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Apr. 8. Cuthbert Mayne of S. John's Coll.—Soon after he left the Nation, went to Doway in 1572, and was promoted there to the degree of Bach. of Divinity: Afterwards he was sent into the mission of England, and setled for a time in his native Country of Devonshire. In 1577 he was taken, and on the 29 of Nov. the same year, he was hang'd drawn, and quarter'd at Lanceston in Corn∣wal, being then accounted by those of his Profession, the first Mar∣tyr of the Seminaries. You may read more of him in Cardinal Alans book called A sincere and modest defence &c. or An answer to a libel of English justice, &c. p. 2. also in Camdens Annals of Qu. Eliz. under the year 1571.
Henr. Shaw of the same Coll. was admitted on the same day.— He afterwards went beyond the Seas, changed his Religion, was made a Priest, and returning into England, was taken and com∣mitted to custody in Wisbich Castle, where, with several others, he endured a tedious Imprisonment, and therefore by those of his profession accounted a Confessor.
- Apr. 25. Thom. Bilson of New
- 28. Rob. Hoveden of Allsoules
- 30. Hen. Savile of Merton.
- Coll.
- Jul. 4.
- Will. Harrys
- Rich. Knolles
- of Linc. Coll.
Dec. 4. Barthelmew Chamberlayne of Trin. Coll.
Adm. 53.