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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

Date:: 1813-20

Credit: 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. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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$Vel claro assiietain rebus florentibus ostro Jam pullam herois fatis poscentibus aiilani: Vel nec virginei mollitHm pectoris igne Infractnm reginte animiim; qiiin obvia summo Ilia licet mitis, currat secura dolori Stanleii semper fidi solvente favilla Dilapsum in salsos latices, gemituque liquentem.] HUGH ROBERTS a Welsh-man born, or at least of Welsh extract, originally a servitor of Ch.Ch. as it seems; admitted bach, of arts 6 Feb. 1577, entred into orders, and became a schoolmaster or minister, or both, admitted M. A. 25 Nov. 1585, stood in the act follow- ing, minister of Aberfravv in Anglesea (^Qufere.) See in Rich. Lloyd, an. 1659, he hath v/ritten, Claniit Six Lectures upon the lattei' part of' the third 1600. u Chapter of the Epistle to the Hebrews. Lond. 1600, qii. There was another Hiidi Roberts born in Denbighshire, admitted of Edmund hall, 1576. THOMAS WILLIAMS, a Welsh-man born, did spend several years among the Oxonians, but whether in Brasen-nose coll. where one of both his names took the degree of master of arts in 1573 I cannot tell. Afterwards he entred on the physic line, but took no degree in that faculty, retired into his country and practised there. This person, who was also a curious critic in his mother- tongue, wrote Dictionariitm Latino-Britannicum. A work of many years labour; which being left imperfect in some places, was reviewed and corrected by Dr. Jo. Davies, and by him published in 1632, who tells us that the said Williams was much en- couraged in his studies by the father of sir Rich. Wynne knight and baronet, to whom he did in- tend to dedicate, had he lived to have finished, it. He tells us also that the said Th. Williams was living and in great renown in his own country in -Clar. sixteen hundred, but when he died he adds not. 1600. I find another Tho. Williams who was elected probat. fellow of Merton coll. in 1562, studied physic several years, took the degree of bach, of that faculty in 1575, and died in his coll. 1579, being then accounted a learned physician. But this person was no author, and whether a Welsh- man, I cannot yet find. A third Tho. Williams was of Broadgate's-hall, and as the eldest son of an esq; took the degree of bach, of arts, in the beginning of July in 1592, besides several others of a later date, and another before, who wrote Rules of the Italian Grammar. Lond. 1567, &c. [Thomas Williams, commonly known in this country by the name of Sir Thomas ap William, was the son of William ap Thomas ap Gronwy (paternally descended from Ednowen Bendew, one of the 15 tribes oi North Wales) and of Cathe- rine (the naturall daughter of Meredyth Wyn ap Evan ap Robert of Gwidwr) his wife. He was born, as he himself sayth in the beginning of his book of pedigree, in a place called Ardheu'r Mensich (or Monks Ardley) under the foot of Snowden in the commot of Llechwedd ila in the county of Carnarvon. He styles himself Thomas Williams phisitian, and styles his book of pedigree (which is a good collection indeed) Prif Achan holl Gymry ben Baladr, ^c. i.e. Primitive Pedegrees of all Wales, &c. He sayth, he began his collection 1578, en- creased it 1595, and added very much to it I609. He writ a book of physicall directions and re- ceipts, &c. and severall other things, which have run up and down in MS. till they are, I think, lost. He was reputed a Papist, and I find him proceeded against in the correction at Bangor, Mciy 23, 1606, by the name of ' Thomas Wil- liams, alias D'ns Thomas Williams deTrefryw, eo quod recusal venire ad ecclesiam.' And Nov. 12, 1607, at a metropoliticall correction * Ds. Tho, Williams recusans, excommunicatur.' Concerning him, my father tells me, that the lady Bodvel (grandmother to the countess of Radnor) told him, that when her father sir John Wyn of Gwidr was just ready to sett out for the parliament, at the opening of which the powder treason was to have bin executed, this Th. Wil- liams came to him, and earnestly disswaded him from going up to that session, by which it was afterwards collected he had some hints of that design, and yet was not willing his patron sif John should suffer by it. There is also extant in MS. a pretty large Her- bal in Latin, Welch, and English, writ by Tho, Williams, giving an account of herbs and theit physicall virtues. I am promised a sight of it. He lived at a place called Trefryvv, and the tra- dition there is, that he was curate of that place, and I do find one of that name (which is likely him) appear as curate of Trefriw in the bishop's visitation 1573. V. note upon the Fasti under that year. Humphreys.] HENRY CUFF a most excellent Grecian, is said by an historian' of no great note, to be base by birth; meaning, I presume, that his birth was mean. If so, then let it be known from the* records in the coll. of arms, that his birth was genteel in Somersetshire, that his predecessors for 4 generations before him lived at Creech near to Taunton in the said county in good esteem, and that his ancestor Job. Cuff, who lived some- times at Ilchester, and sometimes at Creech, where he had good inheritances, had a coat of arms granted to him and his posterity by Christop, Barker garter king of arms, 36 Hen, 8, and so consequently was made a gentleman. At 26 3'ears of age, in 1586, he the said Hen. Cuff was ■ Will. Sanderson in The. Lives of Mary Q. of Scots and Ko- Jam. Printed 1656, p. 238. [Who copied from lord Bacon.] ^ hi the Vhitation Book of SomenctshirC; made 1573.$