LAW, ---; b. ; adm. ; KS at Mich. 1609, apparently a Third Election (Chapter Muniments 41289).
LAW, MATTHEW, of London; b. ; adm. ; KS Jan 1609/10 (Chapter Lease Book 1605-10, f. 261); elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1613, adm. scholar 1614, matr. Mich. 1613; BA 1617/8; MA 1621; ordained deacon (London) 23 Dec 1621; Vicar of Wedmore, Somerset 27 Apr 1627-47; Rector of Allerton, Somerset 1636 – 1673; m.
LENNARD, THOMAS, son of Sir Stephen Lennard, Bart. , MP, and Elizabeth, widow of John Roy, Woodlands, Dorset, and dau. of Delalynd Hussey, Shapwick, Dorset; b. 7 Mar 1676/7 (check); adm. ; KS 1692.
LITTLE, THOMAS, son of Thomas Little, York; b. ; adm. ; KS (aged 15) 1629 (Bodleian Library, Oxford, Tanner MSS lxix, f. 224).
LLOYD, WILLIAM; b. ; adm. ; KS 1781.
LOVELL, JAMES; b. ; adm. ; KS 1680.
LOWE, ---; b. ; adm. ; KS c. 1643 (WAM 32460).
MARFIELD, ROGER; b. ; adm. ; KS Jan 1609/10 (Chapter Lease Book 1605-10, f. 261).
MOORE, JOHN; b. ; adm. ; KS 1673.
OSBALDESTON (or OSBOLSTON), LAMBERT, brother of William Osbaldeston (qv); b. ; adm. ; KS 16 Jan 1608/9; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1612, matr. 20 Oct 1615, Westminster Student; BA 1616; MA 1619 (incorp. Cambridge 1628); adm. Gray’s Inn 25 Oct 1615; a joint patent of the Head Mastership of the School was granted to John Wilson (elected to Oxford 1602, qv) and to Osbaldeston 7 Dec 1621; succeeded Wilson as Head Master 1622, his patent being dated 5 Dec 1622; ordained; Prebendary of Lincoln 18 Jul 1629 – deprived Feb 1638/9, restored 28 May 1641; Prebendary of Westminster 22 Jul 1629 – deprived Feb 1638/9, restored 28 May 1641; Rector of Wheathampstead, Herts. , 1637 – deprived Feb 1638/9, later restored; sentenced to the pillory by Court of Star Chamber 14 Feb 1638/9, for calling Archbishop Laud “the little meddling hocus-pocus”, also incurring two fines of £5000 each and the forfeiture of the Head Mastership and his ecclesiastical preferments; lived in concealment in Drury Lane until meeting of Parliament in Nov 1640; restored to preferments other than Head Mastership 1641; Prebendary of Wells from 2 Nov 1641; an annuity of £100 was granted to him by the Governors of Westminster School after the abolition of Deans and Chapters by Parliament in 1649; his living of Wheathampstead seems to have been again sequestered; spent last few years of life in retirement; Osbaldeston was a learned man and a good schoolmaster; Wood says that he was “very fortunate in breeding up many wits” (Ath. Oxon. , iii, 363), and Fuller states that in 1638 there were “above fourscore doctors in the two universities and three learned faculties all gratefully acknowledging their education under him” (Church History, ed. Brewer, vi, 158); unm. ; buried South Aisle, Westminster Abbey 7 Oct 1659. DNB.