Bach. of Arts.
Mar. 31. John Beconsau of New Coll. the famed Grecian of his time.
May 27. George Cotes of Ball. Coll.—He was afterwards B. of Chester.
Jul. 21. David Talley or Tolley the noted Grammarian of St. Ma∣ries hall.
Seventy in all, or more, were admitted, and about 22 supplica∣ted for the said Degree, who were not admitted.
This year was a supplicate made for George Carew (of Broadgates hall as it seems) to have the Degree of Bach. of Arts conferr'd on him, but whether he was really admitted, having spent about 4 years in the University, it appears not. This Person being the younger Son of a Baron, (descended from the Carews of Pembrok∣shire) retired afterwards to the royal Court, and married, but soon after burying his Wife to his great grief, travelled beyond the Seas, and improved his knowledge as to Men and Manners very much. After his return, he took holy Orders, was made Archdeacon of Totness, and if I mistake not, either Prebend or Canon of Exeter. In 1552 he was constituted Dean of Bristow in the place of one John Whiteheare, who, in the year before, had succeeded William Snow the first Dean; and in the beginning of July 1555 was made Preb. of Ilfarcomb in the Church of Salisbury. In the beginning of Aug. 1556 he was made Preb. of Netherbury in Ecclesia in the same Church; and in the same year, notwithstanding he had been de∣prived of the Prebendship of Barton in the Ch. of Wells, an. 1554, (1. and 2. of Ph. and Mar.) yet he was made Preb. of Dultingcote in the same Church, on the resignation of William Thynne, and double beneficed in the Dioc. of Wells during the Reign of Queen Mary. On the 27. of Oct. 1558 he became Chaunter of the Church of Salisbury, and in 1559 (Qu. Elizabeth being then in the Throne,) he was made Dean of the Queens Chappel, Dean of Windsore, Dean of Ch. Ch. in Oxon, and about that time Master of the Savoy Hospital. In 1560 he became Dean of Bristow again, upon the going away of Hen. Jolliff, who had enjoyed it most of Qu. Maries Reign, and about the same time was made Dean of Exeter and Re∣ctor of Silverton in Devon. In 1561 he gave up his Deanery of Ch. Ch. and was succeeded therein by Thomas Sampson a Nonconfor∣mist. In 1572 he resigned the Deanery of Windsore, with a Ca∣nonry in that Church, being then succeeded in the former by Will. Day Bach. of Div. and in 1580 he resign'd the Deanery of Bristow, wherein he was succeeded by John Sprint; but when he resign'd that of Exeter, I cannot tell. He finished this mortal life in 1585 aged 85 and was buried in the Church of St. Giles in the fields near London, leaving then behind him a Son named George, afterwards Earl of Totness, and another named Peter, a Knight.