Miles Windsore

, Son of Thomas, Son of Andrew Lord Windsore, was born in Hampshire, (at Stanwell I think) elected from Balliol coll. Scholar of that of Corp. Ch. in Jan. 1556. aged 15 or thereabouts, made Probationer-Fellow 16 Feb. 1560, took the degrees in Arts, left the coll. soon after because popishly affected, and spent the remaining part of his time within the City of Oxon. in a most retired condition. He was a tolerable Latine Poet, but a better Orator, as was sufficiently witnessed by his speech, intended to have been spoken in C. C. C. when Qu. Elizab. was entertain’d by the Oxonian Muses, 1566. and more especially by that which he most admirably well delivered before her at the Lord Windsores house at Bradenham a little after she left Oxon. Which giving the Queen great content, she, in an high manner did commend it before Dedicus Gosemannus de Sylva the Spanish Embassador then present, and looking wistly on Windsore (who then had a beard according to the fashion) said to Goseman, is not this a pretty young man? At riper years he applyed himself to the study of Histories and Antiquities, and had a hand, as ’twas frequently reported, in the Apologia of B. Tuyne who (d)(d) In [〈…〉] stiles our author Windsore, Antiquae Historiae artifex peritus, &c. But before that Apologia was extant he wrote,

Academiarum quae aliquando fuere, & hodie sunt in Europ [•] catalogus. Lond. 1590. qu. contracted by the author, and printed on one large sheet of Paper, to be put into a frame. At the end of the said book he published,

Chronographia, sive origo collegiorum, Oxoniensis Academiae. This last was mostly written by Tho. Neal of New coll. in Lat. verse, and to it is added a description of the Divinity and publick Schools, and an Epitome of the Halls. Our author Windsore had intentions to write a book of the Antiquity of the Univ. of Oxon. and in order thereunto had made many collections, but Twyne with his forward and natural genie undertaking that work, Windsore forbore to proceed, and imparted to him his collections. At length after he had lived to a fair age, he surrendred up his last breath in his lodgings near S. Michaels Church in Oxon. 1624. in sixteen hundred twenty and four, and was buried in the outer Chappel of C. C. coll. under the north wall behind the Vicepresidents seat. At that time he left many, if not all, his collections of Antiquities (containing many dotages and fooleries) to Twyne before mentioned, Legacies to the prisoners in the prison called Bocardo, to the parishioners of S. Michaels Parish and to the Chest in the Tower of C. C. coll. After Twynes death some of the said collections were put into the Libr. of the said coll. and others were scatter’d about when the great fire hapned in Oxon. soon after Twynes death. One vol. of which came at length into my hands, wherein I find many vain and credulous matters, (not at all to be relyed upon) committed to writing