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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    Jul. 6. Will. Foster of St. John’s coll. Oct. 29. Joh. Foxcroft of Magd. hall.—He was after¬ wards minister of Gotham in Nottinghamshire 5 where he [206] continued a puritanical preacher several years. At length closing with the presbyterians when they grew dominant in 1641, he was chosen one of the assembly of divines two years after. So that residing mostly in London in the war time, (upon pretence of being molested by the cavaliers at Gotham) became a frequent preacher there. He hath pub¬ lished The Good of a good Government, and well grounded Peace, a fast-sermon before the H. of commons on Isa. 32. 1, 2. Lond. 1646, qu. and perhaps other things. Quaere. Jan. 21. Henry Ramsden of Magd. hall. Feb. 4. Rich. Toogood of Or. coll. 13. Joh. Atkins of St. Edm. hall.—Whether he took the degree of batch, of arts, I cannot yet find3 how¬ ever it appears, that one of both his names, entitled master of arts, was admitted rector of North Perrot in Somerset¬ shire, in the beginning of May 1618, who published The Christian’s Race, &c. serm. on Heb. 12. part of the first and second verse, Lond. 1624, qu. and not unlikely other things. We have had several of both his names, but before him in time, yet never took the degree of M. of A. Admitted about 105. Batchelors of Divinity. May 8. Rich. Corbet of Ch. Ch. 19. Rob. S ANDERSON of Line. Coll. 30. Edw. Chaloner of All-s. coll. Jun. 18. Hen. Jackson of C. C. coll. Jul. 11. George Webb of C. C. coll. Admitted 24. Doctor of Law. Jul. 11. John Cradock of New coll, a compounder, and now much in esteem for his great knowledge in the civil law.9 Doctor of Physic. Jul. 16. Ralph Baylie of New coll.-—He was afterwards an eminent practitioner in the city of Bath, where he lived many years in good repute, and dying in 1645, was buried at Widcombe near that city. Doctors of Divinity. May 8. Will. Osbaldeston of Ch. Ch. George Hamden of Ch. Ch. Rich. Corbet of Ch. Ch. The last of which accumulated the degrees in divinity. -Rich. Lloyd of Line. coll.—He ivas about this time dignified in Wales, and dying at Ruabon in Denbigh¬ shire (of which place I think he was minister) about 1642, was buried there. Jun. ult. Samps. Price of Ex. coll. Jul. 7. Rich. Tillesly of St. Joh. coll. Joh. Tapsell of Mert. coll. This Joh. Tapsell, who was the son of Rob. Tapsell, was born at Garsingdon near to, and in the county of Oxon, about the beginning of Febr. 1571, admitted prob. fellow of the said house of ^Merton, an. 1593, took the degrees in arts, being then accounted a most excellent disputant and orator, and a person of prodigious memory. I11 1599, Jul. 9, he according to the statute of his coll, did publicly dis- 9 [10 Jun. 1616, lord chancellor Egerton pres. Jo. Cradock LL. B. to ye rectory of Burdam in Sussex. Tanner.] pute and speak speeches against the opinion of Aristotle (which the said statute stiles varying) in the common refec¬ tory of that house, on these three theses, (1) Juvenis est idoneus auditor moralis philosophise. (2) Probanda est in sene verecundia. (3) Bonus a malo per dimidiam vitse per- tem differt. Which speeches being esteemed most admira¬ ble in their kind, and of a Ciceronian stile, were, upon the desire of many of the auditors, printed in an octavo vol. but in what year I know not 3 for few copies being printed, I could never see one. He was afterwards a lecturer in the city of York, and at length in London, 1 where he died about 1630. July 9. John Holt of C. C. coll. 12. Dan. Featly of C C. coll. The first of these last two, was prebendary of Westmin¬ ster, and afterwards president of the said coll, of C. C.1 He died 10 Jan. 1630, and was buried in the church of St. Peter at Westminster : whereupon Dr. Lodowick Weems or Wemmys succeeded him in his prebendship. As for the other. Dr. Featly alias Fairclough, there will be large men¬ tion made of him in another vol. Dec. 16. Francis Gibbons of Ch. Ch.—He died in the parish of St. Cross (of which he was parson) near to Shrews¬ bury, 3 in 1639, or thereabouts. Incorporations. July 14. Arthur Lake M. A. of Catnb.—He was son, if I mistake not, to sir Tho. Lake one of the secretaries of state. These following masters of Cambr. were incorporated on the 15th of July, being the next day after the act had been concluded. Thomas Goad mast, of arts of King’s coll.—He was af¬ terwards chaplain to archb. Abbot, rector of Hadley in Suf¬ folk, doct. of div. prebendary of Canterbury, &c. a great and general scholar, exact critic and historian, a poet, school¬ man and divine.4 This person, who was son of Dr. Roger Goad provost of King’s coll, before-mention’d, died in the year 1636, or thereabouts.5 Another Tho. Goad was doc- [207] tor of the laws, and the king’s professor of that faculty in Cambridge, who died about the beginning of 1666. Of one Tho. Goad see in the pamphlet entit. A Century of scandalous, malignant Priests, &c. p. 27. Benj. Laney M. of arts.—He was the fourth son of a 1 [Joh. Tapsall was rector of the church of S. Mary Hill, Lond. and Mary his relict presented Samuel Baker S. T. B. to the said church 5 July 1637. Kennet.J 2 [Ld ch. Egerton presented him A. M. to ye rectory of Ewhurst, Surrey, Apr. 1613 ; and to the ye rectory ofWelbury in Yorksh. 1612. Tanneh.] 3 [Fr. Gibb. S. th. B. pres, by lordchanc. Egerton toyerect. of Aberdain, Angle, vac. per prom. Hen. Rowlands e’pi Bang. Tanner.] 4 [Tho. Goad S. T. P. admiss. ad precent. Paul, 16 Febr. 1617, per mort. Jo. Duport. Successit Tho. Wykes S. T. B. 27 Aug. 1638, per mort. Tho. Goad. Dr. Tho. Goad was made dean of Booking jointly with Dr. Jo. Barkham, 22 Octob. 1633. He was rector of Black Notley, which he kept to his death 1638. Stimulus Orthodoxus: Sive Goadus redivivus. A Disputation partly theological partly metaphysical concerning the Necessity and Contingency of Events in the Wm-ld, in respect of God's eternal Decree, written above twenty Years since by that rev. and learned Divine, Thomas Goad Dr. of Divinity, and Rectos- of Haclleigh in Suffolk. Lond. for Will. Leake, 1669, 4to. with a preface by J. G. beginning —Christian reader, this piece which I here propose to thy view was the only remain (that I know of) of that reverend divine, &c. Rennet. Preb. of Wolverhampton. Tanner. Tho. Goad scripsit Eclogas, et Musas Virgiferas ac Juridicas, Cantab. 1634, 8vo. Fatis cessit 8vo. Augusti 1638. Ex Epitaphio in templo de Hadleigh, Suffolk. Baker.] 5 [Not in 1636, but 1638. Kennet.] 2 B* 2
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