John Man

being the next according to time to be mentioned, I must tell you that he was born in the Parish of Lacocke in Wiltshire, elected from Winchester School, Probationer of New Coll. in 1529. and was made perpetual Fellow two Years after. In 1537, he proceeded in Arts, was the Southern Proctor of the University three years after, and in 1547, he was made Principal of Whitehall, since involved into Jesus Coll. After Qu. Elizabeth was settled in the Throne, he became Chaplain to Dr. Parker Archb. of Canterbury, who having a respect for, did put, him in Warden of Merton Coll. 1562. upon a dissent among the Fellows in an Election of one for that office, as I have told (*)(*) In Hist. & Antiq. Univ. Ox. lib. 1. p. 285. a. you at large elsewhere. In 1565, he was made Dean of Glocester in the place of Will. Jennings deceased, (who from being a Monk of that place, was made the first Dean 1541.) and in 1567. in the Month of Aug. he was sent by the Queen her Ambassador to the K. of Spain, who the Year before had sent to our Queen his Ambassador called Goseman or Gooseman de Sylva, Dean (as ’twas said) of Toledo. Of which Ambassadors Qu. Eliz. used merrily to say, that as her Brother the K. of Spain had sent to her a Goos-man, so she had sent to him a Man goose. While he continued at Madrid in Spain in the quality of an Ambassador, he was accused (†)(†) Camd. in Reg. Elizab. sub an. 1569. to have spoken somewhat unreverently of the Pope. Whereupon he was excluded from the Court, and afterwards thrust out of Madrid into a Country Village, his Servants compelled to be present at Mass, and the exercise of his own Religion forbidden; and this whether in more hatred to the Queen of England, or to Religion, I cannot say; whereas she in the mean time had shewed all kindness to Goseman the Spanish Ambassador, allowing him his own Religion. This Man-goose, hath (as I have been informed) written and translated several things, but none have I yet seen, only his translation from Latin into English of Common places of Christian Religion, gathered by Wolfg. Musculus, &c. Lond. 1563. fol. and 1573. in a thick qu. He paid his last debt to nature at London, 18. March in Fifteen hundred sixty and eight,156 8/9. and received sepulture in the Chancel of St. Anns Church near Aldersgate in the same City, leaving issue by his Wife Frances Dau. of Edm. Herenden of London Mercer, several Children; some of whose posterity, do now, or at least did lately, live at Hatfield-Braddock in Essex. In his Deanery of Glocester succeeded Dr. Tho. Cooper, afterwards B. of Winchester, and in the Wardenship of Merton Coll. Dr. Tho. Bickley afterwards B. of Chichester. Besides this Jo. Man, I find another of both his names of New Coll. born at Writtle in Essex, who, being LL. B. was presented by the Warden and Fellows of the said Coll. to the rectory of Great-Horwood in Bucks. an. 1551, where he died 1565.