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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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    ]Scc/esi(e Basiliensis. (4) Marian Stuarti Reg. Scotia intiocens a cade Darleana, &c. written by Obeitus Barnestapolius. Which four things be- ing added to Rishton's additions to Saunders's book De Schismate, were all printed together at Colen 1628 in a thick oct. What other things our author Rishton hath extant, I know not, nor any thing else of him, only that he dying near to 1585. St. Manhou, after, or about, fifteen hundred eighty and five (in his flight from Pont-a-musson to avoid the pest) was buried there by the care' of J oh. Barnes an English exile, the same, I suppose, with John Barnes the Benedictine monk, whom I shall mention elsewhere. I find one Edw. Kis- den a secular priest of the English coll. at Doway in this man's time, who was afterwards of the order of Carthusians, but he being descended from the Risdeas or Risdons of Devonshire, must not be taken to be the same (as some are apt to do) with Edw. Rishton before-mention'd. I find also one Edw. Risden or Risdon a Devonian to have been fellow of Exeter coll. and master of arts 1566, which probably may be the same with the Carthusian ; sed qu. HENRY SIDNEY who was learned in many languages, and a great lover of learning, was born of, and descended from, a noble family of his name living at Cranleigh in Surrey, became a student in New coll. (as it seems) in 1543, or thereabouts, but making no long stay there, he went to the court, where he became a companion to prince Edward (afterwards king Ed. 6) and by him much esteemed. In the third year of that king's reign he was made one of the gentlemen of the privy-chamber, received the honour of knighthood, and was forthwith, being then about 22 years of age, sent ambassador into France, [225] where he behaved himself far beyond his years'*. In the 2d and 3d of Phil, and Mary he was made general governor of all the king's and queen's revenues^, within the realm of Ireland, and about two years after lord justice thereof. In the 2d of qu. Elizabeth he was ■* appointed lord president of the Marches of Wales \ and 4 years after was made knight of the hongurable order of the gar- ' Jo. Pits, ut sup. \lnstructiones given hy the King^s wujestie to Sr. Henry Sydney krtig/it, one of the cheefe gentlemen of his mujestie's privie chamber, whom his majestie sendeth at this present to his good brother the Frenche kmge, to offer his mediation for composing the nurres betucene htm and the emperor, dated, December, an. 1552. MS. llarl. 35.'i, Ibl. 127.] 3 [Among the Cotton MSS. Titus B xii. f'ol, 32, is a note of lands, yearly rents, compositions, and casualties, as have been received and advanced, that is increased, to her ma^ jesty by sir Hen. Sidney. But tliis seems more likely to have been during his government in Ireland under queen Elizabeth.] * Raphael Holinshed in his Descript. and Chron. of Eng^ land, p. 1550, &c. See in the third tome of The Baronage of England, p. 411, a. ^ [See queen Elizabeth's instructions on this appoint- ment. MS. Harl. 168, fol. 23.1 Vol. I. ter, having before been employed* * emph.yed to the queen of the Scots 1562, i« f'''<<', and perhaps in other embassies. In 1568, in the month of Apr. he was constituted deputy of Ireland ^, and in Aug. the same year, being then at Oxon, he was actually created mas- ter of arts. Afterwards he was lord justice again and twice deputy of the said kingdom, &c. 'This person hath written many things, which chiefly continue at this time in MS. All that 1 have seen are, A Godly Letter to Ms Son Fhilip. Lond. 1592, oct. Since which time have been other letters of his to the said person made extant; two of which I have seen without date, as that which begins thus, ' Son Philip, I have received two letters from you.' And the other, ' My son, the virtuous inclination of thy matchless mother,' &c. He hath also written. Miscellanies of Irish affairs, MS. and caused also the statutes of Ireland to be first published in print. He paid his last debt to nature in the bishop's palace at Worcester, in his return from Ludlow, on * the fourth day of May in fifteen 158Q. hundred eighty and six, and was buried 21 of June following in the church at Penshurst in Kent, he having some years before obtained the manor thereof to him and his posterity for ever^. The character given of him by one' that knew him in Ireland, I shall here insert for a conclusion of those things I have said of him, which is this, ' He was stately without disdain, familiar ' without contempt, very continent and chast of ' body, no more than enough liberal, learned, ' and a great lover of learning, perfect in blazon- ' ing of arms, skilful of antiquities, of wit fresh ' and lively, in consultations very temperate, in ' utterance happy ^, which his experience and ^ [In the room of the earl of Sussex. Instructions to him on this appointment are in the Cotton library. MS. Titus, B xiii. fol. 152, dated Oct. 5, 1565. See Catalogue, p. 558.] See in tlie Collection of Letters at the end of Archb. Ushers Life, priuttd in fol. at Loiid. 1686, num. 15, 16. ^ So in an old book of funeral certificates, communicated to me by sir Hen. St. George Kt. Ciar. K. of arms, fol. 63, a. * [He obtained several other manors, and grants, for which see CMim^s Memoirs of the Sidneys \)\e.f\\edL to Let- ters and MemoriulsMStale, fol. 1746, i. 8-1.] ' Edin. Campiairin his Hist, of Ireland, lib 2, at the end, p. 138. [Vid. Sotvelli Bibl. Script. Sue Jesu, p. 314. Ba- ker.] ^ [Lloyd recounts the following anecdote, which illustrates sir Henry Sidney's quickness very aptly ; ' Secretary Bourn's son kept a gentleman's wife in Shropshire. When he was weary of her, he caused her husband to be dealt wiih, to take her home, and offered him 500/. for reparation. The gentleman went to sir Henry Sidney to take his advice, telling him, that his wife promised now a new lite, and to say the truth, five hundred pounds would be very reasonable at that time. By my troth—said sir Henry—take her home and lake ihe money, then, whereas other cuckolds wear their horns plain, you may wear yours gilt.' Statesmen and Fuvourites, edit. 1665, p. 414.]