The life of Sir Thomas Pope: founder of Trinity College Oxford. Chiefly compiled from original evidences. With an appendix of papers, never before printed. The second edition, corrected and enlarged. By Thomas Warton, ...

SECT. VII.

IT may be necessary to speak of sir Tho|mas Pope's friends, and of those with whom he seems to have maintained any par|ticular intimacy, connection, or intercourse: notwithstanding most of their names have before occurred incidentally. These were sir Thomas More, lord Audley, sir Richard Southwell, sir Thomas Stradling, sir Nicho|las Bacon, sir Thomas Cornewallys, sir Fran|cis Englefield, sir Robert Southwell, sir Ed|ward Waldegrave, William Cordall, esquire, Richard Gooderick, John Wyseman, sir Ar|thur Darcy, sir Gilbert Gerrard, lord Vaulx, sir Thomas Brydges, cardinal Pole, Thirlby bishop of Ely, sir Thomas Whyte, lord Wil|liams of Thame, Whyte bishop of Winches|ter, and Thomas Slythurste, president of Tri|nity college so often mentioned.

I need not repeat his last interview with sir THOMAS MORE: of whom it will be sufficient to add here, that he was the great|est ornament of the English nation at the res|toration of polite literature; that he was a

man whose life and death are equal prodigies, and whose valuable virtues and untimely fate are alike admired and lamenteda 1.1. THOMAS lord AUDLEY, made lord high chancellor of England on sir Thomas More's resignation in 1533, was probably sir Thomas Pope's parti|cular patron, and perhaps not a little instru|mental towards his rise in the world, as has been already hinted. In how great confidence and esteem sir Thomas was held by lord Aud|ley, is further manifested, from his being ap|pointed, with sir Edward North, and two others, an executor of lord Audley's willb 1.2; in which, among several other directions, they are requested to deliver, the next new year's day after his decease, one hundred pounds to the king; from whom the testator professes to have received all his reputations and benefitsc 1.3. Few of the favorites of Henry the eighth appear to have more successfully recom|mended themselves to their sovereign than

lord Audley. But although by his perseve|rance in the business of the Divorce, and the dissolution of the monasteries, he so gratified the kings private views, as

"to sustain, ac|cording to his own declaration, much da|mage and infamy;"

yet the best historians admit, that he opposed the dangerous designs of his arbitrary master in a matter of the highest importance. In 1539, many severe acts were made, in which those styled the six bloody articles were included; and the pre|rogative was carried to such an enormous height, that the king's proclamation was al|lowed to attain the force of a law. It does not very plainly appear who were his majesty's principal counsellors in this affair: but we are assured, by concurrent and undoubted authorities, that the rigorous execution of those laws which the king had at first in|tended, was prevented by the spirited inter|position of lord Audleyd 1.4. But I forbear en|tering further into the history of this distin|guished statesman and lawyer; who bore so considerable and so public a share in the most important transactions of the reign of Henry the eighth. I shall only add, that with sir Thomas Pope, he was an encourager of li|terature; and the founder, or restorer, of

Magdalen college in Cambridgee 1.5. Sir RI|CHARD SOUTHWELL was one of the chief mourners at sir Thomas Pope's burial. He was educated at Bennet college in Cambridge, and from thence removed to the inns of courtf 1.6. He was summoned, in 1537, with many lords and knights, to attend the baptism of prince Edwardg 1.7. He was a visitor at the dissolution of religious housesh 1.8, privy coun|sellor to Henry the eighth, and an executor of his willi 1.9. In 1545, although a strict ca|tholic, he protected, in his house called the Charter-house at London, his tutor at Cambridge, one John Loude, a polite scho|lar, who was persecuted for heresy, being a friend to his literature notwithstanding his religionk 1.10. When sir Thomas More was committed to the tower, he was sent by the king, with Rich the sollicitor-general, to take away More's booksl 1.11. Henry the eighth left him by will two hundred poundsm 1.12. In the

reign of Edward the sixth, he was appointed one of the counsellors to the young king, during his minorityn 1.13. In 1551, he was con|cerned with lord Wriothesley, and others, in bringing about the fall of the protector So|merset; who was become odious to the peo|ple on accont of his ambitious views, and the riches he had amassed in plundering the revenues of the church and crown. But in consequence of this intrigue, which was deemed a faction, he was imprisoned, but pardoned. At the accession of Mary, he received a grant from the queen of an annual pension of one hundred poundso 1.14, for his ser|vices in opposing the duke of Northumber|land who disputed her title, and was accord|ingly beheaded for rebellionp 1.15. In the same reign, 1553, he was master of the ordinance and armoryq 1.16; the nature of which, at that time, appears from the following warrant, requiring him to deliver,

"towardes the fur|niture

of the bande of horsemen, appoint|ed presently to attend upon her Grace, theis parcells of armour; four hundred demy launces, with all their furniture, five hundred corseletts, one hundred and fiftie shirtes of mail, with morions to the same."

Afterwards mention is made of

"two hun|dred bowes, with sheffs of arrowes, two grosse of bowstringes, fifty partizans [hal|berds] and five hundred pikesr 1.17."

In 1554, the queen gave him a licence for forty re|tainerss 1.18, an honor only granted to persons of uncommon distinction. In this reign he was also one of the privy council, and re|peatedly joined in the most important com|missionst 1.19; one of which he executed in con|junction with sir Thomas Pope. In the first year of queen Elizabeth, he was con|tinued master of the ordinance and ar|mory; when he made suit to the lords, that he might exhibit a declaration of the state of his office, and of the military stores then remaining in his posession. In a letter to Slythurste, the first president of Trinity college, dated Whitmonday 1558, sir Tho|mas Pope proposes to place his son in law

John Beresford abovementioned, a student in his college, and concerning whose success in life he appears to have been very sollicitous, as a page with sir Richard Southwell, and his brother sir Robert,

"to lerne there amonge his [sir Richard's] childern, the Latin tonge, the French tonge, and to playe at weponsu 1.20."

These at this time, were probably the sole and complete accomplish|ments of a gentleman. Sir THOMAS STRAD|LINGw 1.21, another of the chief mourners at sir Thomas Pope's funeral, was of saint Do|nat's castle in Glamorganshire. When queen Mary succeeded to the crownx 1.22, 1553, he was appointed, with others, a muster-master to the queen's armyy 1.23, and a commissioner for the marches of Walesz 1.24. In the same

year he was representative in parliament for East-Grinstead in Sussex; and, the follow|ing year for Arundel in the same countya 1.25. In 1558, he was joined with sir Thomas Pope, and others, in a commission, before mentioned at large, for the suppression of hereticsb 1.26. He was father of sir Edward Strad|ling, remarkable in the reign of Elizabeth, for his critical skill in the British language, and his patronage of the Welch antiquarian literaturec 1.27. Sir Thomas Stradling magnifi|cently repaired the ancient castle of saint Donat'sd 1.28; and built saint Mary's chapel, adjoining to saint Donat's church, in which he was buriede 1.29.

Sir NICHOLAS BACON, one of the exe|cutors of sir Thomas Pope's will, in which he likewise remembers him with a token of

affection, calling him moreover

"his most true and assured friend,"

was sir Thomas Pope's neighbour at Gorhambury near saint Alban's; where he built in 1566, a beautiful house, which still remains a monument of ancient magnificence and manners, with much of its original furniture and decorationsf 1.30. He was likewise sollicitorg 1.31, while sir Thomas was treasurer, of the first court of Augmen|tations. During the reign of Henry the eighth, having enjoyed many marks of royal favor, more from virtuous industy than from mean submission, he was made by queen Elizabeth, 1559, lord keeper of the great seal, and a privy counsellorh 1.32. In these stations, he behaved with that wisdom and integrity which their importance and dignity required. To this character it may be superfluous to add, what alone might supply the place of a prolix panegyric, that he was the father of Francis lord Verulam.

Sir THOMAS CORNEWALLYS, one of the Overseers of sir Thomas Pope's will, all

whom he styles his most trusty and loving friends, was sheriff of Norfolk just before queen Mary's accession, where he raised a considerable force against those disaffected and factious subjects who opposed her title. For this seasonable and serviceable assistance, he was immediately made one of her privy council, treasurer of Calaisl 1.33, and comptrol|ler of her housholdk 1.34. When it was debated in council to send the princess Elizabeth out of the kingdom, in order that she might be excluded from the succession, he boldly dis|suaded the queen from a proceeding at once unjust and imprudentl 1.35. Sir FRANCIS EN|GLEFIELD, a second overseer of sir Thomas Pope's will, and joined with him in a com|mission, was knighted by Edward the sixthm 1.36, but afterwards imprisoned in the Tower by the protector Somerset, because he concurred with sir Edward Waldegrave, and others, in suppressing the commands of the privy coun|cil for the prohibition of mass in the family of his mistress the princess Mary, with whom he then resided at Copped-hall in Essexn 1.37.

But when Mary, succeeded to the throne, he was constituted a privy-counsellor, consta|ble of Windsor castle, and master of the great wardrobeo 1.38. She also granted him one hundred retainersp 1.39. In the reign of Eliza|beth, he left the kingdom, and retiring into Spain, became a zealous advocate to king Philip in favor of Mary queen of Scotsq 1.40. But Elizabeth, highly provoked at the inso|lence of a man who presumed to plead the cause of a lady more beautiful than herself, commanded him to be outlawed and attaint|edr 1.41. This bigotted knight was much of|fended at the singular forbearance and indul|gence shewn to the celebrated Roger Ascham, whom he looked upon as a most dangerous heretic, during the rigid reign of queen Mary: but there are papers to prove, that it was principally by sir Thomas Pope's influence and earnest interposition, that Englefield was persuaded to abandon a violent prosecution which he had commenced against Aschams 1.42.

Sir ROBERT SOUTHWELL, another of the overseers of sir Thomas Pope's will, and brother to sir Richard, was made master of the rolls, 1542, by Henry the eightht 1.43, and continued in that office till about the middle of Edward the sixth, 1550u 1.44. In 1542, he was representative in parliament for the county of Surrey, and often afterwards for the county of Kent, and several boroughs, in the reigns of Edward and Maryw 1.45. He was a receiver of abby lands from Henry the eighthx 1.46. He died in November, 1559y 1.47. Queen Mary granted him twenty retainersz 1.48. He was appointed a delegate and commissary in the first year of queen Mary, with many civilians, and others of the first honor and quality, for the restitution of bishop Bonnera 1.49. He was one of the attornies, while sir Tho|mas Pope was treasurer, of the court of aug|mentationsb 1.50.

Sir EDWARD WALDEGRAVE, another of the overseers of sir Thomas Pope's will, was a principal officer in the houshold of the princess Mary, and committed to close imprisonment to the Tower, with sir Francis Englefield, and sir Robert Rochester, for omitting to forbid the celebration of mass in her housec 1.51. The princess when she suc|ceeded to the crown, had him much in esteem; and in consideration of his sufferings and unshaken constancy, she constituted him a privy-counsellor, master of the great ward|robed 1.52, and chancellor of the duchy of Lan|castere 1.53. He was created knight of the carpet, by lord Arundel, the day following her majesty's coronationf 1.54. He was appoint|ed one of the executors of cardinal Pole's will; in which the cardinal assigns him a gratuity of fifty poundsg 1.55. In the year 1561, he was ordered, with his lady, to the Tower, for hearing mass in his familyh 1.56. Strype, in the spirit of his honest simplicity, tells usi 1.57,

that

"this knight and his lady had the cha|racter of very good alms-folks, in respect of their great liberality to the Poor."

Three other Overseers of sir Thomas Pope's will were sir William Cordall, Richard Gooderyke, and John Wyseman. Sir WIL|LIAM CORDALL was lent reader of Lin|coln's inn, 1553k 1.58, and afterwards frequently governor of that housel 1.59. In the same year he was appointed sollicitor-general, by queen Marym 1.60; and in 1557, master of the rollsn 1.61. Sir Thomas Pope mentions him in this ca|pacity, in a letter to the president of his col|lege, dated at Clerkenwell, on Whitmonday, 1558.

"I shall buy of the master of the rolles, ii fayre manors with two advowsons in Lyncolnshere which I entende to gyve to my collegge, &co 1.62."

He was one of Mary's privy counsellorsp 1.63, who granted him the privilege of twelve retainersq 1.64. He was one of the executors of cardinal Pole's will,

with a bequest of fifty poundsr 1.65. He was likewise an executor, and is styled a beloved friend, of the great earl of Dorsets 1.66. In 1558 he was speaker of the house of Commonst 1.67. The mastership of the rolls he kept late in the reign of Elizabeth, with much respect, till 1581u 1.68. William Lambarde's famous book, entitled ARCHAIONOMIA or system of Saxon laws, translated into Latin, and printed at London in 1568, is dedicated to this sir William Cordall; and in the dedication, the learned editor acknowledges the many obli|gations and encouragements he had received from sir William's patronage in the prosecu|tion of that valuable work. Abraham Fle|ming also dedicates his translation of The General Doctrine of Earthquakes to this wor|thy patronw 1.69. He is said to have been a great encourager of Saxton, who published maps of England, in the reign of queen Elizabethx 1.70. He was appointed visitor of saint John's col|lege in Oxford, during life, by the founder sir Thomas Whyte; and is supposed to have

drawn up the statutes of that society by the founder's desirey 1.71. He lived at Long-Mel|ford in Suffolkz 1.72: and, in 1578, gave exam|ple for the magnificent feasting of queen Elizabeth in that county; into which her majesty was received by three troops, one of two hundred young gentlemen cloathed in white velvet, another of three hundred gentlemen of the county apparelled in black velvet coats and costly chains, and a third of fifteen hundred attendants well mounted on horsebacka 1.73. RICHARD GOODERYKE ap|pears to have been a lawyer of great emi|nence; and his name is frequently mention|ed, with other chief lawyers and noblemen, in various commissions and proclamations, during the reigns of Henry the eighth, Ed|ward, Mary, and Elizabethb 1.74. Leland, in

the ENCOMIAc 1.75 of illustrious persons, compli|ments him when a young man, for his pro|mising virtues and abilities; and from thence infers his future reputation in the profession of the lawd 1.76. He was an attorneye 1.77, while sir Thomas Pope was master of the woods, of the second court of Augmentations. Ed|ward the sixth, in 1551, granted him an an|nuity of one hundred poundsf 1.78. He was of|ten a representative in parliamentg 1.79. He was

born in Yorkshire 1524h 1.80, and was high-sheriff of that county 1579i 1.81. He was nearly related to Goodryke bishop of Ely, high chancellor of Englandk 1.82. JOHN WYSEMANl 1.83 was of Canfield-Hall in Essexm 1.84. I find him one of the commissioners for certifying to Henry the eighth, the value of all the mo|nastic and other spiritual foundations in the county of Essexn 1.85. He was a member of par|liament, in 1554, for Malden in Essex: and in the following year, for East-Grinstead in Sussexo 1.86.

Sir ARTHUR DARCY, to whom sir Thomas Pope bequeathes a valuable memorial in his will, and with whom he was joined in a com|mission, is said to have been

"a soldier of great fidelitie and trustp 1.87."

Upon informa|tion

given to Henry the eighth, that the emperor Charles the fifth had threatened war against England, in 1532, and by some secret negotiations, engaged James the fourth of Scotland to his assistance; he entered Scotland with an army, and wasted the country. In the same year he was deputed captain of the Isle of Jersey; and afterwards, in 1551, by Ed|ward the sixth, lieutenant of the tower of Londonq 1.88. He was moreover an encourager of polite learning, then begining to grow fashion|able, as we learn from Leland; who addresses a copy of verses to him in the ENCOMIAr 1.89; and says, that sir Arthur Darcy was present, and countenanced him when he presented, in 1545, his new years gift to the Kings 1.90. Sir GILBERT GERARD, to whom sir Thomas Pope also leaves a memorial, was autumnal reader of Gray's-inn, 1553t 1.91; and in the fol|lowing year, treasurer of that society with Nicholas Baconu 1.92. He was appointed, by

queen Elizabeth, at her accession, 1559, at|torney generalw 1.93, and on the death of sir Wil|liam Cordall, in 1588, master of the rollsx 1.94; in which station he remained till 1594y 1.95, when he probably died. The memorable William Herbert, earl of Pembroke, appoin|ted him in 1569, with others his good lords and friends, an overseer of his will, with a reward of fifty pounds, to be given him in money, plate, or jewelsz 1.96. WILLIAM Lord VAULX, of Harwedon, to whom sir Thomas Pope leaves a legacy of one hundred pounds, was summoned to parliament 1557. He founded an hospital at Irtlingburgh in North|amptonshirea 1.97. In 1582, he was accused before lord Burghley and sir Walter Mild|may, and heavily fined, for harbouring Cam|pion the jesuit, but was afterwards reconciled to the queenb 1.98. Notwithstanding this popish attachment, he was one of the noblemen ap|pointed to conduct her majesty from Hatfield

to London, on the Death of her sister Maryc 1.99. Sir THOMAS BRYDGES, to whom, by the name of Mr. Thomas Abrydge, sir Thomas Pope also bequeathes a remembrance, was brother to John first earl of Chandoisd 1.100. In Mary's reign he was lieutenant of the Tower of Londone 1.101. Fox mentions a friendly reli|gious conference between him, secetary Bourne, and Bishop Ridley, in the Towerf 1.102. When the princess Elizabeth was confined in the tower, he saved her life, by detecting and communicating a plot which bishop Gar|diner is said to have contrived for her imme|diate executiong 1.103. When he led, as lieutenant of the tower, lady Jane Gray to the scaffold, he begged her to bestow on him some small present, which he might keep as a perpetual memorial of herh 1.104. She gave him her table|book, where she had just written three senten|ces on seeing her husband's headless body

carried back to the tower in a cart. They were written one in Greek, another in Latin, and a third in Englishi 1.105. That sir Thomas Pope was nearly connected with CARDINAL POLE, appears from passages in his letters. I have before mentioned his application to the cardinal, for obtaining a licence for three of his fellows to preach. Sir Thomas Pope in a letter to the president of his college, 1558,

speaks of procuring a prebend for one Hey|wood, and adds,

"my lord cardinalls Grace and my lord of Elie [Thirlby] are both willing."

In another letter to the same, dated 1557, he says,

"Towching Mr. Hey|wood's recompens, I wold be glad to un|derstonde what he wold have; and therup|pon wold make my sute to my lord cardi|nall's Grace, and my lord of Elie, accord|ingliek 1.106."

In another to the same, and on the same business, without date, he says,

"my lord cardinall's grace has promised me a prebend of xxl."

In another to the same, dated July the ninth, 1558, he tells the president, that if his son in law John Beresford, or Basford, mentioned above, then at Trinity college, should prove a good pro|ficient

in the latin tongue,

"I will not fail to sue to my lord cardinall's grace for him:"

in order that he

"might, as is said in another letter, attende uppon his grace."

Of the cardinal's character it will be suffi|cient to observe, that he is more endeared to posterity by private virtues and amiable qua|lifications, than ennobled by birth and dig|nities. Instead of imbruing his hands in the blood of martyrs, and loading the consciences of mankind with arbitrary decrees and unna|tural edicts, he corresponded with learned men, and introduced into England the pure and useful elegancies of classical compositionl 1.107.

Sir Thomas Pope submitted to the cardi|nal the statutes of his college, as appears from a letter to the President: which, while it pays a compliment to the cardinal's taste, likewise illustrates what has been before ob|served about the state of literature at this pe|riod.

"My lord cardinall's grace has had the overseeinge of my statutes. He much lykes well that I have therein ordered the latin tongem 1.108 to be redde to my schollers. But he advyses me to order the greeke to be more taught there, than I have provyd|ed. This purpose I well lyke: but I fear the tymes will not bear it nown 1.109. I re|member when I was a yong scholler at Eton, the greeke tongue was growing apace: the studie of which is now alate much decaido 1.110."

The passages in the let|ters above cited likewise inform us, how far

sir Thomas Pope was connected with THIRL|BY, bishop of Elyp 1.111. He was constituted the first, and only bishop of Westminster by Henry the eighthq 1.112. He was, by Edward the sixth, translated to Norwich, and after|wards by queen Mary to Ely; by whom he was also appointed a privy counsellorr 1.113, and joined in commission with sir Thomas Pope and others for the suppression of hereticss 1.114. By all these princes he was much esteemed for his experience in political affairs, and fre|quently employed as an envoy to foreign courts. In the reign of Elizabeth he was ejected and imprisoned for persevering in po|pery; but was afterwards received into the family of archbishop Parker, who, not more on account of his former dignity, than of his learning, candor, and affability, treated him with due respect and humanityt 1.115. WHYTE, bishop of Winchester, became the first visitor of Trinity college in Oxford. It is reasonable to suppose, that sir Thomas Pope's real motive for appointing the bishops of Winchester to be visitors of his college,

originated from Gardiner, who was the bishop of Winchester when the foundation was pro|jected; and who, moreover, had been gover|nor of a college at Cambridge; was now chancellor of that university, a learned civi|lian, a scholar of the first rank, an eminent patron of literatureu 1.116, and bore the greatest

sway in all civil and ecclesiastical affairs. But Gardiner dying while the statutes were yet

under consideration, and Whyte succeeding to the bishoprick, although not confirmed till

after they were actually delivered to the new societyw 1.117, the founder by this unexpected change of circumstances was not so far reduced to a state of indetermination and indifference, as to wish to depart from his appointment. Sir Thomas Pope in a letter to the president of the college, dated May the twenty-sixth, 1558, acknowledges a very particular favor, which

"my lord of Wynchester and others the commissioners for spiritual matters,"

had promised to grant him for the college. In another letter, dated the same year, to the same, he says

"my lord of Wynchester has bene sycke with me at Tyttenhanger, but now returns to the corte. He has pro|mysed to give his coat-armur for the grete

glas-windowe ther in my hallx 1.118."

In a manuscript greek psalter on vellum, in the college library, I find the following entry in sir Thomas Pope's own hand.

"Mem. that the reverend father in god, John bushop of Wynton gave me three bokes. THO. POPEy 1.119."

Whyte, who was first schoolmasterz 1.120, and afterwards warden of Winchester collegea 1.121, was made successively bishop of Lincolnb 1.122 and Winchesterc 1.123 by queen Maryd 1.124. He was a man of learning and eloquencee 1.125; but his

religious prejudices of course disqualified him from retaining his preferments after the first year of Elizabeth; who was much offended at the panegyric which he too liberally be|stowed on Mary, when he preached at her funeralf 1.126; and soon afterwards commanded him to be imprisoned for making a public appearance in his pontifical vestmentsg 1.127. He had also incurred no small share of the queen's displeasure for his behaviour at the solemn conference held in Westminster-hall, before her majesty, the privy council, and both houses of parliament; at which, with three other catholic bishops, he was appoint|ed to dispute against a select number of the reformed partyh 1.128. He was a benefactor to

both Wykeham's collegesi 1.129 in which he had the happiness to be educated. Of sir Thomas Pope's intimacy with sir THOMAS WHYTE, the founder of saint John's college in Oxford, I have before mentioned proofsk 1.130. And to these evidences we may add, that their inter|ests and attachments tended the same way: for we find sir Thomas Whyte affording sig|nal services to queen Mary against the rebel Wyat and his followers, while lord mayor of Londonl 1.131; in consequence of which, he was knighted by the queenm 1.132. But a similitude of un|dertakings for the propagation of letters might otherwise have naturally produced a friendship between sir Thomas Whyte and sir Tho|mas Pope; as they were both, at the same

time, employed in the same acts of public and literary beneficence. Lord WILLIAMS of THAME generously concurred with sir Thomas Pope in treating the princess Eliza|beth, amidst her unmerited and oppressive persecutions, with proper regardn 1.133. He is mentioned in a letter of sir Thomas Pope to the president of Trinity collegeo 1.134:

"I wold be glad to lerne whether my lord Williams and Mr. Ashfeldp 1.135, gave the ii Buckes to my college at the [act] commensement."

Lord Williams having enjoyed many eminent favors from Henry the eighth, and Edward the sixth, was by queen Mary created a baron in reward for his faithful services at her ac|cession. He continued to receive fresh ho|nors from queen Elizabeth, and was ap|pointed president of the council in the prin|cipality of Walesq 1.136. Bishop Ridley, when bound to the stake, requested lord Williams then present, to sollicit queen Mary, that the episcopal leases which he had granted, while bishop of London, to many poor tenants, might remain and be confirmed. This was

the sole anxiety that disquieted the compo|sure of the dying martyr. But lord Williams promised to recommend this petition to the utmost of his power, and it was accordingly performedr 1.137.

It is natural to suppose, that sir Thomas Pope was nearly connected with several other persons of eminence and distinction in the courts of Henry the eighth and queen Mary. That he was in high confidence and esteem with the latter, may, beside many other ar|guments, be concluded from a passage in the statutes of his college: by which it appears, that he expected her majesty, who professed herself so zealous a patroness to the univer|sity, together with king Philip, would ho|nor the college with a royal visits 1.138.

But among his friends I must not forget to mention THOMAS SLYTHURSTEt 1.139, whom he appointed the first President of his col|lege; and had before probably preferred, by

his interest with the queen, to a canonry of Windsor. He seems to have conceived a high opinion of Slythurste's learning and pru|dence; whom, from the trust committed to his charge, we reasonably may imagine to have been a person of distinguished worth and abilities. In a general Address to the new society, annexed to the statutes of the college, he particularly compliments the pre|sident for his remarkable moderation of tem|per, his eminent learning, experience, pru|dence, and probity; observing moreover, in justification of his choice, that he should have acted in vain, if he had not added to the benefit of his foundation such a governor, so properly qualified in every requisite accom|plishment; one completely fitted for the dif|ficult and critical task of conducting the first beginnings of a recent institution, and to whom therefore, borrowing the character of a father in that of a founder, he with plea|sure entrusted the education of his children. On various occasions, sir Thomas Pope ap|pears to have placed the greatest confidence in his friendship, advice, and judgement. Many of the founder's letters to Slythurste contain free consultations about adjusting the

endowment, amending the statutesu 1.140, and re|gulating other articles of his young society; and sometimes relate to the domestic con|cerns of his own family. I find him fre|quently visiting the founder at Clerkenwell and Tyttenhanger. The sudden revolution, however, of religion, at the accession of queen Elizabeth, prevents us from knowing much more of his chaaracter and behaviour in this situation: for in September, 1559, he

was ejected from his headship by the Queen's visitors, and committed a prisoner to the Tower of London; where he died of grief, 1560, partly for the death of his honored friend and munificent patron the founder, and partly for the loss of his preferments.

Notes

• a 1.1

  Erasmus who always preserved the highest opinion of More, has, with great elegance and truth, drawn his character at full length, EPIST. 447. See also 605. More was among Erasmus's most intimate friends.
• b 1.2

  Registr. Allen. Cur. Praerog. qu. i. dat. April. xix. 1544
• c 1.3

  He bequeathes the residue of his plate, goods, and chattels, to lady Elizabeth his wife, sir Edward North, and sir THO|MAS POPE, knights, and his servants Edmond Martyn and Thomas Barbour. And

  "the sum of ccljl. to either of the said sir Edward and sir THOMAS."
• d 1.4

  See BIOGRAPH. BRIT. Vol. i. AUDLEY.
• e 1.5

  Fuller, Hist. Cambr. pag. 120.
• f 1.6

  Strype, Eccl. Mem. i. 385.
• g 1.7

  Ibid. ii. 5.
• h 1.8

  Rymer, Foed. xiv. 558.
• i 1.9

  Master's History of C. C. C. C. p. 373.
• k 1.10

  Strype, ut supr. i. 386.
• l 1.11

  See this whole transaction in the STATE TRYALS.
• m 1.12

  Rymer, Foed. xv. 117.
• n 1.13

  Strype, Eccl. Mem. ii. 457.
• o 1.14

  This affair is related, perhaps with some partiality, in an old treatise entitled,

  "A short treatise of politike power and of the true obedience, etc. Compyled by D. J. P. B. R. VV. 1556."

  12mo. It is supposed to be written by Doctor John Poynet bishop of Rochester, then of Winchester. See signat. iiii. The book appears to be printed abroad. See supr. p. 58.
• p 1.15

  Rymer, Foed. xv. 355.
• q 1.16

  Viz. Maii 2. Lit. Pat. Mar. an. reg. i. Par. 4. With a sa|lary of cc marcs.
• r 1.17

  Burghley's State Papers, p. 166. 169.
• s 1.18

  See Eccl. Mem. iii. 480.
• t 1.19

  Burghley's Pap. ut supr. passim. And Strype, Rymer, &c.
• u 1.20

  Sir Richard Southwell's children were placed, in his own house, under the care of John Loude. Of whom he used to say,

  "He will make my boy, like himself, too good a Latinist, and too great a heretic."

  Stype, Eccl. Mem. i. 386.

  Tusser the poet, in his HUSBANDRIE, mentions sir Richard Southwell, as a most bountiful patron. Edit. 1593, 4to. pag. 159.
• w 1.21

  Knighted Feb. 17. 3 Edw. vi. MSS. Cotton. Claud. C. 3. fol. 190.
• x 1.22

  In the reign of Henry viii. the king grants

  "Thomae Stradlyng, uni Dapiferorum suorum, officium Bedelli"

  of certain lordships in Glamorganshire, &c. Bill. Signat. Hen. viii. An. 17. Sept. 19.
• y 1.23

  Burghley's State Papers, p. 158.
• z 1.24

  Ibid. 201.
• a 1.25

  Willis, Notit. Parl. p. 30. 38.
• b 1.26

  See supr. p. 52.
• c 1.27

  See Joannis Stradlingi EPIGRAMMATUM libri quatuor. Lond. 1607, 8vo. He was nephew to sir Edward. lib. i. pag. 3. See also Wood's ATH. OXON. i. 350, 351.
• d 1.28

  As appears from an epitaph upon him in Stradling's epi|grams, where are the following lines. p. 10.

  Hic Donataea quondam fulgebat in arce, Castra diu proavis nobilitata suis. Omnia quae vincit, castra haec absumpserat aetas, Hujus at ingenio paene novata vides.
• e 1.29

  Wood, ut supr.
• f 1.30

  In Aubrey's MSS. LIVES, Mus. Ashmol. is a particular description of it.—It is now destroyed, 1779.
• g 1.31

  Batteley's edition of Somner's CANTERBURY. App. p. 118. Birch's Mem. of Q. Elizabeth, i. 10.
• h 1.32

  Dugd. Bar. ii. 437. And Orig. Jurid. Chron. ser. p. 90.
• l 1.33

  Viz. Maii 7. Lit. pat. 1 Mar. par. 7.
• k 1.34

  Dugd. BAR. ii. 480. And from his monument in the church of Brome, co. Suffolk. See Wever, FUN. MON. p. 764.
• l 1.35

  Camden's Eliz. edit. Hearne. Vol. i. APPARATUS, p. 21.
• m 1.36

  Dugdale's Warw. ed. 2. ii. 891.
• n 1.37

  Strype, Eccl. Mem. ii. 253. seq.
• o 1.38

  Burnet, Ref. ii. 308. Collins Peer. iii. 259. ed. 2.—And Lit. pat. Mar. an reg. i. par. 6. Et ibid. par. 10.
• p 1.39

  Strype, Eccl. Mem. iii. 480.
• q 1.40

  Strype, Ann. Ref. i. 371.
• r 1.41

  See case in Coke's Reports, p. vii. fol. 11.—And Strype, Ann. Ref. ii. 26. 538. iii. 246, &c.
• s 1.42

  See Strype's Life of Sir T. Smyth, p. 65. I was informed by the late sir Harry Pope-Blount, that a most valuable portrait of Roger Ascham, painted by Hans Holbein, was removed from Tyttenhanger-house, about the reign of king William. This had undoubtedly been placed there by sir Thomas Pope. See supr. p. 81.
• t 1.43

  Dugd. Orig. Jurid. Chron. Ser. p. 85.
• u 1.44

  Ibid. p. 89.
• w 1.45

  Willis, Notit. Parl. p. 7, 20, 21, 27, 49, 56.
• x 1.46

  Tanner, Notit. Mon. fol. edit. p. 228, 535, 560.
• y 1.47

  Strype, Ann. Ref. i. 193.
• z 1.48

  Strype, Eccl. Mem. iii. 480.
• a 1.49

  Strype, Eccl. Mem. iii. 23. See also ibid. 289.
• b 1.50

  Weever, Fun. Mon. pag. 109.
• c 1.51

  Strype, Eccl. Mem. ii. 253. seq.
• d 1.52

  Viz. Jan. 16. Lit. pat. Mar. an. reg. 1. par. 2.
• e 1.53

  Collins, Peer. iii. 553. ed. 2.
• f 1.54

  Collins, ibid. But see Strype, ut supr. iii. Append. p. 11.
• g 1.55

  Life of Pole, P. ii.
• h 1.56

  Strype, Ann. Ref. i. p. 233.
• i 1.57

  Ibid.
• k 1.58

  Dugd. Orig. Jurid. p. 252. col. 2.
• l 1.59

  Ibid. 260. col. 1.
• m 1.60

  Ibid. Chron. Ser. p. 81.—In the patent he appears to have belonged to the court of Augmentations. Lit. pat. Mar. an. reg. 1. par. 8.
• n 1.61

  Dugd. ibid. p. 91.
• o 1.62

  Ex Orig. Thes. coll. Trin. ut supr.
• p 1.63

  Council-book, MSS. Harl. ut supr.
• q 1.64

  Strype, Eccl. Mem. iii. 480.
• r 1.65

  Life of Pole, P. ii.
• s 1.66

  Ex testam. 8 Eliz. apud Collins Peer i. 517. ed. i.
• t 1.67

  Willis, Not. Parl. SPEAKERS, pag. 113.
• u 1.68

  Dugd. ubi supr. p. 97.
• w 1.69

  Lond. 1580. 8vo.
• x 1.70

  Hearne's coll. MSS. Bibl. Bodl. vol. 123. p. 143.
• y 1.71

  His arms were in the windows of the chapel and hall of saint John's college. Hutton's Collections, MSS. Bibl. Bodl. p. 202. In Museol. Bibl. They have been long since destroy|ed. There is a curious old picture of him, in saint John's col|lege, by one Cornelius de Zeem. These statutes are digested from those of New-College in the same University.
• z 1.72

  Collins, Peer. ii. 266. ed. i. He sounded a hospital, at Long-Melford, for a warden and twelve brethren. Strype's PARRER, p. 23. B. i. ch. vi.
• a 1.73

  Hollingshed, Chron. iii. 1287. Compare Weever, p. 748. And Camd. ELIZ. vol. ii. p. 322. edit. Hearne.
• b 1.74

  Strype, Eccl. Mem. and Ann. passim.
• c 1.75

  Principum ac illustrium aliquot et eruditorum in Anglia viro|tum ENCOMIA, &c. edit. 1589. qu. pag. 108. In the preface to Ascham's SCHOLEMASTER, printed 1589, sir Richard Sack|ville at a conference with Ascham about education, mentions,

  "our deare frende, good master Goodericke, whose judgment I cold well beleeve, &c."

  This is perhaps the same.
• d 1.76

  Ad RICARDUM GOCDERICIUM. Magnificum retines, GODERICI candide, nomen, Quod vel Saxonicum recte idioma probat. Sic bonus ac dives diceris jure latino; Moribus hoc nomen convenit omne tuis. Nominis illa tui, tam bella notatio non te Constituit ditem, constituitve bonum. Splendida felicem te virtus reddidit una, Macte hac virtute, et dona beata feres. Causidico sic sama foro tua, lausque nitebit, Et te patronum percolet ipse cliens. Nec sic contentus virtuti imponere morem, Suspice doctrinae lumina clara piae. Illa tuas possunt ad coelum tollere laudes, Te quoque per niveas condecorare notas.
• e 1.77

  Rym. Foed. xv. 334.
• f 1.78

  Strype, Eccl. Mem. ii. 498.
• g 1.79

  Willis, Notit. Parl. pp. 12. 73. 91.
• h 1.80

  Collins, Bar. ii. 259.
• i 1.81

  Drake's Eborac. p. 354.
• k 1.82

  Collins, ubi supr. See Strype's CRANMER, p. 221.
• l 1.83

  Sir Thomas Pope is licenced to alienate to this John Wyse|man, and others, the manors of Ditton, Brampton, and Syfling|ton, in Kent. Pat. Phil. Mar. 3. 4. Test Apr. 9. Par. 8.
• m 1.84

  Collins, Peer. p. 530. Waldegrave. Ed. ii.
• n 1.85

  In the instrument he is styled Auditor. I suppose of the ex|chequer, or augmentation office. Dated 26 Hen. viii. Jan. 30. MSS. Tanner. Bibl. Bodl.
• o 1.86

  Willis Not. Parl. p. 42. 51.
• p 1.87

  Letter of sir Ph. Hoby in Burghley's State papers, ut supr. p. 125.
• q 1.88

  Dugd. Bar. i. 374. seq. And MSS. Harl. Brit. Mus. 284.—61. fol. 94. He was made knight of the garter at Green|wich, Apr. 23. 6 Edw. vi. Anstis, Ord. Gart. i. 446.
• r 1.89

  Leland calls him,

  Doctrinae eximium POLITIORIS Cultorem.—p. 36. edit. ut supr,
• s 1.90

  Leland, ibid.
• t 1.91

  Dugd. Orig. Jurid. p. 293. col. 2.
• u 1.92

  Ibid. p. 298. col. 1.
• w 1.93

  Ibid. Chron. Ser. p. 91.
• x 1.94

  Dugd. ubi supr. p. 97.
• y 1.95

  Ibid. p. 99. He was knighted at Greenwich, 1579. 5 Jul. MSS. Cotton. Claud, C. 3. fol. 245. b.
• z 1.96

  Registr. LYON. Cur. Praer. Cant. qu. 15.
• a 1.97

  Dugd. Bar. ii. 305.
• b 1.98

  Strype, Ann. Ref. iii. 126. And MSS. Harl. Brit. Mus. 859. 4.
• c 1.99

  Strype, ibid i. Append. p. 3.
• d 1.100

  See Strype. 〈…〉〈…〉. iii. 64. 478.
• e 1.101

  Both sir John and sir Thomas Bridges, knights, occur lieu|tenants of the tower in Q. Mary's reign. Baker's Collectan. ex MSS. Camden. Brit. Mus. 7033. Vol. vi. pag. 341. As was Edmund, the second earl. Dugd. Bar ii. 395. See Hollings|head, iii. 1099 1100. 1103. In one of which places sir John is put for sir Thomas.
• f 1.102

  Martyrol. ii. 1297.
• g 1.103

  Hollingsh. ut supr. pag. 1130.
• h 1.104

  Ibid. 1100.
• i 1.105

  Heylin, 167. But by mistake he says it was sir John Gage. See what is said of sir Thomas Brydges, supr. p. 45. And of John lord Chandois, p. 69. It may be added, that this Thomas, or sir, Bridges, who was of Cornebury in Oxfordshire, occurs in a grant of lands to sir T. POPE, Pat. 31. Hen. viii. par. 4. And sir Thomas Bridges is mentioned as one of the gentlemen of Oxfordshire, present at Cranmer's execution. Strype's Cran|mer, pag. 384. b. iii. ch. 21. I presume he had some appoint|ment in the court of Henry viii. For he attended at the funeral of the king; on which occasion he bore the dragon-standard between two serjeants at arms with their maces. Strype, Eccl. Mem. ii. Append. Numb. x. He was a considerable sharer of abbey lands in Oxfordshire, with Sir T. POPE; particularly of the lands of the monastery of Bruerne: As appears by the patent above cited. In his Will, he mentions the Mansion-house of Bruerne; which, I suppose, was the monastery. Also the demesnes of that house, and several of its estates. In the same will he bequeathes to lord Chandois twenty corslets: to his son Henry the rest of armour, and his best chain of gold. To lord Grey of Wilton, in consideration of his loss by being ap|prehended at Gynes, 50l. TESTAM. Th. Brydges. dat. Octob. 18, 1559. Probat. Feb. 13, 1559. In. Cur. Praerog. Cant. registr. Melersh, qu. 13. He received from Edward vi. a grant of the abbey of Keinsham near Bristol. Tanner's Not. Mon. edit. fol. pag. 469.
• k 1.106

  This Mr. Heywood was Richard Hayward, rector of Gar|sington, in Oxfordshire, to which he was presented by the crown about August, 1556. Rym. Foed. xv. p. 442. The next year sir Thomas Pope purchased the said rectory of Philip and Mary, and annexed it to the presidentship of Trinity college. This application to cardinal Pole, and the bishop of Ely, was un|doubtedly to dispossess Hayward, by procuring him some equi|valent, that the president might immediately succeed to the rectory. Which appears to have been done, yet not without some difficulty, nor in consequence of these applications. Re|gistr. prim. coll. Trin. fol. 122. b. Arthur Yeldard, President, was instituted to this rectory, on the resignation of R. Hay|wood, Sept. 8. 1562. REGISTR. Episcopat. Oxon. SEDE VA|CANT. fol. 219.
• l 1.107

  I have before referred the reader to Wood's HISTORY and ANTIQUITIES of the university of Oxford, for an account of Pole's visitation of the university. I will here add an anecdote relating to that transaction not mentioned by Wood. The car|dinal finding saint Mary's college, (where Erasmus had studied, but which had been dissolved as a seminary for various mona|steries of augustine canons,) although very ruinous, a place which might be made convenient for the reception of students, ordered it to be repaired and fitted up for that purpose, Sept. 17. 1556. Accordingly, a principal was appointed to it: yet on condition, that he should resign his office, in case the cardi|nal should ever be disposed to convert the said college into a house of religious. The principal's name was Alexander El|cocke, A.M. But John Wayte lord of the soil of the said col|lege refused entry to the new principal into the premisses,

  "ut paret cubicula studiosis."

  Registr. Cur. Cancell. Oxon. GG. fol. 63. in Archiv. Univ. Oxon. I know not what was the immediate consequence of this proceeding: but it is certain that neither of the cardinal's schemes took effect. Erasmus in some of hi•• Epistles speaks feelingly of the repose which he enjoyed, and the felicity with which he prosecuted his studies, for two years, in this retired house. The chapel, no inelegant fabric, containing the curious monuments of the founder Tho|mas Holden and his wife, together with the cloister, was not completely demolished till the year 1656. Nothing now re|mains but a part of the gatehouse, which fronts westward.
• m 1.108

  The classics.
• n 1.109

  Vid. supr. p. 156.
• o 1.110

  To the president. dat. Hatfield. 1556.
• p 1.111

  See also Append. Numb. xix.
• q 1.112

  Burnet, Ref. Records. i. 246.
• r 1.113

  Goodwyn, ut supr. p. 333.
• s 1.114

  See supr. p. 52.
• t 1.115

  Goodwyn, ubi supr.
• u 1.116

  Gardiner's literary character has been commonly overlooked in his political, and is rarely regarded or acknowledged. He was admirably skilled in the Greek language, at a time when it was cultivated in England only by a few neglected scholars. His ideas of pure Latinity were refined to a fault; and he car|ried his notions of the chaste Roman phraseology to such a nicety, as to be esteemed a Ciceronian by his cotemporaries. Leland, the most polite classical writer in England at that pe|riod, congratulates some of his elegant friends, on their being educated in the college over which Gardiner presided at Cam|bridge; and which, under such a governor, had become the seat of eloquence and of the choir of the Muses. Leland also characterises Gardiner by the epithet DISERTUS, or the master of genuine Latinity; and calls him the restorer of classical composition, and the study of philology, at Cambridge. EX|COM. p. 100. edit. 1589. Leland paid these compliments before Gardiner was a bishop, and when there were no tempta|tions to flattery. Many of Ascham's terse Latin epistles are ad|dressed to this prelate: in which, his distinguished learning, his sollicitude for the revival of ancient letters, and his general pa|tronage, are repeatedly displayed in the highest yet unaffected terms of panegyric. In one of these, Ascham expresses his great satisfaction, that Gardiner, who excells all others in cri|tical discernment, had so warmly approved his TOXOPHILUS, then just published, and written with a view to teach a just English style; and desires that the bishop, pro eo amore quo lite|ras et earum cultores unice amplecteris, would recommend that book to the king. Lib. ii. p. 85. b. edit. 1581. In another, he thanks the bishop for honouring him with so many marks of notice and attention, when he came, an unknown and obscure academic, to court. He recommends a tutor to the duke of Norfolk's nephew; and wishes that Gardiner, who is so emi|nent a judge and protector of literary merit, would ratify the choice. Ibid. p. 92. a. In a third, lamenting the untimely death of king Edward the sixth, he petitions Gardiner among other requests, to intercede with queen Mary, for the continu|ance of his pension originally granted by king Henry the eighth, as a reward for his TOXOPHILUS: professing his confi|dence in the bishop's known erudition, authority, liberality, prudence, and activity, to quiet the distractions which not only the civil but literary state of the kingdom would probably suffer, from that unexpected and calamitous event. Ibid. p. 154. b. Dat. 1553. In the next, he presents the bishop, then just re|leased from imprisonment in the TOWER at the accession of Mary, with a Greek TRANSLATION of the PSALMS, probably the METAPHRASE of APOLLINARIUS: enforcing the propriety of his present by observing, that it was written in a language in which the bishop so much delighted, and that poetry had been his chief amusement during the tedious hours of his late confinement. Ibid. p. 157. b. See also, p. 65. a. With the next, dated 1554, as a slender remembrance of the numerous favors he had recently received, he sends the bishop an antient golden Roman coin. Ibid. p. 163. a. In three or four others, evidently written during the reign of Mary, he complains of many unjust taxations and oppressive exactions, imposed by some late innovators on the university of Cambridge; supplicating the assistance of Gardiner as their CHANCELLOR, and expatiating largely on his accustomed indefatigable endeavours to support the rights and promote the honour of the university. Ibid. p. 194. b. seq. In another letter, to one of Margaret Roper's learned daughters, dated 1554, Ascham speaks of being called from Cambridge by the special favour and appointment of bishop Gardiner, to serve the queen in the very liberal office of Latin secretary. Ibid. p. 162. b. In a letter to the learned Sturmius, dated at Greenwich 1555, he declares,

  "I would not exchange the Office of Latin Secretary for any situation in life. Bishop Gardiner has treated me with the greatest kindness and indulgence in this affair: and I can hardly say, whether Lord Pagett has shewn more readiness in naming me to the queen, or the bishop in pleading my cause and recom|mending my character. There are some who have endeavour|ed to stop the course of the bishop's benevolence, on account of my religious principles, but without effect. I therefore am deeply indebted to his humanity, and it is a debt which I willingly owe. I am indeed but one among many who have experienced his generosity. I have often thought of talking to him about your noble work of the ANALYTICS. For I well know his predilection to polite letters, and think his patronage would be of service on this occasion, &c."

  Ibid. p. 45. b. seq. It appears also, that Gardiner procured from queen Mary for Ascham, a renewal of the royal pension for his TOXOPHILUS, with the annual addition of ten pounds. IBID. ibid. p. 45. b. And Grant's VITA, p. 21. Ascham's LATIN. EPIST. edit. Oxon 1703. By the same interest, Ascham was suffered to keep his fellowship and public orator's place at Cambridge, during a long absence from the university, while he was Latin secretary and abroad in Germany. Ibid. p. 22. Nor was Ascham the only learned protestant whom Gardiner countenanced in the reign of queen Mary. Throughout the persecutions of that unhappy period, he permitted Sir Thomas Smith, one of the restorers of Greek, and secretary of state in the reign of Edward the sixth, to enjoy the comforts of a studious retirement with a pension of one hundred pounds. Strype's SMITH, p 60. seq. I forbear to enlarge on Gardiner's high celebrity as a civilian and canonist: and shall only add on that head, that Henry the eighth would take no step in the business of his di|vorce, however eager for a decision, till Gardiner could be con|sulted, who was absent at Rome. I suspect he was but moderate|ly skilled in scholastic theology.
• w 1.117

  Gardiner died in Novemb. 1555. The statutes of Trinity college were given May i. 1556. The bulle of pope Paul iv. for Whyte's translation and inthronisation is dated, Prid. Non. Jul. 1556. He was inthroned Sept. 21. 1556. Registr. WHYTE, Episc. Winton. fol. 1. a. seq.

  Some say, that upon Gardiner's decease it was intended car|dinal Pole should hold the see of Winton with that of Can|terbury in commendam. But this scheme being found unpo|pular or impracticable, Whyte was bound to pay Pole yearly 1000l. out of his episcopal revenues, for the better support of the cardinal's dignity. See Wood, Athen. Oxon. i. 132. Col|lier, Eccl. Hist. ii. 387. Goodwyn de Praesul. ut supr.
• x 1.118

  I presume in the hall of his house at Tyttenhanger. It was customary for guests of rank, after a long visit, to give an escocheon of their arms in painted glass to the bow-window of the hall. An estimate of the price of painted glass, particular|ly of ARMS, in the preceding century, may be partly gathered from the following disbursement for painting the ARMS of bishop William of Wykeham, founder of New-college Oxford, in win|dows of the churches of Newton-Longueville, Whaddon, and Great-Horwood, Bucks.

  "Solutum VITRIARIO de Aylsbury pro ARMIS domini fundatoris positis in Ecclesiis de Newnton, Whaddon, et Horwoode, xiijs. iiijd."

  Comp. Burss Collegii Novi Oxon. A.D. 1479. See supr. p. 16.
• y 1.119

  See Append. Numb. XXIX.
• z 1.120

  A.D. 1534. Tanner, Bibl. 761.
• a 1.121

  A.D. 1541. Willis, Mitr. Abb. i. 333.
• b 1.122

  Consecrat. April. 1. 1554. Le Neve, Fast. p. 141.
• c 1.123

  See supr. p. 237.
• d 1.124

  Goodwyn, p. 300.
• e 1.125

  He was not an inelegant latin poet. As a specimen of his latin poetry, he has left DIACOSIO-MARTYRION, sive ducentorum virorum testimonia de veritate corporis, etc. Lond. 4to. in aed. R. Cali. 1553. See also his verses on the marriage of Philip and Mary, Hollinsh. Chron. iii 1120. Wood, ubi supr. mentions one book of latin epigrams, MS. Fox has preserved many of his disputations, orations, &c. Fox and Pits, according to custom, have both equally gratified their respective prejudices in representing the character of this prelate. Pits says,

  "Erat sane vir pietate et doctrina conspicuus. Acutus poeta, orator eloquens, Theologus solidus, concionator nervosus."

  Angl. Script. Parifiis, 1619. pag. 763. The learned and candid arch|bishop Parker styles him,

  "ambitiosissimus antistes."

  Antiq. Eccl. pag. 527. edit. Drake.
• f 1.126

  Council-book, MSS. Harl. ut supr. viz. Jan. 19. 1559. See Wood, Ath. Oxon. i. 131. seq. Strype, Eccl. Mem. iii. App. 277. who has printed the sermon.
• g 1.127

  Strype, Ann. Ref. i. p. 145.
• h 1.128

  See Strype, ibid. ch. 5.
• i 1.129

  To New College, Oxon. he gave the manor of Hall-place in Hampshire. Wood, Hist. Antiq. univ. Oxon. ii. 131. To Winchester college he gave his mitre and crosier, a silver goblet gilt, a bason and ewer of silver, a rich carpet, with other valu|able presents. E Registr. Benef. coll. Winton. In the warden's lodgings at Winchester, there was lately a bedchamber, with a curious old pannelled cieling; having in each compartment a cypher of the initials of Whyte's name, and of king Henry viii. It was put up by him in that reign. His epitaph, written by himself, remains on a large brass plate, under which he in|tended to de buried, in the antechapel of the college. But dy|ing 11. Jan. 1559, he was interred in his cathedral.
• k 1.130

  See supr. p. 124.
• l 1.131

  Hollinshed, Chron. iii. 1096.
• m 1.132

  MSS. Rawlins. Bibl. Bodl.
• n 1.133

  See supr. p. 71.
• o 1.134

  It is without date. Lord Williams is mentioned in another of his letters concerning a purchase.
• p 1.135

  Probably sir Edmund Ashfield of Tame co. Oxon.
• q 1.136

  Dugd. Bar. ii. 393.
• r 1.137

  Fuller's Worthies, p. 109. Fox, Martyrolog.
• s 1.138

  Statut. coll. Trin. Oxon.

  "Nisi quando forsan Angliae Reges et Reginae, eorumve primogeniti, Collegium invisere dignabuntur: quos sic quidem advenientes, cum omni honore et obsequio excipiendos praecipio et statuo."

  cap. xxvi.
• t 1.139

  See more of him in Append. Numb. XXV.
• u 1.140

  In the first copy of the statutes, dated 1556, signed by the founder, are several erasures and interlineations in the hand of Slythurste, made by the consent and authority of the founder: and the text of this copy thus corrected, is that which is now in use. Many of these alterations appear to have been made in this book, between them both at Tyttenhanger, or Clerken|well, as I collect from a letter from the founder to the vice-president, dat. 28. Jan. 1557, in which he says, that he shall send by the president, an altered and improved copy of his statutes, which he had ordered to be forthwith ingrossed in parchment. In another letter to the president, dat. 25. Feb. 1557, the founder tells him,

  "I trust ye will not forget to make an INDEX CAPITULORUM STATUTORUM, which we forgott when we were together."

  In this copy, corrected by Slythurste's hand, London, the place from which they were origi|nally dated, is struck out for TYTTENHANGER. The altered and improved copy, mentioned above, ingrossed on parchment, and signed with his own hand throughout, with the ADDITA|MENT annexed, appears to have been delivered to the society, but with the original date of 1556 preserved, in, or soon after, April, 1558. See his letter, Append. Numb. XXV. Under JOHN PERTE.