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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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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    134 £3=* Not one doctor of law, physic, or divinity was admit¬ ted or licensed to proceed this year; as it appears in the imperfect register of this time. In this year Rich. Turner, who in the register is stiled bac. div. supplicated for the degree of doct. of that faculty, but it appears that he was not admitted, nor stood in the act. Incorporations. Rob. Johnson, LL. bac. (of Cambridge as it seems) was incorporated batch, of both the laws, but the day or month when, appears not. In 1544, July 10, he was in¬ stalled prebendary of the church of Worcester in the place of Thomas Baggard, LL. D. deceased, and in the same month, as it seems, was made chancellor of the diocese of Worcester ; which had been held by the said Baggard. In the reign of K. Edw. 6. he kept both those places, tho’ he wrote privately against John Hoper, bishop of Glocester and Worcester j in 1555, Feb. 22, (tertio Mariae reg.) he was installed prebendary of Stillington in the church of York, and in July 1558 he was collated by Nich. archbishop of York to the rectory of Bolton Percy in Yorkshire, on the death of Arth. Cole, president of Magd. coll, but en¬ joyed it but a short time. This person, who was esteemed learned and well read in the theological faculty, did write a book against Hoper before-mentioned, but did not publish it. After his death, which hapned in 1559, the book came into the hands of one Henry Joliff or Jolliff, batch, of div. sometimes proctor of Cambridge, 5 afterwards rector of Bishops Hampton in Worcestershire, one of the first pre¬ bendaries of Worcester, and in 1554 dean of Bristol in the place of Tho. Rainolds, promoted to the deanery of Exeter. I say that the said Jolliff, having the book in his hands, carried it with him beyond the seas, when he fled there upon the alteration of religion in the beginning of the reign of qu. Eliz. and settling for a time at Lovain, did correct, put some additions to, and publish it, under his and the name of Rob. Johnson, with this title, Responsio sub Pro- testatione facta ad illos Articulos Iohannis Hoperi Episcopi Vi¬ gor nice Nomen gerentis, in quibus a Catholica Fide dissentiebat : nna cum quibusdam Confutationibus ejusdem Hoperi, # Replica- tionibus reverendiss. in Ch. pat. Steph. Gurdineri Episc. Win- ton. tunc Temporis pro Confessione Fidei in Careere detenti. Antwerp. 1564. in a thick oct. dedicated by Joliff to Philip, king of Spain, acknowledging not only his favours shew’d to him in England, while he was king there, but also at Lovain. Whether Rob. Johnson, the original author, died at Worcester, or York, I know not, or Joliff at Lovain: sure I am that the last died in 1573 ; for on the 28 Jan. in that year, a commission6 issued out from the prerogative court of Canterbury to one Will. Steers, a stationer of Lon-”’ don, to administer the goods, debts, chattels, &c of Hen. Jolliff, clerk, late dean of Bristol, who died in parts beyond the seas, &c. I find another Hen. Joliff, in whom Hr. John Whyte, bishop of Winton, took 7 much delight for his towardliness and great virtues j but he was a youth, and dying 19 Aug. 1548, must not be understood to be the same with Hen. Joliff before-mention’d, who also wrote against Nich. Rydley j nor Rob. Johnson of All-s. coll, who was admitted batch, of law 1552, or thereabouts, to be the same with him who was the original author of Responsio, &c. “ I “ find one Rob. Johnson to be proctor-general of the arches 8 [Hen. Joliffe, dom. S. Mich. Cant, procurator, ibid. an. 1537. Baker.] In the Reg. of Administrations, in the will-office near St. Paul’s cathedral, beginning on the first day of Jau. 1571, fol. 42. a. 7 See in John Whyte’s Diacosio-Martyrimp, &c. Lond. 1553. fol. 95.' “ court of Canterbury, and principal register to Edm. Bon- “ ner, bishop of London, temp. Marise reg. which perhaps “ was one of the Rob. Johnson’s before-mentioned. “ Quaere.” About this time Abr. Ortelius of Antwerp spent some time in study, in the condition of a sojourner, within this university. Afterwards he became a most admirable cos- mographer, the Ptolemey of his time, and the ornament of the learned world. He died in 1598, “ 4 calend. July, and was buried in St. Michael’s church at Antwerp.” An. Dom. 1552.—6 Edw. VI. Chancellor. The same. viz. Dr. Rich. Cox, to whom it was granted by the venerable congregation this year, July 19, that whereas he was about to resign his office of chancellor within a short time, he should never after be burdened with the office of vice-chancellor. The 14 Nov. following he re¬ sign’d it, and on the 18th the congregation of regents and non-regents elected according to their new statutes sir John Mason, knight, sometimes fellow of All-s. coll, lately [77] ambassador for K. H, 8. into several foreign countries, and now dean of the cath. ch. at Winchester. Vice-chancellor or Pro-chancellor. James Brokes, D. D. of C. C. coll, for the first part of the year, and Rich. Martiall, D. D. of Ch. Ch. for the other part, being elected in convocation pro-chanc. 3 Oct. In his absence Dr. Tresham officiated, and is sometimes stiled procancellarius. Proctors. Tho. Spencer of Ch. Ch. Maur. Bullock of New coll. Both elected on the day before the cal. of Ocfob. Batchelors of Arts. Jun. — John Rastell of New coll. Oct. 4. Walt. Baylie of New coll. Both afterwards writers, and the last an eminent physi¬ cian. About 26 were admitted this year, one half of which are omitted in the register. Batchelors of LL. Ellis Heywood of All-s. coll.—He was afterwards a Jesuit and a writer.8 Griffyth Willyams of New coll 9—In 1554 he became chancellor of the dioc. of Worcester, in the place of Rob. Johnson resigning ; and whether he be the same Williams,’ who was chancellor to the bishop of Gloucester about the 8 [II Moro d’Eliseo Heivodo Inglese. AW lUustrissimo cardinal Reginaido Polo. In Fiorenza. 1556. 8vo. It is a small treatise in Italian in two books, and stiled II More from sir Tho. More, at whose house at Chelsea the author supposes sir Thomas to have frequent conversations with learned men of his time, some of which, in the form of dialogue, compose the subject of this book : which is in our university library at Cambridge. T. 6. 42. Cole.] 9 [Griffith Williams p’br. admiss. ad vie. de Shoresdich, Lond. 22. Jul, 1543, ad pres. Ric. Gwent archid. Lond. quatn resign, ante 15 Maii 1552. Ibid. Griffith Williams cler. admiss. ad rect. de Hedingham Sible, com. Essex, 4 Febr. 1551, quam resign, ante 16 Jan. 1553. Reg. Bonner. Griffinus Williams liabet literas Eliz. reginae de pres, ad rect. de Wrough- ton alias Elmsdon, Sarum dioc. 1 Jan. reg. 2, 1559-60. Rymer, xv. 562. Griffinus Williams clericus liabet lit. reginae de pres, ad praibendam de Combe octava in eccl. cath. Wellen. teste regina apud Westmon. 22 die Martii, reg. 2. 1559-60. Ib. xv. 586. Rennet.] *K 2
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