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 ...

An. Dom. 1599.

An. 41 Eliz.

An. 42 Eliz.

Chancellour 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 Carlile.

• Jun. 18. Anth. Duck
• Jul. 8. George Hakewill
  • of Exet. Coll.

• 23.
  • Brian Twyne
  • Tho. Jackson
    • of C. C. Coll.

Oct. 25. Norwych Spackman of Ch. Ch.—See among the Masters an. 1602.

Thom. Broad of St. Alb. hall was admitted the same day.

• Jan. 29. Barthelm. Parsons of Or.
• 31. Joh. Prideaux of Exeter
  • Coll.

The last of which was afterwards Bishop of Worcester.

Feb. 2. Joh. Meredyth of St. Maries 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 ano∣ther University, and at length Subdean of Chichester (an. 1622.) which he resigned 10. Oct. 1627 and retired to his cure of Bedham∣pton in Hampshire, where heart-broken and purse-broken he soon after died, I know not. Sure it is that John Meredyth who was Subdean of Chichester, wrot 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, Twyne, 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. Johns Coll.—This Person who was a Londoner born, was afterwards Bursar of the said house, but re∣taining in his hands the College money which he received as Bursar without paying it to the Persons who supplied it with necessaries, slip'd 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. Johns Coll. was admitted the same day— He was the fifth Son of Sir Hen Cromwell of H••nchingbro••k in Hun∣tingdonshire, 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 un∣der 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 Bristow.

Adm. 7.

Mast. of Arts.

• May 21.
  • Joh. Bancroft
  • Joh. Sprint
    • of Ch. Ch.

Joh. Rawlinson of St. Johns 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 Div.

June 14. Edm. Griffith of Brasn. Coll.

Jul. 5. Rich. Eaton of Linc. Coll.—He was about this time Pa∣stor of Great Budworth in Cheshire (in which County he was born) and hath published A Sermon at the funeral of Tho. Dutton of Dut∣ton Es{que} who yeilded 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 Chancellour 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 Chancellour to the Bishop of Lich. and Coven∣try, and died 1614 or thereabouts.

Jul. 6. Edmund Pope of Al••souls Coll.—He was about this time Chancellour 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 be∣ing about this time Chancellour to the Bish. of Hereford.

☞Not one Doctor of Phys. was admitted this year.

Doct. of Div.

Jul. 2. George Ryves of New Coll. Prebendary of Winchester— In Dec. following he was elected Warden of the said Coll. and dy∣ing on the last of May 1613 was buried, as I conceive, in the Chap∣pel belonging thereunto.

6. Giles Robinson of Queens Coll.

Incorporations.

July 5. ••eonard Maw M. A. of Cambridge—He was Fellow of Peter house, and afterwards Master thereof, Master of Trin. Col∣lege, Prebendary of Wells, Doct. of Div. 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 Chis∣wick 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 Lin∣colne, an. 1617; and at length Bishop of Salisbury: to which See he was consecrated at Lambeth by the Archbishop, and his Assi∣stants Lincolne, 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. Edmunds Chap∣pel in St. Peters 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 Nov. 1621, having received* 1.1 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 joyning 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 suc∣ceeded Dr. Sam. Walsall in the Headship of that House—He hath written Diets dry dinner, consisting of eight several courses, (1) Fruits, &c. 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 Heidleberg 28 years be∣fore this time (afterwards incorporated at Cambridge, where he had his first education) was incorporated in this University, as he had stood at Heidleberg and Cambridge—He was the Son of Dr. Will. Turner sometimes Dean of Wells, whom I have mention'd 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 seve∣ral Sons of whom Samuel was one, and Peter another, as I shall tell you elsewhere. One Mistress Anne Turner, the Widow of a Do∣ctor of Physick had an especial hand in the poysoning of Sir Tho. Overbury; for which she was executed at Tybourne, an. 1615. whe∣ther 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. Lillye Vicechancellour, Dr. Tho. Holland the Kings Professor of Divinity, and both the Proctors (with the Su∣perior Beadle of Divinity attending them) by virtue of a Commission from the Vicechancellour, dated 2 of June 1599.

Notes

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  〈…〉〈…〉 Annal. R. Jac. 1. MS. sub an. 16••1.