Athenæ Oxonienses. Vol. 1. 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 ...

Doctors of Divinity,

Or such who were licensed to proceed in Divinity, or admitted Doctors or Professors of Divinity, or of the Holy Writ, in order to their proceeding, or being compleated in that Degree in the Act following.

William Vavasor Gardian or Warden of the House or Coll. of the Franciscans or Grey Fryers 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, si∣tuated 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 Fryers 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 writ∣ten, yet so little valued now among many English Men, that the Philosopherb of Malmsbury doth not stick to say, that any in∣genious 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 after∣wards Principal of S. Albans Hall, and is stiled in one of our pub∣lick Registersc Vir literis & virtute percelebis.

John Stanywell Prior of the Benedictine Monks of Glocester Coll. now Gloc. Hall.—He was the same Person with John Stonywell who was soon after Lord Abbat 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 Percivall the seven and fortieth Minister or Provincial of the Minorites, Franciscans or Grey Fryers, 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.

Notes

• b

  〈◊〉〈◊〉 Hobbes of Malmsbury in his Hist. of 〈…〉〈…〉 of England, printed 1680. pg. 54.
• c

  In reg. Epistol. Univ. Oxon. •• Ep••••t. ••.