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Latin and Greek epigrams were composed by Dr. Clayton, John Pember, A.M., Nath. White, gen., Fr. Chaloner, gen., Thos. Browne, gen., Steph. Plummer, A.B., Thos. Wilcox, A.B., all of Broadgates, and a great many others.

The SIR JOHN PAKINGTON (1549-1625), Knight of the Bath and Privy Councillor, Camden's friend at Broadgates, was son of Sir Thomas, of Aylesbury. He was remarkable for wit, beauty, and strength. Elizabeth delighted in her 'lusty Pakington.'

Beggared by his splendour and generosity1, he espoused in 1598 a rich widow, Dorothy Barnham (whose daughter was wife to Lord Verulam), and in 1603 entertained the new King with great magnificence at Aylesbury. Dame Dorothy, 'a little violent lady,' got Sir John clapped into prison in 1617; but Bacon, who heard the matter, decided against his mother-in-law. There is a portrait of Pakington at Westwood Park. He took B.A. Dec. 13, 1569, and was then entered of Lincoln's Inn.

Sir R. Naunton in Fragmenta Regalia (1630) says:

'Sir John Packington was a Gentleman of no mean family, and of form and feature no way despisable; for he was a brave Gentleman, and a very fine Courtier; and for the time he stayed there (which was not lasting) very high in [the Queen's] grace; but he came in, and went out, and through disassiduity drew the Curtain between himself and the light of her grace; and then death overwhelmed the remnant, and utterly deprived him of recovery: And they say of him, that had he brought lesse to the Court than he did, he might have carried away more than he brought; for he had a time on it; but an ill husband of opportunity.'

Of Camden's other fellow-students at the Hall, SIR STEPHEN POWEL, or POLE, was of an Essex stock: B.A. 1569; M.A. 1572; incorporated at Cambridge 1571. SIR EDWARD LUCY was brother of Shakespeare's Squire Lucy of Charlcote. There was a bachelor at Broadgates named Lucye in 1572, no doubt the same 2.

DEGORY (DIAGORAS) WHEARE, born at Jacobstow in Cornwall, 'retired to the habitation of the Muses called Broadgates Hall,' aged 19, July 6, 1593; B.A. 1597; M.A. 1600; elected fellow of Exeter 1602, where he resided six years. After travelling beyond the seas in the acquirement of learning, he returned to England, where he was entertained by the Lord Chandois, and by him respected and exhibited to. After his patron's death he took up his residence in Gloucester Hall, where he contracted an intimacy with the antiquary and 'soul

1 His subsidy valuation was the highest of the Worcestershire justices in 1587, except that of Sir John Littleton. Freake, bishop of Wigorn, describes him to the Lord Treasurer as 'a good, wise gentleman.'

2 Mr. Clark thinks he may be Timothy Lusie, B.A. April 26, 1567, probably overlooking Sir Edward. Timothy was 'lowzie Lucy's' youngest brother.

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and sun of all the Mathematicians of his time,' Thomas Allen, the reputed magician, at whose instance Camden, in 1622, appointed Wheare first professor of the history chair founded by him, in preference to Brian Twyne. Wheare's Method of reading histories was still in use at Cambridge in 1700. Clerk of the Market 1617. He became Principal of Gloucester Hall (1626-47), which his abilities raised from absolute épηuía àvdpov to its highest point of prosperity, and of which he completed the then chapel and other buildings. Wheare died in 1647, and was buried in Exeter Chapel under the eagle, his study in books and manuscript collections passing to Francis Rous. 'He was esteemed by some a learned and gentile man, and by others a Calvinist.' He had been Pym's tutor at Broadgates, and through him Rous entered there. Charisteria, 1628, is dedicated to Pym.

For his son's sake I here mention THOMAS WOOD, born at Islington January 29, 1589. He entered Broadgates June 20, 1600, but migrated to Corpus Christi, where he had obtained a clerk's place; B.A. 1604. While still an undergraduate he led to the altar one Margaret Wood, whom his son calls an antient and rich maid,' with part of whose portion, and £500 left him by his parents, he bought land at Tetsworth, Oxon, which he for a time cultivated. In 1608 he bought for a residence Postmasters Hall, opposite to Merton, and in 1616 purchased the lease of the Flower de Luce Inn, near Carfax. On March 10, 161, he graduated in Civil Law from Broadgates, and afterwards obtained some legal practice. As he was exempted from the jurisdiction of Clarencieux king of arms, it has been thought that he held some college office. But there is no proof of this.

After the decease, in 1621, of his wife, who left him her entire fortune, Thomas Wood tried his fate in a new direction and took secundis nuptiis the Mary Pettie1 whom as a child, many years before, he had dandled in his arms and promised some day to wed, now a wealthy young lady. She bore him six sons, of whom Anthony, the fourth, was born Dec. 17, 1632. He saw the light in Postmasters or Portionists Hall, and grew up native to every stone and every memory of the Oxford for whose history his affectionate industry was to do so much. In October, 1630, Thomas Wood refused to accept knighthood and paid the fine. In 1636 he took little Anthony to see the 'glorious train' which escorted the King down St. Aldate's Street to Christ Church gate, a sight which the boy never forgot. In 1642 Oxford became a centre of military affairs, two of his lads ran off to go soldiering for the King, and Thomas Wood himself

Several of the Petties were buried in St. Aldate's church.

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had to shoulder a musket in the University train bands. His affairs suffered through the war; he had to give up Postmasters Hall for a residence for the Master of the Rolls, Lord Culpepper, and the family plate went to the royal mint at New Inn Hall, including Anthony's christening mugs. Thomas Wood died Jan. 19, 164, and is buried in Merton ante-chapel. He was 'a fat and corpulent man.'

MORGAN GODWYN, a native of Anglesea, son of Bishop Francis Godwyn (whose memory, says à Wood, 'cannot but be precious in succeeding ages for his indefatigable travel in collecting the succession of all the Bishops of England and Wales'), and grandson of Dr. Thomas Godwyn, Bishop of Bath and Wells, migrated from Christ Church to Pembroke, whence he took B.C.L. July 6, 1627.

He afterwards incorporated at Dublin. He was master of Newland Free School, canon of Hereford, and was made by his father archdeacon of Salop 1631, rector of English Bicknor 1639, and of Lydney 1641. In December, 1645, the Assembly of Divines reported that ‘he hath wholly deserted the same, and betaken himself to the forces against the Parliament.' He is said to have died in 1645 (i.e. before Lady Day, 1646). He is the translator of Bishop Godwyn's Annales Rerum Anglicarum.

FATHER BAKER, ecclesiastical historian, I have put among the divines.

CHAPTER XI.

DIVINES.

An important part of the career of BISHOP JOHN JEWELL Connects him with Broadgates. When the President of Corpus Christi boasted that his foundation alone had kept its treasury and ornaments entire, he received the reply, 'You have done so indeed; but you have wilfully lost one Jewell and great treasure far more precious than any of them.' Fuller says1:

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'On his refusal to be present at mass and other popish solemnities, he was driven out of the College and retired himself to Broadgates-Hall, where he continued for a time in great danger.... As for Mr. Jewel he continued some weeks in Broadgates-Hall, whither his scholars 2 repaired unto him, whom he constantly instructed in learning and religion.... He had not lived long in Broadgates Hall, when by the violence of the popish inquisitors being assaulted, on a sudden, to subscribe, he took a pen in his hand and, smiling, said, "Have you a mind to see how well I can write?" and thereupon underwrit their opinions. Thus the most orient Jewel on earth hath some flaws therein.'

The Principal of Broadgates, Randolph, was a friend of Jewell's, and he continued to lecture there, but no longer publicly. In Lawrence Humphrey's Joannis Juelli Angli Vita (p. 77) he tells us :

'Ex hoc Collegio detrusus Iuellus primum exulavit quasi in Aula Lateportesi, in qua privatim more suo quosdam instituit, et multos sane auditores velut Magnes attraxit: nam ut alii complures assectabantur, sic Discipuli, praeceptore fugato, amplius in Collegio manendum sibi non existimabant . . . Aequo diutius Oxoniae haerens, novis legatis haereticae pravitatis Inquisitoribus derepente superveniêtibus, consensum in fide Romana ab omnibus subito et severe exigentibus, ac contra recu

1 Church History, viii. 10-15.

2 Among others Roger Prynne and Edward Anne. The latter had been whipt in the hall of Corpus for writing doggerel against the Mass, a lash for every verse. He afterwards became a fellow of All Souls. As Jewell by papists, so Hooker was driven from Corpus by puritans.

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santes dira fulmina Papaliter ejaculantibus, tandem in arctu angustumq; conclusus: Quid, inquit, subridens, An me quoq; scribere necesse est? et meam manum videre volupe est? et cordi vobis est periculum facere quam eleganter sciam pingere litteras? Ita praefatus, invita et properante manu nomen scripsit, et Chirographo suo visus est certa Papisticae doctrinae capita hoc modo comprobare. Sic, proh dolor, Petrus in aula Põtificis aliquanto lõgius et plus satis se ad igne calefaciens Christu negavit' (p. 84).

The place where the subscription took place was St. Mary's. Fuller speaks of Jewell's residence at Broadgates as extending over 'some weeks,' but after a visit to London he returned to Oxford, and there lingered and waited.' It was soon after Mary's accession, in July, 1553, that he migrated to Broadgates. On Jan. 24, 155

('Pridie Pauli '), Jewell dates a letter to Parkhurst, ' E Latis Portis, ubi exul aetatem1 ago, et Randolphus mecum una, misere uterque, sed melius fortasse quam illi volebant quibus hoc molestum est quod vivimus.' In April, 1554, Jewell acted as notary to Cranmer and Ridley in their Oxford disputation. His recantation probably took place in October. After his flight from Broadgates, he reached Frankfurt, March 13, 155. The account given in the Life prefixed to the 1611 edition of Jewell's Works is as follows:-

'After his expulsion hee staied himselfe a while at Brodegates Hall, where fame of his learning drew many scholars unto him.' The University however chose him 'in this shipwracke of his estate to be her Oratour. In whose name he curiously penned a gratulatory letter to Queene Mary, whose promise not altogether to change the Religion 'stayed Jewel so long in Oxford till the Inquisition caught him.... Howbeit, this subscribing, as it much obscured the glorie of his persecutions, so it nothing procured his safetie; because his familiar conversing with Peter Martyr was euidence enough against him; and D. Martial Deane of Christs Church had certainly caught him in a snare laied for him, had he not by the speciall providence of God gone that verie night when hee was sought for a wrong way to London, and so escaped their hands. . . . I would most willingly have laid my finger upon this foule scarre, but the truth of love must not prejudice love of truth. . . . Jewel almost assoone as he came to Frankford made an excellent sermon, and in the end of it openly confessed his fall in these words: It was my abject and cowardly minde and faint heart that made my weake hand to commit this wickednesse. Which when he had brought forth with a gale of sighs from the bottome of the anguish of his soule, and had made humble supplication for pardon, first to Almighty God, whom he had offended, and afterwards to the Church, which he had scandalized; no man was found in that great Congregation who was not prickt with compunction and wounded

1 'Aestatem' in the Parker Society's edition of Jewell's Works.