Incorporations.
Mar. 31. Charles Willoughby of Mert. Coll. Doct. of Physick of Padua.
May 26. Luke Glen M. A. of Edinburgh.
June 13. Joh. Rogers Doct. of Phys. of Ʋtrecht.—This person, who was Son of Nehemiah Rogers of Duddinghurst in Essex, hath published Analecta inauguralia, sive disceptationes medic••e: Necnon Diatribae discussoriae de quinque corporis humani concoctionibus, potissimum{que} de pneumatosi ac spermatosi. Lond. 1664. oct. He then lived at S. Mary Magd. Bermondsey in Surrey, where he practised his faculty.
On the 12. of July, being the next day after the conclusion of the Act, were 28. Masters of Arts of the Univ. of Cambridge incorpora∣ted; among whom were these.
Miles Barne M. A. and Fellow of Peter House—He was after∣wards D. of D, and Chaplain in ord. to his Majesty K. Ch. 2. In the beginning of March 1686 he with others were put into the Com∣mission of peace by K. Jam. 2. for the County of Cambridge, and, what became of him afterwards let others speak. He hath three or more Sermons extant, and other things as it seems.
Thom. Tenison M. of A. and Fellow of C. C. Coll.—He was about this time Chaplain to Edward Earl of Manchester, and afterwards to his Son Robert, Doct. of Divinity, Chaplain to his Majesty K. Ch. 2. Vicar of S. Martin in the Fields within the liberty of Westminster, in the place of Dr. Lloyd promoted to the See of S. Asaph, Archdea∣con of London, and at length worthily promoted to the See of Lin∣coln, on the death of Dr. Thomas Barlow, in the Winter time 1691. He hath published several Sermons, and other matters of Divinity, as also several things against Popery in the Reign of K. Jam 2, which shew him to be a learned man; besides his book called The Creed of Tho. Hobbs of Malmsbury. See in Vitae Hobbianae Auctarium, published 1681. p. 199. See also in what I have said of Sir Thom. Browne the Physitian, among the Writers of this Vol. p. 536.
Joh. Templer M. A. of Trin. Coll.—He was afterwards D. of D, published one or more Sermons, and Idea Theologiae Leviathanis, &c. Cantab. 1673 against Thom. Hobbes. See there in the said Aucta∣rium. p. 199.200.
Besides the said Masters, were also then incorporated two Bache∣laurs of Divinity, one of which was named Thom. Longland of S. Johns Coll. in Cambridge, author of—Quatuor Novissima. Or me∣ditations on the four last things, &c. printed 1657 in tw. &c.
Among several Forreigners that became Sojourners and Students in the University this year, to improve themselves in Literature by the use of the publick Library were (1) Joh. Christop. Becmannus a Saxon, who, after his departure, published several things in his own Country, whereby he obtained the name of a learn'd-man (2) Christop. Sandius, who sojourned in an house near Qu. Coll, and gave his mind up for the most part to the perusal of Socinian books, not only in the publick Library, but in others belonging to Colleges and in Book∣sellers shops. He was born at Konigsberg in Prussia 12 of Oct. 1644, and afterwards being instructed by his Father of both his names (the most noted Socinian in the Country wherein he lived, and there∣fore depriv'd of those places of trust which he enjoyed, about 1668) in the Socinian Tenets, was sent by him to Oxon to improve them by reading and studying. Afterwards retiring to his Country he wrot and published several books, and after his death (which hap∣ned at Amsterdam on the last of Nov. 1680) was published of his composition Bibliotheca Anti-Trinitariorum, &c. Freistad. 1684. oct. in which, p. 169.170, &c. you may see a Catalogue of his works, some of which are Socinian. (3) Joh. Michael Benson a Dane, who afterwards became Doctor of the Civil Law in another University, Counsellour to the King of Denmark, and a publisher of several things of his faculty, &c.