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. 1567.

An. 9 Eliz.

An. 10 Eliz.

Chanc. the same.

Commiss. Tho. Cooper D. D. Dean of Ch. Ch. elected 26 March

• Proct.
  • Adam Squyre of Ball. Coll.
  • Henr. Bust of Magd. Coll.
    • elected 9 Apr.

Bach. of Arts.

Apr. 18. John Chardon of Exeter Coll.—He was afterwards Bishop of Downe and Connor in Ireland.

Jun. 7. Rich. Stanyhurst of Vniv. Coll.

Jul. 12. Thom. Williams.—See among the Writers under the year 1600.

Oct. 10. John Case the Philosopher of S. John's Coll.

Dec. 16. Edward Lord Russell, (of Vniv. Coll.) eldest Son of Francis Earl of Bedford. Adm. 46.

Bach. of Law.

Dec. 9. Michael Maschiart of New Coll.

Besides him, were 9 admitted; but not one of them was af∣terwards a Bishop or Writer.

Mast. of Arts.

• Apr. 21.
  • Tho. Allen or Alan
  • George Blackwell
    • of Trin. Coll.

Thom. Ford was also admitted on the same day.—This per∣son who was Fellow of Trin. Coll. and a Devonian born, did soon after leave the University, Country, and Friends, went to Doway, and became a R. Cath. Priest and Bach. of Divinity. Afterwards being sent into the Mission of England, was taken and imprison∣ed, and at length executed at Tybourne near London 28 May 1582.

Jun. 4. Will. Raynolds of New Coll.

20. Jo. Field.—See among the Writers under the year 1587.

Jul. 9. Franc. Bunney of Magd. Coll.—He is mentioned at large among the Writers p. 355, but the Printer hath set his name Bunne for Bunney.

Oct. 17. Nich. Bond of the same Coll.—This person I set down here, not that he was a Writer, but to distinguish him from Nich. Bownd, whom I shall mention among the Incorporations, an. 1577.

Thom. Co••e of Magd. Coll. was admitted the same day.—In the latter end of the year (in March) 1588, he became Archdeacon of the East riding of Yorkshire upon the resignation of John Mey (who some years before had been promoted to the See of Carlile) and he upon the death of Martin Parkynson Bach. of Div. in Aug. 1569.

Oct. 30. Rob. Fletcher of Mert. Coll.—One of both his names hath made several Translations as (1) The Song of Salomon, into English Verse, &c. Lond. 1586 in tw. to which he added Annotati∣ons. (2) Of the introduction to the love of God; out of English prose into English verse, Lond. 1581. oct. &c. Whether he be the same with him of Mert. Coll. I cannot tell, unless I could see the said Translations, which I have not yet done. As for the said Rob. Fletcher of Mert. Coll. who was a Warwickshire man born, he was for several misdemeanors turn'd out from his Fellowship of that House, in June 1569, whereupon, being out of employment for the present, he was soon after made Schoolmaster of Taunton in Somersetshire, and at length became a godly Minister and Preach∣er of the Word of God.

Joh. Tatham of Mert. Coll. was admitted the same day.—He was afterwards Rector of Linc. Coll.

Adm. 43.

Bach. of Div.

Only one was admitted this year, viz. John Withyns of Brasn Coll. which is all I know of him.

Doct. of Civ. Law.

• Apr. 10. Hen. Berkley of New
• 21. Will. Constantine of Alls.
  • Coll.

Jul. 4. Joh. Belly Provost of Oriol Coll.—He was afterwards Chancellour of the Diocess of Lincoln, and one of the Masters of the Chancery.

Tho. Sammon of Alls. Coll. was admitted the same day.

7. Rob. Leech of Ch. Ch. Chancellour of Chester.

Doct. of Physick.

Jul. 12. Henry Wotton of Ch. Church.—See more of him in Ed∣ward Wotton among the Writers, under the year 1555. p. 78.

Doct. of Div.

Jul. 7. John Bullyngham of Magd. Coll.—He was afterwards Bishop of Glocester.

Incorporations.

Jul. 9. Robert Horne Doct. of Div. of Cambridge, and now Bishop of Winchester, was incorporated Doctor in the house of Congrega∣tion, and took the Oath requisite to be taken by such that are in∣corporated. —He was the Son of John Horne, Son of Will. Horne of Cletor in Copland, in the County of Cumberland, educated in S. John's Coll. in the aforesaid University, made Dean of Durham in Nov. 1551, was an Exile for his Religion in 1553, returned in the beginning of Qu. Elizabeth, an. 1558, restored to his Deanery in the year following, and in 1560 he was made Bish. of Winche∣ster. He hath written An answer made to a Book entit. The declara∣tion of such scruples and staies of Conscience touching the Oath of Su∣premacy, as Mr. Jo. Fekenham by writing did deliver unto the said L. Bishop with his Resolutions made thereunto. Lond. 1566, qu. and also A preface to Calvins two sermons, one against Idolatry, the other to suffer persecution, &c. He died on the first of June 1579, and was buried in his Church at Winchester near the pulpit. I find ano∣ther Rob. Horne to be a Writer and Publisher of several books re∣lating to Divinity, but he was a Minister of God's Word at Lud∣low in Shropshire, in the Reigns of Jam. 1. and Ch. 1.

Jul. 15. Rich. Howland M. of A. of Cambridge.—This person being the Son of Rich. Howland of London by his Wife Anne Green∣way of Clay in Norfolk, was baptized (at London I think) 26 September 1540, afterwards educated in Peter House, of which he was Fellow, made Master of Magd. then of S. Johns, College in Cambridge, and at length Bishop of Peterborough, as I have elsewhere told you.