Peter White

, noted for his excellency in Humane Learning while he continued in the University, was born in the Diocess of Waterford in Ireland, elected Fellow of Oriel Col. An. 1551. and in the year 1555. was admitted Master of Arts. About the beginning of Queen Elizabeth’s Reign he returned to his Native Country, and became the Happy Schoolmaster of M [•] ster, and Dean of Waterford for a time. From which last place being ejected for his Religion, about 1565. he continued notwithstanding in his beloved Faculty of Pedagogy, which was then accounted a most excellent Employment in Ireland by the Catholicks; especially for this Reason, that the Sons of Noblemen and Gentlemen might be trained up in their Religion, and so consequently keep out Protestancy. His School was, during his time, in a flourishing condition, and by his care and industry many learned Persons issued thence. Among such (not that I shall mention Rich. Stanyhurst. of whom I shall speak hereafter) was one Peter Lombard born in Waterford, who afterwards studied at Lovaine in Brabant; where, after he had spent two years and an half in Philosophy, he was chosen (g)(g) Ric. Stanyhurst in Descript. Hibern. cap. 7. when he proceeded Master of Arts, Primus Vniversitatis, by the uniform consent of the Four Principals; which preferment did not happen in such sort for many years before. About that time the said Lombard wrote Carmen heroicum in Doctoratum Nicholai Quemerfordi, with other things afterwards, which were much valued at Lovaine; but such I have not yet seen. See another Pet. Lombard in my discourse of Will. Camden. As for P. White, he hath written,

Epitome copiae Erasmi. lib. 1.

Epit. figurarum Rhetoricarum. lib. 1.

Annotationes in Orat. pro Archiâ poetâ.

Annot. in Orat. pro T. A. Milone.

Epigrammata diversa. lib. 1. He lived, as I guess, to the latter end of Q. Elizabeth; Clas. 1590. but the particular time when he died, I find not. Equal in time with the said Pet. White, was another of both his Names, an English-Man born, and a severe Calvinist; who, among several things that he hath written, published a Book, intitled. An Answer to certain crabbed Questions, pretending a Real Presence in the Sacrament, together with a discovery of the Jesuitical Opinion of Justification, guilfully uttered by Sherwin at the time of his Execution. Lond. 1582. oct. Also A Sermon against Idolatry, on Apoc. 1. 12, 13. Lond. 1581. oct. &c. Whether he was an Oxford Man, I cannot yet find.