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 June 14, 2024.

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Incorporations.

On the 9 of July, being the day after the conclusion of the Act, were these Cantabrigians following incorporated, being part of the number of about 24 that were taken into the bosom of this Uni∣versity.

Charles Lord Stanhope of Harington M. of Arts.

Timothy Thurscross M. A.—Afterwards being Bach. of Div. he was installed Archdeacon of Clievland in the place of Hen. Thurscross resigning, 16. Nov. 1635. And afterwards resigning that dignity, Joh. Neile Bach. of Div. was installed therein 27 Oct. 1638, I mean the same Neile who was made Dean of Rippon in the place of Dr. Joh. Wilkins promoted to the See of Chester One Tim. Thurs∣cross D. D. died in the Parish of S. Sepulcher in Lond. in Novemb. or thereabouts, 1671, which perhaps may be the same with the for∣mer. Quaere.

Thom. Aylesbury M. of A.—See among the Incorporations 1626.

Will. Fenner M. A. of Pembroke Hall.—He was afterwards Bach. of Div. and exercised his Ministry for a time in Staffordshire. At length upon the invitation of the Earl of Warwick, he became Rector of Rochford in Essex, where he was much admired and fre∣quented by the puritannical party. He gave way to fate in 1640 or thereabouts, aged 40, and had several theological Tracts of his

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writing published after his death by Tho. Hill, (whom I shall anon mention) the Titles of most of which you may see in Oxford Cata∣logue, but more in that publised by Will. London a Bookseller, an. 1658.

Thom. Hill M. A. of Eman. Coll.—He was afterwards Rector of Tychmersh in Northamptonshire, one of the Assembly of Divines, a frequent Preacher before the Long Parliament, Master of Trin. Coll. in Cambridge in the place of Dr. Tho. Comber ejected, and Vice∣chancellour of the said University. He hath published several Ser∣mons, as (1) The trade of truth advanced, preached before the H. of Commons at a Fast 27 Jul. 1642, on Prov. 23. ver. 23. Lond. 1642. qu. (2) Militant Church triumphant over the Dragon and his Angels, Serm. before both Houses 21 Jul. 1645, on Rev. 12. 11. Lond. 1643. qu. (3) The reason for Englands self-reflection; an extraordinary Fast-sermon 13 Aug. 1644 before the two Houses, on Haggai 1. 7, 8. (4) The right separation encouraged, Fast-serm. before the H. of Lords, 27 Nov. 1644, on 2 Cor. 6. 17, 18. Be∣sides others, as also his Best and worst of Paul; an Exercise in Trin. Coll. in Cambr. printed 1648, and his collecting into one quarto Vol. several of the theological Tracts of the aforesaid Will. Fenner, printed at Lond. 1651. You may see more of him the said Th. Hill in Anth. Tuckney's Sermon at his Funeral, with an account of his Life and Death, printed in 1654, in oct. Besides this Dr. Tho. Hill, was another also, who was Minister of Brodfield in Suffolk, and died there in the Winter time 1638, but hath nothing extant, as I can yet see: and a third Dr. Tho. Hill you may see in my discourse of Dr. George Abbot among the Writers, an. 1633. num. 612.

Thom. Thorowgood M. A.—He was afterwards Bach. of Div. Re∣ctor of Grymston in Norfolk, and one of the Assembly of Divines. Among several things that he hath published are (1) Jews in Ame∣rica; or, probabilities that Americans are of that race, &c. Lond. 1650. qu. (2) Moderation justified, &c. Fast-serm. before the H. of Commons 26 Dec. 1644, on Phil. 4. 5. Lond. 1645. qu. &c.

All which Cantabrigians with many more, besides 13 Bachelaurs of Arts, were incorporated on the 9 Jul. before mention'd.

Feb. 28. Thom. Freaer or Fryer Doct. of Phys. of the University of Padua.—He was at this time a practitioner in the City of Lon∣don, and dying in the beginning of 1623, about two months after his Incorporation, was buried in the Parish Church of S. Botolph, in the tomb of his Mother lately deceased; but in which of the Churches of S. Botolph in London, 'tis not said.

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