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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    dudy has been to after: the honour and filtered of Religion and the Clergy; and his writings in defence of the Church of England agakirt Papifts and Presbyterians, have been tdeemed perfed pieces in their kind. But notwiihftandfiig all this, the Read r may be pleafed toknow, that whereas he fullered much in his Edate in his native Country, for not coming in, and taking part with the Forces of King 'James II, when they endeavoured to keep pofilUion of Ireland againit King William III, and his Forces, dn. 1689, &c. lor which he was proclaimed Rebel: Or had he been there, as he was not, they would have impri- fon’d him, if not worfe; fo Toon after did he differ in England (where he then was) for keeping clofe and adhering to the oaths of Allegiance which he had taken to the faid King James II, by being d prived of the Proftffhrfliip of Hiftory (founded by the learned Cambden) to the great prejudice of Learning. He lives now obfeurely (moftly in his Cell in the north fuburb of Oxon) and is preparing his learned Ledures, and feveral ufeful Dil- courfes, for the prefs. CDom. 1689. An. 9 S Wilt. 3. C 1 c Qu. Mary. Chanc. The mod illudrious Prince James Bottler Duke, Marqeefs and Earl of Ormond, Earl of Brecknock and Offury, Vifdount Thorles, Baron of Lanthony and Arch, chief Butler of Ireland, Lord of the Royalties and Franchises of the County of Tipperary, Gentleman of the Bedchamber to his Majefiy, ■ Chancellor of the Uuiverfity of Dublin, and Knight of the molt noble Order of the Garter. Vicechanc Jonathan Edwards D. D. Principal of Jefus Coll. Sept. if. r, o clf'ill. Cradocke of Ma?d. Coll. 9 . Pr“a- Ntwey of CbhbM. 10. Batch, of Arts. Apr. to. Thom. Fletcher of New Coll.-He hath lately pub! idled Poems on feveral occafions, and Truncations, &c. 20. Albemarle Bertie of Univ. Coll, a younger Son of Robert Earl of Lindfey, &c. Admitted 145-. Batch, of Law. Two were admitted, but not one yet a Writer. Mall, of Arts. May 30. Francis Willis of New Coll. June 6. Edw. Hannes } c ni n, July 4. Geo. Sm abridge pCh.Lh. Admitted 77. Batch, of Phyfic. Five were admitted, but not one of them is yet a Writer. Batch, of Div. 7«/v <■ *> Will. Wake of Ch. Ch. y }Tho. Benstet of Univ. Coll. i he lad was chofen Mailer of his Coll, upon the death of Dr. Edw. Ferrar, -3 March 1690, and died there the 12th of May, 1692. Oil. 31. Humph. Hody of Wadbam Coll. Admitted 10. 15* Not one Dad. of Law was admitted this Year. Dod. of Phyfic. «v I S Thomas Hoy of St. Joh.f T a 3'2 Edm. Alar ten of Alert. ( f. Francis Smith of Magd. ( 6. Wilhelm Mufgrave of New 3 Dod. of Div. Coll. He accumulated the -This Perfon, July 4. Will. Harris of New Coll. - degrees in Div. y. Rich. Annefiey of Magd. Coll a Comp. A , V11U1J who was a younger Son of Arthur Earl of Anglefy, was now Preb. of Wejlminjler, and Dean of Exeter, which [alt Dignity he obtained on the death of Dr. George Cary in the beginning of Febr. i68c, and Cary on the promotion of Dr. Seth Ward to the Epifc. See of Exeter. J“‘y S-\ uyu-Z Wake } of Ch- Ch. Compound. . The fir It of thefe two is now Canon of Canterbury, and the lad, who accumulated the degrees in Div. was in Hailed Canon of his houfe in the place of Dr. Hen. Aldrich promoted to the Deanery thereof, 20 June 1689. •v / yjohn. James of Ch. Ch. . lEdw. Ferrar of Univ. Coll. The fird of thefe two became Chanc. of the Church of Exe- V o L. II. ter ', in the place of Dr. Job. Coplejlon deceafted, An. 1689: The other was eieded Matter of his Coll, upon the removal of Mr Obadtah Walker for being a Roman Catholic, on the ifth of teb.1688. He died fuddenly in his Lodgings in Univ. Coll 13 teb. 1690, whereupon Mr. Tho. Bennet Redor of Winwick in Lane, was eieded into his place, as I have before told you among the Batch, of Div. ; Incorporations. The Ad being now the fifth time put off, not one Cambr. Matter was incorporated at that time. June 21. Job. Dejfray a French Protedanr, M. of A. of Saumur~~~ He was iately forced out of his Country upon ac¬ count of Religion. ; K July 4. Rich. Bentley M. A. of Cambr.-—This Divine who was °f'St. John's College in that Uuiverfity, was now nd alter a Mader-Commoner of Wadbam College, and after¬ wards domedic Chaplain to Edward Lord Bi(liop of Worcefler and Author of (1) The folly of Atheifm and (what is now called] IJeiJm; even with refped to the prefent life, Sermon preach’d in the Church of St. Martin's in the Fields the 7th of March 1601 r°abie /aA/V b.ei^rth%fir« ^ ^edure founded by the honou’ cannnfrL S^n L 9 ’ LJad' •1692 • <lu- (2) Matter and motion cannot think: Or a confutation of Atheifm from the faculties of the houl, Sermon preached at St. Mary le-Bow the 4th of April 1692 being the lecond of the Ledure founded by the honourable iob. Boyle Efq; on Ads 17.27. London 1692.911. (3) A confuta- tion of Atheifm from the Strullure and Original of humane Bodies V*rt 1. Sermon preached at St. Martin's in the Fields the 2d of t lay 1692. being the. third of the Ltdure founded by the Hn- nourable Robert Boyle Efq; on Acts if. if. Land. 1692. qu. / ' Confutation of Atheifm from the Structure and Origin 0f human Bodies. Part. 2. Sermon preached at St. Mary-leBow f7'he ,6tb .,692' being the fourth of the Ledure founded by Rob. Bofle Efq; on Ads 17. 27. Lond. 1692. qu. He hath alfo extant a Latin Epidle to John AIM Dodor of Divinity containing fome critical Obfervatious relating to Johan. Malalal Greek Hiuoriographer, publidied at the end of that Author at Oxon 1691, in a large odavo. The faid Mr. Bently, wh0 is a lorkjhtre man born, defigns to publilh other things. Creations. June iy. Job. Mefnard was adoally created Dod of Div by virtue of the Chancellor’s Lettters; which fay that ‘ he had been 16 Years Minider ot the relormed Church of Paris at Charenton and afterwards Chaplain to his Majedy (King William HI.) when he was Prince of Orange for fame Years6 c 1 Vlh-lCLqUailt,y hC C3me With him into England---that he’ ■ ^SL}ncmt°ftCCed D Pre- ft'in“5»7 /&C°T3 r <CKi* 1™ «*» they belieged i t m April, May &c this Year, was, after he had been prefen ted by the King s Profeflbr of Divinity, actually created Dodor of that faculty—-He was born of Englifli Parents in the County f Tyrone, as tis faid, educated 111 the Uuiverfity of Glafcow and afterwards beneficed at Donaghmore in the County of Tyrone many miles didant from the City London-Derry ; To which Diace retiring when the Protedants therein, and in thofe parts,' were refolv d to keep and defend it againd Richard Earl of Tnconnd Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, and the Forces under King fames II, he became a Defendant therein, and at length Governour of it, which he managed with great prudence and valour. After the Siege was raffed, and that part of the Country fecured from the mcurlions of the faid Forces, he went into England to pay his refpeds to King Wiliam III, who receiving him gracioufly, was highly carets d by the Courtiers, and afterwards by the Citizens of London-, at which time the common difeourfe was that Doffor Hopkins Bifhop of London-Derry fbould be tran- flated 10 Chtchefier, and Mr. Walker fucceed him in Derry. He nath publilhed (1) A true account of the fiege and famous defence made at London-Derry. Lond. 1689. qU. &c. (2) Vindication of the true account, &c. Ibid. 1689, W- &c. Afterwards be- mg about to return to Ireland to do further fervice therein for his Majedy, he obtained the Letters of the Chancellor of the Univerluy to have the degee of Dodor of Divinity confer’d on n!r!!/xk'rS bis way, in the company of Di &or Jofeph Veafey Archbidiop of Tuam, he was created as before I have told you. Thence he went into Ireland, where having a command confer’d on him in the Englifli Army he re¬ ceived his deaths wound in the very beginning of July An 1690, at what time the faid Army p3ffed over the River of Boyne iu the County of Lowth to fight the Forces belonHnc to King James II, and foon after he expir’d, at or near Tre- dagh. fDom. 1690. An. d C Wilt. 3. L ZQu. Alary. Chanc. James Duke of Ormond, &c. Vice-chanc. Dr. Edwards again, Od. 6. Prod.