CHAPTER IV. 



DISTINGUISHED MEN. 



"What is the city but the people?" 



Shakespeare. 



The first in chronological order who may be mentioned, is 



DAVID TOLLEY, 



or as he is variously called, Tolbey, Towle, Trevelgus, and 

 Tavelegus, who was a native of Kingsbridge. Tradition 

 says he was born in Mill Street. "He commenced student 

 at St. Mary's Hall, Oxford, about the 9th of Henry VIIL, 

 and became a considerable proficient in the Latin and Greek 

 languages. The Progymnasamata Grammatical Grcecse was 

 written by him for the use of Prince Edward. He was also 

 the author of Themala Homeriy and other works." "In 

 1547, or thereabouts," says Anthony Wood, "I find this 

 David Tolley to be made one of the senior students of 

 Christ Church, by the name of David Towle, being then 

 forty-one years of age, at which time, or before, he taught 

 grammar to young students of this University." When he 

 died is not known, nor is anything further recorded of him, 

 except that his name occurs among the senior students 

 who were theologians of Christ Church in 1551, and the 

 following year. 



