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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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    [165] rhetorician, a sound philosopher, and a most noted antiquary, and a person of great skill and knowledge in British affairs. The learned Camden stiles' him a learned Britain, and for knowledge of antiquities reputed hy our countrymen, to carry, after a sort, with him, all the credit and honour, &c. He hath written, An Almanack and Kalender, containing the Day, Hour, and Mimite of the change of the Moon for ever, and the Sign that she is in for these three Years, zeith the Natures of the Signs and Planets, with divers other things, as it doth plainli/ appear in the Preface. This was the first thing that our author published, as it appears in the said preface, but when, or where it was printed, the imperfect copy, (which is in oct.) from whence I had tlie title, shews not. Commentarioli Jiritmmica descriptionisfragmen- tum. Col. Agrip.[ 1568,] 1572, in tw. [Bodl.Svo.L. 36. Art. Seld..] Dedicated to his dear and intimate friend Abr. Ortelius of Antwerp, in the year 1568, Translated into English l)y Tho. Twyne, who en- titles it, The Breviary of Britain. Lond. 1573, oct. [Bodl. 8vo. L. 36. Art.' Seld.] De Mona Drnidum insula, antiquitati sua: resti- tutu. Written in an epistle to the said Ortelius, dated 5 Apr. 1568. De Arnmmentario Romano^. These two last' are printed at the end of Historic Britannicoi de- fensio, written by sir Joh. Prise. Lond. 1573, qu. [BodL 4to. P. 11. Art. Seld.] Chronicon Wallia, a liege Cadaalladero, usque ad an. Dom. 1294. MS. in Cotton's library, under - Caligula, A. 6^. He also translated from Lat. into English. (1.) The Judgment of Urines. Lond. 1551, Oct. (2.) The History of Cambria, now called Wales. Afterwards corrected, augmented, finished and continued by David Powell. Lond, 1584, qu.9 (3.) The Treasure of Health, containing many profitable Medicines. Lond.'° 1585, oct. writ- ten by Pet. Hispanus. To which translation our author Lhuyd added The Causes and Signs of every Disease, with the Aphorisms of Hippocrates. These are all, I think, that he hath written and trans- lated, for among my searches I hav« seen no more, nor do I know any thing else of the author, ' In Britan. in cap. 1, De primis Incolis, & in cap. 4, De nomine Britan. * [Humphrey Lloyd De armame.ntnrio Homann, is not a thing distinct from his epistle De Mona, Ike, Humphreys. It was re-edited^ with his Comment. Britan. Deacriptio, by Moses Williams, and printed Lond. 1731, 4to. Bodl. D D. 60. Art.] ^ [These two last are printed with Ortelius, whence it ap- pears, that he had then (156b) lived fifteen years in the earl of Arundel's family. See Langneti Epist. 12. Baker.] * [A chronicle of Wales, from t/ie time of K- Caihcallader, to Letvellin son of Griffith-up-LeueUin, the last of the British hlood who had the govcrn?nent of Wales, that is to the year 1293. Dated at London, July 17, 1559- The same MS. contains Fragnientiim ex Chronico Wullico, ub ipso (i. e. Lhuyd) Wallice scriplo. See Catalogue of the Cuttontan MSS. 1802. p. 43.j s [See col. 217.] '° [Herbert, Typ.Antiq. 360,3(51.] only that he paid his last debt to nature, about fifteen hundred and seventy, and was buried in the ^^70. chinch of Whitchurch near Denbigh before-men- tion'd. Soon after was a monument of alabaster set up in the wall over his grave to his memory : ■on which was portraied his effigies in a praying posture, with a desk, and a book lying thereon, before him, a sword by his side, but nothing else military in his habit. Under his said effigi«s is a plain free stone in the said wall, whereon are en- graven eight barbarous English verses: the two first of which run thus. The corps and earthly shape doth rest, here tomyd in your sight Of Humfrey Lloid Mr. of art, a famus worthy wight. In the last verse is mention made of an epitaph annex'd, but where that was written, unless on the stone lying on his grave, (wherein probably the day and year of his death were set down) I cannot tell. Many years before his death he took to wife Barbara daughter of George Lumley, and sister to John lord Lumley; by whom he had issue Splen- dian and John, who both died without issue, Henr}' an inhabitant of Cheame in Surrey and Jane the wife of Rob. Coytmore. LAURENCE VAUS, Vaux or Vaulx, so many ways I find him written, was born near to Biackrode in Lancashire, received his acade- mical education in Oxon, partly, as it seems, in Queen's coll. but mostly in that of Corp. Ch. where he was either clerk or choirester, and much fa- voured by James Brokes fellow of that house. How long he continued there, or whether he took a degree in arts it appears not. About the year 1540 he applied his studies to the theological faculty, and was made a priest, being then es- teemed ^ to be ' vir eximicc doctrinaj pro instru- enda in fide catholica juventute.' Afterwards he became chaplain to the said Brokes when he was bishop of Olocester, warden of Manchester [^66] coll. in his own country on the death of George Collier' (of the family of the Colliers near to Stone in Staffordshire) in the beginning of the reign of queen Mary, and in 1556 he was admitted to the reading of the sentences in this university. Upon the coming to the crown of qu. Eliz. and the reformation of religion that followed, he left his preferment (in which Will. Byrch of the family of Byrch-hall in Lane, succeeded 2 Eliz.) and went into Ireland, where he was despoiled of all he had ' [Ancestor of th« rev. Robert Lnmley Lloyd, now rector of Covent Garden, London, and lord of the inannor of Cheame, 1712. Kcnnet.] ^ Anon. MS. de quibusd. script. Angl. in manib. quon- dam Gul. Crowe ludimag. Croydon. ^ [In an account of the pensions granted to religious per- sons, &c. upon the dissolution, taken by cardinal Pole and confirmed by Q. Mary, A. D. 1535, there was a pension of 34/. 5s. to George Collier, late warden of the college cf Manchester. Ken net.]