William Latymer

became Fellow of Allsouls Coll. in 1489, whence, after he had spent some Years in Logicals and Philosophicals, he travelled into Italy, and settling at Padöua for a time, did much advance his learning, especially in the Greek tongue. After his return, he was incorporated M. of A. as it seems, became most eminent, and was worthily numbered among the lights of learning in his time by Jo. Leland, as I have elsewhere (r)(r) Vide Hist. & Antiq. Vniv. Oxon. lib. 1. p. 263. b. & l. 2. p. 177. b. Vide etiam in Lelandi Eucomiis, p. 18. told you. About the beginning of Hen. 8. he was Master or Tutor to Reynold Pole (afterwards Cardinal, and Archb. of Canterbury) by whose endeavours he had some preferment in the Church confer’d upon him. He was learned in all sacred and profane Letters, and, as Erasmus saith, was verè Thologus integritate vitae conspicuus. ’Tis said also that he hath written several things, but what they are except,

Epistolae ad Erasmum; I know not. However he with Lynacre and Grocin did undertake the translation of all Aristotles works into Latin, but the latter being taken away by death before they were half finished, Latymer desisted and would not go any farther, as being perhaps terrified with the immense labour to be taken therein. He died very aged at his Rectory of Seyntbury near to Camden in Glocestershire, (which he kept with that of Wotton under Edge, and a Prebendship in the Church of Salisbury) about the Month of Sept. 1545 in Fifteen hundred forty and five, and was buried in the Chancel of the Church there, dedicated to St. Nicholas. Over his Grave was a Marble-stone soon after laid, with a large Inscription on a brass plate, fastned thereunto, which hath been long since taken away and defaced. I have seen a Copy (s)(s) In Offic. Praerog. Cant. in reg. Pinnyng, Qu. 38. of his Will, whereby he gave (with certain conditions) all his Greek and Lat. Books to Allsouls, and Corp. Chr. Coll. in Oxon. yet whether they received them it appears not. I find one Will. Latymer D. D. to have been Dean of Peterborough (in the place of Job. Boxhall ejected, an. 1560) and Archdeacon of Westminster, who dying in the Summer time (after 29. July) 1583, was buried in the Choire of the Cath. Ch. of Peterborough beneath the Pulpit; but of what kin he was to the former I know not. He was succeeded in the said Deanery by Rich. Fletcher D. D. of Bennet Coll. in Cambridge, afterwards B. of London.