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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    90 Octob. — Rich. Wolman, dean of Wells,3 doct. of de¬ crees, as the public register under the year 1523 tell us, and Dr. of the civil law of an university beyond the seas, as the said reg. under this year saith, was incorporated Dr. of the civ. law. In 1532 he was made canon of Windsor in the place of Dr. James Denton (mention’d under the year 1505) being then stiled conciliarius regius, and dying in the summer time, 1537, at which time he left several lega¬ cies to the church of Wells, and to Clavering (in Essex) and was burned in the cloyster belonging to the coll, of St. Ste¬ phen, within the palace of Westminster. In his deanery succeeded Tho. Cromwell, secretary to K. Hen. 8. and in his canonry one Rich. Arche, of whom will be mention made under the year 1537. William Knight, archdeacon of Richmond, and doctor of law beyond the seas. Fie was afterwards bishop of Bath and Wells. Octob. — Edw. Lee, D. of D. beyond the sea, and arch¬ bishop elect of York. These five persons who were incorporated were not then present in the university, but were diplomated, or had sent to each of them a writing under the university seal, to attest that they had the consent of the commissary and regents that they were embodied or incorporated. Octob. 29. John Chamber, doctor of physic beyond the seas, was then incorporated. A certificate of it was sealed with the university seal 16 Nov. following, and forthwith sent to him. This person who had been fellow of Mert. coll, did, after he had taken the degree of M. of A. travel into Italy 1502, studied physic at Padua, and there took the degree of doctor in that faculty. After his return he became the king’s physician, and (with Lynacre and Victoria) founder of the coll, of physicians at London. In 1510 he became canon of Windsor, and in 1524 he was made arch¬ deacon of Bedford, being then preb. of Combe and Harn- hain, in the church of Sarum. In 1526 he was elected warden of Mert. coll, and about the same time was made dean of the king’s chappel dedicated to the blessed Virgin Mary and St. Stephen, within the palace of Westminster; the cloyster of curious workmanship adjoining to which, he did not only build,4 but did give to it the said chappel, and the canons belonging thereunto for ever, certain lands,, which he afterwards, upon the dissolution, saw taken into the king’s hands. Afterwards he was made treasurer of Wells, was double beneficed in Somersetshire and Yorkshire, and without doubt had other dignities. He died in 1549,5 whereupon his canonry was bestowed on Otwel Holinshead,6 and his archdeaconry on Gilb. Bourne, who was afterwards bishop of Bath and Wells. As for his wardenship of Mert. coll, he resigned it in 1545, and his treasurership of Wells 3 [Ric. Woolman admiss. ad vie. de Walden Essex, 24 Maij, 1524. Idem decret. dr. coll, ad preb. de Holywell, 25 Jun. 1527. Jo. Speudlove cler. ad eand. preb. 19 Sept. 1537, per mort. Woolman. Ricardus Woleman, L.D. admiss. ad eccl. de High Ongar com. Essex, 5 Jul. 1532, ad pres, regis. Tho. Houghton cl. ad eand. 20 Sept. 1537, per mort. Ric. Woleman. Reg. Stokesley. 1537, 21 Sept Will, ep’us Norwic. contulit Miloni Spenser archidiatum Sudburi, vac. per mortem Ric. Woleman. Reg. Will. Repps, Ep’i Norwic. Kennet.] 4 [It cost him 11000 marks. Tanner.] 5 [Out of the Register of Burials in St. Margarets, Westminster: ‘ 1549, July 2, maistre doctor Chambre.’ Tanner. There is a large head of Chambers aet. 88, from Holbein, by Hollar, 1640.] 6 [Otwell Holinshed, erat sccius coll, Trin. Cant, nominatus socius in charta fundationis. Raker.] in May 1543, in which last succeeded John Marler, some¬ times prior or master of the house or hospital of St. John Bapt. in Wells. There was another John Chamber, equal in time almost with the former, who was bishop of Peter¬ borough, and died in 1556, as I have among the bishops told you. An. Dom. 1532.—24 Hen. VIII. Chancellor. The same, viz. Dr. Will. Warham, archb. of Canter¬ bury, but he dying in the month of August, Dr. John Cot- tysford, his commissary,resigned his office, with the badges thereof, into the hands of the proctors 26 of the said month, and they likewise into the hands of the senior theologist. Dr. Rich. Thornden of Canterbury college; who accord¬ ing to the manner was to be caneellarius natus. At length K. Hen. 8. granting to the university power to elect a chan¬ cellor (their liberties and privileges being now in his hands) the members thereof chose Dr. John Longland, bishop of Lincoln on the first day of the term following, according to the king’s desire. Commissaries. John Cottysford, D. D. for the former part of the year under archb. Warham. Will. Tresham, D. D. lately of Merton, now canon of the king’s coll, was commissary for the other part of the year. Tresham was designed by the new chanc. Dr. Longland, and entered on his commissaryship on the 15 of Oct. On which day he had the badges of his office before-mention’d delivered into his hands. Proctors. William Selwood of New coll. April 9. William Pedyll of Mert. coll. April 9. Grammarians. Octob. 18. Christoph. Wynnington. For to inform also, supplicated Patr. Growte, Humph. Victor, and John Dowbyn, but they occur not ad¬ mitted. Batchelors of Arts. “ Jan. 24. Tho Hancock.—In Avhat coll, or hall he was “ a student, or whether he took any higher degree it appears not. After he had left the univ. he retired to his own na- tive country of Hampshire, (for at, or near Christ-church, “ Twyneham, he was born) where he became a diligent “ preacher of the gospel, and a declaimer again papal abuses “ 411 the last year of K. Hen. 8. insomuch that his mouth “ beJng stopt by a strict inhibition from preaching by “ (Gardiner) the bishop of Winchester, he would preach in “ the dioc. of Sarum, and being prohibited by the bishop of “ that dioc. (Salcot) he was in the beginning of K. Edw. 6. countenanc’d and licens’d to proceed in his preaching by “ archbishop Cranmer. At that time many zealous preachers “ °f the gospel without staying for public orders from above, did in confutation of the sacrifice of the mass, and the “ corporal presence, in the sacrament and such like, shew “ their good inclinations to new learning as it was then “ call’d. In Southampton of the dioc. of Winchester, in “ Salisbury, Pool, and Dorset of the dioc. of Sarum did this “ Hancock chiefly comerse and officiate in the latter end of [51]
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