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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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    deceased; so that I presume he died either in Oct. or Nov. going before. He had a brother named Nicholas, whom I shall remember under the year 1583. [1554, 27 Apr. mag'r. Joh. Harpsfield theol. licentat. arcliid. Lond. per resign, mag'r. Joh Wymmesley. Reg. Bonner. 1554, 4 Maij, Joh. Harpesfeld S. T. B. coll. ad eccl. s'cti Martini Ludgate. Ibid. 1554, 26 Maij, Joh. Harpesfeld theol. licentiat. coll. ad preb. de Holborn per resign, mag. Rob. Cousyn. Ibid. 1558, 14 Maij, mag. Joh. Moiren S. T. B. coll. ad eccl. S. Martini infra Ludgate, per resign. Joh. Harpesfeld S. T. B. Ibid. Eodem die mag. Joh. Harpesfeld S. T. P. coll. ad eccl. de Lavndon per resign. Nich. Harpesfeld LL.D, 1555, 10 Dec. Joh. Harpesfeld S. T. P. coll. ad preb. de Mapesbury per mort. Gabrielis Dunne. Ibid. 1559, 13 Dec. Joh. Mullens admiss. ad archid. London, per privatione Joh. Harpesfeld ad pres. regingc. Ibid. 1559, 10 Febr. Joh. Pilkington A. M. admiss. ad preb. de Mapesbury per privat. Joh. Harpes- feld. Dr. Harpesfield made an oration in Latin to K. Philip upon his visiting Paul's church, Aug. 1554. Fox, Act. ami Mon. vol.3, p. 104. Ann. 5 H. 8, inter protectiones a D. Rege con- cessas. Joli'es Harpslield civis etpannarius Lon- don, alias dictus Jolies Harpslield nuper de lion- don draper, alias Johes Harpsfield de London gentilman. T. R. apud Westm. 1(5 Junii. Ken- net. The following are in the British museum. 1. MS. Cotton, Vitell.C. ix.fol. l58. CItronicon Johannis Hcnyesjieldi, a dihivio ad an. 1559. 2. idem MS. fol. 185, b. ersus e/egiuci, ex centnriis aummatim contprehcnsi, de Hisioria liccie- siastica Anglurum.'] JOHN FOWLER was born in the city of Bristol, educated in Wykeham's school near j-jgoj Winchester, admitted fellow of New coll. after he had served two years of probation, in 1555, resigned it in 1559, and the year after took the degree of master of arts, but did not compleat it by standing in the comitia. About that time leaving England, he took upon him the trade of printing, partly at Antwerp, and partly at Lovain, whereby he did signal service for the R. Catholics in printing their books for the vindication of their cause against the Protestants in England. He was well skill'd in the Greek and Latin tongues, a tolerable poet and orator, and a theo- logist not to be contemn'd. So learned he was also in criticisms, and other polite learning, that he might have passed for another Robert, or Henry, Stephens, printers. He did diligently peruse the theological sums of St. Thomas of Aquine, and with a most excellent method did reduce them into a Compendium. To which he gave this title, Loca communia Theologica, &c. lib. 1. He wrote also, Additionesin Chronica Genebrandi. A Psalter for Catholics. Answered by Tlio. Sampson sometimes dean of C. Ch. Epigrams and other Verses. He also translated from Lat. into English, The Epistle of Osorius; and The Oration of Pet. Frarin of Antwerp against the unlawful Insurrection of the Protestants under pretence to reform Religion. Antw. 1566, oct. answered by Will. Fulke of Cambridge. At length giving way to fate at Newmark called by some Krainburg in Germany, 13 Febr. in fifteen hundred seventy and eight, was buried in the ch. yard of St. John the Evangelist, there, near to the body of John Harris, sometimes father to Alice his wife. THOMAS BENTHAM, a learned and pious man of his time, was born in Siiirebourne (a market town, I think) in Yorkshire, admitted perpetual fellow ofMagd. coll. on the l6th of Nov. 1546, proceeded m arts in the year fol- lov.-ing; and about that time did solely addict his mind to the study of theology, and to the learning of the Hebrew tongue; in which last he was most excellent, as in those of Greek and Latin, which he had obtained before he was master of arts. After qu. Mary came to the crown, he was turned out of his fellowship (for his forward and malepert** zeal against the catli. religion in the time of king Ed. 6,) by the visitors appointed by her to regulate theuniver- sity, and especially for this reason, that when being commanded by sir Rich. Read one of the said visitors to correct the junior scholars for their absence from mass, as being bound to do it, as dean of the coll. he ingeniously confessed his hearty sorrow for his former compliance in the latter end of K. Hen. 8, and averr'd before him, that he would not heap sin upon sin ; adding, that he esteemed it not equal to ])unish that in others, which he himself had willingly and knowingly committed, &c. Being thus ejected he fled beyond the seas, retired first to Zurich, and afterwards to Basil in Germany, became preacher to the English exiles there, and expounded to them the entire book of the Acts of the Apostles. Afterwards being recalled by some of the brethren, in the reign of qu. Mary, came very privately and in a disguise to London, and was by them made the superin- tendent of their private convention or conven- tions there (being the only church that the Pro- ^ Vide Laur. Iliunfredum, in Vita 4 Morte Jo. Juelli; edit. 1573, p. 72, 73, & in Hist. 4- Antig. Univ. Ozon. Vib. i, p. 275, b. 1578-9,