^3 C H A P T E E 6. 
Fie was born in the lile of in the 
early part of Hemj the Eighth's reign, and 
was educated at Cambridge, though, as Wood 
lays, he afterwards refided fome time at 
Oxford. It appears that he had travelled 
over feveral parts of Germany ; that he vifit- 
cd Scotland, and had taken many tours in 
his native countrv ; in all which, he ftudied 
the natural produdlions with a zeal and. 
faccefs not common in that age. In an 
early period of his life, he was much con- 
verfant about the city oi Norwich , In June 
I 550, he was inftituted to the redlory of 
Blaxhally in Suffolk y where his relations re- 
lided. This preferment he refigned in 
1554. Where he took the degree of doc- 
tor in phyfic, is not afcertained ; but, from 
his prior attachment to phyfic, his known 
oppofition to the dodrinc of Tranfubilan- 
tiation, and the refignation of his living in 
the beginning of Marys reign, it may be 
. fairly conjedlured, that he did not take his 
degrees in that faculty till after that period, 
and probably abroad. After this, we find 
him removed to the city of Durham, where 
he pradifed phyfic, and became poffefTed of 
property 
