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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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    into Englandfrom Pius 5, Pope of Rome, an. 1569. (2) A short Treatise of the Holy ficriptures. Lond. 1582, oct. [Bodl. 8vo. J. 30. Th.j Both which Jewell delivered in divers sermons in the cathedral church of Salisbury, an. 1570. (3) An exposition on the tz!)o Epistks to the Thessalonians, Lond. in Oct. (4) Certain Sermons preached at Paul's- Cross, Lond. 1583, oct. [Bodl. 8vo. J. 29- Th. To this work Garbrand prefixed an epistle.] They are in number six. (5) Treatise of the Sacraments, gathered out of certain Sermons preached at Salis- bury. Lond. 1583, oct. [Bodl. 8vo. J. 29-Th.] This Dr. Garbrand died in the winter-time (about 1589. Christmas) in fifteen hundred eighty and nine, and was buried in the church of Korth-Crowley before-mention'd. He gave by his will several books to JNew coll. library : And all such books and papers that were given to him by B. Jewell, as also all such loose sheets which he the said Garbrand had drawn for common places, gathered out of that bishop's books, he gave to Rob. Cha- loner and John Rainolds doctors of divinity. [Garbrand had the prebend of Taunton which he resigned in 1573.*^ According to Cole/ he died November 17, 1589. Prefixed to Wilson's Discourse vppon vsurye, 8vo. 1572, are the following lines by this author. Foenore qui lucrum facit est homicida Catoni, Furti dupla, huius quadrupla mulctafuit. Non facit hseredem, privatur honore sepulchri Qui tenues lucro foenoris auget opes. Sermo sacer, patres, plus omnis damnat, at una (Quae docet errores Consuetudo probat. Tu, qui a supplicibus stas, vir reverende libellis, Consilio, penna, dexteritate premes Prodeat egregius tuus ensis, praestet acumen, Et deus, et raetuens, regia virgo, deum. Johannes Garbrandus Oxoniensis. In the Cotton MSS. Galba C ix, fol. 253, 265 and 283 are six original letters in Dutch, from one J. Garbrant to Mr. Herle, on naval affairs, dated in 1586.] LAURENCE HUMPHREY, or Humfredus as he sometimes writes himself, was born at a market town called Newport Pagnell in Bucks, educated in Latin and Greek learning at Cam- bridge,* made demy of Magd. coll. in Oxon, 1547, perpetual fellow two years after, (being then bach, of arts) and master of the faculty in 1552. About that time he was made Greek reader of his coll. took holy orders and became a zealous and forward student in the theological faculty. In June 1555 (2 and 3 of Philip and Mary) the 5 [Tanner, Bihl. Brit. 308.] ' [MSS. in the Britiih Museum, vol. xxxviii. p. 132.] * [Saepe tamen Angliam cogito, Buckinghaimain, INovo- portum, iibi natus sum; sape Cantabrigiam, ubi prima Latinarum et Graecarum literarum tyrocinia posui, &c. Laur. llumfr. Epist. praefix. llomero et Eustathio. Basil, 1558, lol. viz. Juiiii Oceaao Enarrat. liomericarum, Basil, 1558, fol. Baker.] president, vice-president, deans, &c. of that coll. gave leave' to the said Humphrey, * who in the opinion of all was much commended for his life and conversation, as also for the excellency of his learning and wit, that he might freely for the cause of study travel into transmarine parts for one year, conditionally that he contain him- self from those places that are suspected to be heretical or favourers of heresy, and that also he refrain from the company, who are, or were authors of heresy or heretical opinions,' &c. Which leave being procured, he went forthwith to Zurich and associated himself with the En- glish exiles there, that had fled from the nation [242] for religion's sake. After the death of qu. Mary he leturn.ed to his coll. and was restored to his fellowship, having been expelled thence because he did not return thereunto, after his time of leave was expired. Jn the year 1560 he was constituted the queen's professor of divinity in the university of Oxon, being then about 34 years of age, at which time was a very great scarcity of theolo- gists throughout the body of students; and in the year following he was elected president of his coll.' In 1562 he took the degrees in divinity, and in 1570^ he was made dean of Glocester up- on the promotion of Dr. Tho. Cooper to the see of Lincoln. In 1580 he was constituted dean of Winchester, in the place of Dr. John Watson promoted to the see of Winchester, which was the highest preferment he had among the clergy; and the reason for it (as 'twas guessed) was, be- cause that in matter of ceremony or indifferency,' he altogether consented not to the church of England. For the truth is, that from the city of Zurich (remarkable for the preachings and death of Zwinglius) and the correspondence that he had at Geneva, he brought back with him at his return into England so much of the Calvinian both in doctrine and discipline, that the best that could be said of him was, that he was a moderate and 3 Beg. act. coll. Magd. fol. 11. a. * [He spent some time at Basil witli Froben the learned printer. See Tanner, Bihliotheca, 421.] ^ [See Strype's Life of Parker, 1711, page 102.] ^ |Luur. Umphrey S. T. P. Oxon. incorporat. Canfabr. An. 1569, presentatiis per D. Longworth. Baker.] [With Mr. Fox, I joyne his dear friend Laurence Hum- frey, whom I should never have suspected for inclinations to nonconformity (such his intimacy with doctor .Tevvell and otiier bishops) had 1 not read in my author that ' de adia- phoris non juxta cum ecclesia Anglicana senserit.' He was regius professor of divinity in Oxford, where his answers and determinations were observed quick, clear and solid, but his replies and objections weak and slender, which his auditors in.jmted to no lack of learning (wherewith he was well stored) but to his unwillingness to furnish liis Popish adversaries with strong arguments to maintain their erro- neous opinions. But such his quiet carriage, that not- withstanding his nonsubscribing, he kept his professor's place and deanery of Winchester as long as he lived. Ful- ler, Church History, 1656, book ix, p. 76. See some further particulars and a letter trom Humphrey to Fox on this sub- ject in Strype's Life of Farker, p. 185.]