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Aug. 27. Rich. Barber Bach. of the LL. and Warden of Alls. Coll. was then actually created Doctor of the Laws in an upper Chamber belonging to him as Warden, by Dr. Will. Awbrey and Dr. Rob. Longher, by vertue of a Commission directed to them from the ven. Convocation.—See more among the Bach. of Law, an. 1540.
Edw. Atslow M. of A. and Fellow of New Coll. was actually cre∣ated Doct. of Phys. the same day, in the house of Dr. Hen. Baylie situated in the Highstreet leading to the Quadrivium, by Dr. Thom. Francis and him the said Dr. Baylie by vertue of a Commission, &c.
Rob. Barnes Bach. of Phys. sometimes Fellow of Mert. Coll. was also actually created Doctor of that Faculty in the same place and on the same day, by vertue of a Commission, &c.
Aug. 30. Roger Gifford Bach. of Physick, sometimes Fellow of Merton College, now, or lately, Fellow of that of Allsoules, was actually created Doct. of that Fac. by Dr. Walter, and Henry Baylie, in the house of the said Henry, by vertue of a Commission, &c. This Doctor Gifford was afterwards President of the Coll. of Physitians at London, and Physitian to Qu. Elizabeth.
Note that the aforesaid four persons were created, because they were appointed by the Convocation to dispute before Qu. Eliza∣beth when she was to be entertained by the Academians in the be∣ginning of Sept. this year.
After she had been entertained, these noble Persons following, with others of quality, were actually created Masters of Arts, on the 6 day of the said month of Sept. viz.
Edward Vere Earl of Oxford.—He was Son of John Vere Earl of the said place, who dying in 1562, left this his Son Edw. a vast Estate, which he afterwards squandred, for the most part, away, upon some distaste taken against his Wives Father Will. Lord Bur∣leigh L. Treasurer of England, who refused to endeavour, when it laid in his power, to save the life of his beloved and entire Friend Thomas Duke of Norfolk for what he was charged with relating to Mary Queen of Scots. This most noble Earl of Oxon was in his younger days an excellent Poet and Comedian, as several matters of his Composition, which were made publick, did shew, which, I presume, are now lost and worn out. All that I have yet seen are certain Poems on several Subjects, thus entit. (1) His good name being blemished, be bewayleth. (2) The complaint of a Lover wearing black and tawnie. (3) Being in love he complaineth. (4) A lover rejected complaineth. (5) Not attaining to his desire, he com∣playneth. (6) His mind not quietly setled be complayneth thus; with many such like things, that were highly valued in their time. He gave way to fate in a good old age 24 June 1604, and was, as I conceive, buried by the body of his Father, at Earls Colne in Essex.
Will. Haward or Howard Baron of Effingham, Lord Chamberlain to the Queen.—He was Son of Thomas, the second Duke of Nor∣folk, by Agnes his second Wife, dau. of Hugh Tilney, and Sister and Heir to Sir Philip Tilney of Boston in Lincolnshire, Kt.
Tho. Butler Earl of Ormond.—This person is one of the Ancestors of the present Duke of Ormond, was now in great favour with Qu. Elizab. and by her employed several times in matters of con∣cern relating to Ireland, especially in that of quelling the Rebel∣lion there, made by some of his house, as Sir Edm. Butler, Pierce and Edw. his Brethren.
Ambrose Dudley Earl of Warwick.—He was the eldest Son that survived of Joh. Dudley Duke of Northumberland, (beheaded for High Treason in the Reign of Qu. Mary) and elder Brother to Rob. Dudley Earl of Leicester, Chanc. of this University.
Hen. Lord Strange Son of Edw. Earl of Derby.—He became Earl of Derby after his Fathers Death, an. 1572.
- Edw. Stafford
- Joh. Sheffield
- Barons.
The first of these two Barons was the true heir of the Staffords Dukes of Buckingham, and is Ancestor to John Howard the present Viscount Stafford. The other, Joh. Sheffield, died in 1568. leaving then behind him a Son of about two years of age named Edmund, who was created Earl of Mulgreve or Mulgrave by K. Ch. 1. in the first year of his Reign.
Sir Will. Cicill Secretary of State.—He was afterwards Lord Burleigh, and Father to Tho. Earl of Exeter, Rob. Earl of Salisbury, and Edw. Vicount Wimbleton.
….Rogers Controller.—What his Christian Name was, I can∣not yet tell.
Sir Franc. Knollis Knight, Captain of the Halbertiers.
Sir Nich. Throcinorton Knight, a wise and stout man, lately leiger Embassadour in France, and about this time chief Butler of England and Chamberla••ne of the Exchequer.—He died suddenly in Ley∣cester House in the Parish of S. Clement without Temple barre, London, on Munday 12 Feb. 1570. Whereupon his body was carried to his house in the Parish of Chree Church near Algate; where resting till the 21 day of the said month, was then buried in the Parish Church there. See more of him in Camdens Annals of Qu. Elizab. under the year 1570.
John Tomworth or Tamworth Esq; of the Privy Council to the Queen.—The same who in 1564 had been sent to Mary Qu. of Scots to interceed with her for the readmission of some of her Lords that had been against her Marriage with Henry Lord Darn∣ley. This Jo. Tomworth had spent much of his youth in travelling beyond the Seas.
These Nobles, and persons of Quality before mention'd, were, I say, actually created Masters of Arts, in a Convocation held Sept. 6. in the public Refectory of Ch. Church, in the presence of