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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$[154] Heton, B. of Ely, and rector of Sampford Courtney in De¬ vonshire. Among several things that he hath published I have seen these, (1) The Anatomy of Ananias; or, God's Censure against Sacrilege. Camb. 1616. (2) Brief Commen¬ tary upon Psal. 83, concerning the same Subject. Printed there the same year. (3) The Truth of Tithes discovered, or the Churches Right maintained and defended, &c. Lond. 1618, &c. One Roger Costwick, rector of Sampford Courtney before- mention’d, lived to about the year 1655, whether the same with the former, I cannot tell. James Speght, batch, of div.—He hath one or more sermons in print. Benjamin Carier, batch, of div.4—He was the son of Anthony Carier, a learned and devout preacher, who caused this his son to be strictly educated in the Protestant reli¬ gion, and afterwards in academical literature in the said university of Camb. where he became fellow of C. C. coll, and a noted scholar and preacher. About the time that K. James I. came to the crown he proceeded in his faculty, published one or more sermons, became chaplain to him, and one of the first fellows of Chelsea college, founded by Dr. Matthew Sutcliff. But being then very unsettled in his religion,5 he changed it for that of Rome, left the nation and went to Liege in Germany; where, after some time of continuance, he wrote A Missive to his Maj. of Great Britain K. Jam. containing the Motives of his Conversion to the Cath. Religion, &c. Liege 1614, oet. and at the same time A Let¬ ter of the miserable Ends of such as impugn the Cath. Ch. print. 1615. qu. But before Midsummer day in the said year 1614 (12 Jam. I.) he concluded his last day, putting there¬ by a period to the great imaginations that men of learning had of him and his worth, and to the expectation of other books to be published. In 1649 were printed two impres¬ sions of the said Missive in oct. [Bodl. 8vo. C. 69. Line.] said in the title to be printed at Paris, but in truth at Lon¬ don, with a large preface, and marginal notes, to it by N. Strange, a Rom. Cath. At the end of the said preface are the names of some who had lately then been ministers, or university-men, in England and Scotland that had been converted to the church of Rome. Those of Oxon are these, Hugh Paulin de Cressy of Mert. coll. Hen. Janson, LL.D. of All-s. coll, afterwards a baronet, but a poor one God wot, Tho. Read, LL.D. of New coll. W. Rowlands sometimes of Ex. coll, afterwards minister of St. Margaret’s in Wesmin- ster, Will. Joyner alias Lvde, M. A. of Magd. coll. Pet. Glue of Bal. coll. &c. An. Dom. 1598.—40-41 Elizas. Chancellor. The same, viz. Tho. Lord Buckhurst. 4 [29 Apr. 1603, Benjamin Charier sac. theol. prof ad eccl. parocli. de Ve- teri Romney, per mort. nat. Kenelmi Digbye c[erici, ult. reel, ad coll, are pi Cant. Reg. Whitgifk, 3, 275. See the Answer to a Treatise written by Dr. Carier by Way of Letter to his Majestic, Ac. by George Hakewill, D.D. and Chaplain to the Prince his Highness. Lond. 1616, 4to. In his ep. ded. to the king—But God blessed not his vain project. Mr. Henry Constable dying within a fortnight after he came from Paris, by Cardinal Perron’s appointment to Leige to confer with him, and himself a while after at Paris, within a month of his coming thither to conferr with the cardinal. KisnneT.] 5 j-y. Geo. Hakewell’s Answer to Dr. Carier, p. 11, 12, &c, Lond. 1616 where a large account may be had of Dr. Carier. Vid. prefat. He was fel¬ low of Bennet coll. afterwards chaplain to archbishop Y\ hitgift, prebendaiy of Canterbury, chaplain to the king. Ibid. p. 137, prsef. p. 20. 1 . Bately s Cant. Sacra, p. 126, 127. See sir Hen. Wotton’s Remains, page 438. Baker. See Strype’s Life of Whitgift, 580, for a large aecount of Carier’s apos¬ tasy] Vice-chancellor. Tho. Singleton, D.D. principal of Brasen-nose coll. July IS. Proctors. Edw. Gee of Brasen-n. coll. Hen. Bellyngham of New coll. Batchelors of Arts. Apr. 27- Rob. Pink of New coll. July 8. Rob. Johnson of Magd. coll. — 12. Thomas Winniff of Exet. coll. The last of which was afterwards bishop of Line. Oct. 30. Thom. Baugh of Ch. Ch.—See among the mas¬ ters, an. 1601. Nov. 15. Thom. Overbury of Qu. coll. Dec. 14. Geor. Warburton of Brasen-n. coll. Of the last you may see more among the doctors of div. created 1636. Feb. 1. Toby Venner of St. Alb hall. — 16. Will. Higford of C. C. coll. Winniff, Venner, and Higford are to be remembred at large in another part of this work* Admitted 111. Masters of Arts. June 26. Will. Laud of St. Jo. coll. July 4. Thom. Thompson of Qu. coll. — 6. Rich. Lloyd of Line, lately of Or. coll. — 8. Rob. Fludd of St. John’s coll. Thom. Cheast of St. Mary’s hall, lately of Or. coll, was admitted the same day.—Fie hath published (l) The Way to Life, Serm. at Paul’s Cross, on Amos 5. 6. Lond. 1609, qu. (2) The Christian Path-way, Serm. at Paul’s Cross, ult. June 1611, on Ephes. 5. 1. Lond. 1613, qu. [Bodl. KK. 41. Jur.] and perhaps other things. Oct. 17. Jam. Mabb of Magd. coll. — 20. Rich. Fitzherbert of New coll.—He was after¬ wards archdeacon of Dorset; by which title he occurs in 1640. 31. N ath. Brent of Mert. coll. Nov. 7. Rich. Carpenter of Ex. coll. - Edw. Chetwind of Ex. coll. Feb. 5. Tho. James of New coll. -Tho. Lydyat of New coll. -19. Will. Chibald or Chiball of Magd. coll. Admitted 88. Batchelors of Divinity. May 29. Christoph. Sutton of Line. coll. June 28. Joh. Randall of Line. coll. Jul. 19. Will. Bradshaw of Univ. coll, lately M. of A. of Bal.—I set him down here, not that he was a writer, but to distinguish him from another of both his names, who was sometimes fellow of Sidney coll, in Cambridge,6 and after¬ wards a writer and publisher of several theological tracts, the titles of some of which you may see in the Bodleian or Oxford Catalogue.1 i£ip Not one doct. of the civ. law was admitted. 6 [W. B. one of the first fellows of Sidney coli. admitted there 1599. Baker.] 7 [ Exposition of the 2nd Epist.to the Thessulonians, byWm Bradshaw. Published bvTho. Gataker, Lond. 1620, 4to. Baker.] T* 2 [155]$