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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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    * u?id. * tlience to Bath and Wells in 1547, be- lirst edit, ing then a zealous professor and preacher of the reformed religion. In 1553, upon qu. Mary's coming to the crown, he was depriv'd of his bishoprick for being married; committed for some time to the Fleet, whence escaping, * whereupon he retired * with many others retiring, first into Germany under pretence of re- edit, ligion, and lived there in a poor and exiled condition. At length when qu. Elizab. succeeded, he was made bishop of Chichester, in Decemb. 1559, (where he sate to the time of his death) and in 1560 he was made the first canon or prebendary of the first stall, in the coUegiat church of St. Peter in Westminster, then founded by qu. Elizabeth; which dignity he held with his bishoprick five years. His works are these. A dialogue describing the original ground of these Lutheran factious and many of their abuses. Lond. 1553, in oct. Printed in an English char. but is thought to have been forged under his name'^ [157] Christian Homilies. Cosrnographif ,vf\i\c\\ twolastlhave not yetseen. This bishop Barlow was assisting with other bishops in compiling a book called the Bishop's Book, but entit. The godly and pious institution of a Christian Man, Lond. 1537. In the collection of records, num. 25, at the end of bishop Burnet's 2d vol. of the Histori/ of the Heformation, are, His Answers to certain Queries concerning the Abuses of the Mass. Temp. Ed. 6. He is said also to have translated into Eng- lish the Apocrypha as far as the book of Wis- dom. He departed this mortal life in the 1568. month of Aug. in fifteen hundred sixty and eight, and was buried, as I suppose, in the cath. ch. at Chichester. After this William Barlow had been a prior and a bishop, he took to wife one Agatha Wellesbourne, by whom he had issue five daugh- ters that were all married to bishops, viz. (1) Anne, who, after she had buried her first husband named Austin Bradbridge of Chichester, sometimes fel- low of New college, married Herbert Westpha- ling bishop of Hereford. (2) Elizabeth, wife of Will. Day dean of Windsor, afterwards bishop of Winchester. (3) Margaret, wife of Will. Overton B. of Litchf. and Cov. (4) Frances, who after she had buried her first husband named Matthew Parker a younger son of Dr. Matthew Parker archbishop of Canterbury, was married to Tobie Matthew, who died archbishop of York. (5) An- tonia, the wife of Will. VVykehani bisliop of Winchester. The said Will. Barlowc had also a ^ Bp. Burnet, vol. 2, p. 276, in anno 1554. ' [Perhaps this is tiie Brief Sonune of Geograpliia, attri- buted to Roger Baric, and dedicated to'K.Hen. VIII. MS. Ileg. in mus. Brit. 10 B xxviii. Casley's Catalosue, p. 279.j son of both his names, whom 1 shall mention in his proper place. [Will'us Barlowe S. T. D. patria Essexiunus in ep'um Cicestrensem confirmatus die 20 Dec. 1559- Antiq. Britan. p. 37. W ill. Barlow admiss. prior de Lees parva com. Essex, 18 Jul. 1515, resignavit ante 3 Octob. 1524. lieg. Fitzjames. 25 Maij, 1509, rev. in xto. pater et D. D. Ric'us Lond. Ep'us prioratum de Typtre sue Lond. dioc. per lib. resign. D. Joh'is Cradocke ult. prioris jure devolutionis contulit religioso viro d'no Wil- lelmo Barloo canonico regulari prioratus de Blak- amor sue Lond. dioc. et eidem prioratui providit intuitu caritatis. Heg. Fitzjames, Lond. Decre- tum pensionis decem marcarum annuatim solvend. D. Joh'i Cradocke. Kennet. Besides these preferments, in 1527 he was ap- pointed prior of Bromhole and rector of Cressing- ham in the diocese of Norwich*, and in 1535, prior of Haverford West, Pembrokeshire'. Tanner gives the following extract from MS. Cotton, Cleopatra E. iv. fol. 121, which add some volumes to the list already collected: ' Prayse be to God, who of his infynyte goodness and mercy inestymable hath brought me out of darkness into light, and from deadly ignorance unto the quick knowlege of the truth. From the whiche thro* the fiend's instigation and false perswasiou I have greatly swerved—in so moche that I have made certain bokes, and have soffred them to be em- printed ; as, The tretise of the buryall of the Masse, A dialogue bctzcene the Gentilnian and the Hus^ bandman. The climing up of fryers and religious persons port red tenth figures. A Description of God's Word compared to the Light. Also a CO....Dialogue without any title inveying specially against St. Thomas of Canterbury, which as yet was never prynted, nor published openly. \n these treatises 1 perceive and acknowlege my- self grevously to have erred, namely against the bl. sacramentof the altare; disallowing the masse, and denj'ing purgatory, with slanderous infamy of the pope, and my lord cardinal, and outragious rayling against the clergy, which I have forsaken and utterly renounced—askes pardon—William Barlo.' Of these The burying of the Mass was prohi- bited in 1519, 21 Hen. VHL Fox, Acts and Mon. p. 1020, edit. 1583.] JOHN MAN being the next according to tiine to be mentioned, I must tell you that he was born in the parish of Laycocke in Wiltshire, elected from Winchester school, probationer of New coll. , [Tanner, BtlJ. Brit. 75.] ^ [Wharton, Ilist. Episc, ct Dec. Asapfu p. 360.]