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broken. To cover their cruelty, they gave it out A. D. 1514. that he hanged himself; but the coroner's inquest sitting on him, by necessary presumptions found the impossibility thereof, and gave in their verdict, that the said Hunne was murdered. Insomuch that Parsons hath nothing to reply, but that the coroners inquest were simple men, and suspected to be infected with Wickliffian heresies". But we remit the reader to Mr. Fox for satisfaction in all these things, whose commendable care is such, that he will not leave an hoof of a martyr behind him, being very large in the reckoning up of all sufferers in this kind.

July 14.

10. Cardinal Bainbridge, archbishop of York, being A. D. 1514. then at Rome, was so highly offended with Rinaldus Cardinal Bainbridge de Modena, an Italian, his steward, (others say his why poisonphysician, and a priest,) that he fairly cudgelled him. ed at Rome. This his passion was highly censured, as inconsistent with episcopal gravity, who should be no strikert. But the Italian shewed a cast of his country, and with poison sent the cardinal to answer for his fact in another world, whose body was buried in the English hospital at Rome".

[Fox, Acts, &c. II. p. 13. Burnet's Reform. I. p. 27.]

s Examination of Fox his Mart. for the month of Decemb. p. 279. 282.

t1 Tim. iii. 3.

church, he was in 1505 made Idean of Windsor and master of the rolls, in 1507 bishop of Durham, and next year archbishop of York. In 1511 the pope created him cardinal of S. Praxedis for the service which the archbishop had rendered him in persuading king Henry VIII. to take part with the pope in his wars against Lewis XII. of France. He was succeeded by Wolsey. the See Wood's Athenæ, I. p. 651.]

▾ Godwin de Præs. Ang. p. 700. [Christopher Bainbridge was born at Hilton near Appleby in Westmoreland, educated in Queen's college, Oxford, of which society he became provost. After holding several dignities in the

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pus-Christi

college in

Oxford.

11. Richard Fox, bishop of Winchester, founded VIII. and endowed Corpus-Christi college in Oxford, beThe found. stowing thereon lands to the yearly value of four ing of Cor: hundred and one pounds, eight shillings, and two pencew. And, whereas this foundation is charactered by an Oxford man to be ex omnibus minimum, vel certe ex minimis unum, at this day it acquitteth itself in more than a middle equipage amongst other foundations. Erasmus is very large in the praise thereof, highly affected with a library, and study of tongues, which, according to the founder's will, flourished therein; insomuch that for some time it was termed, The college of the three learned languages.

Est locus Oxonii, possum appellare trilingue

Musæum, a Christi Corpore nomen habensy.

Sure I am, that for all kind of learning, divine and human, this house is paramount for eminent persons bred therein.

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So that a president, twenty fellows, twenty scholars, A.D. 1516. two chaplains, two clerks, and two choristers, be- VIII. sides officers and servants of the foundation are therein maintained, which with other students, anno 1634, made up threescore and ten.

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12. This Hugh Oldham, in the front of bene- Hugh Oldfactors, because he was bishop of Exeter, for names- bounty. sake intended his bounty to Exeter college. But, suffering a repulse from that society, (refusing at his brequest to make one Atkin a fellow,) diverted his liberality to Corpus-Christi college; so bountiful thereunto, that, as founder is too much, so benefactor is too little for him. He was one of more piety than learning, courteous in his deeds, but very harsh and rugged in his speeches, making himself but bad orations, yet good orators, so many eloquent men were bred by his bounty. Nor let it be forgotten, that as Fox, the founder of this house, was fellow and master of Pembroke hall, so Oldham also had his education in Queen's college in Cambridge;

y John White, [Diacosiomartyrion, p. 86. ed. 1553.] z [Wood reckons twelve bishops to 1782.]

a See more of him anno 1584.

b Godwin in the bishops of Exeter, p. 473. [Holinshed, p. 839. The same writer gives the following account of Oldham's benefaction. "Bishop "Fox was of the mind and "determination to have made "the college for religious men. "But bishop Oldham (whether "it was because he favoured "not those sects of cloistered "monks, or whether he foresaw "any fall toward of those sects)

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A.D. 1516. so much hath Oxford been beholding to her nephew's 8 Henry VIII. or sister's children. But as once Ephron said to Abraham, What is that betwixt thee and mec? so, such their mutual affection, it matters not what favour one sister freely bestoweth on the other.

A. D. 1519.
Septemb. 4.

of dean

Colet.

13. John Colet, dean of Paul's, died this year, in The death the fifty-third year of his age, of a pestilential sweating, at Shene in Surrey. He was the eldest (and sole surviving) child of sir Henry Colet, mercer, twice lord mayor of London, who with his ten sons and as many daughters are depicted in a glass window on the north side of St. Anthony's, (corruptly St. Antlin's,) to which church he was a great benefactord. His son John founded the freeschool of St. Paul's, and it is hard to say, whether he left better laws for the government, or lands for maintenance thereof.

Paul's

school.

Founder of 14. A free-school indeed to all natives or foreigners of what country soever, here to have their education, (none being excluded by their nativity, which exclude not themselves by their unworthiness,) to the number of one hundred fifty and three, (so many fishes as were caught in the net by the apostles,) whereof every year some appearing most pregnant (by unpartial examination) have salaries allowed them for seven years, or until they get better preferment in the church or university.

The mercers made overseers thereof.

15. It may seem false Latin, that this Colet being dean of St. Paul's, the school dedicated to

c Gen. xxiii. 15.

d Stow's Survey. [According to Erasmus, he had eleven sons and eleven daughters, yet John Colet was the only one

surviving when Erasmus knew him. See Knight's Life of Colet.]

e John xxi. 11.

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St. Paul, and distanced but the breadth of the street A. D. 1519. from St. Paul's church, should not be entrusted to the inspection of his successors, the dean and chapter of Paul's, but committed to the care of the company of the mercers for the managing thereof. But Erasmus rendereth a good reason, from the mouth and mind of Colet himself, who had found by experience many laymen as conscientious as clergymen in discharging this trust in this kind, conceiving also that whole company was not so easy to be bowed to corruption as any single person, how eminent and public soever.

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16. For my own part, I behold Colet's act herein, Out of pronot only prudential, but something prophetical, as science. foreseeing the ruin of church lands, and fearing that this his school, if made an ecclesiastical appendant, might in the fall of church lands get a bruise, if not lose a limb thereby.

first school

17. William Lily was the first schoolmaster W. Lily thereof, by Colet's own appointment. An excellent master.

scholar, born at Odiham in Hampshire, and afterward he went on pilgrimage as far as Jerusalem: in his return through Italy he applied himself to his studies. And because some perchance would be pleased to know the Lilies of Lily, (I mean his teachers and instructors,) know that John Sulpitius and Pomponius Sabinus, two eminent critics, were his principal informers. Returning home into his native country well accomplished with Latin, Greek, and all arts and sciences, he set forth a grammar,

In his Epistle unto Jodocus Jonas. [Epistolæ XV. p. 697. ed. Lond. 1642. In

. 14.

this letter he gives a general
account of Colet's life.]
g Pitz in Vita, p. 697.

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