Джон Мередблок

Джон Бербблок родился недалеко от Рочестера около 1532 года и получил образование в Оксфорде. Говорят, что он стал членом колледжа Святого Иоанна в 1558 году и в Эксетер -колледже 30 июня 1566 года. Он закончил степень бакалавра 29 марта 1561 года и магистра 13 февраля 1564–5. До закрытия 1566 года он был деканом своего колледжа и был избран старшим проктором университета 20 апреля 1579 года, его коллегой был Томас Бодли . В 1570 году ему был предоставлен четыре года отпуска отсутствия, вероятно, для обучения за границей, и в 1572 году получил степень BCL. из континентального университета. Ничто еще не выясняется о его личной истории.

Работа

In September 1566, on the visit of Queen Elizabeth to Oxford, Bearblock prepared small drawings of all the colleges, the earliest of their kind, for each of which his friend Thomas Neal, Hebrew reader in the university, wrote descriptive verses in Latin. The views, which were greatly admired, were displayed on the walls of St. Mary's Church for several days, and there examined by the queen. A carefully executed copy of them, which is still extant, was subsequently presented to the Bodleian Library by John More in 1630; but the original sketches, having been given to St. John's College, were granted in 1616 to Sir Thomas Lake, and apparently lost. Bearblock's drawings, with Neal"s verses, were engraved in 1713, at the end of Hearne's edition of Dodwell's De Parma Equestri Woodwardiana Dissertatio. In 1728 they were again engraved in the margin of a reproduction of Ralph Aggas"s map of Oxford, first engraved in 1578, and in 1882 they were for the third time reproduced, with Neal's verses, in a volume privately printed at Oxford. Bearblock wrote an elaborate account of the queen's visit to Oxford in 1566 under the title of Commentarii sive Ephemeræ Actiones rerum illustrium Oxonii gestarum in adventu serenissimae principis Elizabethæ. The pamphlet was dedicated to Lord Cobham and to Sir William Petre, a munificent benefactor of Exeter College, but it was not printed until 1729, when Hearne published it in an appendix (pages 251-96) to his edition of the Historia et Vita Ricardi II. Bearblock refers to the exhibition of his drawings on page 283. A map of Rochester by Bearblock, of which nothing is now known, was extant in the time of Anthony à Wood. Tanner erroneously gives Bearblock"s name as Beartlock.

References

• Lee, Sidney (1885). "Bearblock, John" . In Stephen, Leslie (ed.). Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 4. London: Smith, Elder & Co. p. 12. Endnotes within the DNB article are:
  • Annals of Oxford, ed. Gutch, ii. 159
  • Tanner's Bibliotheca, page 82
  • Rye's England as seen by Foreigners, page 208
  • Madan's introduction to the reproduction of the drawings in 1882
  • History of Rochester, ed. 1817, page 73.

Attribution

•  This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Lee, Sidney (1885). "Bearblock, John". In Stephen, Leslie (ed.). Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 4. London: Smith, Elder & Co. p. 12.