and at length became Prebendary of the fourth stall in the Church of Westminster, in the place of one Dr. Rich. Webster, an. 1605. and Rector of Wetheringset in Suffolk. But that which is chiefly to be noted of him is this, that his Genie urging him to the study of History, especially to the Marine part thereof, (which was encouraged and furthered by Sir Francis Walsingham,) made him keep constant intelligence with the most noted Seamen at Wapping near London. From whom, and many small Pamphlets and Letters, that were published and went from hand to hand in his time, concerning the Voyages and Travels of several persons, he compiled a book intit▪  
English Voyages, Navigations, Trafficks, and Discoveries. Lond. 1598. 99 and 1600. in three vol. in fol. Which work being by him performed with great care and industry, cannot but be an honour to the Realm of England, because possibly many Ports and Islands in America, that are base and barren, and only bear a name for the present, may prove rich places in future time.  
Notes of certain Commodities in good request in the East Indies, the Molucoes, and China.— MS. among those given by selden's Executors to the Pub. Lib. at Oxon. He also illustrated by diligent observation of time, and with most useful notes, Peter Mart. Anglericus his eight Decades De novo orbe. Par. 1587. oct. and corrected and much amended, and translated into English, The discoveries of the World from the first original, unto the year of our Lord 1555. Lond. 1601. qu. briefly written in the Portugal tongue, by Anth. Galvano, Governor of Ternate, the chief Island of the Molucoes: As also from the said Language into our English tongue, Virginia richly valued, by the description of the main Land of Florida, her next Neighbour. Lond. 1609. qu. He paid his last debt to nature, 23. Nou. in sixteen hundred and sixteen, year 1616 and was buried in the Abbey Church of Westminster, dedicated to S. Peter, on the 26. of the same month, leaving behind him a Son named Edmund, begotten on the body of Frances his Wife, to whom he left his Manor of Bridgplace; and several tenements in Tuttlestreet within the City of Westminster. Oliver Hackluyt, Brother to the said Richard, was a Student of Ch. Ch. also, and being graduated in Physic had an happy hand in the practice of it. In R. Hakluyts Prebendship of Westminster succeeded Joh. Holt of Cor. Ch. coll. as I shall tell you elsewhere.  
JOHN SMITH was born in Warwickshire, elected Scholar of S. John's coll. into a Coventry place, an. 1577. aged 14. and at length was made Fellow, and highly valued in the University for piety and parts, especially by those that excelled in both. Soon after he grew to that note, that he was chosen (being then Bach. of Diu.) to be Lecturer in S. Paul's Cathedral in London, in the place of that great Man Dr. Lauc. Andrews, which he discharged not only to the satisfaction, but applause of most judicious and learned hearers, witnessed by their frequency and attention. Not long after he was removed to a Pastoral Charge at Clavering in Essex, where being fixed, he shined as a Star in its proper sphere, and was much reverenced for his Religion, learning, humility, and holiness of Life. He was skilful in the original Languages, an excellent Text-man, well read in writers that were of note in several ages of the Church, which may partly appear from these things following, that he wrote, viz.  
The Substance and Pith of Prayer: or, a brief, holy, and heavenly Exposition on the Lord's Prayer, being the Sum and Marrow of divers Sermons, etc. on Matth. 6. 9 Lond. 1629. qu.  
The Essex Dove presenting the World with a few of her Olive branches, etc. delivered in three several Treatises, viz. 1. The Grounds of Religion. 2. An Expoon the Lord's Prayer. 3. A Treatise of Repentance. Lond. 1629. qu.  
The poor Penitent: or, the Doctrine of Repentance, Preached in divers Sermons, etc. Lond. 1629. qu. in 14 Lectures, published by John Hart.  
Exposition on the Creed. Lond. 1632. fol.  
Explanation of the Articles of our Christian Faith.— Which two last books were delivered in 73 Sermons. He concluded his last day in the month of Nou. in sixteen hundred and sixteen, year 1616 and was buried in the Church of Clavering before-mentioned, leaving then, by his Will, several books to St. John's coll. Library. I have mentioned several John Smiths in this work, that were Divines. See under the year 1596. and elsewhere.  
THOMAS SPARK received his first breath in Lincolnshire, (at South-Somercote, as it seems,) became perpetual Fellow of Magd. coll. in 1570. in which year he was admitted Bach. of Arts. Soon after, by the favour of Arthur Lord Grey, he was preferred to the Parsonage of Bletchley in Bucks, where he was held in great esteem for his piety. In the year 1575. he was admitted to the reading of the Sentences, without ruling in Arts, and about that time was Chaplain to Dr. Cooper Bish. of Linc. who, that year, bestowed the Archdeaconry of Stow on him, in the place of Rog. Kelke Bach. of Diu. who had succeeded Joh. Harrison in that Dignity, 1563. In 1581. he proceeded in Divinity, being then in great renown for his learning. But his Dignity being remote from his Cure, and therefore could not well attend it, he gave it up out of Conscience sake, in 1582. and contented himself only ●ith Bletchley; whereupon Joh. Farmery, B. D. succeeded him therein. This Dr. Spark was the person, who, being noted for a great Nonconformist, and a Pillar of Puritanism, was, by Letters from the King's Council, called to the Conference at Hampton-Court, an. 1603. where appearing in the behalf of the Millinaries, (as 'tis said,) or rather, with Jo. Rainolds, as a Proctor for the precise Party, not in a Priest's Gown, or Canonical Coat, but such that Turkey Merchants wear, received then so great satisfaction from his Majesty's most ready and apt Answers to the Doubts and Objections there and then proposed, that he (though he spoke not one word) did not only, for the time following, yield himself in his practice to Universal Conformity, but privately by word and writing, and publicly by his brotherly persuasion. He was a learned Man, a solid Divine, well read in the Fathers, and so much esteemed for his profoundness, gravity, and exemplary life and conversation, that the Sages of the University thought it fit, after his death, to have his picture painted on the wall in the School-gallery among the English Divines of note there, viz. between that of Dr. Joh. Spenser of C. C. coll. whom I have mentioned under the year 1614 and that of Dr. Rich. Eedes of Ch. Ch. He hath written,  
A comfortable Treatise for a troubled Conscience. Lond. 1580. oct.  
Brief Catechism with a form of Prayer for Householders.— Taken, as it seems, from the Catechism of Vrsinus.  
Sermon Preached at Cheyneys in Bucks, at the burial of the E. of Bedford, 14. Sept. 1585. on Apoc. 14. 13. Lond. 1585. oct. etc.  
Treatise to prove that Ministers publicly, and Householders privately, are bound to Catechise their Parishioners and Families, etc. Oxon. 1588. oct.  
Answer to Mr. Joh. de Albines notable discourse against Heresies. Oxon. 1591. qu.  
Serm. at the Funeral of the Lord Grey, on Esay 57 1, 2. Ox. 1593. oct.  
The Highway to Heaven by the clear Light of the Gospel, etc. against Bellarmine, and others, in a Treatise made upon 37, 38, and 39 verses of the 7. of John, etc. Lond. 1597. oct.  
A brotherly persuasion to Unity and Uniformity in Judgement and Practice, touching the received and present Ecclesiastical Government, and the authorized Rites and Ceremonies of the Church of England. Lond. 1607. qu. Answered by Anon. in a book entitled, The second part of the defence of the Ministers Reasons for refusal of Subscription and Conformity to the Book of Common Prayer, etc. Printed 1608. qu. And by another Anon. in a book intit. A dispute upon the question of kneeling in the act of receiving the Sacramental Bread and Wine, etc. Pr. 1608. qu. Our author also (I mean Spark) had in Q. Elizabeth's time wrote a book of Succession. For which being brought into trouble, King James, who before had received intimation of the matter, sent for him the next day after the Conference at Hampton-Court, and talking with him about it, the King at length was so well satisfied with what he had done, that he then gave him his most gracious countenance. He died at Bletchley before-mentioned, year 1616 in the Winter time, in sixteen hundred and sixteen, and was buried in the Church there, leaving then behind him three learned Sons, which then, or soon after, had been trained up in the Schools of the Prophets, viz. Thomas Fellow of New coll. in Oxon, Andrew of Peter house in Cambridge, and Will. Spark of Magd. coll. whom I shall mention hereafter.  
ROBERT TINLEY, a Kentish Man born, became a Commoner of Magd. hall in the latter end of 1578. aged 17. or thereabouts, was translated soon after to Magd. coll. of which he became Demy, and at length Fellow. In 1595. he was elected one of the Proctors of the University, being then esteemed a Man of parts, and an eloquent Preacher. Afterwards being made Vicar of Wytham or Wictham in Essex, as also, if I mistake not, Minister of Glemsford in Suffolk, and at length Archdeacon of Ely, took the degrees in Divinity, and had then the general character of a person well read in the Fathers, but withal, a most bitter Enemy to Papists. He hath written and published,  
Of the mischievous subtlety and barbarous cruelty of the Romish Synagogue, on Psal. 124. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8. Lond. 1609. qu.  
Of the false Doctrines and refined Heresies of the Rom. Synagogue, on Matth. 7. 15, 16.— Printed there the same year. In the first are examined divers passages of that English Libel, written by a certain Fugitive against the Apology of the Oath of Allegiance. In the other are answered many of the arguments published by Rob. Chambers, Priest, concerning Popish Miracles. He hath written other things, as 'tis said, but such I have not yet seen, nor do I know any thing else of him, only that he concluding his last day in sixteen hundred and sixteen, 
1616:  was buried, as I presume, at Wytham before-mentioned, leaving then behind him a Son named Martin Tinley, afterwards a Member of Ch. Ch. in this University.  
HENRY PARRY, Son of Hen. Parry, Son of Will. Parry of Wormebridge in Herefordshire Gent. was born in Wilts, 20. Dec. or thereabouts, an. 1561. admitted Scholar of C. C. coll. 13. Nou. 1576. and Probationer 23. Apr. 86. being then Master of Arts. Afterwards he was Greek Reader in that coll. Chaplain to Q. Elizabeth, Doctor of Divinity 95. Dean of Chester in 1605. in the place of Dr. Will. Barlow promoted to the See of Rochester, and at length through Gloucester, was made Bishop of Worcester, a 1610. He was reputed by all of his time an able Divine, well read in the Fathers, a thro-paced Disputant, and so eloquent a Preacher, that K. James 1. always professed he seldom heard a better. The King of Denmark also, who was sometimes present at our King's Court, gave him a very rich ring for a Sermon that he Preached before him and K. James at Rochester, a 1606. He hath published,  
Concio de regno dei, in Matth. 6. 33. Lond. 1606. qu.  
Concio de victoriâ Christianâ, in Apoc. 3. 21. Oxon. 1593. 94. Lond. 1606. He also translated from English into Latin, The sum of a Conference between Joh. Rainolds and Joh. Hart, touching the Head and the Faith of the Church. Oxon. 1619. fol. Also from Lat. into English, A Catechism, wherein are de●ated and resolved the questions of whatsoever moment, which have been, or are, controverted in Divinity. Oxon. 1591. oct. Which Catechism was originally written by Zach. Vrsinus. This worthy Bishop died of a Palsy at Worcester, year 1616 12. Dec. in sixteen hundred and sixteen, and was buried in a little Chapel joining to the north side of the Door of the Cathedral Church at Worcester. In his Epitaph over his Grave (a copy of which you may see in Hist. & Antiq. Vniver. Oxon. lib. 2. p. 238.) he is characterized to be trium linguarum cognition, assidua verbi divini praedicatione, provida Ecclesiae gubernation, mentis pietate, morumque integritate spectatissimus, etc.  
EDWARD HOBY, a person much noted in his time to all learned Men, for his eminent endowments of mind and body, was the eldest Son of Sir Tho. Hoby Knight (mentioned under the year 1566.) by Elizab. his Wife, Daughter of Sir A. Coke Kt. was born in Berks particularly, us I conceive, at Bysham near to Maidenhead, became a Gentleman-Commoner of Trinity coll. in the beginning of 1574. aged 14. years, where, after he had spent 8 Terms in the study of Logic under a noted tutor, he became so great a proficient, that he was admitted in the latter end of the year 1575. Bach. of Arts of the University. The next year he proceeded in that faculty and was the Signior Master in the Comitia (whom we usually call The Senior of the Act) celebrated the same year. Afterwards spending some time in France, and in other Countries, as I suppose, was, some time after his return, honoured with the degree of Knighthood, an. 1582. made Constable of the Castle at Queenburg in the Isle of Shepy, was an Officer at the taking of Cadiz, a Parliament man several times in the latter end of Qu. Elizabeth, and upon K. James his coming to the Crown (if not happily before) was made one of the Gent. of the Privy-Chamber. He was a person of great reading and judgement, especially in the controversies between Protestants and Papists, a singular lover of Arts, substantial Learning, Antiquities, and the Professors thereof, particularly the Learned Camden, who had sufficiently received of his bounty, as he himself 
a In his Britannia, in Berks.  acknowledgeth, having dedicated his Hibernia 
b Edit. Lond. 1587. oct.  to him, and publicly told 
c In Britan, in Kent. in Queenborough.  the world that he had polished his excellent wit with learned Studies. He hath written,  
A letter to Mr. Theoph. Hyggons late Minister, now a Fugitive, in answer to his First motive, Lond. 1609. qu.  
A counter-snarl for Ishmael Rabshacheh a Cecropedian Lycaonite, being an answer to a R. Catholic, who writes himself J. R. Lond. 1613. qu. In which book, or in another, which I have not seen, our author treating of Purgatory, was answered by Joh. Floyd commonly called Father Fludd a Jesuit, in a book which he published under the name of Daniel à Jesus, printed at S. Omer in 1613. quarto.  
Currycomb for a Coxcomb: Or Purgatories Knell. In answer to a Libel by Jebal Rachel against Sir Edw. Hobies Counter-snarle, entitled Purgatories Triumph over hell. Lond. 1615. qu.  
Several motions, speeches and arguments in the four last Parliaments in Queen Elizabeth— Published in the Historical collections of Hayw. Townsend Esq He translated from French into English, Politic discourses upon truth and lying: An instruction to Princes to keep their faith and promises. Lond. 1586. qu. Composed by Sir Mart. Cognet Knight, one of the Privy-Councel to the most Christian King, master of the Requests to his Household, and lately Ambassador to the Cantons of Switzers and Grisons. And also from Spanish into English, The Origine and practice of War. Lond. 1597. oct. Written by Don Bernard de Mendoza. At length he giving way to fate in Queenburgh Castle on the first day of March (St. David's day) in sixteen hundred and sixteen, his body was conveyed to Bysham before mentioned, 
1616-7.  and buried there in a Chapel called Hoby's Chapel on the south side of the Chancel of the Church there, near to the body of his Father Sir Thomas, The said Sir Edward left behind him a natural Son named Peregrin Hoby, born of the body of one Katherine Pinkney, an. 1602. From which Peregrin are the Hobyes now of Bysham descended.  
THOMAS EGERTON, the natural Son of Sir Rich. Egerton of Ridley in Cheshire, was born in that County, applied his Muse to learning in this University, about 1556. particularly, as 'tis said, in Brasnose coll. of which he was a Commoner, in the year of his age 17 or thereabouts; where continuing about 3 years, laid a foundation whereon to build profounder learning. Afterwards going to Lincolns-Inn he made a most happy progress in the municipal laws, and at length was a Counsellor of note. In 1581. June 28. he was constituted 
d Baronag. Tom. 3. p: 414. b.  by the Queen her Solicitor General, and soon after he became Lent-reader of the said Inn. In 1592. June 2. the said Queen made him her Attorney General, in 1594. (he being then a Knight) he was made Master of the Rolls, and two years after Lord Keeper of the Great Seal. In which eminent office he continued during the whole remainder of Qu. Elizabeth's happy Reign. On 21. of Jul. 1603. he was raised to the degree of a Baron of this Realm, by the title of L. Ellesmere, and upon the 24. of the said Month, he was made Lord Chancellor of England. In the beginning of Nou. 1610. he was unanimously elected Chanc. of the University of Oxon. and in 14. Jac. 1. dom. 1616. he was advanced to the dignity of Viscount Brackley. He was a most grave and prudent man, a good Lawyer, just and honest, of so quick an apprehension also, and profound judgement, that none of the Bench in his time went beyond him. He hath written,  
Speech in the Exchequer Chamber, touching the Postnati. Lond. 1609. in qu. in 16. sheets.  
Certain observations concerning the office of Lord Chancellor. Lond. 1651. oct. and left behind him at his death four MSS. of choice collections, fit to be Printed, concerning (1) The prerogative Royal. (2) Privileges of Parliament. (3) Proceedings in Chancery. (4) The power of the Starr-chamber. He resigned up his last breath, in York-house in the Strand near London 15. 
1616-7.  March in sixteen hundred and sixteen, and was buried in the Church of Dodleston in Cheshire. His memory was much 
e Vide in Epigram. Jo. Sradling, lib. 3. p: 99 lib. 4. 141. & in Epigram. Johannis Bunbari Megalo Briranni, Cent. 2. Epigram: 52.  celebrated by Epigrams while he was living, and after his death all of the long Robe lamented his loss. We have his Picture drawn to the life in the habit of Lord Chancellor, setting in a Chair, hanging in the Gallery belonging to the Bodleian Library, called the School-gallery.  
WILLIAM MARTIN, Son of Nich. Martin of the City of Exeter, (by his first Wife Mary Daughter of Leonard Yeo of Hatherley in Devon) Son of Rich. Martin of the said City, and he the second Son of William Martin of Athelhampton in Dorsetshire Knight, was born, and educated in Grammar learning, within the said City of Exeter: where making early advances towards Academical learning, was sent to Broadgates' hall (now Pomb. coll.) an. 1579. aged 17. In which place falling under the tuition of a noted Master, laid an excellent foundation in Logic and Philosophy. Afterwards going to the Inns of Court, he became a Barester, and in 1605. was elected Recorder of Exeter in the place of John Helena Sergeant at Law. But his delight being much conversant in the reading of English Histories, he composed a book of the Kings of England, as I shall tell you anon. Upon the publication of which K. James (as 'tis said) taking some exceptions at a passage therein, either to the derogation of his family, or of the Realm of Scotland, he was thereupon brought into some trouble, which shortened his days. He hath written,  
Youth's instruction. Lond. 1612. qu. dedicated to his Son Nich. Martin then a Student in Oxon. In the said book is showed a great deal of reading, and consequently that the author was no loser of his time.  
The History and Lives of the Kings of England, from William the Conqueror to K. Hen. 8. Lond. 1616. and 28. fol. ushered into the world with the copies of Verses of Nicholas, William and Edw. Martin the Sons of the author, and by Pet. Bevis his Son-in-Law. To this History was afterwards added the History of K. Edw. 6. Qu. Marry and Qu. Elizabeth, by B. R. Master of Arts— Lond. 1638. fol. At the end of all the impressions was Printed,  
The succession of the Dukes and Earls of this Kingdom of England, from the Conqueror, to the 12. of James 1. with the then Viscounts, Barons, Baronet's, &c.— which was drawn up by the author, and continued after his death by R. B. beforementioned. What other books the said Will. Martin hath either written or published I know not, nor any thing else of him, only that he was buried in the Church of S. Petrock in the City of Exeter 12. year 1617. Apr. in sixteen hundred and seventeen. The inscription which was on the Stone, supposed to be laid for him, is worn out, and a new inscription cut thereon for one of the same family buried there. The next who must follow according to time was a severe Puritan, as Martin was.  
FRANCIS BUNNRY, Younger brother to Edmund, whom I shall anon mention, was born in an ancient House called the Vache in the Parish of Chalfont S. Giles in Bucks, on the 8. of May 1543. became a Student in the University in the latter end of the Reign of Q. Marry, an. 1558. and perpetual Fellow of Madg. coll. in 1562. being then Bach. of Arts. Afterwards proceeding in that faculty he took holy Orders, and began to preach God's word on the first of Nou. 1567. Whose Sermons being noted among many, he became soon after Chaplain to the Earl of Bedford, but continuing with him not long, he left his Fellowship in 1571. and retiring into the north parts of England, where he preached the word of God very constant, as his brother Edmund did, was inducted into a Prebendship of Durham 9 May 1572. made Archdeacon of Northumberland, on the resignation of Ralph Lever, 20. Oct. 1573. and on the eleventh of Sept. 1578. he was made Rector of Ryton within the Bishopric of Durham. This person was very zealous in the way he professed, was a great admirer of Jo. Calvin, a constant preacher, charitable, and a stiff enemy to Popery. He hath written and published,  
Survey and trial of the Pope's Supremacy. Lond. 1590. qu. Written against Card. Bellarmine.  
Comparison between the ancient faith of the Romans and the new Romish Religion. Lond. 1595. qu. This is commonly called Truth and Falsehood.  
Answer to a popish Libel, called A petition to the Bishops, preachers, and Gospelers. Oxon. 1607. oct.  
Exposition on the 28. verse of the third Chapt. of the Epistle to the Romans, wherein is manifestly proved the doctrine of justification by faith, etc. Lond. 1616. qu.  
Plain and familiar Exposition of the ten Commandments, by questions and answers. Lond. 1617. oct.  
In Joelis prophetiam enarratio. Written by the author an. 1595. and by his Epistle dedicated it to Toby Bishop of Durham, in which he saith he hath preached Sermons at Berwick about 20. years before that time, upon Joel, of which this book is the sum: And if printed, (for 'tis in MS.) would contain about 3 choir of Paper. He departed this mortal life, at Ryton before mentioned, 16. Apr. in sixteen hundred and seventeen, and was buried in the Chancel of the Church there, year 1617. near to the Graves of 4 of his Sons, which he had by Jane his Wife, Daughter of Henr. Priestly. Over his Grave was soon after, set up in the Wall adjoining, a table or plate of Brass, whereon are engraven certain trite Verses. The first Stanza runs thus. 
My bark now having won the haven  
I fear no stormy Seas,  
God is my hope, my home is heaven,  
My life is happy ease, etc.   
By his will, he bequeathed to the University of Oxon. 100 l. towards their building of the New Schools, and 33 l. to Madg. college.  
HENRY SAVILE, Sometimes of Shawhill in Yorkshire, commonly called Long Harry Savile, was born of an ancient family of his name, living at Bank near Halyfax in that County, entered a Student in Merton coll. (of which his kinsman Mr. Hen. Savile was Warden) in 1587. and was soon after made one of the Portionists, commonly called Postmasters. After he had taken the degree of Bach. of Arts, he left it, and retired to S. Alban hall, and as a member thereof, he took the degree of M. of Arts, in 1595. All which time being under the inspection of his kinsman, he became an eminent Scholar, especially in the Mathematics, Physic, (in which faculty he was admitted to practice by the University) Chemistry, Painting, Heraldry and Antiquities. Afterwards, for the completing and advance of his knowledge, he traveled into Italy, France, and Germany, where spending his time very profitable, returned the most accomplished person of his time, and therefore his company was desired, and sought after by all learned and virtuous Men. He had written several things fit for the Press, but whether ever published, I find not as yet. It must be now known that this Henr. Savile being an intimate friend with the learned Camden, he 
f Vide Hist. & Antiq. Uniu. Ox. lib. 1. p. 9 10.  communicated to him the ancient exemplar of Asser Menevensis, which contains the story of the discord between the new Scholars that Grimbald brought with him to Oxon, at the restauration of the University by K. Alfred, with the old Clerks that the said Grimbald found when he came to that place. Which exemplar being discovered to be genuine, by the said Camden (who afterwards 
g In Britannia, in Dobunts.  styled it Optimum exemplar Asserii) he did therefore make it public, an. 1602. But so it was, that as soon as it peeped forth, certain envious Cantabrigians did not stick to report that the said story concerning the dissension between the old, and new Scholars, was foisted into Asser by the said Long Harry Savile, and which is more, that passage also, was put by him into the printed History of Ingulphus, which maketh much for the Antiquity of the University of Oxon. Ego Ingulphus, etc. pro literis addiscendis in teneriore aetate constitutus, primum Westmonasterio, postremo Oxoniensi studio traditus sum, etc. But for the clearing of the said vain reports, much hath been 
h In Hist. & Antiq. Uniu. Oxon. ut supr.  said already: and therefore I shall trouble the reader no more, but only tell him, that after the said Long Harry had lived for some years after his return from foreign Countries, within the Parish of S. Martin in the Fields near London, died there, to be the great reluctancy of all learned men, on 29. Apr. in sixteen hundred and seventeen, year 1617. aged 49. Whereupon his body being buried in the Chancel of the Church of that Parish, had soon after a Monument set over his Grave, on the north Wall, with his bust to the middle, carved out from stone and painted. The reader is now to know that there was one Hen. Savile Esq who was employed as a Captain in one of her Majesty's Ships, called the Adventure, under the conduct of Sir Franc. Drake and Sir John Hawkyns against the Spaniard in the West Indies. Which Henry wrote a book intit. A Libel of Spanish lies found at the Sack of Cales, discoursing the fight in the West Indies between the English and the Spaniard, and of the death of Sir Franc. Drake, with an answer confuting the said Spanish lies, etc. Lond. 1596. qu. But this Capt. Henry Savile must not be understood to be the same with Long Harry, or with Sir Hen. Savile Warden of Merton college, but another of the same House, as I conceive, for three Hen. Saviles of Yorkshire, were atriculated as members of that coll. in the time of Qu. Elizabeath, viz. one, who is written the Son of a Plebeian, 1588. a second, the Son of an Esq in 1593. and a third an Esq Son also, in 1595. The said Capt. Savile, or else Long Harry, was engaged in the Earl of Essex his treasons; for which, he was forced to abscond and withdrew for a time.  
WILLIAM JAMES, Son of Joh. James of Little On in Staffordshire, by Ellen his Wife, Daughter of Will. Bolt of Sanabach in Cheshire, was born at Sandbach, admitted Student of Ch. Ch. in 1559. or thereabouts, and took the degrees in Arts. Afterwards entering into holy Orders, he was admitted to the reading of the Sentences 1571 being then Divinity Reader of Magd. coll. The next year he was elected Master of Vniu. coll. and in 1577. Aug. 27. he became Archdeacon of Coventry, on the death of Thom. Lewes. In 1584. he was made Dean of Ch. Ch. in Oxon, and in 96. June 5. he was installed Dean of Durham, after that place had laid void for some time, upon the promotion of Tob. Matthew to the See of Durham. In 1606. he succeeded the said T. Matthew in the Bishopric of Durham, to which See he was consecrated 7. Sept. the same year. Whereupon Sir Adam Newton, afterwards a Baronet, was installed Dean of Durham 27. of the same month. Which Deanery he keeping till 1620. did for a certain sum of money 
i Camden in Annal Jac. 1. MS. sub an. 1620.  resign it, and thereupon Dr. Rich. Hunt Prebendary of Canterbury was installed in his room 29. May the same year. Dr. W. James hath published,  
Several Sermons, as, (1) Sermon before the Q. Maj. at Hampton Court, 19 Feb. 1578. on Ezra 4. 1, 2, 3. Lond. 1578. oct. (2) Sermon at Paul's Cross, 9 Nou. 1589. on 1 Cor. 12. 25, 26, 27. Lond. 1590. qu. and others, as 'tis said, which I have not yet seen. He died on the 12. of May in sixteen hundred and seventeen, year 1617. and was buried in the Choir of the Cath. Ch. of Durham. He had a younger Brother named Francis James Fellow of Alls. coll. whom I shall mention in the Fasti 1587. and a Son of both his names by his first Wife, (named Katherine an Abendon Woman,) who was Student of Ch. Ch. and Orator of the University, an. 1601. Another Son also he had, named Francis James, begotten on the body of his third Wife, named Isabel; which Francis was Student of Ch. Ch. also, afterwards a Minister and well beneficed. He published A Proclamation to the King, in a Sermon Preached 15. June 1647. before his Maj. on Jonah 3. 7, 8. Lond. 1647. qu. About which time losing all his Spiritualities, lived poor and bare, till the King's return, 1660. There was another Fr. James, whom I shall mention in the Fasti 1612.  
EUSEBIUS PAGET was born at Cranford in Northamptonshire, sent to Oxon at 12 years of age in the Reign of Q Mary, was made Choirister, and afterwards, as it seems, Student of Ch. Ch. where making a considerable progress in Logic and Philosophy, departed without a degree, (though a noted Sophister,) and at length became Rector of the Parish Church of St. Anne and St. Agnes within Aldersgate, in London, where he continued many years a constant and faithful Preacher of God's word. He hath written and published,  
The History of the Bible, briefly collected by way of Question and Answer.— When first printed I know not. Sure 'tis, that one edition of it came out at London 1627. oct. In the title of which, 'tis said, that it was corrected by the author. Another edition came out in 1657. in tw. and one or more afterwards.  
Serm. of Tithes, on Gen. 14. 20, 21. Lond. 1583. oct.  
Serm. of Election, on Gen. 25. 23. Lond. in oct.  
Catechism. Lond. 1591. oct. He also translated from Lat. into English, Harmony on Matth: Mark, and Luke, written by Joh. Calvin. Other things, as 'tis said, he hath either written or translated, but such I have not yet seen. He died in a good old age, either in the latter end of May, or beginning of June, in sixteen hundred and seventeen, and was buried in his Church of SS. year 1617. Ann and Agnes beforementioned, leaving then behind him a Son named Ephraim Paget, (whom I shall hereafter mention,) a godly and learned Minister, and one that suffered by the Presbyterians, in the beginning of the Grand Rebellion raised by them.  
RICHARD KILBY received his first breath from a Plebeian Family in Warwickshire, and his juvenile education there, at the cost and charges of Rob. Oluey of Tachbrook in that County. Thence he was sent to Gloucester hall, where he spent near four years in Logic and Philosophy. Afterwards he went to Emanuel coll. in Cambridge, where taking the degrees in Arts, he taught a School in Kent. About that time taking holy Orders, (an. 1596.) he became Curate of Southfleet there, where he was much followed for his familiar way of Preaching. At length he removed, and was first made Minister of S. Alkmonds, then of Allhallows, in the ancient Borough of Derby. He hath written,  
The burden of a loaden Conscience, or the Misery of Sin. Lond. 1608. Camb. 1614 etc. in all, at least six editions, in oct.  
The unburthening of a loaden Conscience.— Printed with the former book. With other things which I have not yet seen. He died 21. Oct. in sixteen hundred and seventeen, year 1617. and was buried in the Chancel of the Church of Allhallows in Derby beforementioned. Over his grave is a brass plate fastened to the midst of the North wall of the said Chancel, with eight homespun verses engraven thereon, the four first of which, run thus: 
Lo Richard Kilby lieth here,  
Which lately was our Minister.  
To th' Poor he ever was a Friend,  
And gave them all he had at's end, etc.   
ROBERT TIGHE was born at Deeping in Lincolnshire, received part of his Academical education, as it seems, in Magd. coll. whence going to Cambridge, he took the degrees in Arts there, and then returning to the said coll. again, was not only incorporated in that degree, but admitted to the reading of the Sentences, in 1596. Afterwards he went to Cambridge again, took the degree of D. of D. being about that time Vicar of Allhallows Barkin near to the Tower of London, and going to Oxon again, was incorporated there, an. 1610. at which time, he was Archdeacon of Middlesex. He was an excellent Textuary, and a profound Linguist, which was the reason (as 'tis said) why he was employed by King James 1. in the translation of the Bible, in 1604. What else he translated, or wrote. I know not, nor any thing besides, only that he died about the beginning of Nou. in sixteen hundred and seventeen, year 1617. after he had been Vicar of the said Church from 1604. to the beginning of 1616. leaving behind him a Widow named Mary. In his Archdeaconry succeeded Dr. Will. Goodwin Dean of Ch. Ch. Oxon.  
JOHN FLAVELL, a native of Bishops-Liddiard in Somersetshire, was entered a Student in Trinity coll. in 1610. aged 14. and soon after became the forwardest Youth in that house, for his quick and smart disputations in Logic and Philosophy. At length the Foundress of Wadham coll. having been often told of the pregnancy of his parts, she made him one of her first Scholars thereof, in 1613. In the year following, he took the degree of Bach. of Arts, and became very useful among the Juniors by his frequent reading of Logic Lectures, and presiding in Philosophical disputations in the public Refectory. In 1617. he proceeded in Arts, being then esteemed a good Greek and Lat. Poet, was Senior of the Act that year, and chose public Professor of Grammar in the University, in which Faculty he was excellent and took great delight. He hath written,  
Tractatus de Demonstratione methodicus & polemicus. Oxon. 1619. etc. oct. in 4 books, not intended for the Press, only for the use and profit of private auditors. But so it was, that after his death, his notes coming into the hands of Alex. Huish of the same coll. he put them into order, digested, and sent them to the Press, which since hath been taken into the hands of all Juniors, and have undergone several impressions.  
Grammat. Graec. Enchyridion. in oct. This goes under the name of Joh. Flavell, but whether written by the former, I know not, for I have not yet seen it. He died in the flower of his youth on the 10. year 1617. Nou. in sixteen hundred and seventeen, and was buried in Wadham coll. Chappel. I find another Joh. Flavell, after the former in time, author of a little thing intit. A Prayer or Treatise of God's mighty power and protection of his Church and People, etc. Lond. 1642. and another (if not the same) author of Husbandry spiritualised, etc. Lond. 1669. qu. of A Saint indeed, etc. Lond. 1670. oct. and of several other things, but whether he was ever of this University, I know not. He occurrs Minister of Dartmouth in Devon. 1672. and several years after.  
THOMAS CORYATE, Son of George Coryate, mentioned under the year 1606. was born in the Parsonage house at Odcombe in Somersetshire, became a Commoner of Gloucester hall in the beginning of the year 1596. aged 19 where continuing about three years, he attained, by the help of a great memory, to some competency in Logic, but more by far in the Greek tongue, and in humane learning. Afterwards he was taken home for a time, then went to London, and was received into the Family of Henry Prince of Wales. At which time falling into the company of the Wits, who found him little better than a Fool in many respects, made him their Whetstone, and so became notus nimis omnibus. In the beginning of the year 1608. he took a Voyage into France, Italy, Germany, etc. and at his return published his travels under this title.  
Crudities hastily gobled up in five months' travels in France, Savoy, Italy, Rhetia, Helvetia, some parts of High Germany and the Netherlands. Lond. 1611. qu. Which book was then ushered into the world by an Odcombian banquet, consisting of near 60 copies of excellent verses made by the Poets of that time: (which did very much advantage the Sale of the book) Among them were Ben. Johnson, Sir Jo. Harrington of Kelston near Bath, Dudl. Digges afterwards Master of the Rolls, Rich. Martin Recorder of London, Laur. Whittaker, Hugh Holland the traveller, Jo. Hoskyns Sen. Inigo Jones, the surveyour, Christop. Brook, Rich. Corbet of Ch. Ch. Joh. Chapman, Thom. Campian Dr. of Phys. Jo. Owen the Epigrammatist, Sam. Page of C. C. C. Tho. Bastard of New coll. Tho. Farnaby sometimes of Mert. coll. Jo. Donne, Mich. Drayton, Joh. Davys of Hereford, Hen. Peacham, etc. In the year following (1612) after he had taken leave of his Countrymen by an oration spoken at the Cross in Odcombe, he took a long and large journey, with intentions not to return to his native Country, till he had spent 10 years in travelling to and fro. The first place he went to 
a See in Edward Terry's Voyage into East-India, printed at Lond. 1655. in oct. p. 60. etc.  was Constantinople, where he took special notice of all things there observable. In which place he found very great respect and encouragement from Sir Paul Pindar then and there Ambassador. Being there for some time he took his opportunities to view divers parts in Greece; and in the Hellespont he took special notice of those two Castles directly opposed each to other, called Sestos and Abydot, which stand on the several banks that bound that very narrow Sea. Which places Mus●●u makes famous in his very ancient Poem of Hero and Leander. He saw Smyrna famous at that time for trade, but not religion, and what then remained of the ruins of sometimes great Troy, but the very ruins of that place were almost all gone to ruin. From Smyrna he found a passage to Alexandria in Egypt, and there, near Grand Catro (anciently called Memphis) he observed what remained of the once famous Pyramids. Returning thence back to Alexandria he found a passage by Sea to Joppa, and travelling thence 20 English miles, he arrived at Jerusalem, but found it a very solitary, rocky and uncomfortable way, full of danger, by reason of the wild Arabs, who keep about those passages, to make poor travellers their prey and spoil. In Jerusalem he saw Mount Calvery (where our Saviour suffered) then enclosed within the Walls, Bethlem where he was born, about 5 English miles from Jerusalem; and Mount Olivet, whence he ascended. From Jerusalem he took his way to make a view of the Dead Sea, the place where Sodom and Gomorrah, and Admah and Zeboim once stood. Thence he went to have a sight of the River Jordan, which dischargeth itself into that most uncomfortable Lake, and from thence he journied north-east through the Ten Tribes, till he came to Mount Libanus. Thence back to Sidon, where he got a passage by Sea unto Alexandretta, now called Scanderoon, which is one of the most unwholesome places in the world. Thence he took his way to Aleppo in Syria, about 70. miles distant from Scanderoon, where he was kindly received by the English Consul, and tarried with him till he could get the benefit of a Caravan, which consists of a great multitude of people from divers parts, which get and keep together travelling in those parts, for fear of the incursions and violences by Thiefs and Murderers, which they would undoubtedly meet withal, if they traveled single, or but few together. With these, he after set forward towards, and to that City anciently called Nineveh in Assyria, which we find in the Prophecy of Jonah was sometimes a great and excellent City of three days journey, but then so exceedingly lessened and lodged in obscurity, that passengers could not say this was Nineveh. From thence he journied to Babylon in Chaldea, situated upon the River Euphrates, once likewise so great, that Aristotle called it a Country, not a City, but now very much contracted. From this place he proceeded through both the Armenia●s, and either did, or else he was made to, believe, that he saw the very mountain Ararat, whereon the ark of Noah tested after the flood. From thence he went forward towards the Kingdom of Persia, and there to Vspahan the usual place of residence for the great King. Thence to Seras, anciently called Shushan, where the great King. Ahasuerus kept his Royal and most Magnificent Court. Afterwards to Candahor, the first Province north-east, under the subjection of the Great Mogul, and so to Lahore the chiefest City but one, belonging to that great Empire, of very great trade, wealth, and delight. From Lahore he went to Agra, which is 400 English miles, planted with great Trees on both sides, which are all the year clothed with leaves, exceeding beneficial unto travellers for the shade they afford them in those hot climes. At Agra he made an halt, being there lovingly received in the English Factory, where he stayed till he had gotten to the Turkish, and Morisco or Arabian Languages, some good knowledge in the Persian and Indostan Tongues, in which study he was always very apt, and in little time showed much proficiency. The first of those two, the Persian, is the more acquaint; the other, the Indostan, is the vulgar Language spoken in East India. In both these he suddenly got such a knowledge and mastery, that it did exceedingly afterwards advantage him in his travels up and down the Moguls Territories, he wearing always the habit of that Nation, and speaking their Language. In the first of these, the Persian Tongue, he made afterwards an Oration to the Great Mogul, as I shall tell you anon, and in the Indostan he had so great a command, that he undertook a Landry-woman (belonging to the English Ambassador in that Country) who had such a liberty and freedom of speech that she would sometimes scold, brawl and rail from Sunrising to Sunset: I say that Tom Coryate undertaking her in her own Language he did so silence her by eight of the clock in the morning, that she had not one word more to speak, to the great wonder and mirth of those present. After he had visited several places in that Country and had been courteously received by Sir Tho. Roe Ambassador there for the K. of England, he went at length to Surat, lying on the banks of Swally Road, which is in E. India under the Empire of the Gr. Mogul, where he ended his days as I shall tell you anon. He was a man of a very coveting Eye that could never be satisfied with seeing, though he had seen very much, and yet he took as much content in seeing, as many others in the enjoying of great and rare things. He had got (besides the Latin and Greek) the mastery of many hard Languages, in which, if he had obtained wisdom to husband and manage them, as he had skill to speak them, he had deserved more same in his generation. But his knowledge and high attainments in several Languages made him not a little ignorant of himself, he being so covetous and ambitious of praise, that he would hear and endure more of it than he could in any measure deserve; being like a Ship that hath too much sail, and too little ballast. However had he not fallen into the smart hands of the Wits of those times, wherein he lived, he might have passed better. That itch of fame which engaged this man to the undertaking of those very hard, long, and dangerous travels, hath put thousands more (and therefore he was not alone in this) into strange attempts, only to be talked of. 'Twas fame, without doubt, that stirred up this man unto these voluntary, but hard undertake, and the hope of that glory which he should reap after he had finished his long travels, made him not at all to take notice of the hardship he found in them. That hope of name and repute for the time to come did even feed and feast him for the time present. And therefore any thing, that did in any measure eclipse him in those high conceivings of his own worth, did too too much trouble him; which you may collect from these following instances. Upon a time 
b Ibid. p. 73.  one Mr. Rich. Steel a Merchant, and servant to the East-India company, came to Sir Tho. Roe the Ambassador at Mandoa, the place then of the Moguls residence, at which time our author Tho. Coryate was there. This Merchant had not long before traveled over land from E. India, through Persia, and so for Constantinople, and so for England, who in his travels homeward had met with T. Coryate as he was journeying towards E. India. Mr. Steel then told him, that when he was in England, K. James (then living) enquired after him, and when he had certified the King of his meeting him on the way, the K. replied is that fool living? which when our Pilgrim Coryate heard, it seemed to trouble him very much, because the K. spoke no more nor no better of him; saying that Kings would speak of poor men what they pleased▪ At another time when he was ready to depart from Mandoa, Sir Th. Roe the Ambassador gave him a Letter, and in that a Bill to receive ten pounds at Aleppo when he should return thither. The Letter was directed to Mr. Libbeus Chapman there Consul at that time, in which, that which concerned our traveller was thus. Mr. Chapman when you shall hand these Letters, I desire you to receive the bearer of them Mr. Tho. Co●yate, with courtesy, for you shall find him a very honest poor wretch; and further I must entreat you to furnish him with ten pounds, which shall be repaid, etc. Our Pilgrim liked the gift well, but the language by which he should have received it, did not at all content him, telling his Chamber-fellow Mr. Terry, that my Lord Ambassador had even spoilt his courtesy in the carriage thereof; so that if he had been a very fool indeed, he could have said very little less of him than he did, honest poor wretch! and to say no more of him, was to say as much as nothing. Furthermore also he told him that when he was formerly undertaking his journey to Venice, a person of honour, wrote thus in his behalf to Sir Hen. Wotton then and there Ambassador, My Lord, good wine needs no Bush, neither a worthy man's Letter commendatory, because whethersoever he comes, he is his own Epistle, etc. This did so much please the Pilgrim, that there (said he) was some language in my behalf, but now for my Lord to write nothing of me by way of commendation, but honest poor wretch, is rather to trouble me, than to please me with his favour. And therefore afterwards his letter was phrased up to his mind, but he never lived to receive the money. By which his old acquaintance might see how tender the poor man was to be touched in any thing that might in the least measure disparage him. O what pains he took to make himself a subject for present and after discouse! being troubled at nothing for the present, unless with the fear of not living to reap that fruit, he was so ambitious of in all his undertake. And certainly he was surprised with some such thoughts and fears (as he afterwards told the company) when upon a time he being at Mandoa with the English, and there standing in a room against a stone-pillar, where the Ambassador was, upon a sudden he fell into such a swoon, that they had very much ado to recover him out of it, but at last he came to himself, and told them, that some sad thoughts had immediately before presented themselves to his fancy, which, as he conceived, put him into that distemper; like Fannius— Ne moriere mori. For he told them that there was great expectation in England of the large accounts he should give of his travels after his return home, and that he was now shortly to leave them, and he being at present not very well, if he should die in his way towards Surat, whether he was then intending to go (which place he had not yet seen) he might be buried in obscurity, and none of his friends ever know what became of him, travelling then, as usually he did, alone. Upon which the Ambassador willed him to stay longer with him, but he then thankfully refused that offer, and turned his face presently after towards Surat, which was 300. miles distant from the place where the Ambassador was, and he lived to come safely thither. But there being over-kindly used by some of the English, who gave him Sack, which they had brought from England, he calling for, as soon as he first heard of, it, and crying Sack, Sack, is there such a thing as Sack? I pray give me some Sack, and drinking of it moderately (for he was very temperate) it increased his flux which he had then upon him: and this caused him within few days after his very tedious and troublesome travels, for he went most on foot) at that place to come to his journey's end, as I shall anon tell you. What became of his notes and observations, which he had made in his long journeys, I know not, only these following which he sent to his friends in England, who printed them in his absence.  
Letters from Asmere, the Court of the Great Mogul, to several persons of quality in England, concerning the Emperor and his Country of E. India. Lond. 1616. qu. In the title of which is our author's Picture, riding on an Elephant. The first letter is written to Sir Edw. Philip's of Montag●e in Somersetshire Kt. Master of the Rolls.  
A Letter to his Mother Gertrude, dated from Agra in E. India, ult. oct. 1616. containing a speech that he spoke to the Gr. Mogul in the Persian Language— See in the Pilgrimages of Sam. Purchase, part 1. book 4. chap. 17. and also at the end of his Letters from Asmere before mentioned. 'Tis reported 
c 〈…〉  that in an Oration which our author Coryate did speak to the said Mogul he brought in that story of the Queen of Sheba, 1 Kings 10. (in which parts of that sacred History the Mahometans have some knowledge) and told him that as the Queen of Sheba having heard of the fame of K. Solomon, came from far to visit him; which when she had done, she confessed that though she had heard very much of him, and many things beyond her belief, yet now seeing what she did, acknowledged that she had not heard half of that which she now saw concerning the wisdom, and greatness, and revenue, and riches of Solomon: So our Orator Coryate told the Mogul, that he had heard very much of him before he had the honour to see him (when he was very far off in his own Country) but now what he beheld did exceedingly surmount all these former reports of him, which came to his Ears at such a distance from him. Then larding his short speech with some other piece of Flattery, which the Mogul liked well, concluded. Afterwards the Mogul gave him one hundred Roopus, which amounts to value of 12l. 10s. of our English money, looking upon him as a Derveese, or Votary, or Pilgrim, (for so he called him) and such that bear that name in that Country seem not much to care for money, and that was the reason (I conceive) that he gave him not a more plentiful reward.  
Certain observations from the Moguls Court and E. India.— See in Purchase beforementioned.  
Travels to, and observations in, Constantinople and other places in the way thither, and in his journey thence to Aleppo, Damascus and Jerusalem. Ibid. part, 2. lib. 10. cap. 12.  
His Oration, purus putus Coriatus; quintessence of Coryate— Spoken extempore when Mr. Rob. Rugg dubbed him a Knight on the ruins of Troy, by the name of Thomas Croyate the first English Knight of Troy. Ib. cap. 12.  
Observations of Constantinople abridged. Ib. cap. 12.  
Divers Lat. and Greek Epistles to learned men beyond the Seas.— Some of which are in his Crudities, as those to Gasp. Waserus, Radolp. Hospinian, Hen. Bullinger, descended from the famous Henry Bullinger, Marc. Buellerus, etc. At length our author Coryate giving way to fate, occasioned by a Flux, at Surat in E. India beforementioned, in the month of December in sixteen hundred and seventeen, year 1617. was buried there under a little Monument, like to one of those that are usually made in one of our Chyards. Sic exit Coryatus: (Hence he went off the Stage, and so must all after him, how long soever their parts seem to be. For if one should go to the extremest part of the world East, another West, another North, and another South, they must all meet at last together in the field of Bones, wherein our traveller hath now taken up his lodging, and where) I leave him, to make way for the next, as eminent almost for the Law, as he for his Travels.  
FERDINANDO PULTON alias P●ulton. (Son of Giles Pulton Esq who died 1560.) was born at Deusborough in Northamptonshire, became 
* Reg. 1. coll. Aenean. fol. 92. ●  commoner of Brasnose coll. in the beginning of Q. mary Reign, laid there a foundation of Academical literature, which he found useful to him afterwards when he grew eminent in the common Law. But leaving that house before he took a degree, he went to Lincoln's Inn, studied the said Law, took the usual degrees, and became eminent for the knowledge in, and practice of, it, not only in London, but the usual place of his residence in the country, viz. at Borton in the Parish and County of Buckingham▪ He hath written and published,  
An abstract of all the Penal Statutes which be general, Lond. 1600. qu. Digested alphabetically according to the several subjects they concern.  
Abridgement of the Statutes of England, that have been made and printed from Magna charta to the end of the Session of Parliament, 4. Jac. 1. Lond. 1606. and 12. etc. fol.  
Collection of Statutes repealed and not repealed. Lond. 1608. fol.  
De pace regis & regni, declaring which be the general offences and impediments of Peace. Lond. 1610. and 15▪ fol.  
Collection of sundry Statutes frequent in use: with notes in the Margin, and reference to the book, Cases and books of Entry and Registers, where they be treated of. Lond. 1618. in two vol. in fol. the●e again 1632. fol. etc. which collection reaches from 9 〈◊〉▪ 3. to 7. ●●c. 1.  
The Statutes at large, concerning all such Acts which at any time heretofore have 〈◊〉 extant in 〈…〉 Char●a, to the 16. of Ja●. 1. etc. divided 〈…〉 with marginal Notes, etc. Lond. 1618. etc. fol. He departed this Life, 
1617-18.  on the 20. January in sixteen hundred and seventeen, aged 82. and was buried in the Chancel of the Church of Deusborough, beforementioned. Over his grave was a large plain Stone soon after laid, with an Epitaph engraven thereon, wherein 'tis said that he was Vir omni virtutis & doctrinarum genere, (&) quondam illustrissimus necnon sedulus scriptor & propagator legum hujus regni. But if you are minded to read his English Epitaph, see in Sir Joh. Beaumont's Taste of the variety of Poems, at the end of his Bosworth-field. Lond. 1629. oct. The said Ferdinando Pulton left behind him several Sons, whereof two were R. Cath. Priests.  
WILLIAM WYRLEY, Son of Augustin Wyrly of Netherseile in Leicestershire (by Mary his Wife, Daughter of Walt. charnels) Son of Will. Wyrley of Handsworth in Staffordshire, descended from an ancient family of his name, sometimes living at Rowley in the said County, was born 
a Reg. Matric. Uniu. Oxon. P. pag. 447.  in Staffordshire; and in those parts educated in Grammar learning. This person, whom we are farther to mention, having from his childhood had an excellent Genie for Arms and Armoury was entertained in the family of Samson Erdswyke of Sandon Esq (mentioned under the year 1603.) called then by some the Antiquary of Staffordshire, where making a considerable progress in Heraldical and Antiquarian studies under his inspection, published a book under his own name entitled,  
The true use of Armoury, showed by History and plainly proved by example, etc. Lond. 1592. qu. Reported by some to be originally written by the said Erdeswyke, but he being then an ancient man, thought it fitter to have it published under Wyrley's name than his. However the reader is not to think so, but rather to suspend his thoughts (being only a bare report that came 
b See Sir Will. Dugdales' book en●it. The ancient usage and bearing of suc● Ensigns of honour, as are called Arms, etc. Oxo●. 1681 and 82. in oct. p. 4.  originally from Erdeswykes mouth; and to know this, that Wyrley was an ingenious man, and fit to compose such a book, and that Erdeswyke being often times crazed especially in his last days, and fit then for no kind of serious business, would say any thing which came into his mind, as 'tis very well known at this day among the chief of the college of Arms. Soon after the publication of that book, Wyrley left him, and retired to Balliol coll. purposely to obtain Academical learning, where being put under the tuition of a good tutor, and in great hope to obtain the grounds of the said learning, was matriculated in the University 
c Ib. in reg. matric. ut sup.  as a member of that house in Act term, an. 1595. he being then about 29. years of age. How long he continued there, or whether he took a degree, it appears not. However for diversion sake, he employed his time so admirably well during his abode in that house that he made several 
d In manibus D. H●n. St. George Clare●t. Arg. Arm.  collections of Arms from Monuments and Windows in Churches and elsewhere in and near Oxon, which have given me much light in my searches after things of that nature, in order to the finishing the great work that I have been many years drudging in. He also made divers remarks and collections from various Leaguer books, sometimes belonging to Monasteries in these parts, and elsewhere. The Original of which, written with his own hand, I have in my little Library, which though partly perished by wet and moisture, yet I shall always keep them as monuments of his industry. On the 15. May, 2. Jac. 1. dom. 1604. he was 
e Pat. 2 Jac. 1. p. 1.  constituted Ronge-Cr●ix, Officer or Pursuivant of Arms. Which place he holding several years, was always reputed among those of the coll. of Arms, a knowing and useful person in his profession; and might, had a longer life been spared, have published several matters relating thereunto, but being untimely cut off in the midst of his endeavours, about the beginning of Feb. 
1617-18.  in sixteen hundred and seventeen, we have enjoyed only (besides the printed book and collections already mentioned) various collections of Arms and Inscriptions made in, and from (which several Churches and gentlemen's habitations in his own County, Leicestershire have assisted Burton the Antiquary thereof) and in other Counties, and from Churches in, and near to, London▪ Some of which I have seen and perused in the Sheldonian Library, I mean in that Library which belonged sometimes to that most worthy and generous person, (my friendly acquaintance never to be forgotten) Ralph Sheldon of Boely Esquire, the same Ralph (for there are several of his family of both his names) who died on Midsomer-day, an. 1684. aged 61. or thereabouts. Which Library, the MSS. only, to the number of about 300. besides very many Parchment rolls and Pedigrees, he bequeathed to the Coll. of Arms situated on Bennet-hill near to St. Paul's Cathedral in London, where they yet remain. As for the body of Wyrley, 'twas buried, as I have been informed, in the Church of S. Bennet near to Paul's Wharff.  
EDMUND BUNNEY, elder brother to Francis Bunney before mentioned, was the Son of Rich, Bunney of Newton, otherwise called Bunney-hall in the Parish of Wakefield, and of Newland in the Parish of Normanton, in Yorkshire Esq by Bridget his Wife, Daughter and coheir of Edw. Restwold of the Vache near to Chalfont St. Giles in Bucks. (who died 1547.) descended from Richard and Philipp de la Vache, Knights of the illustrious Order of the Garter in the time of K. Rich. 2. These Bunneys (by the way it must be known) pretend that their Ancestors, descended from the Bunneys of Bunney, a Town so called, near to the ripe of the River L●ir by Orleans in France, came with William the Conqueror into England, and settled themselves at a place in Nottinghamshire called from them Bunney rise; but how they can make that out, seeing their name is not in the original and genuine Copy of Battle-Abbey roll, I cannot yet understand. This our author Edm. Bunney, whom I am farther to mention, was born at a house called the Vache before mentioned, (being then imparted) an. 1540 sent to this University at 16 years, of age in the fourth year of Q. Marry, and about the time he took the degree of Bach. of Arts, he was elected Probationer Fellow of Madg. coll. being then noted to be very forward in Logic and Philosophy. Soon after he went to Staple Inn, and thence to Greys' Inn, in either of which he spent about two years, for his Father, intended him for the Common-Law, being his eldest Son, but he resolving for Divinity, was cast off by his Father, (though a good man, as he the Son 
f In thes Defence of his labour in the work of the Ministry MS.  faith, and one that fled for his Religion in Qu. mary days) so that returning to Oxon, he took the degree of Master in the latter end of 1564. and in the year following was elected fellow of Merton coll. at which time Hen. Savile was elected Probationer. For which a act, though the Society had no precedent, yet there was a necessity for it, because there was not one then in that Society, that could, or would, preach any public Sermon in the college turn, such was the scarcity of Theologists, not only in that House, but generally throughout the University. In the year 1570. he was admitted to the reading of the Sentences, and about that time became Chaplain to Dr. Grindall Archb● of York, who gave him a Prebendship of that Church and the Rectory of Bolton Percy, about six Miles distant thence. Which Rectory after he had enjoyed 25. years, he resigned, and maintaining himself with the profits of his Prebendship, (being also Subdean of York) and other Dignities, mentioned in his Epitaph following, he preached and catechised where there was most need. I have heard Dr. Barten Holiday say, that when he was a Junior in the University, this our author Bunney (who had a bulkey body and a broad face) did several times come to Oxon, accompanied with two men in black Liveries with horses, and did preach or catechise in some Churches there, and near to it, where was none to do that office, particularly in Allsaints Church, to whom many resorted and took Notes. Also that whatsoever he had given to him by way of gratuity, he would bestow on his men; and farther added that by his seeing holiness of life and soundness of doctrine, many Scholars (particularly himself) were induced afterwards to take holy Orders. He would travel over most parts of England like a new Apostle, and would endeavour to act as the Apostles did. So that being blamed for it by many, as if there were none to be found to do that office but he, and looked upon by others as a forward, busy and conceited man, he therefore wrote his Defence of his labour in the work of the Ministry, and dispersed several copies of it abroad among his friends and acquaintance. The truth is he was the most fluid Preacher in the Reign of Qu. Elizabeth, for he seldom or never studied for what he was to deliver, but would preach and pray extempere, as our beloved Saints did in the time of the rebellion under K. Ch. 1. and after; insomuch that many were pleased to say he was troubled with the Divinity squirt. I have heard some of our Ancients, who remember him, report, that he was a severe Calvinist, and that by the liberty he took, did a great deal of harm by his Preaching in Corporation-Towns, as many than did▪ and some Gentlemen also, with Licenses obtained from the Queen under pretence of a scarcity of Divines. He hath written,  
The sum of Christian Religion, in two parts. The first intreateth of the Trinity, and the second of the Commandments. Lond. 1576. oct.  
Abridgement of Jo. Calvin's Institutions, Lond. 1580. oct. Translated into Engl. by Edw. May.  
Sceptre of Judah, or what manner of Government it was, that unto the Commonwealth, or Church of Israel, was by the Law of God appointed. Lond. 1584. oct.  
Of the Coronation of K. David, wherein out of that part of the History of David, that showeth how he came to the Kingdom, we have set out what is like to be the end of these troubles that daily arise for the Gospel's sake. Lond. 1588. qu.  
Necessary admonition out of the Prophet Joel, concerning that hand of God that of late was upon us, and is not clean taken off as yet, etc. Lond. 1588. oct. The Reader is to understand that Rob. Persons a Jesuit did put out a book intit. Christian Exercise appertaining to Resolution, etc. in two parts. The first of which coming forth before the other, our author Bunney did correct, alter, and made it fit for the use of Protestants, adding thereunto of his own composition,  
A Treatise of Purification▪ Lond. 1584. or thereabouts, in oct. But the Jesuit in the next edit. of the said Resolution, did much complain of our author for assuming to himself the labours of another person, and of spoiling his work and the impression thereof. Whereupon our author put out another book intit.  
A brief answer unto those idle and frivolous quarrels of R. P. against the late edition of the Resolution. Lond. 1589. oct. He hath also written,  
Of Divorce for Adultery, and Marrying again, that there is no sufficient Warrant so to do. Oxon. 1610. qu. At the end of which is a note to show that Rob. Persons was many years since answered.  
The corner Stone: Or, a form of teaching Jesus Christ out of the Scriptures. Lond. 1611. fol.  
A defence of his labour in the work of the Ministry.— MS. written 20. Jan. 1602. He also translated, as some say, into the English tongue, or as others, perverted it, that excellent book of Joh. Gerson, or rather of Tho. de Kempis, intit. Of the imitation of Christ; but whether true I know not, for I have not yet seen such a thing. He ended his days at Cawood in Yorkshire 26. Febr. in sixteen hundred and seventeen, 
1617-18.  and was buried in the south Isle joining to the choir of York Cathedral. Over his grave is a fair Monument in the wall, with his Effigies carved from stone, and this inscription by it. Edmundus Bunnaeus ex nobili Bunnaeorum familia oriundus, S. Th. Bac. coll. Mertonensis in Oxen. olim Socius, Parochiae de Bolton-Percy Pastor, Ecclesiarum 
* Preb. of Oxgate in the Church of St. Paul.  B. Pauli London, B. Petri Eborum, & B. Mariae Carleol. Praebendarius dignissimus; concionator frequentiss, vicatim & oppidatim praedicando multos annos▪ consume si●, cum ob amorem christi haereditatem paternam fratri Ri●●●●●●uniori relinquisset. Obiit die mensis Febr. 26. an. 1617. 
Haec senis Edmundi Bunney est quem cernis imago,  
A quo Bunnaei villula nomen habet.  
Clarus ●rat tanti, tumuit neque sanguinis aestu,  
Haeres patris crat profuit esse nihil.  
Denotat aetatem gravitas, resolutio mentem,  
Zelum Scripta, aciem Pulpita, facta fidem.  
Vasa sacro librosque dedit post funera templo,  
Et bona pauperibus, caetera seque deo.   
ROBERT ABBOT, the eldest Son of Maurice Abbot Sherman, (who died 25. Sept. 1606.) by Alice March his Wife, was born at Guildford in Surry, in an house now an Alehouse, bearing the sign of the Three Mariners, by the River's side near to the Bridge, on the North side of the Street, in St. Nicholas Parish; educated in the Free School there, (founded by K. Ed. 6. 1551.) under Mr. Franc. Tailor Schoolmaster thereof, became a Student in Balliol coll. 1575. aged 15 years, elected Socius Sacerdotalis of that house 16. Jan. 1581. took the degree of M. A. in the year following, became a noted Preacher in the University, and a constant Lecturer at St. Martin's Church in the Quadrivium, and sometimes at Abendon in Berks. Afterwards being made Lecturer in the City of Worcester and Rector of Allsaints Church there, he resigned his Fellowship 8. March 1588. and not long after became Rector of Bingham in Northamptonshire by the favour of Joh. Stanhope Esquire, and afterwards took the degrees in Divinity, that of Doctor being completed in 1597. In the beginning of the Reign of K. James 1. he was made Chaplain in Ordinary to him, in the year 1609. he was unanimously elected Master of Balliol coll. and in the beginning of Nou. 1610. he was made Prebendary of Normanton in the Church of Southwell. In 1612. he was appointed Doctor of the Theological Chair, usually called the King's Professor of Divinity, by his Majesty; and in 1615. he was nominated by him to be Bishop of Salisbury, merely, as 'tis said, for his incomparable Lectures read in the Divinity School concerning the King's Supreme Power, against Bellarmino and Suarez, and for his Antilogia which he a little before had published. So that being consecrated thereunto on the third of Dec. the same year, sat there till the time of his death, which was soon after. He was a person of unblameable life and conversation, a profound Divine, most admirably well read in the Fathers, Councils and Schoolmen, and a more moderate Calvinian than either of his two Predecessors (Holland and Humphrey) in the Divinity-chair were; which he expressed by countenancing the Sublapsarian way of Predestination. His works are,  
The Mirror of Popish Subtleties; discovering certain wretched and miserable evasions and shifts, which a secret cavilling Papist in the behalf of one Paul Spence Priest, yet living, and lately Prisoner in the Castle of Worcester, hath gathered out of Saunders and Bellarmine, etc. concerning the Sacraments, etc. Lond. 1594. qu.  
The Exaltation of the Kingdom and Priesthood of Christ. Sermons on 110 Psalm, from the 1. to the 7. ver. Lond. 1601. qu.  
Antichristi demonstratio, contra fabulas Pontificias, & ineptum Rob. Bellarmini de Antichristo disputationem. Lond. 1603. qu. 1608. oct.  
Defence of the Reformed Catholic of Mr. Will. Perkins lately deceased, against the Bastard Counter-Catholick of Dr. Bishop Seminary Priest. The first part. Lond. 1606. qu. The second part was printed at the same place, 1607. qu. and the third part, 1609. qu.  
The old way: Serm. at S. mary's Oxon, on Act-Sunday 8. July 1610. on Jerem. 6. 16. Lond. 1610. qu.  
The true ancient Rom. Catholic, being an Apology against Dr. Bishop's Reproof of the defence of the Reformed Catholic. Lond. 1611. qu. See more in Will. Bishop, an. 1624.  
Antilogia adversus apologiam Andreae Endaemon-Johannis Jesuitae pro Henrico Garnetto Jesuitâ proditore; quâ mendacissime, etc. Lond. 1613. qu.  
Exercitationes de gratiâ & perseverantiâ Sanctorum, etc. Lond. 1618. qu.  
In Richardi Thomsoni Angli Belgici deatribam, de amissione & intercessione justificationis & gratiae, animadversio brevis. The former of which two, viz. Exerc. de gratia, etc. was printed at Francfort 1619. under this title, Exercitationes Academicae de gratiâ & perseverantiâ Sanctorum, it●mque de intercessione justificationis. in oct. As for Rich. Thomson you may see more of him in the Fasti, an 1596.  
De supremâ potestate regiâ, exercitationes habitae in Acad. Oxon, contra Rob. Bellarminum & Franc. Suarez. Lond. 1619. qu. He also wrote a most accurate Commentary (in Latin) upon the Epistle to the Romans, with large Sermons upon every verse, in which he handled, as his Text gave him occasion, all the controverted points of Religion at this day. This Commentary, which is in 4 volumes in MS. was given to Bodlies' Library by Dr. Edw. Corbet Rector of Has●ley in Oxfordshire, who married Margaret, the Daughter of Sir Nath, Brent Knight by his Wife Martha the only Daughter and Heir of the said Dr. Rob. Abbot. Other matters also he left behind him fit for the Press, but whether they were all printed I know not. At length through a too sedentary life, which brought him to the terrible disease of the Stone in the Kidneys, he gave way to fate on the second of March in sixteen hundred and seventeen, 
1617-18.  and was buried in the Cath. Church of Salisbury, over against the Bishop's seat, having in less than two years before, married a second Wife, for which he gained the great displeasure of his Brother Dr. Geo. Abbot Archb. of Canterbury. I find another Rob. Abbot, who was a frequent writer, but after the former in time. He was originally of Cambridge, and afterwards a Minister of God's Word, first in Kent, then in Hampshire, and at length in London, as I shall more at large tell you in the Fasti, 1607.  
WALTER WYLSHMAN, a Cornish man born, educated in Exeter coll. took the degrees in Arts, stood as a Member of Broadgates' hall in an Act celebrated 1594. to complete it, being about that time Minister of Dartmouth in Devonshire, and much resorted to for his frequent and practical way of Preaching. He hath written and published,  
The sincere Preacher: 
Clar. 1619.  Proving that in whom is adulation, avarice, and ambition, he cannot be sincere: Delivered in three Sermons in Dartmouth, upon 1 Thes. 2. 5, 6. Lond. 1616. oct.  
THOMAS BASTARD, a most ingenious and facetious person of his time, was born at a Market Town in Dorsetshire called Blandford, educated in Wykehams' School, admitted perpetual Fellow of New coll. in 1588. and two years after Bach. of Arts. But this person being much guilty of the vices belonging to Poets, and given to libelling, he was in a manner forced to leave his Fellowship, in 1591. So that for the present being put to his shifts, he was not long after made Chaplain to Thomas Earl of Suffolk, Lord Treasurer of England, by whose favour and endeavours he became Vicar of Beer-Regis, and Rector of Amour or Hamer in his native Country, being then M. of A. He was a person endowed with many rare gifts, was an excellent Grecian, Latinist, and Poet, and in his elder years a acquaint Preacher. His discourses were always pleasant and facete, which made his company desired by all ingenious men. He was a most excellent Epigrammatist, and being always ready to versify upon any subject, did let nothing material escape his fancy, as his compositions running through several hands in MS. show. One of which made upon his three Wives runs thus. 
Terna mihi variis ducta est aetatibus uxor,  
Haec juveni, illa viro, tertia n●pta seni.  
Prima est propter opus teneris mihi juncta sub annis,  
Altera propter opes, tertia propter opem.   
The things that he hath written and published are many, but all that I have seen are only these.  
Epigrams.— Which being very pleasant to the Reader, that noted Poet Sir Joh. Harrington of Kelston made one 
* In his Witty Epigrams, in 4 books. Lond. 1618. lib. 2. Epig. 64. See also Epig 84 in lib. 2.  or more Epigrams, dedicated to the author of them.  
Pocma, intit. Magna Britannia. lib. 3. Lond. 1605. qu. Dedicated to K. Jam. 1.  
Five Sermons. Lond. 1615. qu. The three first on Luke 1. 76. are called, The Marigold and the Sun. The two last on Luke 7. 37, 38. are intit. The Sinners Looking-glass.  
Twelve Sermons. Lond. 1615. qu. The first on Ephes. 4. 26. is intit. A Christian exhortation to innocent anger. The second on Exod. 3. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5. is, The calling of Moses, etc. This Poet and Preacher being towards his latter end crazed, and thereupon brought into debt, was at length committed to the Prison in Allhallows Parish in Dorchester, where dying very obscurely, and in a mean condition, was buried in the Churchyard belonging to that Parish, on 19 Apr. in sixteen hundred and eighteen, year 1618. leaving behind him many memorial of his Wit and Drollery. In my collection of Libels or Lampoons, made by diver● Oxford Students in the Reign of Q. Elizabeth, I meet with two made by his author. One of which is intit. An admonition to the City of Oxford: or his Libel intit. Marprelates' Basterdine. Wherein he reflects upon all persons of note in Oxon that were guilty of amorous exploits, or that mixed themselves with other men's Wives, or with wanton Huswives in Oxon. Another also, was made after his expulsion, wherein he disclaimeth the aforesaid Libel, beginning thus: Jenkin why Man? Why Jenkin? fie for shame, etc. But the Reader must know that none of these were printed.  
JOHN DOVE, a Surrey Man born of Plebeian Parents, was elected from Westminster School a Student of Ch. Ch. an. 1580. aged 18. and after he had taken the degrees in Arts became a Preacher of note in the University. In 1596. he proceeded in Divinity, being at that time well beneficed, if not dignified, but where I cannot yet tell. His works are,  
A persuasion to the English Recusants to reconcile themselves to the Church of Rome. Lond. 1603. qu.)  
Confutation of Atheism. Lond. 1605. and 1640. oct.  
Defence of Church-Government, wherein the Church Government in England is directly consonant to the Word of God, etc. Lond. 1607. qu.  
Defence of the Cross in Baptism, as 'tis used in the Church of England.— Printed with the Defence.  
Advertisement to the English Seminaries and Jesuits, showing their loose kind of writings, and negligent handling the cause of Religion, etc. Lond. 1610. qu.  
The conversion of Solomon. A direction to holiness of life, handled by way of Commentary upon the whole book of Canticles, etc. Lond. 1613. qu.  
Sermons, on Ezek. 33. 11. and S. Matth. 19 9 Lond. 1597. 1601. oct. etc. See more in Alb. Gentilis, an. 1611. where you will find him author of another book, but whether printed I know not. He concluded his last day in Apr. (about the 19 day) in sixteen hundred and eighteen, year 1618. but where buried I know not as yet. I find one John Dove to be author of Polydorian, or a miscellany of Moral, Philosophical and Theological Sentences. Printed 1631. oct. But whether he was the same with the Doctor, or another, I cannot tell, unless I see the book itself, which I have not yet done.  
RICHARD MOKET, was born in Dorsetshire, in the Dioc. of Salisbury, elected from Brasnose, to be Fellow of Allsouls, coll. in 1599 being then near four years standing in the degree of Bach of Arts. Afterwards he proceeding in that Faculty, took on him the Sacred Function, became Domestic Chaplain to George Archb. of Canterbury, Warden of Allsouls, Rector of Monks-Risborow in Bucks, and of Newington near Dorchester in Oxfordshire, D. of D. and one of the King's Commissioners concerning Ecclesiastical Affairs. He published in the Latin tongue, 

Lond. 1616. fol.  
The Liturgy of the Church of England.  
Greater and Lesser Catechisms.  
Thirty nine Articles.  
Book of ordination of Bishops, Priests, and Deacons.  
Doctrinal points extracted out of the Book of Homilies.    
To which he added his own book, written in Latin, entitled,  
De politiâ Ecclesiae Anglicanae. Reprinted at Lond. 1683. oct. Which collection he published in a pious zeal for gaining honour to the Church of England amongst Foreign Nations. But this his zeal was so little accompanied in the Constitutions of the said Church, or so much biased towards those of calvin's Platform, that it was thought fit not only to call it in, but to expiate the errors of it in a public flame. And the true cause which was conceived why the book was burned, was, that in publishing the twentieth Article concerning the authority of the Church, he totally left out the first clause of it, viz. Habet Ecclesia ritus & caeremonias statuendi jus, & in controversiis fidei authoritatem. By means whereof the Article was apparently falsified, the Church's authority disowned, and consequently a wide gap 
a See in Arcb. laud's Life, by 〈…〉 lib. 1. an. 1617.  opened to dispute her power in all her Canons and Determinations of what sort soever. He yielded up his last breath, (with grief, as 'tis thought, for what had been done to his book) on the day before the nonce of July, year 1618. in sixteen hundred and eighteen, and was buried at the upper end of Allsouls coll. chapel, just below the steps leading to the high Altar. In his Wardenship succeeded Richard Astley D. of D. who dying in Febr. 1635. was succeeded by Gilb. Sheldon, who was afterwards Bishop of London, and at length Archbishop of Canterbury.  
JOHN GOLDESBURG, descended originally from those of his name, living at Goldesburg in Yorkshire, was born 18. oct. 1568. spent some time among the Oxonians for form-sake about 1584. went thence to the Middle Temple, were after he had continued in the degree of Barrister, and for some years been resorted to in matters relating to his profession, was made one of the Prothonotaries of the Common Pleas. He wrote and left behind him fit for the Press,  
Reports, or, collection of cases and matters agitated in all the Courts in Westminster, in the latter years of the reign of Qu. Elizabeth, with learned arguments at the Bar, and on the bench. Lond. 1635. etc. qu. Published by Will. Shepphard Esq Upon which cases and matters Sir Edm. Anderson and Sir Jo. Popham, Judges, wrote Resolutions and Judgements. year 1618. Our author Goldesburg concluded his last day on the 9 oct. in sixteen hundred and eighteen. Whereupon his body was buried near to the high Altar of the Church belonging to the Temples. He left behind him other things, as 'tis said, fit for the Press, but in whose hands they are, I could never learn.  
WALTER RALEIGH, a person in his time of a good natural wit, better judgement and of a plausible tongue, Son of Walt. Raleigh Esq by Catherine his Wife Daughter of Sir Philip Champernoon Kt. was born at a place called Hays in Parish of East-Budeleigh in Devonshire, an. 1552. Which Hayes is a farm, and his Father having had a remnant of a Lease of 80 years in it, came after the expiration thereof to one Duke: unto whom afterwards, our author W. Raleigh having a desire to purchase it, wrote a Letter dated from the Court 26. July 1584. wherein he says that for the natural disposition he has to that place, being born in that house, he had rather seat himself there, than any where else, etc. His Father was the first of his name that lived there, but his ancestors had possessed Furdell in the same County for several Generations before, where they lived in 
b See in J●. H●oker's Epistle dedicated to Sir Walt. Raleigh, set before his translation of Garald C●mbrersis his Irish History. Printed in the 2. vol. of R●●h Holi●sheds Chror— Lord. 1587. ●ol.  gentile estate, and were esteemed ancient Gentlemen. In 1568, or thereabouts he became a Commoner of Oriel coll. at what time C. Champernoon his kinsman studied there, where his natural parts being strangely advanced by Academical learning under the care of an excellent Tutor, became the ornament of the Juniours, and was worthily esteemed a proficient in Oratory and Philosophy. After he had spent about 3. years in that house, where he had laid a good ground and sure foundation to build thereon, he left the University without a degree, and went to the Middle-Temple to improve himself in the intricate knowledge of the municipal Laws. How long he tarried there, 'tis uncertain, yet sure I am, from a Epistle, or copy of Verses of his composition, which I have seen, that he was abiding in the said Temple, in Apr. 1576. at which time his vein for ditty and amorous Ode, was esteemed most lofty, insolent and passionate. As for the remaining part of his life, it was sometimes low, and sometimes in a middle condition, and often tossed by fortune to and fro, and seldom at rest. He was one that fortune had picked up out of purpose, of whom to make an example, or to use as her Tennis-Ball, thereby to show what she could do; for she tossed him up of nothing, and to and fro to greatness, and from thence down to little more than to that wherein she found him, (a bare Gentleman) not that he was less, for he was well descended and of good alliance, but poor in his beginnings, and for the jest 
c Fragm. Regalia, &c by Sir K. No●m●n, printed at Lond. in 〈◊〉 1650. p. 57  of Edw. Earl. of Oxon. (the Jack, and an upstart Kt.) all than knew it savoured more of emulation, and his humour, than of truth. France was the first School, wherein he learned the rudiments of War, and the Low Countries and Ireland (the military Academies of those times) made him Master of that discipline: for in both places he exposed himself afterwards to Land-service, but that in Ireland was a Militia, which then did not yield him food and raiment, nor had he patience to stay there, though shortly after (in 1580.) he went thither again, and was a Captain there under Arthur Lord Grey who succeeded Sir Will. Pelham in the Deputyship of that Kingdom. Afterwards gaining great credit, he was received into the Court, became a person in favour, and had several boons bestowed on him afterwards, particularly the Castle of Shireborne in Dorsetshire, taken from the See of Salisbury▪ In the latter end of 1584. he discovered a new Country, which he, in honour of the Queen, called Virginia, received the honour of Knighthood from her, and was afterwards made Captain of her Majesty's Guards, Senceschal of the Duchies of Cornwall, and Exeter, Lord Warden of the Stanneries of Devon. and Cornwall, Lord Lieutenant of Cornwall and Governor of Jersey. In 1588. he showed himself active against the invincible Armada of the Spaniards, and in 1592. being about that time a Parliament man, wherein, as in other Parliaments in the latter end of Q. Eliz. was he a frequent Speaker, he went to America with 15. men of War to possess himself of Panama, where the Spaniards Ship their riches, or to intercept them in their passage homewards, but returned successless, and was out of favour for a time, not only for that but for divirginating a maid of Honour (Elizabeth Daughter of Sir Nich. Trockmorton) whom he afterwards married, and for some few months being kept under custody, was at length set free, but banished the Court. Afterwards to follow the directions of of his own Genie, that was always inclined to search out hidden regions, and the secrets of nature, he undertook a navigation to Guiana that bears Gold, in 1595. purposely for the improvement and honour of his Country, both by getting store of wealth, and by molesting the Spaniard, within the inward coasts of America, which he thought would be more profitable than on the Sea coasts, where there are never any Towns laden with any riches, but when they are conveyed thither to be carried over into Spain. He set out from Plymouth 
d Camden in Annal R. Elizab. an. 1595.  on the 6. of Febr. and arrived at the Island Trinidada 22. March. There he easily took a little City called S. Joseph, and the Governor thereof Don Antonio de Bereo, but sound not so much as a piece of Silver there. Having enquired many things of this Antonio about the mines of Gold in Guiana, he left his Ship in Trinidada and entered the vast River Orenoque, with little Barks, and some hundred Soldiers. He searched up and down Guiana for the space of 4 Miles among the crooked and short turnings of the water several ways: where, being parched with the reflecting beams of the Sun, just over his head, and too much wet sometimes with Showers, and having long wrestled with such like difficulties, he yet continued so long, till that it growing wintry cold in Apr. the waters all overspread the earth; insomuch that now he could pass away in no less danger of the waters, than he came thither in danger of his enemies. After his return he was constituted one of the 
e Vide ibid. an 1596.  chief persons in the expedition to Cadiz, where he performed notable service, and obtained to himself at home a great name. In 1603, he presented to K. James at his entrance to the Crown of England a Manuscript of his own writing, containing valid arguments against a peace to be made with Spain, which was then the common discourse. But the King being altogether for peace, 'twas rejected, and the same year, just after he had been deprived of the Captainship of the Guard, (which K. James bestowed on Sir Tho. Erskin Viscount Fenton in Scotland) we find him in a plot against the King, generally called Sir Walter Raleighs Treason, for which being brought to his Trial (with others) at Winchester in 1603. was at length found guilty and condemned to die. But being repreived, he was committed Prisoner to the Tower of London for life, where he improved his confinement to the greatest advantage of learning and inquisitive men. In Apr. 1614▪ he 
f W. Camden in Annal. Jac. 1. M.S. 〈…〉.  published the History of the World, a book, which for the exactness of its Chronology, curiosity of its contexture and learning of all sorts, seems to be the work of an Age. In 1617. power was granted to him to set forth Ships and men for the undertaking an enterpize of a golden Mine in Guiana, in the southern parts of America, and on the 28. March in the year following he left London in order for that Voyage, notwithstanding Didacus Sarmiento de Acunna Earl or Count of Gundamore the Spanish Ambassador to the K. of England, endeavoured to hinder him with many arguments proposed to his Majesty. But at length Sir Walter going beyond his Commission in taking and sacking the Town of St. Thome, belonging to the Spaniard, which was much aggravated by Gundamore, the K. on the 9 June 1618., published his Royal Proclamation for the discovery of the truth of Raleighs proceedings and for the advancement of justice. Whereupon, when Raleigh arrived at Plymouth, Sir Lewis Steukeley Vice-Admiral of the County of Devon. seized him, and brought him up to London 9 Aug. following. But Raleigh finding the Court wholly guided by Gundamore, as 'tis said, (notwithstanding I find elsewhere 
g Ibid 〈…〉  that he left England 16 July going before) he could hope for little mercy. Whereupon wisely contriving the design of an escape, was betrayed by Steukley, taken on the Thames and committed to a close Prison. Afterwards being often examined by the Lord Chancellor and Privy-Councel, was at length on the 24 Oct. warned by them (as they had been commanded by the King) to prepare for death. The particulars of which proceedings, as also of his Voyage to Guiana, you may see at large in a book intit. A Declaration of the demeanour and carrige of Sir W. Raleigh Knight, as well in his Voyage, as in, and since his return; and of the true motives and inducements which occasioned his Majesty to proceed in doing justice upon him. Lond. 1618. in 8 sh. in qu. On the 28. of the month of Oct. he was conveyed to the Court called the Kings-Bench in Westminster, where it being proposed to him what he had to say for himself, why the sentence of death, pronounced against him in 1603. should not be put in execution, he fell into a long discourse, and vindicated himself so much, that most wise men thought then (and all Historians since) that his life could not be taken away upon that account. Afterwards being conveyed to the Gatehouse, suffered death the next day, notwithstanding David Noion Lord of Chesne acted much to save him. Authors are perplexed (as some are pleased to say) under what topic to place him, whether of Statesman, Seaman, Soldier, Chemist, or Chronologer; for in all these he did excel. And it still remains a dispute, whether the age he lived in was more obliged to his Pen or his Sword, the one being busy in conquering the new, the other in so bravely describing the old, World. He had in the outward men, (as an observing 
h 〈…〉 p. 59  writer saith) a good presence, in a handsome and well compacted person, a strong natural wit, and a better judgement, with a bold and plausible tongue, whereby he could set out his parts to best advantage; and to these he had the adjuncts of some general learning, which by diligence he enforced to great augmentation and perfection; for he was an indefatigable reader, whether by Sea or L●nd, and none of the least observers both of men and of the times: And I am confident that among the second causes of his growth, that variance between him and the Lord Grey, in his descent into Ireland, was a principal, for it drew them both over to the Council Table, there to plead their cause, where he had much the better in telling of his tale; and so much that the Qu. and the Lords took no slight mark of the man and his parts: for from thence he became to be known, and to have recess to the Qu. and the Lords; and then we are not to doubt how such a man would comply and learn the way of progression, etc. He had given the Queen's ear at a trice, and she began to be taken with his execution, and loved to hear his reasons to her demands: And the truth is, she took him for a kind of an Oracle, which netley them all; yea, those that he relied on began to take his sudden favour for an alarm, and to be sensible of their own supplantation and to project his.— So that finding his favour declining, and falling into recess, he undertook a new peregrination to leave that Terra infirma of the Court, for that of the Wars, and by declining himself, and by absence, to expect his, and the passion of his Enemies, which in Court was a strange device of recovery, etc. The truth is he was unfortunate in nothing else but the greatness of his wit and advancement: his eminent worth was such, both in domestic Policy, foreign expeditions, and discoveries, Arts and literature, both practive and contemplative, that they seemed at once to conquer both example and imitation. Those that knew him well esteemed him to be a person born to that only which he went about, so dextrous was he in all, or most of, his undertake, in Court, in Camp, by Sea, by Land, with Sword, with Pen: witness in the last, these things following, though some of them, as 'tis credibly believed, were written by others, with his name set to them for sale sake.  
Discovery of the large, rich and beautiful Empire of Guiana, with a relation of the great and golden City of Manoa, and of the Provinces of Emeria, Arromaia, Amapaia, etc. performed in the year 1595. Lond. 1596. qu. Printed at Francof. and Norib. in Latin 1599 qu. This book of Guiana, with the author's Presatorie Epist. to the Hist. of the World, are (as 'tis said) full of proper, clear, and Courtly graces of speech.  
History of the world in 5 books. Lond. 1614 etc. fol. Abbreviated and animadverted upon by Alex. Ross a Scotchman, in a book entit. The marrow of History. Lond. 1662. oct. 2d. edit. But of Raleigh and his History hear what an ingenious 
i Deg. Where, in lib. suo De ratione & 〈…〉 histories. Sect. 6.  writer saith— Hes autem sequi possunt nonnulli ex recentioribus: quos inter, principem locum obtinere meretur Gualterus Raulaeus nostras, eques auratus, vir clari nominis, & ob singularem fortitudinem ac prudentiam meliori fato dignus. Is universalem historiam ab initio mundi usque Macedonici imperii, sive tertiae monarchiae occasum, ex probatissimis auctoribus coagmentavit, nostrae quidem gentis idiomate vernaculo, sed accurato admodum judicio, methodo, perspicua, stylo eleganti ac virili, etc. He was delivered of that Exquisite Minerva during his tedious imprisonment in the Tower of London; for being clapped up there for Treason during his Life, as I have before told you, did improve his confinement, far better than his enlargement. He had composed a second part, which reached down to the time he lived, but he burned it a little before his death. Afterward Alex. Ross before mentioned continued it in a book intit. The History of the World, the second part in 6. books, being a continuation, etc. beginning where he left, viz. at the end of the Macedonian Kingdom, and deduced to these later times, that is from the year of the World 3806. or 160. years before Christ, till the end of the year 1640. after Christ, etc. together with a Chronology of those times, etc. Lond. 1652. fol. Here having made twice mention of Alexand. Ross, I desire the reader to observe by the way these things of him: that he was D. D. and a native and minister of Aberdene in Scotland, which Country he leaving, (upon what account I know not) came into England, succeeded Tho. Parker (Son of Robert) author of the book De traductione peccatoris in the Mastership of the free School at Southampton, and was Chaplain in ordinary to K. Ch. 1. a little before the civil war began. He hath written many books in Latin and English, and in Prose and Verse, the titles of which are now too numerous to insert. He died in the Park-house at Bramsell in Hampshire, belonging to one Henly one of the Prothonotaries, in the beginning of the year 1654. aged 64. or thereabouts; at which time he bequeathed many rich legacies by his 
k In the Will-office near to S. Paul's Cati●●n 〈…〉 part 2. Qu. 93.  Will, (dat. 21. Feb. 1653. and proved 19 Apr. 1654.) among which were 200 livers to the Senate of Aberdene to remain for ever towards the maintenance of two Scholars, that shall be born in the town of Aberdene, and educated in Grammar there, 50 l. to the town of Southampton, for the better maintenance of the Schoolmaster, 50 l. to the poor household keepers of Allsaints parish there, 50 l. to the public library at Cambridge, 5 l. to that of Oxon, etc. Andrew Henly son of the aforesaid Henly was his Executor, who had his library remaining at ●ramsell, wherein, mostly in the books, he found, as I have been credibly informed, about a thousand pound in gold. I shall now proceed to give you a farther account of Sir W. Raleighs works.  
The Prerogative of Parliaments in England, proved in a dialogue between a Counsellor of State and a Justice of Peace. Middleburg (some copies have it Hamburge) 1621. Lond. 1640. qu.  
Instructions to his son and posterity. Lond. 1632. 36. 1651. oct. 56. in tw.  
The life and death of Mahomet, the conquest of Spain, together with the rising and ruin of the Sarazen Empire. Lond. 1637. in tw. In another title printed the year following 'tis called The History of Mahomet.  
The Prince, or Maxims of State. Lond. 1642. in 7 sh. in qu. there again in 51. and 56. in tw. 'Tis the same with his Aphorisms of State. Lond. 1661. oct. published by John Milton. 

Lond. 1651. and 56 in tw.  
The Sceptic or Speculations.  
Observations of the magnificency and opulency of Cities.  
State of Government.  
Letters to the King, and others of quality.  
Demeanour before his Execution.  
His Pilgrimage, in verse.  
Certain verses.    
Observations on the first invention of shipping, or invasive War, the Navy-Royal, and Sea-service. Lond. 1650. 1667. oct.  
Apology for his Voyage to Guiana.— Printed with the Observations, etc. 'Twas by him penned (at Salisbury) in July 1617. I have a copy of it in MS. bound with his Confession, which is in MS. also, and begins thus, I thank God of his infinite Goodness that he hath sent me to die in the light, and not in the darkness, etc.  
Observations touching Trade and Commerce with the Hollanders and other Nations, as it was presented to King James. Lond. 1653. 56 in tw.  
The Cabinet-Council, containing the chief Arts of Empire and Mysteries of State. Lond. 1658. oct. This book was published by John Milton beforementioned; of whom you may see more in the Fasti, an. 1635.  
Historical and Geographical description of the great Country and River of the Amazons in America, etc. Lond. 1661. published by W. H.  
Wars with Foreign Princes dangerous to our Commonwealth. Or Reasons for Foreign Wars answered.— When printed I know not.  
Various Letters.— See in the Cabala, or Screnia Sacra. Lond. 1663. fol.  
Divers Speeches and Arguments in several Parliaments towards the latter end of Q. Elizab.— See in H. Townsend's Historical Collections. Lond. 1680. fol.  
The Son's advice to his Father.  
The great Cordial.— Upon which N. le Febure hath written an English discourse. Lond. 1664. oct. I have seen a book in MS. containing Sir Walt. Raleighs Speech at the time of his death; and His Ghost, or a conference between Sur Gundamoure his Maj. Ambassador of Spain, the Friar Confessor, and Father Baldwyn the Jesuit, at Ely House in Holborn, in 1622. but whether ever printed I know not. However the Reader is to understand that Sir Walter's Ghost beforementioned is not the same with his Ghost or Apparition to his intimate Friend, willing him to translate into English the learned book of Leonard Lessius, intit. De providentia numinis & animi immortalitate. Lond. 1651. in tw. translated in compliance with Sir Walter's late request, because he had been often soully aspersed for an Atheist. There is also a MS. going about from hand to hand, said to have been written by our author Sir Walter, which is concerning,  
The present state of Spain, with a most accurate account of his Cath. Majesty's power and riches, etc.— Whether this, or his  
Discourse touching a consultation about Peace with Spain.— MS. (sometimes in the Libr. of Arthur Earl of Anglesey,) were ever printed, I know not. He hath also written,  
The life and death of Will. the Conqueror.— MS. sometimes in the Library of Sir Ken. Digby, afterwards in that of George Earl of Bristol.  
Of Mines and trials of Minerals.— MS. etc. with other things which I have not yet seen. But I say it again, that I verily think that several of those things beforementioned, which go under his name, were never written by him. At length he was beheaded in the old Palace-yard in Westminster, year 1618. on 29. 〈◊〉 in sixteen hundred and eighteen, aged 66. Whereupon his body, (which he sometimes designed to be buried in the Cath. Church at Exeter,) was conveyed to St. Margaret's Church in the said City of Westminster, and buried in the Chancel there, at the upper end almost, near to the Altar. Over whose grave, though there was never any Epitaph put, yet this following, among others, was made for him: 
Here lieth hidden in this pit,  
The wonder of the World for wit.  
It to small purpose did him serve,  
His wit could not his life preserve.  
He living, was beloved of none,  
Yet at his death all did him moan.  
Heaven hath his Soul, the World his fame,  
The Grave his Corpse, Steukley his shame.   
Some writers in the long Rebellion under K. Ch. 1. especially such who were not wellwishers to Monarchy, have reported that his death was no less than a downright Murder, having had his blood spilt upon a Scaffold merely to satisfy some unworthy ends, and the revenge of the Spaniard. Nay, and farther, they have not stuck to say that the Conspiracy of Gowry, seemed rather a Conspiracy of the K. of Scots against Gowry, as many of that Nation have declared. The said Sir Walt, Raleigh left behind him a Son named Carew Raleigh, born in Middlesex, (in the Tower of London, as it seems, while his Father was Prisoner there,) became a Gent. Com. of Wadham coll. in 1620. aged 16. but proved quite different in Spirit from his Father. Afterwards he was Gent. of the Privy Chamber to K. Ch. 1. who honoured him with a kind token at his leaving Hampton Court, when he was juggled into the Isle of Wight, cringed afterwards to the Men in Power, was made Governor of Jersey, by the favour of General George Monk, in the latter end of January 1659. and wrote a book (as 'twas generally reported) intit. Observations upon some particular persons and passages in a book lately made public, intit. A complete History of the Lives and Reigns of Mary Q. of Scotland, and of James K. of England, written by Will. Sanderson Esq Lond. 1656. in 3 sh. in qu. I have seen also some Sonnets of his composition, and certain ingenious discourses, but whether ever printed I know not. I have seen also a Poem of his, which had a Musical composition of two parts set to it, by the incomparable Hen. Laws Servant to K. Ch. 1. in his public and private Music. Sir Hen. Wotton gives 
* In his Letters printed 1672. p. 481.  him the Character of a Gentleman of dextrous abilities, as it appeared in the management of a public concern in Sir Henry's time; and so by others he is with honour mentioned; but far, god wot, was he from his Father's parts, either as to the Sword or Pen. He was buried in his Father's grave in the 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 Puddletowne in Dorsetshire, Knight, was born at Ottert●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 
m In Hist. 〈◊〉 Uniu. Oxon. lib. 2. p. 296. a.  you,) where by natural parts, and some industry, he proved in short time a noted disputant. But he leaving the said house before he was honoured with a degree, went to the Middle Temple, where, after he had continued in the state of Inner Barrister 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, Sergeant Hoskins, Ben. Johnson, etc. 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 virtuous and learned Men of his time, to be, Princeps 
n By which he is to be understood, that he had been Prince D'amour of the Middl●●emple in the time of Christmas.  amorum, Principum amor, legum lingua, lexque dicendi, Anglorum alumnus, Praeco Virginiae ac Parens, etc. Magnae orbis os, orbis minoris corculum, Bono suorum natus, extinctus suo, etc. 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 
o See Orig. Jurid. by Sir W. Dugdale, in his discourse of the Temples.  elsewhere. This Monument was repaired in 1683. when the Choir and Isles adjoining, 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, 
460.  a Cumberland Man born, was entered either a Batler or Servitor of Queen's 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. Edmund's 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 Chancellor and Scholars of this University. Where being settled, 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 showed himself also a zealous Enemy against Popery, and the breaking of the Lords day by profaning it with merchandizing and sports, and endeavoured as much as in him lay, (for he was a zealous Puritan,) to persuade his Parishioners and Neighbours to do those things on Saturday, which they used to do on the Lord's day. The truth is, he was, in the opinion of those of his Persuasion, a great Man in his profession, for he solely bend 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 Carlisle, 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. Catholic, but far more learned than the former, and not to be named or compared with him.  
RICHARD STANYHURST, 
461.  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 white, mentioned under the year 1590. became a Commoner of University 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 Persuasion) an excellent Theologist, Grecian, Philosopher, Historian, and Orator. Camden styles 
a In Hibernia, in corn. Westmeath.  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 iambics 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. John's coll. before it went to the Press, he gave this character 
b In Epist. sais, edit. Ingoldst. 1602. p. 50.  of the author, Mirificè laetatus sum, esse adolescentem in Acad. nostra, tali familia, erudition, 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. etc.  
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 Apostoli. lib. 2. Antw. 1587.  
Hebdomada Mariana, ex Orthodoxis Catholicae Rome Ecclesiae Patribus collecta; in memoriam 7. festorum Beatiss. Virgins Mariae, etc. Antw. 1609. oct. In the front of which book our author writes himself, Serenissimorum Principum Sacellanus, meaning Duke Albert and Isabella his Princess.  
Hebdomada Eucharistica. Duac. 1614 oct.  
Brevis praemunitio pro futura concertatione cum Jacobo Vsserio Hiberno Dubliensi. Duac. 1615. in about 3 sheets in oct. You must note that Dr. James usher's Mother, Margaret Stanyhurst, was Sister to our author Ric. Stanyhurst; who being a zealous Romanist, and Usher (afterwards Primate of Ireland) a zealous Protestant, passed several learned Letters between them concerning Religion, Stanyhurst endeavouring to his utmost to gain him to his Opinion; but 'tis thought, and verily believed by some that Usher was too hard for his Uncle in controversial points relating to Divinity.  
The Principles of Cath. Religion.— This I have not yet seen and therefore I cannot tell you when, or where, it was printed. He also translated into English heroical verse, The first four books of Virgil's Aeneis. Lond. 1583. oct. Dedicated to Plunket before-mentioned, the learned Baron of Dunsany, at which time the translator was then living at Leyden in Holland. This translation being accounted well performed for that age, yet because the verses do not rhyme, doth cause a noted 
c Tho. Na●●e in The Arclogy of Pierce Penniless. Or strange News, etc. Lond. 1593. qu. not paged.  writer, and a professed Buffoon of his time, to say, that Mr. Stanyhurst (though otherwise learned) trod a foul lumbring boistercus wallowing measures in his translation of Virgil.— He had never been praised by Gabriel Harvey for his labour, if therein he had not been so famously absurd. Our author Stanyhurst also translated into English, Certain Psalms of David (the four first) according to the observation of the Latin verses; that is without rhyme; printed at the end of the translation of Virgil's Aeneis before-mentioned. And at the end of the aforesaid Psalms are of his composition.  
Poetical Conceits. Lond. 1583. in Latin and English, as also  
Certain Epitaphs, framed as well in Lat. as English.— The first of which (in Latin) is on James Earl of Ormond and Ossory, who did at Ely house in Holbourn 18. Oct. about 1546. and was buried in the Church of St. Thomas Acres. Another on the author's Father James Stanyhurst Esq who died at Dublin 27. Dec. 1573. aged 51. etc. But as for the Epitaph of our author (which he should have made while living) none doth appear there, neither at Brussels, (as I can yet learn,) year 1618. where he died in sixteen hundred and eighteen. I find one Will. Stanyhurst, who was born in the said City of Brussels, an. 1601. and entered into the Society of Jesus, in 1617. whom I suppose to be Son to our author R. Stanyhurst. He was a comely person, endowed with rare parts, and a writer and publisher of several things, as Nat. Southwell tells you in his 
* Edit. Rom. 1675. fol.  supplement to Bib. Soc. Jesus, who adds that the said Stanyhurst died in January 1665.  
EDWARD GEE, 
462.  was a Lancashire man born, entered a Servitor of Metron coll. in Lent-Term 1582. aged 17, elected fellow of Brasnose coll. when he was about two years standing in the degree of Bach of Arts, and after some standing in that of Master, was unanimously elected Proctor of the University 1598. Two years after he was admitted Bach. of Divinity, and in 1603. he resigned his fellowship, being about that time Rector of Tedbourne S. Mariae in Devonshire. In 1616. he proceeded in Divinity, having been before that time made one of the Society of Chelsey coll. founded by Dr. Matth. Sutcliffe, and Chaplain in Ordinary to his Majesty. He was a person well known for his sincerity in conversation, generality of learning, gravity of judgement and soundness of doctrine. He hath written,  
Steps of ascension to God: Or a ladder to heaven, containing prayers and meditations for every day in the week, and for all other times and occasions— Printed at least 27 times, mostly in a manual, or in a vol. called Twenty fours: The 27th edit. came out in 1677.  
The curse and crime of Meroz, Serm. at an Assize holden in Exeter. on Judg. 5. 23. Lond. 1620. qu.  
Sermon of patience; preached at S. Mary's in Oxon. on James 5. 7. Lond. 1620. qu. Both which Sermons were published by his brethren John and George Gee Ministers, who had his notes after his death; which happening in winter time, year 1618. in sixteen hundred and eighteen, was buried, as I conceive, in his Church at Tedbourne before mentioned. He left behind him a widow named Marie, and a son, I think, of both his names. See more in Joh. Gee under the year 1625.  
JOHN DAVIES, 
463.  who writes himself of Hereford because he was born in that City, was, from the Grammar School there, sent to this University, but to what house of learning therein, I know not. After he had remained with us for some years, without the taking of a degree, he retired for a time to his native Country, having then, among Scholars, the character of a good Poet, as by those Poems, which he then made, and were shortly after published, was manifested. Sir Joh. Davies, whom I shall mention under the year 1626. was more a Scholar, than a Lawyer; but this Joh. Davies was more a Poet than a Scholar, and somewhat inclined towards the Law; which hath made some unwary readers take the writings of one for the other. But our author, finding not a subsistence by Poetry, he set up for a writing-master, first in his own Country, and afterwards in London, where at length he was esteemed the greatest Master of his Pen that England in his age 
d T●●. Fuller in his Worthies, in He●●●  beheld, first for fast-writing, (2) fair writing, which looked as if it had been printed, (3) close writing, (4) various writing, as Secretary, Roman, Court and Text hand. In all which he was exceeded after his death, by one Gething his Countryman and Scholar. Sometimes he made pretty excursions into Poety and could flourish matter with his fancy, as well as letters with his pen, the titles of which do follow.  
Mirum in modum. A glimpse of God's glory and the Souls shape. Lo●i. 16●2. and 1616. oct. a Poem.  
Microcosmus. The discovery of the little world, with t●e government thereof. Oxon 1603. qu. a Poem. Ushered into the world by the verses of Jo. Sanford of Madg. coll. 〈◊〉 Fitz-G●ffry of Broadgates and Rob. Burhill of C. C. c●ll. Which last wonders why Davies our author, who was la●e●y (as he saith) Oxoniae vates, should write himself of Hereford, as if Oxon was a disgrace to him.  
The holy rood of Christ's Cross, containing Christ crucified, described in speaking picture. Lond. 1609. qu.  
Sonnets— printed with the former Poem, and both contained in 10 sheets.  
S. Peter's complaint, newly augmented with other Poems. Lond. in qu. But when printed it appears not. With this is commonly bound up S. Mary Madg. Blush, and therefore I suppose 'twas written by the same hand.  
Humours heaven on earth, with the civil Wars of death and fortune, etc. London 1609. A Poem in (oct.)  
The triumph of death, or the picture of the plague according to the life, as it was in an. 1603.— Printed with Humours heaven and earth, etc.  
Wit's pilgrimage (by poetical essays) through a world of amorous Sonnets, soul-passions and other passages, divine, philosophical, and poetical. Lond. in a pretty thick qu. but not expressed when printed. 'Tis dedicated to Philp Earl of Mountgomery.  
Muse's sacrifice, or divine meditations. Lond. 1612. in tw.  
The muse's tears for the loss of their hope; heroic and never too much praised Henry Prince of Wales. Lond. 1613. qu.  
Time's sobs for his (Pr. Hen.) untimely loss, with Epitaphs— Printed with The Muse's tears.  
Consolatory strains to wrest nature from her vent in immoderate weeping— Printed with that also.  
Ecclogues. Lond. 1614 oct. They are at the end of The Sheapards' Pipe, written by Will. Brown of the Inner Temple.  
A select second husband for Sir Tho. Overbury's wise, now a matchless widow. Lond. 1616. oct. Dedic. to Will. E. of Pembroke.  
Elegies on the death of Sir Tho. Overbury.  
Speculum Proditori.  
Printed with the former book 1616. oct.  
Several copies of verses of his, are also published in other books, as a large copy before Ph. Holland's translation of Camden's Britannia, another in the Odcombian banquet, etc. He died about the year sixteen hundred and eighteen and was buried, year 1618. as one 
e Ibid. in Th. Fuller.  tells us, within the precincts of S. Giles ch. in the Fields, near Lond. I find one Joh. Davies Gent. to have lived in the parish of S. Martin in the Fields, who dying in the beginning of July (or thereabouts) in 1618. was buried near to the body of Mary, his sometimes wife, in the church of St. Dunstan in the West. Whether the same with the Poet I cannot justly tell, because may author here quoted (Tho. Fuller) saith, but upon what authority I know not, that he was buried at S. Giles in the Fields. One John Dunbar a Latin Poet of Scotland, hath an 
f In Epigrammat ib. edit. Lond. 1616. in oct. cent. 3. nu. 20.  Epigram on J. Davies the Poet, which may serve for an Epitaph, wherein he tells us that he was another Marshal, and that he outstripped in Poetry Sam. Daniel, Josh. Silvester the Merchant adventurer etc.  
THOMAS THOMPSON, 
464.  a very noted preacher in the time he lived, was born in the County of Cumberland, wedded to the Muses in Queen's coll. in Mich. Term 1589. aged 15, made a poor serving child of that house in the year following, afterwards Tabarder, and in 99 Fellow, being then Master of Arts. About that time addicting his mind severely to the studies of the superior faculty, became a noted Disputant, Schoolman and very familiar with the Fathers. At length leaving the coll. about the time he was adwitted Bach. of Diu. (which was 1609.) he became one of the public preachers in the City of Bristol, and Minister of S. Thomas Church there, where he was much followed and admired for his edifying and orthodox doctrine. Afterwards leaving that City, in 1612. (upon what account I know not) he became Minister in the town and liberties of Montgomery in Wales; where, if I mistake not, he continued till the time of his death. He hath written and published,  
Concio ad clerum de clavibus regni coelorum, habita pro forma Oxon. intemplo B. Mariae 16. Feb. an. 1609. in Matth. 16. ver. 19 Lond. 1612. oct.  
De votis monasticis. Theses disputatae sub pr●sidio Tho. Holland Reg. prof. Printed with the former 〈◊〉 Serm.  
Besides these two things, he hath.  
Several Sermons in English, as (1) A diet for a Drunkard, in two Sermons in the Church of S. Nich. in Bristol, on Ester 1. 8. Lond. 1612. qu. (2) Friendly farewell to a faithful ●lock taken in a Sermon preached in S. Thomas Church in Bristol, on Easter Tuseday, 6. Apr. 1612. on 2 Cor. 13. ver. 14. Lond. 1616. 
Clar. 1618.  qu. (3) Antichrist arraigned, Sermon at Paul's Cross, on 1 Joh. 2. 18, 19, 20. Lond. 1618. qu. (4) The trial of Guides by the touchstone of Teachers, etc. Serm. on Luke 6. 39, 40. Lond. 1618. qu. dedicated to Richard Bishop of St. Asaph, his Patron. These are all that I have seen going under his name, and all that I yet know of the author.  
SAMUEL DANIEL, 
465.  the most noted Poet and Historian of his time, was born of a wealthy Family in Somersetshire, and at 17 years of age, in 1579. became a Commoner of Magd. hall, where he continued about three years, and improved himself much in Academical learning by the benefit of an excellent Tutor. But his Genie being more prone to easier and smother studies, than in pecking and hewing at Logic, he left the University without the honour of a degree, and exercised it much in English History and Poetry, of which he then gave several ingenious Specimens. After his departure, I find nothing memorable of him for several years, only that at about 23 years of age he translated into English the worthy tract of Paulus Jovius, containing a Discourse of rare inventions both military and amorous called Impreze. Lond. 1585. oct. To which he hath put an ingenious Preface of his own writing. He was afterwards, for his merits, made Gentleman Extraordinary, and afterwards one of the Grooms, of the Privy Chamber to Anne the Queen Consort of King James 1. who being for the most part a favourer and encourager of his Muse, (as she was of Jo. Florio, who married Sam. Daniel's Sister,) and many times delighted with his conversation, not only in private, but in public, was, partly for those reasons, held in esteem, by the men of that age, for his excellencies in Poetry and History, and partly in this respect, that in 
a Fuller in his Worthies in Somersetsh.  writing the History of English affairs, whether in Prose or Poetry, he had the happiness to reconcile brevity with clearness, qualities of great distance in other authors. This is the opinion of a late author; but one 
b The nameless author of Hypereritica: or a rule of judgement for writing or reading our Histories, MS. in my Library. Address. 4. Sect. 3.  who lived in Samuel Daniel's time tells us, that his works contain somewhat a flat, but yet withal a very pure and copious English, and words as warrantable as any man's, and fitter perhaps for Prose than Measure. Our author Daniel had also a good faculty in setting out a Mask or a Play, and was wanting in nothing that might render him acceptable to the great and ingenious men of his time, as to Sir Joh. Harrington the Poet, Camden the learned, Sir Rob. Cotton, Sir H. Spelman, Edm. Spencer, Ben. Johnson, John straddling, little Owen the Epigrammatist, etc. He hath written,  
The complaint of Rosamond. Lond. 1594. 98. 1611. and 23. qu.  
Various Sonnets to Delia.— Wherein, as Parthenius Nicaeus did excellently sing the praises of Arete, so our author in this piece, hath divinely sonneted the matchless beauty of his Delia.  
Tragedy of Cleopatra. Lond. 1594. 98. qu.  
Of the Civil Wars between the Houses of Lancaster and York. Lond. 1604. 09. oct. and 1623. qu. Written in eight books in verse, with his picture before them.  
The Vision of the twelve Goddesses, presented in a Mask, etc. Lond. 1604. oct. and 1623. qu. Some copies have it, The wisdom of the 12 Goddesses in a Mask at Hampton-Court 8. Jan.  
Panegyric congratulatory delivered to K. James at Burleigh-Harrington in Rutlandshire. Lond. 1604. and 23. qu.  
Epistles to various great Personages in verse. Lond. 1601. and 23. qu.  
Musophilus, containing a general defence of learning.— Printed with the former.  
Tragedy of Philotas. Lond. 1611. etc. oct.  
Hymen's Triumph. A pastoral Trag. Com. presented at the Queen's Court in the Strand, at her Maj. magnificent entertainment of the Kings Maj. being at the Nuptials of the Lord Roxborough. Lond. 1623. qu. second edit.  
Muso, or a defence of Rhyme. Lond. 1611. oct.  
The Epistle of Octavia to M. Antonius. Lond. 1611. oct.  
The first part of the History of England, in 3 books. Lond. 1613. qu. reaching to the end of King Stephen, in Prose. To which afterwards he added a second part, reaching to the end of K. Ed. 3. Lond. 1618. 21. 23. and 1634. fol. continued to the end of K. Rich. 3. by Joh. Trussel, sometimes a Winchester Scholar, afterwards a Trader and Alderman of that City.— Lond. 1638. fol. etc. Which Trussel did continue in writing a certain old MS. belonging to the Bishops of Winton, containing, as it were, an History of the Bishops and Bishopric, which continuation was made by him to Bishop Curls time. He also wrote, A description of the City of Winchester, with an historical relation of divers memorable occurrences touching the same. fol. Also a Preamble to the same Of the Origen of Cities in general. MS. Sam. Daniel also wrote,  
The Queens Arcadia. A pastoral Trag-Com. presented to her Majesty and her Ladies, by the University of Oxon, in Christ Church, in Aug. an. 1605. Lond. 1623. qu.  
Funeral Poem on the death of the Earl of Devon. Lond. 1623. qu. Towards the end of our author's life, he retired to a Countryfarm which he had at Beckington near to Philips-Norton in Sommersetshire, (at, or near to, which place he was born,) where, after he had enjoyed the Muses and religious Contemplation for some time with very great delight, year 1619 surrendered up his Soul to him that gave it, in sixteen hundred and nineteen, and was buried in the Church of Beckington before-mentioned. On the wall over his grave was this inscription afterwards put. Here lies expecting the second coming of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, the dead body of Samuel Daniel Esq that excellent Poet and Historian, who was Tutor to the Lady Anne Clifford in her youth, she that was Daughter and Heir to George Clifford Earl of Cumberland, who in gratitude to him, erected this monument in his memory, a long time after, when she was Countess Dowager of Pembroke, Dorset, and Montgomery. He died in Octob. an. 1619. By the way it must be noted that this Anne Countess of Pembroke was the same person who lived like a Princess, for many years after, in Westmoreland, was a great lover and encourager of learning and learned men, hospitable, charitable to the poor, and of a most generous and public temper. She died 22. Mar. 1675. aged 86. or thereabouts, and was buried under a splendid monument, which she in her life-time had erected, in the Church of Appleby in Westmoreland. It must be also farther noted that there was one Sam. Daniel Master of Arts, who published a book intit. Archiepiscopal Priority instituted by Christ. Printed an. 1642. and another, if I am not mistaken, called, The Birth, Life, and Death of the Jewish Unction. But whether he was of the University of Oxon, I cannot yet find.  
JOHN PANKE was a very frequent and noted Preacher of his time, 
466.  and well read in Theological authors, but withal a very zealous Enemy in his Writings and Preachments against the Papists, but in what College or Hall educated, I cannot as yet find. After he had left the University he became Minister of Broadhinton, afterwards of Tidworth, in Wilts, and at length, had some Cure in the Church of Salisbury. His works are,  
Short Admonition, by way of Dialogue, to all those, who hitherto, upon pretence of their unworthiness, have dangerously, in respect of their Salvation, withdrawn themselves from coming to the Lords Table, etc. Oxon. 1604. oct.  
The fall of Babel, by the confusion of tongues, directly proving against the Papists of this, and former ages, that a view of their writings and books being taken, it cannot be discerned by any Man living, what they would say, or how be understood, in the question of the Sacrifice of the M●ss, the Real Pressence, or Transubstantiation, etc. Oxon. 16●8. qu. Dedicated to the Heads of Colleges and Scholars of the University of Oxou.  
Collectancae, out of S. Gregory the Great, 
〈…〉  and S. Bernard the Devout, against the Papists, 〈…〉 the Doctrine of the present 〈…〉 most fundamental points between them and us. Oxon. 1618. oct. With other things, as 'tis probable, but such I have not yet seen, not do I know any thing else of the author.  
DERMITIUS MEARA, or de Meara, who was born at Ormond in Ireland, whence being sent to this University, continued there in Philosophical studies several years, but whether in Vniu. coll. Glouc. or Hart. hall, (●eceptacles for Irishmen in his time,) I know not. For though he writes himself in the first of his books which I shall anon mention, lately a Student in the University of Oxon. yet in all my searches I cannot find him matriculated, or that he took a degree. Some years after his retirement to his native Country, he wrote in Latin verse, having been esteemed a good Poet during his conversation among the Oxonians, these things following,  
Ormonius sieve illustriss. herois ac domini, D. Thomae Butler Ormoniae & Osoriae Comitis, Vicecom. de Thurles, Baronis de Arcklo, etc. Prosapia laborumque praecipuorum ab eodem pro Patria & Principe susceptorum commemoratio heroico carmine conscripta. Lond. 1615. oct.  
Epicedion in obitum Tho. Butler Ormoniae & Osoriae Comitis, etc.  
Anagramaticon, Acrosticon & Chronologica in eundem Tho. Butler. These two last were printed with Ormonius, and are dedicated to Walt. Butler Earl of Ormond and Oss●●y. Much about the time when these Poetical things were printed, the author practised Physic in his own Country, and gained great repute for his happy success therein. In that faculty he wrote several books, but all that I have seen is only this.  
De morbis haereditariis tractatus Spagyrico-dogmaticus. Dubl. 1619. 
Clar. 1619.  oct. He was Father to Edm. de Meara an Ormonian born, sometimes a Practitioner in Physic in the City of Bristol, being the same person who answered Dr. Tho. Willis's book, intit. Diatribae duae Medico-Philosophicae, etc.  
SABIN CHAMBERS, a Leicestershire Man born, took the degrees in Arts, as a Member of Broadgates' hall, that of Master being completed 1583. at which time he had the vogue of a good disputant. But soon after being dissatisfied in many points relating to the Protestant Religion, he entered into the Society of Jesus at Paris; an. 1588. aged about 30. Afterwards he taught Divinity in the University of Doll in Burgundy, and at length was sent into the Mission of England, to labour in the Harvest there. He hath written,  
The Garden of the Virgin Mary. St. Om. 1619. oct. Which contains certain Prayers and Meditations. 
Clar. 1619.  Other matters, as 'tis said, he hath written, but being printed beyond Sea, we have few copies of them come into these parts.  
LEWIS THOMAS, a frequent Preacher in his time, became a poor Scholar or Exhibitiner of Brasnose coll. in 1582. or thereabouts, took one degree in Arts holy Orders soon after, and at length was beneficed in his native County of Glamorgan, and elsewhere. His works are,  
Certain Lectures upon sundry portions of Scripture, etc. Lond. 1600. oct. Dedic. to Sir Tho. Egerton, Lord Keeper of the great Seal, who was one of his first promoters in the Church.  
Seven Sermons, or the exercises of Seven Sabbaths. The first intit. The Prophet David's Arithmetic, is on Psal. 90. 12. The second called Peter's Repentance, is on Matth. 26. 75. etc. Which Seven Sermons were printed at London several times in the latter end of Q. Elizabeth, once in the Reign of K. James (1619.) and once in the Reign of K. Ch. 1. (1630.)  
A short treatise upon the Commandments, on Rev. 22. 14. Lond. 1600. etc. oct. This is sometimes called A Comment on the Decalogue. I find another Lewis Thomas of Jesus college, who took the degree of Bach. of Arts, 
Clar. 1619.  as a Member of that house 1597. and that of Master, as a Member of St. Edm. hall, 1601. But what relation he had to the former, or whether he hath published any thing, I know not.  
JOHN NORDEN, was born of a gentile Family, but in what County, unless in Wilts, I cannot tell, became a Commoner of Hart hall in 1564. and took the degrees in Arts, that of Master being completed 1573. This person I take to be the same John Norden who was author of these books following, some of which I have perused, but therein I cannot find that he entitles himself a Minister of God's word, or Master of Arts.  
Sinful Man's Solace, most sweet and comfortable for the sick and sorrowful Soul, etc. Lond. 1585. in oct.  
Mirror for the Multitude, or a Glass, wherein may be seen the violence, the error, the weakness, and rash consent of the multitude, etc. Lond. 1586. in oct.  
Antithesis, or contrariety between the Wicked and Godly, set forth in form of a pair of Gloves, fit for every man to wear, etc. Lond. 1587.  
Pensive Man's Practice, wherein are contained very devout and necessary Prayers for sundry godly purposes, etc. Lond. 1591. in tw.— Printed there again 1629. in tw. which was the fortieth impression.  
Poor Man's rest; founded upon motives, meditations, and prayers, etc. Printed several times in oct. and tw. The eighth edit. was printed at Lond. 1620. in tw.  
Progress of Piety, whose Jesses lead into the Harborough of heavenly Hearts-ease, to recreate the afflicted Souls of all such as, etc. Lond. in tw.  
Christian comfort and encouragement unto all English Subjects, not to dismay at the Spanish threats. Lond. 1596.  
Mirror of Honour, wherein every Professor of Arms, from the General, to the inferior Soldier, may see the necessity of the fear and service of God. Lond. 1597. qu.  
Interchangeable variety of things. Lond. 1600. qu.  
The Surveyors Dialogue, very profitable for all men to peruse, but especially for Gentlemen, Farmers, and Husbandmen, etc. in 6 books. Lond. 1607. 10. and 18. in qu.  
Labyrinth of Man's life: Or Virtue's delight, and Envies happiness. Lond. 1614 qu. 'Tis a Poem dedic. to Rob. Carr Earl of Somerset.  
Loadstone to a Spiritual life. Lond. 1614 in sixth.  
Pensive Souls delight: Or, a devout Man's help, consisting of motives, meditations, and prayers, etc. Lond. 1615. in tw.  
An Eye to Heaven in Earth. A necessary Watch for the time of death, consisting in meditations and prayers fit for that purpose. With the Husband's Christian Counsel to his Wife and Children left poor after his death. Lond. 1619. in tw. etc.  
Help to true blessedness.  
Pathway to patience in all manner of afflictions, etc. Lond. 
Clar: 1619.  1626. oct. This John Norden lived at Hendon near to Acton in Middlesex in most of the Reign of King James 1. being patronised in his studies by, or as some say was Servant to, Will, Cecil Lord Burliegh, and Rob. Earl of Salisbury his Son. I take him to be the same John Norden Gent. who hath written Speculum Britanniae, or, an Historical and Chorographical description of Middlesex. Lond. 1593. in about 7 sh. in qu. And of A Chorographical description of Hertfordshire. Printed much about the same time in 4 sh. in qu.  
JOHN BUDDEN, Son of Joh. Budden of Canford in Dorsetshire, was born in that County, entered into Merton coll. in Mich. Term. 1582. aged 16. admitted Scholar of Trinity coll. 30. of May following, took the degree of Bach. of Arts, and soon after was translated to Glouc. hall, for the sake, and at the request, of Mr. Tho. Allen, where being mostly taken up with the study of the Civil Law, yet he took the degree of M. of Arts, as a Member thereof. At length he was made Philosophy Reader of Magd. coll. proceeded in the Civil Law 1602. made Principal of New Inn 1609. the King's Professor of the Civil Law soon after, and Principal of Broadgates' hall. He was a person of great Eloquence, an excellent Rhetorician, Philosopher, and a most noted Civilian. He hath written and published,  
Gulielmi Patteni cui Waynfleti agnomen fuit, Wintoniensis Ecclesiae Praesulis, & coll. B. Mariae Magd. apud Oxon fundatoris, vita obitusque. Oxon. 1602. qu. Reprinted in a Book intit. Vitae selectorum aliquot virorum, etc. Lond. 1681. in a large qu. Published by Dr. Will, Bates a Cambridge Man, a learned and moderate Nonconformist, living then at Hackney near London, an eminent writer, and worthy of much praise.  
Reverendiss. Patris ac Domini Johannis Mortoni Cantuariensis olim Archiep. Magni Angliae Cancellarii, trium Regum Consiliarii, vita obitusque. Lond. 1607. in 3 sh. in oct. He also translated from English into Latin, (1) Sir Tho. Bodley's Statutes of the Public Library, which is remitted into the body of the Statutes of the University. (2) Sir Tho. Smith's book intit. The Commonwealth of England, and the manner and Government thereof, in 3 books. Printed at Lond. in oct. and beyond Sea in tw. Also from French into English, A discourse for Parent's Honour and Authority over their Children. Lond. 1614 oct. written by Pet. Frodiu● a renowned French Civilian. year 1620 This Dr. Budden died in Broadgates' hall, on the eleventh of June in sixteen hundred and twenty. From which place his body being carried to the Divinity School, Rich. Gardiner of Ch. Ch. the Deputy-Orator delivered an eloquent Speech in praise of him, before the Doctors, Masters and Scholars of the University. Which being done, the body was conveyed thence to St. Aldates' Church near to the hall of Broadgates, and there in the Chancel was interred on the 14. of the same month. In the Professorship of the Civil Law succeeded Dr. Rich. Zouch, and in the Principality of Broadgates Dr. Tho. Clayton.  
SAMUEL SMITH, a Gentleman's Son, was born in Lincolnshire, entered a Commoner in Magd. coll. in Michaelmas Term 1604, aged 17. became Fellow of Magd. coll. 1609. Proctor of the University in 1620. being then Bach. of Physic, and accounted the most accurate Disputant, and profound Philosopher in the University. He wrote divers things pertaining to Logic and Philosophy, but none of them were printed only,  
Aditus ad Logicam, in usum eorum qui primò Academiam salutant. Oxon. 1613. 21. 27. 33. 39 etc. oct. He died much lamented 17. June (according as he himself had foretold it some weeks before he died) year 1620 in sixteen hundred and twenty, being then newly entered on his Proctorship, and was buried in Magd. coll. Chappel. I find another Sam. Smith equal in time with the former, a frequent Preacher and Writer, who living many years after, is not to have a place among these writers, till the year 1663.  
GRIFFITH POWELL, a younger Son of Tho. powel of Lansawell in Caermarthenshire Esq was born there, entered a Commoner of Jesus coll. 1581. aged 20. became the first Fellow of the said coll. by election, took the degrees in Arts, and one in the Civil Law, and at length (after some controversies had passed) was settled Principal of his College in 1613. being then accounted by all a most noted Philosopher, or subtle Disputant, and one that acted and drudged much as a Tutor, Moderator, and Adviser in studies among the Juniors. He hath transmitted to Posterity,  
Analysis Analyticorum posteriorum seu librorum Aristotelis de Demonstratione, cum Scholiis. Oxon. 1594. oct.  
Analysis libri Aristot. de Sophisticis Elenchis. Ox. 1594. and 1664. oct. Concerning which two books these verses were made, 
Griffith powel, for the Honour of her Nation,  
Wrote a Book of Demonstration,  
And having little else to do,  
He wrote a Book of Elenches too.   
He also wrote several other matters of Philosophy, which would have been very useful for Novices, but the author being taken up too much with his charge, he could not spare time to put them in order for the Press, much less to publish them. He paid his last debt to nature, 28. June in sixteen hundred and twenty, year 1620 and was buried in the Church of St. Michael (in Jesus coll. Isle I think) near to the North Gate of the City of Oxon. By his nuncupatory Will he left all his Estate to that Coll. amounting to 648 l.— 17 s.— 2 d. with which, and certain moneys, were Lands purchased for the maintenance of one Fellow of the said Coll.  
RICHARD CAREW, the Son of Tho. Carew by Elizab. Edgcombe his Wife, was born of an ancient and gentile Family at East Anthony in the East parts of Cornwall, a 1555. became a Gent. Com. of Ch. Ch. very young, but had his Chamber in Broadgates' hall, much about the time that his Kinsman George Carew (afterwards E. of Totness) and Will, Camden studied there. At 14 years of age he disputed ex tempore with the matchless Philip Sidney, (while he was a young Man, I suppose,) in the presence of the Earls of Leicester, Warwick, and other Nobility, at what time they were lodged in Ch. Ch. to receive entertainment from the Muses. After he had spent 3 years in Oxon, he retired to the Middle Temple, where he spent 3 years more, and then was sent with his Uncle in his Embassage unto the King of Poland; whom, when he came to Danizig, he found that he had been newly gone from thence into Sweden, whither also he went after him. After his return, and a short stay made in England, he was sent by his Father into France with Sir Hen. Nevil, who was then Ambassador Leaguer unto K. Hen. 4. that he might learn the French tongue, which by reading and talking he overcame in three quarters of an year. Some time after his return he married Juliana Arundel of Trerice, an. 1577. was made Justice of the Peace 1581. High-Sheriff of Cornwall 1586. and about that time was the King's Deputy for the Militia. In 1598. he was elected a Member of the Coll. of Antiquaries, and about that time he made an historical survey of his native County, which was afterwards printed, he being then accounted a religious and ingenious Man, learned, eloquent, liberal, stout, honest, and well skilled in several Languages, as also among his Neighbours the greatest Husband, and most excellent manager of Bees in Cornwall. He was intimate with the most noted Scholars of his time, particularly with Sir Hen, Spelman, who, in an Epistle 
a In his Apol. of the Treatise De non temerandis Ecclesiis, etc. Lond. 1646. qu.  to him concerning tithes, doth not a little extol him for his ingenuity, virtue, and learning. Palmam igitur cedo (saith he) & quod Graeci olim in Cariâ sua gente, admirati sunt, nos in Cariâ nostra gente agnoscimus, ingenium splendidum, bellarumque intentionum faecundissimum, etc. Further also for the book he wrote and published, intit.  
The Survey of Cornwall, etc. Lond. 1602. qu. the learned Camden is pleased to honour 
b In Britannia, in the latter end of his discourse of Cornwall.  him with this character,— Sed haec, etc. But more plainly and fully, instructed are we in these points, by Rich. Carew of Anthony, a Gentleman ennobled no less in regard of his parentage and descent, than for his virtue and learning; who hath published and perfected the description of this County (Cornwall) more at large, and not in a slight and mean manner, whom I must needs acknowledge to have given me much light herein. Our author Carew hath also written,  
The true and ready way to learn the Lat. tongue; in answer to a Quere, whether the ordinary way by teaching Latin by the rules of Grammar, be the best way for youths to learn it?— This is involved in a book published by a Dutchman called Sam. Hartlib. Esq intit. The true and ready way to learn the Lat. tongue, etc. Lond. 1654. qu. Our author Carew translated also from Italian into the English tongue, The examination of men's Wits. In which, by discovering the variety of Natures, is showed for what profession each one is apt, and how far he shall profit therein. Lond. 1594. and 1604. qu. written by Joh. Huarte. But this translation, as I have been informed by some persons, was mostly, if not all, performed by Tho. Carew his Father; yet Richard's name is set to it. He died on the sixth day of Nou. in sixteen hundred and twenty, year 1620 and was buried in the Church of East-Anthony among his Ancestors. Shortly after he had a splendid Monument set over his grave, with an inscription thereon, written in the Latin tongue; which being too large for this place, I shall now omit, as also the Epigram made on him by his 
c Carol. Fitzgeffry Cornub. in Affaniis, lib. 3.  Countryman, and another by a 
d Joh. Dunbar Megolo-Britannus in Epigrammatib. suis, edit. in oct. apud L●nd. 1616. cent. 6. num. 51.  Scot Which last styles our author Carew another Livy, another Maro, another Papinian, and highly extols him for his great skill in History, and knowledge in the Laws. Besides the Rich, Carew, was another, but later in time, author of Excellent helps by a warming-stone. Printed 1652. qu.  
RICHARD KILBYE was born at Radcliff on the River Wreak in Leicestershire, elected Fellow of Lincoln coll. 18. Jan. 1577. being then about three years standing in the University. Afterwards he took the degrees in Arts, holy Orders, and became a noted Preacher in the University. In 1590. he was elected Rector of his College, took the degrees in Divinity, was made Prebendary of the Cath. Ch. at Lincoln, and at length Hebrew Professor of this University. He hath written,  
Commentarii in Librum Exodi. Part. 2. MS. in the hands sometimes of Will. Gilbert Fellow of Linc. coll. The chief part of which is excerpted from the Monuments of the Rabbins and Hebrew Interpreters. He also continued Jo. Mercer's notes on Genesis, and would have printed them, but was denied; had a hand also in the translation of the Bible, appointed by K. Jam. 1. an. 1604. and did other very laudable matters relating to learning.  
Serm. in S. Mary's Church Oxon, 26. Mar. 1612. at the Funeral of Tho. Holland the King's Professor of Divinity in this Uniu. on 1 Cor. 5. 55, 56, 57 Oxon. 1613. qu. He, the said Dr. Kilbye, was buried in that Chancel in Allsaints Church in Oxon. which is commonly called The College Chancel, (because it belongs to Linc. coll.) on the 17. year 1620 Nou. in sixteen hundred and twenty, aged 60. or thereabouts. Whereupon Paul Hood Bacurius (afterwards D.) of Divinity succeeded him in his Rectorship, and Edward à Meetkerk Bach. of Diu. of Ch. Ch. in his Professorship. Besides this Rich. Kilbye was another of both his names, and a writer too, as I have, under the year 1617. told you.  
JOHN CARPENTER received his first breath in the County of Cornwall, was entered a Batler in Exeter coll. about 1570. where going thro' the courses of Logic and Philosophy for the space of four years or more, with unwearied industry, left the University without a degree, and at length became Rector of an obscure Town called Northleigh near to Culleton in Devon. He hath written and published,  
A sorrowful Song for sinful Souls, composed upon the strange and wonderful shaking of the Earth, 6. Apr. 1586. Lond. in oct.  
Remember Lots Wise, two Sermons on Luke 17. 32. Lond. 1588. oct.  
Preparative for Contentation. Lond. 1597. qu.  
Song of the Beloved concerning his Vineyard; or, two Sermons on Isay 5. 1. Lond. 1599 oct.  
Christian Contemplations, or a Catechism. Lond. 1601. oct.  
K. Soloman's Solace. Lond. 1606. qu.  
Plain Man's Spiritual Plough. Lond. 1607. qu. He gave up the ghost at Northleigh beforementioned in the latter end of the year, viz. in March, in sixteen hundred and twenty, 
1620-21.  and was buried in the Chancel of the Church there, before the 25. of the said month, as it doth partly, appear in the Register of that place; leaving then behind him a Son named Nathaniel, whom I shall mention under the year 1628. I find another Joh. Carpenter who wrote a book of Keeping Merchants Accounts, by way of Debtor and Creditor. Printed 1632. fol. but him I take not to be an Academian.  
WILLIAM TOOKER, second Son of Will. Tooker, (by Honora Eresey of Cornwall his Wife,) Son and Heir of Rob. Tooker, was born in the City of Exeter, educated in Wykehams' School near to Winchester, admitted perpetual Fellow of New coll. in 1577. took the degrees in Arts, that of Master being completed in 1583. in which year he showed himself a ready Disputant before Albertus Alaskie Prince of Sirad, at his being entertained by the Oxonian Muses in S. Mary's Church. In 1585. he left his Fellowship, being about that time promoted to the Archdeanconry of Barnstaple in his own Country. Afterwards he was made Chaplain to Q. Elizabeth and Prebendary of Salisbury, took the degrees in Divinity 1595. became Canon of Exeter, and at length Dean of Lichfield, on the death (as it seems) of Dr. George Boleyne, in the latter end of 1602. He was an excellent Grecian and Latinist, an able Divine, a person of great gravity and piety, and well read in curious and critical authors, as may partly appear by these books following, which he wrote and published.  
Charisma, sive donum Sanati●nis, seu explicatio totius quaestionis de mirabilium Sanitatum gratiâ, etc. Lond. 1597. qu. In this book he doth attribute to the Kings and Queens of England a power derived into them, by Lawful Succession, of healing, etc. Which book is reflected upon by Mart. Anton. Delrius the Jesuit, who thinks it not true that Kings can cure the Evil. With him agrees most fanatics.  
Of the Fabric of the Church and Church men's livings Lond. 1604. oct.  
Singular certamen cum Martino Becano Jesuitâ, futiliter refutante apologiam & monitoriam praefationem ad Imperatorem, Reges, & Principes, & quaedam Orthodoxa dogmata Jacobi Regis Magnae Britaniae. Lond. 1611. oct. This learned author, Dr. Tooker, died at Salisbury on the 19 of March, or thereabouts, and was buried in the Cath. Ch. there 21. of the said month, 
1620-21.  in sixteen hundred and twenty, leaving behind him a Son named Robert Tooker of East-Grinsteade in Surrey. In June following Dr. Walt. Curl of Cambridge succeeded him in the Deanery of Lichfield, and him Dr. Augustin Lindsell another Cantabrigian, an. 1630.  
HENRY SWINBURNE, Son of Thomas Swinburne of the City of York, was born there, spent some years in the quality of a Commoner in Hart hall, whence translating himself to that of Broadgates, took the degree of Bach. of the Civil Law, married Helena Daughter of Barthelm, Lant of Oxon, and at length retiring to his native place, became a Proctor in the Archbishop's Court there, Commissary of the Exchequer, and Judge of the Prerogative Court at York. He hath written,  
Brief Treatise of Testaments and last Wills. In 7 parts. Lond. 1590. 1611, 35. 40. 77. etc. qu.  
Treatise of Spousals, or Matrimonial Contracts, etc. Lond. 1686. qu. In which two books the author shows himself an able Civilian, and excellently well read in authors of his Faculty. 
Clar. 1620.  He paid his last debt to ●●●ure at York, and was buried in the North Isle of the Cathedral there. Soon after was a comely Monument fastened to the wall near to this grave, with his Effigies in a Civilians Gown kneeling before a desk, with a book thereon, and these verses under. 
Non Viduae caruere viris, non Patre Pupillus,  
Dum stetit hic Patriae virque paterque suae.  
Ast quod Swinburnus viduarum scripsit in usum,  
Longius aeterno marmore vivet opus.  
Scribere supremas hinc discat quisque tabellas,  
Et cupiat qui sic vixit, ut ille mori.   
There is no day or year on the Monument to show when this H. Swinburne died, neither any Register belonging to the Cathedral, and therefore I have put him under the year 1620. wherein he was in great esteem for his learning.  
MICHAEL WIGMORE was born 
* Reg M●tric. ●. pag 592.  of a gentile Family in Somersetshire, entered a Commoner in Magd. hall 1602. aged 14. elected when Bach. of Arts (as a native of the Dioc. of Gloucester) Fellow of Oriel coll. an. 1608. After he had proceeded in his Faculty, he took upon him the Sacred Function, and became a painful and zealous Preacher, and a publisher of,  
Several Sermons, as, (1) The holy City discovered, besieged, and delivered, on Eccles. 9 14, 15. Lond. 1619. qu. (2) The way of all flesh, on Prov. 4. 1. Lond. 1619. qu. (3) The good adventure, 
Clar. 1620.  on Rev. 4. 2. 3. Lond. 1620. qu. etc. one Mich. Wigmore was author of a Serm. intit. The dissection of the brain, on Isa. 9 15. Printed 1641. which person I take to be the same with the former. When our author Mich. Wigmore of Oriel died, or where he was beneficed, I cannot yet tell. Quaere.  
ROBERT STAFFORD, a Knight's Son, was born within the City of Dublin in Ireland, entered a Sojournour in Exeter coll. under the tuition of Mr. Joh. Prideaux, an. 1604. aged 16. but took no degree as I can yet find. He published,  
A Geographical and Anthological description of all the Empires and Kingdoms, both of Continent and Islands in this Terrestrial Globe, 
Clar. 1620:  etc. Lond. 1618. and 34. qu. Ushered into the World by the commendatory verses of Tho. Rogers, Caspar Thomannus of Zuriche (sometimes an Oxf. Student) Joh. Glanvill and Joh. Prideaux. Which last was supposed to have had a chief hand in the campiling the said book, as the tradition goes in Exeter coll. The said Rob. Stafford lived afterwards in Devon, (at Dowlton, I think) and had a Son of the same coll.  
GEORGE GYFFARD or Gifford was a Student in Hart hall several years before 1568, (10. Elizab.) at which time did also study there others of his Surname and allies, as Humphrey, Walter, and Rob. Gifford, but whether our author George was originally of this University, or that he took a degree in Arts, Law, Physic, or Divinity therein, it doth not at all (perhaps by the imperfectness of the registers) appear. Several persons in his time and before, did, though they were beneficed, retire to this University purposely to improve themselves in learning and by conversation, and 'tis supposed that this Gifford did the like. Afterwards he became Minister of Maldon in Essex, a very noted preacher, and one most admirably well versed in several sorts of learning, which were rare and much in esteem in his time, but withal a great Enemy to Popery. His works are,  
Country divinity, containing a discourse of certain points of Religion, which are among the common sort of Christians, with a plain confutation thereof. Lond. 1581. 1. oct.  
Dialogue between a Papist and a Protestant, applied to the capacity of the unlearned. Lond. 1583. oct.  
Against the Priesthood and Sacrifice of the Church of Rome, wherein you may perceive their impiety, in usurping that office and action, which ever appertaineth to Christ only. Lond. 1584. oct.  
Catechism, giving a most excellent light to those that seek to enter the pathway to salvation. Lond. 1586. oct.  
Discourse of the subtle practices of Devils by Witches and Sorceress, etc. Lond. 1587. qu.  
Short treatise against the Donatists of England, whom we call Brownists; wherein by answer unto their writings, their heresies are noted. Lond. 1590. qu.  
Plain declaration that our Brownists be full Donatists, by comparing them together from point to point out of the writing of Augustin. Lond. 1591. qu. Reply to Mr. Joh. Greenwood and Hen. Barrow touching read Prayer, wherein their gross ignorance is detected— These two last are dedicated to Sir Will. Cecil Lord Burleigh Chanc. of Cambridge.  
Dialogue concerning Witches and Witchcrafts. In which is laid open how craftily the Devil deceiveth, not only the Witches, but many other, etc. Lond. 1593. and 1603. qu.  
Treatise of true fortitude. Ibid. 94. oct.  
Comment. or Sermons on the whole book of the Revelations Ibid. 96. qu.  
Exposition on the Canticles. Lond. 1612. oct. Besides all these books he hath,  
Several Sermons extant, as (1) Sermon on the parable of the Sour on Math. 13. ver. 1. to 9 Lond. 1581. oct. (2) Sermon on 2 Pet. ver. 1. to 11. Lond. 1584. oct. (3) Serm. on Jam. 2. ver. 14. to 26. Ibid. 86. oct. (4) Sermon on the first four chapt. and part of the 5. of Ecclesiastes, etc. Pr. at the same place 1589. oct. (5) Serm. at Paul's cross, on Psal. 133. Lond. 1591. oct. (6) Two Sermons on 1 Pet. 5. 8, 9 wherein is showed that the Devil is to be resisted only by a steadfast faith, etc. Lond. 1598. oct. (7) Four Sermons upon several parts of Scripture. Lond. 1598. oct. The first Sermon is on 1 Tim. 6, 17, 18, 19 etc. (8) Fiveteen Sermons on the Song of Solomon. 
Clar. 1620.  Lond. 1620. oct. He also translated into English Prelections upon the sacred and holy Revolations. Lond. 1573. qu. Written in latin by Dr. Will. Fulke of Cambridge. This George Gifford hath written, and translated other things, which I have not yet seen, and lived to a good old age, but when he died it appears not.  
LUDOVISIO PETRUCCI, or à Petruccioli, or, as he writes himself, Ludovicus Petruccius infelix Eques, Son of Ariodant or Aridante ●etrucci, was born at Sienna à Petigliano in Tuscany, educated partly in juvenile learning in his own country, but before he had made proficiency in Academicals, he became a Soldier of fortune, first in Crect for the Venetians where he was Sarjeant-major, in 1602. secondly in the Hungarian wars, where he was Captain of a Foot-company in the regiment first of Count Salma and afterwards in that of Colonel Ferdinand de Colonitsch, serving for the Emperor, and at length in the services of the Prince of Brandiburg and Nuburgh. But being unfortunate in all his undertake, he left the trade of war, and retiring into England, took a journey to Ox●●. in 1610. and was entered into the public Library in the beginning of the year following. About that time he was a Commoner of S. Edmund's hall, as he was afterwards of Ball. coll. wore a gown, spent four years or more in Academical learning, and frequented the Prayers and Sacraments according to the Church of England. But being notwithstanding suspected for a Papist, or at least popishly affected, and to keep intelligence with that party, were several objections made against him for the inconveniency and evil consequence that might happen for his long continuance in the University. Whereupon he was forced, or at least desired, to depart, such were the jealousies of the puritanical party in the University. He hath written,  
Farrago Poematum, diversis locis & temporibus conscriptorum, etc. Oxon. 1613. in Ital. and Lat. in qu.  
Oratio ad D. Joh. Bapt. Bernardum Praetorem Patavinum & universam curiam, in Vigiliis Paschatis. Printed with the former book.  
Apologia contra calumniatores suos. Lond. 1619. qu.  
Emblemata varia, dedicata Regibus, Principibus & Magnatibus.  
Epistola ad D. Georg. Abbot Archiep. Cantuar. Domino Franc. Bacon supremo Angl. Canc. & Gulielmo comiti Pembrochiae.  
Poemata varia.  
Oratio composita quando statuit relinquere Academiam Oxon. 18. Aug. 1614 
Clar. 1620.  Which four last things were printed with his Apologia, etc. 1619. what other books he hath published, I cannot justly tell. However, from those before mentioned, it appears that the author was a fantastical and unsettled man, and delighted, as it seems, in rambling.  
CHRISTOPHER NEWSTEAD, third son of Tho. Newstead of Somercotes in Lincolnshire, was born in that County, became a Commoner of S. Alban hall in 1615. aged 18 years or thereabouts, continued there till after he was Bachelaurs standing and wrote,  
An Apology for women: or the woman's defence. Lond. 1620. oct. Dedicated to the Countess of Bucks. 
Clar. 1620:  Afterwards he retired into the Country, studied Divinity, had a benefice conferred upon, and though he never took any degree in Arts in this University, yet he took that of Bach. of Diu. 1631, which is all I know of him.  
JOHN KING, Son of Philip King of Wormenhale, commonly called Wornal, near to Brill in Bucks. (by Elizazabeth his wife, Daughter of Edm. Conquest of Hougton Conquest in Bedfordshire) Son of Thom. King, brother to Rob. King the first Bishop of Oxon, was born at Wornal before mentioned, educated in Grammar learning partly in Westminster School, became Student of Ch. Church in 1576. took the degree in Arts, made Chaplain to Q. Eliz. as he was afterwards to K. James, installed Archdeacon of Nottingham 12. Aug. 1590. upon the death of Joh. Lowth, (successor to Will. Day 1565.) at which time he was a Preacher in the City of York. Afterwards he was made Chaplain to Egerton Lord Keeper, proceeded D. of D. 1602. had the Deanary of Ch. Ch. in Oxon conferred upon him in 1605. and was afterwards several years together Vicechanc. of this University. In 1611. he had the Bishopric of London bestowed on him by K. James 1. who commonly called him the King of preachers, to which being consecrated 8. Sept. the same year, had 
a Pat. 9 Jac. 1. p. 3.  restitution of the temporalities belonging to that See, made to him 18 of the same month, at which time he was had in great reverence by all people. He was a solid and profound Divine, of great gravity and piety, and had so excellent a volubility of speech, that Sir Edw. Coke the famous Lawyer would often 〈◊〉 of him that he was the best speaker in the Star-Chamber in his time. When he was advanced to the See of London, he endeavoured to let the world 
b Ch. Hist. by 〈…〉 lib. ●●. an. 1621.  know that that place did not cause him to forget his Office in the Pulpit, showing by his example that a Bishop might govern and preach too. In which office he was so frequent, that unless hindered by want of health, he omitted no Sunday, whereon he did not visit some Pulpit in or near London— Deus bone, quam canora Vox, (saith 
c Will. Hull D. D. in his Epist. dedi●. to 〈…〉 London before his book, entit. 〈…〉  one) vultus compositus, verba selecta, grandes sententiae? Allicimur omnes lepore verborum, suspendimur gravitate sententiarum, orationis impetu & viribus fl●ctimur, etc. He hath written.  
Lectures upon Jon●s, delivered at York. Lond. 1594. Ox. 99 etc. qu.  
Several Sermons, viz. (1) Sermon at Hampton-Court, on Cantic. 8. 11. Ox. 1606. qu. (2) At Ox. 5. Nou. 1607. on Psal. 46. from ver. 7. to 11. Ox. 1607. qu. (3) At Whitehall 5. Nou. 1608. on Psal. 11. 2, 3, 4. Ox. 1608. qu. (4) At S. Mary's in Ox. 24. Mar. being the day of his Maj inauguration, on 1 Chron. ult. 26. 27, 28. Ox. 1608. qu. (5) Vitis palatina, Serm. appointed to be preached at Whitehall upon the Tuesday after the marriage of the Lady Elizab. on Psal. 28. 3. 3. Lond. 1614 qu. (6) Serm. at Paul's cross for the recovery of K. James from his late sickness, preached 11. of Apr. 1619. on on Esay 28. 17. Lond. 1619. qu. (7) At Paul's cross 26. Mar. 1620. on Psal. 102. 13, 14. Lond. 1620. qu. Besides these he published others, as one on 2 Kings 23. 25. printed 1611. Another on Psal. 123. 3. and a third on Psal. 146. 3. 4. etc. printed all in qu. but these three I have not yet seen. He paid his last debt to nature 30. March 
d Camden in his Annals of K. Jam. 1. MS. saith he died on the 29. March.  in sixteen hundred twenty and one, year 1621. aged 62. having before been much troubled with the Stone in the reins and bladder, and was buried in the Cath. Ch. of S. Paul in London. A copy of his Epitaph you may see in the History of that Cathedral written by Sir Will. Dugdale Knight. Soon after Bishop King's death, the Rom. Catholics endeavoured to make the world believe that said Bishop died a member of their Church; and to that end one of them named Gregory Fisher alis Musket did write and publish a book intit. The Bishop of London his Legacy. Or, certain motives of Dr. King, late B. of London, for his change of religion, and dying in the Cath. and Rom. Church, with a conclusion to his brethren the Bishops of England. Printed by permission of the superiors, 1621. But concerning the falsity of that matter, his son Hen. King, not only satsified the world in a Sermon by him preached at Paul's cross soon after, but also Dr. Godwin Bishop of Hereford in his Appendix to his Commentarius de Praesulibus Angliae, printed 1622. and Joh. Gee in his book called The foot out of the Snare, cap. 12. The reader is to know that there was one Joh. King contemporary with the former, who published a Sermon entit. Abel's offering, etc. on Gen. 4. ver. 4. printed at Flushing 1621. qu. and other things. But this Joh. King was Pastor of the English Church at Hamburgh, and whether he was of this Uniu. of Oxon. I cannot yet tell.  
JOHN GUILLIM, or Agilliams' son of John Williams of Westbury in Glocestershire, received some Academical education in Oxon. but in what house I am uncertain. I find one of both his names, who was a student in Brasnose coll. in the year 1581. aged 16, and another of Glouc. hall 1598. aged 25. Both which were, according to the Matricula, born in Herefordshire, in which County the author of The worthies of England, places Jo. Guillim the Herald, (of whom we now speak) who afterwards retired to Minsterworth in Glocestershire, was soon after called thence, and made one of the Society of the coll. of Arms. commonly called the Herald's Office in London by the name of Portsmouth, and on 
e Pat. 15. Jac. 1. p. 10.  the 26 Feb. 1617. Rogue Croix Pursuivant of Arms in Ordinary. He published,  
The display of Heraldry. Lond. 1610. etc. fol. Written mostly (especially the scholastical part) by John Barcham of C. C. coll. in Oxon. In 1660. came out two editions of it in fol. with many insignificant, superfluous, and needless additions to it, purposely to gain money from those, whose coats of Arms the publishers added, without any consideration had to the spoiling of the method of the book. One of the said editions was put out by Alexander Nowers a Herald-painter, burned in his bed (to which he went drunk) in his house about Lothbury, behind the Exchange, within the City of London, by a fire that occasionally happened in those parts 25. July 1670. The other edition was put out by Rich. Bloome, than a kind of an Arms Painter (but originally a ruler of books and paper) who hath since practised for divers years progging tricks in employing necessitous persons to write in several arts and to get contributions of Noble men to promote the work. What he hath done as to the Arms, Crests, and supporters of the Nobility is most egregiously erroneous, and false also in the quarterings. In 1679. he set forth the said book again, (which is the 5 edition) with the pictures at large, of several of the Nobility, whereby the book is so much disguised, that I verily believe if the author, or authors of it, were living they could scarce know it. To the said edition is added Analogia honorum: or, a treatise of honour and nobility, etc. in two parts. Said by Bloome to have been written by Capt. John Logan of Idbury in Oxfordshire, but Qu. This person Bloome, is esteemed by the chiefest Heralds a most impudent person, and the late industrious Garter (Sir W. D.) hath told me that he gets a livelihood by bold practices, and that he is the pretended author of a book called Britannia, Or, a Geographical description of the Kingdom of England, Scotland and Ireland, etc. Lond. 1673. fol. Scribbled and transcribed from Camden's Britannia and Speeds maps, as also the publisher of Cosmography and Geography, in two parts, etc. As for Jo. Guillim the Herald, he died on the 7. of May sixteen hundred twenty one, but where buried unless at Minsterworth, 
1621.:  I know not, for the register belonging to the Church of S. Bennet near to Paul's Wharff (in which parish the Herald's Office is situated) doth not mention any thing of his burial there.  
THOMAS HARIOT, or Harriot tumbled out of his mother's womb into the lap of the Oxonian Muses, an. 1560. but in what parish I cannot yet tell. All the registers that begin before that time (namely that of S. S. Ebb, S. Aldate, S. Thomas which begins that year, S. Michael, All-Saints and S. Peter in the East) I have searched but cannot find his name. That of S. Mary's parish, wherein I suppose this our author was born, hath been lost several years, and there is no register remaining, that goes above the year 1599 After he had been instructed in Grammar learning within this City of his birth, became either a Batler or Commoner of S. Mary's hall, wherein undergoing the severe discipline then, and there, kept up by Rich. Pygot and Thom. Philipson the Principals thereof, he took the degree of Bac. of Arts in 1579. and in the latter end of that year did complete it by determination in School-street. Soon after coming to the knowledge of that heroic Knight Sir W. Raleigh, for his admirable skill in the Mathematics, he entertained him in his family, allowed 
g Pref. R. Hakluyt ad Orbem novum, scriptum per Mart. Angler Par. 1587.  him an yearly pension, and was instructed by him at leisure-hours in that art. In 1584. he went with the said Knight, and first Colony, into Virginia, where being settled, he was employed in the discovery and surveying thereof, and to make what knowledge he could of the commodities it yielded, and concerning the inhabitants and their manners and customs. After his return into England Sir Walter got him into the acquaintance of that noble and generous Count Henry Earl of Northumberland, who finding him to be a gentleman of an affable and peaceable nature, and well read in the obscure parts of learning, he did allow him an yearly pension of 120 l. About the same time Rob. Hues and Walter Warner two other Mathematicians, who were known also to the said Count, did receive from him yearly pensions also, but of less value, as did afterwards Nich. Torperley, whom I shall mention elsewhere. So that when the said Earl was committed prisoner to the Tower of London in 1606. to remain there during life, our author, Hues, and Warner were his constant companions, and were usually called the Earl of Northumberlands three Magi. They had a table at the Earls charge, and the Earl himself did constantly converse with them, either singly or altogether, as Sir Walter then in the Tower, did. Our author Hariot was a great acquaintance with Sir Tho. Aylisbury Kt. a singular lover of learning and of the Mathematic arts. To whom Dr. Rich. Corbet sending 
h In his Poems, printed at Lond. 1672. p. 5●.  a Poem when the blazing Star appeared, dated 9 Dec. 1618., doth by the way mention our author thus. 
Now for the peace of God and Men advise,  
(Thou that hast wherewithal to make us wise)  
Thine own rich studies and deep Harriots Mine,  
In which there is no dross, but all refine.   
But notwithstanding his great skill in Mathematics, he had strange thoughts of the Scripture, and always undervalved the old story of the creation of the world, and could never believe that trite position Ex nihilo nihil fit. He made a Philosophical Theology, wherein he cast off the Old Testament, so that consequently the New would have no foundation. He was a Deist, and his doctrine he did impart to the said Count, and to Sir Walt. Raleigh when he was in compiling the History of the World, and would controvert the matter with eminent Divines of those times; who therefore having no good opinion of him, did look on the manner of his death (which I shall anon mention) as a judgement upon him for those matters, and for nullifying the Scripture. When he was a young man he was styled by an 
i Hackluytus ut sup. in Praef.  author of note, juvenis in illis disciplinis (meaning in the Mathematics) excellens. When in his middle age, by 
k Nath. Torperler in Praefat. ad Declides coelometricas, etc. an. 1602.  another homo natus ad artes illustrandas, etc. and when dead by a 
l Camden in Annal. Jac. 1. MS. sub. an. 1621.  third of greater note, Mathematicus insignis. His Epitaph which was made, or caused to be made, by his Executors, or those to whom he left his goods, books, and writings, viz. Sir T. Aylesbury before mentioned and Rob. Sidney Viscount L'isle, saith that Omnes scientias calluit, & in omnibus excelluit; Mathematicis, Philosophicis, Theologicis veritatis indagator studiosissimus, Dei Trini-unius cultor piissimus, etc. As for his Writings they are these.  
A brief and true report of the Newfound Land of Virginia; of the commodities there found to be raised, etc. Lond. 1588. qu. Put into Latin by C. C. A. and published and adorned with many admirable Cutts, by Theodore de Bry of Liege— Francof. ad Moenum 1590. fol. The English copy is mostly, if not all, involved in the third Vol. of R. Hakluyts voyages, p. 266. etc.  
Ephemiris Chyrometrica. MS. in the Library at Zion coll. Lond.  
Artis Analyticae praxis ad aequationes Algebraicas nova expedita & generali methodo, resolvandas, tractatus posthumus, etc. Lond. 1631. in a thin fol. and dedic. to Henry E. of Northumberland. The sum of this book coming into the hands of Aylesbury beforementioned, Walt. Warner did undertake to perfect and publish it, conditionally that Algernon eldest Son of the said Henry E. of Northumb. would, after his Father's death, continue his pension to him during his natural life. Which being granted at the earnest desires and entreaties of Aylesbury made to that Lord, Warner took a great deal of pains in it, and at length published it in that sort as we see it now extant. By the way it must be known that this Walt. Warner was a Leicestershire man born, but whether educated in this University, I cannot as yet find, that he was esteemed as good a Philosopher as Mathematician, that he made and invented a Logarithmical table, i. e. whereas Brigg's table fills his Margin with numbers increasing by unites, and over against them sets their Logarithms, which, because of incommensurability, must needs either be abundant or deficient, Mr. Warner (like a Dictionary of the Latin before the English) filled the Margin with Logarithms increasing by Unites, and did set to every one of them so many continual mean proportionals between one and 10. and they for the same reason must also have the last figure incomplete. These after the death of Warner came through the hands of one Tovey sometimes Fellow of Christ's coll. in Cambridge, (afterwards beneficed in Leicestershire and took to Wife the the Niece of Warner) into those of Herbert Thorndyke Prebend of Westminster, sometimes Fellow of Trin. coll. in Cambridge, and from him after his death (which happened in July 1672.) into those of Dr. Rich. Busbie Prebend of the said Church. They were in number ten thousand, but when John Pell D. D. sometimes a member of Trin. coll. in Cambridge became acquainted with Warner, they were by him, or his direction, made an hundred thousand, as the difference of hands will show in the MS. if Dr. Busbie will communicate it. He also (I mean Warner) wrote a Treatise of Coins and Coinage, in relation to Mint-affairs; a copy of which John Collins Accountant to the Royal Fishery Company had in his possession, but what became of it after his death, I know not. The sixth book of Optics in Marsennus is generally said to be his, and the seventh is Hobbes' of Malmsbury. He also did make it appear 
m So used to say Dr. G. Morley sometimes B. of Winton, and Dr. Joh. Pell.  in a MS. of his composition, that the blood in a body did circulate, which he communicating to the immortal Harvy, he took his first hint thence concerning that matter, which he afterwards published as the first inventor. I have been informed by those that knew Warner well, that he had but one hand, and was born so, that as he received a pension from the Earl of Northumberland, so did he, though smaller, from Sir Tho. Aylesbury, and lastly that he died at the Wolstable near the waters-side, not far from Northumberland house, (which is near Charing Cross) where he commonly wintered (but kept his summer with Sir Thomas in Winsore-Park) much about the time when the Long Parliament began, in Nou. 1640. or rather in the latter end of that year, leaving behind him a brother, who was High-Sherriff of Leicestershire, or at least pricked for that office, in the beginning of the rebellion that happened under K. Ch. 1. As for our author Hariot, who for some time lived in Zion coll. near to London, year 1621. died 2 July in sixteen hundred twenty and one; whereupon his body was conveyed to S. Christopher's Church in London, by the brethren of the Mathematical faculty, and by them committed to the earth with solemnity. Over his grave was soon after erected a comely Monument, with a large Inscription thereon, but destroyed with the Church itself, by the dreadful fire that happened in that City, in the beginning of Sept. in 1666. This person though he was but little more than 60 years of age, when he died, yet had not an unusual and rare disease seized upon him, he might have attained, as 'tis thought, to the age of 80. The disease was an ulcer in the Lipp, and Dr. Alex. Rhead was his Physician, who, though he had cured many of worse, and more malignant, diseases; yet he could not save him. In the treatise of ulcers, in the said Rheads 
n Printed at Lond. 1650. Treat. 2. Lect. 26.  works, is this mention of him. Cancerous Ulcers also seize on this part (the Lipp) etc. This grief hastened the end of that famous Mathematician Mr. Harriot, with whom I was acquainted but short time before his death. Whom at one time, together with Mr. Hues, who wrote of Globes, Mr. Warner and Mr. Torpley, the Noble Earl of Northumberland the favourer of all good learning, and Maecenas of learned men, maintained whilst he was in the Tower for their worth and various literature.  
RICHARD TILLESLEY, Son of Tho. Tillesley of Eccleshall in Staffordshire by Catherine his Wife Daughter of Rich. Barker of Shropshire, was born in the City of Coventry, entered a Commoner in Ball. coll. in Lent-Term 1597. aged 15, elected Scholar of S. John's coll. two years after, took the degrees in Arts, holy Orders and became Chaplain to Dr. Buckridge Bishop of Rochester, whose Niece he marrying (viz. Elizabeth Daughter of George Buckridge) was thereby a way made for his preferment. In 1613. he was admitted Bach. of Divinity; about which time being Rector of Kuckstone and Stone in Kent, he resigned his Fellowship. Soon after he proceeded in his faculty, and was by the favour of the said Dr. Buckridge made Archdeacon and Prebend (some say Dean but false) of Rochester in the place of Dr. Tho. Sanderson; and higher would he have been promoted had he not unexpectedly been cut off by death. He was a person of great reading and learning, as his writings show. He was also very devout in the strict observance of all the Church ceremonies, the reasonableness of which, he convinced many that retired to him for satisfaction. He was one of three that undertook to answer Seldens Hist. of Tithes, he and Montague the Law-part and St. Nettles the Rabinical or Judaical. As for that which our author published, it bears this title.  
Animadversions on Mr. Seldens History of Tithes, and his review thereof. Lond. 1619. and 21. qu. What else he hath written and published, it appears not, nor any thing besides, only that he dying, to the great reluctancy of all learned men, in the month of Nou. in sixteen hundred twenty and one, was buried in the Choir of the Cath. Church of Rochester, year 1621. leaving then behind him a Son named John, who was an Infant in 1619. One Eliseus Burgess whom I shall mention elsewhere, was installed Archdeacon of Rochester in his room, on the 24. of the said month of Nou. in 1621. who continued in that Dignity till the grand rebellion broke out, and after.  
FRANCIS MORE, Son of Edw. More Gent. by Elizab. his Wife, Daughter and Heir of one Hall of Tileherst in Berks, received his first breath at East Hildesley or Ildesley near to Wantage in the said County, where his name yet continues, educated in Grammar learning at Reading, entered a Commoner in S. John's coll. 1574. or thereabouts, continued there till near Bachelaurs standing, and then he retired to the Middle Temple; where, after severe encounters had with the crabbed parts of the municipal Laws, he became a Barrister and noted for his great proficiency in his profession and integrity in his dealings. In the latter end of Qu. Elizab. and beginning of K. James he was several times elected a Burgess in set in Parliaments, in which he was a frequent Speaker. Afterwards he was Counsellor and understeward for several years to this University, the members of which conferred upon him the degree of Master of Arts in 1612. Two years after he was made Sergeant at Law, and in 1616. March 17. received the honour of Knighthood at Theobalds' from his Majesty K. James 1. After his death some of his works were published, which bear these titles.  
Cases collected and reported. Lond. 1663. fol. printed from the original in French, that then remained in the hands of Sir Jeff. Palmer Attorney General to K. Ch. 2. which is the same, as I take it, written fairly with the authors own hand in fol. that was lately in the Library of Arth. E. of Anglecy. These cases were abridged by Will. Hugh's Esq— Lond. 1665. oct.  
His learned reading 4. Jac. 1. in Middle Temple hall concerning charitable uses, abridged by himself. Lond. 1676. fol. published by George Duke of the Inner Temple Esq. Our author F. More was a member of that Parliament, as it seems, wherein the Statute concerning charitable uses was made, and was, as 'tis farther added, the Penner thereof. At length paying his last debt to nature on the 20. Nou. in sixteen hundred twenty and one, aged 63. was buried in a Vault under the Church of Great Fawley near to Wantage beforementioned, year 1621. in which Vault his posterity (who are Baronet's living in that Parish) have been since, and are hitherto interred, as I have been instructed by his Grandson Sir Hen. More Bt. I find another Franc. More to have published certain matters, among which is The sinners guide, or the regiment of a Christian life. Printed 1614 qu. and certain Sermons, but whether this person who was a Divine, was of Oxford University I know not as yet.  
FRANCIS MASON, who is worthily styled Vindex Ecclesiae Anglicanae, was born in the County Palatine of Durham and there educated in Gram. learning, began to be conversant with the Oxonians in the beginning of the year 1583. aged 17, and making a hard shift to rub out till he was Bach. of Arts, being the Son of a poor Plebeian, was elected probationer-Fellow of Merton coll. in the latter end of 1586. After he had proceeded in his faculty, he entered into the sacred function, and when full standing, he was admitted to the reading of the Sentences in 1597. About which time he was made Rector of Orford a Market Town near to the Seaside in Suffolk, Chaplain to K. James 1. (who usually styled him a wise builder in God's house) and at length upon the death of Rich. Stokes LL. Bach. was installed Archdeacon of Norfolk 18. Decem. 1619. which Dignity the said Stokes had held from the month of Apr. 1587. Our author Mason hath written,  
The authority of the Church in making Canons and constitutions concerning things indifferent, etc. Sermon on 1 Cor. 14. 40. Lond. 1607. Ox. 1634. qu. From which, as also from the Epist. dedic. before it, made to his patron Rich. Archb. of Cant. it appears that the author was a zealous conformist to the Ch. of Engl. This Serm. was answered by Anon. in a book entit. The second part of the defence of the Ministers reasons for refusal, etc. See in Tho. Hutton, an. 1639.  
Vindication of the Church of England concerning the consecration and ordination of the Bishops, etc. as also of the ordination of Priests and Deacons, in five books. Lond. 1613. fol. Framed in form of a conference between Philodox a Seminary Priest and Orthodox a Minister of the Church of England. From which book it appears that the author was a general-read-Scholar, thorough-paced in the councils, and all sorts of Histories, whether divine, civil, or profane. The next year, he, as a grateful Son, sent a copy of it to be reposed in the Library of his tender Parent Mert. coll. with this note at the end of it written with his own hand,— Whereas Mr. 
a Tho. Fitzherbert.  Fitzherbert hath lately sent a book from Rome against the most rev. Bishop 
b Dr. Lanc. Andrews.  of Ely, to which he hath annexed an appendix concerning the records and registers by me produced, desiring that some of their discreet Catholics might view and consider whether they be true, or counterfeit: Know therefore that upon the 12. of this present May an. 1614 his Grace of Canterbury sent for Mr. 
c Job. Colleton.  Colleton the Archpriest, Leake 
d Tho. Leake.  a secular Priest, as also one Jesuit called 
e Tho. Lathwait.  Lathwait, etc. and showed unto them the register and other records of his predecessor Matth. Parker, which they perused over and over, and found that the said Parker was 
f See more of this matter in Godwin D: praesuti●. Angliae. Lond. 1616. lat. p. 219.  consecrated in Lambeth Chappel (and not at the Nag's head in Cheapside) by certain Bishops that had been ejected in Qu. Mary's reign, etc. This book of the Vindication of the Church of England, coming at length into the hands of Anthony Champney an English man born, a Rom. Cath. Priest and a Doctor of the Sorbon, was by him answered in English and dedicated to George Archb. of Canterbury not without some reproaches and scoffs given to him in the Epistle. But afterwards Champney recollecting himself, thought that he had not sufficiently consulted his own reputation by publishing his answer in English. Wherefore he translated it into Latin, (intit. Tractatus de vocatione Ministrorum. Par. 1618. in oct.) that his pretended victory over Mason, might by this means be spread over all Europe. Soon after our author, to be even with him, translated his own book also, and entitled it Vindiciae Eccles. Anglicanae, etc. and therein interweaves answers to Thom. Fitzherbert Priest, Hen. Fitzsimons Jesuit, Dr. Matth. Kellison, A. Champney, etc. and withal dedicated it to Hen. de Gondy Bishop of Paris, without any aspersions at all thrown upon him. All this he did in the year 1619. or 20. at farthest, but before he could conveniently put it in the Press, he died. Whereupon at the desire of the Archbishop of Cant. Dr. Nath. Brent Warde● of Mert. coll. did review it, examine the quotations, compare them with the originals, and at length printed the copy as he had found it under the author's hand, an. 1625. ●ol. printed again at Lond. 1646. fol. The said author also wrote,  
Two Sermons preached at Court concerning David adultery and his public practices, on 2 Sam. 〈…〉 13. Lond. 1621. oct.  
The vadility of the ordination of the ministers of the reformed Churches beyond the Seas, maintained against the Donatists. Oxon. 1641. qu. Taken, I presume, by the publisher from our author's book intit. A vindication, etc. At length our author Mason surrendering up his pious soul to him that first gave it, (not without the great grief of those who well knew his learning and piety) in the month of Dec. in sixteen hundred twenty and one, was buried in the Chancel of the Church of Orford beforementioned. year 1621. Over his grave was soon after a Monument put, with an Inscription thereon, which, for brevity sake, I shall now pass by. In his Archdeaconry of Norfolk was installed Tho. Muriel M. A. 30. Dec. 1621. After him was installed Writhington White 19 Oct. 1629. and after him Rob. White Bach. of Diu. 23. Sept. 1631. who dying in the times of usurpation, Philip Tenison was installed in his place 24. Aug. 1660. who dying, Edw. Reynolds M. A. and Son to Dr. E. Reynolds B. of Norwich was installed therein 15. Apr. 1661.  
HENRY JACOB, was a Kentish man born, entered a Commoner or Batler in S. Mary's hall 1579. aged 16, took the degrees in Arts, holy Orders and became beneficed in his own Country, particularly, as I have been informed, at Cheriton, but upon search into that Parish register, wherein are the names of all the Rectors of that Church set down since 1591. H. Jacob. occurs not, as having been perhaps Rector before that time. He was a person most excellently well read in Theological authors, but withal was a most zealous Puritan, or as his Son Henry used to say the first Independent in England. His writings against Francis Johnson a Brownist (exile for Jesus Ch. as he styles himself) and Tho. Bilson Bishop of Winton. speak him learned. With the former he controverted concerning the Churches and Ministers of England, and with the other concerning Christ's suffering and descension into Hell. Which controversy, though eagerly bandied to and fro between them, yet it was afterwards plied more hotly in both the Unisities, in 1604. and after; where bilson's doctrine was maintained and held up, yet publicly opposed by many of our Zealots, both at home and abroad. At home by Gabr. powel a stiff Puritan (mentioned under the year 1607.) and abroad by Hugh Broughton and Rob. Parker, I mean that Robert a Divine, sometimes of Wilton in Wilts, who leaving the Nation for conscience sake, died at Deusbourgh in Gelderland, in Autumn time or after, a, 1630. leaving behind him a Widow named Dorothy, and a Son named Thomas, author of De traductione peccatoris. There were two more brethren at least of the separation, who opposed Bilson's doctrine, but their names I cannot now justly tell you. The works of our author Hen. Jacob are these.  
Treatise of the sufferings and victory of Christ in the work of our redemption. etc. written against certain errors in these points publicly preached in Lond. 1597. Lond. 1598. oct. The points we●e (1) That Christ suffered for us the wrath of God, which we may well term the pains of Hell, or hellish sorrows. (2) That Christ after his death on the Cross, went not into Hell in his Soul.  
Defence of the Church and ministry of England, against Francis Johnson Brownist. Middleburg 1599 qu. They had several disputes in Amsterdam about the Church of England being a true Church.  
Defence of a treatise touching the sufferings and victory of Christ in the work of our redemption— Printed 1600. qu.  
Reasons taken out of God's word and the best humane testimonies, proving a necessity of reforming our Churches of England, etc.— Printed 1604. qu.  
A position against vain glorious, and that which is falsely called, learned, preaching— Printed 1604. oct.  
The divine beginning and institution of Christ's true visible and material Church. Leyden 1610. oct.  
Plain and clear exposition of the second commandment.— Printed 1610. oct.  
Declaration and opening of certain points, with a sound confirmation of some others, in a treatise entit. The divine beginning, etc. (as before)— Middleburg 1611. He hath written and published other things, as the Counter poison, etc. which being printed by stealth, or beyond the Seas, year 1621. are rare to be either seen, or procured. He departed this mortal life, in sixteen hundred twenty and one, or thereabouts, aged 60. years, or more, but where buried, unless in London, where he began to gather a congregation in the year 1616. I cannot tell. He left behind him a Son of both his names, who was afterwards Fellow of Mert. coll. and a prodigy for curious and critical learning, as I shall tell you at large when I come to him.  
HENRY SAVILE, second Son of Hen. Savile (by Elizab. his Wife Daughter of Rob. Ramsden Gent.) second Son of Joh. Savile of New hall in Yorksh. Esq was born at Bradley alias Over-Bradley near to Halifax in the same County, on the last day of Nou. an. 1549. (3. Ed. 6.) made his first entry into this University in the beginning of the year 1561. and then, according to the fashion, had a Tutor to teach him Grammar, and another Dialect, or else one and the same person did both. In the beginning of Lent 1565. he was admitted Bach. of Arts, and forthwith determined to the admiration of his Auditors, who ever after esteemed him a good Philosopher. About that time an election of Bach. Fellows of Merton coll. (then in a very poor condition for good Scholars, as most places in the University were,) being made, he was chosen one of the number, as was Edm. Bunney, afterwards a learned Theologist. In 1570. our author Savile proceeded in his faculty, and read his Ordinaries on the Almagest of Ptolemy: Whereby growing famous for his learning, especially for the Gr. tongue and Mathematics, (in which last he voluntarily read a Lecture for some time to the Academians,) he was elected Proctor of the University for two years together, with Joh. Vnderhill of New college, afterwards Rector of that of Lincoln, and Bishop of Oxon. For then, and after, those that executed the Procuratorial office, were elected by the Doctors and Masters of the University for learning, worth, experience, and magnanimous Spirits; but when the Caroline Cycle was made, in 1629. they were elected in their respective Coll. by a few notes. In 1578. he traveled into France and other Countries; and thereupon improving himself in learning, languages, and the knowledge of the World and Men, became a most accomplished person at his return. About that time he was instituted Tutor to Q. Elizab. for the Gr. tongue, who taking a liking to his parts and personage, was not only the sooner made Warden of Merton coll. though a noted person (Bunney before-mentioned) was elected with him and presented to the Archb. of Cant. for confirmation; but also, by her favour, was made Provost of Eton coll. in the year 1596. upon the promotion of Dr. Will. Day to the See of Winton. While he governed the former, which was 36 years, Summâ curâ (as 'tis 
a Reg. 2. Act. Societ. coll. Merton. p. 1●1.  said) & diligentiâ fere plusquam humanâ perdius & pernox, he made it his chief endeavours, (though troubled with the cumbrances of Marriage) to improve it with riches and literature. For the effecting of the last, he always made choice of the best Scholars at the usual elections of Bach. Fellows. In the first that he made after he was Warden, which consisted but of four persons, were Hen. Cuffe and Franc. Mason elected, both noted for their learning, though the first was unfortunate. In the last, about three years before his death, which consisted of six, four of them (whereof two were afterwards Bishops) were esteemed eminent, namely Dr. Reynolds of Norwych, Dr. Earl of Salisbury, John Doughty and Alex. Fisher: the last of which, though he hath published nothing, yet in some respects he was as able as any of the rest so to do, had not a weak and timorous Spirit stood in his way. Our author Savile also took as much care as he could to place noted men in Eton college; among whom were Tho. Allen, Joh. Hales, Tho. Savile, and Ionas Montague, all of Mert. coll. the last of which (whom he made Usher of the School there) helped him, as Allen and Hales did, in the edition of St. chrysostom, as I shall tell you elsewhere. When K. Jam. 1. came to the Crown he had a great respect for Mr. Savile and his learning, and as I have heard our Ancients say, he would have advanced him to a higher place, either in Church or State, but he refused it, and only accepted of the Honour of Knighthood from him at Windsor, 21. Sept. 1604. Much about which time Henry his only Son and Heir dying, and no hopes left of propagating his Name, and of settling a Family, he bestowed much of his wealth in publishing books, and in founding two Lectures in this University, which will make his memory honourable not only among the learned, but the righteous for ever, even till the general conflagration shall consume all books and learning. Many are the Encomiums given of him by divers authors, which, if I should enumerate, may make a Manual. In one 
b Ibid.  place he is styled, Musarum Patronus, Maecenas literarum, fortunarumque Mertonensium verè Pater, etc. In another 
c Jo. 〈◊〉 in lib. De illustr. Argl. 〈…〉 14. nu. 563. p. 471.  he is characterized by a zealous Rom. Cath. who seldom or never speaks well of a Protestant, (or at least by Dr. W. Bishop the publisher of his book,) to be Vir Graecè & Latinè perinde doctus, venerandae Antiquitatis (ut videtur) tam exquisitus indagator tam ingenuus & liberalis editor. To pass by the noble and generous characters given of him by Isaac 
d In Append. add Epist. Vide etiam 〈…〉 ipsas Epistolas, Ep 100 Script. ad Hen. Savile.  Casaubon, Joh. 
e In 〈…〉 Homel. in Gen. in't. opera S. 〈◊〉  Boysius, Josias 
f In N●t. ad Cor●. Y●.  Mercerus, Marc. 
g In Pref. ad Gaudentii introduct. 〈◊〉.  Meibomius, Jos. 
h In 3. 〈…〉 232. Script. ad Ric. 〈…〉  Scaliger and others, (among whom must not be forgotten the learned Rich. Montague, who styles 
i In his 〈…〉 upon the first part of the 〈…〉  him, The Magazine of all Learning,) I shall proceed to make mention of those things that he hath published and written, which are these following.  
Learned notes on, and a translation into English of, Corn. Tacitus his (1) End of Nero and beginning of Galba. (2) Four books of Histories. (3) Life of Agricola. Lond. 1581. 98. etc. fol. A rare translation it is, and the work 
k 〈◊〉 Rule of judgement for writing 〈…〉. MS. Addres. 4. Sect. 2.  of a very great Master indeed, both in our tongue, and that story. For if we consider the difficulty of the original, and the age wherein the Translator lived, is both for the exactness of the version, and the chastity of the language, one of the most accurate and perfect translations, that ever were made into English. The said notes were put into Latin by Is. Gruter, and printed at Amsterdam, 1649. in tw.  
A view of certain Military Matters, or Commentaries concerning Roman Warfare. Lond. 1598. etc. fol. Put into Lat. by Marq. Fraherus, printed at Heidleburg 1601. in oct. and at Amsterd. by Is. Gruter 1649. in tw.  
Fasti Regum & Episcoporum Angliae usque ad Willielmum Seniorem. These Fasti are at the end of the writers which Sir Hen. Savile published, intit. Rerum Anglicarum Scriptores post Bedam praecipui, etc. viz. Gul. Malmsburiensis, Hen. Huntingdon, Rog. Hoveden, etc. Lond. 1596. fol. The best copies of which authors he collected, viewed, reviewed and corrected. In his Epist. dedic. before which, (made to Q. Elizab.) speaking of the History of England, delivereth these matters, after he had condemned Pol. Virgil— Neostri ex face plobis Historici, etc. Our Historians being of the dr●gs of the common People, while they have endeavoured to adorn the Majesty of so great a work, have stained and defiled it with most fusty fooleries. Whereby, though I wot not, by what hard fortune of this Island, it is came to pass, that your Ancestors (most gracious Queen) most puissant Princes, who embracing a great part of this our World within their Empire, did easily overgo all the Kings of their time in the Glory of great achievements, now destitute of (as it were) the light of brave Wits, do lie unknown and unregarded, etc. These words being uttered by a Gent. excellently learned, to a Sovereign Queen excellently understanding, and in print, were then understood, and wished for, by Historians and curious Men, to have this meaning, That the Majesty of handling our History might once equal the Majesty of the argument. This was their opinion, and the publisher (Great Savile) gave hopes to them that he should be the Man that would do it. All the learned of England were erected, and full of expectation, but at length were grieved to find it vain. Somewhat notwithstanding he is said to have attempted in that argument, by making searches in the Tower of London for furniture out of the Records; but, if he did any such thing, whether impatient of the harsh and dusty rudeness of the subject, or despairing that he could deal so truly as the honour and splendour of his name, and as the nature of the work, required; he desisted, converting all his cares to the edition of St. chrysostom in Greek. Thus was he carried away by speculation of things Divine, as it were in a Chariot of fire, from this other immortal office to his native Country. He also carefully collected the best copies of books, written by St. chrysostom, from various parts of the World, and employed learned men to transcribe, and make annotations on, them. Which being done, he printed them at his own charge in a most beautiful edition, bearing this title, S. Johannis Chrysostomi opera Gracè, octo voluminibus. Printed in Eton coll. 1613. fol. On several parts of which he put learned notes, besides what the profound Joh. Boyse, Andr. Downes, Tho. Allen, etc. had done. The whole charge of which edition, and for the payment of certain Scholars employed beyond the Seas for the obtaining of the best Exemplars of that author, cost him more than 8000 l. But the copy as soon as 'twas finished, coming into the hands of a learned French Jesuit, named Fronto Ducaeus of Bourdeaux, he mostly translated it into Latin. Which being so done, he printed it in Gr. and Lat. at Paris in 5 volumes, at the charges of the Bishops and Clergy of France, an. 1621. The sixth vol. was put out by him in 1624. and the other volumes (four in number) came out before at different times at Heidleburg, by other hands, at it seems. Sir Hen. Savile also procured six Manuscript copies of Bradwardins book, De causa Dei, to be compared and corrected to his great charge: and afterwards published a true copy thereof under this title, Thomae Bradwardini Archiep. olim Cantuariensis, De causa Dei, contra Pelagium, & de virtute causarum, ad suos Mertonenses. lib. 3. Lond. 1618. fol. Before which Sir Henry put of his own writing,  
Vita Thomae Bradwardini Archiep. olim Cantuariensis. He also wrote and was author of,  
Praelectiones tresdecem in principium elementorum Euclidis Oxoniae habitae, an. 1620. Oxon. 1621. qu. Some of which Lectures he read when he was a Junior Master, as I have before mentioned.  
Oratio coram Reg. Elizab. Oxoniae habita, an. 1592. Oxon. 1658. qu. Published by Mr. (afterwards Dr.) Tho. Barlow of Queen's coll. from the original in the Bodleian Library, and also by Dr. Joh. Lamphire in the second edit. of Monarchia Britannica. Oxon. 1681. oct.  
Tract of the original of Monasteries.  
Orations.  
Tract concerning the Union of England and Scotland, at the command of K. James 1.  
MSS. in the Bodleian Lib.  
Concerning the last of these, John Thornborough B. of Bristol did write a book about the same time. Our author Savile also did publish Nazianzen's Steliteuticks, Zenophon's Institution of Cyrus, etc. and had many choice Exempl●rs in his Library, which were by others published as from Bibliotheca Saviliana. He also translated into elegant Lat. K. James the first his Apology for the Oath of Allegiance: Which flying in that dress as far as Rome, was by the Pope and the Conclave sent to Francis Suarez at Salamanca, with a command to answer it. When he had perfected the work, which he calls Defensio fidei Catholicae, etc. cum responsione ad Apologiam pro juramento fidelitatis, etc. it was transmitted to Rome for a view of the Inquisitors, who blotted out what they pleased, and added whatsoever might advance the Pope's power. Which matter Joh. Salkeld, his his Assistant when he wrote at Salamanca, did often profess when he came over to the Church of England, and lived for some time in the House of Dr. King Bishop of London, that the good old Man Suarez (whose piety and charity he magnifyed much) did not only disavow, but detest it. However printed it was, (at Colen, I think, an. 1614) but so soon as any of the copies came into England, one was burnt in detestation of the fact, by public command. Sir Hen. Savile also made several notes with his Pen in many of his books in his choice Library, particularly on Eusebius his Ecclesiastical History, made use of by Hen. Valesius in his edition of that History, an. 1659. as he'll tell you more at large, if you'll consult the Preface to that elaborate work. He also made several notes on those books which he gave to the Mathematical Library in the School-Tower, and on others which I have seen. Divers of his Tracts of various subjects in MS. were greedily procured after his death (sometimes also while he lived) by industrious and ingenious Scholars, which do now, or at least did lately, go from hand to hand. At length, after he had lived beyond the age of Man, and had done many noble and generous works for the benefit of learning, he departed this mortal life in Eton coll. near to Windsor, on the nineteenth day of Febr. in sixteen hundred twenty and one, 
1621-22.  and was buried in the Chapel there, near to the body of Henry his Son, (who died 1604 aged 8 years,) leaving behind him one only daughter named Elizabeth, (begotten on the body of his Wife Margaret, Daughter of George Dacres of Cheston in Hertfordshire,) who was married to Sir Jo. Sedley of Kent Baronet. Soon after, the News of his death being sent to Oxon, the Vicechancellor and Doctors ordered a Speech to be publicly spoken to the Academians in memory of so worthy a Benefactor and Scholar as Sir Henry was. Which being accordingly done by Tho. Goffe. of Ch. Ch. the Speech was shortly after made public, with many copies of verses made by the best Poets of the University, added to it, with this title, Vltima Linia Savilii. Oxon. 1622. qu. These things being done, was a black Marble stone laid over his grave on the south side of the Communion Table in the said Chapel of Eton coll. and a most sumptuous honorary monument to his memory, on the south wall, at the upper end of the Choir of Merton coll. the inscription on which you may see 
a In Hist. & Antiq. Uniu. Oxon, lib. 2. p. 89. b.  elsewhere. In the Provostship of Eton coll. succeeded Tho. Murrey a Scot, Tutor and Secretary to Prince Charles, (afterwards K. Ch. 1.) who died, as one 
b Camden in Annal. Reg. Jac. 1. MS. sub an. 1623.  observed, on the first day of Apr. 1623. being then newly cut for the Stone, and was buried in the Chap. of that Coll. whose Epitaph there saith that he died on the ninth day of the same month, aged 59 years. Afterwards the King designed 
c Ibid.  Sir Will. Beecher to succeed, but by Friends, and many entreaties, Sir Hen. Wotton had that place confer'd on him. In the Wardenship of Mert. coll. succeeded Nath. Brent LL. D. afterwards a Knight, who minding wealth and the settling a Family more than generous actions, that College did nothing near so well flourish as under the Government of Sir Henry.  
ROGER HACKET, an eminent Theologist in the time he lived, was born in the Parish of St. James within the City of London, educated in Wykehams' School, admitted perpetual Fellow of New coll. in 1577. took the degrees in Arts, holy Orders, and soon after was cried up for an eminent Preacher. In 1591. or thereabouts, he was made Rector of North-Crowley in Bucks And four years after proceeded in Divinity. All that I have yet seen of his writing or publication, are only  
Several Sermons, viz. (1) Serm. at Paul's Cross, on 1 Sam. 11. 5, 6, 7. Oxon. 1591. oct. dedic. to the Lord Norrys. (2) Serm. on 2 Cor. 5. 20, 21. Lond. 1593. oct. (3) A Marriage present, on Gen. 2. 22. Lond. 1607. qu. (4) Sick man's glass, on Isaiah 30. 1, 2, 3. Lond. 1607. qu. (5) Serm. on Psal. 122. 6. etc. He concluded his last day in sixteen hundred twenty and one, or thereabouts, 
1621-22.  (for in 1622. were several books conveyed into the public Library at Oxon, by his bequest,) and was buried, as it seems, in his Church of North-Crowley beforementioned.  
HERBERT CROFT, Son of Edw. Croft Esq descended from an ancient and gentile family of his name living at Croft Castle in Herefordshire, was educated in Academicals in Ch. Ch. as his Son Col. Sir Will. Croft use to say, though his name occurrs not in the Matricula, which makes me think that his stay was short there. Afterwards he married, was a Parliament man in the latter end of Qu. Eliz. and in 1603. received the honour of Knighthood from K. Jam. 1. at Theobalds', being then a person of repute in his own country. At length being full weary of the vanities and fooleries of this world, did retire to Douai in Flanders, and there was by letters of confraternity, dated in the beginning of Feb. (1617.) received among the Brethren in the coll. of English Benedictines: who appointing him a little cell within the ambits of their house, spent the remainder of his days therein in strict devotion and religious exercise. After his settlement there he wrote,  
Letters persuasive to his wife and children in England, to take upon them the catholic religion.  
Arguments to show that the Rom. Church is a true Church— written against Dr. R. Field his Four books of the Church.  
Reply to the answer 
c The said Answer, as Sir Herb. Croft saith, was penned for her by a Protestant Minister.  of his Daughter M. C. (Marry Croft) which she made to a Paper of his scent to her, concerning the Rom. Church. At the end of it is a little thing entit. The four ministers of Charinton gauged by four propositions made to the Lord Baron of Espicelliere of the religion prtended: And presented on S. Martin's day to du Moulin in his house, and since to Durand and Mestrezat. All these were published by Sir Herb. Croft at Douai, about 1619. in tw. containing 255. pages. There were but eight copies printed, viz. one for himself, now in the libr. of the English Benedictines at that place, formerly sent to me by a 
d Edw. Sheldon second Son of Will. Sheldon of Boely Esq;  Brother of that order, purposely to be perused for a time, and then to be returned: who for religion sake, and in contempt of the world hath denied the inheritance of an Estate of at least three thousand pounds per. an. Another copy was printed for Sir Herbert's wife and the rest for his children, but all without a title, only dedicated to his wife and children, with a short Epistle before them beginning thus. I would have you know that although this ensuing discourse cometh to you in print, etc. The beginning of the book itself is this, When it had pleased almighty God, in his great mercy, even after above 53. years of my misspent life, etc. At length after he had macerated his body with fasting, hardship, and devotion, surrendered up his pious Soul to the Almighty, 
1622▪  on the 10 Apr. (according to the account there followed) in sixteen hundred twenty and two, and was buried in the Chapel or Church belonging to the said English Benedictines at Douai. Soon after was a monument put over his grave, with an inscription thereon, (a copy of it you may 
e In Hist. & Antiq. Uniu. Ox. lib. 2. p. 269. b.  elsewhere see) in which he is styled vir prudens, fortis, nobilis, & patriae libertatis amantissimus, etc. He left behind him a Son of both his names, sometimes a R. Catholic, but afterwards a zealous Protestant and a Bishop, of whom I shall hereafter make mention in his due place.  
JOHN RANDALL, sometimes a frequent and painful preacher in the City of London, was born at Missenden in Bucks sent by his relations to S. Mary's hall, in 1581. being then very young, where spending some time in Trivial learning, was afterwards translated to Trinity coll. and, as a member thereof, took the degree of Bach. of Arts, which he completed by determination. In 1587. July 6. he was elected Fellow of Lincoln coll. and two years after proceeded in his faculty. About that time entering into the sacred function, he became one of the most noted preachers in the University. In 1598., he was admitted Bach. of Divinity, and the year after resigning his fellowship, was made about that time Rector of the Church of S. Andrews Hubart in Little Eastcheap in London; where, after some time, he became so great a labourer in God's vineyard by his frequent and constant work in the ministry, as well in resolving of doubts and cases of conscience as in preaching and lecturing, that he went beyond his brethren in that City to the wonder of all. But greater was the wonder, especially to those of his parish and neighbourhood, that this poor man, who was for the most part strangely afflicted with sickness, should undergo his duty so strictly, and preach so many Sermons as he did for comfort and support in troubles. This indeed did sound highly to his merit, and plainly showed that his great learning and parts could not be subdued with the pitiful afflictions here below. He was accounted a judicious, orthodox, and holy man, and by some a zealous and innocent puritan, of a harmless life and conversation, and one that was solely framed to do good acts. His works are these.  
Several Sermons as (1) The necessity of righteousness, on Mat. 5. 20. Lond. 1622. and 1640. qu. (2) Description of fleshly lusts, on 1 Pet. 2. 11, 12. Lond. 1622. and 40. qu. (3) S. Paul's triumph, etc. eleven Sermons on Rom. 8. 38. 39 Lond. 1633. etc. qu. published by Will. Holbrook preacher.  
The great mystery of godliness: or, a treatise opening unto us what God is and Christ is. Lond. 1624. qu. there again 1640. third edit.  
Treatise concerning the Sacraments. Lond. 1630. qu. etc.  
Catechistical Lectures (in number 23.) upon the Sacrament of the Lords Supper. Lond. 1630. qu. etc.  
Nine and twenty lectures of the Church, for support of the same in these times, etc. Ibid. 1631. etc. qu. besides other things fit for the press, as one, showing what a true visible Church is, and another what Predestination is. He concluded his last day in the beginning of June in sixteen hundred twenty and two, being then about 54. years of age, year 1612 and was buried in the Church of S. Andrew before mentioned. By his last will and testament, he bequeathed a tenement to Linc. coll. called Ship hall, situated on the west side of that Street, anciently called Schediardstreet, now commonly called S. Marry hall lane, in Oxon. The picture of this Mr. Randall drawn to the life when he was fellow of Linc. coll. is, or at least was lately, hanging in the Common room of that house.  
JOHN OWEN, or Audoenus as some call him, the most noted Epigrammatist in the age he lived, was born at Armon in Caernarvonshire, educated in Wykehams' School, admitted perpetual Fellow of New coll. after he had served two years of Probation there, in 1584. took the degree of Bach. of Civil Law in 1590. and leaving his fellowship the year after, taught School (as some of his ancient country men that remember him, have told me) at Trylegh near to Monmouth, and at Warwick (as the tradition goes there among the Schoolmasters) in the School founded by K. Hen. 8. in the place of one Tho. Hall, about the year 1594. He was a person endowed with several gifts, especially with with the faculty of Poetry, which hath made him famous for those books of Epigrams, that he hath published, wherein an ingenious liberty of joking being by him used, was, and is now with some, especially foreigners, not a little pleasing and delightful. But that which I must farther note of him is, that being always troubled with the disease that attends Poets (indigence) he was received into the patronage of his countryman and Kinsman Dr. Jo. Williams B. of Lincoln and L. Keeper of the great Seal, who for several years exhibited to his wants. He hath written,  
Epigrammatum lib. 3. ad Mariam Nevil comitis Dorcestriae filiam dicati. Lond. 1606. oct. printed twice that year.  
Epigrammatum lib. singularis; ad doctiss. Heroinam D. Arbellam Stewart.  
Epigram. lib. 3. ad Hen. Principem Cambriae duae; ad Carolum Ebor. unus.  
Epigram. ad tres Maecenates libri tres. Ad Car. Noel Eq. & Baronettum, unus. Ad Gul. Sedley Eq. & Bar. alter. Ad Rog Owen Eq. aur. tertius.  
Monostica quaedam Ethica & Politica veterum sapientum.  
All which coming out as successive additions to the several editions of the three first books of Epigrams, were at length published all in one vol. in oct. and twelves, not only in England but beyond the Seas. In the year 1619. Joh. Vicar's Usher of Ch. Church hospital in London and a puritanical Poet having selected many of them from several of the books that were then extant, did tanslate them into Engl. verse and were that year printed at London in oct. Thomas Peck also of the Inner Temple Gent. did translate 600. of the said Epigrams in Eng. verse, which were printed with Martial de spectaculis, or of the rarities to be seen in Rome, and with the most select Epigr. of Sir To. More: To which is annexed a Century of Heroic Epigrams, etc. All published under the general title of Parnassi puerperium, at Lond 1659. in oct. And lastly Tho. Harvey hath Englished most, or all of them; but these I have not yet seen. The first Latin impressions of the author Owen, being greedily bought, and taken into the hands of all ingenious Scholars, and forthwith conveyed beyond the Seas, they came at length into the hands of the Romish Inquisitors after Heretical matters in printed books, who finding dangerous things in them, especially these two verses following, the book was put, into the the Index expurgatorius. 
An 〈…〉 Romae, sub judice lis est.  
〈…〉 Romae, nemo suisse negat.   
For which verses, and others of the like nature, Owen's Uncle, who was a Papist, or at least Popishly affected, (from whom he expected Legacies,) dashed his name out from his last Will and Testament; which was the chief reason, that he ever after lived in a poor condition. He died in sixteen hundred twenty and two, year 1622 and two, and was buried in St. Paul's Cathedra within the City of London, at the charge of the beforementioned Dr. Williams; who also, soon after, caused a monument to be erected to his memory on a pip●●● next to the Consistory stairs, with his Effigies (a shoulder-piece in brass) crowned with Laurel, and six verses to be engraven under it. The two first of which runs thus: 
Parva tibi status ●st, quiae parva statura, supellex  
Parva, volat 〈◊〉 magna per ora liber.   
The rest you may see in Hist. & Antiq. Vniu. Oxon. lib. 2. p. 144. a where the Reader is to note that by the error of the Printer, 'tis said that Joh. Owen died 1623. and not in 1622. as before 'tis told you. As for the generosity of Dr. William's done to the memory of this little Poet, Richard ●rach hath an Epigram in his Epigrammatum H●catontades du●. Lond. 1627. oct. num. 3. But that which I must note of him farther is, that whereas he had made many Epigrams on several People, so but few were made on, or written to, him. Among which few, one was written by Joh. 
a In 〈◊〉 a Etigr. p. 1●9.  straddling, and another by Joh. Dunbar 
b In clent. 4. Epigram. Lond. 1616. 〈…〉  a Scot  
CLEMENT edmond's, Son of Sir Tho. edmond's controller of the King's household, was born in Shropshire, (at Shrawardine, as 'tis said,) became either Clerk or Chorister of Allsouls coll. in 1585. aged 19 took one degree in Arts, and then was chosen Fellow of that house 1590. Four years after he proceeded in that Faculty, and then leaving the coll. was mostly, by his Father's endeavours, made successively Secretary, as 'tis said, for the French tongue to Q. Elizab. about 1601. Remembrancer of the City of London, Master of the Requests, Muster-Master at Brill in Zealand, one of the Clerks of the Council, and in 1617. a Knight. He was a learned person, was generally skilled in all Arts and Sciences, and famous as well for military, as for politic affairs, and therefore esteemed by all an ornament to his degree and profession. He hath written and published,  
Observations upon the five first books of Caesar's commentaries, etc. Lond. 1600. fol.  
Observat. on the sixth and seventh book of Caesar's come. Lond. 1600. fol.  
Observat. on Caesar's come. of the Civil Wars, in 3 books Lond. 1609. fol. On which, or the former observat. Ben. Johnson 
c In 〈◊〉 first vol. of his works, in his Etigr. p. 34. 〈…〉  hath two Epigrams. All, or most of, these observations, are reprinted with an addition of an eighth commentary on the Wars of Gallia, written by A. Hir●●us Pa●sa, beginning where Caesar left, and deducing the History to the time of the Civil Wars; with our authors short the observ●● 〈◊〉 upon them.— Printed at the 〈◊〉 in the Strand, 〈◊〉 London, 1677. fol. Before which edition is the life of 〈◊〉 (with an account of his Medals) 〈◊〉 conected, and enlarged. In 1565. Arthur Golding of 〈…〉 published 〈◊〉 English translation of Caesar's commentaries, but whether he made any observations or notes on them, 〈…〉 Our learned author Sir Clem. 〈◊〉 died within the Perish of Sr. Martin in the Fields near to London, on the twelfth 
d Lib. certif. in 〈◊〉 Armorum, l. 22. fol. 62. b.  day of Odo● in sixteen hundred twenty and two, and was buried in the little Chapel belong●●● to his Manor of Preston near to the ancient B●rough of 〈◊〉. 
〈◊〉  Over his grave is a comely money erected, having an English and a Lat. epitaph inscribed thereon. The last of which being already 
e In Hist. 〈…〉 l. niv. Oxon. lib. 2. p. 181. b.  printed, you shall therefore have the other, as most proper for this place. Here lieth Sir Clement edmond's Knight, one of the Clarks of his Majesty's most Honourable Privy Council. His dextrous Pen made him worthily esteemed excellent in his own vocation; and in the art Military, lie Caesar's confession, an understanding Soldier. He lived faithfully, industrious in his place, and died religiously constant in the belief of the resurrection, etc. One Sir Tho. edmond's Knight (a Member of the Privy Council) died in Nou. 1639. and left behind him a Daughter named Muriel, the Wife of Rob. Mildmay Esq Which Sir Thomas, I take to be the same with Tho. edmond's, (Brother to Sir Clem) who being made Treasurer of the King's household 19 of Jan. 1617. was about that time sent by his Majesty Ambassador to Brussels, and elsewhere.  
NICHOLAS BYFIELD, Son of Rich. Byfield, (who became Minister of Stratford upon Av●n, in Jan. 1596.) was born 
f Reg. Ma●tic. Univers Oxen. P. pag. 〈◊〉  in Warwickshire, became a Batler 〈◊〉 a Servitor of Exeter coll. in Lent-Term, an. 1596. aged 17. at least, continued under a severe discipline more than 4 years, but never took a degree. Afterwards entering into the Sacred Function, he left the University, and had intentions to go into Ireland to obtain preferment in the Church, but at Chester, in his way thither, he was, upon the delivery of a noted Sermon at that place, invited to be Pastor of St. Peter's Church there: Which invitation being esteemed by him as a great providence, he willingly accepted. So that continuing there several years a constant Preacher, was much followed and admired by the precise party, who esteemed his preaching profitable, and his life pious. He was a strict observer of the Lords day at that place, and preached and wrote for the sincere observance of it, which caused some Pens to be active against him, particularly that of Edw. Breerwood, who being a native of that City, was sometimes his auditor. At length being called thence, he had the Benefice of Istleworth in Middlesex conferred on him, where he remained to his dying day. He was a person, in the opinion of the Zealots, of profound judgement, strong memory, sharp wit, quick invention, and of unwcaried industry. Also that in his Ministry he was powerful, and that unto all turns and upon all occasions, not only at Chester, but at Istleworth, where his preaching and expounding were very frequent, etc. The books that he hath written are these.  
An Essay concerning the assurance of God's love and of man's Salvation. Lond. 1614 oct.  
Exposition on the Epist. to the Colossians, etc. Lond. 1615. and 28. etc. in fol. 'Tis the substance of near 7 years' week days Sermons at Chester.  
Directions for the private reading of the Scriptures, etc. Lond. 1618. etc. oct.  
Treatise showing how a godly Christian may support his heart with comfort against all the distresses, which by reason of any affliction or temptation can befall him in this life. Lond. in oct. This was published afterwards again, in the Marrow of the Oracles of God.  
Beginning of the Doctrine of Christ, or a Catalogue of Sins. Lond. 1619. 20. in tw. Sometimes bound in two vol.  
The Marrow of the Oracles of God. Lond. 1620. etc. and 1660. in tw. Which edit. of 1660. containeth these six treatises following, viz. (1) 〈◊〉 principles or the pattern of 〈◊〉 words, etc. Printed the first time at Lond. 1618. oct. (2) The spiritual touch stone: or, the signs of a godly man, etc. Lond. 1620. and 3●. in tw. (3) The 〈◊〉 of a wicked man. Lond. 1620. in tw. (4) The promises: or, a treatise showing how a godly Christian may support his 〈◊〉 with comfort, etc. See before. (5) The 〈…〉 holy life towards God, m●n, and ourselves. Lond. 1619. 20. in tw. (6) The cure of the fear of death, etc. Lond. 1618. oct.  
Commentary o● Sermons on the 2 chap. of the 1 Epist. of S. Peter. Lond. 1623. qu.  
The principal grounds of Christian Religion,— Several times printed.  
Sermons on the first ten verses of the third chap. of the 1 Epist. of S. Peter. Lond. 1626. qu. Which Sermons with the Commentary 〈◊〉 Sermons beforementioned, came out afterwards with additions, 〈◊〉 A commentary upon the three first chapters of the 〈…〉 etc. in fol. In 1637. (if not before) came out a Com. upon the whole first Epistle, in fol. under the name of Nic. Byfield.  
Answer to Mr. Breerwoods' treatise of the Sabbath. Oxon. 1630. 31. Written by him while he was at Chester.  
Exposition on the Apostles Creed. Lond. 1626. qu.  
Light of Faith and way of Holiness. Lond. 1630. oct.  
Signs of God's love to us. Ibid. 1631. oct.  
The practice of Christianity: or, an Epitome of Mr. Rich. Rogers' seven treatises.— The said Treatises were published by Mr. Roger's 1610. and were epitomised by this Nicholas, (as it seems,) and not by Richard, Byfield, as some think.  
Several Sermons. As (1) On Psal. 72. 18, 19 (2) On Joh. 5. 28, 29. etc. 'Tis commonly reported that this person died at Istleworth before-mentioned, in sixteen hundred twenty at two: 
〈◊〉  Which, if true, his writings and works show him (being not then above 44 years of age) to have been a person of great parts, industry and readiness. He left behind him a Son named Adoniram Byfield, a most ●ealous and forward Brother for the Cause, of whom I shall make mention in R. Byfield in the 2 vol. of this work.  
NICHOLAS FULLER, the most admired Critic of his time, Son of Rob. Ful. a Frenchman born, (or at least a borderer on France, and by profession a Carver of wood or stone,) by Catherine his Wife, descended from the ancient and worshipful house of the Cressets of Shropshire, was born in the ancient Borough of Southampton, educated in Lat. and Gr. in the Free-School there, first under John Hurloke, then under Dr. Hadrian Saravia. At length being made ripe for the University, he was taken from School into the Family of Dr. Rob. Horn B. of Winchester, where spending some time in study, was by him made his Secretary, and after his death was continued in that office under Dr. Joh. Watson his Successor, at the request of Dr. W. Barlow Brother-in-Law to Horn. But Watson dying also after he had sat three years, our author Fuller, as being weary of civil affairs, retired to his home with a resolution to follow those studies which his Genie did then very much direct him to. But before he was settled, he was invited to instruct in juvenile learning Henry, William, and Oliver, Wallop, the Sons of a Knight of Hampshire. With the two former he afterwards went as a Tutor to this University, and in the beginning of Mich. Term, 1584. they were all matriculated as Members of St. Jo●ns coll. our author Fuller being then 27 years of age. But his Pupils remaining there but a little while, William 〈◊〉 to his home, and our author with Hen. Wallop translated themselves to Hart hall; where, without any neglect of his precious time, he improved his studies to a miracle▪ took both the degrees in Arts, and then retired to his own Country. At length taking the Sacred Function upon him, he became Rector of a small Village called Allington alias Allington near to Amesbury in Wilts. but so small was his Benhce, that it could not maintain an ingenion person in common necessaries. Here he was as a Candle put under a Bushel, so private was his place and employment, yet so dear were his studies to him, that by passing through all difficulties, he attained to so great a proficiency in the Tongues, and was so happy in pitching upon useful difficulties, tending to the understanding of the Scripture, that he surpassed all Critics of his time. Afterwards he was made Prebendary of Vlfcomb in the Church of Salisbury, and Rector of Bishops-Waltham in 〈◊〉 Which last he obtained, as 'tis said, by the 〈◊〉 of Dr. 〈◊〉 B. of Winton. This most renowned 〈◊〉 hath written these things following.  
〈…〉 lib. 〈◊〉 Heidelb. 1612. oct. To which he added a fourth book, published with the former three at Oxon. 1616. and at Lond. 1617. qu. But these 〈◊〉 coming soon after into the hands of Joh. Drusius an old 〈…〉 (whom I have before mentioned,) he gr●w angry and jealous, as one 
* Tho. Fulier in his Worthy.  tells us, 〈◊〉 he should be out-shined in his own sphere. Whereupon he spared not to cast some drops of ink upon him for being his Plagiary, and taking his best notes from him without any acknowledgement. But our author knowing himself guiltless, as having never seen Drusius his works, added a fifth and sixth book to the former, intit.  
Miscellanea Sacra, cum Apologia contra V. Cl. Johan. Drusium. Lugd. Bat. 1622. qu. and at Argent. 1650. etc. All which Miscellanies are remitted into the ninth vol. of the Critics, and scattered and dispersed throughout the whole work of M. Poole's Synopsis. He hath also written,  
Exposition of Rabbi Mordochie nathan's Hebr. roots, with notes upon it.— MS. in the Archieves of Body's Library. Which book doth show his excellent skill in the Hebrew, and in other Philological learning.  
Lexicon.— MS. Which, had he lived, he would, with his Exposition, have published. At length breathing out his divine Soul at Allington before-mentioned, about the tenth day of Febr. in sixteen hundred twenty and two, 
1622-3.  was buried in the middle of the Chancel of the Church there, on the 13. of the same month, and thereupon his Prebendship of Sarum was conferred on one Tho. Clerk, 28. Apr. 1623. Besides this Nich. Fuller, was another of both his names and time, Son of Nich. Fuller of the City of London Merchant, younger Son of Thom. Fuller of Neat's hall in the Isle of Shepy; which Nich. having received education in one of the Universities, (in Cambridge as it seems, where he was a Benefactor to Eman. coll.) went afterwards to Gray's Inn, of which he was at length a Counsellor of note, and a Bencher. But being always looked upon as a noted Puritan, and Champion of the Nonconformists, pleaded in behalf of his two Clients Tho. Lad and Rich. Maunsell, (who had been imprisoned by the High Commission,) and endeavoured to prove that the Ecclesiastical Commissioners had no power by virtue of their Commission to imprison, to put to the Oath ex officio, or to fine any of his Majesty's Subjects. Whereupon a legal advantage being given to Archb. Bancroft, Fuller was imprisoned by him, and continued in custody several years. He hath written, An argument in the case of Tho. Lad and Rich. Maunsel his Clients, proving that Ecclesiastical Commissioners have not power by virtue of their Commission to imprison, to put to the Oath ex officio, or to fine any of his Majesty's Subjects. Lond. 1607. and 1641. qu. He died in durance on the 23. of Feb. 1619. aged 76 years, and was buried towards the east end of the south Isle joining to the Church of Thatcham in Berks, (in which Parish his Seat called Chamber-house is situated.) leaving then behind him two Sons, Nicholas and Daniel, besides Daughters. Nicholas, who had been a Student in Queen's coll. in this Uniu. of Oxon, was a Knight while his Father lived, but dying 30. of July 1621. was buried near to the grave of his said Father.  
JOHN COMBACH (Combadius) was born in Wetteraw a part of Germany, educated in the Academy of Marpurg within the dominion of the Landgrave of Hesse, retired to Oxon to complete that learning which he had begun in his own Country, about 1608, and the next year I find him a ●●journour of Exeter college, where he was then noted to be a very good Philosophical Disputant, and a great admirer of Holland and Prideaux, especially the l●st. After he had laid the foundation of one or more books there, he retired to 〈◊〉 of which, being M. of A. he became Ordinary Professor of Philosophy thereof, and much famed for the books that he published in that Faculty. Among which are some of these following.  
Antidotum oppositum M. Joh. H●sselbeinio, in quo epriscae Philosophiae & Sch●asticorum d●tri●●, 1 F●rr●rum divisio cruitur. 2. Propri●rum communicatio destruitur, etc. Marpurg. Cattorum 1608. oct.  
Antidoti lib. 2. circa 〈◊〉 partium integrantium. Marp. Cat. 1608. oct.  
Metaphysicorum lib. singu●●●. Marp. C●t. 1613. 20. oct. etc. Dedicated, by the fast Epistle before it, to the Vichancellour, Heads of Colleges and Halls in Oxon, and the rest of 〈…〉 the●e. The 2 Epist. is written to his 〈…〉 Rector. of Exeter coll.  
Liber de homine 〈…〉  
 
Physicorum libri iv. juxta 〈…〉 Marp. 1620. oct.  
Actus solennis promotionis xiii. 〈…〉 bitae in Acad. Marpurge●s● etc. 〈…〉 things, as 'tis probable, he hath 〈…〉  
have not yet seen. While he studied in Exeter college (where he contracted friendship with Will. Helme the Sub-rector, a man of rare piety, and with G. Hakewell R. Vilvaine and others) studied also one of his Countrymen, a quick Disputant, who writes himself Henr. Petreus, afterwards a learned man, Doctor of Philosophy and Physic and Dean of the faculty of Philosophy at Marpurg for a time, about 1613.  
WILLIAM PEMBLE, the Son of a minister of God's word was born in Kent, (at Egerton as I have been informed) sent to Magd. coll. in the beginning of the year 1610. aged 18 where continuing a severe student (under the tuition of R. Capell) till after he had completed the degree of Bach. by determination, which was in Lent 1613. he retired to Magd. hall adjoining, became a noted reader and a tutor there, took the degree of M. of A. entered into sacred Orders, made Diu. reader of that house, became a famous preacher, a well studied Artist, a skilful Linguist, a good Orator, an expert Mathematician and an ornament to the Society among whom he lived. All which accomplishments were knit together in a body of about 32 years of age, which had it lived to the age of man, might have proved a prodigy of learning. Adrian Heereboord sometimes professor of Philosophy in the University of Leyden, is very profuse in his commendations of this our author and his works; and good reason he hath for so doing, for in his book entit 
g Printed at Amsterdam 1665. in qu.  Maletemata Philosophica (wherein he takes upon him to confute the commonly entertained and old Aristotelian opinion asserting the substantiality of the vegetative and sensitive Souls to be different and distinct from that of matter) he hath taken a great quantity from them, especially in his four disputations De formis, which are mostly composed from our athour Pemble's book De formarum origine. The works of the said W. Pemble are these.  
Vindiciae gratiae: A plea for grace, more especially the grace of faith. Ox. 1629. qu. (sec. edit.)  
Vindiciae fidei: A treatise of justification by faith. Ox. 1625. qu. published by Joh. Geree sometimes M. A. of Madg. hall. Our author's mind did run so much upon this subject, that he said, when he was upon his death bed, that he would die in it, viz. in his persuasion of justification by righteousness of Christ.  
Treatise of the providence of God.  
The book of Ecclesiastes briefly explained.— Printed 1628. qu.  
The period of the Persian Monarchy, wherein sundry places of Ezra, Nehemiah and Daniel are cleared. Lond. 1631. qu.  
Exposition on the first nine chapters of Zacharie. Lond. 1629. qu.  
Five godly and profitable Sermons. Lond. 1628. 29. qu.  
Fruitful Sermons upon the 1 Cor. 15. 18, 19 Lond. 1629. qu.  
Introduction to the worthy receiving of the Sacrament of the Lords Supper. Lond. 1628. 29. Lond. 1639. oct.  
De formarum origine. Ibid. 1629. in tw. dedic. to Dr. Accepted Frewen. Printed also at Camb. in tw.  
De sensibus internis. Lond. 1629. Ox. 1647. in tw.  
Enchiridion oratorium. Ox. 1633. qu. etc.  
A sum of moral Philosophy. Oxon. 1630. qu. All which books or Treatises (those only that were written in English) were remitted into one volume, and printed several times. The third impression was at Lond. 1635. and the fourth impression at Ox. 1659. both in fol.  
Introduction to Geography. Ox. 1685. qu. At length our author (a zealous Calvinist) retiring to the house of the beforementioned Rich. Capell minister of Eastington alias Easton near to the City of Gloucester to make some continuance there for the sake of study and health, died of a burning Fever in sixteen hundred twenty and three, and was buried in the yard under the great Yew-Tree, year 1623. on the north side of Eastington Church. Over his Grave was a stone soon after laid, with these words engraved thereon. Here lieth the body of William Pemble master of Arts and preacher, who died 14 Apr. an. 1623.  
JOHN SPRINT, Son of Dr. Joh. Sprint, descended from those of his name living in the City of Bristol, was born, as I conceive, there, or in Glocestershire near to it, elected Student of Ch. Ch. in 1592. took the degrees in Arts, and some time after became Vicar of Thornbury in the said county. Thence he removed to London, was cried up by the Citizens for a godly and frequent preacher and by them much followed, but was cut off in the prime of his years when great matters were expected from him. He was a grave and pious Divine, yet for the most part disaffected to the ceremonies of the Church of England while he continued at Thornbury. At length upon the gentle persuasions of Mr. Sam. Burton Archdeacon of Glouc. he did not only conform, but was a great instrument in persuading others to do the like by a book that he wrote and published called Cassander Anglicus, which I shall anon mention. His works are these.  
Propositions tending to prove the necessary use of the Christian Sabbath, or Lords day, etc. Lond. 1607. qu. and in 1635. in tw. or oct.  
The practice of that sacred day, framed after the rules of God's word— printed with the former.  
The sum of Christian religion by way of question and answer. Lond. 1613. oct.  
Cassander Anglicus: showing the necessity of conforming to the prescribed ceremonies of our Church, in case of deprivation. Lond. 1618. qu. dedic. to Sam. Burton Archd. of Glouc. Whereupon came out a brief and plain answer to the first reason of it, which was replied upon by Sprint, but I have not yet seen it.  
The Christians sword and buckler; or, a letter sent to a man seven years greviously afflicted in conscience and fearfully troubled in mind, etc. Lond. 1638. oct. These are all the pieces I think that he hath written, which are published, and therefore I shall only let the reader know that he was buried within the precincts of the Church of S. Anne situated in the place called the Blackfriers, in London (of which he seems to have been Minister or Lecturer) on the seventh of May in sixteen hundred twenty and three. year 1623. See more of him in Hist. & Antiq. Uniu. Oxon. lib. 1. p. 309. b. His Father Dr. Sprint, who was Dean of Bristol and a frequent preacher (but a Calvinist) I shall mention more at large in the Fasti, under the year 1574. not as a Writer but as a D. of D. and rich Dignitary.  
PHILIP CLUVER, (Cluverius) the Son of a maker or coiner of money, was born at Dantzick the chief town of the province of Prussia in Poland, but descended from an ancient and gentile family of his name living in the Duchy of Bremen in Lower Saxony, instructed in his puerile years at home, in his youthful in the royal Court of Poland, where he learned among the Courtiers the exact speaking of the Polish tongue and their manners. Thence his Father sent him into Germany, where he received a command from him to apply his mind solely to the study of the Civil Law. Whereupon he journeyed to Leyden in Holland and did endeavour to follow it; but his Genie being naturally inclined to Geography, he followed for altogether that study, especially upon the persuasions of Joseph Scaliger, who had perused his Table of Italy, which he had composed while he was a youth in Poland. Thence, partly to see the world, but more for the conversation of Just. Lipsius, he took a journey into Brabant, but missing him, was despoiled by thiefs, who left him in a manner naked. Thence he returned to Leyden, and afterwards went into Bohemia and Hungary, where coming to the knowledge of one Popel a Baron who had been closely confined by the Emperor for some misdemeanours, did translate his Apology (written in his own defence) into the Latin tongue. Which coming to the ear of the Emperor, Cluver was thereupon imprisoned. Afterwards, being set at liberty, he traveled into Scotland, England, France, Germany and Italy. In England his chief place of residence was in this University, particularly in Exter coll. of which he became a sojournour for the sake of Holland and Prideaux in 1609. age 29, where being settled he wrote his book De tribus Rheni alveis, as I shall tell you anon. In Italy he became acquainted with some of the Cardinals, who held him in great esteem for his curious and exact knowledge in Geography, the Greek and Latin tongues, and for his marvellous knowledge in the Dutch, Germane, French, Italian, Bohemian, Hungarian, Polonian and British Language. Afterwards he returned to Oxon again, being then highly valued by Mr. Prideaux for one or more of his things then published; and had offers of promotion tendered unto him. But Leyden being the place of his delight, he retired thither, and though he could get no place of benefit there, yet the curators of that University gave him an yearly stipend for the encouragement of his studies, as being a person repleated with all humane literature, ancient Histories, and Geography. He is styled by a certain 
h Joh. Mich. Dilber in Disputat. Acad.  author vir stupendae lectionis & curae, and by 
i Ger. Jo. Vossius De Hist. Graecis  another princeps aetatis nostrae Geographus, and 
k Idem in Hist. Pelag.  magnum Germaniae ornamentum. His works are,  
De tribus Rheni alveis & ostiis; item de quinque populis quondam accolis, etc. Lugd. Bat. 1611. qu. This book was written in Oxon, with the helps of the public Library, in the register of which place, as also in one of the public registers of this University, the author is written Philippus Cluverius Generosus Borussus.  
Germaniae antiquae libri 3. Lugd. Bat. 1616. fol.  
Vindelicia & Noricum. Printed there also the same year, with the next book going before.  
Sicilia antiqua, cum minoribus insulis ei adjacentibus lib. 2. Lugd. Bat. 1619. fol. 

Printed with the former.  
Sardinia antiqua.  
Corsica antiqua.    
Italia antiqua, etc. Lugd. Bat. 1624. Printed in two Tomes in fol. (with his picture before the first) containing four books.  
Introductionis in Universam Geographiam, tam veterem quam novam, libri sex. Lugd. Bat 1624. qu. etc.  
Disquisitio de Francis & Francia. Printed in Andr. du Chesne his Historiae Francorum scriptores coetanei. Lut. Par. 1636. p. 175. Our author Cluverius died 
* Joh. Meursus in Athen. 〈◊〉 Lugd. Bat. 1625. lib. 2. p. 291. vide etia● Dan. Hensium in Orat. su● in obit. Ph. Cluverii. Lugd. Bat. 1624.  of a Consumption, about the month of June, at Leyden in sixteen hundred twenty and three, year 1623. and in that of his age 43. leaving then behind him a Son named John Sigismond Cluver, who was matriculated as a member of Exeter coll. in 1633. aged 18. a Londoner born, and as Son of Philip Cluverius a Priest. The same year he was admitted Scholar of C. C. coll. in this University, in a Surrey place, and afterwards became a learned man, but is not to be understood to be the same with Joh. Cluver author of Historiarum totius mundi Epitome, etc. Lugd. Bat. 1631. qu. for he was born in the province of Stormaren in Denmark, was D. D. of the Academy of Sora in the Island of Seelandt in the said Kingdom and afterwards superintendent of South Dithmarsh.  
SIMON WISDOM, was born in Oxfordshire, being of the same family with those of his surname, who lived at Burford, was entered a Student of this University about 1566. and took the degree of Master of Arts as a member of Glouc. hall. Afterwards retiring to his Estate at Shipton under wood, near to Burford, lived as a Gentleman there many years, and employed his time (being a zealous and harmless Puritan) in virtuous industry and piety. He hath written several books, as I have been informed by persons of his neighbourhood, but I have not seen any, only  
An abridgement of the holy history of the old Testament, from Adam to the incarnation of Christ. Lond. 1594. year 1623. oct. He died in July or Aug. in sixteen hundred twenty and three, and was buried, as I conceive, at Shipton beforementioned, where'in the Ch. yard at the East end of the Chancel were some of his Surname buried before his time. I find one Sim. Wisdom to have been Alderman of Burford beforementioned, and to have given constitutions and orders for the government of a Free-School in the said Town, 13 Elizab. Whereupon he was then, as he is now, reputed the Founder of the said School. He died at Burford in 1587. leaving behind him a brother named Tho. Wisdom, a nephew named Ralph, and a grandson called Simon, Son of his Son, called Will. Wisdom. Which Simon, if he be not the same with the writer, may be the same with another Simon of S. Alban hall in the latter end of Qu. Elizab.  
THOMAS SUTTON, a most florid preacher in the time he lived, was born in the Parish of Bampton or Banton in Westmoreland, made a poor serving child of Queen's coll. in 1602. aged 17, afterwards Tabarder, and when M. of A. perpetual Fellow, an. 1611. About that time being in holy orders, he was made Lecturer of S. Helen's Church in Abendon in Berks, and minister of Culham near to that Town. At both which places he was much followed, and beloved of all for his smooth and edifying way of preaching, and for his exemplary life and conversation. After he had taken one degree in Divinity (for he was Doctor of that fac.) he was made Lecturer of S. Mary-Overhee in Southwark, where also he was much followed and admired. At length being desirous to finish a work of charity which he had began, took a journey into his own Country, in 1623. and there at his native place put his last hand to the finishing of a Free-School, which he before had began, as his Son Tho. Sutton sometimes of C. C. coll. Oxon. hath told me, but in his return from Newcastle to London by Sea, was unfortunately drowned, as I shall tell you anon. He was a person esteemed by all that knew him to have been furnished with many rich endowments, and as a true servant of God, to have employed his talon faithfully and fruitfully. His works are only,  
Sermons and Lectures, as (1) England's summons, Sermon at Paul's Cross, on Hosea 4. 1, 2, 3. Lond. 1613. oct. (2) Engl. second summons, preached at the same place on Rev. 3. 15, 16. Lond. 1615. oct. These two were reprinted in one vol. at Lond. 1616. in oct. (3) The good fight of faith; Serm. before the Artillery company, on 2 Tim. 6. 12. Ibid. 1626. qu. published by Francis Little Student of Ch. Ch. whose Sister, the Daughter of Francis Little of Abendon Brewer and Inholder, Dr. Tho. Sutton our author had taken to Wife while he was Lecturer there. (4) Jethroes counsel to Moses: or, a direction for Magistrates, Serm. at S. Saviour's in Southwark 5. Mar. 1621. before the honourable Judges, on Exod. 18. 21. Lond. 1631. qu. Printed by a certain Bookseller, who, as 'tis said, took it in shorthand from Dr. Suttons mouth.  
Lectures upon the eleventh chapt. to the Romans. Lond. 1632. qu. Published by Joh. Downham Bac. of Diu. (brother to Dr. George Downham B. of London-Derry in Ireland) who married the widow of the author Sutton, and promised in his Epistle to the Reader, set before them, that if the said Lectures took with the men of the world, to put forth Lectures on the 12. chapt. to the Romans, and on a great part of the 119. Psalms, which Dr. Sutton had left behind him in MS. He died in the Ocean, (as I have already told you) before he had attained to high noon of perfection, on S. Barthelmews' day (24. Aug.) in sixteen hundred twenty and three; year 1623. at which time, many besides being cast away, some of their bodies were taken up, among which that of Dr. Sutton, was (as is supposed) one, and forthwith buried in the yard belonging to the Church of Aldborough a Seaport Town in Suffolk. As soon as the news of this great loss came to London one Rob. Drury who was first a R. Catholic, afterwards a Protestant and at length a Jesuit, did much 
a See in a book intit. Poetici Cona●●● written 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 p. 11. 12.  rejoice at it, as a great judgement befallen on Dr. Sutton for his forward zeal in preaching against the Papists; but the 26. of Octob. following he the said Drury was suddenly slain by the fall of the floor at an assembly of R. Catholics in the place called the Blackfriers in London.  
WILLIAM CAMDEN, surnamed the learned, Son of Samson Camd. a Native of the City of Lichfield, Citizen and one of the Society of Painter-stayners of London, by his Wife, descended 
b See in Camd. Britannia in Cumberland in his discourse of Wirkington.  from the ancient family of the Curwens of Wirkington in Cumberland; was born in the Old Bailie, situated partly in the Parish of S. Sepulchre and partly in S. Martin near Ludgate in the said City, on the second day of May, 5. Edw. 6. Dom. 1551. When this most eminent person (of whom I shall be more particular than of another author) was a child, he received the first knowledge of letters in Ch. Church hospital in London, then newly founded for Blew-coated children, where being fitted for Grammar learning, he was sent to the Free-school, founded by Dr. Colet near to S. Paul's Cathedral. About which time (1563.) he being infected with the Plague, was sent to Islington, where he remained for some time to the great loss of his learning. In 1566. (8. Elizab.) he was sent to Oxford, and being placed in Madg. coll. in the condition of a Chorister or Servitor, did perfect himself in Grammar learning in the Free-School adjoining, then lately presided by D. Tho. C●●per, afterwards Bishop of Linc. But missing, as 'tis said a Demies place of that coll. though of great desert, and partly grounded in Logic, he was transplanted to an ancient hostile called Broadgates, now Pembr. coll. where he continued two years and an half under the tuition of a great encourager of learning, called Dr. Tho. Thornton canon of Ch. Ch. who finding our author to be a young man of great virtue, and in him tokens of future worth, he took him to Ch. Ch. and gave him entertainment in his Lodgings so long as he continued in the University. About that time he being a candidate for a Fellowship in Alls. coll. lost it for descending the religion then established, as Dr. (afterwards Sir) Dan. Donn at that time Fellow, did several times testify, and would often relate how our said author Camden was opposed by the Popish party of that house. In the month of June 1570. he supplicated 
d Regist. Uniu. Oxon. KK. sol. 95. b.  the ven. Congregation of Regent's, that whereas he had spent four years in the study of Logic, he might he admitted Bach. of Arts, but what answer was made thereunto, or whether he was then admitted, it appears not. In 1571. he relinquished his conversation with the Muses, to the great reluctancy of those who were well acquainted with the pregnancy of his parts, and whether he was afterwards favoured in his Scholastical endeavours by Dr. Gabr. Goodman Dean of Westminster, whom he acknowledgeth 
e In his Britannia. in 〈…〉 in his dis● of 〈◊〉  to have been Patron of his studies, I cannot positively affirm. In 1573. he returned to Oxon for a time, and supplicated again in the beginning of March for the said degree; which though, as it seems, granted, and so, I presume, took it, yet he did not complete it by Determination in Schoolstreet. In 1575. he was made second Master of Westminster School, upon the recommendations of Godfrey, Nephew to Gabriel, Goodman beforementioned, (which Godfrey put him upon the study of Antiquities, and bought, and 
f 〈◊〉 Gods. Goodman. Bish. of 〈…〉 of K. James, by Sir 〈…〉  gave him books) and in 1581. he contracted an entire friendship with Barnab. 〈◊〉 the learned Chief Justice of France, called by some 〈…〉. While he continued in teaching at Westm. God so blessed his labours that Dr. King Bishop of London, Noyle Archb. of York, Parry Bishop of St. Asaph, etc. (to say nothing of persons employed in those times in eminent place abroad, and many of special note at home of all degrees,) did acknowledge themselves to have been his Scholars. Besides also, as a testimony of his sincere love to the Church of England, (which some in his time did doubt,) he brought there to Church divers Gentlemen of Indeed, as the Walshes, nugent's, O-Rayley, she's, the eldest Son of the Archb. of Casshills, Pet. Lombard a Merchant's Son of Waterford, a Youth of admirable docility, (the same who was afterwards titular Archb. of Armagh, Pri●ate of Ireland, domestic Prelate and Assistant of his Holiness the Pope, and author of a book intit. De regno Hiberniae, Sanctorum Insula commentarius. Lov. 1632. qu.) and others bred Popishly, and so affected. In 1582. he took a journey through Suffolk into Yorkshire, and returned through Lancashire in the month of April, in order to the completing of his Britannia, which he saith he published in the same year, having with great industry, at spare hours, and on festival days, composed it. In 1588. Jun. 3. he, by the name and tit. of Will. Camden Bach. of Arts of Ch. Ch. supplicated the ven. Convocation, that whereas he had spent 16 years, from the time he had taken the degree of Bachelaur, in the study of Philosophy and other liberal A●●, he might be dispensed with for the reading of three solemn Lectures, and so be admitted to proceed in that 〈◊〉 Which supplication was granted conditionally, that he stand in the Act following, but whether he was admitted, or stood, it doth not appear in the Registers. In the same month and year he took a journey (Oxford being in his way) to Ilfarcomb in Devonshire, in order to obtain more knowledge in the Antiquities of that Country, and elsewhere, for the next edition of his 〈◊〉, and on the 6 Feb. following, he was made Preb. 〈…〉 in the Ch. of Salisb. in the place of one J. Hotman; which Prebendship he kept to the time of his death, and 〈…〉 succeeded him. The said journey, and 〈◊〉 that he took for that purpose, the charges of them 〈◊〉 defrayed by the aforesaid Dr. Gab. Goodman. In 〈◊〉 he journeyed into Wales in the company of Franc. 〈…〉 of Ch. Ch. afterwards author of the Commentary 〈…〉 Bishop's, and in 1592. Oct. 26. he was taken with a Qa●rtan Ague▪ which made him often purge Blood. In March 1592-3. he was made chief Master of Westminster School, in the place of Dr. Ed. Grant, and in 1594. in the month of June, he was freed from his Ague. In 1596. he traveled to Salisbury and Wells, for the obtaining of more knowledge in Antiquities, and returned through Oxon, where he visited most, if not all, of the Churches and Chapels, for the copying out of the several Monuments and Arms in them, which were reduced by him into a book written with his own hand, by me seen and perused. In 97. he fell into a most dangerous sickness; whereupon being taken into the house of one Cuthbert Line, he was cured by the care of that persons Wife, and in that year he published his Greek Grammar. On the 22. of Oct. the same year he was, for fashion sake, (after he had refused a Mastership of the Requests, which was offered to him,) created Herald of Arms, called Richmond, because no person can be King before he is Herald, and the next day he was created Clarenceaux King of Arms, in the place of Rich. Lee Esq who died on the 23. of Sept. before-going. This was done by the singular favour of Q. Elizabeth, at the incessant supplication of his Patron Sir Foulk Grevill, afterwards Lord Brook; both of them having an especial respect for him, and his great learning, in English and other Antiquities. In 1600. he took a journey in Summer time to Carlisle in the company of the eminent Antiquary Rob. Cotton Esq (afterwards a Baronet,) for the viewing of some Northern Antiquities to be put into another edit. of his Britannia, and returned not till Dec. following. In 1603. (1 Jac. 1.) when the Plague raged in London, he retired to the house of his Friend Rob. Cotton beforementioned, at Connigton in Huntingdonshire, where he remained till the Nativity of our Saviour. In 1606. he sent his first Letters to Jac. Aug. Thuanus the most noted Historiographer of France, from which time to the death of Thuanus, which was in Apr. 1617. there was a constant commerce of Letters between them. Our author Camden styles him 
h In 〈…〉  Galliae Lumen & Historicorum nostri saeculi princeps, to whom he had communicated many material matters concerning English affairs, which were afterwards remitted into the several books of Histories published by him the said Thuanus. In 1607. Sept. 7. he fell from his Horse, and dangerously hurt his Leg: So that being perfectly lame, he kept up till the 4. of July following; at which time he went to order, set forth, and attend the funeral of Sir Joh. Fortescue Knight. In 1618. he began to put in order and digest his Annals of Q. Elizabeth, and in 1609. being taken with a grievous disease, on his birthday, he voided blood twice. At which time one being sick of the Plague in the house next to that where he than was, he was conveyed to that of Dr. Will. Heather in Westminster, and was cured of his disease by Dr. Joh. Gifford sometimes Fellow of New coll. in Oxon. Whereupon betaking himself to Chiselhurst in Kent, in the month of August, he remained there till the 28. of Oct. following. In the beginning of the year 1613. at which time he attended the Funeral of Sir Tho. Bodley at Oxon. he had the degree of Master of Arts offered to him, but refused, as it seems, to take it, it being then too late to gain any benefit or honour thereby, and soon after was made the first Historiographer of Chelsey coll. by the Founder thereof. In 1619. Jul. 1. his name being then spread over the learned World, six Noblemen of Germany gave him a visit at his house in Westminster, in whose Albums, (after they had complemented him for his high worth,) he, at their desire, wrote his name and a Latin sentence, as a testimony of respect to them, which they took for a very great honour; and on the 18. of Febr. following he coughed up blood so much, that he was left in a manner dead and deprived of all sense. At that time Dr. Gifford beforementioned taking from him ● ounces of blood, cured him. In 1621. May 5. he, by his Deed then bearing date, founded the History Lecture of this University: Which Deed being published in a Convocation of Regent's and Non-Regents on the 17. of May 1622. he was in the year following declared a public Benefactor of this University of Oxon. In 1622. June 7. he fell again into a most dangerous sickness, and on the 16. of Aug. following while he ●●te musing in his Chair, the office of his hands and feet suddenly failed him: Whereupon falling on the ground, ro●● again much distempered, and was never afterwards well ti●l death conveyed him to the habitation prepared for old age. He was a very good natured man, was very mild and charitable, and nothing was wanting in him for the completing a good Christian. He was an exact Critic and Philologist, an excellent Grecian, Latinist, and Historian, and above all a profound Antiquary, as his elaborate works testify. All which accomplishments being compacted in a little body, made him not only admired at home by the chiefest of the Nobility, and the most learned of the Nation, but also beyond the Seas, particularly by Ortelius, Lipsius, Dousae, Scaliger, T●uanus, Grutcrus, Piereskius, Is. Casau●on, Jo. Is. Pontanus, Fra. Swertius, N. Chytreus, etc. The Epistles of all whom, and of divers others of lesser note, I have seen in the Cottonian Library, and collect thence that he was one of the greatest Scholars of his time (as to the learning he professed) in Christendon. At home, I am sure he was esteemed the Pausanius of the British Isles, and therefore his same will be permanent so long as this Kingdom is known by the name of Britannia. His works are these.  
Britannia; sive reg●orum Angliae, Scotiae, Hiberniae, & insularum adjacentium descriptio. Lond. 1582. 85. 87. in oct. Lond. 1590. 94. and 1600. in qu. Lond. 1607. in fol. Printed with Maps of every County. Epitomised by R●gn●rus Vitellius Zirizaeus. Amstel. 1639. in twelv. The folio edit. of 1607. was translated into English by Philemon Holland of Coventry.— Lond. 1610. fol. revised and amended.— Lond. 1637. fol. In both which editions are several of Holland's additions scattered in many places. This Britannia being much admired in France, was also translated into the Language of that Country, and printed with Maps in fol. After the first quarto edition came out, one Ralph Brook, or Brookmonth, Herald of Arms, by the title of York, made answer to it in a book intit. A discovery of certain errors published in print in the much commended Britannia. Printed 1594. in qu. In which book the said Brookmonth endeavours to make the World believe that Camden composed his Britannia mostly from the Collectanca of Joh. Leland without any acknowledgement, and at the end of the said Discovery adds a little thing written by Leland, called, A New-years-gift given of him to K. Hen. 8. etc. Whereupon came out soon after, against that busy and envious person, (for so he was by his society accounted,) a Vindication or Reply, written by Camden in Latin, containing about 30 pages in quarto, but not said when or where printed. You may sometimes find it bound with the Discovery before-mentioned, and at other times with the Britannia printed in qu. for by itself I have not yet seen it. A certain credulous 
* 〈…〉  Historian is pleased to set down in his Church History a copy of verses, like a two-edged Sword that cuts on both sides, reflecting on Camden for Plagiarism from the said Collectanea. But under favour I think they are unworthily spoken, and unworthily set down. Why is Camden, I pray, blame-worthy for making use of Leland's Collections? Was it because one was originally of Cambridge, and the other an Oxford Man? Verily, I think, if the truth could be known, that was the chief reason of the Historians carping. But let those of his opinion, if any there be, know, that Camden sought not to suppress those collections, as Pol. Virgil did certain authors. The other works of Camden are these following.  
Instituti● Gracae Grammatices compendiaria, in usum Regiae Scholae Westmonasteriersis. Lond. 1597 etc. oct.  
Reges, Reginae, Nobiles, & alii in Ecclesiâ collegiatâ B. Petri Westmonasterii sepulti, usqu● ad an. 1600. Lond. 1600. and 1606. in about 10 sheets in qu. Involved in a book intit. Monumenta Westmon, ●r, an historical account of the original, increase, and present State of S. Peter's, or the Abbey Ch. of Westminster, etc. Lond. 1682. in oct. Published by Hen. Keep of the Inner Temple Gent. sometimes a Gent. Com. of New Inn in Oxon.  
Remains concerning Britain: their Languages, Names, Surnames, Allusions, etc. Lond. 1604. 14. etc. qu. Published at first under the two letters of M. N. which are the two last letters of the author's name. To this book were several additions made by Jo. Philipot, Herald of Arms, under the title of Somerset.— Lond. 1637. etc. qu. afterwards in oct with Camden's picture before all the editions.  
Rerum 〈…〉 regnante Eli 〈◊〉, in 4 parts. The first half, (with an Apparatus be●ore it,) reaching from the beginning of the Reign of Q. Elizab. to the end of the year 1588. was printed at Lond. in fol. 1615. having had several things therein before that time expunged, especially such that related to the story of Mary Q. of Scots. The other half reaching from the beginning of 1589. to the death of Q. Elizab. and an Appendix, were printed at the same place in fol. 1627. Both printed in two tomes at Leyden in oct. and in a thick oct. at Amsterdam, 1639. and all translated into English by B. N. Gent. and several times printed in fol. The last half was translated into English by Thom. Browne of Ch. Ch. (afterwards Canon of Windsor,) and by him intit. Tomus alter & idem: or, The History, etc. Lond. 1629. in qu.  
His opinion concerning the High Court of Parliament. Lond. 1658. oct. Printed with the opinions on the same subject of Joh. Doderidge. Arth. Agard, and Franc. Tate. I have seen also a discourse of his concerning the High Stewardship of England, but 'tis not, as I conceive, printed.  
Epistolae variae ad viros doctos. Written mostly in Latin.  
annal Regis Jacobi. These reach from the death of Q. Elizab. 24. of March 1602-03. to the 18. of Aug. 1623. and no farther, because the author being then very ill in body (remaining in that condition till his death) he could not well continue them any farther: So that there wants memories more than for a year, to the end of the Reign of K. Jam. 1. These Annals are written with the authors own hand in fol. being only a Skeleton of a History, or bare touches to put the author in mind of greater matters, that he had in his head, had he lived to have digested them, in a full History, as that of Q. Elizabeth. The original came, after his death, into the hands of Mr. Joh. Hacket, afterwards D. D. and at length Bishop of Lichfield; who, as I have been divers times informed, did privately convey it out of the Library of the author, Hacket being then a Master of Arts of some years standing. This original being communicated by the said Dr. Hacket, while he was living at Lichfield, to Mr. (afterwards Sir) Will. Dugdale, than Norroy King of Arms, he, contrary to the Doctor's knowledge, took a copy of it, which I have seen and perused at Sir William's house called Blithe hall in Warwickshire, but therein I found many mistakes, as it afterwards more evidently appeared to me when that Transcript was put into the Ashmolean Musaeum. Another copy I have seen in the hands of Sir Hen. St. George, Clarenceaux King of Arms, which having been transcribed by one that understood not Latin, are innumerable faults therein, and therefore not at all to be relied upon. After Dr. Hacket's death the original was put into the Library of Trin. coll. in Cambridge, where it now remains. Our author Camden did also put into Latin, Actio in Henricum Garnet Societatis Jesu in Anglia Superiorem, etc. adjectum est supplicium de Hen. Garnet Londini sumptum, etc. Lond. 1607. qu. And also viewed, corrected, and published certain old writers, to whom he gave this title, Anglica, Normanica, Hibernica, & Cambrica, per varios authores, etc. Francof. 1603. 04. fol. The first of which writers is Asser Menevensis his book, De vita & rebus gestis Regis Aelfredi. At length our author Camden paying his last debt to nature, in his house at Chiseihurst in Kent, on Sunday the ninth of Nou. (about 4 or 5 of the clock in the morn.) in sixteen hundred twenty and three, year 1623. his body afterwards was conveyed to Westminster, to the house there, where he used to dwell; where laying in State for some time, 'twas on the 19 day of the same month carried to St. Peter's, commonly called the Abby-Church within that City, accompanied by several of the Heralds in their formalities, many of the Nobility, Clergy, Gentry, and others. All which being placed, Dr. Christop. Sutton, a Prebendary of that Church, stepped up into the Pulpit, and made a true, grave, and modest commemoration of his life: Adding, that as he was not factious in Religion, so neither was he wavering or inconstant, of which he gave good testimonies at his end, professing in the Exordium of his last Will, that he died, as had lived, in the Faith, Communion, and Fellowship of the Church of England. Sermon being ended, the body was carried into the S. Cross Isle, where it was buried in the west side or part of it. As soon as the news of his death was certified to the Sages or Governors of the University, they, in gratitude of so worthy a Benefactor as he had been, caused his memory to be celebrated in an Oration, publicly delivered by the mouth of 〈…〉 M. of A. and Student of Ch. Ch. who was then the Deputy Orator. To which Speech many of the Academians adding verses on the Benefactors death, they were, with the Speech, printed under the title of Camdeni Insignia. Oxon. 1624. qu. After these things were done, was a Monument erected on the west Wall of the said S. cross isle with the bust of the Defunct resting his hand on a book with Britannia ensculpt on the Leaves thereof. This Monument, which was composed of black and white Marble was somewhat defaced in 1646. when the Hearse and Effigies of Robert Earl of Essex the Parliamentarian General were cut in pieces and defaced. The Inscription however being left entire, I caused it to be printed 
t lib. 2. p. 270 b.  elsewhere. In the last Will and Testam. of this great Scholar, which I have more than once perused, I find besides his public benefactions, his Legacies of 16 l. 10 l. and 5 l. to all his learned acquaintance then in being, as to Ja. Gruter Library Keeper to the Prince Pal. Elector of Heidelberg 5 l. To Mr. Tho. Allen of Gloc. hall in Oxon. 16 l. To Jo. 〈◊〉 of the Inner Temple 5 l. etc. besides a piece of plate to Sir 〈◊〉 Grevill Lord Brook Chancellor of the Exchequer, who preferred him gratis to his Office, and another of 16 l. price to the Company of Painter-Stainers of London, and this to be engraven thereon, Gul. Camden Clarenceaux filius Sampsonis Camden pictoris Lo●●incosi●.  
THOMAS WHITE, Son of Joh. White was born in the City of Bristol (in Temple Parish) but descended from the Whites of Bedfordshire, entered a Student in Madg. hall in the year 1566. or thereabouts, took the degrees in Arts, holy Orders, and became a noted and frequent preacher of God's word. Afterwards retiring to London he was made Minister of St. Gregory's Church near to St. Paul's Cathedral, and at length Rector of St. Dunstan's in 〈◊〉 where he was held in great esteem for his golly and practical way of preaching. In 1584. he was licenced to proceed in Divinity, and in Nou. in the year following he had a Canonry in the Cath. Ch. of S. Paul, and a Prebendship there called Wenlocks barn conferred upon him by John Bishop of London, upon the not. death of Reb. Towers Bac. of Diu. In Apr. 1592. he was made Treasurer of Salisbury in the place of Dr. Joh. Sprint deceased, in 91. Canon of Ch. Ch. in Oxon, and in 93. of S. George's Church at Windsor. All that he hath published are only,  
Sermons, as (1) Two Serm. at S. Paul's in the time of the Plague: the first on Zeph. 3. 1, 2, 3. the other on Jer. 23. 5, 6. Lond. 1577. oct. (2) Fun. Serm. on Sir Hen, Sidney, on 1 Joh▪ 3. 2, 3. Lond. 1586. oct. (3) Serm. at Paul's Cross, on the Queen's day, 1589. on Luke 3. 10, 11, 12, 13, 14. Lo●a. 1589. oct. and others which I have not yet seen. This worthy Doctor who was esteemed by all that knew him an honest and generous minded man and a great encourager of learning, gave up the Ghost on St. David's day (1 Mar) in sixteen hundred twenty and three, 
1623-24.  and in few days after was solemnly interred in the Chancel of his Church of S▪ Dunstan in the West, before mentioned. Soon after, his death being certified to the Heads of the University, they in honour to his memory caused an Oration to be publicly delivered by the mouth of Will. Price the first reader of the Moral Philos. Lecture, lately founded by the said Dr. White. To which speech, certain Academians adding verses on the benefactors death, were with the speech printed under the title of Schola moralis 〈◊〉 Oxon. 〈…〉. Oxon. 1624. in 2. th'▪ in qu. In 1613. he sounded an Alms house in Temple parish within the City of Brislow, endowing it with 92 l. per a●. in 1621. he founded a moral philosophy lecture in the University of Oxon, and the same year he settled an exhibition for five Students in Magd. hall. See 〈◊〉 in Hist. & 〈◊〉. Vniu. Oxon. lib. 2. p. 43. and 370. a. and b. As for his 〈◊〉 to Zion coll. in London and to other places, (expending most if not all his estate, which he got from the Church, on public uses) let others tell you, while I proceed to the next writer, to be mentioned according to time.  
JOHN ●AVOUR▪ born in the Borough of South 〈◊〉 in 〈◊〉 was educated for a time in Grammatical learning there: Afterwards being completed for the University in 〈◊〉 School, he was elected Probationer of 〈◊〉 coll. in 1576. and two years after was made comp●●t fellow. In 〈◊〉 he proceeded Doctor of the civil 〈◊〉, and in the year following, he became Vicar of Halifax in Yorks. in the place of Dr. Henry Ledsham sometimes Fellow of Mert. college resigning. At which place he being settled, he preached every Lord's day, lectured every day in the week, exercised justice in the Commonwealth, (being Justice of Peace as Vicar of that place) practised for God's sake and merely out of Charity, Physic and Chirurgery on those that were not able to entertain a professed Doctor or Practitioner. On the 23. March 1616. he was collated to the Prebendship of Driffeild in, and to the Chauntorship of, the Ch. of York, on the death of Dr. Joh. Broke or Brook deceased, and in the beginning of March 1618. was made Warden of the Hospital of St. Mary Madg. near Ripon in Yorkshire, on the death of Ralph To●stall. He was esteemed a person of great piety and charity, and one well read in substantial and profound authors, as it appears by those books he hath written, especially in that published, entit.  
Antiquity triumphing over novelty, etc. or Antiquity a certain note of the Christian Cath. Church, Lond. 1619. qu. He concluded his last day in this world on the tenth of March in sixteen hundred twenty and three, and was buried in his Church of Halyfax; 
1623-24.  a copy of whose Epitaph you may see in Hist. & Antiq. Vniu. Oxon. lib. 2. p. 144. a. In his Vicarage succeeded Rob. Cl●y D. D. of M●rt. coll. and him Hugh Ramsden B. of D. another 〈◊〉 in 1628. and in his Chantourship of York succeeded H●n. Hook D. D. as I shall tell you elsewhere.  
JOHN SHAW, 
508.  a Westmoreland man born, became a Student in Qu. coll. about the beginning of 1579. ●●ed 19 took one degree in Arts, left the coll. and at length became Vicar of Oling or W●●ing in S●rrey, where he was had in esteem by many for his preaching, and by some for his Poetry. His works are these.  
The blessedness of Mary mother of Jesus, Serm. on Luke 1. ver. 28. and 45. Lond. 1618. oct.  
The comfort of a Christian, by assurance of God's love to him written in verse.  
The complaints of a Sinner: The comfort of our Saviour— in verse also. These two last are printed with the former Sermon.  
Bibliorum Summula, seu argumenta singulerum capitum Scripturae Canonicae, utrinsque Testamenti, alphab●tice distichis comprehensa Lond. 1621. and 23. etc. in oct. Dedicated to Poynings More, Son of Sir Rob. More a servant to K. James, Son of Sir George More Son of Sir. W. More Kt. These are all the things that I have seen written by this John Shaw, who was living at Ok●ng before mentioned in sixteen hundred twenty and three, 
Clar. 1623.  before which time he had a Son named Tobias who was Bach. of Arts of Magd. coll. As for other Sermons and books, which go under his name of Joh. Shaw, I shall mention hereafter in their proper place, as having been written by others of both those names.  
SIMON wastel, a 〈◊〉 and man born and descended from those of his name living at Wastellhead, in the 〈◊〉 County, was entered a Student also in Queen's coll. in 1580. or thereabouts, took one degree in Arts five years' 〈◊〉 at which time being accounted a great proficient in classical learning and Poetry, was made Master of the Free-School at Northampton, whence, by his sedulous endeavours, many were sent to the Universities. He hath written,  
The true Christians daily delight; being a sum of every Chapter of the Old and New Testament set down alphabetically in English verse, that the Scriptures we read may more happily be remembered, etc. Lond. 1623. in tw. Published afterwards with amendments and some additions with this title. 〈◊〉: or, the Bible's epitome, etc. Lond. 1629. etc. in tw. This person who was well known to John S●●w, was living in Northampton in sixteen hundred twenty and three. 
Clar. 1623.▪  (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 157●. or thereabouts, particularly, as I conceive, to Gloucester hall, at which time it was presided by one who was a R. Catholic, or at least sufficiently addicted to the R. persuasion, 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 settling himself in the English coll. at Rheimes, he applied 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 
a Jo. Pits in lib. 〈◊〉. Angl. Script. 〈◊〉 17. p. 810.  one of his persuasion reports. Afterwards being set at liberty (an. 1584.) he went to Paris, where he was honourably received, and worthily numbered 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 
b Tho. Bell. in The 〈…〉 lib. 4. cap. 2. 3, 5. §. 2.  author hath a large story) all which being determined, he returned the third time into England, and after 8 years labouring therein to advance his religion, was taken and committed prisoner to the Gatehouse 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 Perfect 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 Catholics; and was by them received with great honour and respect. He hath written,  
Reformation of a Catholic deformed by Will Perkins— Print. 1604. in qu. Part 1.  
The second part of the reform. of the Cath. etc. Printed 1607. qu.  
An answer to Mr. Perkins' advertisement— Pr. with the former.  
A reproof of Dr. Rob. Abbot's Defence of the Cath. deformed by W. Perkins— Pr. 1608. in 2. parts in qu.  
Disproof of Dr. R. Abbot's counterproof against Dr. Bishop's reproof of the defence of Mr. Perkins reform. Cath. Par. 1614 in oct. part 1.  
Defence of the King's 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 
c Dr. Jo▪ 〈◊〉 Senior.  that remembers the man, hath told my friend that he died at Bishop's Court in London, but where that place is, unless in the Parish of S. Sepulchre, I am yet to seek. A Latin 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, etc. This obitat book which I have in my little Library, was written by a Benedictin Monk of Douai 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 Douai, was chosen Prior of the coll. of English Benedictines, and died there of the Pla●ue in 1654. From the said book, (wherein 'tis 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 Catholics, 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, etc. This English obital, was penned by another Benedictine named Tho. Vincent alias Vincent Sadler author of The Child's Catechism, etc. 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 WINDSOR, Son of Thomas, Son of Andrew Lord Windsor, 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 Latin 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 entertained 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 Ambassador then present, and looking wistly on Windsor (who then had a beard according to the fashion) said to Goseman, is not this a pretty young man? At riper years he applied himself to the study of Histories and Antiquities, and had a hand, as 'twas frequently reported, in the Apologia of B. Tuyne who 
d In 〈…〉  styles our author Windsor, Antiquae Historiae artifex peritus, etc. But before that Apologia was extant he wrote,  
Academiarum quae aliquando fuere, & hodie sunt in Europ● catalogus. Lond. 1590. qu. contracted by the author, and printed on one large sheet of Paper, to be put into a frame. At the end of the said book he published,  
Chronographia, sive origo collegiorum, Oxoniensis Academiae. This last was mostly written by Tho. Neal of New coll. in Lat. verse, and to it is added a description of the Divinity and public Schools, and an Epitome of the Halls. Our author Windsor had intentions to write a book of the Antiquity of the Uniu. of Oxon. and in order thereunto had made many collections, but Twine with his forward and natural genie undertaking that work, Windsor forbore to proceed, and imparted to him his collections. At length after he had lived to a fair age, he surrendered up his last breath in his lodgings near S. Michael's Church in Oxon. 
1624.▪  in sixteen hundred twenty and four, and was buried in the outer Chapel of C. C. coll. under the north wall behind the Vicepresidents seat. At that time he left many, if not all, his collections of Antiquities (containing many dotages and fooleries) to Twine before mentioned, Legacies to the prisoners in the prison called Bocardo, to the parishioners of S. Michael's Parish and to the Chest in the Tower of C. C. coll. After Twines death some of the said collections were put into the Libr. of the said coll. and others were scattered about when the great fire happened in Oxon. soon after Twines death. One vol. of which came at length into my hands, wherein I find many vain and credulous matters, (not at all to be relied upon) committed to writing  
MILES SMITH, a Fletcher's Son, received his first breath within the City of Hereford, became a Student first in C. C. coll. about 1568. whence translating himself soon after to Brasnose, took the degrees in Arts as a member of that house; wherein by the benefit of a severe discipline that was in his time exercised, and by his indefatigable industry, he proved at length an incomparable Theologist. About that time he was made one of the Chaplains or Petty-Canons of Ch. Ch. and took the degree of Bach. of Diu. as a member of that Royal foundation. Afterwards he became Canon Residentiary of the Cathedral Ch. of Hereford, Doctor of Divinity and in 1612. Bishop of Gloucester; to which See (which was given him for his great pains in translating the Bible) he received consecration 20. Sept. the same year. From his youth he constantly ●●plyed himself to the reading of ancient Classical authors of the best note, in their own Languages; wherewith, as also with Neotericks he was plentifully stored, and lusted after no worldly thing so much as books; of which though he had great store, yet there were none scarce to be found in his Library, especially of the Ancients, that he had not read over, as hath been observed by those, who have perused them since his death. He ran thro' the Greek and Latin Fathers, and judiciously noted them in the margin as he went. The Rabbins also, as many as he had with their Glosses and Commentaries, he read and used in their own idiom of speech. And so conversant he was, and expert in the chaldaic, Syriack, and Arabic, that he made them as familiar to him, almost, as his own native tongue. Hebrew also he had at his finger's ends, and with all stories of all times: And for his rich and accomplished furniture in that study, he had this Elegy given him by a learned Bishop of this Kingdom, that he was a very walking Library. For this his exactness of those Languages, he was thought worthy by K. Jam. 1. to be called to that great work of the last translation of our English Bible, wherein he was esteemed the chief, and a workman that needed not be ashamed. He began with the first and was the last Man in the translation of the work; for after the task of translation was finished by the whole number set apart, and designed to that business, being some few above 40. it was raised by a dozen selected from them, and at length referred to the final examination on Bilson Bishop of Winton, and this our author, who, with the rest of the twelve, are styled in the History of the Synod of Dort, vere eximii & ab initio in toto hoc opere versatissimi, as having happily concluded that worthy labour. All being ended, this excellent person Dr. Smith was commanded to write a Preface, which being by him done, 'twas made public, and is the same that is now extant in our Church Bible, the original whereof is, if I am not mistaken, in the Oxonian Vatican. He hath written, besides what is beforementioned,  
Sermons. Lond. 1632. fol. They are 15 in number, and were transcribed out of his original MSS, the first of which is on Jer. 9 23. 24. He departed this mortal life in the beginning of Nou. year 1624. in sixteen hundred twenty and four, (having always before been very favourable to the Calvinian Party in his Diocese,) and was buried on the 9 of the same month, in our Lady's Chapel, in the Cath. Ch. of Gloucester, leaving behind him two Sons which he had by his first Wife, (Marry Hawkins of Cardiff,) named Gervase of the Midale Temple Gent. and Miles Smith, and this character by the zealous men of the Ch. of England, that though he was a great Scholar, yet he was a severe Calvinist, and hated the proceedings of Dr. Laud, especially after he was made Dean of Gloucester. Over his grave was afterwards a white stone laid, without any inscription thereon, only his Arms impaled by those of the See of Glouc.  
RICHARD CRAKANTHORPE, was born of a gentile Family at, or near, Strickland in Westmoreland, became a Student in Queen's coll. in 1583. aged 16. and soon after a poor serving Child, than a Tabarder, and at length in 1598. Fellow of the said coll. About which time, being a noted Preacher, and a profound Disputant in Divinity, (of which Faculty he was a Bachelaur,) was admired by all great men, and had in veneration, especially by the Puritanical Party, he being himself a Zealot among them, as having, with others of the same coll. entertained many of the principles of Dr. Joh. Rainolds while he lived there. After K. Jam. 1. came to the Crown, he went in the quality of a Chaplain to the Lord Evers, who in 1603. or thereabouts, was sent Ambassador extraordinary to the Emperor of Germany. By which opportunity he, as Tho. Morton his Brother Chaplain in that Voyage, (afterwards B. of Durham) did advantage themselves exceedingly by conversing with learned men of other Persuasions, and by visiting several Universities and Libraries there. After his return he became Chaplain to Dr. Ravis B. of London, Chaplain in Ordinary to his Majesty, and by the favour of Sir John Levesen, (who had sometimes three Sons of Qu. coll.) Rector of Blacknotley near to Brayntrey in Essex, which was the best preferment, I think, he had. He was a person esteemed by most men to have been replenished with all kind of virtue and learning, to have been profound in Philosophical and Theological learning, a great Canonist, and so familiar and exact in the Fathers, Counsels, and Schoolmen, that none in his time scarce went beyond him. Also that none have written with greater diligence, (I cannot say with a meekermind because some have reported that he was as foul-m●●ched against the Papists, particularly M. Ant. de 〈…〉 was afterwards against them and the Prelatists,) or with better truth or faith, than he, as by those things of his extant do appear, the titles of which are these.  
Sermons. As (1) Serm. of Sanctification, preached on Act Sunday 12. Jul. 1607. on 1 Thes. 5. 23. Lond. 1608. qu. (2) Inaugurat. Serm. of K. Jam. at Paul's Cross 24. Mar. 1608. on 2 Chron. 9 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 Ibid. 1609. qu. (3) Serm. of Predestination, on 2 Pet. 1. 10. Lond. 1620. 23. qu.  
Justinian the Emperor defended, against Card. Baronius. Lond. 1616. in 7 sh. in qu.  
Introductio in Metaphysicam lib. 4. Oxon. 1619. in a little oct.  
Defence of Constantine, with a treatise of the Pope's Temporal Monarchy. Lond. 1621. qu.  
Logicae libriquinque de praedicalibus, praedicamentis, etc. Lond. 1622. etc. Ox. 1677. in a large qu.  
Appendix de Sillogismo Sophistico.  
Tractatus de providentia Dei. Cantab. 1622. etc. qu.  
Defensio Eccl. Anglicanae contra M. Anton. de Dominis Archiep. Spalatensis injurias. Lond. 1625. qu. Published by Dr. Joh. Barcham. Which book was held to be the most exactest piece for controversy since the time of the Reformation.  
Virgilius dormitans. Or, a treatise of the first General Council held at Constantinople, an. 553. under Justinian the Emperor, in the time of Pope Vigilius, Lond. 1631. fol.  
Popish falsifications. Or, an answer to a treatise of a Popish Recusant, intit. The first part of Protestants proofs for Catholics Religion and Recusancy; taken only from the writings of such Protestant Doctors and Divines of England, as have been published in the Reign of K. James, a. 1607. MS. This book I saw at Oxon in the hands of Mr. Edw. Benlowes the Poet, who in his younger days was a Papist, or at least very Popishly affected, and in his elder years a bitter Enemy to that Party. Whether the said book was ever printed I cannot tell.  
Animadversions on Cardinal Baronius his Annals.— MS. Either lost or embeziled after the author's death.  

MSS. The copies of which were formerly, if not still, in the Tabarders Library in Qu. coll.  
De caelo.  
Physica.  
In Aristotelis Organon.   
I have seen also several of his Epistles, written to Dr. Hen. Airay Provost of Qu. coll. stitched up with Dr. Joh. Rainolds his Declamations, and other things among the MSS. in the Library of Dr. Thom. Barlow, afterwards B. of Lincoln. What else he hath written I find not, nor any thing more of him, only that he dying at Blacknotly beforementioned, (for want of a Bishopric, as K. Jam. 1. used to say,) was buried in the Chancel of the Church there, 25. year 1624. Nou. in sixteen hundred twenty and four: At which time Dr. Joh. Barchem, Dean of Rocking in Essex, did Preach his Funeral Sermon before several Gentlemen and Ministers of the neighbourhood, showing to them, in the conclusion, the great piety and learning of him, who then lay as a spectacle of mortality before them. Had that Sermon been printed, I might have thence said more of this worthy author, but it being quite lost, I presume, after that Doctor's death, we must be content with those things that are already said of him.  
PETER BOWNE, or Boun●●u, as he is sometimes written, was a Bedfordshire man born, admitted Scholar of C. C. coll. in Apr. 1590. aged 15. of which he was afterwards Fellow, and M. of Arts. This person having a great Genie to the Faculty of Medicine, entered on the Physic line, practised in these parts, and at length became Dr. of his Faculty. Afterwards he wrote,  
Pseudo-Medicorum Anatomia. 
Clar: 1624.  Lond. 1624. qu. At which time he practised Physic in the great City, and was much in esteem for it in the latter end of King Jam. 1. and beginning of King Ch. 1. What other things he hath published, I know not, nor any thing of his last days.  
GEORGE MORE, Son of Sir Will. More, beloved of Q. Elizabeth for his many services done in the Commonwealth, was extracted from the Moors of Devonshire, but whether born there, or in Surrey, in truth I cannot tell. After he had spent some time in Oxon, particularly, as it seems, in Exeter coll. he went to the Inns of Court, but took no degree there or here. In 1597. he had the honour of Knighthood con●er●ed upon him, being about that time a frequent Speak●● in several Parliaments, and much in esteem for his excellent parts. In 1604. he being about that time Treasurer to Henry Prince of Wales, did by the name of Sir George More of Surrey give several MSS. to the Public Library at Oxon, and 40 l. to buy printed books, and in the year following he was actually created Master of Arts. In 1610, he became Chancellor of the most Noble Order of the Garter, and about 1615. Lieutenant of the Tower, in the place of Sir Jervase Elwaies, imprisoned for the consenting to the poisoning of Sir Thom. Overbnry. He hath written,  
A demonstration of God in his Works, against all such that deny either in word or in life, that there is a God. Lond. 1598. 1624. qu.  
Parliamentary Speeches,— and other things which I have not yet seen. He was living at loosely, or Lothesley, near Guildsord in Surrey, 
Clar. 1624.  where he had a fair Estate descended to him from his Father, in sixteen hundred twenty and four, and after, and there died and was buried. He had a Son named Rob. More, who was a Knight, and a Daughter, who was married to the famous Dr. Joh. Donne, afterwards Dean of Paul's. I have made mention of another George More in the Fasti, an. 1573.  
WILLIAM BROWNE, Son of Tho. Br. of Tavystock in Devonsh. Gent. was born there, spent some time among the Muses in Exeter coll. after K. Jam. 1. came to the Crown; whence retiring to the Inner Temple, without any degree conferred upon him, became famed there for his Poetry, especially after he had published,  
Britannia's Pastorals.— Esteemed then, by judicious persons, to be written in a sublime strain, and for subject amorous and very pleasing. The first part of it was printed at Lond. 1613. fol. and then ushered into the World with several copies of verses made by his learned acquaintance, as by Joh. Selden, Mich. Drayton, Christoph. Brook, etc. The second part, or book, was printed at Lond. 1616. fol. and then commended to the World by various copies made by John Glanvill, (whom I shall mention elsewhere, for his sufficiencies in the Common Law,) Joh. Davies of Hereford, George Whither of Linc. Inn, Ben. Johnson, Thom. Wenman of the Inner Temple, etc. which last I take to be the same, that had been Fellow of Ball. coll. and Public Orator of this University. These two books, or parts, in fol. were also printed in two vol. in oct. (1625.) which I have not yet seen. Our author Browne hath also written a Poem intit.  
The Shepard's Pipe; in 7 Eglogues. Lond. 1614 oct. The fourth Eglogue is dedicated to Mr. Tho. Manwood, (who died about that time,) Son of Sir Pet. Manwood, and the fifth to his ingenious Friend Mr. Christop. Brook, mentioned elsewhere in this work.  
Elegy on the never enough bewailed, etc. Prince Henry. Lond. 1613. qu. and other Poems, as 'tis probable, but such I have not yet seen. However the Reader is to know, that as he had honoured his Country with his elegant and sweet Pastorals, so was he expected, and also entreated a little farther, to grace it, by drawing out the line of his Poetic Ancestors, beginning in Josephus Iscanius, and ending in himself; but whether ever published, having been all or mostly written, 
Clar. 1624.  as 'twas said, I know not. In the beginning of the year 1624. he retired to Exeter coll. again, being then about 34 years of age, and was Tutor or Gou. to Rob. D●rmer of that house, the same who was afterwards Earl of Caernarvon, and killed in Newbury fight, 20. Sept. 1643. In the same year he was actually created Master of Arts, as I shall tell you elsewhere in the Fasti, and after he had left the Coll. with his Pupil, he became a retainer to the Pembrochian Family, was beloved by that generous Count, William E. of Pembroke, and got wealth and purchased an estate, which is all I know of him hitherto, only that as he had a little body, so a great mind. In my searches I find that one Will. Browne of Otterie S. Marry in Devon, died in the Winter time 1645. whether the same with the Poet, I am hitherto ignorant. After the time of the said Poet, appeared another person of both his names, author of two Common Law-books, written in English, intit. Formulae bene placitandi, and of Modus intraadi placita generalia, and of other things pertaining to that Faculty.  
JOHN DAVIES, an excellent Mathematician, as the learned Camden 
a Cam●. in A●●al. R. Elizab. sub an. 1601.  styles him, was the Son of John Davies of London, in which City he was born, at about six of the clock in the evening of the eighth of Feb. in 1559-60. and educated in Gramaticals there. In 1574. he made his first entry into this University, and settling in Gloucester hall under the tuition of one that was much inclined to the Rom. Persuasion, made great proficiency in his studies; and Mr. Tho. Allen of that house finding that his Genie was much addicted to the Mathematics, instructed him therein, and gave him all the encouragement imaginable to proceed in that noble Science. In 1581. he proceeded M. of A. as a Member of Glouc. hall, continued there for some time after, and then retiring to the great City was instructed in Astrological matters by one Dr. Sim. Forman, a very able ginger and Physician, as it appears by the MS. books 
b In bib. Eliae Ashmole Arm.  he left behind him when he died, though a certain 
* Sir Ant. W●ldan in T●e Court and Character of K. James. Lond. 1650. in oct. p. 110.  author tells us he was a very silly fellow. In Feb. 1587. he was first of all introduced into the Royal Court, where he was made known to, and received with great curtsy by, that popular Count, Robert Earl of Essex. In 1589. he traveled into France, and made a voyage into Portugal, whereby he advanced his knowledge, as to men, and the Languages of those Countries very much. In 1596. after he had been married 3 years, he went under the conduct of the said Count towards Spain, where doing most admirable service at the taking and sacking of Cadiz, he received 
c So 'tis written on his mon●ment in the Chancel of Pangbourne Church in Berks.  the honour of Knighthood and of Baneret. In 1597. he traveled to the Islands of Terceres, where he performed that employment he went about, to the great honour of himself, and in 1598. Jan. 31. he was made Surveyor of the Ordnance by the endeavours of his singular good Lord, the E. of Essex, under whom, in the year following, he went as a prime Officer into Ireland, where his service was much remarkable against the Rebels. In 1600. he was deeply engaged in that Earls Teasons, for which he was taken and committed to custody, on the 8. Feb. the same year. About the eleventh of the same month, the Archbishop of Canterbury issued out a Direction for the Ministers and Preachers in his Province, to the end that they give the People a right understanding what the Earl of Essex intended by his treasonable conspiracy; in which Direction I find these matters of Sir Joh. Davies. viz. that he was brought up in Oxford, and was by profession a seller of figures, and on whom that hateful Earl, both to God and man, did repose great affiance, insomuch that he made him chief Officer about the Ordnance in the Tower, and thought him one of the faithfullest Servants he had to make his Keeper, etc. This Davies was one, that favoured nothing less than the Gospel; for being in hold, the chiefest motion that he made to the Gentleman that had the custody of him for that time, was, that if it were possible, he might have a Priest to confess him, etc. In March following he was tried among other Conspirators for his life, and being in a manner convicted by his own Conscience and confession, held his peace; and then being taunted by the way that he was a Papist, he denied not, but that in Oxon he was instructed in the Romish Religion by his Tutor, and confirmed in the same by Sir Christop. Blount one of the Conspirators, while he was in the Irish Wars, At which words, when he perceived Blount was moved, he strait appeased him, affirming that he was confirmed in that Religion, not by Blounts' persuasion, but by the example of his Christian and Religious life. Afterwards being condemned to be hanged, drawn, and quartered, he requested, that although he was no Nobleman, yet he might suffer as they did, that is, by beheading; if not, not to be quartered in pieces, but to be buried Christianly. After sentence, he was remanded to his prison, but by the intercession of Friends, the Queen signed his Pardon, 5. Feb. 1601. which was allowed by the Judges in Westminster hall, on the 12. of the same month. So that being free, he purchased an Estate in the Parish of Pangborne in Berks, where he spent the remainder of his days in a retired and studious condition. This person, who is styled in literis Mathematicis apprime eruditus, hath written many things of Mathematics and Astrology, but hath nothing, as I can yet find, that is extant. There went from hand to hand a volume of Letters which were written by this Sir Joh. Davies, Dr. Joh. Dee, and Dr. Mat. Gwinne, concerning Chemical and Magical secrets; which, as some say, (though I cannot yet be satisfied in it) was given by Dr. T. B. to Cosmo Prince of Tuscany when he was received and entertained by the Uniu. of Oxon 1669. But let this report remain with the author, while I tell you that this Sir John Davies giving way to fate in his House called Berecourt, in the parish of Pangbourne in Berks, 14. May in sixteen hundred twenty and five, year 1625 was buried in the North side of the Chancel of the Church at Pangbourne. Over his Grave was a very sair Mon. erected, whereon his Statue in Armour lies between the Statues of his two Wives. He left behind him a Son of both his Names, who was a Gent. Com. of Glouc. hall, 1626. and afterwards a Knight, but neither he, nor his Father, was author of the History of the Caribby Islands printed 1666. fol. but another Joh. Davies.  
WILLIAM BARLOWE, Son of Will. Barlowe, sometimes B. of Chichester (mentioned among these writers under the year 1568) was born, as it seems, in Pembrok●shire, while his Father was Bishop of S. David, became a Com. of Ball. coll. about 1560, and four years after, took a degree in Arts: which being completed by Determination, he left the University before he proceeded in that faculty, and afterwards travelling, became very well skilled in the Art of Navigation. About the year 1573. he entered into the Sacred Function, was afterwards Prebendary of Winchester, Rector of Easton near to that City, Chaplain to Prince Henry, and at length Archdeacon of Salisbury: To which last he was collated, on the death of Dr. Ralph Pickover, on the 12. of March 1614 This was the person who had knowledge in the Magnet 20 years before Dr. Will. Gilbert published his book of that subject, and therefore by those that knew him, he was accounted superior, or at least equal to that Doctor for an industrious and happy searcher and finder out of many rare and magnetical secrets. He was the first that made the inclinatory instrument transparent, and to be used pendant, with a glass on both sides, and a ring on the top, whereas Dr. Gilberts hath but of one side, and to be set on a foot. And moreover, he hanged him in a Compass-box, where with two ounces weight it was made fit for use at Sea. Secondly, he was the first that found out and showed the difference between Iron and Steel, and their tempers for Magnetical uses, which hath given life and quickening, universally to all Magnetical Instruments whatsoever. Thirdly, he was the first that showed the right way of touching Magnetical Needles. Fourthly, he was the first that found out and showed the piecing and cementing of Lodestones. And lastly, the first that showed the reasons why a Loadstone being double capped, must take up so great weight. The books which he hath published for use are these.  
The Navigators supply: containing many things of principal importance belonging to Navigation, with the description and use of divers instruments framed chiefly for that purpose, etc. Lond. 1597. qu. Dedic. to Rob. Earl of Essex.  
Magnetical advertisements: or divers pertinent observations and approved experiments concerning the nature and properties of the Loadstone, etc. Lond. 1616. qu. Ded. to Sir Dudley Digges Knight, because of his rare learning, joined with piety, and accompanied with a pleasing carriage towards every man; which were the chief reasons that caused all good men to love him. Upon the publication of this book, a certain Cantabrigian named Mark Ridley, Doctor of Physic and Philosophy, sometimes Physician to the English Merchants trading in Russia, afterwards chief Physician to the Emperor of that Country (as he entitles himself) and at length one of the eight Principals or Elects of the coll. of Physicians at London, made Animadversions upon it; whereupon our author came out in vindication of himself with this book.  
A brief discovery of the idle animadversions of Mark Ridley Doct. in Physic, upon a treatise entit. Magnetical Advertisements— Lond. 1618. qu. What other things he hath written I know not as yet, nor any thing else of the said books, only that seven years before the Magnetical Advertisementt were published, he sent a copy of them in MS. to the learned Sir Tho. Chaloner, which he mislaying or embesling, he sent him, upon his desire, another copy, and that being imparted to others, the author afterwards, before its publication, met with many portraitures of his Magnetical implements, and divers of his propositions published in print in another man's name, and yet some of them not rightly understood by the party usurping them. He concluded his last day in sixteen hundred twenty and five, year 1625 and was buried in the Chancel of the Church of Easton before mentioned. To his Archdeaconry of Salisbury was collated Tho. Marler on the 27. of June the same year, but who to his Prebendship of Winchester, I know not as yet. Soon after was an Epitaph put over Mr. Barlows Grave running thus. Depositum Gulielmi Barlowe Archideaconi Sarisburiensis, Prebendarii Ecclesiae Cath. Winton, & Rectoris Ecclesiae de Easton; qui cum sedulam per annos 52. aedificationi corporis christi navasset Operam, ad meliorem Vitam migravit Maii 25. An. Dom. 1625.  
EDWARD CHALONER, second Son of Sir Tho. Chaloner of Steeple Claydon in Bucks Knight (whom I have before mentioned) was born in the County of Middlesex, particularly, as it seems, at Cheswick, where his Father and Mother lived, and both were buried; applied his muse to Academical studies in the condition of a Commoner in the coll. of S. Mary Madg. 1604. aged 14. took the degrees in Arts, that of Master being completed 1610. and the next year was chosen Fellow of Allsouls coll. Afterwards entering into the sacred function, he became Chaplain in Ordinary to K. James, Doctor of Diu. Principal of St. Alban hall, and Chapl. in Ord. to K. Ch. 1. He was reputed, considering his age, a very learned man, able for the Pulpit, and well read in polemical Divinity, as some of his lucubrations show. There was nothing of his composition so mean, which the greatest person did not value: and those Sermons of his making, which were published after his death, were looked upon as several choice pieces, or at least such, as would prove serviceable to the Church and Commonwealth. His works are.  
Six Sermons, as (1) Babel, or the confusion of Languages on Gen. 11. 7. (2) Naioth, or the University Charter, on Am. 4. 14. (3) Ephesus Common-Pleas. (4) Judah's prerogative. (5) The Gentiles creed. (6) Paul's peregrination, or the travellers guide, etc. Lond. 1623. oct.  
Vnde Zizania? The orig. and progress of Heresy, Serm. before K. Jam. at Theobalds', on Mat. 13. 27. Lond. 1624. qu. ●b. 1638. in tw.  
Credo Ecclesiam S. Catholicam. I believe the holy Cath. Church, the authority, universality and visibility of the Ch. handled and discussed. Lond. 1625. quarto, and 38. in tw.  
Six Sermons, as (1) The Cre●ians conviction and reformaon, on Tit. 1. 13. (2) The ministers charge and mission, on Mat. 20. 6. (3) God's bounty and Gentiles ingratitude. (4) Afflictions the Christians portion. (5) Duty and affinity of the faithful. (6) No peace with Rome, etc. Oxon. 1629. qu.  
Status quaestionum inter nos & pontificios— MS. in qu. containing 92. pages in Lat. in the Libr. of Dr. Tho. Barlow. At length, after he had lived 34. years, he was, to the great grief of many, untimely snacthed away by the Plague that was then in Oxon. 25. July in sixteen hundred twenty and five, year 1625 and was privately buried, late at night, in the south yard belonging to S. Mary's Church within this University, leaving then behind him a disconsolate Widow named Elizabeth, Daughter of Dr. R●b. Hoveden sometimes Warden of Alls. coll. besides children. Over his grave was soon after an altar-monument erected, with an Epitaph engraven thereon; a copy of which you may see in Hist. & Antiq. Vniu. Oxon. lib. 2. p. 181. b.  
RAPHAEL THORIUS, commonly called Thoris, a French man born, was in his younger days conversant among the Oxonians in the condition of a Sojourner, and made a considerable progress in the faculty of medicine, but took no degree therein, only numbered among those of the Physic line. Afterwards he settled in London, practised that faculty with good success and was in his time accounted 
c R. A. E. in lib. suo cui tit. est Lessus in funere Raph. Thorii, etc. Lond. 1625. qu.  Corypheus' Medici gregis; and as a Physician famous, so no vulgar Poet. The works that he hath written are many, but none were published till after his death; the titles of some of which follow.  
Hymnus Tabaci, sive de Pacto libri duo. Which books being procured from the author in Feb. 1624. by Ludou. àKinschot, were by him published at Lond. (1627.) oct. This elegant Lat. Poem was translated into English verse by Pet. Hansted M. A. of Cambridge, afterwards D. D.— Lond. 1651. oct.  
Cheimonopegnia. A winter song in Lat. verse— published also by the said Kinschot, (1627.) oct. and translated into English, by P. Hausted before mentioned.  
Epistolae duae de Isaaci Casauboni morbi mortisque caussa▪ written in 1614 Put at the end of Isaac casaubon's epistles, published by Joh. Freder Gronovius, 1638. qu. In the first of Car. 1. when the plague raged in London, he acted more for the public (by exposing his person too much) than his most dear concern. Wherefore being deeply infected with that disease, died of it in his house in the parish of S. Bennet Finck, in Jul. or Aug. in sixteen hundred twenty and five, year 1625 but where he was buried, I know not, unless in the Church or Ch. yard of that parish. He left behind him a Son named John, whom I shall elsewhere mention, and a most dear friend who lamented his death in a Lat. Poem (not to be contemned) entit. Lessus in funere Raphaelis Thorii Medici & Poetae praestantissimi, etc. In which, if it can be seen, (which I think not, for I never saw but one) you may read many things justly said of him.  
JOHN FLORIO the Resolute, as he used to write himself, was born in London, in the latter end of the reign of K. H. 8, a little before which time, his Father (descended from the Florii of Sienna in Tuscany) and Mother, who were Waldenses, had fled from the Valtoline into England for religion sake. But when K. Ed. 6. died and the protestant religion silenced, by the succession of Qu. Marry, they left England, and went to another Country, where Jo. Florio received his puerile literature. After Protestancy was restored by Q. Elizab. they returned and Florio for a time lived in this University. At length Rich. Barnes Bishop of Durham sending his Son Emanuel to Magd. coll. to obtain Acad. literature in the quality of a Commoner, about 1576. Florio was appointed to attend him as a Tutor in the Italian and French tongues. At which time wearing a Gown, he was matriculated as a member of that house in 1581. aged about 36 years, and as a teacher and instructor of certain Scholars in the University. After K. James came to the Crown he was appointed Tutor to Pr. Henry for those languages, and at length made one of the Privy Chamber, and Clerk of the closet, to Qu. Anne, to whom he was a Tutor also. He was a very useful man in his profession, zealous in the religion he professed, and much devoted to the English nation. His works are,  
His first fruits, which yield familiar speech, merry proverbs witty sentences and golden saying▪ Lond. 1578. qu. 91. oct.  
Perfect introduction to the Italian and English tongues.— Printed with the former, and both dedicated to Rob. Earl of Leicester.  
His second fruits to be gathered of twelve Trees, of divers but delightsome tastes to the tongues of Italian▪ and English men. Lond. 1591. oct.  
Garden of recreation, yielding six thousand Italian Proverbs— Printed with the former.  
Dictionary Ital. and English. Lond. 1597. 98. fol. Which Dictionary was by him afterwards augmented, and to the honour of Queen Anne did entitle it, Queen Anna's new world of words. Lond. 1611. fol. which for the variety of words, was far more copious than any extant in the world at that time. But this notwithstanding being also defective, our author did, out of other Dictionarys and Italian authors, which came accidentally into his hands, collect out of them an addition of many thousand words and phrases relating to Arts, Sciences, and Exercises, intending, if he had lived, to come out with a third edition. After his death, his additions being transmitted to Gio Torriano an Italian and professor of the Italian tongue in London, were by him diligently perused, and in very many places supplied out of the generally approved Dictionaries of the Academici della crusca, and several others that were set forth since Florio's death. The said Torriano also did much correct the English interpretations, and where there was cause, he reduced them to their genuine sense, as they are now used in these modern times. Which additions and corrections were printed at Lond. 1659. fol. Florio also translated from French into English, The Essays of Michael Lord of Montaigne. Lond. 1603. 13. 32. fol. and others things, as 'tis said, but such I have not yet seen. At length retiring to Fulham in Middlesex to avoid the plague raging in London, was there overtaken by it in his old age, of which he died in Aug. or Sept. in sixteen hundred twenty and five and received, year 1625 as I suppose, sepulture either in the Ch. or yard there. I have several times sent for his Epitaph, but receiving none, you may take this for one, 
— Virtute suâ contentus, nobilis arte,  
Italus Ore, Anglus pectore, uterque opere.  
Floret adhuc, & adhuc florebit; floriat ultra  
Florius, hâc specie floridus, optat amans.   
THOMAS LODGE, was descended from those of his name living in Lincolnshire, but whether born there, I cannot tell, made his first entry into this University about 1573. and was afterwards Servitor or Scholar under the learned and virtuous Mr. Edward Hobye of Trinity coll. where making early advances, his ingenuity began at first to be observed by several of his compositions in Poetry. After he had taken one degree in Arts, and had spent some time in exercising his fancy among the Poets in the great City, he was esteemed, (not Jos Hall of Emanuel coll. in Cambridge excepted) the best for satire among English men. At length his mind growing more serious, he studied Physic, for the improvement of which he traveled beyond the Seas, took the degree of Dr. of that faculty at Avenion, returned and was incorporated in the University in the latter end of Qu. Elizabeth. Afterwards settling in London he practised it, became much frequented for his success in it, especially by the R. Catholics (of which number he was by many suspected to be one) and was as much cried up to his last for Physic, as he was in his younger days for his poetical fancy. He hath written,  
Alarm against Usurers, containing tried experiences, against worldly abuses. Lond. 1584. qu.  
History of Forbonius and Prisaeria, with truth's complaint over England— Printed with the Alarm.  
Euphues Golden Legacy found after his death in his cell at Silexedra, bequeathed to Phylautus Sons, nursed up with their Father in England. Lond. 1590. etc. qu.  
The wounds of a civil War, lively set forth in the true Tragedies of Marius and Scylla. Lond. 1594. qu.  
A fig for Momus— Pr. in qu.  
Looking-glass for London: An historical Comedy. Lond. 1598. qu. In the composure of which he had the assistance of Robert Green M. A. of Cambridge.  
Liberality and prodigality, Comedy. Lady Alimony, Com. Luminalia, a Mask. Laws of nature, Com.  
Assisted also in these by the said Rob. Green, who is accounted the half author of them.  
Treatise of the Plague, containing the nature, signs and accidents of the same, etc. Lond. 1603. qu.  
Countess of Lincol. Nusery. Oxon. 1622. in 2. or 3. sh. in qu.  
Treatise in defence of Plays.— This I have not yet seen, nor his Pastoral Songs and Madrigals, besides several other things which are as it were lost to the generality of Scholars. He also translated into English (1) Josephus his History or Antiquities of the Jews. Lond. 1602. 09. 20. etc. sol. (2) The works both moral and natural of Luc. An. Seneca. Lond. 1614 20. fol. etc. This eminent Doctor who practised his faculty in Warwick Lane in the beginning of K. Jam. 1. and afterwards on Lambert-hill, removed thence a little before his last end into the parish of S. Mary Magd. in Old Fish-street, London, where he made his last exit (of the Plague I think) in September, in sixteen hundred twenty five, year 1625 leaving then behind him a Widow called Joan, but where buried, unless in the Church or yard there, I know not. His memory is celebrated by several Poets, whose Encomiums of him being frequent, I shall for brevity sake pass them now by, and proceed to the next who had a name among those of his persuasion for an eminent. Theologist.  
HENRY HOLLAND, was born at Daventry commonly called Dantry in Northamptonshire, educated in Grammar learning in Eton School near to Win●sore, elected Scholar of S. John's coll. in 1565. took one degree in Arts, left that house soon after, his Friends, Country and Religion, and went to D●way in Flanders, where making a considerable progress in the Theological faculty, was made Priest and Bach. of Diu. Afterwards he went to Rheims, and in the English coll. there was a most noted preacher for several years, and at length gave his assisting hand to the Translation of the Rheimish Testament. Soon after he was sent into the English Harvest, to gain souls to his religion, but finding that employment dangerous, he retired to Douai again, where being made 〈…〉 Divinity, read and interpreted divine Letters f●r many years in the Monastery of Anchine near to that place. His works are,  
De venerabili Sacramento.  
De Sacrificio Missae. Duac. 1609.  
Carmina diversa, with other things printed beyond the Seas, which seldom, or never, come into these parts. He gave way to fate in a good old age, within the said Monastery of Anchine, year 1625 on the 28. day of Sept. in sixteen hundred twenty and five, and was buried in the Cloister there. Over his grave is an Epitaph beginning thus. 
Dantria me genuit, me clara Vigornia fovit,  
Aetona me docuit, post doeet Oxonium.   
The rest you may see in Hist. & Antiq. Vniu. Oxon. lib. 2. p. 307. b. In this Hen. Holland's time were one, two, or more writers of both his names, as (1) Hen. Hol. who wrote A treatise against Witchcraft, etc. Camb. 1590. qu. and the same, as it seems, who published Spiritual preservations against the Pestilence; and added thereunto, An admonition concerning the use of Physic. Both printed 1603. qu. (2) H. Hol. who published the Hist. of Adam, or the fourfold state of Man, etc. Pr. 1606. qu. and Christian Exercise of Fasting, private and public, etc. Pr. 1596. qu. Whether this H. Holland be the same with the first, (who was of Cambridge, as it seems,) I cannot tell, unless I see their respective books; neither can I say to the contrary but that he may be the same H. Holland, who published the Posthuma of his Brother Abrah. Holland sometimes of Trin. coll. in Cambridge.— Lond. 1626. Which Abraham (who was author also of a Poem, called, Naumachia; or Holland's Sea-fight. Lond. 1622. qu.) died on the 18. of Febr. 1625. (3) Hen. Holland, Son of Philemon Holland a Physician and Schoolmaster of the City of Coventry, who was born there, traveled with John Lord Harington into the Palatinate, in 1613. and collected and wrote, Monumenta Sepulchralia Ecclesiae S. Pauli Lond. Printed in qu. Also Herologia Anglica, sive effigies, vitae & elogia clarorum & doctorum aliquot Anglorum, ab an. 1500. ad 1620. Lond. 1620. in two tomes. fol. and did engrave and pub. a book, intit. A book of Kings, being a true and lively Effigies of all our English Kings from the Conquest till this present, etc. 1618. But this Hen. Holland was not educated either in Oxon or Cambridge, having been a Member of the Society of the Stationers in London. See in the Fasti, among the incorporations, an. 1572.  
HENRY FINCH, second Son of Sir Thom. Finch of East well in Kent, was born in that County, and for a time educated in this University, particularly, as I conceive, in Oriel coll. wherein several of his surname and Family studied in the time of Q. Elizabeth. From Oxon he was translated to Greys' Inn, wherein making great proficiency in the Municipal Laws, became a Counsellor of note, Autumn or Summer-Reader of that house, 2. Jac. 1. Sergeant at Law 1614 and one of the King's Sergeants, and a Knight, two years after, being then in great esteem for his knowledge in his profession. He hath written,  
Nomotexnia; cestascavoir, un description deal common Leys d' Angleterre solonique les rules del Art, etc. Lond. 1613. fol. in 4 books. Done into English by the same author, under this title, Of Law; or a discourse thereof, in 4 books. Lond. 1627. 36. 61. etc. oct. From the said book is mostly extracted another, intit. A summary of the Common Law of England. Lond. 1654. oct. done by another hand. Our author Finch also wrote,  
Of the calling of the Jews.— By which book it appears, that the studies of the author, were not altogether confined to the Common Law. But his judgement therein, as to the subject matter, dissenting from the opinions of ingenious persons, yet they cannot otherwise but allow him to have learnedly maintained an Error. He departed this life on the eleventh day of Octob. in sixteen hundred twenty and five, year 1625 and was buried, as I conceive, in St. Martin's Church near Canterbury, leaving then behind him a Son, begotten on the body of his Wife Ursula, Daughter and Heir of Will. Thwayts, called John Finch, born the 17. Sept. 1584. educated in the Common Law in Greys' Inn, afterwards a Knight, Lord Keeper of the Great Seal, and Lord Finch of Fordwyche, forced out of England by the severity of the Members of the Long Parliament, an. 1640. had leave afterwards to return, and lived privately at the Mote near Canterbury, and dying the 20. Nou. an. 1660. was buried in the Church of S. Martin beforementioned. This John Lord Finch (who had a younger Brother called Henry) seems to have had some considerable knowledge in Mathematics and Astronomy, as it appears by a Manuale Mathematicum, curiously written on Velom with his own hand, preserved to this day as a rarity in Dugdale's Press, among the MSS in the Ashmolean Musaeum.  
RICHARD FOWNS, a Minister's Son, and a Worcestershire man born, was elected Student of Ch. Ch. 1577. aged 17. took the degrees in Arts, became Chaplain to Prince Henry, Bach. and D▪ of D. 1605. and about that time Rector of Stoke upon Severn, commonly called Severnstoke, in his own Country. He hath written,  
Trisagion, or the three Offices of Christ. Lond. 1619. qu. He was buried in the Church of Severnstoke, 25. Nou. in sixteen hundred twenty and five, year 1625 and soon after was put a Mon. over his grave with an inscription thereon, but so miserably defaced in the Civil War that broke out 17 years after, that 'tis not now (as I have been informed) legible, otherwise I should have given you a copy of it here. A Latin Sermon of one Rich. Fowns, preached on 2 Thess. 2. 34. was published in 1660. but whether preached by our author, or another of both his names, I cannot tell, because I have not yet seen it.  
CHRISTOPHER BAGSHAW was originally descended from the bagshaw's, living at Ridge or Abney in Derbyshire, but the name of the place wherein he received his first breath, I cannot yet find. In 1572, he was by the endeavours of Rob. Persons (afterwards a Jesuit) elected Probationer-Fellow of Balliol coll. being then a Bach. of Arts, and a celebrated Logician and Philosopher. Soon after proceeding in his Faculty, he was much noted for his zeal to Protestancy, yet proved troublesome in his public disputes, and in his behaviour towards Persons. About the year 1579. he was Principal, or at least Deputy, for a time, of Gloucester hall; where also being disliked, he left that place soon after, and his Fellowship in 1582. which was pronounced void the year following. About that time he went beyond the Seas, changed his Religion, and being made a Priest in France, and getting helps and directions from Fa. Persons, he journied to Rome, where for some time he lived in the English college. But being troublesome there also, and raising great garboils among the Scholars of that place, Cardinal Boncompagno, Protector of the English Nation, expelled him thence, as one 
a Rob. Persons in his Manifestation of the folly, etc. fol. 56. b.  that had no good will for him saith: Yet our author in his own vindication tells 
b Answer to certain points of a Libel, p. 31. etc.  us, that he had a Benedicessit, and departed very orderly. Afterwards he returned to Paris, where, as 'tis said, he was made Doctor of Diu. and one of the Sorbon, at which time, and after, the Jesuits used to style him, Doctor Erraticus, and Doctor per Saltum. Afterwards he was sent into England to gain Souls to his Religion, but taken and committed Prisoner to Wisbich Castle in Cambridgshire, where I find him in 1593. among many other Priests and Gentlemen of the Rom. Cath. Religion, that had some years before been secured in that place. 'Tis said 
c In the Relation of the Faction began at Wisbich, 1595. etc. Printed 1601. qu. p. 18.  while he continued there, that he carried away the glory and fame of all that was heretofore laudably done in that Castle, before Fa. edmond's alias Weston a Jesuit began to show his tricks, and then that Party, and those Lay-people that favoured them, would condemn Bagshaw as 
d Ibid. p. 38.  a man of no worth, unruly, disordered, and a disobedient person, not to be favoured or respected by any, etc. Afterwards being freed from that prison, he went beyond Sea again, where he ended his days. He hath written,  
An answer to certain points of a Libel, called, An Apology of the Subordination in England. Par. 1603. oct. He had a considerable hand also in writing a book, intit.  
Declaratio motuum ac turbationum inter Jesuitas & Sacerdotes Seminariorum in Anglia. Rothomag. 1601. in qu. Set out under the name of one Joh. Much a Yorkshire man born, and a learned Priest, who engaged himself much in composing the differences that happened among the Priests and Jesuits in Wisbich Castle. Dr. Bagshaw had also a hand in,  
A true relation of the Faction began at Wisbich by Father Edmunds alias Weston a Jesuit, 1595, and continued since by Father Walley alias Garnet, the Provincial of the Jesuits in England, and by Fa. Persons in Rome.— Printed 1601. qu. This Dr. Bagshaw died and was buried at Paris after the year sixteen hundred twenty and five, 
clar. 1●25.  as I have been informed by Franc. à Sancta Clara, who remembered and knew the Doctor well, but had forgotten the exact time of his death.  
JOHN GEE, the Son of a Minister of Devon, but whether of John or George Gee, whom I have before mentioned in Edw. Gee, under the year 1618. I cannot justly say, was entered into Brasnose coll. in 1613. aged 16. where making no long stay, he entered himself a Batler among his Countrymen of Exeter college, and having holy Orders conferred on him, after he had taken one degree in Arts, became beneficed at Newton near to Winwick in Lancashire, of which last place Mr. Josias Horn being then Parson, Gee had oftentimes several conferences with him concerning matters of Religion; but they savouring much of a mind inclining to Popery, Mr. Horn and the neighbouring Ministers concluded among themselves, that he had changed his Religion before he had left that place. Thence taking his rambles, he retired to London, and became acquainted with the noted persons of the R. Cath. Persuasion that then lived there. But at length being moved to leave them, and his opinions newly embraced, by the urgent letters of his Father, and by the valid reasons concerning the vanity (as he termed it) of that Religion by Dr. Abbot Archb. of Canterbury, (who sent for him upon notice received that he had been at the doleful Evensong in the Blackfriars in London, 26. Oct. 1623.) became a bitter Enemy to the Romanists, and studied to do them what mischief he could by these books following.  
The Foot out of the Snare: with a detection of sundry late practices and impostures of the Priests and Jesuits in England, etc. Lond. 1624. qu.  
A gentle excuse to Mr. Greg. Musket for styling him Jesuit.— These two, which go, and are joined together, were printed four times in the said year 1624. because all the copies, or most of them, were bought up by R. Catholics before they were dispersed, for fear their lodgings, and so consequently themselves, should be found out and discovered, by the catalogues of all such Priests, Jesuits, Popish Physicians, Chirurgeons, etc. with the names of the streets, lanes, etc. in London, where they mostly lived, which were printed at the end of the Gentle Excuse before-mentioned. Our author Gee hath also written and published,  
Hold fast: Sermon at Paul's Cross on Rev. 3. 11. Lond. 1624. qu.  
New shreds of the old Snare; containing the apparitions of two Female Ghosts, the copies of divers letters, etc. especially Indulgences purchased at Rome, etc. Lond. 1624. q●. For the publishing of which books, and for his mutability of mind, he was very much blamed by both parties, especially by those of the Rom. persuasion, as I have been several times informed by a grave Bach. of Diu. Mr. Rich. Washbourne Chanter of Ch. Ch. in Oxon, who had been his contemporary in Exeter coll. Which person having known Gee well, and what he was, as to his life and conversation, blamed the writer of this book much, for honouring the memory of such a sorry fellow as he was, in Hist. & Antiq. Vniu. Oxon. He was afterwards beneficed at Tenterden in Kent, 
Clar 1625.  where he died and was buried, but when, I cannot yet tell, leaving then behind him a young Brother named Orlando Gee, afterwards a Knight. One Joh. Gee was Minister of Dunsford in Devon, who died about the beginning of 1631. leaving a Relict behind him called Sarah. Which Joh. Gee was perhaps Father to the aforesaid Joh. Gee the writer. Qu.  
RICHARD VERSTEGAN, or as some call him Rich. Rowland, a great reviver of our English antiquities, and a most admirable Critic in the Saxon and Gothick languages, aught with all due ceremony to crave a place among these writers, not only because he is little remembered among authors, but also for that he had received part of his education among the Oxonians. His Grandfather who was called Theodore Rowland Verstegan, was born 
* See Rich. Verstegans epist, to the renowned English Nation, set before his book, intit. A restitution of decayed intelligence, etc.  in the Duchy of Gelderlandt, and there descended of an ancient and worshipful Family. From which Duchy, when it had been much ruined, wasted, and depopulated by the intestine Wars there raised, and continued by Charles Duke thereof, and Philip the Archduke, and Charles the fifth his Son, he the said Verstegan being then a young man, and deprived of his Friends in the said Wars, came into England about the latter end of Hen. 7. and there married, and soon after died, leaving behind him a Son but nine months' old, which gave cause of making his fortune meaner, than else it might have been. Afterwards when the said Son grew up to be about 16 years of age, he was bound an Apprentice to a Cooper: Nor is this any discredit, Wolfgangus Musculus his Father being of that Trade. This Cooper was Father to our author Rich. Verstegan, born in the Parish of St. Catherine, (near to the Tower of London,) where his Parent mostly lived, and gained so comfortable a subsistence by his Trade, that he made shift to give his Son ingenious and Grammatical education, which being improved by Academical in his University, where he was mostly known by the name of Rowland, became esteemed for some parts of learning that were not then among the Academians regarded. Afterwards to avoid Oaths, he left the University without a degree, and being by that time a zealous R. Catholic, he left England, went into the Spanish Netherlands, and settled at Antwerp, where he composed,  
Theatrum crudelitatum Hereticorum nostri temporis. Antw. 1592. qu. in 12 sh. Whether ever printed before, as some say it was, I cannot tell. This book is full of Cuts, representing the hanging, quartering, and beheading, or butchering of Popish Martyrs, engraven from the delineations made with the Pen of Verstegan, who was observed, while in England, to be much delighted in drawing and painting. The verses under, to explain the meaning of, them, were made by one Joh. Bochius born at Bruxills, and then (1592.) Register, if I mistake not, at Antwerp. Afterwards, the Rebellious League beginning, he conveyed himself and books to Paris, where the English Ambassador complained 
‖ Gul. Barclay in lib. suo cui tit. est De regno & regali potestate adversus Buchananum, Brutum, Bo●rchierum & reliquos Monarchomacoes, etc. Par. 1600. lib. 6. cap. 7. p. 438, 439. See in Hen. Foulis his Hist. of Romish Treasons and Usurpations, lib. 7. cap.. 2.  of him to K. Hen. 3. and desired that he being born a Subject to the Q. of England, and then a Fugitive, and one that had abused her by his representation of Cruelties, he might be delivered into his hands, to be sent to England, there to receive reward. And the Ambassador had reason for his request, if that be true which is reported, 
† Ib. in Gul. Barclay ut sup.  that K. Hen. 3. was so much possessed with those cruel pictures, and did put so much credit in them, that he accused Q. Elizabeth of great cruelty, calling her wicked and cruel woman. Yet at the Ambassadors desire Verstegan was imprisoned; at which Jean Bouchier that active firebrand of the League is not a little 
* See in a book intit. De justa Henrici 3 abdicatione▪ etc. Lugd. 1591. oct. lib. 2. cap. 16. p. 123.  troubled, and layeth it as an heretical fault on K. Hen. 3. At length Verstegan is released, quits France and returns to Antwerp, where, as 'tis said, he reprinted his book, exercised the Trade of Printing, and by his rising up only (as one 
b The author of a Pamphlet against the Jesuits, intit. Another l●tter of Mr. A. C. to his dis●esuited kinsman concerning 〈◊〉 appeal, 〈…〉 & ●▪ Printed 1602. qu. p. ●●.  tell us) by Brocage and Spierie for the Hispanished Jesuits, lived then and there (1602.) as if he were an Hidalgo, as who may not be a Gentleman, who lives so far from home, where he is not known, etc. At that time, and before, the Jesuits and Secular Priests falling out in England, each party defended itself by the Pen. In this quarrel Verstegan concerns himself, joining with the Jesuits, and writing in their behalf, though not one of their number, but rather a Secular, showing himself as zealous a railer as the best of them: And indeed never was there quarrel composed, of so many hard words, either side considered, yet whether Verstegan hath published any of his rail, or whether they are done in other books, I cannot tell, for I have seen nothing of that nature. Sure I am that about the death of Q. Elizabeth he employed his studies on a more noble subject, which being finished, he published it under this title.  
A restitution of decayed intelligence in antiquities concerning the most noble and renowned English Nation. Antw. 1605. qu. Before which, Rich. white of Basingstoke, and Rich. Stanyhurst (whom I have elsewhere mentioned) have commendatory verses. In this book are several cuts engraven from the representations drawn with great curiosity by him, which hath advantaged the sale of it much: And I am verily persuaded had the said book been published two years before, I mean before the first edition of Camden's Remaines, which first saw light in 1604. it would have been more cried up, and consequently would have sold more. But however, so it is, that the book hath been so much valued by learned and curious men in times following, that a second impression of it was made at Lond. 1653. in large oct. and another in 1674. oct. He hath also written.  
The sundry successive regal governments of the Realm of England, Antw. 1620. printed in one long sheet, wherein are the pictures of a Britain, Roman, Saxon, Dane and Norman, wrought off from a Copper plate: And was the same person, without doubt, with him, who writes himself R. V. author of Odes in imitation of the seven penitential Psalms, with sundry other Poems and Ditties bending to devotion and piety. Printed beyond the Sea in 1601. with the Jesuits mark in the title; for, as I have been informed, Verstegan had some skill in Poetry as well as in Painting. In the said Poems he toucheth on many matters of antiquity, and ancient Saints of England. The same R. V. also hath translated into English A dialogue of dying well. Antw. 1603. oct. written in Ital. by Don Peter of Luca a Can. regular and D. of D. and by the translator dedicated to the Lady Joan Berkley Abbess of the English Nuns of S. Benedict. in Brussels. The said Verstegan hath written and translated other things, but few of them coming into England, we seldom or never see them. He was living in good condition among the English at Antwerp who had fled for the sake of Religion, under the notion of a Spanish stipendiary (having several years before been married to so thirsty and prudent a woman, that she kept up his credit) 
Clar. 1625.  in the latter end of K. James, and beginning of K. Ch. 1. as one or more Letters written by him to the great Antiquary Sir Rob. Cotton (which I have seen in his Library) show. And thus much of Rich. Verstegan alias Rowland, of whom Will. Watson Priest will give 
* In his Quodlibets, p. 257.  you a sharp character, and another, stuff 
† The author of a pamphlet against the Jesuits, called Another Letter, etc. as before, p. 27, 28, 29, 30, 31.  enough (beyond the rules of charity) to run down a Dog.  
JOHN straddling, Son of Franc. straddling by Elizabeth his Wife, was born near to Bristol in Somersetshire, but descended from an ancient and Knightly family of his name, living at S. Donats in Glamorganshire, was educated in puerile learning under a learned and pious man named Edw. Green Prebendary of the Cath. Ch. at Bristol, became a Commoner of Brasnose coll. in 1579. aged 16. years or thereabouts, and in 1583. he took a degree in arts as a member of Magd. hall, being then accounted a miracle for his forwardness in learning and pregnancy of parts. Soon after his great worth being discovered in the Metropolis, while he continued in one of the Inns of Court (but especially after he had returned from his travels beyond the Seas) was courted and admired by the Learned Camden, Sir Joh. Harrington the Poet, Tho. Leyson mentioned before, under the year 1607. and above all, by that most noted Critic and Physician Dr. Jo. Dau. Rhese. He hath written and published,  
De vita & morte contemnenda, lib. 3. Francof. 1597. in oct. written to his Uncle Sir Edw. straddling of S. Donats, whom I have mentioned under the year 1609.  
Epigrammatum libri quatuor. Lond. 1607. in oct. Two years after he became heir to his Uncle before mentioned, settled at S. Donats' Castle, and was made a Baronet in 1611. at which time he was esteemed a wise and most learned Gentleman. Afterwards being involved in secular affairs and the services of his Country, was taken off from writing till the latter end of the reign of K. Jam. 1. at which time he published a book intit.  
Beati pacifici. Printed 1623. but whether in prose or verse I cannot tell, for I have not yet seen it. Afterwards he published,  
Divine Poems in seven several Classes, 
Clar. 1625.  written to K. Ch. 1. Lond. 1625. qu. At the end of which is an Epitaph made by him on K. Jam. 1. I have sent several times, to several persons in Wales, to have some account of this person, his last end, and his Epitaph, but no returns are yet made.  
ARTHUR LAKE, brother to Sir Tho. Lake Knight principal Secretary of State to K. Jam. 1. Son of Almeric Lake or du Lake of the ancient borough of Southampton, was born in S. Michael's parish, and educated for a time in the Free-School, there. Afterwards being transplanted to Wykehams' School to perfect his Grammar learning, was thence elected probationer Fellow of New coll. and after two years of Probation he was made perpetual Fellow thereof, an. 1589. Five years after that, he proceeded in Arts, entered into the sacred function, was made Fellow of Wykehams' coll. near to Winton, about 1600. and three years after Master of the hospital of S. Cross in the place of Dr. Rob. Bennet promoted to the See of Hereford. In 1605. he took the degrees in Divinity, and the same year he was installed Archdeacon of Surrey. Afterwards he was made Dean of Worcester in Apr. 1608. in the room of Dr. Jam. Monutague promoted to the See of Bath and Wells, and at length Bishop of those Cities; to which he was consecrated at Lambeth 8. Dec. 1616. In all these places of honour and employment, he carried himself the same in mind and person, showing by his constancy, that his virtues were virtues indeed▪ in all kind of which, whether natural, moral, Theological, personal, or pastoral, he was eminent, and indeed one of the examples of his time. He always lived a single man, exemplary in his life and conversation, and very hospitable. He was also well read in the Fathers and Schoolmen, and had such a command of the Scripture (which made him one of the best preachers) that few went beyond him in his time. The things that he hath written, were not by him published, but by his Friends, after his death; the titles of which follow.  
Exposition of the first Psalm.  
Exposition of the 51. Psalm.  
Nine Sermons on Matth. 22. verse 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40.  
Ten Serm. on Exod. 19  
Five Serm. at S. Mary's in Oxon. on Luke 3. ver. 7, 8, 9  
Eight Serm. on Isa. 9  
Six Serm. on Haggai 2.  
Sundry Sermons de tempore preached at Court.  
Meditations— All which being collected into a large volume, were printed under this general title. Sermons with religious and divine meditations. Lond. 1629. fol.  
Ten Sermons upon several occasions preached at S. Paul's Cross and elsewhere.▪ Lond. 1641. qu. The first is on Psal. 160. 29, 30. the second on Judas 5. etc. He died in sixteen hundred twenty and six, 
1626.:  and was buried in an Isle on the north side of the Choir of Wells Cathedral. Over his grave was soon after laid a plain stone, neither marble nor free, with this engraven on a brass plate fastened thereunto. Here lieth Author Lake Doctor in Divinity late Bishop of bath and Wells, who died on the fourth day of May, an. 1626. His brother Sir Thomas before mentioned, who was of Channous near Edgeworth in Middlesex, died at Chanous 17. Sept. 1630. and was buried on the 19 of the same month.  
JOHN DAVIES, the third person of both his names that I have hitherto mentioned among these writers, was born at Chisgrove in the parish of Tysbury in Wiltshire, being the Son of wealthy Tanner of that place, became a Commoner of Queen's coll. about the beginning of Mich. Term in the fifteenth year of his age, an. 1585. wherein, having laid a considerable foundation of Academical literature, partly by his own natural parts (which were excellent) and partly by the help of a good Tutor, he was removed (having taken a degree in Arts, as it seems) to the Middle Temple, wherein applying himself to the study of the Common Law, though he had no great genie to it, was in fine made a Barrister. But so it was that he being a high spirited young man, did, upon some little provocation or punctilio, bastinado Rich. Martin (afterwards Recorder of London) in the common Hall of the Middle Temple, while he was at Dinner. For which act being forthwith expelled, he retired for a time in private, lived in Oxon in the condition of a Sojourner, and followed his studies, though he wore a cloak. However among his serious thoughts, making reflections upon his own condition, which sometimes was an affliction to him, he composed that excellent Philosophical and Divine Poem called Nosce teipsum. Afterwards by the favour of Thomas Lord Ellesmore Lord Keeper of the Great Seal of England, he was again restored to his Chamber, was afterwards a Concellour, and a Burgess for that Parliament which was held at Westminster in 1601. Upon the death of Q. Elizabeth, he, with the Lord Hunsdon, went into Scotland to congratulate K. James as her Lawful Successor; and being introduced into his presence, the King enquired the names of those Gentlemen who were in the company of the said Lord, and naming Joh. Davies among, who stood behind, them, the King straightway asked, whether he was Nosce Teipsum? and being answered that he was the same, he graciously embraced him, and thenceforth had so great favour for, that soon after he made, him his Attorney-general in Ireland. While he held that place, he was made Sergeant at Law, (having never been Reader,) an. 1606. the Poesy of whose Rings that were then given, being Lex publica lux est. Notwithstanding the said degree, he returned into Ireland by his Majesty's leave and dispensation, kept his office of Attorney, and received the honour of Knighthood from his Majesty at Whitehall, 11. Feb. 1607. Afterwards he came into England for altogether, was made one of his Maj. Sergeants at Law here, in 1612. and sundry times appointed one of the Justices of the Assize in divers Circuits. At length being constituted Lord Ch. Justice of the King's Bench, had his robes made in order to be settled in that high office, as his Daughter 
a Lucy Countess of Huntingd●n.  hath several times reported, but died suddenly before the ceremony of settlement or installation could be performed. He was held in great esteem by the noted Scholars of his time, among whom were Will. Camden, Sir Jo. Harrington the Poet, Ben. Johnson, Jo. Selden, Facete Hoskyns, R. Corbet of Ch. Ch. and others, who esteemed him to be a person of a bold Spirit, of a sharp and ready wit, and completely learned, but in truth more a Scholar than a Lawyer. His works are,  
Nosce Teipsum. This Oracle expounded in two Elegies, 1. Of Humane Nature. 2. Of the Soul of Man. Lond. 1599 qu. dedicated to Q. Elizabeth. There again 1622. in oct.  
Hymus of Astrea, in Acrostic verse.— Printed with the former.  
Orchestra. Or a Poem expressing the antiquity and excellency of dancing, in a dialogue between Penelope and one of her Wooers, containing 131 Stanza's, unfinished.— This being also printed with Nosce Teipsum, they were all three, especially the first, much extolled by Scholars of all sorts. Among them I find one, who hath dealt poetically with him by an ingenious copy of verses, which begins thus, Si tua legisset, redivivus, etc. 
If Plato lived and saw these Heaven bred lines,  
Where thou the Essence of the Soul confines,   
Or merry Marshal, etc.— Sir Jo. Harrington also before-mentioned would not let his memory escape his Pen without an 
b In his second book of Epigrams, numb. 67.  Epigram, especially for his Orchestra, besides other Poets of those times, which for brevity-sake I shall now pass by.  
Discover of the true causes why Ireland was never entirely subdued, nor brought under obedience of the Crown of England, until the beginning of his Maj. happy Reign. Lond. 1612. qu. Dedic. to the King with this Latin verse only. Principis est virtus maxima nosse suos.  
Declaration of our Sovereign Lord the King, etc. concerning the title of his Maj. Son Charles, the Prince, and Duke of Cornwall, etc. Lond. 1614 in 14 sh. in fol. Printed in columns, one in French and the other in English.  
Le primer Reports des cases & matters on lay resolves, etc. adjudges in les Courts del Roy en Ireland. Dubl. 1615. Lond. 1628. fol. In the sec▪ edit. was added a Table, which was not in the former. From this book it was, that Sir Joh. Pettus Knight, did chiefly select matter for another, intit. England's independency upon the Papal Power, historically and judiciously stated by Sir Jo, Davies Attorn. Gen. in Ireland, and by Sir Edw. Coke L. Ch. Just. of England in two reports, selected from their great volumes, with a Pref. written by Sir Joh. Pettus. Lond. 1674. qu.  
Perfect abridgement of the eleven books of Reports of Sir Edw. Coke. Lond. 1651. in tw. written in French by Sir Joh. Davies, translated into English by another hand.  
Jus imponendi vectigalia. Or, the learning touching Customs, Tonnage, Poundage, and Impositions on Merchandizes, etc. asserted, etc. Lond. 1656. 59 etc. oct. I find one Sir J. D. Knight, to have published, Reason's Academy. Or, a new post with Sovereign Salve to cure the world's madness; expressing himself in several essays and witty discourses. Lond. 1620. oct. Written in prose, and at the end of it is Reason's moan, written in verse in eleven Stanza's. Whether the said Sir J. D. be the same with Sir Joh. Davies, I cannot justly tell. Besides the before-mentioned things (as also Epigrams, as 'tis said) which were published by, and under the name of, Sir Joh. Davies, are several MSS. of his writing and composing, which go from hand to hand, as, (1) Metaphrase of several of K. David's Psalms. (2) A large Epistle to Rob. E. of Salisbury of the state of the Counties of Monaghan, Fennanagh, and Down, and of Justices of the Peace, and other Officers of Ireland, written 1607. (3) Speech when he was Speaker of the H. of Commons in Ireland, before Arthur L. Chichester, Visc. Belfast, L. Lieutenant of Ireland, 21. May 1613. These two last, were in the Library of Sir Jam. Ware of Ireland, and are now, if I mistake not, in that of the Earl of Clarendon. (4) An argument upon the question of impositions, digested and divided in sundry chapters. This was in the Library once of Rich. Smith, Secondary of the Poultry-Compter, and with it was bound up an Answer thereunto.— Fol. But the question is, whether this argument be not part of, or involved in, Sir John's Jus imponendi vectigalia before-mentioned. At length he died suddenly in his house in the Strand near to London, in the 57 year of his age, for being well at night, when he went to rest, he was on Thursday morning, year 1626. the seventh of December, in sixteen hundred twenty and six, found dead in his bed, by an Apoplexy, as 'twas said. It was then commonly rumoured that his Prophetical Lady had foretold his death in some manner, on the Sunday going before. For while she sat at Dinner by him, she suddenly burst out with tears: Whereupon he ask her what the matter was, she answered, Husband these are your Funeral tears; to which he made reply, Pray therefore spare your tears now, and I will be content that you shall laugh when I am dead. Her name was Elinor Touchet, youngest Daughter to George Lord Audley Earl of Castlehaven, and what she usually predicted, she folded up for the most part in dark expressions, received from a voice, which she frequently heard, as she used to tell her Daughter Lucy, and she others. By this Elinor, Sir Joh. Davies had Issue a Son, who was a natural Idiot, and dying young, the Father made an Epitaph of 4 verses on him, beginning, Hic in visceribus terrae, etc. So that the said Lucy being sole Heiress to her Father, Ferdinando Lord Hastings (afterwards Earl of Huntingdon) became a Suitor to her for Marriage; whereupon the Father made this Epigram. 
Lucida vis oculos teneri perstrinxit amantis  
Nec tamen erravit, nam via dulcis erat.   
After the body of Sir John had laid in state for some time, it was conveyed to the Church of St. Martin in the Fields near to Whitehall, where it was solemnly interred in the South Isle. Soon after was a monument fastened to the Pillar near his grave, with a large inscription on it, part of which runs thus, Vir ingenio compto, rarâ facundiâ, oratione cum solutâ tum numeris astrictâ, faelicissimus; juridicam severitatem morum elegantiâ, & amaeniore erudition mitigavit: Patronus fidus, judex incorruptus, ingenuae pietatis amore, & anxiae superstitionis contemptu, juxta insignis, etc. Obiit 8. Id. Dec. 1626. His Widow afterwards lived mostly at Parton in Hertfordshire, had her Strange and wonderful Prophecies.— Printed in qu. an. 1649. and dying in St. Bride's Parish in London, 5. Jul. 1652. was buried near to the relics of her Husband, and soon after had a large Epitaph of commendations put over her grave. You may see more of her and her Prophecies in the History of the life and death of Dr. Will. Laud Archb. of Cant. Part. 2. lib. 4. an. 1634. See also in the Diary, or Breviat of the life of the said Archb.— Printed 1644. p. 18. One Joh. Davies, a Bencher of the Inner Temple, was buried against the Communion Table, in the Temple Church, 20. Aug. 1631. What relation he had to the former, or whether he collected or published Reports, I know not.  
EDMUND GUNTER, was a Hertfordshire man 
* Reg. Matri●. Uniu. Oxon. P. pag. 31▪  born, but descended originally from those of his name living at Gunterstown in Brecknockshire, elected from Westminster School a Student of Ch. Church 1599 aged 18. where going through with great industry the several Classes of Logic and Philosophy, took the degrees in Arts. Afterwards he entered into the Theological Faculty, became a Minister of God's word, and in 1615. he was admitted to the reading of the Sentences. But his excellencies being above all, in the Mathematic Arts, he was made Astronomy Professor of Gresham coll. (before he was Bach. of Diu.) in the place of Edw. Breerewood deceased. Where being settled he acted much for the public by his profession, as well by writing as teaching. His works are,  
Of the Sector, Cross Staff and other Instruments. Lond. 1624. 36. qu.  
Canon Triangulorum, five tabulae sinuum artificialium ad radium 10000,0000. & ad scrupula prima quadrantis. Lond. 1620. oct. This being Englished, was with the former book, published by Sam. Foster Astronomy Professor of Gresham coll. (sometimes a Member of that of Emanuel in Cambr.) with a tract of his own, called, The use of the Quadrant. Lond. 1624. 53. qu. The fifth edition of these works of Gunter was diligently corrected, and had divers necessary things and matters (pertinent thereunto) added, throughout the whole work not before printed, by Will. Leybourne sometimes a Printer, and afterwards an eminent Mathematician.— Lond. 1673. qu. What these additions are, the said Leybourne acquaints us in his Epistle before the said works: Wherein he takes notice of some Plagiaries, who had then lately thrown into the World several tractates extracted (or rather transcribed) from Mr. Gunter, without the least mention of their true author. Some questions in Navigation are added to these works, by Hen. Bond teacher of the Mathematics at Ratcliff near London, and to that was then (1673.) added, The description and use of another Sector and Quadrant; both of them invented by Sam. Foster beforementioned. What other things our author Gunter hath written, I know not, unless one, two, or more parts of Dialling, which I have not yet seen. He concluded his last day in Gresham coll. year 1626. in sixteen hundred twenty and six, and was buried on the eleventh of December in the same year, in the Parish of St. Peter le Poor within the City of London. See more of him in Edm. Wingate, whom I shall hereafter mention under the year 1656.  
THOMAS WORTHINGTON, Son of Rich. Worthington by Dorothy his Wife, Dau. of Tho. Charnock of Charnock in Lanc. was born at Blainscough near to Wygan in that County, and being fitted for the Uniu. in those parts, he was sent to Ox. about 1566. but to what house of learning, unless to Brasnose coll. I cannot tell. After he had been drudging in the studies of Logic and Philosophy for about 4 years, he took a degree in Arts, which being completed by Determination, he left the University, his Country, and Friends, and crossed the Seas to Douai, where he was received with great humanity into the English college, in Feb. 1572-73. Soon after he took upon him the Priesthood, and in 1577. he was promoted to the degree of Bach. of Divinity, and the year after being translated to the English college at Rheimes, was thence sent into England to gain Proselytes, but being taken at Islington near to London, in the house of my Progenitor Rich. à Wood his Friend and Countryman, an. 1584. was committed Prisoner to the Tower of London, where remaining some months, was at length released, set on Shipboard with Dr. Jasp. Heywood, Edw. Rishton, Joh. Colleton, and others, and wa●ted over the Seas to the coast of Normandy, where they were left to shift for themselves. In 1587. he being about to return into England, he was sent by Cardinal Alan to Sir will. Stanley a Colonel, to whose Regiment in the Low Countries he was by him made Chaplain. In 1588. he was promoted to the degree of D. of D. in the University of Trier in Germany, and in 89. he was sent for to Douai by the Jesuits (whom he was always afraid to offend) to assist Dr. Rich. Barret Precedent of the English college, in the Government of that place. In 91. he was sent to Brussels, and remitted to the Camp, to exercise the office of Chaplain again; where, with other Exiles, they acted 
* See Camden's Annals of Q. Eliz. under the year 1594.  many things which tended much to the destruction of the Q. of England, and not long after returned to Douai again, and by the command of Cardinal Cajetan, Protector of the English Nation, he was made Precedent of the English coll. there, ann. 1599 At length being grown old and unfit to govern, returned into England, lived sometimes in London and sometimes in Staffordshire. But that which is to be farther noted of him is, that having for the most part of his life lived in the habit of a Secular Priest, did about six months before his death take upon him the order and habit belonging to the Society of Jesus. His works are,  
Annotations on the Old Testament. Duac. 1609. in two Tomes in qu.  
Catalogus Martyrum pro Religione Catholicâ in Angliâ ●●●isorum ab an. 1570. ad an. 1612. Printed 1612. and 14. in oct. Before which book is,  
Narratio de origine Seminariorum, & de Missione Sacerdo●um in Anglia. This Catalogue and Narration, taken mostly from a collection, intit. Concertatio Eccl. Catholicae in Anglia, etc. could not be sold more than for six pence when it was published, (for it contains but 4 sheets in oct.) yet in 1682. when the choice Library of Mr. Rich. Smith (mentioned before in Sir Joh. Davies) was sold by way of Auction, Dr. Tho. Marshal Dean of Gloucester, and Rector of Linc. coll. gave eleven shillings and six pence, being then great bidding for, before he could get, it.  
The Anchor of Christian Doctrine, wherein the most principal points of Christian Religion, are proved by the only written word of God, etc. Douai 1622. in two thick quartos, containing four parts, viz. the first vol. one, the other three. These two quartos were, as one 
† 〈…〉 the end of his 〈…〉  saith, printed at London, and sold by the author in his lodgings in Turnbull-street for 14 shillings, which might have been afforded for five.  
The Mysteries of the Rosary.— This I have not yet seen. He also corrected and translated the Douai Bibles, and translated into Lat. and published, Anti-Haeretica motiva, etc. written by Rich. Bristol.— Attrebat. 1608. in two Tomes in qu. before which he hath put a lame account of the author. This person Tho. Worthington who was esteemed very learned among those of his persuasion, and had hazarded his life, and done great service for the Cause, did quietly lay down his head, and submit himself to the stroke of death in the house of one Bidulph, Esq of Bidulph, commonly called Biddles in Staffordshire (near to Congleton in Cheshire,) year 1626. about sixteen hundred twenty and six, and was buried in the Parochial Church there, (as I have been informed by one of his Society who was well acquainted with him,) having some years before his death been made titular Archdeacon of Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire.  
ALEXANDER SPICER, a Minister's Son, and a Somersetshire man born, became a Batler of Exeter coll. in 1590. aged about 15. took one degree in Arts, was made Fellow of that house and proceeded in his Faculty. At length entering into the Sacred Function, was a Preacher for some years in these parts: Afterwards upon an invitation, he went into Ireland, where by the savour of Sir Arthur Chichester Baron of Belfast, and L. Dep. of that Country, he became well beneficed and dignified, and in great estimation for his learning. He hath published,  
David's Petition, on Psal. 19 13. Lond. 1616. oct.  
The Pope at Babylon. Serm. on the 5. of Nou. at Colerain in the North of Ireland, on Dan. 3. 6. Lond. 1617.  
Elegies on the death of Arthur Lord Chichester, etc.— Printed 1625. which Lord dying much about the time that K. Jam. 1. of England died, was buried at 〈◊〉 in Ireland, to the great grief of his Country, because it was in such a time that it most required his assistance▪ courage, and wisdom, which are often at odds, and seldom meet, yet in him shook hands as friends, and challenged an equal share in his perfections. 
Clar 1626.  Other things were written and published by the said A. Spicer, as some of the 〈◊〉 of his coll. have informed me, but such I have not yet s●en, nor do I know any thing besides of the 〈…〉 he left behind him the 〈…〉 lid Divine.  
WILLIAM PELHAM, the eldest Son of Sir Will. Pelham of Brocklesby in Lincolnshire, Master of the Ordnance, by Elinor his Wife, Daughter of 〈…〉 of 〈◊〉, was born in London, (near, or 〈…〉) became Fellow-Commoner of New coll, in the beginning of 1582. aged 14. continued a sedulous Student there, for at least two years, in a Chamber within one of the turrets of the College wall that encompasses the Garden. Afterwards he traveled and improved his learning in the Universities of Strasburg, Heidelburg, Wittenburg, and Lipswick in Germany, as also in Paris and Geneva, and returning to his native Country, settled again for a time in this University, till Mars distracted him from the studies of Minerva, as he himself used to say. But when that Planet was set, he retired to a Country lise at Brocklesby, where after he had received satiety of all worldly blessings, did, in his old age, incline his heart to more supernatural contemplations. Which being by him committed to writing, for the benefit of his Children, (of which he had plenty,) were published under this title,  
Meditations upon the Gospel of S. John. Lond. 1625. in tw. and other things, as his Son Dr. Herbert Pelham, sometimes Fellow of Magd. coll. hath told me, but whether printed I know not. 
Clar. 1626.  This Sir Will. Pelham, who was Knighted by K. Jam. 1. at Newmarket, 20. Nou. 1616. lived after the publication of that book, two, three, or more years, but when he died I cannot yet find. Among the Sons that he left behind him was Hen. Pelham one, sometimes a Student in this University, afterwards in one of the Inns of Court, and a Barrister. At length being chosen a Burgess for Grantham in Lincolnshire to serve in that unhappy Parliament which began at Westminster 3. Nou. 1640. sided with the Presbyterians, and was by that party elected Speaker of the House of Commons, when the Independent-party fled with Will. Lenthal their Speaker to the Head Quarter of the Army, then at Windsor, 30. Jul. 1647. In which office he continued but till the 6. of Aug. following, at what time the General of the Army (Fairfax) restored Lenthall to his Chair, but suffered Pelham to keep his Recordership of Lincoln City, which he had conferred upon him by the Presbyterians upon the ejection of Sir Charles Dalison.  
JOHN TERRY received his first breath at LongSutto● in Hampshire, was elected Probationer Fellow▪ of New college from Winchester School, in 1574. and two years after he was made complete Fellow. In 1582. he proceeded in Arts, and about 8 years after had the Parsonage of Stockton (in Wilts) conferred upon him, where he always expressed himself a zealous Enemy against the R. Catholics not only in his Lectures and Sermons, but also in his writings; the titles of which follow.  
Theological Logic: Or, the trial of truth containing a discovery of the chiefest points of the doctrine of the great Antichrist, and his Adherents the false Teachers of the times. Oxon. 1600. qu. In 1602. was published the second part of Theol. Logic, and in 1625. the third part, both in qu. and the last dedicated to the B. of Bath and Wells.  
Reasonableness of wise and holy truth, and the absurdity of foolish and wicked error, Serm. on Joh. 17. ver. 17. Oxon. 1617. qu.  
Defence of Protestancy, 
Clar. 1626.  proving that the Protestants Religion hath the promise of Salvation, etc. Lond. 1635. second edition. Before which time the author was dead.  
ANTHONY HUNGERFORD, Son of Anth. Hungerford of Dewne-Ampu●y in Gloucestershire, by Bridget his Wife, Daughter of one Shelley a Judge, was educated in this University (with other R. Catholics,) but for a short time, for his Father being much troubled with the incumbrancer of his Estate, and therefore could not well look after the Son, the Mother, who was a zealous Papist, caused him to be trained up in her Religion from his Childhood. So that carrying his opinion on till 1584. about which time he had left Oxon, being then 20 years of age, staggered somewhat in his opinion upon the reading of Capians book called Decem rationes, wherein he found some undecent passages, but confirmed in his mind soon after by Mr. Tho. Neale of Cassington near Woodstock in Oxfordshire, and at length totally settled by one Twiford a Priest or Jesuit, who was brought to him by George Etheridge a Physician of Oxon. In this settled course he held on till the beginning of the year 1588. at which time it pleased God (as he said) to make a hand that had given the wound, the means to make good the cure, when it aimed at a further mischief, being occasioned mostly from certain words unwarily dropped from one Hopton a Priest, and his acquaintance, concerning an invasion then about to be made, for the relief chiefly of Rom. Catholics, who laid under the heavy hand (as they said) of Q. Elizabeth. In 1594. one of both his names was actually created Master of Arts, and 'tis supposed that he was the person, because he had formerly spent some time in this University. In 1607. he received the honour of Knighthood, and about that time, (being then of Blackbourton near Witney in Oxfordshire,) wrote,  
The advice of a Son professing the Religion established in the present Church of England to his dear Mother a Rom. Catholic. Oxon. 1639. qu. Which book lying by him till his death, and several years after in his Cabinet, his Son Sir Edw. Hungerford carried it at length (upon a sight, as he thought, of the increase of Popery in England) to one of the Chaplains of Dr. Laud Archb. of Canterbury to have it licenced, an. 1635. but he refusing so to do, because there 
* See in 〈…〉 etc.  were several offensive passages in it against the Papists, he therefore got it to be printed at Oxon, and added to it another thing of his Father's writing, intit.  
The memorial of a Father to his dear Children, containing an acknowledgement of God's great mercy, in bringing him to the profession of the true Religion, at this present established in the Church of England.— Finished and completed for the Press at Blackbourton, in Apr. 1627. This person who hath written other matters of the like nature, but not printed, gave way to fate about the latter end of June in sixteen hundred twenty and seven, year 1627. and was buried in the Church at Blackbourton. He left behind him Issue, by his Wife Lucy, Daughter of Sir Walt. Hungerford of Farley Castle in Somersetshire, Sir Edward Hungerford, who had Issue another Edward, made Knight of the Bath at the Coronation of K. Ch. 2. who most unworthily squandered away the Estate of his Ancestors.  
JOHN DAY, Son of a famous Printer of both his names in the Reign of Q. Elizabeth, was born near, or over, Aldersgate in London, entered a Commoner of S. Alban hall in 1582. aged 16. elected Fellow of Oriel coll. in 1588. being then Bach. of Arts, proceeded in that Faculty, entered into holy Orders, and became the most frequent and noted Preacher in the University. In the beginning of the Reign of K. Jam. 1. he, with leave from his Society, traveled for 3 years beyond the Seas, whereby he improved himself much in learning and experience, and, as I was about to say, in Calvinism. After his return he was made Vicar of S. Mary's Church in Oxon, in Jan. 1608. where, by his constant and painful Preaching, he obtained great love and respect not only from those of the University but City. But missing the Provostship of his Coll. upon the resignation of Mr. Will. Lewis, in 1621. he left his Fellowship and Vicarage in the year following, and by the favour of Sir Will. S●ame Knight became Minister of one of the Thirlows (Great Thirlow I think) in Suffolk; where he continued to his dying day, not without some discontent for the loss of the said Provostship. He was a person of great reading, and was admirably well versed in the Fathers, Schoolmen, and Counsels. He was also a plain Man, a primitive Christian, and wholly composed, as 'twere, to do good in his Function. His works are these.  
Several Sermons, as, (1) David's desire to go to Church, in two Sermons on Psal. 27. 4. Ox. 1612. oct. and 1615. qu. (2) Day's Festivals; or, twelve of his Sermons. Ox. 1615. qu. The first of which is of our Saviour's Nativity, on Esa. 9 6. To these twelve Sermons, are added,  
Several fragments concerning both the Sacraments in general, and the Sacrament of the Supper in particular.— He hath also written,  
Day's Dial, or his twelve hours, that is twelve Lectures by way of Catechism, as they were delivered in Oriel coll. Chappel, an 1612. and 13. Oxon. 1614 qu.  
Conciones ad Cierum, viz. (1) In 2. Reg. 6. ver. 1, 2, 3, 4. Oxon. 1612. and 1615. qu. (2) I● Joh. 9 4. Oxon. 1612. qu.  
Commentaries on the first eight Psalms of David. Ox. 1620. year 1627. qu. He concluded his last day in sixteen hundred twenty and seven, and was buried in his Church of Thirlow before mentioned. I find another John Day, who was a flourishing Poet and Comedian of his time, author of (1) The Isle of Gulls, Comedy. Lond. 1606. qu. (2.) Law-tricks; or, who would have thought it, Com. Lond. 1608. qu. (3.) Blind Beggar of Rednal-Green, with the merry humour of Tom Strewed the Norfolk Yeoman. Com. Lond. 1639. qu. (4.) Humour out of breath. Com. (5). The Parliament of Bees, with their proper characters. Or, a Beehive furnished with 12. honeycombs, etc. 'Tis a Poem, and was reprinted in 1641. qu. He was also one of three (Will. Rowley and George Wilkins being the other two) who wrote The Travels of the three English Brothers Sir Thom. Sir Auth. and Mr. Robert, Shirley. Lond. 1607. qu. 'Tis a Com. or Trag. Com. containing an Epitome of the vol. of their Travels in a compendious Abstract. But the said Joh. Day the Comedian, I take to be the same person, who was sometimes a Member of Caeius coll. in Cambridge, which is all I yet know of him. I find a third John Day author of A case of Conscience resolved concerning Ministers meddling with State matters. Printed 1649. qu. And of the same more satisfactorily resolved. Pr. 1650. qu. But whether he was ever an Academian I cannot tell, though one of both his names was matriculated as member of Ch. Ch. 1631.  
THOMAS WENTWORTH, an Esquires Son, was born in Oxfordshire, of the family of the Wentworths living in Northamptonshire, entered a Commoner or Gent. Com. of University coll. in 1584. aged about 17. translated thence after 3 years standing to Lincoln's Inn, where drudging at the Common Law was made a Barrister. In the month of Sept. 1607. he was elected by the Citizens of Oxon. their Recorder, upon the death of the former, and in 1611. he became Lent-Reader of the said Inn, being then a person of a considerable note among those of his profession. In several Parliaments during the reign of K. James and in the beginning of Ch. 1. he was constantly elected a Burgess to serve in them by the Citizens of Oxon. In one or more of which, showing himself a troublesome and factious person, was more than once imprisoned. While he was Recorder of the said City, he behaved himself so turbulent, that at length he being notoriously known to be 
a Reg. Congr. & Convoc. Un. Oxon. K. fol. 70. a & 72. b.  a most malicious and implacable fomenter and author of divers troubles between the University and City, he was by the prime Magistrate of the said University, with the consent of the Convocation, discommoned, 1611. At the same time also, it was decreed that he should be 
b Ibid. fol. 70. b.  registered to all Posterity por intensissimo & inimicissimo viro Vniversitati Oxon. After he continued discommoned for two whole years or more, he was upon his earnest desire restored to his former estate. But being of a restless spirit, he returned to his former trade: Whereupon his friends persuading him to leave Oxon for a time, to prevent his utter ruin, he retired to a Market Town called Henly in Oxfordshire, and soon after, viz. 20. Jac. 1. Mr. Joh. Whistler was appointed by the Citizens to be his Deputy in the Recordship. This Mr. Tho. Wentworth hath written,  
The office and duty of Executors; or, a treatise of Wills and Executors directed to Testators, in the choice of their Executors, and contrivance of their Wills, with directions for Executors, in the execution of their office, etc. Lond. 1612. oct. etc. Afterwards was added to it an Appendix, wherein are the nature of Testaments, Executors, Legataries general, and divers other material things relating to the same, by T. M. Esq; what other books he hath written I know not, any thing else of him, only that he ended his days, in or near Lincoln's Inn, as it seems, in the Month of Sept. year 1617. in sixteen hundred twenty seven, leaving behind him a Son named Thomas, and others, and a Nephew then called Sir Peter Wentworth. In his Recordership was elected Mr. John Whistler his Deputy before mentioned, on Monday before the feast of S. Matthew the Apostle, 3. Car. 1.  
MATTHEW GWINNE, Son of Edw. Gwinne an inhabitant of London, but originally of Wales, by Elizabeth Thayer his Wife, was elected Scholar of S. John's coll. (of which he was afterwards perpetual Fellow) an. 1574. took the degrees in Arts, entered on the Physic line, and practised that faculty for some time in these parts. At length being designed for an employment of considerable trust, he was actually created Doctor thereof, and soon after went in the quality of a Physician to the honourable Sir Hen. unton Kt. Leaguer Ambassador to the K. of France from Qu. Elizabeth. After his return he was designed Physician to the Tower of London, was elected Medicine Professor of Gresham coll. and made one of the college of Physicians. In his younger years he was much admired for his great skill and dexterity in Poetry, in Philosophical disputes, humane and profane learning, but above all for the modern Languages, which he obtained in his Travels into various Countries; and in his elder years for his happy success in the practice of Physic, which made him highly valued in the great City, but more by far among the nobility in the Royal Court. He hath written,  
Epicedium in obitum illustriss. Herois Henrici Comitis Derbiensis, etc. Oxon. 1593. qu.  
Nero, Tragaedia. Lond. 1603. commended by Just. Lipsius' in one of his books.  
Orationes duae habitae in Aedibus Gresham in Laudem Dei Civ. etc. Lond. 1605. qu.  
Vertumnus, sive Annus recurrens Oxonii, an. 1605. etc. Lond. 1607. qu. 'Tis a Latin Comedy, and was acted by the Society of S. John's with great applause before K James, Prince Henry, and their Courts, 29. Aug. 1605. See more in Rex platonicus, at the end of the Acts of the third day.  
Aurum non aurum; sive Adversaria in assertorem chymiaes, sed verae medicinae desertorem Franc. Anthonium. Lond. 1611. qu. This Francis Anthony, who was a great Paracelsian, and Son of a Goldsmith of London, belonging to the Jewelhouse of Qu. Elizabeth; was born in that City 16. Ap. 1550. but whether he received any Academical education in this University, it doth not yet appear to me. This person who wrote himself Doctor of Physic, pretended to be the first discoverer, and to make known to the world a medicine called Aurum Potabile, etc. which being animadverted upon by our author Dr. Gwinne, and esteemed by most Physicians but a vain thing, Dr. Anthony wrote and published An Apology and defence of his medicine called Aurum Potabile. Lond. 1616. qu. Whereupon another Doctor of Physic named Joh. Cotta a Cambridge man, came out with Antony's Aurum Potabile— Which book tho fit for the Press in 1616. yet it was not printed till 1623. and then being published at Oxon. in qu. was by the author (though of another University) dedicated to the Doctors of Physic resident in Oxon. This Dr. Anthony died in S. Barthelmews Close (where he had lived many years) on 26. May 1623. and was buried in the Isle joining to the north side of the Chancel of St. Barthelmew the Great in London; leaving then behind him two Sons by Elizabeth his second Wise, viz. John Anthony M. D. who succeeded his Father in his practice in London, and Charles a Physician of Bedford, living there 1634. and after. I find another Francis Antony to have been a writer of the same time with our author Dr. Anthony, but he was by birth a Portuguese, and by profession a Jesuit, and therefore the books of his composition must not be attributed to the other. Our author Dr. Gwinne hath also written a book of Travels, various Letters concerning Chemical and Magical secrets, and also divers copies of Verses in English, Italian and French occasionally set by way of commendation before the books, published by his friends and acquaintance, but none of these have I yet seen, only some of the said verses. He deceased in the month of Octob. or in the beginning of Nou. in sixteen hundred twenty and seven, in his house situate and being in S. year 1627. Marry magdalen's parish in Old Fish-street within the City of London, and was, as I suppose, buried in the Church there. He had a Son named John Gwinne, and lest behind him a Widow called Susanna, who had a Commission from the Prerogative Court, dated 12. Nou. 1627. to administer the goods, debts, chattels, etc. of her Husband Dr. Gwinne, then lately deceased.  
RICHARD CARPENTER, a Cornubian born, became a Batler of Exeter coll. in the beginning of of 1592. and four years after Fellow, being then B. of Arts. Afterwards proceeding in that faculty, he solely dedicated his studies to Theology, by the advice and directions of Holland the Rector of his college, and proved in few years after learned and profound in that faculty, and an excellent preacher. In 1611. he was admitted to the reading of the Sentences, and about that time was made Rector of Sherwill, and of Loxhore adjoining, near to Barnestaple in Devonshire; both which he kept without any other preferment, (except the Benefice of Ham, near unto Sherwill, which he enjoyed for some years) to the time of his death. Afterwards he proceeded in Divinity and became much esteemed for his learning 
c Vide in lib. 2. & 3. Affaniarum Caroli Fitzgeofridi, edit. 1601: octa●.  by Scholars, and by others, for those things that he published, which are.  
Various Sermons, as (1) The Soul's Sentinel, etc. at the funeral solemnities of Sir Arthur Acland Kt. 9 Jan. 1611. on Job. 14. verse 14. Lond. 1612. oct. (2.) A Pastoral charge, faithfully given and discharged at the Triennial visitation of William B. of Exon. at Barnstaple, 7. Sept. 1616. on Acts. 20. 28. Lond. 1616. oct. (3) Christ's Larambell of love resounded, etc. on Joh. 15. 12. Lond. 1616. oct. (4.) The conscionable christian. etc. Three Assize Sermons at Taunton and Chard in Somersetshire, 1620. on Acts 24. 16. Lond. 1623. qu. Which three Sermons are mostly concerning the keeping of a good conscience. He paid his last debt to nature on the 18. year 1627. of Decemb. in sixteen hundred twenty and seven aged 52. and was buried in the Chancel of the Church of Loxhore before mentioned. Over his grave is a large Epitaph in Prose and Verse, some of which runneth thus. Richardus Carpenter S. Theol. D. ab eruditione multiplici venerandus, pietate vitae, integritate, morumque comitate valde clarus. Hujus & Ecclesiae Sherwillensis pastor fidus, etc. The reader is now to know that there was another Rich. Carpenter a Divine, both after the former in time, and much inferior as to learning. He was educated in the School at Eton coll. near Windsor and thence was elected Scholar of King's coll. in Cambridge 1622. where continuing about two or three years, left it, his friends, and Country, went beyond the Seas and studied in Flanders, Artois, France, Spain, Italy, and at length received holy Orders at Rome from the hands of the Pope's substitute. Soon after he was sent into England to gain Proselytes, being then, as I have been told, a Benedictine Monk. In which employment continuing an year and upward, returned to the Protestant Religion, and had by the Archbishop of Canterbury's endeavours the Vicarage of an obscure and small Village called Poling by the Sea side near Arundel Castle in Sussex bestowed on him. But before he was warm in that Seat, he received many abuses and affronts from certain Rom. Priests, and Laymen of their profession living in those parts, particularly by Franc. a S. Clara, who being sometimes in the neighbourhood by the name of Hunt, would be very free with and expose, him, to scorn before his parishioners. In the year 1642. and that of his age 33. or rather more, he published a treatise intit. Experience, History and Divinity, in five books. Printed at Lond. in a thick oct. and by the said author dedicated to the Parliament then sitting: In which Treatise p. 32. 37. etc. are many things spoken of himself. This book came out again, or rather had a new title to it of The Downfall of Antichrist, etc. an. 1648. What preferment he had afterwards I cannot tell, yet sure I am, that in the time of the Civil War he left the Nation and retired to Paris, where he became a railer against the Protestants. Afterwards he returned to his old trade of Independency in England, and about that time published The perfect Law of God, being a Sermon and no Sermon, preached and yet not preached. Printed 1652. in oct. He lived then, and after, at Aylesbury in Bucks, where he had kindred living, and would preach there very fantastically to the great mirth of some of his Auditors. After his Maj. Restauration, he published a Comedy intit. The Pragmatical Jesuit, with his picture before it, represented in very gentile Lay-habit, whereas his picture before his Experience, History and Divinity, represents him to be a formal Clergy man, with a mortified countenance. He was living at Aylesbury before mentioned in 1670. But before his death (which was elsewhere) he was (as some of his acquaintance hath told me) returned to Popery and caused his pretended Wife, to be of his persuasion, in which Faith he died. Those that knew him, have often told me that he was an impudent fantastical man, that changed his mind with his cloaths, and that for his juggles and tricks in matters of Religion, he was esteemed a Theological Mountebank. I find one or more of both his names, that have been writers, which I shall now pass by, and one Rich. Carpenter who had a public dispute with one Gibs concerning Infant Baptism, in the times of Usurpation; which probably may be the same with him before mentioned.  
ADAM REUTER, who entitles himself in some of his books Cotbusius L. Silesius, did, for his improvement in all kind of Literature, retire to the University of Oxon in the beginning of 1608. being then a Licentiat in both the Laws, wherein continuing many years in the condition of a Commoner (for he wore a Gown) and was entered into the Matricula, as a member, if I mistake not, of Exeter coll. was first exhibited to by the Warden and Fellows of New coll. and afterwards by the Vicechancellor and Heads of colleges and halls. He was very well read in substantial authors, and had a quick command of his Latin Pen, but then withal he was a severe Calvinist, which was not, in his time, displeasing to many of the Sages and Heads of the University. His works are.  
Questiones juris controversi 12. Ex L. ut vim. 3. just. & jure. Oxon. 1609. qu.  
Oratio quam, papam esse bestiam, quae non est, & tamen est, apud Johan. Apoc. 17. ver. 18. etc. Lond. 1610. qu. Which Oration was by the author spoken in public before the members of the University.  
Libertatis Anglicae defensio, seu demonstratio: Regnum Angliae non esse feudum pontificis: In Acad. Oxon. publice opposita Martino Becano Societatis Jesu Theologo. London 1613. quarto.  
Eadgarus in Jacobo redivivus; seu pietatis Anglicanae defensio, etc. contra Ross-Weydum. Lond. 1614 qu.  
Tractatus de concilio, Theophilo Suffolciae comiti dedicat. Oxon. 
Clar. 1627.  1626. qu. Besides other things which I have not yet seen, whether he afterwards receded to his own Country or died in England, I know not.  
MATHIAS PASOR, Son of George Pasor a learned Professor at Herborn, was partly educated there and partly at Heidelburg, of which last, he at length became Professor of the Mathematics. Afterwards retiring to Oxon, he was incorporated Master of Arts, as he had stood at Heidelburg before mentioned, read an Arabic Lecture twice in a Week in Termtime in the Divinity School, for some years; for which he had a Pension collected from his Auditors, and was held in great esteem by them and others for his admirable knowledge in that and other Tongues and Learning. He hath published,  
Oratio pro linguae Arabicae professione, publice ad Academicos habita in Schola Theologica Vniversitatis Oxon, 25. Oct. 1626. Oxon. 1627. qu.  
Marsilius Patavinus. 
Clar. 1627.  Which, with other things, by him written and published, I have not yet seen: Nor indeed do I know any thing more of him or his end.  
NATHANIEL CARPENTER, Son of Joh. Carp. mentioned under the year 1620. was born at Northleigh near to Culleton in Devonshere 7. Feb. 1588. elected Probationer Fellow of Exeter coll. from S. edmond's hall, 1607. at which time Michael Jermyn of the said coll, standing against him for that place, had equal Votes with him. So that the matter being referred to the Vicehancellour, he adjudged the right of the said Fellowship for Carpenter, and the next year Jermyn was sped into C. C. coll. of whom I shall speak hereafter under the year 1659. As for Carpenter he afterwards took the degrees in Arts and by a virtuous emulation and industry he became a noted Philosopher, Poet, Mathematician and Geographer. About the time that he proceeded in Arts, he entered into the sacred function, took the degree of Bach. of Divinity in few years after, and though a zealous Calvinist, yet he was by the generality of Scholars cried up for a very famous Preacher. At length being introduced into the acquaintance of the learned and religious Dr. Usher Primate of Ireland, at what time he was in Oxon and incorporated D. of D. in July 1626. that incomparable person took him then into his service, conveyed him into Ireland, made him one of his Chaplains, Schoolmaster of the King's Wards in Dublin, in the same year, and soon after, as 'tis said, Dean of a certain Church there, but Quaere. He hath written,  
Philosophia libera, triplici Exercitationum decade proposita, etc. Francof. 1621. Lond. 1622. Ox. 1636. and 75. oct.  
Geography delineated forth in two books; containing the Spherical and Topical parts thereof. Ox. 1625. and 35. qu.  
Achitophel: or, the picture of a wicked Politician, in 3 parts. Dubl. 1627. oct. Ox. 1628. qu. These three parts are the effect of three Sermons preached before the Uniu. of Oxon, on 2 Sam. 17. 23. and were very much applauded by all the Scholars that heard them, and therefore were by them most eagerly desired to be printed. Soon after they were published with licence, and had in them (as a busy 
a Will. Prynne in his Canterbury's Deom, printed 1646. p. 166.  body saith) divers passages against Arminianism, averring it to be planted among us by Jesuitical Politicians to undermine our Religion by degrees, and covertly to introduce Popery itself. But so soon as it peeped abroad, it was forthwith called in, and all the passages against Arminianism were expunged by Bishop's laud's Agents. Which done, it was reprinted at London 1629. in qu. to the great injury both of the truth and author. In 1633. it was printed there again, and at Ox. 1640. in tw.  
Chorazin and Bethsaida's woe and warning piece, on Matth. 11. 21. Oxon. 1640. in tw.  
Treatise of Optics.— MS. The original whereof was lost at Sea; yet some copies of it are saved, but imperfect. He died at Dublin in Ireland, about the beginning of the year sixteen hundred twenty and eight, year 1628. and was buried there, but in what Church or Yard I know not. When he laid upon his deathbed, it did much repent him, that he had formerly so much courted the Maid instead of the Mistress, meaning that he had spent his chief time in Philosophy and Mathematics, and had neglected Divinity.  
GEORGE CARLETON, Son of Guy, second Son of Thomas Carleton of Carleton hall in Cumberland, was born 
b Camden in Britan, in Northumb.  at Norham in Northumberland, at what time his Father was Keeper of the Castle there, educated in Grammar learning by the care of the Northern Apostle, called Bern. Gilpin, who also, (when he was fitted for the University,) sent him to S. Edm. hall in the beginning of the year 1576. being then 17 years of age, and exhibited to his studies, and took care that nothing should be wanting to advance his pregnant parts. In the latter end of 1579. he took a degree in Arts, and forthwith completed it by Determination, his disputes being then noted to exceed any of his Fellows that did their exercise in the same Lent. In 1580. he was elected Probationer-Fellow of Merton coll. wherein he spent almost 5 years before he proceeded in his Faculty. While he remained in that Coll. he was esteemed a good Orator and Poet, but as years come on, a better disputant in Divinity, than he had before been in Philosophy. He was also well versed in the Fathers and Schoolmen, and wanted nothing that might make him a complete Theologist.— I have loved him (saith a learned 
c Iden ibid.  author) in regard of his singular knowledge in Divinity, which he professeth, and in other more delightful literature, and an loved again by him. What were his preferments successively after he had left that Coll. I cannot tell, because the Register of Acts of that house is altogether silent as to them. Sure I am that after he had continued many years there. and had taken the degrees in Divinity, he was promoted to the See of Landaff, upon the translation of Dr. Godwin to Hereford, in the year 1618. and the same year was one of the learned English Divines that were by his Majesties command sent to the Synod of Dort, where he behaved himself so admirable well, to the credit of our Nation, (as some Ch. Historians will tell you,) that after his return, he was, upon the translation of Dr. Harnet to Norwich, elected to the See of Chichester, confirmed by his Maj. 20. Sept. 1619. He was a person of a solid judgement and of various reading, a bitter Enemy to the Papists, and a severe Calvinist, which may farther appear in some of these books following, of his composition.  
Heroici Characteres, ad illustriss. equitem Henricum Nevillum. Oxon. 1603. qu. Several of his Latin verses are in the University book of verses made on the death of Sir Phil. Sidney, in Bodleiomnema, and in other books.  
Tithes examined, and proved to be due to the Clergy by a divine right. Lond. 1606. 1611. qu.  
Jurisdiction Regal, Episcopal, Papal: Wherein is declared how the Pope hath intruded upon the jurisdiction of Temporal Princes, and of the Church, etc. Lond. 1610. qu.  
Consensus Eccles. Catholicae contra Tridentinos de scriptures, Ecclesia, fide & gratia, etc. Lond. 1613. oct. Dedicated to the Mertonians.  
A thankful remembrance of God's mercy, in an historical collection of the great and merciful deliverances of the Church and State of England, from the beginning of Q. Elizabeth. Lond. 1624. qu. The fourth edit. came out in 1630. qu. adorned with cuts.  
Short directions to know the true Church. Lond. 1615. etc. in tw. Dedicated to Prince Charles as the former book was.  
Oration made at the Hague before the Prince of Orange, and the Assembly of the High and Mighty Lords, the State's General. Lond. 1619. in one sh. and an half in qu.  
The madness of Astrologers: or, an examination of Sir Christop. Heydons book, intit. A defence of judiciary Astrology. Lond. 1624. qu. Which being written twenty years before that time, was then published by Tho. Vicars Bach. of Diu. who had married the author's Daughter. It was reprinted at Lond. in 1651.  
Examination of those things, wherein the author of the late Appeal, holdeth the doctrine of the Pelagians and Arminians, to be the doctrines of the Church of England. Lond. 1626. and 36. in qu. Besides this answer or examination, made to the Appeal of Rich. Montague, (who succeeded Carleton in the See of Chichester,) came out six more, viz. one by Dr. Matthew Sutcliff Dean of Exeter, a second by Dr. Dan. Featly, a third by Franc. Rouse sometimes of Broadgates' hall in Oxon, a fourth by Anth. Wotton of Cambridge, a fifth by Joh. Yeates Bach. of Diu. sometimes of Eman. coll. in Cambridge, afterwards Minister of S. Andrews in Norwich, and the sixth by Hen. Burton of Friday-street in London.  
A joint attestation avowing that the discipline of th' Church of England was not impeached by the Synod of Dort. Lond. 1626. qu.  
Vita Bernardi Gilpini, vere sanctiss. famaque apud Anglos aquilonares celeberrimi. Lond. 1628. qu. Published in Engl. at Lond. 1636. oct. and also in Lat. in Dr. Will. Bates his collection of lives. Lond. 1681. in a large qu.  
Testimony concerning the Presbyterian discipline in the Low Countries, and Episcopal government in England.— Printed several times in qu. and oct. The edit. in qu. at Lond. 1642. is but one sheet.  
Latin Letter to the learned Camden, containing some notes and observations on his Britannia.— MS. among those given by selden's Executors to the Publ. Libr. at Oxon. The beginning of which Letter is Dum nuper (Mi Camdene) Brittaniam tuam, etc.  
Several Sermons, viz. one that is joined to the English life of Bern. Gilpin: Another on Luke 2. from ver. 41. to 50. in tw. A third on Rev. 20. 3. 4. in oct. etc. He had also a hand in the Dutch Annotations, and in the New Translation of the Bible, which were ordered by the Synod of Dort to be undertaken, yet were not completed and published till 1637. At length having lived to a good old age, he concluded his last day in the month of May in sixteen hundred twenty and eight, and was buried in the Choir, 
1628.,  near to the Altar, of his Cath. Church at Chichester, on the 27. of the same month. By his first Wife named Anne, Daughter of Sir Hen. Killigrew Knight, and Widow of Sir Hen. Nevil of Billingbere in Berks, he had Issue a Son named Henry Carleton, living sometimes in the Parish of Fur●e in Sussex, elected Burgess for Arundel, to serve in that Parliament which began at Westm. 13. Apr. 1640. and from the unhappy Parliament which began on the 3. Nou. following, he received a Commission from the Members thereof to be a Captain, in which office and command he showed himself an Enemy to the Bishops.  
JOHN DODERIDGE, or Doddridg, was born at or near to, Barnstaple in Devonshire, became a Sojournour of Exeter coll. in 1572. took one degree in Arts about 4 years after, and completed it by Determination. About that time being entered into the Middle Temple, he made great proficiency in the Common Law, became a noted Counsellor, and in 45. Eliz. Lent Reader of that Inn. In 1603. Jan. 20. he was made Sergeant at Law, being about that time Prince Henry's Sergeant, but in the year following he was discharged of his Serjeantship, and became Solicitor Gen. to King James 1. In 1607. Jun. 25. he was constituted one of the King's Sergeants, and on the 5. July following he received the honour of Knighthood from his Maj. at Whitehal. In 1612. Nou. 25. he was appointed one of the Justices of the Common Pleas, (afterwards of the King's Bench,) and in Feb. 1613. he was actually created Master of Arts in Sergeants Inn by the Vicechanc. both the Proctors, and five other Academians. Which degree was conferred upon him in gratitude for his great service he had then lately done for the University, in several Law suits depending between the said University and City of Oxon. While he continued in Exeter coll. he was a severe Student, and by the help of a good Tutor he became a noted Disputant. So that by the foundation of learning which he had laid in that coll. forwarded by good natural parts and continual industry, he became not only eminent in his own profession, but in the Arts, Divinity, and Civil Law, insomuch that it was difficult with some to judge, in which of all those Faculties he excelled. But being mostly taken up with the Common Law, he could not be at leisure to honour the World with his great knowledge, only with these things following.  
The Lawyer's light; or due direction for the study of the Law, etc. Lond. 1629. qu.  
A complete Parson: or a description of Advowsons' and Church-livings, etc. Lond. 1630. qu. Delivered in several readings in an Inn of Chancery called New Inn in Lond. 1602. and 1603.  
History of the ancient and modern Estate of the Principality of Wales, Duchy of Cornwall, and Earldom of Chester, etc. Lond. 1630. qu.  
The English Lawyer: Being a treatise describing a method for the managing of the Laws of this Land, and expressing the best qualities requisite in the Student, Practiser, Judges, etc. Lond. 1631. qu.  
Opinion touching the antiquity, power, order, state, manner, persons, and proceedings of the High Court of Parliament in England. Lond. 1658. oct. Published by John Doddridge. Esq; a Counsellor of the Middle Temple, and Recorder of Barnstaple; descended from, or at least near of kin to, our author Sir Joh. Doderidge. With the aforesaid Opinion, are published also the opinions of Arth. Agard, Joseph Holland, Francis Tate, and Will. Camden, all eminent Antiquaries and Historians; the two last of which I have before mentioned, and the two first I shall speak of anon.  
Treatise of particular Estates. Lond. 1677. in twelv. printed at the end of the fourth edition of Will. Noy's book, called, Grounds and Maxims of the Laws of this Nation.  
A true presentation of forepast Parliaments to the view of the present times and posterity.— This I saw in MS. in a thin fol. in the Library of Dr. Tho. Barlow now B. of Lincoln, but whether it was ever printed I know not. Our author Doderidge also did peruse and enlarge a book intit. The Magazine of Honour; or a treatise of the several degrees of the Nobility of this Kingdom, with their rights and privileges: Also of Knights, Esquires, etc. Lond. 1642. oct. The MS. of which I saw also in the said Library, fairly transcribed and dedicated by T. S. of Wycombe to John Lord Lovelace, an. 1637. This book which is the collection of Will, Bird, I take to be the same, which was afterwards published with a title something different from the former, under our author Doderidge's name, running thus.  
The Law of Nobility and Peerage; wherein the antiquities, titles, degrees, and distinctions, concerning the Peers and Nobility of this Nation, are excellently set forth, with the Knights, Esquires, Gent. etc. Lond. 1657. 58. oct. What else he hath written, (besides certain Speeches which are extant in books put out by others,) I know not; and therefore I shall only say of him, that he surrendered up his last breath at forster's near to Egham in Surrey 13. Sept. in sixteen hundred twenty and eight, and that his body was carried to the City of Exeter, year 1628. where 'twas reposed with great solemnity in our Lady's Chapel joining to the Cath. Ch. there, 14. Oct. following; where at this time is visible a very fair monument over his grave, and that of his Wise. Now as for Arthur Agard, whom I have before mentioned, I desire the Reader to know of him these things, that he was the Son of Clem. Agard of Foston in Derbyshire, by his Wife Elinor Daughter of Tho. Middlemore of Edgbaston in Warwickshire, that he was bred up to the Law, got to be a Clerk in the Exchequer, and at length to be Deputy-chamberlian thereof; which office he held 45 years, while these persons following were successively Chamberlains, (a place formerly of great honour and worth,) viz. Sir Nich. Throckmorton, Sir Tho. Randolphe Postmaster, Sir Tho. West after Lord La Warr, Mr. George Young a Scot, Sir Will, Killigrew Knight, Sir Walt. Cope Knight, and in his last days, in 1615. to Sir Joh. Poyntz Knight. While he held that place, he learned and received all his knowledge and learning in Antiquities from his faithful and dear friend Sir Rob. Cotton, a singular lover of, and admirably well read in, English Antiquities; to whom when Agard died, he gave all his Leaguer books and MSS. (at least 20 in number) to be reposed as choice things in his Library; among which was Agard's book of his own writing, intit. Tractatus de usu & verbis obscurioribus libri de doomsday, which was afterwards put under the Effigies of Vitellius, nu. 9 The learned Camden styles him 
* In Annal. Reg. Jac. 1. MS. sub an. 161●.  Antiquarius insignis, as having been well acquainted with him, and his prodigious works collected with his own hand out of his Maj. Records in the Abbey of Westminster, (where the Exchequer-Office was,) and elsewhere. He died 22. Aug. 1615. and was buried in the Cloister of St. Peter's Church in Westminster, near to the Chapterhouse door, where he had set up a monument in his life-time for himself and his Wife. At the time of his death, his will and desire was, that eleven Manuscripts of his writing and collection should (for a small reward given to his Executor) be reposed in the Exchequer, because they were necessary both for the King's service, and readiness for the subject. Also a book of his collection in the Treasury, wherein is first contained what records are in the Kings Maj. four Treasuries, and how the same are placed, and especially how to be preserved: And after, is contained A collection of all leagues and treaties of Peace, intercourses and marriages with Foreign Nations. Which book was three years' labour, and was (I think still) very carefully preserved for the King's service. The writer and collector thereof took order that it should be preserved in his Maj. Court of Receipt, under the charge and custody of the Officers there, and to be delivered to them by Inventory, because it is very necessary for the King's use, good of the Subject, and readiness and light to the Officers. As for the other person Joseph Holland, whose Opinion concerning the antiquity, power, etc. of Parliament, before-mentioned, which was also published, I can say only this of him, that he was a Devonian born, an excellent Herald, Genealogist, and Antiquary, as several things of his writing, now in being in the Coll. of Arms, commonly called the Herald's Office, show: Among which is a very long roll of Parchment, containing the Arms of the Nobility and Gentry of Devon before, and to his time, made in 1585. There also goes from hand to hand a folio MS. of his collection, not only containing the Arms of the Nobility and Gentry of Devonshire, but also of Somersetshire and Cornwall.  
FULKE GREVIL, descended from an ancient and knightly fam. of his name living at Milcot in Warwickshire, was born in that County, an. 1554, being the same year wherein Sir Philip Sidney received his first breath, did spend some time in the condition of a Gent. Commoner in this University, either before he went to Trin. coll. in Cambridge, or at his return thence, but in what house, unless in Ch. Ch. or Broadgates, I cannot well tell, nor doth it matter much, seeing that he was more properly a Cambridge man (to which University he was a Benefactor) than an Oxonian. After he had left the University he traveled, and at his return, being well accomplished, was introduced into the Court by his Uncle Rob. Grevil a Servant to Q. Elizabeth, where he was esteemed a most ingenious person, and had in favour by all such that were lovers of Arts and Sciences. At length obtaining an honourable Office under the Queen, he became one of her favourites, which he held for no short term, but had the longest lease of any, and the smoothest time without rub. In the beginning of 1588. he, among other persons of honour and quality, was actually created Master of Arts, which, I think, was the highest degree that was conferred upon him in this University. In 1603. he was made Knight of the Bath at the Coronation of K. Jam. 1. and soon after obtained the grant of the ruinous Castle of W●rwick▪ In the 12. year of the said King's reign, he being constituted under Treasurer and Chancellor of the Exchequer, he was made choice of for one of Kings Privy Council. And meriting much for his faithful services in those employments, was, by Letters Patents, bearing date 9 Jan. 18. Jac. 1. advanced 
a Baronage of England, To●. 2. p. 442. b.  to the dignity of a Baron of this Realm, by the title of Lord Brook of Beauchamps court. In Sept. 1621. he was made one of the Gentlemen of the King's Bedchamber; whereupon 
b Camd. in Annal. 〈…〉. MS. an. 16●●  giving up his Chancellourship of the Exchequer, Rich. Weston (afterwards Earl of Portland) succeeded him. He was always esteemed a brave Gentleman and honourably descended, as being sprung from the family of Willoughby Lord Brook, was favoured by Qu. Elizabeth, and such that knew he had interest in the Muses. His life was always single, and though he lived and died a constant Courtier of the Ladies, yet he prosecuted his studies in History and Poetry: In which, consider him as a Gentleman of noble birth and great Estate, he was most excellent in his time, as these things following show, composed in his youth, and familiar exercise with Sir Ph. Sidney.  



Poems.  
A Treatise of humane learning.  
Inquisition upon fame and honour.  
Treatise of Wars.    
Tragedy of Alaham.  
Trag. of Mustapha.  
Caelica, containing 109 Sonnets.  
Letter to an honourable Lady.   
Letter of Travels— Written to his Cousin GrevilVerney residing in France, etc. Some of the said things having been singly published, were all remitted into a little thin Folio, printed at Lond. 1633. and had this general title put to them, Certain learned and elegant works of the Right Honourable Fulke Lord Brooke, etc.  
The first five years of King James, or the condition of the State of England, and the relation it had to other Provinces. Lond. 1643. qu.  
The life of the renowned Sir Philip Sidney, with the true interest of England, as it then stood in relation to all foreign Princes, etc. Lond. 1652. oct. Published by P. B.  
Short account of the Maxims and Policies used by Qu. Elizab. in her Government.— Printed with the former book.  
Remains, containing Poems of Monarchy and Religion. Lond. 1670. oct. never before printed; with other things, (among which is his Trag. of Marc. Tull. Cicero) which I have not yet seen. At length our author, (who was Counsellor of State to Ch. 1.) neglecting to reward one Haywood, who had spent the greatest and chiefest part of his time in his personal service, for which he expostulated the matter with his Master, but was sharply rebuked for it; the said Haywood thereupon gave him a mortal stab on his Back (they two being then only together) in his Bedchamber in Brook house in Holborn near London, of which wound he died 30. Sept. in sixteen hundred twenty and eight, aged 74. year 1628. Which being done, the Assassianate discerning his own condition desperate, went into another room, and there having locked the door, murdered himself with his own Sword. On the 27 of Oct. following he the said Lord Brook was buried in a Vault, situate on the north side of the collegiat Church at Warwick, which formerly had been a chapter house belonging thereunto: wherein he had, in his life time, erected a fair Tomb, with this Epitaph thereon. Fulke Grevil Servant to Queen Elizabeth, Counsellor to King James, and friend to Sir Philip Sidney.  
In his honour and dignity, succeeded his kinsman Robert Grevil, being then (1628.) one and twenty years of age, educated in Academical learning, not in this, but in the other University of Cambridge, (as I have been informed) where being well tutored, became learned, considering his quality. But being afterwards unhappily attainted with fanatic and antimonarchical principles, by the influence of one of his near relations and some Schismatical preachers, (though in his own nature a very civil and well humoured person) was, without much difficulty, drawn in by those fiery spirits of the Long Parliament, which began 1640. By whom being backed on, he became an active man in the House against the Prerogative, Bishops▪ and the established discipline of the Church, insomuch that no less than the abolishing of all decent order in the service of God would satisfy him. So that the members of the said Parliament looking upon him as a faithful person for the cause, that they then drove on, appointed him a Commander in their Army, as I shall anon tell you. As for the things which he wrote and published are, (1) The nature of truth, etc. Lond. 1643. oct. Animadverted upon by John Wallis a Minister in London, (afterward Geom. Professor of Oxon) Printed at Lond. 1643. (2) A discourse opening the nature of Episcopacy, which is exercised in England. Lond. 1641. 42. qu. Assisted therein by some puritanical Minister, and printed when the Press was open to receive all books against the Prerogative and Bishops. (3) Two speeches spoken in the Guild-hall in London, concerning his Majesty's resusal of a Treaty of peace. Lond. 1642. qu. (4) Answer to the speech of Philip Earl of Pembroke, concerning accommodation. Which answer was spoken in the House of Lords 19 Dec. 1642. Pr. in one sh. in qu. by order of the House. (5) Speech at the election of his Captains and Commanders at Warwick Castle. Lond. 1643. qu. In the beginning of the Civil War, an. 1642. he became Commander in chief of those Forces, which were sent to assault the Church-Close at Lichfield, then defended by a small Garrison, placed there by his Majesty out of a pious intent for the preservation of the stately Cathedral, which the Lord Brooke intended presently to destroy, when taken by his Forces. But so it fell out, that he having planted his great Guns against the Southeast- gate of the Close, he was, though harnessed with plate-armour cap-a-pe, shot from the Church in the Eye by one Diet a Clergyman's Son (who could neither hear or speak) as he stood in a door, (whether he came to see the occasion of a sudden shout made by the Soldiers) of which he instantly died. This memorable accident happened on the second day of March, a 1642. which is the festival of that sometimes famous Bishop, S. Cedd or Chad, to whose memory Offa King of the Mercians did erect the said Cathedral, and devoutly dedicate it. Archbishop Laud being then a prisoner in the Tower of London, did make this memoire of it in his Diary, under the year 1642. Thursday March. 2. S. Ceddes' day, the Lord Brook shot in the left Eye, and killed in the place at Lichfield, going to give onset upon the Close of the Church, he ever having been fierce against Bishops and Cathedrals. His beaver up and armed to the knee, so that a Musket at that distance, could have done him but little harm. Thus was his Eye put out, who about two years since said, he hoped to live to see at S. Paul's not one stone left upon another, etc. This Lord Brook who did often brag that he should live to see the millinery fools paradise begin in his life time, did give occasion, by words that he uttered, to certain observing persons to think, that his death was near, viz. that at his going out of Coventry, when he went towards Lichfield, he give order to his Chaplain, that he should preach upon this Text, If I perish, I perish, being the words of Ester in a different, but a far better, cause, Est. 4. 16. Also that in a prayer of above an hour long, which he conceived before his setting on the Close, he was heard to wish that if the cause he was in were not right and just, he might be presently cut off, using the like expressions to his Soldiers also.  
JOHN BEAUMONT, Son of Francis Beaumond one of the Justices of the Common-Pleas in the reign of Qu. Elizabeth, was born of, and descended from, an ancient and noble family of his name living at Gracedie● in Leicestershire, became a Gent. Com. (with his Brethren Henry and Francis) in Broadgates' hall in the beginning of Lent-term, an. 1596. aged 14. Whence, after he had spent about three years, he retired to one of the Inus of Court, and afterwards to his native Country, where taking to Wife one of the family of Fortescue, was at length (in 1626.) made a Baronet. The former part of his life he successfully employed in Poetry, and the latter he as happily bestowed on more serious and beneficial Studies: And had not death untimely cut him off in his middle age, he might have proved a Patriot, being accounted at the time of his death a person of great knowledge, gravity, and worth. He hath written,  
Bosworth Field: A Poem. Lond. 1629. oct.  
A taste of the variety of other Poems— Printed with▪ the former Poem. He hath also made translations into English from Horace, Virgil, Lucan, Persius, Aus●nius, Claudian, etc. All which were collected together, after the author's death by his Son, Sir Joh. Beaumond, Bt. and were printed with the former Poems in 1629. being then usherd into the world by the commendation-Poems of Tho. Nevil, Tho. Hawkyns, Benj. Johnson, Mich. Drayton, Philip King, Son of the B. of London, etc. This Sir John Beaumond the Poet departed this mortal life in the Winter time, year 1628. in sixteen hundred twenty and eight, and was buried in the Church at Gracedieu, leaving behind him a Son named John beforemention'd, who died without issue, another called Francis, afterwards a Jesuit, and a third named Thomas, who succeeded his brother in his estate and honour. As for Francis Beaumond, who with his elder brother Sir John, came to Broadgates' hall in 1596. as I have before told you, he must not be understood to be the same with Francis Beaumond the eminent Poet and Comedian, for though he was of the same family, and most of his name studied in Oxon, yet he was educated in Cambridge, and after he had made himself famous over all England, for the 50. Comedies and Tragedies, which he with Joh. Fletcher Gent. had composed, made his last exit in the beginning of March, and was buried on the ninth of the same month in 1615, at the entrance of St. benedict's Chapel within the Abbey Church of St. Peter, within the City of Westminster. As for John Fletcher, Son of Rich, Fletcher B. of London, he was also a Cambridge man, and dying of the Plague, was buried in the Church (or yard) of S. Mary Overey in Southwark, 29 Aug. 1625. aged 49. Sir Aston Cockaine Baronet hath in his Choice Poems of several sorts, etc. Pr. 1658. in oct. an Epitaph on Mr. John Fletcher and Mr. Philip Massinger, who, as he saith, lie buried both in one grave, in St. Mary Oueris Church in Southwark, yet the register of that Church saith that Massinger was buried in one of the four yards belonging to that Church, as I shall tell you when I come to him, under the year 1639. Later in time than Sir Jo. Beaumond, hath appeared another of both his names, who hath written and published Observations upon the Apology of Dr. Hen. More. Cambr. 1685. qu. And is at present the Kings prof. of Diu. there.  
JOHN DENISON, who in his time was cried up for an eminent preacher, became a Student in Balliol coll. at the beginning of the year 1590. and when M. of A. entered into orders, preached frequently in these parts, was made Chaplain of K. James 1. chief moderator of the Free-School in Reading in Berks, and at length Vicar of St. Mary's Church there: In which last he was succeeded by Tho. Bunbury of Ball. coll. but thrust out thence by the Presbyterians in the beginning of the civil Wars. Denison was a learned man, well read in Theological authors, and wrote and published these things following.  
Several Sermons as (1) The Christian Petitioner, preached on Act Sunday 7 Jul. 1611. on Nehem. 13. 22. Lond. 1611. qu. (2) The sin against the Holy Ghost, at Paul's Cross, on Heb. 10. 26, 27. Ib. 1611. qu. (3) Christians care for the Souls safety, on Mark 8. 36. Lond. 1621. oct. (4) Heavenly Banquet: or, the doctrine of the Lords Supper, set forth in seven Sermons, on 1 Cor. 11. from verse 23. to 29. Lond. 1619. oct. (5) Blessedness of Peacemakers, two Sermons on Matth. 5. 9 Lond. 1620. oct. (6) The Sinners acquittance, before the K. at Greenwich on Isa. 53. 4. Lond. 1624. oct. (7) Check to curiosity, and The safest service, two Serm. at Whitehall, on Joh. 21. ver. 22. Lond. 1624. oct. (8) Heavens joy for a sinner's repentance, on Luke 15. 7. Ibid. 1623. oct. etc.  
A threesold resolution concerning earth's vanity, hell's horror and heaven's felicity. Lond. 1616. oct. 4th edit.  
Justification of the gesture of kneeling in the act of receiving the Sacrament of the Lords Supper. Lond. 1619 oct.  
On the two Sacraments, Baptism and the Lords Supper. Lond. 1621. qu.  
De confessionis auricularis vanitate adversus Card. Bellarmini Sophismata. Ox. 1621. qu.  
De sigilli confessionis impietate, contra Scholasticorum & Neotericorum quorundam dogmata disputatio.— Printed with the former. He died in the latter end of January, and was buried on the first of Feb. in the Church of St. Mary at Reading before mentioned, 
1628-9.  in sixteen hundred twenty and eight. He had a Brother, or near Kinsman called Stephen Denison, D. D. and many years Minister of St. Catherine Kree Church in London, who hat published several things of Divinity, as the Bodleian or Oxford Catalogue will tell you. He died 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, traveled 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, etc. 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, etc. 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, 
1628-9.  in sixteen hundred twenty and eight, and was buried in the Chancel of the Church of Cheyneys before mentioned; 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 Father's 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 Barrister of Gray's Inn, who being also a Roman Catholic, 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 died at his house near to the back part of Gray's 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 Lincoln's Inn, where making great proficiency in the Municipal Law, which was much advanced by his Academical learning, he became a Counsellor of great repute, was called 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 raised 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 Sergeant 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 King's 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, than Master of the said Court, he took the place the same day of Sir Hen. Hobart Knight, than 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 Counsellor of State, and on the last day of the same month, he was advanced to the dignity 
* Baronage of England, Tom. 3. p. 451. b.  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 resigned his place of Treasurer, and was made Lord Precedent 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 Fri●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, etc. But his weighty occasions did afterwards divert his purpose. After his death the copies came into the hands of Henry Earl of bath, who also did intend to make them public, but what diverted him, I cannot tell. Our author, Sir Jam. Ley E. of Marlborough, ended his days in his lodgings in Lincoln's Inn on the 14. of March in sixteen hundred twenty and eight, 
1628-9.  and was buried in an Isle joining 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 Marry, 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 Carlisle in Cumberland, made his first entry into Queen's 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 preferred (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 i● privatum quorundum Scholarium usum concinnata, etc. Lond. 1621. oct. there again 1628. in tw. being the third edit. This book is the effect of certain Lectures in Queen's coll. public Refectory, when he bore the office of Rhetoric Reader.  
Brief direction how to examine ourselves before we go to the Lord's Table, how to behave ourselves there, and how to try ourselves afterwards. Lond. 1622. or thereabouts, in oct.  
Confutatio cujusd. libelli de amplitudine regni caelestis sub ementito C. Secundi Curionis nomine in lucem emissi. Ox. 1627. qu. He hath also translated from Lat. into English, A Manuduction to Theology. 
Clar. 1628.  Lond. 1622. or thereabouts, and 26. in oct. written by Barthelm. Keckerman. Before which translation is a copy of verses made by Mich. Drayton the Poet, an attestation by Ad. Airay B. D. and a dedication to A●●e the Wife of Dr. Carleton B. of Chichester. One Tho. Vicary published The Surgeon's directory, in 1651. oct. who was, as I suppose, a Chirurgeon by profession, and therefore not to be taken to be the same with Tho. Vicars before mentioned.  
SIXTIN AMAMA, was born in the Province of Westsricsin in Holland, educated for a time in the University in Franaker, where obtaining considerable knowledge in Oriental tongues, took a journey into England, and about 1613. settled in Oxford, taught the Hebrew tongue, and for the sake of Dr. Prideaux Rector of Exeter coll. whose person and doctrine he much admired, became a Sojournour of that house, and a zealous Student in the Sacred Faculty. After he had continued there some years, he retired (〈◊〉 a degree confer'd on him,) to his native Country, where at Franaker he was made Hebrew Profess 〈…〉 length D. of D. and held much in esteem for his great learning. He hath written,  
〈…〉 quinque librorum Mosis, etc. Franak. 1620. qu.  
Supplex 〈◊〉 ad Synodos, Episcopos & Superintendentes 〈…〉.  
〈…〉 Franak. 1625. oct.  
Coron, ad Gram. Martino-Buxto●sianum. Ibid.  
Antibarbarus Biblicus in 3. libros distributus, etc. Amstel. 1628. oct. To which was added a fourth book.— Franak. 1656. qu.  
De Decimis. In the first Tome of the Critics, p. 1326.  
Responsio ad censuras D. Marini Marsenni Theologi Paris. Franak. 1628. oct. See in the first Tome of the Critics, p. lx.  
De nomine Tetragrammato dissertatio, cum responsione ad argumenta cl. viri D. Nich. Fulleri Angli, quibus pro vulgatae lectionis Jehovah certitudine disputavit. Fran. 1628. oct.  
He hath also written the Preface before Joh. Drusius his Commentary on the more difficult places of the Pentateuch, an. 1617. which is remitted into the first Tome of the Critics, p. 50. and corrected and published with some additions his Commentary on the 12 Minor Prophets, and his Com. de Sectis Judaicis. He hath also written and published certain Dissertations and Orations in Latin, but these I have not yet seen. He was living and in great renown at Franaker in sixteen hundred twenty and eight, 
Clar: 1628.  having then, as always before, a natural Genie to enlighten the Text of Scripture, and to find the notion of the Sacred Language. When he died, and what other books he hath written, I cannot yet tell.  
WILLIAM VAUGHAN, Son of Walt. Vaughan of the Goldon Grove in Caermerthenshire Esq; and younger Brother to Sir John Vaughan the first Earl of Carbury, was born at the Golden Grove, became a Commoner of Jesus coll. in Mich. Term, an. 1591. aged 14. took the degrees in Arts, and entered on the Law line, but before he took a degree in that Faculty, he went to travel, and performing some exercise in order thereunto at Vienna, did proceed Doctor there, and at his return was incorporated at Oxon in the same Faculty, an. 1605. In which, though indifferently learned, yet he went beyond most men of his time for Latin especially, and English, Poetry. Afterwards spending much time in rambling to and fro, did take a long journey for the honour and benefit of his Nation, and became the chief undertaker for the Plantation in Cambriol, the southermost part in Newfoundland, now called by by some Britaniola, where with pen, purse, and person did prove the worthiness of that enterprise. He hath written,  
〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Pium, continens canticum canticorum Solomonis, & Psalmos aliquot selectiores, una cum quibusdam aliis poematis e Sacrae Scripturae fontibus petitis. Lond. 1597. oct.  
Elegia gratulatoria in honorem illustriss. Herois Caroli Howard Comitis Nottingham. 23. Oct. 1597. meretiss. creati. Printed with the former.  
Varia Poemata de Sphaerarum ordine, etc. Lond. 1589. oct.  
Poemata continent, Encom. Roberti Comitis Fssex. Lond. 1598. oct.  
The Golden Grove moralised, in 3 books. A work very necessary for all such, as would know how to govern themselves, their houses, or their country. Lond. 1600. and 1608. oct. This book which is written in prose, was commended to the World by some Poets, or at least pretenders to Poety, then (1600.) living in the University, as Dr. Joh. Williams Marg. Professor, Will. Osbourne one of the Proctors, Hen. Price Bac. of Diu. of S. John's coll. Griffin Powel of Jesus, Joh. Budden LL. D. Nich. Langford and Tho. Came Masters of Arts, Gabr. Powel B. A. Sam. Powel, Tho. Storer, and Jo Rawlinson Masters of Arts, Charles Fitzjeffry of Broadgates, Tho. Michelbourne, etc.  
Cambrensium Carolcia. Quibus nupiae regales celebrantur, memoria regis pacifici renovatur, & praecepta necessaria ad rempub. nestram faeliciter administrandum intexuntur: reportata a Colchide Cambriola ex australissima Novae Terrae plaga. Lond. 1625. oct. 'Tis a Latin Poem, and dedicated by our author Vaughan under the name of Orp●eus Junior to King Charles 1.  
The Golden Fleece, divided into three parts; under which are discovered the errors of Religion, the vices and decays of the Kingdom, etc. Lond. 1626. qu. in prose. Transported from Cambrioll Colchos out of the southermost part of the Island commonly called Newfoundland by Orphcus jun. alias Will. Vaughan. There is no doubt but this our ingenious author hath other things extant, but such, though with great scrutiny, I cannot yet discover: nor can I find any thing else relating to the author only that he was living at C●●●●iol beforementioned in sixteen hundred twenty and eight. 
Clar. 1628.  I find one will Vaughan a Physician, who among several things that he hath published is a book intit. Directions for health, natural and artificial, derived from the best Physicians, as well modern as ancient, etc. Printed several times, as in 1617. oct. Lond. 1626. qu. the sixth edit. and there again 1633. etc. Another book also he wrote called The Newlanders cure, with rules against the Scurvy, Coughs, etc. Printed 1630. oct. etc. Whether this Physician was originally of Oxon. I cannot tell, notwithstanding we have had several of both his names and time matriculated as Members of Ball. coll. Jesus, etc. There is also another Will. Vaughan a Physician, who published Disputatio medica de febre continuata. Printed 1671. qu.  
GEORGE CAREW, Son of Mr. George Carew sometimes Dean of Ch. Ch. in Oxon, was born in Devon, but originally descended from the carew's of Carew Castle in Pembrokshire, became a Gent. Commoner of Broadgates' hall in 1572. aged 15. About which time two of his Surname studied in University coll. which hath given occasion, many years after, to some of the Fellows of that house, particularly to Dr. Joh. Browne, to take 
a In his Additional notes to a Cat. of Scholrs of Uniu. coll. in the 〈◊〉 of Q. Eliz. Which Cat. consists much of Surnames only.  one of them to be this George Carew whom we are farther to mention. Howsoever it is, or whether he studied in both houses successively, I shall not now dispute it: Sure I am that he was of Broadgates, and that being more delighted in Martial Affairs than in the solitary delights of a study, he left the University without a degree, went into Ireland, and there had a command given him against that noted Rebel the Earl of Desmond. Afterwards his merits being made known to Q. Eliz. she thereupon made him one of her Council, and Master of the Ordnance, there: In which last employment he behaved himself with great renown in various expeditions, as some years after he did in the Voyage to Cadiz in Spain. In 1589. he was actually created M. of A. with other persons of quality, he being then a Knight. At length when all Ireland was in a manner invaded with a domestic Rebellion, and a Spanish Army, he was made Precedent of Munster for 3 years; where joining his Forces with those of the Earl of Thomond, he took divers Castles and strong Holds in those parts, and brought the titular Earl of Desmond (one of the most active Rebels there) to his trial. After K. James came to the Crown he was called home, and in the first year of his Reign he was constituted Governor of the Isle of Guernsey and Castle Cornet. In the third year of that King's Reign he was 
b Ba 〈◊〉 of Engl. Tom. 3. p. 423.  advanced to the degree and dignity of a Baron, by the title of the Lord Carew of Clopton, having before married Joyce the Daughter and Coheir of Will. Clepton of Clopton near Stratford upon Avon in Warwicksh. Esque. Afterwards he was made Vicechamberlain and Treasurer to Q. Anne, Master of the Ordnance throughout England, and of the Privy Council to the King. At length when Charles came to the Crown, he was made by him, in the first year of his Reign, Earl of Totness in Devonshire, as being then a faithful Subject, a valiant and prudent Commander, an honest Counsellor, a gentile Scholar, a lover of Antiquities, and a great Patron of learning. He wrote a book intit.  
Pacata Hibernia. Or, the History of the late Wars in Ireland. Lond. 1633. fol. with his picture before, and these verses under, it. 
Talis crat vultu, sed linguâ, ment manuque  
Qualis crat, qui vult dicere, scripta legate.  
Consulat aut famam, qui linguâ, ment manuve  
Vincere hunc, fama judice, rarus erat.   
Of which History containing three years transactions in Munster, the said Earls actions (G. Carew) are not the least part. It was, while he lived, reserved first for his own private satisfaction; secondly preserved for the furtherance of a general history of the Kingdom of Ireland, when some industrious writer should undertake a complete description of those Affairs: And lastly out of his own retired modesty, it was by him held back from the stage of publication, lest himself, being a principal Actor in many of the particulars, might be perhaps thought to give vent and utterance to his private merit and services, however justly memorable. After his death it came into the hands of his faithful and trusty Servant, (or rather his natural Son) called Tho. Stafford, by whom, it being first offered to the view and censure of divers learned and judicious persons, was at length published. This is that Thom, Stafford who was Master of many choice Originals of Charters of English Nobility, written in the time of Hen. 2. mostly containing conveyances and gifts of Lands to Religious Houses; which I presume he had by the gift of his aforesaid Master the Earl of Totness: But when Stafford died, they came into the hands of Sir Simonds D'ewes Bt. Besides Pacata Hibernia, our author Carew hath in four large volumes collected several Chronologies, Charters, Letters, Muniments and other materials, belonging to Ireland. Which as choice rarities, are at this day reserved in the Bodleian Library. He also made several collections, notes, and extracts for the writing of the History of the Reign of K. Hen. 5. which were 
c Hypercritica, or a rule of judgement for writing, or reading our histories. MS. Address. 3. Sect. 3.  remitted into the History of Great Britain, etc. published by Joh. Speed. In which History were also remitted most, if not all, of the Lord Viscount S. Alban Hist. of Hen. 7. the notes and collections of Sir Rob. Cotton concerning the Reign of K. Hen. 8. notes and collections of Sir Hen. Spelman for another King, the life of K. John by Dr. Jo. Barcham, and the notes of Edm. Bolton concerning K. Hen. 2. As for Speeds part in the said History of Gr. Britain, it is such for stile and industry, that for one who (as Martial speaks) had neither a Graecum 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉, nor an Ave Latinum, is perhaps without many Fellows in Europe. So much also have I understood of him by sure information, that he had no meaning in that labour to prevent great practic learnedness, but to furnish it for the common service of England's Glory. As for our author Carew Earl of Totness, he ended his days in the Savoy situated in the Strand near London, year 1629 27. Mar. in sixteen hundred twenty and nine, aged 73. and 10 months. Whereupon his body was conveyed to Stratford upon Avon in Warwickshire, and was interred at the upper end of an Isle joining on the North side to the body of the Church there. Over his grave was soon after a stately monument erected, with a large inscription thereon, which for brevity sake I now pass by; and desire the Reader to observe that there was one Tho. Carve who writes himself of Mobernan in the County of Tipperary in Ireland, a Priest and Apostolic Notary, who in the year of his age 70. Dom. 1660. wrote a book intit. Lyra sive Anacephalaeosis Hibernica in qua de exordio, sive origine, nomine, moribus ritibusque gentis Hibernicae succinctè tractatur. Sulsbaci 1666. 2d. edit. qu. But this Tho. Carve, who lived at Vienna in Germany in the Court of the reverend Curates and Levites belonging to the Cath. Church of St. Stephen there, to the year 1664. and after, is not to be understood (as some have done) to be the same with Tho. Carve, or any thing of kin to Geor Carew before mentioned, or that he was beholding to Pacata Hibernia, when he composed his book, or to his MS. collections, as I can yet perceive. Besides the aforesaid George Carew was another of both his names, a native of Cornwall, who having benefited himself much in this University, and afterwards in the Inns of Court and in travelling beyond the Seas, was at his return called to the Barr. Soon after he supplied the place of Secretary to Christop. Lord Hatton L. Chanc. of England, and after his decease performed the like Office to his two Successors, by special recommendation from her Majesty, who also gave him a Prothonotaryship in the Chancery, and in 1597. being then a Knight and one of the Masters of the Chancery, was by the said Queen 
d Camden in Annal. Reg. Eliz. an. 1597.  sent into Prussia to inform the K. and State of Poland, and the prutenic Cities, those things which she answered to Dzialine the last Ambassador in England, etc. In which County and in other Northern parts, he underwent, through unexpected accidents, extraordinary perils, but being freed from them by God's great Providence, he performed his duty in acceptable manner. In January 1605. he was sent 
e Idem in Annal. Reg. Jac. 1. MS. an. 1606.  ordinary Ambassador into France, where he behaved himself to the credit of the English Nation, and after his return the Commonwealth used his service, in the places of trust which he then enjoyed. Whether he was the same Sir George Carew, who was created Master of Arts, with other persons of quality, at Cambridge 30. Aug. 1571. I know not Qu.  
EDWARD HUTCHINS, a Den●ig●●hire man born, was admitted perpetual Fellow of Br●●●● coll. in 1581. being that year Master of Arts. Afterwards entering into the Sacred Function, was in short time after numbered among the eniment Preachers of the University. His works are,  
Sermons, as (1) Serm. against Recusants, on Cantic. 2. 15. Oxon. 1586. oct. (2) Serm. concerning the true comfort of God's Church truly Militant, etc. on the Song of Solomon, ch. 4. V. 7. Oxon. 1589. oct. etc. with which last is printed  
An Apology for the Church truly Militant.— He hath also published,  
Jawbone against the spiritual Philistine.— Printed 1601. in tw. and other things which I have not seen. He afterwards (being married) became Prebendary of Chute and Cheesenbury in the Church of Salisbury, and beneficed near to that City. year 1629 He died in the beginning of sixteen hundred twenty and nine, and was succeeded in his Prebendship by one Joh. Thorpe.  
WILLIAM GIFFORD, Son of John Gifford Esque by Elizab. his Wife, Daughter of Sir Geo. Throcmorton of Coughton in Warwickshire Knight, was born in Hampshire in 1554. being the second year of Qu. Marry, and in 1569. was by his Mother, than the Wife of one Will. Hodgckin, sent to Linc. coll. at which time it was governed by John Bridgwater, who in his heart was a R. Catholic, and had under his government many of that profession. After he had continued in the University, mostly in the said coll. and partly in the house of Geo. Etheridge a Physician, for the space of four years, exercising himself in Grammar, Music, Logic, and Philosophy, he was sent with his Tutor to Louvain, where soon after he took the degree of M. of A. Afterwards spending four years in Theological studies, under Father Bellarmine, he took the degree of Bach, in that faculty. But leaving the said University, because of the Civil Wars in that Country, he retired to Paris, where continuing for some time in the study of Theology among the Sorbonists, he was by Dr. Will. Alan sent for to Rheimes, where continuing in the Eng. coll. (governed by the said Alan) for some time, was by him sent to the Eng. coll. at Rome, where consummating his divine studies, was recalled by the said Alan and made public Professor of Theology at Rheimes. About which time being created Doctor of that faculty, with great solemnity in the University of Ponta Mousson in Lorraine, (in Nou. 1584.) managed with great credit his public Professorship for about eleven years. But Civil Wars breaking out in France, he journyed to Rome and became Chaplain to Card. Alan, (as he was afterwards for a time to Card. Charles Borromeus at Milan) at whose request to P. Clem. 8. he was made Dean of the Church of S. Peter at Ressell commonly called L'isle in Flanders; which preferment he keeping for ten years was at length forced 
f See in the Running Register by Lew. Owen, Printed 2626. p. 91.  to leave it by the violence of the Jesuits, because he took part with the Benedictine Monks when they prevailed so far with the Abbot of Arra●, a good man, to build a Cloister for them at Douai, which was much opposed by the said Jesuits. Afterwards Dr. Gifford returned to Rheimes again, and was made Rector of the Academy there, which he governed with great praise and honour. At length being above 50. years of age, he gave a farewell to the World, and its vanities, entered himself into the Order of St. Benedict in June 1608. and became professed on the 14. Dec. in the year following, in the coll. of the English Benedictines at Diculward in Lorraine. Whereupon according to the manner he changed his name to 
g Pits De illstr. Argl. Script. Aet. 17. nu. 1061.  Gabriel de S. Maria, which he kept to his dying day, became famous for his admirable Sermons preached there, in Flanders, Poiteu, at Rheimes, and in Britain, to which place, as 'tis 
h In Gall●a Christiana, Tom. 1. p. 548.  said, he was sent a Delegate by P. Clem. 8. to K. Jam. 1. concerning matters of Religion. Afterwards being noted for his great piety and learning, he was made Prior of the Benedictines at S. Maloes' in France, and Precedent of the Congregation of that Order. At length his great worth suffering him not to live in a Cell, he was by Ludovic. de Lorraine commonly called Cardinal Guise, (Archbishop of Rheimes) made his Suffragan in that See, under the title of Episcopus Ar●●id ●liae, (in Greece) Which place he enjoying till that Cardinal's death, the Duke of Guise thereupon (because his second Son was but a Child, and therefore not capable of the Archbishopric of Rheimes, fearing lest any other Nobleman in France should beg it for any of their Sons) did presently, before the death of his Brother the Cardinal was known, go to the French K. and begged the same for Dr. Gifford, and procured the Pope to confirm the Kings grant. Whereupon Gifford receiving Consecration in 1622. enjoyed it about 7 years; not without paying a considerable yearly pension from it (as 'twas thought) to the then Duke of Guise. By virtue of the said Archbishopric, he became a Duke and the first Peer of France: And having a great yearly value coming in, became hospitable, liberal to all English Exiles and Travellers, and a Founder of two Houses in France, for the reception of the English Monks of the Order of S. Benedict, namely one at Paris, and another at S. Maloe. He hath written and published,  
Orationum lib. 1. Spoken mostly at the inauguration of Albert and Isabella, in their inauguration at L'isle: Also before Card. Bourbon, Vandome, Guise, etc. at Rheimes, and the Duke of Guise, d'Aumale and others— Printed at Douai.  
Sermons Adventuales. He also took a great deal of pains in perfecting and finishing a book intit. Calvino-Turcismus, etc. written by Will. Rainolds, and printed at Antwerp, 1597. Answered by one who writes himself T. M. S. in a book intit. De Turco-papismo, etc. Lond. 1598. 99 qu. In the Preface to which he falls foul on our author Gifford, whom he styles Scriptor mendicissimus, &, ut omnibus constat, iracundus— Ex Anglis ad Hispanos transfuga, hostium mancipium, hostis patriae, turpissimum popularium suorum propudium— comptus & calmistratus, & apud mulieres Belgicas gratiosus, etc. He also wrote a book at the instance of the D. of Guise, which I have not yet seen, and translated from French in Engl. The Inventory of erroùrs, contradictions and false citations of Philip Morney Lord of Plessis: written by Fronto Ducens a Jesuit. Besides which he hath written and translated other matters, but they having been printed beyond the Seas, we seldom or never see them here, and so consequently I cannot give you a Cat. of them in this place. This great Archb. and Duke Dr. Gifford gave way to fate on the eleventh of April, in sixteen hundred twenty and nine, year 1629 according to the account followed in France, and was buried with great solemnity in the Church of the Blessed Virgin at Rheimes, behind the great Altar, near to the grave of Lewis Card. Guise. In his Archbishopric succeeded Hen. de Lorraine Son of Charles Duke of Guise, born at Paris 4. Apr. 1614 so that he was but 15 years of age when he was made Archbishop, which was per accessum; but being not consecrated, he renounced it in 1641. about which time he succeeded his Father in the Dukedom of Guise, and took to him a Wise.  
CHRISTOPHER SUTTON, a Hampshire man born was entered a Batler or Commoner of Hart hall in 1582. aged 17. translated soon after to Linc. coll. and as a Memb. thereof took the degrees in Arts. Afterwards entering into Orders, he became successively Vicar of Roneham in Essex, Parson of Caston in his own Country, Parson of Woodrising in Norfolk, Parson of Murley-Bromley in Essex, and at length of Cranworth in Norfolk. Which two last he kept to his dying day, with his Prebendship of Westminster that had been bestowed on him by K. Jam. 1. for his excellent and florid preaching. His works are,  
Disce vivere. Learn to live. Lond. 1608. in tw. and several times after.  
Disce Mori, Learn to die. Lond. 1609. in tw. and several times after. In both which is showed in what manner every well disposed Christian may learn first, how to live the life of the righteous, and how to die the death of the righteous.  
Godly meditations upon the most holy Sacrament of the Lords Supper, etc. Lond. 1622. etc. in tw. the thirteenth edition of which came out in 1677.  
Append. touching the controversy about the holy Eucharist— Printed with the Godly meditation●, etc.  
Godly meditations concerning the divine presence.— Printed also with the former Meditat. He ●eparted this mortal life in May or June, in sixteen hundred twenty and nine, year 1629 and was buried, as I have been informed, in the Abbey Church of S. Peter at Westminster, before the Vestry door, where the choir-men keep their Supplices, to whom he gave five pounds. In his Prebendship (given to him much about the time of the death of Dr. Joh. Young B. of Rochester, who kept that Prebendship in Commendam with his See) succeeded Lambert Osbaldeston M. A. as I shall else where tell you.  
ROBERT HAG, a prodigy of his time for forward and good natural parts, was born within the City of Durham, an. 1599 admitted Scholar of C. C. coll. 7. Nou. 1614 Prob. Fellow thereof 27. Dec. 1624. being then M. of A. and accounted, considering his age, the best in the University for the Mathematical faculty, History, and Antiquities, (and therefore much beloved by Tho. Allen of Gloucester hall) as afterward he was for his excellent knowledge in the Sacred Scripture, as may be seen in certain books he wrote, the titles of which follow.  
Teatise of Dial's and dialing. MS. in C. C. coll. Library. In which book is the picture of the Dial in the said college Garden, made by Nich. Kratzer (whom I have mentioned under the year 1550.) with a short discourse upon it. In like manner there is the picture of that fair Cylinder standing on a Pedestal in the middle of the said coll. quadrangle, made by Charles Turnball, 1605. with a short discourse on it, which he entitles Horologium Sciotericum in gratiam speciosissimi Horoscopii in area quadrata. C. C. C. etc.  
The Legend of S. Cuthbert with the antiquities of the Church of Durham— written 1626. and left in MS. behind him at his death, so exactly and neatly written, that many have taken it to be printed. Afterwards a Copy of it, under the author's hand, coming into the possession of Thomas Lord Fairfax, was by him reposed as a precious Monument in his Library of MSS. At length one who writes himself R. B. Esq;. (sometimes of the retinue of the said Lord, as I have been informed) published it at Lond. 1663. in oct. in a very bad letter and worse Paper, not without some derogation to the memory of the author by concealing his name, and putting the two first letters of his own, with the writing a Prologue, to it. The truest Copy under the author's hand is now in the possession of Dr. Edw. Pocock Can. of Ch. Ch. and the King's Hebr. Professor of this University, having an Epistle to the Reader before it under the authors own hand, dated 1. Jul. 1626. which the printed hath not. Betwixt this MS. and the printed Copy I find much difference; there being in the latter many omissions, some additions, besides literal mistakes, (especially in names of men and places) and several passages transposed.  
In aliquot Sacrae paginae loca lectiones. Lond. 1647. in 4. sh. or more, in qu. published by John Hall of Greys' Inn, (whom I shall anon mention) who in his Preface to the said Lections tells us, that if they took, and were approved by Scholars, he had more laying by him to publish; but whether he did so, or not, I cannot tell. Our author Hag also left behind him 4. or 5. Sermons fit for the Press, learned suppositions in C. C. C. Chapel, verses, Cat. of Scholar and Fell. of C. C. coll. etc. All which, or at least some of them, are at this day in the Libr. of the said college. He died suddenly of an apoplexy, to the great reluctancy of those who were acquainted with his admirable parts, year 1629 on the eleventh of June in sixteen hundred twenty and nine, (having scarce attained to the thirtieth year of his age) and was buried in the Chapel of the said coll. As for John Hall before mentioned, who had a great respect for his memory and his works, and was well acquainted with, if not allied to, his relations, was born also in the said City of Durham of gentile Parents, in Aug. 1627. and being fitted for the University was hindered from going to it by the eruption of the Civil War. Whereupon giving himself solely up to studies at home, especially in the Library at Durham, improved himself to a miracle. After Oxon was reduced by the Parliament forces in the year 1646. at which time the Wars were ceased, he was sent to S. John's coll. in Cambridge, where he had not been there many months, e'er came forth the first issue of his prodigious wit, entit. Horae vacivae, or Essays, with some occasional considerations. Lond. 1646. oct. with his Picture before them, aged 19 The sudden breaking forth of which, amazed not only the University, as I am instructed by one 
* John Davies in his Pres. or Prol. before Joh. Hall's translation of H●●r●cles upon the golden verses of Phyth●goras, etc.  of his Fellow Collegiates, but the more serious part of men in the three Nations, where they were spread. The same year, about New-year's time, came out his Poems. Lond. 1646. and with them The second book of divine Poems. Pr. in oct. Both which books were much admired. After he had continued more than an year at Cambridge, in the condition of a Commoner and Gent. Com. he was translated to Greys' Inn, where he added to the Structure of a most admirable Romance, intit. Lucenia, which he had began in Cambridge, but by the lending it forth to a friend, it was smothered. In 1648. his mind being sufficiently known to incline towards a Commonwealth, he sided with the Independent and wrote A satire against Presbytery, and in 1649. he published An humble motion to the Parliament of England concerning the advancement of Learning, and Reformation of the Universities. Printed at Lond. in 6. sh. in qu. In which taking occasion to court the then Rulers, got him a present sum of Money, and a Pension of 100 l. per an. from the Council. About the same time he wrote Four Paradoxes, to which he added two more in 1653. Published at Lond. 1653. in tw. under the name of Joh. de la Salle, by Joh. Davies of Kidwelly: And in 1650. being commanded by the Council of State into Scotland to attend Oliver Cromwell, to make such observations on affairs there, as might conduce to the settling of the interests of the Commonwealth, he wrote a book intit. The grounds and reasons of Monarchy, with an Appendix of An Epitome of the Scotish affairs: Both printed at Edinburgh in qu. and afterwards at London. About that time he was called to the Bar, and sometimes pleaded, and in 1651. he published A Gag to Love's Advocates, etc. wherein he justified the Parliaments proceedings in the execution of Christop. Love a forward and busy Presbyterian. What other things he either wrote or published, are briefly these. (1) A Preface before, with remarks upon a book intit. A true relation of the unjust, cruel, and barbarous proceedings against the English at Amboyna in the E. Indies, by the Netherlandish Government and Council there. Which book, though it had been published in the latter end of the Reign of K. Jam. 1. and the third time at Lond. 1632. in qu. Joh. Hall thought it necessary to revive it at that time (1651.) because of the then differences between the Dutch and the English. This book he dedicated to the General O. Cromwell, and was much bought up. Whereupon the Dutch Ambassador residing then in Westminster, made a complaint of that book and demanded punishment on the reviver of it, but the Parliament thinking it a seasonable service done to the public, took no notice of it. (2) He rendered into English from the Original The height of Eloquence, written by Dionis. Longinus. Lond. 1652. oct. Dedicated to Balstrade Whitlock one of the Commissioners of the Great Seal. (3) He wrote A Letter from a Gent. in the Country concerning, etc. an. 1653. (just after the Long Parliament was dissolved) tending to settle the humours of the people in that great emergency. (4) Answer to the grand politic Informer. Printed 1653. fol. which Politic Informer being a virulent Pamphlet written upon the Assembly of Barbone's Parliament, and therefore censured and suppressed, it was thought expedient that Hall should answer it, and he was well rewarded for it from the Exchequer. He put out Lusus Serius, in 1654. written in Lat. by Mich. Majerus: Half of which almost was done in one afternoon, over a glass of Wine in a Tavern. (6) He made a translation of Hicrocles upon the golden verses of Pythagoras, teaching a virtuous and worthy life. Published after his death, by his friend John Davies of Kidwelly— Lond. 1657. oct. with other things, as Poems, Translations, Treatises, which were never published. At length being overtaken with a disease, which he could not thoroughly shake off, he left London in Jul. 1655. and retiring to Durham, died there on the first of Aug. 1656. having not fully arrived to the 29th. year of his age, and was buried there, near to the grave of his Father, who died about an year before, just after his Son's arrival there. To conclude; had not his debauches and intemperance diverted him from the more serious studies, he had make an extraordinary person; for no man had ever done so great things at his age: So was the opinion of the great Philosopher of Malmsbury. Besides this John Hall of Durham, were others of both his names and writers, as Joh. Hall of Richmond author Of Government and Obedience, in four books. Lond. 1654. fol. and of other things, and another John Hall author of The true Cavalier examined by his principles, and found not guilty, either of Schism or Sedition. Lond. 1656. besides other matters. A third also, who was Bach. of Diu. now, or lately, living, was author of jacob's Ladder: or, the 〈◊〉 souls ascension to heaven in Prayers. etc.  
WILLIAM HIND was born at 〈◊〉 in Westmoreland, became a poor serving Child of 〈◊〉 in Mich. Term 1586. aged 17. afterwards 〈…〉 M▪ of A. and perpetual Fellow of the said house; wherein, having been always a close and severe 〈◊〉 the 〈…〉 and beloved by the famous Jo. Rainolds a Commoner of the said Coll. during his time. Whose doctrine making impressions on the Juniors there, our author Hind became an admirer of him. At length being full ripe for a removal, he left the Society about 1603. being then much in esteem among them for his excellent Theological Disputations and Preachments, and became Minister of God's word at Bunbury in Cheshire, where he was much noted among the puritanical party for his piety, and so much followed by them for his frequent preaching, that he was esteemed the Ringleader of the Nonconformists in that County, during the time that Dr. Tho. Morton sat Bishop of Chester, with whom our author had several 
a See in The life of Dr. Tho. Morton Bish. of Durham, p. 132. etc. written by Joh. Barwick, D. D. Lond. 16●0. qu.  contests about Conformity. He hath written,  
The office and use of the Moral Law of God in the days of the Gospel justified, and explained at large by Scriptures, Fathers, and other Orthodox Divines, etc. Lond. 1623. qu.  
Path to Piety; a Catechism.  
A faithful remonstrance: or, the holy life and happy death of John Bruen of Bruen-Stapleford in the County of Chester Esq; exhibiting variety of many memorable and exemplary passages of his life, and at his death, etc. Lond. 1641. oct. Published by Sam. Hind a Minister, Son of William the author. The said John Bruen who was a noted Calvinist, and Brother to that mirror of Piety Mrs. Cath. Brettergh, was a Com. or Gent. Com. of S. Alban hall an. 1577. aged 18. where he was much noted for an early Zealot. Our author Will. Hind did also revise, correct, and publish, The discovery of the Man of Sin, etc. Oxon. 1614 qu. written by Jo. Rainolds beforementioned, and An exposition on the last Chapter of the Proverbs. Lond. 1614 qu. penned by Rob. Cleaver the Decalogist, then lately dead. At length after our author had undergone several troubles concerning matters of indifferency, he surrendered up his last breath in his study at Bunbury, in the month of June in sixteen hundred twenty and nine, year 1629 and was buried in the Chancel of the Church there, as I have been informed by his Grandson Thomas Hind D. of D. sometimes Fellow of Brasnose college, afterwards Chaplain to James Duke of Ormond, and Dean of Limerick in Ireland, who died in his house at Limerick in Nou. 1689.  
HUMPHREY LEECH, or Lechius as he is sometimes written, was born at Allerton commonly called Ollerton in Shropshire, was entered a Student in Brasnose coll. before the month of Nou. in 1590. for in that year, and of his age 19 he was as a Member of that house matriculated. But before he took the degree of Bach. of Arts he went to Cambridge, where taking the degree of Master, he returned to Oxon in 1602. and in June the same year, he was incorporated in that degree. About that time he was made Vicar of St. Alkmonds' Church in Shrewsbury, where making a short stay, he returned to Oxon, and became one of the Chaplains or Petty-Canons of Ch. Ch. Of whose Preaching and what followed, you may see in Hist. & Antiq. Vniu. Oxon. lib. 1. sub. an. 1608. In which year being suspended of his Chaplainship for Preaching publicly some Popish Tenets, (for so they were accounted by the puritanical Doctors of the University in those days,) he left the Church of England, and went to Arras in Artois, where he wrote these things following.  
The triumph of Truth. Or a declaration of the doctrine concerning Evangelical counsels, in two parts. Douai 1609. oct.  
Sermon in defence of Evangelical counsels, and the Fathers, on Apoc. 20. 12.— Printed with the former book.  
Twelve motives which persuaded him to embrace the Catholic Religion.  
An honourable Grand-Jury of 24 Fathers, testifying the distinction betwixt legal precepts, and evangelical counsels, by their uniform Verdict.— Which book, with the Motives, were printed with The triumph of Truth.  
Humble considerations presented to King James concerning his premonitory Epistle sent to all Christian Princes. S. Om●r 1609. Afterwards our author going to Rome, was admitted into the Society of Jesus, an. 1618. before or after which time, he lived in the English coll. of Jesuits at Liege, and was most commonly the Porter there. At length being sent into the English Mission, settled in a R. Cath. house in Cheshire, near the River Mersie, owned by one Massy, where he departed this life in July (about the 18. day) in sixteen hundred twenty and nine, year 2629 as I have been informed by Will. Lacey of Oxon, one of his Society, whom I shall remember when I come to the year 1673. as having been originally of this University.  
THOMAS GOFFE, or Gorgh, a Minister's Son, made his first entry on the stage of this transient World in the County of Essex, was elected, from Westminster School, a Student of Ch. Ch. in 1609. aged 18. where applying his Muse to polite studies became an excellent Poet and Orator. Afterwards he proceeded in Arts, entered into the Sacred Function, and shortly after became a acquaint Preacher, and a person of excellent language and expression. In 1623. he was admitted to the reading of the Sentences, and about that time had the Parsonage of East-Clandon in Surrey conferred upon him; where taking to Wife a mere Xanthippe, the Widow of his Predecessor, notwithstanding he had always before processed himself an Enemy to the Female Sex, and esteemed by many another Joseph Swetnam, he was so much overtoped by her and her children which she had by her former Husband, that his life being much shortened thereby, died at length in a manner heartbroken. But before his Marriage he composed most of these things following, some of which were printed after his death.  
Oratio funebris habita in Ecclesiâ Cath. Christi Ox. in obitum Gul. Goodwin istius Eccles. Decani S. T. Doctoris. Ox. 1620. in one sh. and an half in qu.  
Oratio funebris habita in Scholâ Theol. Oxon. in obitum D. Hen. Savilii. Oxon. 1622. qu.  
Deliverance from the grave, Sermon at St. Mary's spital in Lond. 28. Mar. 1627. on Ezek. 37. 13. Lond. 1627. qu.  
The raging Turk; or Bajazet the Second. Trag. Lond. 1631. qu.  
Courageous Turk; or Amurath the First. Trag. Ibid. 1632. qu.  
Tragedy of Orestes. Lond. 1633. qu. These three Tragedies were reprinted at Lond. 1656. in oct. by the care of Rich. Meighen the author's friend.  
Selimus' Emperor of the Turks, Trag. Lond. 1638. qu.  
Careless Shepardess, Trag. Com. Lond. 1656. qu. It was printed before, but lying dead, had a new title bearing date the same year, put to it,  
The Bastard, Trag. Lond. 1652. qu. Some say it was not written by Goff, but by Cosmo Manuche, and therefore perhaps 'twas only a translation. Qu. He the said Th. Goffe. made his last Exit at E. Clandon beforementioned; and was buried 27. year 1629 July in sixteen hundred twenty and nine, in the middle of the Chancel of the Church there; leaving then behind him other things fit for the Press, as I have been informed by one that was acquainted with the author, but what became of them he could not tell.  
THOMAS JAMES, or Jamesuis as he writes himself, was born in the Isle of Wight, (at Newport as it seems,) educated in Grammaticals in Wykchams School, and in Academicals in New coll. of which he became perpetual Fellow in 1593. where drudging day and night in several sorts of learning, he proceeded in Arts in 1599 About that time he being taken into the favour of Mr. (afterwards Sir) Tho. Bodley for his excellent worth in the knowledge of books, as well printed, as written, and of the ordering of them, he was by him designed the first keeper of the Public Library at Oxon, then in founding; which office being confirmed to him by the University in 1602. he did much good therein and laid a most admirable foundation for his Successors to build upon. In 1614 he took the degrees in Divinity, and having about that time the Subdeanery of Wells conferred upon him freely without seeking by the Bishop of that place, and the Parsonage of Mongcham in Kent with other Spiritualities by the Archb. of Canterbury without ask, he resigned his place of Keeper of the Public Library, (being about that time also a Justice of Peace,) and betook himself more severe to his studies. He was very well read in the Fathers and Schoolmen, and so much versed in several Faculties, that he was esteemed by some a living Library. He was also indefatigable in reading old MSS. and subtle in finding out the forgeries in them. He and Allen of Glouc. hall were esteemed as most knowing in the ancient Statutes and Customs of this University, and therefore their helps in the several attempts made of framing an entire and complete body of them, were often desired. He was a Member of the Convocation held with the Parliament at Oxon, 1. Car. 1. wherein he made a motion that some persons might be commissioned to peruse the Manuscript Fathers in all public and private English Libraries, that thereby the forgeries of Foreign Popish editions might be detected, but what the event of it was I know not. His designs were always for the public benefit of learning, and English Church; which being well known to his learned friend Will. Camden, he therefore saith 
b In Britan. edit. 1607. in come. Monmouth.  thus of him, He is a learned man, and a true lover of books, wholly dedicated to learning, who is now laboriously searching the Libraries of England, and purposeth that for the public good, which will be to the great benefit of Students. Our author Dr. James saith also of himself thus, in 1624. that 
c See in the Collection of Letters, at the end of Archb. Ushers Life, Lond. 1686. fol. nu. 66. p. 307. and in p. 320.  if Cambridge will set up and set forward the like (that is to collate and examine ancient MSS. as he hath done and will do) I dare undertake more good to be done for the profit of learning and true Religion, than by building ten Colleges. I have of late given myself to the reading only of MSS. and in them I find so many and so pregnant testimonies, either fully for our Religion, or against the Papists, that it is to be wondered at, that the Religion of Papists, then and now, do not agree, etc. He also farther tells us, that not only the Rabbins, but the Thalmud in six volumes at Rome hath felt the smart of the popish indices: would God we were but half as diligent to restore, as they abolish and put out the truth. I have restored 300 citations and rescued them from corruption in thirty quire of paper, with sundry other projects of mine, which if they miscarry not for want of maintenance, it would deserve a Prince's purse. If I was in Germany, the States would defray all my charges: cannot our estates supply what is wanting? If every Churchman, that hath an 100 l. per an. and upward, will lay down but a shilling for every hundred towards these public works, I will undertake the reprinting of the Fathers, and setting forth five or six volumes of Orthodox writers, comparing of books printed with printed, or written; collating of popish translations in Greek, and generally whosoever shall concern books, or the purity of them, I will take upon me to be Magister S. Palatii in England, if I should be lawfully thereunto required, etc. As for his works that are printed, they are these.  
Ecloga Oxonio-Cantabrigiensis, lib. 2. Lond. 1600. qu. This Ecloga doth contain a Catalogue of all the MSS in each college Library in the University of Oxon, but not of those in the public, and in each college Library in Cambridge, and in that of the public there. In the making of which Catalogue he had liberty given to him by each coll. in Oxon. to peruse their MSS. and from that Society which he perceived was careless of them, he borrowed and took away what he pleased, and put them forthwith into the Public Library. Several such MSS were taken from Ball. coll. and some from Merton, and do yet bear in their respective fronts the names of the donours of them to those Houses. This Ecloga is very useful for curious Scholars, and is much commended by Joseph Scaliger in an Epistle to Rich. Thompson as I have told 
d In Hist. & Antiq. Uniu. Oxon. lib. 2. p. 145. a.  you elsewhere.  
Cyprianus redivivus, hoc est elenchus eorum quae in opusculo Cypriani de unitate ecclesiae sunt vel addita, vel detracta, vel lapsu Typographi, vel alio quovis modo supposita, etc. Printed with the Ecloga.  
Spicilegium D. Augustini, hoc est, libri de fide ad Pet. Diaconum, cum antiquiss, duob. MSS. & postremis ac ultimis editionibus excusis, tam Basiliensi quam Parisiensi diligens collatio, ac castigatio, etc. Pr. with the Ecloga.  
Bellum paepale, seu concordia discors Sixti v. & Clementis viij circa Hieronymianum editionem. Lond. 1600. qu. there again 1678. oct.  
Catalogus Librorum in Bib. Bodleiana. Oxon. 1605. in a large oct. or rather a small qu. printed again with many additions in a thick qu. 1620. To which was added an Appendix 1635.— 6. In this Catalogue is remitted the Cat. of all such MSS. that were then in the Bod. Library.  
Concordantiae Sanctorum patrum, i. e. vera & pia libri Canticorum per Patres universos tam Graecos quam Latinos expositio, etc. Oxon. 1607. qu.  
Apology for Joh. Wicliff, showing his conformity with the now Church of England, etc. Oxon. 1608. qu. Written in answer to the slanderous objections urged against by Father Parsons, the Apologist, and others.  
Life of Joh. Wicliff— Printed with the Apology.  
Treatise of the corruption of the Scripture, Counsels, and Fathers, by the Church of Rome— Lond. 1611. qu. lb. 1688. oct.  
Sufficient answer unto Jam. Gretser and Ant. Possevine Jesuits, and the unknown author of the grounds of the Old Religion and the New.— Printed with the Treatise of the Corruption, etc.  
The Jesuits Downfall, threatened against them by the Secular Priests for their wicked Lives, accursed Manners, heretical doctrine, and more than Machiavillian Policy. Oxon. 1612. qu.  
Life of Father Parsons, an English Jesuit— Printed at the end of the former book.  
Index generalis sanctorum patrum, ad fingulos versus cap. 5. secundum Mathaeum, etc. Lond. 1624. oct.  
Notae ad Georgium Wicelium de methodo concordiae Ecclesiasticae, cum Catologo authorum qui scripserunt contra squalores Ecclesiae Romanae. Lond. 1625. oct.  
Vindiciae Gregorianae, etc. Genev. 1625. qu.  
Manuduction or Introduction unto Divinity: containing a confutation of Papists, by Papists, throughout the important articles of our Religion, etc. Oxon. 1625. qu.  
His humble and earnest request to the Church of England for, and in the behalf of, books touching Religion— Pr. in one sh. in oct. 1625.  
Explanation, or enlarging of the ten articles in his supplication lately exhibited to the Clergy of England, for the restoring to integrity authors corrupted by Papists. Ox. 1625. qu.  
Specimen corruptelarum Pontificiarum in Cypriano, Ambrosio, Gregorio, M. & authore operis imperfecti, & in jure canonico. Lond. 1626. qu.  
Index Librorum prohibitorum a Pontificiis. Oxon. 1627. oct.  
Admonitio ad Theologos Protestants de libris Pontificiorum caute legendis. MS.  
Enchiridion Theologicum. MS.  
Liber de suspicionibus & conjecturis. MS. These 3. MSS. I saw formerly in Lambeth Library, under D. 1. 2, 3. but whether printed I know not: perhaps the Enchiridion is. He also translated from French into English The moral Philosophy of the Stoics. Lond. 1598. oct. And published Two short Treatises against the orders of the begging Friars, written by Joh. Wicliffe: Also, as 'tis said, a book intit. Fiscus. Papalis. Sive Catalogus indulgentiarum & reliquiarum septem principalium Ecclesiarum urbis Romae, ex vet. MS. discriptus. Lond. 1617. qu. The Latin out of the MS. is set down in one Colum, and the English in another by the publisher. This, I say, is reported to have been published by our author James, though others tell us that it was done by Will. Crashaw of Cambridge. Howsoever it is, sure we are, that it hath supplied with matter a certain scribbler named Henry Care in his Weekly packet of advice from Rome, when he was deeply engaged by the Fanatical party, after the popish Plot broke out in 1678. to write against the Church of England, and the members thereof, then by him, and his party, supposed to be deeply inclining towards Popery, etc. I say by that Hen. Care whose breeding was in the nature of a petty Fogger, a little despicable wretch, and one that was afterwards much reflected upon in the Observators published by Rog. L'estrange: which Care, after all his scribbles against the Papists, and the men of the Church of England, was, after K. James 2. came to the Crown, drawn over so far by the R. Cath. party, for bread and money-sake and nothing else, to write on their behalf and to vindicate their proceedings, against the men of the Church of England, in his Mercuries, which weekly came out, intit. Public occurrences, truly stated. The first of which came out 21. Feb. 1687. and were by him continued to the time of his death, which happening 8. Aug. 1688. aged 42. was buried in the yard belonging to to the Blackfriars Church in London, with this inscription nailed to his Coffin. Here lies the ingenious Mr. Henry Care, who died, etc. This person I can compare to none more than to Marchemont Nedham, whose parts though he wanted, yet they were Weathercocks both alike, as I shall tell you more at large when I shall come to that person, which will be in the 2d. Vol. As for our learned and industrious author Dr. James, he paid his last debt to nature in his house in Halywell in the north Suburb of Oxon, in the month of Aug. year 1629 in sixteen hundred twenty and nine, aged about 58. years, and was buried towards the upper end of New college Chappel, leaving behind him this character, that he was the most industrious and indefatigable writer against the Papists, that had been educated in Oxon, since the Reformation of Religion. Which character being made manifest by his writings, it would have been esteemed as generous an act for the Society of that House, to have honoured his relics with a Mon. and Epitaph, as they did those of Tho. Lydiat the Mathematitian. I shall make mention of another Thomas James in my discourse of Hen. Gellibrand, under the year 1637.  
ROBERT WAKEMAN, Son of Tho. Wakeman of Fliford-Flavel in Worcestershire, Minister of God's word, was born in that County, became a student of Ball. col. in the beginning of 1590., aged 14. made Chaplain-Fellow thereof, 17. Jul. 1596. being then Bach. of Arts. About that time entering into Orders, was a frequent preacher for some years in these parts. At length being made Rector of Beer-Ferres, and afterwards of Charlton, in Devon. took the degrees in Divinity. He hath published,  
Several Sermons, as (1) The Christian practice, at S. Mary's in Oxon. on Act. Sunday 8. Jul. 1604. on Acts 2. 46. Lond. 1605. in oct. (2) solomon's exaltation, before the King, on 2 Cor. 2. 8. Ox. 1605. oct. (3) The Judge's charge, on 2 Cor. 19 6.— printed 1610. oct. (4) Jonahs' Sermon and Ninevehs repentance, at Paul's Cross, on Jonah 3. ver. 4. 5. Ox. 1606. oct. (5) The true Professor opposed against the formal Hypocrites of these times, on Luke 10. 28. Lond. 1620. oct. and others which I have not seen, among which is a Serm. on Eccles. 11. 1.— printed 1607. he gave up the ghost in Septemb. year 1629 in sixteen hundred twenty and nine, and was buried on the South side of the Chancel of the Church at Beer-Ferres, on the nineteenth day of the same month, leaving then behind him several Children, who were all in the beginning of the civil war (as the Tradition goes there) persuaded from their Religion to that of Rome, by one Capt. Rich. 
* Note that one Capt. Rhead a Scot and a Secular Jesuit perverted a minister of the Church of England, and his family, and married his Daughter.— So in The plot discovered by Andr. ab Habernfield and Sir Will. Boswell to Archb. Land. about the beginning of the Civ. War.  Read (as 'twas supposed) who quartered in the house where they lived, and married one of the Doctor's Daughters. Afterwards they retired into Worcestershire, where they, or at least their issue, now live.  
JOHN SANFORD, Son of Rich, Sanford of Chard in Somersetshire Gent. (descended from those of his name in Devon) was born in Somersetshire, entered a Commoner of Ball. college, about the time of the Act in 1581. where continuing till he was Bach. of Arts, was then made one of the Chaplains of Magd. coll. At length having contracted a friendship with John Digby Commoner of that House, did travel with him into France, Spain and Italy, whereby he did much advantage himself in the modern languages. Afterwards he went in the quality of a Chaplain to the said Digby, then known by the name of Sir John Digby, at which time he as sent into Spain to treat of a marriage between the Infanta, Sister of the King of that Realm, and Prince Charles of England. After his return Dr. Abbot Archb. of Cant. made him his domestic Chaplain, and at length Prebendary of Canterbury, and Rector of Ivychurch in Kent. He was a person of great learning and experience, and a Solid Divine, well skilled in several languages, and a tolerable Lat. Poet. His works are,  
God's arrow of Pestilence, serm. on Psal. 38. 2. Oxon. 1604. oct.  
Le Guichet Francois. Janicula scu introductio ad linguam Gallicam. Ox. 1604. qu.  
A brief extract of the former Lat. Grammar done into English, for the easier instruction of the Learner. Oxon. 1605. qu.  
Grammar, or introduction to the Ital. tongue. Oxon. 1605. qu.  
An entrance to the Spanish tongue— Lond. 1611. and 1633. qu. and other things, as 'tis probable, with I have not yet seen. year 1629 He surrendered up his pious Soul to God on the 24. Septemb. in sixteen hundred twenty and nine, aged 60. and more, and was buried in the middle almost of the north Isle, joining to the nave er body of the Cathedral Church of Canterbury. Over his Grave was soon after laid a white freestone, with an inscription engraven thereon; a copy of which you may see in Hist. & Antiq. Vniu. Oxon, lib. 2. p. 199. b. wherein is mentioned his great charity to Widows, Orphans and the Poor.  
EDWIN SANDYS, Second Son of Edwin sometimes Archbishop of York, was born in Worcestershire, particularly, as I suppose, within the City of Worcester, when his father was Bishop of that Diocese, before his translation to York, admitted Scholar of C. C. coll. in Sept. 1577. and in the year of his age 16 or thereabouts, being then Pupil to the famous Mr. Rich. Hooker, who made use of his, and the judgement of George Cranmer when he compiled his books of Ecclesiastical Policy. In 1579. Jan. 23. he was admitted Probationer-Fellow of that House, being then Bach. of Arts, and on the 17. March 1581. he was collated to the Prebendship of Wetwang in the Church of York. Afterwards proceeding in his faculty, he left his Fellowship, traveled into several Countries, and at his return grew famous for his learning, prudence, and virtue. In the month of May 1602. he resigned his Prebendship, on the 11. of May 1603. he had the honour of Knighthood conferred upon him by K. Jam. 1. and was afterward by him employed in several affairs of great trust and moment. He was very dexterous in any great employment, kept as constant time in all Parliaments, as he that held the Chair did, and was esteemed an excellent Patriot in all transactions, faithful to his Country, without any falseness to his Prince. But this I must say, that being found factious, and too daring in the Parliament held 1621. he was with Selden 
a Camden in Annal. 〈◊〉 Jacobi 1. MS. sub. an. 1621.  committed to custody to the Sheriff of London, 16. June in that year, and not delivered thence till the 18. July following. Which matter being ill resented by the House of Commons, they on the eighth of Nou. following did dispute the matter tumultuously, taking it for a great breach of their Privileges, that any one of them should be imprisoned. At length Secretary G. Calvert, protesting before them, that neither he or Selden were imprisoned for any Parliamentary matter, a stop was thereupon put to the dispute. What I find farther of Sir Edwin, is that he was Treasurer to the undertakers for the Western Plantations, which he effectually advanced, that he was a person of great judgement and of a commanding Pen, a solid Statesman, and as my author saith ingenio & gravitate morum insignis. Farther also, that he was as famous for those matters he published, as his Brother George was for his Travels and Poems. This worthy Knight Sir Edwin hath written,  
Europae Speculum. Or, a view or survey of the state of Religion, in the Western part of the World. Wherein the Roman Religion, and the pregnant policies of the Church of Rome to support the same, are notably displayed, etc.— Written by the author at Paris, and by him finished 9 Apr. 1599 A copy of which coming into the hands of an unknown person in England, an impression of it full of errors stole into the world without the author's name or consent, an. 1605. besides another the same year, or soon after. Notwithstanding which, the book was esteemed so much by Scholars, and thereupon cried up at home for a brave piece of ingenuity, that it was forthwith translated into French; and printed, I think, at Paris. But as soon as 'twas finished, the printer to his great sorrow received information that it would be called in and suppressed (as it was shortly after) whereupon he dispersed most of the copies into remote parts, before he did disperse any at home, and so was a gainer by his Politics. At length after the author had taken great care that the English impressions should be called in, and the Printers punished, he caused a true copy thereof to be printed, a little before his death, anno 1629. From which were printed the impressions of 1632. and 37. at London in quarto, and another there in 1673. in oct. One copy under the author's hand, (as 'tis said) I have seen in Bodlics Library, and another in that of Dr. Barlow; which, I suppose, were dispersed to vindicate the author from spurious printed copies that flew abroad. I find one Sir Edwin Sandys, who paraphrastically turned in English verse Sacred Hymns consisting of 50 select Psalms of David, etc. set to be sung in 5 parts by Rob. Taylor: Printed at Lond. 1615. in qu. Whether this version was performed by Sir Edwin Sandys before-mentioned, or by another of both his names of Latimers in Bucks, I know not. Our Sir Edwin Sandys, author of Europae Speculum, died about the beginning of Octob. year 1629 in sixteen hundred twenty and nine, (leaving then 1500 l. to the Uniu. of Oxon for the endowment of a Metaphysic Lecture) and was buried in the Ch. of Nortbourn in Kent, where he had a Seat and a fair Estate joining to it. Over his grave is a handsome monument erected, but, as I have been informed, there is no inscription upon it. He left behind him at the time of his death at least 5 Sons, namely, Henry, Edwin, Richard, Robert, and Thomas. Who all (one excepted) proved zealous Parliamenteers in the beginning of the Rebellion, 1642. The outrages of the Second, then called Colonel Edwin Sandys, which he made against the Church, and the vengeance that followed him for so doing, the common 
b 〈…〉  prints that in those times f●ew abroad do sufficiently testify. He published (or rather one for him) a Pamphlet intit. Col. Sandy's travails 〈◊〉 Kent, which gives an account of the Sacrileges and outtages he had committed for the sake of the Blessed Parliament then sitting; and another called, His Declaration in v●n●icati●n of himself from those calumnious aspersions cast upon him by Lucius L. Fal●land, and Secretary Nicholas, 11. Oct. 1642. printed at Lond. 17. of the same month: Which was followed with another Pamphlet intit. A vindication of C●l. Sandies Honour and Loyalty, from a Declaration pretended to be set forth by him at Worcester, 11. Oct. 1642. But whether the said Colonel was educated in Oxon, 'tis not worth the enquiry, nor any thing else of him. And therefore I shall only let the Reader know, that he died of his wounds which he had received in the Parliaments Cause near to Worcrster, from the hands of a Frenchman called Arnold de L'isle a Captain of a Troop of Horse in Sir Joh. Byron's Regiment, (for which service he was soon after Knighted.) whereupon his body was buried in the Cath. Ch. at Worcester, in the month of Oct. 1642. I find one Edwin Sandys, an Essex man born, and a Knight's Son, to be entered a Gent. Com. of C. C. coll. in 1608. aged 17. But this person must not be taken to be the same with the Colonel, who was then but one or two years of age.  
WILLIAM PINKE, a Hampshire man born, was entered a Commoner in Magd. hall in Mich. Term 1615. took the degrees in Arts, holy Orders, and soon after became Philosophy Reader of Magd. coll. Which office he performing with great commendation, was elected Fellow of that house in 1628. being then accounted by some a serious person in his studies, devout, and strict in his conversation, and therefore a Puritan by others. He had in him a singular dexterity in the Arts, a depth of judgement, acuteness of wit, and great skill in the Hebrew, Greek, and Arabic languages, which made him 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 reverenced by, the Academians. He wrote.  
The trial of a Christian's sincere love to Christ, in four Sermons ca 1 Cor. 16. 22. on Ephes. 6. ver. ult. etc. Oxon. 1630. etc. in tw. He died much lamented in sixteen hundred twenty and nine, aged 30. year 1629 or thereabouts, and was buried in Magd. coll. leaving then be●●●● him other things fit to be printed, as I have been informed by those that were well acquainted with the man.  
HENRY YELUERTON, Son ●f Sir Christop. 〈◊〉 of Eston-Man●uit in Northamptonshire, one of the Justices of the Kings- 〈◊〉, and a descendant from an ancient and gentile Family of his name living sometimes at 〈◊〉 in Norfolk, was born on S. Peter's day in 1566. educated for a time 〈◊〉 the Oxonians, and afterwards among the Students 〈◊〉 〈◊〉- Inn near London; where, after some time of continuance in the degree of Inner Barrister, he was elected Lent-Reader in 1606. being then accounted a religious Gentleman, and a person well read in the Municipal 〈◊〉. In 1613. he was made Solicitor 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the endeavours of Carr Earl of 〈◊〉 March 1616. he was constituted Attorney 〈◊〉 that time committed Prisoner to the Tower for denying to appear and plead publicly against his Patron Carr, in the matter of Sir Thomas Overbury's death. In 1621. May 5. he was 
† Camden in Annal. 〈…〉  discharged of his office of Attorney, fined, and committed Prisoner to the Tower again, upon a late sentence in the Star-Chamber, for passing some clauses in the City-Charter of London, when he was Attorney Gen. not agreeable to his Majesty's Warrant. These things being mostly done by the power and aggravation of the D. of Bucks, who hated him because he had been a friend to Somerset, Yeluerton continued where he was without any hopes of release or future advance. At length upon some things uttered in Buckingham's care when he came incognito to speak with, and examine, him concerning certain matters in the Tower, he was afterwards released, taken into favour, and in 1625. was made one of the Justices of the Kings-Bench, and afterwards of the Common Pleas, (which last he enjoyed to the time of his death,) and had not the Duke been untimely cut off, he would in all probability been made Lord Keeper of the Great Seal. Under his name goes,  
Several Speeches spoken in Parliament.— One of which was in answer to matters charged against him by the Commons before the H. of Lords, in 1621. Soon after the Lords declared that for sundry things uttered in the said Speech which touched the King's honour, he should be 
* 〈…〉  fined to the K. ten thousand marks, be imprisoned during the King's pleasure, and make a submission to his Majesty: And for the scandal committed in some words against Buckingham, he should pay him five thousand marks, and make his submission to him. Several years after his death, was published under his name this book following.  
Reports of divers special cases in the Court of King's Bench, as well in the latter part of the Reign of Q. Elizabeth, as in the first ten years of K. James. Lond. 1661. and 74. fol. It was printed by the original in French, written with the authors own hand, remaining with Sir Tho. Twisden Knight, one of the Justices of the Kings-Bench, and published by Sir Will. Wild Knight and Baronet, than (1661.) Sergeant at Law, the King's Sergeant and Recorder of the City of London, and since one of the Justices of the Kings-Bench. He died near Westminster 23. Nou. or thereabouts, 1679.  
Rights of the People of England concerning impositions. Lond. 1679. oct. He also gathered and published 32 Sermons of Edw. Philip's a zealous and Puritannical Preacher, as I have told you under the year 1603. and other things, as 'tis probable, of the like nature, but such I have not yet seen. He gave way to fate in sixteen hundred twenty and nine, year 1629 (in winter time before February,) and was buried, I suppose, where his chief Seat was, viz. at Eston-Manduit or Maudet in Northamptonshire, leaving then behind him a Son named Robert; and a Brother called Sir Christopher, who was about that time one of the Justices of the Common Pleas. From this Sir Hen. Yolverton was descended Charles Yeluerton who was called up to the House of Lords by the name of Charles Lord Grey of Ruthen, as being the Son and Heir of Sir Hen. Yeluerton Baronet, by Susan his Wife, Daughter and sole Heir of Charles Lord Grey of Ruthen.  
JOHN ELYOTT, or eliot, ● Cornish man born, and an Esquires Son, became a Gent. Com. of Exeter Coll. in Mich. Term, an. 1607. aged 15 years, left the University without a degree, after he had continued there about 3 years, went to one of the Inns of Court, as it seems, and was made a Barrister. In 1618. May 10. he received the honour of Knighthood from his Maj▪ at Whitehall, and ever after to the time of his death, was either elected a Knight of his County, or a Burgess for some Borough therein, to serve in all Parliaments. But so it was, that he showing himself in them an active man for the public, a generous assertor (as he pretended) of the ancient liberty of the Subject, and an enemy to the encroachments made by rising Favourites, was several times committed to custody. He hath going under his name.  
Several Speeches spoken in Parliament, as, (1) Speech against George Duke of 〈◊〉 and 〈◊〉 grievances. (2) Sp. by way of Epilogue concerning the Duke of Bucks impeachment. These two were spoken in 1626. and soon after he, with Sir Dud. Digges, who spoke the Prologue to the said impeachment, were committed both prisoners to the Tower, but soon after were released: whereupon Elyott spoke. (3) A Sp. to clear himself as to the particulars charged against him. In the same year he was imprisoned in the Gatehouse at Westm. for refusing to part with money on the Loan, and thereupon in a Petition to the King he set forth the illegality of the said Loan, or of any Tax without a Parliament. Which way he took, when his Council would not assist him otherwise; alleging farther that his conscience could not submit to it, and prayed for his liberty, but could not obtain it. (4) Speech upon the Kings giving notice to both Houses, that he did intend shortly to end the Session of Parliament. an. 1628. (5) Sp. against the D. of Bucks, interrupted in it by the Speaker. (6) Sp. concerning Religion, an. 1628. This was printed in 1641. in one sh. in qu. (7) Sp. against particular persons, spoken in 1628. and therefore a little before the dissolution of the Parl. he, with other Members were committed to the Tower. All which Speeches, with Certain Debates of the said Sir Joh. Elyott you may see in the first vol. of Historical Collections, made by John Rushworth. What more to be added, is that about the same time (1628.) was an information exhibited against Sir John in the Court of the King's Bench, for a sour of discord, for his murmurings, seditions, etc. against the King, Nobles, Prelates, etc. in Parliament, which were pleaded against by several persons on his behalf; and that many years after his death, year 1629 (which happened, as I conceive, about sixteen hundred twenty and nine) were Votes passed in the H. of Com. that 5000. pounds should be given to his children, because he had suffered in the 3 of Car. 1. Dom. 1627. for opposing the illegalities of that time. The said Votes passed in 1646. and no doubt there is, but all, or at least some, of the money was paid.  
WILLIAM thorn, a most noted Linguist and Rabbie of his time, (and therefore well known to, and respected by, that noted Belgic Critic John Drusius, who dedicates to him his Opuscula Gramaticalia) received his first breath at Semeley in Wilts, his Grammatical education in Wykchams School, and his Academical in New coll. of which he became perpetual Fellow in 1587. being then esteemed to be well grounded in humane learning. In 1593. he proceeded in Arts, and five years after was constituted Hebrew Professor of the University. Afterwards being promoted to the Deanary of Chichester (in the room, as it seems, of Dr. Martin Colepeper deceased) he proceeded in Divinity; at which time he was reputed eminent, not only for his incomparable skill in the Oriental Sacred Tongues by men 
c Joh. Drusius in Epist. ad Gram. Gra●.— Ab●l Curiard. in vita & 〈◊〉 Joh. 〈◊〉 & ahi ultra mare— 〈…〉 Arglus in Epist. ad Joh. Howson De 〈…〉— Car. 〈…〉 in 3. lib. Epigram. etc.  unmatchable in them (worthily famoused on this side, and beyond the Sea) but also for other learning. His writings are,  
Tullius sive Rhetor, in tria stromata divisus. Oxon. 1592. octavo.  
A kenning Glass for a Christian King, Serm. on Joh. 1●. latter part of the 15. verse. Lond. 1623. oct. and other things, as 'tis said, but such I have not yet seen. He died 13. Feb. in sixteen hundred twenty and nine, 
1629-30.  and was buried two days after in the Cath. Ch. at Chichester. In his Deanery of Chichester, succeeded Dr. Francis Dee of Cambridge, about that time Chancellor of the Chat Sarum, and afterwards Bishop of Peterborough.  
LEWIS OWEN, a native of Merionithshire, became either a Servitor or a Student of Ch. Ch. in Summer time, an. 1590. aged 18. but left the University without a degree, having some petty employment bestowed on him about that time. Afterwards he traveled in the latter end of Q. Elizab. and beginning of K. James into several countries of Europe: and in Spain making a longer continuance than elsewhere, he entered himself, if I mistake not, into the Society of Jesus at Valladolid, where he continued a curious observer among them for some time. At length being fully satisfied of their intrigues, which tended, as he said, to worldly policy, rather than true religion, he left, and became a bitter enemy against, them, as well in his discourses, as writings, as it may appear in these things following.  
The running Register: recording a true relation of the State of the English Colleges, Seminaries and Cloisters in all foreign parts, together with a brief discourse of the lives, practices, etc. of Engl. Monks, Friars, Jesuits, etc. Lond. 1626. qu.  
The unmasking of all Popish Monks, Friars and Jesuits. Or, a treatise of their genealogy, beginnings, proceedings and present state, etc. Lond. 1628. qu.  
Speculum Jesuiticum. Or, the Jesuits looking Glass: wherein they may behold Ignatius (their Patron) his progress, their own pilgrimage, his life, their beginning, etc. Lond. 1629. qu.  
A true Catalogue of all their Colleges, professed houses, houses of Approbation, Seminaries and houses of residence in all parts of the World. And lastly a true number of the Fellows of their Society, taken out of their own books and catalogues printed with the Speculum Jesuiticum, and both at the end of Europae Speculum, 1629. written by Sir Ed. Sandys before mentioned. This Lew. Owen who had a rambling head, was living in sixteen hundred twenty and nine, 
Clar. 1629.  but what became of him afterwards, I cannot find. Besides this Lew. Owen was another of both his names, born in Anglesie, first a Student in S. Edm. Hall 1578. afterwards of Hart hall, and a Benefactor to Jesus coll.  
WILLIAM HERBERT, Son and Heir of Hen. Earl of Pembroke was born at Wilton in Wilts, 8. Apr. 1580. became a Nobleman of New coll. in Lent-term 1592. aged 13. continued there about two years, succeeded his Father in his honours 1601. made Knight of the Garter 1. Jac. 1. and Governor of Portsmouth six years after. In 1626. he was unanimously elected Chancellor of this University, being a great Patron of learning, and about that time was made Lord Chamberlain of the King's Household. He was not only a great favourer of learned and ingenious men, but was himself learned, and endowed to admiration with a poetical genie, as by those amorous and not inelegant Airs and Poems of his composition doth evidently appear; some of which had musical Notes set to them, by Hen. Laws and Nich. Laneare. All that he hath extant, were published with this title.  
Poems written by William Earl of Pembroke, etc. many of which are answered by way of repartee, by Sir Benj. Rudyard, with other Poems written by them occasionally and apart. Lond. 1660. oct. He died suddenly in his house called Baynard's Castle in London, on the tenth of Apr. in sixteen hundred and thirty, year 1630 (according to the calculation of his nativity made several years before by Mr. Tho. Allen of Glouc. hall) whereupon his body was buried in the Cath. Ch. at Salisbury near to that of his Father. See more of him in the Fasti, among the Creations, an. 1605. He had a younger brother named Philip, who was also a Nobleman of New coll. at the same time with his brother, was afterwards created Earl of Montgomery, and upon the death of his brother William, succeeded in the title of Pembroke. But this Philip was quite different in temper from his brother, for he was esteemed by all that knew, or had to do with, him, a very choleric man, a frequent Sweater, and so illiterate, that if the report be true, he could scarce write his name. He also turned Rebel when the Civil Wars began in 1642. was one of the Council of State by oliver's appointment after K. Ch. 1. was beheaded, and a most passionate enemy to learning, which notoriously appeared when he deeply engaged himself in the undoing of this University (of which he was Chancellor) in 1648. I have seen several rambling and confused Speeches that he, with great confidence, uttered in Parliament and Committees, which were afterwards printed under his name; and others, very witty and Satirical, that were fathered upon him. The Reader is to know that besides the former Will. Herbert, hath been others of both his names that have been writers, as one, who was a Knight, in the time of Qu. Elizab. an. 1586. and another of Pointington in 1646. who dedicates his book called Herbert's belief, etc. to his Son Benjamin, and one William Har●ert who published The Prophecy of Cadwallader, etc.  
SAMUEL PAGE., a Minister's Son and a Bedfordshire man born, was admitted Scholar of C. C. coll. 10 June 1587. aged 13 or thereabouts, took one degree in Arts, but whether he was Fellow of that house, or Master of that faculty, it appears not. In his Juvenile years, he was accounted one of the chiefest among our English Poets to bewail and bemoan the perplexities of Love in his Poetical and Romantic writings; but when he became Elder, he applied his Muse to the study of the sacred writ, in which faculty he was admitted Bachelor in 1603. being then, or about that time, Vicar of Deptford alias West Greenwich in Kent, and in 1611, he proceeded in his faculty, being then much in esteem by the Clergy of the neighbourhood, where he lived, and reverenced by the Laity for his orthodox principles and continual and unwearied labours in his function. His works are these.  
God be thanked; Serm. of Thanksgiving for the happy success of the English Fleets, set forth by the company of Adventurers to the E. Indies, on Psal. 126. 2. Lond. 1616. qu.  
Divine Sea service; containing sundry and useful forms of Prayer and Thanksgiving for the help of such as travel by Sea, fitted to their several necessities— Printed with the former, 1616. qu.  
Other Sermons, as (1) Allegiance to the Clergy, on Rom. 13. 2. Lond. 1616. qu. (2) The Supper of the Lord, on Prov. 9 5. Lond. 1616. qu. Preached at Hampton-court. (3) Cape of good hope, or Zebuluns' blessing, five Sermons for the use of the Merchant and Mariner, on Deut. 33. 18, 19 on Psal. 95. 5. etc. Lond. 1616. qu. &c. (4) Remedy of Drought, two Serm. on 1 Kings, 8. 35. and Psal. 68 7. Lond. 1616. qu.  
A Manual of private devotions— Published by Nath. Snape of Greys' Inn Esq.  
Godly and learned Exposition, together with apt and profitable notes on the Lord's Prayer. Lond. 1631. qu. Publ. by the said Snape.  
The broken heart: Or David's penance fully expressed in holy meditations on 51 Psal. Lond. 1637. 39 and 1646. qu. He ended his days at Deptford before mentioned, and was buried in the Church there, on the eighth day of August, year 1630 in sixteen hundred and thirty. One Dr. Page published a book intit. Jus fratrum, or the Law of Brethren. Printed in oct. 1658. but whether it was written by Dr. Samuel, or Dr. William Page, or by another, I cannot know, unless I could see the book.  
SEBASTIAN BENEFEILD, was born at Prestbury in Glocestershire, admitted Scholar of C. C. coll. 30. Aug. 1586. aged 17. or thereabouts, and Probationer 16. Apr. 1590. Afterwards taking the degree of M. of A. he entered into sacred Orders, and became a frequent Preacher in these parts. In 1599 he was constituted Rhetoric Reader in his coll. and the year after was admitted to the reading of the sentences. In 1608. he proceeded in Divinity, and five years after was elected Margaret professor of the University. Which office he executing with commendation for about 14 years, resigned it, and receded to the Rectory of Meysey-Hampton near to Fairford in Glocestershire, which he had long before obtained by his predecessors guilt of Simony, where he spent the remaining part of his days (about 4 years) in great retiredness and devotion. He was a person for piety, strictness of life, and sincere conversation incomparable. He was also so noted an Humanitian, Disputant, and Theologist, and so well read in the Fathers and Schoolmen, that he had scarce his equal in the University. Some have blasted him (I know not upon what account) for a Schismatic, yet Dr. Ravis sometimes B. of London, and of honourable memory, approved him to be free from Schism, and much abounding in Science. The truth is he was a Sedentary man, and of great industry, and so consequently (as 'tis observed by some) morose, and of no good nature. Also, that he was accounted no mean Lover of the opinions of John Calvin, especially as to the points of predestination, which is the cause why one 
a 〈…〉 Triumph of Truth, etc. part. 2. cap. 3. p. 62.  calls him a downright and doctrinal Calvinist. His works are these.  
Doctrinae Christianae Sex capita, totidem praelectionibus in Schola Theol. Oxon pro forma habitis, discussa & disceptata. Oxon. 1610. qu.  
Appendix ad caput secundum de conciliis evangelicis, etc. adversus Humphredum Leech. Pr. with the former book.  
Eight Sermons publicly preached in the University of Oxford, the second at S. Peter's in the East, the rest at S. Mary's Church. Began 1595. Dec. 14. Oxon. 1614 qu.  
The sin against the Holy Ghost discovered; and other Christian Doctrines delivered; in 12 Sermons upon part of the 10 Chapt. of the Epist. to the Hebrews. Oxon. 1615. qu.  
Commentary or Exposition upon the first chapter of Amos, delivered in 21 Sermons in the Par. Church of Meysey-Hampton in the Dioc. of Gloc. Oxon. 1613. qu. Translated into Lat. by Hen. Jackson of C. C. coll.— Openheim. 1615. oct.  
Other Sermons, as (1.) The Christian Liberty, etc. on 1 Cor. 9 19 Ox. 1613. oct. Printed with the Commentary in English beforementioned. It was preached at Wotton Vnderedge before the Clergy at an Episcopal Visitation. (2) Serm. at S. Mary's in Oxon, 24 Mar. 1610. being K. James his Inauguration day, on Psal. 21. 6. Ox. 1611. qu. (3) The Haven of the afflicted, in the Cath. Ch. of Gloc. 10. Aug. 1613. on Amos 3. 6. Lond. 1620. qu.  
Commentary or Exposition upon the 2 chap. of Amos, delivered in 21 Sermons in the par. ch. of Meysey-Hampton, etc. Lond. 1620. qu.  
Praelectiones de perseverentiâ Sanctorum. Francof. 1618. oct.  
Com. or Exposition on the third chap. of Amos. etc. Printed 1629. qu. He hath also a Latin Sermon extant, on Rev. 5. 10.▪ Printed in 1616. qu. which I have not yet seen. He took his last farewell of this World, in the Parsonage house at Meysey-Hampton before mentioned, about 24. Aug. in sixteen hundred and thirty, year 1630 and was buried in the Chancel of the Church there, on the 29 of the same month. In the said Rectory succeeded his great admirer Hen. Jackson Bach. of Diu. of C. C. coll. before mentioned, who being a writer also, must crave a place in the next volume.  
SAMPSON PRICE, Son of Thom. Price, sometimes Vicar of S. Chads Church in Shrewsbury, was born there, became a Batler of Exeter coll. in 1601. aged 16 or thereabouts, took the degrees in Arts, as a Member of Hart hall, entered into the sacred function, as a Member of that coll. became a smart Preacher in the University and near it, especially against the Papists, made one of the Lecturers of S. Martin's church in Oxon, afterwards of S. Olaves in London, and took the degrees in Divinity, that of Doctor being completed in 1617.: About which time he was Chaplain in Ord. to K. Jam. 1. (as he was afterwards to K. Ch. 1.) and a most ready and frequent Preacher in the Court. At length he was made Vicar of Christ Church in London, where being much resorted to and admired, was usually styled The Mawle of Heretics, meaning Papists, he being a most bitter Enemy (as his brother Daniel was) in his preachings, discourses, and writings against them. So that, as 'tis presumed, that party having a hatred towards them, the English Recollect Friars at Douai, did often 
b Lewis Owen in his Running register, pr. 1626. p. 99  brag that this our author, and his brother Daniel, should one day either carry faggots upon their shoulders, or be burned in Smithfield, or else recant, and be glad to have the office to sweep their 
c The said Friars always took Ch. Church to be theirs by succession, because that House did belong to their Predecessors the Franciscan Friars, commonly called the Grey Friars, before the dissolution of Religious Houses in England.  Church (wherein they had preached false doctrine) for an everlasting penance, and their Wives to carry out the dust and filth, etc. He hath published,  
Several Sermons, as (1) London's warning by Loadicea's Lukewarmness, on Rev. 3. 15, 16. Lond. 1613. qu. (2) A heavenly proclamation to fly Remish Babylon, on Rev. 18. 4. Oxon. 1614 qu. (3) Ephesus warning before her woe, on Rev. 2. 5. Lond. 1616. qu. (4) Clearing of the Saints sight, on Rev. 7. 17. Lond. 1617. qu. (5) Beauty of Holiness, on Joh. 10. 22, 23. Lond. 1618. qa. Preached in the Chap. at the Free-School in Shrewsbury, 10. Sept. 1617. at what time the said Chapel was consecrated by the B. of Cou. and Lichfield. (6) The Twins of birth and death, preached at the Funeral of Sir Will. Bird 5 Sept. 1624. on Eccles. 3. 2. Lond. 1624.— 5. qu. (7) London's remembrancer for the staying of the plague, on Psal. 42. 4. Lond. 1626. qu. These seven Sermons are all that I have yet seen of his composition, and therefore I can saynomore of him, but that he was buried under the Communion Table in the Chancel of Ch. Church beforementioned in sixteen hundred and thirty, year 1630 and was succeeded in his Vicarage by Mr. Edw. Finch of Cambridge, Brother to Sir Joh. Finch, afterwards Lord Finch of Fordwich. The said Dr. Samp. Price had an elder Brother called Dr. Daniel Price, whom I shall mention under the year 1631.  
FRANCIS HICKS, or Hyckes, Son of Rich. Hicks an Arrasweaver of Barcheston, commonly called Barston in Warwickshire, was born within the large Parish of Tredington in Worcestershire, particularly, as I conceive, in a Muket Town called Shipson, matriculated as a Worcestershire man, and a Member of S. Mary's hall, in the beginning of 1579. aged 13. and four years after took the degree of Bach. of Arts, as a Member of that house, having had his Tutor, and his Chamber, as it seems, in Oriel college. But before he had completed that degree by Determination, he left the University, and was diverted by a Country retirement. Where tho, as a plain man, he sye at his time in Husbandry, yet he never left the true taste and relish that distinguishes men of his education, but rather made continual improvement of that nutriment which he had received in his younger days from the breasts of his honoured Mother the Uniu. of Oxon. His study, or rather recreation, was chiefly in the Greek tongue; and of his knowledge therein he hath left unto the World sufficient Testimonies, as his translation from Greek into Latin of (1) Certain select dialogues of Lucian, together with his true history. Oxon. 1634. qu. Published by his Son Thom. Hicks M. A. and Chaplain of Ch. Ch. (2) The history of the Wars of Peloponesus, in 8 books, written by Thuciaides the Athenian. MS. in Ch. Ch. Library in Oxon. Q. 4. Arts sol. (3) The history of Herodian, beginning from the Reign of Emperor Marcus. MS. in the Archives of the said Libr. in qu. Given thereunto, with the former MS. by Tho. Hicks beforementioned. Our Translator Franc. Hicks having spent most of his time at Barston beforementioned, and at Shipson adjoining, died in a Kinsman's house at Sutton in Gloucestershire, near to Brayles in Warwickshire, on the 9 day of Jan. in sixteen hundred and thirty, 
16●0-31.  and was buried in the Chancel of the Church there. As for Thom. Hicks whom I have touched upon before, he was an ingenious man, has done something about Lucan, and therefore shall be remembered elsewhere.  
HENRY BRIGGS, (Briggius) one of the most admired Mathematicians of his time, was born in an obscure Hamlet called Warley Weed in the large Parish of Halifax in Yorkshire; whose Genie being naturally inclined to the Mathematics, was sent from the Grammar School in the Vicinity of Warley, to the University of Cambridge, where in short time he became Fellow of S. John's coll. After he had taken the degree of M. of A. he was preserved to be the first Geometry-Reader in Gresham coll. at London, a 1596. where continuing about 23 years in reading to, and improving his auditors, Sir Hen. Savile desired him to accept of his Lecture of Geometry, chiefly because it was not only better as to revenues, but more honoura●●●. Whereupon going to Oxon, 1619. and settling in 〈…〉 coll. in the condition of a Fellow-Commoner, was soon ●fter incorporated M. of A. and kept the Lecture to the tim● of his death. It must be now known, that 〈…〉 Scotch man (perhaps the same mentioned in the 〈…〉 under the year 1605. among the ●●corporation) coming out of Denmark into his own 〈◊〉 called upon 〈◊〉 Neper Baron of Marcheston near 〈◊〉 and told him among other discourses of a new 〈◊〉 in Denmark (by Longomontanus as 'tis said) to save the t●●ious multiplication and division in Astronomical calculations. Neper being solicitous to know farther of him concerning this matter, he could give no other account of it, than that it was by proportionable numbers. Which hint Neper taking, he desired him at his return to call upon him again. Craig, after some weeks had passed, did so, and Neper than showed him a rude draug●● of that h● called, Canon mirabilis Logarithmo●am. Which draught, 〈◊〉 me alterations, he printing in 1614 it came forthwith into the hands of our author Briggs, and into those of Will, Oughtred, from whom the relation of this matter 〈◊〉. Both which consulting about the perfecting of it, the former took 
* See more of this matter in the 〈…〉  a journey into Scotland to confer with Neper about it. At length having received some satisfaction from him, he perused the matter, and in few years after put forth two books of Logarithms, after a more commodious method. The first is entitled.  
Arithmetica Logarithmetica. The other,  
Trigonometria Britannica. The former of which shows the construction of Logarithmetical Tables, the latter the conjunction of the Tables of Sines, Tangents, and Secants, and the doctrine of Triangles, to the great advantage of Astronomy and Astronomical operations. These two parts were published with this title, Arithmetica Logarithmetica, sive Logarithmorum chiliades triginta, pro numeris naturali serie crescentibus ab unitate ad 20,000. & a 90. 000. ad 100,000. etc. Lond. 1624. fol. Besides these he hath written,  
Treatise concerning the Northwest passage to the South Sea through the continent of Virginia, etc. Lond. 1622. and,  
Commentaries on the Geometry of Pet. Ramus. MS. Which after Briggs' death came into the hands of Mr. Joh. Greaves of Merton coll. Successor to Dr. Bainbridge in the Astronomy Lecture, and from him to his Brother Thomas, and from Tho. to Mr. Theod. Haak a Member of the Royal Society. At length after our author Briggs had spent most of his time for the benefit and advancement of Geometry, he paid his last debt to nature in his lodgings in Merton coll. 26. Jan. in sixteen hundred and thirty, 
16●0-31.  aged 70. or more, and was three days after buried at the upper end of the Choir of the Church belonging to the said Coll. under the honorary monument of Sir Hen. Savile: At which time the Heads of several Colleges and Halls being present, a learned Sermon and an eloquent Oration were delivered; the former by Mr. Will. Cellar, the other by Mr. Hugh Cross, Fellows of that College. In both which were many things said to the honour of the Defunct. Over his grave was soon after a plain stone laid, neither Marble, nor Free, with only his bare name engraven thereon; and therefore instead of an Epitaph you may take this character of him, as it stands in the public Register of that Coll.— Vir doctrina clarus, stupor Mathematicorum, moribus ac vita integerrimus, etc.  
JOHN ANDREWS, a Somersetshire man born, was entered a Student in Trin. coll. 1601. aged 18. took one degree in Arts, left the University, became a painful Preacher of God's word, and a publisher of these books following.  
The converted Man's new birth, describing the direct way to go to Heaven, etc. Lond. 1628. oct. second edit.  
Celestial Looking-glass to behold the beauty of Heaven, and the perfect way to it. Lond. 1621. in tw. There again 1638.  
Andrews resolution to return unto God by repentance, etc. Lond. 1621. in tw. There again 1630.  
A Caveat from God, 
Clar. 1630.  on S. Joh. 5. 14. Lond. 1627. with other things which I have not yet seen. When he died, or where he was buried, I know not.  
WILLIAM SPARK, Son of Tho. Spark, whom I have mentioned under the year 1616. was born at Bletchley in Buc●s, became a Commoner of Magd. hall in Lent-Term 1602-3. aged 16. Demie of Magd. coll. 5. June 1606. and soon after Fellow thereof. Afterwards, being M. of A. he was made Chaplain to the Duke of Bucks, Rector of Bletchley after his Father's decease, Divinity Reader of Magd. coll. and in 1629. Bach. of Diu. He hath written,  
Vis natures, & ●irtus vitae explicata, ad univ●●sam doctrine ordinem constituendum. Lond. 1612. oct.  
The mystery of Godliness: A general discourse of the reason that is in Christian Religion, etc. Oxon. 1628. qu. These are all that I have seen that go under the name, and therefore I can say no more of him, 
Clar. 1630:  only that he was living at Bletchley in sixteen hundred and thirty. I find one of both his names of Magd. coll. who was admitted Bac. of Physic. 3. Dec. 1645. by virtue of the Letters of the Chanc. of the Uniu. which say, that 〈◊〉 deserved well for having 〈◊〉 very 〈◊〉 against Enemies, and contributed much of his skill to his, and our Loyal Friends, etc. This Will. Spark, who became a Student in Magd. coll. an. 1639. was Son to the former.  
ANTHONY SHIRLEY, second Son of Sir Tho. Shirley of Wistneston, commonly called Wiston in Sussex, Knight, by Anne his Wife, Daughter of Sir Tho. Kempe Knight, was born there, matriculated as a Member of Hart hall in the beginning of the year 1579. aged 14. admitted Bac. of Arts in the latter end of 1581. and about the beginning of Nou. following, he was elected Probat. Fellow of Allsouls coll. being of kin to the Founder thereof by his Mother's side. But before he proceeded in Arts, he left the University, and retired to one of the Inns of Court, or went to travel beyond the Seas, or both successively. Soon after he became known to that popular Count Robert Earl of Essex, whose heroic spirit and virtues he so much admired, that he resolved for the future, that he should be a pattern to him in all the civil actions of his life. The first adventure that he made was his voyage into America, particularly to S. Jago, Dominica, Margarita, etc. an. 1596. From which voyage (wherein great valour was shown against the Portuguese) he returned the year following. Afterwards, having received the honour of Knighthood from the said Earl of Essex in Ireland, (if I mistake not,) he went beyond the Seas again, made long voyages, and was employed as Ambassador several times by Foreign Princes. In which voyages his Exploits were so great, that the K. of Spain taking an affection to, allowed, him an yearly pension, made him Admiral of the Levant Seas, and next in place to the Viceroy of Naples. So that his greatness making our King jealous of, he sent for, him to return; but he refused to come, and therefore was numbered among the English Fugitives. About that time he was known by the title of Earl of the Sacred Empire, as having been created so, I suppose, by the Emperor of Germany, and had from his Catholic Majesty a Pension of 200 Ducats yearly. Ever after, so long as he lived, he showed himself so zealous a Servant to that King, that he became a great plotter and projector in matters of state, and undertook by Sea-stratagems, if you'll believe an author 
a Jam. Wadsworth in his English Spanish Vilgrim, chap. 7.  of no great credit, to invade and ruin his native Country; the whole story and passages of which, would make a just volume. He hath written,  
Voyage to America,— See R. Hakeluyts third and last vol. of Voyages, Printed at Lond. 1600. p. 598, 599, etc.  
Account of M. Hamets' rising in the Kingdom of Morocco, Fez, etc. Lond. 1609. qu.  
History of his travails into Persia. Lond. 1613. qu. Which voyage was begun 24. May 1599 and is epitomised in the second vol. or part of Sam. Purchas his Pilgrims, printed 1625. fol. in the ninth book.  
Voyage over the Caspian Sea, and through Russia.— Published by W. Parry, an. 1601. involved in the Pilgrims of Purchas beforementioned.  
History of his Embassages.— See Purchas vol. 2. book 6. 9 and in Rich. Hakluyt before-mentioned. What other matters he wrote, or caused to be published of his composition, I know not, nor any thing else of him, only that he was living in the Court of Spain in sixteen hundred and thirty, 
Clar. 1630.  and that he had taken to Wife, long before, Francis the Sister of Rob. Vernon of Hodnet Knight. He had an elder Brother named Thomas Shirley, who was entered into Hart hall at the same time with his Brother, an. 1579. aged 15. where continuing about two years or more, was called home, married, and in 1589. Knighted. But this person being ashamed to see the trophies and achievements of his two younger Brothers, Anthony before-mentioned and Robert a great Hero, worn like flowers in the breasts and bosoms of Foreign Princes, whilst he himself withered upon the stalk he grew on, left his aged Father, and, as 'tis 
b In England's Worthies, in Sussex.  said, a fair inheritance in Sussex, and forthwith undertook several voyages into Foreign parts, to the great honour of his Nation, but small enrichment of himself. A narration of which voyages he printed, or caused to be printed, but such I have not yet seen. As for the youngest Brother Rob. Shirley before-mentioned, whether he was of Hart hall I know not, for his name occurs not in the Matricula, only that of John Shirley a Sussex man, and the Son of a Gent. matriculated as a Member of that hall in 1582. aged 14. The said Robert (whom also I find to occur by the title of Knight) was a great man of his time, and so highly valued by the Emperor of Persia, that he not only sent him Ambassador to Sigismond the 3. King of Poland, as also to K. Jam. 1. of England, a 1612. (for he arrived 
c Camden in Annal. Jac. 1. sub an. 1612. MS.  at London 26. June that year,) but was pleased to give him his Niece in Marriage, and to confer upon him honour and riches. As to the general performances of the aforesaid 3 Brothers, I know the affidavit of a Poet carrieth but a small credit in the Court of History, and the Comedy made of them, intit. The travails of three English Brothers, Sir Thomas, Sir Anthony, and Rob. Shirley, printed at Lond. 1607. in qu. is but a friendly foe to their memory, as suspected more accommodated to please the present spectators, than inform posterity. The before-mentioned Sir Thomas, the elder Brother and Traveller, had a Son named Thomas, who was a Knight also, and suffered much in the time of the Rebellion for adhering to the Cause of K. Ch. 1. of ever Blessed Memory. And that Sir Thomas the Sufferer had to his eldest Son another Thomas, commonly called Dr. Tho. Shirley, born in the Parish of S. Margaret within the City of Westminster, and baptised there 15. Oct. 1638. lived, when a boy, with his Father in Magd. coll. during the time that Oxon was a Garrison for the King, and was bred up in Grammar learning in the Free-School joining to the said College. Afterwards he went into France, studied Physic, and was graduated in that Faculty there. After his return he became noted for his practice therein, and at length was made Physician in Ordinary to his Maj. K. Ch. 2. and I think Doctor of his Faculty. He hath published, A Philosophical Essay, declaring the probable causes whence stones are produced in the greater World: From which, occasion is taken to search into the original of all bodies; being a prodromus to a medicinal truth concerning the causes and cure of the stone in the Kidneys and Bladder of Man. Lond. 1672. oct. An account of which book you may see in the Philosophical transactions, num. 81. p. 1030. He also translated from Lat. into English, (1) Cochlearia Curiosa: or, the Curiosities of Scurvygrass. Lond. 1676. oct. written by Dr. Andr. Molimbrochius of Leipsig. An account of which book you may also see in the said Phil. Transact. nu. 125. p. 621. (2) Medicinal Counsels, or Advices. written originally in French by Theod. Tarquet de Mayer●e, put into Latin by Theoph. Bonettus M. D.— Lond. 1676. and translated from French into Engl. A treatise of the Gout. Lond. 1676. written by the said Tarquet de Mayerne. He the said Dr. Tho. Shirley died of grief 5. Aug. 1678. and was buried in the S. W. Vault under part of St. Bride's Church near to Fleet street in London. His grief arose upon a just suspicion that he should be totally defeated of an Estate in Sussex, worth about 3000 l. per an. descended to him from his Great-Grandfather Sir Tho. Shirley, mostly detained from him by Sir Joh. Pagge Baronet. Concerning which matter, the two Houses of Parliament were engaged in a quarrel a little before Dr. Sherley's death.  
SAMUEL AUSTIN, Son of Tho. Austin of Lystwithiel in the County of Cornwall, was born there, became a Batler of Exeter coll. in 1623. aged 17. took the degrees in Arts, that of Master being completed in 1630. About which time being numbered among the Levites, was beneficed in his own Country. He hath written,  
Austin's Urania: Or, the heavenly Muse, in a Poem full of meditations for the comfort of all Souls at all times. Lond. 1629. 
Clar. 1620.  oct. dedicated to Joh. Prideaux D. D. a favourer of the studies of the author, than Bach. of Arts. What other things he hath written or published, (besides various copies of verses printed in Lat. and English in other books,) I know not, nor any thing else of him, only that he had a Son of both his names, (a conceited Coxcomb,) who endeavoured to Patrizare, but through his exceeding vanity and folly he was made use of, as another Tho. Coryate, by certain Poe●s of Oxon in their respective copies of verses set before his Naps on Parnassus, etc. printed 1658. as I shall tell you in my other volume of writers.  
JOHN BAYLY, Son of Dr. Lew. Bayly Bish. of Bangor, was born in Herefordshire, became a Sojournour of Exeter coll. in 1611. aged 16 years, or thereabouts, made Fellow the year following, and by the help of a good Tutor (Dr. Prideaux) did advance himself much in Academical learning. After he had completed the degree of M. of Arts, he took holy orders from his Father, by whose procurement he had one or more Benefices conferred upon him. At length being made one of his Maj. Chaplains, and Guardian of Christ's-Hospital in Ruthym, took the degrees in Divinity and published,  
Several Sermons, 
Clar. 1630.  as, (1) The Angel-Guardian, on Psal. 34. 7. Lond. 1630. qu. (2) The light enlightening, on Joh. 1. 9— Printed at Lond. the same year. I have been informed he had published other things, but such I have not yet seen.  
JOHN BARNES, or Barnesius, as he writes himself, was descended from those of his name in Lancashire, but whether born in that County, I know not, was educated for a time in this University, but being always in animo Catholicus, he left it and his Country, and going into Spain, was instructed in Philosophy and Divinity by the famous Doctor J. Alph. Curiel, who was wont to call Barns by the name of John Huss, because of a spirit of contradiction which was always observed in him. After he had finished his course of studies, he took upon him the habit of S. Benedict, with a resolution then to live and die in it; and about that time, was sent into the Mission of England to strengthen the Brethren, but being taken and imprisoned was sent into Normandy with certain Priests and Jesuits. Soon after he was by his Superior sent into Lorain, where he taught Divinity in the English Monastery of Benedictines called Dieuward or Dieuleward, and was there by the fraternity, and others too, esteemed profound in that great faculty, though he cared not to make show of it, much less to have any thing of his composition published. After he had left Dieuleward he became a Professor either of Diu. or Philosophy in Marchein college in Douai, where also he gained to himself the name of an eminent Divine and Philosopher: Thence he crossed the Seas, and settled for a time in England, where he fell out with his Superiors for refusing to submit to the Union of the Spanish and Italian Monks into one Congregation. While he continued there he wrote,  
Dissertatio contra Aequivocationes. Par. 1625. oct. etc. dedicated to P. Vrban 8. at which time the author was the prime person of the English Mission for assisting the Spanish Congregation. In 1627. I find him in Oxon again in the condition of a Gentleman and a Sojournor, to the end that he might obtain materials from the Bodleian Library towards the composition of a work by him then in hand, and about that time published a book against the Apostolatus Benedictinorum in Anglia, published by Clem. Reyner D. D. and Secretary to the Congregation of the Benedictines, an. 1626. fol. Which being esteemed a piece savouring of too much impudence, and contradiction, if not Heresy, it was prohibited the reading by the Brethren, and thrown aside among unlicensed and heretical books, and soon after had a reply published against it, which in some copies of the Apostolatus is put at the end, without a name to it, or any naming of Barnes. It must be now known that this learned person, being a very moderate man in his opinion, and deeply sensible by his great reading and observation of several corruptions of the Romish Church and doctrine, which partly were expressed in his discourse, but mostly in a book which he wrote, called,  
Catholico-Romanus Pacificus. became for that, (though not printed) and his answer to Apostol. so much hated by those of his Order, that endeavours were made to seize upon, and make, him an example. Whereupon Barnes perceiving a storm approaching, he fled to Paris, and was there protected by the English Ambassador. But so it was, that by the endeavours of Clem. Reyner beforementioned, and his interest made with Albert of Austria, he was 
a I●aac Basire D. D. in his Ancient liberty of the Britannic Church, etc. Posit. 4. p. 40.  carried out from the midst of that City by force, was divested of his habit, and like a fourfooted 
b Ibid.  Brute was in a barbarous manner tied to a Horse, and violently hurried away into Flanders. Where continuing for some time, was thence soon after carried to Rome, where by command of the Pope, he was, as a contriver of new doctrine, thrust into the dungeon of the Inquisition. Soon after being distracted in mind, as a certain Jesuit 
c Theop. Ranaudus in Theologia antiqua de veri Martyris ad●quate suniti notione. Lugd. 1656. p. 7.  saith, was removed to a place for the reception of Madmen behind the Church of S. Paul the less, there to continue till he came to his senses. Afterwards several copies in MS. of Cath. Rom. Pacificus, flying abroad, a true copy of it was made up by comparing it with others, and printed at the Theatre in Oxon, an. 1680. oct. Several years before that, some of the sections therein were made use of by another 
d Is Baffle in Diatrib. 〈◊〉 antiquae Eccles. 〈◊〉 libertate, etc. Brugis 1676.  person, as that (1) Of Councils, Popes, Schism. (2) Of the privileges of the Isle of Great Britain. (3) Of the Pope's Supremacy, and the Supreme Power of Kings, both in Temporals, as also in Spirituals, etc. Our author Barnesius hath written also a Tract of the Supremacy of Councils, which I have not yet seen, and other things; and also hath translated from the Spanish, into the Latin, tongue, Pugna Spiritualis, etc. written by Joh. Castiniza a Benedictine Monk. It was also afterwards translated into the same tongue by Jodochus Lorichius D. D. of Friburg.— Duac. 1625. in sixth. By those of the reformed party he, the said Barns, (who was living in sixteen hundred and thirty,) 
Clar. 1630.  is styled, the good Irenaeus, a learned, peaceable and moderate man, but by the R. Catholics, especially by those of his Order, a person of a turbulent and contradictory Spirit, occasioned by too much confidence and presumption of his own parts and wit, which was greater than his humility, and so consequently did expose him to great danger, (as they say,) of Apostasy, and disobedience to his Superiors, as also unworthy gratitude towards some who had deserved better returns from him. The time of his death, or place of burial, I cannot yet obtain, nor any thing else of him, only this, that certain fierce People at Rome, being not contented with his death, have endeavoured to extinguish his fame, boldly publishing that he died distracted.  
JOHN DONNE, a person sometimes noted for his Divinity, knowledge in several languages, and other learning, was born of good and virtuous Parents in London, became a Commoner of Hart hall, with his younger Brother Henry, in the beginning of Michaelmas-Term, an. 1584. being then but eleven years of age; where continuing about three years (in which time Sir Hen. Wotton had a Chamber there) he went to Cambridge, and spending three more there, he was transplanted to Lincoln's Inn to obtain knowledge in the Municipal Laws, where he had for his Chamber fellow, for some time, Mr. Christop. Brook an eminent Poet of his time. After he had continued there two years in exercising his poetical fancy, he began to survey the Body of Divinity, wherein he made very good notes and observations. Afterwards he traveled beyond the Seas, advanced himself much in the knowledge of countries, men, manners, and languages, and was at his return made by Egerton L. Chanc. of England his chief Secretary, and soon after was admitted M. of A. of this University, as I shall tell you elsewhere. But continuing not long in that beneficial employment, he did, upon the solicitations of some of his Friends, (especially upon the motion of K. James 1.) enter into the Sacred Function, and not long after was made one of the King's Chaplains, Doctor of Diu. of Cambridge, and at length in 1621. Dean of the Cath. Ch. of S. Paul in London, upon the promotion of Dr. Val. Carey to the See of Exeter. He was a person of great wit, virtue, and abilities, learned in several Faculties, and religious and exemplary in his life and conversation. In all which, being eminent, he was therefore celebrated, and his memory had in great veneration by the Wits and Virtuosos of his time, among whom were Ben. Johnson, Sir Lucius Cary afterwards L. Faulkland, Sidney Godolphin, Jasp. maine, Edward Hyde afterward L. Chancellor, En●ymion Porter, Arthur Wilson, etc. As for those things by him written (few of which were published in his time) are these.  
Pseudomartyr; a treatise showing from certain propositions and gradations that those that are of the Rom. Religion in England may, and aught to, take the Oath of Allegiance. Lond. 1610. qu. See more in Tho. Fitzherbert under the year 1640.  
Devotions upon emergent occasions, and several steps in his sickness. Lond. 1624. in tw. second edit.  
An anatomy of the World. Wherein, by occasion of the untimely death of Mrs. Elizab. Drury, the frailty and decay of this whole World is represented. Lond. 1625. oct. a Poem in two anniverssaries. The second anniversary is intit. The progress of the Soul, etc. which is a Poem also.  
Juvenilia, or certain Paradoxes and Problems. Lond. 1633. and 1652. in qu.  
Divine Poems, with Epistles to Sir H. Goodeere. Lond. 1633. qu.  
Poems, Songs, Sonnets, Satyrs, Letters, Funeral Elegies, etc. Lond. 1633. qu. 35. oct. In which are involved Divine Poems and Epistles before mentioned; and at the end are Elegies on the author's death.  
Six Sermons. Lond. 1634. qu.  
Fasciculus Poematum & Epigrammatum Miscellaneorum. Translated into English by Jasp. maine. D. D. with this title, A sheaf of miscellany Epigrams. Lond. 1632. oct.  
Ignatius his Conclave, or his inthronization in a late election in hell, etc. Lond. 1635. in tw. there again in 1653. An edition of this came forth in 1626. in oct. intit. Ignatius his Conclave, viz. of establishing a Church in the Moon.  
Apology for the Jesuits.— Pr. with the former.  
Eighty Sermons. Lond. 1640. fol. Among which are involved the six Sermons before-mentioned. These eighty Sermons are called, The first vol. of Dr. Donns' Sermons.  
Declaration of that Paradox or Thesis that self homicide is not so naturally a Sin, that it may not be otherwise. Lond. 1644. 48. etc. qu: The original under the authors own hand I have seen in Bodley's Library, dedicated to Edward L. Herbert of Cherbury.  
Essays in Divinity, etc. Lond. 1651. oct. Published by his Son John, who tells us that they were written before his Father had entered into holy Orders.  
Prayers.— Pr. with the former.  
Paradoxes, Problems, Essays, and Characters. Lond. 1652. oct. In which book are involved several, or most of the Paradoxes, Problems, etc. before-mentioned.  
Various Sermons. Lond. 1649. fol. vol. 2.  
Six and twenty Sermons never before published. Lond 1660. 61. fol. This is called the Third vol. of Dr. Donns' Sermons.  
Letters to several persons of honour. Lond. 1651. qu. Some of which, I think, were before printed. He had also lying by him at his death many Sermon notes, and other papers, containing an extract of near fifteen hundred authors: All which, as his last Legacy, he left to Dr. Hen. King, (afterwards B. of Chichester) but what became of them after that Bishop's death in 1669. I know not. He also translated from Greek into English The ancient history of the Septuagint. Lond. 1633. in tw. written originally by Aristeus. Which translation was revised and very much corrected by another hand.— Lond. 1685. oct. He paid his last debt to nature on the last day of March, year 1631 in sixteen hundred thirty and one, and was buried in the South Isle behind the Choir of the Cath. Ch. of S. Paul, near to the Monument of Dr. Jo. Colet. Both whose Epitaphs, with the Pictures of their respective Monuments, you may see in the History of that Cathedral, written by Sir Will. Dugdale, lately Garter K. of Arms. Our Author Dr. Jo. Donne left behind him a Son of both his Names, but of none of his virtues, manners, or generous qualities, and therefore by many his memory is condemned to utter Oblivion, while that of his Father flourisheth in the History of his life, written by Isaac Walton; the first edition of which (printed 1653.) coming into the hands of the best critic of the last age, I mean Jo. Hales of Eton, he affirmed to his friends, that he had not seen a life written with more advantage to the Subject, or more reputation to the writer, than it.  
JOHN RAWLINSON, a fluent and florid Preacher of his time, was born in London, educated in Grammaticals in Merchant-Taylors School, elected Scholar of S. John's coll. 1591. aged 15. and was afterwards Fellow, M. of A. and so great a frequenter of the Pulpits in Oxon, that his name being cried up for an excellent Theologist, became successively Rector of Taplow in Bucks, Vicar of Asheldam in Essex, Prebendary of Sarum, D. of D. Principal of S. Edmund's hall, Chaplain to Tho. Egerton Baron of Ellesmere L. Chanc. of England, and in Ordinary to K. Jam. 1. Rector of Celsy in Sussex, and of Whitchurch in Shropshire. In all which places he was much followed for his frequent and edifying preaching, great charity and public Spirit. He hath published,  
Divers Sermons, as, (1) The four Summons of the Shulamite, preached at Paul's Cross, on Cantic. 6. 12. Oxon. 1606. in oct. (2) fishermans Fishers of Men, on Matth. 4. 19 Lond. 1609. qu. (3) The Romish Judas, preached on the 5. Nou. 1610. on Luke 22. 48. Lond. 1611. qu. (4) Mercy to a Beast, on Prov. 12. 10. Oxon. 1602. qu. (5) Unmasking of the Hypocrite, preached at S. Mary's in Ox. on Luke 22. 48. Lond. 1616. qu. (6) Vivat Rex. Let the King live, or God save the King. on 1 Sam. 10. 24. Ox. 1619. qu. (7) The Dovelike Soul, on Psal. 55. 6. Oxon. 1625. qu. (8) Lex Talionis, on Judg. 1. 7. Ox. 1625. qu. (9) Surprising of Heaven, on Mat. 11. 12. lb. 1625. qu. (10) The Bridegroom and Bride, on Cant. 4. 8. lb. 1622. etc. qu. Which four last Sermons, viz. the 7, 8, 9, and 10. were all published together under the title of Qua●riga Salutis, or Four Quadragesimal Sermons, etc. These are all the Sermons of his publication that I have yet seen, and whether he be author of an Explication of the Creed, Ten Commandments, and Lords Prayer, which is published under the name of Rawlinson, in oct. I know not. He departed this mortal life in the beginning of the year sixteen hundred thirty and one, year 1631 and was buried in the Chancel of the Church at Whitchurch in Shropshire before-mentioned, where his name continues precious to this day among the inhabitants of that place, and in the neighbourhood, In his Prebendship of Salisbury, (called Netherbury in Ecclesia) succeeded Thom. Fuller, 18. Jun. 1631. the same who was afterwards the author of divers historical books; and him Tho. Henchman, 17. Aug. 1661.  
JOHN BUCKRIDGE, Son of Will. Buckridge 
a In Thesaur. coll. S. Joh. Bapt. in 〈…〉 Precedents and ●●●ligrees of the 〈…〉  by Elizabeth his Wife, Daughter of Tho. Keblewhyte of Baselden, Son of John Keblewhyte, (Uncle to Sir Tho. white the Founder of S. John's college,) and he the Son of Henry (some say John) Keblewhyte of Fawley, was born, as I conceive, at Draycot near to Marlborough in Wiltshire, educated in Merchant-Taylors School, became Scholar of the said coll. in 1578. soon after Fellow, and, through the degrees in Arts, Doctor of Divinity in the latter end of 1596. about which time he was Chaplain to Dr. Whitgift Archb. of Canterbury. After he had left the University I find him to have been first of all Rector of North-Fambridge in Essex, afterwards Chaplain to Robert E. of Essex, Rector of North Kilworth in Leicestershire, Vicar of S. Giles Church without Cripplegate, London, Archdeacon of Northampton, Canon of Windsor and Hereford, Chaplain to K. James, and at length Precedent of S. John's college, 1605. At which time his eminent abilities in the Pulpit had brought him into great credit with K. James, insomuch that he was chosen to be one of the four (Dr. Andrews B. of Chichester, Dr. Barlow B. of Rochester, and Dr. Jo. King than Dean of Ch. Ch. in Oxon, were the other three) who were appointed to Preach before his Maj. at Hampton Court in the month of Sept. 1606. for the reduction of the two Melvins, and other Presbyterian Scots to a right understanding of the Church of England. In the performance of which service, he took for his Text these words of the Apostle, Let every Soul, etc. Rom. 13. 1. In canvasing whereof, he fell upon the point of the King's Supremacy in causes Ecclesiastical; which he handled (as the most rev. Arch. Spotswood, who was present at the Sermon hath informed 
b 〈…〉 Scotland, book 7. under the year 1606. See 〈…〉 Archb. Land, printed 1671. part. 1. p. 44.  us of him,) both sound and learnedly, to the satisfaction of all the hearers: only it grieved the Scotch Ministers to hear the Pope and Presbytery so often equalled in their opposition to Sovereign Princes, etc. As for the Presidentship of S. John's coll. our author Buckridge keeping but a little more than five years, became B. of Rochester, to which he was consecrated 9 June 1611. Afterwards by the endeavours of his sometimes Pupil Dr. Laud B. of Bath and Wells, he was nominated B. of Ely, upon the death of Dr. Nich. Felton, (who died 1626.) the Temporalities of which See were restored 
c 〈…〉  to him, 18. Jul. 1628. A person he was of great gravity and learning, and one that knew as well as any other person of his time how to employ the two-edged Sword of the holy Scripture, of which he made good proof in the times succeeding, brandishing it on the one side against the Papists, and on the other against the Puritans and Non-conformists. In reference to the first, 'tis said of him in general, by a certain 
d Dr. Fr. Godwin in Comment. de Praesulib. Angliae in Episc. Roff.  author that he endeavoured most industriously both by preaching and writing to defend and propagate the true Religion here by Law established, which appears plainly by his learned laborious piece entitled,  
De potestate Papae in rebus temporalibus sive in regibus deponendis usurpata; adversus Robertum Cardinalem Bellarminum. Lib. 2. In quibus respondetur authoribus, Scriptures, rationibus, exemplis contra Gul. Barclaium allatis. Lond. 1614 in a large. qu. In which book he hath so shaken the Papal Monarchy, and its superiority over Kings and Princes, that none of the learned men of that party, did ever undertake a reply unto it— Johannem itaque Roffensem habemus (saith my before mentioned 
e Dr. Franc Godwin, etc.  author) quem Johanni Roffensi opponamus, Fishero Buckridgium, cujus argumentis (siquid) ego video) ne a mille quidem Fisheris unquam respondebitur. With like success, but less pains unto himself, he managed the controversy concerning kneeling at the Lords Supper, against those of the Puritan Party; the piety and antiquity of which religious posture in that holy action, he asserted with such holy reasons, and such clear authorities in  
A Sermon preached at Whitehall 22. Mar. 1617. touching prostration and kneeling in the Worship of God, on Psal. 95. 6. Lond. 1618. qu. and in,  
A discourse concerning kneeling at the Communion— (printed with the Sermon) that he came off without the least opposition of that party also. Besides which he hath published,  
Serm. preached at Hampton-Court 23. Sept. 1606. on Rom. 13. 5. London 1616. qu. Another on Heb. 4. 7. printed 1618. qu. A third which is a Funeral Serm. on Heb. 13. 6. was printed 1626. qu. and a fourth, on the same chap. vers. 16. was published at the end of B. Andrew's Sermons in fol. Lond. 1661. The day and place when and where this most worthy and learned Bishop died I know not, only that he was buried in the parish Church of Bromley in Kent (the manner of which belongs to the See of Rochester) on the last day of May in sixteen hundred thirty and one. year 1631 In the See of Rochester succeeded Dr. Walt. Carle, whom I shall mention elsewhere, and in Ely Dr. Francis White the King's Almoner.  
JOHN HOSKYNS, Junior, was born at Mounton in the parish of Lanwarne in Herefordshire, educated in Grammar learning in Wykehams' School near Winchester, admitted Perpetual Fellow of New coll. in 1601. took the degrees in the Civil Law, that of Doctor being completed 1613. in which year he left the coll. being about that time Chaplain to Dr. Rob. Bennet, B. of Hereford (as he was afterwards to K. James) Prebendary of Hereford, and Parson of Ledbury in his native Country. He was an able Civilian, but better Theologist, and much followed for his frequent and edifying way of Preaching. He hath published,  
Eight Sermons preached at S. Mary's in Oxon. Paul's Cross and elsewhere. Lond. 1615. qu. The first is on Luke 12. 41. The second on Isa. 28. 1. The 3. and 4th. on Matth. 11. 19 etc. He hath also extant a Sermon upon the parable of the King that taketh an account of his Servants, on Matth. 18. 23. Lond. 1609. oct.  
A short Catechism upon the Lord's Prayer, the ten Commandments, and the Creed, very profitable for Children and others. Lond. 1678.— 9 oct. published by Charles Townsend M. of A. He ended and finished his course at Ledbury before mentioned, 8. August, in sixteen hundred thirty and one, year 1631 and was buried in the parish Church there. Soon after was an Epitaph put over his Grave, consisting of eight verses, the two first of which are these.  
Sub Pedibus Doctor jacet hic in Legibus Hoskyns, Esse pios docuit, quodque docebat erat.  
The rest you may see in Hist. & Antiq. Vniu. Oxon. lib. 2. p. 145. 6.  
DANIEL PRICE, elder brother to Samson Price before mentioned, was born in the ancient Borough of Shrewsbury, and there educated in Grammar learning. In 1594. and in the sixteenth year of his age, he became a Commoner of S. Mary's hall in Midsummer Term, but before he took a degree in Arts, he was transplanted to Exeter coll. where by the benefit of a diligent Tutor, he became in short time a smart disputant. After he had taken the degree of M. of A. he had holy Orders conferred upon him, and was a frequent and remarkable preacher, especially against the Papists. About that time he was constituted one of Prince Henry's Chaplains in Ordinary: whereupon taking the degrees in Divinity he was made Chaplain to K. Jam. 1. (as afterwards to (K. Ch. 1.) Dean and Canon residentiary of Hereford, Rector of Worthyn near Caus Castle in Shropshire, and of Lanteglos in Cornwall, Justice of the Peace also for the Counties of Shrewsbury, Hereford, Montgomery and Cornwall. He hath written and published,  
The defence of truth against a book called The triumph of truth, sent over from Arras, 1609. by Humph. Leech. Oxon. 1610. qu. He hath also published at least,  
Fifteen Sermons. Among which are these. (1) Praelium & praemium. The Christians war and reward, on Rev. 2. 26. Oxon. 1608. qu. (2) Recusants Conversation, on Esay 2. 3. Ibid. 1608. qu. (3) The Merchant, on Matth. 13. 45. 46. Lond. 1608. qu. (4) Spiritual Odours to the Memory of Pr. Henry, in four of the last Sermons preached in S. James after his Highness' death, the last being the Sermon before the body, the day before the burial. The first is intit. Meditations of Consolation on our Lamentations, on Psal. 90. 15. The second which hath the same title is on 2 Sam. 12. 23. The third which is intit. Sorrow for the sins of the times, preached on the third Sunday after the Prince's death, is on Ezech. 9 4. And the fourth which is called Tears shed over Abner, is on 2 Sam. 3. 31. All which four Sermons were printed at Oxon. 1613. qu. (5) Lamentation for the death of the illustrious Pr. Henry and the dissolution of his religious family. Two Sermons on Matth. 26. 31. Lond. 1613. qu. (6) mary's memorial, on Matth. 26. 13. Lond. 1617. qu. (7) Hearty Prayer in the needful time of trouble, on Psal. 118. 25. Lond. 1625. qu. These eleven, are all that I have seen of fifteen, Sermons or thereabouts that he hath published. He yielded up his last breath at Worthyn or Worthing before mentioned on the 23. 
1631▪  Sept. in sixteen hundred thirty and one, and was buried in the Chancel of the Church there. Over his Grave was a brass Plate soon after fixed to the Wall, and thereon engraven a Latin and English Epitaph, made by a fantastical Pedagogue. The Latin is in four verses, containing a Chronogram of the Doctor's death: the English his Dignities and Employments, which I have before mentioned. But that which I am to let the Reader now know, is an odd story that hangs at the tail, reported 
f In a Funeral discourse touching the late different deaths of two eminent Protestant Divines, at the end of the book entit. Puritanism the Mother, sin the Daughter, etc. written by B. C. Catholic Priest, printed beyond the Seas, 1633. oct.  by a R. Catholic Priest, but whether true or no, the Reader is to judge as he please.— Dr. Price (saith he) by the worth of his parts and learning, was honoured by being particularly known, and respected by his Majesty, and then afterward was made Dean of Hereford, a place of great estimation— All his life time he enjoying his health, showed 
g Ib. p. 117.  himself much averse to the Catholics, and troubled divers of them.— In his lest sickness he desired of his Doctor of Physic, that he would sen● to him a Romish Priest: whereupon he was accordingly brought.— The Doctor told the said Priest that he was then in judgement a Catholic, and did intend to die a member of that Religion.— Whereupon he took the Sacrament, and so was incorporated into the mystical of Christ's Cath. Church, and with a constant resolution died a member of the holy Church, etc. Dr. Hen. Butts, Vicechancellor of Cambridge hanged 
h Ib. p. 139. 140.  himself in his garters in his own Chamber on Easter day, 1632. being that day to preach to the University. But Dr. Price like a worthy and Christian confessor of the true Catholic and Roman Religion, by means of a natural death, we hope now enjoys the felicity of the Saints— Dr. Butts maintaining (as is reported) the heretical doctrine of Predestination, in the end died a Reprobate, and by the help of a rope, wherewith he hanged himself, doth remain in insufferable torments with the Devils, etc.  
RICHARD PILKINGTON, was descended from an ancient Family of his name living at Rivington in Lancashire, but where born (unless in the County Pal. of Durham) I cannot justly say. At about 17 years of age he was sent to Cambridge, where continuing till after he was M. of A. retired to Oxon, and settling in Queen's coll. was incorporated in the same degree, an. 1599 At that time being esteemed eminent in the faculty of Theology, he was admitted in the year following to the reading of the sentences, and 7 years after was licenced to proceed in the same faculty. In 1625. he was made Archdeacon of Leicester, in the place of Robert Johnson deceased, being at that time the rich Rector of Hambleton in Bucks, which were all the preferments, I think, that he enjoyed. His works are,  
Parallela: Or, the grounds of the new Rom. Catholic, and of the ancient Christian Religion, out of the holy Scriptures, composed together; in answer to a late popish Pamphlet intit. A Manual of Controversies, etc. by A. C. S. Lond. 1618. qu. What else he hath written I find not, nor any thing material of him besides, only that he departed this life about the middle of Sept. year 1631 in sixteen hundred thirty and one, and was buried in the Chancel of his Church of Hambleton, at which time was the most dreadfullest storm of Wind, thunder, and lightning, as ever was known in those parts. It occasioned so great a darkness, that the neighbours were forced to convey the Corpse to the Grave by lights at four of the Clock in the afternoon. I have been also informed by the Rector of that Church Dr. Fr. G. that the storm was so violent that it moved and broke some of the stones that were to cover the Grave, and that it forced the Shovel out of the Clerks hand, shattered it, and made an impression on the Chancel Wall, as he had received the story from Dr. Pilkingtons' servant, who then lived in the Parsonage House. This last though very improbable, yet certain it is that that most unusual storm did occasion certain odd reports concerning the said Doctor, to be made by the R. Catholics, to whom in general he had been a bitter enemy in his preaching and writing.  
ROBERT BOLTON, a most religious and learned Puritan was born at Blackbourne in Lancashire, on Whitsunday 1572. educated in Grammar learning under one Mr. Yate in the Free-school, founded at that place, in the 9 year of Q. Elizabeth: where in short time by the benefit of excellent parts, strong memory, labour, and attention, he became the best Scholar in that school. At about 18. years of age, he being full ripe for the University, he was sent to Lincoln coll. about 1590. where being put under the tuition of Mr. Joh. Randal a person then of consisiderable note in the University, he profited in Logic and Philosophy, to the admiration of all, merely occasioned by that groundwork of learning, that he had got at School. It was then observed that though he was well skilled in the Greek tongue, yet that he might obtain an exactness in it, he did with intolerable pains write out with his own hand either all Homer or Hesiod, in a fair Greek character. He wrote that language better than English or Latin, and was so excellent a Disputant in it, that he did with as much facility course (or oppose his Antagonist) in the public Schools, as in Latin. Nay he wrote and spoke it stilo imperatorio, as Lipsius calls it, and 'twas so familiar to him, that he could not avoid it. From the said college he removed to Brasenose purposely to get a Fellowship, because the Society thereof consists mostly of Lancashire and Cheshire men. In the beginning of December 1596. he, as a member of that coll. took the degree of Bach. of Arts; but having few friends, he stayed long without a Fellowship, yet because he should not be disincouraged (for he was poor and had little to maintain him) Dr. Rich. Brett a very good Grecian of Linc. coll. did contribute towards his relief. At length with much ado he became Fellow in 1602. and in the same year proceeded Master of Arts. So that growing famous, he was successively chosen reader of the Lectures of Logic, and of Moral and Natural Philosophy in that house. In 1605. when K. James came to Oxon. the Vicechancellor appointed him to read in Natural Philosophy in the public Schools, and to be one of the Disputants before him. Afterwards ●he grew well studied in the Metaphysics, Mathematics, and in all School Divinity, especially in Thomas Aquinas; some of whose works he had read over once or twice. About that time he retired to his own Country, where he had like to have been carried over to the Church of Rome by one Anderton his country man and school-fellow, but their meeting together to confer about the matter being disappointed by Anderton it took no effect. This Anderton (by the way let it be known) was, after he had left Blackbourne School, sent to Christ's coll. in Cambridge, where for his eloquence he was called golden mouthed Anderton: But his mind hanging after the R. Cath. religion, he left that coll. and his Country, and shipping himself beyond the Seas entered into R. Cath. Orders, and became one of learnedest among the Papists. Whether this person be the same with Laurence Anderton a Lancashire man born, and a Jesuit, who published books in 1632. and 34. I know not as yet. As for Bolton he returned soon after to Brasnose, where falling into the acquaintance of Mr. Tho. Peacock a learned and godly man of that house, he was by him settled a most sober and religious person, having been before a swearer, a Sabbath-breaker and a boon companion. In the 35 year of his age he entered into Orders, and two years after, which was in 1609. or thereabouts, he had the Parsonage of Broughton in Northamptonshire conferred on him by Mr. (after Sir) Augustin nicols Sergeant at Law. The same year, in Dec. he was admitted to the reading of the Sentences, and then leaving the coll. for altogether in the latter end of 1610. the University thereby lost a singular ornament. He was a painful and a constant preacher, a person of great zeal towards God in his profession, charitable and bountiful, but above all a reliever of afflicted consciences, which he acquired by that manifold experience he had in himself and others; and grew so famous for it, that he was sought to far and near, and divers from beyond the Seas desired his resolution in several cases of conscience. He hath transmitted to posterity,  
A discourse about the state of true happiness, delivered in certain Sermons in Oxon, and at Paul's Cross, on Psal. 1. ver. 1. 2. Lond. 1611. etc. qu. Which, for the godliness of the matter, and eloquence of the stile therein contained, was universally bought up, and the sixth edition of it was printed in 1631.  
Instructions for the right comforting afflicted consciences. Lond. 1631. qu.  
Helps to humiliation. Oxon. 1631. in tw.  
Sermons, as (1) Directions for walking with God, on Gen. 6. 8. 9 Lond. 1625. qu. (2) Serm. at Lent, Assize at Northampton, on 1 Cor. 1. 26. Lond. 1633. qu. Published by his great admirer Edward Bagshaw signior. (3) Serm. on Prov. 29. 2. London 1635. quarto. (4) Cordial for Christians in the time of affliction, on Micah 7. ver. 8. 9 Lond. 1640. qu. etc.  
Of the four last things, death, judgement, hell and heaven. Lond. 1633. etc. qu. Published by the said E. Bagshaw.  
Funeral notes on his Patron Sir Aug. nicols Kt. Judge of the Com. Plea. Lond. 1633. qu. Publ. by the said Bagshaw.  
Carnal Professor: of woeful slavery of man guided by the flesh. Lond. 1634. tw.  
The Saints sure and perpetual guide: or, a treatise concerning the word, on Psal. 119. 105. Lond. 1634 qu.  
The Saint's self enriching examination: or, a treatise concerning the Sacrament of the Lords Sup. etc. 1 Cor. 11. 28.— printed with the former book, viz. The Saints sure, etc.  
The Saints Soul-exalting humiliation, or Soul-fatting fasting, etc. on 2 Cor. 20. 3.— printed also with the former book.  
Devout Prayers upon solemn occasions. Lond. 1638. in tw. Publ. by Bagshaw before mentioned.  
A short and private discourse between him and M. S. concerning usury. Lond. 1637. qu. publs. also by the said Bagshaw. This is animadverted upon in a book intit. Usury stated, etc. by T. P.  
The last visitation, conflicts and death of Mr. Tho. Peacock Bach. of Diu. and Fellow of Brasnose coll. Lond. 1661. Published also by the said Bagshaw. This our religious and learned author Mr. Bolton died at Broughton in Northamptonshire before mentioned, year 1631 17 Dec. in sixteen hundred thirty and one, and was buried two days after in the Chancel of the Church there: At which time Nich. Estwick Bach. of Diu. sometimes Fellow of Christ's coll. in Cambr. and at that time Minist. of Warkton in the said county of Northampton did preach his funeral 
* Printed at Lond. 1635. 39 qu.  Sermon, wherein he spoke many things to the honour of the Defunct. About two years after Edw. Bagshaw before mentioned published his life (with some of his works) to which I refer the reader for more satisfaction of him. He the said Mr. Bolton left behind him a Son named Samuel, born at Broughton, educated in Linc. coll. and afterwards became an eminent preacher in London and much followed by the precise party. After the restauration of K. Ch. 2. he was made Prebendary of Westm. and actually created D. of D. of this Univer. which is all that I know of him, only that he dying on the eleventh of Feb. 1668. was buried in the Abbey Church of St. Peter at Westminster, on the south side of the Choir, near to the stairs leading up to the Pulpit. The Reader is now to observe, that whereas many things were published under the name of Sam. Bolton, he is to understand them not to have been written by this Samuel, but by another Sam. Bolton educated in Cambridge, Master of Christ's coll. there, one of the Assembly of Divines, 1643. Preacher to the Congregation of S. Saviour's in Southwark, in the time of the Rebellion and interval, who dying the 15. Octob. 1654. aged 48 years, was buried in the Church of St. Martin within Ludgate in London, much lamented by the Brethren of the Presbyterian persuasion.  
JOHN HOWSON received his first breath in the Parish of S. Bride in London, 
591●  educated in Grammaticals in S. Paul's School, became Student of Ch. Ch. in 1577. took the degrees in Arts, holy Orders, and some time after was made one of the Vicars of Bampton in Oxfordshire. On the 15. May 1601. (43. Eliz.) he was installed Canon of Ch. Ch. and in Dec. following he took the degrees in Divinity. In the next year (1602.) he had the office of Vicechanc. of the University conferred upon him; in which being settled, fell out a controversy between him and certain Divines thereof called Puritans or Calvinists, who for their number were not few. For so it was, that he, a zealous man for the Church of England, as it was established in the time of K. Ed. 6. having heard and beheld with patience for several years the grand enormities, committed in Preaching by many, if not the generality, of the Divines in the University, was resolved, when in authority, to reform them. But his time being short, only for an year, and his Successor not of the same mind, little or nothing could be done. However John Sprint of his own house he called into question for uttering certain points of doctrine against the ceremonies and discipline then established according to Law, (which was an usual thing for many puritanical and discontented Divines in the Uniu. to bark at,) and after him Rob. Troutbeck of Qu. college, nay the most Calvinistical Provost thereof Hen. Airay, who did not only maintain in their Preachings what Sprint had said and done, but also spoke many things to the disgrace of the Vicechancellor: Among which was, that he had to no other end and purpose got the degrees of Bach. and Doct. of Divinity, without exercise done for them, only but that he might sooner obtain the Vicechancellourship, and consequently show his authority in unjust proceedings, etc. From that time there were continual broils during his government; which being too many now to enumerate, and partly mentioned 
† In Hist. & Antiq. Uniu. Ox. lib. 1. p. 30●. b.  elsewhere, I shall forbear to treat any farther of them. Afterwards our author Howson was made Rector of Brightwell near to Watlington in Oxfordshire, Fellow of Chelsey coll. and at length Bishop of Oxon. To which See being elected 12. Sept. 1618. was consecrated at Lambeth with Searchfield B. of Bristol, and Bridgman of Chester on the 9 of May following. In 1628. Sept. 18. he was translated to the See of Durham, (in the place of Dr. G. Mountaigne translated to York,) where he remained to his dying day, having always before been accounted a grave and learned man, and a true Son of the Church of England. His works are,  
Several Sermons, as, (1) Sermons Preached at S. Paul's Cross 4. Dec. 1597, on Matth. 21. 12, 13. wherein is discoursed, that all buying and selling spiritual promotion is unlawful. Lond. 1597. qu. (2) Second Serm. Pr. at S. Paul's Cross 21. May 1598. on Matth. 21. 12, 13. concluding the former Sermon. Lond. 1598. qu. (3) Sermon at S. Mary's in Oxon 17. Nou. 1602. in defence of the Festivities of the Church, and namely that of her Maj. Coronation, on Psal. 118. 24. Oxon. 1603. second edit. qu.  
Vxore dimissâ propter fornicationem, aliam non licet superinducere. Thesis' tertia proposita & disputata in Vesperiis Oxon. Oxon. 1602. oct. and 1606. qu. The defence of which Thesis, see in Rob. Burhill, under the year 1641.  
Certain Sermons made in Oxon, an. 1616, wherein is proved that S. Peter had no Monarchical Power over the rest of the Apostles, against Bellarmine, Saunders, Stapleton, and the rest of that company. Lond. 1622. qu. They are four in number, and all on Luke 12. 41, 42. etc. commanded to be published by K. James, to clear the aspersion laid upon him of favouring Popery; which having not been yet replied upon by any of the Rom. Cath. party, have rendered their author famous to posterity. He yielded up his last breath on the sixth day of Febr. in sixteen hundred thirty and one, 
1631/2.  aged 75. or thereabouts, and was buried in the Cath. Church of S. Paul within the City of London, leaving then behind him the character of a very learned man, and one plentifully endowed with all those virtues, which were most proper for a Bishop. The Reader is to know that there was one John Howesoun who wrote, A short exposition of the 20. and 21. verses of the third chapter of the first Epistle of St. John containing a profitable discourse of Conscience. Edinb. 1600. oct. but him I take to be a Scot, and to have no relation to Joh. Howson beforementioned.  
DUDLEY CARLETON, Son of Anth. Carleton of Baldwin Brightwell near Watlington in Oxfordshire Esq was born there, 10. March 1573. became a Student of Ch. Ch. under the tuition of Mr. (afterwards Dr.) John King a 1591. or thereabouts, took the degrees in Arts, that of Master being completed 1600. being then returned from his travels. Afterwards he went in the quality of a Secretary to Sir Ralph Winwood into the Low Countries, where being very active when K. James resigned the Cautionary Towns to the States, added thereby experience to his learning. In 1610. June 25. he received the honour of Knighthood from K. James at Windsor, who sent him 
a Lib. certific. in Offic. Armorum, J. 8. fol. 32. b.  Ambassador Ordinary to the States of Venice, where he remained five years, and from thence Extraordinary to Emanuel Duke of Savoy, where he continued half an year; and after Ord. Ambassador to the States of the United Provinces, where he was resident 10 years. Towards the latter end of K. James he was made Vicechamberlain of the household, which office he holding in the Reign of K. Ch. 1. his commission was renewed by that King for the latter part of that 10 years. Afterwards, that time being terminated, he was sent Ambassador Extraordinary at two several times to the most Christian K. Lewis the 13. and likewise Ambassador Extraordinary to the aforesaid States of the United Provinces. In the 2. of K. Ch. 1. he was made Baron of Imbercourt in Surrey, and the next year being accompanied by Sir Will. Segar Knight, than Garter K. of Arms, went into Holland and there presented the Garter to Henry Pr. of Aurange, or Orange, with the Ensigns of that most noble Order thereunto appertaining. In the 4. Car. 1. he was created Viscount Dorchester in Oxfordshire, and upon the 18. Dec. the same year, he was constituted one of his Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State, in which office he continued to the time of his death. He was a person that understood several Languages well, as also the Laws, conditions, and manners of most States in Europe. He was an exact Statesman, understood the intrigues of State well, yet just in his dealings, and beloved by most men, who much miss him after his death. He hath written,  
Balance, pour peser en toute equité & droicture la Harangue faite n'agurees en L'assemblée des illustres & puissans Seignoures Messeigneurs les Estats generaux des Provinces unies du pais bas, etc. Printed 1618. qu.  
Harangue faite au counseile de Mess rs. les Estats generaux des Provinces Vnies, touchant le discord & les troubles del Eglise & la policy, causes par la doctrine d'Arminius, 6. Oct. 1617. still. nov. Printed with the former. Besides these Speeches he hath extant Various Letters in the Cabala, or Scrinia sacra. Lond. 1663. fol. Various Letter's to George Duke of Bucks, in Cabala, or Mysteries of State. Lond. 1654. qu. and lastly, Several French and Latin Letters to the learned Ger. Jo. Vossius, printed in Ger. Jo. Vossii & Clarorum Virorum ad eum epistolae. Lond. 1690. fol. published by Paulus Colomesius. Besides these, he hath also Several Speeches in Parliament, an. 1626. etc. One or more of which you may see in the first vol. of Joh. rushworth's Collections, p. 358.  
Memoires for dispatches of political affairs relating to Holland and England, and 1618. with several propositions made to the states. MS.  
Particular observations of the military affairs in the Palatinate and the Low Countries, an. 1621. and 1622. MS.  
Letters relating to State affairs written to the King and Viscount Rochester, from Venice, an. 1613: MS. He paid his last debt to nature in his house situated within the City of Westminster on the 15 day of Febr. between 10. and 11. 
1631-2.  of the clock at night in sixteen hundred thirty and one, and was buried in the Chapel of S. Paul on the north side of the Abbey Church, dedicated to S. Peter within the said City. Over his grave was soon after erected against the east Wall, a well composed plain Monument of black and white Marble, with a half canopy supported by dorick Pillars, with the image of a man in his robes of estate, and Viscounts Coronet, leaning on a Pedestal, all form of the like black and white marble. He left behind him a Nephew of both his names, who was admitted Scholar of King's coll. in Cambridge, 1614 and had the degree of Master of Arts of that University conferred upon him during his absence in the Low Countries, being then Secretary to his Uncle, while he was Ambassador there. In 1629. March 1. he received the honour of Knighthood from his Majesty at Newmarket, and in 1637. he was made one of the Clerks of the Council.  
NICHOLAS VIGNIER, received his first being in this World at Bloys in France, educated mostly in the University of Saumour, retired to Oxon to improve his studies by the hearing and doctrine of Dr. John Prideaux, an. 1623. was incorporated master of Arts in Octob. the same year, as he had stood at Saumour, being about that time entered a Sojournour of Exeter coll. (of which house Prideaux was then Rector) and numbered among the Academians. Soon after he was admitted to the reading of the Sentences, as a member of the said college, being at that time reputed 
b Vide in Charisteriis Deg. Wheari, Edit. Ox. 1628. p. 119.  to be a person of great erudition, singular piety, and of a most polite ingeny. After he had tarried there for some few years, he returned to the place of his nativity, where he became a zealous Minister of, and preacher to, the Protestant Church. Before he came to Oxon, he published,  
Theses Theologicae de satisfactione dei & domini nostri Jes. Ch. etc. Lugd. Bat. 1622. qu. Highly commended by And. Rivet, and by him annexed to his own disputations. After he had left Oxon. he published several Sermons in the French tongue, as. (1) L'Art de bien mourir, on Luke 2. 25. etc. Rochel 1625. oct. (2) Lafoy mere Ecclesiastic, on Gal. 4. 19 (3) De la priere pou les Rois & Magistrates, on 1 Tim. 2. 1, 2. (4) Le Trisagion, on Esay 6. 1, 2, 3. (5) De la chente des Auges, etc. on the 6. ver. of S. Judas. (6) Two Sermons at Bloys, on Rev. 2. 12. (7) Serm. of the call, confirmation and authority of the Ministers of the Gospel, on Joh. 20. ver. 21. 22. (8) Panegyrique de la paix, on Psal. 122. All which were printed at Rochel 1625. in oct. (9) Practic de repentance, twenty Sermons on Psal. 51. 
Clar. 1631.  Bloys 1631. oct. Besides several others which I have not yet seen. This Nich. Vignier, who was Minister of the Protestant Church at Bloys before mentioned, was Son of Nich. Vignier of Bar on the river Seine, a learned Frenchman, Physician and Historiographer to the K. of France, while our Qu. Elizab. reigned and after; several of whose works are in our public Library at Oxon. Among which are. (1) Theatre de l' Antichrist, etc. printed 1610. fol. (2) Dissertatio de Venetorum excommunicatione contra Caes. Baronium. Franc. ad. m. 1607. qu. Which two books are said by a certain 
* Edw. Leigh in his Treatise of religion and learning, etc. Lond. 1656. fol. lib. 6. cap. 5.  author, but false, to have been written by N. Vignier the Son.  
GEORGE CALVERT, Son of Leonard Calvert by Alice his Wife, Daug. of John Crossland of Crossland, was born at Kypling in the chapelry of Bolton in Yorks. (at which place he bestowed much money in building in the latter end of the Reign of K. Jam. 1.) became a Commoner of Trinity coll. in Lent Term 1593., and in the year of his age 15. took one degree in Arts, and then leaving the college, traveled beyond the Seas for a time. At his return he was made Secretary to Sir Rob. Cecil, while he was one of the prime Secretaries of State, being then esteemed a forward and knowing person in matters relating to the State. All which time, and after, for several years, when Sir Robert was advanced to higher offices he retained him, and made use of his prudence and faithfulness in many weighty matters. In 1605. he was actually created Master of Arts when K. Jam. 1. was entertained by the University. Afterwards by the endeavours of the said Sir Robert Cecil, he was made one of the Clerks of the Council, and in 1617. Sept. 29. he, with Cl. edmond's sometimes of Alls. coll. Albert Morton (whom I shall anon mention) both Clerks of the Council also, received the honour of Knighthood from his Majesty at Hampton Court. On the 15. February 1618. he was made 
c Gul. Camden. in Annal. Reg. Ja●. 1. MS. sub. an. 1619.  Secretary of State to his Majesty; who, as before he had used his help in many matters of moment, so he did oftener afterwards to his great benefit and advantage. At the same time also his Majesty judged it very convenient that he should assist and help Sir Robert Nauton the other Secretary, who had not then that faculty of managing and expediting matters of State as Calvert had. On the 2 May 1620. the King gave 
d Ibid sub. an. 1620.  him an yearly pension of a thousand pounds to be received from the Customs, and on the 16 Feb. 1624. (he being then a Parliamentary Burgess for this University) was by the name of Sir George Calvert of Danbywiske in Yorkshire Knight, etc. created Baron of Baltimore in the County of Longford in Ireland, being then a Roman Catholic, or at least very much addicted to their Religion. As for his adventures into America, where he was absolute Lord and Proprietary of Avalon in the Newfoundland, and of his first venturing and taking possession of a Peninsula lying in the parts of America, between the Ocean on the East, and the Bay of Chesopeake on the West, and divided from the other part thereof by a right line drawn from the Promontory or Cape of Land called Watkyns point (situate in the aforesaid Bay, near to the River Wighco) on the West, unto the main Ocean; afterwards called and named by him Mary-Land, let the Histories, and relations of Travellers tell you, while I acquaint you of his works, which are,  
Carmen funebre in D. Hen. Vntonum, ad Gallos bis Legatum, ibique nuper fato functum▪ Printed 1596. qu.  
Parliamentary Speeches.  
Various Letters of State.  
The answer of Tom Telltruth. The practice of Princes and the Lamentation of the Kirk. Lond. 1642. qu. He hath also written something concerning Mary-Land, but whether printed I cannot tell. He ended his days on the 15. Ap. in sixteen hundred thirty and two, year 1632 and was buried in the Chancel of the Church of S. Dunstan in the West in Fleetstreet, near London. As for Albert Morton before mentioned, who was Nephew to Sir Henry Wotton, was elected Scholar of King's coll. 1602. went with his Uncle in the quality of Secretary when he went on his Embassy to the States of Venice. Afterwards he was thrice Agent in Savoy, Secretary to the Lady Elizabeth in Heidleburg, and there employed as Agent 
† Martii 10. an. 1620. Albertus Morton rediit e Germania, & Rex. (Jac. 1.) eo die non admisit. It● Camdenus in Annal. R. Jac. 1. MS.  for the King with the Princes of the Union. Afterwards he became one the Clerks of the Council and a Knight as I have before told you, and at length one of the Secretaries of State. He ended his days in the Parish of S. Margaret within the City of Westminster in the winter time (in Nou. as it seems) an. 1625. having a little before been elected a Burgess to serve in Parliament for the Uniu. of Cambridge. He then left behind him a Widow named Elizabeth, by whom he had, if I mistake not, a Son of both his names, who was elected Scholar of King's coll. in the said University 1638. but left that house soon after, and became a Lieutenant Colonel in the Wars in Ireland.  
NATHANIEL TORPORLEY, a Shropshire man born, applied his Muse to Academical learning in Ch. Church, an. 1579. aged 16. about which time he became one of the Students of that house. Afterwards he took the degree of Bach. of Arts, which being completed by Determination, he left the University, and whether he then traveled beyond the Sea I cannot tell. For that he was in France for two or more years, and was Amanuensis to the celebrated Mathematician Fran. Vieta of Fontenay in the Province of Poictau is notoriously known, but the time when, whether before, or after, he was M. of A. we cannot tell. Sure it is that his Genie being mostly inclined to the Mathematics and Astronomy, (in which faculties he had obtained in his absence, a sufficient knowledge) he returned to the University, and entering himself into Brasnose college: did as a member thereof, take the degree of Master of Arts, an. 1591., being then eight years standing in that of Bachelaur. Afterwards he retired to the great City, and became so famous for his singular knowledge, that being made known to the great Earl of Northumberland, named Henry Piercy, the generous favourer of all good learning, was received into his Patronage, and had a pension paid yearly unto him, for several years from his Purse. About the same time he was made Rector of Salwarp in his native Country, in the place of Tho. Forest deceased, 1608. where residing sometimes, but mostly in Zion coll. in London, (of which he was a Student and a most eminent member) continued in the last, till the time of his death. He hath transmitted to posterity.  
Diclides Caelometricae; seu Valvae Astronomicae universales omnia artis totius munera Psephophoretica in sat modicis finibus duarum tabularum methodo nova, generali & facilimâ continentes. Lib. 2. Lond. 1602. qu.  
Tabula praemiss●is ad declinationes & caeli mediationes. Printed with the former book, in five parts.  
Directionis accuratae consummata doctrina, Astrologis hac tenus plurimum desiderata. Written by way of Preface to the two former books. He hath also printed something against Fr. Vieta, under the name of Poulterey, which is Torpurley's name transposed, but that book I have not yet seen; and hath also written, 

MSS. in Bib. coll. Zion.  
Congestor: Opus Mathematicum. Imperfect.  
Pholosophia.  
Atomorum atopia demonstrata. Imperfect.  
Corrector Analyticus artis posthumae. Imperfect.    
He took his last farewell of this world in Zion coll. before mentioned, and was buried in the Church of St. Alphage near to that college, on the seventeenth day of Apr. in sixteen hundred thirty and two. year 1632 By his nuncupatory 
d In the Will-office near S. Paul's Cath. Ch. in reg. Swan, part 1. Qu. 65.  Will, which he spoke on the 14. day of the same month, he gave to the use of those that study in the Library of the said coll. all his mathematical books and others, all his Astronomical instruments, notes, maps and his brass clock. Among the said books, were some few MSS. of which one contained Certain definitions of the Planisphere, made by Walter Warner a most noted Mathematician of his time.  
LEWES BAYLY, was born in the ancient Borough of Caermerthen in Wales, but in what house educated, unless in Exeter coll. or what degrees he took in Arts, I find not, only that as a member of the said coll. he was admitted to the reading of sentences, an. 1611. being about that time Minister of Evesham, in Worcestershire, Chaplain to Prince Henry, and Minister of St. Matthews Church in Friday-street, in London, and that he proceeded in Divinity two years after. Much about the same time, he being famed for his eminence in preaching, was made one of the Chaplains to King James 1. who nominating him Bishop of Bangor in the place of Dr. H. rowland's, was consecrated thereunto at Lambeth, with Dr. Lake to the See of B. and Wells, on the 8. of Dec. an. 1616. On the 15. July 1621. I find this 
e In. Annal. Reg. Jac. 1. ●t supr●, sub. an. 1621.  passage of him. Episcopus Bangoriensis examinatur, & in Le Fleet datur, sed paulo post liberatur. What his crime was, my author tells me not, nor do I lift further to inquire, unless it concerned the Prince's match with the Infarta of Spain. He hath published.  
The practice of Piety; directing a Christian how to walk that he may please God.— Printed about 40 times in oct. and tw. the eleventh edition of which was printed at Lond. 1619. It was also printed once or more in the Welsh tongue; and once or more in the French, an. 1633. etc. And in France having been much cried up, did therefore cause John Despagne a French writer, and a Preacher in Somerset-house Chappel, an. 1656. to make some complaint of, not for any ill thing in, it, because the generality of the Plebeians do look upon the authority of it, equal with that of the Scripture. It is said by an author, 
f Lu●ov. Molinaeus in lib. suo cui tit. est, Patronus bonae fidei, etc. edit. in oct. an. 1672. in cap. continent. Specimen contra Durellum, p. 48.  who takes all advantages to speak against the Bishops, and Church of England, that this book called, The practice of Piety, was written by a Puritan Minister, and that a Bishop not altogether of a chaste life, did, after the Author's death bargain with his Widow for the Copy, which he received, but never paid her the money. Afterwards he interlopating it in some places, did publish it as his own, etc. But let this report, which hath been common with some, as also that, which saith it was written by one Price Archdeacon of Bangor, remain with their authors, while I tell you that Dr. Bayly dying in the beginning of the year sixteen hundred thirty and two, was buried in his Church of Bangor. year 1632 He left behind him four Sons, Nicholas, John, Theodore and Thomas. John was Fellow of Exeter coll. and a publisher of certain Sermons, as I have already told you. Thomas Bayly the youngest Son, was not educated in this University, but in Cambridge, and after he had taken the degrees in Arts, he was presented by his Majesty to the Subdeanry of Wells, in the latter end of May 1638. upon the promotion of Dr. Will. Roberts to the See of Bangor. In 1644. he, among other Loyal Ministers, retired to Oxon, and in the month of Aug. was incorporated Master of Arts, and afterwards had the degree of D. of D. conferred upon him. In 1646. I find him with the Marquis of Worcester in Ragland Castle, which, as a Commission-Officer, he helped to defend against the Parliamentarians. But that Castle being surrendered on the 19 Aug. the same year, upon good Articles, mostly of Bayly's framing, he traveled afterwards into France and other Countries, where spending that considerable stock of money which he had gotten from the said Marquis, he returned into England, and published a book intit. Certamen religiosum: or a conference between K. Ch. 1. and Henry late Marquis of Worcester concerning Religion, in Ragland Castle, a. 1646. Lond. 1649. oct. but blamed by the true Sons of the Church of England for so doing, because the Romish cause is there set out in great pomp, he being then warping towards, if not altogether drawn over to, the Church of Rome, and it was looked upon by some as nothing else but his Prologue in order to the declaring himself a Papist, and thereupon the said conference was suspected by the Orthodox party to have nothing therein of the stile of K. Ch. 1. and that the Marquis had not those abilities in him to maintain a discourse of religious matters with the said King. There was An answer with considerations on Dr. Bayly's parenthetical interlocution, printed at Lond. 1651. in tw. made unto it, by Ham. L'estrange, and also answered upon account as being fictitious by Christop. Cartwright of York. About the same time an Advertisement was put cut against it, as a counterfeit thing, by Dr. Pet. Heylyn, in his Epistle to the Reader before his collection of his Majesty's works (wherein the said conference is put) intit. Bibliotheca Regia, etc. but omitted in other impressions of it, as also in the works of the said King printed in folio. The same year (1649. Dr. Bayly published, The Royal Charter granted unto Kings by God himself, etc. To which he added, A treatise wherein is proved that Episcopacy is jure divino. Both which were afterwards reprinted at Lond. 1656. and 1680. oct. But in them the Doctor doth in many particulars egregiously 
g See the Errors in a book called Legenda lignea, etc. printed at London 1653. in oct. chap. 37. p. 165. 166.  err, and as an unskilful builder, diruit aedificat, for what he rears with one hand, he pulls down with the other: And amongst many stories of his travels, having freely railed at all the Commonwealths in Europe, doth at last fall desperately on the new erection of that in Eng. Which angry and unpleasing history provoked strict examination; whereupon the author being found out, he was committed prisoner to Newgate, where being kindly and easily used he penned a book intit. Herba parietis: Or, the wall Flower, as it grows out of the Stone-Chamber belonging to the metrapolitan Prison, etc. being a History which is partly true, partly Romantic, morally divine. Whereby a marriage between reality and fancy is solemnised by Divinity. Lond. 1650. in a thin fol. In the Epistle before which he falls foul on P. Heylyn, whom he calls a fellow without a name, etc. for his advertisement before mentioned, which charged him with six matters; the first for wronging the late K. (Ch. 1.) very much, and another that he composed the said Conference himself, etc. Bayly also tells us there of his great sufferings in the late Civil War, that he had not only lost 1000 l. per an. for his Majesty's sake, but also blood and liberty, that he was a Peers Son and his Mother a Knight's Daughter, etc. As soon as this book was published, he made an escape out of Prison, went into Holland, and having rambled abroad, much more in his mind, than he had in his body, he at last declared himself a Rom. Catholic, and became a grand zealot in that interest, wherein (if he met with any occasion) he would break forth into rage and fury against the Protestant Religion, which he before had preached and professed. Thence he went into Flanders, and settling for a time at Douai, he published this book. The end to Controversy between the Rom. Catholic, and Protestant, Religions, justified by all the several manner of ways, whereby all kind of Controversies of what nature soever, are usually, or can possibly be, determined, etc. printed at Douai 1654. in qu. and dedicated to Walt. Montague Abbot of Nanteul, afterwards L. Abbot of Pantoise. There also goes under his name. The life and death of that renowned John Fisher Bishop of Rochester, etc. Lond. 1655. oct. but he was not the author of it. The true and genuine writer thereof was one Rich. Hall, D. D. sometimes of Christ's coll. in Cambridge (the same, of which B. Fisher was a member) afterwards Canon, and Official of the Cathedral Church at St. Omer, who leaving it behind him in MS. at his death, an. 1604. 'twas as a choice rarity reposed in the Library of the English Benedictines at Dieuward in Lorain. Afterwards several Copies of it going abroad, one came into the hands of a person who called himself West. From him it came into the possession of Franc. a Sancta Clara, an 1623. and from his (as he himself hath told me divers times) to Sir Wingfield Bodenham, who keeping it in his hands several years, with an intention to print it in the name of the true author, did impart it for a time to Dr. Tho. Bayly. So that forthwith he taking a Copy of it, and making some alterations therein, he sold the said Copy to a Bookseller for a small sum of money, who caused it to be printed at London, under the name of Tho. Bayly D. D. I have seen a MS. containing the said Bishop's Life, beginning thus, Est in Eboracensi comitatu, octogesimo a Londino lapide ad aquilonem Beverleiae oppidum, etc. But who the author was, I cannot tell: 'Twas written before Hall's time, and 'tis not unlikely, but that he had seen it. There also goes under Tho. Baylys' name The golden Apothegms of King Ch. 1. and Henry Marquis of Worcester, etc. Lond. 1660. in one sh. in qu. All which were taken from a book intit. Witty Apothegms delivered at several times and upon several occasions by K. James, K. Ch. 1. and the Marq. of Worcester, etc. Lond. 1658. oct. published by Anonymus. After Dr. Bayly had left Flanders, he went into Italy, where, as several Rom. Catholics have told me, he was received into the service of Cardinal Ottobon, and that he died in his family, while the said Cardinal was Embass. or Nuntio at Ferrara from the Pope, and also that Prince Cajetan had a care of his Son (whom he took with him) after his death. But an English Traveller hath told me otherwise, viz. that he was no other than a common Soldier, that he lived poor at Bononia, and saw his Grave there. Another also named Dr. Rich. Trevor Fellow of Morton coll. (younger brother to Sir John Trevor sometimes Secretary of State) who was in Italy in 1659. hath several times told me that he the said Dr. Bayly died obscurely in an Hospital, and that he saw the place where he was buried.  
SAMUEL BROWNE, born at, or near to, the ancient Borough of Shrewsbury, became a Servitor or Clerk of Aills. coll. in 1594. aged 19 took the degrees in Arts, holy Orders, and afterwards was made preacher at S. Mary's in the said Town of Shrewsbury, where he was much resorted to by precise people for his edifying and frequent preaching. He hath published,  
The sum of Christian Religion by way of Catechism. Lond. 1630. and 37. oct.  
Certain Prayers— And left behind him at the time of his death, year 1632 in sixteen hundred thirty two. Several Sermons to be made public, but whether they were printed I cannot tell. One of both his names, was summer Reader of Lincoln's Inn 18 Car. 1. afterwards Sergeant at Law, one of the Justices of the Common Bench, and one of the Commissioners of the Great Seal, in the time of Usurpation, but what he hath extant, I cannot tell. He died in the beginning of the year 1668. being then a Knight, and a possessor of Lands at Arlesbury in Bedfordshire.  
THEODORE GOULSON, Son of Will. Goulson Rector of Wymoundham in Leicestershire, received his first breath in the County of Northampton, became Probationer Fellow of Merton coll. in 1596. applied his Muse to the study of medicine, after he had been adorned with the Majesterial degree; in the practice of which, having been initiated in these parts, lived afterwards at Wymoundham; where, as in the neighbourhood, he became famous in, and much frequented for, his faculty. At length taking the degrees of Physic in this University, an. 1610. was made a Candidate of the Coll. of Physicians at London, and the year after Fellow thereof, and afterwards Censor, being at that time in great esteem for his practice in the metropolitan City. He was an excellent Latinist, and a noted Grecian, but better for Theology, as it was observed by those that knew him. He hath published,  
Versio Latina, & Paraphrasis in Aristotelis Rhetoricam. Lond. 1619. 1623. etc. qu.  
Versio, variae Lectiones, & annotationes criticae in opuscula varia Galeni. Lond. 1640. qu. published by his singular good friend Tho. Gataker Bac. of Diu. of Cambridge, and Rector of Redrith in Surrey, who died 27. July 1654. and was buried in the Church at Redrith, after he had governed it 40. years. As for our author Goulson he ended his days in his house within the parish of S. Martin by Ludgate within the City of London, year 1632 4. May, in sixteen hundred thirty and two: whereupon his body was buried with solemnity in the Church belonging to that parish. By his will, which I have seen and perused, he bequeathed 200 l. to purchase a rent-charge for the maintenance of an Anatomy Lecture in the coll. of Physicians at London, as also several books to Merton coll. Library, besides other donations, which were mostly, if not all, performed by his virtuous and religious Widow Ellen Goulson; of whom by the way I must let the reader know, that she being possessed of the impropriate Parsonage of Bardwell in Suffolk, did procure from the King leave to annex the same to the Vicarage, and to make it presentative: which being so done, she gave them both thus annexed (for she had the donation of the Vicarage before that time) freely to S. John coll. in Oxon.  
LEONARD HUTTEN, was elected from Westminster School, a Student of Ch. Church, in 1574. wherein, with unwearied industry, going thro' the several Classes of Logic and Philosophy, became M. of A. and a frequent preacher. In 1599 he was installed Canon of the said Church, being then Bach. of Divinity and Vicar of Flower in Northamptonshire, and in the year after he proceeded in that faculty. His younger years were beautified with all kind of polite learning, his middle, with ingenuity and judgement, and his reverend years with great wisdom in government, having been often Subdean of his house. He was also an excellent Grecian, well read in the Fathers and Schoolmen, which was sufficiently approved by the consent of the University, and not meanly versed in the histories of our own Nation. He hath written,  
An answer to a Treatise concerning the Cross in Baptism. Oxon. 1605. qu. Which book was held in reverend respect by the best Bishops of the Church, as having the Father's agreeing to Scripture truly urged, and understandingly interpreted therein. See in Jam. Calfhill and John Marshal. I have been informed by one 
a Dr. 〈…〉 Canon of Ch. Church, aged 7●. an. 1670.  who knew this Dr. Hutten well, that he was author of a Trag. -Com. called Bellum Grammaticale, but how that can be, I cannot discern, for though it was written by an Oxford man, if not two, yet one edition of it came out in 1574. in oct. which was the year, when Dr. Hutten first saluted the Oxonian Muses, as I have before told you. He had also an hand in the translation of the Bible, appointed by King James, a 1604. and left in MS. behind him,  
Discourse of the antiquity of the University of Oxford, by way of letter to a friend.— The copies of this Discourse, which I have seen, were written in qu. in about 8 sheets, and had this beginning, Sir, your two questions, the one concerning the antiquity of Oxford, etc. I have seen 4 copies of it, but could get little or nothing from them for my purpose, when I was writing the Hist. and Antiq. of the Vniu. of Oxon. A MS. book of the like subject, I once saw in the hands of John Houghton Bac. of Diu. sometimes Signior Fellow of Brasnose coll. divided into three books, the beginning of which runs thus, All truth is of itself as glorious, etc. but who the author of it was, I could never learn. 'Tis a trite thing, and mostly taken from Apologia Antiq. Acad. Oxon. written by Br. Twine, as that of Hutten was. He hath also written,  
Historia fundationum Ecclesiae Christi Oxon. unà cum Episcoporum, Decanorum & Canonicorum ejusd. Catalogo. 'Tis a MS. and hath this beginning, Monasterium sive Prioratus S. Frideswydae virgins fundata est ab eadem Frideswydâ filiâ Didaci alias Didani, etc. A copy of this in qu. I once saw in the hands of Dr. Joh. Fell Dean of Ch. Ch. but many faults have been committed therein by an illiterate Scribe. At length Dr. Hutten having lived to the age of 75. died on the 17. year 1632 of May in sixteen hundred thirty and two, and was buried in the Divinity-Chappel (the north Isle remotest from the Choir) belonging to the Cathedral of Ch. Ch. beforementioned. A copy of his Epitaph you may see in Hist. & Antiq. Vniu. Oxon. lib. 2. p. 288. b. By his Wife Anne Hamden he had a Daughter named Alice, who was married to Dr. Rich. Corbet, afterwards successively B. of Oxon and Norwich.  
ROBERT HUES, or Husius as he writes himself, was born 
b As the said Dr. Gardiner hath informed me▪  at Little Hereford commonly called Harford near to Leonminsher in Herefordshire; who, though well grounded in Grammar learning and of good parts, and therefore of desert, yet at his first coming to the University he was only a poor Scholar or Servitor of Brasnose, and among the pauperes Scholar's is he numbered in the public Matricula under Coll. Aenean, about 1571. In that house he continued for some time a very sober and serious Student, and was countenanced by one or more of the Seniors thereof, but being sensible of the loss of time which he sustained there by constant attendance, he translated himself to S. Mary's hall, and took the degree of Bac. of Arts at about 7 years standing, being then noted for a good Grecian. Which degree he completing by Determination, he afterwards traveled, and in fine became well skilled in Geography and Mathematics. The last of which being the faculty he excelled in, made him respected by that generous Count Henry Earl of Northumberland, who allowed him an yearly Pension for the encouragement of his studies, but whether he was ever Mathematic Professor of Gresham coll. as a certain learned 
c See in the Append. to the Sphere of Manilius, etc. by Edw. Sherburne Esq p. 86.  Gent. reports, I cannot tell. He hath written,  
De Globis celest. & terrest. Tract. 2. Several times printed in Lat. and Engl. in oct. The first edition of this book had this title, Tractatus de Globis & eorum usu; accommodatus iis qui Londini editi sunt; an. 1593. sumptibus Gulielmi Sandersoni Civ. Lond. Lond. 1593. oct. It was afterwards illustrated with figures and annotations by Joh. Isaac Pontanus Professor of Philosophy at Harderwicke in Gelderlandt.— Amstel. 1617. 1624. etc. Oxon. 1663. in oct. and twelv.  
Breviarium totius Orbis. Printed several times at Lond. in Lat. and Engl. in oct. and tw. This Mr. Hues died in the Stone-house (then belonging to Joh. Smith M. of A. Son of Tho. Smith Cook of Ch. Ch.) opposite almost to the Inn called the Blew-Boar in S. Aldates' Parish in Oxon, on the 24. year 1632 of May, in sixteen hundred thirty and two, aged 79 years, and was buried near to the grave of Dr. Hutten, within the limits of the Cathedral of Ch. Ch. beforementioned. His Epitaph is printed in Hist. & Antiq. Vniu. Oxon. lib. 2. p. 288. b. wherein you'll find other matters relating to him, which I have not here set down. I find one Rob. Hughes who was an English Merchant in the Kingdom of India and City of Agemer, author of a Dictionary containing the English and Persian Languages; an. 1616. MS. sometimes in the Lord Hattons Library, now in that of Bodley, but what relation there was between this and the former, I know not, I think none, because their names differ. The Reader may be pleased now to take notice that the said R. Hues the Mathematician, having spent one year or two in the condition of a Tutor to Algernon Son of Hen. Earl of Northumberland, in Ch. Ch. he was therefore thrust among the writers of that house, against the consent of the author, into Hist. & Antiq. Vniu. Oxon. by the publisher thereof, who endeavoured to disturb the course of that History, to satisfy his partial ends. He also thrust in of his own accord among the Bishops of the said House Joh. Piers Archb. of York, and Miles Smith B. of Glouc. The former, who had been Dean for a time, had most of his education in Magd. coll. and the other who had been Petty-Canon, was chiefly educated in that of Brasnose.  
ALEXANDER COOK received his first breath in Yorkshire, (at, or near to, Beeston by Leeds,) and educated in Grammar learning in those parts. In Michaelmas-Term, an. 1581. he was admitted a Member of Brasnose coll. being then 17 years of age, and after he had taken one degree in Arts, he was chosen into a Percy-Fellowship of University coll. in 1587. In the year following he took the degree of M. of A. and about that time holy Orders: So that applying himself solely to the study of the sacred writ, became a frequent and noted Preacher in these parts, took the degree of Bach. of that Faculty in 1597. and had some little Cure bestowed upon him. At length upon the decease of his Brother Robert, (whom I have mentioned under the year 1614) he became Vicar of Lee●s in his own Country. He was a person most admirably well read in the controversies between the Protestants and the Papists, versed in the Fathers and Schoolmen, a great Calvinist, yet witty and ingenious, and a Satirical Enemy in his writings against the Romanists, as it evidently appears in these books following, which have been much taken into the hands of ingenious men.  
Pope Joan. A dialogue between a Protestant and a Papist, manifestly proving that a Woman called Joan was Pope of Rome, etc. against Rob. Bellarmine, Caes, Baronius, Flor. Raemundus, etc. impudently denying the same. Lond. 1610. qu. Which book being in great request among Protestants beyond Sea, was translated into French by J. de la Montagne. Printed at Sedan 1633. in oct.  
The abatement of Popish Brags, pretending Scripture to be theirs. Lond. 1625. qu.  
The Weathercock of Rome's Religion, with her several changes: or, the World turned topsie turvie by Papists. Lond. 1625. qu.  
More work for a Mass-Priest. Lond. 1621. qu.  
Yet more work for a Mass-Priest. Lond. 1622. qu.  
Work, more work, and yet a little more work for a Mass-Priest. Lond. 1628. etc. qu. 'Tis the same with the two former immediately going before, only some alterations in, and several additions put to, it, especially in that edition which came out in 1630. What other things he published I know not, nor anything else of him, only that he was buried in Leeds Church near to the Body of his Brother Rob. Cook, 23. June in sixteen hundred thirty and two, year 1632 and that he left behind him the character of A good and learned man, a man abounding in charity, and exemplary in his life and conversation, yet hated by the R. Catholics who lived near Leeds and in Yorkshire, and indeed by all elsewhere who had read his works.  
JAMES WHITLOCK, was born in London 28. Nou. 1570. descended from those of his name living near to Olyngham in Berkshire, educated in Merchant Tailor's School, elected Scholar of S. John's coll. in 1588. took one degree in the Civil Law, settled in the Middle Temple, became summer Reader of that House, 17 Jac. 1. a Knight, chief Justice of Chester and at length one of the Justices of the Common Picas, as in his Epitaph 'tis said, though in his his last Will, of the King's Bench. He had the Latin tongue so perfect, that sitting Judge of Assize at Oxon, when some Foreigners (persons of quality) purposely came into the Court to see the manner of proceedings in matters of Justice, he briefly repeated the heads of his charge to the Grand Jury in good and elegant Latin, and thereby informed the Strangers and Scholars there present, of the ability of the Judges, and the course of proceeding in matter of Law and Justice. He understood the Greek very well and the Hebrew, was versed in the Jewish Histories, and excellently knowing in the Histories of his own Country, and in the Pedigrees of most persons of honour and quality in England, and much conversant also in the study of Antiquity and Heraldry. He was not by any exceeded in the knowledge of his own profession of the Common Law of England, wherein, his knowledge of the Civil Law was a help to him, as his learned arguments both at the Bar and Bench have confirmed it for a truth. His works are these.  
Reading in the Middle Temple hall.— In which was so much solid Law and excellent learning expressed, that copies were desired, and taken of it, but whether printed I cannot tell.  
Several Speeches in Parliament.— One of which is extant in a book intit. The Sovereign's Prerogative and the Subject's Privileges discussed, etc. in the 3. and 4. of K. Ch. 1. Lond. 1657. fol.  
Of the antiquity, use, and ceremony of lawful Combats in England.— MS. The beginning of which is, Combats are distinguished to be lawful and unlawful, etc. This MS. which I saw and perused in the choice Library of MSS. of Ralph Sheldon of Beoly Esq had the name of James Whitlock set and subscribed to it, and so consequently I took him to be the author; who dying on the 22. of June in sixteen hundred thirty and two, 
1632▪  the King did lose as good a Subject, his Country as good a Patriot, the People as just a Judge, as ever lived, etc. as his Son Bulstrode Whitlock tells 
* In his Memorials of Engl. affairs, under the year 1632. p. 17.  us, His body was afterward buried at Falley or Fawley not far from Great Wycomb in Bucks; over which, his Son before-mentioned, not only erected a stately monument, but also a Chapel, which serves for a burial place for those descended from him.  
ISAAC WAKE, Son of Arthur Wake Rector of Billyng in Northamptonshire, Master of the Hospital of St. John in Northampton, and Canon of Ch. Ch. in Oxon, third Son of John Wake Esq of the ancient and honourable Family of his name living at Saucy Forest, was born in the said County of Northampton, (at Billing as it seems,) became a Member of this University in the beginning of the year 1593. aged 18. or thereabouts, elected Probationer-Fellow of Merton coll. 1598. Orator of the University 1604. being then Regent ad placitum, publicly known to the K. and Court at Oxon in the year following, by his Orations of a Ciceronian stile delivered before them when entertained there, traveled into France and Italy, 1609. and after his return was entertained in the quality of a Secretary to Sir Dudley Carleton one of the Secretaries of State, and from his, was advanced to the King's, service, by being employed Ambassador to Venice, Savoy, and elsewhere. The time when he went to Savoy was in the 
c Camden in Annal. Reg. Jac. 1. MS. sub. an. 1▪ 19  middle of Apr. 1619. being in few days before made a Knight, whose Escocheon then, or soon after, which was hung up in all public places where he came, had this inscription written under it. Sir Isaac Wake Knight Ambassador Extraordinary in Savoy and Piedmont, Ordinary for Italy, Helvetia, and Rhetia, select for France. In 1623. he was elected Burgess by the Members of this University to serve in that Parliament which began the 19 Feb. the same year, in which he was much admired for his excellent elocution. I have been informed by some of the Ancients of Merton coll. that this our author Wake had his Pen more at command in the Latin, English, and French tongue, than any of his time in the University. Also that his speaking was Majestic, that he was better for Orations than disputing, and that he employed his time more in reading political and civil matters, than Philosophy or the great Faculties. Further also that he was a gentile man in behaviour, well spoken, and therefore put upon Speeches at all Receptions and Funerals. There is no doubt but that he was a man of exquisite learning, strong parts of nature, and of a most refined wit. He hath written,  
Rex Platonicus; sive de potentiss. Principis Jacobi Regis ad Academ. Oxon. adventu, an. 1605. Oxon. 1607. qu. afterwards printed in oct.  
Oratio funebris habita in templo B. Mariae Oxon, quum maesti Oxinienses, piis manibus Johannis Rainoldi parentarent. Oxon. 1608. in tw. etc. Translated into English by Thom. Fuller in his Abel redivivus.— Lond. 1651. qu.  
Oratio funebris habita in Schola Theologica in obitum Clariss. Equitis Tho. Bodley. Oxon. 1613. qu. Wake's name is not set to it, only said in the title to be made by the public Orator of the University, which office Wake then enjoyed. 'Tis reprinted in a book published by Will. Bates D. D. a Nonconformist-Minister, intit. Vitae selectiorum aliquot virorum, qui doctrina, dignitate aut pietate inclaruere. Lond. 1681. in a large qu.  
Discourse of the 13 Cantons of the Helvetical League. Lond. 1655. oct.  
Discourse of the state of Italy as it stood about the year 1625.— Printed with the former discourse.  
Discourse upon the proceedings of the Kings of Sweden.— Printed also with the former. These three last discourses were printed at Lond. in oct. with this title put before them, A threefold help to political observations. I find another book going under his name that bears this title,  
Disquisitions upon the Nativity of our Saviour Jesus Christ.— When printed I know not, for I have not yet seen it. And another called,  
A relation of what happened in the Dutchies of Mantova and Montferrat from the beginning of the year 1628. unto the end of the year 1629. MS. among those given by the learned Selden's Executors to the public Libr. at Oxon. The beginning of it is, In the year of our Lord 1627. was closed with the death of Vincenzo Gonzaga, etc. He hath also Several Letters of State in the book called, Cabala, or Mysteries of State, etc. Lond. 1654. qu. and Several Letters in that intit. Cabala, or Scrinia Sacra. Lond. 1663. fol. He took his last farewell of this World at Paris, during his being there in the service of his Majesty: Whereupon his body being embalmed, was brought over into England, and interred on the south side of the Chancel belonging to the Chapel in Dover Castle, in the month of July in sixteen hundred thirty and two. 
1632▪  At which time Mr. John Reading Minister of S. Mary's Church in Dover preached his Funeral Sermon, wherein he took occasion to speak very honourably of the person that laid dead before him, whom he knew and well remembered in the University of Oxon.  
THOMAS ALLEN, or Alleyn, the Father of all learning and virtuous industry, an unfeigned lover and furtherer of all good Arts and Sciences, was born at Vttoxeter in Staffordshire on the day of S. Thomas the Apostle, in 1542. being a Descendant, thro' six Generations, from Henry Allen, or Alan, Lord of the Manor of Buckenhall in the said County, was admitted Scholar of Trinity coll. 4. June 1561. Fellow in 65. and two years after, Master of Arts. But being much inclined to live a retired life, and averse from taking holy Orders, he left the Coll. and his Fellowship, about 1570. and receded to Gloucester hall, where he lived a close Student many years, and at length became an eminent Antiquary, Philosopher, and Mathematician, and not only the Prince or Coryphaeus, (as one 
d Gul▪ Bur●onus in Orat 〈◊〉 Tho: Alleni. Lond. 1632. qu. p. 6.  saith,) but the very Soul and Sun of all the Mathematicians of his time. Being thus accomplished with various sorts of learning, he was several times invited to the families of Princes and Nobles, not only of this Nation, but of others: And when Albertus L'askie Count or Prince of Sirade in Poland was in England, he did court him to go with him into his own Country, 1583. and to live there as he pleased, and accept of such Honours and Dignities which he could get for him; but he being delighted with retiredness and an Academical life, did evade his civility, and thereby, as a true Philosopher, contemned riches and greatness. He was also often courted to live in the family of that most noble and generous Count Henry Earl of Northumberland, a great Patron of Mathematicians: Whereupon spending some time with him, he was infinitely beloved and admired not only by that Count, but by such Artists who then lived with, or often retired to him, as Tho. Harriot, John Dee, Walt. Warner, Nath. Torporley, etc. the Atlantes of the Mathematic World. Robert Earl of Leicester, Chancellor of this University, and the grand favourite in Queen Elizabeth's Reign, did also before that time entertain him, and would have conferred upon him a Bishopric; but for the sweetness of a retired life, he denied that also. The truth is, that Earl did highly value him, and no person was more familiar with him than Mr. Allen, and Dee beforementioned. Whence 'twas that the author of the book, called, Leicester's Commonwealth, reporteth, that they (whom he styles Atheists) used the art of figuring and conjuring for procuring the said Earls unlawful designs, and that also by their Black Art, they endeavoured a match between Q. Elizabeth and him. How true these things are, let others, who know the author of that book that reports them, judge. Certain it is, that Allen was so great with that Count, that few matters of State passed, but he had knowledge of them, and nothing of moment was done in the University, but Allen gave him it in writing. He was also very great and highly respected by other famous men of his time of this Kingdom, as with Bodley, Savi●e, Camden, Cotton, Spelman, Selden, etc. the last of whom 
e In Notis suis ad Eadmerum, edit. 1623. p. 200.  saith, that Allen was omni eruditionis genere summoque judicio ornatissimus, celeberrimae Academiae Oxon. decus insignissimum: And 
f In Britannia, in cap. De Saxonibus.  Camden, that he was Plurimis & optimis artibus ornatiss. His sufficiencies in the Mathematic Science being generally noted, he was thereupon accounted another Rog. Bacon, which was the reason why he became terrible to the Vulgar, especially those of Oxon, who took him to be a perfect Conjurer. He was a great collector of scattered MSS. of whatsoever Faculty, especially those of History, Antiquity, Astronomy, Mathematics, Philosophy, etc. sparing neither cost or labour to procure them: Some of which I have seen quoted in the works of learned authors, as being in Bibliotheca Alleniana. By his help, advice, and communication, several of the University became eminent in Mathematics and Antiquities; of which number were Harriot, Twine, Hag, the two Jeames, Burton, Digby, etc. whom for their labours communicated to posterity, I have partly before touched, and shall hereafter mention, in their respective places. As for Allen's collections, observations, and notes of Astronomy, Mathematics, and N. Philosophy, they are got into obscure hands, and 'tis thought that Digby, whose name is famous among many, hath made use of those of Philosophy. All that I have seen written by Allen, are these following.  
Claudii Ptolemy Pelusiensis, de Astrorum judiciis, aut ut vulgo vocant, quadripartitae constructionis; lib. secundus. cum expositione Thomae Alleyn Angli-Oxoniensis. The first chapter of which begins thus, Hactenus quidem pre ecurrimus ea quorum cognition, etc.  
Cl. Ptolemy de Astror. judiciis, lib. 3. cum expositione Tho. Alleyn, etc. These two MSS. coming into the hands of William Lilly the sometimes famous Figureflinger, were by him bestowed on Elias Ashmole Esq in 1652. One of the said copies was transcribed from the original, which Sir Tho. Aylesbury had of the gift of Mr. Allen, the other copy John Huniades the great Chemist had in his possession, who gave it, as it seems, to Lilly. He, the said Allen, put notes also on many of his books, and some were by him put on Joh. Bales book De Scriptoribus Maj. Britanniae, which are entered by another hand in the margin of the said author, that is in the public Library at Oxon. At length, he having lived to a great age, surrendered up his last breath in Gloucester hall, year 1632 on the 30. Sept. in sixteen hundred thirty and two, and the next day an eloquent oration being delivered by Mr. Will. Burton of that house in the public Refectory there, in praise of the Defunct, before the Vicechancellor, Heads of Colleges and Halls, and many of the University then present, the body was accompanied by them to the chapel of Trinity coll. where, after another Speech was spoken by Mr. George Bathurst, the body was solemnly interred. Soon after, the chief part of his Library of incomparable MSS. coming into the hands of Sir Kenelm Digby, as the owner before had appointed, they were the next year given by him to the Bodleian or public Library, where they yet remain. Some of them had before, and about the time of Allen's death, been got from him by Rich. James of C. C. coll. for the Cottonian Library, and others came into the hands of Sir Tho. Aylesbury Master of the Requests, but where those are now, in truth I cannot tell. Some years since I made a search in the said chapel of Trin. coll. for an Epitaph on Mr. Allens grave, but not so much as a letter appearing, you shall have part of his character instead of it, which I found written in a certain MS. in the Library of the said college, running thus, Vir fuit elegantium literarum studiosissimus, Academicae disciplinae tenacissimus, apud Exteros & Academicos semper in magno pretio, eorumque qui in Ecclesia Anglicana atque in Vniversitate Oxoniensi pro meritis suis ad Dignitates aut Praefecturas subinde provecti fuerunt. Fuit sagacissimus observator, familiariss. conviva, etc. His picture painted to the life, he gave to the Precedent of Trinity coll. and his Successors, to be there remaining in the Dining-room of the said Precedent for ever: Another copy he gave to the Cottonian Library, and a third to his old Friend Dr. Tho. Clayton Master of Pembroke college, whose Son Sir Thomas hath it at this day. I shall make mention of another Tho: Allen under the year 1636.  
ROBERT HAYMAN, a Devonian born, was entered a Sojourner of Exeter coll. while he was very young, an. 1590., where being noted for his ingenuity and pregnant parts, became valued by several persons who were afterwards eminent; among whom were Will. Noy, Arth. Duck his kinsman, Will. and George Hakewill, Tho. Winniff, Rob. Vilvaine, Sim. Baskervile, etc. all of that House, Will. Vaughan of Jesus coll. Charles Fitzgeffry of Broadgates, etc. Afterwards he retired to Lincoln's Inn without the honour of a degree, studied for a time the municipal Law, but his Genie being well known to be poetical, fell into acquaintance with, and received encouragement to proceed in his studies from, Mich. Drayton, Ben. Johnson, John Owen the Epigrammatist, George Whither the puritanical Satirist, John Vicars of Ch. Ch. Hospital, etc. and at length writing several specimens' of his wit, which I think are quite lost, had, though fantastical, the general vogue of a poet. After he had left Linc. Inn and had arrived toward the fortieth year of his age he was made Governor of the plantation of Harbor-Grace in Bristol-hope in Britaniola, anciently called New found-land, where, after some time of residence, he did, at spare hours, write and translate, these matters following.  
Quodlibets, lately come over from New Britaniola, anciently called Newfoundland.  
Epigrams, and other small parcels, both moral and divine.— These two, divided into four books, were printed at London 1628. in qu. the author of them being then there. He also translated from Lat. into English verse, Several sententious epigrams and witty sayings out of sundry authors both ancient and modern, (especially many of the epigrams of Joh. Owen.) Lond. 1628. qu. As also from French into English, The two railing Epistles of the witty Doctor Francis Rabelais. On the 17. of Nou. in 1628. he being then bound to Guiane in America to settle a Plantation there, made his Will, a copy of which I have 
a In the Will-Office near to S. Paul's Cath. in reg. Russel, part. 1.  seen, wherein he desires to be buried where he dies. year 1632 On the 24. of January in sixteen hundred thirty and two, issued out a Commission from the Prerog. Court of Canterbury to a certain person, who had moneys owing to him by Hayman, to administer the goods, debts, chattels, etc. of him the said Rob. Hayman, lately deceased. So that I suppose he died beyond the Seas that year, aged 49. or thereabouts.  
WILLIAM SUTTON, a Citizen's Son, was born in London, sent by his Relations from Merchant-Taylors School to Ch. Ch. in 1578. aged 15. or thereabouts, took the degrees in Arts, entered into the Sacred Function, and in the year 1592. was admitted to the reading of the Sentences; about which time he was Parson of Blandford St. Marry in Dorsetshire, and Vicar of Sturminster-Marshal in the same County. He was a very learned man, an excellent Orator, Latinist, Grecian, and Preacher. He had a well furnished Library, wrote much, but ordered his Son to print nothing after his death. All that was made public in his life-time, was only this.  
The falsehood of the chief grounds of the Romish Religion, descried and convinced in a brief answer to certain motives sent by a Priest to a Gentleman to induce him to turn Papist.— Which book stealing into the Press, and coming out full of faults, his Son Will. Sutton Bach. of Diu. of Ch. Ch. corrected and reprinted it after his Father's death Lond. 1635. in oct. or tw. He finished his course about the latter end of Octob. in sixteen hundred thirty and two, 
1632▪  and was buried in the Church of Blandford St. Marry beforementioned. I have been informed that other things of our author Will. Sutton were published after his death, but such I have not yet seen.  
JOHN RIDER received his first being in this World at Carrington in Cheshire, applied his Genie to Academical studies in Jesus coll. an. 1576. took the degrees in Arts, as a Member thereof, and after he had remained some years in the University in the instruction of Youths in Grammar, became Minister of S. Mary Magd. at Bermondsey near to London, afterwards Rector of the rich Church of Winwick in Lancashire, Archdeacon of Meath in Ireland, Dean of St. Patrick's Church near to Dublin, and at length Bishop of Killaloe, an. 1612. where he was much respected and reverenced for his Religion and learning. While he remained in Oxon he composed,  
A Dictionary English and Latin; and Lat. and Engl. Oxon. 1589. in a large thick qu. It was the first Dictionary that had the English before the Latin, (epitomizing the learnedst and choicest Dictionaries that were then extant,) and was beheld as the best that was then in use. But that part of it which had the Latin before the English, was swallowed up by the greater attempts of Franc. Holyoake, who saith that he designed and contrived it so, before the Vocabularies or Dictionaries of Becman, Funger, and Martin came out; notwithstanding it appears that he was beholding to them, and made use of their materials in his Dictionary that he published, an. 1606. Besides the said Dictionary our author Rider hath also written,  
A Letter concerning the news out of Ireland, and of the Spaniards landing, and present state there. Lond. 1601. qu. And having had controversies with one Hen. Fitz-Simons a learned Jesuit of Ireland, published a book entitled,  
Claim of Antiquity in behalf of the Protestant Religion.— When this was printed I know not. The confutation of it, I am sure, with a reply to Rider's Rescript or Postscript, written by the said Fitz-Simons, were printed at Rouen in Normandy, an. 1608. qu. as I shall tell you under the year 1643. He also (Rider) published other matters; which having been printed in Ireland, and therefore few or none of them come into these parts, I cannot give you the titles of them. He departed this mortal life on the twelfth day of Novemb. year 1632 in sixteen hundred thirty and two, and was buried at Killaloe, in the Cathedral Church there dedicated to the memory of S. Flannan, leaving behind him the character of a learned and religious Prelate.  
EDWARD JORDEN, a learned, candid, and sober Physician of his time, was born at High-Halden in Kent, and educated for a time, as it seems, among several of his Countrymen in Hart hall, where some of his Surname did about that time study, but whether he took a degree here, it appears not. Afterwards, designing Physic his profession, he traveled beyond the Seas, spent some time at Milan, where he took the degree of Doctor of that Faculty, and upon his return practised in London, and became one of the Coll. of Physicians there. Afterwards he settled in the City of Bath, where practising with good success, had the applause of the learned, respect from the rich, prayers from the poor, and the love of all. He hath written,  
A brief discourse of a disease called the suffocation of the mother, etc. Lond. 1603. qu.  
Discourse of natural Baths and mineral Waters.— Twice printed: Which being revised and corrected by Thomas Guidott Bach. of Phys. of Wadh. coll. and a practitioner in the City of Bath, he published it a third time at Lond. 1669. in oct. To which he added an Appendix containing, A treatise concerning the Bath, wherein the antiquity both of the Baths and the City is discoursed, etc.— Dr. Jorden died about the seventh day of January in sixteen hundred thirty and two, 
1632-3.  aged 63. and was buried in the south Isle joining to the great Church within the City of Bath, dedicated to S. Peter and S. Paul. He had a natural inclination to Mineral 
b See in A discourse of Bath, and the hot waters there, etc. Lond. 1676. p. 166. written by Tho. Guidott.  works, and was at great charges about the ordering of Alum, which succeeding not according to expectation, he was thereby much prejudiced in his Estate, as it appears in the 7. chap. of Nat. Baths & Mineral Waters, wherein 'tis said that Alum was the greatest Debtor he had, and he the greatest Benefactor to it, as he could make it appear, when he thought fit to publish the artifice thereof.  
JOHN BARLOW, a Cheshire man born, became a Student of Hart hall in the year 1600. aged 19 or more, took one degree in Arts 8 years after, being then in Orders and a Curate. Afterwards, upon an invitation, he was made Minister of Plymouth in Devonshire; where continuing to the great liking of the inhabitants, yet notwithstanding he left them, and went to Halifax in Yorkshire, where, as it seems, he was a Curate or Lecturer. He hath published,  
Various Sermons, as (1) The Christian's last day, is the best day, on 1 Thes. 4. 18. Lond. 1618. qu. (2) Hieron's last farewell; preached at Modbury in Devonsh. at the Funeral of Sam. Hieron, on 2 Tim. 4. 7. Lond. 1618. qu. (3) The good Man's refuge in affliction, on Psal. 40. 18. Lond. 1618. qu. (4) The true guide to glory; preached at Plymton-Mary in Devonsh. at the Funeral of the Lady Strode of Newingham, Widow of Sir Will. Strode, on Psal. 73. 24. Lond. 1619. qu. (5) The good Man's privilege, on Rom. 8. 28. Lond. 1618. qu. (6) Joy of the upright Man, on Psal. 97. 11. lb. 1619. qu.  
An Exposition on the second Epistle of S. Paul to Timothy, the first chapter, 
Clar. 1632▪  etc. Lond. 1625. qu. To which was the Exposition of the second, and of other parts of Scripture, added.— Lond. 1632. fol. Among several Records in the Prerogative-office, I once saw the last Will 
c In Reg. Evelyn Qu. 54.  and Test. of one John Barlow Clerk, of Chiddingfield in Surrey, which was proved 26. May 1641. the Testator having some weeks before been dead, but whether this John Barlow be the same with the former Joh. Barlow, who was the writer, I cannot justly say, nor whether he be the same with Joh. Barlow M. of Arts, who in Sept. 1620. became Prebendary of Wivelscomb in the Church of Wells, on the resignation of Will. Barlow. The said Joh. Barlow of Chiddingfield doth mention his Brethren, Edward, Ralph, Laurence, William and Rob. Barlow.  
FRANCIS GODWIN, a passing great lover of venerable antiquity and of all good literature, Son of Thom. Godwin D. D. sometimes Bishop of B. and Wells, was born at Hannington in Northamptonshire, 4. of Q. Elizabeth, elected Student of Ch. Ch. in 1578. took the degrees in Arts, holy Orders, and became Rector of Samford-Orcais in Somersetshire, Prebendary of S. Decuman in the Church of Wells, Residentiary there, and Vicar of Weston in Zoyland in the same County; which last he resigning, became Vicar of Bishops Lidiard in 1595. being then Subdean of Exeter, and about that time Doctor of Divinity. In the year 1601. he was nominated to the See of Landaff by Q. Elizabeth, to which being consecrated 22. Nou. the same year, sat there about 16 years, being a Bishopric rather proportionated to his modesty than merits, because much impaired by one of his Predecessors named Anth. Kitchen alias Dunstan, whom I shall elsewhere mention; and therefore had liberty allowed to him to keep one of his Dignities in Commendam with it, and to take upon him the Rectory of Kingston-Scymour in the Dioc. of Wells. Afterwards for the respect that K. James had for him and his learning, he gave him the Bishopric of Hereford, to which he was translated the tenth, and confirmed the 28. of Nou. an. 1617. and kept it to his dying day. He was a good Man, a grave Divine, skilful Mathematician, excellent Philosopher, pure Latinist, and incomparable Historian, being no less critical in Histories than the learned Selden. A person also he was so celebrated by many in his time, whether at home or beyond the Seas, that his memory cannot otherwise but be precious in succeeding ages, for his indefatigable pains and travel in collecting the succession of all the Bishops of England and Wales, since the first planting of the Gospel among the Christians, nor pretermitting such of the British Church, or any that have been remembered by the care and diligence of preceding writers, or had been kept in memory in any old monument or record. But as he hath in those his infinite labours endeavoured, out of a Puritanical peak, to bring a scandal on the ancient Cath. Bishops, and to advance the credit of those that were married since the Reformation (he being one of that number) for the credit of the Protest. cause; so comes one afterwards, by name W. Prynne, the most inveterate Enemy to the Bishops that ever appeared in our Horizon, who thence (from his labours) takes all 
d In his Antipathy of the English 〈…〉 etc. Lond. 1641. qu.  advantages, whether truth or not truth, to raise arguments against, or bring a scandal upon, the prelatical function. Take heed therefore of being partial, lest others light Candles from your Torch, and thereby in the end, you lend a helping hand for the cutting your own Throat. But to return: to give therefore our author Godwin a farther character (as I have received it from his 
e Char C●dwin M. A. and Minister of Monmouth.  Son) he was esteemed a good preacher, and a strict liver, but so much employed in his studies and matters of Religion, that he was as 'twere a stranger to the world and the things thereof. His works are these.  
Concio Lat. in Luc. 5. 3. Printed 1601. qu.  
A Catalogue of the Bishops of England, since the first planting of Christian Religion in this Island, together with a brief History of their Lives and memorable actions, so near as can be gathered out of antiquity. Lond. 1601. qu. in an English character. For the writing of which, Q. Elizabeth immediately preferred him to the Bishopric of Landaff. But this book being imperfect, for therein are omitted the Bishops of Bangor, S. Asaph, etc. the Author came out with another Edition, with many additions, an. 1615. qu. and thereunto joined,  
A Discourse concerning the first conversion of this Island of Britain unto the Christian Religion— which is set before it, and  
Discourse concerning such Englishmen, as have either been, or in our histories reputed, Cardinals of the Church of Rome.— which is put at the end of it. But this Edition of 1615. with the said two additional discourses, being very full of faults, and not to be endured by any ordinary Reader, he put them forthwith into Latin, entitling them De Praesulibus Angliae commentarius, etc. Lond. 1616. qu. The Reader is now to understand, that after the first Edition of the said Catalogue of Bishops came out, in 1601. Sir John Harrington of Kelston near the City of bath, Son of John Harrington of the said place Esquire, (who dying near to the Bishop's Palace of, and in, London, 1. Jul. 1582. was buried in the Church of S. Gregory near to Paul's Cathedral) and he the Son of Alex. Harrington, descended from a younger brother of the harrington's of Brierley in Yorkshire, I say that the said Sir John Harrington sometimes an Eton Scholar, and afterwards M. of Arts of Camb. being minded to obtain the favour of Prince Henry, wrote a discourse for his private use intit. A brief view of the state of the Church of England, as it stood in Qu. Elizabeth's and King James' reign, to the year 1608. etc. This book is no more than a character and History of the Bishops of those times, and was written to the said Prince Henry, as an additional supply to the before mentioned Catalogue of Bishops of Dr. Fr. Godwin, upon occasion of that Proverb.  
Henry the eighth pulled down Monks and their Cells.  
Henry the ninth shall pull down Bishops and their Bells.  
In the said book the author Harrington doth, by imitating his Godmother Qu. Elizabeth, show himself a great enemy to married Bishops, especially to such that had been married twice, and many things therein are said of them, that were by no means fit to be published, being, as I have told you before, written only for private use. But so it was, that the book coming into the hands of one John Chetwind, (Grandson by a Daughter to the author,) a person deeply principled in presbyterian tenants, did, when the Press was open, print it at London 1653. in oct. And no sooner it was published, and came into the hands of many, but 'twas exceedingly clamoured at by the Loyal and orthodox Clergy, condemning him much that published it. The truth is, that though it did not give offence so much as Sir Anthony Weldons book intit. The Court and character of K. James, which was published three years before, yet it was exceedingly pleasing to the Presbyterians and other Dissenters. And there is no doubt, but that if it had come into the hands of Prynne before mentioned, he would have raked out many things thence, and aggravated them to the highest, to furnish his Common Place book, when he was about to publish The Antipathy of the English Lordly Prelacy, etc. Our author Godwin wrote also,  
Appendix adcommentarium de Praesulibus Angliae. Lond. 1621. 22. in two sh. in qu.  
R●rum Anglicaerum Henrico VIII. Edwardo VI & Maria regnantibus annal. Lond. 1616. 28. 30. in qu. and fol. Translated into English by his Son Morgan Godwin Bac. of Arts of Ch. Ch. afterwards Bach. of the Civil Law of Pembr. coll. Master of the Free-School at Newland in Glocestershire, Canon of Hereford and Doctor of his Faculty. Which English translation hath been several times printed.  
The man in the Moon: or, a discourse of a Voyage thither. Lond. 1638. and 57 oct. written while he was a Student of Ch. Ch. under the feigned name of Domingo Gozales, and published, some years after the author's death, by E. M. (of Ch. Ch.) This book, (which hath before the title of it the picture of a man taken up from the top of a Mountain, by an Engine drawn up to the Moon by certain flying Birds) was censured to be as vain as the opinion of Copernicus, or the strange discourses of the Antipodes when first heard of. Yet since by a more inquisitive search in unravelling those intricacies, men of solid judgements have since found out a way to pick up that which may add a very considerable knowledge and advantage to posterity. Among which Dr. Wilkins, sometimes Bishop of Chester, composed by hints thence given, (as 'tis thought) a learned piece called, A discovery of a new World in the Moon.  
Nuncius inanimatus. Utopiae 1629. Lond. 1657. oct. Translated into English, by Anon. who entitles it The mysterious Messenger, unlocking the secrets of men's hearts. Printed with The man in the Moon. Lond. 1657. oct. in two sheets only. At length after our authors many labours, wherein he aimed mostly at the public, he was taken with a long lingering disease, which bringing him to his desired haven, year 1633 in the beginning of the year (in Apr. as it seems) sixteen hundred thirty and three, was buried in the Chancel of his Church of Whitborne, (which, with the manor thereof, belongs to the Bishops of Hereford) situate and being about 14. miles distant from the said City. To the said See, after his death, was elected Dr. William Juxon, but before he was consecrated, he was translated to London, as I shall tell you elsewhere. That which I have forgot to let the Reader know, is, that whereas there goes under the name of the Bishop of Landaff, A treatise on the blessed Sacrament, printed in oct. and one or more Sermons on the sixth Psalm, they are not be attributed to Dr. Godwin, but to his predecessor, as I suppose in Landaff, called Geru. Babington: Sed de hoc quaere.  
HUGH HOLLAND, Son of Rob. Holland (by his Wife the Daughter of one Pain of Denbigh) Son of Lewis Holland, Son of Llewellin, Son of Griffith Holland of Vaerdre, by Gwervilla his Wife, Daughter of Howell ap Madock, ap Jem, ap Einion, was born at Denbigh, bred in Westminster School, while Camden taught there, elected into Trinity coll. in Cambridge, an. 1589. of which he was afterwards Fellow. Thence he went to travel into Italy, and was at Rome, where his over free discourse betrayed his prudence. Thence he went to Jerusalem to do his devotions to the holy Sepulchre, and in his return touched at Constantinople, where he received a reprimand from the English Ambassador, for the former freedom of his tongue. At his return into England, he retired to Oxon, spent some years there as a Sojournour for the sake of the public Library, and, as I have been informed, had his Lodging in Ball. coll. which is partly the reason why I insert him here. He is observed by a Cambridge 
a Tho. Fuller, in his Worthies of England, in Wales p. 16.  man to have been no bad English, but an excellent Latin, Poet, and by some thought worthy to be mentioned by Spencer, Sidney and others, the chiefest of our English Poets. His works are these.  


MSS.  
Verses in description of the chief Cities of Europe  
Chronicle of Qu. Elizab. reign.  
Life of Will. Camden Clarenceaux K. of Arms.    
A Cypress Garland for the sacred forehead of the late Sovereign K. James. Lond. 1625. a Poem; and other things which I have not yet seen; but he was not the author of the Appendix to the Commentary of Engl. Bishops, as one 
b I●on in London. p. 207. in Marg.  or more think. He died within the City of Westminster, (having always been in animo Catholicus) in sixteen hundred thirty and three; 
1633:  whereupon his body was buried in the Abbey Church of S. Peter, there, near to the door entering into the Monuments, or the door, thro' which people enter to see the Monuments, on the three and twentieth day of July in the same year. I have seen a copy of his Epitaph made by himself, wherein he is styled miserimus peccator, musarum & amicitiarum cultor sanctissimus, etc. and another made by a second person, which for brevity sake I now pass by. In my searches I find one Hugh Holland to have been admitted Bac. of Arts with Tho. Worthington (afterwards a Jesuit) in Mich. Term, an. 1570. and another Hugh Holland an Esquires Son of Denbighshire to be matriculated as a member of Ball. coll. an. 1582. aged 24. with others of that Surname of the same house, but whether any of them were authors, I cannot yet tell, or whether the last was the same with the Poet. Qu.  
GEORGE ABBOT, younger brother to Rob. Abbot, whom I have mentioned under the year 1617. was born in the same Town and house where Robert was, bred also in the same School, under Mr. Franc. Taylor, entered a student in Ball. coll. 1578. aged 16. or thereabouts, elected Probationer-Fellow thereof, 29. Nou. 1583. being then Bach. of Arts; and afterwards proceeding in that faculty, he entered into holy Orders, and became a celebrated preacher in the University. In 1597. he was licenced to proceed in Divinity, and in the same year being elected Master of University coll. gave up all right that he had to his Fellowship. In the latter end of 1599 he was made Dean of Winchester in the place of Dr. Martin Heton promoted to the See of Ely: Which Dignity he keeping till 1609. succeeded then Dr. Thom. Morton Dean of Gloucester. On the third of Dec. 1609. he was consecrated Bishop of Lichfield and Coventry, and had restitution 
c Pat. 7. Jac: 1. p. 4.  of the Temporalities belonging thereunto, made to him on the 29. of the same month. In Febr. following he was translated to London, and being elected soon after to the See of Canterbury, had the King's 
d Pat. 9 Jac. 1. p. 29.  consent to it, 29. March 1610. On the 9 of Apr. 1611. he was 
e Camden in Annal. R. Jac. 1. MS. sub. an. 1611.  translated to the said See of Canterbury, and on the 4. of May following had restitution 
f Ib. in pat. 9 Ja. 1. p. 43.  made to him of the Temporalities belonging thereunto. On the 23. of June ensuing, he was 
g Ib. in Camd. in Annal Reg. Jac. 1: sub eod. an.  sworn a member of his Majesty's Privy Council, and accordingly took his place. So that he having never been Rector or Vicar of a parish, and so consequently was in a manner ignorant of the trouble that attended the ministers of God's word, was the cause (as some think) why he was harsh to them, and why he showed more respect to a Cloak, than a Cassock. He was a person pious and grave, and exemplary in his life and conversation. He was also a learned man, and had his erudition all of the old stamp. He was stiffly 
* Hist. of the reign of K. Ch. 1. by Ham. L'estrange— Lond. 1656. p. 13●:  principled in the doctrine of S. Augustine, which they who understand it not, call Calvinism, and therefore disrelished by them who incline to the Massilian and Arminian Tenets. Those that well remember him have said, that though he was a plausible preacher, yet his brother Robert was a greater Scholar, and though an able Statesman, yet Robert was a deeper Divine. The things that he hath written are these, which show him to be a man of parts, learning, vigilancy, and unwearied study, though overwhelmed with business.  
Questiones sex, totidem praelectionibus in Schola Theologicâ Oxomiae, pro formâ habitis, discussae & disceptatae, an. 1597; in quibus, è sacra scriptura & Patribus, quid statuendum sit, definitur. Oxon 1598. qu. Francof. 1616. qu. which last edition was published by Abrah. Scultetus.  
Exposition on the Prophet Jonah, contained in certain Sermons preached in S. Mary's Ch. in Oxon. Lond. 1600. and 1613.  
The reasons which Dr. Hill hath brought for the upholding of Papistry, unmasked, and showed to be very weak, etc. Oxon. 1604. qu. Which book was in answer to one intit. A quartron of reasons of Cath. Religion, with as many brief answers of refusal. Antw. 1600. qu. written by Tho. Hill. D. D. then living at Phalempyne beyond the Sea, who a little before had left the Church of England to embrace the Doctrine of that of Rome. He was also answered by Franc. Dillingham Bac. of Diu. of Cambridge, in a book intit. A quartron of reasons composed by Dr. Hill unquartered, and proved a quartron of follies. Cambridge 1603. qu.  
Preface to the examination of George Sprot. London 1608. qu.  
Sermon at Westminster 26 May, 1608. at the funeral solemnities of Thomas Earl of Dorset Lord High Treasurer of England, on Isaiah 40. 6. London 1608. qu.  
Brief description of the whole world. Lond. 1617. qu: the 9th edition. Other editions in oct. followed, and the book is commonly called Abbot's Geography.  
Treatise of perpetual visibility, and succession of the true Church in all ages. Lond. 1624. qu. His name is not set to this book, only his Arms empaled by those belonging to the See of Canterbury are put before it; and 'tis generally reputed to be his and none but his.  
History of the Massacre in the Valtoline.— At the end of the third vol. of Joh. Fox his book of Acts and Mon. of the Church. Lond. 1631. 41. etc.  
His Judgement of bowing at the name of Jesus. Ham. 1632. oct.  
Several Speeches and Discourses in Parliament and elsewhere.— At length he being found guilty of casual homicide (the particulars of which are mentioned by Historians) he retired for a time to Guildford in Surrey, the place of his nativity, where he had erected an Hospital for men and women. Afterwards removing to Croyden, he gave way to fate, in his Palace there, on the fourth day of August, year 1633 in sixteen hundred thirty and three, aged 71. Whereupon, according to his desire, his body was buried in the Chapel of our Lady, within Trinity Church in Guildford. Over his grave was soon after built a sumptuous Altar, or Table-monument, with his proportion in his Pontificalia lying thereon, supported by six pillars of the Doric order, of black Marble standing on six pedestals of piled books, with a large inscription thereon, beginning thus. Sacrum memoriae honoratiss. Archipraesulis, etc. At the east end of the said Mon. is another large inscript. which begins also thus. Aeternae memoriae Sacrum. Magni hic (Hospes) Hospitis monumenta vides, etc. Besides this Dr. George Abbot Archbishop of Canterbury, I find another of both his names to have been a writer also, but later in time; and author of The whole book of Job Paraphrased, etc. London 1640. qu. Dedicated to his Father-in Law, Will. Purefey Esque as also of Vindiciae Sabbathi, etc.— Lond. 1641. qu. as I shall tell you farther in Tho. Broad, under the year 1635. And of Brief notes upon the whole book of Psalms, etc. Lond. in qu. besides other things. But whether this George Abbot was ever of Oxford, I cannot as yet tell. A third George Abbot I find to have been elected Probationer Fellow of Merton coll. 1622. and admitted Bach. of the Civil Law in 1630. but he hath written nothing, and nothing else do I know of him only that he was Son of Sir Maurice Abbot sometimes Lord Mayor of London, brother to Dr. Geo. Abbot Archb. of Canterbury.  
HENRY CARY, Son of Sir Edw. Cary of Aldenham and Berchamsted in Hertfordshire Knight, Master of the Jewel house to Q. Elizabeth and K. James, by Katherine his Wife, Daughter of Sir Hen. Knevet Knight, was born in that County, and at about 16 years of age was sent to obtain Academical learning in this University, particularly, as it seems, to Exeter coll. where by the help of a good Tutor, and extraordinary parts, be became a most accomplished Gentleman. 'Ts said 
h In the Worthies of England by Tho. Euller.  that during his stay in the University of Oxford, his Chamber was the rendezvouz of all the eminent Wits, Divines, Philosophers, Lawyers, Historians, and Politicians of that time, but how true it is, seeing Henry was then a young man and not graduated, I cannot in the least perceive. Had those things been spoken of Lucius Cary his Son, who retired several times to, and took commons in, Exeter coll. while his Brother Lorenzo studied therein 1628. and after, I should have rather believed it. But let the matter rest as 'tis: Sure I am, that after Hen. Cary had left the University where he had obtained a celebrated name, he was introduced into the Royal Court, was made Knight of the Bath at the creation of Charles Prince of Wales, controller of his Majesty's Household, one of his Privy Council, Lord Deputy of Ireland, an. 1622. and about the same time Viscount Falkland in Scotland, being then in much esteem by that King for his great abilities and experience in state affairs. He wrote several things, but not printed, and is supposed to be author of,  
The History of the most unfortunate Prince K. Edw. 2. with choice political observations on him and his unhappy favourites, Gaveston and Spencer: containing several passages of those times not found in other Historians. Lond. 1680. oct. Which book being found among the Papers of the said Henry Visc. Falkland, was published therefore as his, when the Press was open for all such books that could make any thing against the then Government, with a Preface to the Reader patched up from very inconsiderable authors, by Sir Ja. H. as is supposed. The Reader is to know that in 1628. was published at Lond. in oct. an historical Poem intit. The deplorable life and death of Edward the Second K. of England, together with the downfall, etc. written by one Rich. Hubert: which Poem being printed without the knowledge of the author, and so consequently full of faults and not according to his mind, a true copy was printed at Lond. in the year following in oct. bearing this title, The History of Edw. 2. surnamed Carnarvan one of our English Kings: together with the fatal downfall of his two unfortunate Favourites, Gaveston and Spencer. Published by the authors own copy, with the Addition of some other observations both of use and ornament, written by his elder Brother Sir Franc. Hubert (or Hobert) Knight. As for Henry Lord Falkland he gave way to fate, occasioned by the breaking of his Leg on a stand in Theobald's Park, in Sept. or Octob. in sixteen hundred thirty and three, year 1633 but where he was buried, I cannot tell. He left behind him a Son named Lucius Carry begotten on the body of his Wife Elizabeth, sole Daughter and Heir of Sir Laurence Tanfield L. Chief Baron of the Exchequer, by whom he had the Manor of Great Tew, the Priory, with the Rectory and Demesnes, of Burford, in Oxfordshire, and other Lands. Whether this Lucius was born at Burford, (as some think he was,) the public Register of that place, which commences about the beginning of the Reign of K. Jam. 1. takes no notice of it: However that he was mostly nursed there by a wet and dry Nurse, the Ancients of that Town, who remember their names, have some years since informed me. So that the place of his Nativity being yet doubtful to me, I must tell you that when his Father became Lord Deputy of Ireland, he carried his Son Lucius then a wild Youth with him into that Country, where he caused him to be educated in Academical learning in Trinity coll. near to Dublin, and afterwards sent him to travel under the tutelage and protection of a discreet person, who making a very great reformation in him, as to life, manners, and learning, Lucius had ever after a great respect and veneration for him. Upon his return he retired several times to Oxon to enlarge that learning, which he had acquired, as I shall anon tell you. His first years of reason were spent in Poetry and polite learning, into the first of which he made divers plausible sallies, which caused him therefore to be admired by the Poets of those times, particularly, first by Ben. Johnson, who hath an Epigram on him in his Underwood, in the second vol. of his works. 2. By Edm. Waller of Beconsfield, who highly 
a See in his Poems written on several occasions. Lond. 1668. p. 31.  extols his worth and admirable parts; and, 3. By Sir John Suckling, who afterwards brought him into his Poem, called, 
b In Fragmenta aurea, or Poems. Lond. 1648. oct. p. 10.  The Session of Poets, thus, 
He was of late so gone with Divinity,  
That he had almost forgot his Poetry,  
Though to say the truth (and Apollo did know it)  
He might have been both his Priest and his Poet.   
Much about the time of his Father's death, he became one of the Gent. of his Majesty's Privy Chamber, had frequent retirements to Great Tew, and sometimes to Oxon (as he had done very frequently before his Marriage) for the company of, and conversation with, learned and witty men. Among whom were Will. Chillingworth of Trinity coll. John Earl and Hugh Cressy of Merton coll. George Aglionby of Ch. Ch. Charles Gataker of Pembroke coll. (Son of Thom. Gataker of Redriff or Ridrith near to London,) who, I think, was afterwards his Chaplain, Thom. Triplet a very witty man of Ch. Ch. and others. He had also intimate acquaintance with George Sandys the Poet, who usually lived at Caswell, near to Witney, in the house of Sir Franc. W●nman, who married his Sister; whose company was usually frequented, when Lucius retired to his house at Burford. In 1639. he was put in Commission for his Majesty in the expedition against the Scots, and upon his safe return thence, Abr. Cowley the Prince of Poets, and a great admirer of him, hath an excellent 
c See more in his works, printed at Lond. 1678. fol. pag. 4.  copy of verses, wherein are several things honourably mentioned of him and his learning. In the beginning of the year 1640. he was chosen a Member of the House of Commons, for Newport in the Isle of Wight, to serve in that Parliament that began at Westminster on the 13. of Apr. the same year, and again for the same place for that Parliament that began there also 3. Nou. following: In which last he showed himself a great reformer of divers abuses, and a stickler for the Commons against the King's Prerogative, and Bishops. But being taken off from those proceedings by being made one of the Secretaries of State, he ever after adhered to his Majesty, was with him at York in 1642. and had a hand in most of those Declarations published by his Majesty's special command in all places in England, to show the reason of his intentions and proceedings. Afterwards he was a constant follower of his Majesty, was with him at Edghill fight, and afterwards at Oxon, where he discharged his office with a great deal of prudence. While he lived, and especially after his death, he was esteemed by many a Socinian, (having been, as 'tis said, strengthened in that opinion by Chillingworth,) and I know not what; but one 
d Hugh or Scren. Cressy in his Epist. Apologetical, printed 1674. §. ●.  that knew him very well, doth (though a zealous Papist) clear him from being guilty of any such matter, and tells us withal, that he was the greatest ornament to our Nation that the last age produced. Another 
e Tho. Triplet in his Epist. dedic. before the L. Falkland's book of Infallibility, printed 1651.  also, who had been intimate with him, saith, that he was the envy of this age, and will be the wonder of the next, that he honoured and served his Creator in the days of his youth,— that he was not a Candidate of Atheism, etc. The truth is, all that knew the said Lucius L. Falkland, were fully possessed with opinions to the contrary, and have usually said, that he was a sincere Christian, that he always led a virtuous life, and despised all worldly things in comparison of necessary divine truth, that he was a lover of veracity and sincerity, and what not, for the accomplishment of a religious man. As for his parts, which speak him better than any Elegy, they were incomparable, and needed no supplies of industry. His answers were quick and sudden, and though he had a great deal of true worth treasured up in him, yet he had much of modesty withal. So that all these things put together, (to which more might be added,) his memory ought to be precious, especially with such, who have any esteem for virtue, heroical fidelity to their Prince, or to incomparable learning. Among several things of his that are printed, are, (1) A speech in Parliament concerning Uniformity. (2) Sp. concerning ill Counselors; both spoken in 1640. (3) Sp. about Ship-money 5. Dec. 1640. (4) Sp. concerning John Lord Finch, lately L. Keeper, and the Judges. (5) Sp. to the Lords of the upper House, after the reading of the Articles against John L. Finch 14. Jan. 1640. (6) Sp. concerning Episcopacy 9 Feb. 1640, the beginning of which is Mr. Speaker, he is a great stranger in Israel, etc. Which Sp. is said 
f In the Life of Archb. Laud. and also in his Observations on the Hist. of K. Ch. 1. written by Ham. L'estrange, printed 1658. p. 122.  by Dr. P. Heylyn to be a bitter Speech against the Bishops, upon which account it is much used and 
g See Hen. Hickmans' Justification of the Fathers and Schoolmen, etc. Ox. 1659. sec. edit. p. 40. 41.  quoted by the Presbyterians. I have seen another Speech also intit. A draught of a Speech concerning Episcopacy, found among the L. falkland's papers since his death, written with his own hand. Oxon. 1644. in 1 sh. in qu. The beginning of which is Mr. Speaker, whosoever desires this total change, etc. Also another thing of his intit. A discourse concerning Episcopacy. Lond. 1660. qu. Published than I presume by one who was not a Friend to Bishops, being the same, I think, that was by Dr. Heylyn taken to be a bitter Speech against them. He hath also written, A dscourse of the infallibility of the Church of Rome, several times printed in qu. Whereupon an answer to it being made, the Lord came out with a reply. All published together by Tho. Triplet sometimes Student of Ch. Ch. afterwards D. of D. and Prebendary of Westminster, printed at London 1651. qu. with a dedicatory epistle before them. See more in Dr. Hen. Hammond under the year 1660. But before Triplets edition, another was put out by Anon. to which J. P. put a Preface to it, which is omitted in that of Triplet. See more in Hugh Cressy, under the year 1674. By this Discourse of infallibility it is apparent that the L. Falkland had framed a judgement touching the R. Cath. Church out of certain Cath. writers, who represented it too disadvantagiously, and not with such qualifications as the Ch. herself has done. He also wrote, An answer to a letter of Mr. Walt. Montague, who justifies his change of Religion, an. 1635. printed at the end of his Discourse of Infallibility, an. 1651. and A Letter to Mr. Fr. M. an. 1636. printed at the end of Five captious questions, propounded by a Factor for the Papacy. Lond. 1673. qu. As also a Comedy called The marriage night. Lond. 1664. qu. At length this learned author being with his Majesty King Ch. 1. at Newbury in Berks. when he was about to fight the Rebels, he called for a clean shirt in the morning before the encounter began; and being asked the reason for it, he answered that if he was slain in the Battle they should not find his body in foul linen. Whereupon his friends endeavouring to dissuade him from going into the fight, as having no call to it, or that he was a military Officer, he said he was weary of the times and foresaw much misery to his own Country, and did believe he should be out of it before night. Into the Battle therefore he did go, notwithstanding all persuasions to the contrary, and was there slain, 20 Sept. 1643. much lamented as a great Parliamentarian 
h Bulstrode Whitlock in his Memorials of English effairs, printed, 1682. p. 70. a.  saith) of all that knew him, being a Gentleman of great parts, ingenuity and honour, courteous and just to all, and a passionate promoter of all endeavours of Peace betwixt the King and Parliament. Whether the Church of England lost a friend by his death, some have doubted: Sure it is, learning itself had a loss, and one of the greatest (as many Clergymen have said) that ever happened in that or in the age before. His body was conveyed to Oxon, and afterwards to Great Tow before mentioned, where it was buried in the Church without being carried into his house there. Over his grave, though there be not yet any memory extant, yet Sir Franc. Wortley of Wortley in Yorkshire Knight and Baronet, an admirer of his virtues and learning, who styles him Musarum militumque patronus hath bestowed an Epitaph and an Elegy on him, in his book intit. Characters and Elegies, printed 1646. in qu. His person was little and of no great strength, his hair blackish and somewhat flaggy, and his eye black and quick. He left behind him a most disconsolate Widow named Letice, the Daughter of Sir Rich. Morison of Tooley-Park in Leicestershire Knight, the most devout, pious and virtuous woman of the time she lived in, who dying about the 35. year of her age, was buried by her husband. in Feb. 1646. Soon after was composed a book by one John Duncon a sequestered Divine intit. The returns of spiritual comfort and grief in a devout soul. Represented (by intercourse of Letters) to the right honourable the Lady Letice Vi-countess Falkland, in her life time: And exemplified in the holy life and death of the said honourable Lady, etc. Lond. 1648. etc. oct. To the said book, if it may be had, I refer the Reader, wherein he may soon perceive the unspeakable piety of the woman, and the great command of her Pen. By her husband Lucius L. Falkland, she had several children, of which the eldest named Lucius became a Nobleman of Ch. Ch. in the latter end of the year (in Lent time) 1646. being then a young man of great hopes, but died soon after, at Paris as I have heard. The next was Henry, not educated in Academical learning, but so exceeding wild and extravagant, that he sold his Father's incomparable Library for a Horse and a Mare, as I have been informed by Sir J. H. who married his Widow. Afterwards he took up, and proved a man of parts, (which might have been much advantaged if he had submitted himself to education) was elected one of the Knights for Oxfordshire, to serve in that Parliament (called Richard's Parliament) that began at Westminster 27 Jan. 1658. Burgess for the City of Oxon, for that called the Healing Parliament, which began 25 Apr. 1660. and a Knight again for the said County to serve in the Parliament that began in May in the year following; and at length by his Majesty's favour, he was made about that time Lord Lieutenant of Oxfordshire. He died 2 Apr. 1663. aged 29. or thereabouts, and was buried by the graves of his Father and Mother, leaving then behind him issue (by Rachel his Wife Dau. of Sir Anth. Hungerford of Blackbourton in Oxfordshire Kt.) a Son named Anthony, now L. Falkland, Treasurer, Paymaster to the Navy during the reign of K. Jam. 2. a person of great parts and worth.  
HENRY FERRER, Son and heir of Edw. Ferrer of Baldesley-Clynton in Warwickshire Esq; was born in that County, became a Student in this University (in Hart hall as it seems) in the beginning of the reign of Qu. Elizabeth, but whether he took a degree it doth not appear. Afterwards he retired to his Patrimony, which was considerable, and prosecuting his natural Genie to the study of Heraldry, Genealogies, and Antiquities, became highly valued for his eminent knowledge in them; whereby he did not only give a fair lustre to his ancient and noble family, (whereof he was no small ornament) but also to the County of his nativity. He was well known to, and respected by the Learned Camden, who, in his Discourse of the antiquity of the City of Coventry in Warwickshire doth make this honourable mention of him.— Thus much of Coventry: yet have you not all this of me, but (willingly to acknowledge by whom I have profited) of Henry Ferrer of Baldesley, a man both for parentage, and for knowledge of antiquity very commendable, and my special friend: who, both in this place, and also elsewhere, hath at all times courteously showed me the right way when I was out, and from his Candle, as it were hath lightened mine. What this Mr. Ferrer hath published, I know not, sure I am that he made several volumes of choice collections (one of which in fol. containing Pedigrees, I have seen in the Sheldonian Library, now in that of the college of Arms) from which, but chiefly from those of Sir Sim. Archer of Vmberslade in the parish of Tamworth in Warwickshire, a person naturally qualified with a great affection to Antiquities, Will. Dugdale Gent. (afterwards a Knight) laid a large foundation of that elaborate work (which is his Masterpiece) intit. The Antiquities of Warwickshire illustrated, etc. Lond. 1656. fol. After Sir Will. Dugdales' death several of Mr. Ferrer collections that had come into his hands were reposited in the Ashmolean Musaeum: see the book marked with Z. He had also in his younger days a good faculty in Poetry, some of which I have seen scattered in divers books printed in the reign of Qu. Elizabeth. At length dying on the tenth day of Oct. in sixteen hundred thirty and three, year 1633 aged 84. was 
* W. Dugd. in his Antiq. Warwickshire, p. ●10  buried in the middle of the Chancel belonging to the Church of Baldesley-Clynton before mentioned, leaving behind him the character of a well bred Gent, a good neighbour and an honest man.  
WILLIAM FOSTER, a Londoner born, became a Student in S. John's coll. in Mich. Term 1609. aged 18. afterwards M. of A. Chaplain to Rob. L. Dormer E. of Carnarvan, and Parson of a little Town called Hedgley near to Beconsfield in Bucks. He hath published,  
Sermon on Rom. 6. 12.— printed 1629. qu.  
Hoplocrisma-Spongus: Or a Sponge to wipe away the weapon salve. Wherein is proved that the cure taken up among us, by applying the Salve to the weapon, is magical and unlawful. Lond. 1631. qu. In the composure of which book he had some light from Johannes Roberti a Jesuit, and D. of D. who, because some Protestants practice this and characterical cures (which notwithstanding are more frequent among Roman Catholics) he therefore calls them Magi-Calvinists, Characterists, etc. He makes that generally in them all, doctrinal, which is but in some few personally practised. But our author Foster, 
Clar. 1633.  though he hath written rationally, and in his book hath showed great reading, yet he hath been answered, not without some scorn, by Rob. Fludd Doctor of Physic, as I shall tell you elsewhere. This Will. Foster lived some years after the publication of his Sponge, but when he died, or what other things he hath extant, I cannot yet tell.  
EDWARD WESTON, Son of Will. Weston sometimes of Linc. coll. (afterwards one of the Society of Lincoln's Inn) by his Wife, Daughter of John Story LL. D. (of whom I have made mention under the year 1571.) was born in London and at about 12 or 13 years of age, an. 1578. was sent to the said coll. of Lincoln, where he had a Tutor that taught him Grammar and Logic for a time. Afterwards being taken thence by his Parents, he was put under the tuition of Dr. Joh. Case, who, with licence from the University, read to Scholar's Logic and Philosophy in his house in S. Mar. magdalen's parish. Under him he profited in several sorts of learning to a miracle, became a good Disputant, and very well read in Philosocal authors. But his Parents, who were R. Catholics, taking him away from his conversation with the Muses, after he had spent at least 5 years in Oxon. without the taking any degrees, was sent into France, where for a short time he settled in the English coll. at Rheimes. Thence he went to the English coll. at Rome, where, partly in Philosophy, and partly in Divinity, he spent six years; and at length took the degree of Doctor of Diu. in the University of Monreale in Italy. Soon after, he returned to Rheims, where remaining for some time, eh went to Douai, and in the English coll. there taught and professed Divinity for about 10. years. Afterwards he went into England to preach the word of God, to administer to the distressed Catholics, and to gain Souls to his Religion, where he was living in 1611. But his same for the exquisite writings that he published gaining him a great name, was called thence and made Canon of the collegiat Church of S. Mary at Bruges in Flanders, which he kept till the time of his death. He hath written,  
Justificationes de triplici hominis officio, ex notione ipsius naturali, morali, ac Theologica, in 3. libris. Antw. 1602. qu. In the Preface to which, the author having uttered several matters against the learned Dr. Joh. Rainolds, which were by the Protestants taken for great reproaches, were animadverted upon by Wake 
a In Orat. sunchri Joh. Rainoldi, edit. 1608.  the Orator of Oxon in these words— Eat autem Westonus, etc. Let yet Weston that lewd and shameless Rabshake, belch out what reproaches he pleaseth against him, (Rainolds) and charge him not only with stupid dulness, but also that he counterfeited sickness, and pretended only to a disease, to preserve his credit, etc. Notwithstanding which, this Weston himself (so like his 
b Dr. Hugh Weston sometimes Rector of Linc. coll. who was his great Uncle, See more of him under the year 1558. p. 93.  Uncle in his ill conditions and ignominious flight) when he challenged all the Heads of the University and branded them for inpure, only for that some of them had entered into the state of Matrimony, could not find any one act out of Dr. Joh. Raynolds in all his life to blemish him withal, etc.  
Juris pontificii sanctuarium. printed 1613. in oct. This I have not yet seen.  
The trial of christian truth by the rules of virtues, namely these principal, Faith, Hope, Charity and Religion, etc. Douai 1614 qu. This is the first part, which treats only of Faith. The rest I have not yet seen.  
Theatrum vitae civilis ac sacrae: five de moribus reipub. christianae commentaria in quinque libros distributa. Brugis Flandr. 1626. fol.  
Jesus Christi D. nostri coruscationes, simulque ●orum vi. dictorum, factorumque quarundam personarum, eodem Christo praesente, in Evangelicâ historiâ recensitorum enarrationes, etc. Antw. 1631. fol. What other things he hath published I know not, nor any thing else of him, only that he was living in sixteen hundred thirty and three, 
Clar: 1633:  as I have been informed by Franc. à S. Clara, who told me also that he died and was buried at Bruges in Flanders. Besides this Edw. Weston, I find one Will. Weston born at Maidstone in Kent, who was contemporary with Edm. Campian the Jesuit in the University of Oxon. which place he leaving, he went beyond the Seas, entered 
c Hen. Morus in Hist. provinc. Angl● Soc. Jesus, lib. 4: nu. 15.  into the Society of Jesus 1571. aged 25. and after Jasp. Heywoods' departure out of England, he was sent thither by Father Parsons from Paris to be his substitute in the place of Provincial, and how he behaved himself in that Office, let another 
d Tho. Bell in his Anatomy of Popish Tyranny, lib. 2. cap. 2.  tell you. In 1587. he was taken, and imprisoned in Wisbich Castle, with others, where I find 
e In the Relation of the faction began at Wisbich, etc. printed 1601. qu.  him to be the prime promoter and carrier on of the faction between the Seculars and Jesuits: see more in Christop. Bagshaw under the year 1625. This Will. Weston is much noted in English Story by the name of Father edmond's alias Weston, especially upon the publication of a book written by Sam. Harsnet afterwards Archb. of York, intit. A declaration of egregious popish impostures, to withdraw the hearts of her Majesty's Subjects from their allegiance, etc. under the pretence of casting out devils, practised by edmond's alias Weston a Jesuit, etc. Lond. 1603. qu. He died 9 Apr. 1615. leaving then behind him a precious name among the Brethren of his Order. This person though evilly treated and disgracefully mentioned by the Secular Priests and certain Protestant writers, yet Father Parsons in his Brief Apology 
f Printed at S. Om●r, 1601. in oct. fol. 63. b. 64. etc.  or defence of the Catholic Ecclesiastical Hierarchy, etc. speaks very honourably of him as to his piety and mortified way of living.  
WILLIAM NOY, Son of Will. Noy of S. Burian in Cornwall Gent. by Philippe his Wife, was born there, became a sojournour of Exeter coll. in 1593. aged 16. where continuing a severe Student about 3 years, left the University without a degree, went to Linc. Inn, studied the Common Law, and by his unwearied industry and moiling day and night he became eminent in his profession. In the latter end of the reign of K. Jam. 1. he was chose a Burgess for Helston in his own Country to sit in that Parliament that began at Westminster 30. Jan. 1620. and for that which began there 19 Feb. 1623. In both which he showed himself a professed enemy to the King's prerogative. In 1625. he was elected a Burgess for S. Ives to sit in that Parliament, which began at Westminster 6. Feb. wherein, as in another following, showing himself an enemy as before, he was at length diverted from his proceedings by being made Attorney General, an. 1631. He was as famous a Lawyer as ever this Kingdom bred, as a certain author 
g Sir Ant. Weldon in his book intit. The Court of K. Charles continued unto the beginning of these unhappy times, etc. Printed at the end of The Court and Character of K. James. Lond. 1651. sec. edit. p. 194. 195.  informs us, who adds that formerly he was a great Patriot, and the only searcher of Precedents for the Parliaments: By which he grew so cunning, as he understood all the shifts which former kings had used to get moneys with. This man the K. sent for, told him, he would make him his Attorney. Noy, like a true cynic as he was, did, for that time go away, not returning to the King so much as the civility of thanks, nor indeed, was it worth his thanks, I am sure he was not worthy of ours. For, after the Court solicit had bewitched him, to become the Kings, he grew the most hateful man that ever lived, etc. he having been as great a deluge to this Realm, as the flood was to the whole world: For he swept away all our privileges, and in truth hath been the cause of all these miseries this Kingdom hath since been ingulphed; whether you consider our Religion (he being a great Papist, if not an Atheist, and the protecter of all Papists, and the raiser of them up unto that boldness they were now grown unto) or if you consider our Estates and Liberties, which were impoverished and enthralled by multitudes of Papists and illegal ways, which this Monster was the sole author of, etc. He was a man passing 
a Ham. L'estrange in his Hist. of the reign of K. Ch. 1. under the year 1634.  humorous, of cynical rusticity, a most indesatigable plodder, and searcher of ancient Records, whereby he became an eminent instrument of good and ill to the King's Prerogative. His apprehension (as 'tis said) was quick and clear, his judgement methodical and solid, his memory strong, his curiosity deep and searching, his temper patient and cautious, all tempered with an honest bluntishness, far from Court insinuation. He left behind him several things fit for the Press, and under his name were these books afterwards published.  
A Treatise of the principal grounds and maxims of the Laws of England, Lond. 1641. qu. Afterwards printed in oct. and tw.  
Perfect conveyancer: or several select and choice Precedents. Lond. 1655. qu. 2d edit. collected partly by Will. Noy, and partly by Sir Rob. Hendon Knight, sometimes one of the Barons of the Exchequer, Rob. Mason sometimes Recorder of London, and Henry Fleetweod, formerly Reader of Greys Inn.  
Reports and cases in the time of Qu. Elizabeth, K. James and King Charles 1. containing the most excellent exceptions for all manner of Declarations, Plead, and Demurs, exactly examined and laid down. London 1656. fol.  
The complete Lawyer: or a Treatise concerning Tenors and Estates in Lands of inheritance for life and other hereditaments, and chattels real and personal, etc. Lond. 1661. and 74. in oct. with his picture before it.  
Arguments of Law and Speeches— He also left behind him several choice collections that he had made from the Records in the Tower of London, reduced into two large paper books of his own hand-writing. One contained collections concerning the Kings maintaining his Naval power according to the practice of his Ancestors; and the other about the privileges and jurisdiction of ecclesiastical Courts. Dr. Tho. James of Oxon. when he compiled his Mannduction or Introduction unto Divinity, printed 1625. he afterwards acknowledged himself 
b See in the Table of MSS. by Dr. James, quoted at the dne of the said Manuduction  beholding to the Extracts out of the Tower, fairly and largely transcribed (as he saith) by the said Mr. Noy a great Antiquary of Law. Which extracts, I presume, are the same with those before mentioned. At length his body being much out of Order by continual toiling and drudging, he retired to Tunbridge-wells to gain health in the month of July, but the waters effecting nothing; he died there, on Saturday the 9 of Aug. following, in sixteen hundred thirty and four, year 1634 whereupon his body being conveyed to New Brentford in Middlesex, was privately buried on the Monday following under the communion table of the Chancel of the Church there. Over his grave was a stone soon after laid, with a brass plate fastened thereunto, and an inscription thereon, but soon after defaced. The next day after his departure, the news of it came to Dr. Laud Archb. of Canterbury then at Croyden, who thereupon made 
c In the Breviat of his life, p. 19  this observation of him in his Diary. I have lost a dear friend of him, and the Church the greatest she had of his condition since she needed any such. His body being opened after his decease, his heart was found shrivelled like a leather penny Purse, nor were his Lungs right, which caused several conjectures by the Puritans. But that which was most observable after his death, was his Will, 
d In the Will-Office near to S. Paul's Cath. in reg. Seager, Qu. 84.  dated 3 June 1634. at which all the world wondered, because the maker thereof was accounted a great Clerk in the Law; for therein, after he had bequeathed to his Son Hamphrey an hundred marks per an. to be paid out of his tenements in the hundred of Pydar in Cornwall, he concludes, & reliqua omnia, etc. and the rest of all my Lands, Goods, etc. I leave to my Son Edward Noy, whom I make my Executor, to be consumed and scattered about, nec de so mellus speravi, etc. But Edward lived not long to enjoy the estate, for within two years after, he was slain in a Duel in France, by one Captain Byron, who escaped scot-free and had his pardon, as Will. Prynn an inveterate enemy to Will. Noy his Father 
e See at the end, in an append. to a book intit. A Divine Tragedy lately octed, or a collection of sundry memorable examples, etc. Printed beyond Sea, an▪ 1636. qu.  reports. As his Majesty was somewhat troubled at his loss, and the Clergy more, so the generality of the Commons rejoiced. The Vintners drank carouses, in hopes to dress meat again and fell Tobaco, Beer, etc. which by a sullen capricio, Noy restrained them from. The Players also for whom he had done no kindness, did, the next Term after his decease, make him the subject of a merry Comedy, styled A projector lately dead, etc. He had his humours as well as other men, but certainly he was a solid rational man, and though no great Orator, yet he was a profound Lawyer, and none more better versed in Records than he. In his place of Attorney General succeeded Sir Joh. Banks, and the next year Sir Rob. Heath being removed from the Ch. Justiceship of the King's Bench for bribery, Sir John Finch came into play, whereupon these verses were made. 
Noyes Flood is gone  
The Banks appear,  
Heath is shorn down  
And Finch sings there.   
THOMAS HICKS, or Hyckes, Son of Francis Hicks, mentioned under the year 1630, was born at Shipson in the parish of Tredington in Worcestershire, became a Student in Balliol coll. in Mich-Term, an. 1616. aged 17. or thereabouts, took the degrees in Arts, and at length by the favour of Doctor Duppa Dean of Christ's Church became one of the Chaplains or Petticanons of that House, about 1628. He hath written,  
The life of Lucian, gathered out of his own writings Oxon. 1634. qu. Which life is set before his Father's translation of certain dialogues of that author.  
Notes and illustrations upon each dialogue, and book of Lucian, etc.— Besides his great skill in the Greek rongue, he was esteemed among the Academians a good Poet, and an excellent Limner: And without doubt had not death cut him off in the prime of his years on the sixteenth day of December, in sixteen hundred thirty and four, 
1634:  he might have benefited the Commonwealth of learning with other matters. He died in Christ Church and was buried in the Cathedral there; which is all I yet know of him, only that Dr. J. F. the publisher of Hist. & Antiq. Oxon. committed a grand mistake of him in that book lib. 2. p. 283. b. Another of both his names was author of A dialogue between a Christian and a Quaker, etc. To which a continuation was added by the same author, in 1673. in oct.  
ARTHUR PITS, or Pitsius as he writes himself, a younger Son of Arthur Pits Bach. of Law, sometimes Fellow of Alls. coll. afterwards Registrary of the Diocese and Achdeaconry of Oxford, and Impropriator of Eifley near to, and in the County of Oxon. was born at Eifley, educated for a time either in Alls. or Brasnose coll. or in both successively, having been a Chorister of the first as it it seems, but before he took a degree he left the University, Country, and Relations, went to Douai, spent some time in the English coll. there, returned into his Country, was taken and imprisoned: but at length being released and shipped with other Priests and Jesuits at Tower-Wharf, at the Queen's charge in Febr. 1584. was set on shore in Normandy. Whereupon retiring to Douai passed a course in Divinity, became Doctor of that faculty, and at length was made Chancellor to the Cardinal of Lorraine, being then a person much in esteem for his great knowledge in the supreme faculty. He hath written,  
In quatuor Jesu Christi Evangelia & Acta Apostolorum commentarius. Duac. 1636. in a thick quarto. Which being all that he hath written, as I suppose, was published after his death by the English Benedictines at Douai, as one of them hath told me. At length Doctor Pits coming into England for health sake, left his preferment beyond the Seas, and settled in the house of a R. Catholic, named Stoner of Blounts' Court near to Henly in Oxfordshire, a younger family of those of Stomer near to Watlington: year 1634 where dying about sixteen hundred thirty and four, was buried in the Church of Rotherfield Pipard, commonly called Pepper near to Henly before mentioned, as I have been informed by an ancient Catholic Gentlewoman, who was born within a mile of, and well acquainted with, him: yet in the register of that Church his own name appears not. His Father Art. Pits died at Eifley in 1579. and was buried on the north side of the Chancel there, leaving a fair estate behind him to be enjoyed by four Sons then living, viz. Robert, Thomas, Arthur and Philip.  
ROBERT JOHNSON, a Londoner born, became a Student in Magd. coll. an. 1595. and in the year after Demy, aged 18. took the degrees in Arts, that of Master being completed in 1601. Afterwards he entered into the sacred function, became one of his Majesty's Chaplains in Ordinary, and Bach. of Divinity; which is all I know of him, only that he published,  
The way to glory, or the preaching of the Gospel is the ordinary means of our Salvation, Sermon in St. Paul's Cathedral 10. Decemb. 1620. on 2 Thes. 2. 14. London 1621. qu.  
A confutation of our Adversaries opinion of the Pope's defining and expounding, Scriptures, Ex Cathedra is to be believed as undoubted truth.— Printed with the former book.  
Various Sermons, as (1) The necessity of faith, before the Prince at S. James, 
Clar. 1634.  on Heb. 11, 6. Lond. 1624. qu. (2) Serm. on Psal. 119. 33.— Pr. in qu. (3) Serm. on 1 Cor. 9 14. London 1633. and a fourth, if I mistake not, intit. David's Teacher, on Psal. 19 30— Printed 1609. Besides this Robert Johnson, hath been several of both his names that have been writers, as (1) Robert Johnson Gent. author of Essays. Lond. 1607. (oct.) (dedicated to Will. Earl of Pembroke) whom I cannot say to be the same with Rob. Johnson of Qu. coll. born in the County of Durham, and Bach. of Arts 1599 (2) Rob. Johnson of York one of the Assembly of Divines, an. 1643. author of several Sermons preached before the members of the Long Parliament, as one intit. Lux & Lex, or the light of the Law of jacob's house, Fast Serm. before the H. of Com. 31. Mar. on Isay 2. 6. Lond. 1647. qu. Another preached before the Lords 24. Jun. 1646. being a Fast Sermon, but I have not yet seen it. (3) Rob. Johnson LL. Bac. who, with Hen. Jolliffe sometimes Dean of Bristol, wrote against Bishop Joh. Hooper, a I shall tell you in the Fasti, an. 1551. (4) Rob. Johnson an eminent Musician living in the reign of Ch. 1. who with Tho. Ford were accounted famous and excellent in their faculties, as matters of their composition, which are extant, show. (5) Robert Johnson author of Relations of the most famous Kingdoms and Commonwealths through the world, Lond. 1616. qu. which is all I know of him as yet. See another Rob. Johnson who was a benefactor to learning, in the Fasti, an. 1564.  
JOHN DAVIES, the fourth person of both his names, whom I have mentioned among these writers, was a Denbighshire man born, bred up at the feet of Will. Morgan, (afterwards B. of S. Asaph) became a Student in Jesus coll. in 1589, took one degree in Arts four years after, left the University without completing it by Determination, studied Divinity in the Country, and in the year 1608. was admitted to the reading of the Sentences as a member of Linc. coll. having been fourteen years a Minister of God's Word, and dispensed with for not ruling in Arts. But before that time he was Rector of Malloyd, or Maynlloyd in Merionithshire, (which occasioned, as I presume, Sir Leolyne Jenkyns to tell me that he was that Countryman born) and afterwards a Canon of S. Asaph by the gift of Doctor Parry B. thereof, (to whom he was Chaplain) and a Dignitary, if I mistake not, in some other Church. In 1616. he proceeded in his faculty, as a member of the said coll. of Lincoln, being then esteemed by the Academians well versed in the History and Antiquities of his own Nation, and in the Greek and Hebrew Languages, a most exact Critic, an indefatigable searcher into ancient Scripts, and well acquainted with curious and rare authors. His works are,  
Antony's quae linguae Britannicae nunc communiter dictae Cambro-Britannicae, à suis Cymraecae vel Cambricae, ab aliis Wallicae rudimenta, etc. Lond. 1621. oct.  
Dictionarium Britannico-Latinum. Lond. 1632. fol. With this, is printed,  
Dictionarium Latino-Britannicum. Which was in a manner finished by Tho. William's a Physician, before the year 1600. Afterward completed and published by Dr. Davies. I have been informed that in the Library of MSS. sometimes belonging to Rob. Vaughan of Hengwrt in Merionithshire, is a Welsh Dictionary that contains about two thousand words more than in the former.  


Lond. 1632. printed at the end of the Dict. before mentioned.  
Adagia Britannica.  
Authorum Britannicorum nomina & quando floruerunt.    
Adagiorum Britannicorum Specimen— MS. in bib. Bod. He also assisted Will. Morgan B. of Landaff and afterwards of S. Asaph, and Rich. Parry who succeeded him in the See of S. Asaph, in translating the Bible into Welsh, I mean in that corrected edition, that came out temp. Jac. 
Clar. 1634.  1. (1620.) and also translated into the same language (which he had studied at vacant hours for thirty years) the book of Resolution, written by Rob. Persons a Jesuit. On the first of Feb. 1626. was one Joh. Davies a Doctor's Son admitted Bac. of Arts, as a member of Glouc. hall, which I take to be Son of Doctor John Davies before mentioned, at which time Sir John Davies the Mathematician had a Son of both his names, who was Gent. Com. of that house.  
ROBERT GOMER sal, the eldest Son of an Esquire, was born in London, applied his muse to Academical Literature in Ch. Ch. 1614 aged 14 of which house he was afterwards made a Student, and at about seven years standing taking the degree of M. of A. he entered into holy Orders, and became a very florid preacher in the University. In 1628. he was admitted to the reading of the Sentences, at which time he was esteemed excellent for Dramatic Poesy, especially upon his publishing of,  
The Tragedy of Ludou. Sforza Duke of Milan. Lond. 1628. oct. Dedic. to Mr. Fr. Hyde of Ch. Ch. Proctor of the University. He wrote also  
The Levites revenge, containing Poetical meditations on the 19 and 20. Chapters of Judges. Lond. 1628. oct. Dedic. to Mr. Barten Holiday, Archd. of Oxford.  
Sermons on 1 Pet. 2. 13, 14, 15, 16. London 1634. Dedicated to Sir John Strangwayes of Melbury in Dorsetshire, who seemed to be a favourer of the author's studies.  
Poems— Lond. 
Clar. 1634.  1638. oct. They were before published, and had then (1638.) a new title put to them. One Rob. Gomersall, who seems to be a Devonian born, died 1646. leaving then by his Will 
* In the Will-Office, near to S. Paul's Cath. Ch. in Reg. Essex part 3. Qu. 143.  1000 l. to his Son Robert, which Son perhaps may be the writer before mentioned.  
THOMAS INGMETHORP, a Worcestershire man born, was matriculated as a member of Brasnose coll. in the latter end of May 1581. aged 19 went away without any Degree conferred upon him, and was afterwards made Rector of Great Stainton, or Stainton in that Street in the Bishopric of Durham, being then accounted eminent for the Hebrew tongue, and for his admirable methods in Pedagogy; which employment he practised not only before he came to Stainton, but also afterwards in his private house there among 12 or 14. boys, till almost to the time of his death. He hath published,  
Several Sermons, as (1) Serm. on 1 Joh. chap. 2. ver. 3, 4, 5, 6. Oxon. 1598. oct. (2) Sermon upon the words of Saint Paul, Let every soul be subject to the higher powers, Rom. 13. 1. wherein the Pope's Sovereignty over Princes is briefly, but sufficiently refuted, etc. London 1619. quarto; and others which I have not yet seen.  
A short Catechism for young children to learn, by Law authorized, etc. Lond. 1633. oct.  
Catechism in English and Hebrew— printed in octavo. 
Clar. 1634.  This I have not seen, nor any thing else, besides what is before set down. He died and was buried at Stainton before mentioned, but when, I know not.  
MILES SANDYS, a Knight's Son, was born in Worcestershire, became a Gent. Com. of Ha●t hall in the beginning of the year 1615. aged 15, but put under the tuition of Dr. Rich. Astley, Fellow (afterwards Warden) of Allsouls college, by whose endeavours this our author became afterwards a complete Gentleman. He departed without a degree, though much deserving of one, and afterwards had the degree of Knighthood conferred upon him by his Majesty some years after. He hath written,  
Prudence, the first of the four Cardinal virtues. Lond. 1634. in tw. 
Clar. 1634:  'Tis the first part of a small work written by him, chiefly concerning the Four Cardinal virtues, especially Prudence; wherein is much reading showed. What other parts followed I know not, nor any thing else of the author. One Sir Miles Sandys of Wilberton in Cambridgeshire Knight and Baronet, third Son of Edwin Archbishop of York, died in the latter end of 1644, leaving then behind him a Son called Sir Miles Sandys Knight and Baronet: Whether this last be the same with the writer before mentioned I know not.  
LEONARD DIGGES, Son of Tho. Digges mentioned under the year 1574. by Anne his Wife, Daughter of Sir Warham St. Leodgar Knight, was born in London, became a Commoner of Vniu. coll. in the beginning of the year 1603. aged 15. took the degree of Bac. of Arts, retired to the great City for the present, afterwards traveled into several Countries, and became an accomplished person. Some years after his return he retired to his coll. again, and upon his supplication made to the venerable Convocation, he was, in consideration that he had spent 
* Reg. Convoc. N. fol. 234. ●.  many years in good letters in transmarine Universities, actually created M. of A. in 1626. He was esteemed by those that knew him in Vniu. coll. a great Master of the English language, a perfect understander of the French and Spanish, a good Poet and no mean Orator. He hath translated out of Spanish into English a Romance called Gerardo the unfortunate Spaniard, in two parts. Lond. 1622. qu. written by Don Goncalo de Cespedes: And from Lat. into English verse, The rape of Proserpina, in 3 books. Lond. 1617. and 28. qu. written by Claudian; besides other things which I have not yet seen. He died on the 7. Apr. in sixteen hundred thirty and five, and was buried in that little old Chapel of Vniu. coll. (sometimes standing about the middle of the present Quadrangle) which was pulled down in 1668. Several verses of his composition I have seen printed in the beginning of various authors, particularly those before Shakespeare's works, which show him to have been an eminent Poet of his time.  
THOMAS BROAD, or Brodaeus as he writes himself, Son of Will. Broad of Rendcombe in Gloucestershire Clerk, made his first entry into S. Mary's hall in Mich. Term 1594. aged 17. and soon after translating himself to that of S. Alban, took the degrees in Arts as a Member thereof. In 1611. in which year his Father died, he became Rector of Rendcomb, the place of his nativity, where, as before in Oxon, he was held in great esteem for his learning and Religion. He hath written,  
Touchstone for a Christian, wherein is showed how a man may know whether he be the Temple of the Holy Ghost, etc. Lond. 1613. etc. in tw.  
The Christians Warfare, etc. Serm. on Jam. 4. 7. Lond. 1613. in tw.  
Three questions answered. The first question, What should our meaning be, when after the reading of the fourth Commandment, we pray, Lord incline our hearts to keep this Law. The second question, How the fourth Commandment, being delivered in such form of words, bind us to sanctify any day, but only the seventh, etc. And the third question, How shall it appear to be the Law of Nature to sanctify one day every week. Oxon. 1621. qu.  
Tractatus de Sabbato, in quo doctrina Ecclesiae primitivae dèclaratur ac defenditur. Printed 1627. qu.  
Two Treatises: one concerning the Sabbath or Seventh day. The other concerning the Lord's day, or first of the week.— These two that were written in English and not printed, came in MS. into the hands of one George Abbot, not he that was Archbishop of Canterbury, but another, who making an answer to them, published it under the title of Vindiciae Sabbathi, or an answer to two treatises of Mr. Broad, etc. Lond. 1641. qu. He the said Tho. Broad departed this mortal life about the middle, or latter end of June, year 1635 in sixteen hundred thirty and five, and was buried by the bodies of his Father, and of his Brother Samuel, in the Chancel of the Church at Rendcombe before-mentioned, leaving then behind him four Sons (besides Daughters) which he had by Margaret his Wife, viz. William, Thomas, Sam. and John. Thomas succeeded him (if I mistake not) in the Rectory of Rendcombe, and afterwards became Rector of Risington Magna in Glucestershire, where he died in the beginning of 1679.  
RICHARD CORBET, was born of a gentile Family at Ewel in Surrey, Son 
a See in the latter end in his Poems.  of 
Vincent 
b A Gardener at Twick●am in Mid. as 'tis reported.  Corbet; farther known  
By Poynters name, than by his own.   
And after he had spent some years in Westminster School, was sent to Broadgates' hall in Lent-Term 1●97-98. aged 15. and in the year after was made Student of Ch. Ch. In 1605. he proceeded M. of A. being then esteemed one of the most celebrated Wits in the University, as his Poems, Jests, Romantic fancies and exploits, which he made and performed extempore, showed. Afterwards entering into holy Orders, he became a most acquaint Preacher and therefore much followed by ingenious men. At length being made one of the Chaplains to his Maj. K. Jam. 1. (who highly valued him for his fine fancy and preaching) he was by his favour promoted to the Deanery of Ch. Ch. in Oxon, an. 1620. being then D. of D. Senior Student of that house, Vicar of Cassington near to Woodstock in Oxfordshire, and Prebendary of Beminster Secunda in the Church of Sarum. At length upon the translation of Dr. Howson to the See of Durham; he, by virtue of the King's Letters, was elected Bishop of Oxon, 30. July 1629. and afterwards consecrated at Lambeth 19 Octob. and installed in his Chair 3. Nou. following. Upon the translation of Dr. White to Ely, he was elected Bishop of Norwich 7. Apr. 1632. and had restitution of the Temporalities belonging thereunto, made 
c Pat. ●. Car. 1. p. 12.  to him on the 12. of May the same year. His writings that are published are only,  
Poetica Stromata: or, a collection of sundry pieces of Poetry: Lond. 1647. 48. etc. oct. made in his younger years, and never intended to be published by their author. He was buried at the upper end of the Choir belonging to the Cath. year 1635 Church of Norwich, in sixteen hundred thirty and five, and soon after, was a large Free stone of a sandy colour, laid over his body, with this engraven on a brass plate fastened thereunto. Richardus Corbet Theologiae Doctor, Ecclesiae Cathedralis Christi Oxoniensis primum Alumnus, inde Decanus, exinde Episcopus, illinc hu● translatus, & hinc in Coelum, Julii 28. an▪ 1635. On the said stone are the ancient Arms of the Corbets of Shropshire, viz. Or, a Raven passant sab. This person was hospitably disposed and ever ready to express himself generous towards public designs. Upon the repair of S. Paul's Cathedral, an. 1634. he used his utmost endeavour both by his excellent speech and exemplary gifts to advance that pious work, not only contributing largely himself; but also giving moneys to some Ministers, that had not to give, to encourage others to contribute, that might better give.  
JOHN COLLETON, or Collington, Son of Edmund Colleton of Milverton in Somersetshire Gent. was born there, and at 17 years of age, an. 1565. was sent to the University of Oxon, particularly, as 'tis thought, to Lincoln coll. but leaving the place without a degree, and his Country, he crossed the Seas and went to Douai, where applying himself to the study of Divinity in the English coll. was made a Priest, and returned into England with Father Campian, an. 1580. But being taken and sent Prisoner to the Tower of London, was afterwards, upon his trial for conspiring the death of the Queen at Rome or Rheimes, set at liberty, and charged to depart the Land within few days after. In obedience therefore to that command, he, with others of his profession, went (or rather were sent) accordingly, in 1584. but tarrying there not long, returned, and spent many years in administering to the Brethren, and gaining Proselytes. In which time, as Father Persons reports, he was a principal author of the Libels against the Archpriestship: See more in Christop. Bagshaw, under the year 1625. In the Reign of K. Jam. 1. he was made Archdeacon of London, (only titular) Vicar General of the East parts of England, and at length Dean of Chalcedon, but when age grew upon him, Greg. Fisher alias Musket, Archdeacon of Surrey and Middlesex, was added as a Coadjutor in the Office of Vicar-General, 10. Feb. 1626. to assist in the East parts of England, namely in Essex, Norfolk, Suffolk, Cambridgshire, Isle of Ely, Bedfordshire, Bucks, Middlesex, and Hertford. He hath written and published,  
A just defence of the slandered Priests, wherein are contained reasons against their receiving Mr. George Blackwel to be their Superior, etc.— Printed 1602. qu. concerning which book and Father Persons his character therein, you may see in The Anatomy of Popish Tyranny, etc. written by Tho. Bell, lib. 4. cap. 5. sect. 4.  
Supplication to the King of Great Britain for a toleration of the Cath. Religion.  
Epistle to P. Paul 5.— with other things which I have not yet seen. He ended his days in the house of a Rom. Catholic at Eltham in Kent, on the fourteenth of the Calends of Novemb. year 1635 in sixteen hundred thirty and five, aged 87. and was buried in the Church there, dedicated to S. John Bapt. Over his grave was soon after a monumental stone laid, with an inscription round the verge, a copy of which was sent to me by his Sister's Son, named Joh. Kynn O. S. B. living at Beoly in Worcestershire. Much about the time that this Joh. Colleton studied according to report in Linc. college, one Joh. Filby an Oxfordshire man born, studied there also, who leaving that coll. before he was Bacurius of Arts, went to Rheimes, where he studied Divinity in the English coll. and was made a Priest. Afterwards being sent into the Mission of England, he was taken, imprisoned, and at length being condemned to die, was executed at Tyburn 30. May 1582.  
ALEXANDER GILL, born in Lincolnshire on the 27. Feb. 1564. was admitted Scholar of Corp. Ch. coll. in Sept. 1583. took the degrees in Arts, that of Master being completed in 1590. left the coll. and became an instructor of Youth, but where, unless in the City of Norwich, (where he lived 1597. and then wrote his treatise of the Trinity,) I know not. Sure I am, that in 1608. he became the chief Master of S. Paul's School within the City of London, in the place of Rich. Mulcaster, was esteemed by most persons to be a learned man, a noted Latinist, Critic, and Divine, and also to have such an excellent way of training up youth, that none in his time went beyond him. Whence 'twas that many noted persons in Church and State, did esteem it the greatest of their happiness, that they had been educated under him His works are,  
Treatise concerning the Trinity in unity of the Deity. Lond. 1601. oct. written to Tho. Manering an Anabaptist, who denied that Jesus is very God of very God.  
Logonomia Anglica. Qua gentis sermo facilius addiscitur. Lond. 1621. qu.  
Sacred Philosophy of holy Scripture. Or a Commentary on the Creed. Lond. 1635. fol. At the end of which is printed also his Treatise of the Trinity before mentioned. He died in his house in St. Paul's Ch. Yard, on the 17. year 1635 Novemb. in sixteen hundred thirty and five, and was buried on the twentieth day of the same month in Mercer's Chapel in London, in a vault near to the Monument of Mr. Brown and Mr. Fishbourne. He left behind him a Son of both his names, whom I shall hereafter mention.  
EDMUND DEANE, Brother to Richard Deane Bishop of Ossory, and both the Sons of Gilb. Deane of Saltonstall in Yorkshire, was born there, or in that County, entered a Student in Merton coll. in Lent-Term 1591. aged 19 took one degree in Arts, and then retired to St. Alban hall, where prosecuting his Genie which he had to the faculty of Physic, took both the degrees therein, as a member of the said hall, and about that time retired to the City of York, and practised there, till about the beginning of the Civil Wars. He hath written,  
Spadacrene Anglica: or, the English Spa Fountain, being a brief Treatise of the acid or tart Fountain in the Forest of Knaresborough in Yorkshire. Lond. 1626. in oct.  
A relation of other medicinal waters in the said Forest— Printed with the former book.  
Admiranda chymica in oct. tractatulis, 
Clar. 1635.  cum figuris. Franc. 1630. 35. qu. Sam. Norton is esteemed half author of this book. This eminent Physician died before the Civil War broke forth, but the particular time, I know not.  
HUMPHREY LYND, a most learned Knight of his time, a zealous Puritan and a grand enemy to such who were called Arminians, was born in London, but descended from those of his name, if I mistake not, in Dorsetshere, educated in Westminster School, elected Student of Ch. Church in 1596. aged 17. and four years after took a degree in Arts. About that time he was called away to be heir to a fair estate, and being looked upon as a knowing person, was made a Justice of the Peace, a Knight by the favour of K. Jam. 1. 29. Oct. 1613. and was elected several times a Burgess to serve in Parliaments. He was a person of great knowledge and integrity, and a severe enemy to the Pontificians as well in his common discourse, as in his writings, which are,  
Ancient characters of the visible Church. London 1625.  
Via tuta. The safe way to the true, ancient, and Catholic faith now professed in the Church of England. Lond. 1628. oct. Answered by Rob. Jenison alias Frevil a Jesuit in a book intit. A pair of Spectacles for Sir Humph. Lynd, etc. Rouen 1631. in oct. Which Jenison was born in the County Pal. of Durham and died in England 10. oct. 1656.  
Via devia. The by-way leading the weak in dangerous paths of popish error. Lond. 1630. oct.  
A case for a pair of Spectacles, etc.— Refused to be Licenced by Bishop laud's Chaplain, upon no other pretence (as one 
a Will. Prynne in Canterbury's Do●me, printed 164●. p. 185:  saith) but that Sir Humphrey was a Layman; but in verity, because he (the Chaplain) was unwilling to have him vindicate himself and the truth against a railing Jesuit, etc. However this book was afterwards published by Dr. Dan. Featly, with a Supplement thereunto added by the Dr. in defence of Sir Humphrey— Lond. 1638. qu. Sir Humphrey also hath written an Account of Bertram the Priest, with observations concerning the censures upon his Tract De Corpore & Sanguine Christi, set by way of preface to it;— Lond. 1623. oct. and by him dedicated to Sir Walt. Pie Knight, the King's Majesty's Attorney of the Court of Wards and Liveries. Which account, with observations, as also the dedic. Epistle of Sir Humphrey, (all set before the translation of that book) were published again by Matthew Brian. LL. D. sometimes a Student in Magd. hall, Oxon.— Lond. 1686, oct. before which is set the picture of Charles the Great King of France and Emperor of Rome. See more in Will. Hugh, under the year 1549. Farther also, our Author Sir Humphrey, who was esteemed a deserving defender of the Cause of Religion, and to whom in other respects the Church and common cause did owe much, did, in the year 1623., upon the motion of certain eminent Divines, (of whom Dr. Featly was one) undertake the charge of printing the particular passages of many late writers, castrated by the Romish knife. The collections were 
b See in the Collection of Letters, at the end of Archb. Ushers Life, printed at Lond. in fol. 1686.  made by Dr. Tho. James and were then (in 1623.,) sent to Dr. Featly and others to prepare them for the Press. They began with. Pol. Virgil, Stella, Mariana, Ferus, etc. Sir Hump. Lynd died on the eighth day of June in sixteen hundred thirty and six, year 1636 and was buried above the steps in the Chancel of the parish Church of Cobham in Surrey (and not in Kent) on the fourteenth day of the same month; at which time Dr. D. Featly before mentioned preached the funeral Sermon, showing then to the Auditory the great virtues, piety, and learning that were once in the person that lay dead before them. He left behind him three Sons, Robert Alex. and Humphrey, besides six Daughters.  
THOMAS ALLEN, an exact proficient in the Greek and Latin tongues, was sent from the King's School at Worcester to this University in Mich. Term, 1589. aged 16, where making great advances in Philosophy, was elected Probationer-Fellow of Merton coll. in 1593., and by the severe discipline then used, he became a most noted Disputant. After he had completed his Regency, he entered into the sacred function, but instead of frequent preaching, he exercised himself much in crabbed and critical learning. Whereupon being well esteemed by his Governor Sir Hen. Savile, he procured for him a Fellowship of Eton coll. where he found him very serviceable for his designs. He hath written,  
Observationes in libellum Chrysostomi in Esaiam. Printed in Sir H. Saviles' edition of S. chrysostom, in the eighth vol. p. 139, etc. He also was one that helped the said Knight in making and framing his Annotations on Chrysostom's Homilies, on Matthew and the other Evangelists, as he doth acknowledge in his Preface to the said Annotations, wherein he styles this our author, Vir doctissimus, Graecarum literarum non minus quam Theologiae peritissimus, etc. He surrendered up his soul to him that gave it, year 1636 in sixteen hundred thirty and six, and was buried in Eton coll. Chappel near to Windsor. Over his grave is a flat stone remaining, having this inscription carved on a brass plate fixed thereunto. Thomas Allenus Wigorniensis, vir pietate insignis, Theologus praestantissimus, multarum optimarum linguarum, variaeque eruditionis callentissimus, in collegium hoc (in quo diu socius vixit) in collegia insuper alia, locaque in quibus aliquam vitae suam partem posuit pie munificus, hic jacet. Obiit die decimo Mensis Octobris, an. 1636. He gave books to Mert. coll. library, and some to that of Brasenose; in which last he had been a Student before he was elected into Merton. Another of both his names, but later in time, was sometimes Pastor of a Church in Norwich, and author of The Glory of Christ, set forth in several Sermons from John 3. 34, 35, 36. etc. published after the author's death in 1683. oct.  
JOHN JONES, the ornament of the English Benedictines in his time, was born in London, but descended from a family of his name living at Llan-Vrinach in Brecknockshire, elected Scholar of S. John's coll. from Merchant Tailor's School in 1591., aged 16, and soon after became Chamberfellow there, with Will, Land, who was afterwards Archb. of Canterbury. This person being entered and settled in a Jurists place, he applied himself to the study of the Civil Law, and made a considerable progress therein; but his mind being much inclined to the Rom. Religion, he left the coll. (though then Fellow and Bach. of Laws standing) his friends, relations, and Country, went into Spain, and being made a Monk of the Order of S. Benedict at Compostella, changed his name to Leander de Sancto Martino, and at length became D. of D. Thence he went to Douai, where he executed the office of public professor of his faculty, and of the Hebrew tongue, in the coll. or cenobie of S. Vedastus for several years. He was Prior of the Benedictine coll. of S. Gregory there, and the designed Abbot of Cismar in Germany, Vicar General also to the English Benedictines of the Spanish congregation, living out of Spain, twice Precedent, or chief Superior of the Benedictines in England, and titular Prior of the Catholic Ch. of Canterbury. He was a person of extraordinary eloquence, generally knowing in all arts and sciences, beloved of all that knew him and his worth, and hated by none but by the Puritans and Jesuits. Towards his latter end he was invited into England by Doctor Laud Archb. of Canterbury, to consult with him about certain important points of Controversy in Religion, as those of our author's profession say, but W. Prynne who was always an inveterate enemy to Laud, tells 
c In Canterbury's Doom, before mentioned pag. 448. See also p. 412. 559.  us, that he sent for him into England, to reconcile us to Rome, or to make a reconciliation between the Church of Rome and England. But how true those matters were, let such that have read that Archbishop's trial judge, while I tell you that our author hath written,  
Sacra ars memoriae ad Scripturas divinas in promptu habendas, memoriterque ediscendas, accommodata. Duac. 1623. oct. At the end of which is this book following.  
Conciliatio Locorum communium totius Scripturae. Besides the said two, he hath other, things which I have not yet seen. He also set forth the Bible with glosses in six large volumes, the works also (as 'tis said) of Ludou. Blosius and had a hand in that elaborate work intit. Apostolatus Benedictinorum in Anglia, etc. published by Clem. Reyner 1626. But a greater hand, I have heard had Aug. Baker, of whom more hereafter. As for our author Leander, he paid his last debt to nature on the seventeenth day of Decemb. in sixteen hundred thirty and six, year 1636 (having been much vexed in his time by the Jesuits) and was buried in the Chapel of the Capuchins situate and being in Somerset-house in the Strand near to London. He had been Ordinary of the Dames or Nuns of our Lady of Comfort, of Cambray, of the Order of S. Benedict, and spiritual father to them for many years:  
CHRISTOPHER WHITE, a Worcestershire man born, as it seems, was elected a Student of Ch. Ch. about 1606, took one degree in Arts and became a preacher. In 1620. he was admitted to the reading of the Sentences, about which time he was Rector of Letley in Hampshire. He hath published,  
Several Sermons, as (1) Serm. at Ch. Ch. on Rom. 13. 1. Lond. 1622. qu. (2) Of Oaths, their Object, form and bond, etc. in three Sermons in Oxon. on Joshua 9 19 Lond. 1627. qu. and others, which I have not yet seen. He concluded his last day in winter time, before the month of Febr. in sixteen hundred thirty and six, year 1636 and was buried in the Chancel of his Church at Letley before-mentioned, leaving behind him the character of a good and edifying preacher, a charitable man, and a loving neighbour.  
JAMES PERROT, natural son of Sir John Perrot sometimes L. Deputy of the Kingdom of Ireland, was born in Pembrokshire, became a Gent. Com. of Jesus coll. in 1586, aged 15, left it without a degree, retired to the Inns of Court for a time, and afterwards travelling, returned an accomplished Gentleman, lived on his estate at Haroldston in Pembrokshire, was dubbed a Knight, and elected a Burgess for several Parliaments in the reign of King James 1. in which showing himself a frequent and bold, if not a passionate speaker, especially in that dissolved 6. January 19 Jac. 1. Dom. 1621. and therefore numbered among the ill tempered spirits therein (as the King usually called them) he was not imprisoned in London or Southwark as some of them were, but was sent with Sir Dudley Digges and others into Ireland for their punishment, joined in commission with certain persons under the Great Seal of England for the inquiry after certain matters concerning his Majesty's service, as well in the government Ecclesiastical and Civil, as in point of revenue and otherwise, within that Kingdom. He hath written,  
The first part of the consideration of humane conditions, wherein is contained the moral consideration of a man's self: as what, who, and what manner of man he is. Oxon. 1600. qu. Dedic. to Tho. Lord Buckhurst Chancellor of the Univer. of Oxon, Whether any other parts followed, I know not.  
Meditations and Prayers on the Lord's Prayer and Ten Commandments.— Printed 1630. in tw. besides other things which I have not yet seen. He ended his days at Haroldston before mentioned on the fourth day of Feb. in sixteen hundred thirty and six, 
1636-37.  and was buried in the parish Church of S. Mary in the Town and County of Haverford-west, to which place Haroldstone adjoins. This Sir James Perrot intermarried with Mary Daughter of Rob. Ashfield of the parish of Chesham in Bucks Esq but died without issue by her.  
CHARLES' FITZGEFFRY, or Fitz-Geoffry Son of Alex. Fitz-Geoffry) was born of a gentile family in the County of Cornwall, became a Commoner of Broadgates' hall in 1592. aged 17, took the degrees in Arts, entered into the Theological function, and at length became Rector of S. Dominick in his own Country, where he was esteemed a grave and learned Divine, as before he was, while resident in the University, an excellent Latin Poet. His works are,  
The life and death of Sir Francis Drake.— Which being written in lofty verse, when he was Bachelaur of Arts, he was by those of his time called The high towering Falcon.  
Affaniae sive Epigrammata lib. 3.  
Cenotaphia lib. 1.  
Oxon. 1601. in oct.  
Divers Sermons, as (1) Deaths Sermon unto the living; delivered at the funerals of Philippe late Wife of Sir Anth. Rous of Halton in Cornwall, on Eccles. 7. 2. Lond. 1620. qu. dedicated to Jo. Pym Esq (2) Elisha his lamentation, etc. Sermon at the funeral of Sir Ant. Rous late of Halton in Cornwall Knight, on 2 Kings 2. 12. Lond. 1622. qu. (3) The curse of Corn-horders; with a blessing of seasonable selling, in three Sermons, on Prov. 11. 26. Lond. 1631. qu. (4) The blessed birth day celebrated in some religious meditations on the Angel's anthem, Luke 2. 14. Oxon. 1634. and 36. qu. second edition. To which are added Holy Transportations in contemplating some of the most observable adjuncts about our Saviour's nativity. (5) Compassion towards captives, chiefly towards our brethren and countrymen, who are in miserable bondage in Barbary: urged and published in three Sermons, on Heb. 13. 3. at Plymouth in Octob. 1636. Oxon. 1637. oct. He hath also made A collection of choice Flowers and Descriptions, as well out of his, as the works of several others, the most renowned Poets of our Nation: collected about the beginning of the reign of K. James 1. but this, though I have been many years in seeking after, yet, I cannot get a sight of, it. He died in the Parsonage house at S. Dominick before mentioned, and was buried under the common table in the Chancel of the Church at that place, on the 22 Febr. in sixteen hundred thirty and six. 
1656-57.  In which Church, though there be no memory by writing remaining of him, yet others have celebrated it in their respective works. Rob. Chamberlain his sometimes acquaintance hath bestowed an Epitaph upon him in his 
a Printed at Lond. 1638. in tw.  Epigrams and Epitaphs, printed with his Nocturnal Lucubrations. John Dunbar also a Scot, who was known to, hath an Epigram 
b In cent. 2▪ Epigram. n●. 16.  on, him, his worth and learning. And among others also must not be forgotten his familiar friend Robert Hayman, who in his Quodlibets and Epigrams doth style 
c In lib▪ 〈◊〉 Epigram p 28. etc.  him learned and witty, and a most excellent Poet, but whereas he styles him Bach. of Diu. I cannot find it so mentioned in the public registers, and therefore, I presume, if he was so, that degree was conferred upon him elsewhere.  
THOMAS RISDON, a painful and industrious Antiquary, was born of, and descended from, an ancient and gentile Family of his name living at Winscot in Devonshire, received his Academical education either in Exeter coll. or Broadgates' hall about the latter end of the Reign of Q. Elizabeth, but leaving the University without a degree he retired to his Patrimony, where prosecuting his natural Genie to the study of History and Antiquities, especially in those of his own Country, did at length with great labour and travel draw up,  
A Survey, or a chronographical description of Devonshire— 'Tis not yet printed, only contained in a folio Manuscript in more than two choir of paper. I have been informed that several copies of it are dispersed among the Gentry of that County, and also that one Westcote a Gent. thereof, many years since deceased, hath written another survey, or at least had a hand in that composed by Tho. Risdon, 
Clar. 1636.  who died in sixteen hundred thirty and six, or in the year after. Besides this Tho. Risdon, I find another of both his names, who was double Reader of the Inner Temple, 20. Elizab. and had long after his death published by a certain person, His reading on the Statute of 8. Hen. 6. cap. 9 of forcible entry. Lond. 1648. qu. With which were then published a certain Reading of Sir Jam. Dyer, as I have told you under the year 1581. and the Reading upon the Stat. of 27. Hen. 8. cap. 10. concerning Jointures, by Sir Joh. Brograve of Greys' Inn, sometimes his Majesties Attorney of the Duchy of Lancaster.  
ANTHONY FALCONER, a Rutlandshire man born, was sent from the Free School at Vppingham, or Okeham, in that County (both founded by Rob. Johnson Archd. of Leic.) to Wadham coll. in 1616. aged 16. whence, after he had taken a degree, he was translated to that of Jesus, and then had the Magisterial degree conferred upon him. Afterwards I find him Chaplain to Sir Lew. Watson of Northamptonshire Knight and Baronet, Parson of Saltry Allsaints alias Moygne in Huntingdonshire, and author of,  
Several Sermons, as, (1) Comfort to the afflicted, preached at Paul's Cross, on Job 19 21. Lond. 1626. qu. (2) Nicodemus for Christ, or the religious Moot of an honest Lawyer, etc. an Assize Serm. on John 7. 51. Lond. 1630. qu. (3) The Pedigree of Peace, etc. an Assize Serm. on Levit. 24. 11. Lond. 1630. qu. (4) The Widows petition, etc. an Assize Serm. 
Clar. 1636.  at Northampton, on Luke 18. 3. Oxon. 1635. qu. Another of his Sermons was also printed in 1634. but that I have not yet seen, nor do I know any thing material of him besides.  
RICHARD BRETT, Son of Rob. Brett of Whitstanton in Somersetshire, was born of gentile Parents at London, as the Public Matricula 
d Reg. Matric. P. p. 555.  of the University saith, entered a Commoner of Hart hall in Lent-Term, an. 1582. took one degree in Arts, and then was elected Fellow of Lincoln coll. where, by the benefit of a good Tutor, and by unwearied industry, he became eminent in the tongues, divinity and other learning. In 1595. or thereabouts, he was, made Rector of Quainton near to Aylesbury in Buckinghamshire, was admitted Bac. of Diu. in 1597, appointed one of the Translators of the Bible into English by King Jam. 1. in 1604, proceeded in Divinity the year after, and at length was made one of the first Fellows of Chelsey college, founded by Dr. Math. Sutliff, about 1616. He was a person famous in his time for learning as well as piety, skilled and versed to a criticism in the Latin, Greek, Hebrew, Chaldaick, Arabic, and Aethhiopic tongues. He was a most vigilant Pastor, a diligent Preacher of God's word, a liberal Benefactor to the poor, a faithful Friend, and a good Neighbour. What his writings are I know not, his translations I am sure from Greek into Latin are these. (1) Vitae Sanctorum Evangelist. Johannis & Lucae a Symeone Metaphraste concinnatae. Oxon. 1597. oct. (2) Agatharchidis & Memnonis Historicorum quae supersunt omnia. Oxon. 1597. oct. He also published, Iconum Sacrarum decas, in quâ é subjectis Typis compluscula sanae doctrinae capita eruuntur. Oxon. 1603. qu. He yielded to nature on the 15. year 1637 of Apr. in sixteen hundred thirty and seven, aged 70. and was buried in the Chancel of his Church at Quainton beforementioned. Over his grave was soon after a fair monument set up in the wall by his Widow, with the Effigies of the Doctor, his said Widow, and four Children, all kneeling, with a Lat. and English epitaph underneath. The Latin epitaph is too large to obtain a place here, and the English (contained in four verses) being trite and bald, I shall now pass by. This learned Doctor left behind him four Daughters, begotten on the body of his Wife Alice, Daughter of Rich. Brown sometimes Mayor of the City of Oxon, viz. (1) Elizab. who was married to Will. Spark Rector of Bletchley, whom I have remembered among these writers, under the year 1630. (2) Anne the Wife of Hump. Chambers another Divine. (3) Margaret the Wife of Dr. Calibute Downing: which two last, (Chambers and Downing) shall be remembered in their respective places as writers, and the fourth named Mary, to Tho. Goodwin of Epwell in Oxfordsh.  
BENJAMIN JOHNSON, a Poet as soon as he was born, afterwards the Father of our Poetry, and most admirably well versed in classical authors, and therefore beloved of Camden, Selden, Hoskins, Martin, etc. made his first entry on the stage of this vain World within the City of Westminster, (being the Son of a grave Minister,) educated in the College School there, while Camden was Master, which was the reason why Ben did afterwards 
e In his Epigrams, nu. 14.  acknowledge, that all that he had in Arts and all that he knew he owned to him. Thence his silly Mother, who had married to her second Husband a Bricklayer, took him home, and made him, as 'tis said, work at her Husband's trade. At length being pitied by some generous Gentlemen, Camden got him a better employment, which was to attend or accompany a Son of Sir Walt. Raliegh in his adventures, whereby gaining experience, made his company acceptable among many. After their return they parted, I think not in cold blood, and thereupon Ben went to Cambridge, and was, as 'tis said, statutably elected into St. John's coll. but what continuance he made there, I find not. Sure 'tis, that his Genie being mostly Poetical, he did afterwards receded to a Nursery or obscure Playhouse called The Green Curtain, about Shoreditch or Clerkenwell, but his first action and writing there, were both ill. At length improving his fancy much by keeping Scholastical company, he betook himself again to write plays, which he did so admirably well, that he was esteemed paramount in the dramatic part of Poetry, and to teach the stage an exact conformity to the Laws of Comedians. Whereupon Sir Jo. Suckling bringing 
f In his Fragmenta aurea, or Poems. Lond. 1648. p. 7.  him into the Session of Poets, Ben broke silence, spoke to the Poets, and 
Bid them remember how he had purged the Stage  
Of Errors that had lasted many an age.   
His own proper industry and addition to books, especially to ancient Poets and Classical authors, made him a person of curious learning and judgement, and of singular excellence in the art of Poetry. Which, with his accurate judgement and performance, known only to those few, who are truly able to judge of his works, have gained from the most eminent Scholars of his time (particularly from the learned Selden) an increasing admiration. Dr. Rich. Corbet of Ch. Ch. and other Poets of this University, did in reverence to his parts, invite him to Oxon, where continuing for some time in Ch. Ch. in writing and composing Plays, he was, as a Member thereof, actually created M. of A. in 1619. and therefore upon that account I put him among the Oxford writers, for at Cambridge his stay was but short, and whether he took a degree in that University, I cannot yet learn of any. His works are these.  
Every Man in his humour, a Comedy.— Acted 1598.  
Every Man out of his humour, Com.— Act. 1599  
Cynthia's Revels, Com.— Act. 1600.  
Poetaster, or his arraignment, Com.— 1601.  
Sejanus his Fall, a Tragedy— Act. 1602.  
Volpone, or the Fox, Com.— 1609.  
Alchemist, Com.— 1610.  
Catiline his Conspiracy, Trag.— 1611.  
Epigrams— in number 134.  
Epigrams called the Forest— in number 15.  
Part of the King's entertainment in passing to his Coronation— in prose and verse.  
A panegyre on the happy entrance of K. James to his first high Session of Parliament, 19 March 1603.— A Poem.  
A particular entertainment of the Queen and Prince at Apethorp, at the house of the Lord Spencer, 25. June 1603.— A Poem.  
Private entertainment of the K. and Q. on May day in the morn. at Sir Will. Cornwallis his house at Highgate 1604— In verse and prose.  
Entertainment of the two Kings of Great Britain and Denmark at Theobalds' 24. Jul. 1606.— In Lat. and Engl. verse.  
Entertainment of K. James and Q. Anne at Theobalds', when the house was delivered up with the possession, to the Queen by the Earl of Salisbury, 22. May 1607.— Written in verse.  
Twelve Masks at Court.  
Barthelmew-Fair, Com.— Acted 1614  
Devil is an Ass, Com.— 1616.  
Staple of News, Com.— 1625.  
Magnetic Lady, or humours reconciled, Com.  
Tale of a Tub, Com.  
Sad Shepherd, or a tale of Robin Hood, Trag.  
Masks.  
Underwoods'.— Consisting of divers Poems, entertainments, and of some Odes of Horace translated.  
Mortimer his fall, Trag.— imperfect.  
Horace his Art of Poetry made English.— This last was afterwards printed by itself. Lond. 1640. oct. and with it, (1) Execration against Vulcan. (2) Masque of the Gypsies. (3) Epigrams to several noble personages— about 23. in number. All composed by B. Johnson.  
English Grammar for the benefit of all strangers.  
Discoveries made upon men and matter.  
All which are contained in two vol. in fol. printed 1616. and 1640.  
Tragedy of Thierry K. of France, and his Brother Theodored.  
The New-Inn, or the light heart, Com. Lond. 1631. octav.  
His Motives.— Printed 1622. oct. He also had a hand in a Com. called, The Widow. Lond. 1652. qu. Jo. Fletcher and Th. Middleton were his Assistants. Also in Eastward ho, Com. assisted by Geo. Chapman, etc. and did with Dr. Hacket (afterwards B. of Lichfield) translate into Latin the Lord Bacon's Essays or Counsels Civil and Moral. At length B. Johnson after he had arrived to the sixty third year of his age, marched off from the stage of this vain World on the 16. year 1637 of August in sixteen hundred thirty and seven, and was buried three days after in S. Peter's Church within the City of Westminster, commonly called the Abbey Church, not among the Poets, but at the west end near to the belfry, under the Escoheon of Rob. de Ros, or Roos, with this engraven on a common pavement stone laying over his grave, at eighteen pence charge, given by Jack Young of Great Milton in Oxfordshire, (afterwards a Knight by the favour of K. Ch. 2.) O rare Ben, Johnson. There was a considerable sum of money gathered from among the Wits and Vertuosis of his time for the erection of a monument and a Statue for him, but before they could be done, the Rebellion broke forth and hindered the design; whereupon the money was refunded. I have been informed by a worthy Prelate 
* Dr. G. M. B. of Wint.  several years since deceased, that this Poet Ben had a pension of an 100 l. per an. from the King, a pension also from the City of London, and the like from several of the Nobility, and from some of the Gentry, particularly from Sutton, Founder of the Hospital that now bears his name, which were commonly well paid either out of pure love to him, or out of fear of his railing in verse or prose, or both. When he was in his last sickness, the said Prelate, who was then M. of A. did, among other of his acquaintance, often visit him, and as often heard him repent of his profaning the Scripture in his Plays, and that with horror, etc. Many years after his death did appear to the World another Poet of both his names, who writes himself in his Poems, published 1672. Ben. Johnson Junior, but what relation there was between him and the former I know not.  
ROBERT FLUDD, or de Fluctibus, second, afterwards eldest, Son of Sir Tho. Fludd Knight, sometimes Treasurer of War to Q. Elizabeth in France and the Low Countries, Grandson of Dau. Fludd of Shropshire, was born at Milgate in the Parish of Bearsted in Kent, became Convictor of S. John's coll. in 1591. aged 17. took the degrees in Arts, studied Physic, traveled into France, Spain, Italy and Germany for almost six years. In most of which Countries he became acquainted with several of the Nobility of them, some of whom he taught, and for their use made the first ruder draughts of several of his pieces now extant. After his return, he, as a Member of Ch. Ch. proceeded in the Faculty of Physic, an. 1605. About which time he practised in London, and became Fellow of the Coll. of Physicians there. He was esteemed by many Scholars a most noted Philosopher, an eminent Physician and one strangely profound in obscure matters. He was a zealous Brother of the Order of Rosa-Crucians, and did so much dote upon the wonders of Chemistry, that he would refer all Mysteries and Miracles, even of Religion, unto it, and to that end fetch the pedigree of it from God himself in his holy word. Nay he did so much profane and abuse the word by his ridiculous and senseless appllcations and interpretations, in which none hath exceeded more (even to the height of blasphemy) than he, that the learned Gassendus could not otherwise but chastise him for it, as others since have done. His books which are mostly in Latin are many and mystical: and as he wrote by clouding his high matter with dark language, which is accounted by some no better than canting, or the phrase of a Mountebank; so he spoke to his Patients, amusing them with I know not what, till by his elevated expressions he operated into them a faith-natural, which consequently contributed to the well working of Physic. They are looked upon as slight things among the English, notwithstanding by some valued, particularly by Selden, who had the author of them in high esteem. The Foreigners prize and behold them as rarities, not that they are more judicious than the English, but more inquisitive in such difficulties, which hath been the reason why some of them have been printed more than once, the titles of which, and the rest, are as follow.  
Apologia compendiaria, fraternitatem de Rosâ cruce suspicionis & infamiae, maculis aspersam, abluens & abstergens. Leydae 1616. oct.  
Tractatus Theologo-Philosophicus de vitâ, morte, & resurrectione, lib. 3. Openheim. 1617. qu. Dedic. to the Brethren of the Rosie-Cross, and published under the name of Rudolfi Otreb, that is anagrammatically Roberti Flood.  
Vtriusque cosmi majoris scil. & minoris Metaphysica, Physica, & Technica historia. in duos tomos secundum cosmi differentiam divisa. Tomus primus de macrocosmi historiâ in duos tractatus divisus, prior tract. impr. Openh. 1617. fol.  
Tractatus secundus de naturae simiâ, seu Technica macrocosmi historia in parts xi. divisa. Openheim. 1618. fol. & Francof. 1624. fol.  
Tomus sec. de supernaturali, naturali, praeternaturali & contr anaturali microcosmi historiâ, in tract. tres distributa.— Openheim. 1619. fol. This is the first sect. of the first treatise.  
Tomi sec. tractatûs primi sect. secunda, de Technicâ microcosmi historiâ in portiones 7. divisa. Printed with the very next book going before.  
Tomi secundi tract. secundus, de praeternaturali utriusque mundi historiâ; in sect. tres divisa. Francof. 1621. fol. This is but the first section of the three there mentioned: And the whole third treatise of this second tome is wanting, which perhaps never came out.  
Veritatis proscenium, in quo Aulaeum erroris tragium dimovetur, Siparium ignorantiae scenicum complicatur, ipsaque veritas à suo ministro in publicum producitur; seu demonstratio quedam Analytica, in quâ cuilibet comparationis particulae, in appendice quadam, à Johanne Keplero, nuper in fine harmoniae suae mundanae edita, factae inter harmoniam suam mundanum & illam Roberti Fludd, ipsissimis veritatis argumentis respondetur. Francof. 1621. fol.  
Johan, Kepleri Mathematice, pro suo opere harmonices mundi apologia: adversus demonstrationtem analyticum Cl. V. D. Roberti de Fluctibus Medici Oxoniensis. In qua ille se dicit respondere ad appendicem dicti operis. Francof. 1622. fol.  
Monochordum mundi Symphoniacum, seu replicatio etc. viri clariss. & in Mathesi peritiss. Joh. Kepleri, adversus demonstrationem suam analyticam nuperrime editam; in qua Robertus validioribus Johannis objectionibus, harmoniae suae legi repuguantibus, comiter respondere aggreditur. Francof. 1622. fol.  
Anatomiae amphitheatrum Effigie triplici, more & conditione varia, designatum. Francof. 1623. fol.  
Philosophia sacra & verè Christiana, seu meteorologia cosmica. Francof. 1626. fol. with the author's picture before it.  
Sophiae cum Moriâ certamen, in quo, lapis Lydius à falso structore, Frat. Marino Marsenno, monacho, reprobatus, celeberrima voluminis sui Babylonici (in Genesin) figmenta accurat● examinat. Franc. 1629. fol.  
Summum bonorum quod est verum 

Magiae  
Cabalae  
Alchymiae  
Fratrum Roseaecruicis  
Verorum 

verae 

subjectum.        
In dictarum scientiarum laudem, in insignis calumniatoris Fr. Mar. Marsenni dedecus publicatum, per Joachim. Frizium. Anno 1629. fol.— Although this piece goes under another name, yet not only Gassendas gives 
a In Opusc. Philosoph. p. 214. being the second of the Preface to his Examen Philosophia Rob. Fluddi Medici etc.  many reasons to show it to be of our author's composition (Fludd) but also Franc. Lanovius shows 
b Judicium 〈◊〉 Rob. Fluddo, in the 268. pag of the said Opuscula. which Judicium is placed at the close of Gassindu ' s answer to R. Fludd.  others to the same purpose, and Marsennus himself, against whom it is directed, was of the like opinion. Gassendus, upon Marsennus his desiring him to give his judgement of Fludd's two books wrote against him, drew up an answer divided into three parts, (contained in the Opuscula Philosophica above named.) The first of which sifts the principles of the whole System of his whimsical Philosophy, as they lie scattered throughout his works. The second is against Sophiae cum moria certamen, and the third answers this Summum bonum as his. Our author indeed sullied these two treatises by mixing a great deal of ill language in them, but Gassendus complains 
c In Opusculis, ut supra, p. 215.  that Marsennus himself had given him a too broad example in this kind, for some of those epithets which he thought fit to bestow on him, are no better than Cacomagus, Heretico-magus, faetidae & horridae magiae Doctor & Propagator. And among other exasperating expressions he threatened him with noless than damnation itself, which would in a short time seize him.  
Medicina Catholica, seu Mysterium artis medicandi sacrarium; in tomos divisum duos. In quibus Metaphysica & Physica tam sanitatis tuendae, quam morborum propulsandorum ratio pertractatur. Francof. 1629. fol. Tract. 1.  
Integrum morborum mysterium: sive Medicinae Catholicae tomi primi tractatus secundus, in sectiones distributus duas. Francof. 1631. fol. with his picture before, and verses under, it.  
〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Medicorum 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉: In quo, quasi speculo politissimo morbi presents more demonstrativo clarissimè indicantur, & futuri ratione prognosticâ apertè cernuntur, atque prospiciuntur. Sive tomi primi, tractatus secundi, sect. secunda, de morborum signis. Francof. 1631. fol. The whole second tome mentioned above in the title to Medicina Catholica, is here wanting, if it was ever published.  
Pulsus, seu nova & arcana pulsuum historia, è sacro fonte radicaliter extracta, necnon Medicorum Ethnicorum dictis & authoritate comprobata. Hoc est, portionis tertiae pars tertia de pulsuum scientia. Printed with the Catholicon Medicorum, etc. beforementioned.  
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, etc. 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 beforementioned, 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 Abbey 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 
d In Hist. & Antiq. Uniu. Oxon. lib. 2. p. 〈…〉 a. , 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. Nou. 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 Mathematic Lectures by accident, or rather to save the sconce of a Groat, if he had been absent, he was so extremely 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, though he wrote and published many useful things, yet he suffered 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, etc. Lond. 1674. etc. oct.  
Several necessary Tables pertaining to Navigation.  
A triangular Canon Logorithmical; or a table of artificial Sins and Tangents, etc.  
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 author's death, came into the hands of Edward Lord Conway.  
Almanac 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, etc. 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 
* 〈◊〉 at Lond. 1645. p. 184.  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 Almanac 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, etc. Lond. 1635. in a large thick oct. written by John Wells of Hampshire Esq a Rom. Catholic. He also intended other matters, but was untimely snatched away to the great loss of the Mathematical Faculty, 
1637 ●8.  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, showing 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, 
1637 ●8.  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 an years time he was got into his Greek Grammar, for he was one of a prodigious memory, and of wonderful strength of body. After he had spent one year at Westminster School, he was sped a Child in Wykehams' coll. near Winchester, where making very great proficiency in the School there, he was elected Prob. Fellow of New coll. an. 1584. and two years after was admitted Verus Socius. In Feb. 1591. he had the degree of M. of A. conferred upon him, and being Terrae filius in the Act following, he was so bitterly satirical, that he was not only denied the completion of that degree by being admitted ad regendum, but was expelled the University. Afterwards being put to his shifts, he went into Somersetshire, where he taught a School for about an year or more at Ilchester, and compiled a Greek Lexicon as far as the Letter M. About that time having married a rich Fortune in those parts, named Benedicta, the Widow of one Bourne, but Daughter of Rob. Moyle of Buckwell in Kent, he entered himself a Student in the Middle Temple, where, after he had spent some years, and performed certain exercise, he was called to the Bar. In 1614 he sat as a Burgess in Parliament then in being, wherein, in speaking his mind, he made a desperate allusion to the Sicilian Vesper, for which being committed Prisoner to the Tower of London 7. June, was examined whether he well understood the consequence of that Vesper to which he alluded. Whereupon making answer that he had a hint thereof, and afterwards a general information, from Dr. Lionel Sharp of Cambridge, that Doctor therefore, with Sir Charles Cornwallis, (Son of Sir Tho. Cornwallis of Brome in Suffolk,) were imprisoned 
a Camden in Annal. R. Jac. 1. sub an▪ 1614 MS.  in the Tower, on the 13. of the same month. At the same time that our author Hoskyns was committed to custody, were others also imprisoned with him for behaving themselves turbulent in the H. of Commons, as Walt. Chute a Kentish man who had lately been put out of his place of Carver to the King, one Wentworth (Tho. Wentworth mentioned under the year 1627.) esteemed 
b See in Sir Hen. Wotton's Letters in Reliq. Wottonianae, printed 1672. p. 432. etc.  by some then living, a silly and simple creature, and a third named Christopher Nevil, second Son to the Lord Abergavenny, who was newly come from School and made the House sport with his boyish speeches, wherein were these words reiterated O tempora! O mores! After our author Hoskyns had continued a Prisoner for a full year, he, with Sharp and Cornwallis were 
c Ib. in Annal. Camd. sub. an. 1615.  released, and ever after were held in great value by the Commons. In the 17. of Jac. 1. he was elected Lent-Reader of the Middle-Temple, and in the 21. of the said King, made a Sergeant at Law, and soon after a Judge or Justice itinerant for Wales, and one of the Council of the Marches thereof. He was the most ingenious and admired Poet of his time, and therefore much courted by the ingenious men then living. There were few, or none, that published books of Poetry, but did celebrate his memory in them, especially his contemporary in New coll. named Joh. Owen the Epigrammatist, and fewer but did lay them at his feet for approbation before they went to the Press. 'Twas he that polished Ben. Johnson the Poet and made him speak clean, whereupon he ever after called our author Father Hoskyns, and 'twas he that viewed and reviewed the History of the World, written by Sir W. Raleigh, before it went to the Press; with which person he had several years before (especially during their time of imprisonment in the Tower) been intimate. He was also much respected and beloved by Camden, Selden, Sam. Daniel, Dr. Joh. Donne Dean of Paul's, Rich. Martin Recorder of London, Sir H. Wotton, and Sir Benj. Rudyerd: with the last of whom it was once his fortune, upon a quarrel that fell out, to fight a duel, and to hurt him in the knee, but were afterwards soon reconciled. He was a person always pleasant and facete in company, which made him much desired by ingenious men. He was an excellent Master of the Latin and Greek tongue, well read in Divinity, but in the Common Law, which was his profession, not so well. He hath written.  
Lexicon Graecum. MS. imperfect.  
Epigrams in Engl. and Lat.— Some of which are printed in several books, and among them I suppose are his verses on a F— t let in the Parliament house, which are printed in some of the books of Drollery. He had a book of Poems neatly written, bigger than those of Dr. Donne, which were lent by his Son Benedict to a certain person in 1653. but could never retrieve it.  
Epitaphs in Lat. and English.  
The Art of Memory.— He was so excellent in it, whether artificial or natural, that no man ever went beyond him in his time. When he was a Schoolboy at Winchester, and had an exercise of verses to make, he neglected, through idleness, the making of them. So that fearing a whipping, he read the exercise of one of his Schoolfellows over his shoulder, just as he had finished it. Whereupon the Master entering, and the exercise called upon him first, he drew up to, and told, him he had lost it, yet nevertheless he would repeat it without book if that would serve his turn; so that the Master being contented, he repeated 16 or 20 verses that he had before read of the other boys making, and so was excused. At length the other boy being called, and he showing the verses that Hoskyns had repeated, he was esteemed the thief that had stole them away from Hoskyns, and thereupon was sorely whipped for so doing.  
Method of the Law reduced under the heads of Rights, Wrongs, Remedies. All which books, with others of various subjects, are in MS. and for the most part kept in the hands of his Grandson Sir Joh. Hoskyns Knight and Baronet. He departed this life in his house at Morehampton in Herefordshire, 27. Aug. in sixteen hundred thirty and eight, year 1638 aged 72. and was buried on the south side of the Choir of Dower Abbey in the said County. Over his grave was erected soon after an Altar-monument with 24 verses engraven thereon, made by Thomas Bonham of Essex Esq The four first run thus. 
Hoc tegitur tumulo totus quem non tegit orbis,  
Hoskinus humani prodigium ingenii.  
Vsque adeo excoluit duo pugnacissima rerum  
Et qua non subeant nomina pectus idem.  
Pieridumque legumque potens, etc.   
RICHARD JAMES, was born at Newport in the Isle of Wight, admitted Scholar of C. C. coll. from that of Exeter, 23. Sept. 1608. aged 16. or thereabouts, and on the 30. of Sept. 1615. Probationer-Fellow. About that time, he being involved in the studies of Theology, he entered into Orders, preached often and at length was Bacurius of that Faculty. This person, though humorous, was of a far better judgement than his Uncle Thom. James mentioned under the year 1629. and had he lived to his age, would have surpassed him in published books. He was a great traveller also, was in Rushia in 1619. and esteemed to be a person well versed in most parts of learning. He was noted by all those that knew him to be a very good Grecian, Poet, an excellent Critic, Antiquary, Divine, and admirably well skilled in the Saxon and Gothick languages. But as for his Preaching, it was not, except by the graver sort, approved by any in the University. For of three Sermons delivered to the Academians, one of which, concerning the Observation of Lent, was without a Text according to the most ancient manner; another against the Text, and a third beside it, showing himself thereby a humorous person. The famous Selden was much beholding to him for the drudgery he did for him, when he composed his Marmora Arundeliana, acknowledging him in his Preface to that book, to be Vir multijugae studiique indefatigabilis. Sir Rob. Cotton also his great Patron, and his Son Sir Thomas, could not but acknowledge his like drudgery in the ordering, disposing, and settling their incomparable Library; with the first of whom (no great friend to the Prerogative) being intimate and familiar, was confined to close keeping by the Lords, when Sir Robert was imprisoned for certain matters uttered in Parliament, an. 1629. Nothing was wanting to our author, and his studies, but a Sinecure or a Prebendship; either of which, if conferred upon him, Hercules his labours would have seemed a trifle. His works are these.  
Several Lat. Sermons, as, (1) Anti-Possevinus, sive concio habita ad clerum 〈◊〉 Acad. Oxon, an. 1625. in 2 Tim. 4. 13. Oxon. 1625. qu. (2) Conc. habita ad clerum Oxon, de Ecclesia, in Matth. 16. 18. Oxon. 1633. qu. etc.  
Several Engl. Sermons, as, (1) Serm. concerning the Eucharist, delivered on Easter day in Oxon. on Matth. 26. ver. 26, 27, 28. Lond. 1629. qu. (2) History of Preaching, or concerning the Apostles preaching and ours, on 1 Cor. 9 16. Lond. 1630. qu. (3) Serm. concerning the observation of Lent-fast. Lond. 1630. qu. To which, though there be no Text, yet it is grounded on Luke 4. 2. (4) Serm, concerning the times of receiving the Sacrament, and of mutual forgiveness, delivered in C. C. C. at the election of a Precedent, on 1 Cor. 11: 25. Lond. 1632. ●qu. (5) Apologetical Essay for the righteousness of miserable unhappy People, preached at S. Mary's in Oxon, on Psal. 37. 25. Lond. 1632. qu.  
Poemata quaedam in mort. clariss. viri Roberti Cottoni & Thomae Alleni. Oxon. 1633. qu. With which Poems he published Sir Thom. More's Epistle, written from Abendon in Berks, an. 1519. to the Uniu. of Oxon, for the embracing of the Greek tongue, which had been for many years neglected among the Members thereof. He also translated into English, Octavius. Ox. 1636. in tw. written by Minutius Felix. All the aforementioned works (except the translation) bound in one vol. the author gave to Bodlies' Library, with a copy of verses of his composition written in a spare leaf before the first of them, beginning thus, 
Dear God by whom in dark Womb's shade  
I am to fear and wonder made, etc.   
The said copy of verses was made by him when he was confined to close custody by the Lords. He died of a Quartan Fever in the house of Sir Tho. Cotton Bt. near to Westminster hall, by too much studying, (as 'twas supposed,) and wracking his body with hardship, in the beginning of Decemb. year 1638 in sixteen hundred thirty and eight, and was buried on the seventh day of the same month in S. Margaret's Church within the said City. He left behind him several MSS. of his own composition, and others collected by him from various authors, to the number of 45. or thereabouts, all written with his own hand, which coming after his death into the hands of his entire Friend and Colleague Mr. Tho. Greaves, came after his death to the Bodleian Library, where they now are. The MSS. of his composition are these. (1) Decanonizatio Thomae Cantuariensis & suorum. fol. This book, containing 760. pages, hath this beginning, Viam regiam mihi patefacit ad decanonizationem ficti & fucati Martyris, etc. and the beginning of the Epist. to the Reader is this, Amice lector rogatus sum saepius, etc. (2) Comment. in Evangelia S. Johannis. in two parts in qu. The beginning is, Postmodo ad▪ textum sacrae historiae deveniam, ubi prius, etc. Both parts contain about 12 sheets. (3) Notae in aliquot loca Bibliae, in 3 sh. in qu. The beginning is Videte sub ficu Paraphrastes sub umbrosa ficu, etc. (4) Antiquitates Insulae Victae, in 17 pages in qu. The beginning is Angli Saxones Marciarum, etc. and of the Epistle to the Reader, Vtrum moriar priusque hoc opus perficium deus novit, etc. 'Tis only a specimen or a foundation for a greater work to build on. (5) Epistolae ad amicos suos doctos. The beginning of the first Ep. which was written to Dr. Seb. Benefeild of C. C. coll. is this, Sancte Deus, etc. 'Tis a thick quarto, and containeth Epistles mostly written to C. C. coll. men, Epitaphs and some English copies of verses. (6) Epigrams in Lat. and Engl. with other Poems. (7) Reason's concerning the attempts on the lives of great personages, etc. These reasons, which are six or more, have this beginning, Sir, if you please to learn my mind concerning the attempts on the lives of great personages, etc. written in 2 sh. in fol. (8) Two Sermons. The first on James 5. 14. the other on John 12. 32. Both written in fol. papers. (9) Iter Lancastrense. This Itinerary, which was written in English verse 1636. hath this beginning, High Holt of Wood, and 'tis contained in two sheets and an half. (10) Glossarium Saxonicum-Anglicum. 'Tis a long pocket-book. (11) Glos. Sax. Angl. another part, in oct. (12) A Rushian Dictionary, with the English to it. (13) Observations made in his travels through some parts of Wales, Scotland, on Shetland, Greenland, etc. In 4 sheets in qu. (14) Observations made on the Country, with the manners and customs, of Rushia, or Rusland, an. 1619. in oct. 'Twas intended to be transcribed, and to have other matters added to it, but what hindered the design I cannot tell. Besides these 14 books I have another of Epigrams written mostly in Latin, and partly in Greek, in oct. dedicated to his Tutor Dr. Sebast. Benefeild. As for his collections, which are in four and twenty quartoes, and in about 7 thin folios (all under his own hand) are contained in them for the most part notes from ancient MSS. (sometimes from printed authors) relating to Hist. and Antiq. and any thing that could be found against S. Thomas of Canterbury, the greatness and corruption of Popes, Cardinals, Bishops, Abbats, Priors, Monks, Friars, and the Clergy before the time of Reformation. And when he thought that the matter itself from the authors, whence he made his collections, was not enough sufficient to make them bad, his notes in the margin pointing to those matters, would do it to the purpose, arguing thereby an inveterate hatred he had to the said persons, as indeed he had, being a severe Calvinist, if not worse.  
JOHN KING, second Son of Dr. Joh. King B. of London, whom I have mentioned under the year 1621. was a Yorkshire man born, and at 14 years of age became a Student of Ch. Ch. under the tuition of a good Tutor, an. 1608. Afterwards he proceeded M. of A. was public Orator of the University, Prebendary of the said Church of Christ, in 1624. and the next year D. of D. and Canon of Windsor, and about that time Prebendary of S. Paul's Cath. and Rector of Remenham in Berks. He hath published,  
Oratio panegerica de auspicato Caroli Principis in regnum Hispanicum adventu. Lond. 1623. qu.  
Gratulatio pro Carolo reduce Oxoniensium nomine recitata. Ox. 1623. in one sh. in qu.  
Cenotaphium Jacobi, sive laudatio funebris piae & faelici memoriae Jacobi Magnae Britamniae Regis, etc. Oxon. 1625. qu.  
David's Straight: The afternoons Sermon on Act Sunday, on 2 Sam. 24. 14. Oxon 1625. qu. His elder Brother Hen. King preached the morning's Sermon called David's Enlargement, as I shall tell you when I come to him. The very same title of David's strait, was put to a Sermon on the same subject by one Sam. Bugs Bac. of Diu. sometimes Fellow of Sidney coll. in Cambridge, afterwards a Minister in Coventry: Which Sermon was preached at Paul's Cross 8. July 1621. Dr. King surrendered up his last breath on the second day of January in sixteen hundred thirty and eight, 
1638 ●9.  aged 43. and was buried near to the monument of Rob. King the first Bishop of Oxon, in the Isle joining on the fourth side of the Choir belonging to the Cathedral of Ch. Ch. You may be pleased to read his Epitaph in Hist. & Antiq. Vnivers. Oxon. lib. 2. p. 290. b.  
CHRISTOPH. ANGELUS, was born in Pelepomesus in Greece, thrust out of his Country for Religion sake by the Turks, after they had inflicted on him many torments; came towards England for relief, and arriving at Yarmouth was exhibited to by the B. of Norwich, and some of the Clergy there. Afterwards by the said Bishop's recommendation, he went to Cambridge, where he found relief, and studied in Trin. coll. for near 3 years. About Whitsuntide in 1610. he journied to Oxon, was exhibited to there also, studied in Balliol college, did very good service among the young Scholars in the University that were raw in the Gr. tongue, and continued among them till the time of his death. He hath transmitted to posterity,  
Of the many stripes and torments inflicted on him by the Turks for the Faith which he had in Jesus Christ. Oxon. 1617. in Greek and English.  
Enchiridion de institutis Graecorum. Cambr. 1619. qu. in Greek and Latin. The Greek copy of which, coming into the hands of George Fhelavius a Minister of Dantzig, was by him rendered into Latin, and learnedly noted.— Francos. 1655. oct. The Latin copy of the said Fhelavius is thus intit. Status & ritus Ecclesiae Graecae.  
An Encomion of the famous Kingdom of Gr. Britian, and the two flourishing Sister. Universities Cambridge and Oxford. Cambr. 1619. qu.  
De Apostasiâ Ecclesiae & de homine peccati, Scil. Antichristo, etc. Lond. 1624. Gr. & Lat. qu. and other things, as 'tis probable, which I have not yet seen. He ended his days on the first of February in sixteen hundred thirty and eight, 
1638 ●9.  and was buried the next day within the Precincts of St. Ebbs Church in Oxford, (I think in the Church itself,) leaving behind him the Character of a pure Greccian and an honest and homless man.  
DUDLEY DIGGES, ●elder Brother to Leonard Digges mentioned under the year 1635. was born in Kent, particularly, if I mistake not, in the parish of Berham, wherein Digges Court is situated; was entered a Gentleman Commoner of University coll. in 1598. aged 15, where making great improvement in Academical learning under the tuition of the Master thereof, Dr. George Abbot, (afterwards Archb. of Canterbury) took the degree of Bach. of Arts; which being completed by Determination, he went to the Inns of Court, and afterwards to travel, and about that time received the honour of Knighthood. As for the rest of his actions for some years after, I cannot justly relate. However the chief story of his life, which was honourable and good, may be the rule of ours. His understanding few could equal, his virtues, fewer would. He was a pious man, a careful Father, a loving husband, a fatherly brother, a courteous neighbour, a merciful landlord, a liberal master, a noble friend. After much experience gained by travel, and an exact survey of the Laws and people of foreign Kingdoms, he did enable himself thereby for the service of his Country, but observing too many to justle for place, and cross the public interest, (if not joined with their public gain) hindering the motion of the great body of the Commonwealth, desisted, and was satisfied with the conscience of merit, knowing good men only can deserve honours, though the worse might attain them. His noble soul could not stoop to ambition, or be beholding to that (though the most generous) vice, for an occasion to exercise his virtues. So that out of such apprehensions, his moderate desires confined his thoughts to the innocence of a retired life. But the most knowing of Princes K. James 1. who ever made choice of the most able ministers, judging none more equal to employments, than those that would not unworthily court them, sent him Ambassador to the Emperor of Russia, and in the year 1620. (whether before, or after his Embssie, I know not) he with Sir Maurice Abbot were 
a Camden ut super in Annal; Reg. Jac. 1. MS. sub. an. 1620.  sent into Holland in the month of Nou. to obtain the intercepted Goods of some English men, taken in their coming back from East India. After his return from the said employments, and some years conscionably spent in the service of the State, being unbiased by popular applause, or Court-hopes, he was made Master of the Rolls in the place of Sir Julius Caesar, who dying 12 Apr. Sir Dudley was sworn to that office on the 20. of the said month, an. 1636. This did crown his former actions, and though it would not increase his integrity, yet it made him more perspicuous, and whom his acquaintance before, now the Kingdom, honoured. If the example of his justice had powerful influence on all magistrates, the people who are governed, would be happy on earth, and the Rulers in heaven with him, who counted it an unworthy thing to be tempted to vice, by the reward of virtue. The things that he wrote and collected were many, but whether he left them perfect at his death, I know not. Those books that go under his name, are these following, all, except the first, published after his death.  
A defence of trade: in a letter to Sir Tho. Smith Knight, Governor of the East India Company. London 1615. qu.  
Discourse concerning the rights and privileges of the Subject, in a conference desired by the Lords, and had by a Committee of both houses, 3 Apr. 1628. Lond. 1642. qu.  
The complete Ambassador; or, two treatises of the intended marriage of Q. Elizabeth, comprised in Letters of negotiation, etc. Lond. 1655. fol. Which book, though it had nothing forged or suppositious therein, yet it was never intended for the Press by the collector thereof.  
Several speeches and discourses in Parliament.— See in Jo. rushworth's Collections, part 1. where you'll find much of him, and his imprisonment, in the year 1626. His death, which the wisest men did reckon among the public calamities of those times, happened on the 18. March, in sixteen hundred thirty and eight. 
1638 ●9.  Soon after his body (which had for some days laid in State) was remitted to the peaceful shades below, in Chilham Church in Kent, in which Town he enjoyed fair inheritances by his marriage with Mary the youngest Daughter and Coheir of Sir Tho. Kemp Knight. There is a fair Monument over his Grave, the inscription of which, is partly remitted into the foregoing discourse, and therefore not necessary of repeating it here, neither of a large inscription in Latin, containing his genealogy from K. Hen. the third, to his time, which he, some years before his death, set up in the said Church.  
JOHN LEYCESTER, was born in Cheshire of Plebeian parents, but originally descended from a gentile family in that County, became a Student in Brasenose coll. 1618. aged 20, took one degree in Arts, and afterwards followed the employment of teaching a School, which, I think, he exercised to his dying day. He hath written,  
Enchiridion, seu fasciculus Adagiorum selectissimorum. Or, a manual of the choicest Adages, etc. Lond. 1623. oct. in Lat. and Engl. besides other things which I have not seen. He also translated from Lat. into Engl. An excellent oration of Dr. Joh. Rainolds, 
Clar. 1638.  etc. Lond. 1638. oct. very useful for all such as affect the studies of Logic and Philosophy, and admire profane learning. See more in John Rainolds under the year 1607.  
JASPER FISHER, a Gentleman's Son, was born in Bedfordshire, entered a Com. of S. M. Magd. hall. in Mich. Term 1607, took the degrees in Arts, became afterwards Divinity or Philosophy reader of Magd. coll. Rector of Wilden in his own Country, about 1631, and at length D. of D. He hath written and published.  
Fuimus Troes Aeneid. 2. The true Trojanes, being a story of the Britain's valour at the Romans first invasion. Lond. 1633. qu. Before which time, it had been once, or more, publicly represented by the Gentlemen-Students of Magd. coll. in Oxon.  
Several Sermons, as (1) Serm. on Malac. 2. 7. Printed 1636. in oct. etc. 
Clar. 1638.  This person who was always esteemed an ingenious man while he lived in Magd. coll. as those that knew him, have divers times informed me, lived several years after this, (1633.) but when he died, or what other things he hath published, I cannot learn.  
JAMES ROWLANDSON, a Westmoreland man born, became a Student in Queen's coll. in the beginning of the year 1596, aged 19 years, afterwards a poor serving child, than a Tarbarder, and in 1605. Master of Arts and Fellow. In 1614 he was admitted to the reading of the Sentences, being then noted to be a subtle Disputant and an edifying preacher. About which time being made Chaplain to Dr. Bilson Bishop of Winchester, he became Rector of East-Tysted in Hampshire, Master of the Hospital of S. Mary Magd. near Winchester, Chaplain to K. Ch. 1. and in the year 1636. Doctor of Divinity. In 1638. he was made Canon of Windsor, in the place of Dr. Charles Sunninbank deceased, and would have risen higher in the Church, had he not been soon after cut off by death. He hath published,  
Several Sermons, as (1) God's blessing in blasting, and his mercy in mildew, two Sermons suitable to these times of dearth, on Haggai 2. 17. Lond. 1623. qu. (2) Sermon at Bishop Andrews his Consecration of Jesus Chappel near to Southampton. Printed 1627. in qu. This I have not yet seen, nor-others which he, as I conceive, hath published. He paid his last debt to nature on the ninth of May, 
163●.  in sixteen hundred thirty nine, and was buried in the Chapel of S. George at Windsor. In his Canonry John Hales of Eton, the Walking Library, succeeded. But soon after ejected by the restless Presbyterians, without any regard had to his great Piety and learning.  
WILLIAM WHATELY, Son of Tho. Whately by Joyce his Wife, was born at a market Town called Banbury in Oxfordshire, in the month of May 1583, baptised there 26. of the said month, instructed in Gramm●r in those parts, sent to Christ's coll. in Cambridge at 14. years of age, where continuing under the tuition of Mr. Tho. Potman, till he was Bach. of Arts, an. 1601, was taken home for a time by his Father. But his pregnant parts being soon after discovered by understanding men who frequented Banbury, the Father was resolved to make him a Minister, wherefore sending him to S. Edmund's hall in Oxon, in the year following, was incorporated Bach. of Arts, and with the foundation of Logic, Philosophy, and Oratory that he had brought with him from Cambridge, he became a noted Disputant, and a ready Orator. In the year 1604. he took the degree of Master of Arts, as a Member of the said hall, being then esteemed a good Philosopher and a tolerable Mathematician, and soon after entering into holy, Orders, he became Lecturer of Banbury; which place he keeping 4 years, he was made Vicar thereof. He was an excellent Preacher, a person of good parts, well versed in the original Text both Hebrew and Greek; but being a Calvinist and much frequented by precise and busy People there, and in the Neighbourhood, for his too frequent Preaching, laid such a foundation of Faction in that place, that it will never be easily removed. His works are these.  
Divers Sermons, as, (1) The new birth: or, a treatise of regeneration, delivered in several Sermons, Lond. 1618. qu. etc. (2) The Bride-bush, or Wedding Sermon, on Ephes. 5. 23. Lond. 1617. 19 qu. In which Sermon were noted by curious readers, two propositions, as, First, That committing the Sin of Adultery, by either of the married persons, doth dissolve, annihilate, and untie the bond and knot of marriage. Secondly, That the malicious and wilful desertion of either of the married persons doth in like manner dissolve, etc. These, I say, being noted and complained of to the Archb. he was covened before the High Commission to make satisfaction for what he had said and written. But he ingeniously confessing that he could not make any satisfactory answer, he recanted the 4. May 1621. and was forthwith dismissed. (3) Sin no more, on Joh. 5. 14. Lond. 1628. qu. (4) The Oil of Gladness, in several Sermons. Lond. 1637. oct. (5) Poor Man's advocate, in certain Sermons. Lond. 1637. oct. (6) Redemption of time, on Ephes. 5. 16. Lond. 1606. oct. (7) Caveat for the Covetuos, on Luke 12. 15. Lond. 1609. oct. (8) Samuel's Funeral, Serm. at the Fun. of Sir Anth. Cope Kt. and Bt. Lond. 1618. 19 qu. Besides other Sermons printed in 1614 16. 19 1623. 24. 28. 1630. etc.  
A pithy, short, and methodical way of opening of the Ten Commandments, Lond. 1622. oct.  
Treatise of the cumbers and troubles of Marriage. Lond. 1624. qu.  
Prototypes, or Examples out of the book of Genesis, applied to our information and reformation. Lond. 1640. fol. Published by the author's great admirers Edward Liegh Esq and Hen. Scudder Minister of Colingbourne Ducis in Wiltshire. Before which book is his character, written by the said Scudder a Presbyterian. This Will. Whately surrendered up his pious Soul to God on the tenth day of May in sixteen hundred thirty and nine, year 1639 and was buried in the yard belonging to the Church at Banbury. Over his grave is a large raised monument of stone, and thereon a Lat. and Engl. Epitaph in verse, a Lat. and Engl. Anagram, and a double Chronogram. All which shall be now for brevity sake omitted, except part of the Engl. Epitaph, running thus, 
Whatsoe'ere thou'lt say who passest by,  
Why? here's enshrined Celestial dust,  
His bones, whose name and fame can't die  
These Stones as Feoffees weep in trust.  
It's William Wheatly that here lies,  
Who swum to's Tomb in's People's eyes,  
Death was his Crown, etc.   
EDWARD CHETWYND, the fourth Son of Jo. Chetwynd Esabque; was born of an ancient and gentile Family living at Ingestrie near to, and in the County of, Stafford, about the year 1577. admitted Sojournour of Exeter coll. in 1592. took the degrees in Arts, holy Orders, and became a frequent Preacher in, and near to, Oxon. In 1606. he was elected by the Mayor and Corporation of Abendon in Berks their Lecturer, being then Bac. of Divinity, and in the year following upon the desire of the Mayor, aldermans, and Common Council of the City of Bristol, he was sent by Dr. Hen. Airay Vicechancellor of the University, and Dr. Jo. Rainolds of C. C. C. to that City; where being kindly received, he was established their Public Lecturer on the 2. June the same year, to preach one Sermon every Sunday in the afternoon in any Church of that City that the Mayor for the time being should appoint, and one Sermon every Holiday, as he should think fit. In 1613. he was sworn Chaplain to Q. Anne, in 1616. he was admitted D. of D. and in the year after, upon the death of Dr. Sim. Robson, he was promoted by K. James 1. to the Deanery of Bristol, to that City's great satisfaction, being elected thereunto 16. June the same year. So that whereas he was a little before presented to the rich Rectory of Sutton-Colfield in Warwickshire, (twice t●e value of his Deanery,) he thereupon gave it up, purposely because he would live among, and so consequently please, the inhabitants of Bristol. In that Rectory succeeded an eminent Scholar named Joh. Burgess M. of A. and Doct. of Physic, whose memory is fresh in those parts among the Godly. What other preferments Chetwynd had besides the Vicarage of Banwell in Somersetsh, and the Vicarage of Barcley in Glouc. (on the houses belonging to which Vicardiges he bestowed above 300 l.) I know not. He hath published,  
Concio ad clerum pro gradu habita Oxoniae, 19 Dec. 1607. in Act. 20. 24. Oxom. 1608. in oct.  
Several English Sermons, as (1) The strait and narrow way to life, in certain Sermons on Luke 13. 23. 24. Lond. 1612. oct. (2) Vow of tears for the loss of Prince Henry. Serm. at Bristol on Sam. 5. 15, 16. Lond. 1613. oct. (3) Serm. on Psal. 51. 10. Lond. 1610. besides others, as 'tis probable, which I have not yet seen. He departed this life on the 13. 
1639:  May in sixteen hundred thirty and nine, and was buried in the Choir of the Cath. Ch. of Bristol, near the Communion Table, and the grave of Helena his sometimes Wife, Daughter of Sir Joh. Harrington the eminent Poet of Kelston in Somersetsh. Kt; which Helena died in Childbed 9 Nou. 1628. aged 39 The Reader may be pleased now to take notice that this Dr. Edward Chetwynd, with John 
† Dr. Joh. Whetcombe Maidennutensium Pastor. He died suddenly in the house of Angel Grey Esabque; of Kingston near Dorchester in Dorsetshire, before the year 1648. aged 60.  Whetcombe, Joh. Standard, etc. Divines and Doctors of Divinity; Sir Sim. Baskervile Knight, and Rob. Vilvaine Doctors of Physic, were the learned persons of Exeter college, which Dr. Joh. Prideaux in an Epistle before a Sermon preached at the consecration of the Chapel in that Coll. an. 1624. did enumerate, as being then living, and ornaments of the said house. See more in Thom. Holland under the year 1611.  
WILLIAM LEIG, a Lancashire man born, was entered a Student in Brasnose coll. an. 1571. and in 73. he was elected Fellow thereof. Afterwards he took the degrees in Arts, entered into the Sacred Function, and became a painful Preacher in the University and parts adjacent. In 1586. or thereabouts, he being promoted to the Rectory of Standish in his own Country, took the degree of Bac. of Diu. and on the 24. of Nou. 1587. he resigned his Fellowship, settled at Standish for altogether, was made Justice of the Peace there, and held in great esteem for his learning and godliness. He hath published,  
Several Sermons, as, (1) Fun. Serm. Job. 14. 14. printed 1602. in oct. (2) The first step towards Heaven; or Anna the Prophetess her holy haunt to the Temple of God, preached in Standish Church, on Luke 2. 36, 37, 38, 39 Lond. 1609. oct. (3) Q. Elizabeth paralleled in her princely virtue, with David, Joshua, and Hezekiah, in three Sermons; the first on Psal. 123. 1, 2, 3, 4. The second on Joshua 10. 12. And the third on 2 Kings 18. 5, 6. Lond. 1612. oct. (4) The damp of death, beaten back with the glorious light and life of Jesus Christ, preached at Lancaster Assize, on Coloss. 3. 3, 4. Lond. 1613. oct. (5) The Soul's solace against Sorrow, Fun. Serm. preached in Childwal Church in Lancashire at the burial of Mrs. Katherine Brettergh, 3. June 1601. on Isay 57 1. Lond. 1617. oct. (6) Serm. on Acts 2. 19, 20, 21.— Printed 1613. oct. (7) Serm. on Heb. 9 27, 28.— Printed in qu. with others which I have not yet seen. He gave way to fate in a good old age in sixteen hundred thirty and nine, year 1639 and was buried in the Chancel of his Church at Standish 28. Nou. Over his grave is a brass plate fastened to the wall at the east end of the said Chancel, whereon is this engraven. Conditum est hic corpus Gulielmi Leigh S. T. bac. verae religionis professoris sinceri, haeresium propulsatoris acerrimi, concionatoris suavissimi, hujus Ecclesiae quinquaginta tres annos pastoris vigilantiss. cujus nonnulla extant, pluraque desiderantur opera, evocati ex hac vita 26. Nou. an. dom. 1639. aetatis suae octogessimo nono.  
HENRY WOTTON, a person singularly accomplished, Son of Tho. Wotton Esq by his second Wife Elizabeth, Daughter of Sir Will. Finch of the Mote in St. Martin's Parish in the County of Kent, but the Widow of one Morton of the same County Esq was born at Bocton hall in Kent 30. March 1568. educated in Grammar learning in Wykehams' School near to Winchester, and thence in the beginning of 1584., he was transplanted to New coll. where living in the condition of a Gent. Com. had his Chamber in Hart hall adjoining, and to his Chamber-Fellow there Rich. Baker his Countryman, afterwards a Knight and a noted writer. But continuing there not long, he went to Queen's coll. where, by the benefit of a good Tutor and severe discipline there practised, he became well versed in Logic and Philosophy; and for a diversion now and then, he wrote a Tragedy for the private use of that house called Tancredo. On the 8. June 1588. he, as a Member of Qu. coll. did supplicate the venerable Congregation of Regent's that he might be admitted to the reading of any of the books of the Logic of Aristotle, that is to be admitted to the degree of Bach. of Arts: which desire of his was granted conditionally that he should determine in the Lent following; but whether he was admitted, or did determine, or took any other degree, it doth not appear in any of the University Registers, which I have exactly searched, and the more for this reason, because the 
a Isaac Walton.  author of his life saith, that at 19 years of age he proceeded Master of Arts, and at that time did read three Lat. Lectures De Ocello; which being learned, caused a friendship between him and Alberic, Gentilis, who thereupon ever after called him Henrice mi Ocelle. The said author also saith, that the University Treasury was robbed by Townsmen and poor Scholars, of which such light was given by a Letter written to Hen. Wotton from his Father in Kent, occasioned by a dream relating to that matter, that the Felons were thereupon discovered and apprehended, etc. But upon my search into the University Registers, Records, Accounts, etc. from 1584. to 1589. in which time our author Wotton was resident in Oxon, I find no such robbery committed. To pass by other mistakes in the said life, especially as to time, which are not proper to set down in this place, I shall go forward. After our author had left Oxon, he betook himself to travel into France, Germany, and Italy; and having spent about 9 years in those places, he returned into England, and became Secretary to Robert Earl of Essex, with whom continuing till towards his fall, he left England once more, and retiring to Florence, became so noted to the Great Duke of Tuscany, that he was by him privately dispatched away with letters to James 6. K. of Scots, under the name of Octavio Baldi to advise him of a design to take away his life. Which message being welcome to that K. he was by him (when made K. of England) honoured with the degree of Knighthood, sent thrice Ambassador to the Reipub. of Venice, once to the States of the United Provinces, twice to Charles Emanuel Duke of Savoy, once to the united Princes of Upper Germany in the Convention at Heylbrune, also to the Archduke Leopald, to the Duke of Wittenbergh, to the Imperial Cities of Strasburgh and Vlme, as also to the Emperor Ferdinando the second. On the 15. July 1619. he returned from his Embassy at Venice with a vain 
b Camd. in Annal. Jac. 1. MS. sub. an. 1619.  hope of obtaining the office of Secretary of State, but missing his design, I cannot yet tell to the contrary but that he was sent to Venice again. Sure 'tis, that about 1623. he had the Provostship of Eton coll. conferred upon him, which he kept to his dying day, being all the reward he had for the great services he had done the Crown of England. He hath written these things following.  
Epistola de Casparo Scioppio. Amberg. 1613. oct. This Scioppius was a man of a restless spirit, and a malicous pen; who, in books against K. Jam. 1. took occasion from a sentence written by Sir Hen. Wotton in a Germans Album (viz. Legatus est vir bonus, peregrè missus ad mentiendum Reipublicae causâ) to twit him in the teeth what principles in Religion were professed by him and his Ambassador Wotton, then at Venice, where the said sentence was also written in several glass windows.  
Epist. ad Marc. Velserum Duumvir. Augustae Vindelicae, an. 1612.  
The elements of Architecture. Lond. 1624. qu. in two parts. Reprinted in Reliquiae Wottonianae, an. 1651. 54. and 1672. etc. oct. Translated into Latin and printed with the Great Vitruvius, and a great Elegy concerning Wotton put before it.— Amstel. 1649. fol.  
Plausus & vota ad Regem è Scotiâ reducem. Lond. 1633. in a large qu. or rather in a little fol. Reprinted by Dr. Joh. Lamphire in a book intit. by him Monarchia Britannica. Oxon. 1681. oct. 'Tis in English also in Reliquiae Wotton.  
Parallel between Rob. late Earl of Essex and George late Duke of Bucks. Lond. 1641. in four sh. in qu.  
Short view of the life and death of George Duke of Bucks. Lond. 1642. in four sheets and an half in qu.  
Difference and disparity between the estates and conditions of George Duke of Bucks and Robert Earl of Essex.  
Characters of, and Observations on, some Kings of England.  
The election of the new Duke of Venice after the death of Giovanno Bembo.  
Philosophical survey of education, or moral Architecture.  
Aphorisms of education.  
The great action between Pompey and Caesar, extracted out of the Rom. and Greek writers.  
Meditations on 22 Chap. of Gen. Christmas day.  
Letters to, and characters of, certain personages.  
Various Poems.— All, or most of which books or treatises are reprinted in a book intit. Reliquiae Wottonian● before-mentioned.— Lond. 1651. 54. 1672. and 1685. in oct. published by Is. Walton at the end of Sir H. Wotton's life.  
Letters to the Lord Zouch.— Printed at the latter end of Reliq. Wottom. in the edition of 1685.  
The state of Christendom: or, a more exact and curious discovery of many secret passages and hidden mysteries of the times. Lond. 1657. fol.  
Letters to Sir Edm. Bacon. Lond. 1661. oct. He hath also several Letters extant to George Duke of Bucks, in a book called Cabala, Mysteries of State. Lond. 1654. qu. and others in Cabala, or Scrinia Sacra. Lond. 1663. fol.  
Journal of his Embassies to Venice. MS. fairly written in the Library of Edw. Lord Conway.  
Three propositions to the Count d'Angosciola in matter of duel, comprehending (as it seems) the latitude of that subject.— MS. sometimes in the Library of my most worthy Friend Ralph Sheldon Esq now among the books in the Coll. of Arms. The first proposition is, Quale sia stato, etc. The said Count was a Gentleman of Parma, from whence he was banished, and afterwards lived in the Court of Savoy, where he was esteemed a very punctual Duellist, and there managed many differences between Gentlemen. Other MSS. also of his composition do go from hand to hand, which I have not yet seen. At length after Sir H. Wotton had spent 72 years in this vain and transitory World, did conclude his last day in Eton coll. near to Windsor, in the month of Decemb. in sixteen hundred thirty and nine, year 1639 and was buried in the Chapel belonging to the said College. When he made his Will he appointed this Epitaph to be put over his grave. Hic jacet hujus sententiae primus author Disputandi pruritus, Ecclesiarum scabies. Nomen aliàs quaere. In his Provostship of Eton coll. succeeded Rich. Stevart Doctor of the Civil Laws, and Clerk of the Closet to King Ch. 1. of whom I shall make farther mention under the year 1651.  
THOMAS HUTTON, a Londoner born, was elected Scholar of St. John's coll. from Merchant-Taylors School in 1584. aged 19 of which coll. he was afterwards made Fellow. In 1591. he proceeded in Arts, and about that time entering into the Sacred Function, he became a frequent Preacher, Bac. of Divinity, afterwards Rector of North-Lewe in Devonshire, Vicar of S. Kewe in Cornwall and Prebendary of Exeter. His works are,  
An answer to several reasons for refusal to subscribe to the book of Common-Prayer, etc. Oxon. 1605. qu. Answered by Anonymus in a book intit. The removal of certain imputations laid upon the Ministers of Devon and Cornwall, by one Mr. T. H. etc.— Printed 1606. qu. He also published,  
The second and last part of the answer to the reasons for refusal of subscription to the book of Common-Prayer under the hands of certain Ministers of Deu. and Cornw. etc. Lond. 1606. qu.  
An appendix, or compendious brief of all other exceptions taken by others, against the book of Communion, Homilies, and Ordination, etc.— Published with the sec. and last part before-mentioned.  
Answer to both at several times, returned them in public conference, and in divers Sermons in the Cathedral of Exeter.— Printed also with the said sec. and last part. After the publication of which, came out The second part of the defence of the Ministers reasons for refusal of subscription and conformity to the book of Common Prayer against the several answers of Tho. Hutton Bac. of Diu. in his two books against the Ministers of Deu. and Cornw. etc. printed 1608. qu. Whether written by the before mentioned Anon. I cannot tell. Another answer also was published against it by a nameless author, intit. A dispute upon the question of kneeling in the act of receiving the Sacramental Bread and Wine— Printed 1608. qu. This also answered the book of Will. Covel D. D. which he wrote against Mr. Jo. Burges, called An Apology to the B. of Linc. etc. Tho. Spark's book intit. Brotherly persuasion to Unity, etc. and Fr. Mason's Authority of the Church in making Canons, etc. At length our author Hutton having lived to the age of 74. years died in his Vicarage house at St. Kewe in Cornwall before mentioned, in the month of Decemb. (about Christmas day) in sixteen hundred thirty and nine, year 1639 and was buried in the Chancel of the Church there. Some years after was a Monument set up in the wall over his grave, with a large inscription thereon, part of which runs thus. Vir optima fide & moribus, 40 annos Ecclesiastes, nulli opere evangelico secundus, ecclesiae & musaei captivus, sacris lectione ●precibus assiduus, Septuagenarius illaeso visu, memoria a cumina: literarum sanctae Graec. Lat. Gall. Ital. callentissimus. Ad facetias Rhetoricen & poeticen praesenti impetu Theologus omni literaturâ instructiss. apparatiss us, Demum Praedicator nunquam satis praedicandus. This Epitaph being set up several years after Mr. Tho. Hutton died, the time of his death was by the Executor forgotten, for instead of the time of his burial, which was according to the Register of St. Kewe, on the 27. Dec. 1639. he caused in his Epitaph to be put, that he died 20. of Dec. 1640.  
THOMAS LIGHT, a Gentleman studious of all good knowledge, as the learned Camden his acquaintance 
a In Britannia in Com. 〈◊〉  tells us, was the Son of Hen. Light mentioned under the year 1607. by his second Wife France's Daughter of John Tiptoft of London, and after he had been partly educated in Grammar learning in his native Country of Sommersetshire, did spend several years in Academicals in this University: But his Genie being mostly inclined to Genealogies and Histories, he left it without a degree, and retiring to his Patrimony and ancient Seat called Lytes-cary in the said County, did draw up, with very great curiosity, the Genealogy of James 1. from Bru●● written by him on Vellum with his own hand fairer than any print, it was also illuminated with admirable flourishes and painting, and had the pictures of the Kings and Queens mentioned therein, most neatly performed by the hands of an exact Limner. This Genealogy the author did dedicated to his Majesty, who, after a long and serious perusal of it, gave the said author his picture in Gold, set with diamonds, with gracious thanks. Charles Prince of Wales (afterwards K. Ch. 1.) was so exceedingly taken with it, that he gave the author his picture in Gold also. Camden before mentioned had the perusal of it, and underneath wrote with his own hand about 6 verses in commendation of it and the author. About which time it being hanged up in public in one of the rooms at Whitehall, became by the carelessness of pages and idle people a little soiled: wherefore upon the authors desire made to his Majesty, it was engraven on copper and printed, with this title,  
The most royally ennobled Genealogy of the high and mighty Prince, and renowned Monarch, James, by the Grace of God K. of Great Britain, etc. extracted from Brute the most noble Founder of the Britain's, as also from the first original of the Scots, from them ascending to the Imperial Romans, the warlike Picts, the Saxons, Danes, and conquering Normans: with his lineal descent from Charlemagne, and other the modern Kings of France, their several regiments, titles, honours, matches, surnames, and descents, when they began their Reign, how long each Prince ruled and governed, the Estate Royal, the manner of their death and place of burial. Whereunto is added their Regal Ensigns, Arms, achievements of Honour, Emblems and memorable Epitaphs, etc. reduced into a Genealogical Table, etc.— Printed at Lond. in forma patenti.— This Mr. Tho. Light died in sixteen hundred thirty and nine, year 1639 or thereabouts, and was buried in, or near to, the grave of his Father, in the north Isle of the Church of Charlton-Makerel in Somersetshire (which Isle belongs to the Lytes of Lytes-cary) leaving then behind him other matters fit to be printed, and the character of an ingenious and learned Gentleman.  
THOMAS COVENTRIE, Son of Tho. Coventrie, sometimes fellow of Ball. coll. was born at, or near to, Crome D'abitot in Worcestershire, became a Gent. Commoner of the said coll. in Michaelm. Term, an. 1592. aged 14, whence, after he had continued under a strict Discipline for about 3 years, he went to the Inner Temple, and pursuing his father's steps in the laudable studies of the Municipal Laws, was made choice of for the Autumn Reader of that House, 14. Jac. 1. Dom. 1616. and on the 17. Nou. the same year was 
b Idem Camden in Annal. Jac. 1. MS. Sub. an. 1616.  elected Recorder of London. In 1617., about the 17. of March, he was made 
c Ibid. an. 1617.  the King's Solicitor General, upon the promotion of Hen. Yeluerton to be Attorney General, and afterwards Knighted and made Attorney Gen. On the 30. of Oct. 1. Car. 1. he was advanced to that eminent Office of Lord Keeper of the Great Seal of England, tho' of no transcendent parts or same, as the Puritans said, and upon the 10. Apr. 4. Car. 1. was 
d Baronage of Engl. Vol. 2. Tom. 3. p. 460.  dignified with the degree of a Baron of England by the title of Lord Coventry of Ailesborough in his native Country. He hath extant,  
Several speeches, as (1) Speech at the opening of the Parliament, 6. Feb. 1625. (2) Sp. in Parl. 29. Feb. 1626. chief concerning the Duke of Bucks. (3) Sp. at the opening of the Parl. 17. Mar. 1627. (4) Sp. to both Houses of Parl. 28. Apr. 1628. (5) Sp. at a Conference, 26. May 1628. (6) Sp. in Parl. 2. June 1628. (7) Sp. at the delivery of a Message from the K. to the H. of C. 6. Jun. 1628. (8) Reply to Sir ●Jo. Finch Speaker. (9) Second Reply, etc. (10) Answer to the Petition against Recusants, etc. Besides these Speeches and several discourses, goes under his name,  
Perfect and exact directions to all those, that desire to know the true and just fees of all the Offices belonging to the Court of Common Pleas, Chancery, etc. Lond. in oct. He ended his days in Durham House in the Strand near London, (in a seasonable time, said the Puritan and discontented Party) on the 14. Jan. 
1639-40.  in sixteen hundred thirty and nine, and was buried in the Church of Crome D'abitot beforemention'd, on the first of March following, after he had enjoyed the Dignity of Lord Keeper about 15 years, if it be not more proper to say, that Dignity had enjoyed him so long. His front and presence did bespeak a venerable regard, not inferior to any of his Antecessors. His train and suit of followers were disposed agreeably to shun both envy and contempt; not like that of Bacon Visc. S. Alban, or of Williams B. of Lincoln, whom he succeeded, ambitious and vain; his port was state, theirs ostentation, etc. See more of his character in The Reign of K. Ch. 1. under the year 1639. written by Ham. L'Estrange, Lond. 1656. fol. which being just, I wonder he did not animadvert upon a certain 
e Entit. The Court of K. Charles continued unto the beginning of these unhappy times, etc. Lond. 1651. oct. p. 206.  Libel, which tells us, that had the Lord Coventries' actions been scanned by a Parliament, he had been found as foul a man as ever lived.  
ROBERT BURTON, known otherwise to Scholars by the name of Democritus Junior, younger Brother to Will. Burton, whom I shall mention under the year 1645, was born of an ancient and gentile family at Lindley in Leicestershire, 8. Feb. 1576, and therefore in the titles of several of his choice books which he gave to the public Library, he added to his Surname Lindliacus Leycestrensis. He was educated in Grammar learning in the Free-School of Sutton-Colfield in Warwickshire, whence he was sent to Brasnose coll. in the long vacation, an. 1593. where he made a considerable progress in Logic and Philosophy in the condition of a Commoner. In 1599 he was elected Student of Ch. Ch. and for form sake, though he wanted not a Tutor, he was put under the tuition of Dr. John Bancroft, afterwards Bishop of Oxon. In 1614 he was admitted to the reading of the Sentences, and on the 29. Nou. 1616. he had the Vicarage of St. Thomas Parish in the West Suburb of Oxon conferred on him by the Dean and Canons of Ch. Church, (to the parishioners whereof, he always gave the Sacrament in Wafers) which, with the Rectory of Segrave in Leycestershire, given to him some years after by George Lord Berkley, he kept with much ado to his dying day. He was an exact Mathematician, a curious calculator of Nativities, a general read Scholar, a thro-paced Philologist, and one that understood the surveying of Lands well. As he was by many accounted a severe student, a devourer of authors, a melancholy and humorous person; so by others, who knew him well, a person of great honesty, plain dealing and charity. I have heard some of the Ancients of Ch. Ch. often say that his company was very merry, facete and juvenile, and no man in his time did surpass him for his ready and dextrous interlarding his common discourses among them with verses from the Poets or sentences from classical authors. Which being then all the fashion in the University, made his company more acceptable. He hath written,  
The Anatomy of Melancholy— First printed in qu. and afterwards several times in sol. an. 1624. 1632, 38, and 1652. etc. to the great profit of the Bookseller, who got an estate by it. 'Tis a book so full of variety of reading, that Gentlemen who have lost their time and put to a push for invention, may furnish themselves with matter for common or scholastical discourse and writing. Several authors have unmercifully stolen matter from the said book without any acknowledgement, particularly one Will. Greenwood, in his book intit. A description of the passion of Love, etc. Lond. 1657. oct. Who, as others of the like humour do, sometimes take his quotations without the least mention of Democritus Junior. He the said R. Burton paid his last debt to nature, in his Chamber in Ch. Ch. at, or very near that time, which he had some years before foretold from the calculation of his own nativity▪ which being exact, several of the Students did not forbear to whisper among themselves, that rather than there should be a mistake in the calculation, he sent up his soul to heaven thro' a slip about his neck. His body was afterwards with due solemnity buried near that of Dr. Rob. Weston, in the north isle which joins next to the choir of the Cath. of Ch. Church, 
1639-40.  on the 27. of January in sixteen hundred thirty and nine. Over his grave was soon after erected a comely Monument on the upper pillar of the said isle, with his bust painted to the life: On the right hand of which, is the calculation of his nativity, and under the bust this inscription made by himself; all put up by the care of William Burton his brother. Paucis notus, paucioribus ignotus, hic jacet Democritus junior, cui vitam dedit, & mortem melancholia. Obiit viij. Id. Jan. A. C. M. DCXXXIX. He left behind him a very choice library of books, many of which he bequeathed to that of Bodley, and a hundred pounds to buy five pounds yearly for the supplying of Ch. Ch. Library with books.  
ROBERT MOOR, was born at Holyard in Hampshire, educated in Wykehams' School, admitted perpetual Fellow of New coll. 1589, took the degrees in Arts, and at length, was numbered among the best of Preachers in that house. In 1597 he left the coll. being then beneficed at Westmean in his own Country, was afterwards made Prebendary of Winchester, and in the year 1614 took the degrees in Divinity. His younger years were adorned with variety of learning, and his elder with solid and substantial Divinity: which last made him as much respected in his native country towards his latter end, as he was before in the University for this book following, of his writing and publication when he was a young man.  
Diarium Historico-poeticum. In quo praeter constellationum utriusque Hemisphaerii, & Zodaici, ortus & occasus, numerum Stellarum, causarumque ad Poesin Spectantium, varietatem, declaratur cujusque mensis dies fere singuli, Regum, Imperatorum, Principum, Pontificum, virorumque doctorum, natalibus, nuptiis, inaugurationibus, morte denique aut ralia quacunque insigniores, celebriores, sic ut nihil, etc. Lib. 12. Oxon. 1595. qu. What other things he hath published I know not as yet, nor any thing else of him, only that he died on the 20. of Febr. in sixteen hundred thirty and nine, (having had, for some years before, 
1639-40.  divers contests with Neile his Diocesan for his introducing certain ceremonies into the Cath. at Winchester) and was buried in the Chancel of the Church at Westmean before mentioned. Over his grave was soon after a Monument put, with six verses thereon: the two first of which run thus. 
Ortus stirpe bonâ, titulo Doctoris adauctus  
Oxonii, conjux bis, deciesque pater.   
PHILIPP MASSINGER, Son of Phil. Massinger a servant belonging to the Pembrochian family, made his first entry on the stage of this vain world, within the City of Salisbury, was entered a Commoner in St. Alban hall, in the seventeenth year of his age 1601. where, though encouraged in his studies by the Earl of Pembroke, yet, he applied his mind more to Poetry and Romances for about four years or more, than to Logic and Philosophy, which he ought to have done, and for that end was patronised. Afterwards leaving the University without the honour of a degree, he retired to the great City to improve his fancy and studies by conversation. At length being sufficiently famed for several specimen of wit, wrote divers Comedies and Tragedies for the English Stage, (besides other things) much applauded and cried up in their time, when acted and published. Their names are these.  
The Duke of Milan; a Tragedy. Lond. 1623. qu.  
Powerful Favourite: or the life of Sejanus, a Hist.— Printed 1628. qu.  
Roman Actor, Tr. Lond. 1629. qu.  
Renegado Picture Tr. co. Lond. 1630. qu.  
Virgin Martyr, Tr. Lond. 1631. 1661. qu. In this Trag. he was assisted by Tho. Dekker a high flier of wit, even against Ben Johnson himself in his Com. called The untrussing of The humorous Poet.  
Emperor of the East. Maid of Honour. Tr. co. Lond. 1632. qu.  
Fatal Dowry, Tr. Lond. 1632. qu. assisted therein by Nathan Field.  
New way to pay old debts, Co. Lond. 1633. qu.  
Great Duke of Florence. A comical Hist. London 1636. qu.  
The Bondman: An ancient story. Lond. 1638. qu.  




Tr. Lond. 1639. qu.  
Unnatural Brother  
Unnatural Combat.    


Lond. 1655. oct. with the author's picture before them.  
Bashful Lover, Tr. Co.  
The Guardian, Co. Hist.  
Very Woman; or, the Prince▪ of Tarent. Tr. Co.      
City Madam, Com. Lond. 1659. qu. published by one, who calls himself Andr. Penniewicke. He was also one of the three (Thom. Middleton and Will. Rowley being the other two) who had a hand in The old Law, Com. Lond. 1656. qu. and was sole author, if a cat. of Plays at the end of The old Law, may be believed, of Virtuous Octavia, Trag. and of Rome Alley, Com. As to this last, there is without doubt a mistake, for all readers of Plays cannot but know that Ram Alley, or merry Tricks, was penned by the Lord Barry an Irish man, and that it was acted by the Children of the King's revels, before 1611. As for our author Ph. Massinger, he made his last exit very suddenly, in his house on the Bankside in Southwerk, near to then Playhouse, for he went to bed well and was dead before morning. Whereupon his body, being accompanied by Comedians, was buried about the middle of that Ch. yard belonging to S. Saviour's Church there, commonly called the Bullhead Church yard, that is, in that, which joins to the Bullhead Tavern (for there are in all four yards belonging to that Church) on the 18. day of March in sixteen hundred thirty and nine. 
1639-40.  Sir Aston Cockaine Baronet in his Choice Poems of several sorts, etc. Lond. 1658. oct. hath in pag. 186. an Epitaph on Mr. Joh. Fletcher and Mr. Philip Massinger, who, as he saith, lie buried both in one grave in St. Mary Oueris Church (alias S. Saviour's) in Southwerk. See more in Sir John Beaumond under the year 1628. where you'll find more of those two persons. One Walt. Messenger or Massinger was a student in S. Alb. hall in the beginning of Queen Elizabeth's reign, whom I take to be either Father or Uncle to Philip the Poet.  
JOHN VICCARS, was originally of the University of Cambridge, where taking one degree in Arts, retired to Oxon, settled in Lincoln coll. in the condition of a Commoner, an. 1624., and the next year proceeded in Arts as a member of that house. Afterwards he traveled beyond the Seas, visited divers Academies and Recesses of learning, and gained from them and their respective Libraries great experience and knowledge. He hath written, Decapla in psalmos. Sive commentarius ex decem Linguis, antiquis paetribus, 
Clar. 1639.  Rab. Historicis & Poetis, etc. Lond. 1639. fol. which book doth plainly demonstrate, that he was a most admirable Linguist, and the best for the Oriental tongues in his time. I shall make large mention of John Vicars the Poet among the writers under the year 1652.  
JOHN SPEED, Son of Jo. Sp. the Chronologer, was born in London, elected Scholar of S. John's coll. from Merchant Tailor's School in 1612. aged 17. Afterwards he was made Fellow thereof, M. of A. Bach. and Doctor of Physic of this Uniu. In which last faculty he became eminent (especially for the practic part) among the Academians; and had, if death had not snatched him too soon away, published several matter of it. He hath written,  
〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 utriusque sexus 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉— MS. written in Latin, dedicated to Dr. Laud Archb. of Cantab. and reserved in S. John's coll. Library as a rarity. The said MS. points at, and hath relation to, the two Skeletons (one of a man, another of a woman) standing at the north end of the Mathematic Library of the said college; which Skeletons were made, and given to the said Library, by our author Dr. Speed, who hath also written,  
Stonehenge, a pastoral— Acted before Dr. Rich. Bailiff the Precedent, and Fellows, of the said coll. in their common refectory, at what time the said Doctor was returned from Salisbury, after he had been installed Dean thereof, an. 1635. The said Pastoral is not printed, but goes about in MS. from hand to hand. Dr. Speed who was, by all persons that knew him, accounted an ingenious man, year 1640 died in the month of May, in sixteen hundred and forty, and was buried in the Chapel of S. John's coll. leaving then behind him a Son named Samuel, who was aftera Student of Ch. Ch. and M. of A. (installed Canon of the said Church on the death of Dr. Seb. Smith, on the sixth day of May 1674.) and another named John, afterwards Fellow of St. John's coll. and Doctor of Physic, living now at Southampton.  
THOMAS FITZHERBERT, Son of Will. Fitzherbert (by Isabella his Wife, Daughter and one of the heirs of Humph. Swinnerton of Swinnerton in Staffordshire) fourth Son of Sir Anth. Fitzherbert Knight (the famous Lawyer) Son of Ralph Fitzherbert of Norbury in Derbyshire, was born in the said County of Stafford, an. 1552. in which County being initiated in Grammar learning, was sent either to Exeter, or Lincoln coll. in 1568: But having been mostly before trained up in the Cath. Religion, the college seemed uneasy to him, for though he would now and then hear a Sermon, which he was permitted to do by an old Roman Priest that then lived abscondedly in Oxon, (for to him he often retired to receive instructions as to matters of Religion) yet he would seldom or never go to prayers, for which he was often admonished by the Sub-Rector of his house. At length he seeming to be wearied with the heresy (as he styled it) of those times, he receded without a degree to his Patrimony, where also refusing to go to his parish Church, was imprisoned about 1572. But being soon after set at liberty, he became more zealous in his Religion, defended it against the Protestant Ministers, and not only confirmed and strengthened many wavering Catholics therein, but wrote also several valid reasons for the not going of Catholics to Protestant Churches; for which being like to suffer, he withdrew and lived abscondedly. In 1580. when Campian and Persons the Jesuits came into the mission of England, he retired to London, found them out, showed himself exceeding civil, and exhibited to them liberally. Whereupon bringing himself into a promunire, and foreseeing great danger to come on him and all Catholics, he went as a voluntary exile into France, an. 1582. where he continued a zealous solicitor in the cause of Mary Queen of Scots with the K. of France and Duke of Guise for her relief, though in vain. After her decollation, and all hopes of the Catholics frustrated for the present, he left that Country, and the rather because that he, about that time, had buried his Wife, and forthwith went into Spain. For some years there he became a zealous agitator in the Royal Court for the relief of Catholics and their Religion in England, but his actions and the labours of many more of that nature being frustrated by the Spaniards repulse in 1588. he, under pretence of being weary with the troubles and toils of this life, receded to Milan with the Duke of Feria. Whence, after some continuance there, he went to Rome, where he was initiated in sacred Orders, took a lodging near to the English college, and observed all hours and times of Religion, as they in the college did, by the sound of their bell, and there composed certain books, of which that against Machiavelli was one. A certain author of little or no note named James Wadsworth, tells 
* In his English Spanish Pilgrim, chap. 7. p. 65.  us that the said Tho. Fitzherbert had been before a Pensioner, and Spy to the King of Spain in France, and his service being past, and his pension failing him, out of pure necessity, he, and his man, were constrained to turn Jesuits, or else starve. And he being a worthy Scholar and a great Politician, was very welcome to that Order. But let this report remain with the author, who is characterised by a Protestant 
† Will. Sanderson in the Reign and death of K. James. Lond. 1655. under the year 1620. p. 491.  writer to be a Renegado proselyte-Turncote, of any Religion, and every trade, now living 1655. a common hackney to the basest Catchpole Bailiffs, etc. while I proceed. In 1613-4 he took upon him the habit of the Society of Jesus, on the feast of the Purification, initiated therein on the vigil of the Annunciation following, and on the next day he sung his first Mass. Afterwards he presided the mission at Brussels for two years, and at length, much against his will, he was made Rector of the English coll. or seminary at Rome, which he governed with great praise about 22. years. He was a person of excellent parts, had a great command of his tongue and pen, was a noted Politician, a singular lover of his Country men, especially those who were Catholics, and of so graceful behaviour and generous spirit, that great endeavours were used to have him created a Cardinal some years after Allens death, and it might have been easily effected, had he not stood in his own way. He hath written,  
A defence of the Catholic cause, containing a Treatise in confutation of sundry untruths and slanders published by the Heretics, etc. S. Omers 1602.  
Apology or defence of his innocence in a feigned conspiracy against her Majesty's person, for the which one Edw. Squire was wrongfully condemned and executed, in Nou. 1598.— Printed with the Defence before mentioned. This is the book which the learned Camden tells 
a In Annal. Reg. Elizab. sub an. 1●98.  us was written by Walpole a Jesuit, or one under his name.  
Treatise concerning policy and religion. Douai 1606. qu. Wherein are confuted several principles of Machiavelli. The second part of the said Treatise, was printed also at Douai 1610. and both together in 1615. qu. A third part was printed at Lond. 1652. qu. being then cried up for a good book, as the other parts had been.  
An sit utilitas in scelere, vel de infelicitate Principis Machiavellani. Rome 1610. oct.  
Supplement to the discussion of Mr. Dr. Burlows answer to the judgement of a Cath. Engl. Man, etc. interrupted by the death of the author F. Rob. Persons Jesuit. S. Omer 1613. qu. published under the two letters of F. T.  
Censure of Dr. Joh. Donnes book intit. Pseudomartyr.  
Additions to the Supplement.— These two last are printed at the end of the Supplement to the discussion, etc. against Dr. Will. Barlow B. of Line. beforementioned.  
Confutation of certain absurdities in Lancelot Andrews' answer to Bellarm.— Printed 1603. qu. and published under the two letters of F. T. instead of T. F. This was written in vindication of Card. Bellarmine's Apology for his answer made to K. James' book De jure fidel. Whereupon came out a book intit. Epphata, to F. T. or a defence of the Bishop of Ely (Lanc. Andrews) concerning his answer to Card. Bellarmine's Apology, against the calumnies of a scandalous Pamphlet. Cambr. 1617. qu. written by Sam. Collins D. D. a Buckinghamsh, man born, Provost of King's coll. in Cambridge, elected the Kings Prof. of Diu. of that University, 22. Oct. 1617. afterwards made Prebendary of Ely, and Parson of Somersham. Who, in succeeding times, proving a high royalist, was removed from his Provostship by order of Parliament 1645. Afterwards he lived retiredly in Cambridge, till the time of his death 1651. leaving then behind him the character of a Great Scholar. Our author Fitzherbert afterwards wrote and published,  
Of the Oath of Fidelity or Allegiance, against the Theological disputations of Rog. Widdrington. S. Omer. 1614 qu.  
The Obmutesce of F. T. to the Epphata of Dr. Collins, etc.— Printed 1621. oct. with other things which I have not yet seen. He surrendered up his Soul to that God that inspired it, on the 17. of Aug. according to the account followed at Rome, year 1640 in sixteen hundred and forty, and in that of his age eighty and eight, and was buried in the chapel belonging to the English college at Rome. He had a Son named Edward, living, I suppose, at the time of his death, to whom he dedicated the first part of the Treatise concerning Policy and Religion, an. 1606. which Edward was a most zealous man for the Rom. Catholic Religion, and whether he was a Priest or a Gentleman, I know not.  
THOMAS JACKSON, the ornament of the University in his time, was born at Witton on the River Weer in the Bishopric of Durham on the day of S. Thomas the Apostle, an. 1579. became a Student in Queen's coll. under the tuition of Crakanthorpe, in Midsummer Term 1595. was admitted Scholar of C. C. coll. 24. of March 1596. and Prob. Fellow 10. May 1606. being then M. of A. and had laid the grounds carefully in Arithmetic, Grammar, Philology, Geometry, Rhetoric, Logic, Philosophy, Oriental Languages, Histories, etc. with an insight in Heraldry and Hieroglyphics. All which he made use of to serve either as rubbish under the foundation, or as Drudges and Day labourers to Theology. In 1622. he proceeded D. D. and two years after left his coll. for a Benefice in his own Country, which the Precedent and Society thereof had then lately conferred on him. But he keeping the said living not long, was made Vicar of S. Nicholas Church in Newcastle upon Tine, where he was much followed and admired for his excellent way of Preaching, which was then Puritanical. At length being elected Precedent of C. C. coll. partly with the helps of Neile Bishop of Durham, (who before had taken him off from his precise way, and made him his Chaplain,) but more by the endeavours of Dr. Laud, and also made Chaplain in Ordinary to his Majesty, he left the said Vicarage, and was made Prebendary of Winchester, Vicar of Witney in Oxfordshire, and Dean of Peterborough in the place of Dr. Joh. Towers promoted to the Episcopal See thereof, by the favour of the said Laud, an. 1638. He was a person furnished with all learned languages, Arts and Sciences, especially in Metaphysics, which he looked upon as a necessary handmaid to Divinity. He was also profoundly read in the Fathers, and was of a wonderful and deep judgement, as it appears by his works that are much admired by all persons. None wrote more highly concerning the attributes of God, and more vigorous in some of his works, against the Church of Rome, than he.— I speak it in the presence of God, (saith 
a Barnab. Oley, in the life of George Herbert, Lond. 1652. and in 1675. 'Tis not paged.  one) I have not read so hearty, vigorous a Champion against Rome, (amongst our writers of his rank) so convincing and demonstrative, as Dr. Jackson is. I bless God for the confirmation which he hath given me in the Christian Religion against the A. theist, Jew, and Socinian; and in the Protestant against Rome, etc. In a word he was a man of a blameless life, studious, humble, courteous and very charitable, devout towards God and exemplary in private and public, beloved of Laud Archb. of Cant. and blamed by none in any respect, but by the restless Presbyterians; the chief of whom, Will. Prynne, who busily concerned himself in all affairs, doth give him this 
b In his Anti-Arminianism; or the Church of England's old Antithesis, etc. printed 1630. p. 270.  character in the name of the Brethren.— Dr. Jackson of Oxon is a Man of great abilities, and of a plausible, affable, courteous deportment, till of late he hath been transported beyond himself, with Metaphysical contemplations to his own infamy and his renowned Mother's shame, I mean the University of Oxon, who grieves for his defection; from whose duggs he never sucked his poisonous doctrines.— Also that he is (as in another 
c See Canterb. Doom, p. 532.  place he tells us) of civil conversation and learning, which made his errors and preferments more dangerous and pernicious, and that it was his Arminian errors, not his learning or honesty, that were the ground of his advancement to his Dignity, etc. He tells us also in another 
d In Append. to Anti-Arminianism, etc.  place, that he was convented in the last Parliament, yea openly accused in the last Convocation for his heretical Arminian books, which have been censured by Mr. Hen. Burton in his Seven Viols, and particularly answered by acute and learned Dr. Twisse, etc. The Parliament that Pryune means, was that which sat in 1628. wherein he had like to have been sore shent for certain Tenets, I cannot say, so far driven by him, as by some men since, and now, they have, and are, with great applause. His works are these.  
The eternal truth of Scriptures, and Christian belief, thereon wholly depending, manifested by its own light. Lond. 1613. qu. This is the first book of his Comments on the Creed.  
How far the ministry of men is necessary for planting true Christian Faith, and retaining the unity of it planted. Lond. 1614 qu. This is the second book of his Com. on the Creed.  
Blasphemous positions of Jesuits and other later Romanists, concerning the authority of the Church. Lond. 1614 qu. This is the third book of his Com. on the Creed.  
Justifying Faith: Or, the Faith by which the Just do live. A treatise containing a description of the nature, properties, and conditions of Christian Faith. Lond. 1615. and 1631. qu. This is the fourth book of his Com. on the Creed.  
A discovery of misperswasions, breeding presumption, and hypocrisy, and means how Faith may be planted in unbelievers.— Printed with the former book called Justifying Faith, etc.  
Treatise containing the original of unbelief, misbelief, or misperswasions concerning the verity, unity, and attributes of the Deity, etc. Lond. 1625. qu. This is the fifth book of his Com. on the Creed.  
Treatise of the divine Essence and Attributes. Lond. 1628.: qu. the first part. The second part was also printed there in 1629. qu. Which two parts make the sixth book of his Comments on the Creed. The first part was dedicated to Will. Earl of Pembroke, with a plausible Epistle, wherein, as one 
* 〈…〉  saith, The author professeth himself an Arminian, and Patron of their Tenets. And from chap. 8. to the 20. he professedly maintains a mutability in God's eternal Decrees of Election and Reprobation, depending upon the actions and wills of Men, Universal Grace and Redemption; with other Arminian errors. This book, though publicly complained of, was never called in by the Bishop, (Laud) but the second part thereof was printed with Licence, an. 1629. and the author of it advanced to the Presidentship of C. C. coll. in Oxon, by this Bishop, yea by him designed to be Doctor of the Chair (though he miss that preferment) to poison the University of Oxford with his Arminian drugs.  
The knowledge of Jesus Christ. Or the seventh book of the Commentary of the Apostles Creed.— A larger title of this runs thus, Christ exercising his everlasting Priesthood, etc. Or, a Treatise of the knowledge of Christ which consists in the true estimate or experimental valuation of his death, resurrection, and exercise of his everlasting sacerdotal Function, etc. Lond. 1624. qu.  
Humiliation of the Son of God, by his becoming the Son of Man, etc. Lond. 1626. and 36. qu. This is the eighth book of his Com. on the Creed.  
Treatise of the consecration of the Son of God to the everlasting Priesthood, etc. Lond. 1628. and 33. Oxon. 1638. qu. This is the ninth book of Com. on the Creed.  
The second part of the knowledge of Jesus Christ, etc. Lond. 1654. fol. The tenth book of Com. on the Creed.  
Dominus veniet. Of Christ's Session at the right hand of God, and Exaltation thereby, etc. Lond. 1657. fol. The eleventh book of Com. on the Creed. Which, with the tenth and a Preface concerning them and their author, were published by his great admirer Barnabas Oley M. A. of Cambridge, who had before published the second edit. of the three first book.— Lond. 1653. fol. with a large Preface likewise of his composition, but the life which followed was written by Edm. Vaughan, as I shall anon tell you. This Barnabas Oley was installed Prebendary of Worcester 4. of Septemb. 1660. and was afterwards Bach. of Divinity, and Archdeacon of Ely. He died 20. Febr. 1685. whereupon Joh. Hough B. D. of Magd. coll. in Oxon, succeeded him in his Prebendship and Will. Saywell D. D. Master of Jesus coll. in Cambridge, in his Archdeaconry.  
Several Sermons, as, (1) Five Sermons befitting these present tones. Two of which are on 2 Cor. 6. 39, 40. and the other three on Jerem. 26. 19 Oxon. 1637. qu. (2) Treatise concerning the signs of the times, or Gods forewarning; being the sum of some few Sermons on Luke 13. 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 Oxon. 1637. qu. (3) Serm. or Posthill preached on the second Sunday in Advent 1630. on Luke 21. 25.— Printed with the aforesaid Treatise concerning the signs, etc. (4) Nazareth and Bethlem; or, Israel's portion in the Son of Jesse, etc. two Sermons on Jerem. 31. 21, 22. (5) Mankind's comfort from the weaker Sex. on Gal. 4. 5, 6. (6) Two Sermons, one on Matth. 2. ver. 1, 2. and the other on the 17. and 18. verses of the same chapter. (7) Christ's answer unto John's question: Or, an introduction to the knowledge of Jesus Christ, and him Crucisied; in certain Sermons at Newcastle upon Tine, etc.  
Treatise of the Holy Cath: Faith, and Church, in 3 books. Lond. 1627. qu. This is the twelfth book of his Com. on the Creed.  
Treatise of Christian obedience.  
Treatise of the primeval estate of man; of the manner how Sin form entrance into, and is propagated in the World, etc. Lond. 1654. fol.  
Discourse of the limitation of the two propositions in the thirteenth verse of the eighth chapter to the Romans.  
Vindication, or a serious answer to Mr. Hen. Buttons exceptions taken against a passage in his Treatise of his Divine essence and attributes.  
Paragraph on the eleven first chapters of Exodus, with useful annotations, observations, and parallels.  
Salvation only from God's grace, or an Exposition of Rom. 9 16.  
God's just hardening of Pharaoh, when he had filled up the measure of his iniquity: Or, an Exposition on Rom. 9 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24.  
Treatise concerning the Acts and Exercises of the Son of God's everlasting Priesthood.— Which six last Treatises, or books, were printed with the Treatise of the primeval estate of Man, etc. 1654. fol.  
Three errors disparaging Christ's Priesthood. (1) The novation denying the reception of some sort of Sinners. (2) &c.  
Twenty Sermons, or thereabouts.  
Most of which Books, Sermons, and Treatises, having been published at several times, were collected together, (with others added to them,) and printed at Lond. 1672. 73. in three volumes in fol. with the author's life prefixed, (as it was before the three first books of Comments on the Creed. Lond. 1653. fol.) written by Edm. Vaughan, sometimes Fellow of C. C. coll. whom I shall mention elsewhere. Our author Dr. Jackson also wrote,  
An historical narration.— This I have not yet seen, nor do I know farther of its title. It was licenced by Dr. Edw. Martin Domestic Chaplain to Bishop Laud, without his privity, for which he turned him out of his service (as he 
e 〈…〉 p. 508.  himself saith) and the book called in and suppressed. But Prynne an implacable enemy to that Bishop saith, 
f Ibid. p. 510.  that the said Historical narration, which was the vilest imposture that ever was thrust upon our Church, was licenced by the said Martin with laud's privity, and that the calling of it in, was the act of Archb. Abbot upon prynn's complaint and the public scandal it gave, much against laud's will, who ever since connived at the sale of them. At length after our author Dr. Th. Jackson had spent 60 years or more, in this life, mostly in studies and devotion, surrendered up his devout Soul to him that gave it on the 21. of Sept. in sixteen hundred and forty, year 1640 and was buried in the Inner Chapel of Corp. Ch. coll. but hath no memory at all over his grave. In his Presidentship of the said coll. succeeded Dr. Rob. Neulin, D. D. and in his Deanery of Peterborough succeeded Dr. John Cousin born in the City of Norwich and educated in Cajes coll. who was first Prebendary of Darham, than Archdeacon of the East-riding of Yor●●. next Rector of the Church of Branspath in the Bishopric of Durham, afterwards Master of St. Peter's coll. commonly called Peter-house, in Cambridge, and Vicechancellor of that University, than Dean of Peterborough as is before mentioned, Chaplain in Ord. to K. Ch. 1. and 2. and lastly, after the sequestration and plunder of all he had, and 17 years' exile for his Loyalty, was consecrated Bishop of Darham 2. 〈◊〉 1660. He died in his lodging in the street called the Palmal in the Suburbs of Westminster (after he had bestowed much wealth on pious and public uses) on the fifteenth day of Januar. 1671. aged 77. whereupon his body was conveyed with great solemnity to Bishops Aukland in his Diocese, and there buried on the 29. of Apr. 1672. The Reader is now to know that there was another Tho. Jackson who was a writer also, born in Lancashire, educated, as it seems, in Cambridge, afterwards Minister of Wye in Kent, and at length Prebendary of Canterbury and D. of Diu. This person who mostly seemed to be a true Son of the Church of England, a hater of Papists, Arminians and Sectaries, published, (1) Seven Sermons, on the 23. Psal. of David. Lond. 1603. oct. (2) The Converts happiness, Sermon on Rev. 3. 20. Lond. 1609. qu. (3) The raging tempest stilled. The history of Christ's passage with his Disciples over the Sea of Galilee, etc. Lond. 1623. qu. (4) Help to the best bargain, etc. Serm. in the Cath. of Canterb. 26. Oct. 1623. Lond. 1624. in oct. and other things which I have not yet seen. He was living in Septemb. 1644. being then the Senior Prebendary of Christ-Church in Canterbury, and died shortly after, having before cast a stone against Archbishop Laud when he was to be tried for his life.  
JOHN BALL, Son of Will. Ball and Agnes Mabet his Wife, was born of a plebeian family at Cassington alias Chersington near to Woodstock in Oxfordshire, in the beginning of Octob. 1585. and baptised the 14. of the same month, educated in Grammar learning in a private School taught by the Vicar of Yarnton, a mile distant from Cassington, admitted a Student of Brasnose coll. in 1602, where continuing under a severe discipline and Tutor about five years, in the condition, as it seems, of a Servitor, removed to S. Mary's hall, and as a Member thereof took the degree of Bac. of Arts in 1608. Soon after he was invited into Cheshire to teach the Children of the Lady Cholmondeley, where continuing for some time, fell into the acquaintance of several severe Puritans, who working on his affections, they brought him over to them. About that time, having gained a sum of money, he went to London with some of them, and made shift to be ordained a Minister there, without subscription, by an Irish Bishop. Soon after he removed into Staffordshire, and became Curate of Whitmore, a Chapel of ●ase to Stoke, where he lived (and died) a Nonconformist in a poor house, a poor habit, with poor maintenance of about 20 l. per an. and in an obscure Village, teaching School also all the week for a farther supply, deserving as high esteem and honour (as a noted Presbyterian 
g Rich. Baxter in his book intit. An ansavour● volume of Mr. Joh. Crandons' anatomised. Lond. 1654. sec●. 1 p. 6.  observes) as the best Bishop in England, yet looking after no ●igher things, but living comfortably and prosperously with these, etc. The Brethren report him to have been a excellent Schoolmaster and Schoolman, (qualities seldom meeting in the same person) a painful Preacher and a profitable Writer: And though somewhat disaffected to Ceremonies and Church discipline, yet he confuted such as conceived the corruption therein, ground enough for a Separation. He hath written,  
A short treatise containing all the principal grounds of Christian Religion, etc.— Fourteen times printed before the year 1632. and translated into the Turkish Language by Will. Seaman an English Traveller.  
Treatise of Faith; in two parts. The first showing the nature, the second the life of Faith, etc. Lond. 1631. qu. 1637. qu. the third edition. It hath a Preface to it in commendation of the work, written by Rich. Sibbes.  
Friendly trial of the grounds tending to Separation, in a plain and modest dispute touching the unlawfulness of stinted Liturgy and set form of Common Prayer, Communion in mixed Assemblies and the primitive subject and first receptacle of the power of the Keys, etc. Cambr. 1640. qu. The rude and imperfect draught of this book was first made for satisfaction of Mr. Rich. Knightley, which, by importunity of Ministers and others, was afterwards enlarged into this treatise. The answer returned to the first conceptions thereof, is briefly examined in some marginal notes annexed, p. 13. 15. 24. 33.  
An answer to two Treatises of Mr. Joh. Can, the Leader of the English Brownists in Amsterdam. The former is called A necessity of separation from the Church of England, proved by the Nonconformists principles. And the other, A stay against straying: Wherein in opposition to Mr. John Robinson, he undertakes to prove the unlawfulness of hearing the Ministers of the Church of England. Lond. 1642. qu. Published by Simeon Ash. The Epistle to the Reader is subscribed by Tho. Langley, Will. Rathband, Simeon Ash, Franc. Woodcock, and Geo. Croft, Presbyterians. After our author Ball had finished this last book, he undertook a large treatise of the Church, wherein he intended to discover the nature of Schism, and to deal in the main controversies touching the essence and Government of the Visible Church, of which also 50 sheets of paper he left finished. Notwithstanding all this, yet by what our author hath written in his answer to Jo. Can, and in his Friendly trial, etc. some dividing Spirits of his own party censured him, as in some degree declining from his former professed inconformity, in deserting the Nonconformists cause and grounds, being too much inclined (especially in the last of these two) to favour the times in Ceremonies and the Service-book. Yet if you'll give credit to what these men deliver, they'll tell you that he lived and died a strict forbearer, and constant opposer of all those pretended corruptions, which the Nonconformists had commonly in their public writings disallowed in the Church of England. So that they of his own persuasion would willingly have it believed, that although he was in these his pieces against aggravating and multiplying conceived corruptions, and that these were not of so great weight, as to enforce the unlawfulness of our set forms, or warrant a separation from our Churches, and public worship in regard thereof, yet he acknowledged some things blame-worthy in the English Liturgy, which he designed to have evidenced (as these men tell us) in some public treatise, had he lived but a little longer. For all this he died abundantly satisfied in the justness of that cause, which he so well defended against separation.  
Trial of the new Churchway in New-England and Old, etc. Lond. 1644. qu.  
Treatise of the Covenant of Grace. Lond. 1645. etc. qu. Published by his great admirer Simeon Ash.  
Of the power of godliness, both doctrinally and practically handled, etc.— To which are annexed several Treatises, as, (1) Of the affections. (2) Of the spiritual combats. (3) Of the government of the tongue. (4) Of prayer, with an exposition on the Lord's Prayer, etc. Lond. 1657. fol. Published by the aforesaid Simeon Ash, sometimes of the University of Cambridge, Chaplain to the Lord Brook, afterwards to the Earl of Manchester an. 1644. Minister of St. Michael Bashishaw, and at length of St. Augustine's, in London; who dying 20. of Aug. 1662. being a little before the fatal day of St. Barthelmew, was buried 23. of the same month in the Church of St. Austin before-mentioned.  
Treatise of divine meditation. Lond. 1660. in twelv. published also by the said Ash. These, I think, are all that have been written by our author Ball, who dying 20. of Octob. in sixteen hundred and forty, year 1640 aged fifty and five, or thereabouts, was buried in the Chapel or Church of Whitmore aforesaid, leaving then behind the character of a learned and pious man, and of one, who, by his daily labours, had done eminent service to the private and public.  
WILLIAM JONES, the eldest Son and Heir of Will. Jones Esq; was born at Castellmarch in Carnarvonshire, the ancient Seat of his Family, educated in the Free-School at Beaumaris in Anglesey, whence, at 14 years of age, he was transplanted to S. Edmund's hall, an. 1570. and continued there 5 years. But taking no degree, he went to Lincoln's Inn and was there admitted a Student, yet before he resided in that Society he spent two years in Furnivals' Inn, according to the course of those times. After he had been a Counsellor of repute for some years, he became Lent-Reader of the said Inn 13. Jac. 1. Sergeant at Law the year following, and a Knight, in order to the chief Justiceship in Ireland, in which place he continued three years, and then left it upon his own request. In 19 Jac. 1. he was made one of the Justices of the Common Pleas, in the room of Sir Augustin nicols, and in the 22 year he was removed to the Kings-Bench. He hath written and collected,  
Reports of divers special cases, as well in the Court of King's Bench, as of the Common Pleas in England, as well in the latter time of the Reign of K. James, as in the years of K. Ch. 1. etc. Lond. 1675. fol. They contain the cases of greatest remark which happened either in the Common Pleas or King's Bench, during the time our author was Judge in the said Courts, which was from the 18. Jac. 1. to 16. Car. 1. In the said book also is reported three Iters, together with the great case in Parliament between the Earl of Oxford, and the Lord Willoughby of Eresby. This book also coming into the hands, after the author's death, of Sir Jo. Glynn Sergeant at Law, he made very good notes on it, as it appears in the original copy, sometimes in the hands of Dorothy Faulconberg and Lucy Jones Daughters and Executors of Sir Will. Jones.  
Several Speeches in Parliament.— He concluded his last day in his house in Holborn near London on the ninth of Decemb. in sixteen hundred and forty, year 1640 and was buried under the Chapel (standing on pillars) of Lincolns-Inn, on the fourteenth day of the same month. Over whose grave, though no writing or Epitaph appears, yet his eminence in the knowledge of the Municipal Laws, will make his name live to posterity, more especially in these parts, where he had, his education, and when Justice, did constantly keep Oxford circuit.  
WILLIAM CHIBALD, or Chiball, a Surrey man born, was entered a Student into Magd. coll. 1589. aged 14. but whether in the condition of a Servitor or Clerk, I know not. Afterwards he took the degrees in Arts, entered into the Sacred Function, became a Preacher in London, and at length Rector of St. Nicholas cold Abbey in Old Fish-street there, where continuing many years was much frequented and admired for his edifying way of Preaching. He hath written and published,  
A cordial of comfort to preserve the Heart from fainting with grief or fear, for our friends, or own visitation, by the Plague. Lond. 1625. oct.  
An humble thanksgiving to Almighty God for his staying of the Plague in the City of London and Suburbs thereof.— Printed with the former.  
Sum of all (namely) God's Service, and Man's Salvation, and Man's duty to God concerning both, by way of dialogue. Lond. 1630. oct.  
Several Sermons, as, (1) The trial of Faith by the touchstone of the Gospel, on 2 Cor. 13. 5. Lond. 1622. oct. with others which I have not yet seen.  
Apology for the trial of Faith. Lond. in oct. when printed I know not, for I have not yet seen it. He deceased in Febr. (about the 25. day) in sixteen hundred and forty, 
1640-1.  and was buried in his Church of St. Nicholas before-mentioned, leaving then behind him a Son named James, who became a Student in Magd. coll. 1623. afterwards a Minister in London, and, if I mistake not, a sufferer there for the Royal Cause, when the Grand Rebellion broke out in 1642. by the sedulous industry of such who were then called Presbyterians.  
MARTIN WESTCOMBE, sometimes a Monk at Toulouse in France, and Bac. of Arts there, left the Rom. Cath. Church and returned to his native Country of England. At length being reconciled to the Reformed Church there, was sent to Exeter coll. among his Countrymen of Devonshire, was incorporated Bach. of Arts in January 1637. and, by the favour of the Chancellor of the University, proceeded in Arts the next year, as a Member of the said college. He hath written.  
Fabulae pontificiae Evangelicae veritatis radiis dissipatae. 
Clar. 1640.  Ox. 1639. oct. Soon after, the author of it went beyond the Seas, returned to his former Religion (as some of the Ancients of Ex. coll. have told me) and wrote certain matters there, in vindication of himself, but what, they could not tell me.  
ROBERT CHAMBERLAINE, Son of Rich. Chamb. of Standish in Larcash. Gent was born there, or at least in that County, and from being Clerk to Pet. Ball Esq; Solicitor General to the Queen, had his Poetical Genie so far encouraged by that generous person, that he sent him to Exeter coll. to complete it with Academical learning, in the beginning of the year 1637. aged 30 years. What stay he made there, or whether he was honoured with a degree, it appears not. Sure it is, that he having about that time composed several poetical, and other, things, had them viewed by the ingenious men of that house, and published under these titles.  
Nocturnal Lucubrations; or meditations divine and moral. Lond. 1638. in tw. To which are added,  
Epigrams and Epitaphs.— The former he dedicated to his honoured Master Peter Ball beforementioned, and the other to Will. Ball his Son and Heir. He hath also written,  
The swaggering Damsel, a Comedy. Lond. 1640. qu.  
Sicelides, 
Clar. 1640.  a Pastoral.— When printed, I cannot tell, for I do not remember I ever saw it. In 1631. was published in qu. a book intit. Sicelides, a piscatory, several times acted in King's coll. in Cambr. and therefore, I presume, 'twas made by one of that house. This Rob. Chamberlain lived many years after, but when he died, I cannot justly tell. One Rob. Chamberlain proceeded Master of Arts, as a Member of Pemb. coll. but he being the Son of Dr. Pet. Chamberlain a Physician, must not be taken (as some of this University have done) to be the same with the Poet beforementioned. Will. Chamberlain of Shaftsbury in Dorsetshire hath written Love's Victory, Trag. Com. Lond. 1658. qu. and Pharonida, an heroic Poem. Lond. 1659. oct. but whether he was ever an Oxford Student, I am hitherto ignorant.   

ATHENAE OXONIENSES.  
The History of the Archbishops and Bishops of the University of Oxford, from the year of our Lord 1500. to the end of the year 1640.  
●_THOMAS JANE or Janne was born in a Market Town in Dorsetsh. called Middleton, educated in Grammar learning in Wykehams' School near Winchester, became Fellow of New coll. after he had served two years of Probation, in 1456, was afterwards Doctor of Decrees, and Commissary (the same now with Vicechancellor) of the University an. 1468. About that time he was made Canon of S. Paul's Cathedral within the City of London, Archdeacon of Essex, Canon of Windsor 1497, Dean of the King's Chapel, and at length upon the refusal of Christoph, Vrswyke Dean of Windsor, he became Bishop of Norwich in the room of James Goldwell deceased: The temporalities of which See (after his election thereunto) were 
a Pat. 14. Hen. 7. p. 2. Memb: 4.  restored to him 21. Jul. 14. Hen. 7. dom. 1499. where sitting little more than an year, he concluded his last day in the month of Aug. or thereabouts, in the year fiveteen hundred. 
1000.  By his Will 
b In Cur. vel offic. Praerog. Cant. in reg. Moon. Qu. 10.  dated 20. Jul. the same year, he bequeathed his body to be buried in his own Cathedral Church, if it should happen that he die in Norwich, or within 16 miles of that place. He had before his death been a benefactor to New coll. as I have told you 
c In Hist. & Antiq. Uniu. Ox. lib. 2. p. 130. b.  elsewhere, and as it should seem, to the building of S. Mary's Church in this Uniu. of Oxon, if his answer was equivalent to an Epistle 
d In lib. Epist. Uniu. Oxon. notat. in dors. cum lit. ●. MS.  written in its name, to desire his benefaction thereunto.  
In the time of this worthy Bishop Tho. Jane, or rather before, studied in this University Tho. Scot alias Rotheram, Son of Sir Tho. Rotheram Knight, by Alice his Wife; but going soon after to Cambridge, we can hardly lay claim to him. In an old book of Epistles, written by the University of Ox. to great personages, is an Epistle 
* Ibid. Ep: 254:  written to the Bishop of Lincoln, and he that then sat there, must according to time be the said Rotheram. In which Epistle are certain circumstances that show that he had sometimes studied in the said University, and besides the members thereof did seldom ●or never write Epistles to any, except such who had originally been Students among them. He died Archb. of York, in 1500, and was succeeded in that See by Tho. Savage. See in Hist. & Antiq. Vniu. Oxon. lib. 1. p. 243. a. b.  
JOHN MORETON, Son 
a In the Visitation book of the County of Surry, made by the Deputies of Clarenceaux King of Arms, an. 1623. in the coll. or Office of Arms.  of Rich. Moreton of S. Andrews Milbourn in Dorsetshire, Son of Will. Moreton of the said place, and he the second Son of Charles Moreton (the first being Rob. Moreton of Moreton in Nottinghamsh. from whence sprang the Moretons of Bautrey in Yorkshire) was born saith 
b In Birtan. in come. Dorset.  Camden at St. Andr. Milb. before mentioned, others, particularly one 
c Jo. Budden in Vita obituque Job. Moreton● Archiep. Cant.— Lond. 1607. p. 5.  of Camden's contemporaries, at a little Market Town called Bear in the said County of Dorset, which seems to be most true by those things that I shall anon mention from his last Will and Testament. When he was a boy he was educated among the Religious in Cerne Abbey, and at ripe years was sent to Balliol coll. where making great progress in Academical learning, he took the degrees in the Laws, without any regard had to those in Arts. In 1446. he being then in his Regency, he became one of the Commissaries of the University, about which time one Will. Moreton of the same coll. was the northern Proctor, but whether related to him, I cannot tell. Afterwards Jo. Moreton was Principal or moderator of the Civil Law School, situated in the Great Jewry in Oxon, and about 1453. became Principal of Peckwaters Inn: at which time he being also an Advocate in the Court of Arches, his parts and great learning were so remarkable, that Tho. Bouchier Archb. of Canterbury taking cognisance of him, sought means to prefer him. In 1458. Nou. 8. he became Prebendary of Fordinton and Writhlington in the Church of Salisbury, void by the death of one Will. Walesby, being also about that time Rector of S. Dunstan's Church (in the West) in the Suburbs of London. Afterwards having other spiritualities conferred upon him▪ he was for his great wisdom and prudence made Master of the Rolls an. 1473, and in the year following Archdeacon of Winchester: which Dignity was then void by the death of one Vinc. Clement sometimes a Doctor of Oxon: In Feb. 1475, he being then Preb. of Dynre in the Church of Wells (which he resigned in that month, and was succeeded therein by Mr. Will. Dudley) he was collated to the Prebendship of S. Ducuman in the said Church on the death of one Joh. Pope: which Dignity he keeping till Jan. 1478. he then gave it up and Tho. Langton Doctor of Decrees succeeded him, as I shall anon tell you. In 1476. Nou. 6. he was made Archdeacon of Berkshire upon the resignation of John Russell Doctor of the Canon Law, (not of Diu. as one 
d Fr. Godwin Ep. Lan●●v. in Come de Praesul. Angl. edit. 1616. p. 359.  saith) who was afterwards Bishop of Lincoln. In 1478. Aug. 9 he was elected Bishop of Ely, on the death of Will. Grey, and about that time was made Privy Counsellor to the King. In 1484. (2. Rich. 3.) he was committed prisoner to the Tower of London, for some jealousies that that King had of him, as being totally inclined to the Lancastrian family; and 'tis probable that there he would have continued during all that King's reign, but the reverence of the man, or undeservedness of his wrongs, moved so the affection of the members of this University, that they directed to the King (who professed much seeming love to the University, as 'tis elsewhere 
e In Hist. & Antiq. Uniu. Oxon, lib. 1. p. 233.  told you) a petitionary 
f In lib. Episto●arum Uniu. Oxon. ●. fol. 14●. b.  Epistle in Latin, no less eloquent and pithy, than circumspect and wary, wherein they much pleaded for his liberty. Whereupon the K. being well pleased with it, was content to release him from the Tower, and commit him to the custody of Henry Duke of Buckingham, to his Castle at Brecknock in Wales. Thence, after he had spent some time, he found liberty to steal to the Isle of Ely, and for a round sum of money found a safe passage into France, purposely to join with the Earl of Richmond to pluck down the said Rich. 3. Soon after the said Earl obtaining the Crown by the name of Hen. 7. called unto his Privy Council the said Moreton Bishop of Ely, with Rich. Fox, (about that time B. of Exeter) both vigilant men and discreet, and such as kept watch with the King almost upon all men else. They were both versed in his affairs before he came to the Crown, and were partakers of his adverse fortune, and therefore the King was resolved to promote them in the Church as high as he could. In the beginning of the year 1486. Archbishop Bouchier before mentioned died; whereupon the K. making means that the Monks of Canterbury should elect Dr. Moreton for his Successor, the Pope did forthwith confirm it. So that being translated to the said See, he had restitution 
g Pat. 2. Hen. 7. p. 1 m. 10:  made to him of the temporalities belonging thereunto, on the sixth of Decemb. the same year. In 1487. he was made Lord Chancellor of England, in which high office he acted very beneficial for the King, and in 1493. he was declared a Cardinal by Pope Alexand. 6. under the title of S. Anastasius. The year after he was elected Chanc. of the Uniu. of Oxon, and became a considerable benefactor thereunto, particularly to the reparation of Canon Law School in S. Edward's parish, to the finishing of the re-edification of S. Mary's Church, and of the edification of the Divinity School. In all which places were his Arms set up in colours, in the Windows, or else engraven in Stone. But such is the vicissitude of time, that nothing of Arms, or any thing like them, doth at this time remain. Those that belonged to him were Quarterly gules and ermine, a Goat's head erased in the first and fourth quarter argent: given, or else taken, in allusion to the Arms of the Corporation of Shoemakers, of which Corporation the Father of this Archb. was, as 'tis said, a member. They were curiously engraven on Stone, at the bottom of the Stone-pulpit in St. Mary's Church; as also the rebus of his name, an M. upon a Tun. Which Pulpit was pulled down when the inside of that Church was altered, while Dr. Ralph Bathurst was Vicechancellor an. 1676. They were also engraven on the Respondents Pew or Seat of Stone in the Divinity School, which also were taken away when the inside of that School was altered an. 1669. to what it now is. But though these monuments are decayed, yet the memory of the person is fresh among some men, who have said that he was a wife and eloquent man, but in his nature harsh and haughty, that he was much accepted by the King, but envied by the Nobility, and hated by the people. He won the King's mind with secrecy and diligence, chiefly because he was his old servant in his less fortunes, and for that also he was in his affections not without an inveterate malice against the House of York, under which he had been in trouble. Whatsoever else was in the man, he deserveth a most happy memory, in that he was the principal means of joining the two Roses. At length dying of great years, (about 90.) but of strong health and powers, about the latter end of Septemb. in fiveteen hundred, year 1500 was buried in the Cath. Church of Canterbury before the image of the Virgin Mary, commonly called Our Lady of Vndercroft. Over his Stone-coffin or Sepulchre, which was but just deposited in the ground, was a marblestone laid even with the surface of the pavement: which stone being afterwards cracked and broken, several parts of his body wrapped up in divers Cear-cloathes were taken away by certain rude and barbarous people. At length the head being only in a manner remaining in the said Stone-coffin, 'twas begged out of a pious mind (purposely to save it) of Dr. Sheldon Archb. of Canterbury, in 1670. by that truly noble and generous Rophe Shedon of Beoley in Worcestershire Esquire, who esteeming it as a choice relic, provided a leaden box to preserve it with its Cear-cloathes about it, and with great devotion kept it to his dying day, an. 1684. Afterwards that choice relic, with very many rarities which he in his life time had gathered together, came by virtue of his last Will into the hands of his Uncle's Daughter, named Frances Sheldon, sometimes one of the maids of honour to Catherine the Royal Consort of King Charles 2. The said Cardinal Moreton did by his last 
h In Offic. Praerog. Cant. in reg. Moon Qu. 10.  Will and Testament leave maintenance for a Priest to celebrate Mass for 20. years' space in the Church of Bear in Dorsetshire, for the Soul of him the said Archbishop, and for the Souls of his relations and parents buried there. He also left maintenance during that time for 20 poor Scholars in Oxon, and ten in Cambridge. I find one John Moreton to be made Prebend of Whitchurch in the Church of Wells, on the resignation of Robert Stillington (afterwards B. of Bath and Wells) in July 1447. and Minister of Axbridge and Charlton Mesgrose in the Dioc. of B. and Wells; but this John Moreton, who died about the month of Dec. 1463. is, in the registers belonging to the Bish. of B. and Wells, written Sacrae Theologiae Professor. I find also another Joh. Moreton who translated into English Speculum Vitae Christi, written by S. Bonaventure. Which John was living in 1438, in which year, he, with his Wife Juliana, were admitted among the Suffrages and Prayers of the Dominicans or Black Friars at York.  
THOMAS LANGTON, was born in a Market Town called Appleby in Westmoreland, where being educated in Religion and Grammar learning among the Carmes, or White Friars, was at ripe years sent to Oxon, particularly, as it seems, to Queen's coll. but a pest breaking out in the University soon after, he went to Cambridge and became a member of Clare hall, (one 
* Fr. Godwin in Com. de Presul. Angl. ut supra, p 295.  saith of Pembroke hall) took the degrees in the Canon Law (in which afterwards he was incorporated at Oxon) and had considerable Dignities in the Church bestowed him, among which was the Prebendship of S. Ducaman in the Church of Wells, an. 1478. In 1483, he being about that time Provost of Qu. coll. in Oxon, and Master of S. julian's Hospital in Southampton, was consecrated Bishop of S. David's; whence being translated to the See of Salisbury, on the death of Leonel Woodvill, had restitution made 
k pat. 1. Rich. 3. p. 3.  to him of the temporalities belonging thereunto, 4. May, 1 Rich. 3. dom. 1484. In a certain writing in Queen's coll. treasury dat. 19 Aug. 4. Hen. 7. dom. 1489. he occurs by the titles of Doctor of the Laws, Bishop of Salisbury, and Provost of Qu. coll. Whence we may conclude that he kept the said Provostship in Commendam with Salisbury, as probably he had done with S. David's. In 1493. he was translated to the See of Winchester, and had restitution made 
l pat. 8. Hen. 7. p. 2. m. 2.  to him of the temporalities thereof 27. June the same year. Where being settled, he put in practice his good deeds, which he had done at Sarum, viz. by showing himself a Maecenas of learning, for which, I find, he had so great respect, that he took 
m Rich. Place in lib. suo, cui tit. est De fructu qui ex doctrina percipitur. Bas. 1517. p. 27, 28.  care to have youths trained up at his own charge in Grammar and Music, (the last of which he was infinitely delighted in) in a School which he set apart within the precincts of his house. It was usual with him, and he took a great pleasure in it, to make his scholars or exhibitioners repeat at night before him such dictates that they in the day time had learned from their Master: and such that could give a laudable account, he either encouraged with good words, or small rewards, saying to those about him, that the way to increase virtue was to praise it, etc. In his episcopal office he behaved himself so well, that he was in great authority with three Kings, especially for his learning, religion, and experience in civil affairs; and had not death snatched him untimely away, would have succeeded Moreton in the See of Canterbury. He died in the beginning of the year fifteen hundred and one, 
156●.  and was buried in the Cath. Ch. at Winchester, near to the tomb and shrine of S. Swithune. By his last will 
n In reg. Moon ut ●upra. qu. 10.  and test. which I have seen, he gave to the priests of Clare hall in Cambridge, considerable sums of money, and forty pounds to the chest of that house. To every fellow of Qu. coll. in Oxon six shillings and eight pence, and forty marks to the elemosinary chest thereof, besides a suit of vestments for a Priest, Deacon, and Subdeacon, and four copes. He gave maintenance also to a Chaplain that should celebrate service for him, his Parents, and all faithful deceased, for the space of an hundred years in the Church of Applebie beforementioned: Which Chaplain was to receive for his labour eight marks yearly. To the Friars (the Carmes) in Applebie 20 marks to pray for him, besides several sums to the Friars of Oxon and Cambridge, and to Rowland Machel and Elizabeth his wife (sister to the said Bishop) he gave several lands in Westmoreland, besides 200 marks. He built also the little room, (which is now a large Bay-window to the Provosts dining-room in Qu. coll.) with curious vaulting under it. Which vault is now no other than a portico to the coll. chapel. Over the said Bay-window is carved in stone a musical note called a Long on a Tun, which is the rebus for his firname: and out of the Bunghole of the Tun springs a Vine tree, which, without doubt was put for Vinton or Vinchestre, he being then Bishop of that place. He left behind him a Nephew named Rob. Langton, born also in Applebie, and educated in Queen's coll. of which he was LL. D. He died at London, in the month of June 1524. and was buried before the image of S. Michael in the body of the Church belonging to the Charter-house (now Suttons hospital) near London. By his last Will 
o In office: Praerog. Cant. in reg. Bodfeld Qu. 21.  and Test. he bequeathed to Qu. coll. before mentioned, two hundred pounds to purchase Lands, and make a School-house in Appleby: and what his benefaction was besides, as also of that of Bishop Langton, you may see in Hist. & Antiq. Vniu. Oxon. Lib. 2. p. 123. 124, 125.  
WILLIAM SHJOY, commonly called Joy partly educated here, but more in the Uniu. of Paris, was by provision from the Pope made Archbishop of Tuam in Ireland, 16. Cal. of June 1485, where sitting about 16 years, 
1501:  gave way at length to fate 
p Jac. Waraeus in Comment de Praesulibus Hiberniae, Edit. Dubl. 1665. p. 250.  28. Dec. in fifteen hundred and one, and was, as I suppose, buried in his Cathedral Church. In his Archbishopric succeeded Philip Pinson a Minerite, as I shall anon tell you.  
RICHARD, who writes himself Episcopus Oleven: (being Suffragan to the Bishop of Worcester, as it seems) was a Dominican or Black Friar in Warwick, (to whose fraternity there, he gave 6l. at the time of his death) and educated among the Black Friars in Oxon, to whom also he gave 6l. to pray for him. He yielded up his last breath in Sept. in fifteen hundred and two, year 1502 and was, I suppose according to his last 
q In Offic. ut supra in reg. Blamyr. Qu. 16.  Will which I have seen, buried in the choir of the Church belonging to the Black Friars in the City of Worcester on the south side of the Tomb of John Lichfield, and opposite to that of Rich. Wolsey, who, as he saith in the said Will, was nuper Conoren: & Dunerens: Episcopus.  
HENRY DEANE, was educated in this University, where he took the degrees in Arts and Divinity, but in what coll. or Hall it appears not. However some are pleased to say that he was educated in New coll. yet whether he was perpetual Fellow thereof, the registers of that house tells us not. After he had left the University, he was made Prior of Lanthony near to Gloucester (in the neighbourhood of which place, I presume, he was born) and on the 13 of Sept. or 20. Nou. 11. Hen. 7. he was by Letters 
a Pat. 11. Hen. 7. p. 1. in dors.  Pat. constituted Chancellor of Ireland, to execute that office by himself or a Deputy. On the first of Janu. following he was constituted 
b Ibid p. 1.  Deputy and Justice of the said Realm, where being settled, he performed good service against that grand impostor Perkin Warbeck, and being elected Bishop of Bangor, after the death of Richard lately Bishop of that place, had restitution 
c Pat. 12. Hen. 7. p. 1. m. 5.  of the temporalities belonging thereunto made by the King 6. Octob. 12. Hen. 7. Dom. 1496. In 1500. he was translated to Salisbury on the death of John Blyth lately Bishop thereof, (Son of Will. Blyth of Norton in Yorkshire, Son of another William of Leedes in the said County) and had restitution 
d Pat. 15. H. 7. p. 1. m. 27.  of the temporalities thereof made to him (as the manner is) on the 12. March the same year: About which time he was made Chanc. of the Order of the Garter. In 1501. he was elected Archb. of Canterbury upon the death of Cardinal Moreton: whereupon being translated thither, had 
e Pat. 16. H. 7. p. 1. m. 1.  restitution made of his temporalities, on the second of Aug. the same year. About that time the members of the University of Oxon received an Epistle 
f Reg. Epist. Uniu. Oxon. FF. Ep. 518.  of favour from him; wherein, among other things, he styles the said University his benignissima mater. He died at Lambeth on the 15. of Febr. saith a certain 
g Franc. Godwin Ep. Land●v. in Com. de Praesul. Angl. in Cant.  author, though a register 
h Reg. Antiq. coll. Merton fol. 138. ●.  of that time tells us, 
1502-3.  'twas on the 16. of that month, in fifteen hundred and two: Whereupon his body was carried to Canterbury, and buried in the middle of the Martyrdom, within the precincts of the Cathedral there, leaving then behind him the character of a person altogether fit for those places that he successively enjoyed.  
DAVID CREAGH, was born in the County of Limerick in Ireland, studied several years among his Country men the Civil and Canon Law, of which faculties he became at length Bachelaur. Afterwards retiring to his native Country, became, thro' several preferments, Archb. of Cashills, 
1503:  an. 1483, where sitting about 20. years died 5. Sept. in fifteen hundred and three. Of the great injuries done to him by Gerald Fits Gerald Earl of Kildare, L. Deputy of Ireland (of which Creagh complained to K. Hen. 7. by the advice of Sir Jam. de Ormond Knight) the Histories 
k Vide Jac. 〈◊〉 ● in come. de 〈…〉 1665. p▪ 171.  of that Country will tell you.  
PHILIP PINSON, an English man, studied among the Minorites or Grey Friars for a time, in their house in Oxon. of which order he was a learned brother, but whether he took the Degree of D. D. in this University, we have no register that shows it. Afterwards he became Suffragan Bishop to Hadrian de Castello Bishop of Hereford and afterwards of B. and Wells; by whose endeavours, but chiefly of those of K. Hen. 7. he was advanced at Rome to the Archbishopric of Tuam in Ireland on the 2. of Decemb. in fifteen hundred and three, year 1503 and three days after died 
l Ibid. p. 25●.  of the Plague. Afterwards that See laid void two years, and than 'twas conferred on Maurice O Fihely, whom I have before, among the writers, mentioned.  
JOHN ARUNDEL, Son of Rainford, or Rainford Arundel Knight, (by Jane his Wife, Sister and heir of Joh. Coleshull) third Son of Sir John Arundel of Talvern in Cornwall, (who died 13. Hen. 6.) was born in that County, received his Academical education in Exeter college, became Canon of Windsor in 1479. and about that time Rector of Sutton Courtney near Abendon in Berkshire. In 1489. he was made Prebendary of Bolun in the Cath. Church of York, on the death of Dr. Tho. Chandler, and in the same year in Nou. he was made Preb. of Beamister secunda in the Cath. Church of Sarum, upon the promotion of Rich. Hill to the See of London, being then also dignified in the Cath. Ch. at Exeter. On the 6. of Nou. 1496. he was consecrated Bishop of Lichf. and Coventry, and on the 28. of the same month had the temporalities of that See restored 
m Pat. 11. Hen. ●. p. 1. m. 〈…〉  to him. The author 
n In Hist. 〈…〉  of the Comment, of the English Bishops, tells that he was translated from that See to Exeter, 1501, though elsewhere 
o 〈…〉  I find that the translation was made on the last day, saving one, of June, 1502. and that the temporalities thereof were not given 
p Pat. 〈◊〉 Hen. 7▪ p. 1. 〈◊〉 36.  to him till 26. Sept. 19 Hen. 7. Dom. 1503. He surrendered up his last breath in the house belonging to the Bishops of Exeter within the parish of St. Clement's Danes without Temple Barr, year 1503 near to London, 15. March in fifteen hundred and three; and was buried on the sourth side of the high altar, in the Church of St. Clement before mentioned. This Joh. Arundel did, upon the desire of the chief members of this University, promise to them 20l. towards the finishing of S. Mary's Church, but he dying before 'twas given, they recovered 
a Reg. Epist 〈…〉  that sum of his Executors. I find another John Arundel of Exeter coll. who was one of the Proctors of the University 1426. afterwards Doctor of Physic, Physician to K. Hen. 6. and Dean of the Cath. Ch. at Exeter. I take him to be the same John Arundel M. D. who was collated to the Archdeaconry of Richmond in the latter end of Octob. 1457. in the place of Laur. Both promoted to the See of Durham, and had for his successor in that Dignity John Both, collated to it in May 1459, and afterwards became Bishop of Exeter.  
JOHN MORGAN, alias Young a We●● man, and Doctor of the Laws of Oxon. was installed Dean ●●●sore in the place of Will. Benley an. 1484. (2. 〈…〉.) and being elected Bish. of S. David's on the death of 〈…〉 (sometimes B. thereof, an Oxford Scholar, and a benefactor to the 
* 〈…〉  building of S. Mary's Church) had restitution 
† Pat. 〈…〉  made to him of temporality belonging to that See, 23. Nou. 12. Hen. 7. D●m. 1496. He gave way to fate in the latter end of Apr. or beginning of May, in fifteen hundred and four: whereupon his body was buried between the pillars on the sourth side of the body of the Cath. Church of S. David. By his Will, which I have 
* 〈…〉  seen, dated 25. Apr. 15●4. and proved the 15. of May following, it appears that his desire was to have a Chapel made over his grave, in the best manner that might be, according to the disposition of his Executors, but whether ever performed, I know not.  
THOMAS PYGOT, a Denbighshire man born, as it seems, was consecrated Bishop of Bangor, in the year of our Lord 1500, year 1504 and paying his last debt to nature on the fifteenth day of Aug. in fifteen hundred and four, was, as I suppose, buried in his own Church. This Tho. Pygot, I take to be the same who supplicated 
b Reg. Act. congreg. Uniu. Oxan. Aa. fol: 116: a.  the venerable congregation of Regent's of this University, in order to to the taking of the degree of Bachelaur of the Civil Law, an. 1458. One of both his names was confirmed Abbot of the Monastery of the Virgin Mary at York, on the death of Thom. Stayngreve, 24. May 1398. and died in 1405. but what relation the former had to this I cannot tell.  
WILLIAM BARONS, Doctor (as it 
c In fine eiusd. libri vel reg. Epistolam F.  seems) of the Law, Commissary of the Prerogative Court of Canterbury, and afterwards Master of the Rolls in the room of Dr. Will. Warham 1502, and one of the King's Council, was, upon the translation of the said Dr. Warham to Canterbury, elected to the See of London: which being consented to by the King, the temporalities thereof were 
d Pat. 2. Hen. 7. p. 1, m. 26.  restored to him 13. Nou. 20. Hen. 7. Dom. 1504 He died in Oct. or Nou. in fifteen hundred and five, 
1505:  and was buried in his own Church of S. Paul. He had studied the Laws in Oxon. and had presided the Chair, but in what hall or School it doth not appear. In his Bishopric succeeded Richard Fitz James, as I shall hereafter tell you.  
WILLIAM SEVER or Siveyer, was born at Shinkley in the County Pal. of Durham, educated in this University, but whether in Merton coll. I am as yet uncertain. However as to that, which the 
a F. Godwin, in't. Episcop. Dunelm. p. 136.  author of the Commentary of the English Bishops saith, that he was Warden of Merton coll. and Provost of that of Eton near Windsor, is false, for 'twas not William, but Henry Sever, who lived before this man's time, that enjoyed those places. After Will. Sever had left Oxon, wherein, I presume, he had studied either in Glouc. or Durham, college (nurseries for those of the Order of St. Benedict, he himself being a Benedictine) he retired to his Monastery of S. Mary at York, succeeded Thom. Both in the Abbatship of that place, and in 1495. being elected B. of Carlisle on the death of Rich. Bell (who had been formerly Prior of Durham) had the temporalities thereof delivered 
b Pat. 11. Hen. 7. m. 4. p. 14.  to him, on the eleventh of Decemb. the same year, and liberty then given to him to keep his Abbatship in Commendam. In 1502. he being elected to the See of Durham, had the temporalities thereof surrendered 
c Pat. 18. Hen. 7. p. 1. m. 6.  into his hands by the King, on the 15. of Octob. the same year: where setting but three years, paid his last debt to nature in fifteen hundred and five, 
1505:  and was buried in the Cath. Church there. In his Abbatship succeeded Rob. Wanhop in Dec. 1502. (Sever being then Bish. of Durham,) and in his Chair at Durham, Christop. Bainbridge, whom I shall hereafter mention. The book 
d Hist. Eccles. Dunelm. & successio Episcoporum ejusd. Eccl. MS. in't. cod. Land. in bib. Bod. 4. L▪ 5●.  or Hist. of the Ch. of Durham calls this Bish. Will. Sinews or Senwse, and Leland 
e In tom. 1. collect. p. 472.  Senose; which book tells us that he was translated from Carlisle to Durham, by virtue of a Bull sent from the Pope, and so by the Breve of K. Hen. 7. dat. 15. Oct. in the 18. year of his reign, he was consecrated Bishop of Durham 1502. and stood three years, etc. so that according to time this Sinews must be the same with Sever.  
THOMAS CLERKE, and English man, became Archdeacon of the Isle of Man after he had left the University, and and at length by provision from the Pope became Bishop of Killala in Ireland 1498. which office he keeping till fifteen hundred and five, then resigned 
f Waraus ut supra, p. 291.  it. 
Clar. 1505.  I take this Thomas Clerk to be the same with Thomas, written and styled Thomas Aladensis Episcopus that is Tho. Bish. of Killala, who by that name and title was admitted 
g Reg. 〈◊〉 de Castello Ep. B. & W●llen●.  Rector of Chedsey in Somersetshire on the death of Mr. Joh. Fynne, 12. Janu. 1505. and dying in the year 1508. Rob. Fisher was admitted to the said rectory on the 18. Dec. the same year.  
JOHN pain, a Dominican or Black Friar, spent several years in the study of Divinity (of which he was afterwards Doctor) in the coll. of Dominicans in the south suburb of Oxon. Afterwards retiring to Ireland, was, thro' several preferments, made Bishop of Meath by the Pope's provision, and installed in the Choir there on the feast of St. Dominick (Aug. 4.) in 1483. In the year 1493. he was made Master of the Rolls in Ireland, being then much celebrated for his great charity and hospitality, and dying on the sixth day of March in fifteen hundred and six, year 1506 (21. Hen. 7.) was buried in the Monastery of his Order at Dublin, or rather, as the 
a Jac. War. 〈◊〉 p. 38▪  Historian of Ireland tells us, in the Church of S. Patrick there, where his monument, near the west door of that Church, was remaining in his time, with an inscription thereon.  
MATTHEW MACRAIH, an Irish Man, and a Civilian, as it seems from some of our Records, wherein I find his surname sometimes to occur, became Bishop of Clonfort in his own Country, in 1482. and dying in fifteen hundred and seven, year 1507 was buried 
b Ibid. p. 2●6▪  at Kicomaing, leaving behind him the character of a person celebrated for the many virtues of his mind.  
THOMAS O-CONGALAU, another Irish man and contemporary with the former, who 
c Ibid. p. 88▪  succeeded in the See of Ardagh one Will. O-Ferall, year 1508 and dying in fifteen hundred and eight left the character behind him him of a person of great prudence, and liberality towards the poor.  
WALTER BLAKE, was born in the County of Galloway in Ireland, and for some time educated in this University: Afterwards he retired to his native Country, became Canon of Enagdune alias Enaghcoin, and at length by the favour of P. Innocent 8. Bishop of 
d Ib. p. 99  Clocmacnois, or Clonmacnois, in the beginning of 1487. where sitting about 21 years, submitted to fate in the month of May in fifteen hundred and eight. year 1508 One Thomas succeeded him in that See, but his surname is yet unknown.  
EDMUND COMERFORD, was also educated for a time in this University, and afterwards being made Dean of Kilkenny, was consecrated there Bishop of Fernes in 1505. In which See sitting but four years, died in fifteen hundred 
e Ibid. 〈…〉  and nine, year 1509 and was succeeded by one Nicholas Comyn.  
THOMAS VIVIAN, a Cornish man born, or at least descended from those of his name living in Cornwall and Devon, was from his youth bred a Black Cannon, or Cannon Regular, and among those in Oxon, did he spend some time. Afterwards retiring into his own Country, he became Prior of the Black Cannons at Bodmin in Cornwall, and at length Suffragan Bishop to the Bishop of Exeter, under the title of Episc. Majorensis or Megarensis, that is, as I suppose, Megara. Joh. Leland 
† In. 〈…〉  tells us, that the Priory at Bodmin stood at the east southeast part of the Parish Ch. yard there. There lay buried before the high Altar in an high Tomb of very darkish grey marble one Thom. 
Clar. 1510.  Vivian Prior of Bodmin, and Suffragan Magarensis Episcopatus. He died not long since, etc. One Tho. Vivian of Exeter coll. proceeded Master of A. in an Act celebrated 10: March 7. Hen. 8. Dom. 1515. and was afterwards Rector of the said coll. for a time, but him I take not to be the same with the Bishop; yet Quaere.  
CHRISIOPHER FISHER, an Oxford man by Academical education, was afterwards Bishop of Elphine in Ireland, and Prebendary of Hustwayt in the Church of York; which Dignity he obtained after he was made Bishop. 
151●▪  In fifteen hundred and eleven, or thereabouts, he departed this mortal life, and that year one Thom. Wa●lashe succeeded him in the said Prebendship, but who in the See of Elphine, except one John, who became Prebendary of Amplesord in the Ch. of York 3. Nou. 1530. and died on the Feast of the Assump. of the B. Virgin, 1536. (being then Prior of Welbeck in Nottinghamshire,) I know not.  
NICHOLAS MAGWIRE, an Irish man, was promoted to the See of Laighlin in Ireland, in 1490. and died in fifteen hundred and twelve, year 1512 under which year you may see more of him among the writers.  
DAVID ap OWEN, a Welsh man, sometimes a Student in the Civ. and Can. Law in Oxon, afterwards Abbot of Stratmarkell and of Conway in his own Country, was consecrated Bishop 
* Fr. Godwyn in Com. de prasul. Angl. edit. 1616. p. 662.  of S. Asaph in the year 1503. and dying on the 11. or 12. of Febr. in fifteen hundred and twelve, year 1512 was buried in the Cathedral Ch. of S. Asaph, near the high Altar on the south side. There is a monument of a Bishop near to the Throne in the said Chancel, which, as the tradition goes there, was put for the said Dau. ap Owen.  
MAURIT. de PORTU, or O-Fihely an Irish man, became by provision from P. Jul. 2. Archbishop of Tuam in his own Country, year 1513 26. June 1506. and died in fifteen hundred and thirteen. See more of him among the writers under that year.  
THOMAS CORNISH, a Somersetshire man born as it seems, was educated in Oriel coll. of which he was afterwards Fellow; and being Master of Arts, was made Vicar of Banwell in the Diocese of Wells. In Aug. 1483. he became Master of St. John's house or hospital in the City of Wells, and soon after Chanter and Residentiary in the Cath. Ch. there. In 1491-2. he was made Suffragan Bishop to Rich. Fox B. of Bath and Wells, under the title of Episcopus Tynensis, by which, I suppose, is meant Tyne, the last Island belonging to the Republic of Venice in the Archipelago. In 1493. he, by the name of Tho. Cornish Bishop of Tyne, was made Provost of Oriel coll. and in 1497. Jul. 29. he was collated to the Vicarage of S. Cuthberts' Ch. in Wells. In Oct. 1505. he became Vicar of Chew in Somersetshire, (on the death of Rob. Widow,) in which County he had other Churches successively conferred upon him to keep up the state of a Bishop; and in 1507. resigning his Provostship of Oriel coll. retired to Wells, being then also Suffragan to Hugh Oldham Bishop of Exeter; year 1513 and dying on the third day of July, in fifteen hundred and thirteen, was buried in the Cath. Ch. of Wells, in the north Isle, near to the door that leads up to the Chapterhouse. Over his grave was a fair monument erected, which continues to this day, with so much of the inscription thereon left, that shows the day and year of his death. One Thom. wolf or Wulff titular Bishop of Lacedaemon had a Commission granted to him 30. Sept. 1513. to be Suffragan Bishop in the place of the said Cornish, but whether he was ever of Oxon, I have not yet seen any record to prove it.  
WILLIAM SMYTH, Son of Rob. Smyth, was born at Farnworth in the Parish of Prescote in Lancashire, educated partly in Grammar learning in his own Country, partly in Academical in this University, either in Oriel, or Lincoln, college, or successively in both. In the former I have reason to suppose so, because several of his name and kindred were members thereof soon after, if not in his own time; and in the other, because in the Bursars' accounts 
a In thesaur. vel turri coll. Linc.  thereof, I find one Mr. Will. Smyth to have been a Commoner of that house, before, and in the year 1478. being the same without all doubt with this person of whom we now speak. Howsoever it is, (though I am not ignorant that he was a benefactor to both the said colleges, especially the last, and that in an 
b In lib. vel reg. epistol. Uniu. Oxon. F▪ fol. 182. epist. 495. vide etiam epist. 484.  Epistle to him concerning his election to the Chancellourship of the Uniu. of Oxon, the Members thereof do say that he was sometimes Alumnus Academiae Oxon,) sure I am that he, as others, being fearful of divers pests happening in Oxon in their time, did receded to Cambridge, where this Will. Smyth became Fellow, and afterwards Master, of Pembroke hall. About that time he was made Archdeacon of Surrey, D. D. of Cambridge, (in which degree he was incorporated at Oxon,) and afterward Clerk of the Hamper, if I mistake not, (for we have an 
c Ib. in F. ●p. 36●.  Epistle written to one Mr. Will. Smyth Cler. Hamperii for the expedition of the consummation of the privileges of the University) and at length being elected Bishop of Lichfield and Coventry, had restitution 
d Pat. 8. Hen. 7. p. 1. m. 6.  made of the temporalities of that See 29. Jan. 8. H. 7. dom. 1492. After he had sat there about three years, he was elected Bishop of Lincoln; so that having restitution 
e Pat. 11: Hen. 7. p. 2. m. 16.  made of the temporalities thereof on the 6. Feb. 1495. sat there till the time of his death, became a great man in the King's favour, Counsellor to Prince Arthur, Precedent of Wales, (being the first of all that bore that office,) Chancellor of the University of Oxford, and the prime founder of Brasnose coll. there. He gave way to fate on the second day of January in fifteen hundred and thirteen, year 1513 and was buried in the great middle Isle near to the Sepulchre of Will. Alnwyke sometimes B. of Linc. towards the west end of the Cath. Church at Lincoln. Over his grave was a very large marble Tombstone soon after laid even with the pavement, having thereon engraven, on a large brass plate, the portraiture of a Bishop mitred and vested for the Altar, with a Crosier in his left hand; and on the verge of the said stone was this inscription engraven on several narrow plates of brass. Sub marmore isto tenet hic tumulus ossa venerabilis in Christo Patris ac Domini, Domini Willielmi Smyth, quondam Conventriensis & Lychfeldensis, ac deinde Lincolniensis Presulis; qui obiit secundo die mensis Januarii, anno Domini Millesimo quingentesimo tertio decimo: cujus anime propitietur deus, qui pius & misericors & in die tribulationis misericors peccata remittit. Ecclesiastiio.  
At the foot of the portraiture are these verses following, engraven on a brass plate, fastened to the said stone. 
Cestrensis Presul, post Lyncolniensis, Amator  
Cleri nam multos cis mare transque aluit.  
Quique utriusque fuit Prefectus Principis aule,  
Fundavitque duas perpetuando Scholas.  
Aulaque sumptu hujus renovatus est Enea Criste  
Hic situs est, anime part benign sue.   
You may see more of this worthy Bishop in Hist. & Antiq. Vniu. Oxon. lib. 2. p. 104. b. 161. b. 212. 415. b. He the said Dr. Smyth gave three hundred pounds to John the Prior, and Convent of Land in Leycestershire to have the Parsonage and Parish Church of Roysthorne in Cheshire bought and appropriated to their house: Which accordingly being done, the said Prior and Convent, did, in consideration thereof, give and confirm under their Common Seal to the Mayor and Citizens of Chester an annuity of ten pounds to be paid from the Monastery of S. Werburgh within the said City, to the end that they pay that annuity to a Master or Bachelaur of Arts, or at least to a Master of Grammar, that should teach Grammar freely at Farnworth in Lancashire. This was done 22. Hen. 7. and soon after was a School settled there. He also gave many ornaments, and other stuff to Brasnose coll. to be used in their Chapel and elsewhere.  
CHRISIOPHER BAINBRIDGE, Bambridg, or Baynbrigg, was born at Hilton near Appleby in Westmoreland, educated in Queen's coll. of which he became Provost before the year 1495. (being about that time LL. D.) and afterwards a liberal benefactor thereunto. In Feb. 1485. he being then Prebendary of South-Grantham in the Cath. Church of Salisbury, (which he resigned) became Prebendary of Chardstock in the said Church, and in Apr. 1486. was made Preb. of Horton in that Church on the resignation of R. Morton. In 1503. Sept. 28. he was admitted Preb. of Strenshall in the Cath. Ch. of York, then void by the consecration of Jeffr. Blyth to the See of Lich. and Coventry, and on the 21. Dec. following he was installed Dean of the said Church of York, in the place of the said Jeffr. Blyth, who had been installed in that Dignity (in the place of Dr. Will. Sheffield deceased,) 24. Mar. 1496. In 1505. he was not only made Dean of Windsor but Master of the Rolls, and one of the King's Counsellors, in which year he resigned his Rectory of the Ch. of Aller in the Dioc. of B. and Wells. In 1507. he being elected Bishop of Durham, had restitution 
f Pat ●3. Hen. 7. p. 2. m. 24.  made to him of the temporalities of that See 17. Nou. the same year; and in the next, being elected Archbishop of York on the death of Thom. Savage, had the temporalities also of that See restored 
g Pat. 24. Hen. 7. p. 3. m. 11▪  to him 12. Dec. 24. Hen. 7. In March 1511. he was made Cardinal of S. Praxedis for the service he did in persuading K. Hen. 8. to take part with the Pope in the Wars between him and Lewis 12. King of France, and in 1514. being then in Rome, was poisoned by one Rinaldo de Modena an Italian Priest, (who was his Steward,) upon malice and displeasure conceived, for a blow his Master gave him, as the said Rinaldo, when he was executed for it, confessed at his death. He ended his days on the 14. July in fifteen hundred and fourteen, and was, as certain authors say, buried in the English hospital (now called the English college) in Rome. year 1514 The author of Cardinal Wolsey's life 
h (In cap. 4.  saith, that the said Cardinal Bainbridge died at Rohan in France, being then, and there the King's Ambassador. Onuph. Panvinius, and Joh. Baleus with his authors, tells us that Christopher Vrswyke, who was Predecessor to the said Cardinal Bainbridge in the Deanery of Windsor, was made Cardinal of S. Praxedis, but false, for it must be understood of Bainbridge. As for Christoph. Vrswyke, he had been Recorder of London in part of the Reign of Edw. 4. in the time of Ric. 3. and in part of Hen. 7. To which last King being Chaplain, and afterwards Almoner, was by him employed in several Embassies, especially to Charles 8. K. of France, choosing him then the rather for that employment, because he was a Churchman, as best sorting with an Embassy of pacification, as that, and others were, to the said King. In 1488. May 22. he being then LL. D. he was confirmed Dean of York by his Proctor, in the place of Rob. Both, who died 25. Jan. going before. Which dignity Vrswyke resigning, was succeeded therein by Will. Sheffield LL. D. in the month of June 1494. In 1490. he was made Canon of Windsor, and about that time Archdeacon of Wilts, (in the place, if I mistake not, of one Hugh 
* The said Hugh Pavy was afterwards Bish. of S. David's.  Pavy, who had succeeded in that dignity Pet. Courtney upon his promotion to the See of Exeter, in the beginning of Febr. 1478.) and in 1493. Mar. 21. was not only only made Preb. of Botevaunt in the Church of York on the resignation of Edward Cheyney, but also Archdeacon of Richmond on the promotion of John Blyth to the See of Sarum. In 1495. Nou. 20. he was installed Dean of Windsor in the place of Dr. Jo. Morgan made Bishop of St. David's, and about the same time became Registrary of the most Noble Order of the Garter. Afterwards he was offered the Bishopric of Norwich, upon the death of James Goldwel, but refused it, and in the beginning of Febr. an. 1504 became Archdeacon of Oxford, on the promotion of Dr. Rich▪ Mayhew to the See of Hereford. At length after he (in the chief part of his life-time) had refused great honours, and so consequently riches, he retired to Hackney near London, where, in a contented condition, he spent several years in a religious and close retirement even to his death, which happening in a good old age on the 24. Octob. in 1521. was buried on the north side of the Chancel of the Ch. there; where was lately, if not still, a monument of white freestone remaining over his grave.  
JAMES STANLEY, Son of Thomas Earl of Derby, was born in Lancashire, and educated in this University, but in what house, I cannot yet tell. On the 3. March 1491. he became Preb. of Yatminster prima in the Cath. Church of Sarum, and in the year following Preb. of Beminster prima in the said Church. In 1500. Dec. 3. he became Archdeacon of Richmond on the resignation of Christop. Vrswyke, and in 1505. in Sept. Chantor of the Cath. Ch. of Sarum, being then Warden of the coll. at Manchester in his own Country. On the 18. June 1506. he, by the name of Jacobus Stanley nuper hujus Vniversitatis Scholasticus, (did 
a Reg. Uniu. Oxon. ●. contin. Acta Congreg. fol. ●9. b.  supplicate the venerable congregation of Regent's, that he might be licenced to proceed in the Civil Law, which was granted with some conditions; and being soon after elected Bishop of Ely, after the death of Rich, Reaman, the temporalities thereof were 
b Fat. 22. Hen. 7. p. 3. ●. ●3.  restored to him 5. Nou. following. On the 29. Jan. 1507. the said Regent's, with the Non-Regents, did grant 
c Ib. in cod. ●eg. 〈◊〉 51.  that he the said James Stanley Bishop of Ely might be created Doctor of decrees by a cap put on his head by Will. Archb. of Canterbury and Richard B. of London. Which grant being accordingly performed with solemnity, a Letter of thanks was sent to the University for the honour they had done unto him. He left behind him at his death a natural Son called John de Yarford a Knight; whom probably he had begotten on a Concubine, which (as Dr. Fr. Godwin tells 
d In Comment. de praesul. Angl. edit. 1616. p. 331.  us) he kept at Somersham in his Diocese. In his last 
e In Offic. Praerog. Cant. in reg. Holder. Qu. 7.  Will and Test. dated 210. March 1514. and proved 23. May 1515. I find that it was his desire to be buried in a new Chapel to be made within the precincts of the Cath. Ch. of Ely, or else in his new Chapel then in building at Manchester. His will farther was, That the Chapel to be made for him to be buried and rest his bones in, should be made at the east end of the Cathedral Church of Ely, for which be would that 100 marks be bestowed on a Tomb for him to be erected therein. Also that another Chapel be built at Manchester, on the north side of the Church, between St. James Chappel and the east end of the Church, wherein he would have a Tomb made for him. On which Chapel and Tomb he would have an hundred pounds bestowed for the building of them, etc.— In this last Chapel dedicated to S. Joh. Bapt. which joins on the north side of the collegiate Church at Manchester (wherein I presume he was buried, because there is neither Tomb or inscription for him at Ely) I find this inscription following. Of your charity pray for the Soul of James Stanley sometimes Bishop of Elye and warden of Manchester, 
1514-15.  who decess this transitory Wourld the xxii. of March yn the year of hour Lord God mdxv. upon whose Soul and all Christian Sowles Jesus have mercy, etc. 
Vive deo gratus, toto mundo tumulatus.  
Crimine mundatus, semper transire paratus.  
Filii hominum, etc.   
In a catalogue, or rather history of the Wardens of Manchester coll. which I have 
f In 〈…〉 C. 37.  seen, I find these matters of James Stanley,— At Manchester he built a most sumptuous Chapel on the north side of the Church, being 28 yards long and 9 yards broad, and a square Chapel on the north side of that again he built. He built the south side of the wood-work in the Choir, the seats for the Warden, Fellows, and Churchmen, being thirty seats on both sides, and Mr. Rich. Bexwick that builded Jesus Chappel, builded the other side.— He lieth buried on the north side of this Chapel, in a fair Tomb, with his picture in brass, in his pontificial robes, and the Arms of Derbie and his Bishopric impaled, etc. In the See of Ely succeed James Stanley one Nicholas West Doctor of both the Laws of Cambridge, who had restitution 
g Pat. 7. Hen. 8. p. 2.  made of the temporalities of that See 6. Sept. 7. Hen. 8. dom. 1515. He was born at Putney in Surrey, educated in Grammar learning in Eton School near Windsor, chose Scholar of King's coll. in 1477. Where 
h Tho. Hatcher in his cat. of Provests. Fellows and S●hol. of King's coll. in Cambr. MS. ●ub an. 1477.  proving a factious and turbulent person set the whole College together by the Ears about the Proctorship of the University. And when he could not obtain his desires, he set fire on the Provosts lodgings, stole away silver spoons, and ran away from the College. But within short space after, he became a new Man, repaired to the University, and with general approbation for his excellent learning he was made Doctor 
i But in the King's writing for the the restitution of his temporalities, he is styled Doctor of both the laws.  of Divinity. He was well experienced in the Civil and Canon Laws, and had such an art and faculty in opening dark places and sentences of the Scripture that none of his time could exceed him, etc. In 1510. he became Dean of Windsor, in the place of Dr. Thom. Hobbes Warden of Alls. coll. deceased, and Registrary of the most Noble Order of the Garter. Afterwards King Hen. 8. sent him often Ambassador to Foreign Princes, and Q. Katherine chose him and Bishop Fisher her Advocates in the cause of divorce from K. Hen. 8. for which he incurred that King's displeasure. He paid his last debt to nature on the sixth day of Apr. 1533. Whereupon his body was buried in the Cath. Ch. of Elye, in the middle of a Chapel by him a little before erected on the south side of the same Church. Soon after was a large marble laid over his grave, with this inscription thereon. Of your charity pray for the Soul of Nicholas West sometimes Bishop of this See, and for all Christian Sowles. For the which prayer, he hath granted to every person so doying forty days of pardon for every time that they shall so pray, etc. In the said See of Elye succeeded Thom. Goodrick D. of Diu. Son of Edward Goodrick of Kirbye in Lincolnshire, Son of John Goodricke of Bullingbrook in the said County, which Thomas was educated in King's college in the University of Cambridge.  
JOHN THORNDEN, sometimes written Thornton, was Doctor of Diu. and several times Commissary or Vicechancellor of this University, while Dr. warham Archb. of Canterbury was Chancellor, viz. between the years 1506, 
Clar. 1514.  and 1514. in which time he is often styled Episcopus Syrynensis and Syrymensis (perhaps the same with Sirmium in Hungary) as being a Suffragan to the same Archbishop, which is all I know of him.  
MENELAUS' Mac-CARMACAN, sometimes written among our imperfect Records Carmgan Hibernicus spent some time among his Countrymen in this University, but whether he took a degree, we have no Register to show it. Afterwards retiring to his Country he became Dean of Raphoe, and at length Bishop of that place in 1484. He died 
* Jac. War. in lib. De Praesul. Hibern. p. 77.  in the habit of a Gr●y-Frier on the seventh of the Ides of May in fifteen hundred and fifteen, year 1515 and was buried in the Monastery of the Franciscans, commonly called the Greyfriars, at Dunagall. Whereupon one Cornelius O-Cahan succeeded him in his Bishopric.  
RICHARD MAYHEW, or Mayo, received his first breath in Berkshire, in a Market Town, if I mistake not, called Hungerford, was educated in Grammar learning in Wykehams' School near to Winchester, admitted true and perpetual Fellow of New coll. in 1459. and on the 28. March 1467. took holy Orders from the hands of George Archb. of York. Soon after he was elected one of the Proctors of this University, and in 1480. was made Precedent of Magd. coll. by the Founder thereof W. Waynfleet, and about that time D. of Diu. In the beginning of May 1501▪ he was made Archdeacon of the East-riding of Yorkshire in the place of Joh. Hole Bach. of Decrees, deceased, (who on the first of May 1497. was, from being Archdeacon of Clieuland admitted to that Dignity on the resignation of Cornbull) and being installed Archdeacon of Oxon, on the 10. of the same month and in the same year, was sent into Spain to conduct the Infanta Katherine to England to be wedded to Prince Arthur. In 1503. he was elected Chancellor of this University, and in the year after, he being one of the King's Council, his Almoner, and elected to the See of Hereford, had restitution 
a Pat. 20. Hen. ●. p. 1. m. 26.  made to him of the temporalities belonging thereunto, on the first of Nou. 1504 He paid his last debt to nature on the 18. of Apr. in fifteen hundred and sixteen, year 1516 and was buried on the south side of the high Altar within his own Cathedral, near to the foot of the Image of the Glorious King and Martyr Ethelbert. By his 
b In reg. Holder, Qu. 18. in Offic. praerog. 〈◊〉.  Will he gave to 50 Priests studying in the University of Oxon, six shillings and eight pence apeice to pray for him, as also several books to New coll. Library. One Rich. Mayow Doctor of Decrees of this University, and Canon resid. of the Cath. Ch. of Exeter, died in the year 1500. whose Executor then was Thom, Harrys Archdeacon of Cornwall, but what relation there was between this Rich. Mayow (who was a Western man) and the Bishop before-mentioned, I know not. In the said See of Hereford succeeded Charels Both LL. D. of Cambridge; who, after election, received 
c Pat. 8. Hen. 8. p. ●.  the temporalities thereof 9 Feb. 1516. By his last Will and 
d Ib. in reg. Holder. Qu. 25.  Testam. proved 8. May 1535. he desired to be buried in the Cath. Ch. of Hereford juxta hostium ex parte boreali Ecclesiae, ubi construxi (as he saith) sepulchrum meum. After him succeeded in the said See Edw. Fox another Cantabrigian, who had the temporalities thereof restored 
e Pat. 〈◊〉 Hen. 8. p. 1.  to him 4. Oct. 1535. This person who was an eminent Scholar of his time, was born at Duresley in Gloucestershire, educated in Eton School near Windsor, admitted Scholar of King's coll. in Cambridge, 27. March 1512. became Provost of it 27. Decemb. 1528. and afterwards the King's Almoner, one of his Privy Council, and a great promoter of the King's divorce from Q. Katherine, particularly in the University of Cambridge, where he, and Dr. Steph. Gardiner procured, with much difficulty and earnest engaging of themselves, the testimony of the Members of the said University for the King's divorce before-mentioned, an. 1530. In Sept. 1531. he was installed Archdeacon of Leycester upon the resignation of Dr. Steph. Gardiner, and in Nou. 1533. he was made Archdeacon of Dorset on the death of Will. Bennet. About which time, or rather before, he had been Ambassador divers times into France and Germany, and afterwards was secretly a favourer of the reformed religion, insomuch that Martin Bucer dedicated his Cemmentary on the Evangelists to him. He, the said Fox, wrote a book, De vera differentia regiae potestatis & Ecclesiasticae, & quae sit ipsa veritas, ac virtus utriusque. Lond. 1534-38. for which and other learned labours, as his Annotations on Mantuan, he is celebrated, and numbered among the learned men, by 
f In Principum ac illustrium aliquot eruditorum in Anglis virorum encomii●, etc. Lond. 1589. qu. p. 63.  Joh. Leland. There is also extant a short oration of his in the story of the Lord Thomas Cromwell, which you may see in the Acts and Mon, of of the Church, and other matters elsewhere. By his last 
g In Offic● 〈◊〉 ut sup. in reg. Dingley, Qu. 25.  Will and Test. made the 8. May 1538. and proved 20. March following, it appears that he bequeathed his body to be buried in the Church of S. Mary Hault in London, now called S. Mary Mounthaw, (de monte alto) the Patronage of which belongs to the Bishop of Hereford. After him succeeded John Sk●ppe D. D. sometimes of gonvil coll. in Cambridge, who, after his election to the See of Hereford, had the King's 
h Pat. 31. Hen. 8. p. 3.  consent to it, 7. Nou. 1539. He died in his house at Mount-hault in London in the latter end of the year (after or on the 18. March) 1551. Whereupon his body was buried near to that of his Predecessor Edward Fox before-mentioned.  
JOHN HATTON, a Yorkshire man born, as it seems, and among the Oxonians for a time educated, became well beneficed in that County, and at length Suffiragan Bishop to the Archbishop of York under the title of Nigrepont; which is, as I suppose, near to the Archipelago. In the year 1503. he was made Prebendary of Gevendale in the Church of York, and in the year following Preb. of Vlleskelf in the same Church. But the said promotions being not sufficient to keep up the Port of a Bishop, he was made Archdeacon of Nottingham in the place of Tho. Crosley deceased, in the beginning of Sept. 1506. He departed this mortal life on the 25. year 1516 Apr. in fifteen hundred and sixteen, and was buried in the north Isle joining to the Choir of the Cathedral Church at York. In his Archdeaconry succeeded William Fell D. D. and in his Prebendary of Vlleskelf Brian Hygden LL. D.  
MILES SALLEY, or Sawley, a Benedictine Monk of Abendon Abbey, Almoner 
i Joh. Leland in tom. 1. collect. p. 4●3.  thereof, and in 1498. Abbot of the Monastery of Einsham near to, and in the County of, Oxford, was promoted to the rich Bishopric of Landaff in Nou. 1504 and in the year following did 
k Reg. Uniu. Oxon. 〈◊〉 fol. 237.  bestow considerable exhibitions on certain poor Scholars of Oxford, in which University, (in Gloucester coll. I think) he had received his Academical education. He departed his mortal life in the month of Septemb. in fifteen hundred and sixteen, year 1516 (at which time he bequeathed many good things to Einsham Abbey) whereupon his heart and bowels were buried before the Image of S. Theodorick at the high Altar in the Church of Mathern in Monmouthshire, (at which place the B. of Landaff hath a Palace) and his body carried to Bristol, where it was with great solemnity buried on the north side of our Lady's Chapel before the Image of S. Andrew, situate and being within the college of Gaunts, (which Leland in his Itinerary styles the Gauntes alias the Bonhomes,) founded originally by Hen. de Gaunt a Priest. After him succeeded in the See of Landaff George Athequa a Black-Frier of Spain, who by the name of Georgius de Aitien, had the 
l Pat 9 Hen. 8. p. 1.  temporalities thereof given to him 23. Apr. 9 Hen. 8. dom. 1517. and after him followed a Cambridge Doctor named Rob. Halgate or Holgate of Helmesworth in Yorkshire, Master of the Order of Sempryngham, and Prior of Watton, who, after election to that See, had 
a Pat. 28. Hen. 8. p. ●  the King's consent 29. March 28. Hen. 8. The next was Anthony Dunstan, whom I shall hereafter mention.  
JAMES Mac-MAHON, who studied for some time Arts and the Civil Law, retired to his native Country of Ireland, became thro' certain petite preferments Bishop of Derry 1507. and died a little before the nativity of our Saviour in fifteen hundred and seventeen. year 1519 He held the 
b 〈…〉 Hib. p. 71.  Priorship of S. Pet. and S. Paul of Knock in the Province of Louth in Commendam with his Bishopric.  
THOMAS PURSELL, whose place of Nativity is as much unknown to me as the House in Oxon wherein educated, became Bishop of Waterford and Lismore in Ireland about 1486. and soon after took care that all 
c Ibid. p. 199.  the ancient charters of Lismore should be transcribed into a Register or Leiger-book; which book remaining with his successors till 1617. was by accident then burnt. He gave way to fate in fiveteen hundred and seventeen, year 1517 but where buried. I know not. In my searches 
d In 〈…〉  it appears that one John, Bishop of Waterford, was Rector of Bawdrob or Baudripp, in the Diocese of Bath and Wells, in January 1482. (22. Ed. 4.) whom I take to be predecessor to Thom. Pursell, though not mentioned by the Author of the Com. of the Irish Bishops.  
EDMUND COURCY, was descended from the noble family of the Courcyes of the Province of Monster in Ireland, and when young became a Brother of the Franciscan Order, in his own Country. Afterwards going into England, studied the Theological faculty (of which he was in few years after Doctor) among those of his Order in Oxon. At length being made Bishop of Clogher in his own Country, in 1484. was translated thence to Ross, on the sixth of the Cal. of Octob. 1494. He gave way to fate in a good old age, in the Monastery of his Order at Temolage, in the County of Cork, on the 14. of March, in fiveteen hundred and eighteen, year 1518 and was buried there. He is said by a certain 
* 〈…〉  Author to be much valued for his Fidelity by K. Hen. 7. and that he was the first of the English Nation that obtained the Episcopal See of Clogher.  
RICHARD WYLSON, a Northern man born, who, after he had spent some time in the Theological faculty, among those of his Order in Oxon, became Prior of the Manastery of Drax in Yorkshire, on the death of one Thomas Hancocke an. 1507. and about the year 1515. was made Suffragan Bishop to the Archb. of York, under the title of Nigrepont. In 1518. he built the Choir belonging to the Church of Bingley in Yorkshire, 
Clar. 1518.  in which Town, as 'tis probable, he was born, but when he died, it appears not. One Rich. Wilson an English man, became, by provision from the Pope, Bishop of Meath in Ireland, 1523. and sat there about six years: whether the same with the former I cannot tell.  
HUGH OLDHAM, or Owldham, descended from those of his name living at Oldham in Lancashire, was, as it seems, born at Manchester in that County, and being partly fitted for Academical learning, was sent to Oxon, where continuing for a while, went to Cambridge, took a degree there, and in Sept. 1495. was made Preb. of South Aulton in the Church of Sarum, on the death of John Coryndon, he the said Oldham being about that time Chaplain to Margaret Countess of Richmond, and Canon of the Cath. Ch. at Lincoln. In 1499. he, by the name of Hugh Oldham L. L. Bac. was admitted Preb. of South Cave in the ch. of York, in the place of Dr. Will. Worsley deceased, and on the 12. of Jan. the same year, he was installed in his proper person in that dignity. In 1504 he being by the endeavours of the said Countess elected Bishop of Exeter, by the name of Mr. Hugh Oldham, without the addition of Doctor or Bach. was 
* 〈…〉  restored to the temporalities of that See, 6 Jan. 1504 He sat there several years, not without some disturbance from the Abbot of Tavistock, occasioned by a contention between them about the liberties of the Church of Exeter; and dying on the 25. of June, year 1519 in fiveteen hundred and nineteen, was buried in the Cath. Ch. of S. Peter at Exeter, in a Chapel of his own erection, hallowed in honour of our Lord God S. Saviour, joining to the South side of the Church, a little above the high Altar. In which Chapel he appointed some of the Vicar's Choral of Exeter to say Mass daily for his Sole. He was a benefactor to the said Vicars, by giving them the Lands which belonged to the Brethren of the Holy Trinity at Totness in Devonshire (whose Cell there had been founded by one De la Bont, Lord of Little Totness, but 
a 〈…〉  suppressed by the said Oldham) to the end that they might be reduced together every day at one Table to take Commons. He was also an especial Benefactor to C. C. coll. in Oxon, as you may elsewhere 
a 〈…〉  see: and at Manchester in Lancashire (where his Obits was solemnised several years after his death in the collegiat Church) he built an house to be employed for a School, joining to the coll. there on the West part. Of this School he appointed a Master and an Usher, who were to teach Children Grammar after the use, manner, and form, of the School at Banbury in Oxfordshire, where Tho. Stanbridge taught the Grammar composed by John Stanbridge. He appointed the Precedent of C. C. coll. in Oxon, for the time being to elect a Schoolmaster and an Usher, the former to have 10l. and the other 5 l. per an. The Master was to teach freely without reward or taking of Cock-pennies, Victor-pennies, Potation-pennies, etc. Whether this School did go to ruin in the time of K. Ed. 6. or was like to be dissolved I know not. Sure I am that Hugh Bexwyck clerk, and Joan Bexwyck widow settled the said School 10 Elizab.  
THOMAS HALSAY, or Halsey, an English man, was conversant with the Muses in this University for a time, but in what house or hostile for Civilians or Canonists I cannot yet tell. Afterwards travelling beyond the Seas, where, I presume, he had the degree of Doctor of Laws conferred upon him, he was made Penitentiary of the English Nation in the Church of S. Peter in Rome, and the Pope's Prothonotary of Ireland. At length by the endeavours of Christop. Bainbridge Archb. of York and Cardinal, he was by the provision of P. Jul. 2. made Bishop 
b 〈…〉  of Laighlin in Ireland, about the year 1513, but never lived, as it seems, to visit his See or abide there. In 1515 and 16. he was present at the council of Lateran, while in the mean time his Vicar general (Charles Cavenagh) managed his diocese. After his return into England in order to go into Ireland, year 1519 he died in Westminster about fifteen hundred and nineteen; whereupon his body was buried in the Church belonging to the Savoy hospital in the Strand. Near his tombstone on the left side was Gavin Douglas Bishop of Dunkeld in Scotland buried 
c 〈…〉  an. 1522. having been suddenly deprived of his life by the Pest. In the same year (1519) died also Joh. Imurily Bishop of Ross in Ireland, sometimes a Cistercian monk of Maur in the county of Cork, but whether he was ever of Oxon. I cannot tell. Sure I am, that several of the surname of Immerley studied there in the time or age wherein Jo. Imurily lived.  
JOHN PENNY whose native place is as yet to me unknown, was educated 
† 〈…〉  in Lincoln coll. but whether in the condition of a Fellow, I cannot tell. Afterwards he being Doctor of the Laws, and noted for an eminent Canonist, was made Bishop of Bangor in 1504, (having before been Abbot of Leycester as John L●land 
‖ 〈…〉  saith) where sitting till 1508. was by the Pope's Bull dated at Rome 10. call. Oct. in the same year translated to Carlisle, and on the 23 of January following paid his obedience to the Archb. of York. year 1520 He gave way to fate about fifteen hundred and twenty, but where buried, unless in his church of Carlisle I know. His predecessor in that See was Dr. Rog. Laybourne of Cambridge, who by his 
* 〈…〉  will dated 17. Jul. 1507. desired to be buried in the parish church of S. James near to Charing Cross by London, but whether he died in that, or in the year following, I cannot tell because there was no probat made of his Will. Walter Redman D. D. and Master of the coll. at Greystock in Cumberland was one of his Executors.  
WILLIAM ATWATER, a Somersetshire man born, as it seems, was first Demie, and afterwards Fellow of Magd. coll. where, while he continued in the state of Bachelaur, he was esteemed a good Disputant in Philosophy, as afterwards, when Master, in Divinity. In 1489. Dec. 19 he was collated to the Church of Hawbridge in the Dioc. of Wells, and in 1492. (in Feb. as it seems,) he proceeded D. of D. In 1497. and several years after, he did undergo the office of Commissary of the University, being then Rector of Pedylhynton in the Di●c. of Sarum and Vicar of Comnore near Abendon in Berks, and in Jul. 1498. he was made Rector of Dychcat commonly called Dichet in Somersetshire, by the death of John Gunthorp. Which Rectory he holding till Oct. 1513. was in the next month succeeded therein by Andr. Ammonius an Italian, than Preb. of Compton-Dunden in the Church of Wells. In 1499. the said Doctor Atwater became Canon of Windsor, and about the same time Fellow of Eton coll. and Registrary of the most Noble Order of the Garter. In 1502. I find him to be Dean of the King's Chapel, and on the 5. of July 1506. I find him installed Chanc. of the Church of Lincoln. Which dignity he holding six years Nich. Bradbridge was installed therein 16. Nou. 1512. In the beginning of Sept. 1509. he was made Dean of Salisbury upon the promotion of Thom. Ruthall or Rowthall to the See of Durham; in which year Thom. Writhiously Garter K. of Arms granted to him, the said Atwater, a Coat of Arms, by the name of Will. Atwater Professor of Divinity, of Davington in Somersetshire, and Dean of the King's Chapel, etc. by which, it may appear that he was originally of Davington, if such a Town or Village or Hamlet be in that County. On the ●. June 1514. he was installed by proxy Archdeacon of Huntingdon in the place of Joh. Constable Doctor of Decrees, and being made Bishop the same year, Rich. Rawlyns D. D. was installed in that Dignity on the 18. of Novemb. He was a person much esteemed and valued by Cardinal Wolsey, who finding him a man of parts did use his advice and council in all or most of his public concerns. At length by his endeavours he was made his Successor in the Episcopal See of Lincoln, to which being consecrated on the 
d Fr. Godwin in Com. de prasul. Angl. p. 360.  twelfth day of Nou. 1514. fate there to the time of his death, year 1520 which happened in fifteen hundred and twenty. He was buried in the great middle Isle of the Cath. Chat Lincoln, at the foot of the Tomb of Bishop Alnwyke, and had soon after a large tombstone laid over his grave, with the portraiture of a Bishop engraven on a large brass plate fastened thereunto, with this inscription following engraven also on plates of brass. Hic requiescit reverendus in Christo Pater Willielmus Atwater sacre Theologie professor, & regum Henrici septimi & octavi sacelle prius Decanus, mox eorundem a consiliis, postea hujus percelebris Ecclesie Episcopus. Presedit annos sex, menses tres. Obiit anno etatis sue octogesimo primo, consecrationis septimo, à Christo nato millesimo quingentessimo vicessimo, die mensis Februarii quarto.  
WILLIAM ROKEBY, Brother to Sir Rich. Rokeby Treasurer of Ireland, was born in Yorkshire, educated partly in an ancient hostile for the reception of Canonists in S. Aldates' Parish, he himself being afterwards Doctor of the Can. Law, and about the same time Rector of Sandall near Doncaster, and Vicar of Halyfax, in his own Country. In 1507. he was by the favour of P. Jul. 2. made Bishop of Meath in Ireland, and the same year one of the King's Privy Council there. In the latter end of 1511. he was translated by the authority of the same Pope to the Archiepiscopal See of Dublin, and in 1515. was made Chancellor of Ireland by K. Hen. 8. in which great office, as 'tis supposed, he continued to the time of his death. He yielded to the stroke of death 29. Nou. in fifteen hundred twenty and one, year 1521 and was buried, as a certain 
h Jac Waraeus ut sup. p. 11●.  author saith, in the Church of S. Patrick near Dublin. In his Will 
i In reg Tho. W'olsey Arch●ep. Ebor. fol. 155.  dated 22. Nou. and proved 4. February, an. 1521. wherein he styles himself Archb. of Dublin and perpetual Vicar of Halifax, I find these things following,— Item, I will that after my death my body be emboweled and my bowels and heart to be buried in the Church of Halifax within the Choir, and my body to be buried in the new Chapel at Sandall, and thereon a Tomb of stone to be made, and about the same to be written, Ego Willielmus Dublin Archiepiscopus, quondam Rector istius Ecclsie, credo quod redemptor meus vivit— qui obiit— cujus anime proptietur deus amen. Item, I will that a Chapel be made in all convenient haste at Halifax on the south side of the Church, after the direction of mine Executors and Church-Masters, and there a Tomb to be made with my Image, and thereupon written, Hic jacet-Willlelmi Rokeby nuper Dublin Archiepiscopi & Vicarii perpetui ●stius Ecclesie, qui credo, etc. Item, where I did obtain a Pardon for the Parish of Halifax, and the Parishing thereunto adjoining, pro lacticiniis in quadragessima edendis, I will that mine Executors at their discretion obtain sub plumbo the said licence to be renewed, and the profit thereof to be employed for a Priest to sing at Halifax in my said new Chapel as long as may be, by the advice and discretion of my Executors and the Churchwardens. Item, I will that a Doctor of Diu. have 10 l. to be occupied in Preaching, etc. Thus far part of his Will-; according to the tenor of which his heart was buried in the Chancel of the Ch. at Halifax, and thereon was laid a stone, with the figure only of an heart engraven thereon. On the north side of the said Church was also founded a Chapel, wherein was a monument built for him, with an inscription put thereon. Which being since partly defaced, you shall have that part which lately remained thereon. Orate pro anima Willielmi Rokeby jur. Can. profess. ac etiam Episcopi Medensis, & denied Archiepisc, Dublin, capelle fundatoris istius. Qui obiit… Novembris an. Dom. mcccccxxi. What was performed at Sandal for the accomplishment of the other part of his Will, I know not. One Will. Rokeby LL. Bac. who was well beneficed in Yorkshire, succeeded Joh. Dakyn LL. D. in the Archdeaconry of the East-riding of the said County, in Dec. 1558. who dying in 1568. Martin Parkinson B. D. had that Dignity conferred upon him in Dec. the same year, but before he had kept it an year, he gave way to fate: Whereupon the said Dignity was conferred on John Mey D. D. who was settled therein in the beginning of Aug. 1569. and soon after became Bishop of Carlisle. I find also one John Rokeby LL. D. to be Chanter, Canon resid▪ and Preb. of Duffeild, of, and in the Church of York, who died in the latter end of 1574. Which John with William before-mentioned were of the same Family with Will. Archb. of Dublin.  
RICHARD FITZ-JAMES, son of John Fitzjames (by Alice his Wife daugh, of Joh. Newbourgh) son of James Fitz-james by Eleanor his Wife daugh. and heir of Sim. Draycot, was born in Somersetshire, became a Student in the University of Oxon about 1459. elected probatoner-Fellow of Merton coll. in 1465. took holy orders when he was Master, and in 1473 was elected one of the Proctors of the University. In the beginning of March 1474 he became Preb. of Taunton in the church of Wells upon the resignation of John Wansford, and afterwards being constituted chaplain to K. Edw. 4. he proceeded in Divinity. On the 12 of March 1482 he was elected Warden of Merton coll. upon the resignation of John Gygur, being then and after esteemed a frequent Preacher. Which place he keeping about 25 years, he showed himself most worthy of it by his admirable way of government which he exercised, by his continual benefaction thereunto, and by his endeavours, when in power, to promote his Fellows. In March 1484-85. he was made Vicar of Mynhead, and about that time Rector of Aller, in Somersetshire; in which last he was succeeded by Mr. Christopher Baynbrigg in the latter end of May 1497. On the 2. of June 1495. he was admitted Almoner to K. Hen. 7. and on the 2. of January 1496. being then elected by the Monks of Rochester to be Bishop of that See, was consecrated thereunto at Lambeth 21. May following by Cardinal Moreton Archb. of Canterbury, and his Assistants Land●ff and Bangor. In January 1503. he was translated to the See of Chichester in the place of Dr. Edw. Story a Cantabrigian, (who dying in the latter end of the year 1502. was buried on the north side of the high Altar in the Cath. Ch. at Chichester, under a fair Tomb which he a little before had built for himself,) and on the 14. March. 1505. he was nominated by the King to succeed Dr. Barons in the See of London. On the 1. Aug. 1506. the temporalities of that See were 
* 〈…〉  restored to him: So that soon after being settled there, he resigned his Wardenship of Merton coll. which he had kept in Commendam with Rochester and Chichester, and all that time had administered the Government thereof with great commendation. But this the Reader is to note, that though he was a Bishop several years while Warden, yet did he, according to statute and custom, submit himself yearly in the month of January to the scrutiny of the Fellows of the said coll▪ in the Chapel of S. Cross of Halywell near to Oxon, de mora & muribus Custodis. Which statute continuing in use till the time of Hen. 8. was then disused by Dr. Joh. Chamber Warden thereof, under pretence of absence in serving his Majesty as Physician. He the said Dr. 〈…〉 bestowed much money in adorning the Cathedral of S. Paul, as he had done before the collegiate Parish Church belonging to Merton coll. in which house he built (I cannot say all at his own charge) the hall, with a fair dining-room over it; and a lodging room, with a large vault under it, both joining on the west side to the said hall and dining-room, for the use of him while Warden, and his Successor in that office for ever. Which hall, dining-room, and lodging Chamber were made as additions to the old lodgings belonging to the Wardens of the said college, and were built on the south side of those lodgings which were erected by Hen. Sever sometimes Warden. He the said Dr. Fitz-James also bestowed much money in the building and finishing of S. Mary's Church in Oxon. In memory of which benefaction were his Arms, quartering those of Draycot, engraven on stone over the north door leading from the Schoolstreet to the lower end (on the north side) of the body of that church. His Arms also with those of Card. Joh. Moreton Archb. of Cant. and Edm. Audley Bish. of Sarum were at the bottom of the Stone-pulpit in the said Ch. of S. Mary, most curiously engraven, and also on the roof of the old Library, (afterwards a Congregation-house) on the north side of S. Mary's Chancel. To the reparation of which Church, as also to the building of the Pulpit, which consisted all of Ashler-stone, there is no doubt but that he was a benefactor. He also, with his brother Sir Joh. Fitz-James L. Ch. Justice of England, were the chief Founders of the School-house in Brewton in Somersetshire, near which Town (at Redlinch, as 'tis said) they were both born. Will. Gilbert Abbot of Brewton was a benefactor to it, and so was John edmond's D. D. Abbot of Glastenbury. At length, after good deeds had trod upon his heels even to Heaven gates, he gave way to fate in a good old age in the beginding of fifteen hundred twenty and two: year 1522 Whereupon his body was buried in the nave of his own Cathedral of S. Paul, under the Altar of S. Paul, near to the foundation or foot of the Campanile, under a marble Tomb prepared and erected by him in his life time. Afterwards was a little Chapel erected over the said Tomb, wherein, I presume, were Masses said for his Soul. But when the said Campanile was consumed with fire 1561. the Chapel then was consumed also.  
THOMAS RUTHALL, or Rowthall, was born in a Market Town in Gloucestershire called Cirencester, in the Church of which place I saw some years since a monument for one John Avenying and his Wife: Which John dying 1401. might probably be (according to time) Grandfather to….. Avening, (whom some call Aveling) Mother to Tho. Ruthall beforementioned. He was educated for some years in this University, as it evidently appears in one 
a Reg. vel lib. Epistol. Uniu. Oxon. FF. Epist. 22. 55. 109. etc. Vide Hist. & Antiq. Uniu. Oxon. lib. 2. p. 422. a.  or more of our Registers, but in what coll. or hall I know not. Thence, as 'tis said, he went to Cambridge for a time, but when, it doth not appear. Sure it is that one Rothall took the degree of D. of D. in this University, and in the year 1500. was 
b In the Cat. of Chanc. Proct. and of Proceeders at Cambridge, at the end of Matth. Parkers Aniq. Britan. Ecclesiae— Printed in fol. 1572. or 73.  incorporated at Cambridge, with Dr. Rich. Mayhew Precedent of Magd. coll. In 1503. he was elected Chancellor of the University of Cambridge, (being then Archdeacon of Gloucester,) and in the beginning of Sept. 1505. he was made Dean of Salisbury, in the place, as it seems, of one Edw. Cheyney, who occurs Dean of that Church in Aug. 1499. About that time, he being esteemed a person of great virtue and prudence, he was made Secretary to K. Hen. 7. who a little before his death nominated him to the See of Durham upon the translation of Bainbridge to York. Soon after K. Hen. 8. succeeding in the Throne, he made him his Secretary for a time, and one of his Privy Council. And being then elected to the said See of Durham, the temporalities thereof were 
c Pat. ●1. Hen. 8. p. 2. m. ●6.  restored to him, 3. July 1. Hen. 8. dom. 1509. Afterwards he was made 
d Pat. 8. Hen. 8: pag. 1:  L. Privy Seal, was esteemed a famous Clerk, and admirably well read in both the Laws, being, as 'tis said, Doctor or Professor of them. Towards his latter end he founded a Free School at the place of his nativity, and gave an house and seven pounds per an. for the maintenance of a Master: Which School having for the most part flourished in good sort, hath educated many that have been eminent in Church and State. He paid his last debt to nature at Durham place near London, on Wednesday the fourth of Feb. 
1522-23.  in fifteen hundred twenty and two, and was buried in the Chapel of S. John Baptist joining to the Abbey-Church of S. Peter in Westminster; at which time Dr. Rowl. Phillip's Vicar of Croyden a great Divine and a renowned Clerk preached an excellent Sermon. Some years after was a fair raised Tomb built over his grave with his Statue thereon mitred and vested, and a small inscription on it, but false as to the year of his death.  
MAURICE FITZGERALD, called by some Mauritius Johannis, was of ancient extract in Ireland, and for a time educated in Oxon under the name of Fitz-Gerard, but whether he took a degree we have no Register of that time that shows it. Afterwards by provision from P. Julius 2. he was made Archb. of Cashills in Ireland, and died, year 1523 as 'tis 
d Jac. War. ut supra, p. 1●1.  reported, in fifteen hundred twenty and three. 'Tis said that certain statutes, made in a Synod by him held at Limerick 1511. were inserted in the Register of Thom. Pursell B. of Lismore and Waterford; which with the Reg. itself were afterwards consumed in the flames, as I have before told you.  
JOHN TYNMOUTH, sometimes a Grey-friar at Lynne in Norfolk, was edacuted in Theological learning among those of his Fraternity at Cambridge, and afterwards among those at Oxon, and at length made a Suffragan Bishop under the tit. of the Bish. of Argos, then in partibus infidelium. year 1524 He gave way to fate in fifteen hundred twenty and four, and was buried in the Ch. yard of Bostou in Lincolnshire, (of which place he was Vicar) right against the midst of the high Altar, to the end that his loving Parishioners, when they should happen to see his Grave and Tomb, might be sooner moved to pray for his Soul. He gave at the time of his death to the houses of Grey Friars at Lynne, Cambridge, and Oxon, 5 l. a piece.  
EDMUND AUDLEY Son of Jam. Tuchet or Touchet Lord Audley by Alianore his wife, was educated in Academical learning in Lincoln coll. as it seems, to which afterwards he was an especial benefactor, took the 
* Reg. congreg. Aa. fol. 125. a.  degree of Bach. of Arts in 1463, but whether that of Master, it doth not appear in the reg. of that time, which is imperfect. In Janu. 1471 he became Preb. of Farendon in the Church of Lincoln, upon the resignation of one Rob. Skyllington, (or rather Stillington) and in the month of Oct. 1475 Preb. of Codeworth in the Church of Wells, on the death of Mr. Will, Fulford. On the 25. Dec. the same year, he, under the title of M. A. became Archdeacon of the East-Riding of Yorkshire on the death of Joh. Walker LL. B. and had other preferments in other Churches conferred upon him. At length being promoted to the See of Rochester, his Archdeaconry was bestowed on a certain noble man named Edw. Pole, installed therein 15. Oct. 1480. who being made Archdeacon of Richmond, (upon the consecration of John Shirwood B. of Durham) was installed therein 6. Jan. 1484. So that thereupon resigning his Archdeaconry of the East-riaing of Yorksh. Will. Poteman (sometimes Warden of Alls. coll. as I guess) was installed on the 16. of the same month in the same year, who dying 25. March 1493. Hen. Cornbull succeeded him. Afterwards Edm. Audley was translated to the See of Hereford upon the death of Thom. Mylling, (sometimes a Student among the Benedictines of Gloucester coll. in the Suburbs of Oxon,) the temporalities of which were 
e Pat. 8 Hen. 7. p. 2. m. 2.  given to him 26. Dec. 1492. and from thence to Salisbury, the temporalities of which See also were put 
f Pat. 17. Hen. 7. p. 1. 〈◊〉 1●▪  into his hands on the 2. of April 1502. and about that time was made Chancellor of the most Noble Order of of the Garter. In 1518. he 
g Vide Hest. & Antiq. Uniu. Oxon. lib. 2. p 161. b  gave 400 l. to Linc. coll. to purchase lands for the use thereof, and about that time bestowed upon the said house the Patronage of a Chantry which he had lately founded in a Chapel built by him in the north part of the Choir of the Cath. Ch. at Salisbury. He also was a Benefactor to the reparation of the Congregation-house (sometimes a Library) on the north side of S. Mary's Chancel in Oxford, to the erection of that curious piece of workmanship, the stone Pulpit, in the said Ch. finished 1508. (at the bottom of which were his Arms, a Fret impaled by the See of Sarum) and gave 200 marks for the supply of Chichleys' chest (belonging to the University) which had before been robbed of its treasure. But whether he built the choir or chancel of S. Mary's church, or gave the old Organs (as a certain 
b Fr. Godwin in Com de praesul. Angl. edit. 1616. p. 407.  author is pleased to tell us) I find it no where to appear. At length departing this mortal life, in a good old age, at Ramsbury in Wilts, year 1524 on the 23 of Aug. in fiveteen hundred twenty and four, was buried in the chapel beforementioned, built by him in honour of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary, within the cath. ch. of Sarum: to the reparation of which cathedral he bequeathed threescore pounds. After his death Laur. Campegius Cardinal of S. Anastasius was made Bishop of Salisbury, but whither he, (being almost continually absent) or any of his Successors till the time of Dr. Seth Ward, an. 1671. were ever chancellors of the order of the Garter, in doth not appear.  
THEODORICK O-BRIEN, sometimes written Terence and Terlach O-brien, was descended from an ancient and noble family of his name in Ireland, and after he had spent some time in good letters here in Oxon, became Bishop of Killaloe in the said Country, and a person of great name there for his liberality and hospitality, yet addicted to warfare more than became his coat. He paid his last debt to nature 
† Jac. War. ut sup. p. 231.  in fiveteen hundred twenty and five. Several years before his time was another of both his names Bishop of that place, and another after him; whereupon, by writers, this Bishop was commonly written and called Terence O-Brien the second.  
JOHN YOUNG received his first breath in this world at Newton-Longvill in Bucks, was educated in Wykehams' School near Winchester, became perpetual Fellow of New coll. in 1482. and left it in 1502. being then, or about that time, Doct. of Diu. and Rector of S. Martin's Church in Oxon. Afterwards he became well known to Cardinal Tho. Wolsey, by whose endeavours he was made Dean of Chichester, Bishop titular of Callipolis or Galipoli, a City in Thrace, about 1517. Judge, as 'tis said, of the Prerogative of Canterbury, and Warden of New coll. in 1521. He died 28. year 1526 March, in fifteen hundred twenty and six, and was buried, as I suppose, in the Chapel of the said College, under a Marblestone that he had lain there some time before his death, with an inscription thereon, and a blank for the time of his death to be filled up by his Executor, or Overseer of his last Will and Testament, but was never performed. The reader is to know that there was another John Young, who, from being Prebendary of Apesthorpe in the cath. ch. of York, was admitted Dean of that Church by the name and title of Jo. Young LL. D. on the 17. of May 1514. being at that time Master of the Rolls. But he dying 25. Apr. 1516. and buried in the chapel of the Rolls in chancery-lave near London, must not be taken to be the same with the former. Besides the said two, I find others of both their Names, as (1) John Young a Monk of Ramsey, who being well skilled in the Hebrew tongue, saved many books of that Language that were in the Library of that Monastery when 'twas dissolved, in 1535. or thereabouts. (2) Joh. Young (Giovanus) a native of Yorkshire, educated in Trin. coll. in Cambridge, afterwards Master of Pemb. hall and Vicechancellor of that University, of whom and his writings Baleus 
a In. cent. 8. num. 99  and Pitseus 
b In Aet. 16. num. 1020.  will inform you. (3) Jo. Young one of the Bonhoms or Good men, of the Monastery of Ashrugg in Bucks. Who being turned out thence at the dissolution by K. Hen. 8. entered himself a Sojourner in Exeter coll. about 1539. He was of kin to Jo. Young B. of Galipoli, but what name or eminence there was in him, I find not. (4) Jo. Young born at Newton Longvill before mentioned, Fellow of New coll. 1512. Rector of his native place in 1525. and died therein 1545. which Jo. was nearly related to the Bishop.  
WILLIAM HOW a Buckinghamshire man born as it seems, or at least descended from those of his name, living at, or near the Wycombs, was educated in all kind of Learning in this University, and by the title of Master of Arts thereof and the King's chaplain, did supplicate the Ven. congregation of Regent's in 1512. that he might be admitted to the reading of the Sentences, but whether he was really admitted, it appears not. Afterwards he traveled, was admitted Doct. of Diu. in an University beyond the Seas, and at his return retired to the University in the beginning of the year 1526. where by the name of Will. How Episcopus Aurensis, supplicated the said congregation that whereas he had been created Doct. of Divinity beyond the Seas, and had been a student in this University many years, he might be incorporated in the same faculty; which being granted simpliciter, he was forthwith incorporated. This Bishopric in the same I presume, with Auriensis or Orensis, commonly called Orense, under the Archbishopric of Compostella in Spain; to which courtry, as 'tis probable, this W. How was sent about business by Catherine of Spain Queen of England, 
Clar. 1526.  the Royal consort to K. Hen. 8. I find one Will. How M. of A. presented by the King to the Church of Shipton-Mallet in Somersetshire, on the death of Mr. Reynold West, in the beginning of Aug. 1516. and about that time became Rector of Alre (or Aller) in the same county; but this Will. How dying in 1521. or 22. must not be understood to be the same with the former. To this last, was Joh. How prior of Plympton in Devonshire related, who living to see his Monastery dissolved, went afterwards to Oxon, and settled in Exeter coll. in January 1545. in the condition of a Sojourner.  
WILLIAM GILBERT a Canon Regular and Prior of Brewton or Bruton in Somersetshire (in which county he was born) became Doct. of Diu. of this University in 1506. and in the year after was made Vicar of Mynhead in his own country, on the death of Tho. Beaumond sometimes Fellow of Merton coll. Afterwards, being esteemed a man of note, reverence and great Religion, he was made Suffragan Bishop to Hadrian de Castello Bishop of Bath and Wells, under the title of Episc. Majorensis, which is, 
* Qu. whether Megara, in which City Euclid was born:  in partibus Infidelium, and by that title he was admitted Vicar of Southpertherton in the Dioc. of Wells 16. Dec. 1525. by the presentation thereunto of Jo. heart Abbot of Athelney, as also to other benefices, and one or more dignities to keep up his port. Afterwards, or about that time, he went to Rome, 
Clari 1527:  and there procured 
† Joh: Leland in 2 vol. Itin. fol. 45.  of the Pope that the Priory of Brewton might be changed into an Abbey. After his return, he was always called Abbot Gilbert, and with its name, did so change the buildings of his Abbey, that it was but little better than re-edified by him. Whether he was the last Abbot I know not.  
RICHARD FOX, the worthy Founder of Corp. Ch. coll. in this University, of whom having made mention at large elsewhere, 
d In Hist. Antiq. 〈◊〉 Oxon. Lib. 2. p. 227. 228▪ etc.  I shall only say that he was born at Ropesley near to Grantham in Lincolnshire, educated in Grammar learning at Boston in the said county, in Academical for a time in Magd. coll. in Oxon, whence being transplanted to Cambridge, became at length Master of Pembroke hall there, Prebendary of Bishopston in the Church of Sarum, and in Feb. 1485. Preb. of South Grantham in the same Church, upon the resignation of Dr. Christop. Bainbridge. This person having been a constant Adherent to Henry Earl of Richmond, against King Rich. 3. was by him, when made King of England by the name of Hen. 7, made in the beginning of his reign one of his Privy Council, (he being then LL. D.) and nominated to be Bishop of Exeter in Feb. 1486. On the 24 of the same month, he had the custody of the Privy Seal conferred on him, and being elected to the said See, the K. restored 
e Pat. 〈…〉  to him the Temporalities belonging thereunto, 2. Apr. 1487. On the 5. Jul. following, he had by the King's 
f Ibid.  command twenty Shillings per diem allowed to him, to commence from the 24. Feb. beforementioned; which was allowed to him, as I suppose, as Keeper of the said Seal: And being elected afterwards to the See of B. and Wells, had restitution of its temporalities made 
g Pat. 〈…〉  to him by the King 4. May, 1492. In 1494. he was translated to Durham, and afterwards was elected Chancellor of the University of Cambridge, and being settled at Durham, he forthwith, out of a great vast Hall in the Castle there, did take as much away as made a fair Buttery and a Pantry, even to the Pulpits or Galleries on each side of the Hall, wherein the Trumpeters or Wind-musick used to stand to play while the meat was ushered in: And on the Wall, which parted the said buttery from the Hall, was a great Pelican set up, to show that it was done by him, because he gave the Pelican to his Arms. When Dr. Richard Neile became B. of Durham, he took away part of the said hall at the other end, to enlarge the great Parlour, and yet the hall continued fair and large still. At length upon the death of Dr. Tho. Langton, he was elected B. of Winchester; the temporalities of which being restored 
h Pat. 16. Hen. 7. p. 2. m 13  to him by the King 17. Octob. 1500. was soon after installed with great solemnity. After he was settled there, he performed many acts of piety and charity, among which was the foundation and establishment of C. C. coll. beforementioned, and dying in fifteen hundred twenty and eight, year 1528 was buried in the Cath. Ch. at Winchester, on the South side of the high Altar. After him followed in that See Card. Tho. Wolsey, of whom I shall make mention anon.  
HUGH INGE or Ynge, was born at Shipton-Mallet in Somersetshire, educated in Wykehams' School, made perpetual Fellow of New coll. in 1484. took the degrees in Arts, and left the coll. in 1496. Afterwards he traveled beyond the Seas, where he was made Doct. of Divinity, was successively made Preb. of East Harptrey in, and Succentor of, the Church of Wells, Guardian of Wapulham in the Dioc. of Lincoln, Preb. of Auste in the Church of Westbury in the Dioc. of Worcester, (to which the Vicarage of Wellow in the Dioc. of B. and Wells was annexed by the Pope) Vicar of Oldeston in the Dioc. of Lincoln, of Dultying in Somersetshire by the presentation of Richard the Abbot, and Conu. of Glastenbury, on the death of Mr. William. Speckington, and of Weston alias Sowey, by the presentation of the said Ab. and Conu. on the death of Mr. Rob. Stafford. In the beginning of Apr. 1511. he was incorporated D. of D. in this University, and in the latter end of that year was made Bishop of Meath in Ireland. Thence he was translated to the Archiepiscopal See of Dublin in the place of Dr. William. Rokeby, an. 1521. and about that time was made Chancellor of Ireland, where he was accounted a person of great probity and justice. He gave way to fate at Dublin 3 Aug. in fifteen hundred twenty and eight: year 1528 whereupon his body was buried in the Church of S. Patrick there. In the said See of Dublin, succeeded Dr. John Allen, whom I shall mention in his proper place.  
THOMAS BELE, Beel or Beyll, was bred a Canon regular of the Order of S. Austen, and educated in Acad. learning among those of his Order, studying in S. Mary's coll. in Oxon, of which he became Prior about 1508. Afterwards taking the degrees in divinity, he became Lord Prior of S. Mary Spytell without Bishopsgate in London, and at length Suffragan Bishop to Rich. Fitz-James B. of London, under the title of Episcop. Lydensis, which is under the Patriarch of Jerusalem. In that titular See succeeded one Joh. Holt, 
Clar. 1529.  but whether educated in this University I cannot tell. He lived mostly in the Town of Bury S. Edmund in Suffolk, where dying about the 12. of Aug. 1540 was buried in the Church of our blessed Lady S. Marry there, in our Lady's Isle near to the head of John Holt Gent.  
THOMAS WOLSEY, the great and mighty Cardinal of the time he lived in, whose life having been written several years after his death by Thom. Cavendish his Gentleman Usher, we are informed therein that he was born at Ipswych in Suffolk, but not that he was a Butcher's Son, as others have publicly reported, as well in the Cardinal's life time, as since: the first of which was he, who wrote a Libel in English Verse against him, a little before his fall, called A dialogue between two Priests servants named Watkin and Jeffry, published in octavo (perhaps written also) by a canting and severe Lutheran, who writes himself N. O. But so it was, that he the said T. Wolsey being very apt to learn when he was a Child, his Parents and other good Friends made shift to maintain him in Oxon, particularly in Magd. coll. where making a most wonderful progress in Logic and Philosophy, be became Bach. of Arts at 15. years of age an. 1485. Soon after he was elected fellow, and when he had taken the degree of M. of A. was made Master of the Grammar School joining to the said College. In the 14. Hen. 7. Dom. 1498. he was Bursar of that House, in which year the stately Tower was finished. In the beginning of Oct. 1500. he became Rector of Lymyngton in Somersetshire (on the death of Joh. Borde) by the presentation thereunto of Thomas Grey Marquis of Dorset: which Rectory he conferred upon him for the great care he had of his Sons under his Tuition, in the Grammar School beforementioned. But that great man dying in Sept. 1501. and his hopes of being introduced into the court, frustrated, he struck into acquaintance with one Sir Joh. Naphant Treasurer of Calais, a Gent. of the said county, who forthwith made him his chaplain: And finding him to be a man of parts, committed his employment to him, he himself being grown old, and consequently unfit for business. At length he being mindful of his chaplains good service, he never left him until he had found means to make him the King's chaplain. Which matter being according to his mind effected, he became known to one of the King's grave Counsellors and Favourites named Rich. Fox Bishop of Winchester, who finding Wolsey to be not only an active, but a witty man, did with one Sir Tho. Lovel another grave Counsellor, commend him to the service of the King; who also upon discourse with him, finding him to be a man of Eloquence, and to understand State affairs, sent him in the quality of an Ambassador to Maximilian the Emperor, then abiding in Flanders not far from Calais. Which Embassage he performed with so great dexterity and quickness, that the K. taking especial notice of it, did soon after confer upon him the Deanery of Lincoln, void by the death of Jeffrey Simeon sometimes Fellow of New college, Proctor of this University of Oxon, and Dean of the chapel Royal to K. Hen. 7. (which Jeffrey died 20. Aug. 1508.) Of which Church, I say, being made Dean 2. Feb. 1508. was installed by proxy 25. March 1509. and in person 21. of Aug. 1511. After the death of K. Hen. 7. he quickly got into the favour so much of his successor Hen. 8. that he was by him 
a Pat. 2. Hen. 8. p. 1.  presented to the Rectory of Turrington in the dioc. of Exeter 28. Nou. 1510. (being then Bach. of Diu.) and on the 17. Feb. following, was made Canon of the collegiate church of Windsor, and about that time Registrary. of the most noble Order of the Garter. In 1512. Jan. 31. he, by the name of the King's Almoner, was made Prebendary of Bagthorp in the church of York by the favour of Cardinal Bainbridge Archb. thereof, (in the place of James Harryngton Dean of that church, who died in Dec. 1512.) and on the 21. Febr. following, he was admitted Dean in the said Harryngtons' place, who had been installed in that dignity in the room of the said Bainbridge 31. Januar. 1507. In 1513. he being then with the King at the taking of Tournay in France, his Majesty not only gave him the revenues of the Bishopric of that City, but also made him actual Bishop thereof, as some are pleased to say. In 1514. March 26. he was consecrated B. of Linc. in the place of Will. Smyth deceased, and in Nou. the same year, he was made Archb. of York. In 1515. Sept. 7. he was created cardinal of S. Cecilia, and in the year following Dec. 7. he was constituted L. Chanc. of England, and about the same time Legate a latere for the Kingdom of England. In 1518. Aug. 28. he had the temporalities of the See of bath and Wells conferred 
b Pat. 10. Hen. 8. p. 2. m. 25.  upon him, with liberty of holding the same See (being perpetual Commendatarie thereof) with the Abbatship of S. Alban and other Ecclesiastical Livings in commendum with York. About the same time he laid in by his Factors at Rome for the Papacy, especially upon the death of Leo 10. and Adrian 6. but the reasons why he was not elected, were (1) That he would never to go to Rome in Person. (2) That he was nimis potens. (3) That he was not old enough, as by the Letters of Dr. Tho. Hannyball and Jo. Clerk the King's Orators, and the Card. Agents at Rome, appears. In 1523. he had the Bishopric of Durham given to him, and thereupon resigned B. and Wells, and soon after began the Foundations of his two most noble and splendid colleges at Oxon and Ipswych, as I have largely elsewhere 
c In Hist. & Antiq. Uniu. Ox. lib. 2. p. 35. etc. 246, 247. etc.  told you. In 1529. he had the See of Winchester conferred upon him whereupon renouncing Durham, the profits and revenues of the said See were given to the Lady Anna Boleyne, for the space of one year. But before he was quite warm in Winchester, he fell into the King's displeasure, and thereupon being soon after commanded to live in his dioc. of York, about the beginning of 1530. retired to the Archbishop's Palace at Cawood, where spending the Summer following in great Hospitality, was about the latter end of Octob. ensuing, arrested for High Treason. Whereupon being to be conveyed to London to answer for it, he died at Leycester in the way thither, year 1530 on the 29. Nou. following, and was buried in S. Mary's Chapel within the precincts of the Abbey-church there. Of all the Clergymen of his time, and before, and after him, Wolsey was indisputably the greatest. He managed a most inflexible King with so great dexterity, that of one who always threw his Riders, none held the reins, either so long, or so successfully. He had a vast mind, and a great sense of regulation, and glory, (which by some is construed Pride.) He lived always with great splendour; and yet left the most lasting and most noble monuments of his bounty. No Prelate indeed, especially in this Nation, had ever so many and large, but withal none ever employed them more generously; so that his vast revenues were hardly proportionable to his great and extraordinary designs. His parts were prodigious, and it must be owned, that he wanted not a sense of his own sufficiency; and therefore his demeanour and management of himself was such, as was more fitted with the greatness of his mind, and his fortune, than to the meanness of his birth. Many Historians of that time, whether out of envy of his order, or contempt of his birth, or hatred of his Religion, have not been very favourable to his fame; and the traditionary reporters since, who have pretended to an exact account of his actions, have, upon too slight inquiries, and with too great confidence, transcribed the former narratives. So that we yet want an exact and faithful History of the greatest, most noble, and most disinteressed Clergyman of that age. His public employments gave him little leisure for the publication of any works of learning; and, if any were published, they are dead with him, excep perhaps those which I have seen, which are the Epistle and directions for teaching the eight Classes in Ipswich School, set before the Grammar, of W. Lilye, and printed in 1528. 
h Jac. War. in Com. de Praesulib. Hibern. p. 128.   
THOMAS DILLON, was born in the County of Meath in Ireland, studied here in Oxon several years, but whether he took a degree it appears not. At length retiring to his own Country, became thro' several preferments Bishop of Kildare, where sitting about eight years, year 1531 gave way 
a Pat. 9 Hen. 7. p. 1.  to fate in fifteen hundred thirty and one. In the said See succeeded one Walter Wellesley, as I shall anon tell you.  
WILLIAM WARHAM, Son of Rob. Warham, was born of a gentile Family at Okely in Hampshire, educated in Grammaticals in Wykehams' School, admitted true and perpetual Fellow of New coll. in 1475. took the degrees in the Laws, left the coll. 1488. and about that time became an Advocate in the Court of Arches, and soon after Principal or chief Moderator of Civil Law School, then situated in S. Edward's Parish in Oxon. On the 2. Nou. 1493. he was collated to the Chantorship of Wells upon the death of Tho. Overey, (sometimes Fellow of Alls. coll.) and on the 13. of Feb. following, he was constituted Master of the Rolls. Afterwards being elected to the See of London, he had the Great Seal of England delivered unto him on the 11. of Aug. 1502: So that in few days after being consecrated Bishop of that See, had restitution 
b Pat. 18. Hen. 7. p. 1. m. 14.  made to him of the temporalities belonging thereunto, on the first of Octob. following. In the beginning of January in the same year he was constituted L. Chanc. of England, and in Nou. (as one 
c Fr. Godwin in Com. de praesul. Angl. in't. Episc. Cantuar.  saith) in 1504 he was translated to the See of Canterbury; whose inthronization there, appointed to be on the 9 March following, was performed then with great and wonderful solemnity and magnificence, as it may be partly elsewhere 
d Vide Hist. & Antiq. Uniu. Ox. lib. 1. p. 239. a.  seen. In 1506. May 28. he was unanimously elected Chancellor of the University of Oxon, being then, and ever after, an especial friend to it, and its members, as may be discerned in several Epistles 
e Ib. lib. 2. p. 416. b.  that passed between them. In some the said members style him Sanctissimus in Christo Paeter, and in others, they proclaim in an high manner his prudence, profound understanding, etc. All which, I presume, was done because he had been a benefactor to the finishing of S. Mary's Church and the Divinity School. It must be now known that there was a young Knight called William Warham, Godson and Nephew to the Archbishop, (as being Son to his Brother Hugh Warham,) that waited upon him in his chamber: With him the Archb. being always ready to discourse, did more than once seriously tell him, that if ever after his death any should succeed him in the See of Canterbury called Thomas, he should in no wise serve him, or seek his favour and acquaintance, for there shall (said he) one of that name shortly enjoy this See, that shall as much by his vicious living and wicked heresies dishonour, waist, and destroy the same, and the whole Church of England, as ever the blessed Bishop and Martyr St. Thomas did before benefit, bless, adorn and honour the same, etc. This is reported by Nich. Harpessfield 
f In his Treatise of Marriage, MS lib. 2.  from the mouth of the said Sir Will. Warham, being prophetically spoken by the said Archb. concerning the Thomas that succeeded him, meaning Thom. Cranmer. After Dr. Warham had sat in Canterbury in great prosperity about 28 years, he concluded this life at S. Stephen's near to the said City, on the 22. of Aug. between the hours of 3 and 4 in the morning, year 1532 in fifteen hundred thirty and two: Whereupon his body was laid in a little Chapel built by himself for the place of his burial, on the north side of the Martyrdom of S. Thomas of Canterbury, and had there a reasonable fair Tomb erected over his body, but defaced in the beginning of the grand Rebellion began and carried on by the Presbyterians. Erasmus of Rotterdam having been a great acquaintance of the said Archbishop, had the honour to have his picture sent to him by the owner: Which being with great devotion received, Erasmus sent him his, and between them passed several Epistles. In one of which, or else in another place, Erasmus (who had the Parsonage of Aldington in Kent bestowed on him) so commends him for humanity, learning, integrity, and piety, that in the conclusion he saith, nullan absoluti Praesulis dotem in eo desideres. The said Archb. left all his Theological books to Alls. coll. Library, his Civil and Can. Law books, with the pricksong books belonging to his Chapel, to New coll. and his Ledgers, Grails, and Antiphonals to Wykehams' coll. near to Winchester. See more of him in a book intit. De antiquitate Britannicae Ecclesiae, etc. Lond. 1572-3. p. 348. 349. etc.  
THOMAS SKEVYNGTON, was descended from a right ancient Family of his name living in Leicestershire, but whether born in that County I cannot justly tell; became, when young, professed in the Monastery of Cistercians at Merevale or Myrdvale in Warwickshire, instructed in Theological and other learning in S. Bernard's coll. originally built for Cistercians in the north Suburb of Oxon, (being now S. john's coll.) to which place he bequeathed on his deathbed twenty pounds towards its reparation. Afterwards he was made Abbot of Waverley, a house of the said Order in Surrey, and on the 17. of June 1509. was consecrated 
* Godwinus ut supr. in't. Episc. Bangor.  Bishop of Bangor. Where, after he had sat several years much commended for the austere course of his life and great charity, he submitted to the stroke of death in the month of June or thereabouts, in fifteen hundred thirty and there. year 1533 Whereupon his heart was buried in the Cath. Ch. of Bangor before the picture of S. Daniel, (whereon a stone was soon after laid with an inscription thereon showing that it was the heart of Thomas late Bishop of Bangor) and his body in the Choir of Monastery of Beaulieu under a Tomb which he had erected nigh unto the place where the Gospel used to be read. In the See of Bangor succeeded John Salcot alias Capon Doct. of divinity of Cambridge, translated thence to Salisbury in 1529; where dying in the summer time (in August as it seems) an. 1557. was buried in the Cath. Church there, under a Tomb which he in his life-time had provided and erected on the south side of the Choir.  
JOHN ALLEN, Doctor of the Laws of this University was consecrated Archbishop of Dublin in the place of Dr. Hugh Inge deceased, in the year of our Lord 1528. and died on the 25. of July, saith 
a Edm. Camp●an in his Hist. of Ireland. printed. 1633. p. 120.  one, and another 
b 〈…〉 Hib. p. 119.  the 28. year 1534 of the same month, in fifteen hundred thirty and four; under which year you may see more of him among the writers. His death which was no more than a downright murder, is attibuted by some precise writers, as a judgement on him, for his unworthy and base dealing in the dissolution of Daventry Priory in Northamptonshire, being one of those many which were dissolved for the erection of the Cardinal's coll. in Oxon. On the 25. of July early in the morning Tho. Fitz-Gerald eldest Son of the Earl of Kildare caused him the said rev. Prelate to be brought before him at Tartaine, being then feeble by a late sickness; who kneeling at his feet in his shirt and mantle, bequeathing his Soul to God, and his body to the Traitor's mercy, the wretched young man, Tho. Fitz-Gerald beforementioned, commanded him there to be brained like an Ox. The place where this fact was done, was afterwards hedged in, overgrown, and unfrequented, in detestation of the fact. The people have observed that all the accessaries thereof, being after pardoned for Rebellion, ended their lives miserably.  
HENRY STANDISH, Doctor of Diu. an eminent and learned man and a Grey Friar of the Order of S. Francis, was consecrated Bishop of S. Asaph in July 1519. You may see more of him among the writers under the year fifteen hundred thirty and five, year 1535 in which year he died. In the said See succeeded William Barlow in the latter end of the year 1535. who a little before (in the same year) was sent into Scotland with one Holcroft about points of Religion against the Pope, at which time he the said Barlow was styled Prior of Bisham. He was also sent soon after with William Lord Howard into the same Country, at which time he went by the title of the Bishop of St. Asaph. Their business then was about the interview with the Scotch King, induced thereunto by his Council, especially those of the Clergy. See G. Buchanan in Rerum Scotic. hist.  
RICHARD RAWLINS, was admitted Fellow of Merton coll. in the year 1480. and afterwards proceeding in Arts, he entered into the sacred Function. On the 19 Feb. 1491. he was admitted to the reading of the Sentences, left the coll. soon after, being then beneficed, and in 1495. proceeded in Divinity. In 1504 Oct. 1. he was admitted Subdean of York on the death of Edw. Cressacre, (in which Dignity he was succeeded by Dr. James Harryngton in Jul. 1507.) and in 1505. he became Archdeacon of Huntingdon in the place of Rob. Sherebourne promoted to the See of S. David. In 1506. he was made Canon of Windsor, and in the middle of June 1507. he was admitted Archdeacon of Clieuland on the death of Joh. Raynolds LL. B. who died on the vigil of the Nativity going before. In Dec. 1508. he was admitted Warden of Mert. coll. being then also Canon of S. Paul's Cathedral, and in great repute for his learning. In 1512. he went with the King into France, and was present at the Siege of Turwin and Tournay, and in 1514. he was made Almoner to the said King in the place of Tho. Wolsey, and Archd. of Huntingdon. In 1521. he was deprived 
† Reg. ptim. Act. coll. Mert. fol. 253. etc.  of his Wardenship of Mert. coll. by the Archb. of Canterbury for many unworthy misdemeanours, the particulars of which are too large to be here set down; and soon after, because he should not be a loser, had the Bishopric of S. David conferred upon him, about the beginning of the year 1523. To which See being consecrated on the 26. Apr. the same 
* Godwin ut supr. in't. ep. Men●●.  year, sat there to the time of his death, which happened about the beginning of fifteen hundred thirty and six. year 1536 His immediate Predecessor in the said See was Edw. Vaughan of the University of Cambridge, who dying in Nou. or Dec. in 1522. was buried in the Chapel of the holy Trinity within the Cath. Ch. of S. David. Which Chapel he, a little before his death, had built at his own charge.  
RICHARD NIKKE, or Nix, a Somersetshire man born, as it seems, but in what house in Oxon (where he had spent some years in study) he was educated, it appears not. In the beginning of the year 1473. he, by the name of Rich. Nikke Clerk, was collated to the Church of Ashbury in the Dioc. of Sarum, and in Sept. 1489. he, by the title of Doctor of the Laws became Rector of Chedsey in Somesetshire, being then Preb. of Yotton in the Church of Wells. In 1492. he was constituted Vicar General to Rich. Fox Bishop of B. and Wells, and in Jul. 1494. he was made Archdeacon of Wells, with the Prebend, of Huish annexed, on the resignation of Will. Nikke LL. D. In 1496. he was made Canon of Winasore, and about the same time Registrary of the most Noble Order of the Garter. Afterwards he had one or more benefices conferred on him in the Diocese of Wells and in that of Durham, (besides the Archdeaconry of Exeter,) and at length on the death of Dr. Tho. Jane being elected to the Episcopal See of Norwich, had restitution made 
‖ Pat. 16. Hen. 7. p. 1 m. 1  to him of the temporalities belonging thereunto by the name of Rich. Nikke Clerk, Dean of the King's Chapel, on the 24. of Apr. 1501. where sitting about 35 years, died blind in fifteen hundred thirty and six. year 1536 He was buried between two pillars on the south side of the body of the Cath. Ch. of Norwych, next to those two pillars, between which Miles Spencer Dr. of Law and Chanc. of Norwych was buried. Over the said Nikkes grave was a low Tomb erected, whereon were the Arms of the See of Norwych impaling a Chevron between 3 Leopard's heads, being the same that are on the roof of the north cross Isle. Which roof is supposed to have been either repaired or built by him, as also part of, if not all, the said Isle. In the See of Norwych succeeded one Will. Rugg alias Repps a Doctor of Diu. of Cambridge, and Abbot of the Monastery of S. Benedict in Hulmo, (Son of Will. Rugg of North-Repps in Nofolk,) who resigning the said Bishopric in January 1549. died 21. of Sept. 1550. and was buried in the middle of the Choir of the Cath. Ch. at Norwych. As for Will. Nikke beforementioned, he was, as I conceive, brother to the Bishop, aed being Preb. of Ilton in the Church of Wells, became Archd. of Wells on the resignation of Tho. Bridlington in the month of Apr. 1473.  
ROBERT SHEREBOURNE, a Hampshire man born, was educated in Grammar learning in Wykehams' School near to Winchester, became true and perpetual Fellow of New coll. in 1474. afterwards M. of A. and in Orders, Canon of Lincoln, Preb. of Whitechurch and Beneger in the Church of Wells, (which he resigned in Octob. 1493.) Archdeacon of Taunton, with the Preb. of Milverton annexed, upon the resignation of Will. Worsley LL. D. in the month of Dec. 1496. Archdeacon of Huntingdon about the same time, and in 1499. Dean of S. Paul's Cathedral within the City of London, on the decease of the said W. Worslley, who had held with it other dignities, among which was the Archdeaconry of Nottingham, in which he was succeeded by Thom. Crosley in Aug. 1499. In 1505. he the said Rob. Sherebourne being elected Bishop of S. David's under the title of Consiliarius regius, had restitution of the temporalities of that See made 
a Pat. 20. Hen. 7. p. 2. m. 22.  to him on the 12. of Apr. the same year; done in requiral of the many services and embassies which he had performed for his Master K. Hen. 7. In 1508. he was translated to the See of Chichester, and had the temporalities belonging thereunto delivered 
b Pat. 24. Hen. 7. p. 2. m. 17.  to him on the 13. Dec. that year. He was a person much given to hospitality, was very charitable to the poor, munificent to the coll. that had given him Acad. education, as may 
c In Hist. & Antiq. univ. Oxon. lib. 2. p. 130. b. 131. a.  elsewhere be seen, and bestowed much money in beautifying and adorning his Cath. Ch. at Chichester. At length after he had resigned his Bishopric, he gave way to fate 
d Godw. in Corn. de praesul. Angl. in't. ep. Cicester.  on the 21. Aug. in fifteen hundred thirty and six, aged 86 years, or thereabouts, and was buried in the said Cath. Ch. in a poor remembrance 
e In ult. test. in reg. Hogen Qu. 41. in Offic. praerog. Cant.  that he had made there on the south side of the same Church. A certain note which Sir Will. Dugdale Garter K. of Arms, collected by himself, and afterwards communicated to me, informs, that the said R. Sherebourne founded a Free School in the time of Hen. 8. at Rowlston in Staffordshire, at which place he was born of mean parentage. But this note, which he could not then tell whence he had, I reject, because the register of New coll. tells us that he was born in Hampshire, where is a Town called Sherbourne, in which he, or at least his Father or Grandfather, was, as 'tis probable, born. After he had resigned his Bishopric Mr. Rich. Samson Dean of the King's Chapel, being elected thereunto, had the temporalities thereof given 
* Pat. 28. Hen. 8. p. ●.  to him 4. July 28. Hen. 8. Dom. 1536.  
JOHN KYTE, was born, as 'tis said, within the City of London, and for a time educated in this University, but in what house, or what degrees he took, it appears not. Afterwards he had several dignities conferred upon him, was made Subdean 
h Jo. Leland in tom. 1. collect. p. 472:  of the King's Chapel, and by K. Hen. 7. was sent Ambassador into Spain. In the latter end of 1513. he was made Archb. of Armagh, by provision from P. Leo 10. the temporalities of which were given 
i Jac. War. in Corn. de praesul. Hib. p. 24.  to him on the 20. May in the year following. But he resigning the said Archbishopric on the third of Aug. 1521. (being newly made Bishop of Carlisle in England on the death of Joh. Penny) was made Archbishop of Thebes in Greece. All these things were done by the endeavours made to the Pope by Card. Wolsey, whose creature Kyte was: And because the Bulls of translation, and of Carlisle, with the retention of his other benefices should be expedited and done to the desire of Wolsey and Kyte, the fees came to 1790. ducats; but whether all was paid, I think not, because it partly appears by the letters of Joh. Clerk the King's Orator at Rome, (afterwards B. of B. of Wells,) that for the sake of the said Card. 275 ducats were released to Kyte, though the World was then very hard at Rome. He the said Kyte took his last farewell of this World (after he had bestowed much money on Rose-castle the Seat of the Bishop of Carlisle) on the nineteenth 
k Godwin at sup. in't. Ep. carleol.  day of June in fifteen hundred thirty and seven, year 1537 and was buried, as 'tis said, in the middle almost of the Chancel belonging to the Church of Stepney near London. Over his grave is a marblestone yet remaining, with an English Epitaph thereon, contained in barbarous verses, showing that he was a person of great hospitality. The five first run 
l See in Joh. Weever in his Ancient fun. monuments, etc. Printed 1631. p. 539. 540.  thus. 
Under this stone closyde and marmorate  
lieth John Kit Londoner natyff,  
Increasing in virtues rose to high estate  
In the fourth Edward's chapel by his young life  
Sith which the sevinth Henry's servyce primatyff.  
Proceeding still, etc.   
How it came to pass, that he was buried at Stepney, I cannot tell. Sure I am that by his 
m In Offic. Prarog. Cant. in reg. Dingley Qu. 6.  Will and Test. made the 18. June 29. Hen. 8: dom. 1537. and proved 21. of the same month (wherein he writes himself John Kyte Archb. of Thebes and Commendatory perpetual of Carlisle,) he bequeathes his body to be buried by the body of his Father in St. Margaret's Church in Westminster.  
JOHN HILSEY, a Dominican or Black Friar, was consecrated Bishop of Rochester in 1535. and died in sixteen hundred thirty and eight. year 1538 Under which year you may see more of him among the writers. In the See of Rochester, succeeded Nich, Heath, whom I shall mention at large in his proper place.  
JOHN STOKESLIE, was educated in S. Mary Magd. coll. of which he was Fellow, and much noted for his excellent faculty in disputing, whether in Philosophy or Divinity. In 1502. he being then M. of A. of some years standing, was admitted Principal of S. Mary Magd. hall, and in the year following was elected the northern Proctor of the University, because he had been born in the north parts of England. Afterwards he became Vicar of Willoughby in Warwickshire for a time, and Rector of Slimbridge in Gloucestershire, (both by the gift of the said college,) Prebendary of the King's Chapel dedicated to the Blessed Virgin Mary and S. Stephen, within the Palace of Westminster, Archdeacon of Dorset in the place of Rich. Paice, Doct. of Divinity, and Chaplain to Rich. Fox B. of Winchester, who gave him, as I think, the Archdeaconry of Surrey. At length upon the translation of Tonstall to Durham, he was made Bishop of London in 1530. In which See being installed, 19 Jul. in the same year, (and about that time made the King's Almoner,) fate there to the time of his death, which happening on the eighth of Sept. year 1539 in fifteen hundred thirty and nine, was buried on the 14. of the said month in the Chapel of S. George within the Precinct of S. Paul's Cathedral. Soon after was a memorial put over his grave running thus, Hujus in obscuri tumuli, etc. Which in English is this, as P. F. tells me. 
Th'obscure recesses of this keycold Tomb,  
Do Stokeslies ashes, and remains inhume.  
Whose general name, good life, dexterity  
Of Pen, Tongue, Brain, were known both far and nigh.  
Who studied still to serve▪ God and the King,  
And benefit the public in each thing.  
What good he did in Foreign parts retrieve,  
He brought it home, like honey to his hive.  
He knew the intrigues of Italy and Spain,  
And of the Grecian Wyles did make much gain.  
To many Kingdoms of the World being known,  
And honoured more, returning to his own.  
Who on our Blessed Ladies day being born,  
Did on the self same day to dust return.   
In 1529. he was sent to the Emperiour and Pope, and to several Universities, concerning the marriage of King Hen. 8. with his brother's Wife, etc. and was with Tho. Cranmer at the citation of Katherine the Q. Dowager to appear at Dunstable, six miles distant from Ampthill, when she was divorced, and the marriage declared to be void and of no effect. He also burnt W. Tyndales translation of the Bible, was a disputer with Joh. Lambert alias nichols, and boasted, as R. Holinshed tells us, that he had burned fifty Heretics, meaning Protestants, and as Dr. Humphrey 
† In Vita & morte Jo. Juelli. p. 268.  saith, that he had sacrificed to the god of hell above three hundred.  
WALTER WELLESLEY, commonly called Wesley, was bred up a Canon Regular of the Order of S. Austin, and among them in Oxon was he educated for a time. Afterwards he became Prior of those Canons of his Order living at Conal in the County of Kildare in Ireland, and Master of the Rolls in that Kingdom. At length upon the desire of K. Hen. 8. made to P. Clem. 7. he became Bishop of Kildare in 1531. 
1539:  and dying in fifteen 
* Jac. War. ut sup. p. 128.  hundred thirty and nine, was buried in the said Monastery of Conal, the Priorship of which he kept in Commendam with his Bishopric.  
WILLIAM MORE, had part of his education among the Oxonians, but more in another University, was afterwards Vicar of Walden in Essex, and Suffragan Bishop of Colchester. In 1537. he was made Prebendary of Gevendale in the Church of York, but resigned it the year after, and on 14. Sept. 1539. he was installed Archdeacon of Leycester in the room of Edm. Bonner promoted to the See of Hereford. He died in the Summertime in fifteen hundred and forty, year 1540 and was succeeded in his Archdeaconry in the beginning of March following by Tho. Robertson. One Will. More was Lord Prior of Worcester, which honourable place he resigned in 1535. but was not the same with him who was Bishop.  
THOMAS SPARK, a Benedictine Monk of Durham, spent some time in study in Durham coll. in this University, took the degree of Bac. of Diu. in 1528. being about that time Prior of a certain Cell. In 1536. he was nominated and made Suffragan to the Bishop of Durham under the title of the Suffragan Seat of Barwick, 
Clar. 1540  which is the utmost Town in England towards Scotland. See more of him in the Fasti, an. 1528.  
THOMAS CHARD, or Cherd, a Devonian born as it seems, was bred a Benedictine Monk, and among those was he educated for a time in Oxon, but what degrees he took, it appears not. Afterwards retiring into his own Country, he was made Suffragan to Oldham Bishop of Exeter, under the title of Bishop of Salubric, and by that title do I find him collated to the Vicarage of Wellyngton in Somersetshire on the resignation of Rich. Gilbert Doct. of Decrees, in the month of June 1512. Three years after, or thereabouts, he had the Priorship of Montacute (of the Benedictine alias Cluniack Order in the said County) conferred upon him, on the death, as it seems, of Joh. Water, and in Aug. 1521. he was admitted to the Church of Tyntenhull in the Dioc. of Wells, all little enough god-wot to support his honourable dignity. 
Clar. 1541.  By his last 
a In reg. Pynning in Offic. Prarog. Cant. Qu. 1●.  Will and Test. made 1. Oct. 1541. and proved 4. Nou. 1544. he became a benefactor to the Church of S. Marry Otery in Devon, to the Churches of S. Mary Magd. in Taunton, at Wellyngton, Holberton, etc. in Somersetshire. See another Thom. Chard in the Fasti, under the year 1507.  
EDWARD LOE, sometimes of S. Mary Magd. coll. was installed Arch. of York on the eleventh of Dec. 1531. year 1544 and died in fifteen hundred forty and four; under which year you may see more of him among the Writers. In the said See of York succeeded a very worldly person named Rob. Halgate or Holgate D. D. ejected thence when Q. Mary came to the Crown for being, as 'tis said, a married man. By his last Will 
* Reg. Kitchen, ibid. Qu. 25.  and Test. dated 27. Apr. 1555. and proved 4. Dec. 1556. he bequeathed his body to be buried in that Parish wherein he should happen to die, but what Parish that is, I cannot yet tell.  
ANDREW WHITMAYE a Glocestershire man born as it seems, but whether he was of any Order appears not, was made Bishop of Crysopolitan and Suffragan to the Bishop of Worcester in the time of K. Hen. 8. but the particular year I cannot yet find. He gave way to fate in the Dioc. year 1547 of Gloucester in fifteen hundred forty and six or thereabouts, leaving then behind him a brother named John Whitmaye Vicar of Minsterworth in Gloucestershire.  
JOHN LONGLAND, sometimes Fellow of Magdalen college, afterwards Principal of the hall joining thereunto, was consecrated Bishop of Lincoln in May 1521. and died in May in fifteen hundred forty and seven; year 1547 under which year you may see more of him among the writers. In the said See of Linc. succeeded one Dr. Hen. Holbech alias Rands, written sometimes Hen. Rants of Holbech in Lancolnshire, educated in Cambridge, made the last Lord Prior of Worcester on the resignation of Will. More, an. 1535. consecrated Suffragan Bishop of Bristol (for Latymer B. of Worcester) 24. March 1537. constituted the first Dean of Worcester 33. Hen. 8. Dom. 1541. translated from Bristol to Rochester in June 1544. and thence to Lincoln beforementioned in 1547. He concluded his last day after the 2. Aug. in 1551. and was buried, as I suppose, in his own Church at Linc. leaving then behind him a Son named Thomas.  
WILLIAM KNIGHT, was a Londoner born, educated in Wykehams' School near Winchester, became perpetual Fellow of New coll. after he had served two years of Probation, in 1493. but leaving that place two years after, he went to the Royal Court, where his parts and industry being soon known, was made Secretary to King Hen. 7. and 8. The last of which sending him on an Embassy to Maximilian the Emperor, found so much favour from him, that besides the great gifts received from his Treasury, he had by Letters Pat. dated 14. Jul. 1514. a Coat of Arms granted to him as a farther token of reward for his many services done for the English King in exposing his life to danger, wearing it out in continual labours for him, and ready for the future to do the like, if occasion should require, etc. The Arms granted to him by the name and title of Will. Knight Prothonatary of the Apostolical Seat and Ambassador from K. Hen. 8. to Maximilian the Emp. are these. Parted per fess or and gules, an Eagle with two heads displayed sable, having on its breast a demi-rose and a demi-sun conjoined into one, counterchanged of the Field. Which Arms are at this day remaining in one of the south windows of the common Refectory of New coll. In the beginning of the year 1523. he became Archdeacon of Huntingdon on the resignation of Rich Rawlins promoted to the See of S. David, and in the beginning of Dec. 1529. he being then, or about that time, Prebendary of the fifth Prebendship of the King's Chapel of S. Stephen within the Palace of Westminster, (and newly returned 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 
† Fr. Godw. in Com. de Praesul. Angl. in't. Ep. B. & Well. p. 442.  Bishop of bath and Wells, and had restitution of the temporalities of that See made 
‖ Pat. 33. Hen. 8. p. 1.  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 
* In Osfic. praerog. Cant. in reg. Moryson, Qu. 11.  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 Uniu. of Cambridge, Chapl. to Card. Wolsey, Doctor of the Laws of Bononia, afterwards Master of the Rolls; and Dean of Windsor; who, after he had undergone several Messages and Embassies for, and from, Card. Wolsey and the King, was at length sent Ambassador 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 poison given to him. Whereupon making his last 
a In Offic● praerog. Cant. in reg. Alenger, Qu. 20.  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 done. 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. botolph's Church near Algate, London, wherein most authors 
b Job. Stow in his Survey of Lond. Printed 1633. p. 119. b. Joh. Weever in his Ancient Funeral Monuments, etc. p. 426. etc.  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 bath and Wells. Which books contain a defence of the King's 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 numbered by Leland 
c In Principum ac illustrium aliquot & crud. in Angl. virorum encomiis, etc. Printed 1589. p. 41.  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. & Defence. apud Leonem x. in Exhibitione operis regii. 'Tis 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. etc. to Card. Wolsey, giving him an account of the affairs of that place, he being then one of that Cardinal's Agents to obtain the Papacy for him.  
WILLIAM MIAGH, or Meagh.— Upon the death of Walt. Wellesley beforementioned, one Donald O-Beachan a Minorite was by the Pope's provision declared Bishop of Kildare, in July 1540 but within few days after he died. In Nou. following one Thaddeus Reynold LL. D. was elected upon the like provision, but the election being rejected by the King, Will. Miagh beforementioned, an Irishman born, as I conceive, who had spent some time among the Civilians in Oxon, was 
d Ja● W●r. ut sup. in Com. de praesul. Hibern. p. 128.  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. 
1548:  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 Deanery 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 Abbot of Tewksbury in Gloucestershire, and the King's Chaplain. In the year 1541. Sept. 20. (he being then, as 'tis 
† In lib. H. 5. in coll. Arm. f●l. 17.  said, Bach. of Diu.) 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. 
1549:  In his life-time he erected a Tomb for the place of his burial in the Abbey Church of Tewksbury, in the north side of a little chapel there, but buried at Worthington saith a certain 
† Godwin ut supra in't. Episc. Gloc.  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 chapel 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 cloister adjoining, 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 
* Jac. Waraeus in Com. de praesul. Hib. p. 148.  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, 
1550-1.  and was buried in his Cath. Church at Cashills near the Archbishop's 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 ancient Family of his name living in Ireland.  
ROBERT SYLVEstER was a northern man born, but whether a secular, or of any religious Order, I cannot tell, nor whether justly he took a degree in this University. Certain it is, that being made Suffragan Bishop of Hull under the Archbishop of York, was made Prebendary of Langtoft and Wistow in the Church of York, 1541. and in 1549. January 31. was installed Archdeacon of Nottingham, on the death of Cuthbert Martial D. D. who had succeeded Will. Fell D. D. in that dignity, in Jan. 1527. 
Clar. 1552.  He either died in the beginning of Q. Mary's reign (1553.) or was deprived, because then, or soon after, I find one Rob. Pursglove to occur by the title of Bishop of Hull, as I shall at large tell you under the year 1579.  
JOHN STANYWELL or Stonywell was born in the Parish of Longdon in Staffordshire, within which Parish is a small Hamlet called Stonywell, from a Well wherein is at the bottom a large stone, which seems to be no more than a little Rock, whence springs the water that supplies that Well. This person being much addicted to learning and religion when a Youth, was taken into a certain Monastery (that at Pershore in Worcestershire, as it seems) and was bred a Benedictine Monk. Thence he was sent to Gloucester College in Oxon, where the Monks of Pershore had an apartment for their Novices to be trained up in Academical learning: of which College he was, when in his elder years, Prior for a time, and was then noted among those of his profession for his learning and strict course of life. Afterwards being Doctor of divinity, he became Lord Abbot of the said Monastery of Pershore, and at length a Bishop (suffragan only as it seems) under the title of Episcopus Poletensis. He paid his last debt to nature, after he had arrived to a great age, in the beginning of fifteen hundred fifty and three, year 1553 and was burled according to his 
‖ In Offic. Praerog. Cant. in reg. Tash. Qu. 15.  Will in a new chapel built by him within the Parish Church of S. James in Longdon, he bequeathed all his books, his two Chalices, his Crewetts, holy water stock, Vestmens', Albes, Altarclothes, with other things belonging to his private chapel in Longdon.  
JOHN HOPER or Hooper sometimes either of Merton coll. or S. Alban hall, or of both successively, was consecrated Bishop of Gloucester in the latter end of the year 1550. and about two years after had the Bishopric of Worcester given to him to keep in Commendam with the former. He yielded up his last breath in the flames, in the latter end of fifteen hundred fifty and four; year 1554 under which year you may see more of him among the writers. In Gloucester succeeded him James Brokes, and in Worcester Rich. Pate. Of the former you may read more among the writers under the year 1559. and of the other among the Bishops following, an. 1560.  
GEORGE BROWNE an Austin Friar of the convent of that order in London, was educated in Academicals among those of his order in Oxon. Afterwards growing eminent among them, was made Provincial of the said order in England, and about the same time supplicated the Regent's of this University that he might be admitted to the reading of the sentences, in 1523; but whether he was really admitted, it appears not. Afterwards taking the degree of Doctor of divinity, in an University beyond the Seas, as it seems, was incorporated in the same degree at Oxon 1534. and soon after at Cambridge. On the 19 of March 1535. he was consecrated in England Archbishop of Dublin in Ireland, and in 1551. he obtained leave from K. Ed. 6. that he and his successors for ever in that See may be Primates of all Ireland, but recalled 
† Jac. Wac. ut supra. p. 120:  soon after by Queen Mary, 
Clar. 1554.  who in 1554. caused him to be deprived of his Archbishopric for being married. What became of him afterwards I know not, nor when he died.  
EDWARD STAPLE received his first breathe in this World in Lincolnshire, studied Logic and Philosophy for a time in this University, and went afterwards to Cambridge, where he took the degree of Master of Arts. Thence returning to Oxon was incorporated in that degree, and in the latter end of 1525. supplicated the venerable congregation of Regent's that he might be admitted to the reading of the sentences, being then one of the canons of Card. Wolsey's college; but whether he was really admitted, it dot not appear. In 1530. he, by provision from P. Clem. 7. became 
* Ibid. p. 38.  Bishop of Meath in Ireland, being at that time Warden or Master of S. Bartholomews' Hospital in London; which, for some time he kept in commendam with his Bishopric. At length Qu. Mary coming to the Crown, 
Clar. 1554.  he was deprived of the said Bishopric, (for being married as I suppose) in the year 1554. and soon after died. In the said See succeeded one Will. Walsh D. D. of whom I shall speak more under the year 1576.  
ROBERT FERRAR was born within the Vicarage of Halyfax in Yorkshire (within four miles of which place he gave Lands to his near relations) and when a young man was made a Canon regular of the order of S. Austin, but in what Priory or Abbey I know not. Sure I am, that he having partly received his Academical education in Cambridge, did, when he had entered into the same order, retire to a nursery for the Canons thereof in Oxon, named S. Mary's college, situated in the Parish of S. Michael and S. Peter in the Bailie, where I find him in 1526. in which year Tho. Garret Curate of Honey lane in London, and a forward and busy Lutheran did supply him with prohibited books, or books which were written against the R. Cath. Ch. and the members thereof, he being then esteemed one of that party that then opposed the established Church and Doctrine. In 1533. he, as a member of the said coll. of S. Mary, was admitted to the reading of the sentences, having a little before opposed in divinity, and about that time became chaplain to Dr. Cranmer Archb. of Canterbury, by whose example (as one 
a Rob. Persons in The third part of a treatise entit. Of the three conversions of Eng. vol. 2. cap. 6. p. 336.  saith) he learned to get himself a woman also under the name of a wife, and by his endeavours had some preferment in the Church. In 1547. he being then in great favour with Edward Duke of Somerset, he was by him 
b See in Jo. 〈◊〉 his Acts and M●n. of the Church, under the year 〈◊〉.  appointed Bishop of S. David's upon the removal of W. Barlow to the See of B. and Wells, and accordingly was consecrated thereunto the same year. But upon the fall of the said Duke in 1549. who was an upholder of him and his unworthy doings, were 56. Articles drawn up against him by some of his neighbours, viz. Hugh Rawlins Clerk, and one Tho. Lee, accusing him as an abuser of his authority, a maintainer of superstition, to be covetous, wilfully negligent, foolish, etc. All which he being not able to answer, was committed to safe custody in London, during the remaining part of the reign of K. Ed. 6. After Qu. Mary came to the Crown, it being fully understood that he was a Lutheran Heretic, as the men of those times styled him, he was called before the Bishop of Winchester, and other commissioners for Ecclesiastical affairs; and after he had been divers times examined by them, he was condemned for certain propositions which he maintained, viz. (1) That any Priest or Religious man, after his vow, may lawfully marry. (2) That in the blessed Sacrament there remaineth the substance of bread and wine, together with the body and blood of Christ. (3) That it is no sacrifice propitiatory. (4) That only faith justifyeth, etc. Afterwards he was silenced and degraded, sent into Wales, and being committed to the secular power, was burned on the S. side of the Market-cross in the Town of Caermerthen, 30. March, in fifteen hundred fifty and five. year 1555 The whole story of him you may read in the book of Acts and Monuments of the Church, etc. under the year 1555. where you'll find his answer, (though insufficient) to the said 56 articles, his articles also against a furnished information exhibited by Thomas Lee to the K. and Privy Council, with many of his Letters written during his imprisonment. From all which, and the story of him in the said Acts and Monuments, a man may easily perceive (as the Rom. Catholics say) that the having a Woman to his Wife, was the chief motive that drew him to those opinions which he held.  
JOHN HARMAN, commonly called Voysey and Veysey, because he was educated in his infancy (as 'tis said) by one of that name, Son of Will. Harman by Joan his Wife, daughter of Henr. Squire of Handsworth in Staffordshire, was born at Sutton-Colfield in Warwickshire, became a student in this University in 1482. Probationer-fellow of Madg. coll. 28. July 86. and the year following true and perpetual Fellow, by the name of Joh. Harman only. In few years after he proceeded Doctor of the civil Law, and became Vicar of S. Michael's Church in Coventry, being then noted more for his faculty than divinity. In the beginning of June 1505. he was made Prebendary of North-Aulton in the Church of Salisbury, by the ceasing of one James Straytbarret, and was admitted thereunto by the name of Joh. Veyse; which Preb. he afterwards resigning, was succeeded by Dr. John Longland of Magd. coll. in the beginning of Decemb. 1514. But Longland being promoted in few days after to the Deanery of Sarum, Joh. Veyse was admitted to it again in the same month, and kept it till after he was Bishop. This person being esteemed well qualified, and of great abilities, was employed on sundry Embassies, was made Tutor to the Lady Mary then the King's only daughter, and Precedent of Wales. In 1515. he was made Dean of Windsor, being about that time Registrary of the most noble order of the Garter, Archdeacon of Chester, and Dean of the King's domestic chapel; and soon after became Dean of the Free chapel of S. Peter and S. Paul at Wolverhampton in Staffordshire. In 1519. he was elected Bishop of Exeter, being then Dean of the Church there, had the temporalities of the said See 
c Pat. 11. Hen. 8. p. 1.  restored to him 4 Nou. and was consecrated thereunto on the 6. Dec. the same year. Of all the Bishops in England he was accounted the best Courtier, having been well bred from his youth; and although he had a good report for his learning, yet he was better esteemed by some for his Courtlike behaviour, which in the end turned not so much to his credit, as to the utter ruin and spoil of his Church. For of 22 Manors and Lordships, which his predecessors had left unto him of a goodly yearly revenue, he left 
d Job. Vowel alias Hooker in his Cat. of the Bishops of Exeter, printed in the life of Qu. Eliz. in R. Holinsheds Chron. See also in Fr. Godwin in Com. de praesul. Angl. in't. Episc. Exon.  but seven or eight, and them also leased out. And where he found fourteen houses well furnished, he left only one house bare and without furniture, and yet charged with sundry fees and annuities. By which means the said Bishopric of Exeter, which was accounted one of the best, is now become in temporal Lands one of the meanest. Now if any person is desirous to understand what became of all the money which he got by the alienation of the said Manors and Lordships, let him know that it was most expended (fearing perhaps that the said Lands might be taken away in the mutable times he lived in) on his native place of Sutton-Colfield, by making it a corporation, and procuring a Market there, building most of the Town, and endeavouring to set up the making there of Kerseys, as in Devon. and Cornwall; which in the end, as 'tis said, proved to little purpose. Also by building and endowing a Free-school there, building two bridges of stone, erecting a Mannour-house called More-place near to Sutton beforementioned, besides other housing near it, Parks, Ponds, and I know not what, as you may see 
e In the Antiquities of Warwickshire, by Will. Dugdale, p. 667, 668.  elsewhere. In the reign of K. Ed. 6. when religion was altered, he the said Dr. Harman resigned his Bishopric, and on the 14. of Aug. 5. Ed. 6. Dom. 1551. Miles Coverdale D. of D. of Cambridge, was 
f Pat. 5. Ed. 56. p. 1.  Propter ejus singularem sacrarum literarum doctrinam, moresque probatissimos, made Bishop in his place. In 1553. when Qu. Mary came to the Crown, Dr. Coverdale was put out, and the said Harman who was forced, as 'tis 
g Pat. 1. Mar. p. 2.  said, to give up his Bishopric pro corporis metu, on the 14. of Aug. 5. Ed. 6. was restored 
h Ibid.  thereunto 28. Sept. in the year beforementioned. So that living there for a time till he saw the R. Cath. Religion settled, retired to his native place again, where dying full of years (aged at least an hundred) in the summer time in fifteen hundred fifty and five, was buried on the north side of the chancel belonging to the Church at Sutton-Colfield beforementioned, where is at this day a fair Monument remaining over his Grave, with his statue from head to foot cut out from stone adorned with the Pontificalia belonging to a Bishop.  
NICHOLAS RYDLEY sometimes fellow of University coll. was consecrated Bishop of Rochester 5. Sept. 1547. translated to London on the deprivation of Bonner, in 1549. and died in the flames at Oxon in fifteen hundred fifty and five; under which year you may see more among the writers. year 1555  
GEORGE COOTES, Cotes or Cotys, so many ways I find him written, (whom some call John, but false) was elected Probationer Fellow of Balliol coll. in 1522. being then Bach. of Arts. Afterwards he was made Fellow of Magd. coll. but when, it appears not, because the register of that time belonging to the said house, noted with the letter B. hath been time out of mind lost. In 1526. he proceeded in Arts, was afterwards one of the Proctors of the University, Doctor of Divinity, and in 1539. was elected Master of Balliol coll. In the beginning of 1554. being then elected to the Episcopal See of Chester, (of which Church he had been several years Prebendary) by the name of Mr. George Cotes S. Th. Prof. had restitution made 
i Pat. 1. Mar. p. 1.  to him of the temporalities belonging thereunto by Qu. Mary on the 18. of Apr. in the same year, he keeping then with that See the moiety of the Church of Cotgrave. He gave way to fate about the beginning of Dec. (as it seems) in fifteen hundred fifty and five: year 1555 whereupon one Thomas Milner was instituted in the said moiety on the 18. of Dec. the same year, and Cuthb. Scot D. of D. of Cambridge was much about that time nominated to succeed him in the See of Chester: the temporalities of which, were 
k Pat. 3. & 4. Phillip & Mar. p. 1.  given to him 25. of Sept. 1556.  
ARTHUR BOKELY or Bulkley, was descended from an ancient Family of his name, living in the Isle of Anglesie, but in what coll. or hall he was educated, unless in New Inn, I cannot justly tell. About the time that he took the degree in the Canon Law he was beneficed and dignified in Wales, where he was held in esteem for a good Canonist. At length being promoted to the See of Bangor, and consecrated thereunto, had the temporalities of that See given 
l Pat. 33. Hen. 8. p. 3.  to him on the eleventh of Febr. 1541. After his death, which happened in fifteen hundred fifty and five, year 1555 succeeded in the said See Dr. Will. Glynn of Qu. coll. in Cambridge, an excellent Scholar, and a very good disputant of his time; who dying about the latter end of May 1558. was buried in the Choir of the Cath. Ch. at Bangor, under that very place where the Sepulchre on Goodfriday and in Easter time use to stand. Not long after his death Qu. Mary nominated to succeed in that See one Maurice Clennock a Welsh man, Bach. of Law of this University, Preb. of York, and an Officer in the Prerogative Court under Card. Pole Archb. of Canterbury, but the said Queen dying before he was consecrated thereunto, he (with Goldwell Bish. of S. Asaph) fled beyond the Seas, and going to Rome, Clennock some years after became the first Rector of the English Hospital there, after it was converted into a college for English students, where he was mostly called by the name of Dr. Maurice, and much noted by the said students for his great partiality used towards his own Countrymen of Wales, which always caused during his time, a great faction between the Welsh and English students abiding in that college.  
ROBERT ALDRICH Doctor of divinity of this University, an eminent Orator and Poet of his time, became Bishop of Carlisle in 1537. and died in the latter end of the year fifteen hundred fifty and five, 
1555-6.  under which year you may see more among the writers. In the See of Carlisle succeeded Dr. Owen Ogelthorpe, of whom I shall make large mention among these Bishops under the year 1560.  
JOHN HARLEY was born, as it seems, in Herefordshire, or at least extracted from those of his name there, admitted Fellow of Magd. coll. about 1537. being then Bachelaur of Arts and Master of the Free-school joining to that college. Afterwards proceeding in that faculty, he took holy orders, became Preacher to the Earl of Warwick, and Tutor to his children, a zealous Preacher in Oxon against the R. Catholics upon the coming to the crown of K. Ed. 6. (as I have elsewhere told 
* In Hist. & Antiq. Uniu. Oxen. lib. 1. p. 265. b.  you) and at length chaplain to that Prince, who, for the zeal Harley had in Preaching up the reformed religion, gave him a Prebendship in the Church of Worcester, on the decease of Humph. Webley Bach. of Diu. an. 1551. Where being settled, he had the rectory of Vpton upon Severne, and the Vicarage of Kederminster in Worcestersh. bestowed on him, he being then Bach. of Diu. Afterwards the See of Hereford being void by the death of Joh. Skipp, he was elected Bishop of that place: So that being consecrated thereunto on the 26. May 1553. was within few months after deprived of it by Qu. Mary for his wilful avoiding the hearing of Mass and for being married. Joh. Leland the famous Antiquary, who knew the said Harley well, doth in an high manner 
g In Encomi●s, Trophaeis, etc. eruditorum in Anglia virorum, etc. p. 107.  praise him for his great virtue, and learning, especially in the classical Authors and Poets, for his fine vein in Poetry, etc. but what he hath published, that author tells us not, nor Baleus, or his follower Pitseus. Afterwards Harley absconding for a time, did at length go from place to place in an obscure condition, to consolate the poor remnant of Protestants, 
Clar. 1555.  and confirm them in their belief, but died soon after in his wand'ring to and fro in England. In the See of Hereford succeeded one Rob. Perfey, sometimes called Warbington and Warton, formerly Abbot of the exempt Monastery of S. Saviour of Bermondsey, educated in the University of Cambridge, (of which he was Bach. of Divinity) who dying in the time of winter 1557. was buried in his own Church at Hereford. Afterwards Tho. Raynolds D. D. Dean of Exeter and Warden of Mert. coll. was designed to succeed him by Qu. Mary, but she dying before he was consecrated, he was laid aside: whereupon Joh. Scory a Norfolcian born, Doct. of Diu. and Chaplain to the Queen, succeeded in 1559, having been a sufferer upon account of religion during Qu. Mary's reign, in which time he wrote An Epistle unto all the faithful that be in prison in England, or in any other trouble for the defence of God's word, etc. printed at Waterford in Ireland 1555. oct. Wherein he doth, by the example of divers holy Martyrs, comfort, encourage and strengthen them, particularly to suffer for Christ's sake persecution. In the same year also he published his translation of S. Augustin's two books, the one of Predestination of Saints, the other of Perseverance unto the end, with the determination of two general Councils concerning that matter.— Printed in oct. And in the year following, he published his translation of S. Ciprian's Sermon of Mortality, or the willing forsaking of this life; Also his Exhortation to Martyrdom, and his Exhortation to keep and endure the faith of Christ, etc. Printed in oct. This Joh. Scory died in his house or palace at Whitbourne in the country of Hereford 26. June 1585. and was, as I suppose, buried there. He left behind him a Son named Silvanus Scory, a very handsome and witty man, and of the best education both at home and beyond the Seas, that that age could afford. His Father loved him so dearly, that he fleeced the Church of Hereford to leave him an estate, but Silvanus allowing himself the liberty of enjoying all the pleasures of this world, reduced it to nothing, so that his Son Edm. lived by hanging on Gentlemen, and by his shifts. Silvanus was also esteemed a learned man, and upon that account did Ben. Johnson dedicate to him a piece of his Poetry, but whether he published any thing, I cannot yet tell, nor any thing else of him, only that he giving way to fate in the Parish of S. Peter near Paul's Wharff in London, in Sept. or Oct. 1617. was buried in the chancel of S. leonard's Church by Shore-a●tch, near to the grave of his Mother Elizabeth, who died 8. March 1592.  
JOHN BELL a Worcestershire man born as it seems, had most of his education in Balliol coll. to which he was partly in his life time, but more at his death, a special benefactor. Afterwards he became Chancellor of the diocese of Worcester, in the place of Dr. Thom● Hanybal, an. 1518. and about that time Archdeacon of Gloucester, 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 King's 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 
h In Hist. & Antiq. Uniu. Oxon. lib. 1. p. 255. a.  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 
i Pat. 31. Hen. 8. p. 3. In Off●● praerog. Cant. in reg. Kitchen, Qu. 18.  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 beforementioned, to the poor of Bromesgrave in Worcestershire, Tadcaster, Wymbersley, etc. at which places 'tis 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 surrendering into the King's 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 (though 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 William. 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 Bishopric) and in the See of Man succeeded Thom. Stanley, as I shall hereafter tell you.  
JOHN BIRD 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 Bird.  
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 Abbot 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 
a Pat. 33. Hen. 8. p. 3.  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 
b Edit. Lond. 1616. p. 594. in't. Episc. Petroburg.  of English Bishops, tells us that the said Joh. Chambers was Doctor of Physic, bred up in Merton college, and afterwards Dean of S. Stephen's cell. in Westminster, but very much mistaken, for that John Chambers Bach. of Diu. and Bishop died in 1556. as 'tis before told you, and the other who was Dr. of Physic and Dean, died 1549. Pray be pleased to see more in the Fasti, under the year 1531. among the incorporations.  
ROBERT KING 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 Abbey 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 licenced to proceed in Divinity by the title of a Monk of the order of S. Benedict; in the last of which years he occurs Abbot 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 Abbot 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 Abbot 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. King was made and constituted the first Bishop in the beginning of Sept. the same year, at which time Gloucester 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 Oxon, which was formerly the Priory of S. Frideswyde, but then called Christ-church, he the said King notwithstanding continued in his office of Bishop, and his chair was thence translated also, but not his Palace. Yet when K. Ed. 6. came soon after to the Crown, and made a recital of his father's erection of the aforesaid Episcopal See, he left out Gloc. coll. with intentions that it should remain with the Crown for another use in future time. So that what house or lodgings the said Bishop King had for his use during the remaining part of his life, in truth I cannot tell. All that I know more of him is, that he being an aged man in Qu. Mary's reign, (being then by Joh. Fox called 
a In the Acts and Mon. of the Church, sub. an. 1558.  the Bishop of Thame) he did not care to have any thing to do with such that were then called Heroics, and therefore he is commended by Posterity for his mildness: Also that he paying his last debt to nature on the fourth day of Decemb. in fifteen hundred fifty and seven, was buried on the North side of the East end of the Choir of Ch. Church. year 1557 Over his grave was a Tomb of course Marble almost breast-high erected, with a Canopy over it supported by Pillars of the same, but no Arms put on it, as never having any, or any at least that he knew of. But the said Tomb being afterwards looked upon as cumbersome to the place, when the Choir was to be new wainscoted, and paved with black and white marble, (Dr. Duppa being then Dean of Ch. Church) it was taken away by Henry and John King Canons of the said Church, Sons of Dr. Joh. King sometimes Bishop of London, great Nephew to Dr. Rob. King beforementioned, and by them it was placed under the lower South Window of the Isle joining on the South side of the said Choir. In which Window they caused to be painted soon after the Picture of the said Rob. King in his Episcopal Robes, with his Mitre on his head, and Crosier in his hand, and the ruins of Osney Abbey behind him, as also the Arms which the said Hen, and John then pretended to. The said window was pulled down when the Presbyterians and Independents governed, an. 1651. by one of the Family of the Kings then living, who preserving it safe till the Restauration, an. 1660. was soon after set up again, where it yet continues. A certain author named William. Harrison tells 
† In his Description of England, printed in the first vol. of Rap. Helinshed Chronicle. lib. 2. cap. 2.  us, that in the time of Q. Mary (who died 1558.) one Goldwell was Bishop of Oxford, who was a Jesuit dwelling in Rome, and more conversant (as the constant fame went) in the Black Art, than skilful in the Scriptures, and yet he was of great countenance among the Roman Monarches. It is said also, that observing the Canons of his Order; he regarded not the temporality of that See. But it seems since that, he wist well enough what became of those commodities, for by one mean or another he found the sweetness of 354. l.— 16s.— 06d. yearly growing to him, etc. Thus the said author Harrison: By which Goldwell, he means, I suppose, Thou. Goldwell Bishop of S. Asaph, as if he had been translated thence to Oxon on the death of Rob. King beforementioned, for what Goldwell it should be else, unless another Thomas, whom I shall mention in the Fasti, I know not, forasmuch as the generality of authors say, that the said Tho. Goldwell left the Bishopric of S. Asaph when Q. Elizabeth came to the Crown, and that thereupon he went to Rome, where he lived in great repute for many years. See more among these Bishops under the year 1580.  
RICHARD THORNDEN, sometimes written Thornton, a Monk of the Order of S. Benedict of Ch. Church in Canterbury, received his Academical education in Canterbury coll. in this University, of which he became Warden or Guardian about 1528. Afterwards he proceeded in divinity, run with the unsatiable humour of K. Hen. 8. and in the Reign of K. Edw. 6. was a great gospeler and seemed to all to be an hearty Protestant. But when Q. Mary came to the Crown, he wheeled about, was made Suffragan Bishop of Dover under Card. Pole Archb. of Canterbury for the County of Kent, where he showed himself an eager disputant against the poor Protestants, as you may see by his arguings and reasonings with several of them about matters of religion in the book of Acts and Mon. of the Church, 
‖ Under the years 1552. and 56. See also under the year 1558.  written by John Fox, who adds of him farther, that for his persecuting of God's Saints he was suddenly taken with a Palsy on a Sunday at Bourn (Bishop's Bourn) in Kent, having the day before returned from the Chapter house at Canterbury. Whereupon being conducted to his bed he died soon after, viz. in fifteen hundred fifty and seven. year 1557 After him succeeded another Bishop of Dover, appointed by Card. Pole, who showing himself also vexatious to the Protestants, broke his neck suddenly, as the said author reports. In the year 1569. one Rich. Roger's bach. (afterwards Doctor) of Divinity was consecrated Suffragan Bishop of Dover, by Matthew Archb. of Canterbury, and in 1584. he became Dean of Canterb. upon the promotion of Dr. Th. Godwin to the See of B. and Wells. He was Father to Franc. Rogers D. D. and Justice of the Peace in Kent, who dying 23. of Jul. 1638. was buried in the Church of S. Margaret in the City of Canterbury. After Bishop Roger's decease succeeded in the Deanery of Canterbury one Tho. Nevil D. D. who dying in the beginning of the year 1615. was buried within that Chapel joining to the body of the Cathedral Ch. at Canterbury, which was before repaired by him, and wherein he had erected a monument for himself, and his brother Alexander Nevil some years before that deceased.  
WILLIAM FINCHE, occurs Suffragan Bishop of Taunton under the Bishop of B. and Wells, from the year 1539. to 1557. in which last year he was admitted Prebendary of Whitlakynton in the Church of Wells, but whether he took a degree in this University, 
Clar. 1557.  though study he did for a time, it appears not. In his time lived in the diocese of Exeter one William, who writes himself Episcopus Hipponensis, having been Suffragan to the Bishop of Exeter, which is all I know of him, only that he died in 1559.  
PETER PETO, whom some call Will. Peto, was born of, and descended from, the ancient Family of the Petoes living at Chesterton in Warwickshire, educated for a time, for the sake of learning, among the Grey Friars of Oxon, (of which Order he was a zealous brother,) but whether he took a degree among us, it doth not appear, unless he did it under another name, as some have done. Afterwards he became Chaplain, if I mistake not, to Q. Katherine, in whose defence he showed himself a stout Champion when K. Hen. 8. was about to divorce her, as also against the King's marriage with Anna Bulleyne. In 1557. Jun. 13. he was made (though known to be unfit) a Cardinal by P. Paul 3. and at the same time Legat a Latere in England, and soon after Bishop of Salisbury on the death of Dr. Joh. Salcot alias Capon, on purpose to thwart Cardinal Pole, whom that Pope took to be his Enemy, or rather out of stomach to work that Cardinal's displeasure, whom he before had recalled to Rome, to be accused and charged as suspected corrupt in Religion. But Q. Marry, albeit she was most affectionately devoted to the Ch. of Rome, interposed, or rather opposed herself so, that Peto was forbidden 
* Camden in Britan. in come. Warwic.  to enter into England, and the power Legantine left entire and whole to her Cousin Pole. Whereupon Peto continued in France, where he died in Apr. year 1558 in fifteen hundred fifty and eight, leaving then behind him the character of a very godly and devout person, yet simple, and unknowing of matters of State, or of the world, which ought in some measure to accompany a person of his high degree. See more of him in Historia minor provinciae Angliae Fratrum minorum, in the first tome of the Scholastical and Historical works of Franc. à Sancta Clara, sect. 25. p. 53.  
PAUL BUsh, was made the first Bishop of Bristol in 1542, was deprived of it for being married, in the beginning of the Reign of Q Mary, and died in Octob. year 1558 in fifteen hundred fifty and eight; under which year you may see more of him among the writers.  
JOHN HOLYMAN, sometimes Fellow of New college was made Bishop of Bristol in the place of Bush before-mentioned, year 1558 an. 1554. and died in fifteen hundred fifty and eight; under which year you may see more of him among the writers. In the See of Bristol succeeded Rich. Cheyney, which he held in Commendam with Gloucester, as I shall tell you anon in Jam. Brokes, under the year 1559.  
REYNOLD POLE, sometimes a Student in S. Mary Magd. coll. afterwards a Cardinal, and elected twice to the Papacy, was consecrated Archbishop of Canterbury in the latter end of 1555. year 1558 and died in fifteen hundred fifty and eight; under which year you may see more of him among the writers. After him succeeded in the said Archiepiscopal See Matthew Parker, who was born in the City of Norwych 6. of Aug. 1504 Son of Will. Parker, who died 16. of Jan. 1516. by Alice Monings his Wife, who died 20. of Sept. 1553. Which Will. Parker, who was an honest poor Man (as a Schismatical 
a The publisher of The life of the 70. Archb. of Canterb. Printed in (Holland) 1574. in oct. p. 28. in marg.  writer tells you) and a scowrer or calendar of worsteds in Norwych, was the Son of John Parker, and he the Son and Heir of Nich. Parker a Notary Public of the dioc. of Norwych, principal Registrary belonging to the Archb. of Canterbury, and keeper of the Registers belonging to the Court thereof. As for Matthew Parker, after he had been trained up in Grammar learning at home, he was sent to the University of Cambridge at about 17 years of age; and being placed in Corp. Ch. coll. became soon after one of the Bible-Clerks in the said house. Afterwards he took the degrees in Arts, was made Fellow thereof, took holy Orders, and became a noted Preacher, not only in the University, but also in other public places in the Kingdom. Whereupon his fame being spread abroad, he was sent for to the Court, and made chaplain to Q. Anne about 1534. by whose favour and endeavours he was soon after made Dean of Stoke near to Clare in Suffolk, and some time after Prebendary of Ely. In 1538. he was made Doct. of div. about which time by letters of commendation from the King, (to whom he was chaplain,) he was elected Master of C. C. coll. before-mentioned, now known by the name of Bennet college; the Fellows of which, soon after, presented him to the Rectory of Landbeach near to Cambridge. In 1545. he was Vicechanc. of the said Uniu. and in 1549. he took to Wife Margaret the daughter of Rob. Harleston of Norfolk, (born 23. Jun. 1519.) by whom he had Issue, (1) Joh. Parker, born 5. May 1548. who married Joan daughter of Dr. Rich. Cox B. of Ely. (2) Matthew who died young; and thirdly, another Matthew, who married Frances dau. of W. Barlow Bishop of B. and Wells, and afterwards of Chichester, but this Matthew dying 28. Jan. 1574. she was afterwards married to Dr. Tob. Matthews Dean of Durham, the same who was afterwards Archb. of York. In 1548. the said Dr. M. Parker was again elected Vicechanc. of Cambridge, and in 1552. he was made by K. Edw. 6. (to whom he was chaplain) Dean of Lincoln in the place of Dr. Joh. Tayler promoted to the See of Lincoln. But soon after, when Q. Mary came to the Crown, losing all his spiritualities, because he was married, he retired in private, and spent all her Reign within the house of one of his Friends. His headship of C. C. coll. was thereupon bestowed on Dr. Laur. Mapted, and his Deanery on Dr. Franc. Mallet, an. 1554. he being then Canon of Windsor, Confessor to Q. Marry, and Master of Michael-house in Cambridge, of which University he had before been at least twice Vicechancellor. This Mallet, by the way it must be known, was the same person who translated into English, Erasmus' Paraphrase on John, who dying in the latter end of Decemb. 1570. had for his Successor in that Deanery Dr. Joh. Whitgift, afterwards Archb. of Canterbury. When Q. Elizab. came to the Crown Dr. Parker, though a married man (for his Wife died not till 17. of August 1570.) was nominated to the See of Canterbury, after several persons had refused it; whereupon being consecrated thereunto in the Archb. chapel at Lambeth 17. of Dec. 1559. (after a Sermon, invocation of the Holy Ghost, and celebration of the Eucharist had been performed) by the laying on of the hands of three Bishops, viz. Will. Barlow B. of B. and Wells, Joh. Scorey of Chichester, and Miles Coverdale of Exeter, (assisted also by Joh. Hodgeskyn Suffragan Bishop of Bedford,) sat there with great honour to the time of his death. He was a religious and a learned man, and of modest manners and behaviour. He was well read in English history, and a diligent and curious collector of ancient Mss. that had been scattered at the dissolution of Monasteries, which he gave to the coll. wherein he had been educated. He is also reported to have been a person of great charity, a noted benefactor to the public, and an eminent ornament to the places which gave him birth and education. The chief book which he wrote and published (assisted therein, as 'tis said, by his servant or chaplain Joh. Jostine) was that intit. De antiquitate Britannicae Ecclesiae, & privilegiis Ecclesiae Cantuariensis, cum Archiepiscopis ejusdem 70. Lond. 1572-3. fol. Most of the copies of this impression that were commonly fold, conclude with the life of Reynold Pole Archb. of Canterbury, who died 1558. The other copies which remained, and were to be bestowed on public Libraries, or else to be given to special Friends, had in the year 1574, added to them, (1) The life of the author Matthew Parker, containing 29 pages. (2) A catalogue of such books which he gave to the common Library at Cambridge, containing 4 pages. (3) A cat of Chancellors, vicechancellors, Proctors of, and Doctors of all Faculties that took their degrees in, Cambridge, from the year 1500. to 1571. containing 6 pages. Before which catalogue are the Arms of every college and hall there, with the area or platform of the common Schools, the Arms and Seal of the University, and Seal of the Chancellor thereof. (4) A cat. from 1500 to 1571. of all the Bishops that have been educated in Cambridge; among which have been divers that have been bred in Oxon, who have only taken one degree, and perhaps that neither, there. (5) The titles of such Charters that have been granted to that University by divers Kings and Queens, from Hen. 3. to the 13. or 14. of Q. Elizab. (6) An account of the particulars that are successively delivered to the Magistrates and Servants of the said University, when they enter into their respective places. (7) The foundation of each coll. and hall in Cambridge, with the building of the public Schools, and an enumeration of the old hostles. All which contained under this seventh head, were involved in the first book of the History of the University of Cambridge, written by Dr. Jo. Cay, printed at Lond. 1574. in qu. As for the life of the said Matthew Parker, mentioned under the first head, it was, as soon as it peeped into the World, translated into English, under this title, The life of the 70 tie. Archbishop of Canterbury, presently sitting, Englished, etc. This number of seventy is so complete a number, as it is great pity there should be one more, etc. Printed (in Holland) in a Dutch character 1574. in oct. It was translated by a thro-paced Separatist, with very vile notes added in the margin, endeavouring thereby to bring an odium on the Archbishop, and make him ridiculous for erecting his monument while he lived. At length paying his last debt to nature on the 17. of May 1575. was buried in the chapel where he was consecrated; situate and being within his Palace at Lambeth in Surrey. It must be now known that in the times of usurpation, when the Bishops were put down and their lands sold, the said Palace was inhabited by several Lay-people, of whom Tho. Scot one of the Regicides, and one Harding were two. Which last having the chapel allotted to him, as part of his share, he divided it into two rooms, making the upper part towards the east a dining-room, on the bottom of which he laid joists and on them a floor of boards. At length, he hearing that the corpse of Archb. Parker had been there interred, he took up the floor, and pavement under it; and having so done, dug up the corpse, which was put into cerecloth of many doubles in a coffin of lead. The coffin he sold to a Plumber, and after he had caused the cerecloth to be cut open to the flesh, (which he found fresh, as if newly dead,) he conveyed the corpse into an outhouse where he kept Poultry, and there privately tumbled it into an hole. About the time of the restauration of K. Ch. 2. that base fellow the Brute that removed it, was forced to discover where he had laid it; whereupon it was brought into the chapel, and buried just above the Litany-desk, near the steps ascending to the Altar.  
JOHN HOPTON, was born in Yorkshire, particularly, as I conceive, at Myrfield, where his Grandfather and Father were buried, became when a young man a Black Friar of the Order of St. Dominick, had his Academical education among those of his Order in Oxon, but what degrees he took there, it scarcely appears, only, that in his travels to Rome taking the degree of Doct. of div. at Ronmia, he was incorporated here after his return in 1529. and soon after was made Prior of the Convent belonging to the Black Friars in Oxon. In 1532. he was licenced to proceed in divinity, (so saith the same Register which told us that he was incorporated Doctor in that faculty,) and in the Act celebrated the 8. of July the same year, he did complete that degree by standing therein. Afterward, he was chaplain to the Lady Mary, who, when Queen of England, nominating him by the name of her chaplain to the See of Norwyck, upon the translation of Dr. Thirlby, one of her Counselors, to Ely, he was thereupon elected, and having the temporalities of that See 
a Pat. 1. & 2. Ph. & Mar. p. 1.  restored to him 4. of Oct. 1554 safe there till the time of his death, which happening about the latter end of fifteen hundred fifty and eight, year 1558 was buried in his own Cath. Church. By his Will 
b In Offic-praerog. Cant. in reg. Chayney. Qu. 62.  dated 24 of Aug. 1558. and proved 2. of Dec. 1559. he gave part of his study of books to the Black Friars of Norwych, if they should be restored to their Convent again, and another part to Norwyeh Church for a Library there. He also gave 5 l. to buy ornaments for the Church of Myrfield beforementioned, several things also to the Church of Leedes in Yorkshire, and a Legacy to Christop. Hopton of that place Esque without naming him his Kinsman. I find one John Hopton to be made Prior of Bridlyngton in Yorkshire, an. 1510. upon the death of one John Ynglish, but what relation there was between him and the Bishop I know not. This Prior died in 1521. and was succeeded by one Will. Brounflete. About the 22. of June 1559. the Dean and Chapter of Norwych elected Dr. Rich. Cox to succeed Dr. Hopton in the Chair there, as it appears in a certain 
c Reg. MS. p. 250.  Reg. or Ledger book of that Church, but the Queen's mind being altered she nominated him soon after Bishop of Ely.  
CUTHBERT TONStALL, sometimes of Ball. coll. afterwards of Cambridge, was consecrated Bishop of London 19 of Octob. 1522. translated to Durham 25. of Mar. 1530. year 1559 and died in Nou. in fifteen hundred fifty and nine, leaving then behind him the character of a person of great reputation, and of very quiet behaviour. See more of him among the writers under that year. In the See of Durham succeeded James Pilhyngton Bach. of div. born of a Knightly family at Rivyngton in the Parish of Bolton in Lancashire, Son of Rich. Pilkyngton of Rivyngton Esq was educated in S. John's coll. in Cambridge, where he made proficiency in all kind of learning, was much addicted to reformation, and therefore in the Reign of Q. Marry, became an Exile in Foreign parts; but upon his return thence, being elected to the See of Durham, was consecrated thereunto 2. of March 1560, and thirteen days after had the temporalities thereof delivered 
d Pat. 3. Elizab. p. 7.  to him. In the eighth year of Eliz. (he being then D. of D.) he erected a Free School at Rivyngton, sub nomine & auspiciis R. Elizabethae, and endowed it with lands and tenements to the yearly value of seven and twenty pounds, fourteen shillings and ten pence. This worthy Bishop who was esteemed a learned man and a profound Theologist of his time, hath written, (1) An exposition on Nehemiah. (2) Expos. on Aggeus and Abdias. Lond. 1562. oct. (3) Of the causes of the burning of Paul's Church, against a libel cast in the streets at Westchester, an. 1561. Lond. 1563. oct. etc. At length submitting to sat at Bishops Aukland 23. January 1575. aged 55 years, was buried there for a time; afterwards taken up and re-buried in the Choir of the Cath. Church at Durham on the 24. of May following, leaving then several Children behind him, begotten on the body of his Wife Alice, of the Knightly family of the Kingsmylls in Hampshire. Soon after was a tomb erected over his grave, whereon was ensculpt a Mon●die made by Dr. Laur. Humphrey, beginning thus, Hic jacet Antistes cradeli morte peremptus, and an Epicede by Joh. Fox the Martyriologist, beginning Tantum te nostrae possint celebrare camenae; besides a large epitaph in prose. Most, or all of which, hath many years since, as I have been informed, been defaced and obliterated. In the See of Durham succeeded Rich. Barnes of Oxon, as I shall tell you hereafter.  
MAURICE GRIFFYTH, or Griffyn a Welsh man by birth, and a Dominican or Black Friar by Order, had his Academical education for a time among those of his profession in their house in the S. Suburb of Oxon, was admitted to the reading of the Sentences in July 1532. by the name of Maurice Gryffyth, being, if I mistake not, the same Maur. Gryxffyth who was admitted Bach. of Can. Law in February following. Afterwards he was Archdeacon of Rochester in the pl●ce of one Nich. Metcalf who occurs Archdeacon of that place in 1536. and afterwards being elected to the See of Rochester, upon the translation of Joh. Scory to Chichester, (which John had been promoted to Rochester 
e Pat. ●. Ed 6. p. 1.  propter singularem sacrarum literarum doctrinam,) was consecrated thereunto on the first 
f Fr. Godwin in Com. de praesul. Angl. in't. Ep. Roff.  of Apr. and had restitution 
g Pat. 1. Mar. p. 1.  made to him of the temporalities belonging thereunto on the 18. of the same month, in the 1. and 2. of Phil. and Mary, dom. 1554. He ended his days either in Nou. or Dec. in fifteen hundred fifty and nine, year 1539 and was buried in the Church of S. Magnus' the Martyr near to London-bridge. In the said See of Rochester succeeded one Edm. Guest or Gheest, Bach. of div. Archdeacon of Canterbury, and sometimes Fellow of King's coll. in Cambridge, who being consecrated thereunto 21. Januar. 1559. received 
i Pat. 2. Eliz. p. 14.  the temporalities thereof 3. May following, and about that time was made Almoner to the Queen. After his translation to Salisbury, followed Edm. Freke Dean of Salisbury, of whom you may read more in the Fasti, under the year 1570. And after him Dr. Joh. Piers of Oxon, as I shall tell you among these Bishops under the year 1594. Upon his translation also to Salisbury succeeded in the said See of Rochester Dr. Joh. Young born in Cheapside in London, educated in Pembr. hall in Cambridge, of which he was Fellow, and afterwards Master, Minister of St. Giles Cripplegate, London, twice Vicech. of Cambridge, Prebendary of Westminster, in the place of Dr. E. Freke promoted to the See of Rochester, and 1572. which he kept in Commendam with his Bishopric till about the time of his death. He died at Bromley in Kent 10. Apr. 1605. aged 71 years, and was buried in the Church there on the 14. of May following. Soon after a comely monument was put over his grave, with an inscription thereon: Wherein 'tis said, that he was non minus varia doctrina, & prudentia, quam vitae sanctimonia clarus, etc. He hath extant An exposition (which some call a Sermon) on Psal. 131. Lond. 1685. oct.  
HENRY MORGAN, a Welsh man born, became a Student in this University about the year 1515. took the degrees in the Civ. and Can. Law, that of Doctor being completed in an Act celebrated 17. Jul. 1525. and soon after he became Principal of an ancient Hostile for Civilians (wherein probably he had been educated) called S. Edward's hall, near to the Canon Law Schools, situated sometimes in the Parish of S. Edward, and near to the Church thereof. Afterwards he being esteemed a most admirable Civilian and Canonist, he was for several years the constant Moderator of all those that performed exercise for their degrees in the Civil Law, in the School or Schools pertaining to that Faculty, situated also in the same Parish. Which Schools, Hall, and Church, have been time out of mind gone to ruin, and the ruins themselves ruined. In 1553. (●●. Mariae) he was elected Bish. of S. David, upon the deprivation of Rob. Ferrar, which was as it seems in Nou. the same year; and being consecrated thereunto, had the temporalities thereof restored to him 
k Pat. 1. Mar. p. 1.  on the 23. of Apr. 1554. In that See he sat till after Q. Elizabeth came to the Crown, and then being deprived about Midsummer, an. 1559. year 1559 (2o. Elizab.) retired among his Friends and died a devoted Son to the Church of Rome on the 23. of Decemb. following. Of whose death hear I pray what Joh. Fox 
l In his book of Acts and Mon. of the church, under the year 1558.  saith in this manner.— Morgan Bishop of S. david's who sat upon the condemnation of the blessed Martyr Bish. Ferrar, and unjustly usurped his room, was not long after stricken by God's hand, after such a strange sort that his meat would not go down, but rise and pyck up again, sometimes at his mouth, sometimes blown out of his nose, most horribly to behold, and so he continued till his death. Thus Fox, followed by Tho. Beard in his Theatre 
† In lib. 1. cap. 13.  of God's judgements. But where, or when his death happened, they tell us not, nor any author hitherto, only when, which B. Godwin mentions. Now therefore be pleased to know that the said Bishop Morgan retiring after his deprivation to, and near, Oxon, where he had several relations and acquaintance living, particularly the owen's of Godstow in the Parish of Wolvercote, near to the said City, did spend the little remainder of his life in great devotion at Godstow, but that he died in the condition which Fox mentions, there is no tradition among the inhabitants of Wolvercote. True it is, that I have heard some discourse many years ago from some of the Ancients of that place, that a certain Bishop did live for some time, and exercised his charity and religious counsel, among them, and there died, but I could never learn any thing of them of the manner of his death, which being miserable, as Jo. Fox saith, methinks that they should have a tradition of it, as well as of the man himself, but I say there is now none, nor was there any 30 years ago among the most aged persons then living at that place, and therefore whether there be any thing of truth in it may be justly doubted, and especially for this reason, that in the very same chapter and leaf containing the severe punishment upon Persecutors of God's people, he hath committed a most egregious falsity, in reporting that one Grimwood of Higham in Suffolk died in a miserable manner for swearing and bearing false witness against one Joh. Cooper a Carpenter of Watsam in the same County, for which he lost his life. The miserable death of the said Grimwood was as J. Fox saith, thus, that when he was in his labour staking up a goffe of Corn, having his health and fearing no peril, suddenly his bowels fell out of his body and immediately most miserably he died. Now so it sell out, that in the reign of Q. Elizabeth one Prit became Parson of the Parish where the said Grimwood dwelled, and Preaching against perjury, being not acquainted with his Parishioners, cited the said story of Fox, and it happening that Grimwood being then alive, and in the said Church, he brought an action upon the case against the Parson, but Judge Anderson, who sat at the Assizes in the County of Suffolk, did adjudge it not maintainable, because it was not spoken maliciously. Pray see in the Abridgement of many cases and resolutions, of the Common Law, written by Judge Henry Rolls, p. 87. sect. 5. tit. Action sur case. But to return; as for our Bishop Hen. Morgan, who died in Godstow house, than owned by Rich. Owen, did by his last 
* In Offic. Praerog. Cant. 〈…〉  Will and Testam dated in Decemb. 1559. and proved 24. of January following, bequeath his body to be buried in the Church of Olvercot or Wolvercot, to which he gave six shillings and eight pence: Also to two Masters of Arts of Oxon to pray for his Friends Souls, (of which Edw. Pennant Parson of Stanlake near Oxon was one,) four pounds yearly during the term of five years; to Mary Owen his Chymere of Scarlet, to Morgan filips of Oriel coll. several Legacies, besides the bestowing of his books, etc. By which Will it appears that he did not die in a mean condition, that he was not senseless, affrighted, or any way perturbed.  
JOHN white, sometimes Fellow of New coll. was made Bishop of Lincoln in the beginning of 1554. translated thence to Wynchester in 1557. and died in January in fifteen hundred fifty and nine; year 1559 under which year you may see more of him among the writers. In the said See of Winchester succeeded Dr. Rob. Horn of Cambridge, reported by a certain 
l Math. Parker at the end of Antiq. Eccre●. B●tan. published 15●2-●. in the life of Ma. Parker, p. 9  author to be a man of a great mind and profound ingeny, and no less sagacious in detecting the crafts of his adversaries, than prudent in preventing and avoiding them. He was also a frequent Preacher, and an excellent Disputant, and wrote in the mother tongue, an answer to Joh. F●kenhams scruples concerning the Oath of Supremacy, as I have told you among the writers under the year 1585. He gave way to fate in 1579. leaving this character behind him, given by one 
m Anon. in the Ancient 〈◊〉 and monuments of the Monast. and Cath. Ch. of Durha●. Lond. 1672. in oct. p. 122.  belonging to the Church of Durham, who (speaking of his demolishing several ancient monuments of that Church, while Dean thereof) tells us, that he could never abide any ancient monuments, acts, or deeds, that gave any light of, or to godly religion.  
JAMES break, sometimes Fellow of Corp. Ch. coll. was consecrated Bishop of Gloucester about the beginning of the year 1554. and died about the beginning of Febr. 
1559-60.  in fifteen hundred fifty and nine; under which year you may see more of him among the writers. In the said See of Gloc. succeeded Rich. Chey●●● Bach. of Diu. of Pembr. hall in Cambridge, who being elected thereunto, had restitution made 
n Pat. 4. Elizab. p. 10.  to him of the temporalities belonging to it, on the 15. of Apr. 1562. and had at the same time liberty allowed to him to keep Bristol in Commendam. In the reign of K. Ed. 6. he was Archdeacon of Hereford, and dignified elsewhere. In Q. Mary's time he was deprived of his spiritualities for being more addicted to the opinions of Luther than he ought. In the beginning of the reign of Q. Elizab. an. 1560. he was made by her the first Canon of the fourth Stall or Prebendship in the collegiate Church of S. Peter within the City of Westminster: Which dignity he keeping till 1562. was then succeeded by one Rich. Morley. After he had sat Bish. of Glouc. three years, he was incorporated D. of D. of this University, as he had stood in Cambridge. One of his Successors in the See of Glouc. named Godf. Goodman doth wonder 
* In his Review of the Court of K. James, written by Sir A. W.— MS. p. 89.  why his Master Will. Camden should say that the said Rich. Cheyney was Luthero addictissimus, whereas it was certain that he was a Papist, and bred up his servants Papists, as he had been informed by one of them, with whom he had spoken. He tells us also that it doth appear upon record in the Arches, that he was suspended for Popery, and died so suspended, and never would make any recantation. He was buried in his Cath. Ch. of Gloucester, but whether ever any monument was put over his grave, I know not.  
OWEN OGELTHORP, the third natural Son of Owen Ogelthorp of Newton-Kime in Yorkshire, Son of John Ogelthorp of Ogelthorp in the said County, was born at Newton-Kyme beforementioned near to Tadcaster, admitted Fellow of Magd. coll. about 1526. and in 29. he proceeded in Arts, being about that time in holy Orders. In 1533. he was Proctor of the University, and on the 21. of Feb. 35. he was elected Precedent of his coll. having a few days before taken the degrees in Divinity. About that time he was constituted one of the Canons of the coll. at Oxon founded by K. Hen. 8. on that of Cardinal Wolsey; in the year 1540 he was made Canon of Windsor in the place of Will. Tate LL. D. deceased, and in 1544. he was presented to the Church of S. Olave in Southwark. In 1551. he did undergo with great honour the Vicechancellourship of this University, and in 1553. Oct. 31. he being then Rector of Newyngton and Haseley in the Dioc. of Oxon, was elected again Precedent of the said coll. (having resigned that place about an year before to make room for Dr. Walt. Haddon) and in the same year he was made Dean of Windsor. In 1554 he 
o Pat. 1. & 2. Phil. & Mar. p. 14.  was constituted Registrary of the most Noble Order of the Garter, to execute it by himself, or a sufficient deputy, with the fee of 50 l. per an. allowed him for it. Which office he kept, while he was Bishop of Carlisle, during the time that Dr. Hugh Weston his Successor was Dean of Windsor. About the month of Apr. 1556. he was consecrated Bishop of Carlisle, and in the latter end of 1558. when Heath Archb. of York, and all the rest of the Bishops refused to Crown Q. Elizabeth, (the See of Canterb. being then void,) he, with much ado, was obtained to set the Crown on her head. For which fact, when he saw the issue of that matter, and both himself and all the razed of his Sacred Order deprived, and the Churches holy Laws and Faith, against the conditions of her consecration and acceptation into that Royal Room, violated; he sore repented him all the days of his life, which were for that special cause, both short and wearisome afterwards unto him. Thus Dr. Will. Allen in his Answer 
p Printed beyond the Yea about 1583. in oct p. 51. 52  to the Libel, intit. The execution of justice in England. The said Dr. Ogelthorp was deprived of his Bishopric about Midsummer in the year 1559. and about the beginning of the next year died suddenly of an Apoplexy; year 1560 otherwise, had he lived, 'tis thought the Queen would have been favourable to him. He founded at Tadcaster beforementioned 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 Carlil●, but uhe refusing, tho much pressed to it, the Bishopric was conferred 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 completed 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 Exequys in S. Mary's Church; which shows that he was not then incorporated. Afterwards he was employed in several Embassies, and in 1534. I find him resident in the Emperor's Court, and there again in 1540 in which year wss a passport made for him by Secretary Cromwell to Calais, in order to reside with the Emperor, as Ambassador for the K. of England. In which passport he is styled, 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. Hearing LL. D. In the year 1554. he being preferred by Q. Mary to the Episcopal See of Worcester, had restitution 
q Pat. 1. & 2: Ph. & Mar. p. 1.  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 
r In his book of Acts and mon. of the c●. an. 1559.  saith, but being deprived, he went beyond the Seas, sat in the Council of Trent, (uninvited as one 
* Laur. Humfredus in Vitae & mort. Jc. Juelli. edit. 1573. p. 179.  saith,) as he had done before, 
Clar● 1562.  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 King's 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 Sands Capellanus regius & SS. Thol. Professor, had restitution made to him 
s Pat. 2. Elizab. p. 14.  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 Bear and Anderston in Dorsetshire Knight, (who died 6. Aug. 1424.) by Margaret his Wife, of the Family of the carew's, Barons, was born at Bear beforementioned, 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 completed in an Act celebrated in July 1520. and on the 8. of March following was elected the public 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 Diu. 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. Paul's 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 
t Pat. 2. & 3. Pb. & Mar. p. 1.  to him, and there sat with due commendations for about four years. In 1559. (2. Elib.) he was deprived of his Bishopric for denying the Queen's Supremacy over the Church, 
Clar. 1562.  and afterwards lived a private life saith 
u Joh. Vowel alias Hooker in his Cat. of the Bishops of Exeter, in the 3 vol. of Holinsheds' chron. p. 1309. b.  one, and another 
w The author of The execution of justice in England, etc. printed 1583. in oct.  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 
x Fr. Godwin in C●m. de Praesul. Angl. edit. 1616 p. 476.  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 
y Printed at Lond. 1677. in oct. in the Cat. of the Bishops of Exeter, in the beginning of the book num. 34.  of the City of Exeter (full of mistakes) that he died on the first of Nou. 1559. and in another 
z Ibid. p. 127.  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 Gloucester 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 Abbot 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 kitchen the King's Chaplain and Bishop elect of Landaff, received 
a Pat. 37. Hen. 8. p. 5.  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 
b Fr. Godwin ut sup. p. 641.  successors in the See of Landaff for impoverishing his Bishopric, 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 three, year 1563 and was buried in the Parish Church of Matherne (where the Bishop of Landaff hath a Palace) in Monmouthshire, after he had gone through several changes of times, and had taken the Oath of Q. Elizabeth's Supremacy over the Church of England, which no Popish Bishop in the beginning of her reign did besides this man.  
ROWLAND MERRICK was born in the Isle of Anglesey, mostly educated in Academical learning in S. Edward's hall, a noted place for Civilians, sometimes situated near S. Edward's Church, became Principal, while he was Bachelaur of the Civil Law, of New Inn, afterwards Doctor of his faculty, Chancellor of the Church of S. David, Canon residentiary thereof in the time of K. Ed. 6. being then one of the persons that drew up Articles against Rob. Ferrar Bishop of that place, and at length Bishop of Bangor: to which See being elected, and consecrated an. 1559. aged 54 years, received 
† Pat. 2. Elizab. p. 14.  the temporalities belonging thereunto 21. of March the same year. He died in the beginning of the year fifteen hundred sixty and six, year 1566 and was buried in the Chancel of the Cath. Church of Bangor, under that place, where the Table stood in the time of Communion. Over his grave was an inscription afterwards put, the contents of which, I know not as yet. He left behind him a Son named Jelly Merick of Hascard in Pembrokshire, afterwards a Knight and a great Favourite of that most popular and generous Count Robert Earl of Essex; in whose treasons having been deeply engaged, suffered death at Tybourne in the beginning of the year 1601. In the See of Bangor succeeded Dr. Merick, one Nich. Robinson a Welsh man and D. D. of Cambridge, who after he had suffered calamities for the Protestant cause in the reign of Q. Marry, became, after her death, domestic Chaplain to Matthew Archb. of Canterbury, and dignified— Vir fuit prudens (as 'tis 
* In fine lib. De entiq. Eccles. Britan.— Edit. 1572. 2. in Matheo, pag. 14.  said of him) & illis humanioribus literis atque Theologia non minus excultus, quam latina patriaque lingua facundus, etc. He died in the summer time, an. 1584. leaving then behind him a Widow named Jane Robinson alias Brereton, and several Sons. After him followed Dr. Hugh Bellot of Cambridge, who was consecrated Bishop of Bangor 25. Jan. 1584.  
THOMAS YOUNG a learned Civilian, Son of John Young of Pembrokshire by Elinor his Wife, was born in that County, became a Student in the Uniu. of Oxon (in Broadgates' hall as it seems) about the year 1528. where applying his muse to the study of the Civil Law, took a degree in that faculty nine years after, being then in sacred Orders. In 1542. he was made principal of the said hall, and soonafter Chantor and Canon of S. David's; where, being much scandalised at the unworthy actions of Rob. Ferrar Bishop of that place, did, with others, draw up articles against him; which being proved before the King's Commissioners, the said Bishop was imprisoned in the time of K. Ed. 6. In the reign of Q. Marry, Th. Young fled from the nation for religion sake, and remained in Germany in an obscure condition during her time. But when Q. Elizabeth came to the Crown, and H. Morgan another accuser of Rob. Ferrar, had been deprived of his Bishopric of S. David's, the said Young was designed to succeed him. Whereupon being consecrated 
a Godwin. ut supr. in't. Episc. Meneo. p. 616.  thereunto 21. January 1559. aged 52 years, or thereabouts, the temporalities of the said See were delivered 
b Pat. 2. Elizab. p. 14.  to him on the 23. of March following. Where sitting till Feb. 1560. was then translated to York, and about the same time was made Precedent of the Queen's Council in the north parts of England. In Feb. 1564. he was actually created Doctor of the Civil Law, and dying on the 26. June, in fifteen hundred sixty and eight, year 1562 was buried at the east end of the Choir of his Cath. Ch. at York. Over his grave was soon after laid a marble stone, with this Epitaph on it. Thomas Yongus nuper Eboracensis Archiepiscopus, Civilis juris Doctor peritissimus, quem propter gravitatem, summum ingenium, eximiam prudentiam, excellentemque rerum politicarum scientiam, illustrissima Regina septentionalibus hujus regni partibus Praesidem constituit, quo magistratu quinque annos perfunctus est. Sedit Archiepiscopus annos septem, & sex menses. Obiit Vicessimo sexto die mensis Junii, an. 1568. He had taken to Wife in his elderly years one Jane daughter of Thom. Kynaston of Estwick in Shropshire, by whom he had issue George Young, afterwards a Knight, living in York 1612. for whose sake, the father, being covetous of wealth, pulled down a goodly hall belonging to him as Archbishop, for the greediness of the lead (as 'tis said) that covered it. Concerning which matter there is a large story extant, related by an 
* Sir Jo. Harrington in his Brief view of the state of the Ch. of Engl. etc. p. 171.  author who was no friend to married Bishops.  
DAVID POLE or Poole of noble race, as it seems, became fellow of Allsouls coll. in 1520. took the degrees of Civ. and Can. Law, that of Doctor being completed in 1527. at which time being Archdeacon of Salop, he was much in esteem for his great sufficiencies in those Laws. Afterwards he was made Dean of the Arches, Archdeacon of Derby, and Chancellor of the diocese of Lichf. and Coventry. At length, upon the death of Joh. Chambers, being nominated to the See of Peterborough, was consecrated thereunto 
c Ibid. in Godwin, inc. ep. Peterb. p. 594.  on the 15. Aug. 1557. and on the 28. of January following had the temporalities thereof delivered 
d Pat. 4. & 5. Phil. & Mar. p. 1:  to him. In 1559. about the time of Midsummer, he was deprived of his Bishopric, for denying the Queen's supremacy, being then esteemed a grave person and a very quiet subject. Whereupon being committed to custody for a time, was soon after set at liberty, & Principis beneficio (as one 
e Lanc. Andrews in Tortura Torti, etc. p. 146.  tells us) in agro suo matura aetate decessit. He gave way to fate in the latter end of May, or beginning of June, year 1568 in fifteen hundred sixty and eight, but where, unless near to S. Paul's Cathedral in London, or where buried I cannot tell. All his books of Law and Divinity, which were then at London and Peterborough, he gave to the Library of Allsoules' coll. In the said See of Peterborough succeeded Edm. Scambler Bach. (afterwards Doct.) of div. a native of Gressingham in Lancashire, and Chaplain to Matthew Archb. of Canterbury, to which being consecrated 16. Jan. 1560. held in commendam with it the Prebendship of Wistow in the Church of York, and the first Canonry in the sixth stall in the Church of Westminster for the space of two, or more, years. He was a learned man, a zealous enemy against the Papists, yet an impairer of the honour, privileges, 
f Sim. Gunton in his History of the Church of Peterborough, printed at Lond. in fol. 1686. p. 73.  and revenues of the Bishopric of Peterborough. After his translation to Norwych succeeded in Peterborough Dr. Rich. Howland Master of S. John's coll. in Cambridge, who dying in 1600. was succeeded in the said See by Tho. Dove D. D. and Dean of Norwych, sometimes of Pembroke hall in Cambridge, and one of the first Scholars of Jesus coll. in Oxon, to which See Q. Elizab. (to whom he was Chapl. in Ordinary) preferred him for his excellency in Preaching, and reverend aspect and deportment. He died 30. Aug. 1630. aged 75 years, and was buried in the north Isle of the Cath. Ch. of Peterborough: over whose grave was a comely monument erected, with a large inscription thereon, but levelled with the ground by the Rebels, in 1643. He left behind him a son named Thomas, who occurs Archdeacon of Northampton 1618. having succeeded in that dignity, if I mistake not, Dr. Joh. Buckridge. In the See of Peterborough succeeded Dr. Aug. Lindsell Rector of Houghton in the Spring in the County Pal. of Durham, who, after he was elected to it, had restitution 
g Pat. 8. Car. 1. p. 13.  made of the temporalities belonging thereunto on the 20. of Feb. 1632. But being translated thence to Hereford (in Dec.) 1633. succeeded Franc. Dee D. D. who being elected to the said See of Peterborough, had the temporalities thereof 
h Pat. 10. Car. 1. p. 10.  given to him 7. June 1634. See more of him in the Fasti under the year 1603.  
WILLIAM BARLOW, a Canon Regular, was first made Bishop of S. Asaph, afterwards of B. and Wells; and at length of Chichester. He died in fifteen hundred sixty and eight, year 1568 under which year you may see more of him among the writers. In the See of Chichester succeeded Rich. Curteis or Coortesse a Lincolnshire man born, and Doctor of Divinity, (sometimes Fellow of S. John's coll. in, and Proctor of the University of, Cambridge, and afterwards Chaplain to Matthew Archb. of Canterbury) who was consecrated at Canterbury gratis, or without reward or fees, on the feast of the holy Trinity, an. 1570. he being then 48 years of age. The said Dr. Coortesse hath written, (1) An exposition of certain words of S. Paul to the Rom. intit. by an old writer Hugo, A treatise of the work of three days. Lond. 1577. oct. (2) Two Sermons, one at Paul's Cross, and another at Westminster, an 1576. the first on Apocal. 12. the first nine verses, and the other on Acts 20. 28, 29, 30, 31. Both printed at Lond. 1584. oct. (3) Serm. at Greenwich 1573. on Ecclesiastices 12. the first seven verses, Lond. 1586. oct. (4) Serm. at Richmond 1575. on Judges 1. the first 13 verses. Lond. in oct. and other things, as'tis probable. Quaere. In the See of Chichester succeeded him Tho. Bickley, whom I shall mention at large among these Bishops under the year 1596.  
HUGH CURWYN, or Coren, was descended from an ancient Family of his name in Westmoreland, but whether born in that County I cannot tell, became a Student in this University in one of the Inns or Hostles frequented by Civilians and Canonists, or in Brasnose coll. (or both successively,) about 1521. took one degree in Arts, holy Orders, and some years after was made one of the Chaplains to K. Hen. 8. In 1532. he proceeded in the Civil Law, and about that time was a great promoter of the King's marriage with Anna Bulleyn. In 1533. when Friar Peto (afterwards a Cardinal) had inveighed much against it in his Sermon, or Sermons, before the King at Greenwich, Dr. Curwyn the next Sunday following happened to Preach there, at which time he spoke as much for the marriage, as Peto had against it, uttering there several things against it, and wondered why a subject should behave himself so audacious as he did before the King's face, etc. After this he was preferred to the Deanery of Hereford, where he continued all K. Edward's time. At length when Q. Mary succeeded (to whom he was Chaplain) she nominated him Archbishop of Dublin: Whereupon being consecrated thereunto in S. Paul's Cathedral at London 8. Sept. 1555. he was in few days after designed 
i Jac. Waraeus in Com. de praesul. Hibern. edu. 1665. p. 120.  by the said Queen (then at Greenwich) Chancellor of the Kingdom of Ireland. In 1567. he supplicated Q. Elizabeth to have the Bishopric of Oxford conferred upon him, being desirous to spend the remainder of his days in peace. So that soon after being elected thereunto by the Dean and Chapter of Ch. Ch. in Oxon, the Queen 
k Pat. 9 Elizab. p. 2.  consented to the election on the eighth of Octob. and gave 
l Pat. 10. Elizab. p. 10.  him the temporalities belonging to that See 3. of Decemb. following, the same year. About that time he settled at Swinbroke near to Burford in Oxfordshire, (having then no House or Palace belonging to his See,) where dying in the latter end of October, was buried in the Parish Church of that place on the first of Nou. year 1568 in fifteen hundred sixty and eight. He had a Kinsman named Rich. Coren a Lancashire man born, who was admitted Scholar of Corp. Ch. coll. in 1519. and afterwards taking the degrees in Arts and one in divinity, was made Canon of the first foundation of the college of K. Hen. 8. at Oxon, and when Doctor of his Faculty, Archdeacon of the diocese of Oxon, 1534. and about that time Canon of the King's Chapel of S. Stephen within the Palace of Westminster. This I thought fit to let the Reader know, that each person might have his right, that is, that the Archdeaconry of Oxon, might be entitled on Dr. Rich. Coren, and not on Dr. Hugh, which most authors that occasionally mention him, do tell you.  
EDMUND BONNER, sometimes a Student in Broadgates' hall, became Bishop of Hereford towards the latter end of the year 1538. but before he was consecrated thereunto, he was translated to London: To which See he was consecrated in the beginning of Apr. 1540 year 1569 He paid his last debt to nature in fifteen hundred sixty and nine; under which year you may see more of him among the writers. In Hereford succeeded him Jo. Skypp, and in London Nich. Ridley in the reign of Ed. 6. at which time Bonner was deprived, and Edm. Grindall in the beginning of Q. Elizabeth, when the said Bonner was deprived a second time.  
GILBERT BOURN, son of Philip Bourn of Wor. cestershire, became a Student in this University, in 1524▪ Fellow of Allsouls coll. in 1531. and in the year after he proceeded in Arts, being then esteemed a good Orator and disputant. In the 33. Hen. 8. Dom. 1541. he was made one of the first Prebendaries of Worcester, after the said King had converted the Prior and Monks of that place into a Dean and Prebendaries; and two years after was admitted to the reading of the Sentences, that is to the degree of Bach. of div. which was the highest degree (as it appears in the register of that time) that he took in this University. About that time he became Chaplain to Bishop Bonner, and a Preacher against the Heretics of the times, In 1549. he closed so much with the reformation then on foot, that he became Archdeacon of Bedford on the death of Dr. Joh. Chamber, being also then, or about that time, Archdeacon of Essex and Middlesex and Canon of S. Paul's Cath. Ch. but whether he kept the said dignities altogether, I cannot tell. In the beginning of Q. Marry, he turned about, and became so zealous for the Rom. Catholic cause, that preaching at Paul's cross in the behalf of the said Bonner then present, against his late unjust sufferings, and against the unhappy times of King Edw. 6. as he called them, had a dagger thrown at him by one of the auditors: Whereupon Bourn withdrawing himself to prevent farther danger, the work was carried on by another, and search being made after the Assissinate, certain persons were imprisoned for it. In the year 1554. Sir Joh. Bourn of Batenhall in Worcestershire, Uncle to the said Gilb. Bourne, being then Principal Secretary of State to Q. Marry, the said Gilb. was elected to the See of bath and Wells, upon the free resignation, as 'tis 
* In p. 1. Mar. p: 1.  said, of D. Will. Barlow: Whereupon he had the temporalities thereof given to him 20. of April the same year, at which time Barlow fled into Germany upon account of Religion. Soon after Gilb. Bourn was made Precedent of Wales, and was in great favour during the reign of Q. Marry, but when Q. Elizab. succeeded, he was deprived of his bishopric for denying her Supremacy, notwithstanding he had done many good offices for his Cath. Church, and had been a benefactor thereunto. Afterwards, he being committed to free custody with the Dean of Exeter, he gave himself up wholly to reading and devotion. At length dying at Silverton in Devenshire, 10. Sept. 
† Ibid. in Godwin ut supr. in't. ep. B. &. Wells. p. 4.  in fifteen hundred sixty and nine, 
156●.  was buried in the Parish Church there, on the south side of the Altar, bequeathing then what he had, to his brother Rich. Bourn of Wyvelscomb in Somersetsh. Father of Gilb. Bourn of the City of Wells. In the See of Wells did not succeed Will. Barlow, who returned from his exile in the beginning of Q. Elizabeth, as 'twas expected, but Gilb. Berkley D. of div. a Lincolnshire man born, and a descendant from the Noble Family of the Berkleys.  
WILLIAM ALLEY, sometimes a Student in this University, of which he was afterwards Bach. and Doct. of divinity, was consecrated Bishop of Exeter in July 1560. where sitting about 10 years, died in the beginning of fifteen hundred and seventy. year 1570 See more of him among the writers under that year. In the said Bishopric succeeded Will. Bradbridge, as I shall hereafter tell you.  
JOHN BEST a Yorkshire man born, was originally of this University, and afterwards was dignified in the Church of Wells and elsewhere, but leaving all in the beginning of Q. Mary for Religion sake, lived obscurely, and as occasion served. At length after Q. Elizab. came to the Crown, he being then Bach. of Divinity, was consecrated Bishop of Carlisle (in the place of Owen Ogelthorp deprived) on the second of March, in fifteen hundred and sixty, aged 48 years: the temporalities whereof were given 
b Pat. 3. Elizab. p. 9  to him by the Queen on the 18. of Apr. following, and in 1566. he was actually created Doct. of divinity. year 1570 He ended his days on the 22. of May 
c Fr. Godwin ut sup. inter Episc. Carleol. p. 153.  in fifteen hundred and seventy, and was buried in the Cath. Ch. of Carlisle. In 1533. one Joh. Best was admitted to inform in Grammar, as I shall further tell you in the Fasti under that year, and in 1558. one Joh. Best was elected into a Founder's fellowship of University coll. from that of Lincoln. What relation this last had to the Bishop I know not, nor do I know yet to the contrary, but that Jo. Best the Grammarian, was afterwards the same who was Bishop.  
THOMAS STANLEY was a Cadet of the noble family of the Stanleys' Earls of Derby, and after he had spent some time in this, and another University beyond the Seas, returned to his native country of Lancashire, became Rector of Winwick and Wygan therein, as also of Badsworth in the diocese of York, and dignified in the Church. At length upon the vacancy of the See of the Isle of Man, he was made Bishop thereof, but when, I cannot justly say, because he seems to have been Bishop in the beginning of K. Ed. 6. and was really Bishop of that place after the death of Dr. Man, whom I have before mentioned, under the year 1556. This Thom. Stanley paid his last debt to nature in the latter end of fifteen hundred and seventy, 
157●.  having had the character, when young, of a tolerable Poet of his time, and was succeeded in the See of Man by one John Salisbury, whom I shall mention anon.  
JOHN JEWEL sometimes Portionist or Postmaster of Merton coll. afterwards Scholar and Fellow of that of Corp. Christi, was nominated Bishop of Salisbury by Q. Elizabeth. To which See being elected by the Dean and Chapter of that place, she gave her consent 
a Pat. 2. Elizab. p. 11.  to it 27 Dec. 1559. He departed this mortal life in fifteen hundred seventy and one, year 1571 under which year you may see more of him among the writers. In the See of Salisbury succeeded Edm Gheast Son of Thom. Gheast of the family of the Gheasts of Rough heath in Worcestershire; which Edmund was born, as a certain 
* Thom. Hatcher in his MS. Catalogue of the Provosts, Fell. and Scholar of King's coll. in Cambridge, under the year 1536.  writer saith, at Afferton in Yorkshire; and dying 28. of Feb. in 1576. was buried in the Cath. Ch. of Salisbury.  
JOHN SALISBURY, seems to have been descended from the ancient family of his name living in Denbighshire, but the Town or County which gave him his first breath I cannot yet learn. This person after he had studied some years in this University, but more in another, entered into the Sacred Function, and being beneficed and dignified in the Church, was made Suffragan Bishop of Th●tford in Norfolk, but the year when I cannot tell, and in 1540 Dean of Norwych in the place of Will. Castleton, who, having been the last Prior of the Black Moaks there, was made the first Dean of the Cath. Ch. in 1539. But Salisbury being outed of his Deanery, for what cause I know not, in the first year of Q. Marry, Dr. John Christopherson was installed in that dignity 18. of Apr. 1554. and soon after became Bishop of Chichester. On the 4. of Dec. following the said Salisbury was installed Chancellor of the Church of Lincoln, in the place of Joh. Pope who had then lately obtained the Archdeaconry of Bedford. In 1560. he was restored to his Deanery upon the deprivation of Dr. Joh. Harpesfield, and in the beginning of the year 1571. being made Bishop of the Isle of Man, was confirmed in that See on the seventh of Apr. the same year; at which time he had liberty given him to keep the Deanery of Norwych in Commendam with it. He concluded his last day about the latter end of Septemb. in fifteen hundred seventy and three, and was, year 1573 as I suppose, buried in the Cath. Ch. of Norwych. In the said Deanery succeeded George Gardiner D. D. installed therein 24. of Dec. 1573. and in the See of Man one Joh. Merick, as I suppose, of whom I shall make farther mention under the year 1599  
HUGH JONES a Welsh man born, but in what hall or college educated, unless in New Inn, I know not, was admitted Bach. of the Civil law by the name of Hugo Jonies Capellanus, in 1541. Afterwards he was beneficed and dignified in his own Country, and in the Reign of Q. Marry, an 1556. became Vicar of Banwell in the dioc. of Wells. In the year 1566. he was consecrated at Lambeth to the much impoverished See of Landaff;, and on the sixth day of May the same year, the temporalities of that See were restored 
d Pat. 8. Eliz. p▪ 9▪  to him. He was buried in the Church of Mathern in Monmouthshire 15. of Nou. in fifteen year 1574 hundred seventy and four, aged 66 years, leaving then behind him a Wife named Anne Jones alias Henson and several daughters. In Landaff succeeded William Blethin another Welsh man, of whom I shall make large mention hereafter.  
JOHN PARKHURST, sometimes Fellow of Merton college, became Bishop of Norwych in 1560. and died towards the latter end of fifteen hundred seventy and four; year 1574 under which year you may see more of him among the writers. In the said See succeeded Dr. Edm. Freke, elected by the Dean and Chapter of Norwych 13. of Jul. 1575. who being translated to Worcester, Edm. Scambler D. D. and B. of Peterborough was elected thereunto 15. of Dec. 1584. and was translated in the latter end of that month. He died 7. May 1594. aged 85 years, and was buried on the 3. of June following in the Cath. Ch. of Norwych, between the two Pillars, next above the Tomb of Bishop Parkhurst. Soon after was a monument of a yard and an half high, with his Effigies in Alabaster laying thereon, erected over his grave, and all enclosed with an high iron grate. In the time of that Rebellion, which was begun by the Presbyterians, the grate was taken away, the Effigies or Statue broken and the monument of freestone, on which it laid, was pulled down as far as the brickwork; which being unsightly, was afterwards taken away and the space between the pillars left void, as it now remains. There was an inscription, and four verses on it, the first of which did run thus,  
Vivo tibi, moriorque tibi, tibi Christe resurgam.  
After his death, Will. Redman Archdeacon of Canterb. and Rector of Bishops-Bourn in Kent, (Son of Joh. Redman of Shelford in Cambridgshire,) was promoted to the said See, whereupon being elected thereunto, 17. Dec. was consecrated 12. of Jan. and installed 24. Feb. 1594. He gave way to fate 25. Sept. 1602. and was buried in the Cath. Ch. of Norwych, leaving behind him a Relict named Isabella, and several sons and daughters, as also moneys for a public work to be done in Trin. coll. in Cambridge, of which he was sometimes Fellow. To carry on the succession a little farther though out of my road, I desire the Reader to know that after Redmans' death succeeded Dr. Joh. Jegon in the said See of Norwych, born at Coggeshall in Essex 10. Dec. 1550. (being Son of Rob. Jegon, by Joan his Wife, daughter of one…. White of the same County,) educated in Grammar learning there and elsewhere, became, after some years spent in Logic and Philosophy in Cambridge, Fellow of S. John's coll. in that University, afterwards Master of C. C. commonly called Bennet coll. (which office he held 12 years) four times Vicechancellor of that University, installed Dean of Norwych (in the place of Dr. Tho. Dove made Bishop of Peterborough) 22. June 1601. and at length being elected Bishop of Norwych 18. Jan. was consecrated thereunto, (with Dr. Rob. Bennet to Hereford) on the 20. Feb. 1602. In the year 1617. March 13. he died, and was soon after buried in the Church at Aylesham in Norfolk, and in 1619. his Widow named Lilia was married to Sir Charles Cornwallis. After him succeeded in Norwych Joh Overhall Bishop of Lichf. and Coventry, who being elected by the Dean and Chapter 21. May 1618. was confirmed 30. Sept. following. He died 12. May 1619. and was buried in the Cath. Ch. of Norwych. About the time of the restauration of K. Ch. 2. Dr. Cofin Bishop of Durham, did, in honour to his memory, as having been one of the profoundest School divines of our Nation, erect a monument on the next pillar to his grave. After him followed Dr. Sam. Harsnet, educated also in Cambridge, who was translated thereunto from Chichester 28. Aug. 1619. and him Dr. Franc. White B. of Carlisle and the King's Almoner, who being elected by the D. and Chapt. of Norwych (upon the translation of Harsnet to York, after D. G. Mountaigns' death) on the 22. Januar▪ 1628. was soon after translated thereunto. To him succeeded Dr. Rich. Corbet, whom I have among the Writers mentioned.  
NICOLAS BULLYNGHAM, was born in the City of Worcester, elected Fellow of Allsouls coll. in 1536. took one degree in the Laws, and some years after, viz. in 1549. (3. Edw. 6.) Sept. 2. was installed Archdeacon of Lincoln on the death of George Heneage, being about that time Vicar-general to the Bishop of that place. After Q. Mary came to the Crown, he absconded, and studied the Theological faculty, wherein he obtained a considerable knowledge, but when Q. Elizab. succeeded, he was made Doctor of his Faculty at Cambridge, was a Judge of Ecclesiastical matters in the Archb. Court of Canterbury, and at length was promoted to the Episcopal See of Lincoln. To which being elected after the deprivation of Dr. Tho. Watson, was consecrated thereunto 21. of Jan. 1559. and on the 18. of Apr. following the temporalities thereof were 
* Pat. 2. Elizab. p. 11.  restored to him. In 1566. he was incorporated Doctor, as he had stood at Cambridge, and in Jan. 1570. he was translated to Worcester on the death of Jam. Calfhill, (who was nominated by the Queen to succeed Edwin Sandys in the said See, but died before consecration,) where he continued much beloved to the time of his death. He departed this mortal life on the 18. of Apr. year 1576 in fifteen hundred seventy and six, and was buried in a Chapel on the north side of the Choir belonging to the Cath. Ch. of Worcester. Over his grave was fastened a white marble table to the wall, with these rude and barbarous verses engraven thereon. 
Nicolaus Episcopus Wigorn.  
Here born, here Bishop, buried here,  
A Bullyngham by name and stock,  
A Man twice married in God's fear,  
Chief Pastor late of Lyncolne flock.  
Whom Oxford trained up in youth,  
Whom Cambridge Doctor did create,  
A painful Preacher of the truth,  
Who changed this life for happy fate.  
18. Apr. 1576.   
WILLIAM WALSH, an eminent Theologist of his time, was born in, or near to, Waterford in Ireland, bred a Cistercian Monk, and for some time lived among those of that Order in Oxon, purposely for the improving himself in the supreme Faculty, of which he was afterwards Doctor, but whether of this University it appears not. In Nou. 1554. he succeeded 
† Jac. Waraeus in Com. de praeful. Hibem. p. 38.  Edw. Staple in the Episcopal See of Meath in Ireland; whence being ejected in the beginning of the Reign of Q. Elizab. for denying her Supremacy, was cast into prison for a time. Afterwards getting loose, he went into Spain, settled at Complutum, spent most of his time in Religion, 
157677.  and dying on the day before the nonce of January in fifteen hundred seventy and six, was buried in the Church there belonging to the Cistercians. In Meath succeeded one Hugh Brady, to which being consecrated in 1563. sat there 20 years.  
WILLIAM DOWNHAM, received his first breath in the County of Norfolk, was elected Probationer of Magdalen coll. in July 1543. and in the year following he was made true and perpetual Fellow of the said house, being then Master of Arts. Afterwards he became chaplain to the Lady Elizabeth, who, when Queen, did not only make him the first Canon of the tenth stall in the collegiate Ch. of S. Peter in the City of Westminster, an. 1560. but in the year after Bishop of Chester; to which See being consecrated 
a Fr. Godwin ut sup. Int. ep. Cestr:  on the 4. of May 1561. had the temporalities thereof given to him 
b Pat. 3. Eliz. p. 9  on the 9 of the same month. In 1566. he was actually created Doct. of div. and dying in Nou. in fifteen hundred seventy and seven, was buried in the Cath. Ch. at Chester, 
157●▪  leaving then behind him two Sons, viz. George Downham afterwards Bishop of London-Derry in Ireland, and John Downham Bach. of div. both learned and painful writers. In the See of Chester succeeded Will. Chaderton D. D. Master of Queen's coll. in Cambridge, sometimes Margaret, afterwards the Kings, Professor of div. in that University, and Prebendary or Canon of the fourth stall in the collegiate Church of S. Peter in the City of Westminster. This learned Doctor was born at Nuthurst 
c Reg. Dodsworth in collect. suis MS. in bib. Bod.  near Manchester in Lancashire, being the Son of Edm. Chaderton (by Margery his Wife, davof one Cliff of Cheshire) and he the Son of Jeffr. Chaderton, both of Nuthurst. He died Bishop of Lincoln, leaving behind him one only daughter named Joan, begotten on the body of his Wife, named Katherine, dau. of Joh. revel of London.  
PATRICK WALSH, was born, as it seems, in or near Waterford in Ireland, and after he had been partly educated in Grammaticals in that country, was sent to Oxon, but to what coll. or hall therein, unless to that of Brasnose, I know not. In the latter end of the year 1534. he proceeded Master of Arts; and about that time applying his mind to the Theological faculty, supplicated at length the venerable Congregation of Regent's that he might be admitted to the reading of the Sentences, in 1545. but whether he was admitted, it appears not in the public Register, which was much neglected by the then Scribe. About that time he was Dean of Waterford, and in so great repute for his learning and religion, that he was made Bishop of that place and of Lismore: To which being consecrated in August 1551. had liberty then allowed him to keep his Deanery in Commendam for a time. He paid his last debt to nature 
d Jac. War. ut supr. p. 199.  in fifteen hundred seventy and eight, and was, year 1578 as I suppose, buried in his Church at Waterford. He had a Son named Nich. Walsh who was then Bishop of Ossory, and about that time had a hand in translating the New Testament into the Irish tongue. This Nich. Walsh seems to have been educated in the University of Cambridge.  
WILLIAM BRADBRIDGE, or Brodebridge, was a Londoner born, but descended from those of his name in Somersetshire, was admitted Fellow of Magdalen coll. in 1529. and afterwards proceeding in Arts, was at length admitted to the reading of the Sentences, an. 1539. being then arrived to some eminence in the Theological Faculty. About the middle of March, 1 and 2 of Phil. and Mary, dom. 1554. he was made Prebendary of Lime and Halstock in the Church of Sali●bury, vacant by the death of one Rob. Bone, and in the beginning of Q. Elizab. showing himself conformable to the discipline then established, was made Dean of the said Church in June 1563. void by the death of Pet. Vannes an Italian. In 1565. he supplicated the ven. Congreg. of Regent's that he might be admitted Doctor of divinity, but whether he was really so, or diplomated, it appears not in the pubick Register, and on the 18. of March 1570. he was consecrated at Lambeth Bishop of Exeter; which See he laudably governed for about 8 years. He ended his days suddenly at Newton-Ferrers in Devonshire, on the 27. June, saith 
f Fr. Godwin ut sup. in't. ep. Exon.  one, and another 
g Joh. Vowel alias Hooker in his Cat. or Hist. of the Bishops of Exeter.  the 29. July, in fifteen hundred seventy and eight, 
15●8.  and was buried on the north side of the Choir of the Cath. Ch. of Exeter. To him succeeded in the said See Joh. Woolton, whom I have mentioned among the writers under the year 1593. and him Gervase Babington D. D. (descended from the ancient Family of the Babingtons in Nottinghamsh.) who, while he was Chaplain to the Earl of Pembroke, assisted his Noble Countess Mary Sidney in her translation of the Psalms: For it was more than a Woman's skill to express the sense so right, as she hath done in her verse, and more than the English or Latin translation could give her.  
THOMAS BENTHAM, a learned and pious man of his time, was born at Shirebourne (a Market Town I think) in Yorkshire, admitted perpetual Fellow of Magd. coll. 16. Nou. 1546. proceeded in Arts the year after, and about that time did solely addict his mind to the study of Theology, and to the learning of the Hebrew tongue, in which last he was most excellent, as in those of Greek and Latin, which he had obtained before he was M. of A. After Q. Mary came to the Crown, he was turned out of his Fellowship (for his forward and malapert 
† Vide Laur. Humfredum in Vita & morte Jo. Juelli, edit. 1573. p. 72, 73. & in Hist. & Antiq. Uniu. Ox. lib. 1. p. 275. b.  zeal against the Cath. Religion in the time of Edw. 6.) by the Visitors appointed by her to regulate the University. Whereupon retiring first to Zurich, and afterwards to Basil in Germany, became Preacher to the English Exiles there, and expounded to them the entire book of the Acts of the Apostles. Afterwards being recalled by some of the Brethren, was made Superintendent of them at London, and continued among them in a timorous condition for some time. At length when Q. Elizab. succeeded, he was nominated Bishop of Lichf. and Coventry upon the deprivation of Dr. Ralph Bayne: To which See being elected, had the temporalities thereof restored to 
* Pat. 2. Elizab. p. 11.  him 20 Feb. 1559. being then about 46 years of age. On the 24. of March following, he was consecrated, and about six years following he was actually created Doct. of divinity, being then in great repute for his learning. He died on the 21. of Feb. 
157879.  in fifteen hundred seventy and eight, leaving then behind him a Widow named Matilda. He was succeeded in Lichf. and Cou. by Dr. Will. Overton, of whom I have made mention among the writers under the year 1609.  
NICHOLAS HEATH, or Heth, a most wise and learned man, of great policy, and of as great integrity, was descended from the Heaths of Aspley in the Parish of Tamworth in Warwickshire, but whether born there, (where his brother had certain lands) I cannot tell, was educated for a time in C. C. coll. in this University, but before he took a degree there, he was transplanted first to Christ's coll. and afterwards to Clare hall in Cambridge, where proceeding in Arts, took holy Orders, was afterwards Archdeacon of Stafford, and in 1535. did commence D. of divinity. In 1539. Apr. 4. he was consecrated B. of Rochester, being then chief Almoner to the King, and on the 14. of the same month, the temporalities of that See were 
b Pat. 31. Hen. 8. p. 7.  delivered to him. On the 22. of Decemb. 1543. he was elected B. of Worcester upon the resignation of Dr. Bell, and in Feb. following, being translated thereunto, the temporalities also of that See were restored 
i Pat. 35. Hen. 8. p. 4.  to him on the 22. March following: where continuing till the beginning of K. Ed. 6. was soon after committed Prisoner to the Fleet, as being no Friend to that King, or reformation. Afterwards Q. Mary coming to the Crown, he was restored to his Bishopric, which Jo. Hooper had for some time occupied, and became so great in the favour of that Queen, that he was not only made by her Precedent of Wales, but also Archbishop of York; to which See being elected, P. Paul the fourth by his Bull dated xi. Cal. Jul. 1555. did confirm it. Afterwards being translated, the temporalities of that See were given 
k Pat. 2. & 3. Ph. & Mar. p. 1▪  to him 8. Jan. following, and on the 22. of that month was enthronised or installed in the person of Robert Bishop of Hull, Heath being then Lord Chancellor of England. While he sat Archbishop, Q. Mary gave to him Suffolk-house against S. George's Church in Southwark to be a habitation for him and his Successors for ever in that See, when their occasins called them to London; done in recompense for York-house near Westminster, which her Father had taken from Card. Wolsey. But the said house being remote from the Court, Archb. Heath sold it to a Merchant, and bought Norwich-house or Suffolk-place near to Charing-cross for him and his Successors for ever. When Q. Elizabeth came to the Crown, which was in Nou. 1558. (Cardinal Pole Archb. of Canterbury and Primate of all England being then dead,) he the said Heath not only refused (though it appertained to his office) to anoint and Crown Q. Elizab. as all the Bishops besides did, except one, but also about the beginning of the year following refused to take the Oath of her Supremacy over the Church. Whereupon being deprived of his Archbishopric about Midsummer in the same year, as also of his Chancellourship, was for a time committed to custody, (Jo. Fox saith 
l In the Acts and Mon. of the Church, etc. under the year 1558▪  to the Tower, where he died,) but being a person of great moderation, quiet behaviour, and modest disposition, was soon after set at liberty. So that retiring to his estate at Chobham in Surrey which he before had purchased, spent the remaining part of his days there in great security, retiredness, good studies, and devotion, being then in such great grace with Q. Elizabeth that she several times visited him with marvellous kindness. At length arriving to a fair age, died in the beginning of fifteen hundred seventy and year 1579 nine, as it should seem, for on the 5. of May that year one Tho. Heath, next Kinsman to the said Archbishop, had a Commission then granted 
m Ut in lib. MS. Administrationum in Offic. Praerog. Cant. incipiente 1. Jan. 1571. fol. 168. a.  to him from the Prerogative Court of Canterbury to administer the goods, debts, chattels, etc. of him the said Nich. Heath S. T. P. sometimes Archb. of York, lately deceased. He was buried in the middle of the Chanc. belonging to the Ch. of Chobham before-mentioned, and over his grave was soonafter a plain marble stone laid, with an inscription thereon; which stone was since broken and made shorter, and the inscription, engraven on a brass plate, taken away. His brother Will. Heath, as he is at Chobham so called, was also buried in the said Chancel, some years, as it seems, before the Archbishop, where there was lately, if not still, some memory of him on a grave-stone: But who are now the possessors of the Archb. lands there, which he left to his relations, I cannot tell. The picture drawn to the life of the said Archbishop, I have many times seen, which shows him to have been proper in person, black haired, pale-faced, thin and macerated, somewhat like the picture of Fisher B. of Rochester, but his nose not so long. I say, this picture I have often beheld, among many other choice pictures, hanging in the large Gallery belonging to Weston-house near to Long-Compton in Warwickshire, now in the possession of my worthy acquaintance Ralph Sheldon. Esq; whose Ancestor of both his names of Beoly in Worcestershire, (who died 21. Dec. 1546.) married Philippe daughter and coheir of Baldwin Heath, (by his Wife Agnes the eldest daughter and coheir of Joh. Grove of Fordhall in Wotton in Warwickshire,) Son of Thomas Heath of Aspley in the Parish of Tamworth before-mentioned; which Thomas is supposed by those of the Sheldonian Family, (who quarter with their Arms those of Grove and Heath,) to be Great Grandfather to the Archbishop. This hath been several times told me by my never to be forgotten friend and generous acquaintance, Ralph Sheldon of Beoly and Weston Esq; (who deceased 1684.) a person always very curious and industrious in Genealogies.  
ROBERT PURSGLOVE, received his first breath at a Market Town in Derbyshire called Tideswall, bred in puerile learning for some time there, afterwards in Grammar learning in S. Paul's School in London by the care and charge of his Uncle Will. Bradshaw; where continuing three years was afterwards placed in the Abery called S. Marry Overhee in Southwark. In which place being fitted for the University, he was sent to Corp. Ch. coll. in Oxford, and maintained there by his said Uncle for the space of fourteen years, but whether he took a degree in all that time, it doth not appear in our Registers, neither indeed of hundreds more, that have studied 7 or more years in Oxon, and therefore for that reason, and because we have no matriculation books above the time of Q. Elizab. the memory of many eminent Men in Church and State is lost. After he had left the University, being then esteemed an eminent Clerk, he was received into the Monastery of Gisbourne alias Gisburgh in Yorkshire, where taking upon him the habit of a Canon Regular, was at length elected Prior of that house. Afterwards upon a willing surrender of the said Monastery into the King's hands, he had a considerable pension allowed to him, was made Provost of Rotheram coll. in Yorkshire, and on the death of Rob. Sylvester about the beginning of Q. Mary's Reign, was made Archdeacon of Nottingham, and Suffragan B. of Hull under the Archb. of York, and, had other dignities and spiritualities conferred on him. After Q. Elizabeth had been settled in the Throne for some time, the Oath of Supremacy was offered to him, but he denying to take it, was deprived of his Archdeaconry and other spiritualities. Whereupon the said Archdeaconry being given to Will. Day M. A. he was installed therein 24. Apr. 1560. as about the same time he was in the Prebendship of Ampleford in the Church of York, on the deprivation of Dr. Alb. Langdale of Cambridge. Pursglove being thus deprived, he retired to the place of his nativity, and with the wealth that he had heaped from the Church, founded a Grammar School there, and an Hospital for 12 poor and impotent people; as also a Grammar School at Gisbourne beforementioned, the donation or patronage of which he gave to the Archbishop of York and his Successors for ever, an. 1575. This Clerk of great renown, as he is to this day styled by the Men of Tideswall, year 1579 gave way to fate on the second day of May in fifteen hundred seventy and nine, and was buried in the Church at Tideswall. Over his grave was a large monument erected, with twenty rude and barbarous verses in English engraven thereon; which being too many to set down in this place, I shall for brevity sake pass them by.  
THOMAS GOLDWELL, was in all probability descended from a family of his name living long before his time at Goldwell in Kent, but whether born in that County, I cannot tell. About the year 1520. he became a Student in this University, particularly, as it seems, in Allsouls college, where one, or more, of his name and kindred had studied before his time. In 1531. he proceeded in Arts, and two years after was admitted to the reading of the Sentences, being then known to be more eminent in Astronomy and Mathematics, than in Divinity. What were his preferments and employments 20 years after, I know not. Sure I am, that he being a most zealous person for the R. Catholic Religion, he was by Q. Mary promoted to the Bishopric of S. Asaph; to which See being elected, he had restitution made 
a Pat. 2. & 3. Phil. & Mar. p. 1.  of the temporalities belonging thereunto 22. January 1555. Soon after he procured the Pope to renew the indulgences granted to such that went in Pilgrimage to S. Winefrids' well, commonly called Halywell in Flintshire. The original of which place, with an account of many miracles performed there, is largely set down by Robert a Monk of the Order of S. Benedict, afterwards Prior of the Congregation of Cluniaks at Shrewsbury, in a book entitled, Vita mirabilis. S. Winefridae Virgins, Martyris & Abbatissae, lib. 2. written by him about the year 1140. (5. Reg. Steph.) and dedicated to Guarinus Prior of Worcester, the author being then Prior of Shrewsbury beforementioned. So that how it comes to pass that Silv: Giraldus who lived afterwards in K. John's time, did not make any mention of the said Well in his Itinerarium Cambriae, which Camden doth take 
b In Britannia, in Ordovic● ●ulgo Flintshire.  notice of, I know not. After Q. Elizabeth came to the Crown Bishop Goldwell conveyed himself away beyond the Seas, was present at the Council of Trent under P. Pius 4. an. 1562. and afterwards going to Rome lived very pontificially among the Theatines, was appointed by the Pope to baptise Jew's there, and to confer orders on all such English men that fled their Country for Religion's sake, which he did there and in several places elsewhere in other Countries to the time of his death. He was esteemed among them a most useful person, was had in great veneration for his learning, having, as I have been informed, wrote one, or more books, 
Ciar.  and was living at Rheymes in fifteen hundred and eighty, year 1580 being then about 80 years of age. Afterwards going to Rome died there soon after, and was either buried among the Theatines, or else in the chapel belonging to the English college there. See more of him in Rob. King among these Bishops under the year 1557. as also in a book intit. Concertatio Ecclesiae Catholicae in Anglia, etc. among the matters relating to the martyrdom of Ralph Sherwin. Joh. Fox in his book of Acts and Monuments, etc. doth tell us of one Thom. Goldwell a Priest, living at brussels, mentioned in a letter written to Bishop Rich. Thornden, in June 1554. but whether he be the same with Tho. Goldwell beforementioned, I cannot tell.  
RICHARD DAVYES, sometimes a Student, as it seems, of New Inn. was consecrated Bishop of St. Asaph in the place of Goldwell beforementioned, 21. Jan. 1559. aged 50 years, was translated thence to S. David's, in which See he was confirmed 21. May 1561. and died in fifteen hundred eighty and one; year 1581. under which year you may see more of him among the writers. In the See of St. Asaph succeeded Thomas Davyes a Doctor of divinity of Cambridge; who, being rich, left much money for pious uses, and settled a Scholarship in Queen's coll. in the said University. He gave way to fate about the Feast of S. Michael 1573. and was buried either in the Church at Abergwilly, or in the Church of Llanpedery Kenuen. In the See of St. David's succeeded the said Rich. Davyes Dr. Marmaduke Middleton, as I shall tell you under the year 1592.  
RICHARD COX, sometimes of King's coll. in Cambridge, afterwards Canon of Card. Wolsey's coll. in Oxon, was consecrated Bishop of Ely 1559. and died in fifteen hundred eighty and one; under which year you year 1581. may see more of him among the writers. In the said See succeeded Martin Heton of Oxon, whom I shall mention among these Bishops under the year 1609.  
MATHEW SHEYNE, an Irish man born, laid a foundation of literature here in Oxon, which afterwards he well improved. At length returning to his Country, was, thro' several preferments made Bishop of Cork and Cloyne; to which being 
* Jac. Waraeus in Com. de praesul. Hib●rn. p. 213:  consecrated in 1572. sat thereto the time of his death; which happened according to some, on the thirteenth day of June in fifteen hundred eighty year 1582 and two. Whether this M. Sheyne or John Sheyne was the author of the book De reipublica, I cannot yet tell. See in Rich. Shagens among the writers, under the year 1570. and in the Fasti 1523.  
JOHN WATSON, was born at a Market Town in Worcestershire called Evesham, admitted Fellow of Allsouls coll. in 1540 took the degree of Master of Arts two years after, and about that time applied his mind to the study of Medicine; in which afterwards he had considerable practice. At length, about the time that Q. Elizabeth came to the Crown, if not happily before, he entered into holy Orders, was made Prebendary of Winchester, Archdeacon of Surrey, and Chancellor of S. Paul's. In the 15. year of Q. Elizab. Dom. 1572. he was made Dean of Winchester in the place of Dr. Franc. Newton deceased, and in 1575. he was admitted to the degree of Doctor of Physic. About which time, he being in great favour at Court, he was made Bishop of Winchester, though somewhat against his will, in the year 1580. to which being consecrated on the 18. of Sept. in the same year, sat there to the time of his death. He died on the 23. of January in fifteen hundred eighty and three, aged 63 years, and on the 17. of Feb. his Funeral was solemnised in the Cath. Ch. of Winchester; 
158384.  at which time his corpse was buried in the body thereof. By his last 
e In Offic. praerog. Cant. in reg. Wa●son Qu. 1.  Will and Test. dat. 23. Oct. 25. Eliz. and proved 22. Jul. 1584. he gave 40 l. to Alls. college, 20 l. to the University of Oxon, 100 marks to certain poor Scholars studying there, to five poor Students of Oxon studying there also 4 l. apiece for five years after his decease, and to the poor of Evesham beforementioned he was a liberal benefactor, for whose sake also he gave a stock of 40 l. to set them on work.  
THOMAS CHESTER, a Londoner born, was a Student in this University in the time of K. Hen. 8. but in what house I cannot yet find, took one degree in Arts, and was afterwards beneficed and dignified. In 1580. he was made Bishop of Elphine in Ireland, where sitting about 4 years, gave way to fate 
f Jac. War. ut supr. p. 260.  at Killiathan in that County in the month of June in fifteen hundred eighty year 1584. and four. In the said See succeeded one John Linch, whom I shall mention at large among these Bishops under the year 1611.  
RICHARD BARNES, Son of Joh. Barnes, by Fridesmonda his Wife, daughter of Ralph Gifford of Cleydon in Buckinghamshire, was born at Bould near to Waryngton in Lancashire, admitted Fellow of Brasnose coll. by the authority of the King's Council, 6. Edw. 6. Dom. 1552. where making a quick progress in Logic and Philosophy, took the degree of Master of Arts 1557. About that time he took holy Orders, and was made Minister of Staingrave in Yorkshire. In 1561, Jul. 12. he was admitted Chancellor of the Cath. Ch. of York in the place of Jeffry Downes D. of D. (who had succeeded in that dignity one Dr. Hen. Trafford, in Aug. 1537.) and about the same time was made Canon residentiary and Preb. of Laughton in the said Church, as also a public Reader of divinity therein. About 1567. he was consecrated Suffragan Bishop of Nottyngham, in the Church of S. Peter at York, and in 1570. June 25. being elected to the See of Carlisle, in the place of Jo. Best deceased, was confirmed therein on the 7. Aug. following. In 1557. Apr. 5. he was elected to the See of Durham, was confirmed the 9 of May following, and was ever after a favourer of Puritanism. In Feb. 1579. he was actually created Doctor of divinity at Oxon, having taken the degree of Bachelaur in that Faculty at Cambridge, year 1587. and dying in fifteen hundred eighty and seven, was buried in the Choir, sometimes called the Presbytery, of the Cath. Ch. of Durham. Over his grave was a monument soon after put, with this inscription thereon. Reverendo in Christo Patri ac Domino, Dom. Richardo Barnes Dunelmensis Episcopo, Praesuli pio, docto, liberali, & munifico; P. S. precariss. P. P. P. P. Obiit xxiv. Aug. an. dom. 1587. aetatis suae 55. 
Astra tenent animam, corpus hoc marmore clausum,  
Fama polos penetrant, nomen nati atque nepotes  
Conservant vivis semper post funera virtus.   
WILLIAM BLEYTHYN, a Welsh man born, was educated in New Inn or Broadgates' hall, or in both, where applying his studies to the Civil Law, took one degree in that Faculty, in 1562. and afterwards became Archdeacon of Brecknock and Prebendary of Osbaldswyke in the Church of York. In 1575. Apr. 17. he was 
* Fr. Godwin in Com. de praesul, Anglia, in't. ep. Landav. p. 641.  consecrated Bishop of Landaff, year 1590. and dying in Octob. in fifteen hundred and ninety, was buried in the Chancel of the Ch. at Matherne in Monmouthshire (where the B. of Landaff hath a Seat) near to the body of Hugh Jones his Predecessor. At which time he left behind him three Sons, William, Timothy, and Philemon.  
THOMAS GODWIN, was born at a Market Town in Berkshire 
a Idem in't. ep. B. & Well. p. 444.  called Okingham, and bred in Grammar learning in the School there, where being fitted for a gown, was sent to the University of Oxon, about the year 1538. was elected Probationer of Magd. coll. in 1544. and the year after true and perpetual Fellow; being then Bach. of Arts. In 1547. he proceeded in that Faculty, and two years after, did, upon pretence of being disturbed by certain Papists in that house, (he himself being heretically inclined as they said,) leave his Fellowship, and accepted from the said college the Rectory of their School at Brackley in Northamptonshire. Afterwards he took to him a Wife, and what time he had to spare he bestowed on the study of Theology. But so it was, that when Queen Mary came to the Crown he was silenced, and in a manner put to his shifts; whereupon applying his study to Physic to maintain him and his, he was admitted to the reading of any the books of Hypocrates, or of the Aphorisms of Hypocrates, that is to the degree of Bachelaur of Physic, an. 1555. When Queen Elizabeth succeeded, and Religion thereupon was altered, he took holy Orders from Dr. Bullyngham B. of Lincoln, who made him his Chaplain, and being a chief instrument of his Preaching several times before the Queen, she approved of him and his person so well, that she thereupon made him Dean of Ch. Ch. in Oxon, in June 1565. So that taking the degrees in divinity the same year, and being esteemed much by all for his learning and piety, he was made Dean of Canterbury in the place of Dr. Nich. Wotton deceased, an. 1566. In 1584. he was nominated Bishop of Bath and Wells, after that See had laid void three years; whereupon being consecrated thereunto 
b Reg. Godwin ep. B. & Wells an. 1584.  on the 17. of Sept. (his Son Fr. Godwin saith the 13.) the same year, sat there to the time of his death without any removal. He came to the place as well qualified (as one 
c Sir. Jo. Harrington in his Brief view of the State of the Church of England, etc. Lond. 1653. p. 111. alias 113.  saith) for a Bishop as might be, unreprovable without Simony, given to good hospitality, quiet, kind, affable, a Widower, and in the Queen's good opinion. If he had held on as clear as he had entered, he would have been extolled by all: But see his misfortune that first lost him in the Queen's favour, and after forced him to another mischief. For so it was that he being aged, diseased and lame of the Gout, he married (as some thought for opinion of wealth) a Widow of London, which was his second Wife at least. A chief favourite of that time (Sir Walt. Raliegh) had laboured to get the Manor of Banwell from his Bishopric, and disdaining the repulse, did upon hearing of this intempestive marriage, take advantage thereof, and caused it to be told to the Queen, (knowing how much she disliked such matches,) and instantly pursued the Bishop with letters and mandates for the Manor of Banwell for an 100 years. The good Bishop not expecting such a sudden tempest, was greatly perplexed, yet a while he held out, and endured many sharp messages from the Queen, of which Sir Joh. Harrington of Kelston near to Bath carried one, being delivered to him by Robert Earl of Leycester, who seemed to favour the Bishop, and mislike Sir Walter for molesting him; but they were soon agreed like Pilate and Herod to condemn Christ. Never was harmless man so traduced to his Sovereign, that he had married a Girl of 20 years old, with a great portion, that he had conveyed half the Bishopric to her, that (because he had the Gout) he could not stand to his marriage, with such, and the like, scoffs to make him ridiculous to the vulgar and odious to the Queen. The Earl of Bedford happening to be present when these tales were told, and knowing the Londoners Widow, the Bishop had married, said merrily to the Queen after this manner, Madam, I know not how much the Widow is above 20. but I know a Son of hers is but a little under forty, etc. The conclusion of the premises was this, that to pacify his persecutors, and to save Banwell he was fain to part with Wyvelscomb, commonly called Wilscomb, for 99 years, and so purchased his peace. To conclude, his reading had been much, his judgement and doctrine sound, his government mild and not violent, his mind charitable, and therefore not to be doubted, but when he lost this life, he won Heaven. In his last days, being taken with an quartan Ague, he did, by advice of his Physicians, remove to the place of his Nativity, Okingham before-mentioned, with hopes of recovery, but nothing availing, he gave way to fate 19 of Novemb. in fifteen hundred and ninety, aged 73 years. year 1590. Whereupon being buried on the south side of the Chancel belonging to the Parish Church there, had a monument soon after set up in the wall over his grave by his Son Franc. Godwin then Subdean of Exeter. In the See of Bath and Wells succeeded John Still D. D. Master of Trin. coll. in Cambridge, (Son of William Still of Grantham in Lincolnshire,) who had been installed Canon of the seventh stall in the Church of Westminster, in the place of Thom. Aldridge deprived for Nonconformity, an. 1573. and Archdeacon of Sudbury 28. of March 1576. He died 26. of Feb. 1607. and was buried in the Cath. Ch. of Wells, leaving then behind him several Children which he had by his two Wives, especially the first.  
MARMADUKE MIDDLETON, Son of Tho. Middleton of Cardiganshire, (descended from the middleton's of Middleton in Westmoreland,) by Lucia his Wife, daughter of Rob. Nevil, had part of his education here, but took not, as I can yet find, a degree. Afterwards he went into Ireland, where he became Rector of Killare in the diocese of Meath, and on the death of Patr. Walsh, 
d Jac. War. ut. sup. p. 199.  B. of Waterford and Lisemore, in 1579. In 1581. he was translated to S. David's, and about two years after he was actually created Doct. of div. of this University. He was afterwards not only deprived of his Bishopric. but 
e Pet. Heylyn in Exam. historic. edit. Lond. 1659. p. 221.  degraded from all holy Orders for many notable misdemeanours: And the sentence for it was accordingly executed by, and before, the High Commissioners at Lambeth house, not only by reading of it in Scriptis, but by a formal degrading him of his Episcopal robes and Priestly vestments. He departed this mortal life on the 30. of Nou. in fifteen hundred ninety and two, leaving then a Son behind him year 1592. named Richard who was Archdeacon of Cardigan. In the See of S. David's succeeded Anthony Rudd D. of div. of Cambridge, and a Yorkshire man born, whom I shall mention in the Fasti under the year 1577.  
JOHN UNDERHILL is according to time to follow Tho. Godwin; but before I enter upon him, I must let the reader know that after the death of Dr. Hugh Curwyn Bishop of Oxon, that See continued void about 21. years. At the term of which, a great person (Sir Fr. Walsingham) out of pure devotion to the leases, that would yield good fines, recommended the said Vnderhill to it, persuading him to take it, as in a way to a better, but, as it should seem, it was out of his way very much, for e'er the first fruits were paid, he 
a Brief view, etc. beforementioned, p. 149.  died in much discontent and poverty. Yet his preferrer to seem to do some favour to the University, for recompense of the spoil done to the Bishopric of Oxon, erected a new lecture at his own charge, which Dr. Rainolds of C. C. coll. did for some time read, as I have 
b Vide Hist. & Antiq. Uniu. Oxon, lib. 1. p. 301. b. 302. a.  told you elsewhere. This John Vnderhill was born in an ancient tenement or receptacle for guests called the Cross Inn in St. Martin's Parish, within the City of Oxon, where his name lived two or three generations, if not more, and continued there till the daughter and heir of Vnderhill was married to one Breys or Brice. After he had been trained up in Grammar learning in Winchester school, he was sent to New coll. of which he became true and perpetual fellow in 1563. After he had taken the degree of M. of Arts, it happened that Doctor Horn Bishop of Winchester visited the said coll. but Vnderhill making opposition by questioning the Bishop's right for what he did, or should do, as to visitation, he was removed from his fellowship in 1576. Whereupon making his complaint to Robert Earl of Leycester chancellor of the University of Oxon, he harkened to, and encouraging him to go to law with the Bishop for what he had done, the Bishop forthwith let the cause fall to the ground, knowing very well that he should be a loser by carrying on the cause, if that great Count should stand by Vnderhill. In 1577. he was elected Rector of Lincoln coll. and proceeded in Divinity in 1581. About which time he was made Chaplain to the Queen, one of the Vicars of Bampton, and Rector of Witney, in Oxfordshire. In 1589. he was nominated Bishop of Oxon upon Walsinghams' motion, as I have before told you; whereupon being elected by the Dean and Chapter of Ch. C. on the 8. day of Decemb. was consecrated thereunto about the latter end of the same month in the said year. He paid his last debt to nature at London on the 12. of May, in fifteen hundred ninety and two, and soon after his body being conveyed to Oxon, year 1592. was buried in the Cath. Ch. towards the upper end of the choir, just before the Bishop's chair, leaving then this character of him, that he was Vir clarus eloquio, & acutus ingenio. From the time of his death to the consecration of Dr. Jo. Bridges his successor, an. 1603. the patrimony of the Bishopric of Oxon, was much dilapidated, and made a prey (for the most part) to Robert Earl of Essex, to whom it proved as miserably fatal, as the gold of Tholouse did of old to the soldiers of Caepio. The said Joh. Bridges had been sometimes fellow of Pembr. hall in Cambridge, was D. of D. and made Dean of Salisbury in the beginning of Januar. 1577. upon the promotion of Dr. Joh. Piers to the Episcopal See there. He was a learned man in the time he lived, and wrote several books, as the Bodleian or Oxford catalogue will tell you. See more of him in Hist. & Antiq. Vniu. Oxon. lib. 2. p. 291. b.  
JOHN WOOLTON sometimes of Brasnose coll. was consecrated Bishop of Exeter in Aug. 1574. died in the latter end of fifteen hundred ninety and three, year 1593. and was buried on the south side of the choir or presbytery of his Cathedral. Over his grave was soon after put an Epitaph, the beginning of which is this. 
Hic jacet, haud jacet hic tumulo quem credis inesse,  
Terra nequit tantum contumulare virum.   
See more of him among the writers, under the year 1593.  
THOMAS COOPER sometimes fellow of S. Mary magdalen's coll. was made Bishop of Lincoln in 1570. translated thence to Winchester, in 1584. and died in the beginning of the year fifteen hundred ninety and four, year 1594 under which year you may see more of him among the writers. In the said See of Winchester succeeded Will. Wickham. Son of John Wickham of Enfield in Middlesex, Son of Tho. Wickham of Swaclive in Oxfordshire by Joyce Sandbury his Wife: which Will. Wickham was born at Enfield beforementioned, educated in Eton school near Windsor, became a member of the foundation of King's coll. in Cambridge, an. 1556. fellow of Eton college, Prebendary of the fourth stall in the collegiat ch. of S. Peter in Westminster, in the place of Rich. Morley, an. 1570. Canon of Windsor 1571. Dean of Lincoln 1577. and afterwards Bishop thereof, preached at the burial of Mary Q. of Scots at Peterborough, 1. Aug. 1587. translated from Lincoln to Winchester about the latter end of March 1595. and died in Winchester house in S. Mary Overhees parish in Southwark on the 12. of June following. You may see his epitaph in Jo. Stow's Survey of London, printed 1633. p. 452. and more of him in Antimartinus, sive monitio cujusdam Londinensis, etc. Printed 1589. p. 52.  
JOHN ELMER or Aylmer was born of, and descended from, an ancient and gentile family of his name living in Norfolk, spent some time in this University while young, but more in Cambridge, where, if I mistake not, he took the degrees in Arts. Afterwards he became chaplain to Henry Grey Duke of Suffolk and Tutor to his daughter the Lady Jane Grey, while she lived at Bradgate in Leycestershire, who taught her so 
c See in the book entit. The School master, or plain and pleasant way of teaching children, etc. written by Rog. Ascham— Lond. 1589. qu. p. 11.  gently, so pleasantly, and with such fair allurements to learning, that she thought all the time nothing, whilst she was with him. And when she was called from him, she would fall a weeping, because that whatsoever she did else, but learning, was to her full of grief, trouble, fear, and altogether misliking to her. And thus her book was so much her pleasure, and brought daily to her more pleasure and more, that in respect of it, or other pleasures, were in truth but trifles and troubles to her. In 1553. he, by the name of Joh. Aylmer, was made Archdeacon of Stow in the place of Christop. Massingberd, who died 8. March in that year; and soon after we find him one of the Protestant Disputants in the Convocation house at S. Paul's, when certain Theologists of each party met to solve such scruples and doubts, as any of them might pretend to have. He spoke but little on the first day, but the next day he read certain authorities out of a notebook, which he had gathered against the real presence. Afterwards showing himself nonconformable, he was deprived of his Archdeaconry; whereupon Joh. Harryson being put into his place, an. 1554. he the said Elmer went as a voluntary Exile into Germany, where he was miraculously preserved from several dangers. After Q. Elizabeth came to the Crown, he was appointed one of the Protestant Disputers against the seven R. Cath. Bishops concerning matters of religion, when that Q. was about to make a reformation, and in 1562. he by the name of Joh. Aylmer M. of A. was made Archdeacon of Lincoln in the place of one Tho. Marshal, who had succeeded Nich. Bullyngham in 1554. In the year 1573. he retired to this University again, and there as a member of it, took the degrees in divinity, that of Doctor being completed in an Act celebrated on the 12. of Octob. the same year. On the 24. of March 1576. he was 
d Fr. Godwin ut sup. in't. Episc. London, p: 252.  consecrated Bishop of London, being then accounted a learned and an honest man, and about 1588. he was made the Queen's Almoner, at which time he was a great enemy to the Puritanical party, then numerous in the nation. He died at Fulham in Middlesex on the third of June in fifteen hundred ninety and four, and was buried in S. Paul's Cathedral before the chapel of S. George. By his last Will year 1594 
e In Offic. Praerog. Cant. in reg. Dixy part 2. Qu. 81.  and Test. which I have seen, he desires to be buried in the Cath. Ch. of S. Paul on the north side, in some convenient place within the wall, with a Tomb of his Picture after the manner of Dean Collet; which, as he saith, is on the south side of the Choir. He then left behind him several Sons, the second of which named Theophilus, succeeded Jo. Molyns in the Archdeaconry of London 1591. being about that time well beneficed in Hertfordshire, and esteemed a learned and reverend divine. His father also, the Bishop, was well learned in the Languages, was a ready Disputant and a deep Divine, and wrote, as 'tis said, a book called 
f Tbom. Fuller in his Church History, etc. lib. 9 sect. 10.  The Harborough of Princes, which I have not yet seen, and therefore cannot tell you where, or in what Vol. 'twas printed. He was a man but of mean stature, yet in his youth very valiant, which he forgot not in his age. When he first became a Preacher, he followed the popular phrase, and fashion of the younger Divines of those times, which was to inveigh against the superfluities of the Church men, and thereupon he is 
a Brief view, etc. as before, p. 17, 18.  remembered to have used these words in a Sermon before a great auditory.— Wherefore away with your thousands you Bishops, and come down to your hundreds, etc. But this was but a heat of his spirit, of which, not long after, by reading and conference, he was throughly cured; insomuch as being asked by one of his own rank, after he was Bishop of London, what he meant, to preach of the brainsick fashion, he answered with the words of S. Paul, Cum essem parvulus, loquebar ut parvulus, sapiebam ut parvulus. But certain it is, no Bishop was more persecuted and taunted by the Puritans of all sorts, than he was by libels, by scoffs, by open railing and privy backbiting. He used for recreation to bowl in a Garden, and Martin Marprelate thence took this taunting scoff, that the Bishop would cry Rub, rub, rub, to his bowl, and when 'twas gone too far, say, the Devil go with it, and then quoth he the Bishop would follow. Thus he was rubbed, as he rubbed others, till they were all galled sometimes, and the B. was so weary of the place, that he would gladly have removed to Ely, and made great suit, and was put in some hope, for it. He was diligent in Preaching at his cure where he was first beneficed, and when his auditory grew dull and unattentive, he would with some pretty and unexpected conceit, move them to attention. Among the rest was this: He read a long text in Hebrew, whereupon all seemed to listen what would come after such strange words, as if they had taken it for some conjuration: then he showed their folly, that when he spoke English, whereby they might be instructed and edified, they neglected and harkened not to it; and now to read Hebrew, which they understood no word of, they seemed careful and attentive. When there was talk of dangers, rumours of wars and invasions, than he was commonly chosen to Preach in the Court, and he would do it in so cheerful a fashion, as not only showed he had courage, but would put courage into others. Here is much talk saith he of Malum ab aquilone, and our Cole-prophets have prophesied that in exaltatione lunae leo jungetur leaenae, and the Astronomer tells us of a watery Trigon. But as long as Virgo is in that ascendent with us, we need not fear of any thing: Deus nobiscum, quis contra nos: and for this the Queen would much commend him, yet she would not remove him. In the See of London succeeded Dr. Rich. Fletcher sometimes of C. C. coll. in Cambridge, and him Rich. Bancroft an. 1597. who being removed to Canterbury 10. Decemb. 1604. Rich. Vaughan Bish. of Chester, was translated 
b Camden in Annal ●. Jac. 1. MS. sub. an. 1604.  to London 24. of the same month.  
JOHN PIERS was born of plebeian and sufficient Parents at South Henxsey near to Abendon in Berks, and within a short mile of Oxon, was educated in Grammar learning in the free-school joining to Magd. college, in Academicals in the said coll. of which he was admitted perpetual fellow 25. July 1546. being then Bach. of Arts. Soon after, upon an invitation, he was elected into the number of the signior Students of Ch. Church: which place he being unwilling to take, had liberty granted to him, that if he did dislike it at the years end, he might leave it. Whereupon being weary of it at the term of that year, he was elected Probationer of Magd. coll. beforementioned 26. Jul. 1548. and the next year proceeded in Arts. About that time he entered into holy orders, and being soon after made divinity reader of that house, obtained also the rectory of Quainton in Bucks: both which places he kept together for some time. But so it was, that he being a man of good parts, and accounted by his contemporaries an excellent disputant, yet by keeping rustical company at Quainton, or at some small cure that he had near to his native place, before he had obtained Quainton, (where 'twas usual with him to sit tippling in a blind Alehouse with some of his neighbours) was in great hazard to have lost all those excellent gifts that came after to be so well esteemed and rewarded in him. In 1558. he was admitted to the reading of the sentences, being about that time Prebendary of Chester: of which Church being soon after made Dean in the place of Rog. Walker M. A. he proceeded in divinity. In the beginning of 1570. he was elected Master of Balliol coll. but before he was settled therein, he was made Dean of Ch. C. in Oxon. So that resigning his Mastership in May 1571. was on the 15. of March following made Dean of Salisbury upon the resignation of Dr. Edm. Freke made Bishop of Rochester. Which Deanery he kept with that of Ch. Ch. till he was consecrated Bishop of Rochester, 15. Apr. 1576. About which time being made the Queen's Almoner, she gave him leave notwithstanding to keep a commendatary title to Salisbury till 1577. and then in the beginning of that year, she made him Bishop of that place, on the death of Dr. Edm. Gheast who died in Feb. 1576. In the said See he sat several years with great honour and repute, and was beloved of all. At length, upon the death of Dr. Edwin Sandys, being made Archb. of York. was translated to that place on the 19 of Feb. in 1588. He died at Bishops-Thorp in Yorkshire 28. Sept. in fifteen hundred ninety and four, aged 71. year 1594 years, leaving then behind him the character of a great and modest Theologist; whereupon his body was buried in the third Chapel at the east-end of the Cath. Ch. of York. Over his grave was soon after erected a fair monument on the east Wall; the inscription on which, wherein his character 
* See more of him in Illustrium aliquot Anglorum Encomia. Written by Tho. Newton, p. 115.  is contained at large, you may see in Historia & Antiquitates Vniu. Oxon, lib. 2. p. 225. a. & b. He left his estate to Joh. Piers Registrary to the Archb. of York, (Son of Thomas Piers of S. Henxsey beforementioned, the Archb. brother) who married Elizabeth daughter of Rich. Bennet, and Sister of Sir John Bennet Kt. Judge of the Prerogative Court of Cant.  
WILLIAM ALLYN Allen or Alan, sometimes fellow of Oriel coll. was created Cardinal under the title of S. Martin in Montibus, an. 1587. and in 1589. he was made Archbishop of Mechlin the Metropolis of Brabant. He paid his last debt to nature in fifteen hundred ninety year 1594 and four, as I have told you elsewhere. See more among the writers under that year. In the See of Mechlin succeeded Levinus Torrentius a native of Gaunt, and Bishop of Antwerp, founder of the coll. of Jesuits at Louvain, who dying 6. of the Cal. of May 1595. aged 70. and more, was buried in his Cath. Church.  
LEWES OWEN or Owen Lewes, by both which names he is written, was born in the village of Maltrayth in Bodean in the Isle of Anglesie, was educated in Grammar learning in Wykehams' School near Winchester, made perpetual and true fellow of New coll. in 1533. took the degree of Bach. of the civil law in Feb. 1558. and made a farther progress in that faculty, with intentions to proceed therein. But his opinion as to religion not suffering him so to do, left the University about 1561. (though his fellowship was not pronounced void till 1563.) and went to Douai, where he was for his great merits made the Regius Professor of his faculty. At length being nominated Bishop of Cassano in the Kingdom of Naples by Philip 2. King of Spain, and elected by P. Sixtus 5. (whose Referendary he was of each signature) was consecrated thereunto at Rome on the third of Febr. 1588. according to the account there followed. In which See sitting about seven years, died full of commendations and praise on the fourteenth of Octob. according to the same account, year 1594 in fifteen hundred ninety and four. Whereupon his body was buried in the Chapel belonging to the college of the English Students at Rome, dedicated to S. Thomas Archb. of Canterbury. Soon after was a marble stone laid over his grave, with this inscription thereon, which gives a farther account of the man. D. O. M. Audoeno Ludovico Cambro-Britanno, I. V. D. at Professori Oxonii in Anglia, ac Regio Duaci in Flandria, Archidiacono Hannoviae, & Canonico in Metropolitana Cameracensi, atque Officiali Generali, Vtriusque signaturae Referendario, Caroli Cardinalis Borromaei Archiepiscopi Mediolanensis Vicario generali, Gregorii xiii. et Sexto v. in congregatione de consultationibus Episcoporum & Regularium a secretis, Episcopo Cassanensi, Gregorii xiv. ad Helvetios' Nuncio, Clementis viij. Apostolicae visitationis in alma urbe adjutori, Anglos in Italia, Gallia & Belgio omni ope semper juvit, at ejus imprimis opera hujus collegii ac Duacensis & Rhemensis fundamenta jecit. Vixit annos lxi. menses ix. dies xiix. Exul à patria xxxvi. Obiit xiv. Octob. mdxciv. Ludovicus de Torres Archiepiscopus Montis Regalis Amico posuit. The said Dr. Lew. Owen had a Nephew called Hugh Griffyth who was Provost of Cambray.  
JOHN GARVEY, was born, as it seems, in the County of Kilkenny in Ireland, took one or more degrees in the Reign of K. Edw. 6. he being then a Student in Oxon, but by the negligence of the Scribe his name is omitted in the public Register of that time. Afterwards he retired to his Country, became Archdeacon of Meath, and in 1565. Dean of the Church of the Holy Trinity, commonly called Christ-Church in Dublin. Afterwards being made a Member of the Queen's Privy Council there, was 
a Jac. Waraeus in Com. de praesul. Hibern. edit. 1665. p. 252.  promoted to the Bishopric of Kilmore in Ap. 1585. with liberty then allowed him to keep his Deanery in Commendam. In 1589. he was made Archbishop of Armagh in the place of Dr. Joh. Long deceased: Whereupon being translated thereunto on the tenth of May the same year, had liberty given him to keep his Deanery then also. He departed this mortal life on the second day March in fifteen hundred ninety and four, 
1594-95.  and was buried in the Church of the Holy Trinity beforementioned, leaving then behind him a little thing of his writing intit. The Conversion of Philip Corwine a Franciscan Friar, to the reformation of the Protestant Religion, an 1589.— Published in 1681. when the Fanatical party were big with hopes of satisfying their insatiable ends, under pretence of aggravating and carrying on the pretended horridness of the Popish Plot. He was succeeded in Kilmore by one Rob. Draper Rector of Trimm in Ireland, and in the See of Armagh by Henry Usher, whom I shall mention at large under the year 1613.  
WILLIAM LALY, or Lawly alias Mullaly received his first being in this World in the County of Galloway in Ireland, was educated in New Inn, took the degree of Bach. of decrees as a Member of that house, in 1555. (1. and 2. of Ph. and Mary,) and returning soon after into his own Country, was made Dean of Tuam, and at length consecrated 
b Ibid. p. ●52.  Archbishop of that place, in Apr. 1573. He ended his days in fifteen hundred ninety and five, year 1595 and was buried, as I presume, in the Cath. Ch. at Tuam. In the See of Tuam succeeded one Nehemias' Donellan an Irish man, educated in the University of Cambridge, as my author here quoted saith. Yet the Reader must know, that one or more, of his Surname, and time, studied in Oxon, but his or their Christian names being not registered, I cannot say that either of them was Nehemias'.  
THOMAS BICKLEY, was born at Stow in Bucks. educated in Grammaticals in the Free-School joining to Magd. coll. while he continued in the quality of a Chorister of that house: Afterwards upon examination of his proficiency, he was elected one of the Demies or Semi-Commoners, and in July 1540 was admitted Probationer, and on the 26. of the said month, in the year following, was made perpetual Fellow of the said house. In the beginning of K. Edw. 6. he became the King's Chaplain or Preacher at Windsor, to which he was elected according to custom by the Members of the University of Oxon, and about that time showing himself a very forward 
c Vide Hist. & Antiq. Uniu. Oxon. lib. 1. p. 〈…〉  person for reformation, and therefore looked upon as an impudent and pragmatical Man by the R. Cath. party, nay and by some also of his own, he was forced to leave the coll. in the beginning of Q. Mary's reign, being then Bach. of divinity. Whereupon going into France, he spent most of his time at Paris and Orleans during her reign, where he improved himself much in learning, and in the language of that Country. After Q. Elizab. came to the Crown, he returned and became Chaplain to Dr. Parker Archb. of Canterbury, Archdeacon of Stafford and Residentiary of the Church of Lichfield; which dignities were given to him by Dr. Bentham Bishop of that place, sometimes his Friend and Contemporary in Magd. coll. In the beginning of the year 1569. he was one of the three persons that was elected Warden of Merton coll. by the Fellows thereof; whereupon the Archb. beforementioned confer'd that place on him, and in the next year he proceeded Doct. of div. as a Member of the said house. In 1585. he had the Bishopric of Chichester conferred upon him on the death of Rich. Coortess; to which See being consecrated 30. of January, was installed or enthronised the 3. March the same year, where he sat to the time of his death much beloved of all in his diocese. He gave up the ghost on the 30. of Apr. in fifteen hundred ninety and six, and was buried year 1596 in the north Isle joining to the Choir of his Cath. on the 26. May following, Soon after was a monument set over his grave, with his figure kneeling thereon, (which shows him to have been a comely and handsome Man.) with this inscription engraven near it. Thomas Bickley sacrae Theologiae Doctor, Magdalenensis Collegii Oxon. Alumnus, Archidiaconus Stafford: Collegii de Merton Custos, & hujus Ecclesiae Episcopus, quam annos decem, & tres menses, sobrietate & sinceritate, summâ justitiâ & prudentiâ singulari & piè & religiosè administravit. Obiit pridie calendas Maii Aldingborniae, anno salutis nostrae Millesimo quingentesimo nonagesimo sexto, & aetatis suae septuagesimo octavo, etc. I find▪ by his last Will and Test. that he gave to Magd. coll. his good nurse, forty pounds to be bestowed on the Grammar School joining to the said college, for the ceiling and paving it. To Merton coll. also he gave an hundred pounds to buy land, that the revenue thereof be bestowed in exhibition on one of the Fellows thereof that professeth divinity, to preach one public Sermon, etc. This exhibition was afterwards ordered to be given to that Fellow that should Preach a Sermon to the University on May-day in the Chapel or Church belonging to Merton coll. which yet continues. In the See of Chichester succeeded Anth. Watson D. D. of Cambridge, Son of Edward Watson of Thorp-Thales in the County Pal. of Durham, and he the Son of Will. Watson of the same place. Which Anthony was first Chancellor of the Ch. of Wells, in the place of Dr. Rog. Good; afterwards Dean of Bristol on the death of Joh. Sprint in 1590. and in 1596. being consecrated Bishop of Chichester beforementioned, was succeeded in his Chancellourship by one Joh. Rogers, (to whom succeeded also Will. Barker D. D. 1602.) and in his Deanery by Simon Robson, not in 1596. but in 98. which shows that Watson kept the said Deanery for some time in Commendam with Chichester. This Dr. Watson, who spent his life in celibacy, as his Predecessor Bickley did, gave way to fate at his house in Cheame or Cheyham in Surrey, being then Almoner to K. Jam. 1. whereupon his body was buried in the Church there, on the third day of Oct. 1605. By his last Will 
d In Offic. Praerog. cant. in reg. Hays, Qu. 62.  and Testam. he gave an hundred pounds to Christ's coll. in Cambridge, where he had been educated before he became Fellow of Bennet college, and divers other Legacies for pious uses.  
RICHARD MEREDYTH, a Welsh man born. became a Student in this University about 1568. but in what house, unless in S. John's coll. it appears not. In 1575. he proceeded M. of Arts as a Member of Jesus coll. which was the highest degree he took in this University. Afterwards being Chaplain to Sir Joh. Perot L. Lieutenant of Ireland, he was by him made Dean of S. Patrick's Church near Dublin, and at length B. of Leighlin: To which See being consecrated in the month of Apr. 1589. sat there till the time of his death; which happening 
e Jac. Waraeus 〈…〉  on the third of August in fifteen hundred ninety and seven, was year 1597 buried on the north side of S. Patrick's Church beforementioned. In the said See of Leighlin succeeded one Rob. Grave Dean of Cork, but whether he was ever a Student in Oxford, I cannot yet tell.  
JOHN BULLYNGHAM, received his first breath in the County of Gloucester, was elected Probationer of Magd. coll. in July 1550. being then Bach. of Arts, and intimate with Julius' Palmer the Protestant Martyr, (whose story he hath written in a large letter dated from Bridgnorth about 1562. for the satisfaction of Jo. Fox when he was in writing his English book of Acts and Monuments) etc. but before he took the degree of Master, he left the University, (Q. Marry being then in the Throne,) and retired, as it seems, beyond the Seas, where continuing mostly all her reign, returned when Q. Elizabeth succeeded, became well beneficed, and in 1567. was made Archdeacon of Huntingdon, but in whose room, unless in that of Anth. Draycot, I know not. In 1568. he completed the degree of D. of div. in an Act celebrated on the twelfth of July, and two years after was made Prebendary of Worcester in the place of Libbeus Byard deceased. In 1581. Sept. 3. he was consecrated 
f Fr. Godwin ut sup. in't. ep. Glouc. p. 591.  Bishop of Gloucester; about which time he had the See of Bristol given to him in Commendam, but that being taken away from him in 1589. the rectory of Kilmington alias Culmington in the dioc. of Wells was conferred on him, in Jul. 1596. He paid his last debt to nature about the 20. of May in fifteen hundred ninety and eight, year 1598. and was buried, as I suppose, in the Cath. Ch. of Gloucester. Whereupon his rectory was bestowed on Rich. Potter, father of Franc. Potter, author of the Interpretation of the number of 666, etc. as I shall tell you when I come to him in the next volume of this work, and his Bishopric on Godfrey Goldsborough Doct. of div. of Cambridge.  
JOHN MERICK was born in the Isle of Anglesie, educated in Wykehams' School near Winchester, made perpetual fellow of New coll. in 1557. took the degrees in Arts, became one of the Proctors of the University in 1565. Vicar of Hornchurch in Essex, in 1570. and three years after Bishop of the Isle of Man on the death of John Salisbury. He yielded up his last breath in Yorkshire (as it seems) in Sept. or Oct. year 1599 in fifteen hundred ninety and nine, and was succeeded in the said See by Dr. George Lloyd of Cambridge, (Son of Meredyth Lloyd, Son of Joh. Lloyd of Caernarvanshire) who was translated thence to Chester in 1604. This Joh. Merick left behind him a brother named Will. Merick, LL. D. and another called Maurice Merick, then M. of Arts, and certain letters concerning Ecclesiastical, and other, affairs, which I have seen in the Cottonian Library, under the picture of Julius, F. 10.  
WILLIAM HUGH'S Son of Hugh ap Kendrick of Caernarvanshire by Gwenllian his wife, daughter of John Vychan ap John, ap Gruff, ap Owen Pygott, was born in the said County, and for a while educated in this University. Afterwards retiring to Christ's coll. in Cambridge, he took there the degrees in Arts and holy orders; and being soon after made chaplain to Thom. Haward or Howard Duke of Norfolk, attended him to Oxon in the beginning of the year 1568. where, on the same day that the said Duke was created Master of Arts, this his chaplain was incorporated Bach. of div. as he had stood in Cambridge. The year after, the said Duke writing letters to Dr. Laur. Humphrey in his behalf, he was, by the said Humphreys endeavours made to the Vicechancellor and Convocation, permitted to proceed in his faculty. Whereupon being licenced the same year, stood in an Act celebrated 10. Jul. 1570. to complete that degree. In 1573. he was promoted to the Episcopal See of S. Asaph, to which being consecrated in Lambeth chapel on the thirteenth 
g Ibid. in Godwin, in't. Ep. Asaph, p. 664.  of Sept. the same year, sat there to the time of his death without any removal. He concluded his last day in Octob. in sixteen hundred, year 1600 and was, as I suppose, according to his will, buried in the choir of the Cath. Ch. of S. Asaph; leaving then behind him a Son named William, and a daughter named Anne (the then Wife of Tho. Mostyn Gent.) begotten on the body of his Wife Lucia daughter of Rob. Knowesley of Denbighshire. By his last Will 
h In Offic. Praerog. Cant. in't. reg. Wallop, part 2. Q. 69.  and Test. dated 16. Oct. 1597. and proved 9 Nou. 1600. he left lands and revenues for the founding a free school in the Cath. Ch. of S. Asaph. He the said Dr. Hughes was succeeded in St. Asaph by Dr. Will. Morgan author of the first translation of all the Bible (since printing was used) into the ancient and unmixed language of the Britain's. The translation he dedicated, with a latin epistle prefixed, to Q. Eliz. and was printed in 1588. For which work he was rewarded with the Bishopric of Landaff first, and afterwards with that of S. Asaph.  
JOHN CHARDON or Charldon sometimes fellow of Exeter coll. was consecrated B. of Down and Connor in Ireland, year 1601 an. 1596. and died in sixteen hundred and one; under which year you may see more of him among the writers. In the said See of Down and Connor succeeded one Rob. Humpston Master of Arts, but whether of this University I cannot tell.  
HERBERT WESTPHALING sometimes a Student of Ch. Ch. was consecrated B. of Hereford, in 1585. 
1601-02.  and departed this mortal life in the latter end of sixteen hundred and one; under which year you may see more of him among the writers. In the said See succeeded Dr. Rob. Bennet sometimes of Trin. coll. in Cambridge, Son of Leonard Bennet of Baldock in Hertfordshire, who was consecrated thereunto 20. Feb. 1602-03. By his last 
i Ibid. in reg. Weldon, qu. 122.  Will dated 3. Mar. 14. Jac. 1. he bequeathed his body to be buried in the Cath. Ch. of Hereford, and moneys for the erection of a Tomb of white Alabaster, with the picture of a man lying in a white Sheet upon an Altar of other stone, to be compassed about with strong Iron bars, after the example of other Tombs in the Church. Which monument was to be erected (as he saith) in the Church of the Choir, behind the seat of his Wife, and to be of the value of an hundred Marks, with this inscription thereon— Robertus Bennet S. Theol. Professor fidelis christi Minister, qui obiit… die….. an. 16…. He also gave 20 l. to the library of Trin. coll. in Cambridge, and 20 l. towards the building of the New Schools in Oxon. See more of him in the Fasti following, under the year 1572.  
STEPHEN KEROVAN was born at Galloway in Ireland, studied several years in this University, but whether he took a degree I know not. Afterwards advancing his studies in the University of Paris, returned to his native Country, and became Archdeacon of Enaghdune in the county of Galloway, and at length Bishop (by Q. Eliz. command) of Kilmacogh, in 1573. Where sitting some years, was translated thence to Clonfert 1582. and after a successful enjoyment of that See for about 20 years, gave way to fate about sixteen 
k Jac. War. ut sup. p. 26●.  hundred and two. year 1602 In both the said Sees succeeded Rowland Linch Archd. of Clonfert, whose Surname occurring often in our writings, I have just reason to suppose that he had received some Academical education among us.  
DANIEL NEYLAN or Neyland an Irish man 〈◊〉, spent also some time here among his Countrymen, but whether he took a degree it appears not. Afterwards retiring to his native Country, he became Rector of Iniscarty in the diocese of Killaloe, and much in esteem in those parts for his piety and learning. At length obtaining the Bishopric of Kildare, was consecrated thereunto by 
l Ibid. p. 130.  Adam Archb. of Dublin (and his assistants) in the month of Nou. 1583. where sitting more than 19 years, yielded to nature at Disert 18. May in sixteen hundred and three. year 1603 In the said See succeeded William Pilsworth of Magdalen coll. of whom I shall make large mention among these Bishops under the year 1635.  
EUGENIUS O-CONNER commonly called Conner another Irish man and contemporary with Neylan, became, after he had left Oxon, Dean of Achonry in his own Country, and at length by the favour of Q. Eliz. was promoted to the Episcopal See of Killala, in 1591. where after he had sat about 16. years. surrendered up his last breath to him that first gave it, year 1606 in sixteen hundred and six or thereabouts. After his death one Miler Magragh Archb. of Cashills, did keep the See of Killala in 
m Ibid. p. 2721.  Commendam with his Archbishopric.  
WILLIAM OVERTON sometimes fellow of Magdalen coll. was consecrated B. of Lichfield and Coventry in the beginning of the year 1579. (where he showed himself sufficiently severe to suppress such, whom he suspected of Nonconformity) and died in sixteen hundred and nine, under which year you may see more of him year 1609 among the writers. He was succeeded in the said See by George Abbot, of whom I have spoken at large among the said writers.  
MARTIN HETON Son of George Heton Esq by Joan his Wife, daughter of Sir Martin Bowes Knight, was born in London, but descended from an ancient family of his name living in Lancashire. His father was master of the Inn or House belonging to the English Merchants at Antwerp; and being a person of great Hospitality, caused his house there to be free and open for such that fled from England for religion sake in the time of Q. Mary. At his return into England, he became Chamberlain of London, sent this his Son to Westminster school, where profiting exceedingly in good letters, was thence sent to Oxon, and in 1571. was, with Rich. Eedes, made Student of Ch. Ch. where in short time he became a most acute disputant. In 1578. he proceeded in Arts, and in 1582. he was made one of the Canons of his house. In 1588. he was nominated and installed Vicechancellor of the University of Oxon, and in the latter end of 1589. he succeeded Dr. Laur. Humphrey in the Deanery of Winchester, being then but 36. years of age. At length after the See of Ely had laid void 20. years, and a large portion of it taken thence by the Queen, as it was generally spoken, he was in a sort compelled to take it. Whereupon being consecrated at Lambeth, on the third 
a Fr. Godwin in Com. de praesul. Angl. in't. episc. Elien.  of Feb. 1599 sat there ten years, and as Cambridge men (who had no great affection for him, because not bred among them) report, did impoverish 
b See the Brief view of the state of the Ch. of Engl. etc. (quoted before, in Tho. Godwin) p. 80.  the said See by sealing many good deeds of it, and till they were canceled, it would never be so good as it should be. He was a noted Preacher while he continued in the University, and a subtle Disputant in Theology, in his elder, as he was in his younger, years in Philosophy: And while B. he was esteemed inferior to few of his rank for learning and other good parts belonging to a Prelate. He took his last farewell of this world on the 14. of July in sixteen hundred and nine, year 1609 aged 57 years, and was buried in the choir or presbytery of the Cath. Ch. of Ely. Soon after was a fair and large monument built over his grave, joining to the south wall of the said Presbytery, with his Sta●●a thereon lying on the back, with the hands erected in a praying posture. On the said monument was engraven an inscription in prose, to show his descent, preferments, and time of his death; also a copy of long and short verses, in number 12. composed by Dr. Will. Gager his Chancellor, and another of 14. composed by his Nephew George Heton Bach. of div. of Cambridge. All which being too long and large to be here inserted, I shall therefore for brevity sake pass them by.  
THOMAS RAVIS received his first breath at Maulaon alias Meandon in Surrey, his juvenile education in the quality of a King's Scholar in the college school at Westminster, and his Academical education in Ch. Ch. of which he was made a Student in 1575. After he had taken the degrees in Arts he entered into holy orders, and preached in and near Oxon for some time with great liking. In 1589. he was admitted to the reading of the sentences, in 1592. he was made Canon of the seventh stall in the Ch. of Westm. in the room of Dr. Joh. Still, promoted to the See of B. and Wells, an. 1592. and in 1594. he was made Dean of his house. In the year following he took the degree of Doct. of div. and after he had completed it by standing in the Act, took the office of Vicechancellor on him for two years together. In 1604. he was for his eminent learning, gravity, and approved prudence, preferred by K. Jam. 1. to the See of Gloucester, and on the 19 of March the same year was 
c Ib. in Fr. Godwin in't. ep. Gloc.  consecrated thereunto. The diocese of which place being then pretty well stocked with such people that could scant brook the name of a Bishop, yet, by his Episcopal way of living among them, he obtained their love, and were content to give him a good report. In 1607. June 2. he was 
d Camden in Annal. R. Jac. 1. sub. an. 1607.  translated to London, where sitting but for a short time, paid his last debt to nature (to the great reluctancy of all good men, especially such who knew the piety of the Bishop, and how he had for many years with much vigilancy served his Church, King, and Country) on the fourteenth day of Decemb. in sixteen hundred and nine. year 1609 Whereupon his body was buried in the upper end of the north Isle joining to S. Paul's Cath. Ch. and soon after had put over it a monument, with an inscription thereon; a copy of which being already printed at least 
e In Jo. Stow's Survey of London, printed 1633. and in W. Dugdales' History of S. Paul's Cath. Ch.  twice, I shall now omit it, and pass to the next. In his Prebendship of Westminster succeeded Hugh Goodman M. A. and Student of Ch. Ch. installed therein 10. May 1607. in his Deanery Dr. Joh. King, and in his Bishopric Dr. Geo. Abbot.  
JOHN LINCH Son of James Linch was born at Galloway in Ireland, and educated in New Inn, as it seems, with Will. Laly his Countryman, (afterwards Archb. of Tuam) took the degree of Bach. of Decrees in Apr. 1555. and soon after going into his own Country, had several beneces bestowed on him. At length by the favour of Q. Eliz. he was promoted to the Bishopric of Elphine an. 1584.; which place he keeping about 27. years, resigned 
f Jac. Waraeus in Com. de praesul. Hib●rn. edit: 1665. p. 260.  it 19 Aug. 1611. and dying soon after, 
Clar. 1611.  was buried in the Ch. of S. Nicholas in Galloway. In the said See succeeded one Edw. King a Huntingdonshire man born, Doct. of div. of the University of Dublin, who was consecrated thereunto in Dec. 1611. See another Joh. Linch in the Fasti, 1618. among the Incorporations.  
GILES TOMSON a Londoner born, was entered an Exhibitioner of University coll. in 1571. took the degrees in Arts, and in 1580. was elected fellow of Allsouls coll. In 1586. he was one of the Proctors of the University, and about that time Divinity reader of Magd. coll. When he was a Junior, he gave 
* Bries view of the state of the Church of England, etc. p. 152.  a great hope and good presage of his future excellency, having a rare gift ex tempore in all his School Exercises, and such a happy wit to make use of all occurrences to his purpose, as if he had not taken the occasions, as they fell out by accident, but rather bespoken such pretty accidents to fall out to give him the occasions. Afterwards he was chaplain to the Qu. Residentiary of Hereford, Rector of Pembridge in Herefordshire, was installed Dean of Windsor, 2. March 1602. being then Doct. of div. Scribe or Registrary of the most noble Order of the Garter, and a most eminent Preacher. At length being nominated and elected B. of Gloucester, had restitution of the temporalities belonging to it, made to him 
g Pat. 9 Jac. 1. p. 21.  on 27. June 1611. and was in the next month consecrated thereunto, with liberty then allowed to him to keep his Deanery in Commendam for one year and no longer. He departed this mortal life, to the great grief of all that knew the piety and learning of the man (after he had taken a great deal of pains, at the command of K. Jam. 1. in translating the four Gospels, Acts of the Apostles and Apocalyps) on the 14. June in sixteen hundred and twelve. year 1612 Whereupon his body was buried in Brays chapel on the south side of that of S. George at Windsor, and had soon after a monument put over him, with his Bust to the middle, and this inscription under it. Individua Trinitati per omnia saecula, sit gloria per quam sui, sum, ero. Hic situs est Aegidius Tomson hujus Capcllae quondam Decanus, cujus mens sincera, lingua docta, manus munda fuit. Londini natus, educatus Oxoniae in collegio Omnium Animarum. Bonorum, Indigentium, Eruditorum amantissimus semper vixit, cujus corpus quamvis mortalitas terrae subjecit, illius tamen animam pietas caelis inseruit. Hunc virum moribus gravem, prudentia insignem, pietate summum, haec Regia Capella per annos decem Decanum habuit. Ind a serenissimo Rege Jacobo in Episcopatum Glouc. Commendatum, mors intempestiva (anno decurso) praesulem rapuit. Obiit 14. Junii An. Dom. 1612. aetat. 59  
RICHARD DEANE Son of Gilb. Deane of Saltonstall in Yorkshire (by Elizabeth his Wife daughter of Edm. Jennings of Syelsden in Craven) was born at Saltonstall, and after he had been educated in Grammaticals in his own Country, became a Student in Merton coll. 1587. aged 17. years: where continuing about 5. years, in the quality, as it seems, of a Portionist, retired to S. Alban hall, and, as a member of that house, took the degree of Bach. of Arts, in Octob. 1592. and that of Master three years after; which was the highest degree he took in this University. Afterwards he taught school at Caermerthen in Wales, (as a note that came thence, which I have seen, reports, though I hardly believe it) was made Dean of Kilkenny in Ireland, and at length Bishop of Ossory there, about the latter end of the year 1609. He yielded up his last breath on the 20. of Feb. in 
h Ibid. in War. p. 140  sixteen hundred and twelve, and was buried near to the Bishop's chair in the Church at Kilkenny. year 1612 In the said See of Ossory succeeded Ionas Wheeler another Oxford Student, whom I shall at large mention among these Bishops, under the year 1640.  
HENRY USHER a Dublin man born, was educated in the University of Cambridge till he was Bach of Arts, and some time after. In the beginning of the year 1572. he went to Oxon, settled in University coll. was incorporated in the same degree in the beginning of July the same year, and in few days after was licenced to proceed in Arts. Which degree being completed by standing in the Act, he made some continuance here, studied the Theological faculty, and laid a sure foundation therein by the helps of divers noted men, then in the University; among whom Dr. Humphrey and Dr. Holland were two. Afterwards he retired to his native Country, became Archdeacon of Dublin, and at length Archb. of Armagh, and so consequently Primate of all Ireland. To which See being consecrated in Aug. 1595. sat there till the time of his death in great honour and repute, among all Protestants in that country. He died at Termon-Fechan on the 
a Ibid. p. 28.  second day of April in sixteen hundred and thirteen, year 1613 and was buried in S. Peter's Church at Drogheda, commonly called Tredagh. In the See of Armagh succeeded Dr. Christopher Hampton, and him Dr. James Usher nephew to Henry before mentioned, whom I shall mention in the Fasti under the year 1626.  
HENRY COTTON a younger Son of Sir Ric. Cotton Kt. one of the Privy Council to K. Ed. 6. was born in Hampshire, educated in the Free school at Guildford, became a commoner of Magd. coll. in 1566. or thereabouts, took the degrees in Arts, that of Master being completed in 1571, holy Orders, and about that time a Wife; by whom afterwards he had 
b Sir Joh. Harrington in his Brief view of the state of the Ch. of England, p. 96.  nineteen children. In 1586. he being then Prebendary of Winchester and well beneficed, supplicated to be admitted to the reading of the sentences, but whether he was really admitted, it appears not. On the 12. of Nou. 1598. he was 
c Godwin, in't. ep. Salisb.  consecrated B. of Salisbury, and in the year following was actually created Doct. of div. by certain Doctors deputed for that purpose, who went to him, than (I think) at Salisbury. He was Godson to Q. Eliz. while she was Lady Eliz. who, as 'tis 
d By Sir Jo. Harr. ut sup. p. 93. alias 95.  reported, usually said that she had blest many of her Godsons, but now this Godson should bless her. He gave way to fate on the seventh day of May in sixteen hundred and fifteen, year 1625 and was buried in the Cath. Church of Salisbury, near to the body of his sometimes Wife. In the said See succeeded Dr. Rob. Abbot, whom I have mentioned before among the writers, under the year 1617.  
THOMAS BILSON sometimes fellow of New coll. was consecrated B. of Worcester in 1596. translated thence to Winchester in the year following, 
1●16.  and concluded his last day in sixteen hundred and sixteen; under which year you may see more of him among the writers. In Worcester succeeded Gervase Babington of Cambridge, of whom I have made mention in Will. Bradbridge among these Bishops, an. 1578. and in Winchester succeeded Dr. James Montague sixth Son of Sir Edw. Montague of Boughton in Northamptonshire Kt. who was translated thereunto from Bath and Wells, 4. Octob. 1616. This worthy person died on the twentieth 
e So it is on his monument in the Ch. of S. Pet. and S. Paul at Bath●.  day of July 1618. aged 50. and was buried 20. Aug. following, on the north side of the body of the Church dedicated to S. Peter and S. Paul within the City of Bath. Over his grave was soon after a high Altar-monument erected between two Pillars of the said Church, with the proportion of the defunct painted to the life lying thereon, by his brethren Sir Edw. Montague of Boughton, Sir Hen. Montague Lord Chief Justice of the King's Bench, Sir Charles Montague his Executor, and Sir Sidney Montague Master of the Requests, Kts. All which were lineally descended from the Earls of Salisbury. The said Dr. Jam. Montague was educated in the University of Cambridge, was Master of Sidney coll. and there noted for his piety, virtue, and learning. Afterwards he was made Dean of the Royal Chapel, then B. of Rathe, afterwards of Winchester, (as 'tis before told you) and for his faithfulness, dexterity and prudence, in weighty affairs the King chose him to be one of his Privy Council. By his last Will and Testament, he made choice of the said ancient Church for the place of his Sepulture: which, among many other monuments of piety, he repaired to his great charge. When K. James came first to the Crown he was made Dean of his Chapel, as before 'tis told you; which place he held not only when he was B. of Bath and Wells, but of Winchester also: And being a great stickler in the quarrels at Cambridge, and a great Master in the Art of insinuation, had cunningly (as one 
f Pet. Heylin in his Observations on the History of the reign of K. Charles, published by Ham. L'Estrange-printed 1656. oct. p. 77.  observes) fashioned K. James unto certain Calvinian opinions; to which the King's education in the Kirk of Scotland had before inclined him. So that it was no very hard matter for him (having an Archb. also of his own persuasion) to make use of the King's authority for recommending the nine Articles to the Church of Ireland, which he found would not be admitted in the Church of England.  
HENRY rowland's was born in the Parish of Mellteyrn in LLyn in Caernarvanshire, educated in the School at Penllech, was admitted a Student in the University about 1569. took the degrees in Arts as a member of New coll. that of Master being completed in 1577. and soon after became Rector of La●●ton near Bister alias Burchester in Oxfordshire. In 1598. Nou. 12. he was consecrated 
a Ib. in Godwin in't. ep. Bang.  B. of Bangor, being then Bach. of div. and in 1605. he was actually created Doct. of that faculty. He bestowed on his Cath. Ch. four bells, instead of those that were fold away by Arthur Bulkley his predecessor, and in 1609. he 
b Vide Hist. & Antiq. Uniu. Oxon, lib. 2. p. 316. b.  gave lands to Jesus coll. for the maintenance of two scholars or fellows there. At length after he had bestowed much money on pious uses, had spent all his time in celibacy, and had governed his church and diocese with great commendations, year 1616 surrendered up his pious soul to God 30. 
c Camden in Annal. R. Jac. 1. MS. sub an. 1616.  June, in sixteen hundred and sixteen, and was buried in the Choir of the Cath. Ch. at Bangor, among the sepulchers of the Bishops. By his last Will 
d In Offic. 〈◊〉. cant. in reg. Cope part 2 Q▪ 19  and Test, he bequeathed moneys for the erection of a School at Mellteyrn, or Bottunog, where he was born and christened. In the See of Bangor succeeded Lewes Bayly, whom I have mentioned at large among the writers, under the year 1632.  
HENRY ROBINSON was born within the City of Carlisle in Cumberland, became a poor serving child of Queen's coll. about the year 1568. afterwards Tabarder, and at length Fellow, being then esteemed an excellent Disputant and Preacher. In 1581. he was unanimously elected Provost of his college: which office he enjoying about 18. years, restored it in that time, and made it flourish, after it had continued many years but in a mean condition, occasioned by the negligence of former Governors. In 1590. he proceeded in div. and in 98. being nominated and elected to the See of Carlisle, was consecrated thereunto by John B. of Lond. Joh. B. of Roch. and Anthony B. of Chich. on the 23. of July in the same year. He was a person of great gravity and temperance, and very mild in his speech, yet, as one 
e Author of the 〈…〉 etc. before mentioned, p. 208.  observeth, not of so strong a constitution of body as his countenance did promise. He paid his last debt to nature on the 13. of the Cal. of July in sixteen hundred year 1616 and sixteen, aged 63. years or more, and was buried on the north side of the high Altar in the Cath. Ch. of Carlisle. Soon after was a brassplate set up on the wall over his grave, by the care and charge of Bernard Robinson his brother and heir, with an inscription and verses thereon, running almost word for word, or at least in sense, with that inscription on a brass plate also, fastened to the south wall near to the Altar in Qu. coll. chapel in Oxon, a copy of which you may see in Hist. & Antiq. Vniu. Oxon, lib. 2. p. 124. a. b. In which book p. 116. b. you may also see something of his benefaction to the said coll. In the See of Carlisle succeeded one Dr. Rob. Snoden or Snowden of Cambridge, (Prebendary of Southwell) third Son of Ralph Snoden of Mansfeild Woodhouse in Nottinghamshire; the temporalities of which See were given to 
f Pat. 1●. Jac. ●. p. 30.  him 20. Dec. 1616. He died at London while the Parliament was sitting in the latter end of May 1621. leaving behind him a Son named Rutland Snoden of Horncastle in Lincolnshire, (who was afterwards a Justice of the Peace) begotten on the body of his Wife Abigal, daugh. of Rob. Orme of Elston in Nottinghamshire. After him followed in the said See of Carlisle Ric. Milbourne B. of S. David, descended from those of his name in Pembrokeshire, but born in London, (his mother being occasionally there at the delivery of him,) educated in Grammar learning in Wykehams' school near Winchester, and from thence was sent to Qu. coll. in Camb. where he continued several years. Afterwards he became Minister of Sevenoke in Kent, Chapl. to P. Hen. Chantor of S. David's cath. ch. and Dean of Rochester, as I shall elsewhere tell you. At length he being made B. of S. David, was, after he had sat there about 6. years, translated to Carlisle, where he continued till 1624. In which year dying, he left moneys, as 'tis said, for the endowing of a School, and moneys for the building of an Hospital. He hath a Serm. in print concerning the imposition of hands, preached, while he was Minister of Sevenoke, at the Archb. Metropolical Visitation, 7. Sept. 1607. on 1 Tim. 5. 22. printed in oct. To him succeeded in the said See of Carlisle Rich. Senhouse Dean of Gloucester, who was first admitted a Student in Trin. coll. in Camb. and afterwards was removed to that of S. John's, of which he was made Fellow, and continuing there many years, took the degree of D. of div. as a Member thereof, about 1622. He was first chaplain, as 'tis said, in the Earl of Bedford's family, afterwards chaplain to Pr. Charles, and at length to K. Jam. 1. who advanced him to a Deanery and afterwards to the said See of Carlisle, for his transcendent parts and admirable gifts in Preaching. He hath extant Four Sermons preached at Court, and left behind him at his death Lectures on the first and second Psalms; which are not, as I conceive, made yet public.  
HENRY PARRY, or ap Harry, sometimes Fellow of Corp. Ch. coll. was consecrated B. of Gloucester 12. Jul. 1607. translated thence to Worcester in the latter end of Sept. 1610. the temporalities of which See were 
u Pat. 8. Jac. 1. p. 52.  restored to him 23. Oct. the same year. He yielded to nature in sixteen hundred and sixteen; year 1616 under which year you may see more of him among the writers. He was succeeded in Gloucester by Dr. Giles Tomson, and in Worcester by Dr. Joh. Thornborough. Of the first I have made mention already among the Bishops, and of the other I shall speak in the second volume of this work, under the year 1641.  
WILLIAM JAMES, sometimes a Student of Ch. Ch. became Bishop of Durham in 1606. and died in sixteen hundred and seventeen; year 1617. under which year you may see more of him among the writers. After his death Rich. Neile Bishop of Lincoln was translated to Durham, and thence to Winchester, as I shall elsewhere tell you.  
WILLIAM LYON, a Cheshire man born, was partly educated in this University, but whether in Oriel or S. John's coll. where several of his surname and time have studied, I cannot tell. Afterwards he went into Ireland, became Vicar of Naas and Chaplain to Arthur Lord Grey of Wilton L. Lieutenant of that Country, who promoting him to the Episcopal See of Ross, was consecrated thereunto 
w Jac. War. ut sup. p. 224.  in the year 1582. and the year following was constituted commendatory of Cork and Cloyne by the favour of Qu. Eliz. He bestowed a thousand pound in building the Bishop's house at Cork, and other moneys in repairing the Bishop's house at Ross, which three years after was burnt by the Rebel O-Donow. This W. Lion died in a good old age on the 4. Oct. year 1617. in sixteen hundred and seventeen, and was buried in the Cath. Ch. of Cork, leaving then behind him a Son of both his names, who in the 17 year of his age, 1610. became a Com. or else Gent. Com. of S. John's coll. in this Uniu. In the said Sees of Ross, Cork, and Cloyne, succeeded Dr. Joh. boil, whom I shall anon mention.  
ROBERT ABBOT, Master of Balliol college, was consecrated B. of Salisbury on the third of Decemb. 1615. to the great joy of all Scholars, especially such who knew the learning and piety of the man. He concluded his last day in the latter end of sixteen hundred and seventeen; 
1617-18.  under which year you may see more of him among the writers. In the said See of Salisbury succeeded Dr. Martin Fotherbie Son of Maurice Fotherbie, of the ancient and gentile Family of his name living at Grimsby in Lincolnshire; which Martin having been bred Fellow of Trin. coll. in Cambridge, was, after he had been Prebendary of Canterbury 22 years, consecrated at Lambeth on the 18. Apr. 1618. He surrendered up his last breath on the eleventh day of March, an. 1619. and was buried in Allsaints Church in Lombardstreet within the City of London. Soon after was a very fair monument erected over his grave, with a large inscription thereon, but destroyed by the great Fire that happened in London in the beginning of Sept. 1666. He hath extant at least 4 Sermons; besides his Atheomastix, which being put into the press before his death, was not published till 1622. fol. After him succeeded in the said See Dr. Robert Tounson, or Tonson, Dean of Westminster, sometimes Fellow of Queen's coll. in Cambridge, who was consecrated thereunto on the 9 July 1620. See more in the Fasti, among the incorporations under the year 1599  
JOHN boil, a Kentish man born, and brother to Rich. boil the first Earl of Cork in Ireland, received some education with us, but whether D. of div. of this Uniu. as one 
a Idem Jac. War. p. 213. 224.  reports, it appears not in the public Registers. He was consecrated B. of Cork beforementioned in 1618. at which time liberty was allowed him to keep the See of Ross in Commendam. He died in sixteen hundred and twenty, year 1620 and was buried at Youghall, of which place his brother beforementioned was Baron. In the said See of Cork and Ross succeeded Rich. Boil Dean of Waterford, and Archd. of Limerick, brother to Michael boil B. of Waterford and Lismore, which Richard kept the See also of Cloyne in Commendam with the two former.  
JOHN KING, sometimes a Student of Ch. Ch. afterwards Dean of that house, was consecrated Bishop of London in 1611. and died in sixteen hundred twenty and 
1621.▪  one; under which year you may see more of him among the writers. To him succeeded Dr. George Mountaigne Bishop Almoner, sometimes Dean of Westminster, who was translated from Loncoln to London 20. July 1621.  
ROWLAND SEARCHFIELD, a Londoner born, was educated in Grammar learning in Merchant-Taylors School, admitted Scholar of S. John's coll. in 1582. aged 17 years, or thereabouts: Afterwards he was made Fellow of that house, Proctor of the University, Doct. of div. and successively Vicar of Emley in Northamptonshire, Rector of Bowthorp in Gloucestershire, Vicar of Cherlbury in, and Justice of the Peace of, Oxfordshire. He was consecrated B. of Bristol 9 May 1619. upon the translation of Dr. Nich. Felton to Ely: which was made 14. March 1618. The said Dr. Searchfield died on the eleventh of Oct. in sixteen hundred year 1622 twenty and two, and was buried near to the Communion Table at the upper end of the Choir of the Cath. Ch. of Bristol, leaving then one Son or more behind him, begotten on the body of his Wife, Mrs. Anne Huchenson of Rewley near Oxon. Over his grave was a stone soon after laid, with an epitaph thereon, but removed thence by Dr. Rich. Thompson Dean of that Church when he raised the Communion Table. In the said See of Bristol succeeded Dr. Rob. Wright, though one Kevercher (as he is called) tugged hard for it.  
RICHARD PARRY, Son and Heir of Joh. Parry, was born at Ruthyn in Denbighshire, educated in Westminster School under Camden for some time, elected Student of Ch. Ch. in 1579. aged 19 years, took the degrees in Arts, holy Orders, and became Schoolmaster, as 'tis said, of Ruthyn beforementioned. In 1598. he proceeded D. of div. and whether he was before that time Dean of Bangor, I cannot tell. Sure it is, that that dignity was enjoyed by one Rowland Thomas, who died in 1588. Afterwards when K. Jam. 1. who had an especial respect for his learning, came to the English Crown, he soon after promoted him to the See of S. Asaph. To which being consecrated 
b Fr. Godw. ut sup. in't. ep. S. Asaph▪  on the 30. Dec. 1604. he received 
c Pat. 2. Jac. 1. p. 31.  the temporalities belonging thereunto on the 5. of Jan. following. He ended his days at Diesert commonly called Dyssart in Flintshire on the 26. of Sept. in sixteen hundred twenty and three, year 1623. and was buried in the Cath. Ch. of S. Asoph. The year before he died he left a pension of 6 l. per an. to Jesus coll. for the maintenance of a poor Scholar born in the Town of Ruthyn, or in the diocese of S. Asaph, to be paid by his Son Richard and his Heirs for ever. See more in Hist. & Antiq. Vniu. Oxon. lib. 2. p. 317. a. He assisted Dr. Will. Morgan B. of Landaff in the translating the Bible into Welsh, and after his death had a Lat. Sermon ad clerum, on Rev. 3. ver. 4. printed under his name, 1628. in oct.  
WILLIAM BISHOP, sometimes a Member of Gloucester hall, as it seems, became Bishop of Chalcedon (titular only) about 1622. and died in the beginning of the year sixteen hundred twenty and four; year 1624. under which year you may see more of him among the writers. In the said See he was succeeded by Dr. Richard Smith another Oxford man by education, but the year when I cannot tell. Of this Rich. Smith I shall make large mention elsewhere  
MILES SMITH. sometimes a Member of Bras●●se coll. afterwards Petty-Canon of Ch. Ch. was consecrated B. of Gloucester in 1612. and died in sixteen hundred twenty and four; under which year you may see more of him year 1624. among the writers. In the said See of Gloucester succeeded Godfrey Goodman, born at Ruthyn in Denbighshire in the first Gregorian year, an. Dom. 1582. 1583. 〈◊〉. 28-Mar. 10. between the hours of one and two in the morning, being the Son of Godfr. Goodman Gent. (Nephew to Dr. Gabr. Goodman) by Jane Cruxton his Wife, made Chorister, and after Scholar, of Westminster under Camden, an. 1592. Scholar of Trin. coll. in Cambridge in 1600. Parson of Stapleford-Abbats in Essex, 1607. Canon of Windsor, 1617. installed Dean of Rochester in the place of Dr. Rob. Scot deceased, 6. Jan. 1620. and at length was made B. of Glout. in 1625. with leave to hold his Canonry of Windsor, and the Rectory of West-Ildesley in Berks, in Commendam: About which time maintaining several heterodox opinions in his Sermons at Court, he was checked for so doing in 1626. In 1640. he dissented from the Canons, for which, after three admonitions pronounced by Archb. Laud in little more than half an hour, to subscribe, he was to his great honour (as 'twas esteemed by some.) imprisoned, and thereupon accounted a Papist. In certain writings which sometimes belonged to Archbishop Laud I find these matters relating to Goodman.— The Synod was dissolved 29. May 1640. wherein were 17 Canons subscribed by the Bishops, Deans, Archdeacon's, and Doctors, to the number of 100 or 120.— The last business insisted on was of the deprivation of Dr. Goodman Bishop of Gloucester for refusing to subscribe to the said Canons, which had been done by all the Bishops except him of Gloc. and all the lower house of Convocation.— With much persuasions he was drawn to subscribe, notwithstanding after his subscribing, for his obstinate refusal at first, and the scandal of it, he was by both houses with a general consent suspended ab officio & beneficio, till he had given the King and Church satisfaction. The Archbishop, upon his refusal to subscribe, told him, that he must be either a Papist, or Socinian, or Puritan; which he utterly denied, and said it was a matter of another nature, etc. Afterwards the Archbishop made an exhortation to the Clergy, wherein he exhorted them to carry themselves well both in life and doctrine: And professed that all his sufferings were for supporting them; and this he spoke with a great deal of passion. He protested before God that the King was far from Popery, that there was no man in England more ready to be a Martyr for Religion than his Majesty. Bishop Goodman who was first committed to a Pursuivant, and afterwards to the Gatehouse, wrote a letter to Archb. Laud and told him he dissented from the Canons, and entered an Act in the 19 Session to that purpose, etc. In 1643. he the said Goodman was plundered, spoiled, robbed, and utterly undone. His losses were so extraordinary and excessive great, that he was ashamed to confess them, lest they might seem incredible, and lest others might condemn him of folly and improvidence. About that time he lived obscurely in S. Margaret's Parish within the City of Westminster in the house of one Mrs. Sibilla Eglionby, making frequent use of the Cottonian Library, and the company of certain R. Priests; whose persuasion he having taken up for several years before, died at length in their belief (Fr. à S. Clara his old acquaintance being then with him) on the nineteenth day of Jan. 1655. whereupon his body was buried near to the Font in S. Margaret's Church; leaving then behind him, the character of a harmless man, that he was hurtful to none but himself, that he was pitiful to the poor, and hospitable to his neighbours. In his last 
d In Offic. praerog. Cam. in reg. Berkley part. 2. Qu. 65.  Will and Testament dated 17. Jan. and proved 16. Feb. 1655. I find these matters.— I do profess that as I have lived, so I die most constant in all the Articles of our Christian Faith, and in all the doctrine of God's holy Catholic and Apostolic Church, whereof I do acknowledge the Church of Rome to be the Mother Church. And I do verily believe that no other Church hath any salvation in it, but only so far as it concurs with the Faith of the Church of Rome.— My body to be buried in S. Marg. Ch. in Westminster near to the Font, in the meanest manner according to the deserts of my Sins,— Item, I give 20 s. for the painting, or otherwise, of the said Font.— It. I give my tenement in Yale, and the two tenements in Caernarvanshire, Cordmaur, and Tudne to the Town of Ruthyn in Denbighshire where I was born, etc. The rent of the tenement in Yale he bequeathed to several uses, and among the rest was 20 l. to be given to some Gentleman who should desire to travel, and that he, together with good security, should undertake within the compass of two years to live two months in Germany, two months in Italy, two months in France, and two months in Spain, and that his own kindred be chosen before others for that purpose, etc. The books that he designed for Chelsey college, he gave to Trin. coll. in Cambridge; but with this condition, that if Chelsey coll. be ever restored, the books should be restored thereunto. He gave 16 l. to outed and sequestered Ministers of the Loyal Party, and a 100 l. to poor distressed Churchmen (Rom. Catholics) according to the discretion of his Executors Gabriel Goodman and Mrs. Sib. Eglionby. He desired also that his collection of notes be perused by some Scholar, and if any thing should be found worthy of printing, that they be published, etc. It must be now known that in hate and detestation of Socinianism, he did, in his younger years, examine all the mysteries in Religion, and all the miracles in Scripture, how far they agreed with natural reason, and wherein they transcended, and thereupon did publish a book intit. The fall of man, or the corruption of nature, proved by natural reason. Lond. 1616. and 1624. qu. And then he undertook to proceed in the rest of the Mysteries. Together with these he drew up an History from the beginning of the World to his time, and so he ended with the Church of England, as se●led by Laws, little regarding the opinion of particular men, but Statutes, Acts of State, Proclamations, Injunctions, etc. In which work he was much beholding to Sir Tho. Cottons Library. But these with the rest of his goods were lost, and whether they were ever recovered before his death, I know not. He hath also written, Arguments or animadversions and digressions on a book intit. An apology, or declaration of the power and providence of God in the government of the World, etc. written by Dr. George Hakewill. Which arguments and digressions are with Hakewills' answer involved in the sixth book of the said Apology, printed at Oxon, the third time, 1635. fol. See more in G. Hakewill among the writers, an. 1649. Bishop Goodman also wrote, The Court of K. James by Sir A. W. reviewed. 'Tis a MS. in a thin fol. in Bodl. Library, and hath this beginning, I cannot say that I was an eye and earwitness, but truly I have been an observer of the times, and what I shall relate of my own knowledge, God knows is most true. My conjecturals I conceive, etc. The conclusion which is imperfect is this— Yet notwithstanding I have given him (Sir A. W.) the name of a Knight, because he hath pleased so to style himself, and that I might not offend him. This manuscript book was made in answer to a published book intit. The court and character of King James. Lond. 1650. oct. written and taken by Sir A. W. Which book being accounted a most notorious Libel, especially by the Loyalists and Court-party, was also answered in print by Anonymus, intit. Anlicus Coquinariae: or a vindication in answer to a Pamphlet entitled, The Court and Character of K. James, etc. Lond. 1650. The author of the said Court and Character was one Sir Anth. Weldon of Kent, whose Parent took rise from Queen Elizabeth's Kitchen, and left it a legacy for preferment of his Issue. Sir Anthony went the same way, and by grace of the Court got up to the Green-cloth; in which place attending K. James into Scotland he practised there to libel that Nation. Which, at his return home, was found wrapped up in a Record of that Board; and by the hand being known to be his, he was deservedly removed from his place, as unworthy to eat his bread, whose birthright he had so vilely defamed. Yet by favour of the King. with a piece of money in his purse, and a pension to boot, to preserve him loyal during his life, though as a bad creditor, he took 
e See the Preface to Aulieus Coquinariae.  this course to repay him to the purpose. In his life-time he discovered part of this piece to his Fellow-courtier, who earnestly dissuaded him not to publish so defective and false a scandal; which, as it seems, in Conscience he so declined. I have also been credibly informed that Sir A. Weldon did at the beginning of the Long Parliament communicate the MS. of it to the Lady Elizab. Sedley, (Mother to Sir Will. and Sir Charles,) accounted a very sober and prudent Woman; who, after perusal, did lay the vileness of it so much to Sir Anthony's door, that he was resolved never to make it public: Which perhaps is the reason why a certain author 
f Will. Sanderson in his Proem to the Reign and death of K. James. 1. printed 1655. fol.  should say, that with some regret of what he had maliciously written, did intend it for the fire and died repentant; though since stolen to the Press out of a Lady's closet: And if this be true, our exceptions may willingly fall upon the practice of the publisher of the said libel, who by his additions may abuse us with a false story, which he discovers to the Reader in five remarkable 
g So in the said Pre● to Aul. Coq.  passages, and therefore in some manner gives us occasion to spare our censure on Sir Anthony, who was dead some time before the said libel was published. The second edition of it printed at Lond. in oct. an. 1651. is dedicated to the said noble Lady Elizab. Sedley, and hath added to it, (1) The Court of K. Charles continued, unto the beginning of these unhappy times, etc. (2) Observations (instead of a character) upon this King, from his Childhood. (3) Certain Observations before Q. Elizabeth's death. But these are not animadverted upon by Aulicus Coq. or B. Goodman, because they came out after they had written their respective answers. The said Bishop Goodman hath also written The two mysteries of Christian, religion, the ineffable Trinity and wonderful incarnation explicated, etc. Lond 1653. qu. Dedicated by one Epist. to Oliver Cromwell L. General, and by another to the Master, Fellows, Scholars and Students of Trin, coll. in Cambridge. Also An Account of his sufferings; which is only a little pamphlet, printed 1650.  
BERNARD adam's was born in Middlesex in the diocese of London, admitted Scholar of Trinity coll. in 1583. aged 17 years; fellow five years after, and when Master of Arts he went into Ireland; where by the favour of the Lord Lieutenant he was consecrated Bishop of Limerick in Apr. 1604. In the year 1606. he, by a dispensation kept the See of Kilfenore with it, to the year 1617. at which time he voluntarily resigned it. He bestowed much money in repairing the Church of Limerick, and in the adorning it with Organs and several Ornaments, as also in repairing the house belonging to his See, besides other moneys for pious use. 
1625-6.  He died 
a 〈…〉 p. 189.  on the 22. of March in sixteen hundred twenty and five, and was buried in the Cath. Ch. of Limerick, where was a monument soon after erected to his memory. In the said See succeeded Francis Gough commonly called Goffe., whom I shall anon at large mention.  
ARTHUR LAKE sometimes Fellow of New coll. was consecrated B. of bath and Wells, in the month of Dec. 1616. and concluded his last day in sixteen hundred twenty and six; year 1626. under which year you may see more of him among the writers. In the said See succeeded Dr. Will Laud, of whom I shall make mention at large among the writers in the second volume of this work.  
TOBY MATHEW Son of John Matthew, a native of Roos in Herefordshire, by his Wife Elinor Croston of Ludlow, was born in the city of Bristol, in that part of it which is in Somersetshire, educated in Grammar learning in the City of Wells, became a Student in this University in the beginning of the year 1559. aged 13. years, but in what house, unless in Vniu. coll. (the ancient members of which have claimed him as theirs) I know not. Sure it is, that being a Student of Ch. Ch. soon after his first coming, he did, as a member of that house, take the degree of Bach. of Arts in 1563. and three years after, that of master, and holy orders; at which time he was much respected for his great learning, eloquence, sweet conversation, friendly disposition, and for the sharpness of his wit. In 1569. he was unanimously elected the public Orator of the University, which office he executed with great applause, and with no little honour to the University. In 1570. he was made Canon of Ch. Ch. and on the 28. Nou. the same year, he was admitted Archdeacon of bath. In 1572. May 15. he became Prebendary of Teynton Regis with Yalmeton in the Church of Salisbury, and in July the same year, he was elected Precedent of S. John's coll. At which time being much famed for his admirable way of Preaching, he was made one of the Queen's chaplains in Ordinary, and soon after proceeding in Divinity, was made Dean of Ch. Ch. 1576. So that than his name sounding high among scholars, he deservedly obtained the name of Theologus praestantissimus, for so he is styled by the learned Camden, who adds 
b In Britannia in 〈…〉.  that in him doctrina cum pietate, & ars cum natura certant. Eam. Campian▪ the Jesuit in his book of Ten Reasons, (which the R. Catholics count an Epitome of all their doctrine) labouring to prove that the Fathers were all Papists, and to give the uttermost he could to his assertion saith that Thoby Matthew confessed to him so much— 〈◊〉 saith he, etc. We did once in a familiar sort sound Th. Mathews opinion, he that now domineers in your Pulpits, whom for his good learning and seeds o● virtue, we esteemed, etc. Which character coming from a Jesuits pen, makes it the truer because he was in some manner his Adversary. In 1579. he did undergo the office of Vicechancellor of this University▪ and in 1583. he was not only made Chantor of the Church of 〈◊〉 on the resignation of George Carew, in the month of June, but also Dean of Durham, void by the decease of Dr. 〈…〉. In which dignity being installed 31. Aug. he g●ve up his Chantorship in Febr. following, wherein he was succeeded by Dr. Will. Zouch, and in the beginning of the year following his Deanery of Ch. Ch. In 1595. he was to the great joy of many, especially those of the Clergy, made Bishop of Durham, upon the translation of Dr. Math. Hutton to York; (which was made 24. of March 1594.) to which See being consecrated soon after, sat there till August an. 1606. and then being translated on the 18. of the said month, and installed on the 11. of Sept. following in the person of his Proctor, sat there in great honour and repute till the time of his death. He gave way to sat in a good old age, on the 29. of March in sixteen hundred twenty and eight, year 1628. and was buried in a chapel behind or beyond the east end of the choir of the Cath. Ch. of York. Soon after was a noble monument of black and white marble set up under the great east window of that chapel, with his Effigies in his Archiepiscopal robes, and an inscription thereon: A copy of which containing his just character, you may see in Hist. & Antiq. Vniu. Oxon, lib. 2. p. 255. b. 256. a. He hath extant a latin Serm. intit. Concio Apologetica contra Edm. Campianum, in Deut 32. 7. Oxon. 1638. oct. As also a letter to K. Jam, 1. which is printed in the Cabala. I have been informed that he had several things lying by him worthy of the Press, but what became of them after his death, I know not, nor any thing to the contrary but that they came into the hands of his Son Sir Toby. In the said See of York succeeded Dr. George Mountaigne of Queen's coll. in Cambridge, sometimes a Lecturer in Gresham coll. afterwards Master of the Savoy, Dean of Westminster in the place of Dr. Neile promoted to the See of Lichf. and Cou. (in which dignity he was installed in Dec. 1610.) Bishop of Lincoln, (to which he was consecrated 14. Dec. 1617.) and then of London, being translated to that place 20. July 1621. In the latter end of 1627. he was translated to Durham; whence, after he had sat three months, he was translated to York, in the place of Matthew; (as I have before told you) to which See being elected 16. June, was enthronized therein 24. Oct. 1628. But he expiring soon after in the year of his age 59 six months, and two days, was buried in the chancel belonging to the Church of Cawood in Yorksh. (in which parish he was born) and had soon after a comely monument set up to his memory, at the charge of Isaac his brother (Curator of his last Will and Test.) in the north wall of the said chancel, containing his bust in his lawn sleeves, with a large inscription under it: All which, especially the verses, were made by Hugh Holland the Poet. After him succeeded in the said See Dr. Sam. Harsnet Bishop of Norwych, sometimes Master of Pembr. hall in Cambridge, who being elected thereunto on the 26. of Novemb. 1628., was enthronized 23. April following. He died on the 12. of March 1630. (being then Privy Counsellor to his Majesty) at Moreton in Marsh in Glocestershire, in his return from bath to his Manor of Southwell in Nottinghamshire. Whereupon his body was carried to Chigwell in Essex, and was buried in the Chancel of the Parish Church there. Over his Grave was soon after a Monument of black Marble set up, with the Effegies of the Defunct engraven on a brass plate fastened thereunto. Among the several books that this Doctor Harsnet hath published are (1) A discovery of the fraudulent practices of John Darrel Minister; written in answer to a book intit. A true narration of the strange and grievous vexation by the devil of Seven persons in Lancashire and Will Summer of Nottingham: printed 1600. qu. Whereupon Darrell came out with a reply intit. A detection of that sinful, shameful, lying, and ridiculous discourse, intit. A discovery etc. printed 1600. qu. (2) A Declaration of egregious P●pish impostures, to withdraw the hearts of her Majesty's Subjects from their allegiance, etc. practised by Edmunds alias West●n a Jesuit▪ &c▪ Lond. 1603 qu. besides one, or more Sermons, and four or more MSS. fit for the Press, of which one is, De Necessitate Baptismi, etc. This Learned and Judicious Prelate, was born, as 'tis said, in the Parish of St. 〈◊〉 in the ancient borough of 〈◊〉 in Essex, educated in Pemb. hall, where he was first Schol●r and afterwards Fellow. When he was some years 〈◊〉 Master, he was chosen Proctor; which 〈◊〉 he went through with great credit to himself. Afterwards he become Vicar of Chigwell in Essex, Archdeacon of 〈◊〉, Chaplain to Archb. Bancroft, Prebendary of St. Paul's Cathedral. Master of Pemb. hall in, and twice Vicechancellor of the University of Cambridge▪ From whence he had an easy Progress to the see of Chichester, and afterwards to 〈◊〉 After his death 〈…〉 being elected to the See of 〈◊〉 28. Feb. 1631. was translated thereunto, and on the 16▪ o● Feb. 1632. was 〈◊〉 in the person of Dr. Phineas Hodson Chanc. of the Church of York.  
GEORGE CARLETON, sometimes Fellow of Merton coll. was consecrated Bishop of Landaff on the 12. July, an. 1618. translated thence to Chichester in Sept. 1619. year 1628. and departed this life in the month of May in sixteen hundred twenty and eight, under which year you may see more of him among the writers. In the See of Chichester succeeded Dr. Rich. Montague, who, after election and confirmation thereunto, was consecrated in the Archbishop's chapel at Croyden in Surrey 24. Aug. 1628. This learned person who was Son of Laurence Montague Minister of Dorney in Bucks. And he the Son of Rob. Montague of Boudney in the Parish of Burnham in the said County, was born at Dorney, educated in Grammar learning in Eton School, elected a Member of King's coll. in Cambridge 1594. took the degrees in Arts, became Parson of Wotton-Courtney in Somersetshire, Prebendary of Wells, Rector of Stanford-Rivers in Essex, Chaplain to K. Jam. 1. Archdeacon and Dean of Hereford; which last dignity he changed with Ol. Lloyd LL. D. for a Prebendship of Windsor, in 1617. and being about that time made Fellow of Eton coll. which he kept with Windsor by a dispensation, did learnedly read for 8 years together the Theological Lecture in the chapel at Windsor. Afterwards he was made Rector of Petworth in Sussex, bestowed much money in the repairing of the Parsonage house there, as he did afterwards on the Bishop's house at Aldingbourne. At length his Majesty being minded to translate him to Norwych was elected thereunto by the Dean and Chapter 4. of May 1638. where sitting to the time of his death (which happened in Apr. 1641. leaving then behind him a Son named Richard) was buried in the Choir of the Cath. Ch. belonging to that place, where, to this day, is this only written on his grave, Depositum Montacutii Episcopi. He came to Norwych with the evil effects of a quartan Ague, which he had had about an year before, and which accompanied him to his grave, yet he studied and wrote very much, had an excellent Library of books, and heaps of papers fairly written with his own hand concerning the Ecclesiastical History: He was a person exceedingly well versed in all the learning of Greeks and Romans, and as well studied in the Fathers, Councils, and all other ancient monuments of the Christian World, as any Man besides in the whole Nation. K. Jam. 1. knew the Man well, and was exceedingly pleased with his performance against the History of Tithes, wherein he had beaten the (then thought) matchless Selden at his own weapon, and showed himself the greatest Philosopher of the two. Upon which ground his Majesty looked upon him as the fittest person, and therefore commanded him to view and purge the Church History, which was then taken and judged by many to be corrupted and depraved with various figments by certain writers of the R. Cath. p●rty, especially by Baronius; which he accordingly did with great industry and admirable judgement. What other things he wrote you may mostly see in the Bodleian or Oxford catolague: And what he suffered for his New Gag for the old Gospel, or his Answer to the late Gagger of Protestants, occasioned by the Puritan, and also for his Apello Caesarem, you may see at large in Dr. heylyn's History of the life and death of Will. Laud Archb. of Canterbury, under the years 1624. 25. etc. He also set forth Nazianzen's invective orations against Julian, in Greek, and was employed by Sir Hen. Savile (who countenanced him much) in correcting most part of Chrysostom in Greek before it went to the Press.  
WILLIAM GIFFORD, the Ornament of the English Catholics of his time, was sometimes a Member of Lincoln coll. but took no degree in this University. Afterwards retiring beyond the Seas, he became thro' various preferments Archbishop of Rheimes, in 1622. He paid his list debt to nature in sixteen hundred twenty and nine, year 1629 under which year you may see more of him among the writers. In the said Archbishopric succeeded Henry de Lorraine Son of Charles Duke of Guise, as I have before told you.  
JOHN HANMER, a Shropshire man born, but descended from those of his name living at Hanmer in Flintshire, was admitted Fellow of Allsouls coll. from that of Oriel, in 1596. aged 20. and when five years standing Mast. of Arts, was unanimously elected one of the Proctors of the University, in 1605. Afterwards he became Rector of Bingham in Nottinghamshire, (in which Church he was succeeded by Dr. Math. Wren in May 1624.) and Prebendary of Worcester in the place of Dr. Joh. Langworth sometimes of New coll. about the latter end of 1614 and shortly after was licenced to proceed in Divinity, he being then Chapl. in Ord. to K. Jam. 1. At length upon the death of Dr. Rich. Parry he being nominated Bishop of St. Asaph, was elected thereunto about the 20. of January in 1623. consecrated 15. of Feb. following, and on the 23. of the said month had the temporalities of that See given 
a Pat. 21. Jac. 1. p. 28.  to him, with liberty then allowed to keep his Prebendship in Commendam with it. He died at Pentrerpant or Pentrepant near to Oswestrey in Shropshire, 23. July in sixteen hundred twenty and nine, year 1629 and was buried the next day in the Church at Sillatin or Selattyn: To the poor of which place, as also of Oswestrey and S. Asaph, he gave to each five pounds. In his Prebendship succeeded Giles Thornborough M. of A. (afterwards D. D.) Nephew to Dr. John Thorborough B. of Worcester, who kept it to the time of his death 1663., and in the See of S. Asaph succeeded Joh Owen D. D. of Cambridge and Archdeacon of S. Asaph, who was consecrated thereunto 20. of Sept. 1629. He died at Perthkinsey 15. Oct. 1651. and was buried on the 21. of the said month in the Cath. Church of S. Asaph under the Bishop's Throne. This Dr. Owen who was the Minister's Son of Burton-Latimers in Northamptonshire, and born 
b 〈…〉 of England in Northamp●●●shirc.  there, as also bred Fellow in Jesus coll. in Cambridge, hath written Herod and Pilate reconciled: Or, the concord of Papists, Anabaptists, and Sectaries, against Scripture, Fathers, Councils, and other Orthodox Writers, for the coercion, deposition, and killing of Kings.— Published 1663. and by the author dedicated to the Loyal Subjects of Great Britain. What other things he hath written and published, I cannot tell, nor any thing else of him, only that he was a great Loyalist, a true Son of the Church of England, and had been much respected by Laud Arch. of Canterbury, who obtained for him from his most gracious King the said Bishopric of S. Asaph; which lying void after his death till the Restauration of K. Ch. 2. Dr. George Griffith was consecrated thereunto.  
JOHN BUCKRIDGE, sometimes Fellow, afterwards Precedent of, S. John's college, became B. of Rochester in 1611. and from thence was translated to Ely in 1627. He was conducted to the habitation prepared for old age in sixteen hundred thirty and one; year 1631 under which year you may see more of him among the writers. In the See of Rochester succeeded Dr. Walt Curl, and in Ely Dr. Francis White, both Cambridge men by education.  
JOHN HOWSON, sometimes Student and Canon of Ch. Ch. was consecrated B. of Oxford in the month of May 1618. was translated thence to Durham in 1628. and departed this moral life towards the latter end of sixteen hundred thirty and one; year 1631-2 under which year you may see more of him among the writers. In the said See of Durham succeeded Dr. Thom. Morton B. of Lichfield and Coventry; the temporalities of which, he 
* Pat. 8. ●ar. 1. p. 14  received from the King 12. Jul. 1632. and dying in the house of Sir. Hen. Yeluerton of Easton-Manduit in Northamptonshire, on the morrow after S. Matthews day, in 1659. aged 95 years, was succeeded in the year following by Dr. Joh. 〈◊〉 of Cambridge.  
LEWES BAYLY, sometimes a Member of Exeter coll. was consecrated Bishop of Ba●ger in 1616. and departed this mortal life in the beginning of the year sixteen hundred thirty and two; 
163●.  under which year you may see more of him among the writers. In the said See of 〈◊〉 succeeded a Native of Segroet near Denbigh a certain learned Doctor of div. named David D●lben of S. John● coll. in Cambridge, a younger Son of Robert 〈◊〉 D●lben of 〈◊〉 before-mentioned in Denbighshire: who dying in Bangor-house situated in Shoe-lane near S. Andrews Church in 〈◊〉 in the Suburb of London, on the 27. of Nou. 1633. was buried in the Church at 〈◊〉, which he kept in Commendam with his Bishopric. He was succeeded in the See of Bangor by Edm. Griffith. of whom I shall speak by and by.  
JOHN RIDER, sometimes a Student in Jesus coll. was consecrated Bishop of 〈◊〉 in Ireland on the 12. of Jan. 1612. and concluded his last in a good old age, in sixteen hundred thirty and two; 
163●.  〈◊〉 which year you may see more of him among the writers. In the said Bishopric succeeded one Lewes Jones a Welshman, sometimes a Student in this University, whom I shall mention at large among the Bishops in the second vol. of this work.  
FRANCIS GODWIN sometimes a Student of Christ Church, was consecrated Bishop of Landaff in 1601, thence translated to Hereford in 1617., and died in the beginning of the year sixteen hundred thirty and three; year 1633 under which year you may see more of him among their writers. To the said See, (after Goodman of Gloucester had endeavoured to obtain) was elected Dr. Will. Juxon of Oxon, but before he was consecrated, he was translated to London; whereupon Dr. Augustin Lindsell Bishop of Peterborough was translated thereunto in (Dec.) 1633. After him followed Matthew Wren D. of D. of Cambridge; the temporalities of which See (Hereford) were given 
a Pat. 10. Car. 1. p. 39  to him 24 March. 10. Car. 1. Dom. 1634-35. But he being soon after translated to Norwych, Theophilus Field of Pembroke hall in Cambridge (born in the parish of S. Giles Cripplegate Lond.) succeeded: The temporalities also of which were restored 
b Pat. 11. Car. 1. p. 14.  to him, 23. Janu. 1635. This Dr. Field dying soon after, George Cook sometimes of Pembroke hall in Cambridge, brother to Sir Joh. Cook Secretary of State succeeded, and had the temporalities thereof given 
c Pat. 11. ●ar. 1. p. 17.  to him 7. July 1636. He was the Son of Rich. Cook of Trusley in Derbyshire by Mary his wife, daughter and heir of Tho. Sacheverell of Kirby in Nottinghamshire, and he the Son of Will. Cook of the same place, by his wife the daughter of Ralph Fitzherbert of Tyssyngton in the said county of Derby. Which George Cook dying in 1646. (22. Car. 1.) the see of Hereford laid void till the restauration of K. Ch. 2 and then 'twas supplied by Dr. Nich. Monk of Oxon, of whom I shall make large mention in his proper place.  
GEORGE ABBOT sometimes of Balliol college, afterwards Chaplain to Thomas Lord Buckhurst, and then to the Earl of Dunbar, with whom he was solemnly sent into Scotland, for an effecting of an Union in the Hierarchy, was consecrated Bishop of Lichfield and Coventry 3 Dec. 1609, translated to London about the latter end of January following, and in 1610 he was translated to Canterbury, on the death of Dr. Richard Bancroft. He departed this mortal life in sixteen hundred thirty and three; year 1633 under which year you may see more of him among the writers. In the See of Canterbury succeeded Dr. William Laud, as I shall tell you at large when I come to the next Vol. of this work.  
JOHN PHILIPPS, was a Welshman born, as it seems, and having received his Academical education in Oxon, became afterwards Parson of Thorp Basset, and Slingesby in Yorkshire; which last he obtained in the latter end of March 1591. About that time he being Chaplain to Henry Earl of Derby, became Archdeacon of Clieuland (on the resignation of Rich. Bird, Bach. of div.) in Apr. 1601, also Archdeacon of the Isle of Man, and at length, (about 1614) Bishop of that place, but in whose room I cannot tell, for between the translation thence of Dr. George Lloyd to Chester 1604. some person, yet unknown to me, did succeed. In the Rectory of Slingesby succeeded Sam. Philipps M. A. in Jan. 1618. and in Clieuland Henry Thurcross M. A. an. 1619. as I shall tell you in the Fasti, an. 1610. So that I presume those two places were kept in Commendam with the Bishopric, by the said John Philipps, whom I take to be the same with Joh. Philipps who took the degree of M. of Arts as a Member of S. Mary's hall, in the month of May 1584. Which degree he completed as a Member of Broadgates, in an Act celebrated 10. of July the same year. The said Joh. Philipps Bishop of Man translated the Bible into the Manks language, that is, the language commonly spoken in the Isle of Man, assisted in the said work by Sir Hugh Cannal Minister of Kirk St. Michael in the said Isle. He concluded his last day about the year sixteen hundred thirty and three, year 1633 and was succeeded in the said See of Man by William Forster a Divine of some note in his time, but whether he was ever of Brasnose coll. as some think he was, (wherein several of his surname and time have studied,) I cannot tell. One Will. Forster a Warwickshire man born, was entered a Student in S. John's coll. 1601. and another of that house was a writer, as I have before told you among the writers under the year 1633. One Joh. Philipps wrote A summon to repentance. Lond. 1584. oct. but he is not to be taken to be the same with the former, and another Joh. Philipps wrote The way to Heaven, on Acts 2. 47.— Printed in qu. 1625. Which book▪ I having not yet seen, I cannot say to the contrary but that it may be published by Joh. Philipps the Bishop. Qu.  
FRANCIS GOUGH, commonly called Goffe., the fifth Son of Hugh Gough Rector of Allcannyngs in Wilts, by Jane his Wife, Daughter of one Clifford of Clifford-hall in Devonsh. was born in Wiltshire, entered a Batler in S. Edmund's hall in the latter end of 1611. aged 17 years, and afterwards was made one of the Clerks of New college; where continuing some years, returned to the said hall, and as a Member thereof took the degree of M. of Arts, in 1618. Soon after, he having a just opportunity of going into Ireland, became first Chancellor, than Bishop, of Limerick; to which See being consecrated 
c Jac. War. ut supra. p. 189.  at Cashills 17. Sept. 1626. sat there till the time of his death: which happening on the 29. of August in sixteen hundred thirty and four, was buried in the Cath. Ch. of Limerick, leaving then year 1636 behind him his eldest brother named Hugh, who was Chanter of Limerick and Justice of Peace. In the See of Limerick succeeded George Web, whom I shall mention in the next volume, under the year 1641.  
WILLIAM PILSWORTH was born in Fleetstreet in the west suburb of London, elected and admitted Demie of Magd. coll. 29. Sept. 1578. aged 18 years on the day of the Nativity of our Saviour following, took one degree in Arts as a member of Magd. hall in Dec. 1581., left the University without any other degree, went into Ireland, became Prebendary of Monabannoc, and at length Bishop of Kildare: To which see being consecrated 
d Ibid. p. 130.  at Balsoon in the county of Meath, 11. Sept. 1604, sat there without any removal to the time of his death; which happening at Naas on the 9 of May in sixteen hundred thirty and five, year 1635 was buried at Dunfert in the country of Kildare. In the said See succeeded Robert Usher D. D. Son of Hen. Usher sometimes Archbishop of Armagh; who lived upon it till the Rebellion broke out in Ireland; an. 1641, and then retired into England for protection.  
RICHARD CORBET sometimes Student, afterwards Dean of, Christ Church, was consecrated Bishop of Oxford in 1629. (though in some respects unworthy of such an office) and translated thence to Norwych in the beginning of 1632. He died in the latter end of July in sixteen year 1635 hundred thirty and five; under which year you may see more of him among the writers. After his death a Native of the Parish of S. Peter's Cheap in London named Dr. Math. Wren B. of Hereford was translated to Norwych; the temporalities of which See were 
e Pat. 11. Car. 1. p. 25.  restored to him 24. of Nou. 1635. being elected thereunto on the tenth day of the same month. Afterwards upon the death of Dr. Franc. White Bishop-Almoner, he was translated to Ely; the temporalities of which were restored to him 
f Pat. 14. Car. 1. p. 35.  on the 5. of May 1638. where he sat to the time of his death. He (by the way I must tell you) was the Son of Franc. Wren Citizen of London, (a branch of the Wrens of Binchester in the Bishopric of Durham,) and being an eminent Scholar in his youth, became first a Student in Pembroke hall in Cambridge, than Greek Scholar and Fellow of that house, and soon after Chaplain to Lancelot Andrews Bishop of Winchester. Afterwards he was made Master of Peter house, Vicechancellor of the said University, Chaplain to K. Charles 1. when he was Prince, (whom he attended after he had taken his journey to Spain) as also when he was King, Prebendary of Winchester, Dean of Windsor, (in which honourable Dignity he was installed 24. Jul. 1628.) sworn Registrary of the most noble Order of the Garter, 23. of Sept. following, and in 1633 became Clerk of the Closet, in the place of Dr. Will. Juxon. In 1634 he became Prebend of Westm. in the room of Dr. John Wilson, and near upon that time Bishop of Hereford. But continuing there not long, he was translated to Norwych, as I have before told you: And being made Dean of the Chapel Royal, upon Juxons advance to the Treasurer's staff, an. 1636, he was translated to Ely in the beginning of 1638, as 'tis already said. In all which offices his deportment was with such gravity, exemplary piety, and Government with no less prudence, that upon the beginning of the unparallelled rebellion raised by the Presbyterians, commonly then called Puritans, who had an implacable hatred for him, for his pride, insolence, and high hand used towards them, as they frequently reported, he was by them miserably persecuted, and grievously oppressed by plunder of his goods, seizure of his estate, and by a straight and tedious imprisonment in the Tower of London, which he endured with great patience and magnanimity near 18 years. After his Majesty's return he was set at liberty, was restored to his Bishopric of Ely, and notwithstanding his former losses, performed several acts of Piety. Among which, was his building a new Chapel in Pembroke hall before mentioned; which being beautified with splendid and decorous Furniture, and amply endowed with an annual revenue, was, upon the Feast of S. Matthew, (21. Sept.) in 1665. solemnly consecrated and dedicated by himself in person, and by his Episcopal authority, to the honour of Almighty God. A noble and lasting Monument of the rare piety and munificence of that great and wise Prelate, and in every point accorded to his character; which was then so well known, that the sole nomination of the Founder was a sufficient account of the elegance and magnificence of the foundation. Before evening service, the exterior or outer Chapel, and the Cloister leading to it, (a new Fabric of Sir Robert Hitchams foundation) were by his Lordship also consecrated, for places of Sepulture to the use of the Society, together with a cell or vault at the east end of the chapel under the Altar, for a dormitory for his Lordship. He paid his last debt to nature in Ely House in Holbourn near London, on Wednesday 24 of Apr. 1667. aged 81 years and upwards. Whereupon his body being embalmed, was conveyed to Cambridge, and deposited with great solemnity in a stone coffin in the vault beforementioned. This worthy and learned Bishop hath written (1) Increpatio Bar. Jesus: sive Polemicae adsertiones locorum aliquot S. Scripturae ab imposturis perversionum in catechesi Racoviana. Lond. 1660. qu. remitted into the ninth vol. of the Critics. (2) The abandoning of the Scotch covenant. Lond. 1661. qu. (3) Epistolae variae ad viros doctiss. Among whom are to be numbered Ger. Jo. Vossius: As also two or more Sermons; one of which is on Prov. 24. 21. printed 1627. and another on Psal. 44. 18. printed in 1662. both in qu. etc. He left behind him several Sons, who will be mentioned elsewhere.  
MICHAEL boil was a Londoner born, Son if I mistake not, of Michael boil of S. Mar. Magd. Parish in Milkstreet (who died in the latter end of 1596.) and nearly related to the Boils of Kentish Town in Middlesex; was educated in Merchant Tailor's School, became Scholar of S. John's coll. in 1593. aged 18. years, took the degrees in Arts, holy orders and was made Vicar of Finden in Northamptonshire, In 1611. he proceeded in Divinity, and three years after resigning his Vicarage, he went into Ireland, was made Dean of Lismore, and at length in the latter end of the year 1619. was consecrated Bishop of Waterford and Lismore, being then esteemed a person of good learning and prudence. He yielded up his last breath at Waterford 
g Ib. in Jac. War. ut supra, p. 20●.  on the 27. Dec. in sixteen hundred thirty and five, year 1635 and was buried in the Cath. Ch. of the holy Trinity there, leaving then behind him a brother named Richard boil Archb. of Tuam, whom I shall mention in the Fasti, among the incorporations, an. 1601. There was another Michael boil, who was Archb. of Dublin 1663. but he was Nephew to the former Michael, by being Son to Richard before mentioned.  
EDMUND GRIFFITH a Caernarvanshire man born, was admitted in the quality of an Exhibitioner 
a Reg. antiq. coll. Aenean fol. 95. a.  into Brasnose college on the 8. Apr. 1587. having before, as I conceive, been a Student of that of Jesus, took the degrees in Arts, that of Master being completed in 1592. About which time being in full Orders, had some employment agreeable to his profession in these parts. In 1599 he was admitted to the reading of the Sentences, and afterwards being made Dean of Bangor in the place of Dr. Joh. Williams deceased, in Sept. or Oct. 1613. was at length made Bishop of that place, on the death of Dr. Dau. Dolben, an. 1633. To which See being consecrated, the temporalities thereof were restored to him 
b Pat. 9 Car. 1. p. 1●.  on the 26. of Febr. the same year. He died in sixteen hundred thirty and seven, year 1637 and was, as I suppose, buried in the Church of Bangor. In the said See succeeded Dr. Will. Roberts Subdean of Wells and Archdeacon of Anglesie, sometimes Fellow of Queen's coll. in Cambridge, and Proctor of that University, who having the said Bishopric bestowed on him the endeavours of Dr. Laud Archb. of Cant. for discovering Church goods to the value of 1000 l. had the temporalities thereof given 
c Pa● 1●. Car. 1. p. 15.  to him 24. Sept. 13. Car. 1. Dom. 1637. with liberty then allowed to him, to keep his Archdeaconty in Commendam. In the time of Rebellion he suffered much, and about 1649. he was sequestered of all, or most, of his Estate, whether spiritual or temporal. In the great year of the Restauration of K. Ch. 2. he was restored to all he had lost, and dying in 1665. one Dr…… Price was elected Bishop, but he dying before consecration in the same year, Robert Morgan Dr. or Bach. of div. Rector of Llanddyfnan in Anglesie and Archdeacon of Merioneth being elected into his place, was consecrated at Lambeth on the first day of July 1666. He died in Sept. 1673. leaving behind him a Relict called Anne.  
IONAS WHEELER, Dean of the Church of the Holy Trinity, commonly called Christ Church in Dublin, and Chaplain to K. James 1. was consecrated Bishop of Ossory in S. Patrick's Church near Dublin on the eighth day of May 1613. and died in the ninety seventh year of his age at Dunmore, on the 19 of April in sixteen hundred and forty: year 1640 Whereupon his body was buried in the Cath. Ch. of Kilkenny. He was born in Oxfordshire, as 'tis 
† jac. War. ut. up. in 〈…〉 panful. 〈…〉  said, particularly, as I suppose, within the City of Oxon, was educated in this University, but in what house, unless in that of Brasnose, where one or more of his name and kindred studied about his time, I know not, nor what degrees he took, because many have studied, in the said University, five, seven, ten years, or more, and yet never took any degree.  
JOHN ATHERTON, Son of John Atherton, who became Rector of Bawdripp in Somersetshire in 1584. was born in that County, (at Bawdripp as it seems,) and at 16 years of age 1614 became either a Batler or Commoner of Gloucester hall, where continuing till after he had taken one degree in Arts, was transplanted to Lincoln college, took the degree of Master as a Member of it, holy Orders, and soon after was made Rector of Huish Combflower in his own Country. At length being made known to Thomas Earl of Strafford L. Lieutenant of Ireland, for his great sufficiencies in the Canon Law, and Ecclesiastical affairs, was by him made Prebendary of Ch. Ch. in Dublin, and afterwards Bishop of Waterford and Lismore in the year 1636. (he being then Doctor of divinity,) in which office he behaved himself for some time with great prudence, though forward enough, if not too much, against the R. Catholics in that Country. At length being charged with a crime, not now to be named, was seized on and imprisoned: And being found guilty of it, was first degraded, and afterwards suffered death by hanging at Dublin, (being the first of his Function that suffered that kind of death, as he said it openly to the People at the Gallows,) on the fifth day of Decemb. in sixteen hundred and forty. year 1640 Afterwards his body was buried, according to his desire, in the remotest or obscurest part of the Yard (where rubbish used to be laid) belonging to S. John's Church in Dublin. Nich. Bernard D. D. sometimes Chaplain to the learned and religious Dr. Usher Archb of Armagh hath written and published a book of his penitent death, with a Sermon at his burial, to which (being very worthy of perusal) I refer the Reader for his farther satisfaction. In Waterford and Lismore succeeded Dr. Archibald Adair a Seer, and him Dr. George Baker, who died in Octeb. or thereabouts, an. 1668.  
JOHN BANCROFT, Son of Christ 〈…〉 (by Andrey Andrews his Wife) eldest Son of 〈…〉 of Farnworth in Lancashire, by Mary his Wife, daughter of John Curwyn, brother to Hugh Curcoyn, sometimes Bishop of Oxford, was born in little Village called Astell or E●well, lying between 〈◊〉 and 〈…〉 was admitted a Student of 〈…〉 more, took the degrees in Arts, holy Orders, and became a Preacher for some years in 〈…〉 being newly admitted to proceed in Divinity, was by the endeavours of his Uncle Dr. Rich. Bancroft Archb. of Cant. (a younger Son of John Bancroft beforementioned.) elected Master of University college, where he continued above 20 years: In which time, he was at great pains and expense to recover and settle the ancient Lands belonging to that foundation. In 1632. he was, upon the translation of Dr. Corbet to Norwych, nominated Bishop of Oxford; whereupon being elected by the Dean and Chapter in April the same year, had the temporalities of that See given 
* Pat. 8. Car. 1. p. 13.  to him on the 6. of June following, being about that time consecrated. In 1640. when the Long Parliament began, and proceeded with great vigour against the Bishops, he was possessed so much with fear (having always been an Enemy to the Puritan) that without little or no sickness, he surrendered up his last breath in his lodging at Westminster. Afterwards his body was carried to Cudesden in the diocese of Oxon, and was buried near to, and under the, south wall of the Chancel of the Church there, on the twelfth day of Febr. in sixteen hundred and forty, 
1640-1.  leaving then behind him the character 
† See in Canterbury's Doom, printed in fol. 1646. p. 353.  among the Puritans or Presbyterians then dominant of a corrupt unpreaching Popish Prelate. The Reader is now to know that before this Man's time, the Bishops of Oxford had no house left belonging to their Episcopal See, either in City or Country, but dwelled at their Parsonage-houses which they held in Commendam, though Dr. Jo. Bridges, who had no Commendam in his diocese, lived for the most part in hired houses in the City. For, as I have before told you in Dr. Rob. King, though at the foundation of the Bishopric of Oxford in the Abbey of Osney, the King appointed Gloucester coll. for the Bishop's Palace, yet when that foundation was inspected into by K. Edw. 6. and a recital thereupon made of the foundation thereof done by his Father, that place was left out of the Charter, as being designed then for another use. So that from that time till this Man (Dr. Bancroft) came to be Bishop, there being no settled House or Palace for him or his Successors, he did resolve by the persuasions of Dr. Laud Archb. of Cant. to build one. Wherefore in the first place the impropriate Parsonage of Cudesden beforementioned, five miles distant from Oxon, which belonged to the Bishop in right of his See, he let the lease thereof run out without any more renewing, that in the end it might be made an improvement to the slender Bishopric. The Vicarage also of his own donation falling void in the mean time, he procured himself to be legally instituted and inducted thereunto. All which being done, he, thro' the power and favour of Dr. Laud beforementioned, obtained an annexation of it to the See Episcopal, (the design of bringing in the impropriation going forward still) and soon after began, with the help of a great deal of timber from the Forest of Shotover, given to him by his Majesty, to build a fair Palace; which, with a Chapel in it, being completely finished, an. 1635. was, then out of curiosity visited by the said Dr. Laud; which he remits into his diary thus. Sept. 2. an. 1635. I was in attendance with the King at Woodstock, and went thence to Cudsden, to see the house which Dr. Jo. Bancroft then Lord Bishop of Oxford had there built to be a house for the Bishops of that See for ever; he having built that house at my persuasion. But this house or Palace (which cost three thousand and five hundrend pounds) proved almost as short lived as the Founder, being burned down by Col. Will. Legg during the short time that he was Governor of the Garrison of Oxford, in the latter end of 1644. for fear it might be made a Garrison by the Parliament Forces, though with as much reason and more piety (as one 
* Dr. P. Heylin in his History of the life and death of Dr. Will. Laud, lib. 3. part. 1.  observes) he might have garrisoned it for the King, and preserved the house. Being thus ruined, it laid so till Dr. Joh. Fell became Bishop of Oxon, and then with moneys out of his own purse, and the help of timber, which one of his Predecessors named Dr. Will. Paul had laid in in his life-time for that purpose, did rebuild it upon the old foundation, with a Chapel in it, as before. The outside of which being finished in 1679. the inside followed soon after.  
METROPHANES CRITOPYLUS, a Grecian born, came into England to be instructed in the doctrine and discipline of the Church, and in order thereunto to learn the Latin and the English tongues. To these ends he addressed himself to Dr. Abbot Archb. of Canterbury, who sent him forthwith to Balliol college, where he had for his interpreter the noted Grecian Mr. Edw. Sylvester, and continued there till the time of his departure from England, which was about 1622. at which time he was Chancellor to the Patriarch of Constantinople. After his return to his own Country, he became Patriarch of Alexandria in the place of Cyrill Lucaris translated to Constantinople, and wrote, as some 
† See more in Ballio-Fergus written by Hen. Savage, printed at Oxon. 1668. p. 119.  suppose, The Confession of Faith, which went under the name of Cyrill Patriarch of Constantinople, published in the Greek tongue 1629. Which Confession was, with a censure upon it, printed at Rome 1632. the title of which, rendered into English is this, The condemnation of the confession of the Calvinists, as it was set forth in the name of Cyrill Patriarch of Constantinople. With this condemnation and confession is printed an answer to the Anathematisms of cyril Patriarch of Alexandria, Predecessor to Critopylus; wherein the said Anathematisms are acknowledged to be genuine, though they decry the said Confession as spurious. This Critopylus was in great renown in his own Country in sixteen hundred and forty, 
Clar. 1640.  but when he died I cannot yet find.    

FASTI OXONIENSES.  
THESE Oxonian Fasti, or Academical Annals, contain in exact Order, Method, and Time, from the Year of our Lord 1500, to the end of 1640. 

1. A Catalogue of the Chancellors, Commissaries o● vicechancellors, and Proctors of the Uniu. of Oxon  
2. The Names and Characters of eminent Grammarians, Rhetoricians, and Musicians, who have been admitted to One, or two, Academical Degree, or Degrees, with the Titles of such Books, (if any) that they have written.  


The Names of  
3. Writers, Archbishops, and Bishops, Who have been admitted to 1, 2, or more Degr.  
4. Dignitaries in the Church, as Deans, Archdeacon's, Chancellors of Churches and Dioceses Chauntors, etc. as also of Heads of Colleges and Halls, Who have been admitted to 1, 2, or more Degr.  
5. Abbats, Priors, Guardians, &c Who have been admitted to 1, 2, or more Degr.  
6. Monks and Friars supposed to be eminent for Place, Learning, or published Writings, etc. Who have been admitted to 1, 2, or more Degr.  
7. Martyrs, either for the Rom. Catholic, or Protestant, Cause. Who have been admitted to 1, 2, or more Degr.  
8. Many learned Men. who have not been Writers, and Men of Note in the way they professed, with their Characters. Who have been admitted to 1, 2, or more Degr.  
9 Writers and Translators of inconsiderable Account, such I mean that have published but one Sermon, or a little Pamphlet, or have Translated but one or two Books, with the Titles of such Sermons and Books or Pamphlets that they have written or translated. Who have been admitted to 1, 2, or more Degr.  
10. All Doctors of what Faculty soever, whether Writers or not Writers. Bishop's then, or afterwards, or 〈◊〉 Bishops, eminent or not eminent, etc. with the Day and Year when they were admitted, or licenced to proceed in their respective Faculties.  
11. Those that have been incorporated, or embodied, or taken into the bosom of the said University, as such who have been of any Note in the Uniu. of Cambridge, or of any Uniu. in the learned World with their Characters, and Titles of Books 〈…〉 they have written and published. The Incorporations also of Princes. Dakes, Marquess'. Earls etc. Archbishop's Bishops. Abba●s, Priors, etc. Deans, Archdeacon's, &c. with their Characters etc.  
12. Those that have been actually created, or inve●ted with Degrees, or have had Degrees conferred upon then, without any, or but little▪ Scholastical Exercise, performed for them. I mean the Names of such only, who have been Princes, Dukes, Marquess', etc. Archbishops, Bishops, Temporal Lords, Baronet's, Knights, eminent Common Lawyers, etc. The Names also of certain Writers who have been created, and of such who have been supposed to have had something of Eminence in them, or have 〈…〉 in Church or State, with their Char. etc.  
13. 〈◊〉 Scholars and Writers, with their Characters, and sometimes an Account of their Works, who have 〈◊〉 in Oxon, purposely to advance themselves in Learning or for the sake of Libraries.      

An. Dom. 1500.  
An. 15-16 Hen 7.  
The Chancellor of the University this year, was Dr. John Moreton. Archb. of Canterbury, and Cardinal of S. Anastasius: But he dying in the Month of Sept. Dr Will. Atwater became C●ncellarius 〈◊〉, and in his Absence W. Herward, D. D. and others. At length in the beginning of Nou. following, the Members of the University elected for their Chancellor Dr. Will. Smith Bishop of 〈◊〉 Which honourable Office, he, upon notice by Letters, accepting, the said Members delegated Mr. John Reed Chaplain to the Prince (afterwards Warden of Wykeham's Coll. near Winchester) and Mr. John Dunham B●ch of Diu. to give him his Oath; which being taken he was admitted to his Office.  
The 〈◊〉 or Vicechancellor of the University was this year Mr Will. 〈◊〉. D. D 〈◊〉 S. Mary Magd●●●● Coll.  

Proctor's  
〈…〉  
〈…〉   
The Senior Proctor, who was Fellow of Line. Coll. was afterwards Archdeacon of Stow, in the place, as I conceive, of Hugh Hanworth, who dying the 7th of March 1518, was buried in the Cath. Church of Lincoln. He the said Derby also was Canon resident. of Line. and Prebendary of Ketton in the said Church; and dying in 1542, was buried in Chanter Isle joining to the Cath. Ch. of Line before mentioned. See more of him and his Benefaction to Learning in Hist. & Antiq. Vniu. Oxom. lib. 2. p. 161.  

Masters of Art,  
Or such who were licenced to proceed in Arts, or admitted among the number of Masters of the Faculty of Arts, in order to their proceeding, or being completed in that Degree in the Act or Comitia following.  
Will Grace, or Grey.— The same, as I have just reason to conceive, who was some years after this time Archdeacon of Berkshire in the place of Christop. Twinkley; as also Prebendary of Horton in the Church of Sarton. He died in the Year 1521, at which time he bequeathed twenty Marks to the University Chest, four Marks for the Reparation of S. Mary's Church, and four Pounds to buy a new pair of Organs to be played upon in the said Church. For which, and other his good Deeds, was yearly a Dirige and Mass said for the health of his Soul. In his Archdeaconry succeeded Rob. Audley, nearly related to Edm. Audley B. of Sarum, 14 Feb. 1521.   

Opponents in Divinity,  
Or such who opposed in Divinity disputations, in the School belonging to that Faculty, in order to their Admission to the Degree of Bach. of Divinity.  
Tho. Browne— He was about this time Prior of the Cell at Dunster in Somersetshire. The said Cell or Priory was for Benedictines or Black Monks. and stood, as Jo. Leland tells 
a 〈…〉.  us. in the roots of the Northwest side of the Castle at Durster, and was a Cell to the Priory at Bath.   

Bachelaurs of Divinity,  
Or such who were admitted to the reading of the Master of the Sentences, or to the Sentences of Pet. Lombard.  
John Storke or stark, Prior of the House or Coll. of the Friars of the Order of S. Austin the Hermit.— This Coll. was situated in the North Suburb of Oxon. On the scite of which place, Wadham Coll. was afterwards built.  
John Hakebourne. Prior of the Coll. of S. Marry the Virgin (a Nursery for 〈◊〉 Regulars of the Order of S. Austin) within the University of Oxon— The great Gate of this Coll. which is now standing: is almost opposite to that of New Inn, in a Lane commonly called New Inn Lane. This John H●kebo●n, I take to be the same with him who is sometimes written John Haukebourn, who was after this time Doctor of Divinity. and Lord Abbot of the Monastery of our Lady at Cirencester, (a place for Black Canons) in Glocesters●re.  
John Holwel of Exeter Coll.— In the year 1505 he occurs Principal of Black Hall near to that of Hart, about which time he was Canon of the Cath. Ch. at Exeter.   

Doctors of the Civil Law,  
Or such who were 〈◊〉 to proceed in the Civil Law, or admitted Doctors of the Civil Law, in order to proceed, or to be completed Doctors in the Act following.  
Henry Wilcocks, now, or about this time. Principal or chief Moderator of the Civil Law School in the Parish of S. Edward, being Deputy for Dr. Will. Warham Master of the Rolls, and afterwards Archb of Canterbury.— This Civil Law School and the Church of S Edward (both which joined together) have been time out of mind demolished. They stood in, or near that Lane, which we now call Blew-●oar Lane▪ near to the Back-gate of the 〈◊〉 Inn. This Dr. Wilcocks was Archdeacon of 〈◊〉 (in which Dignity he was succeeded by Ric. Mawdly or Mawdion, D. D) and Vicar gen. to Dr. Smith Bishop of Lincoln.   

Doctors of the Canon Law,  
Or such who were licenced to proceed in the Decrees or Canon Law, etc.  
Roger Sandyford or Sandford, Principal of Broadgates' Hall in the Parish of All Saints— Upon the Resignation of Philip Agard, an Inceptor in the sacred Canons or Decrees the said Rog. Sandford succeeded in the Principality of that Hall in 1498. which Hall did once stand where now is a Yard containing divers Tenements belonging to Magd College; the Gate leading to which is almost opposite to the sometimes Inn called the Sw●n, in that part of the High Street between the Churches of All 〈◊〉 and S. Mary.  
Will. Horsley Principal of P●ckwaters Inn.— This Inn is involved in that Quadrangle belonging to Ch▪ Ch. now called Peckwater.  
This year was a Supplicate made in the venerable Congregation of Regent's for one Tho. Dalby to be admitted to a Degree in Decrees; but whether he was admitted I cannot yet tell.— This Tho. Dalby whom I find afterwards written Doctor of Decrees, was installed Archdeacon of Richmond in Oct. 1506, upon the Promotion of James Stanley to the See of Ely, was made about that time Prebendary of the Prebend of Stillington, and Canon residentiary, in the Church of York, afterwards the thirty seventh Provost of the Church of S. John at Beverley, Treasurer of the Palace of Tho. Savage sometimes Archb. of York, Chaplain and Counsellor to King Hen. 7. and Dean of the Chapel to the Duke of Richmond and Somerset. This Dr. Dalby died 26 Jan. 1525, and was buried in the North Isle joining to the Choir of the Cath. Church of York. I find another Tho. Dalby who was Archdeacon of Richmond, and Residentiary in the Church of York, but he dying in 1400, must not be supposed to be the same with the former.   

Doctors of Divinity,  
Or such who were licenced to proceed in Divinity, or admitted Doctors or Professors of Divinity, or of the Holy Writ, in order to their proceeding, or being completed in that Degree in the Act following.  
William Vavasor Guardian or Warden of the House or Coll. of the Franciscans or Grey Friars in the South Suburb of Oxon.— This Coll. was situated without Little Southgate, commonly called Watergate, where now a Brewer and a Tanner, besides other People, live; and the Gardens and Grove belonging thereunto, situated on the West side of the said Coll. are now called by the Name of Paradise Garden. This College was one of the famousest Places for learned Friars in the Christian World, and therein did Roger Bacon, the Miracle of his Age for Learning, live and die in the Habit of a Franciscan. Another Miracle also did live and study there about Roger's death, named John Do●●s, highly famed at this day beyond the Seas, for those Books which he hath written, yet so little valued now among many English Men, that the Philosopher 
b 〈◊〉 Hobbes of Malmsbury in his Hist. of 〈…〉 of England, printed 1680. pg. 54.  of Malmsbury doth not stick to say, that any ingenious Reader, not knowing what was the design (meaning the Pope's design to carry on his Authority) would judge him to have been the most egregious Blockhead in the World, so obscure and senseless are his Writings.  
Hugh Sa●ders alias Shackspear of Merton Coll.— He was afterwards Principal of S. Alban Hall, and is styled in one of our public Registers 
c In reg. Epistol. Uniu. Oxon. ● Ep●●t. ●.  Vir literis & virtute percelebis.  
John Stanywell Prior of the Benedictine Monks of Gloucester Coll. now Gloc. Hall.— He was the same Person with John Stonywell who was soon after Lord Abbot of Pershore (a Monastery for Benedictines) in Worcestershire, and a Bishop by the Title of Episc. Po●etensis, as I have among the Bishops told you.  
Joh. Avery of Lincoln Coll.— He was afterwards several times Commissary of the University.  
John percival the seven and fortieth Minister or Provincial of the Minorites, Franciscans or Grey Friars, in England, did proceed about this Year in Divinity. See among the Writers under the year 1502.  
Joh. Kynton a Minorite or Franciscan, did also proceed this year, but when admitted, I find not.    

An. Dom. 1501  
An. 16/17 Hen. 7  
Chancellor, Dr. Will. Smyth Bishop of Lincoln, afterwards the worthy Founder of Brasnose Coll.  

Commissaries  
Will. Atwater beforemention'd.  
Tho. B●●ke D. D. Rector of Linc. Coll.  
Hugh Saunders D. D. beforementioned   

Proctors  
John Game of Allsoules Coll. elected for the Southern Proctor  
Will. Dale, elected for the Northern Proctor.   

Bachelaurs of the Civil Law,  
Or such who were admitted to the reading of any of the Books of Institutions.  
Thomas Howell Archdeacon of Cardigan, etc.   

Mast. of Arts▪  
Or such who were licenced to proceed in Arts, etc.  
William Hue,— He was afterwards Bishop of O●●se in Spain.  
John Longland of S. Mar. Magd. Coll.— He became Bishop of Linc. in 1521.  
Tho. Randolph of New Coll. did proceed about this year.— He was afterwards Canon and Prebendary of the Cath. Church at Lincoln.   

Bach. of Divinity,  
Tho. Brynknell of Linc. Coll.— See more among the Writers under the year 1521.  
Clement Lychfeld a Monk of the Order of S. Benedict in the Monastery of E●●sham in Worcestershire— He was afterwards Abbot of that Place, and continuing there till towards the dissoultion of Religious Houses, with a resolution not to surrender his House for a profane use, was at length by the tricks of Tho. cromwell Secretary of State to K. Hen 8. persuaded to resign his pastoral Staff to one Philip Hawford alias Ballard, a young Monk of Evesham: which being done accordingly, (not altogether to the content of Lychfeld) was a Surrender of that Monastery soon after made into the hands of the said King. For which Service Ballard had not only a considerable Pension allowed, but also the Deanery of Worcester given to him, an. 1553, (● Mar.) upon the deprivation of one John Barlow, M. A. who had been installed Dean in June 1544, in the place of Hen. Holbeach alias Rands the first Dean, afterwards Bishop of Lincoln. As for Lychfeld, who was a most pious and zealous man in the way he professed, he expended much Money in building the Abbey of Evesham and other places belonging to it, as also in building and adorning the Choir. He made 
d 〈…〉  also a right sumptuous and high square Tower of Stone in the Cemitery of Evesham. This Tower had a great Bell in it, and a goodly Clock, and was as a Gatehouse to one piece of the Abbey. This Abbot builded at his M●●or at Vss●nham about a mile above Evesham. This good man died at, or near, Evesham, and was buried in a Chapel (which he before had built) joining to the Abbey-Church there, 9 Octob. 1540 In memory of whom, was, in his life time, an Inscription set up in a Window of the said Church, running thus, Orate pro anima Domini Clementis Lychfeld Sacerdotis, cujus tempore turris Eveshamiae ●dficata est  
John Colet M. A. was about this time admitted to the reading of the Sentences.  
Henry Rytoner Abbot of Rewley (a Monastery for Cistercians in the West Suburb of Oxon.) was admitted about this time.   

Doctors of the Civ. Law,  
Robert Langton of Queens Coll.— In the Month of Sept. 1485 he was made Prebendary of Fordington and Writblington in the Church of Salisbury, and about that time Preb. of Chy●●inster and Bear in the same Church. In 1486, Jun. 25. he became Archdeacon of Dorset, void by the Death of Will. Ascough, and in 1509 Apr. 24. he was installed Treasurer of the Church of York, in the place of one Martin Collyns deceased, who had before been Chauntor of the said Church.— See more of him (Rob. Langton) among the Bishops in Tho. Langton an. 150.  
Rob. Honywode of Allsoules Coll did proceed also this or the year before.— In 1506 he became Canon of Windsor, and about that time Archdeacon of Taunton. He died 22 Jan. 1522, and was buried in the Chapel of S. George at Windsor.   

Doctors of Diu.  
Thom. Swawell a Monk of the Order of S. Benedict, and Warden or Guardian of Durham Coll. in Oxon.  
Sim. Green alias Fotherbie of Linc. Coll.— He was afterwards several times Commissary of the University, and for his Merits made Chauntor and Residentiary of the Cath. Ch. at Lincoln. and also Predendary of Bykkylleswade or Biggleswade in the said Church. He gave way to Fate 27 March 1536, and was buried in the Isle called Chauntor Isle within the Precincts of the Cathedral of Linc.  
Frater or Brother Thom. Latymer a Dominican or Black Friar.  
This year Thom. Beaumond of Merton Coll. of about 15 years standing in the Degree of Master of Arts, did supplicate to be licenced to proceed in Divinity, but whether he was licenced or admitted I cannot yet find. Before this time he was Archdeacon of bath, and in great repute there for his Learning; which Dignity he surrendering up, one John Pikman LL. Bac. was collated thereunto (per dimissionem Tho. Beaumond) 12 Jul. 1499. The very next day Beaumond was collated to the Provostship of Wells, with the Prebendary called Comb de eight, on the Death of Mr. Thom. Barrow, (who had been also Archdeacon of Colchester) and in 1502 he became Archdeacon of Wells, and well beneficed in the Diocese belonging thereunto. In Octob. or thereabouts, in the year 1507, he died; whereupon Cardinal Hadrian de Cast●llo Bishop of B. and Wells, did bestow the said Dignity of Archdeacon on his Kinsman Polydore Virgil alias Casteller, with the Prebendary of Brent in the Church of Wells annexed, on the sixth of Febr. the same year. At which time Polydore being in great favour with R. Foxe B. of Winchester, had, as I conceive, some Dignity or Benefice in the Church conferred on him by that worthy Person. In the Reign of Ed. 6. he being then well stricken in years, he procured an Order or Licence from the King to depart from England to go to his native Country; in which Order 
e Pa●. 4. Ed. 6 part 5.  dated 2 June 4 Ed. 6. Dom. 1550. I find these matters— Whereas our trusty and well-beloved Pollidoru● Virgilius hath made humble sure unto us, that he, being born in the Parts of Italy, and, having served our Grandfather K H●n. 7. and our Father K. H●n. 8. and Us, by the space of forty years and above, in writing, and putting forth in Print divers notable Works and Stories, may be licenced to depart out of this our Realm, and visit and see, now in his old Age, his said native Country, and there to make his abode, during his pleasure, and also quietly &c. to enjoy all the Profits of the Archdeaconry of Wells, in the Cathedral Church of Wells, and the Phebend of Nonyngton in the Cathedral Ch. of Hereford, which the said Po●lidorus now enjoyeth, etc. By virtue of the said Order he departed: but before he went he Sold the perpetuity of the House of Wells which belonged to the Archdeacon of Wells; and dying at Urbin in Italy, the place of his Nativity, was 
f 〈…〉  there buried in 1555. There was some Memory of him remaining divers years after his Death in the Choir at Wells; and Jo. Leland takes 
g 〈…〉  notice of his Arms in the Arras Clothes (as he calls them) hanging over the Stalls in the Choir at Wells, about which was this Verse,  
Sum Laurus virtutis honos pergrata triumphis.  
And about another in the same Arras Hangings, this,  
Haec Polydori sunt numera Virgilii.  
In the beginning of Oct. 1510, he was naturalised, or made a 
h 〈…〉  Native of England, by the Name of Polydorus Virgilius alias dictus Polydorus Castellensis Clericus, having lived several years before in England.    

An. Dom. 1502.  
An. 17/18 Hen. 7.  
Chanc. the same, viz. Mr. Will. Smyth B. of Lincoln; but he resigning about the beginning of Aug. Dr. Rich. Fitzjanes Warden of Merton Coll. and Bishop of Rochester, being at this time resident in the University, became 
i 〈…〉  Cancellarius nat●●, and in his absence Mr. John Kynton and Mr. John Thornden or Tho●●●. At length, after a great deal of disturbance in the University concerning the Election of a Chancellor, Mr. Rich. Mayhew, Precedent of Magd. Coll. and the King's Almoner, was elected Chancellor about the latter end of Nou. following.  

Commiss.  
Will. Atwater again.  
Tho. Bank again.  
Hugh Saunders again.   
This last, as 'tis said, was Commissary only for that time when Dr. Fitzjames was Canc. not.  

Proct.  
Hugh Hawarden of Brasnose Coll.  
John Matson or Mackson of Mert. Coll.   
The Senior was the Northern, the other the Southern, Proctor.  

Bach. of Music,  
Or such who were admitted to the reading of any of the Musical Books of Boetius.  
Henry Parker of S. Mary magdalen's Hall.— He was eminent in these times for his Compositions in Vocal and Instrumental Music, some of which, if I do not forget myself, I have seen in the Musical Bibliotheca reposed in the School of that Faculty.   

Mast. of Arts.  
About nineteen Masters proceeded this year, of which three or four were of Alls. Coll. four of Merton, and one or more of Magd. Coll. among whom Laur. Stubbes was one, afterwards Precedent thereof. What were the Promotions or Dignities of any besides him, I cannot yet tell.   

Opponents in Divinity,  
Thomas Wallashe now, or soon after, Prior of the Monastery of the Virgin Mary at Bradenstoke of the Order of S. Augustin, in the Dioc. of Salisbury.— About the year 1511 he was admitted Prebendary of Hustwayt in the Church of York in the place of Christop. Fisher Bishop of Elphine (in Ireland) deceased. Whether the said Th. Wallash was afterwards admitted to the reading of the Sentences, which usually follows Opposition in Divinity, I cannot yet find.   

Bach. of Diu.  
John Maynard a Monk of the Order of S. Benedict.— He was afterwards Prior of the Novices of the said Order living in Gloucester Coll. in this University, in the place of Dr. Stanywell before-mentioned, and was succeeded in the said Priorship by one John Wynyscom●e or Wynchombe a learned Monk of the said Order, who occurs Prior in the year 1512.   

Doctors of Physic,  
Or such who were licenced to proceed in the Faculty of Medicine or Physic.  
John Gam or Game of Allsoules Coll. sometimes one of the Proctors of the University.— He was now Principal of Biham, commonly called Beam, Hall in the Parish of S. John Bapt. Which Principality he resigned this year to make room for Hugh Pole of the same Coll.   

Doct. of Diu.  
John Thornden or Thornton, did proceed in Divinity about this Year.— He was afterwards several times Commissary of the University, and a Bishop, as I have before told you.  
This year one John Newland, a Black or Regular Canon of the Order of S. Augustin, supplicated for a Degree in Divinity; but whether granted, which is very imperfect (or not at all) tells us not. This is the same John Newland who was born at Newland in the Forest of Deane in Glocestershire, and was commonly called and written John Naileheart alias Newland. He was the last Abbot saving one of the Monastery of S. Austin at Bristol; in which Monastery, as also in the Church belonging thereto, he expended much Money in building and adorning. He was called the Good Abbot, being a Person solely given up to Religion and Almsdeeds; and after he had ruled 33 years or thereabouts, he gave way to Fate in a good old Age, and was buried on the south side of the Choir of the Church of S. Austin, now the Cath. Church at Bristol. Over his Grave is his Statue in Pontificalia, graven or carved out from Stone, laying on the Back, with a Crosier in his Hand, and a Mi●re on his Head. His Arms do now, or did lately, continue in the Church and other Buildings of that Monastery, which are a Man's heart pierced thro' from top to botto●● with three nails, which is as 'twere a Rebus for Naileheart.    

An. Dom. 1503.  
An. 18/19 Hen. 7.  
Chanc. Rich. Mayhew D. D. Archdeacon of Oxford, etc. at length Bish. of Hereford.  

Commiss.  
John Thornden or Thornton D. D.  
John Kynton D. D. a Minorite.  
Sim. Green alias Fotherbie D. D. of Linc Coll.   

Proct.  
John Stokesley of Magd. Coll.  
Rich. Dudley of Oriel Coll.   
The Senior who was the Northern Proctor, was afterwards Bish. of London; and the Junior, who was the Southern Proctor, was afterwards Chancellor of the Church of Salisbury. He was Master of Arts of this University; but whether he took any Degree in Divinity therein, I find not. See more in 1508.  

Bachelaurs of Arts,  
Or such who were admitted to the reading of any Book of the Faculty of Arts of the Logic of Aristotle.  
Edward Lee of S. Mar. Magd. Coll. seems to have been admitted Bach. of Arts this year, among twenty or thereabouts that were admitted within the compass of the same year.— We have no Register that shows it, only certain imperfect and broken Scripts containing sums of money received for the taking of Degrees, which I have seen, but I think are now perished.   

Bach. of Physic,  
Or such who were admitted to the reading of any Book of the Aphorisms of Hypocrates.  
Rich. Barthlet Master of Arts and Fellow of Allsoules Coll.— See more among the Doctors of Physic under the year 1508.   

Doct. of Diu.  
Will. Salyng (or Selling) Lord Prior of Martin, or Merton, in Surrey.  
Rob. Tehy or They of Magd. Coll.  
Rich. Sydenore of the same Coll. about this time Archdeacon of Totness.— In 1518 he was made Canon of Windsor, and in 1524 constituted Scribe or Registrary of the most noble Order of the Garter. He died 1534, and was, I presume, buried in the Chap. of S. George at Windsor. In his Canonry and Registrary's place succeeded Rob. Aldridge, who was afterwards Bish. of Carlisle, and in his Archdeaconry of Totness succeeded, as it seems, George Carew.  
This year was a Supplication made in the ven. Congregation of Regent's for one Rich. Bear a Benedictin Monk, to be graduated in Divinity; but whether in the Degree of Bach. or Doct. it appears not; or whether he was admitted to either. 'Twas the same Rich. Bear who was installed Abbot of Glastenbury on the Death of John Selwood the former Abbot, 20 January 1493, (after the Election of another Person named Tho. Wasyn a Monk of the same Order, had been cassated, by Rich. Fox Bish. of B. and Wells, on the 12. of Nou. going before.) This Rich. Bear, who was well known to, and reverenced 
k 〈…〉  by, Erasmus, died 20. Jan. 1524, whereupon Rich. Whyting was elected Abbot in his place on the third of March following, there being then in the Monastery of Glastenbury 47 Monks. If you are pleased to know more of this Bear, you may read what Leland saith 
l 〈…〉  of him, and his Benefaction to the said Abbey, thus.— Rich. Bear Abbat, built the new Lodgings by the great Chamber called the King's Lodgings in the Gallery.— He builded also new Lodgings for Secular Priests and Clerks of our Lady's Chapel. He also arched on both sides the East part of the Church. He built Edgar's Chapel at the East end of the Church. Abbat Whyting performed part of it.— Abbot Bear made the Vault on the Steple in trancepto.— He also made a rich Altar of Silver and guilt, and set it afore the high Altar. And coming from his Embassadry out of Italy, made a Chapel of our Lady of Loretto, joining to the North side of the Body of the Church.— He made the Chapel in the South end Navis Ecclesiae Glaston, whereby he is buried sub plano mannore in the South Isle of the Body of the Church.— He made an Almshouse in the North part of the Abbey, with a Chapel, for seven or ten poor Women. He also made the Manor place at Sharpham in the Park, two miles by West from Glaston. It was before a poor Lodge, etc.    

An. Dom. 1504  
An. 19/20 Hen. 7.  
Chanc. Dr. Rich. Mayhew, by whose Persuasion K. Hen. 7 gave 10l. yearly Revenue to the Uniu. of Oxon▪ conditionally, that the Members thereof celebrate a solemn Ma●s for him yearly in S. Mary's Church.  

Commiss.  
Sim. Green again.  
John Kynton again.  
Rob. Tehy or They D. D. of Magd. Coll.   

Proct.  
Laur. Stubbes of Magd. Coll. Bor. elected 17. Apr.  
John Beverston of Mert. Coll. Principal of S. John Bapt. Hall. Austr. elected 17. Apr.   

Mast. of Arts.  
Edward Finch.— Of what Coll. or Hall he was a Member, I cannot yet find: sure I am that on the 23 Sept. 1517, he became Predendary of Fordington and Writhlington in the Church of Salisbury, on the death of Andrew Ammonius an Italian, (whom I have mentioned among the Writers in Will. Grocyn, an. 1522.) that also he was made Archdeacon of Wiltshire on the death of Christoph. Vrshwyke, 12 May, 1522; and Preb. of Chermister and Bear in the said Church of Sarum, on the death of Rob. Langton sometimes of Queens Coll in this University, 30. June 1524.  
Philip Dense Fellow of Mert. Coll.— He hath this Character added to his Name in the Album of that Society, Medicus & Astronomus cum primis doctus. In the Act wherein these two proceeded, were about 14 Masters, but whether any of them were afterwards Bishops, Writers, or Dignitaries, I cannot yet find. The said Philip Dense, who was a learned man as certain Writings which he left behind him showed, died of a pestilent Disease 4 Sept. 1507, and was buried in the choir belonging to the Church of the said Coll.   

Doct. of Diu.  
John Colet the most learned and religious Dean of S. Paul's Cathedral in London.— I have largely mentioned him before.  
John adam's of Merton Coll.— He was afterwards a Dignitary in the Church.  
This year was a Supplicat made in the ven. Congregation of Regent's in behalf of Father William Byrd a Benedictine Monk, to be admitted Bach. of Diu. or licenced to proceed in that Faculty; but whether either was granted, I cannot tell. I take this Father to be the same William Bird who was elected Prior of the Monastery of Benedictines at bath in Aug. 1499, after the death of John Cantlo● the preceding Prior. For what Benedictine of both those Names it should be, but he, I cannot tell. It is reported by one 
m 〈…〉  who pretended to know him well, that this Will. Byrd was given much to Chemistry and chemical Operations, that he found out the Stone, or discovered the Elixir, and at the Suppression of Abbeys he hid it in a Wall, 
And ten days after he went to fetch it out,  
And there he found the stople of a Clout.   
This put the Father into so great an Agony, that he became almost frantic, as the same Author tells us; who adds, that he ever after wandered about, had no settled place, that he became blind, had a Boy to lead him about, lost his Ecclesiastical Preferments, and died poor; with other the like fabulous Tales, which are commented upon forsooth by a certain Rosacrucian, as if they were as true as Gospel. I find this Person Will. Byrd to have expended much money in finishing his Church at bath, which is now the great Church there, dedicated to S▪ Peter and S. Paul, but before he could finish it, he gave way to Fate; which happening on the 22. of May 1525. John Holway of the same Order was elected Prior on the first of July the same year, and was Prior thereof at the dissolution or suppression of Abbeys, and not W. Byrd as several 
n 〈…〉  Author's report. Towards the upper end of the Choir of the said Church dedicated to S. Peter and Paul, was, by the Appointment of this Person, erected, between two of the South Pillars, a neat tabernacular Edifice, which, I presume, he intended to be the Seat of the Prior at Divine Service. His Arms on the Roof of it are curiously carved out in Stone, which are a Chevron between three Spread Eagles, on a chief a Rose between two Lozenges; and on the outside of the said Seat is a Memorial of his name, viz. a W and a Bird carved in Stone: in which Seat, or else near to it, he was, as I conceive, buried. As for John Cantlow beforementioned, who was his Predecessor, and graduated in this University, he built in a certain Village near bath, called Holloway, in the Parish of Widcomb, a pretty little Chapel dedicated to S Mary Magd. as also, as 'tis said there, the little Hospital adjoining for Lunatics.    

An. Dom. 1505.  
An. 20/21 Hen. 7.  
Chanc. Dr. Mayhew again.  

Commiss.  
Sim. Green again.  
Jo. Roper, D. D. who proceeded in Diu. this year.  
John adam's, D. D. of Mert. Coll.   

Proct.  
Will. Patenson or Batenson of Queens Coll. Bor.  
John goold of Magd. Coll. Aust.   
The Junior was afterwards Principal of B●ham Hall in the Parish of S. John Bapt.  

Bach. of Music.  
Or such who were admitted to the reading of any of the Musical Books of Boetius.  
June ult. Dominus John Goodman, now noted for his Compotiers in that Faculty, which are, I presume, somewhere still in being.   

Bach. of Arts,  
Of above 27 who were admitted this year, none of any note do yet appear, or are worthy to be remembered, only  
Matthew Smyth of Oriel Coll. who was afterwards the first Principal of Brasnose Coll. and a Benefactor to Learning; and another named  
John Cottisford of Linc. Coll. afterwards Rector of that House, and a Dignitary. Both whom were admitted the last of June.   

Bach. of the Civil Law,  
Or such who were admitted to the reading of any book of the Institutions.  
About 10 were admitted this year, among whom Dionis Calakan (an Irish Man) was one, June ult. Twenty or more also supplicated for the said Degree, who were not admitted this year; among whom Tho. Bennet was one, but whether the same Tho. Bennet who became Chauntor of the Cath. Church of Salisbury in Jan. 1541, I dare not affirm it.   

Bach. of the Canon Law,  
Or such who were admitted to the reading extraordinary of any Book of the Decretals or Volumes.  
About 17 were admitted this year, of whom Rich. Wykeham and John Colchester, Benedictine Monks, were of the number, ult. June, and Nelanus Neal a Carme or White Friar another. Twelve also at least supplicated for the same Degree, but were not admitted, among whom Thom. Cbeltenham a Benedictine was one. Mar. 16.   

Mast. of Arts,  
Jan. 25. Thom. Southern.— He was afterwards Proct. of the University, Treasurer of the Cath. Church at Exeter, and Fellow of Eton Coll. near to Windsor. He died in 1557. Besides him were about 20 more admitted Masters of Arts, but none of any note, that I can yet find, among them.   

Bach. of Physic,  
Or such who were admitted to the reading of any Book of the Aphorisms of Hypocrates.  
John Parkhouse of Exeter Coll.— He was afterwards Principal of Hart Hall, and taking holy Orders, became Canon of Exeter Cath. and a Dignitary elsewhere, which is all I yet know of him.   

Bach. of Diu.  
June 20. William Godmersham a Monk of the Order of S. Benedict.— He was about this time either a Prior or an Abbot.  
Jan. 18. The venerable Father Thom. Charred a Monk of the Cistercian Order, and Abbot of the Monastery of Ford in Devonshire, was then admitted.— See more under the year 1507.   

Doct. of the Civil Law,  
None were admitted this year, only several supplicated in order to be admitted, among whom were John Wardroper Bach. of both the Laws, Feb. 6.   

Doct. of Diu.  
Apr……John Rooper or Roper of Magd. College, who, after he had proceeded became Commissary this year.  
Jan….. Rog. Vanghan or Vachan, a Black Friar or Dominican, Prior of the Coll. of Black Friars in the South Suburb of Oxon.  
Feb. 3. John Aslaby was then admitted; which Degree he completed in an Act celebrated on the 15. of the same Month, at which time ten Masters of Arts proceeded.   

Incorporations,  
Or such who have taken a Degree in another University, and have been embodied or taken into the bosom of this of Oxon, and have enjoyed the same Liberties and Privileges, as if they had taken their Degree here.  
Jul. 2. Walt. Peers Doct. of the Civ. Law of Bononia in Italy (where he was held in great Admiration for that Faculty) was then solemnly incorporated into the same Degree in the House of Congregation.  
Jan. 24. Rich. Kirkby Mast. of Arts of this Uniu. and Bach. of Divin. of the Uniu. of Paris, was incorporated Bach. of Diu. of this University.— Which being done, he supplicated the same day to be admitted or licenced to proceed in Divinity; but whether granted it appears not.  
…. James Denton Doctor of the Laws, sometimes Fellow of Kings Coll. in Cambridge▪ did this year supplicate to be incorporated; but whether he was really so, it appears not. He was Chancellor to the Lady Mary Queen Dowager of France, who was afterwards married to Charles Brandon Duke of Suffolk, and so I presume he took that Degree beyond the Seas. About this time, he being one of the King's Counsellors, and much in savour, was made Prebendary of York, Lincoln. Salisbury, and in 1510, Canon of Windsor. In 1521, or thereabouts, he succeeded Dr. Ralph Collingwood in the Deanery of Lichfie●d, having been installed Prebendary of that Church by his Proctor Dr. Rich. Salter of Oxon. an 1509, and in 1523 he became Archdeacon of Clieuland in the Church of York upon the promotion of Dr. Richard Rawlyns of Mert. Coll. to the See of S. David. This Dr. Denton was also Lord Precedent of Wales, and dying at Ludlow in Shropshire in 1532, was there buried. In his Deanery of Lichfield succeeded Dr. Rich. Samson, who holding it till 1536, at which time he was promoted to the See of Chichester, Rich. William's Chaplain to, and beloved of, K. Hen. 8. succeeded. In his Archdeaconry of Clieuland succeeded Tho. Bedell, as I shall tell you under the year 1508, and in his Canonry of Windsor Dr. Rich. Wolman, whom I shall mention elsewhere. This Dr. Denton built the large Back-stairs at Windsor, was an especial Benefactor to the Church there by founding Maintenance for the Singing-men and Choiristers; and did, with Dr. John Clerk Dean of Windsor, receive 
o Tho. Hatcher of Kings Coll. in his Catalogue of Provosts, Fellows, and Scholars of Kings Coll. in Cambridge, MS● under th●●ear 〈◊〉.  by Indenture from the Lord hastings; the Sheets (as a Relic) wherein K. Hen. 6. Founder of King's College in Cambridge, lay, when he was murdered in the Tower.    

An. Dom. 1506.  
An. 21/22 Hen. 7.  
Chanc. Dr. William Warham Archbishop of Canterbury, elected 28 May, upon the resignation then made of Dr. Mayhew Bish. of Hereford.  

Commiss. 

John Thornden or Thornton.  
Will. Fauntleroy of New Coll. who was admitted D. of D. this year.     

Proct. 

Edw. Colyar of Vnivers. Coll. Bor. elected 24 Apr.  
Rich. Stokes of Magd. Coll. Austr. elected 28 of the same Month.     

Bach. of Music.  
None do occur in our Registers that were admitted, only Richard Ede, a Canon Regular, and a Scholar in Music, did supplicate the ven. Congregation to be admitted Bachelaur of that Faculty Feb. 10. but whether he was now, or after, really admitted, it appears not.   

Bach. of Arts.  
Dec. 17. Leonard Huchenson of Balliol, afterwards Master of University Coll.  
Feb. 8. Rob. Morwent of Magdalen, afterwards Precedent of Corp. Christi, Coll.  
Beside these two (who were great Promoters and Encouragers of Learning) were 32 more admitted Bach. of Arts this year.   

Bach. of the Civ. Law,  
Or such who were admitted to the reading of any Book of the Institutions, as I have before told ye.  
Jan. 28. John Incent or Innocent of Allsoules Coll.— Two days before he was admitted Bach. of the Canon Law, as I shall anon tell you.  
Besides him were admitted this year six more, and eight at least that supplicated for the said Degree, who were not this year admitted; among whom Joh. Prynne was one, Nov 24. This J. Prynne I take to be the same who was Prior of the Monastery at Timbridge in Kent, an. 1518.   

Bach. of the Can. Law,  
Or such who were admitted to the extraordinary reading (or reading extraordinary) of any Book of the Decretals or Volumes, as I have before told you.  
Mar. 29. John Ashdowne a Monk of the Cluniac Order, and Prior of the Monastery of Lewes in Sussex.— He had before spent seven years in studying the Canon Law in Cambridge.  
Jan. 26. Joh. Incent or Innocent before mentioned, who had formerly spent one year in the study of the Canon Law at Cambridge, was then admitted Bach. of the Canon Law.— He was afterwards Doctor of his Faculty, as I shall tell you hereafter, and the worthy Dean of S Paul's Cath. Church in London. Besides these two, were eleven more admitted this year, and about fifteen that supplicated for the said Degree, of whom Thom. Egyston a Benedictine was one. The rest were mostly secular Chaplains, among whom Rich. Hyll● or Hylley was of the number; but whether the same with one of both his names who succeeded in the Treasurership of the Church of Salisbury one Henry Sutton sometimes Fellow of Merton College, in the Month of Aug. 1505, I know not. The said Rich. Hylley who was Treasurer, dying in Sept. or thereabouts, in 1533, Nicholas Shaxton D. D. succeeded him in that Dignity in the beginning of Oct. the same year, and him (who was afterwards Bishop of Salisbury) Rich. Samson LL. D. as I shall tell you under the year 1521.   

Masters of Arts.  
Of 23 Masters of Arts who were admitted, and stood in three several Acts solemnised in S. Mary's Church this year, (whereof one was 3 July, another 26 Jan. and the third on the 8 Feb.) I cannot yet find any one of them that arrived to any Eminence, only John Hewys of Merton Coll. who was Chaplain to Qu. Catherine, and a rich Dignitary in the Church.   

Opponents in Divinity,  
Or such who opposed in Divinity disputations, in the School belonging to that Faculty, in order to their admission to the degree of Bach. of Diu.  
May 13. Frater Dedicus Fernandus, a Dominican, or Black, or Preaching Friar.  
June 28. Frat. Petrus Lusitanus, a Minorite, or Franciscan, or Grey Friar. Neither of these two (who were learned men) appear in the public Register to be afterwards admitted Bach. of Divinity. Besides them were six more admitted to oppose, who were all religious, or of religious Orders, and eight that supplicated to oppose; all, except one, of religious Orders also, among whom Nich. Pepyr, a Canon Regular, was one. Of him by the way, I must let the Reader know, that he was elected Prior of the House of Can. Regulars at Taunton in Somersetshire (on the Resignation of John Prows) 23 Feb. 1513, and dying there 26 Sept. 1523, one Will. York of the same Order was admitted Prior in his place. In the year 1519, when the said York was admitted Bach. of Diu. this Pepyr did then supplicate for that Degree.   

Bach. of Diu.  
Dec. 14. Thom. Goldwell of Canterbury Coll. (who on the 19 of Oct. going before was admitted to oppose in Divinity) was then admitted Bach. of Divinity.— He was a Monk of the Order of S. Benedict, and in the year 1517 was chose the last Prior of the Church at Canterbury. I have mentioned another Thom. Goldwell among the Bishops under the year 1580.  
Feb. ult. Rob. King, a Monk of the Cistercian Order in the Abbey of Rewley in the West Suburb of Oxon.— He was afterwards the first Bishop of Oxford. See more among the D. of D. 1518.  
Mar.— Richard Feries a Carme.— See among the D. of D. 1513.  
Besides these three, were seven more admitted of whom John Comb a Cistercian was one.   

Doctors of the Civil Law.  
June 28. Brian Hygden LL. Ba●● 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 York● and on the 27 of the same Month Dean thereof, in the place of John Young LL. D. Master of the Ro●ls, deceased▪ He paid his last debt to Nature 5 June 1539, (having before been a Benefactor to Learning, as I have elsewhere 
p In Hist. & 〈…〉.  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 complete 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 licenced 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 licenced to proceed in the Civil Law, but was then denied.   

Doct. of Diu.  
May 12. John Heskins a Preaching or Black Friar.  
June 26. Edward powel (of Oriel Coll.) styled 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. Gyding M. of A. and Bac. of Diu. (2.) Sim. Pykering a Carme. (3.) John Wetwang B. D. a Cistercian, etc.   

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 Vniu. Coll. Bor. 

Apr. 15.       
But the junior Proctor dying in the Long Vacation, Mr. Hugh Pole or Pool of Alls. Coll. (about this time Principal of Biham Hall) supplied his place as signior Regent in the University till the fourth day of Nou. 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 Bliss.— 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 Edgeworth 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 conferred 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 Musician, in Will. Forest among the Writers, under the year 1558.  
Mar. 8. Thom. Makerel of Vniu. Coll.— One Dr. Makerel Prior of Berlings in Lincolnshire headed the Commons of that County under the Name of Capt. Cobbler when they rose against the King in 1536, upon the beginning of the dissolution 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 Abbot and a Suffragan Bishop, was drawn and hanged at Tybourne about 29 March 1537, for denying the King's 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 Diu.  
May 10. Peter de Campo, a Portugese.  
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, Benedictine● and Black Friars.   

Bach. of Diu.  
Jun. 22. John Claymond the most deserving Precedent of Magd. Coll. styled in his Admission Vir discretus, gravis, & multa doctrina percelebris.  
Feb. 6. Gerardus Smyth a Minorite.— and others of no great account, besides five at least that supplicated for that degree.   

Doct. of the Civ. Law.  
Apr…. John Cockys or Cocks of Alls. Coll.— This year I find him Principal of George Hall in S. Mary's Parish, and in 1509 Warden or Rector of the Church of Elmely in Kent, upon the resignation of Will. Broke Doct. of Decrees. Afterwards he was Principal of Henxsey Hall in S. Aldates' Parish, (a place for Civilians) Principal or chief Moderator or Professor of the Civil Law School in the Parish of St. Edward, and Dean of the Arches. He died in Febr. 1545.  
William Parker and Thom. Maket Bachelaurs of the Civ. Law supplicated to be licenced to proceed in that Faculty, but were not admitted.  
Thom. Mylling Bach. of the Canon Law, supplic. also to be Dr. of that Fac. but not admitted.   

Doct. of Diu.  
Oct…. Thom. Charred Abbot of Ford in Devon.— On the second of the same Month he did really proceed, being then styled (as 'tis entered in the public Register of this time) Vir magna doctrina & virtute clarus. He was born at Aulescombe in the said County, and educated in S. Bernard's Coll. (now S. John Baptist) to which place being afterwards a Benefactor, his Memory was there preserved, as a token of it, in several of the glass Windows of that House, particularly in a middle Chamber Window on the South side of the Tower over the common Gate of that Coll. where was (if not still) his Name contracted in golden Letters (as the fashion was lately on Coaches) in an Escocheon Sable, and hath behind it, paleways, an Abbats Crosier. He founded, as 'tis said, an Hospital at Honyton in his own Country, and repaired, built, and adorned much of his Monastery, which, I think, he lived to see dissolved.  
Mar…. Thom. Brynknell of Linc. Coll.— He stood in the Act on the 13. of the same Month, at which time the Professor of Diu. or Commissary, did highly commend him for his Learning.  
Those that supplicated this year to be Doctors of Diu. were (1.) Humph. Wystow, sometimes of Alls. Coll. whom I shall mention under the year 1509. (2.) John Maynard a Benedictine; see in an. 1502. (3.) Clem. Lychfeld another Benedictine, mentioned under the same year. (4.) Tho. Anyden or Anyday B. of Diu. and a Minorite. (5.) Rob. Burton a Minorite also, and Prior or Guardian of the College of Minorites or Franciscans, commonly called Grey Friars, in the South Suburb of Oxon, who had studied Divinity in this, and the University of Cambridge, 20 years.   

Incorporations.  
May 4. James Mallet, Master of Arts of Cambridge.— This Person was afterwards Canon of Windsor, D. of D. and Master of the Hospital of S. Giles in Great Wycomb in Bucks. But in his latter days, uttering certain Words which were accounted High Treason, was executed in 1543. The Treason was this; When the News of the great Commotions made by the Commons in several parts of the Nation, upon, or after, the dissolution of Religious Houses, he openly said, Then hath the King brought his Hogs to a fair Market.  
Rob. Fisher a Doctor beyond the Sea, did supplicate to be incorporated May 10, but he is not registered as admitted. He afterwards was beneficed in Somersetshire.  
Thom. Scarysbrigg of Mert. Coll. Doct. of Diu. beyond the Seas also, did in like manner supplicate 20 Jan. but I cannot find him actually incorporated.   

Creations,  
Or such that have degrees conferred upon them without performing any exercise for the same, and sometimes (especially if Noblemen) without paying of Fees.  
Jan. 29. It was then granted to James Stanley Bishop of Ely, that he might be created Doctor of Decrees by a Cap put on his head, by William Archbishop of Canterbury and Richard Bishop of London; which accordingly was by them performed with solemnity, at, or near to, London.  
It was also granted on the same day to Mr. John Reed Master of Arts, Bach. of Diu. and Warden of Wykeham's Coll. near Winchester, that he might be created D. of D. by a Cap put on his head by Dr. Fauntleroy the Commissary, the Proctors, and two Masters. Whether performed, I cannot justly say, because in the year 1511 he supplicated for the degree of D. of D. He had been Tutor to Prince Arthur, was then Canon of Chichester, afterwards Warden of New Coll. in Oxon. and Master of the Hospital of S. Mary Magd. near Winchester.    

An. Dom. 1508  
An. 23/24 Hen. 7.  
Chancellor, the same.  
Commiss. 

Will. Fauntleroy again.  
John Thornden again.    
Proct. 

Rob. Carter of Magd. Coll. Austr. elected 10 May.  
Rowl. Messynger Principal of Little Vniu. Hall in School street. Bor. elected the 11. May.    
Of which Proctors having spoken largely elsewhere, I shall only now say, that they were afterwards Servants to, and in favour with, Cardinal Wolsey; the signior of them being Steward of his Household, and the junior Controller of his Buildings in Oxon.  

Grammarians,  
Or such who were admitted to inform and teach in the Faculty of Grammar.  
March 17. William Beaumond styled in our Registers Disertus vir, & vir doctus.— After he had been admitted by the Commissary to instruct Youths in Grammar, he delivered into his hands a Fer●la and Rod, as badges of his Office, to be used by his Authority. For at this time, and beyond all memory, no person in this Xingdom could teach Grammar publicly, until he had first been graduated in, or authorized by, either of the Universities.   

Bach. of Music.  
Feb. 12. John Mason.— He was now much in esteem for his Profession.  
This year Dec. 12. John Scherman a secular Chaplain and a Student in Music, supplicated the ven. Congregation that he might be admitted Bach. of that Faculty. Whether he was admitted it appears not. 
q In 〈◊〉 & Antiq Vniu. Oxon. lib…pag. 417 〈◊〉.    

Bach. of Arts.  
Oct. 23. John Redman or Redmayne.— One of both his Names was Archdeacon of Taunton, and Prebendary of Milverton in the Church of Wells; in which Dignities he was succeeded by John Fitzjames 1554, as I shall tell you in 1524. See in the year 1543.  
Jan. 18. Marmaduke Bona alias Lindsey.— I shall mention him elsewhere.  
Jan. 29. John Moreman of Exeter Coll.— He was afterwards Dean of the Cath. Ch. at Exeter.  
Besides these, were about 32 more admitted, and about 27 who supplicated for the said degree, but were not admitted this year.   

Bach. of the Civ. Law.  
Nou. 5. Thom. Bedell of New Coll.— In June 1533 he became Archdeacon of Clieuland in the place of Dr. James Denton; which Dignity he resigning in Aug. following, Will. Clyffe LL. D. succeeded. About which time Bedell became Archdeacon of Cornwall, and soon after was appointed one of the Commissioners (Rich. Layton LL. D. and Tho. Barthlet public Notary being two other) to visit Religious Houses in order to their dissolution.  
Besides Th. Bedell were thirteen admitted, and eight that supplicated, that were not admitted this year.  
Fifteen also were admitted Bac. of Can. Law, and eleven supplicated that were not admitted.   

Mast. of Arts.  
About fifteen were admitted, and about ten supplicated to be admitted, but were not. Among all which, I cannot yet find any one that was afterwards a Bishop, a Writer, Dignitary, or Man of note.   

Bach. of Diu.  
July— Thomas Beel a Canon Regular of the Order of S. Austin, and Prior of the Students of that Order living in S. Mary's Coll.— See more among the D. of D. an. 1514.  
Oct. 17. Fr. John Howden a Dominican.  
Jan. 16. James Dickson, M. A.  
Feb. 1. Fr. Rob. Osbourne a Carme.  
Which two last are several times mentioned in the public Register to be Clari & perdocti viri.  
Besides these were about thirteen that supplicated for the said degree, but not admitted this year; among whom was Will. Gyllingham of the Order of S. Benedict, who succeeded Rob. Holyngbourne in the Guardianship or Wardenship of Canterbury Coll. in Oxon. about this year.   

Doct. of Law.  
Not one, either in the Canon or Civ. Law, was licenced to proceed this year.  
In the Canon Law were three that supplicated to be Doctors, viz. David Talley Abbot of Tally in the dio● of S. David, Will. Wollur, and John Lacie, all Bachelaurs of that Faculty. In the Civil Law was only one, whom I shall mention the next year.   

Doct. of Physic.  
Nou. 3. Rich. Barthlet mentioned under the year 1503, supplicated that he might be licenced to proceed in Physic; but whether he was admitted, or did really proceed, or stood in the Act, it doth not, by the neglect of the Registrary, appear in the Register of this, or of any year following— He was about this time admitted by the Name of Dr. Rich. Barlot into the Coll. of Physicians in London, and some years after was made Precedent thereof. He died about the latter end of the year 1556, being then possessed of Lands in Cudesdon and Denton in Oxfordshire, and was buried in the Church of Great S. Bartholomew in London. In the Annals of the Coll. of Physician's beforementioned, is this Character left of him, by the famous Dr. Jo. Cay of Cambridge,— This good and venerable old man (very famous for his Learning, great Knowledge and Experience in Physic) died in the 87 year of his Age; at whose Funeral the Precedent and College attended, it being the first time that the Statute Book of the College, adoned with Silver, was carried before the Precedent.— He the said Dr. Bartlet did bequeath to Allsoules' College (his tender Parent) his Basin and Ewer of Silver, and to his Brother Edm. Bartlet and his Children of castle Moreton in Worcestershire several considerable Legacies.   

Doct. of Diu.  
Not one was admitted or licenced to proceed, or stood in the public Comitia, which we usually call the Act.  
Four I find who supplicated for the said degree, viz. (1. Fath. Walt. Goodfield a Minorite, who proceeded in 1510. (2.) Rich. Dudley of Oriel Coll. lately Proctor of the University. (3.) John Mylford a Benedictine and Bac. of Diu. (4.) Nicholas Bradbridge M. A. and Fell of Mert. Coll. Which last was afterwards D. of D. and Chancellor of the Cath. Church of Lincoln. He died 14 March 1532, and was buried in the said Cath. Ch. See among the Incorporations in 1526.   

Incorporations  
Nou. 5. John Smyth, D. of D. of Cambridge.  
Dec. 12. John Wilcocks D. of D. in Vniversitate Tantaronensis, as the Register saith. Qu. in what Country that University is.    

An. Dom. 1509.  
An. 1. Hen. 8.  
Chancellor, the same.  
Commiss. Will. Fauntleroy D. D. ' to whom were sometimes Deputies Dr. Tho. Mychell, and Dr. Jo. Kynton.  

Proct. 

Tho Heritage of Oriel  
Rich. Duck of Exet. 

Coll.       
Both which Proctors were according to a former Statute (lately much neglected) elected on one and the same day, being the first of Easter-Term.  

Bach. of Music.  
May…John Wendon, a Scholar of Music; whose Gra●e was granted to be admitted Bachelaur, conditionally that he compose a Mass to be sung in the Act following.  
Jul. 2. John Clawsey was then admitted Bach. of Mus.  
Both these were eminent in their Professions.   

Bach. of Arts.  
About 15 were admitted, of whom Rich. Consent or Consenett a Can. sec. was one, and James Fitzjames of Mer●. Coll. another; and 7 supplicated, who were not admitted this year.   

Bach. of the Civ. Law.  
May…Lancelot Collyns or Colynson.— He was Nephew to Christopher Bambridge Archbishop of York, by whose favour he became Treasurer of that Church in the beginning of May 1514, upon the Resignation of Robert Langton LL. D. mentioned under the year 1501. After Colynsons' death, Will. Clyff, LL. D. of Cambridge, was installed Treasurer of the said Church 13 Apr. 1539; the same Will. Clyff, I mean, who became Chauntor of that Church on the resignation of Will. Holgyll (then or lately Master of the Savoy Hospital near London) in the beginning of Nou. 1534. As for the Treasurership, Clyff by this Letters resigned it into the hands of K. Edw. 6. which being confirmed under the common Seal of the Dean and Chapter of York, he was afterwards made the third Dean of Chester in the place of Hen. Man Bishop of the Isle of Man. This Will. Clyff died at London about the 7th of Decemb. in 1558. and was succeeded in his Deanery by Roger Walker M. of A.  
June 2. Giles Hakeluyt of Alls. Coll.— One the 5 of Sept. 1514, he became Subdean of the Church of Salisbury on the Resignation of John Robinson.  
Nine more were admitted Bach. of the Civil Law, and seven supplicated, who were not admitted this year.   

Bach. of the Can. Law.  
June 11. Oliver Poole or Pole of Nevylls' Inn, (involved in the limits of C. C. C.) afterwards Principal of Greek Hall near to the Ch. yard of S. Frideswyde, and in that Parish; was then admitted Bach. of the Can. Law.— He is styled in the public Register of this time Vir doctus & praeclarus, which is all I know of him, only that he was of noble Race.  
June…Will. Page a Canon Regular and Prior of Ivy Church in the County of Wilts.— One Richard Page who was an Oxford May by Education, but not graduated as I can yet find, occurs Prior of Idrose or Ederos in the same County, an. 1526.  
Besides these two were but two more admitted, and 13 that supplicated, who were not this year admitted.   

Mast. of Arts.  
Thirteen were admitted, and five supplicated who were not admitted this year; but none of them were afterwards Writers or Bishop, and whether Dignitaries, I know not.   

Opponents in Diu.  
Seven were admitted to oppose, who were afterwards admitted Bach. of Diu. and eight supplicated, some of which were afterwards Bach. of Diu. also.   

Bach. of Diu.  
May 10. The reverend Father Edmund Forest a Canon regular, and Prior of the Monastery of Langthony (near Gloucester.)  
Jun…. William Arden a Dominican.— See more among the Incorporations, an. 1520.  
Jun. 21. Robert Cleyton of Linc. Coll. Principal of Staple Hall in Schoolstreet, styled in the public Reg. Vir d●lus  
Jul. 5. Henry Broke a Benedictin— One Thomas Br●ks who had been of this University, (of Gloucester College I think) did supplicate for, or at least took, a degree in this University, but 'twas before the time that these Fasti begin. In 1504▪ ●●n. 21. he was confirmed Abbot of M●chelney of the Benedictin Order, in Somersetshire, after the death of one William Wyke: and 〈◊〉 in 1522 John Shirbourne was confirmed Abbot in his place, on the 6 of Nou. in the same year.  
Jul. 6. Father A●th. Etton or E●ton, a Do●● or 〈…〉, who had studied two years in the University of 〈◊〉, three in Louvain, and five in Oxon.  
Besides these, others were admitted, and several supplicated.   

Doct. of Law.  
Not one admitted or licenced, either in the Canon or Civil Law, and but one supplicated for the degree of Doct. of Civ. Law, who was admitted the next year.   

Doct. of Diu.  
June 19 Humphrey Wystow of Alls. Coll— He had before this time been Principal of S. Edm. Hall, and was now beneficed at Tamworth in Staffordshire; where dying in Oct. 1514, was buried in the Chancel of the Church there, dedicated to S. Edys, or Edyth.  
March 19 Thomas Drax Rector of Linc. Coll.  
There were three also supplicated for the said degree; viz. (1.) John Baker Bac. of Diu. who became Rector of Lymyngton in Somersetshire, upon the Resignation of Thomas Wolsey (afterward a Cardinal) in the beginning of Jul. 1509. (2.) Hugh Bolles B. D. a Benedictin, (3. Pet. de Campo a Portugnese and Minorite, mentioned under the year 1507.    

An. Dom. 1510.  
An. 2 Hen. 8.  
Chanc. the same, viz. Dr. Warham Archbishop of Canterbury.  

Commiss. 

William Fauntleroy  
John Thornden  
Thomas Mychel D. D. oftentimes styled Vicechanc. 

D. D.       

Proct. 

John Burgeiss of Magd. Coll. Bor.  
John Hewys of Mert. Coll. Austr. 

April 10.       

Bach. of Music.  
Jan…John Gilbert.— His Order and Place are not set down.   

Grammarians.  
Feb. 3. John Toker or Tooker Bach. of Arts, was then admitted to inform and instruct in Grammar.   

Bach. of Arts.  
Feb. 28. William York a Canon Regular.— See more among the Bach. of Diu. 1519.  
Besides him were about 40 admitted, and about 30 who supplicated for that degree, but were not admitted this year.   

Bach. of the Civ. Law.  
Nineteen were admitted, among whom Anthony Maycok was one, and several others who were afterwards Dignitaries in the Church; and nine that supplicated who were not adm. this year.   

Bach. of the Can. Law.  
Feb. 3. Will. Fleshmonger of New Coll.— He was afterwards Dean of Chichester, as I shall tell ye elsewhere.  
Thomas Leson was admitted the same day.— See among the Bach. of Diu. 1512.  
Will. Taylour a Canon regular of the Premonstratensian Order, was also admitted the same day (Feb. 3.)  
Besides which three, were about 33 admitted, and more than twenty that supplicated, who were not admitted this year. Among these last, I find one Rich. Wraxhall a Benedictine, who on the 7 Jan. 1516 was confirmed Abbot of Athelney in Somersetshire, in the place of John Wellington some time before deceased: which Wellington had been confirmed Abbot 27 July 1503, in the place of one John George, who had been elected Prior 29 Oct. 1485, on the death of Robert Hill, who died on the tenth day of the same month. These things I note, because all the said Abbats had received Academical Education in this University.   

Mast. of Arts.  
Eleven were admitted this year, among whom John Cottisford, afterwards Rector of Linc. Coll. and Canon of the Coll. of K. H. 8. was one; and fifteen that supplicated, among whom was Jeffrie Wren, afterwards Canon of Windsor.   

Bach. of Diu.  
Jun. 12. Fr. Joh. Byrd a Carme.— On the 2. May going before he was adm. to oppose in his faculty; and many years after this, he became the first Bishop of Chester.  
Jun. …Tho. Wolsey M. A. of Magd. Coll.— He was now Dean of Lincoln, and afterwards a Cardinal, and Archbishop of York.  
Dec. … John Longland of Magd. Coll. now a Monk of the Order of St. Benedict, as the public register of this time saith.— See more in the year following.  
Thirteen supplicated for the said Degree, but not, as I conceive, admitted this year, among whom Rich. Grace a Canon regular was one, (written in the public register 
* Reg. Act. Conging G. fol. 110. a. b.  Canonicus regularis & Gardianus S. Augustini) and John Essex a Benedictine was another, of whom I shall make mention in 1515.   

Doct. of the Civ. Law.  
May 14. Edw. Culpeper of Al●s. Coll.  
June … Joh. Kydwelly of the same Coll. sometimes Principal of S. Edward's hall.  
June … Pet. Porkyn of New Inn, one of the Advocates in the Court of Arches and Rector of St. leonard's Church on New-fishstreet-hi● in London.— He died 1. May 1520, and was buried in the Church there.  
For the said Degree supplicated (1) Edm. Horde B. of the Civ. Law of Alls. Coll. sometimes Principal of Greek hall, afterwards Princ. of Burnells Inn alias London Coll. (2) John Noble Bach. of the said faculty, Princ. of Broadgates' hall and Official to the Archdeacon of Berks. He died 2. June 1522 and was buried in Doclingtons Isle (now the Chapel wherein the Society of Pembroke Coll. celebrate divine service) joining on the South side of St. Aldates' Church. Under the upper South window of which, is a raised Monument of alabaster, with the proportion of this John Noble from head to foot carved from alabaster, with the habit of a Bach. of Civ. Law, and his Crown tonsured.   

Doct. of the Can. Law.  
May 14. Thom. Orton or Horton now or lately Principal of White hall and Pyrie hall in St. Michael's Parish near to the North gate of Oxford.  
Jan. … Edw. Hygons' lately Princ. of Burnells Inn alias London Coll. in St. Aldates' Parish.  
There also supplicated for the said Degree (1) Thom. Thomlyn a Canon regular and Bach. of the Can. Law. (2) Will. Balborow Bach. of both the Laws, lately Princ. of St. Mildrids' hall in St. Mildrids' Parish, and now Princ. of New Inn.   

Doct. of Physic.  
James Radbourne Bach. of Physic did supplicate on the 29. June to be licenced to proceed in that faculty. but whether he was admitted, it appears not, nor that he stood in the Comitia.   

Doct. of Diu.  
May 12. Frater John Howden a Dominican, Prior of the Coll. of Blackfriars or Dominicans in the South Suburb of Oxon.  
Fr. Walt. Goodfield a Minorite or Franciscan, now or lately Prior or Guardian of the Coll. of Franciscans in the South Suburb of Oxon. was adm. the same day.  
Besides these two that were licenced to proceed, were eight Bach. of Diu. who supplicated to be admitted Doctors of the same faculty, viz. (1) John Waldgrave. (2) Will. Godmersham a Benedict. Monk. (3) John Claymond Precedent of Magd▪ Coll. (4) Richard Beverley a Dominican and Bach. of Diu. of Cambridge. (5) Rob. King a Benedictine, who afterwards proceeded in 1518. (6) Jam. Foston a Cistercian Monk. (7) Will. Helmysley of the same Order. (8) Tho. Castell a Benedictine.   

Incorporations.  
Oct. 11. Will. Gantlin Doct. of Physic of the Uniu. of Mountpelier.  
Nou. 20. Tho. Wells or Wellys M. A. of this Uniu. and sometimes Fellow of New College, afterwards D. of D. beyond the Sea, was then, or the day after, incorporated D. of D. being then Domestic Chaplain to Dr. Warham Archb. of Canterbury and a Dignitary.  
Nou. 29. John Sixtinus LL. D. of the Uniu. of Senes in Tuscany▪ was then incorporated, having been more than an year in this University. He was afterwards dignified in the Church of England, and was reckoned one of the Foreigners, who were excused from paying a subsidy to the King an. 1513. Petr. Carmelian, Polyd. Virgil, Erasm. Roterodamus, Andr. Ammonius, etc. who were beneficed and dignified in the Church, were excused also.  
Jan. … Rich. Talot or Tollet Bach. of the Civil Law of this Uniu. and Doct. of the same fac. at Cambridge.  
Feb. 3. Brian. Roos Doctor of Decrees of the Uniu. of Valence.— He died 1529 and was buried in the Church of Chelray in…  
One Will. Petoe M. A. of Cambridge was also incorp. on the 14. June.— One Peter, (whom some call William) Petoe was a Cardinal. See among the Bishops, under the year 1558.    

An. Dom. 1511.  
An. 3. Hen. 8.  
Chanc. the same.  

Commiss. 

Will. Fauntleroy again.  
Tho. Drax D. D. of Lync. Coll.  
John Roper Princ. of George hall.  
John Cockys LL. D.  
Edm. Wylsford D. D. Provost of Ori●l Coll.     

Proct. 

Will. Brook of Oriel Coll. Austr. elected on the last day of Apr.  
Tho. Southern, Bor. elected 2. May.     

Grammarians.  
Dec. 11. Maurice Byrchensaw a Scholar of the fac. of Rhetoric, was then admitted to inform in Grammar.— He taught in the School joining to Magd. Coll. great gate, and was afterwards Bach. of the Civil Law.  
Mar. 18. Edw. Watson a Scholar of the fac. of Gram.— This Person had afterwards his grace granted to him for the Degree of Bac●. of Grammar, conditionally that he compose an hundred verses in praise of the University, and also make a Comedy within one year after he had taken that Degree: but whether he was admitted, or did take it, it appears not.   

Bachel. of Grammar.  
Apr. 8. John Burgeys a secular Chaplain was admitted to the reading of any book of the fac. of Grammar.   

Bach. of Rhetoric.  
Jun. 3. John Bulman a Scholar of the Art of Rhetoric, was admitted to the reading of any book of the said faculty, viz. the first book of Tully's Offices and the first book of his Epistles.   

Bach. of Arts.  
Nou. 10. John Constable a famous Latin Poet of his time.  
Feb. 3. John Dovell— In one of his supplicates for that Degree he is written Will. Devil: yet I cannot take him to be the same with Will. Dovell a Bernardine or white Monk, who studied sometimes in St. Bernard's Coll. and who succeeded one Rich. Painter of that Order in the Abbatship of Clyve in Somersetshire.  
Besides these two were 38. or more admitted Bach. of Arts, and 8. at least that supplicated, who were not adm. this year.   

Bach. of Civ. Law.  
Jul. … George Grey Son of the Marquis of Dorset.  
Feb. 9 Thom. Colfox of Alls. Coll.— In the Catalogue of Fellows of that House he is styled Decanus Salopiae.  
Besides these were adm. 4 more, and 9 there were that supplicated for that Degree, who were not adm. this year.  
I find also 5. who were adm. Bach. of the Can. Law, and six who supplicated; most of whom were secular Chaplains.   

Mast. of Arts.  
Jun. 5. James Fitzjames of St. Alban hall, lately of Mert. Coll.— See more in the year 1516.  
June 21. John Quarre of Merton Coll.— He is the same John Quarre, as I suppose, who occurs Archdeacon of Landaff. 1541.  
Feb. 6. Rog. Edgeworth of Oriel Coll.  
Feb. 12. John Blyss mentioned under the year 1507.  
Besides these were about 33 admitted, and eleven, or thereabouts, that supplicated, that were not adm. this year.   

Opponents in Diu.  
May 31. John Bosforus a Cistercian Monk of St. Bernard's Coll. in the North suburb of Oxon, and Abbot of Tiltey in Essex.— About the same time he supplicated for the Degree of Bach. of Diu. which, I presume was granted, though not set down in the register. He is sometimes written Joh. Browne alias Brome.  
Nou. 19 Frat. Rob. Low or Law a Carme— Whether he was adm. Bach. of Diu. according to the custom of those that oppose in that fac. it doth not appear in the public register. See more of him among the Doct. of Diu. in 1520.  
Besides these, were eleven more that opposed; most of whom were afterwards adm. Bac. of Diu.   

Bach. of Diu.  
Jul. 1. William Malverne alias Parker a Benedictine Monk— On the 4. of May 1514 he was elected Abbot of St. Peter's Church in Gloucester on the death of one John Newton D. D. and continued Abbot till the dissolution of his Church. See more among the Doctors of Diu. 1515.  
Dec. 12. Joh. de Coloribus a Dominican.  
Mar. 14. Hugh Whitehead of Durham (now Trinity) Coll.— See among the Doctors of Diu. under the year 1513.  
Mar. 22. Fr. Rich. Mallet a Friar of the Order of St. Austin the Hermit, who had studied 12. years here and at Cambridge.  
…. Rob. Schouldham a Benedictine Monk.— He was now, or soon after an Abbot. See in the year 1515.  
Six more were admitted. and 7 supplicated that were not adm. this year, of whom Rog. Necham a Benedictine was one.   

Doct. of Civ. Law.  
Not one admitted, only John Jane LL. Bac. of New Coll. supplicated for the said Degree, March 25.   

Doct. of Can. Law.  
Not one admitted, only Thom. Byrd supplicated for that Degree. Whether he be the same Tho. Byrd who, from being a Canon of the Order of St. Austin in the Priory of Taunton, was elected Prior of Barlich (of the same Order) in Somersetsh. 3. Sept. 1492 upon the deprivation of Rob. Wind, I know not. He resigned his Priorship on the first of Decemb. 1524, and the very next day one John Norman was elected into that place.   

Doct. of Diu.  
Dec. 15. John Longland of Magd. Coll.— Afterwards Bishop of Lincoln.  
Those that supplicated for the Degree of D. of D. this year, were (1) Laur, Stubbes, afterwards Precedent of Magd. Coll. (2) Tho. Castle a Benedictine Monk, and Warden or Guardian of Durham Coll. in Oxon. I find one Tho. Castle a Doctor of Oxon to have succeeded in the Priorship of Durham John Aukland D. D. an. 1494, but what relation there was between them, unless this last was Uncle to the former, I know not. See more in the year 1513. (3) Will. Porter Bach. of Diu. Warden of New Coll. and chanter of Hereford. (4) John Esterfeild, etc.   

Incorporations.  
Apr. 3. Hugh Inge or Yuge sometimes of New Coll. Master of Arts of this Uniu. and D. of D. beyond the Seas, was incorp. D. of D.— He was afterwards Archb. of Dublin.  
Rob. Spence LL. D. beyond the Seas, was incorporated the same day.  
May … Rich. Smyth M. A. of this Uniu. and Doctor of the Civ. Law beyond the Seas.  
June 26. Rob. Fairfax Doctor of Music of Cambridge.— This Person did afterwards live in Hertfordshire, and was buried in the Church at St. Alban, near, or under, the seat, where the Mayor of that place usually sits. I have seen some of his Musical compositions of three, or more parts, which show the Author to be eminent in his faculty in the time he lived. Among the said compositions, which were written in a large book, were mixed with them the compositions of William Newarke, Richard Davyes, Edmund Turges, Sir Thomas Phelippis, William Cornish jun. and of one Sheryngham, Hampshire, Browne, etc. All which lived in, or near, the time of the said Dr. Fairfax, who was of the same family with those of Yorkshire.  
Jan. 24. John Hampton Abbot of the Monastery of St. Austin at Canterbury, D. of D. beyond the Seas.    

An. Dom. 1512.  
An. 4. Hen. 8.  
Chancellor the same.  

Commiss. 

Edmund Wylsford  
William Fauntlery  
John Kynton 

D. D.       

Proctors 

Thomas Pulton of New Coll. Austr. elected 21.  
Richard Symons of Mert. Coll. Bor. elected 23. 

Apr.       

Rhetoricians.  
Or such who were admitted to inform and instruct in the art of Rhetoric.  
Jan. ult. Richard Smyth a secular Chaplain, who in the art of Rhetoric had spent 16 years, of which 10 were spent in the informing and instructing youths in Grammar.   

Bach. of Music.  
Apr. … John Dygon a Monk of the Order of St. Benedict was then admitted.   

Bach. of Arts.  
Apr. ult. Malachias Arthur— Afterwards a learned Physician. See in the year 1515.  
Jan. ult. William Bennet— One of both his names became Archdeacon of Dorset upon the consecration of John Stokesley Bishop of London, 20. of Dec. 1530, and afterwards was the King's Orator at Rome. Whether the same with the former I cannot tell. See among the Bach. of the Civil Law, an. 1527.  
About 51. Bachelors of Arts were admitted this year, and 15 at least that supplicated for that Degree.   

Bach. of Civil Law.  
Jul. … Hugh ap Rice— He was afterwards Founder of Jesus Coll.  
Jul. … John London of New Coll.— See in the year 1518. Besides these two were but five more admitted, and two supplicated.  
This year 7 were admitted in the Canon Law, and two only, or thereabouts, supplicated.   

Mast. of Arts.  
Twenty or more were admitted, of whom John Moreman of Exeter College was one, and 5 only supplicated.   

Bach. of Diu.  
Nou. 4. William Wall a Canon regular, and Prior of the Monastery at Kenilworth in Warwickshire.— See another William Wall in 1518. among the D. of D.  
Feb. 4. Fr. Nich. Peter, or Peter Nicholas a Carme or White Friar, Prior of the College of Carmes in the North suburb of Oxon.  
Besides these two, were six more admitted, and about eleven that supplicated, that were not, as I can yet find, admitted this year. Among those that supplicated, were first William How M. A. and the King's Chaplain. See among the Doctors of Divinity 1526. (2) John Lleson Abbot of the Monastery of St. Mary of Neath, of the Cistercian order in Glamorganshire, now studying in St. Bernard's Coll. In a certain writing dated some years after the dissolution of religious houses, I find mention of one Thomas Leyson late Abbot of Neath, which I presume is the same and his Christian name mistaken. See in the year 1510. (3) Thomas Knolles M. A. and Subdean of York: whom I shall mention elsewhere.   

Doct. of Civil Law.  
Not one admitted, only four supplicated viz. (1) Richard Benger LL. Bach. (2) Maurice Glynn Bach. of the Civil Law, who was afterwards Doct. of that fac. and died in July 1525. (3) John Incent or Innocent of Alls. Coll. (4) Thomas Mylling LL. Bach. and Chaplain to Dr. Warham Archb. of Canterbury. He was afterwards a Benefactor to New Coll. as I have 
* In Hist▪ & Antiq. Vniu. Oxon. lib. 2. p. 131.  elsewhere told you.   

Doct. of Diu.  
Jul. 2. Hugh Mylling of Exeter Coll.  
Dec. 6. Thomas Coke.  
Four also supplicated this year, who were all afterwards admitted Doctors of Diu. except Thomas Hamden a Minorite or Grey Friar.   

Incorporations.  
May 3. John Stokys or Stokes D. of D. of Cambr. and Provincial of the Friars of the Order of St. Austin the Hermit.  
May … Simon Pickering a Carme Bach. of Diu. of this Uniu. and D. of D. of Cambr. was incorp. D. D.  
Dec. … William Spark M. A. of Cambridge.  
Jan. 28. William Heryson M. A. of the Uniu. of Paris.  
Jan. … William Bark M. and an Archdeacon.  
Jan. 29. Edward Burrell M. A. of Paris. Besides several Bach. of Arts of Cambridge.    

An. Dom. 1513.  
An. 5. Hen. 8.  
Chancellor the same.  

Commiss. 

William Fauntleroy  
John Kynton  
John Thornden 

D. D.       

Proctors 

Thomas Mede of Ex. c. Austr.  
Thomas Hobson of Vniu. c. Bor.     

Bach. of Music.  
Oct… Christopher Wood did supplicate for that Degree, but whether he was admitted it appears not.   

Bach. of Arts.  
Jul. 4. Robert Whityndon or Whittington was then admitted Bach. of A. and in the same Congregation Doctor of Grammar and Rhet.  
Thomas Abel was admitted the same day.— See among the Writers under the year 1540  
Oct. 29. John Rogers Quaere.  
Feb. 9 Edward Wotton of Magd. Coll.— He was afterwards an eminent Physician.  
Besides these were about 57 admitted, and about 24 that supplicated for that Degree, that were not this year admitted.   

Doct. of Grammar and Rhetoric.  
July 4. Robert Whityndon the most famous Grammarian of his time, had his head crowned, or his temples adorned with Laurel,— At which time, and the time also when that Degree was completed, it was allowed to him by the venerable Regent's that he might wear a hood lined with silk, but not to be used for the future by any body else. See more among the Writers under the year 1529.   

Bach. of Law.  
Nineteen were admitted in the Canon and about 18 in the Civil Law. Eight also supplicated for the Degree of Bach. of Canon, and about 12 for the Degree of Bach. of Civil Law.   

Master of Arts.  
About 20 were admitted this year, and about eleven that supplicated for the same Degree, among whom was John Ramsey a Canon regular, Nou. 18.— He was afterwards Prior of St. Mary's Coll. in Oxon. the great of which, is almost opposite to the common gate of New Inn. This College was a nursery to train up young Canon regulars in Academical learning.   

Bach. of Physic.  
Apr… Peter Coloniensis Bach. of Arts of the University of Colen and a Student in Physic, was then admitted.— The same year he supplicated to be Doctor of that faculty under the name of Petrus Coloniensis de Nonovigio and Novonigio. Others supplicated for the said Degree of Bach. and one to practise Physic.   

Bach. of Diu.  
June 16. Edward Bocking a Monk of the Order of St. Benedict and now Warden or Guardian of Canterbury College in Oxon.— He was afterwards much concerned in promoting the matter of Elizabeth Barton the holy maid of Kent as the Chronicles will tell you at large. See more in 1518.  
June 20. Edward Hynmersh of the same Order.— He was afterwards Warden or Guardian of Durham College in Oxon.  
Besides these were 7 more admitted, who had all before opposed in Divinity, and eight that supplicated (all of religious Orders) who were not admitted this year.   

Doct. of Civil Law.  
Not one admitted this year, only five supplicated; among whom was John Incent or Innocent of Alls. College who supplicated in July and November, yet not set down as admitted. In a certain writing dated this year, he is written thus. John Incent LL. Bac. Episcopi Winton commissarius, & ejusdem consistorii Episcopalis Praesidens. He became Dean of St. Paul's Cathedral in 1537 in the place of Richard Samson promoted to the See of Lichfield; and about the same time was made Master of the Hospital of St. Cross near Winchester. He founded a Free-school at Berchamsted (the place of his nativity) in Hertfordshire for 120 Scholars to be taught therein, allowing to the Master, Ushers, and School itself, a very ample salary, 33. Hen. 8. The visitor of which is the Warden of Alls. College; and several of its Masters have been of that society. In the old hall belonging to Doctor's Commons near St. Paul's Cathedral, were in one of the Windows his Arms, viz. Argent, on a bend gules a fair and innocent Virgin stark naked, with her hair lose about her shoulders, or; her right hand is extended above her head, holding a Chaplet of roses therein, and her other hand covers her privities.  
The other four who supplicated were (1) Matthew Knightley, (2) Richard Browne, (3) William Marbull, (4) Peter Ligham; all Bachelors of the Civil Law.   

Doct. of Can. Law.  
May 25. Edmund Horde (sometimes by a mistake written Ford) of Allsouls College.— This Person whom I have mentioned among the Civilians in 1510, was about this time a noted Advocate in the Court of Arches, and Procurator of the Charter house near London.  
William Fleshmonger of New Coll.— He was afterwards Dean of Chichester in the place of John Young Bishop of Callipolis (who died 1526) and a Benefactor to New College. See Hist. & Antiq. Vniu. Oxon. lib. 2. p. 131. a.  
There also supplicated for this Degree (1) Ailnoth Arscot sometimes Principal of Perkwaters Inn, now involved within the limits of Christ Church (2) Michael Wogan or Ogan. Both which were Bachelors of the Canon Law.   

Doct. of Diu.  
Apr. ult. William Goderyche.  
May 4. Fr. Henry Osbourne a Dominican.  
13. The ven. Father Hugh Whitehead a Benedictine Monk— In 1512 he succeeded Thomas Castle in the Wardenship or Gardianship of Durham College in Oxon, and in 1524. he succeeded another Thomas Castle in the Priorship of the Church of Durham. See more in the year 1511 among the Doctor of Diu. This Hugh Whitehead living to see his Priory dissolved, he was soon after made the first Dean of Durham by the foundation Charter of King Hen. 8. dat. 12. May, an. reg. 33. Dom. 1541. In which Dignity he was succeeded by Robert Horn of Cambridge, by the donation of King Ed. 6. dat. 20. Nou. an. reg. 5. Dom. 1551. The said Whitehead dying at London was buried in the Church of the holy Trinity called the Minories, but when I cannot yet tell.  
May 15. Kobert Hill of Merton Coll.  

June 27. Fr. 

Thomas Anyday  
Robert Saunderson  
Gilbert Saunders  
John Smythe  
John Brown 

Minorites or Grey-fryers.       
Nou. 19  
Nou. 25. Richard Feries the Provincial of the Carmes or White friars— He was now, or lately, Prior of the Coll. of Carmes in the North suburb of Oxon.  
January 22. John Baker.  
23. Edm. Forest Prior of Langthony.— See among the Bach. of Divinity 1509.  
25. Laurence Stubbes of Magdalen Coll.— Afterwards Precedent of that house in the room of Dr. John Hygden.  
29. John Hygden of Magdalen Coll.— In 1516 he became Precedent of that College, in 1524 Dec. 2. he was admitted Prebendary of Wighton in the Church of York, and the year following Dean of Cardinal College in Oxon. In 1529 he was made Prebendary of Wetwang in the said Church of York, and in 1532 Dean of the Coll. in Oxon. founded by King Henry 8. on the site of that of Cardinal; in which year dying, he was succeeded by Dr. John Oliver in the said Deanery.  
Feb… John Bird a Carme— In the year 1516 he succeeded the aforesaid Richard Feries in the Provincialship of the Carmes, and was at length Bishop of Chester, as I have told you in 1510.  
Four also supplicated this year to be admitted Doctors of Diu. of whom Robert Cheltenham a Benedictine was one, and Simon Mollonde Bach. of Diu. of Mert. College another, but were not admitted. The other two were afterwards admitted as I shall tell you when I come to them.   

Incorporations.  
Jul… John Wythers of Magd. Coll. M. of A. and sometimes Proctor of the University, afterwards made Doctor of the Canon Law by the Pope's Bull, was then incorp. Dr. of the Canon Law.  
Oct… Thomas Hanyball or Hannyball Doctor of the Civil Law of Cambridge— In the year 1504 May 14. he was installed Prebendary of Gevendall in the Church of York upon the resignation of John Hatton Bishop of Nigrepont, and in the year 1514 he became Chancellor of the Diocels of Worcester, in the place of one Rob. Hallesworth Doctor of Decrees, who succeeded Tho. Alcock LL. D. in that office 1508, and Alcock, Tho. Wodyngton Dr. of Dec. 1503. In 1522. (14 Hen. 8.) I find the said Tho. Hanyball to be living in Rome in the quality of the King of England's Orator, and in that of Agent or Factor for Cardinal Wolsey: to the last of which he ever and anon gave an account by Letters of the Affairs of Rome. In one dated 13 Dec. 1522, he told the Cardinal, that his Holiness hath sent for Erasmus Rot. under a fair colour by his brief; and if he come not, I think (saith he) the Pope will not be content, etc. In 1524 the said Dr. Hanyball was made Master of the Rolls in the place of Dr. John Clerk; which honourable Office he keeping till 1528, was succeeded therein by Dr. John Taylor, of whom I shall speak at large in 1522.  
Nou. … Robert Byse or Bysse Dr. of the Civil Law in the Court of Rome.— In the year following (1514) he occurs by the Name of Rob. Bess LL. D. Principal of Henxsey Hall, and in 1524 he became Vicar General to the Bishop of B. and Wells by the death of Roger Church Dec. Doctor and Canon of Wells, as also a great Pluralist in the Dioc. of Wells and elsewhere. He died in the month of Dec. or thereabouts, 1546.  
Nou. 18. William Latymer Bach. of Art of this University, and Mast. of Arts beyond the Seas, was then incorporated M. of A.— Perhaps this William Latymer may be the same whom I have mentioned among the Writers under the year 1545; where you will find another Will. Latymer who was Dean of Peterborough.  
This year also supplicated to be concorporated (1) John Book D. D. beyond the Seas, (2) John Dolman Dr. of Civ. Law of Cambridge, (3) Charles Lucy Bach. of Phys. of Cambridge; but whether any of them were accordingly incorporated, I cannot yet find. I think Dolman was, because his Sup. was granted simpliciter.  
There was also a Supplication made that Richard Master M. A. and Proctor of the University of Cambridge, might be incorporated; but whether granted, I know not. I take this Rich. Master to be the same with him who was a Native of Maidstone in Kent, and Fellow of King's College in Cambridge, where he was esteemed an excellent Philosopher, and the same who was afterwards Bac. of Diu. and Parson of Adlington in Kent, and much concerned in the matter of Eliz. Barton the holy Maid of Kent.    

An. Dom. 1514.  
An. 6 Hen. 8.  
Chanc. the same viz. Dr. Warham Archbishop of Canterbury.  

Commiss. 

John Thornden or Thornton, written this year in the public Reg. Episcopus Syrymensis.  
Lawrence Stubbes D. D. of Magd. Coll.  
Edward Wylsford D. D.  
Hugh Whytehead D. D. etc.     

Proct. 

Leon. Huchenson of Ball. Coll. Bor.  
Tho. Ware of Oriel Coll. Aur. 

Apr. 27.       
The signior was afterwards Master of Vnivers. Coll. and the other Provost of Oriel.  

Grammarians.  

Jul. 3. Tho. Thompson a secular Chaplain.  
Octob. 12. Thom. Bond. 

adm. to inform.     
One John Ball, a Scholar of Grammar, who had spent twelve years in Logic and Grammar, supplicated that he might be admitted to inform, etc. Granted conditionally that he compose an hundred Versus in praise of the University against the Act following, and that in the time of the Act he fasten them on S. Mary's Ch. door; besides other Exercise then imposed on him.  
Also one Thomas Hatton a Scholar of Gram. supplicated to inform, etc. whether granted, I know not.   

Bach. of Arts.  
Jan. 16. William Tresham of Merton Coll.  
Besides him were 20 more admitted at least, and about thirty supplicated that were not admitted this year, among whom was Reginald Pole of Magd. Coll. who was admitted in the year following.   

Bach. of Canon Law.  
Jul. … John Holyman of New Coll.— He was afterwards Bishop of Bristol.  
Besides him, were 30 at least who were admitted, and eight at least who supplicated, among whom were (1) Dermitius de Meara an Irish man, who had studied the Canon Law in this University, in Paris, and in Cambridge 16 years. (2) Dermit. Rian another Irish man, who had studied the said Law in the said Universities 12 years.  
Both these Irish men were afterwards well dignified in their own Country.   

Mast. of Arts.  
About 24 were admitted, and about 12 that supplicated, who were not admitted, this year; yet not one was either a Bishop or a Writer, as I can yet find.   

Bach. of Diu.  
Dec. 10. Fr. John de Castro Banoniensi.  
Jan. 20. Fr. John Harvey a Minorite.— He was now Prior or Guardian of the Coll. of Minorites or Franciscans in the S. Suburb of Oxon. In which Office he succeeded Dr. Goodfield.  
Besides these two, were six more admitted that had before opposed in Divinity; and twelve who supplicated, among whom were (1) Thomas Rowland, sometimes written and called Rowland Penticost, a Monk of the Order of S. Benedict, and now, or soon after, Lord Abbat of Abendon in Berks. (2) Thomas Wells or Wellys, a Monk of the same Order, and afterwards, if I mistake not, Prior pro tempore of Gloc. College near Oxon. See another Thomas Wells among the Incorporations an. 1510.   

Doct. of Law.  
Not one admitted in the Canon or Civil Law, and but one, named Giles Hackluyt LL. B. who supplicated to be D. of Can. Law; and but one, named Thomas Colfox, who supplicated to be D. of Civ. Law.   

Doct. of Phys.  
Not one admitted; only Hen. Marsh Bac. of Arts and Phys. supplicated for that degree May 18.   

Doct. of Diu.  
June… Thomas Ryngstede Monk of S. Edmunds Bury, now a Student in Gloucester Coll.— Two of both his Names have been eminent Authors: one was a Dominican, living in the Reign of K. Edw. 4. the other LL. D. and in great esteem during the Reign of K. Hen. 6. In my searches also I find one Richard Ringsted a Benedictin, who was Prior of the Novices living in Gloc. College in this University 30 Hen. 6. Dom. 1452, and Author of Commentaria super 29 Capitula parabolorum Salomonis, MS. in Bodl. libr. in't. lib. med. 121. The beginning is, In absconditis parabolorum conversabitur, etc. These Commentaries are no more than ordinary Lectures which he read in the Schools at Oxon.  
Oct. 16. Robert Cleyton of Lincoln Coll.  
Mar. 20. Thomas Beel a Canon regular of the Order of S. Austin.— See more of him among the Bishops under the year 1528.  
Besides these, were three that supplicated that were not admitted this year, of whom Rob. Schowldham before mentioned was one, and Rowl. Philipps M. A. an eminent Preacher of his time, afterwards Warden of Mert. College, another,    

An. Dom. 1515.  
An. 7 Hen. 8.  
Chanc. the same.  
Commiss. Edmund Wylsford D. of D. and others.  

Proct. 

John Cottysford of Lincoln  
William Fossey of Allsoules 

Coll.       
Both which were elected together on the first day of Easter Term.  

Grammarians.  
Edward Pole and Henry Harchar Secular Chaplains, did supplicate to inform; but whether they were admitted, it appears not.   

Bach. of Arts.  
June 27. Reginald Pole of Magd. Coll.— He was afterwards a Cardinal, and Archbishop of Canterbury.  
Octob. 10. Rich. Tracy.— See among the Writers under the year 1557.  
Jan. 14. John Holway.— One of both his Names became Prior of Bath an. 1525. as I have told you under the year 1503. Qu. …. 9 James Blythe etc.  
Besides these were about 56 admitted, and about 25 who supplicated, that were not admitted this year.  
On the 18. of December died Will. Gilberd Bach. of Arts of Magd. Coll. who, in his Epitaph in the Chapel of the said Coll. is styled Archidiaconus Salopiae; but the day and year when he was admitted Bach. of Arts, appears not in the public Registers. In a certain Writing 
a In the 〈◊〉 Office near S. Paul's Cath. Ch. in Lond. in Re●. H●●der, Qu. 18. in the Will of Rich Bishop of Hereford.  dated 24 March 1515, (which is a quarter of an year after W. Gilberd died) I find one Mr. Henry Marten to occur Archdeacon of Salop, together with Mr. William Webbe Archdeacon of Hereford and William Porter Chaunter thereof; so that I suppose that the said Marton succeeded in that Dignity William Gilberd.   

Doct. of Music.  
Robert Perrot Bach. of Music, and about this time Organist of Magd. College, supplicated that he might be licenced to proceed in the said Faculty.— His request was granted conditionally that he compose a Mass and one Song, before he really proceed. or stand in the Comitia; but whether he was admitted or licenced to proceed, it doth not appear in the Register. This Robert Perrot, who was the second Son of George Perrot of Haroldston near Haverford West in Pembrokeshire (of an ancient and knightly Family living there) was an eminent Musician of his time, and did compose several Church Services and other Matters, which have been since antiquated. He was a Benefactor to the said College, as his Widow, and his eldest Son Simon afterwards were, and is Ancestor to the Perrots of North-Ley in Oxfordshire, I mean to that Family of the Perrots, (for there are two that live there) who are called Gentlemen Perrots. He gave way to Fare 20 April 1550, and was buried in the North Isle or Alley joining to the Church of S. Peter in the East in Oxon.   

Bach. of Civ. Law.  
Jul. 2. Maurice Byrchensaw the eminent Grammarian.— He was afterwards Prebendary of Wells.  
Jan. 28. Thomas Nightinghall.— Vir lepidus & poeta, as Baleus saith. See among the Writers under the year 1524.  
Besides these two, five were admitted; and about 16 that supplicated, who were not this year admitted.   

Bach. of Can. Law.  
Thirteen were admitted, and eleven there were that supplicated, who were not admitted this year. Many of which were without doubt afterwards Dignitaries in the Church.   

Mast. of Arts.  
June…John Constable of Byham Hall in the Parish of S. John Bapt.— See among the Writers, an. 1520.  
March 5. John Clark of Magd. Coll. Quaere.  
Besides these two, were about 25 admitted; and eleven or more that supplicated, who were not admitted this year.   

Bach. of Diu.  
April 29. Thomas Knolles of Magd. Coll.— In the year 1507 he became Subdean of York upon the promotion of Dr. James Harrington to the Deanery of that Church, and resigning in 1529, (being then Prebendary of Aplethorpe in the said Church) Will. Clifton LL. D. succeeded. See more among the D. of D. an. 1518.  
May 9 John Essex a Benedictin.— He was afterwards Lord Abbot of S. Augustine's at Canterbury.  
Nine besides were admitted, (among whom was Roger Stanford a Benedictin Monk of Worcester, afterwards one of the first Prebendaries there) and about eighteen that supplicated.   

Doct. of Law.  
Not one admitted either in the Canon or Civil Law, and but three that supplicated, viz. William Barow, John Blount and William Middleton.   

Doct. of Physic,  
Not one admitted only Malachias Arthur sometimes a Graduate of Oxon. and afterwards Doctor of Physic of Bononia, supplicated to be admitted to practise in the said Faculty, Oct. 23. which was accordingly granted.   

Doct. of Diu.  
June 10. Nich. Miles or Mylies of Queens Coll.— He was a Benefactor to Learning. See in Hist. & Antiq. Vniu. Oxon. lib. 2. pag. 115. b.  
Dec. 13. Fr. Will. Wetherall Prior of the College of the Friars of the Order of S. Austin the Hermit in Oxon. In the year 1531 I find that he was Provincial of the Austin Friars of England; and whether he was the last that bore that Office, I know not. He is sometimes written, but falsely, Wodiall.— See among the Incorporations this year.  
Jan…. Edmund Smythesby a Canon regular of the Order of S. Austin.— In another place in the Register, he is said among the Bach. of Diu. to be a Friar of the Order of S. Austin.  
Besides these who were admitted Doctors of Divinity, supplicated for the said dagree about 20; among whom were (1) Will. Malvern Lord Abbot of S. Peter's in Gloucester, as the public Register styles him, whom I take to be the same that Jo. Leland 
b In the Transcript of his Itineraries in bib. Bod. fol. 172. 2.  calls Malvern alias Parker late Abbot of Gloucester, who made a Chapel joining to the Church of Gloucester to be buried in. (2) Rob. Showldham or Shulde●m mentioned under the year 1511. He was a Benedictin or Black Monk and now, or soon after, Lord Abbat of S. Saviour or S. Marry Overie in Southwark. Also Tho. Martial a Benedictin, Will. Hoddeson a Dominican, John a Pantry Bac. Diu. and Provost of Queens Coll. John Holder and John Hoper Masters of Arts of Mert. Coll. Tho. Barton and Tho. Selling Bachelaurs of Diu. and Benedictines etc. did supplicate.   

Incorporations.  
Apr…. Tho. Martyr M. A. and Proctor of the University of Cambridge.  
Oct. 26. Fr. Will. Wetheral Bach. of Diu. of Cambridge.— He soon after was admitted Doctor of that Faculty in this University▪ as 'tis before told you.  
Mar….. Will. Clerk M. A. of Cambridge, etc.    

An. Dom. 1516.  
An. 8 Hen. 8.  
Chanc. the same, viz. Dr. William Warham Archbishop of Cant.  
Commiss. Laurence Stubbes D. D. and others.  

Proct. 

Richard Walker of Merton Coll.  
Edmund Grey of New Coll. 

April 2.       

Bach. of Music.  
Not one appears admitted by the negligence of the Scribe. On the 13 of Apr. Hen. Peter or Petre a secular Chaplain who had spent 30 years in Practical and Theoretical Music, supplicated for the degree of Bach. of Music; which being granted, he was without doubt admitted. One John Draper also a Student in the said Faculty, supplicated also, which was granted with one or more conditions.   

Bach. of Arts.  
June 17. James Timbervyle of New Coll.— He was afterwards Bishop of Exeter.  
December 16. Thomas Wylson.— See in 1546 and 53.  
Besides these were about 38 admitted, and about 21 that supplicated, who were not admitted this year.   

Bach. of Law.  
Six in the Canon, and nine in the Civil Law, were admitted.  
Thirteen in the Canon Law supplicated, (who were mostly secular Chaplains) among whom was Richard Newman a Canon regular of the Order of Premonstratenses as the public Regist. saith, and about twelve in the Civil.   

Mast. of Arts.  
June 27. Thomas Abel or Able.— See among the Writers an. 1540  
— John Clerk of Magd. Coll.  
Besides these were about 34 admitted, and about 9 that supplicated, who were not admitted this year.   

Bach. of Diu.  
May 5. James Fitzjames of S. Alban Hall.— This person who was Son of John Fitzjames Kt. Lord Chief Justice of England, was now Chancellor of the Church of Wells, and had several Benefices in that Diocese, whereof the Rectorship of the Collegiate Church of North-Cadbury was one. In 1534 he was made Prebendary of Warmystre in the Church of Wells, and in the same year, by the death of Thomas Lovel Decr. Dr. he was made Subdean of Wells, and Vicar General to the Bishop thereof. He had other Preferments in the Cath. Church of S. Paul in London, given to him by his Uncle Dr. Richard Fitzjames Bishop thereof, was soon after a Doct. of Diu. (but whether of this University it appears not) and died in the beginning of the year 1541.  
Besides him were about four admitted, and about fifteen that supplicated who were not admitted; among whom William York a Canon, and Bac. of Arts, was one.   

Doct. of Can. Law.  

June 21. 

William Burghyll a secular Chaplain.  
John Morrice or Morres.  
Peter Lygham or Lyngham.     
February 7. William Clyfton.— In 1522 he became Succentor of the Church of York, on the death of William Cook; and in May 1529 he was made Subdean of the said Church on the Resignation of Dr. Thomas Knolles. In the former Dignity he was succeeded by Robert Nook 1529, in which year Clyfton resigned, and in the other by Rob. Babthorp D. D. in September 1548, in which year Clifton died. Bapthorp dying in 1570, Edmund Buney succeeded him, whom I have elsewhere mentioned.   

Doct. of Diu.  
Not one admitted, only three or more supplicated, viz. William Wall and William Germyn, Minorites, and Richard Doke, all Bach. of Divinity, whom I shall anon mention.    

An. Dom. 1517.  
An. 9 Hen. 8.  
Chancellor the same.  
Commiss. Mr. Rich. Doke or Duck of Exeter College, now Chaplain to Cardinal Wolsey.  

Proct. 

Thomas Irish of Exon  
Thomas Musgrave of Mert. 

Coll.       

Bach. of Arts.  
Thomas Garret was this year admitted, but the Month or Day when, appears not, because the Register is imperfect; however in the year following he occurs by the Title of Bach. of Arts.— He was afterwards Curate of Honey-lane in London; and being much addicted to the Opinions of Martin Luther, went to Oxon in 1526, and dispersed divers prohibited Books among his Acquaintance and Contemporaries, as Anth. Delaber of S. Alban Hall, afterwards a Civilian of Gloc. College, Nich. Udall and John Diet both of C C C. John Clerk, Hen. Summer, Will. Betts, John Taverner a Musician, of Card. Coll. etc. All which being Lutherans, or Heretics as they were then called, suffered much. At length Thomas Garret, after several Flights from place to place, Sculkings and Imprisonments, was burnt in Smithfield near London, with Dr. Robert Barnes and William Hierome, an. 1541, as John Fox, in his Book of Acts and Monuments of the Church, will at large tell you.  
Between the ending of one Register and the beginning of another, are the Acts of the Congregation of this year wanting, many of which were torn out from the former.   

Mast. of Arts.  
Their Admissions being all wanting in the public Register, I therefore recurred to my MS. Book of Inceptions, and there found that 30 Masters stood in the public Act or Comitia, but none can I yet find, who were afterwards Bishops, Writers, or Men of note.   

Doct. of Civ. Law.  
… Will. Pigman was then admitted Doctor of the Civil and Canon Law.  
Who were Candidates for either, the Register which is imperfect this year, as I have before told you, shows not.   

Doct. of Diu.  
Apr…. Richard Doke or Duck of Exeter Coll.— He was about this time Canon of Exeter Cathedral, and afterwards became Archdeacon of Wilts, and of Salisbury, in which last Dignity I find him to occur 1536. After he was admitted Doctor, he was made Commissary of the University, as I have before told you.  
May… Frat. John de Coloribus a Dominican.— See among the Writers under the year 1525.  
Feb…. Ralph Barnack of New Coll.  
A Supplication was this year made for one Will. Woddysbury a Monk of the Order of S. Benedict, but whether for the degree of Bach. or Doct. of Divinity, it appears not, because the Register of this year, as I have told you, is imperfect. He was elected Lord Prior of Worcester in 1515, in the place of Thom. de Mildenham deceased; and dying in 1518, he was succeeded by one William More, who resigning upon a foresight of Ruin, Hen. Holbeach alias Rants, was elected Prior 13 March 1535, and afterwards became the first Dean of Worcester.    

An. Dom. 1518.  
An. 10 Hen. 8.  
Chancellor, the same.  
Commiss. Rich. Duck D. of D. before mentioned.  

Proct. 

John Stevyns of Oriel  
Roger Dyngley of Allsoules 

Coll.       

Bach. of Arts.  

Jul…. 

Paul Bush.— He was afterwards the first B. of Bristol.  
Thomas Elyot of S. Mary's Hall.  
Thomas Runcorne.— See among the M. of A. 1521.  
John Shene.— See among the M. of A. 1523.     
Jan…. John Hoper or Hooper.— He was afterwards Bishop of Gloucester and Worcester.  
Arthur Cole of Magd. Coll. etc.  
Besides these were about 44 admitted, and many that supplicated the ven. Congregation for Admission.   

Bach. of Can. Law.  
Jul…. John Gryffyth or Gruffyth.— He was afterwards Treasurer of Landaff, Dean of S. Asaph, and a Dignitary in the Church of Salisbury. He concluded his last day in 1559.  
John Stanley was admitted in the same month.— About which time studied in this University Thomas Stanley, who was afterwards Bishop of the Isle of Man.  
Besides these, were about six admitted, and six or more that supplicated.   

Bach. of Can. Law.  
Jul…. Frat. John Gregory a Brother of the Holy Trinity for, or of, the Redemption of Captives.— He was afterwards the last Minister or Perfect of the House or College of the Brethren of the Holy Trinity, situated without the East Gate of the City of Oxford, on the South side.  

Jul…. 

John Skelton— See among the Writers, under the year 1529.  
Thomas Parker— See in these Fasti, 1525.     
Feb. ult. Fath. John Burton Prior of S. Frideswydes Monastery (now Christ Church) in Oxon.  
Richard Gwent of Alls. Coll. was admitted the same day— He was afterwards Archdeacon of London, and Dean of the Arches. See in the year 1524.  
Besides these, were about 16 admitted, and 6 or thereabout that supplicated.   

Mast. of Art.  
Jul…. John Holyman of New Coll.— In the year 1514 he took the degree of Bach. of the Can. Law, and was long after this time made Bishop of Bristol.  
Tho. Stanbridge (of Magd. College) an eminent Grammarian.— He was Brother, or nearly related, to John Stanbridge the most noted Grammarian of his time, was Master of a School at Banbury, much frequented for his sake, and died in 1522.  
Besides these two were about 30 more admitted, and some few that supplicated, and about 40 that stood in two Acts celebrated this year.   

Bach. of Diu.  
Not one admitted, and but about ten supplicated for that degree, among whom were (1) Richard Yaxley a Benedictin Monk, (2) Edward More of New Coll. who was admitted the eighth Warden of Wykeham's Coll. near Winchester 29 Oct. 1526, and dying 1541, was buried in the Choir of the Chapel there. (3) Arnold Guy alias Buckfast a Cistercian Monk of S. Bernard's Coll. in Oxon. He was afterwards Provisor or Perfect of that Coll. and an Abbot (perhaps of Buckfast in Devonshire) as may seem by his Arms, or Rebus of his Name, now or lately in one of the middle Chamber Windows of S. Bernard's, now called S. John Bapt. Coll. wherein is a Crosier thrust thro' a Bucks face palewaies. One William Arnold was the last Abbot of Merevale in Warwickshire, of the Cistercian Order; but what Relation he had to Arnold Guy, I cannot tell.   

Doct. of Civ. Law.  
Feb…. John London of New Coll.— He was about this time Canon of York and Lincoln, afterwards Warden of New Coll. Canon of Windsor, Prebendary of Shipton in the Church of Salisbury, Dean of the Cath. Church of Osney near Oxon, and of the collegiat Chapel of Walingford in Berks. He died in the Fleet Prison at London (having been committed to that place for Perjury) an. 1543, and was succeeded in his Canonry of Windsor by Fr. Mallet D. D. and the King's Chaplain, afterwards Confessor to Qu. Mary and Dean of Lincoln. Of this Dr. London you may read much in the Book of Acts and Monuments of the Church, etc. penned by John Fox, who loads his Memory with a great deal of ill Language.   

Doct. of Can. Law.  
Febr…. Richard Banger or Benger of New Coll. who had been a Candidate for that degree in 1512, was then admitted— He was afterwards Commissary of the University.  
Three there were this year that supplicated to be Doctors of the Can. Law, viz. (1) Robert Bysse Doct. of the Civ. Law, mentioned among the Incorporations, an. 1513. (2) Will. Cleyton Bach. of the Canon, and (3) Lendricus Predi Bach. of the Civil, Law.   

Doct. of Phys.  

June… 

Edward Fynch.  
Thomas Bentley of New Coll.     
I have made mention of Edward Fynch, different I suppose from this Physician, among the Masters of Arts, an. 1504   

Doct. of Diu.  
Tho. Knolles of Magd. Coll. a secular Priest.— See more among the Bach. of Diu. 1515. He was born at Westgaite in Yorkshire, was a learned man, and much followed for his Preaching at Wakefield in Yorkshire, of which place he was Vicar. He gave way to Fate in April 1546, and was buried near to the Graves of his Father and Mother in the South Alley joining to Allhallows Church in Wakefield.  
Will. Patenson a secular Priest.  
Edward Bocking a Benedictin of Canterbury Coll.— I have made mention of him already among the Bach. of Diu. in 1513.  

Fath. 

Will. Germyn  
Will. Wall 

Minorites.       

Fath. 

John Narbury  
Ralph Wedell 

Austin Friars.       
The last of which became Prior of the Coll. of Austin Friars in Oxon in the place of Fa. Will. Wetherall.  
Jan…. Fath. Rob. King a Cistercian Monk, and Abbot of Bruerne in Oxfordshire.— He was afterwards Abbot of Thame in the same County, the last Abbot of Osney near to, and the first Bishop of, Oxford.  

Jan…. Fath. 

John Anyngton  
Roger Neckham 

Benedictines.       
The last of which was a Monk of Worcester, and one of the first Prebendaries thereof. He died 1557.  
Jan…. Edw. Feyld.   

Incorporations.  
Feb…. Francisc. Valentinus a secular Chaplain and Bach. of Arts of the University of Lisbon, was then incorporated B. of A.    

An. Dom. 1519.  
An. 11 Hen. 8.  
Chanc. the same.  

Commiss. 

Ralph Barnack D. D. of New Coll.  
Richard Duck again.     

Proct. 

Thomas Flower of Linc. Coll. Bor.  
Thomas Alyn of Brasn. Coll. Austr. 

May 7.       

Grammarians.  
Jul. 7. Will. Richards.  
Jan. 26. Hen. Sheldon a secular Chaplain.  
Both whom were admitted to inform.— There also supplicated Rich. Williams, Rob. Broke, Humph. Penkeythman a secular Chap. and Rob. Colleys a secular Priest; but whether they were admitted this year, it appears not.   

Bach. of Mus.  
Not one appears admitted, only Tho. Pen a Canon regular, and Tho. Janys or Janes supplicated, which is all I know of them.   

Bach. of Arts.  
Jul. 8. John Filled or Field— I take him to be the Astronomer mentioned among the Writers under the year 1558.  
Besides him were about 46 admitted, and about 24 that supplicated, among whom were Rich. Benese a sec. Chapl. mentioned in Tho. Paynell among the Writers, under the year 1563, and John Clement one of Card. Wolsey's Lecturers.   

Bach. of the Laws.  
June 12. Edmund Bonner of Broadgate Hall, was then admitted Bach. of Canon, and the day following Bach. of the Civil Law.— He was afterwards, thro' divers Preferments, Bishop of London.  
Besides him were but two admitted in the Canon, and eight in the Civil, Law. I find also about four to have supplicated for the former, and but two for the latter.   

Mast. of Arts.  
Jul. 26. Richard ridge.— One of both his Names occurs Abbot of Notley near Long Crendon in Bucks. 26 Hen. 8. Dom. 1534, being, as I conceive, the last Abbot of that place for Black Canons.  
This year about 24 were admitted, and about 9 that supplicated that were not admitted this year.   

Bach. of Diu.  
June 28. Rob. Morwent lately of Magd. Coll. Now Vicepresident of Corp. Christ. Coll.— He was a great Patron of Learning, and was styled in a Sermon preached before the University, Pater patriae literatae Oxoniensis. He was known to, and well beloved of, Rich. Fox Bishop of Winten, who constituted him, for his Fidelity and Prudence, perpetual Vicepresident of his Coll. Homo non tam ipse doctrinae laudibus abundans (as one 
* Laur. Humfred in 〈◊〉 & morte Jo●. 〈…〉. p. 〈◊〉.  saith) quam doctorum fautor & Moecenae. See more in Hist & Antiq. Vniu. Oxon. l. 2. p. 232.  
Jul. 2. William York a Canon regular.— On the 19 of Novemb. 1523, he was admitted Prior of the House of Can. regulars at Taunton in Somersetshire, in the place of Nich. Pepper deceased, by the power of Card. Wolsey, to whom the Patron of that place had granted him leave to nominate a Prior for one turn.  
Oct. 13. Roger Edgeworth of Oriel Coll.  
Besides these three, were six more admitted, and about ten that supplicated for the said Degree, among whom were John Warboys or Gardeboys a Monk of the Order of S. Benedict, and Lord Abbot of Ramsey in Huntingdonshire; and Nich. Pepyr or Pepper, whom I have mentioned in 1506 and here among these Bachelaurs of Divinity.   

Doct. of Can. Law.  
Not one admitted, only Tho. Lloyd LL. B. and Tho. Wise Bach. of the Civil Law supplicated, whom I cannot, in any of the years after, find admitted.   

Doct. of Diu.  
Not one admitted or licenced to proceed, only six supplicated for that degree, viz. (1) Richard Evesham a Benedictin Monk. (2) William Wall a Canon regular and Prior of Kenelworth. (3) John Goodridge, (4) Matthew Smyth Principal of Brasnose College. (5) Robert Law or Low a Carme. (6) Gilb. Rose an Austin Friar. All which were Bachelaurs of Divinity.   

Incorporations,  
May… Bernard Traves Bach. of the Civil Law of the University of Colen.  
This year was a Supplicat made that William Butts Doct. of Physic of Cambridge, might be incorporated; but whether he was so, or not, I cannot find. He was afterwards Physician to King Hen. 8. and one of the College of Physicians at London, in whose Records he is highly characterized for his eminent Learning and Knowledge, his singular Judgement and great Experience. This Person who was Knighted by the said King by the name of William Butts of Norfolk, died 17 Novemb. 1545, and was buried in the Church of Fulham near to London. He is much extolled for his Learning by divers Authors who lived in his time; and Bishop John Parkhurst hath several Epigrams on him.    

An. Dom. 1520.  
An. 12 Hen. 8.  
Chanc. the same.  

Commiss. 

Will. Broke or Brook Doct. of Decrees, and Warden of Allsoules' College.  
Rich. Benger Doct. of Decrees of New Coll. and ordinary Reader of the Decretals.     

Proct. 

John Booth of Brasnese Coll. Bor.  
George Croftys of Oriel Coll. Aust. 

Apr….       

Grammarians.  

Jul. 15. Rog. Bostock  
Mar. 18. 

Dau. Owen  
Gilb. Beaumond 

Secular Chaplains.       
Whether they were very eminent in their Profession, I know not.   

Bach. of Arts.  
Nou. 9 John Warner of Allsoules Coll.— See in 1535.  
Jan. 21. Walt. Buckler.— See in 1534.  
Jan. ult. John Robyns of Allsoules Coll.— Afterwards an eminent Astronomer.  
Mar. 18. Tho. Robertson of Magd. Coll. the Grammarian.  
This year 55 or more Bach. of Arts were admitted, and about 22 supplicated, who were not admitted.  
In the latter end of March in the beginning of this year, is mention made in the public Register of Thomas Lupset Bach. of Arts, and Cardinal Wolsey's Rhetoric Lecturer. See more in the next year.   

Bach. of Law.  
Nine were admitted in the Canon Law, of whom John Southwode was one (afterwards Fellow of Wykeham's College near Winchester, and Canon residentiary of Wells) and as many in the Civil Law.   

Mast. of Arts.  
June 26. James Turbervyle of New Coll.  
Jul. 3. John Heart or Hart— If the addition of Benedictin Monk had been set to his Name, I should have taken him to be the same John Hart who succeeded Richard Wraxhall in the Abbatship of Athelney in Somersetshire, about 1524. But I take the said John Heart who was Mast. of Arts, to be the same with him who became perpetual Fellow of New Coll. an. 1513, and was afterwards an eminent Schoolmaster.  
Jul. 11. Will. Tresham of Merton Coll.  
March 15. John Rogers. Quaere.   

Bach. of Diu.  
Six admitted, of whom Richard Gloucester and John Newbolt, Benedictines, were two; and about 23 supplicated who were not admitted this year; among whom were John Perrot a Minorite, Thomas Hill B. of A. and a Bonhome, etc.   

Doct. of Civ. Law.  
Jul. 6. John Leffe of New Coll.— He was afterwards Warden of the College at Maidstone in Kent, Vicar General, and Keeper of the Spirituality to Dr. Warham Archbishop of Canterbury, and Master of the Hospital of S. Cross near to Winchester. He died 19 Aug. 1557, aged 66, and was buried in the Chapel belonging to Wykeham's Coll. near to the said City, of which Coll. he was Fellow.  
For the said Degree supplicated Edward Orange LL. B. and for the Degree of D. of Canon Law supplicated two, who were afterwards admitted.   

Doct. of Diu.  
Jan… Leonard Huchenson Master of Vnivers. Coll.  
Jan. ult. Robert Law or Low a Carme, now Prior of the College of Carmes in the North Suburb of Oxon.— In 1505 he was made Provincial of the Carmes in the place of John Vind or Wind; which honourable Office he keeping about 17 years, was succeeded in it by Rich. Feries.  
Feb. 11. Thomas Mole or Molle a Carme.  
25. Thomas Francis a Minorite or Franciscan.  
There also supplicated for the said Degree John Burgeiss Bach. of Divinity of Magdalen College, who was elected Precedent of that House upon Dr. Laurence Stubbes his resignation an. 1527, and by the name of Precedent he doth occur in a Deed or Writing dated 10 Jul. the same year, but soon after being removed, Dr. Richard Knolles was elected. Others there were that supplicated, who were afterwards admitted, except one Mabot Bac. of Diu.   

Incorporations.  
May… Father Robert Miles a Dominican, Doctor of Divinity of Cambridge.  
Oct…. Fernandus or Ferdinandus de Victoria Doctor of Physic (beyond the Seas) now Physician to King Hen. 8. and the Queen Consort. He, Dr. Thomas Lynacre, and Dr. John Chambre, were the first Founders of the College of Physicians at London.  
Oct…. William Arden a Dominican or Black Friar, Prior elect of the College or Convent of the Black Friars in the South Suburb of Oxon, and D. of D. in the Court of Rome.  
Feb…. Thomas Wellys or Wells Master of Arts of this University and Doctor of Divinity elsewhere.— Whether he be the same with Thomas Wellies mentioned in the Incorporations under the year 1510, I know not.  
This year, the month I cannot tell, I find that there was a kind of a Supplicate made for one Magnus a Doctor beyond the Sea, to be incorporated here, but in what Faculty, I cannot yet discover. This Person was the same with Thomas Magnus who was a Foundling at Newark upon Trent in Nottinghamshire, and had the Surname 
a Camden in his Remains, printed 163●. p. 14●. among the Surnames.  of Among us given to him, as being maintained among certain People there; or, as some say, by certain Yorkshire Clothiers, who occasionally traveled that way early in the Morning and first found him. At length being brought up in Literature in one of the Universities in England, became so much noted to King Henry 8. that he was by him not only promoted to several Dignities, but sent Ambassador into various Countries; whereupon he was, by the generality of People, called Dr. Magnus, and by some Magnus Doctor. Among several Embassies that he was employed in, was that into Scotland an. 1524, where he was employed as the King's Agent to procure his business, and to incline the young Kings eat towards him, as also to give intelligence, etc. Among the Dignities he enjoyed were (1) The Archdeaconry of the East-Riding of Yorkshire, to which he was collated in June, 1504 upon the promotion of Dr. Richard Mayhew to the See of Hereford. (2) The Sacristship of the Chapel of our Lady and the holy Angels at York, to which he was collated in Dec. the same year. (3) A Canonry in the Church of Windsor, an. 1520, which he resigning in the latter end of 1547 was succeeded by Dr. Richard Cox. (4) The Mastership of the hospital of St. Leonard at York, etc. And among the benefices he had, was the rectory of bedal in Yorkshire one. Towards his latter end he founded a Free-school in the place of his nativity, which he well endowed; and paying his last debt to nature at Sesay or Sessay in Yorkshire 27. Aug. or thereabouts, in 1550, was buried in the Church there. Whereupon John Dakyn LL. D. was installed in his Archdeaconry of the East-riding, 13. April 1551. I have seen a copy of his last Will and Test. dated 8. March 1549. and proved 30. Apr. 1551, wherein he desires that if he die at his house at Sybthorp, or nigh those parts, to be buried in the Trinity Isle of the Church of Newark upon Trent, afore the midst of the altar there, for there he was baptised, etc. He makes mention therein of his singular good Lord and Master Savage sometimes Archbishop of York and his singular good Lord the Earl of Wilts. and Lord Treasurer of England.    

An. Dom. 1521.  
An. 13. Hen. 8.  
Chanc. the same, viz. Dr. Warham Archbishop of Canterbury.  
Commiss. Richard Benger D. of Dec.  

Proct. 

Henry Tyndall of Merton College Bor.  
John Wild Austr. 

April 17.       

Grammar.  

May 12. John Kendal  
13. Richard Guissoll  
Jul. 8. Henry Gold. 

Sec. Chaplain.     
One George Martial did also supplicate, but was not admitted. Qu.   

Bach. Music.  
Feb… John Sylvester did supplicate, and was, as it seems admitted in that month, being at the same time accounted very eminent in his profession.   

Bach. of Arts.  
About 60 were admitted, and about 29. supplicated who were not admitted this year.  
Jul. 8. John Mason, about this time Probationer-Fellow of Allsouls Coll. was then admitted.— He was born at a market town called Abendon in Berks, the son of a Cowherd, by his Wife, the Sister of a Monk at that place. Which last Person finding him very apt to learn, he caused him to be trained up in Grammaticals and Academicals in this University, where he obtained for him a Fellowship in the said Coll. of Alls. Soon after, his pregnant and acute parts being taken notice of by great Persons, he was upon the motion of Sir Thomas More, sent by the King to the University of Paris to be accomplished with other parts of learning. After his return thence, he became a favourite to K. Hen. 8. who employed him in several Embassies and made him one of his Privy Council. After that King's death he was made a Privy-counselor to K. Ed. 6. and though he was a Knight, and a perfect Layman, yet he enjoyed several Church Dignities, or as one 
a 〈…〉. an. 1566.  saith, he was a great intruder into Ecclesiastical Livings. Among which the Deanery of Winchester Cathedral was one, installed therein, in the place of William Kingesmyll the last Prior of St. Swithins Monastery there, and the first Dean of the said Cathedral, in the third of Ed. 6. Dom. 1549. In 1552 he succeeded Dr. Richard Cox in the Chancellourship of this University: which honourable office he keeping till 1556, did then resign it purposely to make room for Cardinal Pole then designing to visit, and to do great matters for, it. He was also a Privy Counsellor to Queen Mary, and much respected by her, but did not hold any Ecclesiastical Dignity in her Reign, as I can yet learn. For giving up the Deanery of Winchester in the first year of her Reign, Dom. 1553. Edmund Steward LL. D. of Cambridge, was then installed, and kept it till 1559. After her death, he became a Privy Counsellor to Queen Elizabeth, and in 1559 was elected Chanc. of this University again, being then Treasurer of the Queen's Chamber, and Master of the Hospital in Abendon, (the erection of which he had before procured, as also the Incorporation of that Town) but whether a possessor of any Dignity in the Church in her Reign, I find not. He paid his last debt to nature 20. Apr. 1566, and was buried in the North Chancel, or the North Isle joining to the Chancel of the Cathedral Ch. of St. Paul in London; whereupon Sir Franc. Knollis Knight succeeded him in the Treasurership of the Qu. Chamber. Soon after was a large Epitaph set over his grave; which, though since consumed, yet his memory lives among the learned Men in the Encomia 
b Edit. London, 1589. p. 5●.  illustrium virorum, penned by John Leland.   

Bach. of Civ. Law.  
Mar. 3. William Roberts— he was afterwards Archdeacon of Merionithshire and Principal of New Inn. In a certain Register he is styled 
c In reg. 〈…〉  Archd. of Monmouth, 1528.  
Four admitted in the Can. and about 9 in the Civ. Law.  
Three supplicated in the former and as many in the latter.   

Mast. of Arts.  
June 19 Thomas Lupset who had studied four years at Paris and Oxon, was then admitted M. of A.  
Jul. 5. Thomas Runcorne— He was afterwards made Provost of the Collegiate Church of St. Elizabeth (Daughter of the King of Hungary) founded in the time of Ed. 1. in the meadow of St. Stephen, situate before, and opposite to, the gates of Wolvesey Castle near to Winchester. This Thomas Runcorne surrended the said Coll. into the hands of K. Hen. 8. and thereupon he was made one of the first Prebendaries of the Cath. Church of Winchester. Afterwards the King granted the said Coll. and its site to Thomas Lord Writh●ousley, who sold it to the Warden and Fellows of Wykeham's Coll. near to Winchester for 360 l. provided that they either make the Church there a Grammar School for 70 Persons to be taught therein, or to pull it down to the ground before Penticost an. 1547. Which last they did sooner than the first, because it should not be prejudicial to their School. This Thomas Runcorne was a learned Man, and among the learned Men of his time is he remembered by Leland in his Encomia beforemention'd, p. 67.   

Bach. of Diu.  
Dec. 7. Father Richard Stopys or Stops Abbot of Meaux or Melsa in Yorkshire of the Cistercian Order, now studying in St. Bernard's College.  
Fa. William Thryske Abbot of Fountains in the Dioc. of York, was admitted the same day.  
Fa. William Hestyngton Abbot of Roche in Yorkshire of the Cluniac or Cistercian Order was admitted the same day, being then of St. Bernard's Coll.  
Feb. 6. John….. Prior of the Order of the Dominicans— See in an. 1532.  
Besides these were 8 at least admitted, and 12 at least that supplicated; all whom, except two, were of religious Orders.  
Several also were admitted to oppose in Divinity, that were not admitted Bach. of that faculty; among whom were Father Rich. Wyche of whaley a Cistercian Monk now studying in St. Bernard's College.   

Doct. of Law.  
Not one admitted either in the Can. or Civ. Law, and only Will. Lytherlond. Bach. of the Can. Law supplicated to be admitted Doctor of that faculty, and John Noble before mentioned, supplicated to be admitted Dr. of the Civ. Law.   

Doct. of Physic.  
Jul. 3. Thomas Moscroff or Musgrave of Mert. Coll.— In 1522 he was Card. Wolsey's Physic reader in, and in 1523 he was Commissary of, the University, being then a Student in Divinity; and on the eleventh of March the same year he did supplicate the ven. Congregation of Regent's, that it might be dispensed with him from circuiting and certain exercises preceding, if so be it should happen that he should be admitted to the reading of the Sentences. The reason for this was because he was Commissary, and that it did not become a Doctor to circuit for an inferior Degree. This supplication was granted conditionally that he Preach a Sermon in the Church of St. Peter in the East. Afterwards, his exercise being all performed, as twice answering in the Schools and 4 times Preaching in St. Mary's Ch. (all done in the space of one year) he was admitted to the reading of the Sentences, that is to the Degree of Bach. of Divinity by Dr. John Young Bishop of Callipolis and Warden of New Coll. in the presence of 8 Doctors of Divinity. In 1527 he would have proceeded in that faculty, but was prevented by death.   

Doct. of Diu.  
June 3. Fr. David Williams a Minority, or Franciscan, or Grey friar.  
Three also supplicated for the said Degree, viz. Richard Stubbes, William White, and William Curters a Minorite, all Bachelaviss of Divinity.   

Incorporations.  
May… Patrick Gower M. of A. of Paris and Cambridge.  
Nou…. John rain LL. D. of Cambridge.  
Nou. 25. George Thyle B. A. of Colen.  
Mar. 3. Henry Marsh Dr. of Phys. by authority of the Pope's Bull, was then Incorporated.— In the year 1514 Mar. 26. he was admitted to practise Physic by the ven. Congreg. of Regent's of this University.  
16. John Crayford M. A. of Cambridge— He had been lately of Qu. Coll. in that University, from whence being ejected he went to Oxon. and was made Fellow of Vniu. College. See in 1546. among the Incorporations.  
In January one Edward Pennant Bach. of Can. Law of Cambridge supplicated to be incorporated, but whether granted I find not. See more in Hen. Morgan among the Bishops.— One John Pennant Doct. of Dec. and Chancellor to the Bishop of bath and Wells was constituted by him the said Bishop his Vicar General in the beginning of June 1526, and died in Apr. or May 1529.  
This year, but the day or month I know not, was a supplicate made in the behalf of Richard Samson sometimes of Trin. hall in Cambridge, to be incorporated LL. D. but whether he was so, it appears not, and therefore I shall only say these matters of him, that he had that Degree conferred upon him beyond the Seas, was incorporated at Cambridge the last year, was installed Dean of Windsor by proxy 14. Nou. 1523, being then in remote parts about the King's affairs; made Dean of St. Paul's Cathedral about 1530, Dean of Lichfield in 1532, Treasurer of the Church of Sarum, 16. Mar. 1534, Bishop of Chichester in 1536, translated thence to Lichfield in 1543, and published several books, which show him to have been a learned Man, the titles of which you may see in the Oxford Catalogue. He did at Eccleshall in Staffordshire (the seat belonging to the B. of Lichfield) on the 25. Sept. 1554.  
In like manner was such another supplicate made for Gamaliel Clifton Doctor of Decrees, Canon of Windsor and the King's Chaplain, but no appearance there is that he was really incorporated. He was afterwards Dean of Hereford, and dying in 1541, had for his successor in that Deanery, if I mistake not, Dr. Hugh Curwyn, who before had Preached zealously for the King's divorce from Queen Catherine.    

An. Dom. 1522.  
An. 14. Hen. 8.  
Chancellor the same.  
Commiss. Dr. Benger.  

Proct. 

Thomas Canner of Magd.  
Richard Crispyne of Or. 

Coll.       
Which Proctors, though elected about Michaelmas, yet they took not their places till 27. Oct. following, occasioned by a controversy that happened in the election of them. See Hist. & Antiq. Vniu. Oxon. lib. 1. p. 248.  

Bach. of Arts.  
Mar. 31. John Beconsau of New Coll. the famed Grecian of his time.  
May 27. George Cotes of Ball. Coll.— He was afterwards B. of Chester.  
Jul. 21. David Talley or Tolley the noted Grammarian of St. Mary's hall.  
Seventy in all, or more, were admitted, and about 22 supplicated for the said Degree, who were not admitted.  
This year was a supplicate made for George Carew (of Broadgates' hall as it seems) to have the Degree of Bach. of Arts conferred on him, but whether he was really admitted, having spent about 4 years in the University, it appears not. This Person being the younger Son of a Baron, (descended from the carew's of Pembrokshire) retired afterwards to the royal Court, and married, but soon after burying his Wife to his great grief, traveled beyond the Seas, and improved his knowledge as to Men and Manners very much. After his return, he took holy Orders, was made Archdeacon of Totness, and if I mistake not, either Prebend or Canon of Exeter. In 1552 he was constituted Dean of Bristol in the place of one John Whiteheare, who, in the year before, had succeeded William Snow the first Dean; and in the beginning of July 1555 was made Preb. of Ilfarcomb in the Church of Salisbury. In the beginning of Aug. 1556 he was made Preb. of Netherbury in Ecclesia in the same Church; and in the same year, notwithstanding he had been deprived of the Prebendship of Barton in the Ch. of Wells, an. 1554, (1. and 2. of Ph. and Mar.) yet he was made Preb. of Dultingcote in the same Church, on the resignation of William Thynne, and double beneficed in the Dioc. of Wells during the Reign of Queen Mary. On the 27. of Oct. 1558 he became Chaunter of the Church of Salisbury, and in 1559 (Qu. Elizabeth being then in the Throne,) he was made Dean of the Queen's Chapel, Dean of Windsor, Dean of Ch. Ch. in Oxon, and about that time Master of the Savoy Hospital. In 1560 he became Dean of Bristol again, upon the going away of Hen. Jolliff, who had enjoyed it most of Qu. Mary's Reign, and about the same time was made Dean of Exeter and Rector of Silverton in Devon. In 1561 he gave up his Deanery of Ch. Ch. and was succeeded therein by Thomas Samson a Nonconformist. In 1572 he resigned the Deanery of Windsor, with a Canonry in that Church, being then succeeded in the former by Will. Day Bach. of Diu. and in 1580 he resigned the Deanery of Bristol, wherein he was succeeded by John Sprint; but when he resigned that of Exeter, I cannot tell. He finished this mortal life in 1585. aged 85 and was buried in the Church of St. Giles in the fields near London, leaving then behind him a Son named George, afterwards Earl of Totness, and another named Peter, a Knight.   

Bach. of Civ. Law.  
Jul. 21. Richard Parker a compounder, or one that paid double, or treble fees for his Degree, as having a temporal estate, or a rich Dignity, or Dignities.  
Feb. 4. John Fox Archdeacon of Winchester— On the same day he was also admitted Bach. of the Can. Law. See more among those following.  
Besides these two, were about 22 admitted; among whom was Thomas Day of Alls. Coll. who was afterwards constituted the second Canon of Osney, when first founded by K. Hen. 8. and in few years following was by him made the first Canon of the third Prebendship of Ch. Church, at what time Osney was translated thereunto. He died in Feb. 1567., and was buried on the 22. of the same month in the Cathedral of Ch. Ch.  
Six also, or thereabouts supplicated for the said Degree, that were not admitted this year.   

Bach. of Can. Law.  
Jul. 10. Henry Morgan— He was afterwards Bishop of St. David's.  
Feb. 4. John Fox Archdeacon of the Dioc. of Winchester and Preb. of Roscombe in the Church of Salisbury.— I take him to be the same John Fox who was afterwards made Fellow of C. C. Coll. by the Founder thereof. For in the Catalogue of Scholars and Fellows of that house made by Rob. Hag, (whom I have mentioned among the writers under the year 1629.) I find one John Fox a Londoner born, to be put in Fellow there 1523, being then, or about that time Archdeacon of Surrey, as the said Catalogue tells us. As for Fox beforemention'd, who was Bach. of Can. Law, being nearly related to Fox Bishop of Winchester, became Archdeacon of that place in 1519 upon the resignation of one Hugh Ashton, and he upon the resignation of John Frost 1511, and he upon the resignation of Rob. Frost, 1502, who succeeded Dr. John Morton that was afterwards Archb. of Canterbury.  
Besides these two were about 18 admitted, among whom was Antho. Draycot, besides six or more that supplicated.   

Mast. of Arts.  
Mar. 28. Nich. Goldwell. Quaere.  
Feb. 10. Rich. Corren or Curwyn— See among the D. D. 1531.  
20. Nich. Cracher or Kratzer a Bavarian— See among the Incorporations following.  
Besides which, were 25 more admitted, and about 4 that supplicated.  
Within the compass of this year were three Acts celebrated in St. Mary's Church, viz. the first on the last of March, wherein stood nineteen, the second on the 21. July, wherein stood nine, and the third on 23. March, wherein stood twelve, Masters of Arts.   

Bach. of Diu.  

Jun. 4. Fa. 

Richard Saleherst  
Dionys. dalliance  
Robert Glastenbury 

Benedictines.       
21. Rich. Thornden a Benedictine Monk— He was afterwards Suffragan Bishop of Dover.  
26. John Ramsey a Canon regular— This Person who is some years beforemention'd among the Bach. of Arts, was afterwards Prior of the Coll. of Canon regulars in Oxon, commonly called St. Mary's Coll.  
Jul. 17. Rich. Mawdley or Mawdleu Archdeacon of Leycester.— See among the D. of D. 1529.  
Six or more were besides them admitted, and 12 that supplicated.   

Doct. of Civ. Law.  
June 23. John Oliver— In Feb. 1532 he succeeded Dr. John Hygden in the Deanery of the Coll. founded at Oxon. by K. Hen. 8. and dying in Doctors Commons at London in the month of May, or thereabouts, an. 1552, lest much of his substance to pious uses. On the 2 of June the same year, (he being then dead) Leonard Bilson succeeded him in the Prebendship of Teynton Regis with Yalmeton in the Church of Salisbury.  
John Feyter of Alls. Coll. was admitted the same day.  
John Trego●well sometimes of Broadgates, afterwards Principal of Vine, hall alias Peckwaters' Inn, was admitted also the same day (June 23.)— He was an eminent and learned Man in his profession, and therefore was employed to be Proctor for K. Hen. 8. in that long and costly cause of his divorce from Qu. Catherine; wherein showing himself very diligent, was by him Knighted, and for an inconsiderable sum of money, had settled on him and his heirs for ever the rich demesne and site of the mitred Abbey of Milton alias Middleton for Benedictine Monks in Dorsetshire. He gave way to fate in the latter end of the year 1564 (7. Elizab.) and was buried in the Church there.   

Doct. of Can. Law.  
June 23. Father John Burton a Canon Regular, Prior of St. ●rideswydes Monastery in, afterwards Abbot of Osney near to, Oxford.  
John Prynne a Secular Chaplain was admitted the same day—. He was afterwards Subdean and Can. resident. of Lincoln, and dying 29. Apr. 1558, was buried in the Cathedral Church of Lincoln.  
Anthony Draycot lately Principal of White hall (involved afterwards within the limits of Jesus Coll.) and of Pirye hall adjoining, was admitted also the same day— In 1542 he was made Archdeacon of Stow in the place of Edward Darbye sometimes of Linc. Coll. deceased, and in the year following Archdeacon of Huntingdon in the place of Dr. Richard Gwent deceased. He was Chancellor for a time to Dr. Longland Bish. of Linc. and to Dr. Ralph Bayne Bish. of Lichfield, in which Offices he acted much against the Protestants, as John Fox in his book of Acts and Monuments of the Church etc. will tell you. In the beginning of Qu. Elizabeth's Reign he was committed Prisoner to the Fleet, and suffered much upon account of Religion. Nich. Saunders tells 
a In Visib. Monarch. edit. 1592. lib. 7. pag. 666.  us that one Draycot Archdeacon of York, was ejected from that Dignity, or left it of his own accord in the beginning of Qu. Elizabeth, but I find no such Man in my Catalogue of Archdeacon's of that place, which is punctually made from the registers of the Church of York.   

Doct. of Diu.  
Jul. 3. Fath. Peter Lee a Monk of the Order of St. Benedict.  
This year Jun. 2. Rowland Philips M. of A. supplicated for the Degrees of Bach. and Doctor of Divinity, and was, as it seems, admitted. Soon after, by the power of the Archbishop of Canterbury he was thrust in Warden of Merton College. He was now Vicar of Croyden in Surrey, one of the Canons of Paul's, a famous and notable Preacher and a forward Man in the Convocation of the Clergy, an. 1523, in acting and speaking much against the payment of a Subsidy to the King.   

Incorporations.  
May 2. George Henneage Bach. of the Canon Law of Cambridge, Archdeacon of Oxford and Chaplain to John Bishop of Lincoln.— With him it was then dispensed that he might 
b Reg. Congreg. H. fol. 81. a.  uti palliis ac sumptuoso omni vestitu, pellibus ac serico pertinent. In Apr. 1521 he was installed Archdeacon of Oxford on the death of Christoph. Vrswyke, in 1528 he became Dean of Lincoln on the death of John Constable, who died 15. July in the same year, and in 1542 Archdeacon of Lincoln upon the attainder of Richard Pates, I mean him who was afterwards B. of Worcester. This G. Henneage died in 1549 and was buried in the Cath. Ch. of Linc. near to the tomb of Mr. Sim. Fotherbie, sometimes Chanc. of that Church, directly before the image of the Virgin Mary without her Chapel. In the Archdeaconry of Line. succeeded Nich. Bullyngham in Sept. 1549. and the same year succeeded John Tayler D. D. in the Deanery.  
Feb. 18. Nich. de Burgo a Minorite, Bach. of Divinity of the University of Paris— He was an Italian born, did succeed Dr. Tho. Brynknell in the reading of Card. Wolsey's Divinity Lecture, lately erected in this University: And when the matter of the divorce of K. H. 8. from Qu. Catherine was in agitation in the University, he showed himself so forward for it, that the Women of Oxon did not only scold at him publicly, but threw stones after him as he passed along the street. Whereupon complaining of their rudeness, thirty of them were the next day imprisoned in Bocardo where they continued 3 days and as many nights. I find one Nicholaus Italus to be Sub-commissary of this University in Aug. 1534. whom I take to be the same with Nich. de Burgo beforemention'd, a very learned Man of his time.  
Feb. 19 Nich. Cracher or Kratzer Bach. of Arts of Colen and Wittenburgh.  
In the month of May one John Taylor Dr. of Decrees and of the sacred Canons beyond the Seas, having been lately incorporated at Cambridge, supplicated for incorporation in this University, which being granted, he was, as it seems, taken into the bosom thereof— This Person who was Archdeacon of Derby and Bucks. and had been Rector of Sutton Colfield in Warwickshire was Clerk of the Parliaments that sat in 1515. (7. Hen. 8.) and prolocutor of the Convocation of the Clergy that was dissolved 21. Dec. the same year. In which Parliaments and Convocation, arose those most dangerous seditions between the Clergy and Seculars concerning several Ecclesiastical Liberties. In 1528. the said Dr. Taylor, who had been employed in several Embassies beyond the Seas, succeeded Thomas Hanyball in the Mastership of the Rolls, and dying in 1534, was succeeded in that office by Thomas Cromwell. This Dr. Taylor who was a learned Canonist, and a Statesman, was born (being the Son, I suppose, of a Tailor) in a poor Cottage at Barton, in the Parish of Tatinhills in Staffordshire, and being the eldest of the Tremelli, which his Mother had at one birth, were by command of the King, to whom they were presented 
* See in The natural history of Staffordshire written by Dr. Robert P●ot, cap. 8. pag. 277. 296.  as he road in hunting in that Country, carefully educated in good Letters. Afterwards in gratitude to the place that gave him birth, he built a fair Chapel upon, or near, the site where the Cottage stood. In his rectory of Sutton Colfield succeeded George Henneage beforemention'd.    

An. Dom. 1523.  
An. 15. Hen. 8.  
Chancellor, the same.  
Commiss. Tho. Moscroff or Musgrave M. D. now, or lately, Fellow of Merton Coll.  

Proct. 

Tho. Canner again  
Edm. Campion 

Apr. 19       
The Senior was soon after preferred to be one of the first Canons of Cardinal Coll. (of which he became Subdean 1527.) and the other who was of Linc. Coll. had a Dignity soon after conferred upon him.  

Grammarians,  
Mar. 14. Jam. Davenport a Secular Chaplain.  
One Joh. Wooddys another Sec. Chapl. supplicated to be admitted to inform, but whether he was so, it appears not.   

Bach. of Arts.  
Dec. 15. Richard Pates or Patys of Corp. Ch. Coll.— He was afterwards through several preferments Bishop of Worcester.  
Besides him were about 52 admitted, many of which were afterwards Prebendaries and Canons, and but four who supplicated.   

Bach. of Civ. Law.  
Oct. 27. Petrus Garsias de La● M. of A. of the University of Parmuse, and about this time a Lecturer or Canon of Cardinal Coll. in Oxon. was then admitted Bach. of the Civil Law.  
Feb. 8. John Lawrence of Alls. Coll.— He was afterwards made Archdeacon of Wiltshire, upon the deprivation of John Pollard, 10. Aug. 1554. being the second year of Qu. Mary. He died in 1568, having before been deprived of his Archdeaconry. See in an. 1578. among the Doctors of Law.  
Feb. ult. Tho. Lloyd of Alls. Coll.— He was about this time Chauntor of St. David.  
John Price of the same Coll. was admitted on the same day— See in 1532.  
Besides these, were 4 admitted in the Civil, and about as many in the Canon, Law. Four also supplicated for the former, and as many for the other.   

Mast. of Arts.  
March 9 John Sheyne— Perhaps the same Sheyne an Irish Man who wrote a book De republica. See among the Writers in Rich. Shaghens, an. 1570.  
Besides him were 24 admitted, among whom John Tooker, Rich. Champion and John Pierson Canons of Cardinal Coll. were of the number, and about 3 that supplicated.   

Bach. of Physic.  
Jul. 21. Will. Freeman M. of A.— The same day he was admitted to practice. See under the year 1526.   

Bach. of Diu.  
Ten at least were admitted, among whom were Robert Wratton, Richard Mychell, Robert Norbury, etc. Benedictine Monks, Thomas Krikham a Minorite, Nicholas Cartwright, Anthony Mo●●neaux, etc.  
Among these must not be forgotten William Hyberden (of Exeter Coll. as it seems) who was admitted 23. Nou. having been before, as 'tis said in the public register, Bach. of the Canon Law. He was in these times, and especially after, a most eminent Preacher, a Person of great devotion and of devout fasting, and being a most zealous Bigot for the Church of Rome; did, while he was beneficed in, or near, Bristol, make it his sole employment to preach against the heretics, as they were in his time so called, viz. Luther, Melancthon, Zwinglius, John Fryth, William tindal, Hugh Latimer, etc. When King Ed. 6. reigned, he withdrew, and continued silent as much as he durst, but when Queen Mary came to the Crown, he made it his sole employment to ride about the Country and Preach in every Church, that he approached, against them. See more of him in John Fox his book of Acts and Monuments of the Church, under the year 1555, where you will find him called by him by the name of Hubberdin an old Divine of Oxford.  
Seven also there were that supplicated for the said Degree of Bach. of Diu. among whom were William Basin a Benedictine, Father Philip Davyes a Dominican, William Swadell of the same Order, etc.   

Doct. of Can. Law.  
Jan. 29. William Cuffold of New Coll. a learned Canonist. Not one besides was admitted, nor one that supplicated.   

Doct. of Diu.  
Apr. 24. Fr. John Mawdley or Maudlyn a Dominican or Preaching Friar.  
June 17. Fr. Richard Cromer an Austin Friar— He is styled in his admission Compositor that is a Compounder, because he paid double, or treble, fees for his Degree, being then, as it should seem, a rich Dignitary.  
Feb. 7. Nich. de Burgo a Minorite— He is mentioned in the Incorporations in the beforegoing year.   

Incorporations.  
Oct. 26. Johan. Lud●vicus Vives LL. D. beyond the Seas, was then incorporated, being this year a Lecturer in Oxon. as I have told you among the Writers, under the year 1544.  
In the same month of Oct. Richard Wolman Doctor of Decrees of Cambridge and an Archdeacon, supplicated to be incorporated, but whether his supplication was granted it appears not. See more in the Incorporations 1531.  
In the beginning of March one William Throckmorton LL. D. beyond the Seas, supplicated also to be incorporated; which was granted simpliciter. In the Chancel of the Church at Shottsbrook in Berks. is an Epitaph for the said Throckmorton, wherein he is styled Gardianus istius Ecclesiae. Which Church was a Collegiate Church, and valued at the suppression of religious places in the Reign of K. Hen. 8. to be worth 33. l. 18 s. 8 d. per an. He died 12. Jan. 1535 and was there buried.  
About this time studied in Oxon Simon Grynaeus, being then 30 years of age at least: At which time, but especially afterwards, he was well skilled in the Latin and Greek tongues, in Philosophy and the Mathematic disciplines; and therefore beloved of Erasmus, who honourably mentions him in his 
* In lib Epist. 26. Epist. 39  Epistles. Theod. Bibliander tells 
† 〈…〉 Communi omnium linguarum.  us that he really thinks that in him, Christian piety, all virtues and the muses had taken up their habitation. He hath written several books, the titles of most of which, you may see in the Bodleian Catalogue, and died in the prime of his years 1541.    

An. Dom. 1524.  
An. 16. Hen. 8.  
Chancellor, the same.  
Commiss. Tho. Musgrave M. D.  

Proctor. 

Edw. Leighton of Cardinal Coll.  
Philip Dale of Exet. Coll. 

Apt. 6.       
The Senior of which Proctors was made the ninth Canon of the College at Oxon founded by K. Hen. 8. an. 1532.  

Grammarians.  

Aug. 1. Tho. Lyonhyll  
Feb. 15. 

John Moreton  
Will. Gower. 

Sec. Chapl.       
The said three Persons were admitted to inform in the faculty of Grammar.   

Bach. of Music.  
Apr. 3. Will. Chell a Secular Chaplain.  
Henry Young a Student in Music supplicated for that Degree 25. of Feb. but was not, as I can yet find, admitted.   

Bach. of Arts.  
May 30. Nich. Udall of C. C. C.— See among the writers under the year 1552.  
Jun. 20. John Fitzjames of Mert. Coll. afterwards of St. Alban hall.— He was of the same Family, of which Jam. Fitzjames (mentioned under the year 1516) was, and by the name and title of John Fitzjames M. of A. was admitted Archdeacon of Taunton; and Prebendary of Milverton in the Church of Wells, on the death of John Redmayne, 22. May 1554.  
Jul. 19 Richard Turner,— Whether the same who was of Magdalen College, I know not. This Richard Turner took not the Degree of Master, if the public register saith right. See among the writers under the year 1558.  
Jul. 27. John Helyar of C. C. College, a good Grecian and Hebritian.  
Feb. 6. Owen Oglethorp of Magd. Coll.— He was afterwards Bishop of Carlisle, etc.  
About 50 were admitted, and about 15 supplicated that were not admitted.   

Bach. of Civ. Law.  
Aug. 1. Thom. Elyot (of St. Mary's hall.)  
Jan. ult. John Twine.— Who on the same day was admitted Bach. of the Canon Law.  
Five were admitted in the Canon, and 15, (besides Elyot and Twine) in the Civil Law, and five in each supplicated, who were not admitted this year.   

Mast. of Arts.  
Jul. 27. Tho. Wooed— Whether he be the same Thomas Wood, whom John Fox reports to have been elected Bishop of a certain See in England a little before Qu. Mary died, an. 1558. I know not.  
Feb. 12. John Helyar of C. C. C. beforemention'd.— See among the writers under the year 1537.  

Feb. 21. 

John Robyns  
John Mason 

of Alls. Coll.       
Only twelve more were admitted, and about four supplicated.   

Bach. of Diu.  
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 Sandwich a Benedictine Monk afterwards Warden of Canterbury College in Oxon. (2) Robert Carter of Magdalen College about this time Steward of the Household 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. Edward Carne or Kerne now or lately Principal of Greek hall in St. Edward's Parish— He was the Son of Howell Carne of Cowbridge in Glamorganshire, by his Wife Cicely Daugh. of William Kemies of Newport; and lineally descended from Thomas Le C●rne second Son of Ithyn King of Gwent.— He was a wise Man, learned in the Civil Law, and afterwards Knighted by the Emperor Charles 5. In 1530 I find him the King's 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 
a Camden in Annal. Reg. Elizab. sub an. 1559.  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 'tis thought by some, this crafty old Knight did voluntary choose his banishment, out of a burning zeal to the Roman Catholic 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 Heresy, as he called it. He died at Rome on the 14 of the Cal. of Febr. according to the account there followed, in 1561 (about which time the Abbot of Martinego the Pope's 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 Ambassador 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. Edward's 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 Knight to the See of Bath and Wells. He gave way to sat in 1543 being then Archdeacon of two places at least London and Huntingdon) and was buried in the middle of St. Paul's 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. Edward's hall, situated in the Churchyard 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 Diu.  
Not one was admitted this year, nor one supplicated for the said Degree, only Richard Stubbs or Stubbies Master of Arts, Bachelaur of Divinity and Master of Balliol College.   

Incorporations.  
May… William Middleton Doct. of the Civ. Law of the University of Louvain.  
June…Richard Brynckley a Minorite or Franciscan Friar, Dr. of Divinity of Cambridge, and, as our public 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 
b At the end of the first Edition of Antiq. Britan. Ecclisia etc. by Matth. Parker Archb. of Cant.  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 mentioned 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 registered. 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 Hostile in Cambridge, became first Chancellor 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 Bishopric 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 
c Pat. 26. Hen. 8. p. &▪  the Temporalities belonging thereunto. In the year following he was made Precedent 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 occurs Archdeacon of Northumberland, an. 1531, being then, or soon after, LL. D. In the said Archdeaconry succeeded Will. Carter (written sometimes Carther) D. of D. of Cambridge, collated thereunto 3 Nou. 1558; and him Will. King M. A. of Kings Coll. in Cambridge (afterwards Bach. of Diu. Prebendary of Canterbury, and in 1573 Canon of Windsor;) but the year when, I cannot tell; and him also Ralph Lever M. A. collated thereunto 21 Aug. 1566.   

Mast. of Arts.  
Mar. 31. Walt. Buckler of Mert. Coll.— See among the Bach. of Diu. in 1534.  
July 6. Thomas Robertson, now a great Villifyer of the Questionists in this University.  
Feb. 3. George Cores now as it seems of Magd. Coll.  
8. Thomas Raynolds lately of Merton, now of Cardinal, Coll.— See under the year 1536.  
Rich. Cox of Cardinal Coll. was admitted the same day.— He was afterwards Bishop of Ely.  
March 5. John Bekynsau of New Coll.  
Besides these, were about 42 Masters admitted this year.   

Bach. of Physic.  
Apr. 4. John Blyss M. of A. of Merton Coll.— I shall mention him anon among the Doctors.  
Nou. 14. George Owen M. of A. of the same Coll.— See among the Doctors in 1527.   

Bach. of Diu.  
May 31. Father Will. Kendal a Benedictin Monk.  
Jan…. Anth. Dunstan of the said Order.— He was afterwards Prior of Glouc. Coll. in the Suburb of Oxon, and at length Bishop of Landaff.  

Jan…. Fath. 

Tho. Bennet  
Rob. Gale 

Benedictines.       
Which four Monks had a little before opposed publicly in the Divinity School.  
There were eight more that were admitted this year, (among whom Edw. Kyrkby and John Stockland, Cistercians, were two, and Tho. Hull, an Austin Friar, a third) and three or more that supplicated for the said degree, of whom Edw. Staple was one, Mar. 9 who afterwards was Bishop of Me●●h in Ireland.   

Doct. of Civ. Law.  
Jul. 12. Edm. Bonner of Broadgates Hall.— He was afterwards Bishop of London.  
Nou…. Rich. Foxford— He was afterwards Chancellor and Vicar Gen. to Dr. Stokesley Bishop of London, and as John Fox saith 
d In the Act. and Mon. of the Church, under the year 1533.  a cruel Persecutor and common Butcher of the good Saints of God, meaning many poor Protestants in the Dioc. of London, an. 1530, 31, and 32, whom he either condemned, or troubled, or made them abjure. He tells us also, that by a Judgement from God he died suddenly about 1533, as he was sitting in his Chair, his belly being burst and his guts falling out before him.   

Doct. of Can. Law.  
Jul. 12. Arth. Bokeley or Bulkley before mentioned.  
13. Hugh ap Rice or Price.— He was afterwards Prebendary of Rochester, Treasurer of the Cath. Ch. of S. David, etc. By his Will dated 8 Aug. 1574, and proved the last day of the same month, he bequeathed threescore pounds per an. to Jesus Coll. in Oxon, conditionally that he might have the name of Founder of it. In the Margin of the said Will, are his Arms painted, viz. Gules a Chevron Ermine between three flower de Lise or, which are not the Arms that that Coll. now give, or own, though the Society acknowledged him to be their Founder.  
Besides these two, were two others that supplicated for the said degree, namely John Worthyall lately Principal of New Inn and Thomas Parker: the last of which, though I find him not admitted, yet about this time I find 
e In Offic. Armorum in lib. C. 10. fol. 96.  him written Decretorum Doctor, Collegiorum de Stafford & de Tomworth Decanus, etc. In 1522 he became Chancellor of the Dioc. of Worcester in the place of Dr. John Bell, who had succeeded Dr. Tho. Hanyball in that Office 1518, and afterwards was made Chancellor of the Church of Salisbury, in the place of one Edward Farmer; which Dignity he keeping to the time of his death, was succeeded by Rog. Townsend in the beginning of Sept. 1538, but Townsend dying soon after, John edmond's was collated thereunto 29 Oct. following.   

Doct. of Physic.  
Apr. 5. John Bliss of Merton Coll.— He was a learned Physician and Astronomer, as I have before told you under the year 1507.   

Doct. of Diu.  
May 8. John Thornall or Thornbill a Minorite or Grey Friar.  
June 1. John Loysche M. A. and Bach. of Diu.  
27. Will. Rashley a Dominican or Black Friar.  
Jul. 3. John Cottysford Rector of Linc. Coll.— Afterwards Can. of the Coll. at Oxon founded by K. Hen. 8.  
Martin Lindsey of the said Coll. was admitted the same day.— He was a learned man, and died on the second of March 1554.  
Jul. 13. Tho Ware of Oriel Coll.— Afterwards Provost thereof. He hath this Character given of him by a learned 
f George carltonus in Vita Bern. Gilpin. Edit. 1628. p. 32.  person, Virro, & vita & erudition clarissimus. I find another Thom. Ware. who was not a sec. Priest as the former was, but a Monk of the Cistercian Order, and sometimes a Student in S. Bernard's Coll in the North Suburb of Oxon. Afterwards he became the last Abbot of Flaxley in Glocestershire (in the place of Will. Beawdley) and living to see his House dissolved, and himself and his Brethren turned out thence, he retired to Aston Rowant near to Thame in Oxfordshire, where spending the remaining part of his days in devotion and retiredness, gave way at length to Fate, in a good old Age, an. 1546, whereupon his Body was buried in the Yard belonging to the Church there.  
Nou. 9 Rog. Edgeworth of Oriel Coll.  
Will. Gryce M. A. and Bac. of Diu. was admitted the same day.— He died in 1528.  
For the said Degree of D. D. supplicated (1) Anth. Molymeaux of Magd. Coll. (2) Rob. Tailor Bac. of Diu. (3) John Cabull or Cable Bac. of Diu. and Abbot of Newham, as the Register saith, perhaps the same with John Capul a Dominican who supplicated for the degree of Bac. of Diu. in 1524, and (4) Rich. Stokys M. A. and Bac. of Diu.   

Incorporations.  
Jul. 12. Tho. Courthop B. of A. of Cambridge.  
Oct…. Rob. Sherton D. D. of the said University, and about this time Master of S. John's Coll. there, and Almoner to Qu. Catherine. In 1527 he became Canon of Windsor in the place of Jeffry Wrenn deceased; and dying in 1535, Dr. Sim. Haynes Master of Queens Coll. in Camb. (who was afterwards Dean of Exeter) succeeded him in the Canonry.  

Nou. 5. 

John Clerk  
John Friar  
Godf. Harman. 

M. of A. of Cambr.       
These three came to Oxon to be preferred in Cardinal Wolsey's Coll. but they proving violent Lutherans, as Cox and Fryth (whom I shall anon mention) did, were forced to leave that College. John Friar was, upon account of Religion, committed Prisoner to the Master of the Savoy, where he did much solace himself with playing on the Lute, having good skill in Music; for which reason, a Friend of his would needs commend him to the Master, but the Master answered, Take heed, for be that playeth is a Devil, because he is departed from the Catholic Faith. Afterwards he was set at liberty, and travelling beyond the Seas, he returned to that Religion wherein he was educated, was made Doctor of Physic, and after his Return, he settled in the Parish of S. Martin Outwich in Bishopsgate street in London, where dying in the Winter time, an. 1563, was buried in the Church there. He, with Hen. Sumner and Richard Cox, had been bred in Kings Coll. in Cambridge▪ and were esteemed excellent Scholars; but as for Florentius a Dominican, John Akers, and Mich. Drumm, who came with them, I know nothing, only the two last took the degrees in Arts here, and Drumm one in Divinity.  

Dec. 7. 

Hen. Sumner  
Rich. Cox  
Will. Betts  
Joh. Fryth  
Winmer Allen 

B. of A. of Cambr.       
These also came to Oxon to be preferred in Card. Wolsey's Coll.  
March 9 Edw. Staple M. A. of Cambr. now of Card. Coll.  
Mar. 3. Edw. Wotton M. A. of this University and Doct. of Phys. of an University beyond the Seas, was then incorporated Doct. of Phys.  
Mar…. John Allen LL. D. beyond the Seas.— He was afterwards Archbishop of Dublin.    

An. Dom. 1526.  
An. 18 Hen. 8.  
Chanc. the same.  
Commiss. Dr. Musgrave again: to whom Dr. Roper was substitute.  

Proct. 

Simon Ball of Mert. Coll. Austr.  
Thomas Byrton lately of Magdalen, now of Cardinal, Coll. Bor. 

April 11.       

Grammarians.  
Dec. 8. George Astley. Whether he was admitted to inform only, or Bach. of Gram. it appears not.  
Not one beside him was admitted, either Bach. or to inform; nor one in Music.   

Bach. of Arts.  
June 26. Edm. Wolf one of the jun. Canons of Card. Coll.— He had before spent two years in Study in the Uniu. of Cambr.  
Jul. 2. Tho. Key or Kay about this time of Alls. Coll.— He is mentioned among the Writers under the year 1572.  
Besides these two were about 37 admitted.  
This year, but the month or day I know not, was a Supplicat made in behalf of one Tho. Winter to be Bach. of Arts; but whether he was admitted, I cannot, in all my searches, find. This Tho. Winter who was Nephew (or rather not. Son) to Cardinal Tho. Wolsey, had several Dignities conferred upon him before he was of Age, by the means of the said Cardinal: among which was the Archdeaconry of York, or of the West Riding of Yorkshire, on the death of Hugh Ashton, in which he was installed 31 August 1523, being about that time Chancellor of the Church of Sarum in the place of one William Wilton: also the Deanery of Wells, in the place of Dr. William Cousin sometimes Fellow of King's College an. 1525; and upon the death of Thomas Dalby, (which was in January the same year) he had not only the Provostship of Beverley conferred upon him, but also the Archdeaconry of Richmond; in which last he was installed 24 of Mar. the same year, etc. This Tho. Winter, with several others, after they had been maintained in the Schools at Oxon by the Cardinal, were also by him maintained in the University of Paris, to obtain, if possible, proficiency in such Arts and Sciences which our Universities in England could not yield. The Governor or Tutor to Tho. Winter was Tho. Lupset of Corp. Ch. Coll in this University, to whom, as also to Winter, the Cardinal would write that the said Winter should study the Dunces Logic Questions, meaning, I suppose, the Logic Questions of John Dunse. In the Schools at Paris I find him conversant in 1528, and what degree, or degrees, he took there, I cannot tell. Sure I am, that about the time of the Cardinal's fall, he gave up all or most of his Dignities; for about 1530 Dr. Richard Wolman succeeded him in the Deanery of Wells; and in Decemb. 1529, Will. Knight LL. D. succeeded in the Archdeaconry of Richmond, and Edw. Lee in the Chancellourship of Sarum in Feb. following. As for the Archdeaconry of York, he keeping it till 1540, than resigned it; whereupon Tho. Westby, Bac. of Diu. was installed therein 26 June the same year; and whether he continued to be the last Provest of Beverley, I cannot in truth tell. The Arms, with which he sealed, did very much resemble those of Cardinal Wolsey, as it appears in the Office of Arms.   

Bach. of Civ. Law.  
July 2. William Petre of Alls. Coll.  
Feb…. Rob. Geoffrey.— In 1531 he entered himself into the Soc. of the Brethren of the Order of S. Austin the Hermit.   

Bach. of Can. Law.  
July 2. David Pole or Poole of Alls. Coll.— He was afterward Bishop of Peterborough.  
Will. Petre before mentioned, was admitted Bach. of the Canon, just after he had been admitted Bach. of the Civil, Law.— See more under the Doctors of the Civil Law, an. 1532.   

Mast. of Arts.  
June 27. John Pollard— This person, who was afterwards at least twice Proctor of the University, became Archdeacon of Wiltshire on the death of Edw. Finch, 15 Jan. 1538, and Prebendary of Husborne and Burbach in the Church of Salisbury on the death of Hen. Iden, 25 Sept. 1556, etc.  
Nou. 9 John Pekyns of Exeter Coll.— The Records of that House saith, that he was Proctor of the University, Canon of Westminister, Bach. of Diu. and a Dignitary, etc.  
Feb. 25. Alexand. Belsire of New Coll.— He was afterwards the first Canon of Osney, the first Canon of the fourth Prebendship of Ch. Ch. and the first Precedent of S. John's Coll. but whether Bach. of Diu. it appears not in our Registers that are in the latter end of K. Hen. 8. and all the time of K. Ed. 6. very imperfect.  
Besides these three were about 23 admitted, and about 5 that supplicated, among whom Nich. Udall of C. C. Coll. was one.   

Bach. of Diu.  
June 10. Fath. Will. Basin a Benedictine.  
26. John Holyman of New Coll.  
Fath. Rich. Talley a Cistercian, was admitted the same day.— One David Talley I have mentioned under the year 1508.  
28. Frat. Edm. Bricot a Minorite.  
Jul. 3. Fath. Job. Lawerne or Lorne a Ben. Monk of Worcester, afterwards one of the first Prebendaries there. He died 1551. Besides the said John Lawerne I find another of both his names, who was a Benedictin also, a Monk of Worcester, educated in Philosophicals and Theologicals in Gloucester Coll. within this University; and at length was Doctor of Divinity. He hath written (1) Actus contra quatuor peccata, (2) Benedictiones & laudationes in vesperiis Oxon, (3) Variarum rerum Epistolae, and (4) Quaedam chromice. All which I have seen bound together in one Vol. with this note following at the end, Expliciunt lectiones ordinariae Mri. Joh. Lawerne S. pag. Professoris, editae & publicè lectae in Scholis Theologiae Oxon. an. dom. 1448 & 49.  
Feb. 18. Fr. Edw. Baskervyle a Minorite.— He was afterwards Guardian of the Coll. of Minorites or Franciscans in the South Suburb of Oxon.  
Besides these were about 8 admitted, and 10 at least that supplicated.  
On the 12 of June this year Will. Knight M. A. supplicated the ven. Congregation to be admitted Bach. of Diu. and the next month supplicated to proceed in the same Faculty; but whether either of them were granted, it appears not. This Will. Knight I take to be the same with him who was elected probat. Fellow of Mert. Coll. in 1503, and not Will. Knight who was a Civilian of New Coll. and afterwards Bishop of Bath and Wells.   

Doct. of Can. Law.  
Jan. 28. John Voysey or Veysey.  
For the same degree John Southwode did supplicate, but was not admitted this year.   

Doct. of Physic.  
Jul. 7. Will. Freeman.— He was afterwards Fellow, Censor, and at length Precedent of the College of Physicians at London.   

Doct. of Diu.  
June 11. Roger Dyngley of Alls. Coll.— He was Chaplain to K. Hen. 8. and had two, or more Dignities in the Church.  
Feb. 27. Fr. John Perrot (sometimes written Porret) a Minorite, Guardian or Prior of the Coll. of Minorites or Franciscans, commonly called Grey Friars, at Bostom in Lincolnshire.— I find one John Perrot to have succeeded Martin Collyns in the Chantorship of York in Oct. 1503. a little before which time (in Sept.) the said Collyns became Treasurer of the Church there, on the death of Hugh Trotter D. D. who had been also Provost of the Church at Beverley. But the said John Perrot being a sec. Priest, must not be understood to be the same with him who was a Minorite.  
Feb. 27. Fr. Thom Kyrkham a Minorete, Guardian of the Coll. of Minorites at Doncaster in Yorkshire.— He was afterwards a very zealous man against the Divorce of King Hen. 8. from Q. Catherine.  
Besides these three, were but two that supplicated to be D. D. viz. Rob. Carter of Magd. Coll. and John Tychmersh a Cistercian of S. Bernard's Coll.   

Incorporations.  
May…Nic. Bradbridge M. of A. of this University, and D. of D. beyond the Seas.— See more among the Doct. of Diu. in 1508.  
June…Will. How Bishop of Orense in Spain, D. of D. beyond the Seas, and 16 years a Student in this University, was then incorp. D. of D.  
Jun. 26. Thom. Forster Bac. of Arts of this University, Master of Arts of Cambridge, and Bac. of Diu. of Louvain in Brabant, was then incorp. B. of D.  
Feb…. Rich. Warham Doctor of the Civil Law of the University of Orleans in France.— He is styled in one of our 
a Reg. Congreg. H. fol. 1▪ 4. b. 17●. b  Registers Archdeacon of Canterbury; but he that enjoyed that Dignity now, was Will. Warham, and therefore there is a mistake in the Christian name.    

An. Dom. 1527.  
An. 19 Hen. 8.  
Chanc. the same.  
Commiss. the same, viz. Dr. Tho. Musgrave; but he dying in Exeter Coll. this year, about the latter end of Aug. or beginning of Sept. (having made several Supplicates in the Congregation of Regent's in the beginning of July going before, in order to the taking the degree of D. of D.) Martin Lyndsey D. D. and Fellow of Linc. Coll. officiated in his turn till the beginning of Mich. term, and then he giving up that employment, John Cottysford D. D. of Linc. Coll. became Commissary by the designment of the Chancellor, and took his Oath 7. Dec. following.  

Proct. 

Arth. Cole of Magd. Coll.  
Rich. Lorgan of Oriel Coll. 

May. 7.       

Bach. of Gram.  
March ult. John Skerow or Sherow or Skyrou, so many ways I find him written was then admitted Bach. of Grammar.— In 1538. in Oct. I find him by the name and title of John Sherow Bach. of Grammar to be a Candidate for the Degree of Bac. of Arts, but whether he was admitted it appears not.  
In Dec. this year John Parr or Party supplicated to be admitted to inform, but not granted. See in 1528.   

Bach. of Arts.  

Ap. 5. 

Richard Smyth  
John Ramridge 

of Mert. Coll.       
The former was afterwards an eminent writer, and other Dean of Lichfield, as I shall elsewhere tell you.  
May 21. Rich. Taverner of Cardinal Coll.— I have mentioned him among the writers, under the year 1575.  
Rich. Sherry of Magd. Coll. was admitted the same day— He is also mentioned among the writers an. 1550.  
Jan. 16. Tho. Goldwell— He was afterwards B. of St. Asaph.  
In all about 62, who were this year admitted.   

Bach. of Civ. Law.  
Feb. 18. Will. Bennet— I take this Person to be the same Will. Bennet who became Archdeacon of Dorset upon the consecration of John Stokesley to the See of London, 20. Dec. 1530, and the same who about that time was constituted the King's Orator to go to Rome to expedite the matter of Divorce from his Consort Qu. Catherine. I find him there in 1532, as by the dates of his letters sent thence to the English Court, appears: And in the year following, being dead, Edward Fox (who was afterwards Bishop of Hereford) succeeded him in his Archdeaconry, 24. Nou. 1533. See another W. Bermet among the Bach. of Arts, an. 1512. and another among the Doctors of Diu. 1535.  
Feb. 18. John Pope of Alls. Coll.— In 1554 he became Archdeacon of Bedford upon the promotion of Gilb. Bourne to the See of Bath and Wells, and about that time was made Residentiary of Linc. Cathedral. In Sept. 1558 he was put in Warden of Alls. Coll. by Cardinal Pole Archb. of Cant. upon the resignation of Seth Holland; but never came to the Coll. for admission. He died at Lincoln on the eleventh of Nou. following, and was buried in the Nave of the Cathedral there. In his Wardenship succeeded Dr. John Warner a Physician, in the latter end of Nou. 1558, he having been Warden before, but left it in the Reign of Qu. Mary; and in his Archdeaconry of Bedford succeeded Mich. Dunning LL. D. of Cambridge and Chancellor of the Diocese of Norwych, and him (who enjoyed it but a little while) Rich. Barber LL. B. of Oxon, 14 March 1558.  
Feb. 18. Hugh Coren or Curwyn— He was afterwards Archb. of Dublin in Ireland.  
19 Walter Write— See more among the Doct. of Law an. 1540  
Besides these, were about 15 that were admitted, and 6 that supplicated.   

Bach. of Can. Law.  
Twenty two were admitted this year, among whom Reynold Barnysley a Bened. Monk was one, Jul. 8. Thaddaeus Raynold a Sec. Chapl. another Feb. 18. who, if I mistake not, was an Irish Man, and several Welsh Men besides.  
Thirteen also at least supplicated for the same Degree, who were mostly Secular Chaplains. Some of which were afterwards admitted.   

Mast. of Arts.  
Apr. 5. John Marlowe or Merlow of Mert. Coll.— He was afterwards Treasurer of the Cath. Ch. of Wells and Canon of the King's Chap. of St. Stephen within the Palace of Westminister. He died in the beginning of Oct. 1543. See among the Bach. of Diu. in 1542.  
Feb. 14. David Tolley of St. Mary's hall.  
One and twenty Masters were admitted this year, according to the public register, yet 37 stood in several Acts celebrated in the said year.   

Bach. of Physic.  

Jul. 8. 

Simon Ball M. A.  
Humph. Blewet M. A. 

of Mert. Coll.       
Both these were learned Men, and the last a writer, as I shall hereafter tell you.  
For the said Degree supplicated John de Lapeys' M. A. of an University beyond the Seas, and John Mason M. A. of Allsouls Coll. who was afterwards a Knight and a Man of note, as I have told you under the year 1521. but whether they were admitted, it appears not.   

Bach. of Diu.  
May 29. Frater Anth. Papudo or Papodo a Portuguese by nativity, and a Minorite by profession.  
Jun. 4. Father Will. Sandwich a Benedictine— He was afterwards Guardian or Warden of Canterbury Coll. in Oxon.  
27. Fa. Tho. Levett a Benedictine.  
Feb. 27. Fa. Rich. Gorton a Ben. and Bach. of Arts.  
Nine more were admitted, and about 15 there were that supplicated for the said Degree, among whom John Hylsey was one, afterwards Bishop of Rochester.   

Doct. of Civ. Law.  
Nou…. David Pole or Poole of Alls. Coll.  
Febr….. John pain Principal of New Inn, and Moderator or Principal of Civil Law School in St. Edward's Parish.  
Two also there were that supplicated for the said Degree, viz. Hen. Russell Bach. of the Civil Law, and Thom. Breewood or Brerewood Bac. of the said faculty of Alls. College. Which last was about this time Canon of Exeter, afterwards (about 1536) Archdeacon of Barnstaple, and Chancellor to the Bishop of Exeter.   

Doct. of Can. Law.  
Nou…. Dau. Pole or Poole beforementioned.  
Jan…. Hen. white— He was afterwards Principal or chief Moderator of Can. Law School, and is sometimes written Praelector Cathedrae juris Canonici.  
One Will. Cleyton Bachelaur of Decrees supplicated to be admitted Doctor of the Canon Law, but he was not admitted this year.   

Doct. of Physic.  
Feb. 13. Thom. Gwynne of Alls. Coll.  
George Owen of Mert. Coll. was admitted the same day.— This Person was born in the Dioc. of Worcester, was admitted Fellow of Merton Coll. in 1519; afterwards he was Physician to K. Hen. 8. Fellow of the Coll. of Physicians at London, Physician to K. Edw. 6. and Qu. Mary; and dying of a malignant and Epidemical Fever 10. Oct. 1558 was buried in the Church of St. Stephen in Walbroke, London. His memory is celebrated among the learned Men of his time by John 
a In Principum & cru●itorum in Aug i● Virorum 〈◊〉, Trophies, etc. Lond. 1589. p. 96.  Leland the Antiquarian-poet, and by John 
b In 〈…〉 Lond. 1573. p. 45. 4●.  Parkhurst Bishop of Norwych his Fellow collegiat. One of his descendants of Godstow near Oxon. whose Christian name I do not yet know, was condemned to die, 17 May 1615 for stiffly maintaining that a Prince may be removed out of the way by death or otherwise, if lawfully excommunicated by the Pope.   

Doct. of Diu.  
Feb. 10. The ven. Father John Newbolt a Benedictine Monk— One Tho. Newbolt was Abbot of Evesham next before Clement Lychfield, whom I have mentioned under the year 1501.  
Nine this year appears to have supplicated to be Doctors of Divinity, among whom were Anth. Dunstan a Benedictine Monk of Westminster and Prior of Gloucest. Coll. in the suburb of Oxon. (See more in the year 1538.) Rich. Thornden, who was afterwards Suffragan Bishop of Dover, Rog. Otteford Bac. of Diu. and a Benedictine, John Tybbies a Cistercian, etc.   

Incorporations.  
Jul. 8. Will. Armsted M. of A. beyond the Seas.  
Feb. 7. Jam. Blyth Bach. of Diu. beyond the Seas (sometimes of this University) was then incorp. Bac. of Diu.— See among the Doctors of Diu. 1535. He was installed Canon of Windsor in the place of Christoph. Plummer deprived by attainder, 25. of Aug. 1536, and had other Dignities; and dying in 1546. he was buried in St. George's Chap. at Windsor.    

An. Dom. 1528.  
An. 20. Hen. 8.  
Chanc. the same.  
Commiss. Dr. John Cottysford.  

Proct. 

John Belletory Chapl. of Mert. Coll.  
Walter Buckler Fell. of the said, and  
Canon of Cardinal, Coll. 

elected Apr. 22.       

Grammarians.  
Nou. 5. Christoph. Haldesworth a Secular Chaplain.  
One Tho. Myttons an instructor of Youth at Banbury in Oxfordshire, and John Parry a Secular Chapl. did supplicate to be admitted, but whether they were so, it appears not.   

Bach. of Arts.  
May 16. John Standish of Brazen. Coll.— He was soon after of Corp. Christi.  
Jul. 15. Gilb. Bourne— He was afterwards of Alls. Coll.  
Will. Bradbridge or Brodbridge of Magd. Coll. was admitted the same day.  
Jul. 24. John Parkhurst.  
Nou. 5. Rich. Moryson.  
Jun. 24. Will. Pie of Oriel Coll.  
All which were afterwards either Writers or Bishops, Besides them were about 50 admitted this year, and about 20 that supplicated, who were not admitted.   

Bach. of Law.  
Six were admitted in the Canon, and eight in the Civil, Law. Nine or thereabouts supplicated to be graduated in the former, and about 7 in the other, but not one of them, can I yet find, was afterwards a Bishop, Writer, or a Dignitary.   

Mast. of Arts.  
Jul. 14. John Doone of C. C. C.— He was a noted Grecian, Greek reader of that house, and afterwards Dean of the King's Chapel, and well dignified.  
About thirty were admitted this year; and about eleven that supplicated to be Masters, but were not admitted.   

Opponents in Diu.  
Jun, 18. Father Will. Beawdley Abbot of Flaxley of the Cistercian Order, in Glocestershire.  
Jul. 3. Fa. Will. Harford or Hartford of the Order of St. Benedict.— He was about this time an Abbot or a Prior.  
These two I cannot find to be admitted Bach. of Diu. which usually follows opposition in that faculty, and therefore I have put them here.   

Bach. of Diu.  
Jun. 26. Fa. John Boil or Byley, or Beyley a Benedictine, and about this time an Abbot.  
Jul. 15. Tho. Canner now of Cardinal, lately of Magd. Coll.— In 1532 he was made the eighth Canon of the Coll. of K. Hen. 8. founded on that of Card. Wolsey's, (of which he had been made the first Canon by the Cardinal) and in 1542 he was admitted Provost of the Free-Chappel of St. Nicholas under Hampden in the Dioc. of Wells, and had other Dignities bestowed on him.  
Edw. Leyton or Leighton was admitted the same day— This Person did about this time solely give himself up to please the unlimited humour of the King, as another of his Surname did about the same time. See in the year 1506.  
17. William Tiesham of Mert. Coll.  

Jul. 18. Fath. Thom. Essex  
Feb. 20. Fa. Humph. Webley  
March 11. Fa. Will. Bennet 

of the Order of St. Benedict.     
Which three Fathers were now either Abbats or Priors.  
March 11. Fa. Tho. Spark a Benedictine Monk— He was now, or soon after, Prior of a certain cell, as it is mentioned in the public register of this time, wherein it is further added that in 1529 he was about to leave the University cum pannis suis to go to the Monastery at Durham.  
Fa. John Else a Dominican was adm. this year, but the day or month appears not.  
Besides these, were four more admitted, and eight at least that supplicated, of whom John Bekinsau of New College was one.   

Doct. of Civil Law.  
Jun. 25. Thomas Baggard originally of New Inn, afterwards one of the first Canons of Cardinal College.— In 1535 he became Chancellor of the Diocese of Worcester, in the place of one Dr. Thomas Parker, and in the 33 Hen. 8. Dom. 1541, he was named the very first Canon or Prebendary of the first stall in the Church of Worcester by the King, when he changed the Prior and Monks of that place into a Dean and Canons. He died in 1544, and was succeeded in his Chancellourship and Prebendship by Rob. Johnson LL. Bach. whom I shall mention elsewhere.  
Jul. 13. Rob. Hunt a Secular Chaplain and Principal or Supreme Moderator of Civ. Law School in St. Edward's Parish, Oxon.  
Feb. 26. Thom. Barret of New Inn— He was soon after Principal of the said Inn, and in 1540 became Canon of Kings Coll. or the Coll. founded by K. Hen. 8. on the site of that of Card. Wolsey.  
One John Hewys LL. Bac. who had practised the said faculty in the Court of the Lord Cardinal, (Wolsey) supplicated to be Doctor of the Civ. Law, but occurs not admitted. I take this Person to be the same with Dr. Hewes, who was a forward Man in examining Protestants that were to suffer upon account of Religion in Queen Mary's Reign.   

Doct. of Can. Law.  
Feb. 17. John Southwode Fellow of Wykeham's Coll. near Winchester, and Canon residentiary of Wells— He died and was buried at Wells.  
26. John Reed sometimes of New Coll. now Fellow of Wykeham's Coll. beforementioned— I have spoken of another John Reed in the year 1507.  
One Robert Woodward Warden of Alls. Coll. occurs Doctor of Decrees this year, but when he was admitted, it appears not. Will. Cleyton also (mentioned in 1527) who had practised the Canon Law several years in the Court of the Lord Cardinal (Wolsey) supplicated to be admitted Doctor of that faculty, but occurs not admitted.   

Doct. of Diu.  
Jun. 28. Fa. Reb Basin a 〈…〉 He was about this time an Abbot or Prior  
There also supplicated for the said Degree Fa. William Thryske Abbot of Fountains in Yorkshire, Fa. Rich. Gloucester a Benedictine, and as I think an Abbot, Tho. Martial, etc.  
☞ Not one incorporation this year, only that of Rich. Porte M. A. of Cambridge Apr. 2. which is all I know of him.    

An. Dom. 1529.  
An. 21. Hen. 8.  
Chanc. the same.  
Commiss. Dr. Cottysford.  

Proct. 

John Warner of Alls. Coll.  
Tho. Duke of New Coll. 

Ap. 7.       
The Senior of which Proctors, was, after he had been 7 weeks in his office, admitted to the reading of the Aphorisms of Hypocrates.  

Bach. of Arts.  
Dec. 3. John Shepreve or Shepry of C. C. Coll. now in great esteem for his sufficiencies in the Greek and Hebrew tongues.  
13. John white of New Coll.— He was afterwards successively B. of Linc. and Winchester.  
Forty eight more, or thereabout, were admitted, and but six that supplicated for the said Degree, who were not this year admitted.   

Bach. of Civil Law.  
March 3. Henry Cole of New Coll.— I have spoken largely of him among the Writers.  
Besides him were but ten Bachelors of the Civil Law admitted, and but one that supplicated for that Degree.   

Bach. of Can. Law.  
Apr. 2. John Salysbury— I take him to be the same who was afterwards Bishop of the Isle of Man. Qu.  
Dec. 2. Will. Thomas— See among the Writers under the year 1554.  
Fifteen in all were admitted this year, and about nine there were that supplicated, who were not admitted.   

Mast. of Arts.  
Apr. 13. Owen Oglethorp of Magd. Coll.— He was afterwards Bishop of Carlisle.  
Jun. 21. John Akers a Can. of Card. Coll.— He was sometimes of the University of Cambridge, where he was esteemed a learned Man, etc.  
Besides these two, were about 25 admitted, and but six that supplicated for the said Degree, among whom were Robert Talbot of New Coll. afterwards a learned and judicious Antiquary, Thom. Goldwell, afterwards B. of St. Asaph, and Leonard Cox the learned Schoolmaster of Reading in Berks.   

Bach. of Physic.  
Jun. ult. John Warner M. A. Fellow of Alls. Coll. and one of the Proctors of the University was admitted Bach. of Physic, and at the same time was licenced to practise the same faculty.— He was a learned Man of his time, but hath published nothing, and a great intruder into Ecclesiastical Benefices and Dignities, as I shall tell you elsewhere.   

Opponents in Diu.  
May 7. Father John ap Rice a Cistercian, and Abbot of Stratmarkell in the Dioc. of St. Asaph.— He was now resident in St. Bernard's Coll. where he obtained his knowledge in Divinity, but whether he was admitted to the reading of the Sentences which usually follows opposition in Divinity, it appears not. The other two Fathers that opposed with him were admitted, as I am now about to tell you.   

Bach. of Diu.  

Jun. 28. Fath. Rich. Horte or Hart  
Dec. 17. Fat. Thom. Bylond 

Can. Regulars.     
Both which were about this time either Abbats or Priors.  
For the said Degree (to which but 4 in all were admitted) supplicated at least nine, among whom were Fath. John Hayward a Can. regular, (the same, if I mistake not, that fitted for the University Father Rob. Persons the Jesuit, as I have before told you) Fath. Thomas Richmond a Cistercian Monk, Fa. Jo. Wygge an Austin Friar, etc.   

Doct. of Law.  
Not one in the Canon, or Civ. Law was admitted, or did proceed this year.   

Doct. of Diu.  
Dec. 16. John Moreman of Exeter Coll.— This Person who was very learned in his time, and hath (as 'tis thought) written several matters of his faculty, but lost, was born at Southole in Devon, and after he had left his Coll. became Vicar of Mayhanet in Cornwall; where, with much labour, he taught the Parishioners to say the Lords Prayer, Belief, and 10 Commandments in the English tongue, about the latter end of the Reign of K. Hen. 8. being the first of all that did so in that Country. He was afterwards as 'tis said, Dean of Exeter, and being 〈◊〉 to the B. thereof, was (as John Fox 
* In his Acts and Monumments of the Church, under the year 1554.  saith) made Bishop of that place after his decease. This Coadjutorship was in Oct. 1554 as he saith; but how he could succeed the then Bishop (who was Dr. Voysey) I cannot yet perceive. Voysey died in 1555, and Dr. Moreman died at Mayhanet, before Oct. 1554.  
Feb. 1. Fath. Edm. Brycot a Minorite or Franciscan.— One Brycot was a famous Philosopher of Oxon, as his Books show, but his Christian name I think was Thomas. This Brycot was the same, if I mistake not, with Dr. Biycot Parson of Hadham 
† See more of him in J●. Fox his Book of Acts and Mon of the Church, etc. under the year 1554.  in Hertfordshire in the Reign of Qu. Mary.  
17. Fr. Tho. Charnocke a Dominican or Black Friar.  
24. Rich. Mawdley or Mawdlen Archdeacon of Leicester.— This person who was a zealous and frequent Preacher against the Lutherans died in 1530, whereupon Steph. Gardiner Dr. of the Civ. Law of Cambridge. succeeded him in that Archdeaconry, in the latter end of March 1531; but he keeping it but till Sept. following, was then succeeded in that Dignity by Edw. Fox, who was afterwards Bishop of Hereford.  
24. Will. Mortymer.— He was soon after Margaret Professor of this University.  
Mar. 15 Rob. Cook.— He, with Mortymer, Moreman, and Mawdlen, before mentioned, were zealous Enemies against the King's Divorce from Qu. Catherine this year.   

Incorporations  
Nou. 17. John Hopton a Dominican or Black Friar, D. of D. of the University of Bononia, was incorporated by these words spoken by the Commissary from the Chancellour's Chair, Pater Johan. nos admittimus te & incorporamus ad standum in eodem gradu & statu, quo stetisti Bononiae: ac concedimus facultatem legendi, disputandi reliquaque faciendi, quae spectant ad Doctoris statum in illa facultate incorporati, etc. See more in the year 1532.  
Feb. 19 Leonard Cox Bach. of Arts of Cambridge.— Afterwards he supplicated for the degree of Master, as 'tis before told you.  
Mar. 15. Reb. Aldridge M. of A. and Bach. of Diu. of Cambridge, was incorporated B. of D.— See among the Doctors of Diu. in the year following.    

An. Dom. 1530.  
An. 22 Hen. 8.  
Chanc. the same, viz. Dr. Warham Archbishop of Cant.  
Commiss. Dr. Cottysford, with his Deputy Dr. Lyndsey.  

Proct. 

John Warner  
Thomas Duke 

again May 4.       
Which Proctors were continued in their places by the command and Letters of the Lord Cardinal, directed to the chief Members of the University.  

Gram.  
May 12. George Corney was admitted to inform, etc.  
Hen. Tapper, who had partly studied in this, and partly in the Uniu. of Cambridge, supplicated to be admitted; but whether he was so, it appears not.   

Bach. of Arts.  
Mar. 30. Will. Chedsey of C. C. Coll.  
July 13. Fath. Hen. Bagwell a Canon regular of the Order of S. Austin. of S. Mary's Coll. was then admitted B of A.  

1●. Hugh Weston of Linc.  
Dec. 12. John Hoker of Magd.  
Feb. 16. Will. Harrison.— Quaere. 

Coll.     
Rob. Record was adm. the same day, but of what House he now was, unless of Alls. Coll. I know not.  
All which, except Bagwell, were afterwards Writers.  
Six and fifty Bach. of Arts or thereabouts, were this year admitted, and about eleven there were that supplicated for the said Degree, that were not the same year admitted.   

Bach. of Law.  
Apr. 2. John Salysbury.— In the year before going he was admitted Bach. of the Can. Law.  
Twelve, or more, were this year admitted in the Canon, and about eleven in the Civil, Law; and thirteen or more supplicated for the degree of the former, and but two for the latter.   

Mast. of Arts.  

Jul. 15. 

Rich. Smythe  
John Ramridge 

of Mert. Coll.       

Dec. 12. Tho. Key or Cay of Alls.  
Mar. 10. Richard Sherry of Magd. 

Coll.     
Mich. Drumm Canon of Cardinal Coll. was admitted the same day.  
These, except Ramridge and Drumm, were afterwards Writers. Ramridge was afterwards Dean of Lichfield, as I shall tell you in another place; and Drumm, who had been formerly of Cambridge, was esteemed a learned young man there.   

Bach. of Divinity,  

May 13. Fath. 

Steph. Merley or Marley  
Rog. Bell 

Benedictines.       
June 22. Fath. John Dunster a Canon regular.  
Oct. 15. Fath. John Slatery a Dominican.  
Mar. 4. Fath. Edm. Wetherden or Metberden, a Benedictin.  
Five besides these were admitted, and 13 at least that supplicated for the said Degree, among whom Tho. London a Cistercian was one, John Okeley a Carme another, and Will. Jerome a Benedictin a third, but were not admitted.   

Doct. of Law.  
Not one was admitted this year either in the Canon, or Civil, law; and but one in the Canon Law that supplicated to be Doctor, whose name was Will. Draper LL. B.   

Doct. of Physic.  
Jul. 15. Humph. Blewet of Mert. Coll.— This person, who was a learned Physician and Astronomer, was born in the Dioc. of Hereford, wrote a Book De peste evitanda, but never printed; and dying several years after at Calis in France, was there buried.   

Doct. of Diu.  
Mar. 26. John Holyman sometimes of New Coll, now a zealous Preacher against the Lutherans, and a stiff Agitator against the King's Divorce from Q Catherine.— He was afterwards Bishop of Bristol.  
Apr. 3. Rob. Aldridge, who in the year before was incorporated B. of D. was then admitted or licenced to proceed.— He was afterwards Bishop of Carlisle.   

Incorporations.  
John Hearing Bacurius of Law, and now or lately Fellow of Alls. Coll. and Doct. of the Civ. Law of an University beyond the Seas, was incorporated; but the particular time when, I know not— In 1543 he became Prebend of East Harptrey in the Church of Wells by the Attainder of Rich. Pate or Pates.  
Simon Matthew Bach. of Diu. and Fellow of Kings Coll. in Cambridge, was about the same time also incorporated, but the day or month I know not. This person, who was born at Byggleswade in Bedfordshire, and about this time a godly Residentiary of Paul's Cathedral and Vicar of Prescott, preached many learned Sermons against the Pope, one or more of which were afterwards published in print.    

An. Dom. 1531.  
An. 23 Hen. 8.  
Chanc. the same.  
Commiss. Dr. Cottysford again.  
Dr. Hen. White Principal of Can. Law School, is styled by the name of Commissary 5 June this year.  

Proct. 

John Pollard  
Geo. Cotes of Magd. Coll. 

April 19       

Grammarians.  

June 4. Nich. Badock  
Jul. 10. Rich Fletcher  
Jan. 30. Rog. Ford 

sec. Chaplains.     
Which three were admitted to inform in that Faculty, and John Richardys supplicated.   

Bach. of Mus.  
June … James Northbroke a secular Chaplain.  
In the same month supplicated for that degree one Tho. Tailor a sec. Chuplain also; but whether admitted, I find not.   

Bach. of Arts.  
June 23. James Brokes of C. C. Coll.— He was afterwards Bishop of Gloucester.  
Jan. 23. Armigell Wade or Waad of Magd. Coll. as it seems.  
Feb. 5. Patrick Walsh.— He was afterwarhs Bishop of Waterford and Lismore in Ireland.  
In all about 50, besides ten at least that supplicated, who were not admitted.   

Doct. of Music.  
Dec…. Joh Gwyneth or Gwynneth a secular Priest, who had spent twelve years in the Praxis and Theory of Music, and had composed all the Responses of the whole year in Division-Song, and had published many Masses in the said Song, supplicated that these his labours might enable him to be admitted to the Praxis of Music.— This being granted conditionally that he compose one Mass against the Act following, supplicated again that whereas he had spent 20 years in the Praxis and Theory of Music, and had published three Masses of five parts, and five Masses of four, as also certain Symphona's, Antiphona's, and divers Songs for the use of the Church, he might be permitted to proceed in the Faculty of Music; that is, be made Doctor of that Faculty; which desire of his being granted, conditionally that he pay to the University, on the day of his Admission, 20 pence, he was forthwith licenced to proceed. See among the Writers under the year 1557.   

Bach. of Civ. Law.  
May 8, Joh. S●orie of Henxsey Hall.— See among the Doct. 1538.  
Dec. 4. Rowland Merick.— He was afterwards Bishop of Bangor. Besides these two, were but four more, who were admitted in the said Faculty, and but one that supplicated.   

Bach. of Can. Law.  
About 20 were admitted, among whom Rob. Fynch, who is written Subdecanus, was one, Rich. Hallsall, a secular Chaplain and Compounder for his Degree, another; and some Welsh men.  
Five also supplicated for the said Degree, of whom the signior was Jeffrey Leyson Bach. of the Civ. Law, and three more of that Degree.   

Mast. of Arts.  
June 26. Thomas Goldwell.  
July 11. John Standish of C. C. Coll.  
The first was afterwards a Bishop, and the other a Writer.  
Besides these were about 20 who were admitted, and but three that supplicated for that Degree.   

Bach. of Phys.  
Feb…. David Tolley M. of A. of S. Mary's Hall— This learned Physician supplicated for the Degree of Doctor of his Faculty in 1533, but was not, as I can yet find, admitted or licenced to proceed.   

Bach. of Diu.  
July 13. Hen. Williams of C. C. Coll— On the 28 Sept. 1535 he was admitted Prebendary of Osbaldwick in the Church of York, and on the 20 Sept. 1537, Canon of Windsor, (in the place of Rob. Aldridge promoted to the See of Carlisle) being about that time also Canon of the Collegiate Church at Southwell in Nottinghamshire, Canon of the Kings Coll. in Oxon, and Rector of West Ildesley in Berks. His Canonry of the said Coll. at Oxon he lost when K. Hen. 8. was about to convert it into a Cathedral, an. 1545. in consideration of which, he had given to him an yearly Pension of 20 l. per an. during his life. As for Windsor, York, and Southwell, as also the Prebendary of Bedmynstre and Radeclyve in the Church of Sarum, (to which he was collated in Jan. 1534, in the place of Edw. powel D. D.) he was deprived of them in the time of Q. Marry an. 1554, either for being married, or that he was a zealous Protestant, or both.  
Jul. 17. Fath. John Tyndall a Carme or White Friar.  
Oct. 2. Fath. Tho. Kampswell or Kamyswell a Benedictin Monk.— He was the last Prior of the Monastery of the Benedictines at Coventry.  

Nou. 29. Fath. Tho. Adreston or Aderston  
Jan. 20. Fath. Donat Machive 

Austin Friars.     
22. The venerable Tho. Marshal a Compounder.— In 1554 he was made Archdeacon of Lincoln in the place of Nich. Budlyngham; in which Dignity he was succeeded by John Aylmer of Elmer M. A. an. 1562. One Tho. Marshal supplicated in 1528 to be Doct. of Diu. but him I take to be a Dominican.  
Feb. 1. Fath. Laurence Seymore Subprior of the Coll. of Carmes in the North Suburb of Oxon.  
Mar. 16. John Robyns M. A. of Alls. Coll.  
Besides these, were ten more admitted; among whom Fa. Matthew Devins a Cistercian of S. Bernard's Coll. was one; and about nineteen that supplicated for the said Degree; of which number, Fa. Rich. Bruerne, a Benedictin, was one, and John Gibbies, a Carme, another.  
One Fath. John Savage. an Austin Friar, was admitted this year to oppose in Diu. but whether admitted Bach. of that Faculty, it appears not.   

Doct. of Law.  
Not one, either in the Canon, or Civil, Law, was admitted this year.   

Doct. of Diu.  
Oct. 10. Fath. Rich. Thornden. sometimes written Thornton, a Benedictin Guardian Warden of Canterbury Coll. in Oxon.— He was afterwards Bishop of Dover.  
Jan. 17. Rich. Coren or Corwyn Canon of the Kings Coll. in Oxon, and of the King's Chapel of S. Stephen at Westminister.— He was made Archdeacon of Oxford in the place of Dr. Nic. Wilson, 1534, and died about the latter end of 1542.  
23. Anthony Molineaux of Magd. Coll.  
Mar. 12. Fa. Edw. Baskervyle.— He was about this time Guardian of the Franciscans Coll. in the Suburb of Oxon.  
Besides these, who were licenced to proceed, did supplicate for the said Degree Tho. Byrton B. D. lately a Canon of Card. Coll. and Rich. Criyspyne M. A. of Oriel Coll.   

Incorporations.  
Oct…. Stephen Gardiner Doct. of the Civ. Law of Cambridge.— He was now Bishop elect of Winchester, and had lately returned from his Embassy to Rome, to expedite the King's Divorce from Qu. Catherine, being then Secretary to the King, and commonly called by the name of Dr. Stephens. He was a learned man and of excellent parts, a great Statist, and a Writer of many Books, which are printed. I have seen one or more Letters written to him, while he was at Rome, by Card. Wolsey, who styling him by the name of Mr. Stevens, desires him and his Colleagues to spare no labour and cost to obtain for him the Papacy, for the settlement of the state wherein the Church and all Christendom doth at present stand, as also the state of this Realm and of the King's secret matter, (meaning the Divorce from Qu. Cath.) which if it should be brought to pass by any other means than by the Authority of the Church, I account this Prince and Realm utterly undone, etc. (an. 1529.) Many of the Letters written by this Dr. Gardiner to the King, Cardinal Wolsey, and others, are subscribed by the name of Stevens and Stephens.  
Oct…. John Bell Archdeacon of Gloucester and Doct. of the Civil Law beyond the Seas.— He was afterwards Bishop of Worcester.  
Oct…. Rich. Wolman Dean of Wells, Doct. of Decrees, as the public Register under the year 1523 tells us, and Dr. of the Civil Law of an University beyond the Seas, as the said Reg. under this year saith, was incorporated Doct. of the Civ. Law. In 1532 he was made Canon of Windsor in the place of Dr. James Denton (mentioned under the year 1505) being then styled Consiliarius regius, and dying in the Summer time, 1537, at which time he left several Legacies to the Church of Wells, and to Clavering (in Essex) was buried in the Cloister belonging to the Coll. of S. Stephen within the Palace of Westminster. In his Deanery succeeded Tho. Cromwell Secretary to K. Hen. 8. and in his Canonry one Rich. Arch, of whom will be mention made under the year 1537.  
William Knight Archdeacon of Richmond, and Doctor of Law beyond the Seas.— He was afterwards Bishop of bath and Wells.  
Oct…. Ed. Lee D. of D. beyond the Sea, and Archbishop elect of York.  
These five persons who were incorporated, were not then present in the University, but were deplomated, or had sent to each of them a Writing under the University Seal, to attest that they had the consent of the Commissary and Regent's that they were embodied or incorporated.  
Oct. 29. John Chamber Doctor of Physic beyond the Seas, was then incorporated.— A Certificate of it was sealed with the University Seal 16 Nou. following, and forthwith sent to him. This person, who had been Fellow of Mert. Coll. did, after he had taken the Degree of M. of A. travel into Italy 1502, studied Physic at Milan, and there took the Degree of Doctor in that Faculty. After his Return he became the King's Physician, and (with Lynacre and Victoria) Founder of the Coll. of Physicians at London. In 1510 he became Canon of Windsor, and in 1524 he was made Archdeacon of Bedford, being then Preb. of Combe and Harnham in the Church of Sarum. In 1526 he was elected Warden of Mert. Coll. and about the same time was made Dean of the King's Chapel dedicated to the blessed Virgin Mary and S. Stephen, within the Palace of Westminster; the Cloister of curious Workmanship adjoining to which, he did not only build, but did give to it the said Chapel, and the Canons belonging thereunto for ever, certain Lands, which he afterwards, upon the dissolution, saw taken into the King's hands. Afterwards he was made Treasurer of Wells, was double beneficed in Somersetshire and Yorkshire, and without doubt had other Dignities. He died in 1549, whereupon his Canonry was bestowed on Otwel Holinshead, and his Archdeaconry on Gilb. Bourne, who was afterwards Bishop of bath and Wells. As for his Wardenship of Mert. Coll. he resigned in 1545 and his Treasurership of Wells in May 1543, in which last succeeded John Marler, sometimes Prior or Master of the House or Hospital of S. John Bapt. in Wells. There was another John Camber equal in time almost with the former, who was Bishop of Peterborough, and died in 1556, as I have among the Bishops told you.    

An. Dom. 1532.  
An. 24 Hen. 8.  
Chanc. the same, viz. Dr. William. Warham Archb. of Canterbury, but he dying in the month of August, Dr. John Cottysford his Commissary resigned his Office, with the badges thereof, into the hands of the Proctors 26 of the said month, and they likewise into the hands of the signior Theologist Dr. Rich. Thornden of Canterbury College; who according to the manner was to be Cancellarius natus. At length K. Hen. 8. granting to the University power to elect a Chancellor (their Liberties and Privileges being now in his hands) the Members thereof chose Dr. John Longland Bishop of Lincoln on the first day of the Term following, according to the King's desire.  

Commiss. 

John Cottysford D. D. for the former part of the year under Archb. Warham.  
William. Tresham D. D. lately of Merton, now Canon of the Kings, Coll. was Commissary for the other part of the year.     
Tresham was designed by the new Chanc. Dr. Longland, and entered on his Commissaryship on the 15 of Oct. On which day he had the badges of his Office beforemention'd delivered into his hands.  

Proct. 

William Selwood of New Coll.  
William Pedyll of Mert. Coll. 

April 9       

Gram.  
Oct. 18. Christoph. Wynnington.  
For to inform also, supplicated Patr. Growte, Humph. Victor, and John Dowbyn, but they occur not admitted.   

Bach. of Arts.  
Feb. 17. Rob. Warde of Merton Coll. a noted Philosopher.  
Besides him were admitted 55, and about 15 there were that supplicated, among whom William. Baldewyn was one, mentioned among the Writers under the year 1564.   

Bach. of Civ. Law.  
Ninteen at least were admitted, among whom were (1) John C●ttrel, whom I shall mention among the Doctors in 1542. (2) Tho. Young; not the same who was afterwards Archb. of York, but another. See among the Bach. of Civ. Law 1537. (3) Rich. Wylson. (4) Roger Willyams, of which two, I know nothing; and (5) Will Jeffrey, of whom I shall make large mention among the Doctors of LL. 1540  
Five also there were that supplicated, who were not admitted this year.   

Bach. of Can. Law.  
June 19 John Lylford a Benedictin Monk.  
July 8. John ap Rice or Price a sec. Chapl.  
Feb. 15. Maurice Gryffyth.— I take him to be the same mentioned among the Bach. of Diu. this year.  
Besides these were about 24 admitted, and about 21 that supplicated, among whom Will. Luson Bach. of the Civ. Law beyond the Seas was one, the same Will. Luson perhaps who occurs Archdeacon of Caermerthen in the Diocese of S. David 1571.   

Mast. of Arts.  
June 6. Will. Bradbridge or Brodbridge of Magd. Coll.  

Jan. 14. Hugh Weston of Linc.  
29. Gilb. Bourne of Alls.  
Feb. 19 John Parkhurst of Merton 

Coll.     
Three of which were afterwards Bishops, and two were Writers.  
Besides them were about 40 that were admitted, and but four that supplicated for the said degree, that were not adm.   

Opponents in Divinity.  
May 13. Thomas Macy or massy a Can. regular and now Prior of the Coll. of Canon regulars called S. Maries Coll. in Oxon.— He was afterwards Bach. of Diu. but omitted in the Register.  
Eight besides him were admitted to oppose, among whom were John Nottyngham a Minorite, and Walt. Bower a Benedictin but were not now or after admitted Bach. of Diu.   

Bach. of Diu.  
June 27. John Palsgrave.— See afterwards in the Incorporations.  
Jul. 5. Maurice Gryffyth or Griffyn a Dominican.— He was afterwards Bishop of Rochester.  
Dec. 7. Fa. John Tybbies a Benedictin.  
Nine besides were admitted, (of which number were John Doove or Dove, and John Gibbies, Carmes; Rich. Knight a Dominican, Walt. Sutton and John Kingston, Benedictines; and Rob. Roberdsoryge a Bernardine) and about 29 there were that supplicated for the said Degree, among whom were (1) John Helyar of C. C. Coll. (2) George Browne an Austin Friar, afterwards Archb. of Dublin. (3) Fath. Simon Clerkson a Carme. (4) Fath. John Card-maker a Minorite, who had spent 16 years here and at Cambridge in Logic, Philosophy, and Divinity; but whether admitted, it appears not. This Card-maker did about the time of the dissolution of Abbeys 1535, preach very freely against the Power of the Pope, and afterwards was made Prebendary of Wells. In the Reign of K. Ed. 6. he took to him a Wife, and had by her a Female Child, and became a Reader in Paul's, where his Lectures were so much offensive to the Rom. Cath. Party, that they abused him to his face, and with their knives would cut and haggle his Gown. About that time he was made Chancellor of the Church of Wells by the name of John Tayler alias Card-maker▪ and was looked upon there and at London as the most zealous Minister to carry on the work of Reformation. At length when Qu. Mary came to the Crown he was deprived of his Spiritualities, and imprisoned in the Fleet, was had before the Bishop of London and the Spiritual Power, to know whether he would recant his Heresy as they called it, but he stiffly denying it, and therefore condemned to die, he was burnt in Smithfield 30 May 1555, as John Fox in his Book of Acts and Mon. of the Church will tell you.   

Doct. of Civ. Law.  
Jul. 5. Hugh Coren or Curwyn.— He was afterwards Archb. of Dublin, and Bishop of Oxon.  
Jan 24. John Barber of Alls. Coll.— He was an Advocate in the Court of Arches, and died at Wrotham in Kent about the beginning of the year 1549.  
Will. Petre of Alls. Coll. was admitted the same day.— This worthy Person was Son of John Petre a rich Tanner of Torbryan in Devenshire, and was originally of Exeter Coll. Thence he was elected Fellow of Alls. Coll. in 1523, and afterwards became successively Principal of Peckwater's Inn, one of the Visitors of Religious Houses when they were about to be dissolved, Master of the Requests and a Knight, Secretary and one of the Privy Council to K. Hen. 8 and Ed. 6. Sub-Treasurer, afterwards Treasurer, to K. Ed. 6. of the first Fruits and Tenths, Secretary of the Privy Council to Q. Marry, in whose time he was Chancellor of the Order of the Garter, and at length of the Privy Council to Q. Elizabeth. He died 13 Jan. 1571, and was buried in the Church of Ingerston in Essex on 11 Feb. following. The learned Cambden 
a 〈…〉  saith, that he was a man of approved Wisdom and exquisite Learning, and not so much memorable for those honourable Places and Offices of State which he bore, and for his oftentimes being sent in Embassage to foreign Princes as for that being bred and brought up in good Learning, he well 〈◊〉 of Learning in the University of Oxford, and was both pitiful and bountèous to his poor Neighbours about him, and of Ingerston where he lies buried.  
Jan. 24. Griffyn Leyson Principal of S. Edwunds Hall near S. Edw. Church.— He with John Oliver Dr. of the Civ. Law, were employed in the matter of depriving Steph. Gardiner of his Bishopric of Winchester: and in the time of Qu. Mary wheeling about, he became a Justice of Peace, and High Sheriff of Caermerthenshire, when Rob. ●errar Bishop of S. David's was burnt an. 1555; at which time suffering not the said Bishop to speak his mind when he was at the Stake, (as John Fox 
* 〈…〉  tells us) died about half an year after, when he would have spoke himself, but could not.  
One George Throgmorton LL. B. did supplicate to be admitted to the said degree, but was not.   

Doct. of Diu.  
Jul. 5. Rich. Langrigg or Langrish.— He was originally of Mert. Coll. and from being Fellow ehere, he became one of the Canons of Cardinal Coll. Chaplain to Wolsey Archb. of York, and afterwards to Dr. Lee his Successor in that See. In 1534 he became Archdeacon of Clieuland in the place of Dr. Will. Clyffe promoted to the Chantorship of York; and dying in 1547, he was succeeded in the said Archdeaconry by Dr. Jo. Warner.  
Joh. Hopton a Dominican, was admitted the same day.— This person though incorporated D. of D. in 1529, yet he was now licenced to proceed, and accordingly stood in the Act celebrated three days after his Admission. See more among the Bishops under the year 1558.  
July 28. Will. Tresham lately of Merton, now Canon of the Kings, Coll. in Oxon.  
John Travyshe M. of A. and B. D. was adm. Doct. the same day.  
This year also Fa. Rich. Hylsey a Dominican, and Simon Atkyns M. A. and B. of D. supplicated to be Doctors of the said Faculty. The former was afterwards admitted, but neglected to be put in the Register, the other was not.   

Incorporations.  
June 1. Jam. Turbervyle of New Coll. D. of D. of another University.— He was afterwards Bishop of Exeter.  

June 19 Joh. Palsgrave  
Feb…. Will. Leighton 

M. A. of Cambr.     
July…Rob. Wakefeld B. of D. of Cambridge, now Canon of the Kings Coll. at Oxon.  
Nou…. Fa. John Hurleston or Huddleston a Carme, Bach of Diu. of the University of Colen.  
In the month of June this year supplicated Rich. Croke D. of D. of Cambridge, and about this time Canon of the Kings Coll. in Oxon, to be incorporated in that degree; which Supplication, though not at that time granted, yet afterwards he was incorporated.    

An. Dom. 1533.  
An. 25 Hen. 8.  
Chanc. John Longland D. D. and Bishop of Lincoln, sometimes Fellow of Magd. Coll.  
Commiss. in chief was Will. Treshan D. D.  

Proct. 

John Pekyns of Exeter Coll.  
Owen Oglethorp of Magd. Coll. 

Apr. 3.       

Grammarians.  

June…Gilb. Saywell  
Jan…. Jehn Best. 

Scholar of Gram.     
These two were admitted to inform in Grammar: Qu. Whether Jo. Best was not the same person who in 1560 was made Bish. of Carlisle, for in these days, and after, several of the Bishops were originally Pedagogues.   

Bach. of Arts.  
July 20. John Man of New Coll.— He was afterwards Warden of Mert. Coll. and Dean of Gloucester, as I have told you among the Writers under the year 1568.  

July 20. 

Thomas Talbot  
Rich. Caldwell or Chaldwall of Brasnose Coll.     
Feb. 15. John Clerke— Quaere.  
Sixty two in all were admitted this year, and but six that suppl.   

Bach. of Civ. Law.  
July 13. Joh. Wymesley or Wymsley of Broadgates' Hall.— He was made Archdeacon of London by his Brother Dr. Bonner Bishop of that City, in the place of Dr. Rich. Gwent deceased, an. 1543, and was present in the Convocation of the Clergy 1 Mari. c, Dom. 1553, in which Convocation he did speak an Oration that was soon after made public.  
About nine besides him were admitted, and but three there were that supplicated for the said degree.   

Bach. of Can. Law.  
Nou. 27. Donatus Riane a public Reader of the Canon Law in New Inn.— A learned Irish 
b 〈…〉  Author in his enumcration or Writers and learned men of Ireland, tells us there were two Brethren of Oxford whose Surnames were Riane, and that one of them was a good Civilian, and the other a Mathematician, but mentions nothing of their Writings. This Donatus therefore I take to be the Civilian, and Daniel mentioned under the year 1556, to be the Mathematician. See in the year 1514.  
Besides him were six admitted, and eight at least that supplicated for the said degree.   

Mast. of Arts.  
Mar…. John Shepreve or Shepery of C. C. Coll.  
Apr…. Will. Pie of Oriel.— He was afterwards Dean of Chichester.  
Jan. 30. Joh. white of New Coll.— He was afterwards B. of Wint.  
Mar. 19 Thomas Young.— Perhaps the same who took a degree in the Civ. Law 1537, as I shall tell you in that year.  
Besides these, were but fourteen admitted, and about eight that supplicated for the said degree, that were not this year admitted.   

Opponents in Divinity.  
Mar. 31. Fath. Rob. Kynner alias Bate a Monk of the Order of S. Bernard. now of S. Bernard's Coll.— He was the last Abbot of Smite in Warwickshire, of the Cistercian Order. In the year before he supplicated for the degree of Bach. of Diu. though he had not opposed; and whether he was admitted this, or in any other year following, it appears not in the Reg.  

Mar. 31. Fath.  
May. 29. Fath. Tho. Kyngeswood 

Rich. Greene  
Ralph Wobourne. 

of S. Bernard's Coll.       
These three Fathers who were Monks of the Order of S. Bern. were not adm. Bach. of Diu. which is the reason I put them here.  
Nou. 29. Fr. John Wyllyams a Minorite.   

Bach. of Diu.  
May 29. Fa. Rob. Combe a Bernardine or Cistercian Monk, now Provisor of S. Bernard's Coll. in Oxon.  
Oct. 14. Rob. Ferrar a Can. reg. of S. Mary's Coll.— He was afterwards Bishop of S. David.  
Mar. 7. Fa. Tho. (sometimes written Will.) Todde a Bened. Monk.  
11. Fa. Andr. Alton of the same Order, and about this time Prior of the Monks living in Gloucester Coll. in the Suburb of Oxon.  
20. Thomas Goldwell M. A.— He was afterwards B. of S. Asaph.  
Besides these, were six more admitted, and about 16 that supplicated, among whom were Fr. John Arthure and Fr. Edw Reyley, Minorites, Fath. Tho. Wethamsted and Fa. John Langport, Benedictines; Fr. Joh. Joseph and Fr. Joh. Bachelor, Minorites; the last of which was Subgardian of the Franciscan Coll. in Oxon.  
☞ Not one Doct. of Can. or Civ. Law, nor one Doct. of Physic was admitted this year.   

Doct. of Diu.  
Neither in Divinity, only John Bellytory M. A. of Mert. Coll. and John Wylson Bach. of Diu. supplicated for that degree.— One Rich Board also M. of A. of this University and Doct. of Diu. of Paris, did supplicate to be absent from Exequys, Masses, Processions, etc.    

An. Dom. 1534.  
An. 26 Hen. 8.  
Chanc. Dr. Lengland Bishop of Lincoln, with whom it was dispensed by the Regent's, that he might, if he please, remain in his Office for term of life.  
Commiss. Dr. Tresham, styled sometimes Vicechancellor.  

Proct. 

Dunstan Lacie of Linc. Coll.  
John Howell or ap Howell of Alls. Coll.     
Which Proctors were elected on the first day of Easter Term: but Lacie dying in the month of Sept John Poller or Paulet (I know not whether he be the same with John Polla●d who was Proctor in 1531) succeeded by the King's Authority, and served out the remaining part of the year.  

Bach. of Arts.  
Dec. 19 Seth Holland— See more under the year 1538.  
Jan…. Tho. Chester— He was afterwards Bishop of Elphine in Ireland.  
Forty two more were admitted, and about nine that supplicated.   

Bach. of Civ. Law.  
Jul. 3. John Price of Broadgates Hall.— Perhaps he may be the same with John Price who is mentioned among the Writers under the year 1554.  
Fourteen in all were admitted, and but three that supplicated who were not admitted this year.   

Bach. of Can. Law.  
May 17. Rob. Evans.— He was about this time Dean of Bangor, but when he was admitted thereunto I find not. One Rowland Thomas LL. D. was Dean of that Church in the beginning of Qu. Elizabeth's Reign, and died in January 1586; but whether he was immediate Successor to R. Evans I know not.  
Nine in all were admitted, and about twelve that supplicated for the said degree; among whom were William Ayllesbury a Can. regular of the Monastery of Arrouvise in the Diocese of Arr●● in France.   

Mast. of Art.  

June 19 Nich. Udall  
28. Will. Chedsey  
Mar. 17. Patrick Walsh. 

of C. C. Coll.     
The two former were Writers, the other was afterwards a Bish. in Ireland.  
The number that were admitted this year, were in all 25 at least, besides about six that supplicated who were not admitted.   

Bach. of Phys.  
Three this year supplicated for the said degree, of which, two, as it seems, were admitted, viz. Will. Pie of Oriel Coll. who was afterwards a learned Divine, and a Dean, and Job. D●tyn of Exet. Coll. which last, though he hath written nothing, yet he was a learned man, and a Benefactor to Learning, by giving a House and Land to his Coll. situate and being in the Parish of Bampton in Oxfordshire, (of which place he was one of the Vicars) and many choice Books to their Library, as I have told 
‡ In Hist. &. Antiq. Vniu. Oxon. l. ●. p. 〈…〉.  you elsewhere. He was beneficed in Cornwall. Devonshire, Somersetshire, and Oxfordshire, and was also Canon of the Cath. Ch. at Exeter.   

Bach. of Diu.  
Mar. 27. George Cotes or Cootes of Magd. Coll.  
June 25. Walt. Buckler originally Fellow of Merton, afterwards Canon of Cardinal, College, was then admitted Bach. of Divinity, though not in priestly Orders.— The Person who was second Son of John Buckler of Cawsay in Dorsetshire, and had been lately a Student in the University of Paris, was afterwards promoted by the King to be a Canon of his Coll. in Oxon founded on that of the Cardinal, and about the same time was by him sent about State Affairs to Paris, which he performed with good liking to the said King. In the first of Ed. 6. he received the honour of Knighthood, and when Qu. Elizabeth came to the Crown, he was made one of her Privy Council. He died at Fairford in Glocestershire, having married the Widow of Sir Edward Tame Knight, Lord of that Manor, and was buried in the Church there. Over whose Grave though there be no Inscription, (notwithstanding, as I remember, there is a Monument for him) yet his 
a 〈…〉 p. 23. 45, etc.  contemporary in Mert. Coll. named Jo. Parkhurst, hath perpetuated his Memory by certain Epigrams.  
Jan. 16. Fr. Will. Browne a Minorite.— One Will. Browne become Prior of Monk-Bretton in the Dioc. of York, about 1523, but I take him not to be the same with the Minorite.  
29. Guy Etton, Eton or Eton, a Minorite or Franciscan or Grace Friar.— In the Reign of K. Ed. 6. he was Archdeacon of Gloucester; but when Qu. Mary came to the Crown, he left that Dignity and certain Spiritualities, and went with his Companion and Friend John Jewel into Germany, and lived as an Exile at Strasburgh; from whence returning in the beginning of Qu. Elz. he was restored to his Archdeaconry, and kept it to 1571, and after. He is styled by a learned 
* L●ur. Humfredus in Vit. 〈…〉.  Author Vir pius & cruditus.  
Feb. 26. Fa. Tho. Wellys a Benedictine.— He seems to be the same with Tho. Wellys a Ben. who supplicated for the degree of Bach. of Diu. in 1514. This Tho. Wellys was afterwards Prior of Gloc. Coll.  
Besides these, were about seven more admitted, among whom Rich. Ewer was one, afterwards one of the first Prebendaries of Worcester, Rich. London a Benedictine another, and Tho. Thomson a Franciscan a third.  
There were also about eight that supplicated, among whom was Tho. Clerk a Monk of the Cistercian Order; but whether he was admitted, I cannot find. Perhaps he may be the same Tho. Clerk who from being the last Abbot of S. Werburgh in Chester (of the Benedictine Order, from which the Cistercians have their rise) was made the first Dean of the Cath. Ch. of Chester.   

Doct. of Civ. Law.  
Jun. 30. John Vacham, formerly, as I conceive, of Alls. College, which is all I yet know of him.   

Doct. of Diu.  
Jul. 9 Rich. Lorgan sometimes Fellow of Oriel Coll. afterwards Principal of S. Mary's Hall, now Divinity Reader of Magd. Coll. was then admitted D. of D. but did not proceed till 1535.  
John Hurleston or Huddleston a Carme, did supplicate for the deg. of Doct. but I cannot find him admitted. See among the Incorp. in 1533.   

Incorporations.  
Jul. 20. George Browne a Friar of the Order of S. Austin, and Doct. of Diu. of another University, was then incorporated.— He was afterwards Archbishop of Dublin.  
About this time the famous Ralph Gualther of Zurich studied in Oxon, for the sake of Libraries and scholastical Company. Afterwards he became an eminent Theologist of the reformed Persuasion, and Author of many Books.    

An. Dom. 1535.  
An. 27 Hen. 8.  
Chanc. the same.  
Commiss. the same.  

Proct. 

Edm. Shethor of Alls. C.  
John Pollet again. 

elect. 1st day of East. Term.       
Which Proctors, especially the signior, having received divers Affronts from the Townsmen, were, with their Retinue, forced to walk in the streets day and night, armed. And when the said Shethor was going out of his Office, it was decreed by the Members of the Uniu. that in case he should be any ways vexed or molested by the Oppidans, he might 
† 〈◊〉 Uniu. 〈◊〉 fol. 12. ●.  defend himself at the Uniu. charge.  

Grammar.  
Sept. 21. Ralph Smalepage.  
Feb. 26. Ralph Smyth a Sec. Chapl.  
Both which were admitted to inform in Grammar.   

Bach. of Music.  
Jul. 12. Thom. Mendus a Secular Chaplain, was then admitted to the reading of any of Musical books of Boetius.  
One Tho. Bryghtwyn a Secul. Chapl. did supplicate for the said Degree, but whether he was admitted it appears not.   

Bach. of Arts.  
Jul. 5. Edw. Quemmerford an Irish Man.— He is reported by a Writer of his Country to be a learned Man, as indeed he was, considering the time he lived in, as other Authors also till us. One Nich. Quemmerford I have mentioned among the Writers, but what this Edward hath written I cannot yet find.  
About 41 were admitted this year, and about 10 that supplicated who were not admitted.   

Bach. of Civ. Law.  
Jul. 12. Henry Siddall— He was afterwards Canon of Ch. Ch. in Oxon. and in the Reign of Edw. 6. a great admirer and follower of Pet. Martyr, a turner about in Qu. Mary's Reign, and a returner in that of Qu. Elizabeth, such was the mutability and poor spirit of the Man. See more among the Doctors of Diu. in 1552. and 1558.  
Besides him were seven admitted, of whom Richard Plunket a Secular Chapl. was one, and nine that supplicated for the said Degree, but were not admitted.   

Bach. of Can. Law.  
Apr. 24. John Man a Sec. Chapl. and Fellow of New College.— Not the same with him who was admitted Bath. of Arts 1533. but another.  
Jul. 12. Henry Siddall beforemention'd.  
Besides these two were seven also admitted, and but two that supplicated.   

Mast. of Arts.  
Jun. 10. John Hoker of Magd. Coll.  
Jul. 1. Jam. Brokes of C. C. C.— Afterwards B. of Gloc.  
Besides these two were about 27 admitted, among whom August. Cross of Exet. Coll. was one, afterwards Fellow of Eton Coll. and a rich Dignitary.   

Bach. of Diu.  
Apr. 23. Fath. Rob. Joseph a Benedictine Monk— In the year 1537 I find him to be Prior of Gloucester Coll. in Oxon. and in 1538 it appears that Thom. Wellys succeeded, being the last of the Priors of that Coll.  

Jul. 1. Fath. Humph. Cherytey  
Nou. 3. Fath. 

Nich. Andrews  
John (sometimes written  
Thom.) Adelston  
John Neott. 

Benedictines.       
Feb. 12. Owen Oglethorp Precedent of Magd. Coll.  
Besides these, 8 more were admitted, and about 13 that supplicated who were not this year admitted; among whom were Fath. Will. Pond an Austen Friar, Fa. Hugh Glasyer a Minorite.  
☞ Not one Doctor of the Can. or Civ. Law was admitted this year.   

Doct. of Physic.  
Jul. 5. John Warner of Alls. Coll.— In the year following he was made Warden of the said Coll being about that time the public Professor of Physic in the University, and in 1541. or thereabouts he became one of the first Prebendaries of Winchester. In 1547 in July he was made Archdeacon of Clieuland in the place of Dr. Rich. Langrigg or Langrish deceased, and afterwards became Archdeacon of Ely in the room of Dr. John Boxall, but the year when, I cannot tell. In 1559 (1. Eliz.) he being then Preb. of Vlfcomb in the Church of Sarum, was made Dean of Winchester in the place of Dr. Edm. Steward, and dying in his house in Warwick-lane in London, 21. March 1564 was buried in the Chancel of the Church of Great Stanemere in Middlesex. In his Wardenship of Alls. Coll. Rich. Barber LL. D. succeeded, in his Archdeaconry of Clieuland, (which he resigned about an year before his death) one Christoph. Malton M. A. was installed in Apr. 1564. in his Archd. of Ely. (which also he had resigned) one Rob. Wisdom of Cambridge a good Lat. and English Poet of his time, and one that had been an Exile in Qu. Mary's Reign, succeeded, but the year when I cannot justly say; and in his Deanery of Winchester followed Franc. Newton D. D. an. 1565. As for Rob. Wisdom beforementioned, who was also Rector of Settrington in Yorkshire, died in 1568.  
Jul. 5. John Gaynes (sometimes written Jaynys) M. A. and Bac. of Phys. was then adm. being the same day on which Dr. Warner was admitted.  
One Will. Coole M. A. and B. of Phys. supplicated to be adm. Doctor of that fac. but was not.   

Doct. of Diu.  
May 8. James Blythe the King's Chaplain.— See among the Incorporations, an. 1527.  
Jul. 5. Fa. Edward Hynmersh or Inmarsh a Benedictine— He was lately Warden or Guardian of Durham Coll. in Oxon, and now Chancellor to Cuthb. Tonstall B. of Durham.  

Jul. 5.  
Fa. 

Will. Bennet  
Roger Bell 

Benedictines.       
Feb. 17. Owen Oglethorp of Magd. Coll. was then adm. D. of D. having but 5 days before been admitted B. D.  
John hastings of the Kings Coll. and Anth. Sutton, both Masters of Arts and Bach. of Diu. supplicated to be admitted Doctors of the said fac. but were not, this year.    

An. Dom. 1536.  
An. 28. Hen. 8.  

Chanc. the same  
Commiss. the same 

as in the year 1534.     

Proct. 

Will. Wetherton of Magd. Coll.  
Will. Pie of Oriel Coll. 

May 5.       

Bach. of Arts.  
May 29. Alexand. Nowell of Brasenose Coll.  
Jul. 5. John Harley of Magd. Coll.— He was afterwards B. of Hereford.  
12. Ralph skinner of New Coll.— Whether he took the Degree of M. of A. or of any other faculty in this University, I cannot in all my searches find: Yet when he was elected Warden of New Coll. in the beginning of May 1551, he is said to be M. A. In 1560 March 5. he was installed Dean of Durham in the place of Rob. Horn promoted to the See of Winchester, and dying in 1563 was succeeded by Will. Whittingham, to whom the Queen gave it (notwithstanding she had promised it to Dr. Tho. Wilson) on the 19 Jul. the same year.  
Feb. 27. John Harpesfeild of New Coll.— He was afterward a grand zealot in the times of reformation for the R. C. cause.  
Besides these four, were about 30 more that were admitted, besides about 7 that supplicated.   

Bach. of Law.  
Jun…. Will. Binsley of New Coll. was then admitted Bach. of both the Laws— After he had resigned the Vicarage of Adderbury in Oxfordshire 1554, he became about that time Chancellor to D. Pole Bishop of Peterborough and Archdeacon of Northampton, in which last Dignity he was succeeded by one Nich. Sheppard Master of St. John's Coll. in Cambridge, about 1571. This Binsley is reported to have been a persecutor of Protestants in Queen Mary's Reign while he was a Chancellor: And that after Qu. Elizah. came to the Crown he was notwithstanding that, made Archdeacon of Peterborough, etc.  
Mar. 22. Rich. Read of New Coll.— See among the Doctors in 1540  
Besides these two, were but two more that were admitted, and but three that supplicated, that were not admitted; among whom Donatus Tayge an Irish Man was one.  
Not one was admitted in the Canon Law, nor one that supplicated: For Religious houses being about this time dissolved, there occurs not the third or fourth part of Bachelaurs of the Can. or Civ. Law (especially the former) as before.   

Mast. of Arts.  
For the same reason but eleven Masters were admitted this year, five of whom were of Merton Coll. and but two that supplicated, who were not admitted.   

Bach. of Diu.  
May 13. Rich. Smyth of Merton Coll. now the King's Professor of Divinity.  
Jun. 28. Tho Raynolds of the same Coll.— See afterwards among the Doctors this year.  
Mar. 9 Father James Procter a Monk of that Order of St. Bernard alias Cisteaux and Archdeacon of Dorset, in the place of Edw. Fox) who studied now in St. Bernard's Coll. in Oxon, was then admitted.— He was afterwards made Canon of the Kings Coll. in Oxon, where abiding till 1545, at which time the said Coll. was to be converted into a Cathedral, he had in recompense for it 20 l. per an. paid unto him out of the Exchequer. Afterwards being made Prebendary of Salisbury, was at length, about the year 1579, nominated by Qu. Elizab. to succeed John Devereux in the See of Fernes in Ireland; but he dying before his consecration thereunto, Hugh Allen B. of Down and Co●nor was translated to that See.  
Fa. Anth. Clerk a Monk of the said Order, and of St. Bernard's Coll. was admitted the same day.  
Fa. Edward Manchester another Monk of the same Order and Coll. was then also admitted.— When his Monastery was dissolved he returned to his old Surname again, which was Pedley, and in 1538 I find him in a poor condition, as the other Fathers of the same Order probably were.  
Two more were admitted, and six that supplicated for that Degree, who were not admitted; among whom were Fr. John Lylling a Minorite.   

Doct. of Civil Law.  
Octob. 11. Will. Coke or Cook of Alls College, now Rector or Warden of Elmeley in Kent.— In 1537 I find him by the name of Will. Coke LL. D. to be Principal or Chief Moderator of the Civ. Law School in St. Edward's Parish, and in 1548 Judge or General Commissary, or custos of the Prerogative Court of Canterbury. I take this Dr. Cook to be the same with him, who was zealous in examining Protestants about matters of faith, when they were brought before the Bishop of London; as you may see in the Acts and Mon. of the Church under the year 1558. and elsewhere.   

Doct. of Diu.  
Jul. 5. John hastings sometimes of University, now Canon of the Kings, Coll. in Oxon.  
Thom. Raynolds of Merton, sometimes one of the Canons of Cardinal, Coll. was admitted the same day.— He was afterwards Warden of Merton Coll. Residentiary of Exeter, Dean of Bristol for a time, an. 1553, and Dean of Exeter in the year following, on the death of Dr. John Moreman. This Person being learned, and Chaplain to Queen Mary, she therefore nominated him to succeed Rob. Parfew alias Warton in the Episcopal See of Hereford, but she dying before he received consecration thereunto, was not only put aside by Queen Elizabeth, but by her committed to custody in the Prison called the Marshalsea in Southwark, where he died about 24. Nou. 1559.  
Jul. 5. Nich. Cartwryght M. of A. and Bach. of Diu.— In the Reign of K. Ed. 6. he was a great admirer of Pet. Martyr and his Doctrine, and about that time was made Master, or Schoolmaster, of the House or Hospital of St. John Baptist joining to Banbury in Oxfordshire. In the Reign of Qu. Marry he was commanded to dispute with Hugh Latymer in the Divinity School, before he was to sacrifice his life in the flames, an. 1554, yet spoke as little as could be; and two years after, he was deprived of a benefice in the Dioc. of Lichf. and Cou. He died and was buried at Banbury beforementioned, about 1558.  

Jul. 5. 

John Huchenson  
Matthew Wyttalls 

Masters of Arts and Bach. of Diu.       
George Cotes of Magd. Coll. was adm. the same day— Soon after he was Master of Balliol Coll. and at length Bishop of Chester.  
Rich. Smyth of Mert. Coll. mentioned before among the Bach. of Diu. was also admitted the same day— Afterwards, in the times of reformation, he was esteemed the chief pillar of the R. Cath. cause.  
At the same time one John Vine M. A. and Bach. of Diu. supplicated to be Doctor of that fac. but was not admitted.   

Incorporations.  
Not one was really incorporated, only several supplicated in Order to it, as (1) Ralph Small M. A. of an University beyond the Sea, who also supplicated in the year following for incorporation. (2) John Belfield B. A. of Cambridge, who being 8 years standing in that University, supplicated this year also to be M. of A. (3) Joh. Crayford D. D. of Cambridge— See more in 1546.    

An. Dom. 1537.  
An. 29. Hen. 8.  
Chanc. the same.  
Commiss. Dr. Tresham.  

Proct. 

Hugh Weston of Linc. Coll.  
Tho. Knight of Linc. Coll. 

Apr. 11.       

Bach. of Arts.  
May 3. Rich. Bertue or Bertie of C. C. Coll.— He afterwards married with Catherine the sole Daughter and Heir of William Lord Willoughby of Eresby, (the Widow of Charles Brandon Duke of Suffolk) became Possessor of the great estate belonging to that title, and Father of Peregrine Lord Willoughby of Eresby, ancestor to Bertie Earl of Lindsey and Bertie E. of Abendon.  
Feb. 18. Morgan Philipps or Philip Morgan of Oriel Coll. commonly called Morgan the Sophister.  
23. Rob. Paulet— One John Paulet sometimes of Oxon occurs Dean of the Island of Jernesey.  
28. Tho. Harding of New Coll.  
In all about six and thirty, besides ten or more that supplicated for that Degree.   

Bach. of Civ. Law.  
Jul. 2. John Coke a Secular Chaplain and a Student in the Cesarean Laws here, and at Cambridge, for three years or more— This Person is not to be understood to be the same with John Coke or Cook, who occurs a little before this time Abbat of Osney, as some have taken him to be so; which is the reason that I make now this note of him.  
Feb. 17. Tho. Young a Sec. Chaplain, now, as it seems, of Broadgates' hall.— He was afterwards Archbishop of York.  
Rob. Weston of Alls. Coll. was admitted the same day.— See among the Doctors of the Civ. Law in 1556.  
Will. Dalby of the said Coll. was also adm. the same day.— He was afterwards Chancellor of the Diocese of Bristol, whence he was ejected upon account of Religion in the beginning of Qu. Elizabeth, as Nic. Saunders tells 
a 〈…〉 Monarch edit. 1592. p. 6●0.  us.  
Feb. 17. Benedictus Guarsius, sometimes written Ballasarus Gwarcius. Quaere.  
Besides these, was only Arth. Pytts of Alis. Coll. admitted; and one Hugh Whytford who supplicated for the said Degree.  
Not one was admitted in the Canon Law, nor one supplicated, for the reason I have before told you, under the year 1537.   

Mast. of Arts.  
May 11. John paul or Bowl of Alls. Coll.— This Person who was Canon of Windsor in the time of Ed. 6. is reported by a certain 
b 〈…〉 in 〈◊〉. Decanorum & 〈…〉. Winds. MS. pene● 〈◊〉 A. W.  writer to have been lately Prior of Merton in Surrey, and that dying at Windsor 15 Aug. 1558 was buried there.  
Rich. Reeve of Alls. Coll. was adm. the same day— He was afterwards the first Prebendary of the ninth Prebendship of Westminster an. 1560, Canon of Wandsore in 1561 and the Queen's Chaplain. This Person is remembered by John Fox in his book of Acts and Monuments of the Church, to have been the noted Schoolmaster of Berchamstede in Hertfordshire, and that for his zeal to protestancy, he was brought into some kind of trouble in the Reign of Qu. Mary. He died in 1594, leaving behind him the Character of a religious and learned Man; whereupon Cuthbert Bellot M. A. succeeded him in his Prebendship, and Alex. N●well Dean of St. Paul's Cathedral in his Canonry.  
Feb. 13. John Man of New Coll. was then admitted Master being the same whom I have mentioned under the year 1533.  
In all 39 or thereabouts.   

Bach. of Diu.  

Dec. 3.  
Fath.  
Feb. 8. Fa. John Warham. 

Rob. Nettleham  
Will. Lyncolne 

Benedictines.       
15. Will. Haynes of Oriel Coll.— He was afterwards Provost of that College, Fellow of Eton, the third Canon of Osney, and the first of the first Canonry or Prebendship of Ch. Ch. in Oxon. Some report that he was also Dean of Exeter, but false, for 'twas Simon Heynes that enjoyed that Dignity.  
Four more were admitted, and about 7 there were that supplicated for the said Degree, among whom John Crayford a Minorit● was one, who had spent several years in study both here and at Cambridge, Rob. Wellys M. A. and Fellow of Eton Coll. another, and Thom. massy a Canon regular a third; which last was Prior of St. Mary's Coll. in Oxon and was about this time adm. Bach. of Divinity, but neglected to be registered by the public scribe.   

Doct. of Civ. Law.  
Jan. 18. Richard lyel of Alls. Coll.  
Rowl. Merick about this time of New Inn was adm. the same day— He was afterwards Bishop of Bangor.  
For the same Degree supplicated one Rich. Arch LL. B. but was not admitted. In 1526 I find him to be Principal of Broadgates' hall by the name of Rich. Archer, and now (1538) to be the King's Chaplain and Canon of Windsor. On the 28. Dec. 1551. he was made Treasurer of the Church of Salisbury on the death of Matthew Wotton, who had succeeded in that Dignity one Tho. Stevens.   

Doct. of Diu.  
Apr. 13. Father William Todde a Monk of the Order of St. Benedict of Durham Coll. as it seems, and a Monk of Durham, was then adm. Doct. of Diu.  
Not one besides was admitted, nor one supplicated for that deg.   

Incorporations.  
May… Christop. Massyngberd LL. Bach. of Cambridge and Chanc. of the Church of Linc.— Afterwards he supplicated to the licenced to proceed in the Laws, but whether he was so, it appears not. In 1543 he succeeded Dr. Anth. Draycot in the Archdeaconry of Stow, and dying 8. March 1553 was buried in the middle of the Isle on the South side of the Choir belonging to the Church of Lincoln. Whereupon John Aylmer or Elmer succeeded in that Dignity, but before he had enjoyed it an year, was deprived of it, being then the first year of Qu. Marry, and one John Harrison was put into his place, 1554.  
This year on the 19 July the rev. Father Anthony Brock or Brockbey (sometimes written Brorbe) a Franciscan or Grey Friar, well read in Divinity and learned in the Greek and Heb. tongues, sometimes a Student in St. Mar. Magd. Coll. Oxon, suffered death by hanging, for speaking against the King's proceedings in extirpating the Pope's power and demolishing of religious houses. I put this observation under the year of his death because that he, being reported by 
c T●o. ●ouchier in Hist Ecclesiastica de Martyr● fratrum 〈…〉 etc. edit. Ingolstad, 1583. part. 2. fol. 15. b.  one to be a Licentiat in Divinity, and by 
d Franc. a S. 〈◊〉 in Hist. 〈…〉 Frotrum Minorum, etc. edit. 〈…〉 1665. Sect. 15. p. 4. 〈◊〉 60.  another a Professor of Divinity, of this University, I cannot find any such thing in our public registers, which are imperfect in several years before this time, especially in the year 1517.    

An. Dom. 1538.  
An. 30. Hen. 8.  
Chancellor the same.  
Commiss. the same.  

Proct. 

Rich. Arderne of Magd. Coll.  
Thomas Roberts of Oriel Coll. 

May 8       
Which Proctors were elected then (as 'tis said) by the public Suffrages of those whom it concerned to give, as if an equal power of suffraging in such elections did not now pertain to all Masters.  

Bach. of Arts.  
May 17. John Fox of Brasenose Coll.— He was afterwards of that of St. Mary Magdalen, and the noted Martyriologist.  

Feb. 15. 

George Etheridge  
John Morwen 

of C. C. C.       
In all about 41 besides 14 or thereabouts that were candidates for the said Degree, but not admitted this year.  
☞ Only two this year were admitted Bach. of the Civ. Law, and but 4 in the next.   

Mast. of Arts.  
Mar. 12. Rich. Caldwell of Brasenose Coll.— He was afterwards an eminent Physician.  
20 Seth Holland of Alls. Coll.— In 1555 or thereabouts, he became the third Prebendary of the second stall in the Cath. Ch. of Worcester in the place of John Compton alias Teal Bach. of Diu. and sometimes Chaplain to K. H. 8. and in the same year he was elected Warden of Alls. Coll. In 1557 about Michaelmas he was made Dean of Worcester in the place of Philip Haford or Hawford alias Ballard (who had been the last Abbot of Evesham in Worcestershire) and about the same time became Rector of Bishops Cleeve in Glocestershire, upon his resignation of the Rectory of Fladbury. In Oct. or Nou. 1559 he was deprived of his Deanery; whereupon John Pedder Bach. of Diu. one of the Frankfort exiles in the time of Qu. Mary was installed in his place 27. Dec. the same year. Holland was afterwards committed Prisoner to the Marshalsea, where he died in the second year of Qu. Elizab.  
Mar. 18. James Curthopp of C. C. Coll.— In 1546 he became the first Canon of the sixth stall in Ch. Ch. Cathedral Oxon, and about the beginning of Qu. Marry he succeeded Gerard Carleton D. D. in the Deanery of Peterborough, who in 1543 had succeeded in that Dignity Franc. Abre B. D. the same Abre I mean, who, from being the last Prior of Northampton▪ was made the first Dean of Peterborough, an. 1541. James Curthopp died 19 July 1557, and was buried in the Isle next adjoining on the North side, to the choir of the Cathedral of Ch. Ch. He was one of the examiners of John Philpot the Martyr in certain matters of Religion, before the time of his suffering.  
Besides these three, were but eight Masters admitted, if the register saith right; and in but one Act celebrated this year, on 29. July, were only four Doctors of Divinity, and one in the Laws that proceeded, the Masters being reserved till the Act following, which was on the last of March 1539.   

Bach. of Diu.  
Apr. 8. Frat. John Bylling a Minorite.  

May 9 Fath. 

Rob. Dalton  
John Tewtie  
Nich. Marley 

Benedictines.       

May 31. Fat. 

Philip Action  
Rog. whaley  
Rich. Hails 

Cistercians alias Bernardines.       
The first of which last three, was about this time Provisor of St. Bernard's Coll. in the North suburb of Oxon.  
Jul. 13. John Donne of C. C. C.— I have made some mention of him under the year 1528.  
14. Fa. Hugh Glazier a Minorite.  

Jul. 23. Fath. 

Tho. Bede  
Will. Ambrose 

Benedictines.       
Two more were also admitted, and but two there were that supplicated for that Degree, among whom, Hen. Stretsham a Minorite, who had spent several years here, and at Cambridge, in Logicals, Philosophicals, and Theologicals, was one.  
After the Abbeys were dissolved, in 1535. 36. etc. I find very many Monks and other religious Persons, who had pensions allowed them out of the Exchequer, to retire to the University, and to such places therein, that were nurseries for them, as Canterbury Coll. Gloucester Coll. Durham Coll. St. Bernard's, St. mary's, etc. which were full of them; where they continued till they were worn out, or had gotten Benefices.   

Doct. of Civ. Law.  
Apr. 8. John Story Principal of Broadgates' hall.— He was about this time Principal or Chief Moderator of the Civil Law School in St. Edward's Parish. and was the only Doctor of his faculty, that was admitted this year.   

Doct. of Phys.  
Jul. 13. John Toker M. of A. of Exeter Coll.— Of him the public register saith thus.— Licentiatus erat ad incipiendum Julis 13o, quo die admissus erat ad le turam libelli aphorismorum Hypochratis: Et sic evenit quod una & eadem hora fit Bacralauceus & Doct. in Med. Which shows that the words cumulavit Gradus, were not at this time in use.   

Doct. of Diu.  
Jun. 27. The reverend Father Anthony Dunstan alias Kitchen Abbot of Eynsham in Oxfordshire, now lodging in Gloucester College, was then licenced to proceed in Divinity.— He was afterwards Bishop of the rich See of Landaff.  

Jul. … Fath. 

Rich. Gorton  
Humph. Cheritye  
John Clerk 

Benedict. Monks.        

Incorporations.  
Jul. 13. John Clerk a Monk of the Order of St. Benedict and Bach. of Diu. of Cambridge, was then incorporated Bach. of Divinity.— About the same time he was licenced to proceed in that faculty, as I have before told you, and on the 29. of the same month he accordingly stood in the Act then celebrated, by the name of Father Jo. Clerk.    

An. Dom. 1539.  
An. 31. Hen. 8.  
Chanc. the same, viz. Dr. Longland Bishop of Lincoln  
Commissary the same, viz Dr. Tresham.  

Proct. 

Will. Smyth of Brazen. Coll. Bor.  
John Stoyt of Mert. Coll. Austr.     

Bach. of Arts.  
Apr…. Will. Hugh of C. C. Coll.  

Jun. 9 Hen. Bull  
Jul. 7. Tho. Cooper 

of Magd Coll.     

Feb. 24. Bernard Gilpin of Qu.  
Feb…. John Watson of (Allsouls) 

Coll.     
Three of these were afterwards Writers, and two were Bishops. About 32 Bachelaurs were admitted this year, besides about 10 who were Supplicators or Candidates.   

Mast. of Arts.  
Mar. 27. Rob. Warde the noted Philosopher and Disputant of Merton College.  
Besides him were about 19 that were admitted this year▪ among whom were several who were afterwards Dignitaries, as William Browne of Mert. Coll. who was Preb. of Wells, Thom. Arden Preb. of Worcester, etc.   

Opponents in Diu.  

Dec. 20. Fath. 

George Clyffe  
Tho. Maynsford  
John Matthew. 

(Benedictines.)       
23. Fath. Ralph Ryckmansworth a Benedictine.  
Jan. 21. Peter Langrish— He was soon after made one of the first Canons of Winchester.  
These I set down, because (1) They were not afterwards according to custom admitted Bach. of Diu. and (2) That they are the last Opponents who are mentioned in our public registers.   

Bach. of Diu.  
May 3. The venerab Father Henry Man Prior of the Carthusians in the Monastery of Shene in Surrey.— See afterwards among the Doctors.  
Hugh Weston Rector of Linc. Coll. was admitted the same day.— Two years before he supplicated to be Bach. of Physic.  
Jun. 11. Fath. John Feekenham lately a Benedctine Monk of Evesham Abbey, now or about this time of Glouc. Coll. in Oxon.— See among the Doct. of Diu. 1556.  
17. Will. Bradbridge of Magd. Coll.— See more in 1565.  
Jul. 3. Fath. John Este a Benedictine.  
Besides these, were 4 more that were admitted, and about eleven that supplicated; among whom were Father Stephen Bailie, Fath. John Salter, Fath. Rich. Ramsey alias Hallyng, Fat John Holywell alias Palmer, all Benedictines; and Tho. Robe●tson the famous Grammarian. As for Fa. Ramsey, he, by the name of Rich. Hal●yng alias Ramsey S. T. P. was admitted Vicar of Wellow in Somersetshire 1546 and had one or more Dignities in the Church.  
☞ Not one Doctor of Law or Physic was admitted this year.   

Doct. of Diu.  
May 12. The ven. Fath. Hen. Man Prior of Shene in Surrey was then licenced to proceed in Divinity.— He completed that Degree in an Act celebrated 7. July following, and was afterwards Bishop of the Isle of Man as I have told you already among the Bishops.  
Dec. 23. Rich Browne M. A. and Bach. of Diu.  
Jan. 12. Hugh Weston beforemention'd, Rect. of Linc. Coll.   

Incorporations.  
I find a supplicate made in the behalf of one John Hardyman a Doctor of Divinity of Cambridge that he might be incorporated in the same Degree, but whether really he was so, I know not. He ran with the mutable times of K. Hen. 8. Ed. 6. and Qu. Marry, and being in show a zealous Protestant in the beginning of Qu. Elizab. was by her made the first Canon of the second stall in the collegiat Church of Westminster, in the year 1560. About which time being well known among the Puritanical Party (who began to show themselves betimes) he was made their instrument to break down the Altars, and to deface the ancient utensiles and ornaments of the Church of Westminster. For which, upon complaint, he was deprived by the Queen's Commissioners for causes Ecclesiastical, an. 1567.    

An. Dom. 1540  
An. 32. Hen. 8.  
Chanc. the same.  
Commiss. the same.  

Proct. 

Lewis Reynold of Magd. Coll. Bor.  
John Man of New Coll. Austr. 

Apr. 9       
Elected by the titles of Northern, and Southern, on the first day of Easter term, being the last Proctors that occur so distinguished in our registers.  

Bach. of Arts.  

Jun. 19 

Tho. Bickley  
Rob. Crowley 

of Magd. Coll.       
Jun…. John Heron of Alls. Coll.  
Oct. 20. John Proctor of C. C. Coll.  
Ralph Robinson of the same Coll. was admitted on the said day.— This Person who was a Lincolnshire Man born, did translate into English, with notes added in the margin, the Utopia of Sir Thom. More— Lond. 1557. oct. etc. Whether he took the Degree of Master of Arts (in order to which he supplicated in Apr. 1544) it appears not, or that he translated, or wrote any other things. There hath been another of both his names who was a writer, but lived an hundred years after this, and was of Cambridge.  

Oct. 20. 

John Jewel  
Tho. Greenway 

C. C. Coll.       
Feb. 4. Christop. Goodman of Brazen. Coll.  
Will. Downham of (Magd. Coll.) was admitted the same day.— He was afterwards B. of Chester.  
Feb…. John pullen of New Coll.  
Sixty and two in all, were admitted, and about 12 that were candidates for the said Degree, who were not this year admitted.   

Bach. of Civ. Law.  
Jun. 12. Rich. Barber of Alls. Coll— On the 14. of March 1558. he was installed Archdeacon of Bedford in the place of Mich. Dunning LL. D. of Cambridge, and on the 24. Dec. 1560, he was installed Archdeacon of Leycester upon the resignation of Tho. Robertson the Grammarian. In the beginning of 1565 he was elected Warden of Alls. Coll. and the next year, he was created LL. D. as I shall tell you when I come to that year. His Wardenship he gave up in 1571, and about the same time the Archd. of Bedf. in which last he was succeeded by Will. Red. As for Leycester he kept it to his dying day, and then was succeeded by Hugh Blythe Bach. of Diu. of Cambridge and Canon of Windsor, an. 1589.  
David Lewes was admitted the same day.— See among the Doct. of Civ. Law in 1548.  
Besides these two, were about 14 admitted, and 3 that supplicated.   

Mast. of Arts.  

Jun. 4. 

Baldwyn Norton  
John Harley 

of Magd. Coll.       
The first was afterwards a rich Dignitary in the Church, and the other a Bishop.  
10. Alexand. N●well of Brazen. Coll.  
Besides which three, were about 24 admitted.   

Bach. of Diu.  
May 26. George London a Benedictine.  
Sept. 20. John Hoker of Magd. Coll.  
Six more were admitted, and at least 12 were candidates for the said Degree, but were not then admitted, among whom John Standish was one, now of Brasen●se but formerly of C. C. C.   

Doct. of both the Laws.  
Jul. ●. Walt Write now or lately Principal of Peckwaters Inn— In the beginning of 1543 he was made Archdeacon of Oxon in the place of Dr. Rich. Cor●n deceased, was afterwards Master or Perfect of Durham Coll. in the interval, between its dissolution and conversion into Trin. Coll. Canon of Winchester and several times Commissioner and Visitor of the University. He died in Exeter Coll. 10. May an. 1561. (being then Preb. of North Grantham in the Church of Sarum) and was buried in the nave of St. Mary's Church in Oxon. Whereupon John Kennall LL. D. succeeded him in his Archdeaconry, being the second that bore that office after Oxford was made an Episcopal See. A certain Author, 
a 〈…〉 p. 690.  who by many is accounted erroneous, tells us that this Doctor Write did take occasion in a Sermon preached in Oxon, after Qu. Elizabeth came to the Crown, to make several reflections on the Pope's Supremacy, and falling accidentally on the words of St. Paul to the Ephesians— And he gave some, Apostles, and some, Evangelists, and some Pastors and Teachers, he told the auditory, to obtain favour from them, you see here is not a word of the Pope— After Sermon, instead of going to dinner to refresh himself, he was took suddenly with a sickness, and thereupon took his bed and died about 8 days after. This seemed very remarkable among the R. Catholics, because the said Wright was not only one of Cardinal Poles Visitors of the University of Oxon. in the time of Qu. Marry, but also took all occasions then, to express his zeal for the R. Cath. Cause. I have made mention of this Dr. Wright, in several places in Hist. & Antiq. Vniu. Oxon. lib. 1. p. 267. b. 276. a. 279. a. 283. a. lib. 2▪ p. 422. a. b. etc.  
Jul…. Will. Geoffrey lately Principal of St. Edward's, now Principal of Broadgates, hall— On the 20 of March 1553 (1o. Mariae) he became Chancellor of the Church of Salisbury, on the deprivation of Hen. Parry, and about the same time Chanc. to the B. of that place. You may read much of him in the Acts and Mon. of the Church, etc. written by J. Fox, in the story of Jul. Palmer, under the year 1556. and in that of Rich. White, under 1558. in which year Dr. Will. Geoffrey dying, Cardinal Pole bestowed the said Chancellourship on an eminent Scholar called Dr. Thom. Heskins in Octob. 1558. who keeping that Dignity till Aug. 1559. Hen. Parry was restored. Whereupon Dr. Heskins went beyond the Seas with other Rom. Catholics and wrote The Parliament of Christ, etc. concerning the Sacrament, impugned in a Serm. by Jo. Jewell. Antw. 1565. fol.  
Jul…. Rich. Read of New Coll.— He was an able Civilian of his time, valued by K. H. 8. (who dubbed him a Knight after his return from Boulogne in 1544) was a Visitor of the University in the Reign of Ed 6; and dying in 1579 became a Benefactor 〈◊〉 both the Colleges of Will. of Wykeham.  
Jul…. John Smyth.  
Jul.— Hen. Cole of New Coll.— See among the Doct. of Diu. in 1554.  
☞ Not one Doct. of Phys. was admitted this year, nor any Person admitted to practise that fac. or chirurgery, only Felix Pontanus, a Foreigner, as it seems.   

Doct. of Diu.  
May 4. James More sometimes Provost of Oriel Coll. now a Dignitary in the Church.  
For the said Degree supplicated Rob. Wellys Bach. of Diu. (mentioned among the B. of Diu. 1537) and Will. Sandwich B. of D. a Benedicline Monk, and now, or lately Warden or Guardian of Canterbury College in Oxon; but whether these two were admitted, it appears not.    

An. Dom. 1541.  
An. 33 Hen 8.  
Chanc. the same.  
Commiss. the same.  

Proct. 

Roger Bromhall of New Coll.  
John Wyman of Magd. Coll. as it seems.     
Which Proctors were elected 23. Apr. from the company of Non-regents, by virtue of the King's Letters sent from Greenwych.  

Bach. of Arts.  
July 24. John Mullyns or Molens of Magd. Coll.— He is mentioned at large among the Writers.  
Feb…. John Longland of Brazen. Coll.— This Person who was a Salopian born, was made Archdeacon of Bucks. on the death of Rich. Layton or Leighton LL. D. who was made Archdeacon in 1534 after the death of Dr. John Taylor mentioned under the year 1522. This John Longland who was nearly related to Dr. Longland B. of Linc. was suspended of his Archdeaconry in the beginning of Queen Mary and Rich. Porter succeeded.  
Admitted in all about 62, besides several that supplicated, among whom Valentine Dale was one.   

Bach. of Civ. Law.  
July 24. Hugh Jonies or Jones— He was afterwards Bishop of Landaff.  
Oct. 24. Nichol. Bullyngham of Allsouls Coll.— He was afterwards successively B. of Lincoln and Worcester.  
In all 7.   

Mast. of Arts.  

Apr. 5. John Harpe●field  
Mar. 15. Tho. Harding 

of New Coll.     
Mar. 4. Edm. Marvyn of C. C. C.— This Person who was a Hampshire Man born, I take to be the same with Mar●inus who was Archdeacon of Surrey in the time of Qu. Marry, and ejected 
* Vid. 〈◊〉 Saunders De 〈◊〉. Monarch, edit. 1592. lib. 7. p. 666.  thence in the beginning of Qu. Elizabeth.  

21. Bernard Gilpin of Qu.  
22. Morgan Philipps of Oriel 

Coll.     
In all about 44, some of which were afterwards inferior Dignitaries in the Church.   

Bach. of Diu.  
Apr. 14….. Browne— I take him to be the same Person, who, by the name of John Browne Bach. of Diu. was made Can. of Windsor in the Reign of Qu. Marry, and the same Brown who succeeded W. Barlow B. of Chichester in a Canonry of the first stall in the Collegiate Church of Westminster, an. 1565, where he died and was buried, in 1584.  
May 15. Will. Devenish or Denis lately Fellow of Mert. Coll. now Provost of Qu. C.— In the Reign of Ed. 6. he became Can. of Windsor▪  
Dec…. George Clyffe, lately called Father Clyffe of the Order, as it seems, of St. Benedict.  
Six in all were adm. this year, (among whom Geo. Nevil a sec chap. was one) and but two that supplicated for that Degree.  
☞ Not one Doct. of Law or Physic was admitted this year.   

Doct. of Diu.  
Jul. 31. Rich. Boreman.  
Aug. 2. Joh. Standist now, as it seems, of Brasn. Coll.  
Oct. 3. Joh. Joseph lately a Minorite or Grey Friar.   

Incorporations.  
Oct. 19 John ap Harry or Parry Master of Arts of the University of Caen in Normandy.— See among the Doctors of Law in 1542.  
In the month of July, I find a Supplicate made for one Roger Haskham to be incorporated M. of A. as he had stood at Cambridge; but whether he was incorporated, I find it not to stand in the Register, having been probably neglected, as things of that nature (when the Supplicates are set down) have frequently been done. I take this person to be the same with Reg. Ascham who was born at Kirby wiske in Yorkshire, an 1515, educated in S. John's Coll. in Cambridge, where he attained to great excellency in the Latin and Greek Tongues, took the degree of M. of A. in that University 1537, and was a great Tutor, and did much good by his admirable Learning there. This Person, by the way I must let the Reader know, was a passing good Orator, had a great faculty in writing Greek. Lat. and Engl. Epistles, which were not only excellent for matter, but for the neatness of the hand-writing, adorned with Illumination, which we now call Limning, in the margin. And being the best of all Scholars in his time for those matters, he was entertained, as an Instructor in them, by Prince Edward, the Lady Elizabeth, and the two Brothers Henry and Charles Dukes of Suffolk. In 1544 he succeeded John Cheek in the Oratorship of the University of Cambridge, which he performed to the wonder and applause of all; and in the Reign of Ed. 6. he accompanied Sir Rich. M●rysine in his Embassy to the Emperor Charles 5. where continuing about three years, (in which time he became acquainted with many learned men, among whom John Sturmius was one) he returned upon the news of the death of K. Ed. 6. from whom he had not only received an annual Pension in his absence, but also the gift of the Latin Secretariship: so that at the present being destitute of convenient maintenance and Friends, was, by the endeavours of the Lord Paget and Dr. Steph. Gardiner Bish. of Winchester, made Secretary of the Latin Tongue to Qu. Mary. In 1554 he married one Margaret H●w, by whom he had a considerable Portion; yet notwithstanding that and his Place, he lived and died not according to his condition, being given to Dicing and Cock-fighting. After Qu. Elizabeth came to the Crown, he was not only continued in his place of Secretary, and made Tutor to her for the Greek Tongue, but also by her favour was installed Prebendary of Wetwang in the Church of York (by the deprivation of George Palms LL. D.) on the eleventh day of March 1559. This Person whose Memory is celebrated to this day among learned men for Oratory, Poetry, and the Greek Tongue, hath written (1) Toxophilus: the School or partitions of Shooting, contained in two books, written 1544 etc.— Lond. 1571, qu. As in his later days he delighted much in Dicing and Cockfighting, so in his younger, while at Cambridge, in Archery, wherein he much excelled. (2) The Schoolmaster: or, a plain and perfect way of teaching Children to understand, write, and speak the Latin Tongue. etc. in two Books. Lond. 1570 and 1589, qu. (3) A report and discourse of the affairs and state of Germany and the Emperor Charles his Court, during certain years while he was there. printed in qu. (4) Familiarium Epistolarum libri tres, etc. Lond. 1577, 78. oct. (5) Quaedam poemata, printed with the Epistles. (6) Apol. contra missam & ejus praestigias, etc. printed about 1577, in oct. This eminent Scholar R. Ascham died 
a ●d. Grant in Orat de Vit. & Ob. Reg. 〈◊〉, Edit. 1577.  on the 30 of Dec. 1568, and was buried, without any funeral Pomp, on the 4 of Jan. following▪ in the church of S. Sepulchre without Newgate, London, leaving behind him this character by a learned 
b Gul. Camden in Annal 〈…〉 sub an 1568  person, that he inter primes nostrae nationis literas Latinas & Graecas stylique puritatem cum eloquentiae laude excoluit.    

An. Dom. 1542.  
An. 34 Hen. 8.  
Chanc. the same.  
Commiss. the same.  

Proct. 

John Estwyke of Mert. Coll.  
Will. Pie of Oriel again.     
Elected in the beginning of Easter Term by the Suffrages of the Doctors and Heads of Colleges and Halls.  

Bach. of Arts.  
May 16. Tho. Neale of New Coll. now in much esteem for his great knowledge in the Greek Tongue.  
Nou. 16. Henry Pendleton of Brasn. Coll.  
In all about 27, and but two that supplicated for that degree, who were not admitted.   

Bach. of Law.  
Five this year were admitted Bachelaurs of the Civil Law, and but two there were that supplicated for that degree. One of them was named Will. Copinger, a Civilian of New Coll. but whether he was really admitted, I find not. This Person who was a Londoner born, I take to be the same who was afterwards a Servant to Dr. Steph. Gardiner B. of Winchester, and Bearer of the Great Seal before him while he was Lord Chancellor. After Gardiner's Death, which happened in 1555, he became one of the Benedictine Monks of Westminster, where continuing till Qu. Elizabeth came to the Crown, was soon after committed Prisoner to the Tower of London, where, as one 
c 〈◊〉 Fox in his Book of Acts and Mo●. etc. under the year 1558.  saith, falling mad, died in a short time after. I find another Will. Copinger who was M. of A. of this University long before the other man's time, who in his Works in MS. (which are in Ball. Coll. Library, and therefore thought by some 
d Joh. pit in Append. nom. 2●. etc.  to have been of that House) did show himself to be a very pious Divine, and a Pronouncer of the men of this World to be vain, in whom the knowledge of God reigneth not. He wrote (1) De vitiis & virtutibus, lib. 1. The beginning of which is Vani sunt omnes homines, etc. (2) Sacramentale quoddam, and other things, which hath made his name famous to Posterity. When he lived, or in what Kings Reign he was renowned for his Learning, I cannot tell neither doth Bale himself know.   

Mast. of Arts.  
Jul. 12. Simon Bell●stre.— He was about this time Archdeacon of Colchester, (occurring by that Title 1545) but whether he succeeded Rob. Aldridge or Hugh Weston in that Dignity, I know not Besides him, were but eleven more that were admitted.   

Bach. of Diu.  
June 19 Will. Cheadsey of C. C. Coll.— Afterwards Precedent of that House, and a Writer.  
Three more were admitted, and three there were that supplicated for the said Degree among whom was John Marlowe or Merlow of Mert. Coll. mentioned under the year 1527.   

Doct. of both the Laws.  
Oct. 18. Joh. cottrel of New Coll.— This Person who was lately Principal of S. Laurence Hall (involved afterwards within the limits of Jesus Coll.) in the Parish of S. Michael, was now Archdeacon of Dorset, in the place of one Will. Skipp, who occurs Archd. of that place in 1537. He the said Dr. cottrel was afterwards Vicar General to Paul the first Bish. of Bristol, did succeed Pol. Virgil in the Archdeaconry of Wells. an. 1554 or thereabouts, being the first year of Qu. Marry, at which time Virgil was in Italy among the living. In the same year also▪ he was made Prebendary of Tymberscombe in the Church of Wells, 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 Croak of New Coll.— He was now an eminent Advocate in the Court of Arches, and about this time dignified in the Church.   

Doct. of Diu.  
July 6. John Ramridge of Mert. Coll.— He was made Dean of Lichfield in the beginning of Qu. Mary's 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 wand'ring to and fro in great discontent, he met with Thiefs, who first robbed, and afterwards murdered, him.  
Only two supplicated for the said Degree this year. viz. Will. Wetherton M. A. and Bach. of Diu. 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.     
Nou. 8. George Dogeson or Dog●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 Diu. 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. Pie 

again.       
Elected the first day of Easter Term.  

Bach. of Arts.  
Jul. 12. Tho. Godwyn of Magd. Coll.— He was afterwards Bish. of Bath and Wells.  
Dec. 14. Will. Johnson of Alls. 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 Christ's Coll. in Cambridge, who is reported by 
e In his Hist. of Cambridge. sect. 6. p. 91.  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 mentioned 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. pullen  
Mar. 18. Laur. Nowell  
24. Nich. Grimoald In all thirty nine. 

of 

New  
Brasn.  
Mert. 

Coll.          

Bach. of Diu.  
June 30. Gilb. Bourne of Alls. Coll.  
Nou. 21. John Summer.— He was Can. of Winds. in the time of Qu. Marry, where he died, 1573.  
Tho. Slythurst was admitted the same day.— He was made Canon of Winds. and the first Precedent 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. Pie of Oriel College, now one of the Proctors of the University.— In 1534 he seems to have been admitted Bach. of Physic.  
Besides these were ten more admitted, and five that supplicated; among whom was William Peryn one, lately a Dominican or Black Friar, who was, I suppose, admitted, because in a Book or Books which he soon after published, he writes himself Bach. of Diu.   

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 Diu.  
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 Diocese thereof, and died in 1551. or thereabouts.  
John Robyns the ginger and Mathematician, sometimes Fellow of Alls. Coll. and now Canon of Windsor, 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. (though 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, expressed in his Introductio Grammatices, his Book De ludimagistrorton officio, in another De pronunciatione Linguae Grae●●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, etc. 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 Alls. 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 adorned with the degree of Bachelaur of Arts, wearing then the Gown and Habit of a Compounder, that is, one who compounds or pays double or treble Fees for his Degree, which is usually done by rich Dignitaries. In the year following he was admitted into Commons in Exeter Coll. and allowed to take place among the Fellows of that Society. He succeeded in that Dignity Tho. Cromwell Secretary of State, an. 1540, and was succeeded by John Goodman 1548.  
John Hopkyns was admitted the same day.— He is supposed to be the same John Hopkyns who had a hand in turning into English metre several of David's Psalms.  
Nou. 3. Rich. Edward's of C. C. Coll.  
Jan. 12. Roch. Harford of Mert. Coll.— Whether he took a higher degree in this University, it appears not. While he was Bach. of Arts he was Archdeacon of S. David's, which he keeping for some years, was at length made Archdeacon of Hereford. At the time of his death he gave Lands to Mert. Coll. situate and being within the Town of Walton near to Tewksbury in Glocestershire.  
Besides these four were 56 admitted.  
In the month of June this year supplicated for the Degree of Bach. of Arts one Will. Walker a Priest, but whether he was admitted it appears not. In Dec. 1554 he was made Succentor of the Cath. Ch. of Salisbury, in which Dignity he was succeeded by one Hen. Brither in the beginning of 1561.  
☞ But 4 Bach. of the Civ. Law were admitted, the encouragement for that Profession being now much decayed.   

Mast. of Arts,  
Apr. 8. Edmund Daniel of Mert. Coll.— See in the year 1556.  
June 13. Christoph. Goodman of Brasn. Coll.  

25. 

John Heron  
John Proctor  
John Watson 

of Alls. Coll.       
The last of which was afterwards Bish. of Winchester.  
Oct. 18. Hen. Pendleton of Brasn. Coll.  
Jan. 28. Tho. Greenaway of C. C. Coll.— This Person who was a Hampshire man born, was Author of Vita Richardi Fox C. C. C. Oxon. fundatoris breviter descripta, an. 1566. The beginning of which was, Richardus Fox familia satis splendida, etc. 'Tis a Manuscript, kept to this day in the Archives of C. C. C. Libr. He was afterwards Bach. of Diu. as 'tis said, though his Admission is neglected to be registered, and at length Precedent of the said Coll. He died at Heyford Purcells in Oxfordshire, being then Rector of that place, in August 1571, and was buried in the Church there.  
Jan. 28. John Jewel of C. C. C.  
Besides these 8, were about 24 admitted, and several who supplicated, among whom Ralph Robinson of C. C. Coll. was one, mentioned under the year 1540   

Bach. of Diu.  
June 14. James Brokes of C. C. Coll.— He was afterwards Bish. of Gloucester.  
Two more who were of Brasn. Coll. were admitted, (namely Will. Smyth and Tho. Typping) and three there were that supplicated for the said Degree.  
☞ Not one Doctor of the Civ. Law, or LL. was admitted, or supplicated, only one Rob. Raynold of New Coll. and not one in Physic, or Divinity, only in the last Will. Pie of Or. Coll. whom I have formerly mentioned.   

Incorporations.  
Mar. 11. Andr. Davyson Bac. of Arts of Cambridge, afterwards M. of A. beyond the Seas, was then incorporated Master of Art.    

An. Dom. 1545,  
An. 37 Hen. 8.  
Chanc. the same, viz. Dr. Long and Bishop of Linc.  
Commiss. the same, viz. Dr. Tresham.  

Proct. 

John Stoyt of Mert. Coll. again.  
Simon Perrot of Magd. Coll.     

Bach. of Arts.  
June… James Neyland.— See among the M of A. 1548.  
July… Will. Whittyngham of Brasn. Coll.— He was soon after of Alls. Coll. and at length the unworthy thy Dean of Durham.  
Jul…. John Piers of Magd. Coll.— He died Archbish. of York.  
Oct…. Tho. Hyde of New Coll.  
James Bicton was admitted in the same month. See among the Mast. of Arts an. 1547.  
The Admissions this year come in all but to about 32.   

Bach. of Civ. Law.  
Nou…. Valentine Dale of Alls. Coll.— He was afterwards Dean of Wells. See more among the Incorporations in 1552.  
Besides him were only three more admitted.   

Mast. of Arts.  
June… Tho. Bickley of Magd. Coll.— He was afterwards Bish. of Chichester.  
…. John Molens or Mullyns of the same Coll.  
Besides these two, 25 more were admitted, and some that supplicated who were never admitted.   

Bach. of Physic.  
…. George Ethryg or Etheridge of C. C. Coll.  
…. Rich. Master of Alls. Coll.— See more among the Doctors of this Faculty under the year 1554.  
…. John Throwley Bach. of Divinity, lately a Monk of the Order of S. Benedict, was then admitted Bach. of Physic.   

Bach. of Diu.  
…. Matthew Smyth the first Principal of Brasn. Coll.  
For the said Degree supplicated Patrick Walsh, who was afterwards Bish. of Waterford in Ireland; Will. Bocher afterwards Precedent of C. C. Coll. and John Smyth afterwards Provost of Oriel; which three were without doubt admitted but neglected to be registered by the public Scribe of the University. As for Smyth, he was engaged in a Dispute with Hugh Latimer in the Divinity School 18 Apr. 1554.   

Doct. of LL.  
Jan…. John Fuller of Alls. Coll.— He was afterwards Prebendary of Ely, Chancellor to the Bish. thereof, and Master of Jesus Coll. in Cambridge. You may read of him in the Acts and Mon. of the Church, written by John Fox, under 1555.  
In the same month Nich. Bullyngham of Alls. Coll. did supplicate for the said Degree, but was not admitted. See among the Incorporations 1566. Also Rob. Weston of the same Coll. See in ann. 1556, among the Doct. of Law.  
☞ Not one Doct. of Physic was adm. this year.   

Doct. of Diu.  
Nou…. Will. Cheadsey of C. C. Coll.— He was now Chaplain to Dr. Bonner Bish. of London, who was his Promoter to several Dignities in the Church.  
Another Person was also admitted Doctor, but his true Name is omitted in the Register.   

Incorp.  
Jun…. Rich. Cox M. of A. of this University, afterwards D. D. of Cambridge, and now Dean of Osney near Oxford, was then incorporated D. of D. as he had stood at Cambridge.    

An. Dom. 1546.  
An. 38 Hen. 8.  
Chanc. the same.  
Commiss. the same.  

Proct. 

John Smyth of Oriel Coll.  
Simon Perrot again.     
Elected the first day of Easter Term, the signior being then, as it seems, Bach. of Divinity.  

Bach. of Arts.  
Jul…. Justinian Lancaster of C. C. Coll.— Whether he took the degree of M. A. it appears not. Afterwards he was made Archdeacon of Taunto● in Somersetshire, in the place, I suppose, of John Fitzjames deprived, an. 1560.  
…. Michael Reninger, commonly called Rhanger of Magd. Coll. …. John Cox of Brasn. Coll.— I find one of both his names to have made several Translations into the English Tongue, as (1.) An Exhortation to the Ministers of God's word in the Church of Christ, Lond. 1575. written by Henr. Bullinger. (2.) A Treatise of the word of God, written against the traditions of men, Lond. 1583. oct. written by Anth. Sade●ll, etc. But whether the said Translations were made by the aforesaid John Cox of Brasn. Coll. or another John Cox who was a Student of C. C. 1555, I cannot yet resolve you.  
…. The Wylson of Brasn. Coll. a Yorkshire man born.— See in the year 1516 and 1553.  
In all about 36.  
☞ Not one Admission in the Law or Laws is this year registered.   

Mast. of Arts.  
…. Tho. Neale of New Coll. now eminent for the Hebrew as well as for the Greek Tongue.  
…. Leonard Bilson lately of Mert. Coll. as it seems, now the learned Schoolmaster of Reading in Berks.— This person who was Uncle to Dr. Tho. Bilson B. of Winchester, had several Dignities in the Church, of which a Prebendship of Winchester was one.  
… Will. Johnson of Alls. Coll.— He is reported to be afterwards Bishop of Meath in Ireland. See in the year 1543.  
The Admissions of Masters being not registered by the Scribe, I can only say that only 10 stood in the Act celebrated 11 Jul. this year.  
☞ The Admissions of Bach. of Diu. are omitted in the Reg.  
☞ Not one Doct. of Law or Physic was adm. this year.   

Doct. of Diu.  
June…. James Brokes of C. C. Coll.— He was afterwards Bish. of Gloc. as I have before told you.   

Incorporations.  
June… John Crayford D. of D. of Cambridge.— He was originally of Queens Coll. in that University; from whence being ejected, he went to Oxon, was elected Fellow of Vniu. Coll. an. 1519. incorporated M. of A. in 152●. as I have before told you in that year, became Proctor of Camb. in the year following, and in 1523; he was made one of the Canons of Cardinal College. Afterwards leaving Oxon, he went to Cambridge the third time, swhere he commenced D. of D. an. 1535, and was soon after Vicechancellor of that University. In Octob. 1544. he became Chancellor of the Church of Salisbury on the death of John Edmunds, being then Prebendary of North Aulton in the said Church; and in the middle of July 1545, he was collated to the Archdeaconry of Berkshire on the death of Rob. Audley. On the 17 of March following, he was collated to the Prebendship of Chermister and Bear in the Church of Sarum, upon the resignation of George Heneage; and in Sept. 1546 (he having been newly incorporated D. of D. as 'tis before told you) he was elected Master of Vniv Coll being then also Prebendary of Winchester. He concluded his last day soon after; whereupon Henr. Parry succeeded him in the Chancellorship of Sa●um, in Sept. 1547, and in the Mastership of the said Coll. one Rich. Salveine M. A. As for his Archdeaconry, which he before had resigned, did succeed him therein Will. Pie, 7 Oct. 1545.    

An. Dom. 1547.  
An. 1 Ed. 6.  
Chancellor the same, namely John Longland D. of D. and Bish. of Lincoln, but he dying on the 7 day of May this year, Rich Cox D. of D. and Dean of Ch. Ch. in Oxon, was, though at London, by a solemn Decree of the University elected in a Convocation (not in a Congregation of the Regent's according to the ancient manner) on the twenty first day of the said month, Dr. Hugh Weston in the mean time being Cancellarius natus. The 22 of July following the said Chanc. coming to Oxon, was 
a 〈…〉 Coll. Magd. B. fol. 〈…〉.  received with the public Congratulation of the Vicechancellor, Doctors, Proctors, and other Members of the University at Magdalen Coll. near to the East Gate of the City, where being present also Dr. Oglethorpe the Precedent, with the Fellows of that House, Mr. Tho. Harding, the King's Professor of the Hebrew Tongue, delivered an eloquent Oration before him; which being done, he was conducted to his Lodging at Ch. Ch.  
Vicechanc. or Commiss. Walter Write L. L. D. sometimes Principal of Peckwaters Inn, now Head or Governor of Durham Coll. and Archdeac. of Oxford, designed to the Office of Vicechanc. by Dr. Cox about S. John Baptist's time.  

Proct. 

Edm. Crispyne of Oriel  
Hen. Bailiff of New 

Coll.       
Elected a little after the new Chancellor had taken his place, the signior being then six years, and the other five years, standing in the degree of Master; which was not altogether according to the order of K. Hen. 8. made 1541, appointing that the Proctors should be elected from the signior Masters, of eight years standing at least. These two Proctors were afterwards eminent Physicians in the time they lived, and the signior died in the latter end of the year (in March) 1549.  

Bach. of Gram.  
Edward Pendleton the famous Schoolmaster of Manchester in Lancashire, was admitted to the reading of any Book of the Faculty of Grammar, that is, to the degree of Bach. of Grammar; but the day or month when, is not set down in the public Register, now very much neglected.   

Bach. of Arts.  
Humph. Lhoyd or Lhayd, now or soon after of Brasnose Coll.  
Julius' Palmer of Magdalen Coll— This person was elected Probationer Fellow of the said Coll. 25. Jul. 1549, and true and perpetual Fellow in the year following. In 1553 he left his Fellowship, and what became of him after, John Fox in his Book of The Acts and Mon. of the Church, etc. will tell you at large among the Martyrs that stood up and died for the Protestant Religion, under the year 1556.  
This year also was admitted Bach. of Arts one Barthelmew Green, but whether the same with Bartier (that is little Barthelmew) Greene who suffered Martyrdom for the Protestant Cause an. 1556, as you may see at large in the Book of Acts and Monuments of the Church, under that year. I cannot justly say. John Fox who hath written his story; tells you that he was educated in the University of Oxon, and afterwards in the Inns of Court.  
Thirty and one Bachelaurs were admitted this year.   

Bach. of Law.  
Tho. Randall or Randolphe of Ch. Ch.— He was afterwards Principal of Broadgates' Hall, and a frequent Ambassador in the Reign of Qu. Elizabeth.  
Besides him, I find but one more admitted, the Register, as I have told you before, being much, or in a manner altogether, neglected.   

Mast. of Arts.  

Thomas Godwyn  
Thomas Bentham 

of Magd. Coll.     
They were afterwards Bishops.  

Richard Edward's  
William Whittyngham 

of Ch. Ch.     
The former was lately of C. C. Coll. and now in much esteem for his Poetry; the other was lately of Alls. Coll. but not as yet known to have any eminence in him.  
James Bicton of Ch. Ch. now Dean of Kilkenny in Ireland.— He died in 1552, and was buried in the Cathedral of Ch. Ch. in Oxon.  
Christop. Malton (of Ch. Ch. also as it seems)— On the 3 of April 1564, he was installed Archdeacon of Clieuland in the place of Dr. John. Warner resigning, and dying in the latter end of the year (in March) 1569, was succeeded by Ralph Coulton M. of A. and Prebendary of York, afterwards Bach. of Diu.   

Bach. of Diu.  
Jul…. Rich. Bruerne of Linc. Coll.— He was afterwards Hebrew Professor of this University, Canon of Ch. Ch. and of Windsor, Fellow of the College at Eton, of which he was elected Provost, about 1561, but soon after ejected. He died about the latter end of April 1565, and was buried in the Chapel of S. George at Windsor. John Leland numbers 
b In Cygn. Cant.  him among the learned men of his time, and saith, That he was Hebraei radius chori.  
Several other Bachelaurs of Divinity were admitted this year, but not registered, among whom Rich. Turner of Magdalen College was one.  
☞ Not one Doct. of Law was admitted this year.   

Doct. of Physic.  
Feb…. Tho. Hughes or Hewes of Mert. Coll.— He was afterwards Physician to Qu. Marry, and one of the College of Physicians at London. He died at London in the Month of August 1558, and was a Benefactor to the College which had given him Education.  
Edmund Crispyne of Oriel Coll. lately a shagling Lecturer of Physic, now one of the Proctors of the University, did supplicate to be licenced to proceed in Physic. Also Henry Bayli● the other Proctor, did in like manner do so, and were without doubt licenced, (though not registered so to be) because I find them afterwards to be written and styled Doctors of Physic.  
☞ Not one Doctor of Divinity was admitted or licenced this year.   

Incorporations.  
Feb…. Pet. Martyr Doct. of Diu. of the University of Milan, was then incorporated Doct. of Diu.— He was this year designed by the King to read a Divinity Lecture in the University, which he accordingly began to do in the beginning of the next year.  
One Edward Bank and John Chandler were incorp. Bachelaurs of Arts, but of what University they had been, is not set down; which is all I know of them.    

An. Dom. 1548.  
An. 2 Ed. 6.  
Chanc. Dr. Rich. Cox Dean of Ch. Ch.  
Vicechanc. Dr. Walt. Write.  

Proct. 

John Redman of Magd. Coll.  
Thomas Symons of Mert. Coll. 

adm. 20 April.       

Bach. of Arts.  
The Admissions of Bachelaurs and Catalogue of Determiners being this year omitted by the Registrary, I cannot give you the Names of any who were afterwards Bishops, Writers, etc. only David de la Hyde, whom I have mentioned among the Writers, an. 1580.   

Bach. of Law.  
Maurice Clenneck was admitted, but the day or month when, appears not.— He was afterwards elected to the Episcopal See of Bangor, but Queen Mary dying before his Consecration thereunto, he fled beyond the Seas; and what became of him there, I have told you already in Arthur Bokely among the Bishops, under the year 1555.   

Mast. of Arts.  
James Neyland of Alls. Coll.— This person who was Fellow of that House, and an Irish man born, is reported by one of his 
c Rich. Stanyhurst in Descript. 〈◊〉 cap. 7  Countrymen to be a learned Physician.  
John Boxall of New Coll.— He was afterwards Dean of Chichester, Windsor, etc. and a man of note in the Reign of Queen Mary.  
Besides these two, were but nine more stood in the Act celebrated this year 16 July. The Admissions of them and many other are omitted in the Register.   

Doct. of Civ. Law.  
David Lewes of Alls. Coll.— He was afterwards the first Principal of Jesus Coll. Judge of the High Court of Admiralty, Master of S. Catherines Hospital near to the Tower of London, one of the Masters of the Chancery, and of her Majesty's Requests. He died on Monday 27 April 1584., in the Coll. called Doctors Commons at London; whereupon his Body was conveyed to Abergavenny in Monmouthshire, where it was buried on the 24 of May following in the North Chancel of the Church there, under a fair Tomb, erected by him while living, which yet remains as an Ornament to that Church.   

Doct. of Diu.  
Richard Beisley of Alls. College.— The day and month when he was licenced to proceed, is omitted. One of both his names was an Exile in Queen Mary's Reign.   

Incorporations.  
Christopher Tye Doct. of Music of Cambridge.— This person who seems to be a Western man born, was now one of the Gentlemen of the Chapel belonging to K. Ed. 6. and much in renown for his admirable skill in the theoretical and practical part of Music. The Words of several of his Divine Services and Anthems, are in a Book entit. Divine Services and Anthems usually sung in the Cathedrals and Collegiate Choires in the Church of England. Lond. 1663. oct. collected and published by Jam. Clifford Petty Canon of Paul's, sometimes Chorister of Magdalen College in Oxon. We have also some of his Compositions among the ancient Books in the public Music School, of six parts, but long since with others of that time, antiquated, and not at all valued. He also translated into English Meeter The Acts of the Apostles, with notes to sing each Chapter by. printed 1553, in oct.    

An. Dom. 1549.  
An. 3 Ed. 6.  
Chanc. the same.  
Vicechanc. the same.  

Proct. 

Leonard Lyngham of Brasn.  
Rich. Hughes of Magd. 

Coll.       

Bach. of Arts.  
James Calfill of Christ Church.  
Will. Good of Corp. Ch. Coll.— He was afterwards a Jesuit.  
Hieronimus Philippides of Ch. Ch.  

Alan Cope  
Lawr. Humphrey 

of Magd. Coll.     
Both which were afterwards noted Writers.  
John Abulines an Helvetian of Ch. Ch.— He is the same, I suppose, who is written, but false, Johannes ab Vlmis.  
The Admissions, and names of the Determiners, are omitted this year, by the carelessness of the public Scribe, and therefore the number of them is uncertain.   

Bach. of Law.  
Will. Awbrey of Allsoules' College.— He was afterwards successively Principal of New Inn, the King's Professor of the Civil Law in this University, Judge Advocate of the Queen's Army at S. Quintin's in France, Advocate in the Court of Arches, one of the Council of the Marches of Wales, Master of the Chancery, Chancellor to John Archbishop of Canterbury throughout his whole Province, and lastly, by the special favour of Queen Elizabeth, he was taken to her nearer Service, and made one of the Masters of Requests in Ordinary.  
What other Bach. of this Fac. were admitted, I find not, for they are not inserted in the Register. Four occur that supplicated, who, I presume, were admitted; among whom Joh. James or Jamys, was one, who was afterwards one of the first Fell. of S. John's Coll. and on the 24. of March 1563 succeeded Thom. courteous in the Subdeanery of Salisbury, and he Rob. Elyot in Dec. 1561.   

Mast. of Arts.  

Michael Renniger  
Arth. Saul 

of Magd. Coll.     
Both afterwards Exiles for their Religion in the time of Queen Mary. Of the first I have made mention among the writers, an. 1609. The other, Arthur Saul, became Prebendary of Bedmynster and Radclive in the Church of Sarum (which is a Residentiary) in January 1559, and had other Dignities, besides benefices conferred upon him. One of both his names was Author of The famous game of Chess-play lately discovered, and all doubts resolved, etc. Lond. 1614 oct. dedicated to Lucy Countess of Bedford. Whether this Ar. Saul who writes himself Gent. was descended from the former, I cannot justly say it.  

Thom. Hyde of New  
John Piers of Magd. 

Coll.     
The former was afterwards an Exile for the R. Cath. Religion, in the time of Queen Elizab. the other was an Archbishop in her Reign.  
The admissions of Masters are also omitted this year, but the number of those that stood in an Act celebrated in Sept. comes to 23.   

Bach. of Physic.  
James Neyland of Alls. Coll.— Others were admitted, but are not inserted in the register.   

Bach. of Diu.  
Jul…. Bernard Gilpyn of Queens Coll.— This Person who was born of an ancient and gentile Family at Kentmeire in Westmoreland, became a poor serving child of the said Coll. in 1533. aged 17 or thereabouts, and about the time that he proceeded M. of A. he was made Fellow thereof, being then esteemed a good Disputant in Logic and Philosophy, and well read in the Greek and Hebrew; in which tongues, he was instructed by his contemporary Thomas Neale of New Coll. who was afterwards Heb. Prof. of this University. About that time his eminence in learning was such, that he was made choice of to be one of the first Masters to supply Ch. Ch. when first founded for a Dean, Canons and Students by K. Hen. 8. But continuing there not long, was at length taken thence, and by the care and charge of his Mother's Uncle Dr. Cuthb. Tonstall Bishop of Durham, he was sent to travel, and while he continued in the University of Paris, he did him some service in correcting and printing one of his books, as I have elsewhere told you. After his return he conferred on him the rectory of Esington, with the Archdeaconry of Durham annexed, about 1556; but in whose room or place I cannot tell, unless in that of one Will. Franklin Bach. of Decrees and Chancellor of Durham, who occurs Archdeacon of Durham 1531. After he was settled at Esington, he preached much against the vices, errors, and corruptions of the times, to the great displeasure of some of the neighbouring Ministers, who were then R. Catholics. But his desire being to part with those troublesome places, as too much for one Man to keep (as he pretended) he was presented to the rich rectory of Houghton in the Spring in the county pal. of Durham, where being settled, his Preachings were so frequent, and in other places as well remote, as near thereunto, that he was commonly called The Northern Apostle. His alms were also so large, frequent, and constant, that he was usually called The common father of the poor. In his Archdeacony of Durham succeeded John Ebden Bach. of Diu. sometimes Proctor of the University of Cambridge, who had it given to him by Qu. Elizabeth, while the See of Durham was void, 22. May 1560; a little before which time, Gilpyn had a congedeslier sent to him to be elected Bishop of Carlisle on the death of Owen Oglethorp, but refused it. Soon after he erected a Grammar School at Houghton, and bestowed 460 l. to buy Lands to endow it for a Master and Usher. Which, with other Moneys and Lands given for that purpose by Joh. Heath of Kepier Esq; the School was settled in 1572 or thereabouts. To conclude, this worthy Person having his life written and published by one 
* George 〈◊〉 Bishop of 〈◊〉.  of his Scholars, I shall now say no more of him only that he died on the 4. March 1583 aged 66 and was buried in the Church at Houghton, and that by his will dated 17. Oct. 1582, he left half of his goods to the poor of that place and the other half in exhibitions upon Scholars and Students in Oxon, viz. Mr. Rich. Wharton, Mr. Steph. Copperthwaite, George Carleton (afterwards B. of Chich.) Ralph Ironside born in Houghton beforementioned (Father to Gilbert Bishop of Bristol an. 1660) Evan Airay, Hen. Airay (afterwards Provost of Qu. Coll.) Will. Cayrus, Franc. Risley, Tho. Collinson, etc. He hath written several things, but hath nothing extant, only A Sermon before the King and Court at Greenwich, on the first Sunday after Epiph. an. 1552, on Luke 2. from verse 41. to 48. Lond. 1581. oct. there again 1630. qu.  
☞ Not one Doctor of Law, Phys. or Divinity can I find to have been admitted this year, for the reason before specified.    

An. Dom. 1550.  
An. 4 Ed. 6.  
Chanc. the same.  
Vicech. Dr. Walt. Write, but he giving up his office according to the Edwardin statutes in the beginning of Michaelmas term, Dr. Will. Tresham of Ch. Ch. who before, had often been Commissary, was elected, according to a certain form, into his place.  

Proct. 

Rog. Elyott of Alls.  
Tho. Friend of New 

Coll.       

Bach. of Music.  
Tho the public register of this time is very imperfect, as having been neglected by one who was afterwards deservedly turned out of his place, yet it appears therein (though very obscurely) that one Joh. Merbeck or Marbeck Organist of St. George's chap. at Windsor did supplicate for the Degree of Bach. of Music, but whether he was admitted it appears not, because the admissions in all faculties are for several years omitted. All therefore that I can say of him, is, that he was an eminent Musician of his time as well for the Theory, as practical part, of Music, as may be seen in a book of his composition, intit. The book of Common-prayer noted. Lond. 1550. qu. besides divers compositions that are not extant. As for other books that he wrote and published relate to Divinity, and matters against the Pope, among which are (1) A concordance of the Bible, etc. Lond. 1550. fol. &c. (2) The lives of holy Saints, Prophets, Patriarches, etc. Lond in 4ᵒ. (3) The ripping up of the Pope's fardel. Ibid. 1581. oct. (4) Book of notes and common places, with their exposition, etc. Ibid. 1581. qu. (5) Examples drawn out of Holy Scripture, with their application: Also a brief conference between the Pope and his Secretary, wherein is opened his great blasphemous pride. Ib. 1582. oct. (6) Dialogue between youth and old age, wherein is declared the Persecution of Christ's Religion, since the fall of Adam, hitherto. Lond. 1584. oct. John Fox in his book of Acts and Mon. of the Church, etc. doth speak largely of this John Merbeck, if not too much, in the first edition thereof, wherein he made him a Martyr while he was living, which hath administered a great deal of sport among the R. Cath. writers, as Alan Cope, Rob. Persons, etc.   

Bach. of Arts.  
William Allyn or Alan of Oriel Coll.— He was afterwards a Cardinal and an Archbishop.  

Will. Overton  
John Bullyngham 

of Magd. Coll.     
Both afterwards Bishops in England.  

Pet. white of Oriel  
Pet. Morwing of Magd. 

Coll. etc.     
The admissions of Bachelaurs ad Lecturam, and of those ad Determinandum, being omitted by the public Scribe this year, the just number therefore is unknown.   

Mast. of Arts.  
The number of Masters that were admitted, I cannot tell because record is defective. However the number of those that stood in the Comitia, held 8. Sept. is fifteen, among whom are James Dugdale afterwards Master of Vniu. Coll. and Will. Norfolk of Oriel, afterwards Princ. of St. Mary's hall and one of the first Prebendaries of Worcester.   

Bach. of Diu.  

John Jewel of C. C.  
John Harley of Magd. 

Coll.     
Both afterwards Bishops, and the first a very learned Man.  
Paul French of Alls. Coll.— In 1560 he became Canon of Windsor and about that time Preb. of Canterbury. He died 1. Nou. 1600. and was buried at Windsor.   

Doct. of Civ. Law.  
John Gibbons lately of Alls. Coll. now Principal of New Inn, was admitted this year, but the day or month is not set down.— He was afterwards a Member of Doctor's Commons, and died at London in the Parish of St. Faith the Virgin, about the beginning of the year 1581.  
☞ Not one Doctor of Phys. or Divinity can I find admitted, or licenced to proceed this year.    

An. Dom. 1551.  
An. 5 Ed. 6.  
Chanc. the same.  
Vicehanc. Owen Oglethorpe D. D. Precedent of Magd. Coll. who being several times absent this year, Rich. Martial Bach. of Diu. of Ch. Ch. and John Warner Doct. of Phys. of Alls. Coll. officiated for him.  

Proct. 

Will. Marshal of Mert. Coll.  
Pet. Rogers of Ch. Ch.     

Bach. of Arts.  
George Savage of Ch. Ch.— See more in the year 1574.  
Harbert Westphaling of the same house— He was afterwards B. of Hereford.  
James Bell of C. C. Coll.— In the latter end of May 1556, he, as a Somersetsh. Man born, was elected Fellow of Trinity Coll. but whether he be the same Jam. Bell, who suffered death by hanging at Lancaster, for being a Rom. Priest. in Apr. 1584.; or James Bell a Translator of several books into English I cannot tell. This last was a zealous Protestant and translated (1) A treatise touching the liberty of a Christian. Lond. 1579. oct. written in Latin by Dr. Mart. Luther. (2) Sermon of the Evangelical Olive. written by Jo. Fox. See more in Jo Fox among the Writers, an. 1587. (3) The Pope confuted. Written by the said Fox; see there again (4) Answer apologetical to Hierome Osorius his slanderous invective. Lond. 1581. qu. Begun to be written in Lat. by Dr. Walt. Haddon, but finished by John Fox beforemention'd.  
The admissions, and names of Determiners are omitted this year, and therefore you are not to expect the just number of Bachelaurs that were admitted.   

Bach. of Civ. Law.  
Nich. Saunders of New Coll.— He was afterwards a zealous R. Catholic, and a forward and indefatigable writer in defence of the Religion he professed.   

Mast. of Arts.  
Humph. Lhoyd or Lhuyd of Brasnose Coll.— He was afterwards in much esteem for his great knowledge in British antiquities.  
The admissions of Masters are this year omitted; yet the number that stood in the Act or Comitia celebrated 6. of July, is 21. The Junior of which called Ralph Treiver of Ch. Ch. was, with the approbation of the Vicech. and whole congregation admitted into the School of the Physicians (or entered on the Physic line) in Jan. 1552.   

Bach. of Diu.  
John Morw●n of C. C. Coll.— This Person did, about this time, upon a fight of the decay of the fac. of Diu. enter himself on the Phys. line, but whether he continued in it I cannot tell.  
John Harpesfield of N●w Coll.  
Christoph. Goodman of Ch. Ch. sometimes of Brazen. Coll.  
John Molens or Mullins of Magd. Coll.  
Hen. Pendleton of Brasnose. Coll.  
☞ Not one Doctor of Law, Physic or Divinity was admitted or licenced to proceed this year; as it appears in the imperfect register of this time.   

Incorporations.  
Rob. Johnson LL. Bach. (of Cambridge as it seems) was incorporated Bach. of both the Laws, but the day or month when, appears not. In 1544 Jul. 10. he was installed Prebendary of the Church of Worcester in the place of Tho. Baggard LL. D. deceased, and in the same month, as it seems, was made Chancellor of the Diocese of Worcester; which had been held by the said Baggard. In the Reign of K. Ed. 6. he kept both those places, though wrote privately against Jo. Hoper B. of Gloucester and Worcester; in 1555 Feb. 22. (tertio Mariae Reg.) he was installed Prebendary of Stillington in the Church of York, and in Jul. 1558 he was collated by Nich, Archb. of York to the rectory of Bolton Percy in Yorkshire, on the death of Arth. Cole Precedent of Magd. Coll. but enjoyed it for a short time. This Person who was esteemed learned and well read in the Theological faculty, did write a book against Hoper beforemention'd, but did not publish it. After his death, which happened in 1559, the book came into the hands of one Henry Joliff or Jolliff Bach. of Diu. sometimes Proctor of Cambridge, afterwards Rector of Bishops Hampton in Worcestershire, one of the first Prebendaries of Worcester, and in 1554 Dean of Bristew in the place of Tho. Rainolds promoted to the Deanery of Exeter. I say that the said Jolliff having the book in his hands, carried it with him beyond the Seas, when he fled there upon the alteration of Religion in the beginning of the Reign of Qu. Elizabeth, and settling for a time at Louvain, did correct, put some additions to, and publish, it, under his and the name of Rob. Johnson with this title. Responsio sub protestatione facta ad illos articulos Johannis Hoperi Episcopi Vigorni●e nomen gerentis, in quibus à Catholica fide dissentiebat: 〈◊〉 cum quibusdam confutationibus ejusdem Hoperi, & replicationibus reverendiss. in ch. pat. Steph. Gardineri Episc. Winton. tunc temporis pro confessione fidei in carcere detenti. Antwerp. 1564. in a thick oct. dedicated by Joliff to Philip K. of Spain, acknowledging not only his favours showed to him in England. while he was King there, but also at Louvain. Whether Rob. Johnson the original Author died at Worcester, or York I know not, or Joliff at Louvain: Sure I am that the last died in 1573; for on the 28. Januar. in that year, a commission 
c In the reg. of Administrations, in the 〈◊〉 near St. Paul's Cathedral, beginning on the first day of Jan. 1571. fol. 42. a.  issued out from the Prerogative Court of Canterbury to one Will. Secrs a Stationer of London, to administer the goods, debts, chattels, etc. of Hen, Joliff Clerk, late Dean of Bristol, who died in parts beyond the Seas, etc. I find another Hen. Joliff, in whom Dr. John white Bishop of Winton took 
d See in John Whytes 〈…〉 etc. Lond. 1553. fol 95.  much delight for his towardliness and great virtues; but he was a youth, and dying 19 Aug. 1548 must not be understood to be the same with Hen. Joliff beforemention'd, who also wrote against Nich. Rydley; nor Rob. Johnson of Alls. Coll. who was admitted Bach. of Law 1552, or thereabouts, to be the same with him that was the original Author of Responsio, etc.  
About this time Abr. Ortelius of Antwerp spent some time in study, in the condition of a Sojourner, within this University. Afterwards he became a most admirable Cosmographer, the Ptolomey of his time, and the ornament of the learned World. He died in 1598.    

An. Dom. 1552.  
An. 6. Ed. 6.  
Chanc. the same, viz. Dr. Rich. Cox, to whom it was granted by the venerable congregation this year, Jul. 19, that whereas he was about to resign his office of Chancellor within a short time, he should never after be burdened with the office of Vicechancellor. The 14. Nou. following he resigned it, and on the 18, the congregation of Regent's and Non-regents elected according to their new statutes Sir John Mason Knight, sometimes Fellow of Alls. Coll. lately Ambassador for K. H. 8. into several Foreign Countries and now Dean of the Cath. Ch. at Winchester.  
Vicechanc. or Prochanc. James Brokes D. D. of C. C. Coll. for the first part of the year, and Rich. Martial D. D. of Ch. Ch. for the other part, being elected in Convocation Prochanc. 3. oct. In his absence Dr. Tresham officiated, and is sometimes styled Procancellarius.  

Proct. 

The Spencer of Ch. Ch.  
Maur. Bullock of New Coll.     
Both elected on the day before the Cal. of Octob.  

Bach. of Arts.  

Jun…. John Rastell  
Oct. 4. Walt. Bailiff 

of New Coll.     
Both afterwards writers, and the last an eminent Physician.  
About 26 were admitted this year, one half of which are omitted in the Register.   

Bach. of LL.  
Ellis Heywood of Alls. Coll.— He was afterwards a Jesuit and a writer.  
Griffyth Willyams of New Coll.— In 1554 he became Chancellor of the Dioc. of Worcester, in the place of Rob. Johnson resigning; and whether he be the same Williams who was Chancellor to the Bishop of Gloucester about the same time, (remembered by Joh. 
e In his book of 〈◊〉 Acts and 〈◊〉. of the Church, etc. under the years 1556. and 58.  Fox for his strange, fearful, and sudden death which befell him in 1558, after Qu. Elizabeth came to the Crown, and therefore esteemed as a judgement on him for condemning a blind boy to be burnt, in 1556) I cannot justly tell you. In 1557. Will. Turnball LL. Bac. succeeded Griffyth Willyams in the Chancellourship of Worcester.  
In the public register, which is very imperfect in the beginning of this year, it partly appears that one John Body supplicated to be admitted Bach. of LL. See in the year 1554.   

Mast of Arts.  

Alan Cope  
Lawr. Humphrey 

of Magd. Coll.     

Hieron. Philippides  
Joh. Abulines, or ab Vlmis 

of Ch. Ch.     
Whether either of these two last, was a writer I cannot yet tell. Qu.  
Will. Good of C. C. Coll.  

Jam. Calfill  
John Bavant 

of Ch. Ch.     
The last of the said Masters was afterwards one of the first Fellows of St. John's Coll. and the first Greek reader there. He was Tutor in the said house to Edm. Campian and Greg. Martin; but upon the alteration of Religion leaving the Coll, and his Country, was made a Ro. Cath. Priest, and afterwards was one of those that endured a tedious imprisonment in Wisbich Castle in Cambridgshire upon account of Religion.  
Twenty Masters stood in the Act celebrated 18. July this year, but how many were admitted, it appears not in the register.   

Bach. of Div,  

Thom. Harding of New Coll.  
Thom. Bickley.  
Tho. Bentham 

of Magd. Coll.     
The two last were afterwards Bishops.  
Gilbert Burnford— In 1554 he had the Chancellourship of the Church of Wells granted to him under the Seal of the Bishop and Chapter thereof. But when he craved admission thereunto in 1560, he was denied, because he refused the oath of Supremacy. For the same reason he was deprived of the Prebendary of Hasilberes in that Church, and of a rectory in the Dioc. of Wells.  
Note that whereas always before this time, when any Bach. of Diu. was admitted, he was registered as admitted ad lecturam libri sententiarum, so now during the Reign of K Ed. 6. they are registered as admitted ad lectionem Paulinarum Epistolarum: And this year those that were admitted, are registered as admitted ad ena●rationem Epistolarum Apostolicarum in ipsis comitiis hoc anno, viz. 18. Julii.   

Doct. of Civ. Law.  
Hen. Jones of Alls. Coll.— This Person was one of the learned Doctors of the Civ. Law, whom Qu. Elizabeth consulted concerning the matter of Lesley Bishop of Ross, who, while he was Ambassador from Mary Qu. of Scots to Qu. Elizabeth, consulted and promoted a Rebellion against her. See in Camden's Annals of Qu. Elizab. under the year 1571. This Dr. Jones died in, or near, Doctor's Commons, about the beginning of Feb. in 1591., and was buried, as it seems, in the Church of St. Bennet near to Paul's wharf in London.  
☞ Not one Doctor of Phys. was admitted this year.   

Doct. of Diu.  
Rich. Marshal of Ch. Ch.— Soon after he was made Prebendary of Winchester, and Dean of his Coll. by the intercession of the Lord Arundel (to whom he was Chaplain) made to the Queen. In the Reign of K. Ed. 6. he seemed to be a great Reformer, and retracted what he zealously had held in the Reign of K. Hen. 8. After the death of K. Ed. 6. he returned to his former opinions, and was more zealous for the Cath. cause than before: But when Qu. Elizab. succeeded, he absconded for a time, and went from place to place. At length being taken and conveyed to London, retracted again in hopes of being settled in his Deanery of Ch. Ch. which might have been, had he behaved himself moderately in the Reign of Qu. Mary. Afterwards, as 'tis said, he went into Yorkshire, where he died obscurely. In his Deanery succeeded G. Carew, as I have told you before, under the year 1522.  
Hen. Pendleton of Brasn. Coll. was also admitted this year and stood, with Marshal, in the Act that followed.  
Henr. Syddall LL. B. and Canon of Ch. Ch. who had studied sacred letters for 18 years, did this year supplicate that he might put on, or be honoured with, the cap of Doct. of Divinity. This desire of his was granted conditionally that he be inaugurated and dispute in Divinity in the next Act that should follow. But whether he was so, or did dispute, it appears not in the public register, or in the Catalogues of Inceptors.   

Incorporations.  
Nou. 12. Brian Baynes Bach. of Arts of Cambridge— The next year he proceeded in the said faculty, being then a member of Ch. Ch. which is all I know of him.  
Nov …Valentine Dale of Alls. Coll. Doctor of the Civ. Law beyond the Seas, (at Oreleans I think) seems to be incorporated in that month, because he had supplicated more than once for that Degree— He was afterwards Master of the Requests, Dean of Wells, 1574, and about that time Ambassador to the French King upon the calling home of Sir Franc. Walsingham to be Secretary of State, etc. He died in his house near St. Paul's Cathedral 17. Nou. 1589. and was buried in the Parish Church of St. Gregory near to the said Cathedral, leaving behind him a Daughter named Dorothy, who being coheir to her Father, was married to Sir John North, Son and Heir to Roger Lord North.  
Dec. 2. Walter Haddon Precedent of Magd. Coll. in Oxon. and Doctor of the Civil Law at Cambridge.— This Person who was a Buckinghamshire Man born, and educated in Grammar learning in Eton School, was chose Scholar of Kings Coll. in Cambridge, an. 1533, where arriving to great eminence in the Civil Law was made the King's Professor of that faculty in the said University, and much esteemed for his eloquence and learning, especially by Leland who 
* 〈…〉 etc. Lond. 〈…〉  calls him Heveddunus. Afterwards, being a Man much addicted to reformation, he was by virtue of several letters written by the King in his behalf, elected, though contrary to statute, Precedent of Magd. Coll. where he continued about an year; and then learning it to prevent expulsion, sheltered himself in private during the Reign of Qu. Mary. After Qu. Elizabeth came to the Crown he was made one of her Masters of Requests, and by her employed in one or more Embassies. His works are (1) A sight of the Portugal Pearl, in answer to the Epistle of Hieron. Osorius entit. A Pearl for a Prince. This book which was written in Latin, I have not yet seen, only the translation of it into English, made by Abrah. Hartwell, an. 1565. in tw. (2) Lucubrationes. Lond. 1565. qu. collected and published by Tho. Hatcher of Kings Coll. in Cambridge. These Lucubrations consist of Orations and Epistles. Among the Orations is that De obitu Mart. Buceri. and among the Epistles is that De vita & obitu fratrum Suffolciensium Henrics & Caroli Brandon. (3) Poemata. Lond. 1567. qu. collected also and published by the said Hatcher (4) Contra Hieron. Osorium. ejusque odiosas insectationes pro Evangelicae veritatis necessaria defension, responsio apologetics. Lond. 1577. qu. This book was begun and carried on by him more than half: Afterwards coming into the hands of John Fox, was by him finished and published, and at length translated into English by Jam. B●ll. (5) Poematum lib. duo Lond. 1592. oct. Before which Poems is printed the life of Wal●. Haddon. Whether these two books contain his Poems beforemention'd I cannot tell. I remember I once saw them, but dreaming not in the least of any future mentioning Dr. Haddon, I throwed them aside after I had taken the title, otherwise I should have spoken more of him. He gave way to fate 21. January 1571 (leaving then behind him the Character of Orator d●lcis & foecundus,) and was buried on the 25. of the same month in the Grey friar's Church, now called Ch. Ch. within the City of London. Over his grave was soon after a comely monument erected; which, with the Church itself, was consumed by the dreadful conslagration that happened in the said City in the beginning of Sept. 1666.  
☞ This year Jul. 20. the public Registrary or Scribe of the University, was deprived of his place for neglecting to set down and enter in the common register the Acts of Congregations for several years behind.    

An. Dom. 1553.  
An. 7. Ed. 6.  
An. 1. Mariae.  
Chanc. the same, viz. Sir Joh. Mason Knight.  
Vicehanc. or Prochanc. Dr. Martial again, now Dean of Ch. Ch. Dr. Walt. Write occurs also Prochanc. this year Apr. 4. and Dr. Will. Tresham (who was about the same time a Prisoner in the Fleet) commissary Nou. 6. But these two, I presume, were only Deputies.  

Proct. 

Thom. Spencer  
Maur. Bullocke 

again       

Bach. of Arts.  
Jul. 15. Jasp. Heywood (of Mert. Coll.)— He was afterwards a noted Jesuit.  
Oct. 11. John Wolley— See among the Master's 1557.  
Dec. 1. Tho. Palmer of Brazen. Coll.— See also among the Masters in 1556.  
Feb. 1. Rich. Barnes of Br. Coll.— He was afterwards Bishop of Durham.  
March … John Rogers of Qu. Coll.— Quaere.  
Admitted in all this year 52.   

Bach. of Civ. Law.  
…Rich. Green of Alls. Coll.— He was afterwards Chancellor of the Diocese of Glouc.  
Oct. 30. Tho. Darbyshire of Broadgates' hall— He was afterwards Chanc. of Dioc. of London.  
Rob. Johnson of Alls. Coll. was also, as it seems, admitted this year, but not to be understood to be the same R. Johnson whom I have mentioned in 1551.   

Mast. of Arts.  
Jul. 8. Will. Overton of Magd. Coll.  
14. Dau. de la Hyde of Me●t. Coll.  
15. Hugh Evans of Brazen, Coll.— I take him to be the same Hugh Evans who occurs Dean of St. Asaph, in 1571.  
Nou. 27. Tho. Wylson— whether he be the same with Tho. Wylson of Brasn. Coll. who was admitted B. of A. in 1546. as I have under that year told, I cannot assure, you. I find one Tho. W●lson Bach of Diu. and Preb. of Worcester to have succeeded John Pedder in the Deanery there, in May 1571; who dying 10. July 1586, was buried in a little isle, commonly called the Deans Chapel, joining to the choi●e of the Cath. Ch. at Worcester, having before married Dorothy Daughter of Rob. Banister Esq. Whether this Tho. Wylson (whom I cannot find among the number of our Bachelaurs of Diu.) be the same with Tho. Wylson of Brasn. Coll. mentioned under the year 1546, I cannot yet tell.  
Admitted 24.  
☞ Not one Bach. of Diu. was admitted this year.   

Doct. of Civ. Law.  
June … Thom. white of New Coll.— This Person who was now Prebendary of Winchester, was elected Warden of his Coll. in the month of Sept. this year, being then a zealous Man for the Rom. Cath. Religion. In Sept. 1557 he succeeded Will. Pie in the Archdeaconry of Berks. and in Aug. 1571 Hen. Parry in the Chancellourship of the Church of Sarum, having before been Preb. of Vlfcomb in that Church. He died 12. June 1588. and was buried in the choir belonging to the Cathedral there.  
Jun…. John Kennall— He was afterwards Canon of Ch. Ch. Chancellor of Rochester, Archdeacon of Oxen, in the place of Dr. Wat. Write deceased, an. 1561. and Canon residentiary of the Cath. Ch. at Exeter; where dying in 1591., Joh. Drewry LL. D. succeeded him in the Archdeaconry of Ox.  
Jul…. Tho. Stempe of New Coll. about this time Prebendary of Winchester— Afterwards he became the eleventh Warden of W. of Wyk●hams Coll. near Winchester, in the place of Dr. John Boxall. He died 9 Feb. 1581. and was buried in the Chapel belonging to the said College: in whose Epitaph there, 'tis said that he was Legum, S. Theologiae Musicesque laude clarissimus.  
Oct. 30. Nich. Harpesfield of New Coll.  
☞ Not one Doct. of Phys. or Diu. was admitted this year.   

Incorporations.  
Will. Mouse or Moss Dr. of the Civ. Law of Cambridge, was incorporated this year, but the particular time when, I cannot find.— He was of Trin. hall in that University, was this year the King's Professor of the Civ. Law in this of Oxon, but whether in his own right, or in that of Dr. Will. Awbrey, is yet to me uncertain▪ On the first of March 1560 he was installed Prebend of Botevant in the Church of York, being at that time Master of the aforesaid hall, and dying in 1588., became a considerable benefactor to that house.  
Andr. Perne D. of D. of Cambridge, was also this year incorporated, but the day or month when, appears not.— He was educated in Peter house, whereof he was Fellow, and Master; and in 1557 was made the second Dean of Ely in the place of Rob. steward, who died 22. Sept. the same year. This Dr. Perne who is reported to have been a mutable 
* 〈…〉.  Man in his Religion, and of a facetious nature, yet a great Maecenas of learning, died at Lambeth in Surrey 26. Apr. 1589, and was buried in the Chancel of the Parish Church there; whereupon John Bell D. of D. succeeded him in his Deanery. You may read many things of this Dr. And. Perne in the book of Acts and Monuments of the Church, etc. under the year 1557. written by John Fax; wherein you'd find him a zealous Man for the Cath. cause in the Reign of Qu. Mary. One of both his names who was M. of A. and sometimes Fellow of Katherine hall in Cambridge (afterwards Minister of Wilby in Northamptonshire) was a frequent Preacher before the Members of the Long Parliament, that began at Westminster an. 1640, ran with those times, and published several Sermons. I find another And. Perne LL. D. sometimes an Inhabitant of Westwratting in Cambridgshire, who died in 1680.    

An. Dom. 1554.  
An. 1/2 Mariae.  
Chanc. the same.  
Vicechanc. John Warner Doct. of Phys. and Warden of Alls. Coll. was designed by letters from the Chancellor.  

Proct. 

Tho. Coveney of Magd. Coll.  
Christop. Hargrave of Linc. Coll.     
Which Proctors taking their places on the nonce of April, Maur. Bullock, and Gilb. Mounson of Ch. Changed (substitute to Mr. Spencer) receded.  

Bach. of Arts.  
Jul. 4. Will. Barker (of Magd. Coll.)— One of both his names translated into English. An exhortation to his kinsman to the study of the Scriptures. Lond. 1557. oct. written by St. Basil the Great. Whether he be the same with the Bach. of Arts, Quaee.  
Anth. Russh of Magd. Coll. was admitted the same day.  
Jul. 11. John Body— One of both his names supplicated to be admitted Bach. of the Civil Law, an. 1552, which I take to be the same with this who was Bach. of Arts, but not the same who was executed at And●ver in Hampshire, an. 1583 for denying the Queen's Supremacy over the Church of England. See more in these Fasti, among the Masters of Arts, an. 1575.  
Jul. 16. Tho. Atkyns— He was elected Bachelaur-Fellow of Mert. Coll. this year, in whose Cat. or Alb. of Fellows, this addition is put to his name,— Fuit procurator generalis regius apud Wallos, & Reginae Elizabethae à consiliis ibidem, & ad audiendum & determinandum malefacta cujuscunque generis justitiarius, etc. He was born in the Dioc. of Worcester, but took no higher Degree in this University.  
Mar. 13. John Bridgwater (Aquep●ntanus) either now of Brasnose Coll. or of Hart hall— He was afterwards a learned Jesuit.  
Admitted 48.   

Doct. of Music.  
Apr. 21. John Shepherd who had been a Studen● in Music for the space of 20 years, did then by his Dean supplicate the ven. congregation that he might be licenced to proceed in that faculty, that is to be admitted Doctor of Music; but whether he was admitted, or stood in any Act following it appears not in our registers. The words of some of his Church services are made public in The Divine Services and Anthems usually sung in Cathedrals, etc. Lond. 1663. oct. collected and published by James Clifford, as I have told you under the year 1548. I have seen some of his compositions of six parts in six MS. Books, remaining at this day in the Archives of our publs. Music School, containing Church Music or Anthems and certain Songs.   

Mast. of Arts.  
But 13 were admitted this year, among whom Will. Allyn or Alan of Oriel Coll. was one, afterwards a Cardinal and Archb. as I have before told you; and Sextus Quaterman of New Coll. another.  
In an Act celebrated 16. July, were 19 that stood, of whom the said Allyn was junior, whom we usually call Junior of the Act, who with the Senior, perform exercise in the name of the rest of the Masters.   

Bach. of Diu.  
Jun. 7. Arthur Cole of Magd. Coll. sometimes Cross-bearer to Cardinal Wolsey, now Fellow of Eton Coll. and Canon of Windsor was adm. to the reading of the Sentences by Dr. O. Oglethorp Dean of Winds. in a certain Chamber belonging to his Lodgings there, by power and authority given to him for that purpose by Dr. Rich. Smyth Provicechancellour of the University.— This Mr. Cole had his grace granted in order to the taking of that Degree in 1545, and in 1555 he succeeded the said Dr. Oglethorp in the Presidentship of Magd. Coll.  
Jul. 5. John Boxall of New Coll.— He was now Archdeacon of Ely, and Warden of the Coll. near Winchester, etc.  
Besides these two, were but 3 more admitted this year.   

Doct. of Civil Law.  
Jul. 13. Tho. Huyck of Mert. Coll.— He died at London 1575., having a little before been made the first and original Fellow of Jesus Coll. to which he was a Benefactor.  
Rob. Raynold of New Coll. was licenced to proceed the same day.— He was now Fellow of Wykehams Coll. near to Winchester, Prebendary of Linc. and Chichester, and about 1557, Master of the Hospital of St. Cross near to Winton.  
Will. Awbrey of Alls. Coll. was admitted also on the same day.— See before, under the year 1549. A Person he was of exquisite learning and singular prudence and therefore mentioned with honour by Thuanus and others. He was born in Bricknockshire, particularly, as I conceive, at Cantre, wrote divers things, but not printed; among which are several letters to his Cousin Dr. John Dee concerning the Sovereignty of the Seas, (some of which I have seen) and dying 23. Jul. 1595 was buried within the Cath. Church of St. Paul in London. Afterwards there was a Mon. with his bust set over his grave, which, with the Cathedral itself was consumed in that dismal conflagration which happened in that great City in the beginning of Sept. 1666.   

Doct. of Physic.  
May 9 Rich. Master of Alls. Coll.— On the 14. of March 1562 he was installed Prebendary of Fridaythorpe in the Church of York, being about that time Physician of the Chamber to Qu. Elizabeth. His eldest Son George Master settled in the Abbey at Cirencester in Glocestershire, where his posterity yet remaineth. Another Son named Robert was Doctor of the Civ. Law in 1594, as I shall tell you when I come to that year.  
Rich. Caldwell or Chaldwall lately of Ch. Ch. but originally of Brasnose Coll. was admitted the same day.  
Thom. Francis of Ch. Ch. was also admitted the same day— After this Person had taken the Degree of M. of A. he applied his studies to the Theological faculty, but the encouragement thereof being in these days but little, he transferred himself to the School of Physicians, and with the consent and approbation of Dr. Write the Vicechancellor, was entered on the Physic line, 4. Aug. 1550. In the year after, I find him supplying the place and office of the King's Professor of Physic, being, I presume, only Deputy for Dr. John Warner, and on the 9 Mar. 1553 he was admitted Bach. of Phys. In 1561 he succeeded Hugh Hodgson in the Provostship of Qu. Coll. and was afterwards Physician to Qu. Elizabeth and much respected by her.  
Jul. 14. John Symings or Symming— In what Coll. or Hall educated, I know not. Sure I am that he was one of the Coll. of Physicians in London, where he was in great practice; and dying in his house in Little St. Barthelmew in Smithfield. 7. July 1588., was buried in the Church in the spital there.   

Doct. of Diu.  

Apr. 20. John Harpesfield  
Jul. 13. Thomas Harding 

of New Coll.     
Both zealous and stout Champions for the Rom. Cath. cause.  
Jun. 20. It was then granted to Hen. Cole LL. D. of New Coll. that he might have the Degrees of Bach. and Doctor of Divinity conferred upon him, without any disputations or exercise done for the same.   

Incorporations.  
Certain Doctors of Diu. of the Uniu. of Cambridge having been commanded by their Chancellor Dr. Steph. Gardiner Bishop of Winchester to go to Oxford, and there to join themselves with other. Doctors and learned Men of that University, to dispute with Archb. Cranmer, Bish. Rydley, and B. Latimer concerning matters of Religion, did accordingly come to Oxom. 13. of Apr. this year, and taking up their quarters at the Cross-inn near to Quatervois, were the next day incorporated. The names of them are these.  
John Young D. D. Master of Pembroke hall and Vicechancellor.— He was a learned Man, and is styled by some Writers Joh. Giovanus.  
John Seton or Seaton D. D. of St. John's Coll. in Cambridge and Prebendary of Winchester.— He was now famous in that University for the brief and methodical book of Logic which he had composed for the use of junior Scholars.  
Rich. Atkinson D. D. Provost of Kings Coll.  
Will. Glynne D. D. Master of Queens Coll. and now or lately Archdeacon of Anglesie.— In 1555 Sept. 8. he was consecrated Bishop of Bangor within the Cath. Ch. of St. Paul in London, and died a little before Qu. Mary.  
Tho. Watson D. D. Master of St. John's Coll. and Chaplain to Gardiner B. of Winchester.— In 1553 Nou. 18. he was instituted Dean of Durham by Dr. Tonstall B. thereof, on the deprivation of Rob. Horn, and in Aug. 1557 he was consecrated B. of Linc. From which See being removed by the authority of Parliament in the beginning of Q. Eliz. as being an enemy to reformation, and the Qu. Supremacy over the Church, was committed Prisoner to several places and kept in durance in and near London for about 20 years. At length in the year 1580, he, and Jo. Fekenham, being sent Prisoners, with others, to Wisbich Castle in Cambridgshire, continued there to the time of his death. He was buried in the Ch. belonging to the Town of Wisbich 27. of Sept. an. 1584. In his younger years he was given much to Poetry and making of Plays and gained great commendations for his Antigone out of Sophocles by the learned Men of his time; who have farther avowed that as George Buchannans Tragedy called Jepthe have among all Tragedies of that time, been able to abide the touch of Aristotle's precepts, and Eu●ipides Examples: So hath also the Tragedy of this Tho. Watson called Absalon which was in a most wonderful manner admired by them, yet he would never suffer it to go abroad, because 
a See 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 boo● 〈…〉  in locis paribus, Anapestus is twice or thrice used instead of Jambus. In his elder years, being then of a sour disposition as one 
b The Author of 〈…〉 Justice in England, printed the second time 1563.  saith, and ●arned in deep Divinity, but surly with an austere gravity, as another 
c 〈…〉  tells us, published several matters of Divinity, among which were Two Sermons of the real Presence, before Qu. Mary, on Rom. 12. 1. etc. Lond. 1554. oct. and Wholesome and Cath. Doctrine concerning the seven Sacraments, etc. Lond. 1558. qu. This Book consists only of Hemilies.  
Cuthbert Scot D. D. Master of Christ's Coll. and Prebendary of York.— He was afterwards Bish. of Chester.  
Thomas Sedgwyke D. D. the Queens Prof. of Diu. in Cambr.  
Alban Langdale D. D. of S. John's Coll. in Cambr.— In 1556, he being then Parson of Buxted in Sussex, was made Archdeacon of Lewes on the death of one Dr. Breisley, and about the same time Prebendary of A●pleford in the Church of York. In the beginning of Qu. Eliz. he was deprived of those, and other, Dignities, (1) Because he had behaved himself zealous in the Reign of Q. Marry, in carrying on the Rom. Catholic Cause against the Protestants. (2) Because he denied the Queen's Supremacy over the Church. He lived afterwards many years a constant Member of the Church of Rome, but when or where he died, I cannot tell. See more of him in Nich. Ridley pag. 78.    

An. Dom. 1555.  
An. 2 Mariae.  
An. 3 Mariae.  
Chanc. the same.  
Vicechanc. Rich. Smyth D. D. sometimes Fellow of Mert. Coll. now Canon of Ch. Ch. and one of Qu. Mary's Chaplains, was admitted to his Office in Apr. this year. Dr. Marshal occurs also Vicechancellor 16 Oct. at what time Rydley and Latimer were burnt in Canditch; for then, if I mistake not, Dr. Smyth preached to them when they were at the Stake.  

Proct. 

Will. Norfolk of Or. Coll.  
Jam. Gervys of Mert. Coll. 

elect. 14 Apr.       

Bach. of Arts.  
Nou. 14. Rich. Shaghens of Ball. Coll.  
Jan. 11. Edw. Cradock of C. C.— See among the D. D. an. 1565.  
Feb. 13. Hen. Bedell of C. C. Coll.— One of both his names was Author of A Sermon exhorting to pity the poor, on Psal. 41. Lond. 1571. oct. and of another, if not more, which I have not yet seen. Whether the same with Hen. Bedell the Bach. of Arts who was born in Oxfordshire, I know not.  
This year Apr. 26. John Woolton of Brasn. Coll. (afterwards Bishop of Exeter) supplicated for the Degree of Bach. of Arts; but whether he was admitted it appears not, or that he determined in the Lent following.  
Adm. 33.   

Bach. of Civ. Law.  
June 26. John Calverley of Alls. Coll.— He was afterwards Archdeacon of Rochester in the place of John Bridgwater, about 1574, and dying in 1576, he was succeeded by Dr. Ralph Pickover of Ch. Ch. in Oxon.  
Besides Calverley, were five admitted, and three or more that supplicated for the same Degree.   

Bach. of Decrees.  
Apr. 3. Will. Laly or Lawley of New Inn.— He was afterwards Archbish. of Tuam in Ireland.  
John Linch of New Inn also, as it seems, was admitted the same day.— He was afterwards Bishop of Elphine in Ireland.   

Mast. of Arts.  
Jun. 26. John Rastell of New Coll.— He afterwards gained to himself an eminent name, especially among those of his Profession, for his Writings against Joh. Jewell.  
Jul. 12. Harbert Westphaling of Ch. Ch.  
26. Pet. white of Or. Coll.— He was afterwards much celebrated by his Scholar Rich. Stanyhurst for his Learning.  
Adm. 29.   

Bach. of Phys.  
Mar. 28. Tho. Coveney of Magd. Coll.— See among the Doctors in 1559.  
June 17. Tho Godwyn of the same Coll.— He afterwards applied his Studies to Diu. and at length became B. of Bath and Wells.  
Mar. 13. Giles Wale etc.  
Eight in all were admitted this year.   

Bach. of Diu.  
Nou. 14. Joh. de Villa Garcia or Garcina, lately of Lincoln College, now Divinity Reader of that of Magd— He was commonly called Friar John, and by Protestant Writers Johannes Fr●●erculus. See among the D. of D. 1558.  
He was the only person that was admitted Bach. of Diu. this year. Two or more there were that supplicated for the said Degree of whom Will. Cholwell M. A. was one; who being learned and a zealous man for the R. Cath. Cause, was designed by certain of the Queen's Commissioners, on the 8 Cal. May 1554, to preach concerning various matters which were controverted in Qu. Mary's Reign.   

Doct. of Civ. Law.  
Feb. 17. Thomas Darbyshire of Broadgates' Hall, now Canon of Paul's, Chancellor of the Diocese of London, and Archdeacon of Essex.— In the beginning of Qu. Elizabeth he was deprived of his Spiritualities, whereupon Tho. Cole (who had been Dean of Salisbury, as 'tis 
* 〈…〉  said, in the time of K. Ed. 6. and afterwards an Exile in the time of Qu. Mary) succeeded him in his Archdeaconry, who kept it to the time of his death, which was in the beginning of the year 1571. After Darbyshire was deprived, he went beyond the Seas, and at length entered himself into the Society of Jesus, and became a noted person among the Rom. Catholics. He had great skill in the Scriptures, and was profound in Divinity: he catechised also many years publicly at Paris in the Latin Tongue, with great concourse and approbation of the most learned of that City. Whether he wrote any thing I find not as yet, only that he died in a good old Age at Pont à Mousson in Lorraine an. 1604. (2 Jac. 1.) While he was Chanc. of London he had much to do in examining Heretics, as they were then called, that were brought before Bishop Bonner about matters of Faith.   

Doct. of Physic.  
Jul. 22. John Howell of Alls. Coll.  
He was the only person that was admitted or licenced in that Faculty.  
☞ Not one Doct. of Diu. was admitted or licenced to proceed this year.   

Incorporations.  
Jul. 1. Thom. Martin of New Coll. Doctor of the Civ. Law of the University of Bourges in France, was then incorporated in the same Degree.  
Oct. 1. John white Bishop of Lincoln, D. of D. of another University.  
Nou. 14. Peter de Sotho D. D. of an University in Spain, was also incorporated, being then a Reader and Instructor in this University to undo the Doctrine which Pet. Martyr had founded there in the time of K. Ed. 6. as I have told you among the Writers. under the year 1563. pag. 109.  
Jan…. John Thirlbye Bish. of Ely, and Doct. of the Civ. and Can. Law of Cambridge, was incorp. in that month.— He had been sometimes Fellow of Trinity Hall in that University.  
Whereas 'tis affirmed by some that Barthelm. Carranza of Miranda, a Spanish Friar of the Order of S. Dominick, (afterwards Archbishop of Toledo) was a Reader about this time in Oxon, and supposed to be incorporated also with Pet. de Soth●, I can find no such matter in the public Register of this time, or elsewhere, though there is no doubt but that he was in Oxon for some time, and abode there as a Stranger.    

An. Dom. 1556.  
An. 3 Mariae.  
An. 4 Mariae.  
Chanc. the same, viz. Sir John Mason Kt. but he resigning by his Letters read in Convocation 26. Oct. the most noble Reynold Pole sometimes of Magd. Coll. now Cardinal of S. Mary in Cosmedin, or in Schola Graeca, in Rome, Legat a Latere in this Kingdom, and soon after Archbishop of Canterbury, was elected into his place on the same day.  
Commiss. Dr. Will. Tresham; who continuing in his Office till Nou. Tho. Raynolds D. of D. Warden of Mert. Coll. and Dean of Exeter, was then designed Commissary or Vicechancellor, by the Chancellors Letters dated the sixth of the said month, during only his pleasure; by virtue of which he took his place, and had for his Deputy Dr. Rich. Martial Dean of Ch. Ch.  

Proct. 

Hen. Wotton of Ch. Ch.  
Tho. Davye or Davys of New. Coll. 

elect. 15 Apr.       
But Hen. Wotton being chose Greek Reader, and Fellow of C. C. Coll. 14 of Aug. (the Fellows of which Coll. are disenabled by their Statutes from taking upon them the Procuratorial Office) Will. Allyn or Alan M. of A. of two years standing and Fellow of Oriel Coll. was elected into his place the same day, and served out the remaining part of the year.  

Bach. of Arts.  
June 5. Rob. Poyntz of New Coll.— He was afterwards a zealous Writer for the Rom. Cath. Cause.  
Jul. 6. Rob. Vauce of Brasn. Coll.— Whether he be the same with Rob. Vaulx who translated into English Andr. Hiperius his Two common places, in the first of which he showeth The force that the Sun and Moon have over men, and in the second Whether the Dev●● have been the showers of magical Arts, etc. Lond. 1581. oct. I know not. Quaere. One Rob. Vaux was Bach. of Diu. of Exeter Coll. 1594.  
Pet. Levens of Magd. Coll. was adm. the same day.— He was afterwards an eminent Physician.  
Dec. 2. Tho. Stapleton of New Coll.— A flout Champion in defence of the Rom. Cath. Cause.  

Feb. 23. 

Christop. Johnson  
Joh. Four. 

of New Coll.       
Both afterwards Writers, the first in Phys. the other in Divinity.  
John Hannington of New Coll. was adm. the same day.— This person who was born at Tadley in Hampshire, and John Plankeney a Native of Forsthill alias Foresthill near to, and in the County of Oxon, (who became perpetual Fellow of New Coll. in 1560) were both learned, of good natural parts, and very hopeful young men, one in Philosophy and the other in the Civ. Law. But because they were zealous Papists, or as John Fox saith, blinded with Papistry, the just Judgement of God therefore, 
* In his Acts and Mon. of the Church, etc. under the year 1558.  as he adds, fell upon them, that is to say, that Hannington, who had been Pupil to John Marshal (who wrote of the Cross) was drowned in a Well about Rome, or as some say, about Milan; and Plankeney drowned himself about Rewley near Oxon, an. 1566. (he should have said 1565.) and both were taken up with Crucifixes about their necks.  
Admitted in all 49.   

Bach. of Civ. Law.  
Jul. 8. John Marshal of New Coll.— Afterwards he became noted for his Writings against Dr. Jam. Calfill.  
Besides him, were five admitted this year, of whom Rich. Edmunds and Geo. Catagree of the same House were two, and Arth. Dak●ns another.   

Bach. of Decrees.  
Aug. 12. Daniel Raine.— So is he written in his Admission; but in his Supplication for that Degree, Dona●dus Ryane, being then, as I suppose, a Member of New Inn. See more in the year 1533. He was the only person that was admitted Bach. of Decrees this year.   

Mast. of Arts.  
Apr. 20. John Bridgwater, (Aquepontanus) of Brasn. Coll.  
27. Walt. Bailiff of New Coll.  
Jul. 6. John Rogers of Queens Coll. Quaere.  
Dec. 17. The Palmer of Brasn. Coll.— He was this, or the year following, made one of the primary Scholars of S. John's Coll. and at length Principal of Gloucester Hall. He was an excellent Orator, and the best of his time for a Ciceronian Style. He collected several matters from Cicero, which coming to the view of the learned Camden, he judged them very fit to be printed. This Th. Palmer, after he had left his Principality, had a considerable Estate given to him in Essex; but he being a zealous Rom. Catholic, suffered much in his Person and Estate for Religion sake, and therefore numbered by those of his Profession among the Confessors for the Cause in the time of Qu. Elizabeth.  
Dec. 17. Rich. Mulcaster of Ch. Ch.  
March 10. Rich. Barnes of Bras. Coll.— He was afterwards Bishop of Durham.  
Admitted 27.   

Bach. of Physic.  
This year Tho. Cooper M. A. and Master of the Free-School joining to Magd. Coll. great Gate, did supplicate the ven. Congregation, that whereas he had studied Philosophy 12 years, and Physick five, he might be admitted to the reading of any Book of the Aphorisms of Hypocrates. Which being, as it seems, granted in Oct, did practise Physic in Qu. Mary's Reign. But when Qu. Elizabeth came to the Crown. he returned to his Divinity, and at length became Bishop of Winchester.   

Bach. of Diu.  
July 23. Tho. Neale of New Coll.  
29. Laurence Vaus, Vaux or Vaulx, sometimes of C. C. Coll. now Warden of the Coll. at Manchester.  
Six Masters of Arts did supplicate this year to be admitted to the same Degree, but were not: Among them Edmund Daniel lately Fellow of Merton Coll. was one, who was now Prebendary of Worcester and Dean of Hereford; in the first of which he succeeded Gilb. Bourne, and in the other Dr. Hugh Coren or Curwyn. In 1559 he was deprived of the said Dignities; whereupon his Prebendship was bestowed on Rob. Avise M. A. and his Deanery on Joh. Ellis, as it seems, who in Nou. 1570 became Preb. of Worcester.  
Another who supplicated for that Degree was Nich. Smyth of New Coll. now Fellow of Wykeham's Coll. near Winton, and afterwards Fellow of that at Eton near Windsor.   

Doct. of Civ. Law.  
Jul. 8. Reb. Westen of Alls. Coll.— He had formerly been Principal of Broadgates' Hall, and Deputy Professor of the Civ. Law (while he was Bach. of that Faculty) for Dr. John Story, but now Dean of the Arches, and Chancellor of Exeter. Afterwards he became (as it seems) Dean of Wells, and at length one of the Lords Justices of Ireland; and for six years' Lord Chancellor of that Realm. He was so learned judicious, and upright in the Court of Judicature all the time that he was Lord Chancellor (I speak this from his Epitaph) that no Order or Decree that he made, was ever questioned or reversed. He paid his last debt to Nature 20 May 1573, and was buried in S. Patrick's Church at Dublin. Over his Grave is a noble Monument yet remaining.  
This Dr. Weston was the only Doctor of his Fac. that was licenced to proceed this year, at which time was such a scarcity of Doctors of the Civil Law in the University, that there was a dispensation passed the House, that Tho. Darbyshire an Inceptor in that Faculty, might undergo the place of Doctor in the Depositions of the said Dr. Weston.  
☞ Not one Doctor of Physic or Diu. was admitted, or licenced to proceed this year; Will. Write Bac. of Diu. and Master of Ball. Coll. did supplicate to proceed, but was denied.   

Incorporations.  
June 5. Rich. Mulcaster B. of A. of Cambridge.— Soon after he took the Degree of Master, as I have before told you, and at length became a noted Writer of his time.  
Jul. 21. Nicholas Ormanet Doctor of the Civ. Law of Milan, now one of the prime Visitors appointed by Cardinal Pole Legate à latere, to visit this University, was then incorporated.— John Fox in his Book of Acts and Mon. of the Church, etc. under the year 1557, tells us, that he was the Pope's Datary, but false; for at this time I find him thus written, Nich. Ormanettus Patavinus Archipresbyter plebis Bodolesini Viennensis dioc. He had been recommended to the Service of the said Cardinal by Pope Julius 3. who had an especial esteem for him; and being a Visitor, and an haughty person, as the Protestants esteemed him, he thought it not fit to be presented, and stand bare before the Commissary or Vicechanc. for Incorporation; and therefore it was agreed upon by the Members of the House, that he should be diplomated; by virtue of which he was also made Doctor of the Canon Law. By some of the reformed Party now (1556) remaining in the University, he was esteemed a supercilious man, and intolerably arrogant, but by the Rom. Cath. severe, pious, and prudent. He afterwards sat in the Council at Trent, was made Bish. of Milan by Pope Pius 5. an. 1570, in which See sitting 7 years, died full of praise, and in a good old Age.  
Nou. 12. Arthur Yeldard M. A. of Cambr.— He was afterwards made the second Precedent of Trin. Coll.   

Creations.  
May… John Fekenham sometimes of Gloucester Coll. now either Dean of S. Paul's Cathedral, or Abbot of Westminster, had the Degree of Doct. of Diu. conferred on him, without any Exercise performed for the same.— At the same time, he being absent, it was granted by the venerable Regent's and Non-Regents, that either Dr. Will. Cheadsey, Dr. John Harpesfield. or Dr. Rich. Smyth, might carry to, and give, him the Ensigns or Badges of his Doctorship.    

An. Dom. 1557.  
An. 4 Mariae.  
An. 5 Mariae.  
Chanc. Card. Reynold Pole Archb. of Canterbury.  
Vicechanc. or Commiss. Dr. Tho. Raynolds before mentioned, who holding his Office till about 16 Decemb. Tho. white LL. D. and Warden of New Coll. succeeded by virtue of the Chancellors Letters, dated 10 of the same month; which Office he was to keep no longer than it pleased the Chancellor.  

Proct. 

Fran. Babyngton of Alls. Coll.  
Will. Allyn again 

elected 18 Apr.       
Of the signior Proctor I shall speak among the Doct. of Diu. an. 1559; of the other I have spoken already among the Writers.  

Bach. of Arts.  
Oct. 30. Will. Pomerell of New Coll.— He was afterwards numbered by his Countrymen of Ireland among the learned men of that Country. See more of him in Rich. White among the Writers, under the year 1612. pag. 324.  
Dec. 14. Tho. Gressop of Alls. Coll.— See among the Masters under the year 1561.  
John Neale of Exeter Coll. was adm. the same day.— He was elected Rector of his Coll. while he was Bach. of Arts, an. 1560, such than was the scarcity of Masters in that, and other, Houses.  
Admit. 31.   

Mast. of Arts.  
July 1. Rob. Newton of Exeter Coll.— He was elected Rector of the said house on 17 Oct. following, and afterwards became the second perpetual Rector.  
John Wolley of Mert. Coll. was admitted the same day.— This person, who was a Shropshire man born, was elected probat. Fell. of that House in 1553, and about the time of his proceeding in Arts, studied the Civ. and Can. Law, but took no Degree in either in this University. In Nou. or Dec. this year, he traveled beyond the Seas, where he improved himself much as to Learning, knowledge of Men and Manners. After the death of Roger Ascham, which happened in 1568, he became Latin Secretary to the Queen; and in 1569 he was made Prebendary of Comptondundo in the Church of Wells. In 1578 he was made Dean of Carlisle (though a Layman) on the death of Sir Thomas Smyth, and in 1589 Chancellor of the most noble Order of the Garter. In 1592. he was made a Knight, and about the same time one of the Privy Council to her Majesty, being then a person most eminently perspicuous for his Learning, Piety, Integrity, Goodness, and Gravity. He died at Pyrford in Survey (where he had an Estate) in the latter end of Feb. or beginning of March. an. 1591., whereupon his Body was buried in the middle of the Chancel behind the high Altar of S. Paul's Cathedral. Over his Grave was, soon after, laid a flat stone with an Inscription thereon, under which also Sir Franc. Wolloy his Son and Heir, sometimes of Merton Coll. also, was buried an. 1611, as also Elizabeth Widow of Sir John. All whose bodies were removed in 1614, and buried between S. George's Chapel and that of our Lady, within the Precincts of the said Cathedral, and had a very goodly Tomb with a large Inscription on it, erected over them; which was, with the Cathedral itself, consumed in the dreadful Fire that happened in London in the beginning of Sept. an. 1666.  
Admitted 18.   

Bach. of Diu.  
Only one was admitted this year. viz. Hen. Henshaw alias Heronshaw of Magd. Coll. Dec. 3.— In the next year he was elected Rector of Linc. Coll.  
There were also but two that supplicated for the said Degree, one of which was named Will. Ely of Brasn. Coll. who was made the second Precedent of that of S. John, by the Founder thereof, an. 1559. In 1563 or thereabouts, he was removed from that place for maintaining the Pope's Authority, and not the Queens, over the Church of England: whereupon leaving Oxon, lived many years obscurely, having, if I mistake not, entered into some religious Order beyond the Seas. Afterwards being seized upon for a Seminary, he was committed to the common Prison at Hereford, where remaining, several years, died an aged man an. 1609. being then accounted by those of his persuasion, a most holy Confessor. What I have farther to observe of him is this, that when Archb. Cranmer was brought to the Stake to be burnt at Oxon. he took leave of some of his Friends standing by, and seeing this Will. Ely among them, went to stake him by the hand, but he drawing back, said, It was not lawful to salute Heretics and especially such an one that had falsely returned unto his Opinions that he had forsworn, etc.  
☞ Not one Doctor of Law, Physic, or Divinity, was admitted this year.    

An. Dom. 1558.  
An. 5 Mariae.  
An. 6 Mariae.  
An. 1 Elizab.  
Chanc the said Cardinal Pole; but he dying on the 18 of Nou. Dr. Will. Treshan became Cancellarius natus, continuing in that Office till 24 Jan. following, at which time Hen. Fitzalen Earl of Arundel, High Steward of the University, was chosen by the Suffrages of all the Electors, and on the 6 of Feb. a Codicil of his Election was sealed and sent to him.  
Commiss. the same, who was lately Canc. natus, viz. Dr. Will. Tresham, designed to that Office by Letters from the new Chancellor, dat. 24 Febr. to continue therein till the Feast of S. Michael following.  

Proct. 

Alan Cope of Magd. Coll.  
Walt. Bailiff of New Coll. 

elected 20 Apr.       

Gramm.  
Jul. S. John Bedo an eminent Grammarian, who had publicly instructed Youths in Grammar for four years in this University, was admitted to inform and instruct in that Faculty.   

Bach. of Arts.  
Nou. 18. Tho Brasbridge of Alls. Coll.  
Dec. 12. John Merick of New Coll.— He was afterwards Bishop of the Isle of Man  
Besides these two, were about 63 more admitted, but none of them can I yet find, that were afterwards Bishops, Writers, or eminent Dignitaries in the Church.   

Bach. of Civ. Law.  

July 9 

Tho. Dorman  
Rob. Lougber 

of Alls. Coll.       
Of the last see in the year 1564.  
Feb. 21. Owen Lewes, or Lewes Owen of New Coll.— He was afterwards Bishop of Cassana in Italy.  
Deu. de la Hyde of Merton, and Alan Cope of Magd. Coll. who had studied the Civ. Law five years, supplicated to be admitted, but were not.  
Admitted 14.   

Mast. of Arts.  
Jun. 10. Jasp. Heywood lately of Merton Coll. afterwards a Jesuit.  
20. Anth. Rush of Magd. Coll.— He was afterwards a Writer and a Dean.  
Dec. 5. Leonard Stops of S. John's Coll.— In the year following he either left his Fellowship of the said Coll. or else was ejected; and going beyond the Seas, was made a Priest, much about the same time that Ralph Windon another ejected Fellows of that House was made a Priest also. Afterwards they both came into England, were taken and committed to custody in Wisbich Castle in Cambridgeshire, where they endured a tedious Imprisonment, and therefore accounted by those of their persuasion, Confessors. Contemporary with them, was one Thom. Bramston alias Brimston a young Fellow of the same Coll. who with leave from the Founder thereof, lived with John E●kenham Abbot of Westminster; but upon the alteration of Religion which was made soon after, he went beyond the Seas, and was made a Rom. Cath. Priest. Afterwards he returned into England, was taken and committed to custody in Wisbich Castle, where we find him 1595. Afterwards being set at liberty, lived beyond the Seas, to about the year 1608.  
Admitted 39   

Bach. of Phys.  
Feb. 6. Tho. Phaer.— See among the Doct. of this Fac. following, 21. Walt. Bailiff of New Coll.  
They were both learned Physicians, and were also admitted then to practise.  
Admitted 6.   

Bach. of Diu.  
Jul. 5. John Piers of Magd. Coll.  
9 Franc. Babington of Alls. Coll.— See among the Doct. of Diu. an. 1559.  
But two more, besides the said two, were admitted, and three there were that supplicated; one of whom was called Frat. Anton Reschius or Raschius, who for the space of twelve years had studied Divinity in Paris and Oxford. His Grace was granted simplicity in July, but whether he was ever admitted it appears not. He was one of the Friars that was appointed by public. Authority to undo the Doctrine that P. Martyr and others had settled in the University in the time of K. Ed. 6. and is the same if I mistake not, whom John Fox. in his book of Acts and M●n. of the Church, doth call Friar Richard in his Discourse of the burning of Archb. Cranmer at Oxon.   

Doct. of Civ. Law.  
Jul 8. Thom. powel.— On the second day of 〈…〉 he was admitted Archd. of Worcester in the place of 〈…〉, and resigning in 1579, was succeeded by 〈…〉  
Thom. Keymis or Keymish was admitted the time day.   

Doct. of Phys.  
Mar. 10. Thom. Phaer— The same who took the Degr. of Bach. of Phys. on the 6 of Feb. going before.  
For the same degree also, did supplicate Rich. Slythurst M. A. and Bach. of Physic, but was not admitted, or licenced to proceed.   

Doct. of Diu.  
Jul. 6. Fr. Joh. de Villa Garcia or Garcina the King's public Professor of Diu. in this University.— This person who was now very forward in promoting the Rom. Cath. Cause in this University, (being authorized by public Authority) was born at a Town in Spain called Garcia or Garcevile, and being from his Childship much addicted to Letters, he was while a Boy, received among, and instructed by, the Dominicans or Black Friars in his own Country; so that in a short time profiting much under them in several sorts of Learning, especially in Divinity, he took the Degree of Bach. of that Faculty in the University of Valladolid, he being then a Member of S. Gregory's Coll. there. Afterwards upon the performance of certain Exercise for the said Degree in this University, had it conferred upon him, as I have told you, under the year 1555; and this year being licenced to proceed, stood in an Act celebrated in S. Mary's Church on the 11 of July. This is the person, who with Hen. Syddal Canon of Ch. Ch. a very inconstant man in his Religion, took great pains in persuading Archb. Cranmer to recant his Opinions, when he was condemned to be burnt at Oxon, and the same who hath this character given of him by one 
〈…〉  living in his time in this University.— Pr●elegit autem nostra memoria Frater Johannis Hispanus scientissimus, cum 27 non excesserat annos; Platonis autem disciplinacum cyclopedian absolvisset: tum apud Philosophos Oxonienses Platonicam & Aris telicam. mysticam & sacram professus est. etc. Whether he hath published any Books I cannot tell. Sure I am, that after Qu. Elizabeth came to the Crown he returned to the Country from whence he came, leaving then behind him the character of a most subtle Philosopher and Theologist.  
This Friar was the only person that was admitted D. of D. this year; and but 3 there were that supplicated for the said Degree, among whom were Baldwyn Norton Bath. of Diu. and Divinity Reader of Magd. Coll who the next year became Prebendary of Langtoft in the Ch. of York.   

Creations.  
Jul. 8. John Boxall Bach. of Diu. of New Coll. now Secretary of State to Qu. Marry, Dean of Windsor, etc. was, though absent, actually created Doct. of Diu. by a Certificate, or as we now call it a Diploma, sent to him under the Seal of the University.    

An. Dom. 1559.  
An. 1 Elizab.  
An. 2 Elizab.  
Chanc. Hen. Fitzalan Earl of Arundel, who resigning his Office 12 June this year, Sir John Mason one of the Queen's Privy Council, was elected Chancellor again, 20 of the same month; in which Vacancy Dr. Tresham was Canc. natus.  
Commiss. Dr. Will. Tresham, in one years' space twice Cancellarius natus, who continuing in his Office till Michaelmas, Dr. John Warner of Alls. Coll. succeeded, as it seems, by Election, mention being made of his Resignation.  

Proct. 

John day of Magd. Coll.  
Edw. Bramborow of New Coll. 

elected 5 Apr.       

Bach. of Arts.  
Apr. 17. Tho Owen either of Ch. Ch. or Broadgates Hall.  
Rich. Bristol was admitted the same day.  
May 8. Leonard Fitzsimons of Trin Coll.  
30. Rich. white of New Coll.— The same who afterwards wrote himself in the Titles of his books Ricard. Vitus Basingtochius.  

Jun. 5. Lawr. Tomson  
Nou. 27! Tho. Kingsmill 

of Magd. Coll.     
Feb. 19 Will. Sheperey of C. C. Coll.— The same who afterwards wrote himself in the Title of a learned book which he published Guliel Scepraeus. Adm. 50.   

Mast. of Arts.  
Dec. 14. Joh. Watkyns of Alls. Coll.— He was afterwards Proctor of the University and Dean of Hereford. See among the Bach. of Diu. 1569.  
Feb. 16. Pet. Morwyn or Morwing of Magd. Coll.  
In the said month of Feb. did supplicate for the said Degree Pet. Levens of the same Coll. but whether admitted it appears not: however in his Book intit. The path way to health, he writes himself M. of A. of Oxon. Adm. 18.  
☞ This year was but one Bach. of Law admitted, and but three that supplicated. As for Physic not one was adm. Bach. or supplicated in that Faculty.   

Bach. of Diu.  
Dec. 18. Will. Bocher or Butcher Precedent of C. C. C.— He was the only Bach. of that Fac. who was admitted this year. Soon after he left his Presidentship, being in animo Catholicus, and retiring to his small Cure at Dounsbourne Militis near Cirencester in Glocestershire, lived there obscurely many years. At length giving way to fate, was buried in the Church there on the first of Nou. 1585.  
☞ Not one Doct. of Law was admitted this year.   

Doct. of Phys.  
Nou. 27. Thomas Coveney Precedent of Magd. Coll.— He was deprived of his Presidentship by the Bishop of Winchester in his Visitation of that Coll. 25 Sept. 1561, either for being not in sacred Orders, or for that he was a R. Cath. and refused the Oath of Supremacy. Howsoever it is, sure I am that he was admitted Prebendary of Lyme and Halstock in the Church of Salisb. in Jul. 1563.  
For the said Degree supplicated Job. Dotyn of Exeter Coll. whom I have mentioned under the year 1534, and James Good M. A. and Bach. of Phys. whom I shall mention in the next year.   

Doct. of Diu.  
Dec. 9 Francis Babyngton Master of Ball. Coll.— This person who was originally of Alls. Coll. did proceed M. of A. in an Act celebrated 16 Jul. 1554, was elected one of the Proctors of the University 18 Apr. 1557, admitted Bach. of Diu. in July 1558, Master of Ball. Coll. 5 Sept. 1559. D. of D. 9 Dec. this year, as before 'tis told you, Commissary or Vicechanc. of the University 21 May, Rector of Linc. Coll. in August, and Margaret Professor about the latter end of, 1560. Which sudden and quick Promotions are not to be attributed to the deserts of the Person, but to the emptiness of the University at this time, to the want of Theologists to perform Offices, and that any one, in a manner, proceeded as he or they pleased.    

An. Dom. 1560.  
An. 2 Elizab.  
An. 3 Elizab.  
Chanc. Sir John Mason, Knight.  
Commiss. Franc. Babyngton D. D. designed by the Chancellors Letters dated 21 May, Dr. Warner having then, or before, resigned.  

Proct. 

Rob. Leech of Ch. Ch.  
Tho. Scot of Trin. Coll. 

elected 24 April.       

Bach. of Arts.  
Jul. 23. Edm. Bunney of Magd. Coll.— He was afterwards eminent for the Books which he published.  

Nou. 28. 

Edm. Campian  
Greg. Martin 

of S. John's Coll.       
Both afterwards stout Champions for the Rom. Cath. Cause.  
Jan. 27. Edm. Raynolds of C. C. Coll.— See more among the Masters of Arts 1564.  
Adm. in all 47.   

Bach. of Civ. Law.  
Eight this year were admitted, of whom Thom. Tookey of Alls. Coll. was one, afterwards Canon of the Cath. Ch. at Carlisle. Two or more of the others were also Dignitaries.   

Mast. of Arts.  

May 27. 

Rob. Pointz.  
John Fowler 

of New Coll.       
28. Rich. Shaghens of Ball. Coll.  
June 26. John Prat of Brasn. Coll. now Archdeacon of S. David's and a Compounder for his Degr.  
Admitted 19   

Bach. of Diu.  
Mar. 27. Will. Stock of S. John's Coll.— This person, who was a Herefordshire man born, was originally of Brasn. Coll. from whence, for his great proficiency in Learning, he was taken by Sir Tho. white and made one of his first Fellows of S. John's Coll. After he had been admitted Bach. of Diu. he was made by the said Sir Thomas the first Principal of Gloucester Hall, and in 1563 the third Precedent of the said Coll. which place he resigning in the year after, was made Principal of the said Hall again; where continuing about ten years, left it of his own accord: and after the conferring on him several Benefices (if not a Dignity or two) which he changed for others, (such was the rambling of his mind) died notwithstanding in a mean condition, (yet always in animo Catholicus) about 1607. One Will. Stocker was Proctor of the University in 1566, but he was Fellow of Alls. Coll.  
Jul. 15. Thom. Langlie Bach. of Arts of Cambridge, and Canon or Prebendary of Winchester, was then admitted.— He never took the degr. of M. of A.  
Five there were that supplicated for the said degr. but were not admitted, among whom Tho. Samson was one, soon after Dean of Ch. Ch.   

Doct. of Civ. Law.  
May 26. James Jervys or Jervays Warden of Merton Coll. lately Principal of Broadgates Hall.  
For the said Degr. did supplicate Franc. Alford M. of A. of Ch. Ch. but was not this, or in any other, year following admitted. He had been Bach. of Arts of Cambridge.   

Doct. of Phys.  
June 26. James Good of New Coll. now one of the Fellows of the Coll. of Physicians at London.  
Simon Ludford who had been adm. Bach of Phys. of this Uniu. in 1553, and afterwards permitted by the said Coll. of Physicians to practise Physic in London, was licenced to proceed the same day.  
☞ Not one Doct. of Diu. was adm. this year.   

Incorporations.  
Jul. 30. Will. Masters M. of A. and Fellow of Kings Coll in Cambridge.— He was afterwards the eloquent Orator of that University, in which Office he had occasion to speak several Speeches, one of which uttered before Qu. Elizabeth in 1564, I have seen, which shows him to have been a man of parts. One Will. Master LL. D. principal Official of the Consistory Court belonging to the Bishop of Norwich, died 2 Febr. 1589, and was buried in the Cath. Ch. at Norwych. Whether he be the same with the Orator I know nor.  
On the same day were incorporated also Geo. Alsop, Joh. Lakyn, Edw. Barret, Nich. Abithell, George Blythe, and Ralph Lever, Masters of Arts of the sald University; also one Elder another Master, but whether he be the same with Tho. Elder who was elected Scholar of C. C. Coll. in this University an. 1542. or Joh. Elder who published The copy of a letter sent into Scotland of the arrival, and landing, and marriage of the most noble Prince Philip Prince of Spain to the most excellent Princess Mary Qu. of England, solemnisated in the City of Winchester, etc. dated 1 Jan. 1555, and printed about that time in oct. I know not. Quaere.  
Oct. 14. The venerable Mr. Rich. Reed M. of A. of Cambridge, was then incorporated, conditionally that he read his Ordinaries, or pay to the University ten shillings.    

An. Dom. 1561.  
An. 3 Eliz.  
An. 4 Eliz.  
Chanc. the same.  
Commiss. Dr. Babyngton now Rector of Linc. Coll.  

Proct. 

Oliver Wythyngton of Brasn. Coll.  
Humph. Hall of Alls. Coll. 

elect. 16 Apr.       

Bach. of Arts.  
Apr. 24. Will. Wood— One of both his names wrote A form of catechising, consisting in Questions and Answers, with observations thereon, etc. Lond. 1581. oct. Whether the same, I cannot tell, See another Will. Wood in 1578.  
Jul. 18. Dan. Rogers.— In the next month he took the Degree of M. A.  
Dec. 15. Will. Lambard.— He is not the same who wrote The perambulation of Kent, etc. an. 1570, which note.  
Jan. 24. Nich. Smyth Archdeacon of Salop.— I have mentioned another Nich. Smyth among the Bach. of Diu. an. 1556.  
Admitted 40.   

Mast. of Art.  
Aug. 1. Dan. Rogers before mentioned— He was afterwards a most accomplished Gent. as I have told you among the Writers.  
Jan. 14. Tho. Gressop of Alls. Coll.— He translated into English, A treatise containing a declaration of the Pope's usurped Primacy. Lond. 1560. oct. written in Greek above 700 years since by Nilus Archb. of Thessalonia. What other things he hath translated or written I cannot tell.  
23. John Potts of Mert. Coll.— He was according to the Records of that House Insignis philosophus & medicus satis peritus.  
Christop. Johnson of New Coll. was admitted the same day.  
24. Nich. Smyth Archd. of Salop— He accumulated his Degrees and compounded. Adm. 19   

Bach. of Diu.  
Nou. 11. Will. Alley Bishop of Exeter.  

Dec. 12. 

Jam. Calfill  
John Hill  
Harb. Westphaling 

of Ch. Ch.       
The said John Hill became Canon of Westminster in the place of Alex. Nowell resigning, an. 1561 or thereabouts, and was dignified elsewhere in the Church.  
Besides the said four Persons, were but two more admitted this year.  
☞ Not one Doct. of Law or Physic was admitted or licenced to proceed.   

Doct. of Diu.  
Nou. 11. Will. Alley Bishop of Exeter beforemention'd, who accumulated the Degrees in Diu.  
One Hugh Sewell Bach. of Diu. and Canon of Carlisle did supplicate the ven. Congregation for that Degree, but I cannot find him admitted.    

An. Dom. 1562.  
An. 4 Elizab.  
An. 5 Elizab.  
Chanc. the same.  
Commiss. the same, viz. Dr. Babyngton, now the Lady Margaret's Professor, the statutes of which lecture, though they allow not the Professor to bear the Office of Commissary or Vicechanc. yet the members of the University were forced now to dispense with them, because there were few or none capable of that lecture at this time, occasioned by the fewness of Theologists, and emptiness of houses of learning in the University. Dr. Babyngton gave up his Commissaryship in the beginning of Michaelmas term, and Thom. white LL. D. Warden of New Coll. succeeded.  

Proct. 

Rog. Marbeck or Merbeck of Ch. Ch.  
Rog. Gifford of Mert. Coll. 

elect. 8. Apr.       

Bach. of Arts.  
Apr. 8. Tho. Marshal of Linc. Coll.— He was afterwards a learned Jesuit. See among the Writers in Will. Harrys, an. 1602. p. 274.  
Jun. 25. Miles Windsor of C. C. C.  

Oct. 22. 

John Argall  
Will. James 

of Ch. Ch.       
The last of which was afterwards Bishop of Durham.  
29. Rob. Napier of Exet. Coll.— He was afterwards chief Baron of the Exchequer in Ireland and a Knight.  

Jan. 14. 

Tho. Cogan  
Rob. Garvey 

of Or. Coll.       
Feb. 13. Rich. Forster of Alls. Coll.  
20. Nich. Quemmerford a learned Irish Man.  
Admitted 51.   

Bach. of Civ. Law.  
Nou. 14. Will. Bleythyn— He was afterwards Bishop of Landaff.  
Philip Jones was adm. the same day— See among the Bach. of Arts in 1582.  
Eight in all were admitted, and six supplicated.   

Mast. of Arts.  
Jun. 26. Rich. Bristol of (Ch. Ch.) now in great renown for his Oratory.  
John Merrick of New Coll. was admitted the same day— He was afterwards Bishop of the Isle of Man, as I have before told you.  
Admitted 31.   

Bach. of Physic.  
But two were admitted, of whom Hen. Wotton of Ch. Ch. was one, afterwards an eminent Physician, and five that supplicated for the said Degree, the first of which was Madern Wisebecke a French Man, who had studied Physic 20 years.   

Bach. of Diu.  
June 10. Lawrence Humphrey Precedent of Magd. Coll. and the Queen's Professor of Divinity.  
Not one besides him was admitted, yet four there were that supplicated for the said Degree; among whom Will. Downham Bishop of Chester was one, but not admitted, and Oswald Emerson another.   

Doct. of Civil Law.  
Jul. 7. John Griffyth of Allsouls Coll. Principal of New Inn and the Queen's Professor of Civil Law.— Which last office he enjoyed four years while he was Bach. of that faculty.  
☞ Not one Doctor of Physic was admitted this year.   

Doct. of Diu.  
Jul. 10. Laurence Humphrey beforemention'd.— He had a month before been admitted Bach. of this faculty, and two years before that time, the Queen's public Professor of Divinity in this University, he being then only Master of Arts.  
For the said Degree supplicated Rich. Bruerne lately the Queen's Hebrew Professor, and Will. Downham beforementioned, but they were not admitted.    

An. Dom. 1563.  
An. 5 Eliz.  
An. 6 Eliz.  
Chanc. the same.  
Commiss. Dr. Tho. white.  

Proct. 

Tho. Walley of Ch. Ch.  
Rog. Gifford of Mert. Coll. again. 

elect. 21. Apr.       

Bach. of Arts.  
Apr. 22. Joh. Garbrand of New Coll.  

May 13. 

Tho. Allen or Alan  
George Blackwell 

of Trin. Coll.       
Jun. 17. Will. Raynolds of New Coll.  
Jul. 26. Thom. Bodley of Mert. Coll.  
Feb. 11. Tob. Mathews of Ch. Ch.  
Mar. 24. George Coryat of New Coll.  
Admitted 55.   

Bach. of Civ. Law.  
Mar. 27. Andrew Kingsmyll of Alls. Coll.— He was afterwards a Calvinistical Writer.  
May 21. Rich. Madox— See among the M. of A. 1575.   

Mast. of Arts.  
Apr. 26. John Hancock of Mert. Coll.— He was now esteemed by the Academians to be a Person of an acute judgement in Philosophy, an excellent Grecian and Hebrician. Afterwards he was a godly and sincere Preacher of the word of God.  
May 4. Leonard Fitzsimons of Trin. Coll. a learned Irish Man.  
8. Oliver Whiddon of Exeter Coll.— He succeeded Rich. Bristol in his Fellowship of that house, an. 1573, he being then, or soon, after Archdeacon of Totness in Devonshire.  
Will. Apsland of Alls. Coll. was adm. this year, but the time when, appears not— He was afterwards one of the Chaplains to Qu. Elizabeth, and Master of the Hospital 
* 〈…〉.  called the Savoy in the Strand near London.  
Admitted 30.   

Bach. of Phys.  
Jun. 23. Rog. Gifford of Mert. Coll. now one of the Proctors of the University— See among the Doctors of Phys. 1566.  
For the said Degree supplicated Hierom. Raynolds M. A. now, or lately, one of the learned Fellows of C. C. C.— I have made mention of this Person elsewhere.   

Bach. of Diu.  
Only two were admitted, of whom Arth. Yeldard Precedent of Trin. Coll. was one, and three that supplicated, who were never admitted. Their names are John Sherbourne, Will. chamberlain. and Tho. Pyrrye, all Masters of Arts.  
☞ Not one Doct. of Law was admitted, or licenced to proceed.   

Doct. of Physic.  

May…Henry Bailiff  
21. Walt. Bailiff 

of New Coll.     
The last was now the Queen's public Professor of Medicine in this University.  
☞ Not one Doct. of Diu. was adm.   

Incorporations.  
This year in July, as it seems, was a supplicate made for one W. Butler of Cambridge to be incorporated, but in what Degree, whether in that of M. of Arts, or Bac. of Physic, I know not. I take him to be the same Will. Butler, who, though not Doctor of Physic, was the most eminent Physician of his time, and as much resorted to for his great knowledge in Physic, as any Person that lived before him, and had been more, did he not delight to please himself with fantastical humours. He died on the 29. of Janua●. in the year 1617. and in that of his age 83, and was buried on the South side of the Chancel of St. Mary's Church in Cambridge. Over his grave was soon after erected a comely Monument in the wall with his bust to the middle, and an inscription underneath, part of which runs thus. Gulielmus Butlerus Clarensis Aulae quondam socius, medicorum omnium quos pr●esens aetas vidit facile princeps, hoc sub marmore secundum Christi adventum expectat, & monumentum hoc privata pietas statuit, quod deburt publica. Abiviator, & ad tuos reversus, narra te vidisse locum in quo salus jacct.   

Creations.  
Mar. 29. Austin Brodbridge sometimes Fellow of New Coll. was then actually created Master of Arts at London by Will. Brodbridge, (afterwards B. of Exeter) by virtue of a Commission under the Seal of the University, directed to Hugh Turnbull D. D. Thomas Stempe, Rob. Raynold Doctors of the Laws, Will Brodbrige beforementioned, and Will. Langford Masters of Arts, to be done by any one of them. This Austin Brodbridge, who had been an Exile at Strasburgh in the Reign of Qu. Marry, was now beneficed in the Church, and afterwards became Prebendary of Ferdington and Writhlington in the Church of Sarum, by the death of one Rich. Basin 1566. This Person, though he had been before this creation but Bach. of Arts, yet by his Dean he supplicated first to be Bachelaur of Divinity, and afterwards to be Doctor.    

An. Dom. 1564.  
An. 6/7 Elizab.  
Chanc. the same, viz. Sir John Mason Knight, but he resigning by his Letters dat. 26. Dec. Rob. Dudley Earl of Leycester, Baron of Denbigh, Master of the horse, Knight of the most noble order of the Garter, and of St. Michael, one of the Queen's Privy Council, and Master of Arts, as 'tis said, of this University, was elected Chancellor on the last day of the same month.  
Commiss. Dr. Tho. white; whose office ending with the Chancellourship of Sir Jo. Mason, John Kennall LL. D. and Canon of Ch. Ch. was chosen by Suffrages in a scrutiny on the last of Decemb.  

Proct. 

Rog. Marbeck of Ch. Ch. again.  
Joh. Watkins of Alls. Coll. 

elect. 12. Apr.       
The signior of which Proctors was this year elected Orator of the University, being the first of all, after that office was made standing or perpetual.  

Bach. of Arts.  
Apr. 18. Tho. Twine of C. C. Coll.— He was afterwards an eminent Physician.  
Jun. 19 John Lister— See among the Bac. of Arts an. 1571.  
Jul. 24. Thom. Doylie of Magd. Coll.  
Dec. 11. John Vnderhill of New Coll.— He was afterwards Bishop of Oxon.  
16. John Field— See among the Writers under the year 1587.  

Jan. 26. 

Will. Harrys  
Rich. Knolles 

of Linc. Coll.       
Feb. 1. Will. Barlow of Ball.  
Rob. Hutton was admitted the same day.— One Rob. Hutton translated from Lat. into English, The sum of Divinity, drawn out of the holy Scriptures, very necessary for Curates and young Students in Divinity. Lond. 1567. oct. Whether the same with Rob. Hutton Bach. of Arts (who took no other Degree in this University) I know not.  
Feb. 1. Ralph Warcupp of Ch. Ch.  
Admitted 61. or thereabouts.   

Bach. of Civ. Law.  
Ten were admitted, among whom Laurence Twine of Alls. Coll. was one, an ingenious Poet of his time.   

Mast. of Arts.  
Apr. 14. Arthur Atey of Mert. Coll.— He was afterwards Orator of the University, Principal of St. Alban hall, Secretary to that great and popular Count Robert Earl of Leicester, and after his death became a favourite to another popular Person called Robert Earl of Essex; in whose treasons being engaged in 1600, was forced to abscond and withdraw himself for a time. In the beginning of K. James 1. he had the honour of Knighthood conferred upon him, and dying in 1604 was buried in the Church of Harrow on the hill in Middlesex.  

Jul. 3. 

Edm. Campian  
Greg. Martin 

of St. John Coll.       

Oct. 20. 

Tho. Brasbridge  
Lawr. Tomson  
Thom. Kingsmill 

of Magd Coll.       
Nou. 20. Edm. Raynolds of C. C. Coll.— This Person who was a moderate Romanist, gained to himself a great name by a public disputation had with his younger Brother John, held before Robert E. of Leycester, an. 1584. See Hist. & Antiq. Vniu. Oxon. lib. 1. p. 300. 301. He died 21 Nou. 1630. aged 92, and was buried in the Chancel of the Church at Wolvercote near Oxon. where he had an estate, which he left to his Sister's Son named Matthew Cheriton Esq.  
Feb. 3. Christoph. Wharton of Trin. Coll.— This Person who was a Yorkshire Man born, did soon after leave his Fellowship of that house, his Country and Friends, and went to Dovay where he was made a R. Cath. Priest. Afterwards he returned, and officiated as a Seminary, being esteemed among those of his party a very godly Man. At length being taken and imprisoned, was, for being a R. Cath. Priest, and denying the Queen's Supremacy, executed at York, 28. March 1600.  
14. Edm. Bunney of Magd. soon after of Mert. Coll.  
Admitted 39  
☞ Not one Bach. of Diu. was adm. this year.   

Doct. of Civ. Law.  
Feb. 14. John Lloyd of Alls. Coll.— He was about this time Judge of the Admiralty.  
Rob. Lougher commonly called Loffer of Alls. Coll. was admitted on the same day.— He was now Principal of New Inn, was soon after the Queen's Professor of the Civil Law, and Chancellor of Exeter. In May 1577 he was constituted Official of the Consistory of Edwin Archb. of York, and his Vicar General in spirituals, being then a Civilian belonging to the Arches. He died in the beginning of June 1583 leaving behind him a Son named John.  
☞ Not one Doct. of Phys. or Diu. was admitted this year.   

Incorporations.  
Feb. 20. Rob. Johnson M. A. of Cambridge, was then incorporated, being the very next day after the Act had been celebrated— This Rob. Johnson who was Son of Maurice Johnson Alderman of Stanford in Lincolnshire, was afterwards Bach. of Diu. and twice made Prebendary of Rochester, which he twice resigned. In 1570 he was installed Prebendary of Norwych, which Dignity he resigning, Griffith Toy M. A. of Jes. Coll. in Oxon succeeded, an. 1575. In 1572, he became Canon of Windsor in the place of Joh. Browne Bac. of Diu. and in 1591. he was made Archdeacon of Leycester in the place of Hugh Blythe Can. of Windsor resigning; being about that time honorary Fellow of Jesus Coll. in Oxon. He founded two Grammar Schools in Rutlandshire, one at Vphingham and another at Okeham, two Hospitals also in the same County, (which he endowed) four exhibitioners in Sidney Coll. in Cambridge, to come from the said Free-schools, and was a benefactor to the weekly Preachers at St. Paul's Cross in London. He died on the first of Aug. 1625, being then or lately Rector of N. Luffenham in Rutlandshire. In 1560 one Edm. Johnson Schoolmaster of St. Anthony's in London became Canon of Windsor, and then by little and little (as one 
* 〈…〉  observes) followed the spoil of St. Authonies' Hospital. He first dissolved the choir, conveyed away the plate and ornaments, than the bells, and lastly put out the Almes-men from their houses, allowing them portions of 12 d. per week, which also in short time vanished away. This I thought good to let the reader know, because the Author here quoted, having reported these matters to be done by one Johnson, have caused some to think them done by Reb. Johnson beforemention'd.   

Creations.  
Feb…. Thom. Young Archbishop of York, who was admitted Bachelaur of the Civil Law, an. 1537, being then of Broadgates' hall, was by power granted by the ven. Congregation of Regent's 13. Feb. this year, actually created soon after (at London as it seems) Doctor of his faculty by Dr. Dau. Lewes and Doctor Tho Huyck.    

An. Dom. 1565.  
An. 7/8 Elizab.  
Chanc. the same, viz. Rob. Dudley Earl of Leycester, etc.  
Commiss. Dr. Kernnall, elected by scrutiny in a Convocation, on the 25. Feb.  

Proct. 

Thom. Garbrand alias Herks of Magd. Coll.  
John Merick of New Coll. 

elect. 2. Mar.       

Bach. of Arts.  
Apr. 7. Christoph. Perkins— In what Coll. or Hall this Person was educated I know not: Sure I am that he leaving the University abruptly without completing his Degree by Determination, went beyond the Seas, and having spent some time in one of the new erected Seminaries, entered into the society of Jesus, and lived among them in good repute for his learning. At length upon the coming to Rome (under the name of a Traveller) of Mr. William Cecil (afterwards Earl of Exeter) Grandson to Will. Lord Burleigh, there were whisper in the English Coll. of doing him some mischief, in revenge for what his Grandfather had done in apprehending several Priests and putting them to death, yet they came to nothing. Whereupon Perkins possessed him with fears, and took upon him to direct him what to do and how tobehave himself: And when Mr. Cecil had seen Rome and the Monuments thereof, Perkins did conduct him out of the City; and being a Man of a very great understanding, and Mr. Cecil therefore delighting much in his company, he persuaded him to accompany him to England. Afterwards they came together, and Mr. Cecil recommending him to his Grandfather for a wise understanding Man, and one that had taken much care of him at his being in Rome, and withal having been a Jesuit, he was now reconciled to the Church of England, the Lord Burleigh did thereupon precure for him the Deanery of Carlisle, which had been before possessed by Sir John Wolley, and about the same time procured of the Queen that he should be employed into Germany, to make answer in the Queen's name to the complaints of the Hanse-towns about their customs▪ to the Emperor, an. 1595. After his return, though it was the desire of the said Lord Burleigh that he should live at Carlisle and follow the Ministry and nothing else, yet he lived in London, and being brought into the acquaintance of Dr. Bancroft Bishop of that place, that Doctor did make use of him both for his discovery beyond the Seas, and likewise upon other occasions. In 1600 he with the said Doctor and Joh. Small, were as Delegates or Ambassadors, sent by the Queen to Embden to parley with the Delegates of Denmark concerning matters of traffic, etc. and Perkins performed his part well as to that matter. Soon after by the said Bishops endeavours he became substitute to Sir Dan. Donne Master of the Requests, who, by reason of his age, could not well attend that place; and when he died he became Master in his own right and a Knight. About that time George Duke of Buckingham who was in great favour with K. Jam. 1. Sir Christopher thought that his only way to rise higher was to be married to one of his Relations: Whereupon though he had vowed Virginity, he took to Wife his Mother's Sister, yet with this condition, that she should not expect that he should pay old debts, to which she made answer, that she would expect none. Afterwards Buckingham hearing of the said vow, detested him and made a resolution that he should rise no higher. Afterwards out of a revenge, Sir Christopher made his estate over to a Servant of his that was childless and in a deep consumption; and he dying within a few months after Sir Christopher, (who departed this mortal life in the month of Aug. 1622.) the said Servant left most of the estate to the Lady. I have been credibly informed 
† 〈…〉 in his Review of the Court of K. 〈◊〉 by Sir A. W. MS. 〈…〉  by a good Author that the said Sir Christopher had a hand in contriving and drawing up the Oath of Allegiance, while he was intimate with Dr. Bancroft. In the Deanery of Carlisle succeeded the said Sir Christopher Dr. Franc. White afterwards Bishop of that place.  
Apr. 14. Will. Burton of New Coll.  
June 2. Tho. Coventry Fellow of Ball. Coll.  
The last of the said two, was afterwards Fellow of the Inner Temple, Sergeant at Law, a Knight, and one of the Justices of the Court of Common-pleas, and a Judge in the time of Jam. 1. He was Father to Thomas Lord Coventry Lord Keeper of the Great Seal.  
Jan. 14. Henr. Savile of Mert. Coll.  
23. Hugh Lloyd of New Coll.  
Admitted 45.   

Bach. of Law.  
Five were admitted, and four supplicated, but not one of them appears yet to me, to have been either a Bishop or Writer.   

Mast. of Arts.  

Feb. 13. 

John Argall  
Will. James 

of Ch. Ch.       
The last of which was afterwards Bishop of Durham.  
John Bereblock of St. John's Coll. was admitted the same day— He was afterwards Fellow of Exeter Coll. and most admirably well skilled in the art of Delineation, and drawing the description of places; some of which are extant, particularly that of the City of Rochester; at which place, or near it, he was born.  
Admitted 14.   

Bach. of Diu.  
Oct. 29. Edw. Cradock of Ch. Ch. now Margaret Professor.— A certain 
* 〈…〉 in his last volume of 〈◊〉, Printed 15●7. p. 1874. etc.  Author tells us that he was a learned Man, and a Writer, yet in all my searches I could never see any of his books.  
Dec. 17. Thom. Godwyn Dean of Ch. Ch. lately of Magd. Coll.  
Feb. 15. Rich. Tremayne of Exeter Coll.— He was afterwards of Broadgates' hall, the seventh Vicar of Mayhenet in Cornwall and Treasurer of the Cath. Ch. at Exeter.  
16. Will. Overton of Magd. Coll.— He was afterwards a Bishop.  
Adrian Hawthorne of the same Coll. was admitted on the same day, being then Principal of Magd. hall.— On 25. Nou. 1568, he was admitted to the Chancellourship of the Church of Wells, having about that time one or more benefices in that Diocese; and dying in the latter end of 1576, in Feb. as it seems, Rog. Goad D. D. and Provost of Kings Coll. in Cambridge was admitted into his place of Chancellor on the 7. March, in the same year.  
Edw. Andleser was adm. this year, but of him I know nothing.  
☞ Not one Doctor of Law or Phys. was admitted this year.   

Doct. of Diu.  

Dec. 17. 

Tho Godwyn Dean  
James Calfill  
Harb. Westphaling 

Canons 

of Ch. Ch.         
Edward Cradock mentioned before among the Bachelaurs of Divinity, was admitted the same day.  

Feb. 15. 

Rich. Tremayne beforemention'd, who accumulated.  
John Piers of Magd. Coll. Dean of Chester.  
Arthur Yeldard Precedent of Trin. Coll.     
16. Will. Overton of Magd. Coll.— He was afterwards Bishop of Lichfield and Coventry.  
On the 26. Mar. Will. Bradbridge Dean of Salisbury, supplicated for the said Degree, but was not admitted. He was afterwards Bishop of Exeter. Also John Molens Archdeacon of London, Jan. 23, but him neither can I find admitted.   

Incorporations.  
May…. Rich. Cheyney Bach. of Diu. of Pembr. Hall in Cambridge, and Bishop of Gloucester— See more among the Creations.  
Feb. 21. Gregory Garth Bac. of Diu. of Cambridge.  
George wither M. of A. of 4 years standing in the said University, was incorporated on the same day— In 1570 he became Archdeacon of Colchester on the death of James Calfill, had other spiritualities and wrote and published (1) Layman's Letters, delivering unto them such Letters as the Holy Ghost teacheth them in the word by things sensible. Lond. 1585. (2) View of the marginal notes of the Popish Testament, translated into English by the English Fugities, Papists, resiant at Rheimes in France. Lond. 1588. qu. with other things, as 'tis probable, which I have not yet seen. Another of both his names lived an 100 years after, and was a Poet; whom I shall hereafter in his proper place remember.  
Will. Fulke M. A. of three years standing in the said Uniu. of Cambridge, was also then (Feb. 21.) incorporated— This learned Man who was born in the City of London, bred Fellow of St. John's Coll. and at length became Master of Pemb. Hall, in the said University, was, when young, a good Philosopher, and when elder in years a pious and solid Divine as his works show; the titles of all, or most, of which, you may see in the Bodleian or Oxford Catalogue. He died Margaret Professor of Cambridge 28. Aug. 1589.  
Cyprean de Valera M. of A. of three years standing in the said University, was also then incorporated— He was a Spaniard born, left his Country for Religion sake, spent all or most of his time in England and wrote in Spanish (1) Institution of Christian Religion, or the interpretation of calvin's institutions (2) The reformed Catholic. (3) Of the lives of the Popes and their doctrine. (4) Of the Mass. (5) A swarm of false miracles, wherewith Mary de la Visitation, Prioress of the Annuntiada of Lisbon deceived very many, etc. The three last, were written in Spanish about 1588. and the second edition of them came out with amendments and additions by the Author, an. 1599 oct. Translated into English by John Golburne a Prisoner in the Fleet— Lond. 1600. qu. He also published the Bible in Spanish, printed the second time at Amsterdam 1602. fol.  
Owen Owen M. A. of two years standing in the said University was then also (Feb. 21.) incorporated.  
All these except the first, were incorporated after the solemnity of the Act had been concluded.   

Creations.  
Mar. 26. It was granted by the venerable Congregation that John Jewel Bishop of Salisbury, should, though absent, be actually created Doct. of Diu. by a certain Graduate to be assigned by the Commissary.— This was accordingly done at London, but the day when, appears not.  
May 1. It was likewise granted that Rich. Cheyney the present Bish. of Gloucester, should have the Degree of D. of D. conferred on him, by a certain Graduate, etc.— This also was accordingly done after he had been incorporated Bach. of Diu. but the day when, and place where, appears not, He was originally a R. Catholic, but in the beginning of Qu. Marry a disputer against the Mass and real presence in the Convocation of the Clergy then held, for which he absconded. In the beginning of Qu. Elizabeth he was an 
* See A view of 10 public disputations, published by Robert 〈◊〉, cap. 4. p. ●4.  incliner to Zuinglianisme, and at length was a Lutheran. See more among the Bishops, in Jam. Brokes, an. 1559.    

An. Dom. 1566.  
An. 8/9 Elizab.  
Chanc. the same.  
Commiss. the same by virtue of the aforesaid election.  

Proct. 

Will. Leech of Brasn. Coll.  
Will. Stocker of Alls. Coll. 

elect. 24. Apr.       

Bach. of Arts.  
Apr. 5. Lancelot Salkeld of Qu. Coll.— One of both his names became the last Prior of Carlisle, in the place of Christoph. Slee, 24. Hen. S. Dom. 1532, or thereabouts, and afterwards the first Dean of Carlisle when the Prior and Canons Regular were turned into a Dean and Canons Secular by K. Hen. 8. In the time of Ed. 6. he was ejected, restored in the beginning of Qu. Mary and ejected again in the beginning of Queen Elizabeth. But Lancelot Salkeld B. of A. must not be taken to be the same with the other, because later in time. His successor in the said Deanery in the time of Ed. 6. and beginning of Qu. Elizabeth, was Sir Tho. Smythe, as I have told you among the Writers, under the year 1609.  
Apr. 6. Will. Wygges of St. John's Coll.— He afterwards left his Religion and Country, went beyond the Seas and was made a R. Cath. Priest. Afterwards returning into England, was seized on, and committed to custody in Wisbich Castle; where, upon some quarrel that followed between him and one of the Gentlemen, (that were Papists and Prisoners there) he was, as a certain 
a In 〈…〉 S. Joh. Bapt. Oxon. Script. per Christop. 〈…〉.  note informs me slain, though elsewhere it appears 
b 〈…〉.  that he was only beaten by one Bluet a Jesuit. In 1582 you'll find one Will. Wygge who was a Martyr for the Rom. Catholic cause.  
John Smith of St. John's Coll. was admitted the same day.  
Jun. 25. Dan. Bernard of Ch. Ch.— See among the D. of D. 1585.  
Jul. 3. Will. Blandie of New Coll.  
Jul. 5. Edw. Smith of Brasn. Coll.— One Edw. Smith translated into English A discourse touching the tranquillity and contentation of the mind, etc. Lond. 1592. qu. written by Joh. de L'espine: whether the same with him of Br. Coll. I cannot tell. Quaere.  

Jul. 5. 

Rob. Hoveden of Alls.  
Barthel. Chamberlain of Trin.  
Oct. 10. Tho. Bilson of New 

Coll.       
Jan. 17. Joh. Shirt of Brasn. Coll.— He was afterwards a Schoolmaster in London, and much resorted to for his excellent way of teaching; but being a R. Cath. in his heart, left his Country and went to Doüay, where he studied Divinity. Thence he went to the English Coll. at Rome, where he was made a Priest, and being sent into the Mission of England lived for some time in his own Country of Cheshire. At length being taken and imprisoned, was, for being a Priest and denying the Queen's Supremacy, hanged, drawn and quartered at London, 28. May 1582.  
Jan. 17. Tho. Clerk of Br. Coll.— See in 1586.  
Mar. 22. Lewes Jones— He was afterwards Bishop of Killaloa.  
Admitted this year 103.   

Bach. of Civ. Law.  
Aug. 19 Thom. Buckley of Alls. Coll.— He was now much in esteem among the Academians for his Poetry, but being given to libelling was forced to leave the University.  
On the 30. of Apr. Joh. Ruyg, who for the space of 6 years had studied the Civ. Law in upper Germany, did supplicate for the Degree of Bach. of that fac. but whether he was admitted it appears not. In 1575. he was made Archdeacon of Wel●s in the place of Dr. Joh. cottrel deceased, in 1576, he became Can. or Preb. of the fifth stall in the collegiat Ch. of St. Peter in Westminster, on the death of Tho. A dridge (who, if I mistake not, was also Master of Corp. Ch. Coll. in Cambridge) and dying in 1581. (being then beneficed in the Dioc. of Wells) was buried in the Cath. Church at We●ls near to the body of the said Dr. cottrel. As for the said A dridge, he was made Preb. of the seventh stall in the said Church, in the place of one Joh. Pory, an. 1573. But being deprived for notorious nonconformity, was, upon his repentance, and reconciliation made to the Church, admitted Preb. of the fifth stall, in the place of Rich. Alvey the first Preb. thereof, an. 1576, but died in the same year.  
Admitted 7.   

Mast. of Arts.  
Jun. 25. Tob. Matthew of Ch. Ch.  

Jul. 5. 

Tho. Cogan  
Rob. Garvey  
Tho. Bodley of Me●t. 

of Oriel 

Coll.         
Hen. Bedell was then also admitted, and is, I presume, the same with him mentioned under the year 1555.  

Dec. 19 Miles Windsor of C. C.  
Feb. 25. John Garbrand of New  
Mar. 22. Rich. Forster of Alls. 

Coll.     
Admitted 50 or thereabouts.   

Bach. of Diu.  
Jul. 8. John Bullyngham of Magd. Coll.— He was afterwards Bishop of Gloucester.  
Mar. 18. Tho. Cooper of Magd. Coll. about this time Dean of Ch. Church in Oxon.  
22. Tho. Bernard Canon of Ch. Ch.— He had suffered much in the Reign of Qu. Mary for being a Protestant and a married Man, but restored to what he had lost in the beginning of Qu. Elizabeth. He had a Brother named John Bernard educated in Cambridge, and afterwards a zealous Person for reformation, who in the Reign of Qu. Mary wrote Oratio pia, religiosa, & sol●tii plena, de vera animi tranquillitate. Which coming after his death into the hands of his Brother Thomas beforemention'd, was by him published at Lond. 1568. in a large quarto, and by him dedicated to Pet. Osburne Remembrancer of the Treasury of the Exchequer. See more in Hist. & Antiq Vniu. Oxon. lib. 2. p. 261. a.  
For the same Degree did Will. Whittingham M. of A. and Dean of Durham supplicate, but whether he was admitted, it appears not.  
Admitted 5.   

Doct. of Civ. Law.  
Jul. 3. Edm. Merick of (Vniu. Coll.) now, or about this time Archdeacon of Bangor and Prebendary of Lichfield.   

Doct. of Diu.  
Mar. 18. Tho. Cooper beforemention'd who accumulated the Degrees in Divinity.  
On the 17. of Feb. William Whittyngham beforemention'd, who, that day had supplicated for the Degree of Bach. of Divinity, did also supplicate for that of Doctor, but it doth not appear that he was admitted to either.   

Incorporations.  
In the beginning of Sept this year Qu. Elizabeth being entertained by the Oxonian Muses, these Cambridge Men following were incorporated on the sixth day of the same month.  
Tho. B'ing Master of Arts and Fellow of Peter house in Cambridge— He was lately Proctor of that University, afterward Orator in the place of Will. Master, Master of Clare Hall and the King's Professor of the Civil Law in the said University.  
Thom. Beacon M. of A. and Fellow of St. John's Coll. in the said Uniu.— He was afterwards Orator and Proctor thereof, was made Prebendary of Norwych in Jan. 1574 and Chancellor thereof in the year following.  
Reuben Sherwood M. of A. and Fellow of Kings Coll.— He was afterwards Proctor of the said Uniu. Schoolmaster of Eton, Doct. of Phys. and a noted practitioner of that fac. for several years in the City of bath, where he died 1598., leaving behind him the character of a good Scholar and an eloquent Man.  
Tho. Preston M. of A. and Fell. of Kings Coll.— He acted so admirably well in the Tragedy of Dido before Qu. Elizabeth, when she was entertained at Cambridge, an. 1564, and did so gently and gracefully dispute before her, that she gave 
* 〈…〉 or his continuator in the 〈…〉 year 1553.  him 20 l. per an. for so doing. He was afterwards Doctor of the Civil Law and Master of Trin. Hall in that University.  
Five more of the said University were then incorporated Masters of Arts also, among whom Edw. Stanhop was one.  
On the same day, Sept. 6. were these Doctors following incorporated.  
Thom. Wilson Doct. of the Laws beyond Sea, incorporated at Cambridge, was now incorporated also at Oxon.— He was a Lincolnshire Man born, elected Scholar of Kings Coll. in Cambridge in 1541, where he afterwards was Tutor and Servant to Henry and Charles Brandon Dukes of Suffolk. Afterwards he was one of the ordinary Masters of the Requests, Master of St. Catherines Hospital near to the Tower of London, Ambassador into the Low Countries in 1577, and in 1579. Feb. 5. had the Deanery of Durham conferred upon him by the Queen, (void by the death of Will. Whittyngham) he being then Secretary of State and Privy Counsellor to her. While he enjoyed the Office of Secretary, he became famous for three things. (1) For quick dispatch and industry. (2) For constant diligence, and thirdly for a large and strong memory. He hath written. (1) Epistola de vita & obitu duorum fratrum Suffolciensium Henrici & Caroli Brand●n. Lond. 1552. qu. 'Tis set before a book of verses made on their deaths by several Scholars of Oxon and Cambridge. All which he collecting together, did publish them, and by an Epistle of his composition, dedicated them to Hen. Grey Duke of Suffolk. (2.) The Art of Rhetoric. Printed 1553, 60. 67. etc. qu. (3) The rule of reason, containing the art of Logic. First printed in the Reign of K. Ed. 6. afterwards at Lond. 1567. qu. (4) Discourse upon usury. Lond. 1572. qu. much commended by Dr. Laur. Humphrey 
a In Vita Joh. 〈◊〉 edit 1573. p. 2●● etc.  the Queen's public pref. of Diu. in Oxon He also translated from Greek into English, The three Orations of Demosthenes' chief Orator among the Grecians in the Olynthians. Lond 1570. with other things which I have not yet seen. He gave way to fate in 1581., whereupon his funeral was celebrated 17. June the same year in St. Catherines Church in East-Smithfield, near to the Tower of London. The Male issue which he left behind him, begotten on the body of Anne Daugh. of Sir Will. Winter Knight, settled at Sheepwash in Lincolnshire, where the name did lately, if not still, remain. Dr Tob. Matthew did not succeed him in the Deanery of Durham till August 1583.  
Rob. Forth or Ford LL. Doct. of the said Uniu. of Cambridge.— Of whom I know no more.  
Rob. Huick M. of A. of this University, and sometimes Fellow of Merton Coll. afterwards Doctor of Phys. of Cambridge, and Fellow of the Coll. of Physicians at London, and Physician to the Queen, was then (Sept. 6.) incorporated Doct. of Phys. in the house of Barthel. Lant, by the Commissary and two Proctors.  
John Robinson Doct. of Diu. of Cambridge, sometimes a member of Pembroke Hall there, now Precedent of St. John's Coll. in this University, was also then incorporated— In 1574 May 31. he was installed Archdeacon of Bedford, in the place, as it seems, of Will. Rodde, and about 1576 he succeeded John Aybner or Elmer in the Archdeaconry of Lincoln; of which Church he was about that time made Chauntor.  
Oct. 11. Nich. Bullyngham LL. D. of Cambridge and now Bishop of Lincoln, was then incorp. LL. D.  
16. Edw. Eglionbie M. A. and Fellow of Kings Coll. in Cambridge— He was now esteemed a good Grecian, and Latin Poet, was afterwards a Justice of Peace in Warwickshire; and drawing the Pedigree of Qu. Elizabeth, dedicated it to her, for which she gave 
b 〈…〉 1536.  him 5 l. per an. out of her lands for ever.  
26. John Porie Doct. of Diu. and Master of Corp Ch. College in Cambridge.— One John Pory sometimes of Gonevill and Caius College in Cambridge did translate and collect A Geographical History of Africa, written in Arabic and Italian by John Leo a More, born in Granada and brought up in Barbary.— Lond. 1600. fol. What relation there was between this John Pory and the other who was Doct. of Diu. I know not; nor whether he be the same John Pory M. A. who was installed Canon of the seventh stall in the Church of Westminster, on the resignation of John Hill, an. 1568.  
Mar. 22. George Ackworth LL. D. and sometimes Orator of Cambridge, was incorporated in that Degree— He hath published. (1) Oratio in restitutione Buceri & Fagii. Printed 1562. oct. (2) Prolegomenon lib. 2. de visibili Monarchia contra Nich. Sanderi Monarchiam Lond. 1573. qu.   

Creations.  
Aug. 27. Rich. Barber Bach. of the LL. and Warden of Alls. Coll. was then actually created Doctor of the Laws in an upper Chamber belonging to him as Warden, by Dr. Will. Awbrey and Dr. Rob. Longher, by virtue of a Commission directed to them from the ven. Convocation.— See more among the Bach. of Law, an. 1540  
Edw. Atslow M. of A. and Fellow of New Coll. was actually created Doct. of Phys. the same day, in the house of Dr. Hen. Bailiff situated in the Highstreet leading to the Quadrivium, by Dr. Thom. Francis and him the said Dr. Bailiff by virtue of a Commission, etc.  
Rob. Barnes Bach. of Phys. sometimes Fellow of Mert. Coll. was also actually created Doctor of that Faculty in the same place and on the same day, by virtue of a Commission, etc.  
Aug. 30. Roger Gifford Bach. of Physic, sometimes Fellow of Merton College, now, or lately, Fellow of that of Allsoules, was actually created Doct. of that Fac. by Dr. Walter, and Henry Bailiff, in the house of the said Henry, by virtue of a Commission, etc. This Doctor Gifford was afterwards Precedent of the Coll. of Physicians at London, and Physician to Qu. Elizabeth.  
Note that the aforesaid four persons were created, because they were appointed by the Convocation to dispute before Qu. Elizabeth when she was to be entertained by the Academians in the beginning of Sept. this year.  
After she had been entertained, these noble Persons following, with others of quality, were actually created Masters of Arts, on the 6 day of the said month of Sept. viz.  
Edward Vere Earl of Oxford.— He was Son of John Vere Earl of the said place, who dying in 1562, left this his Son Edw. a vast Estate, which he afterwards squandered, for the most part, away, upon some distaste taken against his Wife's Father Will. Lord Burleigh L. Treasurer of England, who refused to endeavour, when it laid in his power, to save the life of his beloved and entire Friend Thomas Duke of Norfolk for what he was charged with relating to Mary Queen of Scots. This most noble Earl of Oxon was in his younger days an excellent Poet and Comedian, as several matters of his Composition, which were made public, did show, which, I presume, are now lost and worn out. All that I have yet seen are certain Poems on several Subjects, thus entit. (1) His good name being blemished, be bewaileth. (2) The complaint of a Lover wearing black and tawny. (3) Being in love he complaineth. (4) A lover rejected complaineth. (5) Not attaining to his desire, he complaineth. (6) His mind not quietly settled be complaineth thus; with many such like things, that were highly valued in their time. He gave way to fate in a good old age 24 June 1604, and was, as I conceive, buried by the body of his Father, at Earls Colne in Essex.  
Will. Haward or Howard Baron of Effingham, Lord Chamberlain to the Queen.— He was Son of Thomas, the second Duke of Norfolk, by Agnes his second Wife, dau. of Hugh Tilney, and Sister and Heir to Sir Philip Tilney of Boston in Lincolnshire, Kt.  
Tho. Butler Earl of Ormond.— This person is one of the Ancestors of the present Duke of Ormond, was now in great favour with Qu. Elizab. and by her employed several times in matters of concern relating to Ireland, especially in that of quelling the Rebellion there, made by some of his house, as Sir Edm. Butler, Pierce and Edw. his Brethren.  
Ambrose Dudley Earl of Warwick.— He was the eldest Son that survived of Joh. Dudley Duke of Northumberland, (beheaded for High Treason in the Reign of Qu. Mary) and elder Brother to Rob. Dudley Earl of Leicester, Chanc. of this University.  
Hen. Lord Strange Son of Edw. Earl of Derby.— He became Earl of Derby after his Father's Death, an. 1572.  

Edw. Stafford  
Joh. Sheffield 

Barons.     
The first of these two Barons was the true heir of the Staffords Dukes of Buckingham, and is Ancestor to John Howard the present Viscount Stafford. The other, Joh. Sheffield, died in 1568. leaving then behind him a Son of about two years of age named Edmund, who was created Earl of Mulgreve or Mulgrave by K. Ch. 1. in the first year of his Reign.  
Sir Will. Cicill Secretary of State.— He was afterwards Lord Burleigh, and Father to Tho. Earl of Exeter, Rob. Earl of Salisbury, and Edw. Viscount Wimbleton.  
…. Roger's Controller.— What his Christian Name was, I cannot yet tell.  
Sir Franc. Knollis Knight, Captain of the Halbertiers.  
Sir Nich. Throcinorton Knight, a wise and stout man, lately leiger Ambassador in France, and about this time chief Butler of England and Chamberla●ne of the Exchequer.— He died suddenly in Leycester House in the Parish of S. Clement without Temple bar, London, on Monday 12 Feb. 1570. Whereupon his body was carried to his house in the Parish of Chree Church near Algate; where resting till the 21 day of the said month, was then buried in the Parish Church there. See more of him in Camden's Annals of Qu. Elizab. under the year 1570.  
John Tomworth or Tamworth Esq; of the Privy Council to the Queen.— The same who in 1564 had been sent to Mary Qu. of Scots to interceded with her for the readmission of some of her Lords that had been against her Marriage with Henry Lord Darnley. This Jo. Tomworth had spent much of his youth in travelling beyond the Seas.  
These Nobles, and persons of Quality before mentioned, were, I say, actually created Masters of Arts, in a Convocation held Sept. 6. in the public Refectory of Ch. Church, in the presence of Robert Earl of Leycester Chancellor of the University, Dr. Kennall Commissary, Dr. Laur. Humphrey, both the Proctors, etc. the Queen being then about to leave Oxon.  
Sept…. Thom. Randolphe Bach. of the Civ. Law, sometimes Principal of Broadgates' Hall, had leave, though absent, to be created Doctor of his Faculty: but whether he was created it appears not.  
Oct. 11. By virtue of a Commission from the prime Members of the University, then bearing date and sealed, directed to Dr. Lawr. Humphrey the Queen's Professor of Divinity, were these five Bishops following made Doct. of Divinity.  

Oct. 30. 

Joh. Parkhurst  
Will. Downham  
Tho. Bentham  
Rich. Davies  
Joh. Best 

Bishop of 

Norwych.  
Chester  
Lich. and Cou.  
S. David.  
Carlisle.         
All which were actually created (Oct. 30.) in the House of one Steph. Medcalf at London, in the presence of Will. Standish public Notary, and Registrary of the University, Thomas Roberts, John Prat Archdeacon of S. David, Walt. Jones Archdeacon of Brecknock (afterwards Canon of Westminster in the place of Dr. Matthew Hutton) and Thom. Huet Chantor of S. David.  
Oct…. Edward Earl of Ru●land was actually created Master of Arts (at London.)  
Feb…. Will. Smyth one of the Clerks of the Queen's Council, was also created M. of A. (at London.)    

An. Dom. 1567.  
An. 9 Eliz.  
An. 10 Eliz.  
Chanc. the same.  
Commiss. Tho. Cooper D. D. Dean of Ch. Ch. elected 26 March 

Proct. 

Adam Squire of Ball. Coll.  
Henr. Bust of Magd. Coll. 

elected 9 Apr.        

Bach. of Arts.  
Apr. 18. John Chardon of Exeter Coll.— He was afterwards Bishop of Downe and Connor in Ireland.  
Jun. 7. Rich. Stanyhurst of Vniu. Coll.  
Jul. 12. Thom. Williams.— See among the Writers under the year 1600.  
Oct. 10. John Case the Philosopher of S. John's Coll.  
Dec. 16. Edward Lord Russell, (of Vniu. Coll.) eldest Son of Francis Earl of Bedford. Adm. 46.   

Bach. of Law.  
Dec. 9 Michael Maschiart of New Coll.  
Besides him, were 9 admitted; but not one of them was afterwards a Bishop or Writer.   

Mast. of Arts.  

Apr. 21. 

Tho. Allen or Alan  
George Blackwell 

of Trin. Coll.       
Thom. Ford was also admitted on the same day.— This person who was Fellow of Trin. Coll. and a Devonian born, did soon after leave the University, Country, and Friends, went to Douai, and became a R. Cath. Priest and Bach. of Divinity. Afterwards being sent into the Mission of England, was taken and imprisoned, and at length executed at Tybourne near London 28 May 1582.  
Jun. 4. Will. Raynolds of New Coll.  
20. Jo. Field.— See among the Writers under the year 1587.  
Jul. 9 Franc. Bunney of Magd. Coll.— He is mentioned at large among the Writers p. 355, but the Printer hath set his name Bunne for Bunney.  
Oct. 17. Nich. Bond of the same Coll.— This person I set down here, not that he was a Writer, but to distinguish him from Nich. Bound, whom I shall mention among the Incorporations, an. 1577.  
Thom. Co●e of Magd. Coll. was admitted the same day.— In the latter end of the year (in March) 1588., he became Archdeacon of the East riding of Yorkshire upon the resignation of John Mey (who some years before had been promoted to the See of Carlisle) and he upon the death of Martin Parkynson Bach. of Diu. in Aug. 1569.  
Oct. 30. Rob. Fletcher of Mert. Coll.— One of both his names hath made several Translations as (1) The Song of Solomon, into English Verse, etc. Lond. 1586 in tw. to which he added Annotations. (2) Of the introduction to the love of God; out of English prose into English verse, Lond. 1581. oct. etc. Whether he be the same with him of Mert. Coll. I cannot tell, unless I could see the said Translations, which I have not yet done. As for the said Rob. Fletcher of Mert. Coll. who was a Warwickshire man born, he was for several misdemeanours turned out from his Fellowship of that House, in June 1569, whereupon, being out of employment for the present, he was soon after made Schoolmaster of Taunton in Somersetshire, and at length became a godly Minister and Preacher of the Word of God.  
Joh. Tatham of Mert. Coll. was admitted the same day.— He was afterwards Rector of Linc. Coll.  
Adm. 43.   

Bach. of Diu.  
Only one was admitted this year, viz. John Withyns of Brasn Coll. which is all I know of him.   

Doct. of Civ. Law.  

Apr. 10. Hen. Berkley of New  
21. Will. Constantine of Alls. 

Coll.     
Jul. 4. Joh. Belly Provost of Oriol Coll.— He was afterwards Chancellor of the Diocese of Lincoln, and one of the Masters of the Chancery.  
Tho. Salmon of Alls. Coll. was admitted the same day.  
7. Rob. Leech of Ch. Ch. Chancellor of Chester.   

Doct. of Physic.  
Jul. 12. Henry Wotton of Ch. Church.— See more of him in Edward Wotton among the Writers, under the year 1555. p. 78.   

Doct. of Diu.  
Jul. 7. John Bullyngham of Magd. Coll.— He was afterwards Bishop of Gloucester.   

Incorporations.  
Jul. 9 Robert Horn Doct. of Diu. of Cambridge, and now Bishop of Winchester, was incorporated Doctor in the house of Congregation, and took the Oath requisite to be taken by such that are incorporated.— He was the Son of John Horn, Son of Will. Horn of Cletor in Copland, in the County of Cumberland, educated in S. John's Coll. in the aforesaid University, made Dean of Durham in Nou. 1551, was an Exile for his Religion in 1553, returned in the beginning of Qu. Elizabeth, an. 1558, restored to his Deanery in the year following, and in 1560 he was made Bish. of Winchester. He hath written An answer made to a Book entit. The declaration of such scruples and stays of Conscience touching the Oath of Supremacy, as Mr. Jo. Fekenham by writing did deliver unto the said L. Bishop with his Resolutions made thereunto. Lond. 1566, qu. and also A preface to calvin's two sermons, one against Idolatry, the other to suffer persecution, etc. He died on the first of June 1579, and was buried in his Church at Winchester near the pulpit. I find another Rob. Horn to be a Writer and Publisher of several books relating to Divinity, but he was a Minister of God's Word at Ludlow in Shropshire, in the Reigns of Jam. 1. and Ch. 1.  
Jul. 15. Rich. Howland M. of A. of Cambridge.— This person being the Son of Rich. Howland of London by his Wife Anne Greenway of Clay in Norfolk, was baptised (at London I think) 26 September 1540, afterwards educated in Peter House, of which he was Fellow, made Master of Magd. then of S. John's, College in Cambridge, and at length Bishop of Peterborough, as I have elsewhere told you.    

An. Dom. 1568.  
An. 10 An. Elizab.  
An. 11 An. Elizab.  
Chanc. the same.  
Commiss. Dr. Cooper, designed to that Office by the Chancellors Letters, with the consent of Convocation, 3 May.  

Proct. 

Jam. Charnock of Brasn. Coll.  
Edm. Campian of S. John's Coll. 

elect. 18. Apr.       
I find another Edm. Campian who was Fellow of Trin. Coll. in 1563, and proceeded M. of A. 1567.  

Gramm.  
Jul. 10. Thom. Ashbroke a Scholar of, or a Student in, Grammar for twenty years, styled in the Register Ludimagister Vxelli, was admitted to instruct in Grammar.— He is the last of all that occurrs admitted to instruct Youths in Grammar, in our Records.   

Bach. of Arts.  

Apr. 5. Adam Hill  
May 31. Rob. Persons 

of Ball. Coll.     
Tho. Heth of Alls. Coll. was adm. the same day.  
Jul. 9 Rob. Gwinne.  

Oct. 15. John Rainolds  
Nou. 18. Meridith Hanmer 

of C. C. Coll.     
John Chamber of Merton College was admitted the same day.  
Feb. 12. John Norden of Hart Hall.  
16. Franc. Trigge of Vniu. Coll.  
Mar. 23. Thom. Cottam of Brasn. Coll.— This person who was a Lancashire man born, left Oxon soon after, and taught a Grammar School at London. Afterwards he went to Rome, where he studied Divinity, thence to Rheimes, where he was made a Priest, and at length into England to serve those of his profession; but being taken at his arrival in the Haven, at, or near to, Dover, in 1580, was imprisoned, tormented and tortured 
* See Card. Will. alan's book called A sincere or modest defence etc. or An answer to the libel of English justice etc. p. 11.  for about two years; in which time he was received into the Society of Jesus. At length, being not to be prevailed with to take the Oath of Supremacy, he was executed at Tyburn, with others of his persuasion, 30 May 1582.  
March 24. George Petty of Ch. Ch.  
Admitted 102.   

Bach. of Law.  
Only five were admitted this year, and three that supplicated for the said Degree, among whom James Charnock Proct. of the University was one.   

Mast. of Arts.  
Jul. 10. Thomas Twine of C. C. Coll.— See more in the year 1593.  
Nou. 3. John Vnderhill of New Coll.— He was afterwards Bish. of Oxford.  
Admit. 27.   

Bach. of Diu.  
Only one admitted, namely Will. Cole of C. C. Coll. afterwards Dean of Lincoln, and five that supplicated for the said Degree, among whom Edm. Campian one of the Proctors was one.   

Doct. of Civ. Law.  
Jul. 14. Vincent Den of Alls. Coll. Official of Canterbury.  
John Langford of the same house, was admitted on the same day, being about this time Chancellor of the Diocese of Worcester. He died about the beginning of Nou. in 1579, and was buried in the Cath. Church at Worcester.— He did succeed in that Office, as it seems, one Will. Turnbull LL. B. and was succeeded by Dr. Rich. Cousin the eminent Civilian, by the favour of Dr. Joh. Whitgift Bish. of Worcester.   

Doct. of Phys.  
March 9 Oliver Wythyngdon of Brasnose Coll. now or soon after, Dean of Battle in Sussex.— He died in 1590., and was buried in the Church of S. Peter in the East in Oxon.  
☞ Not one Doct. of Diu. was admitted this year.   

Incorporations.  
Apr. 19 Will. Hughes Bach. of Diu. of Cambridge,— He was afterwards Bishop of S. Asaph.  
Henry Haward or Howard M. A. of Cambr, was incorporated the same day,— This Hen. Howard who was second Son of Henry Earl of Surrey the learnedst among the Nobility, and the most noble among the learned, was born in the County of Norfolk, educated in Kings Coll. afterwards in Trinity Hall, traveled beyond the Seas, and became a very learned Gentleman, a man of excellent wit and fluent eloquence. It is observed, that though he was not respected by Qu. Elizabeth, yet he wrote a learned Book entit. An apology for the government of Women; which is in MS, in Bodley's Library, given thereunto by Ralph Radcliff Town Clerk of Oxon 1621. He was afterwards for his great Learning and Prudence, so much esteemed by K. Jam. 1. that he was by him advanced to great places and honours, among which was the Earldom of Northampton; and dying 15 June 1614, was buried in the Church or Chappel belonging to Dover Castle, he having been Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports. In his life time he published a Book entit. A defensative against the poison of supposed Prophecies, Lond. 1583, afterwards revised and published in 1620. fol. In 1609 he succeeded John Lord Lumley in the High Stewardship of this University.  
May…Elize Bomlie Doct. of Phys. of Cambridge.  
Jul. 13. Will. Living Bach. of Diu. of the same University.  
Leonard Cassembrotus or Cassenbrotius LL. D. of Orleans, was incorporated the same day.— He was descended from Leon. Cassenbrotius a learned man of Bruges, who lived in the time of Erasmus Roterd.   

Creations.  
Apr. 19 Thom. Haward or Howard Duke of Norfolk, Knight of the Order of the Garter and Earl Marshal of England, was actually created Master of Arts in a certain Chamber where he lodged in the house of Thom. Furse, commonly called the Bear Inn in Allsaints Parish. He was beheaded on Tower hill 2 June 15 Eliz. for endeavouring to marry Mary Qu. of Scots without leave or licence from Qu. Eliz.  
Aug. 2. Sir Henry Sidney Knight of the Garter and Lord Deputy of Ireland, was created Master of Arts in the place where he lodged in Ch. Ch. (I think in the Deans Lodgings) at which time he solemnly promised to observe the Privileges and Liberties of the University.— I have made large mention of him among the Writers p. 180. nu. 232.    

An. Dom. 1569.  
An. 11 Elizab.  
An. 12 Elizab.  
Chanc. the same.  
Commiss. the same, viz. Dr. Thom. Cooper now Dean of Gloucester, but upon what account, whether by a new Election made by the Masters, his Office was prorogued, it appears not. At this time the Chancellor took upon him to nominate the Commissary, (which now began to be called Vicechancellor) merely by the great power he took upon himself.  

Proct. 

Thom. Bereblock of Ex. Coll.  
Thom. Bodley of Mert. Coll. 

Apr. 20.       

Bach. of Arts.  
Dec. 1. Henry Holland of S. John 's Coll.  
Ionas Meredith of the same Coll. was admitted on the same day.— He was a Bristol man born, was afterwards a R. Cath. Priest, and a Prisoner in Wisbich Castle 
* See in Ro●. Persons brief 〈◊〉 in defence of Ecclesastical Subordination in England, 〈…〉  in Cambridgeshire, for stiffly defending the Jurisdiction of the Pope. He was expelled S. John's Coll super statutum quod tueretur Reum (so are the words in the Register belonging to that house) and, as 'tis supposed, did afterwards publish certain matters in defence of his Religion.  
Jan…. Hen. Cotton of Magd. Coll.— He was afterwards Bish. of Exeter.  
Mar. 11. Joh. Rogers of (Mert. Coll.)  
Admit. 92.   

Mast. of Arts.  

Jul. 11. George Coryat of New  
8. John Smith of S. Joh.  
Oct. 21. Tho. Doylie of Magd. 

Coll.     
Nou. 21. John Owlet of Exet. Coll.— He left his Fellowship of the said house before he stood in the Act to complete his Degree, went beyond the Seas, was made a Jesuit, and had one or more Books put out under his name. See among the Writers in Rob. Person, under the year 1610. p. 306.  
Adm. 36.   

Bach. of Diu.  
But two admitted, (Philip Biss being one) whom I shall mention in 1580, and two that supplicated, of whom Joh. Watkyns of Alls. Coll. (Son of Watkin Howell) was one.— He was afterwards Dean of Hereford, in the place, as it seems, of Joh. Ellis, and died in the month of May 1594.   

Doct. of Civ. Law.  
Jul. 6. Arthur Bedell of Christ Church.— He was a very learned Civilian of his time.   

Doct. of Physic.  
Nou. 21. Thomas Jesopp of Mert. Coll.— He died at Gillyngham in Dorsetshire about the beginning of 1616, having been before a Benefactor to his College.   

Doct. of Diu.  
Jul. 14. Will. Hughes (mentioned in the Incorporations an. 1568.) was admitted or licenced to proceed in Divinity.  
Jan. 16. Thom. Bickley Warden of Merton Coll.— He was afterwards Bishop of Chichester.    

An. Dom. 1570.  
An. 12 Elizab.  
An. 13 Elizab.  
Chanc. the same, viz. Robert Earl of Leicester.  
Commiss. Dr. Cooper, designed to that Office as the rest of his Successors were, by Letters from the Chancellor, dated May 5. He became Bish. of Lincoln about the latter end of this year.  

Proct. 

Arth. Atie of Mert. Coll.  
Tho. Glazier of Ch. Ch. 

Apr. 5.       

Bach. of Arts.  
May 30. Rob. Temple— See among the Bach. of Diu. under the year 1588.  
June 25. Thom. White of Magd. Hall.  

Oct. 17. Thom. Worthington of Brasn  
23. Tho. Spark of Magd.  
Nou. 15. Rich. Turnbull of C. C.  
Dec. 9 Thom. Holland of Ball. 

Coll.     
13. Simon Wisdom of Gloc. Hall.  
Jan. 29. Job. Field.  
In the month of June, Will. Camden supplicated for the degree of Bach. of Arts, having spent four years in the University in Logicals, but was not admitted. See in the years 1573 and 1588.  
Adm. 119.   

Bach. of Civ. Law.  
Apr. 26. Will. Say of Alls. Coll.— He was afterwards Chancellor of Winchester.  
Nou. 24. Hugh Lloyd of New Coll.  
Dec. 5. Randal Catherall.— After he had left the University he settled in an obscure Village called Oddington alias Addington, near to Bister in Oxfordshire; where, by a natural Genie advanced with great Industry, he became an eminent and expert Antiquary. His voluminous Collections from divers Leaguer books, concerning Monasteries, especially in these parts, and of Genealogies and Heraldry, were much used by Dr. Robert Sanderson, afterwards Bish. of Lincoln, who did transcribe many things from them for his use, which I have seen. But where those Collections are now, I cannot yet learn. This Mr. Catherall, who was descended from those of his name living at Horton in Cheshire, was buried in a little Vault under the Chancel of the Parish Church of Oddington before mentioned, 9 June 1625.  
Admitted 9   

Mast. of Arts.  
Apr. 8. Cuthbert Main of S. John's Coll.— Soon after he left the Nation, went to Douai in 1572, and was promoted there to the degree of Bach. of Divinity: Afterwards he was sent into the mission of England, and settled for a time in his native Country of Devonshire. In 1577 he was taken, and on the 29 of Nou. the same year, he was hanged drawn, and quartered at Lanceston in Cornwall, being then accounted by those of his Profession, the first Martyr of the Seminaries. You may read more of him in Cardinal Alans' book called A sincere and modest defence etc. or An answer to a libel of English justice, etc. p. 2. also in Camden's Annals of Qu. Eliz. under the year 1571.  
Henr. Shaw of the same Coll. was admitted on the same day.— He afterwards went beyond the Seas, changed his Religion, was made a Priest, and returning into England, was taken and committed to custody in Wisbich Castle, where, with several others, he endured a tedious Imprisonment, and therefore by those of his profession accounted a Confessor.  

Apr. 25. Thom. Bilson of New  
28. Rob. Hoveden of Allsoules  
30. Hen. Savile of Merton. 

Coll.     

Jul. 4. 

Will. Harrys  
Rich. Knolles 

of Linc. Coll.       
Dec. 4. Barthelmew chamberlain of Trin. Coll.  
Adm. 53.   

Bach. of Physic.  
Dec. 14. Christopher Johnson of New Coll. now the learned Master of Wykehams' School near to Winchester.  
Three besides were admitted, but not one of them was a Writer▪   

Bach. of Diu.  
Jul. 10. Edm. Bunney of Mert. Coll.  
Besides him were but two more admitted.  
☞ Not one Doct. of Law or Phys. was admitted this year.   

Doct. of Diu.  
Jul…. John Withyns of Brasnose College.   

Incorporations.  
In the month of Jaly was a Supplicate made in the ven. house of Congregation for Edm. Freke Dr. of Diu. of Cambridge to be incorporated; but whether he was really so, I cannot yet find.— Those things that I am to observe of him are, that he was an Essex man born, had all his Acad. Education in the said Uniu. of Cambr. was made Canon of Westminster in 1564, in the place of Will. Downham, and about the same time Archd. of Canterbury. In 1565 he was made Canon of Windsor, and on the 10 of April 1570 he was installed Dean of Rochester in the place of Walt. Philipps the first Dean deceased. In the year following, Sept. 18, he was made Dean of Salisbury upon the promotion of Will. Bradbridge to the See of Exeter; but before he had been settled in the said Deanery, he was made Bishop of Rochester, being then, as one 
* Math. Parker in the first Edit. of Antiq. Britan. Eccles. in 〈◊〉.  saith, Vir pius, doctus atque gravis. Afterwards he was translated to Worcester, where he was a zealous Assertor of the Church Discipline.    

An. Dom. 1571.  
An. 13 Eliz.  
An. 14 Eliz.  
Chanc. the same.  
Commiss. Lawrence Humphrey D. D. Precedent of Magd. Coll. and Dean of Gloucester, Apr. 2. by virtue of Letters from the Chanc. dat. 28 March.  

Proct. 

Anth. Blencow of Or. Coll.  
Edm. Fleetwood of Mert. Coll. 

Apr. 26.       

Bach. of Arts.  
Mar. 28. Ezechias Fogge.— He translated into English Comfort for the sick, in two parts. The first for such that are visited with sickness, the second to make men willing to die. Lond. 1574. in tw.  
Nou. 22. Ralph Sherwyn of Exet. Coll.  
Dec. 1. Rich. Madox.— See among the M. of A. 1575.  
Jan. 17. Job. Lister.  
Feb. 20. George More. See among the Master's 1573.  
27. Edw. Grant.— He was afterwards the learned Schoolmaster of Westminster.  
Mar…. Tho. Leyson of New Coll. now esteemed a good Latin Poet.  
Adm. 84.   

Mast. of Arts.  
Mar. 24. Hen. Cotton of Magd. Coll.— He was afterwards Bishop of Salisbury.  
Besides him were but 16 Masters admitted, though 102 Bach. of Arts were admitted three years before.   

Bach. of Phys.  
But one admitted, and five supplicated, among which last Tho. D'oylie of Magd. Coll. was one, whom I have mentioned among the Writers, under the year 1603.   

Bach. of Diu.  
Mar. 10. Will. James of Ch. Ch.— He was afterwards Bishop of Durham.  
Five there were that supplicated for the said Degree, of whom Toby Matthew was one, but not admitted till 1573.  
☞ Not one Doctor of Law admitted this year.   

Doct. of Phys.  
June 23. Christopher Johnson of New Coll.  
Rob. Bellamy of S. John's Coll. was admitted the same day.— He was afterwards Master of the Hospital at Shirebourne near to the City of Durham.  
26. Martin Colepeper of New Coll.— He was afterwards Warden of that College, Dean of Chichester in the place, as it seems, of Dr. Anth. Russh deceased, an. 1577. and Archdeacon of Berks. upon the death of Dr. Tho. white; 16 June 1588.  
☞ Not one Doct. of Diu. was admitted this year, nor any there were that supplicated to be admitted, only Joh. Angelus Bach. of Arts, who had his Grace granted for it six years before.   

Incorporations.  
Feb. 1. Henry Beaumond Bach. of Arts of the University of Cambridge.— This person who was descended from the noble Family of the Beaumont's in Leicestershire, was, about the beginning of Nou. going before, elected Fellow of Alls. Coll, as a Founder's Kinsman, his Mother being of that Family. He was afterwards Dean of Peterborough and Windsor, as I shall tell you under the year 1616.    

An. Dom. 1572.  
An. 14 Elizab.  
An. 15 Elizab.  
Chanc. the same.  
Commiss. the same, May 29.  

Proct. 

Anth. Blencow  
Edm. Fleetwood 

again.       
Continued in their Offices by a decree in Convocation, 17 March 1571.  

Bach. of Arts.  
Jul. 11. Rob. Coke or Cook of Brasn. Coll.  

Jul. 12. 

Hen. Robinson of Qu.  
Christop. Bagshaw of Ball. 

Coll.       
The first of which two last, was afterwards Bishop of Carlisle.  
15. Joh. Drusius of Mert. Coll. the most noted Critic and Linguist. Dec. 2. Will. Wilkes of the same Coll.  
9 Joh. Hudson.— See among the Masters of Arts, an. 1575.  
15. Joh. Prime of New Coll.  
Jan. 31. Miles Smith of Brasn. Coll.— He was afterwards Bish. of Gloucester.  
Feb. 20. Thom. Wilkes of Alls. Coll.— This person who was a Sussex man born, and Fellow of the said Coll. was two years after Secretary to Dr. Valentine Dale Ambassador from Qu. Elizab. to the K. of France. While he continued in that Country he showed more than ordinary civility to the King of Navarr and the Duke of Alenson, (afterwards of Anjow) when they were committed to custody by the Qu. Mother of France for plotting secretly to remove her from the Government. For so it was, that he comforted them in the Queen of England's name, promising them, that she would omit no opportunity to help and relieve them. Of this civility the Qu. Mother of France having notice, prosecuted Wilkes so much▪ that he was fain to withdraw himself into England, where she also followed him with letters of complaint; insomuch that he was sent back into France and there humbly craved pardon 
a Camden in Annal. Reg. Elizab. an. 1574.  of the Qu. Mother. However the King of Navarr not unmindful of the consolation he gave him, did, when he came to be King of France, honour him with the degree of Knighthood, when he saw him in Normandy twenty five years after. In 1577 Wilkes was sent Ambassador to Spain, and upon his return thence, was about the beginning of 1578 sent to Don John of Austria. In 1593. he was sent into France to know if the than French King was reconciled to the Church of Rome, and in 1598. he was sent into France again, with Sir Robert Cecil Secretary of State to Qu. Eliz. and John Herbert Master of the Requests, but so soon as Wilkes landed, he died there.  
March 3. David powel.— Afterwards the Welsh Antiquary.  
4. Rich. Meredyth.— He was afterwards a Bish. in Ireland.  
In Apr. this year supplicated for the degree of Bach. of Arts Edw. Rishton of Brasn. Coll. but whether he was admitted, it appears not.  
On the 5 Dec. also, the Principal and Fellows of Brasn. Coll. gave leave to Law. Johnson one of their Society, to take the degree of Bach. of Arts in the University, with certain conditions to be by him performed; but whether he took the said degree, it appears not. Afterwards he went to Douai, and studied Philosophy and Divinity; thence to Rheimes, where he was made a Priest: At length being sent into the mission of England in Feb. 1579, changed his name to Laurence Richardson, because he was the Son of Rich. Johnson of Lancashire, but being soon after taken and imprisoned, was executed at Tybourne 30 May 1582.  
Adm. 84.   

Mast. of Arts.  

Mar. 27. 

John Chardon of Ex. Coll.  
Edw. Grant     
The last was the same who was adm. Bach. of Arts 1571.  
29. Mardochey Aldem of Ch. Ch.— He was afterwards a Physician as well as Divine, became Canon of Windsor in 1607, in the place of Joh. King sometimes Fellow of Peter House in Cambridge, and about that time Fellow of Eton Coll. He died in 1615, and was succeeded in the said Canonry by Dr. John King of Mer●. Coll. Nephew to the former John.  

May 12. Franc. Trigge of Vniu.  
17. Jo. Rainolds of Corp. Ch. 

Coll.     

Jun…. 

Meridith Hanmer of Corp. Ch.  
Adam Hill of Balliol  
John Case of S. John's 

Coll.       
Jul. 11. Hen. Usher of Vniu. Coll.— He was afterwards Archbishop of Armagh.  
Dec. 2. Rob. Persons of Ball. Coll.  
Feb. 26. John Norden of Hart Hall.  
Mar. 17. Joh. Lane of C. C. Coll.— He soon after resigned his Fellowship of that House, traveled with Fa. Persons the Jesuit, entered into the Society of Jesus, and died with great opinion of Holiness in the University of Complutum in Spain, an. 1578.  
Adm. 61.   

Bach. of Diu.  
Four were admitted, of whom Joh. Chandler Prebendary of Winchester was one, Jan. 22. and nine supplicated for the said Degree, among whom were (1) John Oxenbridge, but whether the same with Dr. Oxenbridge who was committed to custody in Wisbich Castle with Dr. Tho. Watson Bishop of Linc. Dr. John Fekenham sometimes Abbot of Westminster, Dr. Young, etc. an. 1580, I cannot tell. (2) Thom. Kinges●ill of Magd. Coll. remembered before among the Writers, and (3) Jeffry Downes M. A. of Cambridge, not that Jeffr. Downes (Tutor to John Bale) who became Chancellor of the Church of York in Aug. 1537 in the place of Henry Trafford D. D. deceased, but another of the same University, who was a learned man.  
☞ Not one Doct. of Law, Physic or Divinity was admitted this year.   

Incorporations.  
March 28. James Wats M. A. of the University of Louvain.  
Jun…. Petrus Pitheus a Licentiate in the Civil Law of the University of Bourges in France, was incorporated Doctor of the same Faculty.— He was at this time a Sojournour in Oxford for the sake of Study and Converse, and afterwards became famous for his exact knowledge in all Antiquity, Ecclesiastical History, Laws, etc. All the great men of his time did make honourable mention of him in their respective books, and some did dedicated their Writings to him, and his Brother Francis Pitheus, as the Lights of France. Thuanus doth very much 
* In 1 part. tom. 5. Historiarum, l. 117.  commend, and at length concludes thus of, him, that In the Civil Law of the Romans, he came to that height, that it might be justly said of him, and his famous Master Cujacius, hunc discipulo praeripuisse, ne primus Jurisconsultus esset, illum praeceptori, ne solus, etc. Many of his works are mentioned in the Oxford Catalogue.  
Jul. 1. Hen. Usher Bach. of Arts of Cambridge.— He soon after took the degree of Master▪ as I have told you before.  
14. Felix Lewis LL. Bach. of Douai.  
15. Rich. Fietcher four years standing in the degree of M. of A. at Cambridge.— He was a Kentish man born, as 'tis said, bred in Bennet, commonly called Corp. Christi, Coll. in Cambridge, became Dean of Peterborough in 1583, and was present with Mary Queen of Scots when she suffered death at Foderinghey in Northamptonshire, in the month of Febr. 1586. At which time being the person appointed to pray with, and for, her did persuade her to renounce her Religion, contrary to all Christianity and Humanity (as it was by many then present so taken) to her great disturbance. In 1589 he was made Bish. of Bristol, there being then many leases to be passed in that Bishopric, and about that time Bish. Almoner. Whereupon Thomas Nevil D. D. of Cambridge succeeded him in the Deanery of Peterborough, an. 1590. From Bristol he was translated to Worcester, and soon after to London. At length he took to him a second Wife (a very handsome Widow) called the Lady Baker, Sister, as 'tis said, to George Gifford the Pensioner. At which Marriage the Queen being much displeased, (as she was at the marriage of all the Clergy) he died discontentedly by immoderate taking of Tobacco, on the 15 
† Godwin in lib 〈…〉 est De 〈◊〉 Angliae, in London.  of June 1596, and was buried before S. George's Chapel within the Cathedral Church of S. Paul. He had a Brother named Giles Fletcher, a Kentish man born also, as 'tis said, bred in Eton School, elected Scholar 
b The continuator of T●o. Hatchers Cat. of Prov. Fell. and Scholars of Kings Coll. in Cambridge, MS. sub an. 1565.  of Kings Coll. in Cambridge 1565, where he became a learned Man, an excellent Poet, and Doctor of the Laws. Afterwards he was sent Commissioner into Scotland, Germany and into the Low Countries, Ambassador to Russia, was made Secretary to the City of London and Master of the Requests. At length he wrote and published The History of Russia, etc. Or Of the Russian Commonwealth. Lond. 1591. oct Which book was quickly suppressed, lest it might give offence to a Prince in amity with England. Afterwards it was reprinted in tw. an. 1643, etc. This Dr. Gil. Fletcher died in the Parish of St. Catherine in Colemanstreet in London, in the month of Feb. 1610, and was buried, I presume, in the Ch. of St. Cath. there; leaving then behind him a Son of both his names, Bach. of Diu. of Trin. Coll. in Camb. equally beloved of the Muses and Graces; who died at Alderton in Suffolk, an. 1623. He left also behind him another Son named Phinees Fletcher of Kings Coll. in the same University, where he was accounted an excellent Poet. Afterwards he was beneficed at Hilgay in Norfolk, and became Author of several books; among which, one is entit. A Father's testament written for the benefit of his particular Relations. Lond. 1670. oct. at which time the Author had been dead several years. The titles of two other books written by him you may see in the Bodleian Catalogue.  
Rob. Bennet of three years standing in the Degree of M. of A. of Camb. was also then (July 15.) incorporated— This Person, who was of Trin. Coll. in the said Uniu. was afterwards Chaplain to Will. Lord Burleigh L. Treasurer of England, Master of the Hospital of St. Cross near to Winchester, was installed Dean of Windsor 24. March 1595, sworn Scribe or Registrary of the most noble Order of the Garter, on the Feast of St. George 1596, and at length on the 20. of Feb. 1602. he was consecrated Bishop of Hereford, as I have told you before among the Bishops in Harb. Westphaling, numb. 157. In the Deanery of Windsor succeeded Dr. Giles Tomson a little before Qu. Elizabeth's death, and in the Mastership of the Hosp. of St. Cross, (which was designed by the Queen for George Brook Brother to Henry Lord Cobham) K. James at his first entry into England, gave it to Mr. James Hudson, who had been his Agent there during part of the Reign of Qu. Elizabeth. But Hudson being a Layman and therefore not found capable of it, Sir Tho. Lake, for some reward given to him to quit his interest therein, prevailed with the King to give it to his Brother Arthur Lake: Whereupon George Brook being discontented, it put him upon plotting with his Brother, Raleigh and others; for which afterwards he suffered death.  
Thom. Staller or Stallard M. A. of Camb. was also then incorporated— He was afterwards D. of D. and Archdeacon of Rochester, as I shall tell you among the Doctors of Diu. an. 1591. and 1605.  
Besides the aforesaid three Masters (Fletcher, Bennet and Stallard) were 10 more of Camb. incorporated, among whom John Langworth was one, whom I shall mention elsewhere.  
Jul. 17…. Holland Bach. of Diu. of the said Uniu.— His Christian name, though not set down, yet, as it seems, 'twas Thomas.    

An. Dom. 1573.  
An. 15 Elizab.  
An. 16 Elizab.  
Chanc. the same.  
Commiss. the same, viz. Dr. Humphrey.  

Proct. 

John Tatham of Mert. Coll.  
Edm. lily of Magd. Coll. 

Ap. 1.       

Bach. of Arts.  

Ap. 1. 

Jam. Bisse  
Joh. Thornborough 

of Magd. Coll.       
The last of which was afterwards Bishop of Worcester.  
27. John Lilye of Magd. Coll.  
Jul. 3. Tho. Lovel— See in the year 1577.  
7. Tho. Rogers of Ch. Ch.  
Jan. 14. John Williams, afterwards of Alls. Coll.  
Rich. Hooker of C. C. Coll. was admitted the same day.  
28. Tho. Lister— See more among the Masters, an. 1576.  

Feb. 3. 

James Ley  
Will. massy 

of Br. Coll.       
Of the last, see more in 1586 among the Bach. of Diu.  
4. John Bond of New Coll.— Eminent afterwards for his critical learning.  
Edw. Habington or Abington was admitted the same day— Whether this Person, who seems to have been of Exeter Coll. was the same Ed. Habington who suffered for being engaged in the treasons of Mary Qu. of Scots, I cannot tell. See in Tho. Habington among the writers, an. 1647.  
17. Hen. rowland's— He was afterwards Bishop of Bangor.  
19 Rich. Hackluyt of Ch. Ch.  
In the month of March, Will. Camden who had studied Logic for 4 years, supplicated for the Degree of Bach. of Arts; but occurs not admitted. See in the year 1588.  
This year also, Will. Gifford then or lately of Linc. Coll. did make the like supplication, but was not admitted. He was afterwards Archb. of Rheimes.  
Admitted 172. or thereabouts.   

Mast. of Arts.  
Jun. 19 Thom. Williams— Qu. whether the Welsh critic.  
Jul. 1. Thom. White of Magd. Hall.  
31. Joh. Gibson— One of both his names was Author of A Catechism. Lond. 1579. oct. Also of The sacred shield of all true Soldiers. Printed 1599 in oct. etc. Whether the same with Jo. Gibson M. of A. I cannot tell.  

Octob. 7. John Chamber. 

8. 

John. Drusius the Belgic critic  
Ralph Gualther Son of Ralph 

of Merton Coll.        
Jan. 21. 

Rich. Turnbull  
George More 

of C. C. Coll.       
One George More who was a Minister and Preacher of God's word wro● and published, A true discourse concerning the certain possession and dispossession of seven Persons in one family in Lancashire. Printed 1600 in oct. at which time he had been a Prisoner in the Clinke about two years, for bearing witness to, and justifying the said, matters. Whether he be the same with him, who was M. of A. I cannot tell. Another George More I have mentioned among the writers. pag. 418.  
Admitted 71.   

Bach. of Phys.  
Jun. 10. Rich. Forster of allColl.— See among the Doctors of Physic this year.  
In July, Joh. Banister was admitted to practise Physic having originally been a Student in this University.   

Bach. of Diu.  
Oct. 10. Joh. Elmer or Aylmer, now an Archdeacon and a Justice of the Peace, as the public Register tells us.  
Michael Renniger of Magd. Coll. was admitted the same day.  
Dec. 10. Tob. Matthew Precedent of St. John's Coll.  
Jan. 26. Hen. Withers.— In 1569 he was incorporated M. of A. as he had stood at Cambridge, etc.  
Admitted 6.   

Doct. of Civil Law.  

Oct. 13. Michael Maschiart  
15. Will. Smyth 

of New Coll.     
The first was Poeta sui saeculi princeps, as a learned Author styles him.  
John Chippyngdale of Alls. Coll. was admitted on the same day, being then accounted by the generality an eminent Civilian.   

Doct. of Phys.  
Jul. 2. Randall Trevor.  
Rog. Marbeck or Merbeck of Ch. Ch. was admitted the same day— He was the Son of John Merbeck Organist of Windsor, (whom I have mentioned in these Fasti, an. 1550) and the first standing or perpetual Orator of the University. Afterwards he was Canon of Ch. Church, Provost of Oriel and the chief Physician belonging to the Queen. He died in July, or thereabouts, in 1605, and was buried, as I conceive, in the Church of St. Giles without Cripplegate, London, for in that Parish he died. See more of him in Hist. & Antiq. Vniu. Oxon. lib. 2. p. 47. a. and pag. 257. a.  
Jul. 2. Thom. Wanton of Merton Coll.  
Rich. Forster of Alls. Coll. was admitted the same day— This Person who was Son of Laurence, Son of Will. Forster of the City of Coventry, is styled by a most learned Author 
* Camden in Annal. Reg. Jac. 1. MS. sub. an. 1616.  Nobilis Mathematicus, but whether he hath published any thing, I cannot yet find. He died at London 27. March 1616 to the great reluctancy of all those that knew the profound learning of the Person.   

Doct. of Diu.  
Oct. 10. Joh. Elmer or Aylmer, who accumulated the Degrees in Divinity— He was afterwards Bishop of London.  
Michael Renniger of Magd. Coll. was admitted the same day.— He also accumulated.  
Jan…. Will. Cole Precedent of C. C. C.— He succeeded Dr. Jo. Rainolds in the Deanery of Lincoln, an. 1598. and dying in 1600 was succeeded by Laur. Staunton.  
Besides these, were five that supplicated for the said Degree, most of which were afterwards admitted.    

An. Dom. 1574.  
An. 16 Elizab.  
An. 17 Elizab.  
Chanc. the same.  
Vicechanc. Dr. Humphrey, without any nomination or designation to that office this year. The name of Commissary was now omitted, and that of Vicechancellor only used.  

Proct. 

John Bust of Ch. Ch.  
Rich. Barret of Or. Coll. 

Apr. 20.       

Bach. of Arts.  
Mar. 30. Thom. Smith of Ch. Ch.  
Jul. 13. William Middelton.  
Dec. 10. Will. Leigh of Brasn. Coll.  

17. 

Martin Heton  
Rich. Eedes  
Will. Watkinson 

of Ch. Ch.       
The first of which last three, was afterwards Bishop of Ely.  
This year supplicated for the Degree of Bach. of Arts one George Snavenburgh or S●avenburgh of Ch. Church a Baron of Sweden, aged 20, but whether he was admitted, it appears not.  
For the said Degree supplicated also one Barthelmeus Clerk of Magd. Coll. but was not then admitted.— This Person, who was a Northamptonshire Man born, I here set down, lest some unwary reader hereafter might take him to be the same Barthelem. Clerk, who became Scholar of Kings Coll. in Cambridge, an. 1554, afterwards Proctor of that University, Dean of the Arches and a wise and eloquent Man. He hath written De Curial● sive Aulico. printed at Lond. about 1571. in oct. being about that time favoured by Thom. Sackvill Lord Buckhurst, and another book intit. Fidelis servi, subdito infideli responsio, una cum errorum & calumniarum quarundam examine quae continentur in septimo libro de visibili Ecclesiae Monarchia à Nicholas Sandero conscripta. Lond. 1573. qu. He was living in 1593.  
Admitted 112.   

Mast. of Arts.  

May 18. 

Joh. Philippus de alto saxon.  
Franc. Puccius Florentinus.     
June…Tho. Spark of Magd. Coll.  
Jul. 2. Ralph Sherwyn of Exeter Coll.  
24. Tho. Banks— He is the same, I suppose, who published A Sermon against bad Spirits of malignity, malice and unmercifulness on Luke 6. 37. 38. Lond. 1586. oct. I find another Tho. Banks who writes himself metaphorically Piscator, sed vere Theologus & mere Praeco Evangelicus, who published Concio ad clerum jamdudum Cantabrigiae habita, in Luc. cap. 5. ver. 10. Lond. 1611. qu.  
Admitted 49.   

Bach. of Phys.  
Mar. 31. Thom. Cogan of Oriel Coll.  
He was the only Bach. who was admitted; besides whom, only one occurs that supplicated, namely Thom. Twine of C. C. Coll.   

Bach. of Diu.  
May 27. Lewis Sweit of Alls. Coll.— He was about this time Archdeacon of Totness, in the place, as I conceive, of Oliver Whiddon.  
Two more besides him were admitted, and nine there were that supplicated for the said Degree, of whom some were not at all admitted in this University, as John W●olton a Student in Divinity, afterwards Bishop of Exeter, Tho. Cole, and Tho. Brasbridge of Magd. Coll. and Nich. Marston of Ch. Ch. now Residentiary of Exeter, Brother to Will. Marston of the same house LL. D. and Chantor of the said Church of Exeter, who died in Nou. 1599   

Doct. of Civ. Law.  
Jun. 28. Will. Jones Vicar General to the Bishop of bath and Well●, and double or triple beneficed in the Diocese thereof.  
Felix Lewis sometimes of Hart Hall, afterwards made Bach. of the LL. at Douai, now Principal of New Inn, was admitted the same day.— He afterwards lived in the City of Bristol, and died beyond the Seas in 1591.  
☞ Not one Doctor of Phys. was admitted this year.   

Doct. of Diu.  
Apr. 22. Will. James Master of Vniu. Coll.— He was afterwards a Bishop.  
May 27. Tob. Matthew Precedent of St. John's Coll.— Afterwards an Archbishop.  
Geoffrey or Griffith Lewis now Prebendary of Worcester, in the place of Tho. Wilson promoted to the Deanery of that Church, was admitted the same day.— In 1577 he was installed Canon of the sixth stall in the Collegiate Ch. of St. Peter in Westminster, in the place of one Walt. Jones M. A. (who had succeeded in that Dignity Dr. Matthew Hutton after he was made Dean of York, an. 1568.) In 1594 he became Dean of Gloucester in the place of Anth. Rudd promoted to the See of St. David, and dying in 1607, Tho. Morton succeeded him in that dignity, being the same most worthy Person, who was afterwards Bishop of Durham. I have seen a Copy of the will of this Dr. Lewis, made 5. Feb. 1606, and proved 16. July 1607, wherein he desires that his body might be buried either in the Cath. Ch. of Gloucester, Worcester, Hereford, or in Westminster, in all which Churches he had Dignities.  
July 23. John Sprint of Ch. Ch. (originally of C. C. Coll.) was then admitted.— He was now Prebendary of Winchester, Residentiary of Salisbury, and a Person famed for an excellent Preacher. In Feb. 1577, he succeeded Giles Laurence in the Archdeaconry of Wiltshire, who, I suppose, resigned; in 1580, he succeeded George Carew in the Deanery of Bristol, (in which City, or near it, he was born, being the Son of John Sprint an Apothecary of the said place) and in the beginning of Feb. 1583, he was made Treasures of Salisbury. He died in the latter end (in Feb.) of 1589, and was succeeded in the said Deanery by Dr. Anth. Watson, the same who was afterwards Bishop of Chichester.   

Incorporations.  
May 17. Griffith Toy Bac. of Arts of Cambridge— He was now a Member of Jesus Coll. in Oxon. and soon after made M. of Arts of this University and Prebendary of Norwych.  
Jun…. Hector Viellius Bach. of Arts of the Uniu. of Caen in Normandy.  
Feb. 6. George Savage Bach. of the Civ. Law of the University of Louvain in Brabant— He was originally a member of Ch. Church, and was now Archdeacon of Gloucester in the place of Guy Eton; but was not, I presume, the same G. Savage who was half Brother to Dr. Bonner B. of London, and Chancellor of Chester.  
Thom. Willoughby Bach. of Diu. of (Cambridge) was incorporated, but the day or month when, I cannot yet find.— This year June 23, he was installed the third Dean of Rochester in the place of Dr. Edm. Freke, and was succeeded in that dignity by John Coldwell M. D. of St. John Coll. in Cambridge, installed therein 7. Januar. 1585. He was afterwards the first married Bishop that sat in the Cath. Chair of Salisbury.  
In Apr. this year one Rich. Wills a Mast. of A. of Mentz in Bavaria supplicated for incorporation, but was not admitted. See among the writers under the year 1574.    

An. Dom. 1575.  
An. 17 Elizab.  
An. 18 Elizab.  
Chancellor the same.  
Vicechanc. the same without any nomination or election.  

Proct. 

John Vnderhill of New Coll.  
Hen. Savile of Mert. Coll. 

Apr. 13.       

Bach. of Arts.  
May 17. Julius Caesar of Magd. Hall.— He was Son of Caesar Dalmarius of the City of Trevignie in Italy, Doctor of Physic, and Physician to Qu. Mary and Qu. Elizabeth, Son of Pet. Maria Dalmarius of the said City Doctor of Laws, but descended from those of his name living at Frejus or Cividad deal Friuli in the confines of Italy. See more in 1583.  
Jul. 5. Giles Tomson of Vniu. Coll.— He was afterwards of Alls. Coll. and Bishop of Gloucester.  
Jan. 27. Rich. Lewes— See among the Bach. of Diu. in 1584.  
Feb. 19 Edw. Hobie of Trin. Coll.  
29. Edw. Transham or Stransham of St. John's Coll.— This Person who was born in Magd. Parish in the Suburbs of Oxon, left all he had and went to Douai in 1577. Where, after he had spent some time in the study of Philosophy and Divinity in the English Coll. he was made a Priest. Afterwards he went into the mission of England, and for a time continued in Oxfordshire. At length being taken, imprisoned and condemned, suffered death at London, with one Nich. Woodfen another Priest, 21. Januar. 1585., aged 30 or thereabouts.  
Admitted 109.   

Bach. of Civ. Law.  
Jun. 30. Thom. Emerford or Hemerford— He afterwards left the Church of England, and went to the English Coll. at Rome, where being made a Priest, returned into his own Country; but being taken and imprisoned, was executed at Tyburn, with John Mundin and others, 12. Feb. 1582.  
Three more besides him were admitted, and six there were that supplicated for the said Degree; among whom Rob. Garvey a learned Irish Man was one.   

Mast. of Arts.  

June 1. 

John Lilye of Magd.  
Rich. Meredyth of Jesus 

Coll.       
The last of which was afterwards Bishop of Leighlin in Ireland.  
3. John Hudson of Broadgates' Hall.— He was afterwards Vicar of Patcham in Sussex and Author of A Sermon at Paul's Cross on Heb. 10. 19 Lond. 1584. oct. and perhaps of other matters.  
20. Henry Robinson of Qu. Coll.  

21. 

Christoph. Bagshaw  
Tho. Holland 

Of Ball Coll.       
27. John Thornborough of Magd. Coll.  
Nou. 25. Rich. M●dox or Maddock of Alls. Coll.— He was afterwards Proctor of the University and Author of A learned and godly Sermon, to be read of all Men, but especially for all Mariners, Captains, and Passengers, which travel the Seas. Preached at Waymouth, and Melcomb Regis, in the County of Dorset. 3. Oct. 1581., on Matth. 8. 23. 24. 25. Printed in oct. at London, but when, it appears not. It was published after the Author's death by one Thom. Martin, who being unacquainted with his Christian name, sets him down in the title by the name of John Madox, though no such Person appears to have been ever Fellow of Alls. Coll. In 1563, one Rich. Madox was admitted Bach. of Law, and another in 1590., but they are both different, and different from Rich. the Divine, who was M. of A.  
Feb. 1. John Body of New Coll.— The next year he was removed from his Fellowship for being a Papist; whereupon going beyond the Seas, he took upon him Priestly Orders, and returning into England in the condition of a Seminary, was taken and imprisoned and at length executed at Andever in Hampshire, for denying the Queen's Supremacy over the Church of England, an 1583. He was born in the City of Wel●s, was well versed in the Civil Law, and esteemed by those of his opinion a learned Man. See more of him in Card. Will. alan's book entit. A sincere and modest defence, etc. or An answer to a Libel of English justice, etc. p. 5. and in Concertatio Ecclesiae Cath. in Anglia, etc. printed 1594. p. 293. etc. I find another John Body, who in 1552 supplicated for the Degree of Bach. of Civ. Law, and another who was admitted Bac. of Arts 1554. and a third to that of Master, an. 1562. Whether they were one and the same Person, I cannot tell, or whether several.  
Tho. Leyson of New Coll. was admitted the same day (Feb. 1.)  
Admitted 75.   

Bach. of Phys.  
Thom. Williams of Mert. Coll. was admitted this year, but the day or month when, appears not.— He is styled in the records 
* 〈…〉  of that Coll. vir in arte medica multum diuque versatus, and doctus & peritus medicus.   

Bach. of Diu.  
Jun. 13. John Nutter— Whether he was the same John Nutter who suffered death at Tyburn, 12. Feb. 1582 for being a R. Cath. Priest and denying the Queen's Supremacy, I know not. Quaere.  
Jul. 8. Thom. Spark of Magd. Coll.— He was now Chaplain to Thomas Bishop of Lincoln and a famous Preacher, as the public register saith.  
Feb. 14. Thom. Summaster of Alls. Coll.— He was afterwards Archdeacon of Cornwall.  
John Leach of Exeter Coll. was admitted the same day; being about this time Canon of Exeter, and of some other Church.— One John Leech published a Sermon entit. The train Soldier, preached before the Society of the Captains and Gentlemen that exercise Arms in the Artillery Garden, 20. Apr. 1619 on Heb. 12. 4. Lond. 1619. oct. but this John Leech must not be understood to be the same with the former.  
Ten in all were admitted this year, besides 7 that supplicated for the same Degree.   

Doct. of Civ. Law.  
Dec. 5. Rob. Whitmore.  
Thom. Randolph mentioned among the creations, under the year 1566, did supplicate for the Degree of Doct. of the Civ. Law, in June; yet he appears not admitted. He was afterwards made Doct. of that faculty in another Country, when he performed one of his Embassies, as it seems. Quaere.   

Doct. of Phys.  
Jul…. John Watson of Alls. Coll. who had studied Physic for 20 years, was admitted Doctor of that faculty— He was afterwards Bishop of Winchester.  
☞ Not one Doctor of Divinity was admitted this year.   

Incorporations.  
A supplicate was made for one Hugh Blythe Bach. of Diu. of Kings Coll. in Cambridge to be incorporated, but whether it was granted, it appears not. In 1572, he was installed Canon of Windsor in the place of George Carew made Dean of that Chapel, (he being about that time Schoolmaster of Eton) and in 1589 he succeeded Dr. Rich. Barber in the Archdeaconry of Leycester. In this last dignity he was succeeded by Rob. Johnson a great benefactor to learning, an. 1591., and dying in 1610 (he being then Doct. of Diu.) was succeeded in Windsor by Thom. Frith of Alls. Coll. in Oxen.    

An. Dom. 1576.  
An. 18 Eliz.  
An. 19 Eliz.  
Chanc. the same.  
Vicechanc. Dr. Lawr. Humphrey, but he resigning, the Chancellor by his letters designed for his Successor Dr. Harbert Westphaling Canon of Chr. Ch. who accordingly was admitted 23. June.  

Proct. 

John Vnderhill  
Henry Savile 

again.       
Which Proctors were continued in their Offices at the special request of the Chancellor, May 12. without any election by suffrages in a scrutiny in convocation.  

Bach. of Arts.  

Dec. 17. Steph. Gosson of C. C.  
Jan. 21. John Harmar of New  
Feb. 16. John Doderidge of Exeter 

Coll.     
The last was afterwards a famous common Lawyer.  
Admitted 122.   

Bach. of Law.  
Three were this year admitted, but not one of them do I find to have been a Bishop, Writer, or Dignitary.   

Mast. of Arts.  
Jun. 23. Sim. Wisdom of Gloucester Hall.  
26. Miles Smith of Brasn. Coll.— He was afterwards a Bishop.  
Thom. Lister was admitted the same day— One of both his names was a Jesuit, and wrote a book 
† 〈…〉  to prove that the Secular Priests in custody at Wisbich Castle in Cambridgeshire were schilmaticks, about 1595, having been incited to it by several abuses received from them in their libels.  

Jul. 3. 

John Rogers of (Mert.)  
Edw. Hobie of Trin 

Coll.       

6. 

Tho. Rogers of Ch. Ch.  
Dau. powel of Jes. Coll.     

Oct. 29. John Prime of New  
Jan. 21. Rob. Coke of Brasn. 

Coll.     
Admitted 55.   

Bach. of Diu.  
Apr. 10. John Read of St. John's Coll.— He died in Apr. 1587. being then Prebendary of Westminster, (which he obtained on the deprivation of Dr. John Hardyman, an. 1567. by the endeavours of Sit Will. Cecil, who was afterwards L. Burleigh) and was buried in St. John's Coll. Chappel.  
Jul. 3. Barthelm●w Chamberlain of Trin. Coll.  
Besides which two, were 7 admitted.  
On the 4. July Petrus Regius a French Man M. of A. of 12 years standing in the University of Paris, now an Exile for his Religion, and a Catechistical Lecturer in this University, supplicated that he might be admitted Bach. of Diu. and that the exercise to be performed for it, might be deferred till Mich●elmas Term following, because he shortly after designed to return to his native Country. But the Regent's, upon mature consideration, returned this answer, that he might take the said Degree when he pleased, conditionally that he perform all exercises requisite by the statute before he take it.  
On the same day Giles Gualther M. of A. of 8 years standing in the University of Caen (another Exile, as it seems) did supplicate under the same form; but whether either of them was admitted, it appears not.   

Doct. of Civ. Law.  
Jul. 3. Griffith or Griffin Lloyd Principal of Jesus Coll.— He was afterwards the King's Professor of the Civil Law and Chancellor to the Bishop of Oxford. He died in Doctor's Commons, 26. Nou. 1586, and was buried two days after in the Church of St. Bennet near to Pauls-wharf, in London.  
☞ Not one Doctor of Physic was admitted this year.   

Doct. of Diu.  
Apr. 10. Adam Squire Master of Ball. Coll.— This Person who was a learned but fantastical Man, married the Daughter of Dr. Jo. Elmer Bishop of London, by whose favour he was made Archdeacon of Middlesex, but when, I cannot tell.  
Apr…. John Bold of C. C. Coll.— In the year 1578. Sept. 25. he was collated to the Archdeaconry of Northumberland by Dr. Barnes Bishop of Durham, on the resignation of Mr. Franc. Bunney, who some years before had succeeded Mr. Ralph Lever in that Dignity. After Dr. Bold had resigned it, Ralph Tonstall M. A. was collated thereunto 29. Oct. 1581., but who succeeded him, the register of the Church of Durham, which is deficient, tells us not till Bishop Nails time, who collated to the said Archdeaconry Gab. Clerk DD 7. Aug. 1619. upon the resignation of Dr. John Craddock. See more among the Masters of Arts, an. 1612.  
Jul. 6. Pet. Lozillerius Villerius a French Man, Doctor of the Civil Law and Divinity of an University in his own Country, was then admitted to proceed in Divinity, and three days after did complete that Degree by standing in the Act then celebrated.— He was an Exile for his Religion, lived in Ch. Ch. for some time, but whether he read a lecture, or taught privately, as other Exiles did, I know not. Sure I am he was a learned Man, and had newly corrected and set forth Beza's New Testament in Greek.   

Incorporations.  
June 5. Tho. Hakeluyt M. A. of Cambridge.  
22. Will. Smyth M. of A. of the same University— I take this to be the same Will. Smyth who was afterwards Master of Clare Hall, Chaplain to Qu. Elizabeth, Vicechanc. of the said University, an. 1603, Chaplain to K. Jam. 1. and at length Provost of Kings Coll. to which he was elected 22. Aug. 1612. He died 26. March 1615, and became a considerable benefactor to the said College.  
Jul. 10. Humph. tindal M. A. of the same University— He was afterwards Master of Queens Coll. there, and became the fourth Dean of Ely in the place of John Bell D. D. who died 31. Oct. 1591. aged 61. The said tindal was descended from the ancient and gentile family of his name living in Norfolk, and dying 12. Oct. 1614 aged 65 was buried in the Cath. Ch. at Ely.  
July 11. Peter Baro D. D. of Cambridge— This learned and worthy Divine was born at Estampes in France, left that Country upon account of Religion, came into England for refuge, settled in Cambridge by the endeavours of Dr. Andr. Perne, and being afterwards of Trin. Coll. succeeded Dr. John Still in the Margaret Professorship of that University, and read there several years to the great liking of many. At length the Calvinistical Party disgusting certain matters, (which they looked upon as hetrodox) vented by him in his readings and prints, viz. in his Comment on Jonah and his book De Fide, one of them named Laurence Chadderton had a contest with him. Their objections were (1) That in his readings upon Jonah, he taught the Popish Doctrine of the cooperation of faith and works to justification; which, though in terms a little changed, yet the Doctrine was one and the same in effect. (2) That he laboured to make Men believe that the reformed Churches Doctrine, was not so differing from Popish Doctrine, but that by distinctions they might be reconciled, and therefore concluded that both professions might be tolerated. And thirdly that in his said readings he taught that the Heathen may be saved without the Faith of the Gospel, and other strange matters, which they looked upon as damnable errors, etc. Besides also, as they observed, that after many years, wherein he had sundry ways hurt the sincerity of the Doctrine, he brought the Popish Schoolmen into credit, and diminished the honour of the learned Writers of that age. Since which time the course of studies in Divinity, and the manner of preaching hath been much changed in that University by some, who have followed that vain, and left the study of sound Writers (as they style them) and apply themselves to the reading, as they father add, of popish, barbarous, and fantastical Schoolmen, delighted with their curious questions and quiddities, whereby they draw all points of Christian faith into doubts, being the highway not only to Popery but to Atheism, etc. For these, I say, and such like matters, he was, by the zealous travel of some of the Brethren in the said University, removed from his place of Margaret Professor, about the year 1596, not without the consent of Dr. Whitgift 
a See more of this matter in 〈…〉 ●ook intit. Observations on the History of 〈…〉 Esq. Lond. 1656 p. 73.  Archb. of Canterbury. For so it was, and they could not be beaten out of it, that they thought, that as a certain Spaniard named Ant. Corranus was brought to, and settled in, Oxon. purposely to corrupt the true Doctrine; so Pet. Baro a French Man was for Cambridge, which last, is nevertheless reported in the following age by a high Church of England 
b Idem in 〈…〉, etc. printed 1650. p. 〈◊〉.  Man that though he was a Foreigner by birth, yet be better understood the Doctrine of the Church of England, than many of the Natives, his contemporaries in the University of Cambridge, etc. His writings are these. (1) In Jonam Prophetam praelectiones 39 (2) Conciones tres ad clerum Cantabrigiensem habitae, in templo B. Mariae. (3) Theses, publicae in Scholis peroratae & disputatae. Which Theses being only two, were translated into English by John Ludham with these titles. First God's purpose and decree taketh not away the liberty of man's corrupt will. The second, Our conjunction with Christ is altogether spiritual. Both printed at Lond. 1590. in oct. (4) Precationes, quibus usus est author in suis praelectionibus inchoandis & finiendis. All which were published at Lond. 1579. fol. by the care and labour of Osmund Lake Bach. of Diu. and Fellow of Kings Coll. in Cambridge who viewed and corrected them before they went to the press. This Osm. Lake, by the way I must tell you, had been Proctor of that University, was afterwards Vicar of Ringwood in Hampshire and a publisher of several books, (besides others which he wrote, that are not yet extant) among which are A probe Theological, or the first part of the Christian Pastors proof of his learned Parishioners faith. Lond, 1612. qu. He died in 1621. leaving then behind him the character of a learned Man. As for the other works of Pet. Baro they are these. (5) De praestantia & dignitate divinae Legis, lib. 2. printed 1586. oct. (6) Tractatus in quo docet expetitionem oblati à ment boni & fiduciam ad fidei justificantis naturam pertinere. (7) Summa trium sententiarum de praedestinatione etc. Hardrov. 1613. oct. printed with the Notes of Joh. Piscator, Disquisition of Franc. Junius, and Prelection of Will. Whittaker. (8) Special treatise of God's providence, and of comforts against all kind of crosses and calamities to be fetched from the same; with an Exposition on Psal. 107. (8) Four Sermons. The first on Psal. 133. 1. 2. 3. The sec. on Psal. 15. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. etc. After this Author Peter Baro had been removed from Cambridge, he went to London, lived and died in Crouched Friars, and was buried in the Church of St. Olaves in Hartstreet. At whose interment the Bishop of London ordered the most eminent Divines and Ministers in that City, to be present. The Baro's or Barons as they are by some called, who do now, or did lately live at Boston in Lincolnshire, and at Kings Lynn in Norfolk, are descended from him.  
Jul. 11. Walt. Travers M. of A. of Cambridge, was then incorporated in the same Degree— This Person had received his Academical education in Trin Coll. in the said University, and afterwards traveled to Geneva, where he became acquainted with Beza; and at his return took the Degree of Bach. of Diu. Soon after he went to Antwerp, where he was ordained Minister according to the Presbyterian way, and returning again into England, he became Lecturer in the Temple while Mr. Rich. Hooker was Master; between whom certain differences in Religion happening, Travers was discharged of his place by the Archbishop: Whereupon by the endeavours of Dr. Adam Loftus Archb. of Dublin, he was made Provost of Trin. Coll. there an. 1594. But he keeping that place not long, he returned into England, and lived divers years, as 'tis said, very obscurely, but where I cannot tell. Sure I am that one Walt. Travers succeeded Joh. Salkeld in the Vicarage of Wellington in Somersetshire, an. 1635, but whether the same, 'tis doubtful. Among several things that this W. Travers hath published, is Declaration of ecclesiastical discipline out of the word of God, and of the declining of the Church of England from the same. Genev. 1580. oct. It is also extant in latin, but that I have not yet seen. The other things that he hath written you may mostly, if not all, see in the Oxford or Bodleian Catalogue.  
On the 4. of July was a supplicate made that Tho. Norton M. of A. of Cambridge might be incorporated, but whether he was, it appears not. Had this supplication been made in 1560, I should have taken him to be the same Tho. Norton, a famous Poet of his time, whom I have mentioned among these Writers in Tho. Sternhold, an. 1549, and in Tho. Sackvile an. 1608.    

An. Dom. 1577.  
An. 19 Elizab.  
An. 20 Elizab.  
Chanc. the same.  
Vicechanc. Will. Cole. D. D. Precedent of C. C. Coll. was admitted to his office 13. July.  

Proct. 

John Glover of St. Joh. Coll.  
Tho. Dochen of Magd. Coll. 

Apr. 17.       

Bach. of Arts.  
Jun. 17. Erasmus Dreyden— The first of his Surname that settled in Northamptonshire (descended from the Dreydens' of Staffhill or Staffle in Cumberland) was by profession a Schoolmaster, and being learned, and well acquainted with Erasmus of Rotterdam, that Person was Godfather to one of his Sons; which is the reason that that Christian name descends among the family of the Dreydens' in that County; some of whom have gloried in it, in my hearing.  
June 12. George Peele of Ch. Ch.— He was afterwards an eminent Poet.  
25. Tertullian Pine of St. John's Coll.— Whether he took a higher Degree in this University, it appears not; for travelling beyond the Seas, he was made Doctor of the Laws in the University of Basil; whence returning, he was installed Archdeacon of Sudbury in the Dioc. of Norwych 20. July 1591., in the place of Dr. Jo. Still of Cambridge. After Pine, Cuthb. Norrys D. D. was installed 6. Oct. 1599, and after his death Theophilus Kent, 31. Dec. 1621. Some years after Kent's death, Anth. Sparrow D. D. of Camb. was installed 7. Aug. 1660, who being promoted to the see of Exter Dr. John Spencer of the said Uniu. succeeded, an. 1667.  
Jul. 1. John Davies of Gloc. Hall— Afterwards an eminent Mathematician.  
8. Tho. Lodge of Trin. Coll.  

Oct. 29. 

Charles Turnbull  
John Spenser 

of Corp. C. C.       

Dec. 4. Will. Gager of Ch. Ch.  
Feb. 6. Edw. Hutchins of Brasn.  
Mar. 22. Will. Warford of Trin. 

Coll.     
Anth. Shirley of the same Coll. of the Holy Trin. was then also admitted.— See another Anth. Shirley among the Bach. of Arts, an. 1581. who was a Sussex Man born, but this of Trin. Coll. was a native of Oxfordshire.  
Admitted 124.   

Mast. of Arts.  

Mar. 29. 

John Williams of Alls.  
Rich. Hooker of C. C. 

Coll.       
May 17. Will. Greenwich of Alls. Coll.— He was afterwards Archd. of Salop, and died an aged Man in Apr. 1631.  

Jun. 25. 

Will. Wilkes of Mert.  
Jam. Bisse of Magd  
Will. massy of Brasn. 

Coll.       

27. 

Rich. Hackluyt of Ch. Ch.  
Hen. rowland's of New Coll.     
Jul. 3. Tho. Lovel.— Whether he be the same Tho. Lovel who wrote A Dialogue between cust●m and verity concerning the use and abuse of dancing, and minstrelsy. Lond. in oct. about 1589. I know not.  
Feb. 18. Julius Caesar of Magd. Hall.— See among the Doctors of Civ. Law 1583.  
Admitted 116.   

Doct. of Law.  
Nou. 23. Tho. Glazier of Ch. Ch.— In 1578, he was elected Rector of Exeter Coll. and dying 9 Mar. 1591. was succeeded in that Rectory by Dr. Thom. Holland.  
☞ Not one Doctor of Phys. or Divinity was admitted, not any to the reading of the sentences but one.   

Incorporations.  
May. 23. Tho. Bowsfield Bac. of Arts of Pembr. Hall in Cambridge— In the Act following he proceeded Master of his faculty in this University, became Principal of St. Edmund's Hall in 1581., and the year after Prebendary of Grimston and Yatmister in the Church of Sarum.  
Jul. 9 Sim. Harward Bach. of Arts of another University.  
Rich. Remyngton M. A. of Cambr. was incorporated the same day▪ In 1582. Inn. 8. he was collated to the Archdeaconry of Clieuland upon the death of Ralph Coulton Bac. of Diu. (which happened 8. May going before, aged 55) and some years after, (about 1598.) he became Archdeacon of the East-riding of Yorkshire, in the place of Tho. Cole; whom I have mentioned before, under the year 1567. In Clieuland succeeded, upon his resignation, one Rich. Bird, collated thereunto 21. of March 1588. and in the East-riding, Marmaduke Blaxton, as I shall tell you elsewhere.  
Jul. 9 Anthony Rudde Bach. of Diu. of Cambr. was also then incorporated.— He was of Trin. Coll. in that University, was afterwards D. of D. and in 1584. he became Dean of Gloucester in the place of Lawr. Humphrey, who four years before had been promoted to the Deanery of Winchester. In 1594 June 9 he was consecrated Bishop of S. David (being then accounted a most admirable Preacher) and died 7 March 1614, having before published four, or more, Sermons. He had a Son of both his names, who was a Commoner of Magd. Coll. in this University in 1603.  
Jul. 19 Nich. Bownde M. A. of the said University.— He was afterwards D. of D. beneficed at Norton in Suffolk, and famed for several things that he published in his life time. Among which are (1) Sabbatum veteris & novi Testamenti; or the true doctrine of the Sabbath, held and practised of the Church of England, both before and under the Law, etc. This book was first published, as one 
* 〈…〉 in his 〈…〉 etc. lib. 9 〈…〉 1595.  observes, in 1595, and was the first of that nature which first saw light, and occasioned the observation of the Lords day more solemnly to be kept, which before was not. Whereupon his Doctrine was opposed by several persons, of whom Tho. Rogers was one, as I have elsewhere told you. (2) The holy exercise of fasting, etc. in certain Homilies or Sermons, etc. Lond. 1604. oct. dedicated to his great Lord and Patron Dr. John Jegon B. of Norwych. (3) A storehouse of comfort for the afflicted in spirit set open in 21 Sermons. Lond. 1604. qu. The two first are on the title of Psalm 20, To him that excelleth; the rest are on the six first Verses of the said Psalm. (4) Unbelief of S. Thomas the Apostle, laid open for believers, etc. printed 1608, oct. with other things which I have not yet seen.  
Nou…. John Delabere sometimes of Ch. Ch. and Bach. of Phys. of this University, afterward Doct. of the same Faculty at Basil in Germany, was then incorporated Doct. of Phys.— He was afterwards Principal of Gloc. Hall.  
Feb. 18. Nich. Goldsborough M. A. of Cambridge.— He was incorporated also Bach. of Diu. in 1597.    

An. Dom. 1578.  
An. 20 Eliz.  
An. 21 Eliz.  
Chanc. the same.  
Vicechanc. Martin Colepeper Doct. of Phys. and Warden of New Coll. was adm. Jul. 15. being the next day after the Act was ended.  

Proct. 

Ralph Smyth of Magd.  
Clem. Colmer of Brasn. 

Coll.       
They were elected in Congregation 9 Apr.  

Bach. of Arts.  
May 14. Matthew Gwinne of S. Joh. Coll.  
Jul. 12. Rob. Hues (Husins) of S. Mary's Hall, lately of Brasn. Coll.  

Nou. 12. 

Leonard Hutten  
Tho. Ravis  
Joh. Howson 

of Ch. Ch.       
The two last were afterwards Bishops.  

Nou. 12. John Terry of New  
Dec. 9 Rich. Kilbye of Linc. 

Coll.     
Jun. 28. Walter Warner.— One of both his names was an eminent Mathematician in the Reigns of K. Jam. and Ch. 1. as I have elsewhere told you.  

Jun. 28. 

Will. Wood  
Will. Wilkenson 

of Brasn. Coll.       
See another Will. Wood in 1561. As for Will. Wilkinson. I find one of both his names to be Author of A confutation of certain articles delivered to the family of Love, etc. Lond. 1579, oct. and of A godly treatise of the exercise of Tasteng, etc. Lond. 1580, oct. but him of Brasn. Coll. I take to be too young to be an Author, he being this year about 20 years of age. See another Will. Wilkinson an. 1593.  
Feb. 26. Thom. Gibson.— See among the Master's 1580.  
Rich. Parks of Brasn. Coll. was admitted the same day.  
Mar. 17. Tho. Bentham of Mert. Coll.— See among the Masters of 1581.  
Adm. 107.   

Bach. of Law.  
Jul. 2. Henry Dethick M. of A. was admitted Bach. of Law, being now Chancellor of the Diocese of Carlisle.— About this time also he succeeded one Edw. Threlkeld LL. D. in the Archdeaconry of Carlisle, who had been collated thereunto 10 Eliz. Dom. 1567-8. the same Threlkeld I mean who had been Fellow of Kings Coll. in Cambridge, and the same who was so much admired in that University, for his excellent Knowledge and Eloquence, that he was thought to use the help of some good Genius. When he gave up the Chancellourship of Carlisle he was Chancellor of the Diocese of Hereford, where he became highly valued for his profession. In the year 1581. I shall make farther mention of Hen. Dethick, who was a man of Learning also, but far beneath Threlkeld.  
Beside Dethicke were six Bach. of Law adm. this year, among whom Joh. Drewry was one. See in 1584.   

Mast. of Arts.  

May 2. 

Martin Heton  
Rich. Eedes  
Will. Watkinson 

of Ch. Ch.       

5. Sim. Harward of New  
29. Will. Leigh of Brasn. 

Coll.     
Jun. 17. Thom. Smith of Ch. Ch.  
July 4. Giles Tomson of Vniu. Coll.— He was afterwards of Alls. Coll. and a Bishop.  
Adm. 52.  
☞ But two Bach. of Diu. were admitted this year, of whom Edm. lily of Magd. Coll. was one, afterwards Master of Ball. Coll.   

Doct. of Law.  
Oct. 13. Rich. percy of Ch. Ch.— He died 10 Nou. 1598., (after he had been 20 years' Commissary to the Archbish. of York) and was buried in the Church of Settrington in Yorkshire, of which he became Rector in 1591., in the place of Ralph Tomson D. D.  
Feb. 12. Giles Laurence of Alls. Coll. and Greek Professor of the University.— He was a Glocestershire man born, was admitted Scholar of C. C. Coll. with his individual Friend John Jewel an. 1539, and in 1542 was elected prob. Fellow of that of Allsoules. On the 18 Sept. an. 1564 he became Archdeacon of Wilts, on the deprivation of one John Laurence (whether his Father or Uncle I know not) being then in great esteem for his learning. A certain 
* 〈…〉 in Epist. 〈◊〉. ad 〈…〉. an. 1575.  Author of no mean fame, tells us, that this Dr. Laurence was the light and ornament of this University, that he was brought up and nourished in the bosom of Pallas, and that into him, as also into Barthelmew Dodington, the ornament of Cambridge, Nature, and unwearied Industry, had infused and placed, all the Greek Treasures and Riches imaginable. I have been informed that he hath written and published several Books, but such I have not yet, in all my searches, seen; nor do I know any thing else of him, only that in the time of Queen Mary he was Tutor to the Children of Sir Arthur Darcey living near the Tower of London, and that he was in being in 1584.  
Feb. 23. Robert Salisbury of Jesus Coll.— He was a younger Son of Sir John Salisbury of Lewenie in Denbighshire Knight, and Uncle to Sir John Salisbury of the same place, who died 1613; which is all I know of him.   

Doct. of Phys.  
Nou. 12. Henry Bust of Magd. Coll.— He was afterwards superior Reader of Lynacre's Phy●. Lecture, practised his Faculty many years in Oxon with great repute; and dying in his house in S. Aldates' Parish, was buried in the Church belonging thereunto, 17 Feb. 1616.   

Doct. of Diu.  
July 10. Edw. Chapman of Cambridge.— See among the Incorporations following.  
12. Rich. creak 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 (mentioned 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 chamberlain 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 Diu. 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 Burnd●ey in Lancashire, initiated there in Grammar learning, taken thence by his Uncle Alexander Nowell Dean of Paul's, 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 Uncle's Catechism into that Language. Afterwards being famous for Theology, he was made the King's 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, etc. At length having much impoverished his weak Body by continual study, even at that time, when the Question was so rise among the Divines 
† 〈◊〉 in Ann. 1. Reg. 〈…〉 an. 15●5.  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 Chapel belonging to S. John's Coll. in Cambridge, of which Coll. he had several years before been Master. His Works are printed in Latin in two folios at Genev. 1610.  
July 15. G●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 Diu. 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 Lond●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. Paul's 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 Choir 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, though granted simpliciter, yet it appears not that he was incorporated. He was afterwards a Knight, Chancellor 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. Toby Matthew 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. 

Edwin Sandys of C. C.  
William Tooker  
Roger Hacket 

of New 

Coll.         

22. Edward Philipps of Broadgates'  
Jan. 14. Henry Perry of Gloucester 

Hall.     
26. John King of Ch. Ch.— He was afterwards Bishop of London.  

Feb. 12. 

Thomas Hariot of S. mary's  
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 Alls. Coll. was adm. the same day.  
Adm. 75.   

Bach. of Diu.  
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 Uniu. of Marpurg, was then admitted to the reading of the Sentences, or, as 'twas now called, to the reading of any book of S. Paul's 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 honourable person, but also for that his Parents and Relations had suffered much in the Smalcaldic War for their zealous profession of the Gospel, and also that the Count had been trained up in good Arts, as well as in Divinity.  

June 24. 

Thomas Bilson of New  
John Rainolds of C. C. 

Coll.       
Besides these three, were but three more admitted.   

Doct. of Law.  
Jul…. John day of Magd. Coll.— He became Vicar Gen. to the B. of bath and Wells, an. 1587.  
He was the only person who was admitted Doctor of his Faculty this year.  
☞ Not one Doct. of Phys. was adm. this year.   

Doct. of Diu.  
March 27. Ralph Tomson of Brasn. Coll.— He was now one of the Chaplains to the Queen, and dying 18 Aug. 1591., was buried in the Church of Settrington (of which he was Rector) in Yorkshire.  
Apr…. Robert Dorset Canon of Ch. Ch.— In the beginning of this year (1579) he became Dean of Chester in the place of Rich. Langworth or Longworth D. D. of Cambridge deceased, who before had succeeded Dr. Jo. Piers, but the year when, I cannot tell. This Dr. Dorset, who was also Rector of Ewelme in Oxfordshire, died 29 May 1580, and was buried in the Church there; whereupon one Tho. Madesley or Modesley succeeded him in his Deanery.  
July 3. John Langworth of New Coll.— This person who was Son of Lancelot Langworth of Kertlebury in Worcestershire, was installed Prebendary of Worcester in the place of Richard Longworth before mentioned, an. 1579, was afterwards Prebendary of Canterbury, and in 1588., Feb. 4. was admitted Archdeacon of Wells, but in whose place I cannot tell, because from the death of John Rugg Archdeacon of Wells, which happened in 1581., to the year 1587., the Register of that Church is wanting or defective. In the said Archdeaconry of Wells succeeded him one Steph. Nelson, but when, unless in the year 1610, I cannot tell, and in his Prebendary of Worcester John Hanmer, an. 1614  
John Woolton who became Bishop of Exeter this year, did, in the month of May, supplicate for the degree of D. of D. but whether admitted or diplomated, I find not.   

Incorporations.  
May…Edward Grant or Grant Bach. of Diu. of Cambridge, and chief Master of Westminster School.  
June…John Langworth Bach. of Diu. of the same University.— In the month following he was admitted Doct. of his Faculty, as before I have told you, and proceeded as a Member of New Coll. in the Act that followed.  
July 14. Eubu●e Thelwall Bach. of Arts of Trin. Coll. in the said University.— He was afterwards Master of Arts of this University, Counsellor at Law, Master of the Alienation Office, one of the Masters of the Chancery, a Knight, and at length Principal of, and an especial Benefactor to, Jesus College in Oxon. He died 8 Oct. 1630, aged 68 years, and was buried in the Chapel belonging to that Coll.  
Godfrey Goldsborough Bach. of Diu. of Cambridge, was incorporated the same day.— This person who had been Fellow of Trin. Coll. in that University, was installed Archdeacon of Worcester, in the place of Dr. Thomas powel resigning, 15 July 1579, (he being then Prebendary of Caddington in the Cath. Church of S. Paul) and on the 12 August 1581. was installed Prebendary of the Church there, in the place of John Bullyngham promoted to the See of Gloucester. At length, upon the death to the said Bullyngham, he became Bishop of Gloucester, an. 1598., (at which time he had licence to keep his Preb. of Worcester in commendam) and dying 26 May 1604, was buried in a little Chapel on the North side of a fair large Chapel at the East end of the Choir of the Cath. Church at Gloucester. Over his Grave was soon after a raised or Altar-Monument erected, with the proportion of a Bish. in his Pontifie 〈◊〉 lying thereon, with this Inscription, 
Aureus, & Fulvo nomen sortitus ab auro,  
Hâc Goldisburgus nunc requiescit humo.  
Scilicet orta solo pretiosa metalla parent  
In matrem redeunt inveterata suam.   
He left behind him two Sons, John and Godfrey, and other Children, as I conceive, besides a Brother named John.  
Richard Wood Bach. of Diu. of the same University, was incorporated the same day, July 14.— He was afterwards Doctor of his Faculty, and became Can. or Preb. of Westminster in the place of John Read deceased, in the month of May 1587.  
John Keltride M. A. of the same Uniu. was also then (July 14.) incorporated in the same degree.— Whether he be the same with John Keltridge who wrote Exposition or Readins on the Lord's Prayer, on Luke 11. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 as also A Sermon at the making of Ministers, on 1 Tim. 3. 1, 2, 3. printed at Lond. 1578, as also of a Sermon against the Jesuits, on Deut. 6. 4. Lond. 1581. qu. I cannot tell. Quaere.   

Creations.  
Feb. 12. Richard Barnes M. of A. of this University▪ and Bach. of Diu. of Cambridge, now Bishop of Durham, was actually created Doctor of Divinity by certain persons appointed by the Members of the University, but whether at London, or elsewhere, it appears not.    

An. Dom. 1580.  
An. 22 Elizab.  
An. 23 Elizab.  
Chanc. the same.  
Vicechanc. Arthur Yeldard D. D. Precedent of Trin. Coll. July 13.  

Proct. 

Rob. Crayne of Ball. Coll.  
Tho. Stone of Ch. Ch.     
Elected in Congregation 13 Apr. The junior was afterwards Parson of Warkton in Northamptonshire, and a great promoter of Presbytery. He died there 1617.  

Bach. of Arts.  

June 13. 

Rob. Wright of Trin. Coll.  
Sabin Chambers of Broadgates Hall.  
Hen. Cuffe of Trin. Coll.     
The first of these three was afterwards Bishop of Lichfield, the other a Jesu●, and the last an eminent Grecian.  
Jan. 13. Francis Godwin of Ch. Ch.— He was afterwards successively B. of Landaff and Hereford.  
Feb. 3. John Rider of Jesus Coll.— He was also afterwards a B. in Ireland.  
17. Will. Hubbocke lately of Magd. Hall, now of C. C. Coll.  
Admitted 103.   

Mast. of Arts.  
June 15. Will. Gager of Ch. Ch.  
March 10. Thomas Gibson of Queens Coll. originally, as it seems, of that of Mert.— One of both his names hath published A fruitful Sermon preached at Okeham in Rutlandshire, on 1 Cor. 9 16. Lond. 1584., in oct. Whether the same with him who was Master of Arts, I cannot tell. Another Tho. Gibson also I find, who published The blessing of a good King, in eight Sermons, etc. Lond. 1614, oct. whether he was of Oxon I know not.  

Mar. 16. 

Chacles Turnbull  
John Spenser 

of C. C. Coll.       
Adm. 49.  
☞ Not one Bach. of Phys. was this year admitted, only three supplicated for that degree.  
Five Bach. of Diu. were admitted, yet not one of them can I mention according to the method that I follow.   

Doct. of Law.  
July 20. Daniel Donne of Alls. Coll. now Principal of New Inn.— He was afterwards Dean of the Arches, Master of the Requests, one of the Commissioners appointed by Q. Elizabeth to treat with the Danes at Bremen, an. 1602, a Knight, and one of the two first Burgesses elected by the Uniu. of Oxon, after the Members thereof were empowered to send Burgesses to Parliament, an. 1603. He died 15 Sept. 1617. One of both his names was M. of Arts and a Minister, Author of A subpoena from the Star Chamber of Heaven, Serm. at Paul's Cross 4 Aug. 1622, on Luke 3. 9 Lond. 1623. oct. and perhaps of other things.  
☞ Not one Doct. of Phys. was admitted this year.   

Doct. of Diu.  
June…Steph. Townsend of Ch. Ch.  
July 8. Philip Bisse of Magd. Coll.— He was now Archdeacon of Taunton, in the place of Justin Lancaster, and Subdean of Wells, in which first Dignity he was succeeded by Matthew Sutcliff LL. D. in January 1585. This Dr. Bisse, who was Son of Rich. Bisse of Stokeland in Somersetshire, was an especial Benefactor to Wadham Coll. by giving thereunto 2000 Books valued at 700 l.  
John Browning of Cambridge was admitted the same day.  
July 15. Edmund Lily lately of Magd. Coll. and about this time Master of that of Balliol.— He was an excellent Divine, universally read in the Fathers, all whose Opinions he would reckon up upon any question at Divinity disputations in Ball. College; and that with such volubility 
* Balliosergus etc. per Hen. Savage, p. 116.  of language, and rivers of eloquence, as made all covet to hear him, and his very enemies to admire him. On the last of Nou. 1591. he was made Archdeacon of Wiltshire, but whether in the place of Dr. John Sprint who died in the latter end of 1589, I know not. He the said Dr. Lilly was buried in the Church of S. Marry the Virgin in Oxon, 12 Feb. 1609.  
Nich. Bond of Magd. Coll. was admitted the same day.— This person who was now Chaplain in Ordinary to the Queen, became Canon of the fifth Stall in S. Peter's Church at Westminster on the death of John Ruyg, an. 1582, and in the beginning of 1590. was elected Precedent of the said Coll. he being then Rector of Alresford in Hampshire. In the said Prebendship he was succeeded by Will. Robinson D. D. Rector of Bingham in Nottinghamshire, (Brother by the Mother's side to Dr. Will. Laud) who was installed therein 5 of March an. 1607, and in his Presidentship succeeded John Harding D. of D.  
Jan. 24. Thomas Bilson of New Coll.— He was afterwards successively B. of Worcester and Winchester.   

Incorporations.  
July 12, being the next day after the Act, were fifteen Cambr. Masters incorporated, among whom Rich. Clayton and Will. Smyth, were two; but whether either of them were afterwards a Bishop, Writer, or man of note, I cannot ye find.  
Jan. 26. Alexander Hume M. of A. of S. Andrews in Scotland.— See more of him in Adam Hill among the Writers, an. 1594. nu. 275.  
March 6. John Hottoman a French man, Doct. of the Civ. Law of the University of Valence.— One John Hotman was Preb. of Sarum. See in Will. Camden among the Writers, an. 1623.  
Albericus Gentilis an Italian, Doct. of the Civ. Law of the Uniu. of Perugia, was incorporated the same day.  
On the 8 July supplicated to be incorporated one John Keeper Mast. of Arts of the University of Louvain, but being a suspected Papist, he was put aside.    

An. Dom. 1581.  
An. 23 Elizab.  
An. 24 Elizab.  
Chanc. the same.  
Vicechanc. Will. James D. D. Master of Vniu. Coll. Jul. 13. In his absence Oliver Wythyngton Doct. of Phys. and Dean of Battle in Sussex supplied his place.  

Proct. 

Rob. Crayne again  
Rich. Maddock of Alls. Coll. 

Apr. 5.       
The junior of which Proctors renouncing his Office, because he was about to travel into remote parts, (in order to which he supplicated the Convocation that he might have a faculty granted to him to preach the Word of God throughout the whole World) Mr. Hen. Beaumond of Alls. Coll. became his Deputy.  

Bach. of Arts.  
Apr. 6. John Lloyd of New Coll. an excellent Grecian.  
June 29. Oxen Wood— See among the Masters of Arts an. 1584.  
July 7. Jeremy Corderoy of S. Alb. Hall.  

Oct. 25. 

Henry Parry  
Will. Fulbeck 

of C. C. Coll.       
The first of which two last, was afterwards B. of Worcester.  
Nou. 18. John Smith of S. John's Coll.— Both his names being common, I must therefore tell you, that he was the same who afterwards wrote on the Lord's Prayer and the Creed.  
Rich. Field of Magd. Hall was adm. on the same day.  
Dec. 16. Will. Pilsworth of Magd. Hall.— He was afterwards a Bishop in Ireland.  
Jan. 19 John Mil●ard.— See among the Master's 1584.  

Jan. 30. 

Richard Fowns  
William Sutton 

of Ch. Ch.       
Feb. 8. Anthony Shirley of Hart Hall.— He was afterwards of Alls. Coll. and a famous Traveller.  
21. Peter Allibond of Magd. Hall.  
Admitted 117.   

Bach. of Law.  
Apr. 6. Charles Pinner of New Coll.  
Not one besides him was this year admitted.   

Mast. of Arts.  
Apr. 12. Ralph Stanford of Oriel Coll.— In the year after, upon pretence of being weary of the Heresy (as he called it) practised in the University, he left his Fellowship of the said house, went to the English Seminary at Rheimes in France, where he was made a Priest.  
May. 29. Emanuel Barnes of Magd. Coll.— He was Son of Dr. Rich. Barnes Bishop of Durham, was afterwards D. of D. of the University of Basil in Germany, and eminent for his learning.  
July 4. John Davies of Gloucester Hall.  
8. Edward Hutchins of Brasn. Coll.  
Dec. 1. Thomas Pett of Mert. Coll.— He was expelled that house for not taking the Oath of Supremacy, and afterwards going into Ireland, became a Judge there.  

Jan. 3. 

Leonard Hutten  
Thomas Ravys  
John Howson 

of Ch. Ch.       
Admitted 89.   

Bach. of Phys.  
Jan. 15. Fabianus Niphus or Fabiand à Nipho an Italian.  
Not one besides him was this year admitted.   

Bach. of Diu.  

July 1. Rob. Hoveden Warden of Alls.  
5. Meredith Hanmer of C. C.  
7. John Vnderhyll Rector of Linc.  
Nou. 15. John Chardon of Exeter 

Coll.    
Dec. 11. Thom. White of Magd. Hall.  
March 22. John Thornborough of Magd. Coll.   
Adm. 11.   

Doct. of Law.  
June… Will. Prytherd (or Prichard) of Jesus Coll.  
For the degree of Doct. of Law supplicated Hen. Dithick Bach. of Law, Archdeacon of Carlisle, and now or lately Chancellor of the Diocese belonging thereunto; but whether he was admitted I cannot yet find. In his Chancellourship of Carlisle succeeded him George Dethick M. A. and in his Archdeaconry George Warewyck, but the time when, I cannot yet find; nor could my Friend Mr. Hugh Todd Canon of Carlisle tell me, though no man more than he is conversant among the Registers and Records of that Church.   

Doct. of Phys.  

July 11. 

John Barefoot of New Coll.  
Thomas Hall of Broadgates Hall.     
Will. Donne M. A. and Bach. of Phys. supplicated to be Doctor of the said Faculty in Feb. but was not admitted.— See in the next year.   

Doct. of Diu.  
July 1. Rob. Hoveden of Alls. Coll.— He accumulated.  
Thomas Spark of Magd. Coll. was admitted the same day.  
7. John Vnderhyll of Linc. Coll.— He accumulated.  
March 13. James Cottingtom of Trin. Coll.— He was afterwards (if not at this time) Archdeacon of Surrey and Chauntor of the Church at Wells. He died in the latter end of 1605, and was succeeded in his Archdeaconry by Dr. Arth. Lake, and in his Chauntorship by Rich. Boughton.  
Besides these, were four that supplicated for the said degree, among whom were Thomas Summaster of Alls. Coll. and John Chandler.   

Incorporations.  
July 11. Lancolot Andrew's 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 Diu. 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 Ch●shire Gent. was afterwards Parson of High Ongar in Essex, Doctor of Diu. and a Publisher of several Sermons; among which are (1) The godly Merchant, preached at Paul's 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 Death's Wound at Zutph●n, and after his death to Will. Davison one of the Secretaries of State, and at length to Rob. ● 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 Usher, 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 ● 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 Chapel 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 Alls. 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 Press 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. John's Coll.— He was made Bishop of Ely in 1627.  
10. Tim. Willies of S john's 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 Ambassador into Muscovy.  
Nou. 15. Ralph Winwood lately of S. John's, 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. Matthew 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. W●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 mentioned another Will Wygge or Wygges under the year 1566.  
Feb. 6. Edw Philipps of Broadgates' Hall.  
7. Rob. Abbot of Ba●l Coll.  
15. John King of Ch. Ch.  
Mar. 23. Hen. Perry of Gloc. Hall.  
Adm. 60.   

Bach. of Diu.  

July 5. John Garbrand of New  
10. Hen Robinson of Queens  
13. Thomas Holland of Balliol 

Coll.     

Feb. 19 

Dau. powel of Jesus Coll.  
Joh. Argall of Ch. Ch. Adm. 10.      

Doct. of Law.  
July 5. Will. Merick of New Coll. Chancellor of Bangor, etc.  
Clement Colmer of Brasn. Coll. Chancellor of the Diocese 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 King's Professor of Physic, and Physician to Queen Eliz.— He died 18 Apr. 1619, and was buried in New Coll. Chappel.  
21. Will. Donne of Exeter Coll.   

Doct. of Diu.  
July 5. William Souch or Zouch of Ch. Ch.— On the 14 of Feb. 1583, he became Chauntor of Salisbury on the resignation of Toby 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 Diu. 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. Mi●bourne D. D. who was installed in that Dignity on the 11 Dec. the same year. This Dr. Blague hath published certain Sermons; one of which was preached at the Charterhouse, on Psal. 1. ver. 1, 2. Lond. 1603. qu. and perhaps other things. He had a Son named John Blague who in his Father's life time was a Commoner of 〈◊〉 College.   

Incorporations.  
Tho the Incorporations of the Cantabrigians are this year omitted, yet there was a Supplicate made for one William Lewyn Doct. of the Civ. Law (sometimes, as it seems, of Christ's Coll. in Cambridge) to be incorporated, but whether he was so, I cannot yet discover. He was one of the ordinary Masters of the high Court of Chancery, Judge of the Prerogative Court of Canterbury, Chancellor of Rochester, Commissary of the Faculties, and one of her Majesty's high Commissioners for Causes Ecclesiastical. He died 15 April 1598., and was buried, not in his Chapel (belonging to his house) within the Church of Otteringden in Kent, which he in his life time designed, but in the Parish Church of S. Leonard in Sho●editch in the County of Middiesex. He left several Sons behind him, of whom Justinian was one, who was afterwards a Knight, and died about 8 July 162●. In the Judgeship of the Prerogative Court succeeded John Gibson LL. D.    

An. Dom. 1583.  
An. 25 Elizab.  
An. 26 Elizab.  
Chanc. the same, viz. Robert Earl of Leycester.  
Vicechanc. Thom. Thornton Bach. of Diu. and Canon of Ch. Ch. Jul. 11. He was actually created D. of D. the day following by Dr. Humphrey.  

Proct. 

Tho. Leyson of New Coll.  
Rich. Eedes of Ch. Ch.     
Elected in Convocation 10. Apr. at which time Edw. Hobie M. A. and Hen. Jervys Bac. of Diu. were Scrutators.  

Bach. of Arts.  
Apr. 30. Franc. Hicks or Hykes of St. Mary's Hall, now in great esteem for his knowledge in the Greek tongue.  

29. George Cranmer of C. C.  
Jun. 19 Hen. Airay of Qu. 

Coll.     
Dec. 16. John Pelling of Magd. Coll.— See among the Bach. of Diu. 1597.  
Hen. Jacob of St. Mary's Hall was admitted the same day.  
Jan. 17. Hen. Bright lately of Brasnose, now of Balliol, Coll.— See more among the Master's 1586.  

Feb. 5. 

John Dove  
Rich. Parry  
Nath. Torporley 

of Ch. Ch.       
Parry was afterwards a Bishop, and Torporley an eminent Mathematician.  

6. Charles Butler  
7. John Strading 

of Magd. Hall.     

28. Griffith powel of Jesus  
29. John Shaw of Queens 

Coll.     
Admitted 169.   

Mast. of Arts.  
Apr. ult. Sabin Chambers of Broadgates Hall.  
May 3. Henry Smith of Hart Hall, lately of Lincoln Coll.  

Jun. 1. 

Will. Tooker  
Rog. Hacket 

of New Coll.       

5. Edwin Sandys of C. C.  
Jul. 5. John Rider of Jesus 

Coll.     
Marmaduke Blaxton of Queen Coll. was admitted the same day— On the 25. Nou. 1615, he was collated to the Archdeaconry of the East-riding in Yorkshire, on the resignation of Rich. Remyngton; which place he resigning, being then a Dignitary in the Church of Durham, an. 1625, John Cousin Bach. of Diu. of Cambridge (who married his Daughter) was collated thereunto in Sept. the same year. This Dignity Dr. Cousin kept till he was promoted to the See of Durham, and then Clement Bretton succeeded an. 1660, and him Rob. Hitch D. D. an. 1662.  
Dec. 12. Rich. Martin of Bradgates' Hall.— He was not the same with Rich. Martin, who was afterwards Recorder of London, but another of little, or no, note.  
Mar. 6. Francis Godwin of Ch. Ch.  
Admitted 67.   

Bach. of Physic.  
Jul. 8. Thomas Leyson of New Coll. one of the Proctors of the University.  
Will. Clarkson supplicated for that Degree, but was not admitted.   

Bach. of Diu.  
Jun. 3. Martin H●ton of Ch. Church.  
27. Johan. Barnardus a Moravian, who had studied Divinity for 10 year in certain Academies in Germany, was then admitted Bach. of Diu.— He had studied also and had taken commons for about 3 years before this time, in University, Coll. and after he had left it, he went into Scotland to visit the Universities there.  
Dec. 17. William Wilkes of Mert. Coll.  
But two more besides the said three were admitted.   

Doct. of Law.  
July 9 Francis Bevans of Alls. Coll.— He was afterwards Principal of New Inn and of Jesus Coll. and Chancellor to Dr. Westphaling Bishop of Hereford; in which City dying in the beginning of 1602, was buried in the Cath. Ch. there.  
Octob. 14. Isaac Vpton of Magd. Coll.  
Mar. 5. Julius Caesar of Magd. Hall, was then admitted, and not incorporated.— In the beginning of 1581., he was created Doctor of the said Law in the University of Paris, and had Letters testimonial for it, under the Seal of that University, dated 22. Apr. 1581., wherein he is styled Julius Caesar alias Dalmarius, Dioc. London▪ in Anglia, filius excellentissimi in Art. & Med. Doctoris Caesaris Dalmarii, in Vniversitate Paris, etc. This Julius Caesar who was also Doctor of the Canon Law, was afterwards Master of the Requests, Judge of the Admiralty in the time of Qu. Elizabeth, a Knight, Chancellor and Under-Treasurer of the Exchequer, Master of the Rolls, and Privy Counsellor to K. James and K. Ch. 1. He gave way to fate at the Rolls in Chancery-lane, 16. April. 1636, and was buried in the Chancel of Great St. Ellens Church in Bishops-gate-street in London, near to the grave of his Father beforemention'd, Caesar Dalmare or Athelmer, who was buried there in 1569. See among the Bach. of Arts in 1575.  
☞ Not one Doct. of Phys. was admitted this year.   

Doct. of Diu.  
Apr. 11. David powel of Jesus Coll.— He was now in great repute for his profound knowledge in British antiquities.   

Incorporations.  
Jul. 9 Stephen Egerton M. of A. of Cambridge— This Person who was a zealous Puritan in his time, and Preacher at the Black Friars in London, wrote and published (1) A Lecture (taken by charactery) on Gen. 12. 17, 18, 19, 20. Lond. 1589. oct. (2) Brief method of catechising, wherein are handled these four things, etc. Lond. 1594. oct. etc. (3) Doctrine of subjection to God and the King, etc. Lond. 1616. oct. (4) Description of uncomeliness, on Prov. 11. vers. 12. (5) The boaring of the Ear; containing a discourse of our preparation before hearing, and of our demeanour in hearing, on Luke 8. 18. Lond. 1623. oct. (6) Comforts to strengthen the weak in faith. Printed 1630. oct. He also enlarged the second edition of a book entit. A help to true happiness, or a brief and learned exposition of the main and fundamental points of Christian Religion. written by Paul Baine sometimes Preacher of the word at St. Andrews in Cambridge. Printed in tw. and also set forth The practice of Christianity, or an Epitome of Mr. Roger's seven treatises, made by Nich. Byfield; with other things which I have not yet seen. He died in 1621. or thereabouts.  
Dec. 16. Rich. Cox Bach. of Arts of Christ's Coll. in Cambridge— In the year following he proceeded M. of A. as a member of Gloucester Hall, and is the same Rich. Cox as it seems, who wrote and published A Catechism. Lond. 1591. oct. and if I am not mistaken one, or more, Sermons.   

Creations.  
Apr…. Marmaduke Middleton Bishop of St. David, and much deserving of the Church of Ireland, was actually created Doct. of Diu. of Dr. Humphrey and both the Proctors.  
Jul. 12. Thom. Thornton Vicechanc. of this University, Canon of Ch. Church in Oxon. of Worcester and Hereford, of which last place he was also Chauntor, and about this time Master of Ledbury Hospital in Herefordshire, was actually created D. of D.— He surrendered up his last breath on the 15. April an. 1629. aged 88 and was buried on the twentieth day of the same month in the Chancel of the Parish Church of Ledbury. Over his grave was a handsome monument set up for him in the North wall of the Chancel, with a large inscription thereon; wherein 'tis said that he was born at Harrew on the Hill in Middlesex, that he was purioris Latini Sermonis Author primarius, that he was a benefactor to the poor People of Ledbury Hospital, that he adorned and repaired the Library at Hereford, and enriched it with books, that he was a common refuge for young poor Scholars of great hopes and parts, and tutor to Sir Philip Sidney when he was of Ch. Ch. etc.— To which I add, that he was also Tutor to the Learned Will. Camden Clarenceaux K. of Arms.    

An. Dom. 1584.  
An. 26 Elizab.  
An. 27 Elizab.  
Chanc. the same.  
Vicechanc. John Vnderhyll D. D. Rector of Linc. Coll. Jul. 16.  

Proct. 

Thom. Smith of Ch. Ch.  
Rich. Mercer of Exet. Coll. 

Apr. 29.       

Bach. of Arts.  
Nou. 12. Francis Bradshaw of Magd. Coll— See among the Doctors of Diu. 1607.  
28. Richard Latewar of St. John Coll.  
Feb. 1. Hen. Salesbury of St. Alb. Hall.— Since the life or character of this Person was printed, which you may see in p. 226. num. 265. I find that he was of the Family of the Salesburies' of Dolbelider (in Denbighshire) and that after Joh. David Rhese (whom he styles Vir ingenio felix— literarum ac linguarum cognitione insignis) had published his Cambro— Brytannicae institutiones & rudimenta, he wrote and published Grammatica Britannica in usum linguae studiosorum Juccinctâ methodo & perspicuitate facili conscriptae. Lond. 1593. oct. dedic. to Henry Earl of Pembroke; which is all I know of him yet, only that he was living at Denbigh in that year.  
9 John Randall of Trinity, afterwards of Lincoln, Coll.  
Mar. 15. Sim. wastel of Qu. Coll.  
Admitted 93, or thereabouts.   

Bach. of Law.  
Apr. 31. John Favour of New Coll.  
Jul. 10. Pet. V●erheile sometimes written Varahi●ius Burgensis. Belga; which is all I know of him.  
Rich. Meredith of New Coll. did supplicate for the said Degree. Jul. 1. but was not admitted.— See among the Bach. of Divinity 1606.  
Admitted 4.   

Mast. of Arts.  
May 25. John Philipps of St. Mary's Hall.— He was the same who took the Degree of Bach. of A. 1579, and the same, as it seems, who was afterwards Bishop of the Isle of Man.  
30. Will. Fulbeck of Gloucester Hall, lately of C. C. Coll.  
June 2. Rich. Field of Magd. Hall.  
3. Jerem. Corderoy lately of St. Alb. Hall.  
Jun. 22. John Milward of Broadgates' Hall, lately of Ch. Ch.— One John Milward D. D. Chapl. to K. Jam. 1. was, among other things Author of jacob's great day of trouble and deliverance, Serm. at Paul's cross 5. Aug. 1607, upon his Maj. deliverance from Gowries treasons, on Jerem. 30. 7. Lond. 1610. qu. Whether he be the same with John Milward M. of A. who was a Derbysh. Man born, I know not. He that was D. D. and an Author, died on the Kal. of Aug. 1609, and the next year the Sermon was published by his Brother Matthew Milward.  
Jul. 6. Owen Wood of Jesus Coll.— He was afterwards made Dean of Armagh in Ireland, (by the favour, as I suppose, of Rob. E. of Essex while he was a Lieutenant of that Kingdom, in whose treasons he was engaged 1600) and an especial benefactor to his College. One of both his names was a practitioner in Physic, and wrote An alphabetical book of Physical secrets, as also A small treatise of the judgement of Urines: Both printed at Lond. 1632. and 39 oct.  
Jul. 7. Rob. Wright of Trin. Coll.  
Jan. 18. Tho. Savile of Merton Coll.— This Person who was younger Brother to Sir Hen. Savile, did afterwards travel into various Countries beyond the Seas, whereby he improved himself much in several sorts of learning. After his return, he was by his Brother's endeavours made Fellow of Eton Coll. near Windsor; where being noted for his excellencies, caused Rich. Montague Fellow of that house to 
a In his preface to his Diatribe upon the first part of the Hist. of Tithes.  number him among the great Philologers of this nation, and to be equal with the learned Camden, unfortunate Hen. Cuffe, Rich. Thompson, old Andr. Downes, etc. to all whom he was well known especially to the first, as by many learned Letters written between them, appears. This Tho. Savile died in his Proctorship of the University 12. Jan. 1592., and was buried in the choir of the Church or Chapel of Merton College, where I find 
b Reg. second. Act. Coll. Mert. p. 129.  this character of him.— Fuit Sidus lucidissimum, qui apud suos & exteros literarum & virtutis fama ac morum urbanitate perce●ebris, etc. I find another (I cannot say the same) Thom. Sauble, whom Camden calls 
c In his preliminary discourse to the Brigant●s, alias Yorkshire.  his right learned friend, an. 1582. and a third who writes himself Gentleman, Author of (1) The Prisoner's conference, handled by way of dialogue between a Knight and a Gentleman being abridged of their liberty. Lond. 1605. oct. (2) The raising of them that are fallen, etc. Lond. 1606. qu.  
Jan. 20. John Lloyd of New Coll.  
Feb. 20. Will. Sutt●n of Ch. Ch.  
Admitted 87.   

Bach. of Diu.  
May 10. Richard Lewes— He was Author of a Sermon preached at Paul's Cross, intit. Isaac his testament, etc. on Gen. 21. ver. 1. to the 10th. Oxon. 1594. oct. dedicated to Sir Hen. unton of Wadley in Berks. Knight, and no doubt of others, but such I have not yet seen.  
Jun. 22. John Prime of New Coll.  
Jul. 6. Rich. Eedes of Ch. Ch.  
15. Rob. Cook of Brasn. Coll.  
Feb. 1. Miles Smith of Ch. Ch.  
Admitted 13.   

Doct. of Law.  
Mar. 17. John Drewry of Linc. Coll.— In 1592., he succeeded Dr. John Kennall in the Archdeaconry of Oxford, and dying in the Cathedral close at Chichester (where he had a Dignity) 9 June 1614, was succeeded by William Bridges Son of Dr. Bridges Bishop of Oxon, as I shall elsewhere tell you. This Dr. John Drewry was near of kin (if not Son) to Will. Drewry Doct. of the Civil Law and Commissary or Master of the Prerogative Court of Canterbury, who died in the latter end of 1589, and to Sir Will. Drewry of West●n in Oxfordshire Knight, sometimes Lord Justice of Ireland, who died 1579.  
☞ Not one Doct. of Phys. was admitted this year.   

Doct. of Diu.  
Jul. 6. John Walsall of Ch. Ch.  
15. Rob. Chaloner of the same house, a compounder— In 1589, he was installed Canon of Windsor, being then double beneficed at least, and though not eminently learned, yet he was a promoter and encourager of it by founding a Free-school at Agmondesham commonly called Amersam in Bucks. and by giving 20 l. per an. for the maintenance of a Divinity Lecture in Ch. Ch. or for three poor Scholars for their exhibition to be chosen out of Amersam, (of which place he was Rector) or out of Goldesborough or Knaresborough in Yorkshire, at one of which places he was, as 'tis said, born.  
Jul. 15. Thom. Holland of Ball. Coll.— He was afterwards the learned Professor of the King's Lecture of Diu.  
Hen. Ledsham of Mert▪ Coll. (a compounder) was admitted the same day.  
March. 8. Tho. White of Magd. hall.— He was afterwards Canon of Ch. Ch.  
This year Camillus Cardonius a Neapolitan, Son of a Baron, and a Student in Gloucester hall aged 40, did sue after a Degree to be conferred upon him, but in what faculty, it appears not.   

Incorporations.  
May…Rich. Vaughan M. A. of Cambridge.— He was a Caerna●vanshire Man born, educated in St. John's Coll. in Cambr. and afterwards was successively Bishop of Bangor, Chester, and London: During which time he was accounted an excellent Preacher and a pious liver.  
Jul. 14. Thom. Bradd●ck M. A. of the said University— He was Fellow of Christ's Coll. and afterward Bach. of Divinity, and translator of Jewell's Defence of the Apology, as I have told you in John Jewel among the Writers, an. 1571.  
Nathaniel Cole M. A. of Cambr. was incorporated the same day— He was afterwards Proctor of the said University, Minister of Much Parrington near Harlow in Essex, and at length of St. leonard's Bromley on the backside of Stratford-bow in Middlesex. He hath published. (1) The godly Man's assurance of his own Salvation. Lond. 1615. qu. (2) Preservatives against sin, or bow to live and not sin, etc. Lond. 1618. qu. (3) The Christians welcome to the Court of Heaven, etc. a Sermon. Lond. 1625. qu. and other things which I have not seen.  
Edw. Scambler M. A. of the same University, was incorporated on the same day— One E. Schambler Vicar of R●e in Sussex and a member of Peter house in Cambr. wrote and published A Medicine proved for a desperate conscience, printed at Lond. in oct. whether written by Edward Scambler M. of A. or Edmund Scambler who was afterwards Bishop of Peterborough and Norwich, I cannot tell. Quaere.  
Andrew Willet M. of A. of Cambr. was also then (Jul. 14.) incorporated, being in a congregation after the conclusion of the Act— He was born in Ely in Cambridgshire, educated in Christ's Coll. succeeded his Father Mr. Thom. Willet in a Prebendship of Ely, and in the Parsonage of Barley in Hertfordshire, published divers books, the titles of most of which you may see in the Bodleian or Oxford Catalogue, and dying 4. Dec. 1621. was buried in the Chancel of the Church at Barley.    

An. Dom. 1585.  
An. 27 Elizab.  
An. 28 Elizab.  
Chanc. the same, viz. Robert Earl of Leycester, who going into the Low Countries this year, deputed Sir Tho. Bromley Knight, Lord Chanc. of England to execute the office of Chancellor of the University, 5. Decemb.  
Vicechanc. Edmund Lilye D. D. Master of Balliol College. July 16.  

Proct. 

Tho. Singleton of Br. Coll.  
John Bennet of Ch. Ch. 

Apr. 21.       

Bach. of Music.  
June 26. Nathaniel Giles— See more of him in an. 1622. He was Father to Nath. Giles D. D. whom I shall mention under the year 1625.  
Jul. 14. Matthew Godwyn— whether he hath published any matters relating to the fac. of Music, I know not.   

Bach. of Arts.  
Jun. 17. Alexander Cook of Brasnose, afterwards of University, College.  
Oct. 27. Hen. Wilkinson of Queens Coll.— He was afterwards Fellow of Mert. Coll. and Author of The Debt-book, etc.  
Feb. 1. Rich. Eton of Lincoln Coll.— See among the Bachelaurs of Divinity in 1599  
Admitted 128. or thereabouts.   

Mast. of Arts.  

Ap. 3. 

Hen Parry of C. C. Coll.  
Rich. Fownes of Ch. Ch.     

Jun. 3. Will. Hubbocke of C. C.  
10. John Smith of St. John's  
14. George Carleton of Merton 

Coll.     
Jul. 6. Peter Allibond of Magd. hall.  

8. Richard Parks of Brasn.  
Dec. 17. George Abbot of Ball. 

Coll.     
Admitted 67.   

Bach. of Diu.  
June 21. Erasmus Webbe of Alls. Coll.— In 1589, he was made Archdeacon of Buckingham, in the place of him, who if I mistake not, succeeded in that Dignity one Richard Porter, deprived about 1560, and on the 30. Sept. 1590., he was installed Canon of Windsor in the place of William King Bach. of Diu. and Prebendary of Canterbury deceased. He died 24. March 1613, and was buried at Windsor; whereupon his Archdeaconry was bestowed on Rob. newel Bacurius (afterwards D.) of Diu. and his Cano●●y on Dr. Tho. Sheafe of Cambridge.  
Jun. 21. Thom. Pie of Merton Coll.  
Admitted 10.   

Doct. of Law.  
July 13. Gabriel Harvey M. of A. of Cambridge (where he obtained his grace this year to proceed in the Civil Law) was then admitted Doctor of the Civ. Law here.— He performed certain exercise in this University for the said Degree, and stood in the Act to complete it, 11. Jul. 1586. This Person who made a great noise in his time, was born at Saffron-walden in Essex, and though his Father was a Rope-maker as Thom. Nash a great scoffer, and his Antagonist tells 
a 〈…〉.  us, yet he had rich kindred and was nearly allied to Sir Thom. Smith the great Statesman in Qu. Elizabeth's Reign. His first Academical breeding was in Christ's Coll. in Cambridge, where, in short time, he made great proficiency to the wonder and amazement of his Tutor. Afterwards he became Fellow of Trinity hall, and so excellent and learned an Orator and Poet, that books of those faculties were dedicated to him. Afterwards he was Proctor of that University, and at elder years he applied his studies to Astrology, wherein he became eminent, and wrote, as 'tis said, Almanacs, much in esteem in the Reign of Qu. Elizabeth. His other works are (1) Rhetor, sive 2. dierum oratio de natura, arte & exercitatione Rhetorica. Lond. 1577. qu. (2) Ciceronianus, vel oratio post reditum, habita Cantabrigiae ad suos auditores. Lond. 1577. qu. (3) XAIPE, vel gratulationum Valdenensium libri quatuor. Lond. 1578. qu. in Lat. vers. (4) Smithus, vel Musarum Lachrymae, pro obitu honoratiss. viri, etc. Thomae Smith Eq. aur. Majestatisque regiae Secretarii. Lond. 1578. qu. (5) A new letter of notable contents: with a strange sonnet entitled Gorgon. Lond. 1593. qu. (6) Pierces supererogation: or, a new praise of the old ass. A preparative to certain larger discourses, entit. Nashes S. fame. Lond. 1593. qu. with Letters and Sonnets before and after the said book, made upon the Author Harvey by several Poets of that time (7) An advertisement for Pap-hatchet, and Martin Marprelate; printed with the former book, with other things, wherein he tramples much upon Rob. Green the Poet, which I have not yet seen. This Dr. Gab. Harvey was esteemed an ingenious Man and an excellent Scholar, but 'twas his, and his Brother Rich. Harvey's ill luck to fall into the hands of that noted and restless buffoon Tom. Nash in his Apology of Pierce penniless, and Have with you to Saffron-walden. In both which books, they are loaden with all the scurrilities imaginable, as being according to Tom's words, false prophets, weather-wizards, Fortune-tellers, Poets, Philosophers, Orators, Historiographers, Mountebanks, Ballad-makers, etc. The reader is to know that 'twas not this Gabriel Harvey that made a raised causey of three miles long near to Cambridge, as the learned Camden 
b In Britan. in Le●s.  tells us, but Henr. Harvey LL. D. Master of Trinity hall, Son of Rob. Harvey of Stradbroke in Suffolk; which Henry died in the Wintertime in 1584., leaving behind him a Nephew and Heir called Lewes Harvey of Eye in the said County, Father of Robert Harvey Fellow of the said hall of Trinity, Doctor of the Laws of Cambridge and Doct. of Physic of Milan. In my searches I find one Gabriel Harvey LL. D. of Saffron-walden in Essex to die unmarried in 1630 (6. Car. 1.) which, if the same with him beforementioned, who was the Writer (as I think he was) then was he at least 85 years of age when he died, if not 90.   

Doct. of Physic.  
Jul. 8. Christopher Atkinson of Trin. Coll.  
Richard Radcliff lately of Merton Coll. now Principal of St. Alban hall was admitted the same day.— He died 18. Jan. 1599, after he had practised his faculty many years in this University, and was buried in the Church of St. Peter in the East, in Oxon.   

Doct. of Diu.  
Jun. 21. Hen. Gervace of Merton Coll.  
Jun…. Rob. Condall or Cundall of Brasn. Coll. a Compounder.— In 1577, he was made Archdeacon of Huntingdon in the place of Dr. Joh. Bullyngham, but who succeeded him in that Dignity, I know not, unless Matthew Gifford M. A. who occurs Archdeacon 1612.  
Jun….. Daniel Bernard Canon of Ch. Ch.— He was Son of Tho. Bernard mentioned among the Bach. of Divinity, an. 1566. and dying about the Month of Sept. 1588. was buried in the choir belonging to the Cathedral of Ch. Ch. I have seen a Lat. Sermon of his entit. De obedientia erga Principes & Prefectos', in Tit. 2. 3. printed 1587. which is all, I presume, that he hath published.  
Jun…. John Rainolds of C. C. Coll.  
Jun…. Martin Heton Canon of Ch. Ch.— He was afterwards Bishop of Ely.  
Jun…. Rob. Rolls of New Coll. a Compounder.  
William Wilkes of Merton Coll. was admitted in the same month.  
Jul. 14. Will. powel of Magd. Coll.— In 1578 he was made reader of Divinity in St. Paul's Cath. Ch. and was afterwards Archdeacon of Bath, and Canon resident. of Wells. He died on the 12. of March, or thereabouts, an. 1612. and was buried in the choir of the Cath. Ch. at Wells; whereupon Tim. Rivett or Revet D. D. succeeded him in his Archdeaconry.   

Incorporations.  
Jul. 2. James Summers who was made M. of A. of St. Andrews University in Scotland, an. 1565, was incorporated in the same Degree.— Tho. Dempster in his Scotorum scriptorum nomenclatura, at the end of his Apparatus ad Historiam Scoticam, doth make no mention of this Jam. Summer (born at Edinburgh) as a Writer, though he was a learned Man; and therefore I can say no more of him only this, that he living many years in Oxon near to Magd Coll. died there, and was buried in the Church of St. Peter in the East, 30. Aug. 1610.  
Jul. 11. John Dod M. of A. of Cambridge— He was a Cheshire Man born, educated in Jesus Coll. in that University, afterwards a learned and godly Divine, successively Minister of Hanwell in Oxfordshire, Fenny-Drayton in Leycestershire, Canons Ashby and Fausley in Northamptonshire, though for a time 
c Tho. Fuller in 〈◊〉 of English in C●●shire.  silenced in each of them. He is commonly called the Decalogist, as having, with Rob. Cleaver another Puritan, written An exposition on the ten commandments. He hath also published several Sermons, as the Oxford Catalogue informs you, and dying at Fausley in 1645 aged 86 was there buried.  
Philemon Holland M. of A. of the said University, was incorporated on the same day— He was now, or at least lately, of Trinity Coll. in that University, was afterwards Doct. of Physic and Schoolmaster for many years in the City of Coventry, and esteemed the Translator general of his age. He died 9 Febr. aged 85, an. Dom. 1636. and was buried in the choir of the great Church at Coventry. Among the translations which he made, Camden's Britannia was one, wherein he hath put many things that were not written by Camden.  
John Harrison M. A. lately of Kings Coll. in the said University, was incorporated the same day— In 1581. he became the chief Master of St. Paul's School, in London, being then a great Antiquary for Coins. One of both his names was made Archdeacon of Stow in the place of John Aylmer or Elmer deprived, an. 1554.  
Rob. Williamson Bach. of Diu. of the same Uniu. was incorporated on the same day.  
One John Nowell Doct. of Phys. of Leyden did supplicate to be incorporated, 27. June, but whether he had his option, it appears not.    

An. Dom. 1586.  
An. 28 Elizab.  
An. 29 Elizab.  
Chanc. the same, with his Deputy Sir Tho. Bromley Knight, (styled Chancellor also) July 30.  
Vicechanc. Daniel Bernard D. D. Canon of Ch. Ch. nominated by the Deputy-chancellour (whose Chaplain he was) Jul. 8.  

Proct. 

Will. Watkinson of Ch. Ch.  
Giles Tomson of Alls. Coll. 

Apr. 14.       

Bach. of Music.  
July 9 John Bull who had practised the ●ac. of Music for 14 years was then admitted Bach. of Music.— This Person who had 2 most prodigious hand on the Organ and was famous throughout the religious world for his Church Music, (the words of some of which are 
d See in a book intit. 〈…〉 Services and Anthems usually sung in the Cathedra's and 〈…〉 in the 〈…〉 England Collected by J●●. Coff●rd— Lond. 1663. p. 56. 137. 〈◊〉. &c:  extant) had been trained up under an excellent Master named Blithman Organist of Qu. Elizabeth's Chapel, who died much lamented in 1591. This Blithman perceiving that he had a natural genie to the faculty, spared neither time nor labour to advance it to the utmost. So that in short time he being more than Master of it, which he showed by his most admirable compositions, played and sung in many Churches beyond the Seas, as well as at home, he took occasion to go incognito into France and Germany. At length hearing of a famous Musician belonging to a certain Cathedral, (at St. Omer as I have heard) he applied himself as a Novice to him to learn something of his faculty, and to see and admire his works. This Musician, after some discourse had passed between them, conducted Bull to a Vestry, or Music School joining to the Cathedral, and showed to him a Lesson or Song of forty parts, and then made a vaunting challenge to any Person in the world to add one more part to them, supposing it to be so complete and full, that it was impossible for any mortal Man to correct, or add to, it. Bull thereupon desiring the use of Ink and ruled paper, (such as we call Musical Paper) prayed the Musician to lock him up in the said School for 2 or 3 hours. Which being done, not without great disdain by the Musician, Bull in that time, or less, added forty more parts to the said Lesson or Song. The Musician thereupon being called in, he viewed it, tried it, and retried it. At length he burst out into a great ecstasy, and swore by the great God that he that added those 40 parts, must either be the Devil or Dr. Bull etc. Whereupon Bull making himself known, the Musician fell down and adored him. Afterwards continuing there and in those parts for a time, became so much admired, that he was courted to accept of any place or preferment suitable to his profession, either within the Dominions of the Emperor, King of France, or Spain. But the tidings of these transactions coming to the English Court, Qu. Elizabeth commanded him home. See more of him under the year 1592.  
John Mundy another eminent Musician, now, or after, one of the Organists of her Majesty's Chapel, was admitted Bachelaur also the same day.— See more of him in 1624. One Will. Mundy was also a noted Musician and hath composed several divine Services and Anthems, but him I find not, to be graduated in this University, or elsewhere.  
One Benjam. Hamm a Student of Music supplicated to be Bac. of that fac. in January; which was granted conditionally that he compose a choral hymn of eight parts before the Passover following. About the same time, he supplicated for the Degree of Bach. of Arts, which was denied.   

Bach. of Arts.  
Jun. 10. Charles Sonibanke of Ch. Ch.— See among the Doct. of Diu. 1607.  
Jul. 13. Rich, Middleton of Jesus Coll.— This Person who took no other Degree in this University, I take to be the same with Rich. Middleton, Son of Marmaduke Middleton Bishop of St. David, and about this time Archdeacon of Cardigan. One Rich. Middleton Chaplain to Charles Prince of Wales, hath written and published (1) The Key of David. Lond. 1619. in a thick tw. Before which is his picture with a ruff, and a great beard. (2) The heavenly progress. Lond. 1617. in tw. (3) The card and compass of life containing many passages fit for these times, etc. Lond. 1613. oct. Whether this Rich. Middleton the Writer, be the same with Rich. Middleton the Bach. of Arts and Archdeacon of Cardigan, I cannot well tell. Quare.  
Oct. 11. Rowland Searchfield of St. John's Coll.— He was afterwards Bish. of Bristol.  
12. Edw. Gee lately of Merton, now of Linc. Coll.  

Oct. 12. 

Rich. Brett  
Christop. Sutton 

of Linc.      
19 John Budden of Trin.  
Nou. 9 Alex. Gill of C. C. 

Coll.     
The last was the Senior of both his names, and afterwards Master of St. Paul's School.  
D●cemb. 14. Sam. Slade— See among the M. of A. 1593.  
Dec. 17. John Sanford of B●llio●, afterwards of Magd. Coll.  
Jan. 27. Franc. Mason— Afterwards worthily characterized to be Vindex Ecclesiae Anglicane.  
30. Nich. Fuller of Hart hall.  

Feb. 15. 

Lew. Thomas  
Edw. Bree-word 

of Bras. Coll.       
John Day of St. Alb. hall, afterwards of Oriel Coll. was admitted the same day.  
16. Anthony Benn of Broadgates' hall— He was afterwards Recorder of London and a Knight.  
17. Bernard. Adam's of Trin. Coll.— He was afterwards Bishop of Limrick in Ireland.  
23. Tho. Clerk of Broadgates' hall— Whether this Person, who was a Warwick hire Man born, was the same Tho. Clerk who was a Seminary Priest of the Coll. at Rheimes, but afterwards returned to the Church of England, and recanted in a Sermon at Paul's Cross, 1. Jul. 1593. (which Sermon was printed at London 1594. in oct.) or the same Tho. Clerk who wrote The life and death of M. Pet. Kempe (printed about the same time) I know not. See another Tho. Clerk who was admitted Bach. of Arts in 1566.  
Admitted 179.   

Mast. of Arts.  
Apr. 20. John Buckridge of St. John's Coll.  
Jan. 4. Rich. Parry of Ch. Ch.  
Laur. Keimis of Ball. Coll. was adm. the same day.— This Keimis who was a Wilts. Man born became afterwards companion in travel and counsellor in design to the renowned Knight Sir Walt. Raleigh; but whether he gave any assistance to the composure of his history, is very doubtful. In 1595 when that Knight undertook to gain a golden mine in Guiana, this Keimis was one of his chief Captains and Conductors in that expedition, but being unfortunate in his undertake, and therefore very much blamed by Raleigh, he, out of a deep reluctancy, pistoled 
a 〈…〉 1. written by Arth. Wilson— Lond. 1653.  himself in his Cabin in Raleighs Ship, in the Summer time in 1618., after he had viewed, and travelled through, the remotest parts of the world.  
Jun. 15. Henry Airay of Queens Coll.  
Jul. 6. Henry Penry lately of Cambridge, now of St. Alban hall.  
8. Hen. Jacob of St. Mary's hall.  
Jan. 27 Henry Bright of Ball. Coll.— He was afterwards Master of the King's School at Worcester (in which City he was born) for 40 years together, and Prebendary of the Church there for the last 7 years of his life. He had a most excellent faculty in instructing youths, in Lat. Gr. and Hebrew, most of which, were afterwards sent to the Universities, where they proved eminent to emulation. He was also an excellent Preacher, was resorted to far and near, and dying 4. March 1626. was buried in the Cath. Ch. at Worcester. The posterity of this Hen. Bright do live now in gentile fashion in Worcestershir.  
Mar. 16. John Dove of Ch. Ch.  
Admitted 65. or thereabouts.   

Bach. of Diu.  
Jul. 4. W. ●. Massy of Brasn. Coll.— He was born in Cheshire, and was at this time 〈◊〉 to Sir Edm. Trafford of Trafford in Lancashire. He hath published A Sermon preached at Trafford in Lancashire at the marriage of a Daughter of Sir Edm. Trafford Knight 6. Sept. 1586, on Psal. 128. 1. 2. Oxon. 1586. oct. Two years alter he was removed from his Fellowship, and perhaps did publish other things.  
Will. Leigh of Brasn. Coll. was adm. the same day.  
Admitted 8.   

Doct. of Law.  
Jul. 4. Anthony Blencow Provost of Oriel Coll.  
Not one besides him was this year admitted.  
☞ Not one Doct. of Phys. was admitted this year.   

Doct. of Diu.  
Apr. 14. John Chardon of Exeter Coll.  
Jul. 9 Nich. Balgay of Magd. Coll.— In 1583 he became Prebendary of Netherhaven in the Church of Salisbury, and in May 1589 Subdean thereof in the place of Tho. Dillworth. Both which Dignities he resigning to the famous Mr. Rich. Hooker, he became Master of the Temple in the said Mr. Hooker's place 1591.   

Incorporations.  
Jul. 11. Laurence Staunton M. of A. of Cambridge.— In 1601 he succeeded Dr. Will. Cole in the Deanery of Lincoln, which dignity he keeping till 1613, was then succeeded by Roger Parker D. D. after he had been 14 years Chantor of the Church there. The said Dr. Parker died 29. Aug. 1629 aged 71. and was buried in the Cath. Ch. at Lincoln; whereupon his Deanery was bestowed on one Anth. Topham.  
Simon Robson M. of A. of the said University, was incorporated on the same day— In the year 1598. the said Robson being then D. D. succeeded Dr. Anth. Watson in the Deanery of Bristol, and dying in May or June 1617. was buried in St. Augustine's Church there; whereupon Dr. Edw. Chetwind was elected Dean in his place, 16. of June the same year.  
Thom. Atkinson Bach. of Diu. of Cambr. was incorporated also the same day— He was afterwards D. of D. Subdean of St. Paul's Cathedral, and died in Apr. 1616.  
Besides him, were 13 Bachelaurs of Diu. of Cambr. incorporated, of whom I know nothing as yet.  
There was also a supplicate made in the house of Congregation that Thom. Legg Doctor of the Civ. Law of Cambr. might be incorporated, but whether he was really so, I find not— He was a Norwich Man born, was first of Trinity, and afterwards of Jesus, College in Cambridge: in both which houses he had the name and repute of one of the best in England for composing Tragedies, witness his Destruction of Jerusalem, and Life of King Rich. 3. which last was acted with great applause in that University. He was afterwards made the second Master of Gonvill and Caius Coll. was a Doctor in the Court of Arches, one of the Masters of the Chancery, the King's Law Professor, and twice Vicechanc. of Cambridge. He died in July 1607. aged 72, and was buried, as I conceive, in the Chap. belonging to the said Coll. to which he was a benefactor.    

An. Dom. 1587.  
An. 29 Elizab.  
An. 30 Elizab.  
Chanc. the same.  
Vicechanc. Francis Willys D. D. constituted by the Chancellor now in England, July 17. on which day he was admitted D. of D.  

Proct. 

George Dale of Oriel Coll.  
John Harmar of New Coll. 

Apr. 26.       

Bach. of Music.  
Oct. 20. Rob. Stevenson who had studied the faculty of Music 33 years, was then admitted Bach. of Music— On the same day he was admitted Bach. of Arts, but did not complete that Degree by Determination in the Lent following, which is all I know of him.   

Bach. of Arts.  
May 31. Will. Westerman of Gloc. hall.  
Jun. 27. Rich. Jefferay of Magd. Coll.— See among the Master's 1590.  

28. 

John Aglionby  
Rich. Crackanthorpe 

of Qu. Coll.       
Nou. 7. John Vicars of Magd. Coll. Quaere.— One of both his names of Broadgates' hall was admitted M. of A. Jul. 1. this year.  

Nou. 29. 

Tho. Hutton  
Hen. Price 

of St. Jo. Coll.       
On the eleventh of March Clement edmond's of Alls. Coll. did supplicate for the said Degree, but was not admitted this year.  
Admitted 117.   

Bach. of Law.  
Jun. 15. Henry Marten of New Coll.— He is to be mentioned at large among the Writers in the 2. vol. of this work.  
Two more were admitted to, and three that supplicated for, the said Degree.   

Mast. of Arts.  
June 22. Sam. Fox of Magd. Coll.— See at the end of John Fox among the Writers, under the year 1587.  
Ralph Winwood of Magd. Coll. was admitted the same day.— This memorable person who was the Son of Richard Son of Lewis, Winwood sometimes Secretary to Charles Brandon Duke of Suffolk, was born at Ainhoe in Northamptonshire, elected probationer Fellow of Magd. Coll. an. 1582, and in 1590. took the degree of Bach. of Civ. Law. See more in that year.  
Rob. Tinley of Magd. Coll. was admitted the same day.  
June 28. Charles Butler of Magd. Coll.— He was afterwards publicly known by a book of Rhetoric that he published, and other things.  
Adm. 69.   

Bach. of Diu.  
July 6. Rich. Potter of Trin. Coll.— He was afterwards Prebendary of Worcester, and Father of an ingenious Son named Francis, Author of the Interpretation of 666, etc. whom I shall remember among the Writers, under the year 1678.  
Will. Watkinson of Ch. Ch. was admitted the same day.  
17. Francis Willys of S. John's Coll.— See among the Doct. of Diu. this year.  
Adm. 7.   

Doct. of Law.  
June 17. Will. Wood of Alls. Coll.— This eminent Civilian died in the beginning of the year 1605, and was buried in the Chapel of Tallin in the Isle of Anglesey, in which Isle he was born, leaving Issue behind him William, and Owen, Wood etc.  
Feb. 13. Francis James of Alls. Coll.— He was younger Brother to Dr. Will. James Bishop of Durham, was Chancellor of the Diocese of Wells and Bristol, and afterwards of London, one of the Masters of the Chancery, and Judge of the Court of Audience of Canterbury. He died in the beginning of 1616, and was buried, I presume, according to his Will, in the Parish Church of Barrow in Somersetshire, in the upper end of that Isle, which was formerly the Church or Oratory for the Nuns, sometimes living at that place, and is now belonging and appertaining to the Lord of the Manor of Minchin-Barrow.  
Will. Bird of Alls. Coll. was admitted, or licenced, the same day.— This person who was Son of Will. Bird of Walden in Essex, was afterwards principal Official and Dean of the Arches, a Knight, and Judge of the Prerogative Court of Canterbury, in the place, as I conceive, of Sir John Bennet Knight. He died without issue, and was buried in Ch. Ch. within Newgate in London, 5 Sept. 1624., leaving behind him a Nephew of both his names, whom I shall mention in 1622.  
☞ Not one Doctor of Physic was admitted this year.   

Doct. of Diu.  
July 17. Francis Willys Canon of Bristol (of which City he was a Native) and Precedent of S. John's Coll.— On the eleventh of June this year, he was installed Dean of Worcester, having that Dignity conferred upon him in the year before, on the death of Dr. Tho. Wilson, and dying 29 Oct. 1596, was buried in a little Isle joining to the south side of the Choir of the Cath. Church at Worcester, near to the grave and monument of Dr. Wilson before-mentioned. In his Presidentship, which he resigned in 1590., succeeded Ralph Huchenson, and in his Deanery Dr. Rich. Eedes of Ch. Ch. as I have elsewhere told you.    

An. Dom. 1588.  
An. 30 Eliz.  
An. 31 Eliz.  
Chanc. Robert Earl of Leycester, who dying 4 Sept. Sir Christop. Hatton Knight of the Garter and Lord Chancellor of England, was by the major part of the Academians elected into his place on the twentieth day of the same month. In the vacancy between Death and Election, there was no Cancellarius natus as formerly, only the Vicechanc. this year mentioned, who before had been nominated by the Earl of Leycester. It is to be noted, that at the Election of Hatton, Robert Earl of Essex a popular and ambitious person, was his Competitor, (having been incorporated M. of A. in April going before, as I shall anon tell you) thinking, that if he might have obtained the said place of Chancellor, he might be as powerful among the Gownsmen, as among the Gentlemen of the Sword. But he being generally looked upon as a great Patron of the puritannical Party, and consequently, if he had obtained it, he might do as much mischief in his Office, as the Earl of Leycester had done before, he was therefore, (especially upon the commendations to the University of Hatton by Dr. Whitgift Archb. of Canterbury) laid aside.  
Vicechanc. Martin Heton D. D. Canon of Ch. Ch. July 10.  

Proct. 

Tho. Ravis of Ch. Ch.  
Matthew Gwinne of S. Joh. Coll. 

Apr. 17.       

Bach. of Music.  
July 8. Thomas Morley one of the Gentlemen of her Majesty's Royal Chapel.— This person, though he had not so excellent a hand on the Organ as Bull had, yet his Compositions were admirable in their time, as (1) Consonets or little short songs to three Voices, Lond. 1593. qu. (2) The first book of Madrigals to four Voices, Lond. 1594, qu. (3) The first book of Ballets to five Voices, Lond. 1595. in a large qu. (4) Madrigals to five Voices, Lond. 1595, in a large qu. (5) Introduction to music. Lond. 1597, etc. in a thin fol. This last Book, which shows the Author to have been admirably well skilled in the theoretic part of Music, hath afforded some matter to Christop. Simpson when he composed his Compendium of Music, but more to the Author of An introduction to music, Lond. 1655, etc. oct. published by John Playford a Seller of musical Books and Paper, near the Inner Temple Gate, Lond. and a practitioner in Music, who, as I have been informed, had the assistance of Charles Pigeon of Greys' Inn in the drawing it up. The said Morley also hath composed Divine Services and Anthems, the words of some of which are 
a In James Ch●fford Collection of Divine Services and Anthems usually s●●g in 〈◊〉 etc. Lond. 1663. oct. p. 45. 125. 185.  published; and also collected and published Madrigals, the triumphs of Oriana, to five and six Voices, composed by divers Authors. Lond. 1601, qu. Among which Authors Tho. Morley is one, Michael Est, Joh. mundy, Joh, Hilton, Rich. Carlton, Tho. Hunt, Edw. Johnson, George Marson, etc. all Bachelaurs of Music, were others; which last was nearly related to Simon Marson a Servant to Sir Thom. Mounson in the time of K. Jam. 1. and a good Musician, as you may see 
b 〈…〉 in The Court and character of K. James. Lond. 1650, in 〈◊〉 p. 106, 107.  elsewhere. The said Thomas Morley had been bred up under the most famous Musician Mr. Will. Bird, one of the Organists belonging to Queen Elizab. I mean the same Bird who was Author and Composer of Graduallia, seu cantionum sacrarum: quarum aliae ad quatuor, aliae vero ad quinque & sex voces editae sunt. Lond. 1610. qu. in 6 Vol. Also of several Divine Services and Anthems in English, the words of which are extant, and of a most admired Composition of forty parts; but this last is not yet extant. I say by this Byrde's endeavours the said Morley became not only excellent in Monk, as well in the theoretical as practical part, but also well seen in the Mathematics, in which Bird was excellent.  
July 3. John Dowland one of the Gent. of her Majesty's Royal Chapel, was then also with Tho. Morley adm. Bach. of Music.— He enjoyed the same place also when King James 1. came to the Crown, being then esteemed a most admirable Lutinist; about which time an Anagram was made on his name (Johannes Doulandus) running thus, annos, ludendi hausi. He was the rarest Musician that his Age did behold, and therefore admired by foreign Princes, among whom the King of Denmark was one, who being infinitely taken with his playing, when he was in England to visit his Sister the Queen, an 1606, took him with him at his return to Denmark; where, as 'tis supposed, he died. He hath among other things written Necessary observations belonging to Lute-playing. Lond. 1610, in a thin fol. printed with Variety of Lute lessons, published by his Son Rob. Douland, a most excellent Lutinist also; who, before (while his Father was absent) had been trained up to the Lute by excellent Masters at the care and charge of Sir Tho. Mounson beforementioned. The said Rob. Douland published also of his own composition A musical banquet. Lond. 1610. in a thin fol. and The pilgrim's solace for three and four parts, etc. which was composed by him, as it seems, and not by his Father.   

Bach. of Arts.  
May 6. John Hoskyns signior of New Coll.  
June 12. Sam. Burton of Ch. Ch.— See among the Masters an. 1591.  
Jan. 13. Matthew Slade of S. Alban Hall.  
Henry Wotton of Queens Coll. supplicated in June for the degree of Bach. of Arts, but I cannot find him admitted, or his name among the Determiners in the Lent following.  
Adm. 114. or thereabouts.   

Bach. of Law.  
Feb…. Henry Cromwell Fellow of S. John's Coll.— This person who was third Son of Sir Henry Cromwell of Hinchinbrook in Huntingdonshire Knight. I put not down here as a Writer, or learned man, but only that he was a noted Gent. of his Country, had a fair Estate at Vpwood there, was a Justice of Peace and Uncle to Oliver Cromwell Lord Protector of England. See among the Bach. of Law, an. 1599  
Adm. 14.   

Mast. of Art.  

Dec. 23. Rich. Latewar of S. Joh.  
Jul. 2. Alexand. Cook of Vnivers.  
Feb. 20. Henr. Cuffe of Mert. 

Coll.     
In the month of June Will. Camden Bach. of Arts of Ch. Ch. supplicated by his Dean or Censor, that whereas it was 16 years since he took the degree of Bach. of Arts, three solemn Lectures pro forma. performed by him, might be sufficient for the taking the degree of Mast. of Arts; which desire of his was granted conditionally that he should stand in the Act following; but his Admission and Inception occurs not. Here you see is mention made that he was Bach. of Arts; which, if true, (for no such matter occurs in the Register of that time) then must that Will. Camden mentioned under the year 1573, be the same person who was afterwards known by the Title of Clarentius, and surnamed The learned. See more among the Creation's an. 1612.  
Admit. 64.   

Bach. of Diu.  
July 4. Robert Temple M. A. of Magd. Coll.— He hath published A Sermon concerning the abuses of the Church, preached at Paul's Cross on 1 Cor. 14. 1. Lond. 1592., he being then Chaplain to John Bishop of London. What else he hath written or published, I know not, nor any thing besides, only he was an Oxfordshire man born.  
Adm. 4   

Doct. of Law.  
Jul. 9 Hugh Lloyd of New Coll.  
He was the only person admitted Doctor of his Faculty this year.  
☞ Not one Doct. of Physic was admitted this year.   

Doct. of Diu.  
Jul. 4. Thom. Mountfort a Compounder.— This worthy Doctor who was Son of John Mountfort of the City of Norwych, was now, or about this time, Prebendary of Harleston, and Residentiary of the Cath. Ch. of S. Paul, as also Prebendary of Westminster; in which last Dignity he succeeded one Thomas (whom some call John) Brown an. 1584. He died in London 27 Feb. 1632, and was buried in the Chancel of the Parish Church of Tewing in Hertfordshire; whereupon one Gabr. More, sometimes Chaplain in the House of George Villiers the first Duke of Buckingham of his name, succeeded him in Westm. but who in the Residentiaryship in S. Paul's I cannot yet tell. He left behind him a Son named John Mountfort D. of D. and Rector of Austie in Hertfordshire; who being a most zealous man for the Church of England, suffered much in the time of the Rebellion raised by the Long Parl. against K. Ch. 1. was cast out of his Benefice of Austie by the Committee of Religion in 1643, as you may see in that diabolical Pamphlet entit. The first Century of scandalous and malignant Priests, etc. pr. 1643. qu. p. 13. and lost other Spiritualities. The said Dr. Tho. Mountfort had also another Son named James, who succeeded his Father, as it seems, in the Rectory of Tewing before mentioned; who also being a zealous man for the Church of England, was thrown out of Tewing by the said Committee, as you may see in the said Phmphlet, p. 10.  

Jul. 4. Thom. Pie of Mert.  
9 John Prime of New 

Coll.      

Incorporations.  
Apr. 11. Rob. Devereux Earl of Essex and Master of the Horse to Queen Elizabeth, was incorporated M. of A. as he had stood at Cambridge, being then accounted one of the best Poets among the Nobility of England, and a person adorned with singular gifts of Nature.— This Incorporation was the better to capacitate him to be Chancellor of this University, when that honourable Office should become void, as it shortly after did. He had received his Academical Education in Trinity Coll. in Cambridge, under the tuition of Dr. John Whitgift, afterwards Archb. of Canterbury, and hath written (1) Advice to Roger Earl of Rutland in his travels, MS. the beginning of which is, My Lord, I hold it a principle in the course, etc. This MS. which I have in my Library, was, if I am not mistaken, printed in a Book entit. Profitable instructions, describing what special observations are to be taken by Travellers in all Nations. Lond. 1633. oct. said in the title to be written by Robert Earl of Essex, Sir Philip Sidney, etc. (2) His apology against those which falsely and maliciously tax him to be the only hinderer of the peace and quiet of his Country, written to Sir Anth. Bacon; which piece had such esteem among men, that they thought that nothing could be more honourably uttered, nor more to the Writers praise, so far as belongs to a noble Orator, than it. (3) Letters to Qu. Elizabeth and Lord Howard, etc. MS. in bib. Bod. (4) His speech and prayer at the time of his Execution, printed at the end of Dr. Will. Barlow's Sermon preached at Paul's Cross, 1 Mar. 1600. Lond. 1601. oct. with other things which I have not yet seen. He left behind him (when beheaded in 1600) a Son of both his names, educated in this University, whom I shall mention elsewhere.  
Apr. 11. Abraham Hartwell M. of A. of Cambr. was also then incorporated.— He was Fellow of Kings Coll. in that University, afterwards Amanuensis to John Archb. of Canterbury, a Traveller, and at length Rector of Tuddyngton in Bedfordshire. He hath written (1) Regina literata, seu narratio de regina Elizabetha, carmine, Lond. 1565. oct. (2) Report of the Kingdom of Congee a region in Africa, printed 1597, qu. and translated from french into English. (4) A true discourse upon the matter of Martha Brossier of Romantin, pretended to be possessed by a Devil. Lond. 1599 qu. See another Translation made by him in Walt. Haddon, mentioned in these Fasti, an. 1552.  
July…. Robert Green M. A. of Cambridge, was also then incorporated.— He was at this time a pastoral Sonnet-maker and Author of several things which were pleasing to Men and Women of his time. They made much sport, and were valued among Scholars, but since they have been mostly sold on Ballad-mongers stalls. The Titles of some of them are these, (1) Euphues his censure to Philautas. Lond. 1587. qu. (2) A quip for an upstart Courtier: or, a dispute between Velvet breeches and Cloth breeches. Lond. 1592. qu. (3) His mourning Garment given him by repentance at the funerals of Love. One Edition of this book was printed at Lond. 1616. qu. (4) His groats worth of wit bought with a million of repentance, etc. Lond. 1617. qu. second Edit. The first Edit. was printed after his death. and hath at the end of it his Epitaph in six Stanza's. (5) Thee●●s falling out, true men come by their goods, or the Bellman Lady Fitzwater's Nightingale. Several times printed. (7) His nusquam sera est: or, a treatise deciphering those particular vanities that hinder youthful Gentlemen from attaining to their intended perfections. Several times printed. (8) The history of Friar Bacon and Friar Bungay. (9) Green's Ghost haunting Coney Catchers. One Ed. of which was printed at Lond. 1626. qu. Other trifles he hath extant, which he wrote to maintain his Wife, and that high and loose course of living which Poets generally follow. He assisted also Thom. Ledge in the composure of several Plays, as I have told you in my discourse of that person among the Writers, under the year 1625. He wrote against, or at least reflected upon, Gabriel Harvey in several of his Writings; whereupon Harvey being not able to bear his Abuses, did inhumanely trample upon him when he lied full low in his grave, even as Achilles tortured the dead body of Hector. This R. Green died about 1592., of a Surfeit, taken by eating pickled Herrings, and drinking with them Rhenish Wine. At which fatal Banquer Tom. Nash his Contemporary in Cambridge was present, who in his Apology of Pierce Penniless doth make excellent sport with him and some of his Works. I have seen a witty Comedy called Green's Tutor quoque, or the City Gallant, not penned by the said Green, but by one John Cook Gent. published by Thomas Heyword, an. 1622. and another entit. Planetomachia; or, The first part of the general opposition of the seven Planets, etc. Lond. 1585. qu. said in the Title to be written by R. Green, but whether the same R. Green the Poet, I cannot tell.  
On the eleventh day of the said month of July supplicated to be incorporated one Joh. Osbourne Doct. of Physic of Leyden; whose Grace being granted simpliciter, I therefore think that he obtained his Option.   

Creations.  
When Robert Earl of Essex was incorporated, these persons following (who had formerly been partly educated in this University) were actually created Masters of Arts, Apr. 11. Which Creation, was usually called the Essexian Creation, because done upon his account.  
Thomas Lord Clinton, Son of the Earl of Lincoln.  
Sir John Norris Kt. Precedent of Monster in Ireland, second Son of Henry the first Lord Norris, and one now celebrated among the famous Captains of our Nation. He died discontented, as being not rewarded according to his worth, an. 1597, or thereabouts.  
Sir Robert Sidney Kt, younger Brother to Sir Philip Sidney.— This Sir R. Sidney was afterwards the first Earl of Leycester of his name, who dying at Penshurst in Kent 13 July 1626., was there buried.  
Sir Hen. Norris Kt. younger Brother to Sir John before mentioned, who died of a wound, about the same time and place that his Brother Sir Thomas did; which Sir Tho. was also Precedent of Monster.  
Sir Philip Boteler Kt.  

Rob. Carew  
Fulke Grevil  
Francis Darcie 

Esquires.     
Of Fulke Grevil, who was afterwards Lord Brook, I have spoken at large among the Writers, under the year 1628.    

An. Dom. 1589.  
An. 31 Elizab.  
An. 32 Elizab.  
Chanc. Sir Christoph. Hatton Kt. who, by the death of Robert Dudley Earl of Leycester, became also High Steward of the Uniu. of Cambridge.  
Vicechanc. Nich. Bond D. D. Precedent of Magd. Coll. Jul. 16.  

Proct. 

John Harding of Magd. Coll.  
John King of Ch. Ch. 

Apr. 29.       

Bach. of Arts.  

Apr. 12. Will. Thorn of New Coll.  
June 25. Sebast. Benefeild of C. C. 

Coll.     
July 12. George Benson of Queens Coll.— See more among the Doctors of Diu. an. 1607.  
Nou. 5. Clem. edmond's of Alls. Coll.  
Dec. 1. Tho. Frith of Magd. Hall, afterwards of Alls. Coll.— See among the Bachelaurs of Divin. 1605.  
17. Edmund Griffyth of Brasn. Coll.— He was afterwards Bish. of Bangor.  
Feb. 11. John Tapsell.— See among the Doct. of Diu. 1617.  
Adm. 104.   

Bach. of Law.  

June 30. Will. Gager  
July 6. John Bennet 

of Ch. Ch.     
See more among the Doctors of the Civ. Law this year.  
In the month of April this year Edwin Sandys of C. C. Coll. did supplicate for the degree of Bach. of Law, but was not admitted.  
Adm. 10.   

Mast. of Arts.  
June 9 George Warwick of Qu. Coll.— He was afterwards Archdeacon of Carlisle, in the place, as I suppose, of Hen. Dethick.  

18. Christoph. Sutton of Linc.  
21. Griffith powel of Jes. 

Coll.     
27. John Budden of Gloc. Hall, lately of Trin. Coll.  

July 4. 

Rich. Brett  
Joh. Randall 

of Linc. Coll.       

11. George Cranmer  
Dec. 5. Alexand. Gill. 

of C. C. Coll.     
Adm. 74.   

Bach. of Phys.  
Nou. 4. John Case the noted Philosopher of S. John's Coll. Besides him was only one admitted, and another licenced to practise Medicine.   

Bach. of Diu.  
July 6. Thomas Ravis of Ch. Ch.  

Mar. 21. 

Giles Tomson of Alls.  
John Spenser of C. C. 

Coll.       
Adm. 8.   

Doct. of Law.  
Apr. 30. Hen. Manning of Alls. Coll.— He was afterwards Chancellor of the Dioc. of Exet. and died in 1614  
Jun. 30. Will. Gager of Ch. Ch.— He accumulated the Degrees in the Civ. Law.  
Joh. Estmond of New Coll. was admitted the same day.— He was now Principal of N●w Inn.  
Jul. 6. John Bennet of Ch. Ch.— He was lately one of the Proctors of the University, afterwards Vicar Gen. in Spirituals to the Archb. of York, Prebendary of Langtoft in the Church of York Chancellor to Qu. Anne, a Knight, and Judge of the Prerogative Court of Canterbury. In the beginning of 1617. he was sent Ambassador to Bruxelis to question the Archduke in behalf of his Master the King of Great Britain concerning a late famous Libel wrote and published, as 'twas supposed, by Erycius Puteanus, who neither 
a 〈…〉.  apprehended the Author, nor suppressed the Book, until he was solicited by the King's Agent there only interdicted it, and suffered the Author to fly his Dominions. Afterwards, in 1621., the said Sir Joh. Bennet was, for bribery, corruption, and exaction in his place of Judge of the Prerogative, first committed to custody 
b 〈…〉.  to the Sheriff of London, then to prison, afterwards fined 20000 l. and at length deprived of his place of Judicature, till such time that he had restored what he had unjustly taken away. He died in the Parish of Christ Church in London. in the beginning of 1627., and was buried, I suppose, in the Church there.  
July 11. Thomas Crompton M. A. of Merton Coll.— His Grace had before been denied, because he was suspected to have something of a Papist in him; but afterwards making a protestation of his Religion according to the Church of England in a solemn Congregation of Regent's, he was permitted then (July 11.) to proceed. He was afterwards a Knight, Judge of the Court of Admiralty, and one of the first Burgesses that the Members of this University chose to sit in, after they had been empowered to send them to, Parliament. He died in the latter end of 1608, having before, as I conceive, been engaged in the Earl of Essex his Treasons.   

Doct. of Phys.  
June 30. John Bentley of Ch. Church.  
Nou. 4. Joh. Case of S. John's Coll.  
Both which accumulated the Degrees in Physic, and were learned men.   

Doct. of Diu.  
July 6. Rich. Eedes of Ch. Ch.— He was afterwards Dean of Worcester, as I have before told you among the Writers.   

Creations.  
June 16. Sir Charles Blount Kt.— He was originally of this University, was afterwards Earl of Devonshire, and dying in 1606 left behind him a natural Son named Montjoy Blount, created Earl of Newport in the Isle of Wight by K. Charles I. which Montjoy dying in S. Aldates' Parish in Oxon. 12 Feb. 1665, was buried in the south Isle joining to the Choir of the Cathedral of Ch. Church, near to the Grave of Will. Lord Grandison, the King, with his Court, having about that time left Oxon; to which place, he before had retired, to avoid the Plague raging in London.  
Sir Charles Danvers Kt. was actually created M. A. the same day.— He was afterwards beheaded on Tower hill near London for being deeply engaged in the Earl of Essex's Treasons, an. 1601.  
Sept. 17. Ferdinando Lord Strange.— He was soon after Earl of Derby, and dying in the flower of his Youth, not without suspicion of poison, on the 16 of Apr. 1594, having enjoyed his Earldom but for a little time. was buried near to the body of his Father in a Chapel joining to the Church of Ormeskirke in Lancashire.  

Sept. 17. 

Sir George Carew Kt.— He was afterwards Earl of Totness.  
Sir John Spencer of Althorp in Northamptonshire Kt.     
All which were actually created Masters of Arts.    

An. Dom. 1590.  
32 Elizab.  
33 Elizab.  
Chanc. the same.  
Vicechanc. Will. James D. D. Dean of Ch. Ch. Jul. 16, who in 1581. had undergone the same Office.  

Proct. 

Jasp. Colmer of Mert. Coll.  
Jeh. Evelegh. of Exet. Coll. 

Apr. 29.       

Bach. of Arts.  

Apr. 13. Tho. Bastard of New  
Jul. 9 Joh. Davies of Queens 

Coll.     
George Carew of Exeter Coll. was admitted the same day. Quaere.  
Dec. 14. Thom. Cooper or Couper of Ch. Ch.— See among the Bach. of Diu. 1600.  

Feb. 5. 

Sam. Page  
Rob. Burhill  
Joh. Barcham 

of C. C. Coll.       
The two last I shall mention among the Writers in the second Volume.  

Feb. 5. 

Matthew Lister  
Lionel Day 

of Oriel Coll.       
Of the first you may see more among the Incorporations an. 1605, and of the other, who was originally of S. Alban Hall, among the Bach. of Diu. 1608.  
10. Lancelot Bulkley of Brasn. Coll.— He was afterwards Archbishop of Dublin in Ireland.  
Adm. 133.   

Bach. of Law.  
May 2. John Owen of New Coll. the Epigrammatist.  
Feb. 2. Ralph Winwood of Magd. Coll.— This person whom I have mentioned among the Masters in 1587., was Proctor of the University two years after, and travelling beyond the Seas, returned an accomplished Gentleman. In 1607, June 28. he received the honour of Knighthood at Richmond, was sent Ambassador into the Low Countries soon after, made Secretary of State 29 Mar. 1614, being the very 
c 〈…〉.  day that Sir Tho. Lake was made a privy Counsellor, which place of Secretaryship was obtained for him by Carr Earl of Somerset, purposely, as 'tis 
d 〈…〉.  said, to use him as a tool for his own designs. This Sir Ralph Winwood died 27 Octob. 1617., and was about three days after buried in a Vault under part of Little S. Barthelmews Church in London, leaving then behind him a Son and Heir named Richard Winwood Esq. afterwards of Ditton Park in Bucks; who dying there without issue, at about 80 years of age, 28 June 1688, his Estate, which was considerable, went to Ralph Son of Edward Lord Montague Earl of Boughton by Anne his Wife, Sister to the said Richard Winwood.  
Adm. 13.   

Mast. of Arts.  
Mar. 30. Nich. Fuller of Hart Hall.  

June 23. Edw. Gee of Brasn.  
…. Rowland Searchfield of S. Joh. 

Coll.     

July 1. 

Job. Aglionbie  
Rrch. Crakanthorpe 

of Qu. Coll.       

4. 

Hen. Wilkinson  
Franc. Mason 

of Mert. Coll.       
6. Samuel Vetablus a French man of Oriel Coll. who had studied Philosophy for four years in the University of Basil, and two elsewhere, was then admitted M. of A. which is all I know of him.  
9 Edward Breerwood of Brasn. Coll.  
10. Rich. Jefferay of Magd. Coll.— This person who was a Wiltshire man born, and Fellow of that Coll. published The Son of God's entertainment by the Sons of men, Serm. at Paul's Cross 7 Oct. 1604, on John 6. 11, 12. Lond. 1605. qu. and perhaps other things.  
Jan. 21. Bernard adam's of Trin. Coll.  
Feb. 19 Thom. Wenman of Ball. Coll.— He was afterwards public Orator of this University, and though an excellent Scholar, and able enough to honour the World with the issue of his Brain, yet he would leave nothing behind him in Writing, because that whatsoever he had left, would have fallen short of his Perfections, inasmuch as the best part of an Orator dies with him.  
Adm. 83.   

Bach. of Diu.  
July 9 Rog. Hacket of New Coll.  
Dec. 17. Will. Huchenson of S. John's Coll.— He occurrs Archdeacon of Cornwall 1605.  
Edward Hutchins of Brasn. Coll. supplicated for that degree, but was not admitted.  
Adm. 9   

Doct. of Law.  
July 14. John Weston M. A. of Ch. Ch.— This person who was the only Son of Rob. Weston Chancellor of Ireland (mentioned in these Fasti, an. 1566.) was soon after made Canon of Ch. Ch. where he died 20 July 1632.  
George Dale M. A. of Oriel Coll. now Principal of S. Mary's Hall.— He died 26 Nov, 1625, and was buried in the Church at Fifield near Abendon in Berks, where he had lived many years.  
Dec. 17. Thom. Edward's of Alls. Coll.— He was afterwards Chancellor to the Bishop of London and a great Benefactor to Bodlies' Library, and to that of Ch. Ch.   

Doct. of Phys.  
Jun. 17. Will Clarkson a Student in Phys. of Broadgates' Hall.— In the Act celebrated 13 July following, he was completed in that Degree, (with Dr. Jo. Case) as a Member of S. John's Coll.   

Doct. of Diu.  
Jul. 6. Hen. Robinson Provost of Queens Coll.— He was afterwards Bishop of Carlisle.  
July 9 Adrianus, or Hadrianus à Saravia, was then admitted among the Doct. of Diu.— See in the Incorporations following.  
14. Owen Glynne of Lincoln Coll.   

Incorporations.  
Jul. 9 Hadrianus à Saravia, D. D. of the University of Leyden. was then incorporated in that degree, and admitted among the Doctors of that Faculty.— He was born at Hedin in Artois, educated in all kind of literature in his younger years, especially in several Languages, which made him so famous, that he was invited to Leyden, where he began to profess Divinity, an. 1582, at which time he had studied and well considered the controverted points concerning Episcopacy and Sacrilege. Soon after he became Preacher to the French Church there, where he continued about five years, and then went into England, where, after he had exercised himself in some petite or pedagogical Employments for a time, he was made Prebendary of Canterbury, and became well known to the famous Mr. Rich. Hooker Parson of Bishops-Bourne in Kent. In 1601, July 5. he was installed Canon of Westminster in the eleventh Stall or Prebendship, on the promotion of the learned Doct. Lanc. Andrews to the Deanery of the said Church; at which time Saravia was in great esteem for his learning. While he continued at Canterbury he had a just occasion given him to declare his judgement concerning Episcopacy and Sacrilege, unto his Brethren the Ministers of the Low Countries, which was excepted against by Theodore Beza and others: against whose Exceptions he rejoined, and thereby became the happy Author of several Tracts in Latin, especially three, viz. De diversis ministrorum Evangelii gradibus, etc. Lond. 1590., qu. and in the year following were printed at Lond. in English under these Titles, viz. (1) Of the divers degrees of the Ministers of the Gospel. (2) Of the honour which is due into Priests and Prelates of the Church. (3) Of Sacrilege and the punishment thereof. He soon after also put out another concerning Christian Obedience to Princes; the writing of which was occasioned by a certain Book published by a learned Jesuit called James Gretzer. All his Works were collected together, and printed in one Vol. by the Company of Stationers of London, an. 1611, most of which you may see in the Bodleian or Oxford Catalogue. It is now to be observed, that when in a time of Church Tumults, Beza gave his reasons to the Chancellor of Scotland for the abrogation of Episcopacy in that Nation, partly by Letters, and more fully in a Treatise of a threefold Episcopacy (which he calls divine, humane and satanical) this Doctor Saravia had by the help 
* 〈…〉 Lond. 1670. p. 96.  of Dr. Joh. Whitgift Archb. of Canterbury such an early discovery of their Intentions, that he had almost as soon answered that Treatise, as it became public, and therein discovered how Beza's Opinion did contradict that of Calvin, and his Adherents, leaving them to interfere with themselves in point of Episcopacy. At length, after he had taken considerable pains in translating the Bible, appointed by K. James in the beginning of his Reign, he died at Canterbury 15 Jan. 1612, aged 82. Whereupon his body was buried in the Cathedral Church there, near to that of Catherine Dallez his first Wife (who died 2 Feb. 1605 in the 45 year of her Marriage) and soon after had a Monument put over his Grave by Margaret Waits his second Wife. In his Canonry of Westm. succeeded Gabr. Grant Son of Edw. Grant sometimes Master of the School there, but who in his Prebendship of Canterbury, or of Gloucester, (where he was also Prebendary) I know not.  
Feb. 12. Thom. Muriel M. of A. of Cambridge.— In the year 1621., Dec. 30. he was installed Archdeacon of Norfolk, as I have elsewhere told you; and dying about the beginning of Oct. 1629, was buried, as I presume, at Hildersham (of which he was Minister) in Cambridgeshire. Thomas Myriell sometimes Preacher of God's Word at Barnet in Middlesex (in the time of K. Jam. 1.) afterwards Rector of S. Stevens in Walbrook, London, and a publisher of certain Sermons between the year 1610 and 1625, must not be taken to be the same with Tho. Muriel.  
Mar. 22. Fines Moryson M. A. of Cambr.— He was a Lincolnshire man born, was Fellow of Peter House in that University, and Brother to Sir Richard Moryson Vicepresident of Monster. After he had taken his Master's degree he studied the Civil Law, and in 1589, being then 23 years of Age, he obtained licence of the Master and Fellows of his House to travel. Presently after leaving the University, he went to London to follow such Studies that were fit to enable him in his course of Travels; and afterwards going to Oxon, was incorporated M. of A. as I have told you before. On the 1 May 1591., he took ship at Liegh distant from London 28 miles by land and 36 by water, and after he had rambled about many parts of the World for 8 years, returned, and went into Ireland 1598. and became Secretary to Sir Charles Blount Lord Lieutenant of that Realm. After his death, which happened about 1614, were published his Travels, entit. An Itinerary containing his ten years' Travels through the twelve Dominions of Germany, Bohmerland, Sweitzerland, netherlands, Denmark, Poland, England, Scotland, and Ireland Divided in three parts. Lond. 1617., in a thick fol. It was first written in Latin, and afterwards translated by him into English.  
There were also four more Cantabrigians incorporated, among whom Robertus Hemmingius M. A. was one, Feb. 23.   

Creations.  

July 14. 

Sir Will. Hatton  
Sir Hen. unton  
Joh. Fitzjames Esquire. 

Knights.       
The first was Son to the Sister of Sir Christopher Hatton Lord Chancellor of England, and being Heir to the said Sir Christophes, did change his name from Newport to Hatton.  
The second, who had been of Oriel Coll. I have mentioned among the Writers, under the year 1595.  
The third, who was of the ancient Family of the Fitzjames of Somersetshire, was originally also of this University, which is all I know of him.    

An. Dom. 1591.  
An. 33 Elizab.  
An. 34 Elizab.  
Chanc. Sir Christoph. Hatton, who dying 20 of Nou. this year, certain Members of the University, especially those of the Puritanical Party, were for Robert Earl of Essex before mentioned, now in great favour with the Queen; and others for Tho. Sackvile Lord Buckhurst. At length upon the receipt of Letters from the Queen in favour of Buckhurst, the Academians elected him 17 Dec. following. See more in the Incorporations this year.  
Vicechanc. Dr. James again, designed by Chancellor Hatton, 16 July.  

Proct. 

Rich. Branch of Ch. Ch.  
Joh. Lloyd of New Coll. 

Apr. 16.       
Which Proctors, with several Doctors and others, went to London, to admit the Chancellor to his Office, being the first Admission out, or without the limits, of the University, that I have yet met with.  

Bach. of Arts.  
Mar. 27. Tho. Storer of Ch. Ch. now in much esteem for his Poetry.  

Apr. 16. Rob. Moor  
June 4. Arth. Lake 

of New Coll.     
The former was adorned with variety of Learning, the other was afterwards a Bishop.  
Jul. 2. Will. Hind of Queens Coll.— Afterwards a learned Nonconformist.  
9 Walter Wylshman of Exeter Coll. afterwards of Broadgates Hall.  

Jan. 16. Rich. Haydock of New  
Feb. 7. Gerard Massy of Brasn. 

Coll.     
Of the last you may see more among the Doctors of Divinity, an. 1608.  
Adm. 116.   

Mast. of Arts.  
May 20. Will. Westerman of Oriel Coll. lately of Gloc. Hall.  
June 15. Samuel Burton of Ch. Ch.— He became Rector of Dry Marston in Glocestershire seven years after this time, afterwards Archdeacon of Gloucester, and at length Justice of the Peace for that County. He hath published A Sermon preached at the general Assizes in Warwick, 3 March, being the first Friday in Lent 1619, on Rom. 1. 4. Lond. 1620. qu. and perhaps other things. He died 14 June 1634, was buried in the Chancel of the Church of Dry Marston before mentioned.  

Jun. 21. 

Tho. Hutton  
Henr. Price 

of S. Joh. Coll.      
Jul. 8. Nathan. Torporley of Brasn.  
Nou. 30. Joh. Day of Oriel  
Feb. 26. Joh. Hoskyns sen. of New 

Coll.     
Adm. 56.   

Bach. of Diu.  
Mar. 27. Henr. rowland's of New Coll.— He was afterwards Bishop of Bangor.  

Apr. 27. Leonard Hutten  
Jul. 2. Joh. King 

of Ch. Ch.     
Adam Hill of Ball. Coll. was admitted the same day.  
Nou. 15. Soh. Smith of S. Joh. Coll.  
Adm. 15.  
☞ Not one Doctor of Law or of Physic was admitted this year.   

Doct. of Diu.  
Jul. 2. Tho. Hyde of Ball. Coll.— On the fourteenth of June 1588., he became Chancellor of the Church of Salisbury, on the death of Dr. Tho. white, (having before been Prebendary of Ilfracomb in the said Church) and dying in Nou. 1618., was succeeded in his Chancellourship by Dr. Franc. Dee, who was afterwards B. of Peterborough.  
Ralph Pickover of Ch. Ch. was adm. the same day.— On the 5. of July 1576, he was installed Archd. of Rochester in the place of Joh. Calverley deceased, and in 1580 he succeeded Dr. Rob. Dorset in a Canonry of Ch. Ch. In an. 1582 he became Archdeacon of Salisbury, but whether he was Dean of that Church (as I have told you in Hist. & Antiq. Vniu. Ox. lib. 2. p. 259. b. upon false information) it appears not. In his Archdeaconry of Rochester, which he resigned, was installed Th. Staller D. D. 5 Jul. 1593., and to his Archdeaconry of Sarum (which he kept to the day of his death) was collated Will. Barlow, on the 12 of March (being four days after the death of Pickover) an. 1614 This person Pickover is commended for a learned man, for a good Grecian, Hebritian and a frequent Preacher. See in the said Hist. & Antiq. lib. 2. p. 260. a.  
Adam Hill of Ball. Coll. was adm, the same day, July 2.— He accumulated, as Pickover did.   

Incorporations.  
Jul. 13. George Downham M. A. of Cambridge— He was Son of Will. Downham Bishop of Chester, was educated in Christ's Coll. in Cambridge, of which he became Fellow about 1585., afterwards a great Aristotelian, a follower of Ramus; and at length Bishop of London-Derry in Ireland; where dying in 1634 Apr. 17. was buried in the Cath. Church there. The Catalogue of all or most of his works you may see in the Bodleian or Oxford Catalogue.  
Besides him were 15 Cantabrigians incorporated Masters of Arts on the same day, being the next, after the Act had been concluded, but not one of them, can I yet find, who was afterwards a Writer, Bishop, etc.  
On the same day also Will. Halke an English Man of the same University, who had had the Degree of M. of A. conferred upon him in the University of St. Andrew in Scotland, an. 1590., (Andr. Melvin being then Rector) was also incorporated in this University.  
Oct. 22. Will. Paddie of St. John's Coll. in this University, lately made Doct. of Phys. in the University of Leyden, was incorporated in the same Degree.— He was afterwards Physician to K. Jam. 1. a Knight, eminent for his practice in that faculty, and Precedent, if I mistake not, of the Coll. of Physicians in London. See more among the Incorporations, an. 1600.  
Jan 6. or thereabouts, Thom. Sackvile M. A. of Cambridge and Chancellor of this University, was incorporated in his Lodgings at London by certain Offices appointed by the Venerab. Convocation.— He was originally of this University, as himself confesseth in his Letters sent thereunto, dat. 21. March following, running partly thus.— I am given by common report to understand that contrary to your own statutes, etc. very few retain the old Academical habit, which in my time was a reverend distinction of your Degrees, etc. The place wherein he studied, was, as is supposed, Hart hall, but took no Degree before he left us. See among the Writers, an. 1608.    

An. Dom. 1592.  
An. 34 Elizab.  
An. 35 Elizab.  
Chanc. Tho. Sackvile Lord Buckhurst Knight of the Garter, afterwards Lord Treasurer of England.  
Vicechanc. Dr. Nich. Bond Precedent of Magd. Coll. Jul. 13.  

Proct. 

Tho. Savile of Mert. Coll.  
Ralph Winwood of Magd. Coll. 

Apr. 5.       
But the Signior Proctor dying at London 12. January, Mr. Richard Fisher of Mert. Coll. succeeded 15. of the same month.  

Bach. of Music.  
Jul. 7. Giles Farnabie of Ch. Ch. who for 12 years had studied the fac. of Music, was then admitted Bach. of Music.— This Person who was of the family of Farnaby of Truro in Cornwall, and near of kin to Tho. Farnaby the famous Schoolmaster of Kent, was an eminent Musician, and Author of Canzonets to four voices, with a song of eight parts. Lond. 1598. qu. dedicated to his Patron Ferdinando Heabourne Groom of her Majesty's privy chamber. What other things he hath published, I find not.  
Rich. Read who had studied the musical faculty 22 years, was admitted the same day.— He hath composed certain Church Services, and other matters for instruments, which are scattered in several books.  
George Waterhouse of the Queen's Chapel, who had spent there several years in the practical and theoretical part of Music, supplicated for the Degree of Bachelaur, but was not, as I can find, admitted.   

Bach. of Arts.  
May 5. George Andrew of Magd. hall— Afterwards Bishop of Ferns and Leighlin in Ireland.  
27. Nich. Hill of St. John's Coll.— Afterwards an eminent Chemist.  
30. Henry Savile of Mert. Coll. commonly called Long Harry Savile.  
Jun. 26. Pet. Smart of Ch. Ch.— He is to be remembered among the Writers in the 2. vol. of this work.  
George Ferebe of Magd. Coll. was adm. the same day.— See among the Mast. of Arts, an. 1595.  
Oct. 25. Rich. Deane of St. Alban hall, lately of Merton Coll.— He was afterwards Bishop of Ossorie in Ireland.  
27. Rob. Bagnold or Bagnall of Ch. Ch.— This Person who took no higher Degree in this University was matriculated as a Staffordshire Man born 1589 aged 18. and is the same, as I suppose, with Rob. Bagnall, who was afterwards Minister of Hutton in Somersetshire, and Author of The Steward's last account, in five Sermons on Luke 16. 1. and 2. L●nd. 1622. qu.  
Dec. 16. Thom. Allen an eminent Grecian.  
Feb. 9 Tho. Floyd of New Inn.  
21. Sirach Hilton of Oriel Co●l. Son of Will. Hilton Baron of Hilton.  
Admitted 122.   

Mast. of Arts.  
Jul. 5. Edm. Griffith of Brasn. Coll.— He was afterwards Bish. of Bangor.  

Jan. 18. Will. Thorn  
22. Benj. Heydon 

of New Coll.     
The first of which was afterwards Dean of Chichester and a Writer, and the other Dean of Wells.  
Admitted 100   

Bach. of Diu.  

Apr. 6. 

Will. Sutton of Ch. Ch.  
Rob. Wright of Trin.  
Hen. Parry of C. C. 

Coll.       
Jun. 5. John Lloyd of New Coll.  
14. Rich. Field of Magd. hall.  
Nou. 20. John Buckridge of St. John's Coll.  
Adm. 11.   

Doct. of Law.  

Jun. 5. 

John Favour  
Franc. Betts  
Hen. Marten 

of New Coll.       
The last was now Official to the Archdeacon of Berks.  
Jul. 11. Evan Morris of Alls. Coll.— He was about this time Vicar Gen. in spirituals and principal Official of the Episcopal consistory of Exeter. He died 1605 leaving behind him a Son named William Morice, afterwards a Knight and Principal Secretary of State to K. Ch. 2. as I shall tell you at large among the Writers in the 2. vol. of this work.   

Doct. of Phys.  
Aug. 17. Tho. Do●hym of Magd. Coll.— In 1604. Nou. 4. he was elected superior Lecturer of Lynacres lectures on the death of Dr. Rob. Barnes, and died 29. Jan. following.   

Doct. of Diu.  
July 14. George Clerk of Magd. Coll.— He was a learned Divine, but hath not published any thing.   

Incorporations.  
Jul. 7. Edw. Gibbons Bach. of Music of Cambridge was then incorporated in the same Degree— He was now, or about this time, the most admired Organist of the Cathedral Church at Bristol, was Brother to the incomparable Orlando Gibbons whom I shall mention elsewhere, and Brother also to Ellis Gibbons, who hath several compositions in The triumphs of Oriana, mentioned before in Tho. Morley. As for this Edward Gibbons, he made several compositions in his faculty, some of which I have seen in the Musical Library reposed in the public School of that profession in Oxon.  
John Bull Doct. of Music of the said Uniu. of Cambridge, and one of the Gentlemen of her Maj. Chapel, was incorporated the same day, Jul. 7.— This is the same Person who was admitted Bach. of Music of this University, an. 1586, as I have told you under that year, and would have proceeded in the same place, had he not met with clowns and rigid Puritans there that could not endure Church Music. He was afterwards the first Music lecturer of Gresham Coll. at London, and one of three (Will. Bird and Orlando Gibbons being the other two) that composed and published a book intit. Parthenia; or, The maidenhead of the first Music that ever was printed for the Virginals. Printed at London in fol. but not said when, either in the title, or at the end. The book contains 21 lessons printed off from copper cuts, and was the prime book for many years that was used by Novices and others that exercised their hands on that Instrument. There is no doubt but that this Dr. Bull hath published other things, besides the making of very many compositions to be sung and played; which being thrown aside upon the coming out and publication of others by other hands, have been since in a manner lost, such is the fate of Music, as well as of Poetry. After the death of Queen Elizab. he became chief Organist to K. James 1. was so much admired for his dexterous hand on the Organ, that many thought that there was more than Man in him. At length being possessed with crotchets, as many Musicians are, he went beyond the Seas and died, as some say, at Hanborough; or rather, as others who remembered the Man, have said, at Lubeck His picture hangs at this day, at the upper end of the public Music School in the University of Oxon.  
Jul. 11. Nich. Gibbons M. A. of Cambridge— One Nich. Gibbens or Gibbons hath published Questions and disputations on Genesis. printed 1602. qu. which some call An exposition on Genesis. Whether the same with him, who was incorporated, I cannot yet tell— Qu●ere.  
William Alabaster M. A. of the same University, was incorporated on the said day.— He was bred in Trin. Coll. in that University, was the rarest Poet and Grecian that any one age or nation hath produced. Afterwards he attended, as Chaplain, on Robert Earl of Essex in Cadiz voyage, where he changed his Religion and wrote Seven Motives for what he had done, answered by one John Racster an. 1598. and by Roger Fenton the year following. But upon some discontent taken from the Rom. Party, he returned to the Church of England, and was made Prebendary of St. Paul's Cath. in London, D. of D. and Rector of Tharfield in Hertfordshire. He hath written (1) Roxana, Tragedy; admirably well acted more than once, in Trin. Coll. hall in Cambr. and was soon after published full of faults contrary to the Author's mind: Whereupon he took great pains to correct and amend it. Which being done, 'twas printed to the Author's mind at Lond. 1632. oct. (2) Lexicon Pentaglotton, Hebraicum, Chaldaicum, Syriacum, Talmudico Raabinium. Lond. 1637. fol. The titles of other books of his writing, you may see in the Bodleian or Oxford Catalogue. He also began to describe in a Latin Poem, intit. 
* MS. sometimes in the hands of 〈…〉.  E●isaeis, the chief transactions of Qu. Elizabeth's Reign, but left unfinished at the time of his death, which happening about the beginning of Apr. 1640. was buried according to the discretion of his dear friend Nich. Bacon of Greys' Inn in Holbourn near London, whom he made his sole Executor. Rich. Her. rick the Poet in his Hesperides doth highly celebrate Alabaster for his elaborate works.  
Aug. 19 Hen. Wriothsley Earl of Southampton, M. of Arts of Cambridge.— He was afterwards deeply engaged in the treasons of his entire friend Robert Earl of Essex, and therefore by his Peers he was condemned to die, but by the favour of the Queen he was saved. When K. James 1. came to the Crown he was restored by Parliament, was made Knight of the Garter, and Captain of the Isle of Wight and of Caresbrook Castle. He died in the Netherlands, an. 1624., and was buried at Tichfield in Hampshire by the bodies of his Ancestors.  
Dec. 18. Thomas D'oylie of Magd. Coll. in Oxon. Doctor of Physic of the University of Basil in Germany.   

Creations.  
Aug. 19 Will. Somerset of Magd. Coll. in this University eldest Son of Edward Earl of Worcester, was actually created Mast. of Arts.  
These Persons following were created Mast. of Arts 27. Sept. while the Queen was in Oxon, being then entertained by the University.  
Edward Earl of Worcester.— He was afterwards Master of the Horse to K. Jam. 1. and Knight of the Garter.  
Geo. Clifford E. of Cumberl.— He was an excellent Mathematician, a great Navigator, and one that did more prodigious things at Sea, (to the great impoverishment of his estate) than any Subject of this Realm had done before. He died 30. Oct. 1605, and was buried at Skipton in Craven in Yorkshire by his ancestors.  
Hen. Herbert E. of Pembroke, Kt. of the most noble order of the Garter and Precedent of the Council in the Marches of Wales.— He died 1601, and was succeeded in the Earldom of Pembroke by his Son and Heir called William, afterwards the most noble Chancellor of this University.  

Sir 

John Wingfield  
Tho. Coningsby  
Will. Knollis 

Knights.       
The last of which, who had been formerly of Magd. Coll. was afterwards Earl of Banbury.  
Michael Stanhop Esq;— He was Brother to John Lord Stanhop of Harrington.  
Tho. Knevet Esq;— He was afterwards, as it seems, Lord Knevet of Escricke.  

Edward Darcey  
Joh. Stanhop  
Will. Pointz  
Rich. Brakenbury 

Esquires.     
Thom. Lake Esq;— This Gentleman who was born at Southampton, was bred a Scholar, and afterwards was taken into the service, in the condition of an Amanuensis, of Sir Franc. Walsingham Secretary of State, by whom being commended to Qu. Elizabeth, he read to her French and Latin. A little before her death, she made him Clerk of her Signet; and after her death he was chosen by this state into the place to attend K. Jam. 1. from Barwick, who afterwards made use of his present service in some French affairs, and conferred upon him the honour of Knighthood. After Sir Rob. cecils time, the place of Secretary, was joined in two Principals; and not long after he was one of them, and so continued with honourable esteem of all Men; until that malice and revenge, two violent passions, overruling the weaker sex, concerning his 
a His Wife was named Mary, eldest Daughter of Sir Will. Ryther L. May or of Lond.  Wife and Daughter, involved 
b Aul. 〈◊〉. or an answer to the Court and Char. of K. James, printed at Lond. 1650. p. 100  him into their quarrel, the chief and only cause of his ruin.  
Anth. Ashley— He made additions for the use of English Men to The mariners mirror, etc. written in Dutch by Luke Wagener of Ein. husen; set forth in English by the said Ashley in two parts, adorned with variety of Sea-charts and maps— printed at London in fol. 1588-89. and dedicated to Robert Earl of Leycester from St. James. One Sir Anth. Ashley Knight was a courtier in the Reign of K. Jam. 1, and though then a hater of Women, yet he was induced to marry one of the Family and Relations of George Duke of Bucks, which administered mirth to the Courtiers. Whether this Sir Authony be the same with the former I know not. Qu.  
Hen. noel Esq;— He was younger Brother to Sir Andrew noel of Leycestershire, was one of the Gentlemen Pensioners to Queen Elizabeth, a Man of excellent parts, and well skilled in Music. He died in the latter end of Feb. 1596, and was by the command of Qu. Elizabeth (who had an especial respect for him,) buried in St. Andrews Chapel within the Precincts of the Abbey Church at Westminster.  
In a convocation celebrated the same day after dinner (for the former creations were made in a Convocation held in the morning) were these following Persons actually created Masters of Arts also, viz.  
Monsieur popes La Noude Ambassador from the King of France to the Queen of England.  
Monsieur Mauditor or Manditor.  
Sir Edward Stafford an English Knight.    

An. Dom. 1593.  
An. 35 Elizab.  
An. 36 Elizab.  
Chanc. the same.  
Vicechanc. Dr. Edm. lily again, July 17.  

Proct. 

Will. Aubrey of Ch. Ch.  
Rich. Latewarr of St. Job. C. 

Apr. 26.       

Bach. of Music.  

Feb. 25. 

Arth. Cock Orgainst of the Cath. Ch. at Exeter.  
Matthew Jeffrye Vicar choral in the Church at Wells.     
Their Graces were then passed, and no doubt there is but that they were admitted. Some of the compositions of Arth. Cock I have seen in our public Music School; and certain divine Services and Anthems were composed by one Jeffrye, the words of which are 
* In a book intit. Divine Services and 〈…〉 etc. Lond. 1663. 〈◊〉  extant, but whether by this Matthew, or George Jeffrye, who were both eminent Musicians, I cannot tell.   

Bach. of Arts.  
May 21. Peter Bowne of C. C. Coll.  
June 20. Nathaniel Brent of Mert. Coll.  
Feb. 6. Joh. Marston of Brasn. Coll.— Qu. Whether not the same Person who was afterwards the celebrated Comedian.  

Feb. 6. Rob. Wakeman  
8. Joh. Denison 

of Ball. Coll.     
Jam. Mabbe of Magd. Coll. was admitted the same day.  
March 16. Joh. Davies of Jesus Coll.— Afterwards a reviver of the Welsh Language.  
As for Brent and Mabbe, they are to come among the Writers in the second vol.  
Admitted 117.   

Bach. of Law.  
Jul…. Griffith powel of Jesus Coll. the eminent Philosopher and Disputant, was then, though M. of A. of 4 years standing, admitted Bach. of Law.  
Besides him, were but three more admitted, of whom Tho. May of St. John's Coll. was one, Jan. 17.   

Mast. of Arts.  
Apr. 3. Sebastian Bonefeild of C. C. Coll.  
June 19 Tho. Cooper of Ch. Ch.  
28. Lancelot Bulkley lately of Brasn. C. now of St. Edm. hall— He was afterwards Archb. of Dublin.  
Jul. 4. Jo. Parentius a Foreigner of Ch. Ch. who had studied two years in the University of Caen, five at Paris, and three at Oxon, was then admitted.— One, or more of his Surname were learned Men and Writers, but whether this John was a Writer, I cannot tell.  
Oct. (14. Clem. edmond's of Alls. Coll.  
Jan. 30. Sam. Slade of Mert. Coll.— This Person who was a Dorsetsh. Man born and Fellow of the said Coll. became afterwards a famous Traveller throughout most parts of the World, was employed by Sir Hen. Savile to procure what fragments he could of St. chrysostom, in order to have them compared and published: And while he was at Venice, he became acquainted with that noted Person (famous for his speaking and writing pure Greek) called Gabriel, Archb. of Philadelphia, who finding Slade to be admirably well skilled in the said Language, he communicated to him some rare manuscript Fragments of St. Chrysostoms' Greek works. Which being by him well approved, were conveyed into England to Sir Henry. In his further travels also (for he was in Greece a considerable while) he met with other fragments; and was so useful in bringing to light a true copy of the works of the said Author, that the said Sir Henry could not but acknowledge with due commendations, what he had done in that matter. See in the eighth vol. of St. Chrysost. works published by Sir Henry, pag. 215. 920, etc. This Mr. Slade, who was elder Brother to Matthew Slade, whom I have mentioned among the Writers an. 1614, died in the Isle of Zant near Peloponesus, in his return from his travels, before the publication of St. Chrysostom's works, and was there buried.  
Adm. 72.   

Bach. of Phys.  
Jul. 10. Thom. Twine M. of A. of C. C. Coll. in Oxon, afterwards a Student for some years in Cambridge, was then admitted Bach. of Physic.— He took the Degree of Dr. of that faculty at Cambridge, as I have before told you among the Writers.  
17. Matthew Gwinne of St. John's Coll.— See among the Creation's ●ollowing.  
Besides these two, who were the only Men admitted this year, were two admitted to practise, of whom Jo. Woolton M. A. and Fellow of Alls. Coll. was one, Son of Joh. W●olton Bish. of Exeter.   

Bach. of Diu.  

Nou…. Joh. Dove  
Feb. 11. Franc. Godwin 

of Ch. Ch.    
Mar. 4. 

Rob. Abbot  
George Abbot 

of Ball. Coll.       
Rich. Parry of Ch. Ch. was admitted the same day— All these except the first, were afterwards Bishops.  
Adm. 15.   

Doct. of Law.  
Jul. 10. Will. Wilkinson of Cambridge— He was about this time Chancellor of the Diocese of Salisbury, and died about the latter end of Oct. 1613.  
☞ Not one Doct. of Phys. was admitted this year.   

Doct. of Diu.  
Jul. 6. Leonard Tailor. of C. C. Coll.  
Mar. 23. Tho. Aubrey of Ch. Ch.— He accumulated the Degrees in Divinity.   

Incorporations.  
July 10. Francis Meres M. A. of Cambridge— This Person who was the Son of Tho. Meres of Kirton in Holland in the County of Lincoln, was about this time a Minister and Schoolmaster, and afterwards Author of a noted School-book called Wits Commonwealth. part the second. Lond. 1598. oct. The first part was put out by N. L. He hath also published God's Arithmetic. Serm. on Eccles. 4. 9 Lond. 1597. oct. and Sinners guide, or the whole regiment of Christian life, etc. printed 1614 qu. etc. and translated into English, The devotions of Lewis of Granada. Lond. 1598. oct. Which is all I know of him, only that he was Grandfather to Rob. Meres D. D. and Chancellor of the Church of Lincoln.  
Jul. 10. Gilbert Bourne Doct. of the Laws of the University of Orleans— He was Nephew to Gilb. Bourne sometimes Bishop of B. and Wells, being Son of his Brother Rich. Bourne of Wyvelscombe in Somersetshire, which is all I know of him; only that his Testimonial for his Degree in the said University, dated in a Congregation celebrated there, 8. June 1583 was subscribed by Maximilian de Cobham, Tertullian Pine Doct. of the Civil Law (lately of St. John's Coll. in Oxon) George Talbot, Giles Wroughton, Nich. Wilson, and George Manwaring, Englishmen; that also he was Vicar-general to the Bishop of B. and Wells, and dying in Decemb. or thereabouts, an. 1595 was buried in the Cath. Church of St. Andrew in Wells, near the body of his sometimes Wife.  
Jan. 28. Joh. Pilkington M. A. of Cambridge, of whom I know no more— One of both his names who was Bach. of Divinity, was collated by his Brother Jam. Pilkington Bishop of Durham, to the Archdeaconry thereof, upon the resignation of Joh. Ebden, 5. Dec. 1563, and dying 16. Sept. 1581. was buried in the Cathedral Church at Durham. Who succeeded him in that Dignity, the registers of that Church, which are imperfect, show not.  
In July this year was a supplicate made in the ven. congregation for one W. L'isle M. of A. of Cambridge to be incorporated in the said Degree, but whether he was really incorporated, it appears not. I take him to be the same with Will. L'isle, who, after he had been educated in Eton School, was admitted into the society of Kings Coll. in Cambridge, an. 1584. And after he had continued some years in the Degree of M. of A. left his Fellowship because he had Lands fallen to him at Wilburgham in Cambridgshire. He became afterwards a rare Antiquary, one of the Esquires extraordinary of the King's body, and published A Saxon treatise concerning the old and new Testament, written about the time of King Edgar (700 years ago) by Aelfricus Abbas, thought to be the same that was afterwards Archb. of Canterbury, etc. Lond. 1623. qu. published from an ancient Copy in Sir Rob. Cottons Library, with a large and learned Epistle to the Readers, set before it by the said L'isle. To this book he added these things following (first found out by Joh. Josselin servant to Matthew Archb. of Canterbury, which had been printed in oct. by Joh. Day in the Reign of Qu. Elizab.) (1) A testimony of Antiquity showing the ancient faith in the Church of England, touching the Sacrament of the body and blood of our Lord, etc. 'Tis the same with A Sermon of the paschal Lamb (on Easter day) and of the sacramental body and blood of Christ, etc. Before which is a large and learned Pref. (of about 16 leaves in oct.) written by the said Josselin, and reprinted by L'isle. (2) The words of Aeilfric Abbot of St. Albon and also of Ma●●sbury, taken out of his Epistle written to Wulfine Bishop of S●yrburne, etc. (3) The Lord's Prayer, the ●reed and ten Commandments in the Saxon and English tongue. This W. L'isle died in 1637, and was buried, as I presume, at Wilburgham beforemention'd.   

Creations.  
Jul. 17. Matthew Gwinne M. A. of St. John's Coll. in Oxon, who had studied Physic ten years, was then actually created Doct. of Physic by virtue of two Letters of the Chancellor of the University for that purpose.  
Sept. 24. The most illustrious hero Pre-Johannes de la Fri, Eques, Charnotensis, so he is written in the public Reg.) Ambassador from the King of France to the Queen's Majesty of England.  

Nichol. Ruffus Dominus St. Aubin  
Ludovic. Baro D'Orbee. 

created the same day.     
Which three Nobles, were actually created Masters of Arts, and were with great civility treated by the Heads of the University.    

An. Dom. 1594.  
An. 36 Elizab.  
An. 37 Elizab.  
Chanc. the same.  
Vicechanc. the same viz. Dr. lily to continue in the said office till the Chancellor otherwise please.  

Proct. 

Hen. Foster of Brasn. Coll.  
Hen. Cuffe of Mert. Coll. 

Apr. 10.       

Bach. of Arts.  
Jun. 5. Tobias Matthew of Ch. Ch.— He was Son of Tob. Matthew who was afterwards Archb. of York; and after he had taken the Degree of M. A. he became a Jesuit, and at length a Knight, as I shall tell you at large in the 2d. vol.  
22. Will. Burton of Brasn. Coll.— He is to be remembered also in the 2. vol.  
Jul. 1. Will. Laud of St. John's Coll.— He was afterwards Archib. of Canterbury.  

Dec. 11. Edm. Deane of Merton  
Jan. 27. Tho. Thomson of Qu.  
Feb. 22. Hayward Townshend of St. Mary's hall. 

Coll.     
Thom Ireland of Linc. Coll. was admitted the same day— See among the Doct. of Diu. an. 1611.  

28. Alexander Spicer of Exeter  
Mar. 1. Will. Vaughan of Jes. 

Coll.     
7. Thom. chest of Oriel Coll.— See among the Masters, an. 1598.  
Adm. 195.   

Bach. of Law.  
Jul. 1. James Whitlock of St. John's Coll.  
Jul. 12. Franc. Clerk or Clarke.  
Besides these two, were 4 more admitted, and two that supplicated, who were not admitted this year.   

Mast. of Arts.  
Apr. 16. Tho. Fryth of Alls. Coll.  
May 13. Tho. Storer of Ch. Ch.  
Jul. 2. Will. Hind of Qu. Coll.  
3. Walt Wylshman of Broadgates, lately of Exeter. Coll.  

Dec. 12. 

Rob. Burhill  
Joh. Barcham 

of C. C. Coll.       
Jan. 15. Rob. Moor of New Coll.  
Adm. 7●.   

Bach. of Diu.  

May 16. George Carleton of Mert.  
Jun. 27. Joh. Williams of Alls.  
Jul. 2. Rich. Latewarr of St. Joh. 

Coll.     

4. Will. Tooker of New  
Dec. 16. Hen. Ayray of Qu. 

Coll.     
Adm. ●1.   

Doct. of Law.  
Jul. 9 Christopher Helm of Merton Coll.— In 1618. he became Chancellor of the Dioc. of Worcester in the place of Barnabas Goch or Gough Doct. of Law, (being about that time Rector of Bredon in the said Diocese) in which office he was succeeded by Jam. Littleton Bach. of Law, an. 1628. The said Goch or Gough did succeed Tho. Wood LL. D. an. 1610. and Wood, Rich. Cousin the eminent Civilian, an. 1598. but whom Cousin succeeded in 1578, or thereabouts, I cannot tell.  
Dec. 10. Rob. Masters of Alls. Coll.— He was about this time Principal of St. Alban hall, and afterwards Chancellor of the Dioc. of Rochester, and of the Dioc. of Lichfield and Coventry. He died 10. Jul. 1625. aged 63, and was buried in the Cath. Church of Lichfield.  
Jan. 25. Edward Spurroway of Alls. Coll.  
On the sixth of July Ralph Winwood M. of A. and Bach. of the Civ. Law of Magd. Coll. supplicated to be admitted Doct. of the faculty, but whether admitted, it appears not.   

Doct. of Phys.  
Jul. 1. Barthelmew Warner of St. John's Coll.— He was afterwards the King's Professor of Physic, and superior reader of Lynacre's Lecture. He was buried in the Church of St. Mary Magd. in the North suburb of Oxford, 26. January 1618., as I have else where told you.   

Doct. of Diu.  
Jun. 25. Rich. Lewis of Exeter Coll.  

July 4. 

Francis Cox  
Will. Tooker 

of New Coll.       
Henry Ball of New. Coll. also, was admitted the same day, being about this time Archdeacon of Chichester▪ 〈◊〉 He died in the beginning of the year 1603.  
Jul. 4. Miles Smith of Brasn. Coll.— The same who was afterwards Bishop of Gloucester.   

Incorporations.  
Jul. 9 Hen. Nevil M. A. of Cambridge Son and Heir of Edward Nevil Lord Abergavenny.  
Rich. Milbourne M. of A. of Qu. Coll. in the same University was incorporated the same day— On the eleventh of Decemb. 1611 he was installed Dean of Rochester in the place of Dr. Tho. Blague deceased, and in July 1615 he being promoted to the See of St. David, Rob. Scot D. D. was installed Dean, 13. of the same month; of whom by the way I desire the reader to know that he was born at Banston in Essex, was originally a Fellow of Trin. Coll. in the said University and afterwards Master of Clare hall, and esteemed by those that knew him a learned Man. He died in Winter time (in December I think) an. 1620. and was succeeded in his Deanery by Dr. Godf. Goodman.  
Jul. 9 Joh Racster M. A. of Cambridge— He was Author of a certain book entit. The seven planets or wand'ring motives of Will. Alabasters wit, retrograded and removed. Lond. 1598. qu. and perhaps of other things.  
Joh. Hull M. of A. of Cambr. was incorp. the same day— He was of gonvil and Caius Coll. in that University, was afterwards Bach. of Diu. and a Preacher of God's word at Cork in Ireland. He hath written and published (1) St. Peter Prephecy of these last days. printed 1610. qu. (2) Christ's proclamation to Salvation. Lond. 1613. oct. (3) Exposition on a part of the Lamentations of Jeremiah, etc. Lond. 1618. qu. etc.  
Jul. 9 Richard Kilby M. A. of the said University.  
The number of Cambridge Masters who were incorporated on that day comes to 30.   

Creations.  
On the ninth of July, being the day after the Act had been finished, these following Persons were actually created Mast. of Arts.  
Sir Joh. Hungerford Knight.  
Anthony Hungerford Esquire.  
Rich. Baker Esq— He was afterwards a Knight and Author of that Chronicle that goes under his name.  

Joh. Ask  
Will. Monson 

Esquire.     
A proposal was made in the ven. house of Convocation this year, that the Degree of M. of A. should be bestowed on the honourable Sir Will. Russel Knight, the designed Lord Deputy of Ireland, but whether it was accordingly conferred upon him, it appears not, because it standeth not in the register— He was the fourth Son of Francis Earl of Bedford, and was with his brethren brought up in Magd. Coll. Oxon at the feet of Dr. Lawr. Humphrey. Afterwards he traveled through France, Germany, Italy, Hungary, and other Countries; and upon his return he spent not his time idly in the Court, but painfully in the labours of the Camp, following the wars in Hungary, in France, Ireland and the Low Countries, where he left many notable proofs of his valour and wisdom, being strenuus miles and prudens imperator. In Aug. this year he was made L. Deputy of Ireland; which place he executed with great valour and wisdom for 3 years. Afterwards he was made Lord Russel of Thornhaw in Bucks. and dying in Sept. was buried 16. of the same month at Thornhaw, an. 1613.    

An. Dom. 1595.  
An. 37 Elizab.  
An. 38 Elizab.  
Chanc. the same viz. Thom. Lord Buckhurst.  
Vicechanc. Dr. Li●ye again, by virtue of the Chancellor's former letters.  

Proct. 

Rob. Tinley of Magd. Coll.  
Will. Pritchard of Ch. Ch. 

Apr. ult.       

Bach. of Mus.  
Jul. 11. Franc. Pilkington of Linc. Coll.— Some of his compositions I have seen, and I think some are extant. He was Father or at least near of kin to Tho. Pilkington one of the Musicians belonging sometimes to Qu. Henrietta Maria; who being a most excellent Artist, his memory was celebrated by many Persons, particularly by Sir Aston Cockaine Baronet, who hath written 
a In his 〈…〉 etc. Lond. 1●58. oct. p. 113. num. 43. etc.  his funeral Elegy and his Epitaph. The said Tho. Pilkington died at Wolverhampton in Staffordshire aged 35, and was buried there in the times of rebellion or usurpation.  
Feb…. Richard Nicholson Organist of Magd. Coll.— He was afterwards the first public professor of the Musical Praxis in this University, and was Author of several Madrigales, one or more of which, you may see in The Triumphs of Oriana, mentioned before in Thom. Morley, and died in 1639.   

Bach. of Arts.  

May 3. 

Tho. James  
Tho. Lydyat 

of New Coll.       
Jul. 2. Dudley Carleton of Ch. Ch.  

5. Joh. Rawlinson of St. John's  
Dec. 16. Rich. Lloyd of Oriel 

Coll.     
Jun. 22. Hen. Mason of Brasn. Coll. afterwards of C. C.  
Feb. 3. Rob. Fludd or de Fluctibus of St. John's Coll.— Afterwards an eminent Rosacrusian.  
13. Gabriel powel of Jesus Coll.  
14. Will. Cheek of Magd. hall.  

16. 

Joh. Eton of Trin.  
Rich. Moket of Brasnose, afterwards of Allsouls  
Will. Chibald or Chiball of Magd. 

Coll.       

19 

Edw. Chetwind  
Rich. Carpenter 

of Ex. Coll.       
Mar. 6. Joh. Sprint of Ch. Ch.  
Theodore Goulson was admitted this year, but neglected to be registered.  
As for Lydyat, Lloyd, Mason and Eton, there will be mention made of them in the 2. vol.  
Adm. 128.   

Mast. of Arts.  

May 3. Arthur Lake of New  
27. Joh. Sanford of Magd. 

Coll.     

Jun. 30. 

Hen. Savile  
Rich. Deane 

of St. Alb. hall.       
Jul. 7. Joh. Ravens of Qu. Coll.— In 1607, he became Subdean of Wells and Prebendary of Bishops Compton in that Church.  
9 Pet. Smart of Ch. Ch.  
George Ferebe of Magd. Coll. was admitted the same day— He was afterwards Minister of Bishops canning's in Wilts. one of the Chaplains to K. Jam. 1. and Author of Life's farewell, Sermon at St. John's in the Devises in Wilts, 30. Aug. 1614 at the funeral of John Drew Gent. on 2. Sam. ch. 14. ver. 14. Lond. 1615. qu. This Person who was a Glocestershire Man born and well skilled in Music, did instruct divers young Men of his Parish in that faculty, till they could either play or sing their parts. In the year 1613 Qu. Anne the royal Consort of K. Jam. 1. made her abode for some weeks within the City of bath, purposely for the use of the waters there. In which time he composed a song of four parts, and instructed his Scholars to sing it very perfectly, as also to play a lesson or two, (which he had composed) on their wind-instruments. On the eleventh of June the same year, the Queen in her return from bath did intend to pass over the Downs at Wensdyke within the Parish of Bishops-Cannings: Of which Ferebe having timely notice, he dressed himself in the habit of an old Bard, and caused his Scholars (whom he had instructed) to be clothed in Shepherds weeds. The Queen having received notice of these People, she with her retinue made a stand at Wensdyke; whereupon these Musicians drawing up to her, played a most admirable lesson on their wind-instruments. Which being done, they sang their lesson of four parts with double voices, the beginning of which was this.  
Shine, O thou sacred Shepherd's Star  
On silly Shepherd swains, etc.  
Which being well performed also, the Bard concluded with an Epilogue, to the great liking and content of the Queen and her company. Afterwards he was sworn Chaplain to his Majesty, and was ever after much valued for his ingenuity.  

Oct. 31. Rich. Haydock of New  
Feb. 5. Thom. Floyd of Jesus 

Coll.     
Adm. 51.   

Bach. of Diu.  
Jan. 20. James Bisse of Magd. Coll.  
Besides him were only four more admitted, but not one of them was afterwards a Writer, or Bishop, etc.  
☞ Not one Doctor of Law or Physic was admitted this year.   

Doct. of Diu.  
Oct. 10. Thom. Ravis of Ch. Ch.  
Nou. 6. Hen. Caesar alias Athelmare or Adelmare lately of Ball. Coll. (where to this day are certain Lodgings called from him Caesar's Lodgings) now of St. Edm. hall, was then admitted or licenced to proceed— This worthy Doctor, who was the third Son (Sir Julius Caesar being the first, and Sir Thomas one of the Barons of the Exchequer the second) of Caesar Dalmarius a Doctor of Physic, became Preb. of Westminster in the stall of Dr. Rich. Wood in the month of Sept. 1609, and Dean of Ely in the place of Humphrey tindal deceased, an. 1614 where dying 27. June 1636. aged 72, was buried on the North side of the Presbytery of the Cath. Church there. He gave to Jesus Coll. in Cambridge two Fellowship of 12 l. per an. apiece, and five Scholarships of 5 l. per. an. conditionally that the Fellows and Scholars be elected from the King's Free-school at Ely, etc.  

Nou. 10. 

Rog. Hacket  
Joh. Lloyd 

of New Coll.       

Jan. 20. 

James Bisse of Magd.  
Ralph Ravens of St. John's 

Coll.       
The first of these two accumulated.  

30. 

Francis Godwin of Ch. Ch.  
Joh. Baber of Linc.  
Feb. 14. Henry Parry of C. C. 

Coll.        

Incorporations.  
Jul. 15. Rich. Stock M. A. of Cambr.— He was born in the City of York, educated in St. John's Coll. in Cambr. was afterwards Minister of Alhallows in Breadstreet in London for the space of about 32 years, a constant, judicious, and religious Preacher, a zealous Puritan and a reformer of profanations on the Lord's day. He hath written and published several things, among which are (1) Doctrine and use of repentance to be practised by all. Lond. 1610. oct. (2) Sermon at the funeral of John Lord Harrington Baron of Exton, etc. at Exton in Rutlandsh. on the last of March 1614 on Micah 2. ver. 1. 2. Lond. 1614 oct. (3) Commentary on the Prophecy of Malachy. Lond. 1641. fol. Sam. torshel is esteemed the half Author of it. (4) Stock of divine knowledge, etc. Lond. 1641. qu. (5) Truths Champion, etc. He gave way to fate 
* 〈…〉  20. Apr. 1626., and was buried in the Church of Allhallows before mentioned.  
Hen. Withers D. of D. of Cambr. was incorporated the same day.   

Creations.  
Oct. 1. Alex. Nowell Dean of S. Paul's Cathedral and Principal of Brasn. Coll. was actually created Doctor of Diu. in the house of Convocation.    

An. Dom. 1596.  
An. 38 Elizab.  
An. 39 Elizab.  
Chanc. the same.  
Vicechanc. Tho. Ravis D. D. Dean of Ch. Ch. Jul. 17.  

Proct. 

Abel Gower of Oriel Coll.  
Rowl. Searchfeild of S. Joh. Coll. 

Apr. 21.       

Bach. of Arts.  
May. 8. Josias White of New Coll.  
24. Fran. Gorge of Ch. Ch.— He was the eldest Son of the Marchioness of Northampton named Helen, the Widow of Will. Parr Marq. of Northamption, who had married Sir Tho. Gorge of Wilts Knight.  
Jun. 16. Joh. Bancroft of Ch. Ch.— He was afterwards Bishop of Oxon.  

July 8. 

Rich. Carpenter  
Sim. Baskervile 

of Ex. Coll.       
Of the last you may see more among the Doctors of Physic an. 1611.  
14. Joh. Hanmer of Alls. Coll.— He was afterwards Bishop of S. Asaph.  
Dec. 2. Robert Bolton of Brasn. Coll.  
Jan. 29. Henry Tilson of Vniu. Coll.— He was afterwards Bish. of Elphine in Ireland.  

Jan. 31. 

Franc. Rous  
Charles Fitz-Geffry    
Feb. 3. Degory Where 

of Broadgates' Hall.     
23. George Calvert. of Trin. Coll.  
H. Tilson will be at large remembered among the Bishops, and Rouse and Where among the Writers in the second Vol.  
Admit. 133.   

Doct. of Music.  
Jul. 10. Robert Stevenson Bach. of Music, was licenced to proceed in the said Faculty, but whether he did proceed or stood in the Act this, or the next year, it appears not— See more in 1587.   

Mast. of Arts.  
Apr. 29. Thom. Morris of S. Mary's Hall, an Esquires Son, and a Berkshire man born of an ancient Family, was then admitted M. of A. but whether ever he took the degree of Bach. of that Faculty, it appears not.— I find one Tho. Morrice M. of A. to be Author of An apology for Schoolmasters, etc. Lond. 1619. oct. who, I presume, is the same who had put out Digesta scholastica in gratiam puerorum edita, etc. Oxon. 1617. oct. with the two letters of T. M. only, and the Arms of the University of Oxon, put in the Title Page. Whether Tho. Morrice M. of A. be the same with T. M. of Oxon, and both the same with Thom. Marrice of S. Mary's Hall before mentioned, I must leave it to the Reader to judge.  
March 5. Peter Bowne of C. C. Coll.  
Adm. 53.   

Bach. of Physic.  
Tho none were this year admitted Bachelaurs of Physic, yet several were admitted to practise it, among whom was a certain Millaneeses called Scipio Balsam of Magd. Coll. one, Dec. 17. and Joh. More sometimes of Vniu. Coll. another.   

Bach. of Diu.  

Mar 26. Alex. Cook of Vniu.  
June 23. Rob. Tighe of Magd. 

Coll.     
The last was lately incorporated M. of A.— See in the Incorporations following.  

Jul. 7. Rich Kilbye of Line.  
Dec. 4. Joh. Spot of S. Joh. 

Coll.     
The last of which was about this time Canon of Exeter.  
Adm. 18.  
☞ Not one Doct. of Law or Phys. was admitted this year.   

Doct. of Diu.  

Mar. 31. 

Edm. Watts of Brasn.  
Joh. Bourne of Trinity.  
Arth. Aubrey of S. Joh. 

Coll.       
The said Joh. Bourne was now Treasurer of the Cath. Church of Wells, which Dignity he resigning, Rob. Wright D. D. of Trin. Coll. was admitted thereunto 21 Dec. 1601.  

July 7. 

Rich. Kilbye of Linc. Coll. who accumulated.  
Joh. Dove of Ch. Ch.     
9 Joh. Perin of S. Joh. Coll. Greek Professor of the University.— He was afterwards Canon of Ch. Church.  
Nou. 22. Rob. Abbot of Ball. Coll.  
Dec. 7. Rich. Field of Qu. Coll. sometimes of Magd. Hall.  

Feb. 5. 

Rich Latewar  
Joh. Buckridge 

of S. Joh. Coll.       
Mar. 11. Joh. Harding of Magd. Coll. Hebrew Professor of the University.— He was afterwards Precedent of that Coll.   

Incorporations.  
Apr. 9 Francis Covert. LL. D. of Leyden.— He died at Chalden in Surrey 1609.  
June 21. Rob. Tighe M. A. of Cambr. an excellent Linguist.  
Jul. 1. Rich. Thomson M. A. of the same University.— This learned person who was a Dutch man born of English Parents, and educated in Clare Hall, is styled by a noted 
a 〈…〉 in Hist; 〈◊〉 etc. Lond. 1674. p. ●01▪  Presbyterian The grand propagator of Arminianism, and by 
b 〈…〉 in his 〈…〉 etc. Lond. 1630. qu. at the end, 〈…〉.  another A deboist drunken English Dutchman who seldom went one night to bed sober. Yet a noted writer 
c Rich. Montague in his Pref. to his 〈◊〉 on the first part of the Hist. 〈◊〉, etc. Lond. 〈◊〉. 1.  who knew him well tells us, that he was a most admirable Philologer, that he was better known in Italy, France and Germany, than at home. He hath written (1) Elenchus refutationis Torturae Torti pro reverendiss. Episcopo Eliense, adversus Matinum Becanum. Lond. 1611. (2) Diatriba de amissione & intercessione gratiae & justificationis. Lugd. Bat. 1618. and 18. oct. and other things One of both his names, was, as a M. of A. of Cambr. incorporated in this University 1593., which I take to be the same with this.  
Jul. 9 Joh. Sherwood Doct. of Phys. of the University of Rheims.— He was about this time an eminent practitioner of his Faculty in the City of Bath, being much resorted to by those of the Rom. Cath. Religion, he himself being of that profession. He died in Feb. 1620, and was buried in the Church of S. Pet. and Paul in that City.  
Thom. Playfere D. of D. of Cambridge, was incorporated the same day.— He was a Kentish man 
d 〈…〉.  born, educated in S. Joh. Coll. in Cambr. of which he was Fellow, and succeeded Pet. Baro in the Margaret Professorship of that University about 1596, at which time he was esteemed a person of great Eloquence and fluency in the Latin Tongue. The titles of several of his Works (which were collected into one Volume) you may see in the Bodleian Catalogue. He died in the latter end of the year (in Jan. or Feb.) 1608. and was buried in S. Botolph's Church in Cambridge.   

Creations.  
Apr. 2. Georg. à Missinbuck Ambassador to the Queen of England from the Landgrave of Hassia, was actually created Master of Arts in the Convocation house; and at the same time was with great civility treated by the chief Heads of the University.    

An. Dom. 1597.  
An. 39 Eliz.  
An. 40 Eliz.  
Chanc. the same.  
Vicechanc. Dr. Tho. Ravis again, July 14.  

Proct. 

Joh. Purkhurst of Magd. Coll.  
Rich. Trafford of Mert. Coll. 

Apr. 6.       

Bach. of Arts.  
Apr. 12. Joh. White of New Coll.— He was afterwards known by the name of the Patriarch of Dorchester.  

37. Aegeon Askew of Qu.  
May 9 Rob. Vilvaine of Exet. 

Coll.     
12. Rog. Matthew of Qu. Coll.— See among the Masters an. 1600.  
27. Rob. Barnes of Magd. Coll.— See among the Bach. of Diu. 1610.  
Jun. 4. Edmund Coffin of Exeter Coll.— He was an excellent Grecian, and afterwards Schoolmaster of Saltash in Cornwall for 40 years; in which time he sent many Scholars to both the Universities, especially this of Oxon. One Edw. Coffin a Devonian and a learned man, was entered into the Society of Jesus in England, an. 1598., and educated, as I have been informed, in the English Coll. at Rome.  
Jul. 15. Isaac Wake the noted Orator.  
Oct. 20. Theophilus higgon's of Ch. Ch.  
Nou. 5. Will. Lo of S. Alb. Hall.  

Dec. 5. 

Michael boil  
Joh. Sandsbury. 

of S. Joh. Coll.       
The first of which two, was afterwards a Bishop in Ireland.  
Feb. 25. George Wall of Brasn. Coll.— See in the year 1616.  
Joh. White, Rob. Vilvaine, and Th. Higgens, are to be remembered at large in the next Vol.  
Adm. 129.   

Bach. of Law.  
Oct. 29. James Cook of New Coll.  
Nou. 22. Oliver Lloyd of Alls. Coll.— See among the Doct. of Law 1602.  
But one more besides these two, was admitted this year.   

Mast. of Arts.  

July 2. 

Joh. Tapsell  
Thom. Allen 

of Mert. Coll.       
5. Tobias Matthew of Ch. Ch.  

6. Rob. Wakeman of Ball.  
Nou. 5. Alex. Spicer of Ex.  
16. Will. Vaughan of Jes. 

Coll.     
Adm. 55.   

Bach. of Diu.  
June 6. Henr. Perry of Jesus Coll. sometimes of Gloc. Hall. Rich. Brett of Linc. Coll. was admitted the same day.  

30. 

Rowl. Searchfield  
Thom. Hutton  
Hen. Price 

of S. Joh. Coll.       

July 7. 

Hen. Wilkinson  
Franc. Mason 

of Mert. Coll.       

12. 

Joh. Aglionby  
Rich. Crakanthorpe 

of Queens Coll.       

Dec. 15. 

Rob. Tinley  
Rich. Boughton 

of Magd. Coll.       
On the 6 March 1605, the said Boughton was admitted Chauntor of the Cath. Church of Wells in the place of Jam. Cottington deceased.  
Mar. 13. John Pelling of Magd. Coll.— He was a Minister's Son of Wilts, and published A serm. of the providence of God, on 1 Pet. 5. 7. Lond. 1607. qu. and perhaps other things.  
Admit. 20.   

Doct. of Law.  
July 9 Will. Aubrey of Ch. Ch.— He was a learned Civilian, but hath published nothing.  
☞ Not one Doctor of Phys. was admitted this year.   

Doct. of Diu.  

May 9 

Rob. Inkforbie of Magd.  
Will. Vaughan  
Geor Abbot 

of Ball.    
Ralph Kettle of Trin. 

Coll.       
The last of which was soon after Precedent of his College.  

July 2. 

Thom. Singleton Princ. of Brasn.  
Robert Wright of Trin.  
John Williams of Alls. 

Coll.       
The last of which was now Margaret Professor of this University.  
Nou. 16. Rich. Parry of Ch. Ch.   

Incorporations.  
On the twelfth of July, being the next day after the Act had been celebrated, were about twenty Cantabrigians incorporated in several Faculties, among whom were these following.  
Joh. Bridgman Bach. of Arts.— See in the Incorporations, an. 1600.  
Joh. Boys M. of A.— I find two of both his names who were at this time Masters of Arts, viz. Joh. Boys fourth Son of Tho. Boys of Eythorne in Kent, by Christiana his Wife, Dau. and Coheir of Joh. Searle; who being educated in Clare Hall, was afterwards Doct. of Diu. and Dean of Canterbury in the place of Dr. Charles Fotherbie who died 29 Mar. 1619. This J. Boys who died at Eythorne before mentioned (the place of his Nativity) a little after K. Charles 1. came to the Crown, was famous for his Sermons, Expositions, and postils written by him; the Titles of which you may see in the Bodleian or Oxford Catalogue. The other J. Boys who was a Suffolk man born, and Andr. Downe's Scholar, was Fellow of S. Joh. Coll. in the said University, afterwards Prebendary of Ely, and Parson of Boxworth in Cambridgeshire, an excellent Grecian, Divine, and one of the Translators of the Bible, an. 1604. He wrote certain notes upon chrysostom, put out by Sir Hen. Savile, who styles him ingeniosissimus & doctissimus Boysius, and his Notes doctissimas ejus observationes; and other things, by some taken to be written by the former J. Boys. Which of these two was incorporated M. of A. this year, I know not. We have had one Joh. Boys, an Esquires Son of Kent, a Student in University Coll. 1594. Another elected Fellow of Alls. Coll. 1604, who was afterwards Bach. of Law; and a third who took the degree of Bach. of Arts as a Member of Qu. Coll. an. 1606, but not one of these can I yet find was a Writer.  
Roger Gostwyke M. A. of Kings Coll. in Cambr.— He was afterwards Bach. of Diu. Chaplain to Dr. Martin Heton Bishop of Ely and Rector of Sampford Courtney in Devonshire. Among several things that he hath published I have seen these, (1) The anatomy of Anan●as; or, God's censure against Sacrilege. Cambr. 1616. (2) Brief commentary upon Psal. 83 concerning the same Subject. Printed there the same year. (3) The truth of tithes discovered, or the Churches right maintained and defended, etc. Lond. 1618., etc. One Roger Gostwick Rector of Sampford Courtney before mentioned lived to about the year 1655, whether the same with the former, I cannot tell.  
James Spite Bach. of Diu.— He hath one or more sermons in print.  
Benjamin Carier Bach. of Diu.— He was the son of Anthony Carier a learned and devout Preacher, who caused this his son to be strictly educated in the Protestant Religion, and afterwards in Academical literature in the said University of Cambr. where he became Fellow of C. C. Coll. and a noted Scholar and Preacher. About the time that K. James 1. came to the Crown, he proceeded in his Faculty, published one or more Sermons, became Chaplain to him, and one of the first Fellows of Chelsey College, founded by Dr. Matthew Sutcliff. But being then very unsettled in his Religion, he changed it for that of Rome, left the Nation and went to Liege in Germany; where, after some time of continuance, he wrote A missive to his Maj. of Great Britain K. Jam. containing the motives of his conversion to Cath. Religion. etc. Liege 1614 oct. and at the same time A letter of the miserable ends of such as impugn the Cath. Ch. print. 1615. qu. But before Midsummer day in the said year 1614 (12 Jam. 1.) he concluded▪ his last day, putting thereby a period to the great imaginations that men of Learning had of him and his worth, and to the expectation of other Books to be published. In 1649 were printed two Impressions of the said Missive in oct. said in the Title to be printed at Paris, but in truth at London, with a large Preface, and marginal Notes, to it by N. Strange a Rom. Cath. At the end of the said Preface are the names of some who had lately then been Ministers, or University men, in England and Scotland that had been converted to the Church of Rome. Those of Oxon are these, Hugh Paulin de Cressy of Mert. Coll. Hen. Janson LL. D. of Alls. Coll. afterwards a Baronet, but a poor one God wot, Tho. Read L. L. D. of New Coll. Will. rowland's sometimes of Ex. Coll. afterwards Minister of S. Margaret's in Westminster, Will. joiner alias Lyde M. A. of Magd. Coll. Pet. Glue of Ball. Coll. etc.    

An. Dom. 1598.  
An. 40 Eliz.  
An. 41 Eliz.  
Chanc. the same, viz. Tho. Lord Buckhurst.  
Vicechanc. Tho. Singleton D. D. Principal of Brasn. College, July 18.  

Proct. 

Edw. Gee of Brasn.  
Hen. Bellyngham of New 

Coll.       

Bach. of Arts.  

Apr. 27. Rob. Pink of New  
July 8. Rob. Johnson of Magd.  
12. Thomas Winniff of Exet. 

Coll.     
The last of which was afterwards Bishop of Linc.  
Oct. 30. Thom. Baughe of Ch. Ch.— See among the Masters an. 1601.  

Nou. 15. Thom. Overbury of Qu.  
Dec. 14. Geor Warburton of Brasn. 

Coll.     
Of the last you may see more among the Doctors of Diu. created 1636.  
Feb. 1. Toby Venner of S. Alb. Hall.  
16. Will. Higford of C. C. Coll.  
Winniffe, Venner, and Higford, are to be remembered 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. chest of S. Mary's Hall, lately of Oriel Coll. was admitted the same day.— He hath published (1) The way to life, serm. at Paul's Cross, on Amos 5. 6. Lond. 1609. qu. (2) The Christian pathway, Serm. at Paul's 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.  

Nou. 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 Diu.  

May 29. Christoph. Sutton  
June 28. Joh. Randall 

of Linc. Coll.     
Jul. 19 Will. Bradshaw of Vniu. 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 Physic, 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 Diu.  
Jul. 8. Thomas Maxfield of St. Edmund's 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 Ash 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 Eton School near to Windsor, in Academical in Kings Coll. in Cambridge, of which he was Fellow. Afterwards he became Schoolmaster of Eton, one of the Masters of the Chancery, a Knight, Chancellor to the B. of Winchester, and Vicar-general to George Archb. of Canterbury. He was a general Scholar, wrote 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 Paul's 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 year 1615 was buried either in the Chap. belonging to that Coll. or in the Chancel of Market Fankenham in Norfolk, 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 Eton 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 conferred upon him by Mr. Hen. Savile Provost of Eton 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 settled 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 Uniu. of Cambridge— He was an eminent Traveller and a good Soldier, was afterwards sent Ambassador 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 Uniu. 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 Bath and Wells. He was afterwards first the most learned and religious Bishop of Exeter, and afterwards of Norwych.  
Laurence Bend Doct. of Diu. 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 mentioned 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 Sojou●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 show 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.  
Chancellor the same.  
Vicechanc. Dr. Tho. Thornton again, Jul. 16.  

Proct. 

Will. Osbourne of Alls. Coll.  
Franc. Sidney of Ch. Ch. 

Apr. 18.       

Bach. of Arts.  
Apr. 24. Barnab. Potter of Qu. Coll.— He was afterward Bishop of Carlisle.  

Jun. 18. Anth. Duck  
Jul. 8. George Hakewill 

of Exet. Coll.     

23. 

Brian Twine  
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 Or.  
31. Joh. Prideaux of Exeter 

Coll.     
The last of which was afterwards Bishop of Worcester.  
Feb. 2. Joh. Meredyth of St. Mary's hall lately of Oriel Coll.— He was the eldest Son of an Esquire of Sussex, but whether the same with Joh. Meredyth who was afterwards Doct. of Phys. of another University, and at length Subdean of Chichester (an. 1622.) which he resigned 10. Oct. 1627. and retired to his cure of Bedhampton in Hampshire, where heartbroken and purse-broken he soon after died, I know not. Sure it is that John Meredyth who was Subdean of Chichester, wrote and published (1) The sin of blasphemy against the Holy Ghost, on Heb. 10. 16. Lond. 1622. qu. (2) The judge of heresies, one God, one Faith, one Church, out of which there is no salvation. Lond. 1624. qu.  
As for Potter, Duck, Hakewill, Twine, Parsons and Prideaux, their lives and characters are to come into the second vol. of this work.  
Admitted 111.   

Bach. of Law.  
Jul. 2. George Russell of St. John's Coll.— This Person who was a Londoner born, was afterwards Bursar of the said house, but retaining in his hands the College money which he received as Bursar without paying it to the Persons who supplied it with necessaries, slipped away incognito, went beyond the Seas, changed his Religion and became Pensioner to the Archduke of Austria and a Man of note in his Dominions.  
Philipp Cromwell of St. John's Coll. was admitted the same day— He was the fifth Son of Sir Hen Cromwell of H●nchingbro●k in Huntingdonshire, Uncle to Oliver Cromwell sometimes Lord Protector of England. This Philip Cromwell who was a Knight, was Father, by Mary his Wife, (Dau. of Sir Hen. Townsend Knight) to Thomas Cromwell a Major of a Regiment of Horse under K. Ch. 1. in the time of the grand rebellion, and to Oliver Cromwell a Colonel under his Kinsman Oliver Cromwell beforemention'd, when he went as General into Ireland to quell the Royal Party, an. 1649, (in which year he died) and to Philip Cromwell a Commander in the Parliament Army, slain at Bristol.  
Adm. 7.   

Mast. of Arts.  

May 21. 

Joh. Bancroft  
Joh. Sprint 

of Ch. Ch.       
Joh. Rawlinson of St. John's Coll. was admitted the same day.  
Jul. 5. George Andrew of Magd. hall.— He was afterwards a Bishop in Ireland, as I have before told you.  
Jan. 17. Josias White of New Coll.  
Adm. 73.   

Bach. of Diu.  
June 14. Edm. Griffith of Brasn. Coll.  
Jul. 5. Rich. Eton of Linc. Coll.— He was about this time Pastor of Great Budworth in Cheshire (in which County he was born) and hath published A Sermon at the funeral of Tho. Dutton of Dutton Esque who yielded to nature 28. Dec. 1615, on Psal. 90. ver. 12. Lond. 1616. qu. and perhaps other things, Quaere.  
Adm. 5.   

Doct. of Law.  
Jun. 23. Barthelm. Jesop of Magd. Coll.— This Person who was fourth Son of Walt. Jesop of Chilcombe in Dorsetsh. Gent. was a learned Civilian, and about this time Chancellor to the Bishop of Sarum. He lived and died a single Man 21. July 1620 and was buried in Christ Church near Newgate in London.  
27. Zachar. Babington of Mert. Coll. who accumulated— He was about this time Chancellor to the Bishop of Lich. and Coventry, and died 1614 or thereabouts.  
Jul. 6. Edmund Pope of Al●souls Coll.— He was about this time Chancellor to the Bishop of Rochester, and afterwards Surrogate to the Judge of the Prerogative Court of Canterbury. He died in the Parish of St. Botolph without Aldersgate, London, an. 1630.  
James Baylic of Alls. Coll. also, admitted the same day being about this time Chancellor to the Bish. of Hereford.  
☞ Not one Doctor of Phys. was admitted this year.   

Doct. of Diu.  
Jul. 2. George Ryves of New Coll. Prebendary of Winchester— In Dec. following he was elected Warden of the said Coll. and dying on the last of May 1613 was buried, as I conceive, in the Chapel belonging thereunto.  
6. Giles Robinson of Queens Coll.   

Incorporations.  
July 5. leonard Maw M. A. of Cambridge— He was Fellow of Peter house, and afterwards Master thereof, Master of Trin. College, Prebendary of Wells, Doct. of Diu. Chaplain to Pr. Charles, (on whom he waited when he was in Spain to Court the Infanta) and at length Bish. of B. and Wells upon the translation of Dr. Laud to London, but enjoying that office for a little while, died at Chiswick in Middlesex 2. Sept. 1629; whereupon his body was buried there on the 16 day of the same month. He was the Son of Sim. Maw of Wrendlesham in Suffolk Gent. by Margery his Wife, Dau. and Coheir of Thom. Wyld of Yorkshire and Alice his Wife, Dau. and Heir of Joh. Jaye of Suffolk.  
Robert Tounson M. of A. of the said University, was incorporated on the same day— He was about this time Fellow of Queens Coll. there, was afterwards Doctor of Divinity, Dean of Westminster in the place of Dr. George Mountaigne promoted to the See of Lincoln, an. 1617.; and at length Bishop of Salisbury: to which See he was consecrated at Lambeth by the Archbishop, and his Assistants Lincoln, Rochester and Chester, on the 9 of July 1620. He died in a mean condition on the 15 of May 1621., and was buried on the South side of the long isle, over against St. Edmund's Chapel in St. Peter's Church, within the City of Westminster, leaving then behind him a Widow named Margaret and fifteen Children. After him succeeded in the See of Salisbury Dr. John Davenant the Head or Master of Queens Coll. in, and Margaret Professor of, the University of Cambridge; who was consecrated on the 18. of Nou. 1621., having received 
* 〈…〉 Annal. R. Jac. 1. MS. sub an. 16●1.  a command from the King that he should not take to him a Wife. He departed this mortal life on the 20 of Apr. 1641, and was buried in the South isle joining to the Cath. Ch. of Salisbury.  
Hen. Butts M. of A. and Fellow of Corp. Ch. Coll. in Cambridge, was incorporated also on the same day (Jul. 5.) and afterwards succeeded Dr. Sam. Walsall in the Headship of that House— He hath written Diets dry dinner, consisting of eight several courses, (1) Fruits, etc. Lond. 1599 oct. See more of this Hen. Butts in Dan. Price among the Writers, an. 1631.  
Jul. 10. Peter Turner Doct. of Phys. of Heidelberg 28 years before this time (afterwards incorporated at Cambridge, where he had his first education) was incorporated in this University, as he had stood at Heidelberg and Cambridge— He was the Son of Dr. Will. Turner sometimes Dean of Wells, whom I have mentioned among the Writers, under the year 1568; and dying on the 27 of May 1614 aged 72 years, was buried in the Chancel of the Church of St. Olaves in Hartstreet, London, leaving then behind him several Sons of whom Samuel was one, and Peter another, as I shall tell you elsewhere. One Mistress Anne Turner, the Widow of a Doctor of Physic had an especial hand in the poisoning of Sir Tho. Overbury; for which she was executed at Tybourne, an. 1615. whether she was the second Wife and Widow of this Dr. Peter Turner, I know not.  
Oct. 30. Rich. Pilkington M. of A. of Cambridge.   

Creations.  
June…Hen. Cotton Bishop of Salisbury, sometimes Master of Arts of Magd. Coll. was actually created Doctor of Divinity at Salisbury by Dr. Edm. lily Vicechancellor, Dr. Tho. Holland the King's Professor of Divinity, and both the Proctors (with the Superior Beadle of Divinity attending them) by virtue of a Commission from the Vicechancellor, dated 2 of June 1599    

An. Dom. 1600.  
An. 42 Elizab.  
An. 43 Elizab.  
Chanc. the same, viz. Tho. Lord Buckhurst.  
Vicechanc. George Abbot D. D. Master of Vniu. Coll. Jul. 15.  

Proct. 

Nich. Langford of Ch. Ch.  
Laur. Humphrey (Son of Laur.) of Magd. Coll. 

Apr. 2.       

Bach. of Music.  
Jul…. Henry Porter of Ch. Ch.— Some of his compositions I have seen, but none of them, I think, are extant. He was Father to Walt. Porter sometimes Gentleman of the royal Chapel of King Ch. 1. and Master of the Choristers at Westminster, author of Mottets of two voices for Treble, or Tenor and Bass, etc. to be performed to an Organ, Harpsycon, Lute or Bass-viol. Lond. 1657. fol. The words of some of the Mottets are taken out of the learned▪ Poet George Sandys his Paraphrase on the Psalms of David. This Person who had been patronised in his endeavours by Sir Edw. Spencer, was after his ejectment from his office in the beginning of the grand rebellion, exhibited to in his old age by Edw. Laurence Esq.   

Bach. of Arts.  
Jun. 5. Rob. Harris of Magd. hall.  
17. Rob. Mandevill of Qu. Coll.  
Jul. 4. David Jenkins of St. Edm. hall— Afterwards the famous Welsh Judge.  

7 

Humph. Lynd  
Will. Piers 

of Ch. Ch.       
The last of which was afterwards Bish. of B. and Wells.  

10. Joh. Dunster of Magd.  
Oct. 14. Will. Twysse of New  
Dec. 4. Isaac Singleton of Brasn. 

Coll.     
Of the last you may see more among the Masters, an. 1604.  
Dec. 11. George Browne of St. Joh. Coll.— He soon after changed his Religion, went beyond the Seas, and I think was made a R. Cath. Priest.  
Feb. 8. Dabridgcourt Belchier of Ch. Ch.— This Person who was the eldest Son of Will. Belcher of Gillesborough in Northamptonshire Esque translated into English, Hans Beer-pot his visible Comedy, of see me and see me not. Acted in the Low-countries by an honest company of Health-drinkers Lond. 1618. qu. Which translation was made at Vtrecht, in 1617., about which time he wrote several Poems and made other translations, but whether published, I cannot tell. He died in the Low-countries in 1621.  
As for Rob. Harris, D. Jenkins, Will. Piers, and Will. Twysse will be large mention made in the second vol. of Writers, and Bishops.  
Adm. 115.   

Mast. of Arts.  

Apr. 5. 

Joh. Hanmer  
Rich. Moket 

of Alls. Coll.       
Jun. 4. Theoph. higgon's of Ch. Ch.  

14. Will. Lo of St. Alb.  
10. Degorie Where of Broadg. 

hall    
17. 

Aegeon Askew  
Rog. Matthew 

of Qu. Coll.       
The last of which, who was a Warwickshire Man born, hath published The flight of time, on Job 9 25.— printed 1634. qu. and perhaps other things.  

July 4. 

Joh. Denison of Ball. Coll.  
Charles Fitz-Geffry of Broadgates' hall.     

8. Theodore Goulson of Mert.  
11. Rob. Vilvaine of Exet. 

Coll.     
12. Dudley Carleton of Ch. Ch.  
Jan. 16. Joh. White of New Coll.  
Adm. 89.   

Bach. of Diu.  
Apr. 14. Edw. Gee of Brasn. Coll.  
Thom. Cooper of Ch. Ch. was admitted the same day— He was a Londoner born, became Student of Ch. Ch. from Westm. School an. 1586, was about this time beneficed at, or near, Oundle in Northamptonshire, and was Author of The Worldlings adventure, etc. in two Sermons, at the visitation of the Free Grammar School at Oundle in Northamptonshire, on Matth. 16. 26. Lond. 1619. qu. One of both his names and an Oxford Man, was Author of Nonae Novembris aeternitati consecratae, etc. Oxon 1607. qu. written in verse and prose, but whether by the former Tho. Cooper, I cannot justly say, because he doth not write himself in the title Bach. of Diu. as in the former book. Besides these two Tho. Cooper's, were two more of the same time also, and Writers, (besides Tho. Cooper B. of Winchester) but whether both of them were of Oxon, I cannot tell.  

June 27. Rich. Pilkington of Qu.  
Jul. 16. Will. Thorn of New  
Dec. 14. Sebastian Benefield of C. C. 

Coll.     
Admitted 44.   

Doct. of Law.  
Feb. 4. Jam. Hussee of New Coll.— He was afterwards Principal of Magd. hall, Chancellor to the B. of Salisbury, a Knight by the favour of K. Jam. 1. and dying at Oxford of the plague on the eleventh of July 1625 was buried late at night without any solemnity or company (only by two that carried his Corpse) in the Chancel of St. Mary's Church in Oxon.  
☞ Not one Doctor of Phys. was admitted this year.   

Doct. of Diu.  
Apr. 14. Leonard Hutten of Ch. Ch.  

Jun. 17. 

Hen. Airay  
John Aglionby 

of Qu. Coll.       

Jul. 7. 

Rich. Brook  
Nathan. Dod 

compounders of Ch. Ch.       
10. Rob. Tinley of Magd. Coll.   

Incorporations.  
Jul. 4. John Bridgman M. of A. of Cambridge— He was afterwards D. of D. Master of Magd. Coll. in that University, Chaplain to K. Jam. 1. by whose favour he became Rector of the rich Church of Wigan in Lancashire, in January. 1615, Bishop of Chester, in 1618. and in June 1621. Rector of Bangor, which he held in Commend. with his Bishopric. He was Father to Sir Orlando Bridgman Knight and Bt. sometimes Lord Keeper of the Great Seal, and a sufferer in some measure for the cause of his Maj. K. Ch. 1. He died in Teddington or Tuddington in Middlesex, in in Summer time 1674.  
9 Gedeon damn Man or Montmartin Son of a Noble Man, and Master of Arts of Cambridge.  
Wolfgangus Mayer M. A. of the said University, was incorporated on the same day.— He was Grandson by the Mother's side to Martin Bucer.  
10. Jerem. Ratcliff D. D. of Cambridge.  
John Down Bach. of Diu. of the said University was incorporated the same day— He was educated in Emanuel College, the members of which presented him to the Vicarage of Winsford in Somersetshire, where he continued for a while. Afterwards he became Rector of Instow in Devonshire, where he died and was buried, about 1631. Ten of his Treatises (the first of which is A Treatise concerning the force and efficacy of reading) were published after his death by Dr. George Hakewill his neighbour— Oxon. 1633. qu. with a funeral Sermon before them, preached by the said Doctor, containing many things in behalf of the Author and the said Treatises, as also an Epistle by Dr. Hall Bishop of Exon, wherein are several Encomiums of the Author.  
11. Will. Paddie Doct. of Phys. of Leyden— He stands in the public register as twice incorporated; see in the year 1591. He was esteemed one of the prime Physicians of his time, and was highly valued by the chief Men of his faculty, especially by Sir Theodore de Mayerne. He gave way to fate in Decemb. 1634. and was buried in St. John's Coll. Chappel. Oxon where is a large Epitaph over his grave.  
Edw. Ratcliff Doct. of Phys. of Cambr. was incorporated the same day.  

15. 

Rob. Williamson  
Richard Neile 

D. D. of the same University.       
The last of these two Doctors of Diu. was one who passed through all Degrees and Orders in the Church of England, and thereby made acquainted with the conveniences and distresses, incident to all conditions. He served the Church as Schoolmaster, Curate, Vicar, Parson, Master of the Savoy, Dean of Westminster in the place of Lanc. Andrews promoted to the See of Chichester, (in which Dignity he was installed 5. Nou. 1605.) Clerk of the Closet to both Kings (Jam. 1. and Ch. 1.) successively, Bishop of Rochester 1608, (with which he kept his Deanery in Commendam) Lichfield and Cou. two years after, Lincoln 1613, Durham 1617. Winchester 1628., and lastly in 1631 Archbishop of York, in which honour he died 31. Oct. 1640 (being but three days before the Long Parliament began) and was buried in St. Peter's Church in Westminste●. He was born of honest Parents in Kingstreet in the City of Westminster (his Father being a Tallow Chandler) and educated in the College School there; whence being elected into St. John's Coll. in Cambridge, made great proficiency in Academical learning. Afterwards entering into Orders, he became, after some petite employments, Chaplain to Sir Will. Cecil. L. Burghley and to Rob. his Son afterwards Earl of Salisbury, who put him into the road of prefement. Many good offices he had done to the Church and Churchmen in his attendance at the Court, crossing 
a See in the 〈…〉 written by 〈…〉.  the Scots in most of their suits for Ecclesiastical preferments, which greedily and ambitiously they hunted after, whereby he drew on himself the general hatred not only of the Scots, but scotizing English. He died as full of years, as he was of honours, an affectionate Subject to his Prince, an indulgent Father to his Clergy, a bountiful Patron to his Chaplains, and a true friend to all who r●l●ed upon him. These things though generally known, yet inveterate Prynne spares not to 
b 〈…〉, 1646. p. 531.  call him a Popish and Armi●ian Prelate, a persecutor of all Orthodox and Godly Ministers, a preferrer of popish Arminian Clergy men, with a great deal of such stuff, not here to be mentioned. He is supposed to be Author of a book intit. Spalato's shift in Religion, written against Marc. Ant. de Dominis Archb. of Spalleto, and of other matters. Qu●re.  
Jul. 16. Randolph Ba●low M. of A. of Cambridge— I take him to be the same with Ranulph Barlow Master of Arts of Pembroke hall in that University, afterwards Doct. of Divinity, Archdeacon of Winchester in the place of Mich. Renniger deceased, 1609. and Archb. of Tuam in Ireland. 1629.  
Rich. Senhouse M. A. of the same University, was incorporated the same day— He was the Son of Rich. Senhouse of Alnborough hall in Cumberland, was Fellow of St. John's Coll. in the said University, installed Dean of Gloucester in the place of Dr. Laud, promoted to the See of St. David, 13. Dec. 1621., and shortly after became Bishop of Carlisle. He died in the beginning of the year 1626. (2. Car. 1) leaving then behind him the character of an excellent Preacher.  
Theophilus' Field M. A. of the same University, was also incorporated with Senhouse— He was Son of John Field mentioned among the Writers, under the year 1587., was educated in Pemb. hall, consecrated Bishop of Landaff 10. Oct. 1619, and thence was translated to Hereford and soon after died. He hath written A Christian preparation to the Lords Supper, printed 1624. in oct. besides several Sermons and other things.  
Rob. newel. M. A. of the same Univers. was also then incorporated with Senhouse— This Person who was half Brother to Dr. Rich. Neile beforemention'd, became Archd. of Buckingham in the beginning of the year 1614, Prebendary of the ninth stall in the collegiat Church of St. Peter at Westminster, in the place of one Cuthb. Bellot, an. 1620, and was afterwards, or about the same time, Treasurer of Chichester, Canon of Lichfield, Subdean of Linc. and Preb. of Durham. He died (at Winchester I think) in 1643 and was succeeded in his Prebendship of Westminster by Gilb. Wimberley D. D. and in his Archdeaconry by Giles thorn D. D. but who in his other Dignitaries I cannot yet tell.  
At the same time was incorporated M. of A. one John Owen, whom I take to be the same with John Owen, who was bred in Jesus Coll. in Cambridge, and afterwards Bishop of St. Asaph— Besides the said four Masters of Arts who were incorporated 16. July, were incorporated one and twenty more.  
This year also was incorporated Joh. Hone Doct. of the Civil Law of Cambridge, but the month or day when, appears not, neither for John cowel Dr. of the same faculty for whom there was a supplicate made, which being granted simpliciter, there's no doubt but that he was incorporated. Of him I desire the reader to know that he was a Devonian born, was elected from Eton School to be Scholar of Kings Coll. in Cambridge an. 1570. and was made Proctor of the said University an. 1586. Afterwards he became Master of Trinity hall there, the King's Professor of the Civil Law, Vicechancellor, Doctor, as 'tis 
a The continuator of Tho. Hatchers Cat. of Provosts, Fellows and 〈◊〉 of Kings Coll. in 〈◊〉. MS.  said, of the Arches, and Vicar-general to Dr. Bancroft Archb. of Canterbury. His writings are (1) Institutiones juris Anglicani ad methodum institutionum Justiniani compositae. Cantab. 1605. oct. etc. (2) The Interpreter: or book, containing the signification of words, etc. Cambr. 1607. qu. etc. afterwards printed in fol. But several passages therein, relating to the King's Prerogative, giving offence, because in some cases, he saith it is limited, the said book was called in, and on the 26. March 1610. there was published an 
b 〈◊〉 in Annal. R. Jac. 1. MS. an. 1610.  edict against it. This being the reason, as most Scholars think, I cannot be of the same opinion with one 
c 〈…〉 in his Court and 〈…〉 James printed 1650. in oct. p. 191.  (no friend to the memory of King Jam. 1.) who tells us that in the said Interpreter, 'tis said that that King took not the usual Oath all Kings are bound unto, at their coronation, etc. One John cowel or Covell LL. D. became Prebendary of Timbrescombe in the Church of Wells, upon the deprivation of Joh. Faber, an. 1554. temp. Mariae 1. but what relation there was between him and the former I know not.    

An. Dom. 1601.  
An. 43 Elizab.  
An. 44 Elizab.  
Chanc. the same, viz. Thom. Lord Buckhurst.  
Vicechanc. George R●ves D. D. Warden of New Coll. Jul. 17.  

Proct. 

George Benson of Qu. Coll.  
Gerard Massey of Brasn. Coll. 

Apr. 22.       
The junior was afterwards nominated Bishop of Chester, 〈◊〉 died before consecration.  

Bach. of Arts.  
Jul. 1. Dudley Digges of Vnivers. Coll.— He was afterwards Master of the Rolls.  
6. John Ferebe or Ferriby of Magd. hall.— See among the Master's 1606.  
10. Dan. Price of Exet. Coll.  
Oct. 23. Nathan. Canon of St. Mary's hall.  
Nou. 3. Sam. Browne of Alls. Coll.  
Jan. 26. Francis Windebank of St. John's Coll.— He was the eldest Son of Sir Tho. Windebank of Haines hill in the Parish of Hurst in Berks. Knight, (sometimes one of the Clerks of the Signet) and became intimately acquainted with Dr. Will. Laud while he studied in the said Coll. of St. John; by whose endeavours, when Bish. of London, he obtained for him of his gracious Master K. Ch. 1. the secretaryship of State, in the place of Sir Dudley Carleton Viscount Dorchester deceased; to which office he was sworn 15. June 1632, and about that time received the honour of Knighthood. Afterwards he became 
d See the 〈◊〉 of the life of Will. L●nd. printed 164●. p. 19  ungrateful to his promoter, and much hated by the Puritan for his high acting in his office. Which being by that Party made notorious, several articles were drawn up against him, and presented to that unhappy Parliament which began at Westminster 3. Nou. 1640. Whereupon flying beyond the Seas, wrote a Letter to the Lord Chamberlain in his own defence, that. at Calais XI. Jan. 1640, which was soon after printed. When K. Ch. 1. retired to Oxon, after Edghill battle, Sir Francis returned înto England, went to, and endeavoured to speak with, his Majesty, but his Maj▪ refusing to have any communication with him, he went beyond the Seas again, and died at Paris 1/11 Sept. 1646. Among the Sons he had, Sir Thomas Windebank the eldest, was one, who was of the Privy Chamber to His Majesty, and another called Colonel Franc. Windebanke Governor of Blechingdon house in Oxfordshire; who for surrendering it to Col. Oliver Cromwell upon first summons about the 24. Apr. 1645, was shot to death in Broken hays near Oxon; whereupon his body was buried in one of the Chancels of the Church of St. Mary Magd. in the North suburb of that City, on the third of May following.  
Feb. 11. Sam. Turner of St. Mary's hall— See among the Master's 1604.  

13. 

Daniel Fairclough  
Joh. Bery or Bury  
George Web 

of C. C. Coll.       
The last of which was afterwards Bishop of Limerick in Ireland.  
Canon, Fairclough, Bury and Webbe will be mentioned in the second vol.  
Admitted 177   

Mast of Arts.  
May 17. Thom. Winniff of Exeter Coll.  
Jun. 20. Thom. Baughe of Ch. Ch.— He published a Sermon entit. A Summons to judgement, on Job 31. 14. Lond. 1614 qu. and perhaps others, which is all I know of him, only that he was a Cheshire Man born, and that in seeking after the Rectory of the Church of St. Sepulchre in London, found a sepulchre therein, (being buried there) on which his pleasant friend Tho. Freeman the Poet hath an 
a In his Poems called Run and a great cast, being the second part of his Epigrams, printed 〈◊〉. Epigr. 97.  ingenious Epigram.  

25. 

Mich. boil  
Joh. Sandsbury 

of S. Joh. Coll.       

Jul. 1. Henry Tilson of Vniu.  
10. Robert Johnson of Magd.  
Jan. 21. Robert Pink of New 

Coll.     
Adm. 86.   

Bach. of Physic.  
Not one was admitted to the said Degree, only some to practise Physic, among whom were  

Nou. 28. 

Henr. Savile M. A.  
Edm. Deane B. A.     
Both originally of Merton Coll. now of St. Alban hall.   

Bach. of Diu.  
Dec. 17. Joh. Howson of Ch. Ch.  
Besides him were but 4 admitted, among whom Ralph Ironside of University Coll. was one, Father to Dr. Gilb. Ironside who became Bishop of Bristol, an. 1660.   

Doct. of Law.  
Feb. 4. Samson Hussee of New Coll.— He was Brother to Jam. Hussee mentioned in the year before.  
☞ Not one Doctor of Physic was admitted this year.   

Doct. of Diu.  

Dec. 17. 

John King  
John Howson 

of Ch. Ch.       
The last of which accumulated; and both were afterwards Bishops.  
Feb. 15. Charles Ryves of New Coll.   

Incorporations.  
Apr. 6. Rob. Dallyngton M. of A. of Cambridge— He was born in Northamptonshire, educated in Pembroke hall, of which he was Greek-Scholar, and after became 
b 〈◊〉. Ful●r in his 〈◊〉 of England, in Northamptonshire.  a Schoolmaster in Norfolk: where having gained some money, he traveled all over France and Italy, was exact in his observations, and after his return, became first Secretary to the Earl of Rutland, than one of the Privy Chamber to Prince Charles, Master of the Charter-house (into the School at which place he brought the custom of Chapter verses or versifying on passages of Holy Scripture) and at length a Knight. He hath written (1) A survey of the great Duke's state in Tuscany, an. 1596. Lond. 1605. qu. (2) A method for travel, showed by taking view of France, as it stood in the year 1598. printed at Lond. in qu. (3) Aphorisms Civil and Military; amplified with authorities, and exemplified with history, out of the first quartern of Fr. Guicciardine. Lond. 1615. fol. and other things, as 'tis probable, which I have not yet seen. He died in the latter end of the year 1637, and was buried in the Church or Chappel belonging to the Charter house. By his will 
c In the 〈◊〉 Office near St. Paul's Cathedral, in reg. L●e Qu. 24.  dated 25. Apr. 1636 and proved 1. March 1637 he gave to the poor People of Geddington in Northamptonshire (the place of his nativity) 300 l. for the buying of an annual pension of 15 l. per an. for their relief. At which place in his life time, he built a Free-school, and was a benefactor in other respects.  
July 16. Walt. Curl M. of A. of Cambridge— This Person who was born at Hatfield in Hertfordshire, was now Fellow of Peter house in the said University, was promoted first in the Church by the Cecillian Family, afterwards he became Chaplain to His Majesty, Doctor of Divinity, Dean of Lichfield in June 1621., upon the death of Dr. Will. Tooker, Bishop of Rochester in 1627. upon the translation of Buckridge to Ely, translated thence to B. and Wells in 1629, upon the death of Dr. Maw, and thence to Winchester upon the removal of his Patron Dr. Neile to York, being about that time made Lord Almoner. Afterwards he suffered much for the Kings, and his own, cause, was among the Royalists when they were besieged in Winchester, whence marching in safety after its surrender for the use of the Parliament, lived retiredly at Subberton in (Hampshire) till the time of his death, which happened in the Spring or Summer time, an. 1647 leaving then behind him a Widow named Elizabeth and certain Children. All that I have yet seen, which goes under his name is A Sermon preached at Whitehall, 28. Apr. 1622, on Heb. 12. 14.— printed in qu.  
Rich. boil M. A. of the same University, was incorporated on the same day— He was afterwards Archbishop of Tuam in Ireland.  
Richard Parker another M. of A. of that University, was also then incorporated— Whether he be the same R. Parker who was bred in, and became Fellow of, Caius College, and Author of Sceletoes Cantabrigiensis, MS. I cannot justly say, or the same Richard Parker who was second Son of John Parker, first Son of Matthew Parker Archb. of Canterbury, (which Richard was born at Cambridge 20. May 1577) I cannot also tell. Quaere.  
On the same day also were 13 more Masters of that University incorporated, among whom Miles Spencer 
* One Miles Spencer was Doctor of the Laws and Chancellor of 〈◊〉, who dying about the ninetieth year of his age, was buried in the Cath. Ch. there.  was one, and Andrew Perne another, the same, I suppose, who was Proctor of Cambridge 1616. See before in these Fasti, an. 1553.  
Aug. 7. Will. Barlow Doct. of Diu. of the said University, was also then incorporated in the said Degree— He was born of, and descended from, the ancient and gentile family of the Barlows of Barl●w in Lancashire, was about this time Fellow of Trinity hall in the said University, became Prebendary of Westminster in the place of Dr. Edw. Grant deceased, Dean of Chester in 1603, upon the death of Joh. Nuttall, and in 1605 Bishop of Rochester; from whence being translated to Lincoln, sat there to the time of his death, and kept his Prebendship in Commendam with it. He hath written and published several things, the Catalogue of all, or most of which, you may see in the Bodleian or Oxford Catalogue. By his will 
d Ibid in reg. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉.  which I have seen, proved 13. Oct. 1613 (for in that year he died) he desires to be buried in the Cathedral Church of Lincoln, if he die near it, or in the collegiat Church at Westminster if he die there, and to have such a tomb over his grave that may resemble that which Dr. Good (Goodman) Dean thereof set up for himself in the Church of Westminster. He was a considerable benefactor to St. John's Coll. in Cambridge, as it there appears, being Founder of the London Fellows and Scholars of that house. I have made mention of another Will. Barlow and his works among the Writers, an. 1568. and of a third an. 1625.  
Casparus Thomannus one of the Pastors or Teachers of the School at Zurich (of which City his Grandfather by the male line had born the office of Praetor) having been recommended by the Professors, Teachers, and Ministers of the Church and School there, to live among, and receive an exhibition from, the Oxonians, an. 1599, did spend several years there, and occurrs one of the first Persons that was entered a Student in the public Library, when first opened for use. He was a learned Man, and read a Lecture in the University, but his education having been mostly at Geneva, did, with other strangers of the like breeding, so corrupt the Students with their calvinistical Doctrine that it was many years before it could be rooted out.    

An. Dom. 1602.  
An. 44 Elizab.  
An. 45 Elizab.  
Chanc. Thomas Lord Buckhurst.  
Vicechanc. John Howson D. D. Canon of Ch. Ch. Jul. 15.  

Proct. 

Daniel Pury of Magd. Coll.  
Walt. Bennet of New Coll. 

Apr. 14.       

Bach. of Music.  
Jul. 13. William Weelks of New Coll. was then admitted Bach. of Music— What he hath composed or published I know not: sure it is that Thom. Weelks who was at this time Organist of W●kehams Coll. near to Winchester did publish (1) Madrigals to 3. 4. 5. and 6. voices. Lond. 1597. in a large qu. Which being the first fruits of his labours he dedicated them to his singular Patron George Philpot Esq. (2) Ballads and Madrigals to five voices, with one to 6. voices. Lond. 1598. qu. (3) Madrigals of six parts, apt for the viols and voices. Lond. 1600. qu. besides compositions in The triumphs of Oriana, printed 1601, Hymns and Anthems to be sung in Cathedrals and Collegiat Churches; the words of which may be 
* See in the book entit. The divine Services and Anthems usually sung in the Cathedrals and Coll●giate 〈◊〉 in the Church of England. collected and published by 〈…〉— Lond. 1663. oct.  elsewhere seen, and other compositions which are remitted among the books reposited in our pub. Music School at Oxon. Quaere whether the Scribe or Registrary of the University, hath not set down William, for Tho. Weelks.   

Bach. of Arts.  
May 7. Tho. Anyan lately of Linc. Coll. ●ow of that of Corp. Christi.— See among the Doctors of Diu. 1614  
Jun. 8. Benjam. Culme of St. Alb. hall— See among the Masters, an. 1605.  
Jun. 25. Franc. James of Ch. Ch.— See among the Bach. of Diu. 1612.  
26. Rice or Rees Prichard of Jes. Coll.  

30. 

Jam. Rowlandson  
Lancelot Dawes 

of Qu. Coll.       

J●n. 30. 

Tho. Aylesbury  
Rich. Corbet  
Rob. Burton alias  
Democritus junior  
Hen. Byam 

of Ch. Ch.       
Of the first of these last four, you may see more among the Masters, an. 1605.  
Dec. 13. Joh. Warner of Magd. Coll.— He was afterwards B. of Rochester.  
Prichard, Dawes, Byham and Warner, are to be mentioned in the other vol. of Writers and Bishops.  
Admitted 156.   

Bach. of Law.  
Jul. 8. Joh. Budden of Magd. Coll.  
Besides him were only 3 admitted, and one incorporated named Joh. Crook.   

Mast. of Arts.  
Apr. 29. George Hakewill of Exeter Coll.  
May 18. Arth. Duck of Hart hall.  
Jun. 6. Norwich Spackman of Ch. Ch.— He was afterwards Proctor of the University, Chaplain to James Bishop of Bath. and Wells and the publisher of A Sermon before the King at Whitehall, on Matth. 9 13. Lond. 1614 qu. and perhaps of other things; which is all I know of him, only that he was a Worcestershire Man born.  

30. Barnab. Potter of Queens  
Jul…. Rob. Bolton of Brasn.  
7. Tho. Broad of St. Alb. hall. 

Coll.    
Feb. 22. 

Isaac Wake  
George Gerard 

of Mert. Coll.       
The last of which was afterwards Master of Suttons Hospital called commonly the Charter-house.  
Admitted 71.   

Bach. of Phys.  
June 14. Rich. Haydock of New Coll.  
Besides him was only one more admitted, viz. Joh. Cheynell of C. C. Coll. and six admitted to practice.   

Bach. of Diu.  
Jun. 8. Will. Goodwin of Ch. Ch.— See among the Doctors of Divinity following.  
Jul. 8. Will. Westerman of Oriel Coll.  
Adm. 14.   

Doct. of Law.  
July 8. Joh. Budden of Magd. Coll.— He accumulated.  
Oliver Lloyd of Allsouls Coll. was admitted the same day.— He was afterwards Chancellor of Hereford, and in 1615 became Canon of Windsor. Which last dignity he changed for the Deanery of Hereford with Dr. Rich. Mountag●e of Kings Coll. in Cambridge, an. 1617. This Dr. Lloyd died in the City of Hereford in 1625. whereupon Dr. Dan. Price succeeded him in the said Deanery.  
☞ Not one Doctor of Physic was admitted this year.   

Doct. of Diu.  
Apr. 20. Joh. Spenser of C. C. Coll.— He was afterwards Precedent of that house.  
June 8. Will. Goodwin of Ch. Ch. who accumulated— In 1590. I find this Person to be Subalmoner to Qu. Elizabeth, well beneficed in Yorkshire, and Prebendary of York. Also in 1605. Oct. 25. I find him collated to the Chancellourship of the Church of York, on the death of Mr. Will. Palmer, as also to another Prebendship in that Church and a Rectory in the said Diocese. In 1611 he became Dean of Christ Church, and afterwards Archdeacon of Middlesex, and dying on the eleventh of June 1620. aged 65 was buried in one of the North isles joining to Ch. Ch. choir. He hath published A Sermon before the King at Woodstock 28. Aug. 1614, on Jer. 1. 10. Oxon. 1614 qu. and perhaps other things. Quaere.  
Roger Bradshaw of Jesus Coll. the King's Chaplain, was admitted the same day.  
14. Will. Swaddon of New Coll.— On the 10. of Nou. 1610. he was admitted Archdeacon of Worcester on the resignation of John Johnson D. D. and dying 2. Aug. 1623. was buried, (as I suppose) in that North isle of the Cathedral Church of Worcester, which adjoins to the Parlour of the Signior Prebend. In his Archdeaconry succeeded Hugh Lloyd D. D. who was admitted thereunto 18. Aug. the same year, and dying in 1629, Edward Thornborough M. A. second Son, by the first Wife, of Dr. John Thornborough Bishop of Worcester, succeeded, being admitted to it 3. Aug. 1629.  
Rob. Newman of New Coll. was admitted D. D. the same day, (Jun. 14)  

Jul. 8. 

Charles Langford  
Giles Tomson 

of Alls. Coll.       
The first of these two was now Dean of Hereford, in which Dignity he did succeed, if I mistake not, John Watkins (who died about the middle of May 1594) and was succeeded by Dr. Rich. Montague, as I have before told you among the Doctors of Law this year. The other Doctor, Giles Tomson, was installed Dean of Windsor on the 2. of March this year, and afterwards was made Bishop of Gloucester, as before, among the Bishops, I have told you.  

Jul. 8. 

Giles Thorn of New Coll.  
John Williams of Ch. Ch.     
The first of these two last was now Dean of Chichester, and the other dignified in the Church. One of both his names I have mentioned among the Writers under the year 1613. and another I shall mention in these Fasti, an. 1608. sub tit. Incorporations.   

Incorporations.  
Apr. 30. Will. Turner M. A. of Cambridge— See among the Doct. of Physic 1608.  
Jun. 23. Humph. Leech M. A. of the same University— He was originally of Brasn. Coll. and was about this time Chaplain of Ch. Ch.  
July 3. Ralph Hulton Doct. of Phys. of Cambr.  
15. Will. Wheatly Bach. of Arts of Christ's Coll. in the said University.— He was now a member of St. Edm. hall in this of Oxon.  

Jul. 15. 

Martin Day  
Phineas Hodson  
Dan. Dyke  
Jacob. Godscaleus 

M. of A. of Cambr.       
The first of these last four, (Mart. Day) was afterwards Doct. of Diu. Chaplain in ordinary to His Majesty, Rector of St. Faith's Church in London and Rector of Stoke near Launceston in Cornwall. In his life time he published Monument of Mortality, etc. containing four treatises.— printed in oct. and after his death, which happened 1628. were published several Sermons of his under these titles (1) Doomsday; or a treatise of the resurrection of the body, delivered in 22 Sermons, on 1. Cor. 15. Lond. 1636. qu. (2) Corinth's collection, or the Saints of Jerusalem, in seven Sermons on the 1. Cor. 16. the first nine verses.— printed with the former, and all dedicated to Dr. Josoph Hall, sometimes an intimate friend of the Author.  
The second, Phineas Hodson, was afterwards D. of D. and in 1611. Sept. 26. was collated to the Chancellourship of the Church of York, upon the resignation of Dr. Will. Goodwin mentioned before among the Doctors of Divinity. He died at, or near, York, about the latter end of 1646. whereupon his Chancellourship lying void till the restoration of K. Ch. 2. Christopher Stone M. A. succeeded, being installed therein 24. Oct. 1660. This Dr. Hodson hath published The King's request, or David's desire, etc. Serm. on Psal. 27. 4. Lond. 1628. qu. and perhaps other things. Quaere.  
The third, Dan. Dyke, was, as 'tis said, born in Hertfordshire, in a town called Hemstede, of which his Father was Minister, was an eminent Preacher, wrote several things, as the Oxford Catalogue will tell you, among which is his book Of the deceitfulness of man's heart, published after his death by his Brother Jerem. Dyke of Sidney Coll. an. 1614  
The fourth and last, Jac. Godscaleus, I take to be the same with James Godskal, Author of The King's Medicine against the plague, for the year 1604.— Printed 1604. in oct. which is all I know of him as yet.  
Jul. 15. Andr. B'ing Bach. of Diu. of Cambr.— He was Fellow of Peter House or St. Peter's Coll. in the same University, afterwards D. of D. and Hebrew Professor thereof. See more in the Incorporations 1612.  
Oct. 25. Tho. Lodge Doct. of Phys. of the University of Avenion.  
About 27 Cambridge Men were incorporated this year in several faculties.    

An. Dom. 1603.  
An. 1. Jac. 1.  
Chanc. the same.  
Vicechanc. Dr. George Abbot again, Jul. 23.  

Proct. 

Christop. Dale of Mert. Coll.  
William Laud of St. Joh. Coll. 

May 4.       

Bach. of Music.  
Jul. 16. Thom. Boys of Alls. Coll.— He hath composed ●●rtain Church services, which is all I know of him.   

Bach. of Arts.  
May 12. Hannibal Gammon of Broadgates' hall.  
July 1. Rob. Gentilis of Jes. Coll. Son of Alberic Gent.  
5. Rich. Tillesley of St. John's Coll.  
9 John Hales of C. C. Coll. afterwards of Morton, and at length of Eton, Coll.  
Dec. 12. Edm. Gunter of Ch. Ch.  
13. Will. Heale of Exeter Coll.  
Jan. 19 John Ball of Brasn. Coll.— See another of both his names among the Bach. of Arts, an. 1608.  
Feb. 15. Edw. Evans of Ch. Ch.  
As for Gammon, Gentilis and Hales they will be mentioned in the next vol.  
Adm. 126.   

Bach. of Law.  
Mar. 29. John Basire a French Man who had studied the Civ. Law 12 terms in this University, and 7 years in France and Germany, was then admitted.  
Jul. 5. Will. Juxon of St. John's Coll.— In his last days he became Archbishop of Canterbury.  
8. Eizo Tiards of Jesus Coll.— He accumulated, as I shall tell you anon.  
Adm. 6.   

Mast. of Arts.  

May 11. 

Henry Mason of C. C.  
Joh. Prideaux of Exet. 

Coll.       
Jun. 30. George Warburton of Brasn. Coll.— See among the Doctors of Diu. 1636.  

July 7. 

Will. Piers of Ch. Ch.  
Tob. Venner of St. Alb. hall  
John Eton of Trin. Coll.     
Tancred Leill or Lelius of Magd. Coll. was admitted the same day— He was a learned Dane, which is all I know of him.  

9 

Thom. Jackson  
Brian Twine 

of C. C.    
Barthel. Parsons of Oriel 

Coll.       
Adm. 46.   

Bach. of Diu.  

July 7. 

Rob. Burhill  
Joh. Barcham  
Mar. 12. Sam. Page 

of C. C. Coll.       
Admitted 14.   

Doct. of Law.  
July 8. Eizo Tiarda of Jesus Coll. who accumulated the Degrees in the Civ. Law— He was born of, and descended from, a gentile Family living in Groeningen in Germany.  
☞ Not one Doctor of Phys. was admitted this year.   

Doct. of Diu.  
May 2. John Childerley of St. John's Coll.— While he was a junior Fellow of that house he became Preacher to the English Merchants trading at Stood, and after his return became successively Chaplain to Richard Archb. of Canterbury, and afterwards to George his successor, Rector of St. Marry de Wolnoth in London, of S. Dunstan's in the East, and of Sheinfield or Shemfield in Essex. He was in his time a very eminent and frequent Preacher and learned Divine, but blind by age and continual labour several years before his death: Notwithstanding which, he suffered much in the time of the rebellion, and was outed of St. Dunstan's by the restless Presbyterian, and whether he kept Sheinfield to his last I cannot tell. He died very aged in 1645 (being then 66 years since his first coming to St. John's Coll.) and was buried either in the Chancel of St. Dunstan, or in that of Sheinfield, beforemention'd.  
July 7. Nich. Higgs of Ball. Coll.— He was about this time Rector of Higham in Somersetshire; where, or near it, he died 1631.   

Incorporations.  
May 23. Laurence Whittaker M. A. of Cambridge— This Person who was a Somersetshire Man born and an ingenious Poet, was afterwards Secretary to Sir Edw. Philipps Master of the Rolls, and a Burgess in several Parliaments, particularly in that which began 3. Nou. 1640. being then a Burgess for Okehampton in Devonshire. He died 15. Ap●. 1654. aged 76, and was buried in the Church of St. Giles in the fields near to London. He was much admired by Tho. Coryat the traveller; in the dishing out of whose Odcombian banquet, he had a considerable hand, an. 1611. being numbered among the Poets of that age.  
Jul. 12. Will. Knight M. A. of the same University— I take him to be the same with 〈◊〉. Knight of Ar●ington in Sussex a Divine, who wrote A concordance Axiomatical; containing a survey of Theological propositions with their reasons and uses in holy Scripture. Lond. 1610. fol. and the same perhaps who published, Mundus alter & idem, sive terra australis, etc. written by Joseph Hall, who was afterwards Bishop of Norwych.  
Francis Dee M. A. and Fellow of St. John's Coll. in Cambr. was incorporated the same day— He was the Son of David Dee of Shropshire, (who is said to be Rector of Great St. bartholomew's Church in London) and he the great Grandson of the Great Bede Dee, of an ancient Family in those parts. Afterwards he took the Degree of D. of D. being then Minister of Allhallows in Lumbard-street in London, was Chancellor of the Church of Salisbury, and in 1630 was made Dean of Chichester. In 1634 Apr. 9 he was elected Bishop of Peterborough, and on the 28. May following he was installed by proxy, being then esteemed a Person of a pious life and conversation, and of very affable behaviour. He died (after he had been twice married) on the eighth day of Octob. 1638, and was buried at the upper end of the choir belonging to the Cathedral Church at Peterborough, near to the Episcopal seat. A little before his death, he gave to the Master and Seniors of St. John's Coll. beforemention'd, the impropriat Parsonage of Pagham in Sussex, (held by lease of the Cathedral Church of Canterbury) for the maintaining of two Fellows and two Scholars therein for ever, the Scholars to be elected out of Peterborough School.  
John Pocklington M. A. and Fellow of Pembr. hall in Cambr. was also then (Jul. 12.) incorporated— He was afterwards D. of D. Rector of Yeldon alias Yevelden in Bedfordshire, Vicar of Waresley in Huntingdonshire, Prebendary of Peterborough, and in 1639 Canon of Windsor in the place of Tho. Sheafe deceased, being also about that time Chaplain to His Maj. Ch. 1. This is the Person who among other books, published Altar Christianum, etc. Lond. 1636. and Sunday no Sabbath, etc. Lond. 1637. Which last, being no other than a Sermon preached at Ampthill in Bedfordshire at the B. of Lincoln's Visitation, 17. Aug. 1635, was much brought up by, and taken into the hands of, young Students, who usually read it at their common fires, and according to their dispositions it was liked or disliked. But both being in an high manner disgusted by the Puritans, they, who had the chief sway in the long Parliament that began 3. Nou. 1640, ordered them both on the tenth of March following to be publicly burnt by the common executioner in both the Universities, and in the City of London. About that time they deprived the Author of all his spiritualities beforemention'd, and would have proceeded father as to other punishment, but he being in a manner heartbroken, prevented their fury by death, which happened (at Peterborough I think) in the Winter time 1642.  
Josephus Barbatus a Native of Memphis in Egypt was conversant about this time with the Oxonian Muses. He could speak French and Ital. very readily, but most of all the Arabian tongue, which was natural to him, and therefore recommended by the Archb. of Canterbury to the Vicechanc. to read a lecture of it to the Academians. He hath written one or more things in that language, which were acceptable to the learners of it.    

An. Dom. 1604.  
An. 2. Jac. 1.  
Chanc. Thom. Lord Buckhurst, created this year Earl of Dorset.  
Vicechanc. Joh. Williams D. D. Principal of Jesus Coll. and reader of the Margaret Lecture, July 14.  

Proct. 

Will. balow of Ch. Ch.  
George Darrell of Alls. Coll. 

Apr. 18.       

Bach. of Music.  
Jul. 14. John Daniel of Ch. Ch.— Some of his instrumental compositions, we have remaining in the public School of that faculty.   

Bach. of Arts.  

May 8. Hen. Whistler of Trinity  
Jun. 10. Franc Kinaston of Oriel  
Jul. 20. Gabr. Richardson of Brasn. 

Coll.     
Oct. 23. Nathaniel Pownoll of Ch. Ch.  

26. Sim. Birckbek of Queens  
Dec. 12. Tho. Bailiff of Magd. 

Coll.     

Jan. 23. 

Rob. Sanderson  
Thom. Hayne 

of Linc. Coll.       
The first of these two last, was afterwards the learned and religious Bishop of Lincoln.  
Feb. 4. Rich. Capell of Magd. Coll.  
All which Bachelaurs except Pownoll, are to be mentioned at large as Authors in the next volume.  
Adm. 180.   

Mast. of Arts.  
March 27. John Dunster of Magd. Coll.  
May 1. Isaac Singleton of Alls. Coll.— This Person who was nearly related to Dr. Thom. Singleton Principal of Brasn. Coll. (of which house he was originally a Commoner but now Fellow of the said Coll. of Alls.) hath published The downfall of Shelna, together with an application to the bloody Gowry of Scotland, in two Sermons at St. Mary's in Oxon, on Isay 22. 15. Lond. 1615. qu. and perhaps other things. In 1622 I find him Chancellor of the Dioc. of Carlisle, and some years after to be collated to the Archdeaconry of that place, in the room of Robert Wrigt, who had been collated thereunto in 1621. he being then only Bach. of Arts. In 1640 Isaac Singleton occurs by the title of Archdeacon of Brecknock, but afterwards was deprived of that and other spiritualities, which is all I know of him, only that he was a Londoner born.  

May 22. Dan. Price of Exet.  
Jun. 12. Will. Twysse of New 

Coll.     
26. Will. Wheatlie of St. Edm. hall.  
Oct. 22. Sam▪ Turner of S. Alban Hall.— This person who was the Son of Dr. Pet. Turner mentioned before among the Incorporations under the year 1599, by Pascha his Wife, Sister of Hen. Parry Bishop of Worcester, was originally of S. Mary's Hall, afterwards for a time of C. C. Coll. but now of S. Alban Hall before mentioned, and as a Member thereof did complete his degree of Master in an Act celebrated 8 Jul. 1605. Afterwards he traveled and became Doct. of Phys. of an University beyond the Seas; and whether after his Return he practised that Faculty in Dorsetshire, I am not certain. Sure it is, that he was several times chosen by the men of Shaftsbury in that County to serve as a Burgess for them in several Parliaments, particularly in that called 1625, wherein he showed himself what he was, of a bold Spirit and able Elocution in assaulting the King's great Minion George Duke of Bucks, as the main cause of divers infirmities in the State, being very uncouth Language to a Prince's ears; the particulars of which you may 
* In the 〈…〉 etc. written by 〈◊〉 L'estrange, printed 〈…〉 an. 1656, second 〈◊〉 p. 24, 25. 〈◊〉 an. 16●5.  see elsewhere. For the Parliament which began at Westminster 3 Nou. 1640, he was elected again for the same place, but being soon after fully satisfied what desperate courses the Members thereof took, he left them, and retiring to his Majesty at Oxon, sat in the Parliament there, 1643, and so consequently was a shater of Sufferings then incident to Royalists. I have seen divers of his Speeches in MS. but whether made public I cannot tell. He died in 1647, or thereabouts, leaving then behind a natural Son of both his names, and the character of a man of very loose principles.  
Adm. 65.   

Bach. of Diu.  
Jul. 6. Will. Laud of S. John's Coll.  
Jan. 18. John Burbadge of Linc. Coll. a rich Dignitary in the Church.— He was nearly related to Rich. Burbadge of the Parish of S. Leonard in Shoreditch near London; which Richard, who is styled by the learned 
† In 〈◊〉 Jac. Reg. I. MS. 〈◊〉 an. 16●9.  Camden to have been alter Roscius, died 9 March 1618.  
Feb. 22. Robert Wakeman of Balliol Coll.  
On the second day of March this year, Gabriel powel Bach. of Arts of S. Mary's Hall, who had studied Divinity nine years, supplicated for the degree of Bach. of Diu. but whether his desire was granted it appears not. I have made large mention of him among the Writers under the year 1607.  
Adm. 12.  
☞ Not one Doct. of Law, Phys. or Divinity, was admitted this year.   

Incorporations.  
July 10. Rob. Hill Bach. of Diu. of Christ's Coll. in Cambr.— He was about this time Parson of S. Barthelmew near to the Exchange in London, was afterwards D. of D. and always esteemed a learned man and a good and painful Preacher. He hath written (1) Life everlasting: or the true knowledge of one Jehovah. Cambr. 1601. oct. (2) The path way to prayer and piety, etc. Lond. 1613. oct. (3) A Communicant instructed, etc. printed 1617. oct. with an Exposition on the Lord's Prayer, and other things which I have not yet seen. See more among the Incorporations an. 1598. This Dr. Hill died in 1623., and was buried near to the Body of his Wife in the Chancel of the Church of S. Barthelmew before mentioned. One Rob. Hill was Parson of Tredington in the Dioc. of Worcester, an. 1604, but him I take to be different from the former.  
I find only five Masters of Arts of Cambridge to be incorporated this year, and two Bach. of Diu. of whom Rob. Hill the Writer before mentioned was one.  
Daniel Plancius a Belgian born, was this year a Sojourner in the Uniu. for the sake of the publs. Library, and did soon after publish several Books which showed him a learned man; one of which was answered and animadverted upon by Heribert Rossweidus and Rob. Swertius.  
Joh. Drusius also was a Sojourner, not in a private House, but in Gloc. Hall; who being admirably well skilled in the Hebrew, Chalday, and Syriack Tongue, was recommended to the chief Heads of the University to read those Tongues either privately or publicly. He soon after removed to Ch. Ch. and, as a Member thereof, took a degree in Arts, as I shall tell you in the year following.    

An. Dom. 1605.  
An. 3 Jac. 1.  
Chanc. Thom. Earl of Dorset.  
Vicechanc. Dr. George Abbot again, July 16.  

Proct. 

Rich. Fitzherbert of New Coll.  
Joh. Hanmer of Alls. Coll. 

April 11.       

Bach. of Arts.  
June 11. Walt. Raleigh of Magd. Coll.— Many year after his death were published by Dr. Sim. Patrick Dean of Peterborough his Works entit. Reliquiae Raleighanae.  
20. Hen. Jack●on of C. C. Coll.  

27. 

Sam. Fell of Ch. Ch.  
Pet. Turner     
Oct. 21. Hen. Rogers of Jes. Coll.  
23. Joh. Ley of Ch. Ch.  
Dec. 17. Joh. Andrews of Trin. Coll.  
Feb. 26. Franc. Stewart of Ch. Ch. Son of the Earl of Murray, and of kin to his Maj. James 1.— See more in the year 1616, among the Creations.  
Joh. Drusius of Ch. Ch. Son of the learned Critic Joh. Drusius, was admitted the same day.  
28. Samson Price of Hart Hall, lately of Exet. Coll.  
Of Raleigh, Jackson, Fell, Turner, Rogers and Ley, will be large mention made in the second Vol.  
Adm. 190.   

Mast. of Arts.  
Apr. 17. Daniel Fairclough commonly called Featley of C. C. Coll.  
24. Benj. Culme of Linc. Coll. lately of S. Alban Hall.— He was the Son of Hugh Culme of Molland in Devonshire, and going afterwards into Ireland, became at length D. of D. and Dean of S. Patrick's Church near Dublin, where he was accounted a learned man and an excellent Preacher and Theologist. But he being forced thence by the Rebellion that broke out in 1641, went into England, lived several years in a retired condition at Mudghill near to Lidiard St. john's in Wiltshire; where dying in October an 1657, aged 76, was buried in the Churchyard of Lidiard before mentioned. Over his Grave was soon after an Altar-tomb erected, with a large Inscription thereon, wherein 'tis said he died 21 Octob.  
May 16. Joh. Bery or Bury of Balliol, lately of Corp. Christ. Coll.  

Jun. 16. 

James Rowlandson  
Lancelot Dawes 

of Qu. Coll.       
9 Thom. Aylesbury of Ch. Ch.— This Gentleman who was a Londoner born, was second Son of Will. Aylesbury by Anne his Wife, Daughter of Joh. Poole Esquire, and from Westminster School became a Student of Ch. Ch. 1598. After he had left the University he became Secretary to Charles Earl of Nottingham Lord High Admiral of England and to George Duke of Bucks, his Successor in that great Office. By the endeavours of which last, he was made one of the Masters of the Requests, and Master of the Mint, (being about that time a Baronet) which places he keeping till the grand Rebellion broke out in 1642, he adhered to the Cause of K. Ch. 1. and in 1649, when all things were in a Confusion as to the Royal Party, he retired with his Family to Antwerp in Brabant, where continuing till 1652, he removed to Breda, and dying in 1657, aged 81, was buried in the great Church there, leaving behind him a Son named William, of whom I shall speak elsewhere, and a Daughter named Frances, the Wife of Edw. Hyde of Pirt●n in Wilts, since made Earl of Clarendon. These things I mention because the said Sir Tho. Aylesbury was a learned man, and as great a Lover and Encourager of Learning and learned men, especially of Mathematicians (he being one himself) as any man in his time.  

June 9 

Rich. Corbet  
Rob. Burton  
Hen. Byam 

of Ch. Ch.       

12. Joh. Warner of Magd.  
23. George Webb of C. C.  
Jul. 3. Sam. Browne of Alls. 

Coll.     
Dec. 16. Edw. Abbot of University Coll.— In the year 1616, Jan. 13. he was admitted Chauntor of the Church of Wells, in the place of Rich. Boughton, sometimes of Magd. Coll. in this University; and dying in 1634, Sebastian Smith M. A. of Ch. Ch. was admitted to that dignity on the 9 of March the same year.  
Will. Boswell of Ball. Coll. was admitted the same day.— This person who was afterwards Chaplain to John Earl of Bristol, with whom he travelled to Spain, I set down here, to distinguish him from another Will. Boswell whom I shall mention in these Fasti under the year 1608.  
Feb. 27. Hannibal Gammon of Broadgates Hall.  
Adm. 98.   

Bach. of Phys.  
May 16. Robert Fludd or de Fluctibus M. A. of S. Joh. Coll. did accumulate the degrees of Physic, as a Member of Ch. Ch. as I shall tell you anon.  
Not one Bach. of Phys. besides him was this year adm.   

Bach. of Diu.  

May 16. 

Joh. Harmar  
Arth. Lake 

of New Coll.    
Rich. Fownes of Ch. Ch.     
Nou. 12. Tho. Frith of Alls. Coll.— He was a Kentish man born, was afterwards Warden of the Church at Elmeley in his own Country; and Canon of Windsor an. 1610, in the place of Hugh Blythe sometimes Fellow of Kings Coll. in Cambr. deceased. He hath written in Latin, A Catalogue, or (rather) History of the Deans and Canons of S. George's Chapel within the Casile of Windsor. It commenceth at the foundation of that Chapel an. 1348, and reacheth to the end of 1628., and afterwards continued to these times by George Evans a Canon of the said Chapel, and others. An Original of this MS. I once saw in the hands of Dr. Tho. Barl●w Bishop of Lincoln, whence I took a Copy, and have made use of it in this present Work, as Elias Ashmole Esq; had done before me in his Institutions, Laws and Ceremonies of the Order of the 〈◊〉. Lond. 1672. fol. and Dr. Pet. He●yn before him, in his 〈◊〉 of St. George of Cappadicia. Lond. 1631. 33. qu. This Tho. 〈◊〉 who was a most judicious and industrious man, and to whom the Coll. at Windsor is much indebted, died in the latter end of the year (in Feb.) 1631, and was buried in the Chapel of S. George before mentioned, near to the body of his sometimes Wife named Elizabeth, Sister to my Father Thom. a Wood Bach. of Arts and of the Civ. Law of this University of Oxon. which Eliz. died more than 4 years before her Husband.  
Joh. Rawlinson of St. John's Coll. was admitted the same day.  
Admitted 22.   

Doct. of Law.  
June 17. Hugh Barker of New Coll.— He was about this time Chancellor of the Dioc. of Oxon, afterwards Dean of the Arches and Precedent of the Civilians Coll. at London. He died in 1632, and was buried at the upper end of New Coll. Chappel. See his Epitaph in Hist. & Antiq. Vniu. Oxon. lib. 2. p. 151 152.   

Doct. of Physic.  
May 16. Robers Fludd beforemention'd, now in great repute for his admirable knowledge in Chemistry, and afterwards for the voluminous writings which he published.   

Doct. of Diu.  

May 16. 

Joh. Harmar  
Arth. Lake 

of New Coll.    
Rich. Fownes of Ch. Ch.     
All which accumulated the Degrees in Divinity.  
Rowland Searchfield of St. John's Coll. was admitted the same day.  
Jun. 13. Richard Brett of Linc. Coll.  
July 4. Thom. Sanderson of Ball. Coll.— On the 1. of Aug. 1606. he was installed Archdeacon of Rochester in the place of Thomas Staller D. D. and was succeeded in that Dignity by Dr. Richard Tillesley.  

July 4. 

Benj. Heyden of New  
Will. Hill of Ball. 

Coll.       
The first of these two last, became Dean of Wells in the place of one John Herbert, an. 1602, and dying in 1607 was succeeded by Rich. Meredith.   

Incorporations.  
May 8. Sam. Bird M A. of Cambridge— One Sam. Byrd sometimes Fellow of Bennet Coll. in that University, afterwards a Minister in Ipswich, hath published several books, among which are (1) A friendly dialogue between Paul and Demas, wherein is disputed how we are to use the pleasures of this life. Lond. 1580. in tw. (2) Lectures upon the eleventh chapt. of the Hebr. and upon the 38. Psalm Lond. 1598. oct. (3) Lectures on the eighth chap. of the second epist. to the Cor. Lond. 1598. oct. etc. Whether this Sam. Byrd the Author, be the same with Sam. Bird who was incorporated M. of A. and had been entered a Student in the Bodleian Library in Dec. 1604. I must leave it to the reader to Judge.  
May 15. Matthew Lister Doct. of Phys. of the University of Basil in Germany— He was born at Thornton in Craven in Yorkshire, was bred Fellow of Oriel Coll; afterwards be became a Retainer to Mary the incomparable Countess of Pembroke, (whose estate he managed for her best advantage) Physician to Qu. Anne the royal Consort of K. Jam. 1. Physician in ordinary to K. Char. 1. from whom he received the honour of Knighthood at oatland's 11. Oct. 1636, and at length became Precedent of the Coll. of Physicians in London and one of the prime Physicians of the Nation. He died at Burwell near Lowth in Lincolnshire, about 1657 aged 92, and was there, I suppose, buried. Nearly related to him, or at least of the same Family▪ were Edw. Lister Doctor of Phys. a Native of Wakefield in Yorkshire, who died at London, (where he had practised many years) 27. Mar. 1620, and Jos. Lister his Brother Doct. of Physic of the City of York. Martin Lister also of the Royal Society, who had the Degree of Doct. of Phys. conferred upon him by the members of this University, an. 1683 is his great Nephew, and when a youth was bred up under him.  
Jul. 6. James Fitch D. D. of Cambridge— He was Prebendary of the Cath. Ch. of Christ and the blessed Virgin Mary at Rochester, and died in July 1612.  
9 John Bowles M. A. of Trin. Coll. in the said University— See among the Incorporations 1615.  
Patrick Young (Patricius Junius) M. of A. of the University of St. Andrew in Scotland, was incorporated the same day, and was afterwards a Sojourner in this University.— He was a Scotch Man born, and the most eminent Grecian of his time.— Ho●o ad literaturae omnis, duntaxat Gracae, beneficium natus, as a most learned 
a 〈…〉.  Critic saith. He was about this time keeper of His Majesty's Library at St. James; with the help of which he published Versio & no●● in Clementis epistolam ad Remanos. Oxon. 1633. qu. and Catena Graecorum Patrum in Librum Job. Lond. 1637. in Gr. and Lat. written by N●cetas Heracle●. It must be now known that an Alexandrian Copy of the whole Bible in a Greek MS. was sent by Cyril Patriarch of Constantinople to K. Ch. 1. about 1628., containing the Septuagint translation of the Old Testament, and the Greek text of the New, together with St. Clement's two Epistles to the Corinthians, joined at the end. Which two were somewhat imperfect, as being in shattered and torn parchments, and the first had been in vain sought after near a thousand years in the West, as a late 
b 〈…〉 to his edit. of St. 〈…〉.  Author saith. This Alexandrian Copy of the Bible was wrote about the time of the first Nicene Council (saith the said late Author, though another 
c Dr. Br. Wal●●● in 〈…〉 note before his edition of 〈…〉 on part of this 〈◊〉.  tells you about 1200 years ago) in great characters by the hand of Thecla a noble Egyptian Woman; who, as some say, had been a Scholar of the Apostles and afterwards a Martyr. Which, with the help of other ancient copies, particularly with a MS. in University Coll. Library, entit. Octoteuchus, two Greek MSS. translated into Arabic, in the Bodlcian Library, and an ancient MS. formerly in that of Sir Robert Cotton, (but lost in the hands of a French Man, to whom it was lent) the said Pat. Young did promise to publish, with notes added thereto, and accordingly had compared the said copy with the others above named to the 15 Chapt. of Numbers, and no farther, if Dr. Br. Walton saith 
d lord.  right. The effect of this undertaking being much expected, and desired by learned Men, especially beyond the Seas, certain Brethren of the Presbyterian persuasion were very zealous with the Assembly of Divines at Westminster, to have the business encouraged. Whereupon, in the latter end of the year 1645, they sent to the house of Mr. Pat. Young to desire him to go forward with the work, and an ordinance was read for printing and publishing of the said Testament of the Septuagint translation. At which time also John Selden and Bulstrode Whitlock did undertake the printing of it, but what hindered them in going on with the work, I find not. In 1649 P. Young (who had sided with the Presbyterians) left his place of Library keeper to the King, the books there being mostly embezzled; whereupon the said Whitlock succeeding, Young continued still a sojournor at Bromfield in (Essex) where, I think, he died, an. 1652, for in Sept. that year his next relation administered. Afterwards Dr. Walton beforemention'd printed young's notes and annotations, with his own continuation of collations in the sixth vol. of his Polyglot Bible, and Dr. Jo. Fell the first Epistle of St. Clement from young's edition, and Latin translation, with some short running notes added thereunto.— Oxon. 1669. in tw. In 1638. Young put out Expositio in Cant. Canticorum, in qu. written by Gilb. Fo●iot Bishop of London in the time of Hen. 2. and was one of the three (Gottefridus Vendelinus and Joh. Bapt. Cotelerius being the other two) who interpreted S. Clement's two Epistles to the Corinthians— Lond. 1687. oct. After his death, all, or most of his Greek and Latin MSS. collected and written with his own hand, came into the possession of Dr. John Owen Dean of Ch. Ch. in Oxon.  
Oct. 21. Daniel Calendar M. A. of St. Andrew in Scotland.  
These Persons following were incorporated while K. James 1. was entertained at Oxon. Aug. 30.  
Alexander Serle LL. Bach. of Cambridge— To whose name is this added in the public register— ad causas & negotia ecclesiastica, civilia, maritima, & forinseca Procurator regius generalis.  

Thom. Howard Earl of Suffolk  
Rob. Cecil Earl of Salisbury 

M. A. of Cambr.     
The first of these two Counts was afterwards Lord Chamberlain of the King's household, L. Treasurer of England after Cecil, Knight of the Garter and founder of the stately house called A●dley Inn near to Walden in Suffolk. He died in 1626. and was buried at Walden. The other (Ro. Cecil) who was Son of Will. Lord Burleigh was now Chancellor of the Uniu. of Cambridge, afterwards Lord Treasurer of England, and Knight of the most noble order of the Garter. He died in 1612, and was buried at Hatfield in Hertfordshire.  
George Thomson M. A. of St. Andrew in Scotland— He was born in that City, and afterwards became Pastor of the reformed Church at Chastegneraye in France. He hath written several books, among which are (1) De pompa in Jac. 1. introit● in Londinum Sylva. Lond. 1604. oct. (2) Vindex veritatis adversus Lipsium, lib. 2. Lond. 1606. oct. (3) Quatre harmonies sur la Revelation. print. 1607. oct. (4) Lafoy Chasse de la Beste Roman, etc. Rochel 1611. oct. etc. Tho. Dempster in his Apparatus ad Historiam Scoticam, hath two George Thomsons that were Writers, viz. George Thomson a Priest, an. 1595, and George Thomson a Heretic, (as he calls him) an. 1599, which last, I presume is our Author, who was incorporated at Oxon, and the same whom Joh. Dunbar a Scot doth celebrate for his learning in his book 
* Edit. in oct●●o 1616. cent. 6. 〈…〉.  of Epigrams.  
George Ruggle M. of A. and Fellow of Clare hall in Cambridge— One Ruggle of the said hall was Author of that celebrated Comedy called Ignoramus, acted before K. Jam. 1. at Camb. 8. Mar. 1614 Whether the same with George, I cannot yet affirm.  
…. Craig a Scot, Doctor of Phys. of the University of Basil— This is all that appears of him in the public register. So that whether he be the same with Dr… Craig the King's Physician, who died in Apr. 1620 I know not; or whether he be Joh. Cragg Dr. of Phys. Author of a MS. intit. Capnuraniae seu Comet. in 〈◊〉 sub●mationis refutatio, written in qu. to Tycho Brahe a Dane, I am altogether ignorant. One Dr. Joh. Cragg was buried in the Church of St. Martin's in the Fields near London, about 1653.  
Barnab. Gouge, Goch or Gooche Doct. of the Civ. Law of Cambr— He was about this time Master of Magd. Coll. in that University, afterwards Chanc. of the Dioc. of Worcester, and died at Exeter. where he had an office or dignity, in the latter end of 1625. One of both his names translated into English The p●pish Kingdom, or Reign of Antichrist. Lond. 1570. qu. written in Latin verse by Tho. Naogeorgius, and Four books of husbandry, Lond. 1586. qu. written in Lat. by Conr. Heresbachius, and something of Palengenius. But this translator, if I mistake not, was Barnab. Gooche of Albin 〈◊〉 or Alvingham in Lincolnshire, Grandfather to Barnab. Gooche, living there in 1634 and after.  
John Hammond Doct. of Phys. of Cambridge— He was now Physician to Prince Henry, and Father to Henr. Hammond, afterwards the learned and celebrated Theologist.   

Creations.  
Jun. 28. Henry rowland's Bach. of Diu. and Bishop of Bangor was actually created Doctor of that faculty.  

Aug. 13. 

Hen. Ashworth of Oriel  
John Cheynell of C. C. 

Coll.       
These two who were eminent and learned Physicians, were then actually created Doctors of Physic, because they were designed by the Delegates, appointed by Convocation, to be Opponents in the disputations to be had before the King at his entertainment by the Muses in the latter end of the said month of Aug.  
John Gourden (Gordonius) of Balliol Coll. was created D. of D. the same day, (Aug. 13.) because he was to dispute before the King his kinsman.— After his disputation was ended he had his Degree completed by the King's Professor of Divinity, purposely (not that there was a necessity of it) to show unto His Majesty the form of that Ceremony. This noble Person was born in Scotland of the house of Huntley, was instructed in his youth in the Schools and Colleges, as well in Scotland as in France, in liberal Arts and Sciences, and in the knowledge of the Greek and Hebrew Languages and other Orientals. Afterwards he was Gentleman of three Kings Chambers in France, viz. Charles 9 Hen. 3. and 4, and while he was in the flower of his age, he was there assailed with many corruptions, as well spiritual as temporal, and in many dangers of his life, which God did miraculously deliver him from. At length K. James the first of England did call him into England, and to the holy Ministry, he being then 58 years of age, and upon the promotion of Dr. John Bridges to the See of Oxon in the latter end of 1603 he made him Dean of Salisbury in Febr. 1604. He hath written (1) Assertiones Theologicae pro vera verae Ecclesiae nota, quae est solius dei adoratio; contra falsae ecclesiae creaturarum adorationem. Rupell. 1603. oct. (2) England and Scotland's happiness in being reduced to unity of Religion under K. James. Lond. 1604. qu. (3) Orthodoxo-Jacobus & Papa apostaticus, etc. Lond. 1611. qu. (4) Anti-Bellarmino-tortur, sive Tortus retortus & Juliano papismus, etc. Lond. 1612. qu. (5) Of the ceremonies of the Church of England. Lond. 1612. qu. besides Sermons and other things. He departed this mortal life in (August) 1619, and was, I suppose, buried in the Cathed. Ch. at Salisbury; whereupon Dr. John Williams succeeded him in the Deanery of that place about the 10. of Sept. and installed in the middle of Oct. following. To Sir Rob. Gourden of Sudderland, who married his only Daughter and Heir named Lucy, he left his MSS. of his own composition, written in Latin and English, desiring him that the English may be published in Scotland, and the Latin beyond the Seas, to the end that the great pains that he had taken about them may not be lost.  
These Noble Men, Knights and Esquires following were actually created Masters of Arts, on the 30. of August, the King being then in Oxford.  
The illustrious Prince Esme Stuart Duke of Lenox, near of kin to the King James 1. of England— He was Father to Lodowick the first Duke of Richmond of his name.  
Henry de Vere Earl of Oxford.— He was Son of Edw. de Vere called by some the Poetical Earl of Oxford, and died at the Siege of Breda in the Netherlands, an. 1625.  
Henry Percy the most generous Count of Northumberland, a great encourager of learning and learned Men, especially Mathematicians; who, as others, have in a high manner celebrated his worth.— He died 5. of Nou. 1632, and was buried in the Church at Petworth in Sussex.  
Robert D'Evereux Earl of Essex, now a young Nobleman of Merton Coll.— See more in the year 1636.  
Will. Herbert Earl of Pembroke, the very picture and Viva effigies of Nobility, a Person truly generous, a singular lover of learning and the professors thereof, and therefore by the Academians elected their Chancellor some years after this.— His Person was rather Majestic than elegant, and his presence, whether quiet or in motion, was full of stately gravity. His mind was purely heroic, often stout, but never disloyal, and so vehement an opponent of the Spaniard, that when that match fell under consideration in the latter end of the Reign of K. Jam. 1. he would sometimes rouse to the trepidation 
* 〈…〉 in his 〈◊〉 of the Reign of K. Ch. 1. under the year 1630.  of that King, yet kept in favour still; for His Majesty knew plain dealing (as a jewel in all Men so) was in a Privy Counsellor an ornamental duty; and the same true heartedness commended him to K. Ch. 1.  
Philip Herbert his younger Brother, now Earl of Montgomery— He was quite different in nature from the aforesaid William, being a Person esteemed a very frequent swearer, and one so intolerably choleric, quarrelsome, and offensive while he was Lord Chamberlain to K. Ch. 1. that he did not refrain to break many wiser heads than his own. Mr. Thomas May the translator of Lucan, and afterwards Historian to the Long Parliament, felt the weight of his staff; which, had not his office, and the place (being the Banqueting-house) protected, it might have been a question, whether ever he would have struck again. See more of him in Will. Herbert among the writers, under the year 1630.  
William Cecil Viscount Cranbourne, Son of Robert Earl of Salisbury.— He was, after the death of his Father, Earl of Salisbury and Knight of the Garter, and lived to 1668.  
John Bridges Bishop of Oxon, sometimes of Pembroke hall in Cambridge, and lately Dean of Salisbury, upon the promotion of Dr. John Piers to the See of Rochester, was then also created— He was now famous for the several books that he had published, the titles of some of which you may see in Bodlies or Oxford Catalogue. He died on the 26. March 1618., and was buried in the Church of Marsh-Balden, or Balden in the Marsh near to, and in the County of, Oxford, as I have 
a 〈…〉 Antiq Vniu. Oxon. lib. 2. p. 291.  elsewhere told you. He was Doctor of Divinity, and therefore, I presume, the Registrary of the University, should have put him among such that were incorporated this year, and not among the Creations of Masters of Arts.  
Theophilus Howard Baron of Walden, Son and Heir of Thomas Earl of Suffolk— He was afterwards Earl of Suffolk and Knight of the honourable Order of the Garter. He died 3. June 1640, and was buried in the Church at Walden beforementioned.  
Charles Howard Baron of Effingham Son of Charles Earl of Nottingham.— He was afterwards Earl of Nottingham.  
Thomas West Lord La Warr, commonly called Lord de la Ware.  
Grey Brugges or Bridges Lord Chandois— He was commonly called King of Cotswould, because of his numerous attendants when he went to Court. He died at the Spa in Italy 1621.  
Will. Compton Lord Compton— He was afterwards the first Earl of Northampton of his name, and dying 14. Jun. 1630, was buried by his ancestors in the Church at Compton in the hole in Warwickshire.  
Edward Bruce Master of the Rolls, and Baron of Kinloss in Scotland.— He died 14. Jan. 1610 aged 62 years, and was buried in the Chapel of the Rolls in Chancery-lane, London. He was Father to Thomas Earl of Elgin in Scotland and Baron of Whorlton in Yorkshire; as I shall tell you elsewhere.  
…. Erskeine a noble Man of Scotland— Perhaps he was the same with Sir James Erskeine Knight of the Bath, Son to the Earl of Marre, or with Alex. Erskeine, who was after his Father's death Viscount Fenton in Scotland, and died in the beginning of the year, 1633.  
Sir Hen. Nevil Knight— He was afterwards Leaguer Ambassador at Paris, being the same, I think, of Billingbere in Berks, who died about the later end of June 1629.  
Sir Tho. Chaloner Knight, sometimes a Commoner of Magd. Coll. now Tutor to Prince Henry.  

William Herbert  
John Egerton (afterwards Earl of Bridgwater)  
Valentine Knightley  
John Ramsey a Scot 

Knights.     
Sir Roger Aston Knight.— He was the natural Son of John Aston Gentleman, second Son of Rich. Aston of Aston in Cheshire, had all his breeding in Scotland, which made some to take him to be a Scot born, was originally the Barber to K. James 1. while he was King of the Scots, as a libellous 
b Sir Anth. 〈◊〉 in his Court and 〈…〉 printed 1650. p. ●.  Author tells you, though from record it appears, that he was Groom of the Bedchamber, to him, and belonged to it in the time of that King's Father and Grandfather. He was a plain honest Man, and therefore beloved by that King, who often entrusted him as a Messenger to carry letters from him to Qu. Elizabeth. At length being made Master of the Great Wardrobe to K. Jam. 1. while King of England, departed this mortal life 23. May 1612. and was buried 28. of the said month in the Church at Cranford in Middlesex.  
Sir Patrick Murray a Scot— The same, I think, who was of Elibanke in Scotland, and afterwards Knight and Baronet of that Kingdom.  
Sir Thomas Mounson Knight and Baronet.— He was of the ancient Family of those of his name in Lincolnshire, had been Commoner of Magd. Coll. and was about this time Master of the Armoury, and Master Falconer to His Majesty, and in truth such an one, as no Prince in Christendom had the like. Afterwards he was twice brought to his trial, upon deep suspicion of having an hand in the poisoning of Sir Thomas Overbury, but at length, with much ado, came off clear. He was a Person of excellent breeding, was a great lover of ingenuity, especially of Music (having himself good skill in it) and a Patron to the Professors thereof.  

Thom. Cornwallis  
Franc. Castilion  
Gilb. Kniveton  
Rolls Kniveton  
George Chaworth  
Edw. Grevill  
Davied Foulis 

Knights.     
The last of which, who was a Scot, was afterwards made a Baronet, and is ancestor to those of his name living at Inglebie in Yorkshire.  

Will. Fleetwood  
Will. Bowyer  
Hen. Capell  
Geor. More 

Knights.     
The first of these last four, was knighted in 1603, and therefore not to be taken for Will. Fleetwood Recorder of London, who had been dead some years before. The last, George More, I have already mentioned at large among the Writers.  
John Digby Esq; sometimes a Commoner of Magd. Coll. afterwards Earl of Bristol— I shall mention him at large among the Writers in the second vol. of this work.  

Levine Monk  
Gabr. Dowse  
Will. Lilsley  
Edm. Dowse  
Anth. Abington  
Will. More  
Geor Calvert 

Esquires.     
While the said Nobles, Knights and Esquires were created, Roger Earl of Rutland, Edward Earl of Somerset and Henry Howard E. of Northampton, who had formerly been created and incorporated Masters of Arts, did sit among the venerable Masters in Convocation and gave their suffrages.  
This year in the month of Aug. Henry Prince of Wales, the People's darling and the delight of mankind, eldest Son of K. James 1. was matriculated a member of this University, as a member of Magd. Coll. at which time John Wilkinson Bach. of Diu. and Fellow of the said Coll. had the honour to be nominated his Tutor: I mean that Wilkinson, who most ungratefully sided with the Rebels, that took up arms against the younger Brother of the said Prince, K. Charles 1. of ever blessed memory.    

An. Dom. 1606.  
An. 4. Jac. 1.  
Chanc. the same, viz. Thomas Earl of Dorset.  
Vicechanc. Henry Airay D. D. Provost of Queens Coll. Jul. 17.  

Proct. 

Simon Baskervyle of Exet. Coll.  
James Mabbe of Magd. Coll. 

Apr. ult.       

Bach. of Arts.  

May 20. 

Thom. Sutton of Queens Coll.  
Rich. nichols of Magd. Hall.     
Jun. 3. Thom. Willis of St. John's Coll.  
30. Mich. Wigmore of Magd. hall, afterwards Fellow of Oriel Coll.  
Oct. 31. Leonard Digges of Vniu. Coll.  
Nou. 24. Will. Dickinson of Mert. Coll.— See among the Bach. of Diu. in 1619.  

Jan. 24. 

Will. Spark  
Tho. Godwin 

of Magd. Coll.       
Feb. 10. Charles' Somerset of Magd. Coll. was then admitted Bac. of Arts in Convocation— He was Son to Edward Earl of Worcester, and was afterwards made Knight of the Bath at the creation of Henry Prince of Wales.  
13. Will. Jewel of Exeter Coll.— See among the Masters, an. 1609.  
Tho. Willis and Tho. Godwin are to be mentioned in the second vol. Adm. 188.   

Bach. of Law.  
June 27. John Hoskins junior of New Coll.— He was afterwards a Divine and an eminent Preacher.  
Besides him were but four more admitted.   

Mast. of Arts.  
Apr. 10. Thom. Bastard of New Coll.  
Jul. 2. Edm. Gunter of Ch. Ch.  
3. Will. Heale of Exet. Coll.  
5. Joh. Ferebe or Ferriby of Magd. hall.— One of both his names, who was Minister of Thoydon-Gernon in Essex, wrote and published a book intit. A discourse showing that they only ought to preach who are ordained Ministers, etc. Lond. 1652. qu. But Ferriby of Magd. hall who was a Glocestershire Man born, I take not to be the same with the Writer, as being much before him in time, but rather to be the same John Ferriby who was beneficed in Glocestershire, and at Pool in North Wiltshire; where dying 2. May 1662., was buried in the Chancel of the Church there. Over whose grave was soon after a stone laid, with an inscription thereon, wherein he is styled Theologus tam study. quam exercitio insignis.  
March 13. Edw. Evans of Ch. Ch. Adm. 102.   

Bach. of Diu.  
Nou. 19 Rich. Meredith of New Coll.— This Person who was born in the City of bath, was admitted perpetual Fellow of New Coll. in 15●8, left it about six years after, and through certain preferments succeeded at length Dr. Benj. Heydon in the Deanery of Wells, an 1607. He hath published a Sermon on Micah 6. 4, 5, 6.— printed 1606. qu. and perhaps other things, which I have not yet seen. He died 15. Aug. 1621., and was buried on the 17 of the same month on the South side of the choir of the Cath. Ch. at Wells. He was succeeded in that Deanery by Dr. Ralph Barlow, as I shall elsewhere tell you.  
Dec. 15. Edw. Chetwynd of Exeter Coll.  
Adm. 10.  
☜ Not one Doctor of Law or Physic was admitted this year.   

Doct. of Diu.  

Jul. 17. Rich. Crakanthorpe of Queens  
Oct. 30. Will. Fisher of Oriel 

Coll.     
March 16. Gerrard Williamson of Ch. Ch.   

Incorporations.  
Apr. 8. Theodore de Mayerne, or Mayernius Turquettus, or Theodore Turquettus de Mayerne, born of Protestant Parents at Geneva, (who hardly escaped the Parisian Massacre) Doctor of Physic of the University of M●ntpellier, lately of the Council to the K. of France, as to matters of Physic, now Physician to the Queen of England, was incorporated with more than ordinary solemnity Doctor of the said faculty.— He was Baron of Aubon or A●bon in France, (being Son of Lewis de Mayerne a French Writer) was afterwards chief Physician to K. Jam. 1. by whom he was sent in the beginning of the Year 1618. into France, about matters of concern, but being suspected to come there purposely to disturb affairs, was commanded 
* Camden in Anna. R. Jac. 1. MS. sub an. 1618.  by the Councillours belonging to the King of that Country, to depart the Kingdom forthwith. In 1624. Jul. 14. he received the honour of knighthood at Theobalds', and was afterwards Physician to K. Ch. 1. and his royal Consort Henrietta Maria. He hath written in French (1) Medicinal counsels and advices. (2) A Treatise of the Gout. Both put into Latin and published by Theoph. Bonet Doct. of Physic. See more in Dr. Thom. Sh●rley in my discourse of Anth. Shirley among the Writers, under the year 1630. and in Dr. Tho. Moufet, an. 1590. (3) Excellent and well approved receipts and experiments in Cookery, with the best way of preserving, etc. printed 1658. in tw. (4) Prax●os in morbis internis praecipue gravioribus & chronicis Syntagma, etc. Lond. 1690. oct. with his picture before it, aged 82, published by his Godson Theod. de Vaux. From the experiences also of the said Sir Theod. Mayerne, and from those of Dr. Chamberlain and others, was written a book entit. The complete Midwife's practice, etc. printed several times in oct. Before he came into England he wrote Apologia, etc. Rupel. 1603. oct. and perhaps other things. He paid his last debt to nature in the beginning of the year (about 26. March) 1655, and was buried 30. of the same month in the Chancel of the Church of St. Martin in the Fields near to London, by the bodies of his mother, first Wife, and five of his Children; at which time, Thom. Hodges a Presbyterian Divine and Minister of Kensington in Middlesex. preached his funeral Sermon; in the conclusion of which, he spoke much in praise of Sir Theodore, who left behind him a Widow named Isabel, and a rich Daughter called Adriana de Mayerne Baroness of Aubon, afterwards married to a French Marquis of Mountpellion. Over his grave was soon after a fair Monument put, with a flourishing, and high flown Epitaph thereon, which for brevity sake I shall now pass by, and only tell you, that Quercitan and several famous Men of France and Germany did make honourable mention of him near 60 years before his death.  
Jul. 10. Sam. Walsall Bach. of Diu. of Cambridge— He was afterwards Doct. of that faculty and Master of C. C. C. commonly called Bennet Coll. in that University on the death of Tho. Jegon. He hath published The life and death of Jesus Christ, Serm. before the King at Royston in Esay 53. 4. Lond. 1615. in oct. and other things as 'tis probable, but such I have not yet seen. He died in the Summer time, an. 1626., and was buried in the Chap. of that Coll.  
12. Thom. Morton D. D. of the same University— He was of St. John's Coll. and through various promotions became at length the most learned and religious Bishop of Durham. His life is at large written by John Barwick D. D. printed at London 1660. qu. to which I refer the reader.  
14. Tho. Sheafe D. D. of Cambridge— He was Son of Tho Sheafe of Cranbroke in Kent, was bred Fellow of Kings Coll. in that University, where he had the repute of a good Scholar, was installed Canon of Windsor 29 March 1614, being about that time Rector of Welford in Berksh●re, and beneficed at another place in that County. When he was about 80 years of age, he wrote Vindiciae senectutis, or, a plea for old age, etc. Lond. 1639. oct. Which being published, the Author soon after died, viz. 12. Dec. 1639. Whereupon his body was buried in St. George's Chap. at Windsor. He left behind him a Son named Grindall Sheafe, sometimes Fellow of Kings Coll. beforementioned, afterwards D. of D. Vicar of Col●shall and Horstead in Norfolk, Archdeacon, Canon and Prebendary of Wells, and had other preferments in the Church. From which, raking and scraping a great deal of wealth together, (for he troubled himself not with learning or the encouragement thereof) it had redounded much to his honour and name to have left it to the Church, which he did not, but to Lay-people and Servants, who cared not for him, only for pelf-sake. He died 28. Apr. 1680, and was buried in the Cathedral Church at Wells: Whereupon his Archdeaconry was bestowed by the Bishop on Charles Thirlby Vicar of St. Cuthberts' Church in Wells, his Canonry on Henry Dutton Bachelaur of Divinity, sometimes of Corp Chr. Coll. in Oxon. and his Prebendary, commonly called the Golden Prebendary on Edward Waple Bachelaur of Divinity of St. John's Coll. in the said University.  
Thomas Erpenius born at Gorcome in Holland studied in this University in the condition of a Sojournor about this time, but how long his stay was here, I cannot tell. He was admirably well skilled in the Oriental tongues, the Hebrew, Chaldee, Arabic, Syriack, Aethiopick, Persian and Turkish. He is celebrated throughout the whole Christian World, as the restorer of the Arabic tongue, and died at Leyden in the flower of his Age, an. 1624.    

An. Dom. 1607.  
An. 5 Jac. 1.  
Chanc. the same.  
Vicechanc. Joh. King D. D. Dean of Ch. Ch. Jul. 17.  

Proct. 

Nath. Brent of Mert. Coll.  
Joh. Tolson of Oriel Coll. 

Apr. 15.       

Bach. of Music.  
Jul. 11. Thom. Tomkins of Magd. Coll.— This eminent and learned Musician was Son of Thom. Tomkins Chauntor of the Choir at Gloucester, descended from those of his name of Listwithyel in Cornwall, educated under the famous Musician Will. Bird, and afterwards for his merits was made Gentleman of his Majesty's Chapel Royal, and at length Organist, as also Organist of the Cath. Church at Worcester. He hath composed (1) Songs of three, four, five, and six parts, printed at London in qu. but not said when. (2) Musica deo sacra & ecclesiae Anglicanae; or, Music dedicated to the honour and service of God, and to the use of Cathedrals, and other Churches of England, especially of the Chapel Royal of K. Ch. 1. in ten books, etc. when first printed I cannot tell. (3) Divine Services and Anthems, the words of which are published by James Clifford in his Book entit. Divine Services and Anthems usually sung in the Cathedrals etc. Lond. 1663. Oct. (4) A set of vocal Church Music of four and five parts. MS. given to Magd. Coll. Library in Oxon, by Jam. Clifford before mentioned, where they yet remain in the Archives thereof; and also hath Compositions in the triumphs of Oriana, published by Tho. Morley 1601. qu. He was living after the grand Rebellion broke out, but when he died I cannot justly tell you. He had a Son named Nath. Tomkins Bach. of Diu. of Oxon, who was Prebendary of Worcester from the Month of May 1629 to the 21 of Oct. (on which day he died) an. 1681, as also several Brethren, among whom were (1) Giles Tomkins a most excellent Organist, and Organist of the Cath. Ch. at Salisbury, who died about 1662. (2) Joh. Tomkins Bach. of Music, who was one of the Organists of S. Paul's Cathedral, and afterwards Gentleman of the Chapel Royal, being then in high esteem for his admirable knowledge in the theoretical and practical part of his Faculty. At length being translated to the celestial choir of Angels on the 27 Sept. an. 1626., aged 52, was buried in the said Cathedral. (3) Nich. Tomkins one of the Gentlemen of the privy Chamber to his Majesty Charles 1. who was also well skilled in the practical part of Music, and others, but their order according to seniority I cannot tell.   

Bach. of Arts.  
Apr. 21. Hugh Robinson of New Coll.  
23. Tho. Prior of Broadgates Hall.— See among the Mast. of Arts 1611.  
Joh. Seller of Oriel Coll. was admitted the same day.— See more of him among the Master's 1610.  
Jul. 8. Edw. Chaloner of Magd Coll.  
Oct. 17. Joh. Reading of Magd. Hall.  

20. 

Arth. Hopton of Linc.  
Joh. Wild of Balliol. 

Coll.       
Of the last of these two see more among the M. of A. an. 1610.  
Dec. 9 Edw. Seimour of Magd. Coll. Son of Edward Lord Beauchamp. Son of Edw. Earl of Hertford.  
Will. Seimour of the same College, younger Brother to the said Edward, was admitted the same day.— This William Seimour was afterwards Earl and Marquis of Hertford, Chancellor of this University, and at length Duke of Somerset. He died 24 Oct. 1660.  
Feb. 1. Roger Manwaring of Alls. Coll.— He was afterwards Bishop of S. David.  
5. Tho. Hobbes of Magd Hall.— He was afterwards the famous Philosopher and Mathematician of Malmsbury.  
25. Giles Widows of Oriel Coll.  
As for Robinson, Reading, Manwaring, Hobbes and Widows, there will be a large mention made of them in the other Volume of this Work.  
Adm. 154.   

Bach. of Law.  

Apr. 21. Joh. Reinolds of New  
Dec. 16. Arth. Duck of Alls. 

Coll.     
Besides these two, was but one more admitted this year.   

Mast. of Arts.  
Jun. 12. Sim. Birckbek of Queens Coll.  

18. 

Nathan Pownoll of Ch. Ch.  
Rich. Tillesley of S. Joh. Coll.     

Jul. 8. Tho. Bailiff of Magd.  
Oct. 20. Rob. Sanderson of Linc.  
Dec. 14. Rich. Capell of Magd. 

Coll.     
Adm. 101.   

Bach. of Physic.  
June 1. Rich. Andrews of S. Joh. Coll.  
28. Edm. Dean of S. Alb. Hall.  
Besides these two, was but one more (Will. Barker of S. Mary's Hall) admitted.   

Bach. of Diu.  

Apr. 23. 

Rich. Moket of Alls.  
Joh. Denison of Ball. 

Coll.       

Jul. 9 

Mich. Boil of S. Joh.  
Joh. Bancroft of Ch. Ch. 

Coll.       
Which two last were afterwards Bishops.  
18. Will. Gilbert of Magd. Coll.— Whether he be the same Will. Gilbert who was afterwards D. of D. and Minister of Orset in Essex (where he died about 1640.) I know not.  
Adm. 8.   

Doct. of Law.  
Jan. 14. Thomas Gwynne of Alls. Coll.— He was afterwards, or about this time, Chauntor of the Church of Salisbury (as the cat. of the Fellows of that Coll. tells us, but falsely) and Chancellor of Landaff. He was a Benefactor to Jesus Coll. in Oxon, as you may see 
* In 〈◊〉 & Antiq. Vniu. Oxon. lib▪ 1. p. 317. b.  elsewhere, and lived, if I mistake not, till the Reign of Oliver Protector.   

Doct. of Phys.  
Jul. 4. Will. Barker of S. Mary's Hall.— He was a learned Physician, but whether he hath published any thing, I know not.   

Doct. of Diu.  
July 8. Will. Wilson of Mert. Coll.— In 1584. he became Canon of Windsor in the place of Dr. Will. Wickham promoted to the See of Lincoln, being about that time Chaplain to Edmund Archb. of Canterbury. Afterwards he became Prebendary of Rochester and Rector of Clyve or Cliff in Kent. He died 14 May 1615, aged 73, and was buried in the Chapel of S. George at Windsor, near to the Body of his Father, and not in the Cath. Ch. at Rochester near to the Bodies of his sometimes Wives, Isabel and Anne.  
Charles Sonibanke of Ch. Ch.— This person who was a Salopian born, and originally of S. Mary's Hall, was now Canon of Windsor, Rector of Hasely in the County of Oxon, and possessor of the Donative of Wrotham in Kent. I have seen a Sermon of his intit. The Evenuchs' conversion, preached at Paul's Cross on Acts 8. 26, 27, 28, etc. Lond. 1617., qu. And what else he hath published I know not. Quaere. He died on the 12 Oct. 1638, and was buried in the Chancel of the Church at Haseley before mentioned.  
Jul. 8. Rich. Pilkington of Queens Coll.  
Francis Bradshaw of Magd. Coll. was admitted the same day.— He was born of a gentile Family in Bucks, was a Dignitary in the Church, and hath written certain matters of Divinity, as some Ancients of his Coll. have told me, yet all that I have seen which he hath published, is only a Sermon intit. The World's wisdom, or, the Politicians religion, on Psal. 14. 1. Oxon. 1598., oct.  
July. 8. Matthew Davies of New Coll.— He was Brother to Sir Joh. Davies, whom I have mentioned among the Writers under the year 1626.  
George Benson of Queens Coll. was admitted the same day.— He was about this time Canon residentiary of Hereford, and Parson of Rock in Worcestershire, Author of A Sermon at Paul's Cross. on Hosea 7. from ver. 7. to 12. Lond. 1609. qu. and perhaps of other things, but such I have not yet seen. He was born of a gentile Family in Westmoreland, was Fellow of Qu. Coll. Proctor of the University, and died (at Rock I think) about 1647.  
Jan. 14. Geor Darrel of Alls.'s. Coll.— This Person who was Brother to Sir Marmaduke Darrel Cofferer of his Majesty's Household, was installed Canon of the sixth Stall in the Collegiate Church of Westminster, on the 8 of June this year, in the place of Dr. Griff. Lewis deceased; and dying on the last of Oct. 1631, Pet. Heylyn Bach. of Diu. was nominated to succeed him the next day, and accordingly was installed on the 9 of Nou.   

Incorporations.  
May 16. Thom. Bell M. of A. of Cambr.— One of both his names had been a Rom. Catholic, afterwards a Protestant, and a Writer and Publisher of several Books against the Papists from 1593. to 1610, and after, as the Oxford Catalogue will partly tell you. Quaere whether the same.  
July 14. Patrick Kinnimond M. A. of the University of S. Andrew in Scotland.— He was afterwards benificed in Dorsetshire.  
Anth. Cade M. A. of Cambr. was incorporated the same day.— He hath published A justification of the Church of England Lond. 1630. qu. and certain Sermons, as the Oxford Catalogue will tell you.  
Rob. Abbot M. A. of the same University, was incororated the same day.— He was afterwards Vicar of Cranbrook in Kent, a cider with the Presbyterians in the Rebellion which began in 1642, was Minister of Southwick in Hampshire, and at length of S. Austin's Church in Watling street near S. Paul's Cath. in London; where, after he had been tumbled and tossed to and fro, enjoyed himself quietly for some years in his old Age. He hath written and published several things, among which are (1) Four Sermons, etc. Lond. 1639, oct. dedicated to Walter Curl Bishop of Winchester, (to whom he had been Servant) who then exhibited to his two Sons, one at Oxon, and another at Cambr. (2) Trial of our Church for sakers, etc. on Heb. 10. 23. Lond. 1639, oct. (3) Milk for Babes, or a Mother's Catechism for her Children. Lond. 1646. oct. (4) Three Sermons, printed with the former book. (5) A Christian Family builded God, or directions for Governors of Families, Lond. 1653. oct. At which time the Author was two years above the great climecterical year. Other things he hath also published (among which is, Be thankful London and her Sisters, Sermon on Psal. 31. 21. Lond. 1626. qu.) which for brevity sake I shall now omit.   

Creations.  
Jul. 14. The most noble John Kennedi a Knight of the illustrious Family of the Earls of Cashills in Ireland, was then actually created Master of Arts.    

An. Dom. 1608.  
An. 6 Jac. 2.  
Chanc. the same. viz. Thomas Earl of Dorset; but he dying the 19 Apr. Dr. Rich. Bancroft Archb. of Canterbury succeeded in the Chancellourship on the 22 of the same month.— He was born at Farnworth in Lancashire in Sept. 1544, Son of Joh. Bancroft Gent. by Mary his Wife, Daughter of Joh. Curwyn, Brother to Dr. Hugh Curwyn Archb. of Dublin; and after he had been severely trained up in Grammatical Learning, he was first placed in Christ's, and soon after removed to Jesus, Coll. in Cambridge. Afterwards by the endeavours of his said Uncle Dr. Curwyn, he became, when young, Prebendary of the Cath. Ch. at Dublin; but the Uncle removing, and dying soon after, he was made Chaplain to Dr. Cox Bishop of Ely, who gave him the Rectory of Teversham in the Country of Cambridge. Being thus put into the road of preferment, he was admitted Bach. of Diu. 1580, and five years after Doctor. About which time he put himself into the Service of Sir Christoph. Hatton Lord Chancellor of England, by whose recommendations he was made Prebendary of Westminster, in the place of Mr. Joh. Wickham, an. 1592., from whence he had the easier passage to S. Paul's in London, of which Cathedral he was Treasurer.  
Vicechanc. Dr. King again, Jul. 17.  

Proct. 

Edw. Vnderhyll of Magd. Coll.  
Joh. Hamden of Ch. Ch. 

Apr. 6.       

Bach. of Music.  
Dec. 13. Will. Stonard Organist of Ch. Ch. in Oxon.— He hath composed certain Divine Services and Anthems, the words of one, or more, of which are published in the Collection of Divine Services and Anthems put out by Jam. Clifford an. 1663. We have also some of his Compositions in our public Music School at Oxon, sent by Walter Porter to his Kinsman Joh. Wilson Doct. of Music, and the public Professor of the praxis of that Faculty in Oxon, to be reposed and kept for ever in the Archives of the said School. In the Organists place of Ch. Ch. succeeded Edward Low of Salisbury about 1630, who was afterwards public Professor of the musical praxis in this University, and Author of Short directions for the performance of Cathedral Service, printed at Oxon in oct. an. 1661. The second Edition of which came out at the same place in 1664, with a review, and many useful Additions relating to the Common Prayer, by the same hand. This Mr. Low, who was judicious in his profession, but not graduated therein, died on the 11 of July 1682. whereupon his Body was buried at the upper end of the Divinity Chappel, joining on the north side of the Cathedral of Ch. Ch. near to the Body of Alice his sometimes Wife, Daughter of Sir Joh. Peyton the younger of Dodington in the Isle of Ely, Kt.   

Bach. of Arts.  
Apr. 13. Joh. Harrys of New Coll.  
16. Charles Croak of Ch. Ch.— See among the Doct. of Diu. an. 1625.  
20. Will. Lewis of Hart Hall, afterwards Fellow of Oriel Coll.— See among the Creation's 1627.  
31. Rich. Gove of Magd. Hall.  
June 2. Gilb. Ironside of T●in. Coll.— He was afterwards Bish. of Bristol.  
James Martin of Broadgates was admitted the same day.— See among the Master's 1611.  
6. Joh. Wall of Ch. Ch.  
Jul. 7. Edward Bagshaw of Brasn. Coll.  
9 Joh. Barlow of Hart Hall.  
Oct. 14. Isaac Colf of Ch. Ch.  
Nou. 19 Gilb St●akes of Hart Hall.— See among the Bach. of Diu. 1646.  

Jan. 25. 

Sam. Smith  
Will. Greenhill  
Accepted Frewen 

of Magd. Coll.       
The last of which three was afterwards Archb. of York.  
Feb. 16. Hen. Lord Clifford Baron of Skypton, eldest Son of the Earl of Cumberland, was then admitted Bach. of Arts, as a Member of Ch. Ch.— After this man's time, studied in the same house Hen●y Clifford, Son of Francis Earl of Cumberland; who, by the various Copies of Verses that he wrote (but whether published I know not, obtained the character of the best of Poets among the Nobility. He was afterwards Earl of Cumberland; and dying on the 11 of Decemb. 1643, was buried by his Ancestors in a Vault under the Church of Sk●pton in Craven in Yorkshire.  
Feb. 16. Nich. Guy of Hart Hall.— See among the Masters, an. 1611.  
1●. Rich. Eedes of Brasn. Coll.— One of both his names, who was a Warwickshire man born, and afterwards the Presbyterian Curate of the rich Church at Cleve in Glocestershire, hath written Christ exalted and Wisdom justified; or, the Saints esteem of Jesus Christ, as most precious, handled, etc. Lond. 1659. oct. besides one or more Sermons, which he before had published. Whether the same with him of Brasnose, Quaere.  
17. Joh. Ball of S. Mary's Hall, lately of Brasn. Coll.  
20. Thom. Howell of Jesus Coll.— He was afterwards Bishop of Bristol.  
23. Will. Slatyer of Brasn. Coll.  
As for Harrys, Gove, Ironside, Wall, Bagshaw, Greenhil, Frewen, Howell and Slayer before mentioned, will be large mention made of them in the second Volume of this Work, or elsewhere.  
Adm. 213, or thereabouts.   

Mast. of Arts,  
May 1●. Henr. Whistler of Trin. Coll.  

May 30. 

Sam. Fell  
Joh. Ley 

of Ch. Ch.    
Henr. Rogers of Jes.  
June 2. Walt. Raleigh of Magd. 

Coll.       
6. Samson Price of Hart Hall, afterwards of Exeter Coll.  

July 7. Gabriel Richardson of Brasn.  
Mar. 18. Hen. Jackson of C. C. 

Coll.     
Admitted 98, or thereabouts.   

Bach. of Diu.  
June 1. Lionel Day, Fellow of Balliol, sometimes of Oriel, Coll. was then admitted.— He was younger Brother to John Day mentioned among the Writers, under the year 1627., was Rector of Whichford near to Brailes in Warwickshire, and Author of Concio ad Clerum, habita Oxonii, die Martis post Comitia, an. dom. 1609. in Luc. 22. 31. Oxon. 1632. qu. besides other things, as 'tis said, but such I have not yet seen. He died in 1640, and was buried in the Chancel of the Church of Whichford before mentioned.  
June 30. Joh. Davies of Lincoln, sometimes a Student in Jesus, College.  
Jul. 7. Thom. Peacock of Brasn. Coll.— He was a Cheshire man born, and Tutor to the famous Rob. Bolton; the Author of whose Life doth much celebrate the said Peacock for his learning, and great sanctity of life and conversation. He was buried in S. Mary's Church in Oxon, 7 Dec. 1611.  
13. Joh. Sandsbury of S. John's Coll.  
Besides these four, were 24 more admitted, among whom Nich. Simpson of C. C. Coll. was one, and Rich. Colfe of Ch. Ch. another; both Accumulators.   

Doct. of Law.  
Apr. 16. James Cook of New Coll.— He was the only Doctor admitted this year.   

Doct. of Phys.  
June 1. Rich. Andrews of S. Joh. Coll.— He had improved himself much in his Faculty in his Travels beyond the Seas, which afterwards made him highly esteemed among learned men and others.  
Will. Turner of Ball. Coll. was admitted the same day.— He was a Londoner born, and was Master of Arts of Cambridge, in which degree being incorporated with us, an. 1602, entered himself into Balliol Coll. (having before spent some years in foreign Academies in the study of Phys.) and as a Member of that Coll. he was admitted to practise his Faculty, 13 July 1604. After he had been admitted Doctor, he retired to London, became one of the Coll. of Physicians, and eminent for his practice. One Will. Turner Doct. of Phys. wrote a Pamphlet entit. Ad nobilem Britannum, or an abstract of England's Royal Peers. When written I cannot tell; sure I am, 'twas printed at London in 1641. qu. Whether this Will. Turner be the same with the former of Ball. Coll. I cannot justly say, nor whether he was one of the Sons of Dr. Pet. Turner mentioned among the Incorporations, an. 1599 yet that he was descended from William, Father of the said Dr. Peter Turner, 'tis not to be doubted.   

Doct. of Diu.  

May 12. Sebast. Benefield of C. C.  
June 1. Joh. Lea of S. John's 

Coll.     
The last of these two, who was of the gentile Family of the Leas or Lees of Quarendon in Bucks, and of Dichley in Oxfordshire, was Chaplain to the most noble Knight Sir Hen. Lea, was beneficed in the said Counties, and dying about 1609, was buried in S. John's Coll. Chappel; to the adorning of which, he was an especial Benefactor. He gave also many Books to that Coll. Library.  
Rich. Thornton Canon of Ch. Ch. was admitted the same day.— In the beginning of Sept. an. 1611, he became Prebendary of Worcester in the place of Gervace Carrington deceased; and dying 1 Jan. 1614, was buried in the Cath. of Ch. Ch. in Oxon.  

Jun. 6. 

Will. Laude  
Joh. Rawlinson 

of S. Joh. 

Rob. Wakeman of Ball. 

Coll.           
25. Edw. Wickham of Ball. Coll. now Prebendary of Winchester, and Archdeacon of Dorset.— This person who was of the Family of the Wickhams' of Swacliff near Banbury in Oxfordshire, died in 1620 or thereabous, and was, if I mistake not, buried in the Chancel of the Church of Storington in Sussex, near to the Bodies of his Father and Mother. In his Archdeaconry succeeded, as I suppose, Rich. Fitzherbert.  
Thom. higgon's of Ball. Coll. was admitted the same day.— He was Father to Sir Tho. higgon's of Gruel in Hampshire.  
30. Nich. Simpson of C. C. Coll. who accumulated.— He was now Prebendary of Canterbury, where dying in 1609, left behind him a Son named John, who was afterwards D. of D. and Preb. of the same Church, and dying 1630, aged 51, left behind him a Son named Nicholas, who also was Prebendary there. This last, who was of C. C. Coll. in Oxon, died 22 Aug. 1680. aged 56, and was buried in, or near the graves of his Father and Grandfather in the Cathedral Church of Canterbury. Over their Sepulchers was a stone soon after put, with an Inscription thereon, which for brevity sake I now pass by.  
Rich. Colfe of Ch. Ch. was admitted the same day.— He was now Prebendary of Canterbury, and dying 7 Oct. 1613, aged 63, being then Subdean of that Church, was buried therein 3 days after, at which time Thomas Wilson, a Member thereof, preached his Funeral Sermon, entit. Christ's farewell to Jerusalem, on Luke 23. 27, 28, 29, etc. To which a Testimony is added concerning the said Rich. Colfe, of his great piety and learning.  

June 30. 

Joh. Browne of Vniu.  
Christop. Sutton of Linc.  
Tho. Alleyn of C. C. 

Coll.       

July 7. Tho. More  
12. Will. Leonard 

of Exet. Coll.     
Mar. 11. Gerard Massy of Brasn. Coll.— He was afterwards nominated Bishop of Chester, but died before consecration.  
14. David Ellis of Jesus Coll.  
These two last accumulated the degrees in Divinity.   

Incorporations.  
May 30. Rich. Butler Bach. of Diu. of Cambr.— He was formerly of S. Joh. Coll. in Oxon, and now Chaplain in Ordinary to his Majesty, which is all I yet know of him.  
Jun. 14. Christop. Musgrave Bach. of Arts of Cambr.— One of both his names was about this time a Carthusian at Liege in Germany, and afterwards wrote Motives and reasons for his secession and dissevering from the Church of Rome. Lond. 1621. qu. But this last I cannot affirm to be the same with him who was Bach. of Arts, because he saith, that before he seceeded from the Church of Rome he had been a Carthusian Monk for the space of twenty years.  
David Owen M. of A. of Clare Hall in the same University, was incorporated the same day.— He was afterwards Bach. of Diu. and Chaplain to John Ramsey Lord Viscount Hadington, afterwards D. of D. and Chaplain to the said person when he was Earl of Holderness. He hath written and published (1) The concord of a Papist and Puritan for the coercion, deposition, and killing of Kings. Cambr. 1610. qu. (2) Antiparaeus, sive determinatio de jure regio, habita Cantabrigiae in scholis Theologicis, 19 Apr. 1619 contra Davidem Paraeum caeterosque reformatae religionis Antimonarchos. Cantab. 1632. oct. What other things he hath published I know not, nor any thing else of him, only that he was born in the Isle of Anglesey.  
July 8. Will. Eire (Eierus) Doct. of Phys of Leyden.  
Will. Cavendish M. of A. of Cambr. Son and Heir of Will. Lord Cavendish, was incorporated the same day, in the house of Convocation.— He was afterwards the second Earl of Devonshire of his name.  
12. Walt. Curl M. A. of Cambr. was incorporated again.— See among the Incorporations an. 1601, and in 1636.  
Eliazer Hodson M. A. of the same University, was incorporated the same day.— See among the Incorporations 1615.  
Joh. Williams M. A. of Cambr. was also then incorporated.— This noted person, who was the Son of Edmund Williams of Conway, commonly called Aberconway, in Caernarvanshire (by his Wife Mary Daughter of Owen Wynn of Eglarsnache) the sixth Son of William Williams of Cogh-Williams, was educated in S. Joh. Coll. in the said University, of which he was Fellow. Afterwards he became Chaplain to Thomas Lord Egerton Lord Chanc. of England, and in 1611-12, one of the Proctors of the University of Cambridge, in which Office he gave so noble and generous Entertainment as well in scholastical Exercises as in edibles and potables, to the Spanish Ambassadors, conducted thither by his Patron the Lord Chancellor, that when they took their leaves of him, the Chancellor, with the approbation of the Ambassador, told him that he had behaved himself so well in his Entertainment, that he was fit to se●ve a King and that he would be glad to see him as welcome at the Court, as they were in the University. About that time he had several Benefices conferred upon him, of which the Rectory of Waldgrave in Northamptonshire was one, Dinam and Grafton two more, a Residentiaryship in the Church of Lincoln, one or more Prebendships therein, and the Office of Chauntor; besides a Prebendship in the Church of Peterborough, and a Donative in Wales. Afterwards he was made sacerdotal Rector of the Savoy, Chaplain in ordinary to his Majesty, and on Sept. 10, a 1619. Dean of Salisbury in the place of Dr. Joh. Gourdon deceased: Whereupon giving up the Savoy, upon his Majesty's desire, it was by him conferred on 
* Camb. in Annal. R. Jac. 1. MS. sub. an. 1619.  M. Ant. de Dominis Archbishop of Spalleto; and at the same time 'twas ordered that an yearly pension should be by him (Williams) paid to the famous Pet. du Moulin a French Protestant, who a little before had fled into England upon account of Religion. About that time, he, by the favour of George Duke of Buckingham, was made a privy Counsellor to his Majesty, and upon the promotion of Doct. Rob. Tounson to the See of Salisbury, had the Deanery of Westminster conferred upon him, in which he was installed 10 July 1620: Afterwards the Deanery of Salisbury was conferred upon Dr. Joh. Bowls of Cambridge, as I shall elsewhere tell you. In the month of July 1621., he was nominated Bishop of Lincoln on the Translation of Dr. George Mountaigne to the See of London, and about the same time was made L. Keeper of the great Seal by Buckingham's Endeavours. On the 9 Oct. following he proceeded to Westminster Hall, as L. Keeper, but without 
a 〈…〉  pomp and on the 11 of Nou. was consecrated Bishop of Lincoln in the collegiate Church of S. Peter at Westminster, by the Bishops of London, Worcester, Ely, Oxford, and Landaff; and about that time his Majesty gave him leave to keep Westminster in commendam. It was then observed by many, that as Sir Nich. Bacon had before received the Great Seal from a Clergyman, (Nich. Heath Archb. of York) so a Bishop again received them from his Son Sir Francis, at which the Lawyers did fret, to have such a Flower pulled out of their garden. But as for the further addition to the story, that Williams was brought in by Buckingham to serve such turns as none of the Laity could be found bad enough to undertake, as a libellous 
b 〈…〉  Author reports, we must leave it to knowing men to be Judges of it. After K. Ch. 1. came to the Crown, he was continued a privy Counsellor for a time, but Buckingham being then in great favour with that Prince, caused the Seal to be taken from him in Oct. 1625, as having neglected, and been very ungrateful to, him; and in the beginning of Feb. following, when that King was crowned, he was set aside from administering Service at that Ceremony, as Dean of Westminster, and Dr. Laud Bishop of S. David's, and Preb. of Westm. (who before had received several schoolings and affronts from William's while L. Keeper) officiated in his place. Further also, lest he should seek revenge against Buckingham for what he had done unto him, he, with the Earls of Summersault, Middlesex, and Bristol, (all of an inclination, though not all of a plume) were interdicted the Parliament House. Hereupon Williams grew highly discontented, sided with the Puritan, and finding the King to decline in the affection of his People, he fomented 
c 〈…〉  popular discourses tending to his Majesty's dishonour, so long, until at length the incontinence of his Tongue betrayed him into Speeches, which trespassed upon Loyalty: for which words, they having taken vent, he was questioned by a Bill in the Star-Chamber, 4 Car. 1. dom. 1628. But the information being somewhat lame and taken up with second-hand Reports, the Accusation lay dormant till about 1632, when it was revived again. And the purgation of B. William's depending principally upon the testimony of one John Pregian Registrary of Lincoln, it happened that the Febr. after, one Elizab. Hodson was delivered of a base Child, and laid it to this Pregian. The Bishop finding his great Witness charged with such Infamy, conceived it would invalidate all his Testimony, and that once rendered invalid, the Bishop could easily prognosticate his own ruin. Therefore he bestirs himself amain, and though by order of the Justices at the public Session at Lincoln, Pregian was charged as the reputed Father, the Bishop by his Agents, Pawel and Owen, procured that Order suppressed, and by subornation and menacing of, and tampering with Witnesses, did at length in May 10 Car. 1. procure the Child to be fathered upon one Bohun, and Pregian to be acquitted. After this he being accriminated in the Star-Chamber for corrupting of Witnesses, and being convicted by full proof on the 11 of July 1637 he received this censure, that he was to pay ten thousand pounds fine to the King, to be imprisoned in the Tower of London during his Majesty's pleasure, and to be suspended ab officiis & beneficiis. In 1640, Nou. 16. he was released from the Tower, and became the Idol for a time of both Houses, (having since his fall closed with the Puritan) and who then should be in daily conference with him but Edward Bagshaw a Parliament man for Southwark, and afterwards Will. Prynne, two zealous and bigoted Puritans; whose Counsels were chiefly to pull down Laud Archbishop of Canterbury, Wentworth Earl of Strafford, Heylyn of Westminster, and other Royalists. On the 12 Jan. following, he preached before the King, and pleased the Puritan very much, as being zealous for the Sabbath, and against the Book for Sports; yet towards the conclusion said that the discipline of Geneva, and Cornaries Diet, were fit for none but Beggars and Tradesmen. Afterwards, it was observed by many, that he declined daily in the people's favour, who took him then not to be the same man as they did before. In 1641 he was by his Maj. favour, purposely to please the Puritan then dominant, translated from Lincoln to York, and soon after was in the head of the Bishops when they made their Protestation against the House of Lords in behalf of themselves; for which being imprisoned in the Tower again, continued there eighteen weeks. At length being with much ado released, he retired to the King at Oxon, where he provided himself with a Commission, and Instructions what to do when he went farther. Afterwards he went into his own Country, repaired his Castle at Aberconway, fortified it, and spared not any cost or labour to make it teneable for his Majesty's Service. But then his Majesty and privy Council suspecting that he would not be faithful to him, they put a Commander therein, and in a manner thrust the Archb. out. Whereupon taking these matters in high disdain, he retired to his house at Pentryn or Penryn, not far from Aberconway, which he fortified; and having gained the favour of the Parliament, put a Garrison therein, and declared for them. Afterwards obtaining some Forces from one Mitton a Parliamentarian Colonel in those Parts, went forthwith and set upon Aberconway Castle, took it and kept it to his dying day in his own possession. This was in the latter end of 1645, at which time the King's Cause did daily decline, as the Archbishop did in the minds of the Royalists, who, for these his Actions, spared not to style him a perfidious Prelate, the shame of the Clergy, and the Apostate Archbishop of York, whereas while he was in his greatness, he was characterized to be a person of a generous mind, a lover and encourager of learning and learned men (he himself being very learned) hospitable, and a great Benefactor to the public, yet always high and proud, and sometimes insolent, and to have pharisaical Leaven in him. His works are (1) A sermon of apparel before the King and Pr. at Theobalds', 22 Feb. 1619, on Math. 11. 8. Lond. 1620. qu. (2) Serm. before the Lords, Lond 1623. qu. (3) Serm. at the funeral of K. James, on 1 Kings 11. 41, 42, 43. Lond. 1625. qu. (4) Perseverantia sanctorum, etc. on Job 42. 12.— pr. 1628. qu. (5) Letter to the Vicar of Grantham, etc. pr. 1636. qu. answered by Dr. Pet. Heylyn in his Coal from the Altar, etc. (6) Holy table, name, and thing, more anciently used under the New Testam. than that of an Altar. pr. 1637, which is a reply to the Coal from the Altar, etc. Whereupon Heylyn came out with a rejoinder, called Antidotum Lincolniense, etc. as I shall tell you more at large when I come to him in the 2 Vol. of this Work. (7) Annotationes in vet. Testam. & in Ephesios'. Cantab. 1653, oct. published under the name of Johan. Eboracensis, by which, I presume, is meant John Williams. He hath also published one or more Sermons which I have not seen, and hath also extant Parliamentary Speeches and Letters of State. In 1671 was printed at London in octavo, A manual: or, three small and plain Treatises, viz. 1. of Prayer, or active, 2. of Principles, or passive, 3. of Resolution, or opposite, Divinity. Translated and collected out of ancient Writers for the private use of a most noble Lady, to preserve her from the danger of Popery. In the Title page 'tis said to have been written by John Archbishop of York, yet certain Authors who lived and wrote after his death, are therein quoted; which are unadvisedly done by another hand. At length this Archb. dying in the house of the Lady Mostyn at Glodedd near Aberconway, on the 25 of Mar. 1649 was buried, I presume, at Aberconway. There is extant a Latin Apology for this Dr. Williams Archb. of York, written in good Latin by Joh Harmer M. A. sometimes of Magd. Coll. in Oxon, to Lambert Osbaldeston a great Creature of the said Archb. in which are many things, that are true, inserted. But the Reader is to know, that the said Harmer, who sometimes taught in the College School at Westminster, had often participated of the generosity of Archb. Williams; and when afterwards he became Greek Professor of the Uniu. of Oxford, he was esteemed a Parasite, and one that would do any thing below him to gain a little money or a meals-meat.  
Jul. 12. Math. Wren M. of A. of Pembroke Hall in Cambridge, was then incorporated in the same degree.— I have spoken largely of him elsewhere.  
Will. Boswell M. A. of Jesus Coll. in the said University, was incorporated the same day.— He was afterwards Proctor of that University, Secretary to Sir Dudl. Carleton while ordinary Ambassador to the States of the United Provinces, and afterwards Resident or Leaguer Ambassador there himself; in which capacity he was knighted by the Lord Hor. Vere of Tilbury, and other Commissioners, named in his Majesty's Letters Patents, in the Army of the said States at Bockstal near Baldock in Brabant, 25 July 1633. He was a learned man, a great encourager of Learning, zealous for the Church of England, faithful in the execution of his Embassy, and highly valued by eminent persons. He died much lamented in 1647.  
Joh. Squire M. A. of Jesus Coll. in the same University, was also then incorporated— He was afterwards Vicar of S. leonard's Shoreditch in Middlesex, a zealous and orthodox Preacher, and therefore respected by Dr. Laud Archb. of Canterbury. But when the Puritan or Presbyterian brake into an open Rebellion, he was one of those many godly Ministers that suffered by Imprisonment, Sequestration, Plundering, and I know not what. He hath written Lectures, being an Exposition of the first part of the second Chapter to the Thessalonians, proving the Pope to be Antichrist. Lond. 1630, qu. and also published several Sermons, the Titles of most of which you may see in the Bodleian or Oxford Catalogue. Pray be pleased to see more of him in that vile Pamphlet called A century of scandalous, malignant, Priests, etc. printed 1643, qu. pag. 25.  
Joh Preston M. A. of Queens Coll. in Camb. was also then incorporated.— He was afterwards Doct. of Diu. Master of Emanuel Coll. in the said University, a perfect Politician, and the Patriarch of the Presbyterian Party. The Titles of most of the Sermons and Treatises which he hath written and published, you may see in the said Catalogue, and the actions of his life, written and published by one that was his Pupil, named Tho. Ball of Northampton, who tells you, that he died 20 Jul. 1628., and that he was buried in the Church at Fawsley in Northamptonshire.    

An. Dom. 1609.  
An. 7 Jac. 1.  
Chanc. Rich. Bancroft D. D. Archb. of Canterbury.  
Vicechanc. the same, viz. Dr. J. King, July 14.  

Proct. 

Charles Greenwood of Vniu. Coll.  
Joh. Fleming of Exet. Coll. 

Apr. 26.       

Bach. of Arts.  
Apr. 28. Edw. Littleton of Ch. Ch.  
May 2. Joh. Heath of New Coll. the Epigrammatist.  

6. 

Brian Duppa  
Edw. Boughen 

of Ch. Ch.       
The former of which two, was afterwards B. of Winton. June 22. Tho. Dugard of Ch. Ch.— Quaere.  
26. Christop. Wren of S. Joh. Coll.— See more among the Bach. of Diu. 1620.  
Jul. 7. Nathan. Grenfield of S. Edmund's, lately of Gloc. Hall.— See among the Master's 1612.  

Oct. 14. 

Edward Cotton  
Percival Burrel 

of Ch. Ch.       
Of these two you may see more among the Masters, an. 1612.  
Dec. 7. Mich. Oldsworth of Magd. Hall, afterwards of Magd. Coll.— See also among the Masters, 1614  
Feb. 10. Anth. white of Ch. Ch.— You may see more of him among the Masters, an. 1612.  
13. Ralph Robinson of Linc. Coll.— This person I set down here, not that he was a Writer, but to prevent an unwary Reader hereafter to take him to be the same Ralph Robinson who was born at Heswall in Wirrall in Cheshire, an. 1614, bred in Catherine Hall in Cambridge, where he continued till 1642, at which time he sided with the Presbyterians, and afterwards became Minister of S. Marry de Wolnoth in London, and a Publisher of several theological matters favouring of Presbytery. He died 15 June 1655, and was buried in the Chancel of his Church before mentioned, on the north side of the Communion Table, under the stone called Mr. Buckminsters' stone.  
E. Littleton, Br. Duppa, and Edw. Boughen before mentioned, will be spoken of at large in the 2 Vol. of this Work.  
Adm. 181.   

Bach. of Law.  
I find but five were admitted, among whom Jo. Boys of Alls. Coll. was one; and one that supplicated, named Jam. Mabbe of Magd. Coll. of whom will be large mention made in the second Volume.   

Mast. of Art.  

June 20. Joh. Hales of Merton  
21. Tho. Willis of S. John's  
Jul. 6. Tho. Sutton of Queens  
Oct. 11. Tho. Godwin of Magd. 

Coll.     
27. Josias Bird Chaplain of Alls. Coll.— He was lately incorporated Bach. of Arts, as in the Incorporations following you may see: afterwards he became Chaplain to Alice Countess Dowager of Derby, Wife of Tho. Lord Ellesmere, and the publisher of Love's peerless paragon; or the attributes and progress of the Church, Serm. at S. Mary's in Oxon, and at Harfield in Middlesex, on Cant. 2. 10. Oxon. 1613. qu. and perhaps of other things.  

Nou. 9 Will. Spark of Magd.  
17. Will. Jewel of Exet. 

Coll.     
The last of these two did translate from French into English The golden Cabinet of true Treasure, containing the sum of moral Philosophy. Lond. 1612. oct. What other things he hath translated, or what he hath written, I know not, nor any thing else of him beside, only that he was a Gentleman's Son of Devonshire, and that he became a Sojournour of Exet. Coll. an. 1603. aged 17.  
Adm. 97.   

Bach. of Diu.  

Dec. 14. Rob. Bolton of Brasn.  
Feb. 22. Tho. Thompson of Qu. 

Coll.     
Will. Lo of S. Alb. Hall did supplicate for the same degree, but whether he was admitted, it appears not.  
Adm. 11.   

Doct. of Law.  
June 28. Alexander Sheppard of Jesus Coll.— He was a learned Civilian, but what he hath published I know not.   

Doct. of Physic.  
Jun. 26. Thom. Johnson of Oriel Coll.— He was buried in S. Mary's Church in Oxon 16 Nou. 1621.; but whether he was Author of a Book which goes under the name of Dr. Johnson entit. Practica medicinae de aegritudinibus capitis. Lond. 1602. qu. I cannot justly say. See another Thom. Johnson M. D. in these Fasti in the 2 Vol. an. 1643.   

Doct. of Diu.  
June…. Rich. Mocket of Alls. Coll.  
July…. Walt. Bennet of New Coll.— In Sept. 1608, he became Chauntor of the Church of Salisbury, on the death of Dr. Will. Zouch; and on the 7 of March 1609 Archdeacon of Wilts. on the death of Dr. Edm. Lilly. In his Chauntorship succeeded Hen. Cotton, as I shall tell you in these Fasti, an. 1610, and in his Archdeaconry one Tho. Leach 15 Nou. 1614  
19 Rob. Clay of Mert. Coll.— He afterwards succeeded Dr. Joh. Favour in the Vicarage of Halyfax, and dying in 1628., left by will 
* 〈…〉.  to the said Coll. 100 l. for two Sermons yearly to be preached to the University, (as Dr. Bickley had formerly given to them) to be preached by a Yorkshire Man, if any such be Fellow, or Chaplain of that College, who in his Prayer is to mention Dr. Day sometimes Vicar of Halifax as the founder of those Sermons.  
Jan. 24. John Bancroft of Ch. Ch. a Compounder.— He was soon after Master of University Coll.   

Incorporations.  
Apr. 29. Thom. Wharton elder Son of Philip Lord Wharton was incorporated M. of Arts. as he had stood at Cambridge.— He was Father to Philip Lord Wharton, who openly appeared in arms against K. Ch. 1. an. 1642. And many years after he was made one of the Privy Council to K. Will. 3.  
May 4. Josias Bird Bach. of Arts of Cambridge— He was now of Alls. Coll. under the inspection of his kinsman or uncle Dr. Will. Bird.  
Jun. 12. Hipocrates D'othon or Othen Doct. of Phys. of the Uniu. of Montpellier— He died 13. Nou. 1611 and was buried in the Church of St. Clement's Danes without Temple Barr, within the liberty of Westm.  
Jul. 11. Will. Gonge M. A. of Cambridge— He was a Native of Stratford bow in Middlesex, was educated in Kings Coll. of which he was Fellow, afterwards he was Doct. of Diu. and the pious and learned Preacher of the Church in the Blackfriers in London, where in his time he was accounted the Father of the London Ministers, that is, of such, who were put in by the Authority of the rebellious Parliament in 1641, 42. etc. He was one of the Assembly of Divines, was a good Text-man, as his Whole armour of God, Exposition 
† 〈…〉.  of the Hebrews, Exposition of the Lords Prayer, and other learned works (the titles of some of which you may see in Oxf. Cat.) show. He is often honourably mentioned by Voetius, Streso and other outlandish Divines; and was always accounted by the Puritan eminent for his humility, patience, and faith: He died 12. of Dec. 1653 and was buried in the said Church of the Blackfriars on the 16 of the said month, aged 79 or thereabouts.  
John Richardson M. A. of the same University was incorporated the same day— One Joh. Richardson was educated in Eman▪ Coll. was afterwards D. D. Master first of Peter house, then of Trin. Coll. in Cambridge, and Vicechancellor of that University. This Person, who had a hand in the translation of the Bible, appointed by King Jam. 1. died about the beginning of 1625 and was buried in Trin. Coll. Chappel. Another John Richardson, who was D. D. succeeded Dr. Walt. balcanqual in the Deanery of Rochester, and died in Apr. 1636, and a third John Richardson I find, who, from being D. of D. of Dublin, was made Bishop of Ardagh in Ireland: Which Bishopric he being forced to leave upon the rebellion that broke out in that Kingdom, an. 1641, retired to London, where he died in 1654. Whether any of these three, were the same with John Richardson the incorporated Master of Arts, I cannot now justly tell.  
Jul. 11. Abrah. Dickonson D. D. of Cambr. was also then incorporated in that faculty.    

An. Dom. 1610.  
An. 8. Jac. 1.  
Chanc. Dr. Rich. Bancroft Archb. of Canterburry, but he dying 2. Nou. Thom. Egerton Baron of Ellesmere Lord Chancellor of England, and one of the King's Privy Council, was chosen into his place the next day, and on the tenth, was installed in the Bishop of durham's house at London.  
Vicechanc. Dr. Jo. King again, Jul. 14. at which time the Chancellors letters being read for his election, 'twas ordered that the Heads of Colleges and Halls should at all times be ready and diligent to assist the Vicechanc. in his government of the University, especially in matters of Religion, for the suppressing of Popery and Faction, etc. The said Dr. King was soon after Bishop of London.  

Proct. 

R●b. Pink of New Coll.  
Sam. Radcliffe of Bras. Coll. 

Apr. 17.       

Bach. of Music.  
July 11. Thomas Bartlet of Magd. Coll.— He hath several compositions in Music in MS. but whether extant I cannot tell.  
On the 26. of Apr. Richard Deering, did, as a member of Christ Church supplicate for the Degree of Bach. of Music, and had his desire, as it seems, granted (though not registered) because in matters of his composition which were soon after by him made extant, he entitles himself Bach. of Music.— This Person who was born of, and descended from, a right ancient Family of his name living in Kent, was bred up in Italy, where he obtained the name of a most admirable Musician. After his return he practised his faculty for some time in England, where his name being highly cried up, became, after many entreaties, Organist to the English Nuns living in the Monastery of the blessed Virgin Mary at Brussels. At length after the Marriage of K. Ch. 1. he was made Organist to his Royal Comfort Henrietta Maria, with whom he continued till she was forced to leave England by the Presbyterian outrages in the time of the grand rebellion. He hath written (1) Cantica sacra ad melodiam Madrigalium elaborata senis vocibus. Antwerp 1618. qu. divided in six volumes, according to the voices. In the title of this book he write, himself Richards Deringus Bac. Must. (2) Cantica sacra ad duas & tres voces composita, cum Basso continuo ad Organum. Lond. 1662. etc. published by John Playford, and by him dedicated to Hen. Maria the Queen Dowager, the Author (who was always a Rom. Catholic) having been dead about 4 or 5 years before. A second set was published in the year 1674 entit. Basso contiruo, cantica sacra; containing Hymen's and Anthems for two voices to the Organ both Lat. and English, composed by Rich. Deering, Christopher Gibbons, Ben. Rogers, Matthew Lock, and others. Printed in fol.   

Bach. of Arts.  
Apr. 26. Will. Page of Balliol, afterwards of Allsouls, Coll.  
27. Hen. Welstede of Broadgates' hall— See among the Masters, an. 1612.  

3●. Christoph. Potter of Queens  
June 14. Rob. Skinner of Trin. 

Coll.     
21. Nich. Grey of Ch. Ch.  

28. Griffin Higgs of St. John's  
Jul. 5. Nath. Carpenter of Exet. 

Coll.     
Nou. 6. Will. Strode of Broadgates' hall. Quare.  
Dec. 13. Tho. Nevil of Trin. Coll.— He was the eldest Son of Sir Hen. Nevil Knight 〈…〉 of Abergavenny.  
17. Christoph. White of Ch. Ch.  
Jan. 24. Humph. Sidetham of Exeter, afterwards of Wadham, Coll.  
28. Gilbert Wats of Linc. Coll.  
Jasp. Fisher of Magd. hall, afterwards of Magd. Coll. was admitted the same day.  
Of all these Bachelaurs, only Nath. Carpenter, Christoph. White and Jasp. Fisher have been largely mentioned in this vol. among the Writers. As for the others that are Writers, they are to be mentioned in the next vol.  
Admitted 183.   

Mast. of Arts.  
May 15. Edward Chaloner of Magd. Coll. afterwards of Alls.  
June 22. John Reading of Magd. hall.  
26. Hen. Cotton of Brasn. Coll. a Compounder— This Person, who was the Son of Dr. Hen. Cotton B. of Salisbury, became Prebendary of Fordington and Writhlington in the said Church, on the death of Dr. Will. Zouch, 29. Sept. 1608, Preb. of Bytton on the death of Meredith Morgan, 4. Dec. 1612, Chauntor thereof by the death of Dr. Walt. Bennet 30. July 1614, and at length Prebendary of Highworth in the said Church of Sarum by the death of Dr. Pet. Lilye, on the eleventh day of March following. He died in 1622, and was succeeded in the Chauntorship by Dr. Humph. Henchman, afterwards B. of Sa●um.  
Jul. 4. Joh. Wild of Ball. Coll.— This Person who was the eldest Son of Serj. Geo Wild of Droitwich in Worcestershire, was about this time a Student in the Inner Temple, of which he became Lent reader 6. Car. 1. afterwards Sergeant at Law, and Lord chief Baron of the Exchequer in the time of the rebellion. This was the Person who drew up the Impeachment against the Bishops, and by him sent to the H. of Lords, an. 1641. being the prime manager in that affair, and what he wrote as to that matter, was afterwards printed He was the same also who, upon the command, or rather desire, of the great Men sitting at Westminister, did condemn to death at Winchester one Capt. J●hn Burley for causing a drum to be beat up for God and K. Ch. at Newport in the Isle of Wight, in order to rescue his captived King, an. 1647. For which act, (after Burley had been executed at Winton, on the 10. Feb. the same year) he received 1000 l. out of the privy purse of Derby-house. About the same time also he received another 1000 l. (as 'twas then confidently affirmed) for the acquittance of Major Rolph who had a design to murder or poison the said King; so 'twas all one to him whether he hung or hung not, so he got the beloved pelf. After Oliver came to the Protectorship, he retired and acted not, but when the Rump Parliament was restored after Richard's deprivation, than was he restored to the Exchequer, and after K. Charles 2. returned, lived about 9 years in a retired condition. At length giving way to fate at Hamstede near London, his body was buried at Wherwell in Hampshire, which is a Lordship belonging to Charles Lord de la Warr, who married Anne Dau. and Heir of the said John Wild.  
Jul. 5. Joh. Seller or Cellar of Oriel Coll.— One of both his names hath published Five Sermons— Lond. 1636. oct. and other things. Whether the same with him of Oriel, who was a Minister's Son of Glocestershire, I cannot tell, unless I could see the said Sermons. Nor do I know anything to the contrary, but that he may be the same with John Seller of C. C. Coll. a Minister's Son of Kent, who was admitted Bach. of Arts 18. Feb. 1611. and Master 2. Jul. 1614 This last John Seller being a learned Man, Mr. Rich. James, (whom I have mentioned among the Writers 1638.) numbered him among his learned acquaintance, and therefore wrote divers Epistles to him.  
Jan. 23. Hugh Robinson of New Coll.   

Bach. of Physic.  
Apr. 30. Theodore Goulson M. of A. of Merton Coll.— He was the only Bach. of Phys. that was admitted this year. See among the Doct. following.   

Bach. of Diu.  

Mar 27. 

Tho. Winniffe  
Geor Hakewill 

of Ex. 

June 21. Josias White of New 

25. 

Brian Twine  
Thom. Jackson  
Henry Masen 

of Corp. Ch. 

Coll.                 

July 5. 

Barnab. Potter of Qu. Coll.  
Will. Piers of Ch. Ch.     
Which two last were afterwards Bishops.  
6. Rob. Barnes of Magd. Coll.— This Person who was Son of Joseph Barnes Printer to the University of Oxon and Fellow of the said Coll. of St. Mary Magd. became afterwards Minister of Greys in Oxfordshire, by the favour of William Viscount Wallingford, and published A Sermon preached at Henly at the visitation, 27. Apr. 1626., on Psal. 9 16. Oxon 1626. qu. besides a collection of Verses made on the death of Will. Son of Arth. L. Grey of Wilton.  
Admitted 26.   

Doct. of Law.  
Apr. 30. Francis Alexander of New College, Prebendary of Winchester.  
June 21. Tho. Ryves of the same Coll.— He is to be remembered among the Writers in the 2. vol.   

Doct. of Phys.  
Apr. 30. Theodore Gouls●n of Merton Coll.— He accumulated the Degrees in Physic, being now much in esteem for his knowledge therein.   

Doct. of Diu.  
June 11. Ralph Barlow of C. C. C. originally of Oriel, and afterwards of New Coll. was then admitted D. of D. in the quality of a Compounder— In Sept. an. 1621. he succeeded Rich. Meredith in the Deanery of Wells, and dying there, was buried in the Cathedral 27. July 1631. Whereupon Dr. George Warburton Dean of Gloucester succeeded him in that Dignity.  
13. Francis Kerry of Ball. Coll. a Compounder— He was now Canon residentiary of Hereford.  

June 13. Job. Best  
July 5. Sylvan. Griffith 

of Ch. Ch.     
Which two were Compounders, the last being Archdeacon of Hereford.  

6. 

John Parkhurst  
Will. Langton 

of Magd. Coll.       
The first of these two last, was afterwards Master of Balliol, and the other Precedent of that of St. Mary Magd. Coll.   

Incorporations.  
Apr. 18. John Donne sometimes of Hart hall, now M. of A. of Cambridge, was then incorporated in that Degree— On the 17. of the same month, he supplicated to proceed in the faculty of Arts, and to have all exercises requisite to perform for that Degree, be omitted. The reason was, as 'tis said in the public register, quod huic Academiae maximè ornamento sit, ut ejusmodi viri optime de reipublica & ecclesia meriti gradibus Academicis insigniantur, etc. The next day, he, with one John Porye M. A. of Cambridge were incorporated, as the said register tells us, though in another place therein, 'tis said he was admitted to proceed, yet stood not in the Act following to complete that Degree.  
24. Ralph Cudworth Bach. of Diu. of Cambridge— He was afterwards D. of D. Rector of Aller in the Dioc. of B. and Wells etc. where he died (as it seems) either in Aug. or Sept. 1624. Another of both his names, a Presbyterian, and a Writer, was bred in Eman. Coll. was afterwards Master of Clare hall, D. D. Hebrew Professor, etc. in the said University.  
July 6. James Meddous or Meadows (Meddusius) D. of D. of the University of Basil in Germany— He was a Cheshire Man born, had formerly studied Arts and Diu. in the University of Heidelberg, was now Chaplain to Peregrine Lord Willoughby, and afterwards to His Majesty K. Jam. 1. What he hath written I cannot justly say: Sure I am that he hath translated from high Dutch into English, A Sermon preached before Frederick 5. Prince Elector of Palatine and the Princess Lady Elizabeth, by Abrah. Scultetus Chaplain to his Highness, on Psal. 147. 1, 2, 3. etc. Lond. 1613. oct. and perhaps other things, but such I have not yet seen.  
10. John Norton Bach. of Arts of Cambridge— The two names of this Person being common, I cannot therefore say that he was the same John Norton who was Minister of the Church of New England, Author of Responsio ad Guliel. Apollonii Syllogen, ad componendas controversias in Anglia. Lond. 1648. oct. and other things. One John Norton was Proctor of Cambridge after this time.  
Griffin Williams M. of A. of the same University, was incorporated the same day— He was sometimes of Ch. Ch. in this University, was afterwards a frequent Writer, and Bishop of Ossorie in Ireland, and therefore is to be remembered at large in the next vol.  
Henry Thurcross M. of A. of the said University also, was then (Jul. 10.) incorporated— He was collated to the Archdeaconry of Clieuland in the Dioc. of York, in the place of John Philipps promoted to the See of Sodor or the Isle of Man, on the second day of Aug. 1619. Which Dignity he resigning 1635 was succeeded by Timothy Thurcross Bach. of Divinity.  
Jan. 22. David Foulis M. A. of Glascoe in Scotland— He is styled in one of the registers Colintoni Comarchi filius. See another of both his names in these Fasti, an. 1605.  
Lud●vicus Capellus or Cappellus a young French Man of great hopes, became a Sojournor in the University in the beginning of this year, and in the month of Feb. did answer publicly in Disputations in Divinity, in the School allotted for that faculty, and about the same time gave books to the public Library. He was afterwards an eminent Hebrician, Tutor to the famous Sam. Bochartus, and Author of divers most excellent books, as you may see in the Oxford Catalogue: Among which are his Critica Sacra, much commended by Hug. Grotius. This L●d. Capellus was living at Saumor in France, an. 1656, and perhaps some years after.    

An. Dom. 1611.  
An. 9 Jac. 1.  
Chanc. Tho. Lord Egerton Baron of Ellesonere.  
Vicech. Dr. Tho. Singleton Principal of Brasn. Coll. the same who had been Vicech. 1598.  

Proct. 

Norwych Spackman of Ch. Ch.  
John Dunster of Magd. Coll. 

Apr. 3.       

Bach. of Arts.  

Jun. 10. 

Franc. White  
Tho. Freeman 

of Magd. Coll.       
Of the first of which two, you may see more among the Master's 1614  

19 

Henry King  
John King  
Rich. Gardiner 

of Ch. Ch.       
The two first of these three, were the Sons of Dr. John King Bishop of London.  

Oct. 12. 

Mich. Jermin  
Rich. Jeames 

of C. C. Coll.       

Nou. 4. William Nicolson of Magd. 

12. 

Hugh Lloyd  
Sam. Yerworth 

of Oriel 

Coll.           
The first of these last three, was afterwards Bishop of Gloucester, and the second of Landaff.  

26. 

George Jay  
Edw. Terry 

of Ch. Ch.       
Of the first of these last two, you are to expect a farther account among the created Doctors of Diu. an. 1660.  
Dec. 16. Tho. Vicars of Qu. Coll.  
Jan. 29. Immanuel Bourne of Ch. Ch.  
Feb. 15. H●zekiah Woodward of Ball. Coll.  

18. 

Rich. Spencer  
Edw. Spencer 

of C. C. Coll.       
Both the Sons of Rob. Lord Spencer, which is all I know of them, only that Richard was afterwards M. of A.  
As for Gardiner, Jermin, Nicolson, Lloyd, Yerworth or Jeruvorthius, Terry, Bourne and Woodward, beforemention'd; I shall speak more at large in the 2. vol. of this work.  
Admitted 218.   

Bach. of Law.  
Between the ending of one register and beginning of another, which happened this year, not one Bachelaur of Law occurs admitted.   

Mast. of Arts.  
Apr. 18. John Wall of Ch. Ch.  
20. Jam. Martin of Broadgates' hall— This Person, who was a Germane born, hath published The King's way to Heaven, on 1. Sam. 12. 23, 24. Lond. 1615. oct. and had then, as he saith, ended his work against Baronius, but what that was, he tells us not, neither in truth can I yet tell. He was intimate with the learned Doctor Prideaux, and was then (being 58 years of age) Master of Arts of both the Universities in England.  
June 4. Isaac Colfe of Ch. Ch.  
Jul. 1. Nich. Guy of Hart hall.— He was a Hampshire Man born, and hath published Piety's Pillar, fun. Serm. for Mrs. Elizab. Gouge, on Joh. 11. 26. Lond. 1626. in oct. and perhaps other things. Qu●ere.  

4. Rich. Gove of Magd. hall.  
5. Rog. Manwaring of Alls.  
Nou. 13. Will. Sla●yer of Brasn.  
28. Michael Wigmore of Oriel  
Jan. 23. John Harris of New 

Coll.     
Feb. 12. Thom. Prior of Broadgates' hall— He was afterwards Prebendary of Gloucester and the Author of A Sermon at the funeral of Miles late Bishop of Gloucester, preached in the Cath. Ch. of Glouc. 9 Nou. 1624., on 2. Tim. 1. 12. Lond. 1632. fol. put at the end of certain Sermons penned by the said Miles Bishop of Gloucester. What other things the said Prior hath published I know not, nor any thing else of him, only that he was a Minister's Son of Glocestershire, and that dying in 1634 he left behind him a Son named Ch●istoph. Prior of Ball. Coll. of whom you may see more among the creations of Doctors of Diu. an. 1642.  
March 9 Peter Turner of Mert. Coll.  
Admitted 105.   

Bach. of Phys.  

Jun. 20. 

Sim. Ba●kervile  
Rob. Vilvaine 

of Ex. Coll.       
Besides these two, were only two more admitted, viz. Edward Lapworth of Magd. Coll. and Tho. Cloyton of Ball. C.   

Bach. of Diu.  

May 6. 

John Prideaux  
Dan. Price 

of Ex. Coll.       

28. Barthelm. Parsons of Or.  
June 10. John Lee of Alls. 

Coll.     
The last of which two, became Treasurer of the Church of Salisbury in the place of Dr. Tho. White deceased, 29. Apr. 1624., and dying there in 1634, was succeeded in that Dignity by Edward Davenant, 19 Nou. the same year.  

Jun. 25. 

Rich. Carpenter  
Lewes Bayly 

of Ex. C.       

27. John Day of Oriel  
Nou. 14. John Gianvill of Ball. 

Coll.     
This last Person hath written Articuli Christiane fidei quam ecclesia profitetur Anglicana, versu (quoad ejus fieri potuit) expressi facillimo. Oxon. 1613. qu. in 6 Sh. What he hath written besides, or whether he took any Degree in Arts in this University, I know not. He was living in 1614 in which year he gave several books to the Bodleian Library.  
Admitted 24.  
☞ Not one Doct. of Law was admitted this year.   

Doct. of Phys.  

Jun ●0. 

Edw. Lapworth of Magd.  
Sim. Baskervile of Exet.  
Tho. Clayton of Balliol  
Rob Vilvaine of Exet. 

Coll.       
All which did accumulate the Degrees in Physic. As for Lapworth he was afterwards the first Reader of the Lecture of Nat. Philosophy founded by Sir Will. Sedley. and dying in the City of Bath (where he usually practised in the Summer time) 23. May 1636, as I have somewhere before told you, was buried in the great Church there dedicated to St. Pet. and St. Paul. The second Sim. Baskervile, was now in great esteem for his admirable knowledge in Medicine, (as before he had been for his humanity and philosophy) was afterwards knighted by K. Ch. 1. and dying 5. July 1641 aged 68 years, was buried in the Cath. Ch. of St. Paul in the City of London. The third, T. Clayton, was soon after the King's Professor of Phys. in this University, and at length the last Principal of Broadgates' hall and the first Master of Pembroke Coll. The last, R. Vilvaine being afterwards a Writer, I shall mention him at large in the 2. vol.   

Doct. of Diu.  
Apr. 10. Tho. Ireland of Linc. Coll.— This Person who was afterwards Prebendary of York and Southwell, hath published one or more Sermons as (1) Serm. on Ecclesiastes 8. 2.— Pr. 1610. qu. etc. Another of both his names and time was a common Lawyer of Greys' Inn, and a Knight, and the abridger in English of Sir Jam. Dyer's Reports.— pr. 1651. and of the Eleven books of Reports of Sir Edward Coke.— pr. 1656. But whether this last (Tho. Ireland) was originally of Oxon, I cannot yet tell.  

June 6. Samuel Page of C. C. 

20. 

John Denison  
Rich. King 

of Ball. 

Coll.           

July 2. 

Christoph. Hooke of Magd.  
Mich. Boil of St. John's  
Geor Hakewill of Ex. 

Coll.        

Incorporations.  
July 5. Thom. Spackman Doct. of Phys. of Cambridge— He hath written and published A declaration of such grievous accidents that commonly follow the biting of mad dogs, together with the cure thereof. Lond. 1613. qu▪ and perhaps other things. Qu●re.  
9 John ●●wers M. of A. of Cambr.— He was a Norfolk Man born, was bred Fellow of Queens Coll. in the said University, was afterwards D. of D. Chaplain to William Earl of Northampton, (who conferred upon him the benefice of Castle-Ashby in Northamptonshire) Dean of Peterborough in the place of Dr. Will. Piers promoted to the Episcopal See thereof, an. 1630, and on the 8. of Mar 1638 was installed Bishop of that place. After the Long Parliament began, he was one of the twelve Bishops who drew up a protestation against all such Laws, Orders, Votes, Resolutions, and Determinations, which should be done in their absence from the 27. Dec. 1641 to be null and of no effect, etc. Whereupon he with the said Bishops were committed Prisoners to the Tower, where they continued above four Months. Afterwards being released, Tower's retired to the King at Oxon, and continued there till the surrender of that garrison for the use of the Parliament, and then most of the Royal Party being put to their shifts, he went to Peterborough, where dying in an obscure condition 10. Januar. 1648, was buried the day following in the Cath. Church of Peterborough. In the year 1660 were four of his Sermons published in octavo, one of which was preached at the baptism of James Earl of Northampton, and another at the funeral of William Earl of that place.  
July 9 Anth. Sleep Master of Arts of the same University— This Person who was a member of Trinity Coll. was so excellent an Orator, that he gave K. Jam…. occasion several times to say that Is. Wake Orator of the Vnive sity of Oxon had a good Ciceronian stile, but his utterance and matter was so grave, 〈◊〉 when he spoke before him he was apt to sleep, but Sleep the Deputy Orator of Cambr. was quite contra●y, for he never spoke but kept him awake, and made him apt to laugh.  
Isaac Bargrave M. A. of the same University was incorporated the same day.— This learned Gentleman was the Son of Robert Bargrave of Bridge in Kent, was afterwards D. of D. Chaplain to Prince Charles, Pastor of St. Margaret's Church in Westminster, afterwards Chaplain to that Prince when he became King, and about 1625 was made Dean of Cante●bury in the place of Dr. Joh. Boys. He hath published several Sermons, the titles of three of which, are in the Oxford Catalogue, and dying in 1642 was succeeded by Dr. Geor Eglionby.  
July 9 Thom. Westfield Bach. of Diu. of Cambr.— He was a Native 
a 〈…〉. in his 〈◊〉 of England in Cambridgshire.  of the Parish of St. Mary in the City of Ely, was educated in Grammaticals there, in Academicals in Jesus Coll. in the said University, of which he was made successively Scholar and Fellow. Afterwards he became Curate or Assistant to Dr. Nich. Felton while he was Minister of St. Marry le Bow in Cheapside, Rector of Hornsey near, and of Great St. Bartholomew in, London, Archdeacon of St. Alban, and at length (in 1641) advanced to the See of Bristol; where dying 25. June 1644. was buried in the Cathedral at the upper end of the isle joining to the Choir on the North side. After his death were published of his composition. (1) England's face in Israel's glass, eight Sermons on Psal. 106. 19 20. etc.— printed 1646. qu. They were published again afterwards. with others added to them. (2) White robe, or surplice vindicated, in several Sermons;— pr. 1660. 63. in oct. etc.  
John Pocklington Bach. of Diu. of Pemb. hall in Cambr. was incorporated in that Degree the same day— See more among the Incorporations, an. 1603.  
Thom. Bonham Doctor of Phys. of the same University, was incorporated the same day▪ July 9— There is a book going under his name, which is thus entitled. The Surgeons Closet: or, an Antidotary Chirurgical, fornished with variety and choice of Apophlegms, balms, baths, etc. Lond. 1630. qu. The greatest part whereof was scatter'dly set down in sundry books and papers of the said Dr. Bonham; afterwards drawn into method and form, as now they are, (in the said book) by Edward Poeton of Petworth, Licentiat in Physic and Chirurgery, late, and long servant to the aforesaid Dr. B●nham.  
Nou. 11. Franc. Kinaston M. A. of Cambridge, lately of Oriel Coll.  
Mar. 9 Will. Young M. A. of Aberdeen in Scotland, now a Student in Lincoln Coll.  
In the latter end of this year one Matthew Evans a Gentleman of London, well skilled in the Hebrew, Greek, Lat. and Vulgar tongues, sojourned in the University, purposely to complete certain writings lying by him, for the benefit of the learned republic. etc. Thus in the licence, granted to him by the ven. congregation, in order to his admission into the pub. Library. But what writings they were that he was about to finish with the help of the said Lib. I know not, nor any thing else of the Man.    

An. Dom. 1612.  
An. 10. Jac. 1.  
Chanc. the● same.  
Vicechanc. the same July 28.  

Proct. 

Tho. Seller of Trin. Coll.  
Rich. Corbet of Ch. Ch. 

Ap. 22▪       
The junior of which was afterwards Bishop of Oxon and Norwich.  

Bach. of Arts.  
May 5. Richard Stevart of Magd. hall, afterwards of Alls. Coll.  

14. 

Rob. Weld●n  
Barten Holiday 

of Ch. Ch.       

July 1. 

Jerem. Stephens  
Vivian Molineux 

of Brasn. Coll.       
The last of these two who was Son of Sir Rich. Molineux of Sefton in Lanc. and Visc. Molineux of Marybourgh in Ireland, traveled afterwards into several foreign Countries, was at Rome, where, (though puritanically educated under the tuition of Sam. Radcliff of Brasn. Coll) he changed his Religion, returned a well bred Man, was 〈◊〉, and in the grand Rebellion suffered for the royal cause. 〈◊〉 translated from Spanish into English A treatise of the difference betwixt the temporal and eternal. Lond. 1672. oct. written originally by Eusebius Nieremberg, S. ●.  
Feb. 8. Will. Thomas of Bras. Coll.  
Of about 198 Bachelaurs of Arts that were admitted this year, I only find the aforesaid five Persons (Molineux being excepted) who were afterwards Writers, as in the other volume you shall see at large.   

Bach. of Law.  
Nou. 16. Robert Gentilis of Alls. Coll. Son of Aubrey Gentilis— Besides him (who will be mentioned also in the next vol.) were only three more admitted.   

Mast. of Arts.  
May 5. Gilb. Ironside of Trin. Coll.  

14. 

Edw. Boughen  
Gabriel Clerk 

of Ch. Ch.       
The last of these two, I take to be the same Gabr. Clarke who was collated to the Archdeaconry of Northumberland by Dr. Neile Bishop of Durham, upon the resignation of Dr. John Craddock, 7. Aug. 1619. Which G. Clarke, (who is styled D. D. in the Registers of the Church of Durham) became Archdeacon of Durham by the same hand, on the death of Will. Moreton Bach. of Divinity, in the beginning of Sept. 1620.  
Tho. Dugard of Ch. Ch. was adm. the same day— Quaere.  

23. 

Sam. Smith  
Accepted Frewen 

of Magd. Coll.       
June 30. percival Burrell of Ch. Ch.— This Person who was originally of Hart hall, and afterwards Preacher at Suttons Hospital called the Charter-house near London, published Suttons Synagogue, or the English Centurion, Serm. on Luke 7. part of the 5. vers. Lond. 1629. qu. and perhaps other things.  
Jul. 2. Edw. Cotton of Ch. Ch. a Compounder— He was Son of Will. Cotton Bishop of Exeter, and was about this time Archdeacon of Totness in the Dioc. of Exeter. He departed this life in 1647 whereupon his Archdeaconry continuing void till the restauration of K. Charles 2. Franc. Fulwood D. D. then succeeded.  

9 

Thom. Hayne of Linc.  
Tho. Howell of Jesus  
Will. Greenhill of Magd. 

Coll.       

Jan…. 

John Heath  
Hen. Welstede 

of New Coll.       
The last of these two, who was now Chaplain, as I conceive of New Coll. but lately of Broadgates' hall, was the same Welstede who wrote and published The cure of a hard heart— printed 1624. 5.  
Mar. 5. Nathaniel Grenfeild of St. Edm. hall.— He was afterwards Preacher at Whitfield in Oxfordshire, and the writer and publisher of The great day; or a Sermon setting forth the desperate estate and condition of the wicked at the day of Judgement, on Rev. 6. 15, 16, 17. Lond. 1615. oct. and perhaps of other things. Quaere.  
18. Anthony White Chaplain of C. C. Coll.— He was afterwards Vicar of Wargrave in Berks. and the writer and publisher of (1) Truth purchased, on Prov. 23. ver. 23. (2) Error abandoned, on Jam. 1. 16.— Both which were preached at St. Mary's in Oxford, and were printed at Oxon. 1628., and dedicated by the Author to his Patron Sir Hen. Nevil of Billingbere.  
Admitted 110.   

Bach. of Diu.  

July 9 

Will. Bridges  
Will. Twisse 

of New Coll.       
The first of these two, who was Son to Dr. John Bridges Bishop of Oxon, was, by his Father's endeavours, made Archdeacon of that Diocese, in June 1614, (he being then one of the Fellows of Wykehams Coll. near Winchester) which dignity he holding to the time of his death, was succeeded by Barten Holiday of Ch. Ch. before the year 1626.  

July 9 

Franc. James  
H●n. Byam 

of Ch. Ch.       
Of the first you may see more among the D. of D. an. 1614  
Admitted 22.   

Doct. of Law.  
Jun. 30. Nathaniel Harris of New Coll.— He died at Blechingley in Surr●y 1625.  
Basil Wood of Alls. Coll.— He was about this time Chancellor of St. Asaph and of Rochester.  

July 9 Arthur Duck  
Dec. 7. Charles Caesar 

of Alls. Coll.     
The last who was a younger Son of St. Julius Caesar Master of the Rolls, was afterwards a Knight, Judge of the Audience, and Master of the Faculties.  
☜ Not one Doctor of Physic was admitted this year.   

Doct. of Diu.  

Jun 30. 

John Prideaux  
John Whetcomb 

of Exet. Coll.       
July 2. Will. white of Trin. Coll.  
16. John Brooks of Vniu. Coll.— He was about this time Canon residentiary of York, and in Apr. 1615 became chauntor thereof, in the place of Hen. Banks D. D. who had been admitted thereunto in Apr. 1613 on the death of John Gibson LL. D. and Knight, which happened 28. Feb. 1612. As for the said Brokes he died 23 March 1616. aged 49 and was buried in the Cath. Ch. at York.  
Janu. 27. John Abbott of Ball. Coll.   

Incorporations.  
June 30. George Ramsey a Scot, was incorporated M. of A. as he had stood elsewhere.  
On the 14. Jul. being the day after the public Act had been celebrated, these Cantabrigians following were incorporated.  
July 14. Henry Burton M. A.— This Person who made a great noise and disturbance in his time, was born in an obscure town called Birdsall in Yorkshire, educated in St. John's Coll. in the said University, afterwards was Tutor or Master to the Sons of Robert Lord Carey of Lepington, (whose Lady was Governess to Pr. Char. when a Child) sole officer (which some call Clerk) in the Closet of Pr. Henry; and after his death to the said Prince Charles, removed from his Service when that Prince became Kings for his pragmaticalness and impudence in demonstrating by a letter, which he presented to the said King, how popishly affected were Dr. Neile and Dr. Laud his continual attendants. About that time he being made Minister of St. Matthews Church in Friday-street in London, his Sermons which he preached there (some of which he afterwards published) savouring of nothing else but of schism, sedition, and altogether against His Majesty's Declaration, he was for so doing, and especially for publishing two-virulent Pamphlets not only brought before the Council-board, but several times into the High Commission Court, for what he had said and done, and afterwards imprisoned, fined, degraded, deprived of his benefice, pillorized with Prynne and Bastwicke, lost his ears, condemned to perpetual imprisonment in Lancaster Goal first, and afterwards in the Castle in the Isle of Guernsey. From which last place being released by the members of that Parliament which began at Westminster 3. Nou. 1640, was (with Prynne and Bastwick) brought home in triumph to the great contempt of justice, was restored to his benefice and well rewarded for his losses. The titles of several of his books you may see in the Oxford Catalogue, and some that are not there, I shall here set down, viz. (1) The Law and the Gospel reconciled against the Antinomians. printed 1631. qu. (2) The sounding of the two last Trumpets; or Meditations on the ninth, tenth, and eleventh Chapters of the Revelations. Lond. 1641. qu. (3) Relation of Mr. Chillingworth. This I have not yet seen. (4) A Narration of his life (viz. of H. Burton) etc. Lond. 1643. qu. (5) Parliaments pour for Laws in Religion. printed 1645. oct. (6) Conformities deformity, etc. pr. 1646. the Author being then 67 years of age. Afterwards seeing what strange courses the great Men at Westminster took, he grew more moderate, notwithstanding he was an Independent, and lived, as I conceive, till they took off his old Masters Head.  
Rich. Franklin M. of A.— I take this Person to be the same with R. Franklin, who was Bach. of Divinity, Minister of Elsworth in Cambridgshire and Author of Tractatus de tonis in Lingua Graecamca, etc. Lond. 1630. oct.  
Thomas Walkington Bach. of Diu.— He was afterwards Doctor of that faculty, Minister of Fulham near London and the writer and publisher of Rabboni; Marry Magd. tears of sorrow and solace, preached at Paul's cross, on Joh. 20. 16. Lond. 1620. oct. and of another Sermon on Ecclesiastes 12. 10. etc.  
John Gostlyn or Goslyn Doct. of Physic— He was born in the City of Norwych, educated in Caius Coll. was afterwards Proctor of Cambridge, Master of the said Coll. and twice Vicechancellor of that University. He had the repute of a general Scholar, an eloquent 
* 〈…〉 in his Worthies of England in Norwich.  Artist and one that was admirably well skilled in Physic, of which faculty he was the King's Professor in the said University. He died in Oct. or Nou. 1626., and was buried near to the body of his worthy Friend and Patron Dr. Legg, in the Chapel of the said Coll. of Caius, to which he was a very considerable benefactor. One of his Surname was Author of Aurifodina Linguae Galliae.  
Alexander Bound D. of D.— He was sometimes of Kings Coll. was afterwards Vice-provost of Eton and Rector of the rich Church of Petworth in Sussex; where, as also in Cambridge, he was esteemed a godly, learned and religious Man.  
Andrew B'ing D. of D.— On the 12 May 1606, he was collated to the subdeanery of York, upon the resignation of one Hen. Wright, (who, when he was M. of A. succeeded Edmund Bunny in that Dignity, an. 1575.) and on the 13 Apr. 1618., he was installed Archbdeacon of Norwych in the place of Tho. Jegon D. D. who died in the latter end of 1617., being then Master of C. C. Coll. in Cambridge and Patron of the Parsonage of Sibell Henningham in Essex; where, if I mistake not, he the said Jegon was buried.  
Which Cantabrigians I say, viz. H. Burton, R Franklin, T. Walkington, J. Gostlym, A. Bound, and A. B'ing, were incorporated in their respective degrees, on the 14 July before mentioned.  
Will. Conway Doct. of Phys. of Caen in Normandy, was incorporated the same day.  
Jan. 14. John balcanqual M. A. of Edinburgh.— He was a Scotch man born, was now Fellow of Exeter Coll. and afterwards Rector of Tatinhills in Staffordshire, where he died about the latter end of 1646, which is all I know of him, only that he was after this year Bach. of Diu.  
March 18. Philibert Vernatti Doctor of both the Laws of the University of Leyden.— One of both his names was afterwards a Baronet in Scotland, and another, who was a Knight, hath a Relation of making Ceruse, in the Philosophical Transactions, numb. 137. an. 1677.   

Creations.  
Oct. 30. Francis More Esq. sometimes of S. Joh. Coll. in this University, now an eminent Professor of the municipal Laws, was actually created Mast. of Arts in the house of Convocation. He is mentioned at large among the Writers, an. 1621.  
In the latter end of this year, Frederick Count Palatine of the Rhyne, Prince Elector of the Empire, and afterwards King of Bohemia, (who had lately married Princess Elizabeth the only Daughter of K. Jam. 1.) came to visit the University, where being sumptuously entertained, was pleased with his own hand writing to matriculate himself a member of the University (sub tit. Aed. Chr.) with this Symbol, Rege me Domine secundum verbum tuum.    

An. Dom. 1613.  
An. 11 Jac. 1.  
Chanc. Tho. Lord Egerton.  
Vicechanc. Dr. Singleton again, Jul. 24.  

Proct. 

Anth. Richardson of Qu. Coll.  
Vincent Goddard of Magd. Coll. 

Apr. 14.       

Bach. of Music.  
Jul. 8. Martin Pearson.— He was afterwards Master of the Choristers of S. Paul's Cathedral, while Joh. Tomkins was Organist, and a composer of certain Church Services and Anthems. He died about the latter end of Dec. 1650, being then an Inhabitant of the Parish of S. Gregory near to the said Cathedral, and was buried in S. Faith's Church adjoining. Whereas most Musicians die obscurely and in a mean condition, this died so rich, as to leave to the poor of Marsh in the Parish of Dunnington in the Isle of Ely, an hundred pounds to be laid out for a purchase for their yearly use.  
May…John Amner Organist of the Cath. Church of Ely, and Master of the Choristers there.— He hath composed and published Sacred Hymns of three, four, five, and six parts for Voices and Viols. Lond. 1615. qu. as also certain Anthems; the words of one of which, are in James Clifford's Collection, mentioned before in the year 1548.   

Bach. of Arts.  
May 13. Joh. S●ull of Mert. Coll.— See among the Master's 1616.  

Jun. 17. 

Tho Goffe.  
Benj. Cox  
Rich. Parr of Brasn. Coll. 

of Ch. Ch.       
The last of which was afterwards Bishop of the Isle of Man.  
Jul. 8. Owen Morgan or Morgan Owen of New Coll.— He was afterwards Bishop of Landaff.  

Jul. 8. 

Will. Foster of S. John's  
Franc. Potter of T●in. 

Coll.       
Oct. 21. George Sing of Ball. Coll.— He became Bishop of Cloyne in Ireland, 1638.  

26. Tho. Randol of Brasn.  
Nou. 15. Tho. Stafford of Exet. 

Coll.     
Of the first of these two last you may see more among the Bach. of Diu. 1624. and of the other in my discourse of George Carew among the Writers, under the year 1629.  

18. Will. Lucy of Trin.  
Dec. 1. Joh West of Magd.  
17. Jam. Howell of Jes. 

Coll.     
The first of these last three, was afterwards Bishop of S. David's, and the second, was Son of the Lord de la Warr.  

Feb 9 Jo. Angel  
10. Alex. Huish 

of Magd. Hall.     
The last of these two was afterwards one of the original Scholars of Wadham Coll. and a Writer of note.  
Feb. 17. Bevill Grenevil of Exeter Coll. the eldest Son of a Kt. was then admitted not only Bach. of Arts, but about the same time the signior Collector of the Bachelaurs that determined this year.— He was afterwards a Knight, and much famed for his exemplary Loyalty to K. Ch. 1. in the beginning of the Rebellion, which was raised by a prevalent Party (Presbyterians) in the two houses of Parliament, an. 1642. He was killed in his Majesty's Service at Lansdowne near Bath, 5 July 1643, leaving a Son behind him named John, sometimes a Gent. Com. in Gloc. Hall. made the first Earl of Bath of his name, by K. Ch. 2. Soon after Sir Bevil's death, came out a Book of Verses made by several Oxonians, wherein you'll find much of his Worth and Gallantry. He had a Brother named Sir Rich. Grenevill, who had received some Education in this University, was afterwards a stout maintainer of the King's Cause in the said Rebellion, was High Sheriff of Devon. 1645, and Author of A narrative of the affairs of the West, since the defeat of the Earl of Essex, at Lestithiell in Cornwall, an. 1644. in 3 sheets in qu.  
Feb. 17. Henry Carey of Exeter Coll. the eldest Son of a Knight, was also then admitted Bachelaur, and the junior Collector. He was afterwards Earl of Monmouth, and a frequent Translator of Books, as I shall hereafter tell you.  
Thom. Carey of the same Coll. was admitted on the same day.— This Themas, who was younger Brother to the said Henry Carey, was born in Northumberland while his Father Sir Robert Carey was Warden of the Marches towards Scotland, proved afterwards a most ingenious Poet, and was Author of several Poems printed scatter'dly in divers Books; one of which, beginning Farewell fair Saint, etc. had a vocal Composition of two parts set to it by the sometimes famed Musician Henry Laws. Upon the breaking out of the Rebellion in 1642, he adhered to his Majesty, being then of the Bedchamber to, and much esteemed by him. But after that good King had lost his head, he took it so much to heart, that he fell suddenly sick, and died before the expiration of the year 1643, aged 53, or thereabouts. Soon after his Body was buried in a Vault (the burying place of his Family) under S. Joh Bapt. Chapel within the precincts of S. Peter's Church in Westminster.  
Mar. 3. Will. Pemble of Magd. Coll.  
As for Cox, Parr, Morgan, Potter, Sing, Lucy▪ Howell, Angel, and Huish, will be large mention made in the other Volume of this work, or elsewhere.  
Adm. 189.   

Mast. of Arts.  
Apr. 28. Nath. Carpenter of Exet. Coll.  
June 10. Nich. Grey of Ch. Ch.  

July 8. Christop. Potter of Qu.  
Dec. 3. Humph. Sydenham of Wadham  
Jan. 27. Giles Widows of Oriel 

Coll.     
Jasper Fisher of Magd. Hall was admitted the same day.  
Adm. 102.   

Bach. of Phys.  
March ult. Tobias Venner of S. Alban Hall.— Not one besides him was admitted this year.   

Bach. of Diu.  
June 17. Thom. powel of Bras. Coll.— He hath published A Sermon preached at S. Mary's in Oxon, on Exod. 28. 34. Oxon. 1613. qu. and perhaps others, or else certain Theological Tracts, which is all I know of him, only that he was a Caernarvanshire man born.  

Jul. 8. 

Will. Symonds of Magd.  
Dan. Faireclough of C. C. 

Coll.       

Nou. 25. Rich. Tillesley of S. Joh.  
Dec. 1. Joh. Warner of Magd. 

Coll.     
Adm. 13.   

Doct. of Law.  
Apr. 28. Joh. Hosk●ns of New Coll.— He was commonly called John Hoskins junior, as I have among the Writers told you.   

Doct. of Phys.  

June 21. 

Dan. Price  
Lew. Bayly 

of Ex. Coll.       
Jul. 8. Will. Symonds of Magd. Coll. who accumulated.  
Nou. 9 John Fleming Warden of Wadham Coll. formerly Fellow of that of Exeter, and about this time one of his Majesty's Chaplains.  
29. Will. balow of Ch. Ch.— He died in Dec. 1618.  

Dec. 1. 

George Carleton of Mert. Coll.  
Joh. Wilkinson of Magd. Hall.     
The last of the said two Doctors was now Principal of the said Hall of S. M. Magd. and afterwards was Precedent of Magd. Coll. but hath published nothing. One John Wilkinson hath written An Exposition of the 13 chapt. of the Revelations of Jesus Christ. Printed privately in 1619. qu. The publisher of which tells us, that it was the purpose and desire of the Author of the said Book to have published his judgement of the whole Book of the Revelation, but through the malice of the Prelates, (as he adds) who divers times spoiled him of his goods and kept him many years in prison, he was prevented of his purpose. He tells us also, that after his death some of his Labours coming into the hands of his Friends in scattered and imperfect papers, they laboured with the help of others, that heard him declare his judgement therein, to set forth the said little Book or Treatise. Whether this Joh. Wilkinson was of Oxon. I cannot yet tell, neither whether he was the same Joh. Wilkinson M. of A. who became Rector of Babcary in Somersetshire, in Apr. 1587. Another Joh. Wilkinson was a Lawyer of Bernard's Inn near London, who hath published A treatise collected out of the Statutes of this Kingdom concerning the Office and Authority of Coroners and Sheriffs. And another entit. An easy and plain method for the keeping of a Court Leet. Both printed in 1620, etc. in oct. Whether he was ever bred in any University, I know not: sure I am, one Rob. Wilkinson was, who applying his study to Divinity, proceeded in that Faculty, (at Cambr. I think) was Rector of S. Olaves in Southwark, and a publisher of several sermons, as the Oxford Catalogue will tell you. He died in the year 1617.   

Incorporations.  
Apr. 3. Christianus Rumphius Doctor of Philosophy and Physic, chief and principal Physician to Frederick 5, Prince Elect. of the Palat. and to the illustrious Lady Elizabeth daughter of K James 1. of England, was incorporated Doctor of Phys. as he had stood at Basil and Heydelberg, in the house of Sir Joh. Bennet Knight situated in Warwick lane within the City of London, by virtue of a Commission from the Vicechancellor, directed to the said Sir Joh. Bennet. Joh. Spenser D. D. Precedent of C. C. Coll. Tho. Clayton Doctor of Phys. and others.  
The Incorporations of the Cantabrigians are this year omitted by the public Scribe.   

Creations.  
Mar. 30. Will. Hakewill of Lincoln's Inn Esq; sometimes a Student in Ex●ter Coll. was then actually created M. of A. being the very next day after his Kinsman Sir Tho. Bodley was buried.— I shall make large mention of this Hakewell in the second Vol. of this Work, or elsewhere.  
It was then granted by the ven. Convocation, that Will. Camden Clarenceaux King of Arms, who had served as an Herald at the burial of the said Sir Tho. Bodley, might be created M. of A. but for what reason he was not, unless his refusal, as I have elsewhere told you, I cannot tell.  
Laurence Bodley M. of A. Canon residentiary of the Cath. Ch. of Exeter, and chief Mourner at his Brothers (Sir Tho. Bodley) Funeral, was actually created D. of D. the same day, as a member of Ch. Church.  
July 1. John Walter sometimes of Brasn. Coll. now of the Inner Temple, and Counsellor for the University of Oxon, was created M. of A.— He was afterwards Attorney to Prince Charles, Sergeant at Law, a Knight and chief Baron of the Exchequer. He died 18 Nou. 1630, aged 67, and was buried in a little Vault under a north Isle (which he before had built) joining to the Church of Wolvercote near Oxon, where at this day is a splendid monument over his grave for him and his two Wives. David Walter Esq; one of the Grooms of the Bedchamber to K. Ch. 2. and Lientenant General of the Ordinance, was his second Son; who dying at London 22 Apr. 1679, was buried in the same Vault with his Father on the 30 of the same month.  
Aug. 7. It was then granted by the ven. Convocation, that Sir Tho. Fleming Lord Chief Justice of England, might be created M. of A. but whether it was effected, it appears not.  
Feb. 21. Sir Joh. Doderidge Knight, one of the Justices of the King's Bench, was created M. of A. in Sergeants Inn in London.  
A young man named Jacob Aretius, who styles himself Germano-Britannus, studied now in Oxon, and published (1) Primula veris: seu Panegerica ad excellentiss. Principem Palatinum. This he calls Eidyllium. (2) In augustiss. gloriosiss. Regis Jacobi inaugurationem carmen seculare, etc. written in Greek, Lat. Dutch, Ital. and Engl. (3) In nuptias illustriss. principis Frederici & Elizabethae, Maletemata. Which three things were printed at Lond. 1613. qu. He hath also Lat. Verses extant on the death of Prince Henry, and perhaps other things.  
This year also studied in the University Rob. Spotswood and Rob. Murrey Scots. Of the first I shall speak at large elsewhere, as also of the other, if he be the same with Sir Rob. Murrey who was afterwards Precedent of the Royal Society.  
The most learned also Isaac Casaubon was entered a Student in Bodlies' Library as a Member of Ch. Ch. in the month of May this year, but died soon after to the great loss of learning. He was a great Linguist, a singular Grecian, and an exact Philologer.    

An. Dom. 1614  
An. 12 Jac. 1.  
Chanc. the same.  
Vicech. William Goodwin D. D. Dean of Ch. Ch. Jul. 15.  

Proct. 

Jenkin Vaughan of Alls. Coll.  
Sam. Fell of Ch. Ch.     

Bach. of Arts.  
May 23. Will. Jemmat of Magd. Coll.  
28. Christoph. Davenport of Magd. hall, who for one year and three months had studied in Trin. Coll. near Dublin— This Person who was no Writer, as I can yet learn, yet I set him down, lest posterity take him to be Christoph. Davenport, who was now (1614) a Student in Merton Coll. I mean the same Davenport, afterwards known by the name of Franc. à Sancta Clara, and celebrated among Men of his persuasion, and by many Protestants too, for his elaborate books that are extant, as you shall further see in the next vol. of this work.  
June 16. Tho. Turner of St. John's Coll.— See among the Creations in 1633.  

28. John Flavell of Wadh.  
30. Edm. Wingate of Qu. 

Coll.     
Jul. 4. Will Stafford of Ch. Ch.— See in the year 1617., under the title of Creations.  

7. Richard Thornton of Linc.  
Oct. 29. Christop. Tesdale of New 

Coll.     
Of the first of these last two you may see more among the Master's 1617. and of the other in 1618.  

Nou. 4. Tim. Woodroffe of Ball.  
Dec. 15. John Harmar of Magd. 

Coll.     
17. Hen. Ramsden of Magd. hall, afterwards of Linc. Coll.  
Feb. 1. Rich. Toogood of Oriel Coll.  
Five of these Bachelaurs, namely Jemmat, Wingate, Woodroffe, Harmar and Toogood, will be remembered at large in the next Volume, or elsewhere.  
Admitted 187.   

Bach. of Law.  
June 30. Richard Zouche of New Coll.— He was afterwards the great Ornament of the University for his singular knowledge in the Civil and Canon Law, as you shall fully understand in the 2. vol. of this work.  
Besides him were but four more admitted this year.   

Mast. of Arts.  
May 5. Richard Spencer of C. C. Coll. Son of Robert Lord Spencer.  

28. Brian Duppa of Alls.  
Jun. 25. Rob. Skinner of Trin.  
30. Hugh Lloyd of Oriel  
Jul. 2. Will. Page of Ball. afterwards of Alls. 

Coll.     
5. Michael Oldsworth of Magd. Coll.— He was afterwards elected a Burgess to serve in several Parliaments for Sarum and old Sarum, and though in the grand rebellion he was no Colonel, yet he was Governor of Old Pembroke and Mountgomery, led him by the nose, as he pleased, to serve both their turns. He had a share with his Lordship out of the office from which Sir Henry Compton was ejected in the time of the said Rebellion, worth 3000 l. per an. was keeper of Windsor Park, one of the two Masters of the Prerogative Office, and made 
* 〈…〉 old cause 〈◊〉 unfolded, etc. Lond. 1660. oct. p. 〈◊〉.  the Bailiff of Westminster give him 50 l. per an. to continue him there.  
Jul. 5. Franc. White of Magd. Coll.— He afterwards published, London's Warning by Jerusalem, Serm. at Paul's Cross on Midlent Sunday 1618., on Micah 6. 9 Lond. 1619. qu. What other things he hath made public I find not, nor any thing else of him, only that he was a Gentleman's Son of London. I find another Franc. White who was D. D. of Cambridge, afterwards Chaplain in ordinary to K. James 1. Dean of Carlisle, and at length Bishop of Ely; the Titles of whose Works you may see in the Oxford Catalogue, and among them the Sermon before mentioned, as if it had been his. Also a third Franc. White (a Lawyer as it seems) who became well read in the ancient Histories and Laws of our Nation, Author of a book entit. For the sacred law of the land. Lond. 1652. oct. But whether he was of this University, I cannot yet tell.  
July 6. Edw. Terry of Ch. Ch.  

July 7. 

Gilb. Wats of Linc. Coll.  
Hen. King  
Joh. King  
Rich. Gardiner 

of Ch. Ch.       

Jan. 24. 

Rich Stevart of Alls.  
Mich. Jermin  
Rich. James 

of Corp. Ch. 

Coll.         
Adm. 108.   

Bach. of Phys.  
July 12. Peter Bowne of C. C. Coll.  
Not one admitted besides him, and but one that supplicated for the said degree, viz. Rich. Berry of Linc. Coll. but whether admitted this, or in any year following, I know not. He died in June 1651, and was buried by the name of Dr. Rich. Berry.   

Bach. of Diu.  
May 5. Rob. Harris of Magd. Hall.  

16. 

Tho. James of New Coll.  
Rob. Burton of Ch. Ch.     
June 8. Jam. Rowlandson of Qu. Coll.  
July 5. Rob. Moor of New Coll. a Compounder.  
Adm. 19   

Doct. of Law.  
Oct. 13. John Hawley Principal of Gloucester Hall, formerly Fellow of S. John's Coll.  
Mar. 23. Nich. Darrel of New Coll.— He was about this time Prebendary of Winchester, where dying in Oct. 1629, was buried in the Cath. Ch. there near to the body of his Wife Jane.   

Doct. of Phys.  
Jul. 12. Peter Bowne of C. C. Coll.— He accumulated the Degrees in Physic.   

Doct. of Diu.  

May. 16. 

Edward James of Ch. Ch.  
Thom. James of New Coll. 

Brethren.       
The last of which accumulated: And to both I have seen several learned Epistles written by their Nephew Rich. James of C. C. C. who hath also written the Epitaph of the first, who died some years before Thomas.  
30. John Simpson of C. C. C.— He was about this time Prebendary of Canterbury. See among the Doctors of Diu. 1608.  

June 8. 

Will. Westerman of Oriel  
Adam Wilson of Qu. 

Coll.       
The last of which two, died at Nutfield in Surrey (of which place I think he was Rector) in the beginning of 1634.  
27. Will. Piers of Ch. Ch.  
July 5. Nich. Love of New Coll.— He was at this time Chaplain to his Majesty, Warden of Wykehams Coll. near to, and Prebendary of, Winchester; where dying about 1630 was buried in the Chapel belonging to the said Coll.  
Rob. Moor of New Coll. who accumulated, was admitted the same day.  
John Charlet of Oriel Coll. was also admitted the same day— He was now Prebendary of Worcester, and dying in 1640, Herb. Croft D. D. succeeded him in that Dignity.  
Theodore Price was admitted as a member of New Coll. on the same day also— He was originally Chorister of Alls. Coll. afterwards Fellow of Jesus, now Principal of Hart hall and about this time Subdean of Westminster, Prebendary of Winchester; and afterwards (as 'tis said by some) Master of the Hospital of St. Cross. He gave way to fate 15. Dec. 1631, and was buried at Westminster; whereupon Dr. John William's Dean of that place called together the Prebendaries of the Church, and took great pains to make the World suspect that he died a Rom. Catholic, only to raise a scandal on his enemy Bishop Laud who had commended him to the King for a Bishopric in Wales. A rigid and inveterate Presbyterian tells 
a ●wofd● Prynne in his Canterbury's Doom, etc. printed 1646. p. 355.  us, that the said Dr. Land did endeavour to promote him to a Welsh Bishopric, but was opposed by Philip Earl of Pembroke, so Dr. Morg. Owen 
b Here you 〈◊〉 out as to time, for 〈…〉 was not made Bishop of Land●ff till 16●9 which was eight years after Dr. Price his death.  was preferred in his stead. This Price lived a professed, unpreaching Epicure and Arminian, and died a reconciled Papist to the Church of Rome, having received extreme unction from a popish Priest, etc. Thus Prynne; yet the Church 
c Too▪ ●●●er in his Church History, etc. lib. 11. Sect. 17.  Historian tells us that Dr. William's beforemention'd did much endeavour to make him Archb. of Armagh, but denied by the Duke of Bucks, without any mention made of Dr. Laud his endeavours. But so it was that Dr. William's being a great favourer of the Puritan or Presbyterian, Prynne therefore made no mention of him, but laid all upon the score of Laud,  

July 5. 

Robert Say  
Will. Twysse 

of New 

Thom. Wyatt of Oriel 

Coll.           
6. Thom. Anyan Precedent of C. C. Coll. who accumulated— This Doctor who was born at Sandwich in Kent, and had lately been Chaplain to Egerton Lord Keeper, published (1) A Sermon preached at St. Mary's Church in Oxon. 12. Jul. 1612; being the Act Sunday, on Psal. 1. 3. Lond. 1612. qu. (2) Sermon preached at St. Marry spital 10. Apr. 1615. on Acts 10. 34. 35. Oxon. 1615. qu. In the year 1619, he being then one of his Majesty's Chaplains, he was made Prebendary of Gloucester, and afterwards being found unfit to govern a College, because he was a fosterer of faction, he resigned his Presidentship and was made Prebendary of Canterbury; where dying 1632, was buried in the Cath. Ch. there.  
Francis James of Ch. Ch. stood in the Act this year to complete his Doctorship in Divinity, but when he was admitted, it appears not in the public register.— He was now in great esteem for several Specimens of Latin Poetry which he before had made, especially for his Poem, published in 1612, entit. Threnodia Henricianarum Exequiarum. Sive Panolethria Anglicana, etc. He was near of kin to Dr. Tho. James mentioned before, and among the Writers under the year 1629, was about this time Preacher or Read. at the Savoy in the Strand near London, and, as it seems, a Preacher at St. Matthews in Friday Street. At length departing this mortal life in 1621., was buried, (I think) at Ewbu●st in Surrey.   

Incorporations.  
July 7. Franc. Barrough lately of Eman. Coll. in Cambridge, now of St. John's in Oxon, was incorporated either Bach. or Master of Acts.  
9 Augustin Lindsell M. of A. and Fellow of Clare hall in Cambridge— He was born at Bumsted in Essex, was bred 
d Idem in the Worthies of England in Essex.  Scholar and Fellow in the said Hall, where he became well studied in Greek, Hebrew and all antiquity. Afterwards he succeeded Dr. Walt. Curl in the Deanery of Lichfield 1628., Dr. Will. Piers in the Episcopal See of Peterborough, (to which he was elected 22. Dec. 1632) and being translated thence to Hereford, in (December) 1633 upon the translation of Dr. Juxon to London, died at his Palace in Hereford 6. Nou. 1634. whereupon his body was buried in the Cath. Church there. He was a Man of very great learning, of which he gave sufficient evidence to the Church by setting forth that excellent edition of Theophylact upon St. Paul's Epistles.  
Thomas Goodwin M. A. of the said University, was also then (July 9) incorporated as it is said in the public register; but if he be the same Person whom I shall mention among the creations an. 1653. I should rather think that he was incorporated Bach. of Arts.  
Sam. Bugs was incorporated M. of A. the same day— See more of him among the Writers in John King, an. 1638.  
July 12. Edmund Wilson Doctor of Phys. of Kings Coll. in Cambridge and Fellow of the Coll. of Physicians in London— On the 18. Dec. 1616. he was installed Canon of Windsor on the death of Dr. Rich Field, but because he was not ordained Priest within a year following, he was deprived of his Canonry and Dr. Godfrey Goodman succeeded, being installed 20. Dec. 1617. This Dr. W●●son who was Son of Will. Wilson mentioned among the Doctors of Divinity, under the year 1607, and had practised his faculty several years in Windsor, died in the Parish of St. Marry le Bow in London about the beginning of Oct. 1633, at which time, or before, he gave many books to Lincoln Coll Library in Oxon.  
Thomas Horsmanden D. D. of the said University of Cambridge, was incorporated the same day.  
July 14. Lancelot Langhorne Bach. of Diu. of Cambridge— He was now Parson of St. Martin's Church within Ludgate, London, and had published Mary sitting at Christ's feet; Serm at the funeral of Mrs. Marry Swain, the Wife of Mr. Will. Swain, at St. botolph's without Aldersgate, on Luke 10. 42. Lond. 1611. oct. and perhaps other things. He died about the beginning of November this year (1614) and was buried, I presume, in his Church of St. Martin beforementioned.  
Mar. 23. Philip King M. A. of the same University— Another of both his names was of this University, as I shall tell you in these Fasti an. 1618. and 1645.  
This year Charles de Beauvais of the Isle of Guernsey, a young Man most conversant in the study of learned arts, was entered a Student in Body's Library, but whether he was matriculated as a member of any Coll. or Hall, it appears not. He is the same Ch. de Beauvais without doubt, who was afterwards Author of (1) Dedisciplinis & scientiis in genere: & de recto ordine quo sunt in Scholis & Academiis docendae, etc. (2) Recta delineatio disciplinae Vniversalis, seu primae Philosophiae; itemque Logicae. Which two were printed at Lond. 1648. in oct. (3) Exercitations concerning the pure and true, and the impure and false religion. Lond. 1665. oct. at which time the Author was Rector of Witheham in Sussex.    

An. Dom. 1615.  
An. 13. Jac. 1.  
Chanc. Thom. Lord Egerton.  
Vicechanc. Dr. Will. Goodwin again, July 17.  

Proct. 

Hugh Dicus of Brasn. Coll.  
Richard Bailiff of St. John Coll. 

Apr. 19       

Bach. of Arts.  
May 4. John Bayly of Exet. Coll.  
5. Steph. Geree of Magd. Hall.  

July 5. Cornelius Burges of Wadh.  
7. Charles Herle of Exeter  
Nou. 9 Francis Gough of New 

Coll.     
The last was afterwards Bishop of Limerick in Ireland.  
Dec. 13. James Lamb of Brasn, College, afterwards of St. Mary's Hall.  

Feb. 5. Thom. Twittie of Oriel  
6. Thom. Paybody of Merton 

Coll.     
Of the first of these last two, you may see more among the Bach. of Diu. 1633, and of the other, among the Masters of Arts, an. 1624.  
7. John Brian of Queen Coll.— I know not yet to the contrary but that he may be the same John Brian who published a funeral Sermon called The virtuous Daughter, on Prov. 31. ver. 29. Lond. 1636. qu. etc. and perhaps other things. Quaere.  
26. Alexander Gill (Son of Alexander) lately of Trin. Coll. now of Wadham, and afterwards of Trinity again.  
Five of these Bachelaurs, namely Geree, Burges, Herle, Lamb and Gill, will be mentioned at large elsewhere.  
Admitted 203.   

Bach. of Law.  

June. 

Tho Merriot  
John South  
John Crook 

of New Coll.       
The first, who will be mentioned in the next volume; was a good Latinist and Orator. The second was afterwards the King's Professor of the Greek tongue and at length, (upon the death of Dr. Tho. Hyde.) Chauntor of Salisbury, 24. Sept. 1666. He died at Writtle in Essex (of which place he was Vicar) in August 1672, and was buried in the Church there; whereupon his Chauntorship was conferred on Dr. Dan. Whitbye of Trin. Coll. As for the last, John Crook, he was afterwards Fellow of the Coll. 〈◊〉 Winchester, Prebendary of the Cathedral there, and Master of the Hospital of St. Mary Magd. near to that City.  
Admitted 9   

Mast. of Arts.  

May 3. Jerem. Stephens of Brasn.  
20. Will. Nicholson of Magd. 

Coll.     

Jun. 15. 

Rob. Weldon  
Barten Holiday 

of Ch. Ch.       

17. 

Will. Thomas of Brasn.  
Tho. Vica● of Qu. 

27. Griff. Higgs of Mert. 

Coll.         
Admitted 106.   

Bach. of Diu.  
July 13. Samson Price of Exeter Coll.  

Nou. 23. 

Edm. Gunter  
Samuel Fell  
Hen. Whistler of Trin. 

of Ch. Ch. 

Dec. 1. John Hanmer of Alls. 

Coll.           
March 4. Fredericus Dorvilius of Exeter Coll.— He writes himself Aquisgranensis natione, & Palatinus educatione, being at this time a Sojournour in the said Coll. for the sake of Dr. Prideaux the Rector, whom he much admired.  
Adm. 15.  
☞ Not one Doctor of Law was admitted this year.   

Doct. of Physic.  
July 3. Clement Westcombe of New Coll. who accumulated the Degrees in Physic— He was about this time held in great value for the happy success in the practice of his faculty in, and near the City of, Exeter, where he died in 1652 or thereabouts.   

Doct. of Diu.  

Mar. 27. Sam. Radcliff Principal  
June 17. John Barnston 

of Brasn. Coll.     
The last of which who was now Chaplain to Egerton Lord Chancellor of England, was about this time Canon Residentiary of Salisbury, and afterwards a Benefactor to learning, as I have told 
* 〈…〉 Antiq. V●iv. Oxon, 〈…〉  you elsewhere. He lived to see himself outed of his spiritualities, and dying 30. May 1645 was buried, as it seems, at Everton in Wilts.  

Jun. 27. ●arnab. Potter of Queens  
July 6. John King of Merton 

Coll.     
The last of these two was installed Canon or Preb. of the twelfth and last stall in the Collegiate Church at Westminster, on the death of Dr. Will. Barlow Bish. of Linc. an. 1613, and this year (1615) Nou. 23, he became Canon of Windsor in the place of Mardoche Aldem deceased. He died 7. Aug. 1638, and was buried in the Chapel of St. George at Windsor.  
Dec. 1. John Hanmer of Alls. Coll.— See more among the Creations in the year following.  
Feb. 27. Jasper Swift of Ch. Ch.  

March 14. John Barcham of C. C.  
21. John Davies of Lincoln 

Coll.      

Incorporations.  
July 11. Will. Spicer Bach. of Law of Cambridge— See among the Incorporations 1618.  
Abraham Gibson M. A. of the said University, was incorporated the same day; and again on the 15. July 1617.— This Person who was afterwards Preacher to the Temples in London, hath published (1) The Lands mourning for vain swearing, Sermon on Jerem. 23. 10. Lond. 1613. oct. (2) Christianae-polemica; or, a narrative to War, Serm. at Wool-church in London before the Captains and Gentlemen of exercise in the Attillery-garden, on Judg. 7. 18. Lond. 1619. oct. and not unlikely other things. He was afterwards D. of D. and dying in, or near, one of the Temples, was buried near to the Communion Table in the Chancel of the Church belonging to the said Temples, 5. Januar. 1629.  
July 11. Godfrey Goodman Bach. of Diu. of Cambridge— See more of him among the Bishops in Miles Smith, an. 1624.  
Samuel Purchas Bach. of Diu. of the said University was incorporated the same day— This worthy Divine, who is by some styled our English Ptolemy, was born in the County of Essex, either at Dunmow or Thacksted, but in what Coll. or Hall in Cambridge educated, I cannot yet tell. After he had left the University he became Minister of Eastwood in Rochfort hundred in his own Country, but being desirous to forward and prosecute his natural Genie he had to the collecting and writing of voyages, travels, and pilgrimages, left his cure to his Brother, and by the favour of the Bishop of London got to be Parson of St. Martin's Church within Ludgate. He hath written and published (1) Pilgrimage: or, relations of the world, and the religions observed in all ages, and places discovered from the Creation to this present, etc. in 4 parts. Lond. 1614 fol. second edit. and there again 1626. fol. (2) Purchas his Pilgrim's; in 4. volumes or parts, each volume containing 5 books. Lond. 1625. fol. (3) Purchas his Pilgrim. Microcosmus or the history of Man, etc. Lond. 1619. oct. (4) The King's tower, and triumphant arch of London. pr. 1623. oct. By the publishing of which books he brought himself into debt, but died not in prison as some have said, but in his own house, (a little while after the King had promised him a Deanery) about 1628. aged 51. What other things he hath published, besides a Funeral Sermon on Psal. 39 5. printed 1619 in oct. I know not, and therefore be pleased to take this character given of him by a learned 
* In biblio●h●ca Joh. Boss●rdi.  Person, which may serve instead of an Epitaph. Samuel Purchas, Anglus, linguarum & artium divinarum atque humanarum egregie peritus, Philosophus, Historicus, & Theologus maximus, patriae ecclesiae antistes fidelis; multis egregiis scriptis, & in primis orientalis, occident alisque Indiae vastis voluminibus patria lingua conscripta celeberrimus. One Samuel Purchas A. M. hath published A theatre of political flying Infects, etc. Lond. 1657. qu.  

July 11. 

John Wood  
Rob. King  
John Bowles 

D. D. Cant.       
The first of these three died in the Parish of St. Dionise Backchurch in London, being Minister, as it seems of that place, an. 1624. and the last, who was a Native of Lancashire, and Fellow of Trinity Coll. in the said University, became Dean of Salisbury in the latter end of July an. 1620, upon Dr. John Williams his being made Dean of Westminster. At length upon Dr. Walt. Curle's translation to the See of D. and Wells. he became Bishop of Rochester in 1630, and dying in an house situated on the Bank side in Westminster, 9 Octob. 1637 was buried in St. Paul's Cathedral. He hath extant Concio ad clerum, in Act. cap. 15. 4.— printed 1631. qu. and perhaps other things. Quaere.  
Jan. 2. Eleazar Hodson Doct. of Phys. of Milan— He was afterwards eminent for his practice in the City of London, where he died (in the Parish of St. Stephen in Colemanstreet) about the latter end of 1638. His Brother Phineas Hodson I have mentioned in the Incorporations under the year 1602  
Joh. Radolphus Stuckius and Jo. Waserus both of Zurich, were this year Students in the University. Afterwards they became learned Men and Writers, as I shall tell you in the second Vol. in my discourse of Dr. John Prideaux.    

An. Dom. 1616.  
An. 14. Jac. 1.  
Chanc. Tho. Lord Egerton created this year Viscount Brackley, but he voluntary resigning his office of Chancellor of this University on the 24. Jan. William Earl of Pembroke, Knight of the Garter, Chamberlain of the King's Household, etc. was unanimously elected into his place 29 of the same month.  
Vicechanc. Arth. Lake D. D. Warden of New Coll. July 17.  

Proct. 

Robert Sanderson of Linc. Coll.  
Charles Croak of Ch. Ch. 

Apr. 10.       

Bach. of Music.  
July 4. John Vauter of Linc. Coll.  
John Lake of New Coll. had his grace granted for the Degree of Bach. of Mus. but whether he was admitted it appears not; Or, that he, or Vauter, have made any public compostions in their faculty.   

Bach. of Arts.  

Apr. 19 Nich. Hunt of Exet.  
June 19 John Speed of St. Joh. 

Coll.     
One Nich. Hunt hath several things extant, who being, I presume, the same with the former, is hereafter to be mentioned at large.  

26. Anth. Faringdon of Trin.  
Jul. 3. Jo. Allibond of Magd. 

Coll.     
Of the last of these two you may see more among the created Doctors of Diu. an. 1643.  
5. John Langley of Magd. hall.  
Oct. 24. Charles Robson of Qu. Coll.— See among the Bach. of Diu. 1629.  
26. Bruno Ryves of New, afterwards of Magd. Coll.  
Will. Price of Ch. Ch. was admitted the same day— See among the Master's 1619.  
Nou. 4. John Doughtie.  
Dec. 14. Rob. Grebby of New Coll.— See more among the Masters of Art, 1619.  
Jan. 29. Will. Hayes of Magd. hall— See among the Bach. of Diu. 1627.  

Feb. 28. 

John Gee of Exet.  
John Thorie of Magd. 

Coll.       
Of the last of these two, you may see more among the Incorporations, an. 1627.  
As for Faringdon, Langley, Ryves and Doughtie, you are to expect large mention of them hereafter.  
Admitted 223.   

Mast. of Arts.  
April 19 Rich. Parr of Brasn. Coll.  
June 4. Morgan Owen of Hart Hall.  

12. 

Immanuel Bourne of Ch. Ch.  
George Sing of Ball. Coll.     
20. Tho. Goffe. of Ch. Ch.  
21. John Scull of Lincoln, lately of Mert. Coll.— He hath published Two Sermons on Math. 10. 16. printed 1624. qu. being the same person, as it seems, who was afterwards Rector of Shinfold in Sussex, where he died in 1641.  
26. Franc. Potter of Trin. Coll.  
July 5. John Angel of Magd. Hall.  
De●. 17. Alex. Huish of Wadham Coll.  
Feb. 25. Will. Jemmat of Magd. Hall, lately of Magd. Coll.  
Adm. 117.   

Bach. of Phys.  
….. Francis Anthony Olevian of Gloucester Hall, was admitted; but the day or month when, appears not.— He was a Germane of the Palatine of the Rhine, and had studied ten years in the faculty of Physic in the Universities of Heidelberg, Mountpelier, Paris, and Oxon. He afterwards practised his Faculty (being licenced by the University) at Blandford Forum in Dorsetshire, where he died in 1642; but whether he hath written or published any thing, let the Physicians seek.   

Bach. of Diu.  

May 15. 

Sim. Birckbek  
Thom. Sutton 

of Qu. Coll.       

June 4. Tho. Godwin of Magd.  
July 10. George Wall of Brasn. 

Coll.     
The last was about this time beneficed in his native Country of Worcestershire, and afterwards published A sermon at the Archbishop of Canterbury his Visitation metropolitical, held at Allsaints in Worcester by Dr. B●ent his Grace's Vicar General, 3 June 1635. on 2 Cor. 5. 20. Lond. 1635. qu. and perhaps other things. Qu●ere.  
Dec. 13. Henr. Rogers of Jes. Coll.  
Besides these, were 13 more admitted, of whom Joh Flavel of Broadgates' Hall was one, and Evan Morgan of Linc. Coll. another, both Compounders.  
☞ Not one Doctor of Law or Phys. was admitted this year.   

Doct. of Diu.  
Apr. 18. Joh. Warner of Magd. Coll.  
May 11. Joh. Hamden of Ch. Ch.  
15. Tho. Holloway of Ball. Coll.  
June 13. Sam. Clerk of Magd. Hall, a Compounder.— He had a son of both his names of University Coll. an. 1635, but neither of them, as I can yet find, were Writers, which I thought fit to let the Reader know, because there have been several Samuel Clarks that have been Authors, as (1) Sam. Clerk of Merton Coll. whom I shall mention in the second Volume of this Work. (2) Sam. Clark sometimes Minister of S. Bennet-Fink in London, born at Wolstan in Warwickshire, 10 Oct. 1599, being of the same Family with those of Willoughby in that County, (as Sam. Clark the Compounder before mentioned was) afterwards a severe Calvinist, and a scribbling Plagiary, as his Works (mostly the lives of Presbyterian Divines) show; a Catalogue of which, you may see in one of his books entit. The lives of sundry eminent persons in this later age. In two parts, 1. of Divines, 2. of Novility, etc. Lond. 1683, fol. before which is a canting narrative of his own life. He died at Thistleworth or Istleworth in Middlesex 25 Dec. 1682. (3) Sam. Clerk of Pembroke Hall in Cambridge, who published certain matters in 1649, and after, etc.  

Jun. 25. Will. Kingsley of Alls. Coll.  
26. Joh. Flavell of Broadgates' Hall  
July 4. Hen. Seward of Brasn. Coll. 

Compounders.     
The first of these three, was at this time Archdeacon of Canterbury, and died about the beginning of the year 1648. The second was a Dignitary, and Rector of Tallaton in Devonshire, where he died in 1623. Another of both his names was a Writer of Wadham Coll. as you may see among the Writers, an. 1617., and a third, who was a Devonian born, and Son, or at least near of kin to him of Tallaton, hath published several things, (some of which are mentioned in Joh. Flavell of Wadh. Coll.) and was living divers years after the Restauration of K. Ch. 2. but whether he was of the Uniu. of Oxon I cannot yet tell. Jo. Flavell of Tallat●n had a Son named Thomas who was Bach. of Arts of Trin Coll. in this University, afterwards Vicar of Mullian and Rector of Great Ruan in Cornwall, also Prebendary of Exeter, and died 1682, aged 77 years.  

9 Edw. Gee of Brasn.  
15. Edw. Chetwynd of Exet.  
Oct. 23. John Moseley of Magd.  
Nou. 7. H●nr. Beaumond of Alls. 

Coll.     
The last of which was a Compounder, being at this time Dean of Peterborough and Canon of Windsor. In 1622, May 18. he was installed Dean of Windsor in the room of Marc. Anton. de Dominis, who in Feb. going before had left England. This Dr. Beaumond died 30 June 1627., and was buried in S. George's Chap. there, on the right side of the grave of Tho. Danett one of his Predecessors in that Deanery. See more in the Incorporations, an. 1571.  

Feb. 10. 

Rich. Carpenter  
Joh. Standard 

of Ex. Coll.       
Both of these were learned men, and so taken to be by Dr. Joh. Prideaux, as I have elsewhere told you. Dr. Standard was afterwards a Justice of Peace for Oxfordshire. (being Lord of Whithill) and dying 16 Dec. 1647, aged 66, was buried in the Churchyard at Tackley in the said County.   

Incorporations.  
Apr. 24. Tho. Farnabie M. A. of Cambr. sometimes of Merton Coll. in this University, and afterwards the eminent Schoolmaster of Kent.— I shall mention him at large in the second Volume of this work.  
Jul. 2. Ralph Rand M. A. of S. Andrew in Scotland.  
9 Joh. Hacket M. A. of Trin. Coll. in Cambr.— About this time he wrote a Latin Comedy called Loiola,— printed at Lond. 1648. in oct. was afterwards D. of D. Parson of S. Andrews Church in Holbourn near London, Chaplain to K. Charles 1. Residentiary of S. Paul's, and a great sufferer in the time of the Rebellion. At length after the Restauration of K. Ch. 2. to whom he was Chaplain in ordinary, he became Bishop of Lichfield and Coventry, to which being consecrated at Lambeth 22 Dec. 1661., sat there to the time of his death, 28 Oct. 1670, aged 79. Afterwards came out under his name Christian Consolations, taught from five heads in Religion. printed 1671 in tw. and A century of Sermons etc. Lond. 1675, fol.  
Rob. Farsereus or Faisereus M. A. of Louvain, was incorporated the same day.  
Jan. 14. Edw. Kellet M. A. of Kings Coll. in Cambr.— He was at this time Rector of Ragborough and Crocombe in Somersetshire, and afterwards Canon residentiary of Exeter. His Writings speak him a learned man, some of which are (1) Miscellanies in Divinity, in 3 books, etc. Camb. 1633, fol. (2) The threefold supper of Christ in the night that he was betrayed. Lond. 1641, fol. besides Sermons, of which one is entit. A return from Argier, preached at Minhead in Somersetshire 16 Mar. 1627., at the readmission of a relapsed Christian into our Church, on Gal. 5. 2. Lond. 1628., qu. This was preached in the morning of the third Sunday in Lent, and in the Afternoon preached Dr. Hen. Byam on the same occasion▪ but not on the same subject. He the said Kellet was a sufferer, if I mistake not, in the time of the Rebellion, which began 1642.  
Febr. 20. Joh. Foxeroft Bach. of Arts of Cambr.— See more among the Masters in the year following.  
This year was a Supplicate made for one John Hayward LL. D. and Historiographer of Chelsey Coll. near to London, to be incorporated in the same Faculty, but whether he was really so, I cannot tell.— In the year 1619 he received the honour of Knighthood from his Majesty at Whitehall, being then accounted a learned and godly man, and one better read in Theological Authors than in those belonging to his own profession. The Titles of all or of most of the Books that he published, you may see in the Oxford Catalogue. As for those of History which he hath published, the phrase and words in them were in their time esteemed very good; only some have wished that in his History of Hen. 4. he had not called Sir Hugh Lynne by so light a word as Madcap, though he were such; and that he had not changed his Historical stile into a Drammatical, where he induceth a Mother uttering a Woman's passion, in the case of her Son. This Sir Joh. Hayward ended his days in his house in the Parish of Great S. Barthelmew in London, on Wednesday 27 June 1627., and was buried in the Church belonging to that Parish. You may see more of him in Camden's Annals of Qu. Elizab. under the year 1601, where you'll find him punished by a tedious Imprisonment for an unseasonable Edition of one of his books.   

Creations.  
Jul. 9 Francis Stewart of Ch. Ch. (Knight of the Bath) one of the Sons of the Earl of Murrey, was actually created Master of Arts.— He was a learned Gentleman, was one of Sir Walt. Raleighs Club at the Meremaid Tavern in Friday street in London, and much venerated by Ben. Johnson, who dedicated to him his Comedy called The silent Woman. He was a person also well seen in marine Affairs, was a Captain of a Ship, and, as I have been informed by those who remember him, did bear the office for some time of a Vice. or Rear, Admiral.  
Nou. 13. John Hanmer of Alls. Coll. was then actually created D. of D. as the Register saith; which was, as I suppose, no more than the completion of that degree, which should have been done in the Act preceding, had he not been absent.  
In the latter end of Aug. this year, Prince Charles came honourably attended to the University, and after he had been entertained with Ceremonies and Feasting suitable to his Dignity and Merit, he was pleased with his own hand writing to matriculate himself a Member of the said University, Aug. 28. with this Symbol or Sentence, Si vis omnia subjicere, subjice te rations. To say no more, he was afterwards a King of great Religion and Learning, but unfortunate.    

An. Dom. 1617.  
An. 15 Jac. 1.  
Chanc. William Earl of Pembroke, sometimes of New Coll.  
Vicechanc. Dr. Will. Goodwin again, Jul. 17.  

Proct. 

Franc. Grevill of Mert. Coll.  
Joh. Harrys of New Coll. 

Apr. ult.       

Bach. of Arts.  
May 10. Christop▪ Harvey of Brasn. Coll,  
23. Joh. Seager of S. Mary's Hall.  

Oct. 17. Pet. Heylyn of Magd.  
23. Will. Tipping of Qu. 

Coll.     
Nou. 23. Joh. Atherton of Gloucester Hall, afterwards of Linc. Coll. and the unfortunate Bishop of Waterford in Ireland.  
27. Gilbert Sheldon of Trinity Coll. afterwards Fellow of Alls. and at length Archb. of Canterbury.  
Feb. 10. Robert Blake of Wadham Coll.— This right valiant person having taken no higher degree in this University, I must therefore make mention of him in this place. Born therefore he was at Bridgwater in Somersetshire, being the Son and Heir of Humphrey Blake of that place Gent. but descended of the ancient Family of the Blakes of Blanchfield in the said County. In the beginning of Lent Term an. 1615, he being then about 15 years of age he was matriculated in the University as a Member of S. Alban Hall, about which time standing for a Scholarship of C. C. Coll. with Rob Hag and Rob. Newan, was put aside, whether for want of merit or friends, I cannot tell. While he continued in the said Hall, he was observed by his Contemporaries to be an early riser and studious, but withal he did take his pleasure in Fishing, Fowling, etc. and sometimes in stealing of Swans. Before the time came when he was to take a degree in Arts, he translated himself to his Country men in Wadham Coll. and as a Member of that House, he did stand for a Fellowship of Merton Coll. with Alex. Fisher, John Doughtie, Edw. Reynolds, John Earl, etc. an. 1619, but whether it was for want of Scholarship, or that his person was not handsome or proper, (being but of stature little) which Sir Hen. Savile then Warden of that Coll. did much respect, he lost it, continued in Wadham Coll. without the taking of any other degree, and in 1623. wrote a Copy of Verses 
* 〈…〉 ….. Oxon. 16●4.  on the death of the learned Camden. Afterwards he went into his own Country, where he lived in the condition of a Gentleman, but always observed to be puritancially inclined. In 1640 he was chosen a Burgess for Bridgwater to serve in that Parliament which began at Westminster 13 Apr. 1640, but missing that Office in the same year when the Long Parliament began on the 3 Nou. following, he sided with the Presbyterian, took up arms for the Parliament soon after, received a Commission from the Members thereof to be a Captain of Dragoons; and afterwards being made Governor of Taunton, was made a Colonel. Which Town, as also afterwards Lyme, he defended with great Valour against several famous and forcible Sieges of the King's Army under the command of Prince Maurice and George Lord Goring. At length the War being in a manner terminated, the worth of this inestimable great Commander (being so esteemed by those of his party) was taken notice of by the Parliament: whereupon they resolved that it should not lie hid at home, but show itself abroad, and therefore he was made first one of the Commissioners of the Navy, than one of the Lord Wardens of the Cinque Ports, and at length about 1649 one of the Generals at Sea: At his entrance into which office, he penned up Prince Rupert in the chief Port of Portugal, and hunted him from Sea to Sea, till he had reduced those Ships with him, which before had revolted from the Parliament. In the beginning of the year 1651 he reduced the Isle of Sci●ly to the Parliament Service, and on the 25 Nou. following, he was elected one of the Council of State, being then in great repute with Oliver. In 1652, Sept. 5. he sorely beat the French Fleet, and at that time, there being a Quarrel between the two Republics, England and the United Provinces, he and his Fleet were worsted in the Downs by Van Tromp the Dutch Admiral and his Fleet, 29 of Nou. following; but on the 18 of Febr. following that, on which day happened a most terrible Sea-sight betwixt them again, near to the Isles of W●ight and Portland, the Dutch were in a woeful manner worsted. Ever after, Blake continued a fortunate Vindicator of his Country's Privileges, from the encroachments of insulting Neighbours, a victorious Enemy of the Spaniard, and was highly valued of all, even the Royalist. The last part, and the most desperate attempt that he ever acted in a Sea-blood, not that I shall now take notice of his daring piece of service at Tunis against the Turks, an. 1655) was against the Spaniards at Sancta Cruz, in Apr. 1657, which made him as terrible as Drake had been before to them, there being less difference betwixt the same and report of their actions and exploits, than in the sound of their names: For there, with 25 sail, he fought (as 'twere in a ring) with seven Forts▪ a Castle, and 16 Ships, many of them being of greater force than most of those Ships Blake carried in against them: yet in spite of opposition, he soon calcined the Enemy, and brought his Fleet back again to the Coast of Spain full fraught with honour. But what Commander is able to repel the stroke of death? This is he that doth conquer the conquerors, and levelly the honours of the mightiest Monarches with the meanest Captains: there is no withstanding his force, for all must fall: Blake himself was compelled to strike the topsail and yield, for in his return home, he gave up the Ghost in the Ship called the George the Admiral as it entered into Plymouth Sound, on Friday the seventeenth of August, an. 1657, aged 59, occasioned by the Scurvy and Dropsy which he had contracted by his seasaring. The next day his body was embowelled, and closed in a sheet of lead, and the bowels were interred in the great Church at Plymouth. He was a man wholly devoted to his Country's Service, resolute in his undertake, and most faithful in the performance of them. With him, Valour seldom missed its reward, nor Cowardice its punishment. When news was brought him of a metamorphosis in the State at home, he would then encourage the Seamen to be most vigilant abroad; for (said 
† See The full view of the 〈◊〉 and actions of O●. Cromwell. printed 1600. in 〈◊〉, pag. 31●.  he) 'Tis not our duty to mind State affairs, but to keep foreigners from fooling us. In all his expeditions, the Wind seldom deceived him, but most an end stood his friend, especially in his last undertaking at S. Cruze in the Canary Islands. To the last, he lived a single life, never being espoused to any, but his Countries, Quarrels. Soon after his death and embalming, the body was conveyed by Sea to Greenwych House, where it remained for some time. From thence it was conveyed by Water on the 4 of Sept. following with all due solemnity and honour in a barge of state cove●ed with Velvet, adorned with Escocheons and Pencils, accompanied with his brothers and divers of his kindred, relations and servants in mourning, together with Oliver's Privy Council, the Commissioners of the Admiralty and Navy, the Lord Mayor and Aldermen of London, the Field Officers of the Army, and divers other persons of honour and quality, in a great number of barges and wherries covered with mourning, marshaled and ordered by the Officers of Arms who directed and attended the solemnity. In that order they passed to Westminster bridge, and at their landing proceeded in the same manner thro' a Guard of several Regiments of foot Soldiers of the Army, wherein he had been a Colonel in many eminent Services. And so proceeding from the New Palace Yard at Westminster to the Abbey, was interred in a Vault, made on purpose, in the Chapel of King Hen. 7. In that place it rested till the 12 Sept. 1661., and then by virtue of his Majesties express Command sent to the Dean of Westminster, to take up the bodies of all such persons which had been unwarrantably buried in the Chap. of Hen. 7. and in other Chapels and places within the collegiate Church of S. Peter in Westminster since the year 1641, and to bury them in some place in the Churchyard adjacent: His body, I say, was then (Sept. 12.) taken up, and with others, buried in a pit in S. Margaret's Church yard adjoining, near to the backdoor of one of the Prebendaries of Westminster; in which place it now remaineth, enjoying no other monument, but what is reared by his Valour, which time itself can hardly deface. At the same time were removed the bodies of (1) Col. Rich Deane sometimes one of the Admirals at Sea for the Republic of England, who was killed in a Sea-fight between the English and Dutch (which last were worsted) that happened the 2 and 3 of June 1653. (2) Col Humph Mackworth one of Oliver's Council, who was interred in Hen. 7. Chapel with great solemnity 26 Dec. 1654. (3) Dr. Isaac Doris●aus. (4) Sir Wil●. Constable of Flamburgh in Yorkshire, one of the Judges of K. Ch. 1. sometimes Covernour of Gloucester, and Colonel of a Regiment of Foot; who dying 15 June, was buried in K. Hen. 7. Chap. 21 of the same month an. 1655. (5) Col. Joh. Meldroma a Scot who received his death's wound at Ailresford in Hampshire. (6) Col….. Buscawen a Cornish man. (7) Col. Edw. Popham one of the Admirals of the Fleet belonging to the Parliament; who dying of a Fever at Dover 19 Aug. 1651, was buried the 24 of Sept. following, in S. Joh. Bapt. Chappel. His body, after it was taken up, was not buried in the said pit, but carried elsewhere (into the Country I think) by some of his Relations, yet his monument was permitted to stand by the intercession of some of his Lady's friends, with the stone, wherein the Epitaph was ensculpt, to be turned. (8) Will. Stroude or Strode a Parliament man, and one of the five Members demanded by K. Ch. 1. (9) Thom May the Parliamentarian Historian. These with the bodies of Will. Strong and Steph. Marshal sometimes Members of the Assembly of Divines (the last of which was buried in the south Isle of the Church 23 Nou. ●655) and of several Women also, and others, were re-buried in the pit before mentioned, on the 12 and 14 of Sept. 1661. But after this long digression let's return to the remaining part of the Admissions.  
Feb. 13. Rob. Hag of C. C. Coll.  
Mar. 22. Ionas Montague of Mert Coll.— This person who was a Berkshire man born, became a Student in the said College 1604, aged 18, but before he took a Degree, he was called away by Sir Hen Savile to drudge for him in his Edition of S. Chrys●stom's Works. Afterwards Sir Henry procured for him the Usher's place in Eton School, and afterwards the degree of Bach. of Arts. One Rich. Montague Fellow of Kings Coll. in Cambridge (who became Bishop of Norwich in 1638) was employed by the said Sir Henry to correct chrysostom in Greek before it went to the Press at Eton, (about which time Montague was Fellow of the said Coll.) but how nearly related Ionas was to this Richard Montague, who was a Minister's Son, I know not.  
As for Harvey, Segar, Heylyn, Tipping, and Shelden before mentioned, will be large mention made elsewhere.  
Admissions in all come to 225.   

Bach. of Law.  

Dec. 10. 

Rich. Stevart  
Will. Skinner 

of Alls. Coll.       
The last was afterwards Chancellor of Hereford. Besides him and Stevart, were only two admitted this year.   

Mast. of Arts.  
Jun. 23. Rich. Thornton of Linc. Coll.— This noted Preacher who had newly been elected Fellow of that house, in a Lincolnshire place, became about the year 1626. Rector of Rowghton in the same County, and afterwards published The Egyptian Courtier, two Sermons before the University at S. Mary's Church in Oxon, on Gen. 40. 23. Lond. 1635. qu. I have made mention of another Rich. Thornton in these Fasti 1608.  

Jun. 23. 

John Flavell of Wadham Coll.  
Tim. Woodroff of S. Alb. Hall, lately of Ball. Coll.     

25. Joh. Bayly of Exeter  
28. Joh. Harmar of Magd. 

Coll.     
30. Benj. Cox of Broadgates' Hall.  
Jul. 6. Will. Foster of S. John's Coll.  
Oct. 29. Joh. Foxcroft of Magd. Hall.— He was afterwards Minister of Gotham in Nottinghamshire; where he continued a puritanical Preacher several years. At length closing with the Presbyterians when they grew dominant in 1641, he was chosen one of the Assembly of Divines two years after. So that residing mostly in London in the War time, (upon pretence of being molested by the Cavaliers at Gotham) became a frequent Preacher there. He hath published The Good of a good Government, and well grounded peace, Fast Sermon before the H. of Commons on Isay 32. 1. 2. Lond. 1646. qu. and perhaps other things. Quaere.  
Jan. 21. Henry Ramsden of Magd. Hall.  
Feb. 4. Rich. Toogood of Oriel Coll.  
13. Joh. Atkins of S. Edm. Hall.— Whether he took the degree of Bach. of Arts, I cannot yet find; however it appears, that one of both his names, entitled Master of Arts, was admitted Rector of North Perrot in Somersetshire, in the beginning of May 1618., who published The Christians Race, &c Serm. on Heb. 12. part of the first and second Verse, Lond. 1624. qu. and not unlikely other things. We have had several of both his names, but before him in time, yet never took the degree of M. of A.  
Adm. about 105.   

Bach. of Diu.  
May 8. Rich. Corbet of Ch. Ch.  

19 Rob. Sanderson of Linc.  
30. Edw. Chaloner of Alls. 

Coll.     

Jun. 18. Hen. Jackson  
Jul. 11. George Webb 

of C. C. Coll.     
Adm. 24.   

Doct. of Law.  
Jul. 11. John Cradock of New Coll. a Compounder, and now much in esteem for his great knowledge in the Civil Law.   

Doct. of Phys.  
Jul. 16. Ralph Bailiff of New Coll.— He was afterwards an eminent practitioner in the City of Bath, where he lived many years in good repute, and dying in 1645, was buried at Widcombe near that City.   

Doct. of Diu.  

May 8. 

Will. Osbaldeston  
George Hamden  
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 beginning 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 publicly dispute and speak speeches against the opinion of Aristotle (which the said Statute styles varying) in the common Refectory of that house, on these three Theses, (1) Juvenis est idoneus auditor moralis philosophiae. (2) Probanda est in seen 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 Precedent 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 Diu. Prebendary of Canterbury, etc. a great and general Scholar, exact Critic and Historian, a Poet, Schoolman and Divine. This p●rson who was Son of Dr. Roger Goad Provost of Kings Coll. before mentioned, died in the year 1636, or thereabouts. Another Tho. Goad was Doctor of the Laws, and the King's Professor of that Faculty in Cambridge, who died about the beginning of 1666. Of one Tho. Goad see in the Pamphlet entit. A Century of scandalous, malignant Priests, etc. p. 27.  
Benj. Laney M. of Arts.— He was the fourth Son of a wealthy Merchant of Ipsu●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 Christ's 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 Diu. Vicechancellor 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 Majesty's Service in the Treaty at Uxbridge, 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 suffered great calamity, as innumerable Royalists did. Upon his Majesty's return to his Kingdoms, he was restored to his Headship, and in recompense 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 Bishopric of Peterborough conferred 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 sat 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, etc. Lond. 1676, in tw. which Letter was written to the Duke of Newcastle by Tho. Hobbes of Malmsbury.  
Rich. Holdsworth M. A. of S. John's 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 Vicechancellor of Cambridge, Archdeacon of Huntingdon in the place of Dr. Owen Gwynn Master of S. John's Coll. before mentioned deceased, an. 1633, (which Dignity Gwynn had conferred 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 Bishopric of Bristol. 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 imprisoned, 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 crowned 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 poor 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 incorporated Masters again, I have made mention among the Incorporations, in an. 1612 and 1615.  
Will. Isaacson M. A.— He was afterwards D. of D. Rector of S. Andrews Church in the Wardrobe in London, and of Wodford in Essex; but whether he hath published any thing, I know not. He was younger Brother to Henry Isaacson the Chronologer, sometimes Amanuensis to Dr. Andrews Bishop of Winchester, Son of Rich. Isaacson Sheriff elect of London, who died 19 Jan. 1620, and he the Son of Will. Isaacson of Sheffield in Yorkshire, by Isabel his first Wife. This Hen. Isaacson, by the way I must let the Reader know, was born in the Parish of S. Catherine Coleman in London, in Sept. 1581., but what Academical Education he received, I cannot yet tell. Sure it is, that he arrived to great knowledge in Chronology, as his large book of that subject, doth sufficiently attest; and dying about the 7 of Decemb. 1654., was buried in the Church of S. Catherine Coleman before mentioned, having before been a considerable benefactor to the poor of that Parish.  
Will. Beale M. A. of Pemb. Hall.— See among the Incorporations, an. 1645.  
Dan. Horsmanden M. A.— He was afterwards D. of D. and Rector of Vlcomb in Kent, and accounted by his Contemporaries a learned man; but he being a zealous person for the Church of England, and a high Loyalist, was thrown out of his Living by the Committee of Religion, an. 1643, as you may see in the Pamph. entit. The first century of scandalous, malignant priests, etc. p. 36, 37▪ He lost other Spiritualities, and suffered much for the King's Cause during the time of the Rebellion.  
Humphrey Henchman M. A.— This loyal and religious person who was Son of Tho. Henchman of London Skinner, and he the Son of another Thomas of Wellingborough in Northamptonshire, (in which Country his name and family had for several generations before lived) was afterwards D. of D. Chauntor of Salisbury, on the death of Hen. Cotton, in January 1622, and Preb. of South Grantham in the same Church, an. 1628. After the Restauration of K. Ch. 2. he was nominated Bishop of that place, upon the translation of Dr. Duppa to Winchester. Whereupon being consecrated in the Chapel of K. Hen. 7. within the Abbey Church of S. Peter in Westminster 28 Oct. 1660, sat there three years, and then upon the translation of Dr. Sheldon to Canterbury, he was translated to London in Sept. 1663. About that time he was made Bishop Almoner, and died, as it seems, in the month of Octob. an. 1675. He was for his wisdom and prudence much valued by K. Ch. 2. whose happy escape from the battle at Worcester, this pious Prelate did admirably well manage, especially when his Majesty came in a disguise near Salisbury. He was born, as I have been informed, within the Parish of S. Giles Crippl●gate, London, and educated in Clare Hall in Cambridge, of which he was Fellow.  
Arthur Jackson M. A.— Afterwards he was a frequent and puritanical Preacher, and sided with the Presbyterians when the Rebellion began, an. 1642. About which time he was Minister of S. Michael Woodstreet in London, where I find him in 1649. He hath written Expositions on various parts of the Scripture, as (1) An help for understanding the holy Scriptures, the first part, being an exposition upon the five books of Moses, viz. Gen. Levit. Numb. Deut. etc. Camb. 1643. qu. (2) Annotations on the remaining part of the Old Testament, viz. J●sh. Judges, Sam. Kings, Chron. Ezra, Nehem. Esthe●, the second part. (3) Annotations on the five poetical looks of holy Scripture, viz. Job, Psalms, Prov. Eccles. and Cant. Lond. 1658. Besides several other things, which for brevity sake I now omit. See more of him in Ch. Love among the Writers an. 1651.  
The said Masters of Arts, viz. Th. Goad, Ben. Laney. R. Holdsworth, Hen. Burton, Ab. Gibson, W. Isaason, W. Beale, Dan. Horsmanden, H. Hen●hman, and A. Jackson were incorporated, as I have before told you, 15 July, as they had stood before at Cambridge. Besides them were about 27 more incorporated, (of whom Same Carter was one) but not one of them being then, or after, men of note, as I can yet find, are here omitted. On the same day also, one Rob. Newton M. A. of the Uniu. of S. Andrew in Scotland, was incorporated, of whom I know no more.   

Creations.  
March 5. Will. Stafford a Student of Ch. Ch. was actually created Master of Arts in the Congregation house by virtue of a dispensation obtained in that of Convocation, on the second day of the said month.— This person who was a Norfolk man born, and nobly descended, was a Member of the House of Commons for a time, and wrote a little thing (as I have been informed by those that knew him) entit. Reasons of the War etc. which I suppose is the same with a Pamphlet entit. An orderly and plain narration of the beginning and causes of this War; with a conscientious resolution against the Parliament side. printed 1644, in 3 sheets in qu. He died at Thornborough in Glocestershire (where he had a plentiful Estate) about the year 1683, and in the ninetieth year of his age, leaving behind him a Son named John, Father of Rich. Stafford, lately Bach. of Arts of Magd. Hall, Author of Of happiness. etc. Lond. 1689. qu.    

An. Dom. 1618.  
An. 16 Jac. 1.  
Chanc. William Earl of Pembroke.  
Vicechanc. the same again, July 17.  

Proct. 

Daniel Ingo●l of Qu. Coll.  
●ch. Drop of Magd. Coll. 

Apr. 15.       

Bach. of Arts.  
Apr. 20. San. Hoard of S. Mary's Hall.  
May 8. Meric Casaubon (Son of Isaac) of Ch. Ch.  

June 9 

Will. Paul  
Tho. Laurence 

of Alls. Coll.       
The first of these last two, was afterwards Bishop of Oxon.  

10. Thom. Co●man of Magd.  
12. Alexand. Griffith of Ha●t 

Hall.     
The last did not take the Degree of M. of A. till 1631.  
18. Hen. Blount of Trin. Coll.  
July 2. Joh. Pointer of Bras●. Coll.— He was matriculated, and took the degree of Bach. of Arts, as an Esquires Son. Afterwards departing without any other degree, became a puritanical Preacher, and acquainted with Oliver Cromwell; who, when Protector, gave him a Canonry of Ch. Ch. in Oxon, as a reward for the pains he took in converting him to Godliness, i.e. to canting Puritanis● and Saintism. After the Restauration of K. Ch. 2. he was ejected, and living many years after in Oxon in a retired and studious condition, died 2 Jan. 1683, aged 84 or thereabouts; whereupon his body was buried at the lower end of the north 〈◊〉 joining to the Church of S Peter in the Bailiff, Oxon.  

Oct. 15. 

Humph. Chambers of Vniu.  
Edw. Reynolds of Mert. 

Coll.       
The la●t was afterwards Bishop of Norwich.  
Dec. 3. Ph●●ip King of Ch. Ch. a younger Son of Dr. King B. of London.— See among the created Doctors of Diu. 1645.  
15. Will. Lyford of Magd. Coll.  

17. Rob. Bedingfield 

19 

George Morley  
Rob. Gomersall  
Zouch Townley 

of Ch. Ch.         
Of the first of these last four, you may see more among the Doctors of Diu. 1630, and of the last, among the Masters of A. 1621.  
Jan. 27. John Geree of Magd. Hall.  
Feb. 3. Matthew Griffith of Gloc. Hall, lately of Brasn. Coll.  
4. Thom. Swadlin of S. Joh. Coll.  
All these Bachelaurs except Bedingfield and Townly, are to come into the second Vol. of this Work, or elsewhere.  
Adm. 223.   

Mast. of Arts.  

Apr. 20. Cornel. Burges  
May 20. Tho. Lushington 

of Linc. Coll.     
The last of these two, who was originally of Broadgates' Hall, but had not taken the degree of Bach. of Arts, will be mentioned in the second Vol.  
Jun. 9 Will. Pemble of Magd. Hall.  
10. Christop. Tesdale of New Coll.— He was afterwards Minister of Husborne-Tarrant in Hampshire, one of the Assembly of Divines, and a Preacher before the Long Parliament. He hath published, Jerusalem, or a vision of peace, Fast-sermon 28 Aug. 1644▪ before the House of Commons, on Psal. 122. 6. Lond. 1644, qu. and perhaps other things, which is all I know of him, only that he was an Abendon man born.  

10. Charles Herle of Exeter  
12. Thom. Twittie of Oriel. 

Coll.     
27. Franc. Gouge of S. Edm. Hall.  
This year Francis Little of Ch. Ch. was admitted, but the day or month when, appears not. He afterwards published some of the posthumous Works of Dr. Tho. Sutton, as I have elsewhere told you, and was himself a learned man. He was the Son of Franc. Little sometimes Mayor of Abendon in Berks. who in the year 1627. wrote a leiger book containing a short account of the Monastery of Abendon, an account of the Hospital of the brotherhood of the Holy Cross there, and of several matters relating to Abendon.  
Adm. 131, or thereabouts.   

Bach. of Diu.  
Jun. 8. Will. Lo of Mert. Coll. sometimes of S. Alb. Hall.  
Jul. 6. Tho. Marler of Trin. Coll.— In 1625. Jun. 27, he was made Archdeacon of Salisbury, and dying in 1643, was succeeded in that Dignity by Will. Buckner, 7 Aug. the same year.  
Nou. 3. Joh. Harrys of New Coll.  
24. Joh. Wall of Ch. Ch.  
Feb. 5. Nathaniel Canon of S. Mary's Hall.  
Adm. 19   

Doct. of Law.  
June 25. Charles Twysden of Alls. Coll.— He was soon after Principal of New, Inn, and at length Chancellor of Lichfield and Coventry.   

Doct. of Phys.  

Jun. 25. 

Andr. Byrd of Merton Coll.  
George Raleigh of New Inn.     
The first of these practised his faculty at Reading in Berks, where dying in 1636 was interred in St. Laurence ch. there. The other, in Oxford, where he was much in repute till the time of his death, an. 1623. or thereabouts.   

Doct. of Diu.  
June 8. Will. Lo of Mert. Coll. a Compounder and Accumulator.  

25. 

Simon Jux  
Rich. Etkins 

of Ch. Ch.       
The first of these two who was a Compounder, was about this time Rector of St. Olaves in Southwark, where he died about the beginning of the year 1631.  
Edmund Jackson of St. John's Coll.— He was now beneficed in Kent by the favour of Dr. Buckridge Bishop of Rochester, to whom he was Chaplain.  
July 10. Thom. Oats of Magd. Coll.— This learned Doctor who was at this time domestic Chaplain to Will. Earl of Pembroke Chancellor of the University, became Canon of Windsor in the place of Dr. Rob. Chaloner deceased, being at that time one of the King's Chaplains; and soon after, if not then, Prebendary of S. Paul's Cathedral in London. He died and was buried at Windsor, an. 1623.  
14. Evan Vaughan of Jesus Coll.  
16. Roger Bates of Trin. Coll. a Compounder.— He was at this time Chaplain in Ordinary to K. James. 1. as he was afterwards to K. Ch. 1. and much in esteem for his excellent preaching. On the 20. of May 1630, he was collated to the Prebendship of Lyme and Halstock in the Church of Sarum, upon the translation of Dr. Walt. Curl from the See of Rochester to bath and Weils, and in the year following, in the Month of Decemb. he was made Prebendary of Westminster in the place of Dr. Theodore Price deceased, being about that time a Justice of the Peace of Middlesex and the liberties of Westminster. He died at his House in Milford-Lane, without Temple-bar, on the 15 of March 1633 and was buried in the Chancel of St. Clement's Danes in the Strand near London.  
March…. Rich. Astley Warden of Alls. Coll.   

Incorporations.  
June 18. James Wats M. A. and Fellow of Magd. Coll. in Cambridge— He was afterwards Minister of Wodnesborough in Kent, and published The controversy debated about the reverend gesture of kneeling in the act of receiving the holy communion. Lond. 1621. qu. and perhaps other things. Qu●re.  
July 1. Sam. Balcanqual. M. A. of Edinburgh in Scotland.  
On the 14. of the said month, being the next day after the conclusion of the Act, these Cantabrigians following were incorporated.  
Will. Wats M. A. of cain's Coll.— This admirable Critic and Divine, who was born near to Lion in Norfolk, did afterwards travel into several Countries and became Master of divers Languages. At his return he was made Chaplain to King Ch. the first, Doct. of Divinity, Minister of St. Alban in Woodstreet within the City of London, afterwards Chaplain under the Earl of Arundel General of the Forces in the Scotch expedition, an. 1639 and Prebendary of Weils. But being sequestered from his Benefice in London, plundered, and his Wife and Children turned out of doors, and himself forced to fly when that City was in the height of its rebellion 1642. he retired to His Majesty, served under Prince Rupert when his Majesty raised Forces in his own defence, and was present with him in all the battles that he fought with the Parliamenteers, and many times when that Prince made his desperate attempts on that Party. Upon the declining of the King's cause, (a little before which time he was made Archdeacon and Residentiary of Wells, as I have been informed) he stuck to the said Prince when he served his Majesty on the Seas, upon the revolt of certain English Ships from the Parliament, and was with him when he was blocked up in the harbour at Kingsale in Ireland, where being overtaken with a distemper which no Physic could cure, surrended up his Soul to the Almighty, and was buried there in the latter end of the year 1649, as I was many years since informed by his Widow, the Daughter of Mr…. Vaughan Minister of Ashted in Surrey, Brother to Dr. Rich. Vaughan sometimes B. of London. This Dr. Wats, who is several times honourably mentioned by Vossius 
* 〈…〉 etc. lib. 2. cap. 16. & 〈…〉.  by the title of doctissimus and clarissimus Watsius, and qui optime de Historia meruit, etc. had an especial hand in Sir. Hen. Spelicans Glossary; corrected, added considerable notes to, and published, Matthew Paris his Historia Major, an. 1640. He wrote also (1) The History of Gustavus Adolphus (2) Mortification Apostolical, etc. Lond. 1637. wherein justifying the use of canonical hours, gave great offence to the Puritan. (3) Treatise of the passions (4) Treatise of the surplice, not extant; besides several Sermons. He also translated into English. St. Augustine's confessions. Lond. 1631. in a thick oct. illustrated by him with certain marginal notes; and from French into English The Catholic Moderator, which I have not yet seen. He also published the several numbers of News-books in the English tongue (more than 40) containing the occurrences done in the Wars between the King of Sweden and the German. All published before the Civil Wars of England began.  
John Lynch M. A.— He was afterwards Chaplain to the Bishop of Salisbury, Parson of Herietsham in Kent and the writer and publisher of The Christian Passover, Serm. at St. Paul's, on Wednesday in Easter Week, 1637. on 1. Cor. 5. 7. S. Lond. 1637. qu. and perhaps of other things. Quaere.  
Walter Balcanqual Bach. of Diu. of Pembroke hall.— This learned Scot who was now Chaplain to His Majesty, became 
a 〈…〉.  Master of the Hospital called the Savoy in the Strand near London on the 16. Dec. 1617., which place he giving up soon after, it was conferred 
b 〈◊〉. an. 1618.  on Marc. Ant. de Dominis Archb. of Spalleto (who came into England upon account of Religion 16. Dec. 1616.) on the 23. of April 1618. in which year the said Balcanqual was sent to the Synod of Dort to represent the Church of Scotland, and with him went Th. Goad of Cambridge in the place of Dr. Joseph Hal● Dean of Worcester, indisposed. In Feb. 1621. the said Marc. Ant. being weary of the King's favour and benevolence extended to him. left England; whereupon Balcan●ual was restored to the Savoy again, and on the 12. March 1624. he was installed Dean of Rochester, (being then D of D.) in the place of Godfrey Go●dman promoted to the See of Gloucester. In 1639 May 14, he was installed Dean of Durham in the place of Dr. Rich. Hunt, who had succeeded in that rich Dignity Sir Adam Newton Knight and Baronet a Layman. Soon after the grand rebellion breaking out, Balcanqual was forced from his Mastership of the Savoy, plundered, sequesrred and forced to fly by the impetuous Presbyterians, an. 1642. so that retiring to His Majesty at Oxon, did afterwards shift from place to place for security. At length flying for the safety of his life to Chirk Castle in Denbighsh●e, died there in a very cold season, on the day of the Nativity of our Saviour, an. 1645. The next day his body was buried in the Parish Church of Chirk, and some years after had a noble monument set over his grave (the inscription on which was made by Dr. John Pearson) by a most worthy Royalist named Sir Tho. Midd●eton of Chirk Castle, who dying in 1660 aged 79 was also buried in the said Church. In Jan. following (1645) Dr. Christoph. Potter Provost of Qu. Coll. in Oxon obtained of his Majesty the grant of the said Deanery of Durham, but he dying in the beginning of March following, without installation, his Maj. conferred it upon Will. Fuller D. D. of Cambridge, who dying in 1659. Dr. John Barwick of Camb. was installed in that Dignity 1. Nou. 1660. Dr. Balcanjual hath written and published (1) The honour of Christian Churches, Serm. at Whitehall before the King, on Matth. 21. 13. Lond. 1633. qu. (2) Serm. preached at St. Ma●ies spital on Monday in Easter w●ek 14. Apr. 1623., on Psal. 126. 5. Lond. 1634. qu. and also drew up The Declaration of K. Ch. 1. concerning the late tumults in Scotland; with a particular deduction of the seditious practices of the Covenanteers, out of their own foul Acts and Writtings. Lond. 1639. fol.  
John Whiteing D. D.— He was at this time a Minister in London, where he died about 1624.  
David Owen D. D.— See among the Incorporations, an. 1603.  
Martin Day D. D.— See among the Incorp. 1602.  
Which Cambridge Men I say, viz. W. Wats, I. Lynch, W. Balcanqual, John Whiteing, D. Owen, M. Day, and at least 20 more were incorporated on the 14. Jul.  
Will. Spicer a Devonian born and Doctor of the Laws of the Uniu. of L●yden, was incorporated the same day.  
Oct. 12. Lionel Sharp D. D. lately of Kings Coll. in Cambridge— He had before been Chaplain to the Earl of Essex, in whose treasons he was engaged) and afterwards to Henry Prince of Wales, and was now, or lately, Rector of Malpas in Cheshire, Minister of Tiverton in Devon. and Archdeacon of Berks, which Dignity, was conferred upon him, 9 Nou. 1605, upon the death, as I suppose, of Dr. Martin Colepeper. He hath published (1) Oratio funebris in honorem Henrici Walliae Principis, propriam atque intimam ejus effigiem pr●ferens, etc. Lond. 1612. in 3 sh. in qu. (2) Novum fidei symbolum, sive de novis, etc. Lond. 1612. qu. (3) Speculum papae i.e. viva & expressa Antichristi effigies etc. Printed there the same year. These two last were translated into English under this title A looking glass for the Pope; wherein he may see his own face, the express image of Antichrist. Together with the Pope's n●w Creed, etc. in two Dialogues.— Lond. 1623. qu. He hath also published Certain Sermons, of which one is on 1. Kings 10. ver. 9— printed in oct. 1603. He died in 1630, and was succeeded in the Archdeaconry of Berkshire by Edward Davenant, 26. January the same year. You may see more of this Dr. L. Sharp in Joh. Hoskins among the Writers, an. 1638. and in Cabala: Mysteries of State; printed 1654. p. 255, and 257.    

An. Dom. 1619.  
An. 17. Jac. 1.  
Chanc. Will. Earl of Pembroke.  
Vicechanc. John Prideaux D. D. Rector of Exeter College July 17.  

Proct. 

Christoph. Wrenn of St. John's Coll.  
Brian Duppa of Alls. Coll. 

Apr. 7.       

Bach. of Music.  
Richard Emot of Brasn. Coll. who had been a Student in the faculty of Music for 20 years, supplicated for the Degree of Bachelaur in that faculty; but whether he was admitted, it appears not (perhaps upon neglect) in the register.— This Person, who was Son, or near related to Will. Emot sometimes Fellow of Brasn. Coll. and afterwards Vicar of Einsham near Oxon (where he died and was buried in Feb. 1584.) lived mostly in the City of Wells, and had, as I conceive, some place in the Cathedral there. He hath made several compositions in Music for voices and instruments, but whether any of them were ever made public I cannot tell. One Richard Browne was admitted Vicar Choral and Organist of We●ls an. 1614 which place he keeping till 1619. one John Okever succeeded, and therefore, I presume the said Emot was never Organist of Wells in his own right.   

Bach. of Arts.  
Apr. 24. Philip Nye of Magd. hall.  
May 12. Tho. Atkinson of St. John Coll.— See more among the Bach. of Diu. 1630.  
June 9 Will. Pinke of Magd. hall.  

20. Will. Strode of Ex. Quaere.  
July S. John Earl of Mert. 

Coll.     
The last of these two was afterwards Bishop successively of Worcest●r and Salisbury.  

Oct. 19 

Rich Heyrick of St. Jo.  
Rich. Byfield of Qu. 

Coll.       
21. George Stinton of Ball. Coll.— See among the Master's 1622.  
Nou. 3. Will. Evans of St. Mary's Hall.— See among the Bac. of Diu. 1635.  

25. 

Nathaniel Simpson  
John Lewgar  
H●n. Gellibrand 

of Trin. Coll.       
Dec. 11. John Oliver, lately of Merton, now of Magd. Coll.— See more among the Doctors of Diu. 1639.  

Jan. 19 Edw. Stanley of New  
24. Hen. or Harry Marten of Vn. 

Coll.     

Feb. 3. Joh. Maynard of Qu.  
8. Edm. Sta●nt●n of C. C. 

Coll.     
The first of these two last was a Compounder, and afterwards of Magd. hall.  
Of all these Bachelaurs, none but Atkinson, Pinke, Stinton, Evans, and Gellibrand are mentioned in this work.  
Adm. 252. or thereabouts.   

Bach. of Law.  
Apr. 8. Joh. Ryves of New Coll.— He was afterwards Prebendary of Winchester, became Prebendary of Gillingham Major in the Church of Salisbury, on the death of John Jessop, 1. March 1625. and Archdeacon of Berks. on the resignation of Edw. Davenant, 20. Nou. 1634. He died 19 Aug. 1665 and was succeeded in his Archdeaconry by Dr. Peter Mews of St. John's Coll. in Oxon.  
Besides this Joh. Ryves, were but two admitted Bach. of Law this year.   

Mast. of Arts.  
Apr. 24. Joh. Langley of Magd. hall.  
27. Lambert Osbaldeston of Ch. Ch.— He was afterwards made Master of the College School at Westminster, in the place of Dr. John Wilson, and Prebendary of the tenth stall in the Church there, in the place of Dr. Christoph. Sutton deceased. By his industry he did improve his Scholars to as great eminency of learning, as any of his predecessors did: Insomuch that he had, as 'tis 
c 〈…〉  reported, above 80 Doctors in the three great faculties, in the two Universities, that did gratefully acknowledge their education under him, before the grand Rebellion broke out. But so it was, that he having been much favoured and patronised by Dr. William's Dean of Westm. and B. of Linc. did always stick close to, in his controversies had between, him and Dr. Laud Archb. of Canterbury, for which he suffered in some measure, especially after he had been found guilty of certain libellous passages in a letter written by him to the said Williams, wherein he styles Laud, the little Vermin, the Urchin and Hocus pocus. For which being called into question in the Star-chamber, and found guilty, he lost his Spiritualities, was fined 5000 l. and sentenced to have his ears tacked to the Pillory in the presence of his Scholars. Which last sentence he avoided by a seasonable withdrawing himself from Westminster, an. 1638. Afterwards he was restored by the Long Parliament, and suffered for a time to keep his Prebendship, when all the rest of the Prebendaries were turned out. But then seeing what mad courses the members of the said Parliament took, favoured His Majesty's cause, and in some measure suffered for it, lived retiredly during the interval, and dying in the beginning of Octob. 1659. was buried on the 7 of the said month, in the large South isle of St. Peter's Church in Westm. He was a learned Man, but whether he hath published any book or books, I know not, nor any thing else of him, only that he was the Son of Lambert Osbaldeston of the Parish of St. Olaves in Southwark near London, who died an. 1622.  
June 5. Rob. Grebby of New Coll.— This Person who was a Lincolnshire Man born, was one of the Chaplains of the said Coll. and afterwards, as it became a true Scholar, spent all his time in reading and writing, especially in Divinity and Philosophy, in which last he was a great Sceptic. He wrote much in both, and had his labours perused by his learned acquaintance, yet none of them, though thought fit, were ever published. I find it reported by a certain Author 
* 〈…〉  that one Master Silo (whom Mr. Odo de Ceriton or Seryton, who lived in 1181, styleth 
† 〈…〉  Serlo) a Master of the University of Paris and Professor of Logic, had a Scholar there, with whom he was very familiar: Which Scholar being excellent in the art of Sophistry, spared not all occasions, whether on festival, or other, days, to study and improve it. This Sophister being very sick, and almost brought to death's door, Mr. Silo earnestly desired him, that after his death, he would return to, and give, him information concerning his state, and how it fared with him. The Sophister dying, he returned soon after with his hood stuffed with notes of Sophistry, and the inside loined with flaming fire, and told him, that that was the reward which he had bestowed upon him for the renown that he had before obtained for his Sophistry. But Mr. Salo esteeming it a small punishment, he stretched out his hand towards him, on which a drop or spark of fire falling, 'twas pierced through with terrible pain. This passage the Defunct or Ghost beholding, told him with a faint voice, that he need not be amazed at that small matter, for he was burning in that manner all over. Is it so? saith Silo; then in very truth I know what I have to do. Whereupon resolving to leave the World, and enter himself into Religion, called his Scholars about him, and took his leave of, and dismissed, them with these metres. 
Linquo coax 
d 〈…〉  ranis, cras 
e 〈…〉  va●●que 
f 〈…〉  vanis,  
Ad Logicam pergo, que mortis non timet 
g 〈…〉  ergo.  
Sed quorsum haec?  you'll say, or to what end do you tell this old story? Then give me leave to make answer thus. This Mr. Grebby having been always dubious of the immortality of the Soul of Man, did some years before his death, make a contract with two of his acquaintance of the same mind, that he that died first of the three, should make known to either of the other two, his then state or being. Grebby therefore dying first, his resemblance shortly after appeared in the night time in the Chamber of Joh. Good Bach. of Diu. and Fellow of Ball. Coll. (commonly called Tutor Good) who was one of the other two that had made the contract; and opening his curtains, said to him with a trembling and faint voice,  
Sors tua mortalis, non est mortale quod opto.  
Afterwards the resemblance vanished, and was, tho much wished for again, seen no more. At the same time the other Person, who was sometimes Chaplain of New Coll. but then living at his Benefice near Oxon, had a dream that the said resemblance did appear to Good, and that the doubt seemed to be resolved, which I have heard him several times very confidently report; yet he being a reputed Banterer, I could never believe him in that, or any thing else. 'Tis true that Good who was a Scholastical, retired and melancholy Man would sometimes tell these passages, but with great shinels, unless to his Philosophical acquaintance; most of whom seemed to be well satisfied with, and some to believe, them. This Mr. Grebby (commonly called Father Grebby) who had read and written so much, till he was almost blind, yet always cheerful and in a contented condition, died in 1654. (in the spring time I think) aged 60 or more, and was buried in the North Cloister of New Coll. near to the door leading into the tower, and the monumental inscription of Pet. Woodgate. At which time being present a considerable number of his Philosophical acquaintance, (for he usually delighted in such, though never so young or mean,) was an eloquent oration delivered from a Pew set near to his grave, by Rob. Matthew LL. B. (afterwards Doctor) a great admiter of the learning and virtues, of him the said Grebby. From this digression, which many will laugh at, let's proceed to the rest of the admissions.  
June 9 Bruno Ryves of Magd. Coll.  
21. Will. Price of Ch. Ch.— He was afterwards the first moral Philosophy Reader after the Lecture had been founded by Dr. Tho. White, and the writer and publisher of Oratio fanebris habita Oxoniae 22. Apr. 1624. in Laudem Doctoris White lecturae moralis Philosophiae apud Oxonienses fundatoris. Oxon. 1624. qu. 'Tis at the end of a book of verses intit. Schola Moralis Philosophiae Oxon in funere Whiti pullata; mostly made by the Students of Magd. hall, of which house Dr. White was originally a member. Another Will. Price I find who was Bach. of Diu. and a publisher of certain Sermons and Divinity tracts, in the time of K. Jam. 1. and Char. 1. but whether he was of this University, I cannot yet tell.  
Nou. 9 Alex. Gill of Trin. Coll.  
Dec. 11. Jam. Lamb of St. Mar. hall.  
Adm. 130.   

Bach. of Diu.  

June 26. Robert Pink of New  
Jul. 1. Gilbert Ironside of Trin. 

8. 

Gabr. Richardson of Brasn.  
Accept. Frewen of Magd. 

Coll.         
Nou. 24. Will. Dickenson of Mert.  
The last of these five who was now Chaplain to Will. Earl of Pembroke, published The King's right, briefly set down in a Sermon before the Judges of Assize held in Reading for the County of Berks. 28. Jun. 1619, on Psal. 75. 7. Lond. 1619. qu. and perhaps other things; which is all I know of him only that he was Son of Thom. Dickinson a Servant of Eton Coll. near Windsor, and now Rector of Appleton neat Abendon in Berks.  
Dec. 8. Rob. Johnson of Magd. Coll.  
Adm. 33.   

Doct. of Law.  

Apr. 8. 

Richard Zouch  
Richard Clerk 

of New Coll.       
Both which, especially the first, were eminent Civilians. One Will. Clerk LL. D. an Advocate in the Court of Arches, died about the month of Aug. 1655, but whether he was ever of Oxon, I know not as yet.  
☞ Not one Doctor of Phys. was admitted this year.   

Doct. of Diu.  
May 12. Rich Parker of S. Mary's hall.  
June 15. John Wilson of Ch. Ch. who accumulated— This Person who was born in the City of Westminster, was about this time Master of the College School there, having a faculty more than ordinary in instructing youth. In Octob. 1623. he was installed Canon or Preb. of the third stall in the Church of Weston. in the place of Dr. John Fox, who in the year 1606 had succeeded one Percival Wyburne a Nonconformist, after he had enjoyed the said stall 44 years, without seldom or never wearing a hood and surplice. Afterwards Dr. Wilson became Prebendary of Rippon, and Dean thereof, (in the place of Anth. Higgins Bach. of Divinity) Prebendary of Lincoln, Vicar of Burston, and Rector of bedal in Yorkshire. He died on the 19 Feb. 1634, and was buried in the Church of S. Peter in Nottingham. One of both his names (Job. Wilson) was a Preacher of the word at Guildford in Surrey and wrote Some helps to faith showing the necessity, etc. Lond. 1625. oct. and another (perhaps the same) who published Zaccheus converted, Serm. or Expos. on 19 Luk. from ver. 1. to 10. Lond. 1631. oct. besides several other things. Whether he was of this University, I cannot yet tell.  
June 15. Henry Watkins of Ch. Ch.  
16. Henry Hook of Qu. Coll. a Compounder.— On the 30. June 1617., he was collated to the Archdeaconty of York, or the West Riding of York, on the death of Rog. Aeroid D. D. which Dignity he resigning, Hen. Wickham M. A. was collated thereunto, 20. Mar. 1623. On the 19 Mar. 1623. the said Hook was collated to the Chantorship of York, on the death of Dr. Jo. Favour; in which Dignity he had for his successor Richard Palmer Bach. of Diu. admitted thereunto 23. Apr. 1624., and he (who died on the place) George Stanhop D. D. in the beginning of Nou. 1631.  
June 18. Tho. Clifford of Exet. Coll.  

23 

Sam. Fell  
Tho. Iles 

Joh. Brikenden of Magd. Coll. 

of Ch. Church. 

Compounders.           
Dec. 25. Rich. Clewet of Or.  

26 

Rob. Pink of New  
Will Smith Warden of Wad. 

Coll.       
The last of which was afterwards Prebendary of Worcester and Rector of the rich Church of Tredington in that County.  

July 5. Thom. Winniff of Ex.  
Nou. 6. Edw. Chaloner of Alls. 

Coll.      

Incorporations.  
Many Cambridge Men were incorporated on the 13. of July, being the day after the conclusion of the Act, of which these following were some.  
Andrew Agar Bach. of Law.  
Theophilus Wodenote M. A.— He was born at Lank●nhorne about 6 miles distant from Launceston in Cornwall, being the Son of Thom. W●denote descended from an ancient Family in Cheshire; educated in Grammaticals in Eton School near Windsor, in Academicals in Kings Coll. in Cambridge, of which he became Scholar 1608. Afterwards he was M. of A. Bach. of Divinity, Rector of Lankenhorne beforementioned, (after the decease of his Father, who also had been Fellow of the said Coll.) and a writer of several books; among which are these (1) Observations upon the history of Nabal and Abigail, 1. Sam. 25.— printed 1623. Oct. (2) Good thoughts in bad times. 'Tis a manual, and 'twas written at Broad Chalk in Wi●ts. while he absconded in the house of a near relation of his, (Vicar of that place) being then obnoxious to arrests. (3) Hermes Theologus: or, a divine Mercury, new descants upon old records. Lond. 1649. in tw. (4) Eremicus Theologus: Or, a sequestered Divine his aphocismes: or, breviates of speculation, in two centuries. Lond. 1654. oct. etc. When he died, or where he was buried, I know not; nor any thing to the contrary but that he did live to be restored in 1660 to what he had lost for his loyalty during the time of the grand rebellion.  
Robert Sibthorpe M. A.— He was afterwards Bishop of Kilfenore in Ireland, and at length of Limerick, an. 1642. He died in Apr. 1649, and was buried in the Parish Church of St. Werburge in Dublin.  
Granado Chester M. A.— He was afterwards D. D. and dignified in the Church.  
Edward Davenant M. A.— In Feb. 1623. he was collated to the Prebendship of I●fracomb in the Church of Salisbury, and upon the death of Lienel Sharp, to the Archdeaconry of Berkshire. In 1634 Nou. 19 he was collated to the Treasureship of the Church of Salisbury. upon the death of Job. Lee, which he kept to the time of his death 12. of March 1679. Afterwards succeeded Dr. Tho. James as I shall tell you in the next volume.  
Richard H●nt. M. A.— One of both his names was installed Dean of Durham, in the place of Sir Adam Newton Knight and Baronet, 29. May 1620. Whether the same with him, who was incorporated M. of A. is doubtful.  
Gilb. W●mberley M. A.— I have made mention of him before.  
Which seven Persons were, I say, incorporated 13. July.  
Dec. 1. Patrick Saunders Doct. of Phys. of the University of Franek●r in Westfriesen— He afterwards practised his faculty in the Parish of Great St. Helen's in London, where he died about 1637.  
A proposal was made much about the Act time for one Thomas Bateson Bach. of Music, to be incorporated, but whether he, was really so or no, I cannot tell. In the beginning of the Reign of K. Ja●. 1. I find him Organist of the Cath. Church of Christ in the City of Chester, and now (1619) Organist and Master of the Children of the Cathedral Church of the blessed Trinity called Christ Church in Dublin; where, as I suppose he took the Degree of Bach. of Music. He was a Person esteemed very eminent in his profession, especially after he had published The first and second part of English Madrigales to 3. 4. 5. and 6. voices. The first part was printed at Lond. 1604, and the second there, 1618., both in qu. One 〈◊〉 Jewit Bach. of Music of Dublin, who had been bred up under Orlando Gibbons, did succeed him in the Organists place of Ch. Ch. who enjoying it but a little while. Ben. Rogers of 〈◊〉 succeeded him, 1639. Soon after the rebellion breaking out in Ireland, Jewit went into England, and was made Organist of Winchester, where he lived in good esteem for his skill in his profession, and soon after died.   

Creations.  
July 19 Benjamin Johnson the Father of the English Poets and Poetry, and the most learned and judicious of the Comedians, was then actually created Master of Arts in a full House of Convocation.    

An. Dom. 1620.  
An. 18. Jac. 1.  
Chanc. the same, viz. William Earl of Pembroke.  
Vicech. Dr. Prideaux again, July 21.  

Proct. 

Matthew Osbourne of Wad. C.  
Samuel Smith of Magd. C. 

Apr. 18.       
But the junior Proctor dying 17. June, Tho. Fox of the said Coll. succeeded him on the 20. of the said month.  

Bach. of Arts.  

May 5. 

Tho. Blake of Ch. Ch.  
Obad. Sedgwick of Magd. hall.     

11. 

Will. Haywood of St. John's  
Thom. Hicks of Balliol 

Coll.       
June 15. Thom. Case of Ch. Ch.  

21. Thom. Bradley of Exet.  
28. Will. Chillingworth of Trin. 

Coll.     
Jul. 5. Will. Gilbert of Linc. Coll. afterwards of Gloc. hall.— See more among the Master's 1623.  

Oct. 17. 

Edward Leigh of Magd.  
Sam. Newman of St. Edm. 

Hall.       
19 Nathaniel Holmes, lately of Magd. hall now of Exeter College, (afterwards of the said hall again, a mutable Man and of divers Religions in the time of Rebellion) was then admitted B. A.  

Nou. 9 Will. Crompton of Brasn.  
28. Anth. Falconer of Wadh. 

Jan. 22. 

Will. Prynne of Oriel  
Will. Shirley of Ch. Church. 

Coll.         
Of the last, you may see more among the Bach. of Diu. 1631.  
Feb. 1. Eliot Farley of Ball. Coll.— This Person who was a Worcestershire Man born, and bred under Mr. Henry Bright in the King's School at Worcester, did leave Ball. Coll. before he was Master of Arts, and crossing the Seas became a Priest in the Church of Rome, and at present (1661.) he is said to be the chief favourite of the Pope, and in likelihood to be the next Cardinal, as a Writer 
x 〈…〉  of no great credit tells us, who calls him Elias Farley.  
All these except Hicks, Gilbert, Falconer and Shirley, will be mentioned in the second vol. or elsewhere.  
Admitted 281.   

Mast. of Arts.  

March 28. Anthony Faringdon of Trin.  
May 3. John Speed of St. John's  
10. Christopher Harvey of Brasn. 

Coll.     

28. 

Joh. Seager of St. Mary's hall.  
Gilb. Sheldon of Trin. 

Jul. 1. Pet. Heylyn of Magd. 

Coll.         
Jan…. Sam. Hoard of St. Mary's hall.  
March 17. Rob. Hag of C. C. Coll.  
Admitted 134.   

Bach. of Phys.  
Apr. 17. Sam. Smith of Magd. Coll.— In the latter end of the same month he was admitted the junior Proctor. Besides him, were two more admitted, who will be mentioned among the Doctors this year, two also admitted to practice Physic, and two Chirurgery, of wh●m one was called Jacob Van Otten, the same I suppose with Jac. Otten who was a Student in Physic in this University, for the sake of the public Library an. 1604 and after.   

Bach. of Diu.  

May 11. Nathan. Carpenter of Exet.  
June 2. Christop. Wrenn of St. John's 

Coll.     
This last Person who was younger Brother to Dr. Matthew Wrenn Bishop of Ely, was afterwards made domestic Chaplain in the King's Family, Dean of Windsor, (in which Dignity he was installed 4. April 1635.) and on the 22. of the said month he was constituted and sworn Scribe or Registrary of the most noble order of the Garter. About that time he was made Dean of Wolverhampton in Staffordshire, and in Novemb. 1638, he was presented to the rich Rectory of Haseley in Oxfordshire, but whether he took the Degree of Doctor of Divinity in this University, it appears not. He died at Blechingdon in the said County, in the house of Mr. William Holder Rector thereof (who had married his Daughter) 29. May 1658. and was buried in the Chancel of the Church there. Dr. Edward Hyde of Cambridge succeeded him in the Deanery of Windsor, but died before His Majesty's restauration, as I have told you elsewhere.  
June 28. John Conant lately Fellow of Exeter Coll. now Rector of Limington in Somersetshire.— He was afterwards one of the Assembly of Divines and the writer and publisher of The woe and weal of God's People: Fast Sermon before the House of Commons 26. Jul. 1643. on Jer. 30. 7. Lond. 1643. qu. and of another on Lament. 3. 31. 32. printed the same year in qu. but this last I have not yet seen or any thing else of his extant.  
July 18. Caesar Calendrinus of Exet. Coll.— He was by birth a Germane, by profession a puritanical Theologist, and being a learned Man, was beloved of the famous Dr. Usher, who took him with him into Ireland, and there, as 'tis said, preferred him. In my searches I find one Caesar Calendrinus of the Parish of St. Peter Le poor in London; who dying there in 1665, left behind him a Son named John: But whether this Caes. Cal. be the same with the former, who was Bach. of Diu. I cannot tell. I find also one Caesar Cald●rinus to be Author of Dictionariolum sive Thesauri linguae latinae, & omnium à vocibus latinis incipientium Dictionariorum compendium, etc. Venet. 1649. oct. but this Person must not be taken for the same with C. Calendrinus, because their names differ, and that the last was born in the territory of Verona.  
19 Christoph. White of Ch. Ch.  
March 9 Christoph. Potter of Qu. Coll.  
Admitted 20.  
☞ Not one Doctor of Law was admitted this year.   

Doct. of Phys.  

May 23. 

Dan. Oxenbridge of Ch. Church.  
Francis Banister of Trin. Coll.     
Both which accumulated the Degrees in their faculty.   

Doct. of Diu.  

May 12. Thomas Sutton of Qu.  
23. Edw. Brunker of Wad. 

Coll.     
Jun. 26. Anth. Morgan Principal of St. Alban hall, formerly Fellow of Magdalen Coll.  
Dec. 18. Richard Hall of Alls. Coll.   

Incorporations.  
May 28. Thomas Rhead (Rhaedus) M. of A. of Aberdene in Scotland.— He had before been a Student in this University, and this year published Paraphrisis Psalma 104. Lond. 1620. in oct. and about the same time, as it should seem, Epist. ad Episcopum Roffensem in oct.  
Alex. Rhead M. of A. of the same University was incorporated the same day.— One Alex. Rhead was Proctor of the University of Cambr. four years before this time, whom I take to be the same Person who was afterwards Minister of Yeatley in Hampshire, where he died about 1628. I shall make mention of another of both his names among the Creation's following.  
June 6. Festus Hommius D. D. of the University of Leyden was incorporated in that Degree. in a meeting called Simile primo, or Assimilatio parva, held at six of the Clock in the morning, Hommius then having on his legs a green pair of stockings, and a habit not altogether proper for his profession. He was at this time a Divine of great note in the Low Countries, and had lately been Scribe at the Synod of Dort. The occasion of his coming into England, with the Catalogue of the books he wrote, John Meursius will 
* In 〈…〉, lib. 〈◊〉. p. ●07▪  tell you. He was born at Hielsem in the territory of Leenwerden in Westfriesen, and dying 5. July 1642 aged 66 years and six months, was buried at Leyden in the Church of St. Peter, (as I conceive) having been Past●r of that Church forty, and Rector of the College there twenty years.  
June 26. Peter chamberlain Doct. of Phys. of the University of Milan.— He hath written (1) The poor man's Advocate: or England's Samaritan, etc. Lond. 1649. qu. (2) Vindication of public artificial Baths, and other things; and from his Papers was published The accomplished Midwife, etc. printed with cuts in 1673. in oct. Afterwards it was enlarged by others and several times published. One Tho. Chamberlain who was called and written Doct. of Phys. did practise his faculty in the Parish of St. Gregory in London, and died, as I think, in Mark-lane 1666, but whether he was ever of the Uniu. of Oxon. I cannot yet tell.  

Jul. 7. 

Henry Briggs M. A.  
John Bainbridge Doct. of Phys. 

of Cambr.       
Of the first I have spoken largely among the Writers, under the year 1630, and of the other I shall (God willing) make mention in the 2. Vol. of this work.  
July 11. Will. Jackson M. A. of the same University.— Perhaps he may be the same Will. Jackson, who was now Term-Lecturer at Whittington Coll. in London, and who before had published The Celestial husbandry: or, the tillage of the Soul, Serm. at Paul's Cross 25. Feb. 1615, on Osea 10. 12. Lond. 1616. qu.  
Thomas Whitfield M. of A. of the said University, was incorporated on the same day.— I take this Person to be the same Tho. Whitfield who was afterwards Minister of Great Yarmouth in Norfolk, Author of (1) (A refutation of the loose opinions and licentious tenets, wherewith those Lay-preachers which wander up and down the kingdom, labour to seduce the simple People. Or, an Examination of the erroneous Doctrines of Thomas More late a Weaver in Wells near Wisbich in his book [The Universality of God's free grace to mankind] Lond. 1646. qu. (2) Full answer to the Arminian tenets concerning election, redemption, conversion and perseverance. printed there the same year. (3) Discourse of the Liberty of conscience, etc. Lond. 1649. qu. (4) The righteous man's rejoicing. Or, a treatise tending to show the nature of true joy, whence it ariseth, and to whom it belongs, etc. Lond. 1649. in tw. (5) Extent of divine providence, etc. print. 1651. qu. (6) Doctrines of Arminianism and Pelagianism stated. Print. 1652. qu. (7) Persuasive to peace amongst the sons of peace, etc. pr. 1655. in tw. and other things. This Thomas Whitfield being a Person that ran with the times of the interval, removed to the rectory of Bugbrook in Northamptonshire, where a neighbour of his named Tho. Pierce animadverted upon one or more of his books, as I shall hereafter tell you. He had a Son named John Whitfield M. A. and sometimes Fellow of Jesus Coll. in Cambridge, afterwards Rector of Bugbrook beforementioned, and a publisher of one or more Sermons. I find one Thomas Whitfield admitted Bach. of Arts, as a member of Magd. hall 4. May 1631, and another of Hart hall 9 February the same year, but what relation they had to the former Thomas, I know not.  
July 11. John Johnson D. D. of Cambr.— One of both his names and D. of D. also, was admitted Archdeacon of Worcester 24. Nou. 1598. in the place of Godf. Goldsborough promoted to the See of Gloucester. Which Archdeaconry the said Johnson resigned an. 1610. Qu. whether the same.  
July 12. Rich. Evans D. D. of the University of St. Andrew of Scotland.   

Creations.  
May 18. Thom. Grent of New Coll. was actually created Doctor of Phys.— He was afterwards famous for the making of artificial Baths, and discovering those that were natural, but wanted money to make them fit for use.  
29. Alexander Rhead or Read (Reidus) a Scotch Man was actually created Doctor of Phys. in the house of Convocation by virtue of the Letters from K. James 1. for that purpose— This learned Scot who was afterwards one of the Coll. of Physicians in London, and a Brother of the Company of Barber-chirurgions, hath written and published (1) A description of the body of Man by artificial figures, representing the members, etc. Lond. 1616. oct. (2) Chirurgical Lectures of tumors and ulcers. Lond. 1635. qu. (3) Treatise of the first part of Chirurgery, which teacheth re-unition of the parts of the body disjointed. Lond. 1638. qu. (4) Treatise of the muscles of the body of Man. Lond. 1637. qu. All which, except the first, were reprinted in 1650. qu. the Author being then dead, after he had practised his faculty about 50 years. (5) The manual of Anatomy; or, the dissection of the body of Man. etc. in 6. books— Lond. 1638. in tw. I think it is the same which some call his Epitome of Crookes Anatomy. (6) Approved Medicines and Remedies for the diseases of the body of Man. when printed I know not. In his last Will he bequeathed 200 l. to the Marischal College in Aberdene, in which house, I presume, he had been educated, and all his books to the Library there.  
Nou. 4. A young Man named Will. Moyle, the eldest Son of an Esquire was created M. of A▪ in Convocation— He was then sent to the chief members of this University by Francis Viscount Verulam with his learned book (Instauratio magna, I think) to be presented from the Authors to the public Library.  
In the month of September this year came into England the famous Theologist named Daniel Tilenus, and published at London his Paraenesis ad Scotos Genevensis disciplinae Zelotas. He settled in Oxon for a time for the sake of the public Library, but whether he was incorporated in any Degree, or created (which some have avouched) it appears not in the public register.    

An. Dom. 1621.  
An. 19 Jac. 1.  
Chanc. William Earl of Pembroke.  
Vicechanc. Will. Piers D. D. Canon of Ch. Ch. and Dean of Chester, July 20.  

Proct. 

Matthew Style of Exe●. Coll.  
Nichol. Bailiff of C. C. Coll. 

Apr. 11       
The last of which was the first of his Coll. that even bore the office of Proctor.  

Bach. of Arts.  
Apr. 20. Sam. Fancet of Qu. Coll.— See among the Masters of Arts 1624.  

25. John Maynard of Exet.  
June 8. Pet. Wentworth of Ball. 

Coll.     
Of the last you may see more among the Doctors of Divinity 1633.  
12. Joh. Tombs of Magd. Hall.  

14. 

George Newton of Exet.  
Hen. Glemham of Trin. 

Coll.       
The last of which was afterwards Bishop of S. Asaph.  
Morgan Godwin of Ch. Ch. afterwards of Pembr. Coll. was adm. the same day. See among the Incorporations an. 1642.  

Jul. 6. 

Joh. Angel of Magd. Hall.  
Joh. Greaves the Linguist.     
Oct. 17. James Cranford of Ball. Coll.  

Nou. 20. Joh. Gumbleden  
Dec. 6. Will. Strode 

of Ch. Ch.     

Jan. 31. Will. Streat of Exet.  
Feb. 22. Jam. Eglesfield of Qu. 

Coll.     
Of the last you may see more among the Masters, an. 1625.  

27. 

Joh Ellis of Hart  
Joh. Arnway of S. Edm. 

Hall.       

28. 

Joh. Leycester of Brasn.  
Oliv. Whitby of Trin.  
Joh. Trapp of Ch. Ch. 

Coll.       
Of Whitby, you may see more among the Masters, an. 1624. Mar. 1. Shackerlie Marmion of Wadh. Coll.  
As for Maynard, who was afterwards Sergeant at Law, Tombs, Godwin, Newton, Glemham, Angel, Greaves, Granford, Gumbleden, Strode, Streat, Ellis, Arnway and Trapp, will be mention at large made in the second Vol. of this Work, or elsewhere.  
Adm. 280.   

Bach. of Law.  
Apr. 18. Will. Merick of New Coll.— He was afterwards a Knight, and Judge of the Prerogative, as I shall hereafter tell you.  
Besides him, were only three more admitted.   

Mast. of Arts.  

May 16. Tho. Laurence  
June 1. Will. Paul 

of Alls. 

11. Joh. Atherton of Linc. 

Coll.         
12. Joh. Geree of Magd. Hall.  
14. Will. Lyford of Magd. Coll.  

June 14. 

Meric Casaubon  
Zouch Tewnley  
George Morley  
Rob. Gomershal 

of Ch. Ch.       
As for Townley, he was a Lancashire man born, or at least extracted from an ancient Family of his name in that Country, and now (1621.) esteemed a noted Orator and Philosopher. He hath written and published Oratio in memoriam clariss. viri Gul. Camdeni, Lecturae Historicae apud Oxonienses fundatoris, etc. Oxon. 1624. qu. set before a book of Lat. Verses intit. Camdeni Insignia. What else he hath published I know not, nor any thing besides, that is memorable of him, only that he was several times Deputy-Orator of this University.  
Jun. 21. Tho. Tyro of S. Edm. Hall.— One of both his names was a boon and jolly Blade in the time of Qu. Elizab. as it appears by his Roaring Megg planted against the walls of melancholy. Lond. 1598. qu. and his Epistolae, which shows him to have been a Scholar, but whether of this University, I know not as yet.  

Jul. 6. 

Humph▪ Chambers of Vniu. Coll.  
Thom. Colman of Magd. Hall.     
Oct. 17. Joh. Gee of Ex. Coll.  
Adm. 123.   

Bach. of Physic.  
Tho not one was admitted this year, yet three were admitted to practise. viz. Rich. Gardiner of Broadgates' Hall, Edw. Dawson of Lincon Coll. and Sam. Bave a Germane of Ch. Church. Which last was commonly called Dr. Bavey of Bath, where he was in great practice to the time of his death.   

Bach. of Diu.  

Apr. 19 Rob. Skinner of Trin.  
25. Ale●and. Harry of Ex. 

Coll.     
Of the last you may see more in what I shall say of Will. Hicks among the Writers in the second Vol. an. 1659.  

May 11. Tho Bailiff of Magd.  
12. Will. Page of Alls. 

Coll.     
Mar. 8. Tho. Wilson of Mert. Coll. a Compounder. See more among the Incorporations, an. 1645.  
Adm. 20.   

Doct. of Law.  

Nou. 27. 

Will. Steed  
Mart. Aylworth 

of Alls. Coll.       
The former of which was about this time Official of Canterbury. Dec. 12. Will. Juxon Precedent of S. Joh. Coll.  
☞ Not one Doctor of Physic was this year admitted.   

Doct. of Diu.  

Jul. 2. 

Paul Godwin  
Rob. Robotham  
Tho. Godwin. of Ch. Ch.  
Joh. Hughes of C. C. Coll. 

Of Magd. Coll. Compounders.       
Paul and Tho. Godwin were the Sons of Dr. Franc. Godwin Bishop of Hereford, and Robotham and Hughes were his Sons in law, having married two of his Daughters. The last of which was benificed in Herefordshire, where he died about 1648.  
Mar. 21. Joh. Tolson Provost of Oriel Coll.   

Incorporations.  
Jun. 16. George Snell D. of D. of the University of S. Andrew in Scotland.  
These Cambridge men following were incorporated on the 10 of July, being the next day after the conclusion of the Act.  
Michael Honywood M. of A.— He was afterwards D. of D. and in 1660 was made Dean of Lincoln in the place of Anthony Topham who died in the rebellious times. This Dr. Honyword died about 12 Sept. 1681, and was, as I suppose, buried in the Cathedral there. Whereupon Dr. Dan Brevint succeeded him in his Dignity.  
Will. Brough M. A. of Christ's Coll.— I shall speak at large of him among the Incorporations of Doctors of Diu. an. 1645.  
Christopher Dow M. of A.— He was afterwards Bach. and Doct. of Diu. much favoured by Dr. Laud Archb. of Canterbury, (whose Creature and Champion he was) and by him promoted to several ecclesiastical Benefices. He hath written (1) A discourse of the Sabbath and Lords day, wherein etc. Lond. 1636. qu. second Edit. (2) Innovations unjustly charged upon the present Church and State, or an answer to the most material passages made by Mr. Hen. Burton in his book entit. An Apology of an Appeal, etc. Lond. 1637. qu. with other things very offensive to the Puritan, who held the Author to be a rank Arminian.  
George Walker Bach. of Diu.— This learned person was born at Hawkeshead in Fournifalls in Lancashire, educated in S. Joh. Coll. in the said Uniu. of Cambr. where he was esteemed an excellent Logician, Orientalian and Divine. He was about this time Chaplain to Dr. Felton Bishop of Ely, and Minister of S. John the Evangelist in Watling-streete in London, where he was ready upon all occasions to encounter with any learned Cath. Priest. On the last of May 1623., was a set and solemn disputation between him and one that went by the name of Smith; at which being present a great Auditory, it was published for the satisfaction of both parties, with this Title, The sum of a disputation between Mr. Walker Pastor of S. Joh. the Evang. etc. and a popish priest calling himself Mr. Smith but indeed Norris. printed 1623. qu. Which Norris was a D. of D. and a publisher of several little popish Pamphlets about the same time. In the year following he the said Walker had to do with Fath. Joh. Fisher the Jesuit, as being Dr. Dan. Featley's second, and thereupon published Fishers folly unfolded; or, the vaunting Jesuits challenge answered. Lond. 1624. Afterwards when our Author Walker, who was a severe Puritan, beheld the profanation of the Lords day, he preached against it, and other Practices and Opinions, which procured him trouble, and two years' imprisonment, as 'tis said. After the Long Parliament began, he preached against the King and his Followers, and published several things, which before he was not permitted to do, among which were (1) Socinianism in the fundamental point of justification discovered and confuted, etc. Lond. 1641. oct. (2) The doctrine of the holy weekly sabbath, etc. Lond. 1641. etc. In the year 1643▪ he was chosen one of the Assembly of Divines, preached sometimes before the Members of Parliament, and had his Sermons made public, one of which is ent. Fast-sermon before the House of Common● 9 Jan. 1644, on Psalm 58. 9 Lond. 1645. qu. He hath also other things extant, as, God made visible in all his works, etc. pr. 1641. qu. etc. which for brevity sake I now pass by, and only tell you, that he died in 1651, aged about 70, and was buried in his Church of S. John before mentioned.  
Edw. Martin Bach. of Diu.— He was afterwards Doctor of that Faculty, domestic Chaplain to Archb. Laud, and Rector of Houghton Conquest in Bedfordshire, and of Dunnington in Cambridgshire; but being a zealous man for the Church of England, was turned out of those livings by the Committee of Religion, as you may largely see in that infamous libel ent. The first Century of scandalous malignant Priests, etc. p. 41. He lost other spiritualities, and suffered much for the King's Cause, notwithstanding he was a godly and learned man. All that seems bad of him, you may see in Canterbury's Doom, published by Will. Prynne, an inveterate enemy to Prelacy, good order in the Church, Arminianism, or any thing that looked that way.  
Foulk robart's Bach. of Diu.— In Feb. 1616 he became Probendary of Norwich on the death of Hugh Castleton, which he held to the time of his death in the interval or broken times. He hath written (1) The revenue of the Gospel is tithes due to Ministry of the word, by that word in Tim. 1. 5. 18. Cambr. 1613. qu. (2) Gods holy house and service described according to the primitive form thereof. Lond. 1639. qu. and other things as 'tis probable. In 1660, Aug. 21. one George Kent M. of A. was installed Prebendary of Norwych in the place of the said Foulk robart's, who had been dead some years before.  
Samuel Broke or Brooke D. D. and about this time Master of Trinity Coll.— He was afterwards Archd. of Coventry, and wrote an Arminian Treatise of predestination, which he communicated to Dr. Laud Bishop of London, an. 1630, (so saith Prynne in Canterbury's 
* Printed at Lond. 1646. p▪ 167.  Doom) and about the 16 of Sept. in the year following, he departed this mortal life. He had an ingenious Brother named Christop. Brooke, a Yorkshire man born, who after he had left the University (whether this, or Cambridge, I cannot yet tell, notwithstanding several of his Surname and time have studied in University Coll.) he settled in Lincoln's Inn, purposely to advance himself in the municipal Law, where he became known to, and admired by, Joh. Selden, Ben. Johnson, Mich. Drayton, Will. Browne, George Withers and Joh. Davies of Hereford, especially after he had published An Elegy consecrated to the never dying memory of Henry Prince of Wales. Lond. 1613. qu. In the year following, he being then a Bencher, was elected Summer Reader of his House, became a Benefactor to the Chapel there, and wrote another book ent. Eglogues; dedicated to his much loved friend Mr. Will. Browne of the Inner Temple. Lond. 1614 oct. He hath also Verses put before the first part of Britannia's pastorals, penned by the said Browne, also before a poetical piece called The legend of Great Cromwell, written by Mich. Drayton. and had a considerable hand in dishing out The Odcombian Banquet, an. 1611. Later in time than the former (give me leave to divert myself) I find another Christop. Brooke who married a daughter of the famous Mathematician Will. Oughtred, having been by him before initiated in Mathematics. Afterwards he became a maker and framer of mathematical Instruments, and the publisher of (1) A new Quadrant of more natural, easy, and manifold performance, than any one heretofore extant. pr. in 1649, in 2 sheets in oct. having been the invention of Oughtred. (2) The solution of all spherical Triangles, b●th right and oblique, by the planisphaere, etc. Oxon. 1651. oct. This Chr. Brooke being known to the ingenious and learned Dr. Joh. Wilkins Warden of Wadham Coll. had a Servants place of that House worth 30 l. per an. conferred upon him by that Doctor purposely to encourage his Ingenuity. What else he hath published I know not, nor any thing of him besides, only that dying in his house near Wadham Coll. was buried in the Cloister belonging thereunto, situated and being between the Chapel and the Library, an. 1665.  
Edward Kellet D. D. of Kings Coll.— See before, among the Incorporations an. 1616. where you'll find the Titles of some of the books that he hath published.  
All which Cantabrigians, were, I say, incorporated on the 10 of July.  
Aug. 30. Andrew Rivet D. D. of the University of Leyden in Holland, was solemnly incorporated in that degree, and taken into the bolom of the University, in a Convocation then held: at which time he gave several Books to the University Library.— This Rivet who received his first breath at St. Maixent in the Province of Poictou, was a learned and godly Divine, hath very well expounded Genesis, the Prophetical Psames and Hosea; and hath written learnedly against the Papists in his Catholicus Orthodoxus, and against Grotius. He is styled by a learned 
* Cariss●●. de Imputat. primi peccat●, cap. 17.  Author Vir clarissimus, & nunquam satis laudatus, Gallicae Belgicaeque ecclesiae micantissimum lumen, etc. The Titles of most of his books are in Oxford or Bodlies' Catalogue. See more of him in Athenae Batavae, written by John Meursius, lib. 2. p. 320.   

Creations.  
Aug. 1. Joh. Keeling a Counsellor of the Inner Temple, and a person well read in the municipal Laws of England, was then actually created M. of A. in the house of Convocation. Whether he was the same with John Keeling a Staffordshire man, who was matriculated as a Member of Brasn. Coll. an. 1593. aged 17, I know not. One of both his names was after the Restauration of King Ch. 2. made 〈◊〉 Knight, one of the Justices of the Common Pleas, and at length L. Chief Justice. He died in the beginning of the year 1671.  
Nou. 24. Richard Wats of Oriel, styled in the common Register Vir omni humana literatura & bonarum artium cognitione feliciter instructus, was actually created M. of Arts.— He was entered in the public Library as a Student in the municipal Laws.  
Feb….. James Bailiff a Scot, now of Exeter Coll. who 14 years before this time was made M. of A. of the University of Glascow, and 8 years since, Bachelaur of the Laws of the University of Anjou in France (where he performed not only his exercise for that degree, but also for the degree of Doctor of that Faculty) was actually created Doctor of the Laws of this University, Dr. Zouch the King's Professor of that Faculty then executing his office in the solemnity.— He was now Tutor to James Earl of Arran a Noble man of Exet. Coll. afterwards Duke of Hamilton. I find one James Bail●ie M. of A. and a Scot born, to have published Spiritual Marriage; or, the Union between Christ and his Church, Serm. at Westminster on Hosea. 2. 19 Lond. 1627. qu. But his name being written different from the former, I cannot say he had any relation to him.  
Baldwinus Hamaeus a learned Germane, was admitted a Student into the public Library.— See among the Incorporations an. 1629. So also was Tho. Gardiner of the Inner Temple Esq; afterwards Recorder of London, a Knight, his Majesty's Solicitor General, and eminent for his knowledge in the Municipal Law. He died in Octob. 1652, and was buried, as I conceive, in the Church at Cudesd●n near Oxford, in which Town he had an Estate. Qu.    

An. Dom. 1622.  
An. 20 Jac. 1.  
Chanc. the same.  
Vicechanc. Dr. Will. Piers again, Jul. 17.  

Proct. 

Griffin Higgs of Mert. Coll.  
Rich. Stevart of Alls. Coll. 

May 2.       

Bach. of Music.  
May 17. Will. Heather, or Heyther.  
At the same time Orlando Gibbons did supplicate for the same degree, but occurs not admitted. See more of him and of Heather among the Doctors of Music following.   

Bach. of Arts.  

June 27. 

Will. Morris of Exet.  
Hen. Hibbert of Brasn.  
Oct. 22. Nich. Darton of Ex.  
Nou. 28. Edw. Pocock of C. C. 

Coll.       
Dec. 4. Edw. Corbet of Mert. Coll.— See among the created Doctors of Diu. 1648.  
6. John Sedgwick of Magd. Hall, lately of Qu. Coll.  

9 Joh. Strickland of Qu.  
11. Hen. Hammond of Magd.  
Feb. 17. Joh. Marshan of S. Jo.  
18. Rob. Codrington of Magd.  
19 George Hughes of Corp. Chr. 

Coll.     
Charles Gibbs was admitted the same day.  
All these will be largely mentioned elsewhere.  
Adm. 257, or thereabouts.   

Doct. of Music.  
May 17. Will. Heather or Heyther, who accumulated the degrees in Music.— This person who was born at Harmsworth in Middlesex, near Colebrook in Bucks▪ was now one of the Gentlemen belonging to his Majesty's Chapel, and so great an encourager of his Faculty, that soon after he founded the Music Lectures (Theory and practic) in this University, as I have 
† In Hist. & Antiq. V●iv. Oxon. l. 2. p. 44. b.  elsewhere told you. He died in the latter end of July 1627., and was buried on the first of Aug. in the broad or south Isle joining to the Choir of S. Peter's Church in Westminster. See more of him in Nath. Giles following.  
Jul. 5. Nathaniel Giles Bach. of Music, was then licenced to proceed in that Faculty.— In 1607 he supplicated the venerable Congregation of Regent's to be admitted Doctor; which desire of his was granted conditionally that he compose a choral Hymn of 8 parts to be publicly sung in the Act wherein he should proceed; but for what reason he did not perform that obligation, I cannot justly say. Sure I am, that in the Act this year, wherein he proceeded, were certain Questions appointed to be discussed between him and Dr. Heather before mentioned, which being pro forma only, and not customarily to be done, were omitted. The Questions were (1) Whether discords may be allowed in music? Affirm. (2) Whether any artificial Instrument can so fully and truly express music as the natural Voice? Negat. (3) Whether the practic be the more useful part of music or the theory? Affirm. This Dr. Giles who was noted as well for his religious life and conversation (a rarity in Musicians) as for the excellency of his Faculty, was born in, or near to, the City of Worcester, was one of the Organists of S. George's Chap. at Windsor and Master of the Boys there; afterwards one of the Organists of the Chapel Royal to K. Ch. 1. and Master of the Boys thereof, was famous for his compositions of Divine Hymns and Anthems; the words of some of which, are remitted into a Book entit. Divine Services and Anthems sung in the Cathedrals and collegiate Choires in the Church of England, published by Jam. Clifford an. 1663., oct. He the said Dr. Giles died about the year 1635, and was buried in one of the Isles joining to S. George's Chap. before mentioned.  
On the 17 of May Orlando Gibbons one of the Organists of his Majesty's Chapel, did supplicate ●●e venerable Congregation that he might accumulate the degrees in Music; but whether he was admitted to the one, or licenced to proceed in the other, it appears not. However the Song of 6 parts or more, which was performed in the Act for Will. Heather, was composed by him, as one or more eminent Musicians then living have several times told me. This Orlando who was accounted one of the rarest Musicians and Organists of his time, hath extant A set of Madrigals of five parts for voices and viols, had also a hand in Parthenia, mentioned before, under the year 1592., and composed Several divine Services and Anthems; the words of which are in Jam. Clifford's Book before mentioned, besides admirable Compositions that are printed in several Books of Music. At length being commanded to Canterbury to attend the solemnity of the Nuptials between K. Ch. 1. and Henrietta Maria a Daughter of the King of France (in order to which he had made vocal and instrumental Compositions) died there of the Smallpox to the great reluctancy of the Court, on the day of Pentecost, an. 1625. Afterwards was a monument erected over his grave in the body of the Cathedral there, with an Inscription thereon, beginning thus: Orlando Gibbonio Cantabrigiae inter musas & musicae nato, sacrae R. Capellae Organistae, sphaerarumque harmoniae digitorum pulsu aemulo, cantionum complurium quaeque dum non canunt minus quam canuntur c●nditori, etc. From which monument, set up at the charge of Elizabeth his Widow, who gave instructions what to be inscribed thereon, but not the time of his age, we are given to understand that the said Orlando Gibbons was born at Cambridge, yet the Reader is to know that one Orlando Gibbons was baptised in S. Martin's Parish in the City of Oxford 25 Decemb. 1583, which some have been pleased to take to be the same that was afterwards the famous Organist; who, as those that knew him have told me, was not quite 45 years of age when he died. But to let these scruples pass, as also another Orlando Gibbons M. A. of Cambridge, who was incorporated at Oxon an. 1607, I shall go forward.   

Mast. of Arts.  

May 9 

Philip Nye  
Will. Pinke 

of Magd. Hall.       
The last was afterwards of Magd. Coll.  
Jun. 26. Joh. Maynard of Magd. Hall, a 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 public 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, wrote 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. B●field of Qu. Coll.  
Dec. 11. Mathias Turner of Broadgates' Hall, lately of Balliol Coll.— He was an excellent Philosopher, had great skill in the Oriental Languages, and wrote (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 Diu.  
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 Alls. Coll.— This learned Doctor who was Son of Thom. Bird of Littlebury in Essex, Brother to Sir Will. Bird, (mentioned 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, etc. 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 Physician in London, where he died in the beginning of the year 1640.   

Doct. of Diu.  

June 27. 

Tho. Jackson  
Christop. Green 

of C. C. Coll.       
The first is largely mentioned elsewhere, the other, who was also a learned and godly man, was now Prebendary of Bristol, 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 Diu. he was installed Archdeacon of Clieuland in the place of Hen. Thurscross resigning, 16. Nou. 1635. And afterwards resigning that dignity, Joh. Neile Bach. of Diu. 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. Sepulchre 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 Diu. and exercised his Ministry for a time in Staffordshire. At length upon the invitation of the Earl of Warwick, he became Rector of Rochfort 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 Vicechancellor 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 England's selfreflection; 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 Nou. 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 Diu. 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, etc. Lond. 1650. qu. (2) Moderation justified, etc. Fast-serm. before the H. of Commons 26 Dec. 1644, on Phil. 4. 5. Lond. 1645. qu. etc.  
All which Cantabrigians with many more, besides 13 Bachelaurs of Arts, were incorporated on the 9 Jul. before mentioned.  
Feb. 28. Thom. Freaer or Friar Doct. of Phys. of the University of Milan.— He was at this time a practitioner in the City of London, and dying in the beginning of 1623., about two months after his Incorporation, was buried in the Parish Church of S. Botolph, in the tomb of his Mother lately deceased; but in which of the Churches of S. Botolph in London, 'tis not said.   

Creations.  
Apr. 12. Francis Whiddon of Exeter Coll. and a Devonian born. was actually created M. of A.— He was afterwards Minister of Morton Hampsted in his own Country, and published A golden topaz; or, a heart-jewel: namely a conscience purified and pacified by the blood and spirit of Christ; on Heb. 13. 18. Oxon. 1656. oct. he being then conformable to the men in Authority and Power. What other things he published, I find not.  
Jul. 1. Joh. Leigh of Brasn. Coll. was actually created M. of A. in the house of Congregation.— 'Twas four years since he took the degree of Bach. of Arts, in which time he had 
† Reg. Uniu. Oxon. N. fol. 145. ●.  studied in several transmarine Universities, and had obtained such admirable knowledge in all humane learning, and especially in Philosophy, and other Arts, that he was esteemed by the venerable Regent's most worthy of the degree of M. of Arts.  
Sam. Bochartus of Rouen in Normandy became a Sojourner this year in the University, and was entered a Student in the public Library in the beginning of Lent Term: with the help of which and other Libraries, he laid the foundation of most rare Books which he afterwards published. His Geographia sacra hath made him famous in the learned World, as also his Hierozoicon; for both which, eminent Authors do in an high manner celebrate his name. He was Pastor of the Protestant Church at Caen in Normandy, where he died in 1667. being ever esteemed a great lover of the Church of England.    

An. Dom. 1623.  
An. 21 Jac. 1.  
Chanc. Will. Earl of Pembroke.  
Vicechanc. Dr. Piers again, Jul. 21.  

Proct. 

Joh. Smith of Magd. Coll.  
Will. Oldis of New Coll. 

Apr. 23.       

Bach. of Music.  
Jul. 12. Hugh Davys of New Coll. Organist of the Cathedral Church at Hereford.— He was eminent for the various Compositions of Church Music that he had made, which is all I know of him, only that he died about 1644.   

Bach. of Arts.  

Jun. 18. Hen. Tozer of Exet.  
23. John Price of Jesus 

Coll.     
Whether the last was afterwards the learned Critic, who studied about this time in Oxon, is, as yet, doubtful.  

Jun. 26. 

George Griffith  
George Eglionbie 

of Ch. Ch.       
The first of these two was afterwards Bishop of S. Asaph, the last Dean of Canterbury, as I shall tell you among the Doctors of Diu. an. 1634.  
June 29. Hugh Cressy or Hugh Paulin de Cressy.  

Oct. 29. Will. Erbury  
Feb. 6. Arth. Salway 

of Brasn. Coll.     
Of the last, you may see more among the Masters, an. 1626.  
7. John Hoffman of Exet. Coll.— See among the Bachelaurs of Diu. 1634.  
Joh. Bird of Mert. Coll. was admitted the same day.— Whether he be the same with Joh. Bird, who was afterwards Schoolmaster in the City of Gloucester and Author of Grounds of Grammar Oxon. 1639. oct. I cannot lay to the contrary. He that was Bach. of Arts was an Oxfordshire Man born, and had been originally of St. Edm. hall.  
All which Bachelaurs except Eglionbie, Salway, Hoffman and Bird, will be mentioned in the 2. Volume of this work, or elsewhere.  
Adm. 233. of thereabouts.   

Bach. of Law.  

Apr. 24. Alexander Hyde of New  
Oct. 11. Nathan. Brent of Mert. 

Coll.     
The first was afterwards Bishop of Salisbury, the other was now Warden of Merton Coll.  
Besides these two were only two more admitted.   

Mast. of Arts.  

Apr. 2. Edmund Staunton of C. C. 

May 26. 

Nathan. Simpson  
Hen. Gellibrand 

of Trin. Coll. 

Coll.           
Will. Gilbert of Glouc. hall was admitted the same day— He was the younger Son of an Esq; in Derbyshire and was now esteemed by his contemporaries a general Scholar and a rare Man. One of both his names hath certain Sermons extant, one of which is a Funeral Sermon on 1. Thes. 4. 18. printed 1649. qu.  

Jun. 18. 

Edward Leigh  
Nath. Holmes  
Anth. Falconer of Jes. Coll. 

of Magd. hall.       
Jun. 26. Thom. Case of Ch. Ch.  

July 10. Will. Crompton of Brasn.  
Oct. 16. Edw. Stanely of New  
Feb. 6. Hen. Glemham.  
Mar. 16. Will. Chillingworth 

of Trin. 

Coll.       
Admitted. 157.   

Bach. of Diu.  
Jul. 3. Thom. Goffe. of Ch. Ch.  

10. Gilbert Wats of Linc.  
Dec. 13. Nich. Vignier of Ex.  
17. Will. Sclatyer of Bras. 

Coll.     
Admitted 11.   

Doct. of Law.  
Oct. 11. Nath. Brent Warden of Merton Coll. who accumulated the Degree in Law.  
☞ Not one Doctor of Phys. was admitted this year.   

Doct. of Diu.  

Jul. 18. 

Tho. worral of Brasn.  
Rob. Barcroft of Co. Chr. 

Coll.       

Oct. 14. 

Paul Hood Rect. of Linc.  
Joh. Wall of Ch. Church.     

Dec. 17. 

Josh. Aisgill of Co. Chr.  
Will. Sclatyer of Bras.  
George Webb of Co. Chr. 

Coll.       
The last saving one, viz. Solatyer accumulated and compounded.   

Incorporations.  
May 7. Samuel Baker M. of A. of Christ's Coll. in Cambridge.— He afterwards became a puritannical Preacher in London, and much followed; but being taken off from those courses, was made household Chaplain to Dr. Juxon Bishop of London and a creature of Dr. Laud Archb. of Canterbury. About which time being Rector of St. Mary on the hill and of St. Christopher's in Lond. where his preaching was much applauded by some, become Prebendary of St. Paul's Cathedral. On the 20. of Sept. 1638, he being then D. of D. was installed Canon of Windsor, on the death of Dr. John King sometimes Fellow of Merton Coll. but he being soon after made Prebendary of Canterbury. he resigned his Canonry, and Tho. Broume Bach. of Diu. of Ch. Ch. in Oxon was installed therein 28. May 1639. This Dr. Baker, who was a great Licencer of Books, but publisher I think of none, gained a great deal of Envy from the Puritan for his partiality in that office; for which and his great respect to the tenets of Arminius, he was in the beginning of the rebellion ●●s●vanted and imprisoned, and at length deprived of his Spiritu●●●.  
Thomes Harste M. of A. of the said University was incorporated the same day.— He was afterwards D. of D. Chaplain to K. Ch. 1. and Minister of 〈◊〉 (in Lincolushire) He hath published The descent of 〈◊〉, the Magistrates patent from Heaven, Sermon at Lincoln Assizes, 13 March 1636. on Gen. 9 6. Lond. 1637. qu. and other things, as I conceive. Quere.  
On the 14 of July, after the conclussion of the Act, these Cambridge Men following were incorporated.  
Joh. Harding M. of A.— One of both his names who had been a Dominican or Black friar, did speak A recantation Sermon in the Gatchouse at Westminster 30. July 1620, on Psal. 119. 71. Lond. 1620. qu. containing Motives why he left the Church of Rome. Whether he be the same with the former who was M. of A. I know not.  
Thomas Scot M. A.— One of both his names also, who was Bach. of Diu. of the said University, and a Preacher in the City of Norwych, hath several things extant, as the Oxford Catalogue tells you; but he is not to be taken for the same who was M. of A. because, if I mistake not, the Bach. of Diu. died 1624. aged 45.  
Thom. Edward's M. of A.— He was afterwards a Minister of God's word, a zealous Puritan and in the beginning of that rebellion raised by the Presbyterians, an. 1642, did, with his Wife, Children, Estate, and all that was dear to him, embark in the same Ship with them, showed himself most zealous for the cause by preaching, praying, and stirring up the People to stand for them: Also by going out in Person, and lending money to carry on the War. He hath written (1) Reasons against the Independent Government of particular congregations, etc. Lond. 1641. qu. Answered the same year by a Woman called Catherine Chidley. (2) Antipologia: or an answer to an Apologetical narration of Mr. Goodwin, Nye, Sympson, Burroughs and Bridge, members of the Ass. of Divines. Lond. 1644. qu. &c. (3) Gangraena: or, a catalogue and discovery of many of the errors, heresies, blasphemies, etc. acted in England in these four last years. As also a particular narration of divers stories, remarkable passages, letters, etc. Lond. 1645. qu. there again the second time 1646. qu. The second and third parts of the same book came out in 1646. qu. (4) Treatise against Toleration. Lond. 1647. qu. the first part. The other parts, if any, I have not yet seen. He hath also written, if I mistaken not, Of the particular visibility of the Church. Also A Treatise of the Civil power in Ecclesiasticals, and of suspension from the Lords Supper, which three were published in qu. an. 1642. 44.  
Will. Fairfax who had been incorporated M. A. in 1622 was incorporated again this year in the same Degree.— He was afterwards D. of D. Rector of the Parish Church of St. Peter in Cornhill within the City of London, and Vicar of East-Ham in Middlesex. Of both which, he was deprived by a Committee of Parliament, (after he had been plundered, imprisoned in Ely-house and the Ships, and his Wife and Children turned out of doors) an. 1642-3. You may read more of him in that most scandalous Libel entit. The first century of scandalous and malignant Priests, etc. printed 1643. qu. p. 7.  

Sam. Hildersham Bach.  
Anthony Shirt Doct. 

of Diu.     
All which with many others were incorporated on the 14. July as 'tis before said.  
Aug. 4. Ferdinando Texeda Bach. of Diu. of the University of Salamanca in Spain.— He had been a Monk in the said Country, but left it and his Religion, came over to the Church of England, and at length receding to Oxon was not only incorporated, but found relief among the Scholars thereof. He hath written, Texeda retextus: or, the Spanish Monk, his bill of divorce against the Church of Rome. Lond. 1623. qu. It contains the chief motives of his conversion, and 'tis probable it was an Usher to other of his labours.  
Oct. 14. Nich. Vignier M. of A. of Saumaur in France.— He afterwards took the Degree of Bach. of Diu. in the year following.   

Creations.  
July 18. George Berkly Baron of Berkles, Mowbray, Segrave and Bruce, Knight also of the Bath, was actually created Master of Arts.— This most noble Person (who had been sometimes of Ch. Ch.) died in 1658, leaving then behind him a Son named George, created Earl of Berkley by K. Ch. 2.  
Anthony Stafford sometimes a member of Oriel Coll. was created M. of A. the same day.— I shall mention this Person among the writers under the year 1641. or elshewhere.  
Sam. Thomas of Brasn. Coll. was created Bach. of Arts on the same day also, which is all I know of him.    

An. Dom. 1624.  
An. 22. Jac. 1.  
Chanc. William Earl of Pembroke.  
Vicechanc. Dr. Prideaux again, July 26.  

Proct. 

Daniel Escote of Wadh. Coll.  
Rich. Hill of Brasnose Coll. 

Ap. 7.       
In the election of which Proctors, was the greatest canvas, (as 'twas thought) in the memory of Man. There were four Candidates for the two places, viz. Henry Warner of St. John's Coll. who had 229 voices, Philip Parsons of the said house, 247. Hill beforementioned, 253, and Estate 255. For the taking of the Suffrages, given partly by Country Parsons, Carats, Schoolmasters, etc. who were Masters of Arts of the University, and had been invited thereunto for a time, the scrutiny continued till after 9 of the clock at night. In the year 1626. was a greater Canvas than this, there being then 1078 voices given on all Sides.  

Bach. of Arts.  
May 11. Joh. Dawson of Ch. Ch.  
June 5. Will. Denton of Magd. hall.  
10. Rich. Allen of Balliol, afterwards Fellow of Pembr. Coll.  
Will. Berkley of Mert. Coll. was admitted the same day.  
Nou. 6. John Davis of St. Edmund's, afterwards of Magd, hall.— See among the Master's 1628.  
Dec. 2. Thom. Browne of Ch. Ch.  

15. 

Hen. Beesley  
Steph. Goffe. 

of Mert. Coll.       
Of the last of these two, you may see more among the Creation's an. 1636.  

Jan. 22. Roger Turner  
Feb. 17. Joseph Caryl 

of Ex. Coll.     
Of the first of these two last, you may see more among the Masters an. 1627.  

19 

Sam. Kem of Magd.  
Rich. Owen of Oriel 

Coll.       

22. 

Christop. Elderfield of St. Mar.  
Thomas Ford of Magdal. 

Hall.       

25. 

Isaac Ambrose of Brasn.  
Will. White of Wadh.  
Joh. Fairclough of Alls. 

Coll.       

26. 

Joseph Henshaw of Magd. Hall.  
Franc. Davies of Jes. Coll.     
The first of these two last was afterwards Bishop of Peterborough, the other of Landaff.  
All these Bachelaurs except Jo. Davis will be mentioned in the 2. vol. of this work, or elsewhere.  
Admitted 268.   

Doct. of Music.  
July 2. John Mundy Bach. of Music and Organist of his Majesty's Chapel within the Castle of Windsor, was then licenced to proceed in that faculty.— On the 12 of the same month he solemnly proceeded as a Member of Ch. Ch. in the Act then celebrated, being in high esteem for his great knowledge in the Theoretical and Practical part of Music. He hath published Songs and Psalms composed into three. 4. and 5. parts. Lond. 1594. in large quartoes, hath composed several Church Services and Anthems, the words of some of which you may see in James Clifford's Collection of Divine Services and Anthems, etc. and hath Madrigales in The triumphs of Oriana. He gave way to fate in 1630 and was buried in the Cloister joining to St. George's Chapel at Windsor beforemention'd.   

Bach. of Law.  
Nine this year were admitted, but not one of them was afterwards a Writer or Bishop. Some of them, were afterwards Doctors and dignified, as I shall tell you elsewhere.   

Mast. of Arts.  

Ap. 16. 

Will. Haywood of St. Joh. Coll.  
Joh. Tombs of Magd. Hall.     
May. 8. Thom, Paybody of Merton Coll.— He hath written An Apology for kneeling in the Act of receiving the blessed Sacrament. printed 1629. qu. which is all I yet know of him.  
June 2. Joh. Arnway of St. Edm. hall.  

10. 

William Streat of Exet.  
Jam. Cranford of Ball. 

Coll.       

17. 

Will. Strode  
Joh. Trapp 

of Ch. Ch.       

23. George Newton of Exeter  
July 5. Shakerley Marmion of Wadh. 

Coll.     
9 Sam. Faucet of Qu. Coll.— He published A seasonable Sermon for troublesome times, on Psal. 25. 22.— printed in qu. but when I know not, nor any thing else of the Author, only that he was a Londoner born.  
Dec. 2. Olives Whithy of Hart hall, lately of Trin. Coll.— This Person who was a Bedfordshire Man born and a great admirer of Will. Chillingworth, hath published A Sermon on Hosea 6. 1. 2.— Printed 1637. qu. and perhaps other things. Quaere.  
Admitted 166.   

Bach. of Diu.  
Apr. 22. David Primrose of Exet. Coll.— There will be large mention made of him in the 2. volume.  

June 2. Robert Sibthorpe of Linc.  
1●. Richard Part of Brasn.  
July 1. Hugh Lloyd of Jes.  
3. Nathan. Norrington of Exet. 

Coll.     
The last of which was now esteemed one of the best Disputants in Oxon, especially against the Remonstrants, as it partly appears in his Epitaph 
* See Hist. & Antiq. Vniu. lib. 2. p. 102. b.  in Exeter Coll. Chappel running thus. Vbi, hic, quis? pooh dolour! Remonstrantium malleus Norringtonus; sat est.  

7. 

Richard James of Co. Chr.  
Joh. Randol of Brasn. 

Coll.       
The last published A Sermon preached at St. Mary's in Oxon. 5. Aug. 1624., on Mark 3. 25. Oxon. 1624. qu. which is all I yet know of his works, or of the Author, only that he was a Sussex Man born.  
Admitted 25.   

Doct. of Law.  

July 3. 

Thom. Bennet  
Rich. Stevart 

of Alls. Coll.       
The first was younger Brother to Sir Joh. Bennet of Dawley in Middlesex, Father to Henry Earl of Arlington.  
23. Rob. Mitchill of Exeter Coll.  
☞ Not one Doctor of Physic was admitted this year.   

Doct. of Diu.  

May 7. Theoph. Gale of Exet.  
June 2. Rob. Sibthorpe of Linc.  
7. Morgan James of Jesus  
July 3. Francis Mansell of Alls. 

Coll.     
The first was about this time either Prebendary or Canon of Exeter. The second accumulated the Degrees in Diu. as I shall at large tell you when I come to speak of him in the 2. vol; and the last who had been Principal of Jesus Coll. was upon the death of Sir Eub. Thelwall made Principal again of the same house, as I have elsewhere told 
† 〈…〉 He was nephew, 〈…〉  you.   

Incorporations.  
June 5. Mathias Pasor M. of A. of the University of Heidelburg.  
On the 13. of Jul. being the next day after the conclusion of the Act, were these Cambridge Men following incorporated.  
Steph. Nettles M. of A. of Queens Coll.— He was afterwards Bach. of Diu. and Author of An answer to the Jewish part of Mr. Seldens History of Tithes. Oxon. 1625. qu. Dedicated to Dr. John Prideaux the King's Professor of Diu. in the University of Oxon.  
Richard Perk M. of A.— He was afterwards Minister of Columpton in Devon, and published Christ's Watchword, occasioned on the funeral of the truly reverend Mr. Laur. 
c 〈…〉.  Bodley late Fellow of Exeter Coll. in Oxon, and Rector of Clist-Hidon in Devon. Serm. on Mark 13. 37. Lond. 1635. qu. Besides this he hath at least four more Sermons extant, as (1) Serm. on Hosea 10. 12.— printed 1632. qu. (2) Serm. on Matth. 13. 37. (3) Serm. on James 5. 9 pr. 1632. qu. etc.  
Robert Cotesford M. A.— He was afterwards D. of D. and Rector of Hadleigh and Monks Ely in the County of Suffolk: of both which places he was deprived by a Committee for Religion appointed by Parliament, an. 1643. At which time and after he suffered much for the Royal cause. You may see more of him in the wicked Libel entit. The first Century of scandalous, malignant Priests, etc. p. 8.  
Thomas Campion M. of A.— One of both his names was an admired Poet and Musician in the Reign of K. Jan. 1. and hath had the honour to be named by the Learned Camden with Spencer, Sidney, Drayton and other the chief of our English Poets. In Oxford Catalogue you may see the titles of some of his books, and among them Songs on the untimely death of Pr. Henry, pricked out to the Lute or Viol by Joh. Coprario. Which Coprario by the way, I would have the reader to understand, was not a foreigner, but an English Man, born, who having spent much of his time in Italy, changed his name from Cooper to Coprario (by which last he was so called in Italy) being in his time much admired for his composition of Fancies of various parts. As for the said Thomas Campion the Poet I take him to be too soon for Tho. Campion M. of A. of Cambridge.  
Joh. Farmery LL. D.— He was about this time Chancellor of the Dioc. of Lincoln, was Burgess for the City of Lincoln to sit in that Parliament which began at Westminster 13. Apr. 1640. and died in 1647. One Joh. Farmery Bach. of Diu. succeeded Dr. Tho. Spark in the Archdeaconry of Stow in Apr. 1582, whom I take to be Uncle to the former, who was Son of Will. Farmery of Heapham in Lincolnshire.  

Francis Foxton  
Will. Lincoln 

D. of D.     
All which, were, I say, incorporated 13. July, being of the number of 35. at least who were then taken into the bosom of this University.  
Oct. 11. Lancelot Lowther Bach. of Arts of Trin. Coll. near Dublin.— One of both his names was admitted M. of A. as a member of Oriel Coll. 21. Jan. 1616.  
July 27. Mich. Jermin D. of D. of Leyden in Holland.— He was lately of C. C. Coll. in this University.  
Aug. 25. This right honourable and most excellent Antonius Rusaeus Marquis of Fiat. Lord of Cheliy and Lengimeau, etc. Privy Counsellor to the most Christain King of France, chief Master of the said King's Horse, Master of the Mines within the said Kingdom, and Embassdor extraordinary from the said most Christian King to the King of England, was incorporated Master of Arts: with which Degree he had lately been adorned at Cambridge.  
The right honourable Robert Rich Earl of Warwick, Baron of Lieghs, Knight of the Bath, etc. was incorporated M. of A. to which Degree he was lately admitted at Cambridge.— He afterwards sided with the Parliament in the time of the grand Rebellion, and was their Admiral at Sea for a time.  
Sir Gaspard d'Algre Knight, Count of Beau-voir, Baron of Viuroux, La Croste, Baffie, St. Desi●e, S. Marcel, Cornusset, Parnassout, Bruges, Sauset, Captain of 50 Chevaliers by the ordination of the most Christian King, was also incorporated in the same degree, to which he had been lately admitted at Cambridge.  
Sir Lewes Lewknore Knight, Master of the Ceremonies to King Jam. 1. and M. of A. of Cambridge.— Whether he be the same Lew. Lewknore who translated from Spanish into English The resolved Gentleman, printed 1594 in qu. and other things, I know not. See more in these Fasti, among the Creations, an 1636.  
Monsieur Jam. des Chempes', Orator of the most Christian King, was also incorporated M. of A. as he had formerly stood in the Uniu. or Academy of Dividon (Dividonensis.)  
All which honourable persons were incorporated with Anton. Rusaeus before mentioned, on the 2● Aug.  
Jan. 18. Gilb. Primrose M. of A of the University of S. Andrew in Scotland.— See more among the Creation's following.  
19 Ranulph adam's a Sect, Bach. of Arts of the said University.  
Feb. 24. Joh. Viccars Bach. of Arts of Cambridge, now a Commoner of Linc. Coll.   

Creations.  
Aug. 25. The honourable James de la Mariniere Baron of Montmartin, Gruchy, Borrivet, le Vignies and Guhebert, Ordinary Perfect of the Horse belonging to the most Christian King, was actually created Master of Arts.  
Will. Browne of Exeter Coll. had leave then given to him to be actually created M. of A. but 'twas not put in execution till 16 Nou. following.— He is styled in the public Register, Vir omni humana literatura & bonarum artium cognitione instructus. This person is the celebrated Poet whom I have mentioned among the Writers, under the year 1024. num. 516.  
Peregrin Langford had then also the degree of M. of A. given to him, when he would be pleased to come to the University for it.— On the 11 of Dec. following, he supplicated the ven. Congregation (being then absent) that his Creation might be deferred till Trinity Term following; but whether he was then created, it appears not.  
Jan. 18. Gilb. Primrose mentioned before among the Incorporations, was actually created D. of D. in the house of Convocation (just after he had been incorporated) by virtue of the 
d Reg. Convocat. N. fol. 199. b.  Letters of the Chancellor of this University, wherein is contained a large testimony of his singular probity and great learning, and that he had spent twenty years in the study of Theology, backed by recommendations from the King in consideration of his learning and worth. He was a Scotch man born, had been one of the French Preachers of the Protestant Church at Bourdeaux in France, but now of the French Church in London, and Chaplain in Ordinary to the King. In 1628., Jul. 21, he was installed Canon of Windsor in the place of Dr. John Buckridge, promoted to the See of Ely, (for he had kept that dignity several years in commendam with Rochester) which place he keeping till his death, Mr. Hugh Cressy sometimes of Merton Coll. was designed by his Majesty to succeed him, but was never installed because he afterwards changed his Religion. This Dr. Primrose hath written many things, as you may see in the Oxford Catalogue, among which are (1) Jacob's vow, opposed to the vows of Monks and Friars, Bergerac 1610. oct. in 4 Tomes or Vol. All which were written in good French, and the first Vol. containing two books, was translated into English by John Bulteel a Minister.— Lond. 1617. qu. (2) Lafoy Trumpet de Zion, etc. Bergarac 1610. oct. in 18 Sermons; translated into Latin under this Title, Tuba Sionis, seu Exhortatio ad poenetentiam & jejunium. Dantsic. 1631. oct. (3) The righteous man's evils and the Lords deliverances. Lond. 1625. qu. in 9 Sermons. (4) The Christian man's tears and Christ's comforts: Fast-sermon 7 Oct. 1624. on Matth. 5. 4. and on Luke 6. 21. Lond. 1625, in two parts, in tw. (5) The table of the Lord; whereof 1. The whole service is the living bread, etc. Lond. 1626. oct. in 3 Serm. etc. He paid his last debt to nature in his house in Chisell street near the Artillery Yard in the Suburbs of London, in Oct. or Nou. 1642, leaving then behind him several sons, viz. (1) James Primrose Doctor of Physic. (2) David Primrose Minister of the French Church at Rouen in Normandy. (3) Stephen, who was born 1606 Jan. 12 new stile: who after he came to age always rejected his Father's counsel, and would never follow any calling. Afterwards he became a presumptuous and vain glorious person, though very ignorant; did precipitate himself into divers and damnable Heresies, would abuse his Father at his own Table in the presence of his elder Brother and others, and would several times tell him that Jesus Christ was come to put division between Father and Children, etc. upon which account his Father left him nothing in his Will but six pence. (4) John Primrose born 24 Nou. 1608, who had spent so much money at Paris, London, and in the Low Countries, that he could give him no more in his Will.  
Joh Durie a Scotch man became a sojourner in the University, in the month of July this year, for the sake of the public Library, but how long he continued there, I cannot tell. He afterwards traveled into various Countries beyond the Seas, especially thro' most parts of Germany, where he visited the chief recesses of the Muses, and by long continuance spoke the Germane Tongue so well and fluent, that many English men after his return took him to be a Germane Native. He was by profession a Divine, was in Orders and a Preacher; but whether he took them according to the way of the Church of England, which he always scrupled▪ it doth not appear. He was a great pretender towards the making of a reconciliation between the Calvinists and Lutherans beyond the Seas, or as he himself used to say, For the making and settling a Protestant union and peace in the Churches beyond the Seas, etc. In which work he received encouragement 
† Canterbury's Doom, printed 1646. p. 539.  from Archb. Laud, though Prying his inveterate Enemy saith 
* Teid. p. 541.  not, but found so small encouragement from him, that he oft complained thereof to his friends. You may be pleased to see more of these matters, and of various Transactions of the life of the said Durie in a Letter written by him to his ancient Acquaintance Sam. Hartlib Esq; who published it (when the said Durie fell into the displeasure of the Presbyterians for showing himself false to them in several respects) with this Title, The unchanged, constant, and single-hearted Peacemaker drawn forth into the World: Or, a Vindication of Mr. Jo. Dury from the aspersions cast upon him in a nameless Pamphlet called. The time-serving Proteus, and ambidexter Divine, uncased to the World; wherein etc. Lond. 1650, in three sheets in quarto. Upon the turn of the times occasioned by the Presbyterians, an. 1641, he sided with them, was one of the Preachers before the Long Parliament, the members of which appointed him one of the Assembly of Divines, and took from them several places of Employment. Afterwards he sided with the Independents, took the Engagement, as he had the Covenant before, and all other Oaths that followed, till his Majesty's Restauration 1660; at which time, and after, he was living. He hath written and published about twenty Books and Pamphlets; among which are (1) Consultatio Theologica super negotio pacis Ecclesiast. Lond. 1641. qu. (2) Epistolary discourse to Tho. Goodwin, Ph. N●e and Sam. Hartlib. Lond. 1644, etc. qu. This being written against Toleration, was answered by H. Robinson. (3) Of Presbytery and Independency, etc. print. 1646. qu. (4) Model of Ch. government. print. 1647. qu. (5) Peacemaker the Gospel way. print. 1648. qu. (6) Seasonable discourse for reformation, Lond. 1649. qu. published by Sam. Hartlib. (7) Considerations concerning the Engagement. print. 1650. This being answered, Dury came out with a Reply. (8) The reformed School. Lond. 1650, in tw. published by S. Hartlib. (9) Supplement to the reform. School. Lond. 1651. in tw. published by the said Hartlib. (10) The reform. Library keeper. Lond. 1650. in tw. To which is added Bibliotheca Augusta sereniss. Princ. D. Augusti Ducis Brunovicensis & Luneb. quae est Wolferbyti. (11.) Earnest plea for Gospel-Communion. Lond. 1654. qu. (12) Summary platform of Divinity. pr. 1654. etc.    

An. Dom. 1625.  
An. 1 Car. 1.  
Chanc. Will. Earl of Pembroke.  
Vicechanc. Dr. Prideaux again, Jul. 19  

Proct. 

Nich. Brooks of Oriel Coll.  
Sam. Marsh of Trin. Coll. 

Apr. 27.       

Bach. of Arts.  

May 5. Gervase Warmstrey 

Jun. 22. 

Hen. Elsing  
Will. Hemmings 

of Ch. Ch.         

Jul. 6. 

Gasper Hicks of Trin.  
Rob. Cross of Linc. 

Nou. 22. Thom. Masters of New  
24. Henry Savage of Ball.  
Dec. 16. Christopher Airay of Qu. 

Coll.         

Feb. 6. Nich. Gibbon 

9 

Hen. Parker 

of S. Edm. Hall. 

Rich. Jones of Jesus  
13. Tho. Washbourne of Ball. 

Coll.             

14. 

Nath. Stephens  
Edw. Hyde  
John Lisle 

of Madg. Hall.       

15. 

Mich. Hudson  
Guy Carlton 

of Qu. Coll.       
The last was afterwards Bishop of Chichester.  
All which will be mentioned at large elsewhere.  
Adm. 256.   

Bach. of Law.  
Only six this year were admitted, the signior of whom was Rich. Basset of Lincoln Coll. a Compounder.   

Mast. of Arts.  
March 28. Joh. Viccars of Linc. Coll.  
Apr. 29. Joh. Ellis of Hart Hall.  
May 21. Will. Claybroke of Ball. Coll.— This person who was the second Son of an Esq; left Oxon soon after, changed his Religion, went beyond the Seas, and became Canon of some of the hither parts of France of Flanders, as I have been 
e Vide Bal●●fergum, or a Comment on the Foundation and Founders of Ballio● Coll. p. 118.  informed.  

June 23. George Hughes of Pembr. lately of C. C.  
25. Joh. Strickland of Qu.  
30. Henry Hammond of Magd.  
July 5. John Marsham of St. Joh. 

Coll.     
July 2. Joh. Lee of Ball. Coll.— He was afterwards one of the first Scholars of Pembroke Coll. at its first foundation, where, as at Balliol, he was an indefatigable Student, and of proficiency answerable. He wrote an interlude, but never acted or published, and hath a Lat. Speech in 
f Ibid. p.  print, which is all I know of him, only that he was Son of Joh. Lee of Abendon in Berks. and educated in the Free-school there.  

July 7. 

Joh. Sedgwick  
Joh. Angel 

of Magd. Hall.       
James Eglesfield of Qu. Coll. was admitted the same day.— He was afterward Vicar of Chewton in his native Country of Somersetshire, and Author of A heavenly hymn to the King of Heaven, Sermon on Mark 7. 37. Lond. 1640. oct. the Author being then dead. What else was published under his name I know not, nor any thing else him only that he was a Minister's Son and a learned Man.  
Admitted 156.   

Bach. of Diu.  

Apr. 1. 

Griffin Higgs of Mert.  
Elizeus Burges of St. Joh. 

Coll.       
The last was now Archdeacon of Rochester in the place of Rich. Tillesley deceased.  

May 19 

Hen. King  
Joh. King 

of Ch. Ch.       
June 28. John Davenport of Magd. hall.  

July 1. Brian Duppa  
2. Rog. Manwaring 

of Alls. 

8. Francis Potter of Trinity 

Coll.         
Admitted 19   

Doct. of Law.  
Mar. 31. William Skinner of Alls. Coll. Chancellor of the Dioc. of Hereford.  
☞ Not one Doctor of Physic was admitted this year.   

Doct. of Diu.  

May 19 

Hen. King  
Joh. King 

Canons of Ch. Ch.       
Both the Sons of Dr. King sometimes B. of London, and Accumulators and Compounders.  
26. Edw. à Meetkirke of Ch. Ch. Hebrew Professor of the University and about this time Prebendary of Winchester.  
June 20. Charles Croak of the same house, an Accumulator and Compounder.— He was at this time Rector of Amersham alias Agmundesham in Bucks. and Fellow of Eton Coll. and afterwards the writer and publisher of A sad memorial of Hen. Curwen Esq; only Child of Sir Patr. Curwen of Warkington in Cumberland Baronet, who died 21. Aug. 1638. aged 14 and was buried in the Church of Amersham in Bucks: Serm. on Job 14. 2. Oxon. 1638. qu. at which time the Author was Chaplain to K. Ch. 1. What other writings he hath published I know not, nor any thing else of him, only that he was born in Oxfordshire, and that he was a younger Son of Sir Joh. Croak of Chilton in Bucks, one of the Justices of the Kings-bench.  

July 1. Brian Duppa  
2. Roger Manwaring 

of Alls. Coll.     
Both which accumulated the Degrees in Divinity.  

8. 

Thomas Horn of Mert.  
Nath. Giles of Magd. 

Coll. Compounders.       
The first became Canon of Windsor in Oct. 1616. in the place of Dr. Edm. Nuttal sometimes Fellow of Clare hall in Cambridge deceased; and dying on the seventh of the Ides of Nou. 1636. aged 60, was buried in St. George's Chap. at Windsor. The other (Dr. Giles) became also Canon of the said Chapel, in the latter end of 1623., and in the latter end of 1626., Prebendary of Worcester in the place of Hen. Bright deceased. He died in the time of the grand rebellion.   

Incorporations.  
The plague raging this year in London, and therefore the Act put off, few incorporations occur. However those that are, take as they follow.  
July…Tho. Brown Bach. of the Laws of Trin. Coll. in Cambridge. Quaere.  
6. Edm. Prideaux M. A. of the same University.— This Person, if I am not mistaken, was the same, who, in the times of Usurpation, was Commissioner of the great Seal, and by ordinance did practice within the Bar, as one of the King's Council, and after that was made Attorney General, and Postmaster for all the Inland-letters. From which employments gaining a vast estate, left at the time of his death, 19 Aug. 1659. an incredible mass of gold (as the credible report than went) besides Lands of very great demesness.  
July 12. Lodovic. Rouseus Doctor of Phys. of the University of Leyden in Holland.  
Dec. 13. John Vernevil M. of A. of the Uniu. of Mountalbon in France, now or lately of Magd. Coll.  
Feb. 11. Thom. Levet, (of York Diocese) a Licentiat of the Civil Law in the Univers. of Orleans, was incorporated Bach. of the same fac.  
March 24. Edward Hayward M. of A. of Cambridge. Quaere.   

Creations.  
Jan. 26. John Hassall or Halsall a Student in Divinity, sometimes Bach. of Law and Fellow of New Coll. had then leave given to him by the venerable Convocation that he might be actually created Doctor of the said faculty, when he pleased to accept of that Degree, but the day when he was created, appears not. In the letters commendatory of the Chancellor of this Uniu. (Will. Earl of Pembroke) written to the members thereof, are these matters mentioned of the said Hassall.— He hath been a diligent and faithful preacher of the word of God in the Low-countries, and hath gotten a singular good reputation with the English in those parts, having been particularly favoured and cherished by the Count Palatine and the Lady Elizabeth his most Royal spouse.— He was, when myself was a Student in the University, a hopeful Scholar, and of special note in the same house with me, etc. The Letters also of Sir Horatio Vere written in his behalf to the University say also thus.— He hath not only gained a singular good report for his abilities, but for his pious and sweet conversation and esteem among us; meaning his Soldiers and Volunteers in the Low countries, where the said Sir Horatio was a Commander of a Regiment, sent to join with the united Princes in Germany. The said Dr. Hassall was installed Dean of Norwych (in the place of Dr. Edm. Suckling) on the 15. July 1628.; which Dignity he obtained by the endeavours of the Lady Elizabeth beforemention'd. He died and was buried at Creak in Norfolk in the times of Usurpation, and was succeeded in his Deanery, after the restauration of K. Charles 2. by Dr. Joh. Croft of Allsouls College, Brother to William Lord Croft.    

An. Dom. 1626.  
An. 2. Car. 1.  
Chancellor William Earl of Pembroke.  
Vicechanc. Will. Juxon LL. D. Precedent of St. John's College, July 22.  

Proct. 

Hopton Sydenham of Magd. C.  
Dionys. Prideaux of Ex. C. 

Apr. 19       

Bach. of Music.  
July 24. John Frith of St. John's Coll.— Some of his compositions and Anthems I have seen, but whether extant, I cannot tell.   

Bach. of Arts.  

Apr. 28. George Bate of St. Edm.  
Oct. 21. 

Giles Workman of Magd.  
Philip Hunton of Wadh. 

Hall. 

Nou. 20. Calybute Downing of Or. 

Coll.           
25. Hen. Wilkinson of Magd. hall commonly called Long Harry.  

Dec. 4. Rich. Napier of Wadh.  
Jan. 30. Edw. Hinton of Mert. 

Coll.     
Of the first of these two last, I shall make larger mention among the created Doctors of Phys. an. 1642, and of the other among the created Doctors of Diu. an. 1649.  
June 30. Joh. Prichet of St. Edm. hall, lately of Queens Coll.— He was afterwards Bishop of Gloucester.  

31. 

Henry Edmondson of Qu.  
Thom. Browne of Pemb. 

Coll.       
The last of these two, was the first Man of note that was admitted to a Degree, as a member of Pembroke Coll. He was afterwards an eminent Physician, Vertuoso, and Knight.  

Feb. 1. 

Franc. Cheynell of Mert. Coll.  
Joh. Biscoe of New Inn.     
All which will be mentioned at large hereafter.  
On the 15. of March Sir Charles Howard of Ch. Ch. had his grace granted for Bach. of Arts, but whether admitted, it appears not.— I take him to be the same Sir Ch. Howard who was lately made Kt. of the Bath, and after the death of his Father became Earl of Berkshire. He died about the beginning of the year 1679.  
Adm. 272. or thereabouts.   

Bach. of Law.  
Of nine Bachelaurs of Law, that were admitted this year, I cannot find one of them that was afterwards a Writer, or Bishop, or of any eminent place in the Church.   

Mast. of Arts.  

March 28. Edw. Pococke of C. C.  
Apr. 28. Hen. Tozer of Exeter  
May 4. George Griffith of Ch. Ch. 

Coll.     

June 27. Rob. Codrington of Magd.  
July 6. Arthur Salway of Brasn. 

Coll.     
The last was afterwards Minister of Severne-stoke in his native Country of Worcestershire, and hath published Halting stigmatised: Fast Sermon before the House of Commons 25. Oct 1643. on 1. Kings 18. 21. Lond. 1644. qu. and perhaps other things. Quaere.  
Feb. 26. Tobias crisp of Ball. Coll.— He is to be numbered among the Writers in the 2. Vol. of this work.  
Admitted 134.   

Bach. of Phys.  
Of Six Bachelaurs of Phys. that were admitted this year, I can not find one that was afterwards eminent. Besides them, were two Students in that faculty adm. to practise viz. John Speed of St. John's, and Thom. Nourse of Lincoln Coll. both afterwards eminent Physicians.   

Bach. of Diu.  
May 6. John Morris Chaplain of Alls. Coll.— See more of him among the Doctors of Diu. an. 1634.  
Besides Mr. Morris, were 10 more Bachelaurs admitted, of whom I cannot as yet give any account.  
☞ Not one Doctor of Law was admitted this year, nor one in Physic.   

Doct. of Diu.  
Dec. 14. Walt. Coningsbi● of Exeter Coll.  
16. Accepted Frewen Precedent of Magd. Coll. a Compounder.  
Feb. 17. Christopher Potter Provost of Queens Coll.   

Incorporations.  
July 7. Edm. Layfield Bach. of Diu. of Cambridge.— He hath published The Souls solace: Fun. Serm. on Psal. 73. 25— printed 1632. qu. And if he be the same Layfield who had been Chaplain to Geor Earl of Cumberland in his travels, he was Author of A large relation of Port Ricco voyage, which is inserted in the fourth Vol. of Sam. Purchas his Pilgrims, printed at Lond. 1625. p. 11. 55. One John Layfield D. D. had a hand in translating the Bible in the beginning of K. Jam. 1. but he, you must know, was Fellow of Trin. Coll. in Cambridge, and afterwards Parson of St. Clement's Church without Temble-bar near London, where he died in 1617.  
July 10. Thom. Aylesbury Bach. of Diu. of the same University.— He hath published (1) Serm. preached at Paul's cross, 2. June 1622, on Luke 17. 37. Lond. 1623. qu. (2) Treatise of the comfession of sin, with power of the Keys, etc. printed 1657. qu. (3) Diatribae de aeterno divini beneplaciti ciroa creaturas intellectuales decreto, ubi patrum consulta, etc. Cantab. 1659. qu.  
Edward Alston Doct. of Phys. of the said Uniu. of Cambridge was incorporated on the same day.— He was afterwards a Knight and Precedent of the Coll. of Physicians at London. He died in the Parish of Great St. Helen's in Lond. in the Winter time, 1669.  
July 24. James Usher Archb. of Armagh and Primate of all Ireland, was incorporated Doct. of Diu. as he had stood in the Uniu. of Dublin.— This was done while he lodged in Jesus Coll. purposely to peruse certain MSS. in the Public Library and elsewhere. In a Convocation held 10. March 1644. certain Doctors and Masters were by the Vicechanc. and Proctors appointed to take care and see that his Effigies should be engraven on a copper plate, with an Elogium under it, be prefixed to his Annotations on Ignatius his Epistles, then printing in Oxon. It was also then ordered that he said plate should be engraved at the charge of the University, and in the name thereof. The Elogium which was afterwards by their appointment made, runs thus Jacobus Vsserius, etc. James Usher Archb. of Armagh, Primate of all Ireland, the most skilful of Primitive antiquity, the unanswerable defender of the Orthodox Religion, the maul of errors, in preaching frequent, eloquent, very powerful, a rare example of an unblameable life.   

Rob. Pinks Vicechanc.  
But this inscription, with the Effigies, was not put before the said Book, but before that De Ro. Eccl. Symbolo Apost. Lond. 1647. and some others since.  
Jan. 31. Nich. Andrews was, with Rich. Andrews, (both Masters of Arts of Cambridge, incorporated here, as they had stood there.— Nich. Andrews was afterwards Doct. of Diu. Rector of Guildford and Vicar of Godalmine in Surrey; where showing himself a zealous Man for the Church of England, and a great Loyalist, was turned out of his livings by the Committee of Religion, appointed by the Long Parliament, an. 1643. He is mentioned in The first Century of scandalous, malignant Priests, p. 8.  
Feb. 1. Tobias Crispe Bach. of Arts of Cambridge, now of Ball. Coll.— See before, among the Masters of Arts this year.   

Creations.  
July (22) Joh. Chudleigh Bach. of Arts of Wadham Coll. the eldest Son of Sir George Chudleigh of Alston in Devonshire Baronet, was created Master of Arts, he being a little before elected a Burgess to serve in Parliament.  
Nou. 20. Leonard Digges Bach. of Arts of University Coll. in Academiis transmarinis bonarum artium studiis diu versatus (as the public register saith) earumque cognitione optimè excultus, was actually created Master of Arts.  
On the 27. of Dec. this year Edward Michelbourne a Gentleman's Son of Hampshire, originally a Commoner of St. Mary's hall, and afterwards for many years of that of Gloucester, was buried in the Parish Church of St. Thomas the Martyr in the W. Suburb of Oxford, aged 62 or thereabouts.— The reasons why I set him down here are (1) Because he took no Degree, being a Rom. Catholic, otherwise I would have put him in that year wherein he took a Degree (2) Because he was the most noted Latin Poet of his time in the University, as divers copies of his composition printed in several books, show; which if put together, would make a Manual. (3) That the Poets of his time did mostly submit their labours to his judgement before they were made public, particularly Charles' Fitz-Geffry, who dedicates his Assaniae to him.  
Rich. Broughton a Sojournour in Oxon. was entered a Student into the public Library on the 19 of June this year, under the title of a Minister of God's word. This Person who had formerly studied in Oxon. to gain materials for the publishing of certain books, was born of gentile Parents at Great Steukley in Huntingdonshire, (but descended of an ancient Family of his name living at Broughton Tower in Lancashire,) Sent when young to Rheimes in France, where passing his course among the English, became a good Philosopher and Theologist, and well skilled in the Greek and Heb. tongues. Afterwards, he being made Priest, was sent into the Mission of England, continued there many years in good repute for his religion, learning, experience, and public spirit: For which he was thought to be the fittest Person to be chosen Assistant to the Archpriest, that had been then lately appointed by his holiness the Pope. He hath written (1) Apologetical Epistle. (2) Moderate answer to a most calumniating Libel, which endeavours to prove that a Rom. Catholic cannot be a good Subject. (3) Continuations of the Cath. Apology made up out of Protestant Authors. (4) Ecclesiastical History of Gr. Britain deduced by ages, or centuries, from the nativity of our Saviour, unto the happy conversion of the Saxons, etc. Douai 1633. fol. Tho 'tis a rhapsody, and a thing not well digested, yet there is a great deal of reading showed in it. 'Tis said in the title to be the first Tome, as if another was to follow. (5) True memorial of the ancient, most holy and religious estate of Great Britain, flourishing with Apostles, Apostolical Men, Monasteries, religious Rules and Orders, in great number, in the time of the Britain's, and Primitive Church of the Saxons, etc. printed 1650. oct. published by G. S. P. (6) Monasticon Britanicum: Or, a historical narration of the first founding and flourishing state of the ancient Monasteries, religious Rules and Orders of Great Britain, in the times of the Britain's and Primitive Church of the Saxons, etc. Lond. 1655. oct. This Book I have, the title of which running almost verbatim, as the former, (which I have not yet seen) makes me to guests, that it is in many things the same. Quaere. This industrious Author, who probably hath written other matters died in a good old age, on the fifteenth of the Kal. of Febr. an. 1634, and was buried near to the bodies of his Father and Mother and other of his relations in the Church of Great Steuckley beforemention'd. Over his grave was soon after a Mon. with an inscription thereon, put, wherein he is styled Presbyter Anglus, innocentia morum Angelicus. Majorum prosapiam, quorum ipse nemini impar sacra functione longè superavit, & claro virtutum ingenitarum praeconio perennavit, etc. Antiquariorum sui saeculi exquisitissimus, Ecclesiasticoruns Monumentum, aurifodinam, haereditatem omni thesauro pretiosiorem, raro scientiss. virorum, sed optabili exemplo, posteris reliquit, etc.    

An. Dom. 1627.  
An. 3. Car. 1.  
Chanc. Will. Earl of Pembroke.  
Vicechanc. Dr. Juxon again, July 19  

Proct. 

Hugh Halswell of Alls. Coll.  
Franc. Hyde of Ch. Ch. 

Apr. 4.       
Upon the resignation made by the said Proctors of their office 22. Apr. 1628. Mr. Will. Hyde and Mr. Isaac Taylor were Procuratores nati till the 13. of June following, the controversy of electing Proctors being not till that time finished. See more in Hist. & Antiq. Vniu. Oxon. lib. 1. p. 330. b. 331. a.  

Bach. of Arts.  
June 1. Joh. Webberley of Linc. Coll.— See among the Bachelaurs of Diu. in 1640.  
11. Sam. Fisher of Trin. Coll. afterwards of New Inn, and of all religions in the time of the grand rebellion.  
Rog. Lorte of Wadham Coll. (the Poet) was admitted the same day.  
July 3. Rich. Chalfout of New Inn, afterwards of Linc. Coll.— See more among the Bach. of Diu. 1637.  

Oct. 23. Joh. Archer of Exeter  
25. Robert Maton of Wadh. 

Coll.     
Feb. 18. Rob. Randolph of Ch. Ch.— This Person, who took no higher Degree in this University, was a most ingenious Poet, as several of his copies of verses printed in various books show. He collected together the Poems, Plays, and other matters of his Brother Tho. Randolph the celebrated Poet of his time, as I have before told you. This Rob. Randolph who was first Vicar of Barnetby, and after of Donnington in Holland in Lincolnshire, was buried in the Church at Donnington 7. July 1671. aged 60 or thereabouts.  

21. 

Hen. Carpenter  
Sam. Austin 

of Exet. Coll.       
27 Joh. Aris of Magd hall.— See among the Master's 1630.  
As for Fisher, Lorte, Archer, Maton and Carpenter, they are to be mentioned at large hereafter.  
Adm. 240. or thereabouts.   

Bach. of Law.  
But seven were admitted this year, of whom Morgan Godwin of Pemb. Coll. was one, Edw. Lake whom I shall anon mention, another, and a third called Oliver Lloyd of Alls. Coll.   

Mast. of Arts.  
Apr. 17. Rich. Allen of Pemb. Coll.  
June 1. Thom. Ford of Magd. Hall.  

2. 

Hen. Beesley  
Steph. Goffe. 

of St. Alb. Hall.       

2. 

Tho. Browne of Ch. Ch.  
Joseph caryl of Ex. Coll.     
July 2. Christop. Elderfield of S. Mary's Hall.  
6. Reg. Turner of Exet. Coll.— This Person who was afterwards beneficed near Southampton, and the place of his nativity, hath published The usurers plea answered, in a Sermon preached at Southampton 18. Jul. 1633. on Matth. 25. 27. Lond. 1634. qu. and another on 2 Kings 11. ver. 12.— Printed in 1661. qu. and not unlikely others.  
Mar. 14. Francis Davies of Jes. Coll.  
Adm. 131. or thereabouts.  
☞ Not one Bach. of Physic was admitted this year.   

Bach. of Diu.  

June 2. Alex. Huish of Wadh.  
16. Cornel. Burges of Linc.  
21. Hugh Robinson of New  
27. Alexand. Gill of Trin. 

Coll.     
July 5. Will. Hayes of Magd. hall.— He was the same Person who had published The Lawyers Looking glass, Serm. at S. Mary's in Oxon, at the Assizes 7. Jul. 1624., on Either 1. 15. Oxon 1624. qu. Whether he wrote or published any thing else, I know not, not do I know any thing of him besides, only that he was a Hampshire Man born, and that he was afterwards Rector of Skilgate, and at length, in 1635 Rect. of Orchard, both in Somersetshire.  
July 6. Thom. Lashington of Pemb. Coll.  
Adm. 27.   

Doct. of Law.  
June ult. Matthew Nicholas of New Coll.— This Person who was afterwards Can. resident of Salisbury, became Dean of Bristol on the death of Dr. Edw. Chetwynd an. 1639. and in 1642 was made Canon of the fifth stall in the Collegiate Church of St. Peter in Westminster on the death of Dr. William Robinson, Brother, by the Mother's side, to Dr. Laud Archb. of Canterbury. Of which Dignities being deprived in the time of the rebellion, became after his Majesty's restauration Dean of St. Paul's Cathedral in London. In Bristol succeeded Dr. Hen. Glemham of Oxon, an. 1660, and in St. Paul's, Dr. Joh. Barwick of Cambridge, elected thereunto 15. Oct. 1661. To this Dr. Nicholas his piety and moderation, the Church was as much beholding, as the State was to his elder Brother Sir Edw. Nicholas. The former died 15. Aug. 1661., the other on the first of Sept. 1669. aged 77, and was buried in Horsley Church in Surrey, where there is a fair monument, with a large inscription thereon, over his grave. By the way I desire the reader to know that the said Sir Edward was born at Winterbourne-Earles in Wiltshire, where his name is, or at least hath been, ancient and gentile, that he had his education in this University, and afterwards in the Royal Court, where he became at length Secretary of State to K. Ch. 1. and afterwards a sufferer for his cause, and an Exile with his Son Ch. 2. After the restauration of the last, he continued in the office of Secretary, but then growing ancient, he resigned it in Oct. 1662. At which time his Majesty in consideration of his fidelity, constancy, and affection to his and his Father's service, did freely offer to make him a Baron, but Sir Edward, according to his wont candour and modesty, (after he had most humbly returned his thanks) besought his Majesty therein to spare him. A Gentleman of both his names wrote An apology for the honourable nation of the Jews, and all the Sons of Israel. Lond. 1648. in qu. What relation he had to the said Sir Edward, I know not.  

Jun. ult. 

Will. Merick  
Will. Griffith 

of New Coll.       
The former was afterwards Judge of the Prerogative Court for the Province of Canterbury, eminent for his great learning and abilities, as also for his loyalty and affection to his Majesty K. Ch. 2. and to his glorious Father, both at home and beyond the Seas. Upon which account he was sent for to the Court, 8. Nou. 1661. and had the honour of Knighthood conferred upon him in his Majesty's Bedchamber. He died in the Winter time an. 1668. and was succeeded in his Judgship by Dr. Leolin Je●kins. The other, Will. Griffith was Chancellor of the Dioceses of St. Asaph and Bangor.  

July 21. Charles Tooker of Oriel  
Jan. 14. Gilb. Jones of Allsouls 

Coll.     
The first of these two last died at Abendon in Berks, an. 1660, the other was about this time Chancellor of the Dioc. of Bristol.  
☞ Not one Doctor of Physic was admitted this year.   

Doct. of Diu.  

June 16. Cornelius Burges of Linc.  
21. Hugh Robinson of New  
25. Vincent Pierce of Pemb. 

Coll.     
Which three Doctors did accumulate the Degrees in Divinity.  

27. George Byrom of Brasn.  
July 4. Rich Puliston of Wad.  
Feb. 21. Ant. Saunders of Vniu. 

Coll.     
The first of these last three was now beneficed in Cheshire, and had for several years served K. Jam. 1. and K. Ch. 1. both as Commissioner of the Peace, and a Commissioner of the High Commission for causes Ecclesiastical.   

Incorporations.  
On the 10. of July being the next day after the conclusion of the Act, were 59 Cantabrigians incorporated in several faculties, the names of some of which follow.  
Rich Sterne Bach. of Diu. of C. Christi Coll.— This most worthy and loyal Person who was Son of Sim Stern of Mansfield in Nottinghamshire, (descended from those of his name in Suffolk) was afterwards D. of D. Master of Jesus Coll. and Chaplain to Archb. Laud; with whom he was present on the Scaffold, when he was to be beheaded, purposely to administer comfort to him. But before that time, he had been imprisoned by the endeavours of Oliver Cromwell a Burgess for the Town of Cambridge in the Long Parliament, for being very instrumental in conveying the plate belonging to several Colleges and Halls in Cambridge to his Majesty then at York, and thereabouts: I say being hurried up to London with other Doctors, was imprisoned in the Tower of London, where by permission he attended the said Archbishop. About that time he was ejected his Mastership of Jesus Coll. lost all he had, suffered in an high manner for his loyalty, and lived obscurely during the interval. At length, upon his Majesty's restauration, he was nominated by him Bishop of Carlisle; whereupon being consecrated thereunto in the Abbey Church of St. Peter at Westminster, on the second day of Decemb. an. 1660. sat there till the death of Dr. Frewen Archb. of York, and then being elected to succeed him in that See 28. Apr. 1664 was enthronised on the 10. of June following, in the Person of Dr. Edmund Diggle a Dignitary of that Church. This Dr. Sterne hath written. (1) Sermons or a Comment. on 103 Psalm.— Printed 1649. oct. (3) Summa Logicae, partim ex optimis quibusque autoribus tum antiquis tum recentioribus collecta; maximè autem ex usu & ad usum comparata, exemplis omnium genorum abunde illustrata. Lond. 1686. oct. and, as 'tis probable, other things. This worthy Archb. died about 23. June 1683 and was buried in the Cath. Church of York. Afterwards succeeded Dr. Joh. Do●ben, as I shall tell you elsewhere.  
Joh. Burges Doct. of Phys. and Parson of Sutton Colfield in Warwickshire, was also then incorporated. At which time liberty was allowed to him by the ven. congregation that he might study in the public library, being then a conformist to the Ch▪ of England. He paid his last debt to nature on the last day of Aug. 1635 aged 72. or thereabouts, and was buried in the Chancel of Sutton Colfield, in the same vault where the body of his then late Wife Dorothy was buried. He hath, written An apology to the Bishop of Lincoln, etc. answered by Dr. Will. Covell, an. 1606. Also The Pope's deadly wound resolving the controversies between us and them. pr. in qu. and other things, as the Oxford Catalogue will tell you. See more of him in Tho. Wilcocks among the writers, an 1599  

George Stanhop  
John Partenton 

D. D.     
As for the other Persons of Cambridge who were incorporated on the said day (July 10) I know no great matter of them, and therefore I shall proceed to speak of others who were afterwards incorporated.  
July 11. John Thorie, Thorius or Thoris Doct. of Phys. of the Uniu. of Dublin.— He was Son of Ralph Thorius a Physician, and had formerly been Bach. of Arts of Magd. Coll.  
Rich. Hawley Doct. of Phys. of Leyden in Holland was incorporated the same day.— He was now or lately Fellow of Merton College.  
Octob. 25. Francis Glisson M. of A. of G●nvil and Caies Coll. in Cambridge.— This learned Gentleman who was second Son of William Glisson of Rampisham in Dorsetshire; and he the second Son of Walt. Glisson of the City of Bristol, was afterwards Doct. of Physic, the King's public Professor of that faculty in the said University, Candidate of the Coll. of Physicians at London, an. 1634, Fellow the year after, Anatomy reader in the said Coll. 1639, practised Physic at Colchester during the time of the rebellion, where he was present when the generous Royalists of Kent were besieged 1648. and after. In 1655 he was chosen one of the Elects of the said College and afterwards was Precedent thereof for several years. He hath written (1) Prolegomena Anatomica. (2) Anatomia Hepatis. (3) Do Lymphae-ductibas. All which were several times printed, and once at Amsterdam 1659. in tw. (4) De natura substantiae energetica, sewde via vitae, etc. Lond 1672. qu. (5) Deventriculo & intestinis, etc. Lond. 1677. qu. and was one of the three (Geo Bate and 〈◊〉 Regem●rter being the other two) who wrote De Rachitide, sive morbo puerili, qui vulgo the Rickets dicitur. Lond. 1650. oct. The discovery also of the Capsula communis or Vagina Portae is owing to him, who hath likewise given us certain notes for the more easy distinguishing of the Vena cava, Porta and Vasa fellea in excarnating the Liver. Further also he hath 
* See in the Epist. dedic. to Dr. Charles 〈◊〉 book, entit. The Royal Coll. of 〈…〉 established by Law, etc. Lond. 16●6. qu.  given such an excellent account of Sanguification (discharging the Liver from that office) and proved it by so good arguments, and clear experiments, that few have since doubted the truth thereof. This worthy Doctor, to whose learned Lucubrations and deep disquisitions in Physic, not only Great Britain, but remoter Kingdoms owe a particular respect and veneration, died much lamented in the Parish of S. Bride alias S. Bridget in London in Oct. or Nou. 1677.  
Dec. 15. Edward Lake lately Bach. of Arts of Catherine Hall in Cambridge, was incorporated in the same degree.— On the 24 Jan. following he was admitted Bach. of the Civil Law as a Member of S. Alban Hall.  
This year was a supplicate made for one Hen. Jacie M. of A. to be incorporated, but whether he was so or not, I cannot find. I take him to be the same with Henry Jessie alias Jacie a Preachers Son, who was born at West Rowton in the north Riding of Yorkshire 3 Sept. 1601, and who in 1618. became Pensioner of S. Joh. Coll. in the said University. Whence, after he had taken one degree in Arts, he was invited to live in the house of Brampton Gourdon of Assington in Suffolk Gent. Father to Joh. Gourdon a Burgess in the Long Parliament that began 1640, (nominated one of the Judges to sit on K. Ch. 1. but was not present when Sentence was passed) and to two others of that name who were Recruiters in that Parliament. In which house being settled, he studied Physic as well as Divinity. After he had commenced M. of A. which was in 1626., he preached privately in the Neighbourhood, and distributed practical Books among the Brethren. Afterwards he removed to several places, but was not permitted to tarry long in any, because he was zealously averse to Conformity. At length in 1645 he repaired to London, where he joined himself to the Congregation, of which Mr. Hen. Jacob and Mr. Joh. Lathorp had been Pastors, where he continued 25 years, not without several disturbances, especially before the grand Rebellion broke out. He hath written (1) A catechism for Children. The Answers in which were wholly in the words of the Scripture. (2) The Scripture-Kalendar in use by the Prophets and Apostles, and by our Lord Jesus Christ, explaining the Accounts, Measures, etc. This was first printed in 1645 and afterwards came out with several Additions to the time of his Majesty's Restauration 1660, and perhaps after. (3) The exceeding riches of grace advanced in the conversion of Mrs. Sarah Wight. Lond. 1647. oct. (4) Storehouse of provision for resolving cases of conscience, etc. Lond. 1650, in tw. (5) Description and explanation of 268 places in Jerusalem and the suburbs thereof, with a large map. printed 1653, qu. (6) The lords loud call to England: being a true relation of some late, various and wonderful Judgements, or handiworks of God, by Earthquake, Lightning, etc. Lond. 1660. in six sheets in qu. This Book begins with certain matters relating to Oxon, which being very false, the Reader cannot otherwise but judge the rest so to be. In 1661. came out an imposture of a most damnable design called Mirabilis annus, or the year of prodigies and wonders, etc. and in 1662. the first and second part of Annus mirabilis secundus, and probably other parts, but such I have not yet seen. When these came out, which were advanced by several hands, it was verily supposed that Henry Jessie had a principal share in them. (7) Miscellanea sacra: divers necessary truths seasonably published, etc. printed 1665, in oct. (8) A looking-glass for children: being a narrative of Gods gracious dealings with some little children. Lond. 1674, oct. He hath also written a Pref. or commendatory Epistle before Joh. Grails Modest vindication of the doctrine of conditions in the covenant of Grace, etc. and other little things besides his own Experiences, which I have not yet seen. At length paying his last debt to nature 4 Sept. 1663., being then accounted the Oracle and Idol of the faction, was on the 7 of the same month laid to sleep with his Fathers in a hole made in the Yard joining to Old Bedlam near morefield's in the Suburbs of London, attended with a strange medley of fanatics (mostly Anabaptists) that met upon the very point of time, all at the same instant, to do honour to their departed Brother. Some years after came out a short account of his life and death etc. but full of ridiculous and absurd Canting; to which is annexed An Elegy on Mr. Will. Bridge. Which Bridge had been sometimes Fellow of Emanuel Coll. in Cambridge, was afterwards a Presbyterian, one of the Ass. of Divines, and the independent Minister of Yarmouth in Norfolk. He died a Nonconformist in 1670. See more of Hen. Jessie in Jos. Caryl, in the other Vol. of this work.   

Creations.  
May 25. Robert Lord Dormer of Wenge, lately of Exeter Coll. was actually created Mast. of Arts.— He was afterwards the first Earl of Caernarvan of his name, and taking up Arms in defence of his Majesty K. Ch. 1. had the hard fate to be killed near Newbury in Berkshire 20 Sept. 1643. See among the created Doctors of Law in 1642.  
William Lewis M. of A. and lately Provost of Oriel Coll. was actually created Doct. of Diu. on the same day, by virtue of his Majesty's letters dated 9 of the same month, running partly thus— William Lewis an ancient Master of Arts, who hath spent divers years both at home and abroad in the study of Divinity.— We, out of our experience of his diligence and ability of some affairs of weight, wherein we have in foreign parts employed him, being to use his person in some further service, wherein we think him fit to be continued, and graced with the degree of Doct. of Diu. etc. we therefore require you to create and admit him Doctor, etc. This person who was born in Merionithshire, was elected from Hart Hall (of which he was Commoner under the government of Theodore Price his Uncle) into the Society of Oriel College, an. 1608, being then Bachelaur of Arts. Afterwards proceeding in that faculty, he took holy Orders, and though a junior Master in his College, yet by a faction, and majority of Welsh men, got the Provostship of that place in 1617. But being too young for that office, and not able to conceal his amours (which were much aggravated 
† See Lew. du Moulin his Patronut bona fidei in causa Puritan●rum contra Hierarchos Ang●ae etc. Lond. 1672 in specun. contra D●r●llum, p. 61. See also in Canterbury's Deom in the Index for Lew●s and elsewhere.  by the Puritans) he abruptly left it and went beyond the Seas in his Majesty's Service. After his return he became Chaplain to the Duke of Buckingham, with whom being to go beyond the Seas ●or the relief of Rochel, was actually created D. of D. as before 'tis told you. After his return from that unhappy Expedition, he drew up from his notes A general relation of a Voyage to the under the command and conduct of the Duke of Buckingham. The beginning of which is, Though the variety of the occurrents of this action might furnish argument enough of a just story, etc. This I have seen in a folio MS. of 18 sheets or more, but whether ever printed, I know not. Afterwards he was made Master of the Hospital of S. Cross, and Prebendary of Winchester; which, with other preferments, losing in the time of the Rebellion, he fled beyond the Seas, and suffered much for the royal cause; while, in the mean time, his Sons were gained to the Church of Rome. After his Majesty's return an. 1660, he was restored to what he had lost, and dying within the Hospital of S. Cross before mentioned, 7 July 1667, was buried in the Chapel there, under, or near, the high Altar.  
Dec. 31. Richard Napier lately Bach. of Arts of Wadham Coll. was created Master of that Faculty in the House of Convocation, by virtue of the Chancellors Letters, which say that he is a kinsman of the Duchess of Richmond, and a person well deserving in all that is necessary in a Gentleman and a Scholar.  
I have made mention of him before, and shall again among the created Doctors of Physic, an. 1642.    

An. Dom. 1628.  
An. 4 Car. 1.  
Chanc. William Earl of Pembroke.  
Vicechanc. Accepted Frewen D. D. Precedent of Magd. College, July 24.  

Proct. 

Rob. Williamson of Magd. Coll.  
Rob. Lloyd of Jesus Coll. 

June 13.       
Which Proctors were named by the King, as I have elsewhere told you: For certain new Ordinations being transmitted to the University by the Chanc. thereof in the month of Apr. for the election of the Proctors, the Academians could not after their usual way meet together for the election of them, many Parsons, Curates, and Schoolmasters having already resorted from several parts of the Nation, nay some from Wales, to elect Lloyd. Whereupon no small tumult arising in the University, the election of new Proctors was prorogued till such time that the Controversies therein were equally composed. At length after all parties were satisfied, it was reputed unlawful for the Masters to nominate any to the procuratorial office, but the aforesaid Candidates Williamson and Lloyd. Which being the sentence of the King and Chancellor, that ancient custom of choosing Proctors by suffrages in scrutiny vanished and came to nothing, and another new form of Election was introduced, as I shall the next year show.  

Bach. of Arts.  
June 21. Will. Sedgwick of Pemb. Coll.  

Jul. 3. Tho. Warmstry  
Oct. 11. Joh. Gregory 

of Ch. Ch.     
The last was the most curious Critic of his time.  
14. Edm. Vaughan of C. C. Coll.  

21. 

Tho. Good of Ball. Coll.  
Rich. Busbie  
Jasp. maine 

of Ch. Ch.       
24. Will. Burton of Qu. Coll. afterwards of Gloc. Hall.  
Nou. 13. John Oxenbridge of Magd. Hall.  
Dec. 13. John Goughe commonly called Goffe., lately of Merton, now of Magd. Coll.  

Feb. 5. 

George Bathurst of Trin.  
Abrah. Woodhead of Vniu. 

Coll.       
Of the first of these last two, you may see more among the Bach. of Diu. 1640.  

7. Tho. Hall of Pembr. 

12. 

Franc. Roberts of Trin.  
Obadiah Grew of Ball. 

Coll.         
Which three last were zealous Presbyterians in the time of the grand Rebellion.  
Feb. 12. Edm. Chilmead of Magd. Coll. afterwards of Ch. Ch.  

14. 

Tho. Horn of Magd. Hall.  
Mirth Waferer of Merton Coll.     
All which Bachelaurs, except Bathurst, will be mentioned as Writers in the next Vol. or elsewhere.  
Adm. 255.  
☞ Not one Bach. of Law was admitted this year.   

Mast. of Arts.  

May 10. Rob. Cross of Linc.  
13. Edw. Layfield of S. Joh.  
15. Gasper Hicks of Trinity 

Coll.     
As for Layfield, he was afterwards Archdeacon of Essex, in the place, as I conceive, of Dr. Geor Goulman, which Doctor dying on the first of Jan. 1633, was buried in the Chancel of the Church of Cheston in Hertfordshire. About the same time Layfield became D. of D. but not by admission or creation of this University, and Vicar of all-hallows Barkin near to the Tower of London, where continuing till the grand Rebellion broke out in 1642, was then, for his Loyalty, and for his being favoured by Dr. Laud, pursevanted, imprisoned in Ely house and in the Ships, sequstred, plundered, and afterwards forced to fly. When K. Ch. 2. returned to his Dominions, he was restored to his Vicarage and Archdeaconry, and had other preferments, as I conceive▪ bestowed on him, of which one was a Prebendship of S. Paul's Cath. Ch. He was buried in the said Church of all-hallows 10 Aug. 1680. Whereupon Mr. Tho. Turner of C. C. Coll. Oxon, one of the Sons of Dr. Th. Turner sometimes Dean of Canterbury, was installed in his Archdeaconry in January following.  

Jun. 25. 

Nath. Stephens of Magd.  
Hen. Parker of S. Edm. 

Hall.       

Jun. 25. 

Thom. Washbourne of Ball.  
Rich. Browne  
Joh. Greaves  
Charles Gibbes 

of Mert. 

Will. White of Wadham 

Coll.           
As for Rich. Browne who was Fellow of Mert. Coll. he was afterwards a Traveller and Doctor of the Laws, but of what University I cannot yet tell. After his return, he became one of the Gentlemen of the privy Chamber to K. Ch. 1. and Clerk of the Council. In 1640 he was employed by his Majesty to go to Henry Frederick Prince of Aurange or Orange, about the marriage of the Princess Mary to the Prince his Son; as also to the Queen of Bobemia and the Prince Elector, an. 1641, to hinder that Prince his coming over into England at the then juncture of affairs, with promise to take into his consideration the concern of the Palatinate and other matters of state. In the same year the said R. Browne was sent to Paris, where he continued Resident in the Court of France for K. Ch. 1. and Ch. 2. to the French King Lewis the 13, and his Son Lewis 14, till the Restauration of his Majesty an. 1660. In which time, which was 19 years, I find these things following to occur relating to him. (1) That divers important matters of state were transacted by him with those great Minister's Cardinal Richlieu and Mazarine. (2) That many advantages were offered him by the Usurpers of England to be false to his Masters, but he resisted them. (3) That he did to his great expense, but more to his everlasting glory, keep up in the large house which he hired at Paris, the public Service and Liturgy of the Church of England, whither his Maj. Ch. 2. and then Duke of York did constantly resort. From whence divers Ministers of the Church of England (Exiles for their Loyalty) had many disputes with the R. Catholics and others concerning the visibility of their Church, which they then kept up, while it was eclipsed in England. (4) That he was employed by his Maj. Ch. 1. to carry the George and Garter to Bernard Duke of Espernon. (5) That he did negotiate about the Queen's portion; out of which, he had, I think, 1000 l. which, with 200 l. more, was all he touched in the said 19 years, whilst he spent of his paternal Estate much more than that yearly, during his abode at Paris. (6) That on the first of Sept. 1649 he was created a Baronet (being the first that K. Ch. 2. made) by virtue of a dormant Warrant sent to him by Ch. 1. dated 1 Febr. 1643; and on the 19 of the said Sept. he received the honour of Knighthood at St. Germans from his said Maj. Ch. 2. he being then also Clerk of the Council to him. In 1660 he returned into England with his Majesty, and did execute the said Office for some time. But years then coming on, he resigned it, and retired to Charlton in Kent, where he spent the remainder of his time in a pleasant retiredness and studious recess. At length giving way to fate in a good old Age on the 12 of Febr. 1681, was buried according to his desire in the Churchyard at Deptford, close to the Wall of the Church, where is a black Marble ballastred over his body. On the other side of the Wall in the Church lies buried his Father Christop. Brown Esq; who died in March 1645 aged 70 years, and his Grandfather Sir Rich. Brown Knight, a younger Son of an ancient Family at Hitcham in Suffolk, seated afterwards at Horsley in Essex; who being a Student in the Temple, was by Robert Dudley the great Earl of Leycester taken into the service of the Crown; when he went Governor of the United Netherlands, and was afterwards by Qu. Elizab. made Clerk of the Greencloth. In which honourable office he also continued under K. James 1. until the time of his death; which happened in May 1604 aged 65 years. The before mentioned Sir Rich. Brown Grandson to this last Sir Richard, lest behind him a Daughter named Mary, who being his Heiress, was several years before married to the learned Vertuoso Joh. Evelyn of Says-court in the Parish of Deptford Esq; in which house, or at least in that Parish, Sir Richard was born; as also three folios of his dispatches, several Letters, some in cipher, etc. as well from his Maj. Ch. 1. at Oxon, as from his Royal Consort, and other great persons.  

Jun. 27. 

Ge●v. Warmstrey  
Rich. Hemmings 

of Ch. Ch.       
July 8. Oliver Thomas of Hart Hall.— The time when he took the degree of Bach. of Arts, appears not, nor when, or of what house he was matriculated. And therefore all that I can say of him is, that he was afterwards, perhaps now, beneficed in Shropshire, that he wrote and published a book in Welsh entit. Carwry Cymru etc. printed 1630 or thereabouts, and that dying at Felton in that County 
* So I have been informed by Dr. M●ch. Robert's sometimes Principal of Jesus Coll. his contemporary  was there buried. In the year 1647, one Oliver Thomas Minister of Oswestry, did subscribe among other Ministers of Shropshire to the lawfulness of the Covenant; who, I suppose, is the same with the former.  
Jul. 11. Rich. Jones of Jesus Coll.  
Jan. 22. George Bate of S. Edm. Hall.  

29. 

Christop. Ayray  
Guy Carlton  
Mich. Hudson 

of Qu. Coll.       
March. 19 Joh. Price of Jesus Coll.  
This year Jun. 25. Joh. Davis of Magd. Hall, sometimes of that of S. Edm, was licenced to proceed Master of Arts, and accordingly completed that degree in the Act following; which being all I know of him, he therefore is not to be taken to be the same with Joh. Davis M. of A. afterwards Lecturer of Christ Church in London, and at length Pastor of a Congregation in Dover, Author of, Heaven and Earth shaken: A treatise showing h●w Kings, Princes, and their Government, are turned and changed by Jesus Christ, etc. Lond. 1656. oct. For this Joh. Davis the Author was originally of Cambridge, where he took the degrees in Arts, and afterwards siding with the Faction, was first a Presbyterian and took the Covenant, afterwards an Independent and took the Engagement; for which he stickled in his Lectuers at Ch. Ch. At length being discovered by the then godly Party to be every way fit to carry on the trade of Faction, he was translated to Dover, where he kept a Conventicle in a noted Brewhouse by the Rear, and soon after was made Chaplain to the Castle there by Col. Tho. Kelsey then Governor, and preached constantly at S. James Church, though he was no settled Incumbent, Where continuing officiating till after the Kings Return, he was then outed, and afterwards kept a Conventicle in S. James street in Dover, where he continued to the time of his death, which was about 1663.  
Adm. 149.   

Bach. of Phys.  
I find but three admitted this year, of whom John Speed a learned Physician of S. Joh. Coll. was one, Jun. 20.   

Bach. of Diu.  
May 7. Rich. Lloyd of Oriel Coll.  
Jun. 14. Meric Casaubon of Ch. Ch.  

Nou. 11. 

Jerem. Stephens  
Gilb. Sheldon  
Rob Gomershall of Ch. Ch. 

of Alls. Coll.       

Mar. 13. 

Will. Paul  
Tho. Laurence 

of Alls. Coll.       
Adm. 28.   

Doct. of Law.  
Mar. 26. David Lloyd of Alls. Coll.— He was about this time Warden of Ruthin in Denbighshire, Prebendary of Chester, and afterwards Dean of S. Asaph in the place of Andr. Morrice sometimes Chaplain of Alls. Coll. This Dr. Lloyd died about two years after the Restauration of K. Charles 2. having, for his sake and his Fathers, suffered much in the time of Rebellion.  

Jul. 8. 

Franc. Baber of Trin. Coll.  
Rich. Hart of S. Alban Hall.     
The said Dr. Baber was afterwards Chancellor of the Dioc. of Gloc. for 39 years together, who dying 17 of June 1669, aged 69 years, was buried in a little Chapel on the south side of the Cho●● belonging to the Cath. Ch. at Gloucester.   

Doct. of Phys.  

Mar. 26. Will. Tailor of S. Joh. 

Jun. 20. 

Joh. Saunders of Oriel  
Joh. Speed of S. John's 

Coll.         
Which two last accumulated the degrees in Physic.  
Jul. 3. Sam. Bave or Bavo of Ch. Ch.— This person who was Son of Franc. Bave of Colen in Germany, became eminent for his practice, first in the City of Gloucester, and afterwards in Bath; where dying in 1666, aged 80, was buried in the great Church there dedicated to S. Peter and S. Paul.   

Doct. of Div▪  

Jul. 7. Rob. adam's of New 

9 

Thom. Prichard of Jes.  
Tho. Chafyn of Exet.  
Joh. Dowl of Jesus 

Coll.          

Incorporations.  
Jun. 19 Daniel Gotereus Bach. of Arts of Cambr.— In his supplicate for Incorporation, he is written Gotzer.  
20. Philip Parsons Doct. of Phys. of Milan in Italy.— He was now, or lately Fellow of S. John's Coll. in Oxon, and afterwards Principal of Hart Hall.  
Jul. 10. Edm. Randolphe Doct. of Phys. of Milan.— He was sometimes a Member of University Coll.  
11. George Douglas a Scot, M. of A. of Aberdene.  
On the 15 July, being the next day after the Act, were these Cambridge men incorporated.  
Will. Spurstow Bach. of Arts (so he is written in the Register) was then incorporated.— This person who was the Son and Heir of Will. Spurstow Citizen and Mercer of London, but originally descended from the Spurstow's of Spurstow in Cheshire, was afterwards M. of A. grand Presbyterian, one of the five Smectymni, (Steph. Marshal, Edm. Calamy, Tho. Young and Matthew Newcomen being the other four) one of the Ass. of Divines, Minister of Hackney near London, a Preacher before the Long Parliament, Master of Catherine Hall in Cambr. (wherein he had been educated) in the place of Dr. Ralph Brownrig, and Doctor of Divinity. He hath published (1) England's pattern and duty in its monthly Fasts, Sermon to both Houses of Parliament 21 July 1643. on 1 Sam. 7. 6. Lond. 1643. qu. (2) England's eminent judgements caused by the abuse of God's eminent mercies. thanksgiving Serm. before the H. of Lords, 5 Nou. 1644 on Ezra 9 13, 14. Lond. 1644. qu. (3) Fast. Serm. before the H. of C. 24 Jun. 1646. This I have not yet seen, nor other Sermons on several occasions, as one at the Funeral of Mr. Will. Taylor, printed 1661. qu. another on the Lady Viner etc. (4) Wells of salvation opened, discovering the nature, preciousness, usefulness of Gospel promises, and rules for right application of them. Lond. 1655. 59 oct. (5) Practical Treatise of the excellency and right use of the Gospel promises, Lond. 1658. (6) Spiritual Chemist or six Deeads of divine meditations. Lond. 1666. 68 oct. etc. In the year 1662. he was ejected from his benefice at Hackney for Nonconformity; where, and in the neighbourhood, he lived (exercising his parts in private among the brethren) till his death, (which was at Hackney as I conceive) in Jan. or Feb. 1665.  
Edward Rainbow Bach. of Arts of Magd. Coll. in Cambr.— He was afterwards M. of A. Master of that Coll. 1642, Doct. of Diu. four years after, and in 1650 was ejected from his Mastership. Afterwards he enjoyed two livings successively without examination by the Tryers, and in 1660 being restored to his Mastership, was soon after made Dean of Peterborough upon the promotion of Dr. Joh. Cousin to the See of Durham, and in Nou. 1662. Vicechancellor of Cambridge. In 1664, Jul. 10, he was consecrated Bishop of Carlisle in K. Hen. 7. Chap. at Westminster, where sitting about twenty years, gave way to fate in his Palace called Rose Castle near Carlisle, 26 March 1684, aged 76 years or thereabouts. On the first of April following he was interred in the Yard belonging to the parochial Church of Dalston, under the Chancel Wall; at which time Mr. Thom. Tully one of his Lordship's Chaplains and Chancellor of the Diocese of Carlisle preached his Funeral sermon. This Dr. Rainbow having been originally of C. C. Coll. in this University, I shall in my other Vol. of this Work speak more largely of him.  
Thom. Ball M. A.— I take this person to be the same Thomas Ball who was born in Shropshire, first of Queens, under the tuition of Dr. Joh. Preston, and afterwards Fellow of Emanuel, Coll. in Cambr. Minister of the Gospel in Northampton, and a publisher of several books, as (1) The life of Dr. Joh. Preston. (2) Pastorum propugnaculam: or, the pulpits patronage against the force of unordained usurpation and invasion, in four parts. Lond. 1656. qu. etc. He was buried at N●rthampton 21 June 1659., aged 69 years or thereabouts. At which time his intimate acquaintance Joh. Howes M. of A. (sometimes of Eman. Coll.) Rector of Abbington near N●rthampton preached his Funeral sermon: wherein were several matters delivered in commendation of Mr. Ball.  
R●b. Creyghton or Chrichton M. of A. of Trin. Coll.— This person who was born in the north parts of Scotland, was educated in Westminster School, and thence elected into the said College 1613, took the degrees in Arts, and became Orator and Greek Professor of Cambridge. In 1632, Dec. 17. he was installed Treasurer of the Cathedral Church at Wells, having been collated thereunto by Geor Archb. of Canterbury, upon the then vacancy of the See of B. and Wells; in which Vacancy Dr. Rob. Wright, who kept the said Treasureship in commendam with the See of Bristol, was translated to Lichfield, and thereupon forced to give up that Dignity. In 1637 he became Dean of S. Burians in Cornwall, in the place of 
* To this Rich. Murray was near of kin a certain Gent. of quality named Mungo Murray Servant to King 〈◊〉 2. in his Exile, who dying at Antwerp in the times of U●●●●ation, was buried a● midnight in a poor Cloister there, by Dr. George Morley an Exile for his Loyalty, at which Ceremony the Earl of Dysart his Kinsman was present.  Rich. Murray a Scot deceased, and about that time Doctor of Divinity, and beneficed in Somersetshire. In the beginning of the Rebellion he suffered then and afterwards very much for the Royal Cause, retired to his Majesty at Oxon, became one of his Chaplains, afterwards an Exile with K. Ch. 2. to whom being Chaplain at the Hague, preached very liberally before him against the Presbyterians, and the Murderers of K Ch. 1. After his Majesty's return he became Dean of Wells, (the grant of which he had before) and being then also Chaplain to the King, he would freely preach before him against the Vices of the times, which was well taken by some, though sneared at by others. In 1670, Jun. 19, he was consecrated B of bath and Wells at Lambeth in the place of Dr. Will. Piers deceased; at which Ceremony assisted the B. of London in the place of his Grace the Archb. of Canterbury, with the Bishops of Winchester and Ely. This Dr. Creyghton was a learned man, as it appears by his translation from Greek into Latin, and illustration with excellent notes, of a book entit. Concilii Florentini exactissima narratio, etc. written by Sylvest. Sguropulus. Hag. come. 1660, fol. dedicated to K. Ch. 2. which being animadverted upon by Leo Allatius a Jesuit, Creyghton came out with an Answer. He hath also one or more Sermons extant, and dying 21 Nou. 1672 aged 79 or thereabouts, was buried in a Chapel joining to the Cathedral Church of Wells. Over his Grave was soon after erected a fair tomb of Alabaster with his Effigies at length, in his pontificalia, lying thereon, and on the wall over it, is a large inscription, part of which runs thus; Robertus Creyghton etc. Natus Dunecaledoniae in boriali Scotia, per patrem Thoman ex antiquis R●veniae Toparchis: per matrem Margaretam Stuart Johannis Jacobidae filiam, ex illustriss. familiâ Stuartorum comitum Atholiae, Johannis secundi Scotiae regu à trarre pronepos etc. Frances the Widow of this Dr. R. Creyghton, who was Daughter of Will. Waldrond Esq; died on the third of the Kal. of Nou. 1683, aged 68, and was buried near to the said tomb: over whose grave was a monument, with a large Inscription thereon, put at the charge of Rob. Creyghton her Son, Chauntor and Canon of Wells, Doctor of Divinity, Chaplain in ordinary to his Majesty, and Author of The vanity of the Dissenters plea for their separation from the Church of England. Sermon on 1 Cor. 1. 10. Lond. 1682. qu.  
Robert Sheringham M. of A. of Gonvil and Caies Coll.— This learned Gentleman, who was, if I mistake not, a Cambr. man born, was ejected, or at least left his Fellowship of that House in 1643, and afterwards retiring to London for a time, went thence into Holland; where he taught the Hebrew and Arabic Tongues to young men at Rotterdam, and in other places. After the King's return in 1660, he was restored to his Fellowship, and lived in a very retired and studious condition, being then esteemed a most excellent Linguist, especially for the Oriental and Gothick Languages, as also admirably well versed in the original Antiquities of the English Nation, as it fully appears in his book De Anglorum gentis origine disceptatio, etc. Cantab. 1670, in a large octavo, and in his translation from Hebrew into Latin, with an illustration by Commentaries, of a Talmude book called Joma, wherein are several matters treating of Sacrifices.— Lond. 1648, in qu. He hath also published Two sermons preached as S. Mary's Church in Cambridge. Lond. 1647, qu. Also The King's Supremacy asserted. printed 1660, in qu. and other things. He died of an apoplectical fit, which caused him to fall on the fire in his Chamber in Cays College in the Winter time an. 1677.  
Nich. Bernard M. of A.— He was at this time Chaplain to the learned Dr. James Usher Primate of Ireland, from whom he had received his Ordination in S. Peter's Church in Drogheda, an. 1626. Afterwards he was made by him Dean of Ardagh (some say of Kilmore) and entrusted in making useful Observations and Collections for him. In the time of the Rebellion in Ireland, he being then Doctor of Divinity, he suffered much, and was often in danger of his life. At length having lost all there, he returned safe into England to attend on his Lord, became Rector of the rich Church of Whitchurch in Shropshire, by the gift of the Earl of Bridgwater, Chaplain to Oliver Lord Protector, one of his Almoners, and Preacher to the Society of Greys Inn. After the King's Restauration in 1660, being possessed with just doubts concerning the settlement of Ireland, he refused to return to that Country to take possession of his Deanery, and perhaps of a Bishopric. Whereupon he continued at Whitchurch before mentioned to his dying day. He hath written (1) The penitent death of a woeful sinner: or, the penitent death of John Atherton late Bishop of Waterford in Ireland, who was executed at Dublin 5 Decemb. 1640, with some Annotations on several passages. Lond. 1641, qu. 42, oct. (2) Sermon preached at the burial of Joh. Atherton the next night after his Execution, 5 Decemb. 1640, in S. John's Church in Dublin, on Acts 26. part of the 17 verse and all the 18. Lond. 1641, quart, 42, octav. (3) Letter from the siege of Drogheda to a friend in Dublin, 7 Jan. 1641. (4) The whole proceedings of the Siege of Drogheda in Ireland. Lond. 1642. qu. To which is added an Appendix concerning other occurrences fallen out since. He was present all the time during the said siege, and was several times in jeopardy of his life. (5) Dialogue between Paul and Agrippa, on Acts 26. 17, 18.— printed 1642. in oct. (6) Farewell sermon of comfort and concord preached at Drogheda, on 2 Cor. 13. 11.— printed 1651, in octav. There was another Farewell sermon preached, but that I have not yet seen. (7) Life and death of Dr. James Usher late Archb. of Armagh etc. in a sermon at his funeral at the Abbey at Westminster, 17 Apr. 1656, on 1 Sam. 25. 1. Lond. 1656. oct. To which are added some enlargements. (8) The judgement of the late Archbishop of Armagh and Primate of Ireland, concerning, first the extent of Christ's death, secondly of the sabbath, etc. Lond. 1657. Whereupon Dr. Pet. Heylyn came out with an Answer to it called Respondet Petrus. (9) Several Letters between him and Dr. Heylyn. See more in Dr. Heylyn among the Writers in the 2 Vol. of this work, under the year 1662. (10) Devotions of the ancient Church in seven pious Prayers, with 7 administ. etc. printed 1660, in oct. (11) Clavi trabales: or, nails fastened by some great Masters of Assemblies, confirming the King's Supremacy and Church Government under Bishops, etc. Lond. 1661. qu. See more in Dr. Rob. Sanderson, among the Writers in the 2 vol an. 1662. With other books he hath written or published I know not, nor any thing else of him, only that he died and was buried at Whitchurch, in the winter time, an. 1661. leaving behind him a Son named James.  
Nathan. Bernard M. of Arts.— Among my searches I find one Nathaniel Bernard to be Lecturer of St. Sepulchers in London, an. 1629, who for uttering certain words in his prayer before Sermon at Antholines, concerning the Queen, was brought 
* See in Canterbury's D●●me, p. 362. 363.  into the High Commission Court: Also for preaching against his Majesty's Declaration, at St. Mary's Church in Cambridge 6. May 1632, and using certain dangerous expressions therein, was suspended, excommunicated, fined, and committed to the New-prison near to London, where he continued several months, etc. It doth farther appear also that one Nathaniel Bernard was beneficed in Essex, but in the beginning of the grand rebellion in 1642 he was sequestered from his calling and charge there, by several Committees sitting at Westminster, banished from his dwelling and society of his Wife and Children, and they turned out of doors, etc. Whereupon retiring for safety to Oxon, published A looking-glass for rebellion, Sermon preached 16. June 1644. in St. Mary's Church in Oxon. before the two Houses of Parliament, on 1. Sam. 15. 23. Oxon. 1644. qu. Whether these two are the same, or whether he that was the Author of the Looking-glass for rebellion, was Author of the Mystery of the incarnation, being a Serm. on John 1. ver. 14. printed 1648. in qu. I know not, or whether the same who was incorporated M. of A. beforemention'd. I find one Dr. Nathaniel Bernard to have died beyond the Seas in 1656, whom I take to be the same with him, who was Author of the Looking-glass, etc.  
Richard Culmer M. of A.— This busy Man I find was born in the Isle of Thanet in Kent, educated in Grammar learning in the City of Canterbury, and in Academical in Magd. Coll. in Cambridge. Afterwards he became Minister of Goodneston in his own Country, was suspended ab officio & beneficio for refusing to read the book of sports on the Lord's day. For which usuage being much provoked, he became a bitter enemy to Archbishop Laud, to the Cathedral at Canterbury, and to all the prelatical Party in the beginning of the rebellion raised and carried on by the disaffected Party. About that time he became Minister of Harbledowne in Kent, and if I mistake not Vicar of St. Stephen's near to Canterbury, in the place of Mr. John Gouge ejected thence for refusing the Covenant. And lest he should not be esteemed as zealous a Brother for the cause as any then in being, he published a most vile Pamphlet intit. Cathedral news: or, Dean and Chapter news from Canterbury. Lond. 1644. qu. In which, heaping up all that he could rake together against the Cathedral of Canterbury, Archbishop, Dean, Canons and other Officers belonging thereunto, had immediately two answers from Oxon. one in a Pamphlet intit. The razing of the record, etc. Oxon. 1644. in two sh. and half in qu. and in another called, Antidotum Culmerianum: or, animadversions upon a late Pamphlet, entit. Cathedral news from Canterbury, etc. Oxon. 1644. qu. in 5 sheets. In which last is set down many actions of Culmers' life, his demeanour while he was in the University of Cambridge, and in the Country, his refractoriness; impudence, covetousness, unnaturalness, etc. and what not that the Author thereof, who was a most generous Loyalist and who knew him, could put together to display him to the World. There also goes under the said R. Culmers' name The Minister's hue and cry: or, a true discovery of the insufferable injuries, robberies, etc. acted against Ministers, etc. Lond. 1651. qu. in 3. sh. as also Lawless tithe robbers discovered who make tytherevenew a Mock-maintenance, etc. Lond. 1655, besides other things which I have not yet seen. After the King's restauration, he continued so zealous in his opinion, as to engage (for so it was notoriously suspected) in that hellish plot for which Thomas Venner, Rog. Hodgkin, etc. Anabaptists and Fiftmonarchy-men suffered in Coleman-street in London 9 Jan. 1660. But the spirit of the Man being as well known as his face, he was taken posting up from Canterbury to London, riding upon Chattam hill. Whereupon being committed for a time, he, among several examinations, was asked why he broke down those famous Windows of Christ Church in Canterbury? to which he answered he did it by order of Parliament; and being asked why in one window, (which represented the Devil tempting our Saviour he broke down Christ, and left the Devil standing? he answered he had an order to take down Christ, but had no order to take down the Devil. Whereby was understood that those plotting brethren did mean when they intended to set up King Jesus, to pull down Christ. This Richard Culmer who was commonly called in Kent, Blue Dick of Thanet, because he wore blue in opposition to black, which he hated, lived several years after, and dying (but when I know not) was buried in the Parish Church of Monkton in the said Isle of Thanet.  
Ralph Brownring Doct. of Diu.— This learned and most religious Person was born at Ipswich in Suffolk, was bred Scholar and Fellow of Pembroke hall in Cambridge, became afterwards Prebendary of E●y, Master of, Catherine hall in the said University and Archdeacon of Coventry in the room of Dr. Sam. Brook. In 1641 he was made Bishop of Exeter (to the liking of all good Men) upon the translation of Dr. Joseph Hall to Norwych, but the Episcopal function being soon after silenced, he became, (after some years spent in the family of Tho. Rich. Esq; afterwards a Baronet) Preacher to the Temples in London, where being settled according to his desire with all conveniences, surrendered up his pious Soul to him that gave it, 7. Dec. 1659. Whereupon his body was buried in the Church belonging to the said Temples on the 17. day of the same month, at the charge of the Templars, who also put a very fair monument over his grave. Dr. John Gauden preached then his funeral Sermon, and at the end of it printed a short account of his life; which is mostly remitted (without acknowledgement) into a book intit. Memoires of the lives, etc. published by Dau. Lloyd This Dr. Brownrig hath two volumes of Sermons extant, whereof the second contains 25, and both 65, Sermons.  
All which Cambridge Men, viz. Spurstow, Rainbow, Ball, Creyghton, Sheringham, Nic. and Nath. Bernard, Culmer and Dr. Brownrig, were among many others of the University of Cambridge incorporated on the said 15. of July. Afterwards these following were incorporated this year.  
Oct. 27. Maurice Williams Doct. of Phys. of Milan in Italy.— He was the Son of Lewis Williams of the Diocese of London, was educated in Oriel Coll. of which he became Fellow in 1620. Afterwards resigning it in 1631. settled in London, was Fellow of the Coll. of Physicians, a Knight and eminent for his practice in that faculty. He died in his house within the Parish of St. Anne Blackfriars in London, in the beginning of the year 1658 and was there (I suppose) buried.  
Nou. 6. Rob. Hall Bach. of Arts of Cambridge, now of Exeter Coll.— He was Son of Dr. Joseph Hall Bishop of Exeter, and was admitted M. of A. of this University in Feb. following. See among the created Doctors of Diu. an. 1643.  
Mar…. James Primrose M. of A. of the University of Bourdeaux and Doct. of Phys. of Mountpelier, was incorporated Doctor of Physic.— This learned Doctor, who was Son of Dr. Gilb. Primrose mentioned before under the year 1624. was born in the City of St. Jeand' Angely in the Province of Xantoigne in France, and afterwards lived and practised his faculty at Hull in Yorkshire; where, and in most parts of that Country, he was esteemed an eminent Physician. He hath written and published several books, the titles of some of which follow (1) Exercitationes & animadversiones in Librum Gulielmi Harvaei de motu cordis & circulatione sanguinis. Lond. 1630. & Lugd. Bat. 1639. qu. Answered by one Roger Drake Doct. of Phys. of Cambr. Son of Rog. Drake a Cloathworker of Breadstreet in Lond. (2) Academiae Monspeliensis descripta, ejusdem laurus Monspeliaca. Ad Thomam Claytonum apud Oxomienses Regium professorem. Oxon. 1631. qu. (3) De vulgi in medicina erroribus, lib. 4. Lond. 1638. in tw. etc. Translated into English by Rob. Witty Doct. of Phys. of Hull. Lond. 1651. oct. Before which translation are several copies of verses in praise of it made by certain Poets of Hull and in the neighbourhood, among whom Andrew marvel is one (4) Aphorismi necessarii, nec non quaestiones quaedam ad doctrinam medicinae acquirendam perutiles, etc. Theses receptissimae, etc. Lugd. Bat. 1647. qu. Dedicated to Dr. Tho. Clayton. (5) Ars pharmaceuticae de eligendis & componendis medicinae, etc. Amstel. 1651. in tw. (6) Enchiridion medicum practicum de morbis communibus, part. 2. Amstel. 1654. in tw. printed before in oct. in 1650. (7) De mulierum morbis & symtomatis, lib. 5. Roterd. 1655. qu. (8) Destructio fundamentorum Vop Fortunat. Plempii. Roterd. 1657. qu. (9) De febribus, lib. 4. Rot. 1658. qu. and hath also written Animadversions on Joh. Walaeus, which I have not yet seen.   

Creations.  
Jan. 20. Henry Jacob educated in the Low Countries under Tho. Erpenius the famous Critic, was actually created Bachelaur of Arts by virtue of the Letters of the Chancellor of this University, written in his behalf.— He was soon after elected Probationer-Fellow of Merton College, and is hereafter most deservedly to be inserted among the Writers in the 2. vol. of this work.    

An. Dom. 1629.  
An. 5. Car. 1.  
Chanc. William Earl of Pembroke.  
Vicechanc. Dr. Accepted Frewen again, July 17.  
It must be now observed that whereas the elections of Proctors had hitherto been made by public canvasing, it pleased the King's Majesty to make them private and domestic. And that he said office might be equally distributed through every Coll. according to an Arithmetical proportion, a cycle of 23 years, was by command of the King made. Which, while it revolves, showeth how each Coll. (from whence the Proctors are yearly to be taken) is to join till the year 1720 and after, and how many courses each College hath therein. Which cycle being remitted into the statutes by the King's authority, and afterwards published in a sheet of Paper, together with such Statutes that belong thereunto, the factious elections by canvasing, or public solicitations for suffrages (which oftentimes proved pernicious to the University) were now (not too late) expired. The first Proctors of the said cycle, called by some the Caroline Cycle were these.  

Proct. 

Thom. Atkinson of St. Joh. Coll.  
Will. Strode of Ch. Ch.     
Presented to their Offices in Convocation, 15. Ap.  

Bach. of Music.  
July 18. Matthew White of Ch. Ch.— And the same year took the Degree of Doctors as I shall anon tell you.   

Bach. of Arts.  

Apr. 16. Will. Burt of New  
30. Edm. Gayton of St. Joh. 

Coll.     
Of the first of these two, I shall speak at large among the Creations in an. 1658.  

May 12. 

Allan Blane  
Rich. Stannix 

of Qu. Coll.       
June (10) Henry Ireton of Trin. Coll.— He was afterwards Son in Law to Oliver Cromwell and Commissary-general in the Army of Thomas Lord Fairfax. He will be at large mentioned elsewhere.  

Oct. 27. Clement Barksdale of Merton  
Nou. 4. Thomas powel of Jesus 

Coll.     
The first of these last two was afterwards of Glouc. hall and a frequent Writer.  
20. Rob. Price of Ch. Church.— He was afterwards Bishop of Ferns and Leighlin in Ireland.  
Jan. 23. Humphrey Lloyd of Oriel Coll.— He was afterwards Bishop of Bangor.  
28. John Wells of Gloc. hall. Quaere.  
All the said Bachelaurs except the last, will be mentioned at large elsewhere.  
Adm. 240. or thereabouts.   

Doct. of Mus.  
July 18. Matthew White of Ch. Ch. who accumulated the Degrees in Music.— He hath composed certain Anthems to be sung in Cathedrals, the words of one or more of which are published by Jam. Clifford in his collection beforemention'd.   

Mast. of Arts.  
May 9 Nich. Gibbon of St. Edm. hall.  

Jun. 11. 

Tho. Masters of New Coll.  
Joh. Prichett of St. Edm. Hall.  
Tho. Browne of Pemb. Coll. 

Hen. Wilkinson  
Giles Workman 

of Magd. Hall.         
July 9 Rob. White of Vniu. Coll.— One of both his names occurs Archdeacon of Merionith, an. 1640. whether the same I know not.  

Jul. 10. 

Hugh Cressy  
Will. Berkley  
Joh. Reynolds 

of Mert. Coll.       
The last of these three, who was Chaplain of the said Coll. was installed Archdeacon of Norwich in the place of Will. Gery Mast. of Arts, 25. May 1668. Which Dignity was conferred upon him by his Brother Dr. Edw. Reynolds Bishop of that City. The said Gery was M. of A. of Cambridge, and I think the same who was Author of Spiritual Glean, etc. and of other things.  

Nou. 24. Hen. Savage of Ball.  
…. Philip Hunton of Wadh. 

Coll.     
Adm. 150. or thereabouts.   

Bach. of Physic.  
Mar. 1. George Bate of St. Edm. Hall.  
Besides him was admitted only one more, named Henry Herne of Pemb. Coll.   

Bach. of Diu.  
June 13. Pet. Heylyn of Magd. Coll.  
July 10. Charles Robson of Qu. Coll.— He was lately Preacher to the Company of English Merchants at Aseppo, and wrote and published News from Aleppo written to T. V. (Tho. Vicars) Bach. of Diu. and Vicar of Cokfield in Sussex. Lond. 1628. in 3. sh. in qu. and perhaps other things. On the 4. May 1632, he was presented by the University of Oxon to the Vicarage of Holme Cultram in his native Country of Cumberland, and, if I mistake not, was the same Charles Robson who was made Preb. of Stratford in the Church of Sarum, 28. May 1633, which he kept till 1639.  

July 30. William Spark of Magd.  
Dec. 17. Anth. Faringdon of Trin. 

Coll.     
Jan. 16. Obadiah Sedgwick of Magd. Hall.  
Admitted 22.  
☞ Not one Doctor of Law or Phys. was admitted this year.   

Doct. of Diu.  
July 9 Edward Burton of Magd. Coll. one of his Majesty's Chaplains; who accumulated the Degrees in Divinity.   

Incorporations.  
☞ This year John French M. A. and Fellow of Merton College was elected public Scribe or Registrary of the University, who being a careless Man (though a good Scholar) and more fit for another, than that, employment, hath omitted throughout all his time the Incorporations of the Cantabrigians at the conclusion of the Act, having had sometimes 40, at other times 50 and more incorporated at that time, in several degrees and faculties. Those therefore that I find, you shall have as they follow.  
May 21. Joh. Faber Bach. of Arts of Cambr.— He proceeded Master of that faculty as a member of Exeter Coll. soon after.  
July 4. James Friar M. of A. of the University of Basil in Germany.  
Oct. 10. Joh. Stanley Bach. of Arts of Cambr.— In the next month he took the Degree of M. of A. as a member of St. Alban Hall, which is all I know of him.  

Nou. 14. 

Gilford Slingsbie M. A. of St. Andrews  
Rob. Jackson B. A. of Edinburgh 

in Scotland.       
Feb. 4. Baldwin Hamey (Hamaeus) Doct. of Physic 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 Precedent) of the said College. He hath certain Theses of the Quinsy in 
* 〈◊〉 Lugd. Barnes. 16. ●. q●  print, and is styled 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. Oeyle 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 Diu. one Hen. Wickham of King's College in Cambridge.— He was Son of Will. Wickham Bishop of Winchester, was now Archdeacon of York or of the West-riding of York●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 King's 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 Chancellor 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.  
Nou. 12. Thom. Dacres an Esquires Son of Exeter Coll. was actually created M. of Arts, being then about to go with his Majesty's Ambassador into Foreign parts.  
March 6. Raphael Throckmorton of Ch. Ch. was created M. of A.— See among the created Doctors of Diu. 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. sometimes Precedent of St. John's 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 Kendal 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 Lyd●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 Lincoln's Inn, where he was a Counsellor of note, especially after he had shown 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 Dev●nshire to serve in the two Parliaments that began that year; wherein showing his activeness, and readiness in speaking against several abuses, he was first made Solicitor, and afterwards Attorney General, purposely to mollify his humour and to make him have a good opinion of the King's cause. But all God wot operated little or nothing in him, as having been possessed 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 Ambassador into the Netherlands, an. 1652, he being then commonly called Cromwell's Darklanthorn, Chancellor of the University of Cambr. etc. and signally antimonarchical till the usurpation of Oliver Cromwell; yet notwithstanding was one of the Lords of the other house. After his Majesty's 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 happened 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 Lincoln.  
Oct. 26. Joh: Hulett of New Inn.  

Dec. 16. 

Thom. Granthan of Hart Hall. Quaere.  
Edward Gee of Brasn.  
Jan. 19 Will. Stamp  
27. John Toy 

of Pemb. 

Coll.         
Feb. 1. Lis●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 Commonwealth.  

Feb. 11. 

Tho. Widows of Magd.  
Tim. Tailor 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. Monk of Wadh. 

Coll.     
The last of which was afterwards Bishop of Hereford.  
All these Bachelaurs (some few excepted) will be largely mentioned in another volume.  
Adm. 212. or thereabouts.   

Bach. of Law.  
July 1. Will. Sandbrook of Gloc. Hall.  
Nou. 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 became a Presbyterian Divine, and Minister of St. Peter's Church in Nottingham, where continuing till his Majesty's restauration, was then suspended for refusing to read the Common-prayer, and his living sequestered. Afterwards▪ being a Nonconformist, he kept Conventicles in those parts, and lived to 1682, and after. He hath written several things as (1) The Christian temper, etc. (2) Treatise of the two Covenants, etc. (3) Fifty Queries seriously propounded to these that question infants right to baptism. (4) Few notes upon T. G's (Thom. Granthams) Antiqueries, etc. as also several things against Dr. Edw. Stillingfleet.  
Apr. 15. Will. Davis of Ball. Coll.— Another of both his names of Gloc. hall was admitted M. of A. on the 3. Jun. following, but which of then became Archdeacon of Bath in Dec. 1643 (for one Will. Davis M. A. and Vicar of Chard was then admitted to that Dignity) I know not.  
June 8. Joh. Aris of Magd. hall.— He was afterwards Rector of Middle Cleyden in Bucks and published The Reconciler, Sermon preached before the Communion, on Matth. 5. 23. 24. Lond. 1651. qu. which is all I know of him, only that he was a Glocestershire Man born.  

10. Rob. Maton of Wadh.  
22. Rich. Owen of Oriel  
30. Hen Edmonds●n of Qu.  
July 9 Sam. Austin of Ex. 

Coll.     
Nou. 19 Sam. Fisher of New Inn.  
Adm. 160. or thereabouts,   

Bach. of Phys.  
Only five were admitted this year, and one to practise that faculty, but none of them were afterwards writers.   

Bach. of Diu.  

May 12. 

Th●m. Atkins●n  
Will. Haywood 

of St. Joh. Coll.       
The first of these two, who was a Londoner born, was afterwards Rector of South-warnborough in Hampshire, which he exchanged with Dr. Pet. Heylyh for the rectory of Islip near Oxon, an. 1638. I have seen of his composition (1) Andrei Melvini Anti-Tami-cunicategoria; written in Sapphics, and Melvinus delirans, in iambics. But whether either of them are printed, I cannot tell. He was buried in St. John's Coll. Chapel 6. Feb. 1638. after he had enjoyed Is●ip but few months.  
June 15. Sam. Hoard of St. Mary's Hall.  
22. Rich. Gardener of Ch. Ch.  

July 8. Tho. Howell of Jesus  
Dec. 7. Joh. Bayly of Exet.  
Feb. 22. Humph. Chambers of Vniu. 

Coll.     
Admitted 29.   

Doct. of Law.  

Jun. 30. 

Will. Boswell of Wadh.  
Will. Dillon of New  
Jonath. Browne of Gloc. Hall. 

Coll.       
The first of these three, who was a learned Civilian, was afterwards High Sheriff of Oxfordshire (about 1652) and dying unmarried, 5. Apr. 1678 aged 79 years, was buried in Allsaints Church in the City of Oxon, near to the grave of his Father Will▪ Boswell, sometimes Alderman of the said City. The last was afterwards Dean of Hereford in the place of Dr. Dan▪ Price deceased, Preb. of Westminster, in the room of Dr. Rog. Bates, in the latter end of 1633, Minister of St. Faiths in London, (from which he was sequestered by the Presbyterians in the time of the rebellion) and rector of Hertingfordbury in the Dioc. of London. He was an excellent Preacher and a Person much reverenced by all, (even his enemies) for his ecclesiastical aspect. He died in the latter end of 1644 or thereabouts; whereupon Dr. Herb. Croft, who had married his Daughter Anne, succeeded him in the Deanery of Hereford.  
☞ Not one Doctor of Physic was admitted this year.   

Doct. of Diu.  

Jun. 22. 

Hannibal Potter of Trin.  
John English of Balliol 

Coll. 

Rich. Gardiner  
Joh. Stubbins  
Jam. Marsh of Merton Coll. 

of Ch. Ch.           
The last was afterwards Archdeacon of Chichester and Rector of St. Dunstan's in the West, London, where he died in 1643. In which year his Archdeaconry was conferred upon Dr. H. Hammond.  

July 5. 

Henry Locket of Linc.  
Tho. Howell of Jesus  
Dec. 7. Joh. Bayly of Ex. 

Coll.       
The two last accumulated.  
Jan. 21. Rob. Bedingfield of Ch. Ch.— He had before published A Serm. preached at Paul's cross 24. Oct. 1624. on Rom. 6. 23. Oxon. 1625. qu. and, as 'tis probable, others; which is all I know of him, only that was a Suffolk Man born, elected from Westm▪ School a Student of Ch. Ch. 1614, and that he died at Newton in Cambridgeshire, (of which I think he was Rector) in the year 1651.   

Incorporations.  
July (8) Job Paterson M. of A. of the University of St. Andre●● in Scotland, as the pub. Reg. saith.— He was now a Student in this University, and was afterwards Bishop of Ga●loway in his own Country.  
July…Hugh Symmes Doctor of Physic of Leyden in Holland.  
Oct…John Hurne M. of A. Edinburgh in Scotland.— Whether he be the same Joh. Hurne who wrote and published The history of the Jews deliverance out of Babylon, etc. in ten Sermons upon Psal. 126. Lond. 1622. qu. I know not.  
This year was incorporated, for at least was a supplicate made for that purpose) one Thomas Taylor Doct. of Diu. of Christ's Coll. in Cambridge, who was at first, if I mistake not, a Preacher at Watford in Hertfordshire, afterwards at Reading in Berks, and now, this year, Pastor of Aldermanburic in London; where, asalso by most of the Ministers in that City, he was esteemed an illuminated Doctor, excellent in following and opening an Allegory. The first thing that made him known to the World was his Commentary on the Epistle of St. Paul written to Titus. Cambr. 1612. qu. etc. From which time to 1635 were several Sermons, expositions, etc. published under his name, the titles of most of which you may see in the Oxford Catalogue. He was also Author of The use of the Law, which some call The rule of the Law, answered by one Rob. Town an Antinomian, in his book entit. The assertion of Grace. He died about the beginning of the year 1632, and was buried in the Church of St. Mary Aldermanburic. See more in Will. Jemmat among the writers, in the other Vol.  
Ephraim Udall was entered a Student in the public Library in the beginning of July this year, but how long he continued there, or whether he was originally of this University, I cannot yet tell. This Person who was gathering materials towards the publishing of a book or books, I take to be the same Ephraim Udall who was now, or at least shortly after, Parson of Saint Augustine's in the Old Exchange, near St. Augustine's Gate in London, a Man of eminent piety exemplary conversation, profound learning and indefatigable industry, by preaching a Lecture at his own Parish every Tuesday in the afternoon, and if I am not mistaken every Sunday before the first Sunday in the month, a preparatory Sermon to the blessed Sacrament of the Lords Supper. Besides all this he was esteemed a Man of an affable, courteous and peaceable conversation among his neighbours. In a word he was a Man of their own vote, viz. of the Puritans or Presbyterians, and was (without profanation be it spoken) a shining and burning light. But when he found himself mistaken in the ends and intentions of the Heads of the rebellion that broke out in 1641. and 42, when he saw that the zeal of some did degenerate into madness and frenzy, and that the endeavours of others (under the pretence of reformation) was to bring in Anarchy and Sacrilege, he published a learned Tract called by a certain 
† 〈…〉  Author (notwithstanding P. Heylyn published a book with the same title) A coal from the Altar: And another learned book entit. Noli me tangere. Or a thing to be thought of printed 1641. qu. Against Anarchy he also declared himself for Episcopacy, and the established Liturgy, and published another book entit. Communion comeliness. Wherein is discovered the conveniency of the People's drawing near to the table in the sight thereof, when they receive the Lords Supper. etc. Lond. 1641. qu. In which book, by many impregnable arguments, he proves a high conveniency, if not a necessity, for that most laudable custom of having rails about the Lord's Table. So that this Person being discerned by the faction to be a friend to the Protestant Religion, established in the Church of England, was looked upon as their enemy, and was by them branded with Popery or as popishly affected. Yet his former reputation in the City bore him up against the obloquy of private discontent for a time. At length when they came openly to defy their Sovereign, (the Lords anointed) it was a fit time to silence and remove Mr. Udall; for neither Dr. Gouge his Church in the Blackfriars, or Mr. Jo. goodwin's in Colemanstreet were half so full before the Long Parliament began, as Mr. Vdalls had been since. First therefore they plunder his house, take away his Library and Household stuff, then remove him from the execution of his Ministry, and sequester the profits thereof, for a Levite of their own. Afterwards they sought to commit him to Prison, though aged and very weak and infirm in body, and at length carried his aged and decrepit Wife out of her doors by force, and set her in the open street to shift for herself. This most pious and meek Man, who had been favoured in his Ministry by the Vincents of Stokedawbernon in Surrey Baronet's, hath written other things, among which is, The good of peace; Sermon on Psal. 29. 11. Lond. 1642. qu. He surrendered up his most pious and devout Soul to God, about the latter end of May 1647, at which time he desired that his body might be buried in the Chancel of Allhallows in Honey-lane in Cheapside in Lond. unless the Parishioners of St. Austin, desire to have the disposing of it. In a most unworthy 
‡ 〈…〉  Pamphlet entit. The first century of scandalous, malignant Priests, etc. print. 1643. I find these matters of Ephraim Udall, viz. that he hath affirmed that the great reformers of the Church now are Hypocrites; and hath made, framed and published a book, intit. Noli me tangere, without licence, charging the Parliament with Sacrilege, in endeavouring to abolish Episcopacy, and to take away the Lands of Deans and Chapters, to amend therewith the maintenance of preaching Ministers; and that thereby they have brought a national sin on the Land, as was formerly done by them in taking away Monasteries, etc. For which, and other passages in the said book, he was thrown out of his rectory by the blessed Parliament, as it was then called.    

An. Dom. 1631.  
An. 7. Car. 1.  
Chanc. Dr. Will. Land Bishop of London.  
Vicechanc. Dr. Smith of Wadh. Coll. again, July 16.  

Proct. 

Atherton Bruch of Bras. C.  
John Doughty of Mert. C. 

Apr. 20.       
Which Proctors being removed from their places by the King's command in the month of August (as I have told 
* 〈…〉  you at large elsewhere) were elected for the remaining purt of the year.  

Mr. 

Joh. Earl of Mert. Coll.  
Laur. Washington of Brasn. Coll. 

Presented 26. Aug.       

Bach. of Music.  
Jul. 8. Will. Child of Ch. Ch.— He was now one of the Organists of his Majesty's Chapel at Windsor, having before been one of the Gentlemen thereof. I shall speak more largely of him in the year 1663.   

Bach. of Arts.  

Apr. 27. 

Thom. Wood  
Will. Aylesbury 

of Ch. Ch.       
The first of these two, was afterwards Bishop of Lichfield and Coventry.  
30. George 〈◊〉 of Exeter Coll.— He was afterwards Bishop of Chester.  

June 20. Rich. Allein of St. Alb.  
Oct. 20. 

Walt. bushnel  
Joh. Wilkins  
Nich. Clagett of Mert. 

of Magd. 

Hall.         

Dec. 10. Daniel Whitby of Brasn.  
Jan. 17. Dudley Digges of Vniu.  
Feb. 9 Christop. Fowler of Magd. 

Coll.     
The last of which was afterwards of St. Edm. Hall.  
Mar. 22. Anth. Saddler of St. Edm. Hall.  

24. 

Joh. Shaw of Brasn.  
Will. Rowland of Ex. 

Coll.       
All these will be mentioned at large elsewhere.  
Admitted 249.   

Bach. of Law.  
Oct. 11. Tho. Read of New Coll.— See more of him among the Doctors of this faculty, an. 1638.  
Besides him were 18 admitted, among whom, Will. Dowdeswell of Pemb. Coll. was one, often commended by Sir Tho. Brown the Physician for a learned Man, and Franc. St Barb of Ball. Coll. another. Tho. Heath of Alls. Coll. was also admitted the same year, but whether he was afterwards Doctor of his faculty of this Uniu. I cannot tell. When Dr. Sheldon became Archbishop of Canterbury he was made (if I mistake not) Controller of his Family, and a Knight, but after the said Archb. death he retired to Stoke near Guildford in Surrey, and died in the beginning of the year 1680.   

Mast. of Arts.  
Apr. 30. Thom. Warmstry of Ch. Ch.  
May 4. Will. Sedgwick of Pemb. Coll.  

Jun. 18. 

Rich. Busbie  
Jasp. maine 

of Ch. Ch.  
Joh. Oxenbridge of Magd. Hall.       

22. Joh. Gregory of Ch. Ch.  
25. Joh. Gough or Goffe. of Magd.  
30. Thom. Good of Ball. 

Coll.     
Oct. 17. Mirth Waferer of St. Alban Hall, lately of Merton Coll.  

Nou. 10. Abraham Woodhead of Vniu.  
Dec. 10. 

Edm. Chilmead of Magd.  
Alex. Griffith of Hart Hall. 

Coll.       

Jan. 24. 

Allan Blane  
Rich. Stannix 

of Qu. Coll.       
27. Edm. Vaughan of C. C. C.  
Admitted 128.   

Bach. of Phys.  
Six Bachelaurs of Physic were admitted this year, of which Nich. Lamie a French Man of Pemb. Coll. was the junior; who, before this time, had spent 7 years in the study of the said faculty in the University of Caen in Normandy. There was also one admitted to practise Physic, and another Chirurgery named Will. Manowrier a French Man, who in the public register is styled Dominus de Pratis.   

Bach. of Diu.  
March 30. Nathan. Simpson of Trin. Coll.  
Apr. 21. Christopher Newstead of St. Alb. Hall.  
May 12. Will. Lyford of Magd. Coll.  
June… Will. Shirley of Ch. Ch.— This learned Divine who was a Dorsetshire Man born, became Rector of Huish Comb flower in the Dioc. of Wells, upon the promotion of Dr. Joh. Atherton to the See of Waterford in Ireland, in Feb. 1636, and about the same time beneficed in his own Country. He is Author of The excellency of the order of the Church of England under Episcopal Government: set forth in a Sermon at the Visitation at Blandsord, an. 1640, on 1. Cor. 11. 34. Lond. 1662. qu. Published by Rich. Harris of the Inner Temple after the Author's death.  

June… 

Henry Glemham of Trin. Coll.  
Joh. Tombs of Magd. Hall.     
Dec. 10. Will. Strode of Changed▪ Ch.  
Admitted 27.   

Doct. of Law.  

Francis Gerard  
John Gervais 

of Alls. Coll.     
They were admitted in Hillary term, but the day and month when, are omitted.   

Doct. of Phys.  
July 21. William Ford of Pembr. Coll.   

Doct. of Diu.  

May 18. 

Tho. Mason  
Tho. Westley 

of Magd. Coll.       
The last of these was Rector of Chart in Kent, and preacher at the Savoy in the Strand near London; where dying in Apr. 1639 was buried in the Chancel of the Church there.  

May 26. John Hodges of Lan●.  
March 10. Will, Paul of Alls. 

Coll.      

Incorporations.  
Jim. 30. Constantine Jessop Bach. of Arts of Trinity Coll. near Dublin.— I shall make farther mention of him elsewhere.  
July 7. Thom. Clavering M. of A. (but of what University 'tis not set down) was then incorporated in the same degree.  

8. Rob. Spark M. of A. of Aberdene  
Mar. 1. Joh. Ramsey, M. of A. of S. Andrews 

in Scotland.     
One Dr. Rob. Spark and Joh. Ramsey, were afterwards Publishers of several Sermons; but whether the same with the two former, I cannot tell.  
This year Thom. Randolphe the most celebrated Poet of Cambr. was incorporated M. of A. but the day or month when, appears not.— I have made mention of him at large among the Writers, under the year 1590.  
Joh. Pell also a Graduate of the same University, was incorporated, but in what degree, whether in that of Bachelaur, or Master of Arts, it appears not.— This person, though I have several times occasionally mentioned in this Work. yet I shall take liberty to be more large upon him now. He was the Son of Joh. Pell, and he of another John, descended from those of his name in Lincolnshire, where they seem to be of ancient extraction. His first breath was drawn at Southwy●ke in Sussex, (of which place his Father was Minister) on S. David's day, an. 1610, and his Grammar learning received in the Free-school (than newly founded) at Stenning a Market Town in the said County. At 13 years of age he was sent to Trin. Coll. in Cambridge, being then as good a Scholar as some Masters of Arts in that University: and though he understood Lat. Gr. and Hebr. well, yet he never stood at an Election of Scholars and Fellows of that house. He was of a strong and good habit of body, and therefore using Recreations seldom or never, he plied his studies while others played. About two years after he had taken the magisterial degree, he married, and understood then, besides the said three Tongues, Arab. Ital. French, Spanish. High and Low Dutch. In Dec. 1643 he took a Journey to Amsterdam, and was there made Professor of the Mathematics next after Mart. Ho●tensius, where his learned Colleague Ger. Jo. Vossius, (as he testifies de scientiis Math. c. 10.) heard him with admiration read his public Lectures upon Diophantus; by whom likewise he is styled a person of various erudition, and a most acute Mathematician. And in 1646 the Prince of Orange called him to be public Professor of Philosophy and Mathematics in the Schola illustris at Breda, founded that year by his Highness. While he continued there, William Lord Brereton was sent by his Grandfather George Earl of Norwych to be his Scholar, and became a good proficient, especially in Algabra, to which his Genius most inclined him, and carried it on to his dying day; which happening on the 17 of March 1679 (he being then a chief Member of the Royal Society) was buried in the Church of S. Martin in the Fields within the City of Westminster, leaving then behind him the Character among the Vertuosis of a very good Algebrest, and an excellent Musician, having composed several things of that faculty. In 1652 J. Pell returned into England, and two years after Oliver Lord Protector sent him Envoy to the Protestant Cantons of Switzerlandt, where he chiefly resided at Zurich. He was sent with the Title of Ablegatus, but afterwards he had order to continue there under the Title of Resident: and by that Title he was known till hi● Return into England a little before Oliver's death, an. 1658; at which time it was vulgarly known among the Royalists, that in the said Employment he had acted nothing to the injury of the Church of England. After his Majesty's Restauration he took holy Orders from Dr. Sanderson B. of Lincoln, had procured for him by Dr. Sheldon B. of Land. the Parsonage of Fobbing in Essex an. 1661., and two years after the Parsonage of Lainden with the Chapel of Bartelsdon annexed, in the same County. After the said Bishop was translated to Canterb●●y he became one of his Chaplains, being then Doct. of Diu. and expected soon after to be made a Dean, but being not a person of activity, as others, who mind not learning, are, could never rise higher than a Rector. The truth is, he was a shiftless man as to worldly affairs, and his Tenants and Relations dealt so unkindly with him, that they cozened him of the profits of his Parsonages, and kept him so indigent, that he warned necessaries▪ even Paper and Ink, to his dying day. This learned and curious person hath written (1) Controversia cum Christiano Longemontano de vera circuli mensura. Amst. 1647. qu. (2) An Idea of Mathematics Lond. 1651. in tw. written to Sam. Hartlib Esque and printed at the end of The reformed School written by Jo. Dur●e. It was before printed in Engl. and Lat. (3) A Table of ten thousand squa●e numbers, namely of all the square numbers between O▪ and an hundred millions, and of their sides or roots, which are all the whole numbers between O and ten thousand. With an appendix concerning the end, or last figures of all square numbers. Lond. 1672, fol. etc. He hath also succinctly and clearly demonstrated the second and tenth book of Euclid, which is in MS. in the 〈◊〉 of the Lord Brereton in Cheshire, as also Archimedes his 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and the greatest part of Diophantus his six books of Arithmetic Which last is done more and better, than was before done by a certain French man. Both which are in the aforesaid Library. He also published a little Anonymous Exercitation concerning Easter; and at the instance of Sir Charles Scarborough did demonstrate the proportion of the Diameter to the Circumference, and shows the 〈◊〉 why 〈◊〉 did use those two numbers. The 〈…〉 written in High Dutch by Rhonnius sometimes 〈…〉 is mostly also his (Dr. Pell's) His 〈…〉 is also extant, and a Letter relating to the 〈…〉 Hamburgh by 〈…〉 He was the first Inventor of that excellent way or method of the marginal working in Algebra, and was a great advancer of some things pertaining thereunto, and the mathematical Faculty. At length after he had spent his last days in great obscurity, and had been once or twice cast into Prison for debt, (with shame be it spoken to the great Virtuosos of this age) died in Diet street in the Parish of S. Giles in the fields near London, in the house of one Mr. Cothorne a Reader in the Church there, on Saturday 12 Dec, 1685, and was buried by the charity of Dr. Rich. Busbie Schoolmaster of the Coll. School at Westm. and Dr. Joh. Sharp Minister of the said Church of S. Giles, in the Vault under part of the said Church, commonly called the Vicars or Rectors Vault. His Books and, Papers came after his death into the hands of the said Busbie; among which is the last thing that he wrote, The Tables (which are, (according to his promise in the last line of his printed Tables of squares) drawn up and finished; and which Sir Cyrill Wych when Precedent of the Royal Society, did licence for the Press. There only wants a leaf or two for the explanation of the use of them, which his death hath prevented. See more in Tho Branker among the Writers in the second Vol. an. 1676.   

Creations.  
Dec. 17. Edmund Wright of Ch. Ch. was actually created Master of Arts in the house of Congregation; which is all I know of him.  
Georg. Alberti of Wad. Coll. was created Mast. of Arts the same day; which is all I know of him also, only that he had been lately a Student in the University of Heidelberg in Germany, and that he was forced to leave that place, because of the Wars in that Country.    

An. Dom. 1632.  
An. 8 Car. 1.  
Chanc. Dr. Laud. Bishop of London.  
Vicechanc. Brian Duppa D. D. and Dean of Ch. Ch. Jul. 19  

Proct. 

Rich. Chaworth of Ch. Ch.  
Joh. Meredith of Alls. Coll. 

April 11.       

Bach. of Arts.  

April 26. 

John Warner  
Rich. Hayter  
Joh. Charlton 

of Magd. Hall.       
The last of these three, who was Son of Rob. Charlton Esq; was born in London, and much about the time that he took the degree of B. of A. was entered a Student of Lincoln's Inn, of which he became a Barrister and a Counsellor of some note. After the Restauration of K. Ch. 2. an. 1660, he was created Sergeant at Law, and in the year following being elected a Burgess for Ludlow in Shropshire to serve in that Parliament that began at Westminster 8 of May, was made Deputy for Sir Geoffrey Palmer Chief Justice of Chester, by the name of Job Charlton of Ludford in Herefordshire Esque and in Octob. the same year (1661.) was made the first Judge of the Council of Wales and Marches of the same. In 1662., he being then a Knight, was made Chief Justice of Chester, and on the 5 February 1672 he was elected Speaker of the House of Commons in the place of Sir Edw. Turner Knight. At which time he spoke two Speeches to his Majesty and Parliament upon his admission to that Office, which were soon after printed in folio papers. On the 15 of the said month, he gave up the said honourable office, under pretence of indisposition of body: yet a certain 
* 〈…〉  Writer tells us, that he (whom he calls a dull welsh Judge) had 500 l. per an. for giving it up; at which time succeeded Edw. Seymour Esq. In the latter end of April 1680, he was constituted one of the Justices of the Common Pleas: whereupon his Chief Justiceship of Chester was conferred upon Sir George Jeffries, Recorder of London. Afterwards he was made Chief Justice of Chester again, and was living in 1688, and perhaps may be still, being a great friend to the Ch. of England.  
May 12. Will▪ Thomas of Jesus Coll.— He was afterwards B. of Worcester.  
June 7. John Bishop of Ball. Coll.— See among the Masters an. 1635.  

11. Joh. Owen of Qu.  
21. 

Charles Hoole of Linc.  
Tho. More of Mert. 

Coll.       

July 5. 

Henry Killigrew of Ch. Ch.  
Franc. Goldsmith of S. Joh. Coll.     

Oct. 20. 

Hen. Bignell of S. Mary's Hall.  
Hen. Bridgman of Oriel Coll.     
The first of these two was originally of Brasn. Coll. the other was afterwards of the same Coll.  
25. Will. Eyre of Magd. Hall.  

Dec. 4. 

George Ashwell of Wadh.  
Randal Sanderson of Qu. 

Coll.       
Of the last of these two you may see more among the Masters in 1636.  
Feb. 27. Franc. Woodcock of Brasn. Coll.  
All which, except J●b Cha●lton, I. Bishop and R. Sanderson, will be mentioned at large elsewhere.  
Adm. 198.   

Bach. of Law.  
Nou. 9 Rob. Price of Ch. Ch.— He was afterwards Bishop of Fernes and Leighlin in Ireland.  
27. Will. Fuller of St. Edm. Hall.— He was also afterwards a Bishop in Ireland, and at length Bishop of Lincoln.  
Besides these two, were admitted nine more, among whom were Giles Sweit of St. Mary's Hall, Justinian Lewin of Pemb. Coll. and John March of St. Edmund's Hall, which last I take to be the same Joh. March who afterwards published several things of the common Law. Qu.   

Mast. of Arts.  
May 8. Constantine Jessop of Jesus Coll.  

June 5. 

Clem. Barksdale of Glouc. Hall.  
Thom. powel of Jes. Coll.     

26. Franc. Roberts of Trin.  
July 5. Obadiah Grew of Ball. 

Coll.     
Admitted 152.   

Bach. of Phys.  
But two were this year admitted, of whom Thomas Simpson of Ch. Ch. was one, and one admitted to practice in the same faculty.   

Bach. of Diu.  
May 2. Joh. Gumbleden of Ch. Ch.  

9 

Thom. Wetherell  
Joh. Strickland  
Joh. Ellis of Jes. Coll. 

of Qu. Coll.       
The first of these three (Th. Wetherell) who was a Cumberland Man born, and eminent for his knowledge in the Greek tongue, wrote Radices Linguae Graecae, which are put at the end of one of the editions of Jo. Rider's Dictionary. One Tho. Wetherell Bac. of Diu. published five Sermons in 1635. But he is not the same with the former, as the Seniors of Queens Coll. tell me.  

June 30. Bruno Ryves of Magd.  
July 6. Joh. Lewgar of Trin. 

Coll.     
Oct. 23. George Griffith of Ch. Ch.  
Feb. 23. Alex. Gross of Exet. Coll.  
Besides these were nineteen more admitted, of whom Thom. Cook of Brasn. Coll. was one, being then accounted a most learned Divine. He was after the restauration of K. Ch. 2. made one of the Vicars of Bampton in Oxfordshire, and Archdeacon of that part of Shropshire which is in the Diocese of Hereford, in the place, as it seems, of Dr. Morgan Godwin. You are now to understand, that one Tho. Cook Bach. of Diu. wrote a book entit. Episcopacy asserted as it now stands established in our Church and Commonwealth, etc. Lond. 1641. qu. Which Th. Cook having been bred, as I conceive, in Cambridge, and afterwards beneficed in the East parts of England, he is not to be taken to be the same with the former of Brasnose, who afterwards 
* See in Hist. & Antiq. Uniu. Oxon. lib. 1. p. 341. ●.  was a Covenanteer, and never lived in those parts, or, though very able, published any thing. He died 6. Apr. 1669. aged 73, and was buried in the Church at Bampton: whereupon his Vicarage and Archdeaconry were conferred on Steph. Philipps M. of A. of Brasnose, who married his only Daughter and Heir.   

Doct. of Law.  
June 30. Giles Sweit of St. Mary's Hall, lately of Oriel College accumulated the Degrees in the Civil Law.— He was afterwards Principal of St. Alban Hall, Dean of the Arches, and a Knight; and dying 13. Sept. 1672. was buried the 18. day of the same month in the Church of Barnelmes in Surrey.  

July 4. 

Alexander Hyde  
Edward Mottershead 

of New Coll.        

Doct. of Phys.  
July 4. Thomas Simpson of Ch. Ch. who accumulated the Degrees in Physic.— He was a learned Physician, but whether he hath published any thing I cannot tell.   

Doct. of Diu.  

June 2. Rob. Burhill of C. C.  
21. Tho. Lushington of Pemb.  
25. Sam. Seward of Linc.  
30. Rowl. Chedell of Jesus 

Coll.     
The two first of these were Writers, and the last an Accumulator.   

Incorporations.  
Apr. 17. Joh. Macubie a Scot, Master of Arts of the University of St. Andrew in Scotland.  
May…John chamberlain M. A. of Cambr.  
Octob…. James Morecraft Bach. of Arts of St. leonard's Coll. in the said University of St. Andrew.  
March 13. Sir Will. Fleetwood Knight, controller of Woodstock Park in O●fordshire, (Brother to Sir George Fleetwood a Baron of Sweeden) was incorporated Mast. of Arts as he had stood at Cambridge.  
In the latter end of this year (the day, or month occurs not) were incorporated Peter the Son of Rob. Salmon of Essex and John Kirton, both Doctors of Physic of the University of Milan. Of Peter Salmon I know nothing, only that a Doctor of his Surname died at London in Nou. 1675: whom I take to be the same with Dr. Rob. Salmon Author of Synopsis Medicinae, etc. and other things. As for Kirton he spent most of his time afterwards in Italy, assisted Sir Robert Dudley Duke of Northumberland (to whom he was Physician) in his Chemical operations, and was living in Florence, where he was much resorted to for his practice, in June 1673, aged 70 years or more.  
About the same time also (in Jan. I think) one Alexander Gross M. A. of Cambridge was incorporated, and soon after took the Degree of Bach. of Diu.   

Creations.  
March 13. John Oxenstierne a noble Sweed, Baron of Kemetso, Lord of Fiholme and Tydoon, being adorned with a scarlet gown and hood, and presented in Convocation by the said Sir Will. Fleetwood, was actually created Master of Arts with great observance and solemnity.— He was the Son of grave John Oxenstierne now Ambassador to the King of England from his Father Axel Oxenstierne the grand Chancellor and General-director of the Sweedish affairs.  
Gustavus Horn another noble Sweed Lord of Kamhas and Purkala, being adorned with scarlet as the former was, and presented by the said Sir Will. Fleetwood, was actually created M. of A. in the same Convocation.  
When the Vicechancellor was to admit these two Nobles, he openly spoke these words to the large auditory. Gradum ambiunt Magistri in artibus duo nobiles juven●s, quorum alterius pater, alterius patruus, pro aris & focis, pro religione, pro libertate, denique totius Germaniae, tanquam duo fulmina bel●i, in terrorem domus Austriae jamdiu emicuerunt. They were very nobly treated, while they continued here, had rich gloves presented to them in the name of the University, and testimonials of their Degree very fairly written and adorned, with the seal of each, put into a silver box.    

An. Dom. 1633.  
An. 9 Car. 1.  
Chanc. Dr. Laud Bishop of London, who, in Sept. this year, became Archb. of Canterbury.  
Vicechanc. Dr. Br. Duppa again, Jul. 23.  

Proct. 

Tho. White of C. C. Coll.  
Freeman Page of Ex. Coll. 

May 2.       

Bach. of Mus.  
July 5. John Okever of New College, Organist and Vicar choral of the Church of Wells.— He hath composed several Airs of 2 and three parts for the Violin and Viol, which, I think, are extant. He succeeded in the said Organists place one Rich. Browne, an eminent Musician, 16. Feb. 1619.   

Bach. of Arts.  
Apr. 12. Paul Viscount Bayning of Ch. Ch.— He was Son of Paul late Viscount Bayning of Sudbury, and dying at Bentley-hall in Essex, on the eleventh of June 1638, was a little Pamphlet soon after published intit. Death repealed by a thankful memorial sent from Ch. Ch. in Oxon. celebrating the noble deserts of the right hon. Paul late Viscount Bayning, etc. printed ●t Oxon 1638. in qu. The chief Poets that had a hand in it, were, Will. Strode Orator of the University, Will. Burton alias Democritus Junior, Will. Cartwright, Rich. West, Rob. Meade, H. Greisley, John Fell, Mart. Llewellin, etc. all Ch. Ch. Men.  
May 11. Joh. Priaulx of Magd. Hall, afterwards of Merton College.  

14. 

Nich. Lockyer of New Inn.  
Hen. Glue of Ball. Coll.     
The last was afterwards a Minister, changed his Religion for that of Rome, was made Priest, and known to some by the name of Peter Glue.  
16. Abrah. Wright of St. John's Coll.  

28. Thom. Gilbert of St. Edm.  
Oct. 24. Nath. Newbury of Magd. 

Hall.     
Of the last you may see more among the Masters, an. 1636.  
Nou. 19 Andrew Dominick of Trinity, afterwards of Pembroke, Coll.— See more among the Creations of Doctors of Divinity an. 1661.  
Jan. 14. Rich. Samwaies of C. C. Coll.  
Feb. 4. Rob. Levinz of Linc. Coll.— See among the Creations of Doctors of Law, an. 1642.  
11. John Bishop of Hart hall.— See among the Master's 1635.  
All which Bachelaurs, except Bayning, Glue, Newbury and Bishop will be mentioned elsewhere.  
Adm. 243. or thereabouts.   

Bach. of Law.  
June 25. John Blencow of St. John's Coll.— This Person who had been elected Scholar of the said Coll. from Merchant Tailor's School, did afterwards publish St. Michael's combat with the Devil, Serm. on the 9 verse of St. Judes' Epistle. Lond. 1640. qu. and perhaps other things.  
Besides him were admitted eight Bachelaurs of the same faculty, among whom was Will. Stone of St. Edm. Hall, afterwards Principal of New Inn, and a most excellent Preacher and Canonist, but not to be understood to be the same Will. Stone who was Author of The institution of the Passover. pr. 1622, and of one or more Sermons.   

Mast. of Arts.  

May 9 

Geor Kendal of Ex.  
Edm. Gayton of St. Joh. 

Coll.       

14. 

Henry Jeanes  
Will. Durham 

of New Inn.       

Jun. 27. 

Thomas Barlow  
Gerard Langbaine 

of Qu. Coll.       

July 1. Franc. Cheynell of Mert.  
3. Joshua Tooker of Exet. 

Coll.     
The last became Archdeacon of Barnstaple about 1663.  

4. 

Joh. Hulett of New Inn.  
Tho. Horn of Magd. Hall.     

Oct. 23. Nich. Monk of Wadh.  
24. William Stamp of Pemb.  
Dec. 17. Thom. Widows of Magd.  
Jan. 17. George Hall of Exet. 

Coll.     
Adm. 196. or thereabouts.   

Bach. of Phys.  
Six were admitted this year, of whom Charles Bostock of Ch. Ch. was the first, but whether any of them were writers I find not. On the 3. March, Tho. Trapham was licenced to practise chirurgery, and accordingly did practise that Art in these parts for some time. See more among the Bachelaurs of Physic an. 1649.   

Bach. of Diu.  
Apr. 3. Rich. Washington of Vniu. Coll.— He became the eighth Provost of Trin. Coll. near Dublin in Ireland, upon the resignation of Will. Chapel, on the first of Aug. 1640. After the rebellion broke out in that Country he retired to Oxon again, and was readmitted to his Fellowship of Vniu. Coll. by the Master and Fellows thereof, an. 1644, submitted to the Parliamentarian Visitors, an. 1648, and was the only Man of the old stock that was then left therein. Afterwards going to London for a time, died in Fetter, alias Feuter, lane near to Fleetstreet, an. 1651. (in the Summer time) whereupon his body was buried in St. Dunstan's Church in the West.  

Apr. 13. James Smith of Line.  
June 17. Nath. Holmes of Exet. 

Coll.     
July 3. Tho. Twittie of Oriel Coll.— This Person who was a Minister's Son of Worcestersh. became a Student of the said Coll. of Or. an. 1611. aged 17 years, and after he had taken the Degrees in Arts, became successively Schoolmaster of Evesham in his own Country, Minister of St. Laurence Church there, Vicar of North Leigh in Oxfordshire beneficed afterwards again in his own Country, and at length became Minister of Kingston upon Thames in Surrey. He hath published (1) Ad clerum pro forma, concio habita in templo B. Mariae Oxon 13. Mar. 1634, in 1. Pet. 3. 8. Ox. 1640. qu. (2) The Art of Salvation, Sermon at St. Mary's in Oxon on. Acts 6. 30. 31.— Printed 1643. qu. He died at Kingston beforemention'd, in the latter end of the year 1667, and was there buried.  

July 10. George Hughes of Pembr.  
Nou. 7. Rich. Toogood of Oriel 

Coll.     
9 Joh. Sedgwick of Magd. Hall.  
Jan. 28. Hen. Hammond of Magd. Coll.  
Admitted 24.   

Doct. of Law.  

Jun. 3. 

Will. Nevil of M●rt. Coll.  
Tho. Temple of St. Edm. Hall.     
The first of these two was Chancellor of Chichester, and both the Sons of Knights.  
27. Joseph Martin of Wadham Coll.   

Doct. of Physic.  

Jun. 21. 

Edw. Dawson of Line.  
Anton. Salt●r of Exet. 

Coll.       
Both which were eminent Physicians of their time and age.   

Doct. of Diu.  

Apr. 3. Hen. Glemham of Trin.  
13. Peter Heylyn of Magd.  
June…Rich. Down of Ex. 

Coll.     
July 16. Rich. Bailiff Precedent of St. John's Coll.— On the 7. of Feb. 1627. this Dr. Bailiff who was then Bach. of Diu. and one of the King's Chaplains, as also a Dignitary in the Church of St. David, was collated to the Archdeaconry of Nottingham upon the promotion of Dr. Jos. Hall to the See of Exeter. Which Dignity he resigning, was succeeded by Dr. Will. Robinson, (Brother by the Mother's side to Dr. Will. Laud Archb. of Cant.) who was installed therein 25. of May 1635: At which time Dr. Bailiff was Dean of Salisbury, in the place of Dr. Edm. Mason, whom I shall anon mention in the Incorporation. He died in a good old age at Salisbury, (after he had suffered much for his loyalty to K. Ch. 1.) on the 27. of July 1667, and was buried at the upper end of St. John's Coll. Chap. on the right side of the grave of Dr. Will. Juxon sometimes Archb. of Cant. In the year 1662., he built a little Chapel at his own charge (and not at that of St. Joh. Coll. as, by a mistake, is elsewhere 
* In Hist. & Antiq. Uniu. Ox. lib. 2. p. 312.  told you) situate and being on the North side of the said Chapel of St. John's, with a vault underneath. In which Chapel, was soon after his death, a stately Monument erected, with the Effigies of him the said Dr. Bailiff lying thereon, curiously engraven in alabaster from head to foot, and much resembling him in his last days. One Richard Bailiff sometimes Minister of Crawley in Sussex, wrote The Shepherd's star, or Ministers guide. Conc. ad Cler. in Apoc. 1. 16. Lond. 1640. qu. At which time, the Author, as it seems, was dead. But where he was educated, being quite different from the former, I know not.  

July 16. 

Thomas Laurence of Alls.  
Pet. Wentworth of Ball. 

Coll.       
The first of these two, was afterwards Master of Balliol College, and Margaret Professor of this University. The other who was an Esquires Son of Northamptonshire and Fellow of the said College of Balliol, was afterwards made Dean of Armagh by Tho. Earl of Strafford Lord Deputy of Ireland. But when the rebellion broke out in that Kingdom, he lost all, and fled into England; where living obscurely till the restauration of K. Ch. 2. refused to return to his Deanery, or be made a Bishop there, and accepted only of the rectory of Haseley in Oxfordshire. He died in the City of Bath 22. July 1661. aged 60 years, and was buried in the Church of S. Pet. and S. Paul there, on the north side of the stately tomb of Dr. James Montague sometimes Bishop of the said City. In his Epitaph engraven on a brass plate, fastened to a plain white stone laying over his grave, he is thus charactarized. Patriciorum proles, doctrinae maritus.— Summus Hyberniae Decanus, Angliae Praeconum Primas, etc. One Peter Wentworth who was Rector of Much Bromley in Essex and Chaplain to Thomas Lord Darcie, hath published A Sermon on Psal. 2. 10. 11. Lond. 1587. in oct. and is the same, if I mistake not, who wrote An exhortation to Qu. Elizabeth, and discourse of the true and lawful successor. printed in 1598. oct. But whether he was of this University, I cannot yet find, or whether he took any Degree, or was incorporated.  
July 19 John Elly of Merton Coll. who accumulated.— In 1623. he was made Canon of Windsor in the place of Dr. Thomas Oates deceased.  
20. Thom. Walker Master of Vniu. Coll. and Pre●. of Litton in the Church of Wells.  

Oct. 7. Arth. Wingham of St. Joh.  
Feb. 27. Hugh Williams of Jes. 

Coll.     
This Dr. Williams who was Father to Sir Will. Williams of Greys' Inn Baronet, and several times Speaker of the House of Commons, was now, or afterwards, beneficed at Kantrisant in the Country of Anglesie, where he died in 1670.   

Incorporations.  
May 9 Jam. Howson M. of A. of Cambridge.  
Oct. (24) Will. Hatton Doctor of Physic of the University of Milan.  
Sam. Bispham a Lancashire Man born, and Doct. of Phys. of the University of Leyden in Holland, was incorporated about the same time.— Afterwards he practised his faculty in London, where he died in 1664.  
Feb. 6. David Cunningham M. of A. of the Uniu. of Glascow in Scotland.— He had lately received holy orders from James Spotswood Bishop of Clogher, in the Church of Clogher in Ireland.  
This year was a supplicate made for one Edmund Mason D. of D. to be incorporated, but whether he was really so, it appears not. All that I can say of him is, that he was Tutor to Prince Charles, that he became Dean of Salisbury 20. March 1629, on the promotion of Dr. John Bowl or Bowls to the See of Rochester, and dying in his house in Petty-France in the City of Westminster, on the 24. of March 1634 was buried in the North cross part of the Abbey Church of St. Peter, near to the Convocation House.   

Creations.  
Apr. 1. Thomas Turner Bachelaur of Divinity lately Fellow of St. John's Coll. and now one of his Majesty's Chaplains, was actually created Doct. of Divinity, being by his Majesty's command to go with him in the next month into Scotland.— This worthy Doctor, who was Son of Thomas Turner of Heckfield in Hampshire, Alderman and Mayor of Reading in Berkshire, was born in the Parish of St. Giles within the said borough, and admitted Scholar of St. John's Coll. in 1610, being their put under the tuition of Mr. Will. Juxon, who was afterwards Archbishop of Canterbury. After he had entered into holy orders, he became a practical useful Preacher, which he kept up to the very last, and was much resorted to by those, whose principles were orthodox. Afterwards he was made domestic Chaplain to Bishop Laud, Chaplain in ordinary to King Char. 1. Canon residentiary of St. Paul, and Dean of Rochester, in the place of Dr. Hen. King promoted to the See of Chichester; in which Dignity he was installed 26. Feb. 1641. Soon after he was sequestered from his Church of St. Olave in Southwark, plundered, carried thence Prisoner by a Party of Horse, and at length forced to fly to save his life. In 1643 he had the Deanery of Canterbury bestowed on him by his Majesty, on the death of Dr. George Eglionby; so that he constantly adhering to the cause of his Master in the worst of his calamities, particularly at Hampton-court, and afterwards in the Isle of Wight, suffered afterwards great misery himself during the times of Usurpation, which he bore with a good courage, being then, as always before, esteemed a great exemplar of humility, most Christian simplicity, and of most fervent zeal to the Church. After the restauration of King Charles 2. he contented himself only with those spiritualities which he before had lost for his loyalty, and dying on the eighth day of Octob. 1672 aged 81 or thereabouts, was buried on the 17 of the same month within the Cathedral Church of Canterbury. At which time Dr. Peter du Moulin preaching a funeral Sermon, did speak honourably of the Person that then laid dead before him; to which Sermon, being extant, I refer the reader. He the said Dr. Turner hath published A Sermon preached at Whitehall, on Matth. 9 13. Lond. 1635. qu. and perhaps other things, but such I have not yet seen. He left behind him several Sons (which he had by his Wife Margaret, Daughter of Sir Francis Windebanke Knight, sometimes Secretary of State to King Charles 1.) of whom Francis was one, now Bishop of Ely.  
Apr. 3. Rich. Doughtie Fellow of Alls. Coll. was actually created M. of A. which is all I know of him.    

An. Dom. 1634.  
An. 10. Car. 1.  
Chanc. Dr. Will. Land Archb. of Canterbury.  
Vicechanc. Rob. Pinke D. of D. Warden of New Coll. July 26.  

Proct. 

Herbert Pelham of Magd. Coll.  
John Warren of Wadham Coll. 

Apr. 16.       

Bach. of Arts.  

Apr. 18. Thom. Gawen  
24. George Kendal 

of New 

Coll.  
Inn.       
June 18. Josias How of Trin. Coll.— See among the created Bachelaurs of Diu. an. 1646.  

20. Rob. Waring  
21. Hen. Gregory 

of Ch. Ch.     
Of the last of these two, you may see more among the Masters, an. 1637.  
July 8. John Maplet of Ch. Ch.  

July 9 Ralph Brideoake  
Nou. 11. Matthew Smalwood 

of Brasn. Coll.     
The first of these last two was afterwards Bishop of Chichester. 20. Rich. Harwood of Magd. Hall.  
Jan. 15. Hen. Janson of Ball. afterwards of Allsouls, Coll.  

24. 

Hen. Hall of Lincoln  
Christopher Merret of Oriel 

Coll.       
The first of these two was afterwards Bishop of Killala and Achonry in Ireland. The other was afterwards of Gloucester Hall and an eminent Physician.  

Feb. 6. 

Nathan. Heigmore of Trin.  
Job. Fountain of C. C. 

Coll.       
The last of these two was originally of Linc. Coll. See more among the Masters of Art in 1637.  
Feb…. Will. Tailor of Magd. Hall.  
All these Bachelaurs, except Henry Gregory, will be mentioned elsewhere.  
Admitted 216. or thereabouts.   

Bach. of Law.  
Nineteen were admitted this year, among whom George Wild of St. John's Coll. was one, Feb. 7. afterwards Bishop of Londonderry in Ireland, as I shall tell you at large in the next Volume.   

Mast. of Arts.  
Apr. 24. Tho. Wood of Ch. Ch.  
29. Rich. Allein of New Inn, lately of St. Alb. Hall.  

Jun. 11. 

John Wilkins  
Nich. Clagett  
Walt. bushnel 

of Magd. Hall.       
The first of these there was afterwards Bishop of Chester, as I should have told you under the year 1631, and Clagett had before, been of Mert. Coll.  
14. Tim. Tailor late of Qu. Coll. now of St. Mary's Hall.  

June 28. Dan. Whitby of Brasn.  
July 2. Joh. Toy of Pemb. 

Coll.     
Oct. 29. Christoph. Fowler of St. Edm. Hall.  
Dec. 5. Will. Rowland of Exet. Coll.  

Jan. 29. 

John Warner  
Rich. Hayter 

of Magd. Coll.       
Feb. 5. Will. Thomas of Jes. Coll.  
Admitted 150.   

Bach. of Phys.  
Oct. 10. Will. Denton of Magd. Hall.— Besides him were five more admitted, (the first of whom was John Dixon of Gloc. hall, and the last John Aubrey of Magd. Coll.) but not one of them was afterwards a Writer.   

Bach. of Diu.  
Mar. 26. John Hoffman of Exeter Coll.— He was the Son of John Hoffman a Merchant of Elsentia in the Palatinat of Germany, was about this time Rector of Wotton near to Wodstock in Oxfordshire; which place he kept during the time of the rebellion, being himself a Presbyterian, and published The Principles of Christian Religion in 30 questions and answers. Lond. 1674. oct. and perhaps other things, but such I have not yet seen. He died soon after and was buried at Wotton beforemention'd.  
June 26. Edm. Staunton of C. C. Coll.  
Admitted 12.   

Doct. of Law.  

July 5. George Ryves of Alls.  
23. Tho. Heath of Merton 

Coll.     
The last of these two, was about this time Chancellor of Peterborough, where continuing till that office was annulled and all matters relating to the Church tending to ruin, he went beyond the Seas, changed his Religion for that of Rome, and lived ever after, especially in his last days, in so great poverty at Gant in Flanders, that he was mostly sustained by the alms of the Monastery of English Nuns there, and partly by the contribution of some charitable Persons in that town. He died on the second day of Febr. 1680. according to the account there followed, and was buried by the charity of others (having nothing of his own) in the Parish Church of St. Nicholas near to the said Monastery.   

Doct. of Phys.  
Oct. 10. Will. Denton of Magd. hall.— He accumulated the Degrees in Physic, and was the only proceeder in his faculty this year. He is now living in Convent-garden near Lond. 1690.   

Doct. of Diu.  
Mar. 26. Morgan Wynne of Alls. Coll.— In the beginning of Dec. 1629. he became Archdeacon of Lincoln, but in whose room I cannot tell, for between the death of Dr. John Hills which happened in 1626., to Nou. 1629 that Dignity was enjoyed by one, as yet unknown to me. This Dr. Wynne who was Rector of Scotter in Lincolnshire died (and was buried at Scotter as it seems) an. 1644. Whereupon Raphael Throckmorton succeeded him, an. 1645.  
May 10. John Morris Hebrew Professor of the University and Canon of Ch. Ch. sometimes Chaplain of Alls. Coll.  

14. Anth. Clopton of C. C. Coll.  
June 25. Gilb. Sheldon of Alls. Coll. 

Compounders.     
26. Edm. Staunton of C. C. C.— He accumulated the Degrees in Divinity.  

July 1. 

Thom. Leigh  
Rich. Parr 

of Bras. Coll.       
The first of these two was a Compounder, the other was afterwards Bishop of the Isle of Man.  
5. Will. Page of Alls. Coll.  
10. Edw. Willimot of Magd. Hall.  
26. George Eglionby of Ch. Ch.— This Person who was sometimes Master of Westminster School, and afterwards Tutor to Geor the young Duke of Buckingham, was made Canon or Preb. of the twelfth stall in St. Peter's Church in Westminster, on the death of his Uncle Dr. John King, an. 1638, Dean of Canterbury in the place of Dr. Isaac Bargrave deceased, an. 1642 and dying in the beginning of Nou. 1643 was buried on the eleventh of the same month in the Isle joining on the South side of the Choir of Ch. Ch. in Oxon.  
Nou. 4. Geor Griffith of Ch. Ch.   

Incorporations.  
May 4. Robert Bostock D. of D. of the University of St. Andrew in Scotland.— This Robert Bostock who was originally of Trin. Coll. in Oxon, was installed Archdeacon of Suffolk, in the place of Dr. Rob. Pearson deceased, on the fourth day of Feb. an. 1639, and dying soon after, Richard Mileson M. of A. succeeded. Dr. Bostock also was Canon residentiary of Chichester, where dying in Nou. 1640, was there buried.  

July… 

Roger Goodiere  
Will. Goddard  
John Hodge 

Doct. of  
Phys. of 

Leyden  
Milan  
Mountpelier 

in 

Holland.  
Italy.  
France.             
In the Reign of K. Jam. 1. lived in London one Will. Goddard a fantastical Poet, (among the Templars a sit seems) Author of (1) A mastiff whelp with other ruff-Island-like curs, from among the Antipedes alias London, in 85 Satyrs (2) Dogs from the Antipedes, in 41. Satyrs.— Both printed at London in qu. in the Reign of K. Jam. 1. But these I cannot say were made by Will. Goddard, who was afterwards Doct. of Phys.  
Oct. 21. John Ellis D. D. of the University of S. Andrew, lately of Jesus Coll. in Oxon.  
Jan. 29. Joh. Spencer Doct. of Phys. of Leyden.  
One Rich. Lloyd M. of A. of Cambridge, was incorporated this year, but the day, or month, when, I know not, nor any thing else of him.    

An. Dom. 1635.  
An. 11 Car. 1.  
Chanc. Dr. Laud Archb. of Canterbury.  
Vicechanc. Dr. Pink of New Coll. again, Jul. 22.  

Proct. 

Joh. Edward's of S. Joh Coll.  
Guy Carleton of Qu. Coll.     

Bach. of Arts.  

Apr. 23. Will. Creed of S. Joh.  
Jan. 4. Anth. Hodges of New 

Coll.     
Of the last of these two you may see more among the Masters, an. 1638.  
16. Rich. Whitlock of Magd. Hall, afterwards of Alls. Coll.  

July 4. 

Franc. Bampfield of Wadh.  
Obadiah Walker of Vniu. 

11. Thomas Smith of Queens 

Coll.         
The last was afterwards Bishop of Carlisle.  

Oct. 15. Joh. Godolphin of Gloc. 

20. 

Nath. Hardy of Magd.  
Rich. Hook of New Inn 

Hall.         
One Rich. Hooke M. of A. and Minister of Lowdham in Nottinghamshire hath written The laver of regeneration, and the cup of salvation, in two treatises concerning Baptism and the Lords Supper, etc. Lond. 1653. Whether this Rich. Hooke, who hath also one or more Sermons extant, besides the said book, be the same with Rich. Hooke of New Inn who was a Northamptonshire man born, but not M. of A. of this University, I cannot yet tell. One Rich. Hook Vicar of Halyfax in Yorkshire, is Author of The Nonconformists Champion, etc. pr. 1682. oct.  

Oct. 23. Obadiah How  
Nou. 28. Hen. Wilkinson jun. 

of Magd. Hall.     

Dec. 3. Rob. Cary  
Jun. 19 Rich. Burney 

of C. C. Coll.     
All these, except Hodges and Hook, will be mentioned elsewhere.  
Adm. 234.   

Bach. of Law.  
Nine were admitted this year, but not one of them was afterwards a Writer or a Bishop.   

Mast. of Arts.  

Apr. 15. 

Will. Cartwright of Ch. Ch.  
Joh. Bishop of Ball. Coll.     
One John Bishop was Author of The survey of Man, on Job 14. 10.— printed 1652. qu. and perhaps of other things. Whether this Joh. Bishop be the same with Joh. Bishop of Ball. Coll. M. of A. before mentioned, or the same with another Jo. Bishop who was Bach. of Arts of Hart Hall and a Wiltshire man born, I cannot tell unless I could see The survey of man▪ which I have not yet done.  
May 12. Humph. Lloyd of Oriel Coll.  
Jun. 4. Will. Eyre of Magd. Hall.  
16. Joh. Michael of Qu. Coll. Esquire; a Compounder, which is all I know of him.  

27. 

George Ashwell of Wadh.  
John Owen of Queens 

Coll.       
Oct. 15. Dudley Digges of Allsoules, lately of Vniu. Coll.  
Jan. 19 Edward Gamage of S. Edm. Hall.— I take him to be the same Gamage, who was afterwards Archdeacon of Land●ff, in which dignity he was succeeded by Dr. George Bull an. 1686.  
Adm. 128.   

Bach. of Physic.  
Seven were admitted, of whom Steph. Bridges of C. C. Coll. was the signior, and Leonard Traherne of Pemb. Coll. was the junior, but not one of them can I yet find, that was then, or afterwards a Writer.   

Bach. of Diu.  
June 6. Will. Evans of S. Mary's Hall.— He had before this time published The translation of the book of nature into the use of grace, Sermon on Rom. 12. 4, 5. Oxon 1633. qu. Which is all I know of him only that he was living in 1660.  

8. Edw. Stanley of New  
Jul. 22. Joh. Gauden of Ward. 

Coll.     
Dec. 12. Joseph Henshaw of Magd. Hall.  
Adm. 7.   

Doct. of Law.  
Jun. 13. George riddel or Riddle of Qu. Coll.  
Dec. 8. James Littleton of Alls. Coll.— When he was Bach. of Law he succeeded Dr. Christop. Helm in the Chancellourship of the Diocese of Worcester, and dying in the times of Usurpation, was succeeded in that office by Tim. Baldwin LL. D.  
Oliver Lloyd of Alls. Coll. was admitted the same day.  
☞ Not one Doctor of Physic was admitted this year.   

Doct. of Diu.  

Jun. 8. Edward Stanley of New  
Dec. 8. John Littleton of Jes. 

Coll.     
The first of these two accumulated the degrees in Divinity.   

Incorporations.  
Jun. 16. John Bugs a Londoner born, and Doctor of Phys. of Leyden.  
Jun…. Matthew Thoris M. of A. of Franaker in Westfriezen.— This person who was formerly of Pemb. Coll. was also a Londoner born, and Son of Mich. Thoris, which is all I know of him.  

Jul. 10. 

Joh. Silvius  
Kentigern. Moravius.     
These were both Scots and Masters of Arts of the University of S. Andrew.  
July…. Will. Day M. A. of Cambridge.— He was a Native of Windsor in Berks, and being educated in Eton School, was thence transplanted to Kings Coll. in the said University. Afterwards he became Minister of Mapledurham near Henly in Oxfordshire, and Author of An exposition of the book of the Prophet Isaiah. Lond. 1654., fol. and of other things.  
Oct. 20. Jeremiah Taylor M. A. of Cambr. soon after Fellow of Alls. Coll.— He will be at large mentioned in the other Volume.  
30. Joh. Munlossius M of A. of Bourdeaux in France.  
This year was incorporated Master of Arts John Milton, not that it appears so in the Register, for the reason I have told you in the Incorporations 1629, but from his own mouth to my friend, who was well acquainted with, and had from him, and from his Relations after his death, most of this account of his life and writings following. (1) That he was born in Breadstreet within the City of London, between 6 and 7 a clock in the morning of the ninth of Decemb. an. 1608. (2) That his Father Joh. Milton who was a Scriuner living at the Spread Eagle 
* The Arms tha● J●h. Milton did use and seal his Letters with, were Argent a spread Eagle with two heads gules, legged and breaked sable.  in the said street, was a Native of Halton in Oxfordshire, and his Mother named Sarah was of the ancient Family of the bradshaw's. (3) That his Grandfather Milton whose Christian name was John, as he thinks, was an Under-Ranger or Keeper of the Forest of Shotover near to the said Town of Halton, but descended from those of his name who have lived beyond all record at Milton near Halton and Thame in Oxfordshire. Which Grandfather being a zealous Papist, did put away, or, as some say, disinherit, his Son, because he was a Protestant, which made him retire to London, to seek, in a manner, his fortune. (4) That he the said John Milton the Author was educated mostly in Paul's School under Alex. Gill signior, and thence at 15 years of age was sent to Christ's Coll. in Cambridge, where he was put under the tuition of Will. Chapel, afterwards Bishop of Ross in Ireland, and there, as at School for 3 years before, 'twas usual with him to sit up till midnight at his book, which was the first thing that brought his eyes into the danger of blindness. By this his indefatigable study he profited exceedingly, wrote then several Poems, paraphrased some of David's Psalms, performed the collegiate and academical exercise to the admiration of all, and was esteemed to be a virtuous and sober person, yet not to be ignorant of his own parts. (5) That after he had taken the degrees in Arts, he left the University of his own accord, and was not expelled for misdemeanours, as his Adversaries have said. Whereupon retiring to his Father's house in the Country, he spent some time in turning over Latin and Greek Authors, and now and then made 
† See in Jo. Milton's book 〈…〉 Edit. Hag. C●m. 1654. p. 61. etc.  excursions into the great City to buy books, to the end that he might be instructed in Mathematics and Music, in which last he became excellent, and by the help of his Mathematics could compose a Song or Lesson. (6) That after five years being thus spent, and his Mother (who was very charitable to the poor) dead, he did design to travel, so that obtaining the rudiments of the Ital. Tongue, and Instructions how to demean himself from Sir Hen. Wotton who delighted in his company, and gave him Letters of commendation to certain persons living at Venice, he traveled into Italy, an. 1638. (7) That in his way thither, he touched at Paris, where Joh. Scudamoure Viscount Slego, Ambassador from K. Ch. 1. to the French King, received him kindly, and by his means became kuown to Hugo G●otius, then and there Ambassador from the Qu. of Sweden; but the manners and genius of that place being not agreeable to his mind, he soon left it. (8) That thence by Geneva and other places of note, he went into Italy, and thro' Legorne, Pisa, etc. he went to Florence, where continuing two months, he became acquainted with several learned men, and familiar with the choicest Wits of that great City, who introduced and admitted him into their private Academies, whereby he saw and learned their fashions of literature. (9) That from thence he went to Sena and Rome, in both which places he spent his time among the most learned there, Lucas Holsteinius being one; and from thence he journied to Naples. where he was introduced into the Acquaintance of Joh. Bapt. Mansus an Italian Marquis (to whom Torquatus Tassus an Italian Poet wrote his book De amicitia) who showed great civilities to him, accompanied him to see the rarities of that place, visited him at his Lodgings, and sent to, the testimony of his great esteem for, him, in this Distich, 
Vt mens, forma, decor, facies, mos, si pietas sic.  
Non Anglus, verum herculè Angelus ipse fores.   
And excused himself at parting for not having been able to do him more honour, by reason of his resolute owning his (Protestant) Religion: which resoluteness he using at Rome, many there were that dated not to express their civilities towards him, which otherwise they would have done: And I have heard it confidently related, that for his said Resolutions, which out of policy, and for his own safety, might have been then spared, the English Priests at Rome were highly disgusted, and it was questioned, whether the Jesuits his Countrymen there, did not design to do him mischief. Before he left Naples he returned the Marquis an acknowledgement of his great favours in an elegant copy of Verses entit. Mansus, which is among the Latin Poems. (10) That from thence (Naples) he thought to have gone into Sicily and Greece, but upon second thoughts he continued in Italy, and went to Luca, Bononia, Ferrara, and at length to Venice; where continuing a month, he went and visited Verona and Milan. (11) That after he had shipped the books and other goods which he had bought in his travels, he returned thro' Lombardy, and over the Alps to Geneva, where spending some time, he became familiar with the famous Joh. Deodate D. D. Thence, going thro' France▪ he returned home, well fraught with Knowledge and Manners, after he had been absent one year and three months. (12) That soon after he settled in an house in S. Bride's Churchyard near Fleetstreet in London, where he instructed in the Lat. Tongue two Youths named John and Edw. Philip's, the Sons of his Sister Anne by her Husband Edward Philip's: both which were afterwards Writers, and the eldest principled as his Uncle. But the times soon after changing, and the Rebellion thereupon breaking forth, Milton sided with the Faction, and being a man of parts, was therefore more capable than another of doing mischief, especially by his pen, as by those books which I shall anon mention, will appear. (13) That at first we find him a Presbyterian and a most sharp and violent opposer of Prelacy, the established ecclesiastical Discipline and the orthodox Clergy. (14) That shortly after he did set on foot and maintained very odd and novel Positions concerning Divorce, and then taking part with the Independents, he became a great Antimonarchist, a bitter Enemy to K Cb. 1. and at length arrived to that monstrous and unparallelled height of profligate impudence, as in print to justify the most exercable Murder of him the best of Kings, as I shall anon tell you. Afterwards being made Latin Secretary to the Parliament, we find him a Commonwealths man, a hater of all things that looked towards a single person, a great reproacher of the Universities, scholastical degrees, decency and uniformity in the Church. (15) That when Oliver ascended the Throne, he became the Latin Secretary, and proved to him very serviceable when employed in business of weight and moment, and did great matters to obtain a name and wealth. To conclude, he was a person of wonderful parts, of a very sharp, biting and satirical wit. He was a good Philosopher and Historian, an excellent Poet, Latinist, Grecian and Hebritian, a good Mathematician and Musician, and so rarely endowed by nature, that had he been but honestly principled, he might have been highly useful to that party, against which he all along appeared with much malice and bitterness. As for the things which he hath published, are these, (1) Of Reformation, touching Church Discipline in England, and the causes that hitherto have hindered it, etc. Lond. 1641. qu. At which time, as before, the Nation was much divided upon the Controversies about Church Government between the prelatical party, and Puritans, and therefore Milton did with great boldness and zeal offer his judgement as to those matters in his said book of Reformation. (2) Animadversions upon the Remonstrants' defence against Smectymnus. Lond. 1641. qu. Which Rem. defence was written (as 'tis said) by Dr. Jos. Hall Bishop of Exeter. (3) Apology against the humble Remonstrant. This was written in vindication of his Animadversions. (4) Against prelatical Episcopacy. This I have not yet seen. (5) The reason of Church Government; nor this. (6) The doctrine and discipline of divorce, etc. in two books. Lond. 1644-45, qu. To which is added in some Copies a translation of The judgement of Mart. Bucer concerning divorce, etc. It must be now known, that after his settlement, upon his return from his Travels, he in a month's time courted, married, and brought home to his house in London, a Wife from Forsthill lying between Halton and Oxford, named Mary the Daughter of Mr.— powel of that place Gent. But she, who was very young, and had been bred in a family of plenty and freedom, being not well pleased with her Husband's retired manner of life, did shortly after leave him and went back in the Country with her Mother. Whereupon, though he sent divers pressing invitations, yet he could not prevail with her to come back, till about 4 years after when the Garrison of Oxen was surrendered (the nighness of her Father's house to which having for the most part of the mean time hindered any communication between them) she of her own accord returned and submitted to him, pleading that her Mother had been the chief promoter of her frowardness. But he being not able to bear this abuse, did therefore upon consideration, after he had consulted many eminent Authors, write the said book of Divorce, with intentions to be separated from her, but by the compromising of her Relations the matter did not take effect: so that she continuing with him ever after till her death, he had several Children by her, of whom Deborah was the third Daughter, trained up by the Father in Lat. and Greek, and made by him his Amanuensis. (7) Tetrachordon: Expositions upon the four chief places in Scripture, which treat on marriage▪ on Gen. 1. 27, 28. etc. Lond. 1646. qu. (8) Colasterion: A reply to a nameless answer against the doctrine and discipline of divorce, etc. printed 1645. qu. Upon his publication of the said three books of Marriage and Divorce, the Assembly of Divines then sitting at Westmirster took special notice of them, and thereupon, though the Author had obliged them by his pen in his defence of Smectymnus and other their Controversies had with the Bishops, they impatient of having the Clergies jurisdiction (as they reckoned it) invaded, did, instead of answering, or disproving what those books had asserted, cause him to be summoned before the House of Lords: but that House, whether approving the Doctrine, or not favouring his Accusers, did soon dismiss him. To these things I must add, that after his Majesty's Restauration, when the subject of Divorce was under consideration with the Lords upon the account of John Lord Ros or Roos his separation from his Wife Anne Pierpont eldest Daughter to Henry Marquis of Dorchester, he was consulted by an eminent Member of that House, as he was about that time by a chief Officer of State, as being the prime person that was knowing in that affair. (9) Of Education, written or addressed to Mr. Sam. Hartlib. In this Treatise he prescribed an easy and delightful method for the training up of Gentry to all sorts of Literature, that they might at the same time by like degrees advance in virtue and abilities to serve their Country, subjoyning directions for their obtaining other necessary or ornamental Accomplishments. And to this end that he might put it in practice, he took a larger house, where the Earl of Barrimore sent by his Aunt the Lady Rannelagh, Sir Thomas Gardiner of Essex, to be there with others (besides his two Nephews) under his Tuition. But whether it were that the tempers of our Gentry would not bear the strictness of his discipline, or for what other reasons I cannot tell, he continued that course but a while. (10) Areopagetica: A speech for the liberty of unlicensed printing, to the Parliament of England. Lond. 1644. qu. written to vindicate the freedom of the Press from the Tyranny of Licensers, who for several Reasons deprive the public of the benefit of many useful Authors. (11) Poemata: quorum pleraque intra annum aetatis vigesimum conscripsit author, etc. Lond. 1645. oct. (12) A mask.— printed 1645. oct. (13) Poems, etc.— printed the same year. Hitherto we find him only to have published political things, but when he saw, upon the coming of K Charles 1. to his Trial, the Presbyterian Ministers clamorously to assert in their Sermons and Writings the privileges of Kings from all accountableness, or (to speak in the language of that time) Nonresistance and Passive Obedience to be the Doctrine of all the reformed Churches (which he took to be only their malignity against the Independents who had supplanted them more than for any principles of Loyalty) he therefore to oppose that Thesis (which as he conceived did encourage all manner of Tyranny) did write and publish from divers Arguments and Authorities. (13) The tenure of Kings and Magistrates: proving that it is lawful, etc. to call to account a Tyrant or King, and after due conviction to depose and put him to death, etc. Lond. 1649— 50. qu. Soon after the King being beheaded to the great astonishment of all the World, and the Government thereupon changed, he was, without any seeking of his, by the endeavours of a private acquaintance, who was a member of the new Council of State, chosen Latin Secretary, as I have before told you. In this public station his abilities and acuteness of parts, which had been in a manner kept private, were soon taken notice of, and he was pitched upon to elude the artifice (so it was then by the Faction called) of Eikon Basilice. Whereupon he soon after published (14) Iconoclastes in answer to a book entit. Eikon Basilice, the portraiture of his sacred Majesty in his solitudes and sufferings. Lond. 1649— 50. qu. ib. 1690, oct. which being published to the horror of all sober men, nay even to the Presbyterians themselves, yet by the then dominant party it was esteemed an excellent piece, and performed answerably to the expectation of his Wit and Pen. After the Return of King Charles 2. this book was called in by Proclamation, dated 13 Aug. 1660, at which time the Author (who a little before had left his house in Petty France which had a door going into S. James' Park) absconded, for fear of being brought to a legal Trial, and so consequently of receiving condign Punishment. At the same time also, was called in a book of John Goodwin then lately a Minister in Colemanstreet in Lond. entit. The Obstructors of Justice: written in defence of the Sentence against his Majesty Charles 1. At which time also the said Goodwin absconded to prevent Justice. Soon after the publication of Iconoclastes, Salmasius a Professor in Holland, who had in a large Treatise not long before, maintained, as 'tis said, the parity of Church Governors against Episcopacy, did publish Defensio rogia, pro Carolo 1. Rege Angliae, wherein he justified several matters, as Milton conceived, to the contradiction of his former book. Whereupon he wrote and published (15) Pro populo Anglicano defensio contra Claudii Anonymi alias Salmasii defensionem regiam. Lond. 1651. fol. said to be written in more correct Latin than that of Salmasius. While Milton was writing the said book, his sight began to fail him, and before it was fully completed, one of his eyes did absolutely perish. In the month of June the same year (1651) the said book was burnt at Tholouse by an arrest from the Parliament, under the Government of the Duke of Orleans▪ And in Sept. following it was the usual practice of Marchm. Nedham a great crony of Milton, to abuse Salmasius in his public Mercury called Politicus, (as Milton had done before in his Defensio) by saying among other things that Christina Qu. of Sweden had cashiered him her favour, by understanding that he was a pernicious parasite, and a promoter of Tyranny. After his Majesty's Restauration, this book also was called in by the same Proclamation before mentioned. But so it was, that in 1652, a certain book entit. Regii sanguinis clamour, etc. being published, Salmasius was highly extolled in it, and Milton had his just Character given therein. The nameless Author of which being for a considerable time sought out, but in vain, by Milton, he at length learned by certain Ministers of State sent to the Republic of England, (who would sometimes visit him as a learned man) that it was written by one Alex. More formerly a Professor and Minister at Geneva, then living in Holland. Whereupon he published (16) Pro populo Anglicano defensio secunda, contra infamem libellum Anonymum, cui titulus, Regii sanguinis clamor ad coelum adversus patricidas Anglicanos. Lond. 1654., and at Hag. Com. the same year, in oct. Upon the writing of this book, the Author Milton lost the other eye; and though to his charge he used many means, yet he could never recover either of his eyes. This book entit. Reg. sang. clam. etc. tho written by Dr. Peter du Moulin Prebendary of Canterbury, as it afterwards well appeared, yet Milton upon the reports before mentioned, could not be convinced to the contrary, but that it was written by the said More, and therefore not only abused him in his Answers, but by his friend Nedham in his Politicus, whereby the reputation of that learned person was severely touched. (17) Pro se defensio contra Alex. Mornum Ecclesiaste, libelli famosi, cui tit. Regii sanguinis clamour, etc. Lond. 1655, oct. In this book he is exceeding bitter against Morus, and pretends to give a true history of his notorious Impurities both at Geneva and Leyden, and an account of his own particular life to vindicate himself from what, as he thought, was scurrilously said of him by Morus. At the end of the said book, the Author Milton added Ad Alex. Mori supplementum responsio. About the time that he had finished these things, he had more leisure, and time at command, and being dispensed with by having a substitute allowed him, and sometimes Instructions sent home to him from attending his office of Secretary, he began that laborious work of amassing out of all the classic Authors both in prose and verse a Latin Thesaurus, to the emendation of that done by Stephanus; also the composing of Paradise lost, and of the framing a Body of Divinity out of the Bible. All which, notwithstanding the several troubles that befell him in his fortunes, he finished after his Majesty's Restauration. But to go on with the Cat. of his Books according to time, take these as they follow, (18) Treatise of civil power in ecclesiastical causes, etc. Lond. 1659. in tw. (19) Considerations touching the likeliest means to remove Hirelings out of the Church. Lond. 1659. in tw. (20) Ready and easy way to establish a free Commonwealth, and the excellencies thereof compared with, etc. Lond. 1659., in two sheets and an half in qu. This being published in Feb. the same year, was answered by G. S. in his Dignity of Kingship. (21) Brief notes upon a late Sermon titled, The fear of God and the King, etc. Lond. 1660. qu. See more in Matthew Griffith among the Writers, an. 1665. (22) Accedence commenced Grammar, etc. pr. 1661. in oct. (23) Paradise lost: a Poem in 10 books. Lond. 1669. qu. pr. in fol. with cuts, an. 1688. (24) Paradise regained: a Poem in four books. Lond. 1670. qu. pr. in fol. with cuts, an. 1688. (25) History of Brittany from the first traditional beginning, continued to the Norman Conquest. Lond. 1670, qu. This History when it first came abroad, had only the reputation of the putting of our old Authors nearly together in a connexed story, not abstaining from some lashes at the ignorance, or I know not what, of those times. (26) Artis logicae plenior institutio ad Petri Rami methodum concinnata. Lond. 1672 in tw. (27) Of true Religion, Heresy. Schism, Toleration, and what best means may be used against the growth and increase of Popery. Lond. 1673. qu. (28) Poems, etc. on several occasions, both English and Latin, etc. composed at several times. Lond. 1673-4. oct. Among these are mixed some of his Poems before mentioned, made in his youthful years. (29) Epistolarum familiarium lib. 1. Lond. 1674. oct. (30) Prolusiones quaedam Oratoriae in Coll. Christi habitae. printed with the familiar Epistles. (31) Literae Pseudo senatus Anglicani, Cromwellii, re●iquorum perduellium nomine ac jussu conscriptae. printed in 1676, in tw. (32) Character of the Long Parliament and of the Assembly of Divines. Lond. 1681. in 2 sheets in qu. In which book is a notable account of their Ignorance, Treachery, and Hypocrisy. (33) Brief History of Musc●via and of other less known Countries, lying eastward of Russia as far as Cathay, etc. Lond. 1682. oct. (34) The right of the People over Tyrants. printed lately in qu. These, I think, are all the things that he hath yet extant: those that are not, are The body of Divinity, which my friend calls Idea Theologiae, now, or at least lately, in the hands of the Author's Acquaintance called Cyr. Skinner, living in Mark lane London, and the Latin Thesaurus in those of Edw. Philipps his Nephew. At length this great Scholar and frequent Writer dying in his house at Bunhill near London in a fit of the Gout, but with so little pain, that the time of his expiring was not perceived by those in the room, on the ninth or tenth day of Novemb. 1674, was buried in the grave of his Father (who died very aged about 1647) in the Chancel of the Church of S. Giles near Cripplegate, London. See more of him in Sir Walter Raleigh among the Writers numb. 458. He was of a moderate Stature, and well proportioned, of a ruddy Complexion, light brown hair, and had handsome features, yet his eyes were none of the quickest. When he was a Student in Cambridge he was so fair and clear, that many called him the Lady of Christ's Coll. His deportment was affable. and his gate erect and manly▪ bespeaking courage and undauntedness. On which account he wore a sword while he had his sight, and was skilled in using it. He had a delicate tuneable voice, an excellent ear, could play on the Organ, and bear a part in vocal and instrumental Music. The Estate which his Father left him was but indifferent, yet by his frugality he made it serve him and his. Out of his Secretary's Salary he saved 2000 l. which being lodged in the Excise, and that bank failing upon his Majesty's Restauration, he utterly lost that sum. By the great Fire which happened in London in the beginning of Sept. 1666, he had a house in Breadstreet burnt, which was all the real Estate that he had then left. To conclude, he was more admired abroad, and by Foreigners, than at home; and was much visited by them when he lived in Petty France, some of whom have out of pure devotion gone to Breadstreet to see the House and Chamber where he was born, etc.   

Creations.  
Jun. 16. Henry Bridgman of Brasnose, lately of Oriel, Coll. was actually created Master of Arts.— He was afterwards Bishop of the Isle of Man.  
Jul. 30. David Smart of Hart Hall was actually created Master of Arts, which is all I know of him.    

An. Dom. 1636.  
An. 12 Car. 1.  
Chanc. Dr. Laud Archb. of Canterbury.  
Vicechanc. Rich. Bailiff D. D. Precedent of S. John's Coll. and Dean of Salisbury, Jul. 22.  

Proct. 

Tho. Browne of Ch. Ch.  
John Good of New Coll. 

April 27.       

Bach. of Arts.  

May 3. 

John Good  
Will. Walwyn 

of S. Joh. Coll.       
Of the last you may more among the Bach. of Diu. 1647.  
Rich. West of Ch. Ch. was admitted the same day.— See among the created Doctors of Divinity in Dec. 1660.  

5. Edm. Gregory of Trin.  
24. Christop. Bennet of Linc. 

Coll.     
June 30. Rob. Wickins of Ch. Ch.  
Jul. 3. George Laurence of New Inn.  
5. Tho. Holyoake of Qu. Coll.  
Oct. 15. Benj. Wells of S. Alban, afterwards of S. Mary's Hall, and at length of Alls. Coll.  
20. Jerem. Turner of S. Edm. Hall.  
Nou. 14. Edmund Ludlow of Trin. Coll.— This person who was born at Maiden Bradley in Wilts, did upon the breaking out of the Rebellion side with the Presbyterians, became a Colonel, Governor of Wardour Castle in his own Country, one of the prime Officers in the Parliament Army, and at length sat, as one of the Judges when K. Ch. 1. was condemned to die. Afterwards he went into Ireland, where he was Lieutenant General of the Army appointed by the Parliament, and Lord Deputy for a time upon the death of Ireton. In the time of Oliver he was a Major General, a grand fanatic, and a zealous favourer of all such who were anti-monarchical; but upon a foresight of the King's Restauration he fled into a strange land to avoid the halter▪ was at Losanne with Goff, Whaley, Fare, when Lisle was killed there in Aug. 1664, and soon after, as 'twas then said▪ he, with his Wife, retired to Zurich. He was the Son of Sir Hen. Ludlow of Maiden Bradley before mentioned Knight, elected a Knight for his Country to serve in that Parliament which began at Westminster 3 Nou. 1640, where he showed himself an enemy to the King and his party, and dying at Maiden Bradley 1660 or thereabouts, was there buried. By Letters dated at London 19 of Sept. 1689, I was informed that the said Edm. Ludlow, who had lived several years in Switzerlandt, was daily expected at Westminster, with four Deputies from the Cantons, to make an Offer to his Majesty K. Will. 3. to raise men in that Country for his service. How true this is I know not; yet sure I am, that the said Ludlow was then in London, and that his being there being notoriously known, an Address was presented to his Majesty from the House of Commons on the 7 of Nou. following or thereabouts, by the hands of Sir Edward Seymour a Member of Parliament, that he would be pleased to put out a Proclamation for the apprehending of Col. Ludlow attainted for the Murder of K. Ch. 1. etc. Whereupon Ludlow hastening away (as soon as he heard of the motion of an Address) to the sea side, lay almost a Fortnight before he could be accommodated with a good Wind, and then returned to Switzerlandt in the year of his age 74 at least. In the beginning of March 1690, was published a pernicious Pamphlet entit. A Letter from Major Gen. Ludlow to Sir E. S. (Seymour) comparing the Tyranny of the first four years of K Charles the Martyr with the Tyranny of the four years' reign of the late abdicated King James 2. occasioned by reading Dr Pelang's lewd Harangues upon the 30 of January, being the Anniversary or general madding day. Amsterd. alias Lond. 1691, in 4 sheets in qu. Written as a Preface to a larger work to come, to Justify the Murder of King Charles 1. not by the said Ludlow, but by some malevolent person in England. Much about which time was published under Joh. Milton's name The right of the people over Tyrants; such is the liberty, since the late Mutation, allowed to the Press.  

Jan. 15. John Birkenhead of Oriel, afterwards  
Febr. 11. Henry Birkhead of Trin. afterwards 

of Alls. Coll.     

March 9 Joseph Brookbank of Brasn.  
17. Hen. Vaughan of Jesus, lately of Oriel 

Coll.     
All which Bachelaurs, except Ludlow, will be mentioned elsewhere.  
Adm. 233.   

Bach. of Law.  
Jun. 18. Hen. Janson of Ball. Coll.  
Jul. 3. John Godolphin of Gloc. Hall.  
Besides these were sixteen more admitted, and two created, but not one of them, can I yet find, was afterwards a Writer, or Bishop.   

Mast. of Arts.  
Jun. 25. Nathaniel Newbury of Magd. Hall.— He was afterwards Minister of Ludenham in Kent, and published The Yeoman's Prerogative, Serm. on 2 Chron. chap. 26. ver. 10. Lond. 1652. quarto.  
30. Charles Gataker or Gatacre of Pemb. Coll. lately of the University of Cambridge.  
Jul. 5. Randall Sanderson of Qu. Coll.— This person who was a Westmoreland man born, Fellow of the said Coll. and afterwards Rector of Weyhill in Hampshire, and for many years Prebendary of Salisbury, hath written and published, An explication of the following direction for the reading of the Bible over in a year. Also An explanation to the necessary use and practice thereof. Both printed in one sheet of paper in qu. He died at Weyhill, and was buried there, about 1680.  

July 7. 

Charles Hoole of Linc.  
Thom. Hunt of Pembr. 

Coll.       

8. Edw. Gee of Brasn.  
Jan. 24. Hen. Hall of Linc.  
Mar. 3. Rich. Samwaies of C. C. 

Coll.     
Adm. 136.   

Bach. of Phys.  
Jun. 30. Christop. Merret of Glouc. Hall.  
Besides him were seven more admitted, of whom Nath. Chamberlain of Pembr. Coll. was one, which is all I know of him.   

Bach. of Diu.  
Apr. 1. Tho. Washbourne of Ball. Coll.  
Jun. 25. Herbert Croft of Ch. Ch.— He was afterwards B. of Hereford, and is this year (1690) living.  

Jul. 8. Edw. Pocock of C. C.  
23. Tim. Woodroff of Ball.  
28. Hen. Tozer of Exeter 

Coll.     
Adm. 18.   

Doct. of Law.  
May 31. Sam. Gardener of New Coll. was admitted, being then accounted a learned Civilian.   

Doct. of Phys.  
Jul. 7. Valentine Broadbent of Magd. Coll.  
15. Sim. Owen of Hart Hall, who accumulated the degrees in Physic.   

Doct. of Diu.  

Nou. 18. Thom. Godwin of Magd.  
Mar. 9 Alexander Gill of Trin. 

Coll.      

Incorporations.  
March 26. Assuerus Regimorterus, Londino-Anglus, Doct. of Phys. of the Uniu. of Leyden in Holland, was incorporated Doctor of the same faculty.— This person who was educated in School learning under the famous Tho. Farnabie, hath extant, Disputatio publica de febribus intermittentibus. Lugd. Bat. 1635. qu. had a hand in a treatise De Rachitide, etc. Lond. 1650. oct. and hath written, as I have been informed by one or more Doctors of his Faculty, Principia medicinae. He lived and practised in Limestreet in London during the Reign of Oliver. One of both his names lived at North●reake in Norfolk, and died in 1671, who perhaps was Son of the said Dr. Regimorter. Qu.  

Aug. 31. 

Walt. Curl Bish. of Winchester  
Math. Wren Bish. of Norwich 

D. D. of Cambr.       
Of these two I have made mention at large before.   

CREATIONS.  
Aug. 13. Robert Skinner Bishop elect of Bristol, lately Fellow of Trin. Coll. and Chaplain in ord. to his Majesty Ch. 1. was diplomated, or actually created D. of D. by a Diploma then dated under the Seal of the University.  
The King, Queen, and their respective Courts having been entertained this year by the University on the 29 and 30 of August, it was his Majesty's pleasure upon his leaving the University, which was the 31 of the same month, that there should be a Creation in several faculties. Whereupon the names of those that made suit to be actually created, being given into the hands of the Chancellor by one of the Secretaries of State, was a Convocation celebrated on the same day in the Afternoon, wherein were actually created two Bachelaurs of Arts, two Bach. of Law, five and forty Masters of Arts, ten Bachelaurs of Divinity, three Doctors of the Civ. Law, three Doctors of Physic, and one and twenty Doctors of Divinity. The names of some who were so created are these,   

Bach. of Arts.  
Frederick sagittary a Germane of Queens Coll. Son of Fred. Sag. of Heregord in the Palatinat.— He was afterwards a created Doct. of Phys. of this University, and practised his faculty in Dorsetshire.  
John Kingsmyll of Trin. Coll. Son of Sir Hen. Kingsmyll of Sidmanton in Hampshire Knight.   

Mast. of Arts.  
Prince Rupert Count Palatine of the Rhine and Duke of Bavaria, second Son of Frederick Prince Elector of the Empire and King of Bohemia, by Princess Elizabeth his Wife, Daughter of James 1. King of England, was the first person that was actually created Master of Arts.— He was afterwards an heroic General under his Uncle K. Ch. 1. when the Civil Wars began in England, an. 1642, a Knight of the Garter, Earl of Holderness, and Duke of Cumberland. He gave way to fate (after he had performed great Exploits at Sea against the Dutch) 29 Nou. 1682, aged 63 or thereabouts, and was buried in a Vault on the south side of the Chapel of K. Hen. 7. at Westminster, leaving then behind him a natural Son usually called Dudley Rupert, begotten on the body of one of the Daughters of Hen. Bard Viscount Bellomont: which Dudley, styled in Prince rupert's last Will and Test. Dudley Bard, was educated in Grammar learning in Eton School, being then a modest and meek-tempered Youth, as was by all there observed. But he being not much made for Learning, he was bred to Arms, (I think under Sir Ionas Moor) at the Tower, and after the Prince's death, went into the Palatinate to look after a Legacy and a great House left him there, and in Germany, and was, as 'tis said, kindly received by the Prince Palatine. Soon after going to the Siege of Buda, he was killed in a desperate Attempt made by some English Gentlemen there, upon a breach made in the Walls or Fortifications of that City, in July or Aug. 1686. At which time his signal Valour being expressed, though scarce twenty years of age, his loss was much lamented. Pr. Rupert had also a natural Daughter commonly called The Lady Ruperta, begotten, as I have been informed at the Office of Arms, on the body of one Mrs. Margaret Hewes.  
James Stevart Duke of Lenox in Scotland, afterwards of Richmond in England, sometimes a Student in Trin Coll. in Cambridge.— He was slain in the Battle at Keinton commonly called Edghill fight 23 Oct. 1642, and was buried at the upper end of Ch. Ch. Choir in Oxon.  
Will. Seymour Earl of Hertford.— He was afterwards Duke of Somerset. See more among the Bachelaurs of Arts, under the year 1607.  
Rob. D'evreux Earl of Essex, who in the year 1605 had been created M. of A. was now actually created again.— He was afterwards made Lieutenant General of his Majesty's Army when he went his Expedition against the Scots, an 1639, Lord Chamberlain of his Household, and soon after (such was the mutability of the man) Captain Ceneral of the Army raised by the Parliament against the King. He hath Several letters extant written to the Speaker and Parliament during the time that he bore that Office. He died 14 Sept. 1646, and was buried in S. Paul's Chapel (northward of the Capella Regum) in the Abbey Church of S. Peter in Westminster.  
Thomas Howard Earl of Berks.— He afterwards suffered much for the Cause of K. Ch. 1. and dying 16 July 1669, was buried in the Abbey Ch. at Westm.  
Thom. Bruce Earl of Elgin in Scotland.— He was afterwards made a Baron of England by the Title of Lord Bruce of Whorlton in Yorkshire, and departed this life 21 Dec. 1663., leaving then behind him a Son named Robert, created Earl of Aylesbury in Bucks. by K. Ch. 2. who dying on the 19 of Octob. or thereabouts, an. 1685, (he being then Lord Chamberlain to the household of K. Jam. 2.) was buried at Ampthill in Bedfordshire where if I mistake not, the body of his Father had been interred. He was a learned Person, and otherwise well qualified, was well versed in English History and Antiquities, a lover of all such that were Professors of those studies, and a curious collector of MSS, especially of those which related to England and English antiquities. Besides also he was a lover of the regular Clergy, as those of Bedfordsh. and Bucks. know well enough.  
Henry Spencer of Magd. Coll. eldest Son of William Lord Spencer Baron of Wormleighton.— This Henry was afterwards Earl of Sunderland, and taking part with K. Ch. 1. when he was opposed by his rebellious Subjects, was slain in the Battle at Newbury in Berks 20. Sept. 1643. whereupon his body was carried to Braynton commonly called Brinton in Northamptonshire and there buried.  
George Lord Digby of Magd. Coll. the eldest Son of John Earl of Bristol.  
William Lord Craven of Trin. Coll.— He was afterwards Earl of Craven, and is now (1690) living.  
Will. Herbert of Exet. Coll. a younger Son of Philip Earl of Pembroke.  
Henry Coventrie Bach. of Arts and Fellow of Alls. Coll. Son of Thom. Lord Coventrie Keeper of the great Seal.— See among the Bachelaurs of Law, an. 1638.  
Rich. Lovelace a Gentleman Commoner of Gloc. Hall.— Afterwards eminent for his valour and poetry, as I shall tell you either in the next Vol. or elsewhere.  
Hen. Jacob the curious critic of Merton Coll.  
Ralph Brideoak● of New Coll. sometimes a Student in that of Brasn.— He was afterwards Bishop of Chichester.  
Frederick Schl●de of the Palat. in Germ.  
Nich. Oudart Esq;— This Person who was born at Mechlin in Brabant, and brought from beyond the Seas by Sir Henry Wotton (who afterwards trusted him with his domestic Affairs) studied Physic, of which faculty he was Bachelaur, as I shall tell you among the Creations under the year 1642. About which time he became Secretary to Sir Edw. Nicholas one of the Secretaries of State at Oxon, and afterwards attending King Charles 1. in the Treaty in the Isle of Wight, an. 1648. lived for some time obscurely. At length he became Secretary to the Princess of Orange, than Latin Secretary to William Prince of Orange, and of his Council; in which capacity I find him in 1669. and afterwards Latin Secretary to King Charles 2. He paid his last debt to nature in, or near to, Whitehall about the day of the nativity of our Saviour, an. 1681. One Nich. Oudart of Brussels who was official of Mechlin, died 1608, whom I take to be Father or Uncle to the former.  
Paul Becker of the Palatinate.  
George Kendal of New Inn.  
Joh. Suatosius, etc.   

Bach. of Diu.  
Sam. Keme or Kem of Magd. Hall. sometimes of Magd. Coll.  
Mark Zeiglier of Exeter Coll. who entitles himself Archipalatinus.— He was a learned Man, and whether he hath published any thing I cannot justly tell. He became a Sojournor in the University 1623.   

Doct. of Law.  
Sir Dudley Carleton of Holcombe in Oxfordshire Knight.— He was soon after made one of the Clerks of the Council, and whether Secretary of State, as an Author 
* Will. Sanderson in his Hist. 〈…〉 the year 1641.  of no good credit tells us, I cannot tell. See more of him in Sir Dudley Carleton among the Writers, under the year 1631. num. 519.  
Sam. Henton or Hinton.— He died at Lichfield in 1668.  
Will. Turner of Wadham Coll.— He was now, or soon after a Civilian of Doctor's Commons, and in the time of the rebellion he sided with those that were uppermost. In the middle of Jan. 1659. he was appointed by the Rump Parliament then newly restored by General Geor Monk, one of the Judges of the Court of Admiralty and of the Court for Probat of Wills, Dr. Walt. Walker and Mr. W. Cawley being the other two. And after his Majesty's restauration he became Chancellor of Winchester, a Knight, and Advocate to the Duke of York: He died at Richmond in Surrey, as I conceive, an. 1670.  
At the same time that these were created Doctors of the Civil Law, was a proposal made in the Convocation that Sir John Finet Knight, Master of the Ceremonies, should be also created, or at least diplomated Doctor of the said faculty, but whether he was really so, it appears not in the public register. However what I have to say of him, shall be briefly this, viz. (1) That he was the Son of Rob. Finet of Soulton near Dover in Kent, Son and Heir of Thomas, Son and Heir of John Finet of Sienna in Italy, (where his name is ancient, who came into England in the quality of a Servant to Cardinal Laur. Campegius Legat a latere from the Pope) by his Wife, the Daughter of one mantel, sometimes a Maid of honour to Qu. Catherine the Royal Consort of K. Hen. 8. (2) That the said John Finet was always bred in the Court, where by his wit, innocent mirth, and great skill in composing songs, he pleased K. Jam. 1. very much. (3) That he was sent into France an. 1614 about matters of public concern, and in the year after he received the honour of Knighthood at Whitehall; about which time he was made Assistant to the Master of the Ceremonies, with reversion of that place. (4) That upon the death of Sir Lewis Lewknore Master of the Ceremonies, he had that office conferred upon him 12. March 1626., being then in good esteem with his Majesty King Charles 1. (5) That he wrote Fineti Philoxenis: Some choice observations touching the reception and precedency, the treatment and audience, the punctilios and contests of foreign Ambassadors in England. Lond 1656. oct. Published by James Howell and by him dedicated to Philip Lord L'isle. (6) That he translated from French into English, The beginning, continuance and decay of Estates, etc. Lond. 1606. qu. Written originally by R. de Lusing. And lastly that dying 12. July 1641 aged 70 years, was buried in the North side of the Church of St. Martin in the Fields, within the City of Westminster, by the body of Jane his sometimes Wife, daughter of Henry Lord Wentworth of Nettlestead in Suffolk, Sister to the Earl of Cleeuland.   

Doct. of Phys.  
Peter Turner of Mert. Coll. lately Geometry Professor of Gresham Coll. now the Savilian Professor of Geometry in this University.  
John Carter of Magd. Hall.— He was afterwards a practitioner of his faculty, near to Chancery-lane in Lond.  
Gaspar Hopfius of the Palat. in Germany.   

Doct. of Diu.  
George Warburton of Brasn. Coll. was the first and signior Theologist that was actually created Doct. of Diu.— He was a Cheshire man born of an ancient Family, had been Chaplain in Ord. to K. Jam. 1. and afterwards to K. Ch. 1. was installed Dean of Gloucester (after Dr. Tho. Winniff's removal to the Deanery of St. Paul's) on the eleventh of June 1631, and on the 25. of Aug. (or thereabouts) following, became Dean of Wells, on the death of Ralph Barlow. He hath published King Melchizedek, Serm. at Court at Easthamstead 2. Sept. 1623. Lond. 1623. qu. and whether any thing else, I cannot yet tell. In 1640 he went to London to attend the Convocation of the Clergy that began with the Long Parliament, and dying in Drury-lane in the month of Dec. or thereabouts, an. 1641, was succeeded in his Deanery by Dr. Walt. Raleigh.  
James Hena or Hannay a Scot  
Walt. Raleigh of Magd. Coll.— He was admitted to the Deanery of Wells 13. January 1641.  
Edw. Burby of Linc. Coll.— He was now Prebendary and Archdeacon of Winchester; which Dignity was before enjoyed by Ranulph Barlow D. D. of Cambridge.  
George Gillingham of Pemb. Coll.— He was at this time one of his Majesty's Chaplains, and on the 2. Nou. 1639 was installed Canon of Windsor in the place of Dr. Joh. Elly deceased. He had other preferments, and died 16. Dec. 1668, being then Rector of Chalton in Hampshire.  
Daniel Escott Warden of Wadham Coll.  

Rob. Sanderson of Linc.  
Jam. Rowlandson of Qu.  
Morgan Owen of Jes. 

Coll.     
The first of these three was afterwards Bishop of Lincoln, and the last, Bishop of Landaff.  
Samuel Marsh of Trin. Coll. sometimes one of the Proctors of the University, and at this time Preb. of Roscombe in the Church of Sarum.  
Steph. Goffe. or Gough of St. Alban Hall, lately of Mert. Coll.— This Person who was Son of Steph. Goffe. the puritanical Minister of Stanmer in Sussex, traveled into the Low-countries after he had taken his Master's Degree, and became Chaplain to the Regiment of Col. H. Vere, whereby he gained good acquaintance and experience, which wound him at his return so much into the favour of Hen. Jermyn (afterwards Earl of St. Alban) that he was made one of the King's Chaplains, by which title he was created Doctor of Divinity, and afterwards employed in the quality of a minor Agent and Envoy into France, then into Flanders, Holland and other Countries, etc. In the time of the rebellion he also acted much for his Master in several Countries beyond the Seas, and did him great Service, but when he saw the English Church ruined and Monarchy declining, he changed his Religion for that of Rome, and was thereupon taken into the society of the Oratorians at Paris, an order very famous there, though but little known among us. The brethren whereof having liberty to improve their particular estates (for things are not common among them, as with other orders) he grew rich upon the stock which he had formerly gathered together by his endeavours, whereby he was in capacity sometimes to do courtesies for his exiled Countrymen. Abrah. Cowley the Prince of Poets, was, while at Paris, preferred and placed by him (though the story is perverted) in the Family of the said noble Henry, than Lord Jermyn: Through whose heroical bounty he was afterwards designed to the Mastership of the Savoy, but by certain enemies to the Muses, was deprived of it. Afterwards Henrietta Maria the Queen Mother to whom Goffe. was Chaplain, committed to the said Goffs care the tuition of the natural Son of K. Ch. 2. known then by the name of James Crofts▪ afterwards Duke of Monmouth; with whom continuing till he was about nine years of age, was taken from him and committed to the care of a Gentleman called 
* The same, as 〈…〉, with T●o. Ros● who was Library Keeper to his Majesty 〈◊〉.  Rose or Rosse who after his Majesty's restauration went Secretary to Henry Coventry Esq; in his Embassy into Sweeden. This Doctor Goffe. who was esteemed by some a learned Man and well read in the Fathers, and therefore respected by Gerard Jo. Vossius and others, died in the house of the Fathers or Brethren of the Oratory situated in the street called St. Howrè at Paris on Christmas day according to our account an. 1681. aged 76 or thereabouts, and was buried in the Chapel belonging to that house. What writings of his are published, besides Nine Latin Epistles to the learned Ger. Jo. Vossius, and his Negotiations taken by the Rebels at the battle at Sherburne in Yorkshire (which, with George Lord Digbies Cabinet and other things, were published at Lond. in qu. 1646.) I know not. He had a younger Brother named John Goffe. who was a true Son of the Church of England, as I shall tell you among the Writers under the year 1661. and another called William, originally a Salter (or a Hatter as some day) in London, who closing with the Presbyterians in the time of the Rebellion, became a Colonel, great with Oliv. Cromwell, one of the Judges of King Char. 1. and a member of the other house, that is one of Olivers Lords. See more in the Fasti an. 1649. among the Creations.  
Rich. Marsh of the University of Cambridge, lately Chaplain to Archb. Laud, afterwards to his Maj. Ch. 1.— He was now Prebendary of Hustwayt in the Church of York, and soon after Vicar of Halyfax in the room of Hen. Ramsden deceased. In Nou. 1644. he had the Deanery of York conferred upon him, on the death of Dr. Job. Scot, who died in the King's bench Prison in Southwark. At which time his Majesty being at Oxon, Dr. Pet. Heylyn endeavoured by his friends to obtain that Dignity, but was put aside. After his Majesty's restauration, he was elected 17. of Aug. and installed 20. of the same month, an. 1660. and dying 13. Oct. 1663. aged 78, was buried near to the grave of Matthew Hutton sometimes Archbishop of York, in the South Isle joining to the Cath. Church there. In his Deanery succeeded Will. Sandcroft D. D. of Cambridge, installed therein 26. Feb. 1663., who being removed to the Deanery of St. Paul's Cathedral in London, Dr. Rob. Hitch of the same University succeeded in Dec. 1664. Dr. Marsh hath one or more Sermons extant.  
Edw. Morton lately M. of A. of Kings Coll. in Cambridge, now Rector of Sefton in Lancashire, Chaplain to the Lord Keeper and Prebendary of Chester.— He was born of an ancient Family at Morton in Cheshire, and was Father to Dr. Will. Moreton Bishop of Kildare in Ireland.  
Samps. Johnson of Magd. Coll.  

Thomas Whittington  
Thomas Manwaring 

of Brasn. Coll.     

Meric Casaubon  
Edw. Thornborough 

of Ch. Ch.     
The last of these two was Son of Dr. Jo. Thornborough Bishop of Worcester, was now Archdeacon of Worcester; who dying in 1645 Will. Hodges Bach. of Diu. of Oxon, was admitted in his place 30. of May the same year.  

Mich. Read of Linc.  
Will. Haywood of St. Jo. 

Coll.     
Laur. Pay of Ch. Ch.  
These were all the Doctors of Divinity that were then created. Afterwards these noble Persons were created in Oct. following.  
Oct. 14. The most illustrious and high born Prince Christianus Landtgrave of Hassia, Count in Catzenellebogen, Dieza, Ziegenhain and Nidda, was diplomated Master of Arts.  
The most illustrious and high born Prince Ernestus Brother of Christianus beforemention'd, Landtgrave of Hassia, and Count in the same Countries, was dipl. M. of A. the same day.  
The most noble and valiant Winandus à Polhelme, Lord in Rozenhall, Counsellor to the illustrious Prince of Hassia and Perfect of the Hall, was also dipl. M. A. the same day.  
Charles Lodowick Count Palatine of the Rhine, Prince Elector of the Empire, etc. the eldest Son of Frederick K. of Bohemia, did with his own hand matriculate himself a member of this University, 30. Aug. 1636. being then entertained by the Heads thereof, with his Uncle K. Ch. 1. At the same time Pr. Rupert and several of the English Nobility were also then matriculated. Dr. Laud in his Diary saith that the said Ch. Lodowick was then (with his younger Brother Rupert) actually created M. of Arts, yet no such thing appears in the public register, or in any other record, of the University.    

An. Dom. 1637.  
An. 13. Car. 1.  
Chanc. Dr. Laud Archb. of Canterbury.  
Vicechanc. Dr. Rich. Bailiff again, July 29.  

Proct. 

Dan. Lawford of Oriel Coll.  
Job. Gilsson of Trin. Coll. 

Apr. 19       

Bach. of Arts.  

May 13. Joh. Riland of Magd.  
Oct. 19 Sam. Bolton of Line. 

Coll.     
Of the last you may see more among the created Doctors of Diu. an. 1661.  

Oct. 19 

John French of New Inn.  
Tho. Weaver of Ch. Church.     

24. 

Marchamont Nedham of Alls. Coll.  
Will. Harvey of Glouc. Hall.     
One of both the names of the last, (Will. Harvey) who took no higher Degree in this University, hath several Sermons and other things extant: And one Will. Harvey who writes himself M. of A. and late Vicar of Odyham in Hampshire hath written A treatise concerning the baptising of Infants, etc. Lond. 1647. in one sh. or more. Whether either of these two be the same with him of Gloc. Hall, I cannot tell, except I could see all the Sermons and other things, that have been published under the name of Will. Harvey.  
Dec: 15. Sam. Fisher of Magd. Coll.— One of both his names who hath been mentioned in these Fasti, an. 1627. and 1630, is to be hereafter mentioned at large in another vol. And this whom I take to be afterwards a Covenanteer and a Writer, is to obtain a place also therein, or elsewhere.  

Jan. 18. Philip Taverner of Ex.  
27. Rob. Ding●ey of Magd. 

Coll.     
Feb. 3. Matthew Fowler of Ch. Ch.— He was afterwards Author of Totum hominis, or the whole duty of Man, Serm. on Prov. 24. 21. Printed 1662. qu. and perhaps of other things, which is all I know of him, only that he was a Staffordshire Man born.  
Mar. 2. Joseph Sedgwick of Magd. Hall.— He was afterwards M. of A. and Fellow of Christ's Coll. in Cambridge.  
All which except Harvey and Fowler, will be largely mentioned elsewhere.  
Admitted 195. or thereabouts.   

Bach. of Law.  
Seven only were admitted, of which John Nurse of Magd. Coll. was the Senior. Apr. 1. but not one of them was afterwards a Writer or Bishop.   

Mast. of Arts.  
Apr. 22. Abrah. Wright of St. John's Coll.  
26. Rob. Waring of Ch. Ch.  

Jun. 15. 

John grail  
Rich. Harwood 

of Magd. Hall.       
July 13. Edward Greaves of Alls. Coll.— The time when he took the Degree of Bach. of Arts, occurs not.  
Sept. 9 Hen. Gregory of Ch. Ch.— This Person who was admitted in Convocation, the Vicechancellor made then this honourable mention of him in his supplicate thus. Supplicat vobis rei quamplurime juvenis Henr. Gregory Art. Bac. ex Aed. Christi, ripâ hàc ad pedes viri Gamaliele politioris enutritus, in cyclo literaturae, sicut in legibus ille instructissimi: cujus sub auspiciis juvenis hic Duci Eboracensi à primis literis imbibendis adest, ut cum tanto Domino matrique Academiae vacare non possit, veniam etiam ab honoratiss. Cancellario, & à Collegiorum & Aularum Praefectis impetravit, singulari hujus domus dignatione ad gradum magistri in artibus promoveatur, etc. This Hen. Gregory, who was younger Brother to John Gregory the Critic, and both the Sons of John Gregory of Amersam in Bucks, was admitted necessary Regent on the 7. of Oct. following, and became afterwards eminent for his learning.  
Oct. 19 John Fountain of C. C. Coll.— This Person who was Son of Will. Fountain of Seabroke in Bucks and originally of Linc. Coll. was about this time a Barrister in one of the Inns of Court, his time going on there, as in the University, stood afterwards a Neuter at Lond. when the predominant Party in the Parliament House were raising a Rebellion. Afterwards he receded to Oxon. and showed himself a great Royalist, but when he saw that the King's cause declined, he came in to Rainsborough a Colonel on the Parliament side, in Apr. 1646, and afterwards retiring to London, struck in with the Usurpers, and was by Oliver made Sergeant at Law in Nou. 1656. In Jan. 1659. he, with Sir Tho. Widdrington and Serj. Tyrrell, were made Commissioners of the great Seal, and after his Majesty's restauration, he was made Sergeant at Law again 1660. This is the Person who was commonly called Turncoat Fountain, Author of a certain Letter, or discourse, mentioned among the Writers in Rich. Stevart, under the year 1651. He died in the Parish of St. Clement's Danes within the liberty of Westminster, in May, or June 1671.  
Feb. 21. Nathaniel Heighmore of Trin. Coll.  
Adm. 110. or thereabouts.  
☞ Not one Bach. of Physic was admitted this year.   

Bach. of Diu.  
June 12. Thomas Browne of Ch. Ch.  

July 6. 

Rob. Cross of Linc.  
Elias Wrench 

of Co. Ch. 

Coll.         
13. Nich. Simpson  
The last you may find mentioned among the Doctors of Divin. in these Fasti, an. 1608.  

Nou. 8. Hen. Savage of Ball.  
Dec. 15. Rich. Chalfont of Linc. 

Coll.     
The last of these two hath published A Sermon at a public fast before the House of Commons at Oxon, 10. May 1644, on Jerem. 44. 10. Oxon. 1644. qu. Which is all, I think, that goes under his name.  
Admitted 19   

Doct. of Law.  
June 30. Justinian Lewyn of Pembr. Coll.— He was afterwards Judge-martial of the Army under Thomas Earl of Arundel, in the Scotch expedition, 1639, and after that one of the Masters in ordinary of the High Court of Chancery and a Knight. He was Son of Will. Lewyn of London, and Nephew to Sir Justinian, mentioned among the Incorporations, an. 1582.  
July 10. John Worsley of Ch. Ch.   

Doct. of Phys.  
July 7. George Bate of St. Edm. Hall.— A most celebrated Physician of his time.   

Doct. of Diu.  

June 23. Rob. Rainsford of Wadh.  
28. Nathaniel Holmes of Exet. 

Coll.     

July 4. Matthew Bemet of St. Mary's  
6. Adam Ayray Principal of St. Edm. 

Hall.     

8. Nathaniel Goulson of Trin.  
Nou. 22. Hen. Rogers of Jes. 

Coll.      

Incorporations.  
July 10. Thom. Browne lately M. of A. of Pemb. Coll. now Doct. of Phys. of the University of Leyden in Holland, was then incorporated Doctor of that faculty.  
Nou. 4. Michael boil Master of Arts of Trin. Coll. near Dublin.— He was afterwards Bishop of Cork, Cloyne and Ross, Archb. of Dublin, Chancellor of Ireland, and at length Archb. of Armagh.  
Januar. 26. Martin Westcomb Bach. of Arts of the University of Toulouse in France.  
Two Bachelaurs of Arts of Qu. Coll. in Cambridge named Nich. Frost and Tho. Lee were incorporated this year, which is all I know of them, only that the first proceeded M. of A. in the year following, as a member of Ball. Coll.  
This year among several Cambridge Men that were incorporated Masters of Arts, must not be forgotten John Cleaveland the Poet, not that it appears so in the public register, but from the relation of a certain Person who was then a Master of this University.— This Mr. Cleaveland, who was the Vicar's Son of a Market-town called Hinkley in Leicestershire, was born there, and in the same town received his Grammatical education under one Mr. Rich. Vines a zealous Puritan; where obtaining a perfection in Lat. and Greek learning was sent to Christ's Coll. in Cambridge; and in short time proving an exquisite Orator and pure Latinist, was preferred to a Fellowship of St. John's Coll. in the said University; and as the delight and ornament of that house he continued there, about nine years, and from his Oratory became an eminent Poet. At length upon the eruption of the Civil War, he was the first Champion that appeared in verse for the King's cause against the Presbyterians; for which, and his signal Loyalty, he was ejected thence. Whereupon retiring to Oxon the King's head quarter, lived there for a time, and was much venerated and respected not only by the great Men of the Court, but by the then Wits remaining among the affrighted and distressed muses, for his high panegyrics and smart Satyrs. From Oxon he went to Newark upon Trent, where he was so highly valued by all, especially by the than most loyal and generous Sir Rich. Willis Baronet the Governor of that Garrison for his Majesty, that he was made Judge Advocate and continued there till the surrender thereof for the use of the Parliament, showing himself a prudent Judge for the King and a faithful Advocate for the Country. Afterwards being imprisoned at Yarmouth, where he continued in a lingering condition, and with little hopes of relief, drew up an Address to Oliver Cromwell written in such towering language and so much gallant reason, that upon his perusal of, he was so much melted down with it, that he forthwith ordered his release. Afterwards he retired to London, where finding a generous Maecenas settled in Greys' Inn in Holborn and became much admired, if not adored, by all generous loyalists and ingenious Men. He hath written (1) Poems. Lond. in oct. there again with additions 1651. oct. and several times after. (2) Characters. (3) Orations. (4) Epistles, etc. Several times also printed. At length an intermitting fever seizing him, brought him to his grave in the Church of St. Michael Royal, commonly called College-hill Church within the City of London, on the first day of May 1658. Soon after were published several Elegies on him, particularly that entit. Upon the most ingenious and incomparable Musophilist of his time Mr. John Cleaveland. A living memorial of his most devotional Brother and cordial mourner. Printed at London on the broad side of a sheet of paper, an. 1658. 'Twas written by his Brother Phil. Cleaveland, who tells us there that the said John Cleaveland. died 28. April 1658. I have another Elegy lying by me entit. An Elegy upon the death of the most excellent Poet Mr. John Cleaveland. Printed also on one side of a sheet of paper, in May 1658. It was written by Francis Vaux a Servitor of Queens Coll. in Oxon, of about 3 years standing, the same who printed A Poem in praise of Typography; which is all I know of him, as having taken no Degree in this University.    

An. Dom. 1638.  
An. 14. Car. 1.  
Chanc. Dr. Laud Archb. of Cant.  
Vicechanc. Accepted Frewen D. D. Precedent of Magd. Coll. and Dean of Gloucester.  

Proct. 

Edw. Corbet of Mert. Coll.  
Joh. Nicolson of Magd. Coll. 

Apr. 4.       

Bach. of Music.  
July 5. Rob. Lugge Organist of St. John's Coll. in this University.— He afterwards went beyond the Seas, changed his Religion for that of Rome, and was at length, as 'tis said, made Priest. Several vocal compositions for the Church go under his name.   

Bach. of Arts.  

Apr. 7. 

Anth. Palmer of Ball.  
Jam. Browne of Oriel 

Coll.       

11. 

Will. Hughes of New Inn.  
Robert Mead  
Hen. Greisley  
Will. Towers 

of Ch. Ch.       

Job. Hinkley of St. Alb.  
20. Edw. chamberlain of S. Ed. 

Hall.     

May 29. 

Sam. Harding of Exet. Coll.  
Job. Osborne of New Inn.     

June 23. Job. Biddle of Magd.  
July 3. Franc. Moor of Gloc. 

Hall.     
The last of these two, I take to be the same Person who was Author of A Funeral Sermon, etc. on Luke 8. 5. printed 1656. qu.  

Oct. 13. Tim. Baldwin of Ball.  
30. Jam. Baron of Exet. 

Coll.     
Of the last of these two you may see among the created Bacurius of Diu. an. 1649.  

Dec. 3. Miles Smith of Magd.  
4. William Hill of Mert.  
Jan. 24. George Rogers of Line.  
29. Daniel Whistler of Trin. 

Coll.     
Feb. 1. Thom. Greenfield of Pemb. Coll.— See among the Masters, an. 1641.  
12. Tho. Jones of Oriel, afterwards of Mert. Coll.  
Most of these Bachelaurs, who were all afterwards Writers, will be mentioned in the next volume or elsewhere.  
Admitted 224.   

Bach. of Law.  
June 26. Hen. Coventrie of Alls. Coll.— This honourable Person who was the only Bach. of Law that was admitted this year, was a younger Son of Thomas Lord Coventry Lord Keeper of the great Seal of England, and was, as it seems, before the grand rebellion broke out Chancellor of Landaff. Afterwards suffering much for his Majesty's Cause, was after the restauration of K. Ch. 2. made one of the Grooms of his Bedchamber, in Decemb. 1661. and in May 1667, he, with Denzill Lord Holles, went Ambassadors extraordinary from his Majesty of Great Britain to Breda to consummate a certain Treaty there. In Sept. 1671, he went Ambassador to Sweden (having been an Envoy extraordinary there, in 1664) at which time he gave his helping hand to the breaking of the Triple-league, and on the 3. July 1672. he was sworn Principal Secretary of State, in the room of Sir Joh. Trever deceased. Which honourable office he keeping till his body was much broken with business, to the beginning of the year 1680, resigned it with his Majesty's leave, and retired for health sake to Enfield for a time. Whereupon the place of Secretary was bestowed on Sir Liolin Jenkins Knight. At length Mr. Covencry giving way to fate in his house situated in the H●ymarket near to Charing-cross in Westminster, 5. Dec. 1686, aged 68 years or thereabouts, was buried in the Church of St. Martin in the Fields: which is all I can speak of him for the present, only that he was a native of London.   

Mast. of Arts.  

Apr. 7. Franc. Bampfield of Wadh.  
11. Anthony Hodges of New 

Coll.     
The last of these two, who was Chaplain of that College, became a florid Preacher in Oxon, during the time that the King and Parliament were there, and in June 1646, a little before the garrison of that place was surrendered to the Parliament, the Degree of Bach. of Diu. was given to him by the venerable Convocation, in consideration of several noted Sermons that he had preached before the Royal Court. But so it was that he never took that Degree, or had any thing conferred upon him, as others had, only the Vicarage first of Comn●re, (which he soon after left) and afterwards the rectory of Wytham near Abendon in Berkshire. He hath translated from Greek into English The Loves of Clitophon and Leucippe, a most elegant History written in Greek by Achilles Tatius. Oxon. 1638. oct. in 7. books. There were two impressions of this translation made in that year, and in one of them are commendatory copies of verses made by several Poets of the University, namely among the rest, by Richard Lovelace of Gloc. Hall, Franc. James M. A. of New College, John Metford B. A. of St. Edm. Hall. etc. Mr. Hodges hath published nothing else, though very able he was in many respects to do it. For those that were his acquaintance, knew him to be a most admirable Philologist, a Man of a great memory, and well versed in several sorts of learning; but being delighted to please himself in a juvenile and banting way among junior Masters, could never be courted to set pen to paper for that purpose. He died in his lodging without the Turl-gate of Oxon, 13. Jan. 1685. aged 72 years or thereabouts; and was buried in the remotest part of the yard, joining on the north side, to the Church at Wytham beforemention'd, and not near his sometimes Wife in the Church, because she had been dishonest to him.  
Apr. 11. Will. Tailor of Magd. Hall.  

20. Martin Westcombe of Ex.  
23. Obadiah Walker of Vniu. 

Coll.     
The first of these last two I have mentioned among the Incorporations, an. 1637.  
26. Edw. Grey of Ch. Ch. Esq; a Compounder.  

May 26. 

Obadiah How  
Hen. Wilkinson jun. 

of Magd. Hall.       

June 27. Nath. Hardy of Hart lately of Magd.  
Nou. 7. Thomas Gilbert of St. Edm. 

Hall.     

Jan. 24. Christoph. Bennet of Linc.  
Feb. 23. Rob. Cary of C. Chr. 

Coll.     
Admitted 143.   

Bach. of Phys.  
Only two admitted, viz. Hugh Barker of S. Mary's Hall, and Jos. More of Pemb. Coll. Which is all I know of them, only that More accumulated, as I shall tell you anon.   

Bach. of Diu.  
Nou. 16. Henry Wilkinson Sen. of Magd. Hall.  

Dec. 4. 

Jasp. Fisher of Magd.  
Rich. Owen of Oriel 

Mar. 15. Joseph Crowther of S. Jo. 

Coll.         
Admitted 14.   

Doct. of Law.  

May 8. 

Thomas Read  
Jam. Masters 

of New Coll.       
The first of these two was afterwards a great Royalist, and by his Majesty was nominated Principal of Magd. Hall, upon the flight of Wilkinson to the Parliament. Afterwards he changed his Religion for that of Rome, lived beyond Sea, and wrote, as I have been told, certain matters against Dr. Edw. Boughen. I shall mention him upon that account elsewhere.  
May 29. Will. Child of Alls. Coll.— He was afterwards one of the Masters of the Chancery and a Knight.  
June 13. Edward Alderne of Exet. Coll.— He was afterwards Chancellor of the Diocese of Rochester, where he died in the beginning of 1671.   

Doct. of Phys.  
June 15. Joseph More of Pemb. Coll.— He accumulated the Degrees in Physic.  
July 5. Thomas Bond of Ch. Ch.   

Doct. of Diu.  

June 26. Hugh Lloyd of Jesus  
July 6. Matthew Styles of Exet. 

Coll.     
The first was afterwards Bishop of Landaff: The other was now an eminent Minister in London, an excellent Grammarian and Casuist, and one that had gained great knowledge and experience by his travels into several parts of Italy, particularly at Venice, when he went as Chaplain with an Ambassador from England an. 1624. In 1643 he was nominated one of the Assembly of Divines, but whether he sat among them I know not, because he was forced by the giddy faction about that time to resign his cures at St. George in Botolphlane and St. Gregory near Paul's, in London.  
Will. Strode Canon of Ch. Ch. and Orator of the University was admitted the same day.  

July 7. Andr. Read of Trinity.  
Dec. 4. Jasp. Fisher  
Jan. 26. Hopton Sydenham 

of Magd. 

Coll.       
Mar. 1. Thom. Temple of Linc. Coll.— See among the Incorporations following.  

7. Hen. Hammond 

15. 

Sam. Barnard  
Thom. Buckner 

of Magd. Coll.         
The first of these last three, was now Rector of Penshurst in Kent, the second, Vicar of Croyden in Surrey, and afterwards the Author of A Funeral Sermon, on Ezek. 24. 16. Lond. 1652. qu. who dying in 1657 was buried in the Chancel of the Church of Farlegh in Surrey, of which place he had for some time been Rector, which is all I know of him only that he was a Berkshire Man born, and had in his younger days been accounted a good Greek and Lat. Poet. The last (Buckner) was about this time Prebendary of Winchester and dying in 1644, was, I presume, according to his desire buried at the foot of his Uncle Mr. Adam Buckner in the Chancel of the Church at Merstham (in Surrey.)   

Incorporations.  
May 30. Nathaniel Wright sometimes M. of A. of Cambridge, afterwards Doct. of Phys. of Bourges in France, was incorporated Doct. of Phys.— What he hath extant besides his Theses de pluritide vera, printed 1635 in qu. I know not. He was afterwards one of the Coll of Physicians, and Physician to Oliver Cromwell when he was sick in Scotland, an. 1650. 51.  
June 30. John Donne sometimes of Ch. Ch. afterwards Doctor of the Laws of the University of Milan in Italy, was then incorporated in the same Degree.— He was the Son of Dr. John Donne sometimes Dean of St. Paul's Cathedral, by his Wife Anne Daughter of Sir George More of Loseley in Surrey, was elected a Student of Ch. Ch. from Westminster School an. 1622. and had all the advantages imaginable tendered to him to tread in the steps of his virtuous Father; but his nature benig vile, he proved no better all his life time than an Atheistical Buffoon, a Banterer, and a Person of over free thoughts; yet valued by K. Ch. 2. He hath published certain matters written by his Father, and several frivolous trifles under his own name; among which is The humble petition of Covent-garden against Dr. John Baber a Physician, an. 1661. He died in the Wintertime an. 1662. and was buried under, or near, the standing dial situate and being in the yard, at the West end of St. Paul's Church in Covent-garden. On Feb. 23. an. 1662. was published or printed his fantastical and conceited will, on a broad side of a sheet of paper, wherein the humour of the Person may be discovered. There is no doubt, but that he was a Man of sense, and parts; which, had they been applied to a good use, he might have proved beneficial in his generation.  
July 5. John Nicholaus Vaughan a Cambra-Britaine, sometimes of Jesus Coll. in this University, afterwards Doctor of the Laws of Milan, was also then incorporated, having spent 10 years in the study of that faculty. He was the Son of Joh. Nich. Vaughan Esq.  
10. John Brownlowe sometimes of Brasnose Coll. afterwards of St. Mary's Hall, and at length (in 1631) Doctor of Physic of Leyden, was then taken into the bosom of this University.  
Oct. 12. Daniel Brevint of the Isle of Jersey, Master of Arts of the Uniu. of Saumare in France.  
16. Antonius Aubertus Master of Arts of the University or Academy of Deinse. [Deia Augusta Vocuntiorum] The said Degree was conferred upon him there on the Ides of Septemb. 1619.  
Nou. 7. George Ent Doctor of Physic of Milan.— This learned Person who was the Son of Josias Ent, was born at Sandwich in Kent, 6. Nou. 1604, educated in Sidney Coll. in Cambridge, was, after he had been doctorated, Fellow of the Coll. of Physicians at London, eminent for his practice during the times of Usurpation, afterwards Precedent of the said College and at length had the Degree of Knighthood conferred upon him by King Charles 2. He hath written (1) Apologia pro circulatione sanguinis contra Aemilium Parisanum. Lond. 1641. oct. Wherein he hath learnedly defended Dr. William Harvey against the said Parisanus, and rendered a very rational account concerning the operation of purging Medicines, etc. (2) Animadversiones in Malachiae Thrustoni M. D. diatribam de respirationis usu primario. Lond. 1679. oct. before which is his picture in a long periwig. What other things he hath published, I cannot tell, nor any thing else of him, at present, only that he dying 13. October 1689, was buried in a Vault under part of the Church of St. Laurence in the Jewry, within the City of London.  
Dec. 6. Charles Vane Mast. of Arts of Saumaure.— He was a Cadet of the knightly Family of the Vanes of Fairelane in Kent; and being nearly related to Sir Hen. Vane, closed with the Faction, and in 1650 was sent Agent into Portugal by the Parliament of England.  
Jan. 19 Thom. Temple Bach. of Diu. of Linc. Coll. sometimes M. of A. and Fellow of Trin. Coll. near to Dublin, was then incorporated Bach. of Diu.— The said degree he took there 18. June 1630, and in the beginning of March following he was licenced to proceed in this University, as 'tis before told you. This person, who was Brother to Sir Joh. Temple Knight, Master of the Rolls, and one of his Majesty's Privy Council in Ireland, continued not long in Linc. Coll. for upon the turn of the times in 1641, I find him in London to be a forward Preacher, and about that time Minister of Battersea in Surrey, afterwards a frequent Preacher before the Members of the Long Parliament, and one of the Assembly of Divines; which is all I know of him, only he hath certain Sermons in print which he preached before the said Members; one of which is entit. Christ's government in and over his people, before the H. of Com. at their Fast 26 Oct. 1642, on Psal. 2. 6. Lond. 1642. qu.   

Creations.  
Apr. 11. John Juxon an Officer belonging to the Lord Treasurer (qui ad cubitum summi totius Angliae Thesaurarii à computis est, as the Register hath it) was declared Bach. of the Civil Law by a Diploma then read and sealed.— He was nearly related to Dr. Juxon Bishop of London and Lord Treasurer of England.  
Philip Warwick Secretary to the Lord Treasurer (qui ad cubitum etc. ab epistolis est, as in the said Reg.) was also diplomated Bach. of the Civ. Law the same day.— This noted person who was Son of Thom. Warwick Organist of the Abbey Church of S. Peter in Westminster, and he the Son of Thom. Warwick of Hereford, descended from the Warwick's or Warthwykes of Warwick in Cumberland, was born in the said City of Westminster, educated in Eton Coll. School near Windsor, and was for a time Chorister at Westminster. Afterwards he traveled into France, and was much at Geneva under the instruction and good counsel of Deodatus the famous Divine. Thence returning into his native Country, with many accomplishments, became Secretary to the Lord Treasurer before mentioned, one of the Clerks of the Signet, and in 1640 was elected a Burgess for the Town of Radnor in Wales, to sit in that Parliament which began at Westminster 3 Nou. the same year. But perceiving soon after, what desperate courses the Members thereof took, he retired to his Majesty, was with him at Oxon, and sat in the Parliament there, an. 1643, at which time and after, he had his Lodging in University Coll. and his Counsel much relied upon by his Majesty. Afterwards he was one of the Commissioners to treat with those appointed by Parliament, for the surrender of the Garrison of Oxon an. 1646, and in 1648 he did attend his Majesty in his disconsolate condition in the Isle of Wight. In the times of Usurpation, he was involved in the same troubles, as all Loyalists were; but after his Majesty's Restauration, being then fixed in the Clerkship of the Signet, he became Secretary to Thomas Earl of Southampton Lord Treasurer of England, in which place he acted so much, and so dexterously, that he, being then a Knight, was usually called Sir Philip the Treasurer. This person though he hath published nothing, yet he hath left behind him several things fit for the Press, among which are (1) Memoirs or reflections upon the Reign of K. Ch. 1. in fol. (2) Of Government as examined by Scripture, Reason, and the Law of the Land: or, true weights and measures between Sovereignty and Liberty. fol. etc. He was esteemed by those that knew him to be a person of a public spirit, above the riches and preferments of the World, and to be just in all his Actions, and needed not therefore that Character which a certain nameless Author 
* The Author of 〈…〉, etc. printed 1677. p. 1●.  gives of him thus, that he never lies more than when he professes to speak the sincerity of his heart. He died on the 17 of the Cal. of Feb. 1682, aged 74 years, and was buried in the Church at Chiselherst in Kent, where he had an Estate. I have seen an Epitaph made on him by Dr. Tho. Pierce, Dean of Salisbury, the first part of which runs thus, Cavesis tibi viator, ne legens, lugeas: nam cujus fidem veriverbio Carolus primus celebravit, (Carolusque secundus expertus est.) Nec majora quidem nec plura de se dici voluit. Vir coelo natus, bonorum in terris desiderium, optimus veri aestimator, aequi b●nique tenacissimus Philippus Warwick, etc. His ●on and Heir was Philip Warwick Esquire, sometimes Envoy extraordinary from his Majesty to the King of Sweeden, who returning post thence, to the Court at Newmarket, in order partly to take the last breath of his Father, died suddenly of an Apoplexy there in his bed, on Monday the 12 of March 1682.  
The before mentioned Tho. Warwick, Father to Sir Philip, was also one of the Organists of the Royal Chapel belonging to K Ch. 1. and was so admirably well skilled in the theory part of music, that he composed a Song of forty parts, for forty several persons, each of them to have his part entire from the other. This Song was performed before his Majesty about the year 1635, by forty Musicians, mostly belonging to his Majesty, and by some, to certain Churches, among whom Ben. Rogers of Windsor was one.  
Apr. 17. Joh. Maplet of Ch. Ch. was then actually created Master of Arts, being about to take a journey to his Uncle in Holland.— He is hereafter to be remembered as a Writer.  
July 4. Hen. Killigrew of Ch. Ch. was actually created Master of Arts.— He is to be numbered hereafter among the Writers of this University.  
Theodorus Vchtmannus of Groaning was this year (in July) entered a Student in the public Library, where he studied the supreme Faculty. He was afterwards Professor of the Hebrew Tongue at Leyden, and a publisher of several books.    

An. Dom. 1639.  
An. 15 Car. 1.  
Chanc. Dr. Laud Archb. of Canterbury.  
Vicechanc. Dr. Frewen again, Jul. 13.  

Proct. 

Edw. Fulham of Ch. Ch.  
Rob. Heywood of Brasn. Coll. 

Apr. 24.       

Bach. of Music.  
Jul. 5. Will. Ellis lately Organist of Eton Coll. near to Windsor, now of S. John's Coll. in Oxon.— He hath some small things of his faculty extant, as Rounds, Catches, sacred Hymns and Canons for Voices, which you may partly see in a book entit. A choice Collection of Catches, Rounds, and Canons for three or four Voices. Lond. 1652, etc. oct. collected and published by John Hilton Bach. of Music, sometimes Organist of S. Margaret's Church in Westminster, and Clerk of the Parish belonging thereunto. This Mr. Ellis died in Magd. Parish in the north Suburb of Oxon, and was buried in the Churchyard there, in the latter end of the year 1680.   

Bach. of Arts.  
May 2. Christop. Love of New Inn.  
16. Joh. Jackson of Gloc. Hall.— This person who was a Cornish man born, is not to be understood to be the same with that Jo. Jackson M. of A. of Cambridge, as it seems, born at or near Hathornewait in the Forest of Over-Wiersdale in Lancashire, beneficed in Essex, and Author of several tracts of practical Divinity, as of (1) A taste of the truth as it is in Jesus, consisting of ten questions and answers, etc. Lond. 1648. oct. (2) Directions for private Worship of God, etc. printed there the same year: besides divers Sermons published in 1641 and 42, etc.  

Jun. 13. 

Rich. Parr of Exet. Coll.  
Gilb. Coles  
Will. Bew 

of New Coll.       
The last was afterwards Bishop of Landaff.  
15. Thom. Manton of Hart Hall, lately of Wadh. Coll.  
Joh. Nelme of Magd. Hall was admitted the same day.— See among the Masters, an. 1642.  

19 

Hen. Bennet  
Tho. Willis 

of Ch. Ch.       
Of the first of these last two, you may see more among the created Doctors of Law, an. 1663. The other was afterwards an eminent Physician.  

Jul. 4. 

Tho. Lamplugh  
Tho. Tully  
John Dale 

of Qu. Coll.       
The first of these three was afterwards Archb. of York, the other two, Writers, and the last afterwards of Magd. Coll.  
5. Joh. Corbet of Magd. Hall.  
12. Joh. Maudit of Exet. Coll.— See among the Masters, 1642.  

24. Will. Russell of Lincoln  
Nou. 19 Sam. Aneley of Queens  
Dec. 10. Walt. Blandford of Wadh. 

Coll.     
The last of which three, was afterwards Bishop of Worcester.  
Jan. 18. Thankful Owen of Exeter, afterwards of Lincoln, Coll.— See among the Masters in 1646.  
23. Will. Scroggs of Pemb. Coll.  
All which Bachelaurs, except Jackson, are to be mentioned among the Writers, and in the Fasti, in the 2 Vol. of this Work, or elsewhere.  
Adm. 217.   

Bach. of Law.  
Six were admitted this year, of whom Joh. Nicholson of Magd. College, lately Proctor of the University, was one; and John Wainwright of Alls. Coll. another. Both which were Chancellors after the Restauration of K. Ch. 2.   

Mast. of Arts.  
Apr. 29. Will. Creed of S. Joh. Coll.  
May 2. George Laurence of New Inn.  
13. Benj. Wells of S. Mary's Hall, afterwards of Alls. Coll.  

16. 

Tho. Holyoake of Qu. Coll.  
Rob. Wickens of Ch. Ch.     

July 4. Hen. Vaughan of Jes.  
5. Thom. Gawen of New  
Feb. 5. Joh. Riland of Magd. 

22. 

Ralph Button  
Joh. Priaulx 

of Mert. 

Coll.           
The last, saving one, was made afterwards, by the Parliamentarian Visitors, Orator of the University, and Canon of Ch. Church.  
Adm. 135.   

Bach. of Phys.  
But three were admitted this year, of whom Edw. Lenton of Magd Hall was one, and John Edward's of S. John's Coll. Reader of the Nat. Philosophy Lecture another.   

Bach. of Diu.  

Jul. 4. 

Nich. Gibbon of S. Edm. Hall.  
Rich. Stannix of Qu. Coll.     

Dec. 17. Tho. Good of Ball.  
Feb. 6. Noel Spark of C. C. 

Coll.     
The last was a most excellent Latinist and Grecian, a most curious Critic in all kind of Learning, and admirably well versed in the Fathers, yet never published any thing. His Epitaph you may see in Hist. & Antiq. Vniu. Oxon. lib. 2. p. 244. b.  
Edm. Vaughan of C. C. Coll. was admitted the same day.  
Adm. 18.   

Doct. of Law.  

Jun. 13. Tho. Lloyd of S. Joh.  
25. Herbert Pelham  
Jul. 5. Joh. Nicolson 

of Magd. 

Coll.       
The last who accumulated, was after his Majesty's Restauration made Chancellor of the Dioc. of Glcc.   

Doct. of Physic.  
Jun. 14. Joh. Edward's of S. John's Coll.— He accumulated the degrees in Physic, being at this time, as I have before told you, Natural Philosophy Professor.  
19 Thom. Clayton of Pemb. Coll.— He was afterwards the King's Professor of Physic, Warden of Merton College and a Knight.  

Jul. 5. Joh. Aubrey of Magd.  
Nou. 24. Bridstock Harford of Linc. 

Coll.      

Doct. of Diu.  
Apr. 29. John Oliver of Magd. Coll.— This person who was a Kentish man born, and originally of Mert. Coll. was afterwards successively Demy and Fellow of that of Magd. where his eminence in Learning and orthodox Principles in Religion being conspicuous, he was taken into the Service of Dr. Laud Archb. of Cant. and by him made his domestic Chaplain, and promoted in the Church; but losing all in the time of the Rebellion, he was elected Precedent of his Coll. in Apr. 1644, upon the advancement of Dr. Frewen to the See of Lichfield. In the latter end of 1647 he was turned out of his Presidentship, by the Committee of Lords and Commons for the reformation of the University of Oxon, and in the beginning of the next year, by the Visitors themselves in their own proper persons. So that afterwards living obscurely and in great hardship, wanted the charities which he before bestowed on the poor and the public, being in a manner the object of charity himself. On the 18 of May 1660, which was about a fortnight before his Majesty's Return, he was by the Authority of Parl. restored to his Presidentship, and on the 22 of the said month he took possession thereof, being the first of all Loyal Heads that was restored to what they had lost in this University. Soon after he was by his Majesty's favour nominated Dean of Worcester, in the place of Dr. Rich. Holdsworth, who died 1649; in which Dignity being installed 12 Sept. 1660, kept it to the time of his death; which happening 27 Oct. 1661., was buried in Magd. Coll. Chappel. This most learned, meek, and pious person, was strangely desirous to leave this World, though few alive had then such temptations to stay in it. That little which he had got since his Majesty's return, he gave to pious uses, either to the poor, or reparation of Churches, viz. S. Paul's, Winchester (of which he was Prebendary) Worcester, and to his Coll. To which last his two immediate Predecessors Wilkinson and Goodwin, who were thrust in by the Parliament and Oliver for their Saintship and zeal to the blessed Cause, gave not a farthing, but raked and scraped up all that they could get thence, as the rest of the Saints than did in the University. Dr. Oliver left also a Legacy sealed up in a paper to Sir Edw. Hyde then Earl of Clarendon and Lord Chanc. of England, sometimes his Pupil while he was in the University, for upon his motion it was that he was made Dean of Worcester, and Legacies to his Nephews, Niece (who had been kind to him in his wants) and Servants. There was some affinity between him and Tho. Oliver an eminent Physician and Mathematician, (educated, as I conceive, in Cambridge) a practitioner of his Faculty at S. Edmunds Bury, where he died and was buried in 1624. The Titles of his Works you may see in the Oxford Catalogue.  

May 9 Thom. Wykes of S. Joh.  
17. Aaron Wilson of Queens 

Coll.     
The last was now Archdeacon of Exeter, in which Dignity he was succeeded by Edw. Yonge D. D. who occurs Archdeacon 1660.  
Jun. 25. Bruno Ryves of Magd. Coll.  

Jul. 2. Joseph Henshaw of Magd.  
4. Nich. Gibbon of S. Edm. Hall. 

Hall.     
That last of which accumulated.  

5. Walt. Clerk of Magd.  
Nou. 29. Will. Hobbs of Trin. 

Coll.      

Incorporations.  
June 13. Will. Mostyn M. of A. of S. John's Coll. in Cambr.— One of both his names occurs Archdeacon of Bango● in 1640. and whether he succeeded in that Dignity Edw. Hughes D. D. Rector of Woughton in Bucks, who died in Oct. 1633, I cannot yet tell.  
Rob. Lesley a noble young man of great hopes, Son of Henry Bishop of Downe and Connor, and M. of A. of Aberdene in Scotland, was incorporated the same day.— The degree of Bach. of Arts was conferred upon him in the University of Dublin 23 March 1636, and that of Master at Aberdene 16 July 1638.  
Jul. 2. Rob. Price Doct. of the Laws of Dublin.— He was afterwards Bishop of Ferns and Leighlin in Ireland.  
9 Edward Lane M. of A. of Cambridge.— This person, who was educated in Paul's School, and afterwards in S. John's Coll. in the said University, became Vicar of Northstrobury in Essex by the favour of the Lord Keeper Coventry 1630, and was thence removed by the same hand to the Vicarage of Spersholt near to Rumsey in Hampshire. He hath written Look unto Jesus: or, an ascent to the holy mount, to see Jesus Christ in his glory, etc. Lond. 1663. qu. and Mercy triumphant: the Kingdom of Christ enlarged beyond the narrow bounds which have been put to it by Dr. Lewis du Moulin, in his most antichristian book called Moral reflections on the number of the elect, etc. Lond. 1680. qu. In which year the Author Ed. Lane was living at Spersholt. The said Book was reprinted in the year following, with this title. Du Moulin's reflections reverberated, being a full answer to a pamphlet, entit. Moral Reflections on the number of the elect, together with several arguments about Transubstantiation, not in any Author yet. To which is added, An answer to Mr. Edm. Hickeringil's scurrilous piece, styled, The second part of naked truth.  
Will. Gorton Bach. of Diu. of the University of S. Andrew in Scotland, was incorporated the same day.— He was now Vicar of Lower Getting in Glocestershire.  
Jul…. Thom. Mocket Mast. of Arts of Cambridge.— He was educated in Queens Coll. in that University, was about this time Minister of Holt in Denbighshire, and afterwards of Gildeston or Gildesden in Hertfordshire. He hath published certain Sermons, and Christmas, the Christians grand feast: its original, growth, and observation: Also of Easter, Whitsuntide, etc. Lond. 1651. qu. besides other things.  
Jul…. Edm. Calamy Bach. of Diu. of Cambridge.— After he had left that University he became a Preacher in S. Edmundsbury in Suffolk, where, as a certain 
† Sober sadness or, Historical Observations upon the proceedings, pretences, 〈◊〉, of a prevailing 〈◊〉 in both 〈…〉, etc. 〈◊〉 1643. qu. pag. 3.  Anonymus observes, he complied with Bishop Wren the Diocesan, preached frequently in his surplice and hood, read prayers at the rails, bowed at the name of Jesus, and undertook to satisfy and reduce such as scrupled at those ceremonies. Thus the said nameless Author; yet Calamy himself saith 
* 〈…〉 1646. pag. 9  that while he continued there, he never bowed to▪ or towards, the Altar, never read the book of sports, never read prayers at the high Altar, and that he preached against Innovations, etc. But so it was, let he himself say what he will that after he had continued 10 years at that place, and had complied, as is before mentioned, Robert the puritanical Earl of Warwick usually said He would be lost if he were not taken off▪ and so removed him to Rochfort in Essex: where continuing till the Long Parliament began in Nou. 1640, removed thence to London, and became Minister of S. Mary Aldermanburic. About which time the Presbyterian growing dominant, he became a great Evangelist of the new way, encouraged the people to Rebellion, was one of those that joined in making Smectymnus, which was the first deadly blow in England given to Episcopacy (as divers thought) that had happened for many years before. His house also in that Parish, was a receptacle then for all Presbyterian Ministers, and there was the Remonstrance framed against the Prelates, and all or most things hatched to carry on the blessed and beloved Cause. At that time he was a frequent Preacher before the Members of the Long Parliament, and he was the first that did openly defend before a Committee of Parliament, that our Bishops were not only not an order distinct from Presbyters, but that in Scripture a Bishop and a Presbyter were all one. Afterwards he was made one of the Assembly of Divines, took the Covenant, to which he closely stuck ever after; and was not wanting on all occasions to carry on the Cause, whereby he gained to himself not only a name and repute among the Brethren, but also wealth, which was the chief thing he looked after. After his Majesties Return in 1660, there were ●ome offers in private made to him of a Bishopric, conditionally that he would conform, but made delays, thinking to enjoy that honourable Function as to be altered by the King's Declaration about ecclesiastical affairs, and to be used according to that Declaration, and not according to the ancient Laws and Customs of the Land and Church. Wherefore he being uncertain whether the King's Declaration would stand, or pass into a Law, he delayed to see the certainty; and when he saw that the Declaration was dead, and Prelacy was as 'twas before, he utterly refused it. So that continuing in the said Cure of S. Mary Aldermanburic till S. Bartholomew's day in 1662., he was then ejected for Nonconformity. Notwithstanding which, he preached soon after in the said Church on a Sunday, and on the 28 of Dec. following, when then, among other dangerous passages, he said the Ark of God was lost, and the glory was departed from Israel. For which his contempt to the then late Act of Parliament for Uniformity, he was by virtue of the L. Mayor's Mittimus committed Prisoner to Newgate on the 6 Jan. 1662., where continuing for some time, Dr. Rob. Wild the Presbyterian Poet made and published a Poem on his Imprisonment, as did the Author called Hudibras. Most of the things that he hath written and published are Sermons: seven of which at least, were preached before the Long Parliament, as (1) England's looking glass, before the House of Commons at their solemn Fast 22 Dec. 1641, on Jer. 18. 7, 8, 9, 10. Lond. 1642. qu. (2) Gods free mercy to England, before the House of Commons at their solemn Fast 23 Feb. 1641, on Ezek. 36. 32. Lond. 1642. qu. (3) The Nobleman's pattern of true and real thankfulness, at a solemn Thanksgiving 15 Jun. 1643, on Josh. 24. 15. Lond. 1643. qu. (4) England's antidote against the plague of Civ. War, before the House of Commons at their Fast, on Acts 17. latter part of the 13 verse. Lond. 1645. qu. (5) An indictment against England because of her self-murdering divisions, before the House of Lords at their Fast 25 Dec. (Christmas day) 1644, on Math. 12. 25. latter part. Lond. 1645. qu. etc. Afterwards he published The great danger of Covenant refusing and Covenant breaking, etc. preached before the L. Mayor, Sheriffs, Aldermen, Ministers, etc. of London, on 2 Tim. 3. 3. Lond. 1646. qu. Serm. at the funeral of Sam. Bolton; another before the L. Mayor, called The monster of selfseeking anatomised; five Sermons entit. The godly man's ark; or a city of refuge in the day of his distress, printed several times in tw. The eighth Edition of which was printed at Lond. 1683. The first Sermon was preached at the Funeral of Mrs. Elizab. Moor, to which are added her Evidences for Heaven; and the other four were preached on several occasions. Another Serm. to the native Citizens of London called The City remembrancer, in oct. Sermon at the funeral of Rob. Earl of Warwick, an. 1658. Sermon at the funeral of Simeon Ash an. 1662., and about the same time A farewell Sermon when he was to leave S. Mary Aldermanburic, etc. He hath also written A just and necessary Apology against an unjust invective, published by Mr. Hen. Burton in a late book of his entit. Truth still Truth, though shut out of doors, etc. Lond. 1646. qu. Also The art of divine Meditation, in oct. and A leading case, etc. At length having lived to a fair age, gave way to fate in Octob. 1666, being soon after the grand Conflagration of the City of London, which hastened his end, but where buried, unless within the precincts of the Church of S. Mary Aldermanburic, which a little before was consumed by the said Fire, I cannot yet tell. He left behind him a son named Benjamin, afterwards D. of D. a loyal person, excellent preacher, and a zealous man for the Church of England. Of Edm. Calamy see more in Jos. Caryl in the other Vol.  
Jul. 10. Thom. Fleetwood Doctor of the Laws of Milan.— He was now, or lately, of Alls. Coll.  
Oct. 12. George Hammond Scholar of Trin. Coll. near to Dublin, and Bach. of Arts there.  
Nou. 9 Dudley Loftus of Trin. Coll. before mentioned, was incorporated Bach. of Arts, as he had stood there; which degree was conferred upon him in that University (Dublin) 19 Jan. 1637.  
Dec. 17. Richard roll Bach. of Arts of Cambr.— He was now of Gloc. Hall, but originally of New Inn, which is all I know of him.  
March 16. Edw. Harrison Bach. of Arts of S. John's Coll. in Cambridge.   

Creations.  
Jun. 14. Joh. Birkenhead of Oriel Coll. was declared Master of Arts, and admitted to the degree in the Congregation house, by virtue of the Diploma of the Archb. of Canterbury, dated 5 Octob. 1639. I shall make mention of this person at large in the second Volume of this Work.    

An. Dom. 1640.  
An. 16 Car. 1.  
Chanc. Dr. Laud Archb. of Canterbury.  
Vicechanc. Christop. Potter D. D. Provost of Queens Coll. and Dean of Worcester.  

Proct. 

Peter Allibond of Linc. Coll.  
Nich. Greaves of Alls. Coll. 

Apr. 15.       
But the signior dying in the Parish of S. Bride in London about the beginning of Feb. Will. Watson of the same Coll. was within few days after elected into his place, and admitted according to the Caroline Cycle.  

Bach. of Music.  
July 9 Arthur Philipps Organist of Magd. Coll. and public Professor of the musical Praxis of this University.— Afterwards; upon the change of the times, and a perfect foresight of the ruin of the Church, he changed his Religion for that of Rome, and became Organist to Henrietta Maria Qu. of England. From whose service being dismissed, he returned into England, and was entertained by a Roman Catholic Gent. called caryl of Sussex, He hath made several vocal compositions of two and three parts, which have been tried and commended by several great Masters of Music; but whether any of them are extant, I cannot yet tell. One Pet. Philipps an English man and Organist to Albert the Archduke of Austria, hath composed and published Madrigals for eight voices. Antwerp 1599 qu. dedicated to Sir Will. Stanley a Colonel of a Regiment of English and Walloons. To which Peter Philipps, Arthur before mentioned was nearly related, if not descended from him.   

Bach. of Arts.  
Apr. 22. Humph. Brook of S. John's Coll.  
June 4. Henr. Stanhope of Exeter Coll. Son of the Earl of Chesterfield.  
George Jolliff of Pembr. afterwards of Wadham, College, was admitted the same day.  
11. Sim. Ford of Magd. Hall.  
July 7. Martin Llewellin of Ch. Ch.  

Oct. 24. 

John Fell  
Rich. Allestrie 

of Ch. Ch.       
Nou. 3. Will. Joiner of Magd. Coll.  
6. George Strading of Jesus, afterwards of Allsoules, Coll.— See among the created Doct. of Diu. 1661.  
10. Philip Stephens of S. Alb. Hall.— See among the Doct. of Phys. an. 1633.  
Feb. 9 Will. Jackson of Magdalen, afterwards of Brasnose, Coll. a noted Grammarian.  
All which Bachelaurs, except Stanhope, will be at large mentioned elsewhere.  
Adm. 181.   

Bach. of Law.  
May 19 Rich. Whitlock of Alls. Coll.  
21. John Manley of Magd. Hall.— He afterwards, as it seems studied the common Law, and became eminent therein.  
Besides these two, were nine more admitted, among whom Joh. Hall of S. Alb. Hall was one, a younger Son of Dr. Jos. Hall Bishop of Exeter.   

Mast. of Arts.  

Mar. 28. Joh. Goad of S. Joh.  
Jun. 18. Sam. Fisher of Magd. 

Coll.     
Jun…. Joh. Bachler or Bachiler of Gloc. Hall.— He is not to be understood to be the same with Joh. Bachiler Author of Golden sands, etc. Lond. 1647, The Virgin's pattern, etc. Lond. 1661. oct. and of several Sermons, because he was bred in Emanuel Coll. in Cambridge.  
31. Tho. Weaver of Ch. Ch.  
Jul. 9 Joh. French of New Inn.  

Oct. 20. Dudley Loftus of Vniu.  
Nou. 3. Will. Dingley of Magd. 

Coll.     
Jan. 16. Will. Hughes of New Inn.  

Mar. 6. Edw. chamberlain of S. Edm.  
22. John Hinkley of S. Alban 

Hall.     
Adm. 108.   

Bach. of Phys.  

July 18. 

Edw. Greaves of Alls.  
Franc. Goddard of Exet. 

Coll.       
Whether the last was afterwards a Writer, I cannot tell. The first I am sure was.   

Bach. of Diu.  

Jun. 20. Francis Davies of Jesus Coll.  
Jul. 7. George Bathurst of Trin. COll.   
The last of these two, who was Fellow of the said Coll. and a Native of Garsingdon near to Oxon, hath extant Oratio funebris in obitum desideratiss. viri Thomae Alleni Coll. Trinit olim socii, & Aulae Glocestrensis 62 annos commensalis. Lond. 1632▪ qu. He was afterwards engaged in his Majesty's Service, was a Defendant within the Garrison of Farringdon in Berks. where he died of a wound in the thigh, about 1644.  

9 John Webberley of Linc. Coll.  
Jan. 30. Tho. Masters of New Coll.   
The first of these two, who was the Son of Thom. Webberley of East-Kirbey in Lincolnshire, was now esteemed by all a high flown Socinian, and afterwards a desperate Zealot for the King's cause in the time of the grand Rebellion. He had translated into English several Socinian books; some of which he had published without his name set to them: and others which were laying by him, were taken out of his study by the Parliamentarian Visitors, an. 1648, in which year he suffered much for his Loyalty by Imprisonment first, and afterwards by Expulsion. See in Hist. & Antiq. Vniu. Oxon. lib. 1. p. 405. a. b. etc.  
Adm. 16.   

Doct. of Law.  
July 2. Rich. Chaworth of Ch. Ch.— He was afterwards Vicar General to the Archbishop of Canterbury, a Knight, Chancellor of Chichester and London. He died and was buried at Richmond in Surrey in June or July 1673.  
Roland Scudamore of Brasn. Coll. was admitted the same day.  
Oct. 17. Thom. Hyde of New Coll.— He was a younger Son of Sir Laur. Hyde of Salisbury Knight, was about this time Chancellor of that place, and at length Judge of the High Court of Admiralty. He died in 1661.   

Doct. of Phys.  
Jun. 9 Charles Bostock of Ch. Ch.— Not one besides him was licenced to proceed this year.   

Doct. of Diu.  
Apr. 18. Herbert Croft of Ch. Ch.  
Jun. 25. Hen. Croak of Brasn. Coll.  
26. Sebastian Smith of Ch. Ch.— He was now, or lately, Prebendary of Peterborugh, and Chauntor of the Church of Wells, to which last he was admitted on the death of Edw. Abbot, 9 of March 1634, and at length became Canon of Ch. Ch. in Oxon.  
Jul. 2. Will. Evans of Qu. Coll. now Prebendary of Hereford.  
Nou. 28. Rob. Neulin Precedent of C. C. Coll.— He was ejected from his Presidentship in 1648, was restored in 1660, and dying 5 March 1687, aged 90 years or more, was buried in C. C. Coll. Chappel.   

Incorporations.  
Jul. 14. Thom. Stanley M. of A. of Cambridge.— This Gentleman who was the only Son of Sir Tho. Stanley Knight, was born at Cumberlow in Hertfordshire, educated in Grammatical learning in his Father's House under one Mr. Will. Fairfax, in Academical in Pembroke Hall in Cambridge, in the quality of a Gentleman Commoner; where he became a very early proficient in several sorts of polite learning. In the times of Usurpation he lived in the Middle Temple, where he advanced his knowledge much by the Communication of his Kinsman Edw. Sherburne Esq; then lately returned from his Travels, became much deserving of the Commonwealth of Learning in general, and particularly honoured for his smooth air and gentle spirit in Poetry, which appears not only in his own genuine Poems, but also from those things which he hath translated out of the ancient Greek, and modern, Italian, Spanish, and French, Poets. His writings are (1) The History of Philosophy, containing those on whom the Attribute of Wise was conferred. Lond. 1655. fol. in three parts, with Stanley's Picture before them. The second Vol. was printed in 1656. fol. containing five parts, making in all eight parts: And at the end of the said second Vol. is The doctrine of the Stoics, in two parts. The third Vol. of the said Hist. of Philosophy was published in 1660. fol. contained also in several parts. All which parts, illustrated with Cuts, were reprinted 1687, fol. (2) History of chaldaic Philosophy, etc. Lond. 1662. (3) Poems. Lond. 1651. oct. dedicated to Love; some of which, (and not others in his Translations) had, if I am not mistaken, musical Compositions set to them by John Gamble in his book entit. Airs and Dialogues, to be sung to the Theorbo-Lute or Bass Viol. Lond. 1651. fol. Which J. Gamble, by the way I must let the Reader know, was bred up in the condition of an Apprentice under a noted Master of Music called Ambrose Beyland, was afterwards a Musician belonging to a Playhouse, one of the Cornets in the King's Chapel, one of the Violins to K. Ch. 2. and a Composer of Lessons for the King's Playhouse. (4) Translation of, with Annotations on, Europa, (in the idyl. of Theocritus) Cupid crucified, Venus' Vigils. Lond. 1649. oct. To the second Edition of which, he added the Translation of, and Notes on, Anacreon, Bion, Kisses by Secundus. printed 1651. oct. (5) Version of, and Commentary on Aeschyli tragoediae septem cum scoliis Graecis omnibus, deperditorum Drammatum fragmentis. Lond. 1664. fol. He also translated into English, without Annotations (1) Aurora Ismenia and The Prince, written by Don Juen Perez de Montalvan. Lond. 1650. second Edit. (2) Oronta the Cyprian Virgin, by Signior Girolamo Preti. Lond. 1650. second Edit. (3) A Platonic discourse of love, written in Ital. by Joh. Picus Mirandula.— printed 1651. oct. (4) Sylvia's Park, by Theophile, Acanthus complaint, by Tristan, Oronto, by Preti, Echo, by Marino, Loves Embassy, by Boscan, The Solitude, by Gongora.— All printed 1651. oct. etc. This learned Gent. Tho. Stanley died in his Lodgings in Suffolk street in the Parish of S. Martin in the Fields in the City of Westminster, 12 Apr. 1678, and was buried in the Church there. He left behind him a Son of both his names, educated in Pembroke Hall in Cambridge, who, when very young, translated into English Claud. Elianus his Various Histories.  
Jul….. Thomas Philipot of Cambridge was incorporated after the Act time, as a certain private note tells me, but in what degree, unless in that of Master of Arts, I cannot yet find.— He was the Son of John Philipot of Kent, (Herald of Arms by the title of Somerset) by Susan his Wife only daughter and heir of Will. Glover, Brother to that most skilful Genealogist Robert Glover Somerset Herald, was educated in Clare Hall, commenced M. of A. and was by those that well knew him, esteemed a tolerable Poet when young, and at riper years well versed in matters of Divinity, History and Antiquities. He hath extant under his name (1) Elegies offered up to the memory of Will. Glover Esq; late of Shaldeston in Bucks. Lond. 1641. qu. (2) A congratulatory elegy offered up to the Earl of Essex, upon his investiture with the dignity of Lord chamberlain. Lond. 1641. qu. (3) Poems, Lond. 1646. oct. (4) Villare Cantianum: or, Kent surveyed and illustrated. Lond. 1659. and 1664. fol. To which is added, An historical Catalogue of the High Sheriffs of Kent, by John Philipot the Father, who indeed is the true Author of Viliare Cantianum. (5) The Cripples complaint: a Serm. printed 1662. qu. (6) The original and growth of the Spanish Monarchy, united with the house of Austria. Lond. 1664. oct. (7) Antiquitas Theologica & Gentilis. Or two discourses. The first concerning the original of Churches, and their direct and collateral endowments: the second touching the Religion of the Gentiles, etc. Lond. 1670. in tw. (8) Historical discourse of the original and growth of Heraldry. pr. 1672. oct. (9) Self-homicide-Murther: or, some Antidotes gleaned out of the Treasuries of our modern Casuists and Divines against that horrid and reigning sin of self-murder. Lond. 1674. qu. He hath written and published other things which I have not yet seen (among them is The life of Aesop, in English) and died in 1684, or thereabouts.  
Jul. 15. Will. Blake Doct. of the Civ. Law of Milan.— This Will. Blake who was now, or lately, Fellow of Wadham Coll. as also Brother to Rob. Blake General at Sea in the Reign of Oliver, died at Bridgwater in Somersetshire 1667.  
Nou…. Isaac Basire D. of D. of Cambridge.— This learned Doctor who had that degree conferred on him there, in July this year, and is styled in the public Register of this time Vir doctissimus— ingenii & doctrinae ornamentis praeditus, was born in the Isle of Jersey, and was about this time one of his Majesty's Chaplains in Ordinary, and soon after Archdeacon of Northumberland in the place of Ever Gower Bach. of Diu. who had that dignity conferred on him about 1640 by the ceasing of Will. Flathers Bach. of Diu. collated thereunto 24 Nou. 1636. In the time of the Rebellion Dr. Bafire fled to Oxon, adhered to his Majesty's cause, preached frequently before him and the Parliament there, and was an equal sharer in afflictions with other Loyalists. About the year 1646 he left the Nation and traveled into remote Countries, purposely to propagate the Doctrine established in the British Church, among the Greeks, Arabians, etc. as to the Island of Zante near Peloponesus, thence to Morea, where the Metropolitan of Achaia prevailed with him to preach twice in Greek, at a meeting of some of the Bishops and Clergy. From thence, after he had traveled thorough Apulia, Naples and Sicily, (in which last place he had been once before) he embarked for Syria, where, at Aleppo he continued some months, and had frequent Conversation with the Patriarch of Antioch. From Aleppo he went to Jerusalem, and so travelled all over Palestina. At Jerusalem he received much honour, both from the Greeks and Latins: from the last he procured an entrance into the Temple of the Sepulchre, at the rate of a Priest. Afterwards returning to Aleppo, he passed over Euphrates, and went to Mesopotamia. Thence to Aleppo again, and at length to Constantinople in 1653; in which year he designed to pass into Egypt, to survey the Churches of the Cophties there, and to confer with the Patriarch of Alexandria, as he had done with three Patriarches besides, partly to acquire the knowledge of those Churches, and partly to publish ours, quantum fert status. Afterwards he went into Transylvania, and was entertained by Prince George Rogoczi (or Rogotzi) the second, Prince of that Country, by whom he was entrusted with the Chair in the Divinity School. After the Return of King Charles 2. to his Dominions, he took his leave of that Country, then in broils, returned into England, took possession of his Archdeaconry, and was made Prebendary of Durham: which Dignities he kept to his dying day. He hath written (1) Deo & ecclesiae sacrum. Sacrilege arraigned and condemned by St. Paul, Romans 2. 22. Oxon. 1646. qu. Lond. 1668. oct. (2) Diatriba de antiqua ecclesiae Britannicae libertate. Brugis 1656. oct. The MS. of which being found in the Cabinet of John Lord Hopton after his decease, by Rich. Watson an exiled Theologist for his loyalty, was by him published at Bruges. Afterwards the said Watson translated it into English, and put it out under this title The ancient liberty of the Britannic Church, and the legitimate exemption thereof from the Roman Patriarchate, discoursed in four positions. Lond. 1661. oct. Dedicated by the said Watson by his Epistle dated from Caen in Normandy 12. Aug. 1660. to Sir Rich. Brown Clerk of the Privy Council to his Majesty of Great Britain, he supposing then that Basire the Author had been dead in Transylvania. Three chapters or positions of which, were selected from a Latin MS. written by F. John Barnes of the order of St. Benedict, as I have elsewhere told you. (3) Letter to Sir Rich. Browne Resident at Paris for his Majesty of Great Britain relating his travels and endeavours to propagate the knowledge of the doctrine and discipline, established in the Britannic Church among the Greeks, Arabians. etc. dated from Pera near to Constantinople 20. July 1653, and printed at the end of The ancient Liberty of the Britannic Church, etc. (4) History of the English and Scotch Presbytery, etc. printed 1659. 60. oct. (5) Oratio privata, boni Theologi (speciatim concionatoris practici) parts praecipuas complectens. Lond. 1670. in half a sh. in oct. (6) The dead man's real speech; Serm. on Heb. 11. 4. at the funeral of Dr. John Cousin late Bishop of Durham, 29. Apr. 1672. Lond. 1673. oct. (7) A brief of the life and dignities, of the benefactions and principal actions, etc. of Dr. John Cousin late Bishop of Durham. Printed with the former, together with An appendix of his profession and practice, and of his last will concerning religion. This Dr. Basire, who, without doubt, hath published other things, paid his last debt to nature in a good old age, on the twelfth day of Octob. 1676, and was buried in the Cemetery belonging to the Cathedral of Durham, near to the body of an ancient servant that had lived many years with him, and not by that of his Wife in the Cathedral. In his Archdeaconry succeeded Will. Turner Rector of Stanhope in the County Palat. of Durham, M. of A. (afterwards D. D.) and sometimes Fellow of Trin. Coll. in Oxon, a younger Son of Dr. Tho. Turner, sometimes Dean of Canterbury.  
Jan. 14. Joh. Regius (King) Londino-Anglus, Doctor of Phyf. of the University of Leyden in Holland, was then incorporated. Which Degree was conferred upon him in the said Uniu. 1638.     
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TABLE or INDEX TO Athenae and Fasti Oxonienses.  

A.  


ABbot Edw. pag. 792. 901.  
George 333. 500 511.629.  
Maurice, 527.  
Rob. 365. 366. 415. 499. 621. 800. 801.    
Abel Tho. 47  
Abington or Habington Edw. Tho. 735. 88  
Able Franc. 691  
Abulines Jo. 702. 706  
Ackworth Geo▪ 726  
Opposed Rog. 835  
adam's Bern. 625  
Aglionby or Eglionby Jo. 303. Edw. 726  
Airay Hen. 341. 481. See Ayray.  
Akers Jo 678  
Alabaster Will. 233. 768  
Alan, see Allen.  
Alaskie or Laskie Alb. 244. 313. 492  
Albertis Geo. 872  
Alcock Tho. 654  
Alexander Franc. 809  
Aldem. Mardoc. 734. 821  
Alderne Edw. 893  
Aldridge or Aldrich Rob. 22. 79. 80. 583. 679. 680. Tho. 725  
Algre Gasp. 849  
Allen Jo. 31  
Allen Tho. 86. 397. 514. 413. 420. 420. 459. 466. 492. 493. 572. Will. 169. 234. 235. 236. 237. 616  
Alley Will. 127. 598. Rog. 127  
Allibond Pet. 448. 900. Rich. 448  
Allyn▪ see Allen.  
Allysbury Will. 685  
Al●wyck Will. 556  
Alsop Bern. 34  
Alston Edw. 853  
Al●on Andr. 685  
Alvey Rich. 262. 725  
Amama Sext. 449  
Ambrose Luke 338  
Ammonius Andr. 14. 137. 641. 563  
Amner Joh. 815  
Anderson Edm. 281. 369  
Anderton Laur. 498. 480  
Andrews Jo. 470. Lanc. 476. 538. 751. 765. 783. Nich. 853. Rich. 802  
Angelus Chr. 526  
Anthony Franc. 428. Jo. ib. Char. ib.  
Antoninus and his Itin. 87  
Antonius Nich. 56  
Anwykyll Jo. 16  
Anyan Th. 810  
Apsland Will. 720  
Aquepontanus Jo. See Bridgwater.  
Arch Rich. 138. 682. 690  
Archer Sim. 504. Rich. 690  
Arden Will. 662  
Aretius Jac. 817  
Argall Jo. 284. Rich. ibid.  
Aris Jo. 867  
Arnold Will. 659  
Arthur Malac. 657  
Arundel Jo. 75. 76. 552  
Ascham Rog. 695  
Ash Sim. 543  
Ashbrook 729  
Ashdowne Jo. 643. 644  
Ashley Ant. 769  
Ashmole 16. 114  
Ashton Hugh 673. 645  
Ashworth Hen. 795  
A●kew Aeg. 282  
Asser Men. 356. 412  
Astley Rich. 369  
Aston Hug. 645. Rog. 796  
Ascough Will. 638  
Atey Arth. 721  
Athequa Geo. 560  
Atherto Jo. 632  
Atkyns Th. 709. Jo. 827  
Atkinson Rich. 710. Tho. 758. b. alias 760. 867. 868  
Atslow Edw. 727  
Atwater Will. 58. 562  
Aubertus Ant. 894  
Audley Edm. 566. Rob. 636. 700  
Aukland Jo. 651  
Austin Sam. 472  
Awbrey Will. 702. 710. 777  
Awood or à Wood Rich. 433. Tho. 793  
Aylesbury Th. 853  
Aylisbury Th. 390. 391. 493. 792  
Aylmer or Elmer Jo. 681. 690. 726. 736. 756. b. alias 758. Theoph. 223  
Aylworth Ant. 752  
Ayray Mart. 267   

B.  
BAber Franc. 860  
Babington Brute 745. Franc. 717. 719. Geru. 498. 745. 602. Zach. 780  
Babthorpe Rob. 658  
Bachler or Bachiler Joh. 900  
Bacon Fr. 452. 534. Nich. 139. 769  
Baconthorp Jo. 295  
Bailye Rich. 537  
Baggard Tho. 677. 705  
Bagnall Rob. 767  
Bagnold Rob. 767  
Bagshaw Edw. 480. 804. Christ. 426  
Bagwell Hen. 679  
Bainbridge Chr. 556. 557. 564. 568  
Baker Aug. 515. Geo. 632. Joh. 36. 77. Rich. 531. Sam. 845  
Balborow Will. 650  
Baldwin Franc. 174. Will. 113  
Bale Jo. 60. 61. 67. 68 70. 94. 99 125. 174. 493. 345  
Bale Rob. 4  
B●les Pet. 249  
Baley Walt. 224. 225  
Balgay Nich. 262. 758. b. alias 760  
Ball Hen. 772. Joh. 542. 543. 655. Tho. 861  
Ballard Phil. 638. 691  
Balsam Scip. 775  
Bancroft Rich. 632. 723. 751. 801 Joh. 632. 633  
Banger Rich. 660  
Banks Jo. 507. Tho. 737. Hen. 814  
Banister Jo. 195. alias 197  
Barbatus Jos. 790  
Barber Jo. 683. Rich. 675. 687. 693. 739. 104. 727  
Barcham Joh. 389. 418. 542  
Bard Dudl. 886  
Bardney Rich. 5  
Barefoot Jo. 744  
Barker Hug. 793. Will. 709. 800  
Barklay Alex. 71  
balcanqual Jo. 815. Sam. 831. Walt. 807. 831  
Bargrave Is. 812. 878  
Barlow Jo. 496. 638. Ranulph 301. 783. 888. Randolph or Ralph 783. 797. 809. Tho. 397. 421. Will. 121. 269. 310. 352. 403. 421. 476. 538. 571. 573. 597. 598. 694. 761. 766. 786  
Barnard Sam. 894  
Barnardus Jo. 753  
Barnes Barnab. 299. ●man. 750. Jo. 180. 473. Jos. 259. Rich. 606. 607. 706. 747. Rob. 19 81. 809  
Barret Jo. 867. Rich. 433. 742. Tho. 677  
Baro Pet. 740. 741  
Baron Mil. 579. Steph. 42. 670  
Barons Will. 553  
Barrington Alex. 158  
Barrough Fr. 819  
Barrow Hen. 229. 387. Thom. 638  
Barry 536  
Barnston Joh. 821  
Barthlet Rich. 647. Tho. 647. 807  
Bartue Rich. 689  
Barwick Jo. 798. 832. 855  
Basin Rich. 721  
Basire Is. 789. 902. 903  
Baskervyle Ed. 674. 681. Sim. 811  
Bastard Tho. 367  
Bate Rob. 685  
Batts Rog. 830. Will. 383. 442. 292  
Bateson Tho. 835  
bath Will. 338  
Bathurst Geor 493. 900  
Batmanson Jo. 23. 24  
Bavant Jo. 706  
Bave Sam. 860  
Baughe Tho. 785  
Bailiff Hen. 700. 701. Jam. 841. Ralph 827 Rich. 875. 876  
Bailie Jam. 781. 841. Joh. 472. 473. Lew. 485. 628. Tho. 486. 487  
Baxter Rich. 263. 344  
Baynes Brian 707  
Baynham Jam. 23  
Bayning Paul 874  
Beacon Tho. 348. 726  
Beadle Jo. 83  
Beale Will. 522. Tho. 647  
Beaumond Franc. 447. Hen. 733. 823. Joh. 446. 447. Tho. 568. 638. Will. 646  
Beauvois Cham 820  
Beawdley Will. 672. 677  
Beccatell Lud. 93  
Bede Ven. 255  
Bedell Arth. 731. Hen. 711. 725. Tho. 643. 647  
Bedingfield Rob. 868  
Bedo Joh. 715  
Beecher Will. 398  
Beel or Beal Th. 647. 569  
Beeths Will. 2  
Beisley Rich. 702  
Bekinsau Jo. 98  
Belchiam Th. 185  
Belchier Dabr. 782  
Bele or Beel Th. 569  
Bell Jam. 187. 704. 707. Joh. 584. 672. 682. 740. Rich. 553. Tho. 800  
Bellamy 169. Rob. 733  
Bellestrye Sim. 696  
Bellot Cuthb. 690. Hugh 595  
Belly Jo. 233. 729  
Belsire Alex. 91. 674  
Benefield Seb. 467. 468  
Benese Rich. 112. 660  
Benlowes Edw. 418  
Benn Anth. 374  
Bennet Christop. 219 Joh. 763. Rob. 600. 616. 735. Tho. 642. 848. Walt. 806. 808. Will. 559. 652. 675  
Benson Geor 800. Osw. 669  
Bentham Tho. 603  
Bear Rich. 640  
Bereblock Jo. 723  
Berkley 846. Gilb. 598  
Bernard Dan. 755. b. alias 757. Joh. 725. Nath. 863. Nich. 632. 862. Rich. 258. Tho. 725  
Bertie or Bartue Rich. 689  
Bertram the Priest 62. 513  
Best Joh. 593. 599. 684  
Beyland Ambr. 901  
Bevans Franc. 753  
Bexwick Hugh 562  
Bickley Tho. 613. 614  
Bicton Jam. 701  
Biddle Jo. 843  
Billingsley Hen. 284. 285. Rob. 285  
Bilney Tho. 21  
Bilson Leon. 666. 699. Tho. 237. 264. 343. 344. 394. 417. 619  
Binsley Will. 608  
Bird Joh. 845. Jos. 806. 807. Rich. 629. Tho. 651. Will. 443. 468. 759. 768. 843  
Birkenhead Jo. 899  
Birket Geor 325  
Bisse Jam. 295. Phil. 749  
Bishop Jo. 879. Will. 622. 366, 414. 415  
Bispham Sam. 876  
Blackwell Georg. 325  
Blagrave Dan. 317. Joh. ibid.  
Blague Tho. 752. 753  
Blake Walt. 554. Will. 902. Rob. 825. 826  
Blandie Will. 147  
Blaxton Marm. 742. 753  
Blewet Humpi. 680  
Bleythyn Will. 607  
Blondevill Tho. 276  
Blount Cham 763. Chr. 420. 779. Mountjoy 763  
Bliss Jo. 645  
Blyth Hugh 693. 722. 739. Jam. 676. Jeff. 556. Joh. 551. 557  
Bochart. Sam. 844  
Bocher Will. 714  
Bocking Edw. 653  
Body Jo. 709. 739  
Bodley Josias 328. Laur. 817. Tho. 326. 327. 410  
Bokeley Arth. 582. 583.  
Bold Jo. 740  
Bolen Will. 79  
Boleyne Geo. 385. See Bulleyn  
Bolton Edm. 452. Rob. 479. 480. Sam. 481  
Bond Den. 323. Hen. 433. Joh. 321. 322. 323. Laur. 779. Nich. 228. 749  
Bonett Theoph. 472  
Bonham Tho. 812  
Bonner Edm. 123. 124. 125. 597  
Booker Joh. 114  
Bord Andr. 60. 61  
Bosgrave Jo. 180  
Bosphorus Jo. 651  
Bostock Rob. 878  
Boswell Will. 276. 792. 805. 868  
Boteler Jam. E. of Orm. 376. Tho. 381. 727. Rob. 158  
Both Cham 559. Jo. 552. Laur. 552  
Bouchier Tho. 185  
Boughton Rich. 777. 792  
Bourchier Jo. 29  
Bourne Gilb. 128. 598. 675. 682. 713. 771. Joh. 775  
Bournford Gilb. 102. 706  
Bowen Walt. 132  
bind Alex. 814. Nich. 743  
Bowl or paul Jo. 690  
Bowles Jo. 804. 822  
Bowne Pet. 418  
Bowsfield Th. 742  
Boxall Jo. 57 128. 129. 151. 687. 708. 716  
Boil Jo. 621. Mich. 631. 891. Rich. 622. 631. 786  
Boyse Jo. 397. 777. 812. Tho. 788  
Brabourne Theoph. 333  
Bradbridge Austin 122. Nich. 563. 647. 674. Will. 602. 723. 732  
Braddock Tho. 135. 755.  
Bradford Jo. 12. 78. 79. 106. 192  
Bradshaw Franc. 800. Hen. 9 Will. 778  
Bramston or Brimston Th. 715  
Brant Seb. 71  
Brasbridge Tho. 185  
Breewood Tho. 676  
Breerwood Tho. 676  
Breisley 711  
Brent Nath. 394. 398  
Brentius Jo. 109  
Brereton Will. 871  
Brerewood Ed. 332. 333. Rob. 332. 333  
Brett. Rich. 479. 517  
Bretton Clem. 753  
Bretturgh Cath. 530  
Brian Fr. 49. Joh. 820. Math. 513  
Briant Alex. 167  
Bridge Will. 857  
Bridges Grey 796. Jo. ibid. 228. Will. 755. 813  
Bridgman Hen. 884. Jo. 481  
Bridgwater 239. 711  
Bridlington Tho. 574  
Brien Theod. 567  
Brigham Nic. 99  
Briggs Hen. 469  
Bright Hen. 757. b. alias 759. Tim. 346  
Brimston or Bramston Tho. 715  
Brynkley Rich. 670  
Brynknell Tho. 13. 646  
Brinsley Jo. 16  
Brisson Barn. 409  
Bristol Rich. 168 169  
Brither Hen. 698  
Broad Tho. 511. 333  
Brockbey Ant. 185. 690  
Brodbridge Aust. 721  
Brode Phil. 697  
Brograve Jo. 517  
Broke or Brroke Christop. 419. 474. 840. 841: Hen. 648. Rob. 88 Sam. 840. Tho. 648.  
Brokes Jam. 101. 592  
Bromyerd Jo. 161  
Bromwych 645  
Brook George 735. Joh. 414. Ralph 349. 411  
Brook Lord, see Grevill  
Brookes Joh. 814  
Broughton Hugh 394. Rich. 854  
Brounfleet Will. 590  
Browne Anth. 119. 139. 149. Ed. 74. Geor 580. 782. Humph. 120. Joh. 651. 694. 722. Rob. 291. Jonath. 868. Rich. 859. 832. Sam. 487. 488. Tho. 329. 349. 412. 636. 852. 891. Will. 419. 686. 849  
Brownlow Joh. 894  
Brownrig Ralph 863  
Browswerd Jo. 193. 194  
Bruce Edw. 796. Rob. 234. 886. Tho. 886  
Bruen Joh. 457  
Bruerne Rich. 701  
Bruggs Grey 796  
Brycot 679  
Buchanan Geo. 45  
Buckfast Arn. 659  
Buckland Ralp. 317. 318  
Buckler Walt. 686  
Bulkley Tho. 725  
Buckner Tho. 894. Will. 830  
Buckridge Jo. 476. 597. 628  
Budden Jo. 382  
Bugs Sam. 526. 820  
Bull Geor 879. Hen. 146. Jo. 756. b. alias 758. 768  
Bulkley Th. 242  
Bulleyn Geor 147. Hen. 147  
Bullyngham Nich. 601. 610. 667 681. Joh. 714. 755. b. alias 757  
Bunbury 〈◊〉 447  
Bunney Edm. 307. 364. 365. 395. 658. 815. Franc. 355  
Burbadge Rich. 791. Will. ibid.  
Burbanke Will. 137  
Burby Edw. 888  
Burgeiss Jo. 662  
Burges Eliz. 392. 851  
Burges Jo. 261. 530. 533. 856  
Burgo Nich. 667  
Burbill Rob. 303  
Burley Jo. 808  
Burnet Gilb. 163  
Burrell Perciv. 813  
Burton Edw. 865. Hen. 442. 539. 814. 899. Joh. 659. 666. Rob. 534. 646. Sam. 406. 442. 766 Will. 67. 69. 286. 287. 493  
Bury Arth. 3  
Buscawen 826  
Bush Paul 89. 90. 91. 587  
Bust Hen. 744  
Butcher Will. 717  
Butler Edm. 579. Will. 720.  
Butts Hen. 478 671. Will. 661  
Byard Lib. 615  
Byfield Nic. 333. 402. Rich. 333  
Bygod Franc. 39  
B'ing Andr. 788. 815. Tho. 726  
Byrch Will. 130  
Byrchensaw Maur. 650. 656  
Bird Andr. 830. Joh. 81. 585. 649. 654. Will. 641. 760  
Byrom Georg. 856  
Bysse Rob. 655   

C.  
CAde Anth. 800  
Caesar Hen. 774. Jul. 738. 753  
Calamy Ben. 897. Edm. 898. 899  
Caldwell or Chaldwell Rich. 179  
Calender Dan. 794  
Calendrinus Caes. 837  
Calfill Jam. 127. 128. 250  
Calverley Jo. 711. 766  
Calvert Georg. 483. 484  
Cambrensis Girald. 270  
Camden Will. 70. 87. 88 341. 408. 409. 410. 760  
Campian Edm. 164. 165. 241. 258. 279. 306. 625. 706  
Campian Tho. 848  
Can Joh. 543  
Cannal Hugh 629  
Canner Th. 677  
Cantlow Joh. 641  
Capell Rich. 405  
Capellus Lud. 810  
Caranza Barth. 712  
Card-maker Jo. 683  
Cardonius Camillus 756  
Care Hen. 460  
Carew Georg. 128. 451. 452. 665. 737. 764. Rich. 384. Tho. 283. 384  
Carey Geor 173. Hen. 816. Tho. 816  
Carrier Ben. 777. 778  
Carleton Dudl. 482. 483. 887. Geo. 278. 440. 627. Gerard. 691. Hen. 442  
Carlisle Christop. 111  
Carmacan Men. 559  
Carne Rich. 670  
Carpenter Jo. 385. Nath. 440. 441. Rich. 438. 439. 440  
Car Rob. 330. 463. 464  
Carryll Jo. 149  
Carrington Geru. 802  
Carter Jo. 888. Rob. 646. 669. Will. 671  
Cartwright Christ. 486. Jo. 321. Nich. 689  
Carve Tho. 452  
Carver Jo. 644  
Cary Ant. 503. Hen. 500 501. 503. Lucius 500 501. 502. 503. Lettuce 503  
Casaubon Is. 817. Mer. 244  
Case Jo. 257. 259  
Castle Tho. 651. 654. Will. 599  
Catheral Randall 731  
Cavendish Will. 809  
Caverell Phil. 415  
Cawley W. 887  
Caxton Will. 53  
Cay Jo. 18. 68 99 589. See in Key Cecil Rob. 733. 794. Will. 140. 237. 309. 722. 727. 796  
Celsus Max. 107  
Chadderton Laur. 441. Will. 602  
Chalfout Rich. 891  
Chaloner Edw. 422  
Rob. 755. Tho. 103. 115. 229. 339  
Chamber Jo. 277. 278. 564. 585. 682  
Chamberlain Barth. 224. Geor 224. Pet. 837. Rob. 544. 545. 546. Tho. 837. Will. 546.  
Chambers Humph. 517. Rob. 352. Sab. 381  
Chamney Maur. 159. 160  
Champney Ant. 394  
Chandler Jo. 734  
Chapman Geor 289. 509. alias 519  
Chard Tho. 576. 642. 645.  
Chardon Jo. 271. 615  
Charke Will. 263. 306  
Charleses I. King 262. 486. 824  
Charles Lod. Count Pal. 889  
Charlet Jo. 819  
Charlton Joh 872  
Chaucer Jeff. 52. 99  
Chawney Maur. 159. 160  
Chandler Tho. 175  
Chaworth Rich. 901  
Cheadsey Will. 104  
Cheast Tho. 778  
Cheek Jo. 65. 66. 69. 70. 111. 697. Will. 334  
Chempes' Ja. 849  
Chester 835. Tho. 606  
Cheston Steph. 79  
Chetwind Edw. 529. 530. 758. b. alias 760. 855. Joh. 251. 497. Will. 275  
Cheynel Jo. 795  
Cheyney Edw. 557. 565. Rich. 164 166. 592. 593. 724  
Chibald Jam. 544. Will. ibid.  
Chichley Hen. 175  
Chidley Cath. 846  
Child Will. 869. 893  
Childerley Jo. 789  
Chillingworth Will. 501. 502  
Chippingdale Jo. 736  
Chracher Nich. 64. 455  
Christian Landg. of Hassia. 889  
Christopherson Jo. 128. 599  
Cholwell Will. 711  
Churchyard Tho. 118  
Chute Walt. 523  
Clapham Dau. 64  
Clara S. Franc. 439. 589  
Clerk Gabr. 813. Sam. 823  
Day Rob. 414. 806. 807  
Claybrook Will. 850  
Claymond Jo. 52. 645  
Clayton Tho. 260. 811. 897  
Cleaver Rob. 756. b. alias 758  
Cleauland Jo. 891. Phil. 892  
Clement Joh. 138. Vinc. 548  
Clennock Maur. 583. 702  
Clear Dau. 158. Nich. 158  
Clerk Barth. 250. 737. Franc. 249. 250. Gabr. 740. George 768. Joh. 70. 71. 570. 578. 655. 692. Tho. 553. 584. 757. b. alias 759. Will. 834  
Cleybroke Will. 137  
Cleyton Rich. 744. Rob. 648. Will. 677  
Clifford Ann 380. Hen. 802. Geor 769. Jam. 702  
Clifton Gam. 665. Will. 657. 658  
Clyffe or Clyve Mich. 46. Will. 647. 648. 584. 684  
Clynne Jo. 449  
Clopton Ant. 260  
Cluver Jo. Sig. 407. Philip 406. 407  
Cobbie Will. 63  
Cock Arth. 770  
Cockaine Ast. 447. 536  
Cockies or Cocks Jo. 645  
Coffin Edm. 776. Edw. ibid.  
Cogan Th. 292  
Cogley Geor 10  
Coke Edw. 310. 431. 689  
Coldwell Jo. 738. 752  
Coal Arth. 705. 709. Hen. 82. 128. 155. Nath. 756. Tho. 137. 712. 728. Will. 153. 289. 736.  
Colepeper see Culpeper.  
Colet Jo. 6. 7. 10. 14. 641  
Coley Hen. 16  
Colf Is 227. Rich. 803  
Colfox Tho. 651  
Col●eton Jo. 512  
Collter Geor 130  
Collingwood Ralph 642  
Collins Sam. 538  
Collyns Lanc. 648. Mart. 638. 674  
Colmer Clem. 752  
Colomesius Paul. 482  
Coloniensis Pet. 653  
Coloribus de Jo. 19  
Combach Jo. 404  
Combe Rob. 685  
Comber Tho. 844  
Comerford Edm. 554  
Compton Will. 796  
Compton alias Teal Jo. 691  
Conant Jo. 837  
Condall Rob. 755. b. alias 757  
Congalau Tho. 554  
Conner Eug. 616  
Constable Jo. 12. 63. 667. Hen. 13. Will. 826  
Conway Will. 815  
Cook Alex. 490. Geor 629. Jam. 316. Joh. 11. 762. Rob. 337. 679. Tho. 873. Will. 658. 688. 689  
Cooper Tho. 57 123. 193. alias 195. 228. 257. 609. 713. 782  
Cootes Geor 582  
Cope Alan. 157. 171. Ant. 65. Mich. ibid. Will. ibid.  
Copinger Will. 695. 696  
Copley Tho. 133  
Corbet 286  
Corbet Edw. 366. Rich. 489. 511. 518. 630.  
Corderoy Jer. 299  
Coren or Corwyn Rich. 597. 681. See Curwyn.  
Cornbull Hen. 566  
Cornish Tho. 71. 555  
Cornwallis Ch. 523. Tho. ibid.  
Corranus Ant. 221. 239. 741  
Corro de Ant. See Corranus.  
Cort Th. 185  
Coryate Geor 286. Tho. 358. 359. 360. etc.  
Corvinoes a family 286  
Coryndon Jo. 561  
Corwyne Phil. 613  
Cousin Jo. 541. 601. 753. 813. Rich. 730. 772. Will. 673  
Cotes Geor 582  
Cotesford Rob. 848  
Cotta Joh. 438  
Cottam Tho. 729  
Cottington Jam. 751. 777  
Cottysford Jo. 672  
Cotton Edw. 813. Hen. 619. 781. 806. 808. Rob. 245. 410. 444. 452. Will. 745  
Cottrel Jo. 10. 696. 725  
Covell Will. 262. 533  
Coveney Tho. 717  
Coventry Hen. 887. 892. Tho. 534. 723  
Coverdale Mil. 153. 483  
Covert. Franc. 776  
Coulton Ralph 701. 742  
Courcey Edm. 561  
Courriers Mont. 50  
Courtney Pet. 557  
cowel Jo. 784  
Cowley Abr. 501. 888  
Cowper Will. 264  
Cox Jo. 699. Franc. 46. Leon. 8. 48. 49. Rich. 93. 103. 107. 161. 590. 606. 663. 673. 697. 699. 700. 706. 754. Will. 45.  
Cracanthorpe Rich. 417. 418  
Cradock Ed. 723. Joh. 740. 827  
Cragg Jo. 794  
Craig 469. 794  
Cranmer Edm. 171. Geo. 265. Tho. 101. 111. 572. 578. 715  
Crashaw Will. 460  
Craven Will. 887  
Crayford Jo. 83▪ 664. 700  
Creagh Dau. 551  
Cressacre Edw. 573  
Cressy Hug. 470. 778. 849  
Creswell Jo. 335  
Creyghton Rob. 861  
Crispyne Edm. 700. 701  
Critopylus Metrap. 634  
Croak Ch. 851. Joh. 696. 820. Rich. 85  
Croft Herb. 399. 868  
Crombleholme Sam. 11  
Cromer Rich. 668  
Crompton Tho. 763  
Cromwell Hen. 760. Oliv. 323 Phil. 780. Tho. 61. 677. 682. 698  
Crosley Tho. 560. 574  
Crowley Rob. 63. 96. 190. 191  
Crump Th. 239  
Cudworth Ralph 809  
Cuff Hen. 266. 396  
Culme Ben. 792  
Culmer Rich. 863  
Culpeper or Colepeper Mart. 228. 258. 465. 733  
Cundall Rob. 755. b. alias 757  
Cunningham Dau. 876  
Curiander Abel. 341  
Curl Walt. 386. 786. 819. 830  
Currey Jo. 166  
Curteis Rich. 597. Tho. 703  
Curthop Jam. 104. 128. 691  
Curwyn Hug. 597. 665. 681. 713  
Cuthbert St. 154   

D.  
DAcres Tho. 866  
Dakyn Jo. 564. 663  
Dalby Tho. 637. 689  
Dale Geor 764. Val. 237. 699. 707  
Dallington Rob. 785  
Dalison Ch. 435  
Dampmartin Cath. 106  
Daniel Edm. 713. Jo. 790. Sam. 379. 380  
Derby Edw. 635. 636. 666  
Darbyshire Tho. 125. 712. 713. Will. 125  
Darrel Geor 800. Joh. 326. 626. Nich. 818  
Davel Jo. 671  
Davenant Edw. 409. 832. 833. 835  
Davenport Chr. 817  
Davies Elian. 432  
Davies Jo. 252. 377. 419. 420. 430. 431. 432. 456. 519. alias 505 Hugh 844. Math. 276. 800. Ric. 160. 605. 606. Will. 867.  
Davyson Andr. 698  
Day Joh. 436. 437. 746. Lionel 802. Mart. 788. Tho. 232. in Marg. 665. 666. Will. 123. 165 388. 395. 605. 665. 880  
Deane Edm. 513. Hen. 551. Rich. 608. 826  
Dee Franc. 465. 597. 789  
Deering Rich. 807  
Dekker Tho. 536  
Delabere 743  
Denison Jo. 447. Steph. ibid.,  
Den Vinc. 730  
Dense Philip 641  
Denton Jam. 642. 647. 682. Will. 878  
Despagne Joh. 486  
Dethick Geor 751. Hen. 743. 751  
Devenish Will. 694  
Devereux Rob. 184. 609. 759. 761. 795  
Dickenson Will. 834  
Digby Geor 887. 889. Jo. 461. Ken. 493  
Digges Dud. 421. 465. 515. 527. Leon. 142. 520. alias 510. 853  
Dillon Tho. 571  
Dingley Rog. 674  
Dobell Jo. 671  
Dobson 260  
Dochyn Tho. 768  
Dod Jo. 756. b. alias 758  
Doderidge Jo. 412. 442. 443. 817  
Dodington Barth. 744  
Dogeson Geor 696  
Doke Rich. 659  
Dolben Dau. 628  
Doleman Nich. 307. 308. 309. 310. 311  
Dominis de Marc. Ant. 417. 418. 803. 823. 831  
Donallan Nehem. 613  
Donne Dan. 723. 749. Jo. 419. 474. 475. 538. 809. 897  
Done Joh. 677  
Dorman Tho. 149. 272  
Dormer Rob. 419. 857  
Dormer Hibern. 131  
Dorset Rob. 746. 766  
Dorvil Fred. 821  
D'othen Hyp. 807  
Dotyn Jo. 686  
Dove Joh. 315. 368. Tho. 596. 597  
Dovel Joh. 651. 671  
Doughty Jo. 396  
Dow Christ. 333. 840  
Dowdeswell Will. 870  
Dowglas Gaw. 562  
Dowland Jo. 760. Rob. ibid.  
Dowling 'thad. 8  
Down Jo. 783  
Downes Andr. 397. Jeff. 607. 734  
Downham Geor 767. Joh. 408. Will. 601. 602. 732  
Downing Cal. 517  
D'oylie Tho. 275  
Draycot Anth. 614. 666. 667. 690  
Drewry Jo. 708. 755  
Dreyden Erasm. 742  
Drumm Mich. 679  
Drusnus Jo. 339. 403. 791  
Ducher Gilb. 86  
Duck Rich. 659  
Dudley Ambr. 727. Edm. 6. Rich. 640. Rob. 119. 150. 166. 307. 721  
Duditius Andr. 93  
Dugdale Will. 12. 70. 319. 412. 504  
Duke Geor 393  
Dunbar Jo. 345. 378  
Duncon Jo. 503  
Duming Mich. 675. 693  
Duns Jo. Scot 8. 9 637. 673  
Dunstan Ant. 595. 676  
Dunster Jo. 334  
Durie Joh. 165. 849. 850  
Dutton Hen. 798  
Dyer Jam. 13. 168  
Dyke Dan. 788   

E.  
Earl Jo. 396  
Eton Ant. 648. Guy 686. 738 Rich. 780  
Ebden Jo. 79. 300. 703. 771  
Ede Rich. 643  
Edgeworth Rog. 101. 102  
edmond's Clem. 401. Jo. 672. Tho. 402  
edmond's alias Weston 426. 505. 626  
Edwards Ch. 160. Rich. 117. 118. Tho. 764. 846  
Eedes Rich. 279. 351. 802  
Egerton Steph. 754. Tho. 354. 381. 807  
Eglesfield Jam. 851  
Eglionby Edw. 726. Geor 812. 877. 878  
Eire Will. 803  
Elder Tho. 718  
Elderton Will. 174  
Eliot Geor 165. See Elyot  
Elizab. Queen. 118  
Ellis Jo. 713. 731. Will. 896  
Elly Jo. 888  
Elmer Jo. 610. 611. Theoph. 610  
Elwaies Geru. 331. 419  
Ely Humph. 277. Will. 715  
Elyott Jo. 464. 465. Rob. 703. Tho. 57 168. 232  
Emerford or Hemerford Tho. 321. 738  
Emot Rich. 832  
Emson Rich. 7  
Ent Geor 894  
Erasmus Rot. 7. 13. 38. 54. 85. 572. 655  
Erdeswick Samp. 275. 363  
Ernestus Lundg. of Hassia 889  
Erpen Th. 798  
Erskine 798. Tho. 370  
Essex Jo. 657. See D'evereux  
Estmond Jo. 763  
Estwick Nich. 480  
Etheridge Geor 52. 191  
Etton Guy 686  
Evans Edw. 343. Hug. 708. Lew. 141. Matth. 812. Rich. 838. Rob. 685 Will. 879  
Everard Jo. 313  
Eynon Gruff. 103   

F.  
FAber Jo. 866  
Fairfax Rob. 94. 652. Will. 846  
Farley El. 836  
Farmery Jo. 351. 848  
Farmer Edw. 672  
Farnaby Giles 767. Thom. 824  
Farser Rob. 824  
Faucet Sam. 847  
Faunt Arth. 199. 198  
Fauntleray Will. 644  
Favour Jo. 413. 414. 835  
Falconer Antb. 517  
Featly Dan. 292. 442. 513. 514  
Febure Nich. 373  
Feckenham Jo. 93. 155. 177. 179. 592. 714  
Field Joh. 95. 96  
Fell Jo. 634. 794 Will. 560. 579  
Felton Jo. 132. Nich. 476. 812  
Fen Jam. 321. Joh. 240. 320. Rob. 321  
Fenner Will. 843. Dudl. 172. 173  
Fenton Rog. 768  
Ferdinandus Gond. 14. Philip. 253  
Ferebe Geor 774. Joh. 797  
Ferrar Rob. 591. 595. 596. 594. 580  
Ferrer Edw. 113. Georg. 103. 152. Hen. 503. 504  
Feries Rich. 654. 662  
Fetherston Rich. 46  
Fich Tho. 9  
Field Jo. 188. Rich. 343. 349. 350. 399. Theoph. 189. 783. 629  
Fihely Don. 5. Maur. 8. 555  
Filby Jo. 512  
Finch Ed. 469. 641. 673. Hen. 425. Joh. 425. 507. Will. 587  
Finet Jo. 887  
Finglas Tho. 158  
Fish Sim. 23. 33  
Fisher Alex. 396. Christop. 554. fasp. 528. Joh. 34. 40. 159. 320. 321. 477. 487. 558. Rob. 553. Sam. 889  
Fisher alias Musket Greg. 512  
Fitch Jam. 793  
Fitzalan Hen. 715  
Fitsgeffry Cham 516  
Fitzgerald Maur. 566  
Fitzherbert Ant. 43. Joh. 44. Nich. 324. Tho. 310. 393. 394. 537. 538  
Fitzhngh Geo. 12  
Fitzjames Jo. 66. 658. 669. 699. 765. Rich. 564. 565. Will. 698.  
Fitzsimons Hen. 394. 495. Leonard 158  
Flavell Jo. 358. 823  
Fleming Jo. 320. 816. Walt. 819  
Fleshmonger Will. 654  
Fletcher Gises 734. 735. Joh. 447. 509. alias 519. Rob. 728. Rich. 57 734. Phin. 735  
Fleetwood Hen. 506. Tho. 229. Will. 176. 229. 796. 873. 874  
Florio Jo. 379. 423  
Floyd Joh. 353. Thom. 277  
Fludd Rob. 504. 509. alias 519. 520  
Foliot Gilb. 794  
Ford Tho. 728. Rob. 726  
Forest Edm. 648. 654. Joh. 42. 185. Will. 94. Tho. 484  
Forman Sim. 420  
Forset Ed. 288  
Forster Rich. 64. 736. Tho. 674. Will. 504. 521. 629  
Fortescue Jo. 410  
Foster Sam. 433  
Fotherbie Char. 777. Mart. 621. Sim. 638  
Fowlis Dau. 810. 796. Hen. 75  
Fountain Jo. 889  
Fowler Joh. 152. 250  
Fowns Rich. 426  
Fox Edw. 559. 560. 675. 679. 688. Joh. 29. 76. 103. 185. 186. etc. 488. 309. 590. 591. 592. 665. 666. 834. Rich. 41. 568. 569. Sam. 188.  
Foxcroft Jo. 827  
Foxford Rich. 671. 672  
Francis Jo. Jo. 191. Th. 710  
Franklin Rich. 814. Will. 703  
Frederick Count Pal. 815  
Freke Edm. 591. 612. 732. 738.  
Freeman Tho. 11. Will. 674  
French Jo. 865. Paul 704  
Fri de la Jo. 771  
Frith Jo. 852. Tho. 739. 792  
Friar Jo. 99 672. Tho. 844  
Fryth Jo. 29. 30. 33. 38. 43. 83  
Fulbeck Will. 274  
Fulford Will. 566  
Fulk Will. 163. 166. 169. 170. 194 alias 196. 236. 343. 724  
Fuller Jo. 193. 699. Nich. 403. 404. 405. Tho. 11. 476. 492. Will. 832  
Fullonius Will. 48  
Fulwell Vlp. 189. 190  
Fulwood Franc. 813  
Furth or Ford Rob 726  
Fykes Tho. 594   

G.  
GAger Will. 291. 313. 617  
Gale Tho. 11  
Galeon Will. 6  
Galen Matth. 254  
Galway Christop. 177  
Gam or Game Jo. 639  
Gamage Edw. 879  
Gamble Jo. 901  
Gantlin Will. 690  
Garboys Jo. 661  
Garbrand Jo. 194  
Garcia villa Jo. 711. 716  
Gardener Geor 42. 600. Rich. 383. Steph. 76. 108. 117. 124. 175. 559. 679. 681. 682. 684. 705. Tho. 841  
Garnet Hen. 325. 412.  
Garret Tho. 658  
Garsias Pet. 668  
Garvey Joh. 613. Rob. 159  
Gascoigne Geor 49. 150. 151  
Gataker Cham 501. Tho. 488  
Gauden Joh. 262. 263  
Gaudy Franc. 281  
Gaunt Hen. 560  
Gaydon Nich. 158  
Gee Edw. 310. 377. Jo. 427  
Geoffrey Will. 694  
Gellibrand Hen. 521. 522  
Gentilis Alb. 314. 315. 531. Matth. 314. 316. Rob. 315. Scip. 185. 314  
George Jo. 649  
Geree Jo. 405  
Gery Will. 865  
Guest Edm. 591. 599. 6●2.  
Gibbon Jo. 240  
Gibbons Christop. 808. Edw. 768. Ellis 768. Franc. 827. Joh. 704. Nich. 768. Orl. 768. 842  
Gibson Abr. 821. Joh. 736. 814. Tho. 108. 749  
Giffard or Gifford Geor 387  
Gifford Joh. 410. 778. Matth. 755. b. alias 757. Rog. 727. Will. 191. 250. 453. 454. 735  
Gilbert Will. 656  
Gilbert Rich. 576. Will. 276. 421. 565. 568. 644. 800. 845  
Gilby Ant. 153. Nath. 842. 851  
Gill Alex. 512. 513  
Gillingham Geor 888. Will. 647  
Gilpin Bern. 220. 441. 593. 703  
Giovannus Joh. 710  
Glanvill Jo. 811  
Glazier Tho. 742  
Glemham Char. 108  
Glisson Franc. 856  
Glover Rob. 319  
Glue Pet. 778  
Glynn Joh. 544  
Glynne Maur. 651. Will. 583. 710  
Goad Rog. 614. 723. Tho. 827  
Goch or Gooch Barn. 772. 794. See Gough.  
Goddard Will. 4. 878  
Godwin Franc. 319. 348. 409. 496. 497. 629. Morg. 497. Tho. 607  
Godmersham Will. 642  
Godskall Jam. 788  
Goffe. or Gough Franc. 630. John 889. Steph. 888. 889. Tho. 398. 458. Will. 889. See Gough  
Goldesborough Geff. 7●6. Nich. 743  
Goldesburg Joh. 293. 369  
Golding Arth. 184. 401  
Goldwill John 233. Tho. 166. 586. 605. 644  
Gollop Gibbs 286  
Gomersall Rob. 519. alias 509  
Gooch Barn. 772. 794. See Goch  
Good Jo. 833. 834  
Goodfield 650  
Goodman Christoph. 153. 154. 272. 273. Gabr. 269. 294. 409. 751. Godfrey 409. 622. 623. 629. 773. 820. 821. 831. Hugh 617. John 641. 698  
Goodrick Tho. 558  
Goodwin Jo. 522. 882. Tho. 517. 820. 897. Will. 358. 787. 788  
Gorge Franc. 775  
Gorton Will. 777  
Goseman Ded. 416  
Gosson Steph. 256  
Gostlyn Jo. 814  
Gostwick Rog. 777  
Gotereus Dan. 860  
Gough John 179. Will. 807. See Goffe.  
G●●●son Ellen 488. Theod. ●88.  
Gourdon Jo. 795. 803  
Grandison Jo. 71  
Grant Edw. 269. 329. 410. Henr. 269  
Grace Rich. 649. Will. 63●.  
Greaves Jo. 470  
Grebby Rob. 83  
Green Barth. 700. Christop. 843. Ed. 429. Rob. 424. 761. Rich. 7●8. Sim. 638  
Greenway Tho. 698  
Greenwood Ich. 387. Will. 535  
Grenfield Nath. 813  
Gregory Hen. 889. Joh. 659  
Grenevil Bevil 815. Rich. 816  
Grent Tho. 838  
Gressop Tho. 718  
Grevil Fulk 182. 183. 272. 410. 413. 444. 445. Rob. 445. 446  
Grey Jane. 610. Rich. 41. Will. 334  
Griffin Jo. 64. Ralp. 289  
Griffith Edm. 330. 631. Joh. 64. 719. Manr. 590. Will. 855. See Gryffyth  
Grimald or Grimoald Nic. 121. 140  
Grocyn Will. 13. 32. 85  
Grostest or Grosthead Rob. 5. 145  
Gruter Jam. 413  
Gryffyth or Gruffyth Jo. 659  
Grynaeus Sim. 97. 6●9  
Gualo Britan. 295  
Gualther Giles 740. Ralph 142. 148. 686  
Guest Edm. 591. 599. 612  
Guidott Tho. 494  
Guillim Jo. 389  
Gundamore Count 371  
Gunter Edm. 333. 432. 433  
Gunthorp Jo. 562  
Gunton Sim. 319  
Guy Arn. 659. Nic. 810  
Gwent Rich. 659. 666. 670. 684  
Gwinn Math. 420. 437. 438. 771. Rob. 227. Tho. 8●0  
Gwynn Owe● 828  
Gwynneth Jo. 83. 680   

H.  
HAak Theod. 470  
Habington or Abington Edw. 735. Tho. 88  
Haddock Geor 321  
Hacket Jo. 412. 509. alias 519. 824. Rog. 398  
Haddon Walt. 98. 162. 705. 707  
Hakebourne Jo. 636  
Hakeluyt Oliv. 350. Rich. ibid.  
Hakewill Geo. 624. Will. 817  
Hall Joh. 455. 456. Jos. 424. 779. 875. 881. Rich. 489. R. 118. Tho. 400  
Hales Joh. 475. 528  
Hales or Hails 82. 139. Christ. 140  
Halgate or Holgate Rob. 560  
Halsay or Halsey Th. 562  
Halke Will. 767  
Hallesworth Rob. 654  
Hamm Ben. 757. b. alias 759  
Hamey Bald. 841. 866  
Hamilton Patr. 30  
Hammond Jo. 795  
Hamp●on Jo. 652  
Hancock Jo. 720. Tho. 561  
Hanmer Joh. 627. 628. 824. Mer. 278. 279. 306  
Hannay Jo. 888  
Hannington Jo. 713  
Hanyball or Hannyball Tho. 570. 584. 654. 667. 672.  
Hanworth Hug. 636  
Hardyman Jo. 692  
Harding 589. Joh. 776. 846. Tho. 133. 135. 138. 149. 700  
Harford Rich. 698  
Hariot Tho. 390. 391.  
Harley Jo. 9 587  
Harman Godfr. 31. Joh. 581. 582  
Harmar Jo. 332  
Harpesfield Joh. 124. 151. 599. Nich. 157. 151. 152. 222  
Harrington Jam. 3. 570. 573. 657. Joh. 251. 125. 497  
Harry ap Joh. 695. 697  
Harris Nath. 813. Tho. 559. Will. 274  
Harrison Jo. 316. 351. 610. 690. 756. b. alias 758. Will. 11. 189  
Harsnet Sam. 505. 601. 626  
Hart Will. 170. 171  
Heart Jo. 242. 662  
Hartley Will. 165  
Hartlib. Sam. 384. 85●  
Hartwell Abr. 761. Rob. 85  
Harvey Gabr. 173. 376. 755. b. alias 757. 762. Hen. 755. b. alias 757. Joh. 174. 655. Rich. 173. 174. 239. Rob. 755. b. alias 757. Tho. 241. 401. Will. 889. 894  
Harward Sim. 296  
Hassall or Halsall Jo. 852  
Hastings Franc. 311. Jo. 4  
Hatcher Tho. 707  
Hatton Christop. 196. alias 1●8. 223. 246. 759. 560. Will. 765  
Hausted Pet. 196. alias 198. 422. 423  
Haward or Howard Hen. 730. 797. Tho. 730. Will. 727. See Howard.  
Haward Jo. 305  
Hawarden Jo. 186  
Hawes Steph. 5  
Hawford Phil. 638. 691  
Hawkins Will. 265  
Hawley Rich. 856  
Hawthorne Adrian 723  
Haydock Rich. 257  
Hayes Will. 855  
Hayman Rob. 494  
Haynes Sim. 672. Will. 690  
Hayward Jo. 678. 824  
Heale Will. 314  
Heath Joh. 343. 702. Nich. 76. 593. 603. 604. Rob. 374. 507. Tho. 173. 174  
Heather Will. 842  
Heerboord Andr. 405  
Hag Rob. 455  
Helm Christ. 772. Will. 405  
Helyar Jo. 41  
Hemerford or Emerford Tho. 321. 758  
Hemming Rob. 765  
Hena Joh. 888  
Henchma● Humph. 808. 820  
Hendon Rob. 506  
Heneage Gon. 594. 601. 700  
Henly Andr. 372  
Henry 6. K. of Engl. 643  
Hen. Prince of Wales. 798  
Hennin Ant. 224  
Henshaw or Heronshaw Hen. 714  
Herbert Hen. 185. 769. Joh. 733. 793. Phil. 466. 795. Will. 60. 466. 795. 822. 887  
Heron Jo. 63. Sam. 779  
Heronshaw Hen. 715  
Herte Jo. 568  
Hearing Joh. 68  
Herydans Will. 87  
Heskyns Tho. 694  
Heslyngcon Will. 664  
Heth Jo. 702. Thom. 173. 174. See Heath.  
Heton Geor 617. Mart. 499. 616. 617  
Hewes or Hughes Tho. 701. See Hughes.  
Hewys Joh. 643. 677  
Heyden Benj. 793. 794. Christop. 278  
Heylyn Pet. 333. 486. 487. 502. 792. 804. 805. 862. 867. 869  
Heywood Ellis 34. 140. 251. Jasp. 34. 118. 157. 251. Joh. 116. 117. Tho. 762  
Hickeringil Ed. 898  
Hicks Franc. 469. Tho. ibid. and in 507  
Hide Tho. 250  
Hieron Sam. 779  
H●gen Jo. 113. 114  
H●gens Joh. 297. 343  
Higgs Griff 866. Nich. 789  
higgon's Theoph. 353. Thom. 803  
Higgins Anth. 834  
Hildesley Jo. 44. 575  
Hill Jo. 719. 726. Nich. 312. 313. Rob. 649. 791. Tho. 499. 844. See Hill.  
Hill R. 118  
Hill or Hilley Rich. 643  
Hills Jo. 744. 878  
Hilsey Jo. 44. 575  
Hilton Strack 767  
Hind Sam. 457. Tho. ibid. Will. 291. 456  
Hitch Rob. 753  
Hobbes Tho. 391. 558. 828  
Hobert Hen. 448  
Hobson Tho.  
Hoby Edw. 353. 424. Phil. 117. 178. Tho. 117  
Hodges Will. 889  
Hodgeskyn Jo. 588  
Hodye Humph. 286  
Hodson El●az. 822. Phin. 788  
Hoffman Jo. 878  
Hogeard Mil. 96  
Hoker Jo. 53  
Holbeach alias Rands Hen. 577. 638 659. Laur. 40  
Holbrook Will. 400  
Holcot Will. 135. 144  
Holdsworth Rich. 828. 897  
Hole Jo. 559  
Holgate Rob. 577  
Holgyll Will. 648  
Holland Abr. 425. Hen. 424. 425. Hugh 498. 626. Jos. 444. Philem. 411. 735. 736. b. alias 758. Seth 675. 691. Tho. 320  
Holles Denz. ●9●  
Holinshed O●well 682. Ralph 189. 270. 319  
Holt Jo. 7. 8. 350. 569. 827. Nich. 8  
Holtigena Jo. 7  
Holway Jo. 641. 656  
holwel Jo. 636  
Holiday Bart. 364. 813  
Holyman Jo. 91. 587. 680  
Holyngbourne Rob. 644. 647  
Hommius Fest. 837  
Hone Jo. 784  
Honywood Mich. 840. Rob. 638  
Hoper see Hooper.  
Hopkins Jo. 62. 63. Will. 62  
Hood Paul 385  
Hook Hen. 414. 835. 866. Rich. 879  
Hooker Jo. 270. Rich. 262. 265. 270. 283. 335. 462. 741. 758. b. alias 760  
Hooper or Hoper Jo. 75. 76. 124. 178. 705. 580  
Hopton Arth. 336. Joh. 589. 590. 679. 684. Ralph 337  
Horde Edm. 650. 654  
Horman Will. 15. 16. 22. 31  
Horn Gustav. 874. Jos. 427. Rob. 104. 136. 154. 178. 179. 255. 592. 609. 654. 688. 710. 729. Tho. 851  
Horsmanden Dan. 828. Tho. 820  
Horion Joh. 650  
Hoskyns Jo. 477. 522. 523  
Hotman Jo. 409  
Hottoman Jo. 73●  
Hoveden Gil. 177. Rob. 344. 422  
Houghton Jo. 24. 159. 489  
How Joh. 568. Will. 567. 568  
Howard Ch. 796. 852. Hen. 49. 50. 730. Theoph. 796. Philip. 238. Tho. 730. 794. 886. Will. 727. See Haward.  
Howill Tho. 637  
Howden Jo. 650  
Howlend Rich. 596. 729  
Owlet Jo. 306. 731  
Howman Jo. 177  
Howson Jo. 291. 303. 481. 482. 628.  
Hubbock Will. 281  
Hubberden Will. 668  
Hubert Franc. 501. Rich. ibid.  
Huchenson Will. 764  
H●ddleston Jam. 735. Joh. 684. 686. 737. Rand. 121  
Hudson Bened. 137. Jam. 735. Jo. 738  
Hues Rob. 390. 489. 490  
Huet Tho. 728  
Hugh Will. 62  
Hughes Edw. 898. Jo. 840. Rob. 489. 490. Tho. 701. Will. 393. 615  
Hull Jo. 773  
Hume Alex. 750. 868. Joh. 868  
Humphrey Laur. 52. 54. 126. 193. alia●●95. 590. 7●0. 743  
Humpston Rob. 615  
Hungerford Ant. 435. 436. Edw. 436  
Hunnys Will. 118  
Hunt Rich. 357. 831. 835. Rob. 677  
Huntingdon Jo. 82  
Hurlock Jo. 403  
Hurst Tho. 845  
Hussee Jam. 782. Samps. 785  
Hutchins Edw. 452. 453  
Hutton Leon. 488. 489  
Hutton Math. 644. 737. Rob. 721. Tho. 532  
Huycke Rob. 729. Tho. 709  
Hyberden Will. 668  
Hyde de la Dau. 157  
Hyde Edw. 836. 897. Laur. 745. Tho. 766. 820. 901  
Hygden Brian. 644. Joh. 85. 654. 666  
Hygins Ed. 650  
Hill Ad. 238. Alb. 99 Rich. 552  
Hynmersh Edw. 653. 688   

I.  
JAckson Arth. 829. Edm. 829. Hen. 263. 264. 291. 292. 335. 468. Joh. 896. Tho. 539. 540. Will 837  
Jacob Hen. 344. 394. 395. 857. 864. Jam. 15. Pol. ibid.  
James 1. King of Engl. 13. 184. 258. 262  
James Franc. 357. 759. 819. Joh. 702. Rich. 524. 525. Tho. 1. 458. 459. 461. 506. 514. 532. 835. Will. 356. 357. 621  
Jane Tho. 547  
Ja●son Hen. 778  
Iden Hen. 673  
Jefferay Rich. 764  
Jeffry Math. 770  
Jegon Jo. 600  
Jennings Will. 123  
Jenison alias Frevil Rob. 513  
Jermin Mich. 440  
Jervys Jam. 718  
Jessie Hen. 857  
Jessop Barth. 780. Constant. 871. Joh. 833. Tho. 731  
Jewel Jo. 67. 132. 133. 134. 138. 139. 149. 155. 163. 178. 193. 235. 255. 262. 265. 599. 724  
Jewel Will. 806  
Jewit Rand. 835  
Imurily Jo. 562  
Incent Jo. 643. 653. 654  
Innocent or Incent Jo. 643  
Inge Hug. 20. 569. 652  
Ingmethorp Tho. 520. alias 510  
Johnson Ben. 518. 519. 835. Christop. 100 251. 324. Edm. 722. Franc. 394. Joh. 788. 838. Laur. 166. 733. Rob. 508. 509. 677. 705. 706. 707. 722. 739. Sam. 78. Tho. 806  
Joliff Hen. 508. 665. 705  
Jones Freem. 150. Gilb. 856. Hen. 665. 508. 705. 706. 707. Joh. 104. 514. Rich. 11. Walt. 728. 737. Will. 543. 544. 737. Phil. 752. Lew. 629. Hug. 600  
Jorden Edw. 495  
Joseph Rob. 178. 688  
Josselin Joh. 588. 771  
Joiner Will. 778  
Ireland Tho. 168. 811  
Ireton Hen. 869  
Ironside Gilb. 78. Ral. 703. 785  
Isaacson Hen. 828. Will. ibid.  
Izack Rich. ●94  
Junius Patr. 793  
Jux Sim. 830  
Juxon Will. 498. 629. 630. Joh. 895   

K.  
KEchin Ant. 599  
Keeling Jo. 841  
Keep Hen. 411  
Keeper Jo. 750  
Kedermyster Rich. 24. 59  
Keimis Laur. 757. b. alias 759  
Kelley Edw. 226. 243. 244  
Kellison Math. 394  
Kelke Rog. 351  
Kelton Arth. 60  
Keltride or Keliridge Jo. 746  
Kennall Jo. 693. 708. 755  
Kennedi Jo. 801  
Kent Theoph. 741  
Kerne Edw. 670  
Kerovan Steph. 616  
Keth Will. 96  
Key Tho. 59 67. 136  
Kidwelly Jo. 650  
Kilbye Rich. 357. 385  
Killigrew Hen. 896  
King Edw. 618. Hen. 526. Joh. 284. 388. 389. 409. 476. 526. 622. 734. 779. 526. 821. Phil. 820. Will. 671. 756. See in King.  
Kingsmyll Andr. 125. 126. 192. Tho. 283  
Kingsley Will. 823  
Kinnimond Patr. 800  
Kirkby Rich. 642  
Kirkham Tho. 674  
Kirkman Franc. 288  
Kirton Jo. 874. Rob. 585  
Knevet Hen. 115. 116. Tho. 769  
Knight Will. 577. 673. 674. 682. 789  
Knightly Rich. 311  
Knolles Rich. 310. 664. Tho. 657. 658. 660  
Knollis Franc. 248. 727. 779. Hen. 248. Will. 248. 769  
Knox Jo. 149. 153. 273  
Krach Nich. 64. See Cracher  
Kratzer or Cracher Nic. 455. See Cracher  
Kyte Jo. 575  
Kynton Jo. 36  
Kynner Rob. 685  
King Rob. 585. 586. 644. 660  
Kynwellmersh Ant. 150. Franc. 150. 151. 118   

L.  
LAncaster Just. 699. Tho. 138  
Lane Edw. 898. Joh. 734  
Laney Ben. 828  
Lake Arth. 280. 430. 735. 751. 779. 827. Edw. 857. Osm. 741. Tho. 764. 769  
Laly Will. 613  
Lambard Will. 718  
Lamie Nich. 870  
Lamphire Jo. 397  
Langbaine Ger. 2  
Langdale Alb. 78 605. 711  
Langford Charl. 788. Joh. 730. Pereg. 849  
Langhorne Lanc. 820  
Langley Tho. 717  
Langrigg or Langrish Pet. 692. Rich. 684  
Langton Rob. 26. 550. 551. 638. 641. Tho. 25. 548. 550  
Languet Hub. 182  
Langworth Joh. 628. 746. Rich. 746  
Lanket Tho. 57 231  
Lapeis Jo. 675  
Lapworth Edw. 19 811  
Latewar Rich. 268  
Lathorp Jo. 857  
Latymer Hug. 21. 43. Will. 25. 56 57 124. 128. 655  
Laud Will. 2. 350. 417. 476. 507. 633. 634. 629. 749. 783. 804. 814. 819. 833  
Laurence Gil. 135. 737. 744. Jo. 668. 744  
Law or Low Rob. 662  
Lawerne Jo. 674  
Laws Hen. 374. 816  
Lawson Will. 296  
Laybourne Rog. 562  
Layfield Edm. 853. Edw. 859. Joh. 853  
Layton Rich. 644. 647  
Lea Cromw. 270. Jo. 802  
Ledsham Hen. 414  
Lee Edw. 53. 577. 640. 673. 682. Joh. 811. 835. 851. Geor 671. Rowl. 670. 671. Rich. 410  
Leech Humph. 457. Joh. 739. Rob. 729  
Leff Jo. 662  
Legg Tho. 758. b. alias 760. Will. 634  
Legh Ger. 147  
Leigh Edw. 291. 529. Joh. 844. Will. 530  
Leighten Edw. 669. 677. Richard 644  
Leill Taner. 789  
Leland Jo. 67. 68 etc. 411  
Lesley Jo. 119. 140. 149. Rob. 898  
L'estrange Ham. 486. 534. Rog. 460  
Levens Pet. 192  
Lever Ral. 355. 671  
Lever Tho. 852  
Levison Rich. 287  
Lewes Dau. 702. Griff. 737. Owen 612. Rich. 755. Tho. 356  
Lewis Fel. 737. Will. 436 857. 858  
Lewknore Lew. 849  
Lewyn Justin. 891. Will. 752  
Ley Jam. 448. Joh. 333  
Leyburne Joh. 238. Will. 433  
Leycester Joh. 291. 528  
Leyson Joh. 562  
Leyson Griff 684. Joh. 562. Thom. 295. 296. 562  
Lhuyd Humph. 74. 129. 196. alias 198  
Lily Edm. 749. 806  
Lilye Geor 96. Will. 7. 11. 14. 15. 21. 22. 103. 104. Pet. 15. 808  
Linch Joh. 617. Rowl. 616  
Lindsell Aug. 386. 597. 629. 819. 820  
Line Cuthb. 410  
Lister Edw. 793. Jo. 156. Mart. 793. Matth. ibid. Tho. 740  
L'isle Arn. 462. Joh. 349. Will. 771  
Little Franc. 408. 831  
Littleton Jam. 772. 879  
Lock Matth. 808  
Lodge Tho. 424  
Loftus Dudl. 899  
Logan Jo. 390  
Lombard Pet. 131. 219. 409  
London Jo. 137. 660  
Long List. 867  
Longland Joh. 58. 59 97. 577. 581. 649. 682. 694. 700  
Longworth Joh. 746. Rich. ibid.  
Lorgan Rich. 686  
Low Edw. 801  
Low or Law Rob. 662  
Love Christ. 456. Nich. 819  
Lovel Tho. 658. 742  
Lovelace Rich. 887  
Lougher Rob. 115. 722  
Lowth Joh. 388  
Lowther Lanc. 848  
Lloyd Dau. 860. Evan. 158. Geor 615. Griff. 740. Hug. 268. 269. 788. Humph. 74. 129. 196. alias 198. Joh. 269. 276. 722. Lodow. 118. 329. Oliv. 627. 787. Rich. 827. Tho. 668  
Lozillerius Pet. 740  
Ludlow Edm. 884  
Lugge Rob. 892  
Lupset Tho. 28. 672  
Lupton Tho. 306  
Lorne Joh. 674  
Luson Will. 683  
Luther Mart. 19 31. 34. 37. 46.  
Lychfeld Clem. 637. 638  
Lydiate Tho. 461  
Lydgate Jo. 6  
Lylie Jo. 256  
Lynacre Tho. 17. 18. 19 32  
Lynch Jo. 831  
Lynd Humph. 62. 513  
Lion Will. 621  
Light Hen. 293. 294. Tho. 533  
Lytherland Will. 664   

M.  
MAchel Rowl. 550  
Macraih Matth. 554  
Mackworth Humph. 826  
Macy or massy Tho. 683. 690  
Madesley Tho. 746  
Maddock or Madox Jo. 738. 750  
Madox. See Maddick  
Magnus Tho. 161. 662. 663  
Magwire Nich. 8. 555  
Mahew Rich. 565  
Mahon Jam. 560  
Maihew Edw. 347  
Major Jo. 45. 46  
Makeril Tho. 645  
Mallet Franc. 660. Jam. 646  
Malton Chr. 687. 701  
Malyn Will. 11  
Malverne Will. 657  
Man God. 783. Hen. 584. 599  
Manchester Edw. 688  
Mandevill Rob. 375  
Manering Tho. 513  
Manditor 770  
Manley Jo. 900  
Manning Hen. 763  
Manors Edw. 728. Rog. 779. 797  
Manrique Pet. 335  
Manset Fr. 848  
Manwaring Edw. 866  
Maplet Jo. 896  
Marbeck or Merbeck Jo. 91. 94. 704. Rog. 736  
March Jo. 872  
Mariniere Jam. 849  
Marlo Chr. 288  
Marlowe Jo. 675  
Marler Jo. 682. Tho. 421. 830  
Marprelate Mart. See in Joh. Penry  
Marsh Jam. 868. Rich. 522. 866. Sam. 888  
Marshal Cuthb. 579. Steph. 826. Tho. 118. 274. 434. 681. 719  
Marston Jo. 299. 770. Nic. 737. Will. 737  
Marten Anth. 108. Hen. 656  
Marshal Jo. 250. Rich. 707  
Martill Jo. 177  
Martin Edw. 541. 840. Greg. 165. 169. 706. Jam. 810  
Martino S. Leand. 514  
Martin Rich. 374. 753. Tho. 60. 174. 175. Will. 350  
Martyr Pet. 72. 100 104. 106. 110. 111. 701  
Marvyn Edm. 694  
Marry Queen 100 Countess of Pembroke 380. 183. 219  
Masciart Mich. 256  
Mason Edm. 876. Franc. 393. 394. 533. 757. b. alias 759. Joh. 50. 248. 669. 675. 706. Nich. 84. Rob. 506  
massy Ger. 803. Will. 757. b. alias 789. Tho. 683. 690  
Massyngberd Chr. 610. 690  
Massinger Phil. 447. 536. Walt. ibid.  
Master Rich. 710  
Masters Rob. 772. Will. 718  
Masterson Rich. 158  
Master Rich. 655  
Matthew Rob. 834. Sim. 670. Tob. 123. 279. 280. 356. 588. 625. 772  
Mauditor 770  
Maw Leon. 781  
Mawdley or Mawdlen Rich. 636. 666. 679  
Maxfield Th. 779  
May Edw. 365. Tho. 795. 826. Will. 155. 271.  
Mayer Wolfg. 783  
Mayerne Theod. 798  
Mayhew Rich. 557: 559. 639. 640. 663  
Maynard Jo. 639  
maine Cath. 732. Jasp. 475  
Mayow Rich. 559  
Meagh Will. 578  
Meara Edm. 381. Derm. 381. 655  
Meetkirk Edw. 385. 851  
Meadows Jam. 809  
Meighen Rich. 458  
Meldrum Jo. 826  
Mellis Joh. 85  
Melton Will. 19  
Melvil 476  
Merbeck, See Marbeck  
Meredith Joh. 780. Ionas 731. Ric. 614. 798. 809  
Meres Franc. 771  
Merlow Jo. 675  
Morenda Cath. 107  
Merick Jo. 600. 615. Will. 752. 855  
Merrick Gell. 245. 595  
Rowl. ibid.  
Messynger Rowl. 646  
Metcalf Nich. 590  
Mews Pet. 833  
Mey Jo. 564. 728  
Miagh or Meagh Will. 578  
Michael Tho. 644  
Michelbourne Edw. 853. 854  
Middleton Rich. 757. b. alias 759. Tho. 509. alias 519. 536. 831. Will.— 246  
Milbourne Rich. 773  
M●ldenham Tho. 659  
Milson Joh. 326  
Mileson Rich. 878  
Milton Jo. 373. 880. 881. 882. etc.  
Milward Joh. 755  
Missenbuck Geor 776  
Modena Rinaldo 557  
Mocket Tho. 898  
Moket Rich. 368  
Molineux Viu. 813  
Molyns Joh. 222. 368  
Monson Will. 287  
Montmartin Gid. 783  
Moor Rob. 535  
More Alice 33. Cressac. 34. 35. Edw. 659. Franc. 392. 393. 815. Gabr. 761. Geor 418. 419. 736. Marg. 33. 34. 36. Sir Tho. 13. 18. 32. 75. 144. 159. 525. Thom. 35. 298. Will. 103. 576. 659  
Moreman Joh. 678. 679. 689  
Moreton Joh. 547. 548. 549. Nich. 163. Will. 548. 813  
Morgan Hen. 591. 670. Joh. 552. 553. Mer. 808. Rob. 632. Will. 519. alias 509. 615  
Morley Geor 344. Tho. 759. 760. Rich. 610.  
Morris Evan. 768. Will. ibid.  
Morris Tho. 775  
Morris Andrew 860. Joh. 327. 878  
Morton Edw. 889. John 635. 666. Tho. 310. 346. 417. 499. 628. 737. 798. Will. 25.  
Mortymer Will. 679  
Morysine Rich. 81  
Moryson Fynes. 765  
Morwen John 67  
Morwent Robert 661  
Morin or Morwing Peter 156. 185  
Moscroff Thomas 664  
Moseley Humphrey 156  
Moss William 708  
Mostyn William 898  
Moulin Lew. 486. in Marg. 898. Peter 803. 877. 883  
Mounson Thomas 796  
Montague James 280. 430. 619. Ionas 826. Richard 396. 442. 787. 788. 826. 627. Walter 502  
Mountaigne Geo. 622. 626  
Mountfort James 761. John ibid. Tho. ibid.  
Mouse William 708  
Moyle William 838  
Mugg Richard 670  
Muscaster Richard 316. 512  
Mullady William 613  
Mullins John 222  
Mundy George 847. John 757. b. alias 759  
Mundyn John 286  
Munloss John 880  
Muriel Tho. 394. 765  
Murray Pat. 796. Rich. 861  
Murrey Robert 817. Tho. 398  
Musgrave Chr. 803. Thomas 664 674  
Much John 426  
Musket alias Fisher Greg. 427  
mills Fr. 126  
Miles Thomas 67  
Mylling Thomas 566  
Myriell Thomas 765   

N.  
NAbbes Thomas 311  
Naileheart John 639  
Nangle Peter 157  
Napier Robert 719. Rich. 858  
Nash Thomas 229. 755. b. alias 757. 762  
Neale John 714. Tho. 219. 220. 416. 703  
Neckham Rog. 660  
Nedham Mar. 460. 882  
Neile John 843. Rich. 409. 569. 626. 783. 814  
Nelson Stephen 746  
Neper John 469  
Nettles Stephen 848  
Nevil Alex. 50. 289. 587. Christ. 523. Hen. 773. 796. Tho. 587. 734. 808  
Newbolt Thomas 676  
Newbury Nath. 885  
Newland John 639  
newel Robert 755. b. alias 757. 784  
Newstead Christoph. 388  
Newton Ad. 356. 831. 835. Fra. 606. Rob. 714. 829. Tho. 16. 69. 194. 288. 289  
Neylan Dan. 616  
Neyland James 702  
nicols John 172. 173  
Niccols Aust. 482. 543. Rich. 342. 343  
Nicholas Pet. 652  
Nicholson Jo. 897. Rich. 773  
Nightingale Tho. 19 656  
Nikke Rich. 573. 574. Will. 574  
Nipho Fab. 260  
Noble Jo. 650  
noel Hen. 769  
Nook Rob. 657  
Norden Jo. 382  
Norman Joh. 94. 651  
Norrington Nath. 847  
Norris Cuthb. 742. Hen. 762. Joh. ib.  
Norton 132  
Norton Baldw. 716. Joh. 809. Sam. 513. Tho. 63. 72. 108. 121. 272. 297  
Noude Beav. 770  
Nowell Alex. 66. 150. 156. 163. 165. 271. 719. 744. 775. Joh. 756. b. alias 758. Laur. 146. 147  
Nowers Alex. 389  
Noy Will. 506  
Nuce Tho. 289  
Nugent Will. 158  
Nutburne Will. 220  
Nuttall Jo. 786  
Nutter Jo. 739  
Nuttall Jo. 786   

O.  
Oats Tho. 830  
Ochine Bern. 82. 106  
Oglethorpe Owen 593  
Okever Jo. 832. 874  
Oldesworth Mich. 818.  
Oldham or Owldham Hug. 561 562  
Oleven Rich. Ep. 551  
Olevian Ant. Franc. 823  
Oliver Joh. 666. 654. 684. 897. 〈◊〉. 897.  
Ormanet Nich. 714  
Ortelius Abr. 705  
Orton Joh. 650  
Osbaldeston Lamb. 454. 805. 828. 833  
Osborne Franc. 267. 268. Peter 725  
Osullevan Phil. 163. 164  
Othen Hyp. 807  
Oudart Nich. 887  
Overall Jo. 272. 601  
Overbury Tho. 184. 330. 331  
Overton Tho. 571. Will. 123. 299. 616  
Oughtred Will. 469  
Oxenbridge Joh. 734  
Oxestierne Joh. 874  
Oxford University 1. its antiquity 356  
Owen Dau. 555. 803. Joh. 400. 523. 628. 784. 794. Lew. 250. 612. Morg. 819. Ow. 724. Rich. 592. Rog. 255  
Owen Ow. 724   

P.  
PAde Raym. 26. 97. 137  
Paddie Will. 767. 783  
Page Rich. 648. Sam. 469. Will. 648  
Paget Ephr. 357. Euseb. ib.  
Paice or Pace Joh. 28. Rich. 25. 26. 38. 40. 70. 575  
Pain Pet. 295  
Palmer Jul. 700. Rich. 835. Tho. 713. Geo. 695  
Palms Geor 695  
Palsgrave Joh. 48  
Panke Jo. 380  
Papudo Ant. 675  
Parentius Jo. 770  
Parfey Rob. 583  
Parker Hen. 45. 46. 295. 639. Matth. 98. 123. 175. 220. 393. 588. 589. Rich. 665. 786. Rob. 394. Rog. 758. b. alias 760. Tho. 672. 677. Will. 657  
Parkhouse Joh. 642  
Parkurst Joh. 52. 132. 141. 142. 273. 600  
Parkinson Math. 564. 728  
Parks Rich. 295  
Parry Hen. 352. 519. alias 509. 621. 694. 708. Rich. 294. 330. 409. 622. W. 471  
Parry or ap Harry Jo. 695. 697. 700  
Parsons Phil. 861  
Parsons or Persons Rob. 79. 164. 187. 224. 236. 240. 304. 305. etc. 365. 426. 460  
Pasor Matth. 440  
Paterson Jo. 868  
Pates Rich. 79. 593. 594. 644. 667  
Patrick Sim. 130. 791  
Paybody Jo. 847  
pain Joh. 554. 676  
Paynell Tho. 111. 112  
Paul Joh. 689. Will. 634  
Pavy Hugh 557  
Peacock Tho. 480. 802  
Pearson Matth. 815. Rob. 878  
Pearson Dr. 828. 831  
Peck Tho. 400. Rich. 848  
Pedder Jo. 691. 708  
Pedley Edw. 688  
Peele Geor 260  
Peers Walt. 642  
Pekms Jo. 674  
Pelham Hen. 435. Will. 434 435  
Pell Jo. 391. 871  
Pelican Conr. 108  
Pelling Jo. 777  
Pembroke Mary Countess of 183. 219. 380  
Pemble Will. 405  
Pemberton Will. 751  
Pendergast 177  
Pendleton Edw. 700. Hen. 105  
Penkethman Jo. 337  
Pennant Edw. 592. 664. Joh. 664. 665  
Penniewick Andr. 536  
Penry Joh. 562  
Penny Joh. or Marprelat 227. 228. 230  
Penticost Rowl. 655  
Pe●yr Nich. 644. 661  
Percevall Joh. 2●●. 6●7  
Percy Alg. 490. Hen. 390. 391. 795. Rich. 744  
Periam Will. 287  
Perin Jo. 776  
Perkyns Chr. 722. Will. 366. 415  
Perne Andr. 708. 709  
Perot Jo. 18  
Perrot Jam. 515. Joh. 674. Rob. 656  
Perry Hen. 252  
Persons Rob. See Parsons.  
Peryn Will. 84. 697  
Pet Th. 750  
Peto Will. 650. Will. or Pet. 587. 597  
Peter or Petre Hen. 657  
Peter Hug. 263  
Petre Will. 683  
Petreus Hen. 405  
Petrucci Ludou. 387. 388  
Petty Geor 194  
Phayer Th. 102  
Philippides Hier. 702. 706  
Philipot Jo. 902. Tho. ibid.  
Philipps Arth. 900. Edw. 276. 881. Hen. 37. Joh. 629. 630. 755. 810. 881. Morg. 148. 149. 235. 592. Pet. 900. Rowl. 566. 656. 667. Steph. 873. Walt. 732  
Philpot Jo. 79. 319. 411  
Pickover Ralp. 411. 421. 766  
Peers Jo. 490. 611. 612. 746. Will. 812  
Pierce Th. 895  
Pilkyngton Franc. 773. Jam. 590 John 771. Rich. 478 479. Tho. 773  
Pilsworth Will. 630  
Pine Tertul. 742  
Pinke Will. 463  
Pinner Charl. 252  
Pinson Joh. 552  
Plaisted Jo. 12  
Plankney Jo. 713  
Playfere Th. 776  
Plough Jo. 96  
Plowden Edm. 176  
Plummer Christ. ●76  
Plunket Edw. 177. Ol. ib. Pat. 176. 177  
Pitheus Pet. 734  
Pits Arth. 508. Joh. 345. 346. and errors in his book ibid.  
Plancius Dan. 791  
Pocklington Jo. 790  
Poeton Pet. 812  
Pointer Jo. 829  
Pointz Fr. 54. Rob. 118. 119  
Pole or Poole Dau. 596. Ol. 648  
Pole Edw. 566. Hug. 645. Reno. 52. 82. 92. 93. 96. 100 587. 656  
Pollard Joh. 668. 673. Len. 81  
Pomerel Will. 324  
Ponet Joh. 175  
Pontanus Felix 694  
Pope Joh. 599. 548. 675  
Popham Joh. 229. 292. 293. 369. Edw. 826  
Pordage Sam. 336  
Porter Hen. 781. Rich. 694. 756. Walt. 781. Will. 651. 656  
Portu de Maur. 8. 555  
Pory Jo. 725. 726  
Possevin Ant. 181  
Poteman Will. 566  
Apothecary Tho. 273  
Potkyn Pet. 650  
Potts Joh. 199. 718  
Potter Rich. 759. Christ. 828. 831  
Pound Tho. 191  
powel Dau. 74. 130. 196. alias 198. Ed. 46. 681. Gabr. 294. 394. 791. Griff. 383. Tho. 245. 716. 746. 816  
paul Jo. 690  
Pownoll Nath. 312  
Prat Jo. 717  
Pregian Jo. 804  
Press Sim. 751  
Preston Jo. 805. Tho. 726  
Price Doctor 632  
Price 486  
Price Dan. 468. 477. 478 787. 868. Hen. 266. Hug. 672. Samp. 468. Theod. 819. Will. 413  
Prichard Humph. 304  
Prideaux Edm. 851. Jo. 386  
Prime Jo. 247  
Primrose Dau. 849. Gilb. ibid. Jam. 864. Joh. 849. Steph. ibid.  
Prinne. See Prynne  
Prior Tho. 811  
Prise or Price Jo. 73. Rich. 74  
Prit a Minister 592  
Proctor Jo. 80. Jam. 688  
Prows Jo. 644  
Prynne Hen. 8. Jo. 643. 666. Will. 109. 496. 497. 515. 539. 804  
Puccius Franc. 223. 225  
Puckring Joh. 229  
pullen Jo. 115. 128  
Pulton Ferd. 362  
Purchas Sam. 821. 822  
Purefoy Humph. 69. Tho. ibid.  
Pursell 561  
Pursglove Rob. 604. 605  
Puttenham 184  
Pie Tho. 303. Will. 83. 697. 700. 708  
Pygot Th. 553  
Pining Hen. 93   

Q.  
QVarr Jo. 651  
Quaterman Sext. 709  
Quemmorford Edw. 687. Nich. 154   

R.  
RAcster Jo. 768. 773  
Radcliff Edw. 73. Ralph ibid. Rich. 755. b. alias 757  
Rainbow Edw. 861  
Rainolds Edm. 234. 235. 721. Hier. 234. Jam. 235. Joh. 184. 221. 233. 242. 248. 289. 290. 261. 313. 314. 335. 343. 351. 417. 418. Tho. 289. 505. 583. 689. 705. 712. Nich. 235. Will. 233. 234. 454  
Raleigh Carew 374. Georg. 830. Walt. 150. 369. 370. etc. 390. 607. 791  
Ramsey Geor 814. Joh. 653. 666. 692. 871  
Ramridge Jo. 696  
Ramsden Hen. 522. Hug. 414  
Randall Joh. 399  
Randol Jo. 847. 848  
Randolph Edm. 861. Rob. 196 alias 198. 854. Tho. 195. alias 197. 196. alias 198. 240. 637. 728. 739  
Rand● Hen. 577  
Rascius or Rescius Ant. 716  
Rastall Jo. 38. 115. Will. 38. 43. 114. 115. Wenef. 114. 115  
Rastell W. 112  
Rateliffe Edw. 783. Jer. ibid.  
Raven's Jo. 774  
Ravis Jo. 467. Tho. 617  
Rawley or Raleigh Walt. 150  
Rawlins Hen. 645. Rich. 563. 573 577  
Rawlinson Jo. 475. 476  
Rawson Rich. 86  
Raynolds Jo. 573. Rob. 710  
Read Jo. 740. 746. Tho. 286. 778. 893. Rich. 694  
Reading Jo. 492  
Record Rob. 84  
Reeve Rich. 690  
Reed Jo. 646. 677. Rich. 718  
Redman Jo. 65. 66. 647. 669. 697. Walt. 562. Will. 600  
Regimorter Ass. 885  
Regius Pet. 740  
Rhead Alex. 392. 837. 838. Rich. 461. 767. Tho. 837  
Reinolds Jo. 336  
Remyngton Rich. 742. 753  
Renniger Mich. 300. 783  
Repingdon Phil. 295  
Repps Will. 21  
Rescius or Rascius Ant. 716  
Reuter Ad. 440  
Reyner Clem. 473  
Reynolds Edw. 394. 396. 865. John 865  
Rhead Alex. 392. 837. 838. Rich. 461. 767. Tho. 837  
Rhese Jo. Dau. 296. 304  
Rhese Jo. 73  
Rian Dan. 713. Dermit. 655. Donat. 684  
Rice ap Hugh 672  
Rice Jo. 678  
Richard the 3. King of Engl. 13  
Rich Rob. 848  
Richardson Jo. 807. Laur. 734  
Rider Jo. 495. 628  
Ridley Mar. 421. Tho. 779  
Risden Edw. 180  
Risdon Ed. ibid.  
Rishton Edw. 163. 179. 180  
Ritwise or Rightwise Joh. 11. 15  
Rivet And. 841  
Rivet or Revet Tim. 755. b. alias 757  
Roburts Fulk 840  
Roberti Jo. 594  
Roberts Jo. 75. Will. 664. 632  
Robertson Tho. 15. 103. 104. 693  
Robins Jo. 86. 697  
Robinson Jo. 726. 744. Hen. 620. Nich. 595. Ralph 34 693. 806. Will. 749 875  
Robsert. Amey 166  
Robson Cham 865. Sim. 614. 758. b. alias 760  
Rachfort Sim. 10  
Rodde Will. 693. 726  
Rogers 727  
Rogers Ben. 808. 835. Dan. 199. Franc. 587. Jo. 156. Rich. 403. 587. Tho. 341. 342  
Rokeby Joh. 564. Will. 563. 564  
Roos Brian 650  
Rondell Phil. 167  
Rosdell Chr. 76  
Roper Joh. 30. Will. 33. 36. 37  
Ross Alex. 372. Thom. 889  
Rossaeus Will. 234  
Royse Joh. 301  
Rotheram Th. 547  
Rouse Franc. 442  
Rowland Tho. 655. Rich. 427  
rowland's Hen. 620  
rowland's Will. 778  
Rowlandson Jam. 528  
Rowley Will. 313. 437. 536  
Rudd Ant. 608. 737. 743.  
Rudyard Ben. 466. 523  
Ruffus Nich. 772  
Ruyg Jo. 725. 749. Will. 574  
Ruggle Geor 794  
Rumphius Christ. 817  
Runcorn Tho. 664  
Rupert Pr. 886. Dudl. ibid.  
Runcorne Tho. 664  
Rusaeus Ant. 848. Lud. 851  
Russell Edw. 728. Geor 780. Joh. 548. Will. 773  
Russh Ant. 148. 733  
Ruthall or Rowthall Th. 161. 565  
Rycaut Paul 311  
Rycks Jo. 39  
ridge Rich. 661  
Rydley Nich. 78. 90. 154. 582. 705  
Ryngsted Tho. 656  
Rytoner Hen. 638  
Ryves Georg. 781. Jo. 833   

S.  
SAckvyle 258  
Sackvyle Ch. 297. Rob. 745. Tho. 113. 297. 766. 767  
Saddler Vinc. 416  
Sagittary Fred. 886  
Saintgeorge Hen. 319. 414  
Saintjohns Ol. 866. 867  
Saintmartin Leon. 514  
sal de la Joh. 456. See Jo. Hall.  
Salcot Jo. 572  
Salisbury Hen. 226. 754. Will. 120  
Saling Will. 640  
Salisbury Joh. 151. 599. 678. Rob. 744. Tho. 246  
Salkeld Jo. 397. 398. Lanc. 302. 724  
Salley or Sawley Mil. 560  
Salmon Pet. 874. Rob. ib.  
Salwey Ger. 177  
Samson Rich. 103. 642. 643. 665. Tho. 126. 153. 192. 193  
Sanders Lanc. 106  
Sanderson Rand. 885. Rob. 2. Tho. 392. 793  
Sandwich Will. 669. 676. 694  
Sandyford or Sandford Rog. 636  
Sandys Ed. 265. 462. 463. Geor 501. Mil. 520. alias 510  
Sanford Jo. 461  
Sansbury 302. 303  
Saravia Adr. 403. 765  
Sarmiento Ded. 371  
Savage Geo. 123. 728  
Savelle a family. 286  
Savile Hen. 355. 356. 395. 396. 397. 514. Joh. 285. 286  
Saunders Hug. 637. Nich. 162. 180. 272. 482. Patr. 835  
Saul Arth. 703  
Sawley Mil. 560  
Saywell Will. 540  
Scambler Edm. 596. 600. 756  
Schlick Hierom. 745  
Schouldham Rob. 651. 656. 657.  
Scory Ed. 564. Joh. 583. 584. 590. 591. Silu. 584  
Scot Cuthb. 711. Reyn. 257. 258. Rob. 773. Tho. 547. 589. 846  
Scudder 529  
Scull Jo. 823  
Scultet Abr. 222. 499. 779  
Seaman Will. 542  
Searchfield Roul. 622  
Securis Joh. 158  
Sedgwick Tho. 711  
Sedlie 258. 624  
Segar Will. 482  
Seimore Edw. 799. Will. 799. See Seymour.  
Seintgerman Chr. 47  
Cellar or Seller Jo. 868. Will. 470  
Selden Joh. 245. 255. 413. 462. 627. 794  
Selling Will. 640  
Selwood Jo. 640  
Senhouse Rich. 620. 621. 783  
Serle Alex. 794  
Seton or Seaton Joh. 710  
Sever Hen. 553. Will. ibid.  
Sewell Hugh 719  
Seymoure Ed. 71. 72. 884. Will. 886  
Shackspeare Hug. 637  
Shaghens Rich. 131  
Sharp Lion. 523. 832. 835  
Shaw Hen. 732. Jo. 414  
Shaxton Nich. 190. 643  
Sheafe Grind. 798. Tho. 790. 798  
Sheffield Joh. 727. Will. 556. 557  
Sheine 131. Joh. 668. See Sheyne  
Sheth Elias 131  
Shjoy Will. 551  
Sheldon Raph. 319. 364. 491. 549. 604  
Sheldon Gilb. 369. Ed. 399. Raph. 319. 364. 491. 549. 604  
Sheppard Alex. 806. Joh. 94. 709. Nich. 688. Will. 369  
Shepery Jo. 51● 142  
Shepreve Jo. 51  
Sherburne Edw. 331. 901  
Sherebourne Rob. 10. 573. 574  
Shirley Ant. 471. 742. Rob. 471. 472. Tho. 472. Will. 870  
Sherlock Geo. 158  
Sherry Jo. 63  
Sheringham Rob. 862  
Sherewood Rob. 22. Rub. 726  
Sherow Jo. 675  
Shirt Jo. 725  
Sherton Rob. 672  
Sherwood Jo. 776  
Sherwyn Ralp. 166  
Shingleton Rob. 56  
Shirbourne Jo. 648  
Shirley Ant. 742  
Shirwood Jo. 566  
Sibbes Rich. 542  
Sibthorp Rob. 835  
Siddall Hen. 685. 707. 716  
Sidney Hen. 180. 181. 730. Phil. 49. 182. 183. Rob. 762. Mary 606. See Pembroke.  
Silvester Jos. 378  
Silvius Jac. 158  
Simeon Jeff. 570  
Simpson Chris. 760. Joh. 803. 819. Nich. 803  
Singleton Is. 790  
Sinews or Sinewse Will. 553  
Sixesmith Tho. 333  
Sixtinus Joh. 650  
Skelton Jo. 20. 21  
Skevyngton Tho. 572  
Skerow Jo. 675  
Skinner Cyr. 883. Ral. 104. 153. 688. Rob. 886. Will. 851  
Skuish Jo. 23  
Skypp Jo. 560. Will. 696  
Slade Math. 337. 338. Sam. 770  
Sleep Ant. 812  
Slythurst▪ Th. 697  
Smectymnus 861. 898  
Smith Ed. 725. Joh. 247. 251. 259. Hen. 231. Math. 64●. Mil. 345. 416. 417. 490. 622. Nich. 713. 718. 719. Rich. 100 107. 108. 110. 175. 622. Sam. 383. 836. Seb. 792. 901. Tho. 11. 66. 155. 301. 302. 724. Will. 555. 594. 635. 637. 644. 728. 740. 835.  
Smyth see Smith  
Snell Geor 840  
Snoden or Snowden Rob. 620  
Snow Will. 665  
Solme Tho. 57  
Summer Joh. 697  
Somerset Hen. Marq. of Worc. 486. 487. Char. 797. Edw. 769. Will. ibid.  
Some or Soame Rob. 227. Tho. 57 121  
Summoner Will. 147  
Sonibanke Ch. 800  
Sotho Ludou. 110. Pet. 109. Pet. Maj. 110.  
Sou●h Will. 752  
South Jo. 820  
Southwell Nath. 243  
Southern Tho. 642  
Southwood Jo. 662. 677  
Soul Jo. 6  
Spackman Norw. 787. Tho. 811  
Spark Noel 897. Rob. 871. Th. 290. 343. 328. 351. 352. 533. 576. 677. Will. 470. 517  
Sparrow Ant. 742  
Speckington Will. 569  
Speed Jo. 260. 537. Sam. 537  
Speght Th. 320  
Spelman Henr. 39 452  
Spencer Edm. 185. Hen. 887. Mil. 786. Th. 21  
Spenser Jo. 263. 292. 335  
Spicer Alex. 434. Rich. 843. Will. 832  
Sprint Jo. 405. 406. 481. 614. 665. 737. 749  
Spotswood Rob. 817  
Spurstow Will. 861  
Squire Ad. 740. Jo. 805  
Stafford Edw. 727. 770. Hen. 88 Rob. 386. 569. Rich. 829. Tho. 452. Will. 829  
Staller or Stallard Tho. 735. 766  
Stambridge Jo. 7. 16. 659. Tho. 17. 562. 659  
Standard Jo. 320. 530. 824  
Standish Ed. 80. Hen. 24. 36. 80. 670. Jo. 80. Rich. 81  
Stanford Ral. 730  
Stanhop Edw. 726. 745. Geor 835. Mich. 769  
Stanley Jam. 557. 558. 637. 646. Hen. 727. Tho. 599. 659. 901. 902  
Stanyhurst Rich. 375. 428  
Stanywell or Stonywell Jo. 579. 637. 639  
Staple Edw. 580. 671  
Stapleton Tho. 179. 253. 254. 262. 482  
Staunford Will. 86  
Staunton Laur. 758. b. alias 760  
Stemp Tho. 195. alias 197. 708  
stark Jo. 636  
Sterne Rich. 856  
Sternhold Tho. 62  
Stephens Jer. 39  
Stevart Jam. 886  
Stevens Tho. 103. Dr. 134  
Steukley Lew. 371  
Stevenson Rob. 758. alias 760. 775.  
Steward Edm. 663. 687  
Stewart Esm. 795. Fr. 792. 824. Rich. 532.  
Styles Math. 893. 894  
Still Jo. 608. 742  
Stillington Rob. 566  
Stinton Geor 843  
Stock Rich. 774. Will. 718  
Stocker Will. 718  
Stokes Dr. 82  
Stokes Rich. 393  
Stokeslie Jo. 54. 575. 652. 675  
Stonard Will. 801  
Stone Chr. 788. Tho. 749. Will. 875  
Stonywell Jo. 637. 639  
Stopies or Stops Rich. 664. 715  
Storer Tho. 280  
Story Jo. 60. 131. 636  
Stork Jo. 636  
Stow Jo. 53. 320  
straddling Edw. 296. 290. ●●●▪ 304. Jo. 300. 429  
Stransham Edw. 738  
Straytbarret Jam. 581  
Stretsham Hen. 691  
Strong Will. 826  
Stroud or Strode Will. 826  
Stubbes Laur. 654  
Stuckins Ralp. 108. 822  
Studley Joh. 289  
Summer Hen. 673  
Summer Jac. 756. alias 758  
Summaster Th. 739  
Sutcliff Math. 443  
Sutton Chr. 412. 454. Dau. 158. Hen. 643. Tho. 407. 408  
Suavenburgh Geo. 737  
Swaddon Will. 269. 788  
Swawell Tho. 638  
Sweit Gil. 873. Ol. 737  
Swinburne Her. 386  
Swinnerton Tho. 75  
Sydevore Rich. 640  
Sydenham Geor 645  
Sylvester Edw. 634. Rob. 579. 604  
Sylva de Gosem 123  
Symings or Symmings Joh. 710  
Symonds Will. 334  
Sympson Tho. 873   

T.  
TAlbot 177. 243. Rob. 87. 88 Tho. 88 319  
Talley Dau. 649  
Talot Rich. 650  
Tanfeild Laur. 501  
Tapsell Jo. 827  
Turlton 174  
Tate Fran. 348. 349. 412. Zouch 349  
Tutham Joh. 728  
Tavern●●● Jo. 94. Rich. 143. 144. 271. Rog. 145. 146. 346  
Taler Jo. 100 Rob. 110  
Tailor alias Card-maker Jo. 102  
Taylor Jo. 588. 667  
Tailor Hibern. 131. Rob. 463. Tho. 868. Will. 260  
Taylour Franc. 499. Will. 649  
Temple Rob. 761. Tho. 895. Will. 751  
Tenison Phil. 394  
Terry Joh. 435  
Tesdale Chr. 83●  
Texeda Ferd. 845  
Thelwall Eub. 746  
Theyer Joh. 95  
Thirlby Ch. 798. Joh. 712  
Thomannus Casp. 786  
Thomas Lew. 381. Rowl. 685. Will. 74  
Thompson Geor 794. Rich. 622  
Thornden or Thornton Joh. 559. 586. 639. 666  
Thorndyke Herb. 391  
Thorie Joh. 239  
Thorie or Thorius Jo. 856  
Thoris Math. 880  
Thorius Rog. 422. 423  
Thorn Gil. 784  
Thornborough Edw. 788. 889. Gilb. 628. Joh. 397  
Thornton Rich. 802. 826. Tho. 409. 754. See Thornton.  
Thorowgood Tho. 844  
Thorp Joh. 453  
Threlkeld Edw. 743  
Throckmorton Nich. 74. 727. Will. 668  
Throwley Joh. 699  
Thruston Malac. 894  
Thrysk Will. 664. 678  
Thurcross Hen. 629. 810. 843. Tim. 810. 843  
Thuanus Aug. 410  
Thynne Ch. 296. Franc. 319. Tho. 53. Will. 52. 53. 665.  
Tiarda Eizo 789  
Tighe Rob. 358  
Tilenus Dan. 838  
Tillesley Rich. 391. 793. 851  
tindal Humph. 740. 774  
Tinley Mart. 352. Rob. ibid.  
Todd Hugh 751  
Toker Jo. 691  
Tolley Dau. 14. 66. 681  
Tomkins Gil. 799. Jo. ib. Nath. ib. Nic. ib. Tho. ib.  
Tomson Gil. 788. 618. Laur. 297. 298. Ralp. 744. 746. Rich. 776. Tho. 378  
Tomworth Jo. 727  
Tomstall Cuthb. 25. 65. 97. 590. 703. Ralph. 414. 740  
Tooker Ch. 856. Jos. 875. Will. 147. 385. 786.  
Tookey Tho. 717  
Torporley Nath. 390. 484. 485  
Torriano G. 423  
torshel Sam. 775  
Townley Zou. 412. 839  
Tounson or Tonson Rob. 621. 781 804  
Towers Jo. 539. 812. Rob. 413  
Townsend Ch. 477. Hayw. 274. 287. Rog. 672  
Toy Griff. 722. 738  
Tracy Rich. 83. Will. ibid.  
Trafford Hen. 607  
Traheron Barth. 105  
Transham Edw. 738  
Trapham Th. 875  
Travers Walt. 741  
Tregonnwell Jo. 666  
Tremayne Rich. 723  
Tresham Franc. 282. Will. 126  
Trent Council 109  
Trever Rich. 487  
Trevier Ralph 705  
Trigge Fr. 283  
Triplet Tho. 501. 502  
Trotter Hugh 674  
Troutbeck Rob. 481  
Trussell Jo. 380  
Tuckney Anth. 844  
Turbervile Geor 240. 241. Jam. 594  
Turnbull Cham 282. Rich. 280. Will. 706. 730  
Turner Franc. 877. Math. 843. Pet. 781. 888. Rich. 91. 669. 802. Rob. 258. 259. Rog. 855. Sam. 791. Tho. 828. Will. 120. 121. 802  
Turpin Rich. 50  
Twine Brian 416. 489. Joh. 88 160. 161. 329. Laur. 329. Tho. 118. 329. 103. 129. 161  
Twiss Dr. 539  
Tie Christop. 94. 702  
Tylen Will. 64  
Tyndale Will. 73. 38  
Tynmouth Jo. 566  
Tyro Tho. 839  
Tyrrell 890   

V.  
VAchan Rog. 642  
Valentine Fr. 660  
Valera Cypr. 724  
Vane Cham 895  
Vannes Pet. 14. 26. 136. 137. 186. 716  
Vavasor Will. 637  
Vauce Rob. 712  
Vaughan Edw. 573. Jo. Nic. 894. Rich. 752. 756. Rob. 519. alias 509. Rog. 641. Will. 450. 451.  
Vaus or Vaulx Laur. 130  
Vaulx Rob. 712. Laur. 130  
Vaux Fr. 892  
Vchtman Theod. 896  
Udall Eph. 868. Jo. 229. Nich. 72. 73  
Vere Edw. 118. 183. 727. Hen. 795  
Vernatti 819  
Vernon Geor 332  
Verstegan Rich. 427. 428  
Vetablus Sam. 764  
Vicars Jo. 536. 400. 758. b. alias 760. Tho. 375. 442. 449  
Vicary Tho. 449  
Victoria Ferdin. 662  
Vignier Nich. 483  
Villa Garcia Jo. 711. 716  
Vincent Aust. 349. Tho. 416  
Virgil Pol. 68 73. 411. 638. 639. 696  
Vives Jo. Lud. 55. 668  
Vivian Th. 554  
Vlmis ab Jo. 702. 706  
Vnderhill Jo. 395. 609  
Vnivers. of Oxon. 1  
Vowel Jo. 270  
Union Hen. 246  
Vrswyke Christop. 10. 641. 544. 547. 557. 667  
Usher Hen. 617. Jam. 254. ●73 316. 375. 440. 853. Rob. 630   

W.  
WAde Arm. 120. Will. ibid.  
Wadsworth Jam. 538  
Wake Arm. 491. Is. 292. 491. 812  
Wakefeld Rob. 22. 27. 39 51. Tho. 50  
Wakeman Rob. 461. 578  
Wales Hen. Prince of 797  
Wall Geor 823. Will. 652. 661  
Walker Geor 840. Joh. 566. Rog. 612. 648. Walt. 887  
Wallashe Tho. 639  
Walkington Tho. 814  
Waller Jo. 63  
Wallis Jo. 446  
Walpole 538  
Walpoole Hen. 241  
Walsall Sam. 781. 798  
Walsingham Fr. 184  
Walsh Jam. 157. Pet. 602. Nich. ibid. Will. 601. Rich. 158  
Walter Jo. 817. Dau. ibid.  
Walton Is. 264. 475. 532  
Waple Edw. 798  
Warbington Rob. 583. See Parfey.  
Warburton Geor 809. 888  
Warcup Ral. 281. 287  
Ward Rob. 90. Will. 91  
Wardboys Jo. 661  
Ware Jam. 165. Tho. 672  
Warewyck Geor 751. 762  
Warford Will. 298  
Warham Rich. 674. Will. 571. 643. 682  
Warmington Will. 328  
Warner Barth. 19 260. 772● Joh. 675. 678. 684. 687. 701. Walt. 390. 391. 485. 743  
Warwick Phil. 895. Tho. ibid.  
Waser Jo. 822  
Washbourne Tho. 427  
Washington Rich. 875  
Wastell Sim. 414  
Wasyn Tho. 640  
Water Jo. 576  
Waterhouse Geo. 767  
Watkyns Joh. 731. 788  
Watkinson Will. 189  
Wats Jam. 734. 831. Rich. 841. Tho. 299. Will. 831  
Watson Ant. 614. 728. Edw. 650. Joh. 193. alias 195. 606. Rich. 902. Tho. 100 104. 190. 231. 701  
Waynflete Will. 175  
Webbe Eras. 756. Will. 656  
Webley Humph. 583  
Webster Rich. 350  
Weever Jo. 245  
Wedell Ral. 660  
Weelks Tho. 786. Will. ibid.  
Weldon Ant. 497. 624  
Wellesley Walt. 576  
Wellington Joh. 643  
Wells Joh. 522  
Wells or Wellys Tho. 650. 655. 656. 662. 686  
Welstede Hen. 813  
Wendy Tho. 277  
Wenman Tho. 419. 764  
Wentworth Pet. 876. Tho. 837. 523  
West Nich. 558. Reyn. 568. Tho. 870  
Westcombe Clem. 821. Mart. 544. 891  
Westcote 516. 517  
Westby Tho. 675  
Westfield Tho. 812  
Westerman Will. 333  
Weston Edw. 504. 505. Joh. 764. Hug. 93. 115. 125. Rob. 131. 713. 764. Will. 505  
Westphaling Herb. or Harb. 123. 272. 280. 615  
Wetheral Will. 657  
Wetherell Tho. 873  
Wharton Chr. 721. Geor 16. Phil. 807. Tho. ibid.  
Wheatley Will. 528. 529  
Wheeler Ionas 632  
Whetcomb Jo. 320. 530  
Whiddon Fr. 844. Ol. 169. 720. 737  
Whitby Dan. 820. Ol. 847  
White Anth. 813. Chr. 515. Franc. 333. 723. 818. Math. 864. 865. Rob. 394. Tho. 413. 415. Writhl. 394  
Whitehead Hug. 654. See Whithead.  
Whiteheare Jo. 665  
Whitfield Jo. 838. Tho. 837. 838  
Whitgift Dr. 741  
Whithead Dau. 135. See Whytehead.  
Whithalk Nich. 146  
Whiteing Joh. 832  
Whitlock Bulst. 491. 794. Jam. 490. 491  
Whitmay Andr. 577  
Whittaker Laur. 789. Will. 135. 165. 234. 254. 303. 343. 744  
Whitynton Rob. 21. 31. 653. See Whittingdon.  
Whittingdon Rob. 7. 15. 16.  
Whitty 177  
Whittyngham Will. 63. 73. 152. 153. etc. 688. 725. 726  
white Hen. 676. Joh. 100 101. 128. 155. 324. 592. Pet. 219. Rich. 177. 323. 324. 428. Tho. 84. 170. 194. 708. 733. 766  
Whytehead Mathemat. 285  
Whytford Rich. 51  
Whyting Rich. 51  
Wickham Edw. 802. Hen. 835. 866. Will. 609. 610. 800. See Wykeham.  
Wicliff Jo. 459  
Widdrington Tho. 890  
Wigmore Mich. 386  
Wilcocks Hen. 636. Joh. 647. Tho. 261  
Wild Rob. 898. Will. 464. See Wylde.  
Willet Andr. 295. 348. 756  
Williams Griff. 706. 810. Hen. 681. Hu. 876. Joh. 330. 400. 401. 534. 788. 795. 803. 804. 819. 822. 828. Ma●r. 864. Rich. 643. Rog. 245. Tho. 266. 739  
Willis Franc. 279. 759. Rich. 89. 188. Tim. 752. Tho. 381  
Wilks Tho. 733. Will. 298  
Wilkins Geor 437. Joh. 498. 843.  
Wilkinson Joh. 797. 816. 897. Rob. 817. Will. 743. 771  
Willoughby Tho. 738  
Wills Rich. 143  
Wilson Ad. 819. Aaron 898. ●dm. 350. 820. Joh. 630. 801. 833. 834. Nich. 24. 681. Rich. 143. Tho. 153. 625. 688. 726. 803. See Wylson.  
Wilton Will. 673  
Wimberley Gilb. 784  
Winchcomb Abbey, the Regist. of it 25  
Windebank Fr. 784. 785  
Windon Ralph 715  
Windsor Mil. 118. 416  
Winefrid St. 605  
Wingfield Rich. 97  
Winter Tho. 54. 137. 577. 645. 673. Will. 74  
Winwood Ralph 482. 759. 764. 772. Rich. 764  
Wisdom Rob. 687. Sim▪ 407  
Withals Joh. 141  
Wodenote Theoph. 835  
Woddesbury Will. 659  
Wodyngton Tho. 653  
Wolcombe Rob. 329  
Wolley Fr. 714. 715. Joh. 714. 722  
Wolman Rich. 643. 668. 673. 682  
Wolsey Tho. 7. 280. 569. 570. 571. 146. 673. 681. 682  
Wood Bas. 814. Joh. 822. Mich. 94. in marg. 97. in marg. 124. Tho. 722. Owen 755. Rich. 746. 774  
Wood à Rich. 433. Tho. 793  
Woolton Joh. 230. 231. 609. 746. 770  
Worsley Will. 561. 574  
Worthington Tho. 169. 240. 433  
Wotton Anth. 443. 758. b. alias 760. Brian 78. Ed. 77. Hen. 78. 398. 474. 530. 531. 712. Nich. 607. 644. Rich. 77  
Wraughton alias Turner Will. 121  
Wraxhall Rich. 649. 662  
Wrenn Christ. 836. Jeff. 649. 672. Math. 628. 630  
Wright Hen. 815. Nath. 894. Rob. 861. Walt. 693. 700. 708. Will. 714  
Wriothsley Hen. 769  
Writhioley Will. 83  
Wyatt Rich. 18. Tho. 49. 50  
Wyche Pet. 311  
Wyburne Percival 834  
Wygges Will. 724. 752  
Wyke Will. 648  
Wykeham Will. 123  
Wild Jo. 808  
Wylshman Walt. 367  
Wylson Rich. 561. Thom. 708. 737  
Wymesley Jo. 123. 125  
Wind Rob. 651. 662  
Win Morg. 878  
Wyrley Will. 275. 363  
Wystow Humph. 649  
Wyther Georg. 724  
Wythers Joh. 654  
Wythington Ol. 730   

Y.  
YArford Joh. 558  
Yeldard Arth. 714  
Yeates Jo. 443  
Yeluerton Christop. 151. Ch. 464. Hen. 151. 277. 463. 464. 534  
Yetswiert Nicas. 199  
Yloop 118  
Ynge or Inge Hug. 565  
Ynglish Jo. 590  
Young Edw. 898. Jo. 454  
Young Jo. 509. alias 519. 567. 591. 644. Patr. 793. Tho. 595. 722. Will. 812  
York Rowl. 237. Will. 661   

Z.  
ZEigler Mark 887  
Zouch Rich. 817. Will. 625. 752. 806. 807   
FINIS.