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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Title: 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 ...
Author: Wood, Anthony à, 1632-1695.
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June 16. Sir Charles Blount Kt.—He was originally of this Uni∣versity, was afterwards Earl of Devonshire, and dying in 1606 left behind him a natural Son named Montjoy Blount, created Earl of Newport in the Isle of Wight by K. Charles I. which Montjoy dying in S. Aldates Parish in Oxon. 12 Feb. 1665, was buried in the south Isle joyning to the Choire of the Cathedral of Ch. Church, near to the Grave of Will. Lord Grandison, the King, with his Court, ha∣ving about that time left Oxon; to which place, he before had re∣tired, to avoid the Plague raging in London.

Sir Charles Danvers Kt. was actually created M. A. the same day.—He was afterwards beheaded on Tower hill near London for being deeply engaged in the Earl of Essex's Treasons, an. 1601.

Sept. 17. Ferdinando Lord Strange.—He was soon after Earl of Derby, and dying in the flower of his Youth, not without suspici∣on of poyson, on the 16 of Apr. 1594, having enjoyed his Earldom but for a little time. was buried near to the body of his Father in a Chappel joyning to the Church of Ormeskirke in Lancashire.

Sept. 17.
- Sir George Carew Kt.—He was afterwards Earl of Totness.
- Sir John Spencer of Althorp in Northamptonshire Kt.

All which were actually created Masters of Arts.