expressions. But before the book was printed off, Mr Gunning (who had the ushering of it to the press) had smelt out some odd objections, and as he was not at all retentive, sent them over freely to Paris, in the doctor's opinion at an 5 unseasonable time and in no very friendly manner. This occasioned some expostulations, answers and replies, and as both of them were naturally vehement in their temper, the controversy was managed with warmth enough. The objections cannot be stated in a narrow compass, and the 10 truth of it is, I do not very well understand them; but as far as I apprehend, the doctor had the advantage in the argument and Mr Gunning's objections (if they had been printed) would not have shaken the authority of that excellent book. I have been told that Mr Gunning when bishop 15 of Chichester and Ely always had the same objections, perhaps improved and grown up to greater strength: it seems he did not think fit to make them public, and so that controversy being happily buried, I shall let it rest with the authors of it, who are now in peace and both now 20 see clearly what one of them at least did not then comprehend.

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Other adversaries he had to some of his notions and opinions, which though they might be true, yet were not all of them so commonly received. But he was so fair as to suffer his private opinions to be disputed whilst he moderated in the chair, where they lost nothing by his way of maintaining them, where he met every argument in its full force, and never dismissed any without an answer.

CATALOGUS EPISCOPORUM

QUI E COLLEGIO DIVI JOANNIS EVANGELISTÆ

PRODIERUNT.

ROBERTUS HOLGATE' S.T.P. prior S. Maria Watte ordinis Gilbertini consecratur episcopus Landavensis Mar. 25 an. 1537, dein provectus ad archiepiscopatum Eboracensem an. 1544. Joannensem fuisse perhibet MS. Tenisonianum, sed valde dubito. Quidam Robertus Hol- 5 gate Éboracensis admissus fuit socius pro domina fundatrice3 Mar. 21 an. 1561, qui si filius fuerit archiepiscopi, argumento est patrem prodiisse ex eodem collegio.

GEO. DAY' filius natu tertius Ricardi Day de Newport in com. Salop. gen., admissus socius coll. Jo. pro episcopo 10 Roffensi Sept. 19, 1522, S.T.P. 1537, admissus præfectus coll. Jo. Jul. 27 eodem anno, præpositus coll. Regal. Jun. 5 an. 1538, ubi resignavit (abdicavit potius) officium Oct. 2, 1547. Orator academiæ primus a primo, procancellarius an. 1538. Decretum sive sententia academiæ Cantabrigi- 15 ensis de potestate Romani pontificis an. 1534 scripta est ab eo, tunc oratore publico et strenuo suprematus regii assertore, quo viam munivit ad episcopatum Cicestrensem, primus (ni fallor) inter Joannenses qui mitra fulsit episcopali. Exauctoratus ab Edvardo Sexto, restitutus 20 sub Maria regina. Obiit Aug. 2, 1556. TestamentoR suo

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dat. Jul. 28, 1556, legat collegio D. Jo. Biblia Complutensia (ornamenta nonnulla contulerat prius capella) ac Chrysostomum et Clementem Alexandr. Græc. coll. Regali.

JOANNES TAYLER' artium bac. an. 1523; admissus socius collegii Regin. circa annum 1524; procurator academiæ an. 1532-32; institutus rector ecclesiæ Sti. Petri Cornhill April 14, 1536; S.T.P. an. 1538; et eodem anno Jul. 4 electus magister collegii Jo.; decanus prius, dein episcopus 10 Lincoln., consecratus Jun. 26, 1552: detrusus inde (cum integrum annum nondum consederat) sub Maria regina, ob nullitatem consecrationis ejus et defectum tituli, uti perhibet registrum3 Cantuar. Obiit brevi postea Ankerwici in domo Thomæ Smith militis, amici sui et olim consocii 15 in collegio Reginali.

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RADULPHUS BAYNS' Eboracensis, artium bac. an. 15178, incipit in artibus an. 1521; admissus socius coll. Jo. circa eundem annum pro episcopo Roffensi. Rebus collegii fluctuantibus recessit, fitque Hebraicarum literarum profes20 sor regius Lutetiæ regnante Francisco primo insigni literarum patrono, ibique floruit usque ad annum 1554. Circa id tempus rediit in Angliam regnante Maria, fitque episcopus Cov. et Lich. Mar. 3, 1554-5; S.T.P. eodem anno per gratiam: conceditur enim Mro. Bane, ut possit admitti 25 extra academiam, vel a summo nostro cancellario Wintoniensi episcopo, Dunelmensi vel Cicestrensi. Sub regina Elizabetha exauctoratus (in causa suprematus) Jun. 21, 1559, brevi postea calculo extinctus est Londini eodem anno, Januario exeunte, sepultus in ecclesia Sti. Dunstani 30 occidentali.

Scripsit commentarios eruditos in Proverbia Salomonis,

1 An. 1552.

2 Regr. acad.

3 V. Specimen, p. 133.

4 An. 1554-5.

5 Rad. Bayne, A.B. Ebor. dioc. admissus erat presbyter ad tit. coll. S. Jo. Cant. April. 23 an. 1519. Regr. Elien,

6 Electus episcopus Lich. an. 1554; regina assensum suum adhibuit Nov. 10 an. 1554, temporalia restituit Decemb. 6, 1554, primitias et decimas remisit eodem anno, Rymer [XV. 407, 408, 410]. 7 Regr. acad.

excusos Parisiis an. 1553, et inscriptos Henrico 2do Galliarum regi, recusos an. 1660 inter Criticos Sacros, uti optime merentur.

THOMAS WATSON' dioc. Dunelmensis, artium bac. an. 1532-3, admissus socius collegii Jo. circa annum 1533 pro 5 Mro. Ashton; incipit in artibus an. 1535-6, admissus præfectus coll. Jo. per procuratorem suum Chr. Brown Sept. 28, an. 1553; decanus Dunelmensis Nov. 18 eodem anno; S.T.P. an. 1554; designatus a card. Polo inter alios ad visitandam academiam Cant. anno 1556 exeunte, tunc elec- 10 tus episcopus Lincoln., consecratus postea an. 1557, amotus inde sub Elizabetha regina, et subinde turbis jactatus, tandem compingitur in arcem Wisbicensem3, ubi moritur circa annum 1584, ærumnis et annis gravis.

Juvenis adhuc contexuit tragoediam (Absalon) tam ac- 15 curate scriptam, ut reliquis omnibus placeret; sibi tamen non satisfecit, ac proinde noluit esse publici juris. Provectior ætate et jam episcopus Linc. edidit conciones de sacramentis, pro ea ætate satis comptas et ornatas, editis prius duabus concionibus quadragesimalibus in 8vo. Transtulit 20 in sermonem Angl. Cyprianum (Pseudocyprianum) de cena Domini, et forsitan alia quæ mihi videre non contigit. Erat sane vir doctissimus (teste Aschamo, qui optime norat) et politioris literaturæ restaurator egregius, una cum Redmanno, Checo aliisque consociis suis in collegio Jo., tunc 25 temporis florentissimo.

JOANNES CRISTOFORSON' Lancastriensis, natus in villa de Ulverston, se teste in testamento suo. Alumnus aulæ Pemb. Cant. prius, dein collegii D. Jo. sub tutela Joannis Redman; artium bac. an. 1540-1, admissus socius coll. Jo. 30 pro Mro. Ashton Maii 9, 1542, auctoritate episcopi Eliensis visitatoris collegii.

Incipit in artibus an. 1542-3, rominatus socius collegii

1 An. 1557.

2 Archiva coll.

3 An. 1580 una cum Joa. Yonge

S.T.P. olim consocio et aliis.

Lond. 1558. 4to.

5 MS. penes me.

6 An. 1557.

7 Dat. Oct. 6 an. 1556, probat.

Feb. 9, 1562.

8 Regr. Elien.

Trinitatis an. 1546 in ipsa charta fundationis. Post exteras regiones peragratas quinque annorum curriculo sumptibus collegii, reversus constituitur magister ejusdem collegii, suffectus a Maria regina in locum doctoris Bill a præfectura 5 detrusi an. 1553. Reginæ Mariæ a confessionibus et a sacris, decanus Norvicensis, admissus ibi April. 18, 1554, ac tandem episcopus Cicestrensis an. 1557. Obiit an. 1558, sepultus 28 die mensis Decembris ejusdem anni.

Transtulit vir doctissimus ac linguæ Græcæ peritissi10 mus in sermonem Latinum Philonis Judæi libros quatuor, excusos Antv. an. 1553, 4to, necnon Historiæ Ecclesiasticæ Scriptores, prius editos ab Edv. Godsalvo coll. Trin. socio, dein recognitos et illustratos a Suffrido Petro, et excusos Coloniæ Agripp. an. 1581 fol. Scripsit Anglice An Exhor15 tation against Rebellion, etc., rebellionem nempe Tho. Wyati militis (filii Tho. Wyat senioris, poetæ celeberrimi ac tam gentis quam collegii hujus ornamenti) excus. Londini an. 1554, 12mo. Habetur MS. Plutarchi Charonæi philosophi libellus de futili loquacitate, e Græco in Latinum a 20 Jo. Christophersono conversus, una cum textu Græco. Autographon auctoris extat inter MSS. A. Selleri.

THOMAS BOUCHER' alumnus collegii D. Jo., primo abbas2 Leicestrensis, dein episcopus Glocestrensis, designatus a regina Maria, electus est an. 1558 anno exeunte in locum 25 (ut videtur) Jacobi Brookes defuncti. Fallitur enim Godwinus, qui Jacobum Brookes obiisse perhibet an. 1559. Vacavit enim sedes Glocestr. per mortem naturalem Jacobi Brookes Sept. 7, 1558. Regina vero brevi postea extincta, electus iste (non consecratus) a sede sua detrusus est, una 30 cum duobus aliis episcopis electis ac etiam tertio aut electo

aut saltem nominato3.

EDWINUS SANDYS' natus in Furness Fells" in comitatu Lancastr., ex familia antiqua in agro Cumbr. apud villam

1 An. 1558.

9 Potius prior.

3 Vit. Jo. Roffen. MS.; Rymer, Acta Publica, Tom. XIV. p. 639, Joan. Bourchier; Tom. XV. p. 489.

4 An. 1559.

5 Regr. aul. Cath. In villa de Haukeshead, ubi scholam literariam instituit.