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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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    [164] Joh. Whyte made B. of Line.'' About that time being appointed one of the prime preachers of the •nation to hold forth at Paul's cross to revive the catholic religion, which had been eclipsed in K. Edward's reign, had, while he was preaching, (as one^ saith) a dagger flung at him, but I presume false, because the generalit}^ of writers say that that act was committed on Gilb. Bourne. In July 1557, he was made dean of Peterborough in the place of Jam. Curthopp deceased, and on the 20 Dec. following he was installed dean of Nor- wich in the place of Joli. Cliristopherson made B. of Chichester, and about the same time dean of Windsor; in which place being installed, he was sworn scribe or registrary of the most noble order of the garter 6 Feb. 1557, and the year fol- lowing was actually created D. of div. and made prebendary of York and Sarum. After qu. Elizab. came to the crown he was depriv'd of the deanery of Windsor (that of Norwich he gave up before qu. Mary's death) and George Carew succeeding him in 1559, he was admitted and sworn there- unto 22 Apr. 1560. About that time he was also deprived of the deanery of Peterborough, where- upon the queen bestowed it on Will. Latimer D.D. 1560, which, together with the church it- self, he had likely to have lost upon information given to the queen that it was ruinous and no praj'ers said therein, but upon better information from Latymer, the great peer that begg'd it with- drew, and nothing more was done in the matter. As for Boxall, being thus deprived, he was com- mitted to free custody in the archb. house at Lambeth, with Thirlby B. of Ely, Tonstall B. of Durham, and others; but soon after being over- taken with a dangerous fever, had liberty to go over the water to London, and settling in the house of a near relation, recovered, and enjoyed himself in great retii'edness for some years after. He is said by a noted author to have been a person of great modesty, learning, and knowledge, and by another' greater than he, that there was in him ' tanquam a natura ingenita modestia co- mitasq; summa, qua quoscunque notes ad se dili- gendum astrinxit.' One * of his persuasion, who highly extolled him for his eloquence and learn- ing, saith that he wrote several things, but they perishing with the author, never saw light. The truth is, that in all my searches I could never see any thing under his name but a Latin sermon, which he preached, as it seems, in a convocation ^ [In the year 1556 he resigned his wardenship to Thomas Stenipe LL.D. Willis, Hist. oJ'Mit?ed Purliamcntury Abbies, 8vo. 1718, vol. i. p. 33a.] ^ Joh. Pits in append, cent. 2, nu. 86. ' In a book entit. The Execution of Justice in England for tnaintenance of pub. and Christian Peace, &c. Printed at Lond. the second time in oct. an, 1583, p. 31. [Written by lord Burleigh.] ' M.Parker in Anliq. Eccks. Britan. edit. 1572, vol. 73, in Malthseo. ^ Jo. Pits ut supra. of the clergy 1555 in London, where it was afterwards printed in oct. [in the same year] but upon what subject I cannot tell, nor any thing else of the author, only that he died in London towards the latter end of the year fifteen hundred and se- 1570. venty, for on the 28th of March 1571 there was a commission ' granted from the prerogative court of Canterbury to Edmund and Ptich. Boxall, na- tural and legitimate brothers of him the said Joh. Boxall clerk, lately deceased in the city of London, to administer his goods, debts, chattels, &c. [16 Novemb. 1553, magister Joh'es Boxall S. T. P. et principalis secretarius reg. majestatis, admissus ad canonicatum et prebendam de Gra- ham boreali in eccl'ia Sarum, per mort. Joh'is Griffith ult. incumb, ex pres. Philippi et Marie, sedevacante. Reg. Pole, Cant. fol. 53. 1558, 14 Maij, Joh. Boxhall S.T. P. presbiter, unus deprimariis secretarie regiai majestatis, coll. ad preb. de Newington, per mort. Will. VV^areham. llcg. Bonner. 1559, 2 Mar. Tho. Penny, A. M. coll. ad preb. de Newington per privat. Joh'is Boxhull. Reg, Grindall. Ken net. In the British museum, MS. Reg. 12 A. XLIX. is a Latin oration, the title of which is in English in the handwriting of lord Lumley. Hoxall his Orat ion in the praise of the kinge of Spaine. The oration itself is probably in the author's own hand. There is nothing which leads to the date of the manuscript; but from the circumstance of its having been lord Lumley's, it could not have found its way into the royal collection later than the time of James the First. Ellis. In the library of Corpus Christi college, Cam- bridge, CXIV. 286, is a letter from Boxall to archbishop Parker, thanking hirn for his kindness to him when confined in his house, and for the leave he had obtained of removing to Bromleigh-*.] HUMPHREY LHUYD or Liioyd, son and heir of Rob. Lhoyd alias Rossenhall of the ancient borough of Denbigh in Denbighshire, by Joan his wife, daughter of Lewis Pigott, was born at Denbigh before-mention'd, but in what house of learning in Oxon he first of all applied himself to academical studies, I know not: sure it is, that after he had taken the degree of bach, of arts, which was in 1547,1 find him by the name of Hum- phrey Lhoyd to be a commoner in Brasen-nose coll. and in the year 1551 to proceed in arts as a member of that house ; at which time, as it seems, he studied physic, being then ripe in years. Af- terwards retiring to his own country, lived mostly within the walls of Denbigh castle, practised his faculty, and sometimes that of music fot diversion sake, being then esteemed a well-bred gentleman. He was a person of great eloquence, an excellent 3 In a book of administrations in the Will office near to St. Paul's cath. beginning in Dec, 1559, fol. 171, b. * [Nasniith, Catul. p. 164-]