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. 1591.

An. 33 Elizab.

An. 34 Elizab.

Chanc. Sir Christoph. Hatton, who dying 20 of Nov. this year, certain Members of the University, especially those of the Purita∣nical Party, were for Robert Earl of Essex before mention'd, now in great favour with the Queen; and others for Tho. Sackvile Lord Buckhurst. At length upon the receipt of Letters from the Queen in favour of Buckhurst, the Academians elected him 17 Dec. fol∣lowing. See more in the Incorporations this year.

Vicechanc. Dr. James again, designed by Chancellour Hatton, 16 July.

• Proct.
  • Rich. Braunche of Ch. Ch.
  • Joh. Lloyd of New Coll.
    • Apr. 16.

Which Proctors, with several Doctors and others, went to Lon∣don, to admit the Chancellour to his Office, being the first Admis∣sion out, or without the limits, of the University, that I have yet met with.

Bach. of Arts.

Mar. 27. Tho. Storer of Ch. Ch. now in much esteem for his Poetry.

• Apr. 16. Rob. Moor
• June 4. Arth. Lake
  • of New Coll.

The former was adorn'd with variety of Learning, the other was afterwards a Bishop.

Jul. 2. Will. Hinde of Queens Coll.—Afterwards a learned Non∣conformist.

9. Walter Wylshman of Exeter Coll. afterwards of Broadgates Hall.

• Jan. 16. Rich. Haydock of New
• Feb. 7. Gerard Massie of Brasn.
  • Coll.

Of the last you may see more among the Doctors of Divinity, an. 1608.

Adm. 116.

Mast. of Arts.

May 20. Will. Westerman of Oriel Coll. lately of Gloc. Hall.

June 15. Samuel Burton of Ch. Ch.—He became Rector of Dry Marston in Glocestershire seven years after this time, afterwards Archdeacon of Glocester, and at length Justice of the Peace for that County. He hath published A Sermon preached at the general As∣sizes in Warwick, 3 March, being the first Friday in Lent 1619, on Rom. 1. 4. Lond. 1620. qu. and perhaps other things. He died 14 June 1634, was buried in the Chancel of the Church of Dry Marston before mention'd.

• Jun. 21.
  • Tho. Hutton
  • Henr. Price
    • of S. Joh. Coll.
• Jul. 8. Nathan. Torporley of Brasn.
• Nov. 30. Joh. Day of Oriel
• Feb. 26. Joh. Hoskyns sen. of New
  • Coll.

Adm. 56.

Bach. of Div.

Mar. 27. Henr. Rowlands of New Coll.—He was afterwards Bishop of Bangor.

• Apr. 27. Leonard Hutten
• Jul. 2. Joh. King
  • of Ch. Ch.

Adam Hyll of Ball. Coll. was admitted the same day.

Nov. 15. Soh. Smith of S. Joh. Coll.

Adm. 15.

☞ Not one Doctor of Law or of Physick was admitted this year.

Doct. of Div.

Jul. 2. Tho. Hyde of Ball. Coll.—On the fourteenth of June 1588, he became Chancellour of the Church of Salisbury, on the death of Dr. Tho. Whyte, (having before been Prebendary of Ilfra∣comb in the said Church) and dying in Nov. 1618, was succeeded in his Chancellourship by Dr. Franc. Dee, who was afterwards B. of Peterborough.

Ralph Pickover of Ch. Ch. was adm. the same day.—On the 5. of July 1576, he was installed Archd. of Rochester in the place of Joh. Calverley deceased, and in 1580 he succeeded Dr. Rob. Dorset in a Canonry of Ch. Ch. In an. 1582 he became Archdeacon of Salisbury, but whether he was Dean of that Church (as I have told you in Hist. & Antiq. Vniv. Ox. lib. 2. p. 259. b. upon false information) it appears not. In his Archdeaconry of Rochester, which he resigned, was installed Th. Staller D. D. 5 Jul. 1593, and to his Archdeaconry of Sarum (which he kept to the day of his death) was collated Will. Barlow, on the 12 of March (being four days after the death of Pickover) an. 1614. This person Pickover is commended for a learned man, for a good Greecian, Hebritian and a frequent Preacher. See in the said Hist. & Antiq. lib. 2. p. 260. a.

Adam Hyll of Ball. Coll. was adm, the same day, July 2.—He accumulated, as Pickover did.

Incorporations.

Jul. 13. George Downham M. A. of Cambridge—He was Son of Will. Downham Bishop of Chester, was educated in Christs Coll. in Cambridge, of which he became Fellow about 1585, afterwards a great Aristotelian, a follower of Ramus; and at length Bishop of London-Derry in Ireland; where dying in 1634 Apr. 17. was bu∣ried in the Cath. Church there. The Catalogue of all or most of his works you may see in the Bodleian or Oxford Catalogue.

Besides him were 15 Cantabrigians incorporated Masters of Arts on the same day, being the next, after the Act had been concluded, but not one of them, can I yet find, who was afterwards a Writer, Bishop, &c.

On the same day also Will. Halke an English Man of the same University, who had had the Degree of M. of A. confer'd upon him in the University of St. Andrew in Scotland, an. 1590, (Andr. Melvin being then Rector) was also incorporated in this Uni∣versity.

Oct. 22. Will. Paddie of St. Johns Coll. in this University, lately made Doct. of Phys. in the University of Leyden, was incorporated in the same Degree.—He was afterwards Physician to K. Jam. 1. a Knight, eminent for his practice in that faculty, and President, if I mistake not, of the Coll. of Physicians in London. See more among the Incorporations, an. 1600.

Jan 6. or thereabouts, Thom. Sackvile M. A. of Cambridge and Chancellour of this University, was incorporated in his Lodgings at London by certain Offices appointed by the Venerab. Convoca∣tion. —He was originally of this University, as himself confesseth in his Letters sent thereunto, dat. 21. March following, running partly thus.—

I am given by common report to understand that contrary to your own statutes, &c. very few retain the old Aca∣demical habit, which in my time was a reverend distinction of your Degrees, &c.

The place wherein he studied, was, as is sup∣posed, Hart hall, but took no Degree before he left us. See among the Writers, an. 1608.