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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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    briefly comprehending the whole art and practice thereof, &c. Lond. 1583', fol. [Bodl. 4to. B. 1. Med.] Written originally by Horatio More, a Florentine physician. As for his d«ath, which 1585. happen'd in fifteen hundred eighty and five and other of his works, let the learned Cambden tell ' you in these words : * ISec inter hos, licet minoris notes, silendus hoc etiam anno fato functus, Ri- chardus Chaldwellus e coll. ^nei Nasi Oxonise med. doctor, qui ut de repub. bene mereretur (adscito in partem honoris Barone Lumleio) lec- tionem chirurgicam honesto salario in medicoruin collegio Londini a Thoma Linacro fundato insti- tuit. Juxtaque ad Sancti Benedicti inhumatur, monumento laqueis, plintheis, & carchesiis, scam- no Hypocratis, glossocomiis 8c aliis chirurgicis ex Bribasio & Galeno machinamentis exornato.' The coll. of physicians was then in Knight-riders- street in London, not far from the church of St. Benedict near to Paul's wharf. [For the support of CaldwalFs lecture a perpe- tual rent charge of forty pounds per annum was laid upon the estates of lord Lumley and Cald- wall. The royal permission for this purpose was obtained from queen Elizabeth, in the 24th year of her reign. It was in the course of these lectures that the true doctrine of the circulation was first made public by Dr. Harvey ^\ The college of physicians, besides addressing letters of thanks to their two benefactors, decreed that 100/. should be forthwith taken out of their public stock to build the college rooms more ample and spacious for the better celebration of this most solemn lecture The editor of these Tables of Surgery, who was probably some near relation to the translator, signing himself E. Caldwall, addresses it to the * Companie of Svrgeans', and sti-ongly reprehends their neglect in not frequenting the lecture founded for their sakes, ' sithens,' as he says, Dr. Caldwall ' hath procured so rare and excellent a learned man as M. D. Forster is, to be your reader.' In another part he mentions several other professional treatises left behind in MS, by Dr. Caldwall.] EDWARD RISHTON of a right ancient family in Lancashire, became a student in the university about 1568, particularly, as it seems, in Brasen-nose college, where after he had spent some years in philosophy and mathematics, sup- plicated the ven. congr. of regents in Apr. 1572, for the degree of bach, of arts, having performed all exercises requisite thereunto, but whether he was admitted it appears not in the university registers. Afterwards he left his native country 3 [Herbert mentions an edit, in the following year, 1586. Typ. Antiq. 960.] * [FO'T. LoVEDAY.] 5 Annul. Elizah. sub ail. 1585. 6 [Aikin, Bio^. Memoirs nf Medicine, 1780, p. 159.] ^ [Goodall's B^^yal College of Fliysicians, 1684, sign. Q 9. and friends, and went to Doway, where studying for some time in the English coll. was made M. of A. Thence he went to Rome in 1577, and. after he had consummated certain studies in divi- nity, was made^ a priest in 1580 or thereabouts. Soon after he was sent into the mission of Eng- land, but before he was quite settled, he was taken and kept close prisoner in the Tower of London and elsewhere 3 or 4 years. At length being released, his life spared, and he condemned [224] to banishment with Jam. Bosgrace a Jesuit, John Hart and others, he went into France, and settled for a time in the university of Pont-a-musson in Lorain to the end that he might proceed in the study of divinity and take a degree or degrees therein ; but the plague being then there, and he careless to avoid it in time, was infected therewith and soon after died. This is that Edw. Rishton, * qui impie ingratus (as one^ saith) in Principeni cui vitam debuit, publicatis scriptis malitise virus illico evomuit.' The titles of the said writings are these. Synopsis rerum ecclesiasticarum, ad an. dir. 1577. Whether in Engl, or Lat. I know not, for I have not yet seen it. Profession of his faith made manifest, and con- firmed by 24 reasons (or motives.) It must be now known that Nich. Saunders left behind him at his death two imperfect books De schismate Anglica- no; with the beginning of the third,commencing with the reign of qa, Elizabeth, which coming in- to the hands of our author Rishton after he had suffered imprisonment for some time in England, he supplied what was defective in them, corrected and caused them to be published at Colen. 1585, to which he added of his own composition, besides the third book, which was in a manner all his, Rerum pro rdigione catholica ac in turri Londi- vensi gestarum ab an. ^ 580 ad an. usque 1585 indi- culns seu diarium, with a preface to it. Religiosoruvi Sf sacerdotum nomina, qui pro defensioneprimatus Rom. Ecclesice per Marti/riuni consumniati sfint, sub Henrico 8, Anglice Rege, &c. Mostly taken out of Saunders his book De visibili Monorchia Ecclesitc, &c These additions, with the book De Schismate, having undergone several impressions, as I have told you elsewhere, have had since added to them (1) An appen- dix, which makes a fourth book, excerpted from certain of the works of Peter Ribadeneira a Jesuit. (2) Summurium rationum, quibus Cancel- larius Anglian &{ Prolocutor Puckeringius Elizabe- than Anglia Regiiia persuaserunt, occidendam esse Mariam Stuartum Scotia Reginam, &c. V^-'hich being published in English were translated into Latin, and had added thereunto, Supplicium Sf mors RegincE Scotii, &c. by the labour of Romoald Scot. (3) Epistola Doctoris Johannis Pistorii Nidani ad D. Jacobmn Grynocum Ministri verbi * Jo. Pits. De illustr. Ang. script. St. 16, num. 1035= ^ Cambden ut sup. an-. 1584.