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 Physick.

Jul. 3. Thomas Moscroff or Musgrave of Mert. Coll.—In 1522 he was Card. Wolseys Physick reader in, and in 1523 he was Com∣missary of, the University, being then a Student in Divinity; and on the eleventh of March the same year he did supplicate the ven. Congregation of Regents, that it might be dispensed with him from circuiting and certain exercises preceding, if so be it should hap∣pen that he should be admitted to the reading of the Sentences. The reason for this was because he was Commissary, and that it did not become a Doctor to circuit for an inferior Degree. This supplication was granted conditionally that he Preach a Sermon in the Church of St. Peter in the East. Afterwards, his exercise be∣ing all performed, as twice answering in the Schools and 4 times Preaching in St. Maries Ch. (all done in the space of one year) he was admitted to the reading of the Sentences, that is to the De∣gree of Bach. of Divinity by Dr. John Young Bishop of Callipolis and Warden of New Coll. in the presence of 8 Doctors of Divinity. In 1527 he would have proceeded in that faculty, but was prevent∣ed by death.