1.6. The names or ſurnames of the learned men and authors of Ireland. Chap. 7.

The names or ſurnames of the learned men and authors of Ireland. Chap. 7.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 ARdericus, Ardericus whome Marianus Scotus ter|meth Barboſus, becauſe of his long beare a learned man greatly in olde time re [...]|med in Irelande. But for as much as in his age the countrey was not ſtored with ſuch as employed theyr labours in gatheryng toge|ther the ſayings and doyngs of ſage perſons, the diſcontinuaunce of hys fame is rather to be imputed to the ignoraunce of the tyme, thẽ to the want of hys deſertes. He flouriſhed in the yere 1053.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 Alen, a learned Phiſition.Alen.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 Iames Archer, a ſtudent of diuinitie.Archer.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 Argobaſtus, the ſecond biſhop of Argentine,Argoba|ſtus. ſucceſſor to the holy prelate S. Amand, borne in Ireland, a learned and deuout clarke: who leauyng his country and liuyng in Heremite wyſe, in certayne ſolitary places of France, inſtructed the people of that realme in y^e feare of God, and the knowledge of the ſcriptures. In hys preaching he was noted to haue ſo ſin|guler a grace, and ſo proſperous ſucceſſe, that ſuch as were by any worldly miſaduenture afflicted, vpon the hearyng of his godly ſer|mons would ſodenly be cõforted. The French kyng Dagobertus, aduertised of his lerning and vertue, caused hym to be sent for, vsing hym as hys chief counsailor in all his waigh tie EEBO page image 24 tie affayres. And after aduanced hym to be bishop of Argentine. He wrote a booke of Homilies. He deceased in the yere 658. and was buried hard by a gybbet neere the city, pitcht on the top of an hill called S. Michaels hyll, which was done by his owne appointment, in that he would follow the example of his maister Christ, who did vouchsafe to suffer without the city of Jerusalem, where offenders and malefactors were executed.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 Barnewall.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 Brady, a preacher.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 Brendan, an Abbot borne in Connaught, in hys youth trayned vp vnder Hercus a bishop: and beyng further stept in yeres, he traueiled into England, where he became a profeste Monke, vnder an Abbot named Congellus. He flourished in the yere 560. and wrote these bookes ensuyng.

Compare 1587 edition: 1
• Confessio Christiana.lib.I.
• Charta coelestis hereditatis.lib.I.
• Monachorum regula.lib.I.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 Edmund Berneden a Frier, he proceeded doctor of diuinitie in Dublin in the yere, 1320.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 Brigide the virgin, borne in Leynster, she flourished in the yere 510. she wrote a booke of her reuelations.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 Browne, a Ciuilian.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 Burnell.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 Butler, a Waterfordian, sometime scholer to M. Peter White. He translated Maturinus Corderius hys booke of phrases into English, in the yere 1562.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 James Caddell, he wrote diuersa epigrammata.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 Carbery, a profound ciuilian.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 Celsus Archbishop of Armach, borne in and scholed in the vniuersitie of Oxford, he flourished in the yeare 1128. he wrote these bookes followyng.

Compare 1587 edition: 1
• Testamentum ad Ecclesias.lib.I.
• Constitutiones quaedam.lib.I.
• As Malachiam epistolae complures.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 Cleere, borne in Kylkenny, and proceded M. of Arte in Oxford.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 John Clinne, borne in Leinster, beyng profeste a gray Frier, he bestowed his tyme in preaching chiefly in the towne of Kylkenny. This man was a good antiquary, as appeared by a chronicle he wrote, beginnyng at the Natiuitie of Christ, and stretchyng to y^e yere 1350. in which yeare he flourished. He wrote these bookes followyng.

Compare 1587 edition: 1
• Annalium chronicon.lib.I.
• De regibus Anglorum.lib.I.
• De custodijs prouinciarum.lib.I.
• De Franciscanorum coenobijs, & eorum distinctionibus.lib.I.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 Henry Cogy, doctor of diuinitie, proceeded in the vniuersitie of Dublynne, in the yeare, 1320.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 Colme, a learned and an holy Monke. He flourished in the yeare 670. he wrote a booke entituled, Pro soeijs Quartadecimanis.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 Columbanus, borne in Vlster, and trayned in learnyng and knowledge as well in Enland as in Fraunce. For his learnyng & vertue, was elected to be Abbot. Hauyng traueiled diuers countreys, at length repayred to Italy, and there in an Abbey by hym founded, called Monasterium Bobiense, he ended his lyfe, the xx. of Nouember. He left to hys posteritie these bookes.

Compare 1587 edition: 1
• In psalterium commentarios.lib.I.
• Collationes ad Monachos.lib.I.
• De moribus Monachorum metrice.lib.I.
• Monasteriorum methodos.lib.I.
• Epistolas ad commilitones.lib.I.
• Aduersus regem adulterum.lib.I.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 Conganus an Irishe Abbot, of whom Saint Bernard maketh great accompt. He flourished in the yeare 1150. and wrote to S.Bernarde.

Compare 1587 edition: 1
• Gesta Malachie Archiepescopi.lib.I.
• Ad Bernardum Clareuallensem epist.plures.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 Connour.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 Walter Conton. He wrote in the latin tonge diuers epigrames and epitaphes.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 Symon Coniel a deuine.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 Cornelius Hybernus, otherwyse named Historicus, by reason that he was taken in hys tyme for an exquisite antiquary, as may appeare by the Scottish Historian Hector Boetius, by whom he acknowledgeth hymselfe to be greatly furthered. He flourished in the yere 1230. and wrote, Maltarum rerum Chronicon.lib.I.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 Richarde Creagh borne in Lymmericke, a deuine, he wrote:

Compare 1587 edition: 1
• Espistolas complures.
• Responsiones ad casus conscientiae.
• De vitis sanctorum Hyberniae.
• Topographiam Hyberniae, with diuers other bookes.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 Henry Crumpe borne in Ireland, & brought vp in y^e vniuersitie of Oxford, where he grew by reason of hys profound knowledge in diuinitie, to no small credite. Hauing repayred to his natiue cou(n)trey, minding there to defray y^e talent wherwith god had endued him, he was sodenly apprehended by Symon byshoppe of Meeth, and kept in duresse by reason that hee was suspected to be of no sound religion. He flourished in the yeare 1392. and wrote these bookes.

Compare 1587 edition: 1
• Determinationes scholast.lib.I.
• Contra religiosos mendicantes.lib.I.
• Responsiones ad obiecta.lib.I.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 EEBO page image 597 Curren.Edmund Curren, archdecon of old laghtin, there hath bene an Iriſh Biſhop of the name.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 Cuſack.Patricke Cuſacke, a Gentleman borne, and a ſcholler of Oxforde, ſometime ſchoole|maſter in Dublinne, and one that wyth the learning, that God did imparte hym, gaue great light to his countrey. He imployed his ſtudies rather in the inſtructing of ſchollers then in penning of bookes. He floriſhed in the yeare, 1566 and wrote in latine Diuerſa opigrammata.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 Daly.Daly, ſchooled in the vniuerſities of Pariſe, hauing a pretty enſight in ſcholaſticall Diui|nitie, he made Diuerſas Conciones.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 Darcy.Sir Willicline Darcy Knight, a wiſe gen|tleman, he wrote a booke entituled, The de|cay of Irelande.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 Delahide.Dauid Delahide, an exquiſite and a profoũd Clarke, ſometime fellow of Merton colledge in Oxforde, very well ſéene in the latine and gréeke tongue. Expert in the Mathemati|cals, a proper antiquary, & an exact Diuine. Whereby I gather, that his penne hath not bene lazie, but is dailye bréeding of ſuch lear|ned bookes, as ſhal be apaileable to his poſte|ritie. I haue ſéene a proper Oration of hys, in the praiſe of maſter Heiwood being Chriſt|maſſe Lorde in Merton colledge, entituled, De ligno et foeno [...] Scemata rhetorica in tabulam co [...]rãcta.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 Deurox.Deorox, there are two brethrẽ of the na [...]e learned, the elder was ſome [...]e ſchoolemai|ſter in Weſſeford.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 Dyllon.Peter Dyllon, a Diuine, and Iohn Dyllõ likewiſe a ſtudent in Diuinitie.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 Doudal.Doudall, ſometime primas of [...]irma [...]h, a graue, a learned, and a politique prolate. Ve|ry zealouſly affected to the reformation of his countrey, he made, Diuerſas conciones.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 Dormer.Dormer, a lawyer, borne in Roſſe, ſcholler of Oxford. He wrote in ballade royall.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 Duns. Iohannes maior. li. 4. cap. 16.The decay of Roſſe.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 2 Iohannes duns ſcotus, an Iriſhe man borne, as in the forefront of this treatiſe I haue de|clared. Howbeit Iohanes maior, a Scottiſh Chronicler, woulde faine prooue him to be a Scotte. Lelande on the other ſide ſayeth, hée was borne in England: ſo that there ſhall as great contencion riſe of him, as in olde tyme there roſe of Homers coũtrey. For the Colo|phoniãs ſaid that Homer was borne in their citie,Cic. in orat. pro Arch. poëta. the Chijans claymed him to be theirs, the Salamymans adueuched, that hée was their countrey man, but the Smyrneans wer ſo ſtiflye bent, in proouing him to bée borne in their territory, as they would at no hand take no nay in the matter, and therevpon they did conſecrate a church to the name of Homer. But what countr [...]ye [...] were, he was doubtleſſ a ſubtil and profound clearke. The onely fault, wherewith he was [...], was a litle ſpice of [...], being giuen to earpe and [...] his pr [...]c [...]our [...] [...]ines, rather for blemmeſhing the time of hys aduirſaryes, then for [...]ing the truth of the con [...] [...] gr [...] [...] are gr [...] in the ſchooles betweene the Thomiſtis and [...] Tho [...] being the ringleader of the one ſect,Thomiſti [...] Sco [...] and [...] belweather of the other. Hee [...] of Meeſore colledge in Oxforde, [...] he was ſent for ſo Pariſe to [...] of Diuinitie. Finally he re [...] [...] wherein an Abbey of gray [...] of which profeſſion he [...] the ended his life.1302. The bookes he wrote, are theſe.

• Commentarij Oxonienſes. lib. 4.
• Reportationes paciſienſes. lib. 4.
• Quodlibeta ſcholaſtica. lib. 2.
• In [...]alitica poſteitora. lib. 2.
• In Metaphiſicam queſtiones. lib. [...]
• De Cognitione [...]e [...]. lib. 2.
• Deperfectione ſta [...]m. lib. [...].
• Sermones de tempore. lib. 1.
• Sermones de Sanctis. lib. 1.
• Collationes parifienſes. lib. 1.
• [...] in Gene [...]. lib. 1.
• De rerum p [...] lib. 1.
• Comme [...] in [...]elia. lib. 4.
• In epiſtolas pauli. lib. plures.
• Queſtiones V [...] [...]. lib. [...].
• Quaeſtiones praedicamentorum. lib. 1.
• In Ariſtotelis phiſica. lib. 8.
• In Categorias Ariſtotelis. lib. 1.
• Tentagreumata quaedam. lib. 1.
• Commentarij imperfecti. lib. 1.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 Euſtace, a Doctor of Diuinitie, a very good ſchooleman, he floriſhed in the yeare. 1 [...]36. Euſtace.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 Olifer, or Oliuer Euſtace, a ſtudent of the ciuile and Cen [...]law, a good humanitian, & a proper philoſopher.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 Nicolas Euſtace, a Gentleman borne, ſur|paſſing birth by learning, and learning by vertue.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 Maurice Euſtace, a ſtudent of Diuinitie, one that notwithſtanding he were borne to a faire liuing, yet did wholy ſequeſter himſelfe from the worlde.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 Fagan, bachylour of Arte in Oxford,Fagane. and ſchoolemaſter in Waterford.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 Daniell Ferrayle, a Diuine,Ferrayle. and a ſchoole|maſter.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 Fergutius, ſonne to Ferquhardus king of Irelande, the firſt king of Scottes,Fergutius whome ſome affirme to be borne in Denmarke, the EEBO page image 25 more part ſuppoſe to haue b [...]e, an Iriſhmẽ. He flouriſhed in they [...]are of the world 2678. and before the [...]arnation 1292. in the twenty fiue yeare of hys reigne. He was by miſad|uenture drowned néere a rocke in the north of Irelande that of him is called to this days Carregfergus.Carreg|fergus. Vpon whoſe miſhappe thoſe verſes were made.

Compare 1587 edition: 1

Icarus [...]ing nomina fecerat vndis

Ferguſius petrae ſic dedit ap [...]a ſime.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 This Ferguſius wrote a booke intituled, Leges politicae. lib. 1.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 [...] Finn [...] was ſcholar to one Nennius and Sa|genius, taken for a déepe Deuine in his age. He floriſhed in the yeare .66 [...]. he wrote Pro|veteri paſchali [...]. lib. [...].

Compare 1587 edition: 1 Fielde.Fielde, a phiſition.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 Thomas Fielde a maſter of Art.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 [...] fitz Gi|ralde.Iohn fitz Girald, commonlye named Iohn fitz Edmund, a very well letterd Ciuilian, a wyſe gentleman, and a good houſeholder.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 Robert fitz Girald, aliâs Robert fitz Mau|rice, borne in the Countie of Kyldare.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 Dauid fitz Giralde, vſually called Dauid Duffe, borne in Kery, a Ciuilian, a maker in y^e Iriſh, not ignorant of muſike, ſkilful in phi|ſike, a good and a generall craftes man, much lyke to Hippias, [...]ippias. ſurpaſſing all men in y^e mul|titude of craftes: who commyng on a tyme to Piſa, to the great triumph, called Olympi|eum, ware nothyng but ſuch as was of hys owne makyng. His ſhoes, his pattens, hys cloke, hys cote, the ryng that he dyd ſpeare, with a ſignet therin very perfectly wrongly were all made by hym. He played excellently on all kynde of Inſtruments and ſang there|to hys owne verſes, which no man coulde a|mend. In all partes of Logike, Rhetorike, a Philoſophie he vanquiſhed all men, and was vanquiſhed of none.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 fitz Raufe.Richard fitz Rafe, primate of Armach, ſcho|ler in the vniuerſitie of Oxford, to Bacõthorn a good Philoſopher, and no ignoraunt deuine. An enemy to Friers, namely ſuch as went beggyng from dore to dore, whereby he pur|chaſed the hatred of all religious perſons. He was by Edward the third hys meanes made Archdeacon of Lichfielde, after created Pri|mate of Armach, beyng cited before Pope Clement the ſixt, for reproouyng the beggyng Friers. In the heat of the ſayd contention he deceaſed in Italy,1360. whoſe bones were caryed into Ireland, and buried at Doudalk, where he was borne. He wrote theſe bookes enſuing.

• De paupertate ſeruatoris. lib. 7.
• Contra fratres mendicantes. lib. 16.
• In Extrauagantem Ioannis. 23. lib. 1.
• Determinationes ad eundem. lib. 1.
• Contra ſuum Archidiaconum. lib. 1.
• Propoſitiones ad Papam. lib. 1.
• Contra fratrum appellationem. lib. 1.
• Sermones ad crucem Pauli. lib. 1.
• Sermones coram Pontifice. lib. 1.
• De ſtatu Vniuerſalis Eccleſiae. lib. 1.
• Lectura ſententiarum. lib. 4.
• Quaeſtiones earundem. lib. 1.
• Lectura theologica. lib. 1.
• Sermones ad clerum. lib. 1.
• Sermones de tempore. lib. 1.
• Sermones de Sanctis. lib. [...]
• Mariae laudes Auenioni. lib. 1.
• Illuſtrationes Euangeliorum. lib. 4.
• De paſſione dominica. lib. 1.
• De peccato Ignorantiae. lib. 1.
• De lure ſpiritall lib. 1.
• De Vafritus Iudae eorum. lib. 1.
• Propoſitionum ſuarum. lib. 1.
• Epiſtolae ad diuerſos. lib. 1.
• Dialogi plures. lib. 1.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 Walter fitz Symons,Fitz Si|mons. Archbiſhop of Du|blyn, L. Iuſtice and L. Chauncellor of Irelãd at one tyme, a famous clarke, and exqui [...]ly learned both in Philoſophy and deuinity: be|yng in company with king Henry the vij. and hearyng an Oration that was made in hys prayſe, the kyng demaunded hym, what fault he found moſt in the Oration: truly quoth he, and if it lyke your highneſſe, no fault, ſauyng onely that the Oratour flattered, your Maie|ſtie ouer much. Now in good fayth, our father of Dublyn (quoth the kyng) we minded to find the ſame fault our ſelues.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 Thomas fitz Symons, a very proper de|uine. He wrote in Engliſh, a treatiſe of the Church.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 Leonard fitz Symons, a deepe and pithye clarke, well ſéene in the Gréeke and Latine tongue, ſomtyme fellow of Trinitie colledge in Oxford, perfect in the Mathamaticals, and a paynefull ſtudent in deuinitie. He hath a brother that was trayned vp in learnyng in Cambridge now beneficed in Trim.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 Michael fitz Symons, ſcholemaiſter in Du|blyn, a proper ſtudent, and a diligent man in hys profeſſion, he wrote

• Orationem in aduen|tum comitis Eſſexiae Dublinium.
• Epitaphion in mortem Iacobi Stanihurſti.
• Diuerſa Epigrammata.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 Phillip Flatiſbury, a worthy gentleman,Flatiſbu|ry. and a diligent antiquary, he wrote in the La|tin tongue, at the requeſt of the right honou|rable Girald fitz Girald Erle of Kyldare, Diuerſas chronicas.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 He flouriſhed in the yere .1517. and deceaſed at hys towne named Iohnſtowne néere the Naas.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 Thomas Flemmyng:Flemming there is a Flem|myng now liuyng, of whome I heare great EEBO page image 598 report to be an abſolute deuine, and a profeſ|ſor therof.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 Foillanus. Foillanus a learned Monke, he traueiled in|to Fraunce, where through the liberalitie of an holy Virgin, named Gertrude, he founded an Abbey called Monaſterium Foſſenſe, where at length he ſuffred martyrdome.654.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 Furſaeus. Furſeus peregrinus, ſo called, becauſe he was borne in Ireland, and did beſtow his yeares as an eſtraunger in Fraunce, where he foun|ded an Abbey named Coenobium Latiniacen|ſe. 647. He wrote certaine pamphlets, that by tract of tyme are periſhed. He flouriſhed in the yere 650. and was buried in his owne, monaſtery.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 Garuye.Robert Garuy, fellow of Oriall colledge in Oxforde, a ſtudent of both the lawes, a man well ſpoken as well in the Engliſhe, as in the Latine.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 Gogan.Robert Gogan a preacher.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 Hardite.William Hardite a doctor of Deuinitie, pro|céeded in the vniuerſitie of Dublynne, in the yere 1320.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 Hycky. Hugo.Hicky, Phiſitious, the father and his ſonne.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 Hugo de Hybernia, ſo called becauſe his ſur|name is not knowen. He was a gray Frier, and a great traueiler. He floriſhed in the yere 1360. He wrote, Itinirarium quoddam. lib. 1.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 Huſey.Oliuer Huſey, a profeſſour of the Aries in Doway.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 Hurly.Derby Hurly, a ciuilian, and a commenda|ble Philoſopher: he wrote In Ariſtotelis Phy|ſica.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 Ioiſe.Robert Ioiſe, borne in Kylkenny, a good hu|manitian.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 Kelley. Radulphus Kelley, a Monke, brought vp in the knowledge of the latin tonge in Kyldare, in which he profited ſo well, that for hys elo|quence and wiſedom, he was ſent to Clemẽt the ſixt, as the ſpeaker or prolocutor of all hys order, and alſo was appoynted the generall aduocate or deputie vnder Petrus de Caſa, maiſter generall of the order. After he was aduaunced to be Archbiſhop of Caſhell,1342. in which honour he deceaſed, hauyng at vacant houres written.

• In iure canonico. lib. 1.
• Epiſtolarum familiarium. lib. 1.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 Thomas Kenedy, a Ciuilian.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 Kenedy. Kerny.Kerny, he wrote in Iriſh

• Catachiſmum.
• Tranſlationem bibliae.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 Keuan|nagh.Cagher, a noble man borne, in his time cal|led Mack Murrough, deſcended of that mack Murrough that was ſomtyme king of Lein|ſter, he was a ſurpaſſing deuine, and for hys learnyng and vertue was created biſhop of Leighlyn, and Abbot of Grage. He flouriſhed in the yeare 1550. and was an hundred yeres olde when he deceaſed.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 King.Iames king, borne in Dublyn, and ſcholer to M. Patricke Euſack, vnder whome beyng commendably [...]ayned, he repa [...] to the v|niuerſitie of Cambridge, wher [...] he deceaſed before he coulde attayne to that eſpen [...]ſſe of learnyng,1569. whereto one of ſo pregnaunt [...] was lyke in tyme to aſpire. He wrote

• Carmina in laudem [...] [...]enrid Bydna [...].
• Diuerſa Epigrammata.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 Ley, a learned and an expert Phiſition.Ley. Leurouſe. 1556.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 Leurouſe a learne [...] deuine, ſometyme bi|ſhop of Kyldare, and Deane of S. Patrickes in Dublyn.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 Aeneas Loghlen, or Mackleigh [...], M. o [...] Acte,Logham. and a preacher.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 Thomas Long doctor of both thẽ lawes,Long. he procéeded at Paris, in the yeare 1576. in Au|guſt. he is a proper philoſopher, no ſtraunger in ſcholaſticall deuinitie [...], a prety Latin [...]. He wrote

• De ſpeciebus contra mendacem Monachu [...]
• In Ariſtotelis phyſica.
• Theſes ex praecipuis iuris vtriuſque partibus ſelectas Carolo Borbonio cardinall coſecra [...]as.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 Peter Lumbard borne in Waterford,Lumbard. ſcho|ler to M. Peter White, hauing [...]yl [...]ied two yeres and a halfe in the ſtudy of philoſophy at Louaine, he was choſen when he proceeded M. of Arte, Pri [...]us Vn [...]uelitatis, by the vn|forme conſent of the foure principals, which preferment did happen to none in ſuch con|ſenting wiſe, in many yeres before, he wrote Ca [...]men Heroicum in Doctoratum Nicolai Quemerfordi.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 Dorby Mackehragh, a ſtudent in deuinitie.

Mack|cragh.

Magrane.

Malachi|as.

Magrane, a ſcholemaiſter in Dublinne, he wrote Carols and ſundry ballades.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 Malachias borne in Vlſter. His lyfe is exact|ly written by S. Bernard, in whoſe Abbey he died in the yeare 1148. He wrote

• Conſtitutorum communium, lib. 1.
• Legum coelibatus. lib. 1.
• Nouarum trachtionum. lib. 1.
• Ad D. Bernardum, epiſt plures.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 Malachias, the minorite or gray frier,Malachi|as minori|ty. a ſtu|dent in the Vniuerſitie of Oxford, where he attained to that knowledge in deuinitie, as he was the onely man in his tyme that was ap|poynted to preach before the king and the no|bilitie, a ſharp reprouer of vice, a zealous em|bracer of vertue, enemy to flattery, friend to ſimplicitie. He flouriſhed in the yeare 1310. he wrote

• De peccatis & remedijs, lib. 1.
• Conciones plures, lib. 1.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 Mauricius Hybernus, Mauricius. of hym Ioannes Camer|tes thus writeth.

Annis ab his proximis excelluit, Iohannes Camert in cap. 35. Soli. ex ea inſula o|riundus Mauricius, D. Franciſci ordinis profeſ|ſus, In dialecticis, utraq; phylosophia, metaphi sicis, EEBO page image 26 sicis, ac sacra theologia plurimum eruditus. Vix insuper dici potest, qua humanitate, quaue morum sanctimonia praeditus fuerit. Is cum annis plurimis in Patauino Gymnasio bonas artes docuisset, cum summa omnium gratia, ob eius singularem eruditionem, ac candidisimos mores, a Iulio secundo pontifice maximo in Tuanensem archiepiscopum creatus est. Quo cum relicta Italia bellis in ea saevientibus proficisceretur, non multum post, magna studiorum iactura, cum nondum quinquagesimum aetatis suae attigisset annum, mortem objit. Erant plurima suae doctrinae in manubus monumenta, sed ea ob immaturam eius mortem edere non licuit. Quantu(m) fuerit inter eum, dum viueret, & me necessitudinis vinculum testantur sexcente epistolae, quas plenas charitatis iudicijs, varijs temporibus ad me dedit. Eis (quanta verae amicitiae vis) post amici obitum relegens soleo assidue recreari.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 There did (sayeth Iohannes Camertes) of late yeres one Mauritius borne in Ireland excell, a gray Fryer profest, very well seene in Logike, depely grounded in philosophy, both moral and naturall, learned in the Metaphisikes, in deuinitie peerelesse. Scantly may I tell with how great curtisie and vertue he was endued. Whe(n) he had professed at Padus the liberall Artes many yeres with no small renowme. He was created by Iulius the second, not onely for hys profound knowledge, but also for the sinceritie of his lyfe, Archbishop of Tuen. When he was traueilyng thitherward, beyng departed from Italy, by reason of the vprores that there were daily encreasing, he ended his lyfe to the great losse of learnyng, before he was full fifty yeres old. He had sundry workes in hand, which he coulde not haue finished by reason of his vntimely death. How dere and entier friendes he and I were one to he other during his life, the letters he addressed me from tyme to tyme, to the number of sixe hundred, thwackt with loue and kyndnesse, do manifestly declare. And by perusing of them after his death (such is y^e force of friendship) I am greatly comforted. Thus far Camertes. This Mauritius wrote.

Compare 1587 edition: 1
• Commentatios super Scotum in praedicabilia.
• In magistrum sententiarum.lib.4.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 Mauricius Archbishop of Cashill, he florished in king Iohns raigne. Giraldus Cambriense, vpon his commyng into Ireland, and debacing the country in the hearyng of this prelate, saying that albeit the inhabitaunts were wont to brag of the number of their Saintes, yet they had no Martyrs. You say very well sir (quoth the Archbishop) in deede as rude as this countrey is or hath bene, yet the dwellers had the saintes in some reuerence. But now that the gouernement of the countrey is come to your kings handes, we shall (I trust) shortly be stored with martyrs.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 John Miagh a deuine, he wrote a treatise, de possessione Monasteriorum.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 Mooney, a Ciuilian and a good Latinist.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 Neylan, somtime fellow of Alsoules colledge in Oxford, a learned phisition.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 Patrike Nigram a deuine.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 Phillip Noris a scholer of Oxford, and after Deane of S. Patrikes in Dublyn. He flourished in the yeare 1446. & wrote these workes.

Compare 1587 edition: 1
• Declamationes quasdam,lib.I.
• Lecturas scripturarum,lib.I.
• Sermones ad populum, lib.I.
• Contra mendicitatem validam, lib.I.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 Nugent, baron of Deluyn, scholed in the Vniuersitie of Cambridge.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 William Nugent a proper gentleman, and of a singuler good wit, he wrote in the English tongue diuers Sonets.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 David Obuge, borne in the town of Kildare. For hys learned lectures, and subtile disputations openly published in Oxford and Treuers in Germany, he was taken for the gemme and lanterne of his country. In his tyme Giraldus Bononiensis, beyng maister generall of y^e Carmelites, that then were resiant in England beyng elected to resist their generall, Obuge was chosen to be forma(n) of al y^e crew. Giraldus Bonoiensis vnderstanding that he beyng an Irishman, was so hote in the conrouersie, was egerly bent agaynst Obug, because he assured hymself to haue had fauour at his hands, by reason Obuge was borne in that countre where the Giraldines his kinsmen were planted, and therupon he was banished Italy. This storme in processe of tyme beyng appeased, the outcast Carmelite was made the general garden of all his fraternitie in Irelande, which country by his continual teaching & preaching was greatly edified. Ouer this he was so politique a counsailor, that the nobilitie & estates in causes of weight, woulde haue recourse to hym as to an oracle. He was in philosophy an Aristotle, in eloquence a Tully, in deuinitie an Augustine, in the ciuill law a Iustinian, in the canon a Panormitane. He florished in the yere 1320. He deceased at Kyldare, leauyng thse learned workes ensuyng to posteritie.

Compare 1587 edition: 1
• Sermones ad Clerum, lib.I.
• Epistolae 32. ad diuersos, lib.I.
• Propositiones disputatas, lib.I.
• Lectiones Treuerenses, lib.I.
• Regulae Iuris, lib.I.
• Contra Giraldum Bononiensem.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 Owen Odewhee, a preacher, and a maker in Irishe.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 EEBO page image 599 OheirnainThomas Oheyrnayne, Deane of Corcke, [...] learned deuine, he wrote in Latine, Ad Iacobum Stanihurſtum, epiſt plures.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 2 Oheirligh.Thomas Oheirligh, biſhop of [...]o [...]e, an ex|quiſite deuine, brought vp in Italy.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 Pander.Pander, a man [...]ouſly addicted to the refor|mation of his countrey, wherof he wrote a po|litike booke in Latin, entituled Sa [...] populi.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 Patricius. Patricius, who notwithſtanding he be no Iriſh man borne, yet I may not ouerſlip [...]ynt [...]n the catalogue of Iriſh authors, for as much as hys whole workes tended to the conuerſion and re|formation of that countrey, he was ſurnamed Succetus or Magorials, an abſolute deuine, a|do [...]ng his deepe knowledge ther [...] with ſin|ceritie of lyfe. Beyng ſent into Ireland by the appoyntment of Coeleſtinus the firſt, accompa|nied with Segetius a prieſt, he conuerted the I|ſland from idolatry and paganiſme, to chriſtia|nitie. He wrote theſe bookes followyng.

Compare 1587 edition: 1
• De antiquitate Analonica. lib. 1.
• Itinerarium confeſſionis, lib. 1.
• Odorporicon Hyberniae, lib. 1.
• Hiſtoria Hyberniae ex Ruano, lib. 1.
• De tribus Habitaculis, lib. 1.
• De futura electorum vita. lib. 1.
• Abiectoria quaedam, 366. lib. 1.
• Sermones, lib. 1.
• Ad Cereticum tyrannum, epiſt. 1.
• Ad Aualonicos incolas, epiſt. 1.
• Ad Hybernicas eccleſias, epiſt plures.
• Ad Britannos, epiſt plures.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 He deceaſed, beyng 122. yeres old, in the yeare 458. or as ſome ſuppoſe 491. and lyeth buryes in an auncient city, in the North of Irelande, named Doune, accordyng to the olde verſe.

Compare 1587 edition: 1

Hi tres in Duno tumubo tumulantur in vno.

Brigida, Patricius, at Columba pius.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 Patricius Abbas. Patricius Abbas, a learned man, and much gi|uen to the edifiyng of his countreymen. He [...]o|riſhed in the yere 850. and deceaſed at Glaſed|bury. Some aſcribe the finding of S. Patrikes purgatory to this Abbot, not to Patrike that conuerted the countrey, but that errour hath bene before ſufficiently reprooued. This Abbot wrote,

• Homelias, lib. 1.
• Ad Hybernos, epiſt. plures,

Compare 1587 edition: 1 Petrus Hy|bernicus. Petrus Hybernicus, profeſſor of philoſophy in Naples, at which time Thomas Aquinas that after became the lantern of ſcholemen, both in philoſophy and deuinitie, was hys ſcholer, be|yng therfore as highly renowned, as Socra|tes is for beyng M. to Plato, or Plato is, for hauyng Ariſtotle to hys ſcholer. This Petrus flouriſhed in the yere 1230. he wrote, Quod libeta theologica. lib. 1.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 Pluncket.Pluncket, baron of Dunſany, ſcholer in Ra|tough, to M. Staghens, after ſent by ſir Chri|ſtofer. Barnewall knight, hys friendly father in [...], to the vniuerſitie of Oxforde. Where, how well he profited in knowledge, [...]s ſuch as are of hys acquaintaunce, preſently perceyue, ſo he reafter when hys workes ſhall take the ayre, that now by reaſon of baſhfull mode [...]ge, or modeſt [...]ſhfulnes are wrongfully empriſo|ned, and in maner [...]iected in ſhadowed [...]|che [...], I doubt not, but hys ſome and renowme in armyng, ſhall be aunſwerable to his deſert and valure in writyng.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 P [...]rell, a bacheler of be [...]tie,Poo [...]rell. ſometyme chapleine in ne [...] colledge at Oxford, after re|turnyng to his countrey, he was beneficed in Drogheda, from thence flitted to Louayne, where through continuall hearyng of lectures and diſputations, more then by his priuate ſtu|dy, he purchaſed a laudable knowledge in deui|nitie.The force of exerciſe. Wherby he gaue manifeſt ſhewe of the profite that riſeth of exerciſe and conference.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 Vpon this accuſſonio [...]e of hys acquaintaunce was accuſtomed to tell hym that he had allays deuinitie by heareſay. He deceaſed at [...]ouia [...], in the yere 1573.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 Nicholas Q [...]e [...]ford,

Quemer|ford.

1575.

doctor of de [...]tion proceeded the 23. of October, he wrote in Eng|liſh a very pithy and [...]earned treatiſe, & there withall exquiſitely pend, [...]titule [...],

• A [...]ers to certayne queſtionis propounded by the citizens of Waterford.
• Diuers ſermons.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 There lyued lately of the ſurname, a g [...] prelate in Waterford, and properly learned.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 Ryan,Ryan. there dyued two brethren of the ſur|name, both ſcholers of Oxford, the one a good Ciuilian, the other very well ſéene in the Ma|them [...]cals.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 Richard, Archdeacon of S. Patrikes,Richard. Chan|cellour of the Vniuerſitie of Dublinne, procee|ded Doctor of the Canon law, in the yere 132 [...]

Compare 1587 edition: 1 Robert Rocheforde,Rocheford. borne in the C [...]ye of Weifford, a proper deuine, an exact Philoſo|pher, and a very good antiquary. There is ano|ther Rochford, that is a ſtudent of philoſophy.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 Rooth, bacheler of law,Rooth. proceeded in the Vni|uerſitie of Oxford. There hath bene another Rooth Vicar of S. Iohns in Kylkenny, pretily learned.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 Ioannes de ſacro boſco, borne in Holywoode,De ſacro boſco. and therof ſurnamed de ſacro boſco. He wrote an excellent introduction, De Sphaera.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 Sedgrane, two brethren of the name,Sedgrane. both ſtudentes in deuinitie.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 Shaghens fellow of Baliol colledge in Ox|ford,Shaghens after ſcholemaiſter in Ireland, a learned and a vertuous man.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 Sheyne, ſcholer in Oxforde and Paris.Sheyne. He wrote, De repub.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 EEBO page image 27 Elias Sheth, borne in Kylkenny, sometyme scholer or Oxforde, a gentleman of a passing good wit: a pleasant conceyted companion, full of mirth without gall. He wrote in English diuers Sonets.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 Michael Sheth borne in Kylke(n)ny, M. or Arte.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 Skydmour borne in Corcke, and gardein of Poghyll.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 Richard Smyth, borne in a towne, named Rackmackney, three myles distant fro(m) Weisford, surnamed Smyth of hys father, who was by occupatio(n) a Smith, being 14. yeres of age, he stole into England, and repaired to Oxford where in tract of tyme he proceeded doctour of deuinitie, was elected doctour of the chaire, taken in those dayes for the peereless pearle of all the deuines in Oxforde, as well in scholasticall as in positiue deuinitie. Vpon the death of Queene Mary, he went to Louayne, where he red openly the Apocalips of S.Iohn, with little admiration and lesse reprehensio(n). He wrote in English agaynst licentious fastyng, or the liberty of Fastyng.

Compare 1587 edition: 1
• The assertion of the sacrament at aulter.
• A defence of the sacrifice of the masse.lib.I.
• Of vnwritten verities.lib.I.
• Retractations.lib.I.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 In the latin tongue he wrote

• de coelibatu sacerdotum.lib.I.
• De votis Monasticis.lib.I.
• De Iustificatione hominis.lib.I.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 Nicholas Stanihurst, he wrote in latine,

Compare 1587 edition: 1 Dietam Medicorum, lib.I. He dyed in the yeare 1554.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 James Stanthurst, late recorder of Dublyn, ouer hys exacte knowledge in the common lawes, he was a good oratour, and a proper deuine. He wrote in Englishe, beyng speaker in the parliamentes. An oration made in the beginnyng of a parliament holden at Dublyn before the right honourable Thomas Erle of Sussex, &c. in the third and fourth yere of Phillip and Mary.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 An oration made in the beginnyng of the parliament holden at Dublyn, before the right honourable Thomas Erle of Sussex, in the second yere of the raigne of our soueraigne lady Queene Elizabeth.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 An oration made in the beginnyng of a Parliament holden at Dublyn, before the right honourable sir Henry Sidney knight, &c. in the xj. yeare of the raigne of our soueraigne Lady Queene Elizabeth. He wrote in Latin,

Compare 1587 edition: 1
• Pias Orationes.
• Ad Corcaciensem decanum, epist. plures.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 He deceased at Dublyn, the 27. of December, beyng 51. yeres olde. Vpon whose death, I, as nature and duty bound me, made this epitaph.

Compare 1587 edition: 1

Vita breuis, mors sancta fuit (pater optime) visa,

Vita timenda malis, mors redamunda bonis

Vrbs est orba sopho: leghum rectore tribunal,

Cansidicoq; cliens, atq; parente puer.

Plurima proferrem, sed me prohibere videtur,

Pingere vera dolor, fingere falsa pudor.

Non opus est falsis, sed quae sunt vera loquenda,

Non mea penna notet, buccina fama sonet.

Hoc scripsisse satis, talem quandoq; parentem

Est habuisse decus, sed caruisse dolor.

Filius haec dubitans tale(m) vix comperit vsquam,

Vllus in orbe patrem, nullus in vrbe parem.

Mortuus ergo, pater, poteris bene viuus haberi,

Viuis enim mundo nomine, mente deo.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 Walter Sanihurst, sonne to James Stanihurst, he translated into English. Innocent de contemptu mundi.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 There flourished before any of these a Stanihurst, that was a scholer of Oxford, brother to Gennet Stanihurst, a famous and an auncient matrone of Dublyn, she lieth buried in S.Michaels church.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 Sutton, one of that name, is a very good maker in English.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 Mathew Talbot scholemaister, a Student in Cambridge, William Talbot.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 John Talbot, sonne to William, a M. of Art, he wrote in Latine

Compare 1587 edition: 1
• Orationem in laudem comitis Essexiae,
• Diuersa Epigrammata.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 Edmund Tanner, a profound deuine, he wrote

Compare 1587 edition: 1 Lectiones in summam D. Thomae.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 Taylor, batcheler of Arte, proceeded in the vniuersitie of Oxford, he wrote in Latine,

Compare 1587 edition: 1 Epigrammata diuersa.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 Thomas Hybernus, borne in Palmerstowne neere the Naas. He proceeded doctor of deuinitie in Paris, a deepe clearke and one that red much, as may easily be gathered by his learned workes. He flourished in the yere 1290. and wrote with diuers other workes, these bookes ensuyng.

Compare 1587 edition: 1
• Flores bibliae.
• Flores doctorum,lib.2
• De Christiana religione, lib.I.
• De illusionibus daemonum, lib.I.
• De Tentatione diaboli, lib.I.
• De remedijs vitiorum, lib.I.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 Laurentius Toole, Archbishop of Dublyn.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 Trauerse doctor of deuinitie, he florished in the raigne of Henry the 8 There hath bene after hym a scholemaister in Dublyn of y^e name.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 Tundalus Magus, a knight, after he became a charterhouse monke, much giuen to contemplacion, wherin he is reported to haue seene diuers visions of heauen and hell, and thereupon he wrote Apparitionum suarum, lib.I.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 He florished in the yere 1149.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 Virgilius Soliuagus, a noble man borne, being stept in yeares, he traueiled into Germany where [page ] where beyng knowen for a vertuous and learned prelate he was choſen by O [...]n Duke of Bauaria,754. to be their rectour or gardein of an auncient Abbey, named S. Peters Abbey, pla|ced in the city of Saliſburge, after he was cre|ated Epiſcopus Iu [...]anienſis, and founded in the ſaid town of Saliſburge a church. In his time one Bonifacius in Engliſh man, beyng gene|rall viſitour in Bauaria, rebapti [...]ed certaine, whome he ſuſpected not to haue bene orderly baptiſed. Virgilius deteſting the faces, hauyng conſulted with Sydonius Archbiſhop of Baua|ria, withſtood Bonifacius in his fond attempt. The controuerſie beyng brought before Pope Zacharias, he decréed that Bonifacius held an [...] error, and that Virgilius and Sydonius publi|ſhed to that poynte founde doct [...]e [...] as who ſo wyll re [...] Zacharias hys epiſtle to Bonifaci|us,Tomo pri|mo concili|orum. ſhall playne by ſée [...] [...] [...]us decreſed in the yeare 7814. and dyeth buried in hys church at Saliſburge. He wrote, Ad Zachariam Rompont. epiſt [...].

Compare 1587 edition: 1 Vitagh.Owen Vltagh a phiſition. His father procee|ded doctors [...]el [...] Phi [...]e in Paris.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 Vltanus. Vltanus a learned monke, felow to Foillamu [...], with whom he traueiled into Fraunce, & wyth continuall preachyng edified the inhabitantes of that realme. He floriſhed in the yere 640.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 Vrgalius. Gilbertus Vrgalius, a profeſt Carme [...]te, and a ſtudent in Oxford. He floriſhed in the yere. [...]39 he wrote in two great Tomes.

• Summam quarundam legum.
• De rebus theologicis lib. 1.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 Vſher.Vſher, or Vſcher, a ſtudent in Cambridge, and a preacher.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 Wadding.Wadding, a proper verſifier, he wrote in la|tine vpon the burnyng of Paules ſteple.

• Carmen Heroicum.
• Diuerſa Epigrammata.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 Walſhe.Edward Walſhe, he floriſhed in the yeare 1550. and wrote in Engliſh,

• The duety of ſuch as fight for their countrey.
• The reformation of Ireland by the worde of God.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 Iames Walſh, M. of Arte, and ſtudent in di|uinitie, he tranſlated into Engliſh, Giraldum Cambrienſem, he wrote in latine, Epigrammata diuerſa.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 Richard Walſhe M. of Art, and ſtudent in di|uinitie. There is a learned man of the name beneficed in S. Patrikes church in Dublynne, ſtudent in Cambridge, and now a preacher.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 Peter Walſhe a proper youth, and one that would haue bene an ornament to his country, if God had ſpared him lyfe. He dyed of a ſurfet at London, about the yere 1571.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 There dwelleth in Waterford a lawyer of the ſurname, who writeth a very proper Latine verſe.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 Welleſley deane of Kyldare,Welleſley there lyueth an other learned man of the name, who is Arche|deacon of S. Patrikes.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 Peter White, borne in Waterford,White. fellow of Orial colledge in Oxford, the lucky ſcholemai|ſter of Mounſter. He beſtowed his tyme ra|ſhes in the makyng of ſcholers, therein the p [...]|nyng of bookes, and to the inſtruction of youth he wrote.

Compare 1587 edition: 1
• Epitomun o [...]ſtus Eraſmi.
• Epi [...] Figui [...] [...].
• Annotationes in [...] piro Anticleo [...]deus.
• Annotation omtiquem pro [...]ione.
• Epitration [...] ver [...].

Compare 1587 edition: 1 Iohn White, bachelor of deuinitie, [...] in Glorimol, he wrote in latin, [...]ceſtepia epigrammata.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 Andrew Wihurn good humanitian; & [...] philoſopher.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 Wiſe, of this ſet [...]me there flouriſhed ſudden learned gentlemen.Wiſe. There [...]th [...] Waſe in Waterforde, that maketh very well in the Engliſh.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 Andrew Wiſe, a toward youth, and a good verſifier.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 William, an Abbate,William. and as it is thought a ſoothſaier. He floriſhed in the yere [...]ſt, & wrote Prophetian rerum futura nim. lib. [...].

Compare 1587 edition: 1 Dauid Wolfe, a deuine.wolfe.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 Thus farre gentle reader, haue I endeuou|red to heape vp togither a Catalogue of ſuche learned Iriſhmẽ, as by diligent reſearch could haue ben found. Howbeit, I am to requeſt the not to meaſure the ample number of the lear|ned of that countrey by this [...]irf [...] abſtract cõ|ſideryng, that diuers haue ben, yea and are yet liuyng, of profound knowledge that to me are vnknowen, and therefore in this regiſter, not recorded.

1.7. The names or surnames of the lear|ned men and authors of Ireland, and what bookes they wrote. The seuenth chapter.

The names or surnames of the lear|ned men and authors of Ireland, and what bookes they wrote. The seuenth chapter.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 _ARdericus, whome Marianus Scotus termeth Barbosus, because of his long beard, a Ardericus. learned man, greatlie in old time renowmed in Ireland. But for as much as in his age the countrie was not sto|red with such as imploied their labors in gathering together the saiengs and dooings of sage persons, the discontinuance of his fame is rather to be imputed to the ignorance of the time, than to the want of his deserts. He flouri|shed in the yeare 1053. Alen, a learned physician. Iames Archer a student of diuinitie. Argobastus, Alen. Archer. Argobastus. the second bishop of Argentine, successor to the ho|lie prelat saint Amand, borne in Ireland, a learned and deuout clerke: who leauing his countrie and li|uing in heremit wise, in certeine solitarie places of France, instructed the people of that realme in the feare of God, and the knowlege of the scriptures. In his preaching he was noted to haue so singular a grace, and so prosperous successe, that such as were by anie worldlie misaduenture afflicted, vpon the hearing of his godlie sermons would suddenlie be comforted. The French king Dagobertus, aduer|tised of his lerning and vertue, caused him to be sent for, vsing him as his chiefe councellor in all his weightie affaires; and after aduanced him to be bi|shop of Argentine: he wrote a booke of homilies. He deceassed in the yeare 658: & was buried hard by a gibbet néere the citie, pitcht on the top of an hill called saint Michaels hill, which was doone by 64 [...] his owne appointment, in that he would follow the example of his maister Christ, who did vouchsafe to suffer without the citie of Ierusalem, where offen|dors and malefactors were executed. Barnwall. Bradie a preacher. Brendan an abbat borne in Con|nagh, Barnwall. Bradie. Brendan. in his youth trained vp vnder Hercus a bi|shop: and being further stept in yeares, he trauelled into England, where he became a profest moonke, vnder an abbat named Congellus, he flourished in the yeare 560: and wrote these bookes insuing. Confessio christiana lib. 1. Charta coelestis haere|ditatis lib. 1. Monachorum regula lib. 1.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 Edmund Bernerden a frier, he procéeded doctor Bernerden. Brigide. of diuinitie in Dublin, in the yeare 1320. Brigide the virgine, borne in Leinster, she flourished in the yeare 510: she wrote a booke of hir reuelations. Browne a ciuilian. Burnell. Butler a Water|fordian, sometime scholer to maister Peter White; Browne. Burnell. Butler. he translated Maturinus Corderius his booke of phrases into English, in the yeare 1562. Iames Caddell, he wrote Diuersa epigrammata. Carberie Caddell. Carberie. Celsus. a profound ciuilian. Celsus archbishop of Armagh, borne in Ireland, and schooled in the vniuersitie of Oxford, he flourished in the yeare 1128: he wrote these bookes following. Testamentum ad ecclesias lib. 1. Constitutiones quaedam lib. 1. Ad Mala|chiam epistolae complures. Cléere, borne in Kilken|nie, and procéeded maister of art in Oxford. Iohn Cléere. Clin borne in Leinster, being profest a greie fri|er, he bestowed his time in preaching, chieflie in the Clin. towne of Kilkennie. This man was a good anti|quarie, as appeared by a chronicle he wrote, begin|ning at the natiuitie of Christ, and stretching to the yeare 1350: in which yeare he flourished. He wrote these bookes following. Annalium chronicon lib. 1. De regibus Anglorum lib. 1. De custodijs prouin|ciarum lib. 1. De Franciscanorum coenobijs & e|orum distinctionibus lib. 1.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 Henrie Cogie doctor of diuinitie, procéeded in the vniuersitie of Dublin, in the yeare 1320. Colme, a learned and an holie monke, he flourished in the Cogie. Colme. yeare 670: he wrote a booke intituled Pro socijs Quartadecimanis. Columbanus, borne in Ulster, and trained in learning and knowledge as well in Columbanus. England as in France, for his learning and ver|tue, was elected to be abbat. Hauing trauelled di|uerse countries, at length he repaired to Italie, and there in an abbeie by him founded, called Mo|nasterium Bobiense, he ended his life the twentith of 59 [...] Nouember. He left to his posteritie these bookes: In psalterium commentarios lib. 1. Collationes ad monachos librum 1. De moribus monachorum metrice lib. 1. Monasteriorum methodos lib. 1. Epistolas ad commilitones lib. 1. Aduersus re|gem adulterum lib. 1. Conganus an Irish ab|bat, of whom saint Barnard maketh great ac|count, Conganus. he flourished in the yeare 1150: and wrote to saint Bernard Gesta Malachiae archiepiscopi Barnardus in vita Malachiae in praefat. Connour. Conton. Coniell. Cornelius. lib. 1. Ad Bernardum Clareuallensem epist. plures. Connour. Walter Conton: he wrote in the La|tine toong diuerse epigrams and epitaphs. Simon Coniell a diuine. Cornelius Hibernus, otherwise EEBO page image 40 named H [...]oricus, by reason that he was taken in his time for an exquisit antiquarie, as may appeare by the Scotish historian Hector Boctius, by whom he Hector Boet. in prae [...]ul. Scot. [...]. acknowledgeth himselfe to be greatlie furthered. He flourished in the yeare 1230: and wrote Multa|rum rerum Chronicon. lib. 1. Richard Creagh borne in Limerike, a diuine, he wrote Epistolas Creagh. complures, Responsiones ad casus conscientiae. De vitis sanctorum Hiberniae. Topographiam Hiber|niae, with diuerse other bookes.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 3 4 Henrie Crumpe borne in Ireland, and brought Crumpe. vp in the vniuersitie of Oxford,, where he grew by reason of his profound knowledge in diuinitie to no small credit. Hauing repaired to his natiue coun|trie, minding there to defraie the talent wherewith God had indued him, he was suddenlie apprehended by Simon bishop of Meth, and kept in duresse, by re|son that he was suspected to be of no sound religion. He florished in the yeare one thousand thrée hundred ninetie and two, and wrote these bookes: Determi|nationes scholast. lib. 1. Contra religiosos mendican|tes lib. 1. Responsiones ad obiecta lib. 1. Edmund Curren archdeacon of old Laghlin, there hath béene an Irish bishop of the name. Patrike Cusacke a Curren. Cusacke. gentleman borne, and a scholer of Oxford, sometime schoolemaister in Dublin, and one that with [...]he learning that God did impart him, gaue great light to his countrie; he imploied his studies rather in the instructing of scholers, than in penning of books, he florished in the yeare one thousand fiue hundred three score and six, and wrote in Latine Diuersa epi|grammata.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 3 4 Dalie schooled in the vniuersitie of Paris, ha|uing Dalie. a pretie insight in scholasticall diuinitie, he made Diuersas conciones. Sir Willielme Dar|cie Darcie. knight, a wise gentleman, he wrote a booke inti|tuled, The decaie of Ireland. Dauid Delahide, an Delahide. exquisite and a profound clerke, sometime fellow of Merton college in Oxford, verie well séene in the Latine and Gréeke toongs, expert in the mathema|ticals, a proper antiquarie, and an exact diuine. Whereby I gather that his pen hath not béene lazie, but is dailie bréeding of such learned bookes as shall be auailable to his posteritie. I haue séene a proper oration of his in the praise of master Heiwood being Christmasse lord in Merton college intituled, Delig|no & foeno, also Schemata rhetorica in tabulam con|tracta. Deurox, there are two brethren of the name learned, the elder was sometimes schoolemaister in Deurox. Weiseford.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 3 4 5 Peter Dillon a diuine, and Iohn Dillon like|wise Dillon. Doudall. a student in diuinitie. Doudall, sometime pri|mat of Armagh, a graue, a learned, and a politike prelat, verie zealouslie affected to the reformation of his countrie, he made Diuersas conciones. Dor|mer a lawyer, borne in Rosse, scholer of Oxford, he wrote in ballat roiall, The decaie of Rosse. Iohannes Dormer. Duns Scotus an Irishman borne, as in the forefront Duns Iohan|nes maior lib. 4. cap. 10. of this treatise I haue declared. Howbeit Iohannes Maior a Scotish chronicler would faine prooue him to be a Scot. Leland on the other side saith he was borne in England. So that there shall as great con|tention rise of him, as in old time there rose of Ho|mers countrie. For the Colophonians said that Ho|mer Cic. i [...] orat. pro Arch. poeta. was borne in their citie; the Chtians claimed him to be theirs, the Salaminians aduouched that he was their countriman: but the Smirnians were so stiffelie bent in proouing him to be borne in their territorie, as they would at no hand take no naie in the matter, & thervpon they did consecrat a church to the name of Homer. But what countriman soeuer this Scotus were, he was doubtlesse a subtill and pro|found clerke. The onelie fault wherewith he was dusked, was a litle spice of vaineglorie, being giuen to carpe and taunt his predecessor diuines, rather for blemishing the fame of his aduersaries than for ad|uancing the truth of the controuersies. Wherevpon great factions are growen in the schooles betwéene the Thomists and Scotists; Thomas being the ring|leader Thomistae. Scotistae, of the one sect, and Scotus the belweadder of the other. He was fellow of Merton college in Ox|ford, and from thense he was sent for to Paris to be a professor of diuinitie. Finallie, he repaired vnto Cullen, where in an abbeie of greie friers (of which 1308, profession he was one) he ended his life. The books he wrote are these: Commentarij Oxonienses lib. 4. Reportationes Parisienses lib. 4. Quodlibeta scho|lastica lib. 1. In Analytica posteriora lib. 2. In me|taphysicam quaestiones lib. 12. De cognitione Dei lib. 1. De perfectione statuum lib. 1. Sermones de tempore lib. 1. Sermones de Sanctis lib. 1. Colla|tiones Parisienses lib. 1. Lectura in Genesim lib. 1. De rerum principio lib. 1. Commentarij in euan|gelia lib. 4. In epistolas Pauli lib. plures. Quaestio|nes vniuersalium lib. 1. Quaestiones praedicamento|rum lib. 1. In Aristotelis physica lib. 8. In categori|as Aristotelis lib. 1. Tetragrammata quaedam lib. 1. Commentariorum imperfectorum lib. 1.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 3 4 Eustace a doctor of diuinitie, a verie good schoole|man, Eustace. he florished in the yeare one thousand fiue hun|dred thirtie and six. Olifer or Oliuer Eustace a stu|dent of the ciuill and canon law, a good humanician, and a proper philosopher. Nicholas Eustace a gen|tleman borne, surpassing birth by learning, and lear|ning by vertue. Maurice Eustace a student of di|uinitie, one that notwithstanding he were borne to a faire liuing, yet did wholie sequester himselfe from the world.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 3 4 Fagan a batchellor of art in Oxford, and a Fagan. Ferraile. schoolemaister in Waterford. Daniell Ferraile, a diuine and a schoolemaister. Fergutius son to Fer|quhardus Fergutius, king of Ireland, the first king of Scots, whome some affirme to be borne in Denmarke, the more part suppose him to haue béene an Irish man. He florished in the yeare of the world three thousand six hundred seuentie and eight, and before the incarnation two hundred ninetie and two, in the fiue and twentith yeare of his reigne. He was by by misaduenture drowned néere a rocke in the north of Ireland that of him is called to this daie Carreg|fergus; Carreg|fergus. vpon whose mishap these verses were made:

Icarus Icareis vt nomina fecerat vndis,

Fergusius petraesic dedit apta suae.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 3 4 5 This Fergusius wrote a booke intituled, Leges politicae lib. 1. Finnanus scholer to one Nennius Finnanus. and Segenius, taken for a deepe diuine in his age; he florished in the yeare six hundred sixtie and one; he wrote Pro veteri paschatis ritu lib. 1. Field a physici|an. Field. Thomas Field a master of art. Iohn Fitzgi|rald, commonlie named Iohn Fitzedmund, a verie well lettered ciuilian, a wise gentleman, and a good housholder.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 Robert Fitzgirald aliàs Robert Fitzmaurice Fitzgirald. borne in the countie of Kildare. Dauid Fitzgirald, vsuallie called Dauid Duffe, borne in Kerie, a ciuilian, a maker in Irish, not ignorant of musike, skilfull in physike, a good & generall craftsman much Hippias. like to Hippias, surpassing all men in the multitude of crafts, who comming on a time to Pisa to the great triumph called Olympicum, ware nothing but such as was of his owne making; his shooes, his pattens, his cloke, his cote, the ring that he did weare, with a signet therin verie perfectlie wrought, were all made by him. He plaied excellentlie on all kind of instruments, and soong therto his owne ver|ses, which no man could amend. In all parts of lo|gike, rhetorike, and philosophie he vanquished all men, and was vanquished of none.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 EEBO page image 41 Richard Fitzrafe, primat of Armagh, scholer in the vniuersitie of Oxford to Baconthorpe a good phi|losopher, Fitzrafe. & no ignorant diuine: an enimie to friers, namelie such as went begging from doore to doore, whereby he purchased the hatred of all religious per|sons. He was by Edward the third his means made archdeacon of Lichfield, after created primat of Ar|magh, being cited before pope Clement the sixt, for reproouing the begging friers. In the heat of the said contention he deceassed in Italie, whose bones 1360 were caried into Ireland, and buried at Dondalke, where he was borne. He wrote these bookes insuing: De paupertate seruatoris lib. 7. Contra fratres men|dicantes lib. 16. In extrauagantem Ioannis 23 lib. 1. Determinationes ad eundem lib. 1. Contra suum archidiaconum lib. 1. Propositiones ad papam lib. 1. Contra fratrum appellationem lib. 1. Sermones ad crucem Pauli lib. 1. Sermones coram pontifice lib. 1. De statu vniuersalis ecclesiae lib. 1. Lectura sententia|rum lib. 4. Quaestiones earundem lib. 1. Lectura the|ologica lib. 1. Sermones ad clerum lib. 1. Sermones de tempore lib. 1. Sermones de sanctis lib. 1. Mariae laudes Auenioni lib. 1. Illustrationes euangeliorum lib. 4. De passione dominica lib. 1. De peccato ig|norantiae lib. 1. De Iure spirituali lib. 1. De vafricijs Iudaeorum lib. 1. Propositionum suarum lib. 1. Epistolarum ad diuersos lib. 1. Dialogorum plurium librum vnum.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 3 4 Walter Fitzsimons, archbishop of Dublin, lord iustice and lord chancellor of Ireland at one time, a Fitzsimons. famous clerke, and exquisitelie learned both in philo|sophie and diuinitie: being in companie with king Henrie the seuenth, and hearing an oration that was made in his praise, the king demanded him, what fault he found most in the oration? Trulie (quoth he) if it like your highnesse, no fault, sauing onelie that the orator flattered your maiestie ouermuch. Now in good faith, our father of Dublin (quoth the king) we minded to find the same fault our selues. Tho|mas Fitzsimons, a verie proper diuine: he wrote in English a treatise of the church. Leonard Fitzsi|mons, a deepe and pithie clerke, well séene in the Gréeke and Latine toong, sometime fellow of Trini|tie college in Oxford, perfect in the mathematicals, and a painefull student in diuinitie: he hath a bro|ther that was trained vp in learning in Cambridge now beneficed in Trim. Michaell Fitzsimons, schoolemaster in Dublin, a proper student, and a dili|gent man in his profession, he wrote Orationem in aduentum comitis Essexiae Dublinium, Epitaphion in mortem Iacobi Stanihursti, Diuersa epigram|mata.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 3 4 5 Philip Flattisburie, a worthie gentleman, and a diligent antiquarie, he wrote in the Latine toong, at Flattisburie. the request of the right honourable Girald Fitzgi|rald erle of Kildare, Diuersas chronicas: he florished in the yeare one thousand fiue hundred and seauen|teene, & deceassed at his towne named Iohnstowne néere the Naas. Thomas Fleming: there is a Fleming. Fleming now liuing, of whome I heare great re|port to be an absolute diuine, and a professor thereof. Foillanus a learned moonke, he trauelled into France, where thorough the liberalitie of an holie Foillanus. virgine, named Gertrude, he founded an abbeie cal|led Monasterium Fossense, where at length he suffe|red 654 martyrdome. Fursaeus peregrinus, so called, bi|cause he was borne in Ireland, and did bestow his Furseus. yeares as an estranger in France, where he foun|ded an abbeie named Coenobium Latiniacense: he wrote certeine pamphlets, that by tract of time are perished, he flourished in the yeare six hundred and [...]47 sixtie, and was buried in his owne monasterie.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Robert Garuie, fellow of Oriall college in Ox|ford, Garuie. a student of both the lawes, a man well spoken as well in the English as in the Latine. Robert Gogan. Hardit. Gogan a preacher. William Hardit a doctor of di|uinitie, proceeded in the vniuersitie of Dublin, in the yeare one thousand thrée hundred and twentie. Hic|kie, Hickie. Hugo. physicians, the father and his sonne. Hugo de Hibernia, so called, bicause his surname is not knowne, he was a greie frier, and a great traueller, he flourished in the yeare one thousand thrée hun|dred and sixtie, he wrote Itinerarium quoddam lib. 1. Oliuer Huseie, a professor of the arts in Dowaie. Huseie. Hurlie. Ioise. Kellie. Derbie Hurlie, a ciuilian, and a commendable phi|losopher: he wrote In Aristotelis physica. Robert Ioise, borne in Kilkennie, a good humanician. Ra|duiphus Kellie a moonke, brought vp in the know|ledge of the Latine toong in Kildare, in which he pro|fited so well, that for his eloquence and wisedome he was sent to Clement the sixt, as the speaker or pro|locutor of all his order, and also was appointed the generall aduocat or deputie vnder Petrus de Casa, master generall of the order. After he was aduanced to be archbishop of Cashill, in which honour he de|ceassed, 1342 hauing at vacant houres written In iure ca|nonico lib. 1. Epistolarum familiarium lib. 1. Tho|mas Kenedie, a ciuilian.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Kernie, he wrote in Irish Catechismum, Trans|lationem Kenedie. Kernie. Keuannagh. bibliae. Cagher, a nobleman borne, in his time called Mac Murrough, he descended of that Mac Murrough that was sometime king of Lein|ster, he was a surpassing diuine, and for his learning and vertue was created bishop of Leighlin and ab|bat of Grage: he flourished in the yeare one thou|sand fiue hundred and fiftie, and was an hundred yeares old when he deceassed. Iames King, borne in King. Dublin, and scholer to M. Patrike Cusacke, vnder whome being commendablie trained, he repaired to the vniuersitie of Cambridge, where he deceassed be|fore he could atteine to that ripenesse of learning, 1569 whereto one of so pregnant a wit was like in time to aspire, he wrote Carmina in laudem Henrici Sidnaei, Leie. Leurouse. 155 [...] Diuersa epigrammata. Leie, a learned and an expert physician. Leurouse a learned diuine, sometime bi|shop of Kildare, and deane of saint Patriks in Du|blin. Loghlen. Aeneas Loghlen, or Mackleighlen, master of art, and a preacher. Thomas Long doctor of both the Long. lawes, he procéeded at Paris, in the yeare one thou|sand fiue hundred seuentie and six in August, he is a proper philosopher, no stranger in scholasticall diuini|tie, a pretie Latinist: he wrote De speciebus contra mendacem monachum, In Aristotelis physica, The|ses ex praecipuis iuris vtriusque partibus selectas Ca|rolo Borbonio cardinali consecratas.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 3 4 Peter Lombard borne in Waterford, scholer to Lombard. master Peter White, hauing imploied two yeares and a halfe in the studie of philosophie at Louaine, he was chosen when he procéeded master of art, Primus vniuersitatis, by the vniforme consent of the foure principals, which preferment did happen to none in such consenting wise, in manie yeares before: he wrote Carmen heroicum in doctoratum Nicholai Quemerfordi. Dorbie Macchragh, a student in di|uinitie. Macchragh. Macgrane. Malachias. Macgrane, a schoolemaster in Dublin, he wrote carols and sundrie ballads. Malachias borne in Ulster, his life is exactlie written by saint Bar|nard, in whose abbeie he died in the yeare one thou|sand one hundred fortie and eight, he wrote Consti|tutorum communium lib. 1. Legum coelibatus lib. 1. Nouarum traditionum lib. 1. Ad D. Barnardum epist. plures. Malachias, the minorit or greie frier, a student in the vniuersitie of Oxford, where he attei|ned Malachias minorit. to that knowledge in diuinitie, as he was the onelie man in his time that was appointed to preach before the king and the nobilitie, a sharpe reproouer of vice, a zelous imbracer of vertue, enimie to flat|terie, friend to simplicitie; he flourished in the yeare EEBO page image 42 one thousand thrée hundred and ten; he wrote De peccatis & remedijs, lib. 1. Conciones plures, lib. 1.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 Mauricius Hybernus, of him Iohannes Camertes, thus writeth. Annis ab his proximis excelluit, ex ea insula Mauricius. Iohannes Ca| [...] cap. 35. [...]l. oriundus Mauricius, D. Francisci ordinis professus, in diale|cticis, vtraque philosophia, metaphysicis, ac sacra theologia plu|rimùm eruditus. Vix insuper dici potest, qua humanitate, quáue morum sanctimonia praeditus fuerit. Is cùm annis plu|rimis in Patauino gymnasio bonas artes docuisset, cum summa omnium gratia, ob eius singularem eruditionem, ac candidissi|mos mores, à Iulio secundo pontifice maximo in Tuanensem ar|chiepiscopum creatus est. Quò cùm relicta Italia bellis in ea sae|uientibus proficisceretur, non multùm post, magna studiorum iactura, cùm nondum quinquagesimum atatis suae attigisset annum, mortem obijt. Erant plurima suae doctrinae in mani|bus monumenta, sed ea ob immaturam eius mortem edere non licuit. Quantum fuerit inter eum, dum viueret, & me ne|cessitudinis vinculum, testantur sexcentae epistolae, quas plenas charitatis indicijs, varijs temporibus ad me dedit. Eis (quanta verae amicitiae vis) post amici obitum, relegens soleo assiduè recreari.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 3 There did (saith Ioannes Camertes) of late yeares one Mauricius borne in Ireland excell, a grete frier profest, verie well séene in logike, deepelie grounded in philosophie, both morall & naturall, learned in the metaphysiks, in diuinitie péerelesse. Scantlie maie I tell with how great courtesie & vertue he was in|dued. When he had professed at Padua the liberall arts manie yeares with no small renowme; he was created by Iulius the second, not onelie for his pro|found knowledge, but also for the sinceritie of his life, archbishop of Tuen. When he was trauelling thitherward, being departed frõ Italie, by reason of the vprores that were there daily incresing, he ended his life to the great losse of learning, before he was full fiftie yeares old. He had sundrie works in hand, which he could not haue finished by reason of his vn|timelie death. How déere and entier friends he and I were one to the other during his life, the letters he addressed me from time to time, to the number of six hundred, thwackt with loue and kindnesse, doo mani|festlie declare. And by perusing of them after his death (such is the force of friendship) I am greatlie comforted. Thus farre Camertes. This Mauricius wrote Commentarios super Scotum in praedicabilia, In magistrum sententiarum lib. 4. Mauricius arch|bishop of Cashill, he florished in king Iohns reigne. Giraldus Cambrensis, vpon his comming into Ire|land, Mauricius Cassiliensis. and debasing the countrie in the hearing of this prelat, saieng that albeit the inhabitants were woont to brag of the number of their saints, yet they had no martyrs: You saie verie well sir (quoth the archbishop) indéed as rude as this countrie is or hath béene, yet the dwellers had the saints in some reue|rence. But now that the gouernement of the coun|trie is come to your kings hands, we shall (I trust) shortlie be stored with martyrs.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Iohn Miagh a diuine, he wrote a treatise, De pos|sessione Miagh. monasteriorum. Mooneie a ciuilian and a good Latinist. Neilan, sometime fellow of Alsoules Mooneie. Neilan. college in Oxford, a learned physician. Patrike Nigran a diuine. Philip Norris a scholer of Oxford and after deane of S. Patriks in Dublin, he flouri|shed Nigran. Norris. in the yeare 1446, and wrote these workes. Declamationes quasdam lib. 1. Lecturas scriptura|rum lib. 1. Sermones ad populum, lib. 1. Contra mendicitatem validam lib. 1. Nugent, baron of Deluin, schooled in the vniuersitie of Cambridge. Nugent. William Nugent a proper gentleman, and of a sin|gular good wit, he wrote in the English toong diuerse sonets.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 Dauid Obuge, borne in the towne of Kildare; for Obuge. his learned lectures, and subtile disputations openlie published in Oxford and Treuers in Germanie, he was taken for the gem and lanterne of his countrie. In his time Giraldus Bononiensis, being maister generall of the Carmelits, was at iar with Willi|am Lidlington, the prouinciall of all the English Carmelites. Wherevpon tenne of the wisest and learnedest Carmelits that then were resiant in England, being fullie elected to resist their generall, Obuge was chosen to be the forman of all the said crew. Giraldus Bononiensis vnderstanding that Giraldus Bononiensis. he being an Irishman, was so hot in the controuer|sie, was egerly bent against Obuge, because he assu|red himselfe to haue had fauour at his hands, by rea|son Obuge was borne in that countrie where the Giraldines his kinsmen were planted, and there vp|on he was banished Italie. This storme in processe of time being appeased, the outcast Carmelite was made the generall gardian of all his fraternitie in Ireland: which countrie by his continuall teaching and preaching was greatlie edified. Ouer this he was so politike a councellor, that the nobilitie and e|states in causes of weight, would haue recourse to him as to an oracle. He was in philosophie an Aristo|tle, in eloquence a Tullie, in diuinitie an Augustine, in the ciuill law a Iustinian, in the canon a Panor|mitane, he flourished in the yeare 1320, he deceased at Kildare, leauing these learned workes insuing to posteritie. Sermones ad Clerum lib 1. Epistolae 32 ad diuersos lib. 1. Propositiones disputatas lib. 1. Lectiones Treuerenses lib. 1. Regulae Iuris lib. 1. Contra Giraldum Bononiensem.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Owen Odewhee, a preacher, and a maker in I|rish. Odewhée. Oheirnain. Thomas Oheirnaine, deane of Corke, a lear|ned diuine, he wrote in Latine Ad Iacobum Stani|hurstum epist. plures. Thomas Oheirligh, bishop of Oheirligh. Rosse, an exquisite diuine, brought vp in Italie. Pander, a man zelouslie addicted to the reformation Pander. Patricius of his countrie, whereof he wrote a politike booke in Latine, intituled Salus populi. Patricius, who not|withstanding he be no Irishman borne, yet I may not ouerslip him in the catalog of Irish authors, for as much as his whole works tended to the conuersi|on 432 and reformation of that countrie: he was surna|med Succetus or Magonius, an absolute diuine, a|dorning his déepe knowledge therein with sinceri|tie of life. Being sent into Ireland by the appoint|ment of Celestinus the first, accompanied with Se|getius a priest, he conuerted the Iland from idola|trie and paganisme to christianitie. He wrote these bookes following. De antiquitate Aualonica lib. 1. Itinerarium confessionis lib. 1. Odorporicon Hyber|niae lib. 1. Historia Hyberniae ex Ruano lib. 1. De tribus habitaculis lib. 1. De futura electorum vita lib. 1. Abiectoria quaedam 366. lib. 1. Ad Cereticum tyrannum epist. 1. Sermones lib. 1. Ad Aualoni|cos incolas epist. 1. Ad Hybernicas ecclesias epist. plures. Ad Britannos epist. plures. He deceased, being one hundred, twentie, and two yeares old, in the yeare 458, or as some suppose 491, and lieth buri|ed in an ancient citie, in the north of Ireland, na|med Downe, according to the old verse, which saith:

Hi tres in Duno tumulo tumulantur in vno,

Brigida, Patricius, átque Columba pius.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 3 Patricius Abbas a learned man, and much giuen Patricius abbas. to the edifieng of his countriemen: he florished in the yeare 850, and deceased at Glasconburie. Some ascribe the finding of saint. Patrikes purgatorie to this abbat, not to Patrike that conuerted the coun|trie; but that errour hath béene before sufficientlie re|prooued. This abbat wrote Homilias lib. 1. Ad Hy|bernos epist. plures. Petrus Hybernicus, professor of philosophie in Naples, at which time Thomas. Aqui|nas Petrus Hy|bernicus. that after became the lanterne of scholemen, both in philosophie and diuinitie, was his scholer; be|ing therefore as highlie renowmed as Socrates is EEBO page image 43 for being maister to Plato; or Plato is, for hauing Aristotle to his scholer. This Petrus flourished in the yeare 1230, he wrote Quodlibeta theologica lib. 1. Plunket, baron of Dunsanie, scholer in Ratough, Plunket. to M. Staghens, after sent by sir Christopher Barne|wall knight, his freendlie father in law, to the vni|uersitie of Oxford. Where, how well he profited in knowledge, as such as are of his acquaintance pre|sentlie perceiue, so hereafter when his workes shall take the aire, that now by reason of bashfull mode|stie, or modest bashfulnesse are wrongfullie impriso|ned, and in manner stiefled in shadowed couches, I doubt not, but by his fame and renowme in lear|ning, shall be answerable to his desert and valure in writing.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 3 4 Poomrell, a batchelor of diuinitie, sometime chap|leine in New college in Oxford, after returning to Poomrell. his countrie, he was beneficed in Drogheda, from thense flitted to Louaine, where through continuall hearing of lectures and disputations, more than by his priuat studie, he purchased a laudable know|ledge in diuinitie. Whereby he gaue manifest shew of the profit that riseth of exercise and conference. Upon this occasion, one of his acquaintance was The force of exercise. accustomed to tell him that he had all his diuinitie by hearesaie. He deceased at Louaine in the yere 1573. Nicholas Quemeford, doctor of diuinitie, proceeded the thrée and twentith of October, he wrote in Eng|lish a verie pithie and learned treatise, and there|withall Quemerford, 1575 exquisitelie pend, intituled; Answers to certeine questions propounded by the citizens of Waterford; Diuerse sermons. There liued latelie of the surname a graue prelat in Waterford, and properlie learned.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 Rian, there liued two brethren of the surname, both scholers of Oxford, the one a good ciuilian, the Rian. other verie well séene in the mathematicals. Richard archdeacon of saint Patriks, chancellor in the vni|uersitie Richard, of Dublin, procéeded doctor of the canon law, in the yeare one thousand thrée hundred and twentie. Robert Rochford borne in the countrie of Rochford. Weiseford, a proper diuine, an exact philosopher, and a verie good antiquarie. There is another Rochford that is a student of philosophie. Rooth, batchelor of Rooth. law, procéeded in the vniuersitie of Oxford. There hath béene another Rooth vicar of S. Iohns in Kil|kennie pretilie learned. Iohannes de sacro bosco, De sacro bosco. borne in Holiwood, and thereof surnamed De sacro bosco; he wrote an excellent introduction, De Sphaera. Sedgraue, two brethren of the name, both Sedgraue. Shaghens. students in diuinitie. Shaghens fellow of Balioll college in Oxford, after schoolemaister in Ireland, a learned and a vertuous man. Sheine, scholer in Ox|ford Sheine. and Paris; he wrote, De Repub. Elias Sheth borne in Kilkennie, sometime scholer of Oxford, a Sheth. gentleman of a passing good wit, a plesant conceited companion, full of mirth without gall; he wrote in English diuerse sonets. Michaell Sheth borne in Kilkennie, master of art. Skidmor borne in Corke, and gardian of Yoghill. Skidmor.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 3 Richard Smith borne in a towne named Rack|mackneie, Smith. thrée miles distant from Weiseford, sur|named Smith; of his father, who was by occupation a smith, being foureteene yéeres of age he stole into England, and repaired to Oxford, where in tract of time he procéeded doctor of diuinitie, was elected do|ctor of the chaire, taken in those daies for a peerelesse pearle of all the diuines in Oxford, as well in scho|lasticall as in positiue [...]uinitie. Upon the death of queene Marie he went to Louaine, where he read o|penlie the apocalypse of saint Iohn, with little admi|ra [...] and lesse reprehension; he wrote in English against licentious fasting, or the libertie of fasting; The assertion of the sacrament of altar; A defense of the sacrifice of the masse one booke; Of vnwritten verities one booke; Retractations one booke. In the Latin toong he wrote De coelibatu sacerdotum lib. 1. De votis monasticis lib. 1. De iustificatione hominis librum vnum.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Nicholas Stanihurst, he wrote in Latine Die|tam Stanihurst. medicorum lib. 1: he died in the yeare one thou|sand fiue hundred fiftie and foure. Iames Stani|hurst, late recorder of Dublin, ouer his exact know|lege in the common lawes, he was a good orator, and a proper diuine. He wrote in English, being spea|ker in the parlements; An oration made in the be|ginning of a parlement holden at Dublin before the right honorable Thomas earle of Sussex, &c: in 1557. the third and fourth yeares of Philip and Marie; An oration made in the beginning of the parlement hol|den at Dublin before the right honorable Thomas 1560 earle of Sussex, in the second yeare of the reigne of our souereigne ladie quéene Elisabeth; An oration made in the beginning of a parlement holden at Dublin before the right honorable sir Henrie Sid|neie 1568 knight, &c: in the eleuenth yeere of the reigne of our souereigne ladie quéene Elisabeth. He wrote in Latine, Pias orationes. Ad Corcaciensem deca|num epistolas plures: he deceassed at Dublin the seuen and twentith of December, being one and fif|tie 1573 yeares old. Upon whose death, I, as nature and dutie bound me, haue made this epitaph following:

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Walter Stanihurst, sonne to Iames Stanihurst, he translated into English Innocent de contemptu mundi. There flourished before anie of these a Sta|nihurst, Circaa nnu [...] Dom. 1506. that was a scholer of Oxford, brother to Gennet Stanihurst, a famous and an ancient ma|trone of Dublin, she lieth buried in saint Michaels church. Sutton, one of that name, is a verie good Sutton. Talbot. maker in English. Matthew Talbot schoolemaster, a student in Cambridge. William Talbot. Iohn Talbot sonne to William, a master of art, he wrote in Latine, Orationem in laudem comitis Essexiae, Diuersa epigrammata. Edmund Tanner a pro|found Tanner. diuine, he wrote Lectiones in summam D. Thomae. Tailer batchelor of art, procéeded in the v|niuersitie Tailer. of Oxford, he wrote in Latine Epigram|mata diuersa.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 3 4 5 6 Thomas Hybernus borne in Palmerstowne néere Thomas Hy|bernus. the Naas, he procéeded doctor of diuinitie in Paris, a deepe clerke and one that read much, as may easilie be gathered by his learned workes: he flourished in the yeare 1290, and wrote with diuerse other workes, these bookes insuing: Flores bibliae, Flores doctorum lib. 2. De christiana religione lib. 1. De il|lusionibus daemonum lib. 1. De tentatione diaboli lib. 1. De remedijs vitiorum lib. 1. Laurentius Toole archbishop of Dublin. Trauerse doctor of diuinitie, Toole. Trauerse. he florished in the reigne of Henrie the eight. There hath beene after him a schoole maister in Dublin of that name. Tundalus Magus a knight, after he be|came Tundalus. a Charterh [...]se m [...]ke, much giuen to con|templ [...]n, wherein he is reported to haue seene di|uerse visions of heauen and hell, and therevpon he EEBO page image 44 wrote Apparitionum suarum lib. 1. he florished in the yeare 1149.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 Virgilius Soliuagus a noble man borne, being slept Virgilius So|liuagus. in yeares, he trauelled into Germanie, where being knowen for a vertuous and learned prelat, he was chosen by [...]lon duke of Bauaria, to be their rec|tor [...]4 or gardian of an ancient abbeie, named S. Pe|ters abbeie, placed in the citie of Salisburgh, after he was created Episcopus Iuuaniensis, and founded in the said towne of Salisburgh a church. In his time one Bonifacius an Englishman, being gene|rall visitour in Banaria, debaptized certeine, whome he suspected not to haue beene orderlie baptized. Uir|gilius detesting the fact, hauing consulted with Si|donius archbishop of Bauaria, withstood Bonifacius in his fond attempt. The controuersie being brought before pope Zacharias, he decréed that Bonifacius held an error, and that Uirgilius and Sidonius pub|lished in that point sound doctrine, as who so will read Zacharias his epistle vnto Bonifacius shall Tomo primo conciliorum. plainelie sée. Uirgilins deceassed 784, and lieth buri|ed in his church at Salisburgh: he wrote Ad Zacha|riam Rom. pont. epist. 1.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Owen Ultagh a physician, his father procéeded Ultagh. Vltanus. doctor of physike in Paris. Vltanus a lerned moonke fellow to Foillanus, with whome he trauelled into France, and with continuall preaching edified the inhabitants of that realme; he florished in the yeare 640. Gilbertus Vrgalius a profest Carmelite, and a Vrgalius. student in Orford, he florished in the yeare 1330, he wrote in two great tomes, Summam quarundam legum, De rebus theologicis lib. 1. Usher, or Uscher Usher. wadding. a student in Cambridge, and a preacher. Wadding, a proper versifier, he wrote in Latine vpon the bur|ning of Paules stéeple, Carmen heroicum, Diuersa epigrammata. Edward Walsh, he florished in the [...]. yeare 1550, and wrote in English, The dutie of such as fight for their countrie, The reformation of Ire|land by the word of God. Iames Walsh, master of art, and student in diuinitie, he translated into Eng|lish, Giraldum Cambrensem, he wrote in Latine Epigrammata diuersa.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 Richard Walsh master of art and student in diui|nitie. There is a learned man of the name beneficed in S. Patrikes church in Dublin, student in Cam|bridge, and now a preacher. Peter Walsh a proper youth, and one that would haue beene an ornament to his countrie, if God had spared him life, he died of a surfet at London, about the yeare 1571. There dwelleth in Waterford a lawyer of the surname, who writeth a verie proper Latine verse. Wellesteie deane of [...]ildare, there liueth an other learned man wellesteie. of the name, who is archdeacon of saint Patrikes. Peter White borne in Waterford, fellow of Duall college in Orford, the luckie schoolemaster of Moun|ster; white [...]Punc [...] he bestowed his time rather in the making of scholers, than in the penning of bookes, and to the in|struction of youth, be wrote Epitom. in copiam E|rasmi, Epitom. figurarum rhetoricar. Annotationes in orat. pro Archia poeta. Annotat. in orationem pro T. A. Milone. Epigrammata diuersa. Iohn White batchelor of diuinitie borne in Clo [...]ll, he wrote in Latine Diuersa pia epigrammata. Andrew White a good humanician, a pretie philosopher. Wise, of this surname there florished sundrie learned gentlemen. wise. There liueth one Wise in Waterford, that maketh verie well in the English. Andrew Wise a toward youth, and a good versifier. William an abbat, and (as it is thought) a soothsaier, he florished in the yeare william. 1298, and wrote Prophetias rerum futurarum lib. 1. Dauid Woolfe, a diuine.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 Thus far (gentle reader) haue I indeuoured to woolfe. heape vp togither a catalog of such learned Irish|men, as by diligent insearch could haue bin found. Howbeit, I am to request shée not to [...] the ample number of the learned of that countrie by this briefe abstract: considering, that diuerse haue beene, yea and are yet liuing, of profound knowledge that to me are vnknowne, and therefore in this regi|ster not recorded.