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Athenae Oxonienses : An exact history of all the writers and bishops who have had their education in the University of Oxford. To which are added the fasti, or annals of the said University / By Anthony A. Wood.

  • Anthony Wood
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1813-20
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    Clar. 1558. only that he was much in renown for his learning in the reign of Q. Mary, and beginning of queen Elizabeth. I find another John Field or Feld, who was a citizen of London, a zealous protestant, a.nd a great enemy to sir Tho. More, John Fisher bishop of Rochester, and John Rastal; who ha- ving publish'd certain matters, is numbred among the English writers by John Bale'*, wdio tells us that he died at London, an. 1546. See another John Field under the year 1587. JOHN PLOUGH son of Christopher Plough of the borough of Nottingham, and nephew to John Plough rector of St. Peter's church in the said town, was born there, spent several years in obtaining academical learning in this university, supplicated in the latter end of 1543 for the de- gree of bach, of the civil law, but whether he was ever admitted it appears not. At that time, if I mistake not, he was rector of the said church, the advouson of which for one turn, his uncle bought for him of Thomas Hobson the prior, and convent, of Lenton, before the year 1538, for in that year the uncle died. Afterwards our author John Plough became a zealous minister of God's word in the time of king Edward VL but flying beyond the sea in queen Mary's reign, wrote one or more of the books following at Basil, where he mostly resided. An Apology for the Protestants. Written in answer to a book against the English protestants that was penn'd and published by one Miles Ho- geard of London hosier, the first trader or me- chanic that appeared in print for the catholic cause, I mean one that had not received any mo- nastical or academical breeding^. Beside him. In lib. Be Script. Maj. Brit. p. 10<l, inter cent. 12 & 13. ^ [This Miles lloggard or Iluggard was a violent writer in defence of tlie catholic cause. lie dwelt in Pudding lane, London, which occasioned one of his opponents (Tliomas Hawkes) at a disputation to tell him ' ye can better skill to eale a pudding and make a hose then in scripture eythcr to answere or oppose.' (Fox, Acts and Moii. 'n. 1391, edit. 1583.) He wrote the following ])iecf s, 1. Tlie axsanit of the sacrament of tite altar, written in 1549, but not printed till J554, Lond. 8vo. 2. The (Ikp/ai/ing of the protenLantes and sundry their prac- tises, 12mo. J55G. 3. The path wai/e to the torcre of Perfection, 4lo. 1554,1556. See a full account of the first edition in the British Biblio- grapher, iv. 67, with several specimens of the author's poetry.] 4. A niirrour qfloue, which such light doth giue That all men may learn how to lone and Hue, Printed 4to. 1555. .5. A treatise of three weddings, -ito. 1550. 6. Treatise declaring how Ci-yst hi/ perverse preaching was lavished out of this realm, and hoic it halh pleas'd God to bring Cri/st home again In/ i/u. Mart/. Lond. 1554, 4to. 7. Confutation to the answer ef a toickcd ballad. Printed in Robert C? orvlei/ (of whom see in these Atiien.'e under the year 1588) his Confutation (f Haggard's ballad in defence cf iransubstuntiulion if the sacrament, 8vo. 1548. 8. The Mirroiir'qf Love, 4:to. 1553. 9. New A B C paruphrasticui'li/ applied ns the state of the world doth at this daj require, 4to. 1557.] our author Plough wrote against one William Keth an exile at Frankford in the reign of queen Mary, and Robert Crowley. The said Plough also wrote, Treatise against the mitred Men in the Popish Kingdom. The sound of the doleful Trumpet. When or where either of these three was printed, I canfiot tell, for I have not yet seen them. He was living at Basil in great esteem among the exil'd protes- tants in the latter end of queen Mary, and whether he liv'd to return when queen Elizabeth succeeded, I cannot yet find. [Plough was living at the beginning of qu. Eliza- beth's I'eign, and presented a declaration of the doctrine of the protestants to her, with Geo. Hody and John Opynshaw. Cole. He seems to have returned into England at the beginning of qu. Eliz. and to have been preferred by his fellow exile, bish. Grindall. Kennet. This preferment was the vicarage of East-Ham, Essex, which he vacated by his death before November 1562^. To these we may add, that in 1560 he had letters patent for the rectory of Longbredie in the dio- cese of BristoP.] GEORGE LILYE son of William Lilye the famous grammarian, whom I have before men- tion'd, was born, as 1 conceive, near to St. Paul's cathedral within the city of London, educated for a time, as it seems, in Magdalen coll. which house was seldom or never without a Lilye (under- stand me not that it bears three lilyes for its anris) from the first foundation thereof to the latter end of queen Elizabeth. After he had left the univer- sity without a degree, he travelled to Rome, where he was received with all humanity into the pro- tection of cardinal Pole, and became noted there for his singular parts in various sorts of learning. Some time after his return he was made canon of St. Paul's cathedral^, and afterwards prebendary of Canterbury; which last dignitj^, he had, I sup- pose, by the gift of the said cardinal when he was archbishop of that place. While he was canon of St. Paul's he set up a monument to the memory of his learned lather, in the inscription of which, this George is stiled canon of that church. His writings are, Angloruni Hegum Chronices Epitome. Ven. 1548. Francof. 1565, qu. [Bodl. 4to. P. 106. Art.] Bas. 1577, &c. [Francof. I6l4. Bodl. Bvo. G. 86. Art.] Lancastriee Eboracensis'i -n ^i • . i -.i 7 ^ ,. f Both printed with ae re^no co)itentiones. r c i i 1- 7 • i the lormer book. Ixerium Aiis,licc Lsetiealo^ia.^ E/ogia f'irorum illustnum'^. Mewcourt, Hepertoriiim, ii. 302.] Rymer, Fadera, xv. 585.] This seems to be a mistake. He had the prebend of Canflers or Kentish town Nov. 22, 155t), which he held till his death.] 5 [An edition of these, with the Chronicon and the Ce- Clar. 1558.