Volume 1

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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    conscientious nonconformist. Whence 'twas that by his being many years president of Magd. col- lege, public professor of div. in the university and several times vice-chancellor, he did not only, upon advantage issuing from those places, stock his coll. with a generation of nonconformists, which could not be rooted out in many years after his decease, but sowed also in the divinity school such seeds of Calvinism, and laboured to create in the younger sort such a strong hatred against the Papists, as if nothing but divine truths were to be found in the one, and nothing but abominations w^ere to be seen in the other. This was the opinion of several eminent divines of the church of Eng- land, yet one* that lived in his time and knew him, saith that he and Dr. Will. Fulke of Cam- bridge, whom he stiles standard-bearers for a long time of the nonconformists, did grow conformable in the end, as they grew riper in experience and sager in judgment. Howsoever it was, sure it is, that Humphrey was a great and general scholar, an able linguist, a deep divine, and for his excel- lenc}^ of stile, exactness of method and substance of matters in his writings, he went beyond most of our theologists. An eminent archbishop who knew him well, saith that he (Dr. Humphrey) had read more fathers, than Campian the Jesuit ever saw, devour'd more than he ever tasted, and that he had taught more in this university than he either had learned or heard. Dr. Humphrey hath written, Epistola de Gracis Uteris, S^' Homeri lectioiie &; imitatione, ad Piresidem S) Socios Coll. B. Mar. Magd. Oxon. Set before a book entit. Curnu- cop/ff, &c. written by Hadrian Junius. Bas. 1558. The beginning of the said epistle is ' Patriae com- munis nostras,' &c. De religionis conservatione S) reformatione, de- que primatu Regwn. Bas. 1559, oct, [Bodl. 8vo. tL 7. Art. Seld.] De ratione interpreta?idi authores. Bas. 1559, ©ct. [Bodl. Svo. H. 7. Art. Seld.] At the end of which is the Propheci/ of Obadiah in Hebr. and Lat. and Philo de Judice in Greek and Latin; done by our author Humphrey. Optimates sive de nobititate, ejusqiie antiqua ori- gine, natura, officiis, disciplina, &c. lib. 3. Bas. 1560, oct. [Bodl. Bvo. H. 7. Art. Seld.] At the end of which is Humphrey's translation from Greek into Latin, of Philo Judseus his book De Nobiliiate. Optimates was afterwards translated into English by Anon, and printed at Lond. 1563, .oct. [Bodl. 8vo. Z. 451. Th.] ' ^ Gabr. Harvey, LL.D. Oxon. in his Pierces svpererroga- tion,Sic. Lond. 1573, qu. p. 92. * Tob. Matthew in Cone. Apologetica, edit. Oxon. 1638, p. 75. ' [It is entitled The Nobles; or of Nohtlitie, and was printed, in black letter, by Marsh :—[refixed to the work are three copies of commendatory v::?es not noticed by Rhson, two of these are signed U. P. and A. B. the third, which is anonymous, thus coacludes: Oratio JVoodstochia habita ad illustriss. R. Eli- zab. 31 Jug. 1572. Lond. 1572, in 3 sh. or more in qu. [Bodl. Bvo. \l. 20. Art. BS.] Johatinis Juelli Angli, Episc. Sarisbnriensis vita mors, ejusq; vera doctrincc defensio, &c. Lond. 1573, qu. [Bodl. 4to. M. 25. th.J From which is taken an abstract of the said bishop's life, published in oct. in the English tongue, by one who writes himself a person of quality, an. 1685, put at the end of a translation into English of Jewell's Apology and his Epistle to Scipio. Orat. in Aula Woodstoc. hob. ad illustr.R. Eli- zab. an. 1575. Lond, 1575. qu. [Bodl. Bvo. R. 20. Art. BS.] The beginning is ' Eloquar an si- leam,' &c. De fermento vitando: coticio in Math. l6. Marc. [243] 8. Luc. 12. 'Jesus dixit illis, videte & cavete a fermento Pharisseorum.'* Lond. 1582. [Bodl. Bvo. N. 2. Line] Rupel. 1585, oct. [Bodl. Bvo. J. 5. Th.] Jesuitismi pars prima: sive de praxi Rom. curia contra respubl. principes, &c. Lond. 1582, in a large oct. .Jesuitismi pars secunda: Puritano-papismi, seu doctrinoi JesuiticcB aliquot ralionibus ab Edm. Cam- piano comprehensdE, d Joh. Durceo defenses, con- futatio, &c. Lond. 1584, in a large oct. [Bodl. Bvo. N. 2. Line, and Rupel. 1585. Bodl. Bvo. J. 5. Til.] Apologetica Epistola ad Academice Oxoiiiensis Cancellarium. Rupel. 1585, oct. Seven Sermons against Treason, on 1 Sam. cap. 26. v. 8, 9, 10, 11, &c. Lond. 1588, oct. Concio in die Cinerum, pr. in oct. He also (with Rob. Crowley) hath written a book against that of Miles Hoggeard, published in qu. Mary's reign against the JProtestants, and other things which 1 have not yet seen : And reviewed, cor- rected and published Joh. Shepreve's book entit. Summa Si/fiopsis N. Testafnenti, 8cc. At length after Dr. Humphrey had spent most part of his time in a studious and retired condition, tho' with little comfort of his wife and male children, he departed this mortal life on the calends of Febr. in fifteen hundred eighty and nine, aged 63, and 1589-90. was buried at the upper-end of the inner chappel of Magd. coll. Soon after was a comely mon. set over his grave, in the South-wall; which, when the said chap, was adorn'd, and paved with mar- ble, was removed, and set up on the South-wall of the outer chappel: The inscription of which, you mav read in Hist. &> Antiq. Univ. Oxon. lib. 2, p. 208, b. and some things said of him in lib. 1, p. 287, a. 288, a. b. 292, a. 304, a. 310, a, &c. He ' Siiche hovve to be, such honour howe to gayne. Our Humfrey here hys toyle emparteth with the Whom yf thou, lasye, yet neglect the payne * To Latium hence to trauayle, there to see, Embrace at home yet as he best deserueth, Wose lyuing fame shal liue whyle fame ne steruet!;.'] ^ [This with Jesuitismi par prim, makes a thin Svo, [Ba- Kta.]