John Sansbury

, or Sandsbury, an eminent and ingenious Latin Poet, was born in London, educated in Merchant-Taylors School, became Scholar of S. Johns coll. in Midsomer Term, an. 1593. aged 17. took the degrees in Arts, became Vicar of the Church of S. Giles in the North Suburb of Oxon, 1607. and the year after was admitted Bach. of Divinity. He hath written,

Ilium in Italiam. Oxonia ad protectionem regis sui omnium optimi filia, pedi sequa. Oxon. 1608. oct. In the said book are the Arms of each coll. and verses under them.

Tragediae diversae. MS. Acted several times by the Scholars of the aforesaid coll. in their common refectory in the time of Christmas. He was buried in the Church of S. Giles before-mentioned, in the month of Jan. in sixteen hundred and nine.1609-10. The next writer, according to time, that is to be mentioned is one, that had learning enough to be a Dean or Bishop, yet could never rise higher than a Vicar and Pedagogue. His name is,