The Holinshed Texts (1577, Volume 3, p. 596 with companion text)

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.

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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.

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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.

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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,

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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.

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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

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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.

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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.

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3.18. A generall catalog of the writers of Scotland, with the times in which they li|ued, as well of the yeare of Christ, as of the reigne of Scotish kings.

A generall catalog of the writers of Scotland, with the times in which they li|ued, as well of the yeare of Christ, as of the reigne of Scotish kings.

_BEfore I enter into the discourse thereof (which I speake not by waie of impeach|ing anie glorie of the Scotish nation) I must deliuer the opinion which I con|ceiue of some of the Scotish writers, set downe by manie of their historiographers, who (sauing correc|tion) finding manie learned writers to be termed Scots, doo transferre them to all their owne coun|trie of Scotland. But in that they séemé vnto me (holding the same for this present vntill I may sée good authoritie to disprooue it) to be ouer couetous in taking from other that which is their due. For I doo verelie suppose, that manie of those men so termed Scots were Irishmen borne. For vntill late yeres a little before the conquest (if my memorie faile me not) the Irishmen were called Scoti or Scots; wherevpon it is, that the Scots and Irishmen at this daie now knowne by seuerall names, doo cha|lenge Duns, Columbanus, and others to be borne a|mongst them, some calling them Scots, and other naming them Irishmen, and rebuking the Scots for chalenging those men vnto them. For although the Scots came out of Ireland, and the Irish were called Scots, it is no reason to call a Scot borne in Ireland, by the name of a Scot borne in Scotland, as some writers doo vnder the amphibologicall name of Scot. But I (whose determination is not to aduance the one, or derogat from the other) will onlie in this place set them downe as I find them, & shew the different opinions touching the same, still leauing it to the iudgement of others, to thinke thereof as they please; for I neither may nor will sit as Honorarius arbiter betwéene those two nati|ons. Wherefore thus I enter into the catalog of the writers of Scotland as followeth.

Fergusius the first of that name king of Scots, Fergusius. who died, as hath Gesnerus out of Bale, in the yéere of the world three thousand six hundred seuentie and eight, and two hundred ninetie and two before the birth of our Lord Iesus Christ, but Lesleus saith three hundred and fiue before Christ, did write Leges po|liticas lib. 1. This man the Irish make to be there borne amongst them; for thus writeth Stanihurst in his writers of Ireland: Fergusius sonne to Fequar|dus king of Ireland, the first king of Scots, whome some affirme to be borne in Denmarke, the more EEBO page image 458 part suppose to haue béene an Irishman, was in the fiue and twentith yeare of his reigne by misfortune drowned neere a rocke in the north part of Ireland, that of him at this daie is called Caerfergus. Upon whose mishap these verses following were made:

Icarus Icareis vt nomina fecerat vndis,

Fergusius petrae sic dedit apta suae.

Iosina, the ninth king of Scots, after Fergustus Iosina. the first, who florished in the yeare of the world, as hath Gesnerus, thrée thousand eight hundred twentie and six, before the birth of Christ one hundred thirtie and seuen, as the same author saith, but one hun|dred three score and one as hath Lesleus lib. 2. pag. 89 did write De viribus herbarum lib. 1.

Ethodius the first of that name king of Scots, Ethodius. who (delighting in musike) was in the yeare of Christ one hundred ninetie and foure, and the third yeare of his reigne, as hath Lesleus, but one hun|dred ninetie and six, as hath Gesnerus, slaine by a mu|sician of the Hebrides, did write Ad Pictorum regem plures epistolas.

Celius Sedulius a Scot by birth, as hath Ges|nerus, which florished about the yeare of Grace foure Celius Sedulius. hundred and thirtie, in the reigns of Fergusius the second, and Eugenius the second, kings of Scots, who being a companion to Hildebert a learned bi|shop of the Scots, did after the death of Hildebert for further learning trauell into Spaine, France, Italie, Gréece, and Asta, as hath Lesleus lib. 4. pag. 134. whome the pope Gelasius woondering at his vertue and writing was woont to call Venerabilem, or woorthie reuerence, as our English Bede is ac|customed to be termed. This Sedulius did write Carmen paschale lib. 4. which books are intituled Libri mirabilium diuinorum. Besides, he penned Annotationes in omnes Pauli epistolas, printed at Basill by Henrie Peter, Hymnum de seruatore. Ad Theodosium Caesarem lib. 1. In aeditionem Donati lib. 1. In Prisciani volumen lib. 1. Exhortatorium ad fideles lib 1. De Christo lib. 2. with diuerse other verses and epistles.

Merlinus Calidonius otherwise called Merlinus Merlinus Calidonius. Syluestris, or Uplandish (a different person from him which is called Merlinus Ambrosius Britannus) was borne in the borders of Scotland, and the scholer of the British prophet Telesinus. This Merline Calidon executed manie prodigies or strange things against the English Saxons, which man florishing about the yeare of Christ fiue hundred and seuentie, did write De vaticinijs lib. 1. in which he intreated of matter belonging to historie.

Columbanus, whome Gesnerus, Bede, and the I|rish Columbanus. histories affirme to be an Irishman borne in Ulster, but Sixtus Senensis in his Bibliotheca sancta, Lesleus, & the Scotish & Englishmen name to be of other nations, as of Scotland and Eng|land, was a moonke & father of manie monasteries, being Abbas Luxuriensis, as hath Gesnerus, Sixtus Senensis, and Lesle, being a place in Burgundie, which abbeie he built (by the permission of Theodori|cus the king) togither with the abbeie of Fount|nesse in France. This man at the first held the feast of Easter contrarie to the west church, but in th'end was reduced therevnto. He went into Almanie now Germanie, where he left saint Gall, and after passed into Italie, where he liued a most holie life in the monasterie of Bobiens, or (as hath Marianus) of Bouiens, which he built for a perpetuall monu|ment of his liberalitie, and died in the same on the twentith daie of Nouember. He florished in the time of Convallus king of Scots, about the yeare of our redemption fiue hundred ninetie and eight, and left these books to posteritie, Commentaria in totum psalterium lib. 1. Epistolarum lib. 1. Mona|steriorum methodos lib. 1. Aduersus Theodoricum regem adulterum lib. 1. De moribus monachorum metricè lib. 1. Collationes ad monachos lib. 1.

Briget, a most holie woman, whome the Irish Briget. affirme to be borne in Limster, but Gesnerus and Lesle with the Scots doo affirme hir to be borne a Scot, being by Gesner called Brigida Laginensis, she became religious, and was veiled by the bishop of Man, as hath Lesleus lib. 4. pag. 149. she flori|shed about the yeare of our Lord fiue hundred thrée score and sight, as hath Lesleus, in the reigne of Convallus king of Scots; some other saie the flo|rished in the yeare fiue hundred and ten, Gesnerus in the yeare of Christ fiue hundred and eightéene, and wrote twelue books of reuelations verie darke and full of mysteries, which books Lesleus will not haue to be written by this Briget a Scotish woman, but by Briget called Brigita Suetica that florished manie yeres after this Scotish Briget, writing thus: Impe|ritè tamen hanc nostram cum Brigita Suetica, cuius nomine reuelationes multae inscribuntur, quidam cõfundũt: siquidẽ multis saeculis hanc Brigita nostra fuisse posteriorem satis constat. Tanta veneratione Scoti, Picti, Britanni, Angli & Hibernenses diuam Brigitam sunt vbique prosecuti, vt plura templa Deo in illius memoriam apud illos omnes erecta videas, quàm in vllius caeterorum diuorum omnium. Illius sanctum corpus Hibernici, Duni, quo loco sancti Patricij illorum apostoli corpus seruatur se habere contendunt. Nostri eandem gloriam sibi vendicant, qui idipsum in canonicorum collegio Abrenethi rectè se colere hactenùs putantur, &c. Touching which I haue read these old verses, by which the I|rishmen chalenge hir with Columbanus and Patri|cius to be buried in Ireland, which verses are thus:

Hi tresin Duno tumulo tumulantur in vno,

Brigita Patricius, atque Columba pius.

Maidulphus or Maiduldus Scotus, as Gesnerus termeth him, did flourish in the yeare of our Lord six hundred foure score and nine, he writ De Paschatis obseruatione, whom I take to be Maidulphus, who was notablie learned in the Gréeke and Latine, first a schoolemaster, and after abbat of Malmsburie called in the beginning Maidulphi curia, or Mai|dulphsburie, after the name of this Maidulphus, who as hath Lesleus lib. 4. pag. 137. did flourish in the yeare of Christ seuen hundred and sixtéene. Now it is certeine both by our and the Scotish chronicles, that Maidulphus the builder of Malmsburie mona|sterie was a Scot.

Kilianus a Scot being a moonke, was martyred in Germanie about the yeare of our Lord six hun|dred three score and nine, as hath Gesnerus out of Bale, but Lesleus affirmeth him to liue in the go|uernment of Ethsinus, which died in the yeare of our Lord seuen hundred thrée score and two, being the thirtith yere of his reigne. This Kilianus did write Contra peregrinos cultus, lib. 1. Gesner also out of Mat. Dresserus nameth Lecturã Kiliani super ma|gistrũ sententiarum, which peraduenture might be this Kilianus the Scot.

Ionas Monachus being borne in Scotland, and the disciple of the abbat Columbanus, flourished in the yeare of Christ six hundred and thirtie, as hath Gesnerus, he writ Vitam sancti Columbani lib. 1. Vitam sancti Eustacij abbatis lib. 1.

Adamannus Coludius, being a Scot as hath Gesner out of Bale, was a moonke of the apostolicall order, and moderator, ruler, or abbat of the monaste|rie in the Ile of Hua, who flourished in the yeare of Christ six hundred foure score and ninetéene, and writ De locis terrae sanctae lib. 1. De situ Ierusalem lib. 1. De pascheta legitimo lib. 1. Epistolas mul|tas. From this mans works Bede affirmeth that he EEBO page image 459 had manie things which he inserted in his owne bookes. But I much doubt whether this Adaman|nus were a Scot, in that he is called Adamannus Coludius, that is Adam of Coludi, which Coludi is a place in Yorkeshire belonging to the bishoprike of Yorke, and now at this daie is in English called Cawood.

Florentius (whom Scotland brought foorth flou|rished in the yeare of Christ six hundred foure score and eight, in which yeare Eugenius the sixt king of Scots began his reigne) was, as hath Lesleus, no|blie borne, who trauelling into strange countries, conuerted manie from paganisme vnto Christ, lea|ding a most austere life in the solitarie woods, not far from Bruschius the famous riuer in Alsatia, and built a monasterie for such religious persons as came to him out of Scotland, being after the death of Rotharius by the Argentines made their bishop. He was buried in that monasterie before named, builded for his Scots. This man I take to be the same man of whom thus writeth Gesnerus: Floren|tius Volusenus Scotus scripsit theologicã orationẽ siue cõmendationem piam & eruditam, Griphius excudit Lugduni 1539. Idem de animi trãquillitate carmen ibidem excusum 1543. & Basiliae apud Io|annẽ Oporinum cum pijs aliquot poetis an. 1551, Idem edidit aphorismos beatae vitae & dialogum de animi tranquillitate, which maie be the booke of that matter before mentioned.

Artuillus, or Artuillis a worthie gentleman, the sonne of a most noble person borne in Scotland, flo|rished, Artuillus. as hath Gesnerus out of Bale, in the yeare of Christ seuen hundred and ten, but Lesleus appointeth him to haue liued in the time of Eugenius the eight of that name king of Scotland, who as he further saith, began his reigne in the yeare of Christ seuen hundred thrée score and two, this Artuillus writ De rebus mathematicis librũ vnũ, ad Adelmum episco|pum lib. 1.

Sedulius Iunior being bishop of the south Scots did write Statuta concilij Romae ad sanctum Petrum Sedulus Iunior. habiti, and liued in the yere of Christ seuen hundred and fouretéene.

Bonifacius, as hath Marianus Scotus by the wit|nesse of Lesleus lib. 4. pag. 166, being of the Scotish Bonifacius. bloud, went to Rome, from whense by pope Grego|rie the second he was sent into Germanie to con|uert them to the faith, where he was made the first archbishop of Mentz, being called the Germane apo|stle, after which he was the popes legat and sent into France: In qua (as saith Lesle) Thuringis, Hessis, & Austrasionibus ad rectam religionis viam traductis, messem longè copiosissimam collegerat; after which he went againe into Germanie, & from thense into Frisia, where he was martyred in the yere of Christ seuen hundred fiftie and fiue, who being a moonke of the order of saint Benet, did write; Epistolarum ad diuersos lib. 1. Vitam quorundam sanctorum lib. 1.

Ioannes Mailrose whom Gesnerus maketh men|tion to be all one with Ioannes Scotus, being the Ioannes Mailrose. companion of Alcuinus, in the time of Charles the great: this man being skilfull in all diuine know|ledges, liued in the time of Donald the sixt of that name king of Scotland, as saith Lesleus bishop of Rosse, and also florished in the time of Gregorie king of Scots, in the yeare of Christ eight hundred fourescore and twelue. This Ioannes Scotus after many yeares spent at Athens in the Gréeke letters, was called into France by Lodouike emperor of the Romans, who besides other monuments of his learning, at the commandement of the said empe|ror, did turne the Hierarchie of saint Denis into Latine, besides the commentaries of Hugo de san|cto Victore, a most notable diuine. Shortlie after which, the said Iohn was sent by Charles the great into England, to Alured, or Alfred the king there|of, to congratulat so worthie a prince for the victo|ries which he had of the Danes: who after that he had setled a perfect league betwéene the French and the Scots, remained in England continuallie, in|terteined by Alured, of whose children he was ad|mitted to be chiefe schoolemaister and instructor.

But shortlie after, professing diuine and hu|mane learning in the monasterie of Malmesbu|rie, to all such as would come to his lecture, he was by certeine scholers of his (whose pride and euill con|ditions he did sharpelie rebuke, wounded & killed pitifullie with Pugionibus, as saith Lesleus. Which Iohn, the king of England (as I suppose) by the au|thoritie of the pope, procured to be numbred amongst the martyrs of Christ, ordeining a notable monu|ment to be erected ouer him in the same mona|sterie: of whose writings and dooings thus writeth Gesnerus in these words: Ioannes Mailrosius cog|nomine & natione Scotus, Alcuini socius, scripsit super canones Aizachelis lib. 1. Ad Carolũ regẽ lib. 1. Versus diuersi generis lib. 1. In euangel. Mat. lib. 3. De officijs humanis lib. 8. De officijs diuinis lib. 1. Dialogum de natura lib. 1. De naturae diuisione lib. 1. De primo rerù principio lib. 1. De eucharistia lib. 1. Commentaria scripturarum lib. 1. Homilias erudi|tas lib. 1. De German. iuxta Irenium lib. 1. Claruit anno 792, Baleus. Idem libros Dionysij Arcopagi|tae in Latinam linguam transtulit. Carmen eius ad Carolum magnum extat apud M. Dress.

Kennethus king of Scots, who died in the yeare Kennethus k [...]ng of Scots. of Christ eight hundred fiftie & fiue, wrote a booke of godlie lawes which are expressed by Lesleus lib. 1. pag. 75. of whome thus writeth Gesnerus: Kene|thus Scotorum rex, Alcuini regis filius, scripsit Bre|uiarium antiquarum legum, quibus in foris per An|gliam iurisconsulti vtuntur. But in that Gesner is deceiued; for we neuer read (as far as my memorie serueth) that euer the English borrowed lawes of the Scots; but contrarie, the Scots haue borowed, & béene inforced to obeie the lawes of England, as receiuing them from the kings of this land, their superior lords: to whome they haue doone their ho|mage, although time hath now worne the same out of vse.

Claudius Clemens, by birth a Scot & a moonke, Claudius Clemens. being the disciple of Bede, was companion to Albi|nus or Alcuinus, as saith Sixtus Senensis inbiblio|theca sancta: he was verie studious in the scrip|tures, & skilfull in other humane knowleges, who li|uing in the time of Charlemaine, in the yeare of Christ eight hundred, and eight hundred and ten, did in verse and prose write manie learned works, whereof these are knowne to be his: In pentateu|chum lib. 5. In Iosua lib. 1. In Iudicum lib. 1. In Ruth lib. 1. In psalterium. In Matthaeum lib. 1. In Paulum ad Galatas. De euangelistarum concordia. Contra Bonifacium Anglum, & alia multa.

Beornillus bishop of the Scots, of whome thus writeth Parker in his booke of the liues of the arch|bishops Beornillus. of Canturburie: Beornillus Scotorum epis|copus acerrimus verborum & sententiarum acule|is carmine scriptis, monachorum turbam lacessiuit: which Beornillus was also at the councell of Calne in Wiltshire in England, about the yeare of Christ nine hundred thréescore and seuentéene. For Alfri|tha the queene procured Alfrith or Alfred earle of Mercia in England, that he should labor to haue this Beornill to be present there, which this bishop Beornill did performe, and vehementlie spake in defense of the secular priests, against the placing of moonks in their roomes.

EEBO page image 460 Leuinus archbishop of the Scots, being marty|red, Leuinus. and so termed a martyr, is supposed to haue writ|ten certeine homilies; he florished as hath Gesne|rus out of Bale, in the yeare of Christ one thousand and seuen, vnder the gouernment of Grime and Malcolme (the second) kings of Scots.

Malcolme the second of that name king of Scots, who began his reigne in the yeare of Christ one Malcolme. thousand and ten, and reigned thirtie yeares, depar|ting the world in the yeare of Christ one thousand and fortie, did write of his countrie lawes, Lib. 1. being at length slaine by his owne courtiers.

Marianus Scotus so called, because that he was borne in Scotland, was a moonke of the order Marianus Scotus. Benedictine, who when he perceiued all the realme of Scotland to be kindeled with continuall and ci|uill hatred in the time of the tyrant Mackbeth, be|ginning his reigne in the yeare of Christ one thou|sand fortie and six, he forsooke his countrie, and first came vnto the monasterie of Hulda in Germanie; where for a time he continued vnder Richard the ab|bat (a Scot, no lesse famous for his godlinesse, than for his learning) which at the time of his comming thither, had the gouernment of the same abbeie. Af|ter which, Marianus went to Mentz, and passing ouer a solitarie life by the space of thirtie yeares, in an opinion of all men for his vertue, he shortlie after died, who (florishing vnder the said tyrant Macketh, & Malcolme the third of that name king of Scots) did leaue behind him these works of his: Chronica ab initio mundi vsque ad sua tem|pora lib. 3. De concordantia euangelistarum lib. 1. De computo lib. 1. Emendationes Dionysij. Anno|tationes scripturarum. De cyclo paschali Algorith|mum. Breuiarium in Lucam. Epistolas hortatorias, obijt Maguntiae, anno Dom. 1086.

Turgotus by Gesner called deane of Durham, and by our chronicles called prior of that house, was Turgotus. a verie vertuous person, and after created bishop of saint Andrewes, who being in life in the yeare of Christ one thousand fourescore and sixteene, in the time of Malcolme the third, surnamed Camoir, or with the great head king of Scots, did write De Scotorũ regibus lib. 1. Chronica Dunelmensia lib. 1. Annales sui temporis. lib. 1. Vitam Malcolmi regis, & vitam Margaretae Angliae reginae. In which Ges|ner hath mistaken himselfe, for there was not anie Margaret quéene of England manie hundred yeres after this Turgotus, vntill the latter time of king Edward the first. Wherefore it should rather be the life of saint Margaret quéene of Scotland, and the wife of that Malcolme.

Dauid Scotus, of whom Gesner maketh two di|stinct writers one after another, first setting downe Dauid Scotus. Dauid Scotus, and next Dauid Presbyter Scotus, this man being borne in Scotland, was first schoole|maister at Wiceburgh, who being after called into the court by Henrie the fift the emperor, of whom Auentinus abbas Vrspengensis & manie others doo write, was after made bishop of Bangor in Wales. This man writing the discourse of the iourneie which the emperor Henrie the fift made into Italie after the pacification had betwéene him and the pope about the inuestiture of bishops, did occasion Willi|am of Malmsburie to saie thus much of him in his fift booke De regibus. At verò Henricus antiquis Cae|saribus in nulla virtute deiectior, post pacatum reg|num Theutonicum praesumebat animo Italicum; re|bellionem vrbium subiugaturus, quaestionémque de inuestitura suo libito recissurus; sed iter illud ad Ro|mani magnis excercitationibus peccatorum magnis angoribus corporũ consummatũ. Dauid Scotus Ban|chorensis episcopus exposuit, magis regis gratiam quàm historicum deceret accliuis. He liued and pro|spered about the yeare of our Lord one thousand one hundred and ten in the times of Edgar and Alexan|der (the first) kings of Scotland, & did write Henrici imperatoris in Italiam expeditionem lib. 1. Magi|stratuum insignia lib. 1. Apologiam ad Caesarem de regno Scotiae. lib. 1.

Richardus de sancto Victore (of whom I doo not Richardus de sancto victore. as yet find anie mention in Gesner, but in Iohn Maior and Lesleus) liued in the yeare of Christ one thousand one hundred twentie and foure, vnder Da|uid the first king of Scotland, who being a religious person of the order of saint Augustine, and not infe|rior to anie diuine of his time, aswell in scholasticall as other diuinitie, did set foorth manie works to be read, & was buried in the cloister of saint Uictor in Paris, whose monument is yet to be séene with this epitaph recited by Iohn Maior in his memoriall:

Moribus, ingenio, doctrina clarus & arte,
Puluereo hîc tegeris docte Richarde situ:
Quem tellus genuit felici Scoticapartu,
Tefouet in gremio Gallica terrasuo.
Nil tibi parca ferox nocuit, nec stamina paruo
Tempore tracta graui rupit acerba manu:
Plurima námque tui super ant monumenta laboris,
Quae tibi perpetuum sunt paritura decus.
Segnior vt lento sceleratas mors petit edes,
Sic propero nimis it sub pia tecta gradu.

Walter the bastard sonne of Dauid the first of Walter the ba|stard sonne of king Dauid the first. that name king of Scots by a widow sometime the wife of one Walter a Scot, was so far estranged from the vaine things of this world, that from his youth he was (as saith Lesleus lib. 6. pag. 223.) who|lie consecrat to holie exercises and offices, being first indued with the rich canonrie of saint Oswald, and after with the honorable priorie of Kirkham. But he rightlie considering with himselfe that there was nothing which did more weaken the force of vertue than riches and idlenesse, did refuse the archbishop|rike of saint Andrewes, and closed himselfein a mo|nasterie, where he remained vntill he was aduan|ced to be abbat of Melrosse, wherevnto being so pre|ferred, he was the author and occasion that Mal|colme (the fourth of that name king of Scots, sur|named the virgin) laied the foundation of manie abbeies. This man made commentaries vpon the booke intituled the Ecclesiasticall rule, and at length being famous through manie miracles (as that age did simplie suppose) he was installed a|mongst the number of the saints, and florished vn|der the same king Malcolme, which began his reigne in the yeare of our redemption one thousand one hundred fiftie and thrée, which Walter I suppose to be the same man of whom Gesnerus writeth in this sort: Gualterns Albanensis monachus scripsit de li|bris ecclesiae lib. 1. claruit anno Domini 1180. Baleus.

Thomas Liermant aliàs Ersilton being borne Thomas Liermant aliàs Ersil|ton. in Scotland, was had amongst the common people in great admiration, who not being greatlie learned did by a certeine diuination (as though Apollo had spoken from the curteine) fortell things to come, but with what spirit we will not iudge, whose words ob|teined the more authoritie and credit, because he had foretold the fatall daie of the death of Alexander the third king of Scots, which lost his life in the yeare one thousand two hundred fourescore and thrée. He wrot Praedictiones rerum Scoticarum rithmicis ver|sibus, speaking most commonlie also in rime, and was therefore by the English surnamed Rithmicus, or the Rimer, liuing some yeares after the death of Alexander the third, for Gesner maketh him to flo|rish in the yeare of Christ one thousand two hundred fourescore and six.

EEBO page image 461 Michaell Medicus, being a learned man in all phi|losophie, Michaell Medicus. astronomie, and the other mathematiks, whereby he grew in admiration amongst the people, is twise mentioned by Gesner, a fault which I ma|nie times find in his Bibliotheca, first pag. 607, by the name Michael Mathematicus cognomine Sco|tus, who florished in the time of Iohn Balioll king of Scots, and in the yeare of Christ 1290, being an old man, he wrote In gratiã Frederici 2. imperatoris. De sphera lib. 1. In Aristotelis meteora lib. 4. De consti|tutione mundi lib. 4. De anima lib. 1. De coelo & mun|do lib. 2. De somno & vigilia lib. 2. De generatione & corruptione lib. 2. De substãtia orbis lib. 1. De sen|su & sensato lib. 2. De memoria & reminiscentia lib. 2. Contra Auerroem in meteora lib. 1. Imagines astronomicas lib. 2. Astrologorum dogmata lib. 1. In ethica Aristotelis lib. 10. De signis planetarum lib. 1. De chiromantia lib. 1. De physiognomia lib. 1. Abbreuiationes Auicennae lib. 1. De animalibus ad Caesarem lib. 1. whose booke of physnomie was printed at Uenice Anno Dom. 1503. by Iohn Baptista Sessa.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 Iohn Duns by some called Iohannes Scotus, and tearmed the subtill doctor, was so surnamed Duns Iohn Duns. of the towne of Duns, eight miles from England, who (when he was yet but a boie) was by two frier minors brought into England to Oxford, there to be instructed: for at that time nor long after was there not anie vniuersitie in Scotland. By means of which two friers he was placed in a house of their profession, in which this Duns at length tooke the ha|bit and order of the Franciscans, proouing of a most singular wit, whereby he became a sharpe and subtill disputer, who departing from Oxford, went to Pa|ris, being called thither by the frier minors, where when he had for some space remained, and read vnto them of scholasticall matters, he traueld to Cullen, and there vntimelie died in his youthfull yeares. He liued in the time of Iohn Balioll king of Scots, which began his reigne in the yeare of Christ 1283. of which Duns all they which follow his opinions are (as saith Lesleus lib. 7. pag. 250) called Scotistae or Scotists as all they of an other faction are surna|med Thomistae or the Thomists, after Thomas A|quinas. But now in our age it is growne to be a common prouerbe in derision, to call such a person as is senselesse or without learning a Duns, which is as much as a foole: although trulie the same cannot stand with anie reason, this man Duns being so fa|mous for his learning as he was, who wrote manie volumes as after shall appeare. But before I come to him, I thinke it not vnfit to set downe what other haue written touching him, sith both the English, the Irish, and the Scots, doo chalenge him to be their countriman, borne amongst them. Thus therefore writeth Stanihurst in his description of Ireland vn|der the title of the Irish writers. Iohannes Duns Scotus an Irishman borne, as in the forefront of this treatise I haue declared. Howbeit Iohannes Maior a Scotish chronicler lib. 4. cap. 16. would faine prooue him to be a Scot. Leland on the other side saith, that he was borne in England. So that there shall be as great contention rise of him as in old time there rose of Homers countrie, for the Co|lophonians said that Homer was borne in their ci|tie, the Chyians claimed him to be theirs: the Salaminians aduouched that he was their countri|man. 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, and therevpon they did consecrate a church to the name of Homer. But what countriman so euer this Sco|tus were, he was doubtlesse a subtill and profound clearke. The onelie fault wherewith he was dusked, was a little spice of vainglorie, being giuen to carpe and tawnt his predecessor diuines, rather for blemi|shing the fame of his aduersaries, than for aduan|sing the truth of the controuersies. Thus much Sta|nihurst. Now the bookes which he wrote were these. Super sententias lib. 4. Quodlibeta quoque lib. 1. Sermones de sanctis lib. 4. Sermones de tempore li. 1. De cognitione Dei lib. 1. Cõmentarios Oxonienses lib. 4. Reportationes Parisienses lib. 4. In metaphysicã quaestionẽ lib. 12. Quaestiones vniuersaliũ li. 2. Quae|stiones praedicamẽtorũ lib. 1. In analytica posteriora lib. 1. In Aristotelis physica lib. 8. In Categorias eius|dem lib. 1. Lecturam in Genesim lib. 1. De rerum principio lib. 1. Commentaria in euangelia lib. 4. In epistolas Pauli. Collectiones Parisienses. Tetragrã|matum lib. 1. & alia. Claruit Anno Dom. 1308. Of whose works thus further writeth Gesn. Iohan|ni Scoto sententiarum interpreti primaeuam sacra|tissimi Dionysij translationem ascribunt, cùm alteri cuidam Iohanni Scoto (before named, and liuing a|bout the yeare of Christ eight hundred ninetie & two, about thrée hundred yeares before this Duns) Qui istũ multis saeculis antecessit, & Athaenis Grecè di|dicit, accepta referri debeat. Of the death of this man sée Petrus Crinitus lib. 24. cap. 11. De honesta vita, where he affirmeth that this Duns did turne the hie|rarchie of S. Denis out of Gréeke into Latine.

Thomas Uarreie or Uarraie flourished at the Thomas Uarreie. battell of Otterburne, which was in the yeare of Christ one thousand thrée hundred eightie and eight, in the time of Robert the second of that name king of Scots, at what time the English were put to the worst. This man vpon this victorie did compose ma|nie things in Latine time beginning in this sort:

Musarefert fatum fore scriptum carmine vatum, &c.

Who being maister and ruler of Bethwallie, is not greatlie estéemed of the Scotish historiographers. Gesnerus referreth the time wherein he liued, to the yeare of Christ one thousand two hundred and nine|tie, which is almost a hundred yeares before that, in which the histories of Scotland make anie mention of him.

William Elphinstone being borne in Scotland William Elphinstone. was a great learned man, but because I doo find one hundred and fortie yeares difference touching the time wherein he liued, set downe within three or foure lines the one of the other by Gesnerus, I will saie nothing of him, but onelie verbatim set downe the words of the same author in this sort. Gulielmus Elphinston natione Scotus, Albonensis episcopus, scripsit antiquitates Scotorum, & conciliorum sta|tuta librum vnum. Claruit anno Domini 1480. Laudat hunc valdè Bostonus Buriensis in magno scriptorum catalogo, ob singularem eruditionem. Vixit circa annum 1340. Thus much Gesnerus.

Iames Steward the first of the name of Iames, Iames Ste|ward. being brought vp in England as a person estran|ged from his natiue soile, is by Gesnerus said to haue béene by some called Robert the third, which can not be so; for he that was so named was Iohn Steward, and not Iames. This man in the time whilest he remained in England, being a kind of banishment from his owne countrie, did compose one booke of verses, and manie other songs, he be|ing both a learned diuine, philosopher, and musician, who was in the end slaine of his owne people, in the thirtéenth yeare of his reigne, falling in the yeare of our Lord God one thousand foure hundred thirtie and six.

Iohannes Maior borne in Scotland, whom Six|tus Iohannes Maior. Senensis in his Bibliotheca sancta dooth (not rightlie) call an Englishman, was brought vp in Oxford, where atteining to sufficient learning, he went into France for the obteining further know|ledge, EEBO page image 462 and applied his studie in Paris, where he fo|lowed and professed diuinitie, as appeared by his owne workes. He was borne at Hadington in Scotland, as appeareth by Gesnerus, of whome he is named Iohannes Maior Hadingtonensis, he did write Decisiones sententiarum lib. 4. Sophisticalia Parisiensia, Placita theologica, Commentarios in Matthaeum, Historiarum maioris Britanniae lib. 6. Caxtonum Anglum transtulit lib. 7. He florished at Paris, as hath Gesnerus, in the yeare of Grace one thousand fiue hundred & twentie, vnder Iames the fift king of Scots, vnto whome he dedicated his storie of Britaine, conteining England and Scot|land. There is one Iohn Maior vouched and aledged in Crisopasso Ioan. Eccij, which I doo take to be this man. And Sixtus Senensis in his Bibliotheca sancta amongst the writers of the bible dooth speake of one Iohn Maior in this manner: Iohannes Maior An|glus scripsit in quatuor euangelia scholastica postil|lam, and liued in the yeare of Christ one thousand and foure hundred, being an hundred and twentie yeares before the time appointed by others, and by Maior himselfe wherein he should liue. Of which Maior Bucchanan hath verie scoffinglie set downe these foure verses here vnder written as followeth:

Cùm seateat nugis solo cognomine Maior,
Nec sit in immenso pagina sana libro,
Non mirum titulis quòd se veracibus ornat,
Nec semper mendax fingere Creta solet.

William Gregorie borne in Scotland, and stu|dent William Gre|gorie. in Paris, where he professed diuinitie, did liue, as saith Bibliotheca sancta, in the yeare of Christ one thousand fiue hundred and seuenteene, and al|so, as hath Bibliotheca Gesneri in the yeare of our Lord one thousand fiue hundred twentie and seuen. He left manie books behind him which he had care|fullie and learnedlie written, whereof these are the titles: De duplici potestate lib. 1. Elucidationes sen|tentiarum lib. 4. Quaestiones vesperales lib. 1. In politica Aristotelis lib. 8. De triplici animae poten|tia lib. 1. De regno Christi aeterno lib. 1. De triplici principatu lib. 1. De scripturae sensibus lib. 3. Ad vocabulare theologicũ lib. 1. Collectiones Sorbo|nicas lib. 1. De disciplina Iuniorum lib. 1. De sacra synaxi lib. 1. In psalterium commentarios lib. 1. Sermones in euangelia & epistolas per circuitum lib. 2.

Hector Boetius of Dundée in Scotland, was a Hector Boe|tius. learned and an eloquent historiographer, whose stile in manie parts goeth beyond the truth of times, places, and persons in his Scotish historie. He florished in the yeare of Christ one thousand thrée hundred twentie and six, vnder Iames the fift king of Scots, of whome I will saie no more, but set downe Gesnerus words: Hector Boetius Deidona|tus, natione Scotus, scripsit catalogum regum Sco|tiae. Descriptiones eiusdem regni lib. 1. Historias Scotorum lib. 17. Aberdonensium pontificum vitas, eius historiae Scotorum excusae sunt Parisijs, anno 1556: earundem historiarum à prima gentis origine cum aliarum & rerum & gentium illustratione non vulgari lib. 19. Duo postremi huius historiae libri nunc primum emittuntur in lucem. Accessit & huic aeditioni eiusdem Scotorum historiae continuatio per Ioannem Ferrerium Pedaemontanum recens & ipsa scripta & edita fol. Parisijs apud Iacobum Dupuys 1580.

Gawine Dowglasse, borne of the noble house of Gawine Dowglasse. the Dowglasses in Scotland, being of a rare wit and learning, was made bishop of Dunkeld; who for contention betwéene him and the gouernor of Scotland, forsooke his countrie and fled into Eng|land, where he died at London, in the yeere of Christ one thousand fiue hundred twentie and one, in the time of Iames the fift of that name king of Scots, who in his life time did write Palatium honoris lib. 1. Aureas narrationes lib. 1. Comoedias aliquot lib. 1. De rebus Scoticis lib. 1. Transtulit in patrium sermonem Aeneidos Virgilij lib. 12.

Dauid Lindseie of the mount or hill, otherwise by his office of principall herald of the realme of Scotland, surnamed Lion, was both a knight and a learned person, as may appeare by his works writ|ten in his owne toong in verse, which were Acta sui temporis lib. 1. De mundi miserijs lib. 1. Tragoedia Dauidis Beton lib. 1. Testamentum cardinalis Be|ton lib. 1. as hath Gesnerus (if that booke and the tragedie of Dauid Beton cardinall be not all one) Testamentum psitaci lib. 1. Dialogus aulici & ex|perientiae lib. 1. Somnium Dauidis Lindsei lib. 1. Deploratio mortis reginae Magdalenae lib. 1. Of most of which his works Gesnerus maketh no men|tion, although that he affirme that he florished in the yeare of Grace one thousand fiue hundred and fortie, in the time of Iames the fift king of Scot|land, with whome in his youth this Lindseie was brought vp, and whome he after painfullie serued in the court.

Patrike Hamilton, borne of the noble familie Patrike Ha|milton. of the Hamiltons, being the nephue of the earle of Arrane by his brother, was (as saith Lesleus lib. 9. pag. 427) Abbas Fenensis, who hauing applied his time in studie in Germanie, and followed the doc|trine of Luther, did returne into Scotland, was af|ter by the bishops condemned for an heretike, and burned in the yeare of our Lord God one thousand fiue hundred twentie and eight, as haue Gesnerus and Bale in the time of Iames the fift of that name king of Scots. He wrote diuerse books, amongst which were these, De lege & euangelio lib. 1. De fide & operibus lib. 1.

Iohannes Altus, so called by Gesner, being a Ioannes Altus. Scot borne, had some contention with one Eusdan Morphet, to whome he did write in verse a sharpe and rebuking apologie which conteined one booke; besides which also he did write another booke Contra Antiscotiton of this Morphet, & Epigrammata lib. 1. He liued in the yeare of Christ one thousand fiue hundred and thirtie vnder Iames the fift.

Iohn Bellendon or Ballentine, who florished in Iohn Bel|lendon. the yeare of Christ one thousand fiue hundred thirtie and six, vnder king Iames the fift, translated Hector Boetius out of Latine into Scotish and En|glish, and wrote the description of Albanie or Scot|land.

Iohn Wouran being a canon regular, hauing Iohn Wour [...]. applied himselfe to the studie of diumitie, wherein he much profited, did write in his owne language Ca|techismum fidei lib. 1. and liued in the yeare of our redemption one thousand fiue hundred fortie and six, and in the fourth yere of the reigne of Marie queene of Scots.

Iohn Herrison a Scot, liuing in the yere of our Iohn Her|rison. saluation one thousand fiue hundred fortie and eight, being the sixt yéere of Marie queene of Scots, did applie his time in the studie of diuinitie, and wrote, De amplectanda in christiana religione con|cordia lib. 1. which was written to Edward Sei|mor duke of Summerset protector of England.

Iohn Makbeth called in Latine Ioannes Macha|baeus, Iohn Mak|beth. being descended of a noble familie of the Scots, did follow his studie in matters of diuini|tie; who florishing in the yeare of our Lord God one thousand fiue hundred and fiftie, being the eight yeare of the reigne of Marie quéene of Scots, did compose, De vera & falsa ecclesia lib. 1.

Iohn Mackebraie borne in Scotland, did flo|rish Iohn Macke|braie. in Germanie in the yere that the word became EEBO page image 463 flesh one thousand fiue hundred fiftie and eight, be|ing the sixteenth yéere of the reigne of Marie quéene of Scots. This man, whome Gesnerus supposeth might fortune to be the same Iohn Makleth before touched, did write Anglorum ecclesiae originem & progressum lib. 1. Explicationem suae fidei lib. 1.

George Bucchanan an Irish Scot, greatlie lear|ned, but manie times maliciouslie affected, and that George Buc| [...]anan. so vehementlie, as that he would not forbeare in the highest degrée of malice to vpbraid and backebite e|uerie person and nation which had offended him, as maie appeare by his immodest spéeches, not besée|ming a man of his learning, was schoolemaster to Iames the sixt of that name king of Scotland, of whom liuing in the yeare of Christ one thousand fiue hundred three score and ninetéene, I will forbeare to saie what I could, least I might offend in that which I mis [...]ke in him, & therfore will onlie set down what Gesner hath written of him. Georgius Buchananus Scotus rudimenta grãmatices Latinae Thomae Lina|cri ex Anglico sermone in Latinum vertit: ea Nicol. Brilingerus impressit Basiliae anno 1542. extant eius & elegantissima poemata: Iephtes tragoedia, Lutetiae apud Vascosanum. Franciscanus & fratres, quibus ac|cesserunt varia eiusdem & aliorum poemata, Basiliae apud Guarcinum an. 1568. Eiusdem psalmorum pa|raphrasis poetica, Geneuae, Argentinae, Antuerpiae impressa in 8 & 16, eiusdem Baptistes siue calumnia tragoedia, in 8. Francof. apud Wechelum. De iure reg|ni apud Scotos editio secunda, Edinburgi 1580. Psalmi Dauidis ab eodem versibus expressi nunc primùm modulis 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, vocum a I. Seruino de|cantati 4 Lugduni 1580. Rerum Scholasticarũ histo|ria lib. 20. Edinburgi in folio an. 1583.

Iohn Knokes borne in Scotland, a great enimie Iohn Knokes to the Romane religion, was sometime remaining in England as banished from Scotland, after be|ing returned home he preached at the coronation of Charles Iames, the sixt of [...]at name king of Scot|land, and writ manie bookes in the Scotish Eng|glish, amongst which were Ad Londonienses & alios lib. 1. Ad euangelii professores lib. 2. Qualiter sit o|randum lib. 1. Contra missam papisticam lib. 1. Do|ctrina missalium lib. 1. De fide eucharistiae epistola 1. Ad ecclesias afflictas epis. 1. Ad Scotiae reginam Ma|riam epist. 1. Concilium in his angustiis epist. 1. Buc|cinae afflatum primum lib. 1. Appellationem a sentẽ|tia cleri lib. 1. Ad populares Scotiae librũ vnum. He liued in the yere of Christ 1569.

Iohn Langeie a Scot borne, following his studie Iohn Langeie in Paris became a Sorbonicall doctor, who liuing in the yere of Christ one thousand fiue hundred thrée score and ten, did write a booke of the life, doctrine, and death of Martin Luther and Iohn Caluin, and of manie other ministers of the new gospell (as he scornefullie termed it) which bookes were out of French turned into Latine, and latelie into the Germane toong, printed in 4 at Ingelstade in the yere of Christ one thousand fiue hundred foure score and two.

Iohannes Duraeus or Durie, whom Gesner cal|leth Bureus, being borne in Dumfermling, and the Iohn Durie. son before he was abbat of the abbat of Dumferm|ling brother to the lord of Duries, was brought vp in Paris and Louan, after which he became a priest, and then a Iesuit, who now liuing did in the yere of Christ one thousand fiue hundred foure score and foure, write a booke which was intituled Confutatio responsionis Iohannis Whitakeri, ad rationes decem quibus fretus Edmundus Campianus Anglus Iesuita certamen Anglicanae ecclesiae ministris obtulit in causa fidei: which booke was printed at Paris in 8 by Thomas Brunelius, In clauso Brunello sub signo oliuae.

Patrike Adamson liuing in the yeare of Christ one thousand fiue hundred three score and thirteene, Patrike A|d [...]mson. did write certeine verses, whereof this was the title and effect, as hath Gesnerus, Patricii Adamsoni gra|tiarum actio illustriss. & potentiss. principi Eliza|bethae Angl. Franc. & Hiberniae reginae, propter libe|ratam ciuili seditione Scotiam, & redactam munitis|simam Edenburgi arcem sub fidem regis carmen e|legiacum, which man being now liuing, is archbishop of saint Andrews.

Patrike Cockburne borne in Scotland, and flou|rishing in the yeare of Christ one thousand fiue hun|dred Patrike Cockburne. & fiftie, in the time of Marie quéene of Scots, did write, De vtilitate & excellentia verbi Dei, which was printed at Paris by Michaell Fezandate, and Robert Grauson, in the yeare of our Lord one thou|sand fiue hundred fiftie and one. He writ also De vulgari sacrae scripturae phrasi, lib. 2. whereof the first doth intreat of the sinne against the Holie-ghost, which they call irremittable or vnto death: the se|cond booke dooth with great diligence and fidelitie vnfold the most hard and most obscure places of both the testaments, hitherto by manie euillie vn|derstood, and worse interpreted: which worke was printed at Paris by Robert Messtline in the yere of our Lord one thousand fiue hundred fiftie and two in 8 chart. 13.

Iohn Lesle sometime officiall of Aberden, and Iohn Lesle. bishop of Rosse, of whom I haue spoken in the con|tinuance of the annals of Scotland, being an obsti|nate fauorer and furtherer of the Romane religion dooth yet liue in the yeare of Christ one thousand fiue hundred eightie & six, in the time of Charles Iames the sixt king of Scots, and hath written Pii afflicti a|nimi consolationes diuinaque remedia lib 1. Animi tranquilli monumentum lib. 1. De origine, moribus, & rebus gestis Scotorum lib. 10. printed at Rome.

Ninianus Wenzetus, who flourished in the yere Ninianus Wenzetus. of our Lord one thousand fiue hundred thrée score and one, in the time of Marie queene of Scots, was a fauorer of the popes doctrine, and enimie to Iohn Knokes, touching whom I will set down the words of two seuerall authors, whereof the one is Lesleus a Scot, and the popes and his friend, and the other is Bibliotheca Gesneri, whereof the first saith: Haec res (which was a disputation in religion) Niniano Win|zeto maximam apud haereticos inuidiam confla|uit, vnde cum audirent illum (Ninian Winzet) iam apud typographum calere in libro excudendo, quo cogitarat cum Knoxio de fide violata ad nobilitatem expostulare, consilium ineunt de opere disturbando, Winzeto capiendo, typographo mulctando. Magi|stratus cum satellitibus irruit in typographiam, libros quos reperit, aufert, Iohan Scotũ typographũ bonis mulctatum in carcerem abripit: sed Winzetum, quẽ tantopere cupiebant, prae foribus magistratui occur|rentem quòd incognitus elapsus fucrat, dolent haere|tici, rident Catholici. On the other side thus writeth Bibliotheca Gesneri: Ninianus Winzetus Renfrous, S. theologiae doctor, & apud sancti Iacobi apud Sco|tos Ratisponae, abbas flagellum sectariorum qui reli|gionis praetextu iam in Caesarẽ aut in alios orthodox|os principes excitare student, quaerentes ineptissimè quidem, Deo ne magis an principibus sit obediendũ. Accessit velitatio in Georg. Bucchan. circa dialogũ, quem scripsit de iure regni apud Scotos 4. Ingolstadii ex officina typographica Dauidis Sartorii, an. 1581.

Adam Blackwood borne in Scotland in Dum|fermeling, Adam Black|wood. was brought vp in Paris, where attei|ning to manie degrées of learning, is now liuing, being aduanced to the place of one of the chiefe coun|cellors of Poitiers. This man hath learnedlie writ|ten manie works, amongst which are his bookes De coniunctione religionis & imperii, Funebres oratio|nes admeralli regni Franciae, & Iacobi Stuarti primi regentis (after that Charles Iames the sixt, atteined to the crowne) Scotiae. Besides which hauing writ|ten against the work of Bucchanan intituled De iure regni, he is now in hand with a booke which he writeth against the chronicle of the same Bucchanan.

Andrew Meluin one of the presbyterie in Scot|land, Andrew Meluin. EEBO page image 464 and one who came hither into England with the earls of Angus and Mar, about the yeare of our Lord one thousand fiue hundred fourscore and foure, hath written manie epigrams, and amongst the rest, one inuectiue against the quéene mother, to the king of France, which beginneth Vipera cum ca|tulis.

Iames Tirie did (as hath Lesleus lib. 10. pag. 587) Iames Tirie. go to Rome, after which he became a companion of the Iesuits, who comming to Paris, trauelled by writing with his elder brother being a baron, to for|sake the doctrine of Caluin; he florished in the yeare of our Lord one thousand fiue hundred thréescore and one, vnder Marie quéene of Scots, and did write Ad fratrem epistola 1. Responsio ad Knoxium lib. 1.

Charles Iames the sixt of that name king of Charles Iames. Scots now liuing, a toward yoong prince, and one well furnished with the gifts of nature and learning by birth and instruction, did in his yoongest yeares about the age of seuentéene or eightteene, write a booke of verses in his mother toong, conteining ma|nie matters of sundrie rare inuentions, and of sun|drie forme of verses both learned and eloquent, which booke was after published to the world; whom I haue here placed the last in this catalog of Scotish writers, to the end that I would close vp the same ti|tle with no lesse honorable and rare person, than I first made entrance thereinto: and therefore begin|ning with a king, I thought good also to knit it vp with a king.

Thus setting end to my trauels touching Scot|land (which I haue not performed as the maiestie of an historie requireth, but as my skill, helps, & intel|ligences would permit) I desire thée reader to take it in good part, remembring that Vltra posse non est esse, sith according to our old prouerbe, A man cannot pipe without his vpper lip. For being denied furtherance (as in the beginning I said) both of the Scots & other of mine owne nation, and thereby not hauing anie more subiect whervpon to worke, I can doo no more than set downe such things as come to my knowledge. And therefore contenting my selfe with this, that In magnis voluisse sat est; I commit my selfe and my labors to thy fauorable iudgement, who measuring my meaning with the square of in|differencie, and pardoning all imperfections in these my first labors, in respect of the shortnesse of time to performe the same (for I protest to thee that both the historie of England and Scotland were halfe printed before I set pen to paper to enter into the augmentation or continuation of anie of them, as by the inserting of those things which I haue doone maie well appeare) thou shalt incourage me hereaf|ter vpon more lesure, and better studie, to deliuer to the world rare matters of antiquitie, and such other labors of mine (Absit verbis philautia) as maie both shew the discharge of my dutie to God, to my coun|trie, to my prince, and to my fréends. For though I maie séeme to be idle, yet I saie with Scipio, Nun|quàm minùs sum otiosus quàm cùm sum otiosus.