or soon after that year became master of Catharine hall. He died before 12 June 1507.

Parker's Scel. Elien. 53 b. 56 a.

Cantab. Lib. Induct. Archid.
Cooper's Ann. of Camb. i. 220.

ROGER LEYBURN, born in the neighbourhood of Carlisle, of a knightly family, was fellow of Pembroke hall and proctor of the university 1488. He subsequently proceeded D.D., became archdeacon of Durham 1490, rector of Huish Champflower, Somersetshire, 1493, of Long Newton, county of Durham, 1497, and of Sedgefield in the same county 1499. He was also temporal chancellor of Durham, and 6 May 1501 was installed prebendary of Grindall in the church of York. On 31 of the same month he was collated to the mastership of the hospital of S. Giles at Kepyyer near Durham. He was consecrated bishop of Carlisle Sept. 1504, and elected master of Pembroke hall 29 Nov. 1505. He died in July or Aug. 1507, and by his will, dated 17 July in that year, desired to be buried in the church of S. James near Charing Cross. Arms: Az. 6 lioncels rampant A. langued G.

Fuller's Worthies. Le Neve's Fasti. Richardson's Godwin. Blomefield's Collect. Cantab. Hawes & Loder's Framlingham, 221. Hutchinson's Durham. Wood's Athen. Oxon. i. 562. MS. Cole, xix. 193.

THOMAS SAVAGE, son of sir John Savage, knt., of Clifton, Cheshire, was LL.D. of this university. In 1488 he was sent ambassador to Castile and Portugal, as he was in 1490 to France. He was made bishop of Rochester 1492, and translated to London 1496, and to the archiepiscopal see of York 1501. He died at Cawood 3 Sept. 1507, and was buried under a sumptuous tomb in York minster, whereon is his recumbent image in his pontifical habit, with escocheons having the arms of the sees of London, York, and Rochester, each impaling A. a pale fusily S. His heart however was buried at Macclesfield, where he had intended to have founded a college similar to that of his predecessor at Rotherham. He is described as a prelate of moderate learning and passionately fond of hunting, though well versed in state affairs.

Richardson's Godwin. Le Neve's Fasti. Newcourt's Repert. Drake's Eboracum. Rymer.

JOHN ARGENTINE, of an ancient and knightly family, was born at Bottisham, Cambridgeshire. In 1457 he was elected from Eton to King's college. He proceeded in arts, and was proctor of the university 1472. He subsequently became M.D., and was physician and dean of the chapel to Arthur prince of Wales. He was rector of Hartest-cumBoxted, Suffolk, 1487, and of Glemsford in the same county, also of S. Vedast London, 1488, and of Cavendish Suffolk, 1490. He was admitted to the prebend of Dernford in the church of Lichfield 1494, which he exchanged for the prebend of Bubbenhall 1497, and for that of Pipa Parva 1501. He was also collated to the prebend of Holcomb in the church of Wells 1498, was master of the hospital of S. John Baptist Dorchester 1499, and was elected provost of King's college 1501. He took the degree of D.D. 1504, and dying 2 Feb. 1507-8 was buried in his chantry on the south side of the college chapel, under a tomb with his effigy, in his doctor's robes and these inscriptions:

1. Virginis atque Dei Fili, crucifixe, Redemptor,

Humani Generis Christe memento mei.

2. Artiste, Medici, Scripture interpretis alme, Argentem corpus sepelit lapis iste Johannis. Qui transis, secolas, morieris; cernuus ora Spiritus in Christo vivat nunquam mori

turus.

3. Orate pro anima Johannis Argentine, Artium Magistri, Medicinarum Doctoris, alme Scripture Professoris, et hujus Collegii prepositi; qui obiit Anno Domini Millessimo quingentesimo septimo, et die mensis Februarii secundo. Cujus anime propitietur Deus. Amen.

There is extant from his pen, Actus publice habitus in Acad. Cantab. contra omnes regentes universitatis quoad oppositiones, 1470, MS. in Corp. Chr. Coll. Oxon. It is said to contain verses on all arts and faculties, namely, grammar, rhetoric, logic, geometry, perspective, arithmetic, music, astronomy, natural philosophy, medicine, morals, and metaphysics. Dr. Argentine, by his will dated 25 Jan. 1507-8, gave 100 marks to his college, as also a silver basin and ewer weighing 80 oz. 15 dwts. with his arms enamelled thereon. This plate was unfortunately melted down about 1774. Arms: G. 3 covered cups A.

Alumn. Eton. 35, 111. Le Neve's Fasti. New'court's Repert. Tanner's Bibl. Brit. Wood's Annals of Oxford, ii. 56. Cox's Cat. of Oxford Coll. MSS. Univ. & Coll. Doc. i. 244. MS. Cole, i. 90, 91, xiii. 65, 67, xlv. 205.

He was a considerable benefactor to Pembroke hall, and in 1502, at the command of Margaret countess of Richmond and Derby, mother of king Henry VII., translated from the French three books of the Imitation of Jesus Christ, attributed to John Gerson. This translation was published the same year and again in 1503 and 1517.

Hawes & Loder's Framlingham, 219. Herbert's Ames. Le Neve's Fasti. Pote's Windsor, 397. Hartshorne's Camb. Book Rarities, 164. Tanner's Bibl. Brit. 55.

RICHARD EMPSON, born at Towcester, was son of Peter Empson, a sievemaker, and Elizabeth his wife. The father, notwithstanding his manual occupation, was evidently a person of considerable local influence and importance. He died 1473. The son studied and practised the common law, and with such success that as early as 1476 he purchased considerable estates in Northamptonshire. He represented that county in parliament, and in Oct. 1491 was chosen speaker of the house of commons. He was recorder of Coventry, was knighted in if not before 1503, and in 1504 became high-steward of this university, being about the same time constituted chancellor of the duchy of Lancaster. He has acquired unenviable notoriety from having been the unscrupulous minister of the insatiable avarice which characterised the closing years of the reign of Henry VII. In conjunction with Edmond Dudley he filled the royal coffers by fines derived from vexatious and unrelenting prosecutions for offences against obsolete penal laws, by exacting excessive compositions from the royal wards, and by false inquisitions whereby additional lands were brought under the burthen of tenure in capite. He was appointed one of the executors of Henry VII., but on that monarch's death he and Dudley became the objects of general popular indignation, and were committed to the tower after having been examined by the council, before whom Empson made an ingenious and spirited defence. They were afterwards proceeded against upon an improbable and absurd charge of high treason, of which Empson was convicted at Northampton 3 Oct. 1509, Dudley having been previously convicted of the offence elsewhere. Henry VIII. was however reluctant to put them to death,

but the popular clamour against them was so strong that he at last ordered the law to take its course, and they were beheaded on Tower-hill 17 Aug. 1510. The body of sir Richard Empson was buried in the church of the Whitefriars, London. By Jane his wife who survived him he left two sons, Thomas, to whom his father's estates were restored by Act of Parliament 4 Hen. 8, and John; also four daughters, Elizabeth married successively to George Catesby and sir Thomas Lucy, Joan married successively to Henry Sothill and sir William Pierrepoint,

married to

Tyrell, and Jane married successively to John Pinshon and Thomas Wilson, LL.D., secretary of state to queen Elizabeth. Arms: G. a cheveron between 3 pears, 0.

Baker's Northamptonsh. ii. 139. Manning's Speakers, 132. Fuller's Worthies. Will of Hen.

Baga de Secretis. Howell's State Trials. Hallam's Const. Hist. Lounger's Com. PlaceBook. Cooper's Ann. of Camb. i. 276. Rot. Parl. Plumpton Correspondence.

JOHN TONNYS, a native of Norwich, was educated among the Augustinians of that city, and afterwards in 1502. For some years he was provincial this university, where he proceeded D.D. of his order in England. Finding a knowledge of the Greek tongue indispensable in the study of sacred literature, he diligently applied himself to acquire it and gained a knowledge of the rudiments, when a premature death put an end to his labours about 1510. He wrote 1. Rudimenta grammatices, said to have been printed by Pynson. 2. De quantitate syllabarum. 3. De edendis carminibus. 4. Epistolæ ad diversos. Bale

a

informed Leland that he had seen greek letter written by Tonnys. 5. Orationes ad clerum. 6. Sermones ad populum. 7. Certamina scholastica. 8. Lecturæ magistrales Cantabrigiæ. 9. Collectanea suarum concionum quædam. 10. Facetiæ et rhythmi.

Tanner's Bibl. Brit. 718. Herbert's Ames, 286. Leland's Collect. iii. 53. Bale, ed. 1549, fo. 209 b.

WILLIAM BRIGGS occurs as prior of the house of Dominican friars at Norwich 1507. In that year he was admitted by this university to the degree of B.D., commencing D.Ď. here 1510.

Blomefield's Norfolk, iv. 339.

THOMAS WILKINSON, presented to the rectory of Harrow, Middlesex, 1478, was, in compliance with a wish expressed in the will of Andrew Docket first president of Queens' college, elected his successor between 4 Dec. 1484 and 23 April 1485. In 1489 he obtained permission to choose his own confessor. He was D.D., and has been supposed to be the author of a Latin oration to Hen. VII. when he and his queen visited Queens' college in 1497. He resigned the presidentship of Queens' in 1505, and died about Dec. 1511. Arms G. a fess Vaire in chief a unicorn courant O.

:

Newcourt's Repert. i. 637. MS. Searle. Lel. Itin. ii. 122.

WILLIAM THOMPSON, fellow of Michaelhouse, was proctor of the university 1480, afterwards became D.D., and was in 1498 appointed dean of the collegiate church of Auckland. In 1500 he was one of the proctors of Fox bishop of Durham in the convocation of the clergy at York, and the next year had a special grace from the university to come to congregations with his head covered propter dolorem capitis. In 1505 he gave the university 40s. and the like sum as the gift of another who desired his name might not be known. He died in 1511.

MS. Baker, xxiv. 22, 31. Hutchinson's Durham. Durham Wills, 101.

ROBERT FAIRFAX, of an ancient family in Yorkshire, took the degree of Mus. D. in this university 1504, and was incorporated at Oxford 1511 He was of Bayford in the county of Hertford, and is supposed to have been either organist or sacrist of the abbey-church of S. Alban's, wherein he was buried under a stone subsequently covered by the mayor's seat. The date of his death does not appear. Some of his musical compositions are yet extant.

Wood's Athen. Oxon. i. 94, 652. Hawkins' Hist. of Music. P. P. Expenses of Eliz. of York, 2, 195.

JOHN YOTTON was proctor of the university 1458, afterwards became D.D., canon of Lichfield 1482, and of York 1487, dean of Lichfield 1492, and master of Michaelhouse 1493. He died 2 Aug. 1512. He gave to Michaelhouse 200 books richly gilt and 20 marks. He also gave 100 marks for completing the library near the deanery at Lichfield.

Parker's Scel. Cantab. Le Neve's Fasti. Antiq.

Cath. Ch. Lichfield, 57. MS. Cole, xlv. 75. ROBERT CHILD occurs as principal of S. Mary's hostel 1513.

MS. Cole, v. 81, xlvii. 18.

GEORGE NICHOLS, of the Middle Temple, was Autumn reader of that house 23 Hen. 7, and Lent reader 24 Hen. 7. He was constituted counsel-at-law for the university in 1509, and is the first who is recorded to have held that appointment. He was double Lent reader at the Middle Temple 5 Hen. 8. One of the same name, probably a descendant, was for many years recorder of Saffron Walden. Arms: A. on a cheveron Az. between 3 wolves heads erased S. as many crescents Erm. on a canton G. a pheon of the field.

Dugdale's Orig. Jurid. 215, 227. Lord Braybrooke's Audley End, 155, 195, 237. Strype.

CHRISTOPHER BAYN BRIGG, born of a good family at Hilton near Appleby, was educated at Queen's college, Oxford, of which he occurs provost 5 May 1495.

He was the intimate friend of Morton, ultimately archbishop of Canterbury, and shared in that prelate's sufferings during the usurpation of Richard III. He held the prebend of South Grantham in the church of Salisbury in Feb. 1485, when he resigned same and became prebendary of Chardstock in the same church. In April 1486 he became prebendary of Horton in that church, and was installed prebendary of North Kelsey in the church of Lincoln 26 Feb. 1495-6. He took the degree of LL.D. at Bologna, and was incorporated of this university, was treasurer of S. Paul's 1497 to 1503, prebendary of Strenshall in the church of York 24 Sept. 1503, and was installed dean of that church 18 Dec. in the same year. was made master of the rolls 13 Nov. 1504, and dean of Windsor 1505. About

He

the same time he became one of the king's council, and resigned the rectory of Aller in Somersetshire. He was almoner to Henry VII. by whom he was employed in various embassies, and was consecrated bishop of Durham 1507, being in the next year translated to the archbishopric of York. In Sept. 1509 he was constituted ambassador to Rome, and in March 1511 was created a cardinal by the title of S. Praxede. He was poisoned at Rome 14 July 1514 by Rinaldo de Modena, a priest. Silvester de Giglis bishop of Worcester, then resident as envoy at Rome, was implicated in the murder. The archbishop was buried in the hospital of S. Thomas at Rome, where is a monument thus inscribed:

D. O. M. Christophoro Archiep. Eboracen. S Praxed. Presb. Cardinali Angliae, et Julio II. Pont. Max, ob egregiam operam S. R. E. praestitam, dum sui Regis legatus esset assumto, quam mox domi et foris castris Pontificiis praefect. tutatus est. Obiit prid. Id. Jul. A. Sal, MDXIIII.

He is said to have been of a sour temper, and very passionate and insolent to his domestics and inferiors. He was a good benefactor to Queen's college, Oxford. Arms: Az. 2 battle-axes A. on a chief, O. as many mullets pierced S.

Wood's Ath. Oxon. i. 556. Richardson's Godwin. Le Neve's Fasti. Drake's Eboracum,

Wood's C. & H. Fiddes' Life of Wolsey, 31, Col lect. 5, 7, 253. Fuller's Worthies. Atkinson's Worthies of Westmorland, i. 67. Ellis's Letters, (1) i. 99, 106, 108, (2) i. 226. Archæol. Journ. x. 172, xiv. 93.

WILLIAM WODEROWE, fellow of Clare hall, was ordained priest 2 April 1496. He was proctor of the university 1504, master of Clare hall 1506, D.D. at the royal commencement 1507, and rector of Fulbourn S. Vigor, Cambridgeshire, 1508. He died in or about Oct. 1514.

Parker's Scel. Cantab. Lib. Induct. Archi

diac. Elien. 57 b. 59 a. MS. Cole, xxvi. 82.

EDMUND STUBBS, D.D., was master of Gonville hall 1503, rector of S. Michael Coslany, Norwich, 1504, and died 1514. Arms: Az. a fess between 3 lozenges O. a bordure Erm.

Parker's Scel. Cantab. Norfolk, iv. 493.

Blomefield's Hist.

WILLIAM TOMLYN, one of the brethren of the hospital of S. John, was ordained subdeacon 5 June 1490, deacon 18 Sept. 1490, and priest 24 Sept. 1491.

He was elected master of that house 13 Nov. 1498, and admitted 18 of that month. He and the few brethren then remaining wasted the goods of the hospital and demised its estates for long terms. He resigned the mastership 1505, with a view to the foundation of S. John's college. He however retracted that resignation, but finally surrendered his office 27 Feb. 1513-14. No subsequent trace of him appears.

Baker's Hist. S. John's College.

xxvi. 76, 77, xlix. 40, 43, 47, 58.

MS. Cole,

ROBERT KNIGHT, M.A. 1512, occurs in that year as principal of S. Gregory's hostel. He was fellow of Corpus Christi college 1513, and in 1514 a grace passed excusing him on account of his ill health from performance of the exercise termed a variation.

Masters' Hist. C. C. C. C. ed. Lamb, 313. MS. Baker, xxiv. 45.

JAMES STANLEY, younger son of Thomas earl of Derby, received his education at both universities and graduated here. Having entered the church he became prebendary of Holywell in the church of S. Paul in 1458, and held the office till 1481. In 1460 he was appointed prebendary of Driffield in the church of York, and in 1479 was collated to the prebend of Dunham in the church of Southwell. On 22 July 1485 he was made warden of Manchester, and remained so till his promotion to the see of Ely. He was installed in the prebend of Yatminster Prima in the church of Salisbury 1491, and the next year in the prebend of Beminster in the same church. In 1493 he was made dean of S. Martin's-le-grand, London; in 1500 archdeacon of Richmond; and in 1505 precentor of Salisbury. By the pope's bull of provision dated 17 July 1506, he was constituted bishop of Ely. It is generally supposed that his appointment was owing to the powerful interest of his mother-in-law Margaret countess of Richmond and Derby-the worst thing, says Baker, she ever did. In the following year the university of Oxford granted that he might be created doctor of decrees by a cap put upon his head by the archbishop of Canterbury and the bishop of London. After his promotion to Ely he usually