Volume 2

Athenæ Oxonienses. : An exact history of all the writers and bishops who have had their education in the most antient and famous University of Oxford, from the fifteenth year of King Henry the Seventh, A.D. 1500, to the author's death in November 1695. Representing the birth, fortune, preferment, and death of all those authors and prelates, the great accidents of their lives, and the fate and character of their writings. To which are added, the fasti, or annals, of the said University / By Anthony Wood.

  • Wood, Anthony à, 1632-1695.
Date:
1721
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Credit: Athenæ Oxonienses. : An exact history of all the writers and bishops who have had their education in the most antient and famous University of Oxford, from the fifteenth year of King Henry the Seventh, A.D. 1500, to the author's death in November 1695. Representing the birth, fortune, preferment, and death of all those authors and prelates, the great accidents of their lives, and the fate and character of their writings. To which are added, the fasti, or annals, of the said University / By Anthony Wood. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    The firft, who was Profeffbr and Superintendent at Lubeck, wrote one or more books againft the Socinians and other things. Befidcs them were alfo Sojourners Paul Bauldrcy a frenchman of note, and Joh. Wahdalinus of Copenhagen in Denmark, both learned men: the firft: of which hath written notes on Ladan- tms de morte Perfecutorum, &c ; and the other (who was after¬ wards Profeffor of Div. at Copenhagen) De efu fangutnis, Ac. An. C Dorn. 1676. 28 Car. 2. Chanc. James Duke of Ormond, &c. Vicechanc. Henry Clerk Dod. of Phyfic and Prieft, Prefident of Magd. Coll. Oil. 9. r, o SBaptifta Levinz of Magd. Coll.7 . Pr°a- \Niathan. Pelham of New Coll. The Senior of thefe two Prodors was (while Prodor) eled ed and admitted moral Phil. Profeflbr in the place of Mr. Abr. Campion, 27 Mar. 1677, who enjoying it till the beginning ot the Year 1682, Will- Halton M. A. ot Qu. Coll, was elected thereunto, about the 7th of April the fame Year. After his time was expir’d (for he that is Profeffor enjoyeth the Ledure but for f Years) Joh. Barnard M. A. of Brafen. Coll, was elected thereunto, 28 Mar. 1687, by virtue of the Mandamus of K. jam. II, dated on the firft of January going before. After his removal thence for being a Papift, (tho’ fince return’d to his former opinion) which was after the faid King left England, Will. Chrijimas M. A. of New Coll, fucceeded him in the lat¬ ter end of Dec. 1688. -See among the Batch, of Arts. Apr. 6. ’Tho. Lynaefay of Wadh. Coll.— Matters in 1678. 29. Thom. Spark of Ch. Ch.-He hath publifhed two or more Books. May 27. Nathaniel Williams of Jef. Coll.-He was the Son of Thomas Williams of Swanfey in Glamorganjhire went away without compleating his degree by Determination and was Author of (1) A pindaric Elegy on the famous Phyfician Dr. Willis. Oxorj. 167^. in one Ih. in fol. (2) Imago fteculi: or the image of the age reprefented in four characters, viz. the ambitious Statefmen, infatiable Mifer, athefiical Gallant, and failious Schematic. Oxon. 1676. od. The Pindaric Elegy is printed with, and added to, this laft book. He died in his own Country about 1679. June 13. Sam. Derham of Magd. Hall. \ Matthew Tindall of Ex. ) Oct. 17; ^Theoph. Downes of Bal. 7-Coll. ' 26. Will. Haylte of All-f. 3 Of the firft of thefe two you may fee more among the Majlers An. 1679, and of the other in 1680. Will. Wake of Ch. Ch. was admitted the fame day-He hath written and publifhed many things relating to Divinity, and therefore he is to have a place hereafter among the Oxford Writers. Feb. 6. Rob. Brograve of Magd. Hall.-See among the Ma¬ tters, 1679. Admitted 188. Batch, of Law. Apr. 6. James Bampton of New Coll. — This Perfon, who took no higher degree, entred aftei wards into holy Orders, and publifhed a Sermon, but the title of it I know not, only the text which is, Suffer little children to come, &c, Mark 10. 14.1 He alfo had provided another thing for the prefs, which 1 think is not yet publifhed, or ever will. He died of a con- fumption, 9 May 1683, aged 37, and was buried in the weft Cloyfter belonging to that Coll. Admitted 11. Maft. of Arts. June 8. Joh. Hough of Magd. Coll. July 3. Edm. Sermon of St. Mary’s Hall——This Perfon, Who was the Son of a Father of both his names of Naunton Beauchamp in Worcejlerfhire, was originally of Trtn. and after¬ wards of Bal. Coll, and as a member of the laft he took the degree of Batch, of Arts, An. 166y, but left the Univerftty without compleating it by Determination. Afterwards he took upon him a fpiritual cure, and the education of a youth of noble extradion, but inftead of taking the degree of Batch, of Div. (in order to which heliad the Chancellor’s Letters) he with much ado obtained that of Mafter. He hath publiftied The wifdom of public piety, difeourfed in a Sermon at Guildhall Chap, on Jam. 3. 13.Lond. 1679. qu. He died about 1680. Nearly related to him was that forward, vain, and conceited Perfon named Will- Sermon, who wrote himfelf Dedor of Phylic, and Phyfi¬ cian in ord. to his Maj. K. Ch. II. Author of (1) The Ladies companion or Englifo Midwife, &c. Load. 1671. od. (2.) A friend to the fick, or the honefl Enghjhman'’s prefervation, &c. Lond. 1673. 4. od. and of other things, but whether he was of this, or of any Univerfity, I know not. He died in his houfe in the Parifh of St. Bride, alias Sr. Bridget in Lond. in Winter time, An. 1679. Od. 17. Will. Howell of New Inn. V o l. II. Nov. 23. Charles Hutton of Trin. Coll.-He was after¬ wards Redor of Uptime in his native Country of Devonjhire, and Author of The Rebels text opened and their folemn appeal anfwered; Thankfgiving Sermon 26 July 162 f, on JoJ];. 22 ver. 22. Lohd. 1686. qu. Jan. iy. Tho. Manningham of New Coll.] Admitted 130. Batch, of Phyfic. Two were admitted, but neither of them is yet a Writer. Batch, of Div. Six were admitted, of whom Tho. Snell Can. refid. of Exeter was one.. Three others I fhall make mention of among the Dod. of Div. in their refpedive places. Dod. of Law. July. 6. Rich. Warren of St. Joh. Coll. Dod. of Phyfic. July 4. Joh. Ladwell of Wadh. J n 6. William Warner of St. Joh. 5^° ‘ 7. Ralph Harrifon of New Coll, a Compounder-He had been of Eman. Coll, in Cambridge, of which Univ. he was Batch, of Phyf. and coming to Oxon, he was incorporated in that degree on the a6th of June this Year. Dod. of Div. Con. Thefe were both Compounders, as being dignified in the Church. On the 20th of Sept. 1660, the firft was inftalled Preh. of Worcejlcr, and on the iyth of Apr. 1661, Archdeacon of Norfolk on the death of Philip Tenifon: which laft Dignity was confer’d upon him by his Father Dr. Edw. Reyn. Bifh. of Nor¬ wich. The other was Preb. of Norwich, and had fome other preferment in the Church. Silicon. The firft of thefe two, who was originally of Mert. Coll, was now Canon of Sf. Davids, and afterward Archd. of Car¬ marthen. The other was Redor of Greetworth in his native Country of NorthamptonJJr.re, and publiftied A Serm. preached before the Lord Mayor of Lond. 23 July 1682, on 1 The!}'. 4. 6. Lond. 1682. qu. Incorporations. July 6. Will. Howell, or as he writes himfelf Hoelus, Dod. of the Civil Law of Cambridge-He was educated in Magd. Coll, in the faid Univerfity, of which he was Fellow, was af¬ terwards Tutor to John Earl of Mulgrave, and at length Chan¬ cellor of the Diocefe of Lincoln. He hath written ( 1) An in- fiitution of general Hiftory from the beginning of the world to the Monarchy o/Conftantine the Great. Printed 1661. od. In this work the Reader may, without any intervening matters imper¬ tinent to his prefent purpofe, read the Hiftory of any Empire or Kingdom contemporary to it, by it felf. The principal paffages in ail of them are linked together by Synchronifms, not only placed in the Margin, but in the beginning or end of every oc¬ currence. This book, which was afterwards put into Latin by the Author, for the ufe of the faid Earl, emit! Elementa Hftl- rice oh or be condito ttfque ad Monarchiam Confiantini magni See Lond. 1671. in a thick tw. was increafed to two folio’s._! Lond. 1680. and afterwards had three remaining parts of it pub¬ liftied in i68y 6. (2) Medulla Hiftoris Anglicans. Being a comprehenfive Hftory of the lives and reigns of the Monarchs of England. From the time of the invafion thereof by Julius Csfar to the death of K. Ch. II.. with an abfiraCl of the lives of the Roman Emperors commanding in Britain. There have been feveral edi¬ tions Of this book to the great benefit of the Bookfeller that printed it. One came out in 1679, with the addition of A HJl of the names of the H. of Com. then fitting, and a lift of his Maje- Jly's Privy Council, &c. And in 1687 the third edix. of it was pub¬ liftied in od. with a continuation from the Year 1678, to 1684, by a great favourer of the Roman Catholics. There is no name fet to this Medulla Hft. Angl. only report makes Dr. W. Howell the Author, and upon that report, I prefume here to fet it down under his name. He hath without doubt other things extanr iut fuch I have not yet feen, and therefore 1 can only now fay that he died in the beginning of the Year 1683. One Will. Howell Minifter of Tuttleworth in Suffex hath publiftied A Ser¬ mon at the Bifh op o/Chichefter’jfirft Vjitation. Lond. i6yy-6. qu. >ut whether he was of this, or of the Univerfity of Cambridge, cannot yet tell. This Year were 28 Mailers of Arts of Cambridge incorpo¬ rated after the Ad, on the nth of July, among whom were, Thomas Lynford of Chrft's Coll.-He had been lately the ingenious Prevaricator of Cambridge, was afterwards Redor of St. Edm. Lumbard-fireet in London, D. D. Chaplain in Or¬ dinary to their Majefties King Will. III. and Queen Mary, &c. Author of three or more Sermons, and of four difeourfes a- ^ainft Popery in the time of King Jam. 2. &c. As for the reft that were then incorporated, I cannot yet :5nd one of them to be a W”ter or Bifhop. Sim. Digby M. A. ot Trin. Coll, near Dublin was i'ncorpo- * C c rated