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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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    Sermon hriefty comparing the Slate of King Solomon and his Subjects together zoith the condi- tion of Queen Elizabeth and her People, preached at S. Mari/'s in Oxon, 17 Nov. 1585, on 1 Kings 10. 9. dxon, 1585, oct. [Bodl. 8vo, S. 109- Th-] Exposition on the Galatians. Ox. 1587, oct. The consolations of David applied to Queen Elizabeth, in a Sermon at St. Mary's in Oxon, 17 Nov. 1588, on Psal. 23. 4. Oxon, 1588, oct. [Bodl. 8vo. D. 86. Th.] These, as I think, are all the books and sermons that he hath published, tho' he intended more had he not been cut olF in his middle age. At length after he had been vicar of Adderbury about 7 years, he concluded his last day there about the 12 of April in fifteen 1596. hundred ninety and six, and was buried in the church of that place, but hath neither epitaph or inscription over his grave. FRANCIS KNOLLIS, son of Robert Knollis of Rotherfield-Gray, commonly called Grays, near to Henly in Oxfordshire, did receive for a time his grammatical and dialectial education in this uni- versity, particularly, as it seems, in Magd. coll. Afterwards he retired to his patrimony, and at length to the court, and became one of the gen- tlemen pensioners to K. Hen. 8. in the latter end of his reign. When a reformation was set on foot by king Ed. 6. he was so zealous for the religion then professed, as that, when qu. Mary began to reign, and grow severe towards the reformed party, he * fled into Germany, where [286] he sorted himself for a time among several of the English divines that went away about the same time for conscience sake. At Frankfort he appeared in favour of the schism, and on that account he went away with Knox and Whittingham to Geneva,' After the death of that queen, he returned, and became so much in esteem by Q. Elizabeth (who stood totally affected to the reformation) as that in the first year of her reign, he was made choice of, for one of her privy council, and shortly after that, she made him vice-chamberlain of her houshold, and employed him in matters of concern beyond the seas. In 1566, he was actually created master of arts, being then chief steward of the city of Oxon, captain of the halbertiers, and about that time ^ treasurer of the queen's chamber, in the place of sir John Mason deceased. Aiterwards he was trusted with the custody of Mary qu. of Scots, while she was a prisoner in Bolton-castle in Yorkshire; and in tlie 29 Elizab. being then a knight, he was one of those, who by commission sate in judgment upon the said queen at Fother- ingay. At length he was made treasurer of her majesty's houshold, and knight of the most noble * Cambden in AnnaL Reg. Eliz. sub an. 1596, vide etiam in Buroiiug. Angl.To. .3, p. 412. 5 « ur. Heylin s Hist, of the Reformation, in A, D. 1559. * lb. in Camb. an. 1560. order of the garter, being always by many ac- counted a faithl'ul subject, an honest and learned man, and a person of great prudence and wisdom ; and by others so great a friend to Calvin in his heart (whose principles he embraced while he lived at Geneva) that he was never a cordial friend to episcopacy, but rather a patron of the non-conformists, which appeared by several of his actions while he was a privy-counsellor. His wri- tings are these. Treatise agai?ist the usurpation of Papal Bishops. Printed l608, in oct. Some attribute it to Jo. Rainolds the famous divine. General Survey of the Isle of Wight, with all the Castles and Fortresses near adjoining. This is a MS. in fol. and was sometimes in the lib. of Arthur E. of Anglesey : from whence we may suppose that the author had some office in, or relating to, the said isle, but what, in truth I can- not tell. I have seen also several of liis speeches spoken in parliaments, letters of state, and letters written by him, or rather by Francis his son, to the said Jo. Rainolds, between whom there was great amity and intercourse, but few or none, of those letters, or speeches, I think, are printed. At length paying his last debt to nature in the summer time (before Septemb.) in fifteen hundred 1596. ninety and six, was, as I presume, buried at Grays before-mention'd. By his wife Katharine, daugh- ter of Will. Cary esq; by Mary his wife, daughter of Thorn. Bolein earl of Wiltshire, as also sister to the lady Anne Bolein second wife to K. Hen. 8, he had issue Henry his eldest son, bred in the free-school joyning to Magd. college under the care, as it'' seems, of Tho. Robertson. After- wards he went with his father and others into Germany, and at his return, if not happily before, became a commoner of the said college, where he obtained so much literature as afterwards to gain the character by a learned * author of ' homo virtute & animi dotibus non infimus,' and of ' ho- mo religionis studiosissimus & liberalissima litera- ture egregie ditatus,' &c. But he dying without issue, the estate went to the next son called William, afterwards earl of Banbury. He had another son named Francis, a knight, whom I shall mention elsewhere; as also a fourth, who was a member of the said college; and all four admired by some, and envied by others, for their great virtue and towardliness. [Several letters from sir Francis Knollis or Knowles among the Cotton MSS. Calig. B ix ; C i ; E 5 : Vespas. C xiv: Galba D ii. Harl.MSS. 2202, 6990, 6991,6992, 6994. Letter to Matthew Parker archbp. of Canter- bury, dated October 13, 1559. MS. in C. C. C. Camb. Letter to the earl of Shrewsbury, dated March ' Vide Pits. Be illustr. Angl. Script, jet. 10. nu. 966. p.r33. * Laur. Humfred. in Vita 4 morte Jo, Jutlli, tdh. 1573, p. 87, 8.