Leonard Hutten

, was elected from Westminster School, a Student of Ch. Church, in 1574. wherein, with unwearied industry, going thro the several Classes of Logick and Philosophy, became M. of A. and a frequent preacher. In 1599. he was installed Canon of the said Church, being then Bach. of Divinity and Vicar of Flower in Northamptonshire, and in the year after he proceeded in that faculty. His younger years were beautified with all kind of polite learning, his middle, with ingenuity and judgment, and his reverend years with great wisdom in government, having been often Subdean of his house. He was also an excellent Grecian, well read in the Fathers and Schoolmen, which was sufficiently approved by the consent of the University, and not meanly vers’d in the histories of our own Nation. He hath written,

An answer to a Treatise concerning the Cross in Baptism. Oxon. 1605. qu. Which book was held in reverent respect by the best Bishops of the Church, as having the Fathers agreeing to Scripture truly urged, and understandingly interpreted therein. See in Jam. Calfhill and John Martiall. I have been informed by one (a)(a) Dr. [〈…〉] Canon of Ch. Church, aged 7 [•] . an. 1670. who knew this Dr. Hutten well, that he was author of a Trag.-Com. called Bellum Grammaticale, but how that can be, I cannot discern, for tho it was written by an Oxford man, if not two, yet one edition of it came out in 1574. in oct. which was the year, when Dr. Hutten first saluted the Oxonian Muses, as I have before told you. He had also an hand in the translation of the Bible, appointed by King James, an. 1604. and left in MS. behind him,

Discourse of the antiquity of the University of Oxford, by way of letter to a friend.—The copies of this Discourse, which I have seen, were written in qu. in about 8 sheets, and had this beginning, Sir, your two questions, the one concerning the antiquity of Oxford, &c. I have seen 4 copies of it, but could get little or nothing from them for my purpose, when I was writing the Hist. and Antiq. of the Vniv. of Oxon. A MS. book of the like subject, I once saw in the hands of John Houghton Bac. of Div. sometimes Senior Fellow of Brasnose coll. divided into three books, the beginning of which runs thus, All truth is of it self as glorious, &c. but who the author of it was, I could never learn. ’Tis a trite thing, and mostly taken from Apologia Antiq. Acad. Oxon. written by Br. Twyne, as that of Hutten was. He hath also written,

Historia fundationum Ecclesiae Christi Oxon. unà cum Episcoporum, Decanorum & Canonicorum ejusd. Catalogo. ’Tis a MS. and hath this beginning, Monasterium sive Prioratus S. Frideswydae virginis fundata est ab eadem Frideswydâ filiâ Didaci alias Didani, &c. A copy of this in qu. I once saw in the hands of Dr. Joh. Fell Dean of Ch. Ch. but many faults have been committed therein by an illiterate Scribe. At length Dr. Hutten having lived to the age of 75. died on the 17. 1632 of May in sixteen hundred thirty and two, and was buried in the Divinity-Chappel (the north Isle remotest from the Choire) belonging to the Cathedral of Ch. Ch. before-mentioned. A copy of his Epitaph you may see in Hist. & Antiq. Vniv. Oxon. lib. 2. p. 288. b. By his Wife Anne Hamden he had a Daughter named Alice, who was married to Dr. Rich. Corbet, afterwards successively B. of Oxon and Norwich.