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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    “ and was buried in a certain North isle of St. Paul’s cath. << ch. Of him is the following account in sir Will. Dug- “ dale’s History of St. Paul's, p. 105. Sir Simon Baskerville “ (being of the ancient family of the Baskerviles in Here- “ fordsh.) had his education in Exeter coll, in the univ. of <• Oxford, where he laid his foundation in the knowledge of “ the arts, and became so eminent for his excellent parts “ and quickness in arguing, that upon the first coming of K. James to see that flourishing university, he was chosen as a prime person to dispute before him in the philosophic ‘f art, which he performed with great applause of his ma- “ jesty, who was not only there as a hearer, but as an accu- “ rate judge. After this he had the honour to be one of “ the proctors of that university, which gave him farther “ occasion of shewing himself publicly, and having laid his grounds in natural philosophy, he went on happily in the “ study of physic, according to the known method of * Ubi “ definit philosophus, ibi incipit medicus.’ He was made “ doct. in his faculty by the university, knighted by K. “ Charles, famous for his skill in anatomy, and happy in “ his practice.” Besides these two, were only two more admitted, viz. Edw. Lapworth of Magd. coll, and Tho. Clayton of Bal. coll. Batchelors of Divinity. May 6. John Prideaux of Exet. coll. Dan. Price of Exet. coll. 28. Bartholm. Parsons of Or. coll. June 10. John Lee of All-s. coll. The last of which two became treasurer of the church of Salisbury in the place of Dr. Tho. White deceased, 29 Apr. 1624, and dying there in 1634, was succeeded in that dig¬ nity by Edw. Davenant, 19 Nov. the same year. Jun. 25. Rich. Carpenter of Ex. coll. Lewis Bayly of Ex. coll. 27- John Day of Oriel coll. Nov. 14. John Glanvill of Bal. coll. This last person hath written Articuli Christiana Fidei quam Ecclesia profitetur Anglicana, Versu (quoad ejus fieri po- tuitj expressi facillimo. Oxon 1613, qu. in 6 sh. What he hath written besides, or whether he took any degree in arts in this university, I know not. He was living in 1614, in which year he gave several books to the Bodleian library. Admitted 24. Not one doct. of law was admitted this year. Doctors of Physic. June 20. Edw. Lapworth3 of Magd. coll. Sim. Baskervile of Ex. coll. Tho. Clayton of Bal. coll. Rob. Vilvaine of Ex. coll. All which did accumulate the degrees in physic. As for Lapworth he was afterwards the first reader of the lecture of nat. philosophy founded by sir Will. Sedley, and dying in the city of Bath (where he usually practised in the Summer time) 23 May 1636, as I have somewhere before told you, was buried in the great church there dedicated to St. Pet. and St. Paul. The second Sim. Baskervile, was now in great esteem for his admirable knowledge in medicine, (as before he had been for his humanity and philosophy) was afterwards knighted by K. Ch. I. and dying 5 July 1641, aged 68 years, 3 [In the same year one of both his names commenced D. M. also at Cambridge. Vide Masters’s Life of Members of C. C. C. C. and his History page .331. Lgveday.] was buried in the cath. ch. of St. Paul in the city of Lon¬ don. The third, T. Clayton, was soon after the king’s pro¬ fessor of phys. in this university, and at length the last principal of Broadgate’s hall and the first master of Pem¬ broke college.- The last R. Vilvaine being afterwards a writer, I shaU mention him at large in another part of this work. Doctors of Divinity. Apr. 10. Tho. Ireland of Line. coll.—This person, who was afterwards prebendary of York and Southwell, hath published one or more sermons, as (2) Serm. on Eccle¬ siastes 8. 2.—pr. 1610, qu. &c. Another of both his names and time was a common lawyer of Grey’s inn, and a knight, and the abridger in English of Sir Jam. Dyer's Reports.— Pr. 1651, and of the Eleven Books of Reports of Sir Edward Coke.—prin. 1656. But whether this last (Tho. Ireland) was originally of Oxon, I cannot tell. “ In archb. Laud’s “ Tryal is mention made of one Mr. [Richard] Ireland, “ who was sometime a student of Ch. Ch. and after school- “ master of Westminster. One Tho. Ireland son of a Lan- cashire knight was entred of Brasen-noseColl. 1617., and “ took his master of arts degree there 10 Jul. 1623.” June 6. Samuel Page of C. C. coll. 20. John Denison of Bal. coll. Rich. King of Bal. coll. Jul. 2 Christoph. Hooke of Magd. coll. Mich. Boyle of St. John’s coll. Geor. Hakewill of Ex. coll. Incorporations. July 5. Thom. Spackman doct. of phys. of Cambridge— He hath written and published A Declaration of such griev¬ ous Accidents that commonly follow the Biting of Mad Dogs, together with the Cure thereof. Lond. 1613, qu. and per- [190] haps other things : Quaere. “ He was father to Norwich “ Spackman.” 9. John Towers M. of A. of Cambr.4—He was a Nor¬ folk man born, was bred fellow of Qu. coll, in the said uni¬ versity, was afterwards D. of D. chaplain to William earl of Northampton, (who conferr’d upon him the benefice of Castle-Ashby in Northamptonshire) dean of Peterborough in the place of Dr. Will. Piers promoted to the episcopal see thereof, an. 1630, and on the 8 of Mar. 1638 was- in¬ stalled bishop of that place. After the long parliament be gan, he was one of the twelve bishops who drew up a pro¬ testation against all such laws, orders, votes, resolutions, and determinations, which should be done in their absence from the 27 Dec. 1641 to be null and of no effect, &c. Whereupon he with the said bishops were committed pri¬ soners to the Tower, where they continued above four months. Afterwards being released. Towers retired to the king at Oxon, and continued there ’till the surrender of that garrison for the use of the parliament, and then most of the royal party being put to their shifts, he went to Peter¬ borough, where dying in an obscure condition 10 Januar. 1648, was buried the day following in the cath. church of Peterborough. In the year 1660 were four of his sermons published in octavo, one of which was preached at the bap¬ tism of James earl of Northampton, and another at the fu¬ neral of William earl of that place. 4 [Jo. Towers electus socius coll. Regin. Cambr. virtute regiae dispens. Mar. 15, 1607: admissus S. T. P. regiis literis Dec. 13, 1624. Baker. He was prebend of S'. Peter’s Westminster 1634. Newcourt, Repertor. i. 926.]
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