Meredith Hanmer

Son of Tho. Hanmer, commonly called Ginta Hanmer, of Porkington in Shropshire, was born in that county, but descended from the Hanmers of Hanmer in Flintshire, became chaplain of C. C. coll. in Apr. 1567. took the degrees in Arts, and after some yeas spent in that house, was made Vicar of S. Leonards Shoreditch in London: Among the inhabitants of which place he left an ill name, for that he converted the brass of several ancient monuments there, into coine for his own use, as an observing (a)(a) Joh. Weever in his Ancient funeral M [••] uments, &c. printed 1631. p. 427. author tells us. In 1581. and 82. he took the degrees of Divinity; about which time he went into Ireland, and at length became Treasurer of the Church of the Holy Trinity (now called Ch. Church) in Dublin, which he kept to his dying day. He was esteemed an exact Disputant, a good Preacher, Grecian, and excellent for Ecclesiastical and Civil Histories. He hath written,

Confutation and answer of the great braggs and challenge of Mr. Campion the Jesuit, containing 9 articles, by him directed to the Lords of the Privy Council. Lond. 1581. oct.

The Jesuits banner, displaying their original and success, their vow, and other their hypocrisie and superstition, their doctrine and positions. Lond. 1581. qu.

A confutation of a brief censure upon two books, written in answer to Mr. Campions offer of disputation-Printed with The Jesuits banner, &c. soon after came out A defence of the Censure, &c. See more in Rob. Persons under the year 1610.

The Chronicle of Ireland, in two parts—The second of which was printed at Dublin in 1633. fol.

Sermon at the baptizing of a Turk, on Math. 5. 15. Lond. 1586. oct.

An Ephemeris of the Saints of Ireland.

A Chronography, with a supputation of the years from the beginning of the World unto the birth of Christ, and continued from the birth of Christ (where Eusebius chiefly, Socrates, Evagrius and Dorotheus, after him do write) unto the twelfth year of the reign of Mauritius the Emperour, being the full time of 600 years, wanting five, after Christ. All chiefly collected out of Eusebius, Socrates and Evangrius, Lond. 1585. &c. fol. Besides these, he hath translated from Greek into English (1) The ancient Ecclesiastical histories of the first six hundred years after Christ, originally written by Eusebius, Socrates and Evagrius. Lond. 1577. 85. &c. fol. (2) The lives, ends and Martyrdoms of the Prophets, Apostles, and 70 disciples of Christ, originally written by Dorotheus Bishop of Tyrus—Printed with the former translation. This Dr. Hanmer, as it appears, had translated all the Church Historians except Eusebius his four books concerning the life of Emperour Constantine, and the two orations subjoined thereunto, which were afterwards done by Wye Saltonstal, and printed in a fifth edition of Hanmers translation—London 1650. fol. At length Dr. Hanmer being suddenly berest of his life by the plague raging in Dublin, before he attained to the sixtieth year of his age, 1604 in sixteen hundred and four, was, as I presume, buried in the Church of the Holy Trinity there. Joh. Weevon, whom I have here quoted, tells us (b)(b) Ibid. ut Sup. that he ended his days in Ireland ignominiously, but what his meaning is to say so, I cannot tell, unless the plague came upon him as a judgment for the sacrilege he committed while he was Vicar of S. Leonards Church before mentioned. Qu.