Michael Renniger

, commonly called Rhanger, received his first being in this World in Hampshire, became perpetual Fellow of Magd. coll. in 1547. afterwards Master of Arts, and a Preacher in the Reign of K. Ed. 6. being then esteemed by those that knew him a person truly pious, and of singular erudition. But when Q. Mary came to the Crown, he, with others of the said coll. voluntarily left the Land for Religion sake, and lived mostly at Strasburg in Germany. After her death he returned, was made one of the Chaplains to Q. Elizabeth, became a zealous assertor of the Protestant Religion, but refusing considerable preferments that were then offered to him, he accepted only of a Prebendship in the Church of Winchester for the present, as also the Rectory of Crawley near to the said City. In the year 1573. he took the degrees in Divinity, and in 75. was upon the resignation of Dr. Joh. Ebden made Archdeacon of Winchester. His Works are,

Carmina in mortem duorum fratrum Suffolciensium Henrici & Caroli Brandon, &c. Lond. 1552. qu.

De Pii V. & Gregorii XIII. furoribus contra Elizabetham Reginam Angliae. Lond. 1582. oct.

An Exhortation to true Love, Loyalty, and Fidelity to her Majesty. Lond. 1587. oct.

Treatise against Treasons, Rebellions, and such Disloyalties.—Printed with the Exhortation to, &c.

Syntagma hortationum ad Jacobum Regem Angliae. Lond. 1604. oct. and translated from English into Latin, An apology or defence of Priests Marriages, written by Joh. Poynet or Ponet B. of Winchester. The other Works, done by him, may be seen in a certain (*)(*) Joh. Baleus, in cent. Script. Maj. Brit. 9. nu. 73. author who knew Rhenniger well, which made him therefore say of him,— In omni bonarum literarum ac linguarum genere it a se exercuit, ut famam non vulgarem inde meruit. He died on the 26. of Aug. 1609 in sixteen hundred and nine, aged 89 years. and was buried in the Chancel of his Church at Crawley before-mentioned, under the Communion Table. Over his Grave was soon after a Marble Stone laid, with an inscription thereon in prose and verse; a copy of which you may see in Hist. & Antiq. Vniv. Oxon. lib. 2. p. 197. b. This Dr. Rhenniger died rich, left a fair Estate, (some of which laid in Lincolnshire,) and a Son named Samuel to injoy it. In his Archdeaconry of Winchester succeeded Dr. Ranulph Barlow of Cambridge.