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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

Date:: 1813-20

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$taining leave to travel, went as a tutor to certain young gentlemen into France, where making his chief residence in the university of Bourgcs, took the degree of doctor in the same faculty there. Of whose behaviour and manner of life, while he •continued there, is a testimony ^ e.xtant, written by Francis Baldwin of Arras, doctor of the civ. law, and public reader at Bourges 9. But foras- much as the said Baldwin was an ill-natur'd, tur- bulent and quarrelsome man, as I understand from other places, and Jo. Bale the publisher of the said testimony (full of ill language) as bad almost as he, and one that speaks well of no R. Catholic, not so much as of sir Tho. More, Cuthb. Tonstal, cardinal John Fisher, &c. especially of those that wrote against priest's marriages, as our author Thom. Martyn did, they therefore, I presume, are not to be believed, tho' there is no doubt but that Martyn had his faults as well as they. Besides what is in that testimony. Bale calls him ' a known pedant or paiderastes, the subtile* summoner of Berkshire, and the dark protector of the Pope's sodomites under Winchester a politic * gentle- man that runs v. ith all winds, the greatHercules and mighty defender of stinking buggeries, &c. besides other ill language ^ elsewhere. But if you'll consult Pitseus you'll find him quite an- other man, as others also of his persuasion make him, which I shall now omit. In 1553, he re- signed his fellowship, being then in good prac- tice in the court of arches and an officer in the archdeacon's court of Berks. In the vear 1555, be was incorporated doctor of the civil law in this university, about which time being in favour with Dr. J5onner bishop of London, and with Gardiner B. of Winton, became chancellor to the last, and of noted repute during the reign of qu. Mary, who had so great a respect for him and his abilities, that she commissionated him with Dr. Storie to go to Oxon to try and examine ;u-chb. Cranmer. He published, Treathe proving thai tlic marriage of Priests and professed Persons is no marriage, Out altogether iinlaicjul. Lond. 1554, qu. [Bodl. 4to. G. 45. Th.] Whereupon Job. Ponet or Poynel, bishop of Winton came out with an answer thus eutit. Jn ufology ftdlij anszcering hy Scriptures and antient Doctors a blasphemous Book gathered bij ^ In Jo. Bale's Declarut'mi of Edm. Bo/Diers Articles con- rerning tite Ctergi/uf London'Diocese, &c. Lond. t361, in Oct. f'ul. 42, 40, &c. 40, 47, &c. ^ [The testimony by Francis Bald will is reprinted in a monthly publication culled Phtznix Britannirus, p. 290, by one J. Morgan, in 1732, 4to. the same person who put oiit an UiUor,/ of Algiers. Cole. The Bhanix Briiunnicus, of v. hich one volume only appeared, was a collection ot rare and curious tracts reprinted uiider the buperintendance of a captain J. Jjorgan.] ' Ibid. [i. e. Bale's Dccluralion, &c. as beforel iol. 76, b lb. lol. 39, a. ^ Ih + Ib.fol. 15, a. ^ In lib. JA script. Miij. Brit, cent. P, nu. 98. [Anno 1550, 28 Jun'. Westm. Upon consideration that Dr. Stqjh. Gardiner, Dr. Rich. Smyth, Aibcrtns Pighins and other Papists, as by their Books ap- pears, and of late set forth under the name of Tho. Wlartyn Doct. of the Civil Late, &c. Printed be- yond the sea, an. 1555-56, in oct. In which book, fol. 9, Ponet saith thus, ' Thy book hatli ' betrayed thee, Martyn, for thy fondness was ' not ktiown before it came abroaci, but assoon as ' that shewed itself in men's hands, they might ' easily perceive that in playing the christmas ' lord's minion in New coll. in Oxon in thy fool's ' coat, thou didst learn thy boldness, and began to ' put off all shame, and to put on all impudence.' By the aforesaid title we are given to understand as if B. Gardiner, Dr. Smyth, &c. were authors of, or at least had considerable hands in, it; with whom agrees Baleus belbrc-mention'd, who stiles Martyn, ' Winchester's V oice,' but whether true I cannot say. The book hath been commended by many learned }>ersons, and no doubt but he had helps in it, but whether by any of the former, is doubtful. About the same time came out another answer entit. A defence of Priests mar- riages, established by the imperial laivs of the Realm of Biigland, &c. printed in qu. To which, tho' no name is set, yet it is^ said to be written by Dr. Matthew Parker, who was afterwards archb. of Canterbury. The same year Tho. Martyn put out, A Confutation of Dr. John Poynefs Book entit. A defence for the marriage of Priests, &c. Lond. 1555, qu. He hath tilso extant, Oration to Dr. Cranmer Archb. 12 March 1555.. The beginning of which is, ' Albeit there are two governments,' &.c. Discourse between him and Archbishop Cramno- concerning Conscience and matters of Religion. The beginning is, ' Mr. Cranmer, you have told here a loug glorious tale,' tvc. \'rhicli oration and discourse you may see in tlie Acts and ]\Ion. of the Ch. by Jo. Fox, under the year 1555, besides Examinations and Coni'ereuces, under the year 155f). / ita Qui. Uicami JVintoniensis Episc. Lond. 1597, Ox. 1690, in a large qu.''' Printed after the death of the author, Vv'ho took much of his matter from the life of the said bishop written by Tho. Chaundler' sometimes warden of New coll. * Mr. Poynett now elected bish. of Rochester, hath no Iiouse to dwell ill, and liis living small, it was agrce<l that lie should enjoy his benefice m conmiendam. But from hcr.cc- forlli it IS decreed that no bibliop shall kee p other benefice then this bishopric only. Register (f Council, EJ.c. ]'[. MS. Keknet.] '' In his Declaration of Bonner's Articles, as be.fore, fol. 15 a. 57 b. 7ti b. ^ See Dr. John Cosin's book entit. Apologi/ for sundri/ proceedings III/ jurisdiction Ecclesiastical, SfC. Printed 1593, in qu. part 2, chap. 12, (i. loO. ^ [Reprinted by Dr. Nicholas, wanlen of New colleD;e, LovilDav. See a characier ol it by Louth in his preface to his Life of William oj' Wi/kham, p. ix. 10.] ' Vide Hist, and Antiq. Univ. Oxon. lib. 2, p. 134, a. ^ jCronica brcvis de orln, vi'a ac gesiis iioliiliOus -r'ercrendi Domini Willehni de ]]'i/kliam olim eiiiscopi WinLoniensis. It K k 'J$