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 ...

Incorporations.

July 7. Edward Chapman Bach. of Div. of Cambridge.—He was soon after admitted Doctor, as I have before told you.

14. William Whitaker or Whittaker Bach. of Divinity of the said University.—This famous Divine for Learning and Life, was born at Holme in the Parish of Burnd••ey in Lancashire, initiated there in Grammar learning, taken thence by his Uncle Alexander Nowell Dean of Pauls, and by him maintained in his house, and put to the Free School there. At eighteen years of age he was sent to Trin. Coll. in Cambridge, took the Degrees in Arts, and the first thing that made him known for his excellency in the Gr. Tongue, was the turning his Uncles Catechism into that Language. After∣wards being famous for Theology, he was made the Kings Profes∣sor in that Faculty, and stood up in defence of the Protestant Reli∣gion and Church of England against Edmund Campian, Nicholas Saunders, William Rainolds, Robert Bellarmine, Thomas Stapleton, &c. At length having much impoverished his weak Body by continual study, even at that time, when the Question was so rise among the Divines† Whether a true and justifying faith may be lost, he was freed from this Body of flesh, and lost his life, having left be∣hind him the desire and love of the present times, and the envy of Posterity, that cannot bring forth his parallel. He gave way to Fate 4 December an. 1595, aged 47, and was buried in the Chappel belonging to S. Johns Coll. in Cambridge, of which Coll. he had se∣veral years before been Master. His Works are printed in Latin in two folio's at Genev. 1610.

July 15. G••vase Babington M. of A. of the same University of Cambridge.—He was a Nottinghamshire man born, was Fellow of Trinity Coll afterwards Chaplain to Henry Earl of Pembroke, Trea∣surer of Landaff, and successively Bishop of Landaff, Exeter, and Worcester. He published several Books of Div. which were all printed in one Volume in fol, Lond. 1615, and go under the name of his Works. He died in the year 1610, at which time he en∣riched the Library belonging to the Church at Worcester, with ma∣ny choice Books.

Brute Babington B. of A. of this University, was incorporated the same day: so also was

William Cotton M. A.—This person who was Son of John Cot∣ton Citizen of Lond••n, third Son of Richard, eight Son of John Cot∣ton, or Coton of Humpstable Ridware in Staffordshire, was partly educated in Guildford School in Surrey, afterwards in Queens Coll. in Cambridge, and took the usual Degrees. Some years after he became Archdeacon of Lewis, Canon residentiary of S. Pauls Cath. Church, and at length Bishop of Exeter. He died at Silverton in Devon. 26 August 1621, and was buried on the south side of the Choire or Presbytery of the Cath. Church at Exeter. One William Cotton Fellow of Magd. Coll. in Oxon, was admitted M. of A. in June 1577, but what relation there was between him and the Bi∣shop, I cannot tell.

This year also, Sept. 1. Edward Stanhope Doct. of the Civ. Law of Trinity Coll. in the said University, did supplicate in a Conven∣tion called simile primum, that he might be incorporated in the said Degree, which, tho granted simpliciter, yet it appears not that he was incorporated. He was afterwards a Knight, Chancellour to the Bishop of London, and Vicar General to the Archb. of Canter∣bury. He paid his last debt to Nature on the sixteenth day of March an. 1608, and was buried near to the great north door within the Cathedral Church of S. Paul in London. He was Brother to John Lord Stanhope of Harrington.

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