P–Q

Pace, Richard (?1483-28 June 1536): prob. b. Winch, Hant; bp of Winch Thomas Langton’s secretary; to Padua ca. 1498 where taught by Niccolò Leonico Tomeo1 (qv/5) (ODNB) and Cuthbert Tunstall and William Latimer (both qv) (Wood 1, c. 64); to Bologna by 1501 where taught by Paolo Bombace; at Ferrara by end 1508 where student of Niccolò Leoniceno and friendly with Celio Calcagnini whom introduced to Erasmus (qv/5) to whom became close (ODNB); friends also with Germans Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa and Ulrich von Hutten and prob. in contact with Johann Goritz’s Roman academy;2 other Italian friends incl Gasparo Contarini, Pietro Bembo, Gianmatteo Giberti, Polydore Vergil (all qv/5), Marco Musuro, Alberto Pio, Francesco Maria Molza, Niccolò Guideco, and Alessandro Alessandrini;3 into Cardinal Bainbridge’s service, secretary by Mar 1511 and in charge of editing pasquinades for Bainbridge as pat. of Pasquino; regarded by Venetians as native;4 ord bef. 1 May 1510 (ODNB);5 inst 4 June 1510 N. Muskham preb, Southwell-13 July 1514, worth £31 9s 5 1/2d in 1547 (Southwell minster, pp. 151, 152 and 156); prob. became friendly with Thomas More (qv) abt then; Bainbridge’s conclavist 1513 (ODNB); coll 20 May 1514 ad Dor (F2 3, p. 8)–elec 19 Jan 15236 dean of Salis-† wrb Peter Vannes (qv/5) (F2 3, p. 5); entered Wolsey’s (qv) service 1515 and returned to England in Apr; published at Rome 1514 or 1515 trans of Plutarch and Lucian; constantly on usually unsuccessful diplomatic missions 1515-25; Henry VIII’s private secretary 1516 (ODNB); Lichfield treas 1516-22 (Old DNB);7 De fructu qui ex doctrina percipitur (Basel: Johan Froben, 1517), dedicated to John Colet, stirred controversy arising out of failure to understand it as ‘pedagogical miscellany’ for London school, also espoused version of conciliarism; collaborated with More in defense of Erasmus; gave Latin oration 3 Oct 1518 on occasion of Treaty of London (ODNB); coll 16 Feb 1519 ad Colchester-elec as dean (F2 5, p. 14); coll 21 Mar 1519 preb Exeter cath (F2 9, p. 63)–resig bef. 25 July 1527 wrb Pole (CRP, no. 47); inst 12 May 1519 vic Stepney, Mdx, William Kempe, rect, pat. (GL, 9531/9, fo. 80v)–resig bef. 18 June 1527 (GL, 9531/10, fo. 24r); coll 22 Oct 1519 Finsbury preb, London (GL, 9531/9, fo. 81v)–resig bef. 25 June 1527 (GL, 9531/10, fo. 24v); elec 25 Oct 15198 dean London-† (F2 5, p. 7); inst 4 Feb 1519 rect

Barwick in Elmet, W. York (Old DNB); offered Apr 1520 stipend for Greek lecture at Cantab, but never took up appt (ODNB); coll 14 Nov 1520 rect Llangurig, Mont (Wood 1, c. 65n);11 1521 trans John Fisher’s sermon against Luther with preface by Nicholas Wilson (both qv) for dispatch to pope (ODNB); coll 16 Dec 1521 and 10 Dec 1522 Coombe and Harnham preb, Salis-elec as dean (F2 3, p. 47); dedicated 1522 trans of Plutarch, De avaritia to Cardinal Campeggi (qv/5) and De garrulitate to Tunstall (qv) (ODNB); oc12 1 June 1522 dean Exeter-resig 8 July 1527 wrb Pole (F2 9, p. 5); Leonico ded Aristotle’s Parva naturalia to Pace (1523); center of circle in Venice/Padua in 1520s incl Pole, Thomas Starkey and Thomas Lupset (both qv/5), sometime Pace’s secretary (CRP, nos 13, 26, 29, 31, 33, 35, 36, 37 and ODNB); Pole recommended Romolo Amaseo (qv/5) to him in 1524 (CRP, no. 24); 1523-4 supported Constable Bourbon’s army against France and faulted Wolsey for failing to provide funds; returned to London Nov 1525 when retired to Syon abbey where allegedly learned Hebrew as well as Chaldean and Aramaic in a few months; controversy over inspiration of Septuagint with Fisher, but persuaded by him to oppose divorce; Wolsey increasingly hostile, esp. bec of large library;13 imprisoned 1527 and tried by Wolsey and Thomas Howard, 3rd duke of Norfolk (qv); freed late 152914 but mistreated while in confinement for insanity perhaps also by Stephen Gardiner (qv); retired until † to Stepney where bur (ODNB)

Pachet, Packet, Paget, Thomas: of Leicester, cr 25 Feb 1555 notary, Linc dioc (CRP, no. 1082); 5 Aug 1555 registrar ad Leicester (LincCA 3, p. 128)

Pachet or Paget, Rosan or Rose: professed ca. 1518 at Syon; of Leicester, pensioned 12 Dec 1539 on ten marks or £6 (Hodgett, LRS, pp. 86 and 143); sis at refounding 23 Feb 1557, prioress 1557 (CRP, no. 1873); † at Leicester 11 Jan 1573 (Hodgett, LRS, p. 143); prob. rel last

Packard, Thomas: from St Dunstan’s, fell. NCO 9 June 1546-53, BCL 6 Nov 1553 (RUO 1, pp. 222 and 339); ord subd 22 Dec 1553, priest 23 Dec to title of £10 in lands and tenements of William Ermested (qv) in Addingham, W. York (GL, 9535/1, fos 20v, 21r and 22v); coll 8 Mar 1554 vic Laughton, Suss (WSRO, Ep/I/1/6, fo. 98r; MP 1095, p. 181), vac bef. 2 May 1560 (WSRO, Ep/I/1/7, fo. 16v), worth £9 11s 1d (VE 1, p. 340); 9 Feb 1555 dean S. Malling (CCA, DCc, Reg N, fo. 6r-v), reappt 1 June 1556, comm to visit (CRP, no. 1579), appt comm 8 March 1558 (CRP, no. 2190),15 sede vacante dean 16 Feb 1559 (CCA, DCc, Reg U2, fos 1r-2v); pres 13 Feb 1555

rect Rype, Suss (CPRPM 3, p. 110), inst 16 Feb (WSRO, Ep/I/1/6, fo. 114v)–depr bef. 11 July 1560 (WSRO, Ep I/1/7, fo. REF), worth £11 10s (VE 1, p. 340); proc 26 Sept 1555ff. in defamation case (WSRO, Ep/II/9/1, fos 91r, 92v); coll 22 Oct 1558 Bargham preb, Chich (WSRO, MP 1095, p. 194 from Ep/I/1/7, fo. 11r), signed oath 24 Oct (Peckham, no. 577)–depr bef. 6 Dec 1560 (Peckham, no. 620), worth £10 2s 7d (VE 1, p. 302)

Paget, Anne, Lady: wife of Sir William (qv), abs 26 July 1555 schism (CRP, no. 1316); da and sole heir of Henry Preston, esq, son and heir of Lawrence Preston, of Preston, E. York, 4 sons and 6 das, bur 15 Feb 1587 at W. Drayton, Mdx (Shaw, Staffordshire 1, p. 215); will 1 Dec 1585/prov 4 May 1588 (TNA, PROB 11/72; PCC 32 Rutl; BRS 25, p. 313): places: Harmondsworth, Surr, Iver, Buck, Marlowe, Buck, St Dunstan’s in the West, St Clement Temple Bar, London Whitefriars, Fleetstreet, Whitwell [unided], Cantab, persons: son Thomas Paget, his son William Paget, da Lady Lee [Anne Paget, qv], her husband Sir Henry Lee (qv), da Lady Grisselde Waldegrave [Griselde Paget, qv], her husband Sir William Waldegrave, godda Lady Windsor, grandda Mary Coles, her husband William Colles, esq, late da Eleanor [Paget, qv], her husband Jerome Pallmer, esq, svts (Thomas Newton, chambermaid Bridgett), Robert Staunford, William Spanyard, Lawrance Banaster, Mary Gerrarde, her husband William Gerrard, Charles Allen, his da Anne Allen, her chil (incl Charles and Marie), Robert Banckes, Giles Rowe, Frances Eyer, steward Robert Wells, Roger Manners, esq, William Twinniho, esq, Edmond Kedermister, esq, John Skidmore, esq, gent petitioner to the queen (ovs), Thomas Farmer, esq of the Middle Temple (ovs), legacies: cash (well over £294 6s 8d), year’s wages to svts, doles (incl 2s each to 7 poor sis and their porter at Whitefriars), real estate, plate, jewelry, 477 gold beads, 109 gold pipes, household goods, coach w/ horses, gold tablet w/ picture of Christ and crystal crucifix ‘with the images of our Lady and St John standing on each side’; [codicil, 27 Jan 1587]: William Paget ‘shall not, will not or otherwise cannot take his educ and bringing up with the said Sir William Waldegrave, Dame Griselde his wife and the Lady Lee my das or otherwise by their appointment’, gifts and legacies for his educ void, money and profits put in stock, paid to him at 24

Paget, Anne: da Sir William and Lady Anne, abs 26 July 1555 schism (CRP, no. 1316); marr Sir Henry Lee (qv) (Shaw, Staffordshire 1, p. 215; qv)

Paget, Charles (ca. 1546-Feb 1612 [ODNB]): younger son Sir William Paget (qv) (ODNB); abs 26 July 1555 schism (CRP, no. 1316); matric 27 May 1559 GCC; adm 9 Oct 1560 Middle Temple; inherited lordship of Weston upon Trent, Derby and other property; member Trinity Hall 1564; into exile in France ca. 1581 where became agent for Mary, queen of Scots; mysterious trip to England in 1583 when prob. advised certain nobles against cooperation with Robert Persons; caught up in both Throckmorton (aft. which advised Mary to more caution) and Babington plots and attainted 1587; in Brussels 1588-98; pension from Philip II; continued friction with Persons; prepared to do deal for ‘a degree of religious toleration’; supported 1594 Owen Lewis’s candidacy to succeed Cardinal Allen; ‘enthusiastically’ supported appellants against Archpriest George Blackwell; returned to Paris 1598; attainder reversed aft. James I’s accession and lands recovered 13 July 1603 plus roy pension

£200 p.a.; † prob. at Weston upon Trent; will: TNA, PROB 11/119 (ODNB); see AtC 3, pp. 53-57 and 106

Paget, Dorothy: da Sir William, abs 26 July 1555 schism (CRP, no. 1316); marr Sir Thomas Willoughby, Wollaton, Nott (Shaw, Staffordshire 1, p. 215)

Paget, Eleanor: da Sir William, abs 26 July 1555 schism (CRP, no. 1316); marr 1) Jerome Palmer, esq. and 2) Sir Roland Clerk (ibid.)

Paget, Ethelrede:17 da Sir William, abs 26 July 1555 schism (CRP, no. 1316); marr Sir Christopher Alen (qv) (ibid.)

Paget, Griselde: da Sir William, abs 26 July 1555 schism (CRP, no. 1316); marr 1) Sir Thomas River, Chippenham, Camb and 2) Sir William Waldgrave, Smallbridge, Suff (ibid.)

Paget, Henry (1536/7-28 Dec 1568): 1st son Sir William; godson of Edward VI’s tutor Richard Cox; poorly educ (HPT 3, p. 42); KB at Mary’s coronation; 26 at father’s †; marr Katherine da of Sir Henry Knevet, Buckenham, Norf,18 one da (Shaw, Staffordshire 1, pp. 215-216); MP Arundel 1555, Lichfield 1559 and 1563 (HPT); abs 26 July 1555 schism (CRP, no. 1316); succeeded 9 June 1563 father as 2nd Lord Paget (HPT); will 27 Nov 1568/prov 4 May 1569 (TNA, PROB 11/51, fo. 70r PCC 11 Sheffeld; BRS 18, p. 232; extracts in Shaw): bur W. Drayton, Mdx, £20 dole, tomb for self and parents (both qv), 500 marks to mother Anne, debts paid by Thomas Paget (qv), Henry Knyvett, John Vaughan and Richard Cupper (piece of plate worth £10 each) from lands in St Clement Danes par, if no male heir £500 to da Elizabeth incl if wife delivers another girl, furniture in mansion houses of Paget Place and W. Drayton or Beaudesert and Burton, Staff to bros Thomas and Charles (qv), if male heir, annual rent to Thomas of £16 13s 4d from manor of Bromley, Staff, all books to bros unless has son, £100 to Henry Allen, son Sir Christopher Allen (qv), £50 to Thomas Newton, £16 13s 4d to Eleanor Griffith’s [?wife or Edward] chil, 7 named svts between 20 marks and £10, others 2 years wages or if unwaged 40s, tithes of Longdon, Berkswich and Whittington, Staff to persons ‘who are inheritable’ to mansion house of Beaudesert for better hospitality, profits of rect of Little [?E or W] Tilbury, Ess to Robert Wells for 40 years, bro-in-law Sir Henry Lee (qv) bound in 200 marks to maintain wife, all plate, furniture and household stuff to wife Lady Katherine, res leg and sole exec, remit £30 debt to John King, gyrfalcon to Mr Edward of queen’s privy chamber, gelding to George Throckmorton, codicil 13 Nov 1568: attached lease of Harmondsworth rect in interests of maintaining hospitality, ovs: bro Thomas, Henry Knevet, John Vaughan and Richard Cooper

Paget, Joan: da Sir William, abs 26 July 1555 schism (CRP, no. 1316); marr Sir Thomas Kitson, Hengrave, Suff (Shaw, Staffordshire 1, p. 215)

Paget, Thomas, 3rd Baron Paget (ca. 1544-90): 2nd son Sir William and Lady Anne Paget (both qv); abs 26 July 1555 schism (CRP, no. 1316); inst 4 Mar 1559 Whittington and Berkswick preb, Lichfeld, father, pat. (qv) (Reg. Parker, p. 223), comp 5 Mar, William Walkenden (qv) leased preb 21 Oct (F3 10, pp. 73-74); matric 27 May 1559 GCC; adm 1561 Middle Temple; succeeded 1568; mentioned by Ridolfi ca. 1570, but used in Staff government, living mainly at Beaudesert House; marr ca. 1570 Nazareth da Sir John Newton, KB (Shaw, Staffordshire 1, p. 216 and ODNB); 1580 arranged

preaching for Edmund Campion; fled in wake Throckmorton plot and joined bro Charles (qv) in France; attainted 1587; for disputes among exiles see Charles Paget’s entry ab.; at VEC for a month 1585; Spanish pension; to Netherlands where † at Brussels (ODNB) ; see AtC 3, pp. 4-5

Paget, Sir William, Lord Paget of Beaudesert (1505/6-9/10 June 1563): b. in Colman St, son of John Pachett or Paget, shearman and sheriff of London’s svt; educ at London School (ODNB); Trinity Hall, Cantab but prob. no degree (AtC 1, pp. 221-224); well trained in rhetoric, but prob. did not study law; ca. 1526-7 in Paris and then into Stephen Gardiner’s (qv) household; 1529 clk of signet; MP unknown seat 1529; added June 1530 to Pole’s mission to France;19 diplomatic missions in France and Germany 1531-5; perhaps ca. 1532 marr Anne (qv), 1st son (Henry, qv) 1536-7; built up estate at W. Drayton, Mdx (ODNB) for which jp 1537-† (HPT 3, pp. 42-6); on grand jury which indicted Sir Geoffrey Pole (qv) 1539; 10 Aug 1540 clk of privy council; 23 Apr 1543 a prin secretary of state; knighted Jan 1544; 1546 built up estate around Beaudesert, Staff (ODNB); Lent disp 19 June 1546, as well as other times, along with wife and 4 others at table (FOR, p. 276); essential conduit to Henry late in reign while also on frequent diplomatic missions; central to earl of Surrey’s condemnation; made deal with Edward Seymour (qv) for protectorate and thus helped to overthrow Gardiner; KG 1547; 29 June 1547 comptroller of roy household; arrested Protector Somerset 1549; cr 3 Dec 1549 Baron Paget of Beaudesert when resig clk of signet; arrested 21 Oct 1551 and stripped of Garter 22 Apr 1552; forced to pay large fine bef. going into retirement; with earl of Arundel (Henry fitz Alan, qv) declared for Mary; pc and restored to Garter; prob. not leader of faction opposed to Gardiner but certainly resisted his pressure to restore Roman obedience; became Philip’s favorite; pushed deal for monastic property that cleared way for Pole’s return (ODNB); with Sir Edward Hastings (qv) escorted Pole from Netherlands (CRP, nos 957, 986 and 998); with Gardiner and Thirlby (qv) conferred 27 Nov 1554 with Pole abt reconciliation (CRP, no. 990); heresy comm Jan 1555 (Old DNB); important cog in peace conference at Marcq spring 1555 (ODNB); abs20 26 July 1555 schism (CRP, no. 1316); pat. rect Shenley, Hert when Richard Slake inst 26 Oct 1555 (LincRO, Epis. reg. 28, fo. 175v; LI2, no. 794); lord privy seal 29 Jan 1556; in charge of finance (ODNB); witn Pole’s cons as abp 22 Mar 1556 (CRP, no. 1521); arranged arrest of Sir John Cheke and Sir Peter Carewe (both qv) in Brussels (ODNB); oc 1556 pat. William Sheldon (qv); led war party in 1557 (and therefore oppposed Pole) (ODNB); pat. rect Misterton, Leic when William Spines inst 2 Dec 1557 (LincRO, Epis. reg. 28, fo. 135r; LI2, no. 477); given no office by Elizabeth (ODNB); pat. 4 Mar 1559 Whittington and Berkswick preb, Lichfeld when son Thomas (qv) inst (Reg. Parker, p. 223); prob. † at W. Drayton (ODNB); plate of monument in Lichfield cath in Shaw, Staffordshire 1, pp. 213-15; will 4 Nov 1560/prov 1 July 1563, by William Say, proc for Henry Paget (TNA, PROB 11/46, fo. 210r PCC 27 Chayre; BRS 18, p. 232; extracts in Shaw, Staffordshire 1, pp. 214-15): places: London, Harmondsworth, Mdx, Abbot’s Bromley, Staff, Weston, Aston, Morley, Derby, St Clement’s Temple Bar, persons: wife Anne, son Sir Henry

(res leg and exec), son Thomas (qv), son Charles, da Griselde (qv), sis Agnes Smith, sis Margaret, William Say, Henry Paget, George Frevile, baron of the Exchequer, Thomas Carus, sjt-at-law, Richard Cupper, Eleanor Palmer, ovs (Edmond Twyneho, William Cupper, William Twyneho, Robert Jones), legacies: cash (approx £1375), annuities, real estate (incl house outside Temple Bar,21 rects of Weston, Aston and Morley, lease of rect Harmondsworth), advowson of vic Bromley, household goods, plate, horses, livestock, ag pro, rings, clothing, weapons, items of interest: son Thomas to study common law, sets up use for 15 years to pay bequests; inquisitio post mortem (CPREI 4, no. 2684); see AtC 1, pp. 221-24

Palmer, Catherine: abbess Syon at refounding 23 Feb 1557-76 (CRP, no. 1873); elec 31 July 1557 (GL, 9531/12/2, fo. 145v-146r)

Palmer, Roger: inst 17 Feb 1556 Albury, Hert, at London, Thomas Hyde, pat. (LincRO, Epis. reg. 28, fo. 177v; LI2, no. 808)–resig bef. 31 July (CRP, no. 2075)

Palmer, William (ca. 1522-1/15 June 1582): inst 24 May 1554 rect Glaston, Rutl-1582 (Longden 10, p. 161 citing Bridges, Northamptonshire 2, p. 293), as such ord priest 21 Sept 1555 (GL, 9535/1, fo. 52v); disp 10 May 1557 for Glaston and rect E. Carlton, Ntht (CRP, no. 1977; copy cited from NoRO, Inst. Acts 2, fo. 25 by Longden 16, p. 166), inst 26 June, still in both bef. 10 Dec 157622 when aged 55 years, resident at Glaston, marr, educ, Anthony Colley, pat. (LPL, Carte misc 13/56, p. 22 and Longden 10, p. 161 citing Bridges, Northamptonshire 2, p. 293); Palmers lords of manor at Carlton (Bridges, Northamptonshire 2, p. 290), William Palmer occur. Rect. anno 1561, next rect 1633 (ibid., p. 293 citing ‘Nom. Dignitat. MS. Ben. Coll. Cant’); ?inst 8 Dec 1570 rect Kirk Deighton or S. Dighton, N. York (BI, Inst.AB.2, part 3, fos 81v-82v), inst 5 Mar 1571 (ibid., fos 87r-88r; BI, Reg. 30, fo. 62v), but disputed 10 Mar (ibid., fo. 88v-89v), legally vac bef. 8 June 1577 when earl of Rutland pat. (BI, Inst.AB.3, fo. 108r); will 1 June 1582/prov 15 June by oath of proc Peter Johnson [registrar of London dioc] (TNA, PROB 11/64 PCC 25 Tyrwhite; BRS 18, p. 233): bur at Glaston under gravestone bought at Leicester for 4 marks, £5 each to be lent to Glaston and E. Carlton to lend to poor, 12d to each godchild, 3s 4d each to Elizabeth and Grace Palmer and to Ralph Forman’s wife Margaret, £10 to Mr Collye and wife to look aft. wife and chil, lamb to each svt and ewe to John Weaver, 20s dole at funeral, 20s each to churchwardens of Glaston and of E. Carlton to be spent 12d a time on their annual perambulations for twenty years, £40 in either money or goods to wife Margery als Smythe, 40s to Mr [Henry] Howe [witn] of Barrowden, Rutl,23 to look aft. wife and chil, 6d to Peterb cath, 40s to Jasper Howe, 6s 8d to William Neale, clk [also witn], residue to chil Anthony, William, Mary, Elizabeth and Anne, wife, two sons, bro Edward Palmer, bro[-in-law] Thomas Smythe of E. Carlton, execs, £5 each to bros Thomas, Roger and Simon

Park, John: BA 5 Feb 1522 (RUO 1, p. 117), possibly corr man (BRUO2, p. 431); pres 9 Dec 1556 rect Nailstone, Leic (CPRPM 3, p. 528), inst 14 Dec (CRP, no. 1791), vac bef. 4 Feb 1572 (LincRO, P.D. 1572/22), worth £24 9s 9 1/2d in 1576 (Foster, Lincoln, p. 36); ?† bef. 10 Oct 1578 vic St Mary le Wigford, suburbs of Linc (LER, p. 22), as

such, priest, worth £5 3s 9d, Ketton preb, pat., aged 40, marr, relatively educ, resident (LER, pp. 158-159)

Parker, Henry, Lord Morley (1480/1-27 Nov 1556): son Sir William Parker and Alice da William Lovel, Lord Morley; 10th baron; chief residence Great Hallingbury, Ess where †; member Lady Margaret Beaufort’s household who arranged marr with Alice, da John St John (qv); on 3rd duke of Buckingham’s jury 1521 and all other such for treason during Henry’s reign; MP 1523 and later; jp Ess 1530, Hert 1531 and other comms for both later; close to Boleyns and Cromwell to whom later24 sent Machiavelli’s Istorie fiorentine and Il principe in which marked passages criticizing papacy; at risk 1536-8 bec of conservative views and ties; friendly with Mary Tudor from 1536 to whom often pres works (at least 8); acquired considerable ex-monastic property; distanced self from Edwardine reformation but remained loyal to Edward (ODNB); abs 23 Mar 1555 schism (CRP, no. 1142); thanked Mary Jan 1556 for having restored papal obedience (ODNB); numerous translations for which see Marie Axton and James P. Carley, eds, ‘Triumphs of English’: Henry Parker, Lord Morley, translator to the English court (London: The British Library, 2000) as well as much of Morley’s career

Parker, William: inst 26 Apr 1555 rect N. Luffenham, Ntht (NoRO, X956/1, fo. 59r), comp 15 May £15 6s 4d, Miles Forrest, Morborne, Hunt and Huserons (?) Orme, Warmington, Ntht, surs (TNA, E 334/6, fo. 19r), prob. † 1574 (Longden 10, p. 177 citing no source); disp 29 June 1555 for it and vic Warmington, Ntht (CRP, no. 1257), vac (†) Warmington bef. 9 Apr 1573 (NoRO, X/956/1, fo. 127r)

Parkhurst, Richard († 26/30 Oct 1558): Winch dioc, MCO fell. 1503, vac 1516; ord priest 12 Aug 1505 (BRUO1, pp. 1428-29); MA 15 Feb 1506 (RUO 1, p. 41); inst 3 May 1510 vic Aston Rowant, Oxon, vac bef. Nov 1510 for 4 marks pension; oc 1514 vic Ross on Wye, Heref (BRUO1)–resig bef. 21 Sept 1520 for £2 6s 8d pension (Reg. Boothe, p. 333); coll 7 Apr 1516 Norton preb, Heref (F2 2, p. 39)–called Robert, resig bef. 21 Nov 1529 (Reg. Boothe, p. 343; cf. HCAB 7031/1, fo. 49r), worth 43s 4d (ibid., p. 364); inst 6 Sept 1519 vic Ashford, Kent (BRUO1), vac bef. June 1547 (TNA, E 334/3, fo. 123v); inst 21 Sept 1520 rect Holdgate, Salop, all 3 portions assessed at £13 6s 8d in 1536-resig bef. 5 May 1523 when exchanged for Sutton preb, Chich-† bef. 4 Jan 1559 (Reg. Boothe, pp. 333, 335, and 369, F3 2, p. 54 and SVI, p. 32), Sutton worth £18 (VE 1, p. 300); coll 19 June 1522 rect Mersham, Kent (LPL, Reg. Warham, fo. 374v)–resig bef. 9 Dec 1532 for £18 pension (LPLCR, fos 34v-36v), worth £29 16s 11d (VE 1, pp. 51 and 94); 2 July 1523 proc for John Peers at London (LPL, Reg. Warham, fo. 378r); oc 1524 pat. Robert Colens (qv); inst 27 May 1524 rect Eynsford, Kent-† (BRUO1 without source for †), as such pat. of its vic 7 Mar 1546 when John Holland inst (LPLCR, fo. 402v), again 18 Jan 1555 when John Ledill inst on Holland’s depr (SVI, p. 46); coll 23 Sept 1526 rect Lyminge, Kent (LPL, Reg. Warham, fo. 391v), as such 19 June 1541 pat. of its vic when William Haggett, MA, inst, again 5 May 1552 when Henry Clarke inst on Haggett’s † (LPLCR, fos 380v and 420v)–†25 (SVI, p. 78), worth £21 10s (VE 1, pp. 40 and 92); inst by proxy 30 Sept 1530 Wherwell preb, Hant, Wherwell abbey, pat., rep. John Stokesley (qv) (Reg. Wolsey, pp. 156-58), still 11 Nov 1537 when pat. of Richard Cobbe, BA in its vic, rect worth £44 11s in

1536 (Reg. Gardiner, pp. 112 and 167); coll 7 May 1532 rect W. Tarring, Suss (LPL, Reg. Warham, fo. 415r-v), vac bef. 10 Nov 1548 (William Bradbridge, qv), worth £22 13s 4d (VE 1, p. 311); 4th preb Cant cath by foundation charter 8 Apr 1541 (L&P 16, no. 779.5), summoned 17 May 1556 visitation (CRP 1564, 11a)–† (CRP, no. 2301); will 26 Oct 1553/prov 30 Oct 1558 (TNA, PROB 11/41, fos 193v-94v; BRS 11, p. 401): catholic committal clause, persons: John Parkhurst of Lenham, Kent (res leg and exec), his son Richard (godson), Robert Parkhurst, vic Washington [?Suss], dean of Cant, [N. Wotton; qv] svts of the common hall, Edward Thwaites, Thomas Madler, Richard Huffam, Mr Anker, svts (‘Grangden’, Thomas Heyton, William Clerk, George Cornewell, William Lauraunce, Benskynne), Sir Hawke, Arthur St Leger (qv), Thomas Fissher [Fyssher, qv], Jasper [Hopkins, qv], Robert Colens (qv), [Hugh] Glasier (qv), Mr Wilde, Mr Devenishe, Mr Ickham,26 George Bingham, ovs John Mylles (qv), John Stace, Thomas Bowier (?qv), Christopher Hawlke [Hawke, qv], legacies: cash (£14 3s 8d), doles (£6 12s 4d, incl hospitals of Harbledown and St Johns), household goods, clothing, plate, fish, elaborate arrangements for funeral and for month’s mind and year’s day, bur next to Thwaites27

Parkins, Richard: Ufton, Berk, pat. 2 June 1558 Finchampstead, Berk (CRP, no. 2244); ?of Inner Temple, leg. of Ralph Jackson (qv); will 26 Jan 1559/prov 22 Feb (TNA, PROB, fo. 337r PCC 43 Welles; BRS 18, p. 234): of Ufton Robert, Berk,28 places: it and Ufton Richard, Padworth, Sulhamsted, Ufton Nervett [Ufton Nervet, SE p. 25], Woolhampton, Brympton, Aldermerston [Aldermaston], Mygeham, Bughulburye [?later Longhulburye], Finchampstead, prob. all Berk, Salis cath, persons: wife Elizabeth (res leg and exec), bro William Parkyns, his chil (Francis, Dorothy, Katherine, Elizabeth, Gertrude, Mary, Suzanne), bro Francis Parkyn, his sons (William and Frances), bro Christopher Parkyns, sis Margaret Parkyns, sis Bartilmewe, her das (Elizabeth, Anne, Margaret), sis (Alice Parkyns, Suzanne Monnpesson), Arthur Parkyns, nephews (Harry Parkyns, Henry Parkyns), John Undrewoode of Shrynfelde, cousins (William Asshepoole, ovs Thomas Vachell), William Worting, svts (Andrew Shrympton, Thomas Beare, John Sulter, Richard Welsheman), Robert Newton, Harry Freman, William Towne, William Holway, Thomas Bruer, Richard Astlatt, Richard Larcome, Elizabeth Emerys, Agnes Isley, Joan Bartilmewe, Elizabeth Gyldyn, Cicely Warren, Elizabeth Carter, Margaret Wrayt, John Brymston, William Nasshe, Sir Frances Inglefelde [Englefield; qv] (ovs), Bernard More, Edmond Brymston, [blank] Wayre, legacies: cash (over £115), real estate (incl advowson of Ufton, and property in Ufton Robert, held under indenture of 6 Aug 1541), leases to svts for tenements they live in, clothing, plate, horse, livestock, ag pro, jewelry, weapon, bur in Ufton Robert where [Easter] sepulcher stands, heirs to maintain tenement there for poor man’s prayers

Parkurs [?Parkhurst, Parker], William: inst 18 Feb 1557 rect Lillingstone Dayrell, Buck (CRP, no. 1867), vac bef. ca. 20 Aug 156129 (CCCC, MS 97, fo. 56v), rect receiving £8 in 1522 (Chibnall, p. 43)

Parrat, etc, Edward: BA 1546, MA 11 July 1554 of BCO (RUO 1, p. 212); Heref dioc,

ord subd 16 Feb 1554 London to title of BCO (GL, 9535/1, fo. 26r); coll 20 Oct 1558 vic Preston next Faversham, Kent (CRP, no. 2292)–depr bef. 21 Dec 1562 (Reg. Parker, p. 798), worth £8 12s 6d (VE 1, p. 97), never resided, pres as non-res by wardens of Preston and Faversham in 1560 (W. A. Scott Robertson, ‘Rectors of Preston next Faversham’, Archaeologia cantiana, 21 [1895], pp. 135-56, p. 147); inst 30 Mar 1565 vic E. Garston, Berk, CCC, pat. (W&SRO, D1/2/16, Reg. Jewel, fo. 14r)–resig bef. 4 Mar 1590 (W&SRO, D1/2/19, fo. 5r); inst 19 Mar 1568 rect Heythrop, Oxon, Humfrey Asshefylde, pat. (OA, ODP d105, p. 243); inst 29 Nov 1569 vic Wherwell, Hant, John Watson, preb [of Winch, qv], pat. (HaRO, 21M65/A1/26, fo. 73r); inst 16 May 1570 rect Kentisbury, Dev, William Hancock, pat. (Reg. Parker, p. 314), worth £25 2s 11d (TNA, E 334/3, fo. 55v)

Parys, Sir Philip († 10 Jan 1558-20 Jan 1559): oc 10 Jan 1536 Gardiner’s (qv) treas (L&P 10, no. 67); [n.d.]30 escheator of Camb and Hunt (L&P 21:2, no. 773i.1); of Camb, bef. 12 Oct 1536 ordered to supply 30 men against Linc Rising (L&P 11, no. 580, p. 233 and 670); 23 Dec 1536 pat. phv by Gardiner’s grant of rect Easton, Hant when Edmund Stuard (qv) inst (Reg. Gardiner, p. 63); called Gardiner’s svt, 29 Mar 1537 pd some of his diets for embassy to France (L&P 12:1, no. 770); May 1539 Germaine Gardiner hoped would mediate with Wriothesley (L&P 12:1, no. 1209); jp for Cantab city 1537 and 1540 (L&P 12:2, no. 1150.22; 16, no. 29), for Hant 1538 and 1540, Camb 1536, 1538, 1542, 1544-5 (L&P 13:1, nos 190.4; 15 and 831.47a; 11, no. 1015.4; 13:1, no. 646.30; 17, no. 1012.52; 20:1, no. 623, p. 322), again 1555-6 (Mere, p. 197), listed for Ess 1555 but del. (TNA, SP11/5, no. 6); on comm 1538 for suppression of St Edmund’s shrine at Bury (L&P 13:1, no. 192); roy svt bef. 21 Feb 1538 (L&P 13:1, no. 327, p. 111); roy comm when witnessed Gardiner’s grant of Assher manor to king 16 Apr 1538 (L&P 13:1, no. 778); assisted 1 Sept 1538 in suppressing Fordham priory, Camb (L&P 13:2, nos 260.2 and 275); bef. 17 Sept suppressed Croxton abbey, Leic (L&P 13:2, no. 366); 29 Sept 1538 Wriothesley asked Cromwell’s assistance with debt Parys owed to Gardiner (L&P 13:2, no. 452); 15 (?) Nov 1538 inventoried marchioness of Exeter’s jewels at Horsley, Surr (L&P 13:2, no. 754.3); on comm (incl John Tregonwell, qv) for suppression of following: bef. 13 Feb 1539 Abingdon abbey, Berk (along with Sir William Petre, qv), bef. 15 Feb Ashton [sic] abbey, 18 Nov Godstow abbey, Oxon, 22 Nov Ramsey abbey, Hunt, bef. 25 Nov Ely priory, 29 Nov Peterb abbey, 1 Dec Thorney abbey, Camb, 4 Dec Crowland abbey, Linc, 8 Dec Spalding priory, Linc, 14 Dec Wallingwells priory, Nott, 16 Dec Launde priory, Leic, 21 Dec St Neots priory, Hunt, 31 Dec Dunstable priory, Bed, 2 Jan 1540 Newnham priory, Bed, and [n.d.] Thornton Curtis, Linc (L&P 13:1, nos 268 and 13:2, no. 457.II.12; 14:1, no. 284; 14:2, nos 539, 565, 584, 602, 621, 652, 681, 692, 714 and 770; 15, nos 11 and 153); property deals with Lord Chancellor Audley Mar 1539 (L&P 14:1, no. 651.59); acc. Audley 12 Sept 1539 Cromwell intended to visit his house, where stayed during visitation of Cantab (L&P 14:2, nos 154 and 410); on Cromwell’s list of remembrances of 1538 ‘for some honest entertainment’, 1539 to be pres to king (L&P 13:1, no. 877 and 14:2, no. 495); sheriff of Camb Nov 1539 (L&P 13:2, no. 967.26; 14:2, nos 584 and 619.38); ?Mar 1540 proposed by Cromwell as receiver gen of new court of wards and liveries (G. R. Elton, The Tudor revolution in government:

administrative changes in the reign of Henry VIII [Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1953], p. 221 and L&P 15, no. 438.2), appted 2 Aug 1540-19 Feb 1544 (L&P 15, no. 1027.8 and 19:1, nos 80 and 278.34); June 1540 bought former monastic land (L&P 15, no. 831.35); 3 July 1540 granted former site of Fordham priory, Camb and other of its property along with site of Barham priory in Linton, Camb and rects of Great and Little Abington, Camb along with property in Conington formerly of Huntingdon priory as well as Chicksand priory plus newly built messuage in Blackfriars, London, recently leased to him, his wife Margaret and Dame Alice More (widow of Sir Thomas; qv) (L&P 15, 942.19), leased for 60 years in 1542, but not in his inquisitio post mortem of 1558 (TNA, E 310/9/13, m. 89 and C 142/116, no. 7);31 testified vs. Gardiner’s nephew Germaine (Glyn Redworth, In defence of the Church Catholic: the life of Stephen Gardiner [Oxford: Blackwell, 1990], p. 205); Sept 1540 sewers comm for Linc, Camb, etc (L&P 16, no. 107.7); ordered 25 Dec 1540 to send 2 svts of bp of Ely who had helped to publish a letter from Melanchthon (L&P 16, no. 351); apparently involved Feb 1541 in last abbot of Crowland’s case (L&P 16, no. 560); visited at Linton by king on summer progress 1541 (ibid., no. 677.xi); Nov 1542 comm of gaol delivery for Cantab castle (L&P 17, no. 1154.96); 4 Jul 1543 leased land in Great Abington, Camb from KCC (KCAR, ABI/8); listed for Camb in army for France 1544 (L&P 19:1, p. 273); confessed bef. roy coun 21 Sept 1547 (?) that had sd Homilies contained treason and heresy (ibid., p. 263n48 citing APC 2, 129-32 and 517-18); pardoned 1 Oct 1546 ‘of treasons, misprisions, etc’ (L&P 21:2, no. 199.132); 20 March 1555 Lent disp (CRP, no. 1138a); 1 May 1555 denounced 6 inhabitants of Coggeshall, Ess to Bp Bonner (Foxe, 1563, p. 1166; 1570, p. 1777; 1576, p. 1518; 1583, pp. 1601-1602); will 10 Jan 1558/prov 20 Jan 1559, Thomas Upton (qv), proc (TNA, PROB, 11/42A): of Little Linton, Camb places: Duxford, Great Abington, Little Abington, Hildersham, Hadstock, Bartlow, Balsham, all Camb, Great Lynton,32 pasture called Walden Park, Stansted, Ess, persons: 2 late wives (Margaret, Agnes), son Robert Parys (aged 14), son Ferdinando (res leg and exec), da Bulleyne,33 da Lovell (exec), son-in-law Awdeley, Jerome Sprynge, cousin Cotton,34 nephew Thomas Cotton of Conington, Camb (exec), godsons (Philip, Godfrey Swayne), late priest John Lord, his parents, Steven [Gardiner], Lady Elizabeth [de Vere], countess of Oxford, cousin Robert Mordaunt of Hempstead, Ess, svts (John Stacye, Davye, Philip Fulwell, William Fulwell, Agnes More), John Dale, clk, John Redston, legacies: cash (over £210), doles, real estate held of bp of Ely, altar cloths, chalice, ‘things belonging to the altar’, rings, ag pro, livestock, clothing, household goods, £66 13s 4d debt owed to cousin Cotton, items of interest: bur with wives in Great Lynton, month’s mind observed in 7 pars, execs to continue £40 p.a. payment to the Court of Wards and Liveries, £100 received of late John Lord to be used to pay a priest £10 p.a. to teach the chil of Great Lynton grammar and singing for 10 years ‘if the laws of the realm so

long will permit and suffer the same to be done’, same priest to pray for souls and be pres to Duxford, Camb

Paslowe, John: elec 7 Aug 1507 abbot Whalley abbey, Lanc, OCist;35 accused of selling its plate (L&P 12:1, no. 621); involved in Pilgrimage of Grace by Sir Nicholas Tempest (qv) to whom allegedly lent horse (ibid., nos 1020 and 853); letters to abbot of Hailes and ‘his scholar at Oxford’ intercepted Feb 1537 but apparently contained nothing incriminating (ibid., no. 389); ‘doubtless he involved himself in the last phase of the “Pilgrimage”’,36 but the source alleged (L&P 12:2, no. 205) does not seem to support this; tried at Lancaster and executed 10 Mar 1537;37 attainted with Pole (CRP no. 268a)

Passhe, Richard: priest, coll 25 June 1558 vic New Romney, Kent (CRP, no. 2255), vac (†) bef. 18 Jan 1561 when ASC pat. (Reg. Parker, p. 777), tithe suit 28 Feb 1559 (CCA, DCB, Y.2.19, fo. 116v), worth £29 6s 4d (VE 1, p. 47)

Patching, Henry († 15 Oct-27 Dec 1560): Chich dioc, ord unben subd 16 Mar 1527 Northampton, unben deac 6 Apr Lyddington to title of Novo loco38 priory (LincRO, Epis. reg. 26, fo. 18v, 19r); witn 17 Apr 1547 to will at Sullington, Suss (TSW 4, p. 196); oc 14 Dec 1552 curate Horsham, Suss (TSW 2, p. 353), 3s 4d dole there in will (ibid., p. 354); priest, inst 16 Dec 1556 rect Shermanbury, Suss (CRP, no. 1796)–resig bef. 29 Mar 1558 (WSRO, Ep/I/1/7, fo. 4r; cf. MP 1095, p. 192), worth £4 19s 3d (VE 1, p. 335); pres 2 July 1557 vic Warnham,39 Suss (CRP, no. 2054), inst 13 July (WSRO, Ep, I/10/10, fo. 37v)–† bef. 27 Dec 1560 (WSRO, Ep/I/1/7, fo. 17r), worth £10 10d (VE 1, p. 319), as such witn 11 Oct 1557 to will at Rudgwick (TSW 4, p. 301); will 15 Oct 1560/prov 22 Jan 1561 (vol. 10 of reg wills, p. 75b acc. BRS 49, p. 277; TSW 4, p. 295): bur at Warnham

Paulet, Sir William, marquess of Winchester (?1474/5-10 Mar 1572 [ODNB]): b. Fisherton-Delamere, Wilt, oldest son Sir John Paulet, Basing, Hant and Alice, da Sir William Paulet, Hinton St George, Som; primary residence Basing House; marr by 1509 Elizabeth, da Sir William Capell, lord mayor of London; sheriff Hant 1511, 1518, 1522; jp Hant 1514 and later; ?protégé of Richard Fox, bp of Winch; knighted between 1523 and 1525; pc by Feb 1526, again 1542; 3 Nov 1526 mr of roy wards1554; May 1532 comptroller of roy household then treas 1537-9 (ODNB); oc 21 June 1537 pat. rect Sherborne St John, Hant when William Aylef inst (Reg. Gardiner, p. 111); cr 9 Mar 1539 Baron St John; great chamberlain 1543; KG 1543; great mr 1545; by 1545/6 held land worth £1000 p.a.; close to Henry VIII; ‘triumvirate with Gardiner and Sir Thomas Wriothesley’ at end Henry’s reign (ODNB); oc 16 Dec 1546 pat. vic Itchen Stoke, Hant when Charles Cleye inst (Reg. Gardiner, p. 126), again 1557 when Richard Thomson inst (Reg. Whyte, p. 22), still 8 June 1562 when Walter Sutton inst (HaRO, 21M65/A1/26, fos 5v);40 oc 10 Aug 1547 pat. rect Sherfield-on-Loddon, Hant

when Richard Jacson inst (Reg. Gardiner, p. 127), again 1558 when Robert Coxon inst (Reg. Whyte, p. 24), still 1570 when Hugh Jones inst42 (HaRO, 21M65/A1/26, fo. 79v); in Protector Somerset’s inner circle but quickly joined coup against him 1549 (ODNB); oc 25 Mar 1549 pat. rect Itchen Abbas, Hant when John Deane inst, again 24 July 1550 when Laurence Harward inst, again 2 Feb 1554 when John Hunt inst on Harward’s resig (Reg. Gardiner, pp. 130, 133 and 136); cr 19 Jan 1550 earl of Wiltshire; 3 Feb 1550 lord treas; cr 11 Oct 1551 marquess of Winchester (ODNB); oc 28 Dec 1551 pat. rect Swarraton, Hant when Nicholas Wallis inst (Reg. Gardiner, p. 135); 16 May 1552 lord lieut of Hant; objected to device to alter succession and declared early for Mary; ‘difficult and frustrating’ period under Mary who finally forced him out of central financial administration (ODNB); on large comm 5 Sept 1553 for Bonner’s (qv) restoration (Guildhall, 9531/12/2, fo. 57r-v); Aug 1555 on committee to examine first fruits and tenths (CRP, no. 1343); at Pole’s cons 22 Mar 1556 (CRP, no. 1521); oc 1557 pat. rect Browne Candover, Hant when Peter Warryson inst (Reg. Whyte, p. 22), still 1564 when John Weale (qv) inst; oc 1559 pat. vic Kingsclere, Hant43 when Philip Syre inst (Reg. Whyte, p. 25); Elizabeth restored to favor and helped make lord treasurership ‘central post in roy finance’ but system had very little central control and almost disgraced him; left £46,000 debt (ODNB); oc 1566 pat. Wyckham, Hant when Henry Securyes inst (HaRO, 21M65/A1/26, fo. 17v); † intestate at Basing House (ODNB)

Pawlyn, Gabriel: pat. 6 Dec 1556 vic Steventon, Berk with Ralph Auttinge (qv) (CRP, no. 2136), by grant from Westm abbey, again 16 Dec 1558 (SVI, p. 120); will 20 Apr 1570/prov 17 Nov 1571 (TNA, PROB 11/53, fo. 315r PCC 44 Holney; BRS 18, p. 236): catholic committal clause, places: Hendon, Mdx, Tower and Skrame als Swineshead [?Linc or Bed], Rocheford Tower, Halloughford als Haulford in Shepton [both unided], persons: wife Christian (res leg and exec), sons (Thomas, Edward), das (Anne, Elizabeth, Mary, Joan), son-in-law Robert Crosse (ovs), a bro, sis Joan Pumell, her son Gabriel Pumell, cousin Thomas Ablett, notary (ovs), cousin Joan Michell, her son Alexander Ilyat, godsons (Gabriell Plote, Gabriel Johnson), Thomas Plotte, William Parson, ‘his mr and his assigns’, Thomas Ewer, Thomas Nele, Symond Nele, svt John Wells, my man William Collen, my boy John Sherkocke, legacies: cash (approx £250), doles, 3s 4d to lazarhouse of Hammersmith and Knightsbridge, real estate, livestock, ag pro, household goods, clothing

Pecoke, Robert: of Kirkby la Thorpe, Linc, ord unben priest 25 May 1521 to title of Sempringham priory44 (LincRO, Epis. reg. 26, fo. 1r); chap, inst 7 Nov 1531 vic Burton Pedwardine, Linc, Crowland abbey,45 pat., 20s pension to inc (LincRO, Epis. reg. 27, fo. 51v)–resig, perhaps bef. late May-early June [1560] (LI2, no. 894), worth £7 12s 8 1/2 d in 1576 (LER, p. 198); inst 7 Jan 1534 rect Sturmer, Ess, John Cleydon, clk, lord of Sturmer manor, pat. (GL, 9531/11, fo. 26r)–depr bef. 20 Apr 1553 (GL, 9531/12/2, fo. 44r); signed testimonial 1554 for Sybil Kirke, formerly prioress of Stratford-by-Bow46 (Hodgett, LRS, p. 119); inst 27 July 1554 rect Great Casterton,

Rutl (Longden 10, p. 215), comp 15 Nov £10 5s, Sir William Hussey, pat., Richard Dysney, Norton Disney, Linc, arm and Hubert Huse, St Andrew Holborn, gen, surs (TNA, E 334/4, fo. 211r); abs & disp 11 Oct 1556 for both (CRP, no. 1720)47

Pede, Thomas: cr 15 Feb 1557 notary, Norwich (CRP, no. 1857); adm 4 Oct 1570 proc of Arches (Reg. Parker, p. 584); oc 7 June 1575 scribe to Nicholas Steward, keeper of Norwich when they sued D&C Cant over jurisdiction (Reg. Parker, pp. 1187-9) and therefore possibly registrar of Norwich dioc as many of Pole’s other notaries were (see, e.g., James Weston)

Pelham, Sir Nicholas (by 151348-15 Sept 1560 [HPT]): of Laughton, Suss, 1st son Sir William Pelham († 1538 [TSW 4, p. 81]) and Mary, da Sir Richard Carew, Beddington, Surr (HPT 3, pp. 80-81) and thus nephew of Sir Nicholas Carew (qv); disp 26 Nov 1534 marr Anne Sackoyle [Sackville] (FOR, p. 16), da John Sackville, Withyham, Suss,49 marr bef. 1537 strengthened ties to fitz Alan (qv) earls of Arundel; jp 1544-†; fought off French attack on Suss 1545; MP Arundel 1547, Suss 1558; sheriff Surr and Suss 1549-50; knighted 17 Nov 1549; imprisoned 1551 with earl of Arundel for conspiring with Protector Somerset; may have been Protestant and bro William involved in Wyatt’s conspiracy (HPT); pat. William Savile [Sayvell] (qv) (CRP, no. 1684); father-in-law’s exec 1557; refused summer 1558 to supply men for war when briefly imprisoned until relented (HPT); will 6 Feb 1560/admon 31 Mar 1561 to John and Anne Pelham, George Harrison (qv), proc (TNA, PROB, 11/45, fo. 61r-v PCC 9 Streat; BRS 18, p. 239): Calvinist preamble, prev wills revoked,50 places: Laughton, Ripe, Melwardes, Cresselandes, Yonge, Wikeland and Hired als Highred all in Laughton, Glyne Gap, Suss, persons: wife Dame Anne, sons (res leg and exec John, Thomas, Robert), da Anne Pelham, her das (Anne, Margery Thetcher), [half-]bro Edward Pelham,51 uncle Anthony Pelham, John Pelham, his wife Anne, proc George Harrison (qv), Nicholas Eston at Hallands, ovs (George Goringe, William Morley and John Leighe, esqs), legacies: cash (£366 6s 8d, £300 ‘in old gold’), annuities (£306), real estate, livestock, ag pro, household goods, plate, clothing

Pende, Thomas: scholar KSC, summoned 17 May 1556 visitation (CRP, no. 1564); ?matric 1559 pensioner from ChCC (AlC 3, p. 339); ?of Middle Temple, mentioned in will prov 22 Dec 1570 of cousin Edward Peende of Hollingbourne, Kent (Kentish wills, p. 72)

Pendleton, Edward: scholar, Linc dioc, disp 20 Sept 1537 orders (FOR, p. 107); ‘famous schoolmaster at Manchester’, adm B.Gram 1547/8’ (Wood, Fasti, 1, p. 125); fell. 26 March 1557 at refoundation Manchester collegiate church where, following Raines, mistakenly identified with Henry Pendleton, Marian homilist, but rel? (CRP, no. 1924); ?inst 20 June 1559 vic Eccles, Lanc, crown pat. (pres dated 29 May 1557!) (CRO, EDA 1/1, fo. 52r)

Percy, Thomas: pat. 15 March 1558 Leysdown-on-Sea, phv, exec (w/ Thomas Lygham qv) of Peter Ligham (qv), DCL, originally John Tregonwell (qv) also exec (CRP, no. 2199); ?oc 1564 registrar ad Cant (Reg. Parker, p. 435)

Percyvall, John: Linc dioc, disp 17 Feb 1555 orders (CRP, no. 1076); inst 5 July 1558 rect Eastmansted Latimer, Buck, Sir Fulke Greville, pat., disp for 2 incompatibilia52 (LincRO, Epis. reg. 28, fo. 144r; LI2, no. 599; version on fo. 72r [LI1, no. 413] lacks day and calls Greville ‘Sir Focas als Fowks’); ?matric sizar from QCC 1563, fell. 1566-74, ord 17 Apr 1568 deac and priest at Linc (AlC 3, p. 345); BA 1566, MA 1569, BTh 1576 (GBΔ, p. 525); 1574 rect Stiffkey, Norf (AlC)

Perne, Andrew († 26 Apr 1589 [F3]): b. E. Bilney, Norf, son John Perne; (AtC 2, pp. 45-50); BA 1539, MA 1540, BTh 1547, DTh 1552 when v-c53 (GBΔ, pp. 324, 525, 43, and 81); adm 17 Mar 1540 fell. SJCC, shortly aft. 1540 fell. QCC; pres 1549 rect Walpole St Peter, Norf by Thomas Goodrich, bp of Ely (AtC); inst 4 Mar 1551 rect Pulham St Mary the Virgin, Norf, Goodrich, pat. (NRO, DN/REG/12/18, fo. 11v), vac (resig)54 bef. 14 July 1565 (NRO, DN/REG 13/19, fo. 117r); pres 27 Oct 1552 by crown 1st preb, Westm (F3 7, p. 72), instal 8 Nov (WmCA, p. 101)–abolition (CRP, no. 1698), attended chapter meetings fairly regularly, treas 10 Mar 1554 (WmCA, nos 135-137, 140, 143-148, 151-153, 161-162, 164-165, 167-181, 149), granted 17 Mar 1554 advowson vic Godmanchester (ibid., nos 149-150, and 159); prob. close to Martin Bucer (qv/5) (ODNB); argued against transubstantiation in Oct 1553 convocation when reproved by Hugh Weston (qv); mr of Peterhouse 7 Feb 1554 (AtC); comp 20 Mar 1554 rect Balsham, Camb £35 17s, Christopher Ringested, St Mary Magadalene Milk Street, goldsmith and James Richardson, St Mary Aldermary, merchant tailor, surs (TNA, E 334/4, fo. 134v)–† bef. 8 Oct 1589, Thomas Hamonde of High Ongar, Ess then pat., but another inst on Perne’s † 12 July 1591, crown pat. (LPL, Whitgift’s reg. I, fos 324v and 330r); abs & disp 21 March 1555 for Balsham and rect Somersham, Hunt55 (CRP, no. 1140), 2nd worth £51 5s 11d (VE 4, p. 269); signed 26 July 1555 Catholic articles (Mere, p. 175); pres 15 Nov 1557 dean Ely (CPRPM 4, p. 132)–† 26 Apr 1589 (F3 7, p. 10); presided over exhumation and burning of Bucer’s bones (Mere, p. 182) when also gave speech, later judged ‘against his conscience’ (Foxe, [1563], pp. 1538-1539, [1570], p. 2147-2148, [1576], p. 1867, [1583], pp. 1956 and 1961); deemed by Christopherson (qv) most Catholic person at Cantab (Foxe, 1563, p. 1541); protested56 Pole’s visitation twice on 11 and 14 Jan 1557, perhaps in part bec he had been shouldered aside by visitors (Mere, pp. 200, 201 and 203); preached bef. Elizabeth 1564 and defended Roman church as apostolica et matrix ecclesia prob. costing chance for bpric; well aware of Familists in Balsham but did nothing and therefore perhaps shared their Nicodemism; fierce defender of Cantab University (ODNB); conferred with John Feckenham, last abbot of Westm, at Wisbech 1580 (AtC); major benefactor of Peterhouse and CUL (see will); attacked in Marprelate tracts as turncoat and accused of homosexual relationship with Abp Whitgift (ODNB); will:57 25 Feb 1588/prov 1589 (VCC): Catholic committal clause,

places: Ely cath, Cantab Little St Mary, West Wratting, Balsham, Colne, all Camb, Wictham, Somersham, Hunt, rect Little St Maries, chapel of Pidley in Somersham [SE, p. 252], Bilney [E. or W., SE, p. 357], Norf, city of Norwich, Cantab Castle, Coleloothe, Spital House, Cantab, Trumpingtonford, Camb, persons: bros (Gregory, John and William Perne), sis Whale at Norwich, bro William’s das, Nicholas Ranwicke and wife Alice (bro William’s da), nephews (exec Richard Perne, exec Thomas Perne, rect of Wentworth, Camb, and Robert Perne of Ely), godson Andrew, Andrew Perne [Andrew Perne II, AlC 3, p. 348], BA and fell. Peterhouse, Peterhouse, Thomas Wieborow of Balsham, Camb, John Gynn, Thomas Meult, Robert Hullard, Wallis, the brewer of TCC, Customer Smithe, Mr Metchell of Hackney, Thomas Sutton of Newington, Mr Gerrye, dean of Ely, William Whiskine of Hartford [prob. Camb], Abp Whitgift (ovs), svts (John Goodrick, Thomas Steran, Henry Tuthill, Thomas Barsham of Foulden, Norf, John Martin, Peter Sheres, Nicholas Banwicke, John Tompson, Chauncie), svt John Rayner, Peter Sheeres, David of Stanfield, Norf, Castro Bamardi, William Barber, Peterhouse’s baker, Thomas Bradburie, William Barber, Sutton of Ashton, Wuliston Dixie, Thomas Ramsie, William Farbecke, MA [AlC 2, p. 120] (feofee for will), [?another] Thomas Perne, MA (feofee for will), Dr [Thomas, AlC 1, p. 153, Henry, AlC] Binge, Dr Cosin, [William Cecil, qv] ‘lord high treas’ (ovs), chancellor of Cantab (ovs), Bp [John Aylmer] of London (ovs), Richard Angier, esq (ovs), Dr Bell, Dr Woode, Thomas Stern, Henry Tuthill, heads of Cantab colls., Peterhouse fells., legacies: cash (over £42 10s), £10 to University Hospital in Cantab, doles, annuities, real estate (some to endow fell. at Peterhouse worth over £44 p.a.), elaborate funeral arrangements, fancy pallium (to D&C Ely or Peterhouse), plate (to Peterhouse, SJCC and QCC), horses, clothing, rings, serjeant’s ring58 to [Thomas] Bing for godson Andrew, livestock, hangings at Ely, household goods, watches, musical instruments to Ely cath (except regal to nephew Thomas), books: theology, law, medicine, and ‘other sciences’ in quarto in any language to the Peterhouse library, philosophy, oratory and history picked by abp Cant for Peterhouse, those others were induced to donate, astronomical instruments, maps, box of Roman antiquities, globes also to Peterhouse, Andrew Perne chooses first of books Peterhouse does not take, ‘the old doctors and histories’ in parchment to CUL plus ‘greatest black book of antiquities of gold and silver and reigns of emperors and consuls of Rome and other antiquities’, all books checked against three books of regs, another reg. for books to library, ‘centerielles’ at Ely, other books at Ely and at Cantab to ‘best learned in divinity’ Andrew Perne of Peterhouse, items of interest: bequests for sermons (incl at Cantab Little St Mary, Balsham and Pidley), another foundation for £12 and a room at Peterhouse, to look over books and aft. library building, new library at Peterhouse to be built ‘at the east end of the master’s lodging […] by some good benefactors that I have spoken to’, incl Smithe, Meatchell and Sutton, specifics for foundation, £10 to build a ‘St Mary’s steeple’, £10 for ‘bringing of the water from Trumpingtonford in to the King’s ditch’, 10s p.a. in Somersham for catechesis, £20 for new gatehouse at Peterhouse modeled aft. SJCC, other contributors: Smithe, Sutton, Dixie and Ramsie, household goods to Peterhouse towards scholarship, £10 p.a. to endow Peterhouse bakehouse

Perry, Thomas: ?involved in Pilgrimage of Grace (L&P 12:1, p. 503); attainted with Pole (CRP, no. 268a)

Petit, Cyriac († bef. 4 Apr 1592 [will]): ‘lifelong conservative’, svt of Sir John Baker (qv), deputy clk of the peace for Kent, and chief agent in plots v. Cranmer in 1543 (Diarmaid MacCulloch, Thomas Cranmer. A life [New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1996], p. 312); 1544 paid £476 for former monastic property (HPT 3, pp. 96-98); with Henry Cloke of Baker’s household, sur for Thomas Ware comp 8 Dec 1545 for Crampton chantry in Cant St Dunstan (TNA, E 334/3, fo. 74v); MP for Chippenham in Mary’s 2nd parl by pat. Sir Thos Cheyney as Lord Warden, prev. member William Roper, his bro Christopher Petit’s neighbor, replaced Sir Thomas Moyle (qv) in 3rd parl (HPT); ?ovs of Edward Monyngs’s will prov 21 Mar 1553 (Kentish wills, p. 48); with John Webbe II (qv) assigned 21 Nov 1554 indentures in case decided by Roper (CPRPM 2, p. 102); heresy comm 25 Apr 1556 (CRP, no. 1549b); led interrogation of John Bland on 21 May 1555; when released from prison, Bland taken to Baker, Petit, Mr Web [sic] (all qv) et al. (Foxe [1583], p. 1668); 2 Mar 1555 or later another exam by [William] Oxenden (qv), Petit, and other justices (ibid., p. 1669); Cant financial officer 1556-7 (TNA, SP 11/11, fo. 130v); Pole’s surveyor (TNA SP 11/11 no. 54, fo. 130v), still 1 Dec 1558 when cited as reference by George Acworth (qv) (TNA, SP 70/1, fo. 52r); of Boughton under Blean, Kent, granted property 19 May 1557 in Kent by Thomas Argall (qv) (CPRPM 3, p. 379); leg. of Pole (CRP, no. 2286); called Oxenden’s ‘dear friend’ in his will (Kentish wills, p. 78); witn to will of Thomas Hawkins, Boughton under Blean, prov 15 Apr 1588 (Kentish wills, p. 91); will prov 4 Apr 1592 (Cant prob. reg. C24, fo. 24 [HPT] extracted in Kentish wills, pp. 94-95): bur next to wife Florence at Boughton, son Henry res leg, bequests to his chil Dorothy, Henry and Gertrude, Bessy and Catherine, da Anne Hawkins, to Elizabeth Dryland,59 Thomas Hawkins the younger, Henry, Daniel, Susan and Richard Hawkins; manor of Colkins where lives with tenements at Boughton and Selling, Kent and meadow at Boughton lately bought from Sir James Hales together with land in Hernehill bought from Sir Thomas Kempe (qv) to son Henry as wife’s jointure (Mary, da of Richard Violet, citizen of London) in lieu of real estate in Graveney, Whitstable and Westgate, etc, reversion to 2nd son John and then to Thomas, messuage called Negdon and other property in Faversham exchanged with bros at Harbledown to Henry, plus tenement in Iseboroughes and in Frindsbury and Cowlinge, Kent

Petre, Elizabeth, da of next: marr 1553 John Gostwick60 (1539-81), Willington, Bed, son of William Gostwick, bro of Sir John; marr arranged May 1546; 3 chil: Sir William (1565-1615), later lord of Willington, Anne (1567-1608) and Gertrude (1571-1626); pat. of John Rossell (qv) (CRP, no. 1913), prob. husb’s rel (see bel.); husb Petre’s ward at father’s death 1547; matric 1554 pensioner ClCC but prob. never in residence; ‘man of great simplicity’ and ‘little or no understanding’; will 7 June 1581, wife, exec; cousin of Francis Russell (qv), earl of Bedford, whose first wife was widow of a Gostwick (H. P. R. Finberg, The Gostwicks of Willington, Bedfordshire historical record society, 36 [1976], pp. 77, 88-92 and genealogical chart at end); bequest from mother 25 Feb 1582 (F. G. Emmison, ed., Elizabethan life: wills of Essex gentry and

merchants [Chelmsford: Essex County Council, 1978; Essex RO Publications, 71], p. 33)

Petre, Sir William (1505/6-13 Jan 1572 [ODNB]): son John Petre, Tor Newton, Tor Bryan, Dev and Alice, da John Colling, Woodland, Dev (ODNB); by 1519 law student at Oxford; fell. 1523 ASC (BRUO2, pp. 445-446); adm 2 July 1526 BCL and BCnL, DCL 17 Feb 1533 (RUO 1, p. 136); may have tutored George Boleyn61 (Anne’s bro) and thereby come to Henry VIII’s attention and possibly with him on mission to France 1529-3062 (ODNB); adm 19 Jan 1530 prin Peckwater Inn, vac 23 Feb 1534 (BRUO2); adm 8 Mar 1533 Drs Coms, gave it £20 1568 (Squibb, p. 146); ca. 1533 chancery clk (ODNB); marr 1) ?Feb 1534 Gertrude, da John Tyrrell, Little Warley, Ess, and 2) by Mar 1542 Anne, da William Browne, Flambards Hall, Ess, widow John Tyrell, Heron, Ess (HPT 3, pp. 92-6);63 presided from Oct 1535 over Thomas Cromwell’s (qv) vicegerential court; deputy in probate 13 Jan 1536; presided over convocation in June; mr in chancery 1536 (ODNB); coll 22 Nov 1536 Langford Ecclesia preb, Linc (F2 1, p. 75), instal by proxy John Pope (qv), proc 11 Dec-resig bef. 18 Apr 1537 (LincCA 2, pp. 3 and 5); centrally involved in dissolution of monasteries; drafted Act of Six Articles 1539; granted 15 Dec 1539 manor of Gyng Abbess (or Ingatestone), Ess which became his seat (ODNB); pat. with Pope of Grantham chantry when Robert Forde inst 6 Mar 1540 (LincCA 2, p. 34); pc 5 Oct 1540; appt 21 Jan 1544 a prin secretary when also knighted and jp Ess; left out of regency council for Edward VI and given no bequest by Henry; reappt 13 Feb 1547 secretary, alone from Apr 1548-57; MP Ess 1547-63; key role in Protector Somerset’s downfall (ODNB); appt 20 Oct 1549 treas court of first fruits and tenths, prob. as political move by Northumberland (Carter, ‘Taxation’, p. 60)–25 Jan 1553 (ODNB); Aug 1549 censor of books (HPT); bef. 25 July 1550 pres Philip Phrear,64 BCL vic S. Brent, Dev (DRO, EDRC 14, fo. 137v); frequently sent to warn Mary against hearing mass (HPT); proclaimed Jane but adm to Mary’s council 30 July 1553 and reappt secretary 31 July if not earlier; wife in Mary’s household; principally in charge of foreign affairs (HPT); on comm to negotiate Spanish match; among ‘select’ councillors aft. Philip left in 1555 (ODNB); papal bull 28 Nov 1555 to retain ex-monastic lands (EssexRO D/DP/F/147 cited in Oxley, p. 185 and ODNB); offered dedication of Roger Ascham’s (qv) translation of Jerónimo Osório, De nobilitate civili et cristiana at same time as offered to Pole (CRP, no. 1182); told Pole of Marcellus [Cervini, qv/5] II’s elec (CRP, no. 1194); first Englishman to know65 of bull Injunctum nobis revoking alienations of church property (CRP, no. 1337); on committee Aug 1555 to examine first fruits and tenths (CRP, no. 1343); ‘something like the modern leader of the house [of Commons]’ under Mary; chief intermediary between it and Pole Nov 1554; ‘prob. sympathetic to reunion with Rome’66 (ODNB);

caveat undated but prob. 1557 for rect Worleigh (DRO, EDRC 16, fo. 43r); abs 1 July 1557 for founding new preaching canonry in Roch cath (CRP, no. 2051); advised Mary not to allow papal messenger with news of Pole’s revocation to enter England (Old DNB); pat. with Sir John Mason and Wiliam Cooke of William Stocker (all qv) (CRP, no. 2061); may have resigned over policy against heresy and opposition to war in 1557; attended council meetings until Feb 1567; bur at Ingatestone; charitable bequests outside will to ASC (1557) when also founded almshouse at Ingatestone and 8 fellowships at ECO (1566 and 1568); estate worth ca. £5000 (ODNB); will 12 and 27 Apr 1571/prov 26 Jan 1573 (TNA, PROB, 11/55; printed in Emmison, Elizabethan life, pp. 28-32): places: Ingatestone, Ingatstone als Gingpetre, Ingatstone Writtell, Ginghospitall, Buttesbury, Stocke, Gingmounteney, Gingmargaret, E. Thorneden, Heron Grene, Herongate, Fryerneinge, S. Beneflete als Beniflete, W. Thurrocke, Buttesbury, Stocke, Ramsden Bellowes, Ramsden Crayes, Downham, Ranvell, Little Bursteede called Nynges, Tomlins and Plumars, Gingraff als Ingrave, all Ess, Torriton Magna, Kingsbridge, Churstowe, Estmembre, Branscombe, Sparkeheyes, Huntheyes, all Dev, Hawkchurch, Kent, Mountague, Tyntenhall, both Som, Sutton, St Botholphes without Aldergate, Horsefaithe Parke, Wiscombe and Wiscombe Park, Dullsheyes als Dawlishehyes, Werengthon, Uphay, Hitway, Humseavill, Haccombeste, Axmister, Borcomb, Sydforde, Sydbury, Harcombe, Upperfleere in rect of E. Allington, Higher Stoferde and Nether Stoforde in rect of Colyton, Tor Bryan, prob. all Dev, persons: wife Anne (exec), son John (exec), son-in-law Nicholas Wadham and da Dorothy, da Elizabeth and husband John Gostwick, esq, her son William Gostwick, son-in-law Lodovike Grevell, esq and da Thomasina, their chil (William, Edward, John, Anne and Margaret) da Katherine and husband John Talbot, esq of Graston, Worc, their chil (incl godda Gertrude and John Talbot), Anne Baker, da of wife’s late da Katherine Baker, son-in-law Richard Baker, esq, bro Robert Petre, late bro John Petre, customer of Exeter, his son William Petre of Tor Bryan, Richard Feelde, John Kyme, svts (Robert Saver, cook John Taylor, Barnard Geoffrey, John Bell, Thomas Carmarden, Arthur Raglande, William Bell, Edward Bell, gent, Richard Stoneley, John Clyff, gent of Ingatestone [exec]), former svts (Robert Langthorne, Edward Walker), Sir William Garrarde, alderman of London (ovs), Edmunde Turell, esq (ovs), Sir William Cecil (qv), widow Mary Percy, my chap John Woodwarde (qv), legacies: cash (well over £1100), year’s wages to svts, annuities, doles (over £440), clothing, jewelry (incl £20 jewel, a diamond from Queen Mary and £40 gold chain), plate, horses, much livestock, household goods, much real estate (many manors, houses at London and Ingatestone, farm of Imphy Hall ‘parcel of the possessions of the bp of Ely’, S. Beneflete ‘parcel of the lands of Westm’, lands worth over £621 11s 9d p.a. in total), advowson of vic Brent, rects of Gingemountney and Buttesbury, items of interest: inventory made up of son’s legacies, wardship and marr of Griselde Berners, da and heir of late William Berners of Thobie, Ess, to use of younger chil of da Thomasina, endowment preserved and funds increased for almshouse at Ingatestone called the priest and poor of Ging Petre

Petwose [sic], William: BA,68 inst 5 July 1524 rect Sharnford, Leic, Axholme priory,69 pat.–resig bef. 4 Feb 1544 for 40s pension (LincRO, Epis. reg. 27, fos 147v and

171r); inst 7 Sept 1542 rect Olderkyrke, pale of Calais, crown pat. (LPLCR, fo. 389v); pres 5 May 1554 rect Marcq (CPRPM 1, p. 160), inst 22 May (CCA, DCc, Reg N, fo. 69r; SVI, p. 23); oc 19 May 1557 deputy for N. Harpsfield as comm in Calais (CRP, no. 2000); coll 24 Mar 1558 rect Sundridge, Kent-resig bef. 21 May (CRP, nos 2203, 2237), worth £23 13s 4d (VE 1, p. 114); coll 24 Mar 1558 vic Wrotham, Kentresig71 bef. 21 May (CRP, nos 2204 & 2238), worth £20 1s (TNA, E 334/3, fo. 36v); inst 31 Dec 1558 rect St Albans Woodstreet, Cole (qv/5) as provost of EtC, pat. (GL, 9531/12/2, fo. 206r)–resig bef. 9 Jan 1560 (GL, 9531/13/1, fo. 111r), worth £16 7s 1d (VE 1, p. 372); ?Pettowse, petty canon of Cant, will prov 26 Oct 1560 (Kentish wills, p. 60): mentions preb John Butler, sis Mrs Thornhurst, Nicholas Brett, petty canon

Peverell, John († bef. 7 Jan 1579): monk of Lewes priory,72 disp 31 Dec 1538 to hold ben wch (FOR, p. 120); witn 1539 will at Southover, Suss, oc 1 July 1542 rect, still 17 Aug 1560 (TSW 3, p. 114 and 104); pres 11 Nov 1557 rect Telscombe, Suss (CPRPM 4, p. 356), inst 20 Nov (CRP, no. 2128)–† bef. 7 Jan 1579 (WSRO, Ep/I/1/7, fo. 40r), worth £12 6s (TNA, E 334/2, fo. 8r); inst 4 Feb 1561 rect Lewes St John under the Castle, Sir Richard Sackville, pat. (WSRO, Ep/I/1/7, fo. 17v), vac (resig) bef. [no day] 1580 (WSRO, Ep/I/1/7, fo. 41v); ?inst 5 Mar 1567 vic Bodiam, Suss, Sir Anthony Browne (qv), Viscount Montagu, pat. (WSRO, Ep/I/1/7, fo. 26r), worth £6 18s 6d (VE 1, p. 343); admon. 21 Feb 1583 [Act book B 1], 126n (BRS 24, c. 257)

Philipps, Geoffrey: StA dioc, disp 9 March 1555 orders (CRP, no. 1106c); ord subd 22 Dec 1554 (with Lawrence Baker and John Seman, both qv), deac London 8 Mar, priest 10 Mar 1555 with those two, James Clayton (qv), Christopher Inkepen (qv) and Rhys Powell (qv), to title of Maurice Kyffyn’s manor of Maynam, Caern (GL, 9535/1, fos 39r-v, 45r-v, 46v); pres 30 Dec 1562 rect Sturmer, Ess, inst 28 Jan 1563, John Radcliffe, pat. (GL, 9531/13/1, fo. 129r)

Philips, Hugh: als Broughton, of Ramsey abbey, sacristan at St Ives,73 pensioned 22 Nov 1539 on £6 (L&P 14:2, no. 565), still pd 1552-3 (Hodgett, LRS, p. 32); disp 29 Jan 1540 to change habit (FOR, p. 207); chantry priest of Fenstanton, pensioned on £4, still pd 1552-3 (Hodgett, LRS, pp. 17, 33 and 94); oc 1554 rect Grafham, Hunt, no marital status, still drawing both pensions (Hodgett, LRS, p. 94)–bef. 29 Jan 1557 entry to religion (CRP, no. 1822), worth £16 p.a. (Hodgett, LRS, p. 94); monk of Westm from 1556 (Hodgett, LRS, p. xv); sexton Aug 1557 at Anne of Cleves’s funeral (C. S. Knighton, ‘Westminster abbey restored’, in Eamon Duffy and David Loades, eds, The church of Mary Tudor [Aldershot: Ashgate, 2006], pp. 77-123, pp. 120-21); cellarer bef. 18 Dec 1557 (GL, 9535/1, fo. 67v); ordered ca. Apr 1561 sent from Cant; prob. imprisoned in Gatehouse at unknown time; 7 Feb 1568 signed deposition; said mass 22 Apr 1576 in house of John Pinchin, atty, late of Middle Temple, sent for trial 29 May (Knighton); ?will 7 Oct 1579/prov 13 Oct (TNA, PROB 11/61, fo. 303v PCC

39 Bakon; BRS 18, p. 243): of London, orally gave all property to bp of Linc [Thomas Cooper]

Phillips, Henry (Harry): b. Charborough, Dor, son Richard Phillips, sheriff of Dor and MP74 (TNA, SP 1/100, fo. 97r-v; L&P 9, no. 1139); adm BCL 17 Feb 1533; matric Louvain 14 Dec 1534 (BRUO2, p. 447); centrally involved in William Tyndale’s arrest;75 claimed in 1535 to be ‘well beneficed in the dioc of Exeter’ (L&P 8, no. 1151), and specifically Thomas Brerewood’s76 (qv) client to whom had written abt then along with a number of letters to rels begging pardon and help (TNA, SP 1/100, fos 95r-96r; 97r-v; 98r-v; 99r-v; 100r-v; 101r-v; 102r-v [L&P 8, nos 1138-1144]; TNA, SP 1/128, fo. 113r-v [L&P 13:1, no. 98]) and in 1538 called Brerewood maecenas unice when asked for further help for his studies and in being reconciled with his father (L&P 13:1, no. 99); in 1537 offered to carry letters from Pole to England as part of John Hutton’s plots to capture Pole (L&P 12:1, no. 1293);77 of London, gent, attainted 19 May 1539 with Pole (CRP, no. 268a); back to Louvain 1539 where entertained by Wriothesley from whom stole money and jewels (BRUO2); entrusted to Christopher Joye’s (qv) custody but escaped (L&P 14:1, no. 248); Wriothesley ordered whole town searched and offered huge reward for capture (ibid., no. 264); reported to have entered duke of Cleves’s service; seen by Sir Thomas Seymour in Buda in 1542 (BRUO2)

Phillips, William: inst 16 Dec 1556 vic Upton, Buck (CRP, no. 1795), vac (†) bef. 8 Jan 1561 (LI2, no. 1009), worth £6 10s in 1603 (Foster, Lincoln, p. 267)

Piatte [sic], William: priest, coll 29 May 1557 rect Ickham, Kent (CRP, no. 2022), vac (†) bef. 2 Nov 1568 (Reg. Parker, p. 843), worth £28 13s 4d (VE 1, p. 91)

Picard, George († 30 Mar-4 Apr 1559): pres 4 July 1558 Sellindge, Kent78 (CPRPM 4, p. 231), inst 12 Aug (CRP, no. 2270)–† bef. 13 Sept 1560 (Reg. Parker, p. 775); will 30 Mar/prov 4 Apr 1559 (CKS, Cant Ad 33/107): Catholic preamble, Christopher Shorte, res leg and witn, Robert Carrier (qv), vic of Braborne, Kent, witn

Pickeringe, Richard: ?in accts 1553/4 Cant cath. (CCA, DCc/MA 39, fo. 6r); boy, summoned 17 May 1556 visitation (CRP, no. 1564)

Pike, Edmund: at 1556 visitation had fruits of Wilden als Welden, Bed sequestered until finished repairs ordered to make 2 years earlier (Strype, EM 3:2, p. 394); sued Oct 9 1557 by Thomas Lucy at Bedford assizes ov. its advowson (CRP, no. 2161)

Pister, William: London dioc, member of queen’s household, Lent disp 23 Mar 1557 (CRP, no. 1919b): ?of Kings Sonborne, Hant, gent, with Tristram Pistor sur 1555 for Henry Wilsha (qv)

Plantagenet, Anne: See Hungerford née Bassett, Anne Plantagenet, Edward, earl of Warwick (1475-99): eldest son George, duke of Clarence,

bro of Edward IV and Yorkist claimant to throne aft. Henry VII’s accession; bro

Margaret Pole (qv), countess of Salisbury and Pole’s uncle; spent most of life in prison; executed by Henry VII 1499; attainder reversed by 5 Henry VIII c. 12 admitting unjust treatment (Old DNB); Pole made Henry’s request for forgiveness example to Protector Somerset (CRP no. 555, pp. 38 and 50); see ODNB

Plantagent, Honor, Lady Lisle (ca. 1493/5-bef. 30 Apr 1566): prob. last da Sir Thomas Grenville, Stowe, Corn and Isabella Gilbert, left £200 towards marr (Muriel St Clair Byrne, ed., The Lisle letters, 6 vols [Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1981] 1, pp. 404-405, 304-305 and 308); nothing known of upbringing but could read (incl 2nd husband Viscount Lisle’s off. correspondence) and sign name (ibid. 1, pp. 32 and 34); marr 1515 Sir John Bassett (1462-1528), Umberleigh, Dev (ibid., pp. 308 and 6, p. 322); 7 chil (John, George, James, Philippa, Katharine, Anne [Hungerford née Bassett (qv)] and Mary (ibid., pp. 5 and 314); left manors of Trevalga, Femarshall, Whitechapel, Holcombe, Upcott Snellard and Calston by 1st husb (ibid., p. 315); marr bef. 8 June 152979 Arthur Plantagenet, Lord Lisle (ibid., p. 243); pat. in 1535-6 of Thomas Raynold (qv); usually lived at Soberton, Hant (ibid. p. 246); arrested and imprisoned 1540 at time of Lisle’s disgrace (ibid., 6, pp. 137-140, 149-151 and 18788); Lent disp 12 March 1555 (CRP, no. 1118a); 26 Mar 1558 conveyed Tehidy by grandson Arthur Basset; bur 30 Apr 1566 at Ilogan, Corn; called by Foxe ‘utter enemy to God’s honor and in idolatry, hypocrisy and pride incomparably evil’ (Lisle letters 1, p. 31 and 6, p. 258)

Podage, John: oc 24 Oct 1545 pat. vic Rodmersham, Kent when John Pagram inst (LPLCR, fo. 396v), again 2 June 1553 (TNA, E 334/4, fo. 120r), still 17 March 1558 (CRP, no. 2200), William Pordage [sic] oc 26 Oct 1569 pat. (Reg. Parker, p. 857), still 3 Sept 1578 (LPL, Grindal’s reg., fo. 522v); ?cousin of Thomas Porrage of Brenchley, Kent whose will also mentioned Ciriake Petit (?qv) (Kentish wills, p. 43)

Pole, Arthur (1531-?70): eldest son Sir Geoffrey Pole (qv) and wife Constance; tutored by Gentian Hervet (qv/5) (Old DNB); oc Dec 1552 in John Dudley’s service (ODNB); left out of Pole’s will (CRP, 3, p. 571); offered services to Elizabeth but rejected (Old DNB); imprisoned in Fleet 22 Apr 1561 for hearing mass (‘Prisoners’, p. 49); lived with close friend Sir Edward Hastings (qv) prob. at Stoke Poges, Buck; marr by Sept 1562 sis of Thomas Percy, 7th earl of Northumberland (ODNB); plotted to supplant Elizabeth with Mary, Queen of Scots incl conspiring with bro-in-law and Pole’s former steward Anthony Fortescue and Spanish ambassador de la Quadra (both qv/5 where further details of plots) and French ambassador but turned down by both; encouraged in plans for rising in Wales by duke of Guise; captured nr Tower 1562; tried for treason 15 Feb 1563 by Sir William Cordell (qv) et al. and imprisoned; not in mother’s will 12 Aug 1570 (Old DNB)

Pole, David († bef. 6 July 1568 [will]): ‘of noble race’, possibly Pole’s bastard bro (Burnet/Pocock 2, p. 524, denied in 7, p. 239); adm 1520 fell. ASC, vac 1528, subwarden 1528-9 (BRUO2, p. 452); proc at Worc for Thomas Moscrof,80 MD at inst 12 July 1524 (WoRO, b716.093-BA.2648/9(i), p. 47); BCnL 2 July 1526, DCnL 17 Feb 1528 (RUO 1, p. 141); inst 25 Apr 1528 vic St Giles, Oxon, vac bef. Mar 1531 (BRUO2); adm 31 July 1529 Drs Coms (Squibb, p. 145); coll 13 Dec 1530 rect

Cheriton Bishop, Dev-promotion to Peterb (BRUO2), 30 May 1549 co-grantee of its advowson for next turn (ECA, 3551, fo. 289v); inst 27 Feb 1531 rect Kingsley, Staff (LRO, B/A/1/14 (1), fo. 28r); coll 13 Mar 1531 Tachbrook preb, Lichfield, instal 11 Apr-promotion (F3 10, p. 62), protested for residence 6 Apr 1543 (LCA, D&C, Act book 4, fo. 128v), regularly attended chapter meetings (LCA, D&C, Act book 4, passim), co-grantee 24 July 1545 advowson of Stotfold preb (LCA, D&C, Act book 4, fo. 140r) but never used (see Thomas Bolte’s entry); comm 21 Jan 1532 as sede vacante vg C&L (LRO, B/A/1/14 (iii), fo. 1v), renewed by Roland Lee 20 Apr 1534 when also comm as off. of CC (LRO, B/A/1/14 (iii), fo. 10r-v and 10v-11r) and by Bp Sampson through at least Oct 1550, in 1553 sometimes only as off. prin. (LRO, B/C/2/4 passim), as such presided 1553 at depr for marr of Henry Williams (qv), dean Lichfield (BL, Harl. 421, fo. 63r-v); ?canon of Calwich (index to L&P 6, p. 768);82 ?oc 1533 St Mary’s preb, Warwick (L&P 6, p. 132, a note by Cromwell of a warrant to be signed for such); with Richard Strete, ad Salop and Richard Gwent (see Pole’s will) valued bens of C&L 1533, called DTh, sent up final report 24 July (L&P 6, nos 389 and 889); coll 2 Apr 1536 ad Salop, comp 28 Mar 1537 (F3 10, p. 12)–promotion (LRO, B/A/1/15, fo. 21r); attacked as persecutor of Protestants in ‘The Pilgryms Tale’ (ca. 1536-40) (ODNB); coll 28 March 1538 5th preb Chester St John’s (BRUO2), still 2 May 1544 (L&P 19:1, no. 455); voted for content of Act of 6 Articles (L&P 14:1, no. 1065.4); inst 2 Nov 1540 rect Longford, Derby (BRUO2); pres 12 Nov 1540 rect E. Dereham, Norf (CUL, EDR G/1/7, fo. 27r), inst 14 Nov (BRUO2 citing NRO, Reg. Repps,83 fo. 67r)–promotion (NRO, DN/REG 12/18, fo. 190r), as such 18 Dec 1554 pat. of its vic when Richard Garhat inst (NRO, DN/REG 12/18, fo. 98r); proceeded 27 July 1542 against 10 heretics at Coventry (L&P 17, no. 537); coll 8 Jan 1543 ad Derby (F3 10, p. 10), comp 14 Jan £24, Thomas Duce, St Michael Cornhill, draper and Simon Coston, St Faith’s, gent, surs (TNA, E 334/2, fo. 130r)–promotion wrb John Ramridge (qv) (F3); ?dean of Arches under Henry VIII (Wood 2, c. 801); 23 Aug 1553 on comm with Henry Cole (qv/5) for Tunstall’s (qv) restoration (CPRPM 1, p. 76; cf. undated comm on p. 263); on large comm 5 Sept 1553 for Bonner’s restoration (Guildhall, 9531/12/2, fo. 57r-v), on comm 19 Dec 1553 to review his depr with William Roper, John Tregonwell, William Cooke, Henry Cole, John Griffith, John White (all qv) (CPRPM 1, pp. 73-75), voided 2 Mar 1554 (CPRPM 1, p. 121); comm gen 14 June 1554 in bp of London’s peculiar jurisdiction (GL, 9531/12/2, fo. 59r-v); appt 30 Sept 1554 keeper of C&L (LRO, B/A/1/15, fos 7v-8); among wtns84 to condemnations of John Hooper and John Rogers (both qv) (Strype, EM 3:1, pp. 288-90); assisted 22

Mar 1556 at Pole’s cons as abp (CRP, no. 1521); appt 27 Mar 1556 vg of Cant, off. prin. of Arches; auditor of archiepiscopal court of audience, and dean of Arches-28 Aug 1557 when replaced in first and third of these by Cole, other two not until 1 Oct (CRP, nos 1528, 2093 and 2103-2104); on quorum of roy heresy comm 25 Apr 1556 with Thorneden, N. Harpsfield, Robert Collins, Richard Fawcet and John Warren (all qv) (CRP, no. 1549b); president 28 July 1556 Jesus gild in St Faith’s (CPRPM 3, p. 275), other officers incl Thomas Darbyshire (qv), Richard Lyell,86 Thomas Argall (qv), Roger Hunt, John Lewys (Lewes; qv) (all officers of Arches or PCC) and John Cawood (qv); congé d’élire 16 Dec 1556 bp of Peterb (F3 8, p. 115), prov87 24 Mar 1557 (ASV, Arch. Concist., Acta vicecancellarii, 8, fo. 79r), comm for cons 14 Aug (CRP, no. 2085), cons 15 Aug (LPLPR, fo. 10r), temps 28 June 1558 (F3)–depr bef. 30 June 155988 (F3 citing CUA, Reg. U2, fo. 90v and CPREI [1], p. 147, roy assent to successor 4 Feb 1561), epis. reg. covering 4 Aug 1557-20 Oct 1560 extant in early C18 (BL, Lans. 980, fo. 265r; not NRO, X956/1, fos 1r-130v extending from Oct 1541 to Feb 1574; prob. used in Bridges, Northamptonshire); grant of personal arms, argent, on a chevron engrailed between three heathcocks azure three cinquefoils of the field, a canton party per-pale or and sable, a saltire interchanged (CSPDom rev., no. 619); depr 1559 rect Wadenhoe, Ntht (BRUO2 citing Longden); wrote William Cecil (qv) 28 Nov 1558 thanking him for gift, sending queen 20 marks and asking to be excused from parliament (CSPDom, p. 118); with Heath, Bonner, Bourne and Turberville (all qv) signed 4 Dec 1559 letter to Elizabeth asking her to preserve papal obedience (ODNB); imprisoned ca. July 1561 (Bayne, Anglo-Roman relations, p. 283); ‘I doubt whether he was in the Tower or in some other prison’ (Foxe [1570], p. 2301); to stay within 3 miles of London acc. certificate locating recusants [1561?] (Gee, p. 179); in 1564 living with Brian Fowler outside Stafford when complained of as locus of discontent (ODNB); ultimate fate matter of dispute on ideological lines: acc. Sander † in prison or in exile for faith (DVM, p. 688) and Phillips makes an inferential case that this happened in the Fleet mainly based on ‘frequent reference made [in his will; see bel.]. . .to another celebrated confessor of the faith, Sir Thomas Fitzherbert’,89 incl as exec, which ‘seems to make it plain that they were both confined in one same prison’ (Extinction, pp. 284-87); to Fleet abt Nov 1564 [no evidence] (ibid., p. 290); † in agro suo acc. Lancelot Andrewes, Tortura torti, sive ad Matthaei Torti librum responsio

(London: R. Barker, 1609), p. 146 replying to Sander; ‘an ancient grave person, and quiet subject. . .used with all kindness by his prince and living in his own house, died in a mature age’ (Strype, Annals 1:1, p. 214); will 17 May 1568/prov 6 July (TNA, PROB 11/50, fo. 104r PCC 14 Babington; long extract in Phillips, Extinction, pp. 285-90): silver goblets and £5 each to Brian Fowler91 and his wife; 20s to Mrs Costons in London churchyard who had some of his things, £5 each to svts Martin Audley and Richard Turner; household stuff at Peterb to William Bynsley (qv), Christopher Hodgesone92 and Thurstan Morrey,93 prebs, except for various gowns;94 Mr Parsons of Polebrook, Ntht my stuff he has; £5 and ‘course of Paulus de Castro upon civil [law]’ to Thomas Bulkeley;95 5 marks to Richard Gwent as promised ‘exhibition’ and uncle Dr Richard Gwent’s96 ring and 2 others; ‘course of civil [law]’ and Bartolus in 4 books to George Dyott;97 rest of theology and law books at Peterb and London to ASC if pays transport bec of my poverty;98 Sir Thomas Fitzherbert and John Wilkinson, citizen of London to whom owed £13 11s, execs, both £7, goblet and ring with Audley (40s) as substitute for Fitzherbert; another ring to Fitzherbert and to Mrs Wilkinson Queen Mary’s New Year’s gift of gilt cup; 4 marks from Henry Gescocke for Mr Bagott’s soul; 40s to Drs Coms; residue for soul of Thomas Powell99 of whom exec and of Steven Sagar;100 45s for souls of 2 prebs of Chester, Skelton and Grigeson;101 noble each to 2 unnamed kinswomen in ‘the New town’102 and to 3 other rels ‘dwellling in the country there’ the right to live in his house; tippet to George Lee;103 gown and 4s 8d to William Stapleton; 26s 8d to Richard Bolbett, William Bearelaye, and Robert Harvey (first and last among wtns also incl Henry Fowler, Turner and Audley)

Pole, Sir Geoffrey: see my article in ODNB plus disp 30 Mar 1547 for portable altar in

his chapel or oratory at Lordington, Suss (FOR, p. 292; CRP, no. 1177) Pole, Henry: son of next and Jane, da George Neville, 3rd baron Abergavenny (qv), b.