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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    Batchelors of Arts. Apr. 24. Barnab. Potter of Qu. coll.—He was after¬ ward bishop of Carlisle. Jun. 18. Anth. Duck of Exet. coll. Jul. 8. George Hakewill of Exet. coll. -23. Brian Twyne of C. C. coll. - Tho. Jackson of C. C. coll. Oct. 25. Norwich Spackman of Ch. Ch.—^See among the masters, an. 1602. Tho. Broad of St. Alb. hall was admitted the same day. Jan. 29. Bartholm. Parsons of Or. coll. -31. Joh. Prideaux of Exeter coll. The last of which was afterwards bishop of Worcester. Feb. 2. Joh. Meredyth of St. Mary’s hall, lately of Oriel coll.—He was the eldest son of an esquire of Sussex, but whetherthe same with John Meredyth who was afterwards doctor of physic of an another university, and at length subdean of Chichester (an. 1622.) which he resigned 10 Oct. 1627, and retired to his cure of Bedhampton in Hampshire, where heart-broken and purse-broken he soon after died, I know not. Sure it is that John Meredyth, who was subdean of Chichester, wrote and published (1) The Sin of Blas¬ phemy against the Holy Ghost: On Heb. 10. 16. Lond. 1622. qu. [Bodl. 4to. C. 86. Th.] (2) The Judge of Heresies, one God, one Faith, one Church, out of which there is no Salvation. Lond. 1624, qu. [Bodl. 4to. T. 16. Th.] As for Potter, Duck, Hakewill, Twyne, Parsons and Pri¬ deaux, their lives and characters are to come into another part of this work. Admitted 111. Batchelors of Law. who was a Londoner born, was afterwards bursar of the said house, but retaining in his hands the college money which he received as bursar, without paying it to the per¬ sons who supplied it with necessaries, slip'd away incog¬ nito, went beyond the seas,® changed his religion and be¬ came pensioner to the archduke of Austria, and a man of note in his dominions. “ See the History of the Troubles <c and Tryal of Archb. Laud, p. 349, where the archb. de- “ nies that this Russell was his scholar, as his adversaries “ had suggested.” Philip Cromwell of St. Joh. coll, was admitted the same day.—He was the fifth son of sir Hen. Cromwell, of Hinch- ingbrook in Huntingdonshire, uncle to Oliver Cromwell, sometimes lord protector of England. This Philip Crom¬ well, who was a knight, was father, by Mary his wife, (dau. of sir Hen. Townsend, knight) to Thomas Cromwell, a major of a regiment of horse under K. Ch. I. in the time of the grand rebellion, and to Oliver Cromwell, a colonel under his kinsman Oliver Cromwell before-mention’d, when he went as general into Ireland to quell the royal party, an. 1649, (in which year he died) and to Philip Bristol. Admited 7- Masters of Arts. May 21. Joh. Bancroft of Ch. Ch. -Joh. Sprint of Ch. Ch. Joh. Rawlinson of St. Joh. coll, was admitted the same day. Jul. 5. George Andrew of Magd. hall.—He was after¬ wards a bishop in Ireland, as I have before told you. 5 [Abiit Jun. an. Dom. 1604, Vide Reg. CoU. Jo. Bcpt. ii, 275, 283.} Jan. 17- Josias White of New coll. Admitted 73. Batchelors of Divinity. June 14. Edm. Griffith of Brasen-n. coll. Jul. 5. Rich. Eaton of Line. coll.—He was about this time pastor of Great Budworth in Cheshire (in which county he was born) and hath published A Sermon at the Funeral of Tho. Dutton of Dutton, Fsq; who yielded to Nature 28 Dec. 1615: On Psal. 90. ver. 12. Lond. 1616, qu. and perhaps other things. Quaere. Admitted 5. Doctors of Law. Jun. 23. Bartholm. Jesop of Magd. coll.—This person, who was fourth son of Walt. Jesop of Chilcombe in Dor- setsh. gent, was a learned civilian, and about this time chancellor to the bishop of Sarum. He lived and died a single man 21 Jul. 1620, and was buried in Christ Church near Newgate in London. 27- Zachar. Babington of Mert. coll, who accumu¬ lated.—He was about this time chancellor to the bishop of Litch. and Coventry, and died 1614, or thereabouts. Jul. 6. Edmund Pope of All-s. coll.—He was about this time chancellor to the bishop of Rochester, and afterwards surrogate to the judge of the prerogative court of Canter¬ bury. He died in the parish of St. Botolph without Alders- gate, London, an. 1630. James Baylie of All-s. coll, also was admitted the same day, being about this time chancellor to the bish. of Here¬ ford. Jul. 2. George Ryves of New coll.6—Prebendary of Winchester.—In Dec. following he was elected warden of the said coll, and dying on the last of May 1613 was bu¬ ried, as I conceive, in the chappel belonging thereunto. 6. Giles Robinson of Queen’s coll. Incorporations. July 5. Leonard Maw, M. A. of Cambridge.—He was fellow of Peter house,7 and afterwards master thereof, master of Trim coll, prebendary of Wells, doct. of div. chaplain to pr. Charles, (on whom he waited when he was in Spain to court the infanta) and at length bish. of B. and Wells upon the translation of Dr! Laud to London, but enjoying that office but a little while, died at Chiswick in Middlesex a Sept. 1629 ; whereupon his body was buried there on the 16 day of the same month.8 He was the son of Sim. Maw of Wrendlesham in Suffolk, gent, by Margery his wife, dau. and co-heir of Thom. Wyld of Yorkshire, and of Alice his wife, dau. and heir of Joh. Jaye of Suffolk. decano JEdis Christi Oxon. &c. ad admittend. magistrum Georgium Ryves, presbiterum, S.T. P. ad eccl. Staunton Sancti Johannis, dioc. Oxon. vac. per resign, dom. Martini Culpeper in medicinis doctoris. Reg. Whitgift, 3. Kennbt.] 7 [L. Mawadmiss. socius coll. Petri Jul. 5, 1595. Suffolciensis—dein ma- gister. Regist. ibid. Baker] * [The right reverend father in God Leonard Mawe, Dr. of divinity, and bishop of Bath and Wells, departed this mortal life the 2d of September 1629, at Chiswick in the county of Midd. and was there interr’d the 16th of the same moneth. He made executors of his last will and testament Mr. Nicholas Mawe and Mr. Thomas Burwell, his kinsmen, both masters of arts and fellows of two several colledges in Cambr. the first of Irinitye hall, the other of Peter house. MS. Note in the Herald's Office. Kennet.J [157]
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