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 ...

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Title: 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 ...
Author: Wood, Anthony à, 1632-1695.
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June 5. Rich. Mulcaster B. of A. of Cambridge.—Soon after he took the Degree of Master, as I have before told you, and at length became a noted Writer of his time.

Jul. 21. Nicholas Ormanet Doctor of the Civ. Law of Padua, now one of the prime Visitors appointed by Cardinal Pole Legate à latere, to visit this University, was then incorporated.—John Fox in his Book of Acts and Mon. of the Church, &c. under the year 1557, tells us, that he was the Pope's Datary, but false; for at this time I find him thus written, Nich. Ormanettus Pata∣vinus Archipresbyter plebis Bodolesini Viennensis dioc. He had been recommended to the Service of the said Cardinal by Pope Julius 3. who had an especial esteem for him; and being a Visitor, and an haughty person, as the Protestants esteem'd him, he thought it not fit to be presented, and stand bare before the Commissary or Vice∣chanc. for Incorporation; and therefore it was agreed upon by the Members of the House, that he should be diplomated; by vertue of which he was also made Doctor of the Canon Law. By some of the reformed Party now (1556) remaining in the University, he was esteemed a supercilious man, and intolerably arrogant, but by the Rom. Cath. severe, pious, and prudent. He afterwards sate in the Council at Trent, was made Bish. of Padua by Pope Pius 5. an. 1570, in which See sitting 7 years, died full of praise, and in a good old Age.

Nov. 12. Arthur Yeldard M. A. of Cambr.—He was afterwards made the second President of Trin. Coll.