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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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    1584-5. day of Febr. in fifteen hundred eighty and four, [220J aged 67 years, and was buried in the church be- longing to the Temple, between the body of Ka- tharine his wife (dau. of Will. Sheldon of Beoley in Worcestershire, esq;) and the north-wall, near the east-end of the choir; leaving then this cha- racter'' behind him, (which shall serve instead of his epitaph, notwithstanding there is one already over his grave) that ' ut in juris Anglicani scien- tia, de qua scriptis bene meruit, facile princeps ; ita vitse integritate inter homines suae professionis nulii secundus.' He left behind him a fair estate in lands lying at Plowden before-mention'd, at Shiplakc in Oxfordshire, and at Burfield in Berks; as also a son of both his names to enjoy it, who dying in less than two years after his father, did bequeath^ his body to be buried in the chappel at Bow built and erected by his ancestors, (wherein some of them were buried) joining to the church of North Lidbury (near to which place is the village called Plowden situated) in Shrop- shire. The name and posterity of this Edm. Plowden do now remain at Shiplake in Oxford- shire. PATRICK PLUNKET baron of Dunsany in Ireland, son of Rob. Plunket baron of the same place (who died 1 Elizab. was educated in gram- mar learning atRatough^ under one Staghens, and from thence was sent to Oxon to obtain logicals and philosophicals, but to what house there, unless to Glocester-hall, (where many of his countrymen, and some of his sirname, studied in the time of queen Elizabeth, as 1 shall anon in- form you) I cannot justly tell, or whether to Univ. coll. when Richard Stanyhurst (who calls him his brother) studied there, 1 am as yet igno- rant. Howsoever it was, sure I am, that by the care of his father-in-law sir Christoph. Barnwell knt. he was maintained according to his condition for some years in this university, where profiting much in several sorts of learning, tho' honoured not, or was honoured with, any degree, did after- wards compose several things fit for the press, which' ' by reason of his bashful modesty, or modest bashfulness were wrongfully imprisoned, and in a manner stifled in shadowed couches—I doubt not,' (as my author-* adds) ' but what by his fame and renown in learning, shall be answerable to his desert and value in writing,' &c. This worthy baron, who was of ancient extract in Ire- land, and of the R. Cath. religion, was a person noted in his country for his great possessions there, for his good natural parts, and renowned ^ In Annul. Reg. Elizab. per Giil. Cambd. an. 1584. 7 [Which estate Mr. Jennings, school-master at Ahington, purchas,'d, in which family it now (1729) remains. Love- i)AV.] In Reg. Rutland in offic. prajrog. Cant. qu. 1. ^ Ric. Stanyhurst in Descript. Hibern. cap. 7. ' Ibidem, * Ibid. therefore among the learned in fifteen hundred ciaroit eighty and four : In which year, and after, he had 1584. books dedicated to him, as being not only a learned person himself, but also a patron of learn- ing and learned men. While he studied in this university, were eight of his countr^anen of Glo- cester-hall matriculated in 1574, having been stu- dents there some years before, as Walter, Henry, and Jolin Talbot of genteel extraction, the first of which was then 21 years of age, and the other two 20; Edw. Plunket a gentleman's son, of 20 years of age; Ciiristoph. Galway and John Mar- tiil, sons of plebeians, the former 19, the other GO,, years of age; and one Pendergast and Whitty the sons of gent, the former 22, the other 21, years of age. Besides these were several otlier Irish men matriculated as members of that hall during the reign of qu. Elizab. as (1) Rick. Whyte a gentle- man's son,aged 21, an. 1578. (2) Giles Hovenden of Leis in King's county, the son of a gent. an. 1582, aged 26. (3) Gerard Salwey (of Uromore) an esq. son, the same year, aged 14, with others to the beginning of king James his reign, which, for brevity sake, I now omit. Of the said baron Plunket's family was descended that most ven. and religious Dr. Oliver Plunket titular primate of Ireland, who being found by some persons to have been deeply engaged in the Popish plot in Ireland, an. 1678, 79, was brought over into Eng- land, where receiving sentence to die in West- minster-hall, was accordingly hang'd, drawn, and quarter'd at Tyburn on the first day of July 1681 ; whereupon his quarters only (not his head) were buried in the yard of St. Giles's church in the fields near to London, by the bodies of the five Jesuits, that were a little before executed, and fooi] buried under the North-wall of the said yard. la the said place Plunket's quarters continuing till the* crop-ear'd plot broke out in 1683, * fanatical. they were taken up and conve^'ed be- first edit, yond the sea to the monastery of the Benedictines (of which order he was a brother) at Landsprug in Germany, where they were with great cere- mony and devotion re-buried. Before I speak of the next writer, the reader may be pleased to know farther of this Plunket, that when the lady D. had borrowed 200 crowns of an Irish priest at Bologna; she, rather than repay that sum, pro- cured the archbishoprick of Armagh (to which the primacy of Ireland is annex'd) for the said Plunket by the means of cardinal Rospigliosi; who, tho' he v/ould not be at the congregation that day, wherein that matter was to be done, yet he made card. Flavio Chigi do it; and v/hen card. Barbarini opposed the nomination, Chigi told the said cai'dinal that it must be so ; This was about 1669- JOHN DE FECKENHAM was so called be- cause he was born of poor parents living in a cottage, or poor house, joining to the forest of Feckenliam in Worcestershire, tho' his right