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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$49 Thame in the same county, the last abbot of Osney near to, and the first bishop of, Oxford. Jan. — Fath. John Anington, Benedictine. -- Fath. Roger Neckham, Benedictine. The last of which was a monk of Worcester, and one of the first prebendaries thereof. He died 1557. Jan. — Edw. Field. Incorporations. Feb. — Francisc. Valentinus, a secular chaplain and batch, of arts of the university of Lisbon, was then incorpo¬ rated batch, of arts. An. Dom. 1519.—11 Hen. VIII, Chancellor. The same. Commissaries. Ralph Barnack, D. D. of New coll. Richard Duck, again. Proctors. Thomas Flower of Line. coll. Bor. May 7. Thomas Alyn of Brasen-nose coll. Austr. May 7. Grammarians., July 7> Will. Richards. Jan. 26. Hen. Sheldon, a secular chaplain. Both whom were admitted to inform. There also suppli¬ cated Rich. Williams, Rob. Broke, Humph. Penkeyth- man, a secular chaplain, and Rob. Colleys, a secular priest ; but whether they were admitted this year, it appears not. Batchelors of Music. Not one appears admitted, only Tho. Pen, a canon regu¬ lar, and Tho. Janys or James, supplicated, which is all I know of them. Batchelors of Arts. July 8. John Fylde or Feild. I take him to be the astronomer mention’d among the writers under the year 1558. Besides him were about 46 admitted, and about 24 that supplicated, among whom were Rich. Benese, a secular chaplain mention’d in Tho. Paynell among the writers, under the year 1563, and John Clement, one of cardinal Wolsey’s lecturers. Batchelor of the Laivs. June 12. Edmund Bonner of Broadgate’s hall, was then admitted batch, of canon, and the day following batch, of the civ. law. He was afterwards, thro’ divers preferments, bishop of London. Besides him were but two admitted in the canon, and eight in the civ. law. I find also about four to have sup¬ plicated for the former, and but two for the latter. Master of Arts. July 26. Rich. Rydge.7 One of both his names occurs abbot of Notley, near Long Crendon in Bucks, 26 Hen. 8. Dom. 1534, being, as I conceive, the last abbot of that place for Black Canons. 7 [Ric. Rydge admiss. ad eccl. S. Vadasti, alias Foster, Lond. 20 Jul. 1542, ex coll, ar’epi Cant. Reg. Cramncr. Kennet.] This year about 24 were admitted, and about 9 suppli¬ cated that were not admitted this year. Bachelors of Divinity. [28] June 28. Rob. Morwent,8 lately of Magd. coll, now vice-president of Corpus Christi coll. He was a great pa¬ tron of learning, and was stiled in a sermon preached be¬ fore the university, f pater patriae literatae Oxoniensis.’ He was known to, and well beloved of. Rich. Fox, bishop of Winton, who constituted him, for his fidelity and prudence, perpetual vice-president of his coll.9 ' Homo non tarn ipse doctrinae laudibus abundans’ (as one 1 saith) f quam docto- rum fautor & Maecenas.’ See more in Hist. % Antiq. Unin. Oxon. 1. 2. p. 232. Jul. 2. Will. York, a canon regular. On the 19 of Novemb. 1523, he was admitted prior of the house of can. regulars at Taunton in Somersetshire, in the place of Nich. Peper deceased, by the power of cardinal Wolsey, to whom the patron of that place had granted leave to nominate a prior for one turn. Oct. 13. Roger Edgworth of Oriel college. Besides these three, were six more admitted, and about ten that supplicated for the said degree, among whom were John Warboys or Gardeboys, a monk of the order of S. Benedict, and lord abbot of Ramsey in Huntingtonshire ; and Nich. Pepyr or Peper, whom I have mention’d in 1506, and here among these batch, of divinity. Batchelors of Canon Law. Not one admitted, only Tho. Lloyd, LL. B. and Tho. Wise, batch, of the civ. law supplicated, whom 1 cannot, in any of the years after, find admitted. Doctors of Divinity. Not one admitted or licensed to proceed, only six suppli¬ cated for that degree, viz. (1) Richard Evesham, a Bene¬ dictine monk, (2) Will. Wall, a canon regular and prior of Kenehvorth. (3) John Goodridge. (4) Matthew Smith, principal of Brasen-nose coll. (5) Robert Law or Low, a Carme. (6) Gilb. Rose, an Austin fryer. All which were batch, of divinity. Incorporations. May — Bernard Traves, batch, of the civil law of the university of Colen. This year was a supplicat. made that William Butts, doct. of physic of Cambridge,2 might be incorporated; but whether he was so, or not, I cannot find. He was after¬ wards physician to king Hen. 8.3 and one of the founders of” the College of Physicians at London, in whose records he is highly characterized for his eminent learning and knowledge, his singular judgment and great 8 \7 *558, Joh. Woodward cler. A. M. admissus ad preb. in eccl path. Glocestr. quam nuper habuit Robertas Morwent cler. per mortem ipsius Rob. Morwent vac., ex pres. Philippi et Marie, sede vac. Reg. Pole, Cant tol. 64. Ivennet.] 9 [Fulman, in his MS. corrections of Wood’s Hist, of Oxford, savs, that Mor¬ went was appointed by Fox to succeed Claymond, the first president without election. MS. in mus. Ashmole, D. 9. 4to. page 40.] 5 Laur. Humfred. in Vita $ Morte Joh. Juelli, edit. 1573. p 22 * [Will’mus Butt, M. D. Cantabr. An. 1518. Reg’r. Cant. Baker.] 3 [Rex omnibus, &c. Damns _ et concedimus dilecto et fideli servienti nostro Willielmo Buttes doctori in medicinis quandam annuitatem quadra- gmta marcarum ex nunc de maneriis de Acton, Royden et Weston, cum suis pertin. qua? nuper fuerunt Henrici Bures defuncti in com. Suffolc T R spud Westm. 13 Nov. reg. 21. (1529.) Kennet.] E* *$