An. Dom. 1533.
An. 25 Hen. 8.
Chanc. John Longland D. D. and Bishop of Lincoln, sometimes Fellow of Magd. Coll.
Commiss. in chief was Will. Treshan D. D.
- Proct.
- John Pekyns of Exeter Coll.
- Owen Oglethorp of Magd. Coll.
- Apr. 3.
Grammarians.
- June…Gilb. Saywell
- Jan…. Jehn Best.
- Schol. of Gram.
These two were admitted to inform in Grammar: Qu. Whe∣ther Jo. Best was not the same person who in 1560 was made Bish. of Carlile, for in these days, and after, several of the Bishops were originally Pedagogues.
Bach. of Arts.
July 20. John Man of New Coll.—He was afterwards Warden of Mert. Coll. and Dean of Glocester, as I have told you among the Writers under the year 1568.
- July 20.
- Thomas Talbot
- Rich. Caldwell or Chaldwall of Brasnose Coll.
Feb. 15. John Clerke—Quaere.
Sixty two in all were admitted this year, and but six that suppl.
Bach. of Civ. Law.
July 13. Joh. Wymesley or Wymsley of Broadgates Hall.—He was made Archdeacon of London by his Brother Dr. Bonner Bishop of that City, in the place of Dr. Rich. Gwent deceased, an. 1543, and was present in the Convocation of the Clergy 1 Mari. c, Dom. 1553, in which Convocation he did speak an Oration that was soon after made publick.
About nine besides him were admitted, and but three there were that supplicated for the said degree.
Bach. of Can. Law.
Nov. 27. Donatus Riane a public Reader of the Canon Law in New Inn.—A learned Irishb 1.1 Author in his enumcration or Writers and learned men of Ireland, tells us there were two Bre∣thren of Oxford whose Sirnames were Riane, and that one of them was a good Civilian, and the other a Mathematician, but mentions nothing of their Writings. This Donatus therefore I take to be the Civilian, and Daniel mention'd under the year 1556, to be the Mathematician. See in the year 1514.