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 ...

An. Dom. 1541.

An. 33 Hen 8.

Chanc. the same.

Commiss. the same.

• Proct.
  • Roger Bromhall of New Coll.
  • John Wyman of Magd. Coll. as it seems.

Which Proctors were elected 23. Apr. from the company of Non-regents, by virtue of the Kings Letters sent from Green∣wych.

Bach. of Arts.

July 24. John Mullyns or Molens of Magd. Coll.—He is men∣tion'd at large among the Writers.

Feb…. John Longland of Brasen. Coll.—This Person who was a Salopian born, was made Archdeacon of Bucks. on the death of Rich. Layton or Leighton LL. D. who was made Archdeacon in 1534 after the death of Dr. John Taylor mention'd under the year 1522. This John Longland who was nearly related to Dr. Long∣land B. of Linc. was suspended of his Archdeaconry in the begin∣ning of Qu Mary and Rich. Porter succeeded.

Admitted in all about 62, besides several that supplicated, among whom Valentine Dale was one.

Bach. of Civ. Law.

July 24. Hugh Jonys or Jones—He was afterwards Bishop of Landaff.

Oct. 24. Nichol. Bullyngham of Allsouls Coll.—He was after∣wards successively B. of Lincolne and Worcester.

In all 7.

Mast. of Arts.

• Apr. 5. John Harpe••field
• Mar. 15. Tho. Hardyng
  • of New Coll.

Mar. 4. Edm. Marvyn of C. C. C.—This Person who was a Hampshire Man born, I take to be the same with Mar••inus who was Archdeacon of Surrey in the time of Qu. Mary, and ejected * 1.1 thence in the beginning of Qu. Elizabeth.

• 21. Bernard Gilpin of Qu.
• 22. Morgan Philipps of Oriel
  • Coll.

In all about 44, some of which were afterwards inferior Dignita∣ries in the Church.

Bach. of Div.

Apr. 14….. Browne—I take him to be the same Person, who, by the name of John Browne Bach. of Div. was made Can. of Wind∣sore in the Reign of Qu. Mary, and the same Browne who succeeded W. Barlow B. of Chichester in a Canonry of the first stall in the Colle∣giat Church of Westminster, an. 1565, where he died and was buri∣ed, in 1584.

May 15. Will. Devenish or Denis lately Fellow of Mert. Coll. now Provost of Qu. C.—In the Reign of Ed. 6. he became Can. of Windsore▪

Dec…. George Clyffe, lately called Father Clyffe of the Order, as it seems, of St. Benedict.

Six in all were adm. this year, (among whom Geo. Nevill a sec chap. was one) and but two that supplicated for that Degree.

☞ Not one Doct. of Law or Physick was admitted this year.

Doct. of Div.

Jul. 31. Rich. Boreman.

Aug. 2. Joh. Standist now, as it seems, of Brasn. Coll.

Oct. 3. Joh. Joseph lately a Minorite or Grey Fryer.

Incorporations.

Oct. 19. John ap Harry or Parry Master of Arts of the University of Caen in Normandy.—See among the Doctors of Law in 1542.

In the month of July, I find a Supplicate made for one Roger Haskham to be incorporated M. of A. as he had stood at Cambridge; but whether he was incorporated, I find it not to stand in the Register, having been probably neglected, as things of that nature (when the Supplicates are set down) have frequently been done. I take this person to be the same with Reg. Ascham who was born at Kirby wiske in Yorkshire, an 1515, educated in S. John's Coll. in Cambridge, where he attained to great excellency in the Latin and Greek Tongues, took the degree of M. of A. in that Univer∣sity 1537, and was a great Tutor, and did much good by his ad∣mirable Learning there. This Person, by the way I must let the Reader know, was a passing good Orator, had a great faculty in writing Greek. Lat. and Engl. Epistles, which were not only excellent for matter, but for the neatness of the hand-writing, adorned with Illumination, which we now call Limning, in the margin. And being the best of all Scholars in his time for those matters, he was entertained, as an Instructor in them, by Prince Edward, the Lady Elizabeth, and the two Brothers Henry and Charles Dukes of Suffolk. In 1544 he succeeded John Cheek in the Oratorship of the University of Cambridge, which he perfor∣med to the wonder and applause of all; and in the Reign of Ed. 6. he accompanied Sir Rich. M••rysine in his Embassy to the Emperor Charles 5. where continuing about three years, (in which time he became acquainted with many learned men, among whom John Sturmius was one) he returned upon the news of the death of K. Ed. 6. from whom he had not only received an annual Pension in his absence, but also the gift of the Latin Secretariship: so that at the present being destitute of convenient maintenance and Friends, was, by the endeavours of the Lord Paget and Dr. Steph. Gardiner Bish. of Winchester, made Secretary of the Latin Tongue to Qu. Mary. In 1554 he married one Margaret H••w, by whom he had a considerable Portion; yet notwithstanding that and his Place, he lived and died not according to his condition, being given to Dicing and Cock-fighting. After Qu. Elizabeth came to the Crown, he was not only continued in his place of Secretary, and made Tutor to her for the Greek Tongue, but also by her favour was installed Prebendary of Wetwang in the Church of York (by the deprivation of George Palmes LL. D.) on the eleventh day of March 1559. This Person whose Memory is celebrated to this day among learned men for Oratory, Poetry, and the Greek Tongue, hath written (1) Toxophilus: the School or partitions of Shooting, contained in two books, written 1544 &c.—Lond. 1571, qu. As in his later days he delighted much in Dicing and Cockfighting, so in his younger, while at Cambridge, in Archer••, wherein he much excelled. (2) The Schoolmaster: or, a plain and perfect way of teaching Children to understand, write, and speak the Latin Tongue. &c. in two Books. Lond. 1570 and 1589, qu. (3) A report and discourse of the affairs and state of Germany and the Emperour Charles his Court, during certain years while he was there. printed in qu. (4) Familiarium Epistolarum libri tres, &c. Lond. 1577, 78. oct. (5) Quaedam poemata, printed with the Epistles. (6) Apol. contra missam & ejus praestigias, &c. printed about 1577, in oct. This eminent Scholar R. Ascham dieda 1.2 on the 30 of Dec. 1568, and was buried, without any funeral Pomp, on the 4 of Jan. fol∣lowing▪ in the church of S. Sepulchre without Newgate, London, leaving behind him this character by a learnedb 1.3 person, that he inter primes nostrae nationis literas Latinas & Graecas stylique purita∣tem cum eloquentiae laude excoluit.

Notes

• * 1.1

  Vid. 〈◊〉〈◊〉 Saunders De 〈◊〉〈◊〉. Monarch, edit. 1592. lib. 7. p. 666.
• a 1.2

  ••d. Grant in Orat de Vit. & Ob. Reg. 〈◊〉〈◊〉, Edit. 1577.
• b 1.3

  Gul. Camden in Annal 〈…〉〈…〉 sub an 1568