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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    May 23. Rob. Bulkley fecondSon of Rob. Lord Bulkley Vifc. Cajhels in Ireland.-He was nominated the day betore to be created, but did not then appear, as others then nominated did not at that time or afterwards: among fuch wert Henry Mor¬ dant Earl of Peterborough, and Wentworth Dillon Earl of Rofcommon; which laft, who was Son of James Earl of Rof- common, was educated from his Youth in all kind of polite Learning; but whether he had (pent any time in this Univerlity, unlefs in the condition of a Sojourner, I cannot tell. Much about the time that James Duke of York was married to Jofepha Maria the Princefs of Modena, he became, by his endeavours, Captain of the Band of Penlioners belonging to his Majefty K. Ch. II. and afterwards Mailer of the Horfe to the Paid Jofepha Marta Dutchefs of York; both which places he quitted fume time before his death. This worthy Perfon, who w'as account¬ ed moll excellent in the Art of Poetry, hath written and pub¬ lifhed (1) din jEJfay on tranftated Ferfe, Lond. 1680, 1684, iftc. in 4 fheets in qu. Before which, John Dryden the Poet Laureat hath a copy of Verfes in praife of it, as alto Charles Dryden his Son of Trin. Coll in Cambr. and others. T he fe¬ cund edit, of this EBay was publifhed two Years after the Pamphlet entit. An Effay upon Poetry, written by John Earl of Mulgrave Kt. of the moft noble Order of the Garter. To one of the Editions of the faid Effay on tranjlated Ferfe, is added by the faid Earl of Rofcommon, A fpecimen of blank Perfe, being the fight between the Angels, taken out of John Milton's book called Paradife loft. (2) Several Prologues and Epilogues to Plays, as alfo Divers Copies of Ferfes and Tranftations; which are publifhed with the refpedlive Plays themfelves, and in the Mifcellany Poems, &c. printed at London by Jacob Tonfon 1684, and in the Colleftions of Poems printed at Lond. 1693 and 1694, o£E He hath alfo tranflated into Eoglifh, Horace's Art of Po¬ etry, Lond. 1680, qu. Before which Edm. Waller Efq; hatha Copy of Verfes on that Tranflation and of the ufe of Poetry: As alfo into French The cafe of refiftance of Supreme Powers, Lund, in o£K written by Dr. Will. Sherlock. At length this mod noble and ingenious Count paying his lad debt to nature in his Houfe near that of St. James's, within the Liberty of Weftminfter on the 17th of Jan. or thereabouts, An. 1684, was buried in the Church of St. Peter, commonly called the Abby Church within the City of Weftminfter. He was fucceeded in his honours by his Uncle Cary Dillon a Colonel of a Regi¬ ment in Ireland in the War between King Jam II. and King Will. III. from which place going into England, was overtaken by a violent Difeafe which brought him to his grave in the City of Chcfter, in the month of Nov. 1689. James Earl of Rofcommon before-mentioned, Father to Wentworth the Poet, was, when young, reclaimed from the Superdition of the Ro- mifli Church by the learned and religious Dr. Ufier Primate of Ireland, and thereupon was fent by him into England, as a Jew¬ el of Price, to be committed to the care and trud of Dr. George ’Hakewill, who finding him to be a young man of pregnant parts, placed him in Exeter Coll, under the tuition of Laurence Bodlty Batch, of Div. Nephew to the great Sir Tho. Bodley, in the beginning of the Year 1628; in which Coll, continuing fume Years, became a Perfon of feveral Accomplifhments, and afterwards Earl of Rofcommon in his own Country of Ireland. The next Perfons who were nominated to be created Do&ors of the Civ. Law, but were not, were James Boteler Earl of Offory, Franc. Vifc. Newport, George Savile Lord Eland, elded Son of George Marquifs of Halifax, Robert Lord Lexington, (who with Anth. Vifc. Falkland were fworn of their Majedies Privy Council 17 Mar. 1691.) Col. Rob. Worden one of the Grooms of the Bedchamber to the Duke, who afterwards did good Frvice for his Mader when he was King, being then a Major General. He died in Red-lyon-Square near London, on St. James's day or thereabouts, 1690. The next who was in Oxon, but not created, was Major Rich. Bagot a Retainer to the faid Duke, and after him James Graham Efq; younger Bro¬ ther to Rich. Vifc. Prefton; which James was afterwards Privy Purfe to, and a Colonel under, King James II. to whom after¬ wards hedofely adhered when he fied, to avoid imminent danger in England, into France, &<;. In the afternoon of that day wherein the aforefaid Creation was made, the faid Duke, Dutchefs and Lady Anne being about to leave Oxon, the Vice-chancellor with other Do&ors went to take their leave of them, at which time the Vice-chancellor did in the Name of the Univerfity prefent to the Duke the Hift. and Antiq. of the Univ. of Oxon, with the Cuts belonging there¬ unto, to the Dutchefs the faid Cuts by themfelves, and the Na¬ tural Hftory of Oxfordlbire, written by Dr. Plot; and a fair Engiifh Bible to the Lady Anne. All which Books were richly bound. On the 13th of June Adolphus Johannes Count Palatine of the Rnine and Duke of Bavaria, aged 20 Years or thereabouts (Son to Prince Adolphus Uncle to the prefent King of Sweed- land) came to Oxon under the condu& of Sir Charles Cotter el Mader of the Ceremonies, and lodged that Night in the Apart¬ ment belonging to the Dean of Ch. Ch. The next day, after he had viewed mod places in the Univerfity, and the Theatre, he went thence to the Apodyterium, where he with fuch of his retinue that were to be created Do&ors, being habited in Scarlet, were conduced into the Convocation Houfe, and created, as now I am about to tell you. Jun. 14. The mod illudrious Prince Adolphus Johan. Count Pal. ot tie Rhine, Duke of Bavaria, was prefented with an encomiadical Speech by the Deputy Orator: which being done, the Vice-chancellor created him with another, Do<9\ of the Civil Law, and then was conduced to his Chair of State on the right hand of the Vice-chancellor. Afterwards were thefe following prefented. D *kUf?°lPbits £ Counts of Lipftat / f, , n fV r 1 u } xt l , ^ (Created DoSors of the D. rred. Harder a Noble German f Civ. Law. Andr. Fleman Secret, to Pr. Adolph, y It was then the common report that the faid Prince came in¬ to England with his Uncle to break oft' the Match to be be¬ tween Pr. George of Denmark and the Lady Anne. Do <5. ofPhyf. Jun. 14. Laurence Cronyng Tutor to Prince Adolphus before- mentioned, was created Dodtor, while the faid Prince fate in his Chair of State. Mar. y. Martin Lifter Efq; was declared Do&orof Phyf. bv vircue ot the Chancellor’s Letters fent to the Members of’che ven. Convocation then aflembled, partly runningthus-_ ‘He ‘ was late]y a Praditioner of Phytic at York, nowhere in Lon- ‘ don, a Perfon of exemplary Loyalty, and of high efteem a- ‘ mongd the moft eminent of his Profellion for his excellent ‘ skill and fuccefs therein, and hath given farther proof of his ‘ w°rth and knowledge by feveral learned Books by him pub- ‘ lifted.-He hath entertained fo great an affe&ion for the ‘ Univerfity of Oxon, that he hath lately prefented the Library ‘ with divers valuable books both manufeript and printed ‘ a«d enriched the new Mufeum with feveral Altars Coins’ ‘ and other Antiquities, together with a great number of Curi- ofities of Nature, whereof (everal cannot be matched for any price; which yet he declares to be but an earned of what he farther intends, Zftc. On the eleventh of the faid month of March the Diploma for his Creation was fealed, {ftc This learned Dr. who is a Yorkjhire Man bom, and had been bred up under Sir Matthew Lifter (mentioned in the Incorpo¬ rations, in thclafti of the firft Vol. of this Work, An i6oe ) was educated in St. John's College in Cambridge was afterwards of the Royal Society, and after, when Do#. Fel¬ low of the Coll, of PhyJ. Among feveral things that he hath written, are ( 1 ) Hiftoria Animalium Anglia tres trail at us &c. Lond. 1678, qu. An account of which is in the Philof. Tranfadions, numb. 139. (2) De Fonttbus medicatis Ani- Ux, exercitat. nov. & prior. Ebor. 1682, {ftc. o&. An account of which is alfo in the faid Philof. ItanJ. nu. 144. This was reprinted at Lond. with additions 1684, 06E and to it was ad¬ ded De Fontibus medicatis Anglia exercitatio altera, dedicated to the Univerfity of Oxon (3) Hiftoria Conchylwrum liber primus, qut eft de cochleis terreftribus. Lond. l68y, fol. All re- prefented in cuts, {ftc. (4) Tradatus de fear ah As Anglicanis pramijfa tnfedorum Anglia Tabuld Generali—Bib. AJhm i4ee* qu. (f) Excertitatio Anatomica, in qua de cochleis maxime ter¬ reftribus {ft Umacibus agitur. Lond. 1694, There be alfo feveral of his Letters, Enquiries, &c. in the faid Tranfadions nu. 70, 72, 73,7*,76, 77,79, 83, tftc) 87, 89, 9S, ioy, 117, i44’ I4f, H7, i49, UL if7, i*8, 167, i7y. Alfo in Philofophical Colledions, numb. 4, &c. 1 Do c3. of Div. Jun. 4. Thom. White Maft. of Arts and Chaplain to James Duke of York (or rather to the Lady Anne) war d dared D.D, and two days after was diplomated.— On the 13th of Aug. following, he was inftalled Archdeacon of Nottingham in the place of Vere Harcourt deceafed (who had fucceeded in that Dignity Dr. Will. Robinfon, in Sept. 1660) and being nominated Bifhop of Peterborough upon the promotion of Dr. Will. Lloyd to the See of Norwich, in the latter end of July i68y, was confecrated thereunto in the Archb. Chappel at Lambeth on the 25-th of Od. following, at which time Rich. Blechinden Batch, of Div. of St. Job. Coll, in Oxon preached the Confecration Sermon. . This worthy Perfon, who was born in Kent and educated in St. Job. Coll, in Cambridge, was one of the fix Bifhops, that were (with the moft religious and confcientious William Archb. of Canterbury) committed Prifoners to the Tower of London on the 8th of June 1688 for fubferibing and delivering a Petition to his Maj. King James II. wherein they Ihewed the great averfnefs they found in themfelves to the diftributing and publifhing in all their Churches his Majefty’s then late Declaration for Liberty of Confcience, {ftc. which was thenefteemed libellous and fedicious. Afterwards coming to their Tryal in Weftminfter Hall on the 2yth of the fame month they were acquitted, to the great rejoycing of the generality of Peo¬ ple. After the Prince of Orange came to the Crown and fet- led, he was one of thofe Pifhops, together with the Archb. that were deprived of their refpe&ive Sees for not taking the Oaths of Allegiance and Supremacy to him and the Qu. whereupon Dr. Rich. Cumberland of Cambridge being nominated to the See of Peterborough by their Majefties, he was confecrated there¬ unto in the Church of St. Mary le Bow in London on the yth of July 1691. Chanc. James Dbke of Ormond. Vice-chanc. Dr. Job. Lloyd again, Sept. 1. Pro&.