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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

Date:: 1813-20

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$in all hjs doinges, and marke ihe well coucliynge of liys clue, inighte haue a great ges, of whose spinnyng the threde wear.' Sign. A v. Tanner (Bibl. Brit. 744) says that he was am- bassador to the duke of Holstein, April 15, 1359, and Faller (fVorthies, ii.508) adds that he had two wives and twenty children.] WILLIAM TURNER, a noted and forward tbeologist and physician of his time, was born at Morpeth in Northumberland, educated in Cam- bridge in trivials % and afterwards for a time in the study of medicine. This person, who was very conceited of his own worth, hot headed, a busy body, and much addicted to the opinions of Lu- ther, would needs in the heighth of his study of physic turn theologist, but always refused the usual ceremonies to be observed in order to his being made priest: and whether he had orders conferr'd upon him according to the R. cath. manner, appears not. Sure it is that while he was a young man, he went unsent for, through many parts of the nation, and preached the word of God, not only in towns and villages, but also in cities. In his rambles he settled for a time in Oxon, among several of his countrymen that he found there, purposely for the conversation of men and books, which is one reason I put him here, the other I shall tell you anon. But whether he took a degree in arts or medicine I cannot yet find. At the same time, and after, following his [155] old trade of preaching without a call, he was im- prison'd and kept in close durance for a conside- rable time. At length being let loose, and banish- ed, he travelled into Italy, and at Ferrara he was made a doctor of physic, and as much there in esteem for his faculty, as after his return into England he was among the reformed party. In the latter end of K. Hen. 8 he lived at Collen and other places in Germany, v/here he publislied one or more books : and returning to his native coun- try when K. Ed. 6 reigned, had not only the pre- bendship of Botevant in the church of York bestowed on him by the archb. of that place, but acanonryof Windsor, and the deanery of Wells by the king. About which time, tho' the day, or month, or scarce the year appears, he was incor- porated doctor of physic with us, wliich is an- other reason I put him here; for if I could have found the certain time, (which appears not be- cause the register of that king's reign is imper- fect) I would have remitted him into the Fasti. About that time he procured a licence to read and preach, as many laymen ^ did that w ere scholars, practised his faculty among the nobility and gen- try, and became piiysician to Edward duke of ^ [This W. Turner was a Cambridge man, and fellow of Pembroke hall: elect, socius an. 1531,am circa. Baker.] 3 [He was in deacon's orders at least, nam anno 153d, Mar. 20, litulum obtinet a collegio, tunc socius et A. M. and_priest by bp. Ridley, Dec, 21, 1552. Baklr.] Somerset, L. protector of England. After Q. Mary came to the crown he left the nation once more, went into Germany with several English theo- logists, thence to Rome and afterwards for a time settled in Basil. But when qu. Eliz. succeeded, he returned and was restored to his deanery, anci had other sj>iritua]ities, I presume, conferr'd upon him, being then a person had in much esteem for his two faculties, and for the great benefit he did by them, especially in his writings, to the church and commonweath. The titles of those books published under his name are these. The htmiuig of the Runiish Fox, which more than 7 Years hath been hid among the Jj/shops of Eng- land, after that the Kings Highness had command- ed him (Turner) to he driven out of his llea/m. Basil, 1543, oct. Published under the name of Will. Wraughton. Avium pra'cipuarum, quarum apud Flinium Arislotelem mentio est, brevis Bj succinct a histona. Colon. 1544, in tw. Rescuing of the Romish Fox; otherwise called the Examination of the hunter, devised bij Stepli. Gar- diner Doctor and dife/ider of the Rope's Canon Lazv, and his ungod/i/ Ceremo/iies. Printed 1545, in oct. published also under the name of W. Wraughton. The hn/iting of the Romish Wolf. Printed beyond the sea in oct. [Bodl. 8vo. A. 122, Line] Dialogue, icherein is contained the examinatiou of the Mass, and of that kind of Priesthood ichich is oidained to say Mass, and to offer up for the remission of sin the Bodij and Blood of Christ again. Lond. in oct. [Bodl. 8vo. Z. 156. Th.] T\ew Herball, zcherein are contained the names of herbs in Greek, Lat. Eng. Dutch, French, and in the Apothecaries and Herbaries, with the pro- perties, degrees and natural places of the same. Lond. 1551, [Bodl. CC. 58. Art.] and G8, fol. it must now be noted, that after this violent and busy person had got a license to read and preach, it hajipened that in a lecture of his delivered at Thistlevvorth near to London, he did therein in- veigh much against the poysonof Pelagius, which had then infected the people very much in all parts of the nation. This lecture of his being answered in print by one who was his auditor, he straight-way came out with a reply entit. A Preservative, or Triacle against the Poi/son of Pelagius, lately renewed and stirred up again, by the jurious sect of the Anabaptists. Lond. 1551, ia tw.'[Bodl. 8vo. T. 29. Th. Seld.] which book be- ing dedicated to Hugh Latimer was usher'd into the world by several copies of Lat. and Eng. verses set before, and at the end of it; made by Nich. Grimoald of Merton coll. Tho. Norton of Sharpenhoe, Randal Hurleston or Huddleston and Tho. Soame a preacher. Afterwards our author Turner published, A new Book of spiritual Pltysick for divers dij-$