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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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    1697, on the 3 of Apr.^ in fifteen hundred ninety and seven, and was buried in the collegiat church of St. Peter before-mentioned. At his death he be- queathed a rich ring, with a stone in it, to adorn a piece of our Saviour's cross, in the cathedral there. Whose will being performed by the said Gifford, that bequest was esteemed as a trophy of victory over Calihill, and is at this day, as 1 have been informed, preserved as a choice relick there. THOMAS HIDE, a noted Rom. priest of his time, was born at a market town called Newbury in Berks. Descended from the ancient and gen- teel family of his name in that county, educated in Wykeham's school, admitted perpetual fellow of New coll. 1543, took the degrees in arts, that of master being compleated 1549. In the year after he left his fellowship, was made pre- bendary of Winchester, and in 1552 succeeded Will. Everard in the chief mastership of the said school, where continuing till qu. Elizab. came to the crown, he left all he had, and all he pre- tended to, for conscience sake, and going beyond the seas, spent the remainder of his time partly at Doway and partly at Lovain. He was a per- son of a strict life and conversation, as those of his ' persuasion say, of great gravity and severity, and a lover of virtue and virtuous men. He hath written, A consolatory Epistle to the afflicted Catholics. Lov. in oct. [1580, Bodl. 8vo. H. 58. Th.] and other things as I have been told, but such I have not yet seen: which if printed, few or no copies come into England. He died at Doway in Flan- ders in the house of Alice Fowler, the widow of [289] John Fowler an English-man, on the 9th of May 1597. in fifteen hundred ninety and seven, and was buried in the chappel of the Virgin Mary within the church of St. James there, near to the horn of the gospel; leaving then behind him this charactier, that he was a most fierce hater of vice, and a capital enemy to sects and heresies. [5 Octob. 1588 admissus fuit Tho. Hide cl'ieus S. T. B. ad preb. de Bricklesworth vac. per mort. Tho. White LL.D. ad pres. Joh'is Sarum ep'i. Heg. Petriburg. Ken net. ' In the list of the Roman Catholic recusants in the Paper office, printed by Strype,^ Hide is termed ' one very stift and perverse:' he was ordered to remain in the custody of the lord treasurer.] CHRISTOPHER JOHNSON, a most excel- lent Latin poet, philosopher and physician of his time, was born at Kiddesley in Derbyshire, edu- cated in Wykeham's school before-mentioned, made perpetual fellow of New coll. in 1555, (2 and 3 of Ph. and Mar.) left it after he was mast, of 5 Jo. Pits, in lib. De illustr. Angl. Scriptorib. set. 10, nu. 1045. > Ibid. ^ lAnnah of the Reformation, 1725, i. !i76.] arts, and in 1560 became chief master of the said school, ^ in the place of Tho. Hyde; whence, by his industry and admirable way of teaching, were many good scholars sent to the universities. All the time that he could get at vacant hours, he spent upon his beloved study of physic, which he practised in the city of Winchester, but not to the neglect of his school. At length taking the de- gree of doctor of that faculty, did shortly after resign his school, and repairing to London prac- tised with good success in the parish of St. Dun- stan's in the West, where being accounted emi- nent, was admitted, as it seems, a member of the coll. of physicians. He hath wautten and pub- lished, Ortus atqiie vita GuL Wykehami Winton. Epis- copi. Written in 140 long and short verses, 14 Dec. 1564. Printed (1) on the broadside of a sheet of paper, with Wykeham's arms encom- passed with the garter before them. (2) At the end of the Latin poems of Ric. Willeius, Lond. 1573. And (3) in a book entit. A brief view of the State of the Church of England, as it stood in Queen Elizabeth's and King James's Reign, &c. Lond. 1653, oct. [Bodl. 8vo. C. 283. Line] p. 37, 38. Written by sir Jo. Harrington knight, an. 1608, and made public by J oh. Chetwind his daughter's son, then no friend to the church of England. Lustodum sive Prasidum Coll. Winton. Series^ Written in verse also, and put at the end of the said Latin poems [of Rich. Willeius.] Didascalorum Coll. Wint. omnium Elenchus. In verse also, at the end of the said poems. Counsel against the Plague, or any other infec- tious Disease. Lond. 1577, oct. Question, Whether a Man for Preservation may be pui'ged in the Dog-days or no ? Printed with the Counsel, 8cc. Ranarum 6) murium piigna, Latina versu donata ex Homero. Lond. 1580, in about 3 sh. in qu.-* with other things as it is probable, but such I have not yet seen. See more of him in Rich. White, un- der the year l6l2. This Dr. Johnson died in the beginning of July, in fifteen hundred ninety and seven, within the parish of St. Dunstan before- mentioned ; whereupon his body was buried in the church there, (as it seems,) situated and being in Fleetstreet. He died wealthy, left several sons and daughters behind him, and Mr. John Heath his son in law, a student in physic, his executor, who had all his physical and philosophical books, and succeeded him in his practice. [In the British museum are. Themes and Decla- mations at Winchester School. By Christopher Johnson. MS. donat. 4379-' ' [15 July 1560, he was recommended by the E. of Hun- tingdon to archbishop Parker for the said mastership in a letter now in CCCCV. my voh 43, p. 147. Cole.] * [A MS. copy in the Britisli muscuinj IMS* X)Qn^t». 4379, 2.] 5 [Ayscough's Cutalvgue, 712.]