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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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    TONSTALL. 304 Cat. sive Series Pontificum &; Casarum Romano- rum. And the life of ' John Fisher bp. of Ro- [127] Chester; besides a Table or Mapp of Britain, with other things which I have not yet seen. At length taking his last farewell of this world in the 1559, beginning of the year fifteen hundred fifty and nine, (which was the first year of queen Elizabeth) was buried, as 1 suppose, near the body of his father. [The other things were, 1. The Life and end of Thomas Cranmer. This is noticed by Bale in his MS. notes to his Script. Maj. Britan.^ 2. jI Nomenclature of antient Places; quoted by Harrison in his Description of Britaine, pre- fixed to Hollinshed's Chronicle: And four original letters to Dr. Starkey will be found among the Cotton MSS. Nero, B. vi. 152,157.] CUTHBERT TONSTALL a singular orna- ment to his native country, and a person (not- withstanding the baseness of his birth, being be- gotten ^ by one Tonstall, upon a daughter of the Commers'*, as Leland saith^) of great learning and judgment, received his first breath at Hatch- ford in Richmondshire, in the year 1476, or there- abouts''; bepame a student in the university of Oxon about 1491, particularly, as some'' will have it, in Baliol college, and whether he took a de- gree or degrees, we have no register of that time lo shew it. Afterwards, as 'tis farther added, he was forced to leave Oxon, because of a plague that happen'd in his time, and went to Cam- bxidge; but making no long stay there, he tra- velled to the university of Padoua in Italy, then most flourishing in literature; where he became noted to all ingenious men for his forward and pregnant parts. After his return, being then, as it seems, doctor of the laws, but not of Cam- bridge, he had divers dignities and places of trust nealogia, not noticed here, was printed in 8vo. 1561, at Basil, incorporated with a very scarce volume entitled, Pauli Jovii novo Comensis Episcopi Nucerini descriptiones, guotguot extant, regionum alque locoruni, &iC. BodL 8vo. J. 7. Art.Seld.] ' So Ant. Harmer's [Henry Wharton] Specimen, &c, p. 61. ^ [Kennet and Tanner, Bibl. Brit. 481.] ^ Will. Harrison in his Hhtorical Descript. of the Island cf'Britain, lib. I, cap. 24. [Tonstail a bastard; vid. Bon- ner's Dirige, Praef. C C. v. 20, 5. But the book not much to be credited, being httle better than a libel. Baker.] ''■ [So Leland; but he means the Conyer's family.] ' [Read, had heard. See Itiner ary, ix. 205 ; and Lambe on 2 he Buttle of Floddon, page 91—99. Loveday,] ^ [By a memorandnm of Tonstall himself at the end of his book De Veritute Corporis, &c. it appears that he was in the seventy-seventh year of his age in 1551, when he finished that book, and consequently must have been born about the year 1474. His words are,' Hoc opus ab authore absolutum est, anno aetatis suae, septuagessimo-septimo, qui ruit annus Domini 1551.] ^ Brian. Twyne in A7itiq. Acad. Oxon. Apol. lib. 3, sect. 249, & Mil. Windsore Alumnus coll. Bal. in initio Manse re^jioffi, in Collectaneis suis MS. conferr'd upon him successively : among which I find the archdeaconry of Chester to be one*, a prebendship in the church of York another, the vicarship general to Dr. Warham archbishop of Canterbury a third. Afterwards he was master of the Rolles, keeper of the privy-seal, was em- ployed in one or more embassies, made dean of Salisbury in the place of Dr. Joh. Longland, in the month of June 1521, and at length bishop of London, to which see he was consecrated 19 Octob. 1522. Whereupon his deanery was be- stowed on one Reymund Pade, in January fol- lowing. Two years after, he, with sir Rich. Wingfield knight of the garter and chancellor of the dutchy of Lane, were sent ambassadors into Spain, to commune with the emperor for causes concerning the taking of the French king, and for wars to be made into France on every side'. A. D. 1529- This bishop was one of the em- bassadors at the treaty of Cambray, and in his return from thence thro' Antwerp employ'd a merchant to buy up all the copies' of Tindale's translation of the bible ^; and in 1530 he was translated to Durham. From which see being ejected for his religion in the time of K. Ed. 6, was restored by qu. Mary at the beginning of her reign, but thrust out thence again in 1559, when qu. Elizabeth was settled in her throne. Con- cerning all which the reader may observe what account bp. Burnet gives of them, who under, the year 1553, saith : ' How Tonstall was de- * priv'd of his bishoprick (Durham) I cannot * understand. It was for misprison of treason, * [Besides these he w.ns collated, Dec. 16,1511, to the rectory of Harrovv-on-the-hill, Middlesex, as well as to the prebend of Stow-longe in the church of Lincoln, in which he was installed April 15, 1514. Biographic Britannica,. 3978.] » Stow's Annals, 17 Hen. 8. ' [The original account of this transaction is too curious^ to be omitted; ' It fortuned one George Costantine to be appreheded by sir Thomas More, which then was lord chauncellor of England,, of suspicion of certain heresies.. And this Constaiitine beyng with More, after diuerse ex- am-inacions of dyuerse thinges, emong other, maister More said in this wise to Constaiitine. Constantine I would haue the plain with me, in one thing that I wyl aske of the, and I promes the I will shew the fauor, in all the other thinges, whereof thou art accused to me. There is beyonde the seaTyndale, Joye and a great many mo of you; I know they cannot lyue without helpe, some sendeth theim money and succoureth theim, and thy self beyng one of them, haddest part therof,and therfoie knowest from whence it came. I pray the who be thei that thus helpe them.' My lord quod Constantine, wil you that I shal tel you ye truth Yea I pray the, quod my lord. Mary I will, quod Con« stantinc; truly, quod he, it is the bishop of London that hath helpe vs, for he hath bestowed emonge vs a great deale of moneye in NeweTestametes to burne theim, and that hath, and yet is our onely succour and comfort. Nowe, by ray trouth, quod More, I thinke euen the same, and I sayd so much to the bishop, when he went about to bie them.' Hall's Union of the families of Lancastre and Yorke, Lond. 1550, fol. 186,'b.] Bishop Burnet's History of the ReformatioUf anna 153V