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. 1513.

An. 5. Hen. 8.

Chancellour the same.

• Commiss.
  • William Fauntleroy
  • John Kynton
  • John Thornden
    • D. D.

• Proctors
  • Thomas Mede of Ex. c. Austr.
  • Thomas Hobson of Vniv. c. Bor.

Bach. of Musick.

Oct… Christopher Wodde did supplicate for that Degree, but whe∣ther he was admitted it appears not.

Bach. of Arts.

Jul. 4. Robert Whityndon or Whittington was then admitted Bach. of A. and in the same Congregation Doctor of Grammar and Rhet.

Thomas Abell was admitted the same day.—See among the Writers under the year 1540.

Oct. 29. John Rogers Quaere.

Feb. 9. Edward Wotton of Magd. Coll.—He was afterwards an eminent Physician.

Besides these were about 57 admitted, and about 24 that suppli∣cated for that Degree, that were not this year admitted.

Doct. of Grammar and Rhetorick.

July 4. Robert Whityndon the most famous Grammarian of his time, had his head crown'd, or his temples adorned with Laurel,— At which time, and the time also when that Degree was compleat∣ed, it was allowed to him by the venerable Regents that he might wear a hood lined with silk, but not to be used for the future by any body else. See more among the Writers under the year 1529.

Bach. of Law.

Nineteen were admitted in the Canon and about 18 in the Civil Law. Eight also supplicated for the Degree of Bach. of Canon, and about 12 for the Degree of Bach. of Civil Law.

Master of Arts.

About 20 were admitted this year, and about eleven that suppli∣cated for the same Degree, among whom was John Ramsey a Canon regular, Nov. 18.—He was afterwards Prior of St. Maries Coll. in Oxon. the great of which, is almost opposite to the common gate of New Inn. This College was a nursery to train up young Canon regulars in Academical learning.

Bach. of Physick.

Apr… Peter Coloniensis Bach. of Arts of the University of Colen and a Student in Physick, was then admitted.—The same year he supplicated to be Doctor of that faculty under the name of Petrus Coloniensis de Nonovigio and Novonigio. Others supplicated for the said Degree of Bach. and one to practise Physick.

Bach. of Div.

June 16. Edward Bockyng a Monk of the Order of St. Benedict and now Warden or Gardian of Canterbury College in Oxon.— He was afterwards much concern'd in promoting the matter of Eli∣zabeth Barton the holy maid of Kent as the Chronicles will tell you at large. See more in 1518.

June 20. Edward Hynmersh of the same Order.—He was af∣terwards Warden or Gardian of Durham College in Oxon.

Besides these were 7 more admitted, who had all before opposed in Divinity, and eight that supplicated (all of religious Orders) who were not admitted this year.

Doct. of Civil Law.

Not one admitted this year, only five supplicated; among whom was John Incent or Innocent of Alls. College who supplicated in

July and November, yet not set down as admitted. In a certain writing dated this year, he is written thus. John Incent LL. Bac. Episcopi Winton commissarius, & ejusdem consistorii Episcopalis Prae∣sidens. He became Dean of St. Pauls Cathedral in 1537 in the place of Richard Sampson promoted to the See of Lichfield; and about the same time was made Master of the Hospital of St. Cross near Winchester. He founded a Free-school at Berchamsted (the place of his nativity) in Hertfordshire for 120 Scholars to be taught therein, allowing to the Master, Ushers, and School it self, a ve∣ry ample salary, 33. Hen. 8. The visitor of which is the Warden of Alls. College; and several of its Masters have been of that society. In the old hall belonging to Doctors Commons near St. Pauls Ca∣thedral, were in one of the Windows his Arms, viz. Argent, on a bend gules a fair and innocent Virgin stark naked, with her hair loose about her shoulders, or; her right hand is extended above her head, holding a Chaplet of roses therein, and her other hand covers her privities.

The other four who supplicated were (1) Matthew Knightley, (2) Richard Browne, (3) William Marbull, (4) Peter Ligham; all Bachelers of the Civil Law.

Doct. of Can. Law.

May 25. Edmund Horde (sometimes by a mistake written Forde) of Allsouls College.—This Person whom I have mention'd a∣mong the Civilians in 1510, was about this time a noted Advo∣cate in the Court of Arches, and Procurator of the Charter house near London.

William Fleshmonger of New Coll.—He was afterwards Dean of Chichester in the place of John Young Bishop of Callipolis (who died 1526) and a Benefactor to New College. See Hist. & Antiq. Vniv. Oxon. lib. 2. p. 131. a.

There also supplicated for this Degree (1) Ailnoth Arscot some∣times Principal of Perkwaters Inn, now involv'd within the limits of Christ Church (2) Michael Wogan or Ogan. Both which were Bachelers of the Canon Law.

Doct. of Div.

Apr. ult. William Goderyche.

May 4. Fr. Henry Osbourne a Dominican.

13. The ven. Father Hugh Whitehead a Benedictine Monk— In 1512 he succeeded Thomas Castell in the Wardenship or Gardian∣ship of Durham College in Oxon, and in 1524. he succeeded another Thomas Castell in the Priorship of the Church of Durham. See more in the year 1511 among the Doctor of Div. This Hugh Whitehead living to see his Priory dissolved, he was soon after made the first Dean of Durham by the foundation Charter of King Hen. 8. dat. 12. May, an. reg. 33. Dom. 1541. In which Dignity he was succeeded by Robert Horne of Cambridge, by the donation of King Ed. 6. dat. 20. Nov. an. reg. 5. Dom. 1551. The said Whitehead dying at Lon∣don was buried in the Church of the holy Trinity called the Mino∣ries, but when I cannot yet tell.

May 15. Kobert Hyll of Merton Coll.

• June 27. Fr.
  • Thomas Anyday
  • Robert Saunderson
  • Gilbert Saunders
  • John Smythe
  • John Browne
    • Minorites or Grey-fryers.

Nov. 19.

Nov. 25. Richard Ferys the Provincial of the Carmes or White fry∣ers— He was now, or lately, Prior of the Coll. of Carmes in the North suburb of Oxon.

January 22. John Baker.

23. Edm. Forest Prior of Langthony.—See among the Bach. of Divinity 1509.

25. Laurence Stubbes of Magdalen Coll.—Afterwards President of that house in the room of Dr. John Hygden.

29. John Hygden of Magdalen Coll.—In 1516 he became Pre∣sident of that College, in 1524 Dec. 2. he was admitted Prebenda∣ry of Wighton in the Church of York, and the year following Dean of Cardinal College in Oxon. In 1529 he was made Prebendary of Wetwang in the said Church of York, and in 1532 Dean of the Coll. in Oxon. founded by King Henry 8. on the site of that of Cardi∣nal; in which year dying, he was succeeded by Dr. John Oliver in the said Deanery.

Feb… John Byrde a Carme—In the year 1516 he succeeded the aforesaid Richard Ferys in the Provincialship of the Carmes, and was at length Bishop of Chester, as I have told you in 1510.

Four also supplicated this year to be admitted Doctors of Div. of whom Robert Cheltenham a Benedictine was one, and Simon Mollonde Bach. of Div. of Mert. College another, but were not admitted. The other two were afterwards admitted as I shall tell you when I come to them.

Incorporations.

Jul… John Wythers of Magd. Coll. M. of A. and sometimes Proctor of the University, afterwards made Doctor of the Canon Law by the Popes Bull, was then incorp. Dr. of the Canon Law.

Oct… Thomas Hanyball or Hannyball Doctor of the Civil Law of Cambridge—In the year 1504 May 14. he was installed Preben∣dary of Gevendall in the Church of York upon the resignation of John Hatton Bishop of Nigrepont, and in the year 1514 he became Chancellour of the Diocels of Worcester, in the place of one Rob. Hallesworth Doctor of Decrees, who succeeded Tho. Alcock LL. D. in that office 1508, and Alcock, Tho. Wodyngton Dr. of Dec. 1503. In 1522. (14 Hen. 8.) I find the said Tho. Hanyball to be living in Rome in the quality of the King of Englands Orator, and in

that of Agent or Factor for Cardinal Wolsey: to the last of which he ever and anon gave an account by Letters of the Affairs of Rome. In one dated 13 Dec. 1522, he told the Cardinal, that his Holiness hath sent for Erasmus Rot. under a fair colour by his brief; and if he come not, I think (saith he) the Pope will not be content, &c. In 1524 the said Dr. Hanyball was made Master of the Rolls in the place of Dr. John Clerke; which honorable Office he keeping till 1528, was succeeded therein by Dr. John Taylor, of whom I shall speak at large in 1522.

Nov. … Robert Byse or Bysse Dr. of the Civil Law in the Court of Rome.—In the year following (1514) he occurs by the Name of Rob. Besse LL. D. Principal of Henxsey Hall, and in 1524 he be∣came Vicar General to the Bishop of B. and Wells by the death of Roger Church Dec. Doctor and Canon of Wells, as also a great Plu∣ralist in the Dioc. of Wells and elsewhere. He died in the month of Dec. or thereabouts, 1546.

Nov. 18. William Latymer Bach. of Art of this University, and Mast. of Arts beyond the Seas, was then incorporated M. of A.— Perhaps this William Latymer may be the same whom I have men∣tioned among the Writers under the year 1545; where you 'll find another Will. Latymer who was Dean of Peterborough.

This year also supplicated to be concorporated (1) John Buke D. D. beyond the Seas, (2) John Dolman Dr. of Civ. Law of Cam∣bridge, (3) Charles Lucy Bach. of Phys. of Cambridge; but whether any of them were accordingly incorporated, I cannot yet find. I think Dolman was, because his Supp. was granted simpliciter.

There was also a Supplication made that Richard Mayster M. A. and Proctor of the University of Cambridge, might be incorpora∣ted; but whether granted, I know not. I take this Rich. Mayster to be the same with him who was a Native of Maidstone in Kent, and Fellow of Kings College in Cambridge, where he was esteemed an excellent Philosopher, and the same who was afterwards Bac. of Div. and Parson of Adlington in Kent, and much concern'd in the matter of Eliz. Barton the holy Maide of Kent.