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. 1552.

An. 6. Ed. 6.

Chanc. the same, viz. Dr. Rich. Coxe, to whom it was granted by the venerable congregation this year, Jul. 19, that whereas he was about to resign his office of Chancellour within a short time, he should never after be burdned with the office of Vicechancellour. The 14. Nov. following he resign'd it, and on the 18, the congre∣gation of Regents and Non-regents elected according to their new statutes Sir John Mason Knight, sometimes Fellow of Alls. Coll. lately Ambassadour for K. H. 8. into several Foreign Countries and now Dean of the Cath. Ch. at Winchester.

Vicechanc. or Prochanc. James Brokes D. D. of C. C. Coll. for the first part of the year, and Rich. Martiall D. D. of Ch. Ch. for the other part, being elected in Convocation Prochanc. 3. oct. In his absence Dr. Tresham officiated, and is sometimes stiled Procan∣cellarius.

• Proct.
  • The Spencer of Ch. Ch.
  • Maur. Bullock of New Coll.

Both elected on the day before the Cal. of Octob.

Bach. of Arts.

• Jun…. John Rastell
• Oct. 4. Walt. Baylie
  • of New Coll.

Both afterwards writers, and the last an eminent Physician.

About 26 were admitted this year, one half of which are omit∣ted in the Register.

Bach. of LL.

Ellis Heywood of Alls. Coll.—He was afterwards a Jesuit and a writer.

Griffyth Willyams of New Coll.—In 1554 he became Chancel∣lour of the Dioc. of Worcester, in the place of Rob. Johnson resign∣ing; and whether he be the same Williams who was Chancellour to the Bishop of Glocester about the same time, (remembred by Joh. e 1.1 Fox for his strange, fearful, and sudden death which befel him in 1558, after Qu. Elizabeth came to the Crown, and therefore esteemed as a judgment on him for condemning a blind boy to be burnt, in 1556) I cannot justly tell you. In 1557. Will. Turnball LL. Bac. succeeded Griffyth Willyams in the Chancellourship of Worcester.

In the publick register, which is very imperfect in the beginning of this year, it partly appears that one John Bodye supplicated to be admitted Bach. of LL. See in the year 1554.

Mast of Arts.

• Alan Cope
• Lawr. Humphrey
  • of Magd. Coll.

• Hieron. Philippides
• Joh. Abulines, or ab Vlmis
  • of Ch. Ch.

Whether either of these two last, was a writer I cannot yet tell. Qu.

Will. Good of C. C. Coll.

• Jam. Calfill
• John Bavant
  • of Ch. Ch.

The last of the said Masters was afterwards one of the first Fel∣lows of St. Johns Coll. and the first Greek reader there. He was Tutor in the said house to Edm. Campian and Greg. Martin; but upon the alteration of Religion leaving the Coll, and his Country, was made a Ro. Cath. Priest, and afterwards was one of those that endured a tedious imprisonment in Wisbich Castle in Cambridg∣shire upon account of Religion.

Twenty Masters stood in the Act celebrated 18. July this year, but how many were admitted, it appears not in the register.

Bach. of Div,

• Thom. Hardyng of New Coll.
• Thom. Bickley.
• Tho. Bentham
  • of Magd. Coll.

The two last were afterwards Bishops.

Gilbert Burnford—In 1554 he had the Chancellourship of the Church of Wells granted to him under the Seal of the Bishop and Chapter thereof. But when he craved admission thereunto in 1560, he was denied, because he refused the oath of Supremacy. For the same reason he was deprived of the Prebendary of Hasilbere in that Church, and of a rectory in the Dioc. of Wells.

Note that whereas always before this time, when any Bach. of Div. was admitted, he was registred as admitted ad lecturam libri sententiarum, so now during the Reign of K Ed. 6. they are regi∣stred as admitted ad lectionem Paulinarum Epistolarum: And this year those that were admitted, are registred as admitted ad ena••ra∣tionem Epistolarum Apostolicarum in ipsis comitiis hoc anno, viz. 18. Julii.

Doct. of Civ. Law.

Hen. Jones of Alls. Coll.—This Person was one of the learned Doctors of the Civ. Law, whom Qu. Elizabeth consulted concern∣ing the matter of Lesley Bishop of Ross, who, while he was Em∣bassador from Mary Qu. of Scots to Qu. Elizabeth, consulted and

promoted a Rebellion against her. See in Camdens Annalls of Qu. Elizab. under the year 1571. This Dr. Jones died in, or near, Do∣ctors Commons, about the beginning of Feb. in 1591, and was bu∣ried, as it seems, in the Church of St. Bennet near to Pauls wharf in London.

☞ Not one Doctor of Phys. was admitted this year.

Doct. of Div.

Rich. Martiall of Ch. Ch.—Soon after he was made Prebendary of Winchester, and Dean of his Coll. by the intercession of the Lord Arundell (to whom he was Chaplain) made to the Queen. In the Reign of K. Ed. 6. he seem'd to be a great Reformer, and retra∣cted what he zealously had held in the Reign of K. Hen. 8. After the death of K. Ed. 6. he returned to his former opinions, and was more zealous for the Cath. cause than before: But when Qu. Elizab. succeeded, he absconded for a time, and went from place to place. At length being taken and conveyed to London, retracted again in hopes of being setled in his Deanery of Ch. Ch. which might have been, had he behaved himself moderately in the Reign of Qu. Mary. Afterwards, as 'tis said, he went into Yorkshire, where he died obscurely. In his Deanery succeeded G. Carew, as I have told you before, under the year 1522.

Hen. Pendleton of Brasn. Coll. was also admitted this year and stood, with Martiall, in the Act that followed.

Henr. Syddall LL. B. and Canon of Ch. Ch. who had studied sa∣cred letters for 18 years, did this year supplicate that he might put on, or be honour'd with, the cap of Doct. of Divinity. This desire of his was granted conditionally that he be inaugurated and dispute in Divinity in the next Act that should follow. But whe∣ther he was so, or did dispute, it appears not in the publick regi∣ster, or in the Catalogues of Inceptors.

Incorporations.

Nov. 12. Brian Baynes Bach. of Arts of Cambridge—The next year he proceeded in the said faculty, being then a member of Ch. Ch. which is all I know of him.

Nov …Valentine Dale of Alls. Coll. Doctor of the Civ. Law beyond the Seas, (at Oreleans I think) seems to be incorporated in that month, because he had supplicated more than once for that Degree—He was afterwards Master of the Requests, Dean of Wells, 1574, and about that time Embassadour to the French King upon the calling home of Sir Franc. Walsingham to be Secretary of State, &c. He died in his house near St. Pauls Cathedral 17. Nov. 1589. and was buried in the Parish Church of St. Gregory near to the said Cathedral, leaving behind him a Daughter named Dorothy, who being coheir to her Father, was married to Sir John North, Son and Heir to Roger Lord North.

Dec. 2. Walter Haddon President of Magd. Coll. in Oxon. and Doctor of the Civil Law at Cambridge.—This Person who was a Buckinghamshire Man born, and educated in Grammar learning in Eaton School, was chose Scholar of Kings Coll. in Cambridge, an. 1533, where arriving to great eminence in the Civil Law was made the Kings Professor of that faculty in the said University, and much esteemed for his eloquence and learning, especially by Le∣land who* 1.2 calls him Heveddunus. Afterwards, being a Man much addicted to reformation, he was by virtue of several letters written by the King in his behalf, elected, tho contrary to statute, President of Magd. Coll. where he continued about an year; and then learning it to prevent expulsion, sheltred himself in private du∣ring the Reign of Qu. Mary. After Qu. Elizabeth came to the Crown he was made one of her Masters of Requests, and by her em∣ployed in one or more Embassies. His works are (1) A sight of the Portugal Pearl, in answer to the Epistle of Hieron. Osorius entit. A Pearl for a Prince. This book which was written in Latin, I have not yet seen, only the translation of it into English, made by Abrah. Hartwell, an. 1565. in tw. (2) Lucubrationes. Lond. 1565. qu. col∣lected and published by Tho. Hatcher of Kings Coll. in Cambridge. These Lucubrations consist of Orations and Epistles. Among the Orations is that De obitu Mart. Buceri. and among the Epistles is that De vita & obitu fratrum Suffolciensium Henrics & Caroli Bran∣don. (3) Poemata. Lond. 1567. qu. collected also and published by the said Hatcher (4) Contra Hieron. Osorium. ejus{que} odiosas insectatio¦nes pro Evangelicae veritatis necessaria defensione, responsio apologeti∣••••. Lond. 1577. qu. This book was began and carried on by him more than half: Afterwards coming into the hands of John Fox, was by him finish'd and published, and at length translated into English by Jam. B••ll. (5) Poematum lib. duo Lond. 1592. oct. Be∣fore which Poems is printed the life of Wal••. Haddon. Whether these two books contain his Poems beforemention'd I cannot tell. I remember I once saw them, but dreaming not in the least of any future mentioning Dr. Haddon, I throw'd them aside after I had taken the title, otherwise I should have spoken more of him. He gave way to fate 21. January 1571 (leaving then behind him the Character of Orator d••lcis & foecundus,) and was buried on the 25. of the same month in the Grey fryers Church, now called Ch. Ch. within the City of London. Over his grave was soon after a com∣ly monument erected; which, with the Church it self, was con∣sumed by the dreadful conslagration that hapned in the said City in the beginning of Sept. 1666.

☞ This year Jul. 20. the publick Registrary or Scribe of the University, was deprived of his place for neglecting to set

down and enter in the common register the Acts of Congre∣gations for several years behind.

Notes

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