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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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![' and done by secular men, for Cranmer refus'd ' to meddle with it. I have seen a commission ' given by queen Mary to some delegates to * examine it, in which it is said that the sen- * tence was given only by laymen, and that ' Tonstall being kept prisoner long in the ' Tower, was brought to his tryal, in which he ' had neither council assign'd him, nor conve- * nient time given to him to clear himself; and ** * that after divers protestations, they had, not- ' withstanding his appeal, depriv'd him of his ' bishoprick, and he was kept prisoner till qu. ' Mary set him at liberty.' In 1558, when queen Elizabeth came to the crown, there was some hopes of his conforming to the reformation, but he would not conform and take the oath, and therefore he was de- priv'd. He was against the cruelties in queen Mary's reign, as Heath was. Being now old, he chose rather to leave his bishoprick, than to keep it; he had written formerly for tlie supre- macy, so 'twas not that which caused him leave his bishoprick, but age. Vol.2, p. 216, 396. [128] He was a man passing well seen in all kind of more polished literature, a person very rare and admirable, and in whom no man in his time did reprehend any thing, but his religion, except foul-mouth'd Bale, who calls him ' melancholicus & Saturnius somniator atque excogitator omnium malorum, and another'* as bad as he, who runs upon the same strain—a still dreaming Saturn—a plotter of mischief, and I know not what. There was scarce any kind of good literature, in which he was not excellent. He was a very good Gre- cian and Hebritian, an eloquent rhetorician, a skil- ful mathematician, a noted civilian and canonist, and a profound divine. But that which maketh for his greatest commendation, is, that Erasmus was his friend, and he a fnst friend to Erasmus, in an epistle to whom from sir Thom. More, 1 find this character of Tonstall, that, As there was no man more adorned with knowledge and good lite- rature, no man more severe and of greater inte- grity for his life and manners; so there was no man a more sweet and pleasant companion, with whom a man would rather chuse to converse. He hath written and published, De arte snppntcmdi, lib. 4. Lond. 1522, qu. [Bodl. A. 9, 8. Line, and at Paris, by Robert Ste- phens, in 1538. Bodl. 4to. B. 58. Jur.] dedic. to sir Tho. More. Afterwards it was printed at se- veral places beyond the seas. I find honourable mention of it in the preface of Sim. Grynseus to Euclid in Greek, with the scholia of Thcon on it. Which book was published by the said Grynteus and dedicated to Tonstall. In laudem matrimonii. Oratio huhiia in spon- ^ In lib. Be illust. script, cent. 0, nu. 34. * Mich. Wowl in his epist. to the reader before his trans- lation ot Staph. Gardiner's Oruiign, J)e vera abedienUu, printed at Roan, 1553, in oct. Vol. L salibus Maria: filicE Hen. 8 &; Frnncisci Francoriwi Regis primngeniti. Lond. 1518, qu. [Bodl. 4to. B. 16. Th. See Dibdin's Printing, ii. 478.] Sermon on Palm-Sunday before K. Hen. 8, on Pki/ippia?is Q, from ver. 5 to 12. Lond. 1539, and 1633, qu. [Bodl. 4to. F. 34. Th.] De verilate corporis &; sanguinis Domini in Eu- cl/aristid, lib. 2. Lutet. 1554, in qu. [Bodl. 4to. T. 2. Th.] Concerning the printing, and authen- ticalness of the said book, you may see at large in Dr. George Carleton's Life of Bern. Gilpin, printed at Lond. 1628, p. 12, 13, 33. [Bodl. AA. 124. Art.] Compendium in decern Ubros Ethicorum Aristotelis. Par. 1554, oct. [Bodl. 8vo. T. 50. Art.] Contra impios lilasphematores Dei pradestina- tionis opus. Antw. 1555, qu. [Bodl. 4to. T. 2. Th. BS.] Godh/ and devoid prayers in English and Lat.' Printed 1558, in oct. In the collection of records at the end of bishop Burnet's Hist, of the Reformation, part 1, p. 363, are this bp. Tonstall's Arguments for the divine iw stitution of auricular confession, with K. Henry J III.'s ansKers, p. 366, &c. Part II. p. 106, n. 9. yl letter proving the sub- jection of Scotland to England, and various other letters, and letters of state. N. 25. Ansners to certain queries concerning the abuses of the mass. (Temp. Ed. VL) He wrote also A Treatise in defence of the Mar- riage of Queen Katharine with King Henry 8. See the Life of Bishop Fisher, p. 83. His and the Letter of J oh. Stokesley B. of iMud. to Cardinal Reginald Pole. Lond. 1560, and 79, qu. The beginning is, ' For the good will we have born to you,' &c. It shews the bishop of Rome to have no special superiority over other bishops^. He hath also made two thousand faults and noted many corruptions in William Tyndale's transla- tion of the JSev.'Testament, and hath written se- veral epistles to Budajus, and a book against the supremacy of the bishop of Rome, as Bale saith; which, as I conceive, is his letter to card. Pole before-mentioned. But that, or his faults on Tyndale, or epistles, I have not yet seen. At length being deprived of his bishopi-ick of Durham (as I have before told you) about Midsummer, 1559, was then, as 'tis said, committed to free custody at Lam- beth with Matthew archb. of Canterbury; but how can that be, seeing that the said Matthew was not^ ' [They were printed in double columns, Latin and Eng- lish, but the latter translation was made by Thomas Pay- nell.] ^ [See it reprinted in Knight's Life of Erasmus, Appendix, No. xxiv.] ' [Whatever ought to be reply'd to the objection drawn from the time of Paiker's consecration, I cannot but believe what is here sayd of Tonstall, because I find it in bp. An- drews against Tortus, p. 14G. Humphreys. Archbishop Parker was possessed of Lambeth long before his consecration. Bakeu.] X](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b24751236_0001_0357.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
