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Chancellour the same.
Commiss. the same.
Which Proctors were elected then (as 'tis said) by the publick Suffrages of those whom it concerned to give, as if an equal
power of suffraging in such elections did not now pertain to all Masters.
May 17. John Fox of Brasenose Coll.—He was afterwards of that of St. Mary Magdalen, and the noted Martyriologist.
In all about 41 besides 14 or thereabouts that were candidates for the said Degree, but not admitted this year.
☞ Only two this year were admitted Bach. of the Civ. Law, and but 4 in the next.
Mar. 12. Rich. Caldwell of Brasenose Coll.—He was afterwards an eminent Physician.
20 Seth Holland of Alls. Coll.—In 1555 or thereabouts, he became the third Prebendary of the second stall in the Cath. Ch. of Worcester in the place of John Compton alias Teale Bach. of Div. and sometimes Chaplain to K. H. 8. and in the same year he was elected Warden of Alls. Coll. In 1557 about Michaelmas he was made Dean of Worcester in the place of Philip Haford or Hawford alias Ballard (who had been the last Abbat of Evesham in Worce∣stershire) and about the same time became Rector of Bishops Cleeve in Glocestershire, upon his resignation of the Rectory of Fladbury. In Oct. or Nov. 1559 he was deprived of his Deanery; whereupon John Pedder Bach. of Div. one of the Frankfort exiles in the time of Qu. Mary was installed in his place 27. Dec. the same year. Holland was afterwards committed Prisoner to the Marshalsea, where he died in the second year of Qu. Elizab.
Mar. 18. James Curthopp of C. C. Coll.—In 1546 he became the first Canon of the sixth stall in Ch. Ch. Cathedral Oxon, and about the beginning of Qu. Mary he succeeded Gerard Carleton D. D. in the Deanery of Peterborough, who in 1543 had succeeded in that Dignity Franc. Abre B. D. the same Abre I mean, who, from being the last Prior of Northampton▪ was made the first Dean of Peterborough, an. 1541. James Curthopp died 19. July 1557, and was buried in the Isle next adjoyning on the North side, to the choire of the Cathedral of Ch. Ch. He was one of the examiners of John Philpot the Martyr in certain matters of Religion, before the time of his suffering.
Besides these three, were but eight Masters admitted, if the re∣gister saith right; and in but one Act celebrated this year, on 29. July, were only four Doctors of Divinity, and one in the Laws that proceeded, the Masters being reserved till the Act following, which was on the last of March 1539.
Apr. 8. Frat. John Byllynge a Minorite.
The first of which last three, was about this time Provisor of St. Bernards Coll. in the North suburb of Oxon.
Jul. 13. John Donne of C. C. C.—I have made some mention of him under the year 1528.
14. Fa. Hugh Glasier a Minorite.
Two more were also admitted, and but two there were that supplicated for that Degree, among whom, Hen. Stretsham a Mi∣norite, who had spent several years here, and at Cambridge, in Lo∣gicals, Philosophicals, and Theologicals, was one.
After the Abbeys were dissolved, in 1535. 36. &c. I find very many Monks and other religious Persons, who had pensions al∣lowed them out of the Exchecquer, to retire to the University, and to such places therein, that were nurseries for them, as Canterbury Coll. Gloucester Coll. Durham Coll. St. Bernards, St. Maries, &c. which were full of them; where they continued till they were worn out, or had gotten Benefices.
Apr. 8. John Storie Principal of Broadgates hall.—He was about this time Principal or Chief Moderator of the Civil Law School in St. Edwards Parish. and was the only Doctor of his faculty, that was admitted this year.
Jul. 13. John Toker M. of A. of Exeter Coll.—Of him the publick register saith thus.—Licentiatus erat ad incipiendum Julis 13o, quo die admissus erat ad le turam libelli aphorismorum Hypo∣chratis: Et sic evenit quod una & eadem hora fit Bacralauceus & Doct. in Med. Which shews that the words cumulavit Gradus, were not at this time in use.
Jun. 27. The reverend Father Anthony Dunstan alias Kitchen Ab∣bat of Eynsham in Oxfordshire, now lodging in Gloucester College, was then licensed to proceed in Divinity.—He was afterwards Bishop of the rich See of Landaff.
Jul. 13. John Clerk a Monk of the Order of St. Benedict and Bach. of Div. of Cambridge, was then incorporated Bach. of Divi∣nity.— About the same time he was licensed to proceed in that faculty, as I have before told you, and on the 29. of the same month he accordingly stood in the Act then celebrated, by the name of Father Jo. Clerke.