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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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    consecrated archbishop till 17 Dec. 1559, I can- not yet perceive. With him also, 'tis farther [i-S] said, that he continued four months, and that 1559. dying on the 18 of Nov. in fifteen hundred fifty and nine (which was a full month before Dr. Mat- thew Parker was consecrated) was buried at the charges of the said Matthew in the chancel of the parochial church of Lambeth in Surrey. Over his grave was a fair marble-stone soon after laid, with an epitaph engraven thereon, made by J)r. Walter Haddon an admirer of his learning and virtues. Joh. Leland who calls him Dunostallus hath bestow'd a collation (not without desert) upon him, as also upon his friend Budaeus before-men- tion'd, which you may see in his Encomia, Troph&a, &c. p. 45. [Pace, in his treatise De Fructu qui ex doctrina percipitur, mentions Tonstall and Latimer in terms of the highest approbation : *Viri clarissimi, et un- decunque doctissimi; quorum prseterea tanta est prudentia, probitas vitae, morumque honestas, ut vix dici possit an doctrina magis illorum mores, an mores doctrinam ornent.' p. 99- It has been remarked* that Tonstall must have been one of the most perfect characters of his age, as the zealous reformers could find no fault in him but his religion. I am not aware of any other portrait of this amiable prelate and polite scholar than one by P. Fourdrinier, in Fiddes's Life of Wolsey^ JOHN BEKINSAU, a younger son of Joh. Bekinsau an inhabitant of Hampshire, but a native of Bekinsau in Lancashire, where his name was ancient and gentile, received his first breath at Broadchalke in Wilts, and his grammatical educa- tion in Wykeham's school near Winchester. At which place being made soon ripe for the univer- sity, was sent to New coll. where after he had served two years of probation, was admitted per- petual fellow, in 15C0. In 1526 he compleated the degree of M. of A. being that year about to take a journey beyond the seas for the sake of study, as one of the university registers informs nie; at which time he was esteemed in his coll, a most admirable Grecian. But whether he did then, or after, perform his journey, it doth not farther appear there. Sure I am that 1 find it entred upon'^ record that John Beconsaw second son of John Beconsaw of Hartley-Wespell in Hampshire, (born at Beconsaw in Lancashire) was reader of the Greek lecture at Paris, and afterwards came over and died at Sherbourne in Hampshire. In 1538, John Bekinsaw left his fellowship of New coll. because he had then taken a wife, but what preferment or employment he had afterwards, I know not. At that time he was acquainted with, and had in veneration by, the most learned men of the nation, among whom was * [Gran<;er, Biographical Hist, of England.] ® In Ofiic. Armorum Londini in Reg. vel lib, C» fol, 72,b. John Leland the famous antiquary and historian, who in his' poetry doth speak several things to his honour, of his being bred in Oxon, and of his studying at Paris, with several other things, which shew him to have been a great scholar. In 1546, when he saw that the pope's power was quite ex- terminated, he wrote a book entit. DesupremoS) absoluto Regis imperio. Lond. 1546, Oct. Printed also in the first vol. of Monarchia S. liomani imperii, &c. by Melchior Goldast Ha- mensfeldius—Franc. 1621, fol. [Bodl. E.2, 5. Art. Seld.] The author Bekinsau did dedicate ittoK. Hen. 8, with whom, as also with K. Ed. 6, he was in some value; but when qu. Mary came to the crown, and endeavoured to alter all that her father and brother had done, as to the reformation of the church; then did he wheel about, change his mind, and became a zealous person for the church of Rome, and a hater of protestants. After queen Elizabeth was setled in the throne, he retired to an obscure town called Sherbourne in Hampshire, where giving way to fate in great discontent, was buried in the church of that place 20 Decemb. in fifteen hundred fifty and nme, aged about 63 1559. years, leaving then behind him this character among the R. catholics, that as he was a learned man, so might he have been promoted according to his deserts, had his principles been constant. ALBAYN HYLL was a Britain or a Welsh- man born, as ^ one that knew him tells us, partly educated in this, and partly in another university, (beyond the sea, as it seems) where applying his studies to the faculty of physic he proceeded doctor, and became famous for it at London, not only for the theoretic but practic part, and much beloved and admired by all learned men, especially by Dr. John Cay and Dr. Joh. Fryer, two eminent physicians of Cambridge. One' that lived in his time stiles him Medicus nobilissimus atque opti- [130] mus, et in omni literarum genere maxime versa- tus, and tells us, that he wrote several things on Galeri, which are printed, and by others cited. This is all that I know of this learned person, only that he died 26 Dec. in fifteen hundred fifty and 1559. nine, and that he was buried not far from the grave of his friend and contemporary Dr. Edw. Wotton in the church of St. Alban situated in Woodstreet in London ; in which parish he had lived many years in great respect, and was esteemed one of the chief parishioners, Alice his widow, who died on the last day of May 1580, was buried by him, and both had a substantial grave-stone, with an inscription on it, laid over them, but that part of it which was left in 1666, was utterly consumed in the grand conflagration of London. ' In Encomiis, Trophceis, &, c. cruditorum in Anglia virorum, p. 91. * Joh. Bale in lib. De script, cent. 9, nu. 38. 3 Bassian Landiis de Placentia, in Anatomia corp. humani, lib. 2, cap. xi.