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 other things, I know not.3 See more in these Fasti, among the creations, an. 1636. Monsieur Jam. des Chempes, orator of the most Chris¬ tian king, was also incorporated M. of A. as he had formerly stood in the univ. or academy of Dividon (Dividonensis.) All which honourable persons were incorporated with Anton. Rusaeus, before-mention’d, on the 25 Aug. Jan. 18. Gilb. Primerose M. of A. of the university of S. Andrew in Scotland.— See more among the creations fol¬ lowing. 19. Ranulph Adams a Scot, hatch, of arts of the said university. Feb. 24. Joh. Vicars batch, of arts of Cambridge, now a commoner of Line. coll. Creations. Aug. 25. The honourable James de la Mariniere baron of Montmartin, Gruchy, Borrivet, le Vignies and Guhebert, ordinary prefect of the horse belonging to the most Chris¬ tian king, was actually created master of arts. Will. Browne of Exeter coll, had leave then given to him to be actually created M. of A. but ’twas not put in execution till 16 Nov. following.—He is stiled in the public register, f vir omni humana literatura & bonarum artium cognitions instructus.’ This person is the celebrated poet whom I have mentioned among the writers, under the year 1624. Peregrine Langford had then also the degree of M. of A. given to him, when he would be pleased to come to the university for it.—On the 11th of Dec. following, he sup¬ plicated the ven. congregation (being then absent) that his [230] creation might be deferred till Trinity term following; but whether he was then created, it appears not. Jan. 18. Gilb. Primerose mention’d before among the incorporations, was actually created D. of D. in the house of convocation (just after he had been incorporated) by vir¬ tue of the 4 letters of the chancellor of this university, wherein is contained a large testimony of his singular pro¬ bity and great learning, and that he had spent twenty years in the study of theology, backed by recommendations from the king in consideration of his learning and worth. Pie was a Scotch man born, had been one of the French preachers of the Protestant church at Bourdeaux in France, but now of the French church in London, and chaplain in ordinary to the king. In 1628, Jul. 21, he was installed canon of Windsor in the place of Dr. John Buckridge promoted to the see of Ely, (for he had kept that dignity several years in c-ommendam with Rochester) which place he keeping till his death, Mr. Hugh Cressy sometimes of Merton coll, was designed by his majesty to succeed him, but was never in¬ stalled because he afterwards changed his religion. This Dr. Primerose hath written many things, as you may see in the Oxford Catalogue, among which are (1) Jacob’s Vow, op¬ posed to the Vows of Monks and Friars, Bergerac, 1610. oct. in 3 [The resolved Gentleman, translated out <f Spanishe into Englyshe by Lewes Lewkenor esquier. Lond. 1594. 4to. Ep. ded. to the lady Anne, countesse of Warwicke. —‘ in regard of your many honourable favours, and continuall redienesse to do me good in court since my first coming to her Ma’ties service, as also of the infinite obligations, which not only I, but also my father, and sundry of my friends do owe unto the memory of your noble deceased husbande and his most worthy and ever memorable brother. Rennet. A letter from him, in Latin, to Dr. Francis Anthony, on the merits of the latter’s aurum potabile, is printed in Assertio Medicina Chymicw et veri Pota- bilis Auri, Cantabr. 1610 : in this he mentions his brother Thomas Lewkenor who was a doctor of medicine.] 4 Reg. Conmcat. N. fol. 199. b. 4 tomes or vol. All which were written in good French, and the first vol. containing two books, was translated into English by John Bulteel a minister.—Lond. 1617. qu. (2) La Trompette de Sion, &c. Bergerac 1610. oct. in 18 ser¬ mons; translated into Latin under this title, Tuba Sionis, seu Exhortatio ad Pcenitentiam &; Jejunium. Dantsick. 1631. oct. (3) The righteous Man's Evils and the Lord's Deliver¬ ances. Lond. 1625. qu. in 9 sermons, (4) The Christian Man’s Tears and Christ's Comforts: a fast-sermon 7 Oct. 1624. on Matth. 5. 4. and on Luke 6. 21. Lond. 1625. in two parts, in tvv. (5) The Table of the Lord; whereof ] st. The ivliole Service is the living Bread, &c. Lond. 1626. oct. in 3 serm. &c. He paid his last debt to nature in his house in Chis- well-street near the Artillery-yard in the suburbs of Lon-, don, in Oct. or Nov. 1642; 5 leaving then behind him several sons, viz. (l) James Primerose doctor of physic. (2) Da¬ vid Primerose minister of the French church at Roan in Normandy.6 (3) Stephen, who was born 1606, Jan. 12 new stile: who after he came to age always rejected his fa¬ ther’s counsel, and would never follow’ any calling. After¬ wards he became a presumptuous and vain-glorious person, tlio’ very ignorant; did precipitate himself into divers and damnable heresies, would abuse his father at his own table in the presence of his elder brother and others, and would several times tell him that f Jesus Christ was to come to put division between father and children,’ &c. upon which account his father left him nothing in his will but six pence. (4) John Primerose born 24 Nov. 1608, w’ho had spent so much money at Paris, London, and in the Low Countries, that he could give him no more in his will. “ Of the same “ family of the Primerose’s was Gilb. Primerose, who was serjeant. surgeon to K. James 1. and surgeon to prince ” Henry.—See at the end of The First 14 Years of K. James, “ p. 47.” John Durie a Scotch man became a sojourner in the university, in the month of July this year, for the sake of the public library, but how long he continued there, I can- , not tell. He afterwards travelled into various countries beyond the seas, especially thro’ most parts of Germany, where he visited the chief recesses of the muses, and by long continuance spoke the German tongue so well and fluent, that many English men after his return took him to be a German native. He was by profession a divine, was in orders and a preacher; but whether he took them accord¬ ing to the church of England, which he always scrupled, it doth not appear. He was a great pretender towards the making of a reconciliation between the Calvinists and Lu¬ therans beyond the seas, or as he himself used to say. For the making and settling a Protestant union and peace in the churches beyond the seas, &c. In which work he received encouragement 7 from arehb. Laud, though Prynne, his in¬ veterate enemy, saith 8 not, but found so small encourage¬ ment from him, that he oft complained thereof to his friends. You may be pleased to see more of these matters, and of various transactions of the life of the said Durie in a letter written by him to his ancient acquaintance Sam. Hartlib esq; w’ho published it (when the said Durie fell into 5 [Obiit 1643. Rennet.] 6 [D. P. S. T. B. Oxon. incorporat. Cantabr. 1624—Rcgr. Baker. A Treatise of the Sabbath and the Lord’s Day in IV Parts ivherein is declared both the Nature, Originall, and Observation as well of the one under the Old, as of the other under the New Testam‘ written in Trench by David Primrose batch, in div. in the univ. of Oxford and mine of the Gospel in the Protestant Church of Roan—Englished out of 'his Trench MS. by his Father G.P. D. D. Lond. 1636* 4to. Tan neb.] 7 Canterbury's Doom, printed 1646. p. 539. 8 Ibid, p.541.
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