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. 1557.

An. 4 Mariae.

An. 5 Mariae.

Chanc. Card. Reynold Pole Archb. of Canterbury.

Vicechanc. or Commiss. Dr. Tho. Raynolds before mention'd, who holding his Office till about 16 Decemb. Tho. Whyte LL. D. and Warden of New Coll. succeeded by vertue of the Chancellours Letters, dated 10 of the same month; which Office he was to keep no longer than it pleased the Chancellour.

• Proct.
  • Fran. Babyngton of Alls. Coll.
  • Will. Allyn again
    • elected 18 Apr.

Of the senior Proctor I shall speak among the Doct. of Div. an. 1559; of the other I have spoken already among the Writers.

Bach. of Arts.

Oct. 30. Will. Pomerell of New Coll.—He was afterwards num∣bred by his Countrymen of Ireland among the learned men of that Country. See more of him in Rich. White among the Writers, un∣der the year 1612. pag. 324.

Dec. 14. Tho. Gressop of Alls. Coll.—See among the Masters un∣der the year 1561.

John Neale of Exeter Coll. was adm. the same day.—He was elected Rector of his Coll. while he was Bach. of Arts, an. 1560, such then was the scarcity of Masters in that, and other, Houses.

Admit. 31.

Mast. of Arts.

July 1. Rob. Newton of Exeter Coll.—He was elected Rector of the said house on 17 Oct. following, and afterwards became the second perpetual Rector.

John Wolley of Mert. Coll. was admitted the same day.—This person, who was a Shropshire man born, was elected probat. Fell. of that House in 1553, and about the time of his proceeding in Arts, studied the Civ. and Can. Law, but took no Degree in ei∣ther in this University. In Nov. or Dec. this year, he travelled beyond the Seas, where he improved himself much as to Learn∣ing, knowledge of Men and Manners. After the death of Roger Ascham, which hapned in 1568, he became Latin Secretary to the Queen; and in 1569 he was made Prebendary of Compton-Dundo in the Church of Wells. In 1578 he was made Dean of Carlisle (tho a Layman) on the death of Sir Thomas Smyth, and in 1589 Chancellour of the most noble Order of the Garter. In 1592 he was made a Knight, and about the same time one of the Privy Council to her Majesty, being then a person most eminently per∣spicuous for his Learning, Piety, Integrity, Goodness, and Gra∣vity. He died at Pyrford in Survey (where he had an Estate) in the latter end of Feb. or beginning of March. an. 1591, whereupon his Body was buried in the middle of the Chancel behind the high Altar of S. Pauls Cathedral. Over his Grave was, soon after, laid a flat stone with an Inscription thereon, under which also Sir Franc.

Wolloy his Son and Heir, sometimes of Merton Coll. also, was bu∣ried an. 1611, as also Elizabeth Widow of Sir John. All whose bodies were removed in 1614, and buried between S. George's Chappel and that of our Lady, within the Precincts of the said Cathedral, and had a very goodly Tombe with a large Inscription on it, erected over them; which was, with the Cathedral it self, consum'd in the dreadful Fire that hapned in London in the begin∣ning of Sept. an. 1666.

Admitted 18.

Bach. of Div.

Only one was admitted this year. viz. Hen. Henshaw alias Heron∣shaw of Magd. Coll. Dec. 3.—In the next year he was elected Rector of Linc. Coll.

There were also but two that supplicated for the said Degree, one of which was named Will. Ely of Brasn. Coll. who was made the second President of that of S. John, by the Founder thereof, an. 1559. In 1563 or thereabouts, he was removed from that place for maintaining the Pope's Authority, and not the Queens, over the Church of England: whereupon leaving Oxon, lived ma∣ny years obscurely, having, if I mistake not, entred into some re∣ligious Order beyond the Seas. Afterwards being seized upon for a Seminary, he was committed to the common Prison at Hereford, where remaining, several years, died an aged man an. 1609. being then accounted by those of his perswasion, a most holy Confessour. What I have farther to observe of him is this, that when Archb. Cranmer was brought to the Stake to be burnt at Oxon. he took leave of some of his Friends standing by, and seeing this Will. Ely among them, went to stake him by the hand, but he drawing back, said, It was not lawful to salute Hereticks and especially such an one that had falsly returned unto his Opinions that he had forsworn, &c.

☞ Not one Doctor of Law, Physick, or Divinity, was ad∣mitted this year.