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 ...

Bach. of Div.

June 27. John Palsgrave.—See afterwards in the Incorporations.

Jul. 5. Maurice Gryffyth or Griffyn a Dominican.—He was after∣wards Bishop of Rochester.

Dec. 7. Fa. John Tybbys a Benedictin.

Nine besides were admitted, (of which number were John Doove or Dove, and John Gibbys, Carmes; Rich. Knyght a Dominican, Walt. Sutton and John Kingston, Benedictines; and Rob. Roberdsoryge a Bernardine) and about 29 there were that supplicated for the said Degree, among whom were (1) John Helyar of C. C. Coll. (2) George Browne an Austin Fryer, afterwards Archb. of Dublin. (3) Fath. Simon Clerkson a Carme. (4) Fath. John Cardmaker a Minorite, who had spent 16 years here and at Cambridge in Lo∣gic, Philosophy, and Divinity; but whether admitted, it appears not. This Cardmaker did about the time of the dissolution of Ab∣beys 1535, preach very freely against the Power of the Pope, and afterwards was made Prebendary of Wells. In the Reign of K. Ed. 6. he took to him a Wife, and had by her a Female Child, and became a Reader in Pauls, where his Lectures were so much offensive to the Rom. Cath. Party, that they abused him to his face, and with their knives would cut and haggle his Gown. About that time he was made Chancellor of the Church of Wells by the name of John Tayler alias Cardmaker▪ and was looked upon there and at London as the most zealous Minister to carry on the work of Reformation. At length when Qu. Mary came to the Crown he was deprived of his Spiritualities, and imprisoned in the Fleet, was had before the Bishop of London and the Spiritual Power, to know whether he would recant his Heresie as they called it, but he stifly denying it, and therefore condemned to dye, he was burnt in Smithfield 30 May 1555, as John Fox in his Book of Acts and Mon. of the Church will tell you.