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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

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$with its author, while I tei! you that Erdeswicke submitted to the stroke of death on the eleventh 1603. of April in sixteen hundred and three, and was buried under a goodly monument of free-stone, with his proportion thereon, erected by himself in his life-time, in the church of Sandon before- mentioned. Which church was, a little before, new glazed and repaired by him. See more of him in William Wyrley among these writers, un- der the year l6l7. [Add to Erdeswicke 1. The Discent of Arietta, mother to WilUam the conqueror. MS. Harl. 338. 1. 2. Divers Extracts from old Charters, with obser- vations on them. Ibid.] THOMAS D'OYLIE descended from a right ancient family of his name living in Oxfordshire, was born in that county, elected probationer-fel- low of Magd. coll. an. 1563, and after he had taken tlie magisterial degree, entred on the physic line, travelled* and became doctor of his faculty in the university of Basil. One Tho. Doyley, esq; was steward to archbishop Parker (Strype's Jl/emo- rials of Archbishop Cramner, p. 394.) Qua3re, If the same with this Dr. Doyley, who settling* * Aftcrrcor da in London,became one of the college scltling,6ic.first of physicians, and much frequented for his successful practice in his fa- culty. He had a chief hand in a book entit. Bibliotheca Hispanica ; coitaiiiing a Grammar zeith a Dictionarij in Spanish, English, and Latin. Lond. 1591, (pi- in two parts. This book was published by one liich. Percyvall, gent, who had another hand in it, yet witli the advice and con- ference of Dr. D'Oylie, who dying in the beginning 1S03. of the year sixteen hundred and three, was buried in the church of Little S. Bartholomew in Lon- don, leaving then behind him a son named Fran- cis, born 8 Feb. 1597, and a daughter married to Hugh Cressy a counsellor, father 10 Hugh Cressy a Benedictine monk. ■30J] WILLIAM GILBERT, [or Gilbehd] son of Hierom Gilbert of Colchester in Essex, was born there, and educated in both the universities, but whether in Oxon first or in Cambridge, I cannot justly tell. Afterwards he travelled beyond the seas, where, I presume, he had the degree of doc- tor of physic conferred upon him, and at his return being famed for his leai'uing, depth in philosophy, and admirable skill in chyniistry, became one of the coll. of physicians in Lond. and physician in ord. to Q. Elizabeth, who had so high a value for him, that she allowed him an annual pension to encourage his studies. He hath written, De rnagiiete 7nagneticisque corporibus,S) de magito 8 [QiiaRre—If Jl'Oyliedid not travel in a political as well as medical capacity. In tho Coll on ]\1SS. Galba C vii and C viii, arc original letters from a Thomas Doyley to the earl of Leicester, dated at Calais. Antwerp and Flushing in the jrears 16»2 and 1586.J Vol. L magnete tellure; Phijsiologia vova. Lond. IGOO, fol. [Bodl. AA. 21. Art. Seld.] To which book the author added an Appendix of 6 or 8 sheets, but whether printed I cannot tell. De mundo nostra snblunari, Philosophia, nova. Amstel. 1651, cju. [Bodl. 4to. G. 20. Art. Seld.] Published from a MS. in the library of the famous sir Will. Boswell knight.He also was the first that invented [and wrote] The maki)ig, description, and use of the tzco most ingenious and necessary Instruments for Sea-men, to find out theretri/ the Latitude of a)uj place upon the help of the Sun, Jlloon, and Stars. Which invention was pub- lished by one Tho. Blondeville. Lond. 1602, qu. [Bodl. 4to. B. 30. Art.] This Dr. Gilbert gave way to fate in the summer time in sixteen hun- 1003, dred and three, having always lived a single life: Whereupon his body was buried in the parish church of the Holy Trinity in Colchester, in which parish he was born, and accounted the chief person thereof. By his last will and test, he gave all his books in his library, liis globes, instruments, and cabinet of minerals to the coll. of physicians; which part of his will was exactly performed by his brethren, viz. W^illiam (so he is written in his will) a proctor in the Arches, Hierom, Ambrose, and George, who participated of his estate. The picture of this lamous doctor drawn to the life, is hanging in the school-gallery at Oxon, which shews him to have been of stature tall, and of a cheerful complexion. [Gilbert was born in the year 1540. On what authority W^ood supposes him to have been of Oxford I know not, for he was certainly educated at Cambridge, where in the year 1569 he was ad- mitted to the degree of doctor of medicine.'° At the decease of Elizabeth, he was appointed phy- sician to king James the first. He died jSovem- ber 30, 1603, aged sixty three, according to !iis monument which has been engraved in Morant's Hist, of Colchester.'] JOHN LLOYD, or Liityd, nearly related to Humph. Lhuyd, mentioned under the year 1570, was born in the ancient borough of Denbigh in Denbighshire in Wales, educated in Wykeham's school,admitted perpetual fellow of New coll. in 1579, took the degrees in arts, was junior of the act in 1585, and soon after became an eminent preacher. In 159.5 he proceeded in divinity, be- came vicar of VVrittle in Essex, on the death of Dr. INIaschiart 1598, and was in high esteem there, in the neighbourhood, and the university, for his rare leai-ning and excellent way of preach- ing. He hath published, Interpretatio Latino, cum Scholiis in Fluv. Jo- 5 [A copy in MS. among the royal collection in the British musenm, 12 F xi. It consists of five books, and is written on paper. Caslev's Catalogue, p. 212.] '° [M. D. Cantabr. an. 1569; admissus JNJ. D. Maij 13. 1569. Baker.] S B$