JOHANNES DUNS SCOTUS, Doctor Subtilis; from the painting in the public library in Oxford;* J. Faber f. h. sh. mezz. JOHANNES DUNS SCOTUS. Bloemart sc. JOHANNES DUNS SCOTUS, fol. F. Chauveau sc. JOHANNES DUNS SCOTUS. Eckhurst sc. JOHANNES DUNS SCOTUS, octavo. N. Habert sc. JOHANNES DUNS SCOTUS. Jollain sc. JOHANNES DUNS SCOTUS, small folio. W. Marshall sc. JOHANNES DUNS SCOTUS, a sheet. J. Killian sc. JOHANNES DUNS SCOTUS, in his study, 8vo. J. Neefs sc. JOHANNES DUNS SCOTUs. Des Rochers. The portrait of Duns Scotus at Windsor, which is much the same with that at Oxford, is said to have been painted by Espagnolet. It is probably not genuine.-I have been, in general, very cautious of admitting ideal heads; but have not been so scrupulous as to exclude every one, when other memorials have been wanting. JOHANNES DUNS SCOTUS, &c. Ord. F. M. (fratrum minorum) Conv. 12mo. There is a small print of him inscribed, Doctor Subtilis, Scotistarum Princeps. It requires one-half a man's life to read the works of this profound doctor, and the other to understand his subtilties. His printed works are in twelve volumes in folio. His manuscripts are sleeping in Merton College Library, in Oxford, of which society he was a member. He was the head of the sect of schoolmen called Scotists. Ob. 1308. The picture of Duns in the Bodleian Gallery was painted by Ashfield. So Hearne informs us, at p. 793, of Tho. Otterbourne and John Whethamstede, where there is some account of that painter. ↑ Voluminous works frequently arise from the ignorance and confused ideas of the authors. If angels were writers, says Mr. Norris, we should have few folios. NICHOLAUS TRIVETUS; Historicus, e litera initiali Codicis MS. Vertue sc. 8vo. Nicolas Trivet, a Dominican friar, was author of the "Annales 6. Regum Angliæ," published by Mr. Ant. Hall, of Queen's College, Oxford, in 2 vols. 8vo. 1719. He lived in the reigns of Edward I. II. and III., in the second year of whose reign he died, aged near seventy. 1307. GUALTERUS STAPLEDONUS; episc. Exon. Consec. et magn. Anglia Thesaurarius, Coll. Exon. et Aula Cervina Fund'. Anno Domini 1316. J. Faber f. large 4to. mezz. Walter Stapledon annexed Hart Hall, formerly called Stapledon Hall, to Exeter College; but it is now independent of it, and was erected into a college by the means of Dr. Newton, Sept. 8, 1740. This prelate was beheaded by the seditious burgesses of London, at the standard and cross in Cheapside, 15 Oct. 1326. WILLIAM OF WICKHAM, bishop of Winchester. Houbraken sc. large h. sh. From a picture at Winchester College. Illust. Head. GULIELMUS DE WYKEHAM; episc. Winton. et. totius Anglia Cancell. Fund". Coll. B. Maria Winton. vulgò vocat. New Coll. 1379; et paulo post (1387) Coll. B. Maria Winton. prope Winton. J. Faber f. large 4to. WILLIAM OF WYKEHAM; taken from a most ancient picture of him, preserved in Winchester College. Grignion sc. whole length, sh. 40 Ed. III. The great and useful talents of William of Wickham, especially Consec. his skill in architecture, appear to have recommended him to the 1367. favour of Edward the Third. He persuaded that monarch to pull down a great part of the castle of Windsor, and rebuild it from his plan, in that plain magnificence in which it appears at present.* He also drew the plan, and superintended the building, of Queenborough Edward III. assessed every county in England, to send him a certain number of masons, tilers, and carpenters, for that work. Ashmole's "Hist. of the Garter," p. 129. Castle. He was afterward made secretary of state, and lord privy seal; and had other accumulated preferments, before he was promoted to the see of Winchester. Ob. 27 Sept. 1404. Dr. Lowth, late bishop of London, who did great honour to both the colleges founded by Wickham, has done due honour to the illustrious founder, by writing the history of his life. CARDINAL BEAUFORT, bishop of Winchester. J. Parker sc. From an original picture in the collection of the Hon. Horace Walpole; in Harding's Shakspeare. Henry Beaufort, son of John duke of Lancaster, and brother to Henry IV. successively bishop of Bristol and Winchester, and three times lord chancellor, was presented with a cardinal's hat, by Pope Martin V. He, with his brother Thomas duke of Exeter, was appointed governor and tutor to Henry VI. then only nine months old. The cardinal, being of an ambitious and intriguing disposition, had continual disputes with his brother the duke of Gloucester, regent of England, commonly called Good Duke Humphrey; whose death, attributed to secret strangulation, was universally ascribed to the machination and connivance of Winchester, who, shortly after, on his death-bed, testified the bitterest remorse for the share he had in that horrid transaction. Ob. 1447, aged about eighty years. THOMAS FITZALLENIUS Filius Cornitis Arundellia Archiepiscopus Cantuariensis Constabularius Castre de Queenbourgh 27 Ap. Anno Decimo Regni Henrici Quarti. From a painting in Lambeth Palace, copied from the original at Penshurst. THOMAS ARUNDEL, &c. in Strutt's "Regal Antiquities," plates 23. 32. and 38. Thomas Fitzalan, second son of Richard, the fifth earl of Arundel, was successively bishop of Ely, archbishop of York, and afterward of Canterbury; being the first instance of the translation of an archbishop of York to the see of Canterbury.-Having been impeached, and banished the kingdom, for the part he had taken in his brother Richard's treason, he retired into France; but returned again into England with Henry duke of Lancaster, who had also been banished by king Richard II. He procured a bull from the pope, and publicly preached; promising Paradise to all that would aid him against the enemies of Henry duke of Lancaster;* who, on his accession to the throne under the title of Henry IV. made him lord high chancellor of England, anno 1412. He died in 1414. GULIELMUS BATEMAN, episc. Norwic. Aulæ S. S. et individuæ Trinitatis Fund". Anno Dom. 1350. Faber f. large 4to. 1343. with view of Trinity Hall. E. Harding sc. Bishop Bateman was the founder of Trinity Hall, Cambridge, Consec. which was originally an hotel, or house of entertainment for students. He erected this hotel into a college, and was a great master of the civil and canon law. He died and was buried at Avignon, 1354. ROBERTUS EGGLESFIELD; Coll. Regina Fund". Burghers sc. ROBERTUS EGGLES FIELD; Murray p. Faber f whole length, h. sh. mezz. ROBERT EGGLESFIELD, in an oval folio. The outline of the head of this portrait was taken by Murray, from an effigy engraved on a brass plate, formerly affixed to Robert Egglesfield's tomb, in the old chapel of Queen's College, in Oxford. The painting, and the plate, to which the whole length of Queen Philippa is companion, belong to the society of that college. ROBERTUS EGGLESFIELD; Regina Philippe Edvardi 3. Regis Angliæ a sacris confessionibus, Coll. Reginense fundavit Anno D'. 1340. J. Faber f. large 4to. On the feast of the Circumcision, the Bursar of Queen's College gives to every member of that society a needle and thread, in remembrance of the founder; the words aiguille fil composing a kind of rebus on his name.-I cannot find that he had any higher preferment in the church than the rectory of Brough, in Westmoreland. * See Strutt's " Regal Antiquities," p. 45. 16 Ed. III. Pronounced Bruff. JOHANNES WICLIF, S. T. P. &c. A tabula penes nobilissimum ducem Dorsetia; G. White f. h. sh. mezz. This has been copied. JOHN WICLIFFE, with Luther, Calvin, &c. a sheet, scarce. P. Perron sc. In Bale's "Illustrium majoris Britanniæ Scriptorum, &c. Summarium," 1548, 4to. is a curious head of Wiclif. There is another of him, and other English divines, "Præstantium aliquot Theologorum, &c. Effigies; quibus addita Elogia, &c. Opera Jac. Verheiden ;” Haga Com. 1602, excud. Hen. Hondius. This is printed exactly in the same manner with the "Heroologia," and was, doubtless, the model of it. JEAN WICLEF, Anglois, &c. in an oval of oaken foliage, done in wood, 4to. JOHANNES WICLEF, &c. From the Continuation of Boissard's Bibliotheca Chalcographica, 4to. JEAN WICLEF; Desrochers sc. 8vo. JOHANNES WICKLIFFE; J. Faber f. 1714, h. sh. mezz. JOHANNES WICLIF; A. Vanhaecken f. large 4to. mezz. JOHANNES WICKLIFFE; R. Houston f. large 4to. A tabula in Coll. Reg. Cantab.* mezz. Wicliffe may be regarded as the father of the Reformation; as he was the first in Europe who ventured to bring religion to the test of Scripture and ecclesiastical antiquity. The austerity of his life, and the sanctity of his manners, added great weight to his doctrine. He was indefatigable in his labours, and generally went about barefooted, in the garb of a pilgrim. He translated the New Testament from the Vulgate, which was printed with Lewis's "History of the English Bibles," in fol. 1731. Calmet informs us, that he trans Houston has engraven the heads of all the reformers for Rolt's "Lives,” fol. |