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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$[84] Commissary. Dr. Will. Tresham ; wlio continuing in his office till Nov. Tho. Raynolds D. of D. warden of Mert. coll, and dean of Exeter, was then designed commissary or vice- chancellor, hy the chancellor’s letters dated the sixth of the said month, during only his pleasure ; by virtue of which he took his place, and had for his deputy Dr. Rich. Martiall dean of Christ college. Proctors. He n. Wotton of Ch. Ch. elect. 15 Ap. Tho. Davye or Davys of New coll, elect. 15 Ap. But Hen. Wotton being chose Greek reader, and fellow of C. C. coll. 14 of Aug. (the fellows of which coll, are disenabled by their statutes from taking upon them the procuratorial office) Will. AllynotAlan M. of A. of two years standing and fellow of Oriel coll, was elected into his place the same day, and served out the remaining part of the year. Batchelors of Arts. June 5. Ron. Poyntz of New coll.—He was afterwards a zealous writer for the Roman Catholic cause. July 6. Rob. Vaux [or Vauce] of Brasen-nose coll.— Whether he be the same with Rob. Vaulx who translated into English Anclr. Hiperius his Two common Places, in the first of which he sheweth The Force that the Sun and Moon have over Men, and in the second Whether the Devils have been the shewers of Magical Arts, &c. Lond. 1581. oct. I know not. qusere. One Rob. Vaux was batch, of div. of Exeter coll. 1594. 6 Peter Levens of Magd. coll, was admitted the same day. He was afterwards an eminent physician. Dec. 2. Tho. Stapleton of New coll.—A stout cham¬ pion in defence of the Roman Catholic cause. Feb. 23. Christoph. Johnson of New coll. - John Fowler of New coll. Both afterwards writers, the first in physic, and the other in divinity. John Hannington of New coll, was admitted the same day.—This person, who was born at Tadley in Hampshire, and Joh. Plankeney a native of Forsthill alias Foresthill near to, and in the county of Oxon, (who became perpetual fellow of New college in 1560) were both learned, of good natural parts, and very hopeful young men, one in philoso¬ phy and the other in the civil law. But because they were zealous papists, or as John Fox saith, blinded with papis¬ try, the just judgment of God therefore 7 as he adds, fell upon them, that is to say, that Hannington who had been pupil to John Martiall (who wrote of the Cross) was drown’d in a well about Rome, or as some say, about Padua; and Plankeney drown’d himself about Rewley near Oxon, an. 1566, (he should have said 1565) and both were taken up with crucifixes about their necks. Admitted in all 49. Batchelors of the Civil Law. July 8. John Martiall of New coll.—Afterwards he became noted for his writings against Dr. Jam. Calfill. Besides him, were five admitted this year, of whom Richard Edmunds and Geo. Catagree of the same house, were two, and Arth. Dakyns another. 6 {Robertus Vause cler. admiss. ad vie. de Easter alta, com. Essex, 25 Aug. 1569, ad pres. dec. et cap. S. Pauli, Loud. Reg. Grindall. Kennet.] 7 In his Ads and Mon. of the Church, &c. under the year 1558. Batchelors of Decrees. Aug. 12. Daniel Riane.—So he is written in his admis¬ sion ; but in his supplication for that degree. Donaldus Ryane, being then, as I suppose, a member of New inn. See more in the year 1533. He was the only person that was admitted batchelor of decrees this year. Masters of Arts. Apr. 20. John Bridgwater, (Aouepontanus) of Bra¬ sen-nose college. 27. Walter Baylie of New coll. July 6. John Rogers of Queen’s coll, quaere. Dec. 17. Tho. Palmer of Brasen-nose coll.—He was this, or the year following, made one of the primary scho¬ lars of St. John’s coll, and at length principal of Glocester hall. He was an excellent orator, and the best of his time for a Ciceronian stile. He collected several matters from Cicero, which coming to the view of the learned Cambden, he judged them very fit to be printed.8 This Tho. Palmer, after he had left his principality, had a considerable estate given to him in Essex ; but he being a zealous Roman Catholic, suffered much in his person and estate for reli¬ gion’s sake, and therefore numbered by those of his pro¬ fession among the confessors for the cause in the time of queen Elizabeth. Dec. 17. Rich. Mulcaster of Ch. Ch. March 10. Rich. Barnes of Brasen-nose coll.—He was afterwards bishop of Durham. Admitted 27. \ Batchelor of Physic. This year Tho. Cooper M. A. and master of the free*- school joining to Magd. coll, great gate, did supplicate the ven. congregation, that whereas he had studied philosophy 12 years, and physic five, he might be admitted to the reading of any book of the aphorisms of Hipocrates, Which being, as it seems, granted in Oct. did practise phy¬ sic in queen Mary’s reign. But when queen Elizabeth came to the crown, he returned to his divinity, and at length became bishop of Winchester. Batchelors of Divinity, July 23. Tho. Neal of New coll, 29. Lawrence Vaus, Vaux or Vaulx, sometimes of C. C. coll, now Warden of the coll, at Manchester. Six masters of arts did supplicate this year to be admitted to the same degree, but were not: Among them Edmund Daniel lately fellow of Mert. coll, was one, who was now prebendary of Worcester and dean of Hereford ; in the first of which he succeeded Gilb. Bourne, and in the other Dr. Hugh Coren or Curwyn. In 1559, he was depriv’d of his dignities ■ whereupon his prebendship was bestowed on Rob. Avise M. A. and his deanery on John Ellis, as it seems, who “ having been bred in Jesus coll, in Cambridge,” in Nov. 1570, became prebend of Worcester. Another who supplicated for that degree was Nich. Smyth of New coll, now fellow of Wykeham’s coll, near Win ton, and afterwards fellow of that of Eaton near Windsor. 8 [An Essay of the Meanes how to make our Travailes into Forraine Countries the mere profitable and honourable. London 1606, 4to. Ep. ded. to prince Henry. Thomas Palmer’s preface to the reader dated from Wringham, 1 July, 1606. Kennet.] [85] L* 2$