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. 1512.
An. 4. Hen. 8.
Chancellour the same.
Commiss.
Edmund Wylsford
William Fauntlery
John Kynton
D. D.
Proctors
Thomas Pulton of New Coll. Austr. elected 21.
Richard Symons of Mert. Coll. Bor. elected 23.
Apr.
Rhetoricians.
Or such who were admitted to inform and instruct in the art of
Rhetorick.
Jan. ult. Richard Smyth a secular Chaplain, who in the art of
Rhetorick had spent 16 years, of which 10 were spent in the in∣forming
and instructing youths in Grammar.
Bach. of Musick.
Apr. … John Dygon a Monk of the Order of St. Benedict was
then admitted.
Bach. of Arts.
Apr. ult. Malachias Arthur—Afterwards a learned Physician.
See in the year 1515.
Jan. ult. William Bennet—One of both his names became
Archdeacon of Dorset upon the consecration of John Stokesley Bishop
of London, 20. of Dec. 1530, and afterwards was the Kings Orator
at Rome. Whether the same with the former I cannot tell. See
among the Bach. of the Civil Law, an. 1527.
About 51. Bachelers of Arts were admitted this year, and 15
at least that supplicated for that Degree.
Bach. of Civil Law.
Jul. … Hugh ap Rice—He was afterwards Founder of Je∣sus
Coll.
Jul. … John London of New Coll.—See in the year 1518.
Besides these two were but five more admitted, and two suppli∣cated.
This year 7 were admitted in the Canon Law, and two only, or
thereabouts, supplicated.
Mast. of Arts.
Twenty or more were admitted, of whom John Moreman of
Exeter College was one, and 5 only supplicated.
Bach. of Div.
Nov. 4. William Wall a Canon regular, and Prior of the Mona∣stery
at Kenilworth in Warwickshire.—See another William Wall
in 1518. among the D. of D.
Feb. 4. Fr. Nich. Peter, or Peter Nicholas a Carme or White Fryer,
Prior of the College of Carmes in the North suburb of Oxon.
Besides these two, were six more admitted, and about eleven
that supplicated, that were not, as I can yet find, admitted this
year. Among those that supplicated, were first William How M. A.
and the Kings Chaplain. See among the Doctors of Divinity 1526.
(2) John Lleson Abbat of the Monastery of St. Mary of Neath, of
the Cistercian order in Glamorganshire, now studying in St. Bernards
Coll. In a certain writing dated some years after the dissolution of
religious houses, I find mention of one Thomas Leyson late Abbat of
Neath, which I presume is the same and his Christian name mista∣ken.
See in the year 1510. (3) Thomas Knolles M. A. and Subdean
of York: whom I shall mention elsewhere.
Doct. of Civil Law.
Not one admitted, only four supplicated viz. (1) Richard Benger
LL. Bach. (2) Maurice Glynn Bach. of the Civil Law, who was
afterwards Doct. of that fac. and died in July 1525. (3) John Incent
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or Innocent of Alls. Coll. (4) Thomas Myllyng LL. Bach. and Chap∣lain
to Dr. Warham Archb. of Canterbury. He was afterwards a
Benefactor to New Coll. as I have elsewhere told you.
Doct. of Div.
Jul. 2. Hugh Myllyng of Exeter Coll.
Dec. 6. Thomas Coke.
Four also supplicated this year, who were all afterwards admitted
Doctors of Div. except Thomas Hamden a Minorite or Grey Fryer.
Incorporations.
May 3. John Stokys or Stokes D. of D. of Cambr. and Provincial
of the Fryers of the Order of St. Austin the Hermit.
May … Simon Pickeryng a Carme Bach. of Div. of this Univ.
and D. of D. of Cambr. was incorp. D. D.
Dec. … William Sparke M. A. of Cambridge.
Jan. 28. William Heryson M. A. of the Univ. of Paris.
Jan. … William Bark M. and an Archdeacon.
Jan. 29. Edward Burrell M. A. of Paris. Besides several Bach. of
Arts of Cambridge.