Thomas Lupset

Son of Will. Lupset Citizen and Goldsmith of London, by Alice his Wife, was born in London, particularly in the Parish of St. Mildrid in Breadstreet, (where the Father lived when Thomas was born, but lived in his last days, and died in 1522, in the Parish of St. Vedastus in Cheep) taken into the care and protection of Dr. Joh. Colet, and educated in Grammar learning under Will. Lilye; which is the reason why the said Doctor calls him in his last Will, his Scholar. But whether from W. Lilyes School he went to this University, or to that of Cambridge, is doubtful. Dr. Jo. Cay the (r)(r) In Hist. Cantab. p. 59. Antiquary doth tell you that he was educated in Pembroke Hall there, (tho Bale and Pits are silent in it) but what his Authority is for that report, he tells us not. Howsoever it is, sure I am, and shall be, till I am convinc’d to the contrary, that he took the Degree of Bac. of Arts at Paris, and soon after coming into England, he fixed in the University of Oxon, particularly in Corp. Chr. Coll. about the Year 1519, and soon after he succeeded Jo. Clement in the Rhetorick Lecture of Card. Wolsey. To which Cardinal, the University having had occasion to write, make this mention of our Author Lupset in an (s)(s) In reg. Epist. Univ. Oxon. FF. Ep. 83. Epistle dated 7. Id. May, 1521—Nam immortalis beneficii loco accepimus, quod benignissima tua beneficentia in communem rei literariae usum dignata sit Lupsetum ad nos remittere, quem etsi semper habuimus charissimum, nunc tamen quia à tuâ majestate tam amanter commendatum, multò arctiùs amplectimur. Illud autem supra quam credi potest nos omnes exhileraverit, quòd prudentissima tua authoritas ex omnium animis abstulerit scrupulos quibus anxiè alligabimur ordinariis lectionibus, quas jam prorsus extraordinarias utinam tua prudentia vel penitus ab omni ordine abigeret, vel in meliorem redigeret, &c. Sir Tho. More also in an Epist, to Erasmus, doth make (t)(t) Vide Hist. & Antiq. Vniv. Ox. lib. 2. p. 36. a. honourable mention of him, and his reading in both the Tongues at Oxon. But Lupset’s desire being bent to proceed in Arts, he supplicated (u)(u) Reg. Congreg. H. fol. 63. b. the venerable Regents met in Congregation 2. June 1521. that whereas he had spent four Years in Study at Paris and in Oxon, it might be sufficient for him that he might be admitted to proceed in the faculty of Arts. Which supplication of his being granted, he was licensed to proceed on the 19. of the same Month, and on the 9. July following, he did really stand in the Act then celebrated. Afterwards he became famous in this University, and other places of Literature, (especially after he had performed the Office of Secretary to Rich. Paice, when he was Ambassador to the Venetian) and by his conversation with eminent Men, did make great progress in Sciences: He hath written,

A Treatise of charity.

An exhortation to young Men, persuading them to walk honestly.

A Treatise teaching how to dye well—These three little Books were printed at London, 1546. and 1560. in 8vo. He hath also translated into English, (1) St. Chrysostomes Sermon (or Homely) teaching that no Man is hurt but by himself. (2) Sermon of St. Cyprian of the mortality of Man. (3) Picus Earl of Mirandula his rules of a godly life. (4) The gathered Councils of Isidore. Which four translations were printed at Lond. 1560. in 8vo. He hath also written.

Epistolae variae ad Edw. Leium, Nisenum & Paynellum. Written from C. C. C. in Oxon, as by their dates it appears. Those to Edw. Lee (Archb. of York) were written in behalf of Erasmus, (between whom and the said Lee were learned bickerings) and are printed in a Book entit. Epistolae aliquot eruditorum virorum, ex quibus perspicuum, quanta sit Edwardi Lei virulentia. Basil. 1520. qu. Which virulence was against Erasmus.

In Ciceronis philippicas.

Sermones ad Clerum: Preached mostly at Calais. See the titles of other of his labours in Pitseus. This Tho. Lupset submitted to the stroke of Death 27. Decemb. in Fifteen hundred thirty and two, 1532 aged 36 or thereabouts, (having two Years before been admitted Prebendary of Roscombe in the Church of Salisbury, on the Death of John Fox Archdeacon of Winchester) and was buried in the Church of St. Alphaghe or Elphaghe within Cripplegate in London. (which Church was translated afterwards, to the Church now called St. Alphaghe by Sion Coll.) Over his Grave, tho there be no memory of him by Inscription, yet Joh. Leland celebrates him in his Encomia, Trophaea, &c. Near to his Grave was the body of Alice Lupset his Widow, buried in 1545.