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. 1546.

An. 38 Hen. 8.

Chanc. the same.

Commiss. the same.

• Proct.
  • John Smyth of Oriel Coll.
  • Simon Perrot again.

Elected the first day of Easter Term, the senior being then, as it seems, Bach. of Divinity.

Bach. of Arts.

Jul…. Justinian Lancaster of C. C. Coll.—Whether he took the degree of M. A. it appears not. Afterwards he was made Arch∣deacon of Taunto•• in Somersetshire, in the place, I suppose, of John Fitzjames deprived, an. 1560.

…. Michael Reninger, commonly called Rhanger of Magd. Coll. …. John Cox of Brasn. Coll.—I find one of both his names to have made several Translations into the English Tongue, as (1.) An Exhortation to the Ministers of Gods word in the Church of Christ, Lond. 1575. written by Henr. Bullinger. (2.) A Treatise of the word of God, written against the traditions of men, Lond. 1583. oct. written by Anth. Sade••ll, &c. But whether the said Translations were made by the aforesaid John Cox of Brasn. Coll. or another John Cox who was a Student of C. C. 1555, I cannot yet resolve you.

…. The Wylson of Brasn. Coll. a Yorkshire man born.—See in the year 1516 and 1553.

In all about 36.

☞ Not one Admission in the Law or Laws is this year re∣gistred.

Mast. of Arts.

….Tho. Neale of New Coll. now eminent for the Hebrew as well as for the Greek Tongue.

….Leonard Bilson lately of Mert. Coll. as it seems, now the learned Schoolmaster of Reading in Berks.—This person who was

Uncle to Dr. Tho. Bilson B. of Winchester, had several Dignities in the Church, of which a Prebendship of Winchester was one.

… Will. Johnson of Alls. Coll.—He is reported to be after∣wards Bishop of Meath in Ireland. See in the year 1543.

The Admissions of Masters being not registred by the Scribe, I can only say that only 10 stood in the Act celebrated 11 Jul. this year.

☞ The Admissions of Bach. of Div. are omitted in the Reg.

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

Doct. of Div.

June…. James Brokes of C. C. Coll.—He was afterwards Bish. of Gloc. as I have before told you.

Incorporations.

June… John Crayford D. of D. of Cambridge.—He was origi∣nally of Queens Coll. in that University; from whence being eject∣ed, he went to Oxon, was elected Fellow of Vniv. Coll. an. 1519. incorporated M. of A. in 152••. as I have before told you in that year, became Proctor of Camb. in the year following, and in 1523; he was made one of the Canons of Cardinal College. Afterwards leaving Oxon, he went to Cambridge the third time, swhere he com∣menced D. of D. an. 1535, and was soon after Vicechancellor of that University. In Octob. 1544. he became Chancellor of the Church of Salisbury on the death of John Edmunds, being then Prebendary of North Aulton in the said Church; and in the middle of July 1545, he was collated to the Archdeaconry of Berkshire on the death of Rob. Audley. On the 17 of March following, he was collated to the Prebendship of Chermister and Bere in the Church of Sarum, upon the resignation of George Heneage; and in Sept. 1546 (he having been newly incorporated D. of D. as 'tis before told you) he was elected Master of Vniv Coll being then also Preben∣dary of Winchester. He concluded his last day soon after; where∣upon Henr. Parry succeeded him in the Chancellorship of Sa••um, in Sept. 1547, and in the Mastership of the said Coll. one Rich. Sal∣veine M. A. As for his Archdeaconry, which he before had re∣signed, did succeed him therein Will. Pye, 7 Oct. 1545.