| Administrative History | Jacobus Telones of Zweibrücken, German student studying in England. (The name is the humanist translation of Jakob Zöllner) |
| Description | Letter in Latin, 1.5 pages in humanist hand
Abstract and notes by James D. George:
An appeal for help, or at least advice, from a young German student. Recounts his history – his father died when he was a boy but he was able to go to school at Hornbach for six years, partly with assistance from the Duke of Zweibrucken, and thereafter to the University of Strasburg, where he could only stay three months because of the poverty of his family. He approached Johannes Sturm, telling him of his desire to go to England or to Buchanan. He gave him a letter of introduction to Daniel Rogers, who was unable to do much for him as he was about to set out on an embassy, but gave him a letter to Dr. Humfrey at Oxford. He spent the next seven months there, not in a College as he had hoped, but living in the City with a certain Corran, and greatly missing contacts with scholars. He had been awaiting Rogers’ return but learnt that he had been arrested. He had therefore to choose between going home (which would be misunderstood or misrepresented) or going to Buchanan in Scotland (which, he heard, was costly and might be dangerous) or finding some means of continuing in England, which he wished to do. Though before writing to Beale he had approached various people for help only the Archbishop of Canterbury had given him anything; he provided £2 a year for him. He turns to Beale because of his known affection for Germany and for Sturm in particular. Quotes from Horace and Hesiod.
Notes:
(i) Telones, described as of Queen’s College, received the degree of B. A. at Oxford on 7 February 1582/3 (Forster: Alumni Oxohienses s.n. Telones, James). He was allowed two terms for his studies at Strassbur.
(ii) Dr. Humfrey – Lawrence Humfrey, President of Magdalen and Regius Professor of Divinity.
(iii) The Archbishop was Grindal, who had, however, been under suspension since 1577.
(iv) The chronological sequence of the four letters from Telones is MS 1009/2/39, 42, 41, 40.
[end of abstract and notes by James D. George]
Dated Londini Tertio Idus Maij ab ortu Christi seruatoris MDLXXXI
Signed: Excellentiae Tuae deditissimus Jacobus Telones Bipontinus Germanus
Addressed: Domino Roberto Belo, Regii Consilij Secretario, Domino suo singulari obseruantia colendo
Endorsed in later hand: Jacobus Telones |