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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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    Clar. 1696. in great numbers, tenne dai/es together, continued by the same Daniell Johnson, against the saide Peter Bales, and the judges aforesaid. 1 Jan. 1596- This is supposed to have been written by Bales himself. In respect to the part Bales took in the treasons of the earl of Essex, Wood was misled. Bales was innocently engaged in serving the treacherous purposes of one of the earl's mercenary dependants, named John Danyell, who resolving, out of the distresses of his lord, to raise a considerable addi- tion to his own substance, contrived by some deceit, to induce Bales to imitate the earl's hand writing, in several letters. But this villany being detected, Danyell was punished with the greatest severity, and Bales was confined for a short time, but rather that they might retain him for the purpose of giving evidence, than by way of chastisement. When Bales died seems uncertain, but it has been conjectured, and with probability, about the year 1610. Bales gives an epitome of all his rules in verse : I extract the following as being the shortest, Prouide a good knife, right Sheffeildis best; A razor is next excelling the rest. A whetstone likewise of hone that is white. Will make your knife cut your penne well to write. Sign. D. 12.] FRANCIS CLERKE, or Clarke, was ori- ginally of Oxon, but making little stay there, he retired to Doctors-Commons in London, and for about 40 years practised tlie civil law in the most famous courts in England, as in the court of arches, admiralty, audience, prerogative, and consistoral of the bishop of London, besides his employment divers times in the ecclesiastical causes of the delegated power of the king, and chief commis- sioners. In 1594, he having then practised his faculty 35 years at London, had the degree of bach, of civil law conferred upon him, by the venerable convocation of doctors and masters, not by way of creation, but, as the register saith, by admission to the reading of the imperial institu- tions, tho' no exercise he did for it in this uni- versity. The reason for this their civility was, that he had performed the part of chief proctor for the said university, by virtue of letters and their common seal, in all their concerns in the aforesaid courts. He hath written. Praxis tarn jus diceutibus, quani aliis omnibus, ^ui in foro Ecclesiastico versantur, apprime utilis. f his book was finished by the author and made ready for the press, in April 1596, but what diver- ted liim from the publication thereof (unless death) 1 know not. Afterwards several imperfect copies'^ 6 [One, MS. Harl. 1749,1 Vol. L of it flying abroad, one, supposed to be true, came into the hands of Tho. Bladen, D. D. dean of Ardfort in Ireland and chaplain to the duke of Ormond, who caused it to be printed at Dublin in 1666, qu. [Bodl. 4to. A. £6. Jur. BS.] Praxis turi(E Admira/itatis Anglice. Dubl. 1666, qu. published by the said doctor. But the copy from whence that edition was published, being, as 'twas pretended, false in many matters,' a better copy was published at London, 1667, in oct. [Bodl. 8vo. C. 25. Jur.] by E. S. who was one Edward Stephens of Gloccster-hall One sir Franc. Clerke of Bedfordshire knight, was a be- nefactor to Sidney coll. in Cambridge, tho' not educated there, whom I take to be the same with sir Francis Clerk of Merton priory or abby in Surrey (son of Barthol. Clerk mentioned in the Fasti under the year 1574,) quite different from the writer. JOHN MARTIALL, a zealous man for the R. Cath. cause, was boim at Dalisford in Worces- tershire, near Chippingnorton in the county of Oxon ; educated in grammatical learning in Wyke- ham's school near Winchester, admitted perpetual fellow of New coll. after he had served two years of probation, an. 1551, took the degree of bach, of the civil law five years after, about which time he was made usher, or second master, of the aforesaid school under Tho. Hide, whom I shall anon mention. In the beginning of qu. Eliz. he left his employment, fellowship, and at length the kingdom, and going beyond the seas to Lovain, he made proficiency there in the studies of divi- nity, and at length by the procurement of Lewis Owen archdeacon of Cambray, (afterwards bishop of Cossano) he was made canon of St. Peter's church at L'isle in Flanders. Which place he keeping eight years, resigned it, (being then D. of D.) to the end that he might give himself solely up to his devotions, and prepare himself for another world. He hath written, A Treatise of the Cross, * gathered out of the Scriptures, Councils, and ancient Fathers of the primitive Church. Ant. 1564, in oct. [Bodl. 8vo. M. 57. Th.] Whereupon Jam. Calfhill of Ch. Ch. making an answer to it, our author came out with a reply en tit. A reply to Mr. CalJliilTs blasphemous answer against the Treatise of the Cross. Lov. 1566, qu. [Bodl. 4to. A. 29. Th.] Afterwards he wrote. Treatise of the tonsure of the Clerks. Left im- perfect and therefore never printed. He departed this mortal life at L'isle before-mentioned, (to the great grief of the iv. Catholics,) in the arms or embraces of Will. Gifford dean of that church, 7 [A copy MS. Harl. 1749, fol. 500.] 8 ■ rhis he fJedicated to queen Elizabeth, emboldenerl upon her keeping the ima<;e ot a crucifix in her chapel, which he termed her ' good afiection to it.' Stripe, Annals ofRtform. i. 507,508.] Uu [288]