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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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    [A letter was written on the 28th of Jan. 1532-3 to sir Thomas Cawarden the then master of the revels, directing him to furnish Mr. William Baldwyn, who was appointed to set forth a play before the king, on Candlemas day, at night, with all necessaries. Gilchrist. Baldwyn was undoubtedly one of the scholars who pursued the trade of printing, and, as Her- bert^ supposes, in order to forward the reforma- tion. In the colophon to his Canticles of Solo- monhe styles himself servant with Edward White- church, and he probably was first emploj'ed by this printer as a corrector of the press, for which situation his literary attainments peculiarly fitted him, and afterwards chose to qualify himself for a compositor. In his dedication of the Mirrour for Magistrates, 1563, he particularly notices his having ' been called to another trade of lyfe,' which probably alludes to his becoming a school- master and clergyman. Wood has omitted the following, which is one of Baldwyn's scarcest performances; The Fu/ie- ralles of King Edzi'ard the Sixth; zcherein are de- clared the causers and causes of his death. Lond. 1560, 4to. a full account of which will be found in the British Bibliographer, ii.97. There are some verses by Baldwyn before Langton's Treatise ordrely declaring the principal partes of' phisick. 8vo. 1547.] WILLIAM KASTALLson of John Rastall^ of London printer, by Elizabeth his wife, sister to sir Thomas More knight, sometimes lord-chan- cellor of England, was born in the city of London, and educated in grammar learning there. In 1525 or thereabouts, being then in the year of his age 17, he was sent to the univers. of Oxon, where laying a considerable foundation in logic and phi- losophy, left it without a degree, went to Lincoln's- inn, and there by the help of his academical edu- cation, he made a considerable progress in the municipal laws of the nation, and in 1 Ed. 6 he became autumn or summer reader of that house. But religion being then about to be alter'd, he, with his ingenious and learned wife Wenefred daughter of Jo. Clement (of whom I shall speak in 1572,) left the nation and went to the univer- sity of Lovain in Brabant, where continuing all the time of that king's reign, returned when qu. Mary came lo the crown, was made serjeant at law in 1554, and a little before' the said queen's « [Typ. Antiq. 551.] ^ [Who then was William Rastall, whom sir Tho. More styled his cousin ; who printed for him ? Lett, to Crom- v/ell dat.Febr. 1532-3. TlieConfatacyonof'Tyndal^s Answere by sir Tho. More, is printed by Wyll. Rastell, 1532, 4to. Baker. Wood has omitted to notice, that previous to Rastell's becoming so eminent as a lawyer, he exercised the business of a printer. This profession was then (as it should always be) undertaken by men of education and family: it was then (as it always should be) esteemed next in respectability to the three learned professions, divinity, law, and physic] 1° [87 Oct, 1558. Herbert, Typ, Antiq. 473-X death, one of the justices of the common-pleas. At length religion altering again, after Elizab. be- came queen of England, he returned to Lovain before mention'd, where he continued till the time of his death. He hath written. The Chartuary. Lond. 1534. A Table collected of the years of our Lord Gody and of the Years of the Kings of England, from the first of Will, the Conqueror; shewing how the years of our Lord God, and the years of' the Kings of England, concur and agree together; by which table it may quickly be accounted how many Years, Months, and Days be past since the making of any Evidences. Lond. 1563, oct. Continued by an- other hand, and printed there again in oct. 1607. [Bodl. 8vo. C. 23. Jur.] It was also printed there a third time l639, in a large oct. corrected and continued by the famous almanack-maker John Booker born at Manchester in Lancashire, 23 Mar. 1601, and bred a clerk under an alderman of London ; who, after he had publish'd several matters of his profession (of which The Bloody Irish Almanack was one, printed at London 1646, in 11 sheets in qu.) gave way to fate on the sixth of the ides of April an. 1667, and received se- pulture in the church of St. James in Duke's- place, Lond. Whereupon a marble-stone was soon after laid over his grave at the charge of his great admirer Elias Ashmole esq. The said Table of Years is now involved and swallowed up in a book entitled Chronica jurid'icialia: or, a general Calender of the Years of our Lord God, and those of several Kings of England, Sfc. with a Chrono- logical Table of the Lord-Chancellors and Lord- Keepers, Justices of the Kings-bench, Common- pleas, Barons of the Exchequer, 8cc. Lond. 1685, oct. By whom this book was transcrib'd, I know not yet: evident it is, that it consists only of Rastall's Tables, and sir Will. Dugdale's Chronica [148] series, Sac. at the end of his Origines juridiciales, 8cc. and published by some down-right plagiary pur- posely to get a little money. Our author Rastall < hath also written and publish'd, Terms of the English Law: or, Les termes de la Ley, several times printed. A Collection in English of the Statutes now in force, continued from the beginning of Magna Charta, made Q flen. 3, to the 4th and oth of Phil., and Mary. Lond. 1559, 83, fol. Continued by another hand to the 43d of queen Elizab. Lond. 1603, &c. fol. [Bodl. M M. 8. Jur.] A Collection of Entries, of Declarations, Bart-es, Replications, Rejoinders, Issues, Verdicts, &e. Lond. 1566,96, [Bodl. M M. 5. Jur.] &c. fol. He also corrected and published a book entit. La Novel natura brevium Monsieur Anton. Fitzher- bert, &c. dcs choses notabiles contenus en ycel novel- ment, &c. To which he also added a table. This book was printed several times; one of which editions came out at Lond. 1598, oct. He also composed two tables; one of which contains the