Elizabethan Oxford : reprints of rare tracts / edited by Charles Plummer.

Date:
1887
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    first printed by Nichols from Brit. Mus. MS. Harl. 7^33 The text of Nichols was carefully collated with the MS. by Mr. Madan; and the results of this comparison appear occasionally in the notes marked M. The other notes have been reprinted with considerable abridgement from Nichols. A few references enclosed in square brackets have been added by myself. Of Richard Stephens, the compiler of the second of these two pieces, I have been able to discover no certain trace. There was a Corpus man of that name who took his B.A. in 1568, and became Fellow of Corpus in 1569^. Of Bishop Robinson the most complete Biography is in Cooper’s Athenae Cantabrigienses from which I borrow the following facts:—Nicholas Robinson was born at Aber- conwy, and educated at Queens’ College, Cambridge. He proceeded B.A. 1547-8, and soon after became Fellow of his College. In 1551 he commenced M.A., was /Bursar of his College 1551-3, and Proctor of the University i55^* In 1555 he subscribed the Roman Catholic articles, and was ordained March i55f. In 1557-8 he was Dean of his College. About 1559 Archbishop Parker made him one of his chaplains. In June 1562 he became Archdeacon of Merioneth, and in that capacity sat in the Convocation of 1562-3. He subscribed the thirty-nine articles. He was at Cambridge during the Queen’s visit in 1564, and has written an account of the proceedings on that occasion^. He was created D.D. by special grace, April 1566, and in the same year was elected Bishop of Bangor under a license tested, Cambridge, July 30. His election was assented to by the Queen, Sept. 15, and confirmed by the Archbishop Oct. 5. On the 20th of the latter month he was consecrated at Lambeth. A year later he reported to Cecil on the pre- ^ The ‘ Brief Rehearsal ’ was not reprinted by Nichols in his second edition. 2 Boase, p. 270. 3 L pp. 503-5. * Commentarii Hexameri Rerum Cantabrigise actarum, &c. In Nichols ed. I, III. 27-134.