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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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    principal matters concerning pleas of the crown, and the other of all the principal cases contained in a book called, The Book of Assizes and Pleas of the Crozcn, &c. and a Table to Fitzherbert's Grand Abridgment of the Law. [Printed folio, 1317 and 1363.] Life of Sir Tho. More, Knight'. Whether printed 1 cannot tell. Sm'e 1 am that Rastall collected * all such works of sir Tho. More diat were wrote in English. Lond. 1357, fol. As for those things written against Jewell, which go under the name of Rastal, are not to be understood as written by this Will. Rastall, as a certain author' would have it, but by John RastaU a theologist, as I shall tell you under the year 1600. This our author Will. Rastall, who was accounted a most eminent lawyer of his time and a grand zealot for the R. cathoHc religion, died at Lovain before 1565. mention'd 27 Aug. in fifteen hundred sixty and five: whereupon his body was buried within the church of St. Peter there, on the right hand of the altar of the Virgin Mary, near to tlie body of Wenefred his wife, who was buried there in July 1333. He had a brotlier named Job. Rastall who was a justice of the peace, father to Elizabeth Rastall, the wife of Rob. LonghcrLL.D.as I have elsewhere told you. JOHN PULLAYNE, a Yorkshire man born, was educated in New coll. of which he was either clerk or chaplain, or both successively, and in the year 1347, being then 3 years standing master of arts and thirty years of age, was admitted one of the senior students of Cb.Ch. and much in esteem, for his Lat. and English poetry. About that time he became a frequent preacher and a zealous re- former ; but when qu. Mary came to the crown, he absconded and preached privately to the brethren in the parish of St. Michael on Cornhill in London, where I find him in 1336. After- wards he was forced beyond the seas to Geneva, but returned when qu. Elizab. was in the regal throne, and had the archdeaconry of Colchester bestowed on him, (lately enjoyed by Dr. Hugh W'eston) besides other spiritualities. He hath written, Tract against the Avians. And translated into English verse, (1) The Ecclesiastes of Solomon. (Q) Hist, of Susanna. (3) Hist, of Judith. (4) Hist, of Hester. (3) Testament of the 12 Patriarchs. ' [You reckon the Life of sir T. M. among Rastall's works. It would have been acceptable to the reailer to be informed where it might be seen; for, as I remember,'tis the tract chiefly quoted by the Romanists in proof of their storys, tending to the defamation of queen Ann Builen. But be this matter how it will, the foresaid author of sir T. M.'sLife, (the English Life dedicated to queen Mary by M. T. M. see col. 89, note 3,) tho' it appears he wrote long after Rastal's death, yet he mentions not the book, tho'he quotes sir Tho. Lite wrote by Rooper. Humphreys.] ^ [It was for this service, according to bishop Burnet, he was promoted to a judge.] 3 Job, Pits. De itlustr, Angl. Script, tet. 16, nu, 1014. He went the way of all flesh, in fifteen hundred 1565. sixty and five, which is all I know of him ; only that after his death fell out a controversy among his relations for his estate, under pretence that his children were illegitimate,because he had taken to him a wife in K.Edward's reign. The reader is to understand that there was one John Pullayne an Oxfordshire man born, elected and admitted prob. fellow of Merton coll. in 1307 ; but what he hath written I know not, he being altogether different from the former, notwithstanding Baleus is pleased to tell * us, that the said former Pullayne the writer, was of Merton coll. which is false. [Pullayne was presented to the rectory of St. Peter Cornhill by the king, Jan. 7, 1332, of which he was deprived at Mary's accession, and restored before Nov. 15, 1560'. March 8, 1339, he was admitted to the rectory of Copford, Essex, and Sept. 12, 1561, to the prebend of Wenlokesburn. In 1363 he was living at Thurring, six miles from Colchester''. None of his poetical productions seem to have escaped the ravages of time and accident, for the manuscript note which Warton mentions as affixed to a copy of Solomon s balads in metre, 4to. Lond. no date, in which the follow- ing stanza occurs, She is so young in Christe'^s truth, That yet she hath no teates ; She wanteth brcstes to feed her youth With sound and perfect meates, is entitled to no credit; since the lines are from Baldwyn's translation, and are found at sign. M.iii. of the edit, in 1549-] THOMAS CHALONER son of Rog. Cha- [149] loner, (by Margaret his wife, daughter of Rich. Middleton) son of Tho. Chaloner, second son of Rice Chaloner of Denbigh in Wales, was born in London educated in both the universities, espe- cially in that of Cambridge, where for a time he devoted himself to the muses, as he did after- wards to Mars. After he had left the university, he travell'd beyond the seas, in the company of sir Hen. Knevet ambassador from K. Hen. 8 to the emperor Chai'les 5. Which emperor, T. Cha- loner did afterwards serve in the expedition of Algier, where being ^ shipwrack'd, did, after he had swum till his strength and his arms failed him, catch hold of a cable with his teeth, and so escaped, but not without the loss of some of them. In the beginning of K. Ed. 6 he received the honour of knighthood in the camp besides Rokesborough, immediately after the battel of Musselborough, (wherein he had shewed great ''■ In lib. De script, cent. 9, nu. 83. ^ [Kennet.] 6 [Tanner, Bihl. Brit. 608.] 7 IHist. of Eng. Poetry, m. an.'] 8 [About the year 15J5.] , * Camden in Annul, B,, Elizab. an. 15S5,..