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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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$(2) All instruction of Christian Faith, hozo to lay hold upon the promise of God and not to doubt of our Salvation. Or otherwise thus, Necessary in- structions of faith and hope for Christians to hold fast, and not to doubt, ^c. Lond. ]579> sec. edit, iu Oct. [First edition, printed at Lond. by Hugh Syngleton 1550, Bodl. 8vo. C. 702. Line] Writ- ten by Urbunus Regius. He finished also and compleated An anszver Apologetical to Hierome Osorius his slanderous invective. Lond. 1577, [Bodl. 4to. H. 23. Th.] and 1581, qu. (began in Latin by Walt. Haddon LL.D.) and published, Thefour Evangelists in the old Saxon Tongue, with the English thereunto adjoyned. Lond. 1571, qu. [Bodl. 4to. G. 24. Th. Seld.] What else he wrote and translated you may see in' Baleus; but the reader is to understand that several of those books that he mentions, were never printed. At length after our author had spent 70 years or more in this vain and transitory world, he yielded to nature on the 18 Apr. in fifteen hundred eighty and se- 1587. ven, and was buried in the chancel of the church of St. Giles without Cripplegate before-mention'd. Over his grave is set up an inscription to his me- mory on the South wall, a copy of which you may see in Hist. &; Antiq. Univ. Oxon. lib. 2, p. 195, but not one word of him (which is a wonder to me) is mention'd in the Annals of Q. Elizab. written by Will. Cambden, or by any epigram- matist of his time, only Joh. Parkhurst, who was his acquaintance in this university. He left be- hind him a son named Samuel^, born in the city of Norwich, made demy of Magd. coll. 1576, aged 15, afterwards fellow of that house and master of arts, who about I6l0 wrote The Life of his Father Joh. Fox, which is set in Latin and English before the second volume of Acts and Monuments, printed at Lond. 1641. I find one J oh. Fox to be author of Time and the End of Time, in tz€o discourses, printed at London, in tw. but that Joh. Fox was later in time than the former.^ While Joh. Fox the martyriologist was preben- dary of Sarum, he settled the corps belonging thereunto (which is the impropriation of Shipton Underwood near Biirford in Oxfordshire) on his son ; wiiose grand-daughter named Anne, heir to her father Tlio. Fox, was married to sir Rich. Willis of Ditton in Essex ■* knight and baronet, sometimes colonel-general of the counties of Line Nott. and Rutland, and governor of the town and castle of JNevvark, who, or at least his son Tho. Fox Willis, enjoyeth it to this day, an. 1690. [Jo. Fox A. M.ac sacri verbi iJei professor, col- ' In lib. De script. Muj. Brilun. cent, 9, num. 92. ^ [He bad another son named Symon, fellow of King's college, Cambridge, doctor of physic. Vide Hatcher's MS. an. 15B3. Sydenham.] 3 [One Jo. Fox A. M. was fell, of Cath. hall in Cambr. Apr. 3,1582. Reg. dcacj. Baker.] * [Cambridgeshire. For whose baseness and insolence, vide in Ric. Bulstrode's Memoirs, p. 1 ^8, &c. Zac. Grey. Transcribed from his copy by Mr. Cole.J latus erat ad prebendam Dunelm. Sept. 2. 1572, tum vacantem per mortem naturalem niiper rev. patris ThomsB Spavke, Barwic. ep'i. Keg. Du- nehn, fo. 70. fste Thomas erat sulfraganeus epiis Cuthberti ep'i Dunelm. Idem Jo. Fox resignat prebendam an. 1573. Ibid. And see A dut/full Remembrance of master John Fox, S)X. by Ric. Lightfoote, M. S. Steph. MS. in English verse penes me. Baker. Mr. Fox had a son, fellow of King's college. He had a son redeemed by the parliament which cost 301. V. Townshend's Collections, p. 269, col. 1680. Zac. Grey K We have deemed it perfectly unnecessary to enlarge on the life of John Fox. His biogra- phy has been written so often and so well, that it is impossible to add any facts, worth adding, to the fund of information we already possess. As to his Acts and Monuments of the Church, it is a most interesting, and in many respects a most valuable book ; but that it contains serious errors, and in some places promulgates absolute falsehoods, all persons at all conversant with the political history and biographical anecdote of the day must immediately discover. The fact is, that Fox believed and reported all that was told him, and there is every reason to suppose that he was purposely misled, and contiimally deceived, by those whose interest it was to bring discredit on his work. It will remain, however, as long as literature remains, a monument of his industry, his laborious research, and his sincere piety''. Heads of Fox : 1. In Holland's Heroologia; 2. By Martin Droeshout; 3. By Glover, 4to. &c.] JOHN FIELD was a noted scholar of his time in this university, but in what house he studied, I cannot yet tell. One of both his names was ad- mitted fellow of Lincoln coll. in the year 1555, but took no degree, if the register saith right ' [Transcribed by Mr Cole.] * [On a loose paper, in Wood's own writing in bishop Tanner's copy, the edition printed in 1G84 is said to have been piomoted and advanced by Presbyterian phanaticks, not only in spighi to the Papists, but to the true sons of the church of England, because the author of the said volumes was a nonconformist, and that therein he speaks several times, at least ironically against the ceremonies and sacer- dotal vestments, which are now used in the church of Eng- land, to the great derogation thereof. 'Tis to be wished by all equal and impartial men that the said Presbyterians and phanaticks would be as zealous in promoting The HiUory of the loyal Martyrs in copper cuts, but that good work wiH make against them, because they have been the prime and original authors of our late rebellions, murders, bloodshed, and nay, of the very humour of man, and the nation itself, and w' not, to undo it, merely to accomplish their insatiable lusls. But these things I speak hy the way. These things were commanded to be taken out by James Frazer the Presbyterian licenser of this book : otherwise, if they were not, he threatened to call the book in (1691.) Tempora mutantiir, &:c. Wood.] ' [One John Feild chirurgean, prefixed seven stanzas to Gale's Ex'celicnt Treatise of loounds made xcith Gonne shct, 8\'0. 15(33. 'Microcosmos (whome man we call,) Of two rij^ht noble partes is made: M m 2$