Nicholas Garlick - Early Life

Early Life

He was born around 1555, near Dinting in Glossop, within the county of Derby. In January 1575, he was matriculated at Gloucester Hall, now Worcester College, Oxford. Although he was described as "well seen in Poetry, Rhetoric, and Philosophy," he remained at Oxford for only six months, and left without taking a degree, either because, as suggested by John Hungerford Pollen, he would have had to take the Oath of Supremacy or, as suggested by Hayward, because he was appointed schoolmaster at a school in Tideswell.

Garlick seems to have been schoolmaster at Tideswell for some six or seven years. An anonymous writer, quoted in Hayward, says that he taught "with great love, credit, and no small profit to his scholars." Three of his pupils became priests; one of them, Christopher Buxton, was himself later martyred, while another, Robert Bagshaw, witnessed his teacher's martyrdom, and ended his life as President of the English Benedictine Congregation.

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