Harbert Westphaling

, Son of Harbert Westphaling, Son of Harbert a Native of Westphalia in Germany, from whom, by a popular Errour, the Son who lived mostly in London, and this his Grandson, were called Westphaling. At 15 years of age, in 1547. which was the year after K. Hen. 8. had put his last hand to the foundation of Ch. Church, he was made one of the Students thereof, took the degrees in Arts, (that of Master being compleated in 1555.) applied his studies to the Supreme Faculty, was admitted to the reading of the Sentences in Dec. 1561. and in the beginning of March following he was installed Canon of the said Church, being about that time Rector of Brightwell near Watlington in the County of Oxon. In 1565. he was licensed to proceed in his Faculty, in the year following he learnedly (a)(a) See Hist. & Antiq. Univ. Oxon. lib. 1. p. 305. b. disputed before Q. Elizabeth in S. Maries Church, and in the beginning of 1577. he was installed Canon of Windsor, in the place of Dr. Ant. Rush deceased. In 1585. Dec. 12. he was consecrated Bishop of Hereford, (in which County he had several Lands and Inheritances,) where, as throughout the Nation, he was esteemed a person of great gravity, integrity, and most worthy of his Function. He hath written,

Treatise of Reformation in Religion, divided in seven Sermons, Preached in Oxford, on Matth. 21. 12, 13. Lond. 1582. qu.

Two Sermons touching the Supper of, the Lord, on 1 Cor. 11. 28, 29. and on Matth. 26. v. 26, 27, 28. Lond. 1582. qu. and perhaps other things, but such I have not yet seen. He paid his last debt to Nature on the first day of March in sixteen hundred and one, and was buried in the North transcept of the Cath.1601-02. at Hereford. In his Will he bequeathed the Mannour of Batche in Herefordshire to Jesus coll. for the maintenance of two Fellows and two Scholars, conditionally that his kindred be preferred to the said places before all others. His picture is painted on the Wall in the School-Gallery at Oxon. next to that of Dr. E [•] des, as having in his time been a famous Theologist.