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.

Apr. 9. Francis Covert. LL. D. of Leyden.—He died at Chalden in Surrey 1609.

June 21. Rob. Tighe M. A. of Cambr. an excellent Linguist.

Jul. 1. Rich. Thomson M. A. of the same University.—This lear∣ned person who was a Dutch man born of English Parents, and educated in Clare Hall, is stiled by a noteda Presbyterian The grand propagator of Arminianism, and byb another A deboist drunken English Dutchman who seldome went one night to bed sober. Yet a noted writerc who knew him well tells us, that he was a most admirable Philologer, that he was better known in Italy, France and Ger∣many, than at home. He hath written (1) Elenchus refutationis Torturae Torti pro reverendiss. Episcopo Eliense, adversus Matinum Be∣canum. Lond. 1611. (2) Diatriba de amissione & intercessione gratiae & justificationis. Lugd. Bat. 1618 and 18. oct. and other things One of both his names, was, as a M. of A. of Cambr. incorpora∣ted in this University 1593, which I take to be the same with this.

Jul. 9. Joh. Sherwood Doct. of Phys. of the University of Rheims. —He was about this time an eminent practitioner of his Faculty in the City of Bathe, being much resorted to by those of the Rom. Cath. Religion, he himself being of that profession. He died in Feb. 1620, and was buried in the Church of S. Pet. and Paul in that City.

Thom. Playfere D. of D. of Cambridge, was incorporated the same day.—He was a Kentish mand born, educated in S. Joh. Coll. in Cambr. of which he was Fellow, and succeeded Pet. Baro in the Margaret Professorship of that University about 1596, at which time he was esteemed a person of great Eloquence and fluency in the Latin Tongue. The titles of several of his Works (which were collected into one Volume) you may see in the Bodleian Ca∣talogue. He died in the latter end of the year (in Jan. or Feb.) 1608. and was buried in S. Botolph's Church in Cambridge.

Notes

• a

  〈…〉〈…〉 in Hist; 〈◊〉〈◊〉 &c. Lond. 1674. p. ••01▪
• b

  〈…〉〈…〉 in his 〈…〉〈…〉 &c. Lond. 1630. qu. at the end, 〈…〉〈…〉.
• c

  Rich. Mon∣tague in his Pref. to his 〈◊〉〈◊〉 on the first part of the Hist. 〈◊〉〈◊〉, &c. Lond. 〈◊〉〈◊〉. 1.
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