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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    in grammar learning in Eaton school, was chose scholar of King’s coll, in Cambridge, an. 1533, where arriving to great eminence in the civil law, was made the king’s pro¬ fessor of that faculty in the said university,7 and much esteemed for his eloquence and learning, especially by Le- land who8 calls him Heveddunus. Afterwards, being a man much addicted to reformation, he was by vertue of several letters written by the king in his behalf, elected, tho’ con¬ trary to statute, president of Magd. coll, where he conti¬ nued about an year ; and then leaving it to prevent expul¬ sion, sheltred himself in private during the reign of qu. Mary. After qu. Elizabeth came to the crown he was made one of her masters of Requests, and by her employed in one or more embassies. His works are (1) A sight of the Por¬ tugal Pearl, in Answer to the Epistle of Hieron. Osorius, entit. A Pearl for a Prince. This book, which was written in Latin, 1 have not yet seen, only the translation of it into English, made by Abrah. Hartwell, 156*5, in tw. (2) Lucu- Irationes. Lond. 1567- qu. collected and published by Tho. Hatcher of King’s coll, in Cambridge. These lucubrations consist of ovations and epistles.9 Among the orations is that De Ohitu Mart. Buceri, and among the epistles is that De Vita # Ohitu Fratrum Suffolciensium Henrici &; Caroli Bran- dorn. (3) Poemata. Lond. 1567- qu. collected also and published by the said Hatcher. (4) Contra Hieron. Osoriurn, ejusque odiosas Infectationes pro Evangeliccc Veritatis necessaria Defensione, Responsio apologetica. Lond. 1577. qu. This book was began and carried on by him more than half: after¬ wards coming into the hands of John Fox, was by him finish’d and published, and at length translated into Eng¬ lish by Jam. Bell.1 (5) Poematum Lib. duo- Lond. 1592, oct. Before which poems is printed the life of Walt. Had- don. Whether these two books contain his poems before- p. 151, 152. V. The King's visitatorial Power asserted, by Dr. Nathaniel Johnston, p. 342. Baker.] 7 [Commissio pro admissione Walteri Haddon in advocatnm curia; Cant. 1555, 9 Maij. Reg. Cant. Kennet.] 8 In Principum ac illustrium aliquot <$£ eruditorum in Anglia Virorum, &c. Lond. 1589. p. 103. 9 [A copy in MS. supposed to be the original, is in the library of Trinity College, Dublin, D. 35. folio. Cat. MSS. Hybern. p. 33, no. 479.] 1 [And published by him in 1681. Watts.] 2 [Several of his Epigrams were translated by Timothy Kendall, and pub¬ lished in his Flowers, 12mo. 1577. fob 90-93. Perhaps the following are among the best in Kendall’s selection. To his bed. My bed, the rest of all my cares, The ende of toilyng paine, Whiche bryngest ease and sollace sweete While darkuesse doeth remaine : My bedde, yelde to me slumber swete And triflyng dreames repell; Cause carkyng care from sobbyng breast To parte, where it doeth dwell. All mockeries of this wretched worlde Put cleane from out my mynde. Doe these, my bedde, and then by thee Much comfort shall I finde. An Aunswere. That I maie be a rest of cares. An ende of toylyng pain, See stomacke thyne be not surchargde, When slepe thou wouldest gaine. If sugred slepe (deuoide of dreames,) Thou likest to enioye. Then line with little, and beware No cares thy bedde anoye. And lastly, deme thy tethered bedde Alwaies thy graspyng graue, So rest by me thou shaft obtaine. And eke muche comfort haue. fob 93.].. mention’d I cannot tell.3 I remember I once saw them, but dreaming not in the least of any future mentioning Dr. Haddon, I throw’d them aside after I had taken the title, otherwise I should have spoken more of him. He gave way to fate January 1571 (leaving then behind him the character of orator dulcis & facundus,) and was buried on the 25 of the same month in the Grey fryers church, now called Ch. Ch. within tire city of London. Over his grave was soon after a comely monument erected ; which, with the church it self, was consumed by the dreadful conflagration that hapned in the said city, in the beginning of Sept. 1666. (Cf3 This year Jul. 20. the public registrary or scribe of the university was deprived of his place for neglecting to set down and enter into the common register the acts of con¬ gregations for several years behind. An. Dom. 1553.—7 Edw. 6.—1 Mari.®. Chancellor. The same, viz. sir John Mason, knight. Vice-chanc. or Pro-chanc. Dr. Martiall again, now dean of Ch. Ch. Dr. Walt. Wryght occurs also pro-chanc. this year, Apr. 4. and Dr. Will. Tresham (who was about this time prisoner in the Fleet) commissary, Nov. 6. But these two, 1 presume, tvere only deputies. Proctors. Thom. Spencer, again. Maur. Bullocke, again. Batchelors of Arts. Jul. 15. Jasp. Heywood of Mert. coll.—He was after¬ wards a noted Jesuit. Oct. 11. John Wolley.—See among the masters 1557. Dec. 1. Tho. Palmer of Brasen-n. coll.—See also among the masters in 1556. Feb. 1. Rich. Barnes of Br. coll.'—He was afterwards bishop of Durham. March — John Rogers of jQu. coll.—quaere. Admitted in all this year 52. Batchelors of Civil Law. — Rich. Green of All-s. coll.—He was afterwards chan¬ cellor of the diocese of Gloc. Oct. 3o. Tho. Darbyshire of Broadgate’s hall.—He was afterwards chanc. of the dioc. of Lond. Rob. Johnson of All-s. coll, was also, as it seems, ad¬ mitted this year, but not to be understood to be the same R. Johnson whom I have mention’d in 1551. Masters of Arts. Jul. 8. Will. Overton of Magd. coll. 14. Dav. de la Hyde of Mert. coll. 15. Hugh Evans of Brasen-n. coll.—I take him to be the. same Hugh Evans who occurs dean of St. Asaph, in 1571.4 3 [The poems were printed from the edition of 1567, but as the introduc¬ tory life (which is of little value) informs us, * ad scholarum usum meliori nunc ordine, et auctiora in lucem emittuntur.’ Haddon was buried with his first wife Margaret Clare, and the following inscription placed over them. Sic, o sic juncti tumulo maneamus in uno Quos semper vivos junxerat unus amor.] 4 [1560. Apr. 26. Hugh Evans, A.M. was instituted to the deanery of St. Asaph (vacant by the just deprivation of John Lloyd the last dean) by t
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