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 ...

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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 ...
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Wood, Anthony à, 1632-1695.
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"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 ..." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A71276.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 14, 2024.

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May…Rich. Vaughan M. A. of Cambridge.—He was a Caer∣navanshire Man born, educated in St. Johns Coll. in Cambr. and afterwards was successively Bishop of Bangor, Chester, and London: During which time he was accounted an excellent Preacher and a pious liver.

Jul. 14. Thom. Braddck M. A. of the said University—He was Fellow of Christs Coll. and afterward Bach. of Divinity, and translator of Jewell's Defence of the Apologie, as I have told you in John Jewell among the Writers, an. 1571.

Nathaniel Cole M. A. of Cambr. was incorporated the same day— He was afterwards Proctor of the said University, Minister of Much Parrington near Harlow in Essex, and at length of St. Leo∣nards Bromley on the backside of Stratford-bow in Middlesex. He hath published. (1) The godly Mans assurance of his own Salvation. Lond. 1615. qu. (2) Preservatives against sin, or bow to live and not sin, &c. Lond. 1618. qu. (3) The Christians welcome to the Court of Heaven, &c. a Sermon. Lond. 1625. qu. and other things which I have not seen.

Edw. Scambler M. A. of the same University, was incorporated on the same day—One E. Schambler Vicar of Re in Sussex and a member of Peter house in Cambr. wrot and published A Medicine proved for a desperate conscience, printed at Lond. in oct. whether written by Edward Scambler M. of A. or Edmund Scambler who was afterwards Bishop of Peterborough and Norwich, I cannot tell. Quaere.

Andrew Willet M. of A. of Cambr. was also then (Jul. 14.) in∣corporated, being in a congregation after the conclusion of the Act—He was born in Ely in Cambridgshire, educated in Christs Coll. succeeded his Father Mr. Thom. Willet in a Prebendship of Ely, and in the Parsonage of Barley in Hertfordshire, published divers books, the titles of most of which you may see in the Bodleian or Oxford Catalogue, and dying 4. Dec. 1621. was buried in the Chan∣cel of the Church at Barley.

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