Volume 2

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 à Wood.

  • Anthony Wood
Date:
1813-1820
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Credit: 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 à Wood. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    [3] Will. Horsley, principal of Peckwater's Inn.—-This inn is involved in that quadrangle belonging to Christ Church, now called Peckwater. One Dr. Horsley was chancellor to “ the bishop of London 1515, but whether the same with “ Will. Horsley I know not.’’ This year was a supplicate made in the venerable congre¬ gation of regents for one Tho. Dalby to be admitted to a degree in the decrees ; but whether he was admitted I can¬ not yet tell. This Tho. Dalby, whom I find afterwards written doctor of decrees, was installed archdeacon of Rich¬ mond in Oct. 1506, upon the promotion of James Stanley to the see of Ely, was made about that time prebendary of the prebend of Stillington, and canon residentiary in the church of York, afterwards the thirty-seventh provost of the church of S. John at Beverley, treasurer of the palace of Tho. Savage, sometimes archbishop of York, chaplain and coun¬ sellor to king Hen. 7- and dean of the chapel to the duke of Richmond and Somerset. This Dr. Dalby died 26th Jan. 1525, and was buried in the north isle joining to the choir of the cath. church of York. I find another Tho. Dalby who was archdeacon of Richmond, and residentiary in the church of York, but he dying in 1400, must not be sup¬ posed to be the same with the former. Doctors of Divinity, Or such who were licensed to proceed in divinity, or ad¬ mitted doctors or professors of divinity, or of the holy writ, in order to their.proceeding, or being completed in that de¬ gree in the act following. William Vavasor, guardian or warden of the house or coll, of the Franciscans or Grey Fryers in the South suburb of Oxon.—This coll, was situated without Little South- gate, commonly called Watergate, where now a brewer and a tanner, besides other people, live; and the gardens and grove belonging thereunto, situated on the west side of the said coll, are now called by the name of Paradise gar¬ den. This coll, was one of the famousest places for learned fryers in the Christian world, and therein did Roger Bacon, the miracle of his age for learning, live and die in the habit of a Franciscan. Another miracle also did live and study there about Roger’s death, named John Douns, highly famed at this day beyond the seas for those books which he hath written, yet so little valued now among many English¬ men, that the philosopher 1 2 of Malmsbury doth not stick to say, that any ingenious reader, not knowing what was the design (meaning the pope’s design to carry on his authority) would judge him to have been the most egregious blockhead in the world, so obscure and senseless are his writings. , Hugh Saunders alias Shacksfear of Merton coll.— He was afterwards principal of S. Alban’s hall, and is stiled in one of our public registers3 vir literis et virtute per- celebris.4 John Stanywell, prior of the Benedict, monks of Glo- cester coll, now Gloc. hall.—He was the same person with 1 [John Scott of Duns. Hobbes. Loveday.] 2 Tho. Hobbes of Malmsbury, in his Hist, of the Civil Wars of England, printed 1G80, p. 54. •3 In Reg. Epistol. Univ. Oxon. F. Epist. 524. 4 [Hugo Saunders, S. T. P. coll, ad preb. de Bromesbury, 25 Nov. 1517', per resign. Joh. Edmonds; ad preb. de Ealdestreet, 10 Jan. 1508; ad rect. S. Marias White-Chapell, 2, Mar. 1512; ad ecci. de Gesthingthorp, Ess. 14 Aug. 1516. Obiit Octob. 1537: fuit vicarius de Mepham com. Cant, et rector de Mixbury com. Oxon. Vid. Antiq. Oxon. L. 2. 341. Magr. Hugo Saunders collatus ab epo Lond. ad canonicatum in eccl’ia S. Pauli Lond. et preb. de Ealdstrete vac. per mort. magri Thomas Norbury. lleg. Fit-games, Lond. Ken net.] John Stanywell who was soon after lord abbot of Pershore (a monastery for Benedictines) in Worcestershire, and a bishop by the title of Episc. Poletensis, as I have among the bishops told you. [Col. 758.] John Avery, of Lincoln coll.—He was afterwards seve¬ ral times commissary of the university. John Percivall, the seven and fortieth minister or pro¬ vincial of the Minorites, Franciscans, or Grey Fryers, in England, did proceed about this year in divinity. See among the writers under the year 1502. [Vol. i. col. 6.] John Kyntos, a Minorite or Franciscan, did also pro¬ ceed this year, but when admitted I find not. Ann. Dom. 1501.—16-17 Hen. VII. Chancellor, Dr. Will. Smith, bishop of Lincoln, afterwards the worthy founder of Brasen-nose coll. Commissaries. * Will. Atwater before mention’d. Tho. Banke, D. D. rector of Line. coll. Hugh Saunders, D.D. before mentioned. Proctors. Jchn Game, of All-souls coll, elected for the southern proctor. Will. Dale, elected for the northern proctor. Batchelors of the Civil Law, Or such who were admitted to the reading of any of the books of institutions. Th omas FIowell, archdeacon of Cardigan, &c. Masters of Arts, Or such who were licensed to proceed in arts, &c. William How.—Fie was afterwards bishop of Orense, in Spain. John Longland, of S. Mary Magdalen coll.—He became bishop of Lincoln in 1521. Tho. Randolph, of New coll, did proceed about this year.—He was afterwards canon and prebendary of the cath. church at Lincoln. Batch, of Divinity. Tho. Brynknell, of Line. coll.—See more among the writers under the year 1521. [Vol. i. col. 29.] Clement Lychfeld, a monk of the order of St. Benedict in the monastery of Evesham, in Worcestershire.—He was afterwards abbot of that place, and continuing there till towards the dissolution of religious houses, with a resolution not to surrender his house for a profane use, was at length, by the tricks of Tho. Cromwel, secretary of state to K. Hen. 8. persuaded to resign his pastoral staff to one Philip Hawford, alias Ballard, a young monk of Evesham ; which being done accordingly, not altogether to the con ent of Lychfeld, was a surrender of that monastery soon after made into the hands of the said king. For which service Ballard had not only a considerable pension allowed, but also the deanery of Worcester given to him, Ann. 1553, (1 Mar.) upon the deprivation of one John Barlow, M. A. who had been installed dean in June 1544, in the place of Hen. Ilolbeach, alias Rands, the first dean, afterwards bi¬ shop of Lincoln. As for Lychfeld, who was a most pious and zealous man in the way he professed, he expended much money in building the abbey of Evesham, and other B* 2
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