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. 1573.

An. 15 Elizab.

An. 16 Elizab.

Chanc. the same.

Commiss. the same, viz. Dr. Humphrey.

• Proct.
  • John Tatham of Mert. Coll.
  • Edm. Lillye of Magd. Coll.
    • Ap. 1.

Bach. of Arts.

• Ap. 1.
  • Jam. Bisse
  • Joh. Thornborough
    • of Magd. Coll.

The last of which was afterwards Bishop of Worcester.

27. John Lilye of Magd. Coll.

Jul. 3. Tho. Lovell—See in the year 1577.

7. Tho. Rogers of Ch. Ch.

Jan. 14. John Williams, afterwards of Alls. Coll.

Rich. Hooker of C. C. Coll. was admitted the same day.

28. Tho. Lister—See more among the Masters, an. 1576.

• Feb. 3.
  • James Ley
  • Will. Massie
    • of Br. Coll.

Of the last, see more in 1586 among the Bach. of Div.

4. John Bond of New Coll.—Eminent afterwards for his critical learning.

Edw. Habington or Abington was admitted the same day—Whe∣ther this Person, who seems to have been of Exeter Coll. was the same Ed. Habington who suffered for being engaged in the treasons of Mary Qu. of Scots, I cannot tell. See in Tho. Habington among the writers, an. 1647.

17. Hen. Rowlands—He was afterwards Bishop of Bangor.

19. Rich. Hackluyt of Ch. Ch.

In the month of March, Will. Camden who had studied Logick for 4 years, supplicated for the Degree of Bach. of Arts; but oc∣curs not admitted. See in the year 1588.

This year also, Will. Gifford then or lately of Linc. Coll. did make the like supplication, but was not admitted. He was after∣wards Archb. of Rheimes.

Admitted 172. or thereabouts.

Mast. of Arts.

Jun. 19. Thom. Williams—Qu. whether the Welsh critick.

Jul. 1. Thom. White of Magd. Hall.

31. Joh. Gibson—One of both his names was Author of A Cate∣chisme. Lond. 1579. oct. Also of The sacred shield of all true Sol∣diers. Printed 1599. in oct. &c. Whether the same with Jo. Gibson M. of A. I cannot tell.

• Octob. 7. John Chamber.
  • 8.
    • John. Drusius the Belgick critick
    • Ralph Gualter Son of Ralph
      • of Merton Coll.
• Jan. 21.
  • Rich. Turnbull
  • George More
    • of C. C. Coll.

One George More who was a Minister and Preacher of Gods word wro•• and published, A true discourse concerning the certain possession and dispossession of seven Persons in one family in Lancashire. Print∣ed 1600 in oct. at which time he had been a Prisoner in the Clinke about two years, for bearing witness to, and justifying the said, matters. Whether he be the same with him, who was M. of A. I cannot tell. Another George More I have mention'd among the writers. pag. 418.

Admitted 71.

Bach. of Phys.

Jun. 10. Rich. Forster of Als. Coll.—See among the Doctors of Physick this year.

In July, Joh. Banister was admitted to practise Physick having ori∣ginally been a Student in this University.

Bach. of Div.

Oct. 10. Joh. Elmer or Aylmer, now an Archdeacon and a Ju∣stice of the Peace, as the publick Register tells us.

Michael Renniger of Magd. Coll. was admitted the same day.

Dec. 10. Tob. Mathew President of St. Johns Coll.

Jan. 26. Hen. Withers.—In 1569 he was incorporated M. of A. as he had stood at Cambridge, &c.

Admitted 6.

Doct. of Civil Law.

• Oct. 13. Michael Maschiart
• 15. Will. Smyth
  • of New Coll.

The first was Poeta sui saeculi princeps, as a learned Author stiles him.

John Chippyngdale of Alls. Coll. was admitted on the same day, being then accounted by the generality an eminent Civilian.

Doct. of Phys.

Jul. 2. Randall Trevor.

Rog. Marbeck or Merbeck of Ch. Ch. was admitted the same day—He was the Son of John Merbeck Organist of Windsore, (whom I have mention'd in these Fasti, an. 1550) and the first stand∣ing or perpetual Orator of the University. Afterwards he was Canon of Ch. Church, Provost of Oriel and the chief Physician be∣longing to the Queen. He died in July, or thereabouts, in 1605, and was buried, as I conceive, in the Church of St. Giles without Cripplegate, London, for in that Parish he died. See more of him in Hist. & Antiq. Vniv. Oxon. lib. 2. p. 47. a. and pag. 257. a.

Jul. 2. Thom. Wanton of Merton Coll.

Rich. Forster of Alls. Coll. was admitted the same day—This Person who was Son of Laurence, Son of Will. Forster of the City of Coventry, is stiled by a most learned Author Nobilis Mathe∣maticus, but whether he hath published any thing, I cannot yet find. He died at London 27. March 1616 to the great reluctancy of all those that knew the profound learning of the Person.

Doct. of Div.

Oct. 10. Joh. Elmer or Aylmer, who accumulated the Degrees in Divinity—He was afterwards Bishop of London.

Michael Renniger of Magd. Coll. was admitted the same day.— He also accumulated.

Jan…. Will. Cole President of C. C. C.—He succeeded Dr. Jo. Rainolds in the Deanery of Lincolne, an. 1598. and dying in 1600 was succeeded by Laur. Staunton.

Besides these, were five that supplicated for the said Degree, most of which were afterwards admitted.

Notes

• Camden in Annal. Reg. Jac. 1. MS. sub. an. 1616.