Athenæ Oxonienses. The History of Oxford Writers. Vol. 1, p. 274
William Harrys
became Fellow of Lincoln Coll. about 1567. being then Bach. of Arts: Afterwards taking the degree of Master, he left the Coll. his friends, religion, and the little all he had, and went to the English College then newly erected at Doway, where spending divers years in the study of Theology, was at length made a Priest. Afterwards returning to his native country to serve the afflicted Catholicks and gain Proselytes, lived there several years, and composed a large volume intit.
The Theatre or Mirrour of the most true and ancient Church of Great Britaine, founded by Apostolical men, and propagated from generation to generation, even to our time, by most holy Doctors and Catholicks, in 10 books—What else he wrote I find not, not any thing material of him besides, 1602 only that he died in England in sixteen hundred and two. Contemporary with him was Thomas Marshall, Bach. of Arts 1562. and about that time Fellow of the said college; but soon after leaving his Fellowship, he went to Lovaine, where he entred into the Society of Jesus. Afterwards he went to Doway, where he spent 9 years in reading and explaining Philosophy, and at length became Confessor to the English coll. at Rome, where he died in 1589. leaving behind him the character of a learned person.