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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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    in the year 1617, for on the 30th of Dec. that year Mr. William. Hill was installed to the ca- nonry, then voyd by the death of Henry Perry. He augmented and published in print a Welch Rhetorick of William Salisbury's composure. My book wants the title page, and so I cannot tell the year. The title is Rhetoreq; neu Egluryn Ffrae thinck. There are prefixed to it verses in praise of the author by severall persons, in Greek, Latin, English, and Welch, as by Dav. Roberts (who was the son of Robert Moris, and brother to Lewis Anwyl of ^Park in Merionethshire) Hen. Holland, William Middleton, Lodowic Lloyd, William Mathew, William Rankins,Hugh Lewis, and Hen. Salesbury. Dr. Davies gives this note in his Grammar printed 1621, p. 213 ; ' De figuris Syntaxeosconsule Wilhelmi Salesbury Rhetoricam MS. ab Henrico Perrio interpolatam et in lucem editam.' I bestowed a very perfect copy of this book on Dr. Henry Maurice, the late worthy Margaret professor at Oxon, who was the grand- child of this Henry Perry, out of whose study you may see it. Humphreys. In the Harleian Catalogue of printed Books, 1743, vol.ii. page 1017, number 15650, is ' Perry's Welch Grammar, 4to. 1595.'] CHARLES PINNER, an eminent preacher in the time of Q. Elizabeth, received his first breath in the ancient borough of Southampton in Hamp- shire, educated in Wykeham's school, made per- petual fellow of New coll. 1575, took one degree in the civil law, and soon after became minister of Wooten-Basset in Wiltshire, where being much resorted to for his edifying way of preaching, (especially by the puritans) did, for the satisfac- tion of the neighbourhood and others, publish Several Sermons, as (1) Sermon upon the Words of St. Paul the Apost. unto Tim. Ep. 1. 4. 8. Oxon 1597, oct. [Bodl. 8vo. D. 86. Th.] (2) Honour all Men, love brotherly Fellowship, on 1 Pet. 2. 17. Oxon 1597, in oct. (3) Serm. at Marlborough in Wilts, on 1 Tim. 4. 16. [Bodl. Clar. 8vo. D. 24. Th.] Printed in oct. about the same 1597. time. Besides these, it is said he hath published more, but such I have not yet seen, nor do I know any thing else of the author, only that he was much in esteem in the latter end of Q. Eliza- beth. [Pinner was certainly married and had issue. Thomas Gaiaker B. D. married his daughter. Cole. This lady was Gataker's second wife, who dying in child-bed, left one son, Charles, who attended his father in his last moments, and pub- lished some of his posthumous works.] PHILIP FERDINANDUS, a Polonian born, originally (as it seems) a Jew, afterwards a R. Catholic, and at length a Protestant, entred into this university in a poor and obscure condition, initiated in academical learning by the exhibition of certain doctors, of whom \)x. Ayray and Dr. Rainolds were of the number, who perceiving that his excellency lay in the Hebrew language, put upon him the office of teaching it privately in several colleges and halls. At length being registred among* the students of the university, after he had taken the oath of supremacy, and the usual oath to the university, did translate into Latin, Hcnc sunt verba Dei, S^c. pracepta in Monte Sinai data Judais sunt 613, quorum 365 negativa, 8) 248 affirmativa; collecta per Pharisceum Magis- trum Abrahamum filium Kattani, impressa in bibliis Bombergiensibus, anno a Mundo creato 5288, Venetiis, ab authore Vox Dei appellata. Afterwards Ferdinandus went to Cambridge, where ci^r, the said translation was printed in qu. 1597, [Bodl. 1597, 4to. R. 17. Jur. Seld.] he being then about 42 years of age, and an instructor, as I suppose, of the Hebrew language, which is all that I know of him and his works. WILLIAM SHEPREVE, or Shepery, (who writes himself in Latin Scepraeus,) nephew to John Shepreve, mentioned under the year 1542, col. 134. was born near Abington in Berkshire, [292] admitted scholar of C. C. coll. in Feb. 1554, aged 14, or thereabouts, probationer in Nov. 1558, and bach, of arts the year following, which was the highest degree he took in this university : for being a zealous Catholic he left it before he was master, went beyond the seas, and at length, settling in Rome, was exhibited to by cardinal Gabr. Palaeot archb. of Bononia, in whose family he lived several years. He had the degree of D. of div. conferred upon him at Rome, as it seems, where he was accounted the most skilful person in divers tongues of his time, and the worthy ornament of the English exiles. He hath writ- ten, Miscellanea celebrium sententiarum Sacra Scrip- turcc. Vol. 1. MS. Commeniarii in Epist. D. Pauli ad Rom. ex Latino, Grtrco, Syriaco, JEthiopico. Vol.1. MS. Not(F in omnes Epistolas D. Pauli S; canonicas, de dijferentiis textus Laiini a, Groico «^ Si/riaco. Vol. 1. MS. Expositio locorum difficilium in officio B. Maries. Vol. ]. MS. _ Connexio literalis Psalmorum in officio B. Mar. Virg. eorum corroboratio ex variis Unguis, Greec. Hebr. Syriac. Chald. Arab. Mthiop. &c. Rom. 1596, qu. What else this curious, most critical and learned person hath written I know not,^ nor any thing more of him, only that he died at Rome, in ajdibus S. Severiani, to the very great reluctancy of those that knew him, in fifteen hundred ninety and eight, and was buried, as I 1593. presume, either in the church of that parish, wherein the said house was situated, or in the chappel of the English coll. there. The reader is 8 Lib. Matric. P. pag. 707. ^ [Annotalioncs in D. T/wma secundam secundde a qu. 47 de prudentia ad 97. Vol. 1. MS. Taimer, Bibl. Brit. 667.]