William Mowse
William Mowse (Mouse, Mosse) (died 12 August 1588) was an English lawyer and Master of Trinity Hall, Cambridge.
Life
He graduated LL.B. at Cambridge in 1538, took holy orders, and in 1552 proceeded LL.D. In the latter year, through the interest of
Edwin Sandys from the vice-chancellorship, but was himself ousted from Trinity Hall to make way for the reinstatement of Stephen Gardiner. The same year he was incorporated at Oxford, and in the following year was appointed regius professor of civil law
there.
In July 1555 he subscribed the Marian articles of religion, and on Gardiner's death, 12 November, the mastership of Trinity Hall was restored to him. By
East Dereham, Norfolk
. In 1564 he sat on a commission, appointed 27 April, to try admiralty causes arising from depredations alleged to have been committed by English privateers on Spanish commerce. He died in 1588. By his will, dated 30 May 1586, he was a liberal donor to Trinity Hall.
Mowse was an able lawyer and a scholar, on friendly terms with
Sir John Cheke. thought worthy of his friendship. He assisted in the compilation of John Lesley
's Defence of the Queen of Scots.
References
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: "Mowse, William". Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900.
