John Rhese

or ap Rise, or Prise, or Priseus, so many ways I find him written by Authors, was born of a gentile and ancient Family in Wales, but in what County, is yet uncertain, or in what House in Oxon educated, unless in the ancient hostle called Broadgates (now Pembroke Coll.) wherein several of both his names and time have studied. Among them was John Prise Bac. of the Civil Law, who in the Year 1530. supplicated for the Degree of Bac. of Can. Law, and two Years after John ap Rice a secular Chaplain, was admitted to the same Degree, which probably may be the same with Joh. Price Bach. of the Civil Law. Farther also I find, that in 1523. one John Prise of Allsouls Coll. was admitted Bach. of the Civil Law, and that he died 1554 And in 1534. occurs another Joh. Price (of Broadgates Hall I think) who was admitted Bach. of the Civil Law without any title added to it, which perhaps may be the Author, that I am further to mention; who being encouraged in his studies by William Earl of Pembroke, made great advances therein, especially as to the Histories and Antiquities of his own Country. In 1546. March 2. he, with many others, received the honor of Knighthood from the hands of Edward Lord Protector of England. About which time our Author observing the great and manifold errors, which were made by Pol. Virgil in his Historiae Anglicae Libri 27, wherein many things redounded to the dishonor of the British Nation, he thereupon published,
Fides Historiae Britannicae.
Defensio Regis Arthuri. And wrot about the Year 1553. (1. Mar.) a Book intit.
Historiae Britannicae defensio. But the Author dying before he could have it published, was at length, in the Year 1573. put out in qu. under the name of Joh. Priseus, by his Son Rich. Prise D. D. He the said Sir John did also write,

A description of Cambria, now called Wales.—Augmented and made perfect by Humph. Lloyd, and set before the History of Cambria: which was translated into English by the said Lloyd, and augmented, corrected, and published by Dav. Powell, an. 1584. The said Description of Cambria was Printed again at Oxon. 1663. in two sheets and an half in qu. under the title of A description of Wales, but it doth so much differ in words from the former, that many Readers are apt to take it for another thing.

Tractatus de Eucharistia. Clar. 1553. This I have not yet seen, only a bare mention of it by Baleus (o)(o) Ibid. cent. 9. num. 47. Nor do I know any thing else of the Author, only that he died in Qu. Maries days. But where, or the particular Day, Month, or Year, when, I know not.