, a contemporary of the preceding, but more connected with this country, was born at Cordova, and educated
, a contemporary of the preceding, but
more connected with this country, was born at Cordova,
and educated among the Dominicans of Salamanca. Having distinguished himself in the duties of the cloister, and
made an eqiujl progress in learning, especially divinity and
the sacred languages, he was called to court, and was successively confessor to the king of Spain, and to Charles V.
of Germany, who employed him to write against the Lutherans. When Philip of Spain married our queen Mary,
Soto was one of those Spanish divines who attended him to
England, and settled at Oxford, where he was professor of
divinity, and sometimes read a Hebrew lecture, as Wood
supposes, for Dr. Bruerne, the Hebrew professor. This
occurred in 1556; and, the year before, Soto had been
incorpora; ed D. D. in this university. After the death of
queen Mary, he was called to the council of Trent, where
be died in April 1563. He published “Institutiones Chris,
tiana?,
”