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 ...

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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 ...
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"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 ..." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A71276.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed April 30, 2024.

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An. Dom. 1616.

An. 14. Jac. 1.

Chanc. Tho. Lord Egerton created this year Viscount Brackley, but he voluntary resigning his office of Chancellour of this Uni∣versity on the 24. Jan. William Earl of Pembroke, Knight of the Garter, Chamberlaine of the Kings Houshold, &c. 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 Croke of Ch. Ch.
      • Apr. 10.
Bach. of Musick.

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 publick 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 pre∣sume, the same with the former, is hereafter to be mention'd 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 Div. an. 1643.

5. John Langley of Magd. hall.

Oct. 24. Charles Robson of Qu. Coll.—See among the Bach. of Div. 1629.

26. Bruno Ryves of New, afterwards of Magd. Coll.

Will. Price of Ch. Ch. was admitted the same day—See among the Masters 1619.

Nov. 4. John Doughtie.

Dec. 14. Rob. Grebby of New Coll.—See more among the Ma∣sters of Art, 1619.

Jan. 29. Will. Hayes of Magd. hall—See among the Bach. of Div. 1627.

  • Feb. 28.
    • John Gee of Exet.
    • John Thorie of Magd.
      • Coll.

Of the last of these two, you may see more among the Incorpo∣rations, an. 1627.

As for Faringdon, Langley, Ryves and Doughtie, you are to ex∣pect large mention of them hereafter.

Admitted 223.

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Mast. of Arts.

April 19. Rich. Parre of Brasn. Coll.

June 4. Morgan Owen of Hart Hall.

  • 12.
    • Immanuel Bourne of Ch. Ch.
    • George Singe of Ball. Coll.

20. Tho. Goffe of Ch. Ch.

21. John Scull of Lincoln, lately of Mert. Coll.—He hath pub∣lished 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 Angell 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 Glocester Hall, was admitted; but the day or month when, appears not.—He was a German of the Palatine of the Rhine, and had studied ten years in the faculty of Physick in the Universities of Heidelberg, Mountpelier, Paris, and Oxon. He afterwards practised his Faculty (being licensed by the University) at Blandford Forum in Dorsetshire, where he died in 1642; but whether he hath written or published any thing, let the Physitians seek.

Bach. of Div.
  • 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 Arch∣bishop of Canterbury his Visitation metropolitical, held at Allsaints in Worcester by Dr. Bent his Grace's Vicar General, 3 June 1635. on 2 Cor. 5. 20. Lond. 1635. qu. and perhaps other things. Quere.

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 Div.

Apr. 18. Joh. Warner of Magd. Coll.

May 11. Joh. Hamden of Ch. Ch.

15. Tho. Holloway of Ball. Coll.

June 13. Sam. Clark of Magd. Hall, a Compounder.—He had a son of both his names of Vniversity 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. Clark 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 Com∣pounder before mention'd was) afterwards a severe Calvinist, and a scribling Plagiary, as his Works (mostly the lives of Presbyteri∣an Divines) shew; 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, &c. Lond. 1683, fol. be∣fore which is a canting narrative of his own life. He died at Thi∣stleworth or Istleworth in Middlesex 25 Dec. 1682. (3) Sam. Clark of Pembroke Hall in Cambridge, who published certain matters in 1649, and after, &c.

  • 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 Canter∣bury, 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 mention'd in Joh. Flavell of Wadh. Coll.) and was li∣ving divers years after the Restauration of K. Ch. 2. but whether he was of the Univ. of Oxon I cannot yet tell. Jo. Flavell of Tal∣latn 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 Cornwal, 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.
  • Nov. 7. Hnr. Beaumont of Alls.
    • Coll.

The last of which was a Compounder, being at this time Dean of Peterborough and Canon of Windsore. In 1622, May 18. he was installed Dean of Windsore in the room of Marc. Anton. de Dominis, who in Feb. going before had left England. This Dr. Beaumont 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 Pre∣decessors in that Deanery. See more in the Incorporations, an. 1571.

  • Feb. 10.
    • Rich. Carpenter
    • Joh. Standard
      • of Ex. Coll.

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Both of these were learned men, and so taken to be by Dr. Joh. Prideaux, as I have elsewhere told you. Dr. Standard was after∣wards 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 wrot a Latin Comedy called Loiola,—printed at Lond. 1648. in oct. was afterwards D. of D. Parson of S. Andrews Church in Hol∣bourn near London, Chaplain to K. Charles 1. Residentiary of S. Pauls, 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, sate 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 &c. Lond. 1675, fol.

Rob. Farsereus or Faisereus M. A. of Lovaine, 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, &c. 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 incorpo∣rated 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 Cata∣logue. 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 wish'd that in his History of Hen. 4. he had not called Sir Hugh Lynne by so light a word as Mad-cap, tho he were such; and that he had not changed his Historical stile into a Dram∣matical, where he induceth a Mother uttering a Womans 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 Wednes∣day 27 June 1627, and was buried in the Church belonging to that Parish. You may see more of him in Camdens 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. Raleigh's 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 ma∣rine Affairs, was a Captain of a Ship, and, as I have been infor∣med by those who remember him, did bear the office for some time of a Vice. or Reer, Admiral.

Nov. 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 preceeding, had he not been absent.

In the latter end of Aug. this year, Prince Charles came honora∣bly attended to the University, and after he had been entertained with Ceremonies and Feasting sutable 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 Symbole or Sentence, Si vis omnia subjicere, subjice te rations. To say no more, he was afterwards a King of great Religion and Learning, but un∣fortunate.

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