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Dakyn, John (ca. 1497-† 9 Nov 1558): LLB 1525 aft. three years’ study, two years’ reading and 6 years’ practice in Arches, DCL 1529, disp 1531 to read through substitute (GBΓ, pp. 216, 242 and 254); ‘supposed’ monk of St Mary’s York, his pat. in Kirkby Ravensworth (see bel.) (AtC 1, pp. 181-82) made ‘prob.’ by AlC 2, p. 3 but almost certainly mistake not least bec of pat. relation; C&L dioc, notary of disp from Wolsey dated 16 Feb 1525 (CKS, DRb/Ar 1/13, fo. 108r); ?Daker, resig bef. 20 Apr 1527 vic E. Chinnock, Som (SRS 55, no. 284); ord deac 8 Dec 1528 London to title Huntingdon priory (GL, 9531/10, fo. 162r), vg Ad Richmond,1 ord priest 25 Mar 1542 London to title of William Conyers, arm, Markham, N. York (GL, 9531/12/1, fo. 99v); adm 25 Nov 1529 Drs Coms (Squibb, p. 145); ca. 1532 rect Richmond, N. York, vac bef. 1536 but preached there during Pilgrimage of Grace; oc 1535 rect Kirkby Ravensworth als Ravensworth,2 N. York when resided and his ‘mr’ [Ad Richmond]3 rect at Romaldkirk; secretary to ‘synod’ at Pontefract that drew up articles for Pilgrimage and copied other documents connected to it, but claimed coerced to join Richmondshire rebels, citing John Rokeby (qv) et al. in defense; confessed that when at Cantab and in Arches had ‘irrided’ [?laughed at] papal laws and thought privately that appeals to Rome caused trouble, but had never studied those laws until got lst ben 4 years earlier; claimed to have defended roy supremacy at risk of life while admitting had defended various monasteries and written that they should be kept in being until next parliament (L&P 12:1, nos 786-88); came to London afterwards when arrested and charged with having raised Kendall and Lanc, claimed then to have been a judge ‘years ago’ (ibid., no. 789); witn 25 May 1541 to elect William Knight bp of B&W when aged 45 and testified had known Knight for twenty-seven years4 (LPLCR, fos 262r and 267r); resig 24 Oct 1541 Ad Taunton (L&P 18:1, no. 66.30); coll 20 Jan 1543 chancellor of Wells-promotion to treas, comp 15 July 1549, oc 19 June 1554, possibly –† (F3 5, pp. 12 and 14), as chancellor pres bef. 8 July 1546 William Rodberd, MA vic Kingsbury, Som (SRS 55, no. 633); bef. 27 Mar 1543 resig vic Wellington, Som (SRS 55, no. 543); bef. 9 June 1543 co-pat. vic Martock, Som when Adam Howes inst, sole pat. 19 June 1554 when Robert Lowghe, chap inst (ibid., no. 555); comp 26 Oct 1545 vic Westby with chap Predy, Som5 £10 2s 2d, John Kydd, St Faith’s, notary, sur (TNA, E 334/3, fo. 70r); comp 30 July 1547 Ad Stafford £13, Thomas Mathewe, Clifford’s Inn and John More, Le Minories, surs (TNA, E 334/3, fo. 126v), but Richard Walker comp 8 Aug £27 15s 2d (ibid., fo. 127v) and apparently gained possession (F3 10, p. 14); ca. 1547 with John Tregonwell (qv) Knight’s exec (HPT 3, p. 477); comp 18 Dec 1547 rect Escrick, E. York £20 17s 4d, John More, Le Minories, gent and Nicholas Small, All Hallows Thames St, clothworker, surs (TNA, E 334/3, fo. 134v); coll by proxy 19

June 1548 Bilton preb, York (BI, Reg. 29, fo. 27v and Inst.AB.1, fo. 170v)–resig 30 Jan 1550 (BI, Inst.AB. 1, fo. 180v; cf. Reg. 29, fo. 32r); called only DCL, sat in CC York in July and Aug 1548, first called vg 21 Dec 1549, handling most business in 1550 until Oct (BI, Inst.AB. 1, fo. 190r), May-Aug 1552, again early 1553 (BI, Inst. AB. 1, fos 200r-201v and 205r-206r), both he and Rokeby 7 May 1553, 1 Dec 1553, 20 Jan 1554 (BI, Inst.AB. 1, fos 206r, 208r-v), Rokeby appeared more frequently in second half year (e.g. fo. 208r), Dakyn usually sat in Bishopsfield (BI, Inst.AB. 1, fos 171r and 178rff., 184r); rect Kirkby Ravensworth 15486-54 (AIC); coll 19 Jan 1550 Fenton preb, York (BI, Reg. 29, fo. 32r and Inst.AB. 1, fo. 179v), instal 22 Jan (F3 3, p. 34)–† bef. 24 Nov 1558 (Inst.AB. 1, fo. 40r); comm for bp of Chester (AlC); oc 18 July 1550 handling testamentary business at York, perhaps only for Ad Nottingham, still 4 Dec 1551 when truncated style might indicate vg (but Rokeby’s always spelled out), both called vgs 29 July 1552, Dakyn alone 17 Aug 1552 (Inst.AB. 1, fos 24r, 28v, 32r, 33r); instal 13 Apr 1551 Ad E. Riding, Yorks (F3 3, pp. 16-17)–† bef. 24 Nov 1558 wrb Rokeby (Inst.AB. 1, fo. 40r); 22 Sept 1553 with Henry Cole (qv/5) and William Geffrey (qv) spec deps for restoration of Bonner (qv) (GL, 9535/1, fo. 14r); oc 4 Feb 1555 pat. vic Askham Richard, W. York when Nicholas Grenehoode inst (BI, Reg. 5/A, fo. 698r); bef. 2 July 1555 pres Richard Coke, student at Oxford, Combe XIII preb,7 Wells (SRS 55, no. 802); he and Rokeby (qv) appted 7 Jan 1556 vgs to Heath (qv) (BI, Reg. 29, fos 112v-113r), oc 2 Aug 1558 chancellor (DUL, D&C Regs, B/BA/2, fo. 57r); mortmain lic 26 Oct 1555 to found hospital and school at Kirkby Ravensworth as Knight’s exec, foundation ceremony 11 May 1556 in Dakyn’s presence (Thomas Dunham Whitaker, A history of Richmondshire, in the North riding of the county of York [London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Browne, at al., 1823; 2 vols], 1, p. 118); condemned Richard Snell, burned at Richmond 13 Sept 1558 (RVAB, fo. 116r);8 † 9 Nov 1558, bur in Kirkby Ravensworth, epitaph: Johannes Dakyn hujus ecclesiae rector ac reverendi patris domini Willimi Knight, olim Richmondiae archidiaconi, & postea Bathoniensis & Wellensis episcopi, executorem unus, hanc de bonis dicti episcopi primum fundavit eleemosynariam & eam redditibus competentibus pro unius ludi magistri, hypodidascali, quatuor pauperum & annui obitus perpetua exhibitione, cura & diligentia duorum gardianorum facienda dotavit, anno a Christo nato millesimo, quingentesimo, quinquagesimo sexto. Obiit dictus Johannes nono die mensis Novembris anno domini millesimo, quingentesimo octavo (Whitaker); called most prominent judge in York court along with Rokeby and ‘took the lead in imposing the restitution of Catholicism’ (YCW, 1, p. 124); see Dickens, Marian reaction, 1, pp. 5-7 with bibliography

Dalbie (various spellings), William: adm fell. ASC 1536-vac 1547/8, law dean 15389, law bursar 1543-4, subwarden 1545, 1546, 1548 (BRUO2 p. 158); BCL9 17 Feb 1538 (RUO 1, p. 189); aft. 1551 rect Saintbury, Glos (William Pye; qv)–depr bef. 8

July 1560 (Reg. Parker, p. 196); adm Drs Coms 8 Oct 1552 (Squibb, p. 151); BCL, acting 11 Dec 1552 for Robert Warmyngton as off. Ad London at ordinations (GL, 9535/1, fo. 12r and GL, 9531/12/2, fo. 47r); comm sede vacante of D&C of Cant with William Cooke (qv) for peculiars [blank] 1553 (CCA, DCc, Reg U3, fos 13v-14r); oc Nov 1553 very active proc in CC London (LMA, DL/C/607, unfoliated); examining ordinands London 21 Sept with John Harpsfield, Richard Smith II, Cuthbert Scot, William Ermested and Richard Marshall (all qv) (GL, 9535/1, fo. 35v); acting 15 June 1554 with N. Harpsfield (qv) as Bonner’s comm and spec surrogate vs. marr clergy (GL, 9531/12/2, fo. 73v); comm for depr of marr clergy in Roch dioc 1554-5 (CKS, DRb/Ar 1/15, fo. 81v);10 deputy for Henry Harvey (qv) in CC 24 July 1554 (LMA, DL/C/607, unfoliated), for Harpsfield 28 Nov 1554 (LMA, DL/C/607, unfoliated), again 4 and 7 Dec 1555 (DL/C/608, unfoliated); spec comm 18 Sept 1554 for Bonner (qv) in inquiry into advowson also incl Roger Ireland, Roger Jackson and N. Harpsfield (all qv) (GL, 9531/12/2, fo. 80r); 5 Dec 1554 deputy in probate CC London, again 16 Jan 1555 (LMA, DC/L/331, fos 180r and 182r); pres 6 Feb 1556 rect Littleton on Severn, Glos (CPRPM 3, p. 367); oc Aug 1556 vg, comm and off. prin of Bristol (BRO, EP/J/1/2, p. 8), still 4 Feb 1558 (BRO, EP/J/1/3, p. 42), Richard Hughes his deputy from 11 Feb 1558, Dalbie back 18 Mar, 23 May, 25 June, 7 July, 20 July, 13 Aug, 27 Sept, 14 Oct and 31 Oct (BRO, EP/J/1/3, p. 46, 57, 64, 68, 72, 75, 77, 81, 83, 87), resig juris in CC 9 June 1559 and cited 29 Aug 1559 as ‘fled’ to appear bef. roy commissioners 1 Sept (Martha C. Skeeters, Community and clergy: Bristol and the Reformation, c.1530-c.1570 [Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1993], p. 199 citing BRO, Ep/J/1/4, pp. 20 and 26 and BRO, A/10/1/1, pp. 85 and 86), prob. as such condemned William Saxton (8 Aug 1556) and Thomas Benion (20 Aug 1557)11 (Foxe [1583], pp. 2148 and 2053); 11 Oct 1557 appted sede vacante keeper of Heref (CRP, no. 2105), 12 Feb 1558 Richard Lewell, BCL his deputy, 12 Mar Dalbie back, Richard Sparcheforde (qv), deputy 19 and 26 Mar 1558, in second instance Dalbie called keeper, Dalbie back 31 Apr, 13 May Sparcheforde, Dalbie 11 June, 25 June, Sparcheforde 9 July, Dalbie 29-30 July, 24 Sept Rich Bagge12 deputy (virtually no business in meantime, only one case this day), Dalbie 1 and 8 Oct, Bagge 15 Oct, William Ogle 22 Oct (one case), Bagge 29 Oct, Dalbie 12 Nov, Sparcheforde 19 Nov (2 cases) (HRO, HD4/1, box 3, unfoliated); nom 1558 scholar to TCO when called ‘man to whom I am beholden’ by founder Sir Thomas Pope (qv), candidate rep. bef. 21 Dec (Hopkins, Trinity, p. 40); pres 21 Dec 1558 1st preb Bristol occupied by John Bysman [sic; recte Rixman (qv)] (CPRPM, p. 247)–depr bef. 25 Jan 1560 (F3 8, p. 21 citing CPREI 1558-60, p. 256 and Reg. Parker, p. 960 which says bef. 30 Jan; cf. Willis, Survey, 2, p. 788 and Skeeters, Bristol, p. 199); gave ASC Johannes Andreae, Novella super primo decretalium (Pavia, 1504-5) (BRUO2); on list of Catholic cath dignitaries (Sander, DVM, p. 692)

Dalbie, William: from Milcombe, Oxon,13 fell. NCO 1542-58, no degree recorded but determined 1548 (RUO 1, pp. 315 and 213); MA, ord priest 19 Dec 1556 (OA, ODP d105, p. 91) with disp 12 Feb 1556 from Pole (CRP, no. 1492a); inst 24 May 1558 rect

Marsh Baldon, Oxon, Sir William Windsor, Lord Windsor, pat.–resig 3 Apr 1563 in person (OA, ODP d105, pp. 181 and 217)

Dallyson, Roger († 24 July 1566 [AtC quoting memorial]): bro Sir William Dallison, justice of King’s Bench14 (AtC 1, p. 554); [BA 1520], MA 1523, BTh 1532, DTh 1535 (GBΓ, pp. 206, 260, 299 and 390); fell. SJCC 1523 (LincRO, Epis. reg. 27, fo. 131v), as such, ord ben deac 13 Mar 1529 (LincRO, Epis. reg. 26, fo. 23v);15 inst 14 Feb 1531 vic Ravensthorpe, Ntht, Sir William Weston, prior of Hospitallers, pat.–resig bef. 3 Sept 1534 (LincRO, Epis. reg. 27, fos 131v and 135v6r; Bridges, Northamptonshire 1, p. 536); inst 14 Mar 1533 vic Haxey, Linc, William Dalison, arm, proc and Robert Hopkinson, gen, pats. (LincRO, Epis. reg. 27, fo. 95r), still 1554, worth £13 6s 8d (Hodgett, LRS, pp. xvii and 112); inst 3 Jan 1537 vic Stondon Massey,16 Ess, John Mableston, clk and William ap Rice, pats. by grant of Hospitallers (GL, 9531/11, fo. 36v)–resig bef. 20 Sept 1554 (GL, 9531/12/2, fo. 183v) when ?rep. by Robert Aston, worth £2 (Hodgett, LRS, p. xvii); roy chap, disp 13 Apr 1546 up to 3 bens, again 15 Apr 1546 up to 4 (FOR, p. 274); oc 1546 dean of Holy Trinity, Thornton, Linc (AtC 1, pp. 243-244)–dissolution 20 Feb 1549 when pensioned on £50, still in receipt 1554 (Hodgett, LRS, pp. xvii and 112); comp 1 May 1546 rect Laceby, Linc £10 16s 11d (TNA, E 334/3, fo. 86v), pres 5 May, crown pat. (L&P 21:1, no. 970.9; AtC 1, p. 554 calls the place Langsbye), inst by proxy 8 May (LincRO, Epis. reg. 27, fo. 86r)–† (LincRO, Epis. reg. 28, fo. 115v; LI2, no. 245), worth £13 6s 8d (Hodgett, LRS, pp. xvii and 112; cf. 47, 64, 127 [†]); pres 15 Oct 1554 Empingham preb, Linc when united to precentorship, instal 27 Oct (LincCA 3, pp. 112-14), comp 2117 Oct £7 6s 1d (precentorship) and £22 15s 9d (Empingham), Humfrey Fitzwilliam, Clayworth, Nott, arm and William Fitzwilliam, Linc, gen, surs (TNA, E 334/4, fo. 205r)–† (F3 9, p. 24), protested major residence 7 Sept 1555 (LincCA 3, pp. 120-121)–ejected 11 Sept 1565 for recusancy and failure to pay tenths (F3 9, p. 135), as such pat. vic Empingham, Rutl at inst Robert Allen 13 Jan 1562 (LincRO, Epis. reg. 28, fo. 206v; LI2, no. 1112) and John Webster 11 June 1563 (LincRO, Epis. reg. 28, fo. 118v; LI2, no. 283), mr of works 1556 and 1559, provost 1558 (LincCA 3, pp. 135, 170 and 156); pres 7 Dec 1556 rect Althorpe, Linc, crown pat (CPRPM 3, p. 527), no record of inst (see discussion in CRP, no. 1777); inst 16 May 1557 rect Boothby Graffoe, Linc, John Tomsonne, gent, pat. (LI2, no. 517)–resig. 26 Oct 1558 (LincRO, Epis. reg. 28, fos 130r and 138r; LI2, nos 419 and 517); sought inst 18 June 1558 rect Clayworth, Nott on resig Thomas Thurland (qv), inst 23 June (BI, Inst.AB.2., fo. 38v), as such sued by dispossessed former rect [?Thurland] 1559, responded by proxy, failed to appear at visitation (RVAB, fos 59r-60r and 151r); will 31 May 1566/prov 15 Nov (TNA, PROB 11/48 PCC 30 Crymes; BRS 18, p. 85): John Robinson no. 1 (qv) asked bur nr him; possibly catholic preamble, places: Haxey, Laughton, rect Bucknall, Wynthorpe, all Linc, Queldall als Wheldale, York, Claworth [prob Clayworth, Nott], Lastebie [prob Laceby, Linc], Cawtie, Sawloughbie, rect Clarburghe [unided], persons: sis Mershall, her son Roger Mershall, bro or cousin John Bowthe (ovs), his son Thomas Bowth, George and Phillip Bowthe, cousin William Dalison, esq of Laughton (exec), cousin Justice Dalisonne, his chil (William, Robert and Thomas Dalisonne and unnamed

das), late George Dalison, his sons (Thomas and John Dalison), cousin William Fitzwilliam, esq of Linc Close (exec), cousin Hamon Sutton (ovs), his son Roger, cousins (Charles and Humfrey Fitzwilliams, Mistress Parpoynt, widow, John Grene of Linc), William Towers (ovs), Francis Towers, Thomas Fitzwilliams, godson Roger Fitzwilliams, overseas, his bro Edward Fitzwilliams, godson’s son Roger, also godson, Richard Bunche, godsons (Roger Ayscoughe, William Aiscoughe, esq, Godderd and Roger Tirwhitt, sons of Sir Robert Tirwhite of Kettelby, Linc, Roger Tirwhite, son of Edward Tirwhitte of Barrow, Linc, Roger Bunche), Phillip Garthover, Thomas Compton, cousin Robert Moreton of Bawtrey (ovs), Anthony and Jervais Moreton, Robert Monsonne, esq (exec), John Wharff, svt Robert Pullen, old svt William Hartinge, legacies: cash (£1363 6s 8d), two years wages to svts, doles (£32), 40s to Lady Chapel, elaborate funeral arrangements (incl 10 mark gravestone), a cope, real estate (incl lease of Clarburghe), items of interest: bur. nr Mr [Christopher, F3 9, p. 24] Tamworth, late precentor, 10 marks to repairs of Cawtie ferry, exact arrangements of endowment for grammar school in Laughton laid out

Dalton, Robert († 10 July 1570): Dur dioc, OSB of Dur cath priory, ord 11 June 1530 deac London (LPLWR, fo. 314r); BTh 9 May 1538 (RUO 1, p. 190); appt 12 May 1541 7th preb, Dur-depr bef. 3 Aug 1560 (BRUO2 p. 159; DUL, D&C Regs, B/BA/2, fo. 124r and Reg. Tunstall, no. 385 mistakenly say-†); inst 3 July 1544 vic Billingham, Dur, rep. Robert Hyndmer’s (qv) bro (Reg. Tunstall, no. 217), served by curate (DUL, D&C Regs, B/BA/2, fo. 122r)–depr bef. 28 May 1560 (DUL, D&C Regs, B/BA/2, fo. 120v; cf. DUL, DDR/EA/ACT/1/2, fo. 54v) or mistakenly-† (Reg. Tunstall, no. 383), as such refused oath of supremacy 1559 and bound in £300, surs John Howton, gent and Robert Dalton, gent, both Auckland, Dur £100 each (RVAB, fo. 30r); inst 20 Dec 1554 rect Long Newton, Dur-resig. bef. 20 May 1556 (Reg. Tunstall, nos 306 and 314); disp 2 July 1555 for Billingham and Long Newton (CRP, no. 1269); coll 6 May 1556 vic Norton, Dur (Reg. Tunstall, p. 106), sued over it 1559 when failed to appear (RVAB, fo. 69v); 30 Nov 1557 one of D&C’s procs to Tunstall abt elec of cath officers and interpretation of the statutes (DUL, D&C Regs, B/BA/2, fos 46v-47r); ca. 1561 ‘unlearned, wealthy and stiff’, to remain with Lord Dacre of the North (Wainewright, ‘Prebendaries’, p. 213); bef. 25 May 1560 as exec bro Ralph pat. for one turn by grant from D&C rect Kimblesworth, Dur when Robert Crawfurth inst (DUL, D&C Regs, B/BA/2, fo. 121v and Reg. Tunstall, no. 382); by inquisitio post mortem 27 July 1568 found uncle and heir of Robert Dalton, W. Auckland, only surviving son and heir of Ralph Dalton, Tunstall’s surveyor of the works

Damsell, Sir William († by 1521-82): son of ‘Damsell’ of Dev; educ at Oxford but no degree; marr Margaret († 1563) da. of John Berney of Reedham, Norf, no chil; asst to Stephen Vaughan early 1540s; 1546-52 king’s factor in Netherlands (HPT 2, pp. 9-10); Lent disp 19 Jan 1548, also at other prohibited times and for four others at his table (FOR, p. 305); by Apr 1550 gov Merchant Adventurers, Antwerp-Mar 1552; Dec 1550 receiver gen court wards-† (HPT); member Mercers Co. (see will); close to William Cecil (qv); MP Wilton (Mar 1553), Arundel 1555 (prob. under pat. of Sir William Paget [qv]), Hastings 1563; signed device altering succession; knighted 2 Oct 1553; Nov 1553 bought Wye Coll. and other real estate in Kent from Sir Maurice Denys (qv in Lady Elizabeth Deny’s article bel.) where eventually settled; jp Kent 1558/9-†; member Russia Co. (HPT); oc 9 Nov 1558 pat. Boughton Aluph, Kent

(Reg. Parker, pp. 801 and 827); pat. 12 Dec 1562 vic Brenzett, Kent when John Pady inst, still 1567 when John Whyttinge inst (Reg. Parker, pp. 798 and 833), still 1579 when Matthew Bourne inst (LPL, Grindal’s Reg., fo. 532); reported as sound in relig by Parker ca. 1563 (M. Bateson, ed., A collection of original letters from the bishops to the privy council, Camden miscellany, 9 [1895], p. 58); † London, bur St Mary Aldermanbury (HPT); will 1 June 1582/prov and diffinitive sentence 18 August 1582 (TNA, PROB 11/64 PCC 34 Tirwhite): Protestant preamble, places: St Mary Aldermary, persons: ‘my supposed base’ [i.e., illegit] da Anne Watkyns, execs (Edmond Style, esq, William Tooke, esq, auditor of the Court of Wards, svt John Battisford, gent, svt John Scrobye, yeom), niece Thomasina, wife of William Rowpe, niece Dorothy, wife of Richard Drue and grand-niece Sara Tycer, Margaret Sacheverell, William Sherewood, William Style, son of godson Edmond Style, esq, Margaret, da of Edward Style, svts (James Henry Wood, William Arrosmythe, William Crymes, William Burlacye, James Roberts, John Hanne, James Jackesonne, Robert Momford, Maudelyne White), legacies: cash (£617 13s 4d), annuity (£12), doles and charity (£180), real estate, items of interest: £200 endowment to Mercers Company to pay illegit da Anne and £5 dole at her † and £5 to her chil

Damset, Dampyar, etc, Stephen († prob. 1562): B&W dioc, ord 11 June 1530 priest at London with lett. dim. and to title of Burnham convent (LPLWR, fo. 314r); inst 21 May 1545 rect Penselwood, Som (SRS 55, no. 600), comp 5 June £6 15s, George Rolle, St Olave by the Tower, sur (TNA, E 334/3, fo. 56r), vac (resig) bef. 22 Oct 1562 (SRO, D/D/B Reg. 15, fo. 10r); inst 9 Mar 1556 rect Rimpton, Som (SRS 55, no. 813), vac (†) bef. 17 Oct 1562 (SRO, D/D/B Reg. 15, fo. 10r), worth £8 19s 9d (TNA, E 334/8, fo. 42r); disp 9 July 1556 for both (CRP, no. 1597), exhibited 4 Nov 1556 (SRO, D/D/Ca 28, unfoliated)

Dangarde or Danger, John († bef. 27 Oct 1594): B&W, ord deac Exeter 10 Mar 1535 to title of Montacute priory (DRO, EDRC 14, unfoliated list of ordinations at end vol.); BA 13 June 1544 (RUO 1, p. 204); pres 1549 vic Milverton, Som (SRS 55, no. 949)–† bef. 4 Mar 1595 (SRO, D\D\B Reg 18, fo. 6v), as such witn to will of likely rel John Dangard of Drayton, Som prov 3 Sept 1596 (TNA, PROB 11/88, fo. 101v PCC 65 Drake; BRS 25, p. 117), worth £21 19s (VE 1, p. 174); inst 3 July 1554 rect W. Monkton, Som, marquis of Winchester, pat. (SRS 55, no. 718), vac bef. 27 Oct 1580 (SRO, D\D\B Reg 15, fo. 58v); disp 14 Mar 1555 pluralism (CRP, no. 1121); inst 5 June 1559 rect W. Quantoxhead, Som (SRS 55, no. 926)–† bef. 27 Nov 1594 (SRO, D\D\B Reg 18, fo. 4r), worth £11 8s 8d (VE 1, p. 224); MA,18 instal 7 June 1561 Warthill preb, York, instal 9 June in person (F3 4, p. 62), still 1578 (BI, Reg. 31, fo. 46r)–† bef. 27 Oct 1594 (F3 citing SRO, D\P\Milv. 2/1/1, parish reg. of Milverton; cf. his replacement 17 Jan 1595 in BI, Inst.AB.3, fo. 270v)

Daniell, Edmund (ca. 1519-30 Oct 1576): b. Chester, fell. MerC 1541, still 1548, organist 1544 (BRUO2 p. 160); BA, Jan 1540, MA 7 Apr 1544, sup for BTh 20 July 1556 (RUO 1, p. 196); ord priest 17 Dec 1547 (OA, ODP d105, p. 55); inst 419 June 1548 rect Kingsland, Heref, John Chamber and George Owen (qv), MDs, pats. by roy grant (HRO, AL/19/14, fo. 75v)–depr 1559 (Gee, p. 256), worth £31 3s 5d in 1536 (Reg. Boothe, p. 366); instal 11 Oct 1552 Norton preb, Heref-depr bef. 17 Feb 1561

(HCAB 7031/1, fos 113v and 155v; Havergal, p. 79 gives next inc 1560), assessed at 43s 4d in 1536 (Reg. Boothe, p. 364); proc to convocation 11 Feb 1553 with Edward Baskerfill (qv) (HCAB 7031/1, fo. 104r-v), 23 Sept 1553 (HCAB 7031/1, fo. 123v) and 30 Mar 1554 (HCAB 7031/1, fo. 132v); 22 Sept 1553 proc for bp of Heref (HCAB 7031/1, fo. 123v); pres 27 Apr 1554 5th20 preb Worcester (CPRPM 1, p. 385), absent at elec Bp Sandes 25 Nov 1559 (Reg. Parker, p. 73)–depr bef. 11 Dec (F3 7, p. 123);21 pres 26 June 1558 dean of Heref (CPRPM 4, p. 252), subdean of chap roy, inst 30 June 1558, crown pat. bec. of sede vacante (CRP, no. 2256), instal by proxy 2 July 1558 (HCAB 7031/1, fo. 152r),22 present when date agreed for Sandes’s elec (Reg. Parker, pp. 59-67)–depr bef. 17 Feb 1560 (ibid., fo. 155v, nos 1034 and 1035; 1559 Havergal, p. 39), worth £38 6s 3d in 1536 (Reg. Boothe, p. 364); procuration 26 Oct 1558 to him for business bef. Pole at London (?i.e., in Arches), another 18 Jan 1559 (WCA, D7(2), fo. 44r-v); present 26 Dec 1558 when Queen Elizabeth ordered Bp Oglethorpe (qv) not to elevate host in chap roy when also ordered not to do so but refused (Phillips, Extinction, p. 58); 1561 to remain with Lord Treasurer [Sir William Paulet (qv), marquess of Winchester] (Gee, p. 182); matric 28 Mar 1563 at Louvain (BRUO2); resident of EHR, auditor 1565, 1573, 1575, custos 1569-70, chamberlain 1570-1 (Kenny, p. 271); witn 7 Feb 1570 in process for Elizabeth’s exc (Phillips, Extinction, pp. 58 and 126); † 30 Oct 1576 aged 57 and buried in VEC (Havergal, p. 39); on list of deans suffering as Catholic (Sander, DVM, p. 690)

Danister, John: scholar, Winch dioc, 1556 orders (CRP, no. 1697a 11b); ‘best preacher’ and fit to attend Council of Trent, proposed by Nicholas Sander ca. July 1561 as bp of Salis (Bayne, Anglo-Roman relations, p. 284); first on list of those talked abt as worthy of a bishopric acc. Sander in a more detailed report to Cardinal Morone (qv/5) ca. same time, noting that Danister imprisoned for faith and refused conditions for release, educ as youth at Winch esp. in poetry and then at Oxford in civil law23 bef. going on to theology (in which inferior to Gilbert Burnford, qv), praised for Lent sermon at Louvain (Pollen, pp. 22-23); on list of depr or exiled Catholic priests (Sander, DVM, p. 698); conjecturely identified with John Fenn whose career does correspond remarkably well to Danister’s as reported by Sander but Pole’s disp (then unknown) and Sander’s failure to mention als weaken conjecture (H.C., ‘John Danister, Wykehamist’, Notes and queries, ser. 10, 4 [1905], pp. 355-56 [adding that ‘Danista’ in Greek means the same as ‘Fenerator’] and John B. Wainewright, ‘Dr Gee’s second list’, Downside review, 16 [1911], pp. 292-307, p. 297); Fenn24 b. Montacute, Som (Wood 2, col. 112-13 and ‘Danister’); comp 2 Dec 1544 vic choral of Combe VII preb, Wells £3 25s 4d, Richard Bramston, vic choral, sur (TNA, E 334/3, fo. 38r); Winch School 154725 (Wood); elec 17 Dec 1550 fell. NCO (RUO 1, p. 319); studied civil law but no degree recorded, schoolmaster of Bury St Edmunds under Mary, into

exile under Elizabeth, first to Low Countries and Italy for four years, then back to Low Countries where became confessor to English nuns at Louvain (Wood); † 27 Dec 1615 (‘Danister’); translated Osòrio’s (qv/5) reply to Walter Haddon (qv); also parts of Concertatio ecclesiae catholicae in Anglia (Trier: Edmond Hatot, 1583) and later eds (ARCR, nos 524-27); translations of some of Ioannis Fischeri. . .opera (Würzburg: Georg Fleischmann, 1597) (ARCR, no. 415)

Darbyshire or Derbyshire, Thomas (ca. 1520-6 Apr 1604): b. Nottingham (T. M. McCoog, ed., English and Welsh Jesuits, 1555-1650, 2 vols [CRS, 74-75 (1994-5], 1, p. 154); coll 23 July 1543 Totenhall preb, London, comp 24 July £41 8s, Thomas Staunton and William Kelsick, surs (TNA, E 334/2, fo. 158v)–depr bef. 1 Jan 1560 (GL, 9531/13/1, fo. 112v; F3 1, p. 58 says 23 Oct 1559 from same source and Machyn, p. 216); BA 7 Apr 1544, BCL 30 Oct 1553, DCL 20 July 1556, Broadgates Hall27 (Wood, Fasti, pp. 47, 138, 147, 151; RUO 1, p. 207); ?William, studying at Oxford,28 coll 26 Apr 1544 Mora preb, London (GL, 9531/12/1, fo. 155r)–† bef. 16 May 1551 (GL, 9531/12/2, fo. 38r), comp 24 Sept £17 17s 9d (TNA, E 334/3, fo. 29r), called Thomas also assigned Totenhall in same list at elec 15 Feb 1546 William May as dean (GL, 9531/12/1, fo. 95r) or prob. rel; inst 26 May 1554 rect Hackney, Mdx, Edward Mowle, Ad Ess, John Wymesley (qv), recently Ad London and Thomas Staunton, pats. by grant from Bonner (GL, 9531/12/2, fo. 178r) on depr John Spendlove (qv), comp 6 June £23 8s, William Kelsycke, ‘Chri. London’, alebrewer and Thomas Ussher, St Sepulchre, scrivener, surs (TNA, E 334/4, fo. 158v); ord subd 21 Mar 1556 London with George Lily (qv/5), Anthony Russhe and T. Colier (both qv), rect Hackney, deac 4 Apr, priest (by Chetham; qv) 30 May (with Colier and Edward Chamber; qv) (GL, 9535/1, fos 56v, 57v, 58r); possibly auto. letter from Darbyshire-Bonnner, undated (LMA, DL/C/331, fo. 242r); oc 25 May 1555 vg London (LMA, DL/C/331, fo. 210v); comm 25 Mar 1556 vg London when also comm in London and deaneries of Mdx and Barking, 26 Mar 1556 vg and off. prin rep. N. Harpsfield (qv) (GL, 9531/12/2, fos 132v-133r; cf. LMA, DL/C/608, unfoliated), still off. prin 1 Feb 1557 (GL, 9531/12/2, fo. 146v), 5 Nov and b/w 15 and 19 Nov 1557 (but usually presided by surrogate) (LMA, DL/C/610, unfoliated), assisted Chedsey (qv) examing ordinands 20 Mar 1556 (GL, 9535/1, fo. 56v), 12 Mar 1557 (GL, 9535/1, fo. 59v), as vg of London again 16 Apr 1557, 12 June, 8 Apr 1558 (fos 62v, 64r, 72r), heard case in William Mowse’s (qv) house 21 Apr 1558 (LMA, DL/C/331, fo. 301v), examined ordinands in his house 24 Mar 1559 (GL, 9535/1, fo. 80v), still vg May 1559 (LMA, DL/C/331, fo. 321v); 6 June 1556 read articles against Henry Adlington, et al. (Foxe, [1563], p. 1524, [1570], p. 2095, [1576], p. 1808, 1583, p. 1914); 28 July 1556 vice-president Jesus gild in St Faith’s (CPRPM 3, p. 275), also ‘prin of a coll. of priests called “The Table of Jesus” in the room [i.e., place] of the deceased suffragan of London’ (Henry Foley, Records of the English province of the Society of Jesus, 7 vols [London: Burns and Oates, 1877-83], 3, p. 708); examined five heretics executed at Smithfield 12 Apr 1557 (Foxe, [1563], pp. 1567-70, [1570], pp. 2159-61, [1576], pp. 1865-67, [1583], pp. 1974-76); proc to convocation Jan 1558 (GL, 9531/12/2, fo. 165v); 20 June 1558 laid charges against six heretics executed at Brentford, Ess and in presence of Sir Edward

Hastings and Sir Thomas Cornwallis (both qv) sentenced them (Foxe, [1563], p. 1669, [1570], p. 2240-41, [1576], p. 1935, [1583], pp. 2039 and 2042); coll 1 Oct 1558 rect Fulham, Mdx (GL, 9531/12/2, fo. 202v)–depr bef. 29 Feb29 1560 (GL, 9531/13/1, fo. 113r), worth £26 (Oxley); coll 22 Oct 1558 Ad Ess (GL, 9531/12/2, fo. 203r)–depr bef. 3 Jan 1560 (GL, 9531/13/1, fo. 112v; F3 1, p. 9 says 23 Oct 1559 from same source and Machyn, p. 216), worth £52 (Oxley); inst 22 Nov 1558 rect St Magnus the Martyr rep. Maurice Griffin or Griffith (qv) (GL, 9531/12/2, fo. 203v)–depr bef. 31 Jan 156030 (GL, 9531/13/1, fo. 112r), worth £67 12s 1d (VE 1, p. 373); imprisoned in Fleet 21 Feb 1561 (‘Prisoners’, p. 48); fled overseas ca. 1561 (Gee, p. 184); sent to Trent for opinion on whether English Catholics could attend Protestant services (Foley, Records, 3, p. 706); entered SJs at Rome 1 May 1563; taught there 1563-4; 1565 at Dillingen University; later mostly in France (English and Welsh Jesuits, p. 154); listed in Sander’s report to Morone as chancellor of London, canon of St Paul, depr (Pollen, p. 18) and on list of Catholic cath dignitaries (Sander, DVM, p. 692)

Darcy, Sir Arthur: dedicatee of Christopher Langton (qv); 2 May 1555 office case vs. him for sequestration of Gargrave, N. York (BI, Cons.AB 20, fo. 304v); present 25 Mar 1556 at presentation of Pole’s pallium (CRP, no. 1524); cf. Sir Thomas Pope; will 16 Sept 1560/prov 10 May 1561 (PCC 17 Loftes; printed NCW 2, pp. 28-31; BRS 25, p. 86): site and demesne land of ‘Salley’31 monastery, Yorks, half manor of Bolton, W. York, manor of Aldeondesbury [sic; ?Almondsbury, Glos] and chantries in Thornbury, Glos, manor of Hutton Rudby, N. York, manor of ‘Brymbem als Brymham’ (worth £16 17s 11d) and manor of Bisborne [sic; ?Gisburn, W. York but see bel.] (worth £13 8s 8d), grange of Ellingthorpe, Yorks (£12 8d) and manor of Stainton, N. York (£30 19s) and other real estate (worth £41 9s 8d) and Gargrave rect, W. York (£55 6s 8d) to son Henry, sons Thomas (manor of Sturton, W. York worth £20 p.a.), Edward (manor of Stainforth Underbergh, W. York and Arneforthe, Yorks worth £39 11s 11d p.a.), Arthur (site and lands of Arden priory, N. York worth £10 p.a.), Nicholas (manors of Langcliffe and Nappa, both W. York worth £38 9s 8d), John (manor of Potter Newton, W. York worth £25 p.a.), Francis (manor of Gisburn, W. York [but see ab.] and Brotofte, Yorks worth £40 9s 6d)

Darcy [of Chiche], Thomas Lord (4 Dec 1506-28 June 1558): son of Roger Darcy, Danbury, Ess and Elizabeth, da. of Sir Henry Wentworth, Nettlestead, Suff; marr 1) by Sept 1521 Audrey, da. of Sir John Raynsford of Bradfield, Ess, 2) by 1532 Elizabeth da. of John de Vere, 15th earl of Oxford to whom closely connected in early career; knighted 1 Nov 1532; by 1533 knight of roy [or of duke of Richmond’s] household, chamberlain 5 Apr 1551-July 1553; numerous comms in Ess 1535 and later, incl heresy 1556 (CRP, no. 1549b); perhaps MP in Reformation parliament, 1539, 1542, certainly for Ess 1545 and 1547, regular attender in Lords aft. ennoblement; by 1544 gent of privy chamber; fought in France 1544 (HPT 2, pp. 14-16); granted property of collegiate church of Crediton, Dev by Henry VIII (ECA, 3551, fo. 216r); pc 24 Jan 1550-July 1553; cr 5 Apr 1551 baron Darcy of Chiche; did well under both Somerset and Northumberland (both qv); 6 Oct 1551 KG; signed device for alteration of succession; arrested aft. Mary’s accession; pardoned 1 Nov 1553; fought against Wyatt’s rebellion (HPT); involved in condemnation of Ralph Allerton and in transfer

of 22 prisoners from Colchester (Foxe [1570], pp. 2208, 2212 and 2157); complained of 30 Aug 1557 by Bonner’s comm in Ad Colchester for abusing position to steal exiles’ property (Foxe [1570], p. 2156); ca. late July 1558 accused by Bonner (qv) of stealing London dioc property, perhaps some of that exchanged in 1551 (CRP, no. 2266 and HPT); will 27 June 1558/admon 14 Mar 1561 to son Sir John Darcy32 (TNA, PROB 11/44 PCC 10 Loftes): places: of Wivenhoe, Ess (incl lease there), manors of Great and Little Clacton, Ess, lease of Bentley Park, manor and advowson of Little Oakley, Ess, manor of Elmswell and Woolpit, Suff with advowsons of both rects, park of Alton or Alverton,33 manor of Sedmister or Sedmester;34 persons mentioned: wife Lady Elizabeth, svt Christopher Worlip, earl of Oxford (incl as lessor), sons Robert, Aubrey (and unnamed wives) and John, da. Tamazin (?), Sir Thomas Diar (holds lands mortgaged for £1000), svt Harry Stapleton, svt George Freville (£10 p.a.),35 Sir Francis Jobson, Clement Paston, esq (both to have gift horses returned), William Ayloffe and John Holte (execs)

Darley, John: of Skelton,36 ord acol 24 Sept 1524 (BI, Reg. 27, fo. 203v), subd 7 (?) Mar 1528, deac 28 Mar to title Holy Trinity priory, York (BI, Reg. 27, fos 215r and 215v); pres 4 Feb 1539 rect Kirby Knowle, N. York, Sir Henry Knevet, pat. (BI, Adm 1538/17; Calendar of Admissions papers), inst 1 June 1539 (BI, Reg. 28, fo. 43r), William Slater oc 4 Sept 1560 curate (BI, Inst.AB.1, fo. 74r), vac bef. 1 July 1561 (BI, Inst.AB.1, fo. 87r), new inst 8 Nov (BI, Inst.AB.2, part 2, fo. 7v), worth £8 13s 6d (VE 5, p. 97); rect Skelton in Malters [sic], N. York,37 disp 12 Mar 1539 to hold two bens (FOR, p. 177); abs schism, disp pluralism 17 Aug 1556 (CRP, no. 1653)

Darnley, Henry, Lord (Henry Stewart) (1545-67): oldest surviving son of Matthew Stewart, earl of Lennox and Margaret Douglas (both qv); tutored by John Elder, canon of Dumbarton (Old DNB); Lent disp 9 Mar 1555 (CRP, no. 1106); regarded as Catholic claimant to Elizabeth’s throne; sent to Scotland by Elizabeth 1565 to marry Mary Queen of Scots; marr 29 July 1565; conspired to murder Mary’s counsellor David Riccio; father of James VI; murdered by noble conspirators prob. with Mary’s connivance in retaliation for Riccio’s murder (Old DNB); see ODNB

Darrell, William († 1580 [AtC]): prob. BA 1520, MA 153138 (AtC 1, p. 430 and 3, p. 82) and not priest, BA 24 Apr 1554, MA 16 July (RUO 1, p. 224); coll by proxy 3 Dec 1546 rect Little Chart, Kent (LPLCR, fo. 402r), comp 22 Mar 1547 £12 3s 9d, George Darrell, Pluckley, Kent and Nicholas More, Cranbrook, Kent, surs (TNA, E 334/3, fo. 116r)–resig bef. 8 Dec 1560 (Reg. Parker, p. 776); comp 23 Apr 1553 rect Chawton, Hant (Reg. Gardiner, p. 147)–resig bef. 4 Oct 1562 wrb Justinian Lancaster (qv) (HaRO, 21M65/A1/26, fo. 6r), worth £11 5s 5d in 1536 (Reg. Gardiner, p. 166); pres by crown 23 Sept 1553 3rd preb, Cant, again 24 May 1554 (SVI, p. 25) or 24 Mar

(F3 3, p. 21)–depr bef. 16 Feb 1580 (LPL, Grindal’s Reg., fo. 535r); inst 15 Mar 1555 vic Tenterden, Kent on resig Richard Thornden (qv) (SVI, p. 127)–resig bef. 13 Aug 1556 (John Spendlove, qv), worth £24 4d (VE 1, p. 96); inst 19 Oct 1557 Brightling preb, Coll. of Hastings, Suss vac through resig of John Farmer (qv), Sir Anthony Browne, pat. (CRP, no. 2113) (F3; p. 21 LPLPR, fo. 56v), worth £11 0s 10d (VE 1, p. 344); inst 29 Sept 1558 vic Lenham, Kent (CRP, no. 2284)–resig bef. 14 July 1562 (Reg. Parker, p. 789), worth £13 15s 2d (VE 1, pp. 59 and 95); participated in Parker’s elec (Reg. Parker, p. 21); vicedean Cant 1560 (AtC); comm 12 Oct 1560 to sequester rect Lower Hardres, Kent, to which inst 29 Oct (Reg. Parker, pp. 358 and 387), vac bef. 7 July 1568 (Reg. Parker, p. 841); inst 11 Mar 1564 vic Brookland, Kent on Ralph Blunt’s (qv) death-resig bef. 5 Apr 1572 (Reg. Parker, pp. 804 and 1098); inst 11 Mar 1564 vic Buckland, Kent (Reg. Parker, p. 449), sequestration 25 June 1576 (LPL, Grindal’s Reg., fo. 510v), worth £5 2s (TNA, E 334/6, fo. 32r); comp 19 May 1564 rect Kingeweston, Som £12 12s (TNA, E 334/8, fo. 19v), inst 25 May, Sir Thomas Kempe (qv), Ollantigh in Wye, Kent, pat. (SRO, D\D\B Reg 15, fo. 16r); inst 26 Mar 1565 vic Chilham, Kent, Thomas Kempe, pat. phv-resig bef. 27 Aug 1572 (Reg. Parker, pp. 811 and 1103), worth £13 6s 8d (VE 1, p. 91); resident CCCC, 2nd most senior fell. Aug 1564 (AtC and AlC 2, p. 12); inst 16 July 1565 rect Cooling, Kent, Sir William Brooke, Lord Cobham, pat., farmed 20 July 1565 to Hugh Darrell (CKS, DRb/Ar 1/15, fos 123r and 123v), vac (resig) bef. 2 Aug 1577 (CKS, DRb/Ar 1/16, fo. 13r), worth £14 (VE 1, p. 109); coll 16 Aug 1568 Flixton preb, Lichfield, vac bef. 5 Apr 1569 (F3 10, p. 37); resig bef. 28 Mar 1572 rect Northbarrow, Som (SRO, D\D\B Reg 15, fo. 34r), worth £7 17s 6d (VE 1, p. 155); inst 19 Mar 1574 rect Brooke, Kent, D&C Cant, pat.–resig bef. [blank] Aug 1574 (Reg. Parker, pp. 1114 and 1117), worth £7 7s (VE 1, p. 39); ?roy chap, inst 6 Apr 1574 rect N. Burton als Cheryburton [Black Bourton or Cherry Bourton], E.39 York, crown pat (BI, Reg. 30, fo. 72r), made to sign (auto., remains of seal) oath of residence for one quarter p.a. and to lease rect to curate to be chosen by abp of York (BI, Inst.AB.3, fos 41v-42r)–resig same day and then inst on crown pres when signed 1562 articles (BI, Inst.AB.3, fos 42r-v) but another man resig 11 Jan 1579 and Darrell inst 13 Jan (BI, Inst.AB.3, fo. 126r-v); chap to Elizabeth, chancellor of Bangor 1567-70 (AtC); strong candidate for bp Armagh 1567 but Grindal blocked as ‘corrupt in religion’ (AtC); inst 19 Mar 1577 vic Monkton, Kent, vac bec Darrell held ben40 (LPL, Grindal’s Reg., fo. 514v); bef. 17 Nov 1586 granted advowson of Wotton, Kent to Thomas Diggs (LPL, Whitgift’s Reg. I, fo. 468v); wrote ‘Castra in campo cantiano ab antiquo aedita nobilium ope ac diligentia’ (Coll. of Arms), dedicated to William lord Cobham, lord warden of Cinque Ports and ‘Series honoratorum virorum qui a Gulielmo Normanno Arci Dovaraiae et Quinque portibus praefuerunt’ printed with trans in History of Dover castle (London, 1797) (AtC)

David, Hugh († bef. 27 May 1559): ?priest bef. Feb 1535 (BRUO2 p. 161, no source but prob. orig. behind RUO 1), this man sec chap, BCL 12 July 1535 (RUO 1, p. 181); inst 25 Sept 1540 vic Stalisfield, Kent, rep. Thomas Slany (qv) inc and pat. phv-resig bef. 30 Jan 1544 (LPLCR, fos 377r-v and 391r), worth £5 6s 8d (VE 1, p. 98); inst 3 Aug 1545 vic Boughton Aluph, Kent, Walter Moyle, arm, Henry Lawrence

and Thomas Franklen, pats. phv (LPLCR, fo. 396r), BA, comp 3 Aug 1545 £5 5s, William Austen, St Michaels Cornhill, clothworker and Geoffrey Walkden, St Mary Colechurch, skinner, surs42 (TNA, E 334/3, fo. 62v)–† bef. 9 Nov 1558 (CRP, no. 2306); comp 13 Nov 1551 rect Bonnington, Kent £9 11s 11d, John Beverley, yeom and John Mylles, barber, both Wye, Kent, surs (TNA, E 334/4, fo. 84v), inst 14 Nov, Sir Thomas Moyle (qv), pat., rep. John David (LPLCR, fo. 418v)–resig bef. 13 Nov 1554 (SVI, p. 14); left bequest by Thomas Slany (qv); pres 1 June 1557 vic Graveney, Kent (CPRPM 3, p. 501), priest, inst 15 June 1557, crown pat rep. George Gillam (qv) (CRP, no. 2043), vac (†) bef. 25 Mary 1565 (Reg. Parker, p. 816), worth £12 (VE 1, pp. 71 and 98); inst 14 Oct 1557 rect Eastwell, Kent, Moyle, pat. (CRP, no. 2109)–† bef. 27 May 1559 (SVI, p. 42), worth £9 16s 8d (VE 1, pp. 66 and 96); will (CKS, Ad. vol. 31 fo. 85, 1558-1559; BRS 65, p. 38), which I have not been able to see

Davies, Thomas (ca. 1512-† 16 Oct 1573 [ODNB]): possibly b. Llanbedr y Cennin, Caern, 2nd son of David ap Robert (ODNB), rect Llansaintpaid yn Mechain (The dictionary of Welsh biography down to 1940 [Oxford: Blackwell, 1959], s.n.); BCnL 10 Nov 1530, BCL 17 Feb 153643 (RUO 1, p. 158); DCL 1548 (GBΓ, p. 53); BCL, coll 19 Apr 1535 vic Llanbedr y Cennin, Caern (NLW, B/Misc, vol. 27 p. [215])– † bef. 14 July 1574 (Pryce, p. 21); fell. SJCC 1537 and later of QCC; chancellor of Bangor cath bef. 1546 (Welsh biography), depr 1554, restored 1558 (AlC 2, p. 17), as such participated in elec Bp Merrick 1559 (Reg. Parker, p. 70); inst 14 Aug 1548 rect Trefriw, Caern-resig bef. 30 June 1557 (Pryce, pp. 11 and 15); disp 1 Oct 1555 orders Bangor (CRP, no. 1405a), ord subd London 20 Dec 1555, deac 22 Dec (specially by W. Walsh, using Pole’s disp, along with J. Glover, T. Atkynson and W. Pomerell, all qv), specially priest by T. Chetham (qv) 29 Dec along with Pomerell, to title of his patrimony (GL, 9535/1, fos 53r, 54r-v); resig bef. 19 May 1558 rect Llanaelhaearn, Gwyned, wrb Thomas Bryckdale (qv) (Pryce, p. 16); appt 7 June 1558 sede vacante off. Bangor (CRP, no. 2247); 3 July 1558 exec of William Glynn (qv); Ad StA 1558 (AlC 2, p. 17)–† bef. 8 Dec 1573 (Reg. Parker, p. 1015); elec bp StA 17 May 1561 (Reg. Parker, pp. 111-14), cons 26 May, signed 39 Articles, commendam for other bens, some of which resig to bro Owen aft. ‘having made scandalous leases of them’ (Welsh biography); active in fostering Protestantism (ODNB); in 1561 priest, DCL, elect of StA, chancellor of Bangor, vic Caerhun, Caern,44 comportionary of Llandinam, Mont,45 living in London (Willis, Bangor, pp. 263 and 267); Dec 1566 signed letter to queen asking her to let pass bill forcing subscription to 39 Articles; asked eccl comm for dioc from Cecil 16 Nov 1570; signed canons of synod of 3 Apr 1571; prob. bur Abergele, Denb (ODNB); will 19 Apr 1570 and 16 Oct 1573/prov 22 Oct 1573 (TNA, PROB PCC 33 Peter; BRS 18, p. 89): places: rect Abergele, Llanbedr y Cennin, both Denb, StA cath, Caerhun, Trefriw, both Caern, Llanaelhaearn, Brume Melymon and Barnete in Llambedr, Caern, Dole y Garrog [unided] Castle in the comote of Issaphe, QCC, persons: wife Margaret, bro Hugh Davies, his sons (William and George ap Hugh), bro Griffith Davies, his son Thomas Davies, bro Owen, William Hollond, esq of Abergele and wife Katherine Davies, their sons (Piers, Thomas and

Edward Holland), sister’s da [blank] verch Hugh Holland, Griffin Lloyd ap Thomas of Abergele, D&C Bangor, Dr [William] Glynne, clks (John Powell, Jevan Lloid), John Gruff, gent of Paris, Hugh ap Jevan, rect Llanaelhaearn, Margaret verch ap Robert, Jevan ap John ap Madocke, Edmund ap David ap Meredith, Thomas Wynn, William ap David ap Robert, Hugh ap Rice of Ang, Hugh Glynne, legacies: cash (£50), £6 pension from Llanaelhaearn, debts forgiven, real estate (incl mortgage worth £40 to QCC for scholarship), leases (rects Llanbedr y Cennin, Trefriw and Llanaelhaearn, vic Caerhun), household goods, ag pro, items of interest: £10 to free school erected by Bp Glynn, many bequest amounts not entered

Davis, Thomas: from Tisbury, Wilt, fell. NCO 16 July 1545, MA 17 July 1553, sup for BTh 1 June 1559 (RUO 1, pp. 222 and 315); disp 1 Feb 1557 orders (CRP, no. 1831a); ?clk, inst 21 June 1554 rect Wingfield, Wilt, Christopher Bayly, clothier, pat. (W&SRO, D1/2/16, Reg. Capon, fos 57v-58r), vac bef. 4 May 1564 (W&SRO, D1/2/16, Reg. Jewel, fo. 12r); pres 28 Dec 1554 rect Creslow, Buck (CPRPM 2, p. 165), inst 16 Feb 1555 (LincRO, Epis. reg. 28, fo. 123v; LI2, no. 348); pres (?) 21 Nov 1557 rect Hardwick, Buck (RUO 1, pp. 222 and 315), inst 8 Dec 1557, NCO, pat. (LincRO, Epis. reg. 28, fos 72v and 141v; LI1, no. 417 and LI2, no. 560), still oc aft. 20 Aug 156146 when unmarr priest, educ, resident except when in Oxford, unlic preacher, no other ben (CCCC, MS 97, fo. 62v), removed 1562 as papist (RUO 1, pp. 222 and 315 and Gee, p. 256), worth £4 10s (TNA, E 334/3, fo. 44v)

Davys,47 Richard († bef. 18 Aug 1584): inst 26 Apr 1550 vic Westbourne, Suss, David Egerley, clk, rect Westbourne, pat. (WSRO, Ep/I/1/6, fo. 64r)–† bef. 18 Aug 1584 (LPL, Whitgift’s Reg. I, fo. 354r-v), worth £10 2s 2d (VE 1, p. 309); comp 16 Oct 1556 rect S. Hayling, Hant £15 5s, Geoffrey Pole (qv/5), Lordington, Suss, sur (TNA, E 334/6, fo. 38r)–resig bef. 26 May 1575 (HaRO, 21M65/A1/26, fo. 102r); disp 13 Aug 1556 for both (CRP, no. 1646)

Day, George (ca. 1502-2 Aug 1556): son of Richard Day, gent, Newport, Salop; 1521 BA SJCC; fell. 1522 (ODNB); MA 1524, BTh 1533, DTh 1537; preached for chancellor on Corpus Christi 1533; v-c 1537-8 (GBΓ, pp. 211, 272, 319 and 274); 1525 1st Linacre prof. of medicine; coll. reader in Greek (ODNB); 1528-37 university orator (AtC 1, pp. 156-161 and 3, p. 82); ord 7 Mar 1528 subd48 (LincRO, Reg. 26, fo. 20v); chap to John Fisher (qv) and then to king (ODNB); as roy candidate, elec 27 July 1537 mr SJCC despite coll.’s choice of Nicholas Wilson (qv) (AtC 1, pp. 156-57); inst 18 Sept 1537 rect All Hallows the Great, crown pat (GL, 9531/11, fo. 39r)–promotion to Chich bef. 10 May 1543 (GL, 9531/12/1, fo. 152r); disp 20 Sept 1537 for two bens (FOR, p. 115); inst Sept 1537 rect Holsworthy, Dev (ODNB)–resig bef. 26 July 1543 (Thomas Raynold, qv); elec by roy letters 5 June 1538 provost of KCC rep. Edward Foxe (qv) (AtC), inst 11 June (LincRO, Epis. reg. 27, fo. 246r)–resig 2 Oct 154749 (AtC); Nov 1538 on comm to revise Bishops’ Book (ODNB); proposed as either dean (AtC) or bp of Dunstable; co-authored article on justification in King’s Book (1543); 23 Mar 1543 St Stephens preb, Westm (ODNB); nom 15 Apr 1543 bp Chich (ODNB), elec 24 Apr (AtC), comp 5 May £509 7s 1d (TNA, E 334/2, fo. 146r); roy lic 4 July 1543 to hold provostship of KCC in commendam for 6 years (AtC);

resig bef. 9 Apr 1544 St Andrews preb, Beverley (BI, Reg. 28, fo. 74v); with Nicholas Heath (qv) drew up 1544 statutes for caths of new foundation; bef. July 1545 almoner to Queen Katherine (ODNB); on comm for new Prayer Book 1548 but refused to sign (AtC); regular attender in Lords where opposed Edwardine religious policy incl by citing Fisher (ODNB); accused of seditious preaching 1550, ordered to bring written version of sermon to council 8 Nov 1550, to Fleet Dec 1550 (BL, Lansdowne 980, fos 188r-90v); refused to comply with orders to take down altars in dioc, depr bef. 24 Oct 155150 (BL, Lansdowne 980, fos 188r-190v) and imprisoned in Fleet, June 1552 transferred to Bp of Ely’s custody perhaps with former pupil Sir John Cheke’s (qv) help (ODNB); testitifed at Gardiner’s (qv) trial in 1552 (Old DNB); preached at Edward’s funeral (Foxe [1570], p. 1634); restored 1553-6 (F3 2, p. 1); oc 29 Sept 1553 Mary’s almoner and preached at coronation; on comm Mar 1554 for depr protestant bps and examined inter alia J. Hooper (qv) (ODNB) who asked him and Pole to ‘take charge’ of Epistola ad episcopos (CRP, no. 992); on comm for Hooper’s depr (Foxe [1570], pp. 1678-79); with Heath (qv) visited 23 Feb 1555 J. Bradford (qv) in prison (ibid., pp. 1794-97); involved in later examinations of John Phlipot (ibid., pp. 1986-98); ‘floridest preacher’ among old guard (Old DNB); † 2 Aug 1556, bur Chich cath (F3); cf. Brady, Episcopal succession 1, pp. 63-64; will 28 July/prov 12 Nov 1556 (TNA, PROB 11/38): ambiguous preamble, places: Chich cath and city and suburbs, rect Aldingbourne, rect Amberley, all rects annexed to bpric, Newport, Salop, All Hallows the Great, St Andrews by the Wardrobe, SJCC, KCC, persons: mother-in-law Joan Daye, her da Joan, bros (Roger Day, William Daye in Cantab), bro Thomas Daye of Forde, Suss (exec), [?same] bro Thomas Day, precentor of Chich, nephew Richard Daye (exec), kin William Daye, Thomas Osborne, Robert Osborne, godsons (George Benean, George Jackson), Christopher Brown, Mr Mason, Thomas Bryan, Peter Addeshedde, John Bycrofte, John Elme, Thomas Savage, Richard Brisley (qv) (exec), Christopher Browne (exec), cousin Agnes Osborne, cousin Bernard’s wife, Joan Waters, housekeeper at London, abp of York, bp of Ely, Richard Bamford, Mr Lyme of Chich, Mr Stapelton, Mr Dale, Mr Beamont of Scarlet, John Caius (witn), poor kin at Snowsall [unided] and area, legacies: cash (£337 13s 4d), doles (£46), year’s wages to svts, £20 to poor scholars in Chich cath acc. Westm synod, household goods, horses, harness, plate, clothing, mitre w/ pearls and crosier, two chalices, vestments, money for a silver cross, ring Henry VIII gave me, two pair spectacles, silver case, books: Complutensian Bible to SJCC, Omnia Opera Chrisostomi Grece in Epistolas D. Pauli, Opera of Clement of Alexandria to KCC, items of interest: £10 to repairs of Houghton bridge beside Ambreley

Day, Howell: inst 27 Feb 1543 vic Holywell, Flint, Sir Thomas Audley, pat. (NLW, SA/ MB/14, fo. 8r), Howell ab David or Day, 1542 (Willis’s St Asaph 1, p. 299), oc 1560 resident (Willis’s St Asaph 1, p. 140), as such abs simony 26 Jan 1557 (CRP, no. 1817)

Day, John: inst 23 Dec 1556 chap St Winifred, Holywell noviter erecto (‘St Asaph episcopal acts’, p. 46)–† bef. 17 Sept 1557 (NLW, MB/14, fo. 4v; Griffiths, ‘St Asaph “register”’, p. 38), abs and (re-)inst 31 May 1557 (CRP, no. 2024); Holywell vic dedicated St Winifred acc. Parochiale, p. 219, so same as last despite death date?