Robert Hoveden

, a Kentish Man born, was elected Fellow of Allsouls coll. in 1565. took the degrees in Arts, that of Master being compleated in 1570. and in the year following, being then 27 years of age, he was elected and confirmed Warden of the said coll. About the same time entring into holy Orders, he was made Domestick Chaplain to Matthew Archb. of Canterbury, afterwards Prebendary of the Cath. there, Prebendary of Henstridge in the Church of Wells, Prebendary of Clifton in the Church of Lincoln, and at length Doctor of Div. He hath written,

Henrici Chichleii Cantuar. Archiepiscopi, collegiique Omnium Animarum apud Oxonienses fundatoris vita. Written in Dec. 1574. and hath this beginning, Henricus Chichleius in pago prope Northamptoniam, &c. It is a short thing, and is kept in MS. under the authors hand in Alls. coll. and served as an Apparatus of a larger life, written by Dr. Arth. Duck.

Catalogus Custodum & Sociorum coll. Om. Animarum.—MS. It commences at the foundation of the college, and reaches down to Hoveden’s days, and by others continued to these times. This Catalogue, tho it is trite and slender, and now and then faulty, yet it hath instructed me in many things, when I was in composing this and a preceedent work. It is commonly in the custody of the Warden, and hath in the beginning of it the life of the Founder before-mentioned. This worthy Doctor died on the 25. of March in sixteen hundred and fourteen, and was buried towards the upper end of Alls. coll. chappel. 1614 A copy of his Epitaph you may see in Hist. & Antiq. Vnivers. Oxon. lib. 2. p. 185. a.