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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    186 Proctors. Arth. Atie of Mert. coll. Apr. 5. Tho. Glasier of Ch. Ch. Apr. 5. Batchelors of Arts. May 30. Rob. Temple.—See among the batch, of div. under the year 1588. June 25. Thom. White of Magd. hall. Oct. 17- Thom. Worthington of Brasen-n. 23. Tho. Spark of Magd. Nov. 15. Rich. Turnbull of C. C. Dec. 9. Thom. Holland of Bal. 13. Simon Wisdom of Gloc. hall. Jan. 29. Joh. Field. In the month of June, Will. Cambden supplicated for the degree of batch, of arts, having spent four years in the university in logicals, but was not admitted. See in the years 1573 and 1588. Admitted 119. Batchelors of Civil Law. Apr. 26. Will. Say of All s. coll.—He was afterwards chancellor of Winchester. Nov. 24. Hugh Lloyd of New coll. Dec. 5. Randal Catherall.—After he had left the uni¬ versity he settled in an obscure village called Oddington alias Addington, near to Bister in Oxfordshire ■, where, by a natural geny advanced with great industry, he became an eminent and expert antiquary. His voluminous collections from divers leiger books, concerning monasteries, especially in these parts, and of genealogies and heraldry, were much used by Dr. Robert Sanderson, afterwards bish. of Lincoln, who did transcribe many things from them for liis use, which I have seen. But where those collections are now, I cannot yet learn. This Mr. Catherall, who was descended from those of his name living at Horton in Cheshire, was buried in a little vault under the chancel of the parish church of Oddington before mention’d, 9 June 1625.1 Admitted 9. Masters of Arts. Apr. 8. Cuthbert Mayne of St. John’s coll.—Soon after he left the nation, went to Doway in 1572, and was pro¬ moted there to the degree of batch, of divinity: afterwards he was sent into the mission of England, and setled for a time in his native country of Devonshire. In 1577 he was taken, and on the 29 of Nov. the same year was hang’d, drawn, and quarter’d at Launceston in Cornwall, being then accounted by those of his profession, the first martyr of the seminaries. You may read more of him in cardinal Alan’s book called A sincere ancl modest Defence, &c. or An 1 [Dr. Foote Gower, in his pamphlet on Cheshire antiquaries, Chester 1771,1773, and London 1800, speaks of two Ralph Stanleys, who had col¬ lected for the history of Cheshire, and describes a MS. then in his own pos session of Cheshire pedigrees, &c. collected by one of the Stanleys in 1610, for which Erdswicke’s notes had been used. This MS. is now in the pos¬ session of a friend of the writer, and at the end is a pedigree of Catherall, which seems to have been made by this Randal Catherall. He is there described as third son of John Catherall of Horton, by Joan Madock his wife, ‘ and an attorney of the King’s Bench.’ He had married Joan, daugh¬ ter and sole heir of Richard Jones of Merton, co. Oxon, by whom he had two sons, James and Edmund. Wood, and others, particularly Gough, have done much towards a history of the early cultivators of our antiquities, but much remains yet unperformed; both as to their personal history, and the extent and nature of the information collected by them. Dr. Saunderson’s collec¬ tions, 1 believe, arc in sir Joseph Banks’s library. Hunter.] Answer to a Libel of English Justice, &c. p. 2. also Camb- den’s Annals of Qu. Eliz. under the year 1571. Henr. Shaw of the same coll, was admitted on the same day.—He afterwards went beyond the seas, changed his religion, was made a priest, and returning into England, was taken and committed to custody in Wisbieh castle, where, with several others, he endured a tedious imprison¬ ment, and therefore by those of his profession accounted a confessor. Apr. 25. Thom. Bilson of New coll. 28. Rob. IIoveden of All-souls coll. 40. Hen. Savile of Merton coll. Jul. 4. Will. Harrys of Line. coll. -Rich. Knolles of Line. coll. Dec. 4. Bartholomew Chamberlayne of Trin. coll. Admitted 53. Batchelors of Physic. Dec. 14. Christoph. Johnson of New coll, now the learned master of Wykeham’s school near to Winchester. Three besides were admitted, but not one of them was a writer. Batchelors of Divinity. Jul. 10. Edm. Bunney of Mert. coll. Besides him were but two more admitted. Not one doct. of law or physic was admitted this year. Doctor of Divinity. „ Jul. — John Withyns of Brasen-n. college. Incorporations. In the month of July Was a supplicate made in the ven. house of congregation for Edm. Freke, dr. of div. of Camb.2 to be incorporated ; but whether he was really so, I cannot yet find.—Those things that 1 am to observe of him are, that he was an Essex man born, had all his acad. education in the said univ. of Cambr. was made canon of Wesminster in 1564, in the place of Will. Downham, and about the same time archd. of Canterbury. In 1565 he was made canon of Windsor, and on the 10 of April 1570 he was installed dean of Rochester in the place of Walt. Philips the first dean de¬ ceased. In the year following. Sept. 18, he was made dean of Salisbury upon the promotion of Will. Bradbridge to the see of Exeter; but before he had been settled in the said deanery, he was made bishop of Rochester, being then, as one3 saith, vir pius, doctus atque gravis. Afterwards he was translated to Worcester, where he was a zealous assertor of the church discipline.4 2 [Jun. 10,1570, conceditur Mro Edm. Freeke sacellano doming? reginae, ut studium 20 annorura in theologia postquam rexerit in artibus sufficiat ei ad incipiendum in sacra theologia, sic ut ejus admissio stet pro completis gradu et forma doctoratus in eadem fxultate. Re'gr Acad. Cantabr. Baker.] 3 Matth. Parker in the first edit, of Antiq. Britan. Eccles. in Matthmo. 4 [1544, 19. Dec. Edm. Freek, Lond. dioc. ad titulum annum pensionis 5 libr. a rege Henrico prmstandae, ordinatnr diaconus et presb. 18 Jun. sequent. Reg. Bonner. 1567. 13. Jun. Edm. Freke, A. M. admiss. ad eccl. de Purley, per mort. Joh. Saunderson. Reg. Grindall Epi Lond.. Kennet. Afterwards he was translated to Norwich, and then to Worcester, &c. He held the archd. of Canterbury and the rectory of Purleigh in Essex in commendam. Tanner. Freke died at the age of 74, August 22, 1591.] [105]
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