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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$coll, in that university, afterwards chanc. of the dioc. of Worcester, and died at Exeter, where he had an office or dignity, in the latter end of 1625.1 One of both his names translated into English The Popish Kingdom, or Reign of Antichrist. Lond. 1570, qu. written in Latin verse by Tho. Naogeorgius,2 and Four Books of Husbandry. Lond. [1577] 15S6, qn. and Lond. [1596, 1601,] 1614, qu. written in Lat. by Conr. Heresbachius, and something of Palengenius.3 But this translator, if I mistake not, was Barnab. Gooche of Albingham or Alvingham in Lincolnshire, grandfather to Barnab. Gooche, living there in 1634 and after.—“ But “ the epistle is dated at Kingston, Feb. 1, 1577-” John Hammond doct. of phys. of Cambridge.—He was now physician to prince Henry, 4 and father to Henr. Hammond, afterwards the learned and celebrated theo- logist. Creations. Jun. 28. Henry Rowlands batch, of div. and bishop of Bangor was actually created doct. of that faculty. Aug. 13. Hen. Ashworth of Oriel coll. -John Cheynell of C. C. coll. These two, were eminent and learned physicians, were then actually created doctors of physic, because they were designed by the delegates, appointed by convocation, to be opponents in the disputations to be had before the king at his entertainment by the muses in the latter end of the said month of Aug. John Gourden (GordoniusJ of Bal. coll, was created D. of D. the same day, (Aug. 13.) because he was to dispute before the king his kinsman.—After his disputation was ended he had his degrees compleated by the king’s professor of div. purposely (not that there was a necessity of it) to 1 [Barn. Gowche col!. Magdl. A. B. an. 1586-7 ; art. mag. an. 1590. B. Goach coll. Magdl. LL. D. Cant. an. 1604. Baker. He wrote Eglogs, TLpytaph.es and Smnetes: Lond. 1563, 12mo: and translated The Prmerbes of the noble and woorthy Souldier Sir James Lopez de Mendoza, Marques of Santillana, with the Paraphrase ofD. Peter Diaz of Toledo: Wherein is contained whatsoeuer is necessarie to the leading of an honest and vertiwus Life. Translated out of Spanishe by Bamabe Googe: Imprinted at London by Richarde Watkins, 1579, 8vo. (Bodl. Crynes 886.) Ded. to Cecill lord Burleigh. Prefixed is the life of the author. The proverbs are in verse with a prose paraphrase after each. As it is a vol. of peculiar rarity and will probably never fall in the way of many of my readers, 1 give the first. Of Loue and Feare. My sonne, whom I doe dearly loue, Vnto my wordes geue eare, Seeke not by rigour for to rule, Nor gouerne men by feare. Loue, and thou shalt beloued be : And by the same shalt doe Such worthie tilings, as, hated, thou Shalt neuer attaine vnto.] 2 [See some extracts from this poem in the Censura Literaria.] 3 [The Zodiake of Life written by the excellent and Christian Poet, Marcellas PaUngenius Stellatus. Wherein are emteined twelue seuerall Labours, painting via moste liuely the whole Compasse of the World, the Reformation of Manners, the Miseries of Mankinde, the Pathway to Vertue and Vice, the Eternitie of the Soide, the Course of the Heauens, the Mysteries of Nature, and diuers other CirciTstances of great Learning and no lesse Judgement. Translated out of Latine into Eng- lishe, by Barnabie Googe, and by him newly recognised. Lond. 1576, 4to. Of this work the first three books appeared in 1560, 12mo. and the first six in 1561,1.?.mo‘ Warton notices an edit, of the twelve books in 1565, Hist. Eng. Poetry, iii, 450. There was also an edition with some subtractions, 1588, 4to. As the whole of the first book has been reprinted in the Censura Literaria, it is unnecessary to offer any specimen in this place.] 4 P)e.x yn'nibus &c. Concedimus dilecto servienti nostro Joh. Hammond, in medicinis doctori officium et locum unius medicorum nostrorum ordina- riorum. T. R, apud Westm. 24 Fehr. reg. 1. 1603-4. Rymer xvi, p. 574.] shew unto his majesty the form of that ceremony. This noble person was born in Scotland of the house of Huntley, was instructed in his youth in the schools and colleges, as well in Scotland as in France, in liberal arts and sciences, and in the knowledge of the Greek and Hebrew languages and other Orientals. Afterwards he was gentleman of three king’s chambers in France, viz. Charles 9, Hen. 3 and 4, and while he was in the flower of his age, he was there assailed with many corruptions, as well spiritual as tempo¬ ral, and in many dangers of his life, which God did miracu¬ lously deliver him from. At length K. James the first of England did call him into England, and to the holy minis¬ try, he being then 58 years of age, and upon the promo¬ tion of Dr. John Bridges to the see of Oxon in the latter end of 1603 he made him dean of Salisbury in Febr. 1604. 5 He hath written (1) Assertiones Theologies pro vera vers Ecclesis Nota, qus est solius Dei Adoratio- contra falss Eccle- sis Creaturarum Adorationem. Rupell. 1603, oct. [Bod'l. 8vo. A. 4. Th. BS.] (2) England's and Scotland's Happiness in being reduced to Unity of Religion under K. James. Lond. 1604, qu. (3) Orthodoxo-Jacobus & Papa apostaticus, &c. Lond. 1611, qu. (4) Anti-Bellarmino-tortur, sive Tortus retortus <Sf Juliano Papismus, &c. Lond. 1612, qu. (5) Of the Ceremonies of the Church of England.6 Lond. 1612, qu. [172] besides sermons and other things.7 He departed this mor¬ tal life in August 1619, and was, I suppose, buried in the catlied. ch. at Salisbury; whereupon John Williams suc¬ ceeded him in the deanery of that place about the 10 of Sept, and installed in the middle of Oct. following. To sir Rob. Gourden of Sudderland, who married his only daugh¬ ter and heir named Lucy, he left his MSS. of his own com¬ position, written in Latin and English, desiring him that the English may be published in Scotland, and the Latin beyond the seas, to the end that the great pains that he had taken about them may not be lost. j These noblemen, knights and esquires following were actually created masters of arts, on the 30 of August, the king being then in Oxford. \ The illustrious prince Esme Stuart duke of Lenox, near of kin to king James I. of England.—He was father to Lodowic-k the first duke of Richmond of his name. Henry de Vere earl of Oxford.—He was son of Edw. de Vere called by some the poetical earl of Oxford, and died at the siege of Breda in the Netherlands, an. 1625. Henry Percy the most generous count of Northumber¬ land, a great encourager of learning and learned men, espe¬ cially of mathematicians •, who, as others, have in a high manner celebrated his worth.—He died 5 of Nov. 1632, and was buried in the church at Petworth in Sussex. ] 5 [Lord chancellor Egerton gave to Jo. Gordon S. T. P. the rect. of Upton Lovel, in Wilts, June 1608. Tanner.] 6 [Ei^tivocoivavia : The Peace of the Communion of the Chvrcli of England: or, the Conformitie of the Ceremonies of the Communion of the Church of England, with the Ensamples and Doctrine of the Holy Scriptures, and Primitiue Church, established by the Apostles of Christ, and the holy Martyrs, and Bishops, their Successors. By Jo. Gordon, Doctor of Diuinitie and Deane of Salisbwy. Lon¬ don: Printed by T. S. for Nathaniell Butter, <fc. 1612. Bodl. KK. 41. Jur. Prefixed are twenty lines ‘ ad Angliam,’ beginning Anglia ter foelix donis ditata supernis.] ;. 7 [The sacred Doctrine of Dwindle, gathered out of the Word of God, and comprehended in two volumes, whereof this first volume containeth a Description of If all that holy Doctrine according to the Rules of Art: with a Treatise concerning the ; Olde Testament, w' the Promise. The second is to containe a larger Explication of the former Doctrines: with a Discouerie of the most principall Hei-esies and Errours contrary thereunto. Imp. at Load, by Felix Kyngeston, 1613. Bodl. KK. 41. Jur.]$