Henry Robinson

was born within the City of Carlile in Cumberland, became a poor serving child of Queens coll. about the year 1568. afterwards Tabarder, and at length Fellow, being then esteemed an excellent Disputant and Preacher. In 1581. he was unanimously elected Provost of his college: which office he enjoying about 18. years, restored it in that time, and made it flourish, after it had continued many years but in a mean condition, occasion’d by the negligence of former Governours. In 1590. he proceeded in div. and in 98. being nominated and elected to the See of Carlile, was consecrated thereunto by John B. of Lond. Joh. B. of Roch. and Anthony B. of Chich. on the 23. of July in the same year. He was a person of great gravity and temperance, and very mild in his speech, yet, as one (e)(e) Author of the [〈…〉] &c. before mention’d, p. 208. observeth, not of so strong a constitution of body as his countenance did promise. He paid his last debt to nature on the 13. of the Cal. of July in sixteen hundred 1616 and sixteen, aged 63. years or more, and was buried on the north side of the high Altar in the Cath. Ch. of Carlile. Soon after was a brassplate set up on the wall over his grave, by the care and charge of Bernard Robinson his brother and heir, with an inscription and verses thereon, running almost word for word, or at least in sense, with that inscription on a brass plate also, fastned to the south wall near to the Altar in Qu. coll. chappel in Oxon, a copy of which you may see in Hist. & Antiq. Vniv. Oxon, lib. 2. p. 124. a. b. In which book p. 116. b. you may also see something of his benefaction to the said coll. In the See of Carlile succeeded one Dr. Rob. Snoden or Snowden of Cambridge, (Prebendary of Southwell) third Son of Ralph Snoden of Mansfeild Woodhouse in Nottinghamshire; the temporalities of which See were given to (f)(f) Pat. 1 [•] . Jac. [•] . p. 30. him 20. Dec. 1616. He died at London while the Parliament was sitting in the latter end of May 1621. leaving behind him a Son named Rutland Snoden of Horncastle in Lincolnshire, (who was afterwards a Justice of the Peace) begotten on the body of his Wife Abigal, daugh. of Rob. Orme of Elston in Nottinghamshire. After him followed in the said See of Carlile Ric. Milbourne B. of S. David, descended from those of his name in Pembrokeshire, but born in London, (his mother being occasionally there at the delivery of him,) educated in Grammar learning in Wykehams school near Winchester, and from thence was sent to Qu. coll. in Camb. where he continued several years. Afterwards he became Minister of Sevenoke in Kent, Chapl. to P. Hen. Chantor of S. Davids cath. ch. and Dean of Rochester, as I shall elsewhere tell you. At length he being made B. of S. David, was, after he had sate there about 6. years, translated to Carlile, where he continued till 1624. In which year dying, he left monies, as ’tis said, for the endowing of a School, and monies for the building of an Hospital. He hath a Serm. in print concerning the imposition of hands, preached, while he was Minister of Sevenoke, at the Archb. Metropolical Visitation, 7. Sept. 1607. on 1 Tim. 5. 22. printed in oct. To him succeeded in the said See of Carlile Rich. Senhouse Dean of Glocester, who was first admitted a Student in Trin. coll. in Camb. and afterwards was removed to that of S. Johns, of which he was made Fellow, and continuing there many years, took the degree of D. of div. as a Member thereof, about 1622. He was first chaplain, as ’tis said, in the Earl of Bedfords family, afterwards chaplain to Pr. Charles, and at length to K. Jam. 1. who advanced him to a Deanery and afterwards to the said See of Carlile, for his transcendent parts and admirable gifts in Preaching. He hath extant Four Sermons preached at Court, and left behind him at his death Lectures on the first and second Psalms; which are not, as I conceive, made yet publick.