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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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$vert John Bradford the martyr. Whereupon * they both « he, 1549, took* orders from arch- &cfxZtSt ^'^'^^P Cranmer and Nich. Ridley ■ ^ ' ■ bishop of London, ^ became rector of preacheT&c -All'^allows Breadstreet, ^ and a noted* first edit. ' preacher in the reign of Ed. 6, and *aboutthat 1552* Sampson, as 'lis said, time, first was made dean of Cliichester. In the edit. beginning of qu. Mary he absconded, at which time being well acquainted with one Rich. Chambers a zealous Protestant, they col- lected money in the city of London from the well affected there, to be distributed among such poor scholars of each university, that were haters of the Roman Catholic religion. Which matter being at length discovered, he, with his wife, the niece of Hugh Latimer, were forced with Cham- bers to go beyond the seas to Strasburgh, where wholly applying himself to the study of divinity, was much advanced in the knowledge thereof by his often associating himself with the learned Tremelius. After queen Elizabeth came to the crown he returned to his native country and became a frequent preacher in London, and much followed by the reformed party there, and after- wards in the north parts of England. In 1560 the queen design'd him to be bishop of Nor- wich, but he altogether refused it, for no other reason, as 'twas suppos'd, but that he was much disaffected to the hierarchy and ceremonies of the church of England. In the latter end of the said year (in the beginning of March) he supplicated the venerable congregation of regents of this uni- versity, that whereas he had for the space of 16 years studied divinity, he might be admitted to the reading of the epistles of S. Paul, that is to the degree of bach, of divinity, which was, before the time of reformation, to the reading of the book of sentences. This supplication was granted by, notwithstanding he had taken no degree be- fore among, them, as it appears from the public registers. In the same congregation he suppli- cated also that after he was admitted bach, of divinity he might have liberty to proceed in the the archbishop preferred Laurence Saunders, afterwards a martyr, thereto. Kennet.] 3 [Anno 1.049, the arrlibp. of Cant, celebrated a great ordination, assisted by bp. Ridley. I meet with two famous men now ordained, the one was Robert Drakes, a martyr in 1356, the other was Thomas Sampson parson of Bread- street, London, and successively dean of Chichester, and Christ ciiurch Oxon, who in a letter of his written to secretary Cecyl in qu. Elizabeth's reign, said, that at his ordination he excepted against the apparel, and by the archbp. and bp. Ridley he was nevertheless permitted and admitted. SecStrype'sMemo?-. o/'CV««wer,p. 191. Kennet.] * [Collated to it March 10,1551, and he resigned it before March 28, 1553. See Newcourt's Rfpcrtorium, i. 240. I may add in this place, that in bisliop Kennet's copy of Newcourt (Bodl. Gough. Lond. 51.) is the following: The Case of the united Parishes of Allhullows the Great, and All- hallows the Less, in London, drawn up for council In/ order of his fsrace the lord nbp. of Cunterburi/', Oetob. 21, 1707, by me W. K. White fi.ennet.] same faculty; but to that no answer was given. Afterwards he supplicated that he might not only use the habit of master of arts in the time of his admission to the degree of bach, of divinity, but afterwards also while he continued in that state. Which request, tho' granted simpliciter, yet it doth not appear that he was admitted to that degree. In Michaelmas term 1561, he was installed dean of Christ-church in Oxon, in the place of Dr. George Carew, and soon after in the month of November he supplicated the congre- gation of regents, that it might be lawful for ' him to preach within the limits of the university in a doctoral habit. Which desire being, as they thought, unreasonable, yet, because he was a dean, they granted it onl}' to continue till the Act fol- lowing. At that time there being a great scarcity of divines in the university, and but very few masters, he the said Sampson and Laur. Humphrey of Magdalen coll. another severe Calvinist, preached by turns every Lord's day, either at St. Mary's or elsewhere to the academians, and soon after got another brother of All-souls coll. (as 'tis said) to join with them, but who that was, unless Andrew Kingsmyll LL. B. who afterwards out of pure sanctity went to Geneva, I know not. But [G39] Sampson being too severe a Calvinist, if not worse, to govern such a noted coll. as Ch. Ch. (for he was an enemy to organs, ornaments of the church, clerical vestments, the square cap, (he always in imitation of Humyjhrey wearing the round cap) and rather a persuader from, than en- courager to use, them) he was at length, after a great many admonitions from authority to con- form, and entreaties from certain bishops so to do, removed from his deanery by the sentence of Matthew archbishop of Canterbury, an. 1564. Afterwards he obtained the mastership of the hospital of Will, de Wigston at Leicester, (besides the penitentiaryship, or the prebend of St. Pan- eras in the cathedral chtu'ch of St. Paul) where continuing for some time in teaching, he was by leave and favour of the queen permitted to be a theological lecturer in Wittington coll. in Lon- don : But before he had enjoy'd that place six years, he was taken with the palsy. Whereupon retiring to his hospital, he spent the remaining part of his days in preaching and writing. Those works that go under his name are these, Letter to the Professors of Christ's Gospel, in the Parish of Allhullows in Breadstreet, Loud. Strasburgh, 1554, oct.' A learning to take heed of Fozi'ler^s Psalter. London [1576^'] 1578, oct. See in John Fowler under the year 1578. [col. 441.] Brief Collection of the Church and Ceremonies thereof. Lond. 1581, oct. Prayers and Meditations Apostolike i gathered ' [Reprinted in Strypc's EVf/t'Si<isiiC(/i Mcmoriak, vol. iii. Appendix No. xviii.] [Herbert, Typ. Antiq. \om,\\n.l N n 2$