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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    time and after he suffered much for the royal cause. You may see more of him in the wicked libel entit. The first Cen- [229] tury of scandulous, malignant Priests, &c. p. 8. There was one Dr. Cotesford son of Amie Robinson, half sister to Will. Laud, archbishop of Canterbury. See the History of his Troubles and Tryal. Thomas Campion M. of A.—One of both his names was an admired poet and musician in the reign of K. Jam. I. and hath the honour to be named by the learned Cambden, with Spencer, Sidney, Drayton, and other the chief of our English poets.9 In the Oxford Catalogue you may see the titles of some of his books, and among them Songs on the untimely Death of Prince Henry, pricked out to the Lute or Viol by Joh. Coprario.1 Which Coprario by the way, I 9 [Phillips, in his Thestrum Poetarum 8vo. 1675, page 174, notices this as an honour Campion did not deserve, and calls him * a writer of no extraor¬ dinary fame.’] 1 [5'ongs of Mourning: Bewailing the mtimely Death of Prince Henry. Warded by Tho. Campion. And set forth to bee sung with one Voyce to the Lute or Violl: By John Coprario. London: Printed for John Browne, 8c c. 1613, folio, with musical notes, containing pp. 20. Campion’s other works weie: The Description of a Maske, presented before the Kinges Maiestie at White-hall, on Twelfth Night last, in honour of the Lord Hayes, and his Bride, Daughter and Heire to the Honourable the Lord Dennye; their Mairiage hauing been the same Day at Court solemnized. 1607, 4to. A Relation of the late rovall Entertainment given by the right honorable the Lord Knowles, at Cawsome house neere Redding: to our most gracious Queene, Queene Anne, in her Progresse toward the Bathe, vpon the seuen and eight and twentie Dayes of Aprill, 1613, 4to. The Description of a Maske: presented in the Banqueting-roome at Whitehall, on Saint Stephen's Night last, at the Mariage of the right Honourable the Earl of Somerset, and the right Noble the Lady Frances Howard. 1614, 4to. Epigrammatum Libri II. Vmbra. Elegiarum liber mus. 1619, 12mo. A new Way of making foure Parts in Counter-point, by a most familiar and infallible Ride, Secondly, a necessary Discourse of Keyes and their proper Closes. Thirdly, the allowed Passages of all Cmicoi-ds perfect, or impeifect, are declared. Also by way of Preface, the Nature of the Scale is expressed, with a brief e Method teaching to sing. Pr. by T. S. for John Browne, n. d. oct. Reprinted as The Art of setting or composing Musick in Parts, at the end of Playford’s Introduc¬ tion, 1660: as also the Art of Descant, & c. 1674, 8vo. and again without date. In addition to these pieces Campion was author of a small tract now very rare. Observations in the Art of English Poesie, 8°. Lond. 1602, reprinted 1815. This gave rise to Daniel’s Defence of Rhyme 1603. Campion’s object was to prove that the English tongue was capable of admitting as many and various measures as the Greek and Latin, and to explode what he terms * the childish titilatiou of riming.’ I shall give an example of his practice, from page 31. ‘ Rose-cheekt Lawra, come; Sing thou smoothly with thy beawties, , Silent musick, either other Sweet ely gracing. Lovely formes do 11 owe From concent deuinely framed, Hau’n is musick, and thy beawtie’s Birth is heauenly. V . These dull notes we sing, Discords neede for helps to grace them, Only beawly, purely louing, Knowes no discord; But still mooues delight. Like cleare springs renu’d by flowing, Euer perfet, euer in them— selues eternall.’ The miscellaneous poems by Campion, that are known, consist of A Hymne in praise of Neptune sung by Amphitryte Thamesis, and other sea Nimphes in Grayes Inn Maske, at the Court, 1594; and three other poems, inserted in Davison’s Poetical Rapsodie 1602. three pieces, highly poetical, written about that period, first printed by Sir Egerton Brydges, in tiie Lxceipta Tu- doricma 1814. oct. Commendatory verses before the Ayres by Alfonso Ferrabosco 1609 ; oct. Larnaby Barnes’s Foure Bookes of Offices, Lend. lo06, lol. and A Briefe Discourse of the true (but neglected) vse of Charact'ring the Degrees by their Perfection, Imperfection, and Diminution, in measurable Musicke, Ac. by would have the reader to understand, was not a foreigner, but an English man born, who having spent much of his time in Italy, changed his name from Cooper to Coprario (by which last he was so called in Italy) being in his time much admired for his composition of Fancies of various parts. As for the said Thomas Campion the poet I take him to be too soon for Tho. Campion M. of A. of Cambridge.2 Joh. Farmery LL. D.—He was about this time Chan¬ cellor of the dioc. of Lincoln, was a burgess for the city of Lincoln to sit in that parliament which began at West¬ minster 13 Apr. 1640, and died in 1647. One Joh. Far¬ mery batch, of div. succeeded Dr. Tho. Sparke in the arch¬ deaconry of Stow in Apr. 15S2, whom I take to be'uncle to the former, who was son of Will. Farmery of Ileapham in Lincolnshire. Francis Foxton D. of D. Will. Lincolne D. of D. All which, were, I say, incorporated 13 July, being of the number of 35 at least who were then taken into the bo¬ som of this university. Oct. 11. Lancelot Lowther batch, of arts of Trin. coll, near Dublin.—One of both his names was admitted M. of A. as a member of Oriel coll. 21 Jan. 1616. July 27- Mich. Jermin D. of D. of Leyden in Holland.— He was lately of C. C. coll, in this university. Aug. 25. The right honourable and most excellent An- tonius Rus^sus marquess of Fiat, lord of Chelly and Lon- gimeau, &c. privy counsellor to the most Christian king of France, chief master of the said king’s horse, master of the mines within the said kingdom, and ambassador extraordinary from the said most Christian king to the king of England, was incorporated master of arts; with which degree he had lately been adorned at Cambridge. “ This Anthony mar- “ quess of Fiat was a learned man, and when he was am- ” bassador here in England he was taken with an extraor- “ dinary desire of seeing the most noble and learned Francis Bacon, vise. St. Albans, then in his declension; which “ being effected to his desire, there was afterwards con- tracted such an intimate acquaintance between them, that “ there passed letters between them written one to the other under the name of father and son. See Dr. Will. “ Ilawleigh in the Life of Lord Bacon. The right honourable Robert Rich earl of Warwick, baron of Leighs, knight of the Bath, &c. was incorporated M. of A. to which degree he was lately admitted at Cam¬ bridge.—He afterwards sided with the parliament in the time of the grand rebellion, and was their admiral at sea for a time. Sir Gasfard d’Algre knight, count of Beau-voir, baron of Vivroux, La Croste, Baffle, St. Desire, S. Marcel, Cor- nusset, Parnassout, Bruges, Sauset, captain of 50 chevaliers by the ordination of the most Christian king, was also in¬ corporated in the same degree, to which he had been lately admitted at Cambridge. Sir Lewes Lewk.nore knight, master of the ceremonies to king Jam. 1. and M. of A. of Cambridge.—Whether he be the same Lew. Lewknore who translated from Spanish into English, The resolved Gentleman, printed 1594 in qu. Thomas Ravenscroft, 1614, 4to. There is also a song by him, reprinted by Mr. Haslevvood, from the Logonomia Anglica Ccnscripta ab Alexandro Gill. 1621. qto.] 2 [Thomas C inpion the poet was certainly educated at Cambridge; and is supposed, by Mr. Haslewood, ‘ to be the Thomas Campion, ot London, Gen¬ tleman, who made his will, dated October the 29th, 1621, which was proved on his decease, in the Consistory Court of Canterbury January 1623.’ See Ancient critical Essays upon English Poets and Poesy. 1815. Vol. II. p xiii 1 2£*
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