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 ...

Doct. of Div.

• May 12. Sebast. Benefield of C. C.
• June 1. Joh. Lea of S. Johns
  • 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 bene∣ficed in the said Counties, and dying about 1609, was buried in S. Johns Coll. Chappel; to the adorning of which, he was an espe∣cial 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. Higgons of Ball. Coll. was admitted the same day.—He was Father to Sir Tho. Higgons of Grewell 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 Sepulchres 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. Christs farewel to Jerusalem, on Luke 23. 27, 28, 29, &c. To which a Testimony is added concerning the said Rich. Colfe, of his great piety and learning.

• June 30.
  • Joh. Browne of Vniv.
  • Christop. Sutton of Linc.
  • Tho. Alleyn of C. C.
    • Coll.

• July 7. Tho. More
• 12. Will. Leonard
  • of Exet. Coll.

Mar. 11. Gerard Massie 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.