Athenæ Oxonienses, and exact history of writers and bishops who have had their education in the University of Oxford ... / [Anthony à Wood].
- Anthony Wood
- Date:
- 1848
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Athenæ Oxonienses, and exact history of writers and bishops who have had their education in the University of Oxford ... / [Anthony à Wood]. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![jestie’s sollicitor gen.) was unfortunately shot dead; a youth of such high incomparable courage, mix’d with such abundance of modesty and sweetness, that wee cannot easily match him unless with his brave brother, yong Sr. Thomas Gardiner, which two are now buried both in one grave in the cathedral of Christ Church in Oxon. whether they were brought with much universal sorrow and af¬ fection. Besides this gallant gentleman, no officer was killed, only 3 common soldiers, nor scarce any hurt, only e Maj. Medcalfe shot in the arme. The rebels dropt plentifully in the street and in the fields, and col. Greaves escaped very narrowly, being run into the body, and at first thought to have been slaine.f The rebells being thus beaten, his Rupert’s success against the rebels that had besieged Newark- March 164^. Henry Gardiner a captain of horse 2d son of sir Thomas Gar¬ diner killed at Thame when the cavaliers beat up the qrs. of the parliamentarians there: 7 Sept. 1645, and was buried by his fa¬ ther. Wood’s MSS. in mus. Ashm. 8466. f. 76. W. & H. e Captain Scrope Medcalf a Yorkshire man died in the house of John Egerly against University college in the parish of St. Peter in the East, 13 Sept. 1645. He commanded the troop belonging to the governour of OXON. ( . . . . Legg) when the cavaliers beat up the parliament quarters at Thame, and receiving wounds there, died of them. He was buried in St. Peter’s church in the East. Wood’s MSS. in inuseo Ashm. 8466. fol. 77. W. & H. f And that ’twas currently re¬ ported in Oxford, that he was slain, may appear from the fol¬ lowing passage I have entered in vol. 88. p. 71. of my MSS. col¬ lections from a letter, in the Ash- molean museum, written by Mr. W. B. [W. Browne] *to his pupil * William Browne, B.D. was born at Churchill in Dorsetshire, of which place his father was rector, and educated at Blandford under Mr. Gardiner. He was elected scholar of Trinity college in Oxford in 1635, and became actual fellow thereof in 1643. He had the character of an ingenious man, a good scholar, and as admirable a disputant as any of his time in the university. Mr. Aubrey says that he had the happiness to be his pupil. He was pre¬ sented by Dr. Morley Bp. of Winchester to the vicarage of Farnham in](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b29297357_0041.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
