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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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    ' eovernor there, he pressed him much to invade ' England, and gave him a map of some of ' the roads and harbours, with a scheme of the ' way of conquering the nation. He also con- * suited with magicians concerning the queen's * life, and us'd always to curse the queen when ' he said grace after meat. These things being ' known in England, some got him to go on ' ship-board in Flanders on another pretence, ' and presently set sail for England; where yet ' the government was so gentle, that two years ' past before he was brought to his tryal, and ' then the defence he made was, that he was ' not accountable for what he had done in ' Flanders, it not being in the queen's domi- ' nions ; and that he was not her subject, having ' sworn allegiance to the king of Spain. But ' this being contrary to his natural allegiance, ' what he could not shake off, he was found ' guilty of treason, and was thereon executed.' [A lease let 31 Januar. 1 Marise, by Wyll. Frankelyn clerk, parson of St. Giles Chalfont, com. Buck, to John Storie, LL.D. and Joan his wife, and Ellen Storie their daughter, of all his par- sonage, for thirty-one years, paying yearly 26 lib. 13s. 4d. Collectan. Joh. Fedtleij, MS. p. 192. Kennet.] JOHN JEWELL, one of the greatest lights that the reformed church of England hath pro- duced, was born at Buden in the parish of Beri- nerber in Devon. 24 May 1522. His father was Joh. Jewell, and his mother of the family of the Bellamies, who sparing neither labour or charge for his education, was at length, by the care of Joh. Bellamie his uncle, educated in grammar learning first at Branton, then at South-Moulton, and at length at Barnstaple in his own country, under one Walt. Bowen. In which last school being made ripe for the university, he was sent to Oxon in July 1535, and being entered into Mer- ton coll. under the tuition of John Parkhursi^, (afterwards B. of Norwich) was by him made his [169] portionist, now called postmaster, and by his care and severe tuition laid the foundation for greater learning that followed. In the year 1539, after he (upon examination) had shew'd himself a youth of great hopes, he was admitted scholar of C. C. coll. 19 Aug. and the year after was made bach, of arts. So that being put into a capacity Throgmorton, some Riissel, and many other like, that were knowen protestants in Q. Marie's time, supporters of others, and practitioners against the present state, and yet suffered, yea home out by knowen catholiques, whyle other poor coblers, clothiers, cariers and such Hke were punished ? at v?hich manner of dealing I do confesse, that D. Storie being a man of zeal in his religion, misUked exceedingly and stormed also pubHquely one day, before the bishops and priuie councell, in apuUiquc consistory,' &c. p. 32.j ^ [Ad Joan. Juelium. Ohm discipulus mihi, chare Juelle, fuisti: Nunc ero discipulus, te renuente, tuns. Parkhursti Ludicra, 4to. 1573, p. 150.] 1 by that degree of taking pupils, many resorted to him, whom he mostly instructed in private in protestant principles, and in public in humanity, he being about that time rhetoric reader in his coll. In ]544 he was licensed to proceed in arts, which he compleated in an act celebrated 9 Feb. the same year. When K. Hen. 8 was dead, he shew'd himself more openly to be a protestant; and upon P. Martyr's arrival at Oxon, to be an admirer and hearer of him, whose notary he was v/hen he disputed with Tresham, Cheadsey and Morgan. In 1550 he was admitted to the reading of the sentences, and during the reign of K. Ed. 6 became a zealous pi'omoter of reformation, and a preacher and catechiser at Sunningwel near to Abington in Berks. Soon after qu. Mary came to the crown he was forced to leave the nation, and retire first to Frankfort v/ith Henry the eldest son of sir Franc. Knollys, Piob. Horne, and Edwyn Sandys, and afterwards to Strasbvu-gh with Joh. Poynet, Edmund Grindal, Joh. Cheek, &c. After qu. Mary's death he returned in 1558''', and in the year following he was rewarded with the bishoprick of Salisbury for his great learning and sufferings, being about that time appointed one of the protestant divines to encounter those of the Romish persvvasion when qu. Elizab. was about to settle a reformation in the church of England. In 1560 he preached at Paul's cross on the second Sunday before Easter, on 1 Cor. 11. —23. ' For I have received of the Lord, that which also I delivered unto you,' &c. In which sermon he shew'd himself the first who made a public challenge to all the Rom. catholics in the world, to produce but one clear and evident testi- mony out of any father, or famous writer, who flourished within 500 years after Christ, for any one of the many articles which the Romanists at this day maintain against the church of England, and upon any good proof of any sufch one alle- gation to yield up the bucklers and reconcile him- self to Rome. Now tho' Thorn. Hardyug and some others undertook him about the controverted articles, yet, as those of the reformed party say, they came off so poorly, and Jewell on the con- trary so amaz'd them with a cloud of witnesses in every point in question, that no' one thing, in that age gave the papacy so deadly a wound, as the said challenge at Paul's cross, so con- fidently made and bravely maintain'd. Thus say the protestant writers; but let us hear what a grand ^ zealot for the Romish cause saith con- cerning the said matter—' After this man (mean- ' ing B. Nich. Ridley), stepped to Paul's cross, in 5 [Copy of an inhibition from the court of delegates against John Jewell S. Th. Pr. and others, commissaries for a royal visitation of the diocese of Exeter, dated 26 Jan. 1558. Tanner.] ' Vide Godwinum De Presul. Atigl. in Sarisb. p. 409. * Rob. Persons in A relation of a tribal made before the K. of France, an. 1600, between the Bishop of Eureux and the Lord Flessis Mournai/. Printed 1604, p. 53, 54, &c. C C 2.