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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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    1586, snbinde in scs incisae prodierunt, tacito ipsius tit. vel. num. inscriptse/ Ecclesm Anglicana Trophaa, Romee 1584, fol. In the library also of the English coll. at Rome there is extant a manuscript digested ac- cording to the years of Christ and kings of Bri- tain, containing TJie Acts of the Saints of ' Britain. Which book is said there among those of England to have been composed and written by our author Good, who dying at Naples 5 July (according to the accompt there followed) in fifteen hundred eighty and six, was buried in the college of the Jesuits there, who have yet a great respect for his name : one or more of whom have promised me a copy of his epitaph, if there be any, but no an- swer have I yet received. PHILIP SIDNEY, the short-liv'd ornament of his noble family, and the Marcellus of the English nation, hath deserv'd, and without dis- pute or envy enjoyed, the most exalted praises of his own and of succeeding ages. The poets of his time, especially Spencer, reverenc'd him not at Paris, he was then there, and at that time, (as I conceive) he, with other English men, did fly to the house of Francis Walsingham, am- bassador there from the queen of England. Thence he went through Lorrain, and by Stras- burgh and Heydelburgh to Frankfort in Sept. or Oct. following, as his said ^ life written by sir Fulk Grevill, his companion and friend, attesteth. But what is added there, that Hubert Languet ac- companied him in the whole course of his 3 years travels, is a great mistake, as will appear by Languet's epistles to our author Philip Sidney, printed more than once. For so it was, that in the next spring in May 1573, Languet removed to Vienna, where our author met him again, and stayed with him till September, when he went into Hungary and those parts. Thence he jour- nied into Italy, where he continued all the winter following, and most of the summer, an. 1574, and then lie returned into Germany with Languet, and next spring he returned, by Frankfort, Hey- delburg, and Antwerp home into England, about 'lay 1575. The like mistakes are in the said only as a patron, but a master; and he was almost ]ife4 concerning Languet's coming into England |he only person in any age (I will not except in February 1578, at which time,'tis said, he was Mecsenas) that could teach the best rules of about 66 years of age, whereas he was about 6l; poetry, and most freely reward the performances of that also he and Sidney parted at sea, which could poets. He was a man of a sweet nature, of ex- not be, for duke John Cassiniere, with whom he cellent behaviour, of much, and withal of well digested, learning; so that rarely wit, courage, breeding, and other additional accomplishments of conversation have met in so high a degree in any single person. It is to be wish'd that his life might be written by some judicious hand, and that the imperfect essay of sir Fulk Grevill L. Brook might be supply'd ; in the mean time I am forc'd to consider him only as an author, and to give him these short notes of his life and edu- cation. He was son of sir Hen. Sidney before- mention'd by the lady Mary his wife, eldest daughter of Job. Dudley duke of Northumber- land, was born, as 'tis supposed, at Penshurst in Kent, 29 Nov. 1554, and had his Christian name given to him by his father, from K. Phi- lip, then lately married .to qu. Mary. While he was very young, he was sent to Christ Ch.' to be improved in all sorts of learning ; and was contemporary there with Rich. Carevv author of The Survey of Cornwall, where continuing till he was about 17 years of age, under the tuition of Dr. Tho. Thornton canon of that house, he was in June 1572 sent to travel % for on the ' [He was first educated in school leamins; at Shrews- bury, that place being near to his father, then lord presi- dent of Walt s- Collins, Memoirs of the Sk//ici/s, prefixed to Letters and Memorials of Stale, 1746, i. 98.] [lie had a licence from queen Elizabeih, dated May 25, 157'2, to go into parts beyond the seas, with three servant's and tour horses, and to remain the space of two years tor bis attaining the knowledge of foreign languages. Collins, Memoirs, 98. j o t> t, , came, went away so suddenly, that Languet could not take leave of him. In the year 157v) he was sent 5 by the queen to Rodolph the emperor to condole the death of Maximilian, and also to other princes of Germany'', at which time he caused this inscription to be written under his arms, which he then hung up in all places where he lodged; ' lllustriss. & generosiss. viri Philippi Sidnfei Angli, Proregis Hibernias filii, Comitum Warwici & Leicestriaj nepotis, sereniss. Reginae Anglia? ad Ceesarem Legati.' Tiie next year, in his return, he saw that gallant prince, Don John de Austria vice roy in the Low Countries for the K. of Spain, and William Prince of Aurange or Orange ; by the former of which, tho' at first he was lightly esteemed upon the account of his youth, yet after some discourse he found himself so struc ken with him, that tlie behoklers wondred to see what tribute that brave and high minded prince paid to his worth, giving more honour and respect to him, in his private capacity, than to the ambassadors of mighty princes, in the year 1579, he, tho' neither magistrate or counsellor, Pag. 11, &c, ^ Carabden in Annal. Reg. Elizah. suh an. 1576. [Insti'uctions geven to Fhillipp Sidnei/, Esq. being sent ambussudore to Koduliihe the II. Emperore, and his mother the eifipresse, to condole the deathe of the emperor Maximilian his father: and 7cit]iaU, lie was directed to lake in his waye, the iiooe Counle-Fulailiies, and to condole also the dcuthc of iheire father then latelie dead. Dated the 7th of February, 1576. MS. Harl. 36, fol. '205. See Catalogue, edit. 1808, vol. i, page 8. See also MS. Cotton, Galba E vi. fob ii4bj L12 [2271