William Mowse

William Mowse († 1588 , also Mouse, Mosse or Mowsse) was an English lawyer and head of Trinity Hall at the University of Cambridge .

Life

His Bachelor of Laws degree he received in 1538 in Cambridge, was a priest ordained , and received his doctorate in 1552 a doctorate in law. In the same year he became head of Trinity Hall through the intervention of Thomas Cranmer and William Cecil , for which Walter Haddon had to free this post. On the accession of Mary I on July 6, 1553 Mowse took an active role in the dismissal of the Anglican Bishop Edwin Sandys by the Vice Chancellor, but at the same time he himself was ousted as head of Trinity Hall to make way for the re-used Stephen Gardiner to make . In 1554 Mowse was introduced to Oxford and represented William Aubrey as Regius Professor. Henry Frowde even includes Mowse (Mosse) as Regius Professor on his list. However, Frowde's list is incomplete or incorrect; Mowse is not listed as a direct predecessor of Albericus Gentilis . After Griffith Lloyd's death in 1586, he was appointed Regius Professor of Civil Law at Oxford.

A "Trinity Stone" erected from the estate of William Mowse

In July 1555 he signed the heretic laws reintroduced by Maria, so that he was reappointed Master of Trinity Hall after Gardiner's death on November 12th. Reginald Pole , Archbishop of Canterbury , appointed him an attorney at the Canterbury Court in 1556 and was admitted to the College of Advocats on November 7, 1557 . But he had to hand over the professorship in Oxford to his successor Albericus Gentilis . On December 12, 1558, he was installed in the parish of Norton or Greensnorton, Northamptonshire . Although he lost the professorship at Oxford and the leadership of Trinity Hall shortly after the enthronement of Elizabeth I , he was appointed Vicar General and Official to the Archbishop of Canterbury, Dean of Arches and Judge of the Court of Audience . In 1560 he took over the parish of East Dereham in Norfolk . In 1564 he sat on a commission put together on April 27th, which investigated allegations made by Spanish merchants against plundering English privateers. He died in 1588 and in his will of May 30, 1586, Trinity Hall bequeathed a fortune of £ 1,000.

Mowse was a skilled lawyer and scholar who got on well with John Cheke , who in turn found him worthy of his friendship. He supported John Leslie in his work Defense of the Queen of Scots .

Offices

predecessor	Office	successor
Walter Haddon	Head of Trinity Hall , Cambridge 1552–1553	Stephan Gardiner

predecessor	Office	successor
Stephan Gardiner	Head of Trinity Hall , Cambridge 1555–1559	Henry Harvey

predecessor	Office	successor
Griffith Lloyd	Regius Professor of Civil Law (Oxford) 1586–1587	Alberico Gentili

predecessor	Office	successor
Nicholas Harpisfield	Dean of Arches around 1660	Robert Weston

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d e f} Mordaunt-Mytton on www.British-History.ac.uk; Retrieved May 25, 2016.
2. ↑ ^{a b c d e f g h i j k l m n} James McMullen Rigg; William Mowse (or Mosse) in the Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900, Volume 39 ; accessed on May 16, 2014.
3. ↑ ^{a b c} Edmund Carter; The history of the University of Cambridge, from its original, to the year 1753: in which a particular account is given of each college and hall, their respective foundations, founders, benefactors, bishops, learned writers, masters, livings, curiosities, & c .: together with accurate lists of all the chancellors, vice-chancellors, proctors, taxers, professors, orators, members of Parliament, & c. & c page 105
4. ^ CV of William Aubrey on the website "Familytreemaker"; Retrieved May 20, 2014.
5. ↑ ^{a b} Henry Frowde; Historical Register of the University of Oxford ; Oxford University Press Warehouse; Amen Corner, EG; Clarendon Press; being a supplement to the Oxford University Calendar, with an alphabetical record of University honors and distinctions, completed to the end of trinity term, 1888; Retrieved July 10, 2014.
6. ↑ Trinity Hall series on Milestoneweb ; Retrieved May 20, 2014.