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
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1813-1820
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    109 1539. 110 [62] Doctor of the Civil Law. Apr. S. John Storie, principal of Broadgate’s hall.— He was about this time principal or chief modei'ator of the Civil Law school in St. Edward’s parish,, and was the only doctor of his faculty, that was admitted this year. Doctor of Physic. Jul. 13. John Toker, M. of A. of Exeter coll.—Of him the public register saith thus-Licentiatus erat ad inci- piendum Julii 13°, quo die admissus erat ad lecturam libelli Aphorismorum Hypocratis : Et sic evenit quod una & eadern hora fit baccalaureus & doct. in med. Which shews that the words, cumulavit gradus, were not at this time in use. Doctors of Divinity. June 27. The reverend father Anthony Dunstan, alias Kitchen, abbot of Eynsham in Oxfordshire, now lodging in Glocester'College, was then licensed to proceed in divinity. He was afterwards bishop of the rich see of Landaff. Jul. — Fath. Rich. Gorton, Benedict, monk. -Fath. Humph. Cheritey, Benedict, monk. -Fath. John Clerke, Benedict, monk. Incorporation. Jul. 12. John Clerke, a monk of the order of St. Be¬ nedict, and batch, of div. of Cambridge, was then incorpo¬ rated batch, of divinity.—About the same time he was licensed to proceed in that faculty, as I have before told you, and on the 29 of the same month he accordingly stood in the act then celebrated, by the name of father Jo. Clerke. An. Dom. 1539.—31 Hen. VIII. Chancellor. The same, viz. Dr. Longland, bishop of Lincoln. Commissary. The same, viz. Dr. Tresham. Proctors. Will. Smyth of Brasen-n. coll. Bor. John Stoyt ofMert. coll. Austr. Batchelors of Arts. Apr. — Will. Hugh of C. C. coll. Jun. 9. Hen. Bull of Magd. coll. Jul. 7- Tho. Cooper of Magd. coll. Feb. 24. Bernard Gilpin of Qu. coll. Feb. — John Watson of All-s. coll. Three of these were afterward writers, and two were bishops. About 32 batchelors were admitted this year, besides about 10 who were supplicators or candidates. Masters of Arts. Mar. 27. Rob. Warde, the noted philosopher and dispu¬ tant of Merton college. Besides him were about 19 that were admitted this year, among whom were several who were afterwards dignitaries, as William Browne ofMert. coll, who was preb. of Wells, Tho. Arden, preb. of Worcester, &c. Opponents in Divinity. Dec. 20. Fath, George Clyffe, Benedictine. -Fath. Tho. Maynsford, Benedictine. -Fath. John Matthew, Benedictine. 23. Fath. Ralph Ryckmansworth, a Benedictine. Jan. 21. Peter Langrish.—He was soon after made one of the first canons of Winchester.1 These I set down, because (1) they were not afterwards, according to custom, admitted batch, of div. and (2) that they are the last opponents who are. mentioned in our public registers. Batchelors of Divinity. May 3. The venerab. fath. Henry Man, prior of the Carthusians in the monastery of Shene in Surrey. See af¬ terwards among the doctors. Hugh Weston, rector of Line. coll, was admitted the same day.—Two years before he supplicated to be batch, of physic. June 11. Fath. John Feckenham, lately a Benedictine monk of Evesham abbey, now or about this time of Gloc. coll, in Oxon.—See among the doct. of div. 1556. 17- Will. Bradbridge of Magd. coll.-—See more in 1565. Jul. 3. Fath. John Este, a Benedictine. Besides these were 4 more that were admitted, and about eleven that supplicated ■, among whom w ere father Stephen Bayley, fath. Johh Salter, fath.Rich.Ramsey, alias Hal- lyng, fath. John Holywell, alias Palmer, all Benedic¬ tines; and Tho. Robertson, the famous grammarian. As for fa. Ramsey, he, by the name of Rich. Hallyng, alias Ramsey, S.T. P. was admitted vicar of Wellow in Somerset¬ shire 1546, and had one or more dignities in the church. 8^ Not one doctor of law or physic was admitted this year. Doctors of Divinity. May 12. the ven. fath. Hen. Man, prior of Shene in Sur¬ rey was then licensed to proceed in divinity. He corn- pleated that degree in an act celebrated 7 July following, and was afterwards bishop of the isle of Man, as I have told you already among the bishops. Dec. 23. Rich. Browne, M. A. and batch of div. Jan. 12. H ugh Weston before-mentioned, rect of Line coll. Incorporations. I find a supplicate made in the behalf of one John Har- dyman,2 a doctor of divinity of Cambridge, that he might be incorporated in the said degree, but whether he really was so I know not. He ran with the mutable times of K. [63] Hen. S. Ed. 6. and qu. Mary, and being in shew a zealous Protestant in the beginning of qu. Elizab. was by her made the first canon of the second stall in the collegiate church of Westminster, in the year 1560. About which time be¬ ing well known among the puritanical party (who began to shew themselves betimes) he was made their instrument to 1 [Petrus Langrish, S. T. B. adraiss. ad eccl. S. Jacobi, Garlick-hill, 16 Febr. 1554, ex coll, e’pi, Lond. Peg. Bonner. Ken net.] 2 [Joh. Hardiman, S. T. P. admiss. ad eccl. Martini, Ironmonger-lane, Lond. 11 Mar. 1538, per resign. Christ. Richardson, ad pres. Ric. Rich, mil. quam resign, ante 13 Aug. 1541. Reg. Stokesley, 1560, 9 Maij, Rev. contulit Joh. Hardy man, cler. S. T. P. vicariam de Lydd, per depriv. Rob. Ililles, cler. ult. vicarii. Regr. Parker, Cant. Carta Eliz. regions de creatione monasterii B. Petri Westmon. in ecclesiam collegiatam-ad Johannem Hardyman, S. T. D. tertium presbyterum pre- bendarium. T. R. apud Westmon. 21 Junii reg. 2. 1560. Rymer, xv, 590. Kennet.J
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