Robert Aldrich

, or Aldrisius as some call him, was born at Burnham in Bucks. educated in Grammar learning in Eaton School, elected Scholar of Kings Coll. in Cambridge in the Year 1507, where he took the Degrees in Arts, and about that time was stiled by Erasmus in a certain Epistle, blandae eloquentiae juvenis. Afterwards he became Proctor of the said University, Schoolmaster of Eaton, Fellow of the College there, and at length Provost. In 1529, he retired to Oxon, where he was incorporated Bach. of Div. as he had stood at Cambridge, and soon after performing his exercise for the Degree of Doctor in that faculty, he was licensed to proceed in April 1530. Which Degree being compleated by standing in the Act, which was shortly after celebrated, is the reason why I put him in these Athenae Oxon. About the same time he was made Archdeacon of Colchester, and in 1534. May 7. he was installed Canon of Windsore, and in the same Year constituted Registrary of the most noble order of the Garter. In 1537, Jul. 18. he was (†)(†) Fr. Gedwin in Com. de praesul. Augl. int. [•] pisc. Cu [•] leol. consecrated Bishop of Carlile, in the place of Joh. Kyte deceased, from which time to that of his death, though there were many changes in the Church and State, yet he ran through all, and so consequently complied with them. His works are many, but all that I have seen, are only these.

Epistola ad Gul. Hormannum.—The beginning of which is Suscipies Hormanne tue, &c. ’Tis written in Lat. Verse, and is remitted into the Book called Antibossicon, mention’d in Will, Horman among these Writers, under the Year 1535.

Epigrammata varia, And certain matters against Rob. Whittington. He gave way to fate at Horncastle in Lincolnshire (where was then an house belonging to the Bishop of Carlile) on the fifth day of March, 1555-56. in Fifteen hundred fifty and five, and was, as I suppose, buried there. John Leland the Antiquarian Poet was his familiar acquaintance, and therefore having had experience of his most admirable parts and learning, did, not without just desert, commend them to posterity in his Encomia (*) Trophaea, &c. illustrium aliquot & eruditorum in Anglia virorum, &c. to which I refer the Reader.