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 ...

Doct. of Law.

Apr. 30. Hen. Manning of Alls. Coll.—He was afterwards Chancellour of the Dioc. of Exet. and died in 1614.

Jun. 30. Will. Gager of Ch. Ch.—He accumulated the Degrees in the Civ. Law.

Joh. Estmond of New Coll. was admitted the same day.—He was now Principal of N••w Inn.

Jul. 6. John Bennet of Ch. Ch.—He was lately one of the Pro∣ctors of the University, afterwards Vicar Gen. in Spirituals to the Archb. of York, Prebendary of Langtoft in the Church of York Chancellour to Qu. Anne, a Knight, and Judge of the Prerogative Court of Canterbury. In the beginning of 1617 he was sent Embas∣sadour to Bruxelis to question the Archduke in behalf of his Master the King of Great Britain concerning a late famous Libel wrot and published, as 'twas supposed, by Erycius Puteanus, who neithera 1.1 apprehended the Author, nor suppressed the Book, untill he was sollicited by the Kings Agent there only interdicted it, and suffer∣ed the Author to fly his Dominions. Afterwards, in 1621, the said Sir Joh. Bennet was, for bribery, corruption, and exaction in his place of Judge of the Prerogative, first committed to custodyb 1.2 to the Sheriff of London, then to prison, afterwards fined 20000 l. and at length deprived of his place of Judicature, till such time that he had restored what he had unjustly taken away. He died in the Parish of Christ Church in London. in the beginning of 1627, and was buried, I suppose, in the Church there.

July 11. Thomas Crompton M. A. of Merton Coll.—His Grace had before been denied, because he was suspected to have some∣thing of a Papist in him; but afterwards making a protestation of his Religion according to the Church of England in a solemn Con∣gregation of Regents, he was permitted then (July 11.) to proceed. He was afterwards a Knight, Judge of the Court of Admiralty, and one of the first Burgesses that the Members of this University chose to sit in, after they had been impowr'd to send them to, Parlia∣ment. He died in the latter end of 1608, having before, as I con∣ceive, been engaged in the Earl of Essex his Treasons.

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