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

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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$places belonging to it, as also in build'ng and adorning the choir. He made 5 also f a right sumptuous and high square tower of stone in the eemitery of Evesham. This tower had a great bell in it, and a goodly clock, and was as a gatehouse to one piece of the abbey. This abbot builded at his manor at Uffenham, about a mile above Evesham.’ This good man died at or near Evesham, and was buried in a chappel, which he before had built, joining to the abbey church there, 9 Oct. 1540. In memory of whom was, in his life time, an in¬ scription set up in a window of the said church running thus, c Orate pro anima domini Clementis Lyehfeld sacer- dotis, cujus tempore turns Eveshamuc aedificata est/6 John Colet, M.A. was about this time admitted to the reading of the sentences. Henry Rytoner, abbot of Rewley (a monastery for Cis¬ tercians in the West suburb of Oxon.) was admitted about this time. Doctors of the Civil Law. Robert Langton of Queen’s coll.—In the month of Sept. 1485 he was made prebendary of Fordington and Writhlington in the church of Salisbury, and about that time preb. of Chyrminster and Here in the same church. In 1485, Jun. 25, he became archdeacon of Dorset, void by the death of Will. Ascough, and in 1509, April 24, he was in¬ stalled treasurer of the church of York, in the place of one Martin Collyns, deceased, who had before been chauntor of the said church.—See more of him (Rob. Langton) among the bishops in Tho. Langton, an. 150!. [Col. 688.] Rob. Honywode of Allsouls coll, did proceed also this or the year before.—In 1506, he became canon of Windsor, and about that time archdeacon of Taunton.7—He died 22 Jan. 1522, and was buried in the chappel of S. George at Windsor. Doctors of Divinity. Thom. Swawelt., a monk of the order of S. Benedict, and warden or guardian of Durham coll, in Oxon. Sim. Greene alias Fotherbie of Line. coll.—He was b Jo. Leland, in the transcript of his Itineraries, in bib. Bod. fol. 168. b. fi [Clement Lyehfeld, prior of Evesham, chosen abbot by the convent on St. Innocent’s day, Dec. 23, 1513, who receiving benediction in his man¬ ner of Okenham by the Bp. of Ascalon, on the day of S. Maurus, was in¬ stalled with due reverence ailtl honour. This man having attained the de¬ gree of batchelor in divinity was endowed with singular learning. He built a free school for the education of children, and assigned rents for the main¬ tenance of a school-master. He resigned his dignity, and outliv’d the disso¬ lution. He was buried at the entrance of a chapel built by him on the South side of All Saints church (not the abby church, as Mr. Wood mis¬ takes) : his burial is in the register book of that parish. Mr. Hopkins’ Letter to Mr. Wharton. Ken net. * I lately met with some MS. papers concerning the abby and town of Evesham, among many other things contained in ’em, is a description of the monument, and a copy of the inscription for abbot Litchfield, which I don’t remember to have met with compleat in any printed author, and unless it is in Mr. Abington’s MS. perhaps no where else to be found. The collector remarks from the Register at Evesham, that he was buried 9th Oct. 1546. If this account may be depended upon, it corrects a very material mis¬ take in Mr. Wood, and other writers, who fix his death An. 1540, which being pretty soon after the dissolution of the abby, hence it is that some conclude he broke his heart.’ Extract from an original Letter from George BaUard to Hr. Rawlinson, dated Campden 1736-7, in the Bodleian. Probably some relation to Dr. William Lychfield, rector of Allhollows in chancellor of that church, December 20, 1504. He died previous to 1517, in which year his will was proved. It is very probable that this person was of Oxford, as he leaves to his brother Thomas Lychefield, of Cardiff, forty pounds, and 13/. 6s. 8d. each, to his scholars Richard Toxforde, and Andrew Stoketon, both of Oxford. See Knight’s Life of Colet, p. 216.] t [Rob’lus Honeywood, LL.D. admissus socius coll. Animar. Omn. Anno I486- Benefactor et archid’us Taunton, Catalog. MS. Kennet.] afterwards several times commissary of the university, and for his merits made chauntor and residentiary of the eath. ch. at Lincoln, and also prebendary of Bykkyleswade or Biggleswade in the said church. He gave way to fate 27 March 1536, and was buried in the isle called Chauntor - isle within the precincts of the cathedral of Line.8 Frater or brother, Thom. Latymer, a Dominican or Black Fryer. This year Thomas Beaumont of Merton coll, of about 15 years standing in the degree of master of arts, did sup¬ plicate to be licensed to proceed in divinity, but whether he was licensed or admitted 1 cannot yet find. Before this time he was archdeacon of Bath, and in great repute there for his learning; which dignity he surrendering up, one John Pikman, LL. bac. was collated thereunto (per dimissionem Tho. Beaumont) 12 Jul. 1499. The very next day Beau¬ mont was collated to the provostship of Wells, with the prebendary called Combe de Twelf, on the death of Mr. Thom. Barrow, (who had been also archdeacon of Col¬ chester) and in 1502 he became archdeacon of Wells, and well beneficed in the diocese belonging thereunto. In Octob. or thereabouts, in the year 1507, he died; where¬ upon cardinal Hadrian de Castello,9 bishop of B. and Wells, did bestow the said dignity of archdeacon on his kinsman Polydore Virgil alias Casteller, with the prebendary of Brent, in the church of Wells annexed, on the 6th of Febr. the same year. At which time Polydore, being in great favour with R. Foxe, B. of Winchester, had, as 1 conceive, some dignity or benefice in the church confer'd on him by that worthy person. “ He was also canon of S. Paul’s “ London, but” In the reign of Edw. 6. being then well stricken in years, he procured an order or license from the king to depart from England to go to his native country ; in which order 1 dated 2 June, 4 Edw. 6. dom. 1550, find these matters.—Whereas our trustry and well-beloved Polidorus Virgilius bath made humble suit unto us, that he, being born in the parts of Italy, and having served our grand¬ father K. Hen. 7. and our father K. Hen. 8. and us, by the space of forty years and above, in writing and putting forth in print divers notable works and stories, may be licensed to depart out of this our realm, and v isit and see, now in his old age, his said native country, and there to make his abode, during his pleasure, and also quietly, &c„ to enjoy all the profits of the archdeaconry of Wells, in the cathedral church of Wells, and the prebend of Nonyngton in the cath. ch. of Hereford, which the said Polidorus now en- 8 [Simon Grene alias Fotherby, A. M. admiss. ad rect. Omn. S’ctorum Honylane, Lond. 12 Dec. 1494. Eccl’ia, S. Petri, Comhill, Lond. vacavit per mortem Simonis Grene alias Faderby, 14 Apr. 1536. Beg. StokesleyT Kennet. Nov. 6, 1509, he was collated to the prebend of Welton Beckball; (MS. Hark G953, p. 25.) March 28,1510, to the precentovship of Lincoln; (Willis Cathedr. ii. 85.) and March 28. 1512, to the prebend of Emping- ham, in the church of Lincoln. (MS. Hark ut sup. p. 26.) He was one of those recommended by the chapter to the archbishop of Canterbury to suc¬ ceed in the see of Lincoln, on the decease of Smyth, but was not appointed. Churlon, Founders of B. N. Coll, 343. Willis has preserved his epitapli in his Survey of Cathedrals, (Lincoln) page 86.] 9 [Litera Inocentis, PP. vm. ven. fratri Jolf ep“ Elyen-Cum dilectus films Johannes de Giglis fructuum camera; apostolic® debitorum in isto regna collector-habeat de proximo ad nos et Romanam curiam se conferre deputa- liarem nostru’ contiuu’ commensalem. Dat. apud S. Petri, 1489. 23 Dec. pont. 6. Reg. Alcock. Thomas abbas S. Albani pres, egregium virum dn’u Adrianu~ Castellen, S’ctissimi d’ni in PP. infra regnu Angl. collectorem ad vicariam de Layton vac. per mort. d’ni Ric’i Barnard, A. M. dat. 21 Octob. 1492. Autvgr. in Reg. Buckden. Kennet.] 1 Pat. 4 Ed. 6. part 5. \ I$