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. 1578.

An. 20 Eliz.

An. 21 Eliz.

Chanc. the same.

Vicechanc. Martin Colepeper Doct. of Phys. and Warden of New Coll. was adm. Jul. 15. being the next day after the Act was ended.

• Proct.
  • Ralph Smyth of Magd.
  • Clem. Colmer of Brasn.
    • Coll.

They were elected in Congregation 9 Apr.

Bach. of Arts.

May 14. Mathew Gwinne of S. Joh. Coll.

Jul. 12. Rob. Hues (Husins) of S. Maries Hall, lately of Brasn. Coll.

• Nov. 12.
  • Leonard Hutten
  • Tho. Ravis
  • Joh. Howson
    • of Ch. Ch.

The two last were afterwards Bishops.

• Nov. 12. John Terry of New
• Dec. 9. Rich. Kilbye of Linc.
  • Coll.

Jun. 28. Walter Warner.—One of both his names was an emi∣nent Mathematician in the Reigns of K. Jam. and Ch. 1. as I have elsewhere told you.

• Jun. 28.
  • Will. Wood
  • Will. Wilkenson
    • of Brasn. Coll.

See another Will. Wood in 1561. As for Will. Wilkinson. I find one of both his names to be Author of A confutation of certain arti∣cles delivered to the family of Love, &c. Lond. 1579, oct. and of A godly treatise of the exercise of Tasteng, &c. Lond. 1580, oct. but him of Brasn. Coll. I take to be too young to be an Author, he be∣ing this year about 20 years of age. See another Will. Wilkinson an. 1593.

Feb. 26. Thom. Gibson.—See among the Masters 1580.

Rich. Parks of Brasn. Coll. was admitted the same day.

Mar. 17. Tho. Bentham of Mert. Coll.—See among the Masters of 1581.

Adm. 107.

Bach. of Law.

Jul. 2. Henry Dethick M. of A. was admitted Bach. of Law, be∣ing now Chancellour of the Diocess of Carlile.—About this time also he succeeded one Edw. Threlkeld LL. D. in the Archdeaconry of Carlile, who had been collated thereunto 10 Eliz. Dom. 1567-8. the same Threlkeld I mean who had been Fellow of Kings Coll. in Cambridge, and the same who was so much admired in that University, for his excellent Knowledge and Eloquence, that he was thought to use the help of some good Genius. When he gave up the Chancellourship of Carlile he was Chancellour of the Dio∣cess of Hereford, where he became highly valued for his profession. In the year 1581 I shall make farther mention of Hen. Dethick, who was a man of Learning also, but far beneath Threlkeld.

Beside Dethicke were six Bach. of Law adm. this year, among whom Joh. Drewry was one. See in 1584.

Mast. of Arts.

• May 2.
  • Martin Heton
  • Rich. Eedes
  • Will. Watkinson
    • of Ch. Ch.

• 5. Sim. Harward of New
• 29. Will. Leigh of Brasn.
  • Coll.

Jun. 17. Thom. Smith of Ch. Ch.

July 4. Giles Tomson of Vniv. Coll.—He was afterwards of Alls. Coll. and a Bishop.

Adm. 52.

☞ But two Bach. of Div. were admitted this year, of whom Edm. Lillye of Magd. Coll. was one, afterwards Master of Ball. Coll.

Doct. of Law.

Oct. 13. Rich. Percye of Ch. Ch.—He died 10 Nov. 1598, (after he had been 20 years Commissary to the Archbish. of York) and was buried in the Church of Settrington in Yorkshire, of which he became Rector in 1591, in the place of Ralph Tomson D. D.

Feb. 12. Giles Lawrence of Alls. Coll. and Greek Professor of the University.—He was a Glocestershire man born, was admitted Scholar of C. C. Coll. with his individual Friend John Jewell an. 1539, and in 1542 was elected prob. Fellow of that of Allsoules. On the 18 Sept. an. 1564 he became Archdeacon of Wilts, on the depriva∣tion of one John Lawrence (whether his Father or Uncle I know not) being then in great esteem for his learning. A certain* 1.1 Au∣thor of no mean fame, tells us, that this Dr. Lawrence was the light and ornament of this Vniversity, that he was brought up and nourished in the bosom of Pallas, and that into him, as also into Barthelmew Dodington, the ornament of Cambridge, Nature, and unwearied Indu∣stry, had infused and placed, all the Greek Treasures and Riches imagi∣nable. I have been inform'd that he hath written and published se∣veral Books, but such I have not yet, in all my searches, seen; nor do I know any thing else of him, only that in the time of Queen Mary he was Tutor to the Children of Sir Arthur Darcey living near the Tower of London, and that he was in being in 1584.

Feb. 23. Robert Salisbury of Jesus Coll.—He was a younger Son of Sir John Salisbury of Lewenie in Denbighshire Knight, and Uncle to Sir John Salisbury of the same place, who died 1613; which is all I know of him.

Doct. of Phys.

Nov. 12. Henry Bust of Magd. Coll.—He was afterwards supe∣rior Reader of Lynacre's Phy••. Lecture, practised his Faculty many years in Oxon with great repute; and dying in his house in S. Al∣dates Parish, was buried in the Church belonging thereunto, 17 Feb. 1616.

Doct. of Div.

July 10. Edw. Chapman of Cambridge.—See among the Incor∣porations following.

12. Rich. Creke of Magd. Coll.

Jan. 19. John Barefoot of C. C. Coll. Chaplain to Ambrose Earl of Warwick.—In 1581 he became Archdeacon of Lincoln in the place of Dr. John Robinson (mention'd among the Incorporations an. 1566) and dying in 1595, was succeeded in that Dignity by Rich. Cleyton D. D. collated thereunto 29 August the same year. After Cleyton followed John Hills D. D. Master of S. Catherins Coll. or Hall in Cambridge, who was collated to it 21 Sept. 1612. He died in 1626, (about the month of Sept.) and was buried in the Chancel of the Church at Horsheath in Cambridgeshire, where there was, if not still, a Monument in the Wall, over his grave.

Jan. 19. Barthelmew Chamberlayne of Trin. Coll.

Edmund Bunney of Mert. Coll. did supplicate for the said Degree in February, but was not admitted.

Incorporations.

July 7. Edward Chapman Bach. of Div. of Cambridge.—He was soon after admitted Doctor, as I have before told you.

14. William Whitaker or Whittaker Bach. of Divinity of the said University.—This famous Divine for Learning and Life, was born at Holme in the Parish of Burnd••ey in Lancashire, initiated there in Grammar learning, taken thence by his Uncle Alexander Nowell Dean of Pauls, and by him maintained in his house, and put to the Free School there. At eighteen years of age he was sent to Trin. Coll. in Cambridge, took the Degrees in Arts, and the first thing that made him known for his excellency in the Gr. Tongue, was the turning his Uncles Catechism into that Language. After∣wards being famous for Theology, he was made the Kings Profes∣sor in that Faculty, and stood up in defence of the Protestant Reli∣gion and Church of England against Edmund Campian, Nicholas Saunders, William Rainolds, Robert Bellarmine, Thomas Stapleton, &c. At length having much impoverished his weak Body by continual study, even at that time, when the Question was so rise among the Divines† 1.2 Whether a true and justifying faith may be lost, he was freed from this Body of flesh, and lost his life, having left be∣hind him the desire and love of the present times, and the envy of Posterity, that cannot bring forth his parallel. He gave way to Fate 4 December an. 1595, aged 47, and was buried in the Chappel belonging to S. Johns Coll. in Cambridge, of which Coll. he had se∣veral years before been Master. His Works are printed in Latin in two folio's at Genev. 1610.

July 15. G••vase Babington M. of A. of the same University of Cambridge.—He was a Nottinghamshire man born, was Fellow of Trinity Coll afterwards Chaplain to Henry Earl of Pembroke, Trea∣surer of Landaff, and successively Bishop of Landaff, Exeter, and Worcester. He published several Books of Div. which were all printed in one Volume in fol, Lond. 1615, and go under the name of his Works. He died in the year 1610, at which time he en∣riched the Library belonging to the Church at Worcester, with ma∣ny choice Books.

Brute Babington B. of A. of this University, was incorporated the same day: so also was

William Cotton M. A.—This person who was Son of John Cot∣ton Citizen of Lond••n, third Son of Richard, eight Son of John Cot∣ton, or Coton of Humpstable Ridware in Staffordshire, was partly educated in Guildford School in Surrey, afterwards in Queens Coll. in Cambridge, and took the usual Degrees. Some years after he became Archdeacon of Lewis, Canon residentiary of S. Pauls Cath. Church, and at length Bishop of Exeter. He died at Silverton in Devon. 26 August 1621, and was buried on the south side of the Choire or Presbytery of the Cath. Church at Exeter. One William Cotton Fellow of Magd. Coll. in Oxon, was admitted M. of A. in June 1577, but what relation there was between him and the Bi∣shop, I cannot tell.

This year also, Sept. 1. Edward Stanhope Doct. of the Civ. Law of Trinity Coll. in the said University, did supplicate in a Conven∣tion called simile primum, that he might be incorporated in the said Degree, which, tho granted simpliciter, yet it appears not that he was incorporated. He was afterwards a Knight, Chancellour to the Bishop of London, and Vicar General to the Archb. of Canter∣bury. He paid his last debt to Nature on the sixteenth day of March an. 1608, and was buried near to the great north door within the Cathedral Church of S. Paul in London. He was Brother to John Lord Stanhope of Harrington.

Notes

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