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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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    4. Even so myselfe, (who sometyme bare the bookes, Of such as vveere, sjreat clerkes and men of skill) Presume to thinke that eueric bodie lookcs I shulde be lyke vnto my teachers still, And thereupon I venter my good will Yn barreyne verse to do the best I can, Lyke Chaucer's boye, and Petrark's iornejanan. 5. You then, who reade, and rifle in my rimes, To seeke the rose, where nothing growes but thorn es, Of curtesie, 3'et pardone hym which clymes. To purchase praise, although he fynd but skornes. non cuius conti- Full Well wdtyou, that Cory nth get udire Corin- shoyng homes thum. Male not be made,, like euerie noddies nose, No buckler serues to beare all kynde of blowes. 6. But if some English woorde, herein seem sweet> Let Chaucer's name, exalted be therefore, Yf any verse do passe on plesant feet, The praise thereof redownd to Petrarks lore. Pew words to use, yf either lesse or more, Be fownde herein, whiche seeme to merite fame The law de thcrof be to my souereigns name. 7. Reproofe myn owne, for all that is amysse: And faults must swarmc where little skill doth reigne. Yet for myselfe, I can alledge but this : The mazed man, whome bewties blaze hath slaine, Dothe goe in griefe, and yet perceyues no payne. And they whome loue hathe daunted withe delight, Fynd seldome fault, but thinke that all goeth right.' It should be added, that the conclusion of the fourth song relates to Dancing, Wrestling, and Hiding. MS. lleg. in mus. Britan. 18 A Ixi.] JOHN HARPESFEILD, a grand zealot for the Rom. cath. religion, was born in the parish of St. INIary Magdalen (in Old Fishstreet) within the city of London, educated in grammar learning in Wykeham's school near to Winchester, ad- mitted perpetual fellow of New coll. in 1534, took the degrees in arts, hoi}' orders, was made chaplain to Bonner bishop of London, and left his fellowship about 1551, being then beneficed in London. About 1554 (being then D. of D.) he was made by his patron archdeacon of that place, in the room of John Wymesley of less activity by far than Harpesfeild; and it was then (temp. Marice reg.) observed that as Dr. Bonner B. of London shew'd himself the most severe of all bisliops against heretics, as they were then called, so our author Harpesfeild of all arch- deacons, which was the reason he fared the worse for it upon the change of. religion. In 1558, some months before qu. Mary died, he became dean of Ch. Ch. in Norwich, upon the resigna- tion of John Boxall, but forced to leave that dignity in the beginning of 1560, to make room for John Salisbury suffragan bishop of Thetford, w ho had been ejected in the first year of qu. Mary. Concerning this person, Dr. Burnet in his Histori/ of the Reformation of the Church of England, vol. or part 2, lib. 3, p. 387, saith further that, ' In February 1558, Harpesfeild ' had preached a sermon in Canterbury to stir ' up the people to sedition; and the members ' belonging to that cathedral church, had open-.- ' ly said that religion should not, nor.could not 'be alter'd: Harpesfeild received a rebuke. ' And Harpesfeild in a convocation of clergy 'then held, he being prolocutor, did with the ' lower-house present an address to the queen ' for the discharge of their consciences cont- ' tained in five articles, which were flat against ' the reformation she then intended.' Harpes- feild was also one of the Catholic divines who were to dispute with the reformed about settling religion in the latter end of 1558. I find published under this doctor Harpesfeild's name these things following, Concio ad clerum in Ecclesia S. Pauli, 16 Ocfs 1553, in Act. cap. QD. '28. Lond. 1553, oct. [Bodl. 8vo. Z. 174. Th,] Homilies to be read in Churches within the Dioc. of Lotidon. Lond. 1554-55. At the end of Bonner's Catechism. Disputations for the degree of. Doctor of Divini- tif, 19 Apr. 1554. Printed in the Acts and Mon. of the Church, by Joh. Fox : In which disputation archb. Cranmer bore a part. Disputes, Talkings, Arguings, Exami)tatio7iS) Letters, &;c. Printed also in the said book of Acts and. Mon. After qu. Elizabeth came to the crown, he was committed prisoner to the Fleet, where continuing for an year or more, was re- leased upon security given that he should not act, speak, or write against the doctrine of the church of England. Whereupon retiring to the house of a near relation of his, dwelling within the parish of St. Sepulchre in the suburb of London, spent the remainder of his days in great retired- ness and devotion. At length paying his last debt to nature in fifteen hundred seventy and 1578. eight, was buried, as I conceive, ^in the church of that parish. On the 5 Dec. in the same year, one Anne Worsop the nearest of kin to him, had a commission granted to her from the prerogative court of Canterbury to administer the goods, debts and chattels of John Harpesfeild D. D. of the parish of St. Sepulchre in London, lately In a book of Administrations in die Will office, begin- ning 1 Jan. 1671.