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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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![Haggai, 1. ver. 2, 3, 4.—Psal. 69.' 9, &c. AH whic-h books, (the five first excepted) sermons, and Apology, are printed in one vol. in fol. Lond. 1609, with an abstract of his life set before them (but full of faults) written by Dan. Featly. Be- sides them he hath left behind him these MSS. which, as I conceive, are not yet printed, viz. A paraphrastical exposition of the Epistles and Gospels throughout the whole Year. A continuate exposition of the Creed, Lord's Prayer, and ten Com?nandments. Commentary upon the Epistle to the Galatians. Com. on the Epist. of St. Peter. Under his name was printed, An Answer to ceriainfrivolous objections against the G overnment of the Church, of England. Lond. 4to. in one sheet, [Bodl. C. 8. 29. Line] taken it seems from some of his works. At length this worthy prelate paying his last debt to nature at Monkton- 1571. farley 9,3 Sept. in fifteen hundred seventy and one, was buried almost in the middle of the choir of his cathedral at Salisbury. At v/hich time Giles Laurence archdeacon of Wilts, preached the funeral sermon, and Will. Holcot of Buckland in Berks, (formerly a lay-preacher) administred at the funeral. See more of Joh. Jewell's works in Joh. Garbrand under the year 1589. [Jewell's character cannot be too highly revered, or toorespectfully spoken of. He was a man of great learning and surprising diligence. Moderate and bumble in his opinions, and meek in his deport- ment; a strict observer of the behaviour of his clergy, yet a mild reprover of their misconduct, which his vigilance greatly checked, and his cau- tion prevented. His memory is reported to have been very extraordinary, insomuch, that he could recollect any thing with once reading, and he im- proved it very much by art, and a constant habit of employing it. He was an excellent preacher; pious in all he said and all he did ; charitable with- out ostentation; affable and pleasant in his man- ner ; temperate in his mode of life, and a complete master of his passions. He was indeed a great * light' and a great champion of the reformed church. Yet at one time during Mary's reign he not only wavered between the two religions, but actually subscribed to the Roman catholic creed. Humfrey says, that if he could have consulted his old tutor Parkhurst, he would not have committed this act, and that he took a journey to Cleve on foot, for this purpose, but Parkhurst was fled to London. At Jewell's return to Oxford he was pressed to subscribe, and threatened in case of a refusal. At length, taking the pen, he smiled and said, ' Must 1. set my name down too ; have you a mind to see how well I can write ?'—but he soon after contrived to escape^ which is a strong proof of his repentance. 'This on psal. 60, ver. 9, was reprinted by itself, an. 1641, in qu. with an answer of the same author to some frivolous objections against the governmeDt ol the church. Jewell's works were published in English, Lond. 1609, folio, (Bodl. G. 4. 7.Th.) and in Latin by Will. Whitaker, Geneva 1585, folio, (Bodl. J. 2. 3. Th.) c Among the Cotton MSS. Caligula, B v. fol. 312, b. are The Bishop of Salisbury his zvords at his death, and epitaphs. See Catal. p. 62. The best engraved portraits of Jewell are by Vertue ' ast. 40,' and in Holland's Heroologia.'] DAVID WHITHEAD, a great light of learn- ing and a most heavenly professor of div. of his time, was of the same family with those of Tuderley in Hampshire, and, when at ripe years, was edu- cated in all kind of learning and virtue in this^ university, but whether in Brasen-nose or All- souls coll. as some surmise, I find not. What degrees he took it doth not appear, or whether he was admitted to the I'eading of the sentences, be- cause in the latter end of Hen. 8, and all the time of K. Ed. 6, the public registers are very imper- fect. In the time of Hen. 8 he was chaplain to Anna Bulleyn, by whose means he had some pre- fennent in the church, and was one of the four persons nominated by archb. Cranmer to the king to be a bishop in Ireland and in the be- ginning of qu. Mary, he among several zealous protestants went to Frankfort in voluntary exile; • where, being in great esteem with the English congregation, he wrote. Lections and Homilies on St. Paul's Epistles.— In A brief' discourse of the Troubles began at Frankfort iri Germany, &c. printed 1575, [Bodl. 4to. F. 8. Th.] you'll find several of his Discourses, and answers to the objectimis of Dr. Rob. Home concerning matters of discipline and worship. See there in p. 128, 129, &c. 146, 147, &c. After his return into England, he had a hand in the third edition of the English Liturgy, in 1559? and was chosen one of the disputants against the R. cath. bishops. So that in his discourses shewing him- self a deep divine, the qu. thereupon had so great an esteem for him, that she offer'd him the arch- bishoprick of Canterbury, but he refused it, as about the same time he did the mastership of the hospital called the Savoy in the Strand near to London, afiirming that he could live plentifully on the preaching of the gospel without either. So that whether he had any spiritualities of note conferr'd on him, is yet doubtful, he being much delighted in travelling to and fro to preach the word of God in those places, where he thought it was wanting. His life was spent in celibacy, as it became a true theologist, and therefore the better esteemed by the queen, who had no great affec- tion for such priests that were married. He was conducted by death to the habitation prepared for old age, in fifteen hundred seventy and one, 1571. but in what church, or chapel buried, I know II. Holland in lib. cui tit, est Heroologia Anglka, &c. edit, in fol. 1620, p. 195,](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b24751236_0001_0402.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
