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Kebill or Keble, Edward [?als William] (?ca. 1505-bef. 17 June 1560): from Everdon, Ntht, adm 11 Aug 1521 KCC from EtC aged 17, fell. 1524-6; BA 1526, MA 1530 (AlC 3, p. 1); inst 16 Mar 15261 vic Alvediston, Wilt, KCC, pat.–William, resig bef. 7 Aug 1538 (W&SRO, D1/2/15, fo. 5r and D1/2/16, Reg. Shaxton, fo. 13v); chap, inst 3 Dec 1534 rect Wilby, Ntht, Sir Thomas Vaux, Lord Harrowden, pat., £10 pension to inc-called William, resig bef. 15 Feb 1538 (LincRO, Epis. reg. 27, fos 136r and 138v and Bridges, Northamptonshire 2, p. 155); inst2 4 Apr 1537 rect Upminster, Ess, Thomas Wyett,3 arm, pat. (GL, 9531/11, fo. 37v), still 26 June 1546 when farmed for £20 (GL, 9531/12/1, fo. 86v)–depr bef. 20 Apr 1554 wrb Robert Dent (qv) (GL, 9531/12/2, fo. 176r); inst by proxy 8 Nov 1537 rect Warrington, Ches,4 Sir Thomas Butler, pat.5 (LRO, B/A/1/14 (iii), fo. 36v); ?comp 17 July 1541 rect Mareham or Marham,6 Ntht £8 3s 11d, Thomas Washington, Strand, and Giles Harte, St Clement Danes, pulter, surs (TNA, E 334/2, fo. 111v), inst 26 July 1542 (NoRO, X956/1, fo. 3v), ?vac bef. 6 Feb 1566 (NoRO, X/956/1, fo. 108r) or 28 Jan 1546 (Bridges, Northamptonshire 2, p. 519); ?resig bef. 2 June 1543 rect Heathfield, Som (SRS 55, no. 463), worth £9 18d (VE 1, p. 172); inst 27 July 1543 rect Llangelynnin, Mer (Pryce, p. 9); pres by crown 20 Apr 1547 3d preb Westm, ratified by Somerset (GL, 9531/12/1, fo. 246r), inst 25 May 1547 (F3 7, p. 73), instal 21 June (WmCA, p. 100)7depr 30 Mar 1554 (F3), worth £28 5s at foundation (GL, 9531/12/1, fo. 256r), chap to Edward Seymour, bought preb from Edward Leighton, in trouble aft. Seymour’s fall (ex. inform. C. S. Knighton, LincRO, Epis. reg. 27, fo. 198v and WmCA 1, pp. 19-20), among most regular attenders at chapter meetings (WmCA 1, passim), 9 July 1547 sent to Somerset abt reformation of chapter statutes (ibid., no. 69), 23 Nov 1549 dispute abt repairs to his house (WmCA 1, no. 95), granted days 19 Sept 1551 since wife dying at Salis (ibid., no. 116), adm to sanctuary 19 Sept 1553, perhaps sheltering from creditors (ibid., no. 140); instal 19 Nov 1550 Torleton preb, Salis (SCAB 14:2, p. 54), inst 28 Feb 1551 (LPLCR, fo. 107r), adm to residence 18 June (SCAB 14:2, p. 56), 1551 and 1552 farms of Stourpayne £10 and Idneston £15 or £35 total given in 1552 (SCAB 14:2, pp. 59 and 61), possibly disputed pres with Thomas Heskins (qv)–either depr by roy writ (SVI, p. 110) or resig bef. 3 Feb 1554 when first conceded Braybrook as residence and then acted as proc for Heskins’s instal (SCAB 14:2, p. 73), but 21 Aug 1559 wrote as preb of Torleton to offer vote in Salis epis elec (SCAB 14:2, p. 114); inst 16 Mar 1557 rect Badlesmere, Kent, Anne [de Vere, qv], dowager countess of Oxford, pat. (CRP, no. 1907), worth £5 7s (VE 1, p. 97); inst 15 Jan 1558

vic Sheldwich, Kent, D&C Cant, pat. (CRP, no. 2160), vac (†) bef.10 Apr 1561 (Reg. Parker, p. 780), worth £6 16s 8d (VE 1, p. 98); ?inst 2 Apr 1558 rect Treyford, Suss, Lady Anne Mautravers, widow Sir Henry in dower right, pat. (WSRO, Ep/I/1/7, fo. 3v; cf. MP 1095, p. 192)–† bef. 17 June 1560 (WSRO, Ep/I/1/7, fo. 16v), worth £7 12s (VE 1, p. 324); ?inst 9 May 1558 rect Bishops Itchington, Warw, Henry Comberford, precentor of Lichfield, pat. (LRO, B/A/1/15, fo. 11r; LRO, B/A/2ii/1, p. 17), vac bef. 1568 (Dugdale, Warwickshire, p. 245 citing Bentham Bund. F.); moved from Upminster to Bradburne, Ess and Sheldwick [sic] (Oxley, p. 182n from Grieve, but she (p. 155n) correctly gave first ben as Badlesmere)

Kempe, Eleanor, widow of Sir William Kempe († bef. 11 Dec 1560) and mother of next; pat. rect Stowting, Kent (William Hunt, qv), still 18 July 1556 (CRP, no. 1621); Sir William of Wye, Kent, will 28 Nov 1538/prov 4 July 1539 (TNA, PROB 11/27, fo. 228r PCC 29 Dyngeley; BRS 11, p. 311): place: Ollantigh [in Wye], Kent, persons: wife Eleanor (exec and res leg), das (Cicely, Faith, Mary and Margaret), son Thomas, Reginald Scott, esq, John Took, gent, ward Henry Idon [abbrev], legacies: cash (£806), annuities, real estate; Eleanor’s will 24 Aug 1558/prov 11 Dec 1560 (TNA, PROB 11/43, fo. 437v PCC 59 Mellershe; BRS 18, p. 180): Catholic preamble, places: the Savoy, Wye, Chelworth, Bapchilde, Tonge, Rodmersham, Murston, Lynstead, all Kent, persons: son Sir Thomas Kempe (exec), sons (Anthony, exec Francis Kempe, res legs Edward, John Kempe and George), das (Oxenbridge, Pollard, Latham, Boowghton, Anne Scott), Sir Robert Oxenbridge (exec), Cicely Barnishe, Mrs Brente, vic of Colman Street, svts (Willam Bowth, Francis Hitchecox, William Kyttes), William Roper (qv), esq of Eltham, Kent, (ovs), Robert Alee als Lee, gent (exec), Anthony Knight, esq (exec), Alexander Gate (qv), rect of Sandon, Ess, legacies: cash (£27), year’s wages to Bowth, Kyttes, and Hitchecox, doles, annuities, real estate, clothing, two pairs of sables, rings, jewel chest, plate, Flanders cup, household goods, horse, items of interest: bur. in the Savoy ‘acc. the rites of the Catholic church’, observing month’s mind and year day, bequest for prayers; no mention Stowting in either will, Wye ca. 5 miles away

Kempe, Sir Thomas († 1607): oc 7 Mar 1545 pat. Goodneston, Kent when John Taylor inst (LPLCR, fo. 394v), still 24 Feb 1551 when George Gwyllym (Gillam, qv) inst (LPLCR, fo. 413v) and 4 Nov 1558 (CRP, no. 2303), no longer by 1584 (LPL, Whitgift’s Reg. I, fo. 457r); pat. rect Crundale, Kent, when Adrian Waterdale inst 12 Nov 1560 (resig bef. 2 Feb 1564), granted away for next pres (Reg. Parker, pp. 776 and 810); ?reported as sound in religion 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); pat. rect Stowting, Kent when Eustace Frencham inst 29 Feb 1564 (Reg. Parker, p. 804), still pat. 10 Mar 1593 when Thomas Wood inst (LPL, Whitgift’s Reg. II, fo. 316v); pat. vic Chilham with George Darrell phv by grant from Sir Henry Cheyney at inst of William Darrell (qv) 26 Mar 1565, still 27 Aug 1572 when Ezechiel Fogg inst (Reg. Parker, pp. 811 and 1103); granted bef. 16 Aug 1568 advowson of Ripple, Kent to George Durborne (Reg. Parker, p. 841); oc 13 Feb 1561 pat. rect Bonnington, Kent when David Cotton (qv) inst (Reg. Parker, p. 777), still 29 Apr 1572 when John Fleetwood inst (Reg. Parker, p. 1098); son of last, this man Sir Thomas of Ollantigh in Wye, Kent, marr Sir Thomas Moyle’s (qv) youngest da, † 1607 (Hasted, 4, p. 209 and 9, p. 138); maintained almshouse at Wye 1562 (Hasted, 7, p. 360)

Kenall, John (1511-92): ord priest 22 May 1535 to title of Tywardreath priory (DRO,

EDRC 14, unfoliated list of ordinations at end vol.) using disp 26 Apr 1535 to take priest’s orders at age 24 (FOR, p. 24); inst 7 June 1535 vic Wendron, Corn,9 John Arundell, Richard Penrose and John Skewys, pats. (DRO, EDRC 14, fo. 77v)–resig bef. 12 May 1554 (DRO, EDRC 16, fo. 18r); sec chap, BCL 3 June 1540, DCL 17 July 1553 with Thomas Stymp and Thomas White (both qv) (RUO 1, p. 185); pres 25 Apr 1550 vic Gwennap, Corn, D&C Exeter, pat. (ECA, 3551, fo. 97r), inst 27 Apr (DRO, EDRC 14, fo. 136v), vac bef. 13 or 14 May 1564 († or certo modo vacante) (DRO, EDRC 18, fo. 85r and ECA, 3551, fo. 101r); inst 27 Apr 1554 by W. Geffrey (qv) rect Hinton Waldrist, Berk, crown pat. (W&SRO, D1/2/16, Reg. Capon, fo. 54r), comp 28 Sept £21 8d, Peter Power, St Dunstans in the East, gen and Peter Marten, Helston, Corn, tinner, surs (TNA, E 334/4, fo. 200r)–† bef.18 Mar 1592 (W&SRO, D1/2/19, Reg. Coldwell, fo. 1r); comm 11 Jan 1554 as advocate of Cant audience (CCA, DCc, Reg N, fo. 2r-v); adm 17 Jan 1554 Drs Coms, † bef. 23 June 1591 (Squibb, p. 151); deputizing for off. in CC London Mar 1554, 8 June (LMA, DL/ C/607, unfoliated) 9, 16, 22 25 28 31 Oct; 6 15 18 28 Nov 1555; 10, 11, 16 Dec 1555; 8, 16, 22, 29 Jan 1556; 6, 13 22 28 Feb; 5 Mar (may already have been off. for a while, rep. by Darbyshire [qv] by 16 Mar 1556 (LMA, DL/C/608, unfoliated), 21 Oct 1557, 15 19 Nov 1557 surrogate (LMA, DL/C/610, unfoliated); pres 28 May 1554 Ad Roch (CPRPM 1, p. 408)–resig bef. 23 Jan 1560 (Reg. Parker, p. 179) or bef. 3 Feb 1560 (CPREI, 1, p. 221), worth £34 13s (VE 1, p. 107); inst 24 Sept 1554 vic Charyleys Stephen and Denys, Corn,10 John and Joan Wadham, pats. (DRO, EDRC 16, fo. 29v)–certo modo vacante bef. 8 May 1584 (DRO, EDRC 21, fo. 17r); 12 Feb 1555 letter from Pole read in appting ‘ad effectum excommunicandi omnes et singulas personas contumacias’ in PCC (TNA, PROB 29/9, fo. 13r);11 among deputies appted 18 Feb 1555 to N. Harpsfield as vg London with Thomas Stympe (both qv), all appted to replace Harpsfield in comm 6 Mar 1555 (LMA, DL/C/331, fos 179v and 187v); 23 Feb 1555 dean Shoreham (CCA, DCc, Reg N, fos 14v-15v); pres 4 Mar 1555 preb Roch, instal 15 Mar 1556, ?resig bef. Oct 1559 (F3 3, p. 69); resig warden ASC 13 Jan 1556 (CCA, DCc, Reg N, fos 98v-99r), but nothing in BRUO2; proc for Henry Tirack 26 July 1557 (DRO, EDRC 18, fo. 21r); disputed pres 26 Oct 1557 to Eaton Hastings [or Water Eaton], Oxon (CRP, no. 2114; cf. Thomas Wethered), de iure vacante 9 Dec 1575 (W&SRO, D1/2/17, Reg. Gest, fo. 8v); coll 7 Sept 1558 preb Exeter vac by Geffrey (DRO, EDRC 18, fo. 39r and ECA 3552, fo. 132v), distributions 1579-80 to 1591-2 (ECA, 3707); as his chancellor, granted 7 Oct 1558 advowson Ad Worc by Bp Griffith (qv); expressed incredulity on meeting Thomas Darbyshire (qv) outside London that Darbyshire would not swear to supremacy in 1559 (Christopher Haigh, English reformations: religion, politics and society under the Tudors [Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1993], p. 244); inst 7 Feb 1559 rect Radwinter, Ess, Sir William Brooke, Lord Cobham, pat., rep. Richard Mounslowe (qv)–resig bef. 16 Feb (GL, 9531/12/2, fos 206v and 207r; Newcourt 2, p. 479 has resig only); pres 22 Sept 1558

rect St Mabyn, Corn (CPRPM 4, p. 426), inst 10 Feb 1559 (DRO, EDRC 18, fo. 45r)–resig bef. 13 Mar 1584 (DRO, EDRC 21, fo. 16r), undated caveat for his pres (DRO, EDRC 18, unfoliated caveats at end vol.); inst 17 July 1559 8th preb Oxford, crown pat., last oc 11 Feb 1592-† (F3 8, p. 105); inst 16 Nov 1559 rect Mawgan13 (SVI, p. 80)–caveat 4 July 1571 for St Mawgan in Kerreys, Corn (DRO, EDRC 17, unfoliated) when Origer Risdon rep. Edward Risdon, depr (DRO, EDRC 20, fo. 8r); inst 13 Mar 1560 rect St Columb Major, Corn, Lady Elizabeth Arundell, pat., rep. Henry Morgan (qv) (Reg. Parker, p. 217); 28 June 1561 surrogate for Thomas Yale (qv) in Arches (Reg. Parker, p. 782); inst 19 May 1561 Ad Oxford, Arthur Pyttes (qv), et al. by grant from Bp King (qv), pat. (Reg. Parker, p. 255)–† (F3 8, p. 84), as such summoned n.d. (in wake of visitation of 1580) to CC London on privy council’s orders abt separation of keeper and ad’s courts (LPL, Grindal’s Reg., fo. 366r-v); 28 June 1561 sede vacante keeper of Oxford with John Incent (qv) or Pyttes as scribe (Reg. Parker, p. 246), still 10 Oct 1562 (OA, ODP d105, pp. 213, 215) aft. Walter Wright’s death (qv), again with Yale 22 Dec 1568 (Reg. Parker, p. 991), but Kenall acted alone (Reg. Parker, p. 996), still 1569 (OA, ODP d105, p. 247), again as substitute for Yale 22 May 1572 when John Watson, ad Surr (qv) among witns (Reg. Parker, pp. 1001-1002), again 1 Mar 1576 (LPL, Grindal’s Reg., fo. 345r-v); pat. of Ludvan, Corn when pres Henry Tyracke [Tirack] bef. 5 Feb 1562 (DRO, EDRC 18, fo. 75v), caveat for Augustine Stuckley 20 Jan 1562, another for Sir William Paulet 6 Mar 1562 (DRO, EDRC 18, unfoliated caveats at end vol.) and he and marquess of Wiltshire made next pres (DRO, EDRC 21, fo. 10r); comm 16 May 1562 with Yale and John Warner, MD (qv) to visit MCO, Incent, notary (Reg. Parker, pp. 392-4; acts of visitation on pp. 689-717), same day with Yale alone to visit ASC (ibid., p. 717); 1564-6 comm Oxford (Wood, Fasti 1, cols 164, 166 and 170); in comm 3 June 1577 to visit Oxford dioc (LPL, Grindal’s Reg., fos 94v-95r), again 7 June 1580 (LPL, Grindal’s Reg., fos 363v-364r), alone 5 Mar 1589 (LPL, Whitgift’s Reg. I, fo. 304v); inst 23 Sept 1583 rect Silverton, Dev, Nicholas Wadham, Edge, Dev, arm, pat. (DRO, EDRC 21, fo. 11r)–† bef. 21 June 1592 (Hope, ‘Hennessy’, p. 153 from bps’s certificates; Oliver, Antiquities 1, p. 90 gives 23 Sept for next inst); said to have regretted signing supremacy oath and † Catholic (BRUO2); will 13 Aug 1578/prov 22 Apr 159214 (TNA, PROB 11/79): preb of Oxford, places: St Columb, Kent, St Mabyn and Carihaies,15 both Corn, persons: bros Ralph and John Kennall (res legs and execs), legacies: cash (unknown amount), 40s to svts, £3 to poor men’s boxes

Kennys,16 Nicholas: inst 5 Apr 1554 vic Cocking, Suss on depr Anthony Ridshaw (qv) (WSRO, MP 1095, p. 181 from Ep/I/1/16, fo. 99)–depr17 bef. 16 Jan 1558 (WSRO,

MP 1095, p. 192 from Ep/I/1/7, fo. 2), worth £13 6s 8d (VE 1, p. 325); resig bef. 2 Oct 1555 vic Harting, Suss (WSRO, MP 1095, p. 186 from Ep/I/1/6, fo. 109), Nicholas Kynnedy, etc, oc vic from 23 Feb 1543-5 Nov 1553, Kenys or Kemys from same date-20 Apr 1554, David Compton (qv) thereaft. (TSW 2, p. 272); abs & disp 24 Apr 1556 for Cocking, rect Singleton, Suss (CRP, no. 1549a; incorrectly said to have abp’s disp in WSRO, MP 1095, p. 189, vac Singleton bef. 15 Feb 1570 (Reg. Parker, p. 283), worth £6 9s 7d (VE 1, p. 309)

Kent, William, layman: proc 23 Dec 1554 (SVI, p. 85); London dioc, cr 1 Apr 1555 notary, apparently in Linc dioc (CRP, no. 1169), name not in card index of diocesan notaries in LincRO, but 2 other C16 Kents are; ?oc Dec 1555 proc in CC London (LMA, DL/C/608, unfoliated); ?notary at ordinations in London 23 Sept 1558 (GL, 9535/1, fo. 74v); ?will (nothing to say he was a notary) (LincRO, LCO Wills 1585 i, fo. 220r-221v; BRS 28, p. 203; ?copy in Act bk vi, 85 [BRS 52, p. 80]), 12 Mar 1585/ admon 6 Apr 1585, alderman of Linc, burial in ‘my parish church’, 6s 8d to its repair, 2s 6d to Lincoln cath, 40s dole at Linc and suburbs, clothes to wife, her jointure, her dowry, my mansion house for life then to son Richard, if no heirs to second son William, then to youngest son Gregory (to be clergyman), lands in N. Hickersham, Linc to Richard, house in St Michael’s, Linc divided between William and Gregory, or Richard sell and put money to their use, William to be bound apprentice

Key, Richard († bef. 8 Mar 1558): BA 21 July 1522 (RUO 1, p. 125); ?Dur dioc, ord 11 Mar 1525 unben subd Thame (LincRO, Reg. 26, fo. 17r), priest 15 Apr 1525 Salis both to title of Rewley Abbey (W&SRO, D1/2/15, fo. 56r); coll 3 Feb 153219 rect Stilton, Hunt, £6 pension to inc (LincRO, Epis. reg. 27, fo. 239r), vac (†) bef. 10 Apr 1558 (LincRO, Epis. reg. 28, fo. 143rl LI2, no. 588); MA 5 Feb 1532 (RUO 1, p. 125); ?18 Sept 1535 examined ordinands at Linc (LincRO, Epis. reg. 26, fo. 45v); inst 31 Aug 1542 vic Peterb St John Baptist (NoRO, X956/1, fo. 3v; Bridges, Northamptonshire 2, p. 544 citing REP), vac. July 1555 (Longden 8, p. 83); sub for vg Peterb 31 July 1546, again 15 Feb 1547 (NoRO, X956/1, fo. 16v, 19v); coll 2 July 1555 5th preb, Peterb-† bef. 8 Mar 155820 (NoRO, X956/1, fos 59v and 68r); BTh,21 27 Sept 1556 with William Binsley and Thomas Mumford (both qv) to survey value of Peterb’s property for prev ten years (CRP, no. 1704); will 5 Mar 1558/prov 19 June 1559 (Longden, no location given; 5 Mar 1557/prov 19 Jan 1558 acc. BRUO2, p. 325, citing Longden): bur Peterb cath, execs Sir Edward Eyre22 and Sir Thomas Howlett, BRUO2 adds: books ‘to the library within the house of Peterborough’

Key, Thomas († bef. 20 May 1572 [BRUO2]): adm 1525 fell. ASC-ca. 1543, elec mr 1523 Nov 1561-† (BRUO2, pp. 325-26); BA 2 July 1526, MA 17 July 1531 (RUO 1, p. 143); elec registrar of university May 1535, dismissed for negligence 1552 and imprisoned aft. altercation (RUO 2:1, pp. 249-250); appt 18 Feb 1549 mr Ewelme hosp, Oxon (BRUO2); inst 13 Dec 1551 rect Steeple Langford or Great Steeple, Wilt, Sir John Harcourt, pat. (W&SRO, D1/2/16, Reg. Capon, fo. 46r)–† bef. 9 Aug 1572 (W&SRO, D1/2/17, Reg. Gest, fo. 2v), as such 20 Feb 1557 pres certificate of repairs

(W&SRO, D1/39/1/1, fo. 144av), 14 July 1558 in Henry Mylwarde’s (?qv) house in St Mary (prob. Salis) named procs incl Richard Holte (qv) and John Powell (?qv) (W&SRO, D1/39/1/2, fo. 5v); abs 10 Sept 1555 holding ben without orders (CRP, no. 1368); 23 Mar 1557 as rect Upton Lovell, Wilt declared contumacious (W&SRO, D1/39/1/1, fo. 150ar), vac bef. 24 Dec 1571 (Reg. Parker, p. 989); pres by crown 7 June 1559 rect Newington, Oxon, ben claimed by Seth Holland (qv) who failed to answer summons for 16 June 1559, decree for Key 1 July 1559 (SVI, p. 91), another suit over possession with Clement Parratt (qv), resolved in Parratt’s favor 24 Oct 1561 (Reg. Parker, p. 383); 8 Jan 1560 inst Stratton preb, Salis, crown pat. (SCAB 14:2, p. 116), pronounced contumacious 12 June 1565 (F3 6, p. 75); inst 1563 rect Tredington, Worc-† (BRUO2); involved 1566 in dispute over which university older (BRUO2); will dated 8 May 1572 (OU Archives, Reg. Cancell GG, fo. 219v): execs William Lee, BCL24 and Henry Crosse, beadle of Oxford, Opera Aristotelis cum Theoprasto [sic] greco to ASC, ‘Expositions’ of Aristotle in Greek and Latin in my study to University Coll., Opera Luciani in Greek and Latin and Opera Aristotelis with commentary to cousin Key of CCC, books to svt Rice, rest to William Crosse plus bed, horse and 40s to svt Merrick, 20s to Edward Myllow, silk and velvet to William Rickott, 10s to goodwife Randall, John Good, beadle and William Sylke (?), BCL, ovs; bur 20 May 1572 north aisle Oxford St Peter’s in the East (BRUO2); list of MSS owned acc. Bale in BRUO2, appendix B; Bale for works; Wood 1, cs. 397-400

Kiffin, Geoffrey: LLB,25 coll 25 Nov 1551 vic Llanrwst, Den (NLW, SA/MB/14, fo. 24v; Willis’s St Asaph 1, pp. 325 and 347); abs 22 June 1557 illegit, disp orders and to hold (CRP, no. 2048a)

King, Gregory († 2 Elizabeth): of Gaddesby, Leic, formerly canon of Leicester,26 pensioned 4 Nov 1538 (L&P 14:1, no. 1355, p. 598) on £6, unmarr, curate of Gaddesby worth £5 (Hodgett, LRS, p. 84); inst 18 Sept 1556 vic Barkby, Leic, Elizabeth Stanfield, widow and exec Richard Stanfield, pat. (CRP, no. 1690), vac (†) bef. 21 Aug 1560 (LI2, no. 934), worth £10 (Foster, Lincoln, p. 40); signed (Gee, p. 127); bur at Barkby 2 Elizabeth (Hodgett, LRS, p. 141)

King, John: BA 1520, MA 1523, fell. Peterhouse 1521, bursar 1524, ord deac Linc 21 Mar 1523, priest 4 Apr (AlC 3, p. 19); coll 13 May 1532 rect Bocking, Ess (LPL, Reg. Warham, fo. 415r), vac bef. 4 Aug 1565 (Reg. Parker, p. 819; correctly cited by fo. but dated May in Newcourt 2, p. 69), signed ca. 1560 (LPL, Carte misc 13/2/57, fo. 5v); MA, abs & disp 24 Feb 1557 for Bocking, rects St Augustine at Paul’s gate27 and Great Bardfield,28 Ess (CRP, no. 1877); inst 18 Mar 155729 Great Bardfield, William Bendlowes,30 sjt at law, pat.–resig bef. 19 Nov 1557 (GL, 9531/12/2, fos 196v and 199r), its farm by predecessor confirmed 13 Nov 1556 and 26-27 Mar 1557 (GL, 9531/12/2, fos 135v-137v), worth £10 (VE 1, p. 439); vac St Augustine bef. ca. 9

July 1563, ?when vic Black Notley, Ess (GL, 9531/13/1, fos 29r and 31v), vac (depr another inc) bef. 9 Oct 1570 (GL, 9531/13/1, fo. 156v)

King, Nicholas: ?ord subd 20 Dec 1555, deac 21 Mar, priest 4 Apr 1556 London to title of St John’s Hospital, Bedford (GL, 9535/1, fos 53r, 57r, 57v);31 15 Jan 1558 sued by Thomas Lucy at Bedford assizes over advowson of Wilden als Welden, Bed, later pres and inst (CRP, no. 2161); inst 18 Mar 1559 rect Sawtry St Andrew, Hunt, George Bolles, gent, pat. (LincRO, Epis. reg. 28, fo. 149v; LI2, no. 704); inst 18 Mar 1559 rect Sawtry All Saints [Sawtry Moyne; VE 4, p. 269], Hunt, Henry Cromwell, esq, pat. (LincRO, Epis. reg. 28, fo. 150r; LI2, no. 705)–† bef. 12 Oct 1560, when rep. in both by Nicholas Lenton (LI2, nos 970 and 971)32

King, Robert, bp of Oxford († 4 Dec 1557 [F3]): ?2nd son William King, Thame, Oxon; monk of Rewley abbey, OCist (ODNB); BTh ?30 Feb 1507; DTh 28 Feb 1519 (RUO 1, p. 47); bef. 15 May 1515 abbot Bruern, Oxon (RUO)–resig 1527 when moved to Thame (ODNB);33 cons 7 Jan 1527 bp Rheon (Eubel, p. 285)–promotion to Oxford, suffragan to bp of Linc in charge of Ads Oxford, Buckingham, Huntingdon and Bedford (LincRO, Epis. reg. 26, fo. 135v); oc 1530 vic Charlbury, Oxon (ODNB); coll 12 Aug 1533 rect Middleton Stoney, Oxon-resig bef. 4 Apr 1534 (LincRO, Epis. reg. 27, fos 192v and 193r); instal by proxy 15 Apr 1535 Crackpole St Mary preb, Linc (LincCA 1, p. 191)–resig bef. 18 Dec 1536 (LincRO, Epis. reg. 27, fo. 12r), worth £4 8s 2d (F3 9, p. 58); coll 28 Nov 1536 Biggleswade preb, Linc (LincRO, Epis. reg. 27, fo. 12r), instal 2 Dec (LincCA 2, pp. 2-3)–promotion to Oxford (F3 9, p. 40), leased 12 Dec 1542 for twelve years at £50 p.a.34 (LincCA 2, p. 63); ?inst 5 Feb 1537 rect Somerton, Oxon (LincRO, Epis. reg. 27, fo. 196r); elec 22 Dec 1537 abbot of Augustinian house of Oseney by Cromwell’s pat.–surrender 17 Nov 1539 (ODNB); disp 31 Dec 1537 pluralism, Rheon and Thame plus any other ben and headship of any house (FOR, p. 118); roy chap, appt bp Oxford 1 Sept 1542 (L&P 17, no. 881.3), surrendered see 20 May 1545 (ibid., 20:1, no. 775), re-granted 26 Jan 1546, patent issued 4 Nov (ibid., 21:2, no. 476.9)–† 4 Dec 1557 (F3 8, p. 75), income 20 Dec 1543 £354 16s 3d (LPLCR, fo. 54v); inst 26 Mar 1550 rect Newton Tony, Wilt, Elizabeth Rede, widow, pat.–resig bef. 28 June 1554 (W&SRO, D1/2/16, Reg. Capon, fos 41r and 58r), worth £17 14s 4d (TNA, E 334/3, fo. 129r); identified by Foxe as persecutor ([1570], p. 2301) but prob. formulaic since list also incl the octogenarian William Peto who never even became bp; will 9 June 1557/admon 28 May 1559 to nephews Phillip and Edmond King (TNA, PROB11/42B, fo. 102r): places: Oxford, Thame, Sydenham, all Oxon, Tovysye [unided], persons: scholars of Oxford, Edmond King, Arthur King, Thomas King’s chil, other bros’ chil (res legs), Robert Cooke, Thomas King (exec), rel Robert Colmer, Walter Wright (qv) (exec), Nicholas Locke, ‘dear friend’ Dr [William] Chedsey (qv), legacies: cash (£92), doles (£23), mitre to cath, gown, bur. in Oxford, observing month’s mind

King, Thomas: inst 11 July 1554 rect Kil y Maen Llwyd or Cilymanellwyd, Pem, crown pat. (‘St David’s registers’, p. 51), vac bef. 1561 (Willis, Bangor, p. 264); disp 29 June 1555 for it and Llan Sadwrn, Carm35 (CRP, no. 1259)

Kingeston, William († 15/26 Aug 1567): Premonstratensian of Tupholme, ord deac 7 Mar/Apr [sic, but impossible; prob. 17 Apr] 1529 (LincRO, Reg. 26, fo. 24r); since not among 4 named canons at suppression,36 perhaps als William Laceby, disp 7 July 1535 to hold ben (FOR, pp. 69 and 24); comp 5 Jan 1543 vic Minting, Linc £4 17s 1d, William Robynson, Lambeth, tailor and Thomas Taillor, Stanley, Linc, carpenter, surs (TNA, E 334/2, fo. 129r), still bef. 14/16 Jan 156237 when BA,38 unmarr priest, educ, resident, non-preacher, 2 bens, same entry for Gautby, except non-resident and no hospitality (CCCC, MS 97, fo. 84r); comp 14 June 1554 rect Gautby, Linc £5 10s 11d, crown pat., John Welcome, Linc and Thomas Spycer, Orford, Suff, yeom, surs (TNA, E 334/4, fo. 165r), inst 16 June (LincRO, Epis. reg. 28, fos 103v and 173r; LI2, nos 77 and 783; cf. also no. 723), vac (†) bef. 5 Sept 1567 (LincRO, Epis. reg. 28, fo. 9r; LI1, no. 69); abs 2 July 1555 schism and apostasy, disp pluralism (CRP, no. 1268); signed (Gee, p. 127); will 15 Aug 1567/prov 26 Aug (LincRO, LCO Wills, 1567, fos 81v-2v; BRS 28, p. 205): bur Minting, 30s dole at Linc, gown to Elizabeth Smyth of Linc, 10s p.a. for two years to prisoners in its castle, 3s 3d to cath, all my property of hers to Elizabeth Crabtree plus 20s, 40s to cousin Agnes Stow, 10s each to cousins Agnes Welcome and Alice Hauchart, 13s 4d dole at Bardney, Linc (as are all other places) and Sotheven [?Southrey], 40d at Bucknall, Horsington, Waddingworth, Hatton, Langton, Sotby, Great Sturton, Baumber, and Edlington, 5s at Thimbleby, 20s at Horncastle, 3s 4d to my poor kinswoman Roger[?’s] Wife [sic] at Horncastle, 40s to John Dean plus all his property I have, 10s to Richard Patewnie beyond wages, 10s each ab. wages to my svts Dorothy Bellusse (and dishes) and Cecily Tompsonne, 12d to godchil, 20 lambs to godson William Birkenshaw for educ, William Wright (qv), parson of Horsington39 to have charge of him, but if Birkenshaw dies within year, half to Wright, rest dole at Minting and Gautby, much livestock to cousin Anthony Clidderowe plus 3 yards of cloth bought at Linc, old gowns modified for three widows, 4d to every poor cottager in Minting and Gautby and one strike of corn against Christmas, 3s 4d to cousin William Kingeston of Frampton nr Boston, Linc and his sis, 6s 8d to cousin Kingeston of Winthorpe in the marsh and one pot of honey, books to cousins Thomas Fulbeck and William Welcome, residue to cousin John Welcome alderman of Linc, and Robert Fethersnaw and Robert Howker of Minting, execs, Wright and Anthony Palfrayman, merchant of Linc,40 ovs, 20s each, dinner to all neighbors in Minting and Gautby at funeral or next day, ewe to svt Andrew Wade, to cousin Agnes Clydderowe 6s 8d, parsons of Hatton, Waddingworth and Langton each 12d, gold royal each to Lord Willoughby and wife, 3s 4d to Richard Dobisonne, barber of Horncastle, 12

ewes and 12 lambs to John and John Smith sons of John Smith [sic!], and 20s between them, younger John to be in Hugh Royster’s custody until of age, ‘great tree of timber’ to be used for seats in chancel, 2 quarters of corn to Isabel Hewitsonne of Asterby, bushel wheat, rye, barley and pease this year, other quarter next year

Kingston, Sir Anthony (ca. 150841-14 Apr 1556 [ODNB]): son Sir William Kingston, Elmore and Painswick, Glos; marr 1) 1524, Dorothy, da Robert Harpur, 2) 1537, Mary, da Sir John Gainsford, Crowhurst, Surr, and widow Sir William Courtenay, Powderham, Dev; keeper Berkeley Castle and steward of lordship 1531; sheriff Glos 1533-4, again 1550-1; jp 1536; commanded Glos contingent against Pilgrimage of Grace; esq of body 1539; MP for Glos 1539, 1542, 1545, 1547, 1553, Oct 1555 as knight marshal; knighted 2 May 1540; fought in France 1544; keeper of the rolls 1546 (ODNB); ‘notorious’ role in suppressing western rebellion 1549 (HPT 2, pp. 468-70); oc 1551 pat. Quenington and Miserden, both Glos (‘Hooper’s visitation’, pp. 113 and 114); criticized by Bp Hooper (qv) for adultery 1552 and fined £500 for striking him (HPT); Feb 1555 comm to execute Hooper (qv) when Kingston allegedly thanked Hooper for saving him from adultery (Foxe, 1563, pp. 1054, 1059 and 1060); Lent disp 12 Aug 1555 (CRP, no. 1342); in Tower late 1555 aft. trying to prevent passage of bill abt exiles (HPT); involved in Dudley conspiracy, arrested Apr 1556, questioned in Glouc 8-9 Apr, † en route to London (ODNB); no will and niece Frances, wife of Sir Henry Jerningham (qv) inherited (HPT)

Kirby or Kyrkby, Richard: oc 1518 rect Wilden als Welden, Bed (BRUO2, p. 686)–† bef. 15 Jan 1558 (CRP, no. 2161), worth £13 6s 8d in 1522 (Subsidy, p. 209)

Kitchin, Anthony (ca. 1477-† 31 Oct 156342 [ODNB]):43 als Dunstan, BA 1511, MA 1514 (AtC 1, p. 238 and 3, p. 99); OSB, Westm Abbey novice 1511-2; Glouc Coll., adm 1515, vac 1524, prior studentium ca. 1526, still 1528; ord deac 28 Mar 1517; BTh 1525, DTh 29 July 1538 (BRUO2, p. 330); abbot Eynsham 10 May 153044dissolution 4 Dec 1538 when pensioned on £133 6s 8d pension, disp 31 Jan 1539 (BRUO2, p. 330 and FOR, p. 172) and granted roy chap (ODNB); elec 26 Mar 1545 bp Llan, cons 3 May, temps 8 May, faulted by ‘eminent successor’45 for ruining see’s finances (BRUO2, p. 330), comp 13 May £109 4s 8d (TNA, E 334/3, fo. 53v); abs 26 Jan 1555 schism and heresy (CRP, no. 1042);46 comm at J. Hooper’s (qv) trial (Foxe, 1563, pp. 1054-55; 1570, pp. 1678-79; 1576, pp. 1432-33; 1583, p. 1506);47 condemned Rawlins White to be burnt at Cardiff aft. persistent efforts to induce him to recant (Foxe, 1570, pp. 1726-27; 1576, pp. 1480 [recte 1474] –1463 [recte 1475]; 1583, p. 1558); took oath of allegiance to Elizabeth in altered form; refused to act at Parker’s cons; bur Matharn, Mon; worth £109 at death (ODNB)

Knell [sic], Kendall, William: svt of Henry Courtney, marquess of Exeter (qv); ‘professional troublemaker’ in Corn engaged in constant litigation in Star Chamber (quotation from John Chynoweth in J. P. D. Cooper, Propaganda and the Tudor state:

political culture in the Westcountry [Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2003], pp. 142-43 and 161-62), charge recycled 1538 (L&P 13:2, no. 961); imprisoned in Tower 1531 for illegal retaining on Exeter’s behalf (L&P 13:2, no. 804n); jp 1538 Corn (L&P 13:1, no. 384.63); executed bef. 16 Mar 1539 aft. having boasted of immunity from roy justice (L&P 14:1, no. 532); attainted 19 May 1539 with Pole (CRP, no. 268a)

Knight, Catherine: Thornham, Kent, als Tynley, aged, mother of Robert Tynley (Foxe);48 sentence 11 June 1558 by Harpsfield (BL, Harl. 421, fo. 96r); significavit 7 July 1558, order for execution 22 Aug with Christopher Brown, John Cornford, John Hurst and Alicia Snoth (all qv) (CRP, no. 2262); executed ‘abt six days before the death of Queen Mary’ and Foxe therefore faulted Harpsfield for rushing condemnation (1563, pp. 1684-85 and 1469)

Knight, Hugh: clk of Oxford dioc, disp 7 June 1557 orders (CRP, no. 2034d); undated note that conferred by Chetham (qv) (OA, ODP d105, p. 96)

Knoller, Richard and Robert: Robert promoted office testamentary case 15 Mar 1558 v. William Baldwin, Herne, Kent (CCA, DCB, Y.2.19, fo. 68r); lessees 20 Apr [1558?], manor of Shillwingford,49 Kent (CRP, no. 2219b); Robert, will prov 31 Oct 1582 (Kentish wills, pp. 83-84): Herne, Kent, yeom, son Richard to whom willed lease, bro Thomas, son George, property in Herne, Reculver, Chislet, Westbere Hothe and Sturry, Kent

Knychgt [sic], Robert (ca. 1519-?bef. 28 Mar 1578): BA 2 Oct 1540, fell. BCO bef. 1545, still 1550; MA 8 Feb 1546 (BRUO2, p. 331); comp 26 June 1545 rect Riseholme, Linc £3 12s, Robert Coosyn, vic St Lawrence Jewry and William Frances, Middle Temple, surs (TNA, E 334/3, fo. 56v), inst 29 June, BCO, pat. (BRUO2), vac bef. 31 Jan 1575 (LER, p. 75); Linc dioc, disp orders (CRP, no. 1186b); ?inst50 27 Jan 1569 rect Slindon, Suss, Anthony Kempe of Ollantigh, Kent, pat. [see Sir Thomas Kempe] (Reg. Parker, p. 844)–† bef. 30 July 1578 (LPL, Grindal’s Reg., fo. 521r), worth £14 13 (VE 1, p. 311), ?this man resig bef. 29 Apr 1569 rect Cold Waltham, Suss (Reg. Parker, p. 279), worth £6 2s 9d (VE 1, p. 309); ?inst 26 Sept 1558 by proxy Gagwin [Gavin] Hodshon (qv) rect Ellington, Hunt, Richard Byddell, gent pat. by grant of Edmund Marten and Thomas Barbor, execs of Sir Thomas Audley (LincRO, Epis. reg. 28, fo. 145r; LI2, no. 619)–resig 18 Apr 1575 (LER, p. 115), had curate in 1571-2 (Foster, Lincoln, p. 24); MA of Balliol, oc 1576 rect S. Kilworth, Leic,51 aged 57, worth £10 8s 11 1/2d, resident, lord keeper, pat., unmarr, orders from Bonner (qv) with disp from Pole (see ab.), unlic preacher (Foster, Lincoln, p. 39), vac bef. 28 Mar 1578 (LER, p. 40)

Knyghte, Thomas (ca. 1512-bef. 4 Nov 80): inst 22 Jan 1553 rect Harpole, Ntht (NoRO, X956/1, fo. 39v), witn to wills there 1554 and 1556, still 1561 (Longden 8, p. 127), Francis Tanfelde pat. 1552 (Bridges, Northamptonshire 1, p. p. 518), worth £16 16s (TNA, E 334/3, fo. 16v); inst 21 Oct 1556 vic Wormleighton, Warw, Sir John Spenser52 of Althorpe, Ntht, pat. (LRO, B/A/1/15, fo. 9v; Dugdale, Warwickshire, p. 374 giving

date of next inst as 1575 from same source), still aft. 28 Jan 1562 when unmarr, uneduc, resident, also held Harpole (CCCC, MS 97, fo. 29v)–resig bef. 16 Apr 1575 (LRO, B/A/1/15, fo. 46r and LRO, B/A/2ii/1, p. 30), worth £6 13s 4d in 1554 (TNA, E 334/4, fo. 196v); disp 5 Feb 1557 pluralism (CRP, no. 1835); inst 1754 Apr 1575 rect Wick Dyke, Ntht (NE, p. 312 now part of Wicken), aged 64 in 1576 (Lambeth charters) when exigue erudicionis, bur Wicken 4 Nov 1580 (Longden 8, p. 127)

Kyffin, Robert († bef. 15 June 1557): sup BCnL 9 June 1527 (RUO 1, p. 148); comp 26 Apr 1536 rect Appleton, Berk (BRUO2, p. 333)–† (inquisitio post mortem); BCnL, disp55 11 Mar 1557 pluralism, it and vic Letcomb Regis, Berk [now Oxon] (CRP, no. 1899); called John, inst 31 Mar 1557 Letcomb Regis, D&C Winch, pat. (W&SRO, D1/2/16, Reg. Capon, fo. 75v); inquisitio post mortem 15 June 1557 (BerksRO, D/ A1/88/22; BRS 8, p. 103: C. 98): rect Appleton, household goods, ag pro and animals incl 4 horses, total £26 6s 2d

Kyrbye or Kirkby, Robert († bef. 16 Dec 1570):56 comp 17 July 1546 rect Bladon, Oxon £14 8s 3d, Ranulph Kirkby, St Martin in the Fields, Mdx, roy palfreyman and Stephen Godwyn, [Sir?] William Fitzwilliam’s household, surs (TNA, E 334/3, fo. 93v), inst 20 July (OA, ODP d105, p. 119), vac (†) bef. 16 Dec 1570 (Reg. Parker, p. 996); disp 12 Apr 1557 pluralism, Bladon and rect Stonesfield, Oxon (CRP, no. 1942)

Kytching, Kitchin, Kitchen, Richard: inst 18 July 1557 rect Benefield, Ntht, John Sowche (qv), arm, pat. (CRP, no. 2067), vac bef. 17 Mar 1559 (Bridges, Northamptonshire 2, p. 398; cf. Longden 8, p. 113)