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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    161 1563. 162 wards a learned Jesuit. See among the writers in Will. Harrys, an. 1602. Jun. 25. Miles Windsor of C. C. C. Oct. 22. John Argall of Ch. Ch. ■ ■■ - - Will. James of Ch. Ch. The last of which was afterwards bishop of Durham. 29. Rob. Napier of Exet. coll.—He was afterwards chief baron of the Exchequer in Ireland and a knight. Jan. 14. Tho. Cogan of Or. coll. -Rob. Garvey of Or. coll. Feb. 13. Rich. Forster of All-s. coll. 20. Nich. Quemmerford a learned Irish man. Admitted 51. Batchelors of Civil Law. Nov. 14. Will. Bleythyn—He was afterwards bishop Philip Jones was adm. the same day—See among the batch, of arts in 1582. Eight in all were admitted, and six supplicated. Masters of Arts. Jim. 26. Rich. Bristow of Ch. Ch. now in great renown for his oratory. John Merrick of New coll, was admitted the same day. —He was afterwards bishop of the isle of Man, as I have before told you. Admitted 31. Batchelors of Physic. But two were admitted, of whom Hen. Wotton of Ch. Ch. was one, afterwards an eminent physician, and five supplicated for the said degree, the first of which was Madern Wisebecke a French man, who had studied physic 20 years. Batchelor of Divinity. June 10. Lawrence Humphrey president of Magd. coll* and the queen’s professor of divinity. Not one besides him was admitted, yet four there were that supplicated for the said degree; among whom Will. Downham bishop of Chester was one, but not admitted, and Oswald Emerson another. Doctor of the Civil Law. Jul. 7- John Griffyth of All-s. coll, principal of New inn and the queen’s professor of civil law.—Which last of¬ fice he enjoyed four years while he was batch. of that faculty. Not one doctor of physic was admitted this year. Doctor of Divinity. Jul. 10. Lawrence Humphrey before-mention’d.—He had a month before been admitted batch, of this faculty, and two years before that time, the queen’s public pro¬ fessor of divinity in this university, he being then only master of arts. For the said degree supplicated Rich. Bruerne lately the queen’s Hebrew professor, and Will.Downham before- jpentioned, but they were not admitted. Proctors. Tho. Whalley of Ch. Ch. again elect. 21 Apr. Rog. Gifford of Mert. coll, again elect. 21 Apr. ' Batchelors of Arts. Apr. 22. Joh. Garbrand of New coll. May 13. Tho. Allen or Alan of Trin. coll. -George Blackwell of Trin. coll. Jun. 17. Will. Raynolds of New coll. Jul. 26. Thom. Bodley of Mert. coll. Feb. 11. Thom. Matthews of Ch. Ch. Mar. 24. George Coryat of New coll. Admitted 55. afterwards a Calvinistical writer. May 21. Rich. Madox.—See among the M. of A. 1575. esteemed by the academians to be a person of an acute judgment in philosophy, an excellent Grecian and Hebrician. Afterwards he was a godly and sincere preacher of the word of God. May 4. Leonard Fitzsimons of Trin. coll, a learned Irish man. 8. Oliver Whiddon of Exeter coll.—He succeeded Rich. Bristow in his fellowship of that house, an. 1573, being- then, or soon after, archdeacon of Totness in Devonshire.6 Will. Apsland of All-s. coll, was adm. this year, but the time when, appears not—He was afterwards one of the chaplains to qu. Elizabeth, and master of the hospital7 called the Savoy in the Strand near London. Admitted 30. June 23. Rog. Gifford of Mert. coll, now one of the proct. of this university—See among the doctors of phys. 1566. “ Jun. 24. Will. Kinder of Brasen-n. college. In the “ next century following lived in Derbyshire one Ph. Kinder, a great pretender to physic and astrology, as by some of “ his works in MS. in the Ashmolean library it appears; f< but whether he was of this university of Oxon, 1 know not.” For the said degree supplicated Hierom Raynolds M. A. now, or lately, one of the learned fellows of C. C, C.—I have made mention of this person elsewhere. Batchelors of Divinity. Only two were admitted, of whom Arth. Yeldard pre¬ sident of Trin. coll.6 was one, and three that supplicated, who were never admitted. Their names are John Sher¬ borne, Will. Chamberlayne and Tho, Pyrrye, all mas¬ ters of arts. fid3 Not one doct. of law was admitted, or licensed to proceed. An. Dom. 1563.—5-6 Elizab. The same. Chancellor. Commissary. Dr. Tho. Whyte. 6 [He was rector of Yoxall, dioc. Coy. et Lichf. and of North Bovy, dioc. Exon, and archdeacon of Totness 1574. Tanner.] 7 Cat. soc. coll. Om. An. MS. 8 [He was the first president instituted to the rectory of Garsington, Ox¬ fordshire, now annexed to the headship, and was instituted to it on the resig¬ Pope, 234.] J J M* [92]
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