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 May 1, 2024.
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Doct. of Civ. Law.
Jul. 5. Hugh Coren or Curwyn.—He was afterwards Archb. of
Dublin, and Bishop of Oxon.
Jan 24. John Barber of Alls. Coll.—He was an Advocate in
the Court of Arches, and died at Wrotham in Kent about the be∣ginning
of the year 1549.
Will. Petre of Alls. Coll. was admitted the same day.—This wor∣thy
Person was Son of John Petre a rich Tanner of Torbryan in
Devenshire, and was originally of Exeter Coll. Thence he was
elected Fellow of Alls. Coll. in 1523, and afterwards became suc∣cessively
Principal of Peckwater's Inn, one of the Visitors of Religi∣ous
Houses when they were about to be dissolv'd, Master of the
Requests and a Knight, Secretary and one of the Privy Council to
K. Hen. 8 and Ed. 6. Sub-Treasurer, afterwards Treasurer, to
K. Ed. 6. of the first Fruits and Tenths, Secretary of the Privy
Council to Q. Mary, in whose time he was Chancellor of the Order
of the Garter, and at length of the Privy Council to Q. Elizabeth.
He died 13 Jan. 1571, and was buried in the Church of Ingerston
in Essex on 11 Feb. following. The learned Cambdena saith, that
he was a man of approved Wisdom and exquisite Learning, and not so
much memorable for those honorable Places and Offices of State which
he bare, and for his oftentimes being sent in Embassage to foreign
Princes as for that being bred and brought up in good Learning, he
well 〈◊〉〈◊〉 of Learning in the Vniversity of Oxford, and was
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both pitiful and bountèous to his poor Neighbours about him, and of
Ingerston where he lies buried.
Jan. 24. Griffyn Leyson Principal of S. Edwunds Hall near S. Edw.
Church.—He with John Oliver Dr. of the Civ. Law, were em∣ployed
in the matter of depriving Steph. Gardiner of his Bishoprick
of Winchester: and in the time of Qu. Mary wheeling about, he be∣came
a Justice of Peace, and High Sheriff of Caermerthenshire, when
Rob. ••errar Bishop of S. Davids was burnt an. 1555; at which time
suffering not the said Bishop to speak his mind when he was at the
Stake, (as John Fox tells us) died about half an year after, when he
would have spoke himself, but could not.
One George Throgmorton LL. B. did supplicate to be admitted to
the said degree, but was not.