Robert Hues

, or Husius as he writes himself, was born (b)(b) As the said Dr. Gardiner hath informed me. at Little Hereford commonly called Harford near to Leonminsher in Herefordshire; who, tho well grounded in Grammar learning and of good parts, and therefore of desert, yet at his first coming to the University he was only a poor Scholar or Servitour of Brasnose, and among the pauperes Scholares is he numbred in the publick Matricula under Coll. Ænean, about 1571. In that house he continued for some time a very sober and serious Student, and was countenanced by one or more of the Seniors thereof, but being sensible of the loss of time which he sustained there by constant attendance, he translated himself to S. Maries hall, and took the degree of Bac. of Arts at about 7 years standing, being then noted for a good Grecian. Which degree he compleating by Determination, he afterwards travelled, and in fine became well skill’d in Geography and Mathematicks. The last of which being the faculty he excelled in, made him respected by that generous Count Henry Earl of Northumberland, who allowed him an yearly Pension for the encouragement of his studies, but whether he was ever Mathematick Professor of Gresham coll. as a certain learned (c)(c) See in the Append. to the Sphere of Manilius, &c. by Edw. Sherburne Esq p. 86. Gent. reports, I cannot tell. He hath written,

De Globis celest. & terrest. Tract. 2. Several times printed in Lat. and Engl. in oct. The first edition of this book had this title, Tractatus de Globis & eorum usu; accommodatus iis qui Londini editi sunt; an. 1593. sumptibus Gulielmi Sandersoni Civ. Lond. Lond. 1593. oct. It was afterwards illustrated with figures and annotations by Joh. Isaac Pontanus Professor of Philosophy at Harderwicke in Gelderlandt.—Amstel. 1617. 1624. &c. Oxon. 1663. in oct. and twelv.

Breviarium totius Orbis. Printed several times at Lond. in Lat. and Engl. in oct. and tw. This Mr. Hues died in the Stone-house (then belonging to Joh. Smith M. of A. Son of Tho. Smith Cook of Ch. Ch.) opposite almost to the Inn called the Blew-Boar in S. Aldates Parish in Oxon, on the 24. 1632 of May, in sixteen hundred thirty and two, aged 79 years, and was buried near to the grave of Dr. Hutten, within the limits of the Cathedral of Ch. Ch. before-mentioned. His Epitaph is printed in Hist. & Antiq. Vniv. Oxon. lib. 2. p. 288. b. wherein you’ll find other matters relating to him, which I have not here set down. I find one Rob. Hughes who was an English Merchant in the Kingdom of India and City of Agemer, author of a Dictionary containing the English and Persian Languages; an. 1616. MS. sometimes in the Lord Hattons Library, now in that of Bodley, but what relation there was between this and the former, I know not, I think none, because their names differ. The Reader may be pleased now to take notice that the said R. Hues the Mathematician, having spent one year or two in the condition of a Tutor to Algernon Son of Hen. Earl of Northumberland, in Ch. Ch. he was therefore thrust among the writers of that house, against the consent of the author, into Hist. & Antiq. Vniv. Oxon. by the publisher thereof, who endeavoured to disturb the course of that History, to satisfie his partial ends. He also thrust in of his own accord among the Bishops of the said House Joh. Piers Archb. of York, and Miles Smith B. of Glouc. The former, who had been Dean for a time, had most of his education in Magd. coll. and the other who had been Petty-Canon, was chiefly educated in that of Brasnose.