David de la Hyde

was admitted Probationer-Fellow of Merton Coll. 1549, proceeded Master of Arts four years after, being then admired and much adored for his most excellent faculty in disputing, which he exercised as well in the publick Schools, as at home. Soon after he was licensed by the Society of his Coll. to study the Civil Law, but took no Degree therein in this University: And being ejected the Coll. for denying the Queens Supremacy over the Ch. of England in 1560, he went thereupon into Ireland; where, if I mistake not, he was born, and prosecuting his studies there, as he had done in Oxon. became an exquisite and profound Clerk, well read in the Greek and Lat. tongues, expert in the Mathematicks, a proper Antiquary, and an exact Divine. His pen was not lazie (as one (h)(h) Rich. Stan [•] hurst in Descrip. Hybern. cap. 7. saith) but dayly breeding of learned books. He wrot,

Schemata Rhetorica in tabulam contracta. And an oration also entit.

De Ligno & Faeno. Spoken in praise of Mr. Jasper Heywood, who was in the time of Qu. Mary Rex regni fabarum in Merten College; which was no other than a Christmas Lord,Clar. 1580. or a Lord or King of misrule. He hath written many other things, which being done and printed beyond the Seas, we see them but seldom, or never, in these parts.