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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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    and framed out of the Epistles of the Apostles, S^c. Lond. 1592, in ]6mo. He also corrected, [wrote a preface to,] and caused to he publish'd 7Vo Sei- mons, the first of Repentance,the other of the Lord's Supper. Lond. [1574,] 1581, [1599,] oct. written by his friend Joh. Bradford, with other things of that author. Ax. length Tho. Sampson having lived beyond the age of man in a perpetual mo- tion (as 'twere) for the carrying on of the holy cause, laid down his head, and gave up the ghost 1589. on the 9 Apr. in fifteen hundred eighty and nine, whereupon his body was buried in the chappel of the hospital of AVill. de Wigston before-men- tion'd. Over his grave was a monument soon after fastned to the south wall thereof, with an inscription on it, erected by his sons John and Nathaniel Sampson. A copy of which, with other matters of the said author, which I have not here mention'd, you may see in Hist.&i ylntiq. Univ. Ox. lib. 2, p. 254. From this Tho. Samp- son, is, if I mistake not, descended Tho. Samp- son, a pretender to poetry,* author of Fortune's fashion portrat/ed in the troubles of Lady Elizabeth Gray, Wife of Edzv. 4. Lond. l6l3, qu. [Bodl. 4to. M. 37. Art,] a poem, dedicated to Henry Pil- kinton of Gadsby in Leicestershire. [1570, 13 Sept. Tho. Sampson S. T. P. coll. ad officium penitentiarii in eccl. Paul, per mortem Jacobi Calf hi II S. T. P. Reg. Sondes, ep'i Lond. 1589, 29 Mail, admissioad officium penitentia- rii in eccl. Paul, per mortem Tho. Sampson. Reg. Ailmer, ep'i Lond. Ken net. Sampson has likewise translated into English A Sermon of St. John Chn/sostome of Pacience, of t he end of the world, and the last judgement. An. 1550, 8vo. And An Homelye of the Resurrection of Christ, by John Brentius an. 1550. 8vo. Ba- ker. According to Strype' Sampson was born at Playford in Suffolk, and was a fellow of Pembr. liall Cambridge. He was collated to the pre- ' [One Sampson was rector of Layer-Marney, Essex, •which benefice he vacated before May 31, 1669, by death. Newcourt, Repertorium, 11. 379.] * [Wood's character is perfectly just. Sampson's work is a mere versification, and that a very poor one, of Holins- hed's account. I extract the only passages of any merit to he found throughout the poem. When Edward fled the kingdom, the unfortunate queen is supposed to say : Now to the hardest censure I appeale. What world of woes opprest my soule with griefe ! How could I hide my sorrowes, or coiiceaJe My horror? for no hope of my reliefe On any side, I no way could descrie : But gloomy death and endlesse miserie. Which sad prospect did threaten hard euent To wretched me, of ail good hap forsaken, Despaire attended me; no way I went But by sad thoughts my thoughts were ouertaken. Pale death my master was; and at my helme Stood terror, all iny ioyes to ouerwhelme.' Sig. B iv. b.] ' [Ecclesiastical Jilemoriak, vol. ii. book 1. chap. 30, p> (257.)] bend of St. Pancras in the church of St. Paul', Sept. 13, 1570, which he held till his death.' in the Annals of the Reformation, under Eliza- beth, by Strype, Lond. 1725, ii. 265, &c. is an ac- count of Sampson's jE/;?^owe of Bucer's book, De Regno Christi. This he drew up, and forwarded to lord Burleigh with a letter, from which large extracts will be found in the work just referred to-, as well as an interesting anecdote of Sampson's com- passion and gratitude towards a Mr. Heton. This person was an English merchant who had assisted his countrymen when exiles during the reign of queen Mary, and Sampson's exertions in his behalf do equal credit to the rectitude of his heart and the soundness of his head. Other letters of Sampson will be found in Strype's Life of Parker, Append. No. 93, 94, 186, and pages l65—173.] JOHN BROWNSWERD or Brunswerdus as he writes himself, a most noted master of the Latin tongue, was born, as I conceive in Cheshire, and had a considerable part of his education in this university, but mostly, as 'tis thought, in Cambridge, where I presume, he took one, or more degrees. After his retreat thence, he settled at Macclesfield in-Cheshire, where he taught the free-school with very good success, and having obtained a good report, and honourable advance- ment in the Latin empire, was deservedly numbred amongst the best Latin poets that lived in the reign of qu. Elizab. His works are, Progi/mnasmata aliquot poemata. Lond. 1590, qu.* with other things which I have not yet seen. He took his last farewel of this world on the 15 Apr. in fifteen hundred eighty and nine, and was 15S9. buried in the chancel of the church of Maccles- field before-mention'd. In which year Tho. New- ton his sometimes scholar did publish a book of Encomia's of certain illustrious men of England, in which he hath this distich of Brownswerd. * Rhetora, Grammaticum, Polyhistora, teque poe- tam Qui negat: is lippus, luscus, obesus, iners.' And soon after, the said Newton, whose respect to his memory was great, set up a monument on the South-wall of the said chancel, with an in- scription thereon, stiling Brownswerd, ' Vir plus & doctus,' and concluding with these two verses,. Alpha poetarum. Coryphaeus Grammaticorum, [240} Flos Paedagogin hac sepelitur humo.' GEORGE PETTIE a younger son of John le Petite or Pettie of Tetsworth and Stoke-Taimach in Oxfordshire, esq; was born in that country, and at about 16 years of age, an. 1564, was a scholar ' [Newcourt, Repertorium, i. 196.] * [This was published by his scholar Thomas Newton, and first printed in 1589. Herbert, Tt/p. Antiq. 1110.] ■5 [Herbert gives this line, 'L'yp. Antiq. p. 1110 : Poedonomiii Phcenix, hac sepelitur humo.],