Aegeon Askew

, a person as well read in the Fathers, Commentators, and Schoolmen, as any man of his age in the University, was born in Lancashire, became a Student in the University in 1593. aged 17. or thereabouts, Chaplain of Queens coll. in 98. being then Bach. of Arts. Afterwards proceeding in that Faculty he became a noted Preacher, and a great admirer of Dr. Jo. Raynolds, and Ric. Crakenthorpe. In the beginning of the Reign of K. James he lest the college, and retiring to Greenwich in Kent, became Minister, I think, of that place. His works are,

Of brotherly reconcilement, in several Sermons Preached in Oxon. Lond. 1605. qu. The author then lived at Greenwich.

An Apology, of the use of the Fathers and secular learning, in Sermons.—In which two books is shewed much reading in ancient authors of the Church,Clar. 1605. and indeed beyond his age. What became of him, when he left Greenwich, I know not, for he died not there, as I have been informed by an ingenious person (i)(i) Joh. Evelin of Sayes Court Esq who lives in those parts.