Thomas Hide

, a noted Rom. Priest of his time, was born at a Market Town called Newbury in Berks. Descended from the ancient and gentile Family of his Name in that County, educated in Wykehams School, admitted perpetual fellow of New Col. 1543, took the degrees in Arts, that of master being compleated 1549. In the year after he le [•] t his Fellowship, was made Prebendary of Winchester, and in 1552. succeeded Will. Everard in the chief mastership of the said School, where continuing till Qu. Elizab. came to the Crown, he left all he had, and all he pretended to, for Conscience sake, and going beyond the Seas, spent the remainder of his time partly at Doway and partly at Lovaine. He was a Person of a strict life and conversation, as those of his (b)(b) Ibid. Perswasion say, of great gravity of severity, and a lover of vertue and vertuous men. He hath written,

A consolatory Epistle to the afflicted Catholicks. Lov. in oct. and other things as I have been told, but such I have not yet seen: which if printed, few or no copies come into England. He dyed at Doway in Flanders in the house of Alice Fowler, the Widdow of John Fowler an Englishman, on the 9. 1597 May in fifteen hundred ninety and seven, and was buried in the Chappel of the Virgin Mary within the Church of St. James there, near to the horn of the Gospel; leaving then behind him this character, that he was a most fierce hater of Vice and a capital Enemy to Sects and Heresies.