Volume 2

Athenæ Oxonienses. : An exact history of all the writers and bishops who have had their education in the most antient and famous University of Oxford, from the fifteenth year of King Henry the Seventh, A.D. 1500, to the author's death in November 1695. Representing the birth, fortune, preferment, and death of all those authors and prelates, the great accidents of their lives, and the fate and character of their writings. To which are added, the fasti, or annals, of the said University / By Anthony Wood.

  • Wood, Anthony à, 1632-1695.
Date:
1721
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Credit: Athenæ Oxonienses. : An exact history of all the writers and bishops who have had their education in the most antient and famous University of Oxford, from the fifteenth year of King Henry the Seventh, A.D. 1500, to the author's death in November 1695. Representing the birth, fortune, preferment, and death of all those authors and prelates, the great accidents of their lives, and the fate and character of their writings. To which are added, the fasti, or annals, of the said University / By Anthony Wood. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    learning and do&rine of Dr. Prideaux the King’s Pro- feft'or of Divinity, entred himfelf a Sojourner of Exeter Coll, in 1623, was incorporated Matter of Arts in the latter end of, that Year, and foon after performed the exercife for the Degree of Bach, of Divinity : Which being done to the great liking of all the Auditory, Prideaux openly faid before them in the Divinity School, thus, Accepimus refponfionem tuam, mi fit, tan- quam ad-ventantis Veris gratiffimam primarn rofam. Our Author Primerofe hath written, Tbefes Theologies de peccato in genere if fpecie. Genev 162.0. qu. Thef. Theol. de necejjitate Satisfailionis pro peccatis per Chriftum. Salmur. 162.0. qu. Difputatio Tfheologica de divina prsdefinatione, if an- nexis articulis, amplitudine mortis Chrifii, vi if efficacia gratia Dei, if ufu liberi arbitrii in converfionis negotio, &c. Baf. 162.1. Treatife of the Sabbath, and the Lord’s-day, the nature and the original of both.-printed 1636- qu. with other things which I have not yet feen. After Clar. he had left Oxon he retired into France, and became 1642. Minifter of the Proteftant Church at Roan in Normandy, where I find him in fixteen hundred forty and two. How long afterwards he lived, or when, or where, he died, I know not, nor can I yet learn of any Per- fon, tho’ many that have been in thofe Parts have told me that he was efteemed one of the learnedefl reformed Divines in France. AARON STREATER, Son of John Streater of Lewis in Suffex, became a Batler or Commoner of S. Alb. Hall in 1616, aged 16 Years, left it without a Degree, entred into holy Orders, and being a fanta- ilical Perfon ftudied Phyfic, and pretended to be a li- cenfed Phyfician of Oxon, tho’ it doth not in the leaf! appear fo from the Regifters. He hath written, Of an Ague and the curing thereof, whether §>uo- Clar. tidian, Tertian, or Quartan, dec. printed 1641. 1642. Letter fent to the Lord-Mayor and his venerable Brethren, by no Atheift, no Papift, (fc. Lond. i<54Z, in one fh. in qu. There was one John Streater Comptroller of the Or¬ dinance, who publifhed a Letter to his Excellency the 'Lord Fleetwood, Lond. 1679, in half a fheet. 34 t THOMAS SALESBURY, Son and Heir of Sir Hen. Salesbury Bart, was born of an antient and genteel Family of his name living at Leweni near Den¬ bigh in Denbighffhire, became a Gentleman Com. of Je- fus Coll, about the beginning of the Reign of K. Ch. I. but taking no Degree, he retired (after he had feen the Vanities of the great City) to his Patrimony j and having a natural geny to Poetry and Romance, exer- cifed himfelf much in thofe juvenile Studies, and at length became a moft noted Poet of his time, as it partly appears in this Book following, which he wrote and publifhed : The Hiftory of Jofeph. Lond. 163 -printed in EngliJhVerfe in 13 Chapters, and all contained in about 16 Sheets in Quarto. Daniel Cudmore Gent, did alfo exercife his Mufe on the fame Subject fome Years after : And in Profe, that Hiftory is written by feveral Per- fons in divers Languages, efpecially in that of the Trench, which being tranflated into Englijh by Sir Will. Lower a Corniffh Knight, was printed at London 16ff, o6h This Sir William, who was a noted Poet, was Son of John Lower of Tremere, a younger Son of Sir Will. Lower of St. Winnow in Cornwal, and died at London about the beginning of the Year 1662, but where buried, unlefs in the Parifh Church of S. Cle¬ ments Danes within the Liberty of Wcjlminjler, where his Uncle Tho. Lower Efqj (to whom he was Heir) was buried zi Mar. i<56b, after he had lain dead fince the fth of Feb. going before, I know not. What o- ther things our Author Salesbury hath written and publifhed, I cannot tell, nor any thing elfe of him, only that he, as formerly a Member ofjefus Coil, was among feveral Perfons of Quality actually created Doctor of the Civil Law of this Univerfity in the Year 1642, he being then a Baronet; and that departing 1643. this mortal Life in the Summer time (before the Month of Aaguff) in fixteen hundred forty and three. (at which time he left behind him a Widow named ITefter) was, as I iuppole, buried in the Vault \s\ Whit¬ church joining to Leweni before-mentioned, near to the body of his Father Sir Henry, who died 2 Aug 16^ The Reader is to know, that there hath been one Tho. Salusbury, who tranflated into Englifb, The lear¬ ned Man defended and reformed, dec. Lond. 1660. o6t written originally in the Italian Tongue by Dan Bar- tolus a learned Jefuit j as alfo Mathematical Collections, from Gal. Galilai, &c. but his lirname differing in one Letter from Salesbury, he mull not be taken to be the fame with Sir Thomas before-mentioned, who was in nme before him, and an a&ive Man in the King’s Caufe in the beginning of the Rebellion 1642, for whicn? tho he died foon after^ his Family notwith- Handing fuffer’d for it. JOHN FI A M D E N, Son of a Father of both his Names, by Elizabeth his Wife, Sifter to Sir Oliver Cromwell of Hinchinbroke in Huntingdonffhire Knight of the Bath, was born (s) in London, but defeended from an antient and genteel Family living at Hamden inBuck- inghamfhire, became a Commoner of Magd. Coll, in the Year 1609, aged if Years, but leaving the Univerfity without a Degree, he went to the Inns of Court, where he made confiderable Proficiency in the Municipal Law. At riper Years he receded to his Patrimony, and was ufually chofen (after he had ferved in that Parliament which began at Weftminfter 3 Feb. i6zy ) a Parliament Man for the fucceding Parliaments during the Reign of King Charles I. in which being noted for his A&ivity and Parts, became with Pym, Strode, dec. Parliament Drivers, or Swayers in all the Parlia¬ ments wherein they fate. And Hamden being a Perfon of antimonarchical Principles, he did not only ride, for feveral Years before the Grand Rebellion broke out, into Scotland, to keep confults with the covenanting Brethren there, but kepc his Circuits to feveral Puri¬ tanical Houfes in England, particularly to that of (/) Knightley in Northamptonshire, and alfo to that of Will. Lord Say at Broughton near Banbury in Oxfordshire} where, as at other places, the meeting of the Brethren being numerous, they had their Council-Tables, ifc. See more in Will.Fienneshord Say. In 1637, he the faid Jo. Hamden refufed to pay the Tax laid upon him, to¬ wards the finding a Ship of fuch or fuch Tuns at Sea : And his cafe being argued in the Exchequer-Chamber in December the fame Year, by Oliver St. John of Lincoln's- Inn j Hamden thereupon was efteemed the Goliah of the Puritanical and Fa&ious Party, and St. John to be remarkable for his intricate knowledge in the Law In the beginning of the Long Parliament, which began 3 Nov 1640, he was appointed one of the Committee to prepare a Charge againft the moft noble Thomas Earl of Strafford, and foon after one of the Managers of the Evidence againft him. On the 3d of Jan 1641, his Majefty exhibited Articles againft Edward Lord Kim- bolt on (afterwards Earl of MancheSer) and five Mem¬ bers of the Houfe of Commons, of which Hamden was one, for endeavouring to fubvert the fundamental Laws and Government of this Kingdom, and to de¬ prive his Majefty of his regal Power, ifc. Of which matter Hamden (after he had avoided the Parliament- Houfe the next day to prevent a feifure on his Perfon ) endeavoured to free himfelf foon after in a fet Speech. Afterwards he was appointed one of the Committee to expedite the Charge againft Dr. Will. Laud Archbiihop of Canterbury, and about that time took a Commiflion from the Parliament to be Colonel of a Regiment of Ho rfe in the Army that was raifed to fight againft the King, under the Command of Robert Earl of Effex the General^ in which Army he openly appeared, and did good Service for the Caufe at the Battle of Keyn- ton alias Edghill. In the beginning of 1643, he being by that time grown wonderful popular, it was noifed about the great City that the faid-Earl of Effex was to leave his place of General, and Hamden, as a Man more a&ive, was to fucceed him, being a Perfon efteemed (s) Lib. Matric. Uiiiv. Oxen. P. pag. ioj.. (t) See in a Book entif, Prrftcuiio undteimn: or, the Churches el*7enth Periccution, tf-c—printed 1648, inqu. chap. 7, by