Peter Morwyn

or Morwyng, a zealous reformer of his time, was born in Lincolnshire, made perpetual Fellow of Magd. Coll. in 1552, being then Bach of Arts, and in the year after supplicating some few days before K. Edwards death that he might proceed in that faculty, did obtain his desire: But that King then dying and Morwyn foreseeing that Religion would alter, he was not presented to that Degree. Soon after, he, and others of his society, consulting how to withdraw themselves in private, obtained leave to be absent for a time, but to what place Morwyn went beyond the Seas (for he was a voluntary exile in Germany) I find not. Sure it is that after Qu. Elizab. came to the Crown, he retired to his Coll. and in 1559 was presented to the Degree of Master, and became renowned among the Academians for his great knowledge in the Lat. and Greek tongues and poetry. When Dr. Bentham was promoted to the See of Lichfield he made him his Chaplain, and upon the next vacancy, Prebendary and Canon of the said Church, and well beneficed near to that place. He hath translated into English. (1) A compendious and most marvellous history of the latter times of the Jews commune weale, beginning where the Bible and Scriptures leave, and continuing to the utter subversion and last destruction of that Country and People. Lond. 1558-61. and 1593, in oct. Written in Hebrew by Joseph Ben. Gorion. (2) The treasure of Enonimus containing the wonderful hid secrets of nature, touching the most apt times to prepare and distill Medicines. Lond. 1565. qu. besides other books, which I have not yet seen.Clar. 1579. He was living at, or near to, Lichfield in the month of May, in Fifteen hundred seventy and nine, in which year he was appointed one of the administrators of the goods, chattels, &c. of the said Bish Bentham, but how long he lived after that year, I cannot tell, nor where his reliques were lodg’d.