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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    May 12. Humph. Lloyd of Oriel coll. Jun. 4. Will. Eyre of Magd. hall. 16. Joh. Michel of Qu. coll, esq; a compounder, which is all 1 know of him. 27- George Ashwell of Wadh. coll. John Owen of Queen’s coll. Oct. 15. Dudley Digges of All-s. late of Univ. coll. Jun. 19. Edward Gamage of St. Edm. hall.—I take him to be the same Gamage, who was afterwards archdeacon of Landaff, in which dignity he was succeeded by Dr. George Bull an. 1686. Admitted 128. Batchelors of Physic. Seven were admitted, of whom Steph. Bridges of C. C. coll, was the senior, and Leonard Traherne of Pemb. coll, was the junior, but not one of them can I yet find, that was then or afterwards a writer. Batchelors of Divinity. June 6. Will. Evans of St. Mary’s hall—He had before this time published The Translation of the Book of Nature into the Use of Grace, a sermon on Rom. 12. 4, 5. Oxon. 1633. qu. Which is all I know of him only that he was living in 1660. 8. Edw. Stanley of New coll. Jul. 22. Joh. Gauden of Wad. coll. Dec. 12. Joseph Henshaw of Magd. hall. 17. Tho. Crosfield of Queen’s coll, a Westmorland “ man under whose name was publish’d, A Letter relating “ to the Martyrdom of Ketaban, Mother of Teimurases Prince “ of the Georgians, &;c. Ox. 1633. qu. with The Imposture “ of a Jesuit, written first in Greek, now done into English, by “ Tho. Crosfield, M. of A. Fellow of Qu. coll. Admitted 7- Doctors of Law. Jim. 13. George Riddell or Riddle of Qu. coll. Dec. 8. James Littleton of All-s. coll.—When he was chancellorship of the dioc. of Worcester, and dying in the times of usurpation, was succeeded in that office by Tim. Baldwin LL. D. Oliver Lloyd of All-s. coll, was •admitted the same day. {Cf* Not one doctor of physic was admitted this year. Doctors of Divinity. June 8. Edward Stanley of New coll. Dec. 8.. John Littleton of Jes. coll. The first of these two accumulated the degrees in divinity. Incorporations. Jun. 16. John Bugges a Londoner born, and doctor of phys. of Leyden. Jun-Matthew Thoris M. A. of Franeker in West- friezen.—This person, who was formerly of Pemb. coll, was also a Londoner born, and son of Mich. Thoris, which is all I know of him. Jul. 10. Joh. Silvius. Kentigern. Moravius. Ihese were both Scots and masters of arts of the univer¬ sity of St. Andrew. July .... Will. Day M. A. of Cambridge.3—He was a native of Windsor in Berks, and being educated in Eaton school, was thence transplanted to King’s coll, in the said university. Afterwards he became minister of Mapledur- 3 [W. D. adiniss. in King’s coll. 1623-4. Baker.] ham near Henly in Oxfordshire, and author of An Exposition of the Book of the Prophet Isaiah, [and on the Romans] 4 Lond. * and of other 1654. fol. and of * “A Paraphrase and Commen- things. First tary upon the Epistle of St. Paul to the Rom. “ Lond. 1666. fol. Ded. to Rich. Allestree <f D.D. provost of Eaton coll, and to Dr. James Fleetwood “ provost of King’s coll, in both which colleges Mr. Day “ was educated.” Oct. 20. Jeremiah Taylor M. A. of Cambr. soon after fellow of All-s. coll.—He will be at large mention’d in ano¬ ther volume. 30. Joh. Munlossius M. of A, of Bourdeaux in France. This year was incorporated master of arts John Milton, not that it appears so in the register, for the reason I have told you in the incorporations 1629, but from his own mouth to my friend,5 who was well acquainted with, and had from him, and from his relations after his death, most of this account of his life and writings following. (1) That he was born in Bread-street within the city of London, be¬ tween 6 and 7 a clock in the morning of the ninth of De- cemb. an. 1608. (2) That his father Joh. Milton, who was a scrivener living at the Spread-Eagle 6 in the said street, was a native of Halton in Oxfordshire, and his mother named Sarah was of the ancient family of the Bradshaws.7 (3) That his grandfather Milton whose Christian name was John, as he thinks, was an under-rangier or keeper of the forest of Shotover near to the said town of Halton, but de¬ scended from those of his name who had lived beyond all record at Milton near Halton and Thame in Oxfordshire.7 Which grandfather being a zealous papist, did put away, or, as some say, disinherit his son, because he was a Pro¬ testant, which made him retire to London, to seek, in a manner, his fortune. (4) That he the said John Milton the author, was educated mostly in Paul’s school under Alex. Gill senior, and thence at lb years of age was sent to Christ’s coll, in Cambridge,8 where he was put under the tuition of Will. Chappell, afterwards bishop of Ross in Ire¬ with him to sit up till midnight at his book, which was the first thing that brought his eyes into the danger of blind¬ ness. By this his indefatigable study he profited exceed- ingly, wrote then several poems, paraphras’d some of Da¬ vid’s Psalms, performed the collegiate and academical exercise to the admiration of all, and was esteemed to be a virtuous and sober person, yet not to be ignorant of his own parts. (5) That after he had taken the degrees in arts, he left the university of his own accord, and was not expelled for misdemeanors, as his adversaries have said. Where¬ upon retiring to his father’s house in the country, he spent some time in turning over Latin and Greek authors, and now and then made 9 excursions into the great city to buy 4 [Baker.] 5 [Loveday says that this friend was ‘ Mr. William Joyner, fellow some time of Magdalen college:’—He is however wrong in his conjecture; it was John Aubrey, whose account having been lately printed entire at the end of the Bodleian Letters, and in the Appendix to Godwin’s Lives of Edward and John Philips, X shall content myself with referring tlie reader to it as a great curiosity.] 6 The arms that Joh. Milton did use and seal his letters with, were, Argent a spread eagle with two heads gules, leggd and beak’d sable. 7 [I have, by the kindness of Mr. Ellis the vicar, inspected the register of Milton, but the name of Milton as a sirname, does not occur in any part of that document.] 8 [Jo. Milton coll. Chr. conv. 2. admissus in matriculam acad. Cantabr. Apr. 9, 1625. A. B. coll. Chr. 1628-9.—A. M. 1632. Reg. Baker.] 9 See in Job. Milton’s book entit. Defensio sccunda: edit. Hag. Com, 1654. p. 61, &c. [263]
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