ABSTRACT

Lacy, Henry: scholar, London dioc, disp orders 8 Mar 1555 (CRP, no. 1105c); ord subd 8 Mar 1555, deac 10 Mar, priest 12 Mar, all by Leverous (qv/5) with William Cooke, Richard Woodward, Goodlacus Cordall, Charles Fitzwater, George Bere or Byrry, Leonard Boulton, William Saunderson and Thomas Bellard (all qv) (GL, 9535/1, fos 45r and 46r-v); 1) Henry, matric sizar from TCC 1550; 2) ?H [sic], matric sizar from CCCC 1567; 3) scholar of TCC 1584, BA 1584-5, MA 1588, transcribed Dr Legge’s ‘Richardus tertius’ (AlC, p. 33)

Lacy, Hugh: prov 24 Nov 1556 bp Limerick (ASV, Archivio concistoriale, Acta vicecancellari, 8, fo. 23v; HBC, p. 400), incorrectly 9 Mar 1556 when said to be 40 years old, illegit and provost [place not given] (Eubel, p. 225 from Acta camerarii, 14)–depr 1571 (HBC), or –† 1580 (Eubel) or –1579;1 perhaps † in prison2

Lakyne, John: from Warw, matric 1548 sizar from SJCC (AlC 3, p. 35); BA 1552, adm 25 Mar 1553 fell. SJCC, MA 1556,3 BTh 1561, elec fell. JCC ca. 1562, mr 15635 (AtC 1, pp. 240-41 and 3, p. 99; GBΔ, p. 508); 20 Nov 1555 disp orders (CRP, no. 1435b); ?2 baskets of his books examined during legatine visitation (Mere, p. 216); incorp MA at Oxford 29 July 1560 with George Ausope (qv) (RUO 1, p. 243); university preacher 1560 (GBΔ, p. 572); depr4 bef. 7 May 1564 vic Duxford St Peter, Camb (CUL, EDR G/1/8, fo. 144r)

Lambert, Hugh: pres 27 Jan 1557 vic Herayehill [sic]5 (CRP, no. 1820a), as such settled tithe case 9 Nov 1557 with Richard Fowler and another with Rich and Younge (CCA, DCB, Y.2.19, fo. 52v); worth £9 13s 3d ca. 1554 (WCA, A 23, fo. 78r); pres May [rest of date not given] vic Seasalter, Kent (CCA, DCc, Reg. U3, fo. 73r), inst 23 June 1557, D&C Cant, pat. (CRP, no. 2049), vac bef. 22 June 1569 (Reg. Parker, p. 852), worth £11 (TNA, E 334/4, fo. 75v); will 13 Nov 1558 (?)/prov 7 Mar 1559 (CKS, Cant Ad 33/223): 40s to Seasalter, 12d to ten of its poor, 4s to paving chancel of church of Waltam,6 26s 8d for bur, 10s to ‘woman who is called Jundons (?) wife’ already pd for taking care of me, 3s to my keeper Amys Shaft, 3s to John Stanford’s wife of Seasalter, brass pot to Elmat’s widow of Whitstable, six pieces of pewter to Thomas Tompson, vic Godmersham (and among witns), vic Waltham and successors all books which were David Long’s and all mine except Latin bible, new coat to my host ‘Pene’, bow and arrows to John Pen, ?also res leg, Robert Molberye, parson of Harbledown, and Richard at Hawe, Seasalter, execs, Henry Sellers of Seasalter, ovs (6s 8d)

Lancaster, Ambrose: Carlisle dioc, ord unben priest 20 Feb 1535 to title of Shap abbey7 (LincRO, Epis. reg. 26, fo. 42r); BA 15 Feb 1534, MA 17 Feb 1538 (RUO 1, p. 175); QCO, chap 1534, still 1535, fell. 1539-47 (BRUO2, p. 338); comp 14 Aug

1545 St Katherine’s chantry in Childrey, Berk £7 4s, Lancelot Harryson, St Botulph Billingsgate, grocer and John Fawcet, St Michael le Querne, skinner, surs (TNA, E 334/3, fo. 63r); pres by crown 12 Sept 1558 vic Watlington, Oxon (CRP, no. 2278b), inst 22 Sept (OA, ODP d105, p. 186), vac (resig) bef. [n.d.] Mar 1583/4 (LPL, Whitgift’s Reg. I, fo. 296v); comp 4 May 1561 vic Barton, Westmo (TNA, E 334/7, fo. 118v); inst 28 Nov 1566 rect Swyncombe, Oxon, crown pat. (OA, ODP d105, p. 237)

Lancaster, Justinian [or Justin] († 1595): from Southampton, at CCC 4 Nov 1541, fell. 28 July 1545, BA 1546/7 (RUO 1, p. 212); ord subd 21 Sept 1555 (OA, ODP d105, p. 82); subd, disp 15 Oct 1555 orders (CRP, no. 1404b); inst 7 April 1558 rect Enmore, Som (SRS 55, no. 888), worth £8 4s 1d (VE 1, p. 215); comp 3 Apr 1560 Ad Taunton (F3 5, p. 16), oc 17 Jan/26 Apr 15628 when priest, knew Latin, non-resident (unknown where), unmarr, non-preacher (CCCC, MS 97, fo. 116r)–exch for Wanstrow preb (F3 5, p. 16) (see bel.); inst 6 June 1558 rect Donyatt, Som, William [Herbert; qv] earl of Pembroke, pat. (SRS 55, no. 933), comp 25 June £14 3s 4d, William Lancaster of Overton, Som, clothier and William Griffithe, St Andrew Baynard’s Castle, tailor, surs (TNA, E 334/8, fo. 147r)–resig bef. 27 Sept 1574 (SRO, D/D/B Reg. 15, fo. 42r); inst by proxy 4 Feb 1559 rect Faringdon, Hant, exec of William Medow, pat. (Reg. Whyte, p. 25); inst 30 Jan 1561 rect Huish Champflower (Humphreys, p. 378), Som (SRO, D/ D/B Reg. 15, fo. 5v), Alexander Siddenham, arm, pat., 2nd inst 7 July 1561 (SRO, D/ D/B Reg 15, fo. 5v)–vac bef. 16 May 1564, worth £12 2s 5d (TNA, E 334/8, fo. 18r); inst 4 Oct 1562 [sic, but prob 1563] rect Chawton, Hant, Henry Knight, Chawton, pat. phv (HaRO, 21M65/A1/26, fo. 5v), vac bef. 16 Sept 1578 (HaRO, 21M65/A1/26, fo. 117r); 20 Apr 1575 ordered removed from vic Yatton, Som by roy writ aft. quare impedit against him and bp of B&W (Reg. Parker, p. 1140), worth £30 (VE 1, p. 187); ‘venerable’, inst 18 Jan 1576 rect Churchtaunton [sic; also Church Tanton; ?Church Teignton, Dev; Hope, ‘Hennessy’, p. 153b says Churchstanton, Dev now Som], John Clyfton, arm, pat. (DRO, EDRC 20, fo. 25v)–† bef. 9 June 1595 (DRO, EDRC 21, fo. 57v); pres 12 May 1584 Wanstrow preb, Wells, inst 15 Oct-resig or depr bef. 12 May 1592 (F3 5, p. 84); † bef. 17 Oct 1595 holding Blackborough, Dev (DRO, EDRC 21, fo. 58v; Hope, ‘Hennessy’, p. 153b says inst); prob rel next

Lancaster, William († 1596): lit., B&W dioc, cr 27 Apr 1538 notary (FOR, p. 130); 7 Feb 1555 cr notary, B&W dioc (CRP, no. 1063); oc 13 Jan 1560 its registrar (Reg. Parker, p. 172); ?sup for BCL 19 Jun 1563 (RUO 1, p. 252); gent, witn 13 July 1570 to Edmund Sandes’s elect bp of London (Reg. Parker, p. 145); will 4 June 1596/ prov 6 Dec (TNA, PROB 11/87 PCC 87 Drake; BRS 25, p. 253): places: Milverton, Som, Wells cath, Glaston, Bridgwater, Taunton, Wellington, all Som, Wiveliscombe, Dev, hospitals (Taunton, Lamporte, Bridgewater and Bruton, all Som), Basingstoke, Hant (where b.), persons: sons (Roger, Thomas and Edward Lancaster), son-in-law James Cappes (exec), da Mary Cappes, their son William, da Thomasina Siddenham and husband Roger, da Jane Trowbridge and husband William (ovs), cousin William Richardes (ovs), Ad Bisse, William Watkins, David Sarme, Richard Godbeare, Mr Saunders sr, William Crowther, vic Wiveliscombe, Mr Prowse, Henry Wood of Culmestoke, William Taylor of Wiveliscombe, Robert Owen, deputy in Wells, svts (John Scuddinge, Elizabeth Owens), Mr Jefferes, vic of N. Petherton, Som, William

Watkins, John Ambrose, clk of Milverton, Mr Osborne, registrar of Barstable, John Richards of Taunton, legacies: cash (£53 6s 8d, 4 ‘angel nobles’), doles, plate (incl cup given by Bp Bourne [qv]), real estate, household goods, horse, clothing, son Edward’s debts (£134 plus ring) divided between James Cappes’s chil, William Trowbridge, Milverton to build a conduit and charity at Basingstoke, books: books that John Richards has at Taunton to John Scudding (incl Josephus, Ignatius, book of chronicles and Camden), 3 books of precedents, items of interest: bequest to son Roger ‘with the delivery of his patent for the registrarship to bp of B&W which he has jointly with me’, records of ad Barstable delivered to Mr Osborne, 2 ‘angel nobles’ (apparently equals 20s), book of records belonging to office of registrar in ad Taunton ‘being in a basket together’ to Bisse; prob rel last

Lancaster, William: jp Westmo 1537-8 (L&P 12:1, no. 795.3); among instigators of Pilgrimage of Grace; of Deepdale, Westmo executed 1537 for treason (L&P 12:1, nos 671.2.ii, 849 p. 383, 914 p. 416 and 1104.8); worth less than 40s p.a. (L&P 12:2, no. 248); attainted with Pole (CRP, no. 268a)

Lander, William: ?inst 15 Sept 1534 vic Tavistock, Dev, Tavistock abbey, pat. (DRO, EDRC 14, fo. 72v), vac bef. 31 May 1570 (Reg. Parker, p. 314); ?Launder, sec chap, BA 16 Dec 1538, MA 4 Feb or Mar 1540, chap of MerC (RUO 1, p. 192); 9 Mar 1557 abs marr, disp to hold ben outside Exeter dioc (CRP, no. 1894); ?Launder, inst 28 Mar 1557 rect Pilton, Dev, John Charlys, arm, pat.–† bef. 22 July 1575 (DRO, EDRC 20, fo. 23v); ?MA, inst 9 Nov 1561 rect St Dominic, Corn, Henry Chiverton, pat. (DRO, EDRC 18, fo. 18v), caveat 22 Oct 1561 (DRO, EDRC 18, unfoliated caveats at end vol.), inst again 13 Sept 1566, Chiverton still pat. (DRO, EDRC 19, fo. 16v)–† bef. 2 Sept 1575 (DRO, EDRC 20, fo. 24r)

Lane, Martin († bef. 30 Mar 1573): ord sec priest 19 Sept 1529 to title of Darley abbey (LRO, B/A/1/14 (ii), fo. 205v); 1533 curate of Duffield, Derbys (BL, Harl. 594, fo. 129v); inst 19 Sept 1536 vic Chesterfield, Derbys,9 D&C Linc, pat. (LRO, B/A/1/14 (iii), fo. 26r)–† bef. 9 Apr 1573 (LRO, B/A/1/15, fo. 83r and Cox, Derbyshire churches 4, p. 453); inst 24 Feb 1553 rect [north] moiety Darley Dale, Derbys, Matthew Parker, pat. (B/A/1/15, fo. 56v)–† bef. 30 Mar 1573 (B/A/1/15, fo. 83r and Cox, Derbyshire churches 4, p. 501); abs & disp 23 Oct 1556 pluralism (CRP, no. 1753)

Langley, Giles († bef. 8 Feb 1571): BCL 24 July 1541, of ChCC 1547, resident New Inn Hall Aug 1548 (RUO 1, pp. 197 and 332 and BRUO2, p. 340; ChCC not in BRUO2); comp 6 July 1545 vic Chieveley, Berk £23 18s, Giles Morgan, Middle Temple, gen and James Button, St Nicholas, Glam, surs (TNA, E 334/3, fo. 60r), inst 10 July, John Chaundeler, Newbury, Berk, pat. (W&SRO, D1/2/16, Reg. Capon, fo. 24v)–† (W&SRO, D1/2/16, Reg. Jewel, fo. 26v); pres 29 Mar 1554 rect Aston Tirrold, Berk now Oxon (CPRPM 1, p. 358), inst 17 May (W&SRO, D1/2/16, Reg. Capon, fo. 56r); BCL, disp 7 June 1555 pluralism (CRP, no. 1240), prob. exhibited (certainly incl Aston Tirrold) (W&SRO, D1/43/2, fo. 29v) bef. 5 May 1556 (W&SRO, D1/39/1/1, fo. 86ar); 1 of procs for Berk ad Jan 1558 convocation (W&SRO, D1/39/1/1, fo. 212av); inst 24 Sept 1561 rect Welford, Berk (SE, p. 26)–† bef. 26 Apr 1571 (W&SRO, D1/2/16, Reg. Jewel, fos 5v and 27r); inst 27 Apr 1564 Ad Llan, David Lewes, DCL and John Lewes, notary, pats. phv by grant from Bp Kitchin (qv), rep. John Smith (qv) (Reg. Parker, p. 229); appeared by proc 17 Apr 1566 at elec of bp of Llan, but also signed

elec processus (Reg. Parker, pp. 120-121); rect Lockage [?E. Lockinge; SE, p. 21], Berk, † bef. 8 Feb 1571 (W&SRO, D1/2/16, Reg. Jewel, fo. 26v)

Langley, Robert († bef. 2 Sept 1558): of Wycombe, Wykenby or Wyconby10 ord unben priest 10 June 1525 to title of Sixhills priory (LincRO, Epis. reg. 26, fo. 12r); inst 24 July 1529 rect Toft next Newton, Sixhills priory, pat. (LincRO, Epis. reg. 27, fo. 46v)–† bef. 2 Sept 1558 (LI2, no. 612; cf. expedition of grant of next pres by bp of Linc 2 Sept 1558 [LincRO, P.D. 1534/1]); pres 26 Mar 1557 rect Waddingham St Peter (CPRPM 3, p. 504), inst 22 Apr (LincRO, Epis. reg. 28, fo. 138v; LI2, no. 522), vac (†) bef. 2 Mar 1561 (LI2, no. 1021), worth £8 in 1554 (TNA, E 334/4, fo. 211r); disp 6 May 1557 pluralism (CRP, no. 1967)

Langton, Christopher (ca. 1521-bef. 26 Oct 1578): of Riccall, N. York, 1534-8 Eton; adm 23 Aug 1538 KCC, fell. 2 Sept 1541-4 (ODNB); BA 1543,11 MD 1552 (GBΔ, pp. 2 and 80); marr ca. 11 Jan 1546 Margaret Chambers12 of London (FOR, p. 268); 30 Sept 1552 fell. Roy Coll. Physicians-17 July 1558 when ‘expelled (ODNB and AlC 3, p. 45);13 physician to Anthony Cave (qv) and recommended he receive Lent disp (CRP, no. 1389a); to Richard Gresham and Sir Thomas Smith;14 caught 16 June 1563 with two young women and carted through London (ODNB); bur St Botolph’s Bishopgate 26 Oct 1578 (AlC); wrote: A very brefe treatise, orderly declaring the principal partes of phisick (published 10 Apr 1547), dedicated to Edward Seymour (qv); largely recycled in An Introduction into Phisycke (1550), dedicated to Sir Arthur Darcy (qv); A Treatise of Urines (1552) (ODNB)

Lanvence,15 John: of Ilminster, Som, cr 14 Feb 1555 notary, Glouc dioc (CRP, no. 1073); proc in CC Glos and court of ecclesiastical comm 1574-5 (Price, Commission, pp. 11, 69 and 84); will 30 Mar/prov 22 Apr 1589 (TNA, PROB 11/73, fo. 328v PCC 42 Leicester; BRS 25, p. 256): persons: Alice Clerke, Cicely Allombrigge, their aunt my sis Joan Lawrens (res leg and exec), William Clerke, legacies: cash (£12), all books to William Clerke

Lassell, Thomas: inst 3 May 1557 rect Ellington, Hunt now Camb (SE, p. 249 and OS), Sir John Mason (qv), pat. (CRP, no. 1965), grant of next pres from Sir Thomas Pope and Thomas Barber, execs of Thomas Audley to Richard Byddell of the Inner Temple 6 May 1556 (LincRO, P.D. 1556/1), but vac by resig William Sapcote bef. 26 Sept 1558 (LincRO, Epis. reg. 28, fo. 145r; LI2, no. 619), prob a pres disputed between Audley’s execs (see Richard Knychgt); inst 15 Dec 1558 rect Pertenhall, Bed, [blank; prob. William; cf. no. 563] Lawrence, esq, pat. (LincRO, Epis. reg. 28, fo. 147r; LI2, no. 659)–depr bef. 20 Apr 1572 (LER, p. 325)

Latham, Lathum, Henry: pres 20 May 1554 vic Hernhill, Kent (CPRPM 1, p. 42), inst 19 June (CCA, DCc, Reg N, fo. 73r; SVI, p. 59) and comp £13 10s, Henry Tylney, Inner Temple, gent and Philip Tylney (?see bel. John Tylney), St Saviour’s Southwark, surs (TNA, E 334/4, fo. 168v), new pres 15 Mar 1555 (CPRPM 2, p. 165) and this man † holding bef. 20 Mar 1557 (CRP, no. 1914); pres 12 Sept 1554 rect Ickham,

Kent, (CPRPM 2, p. 202), inst 18 Sept (CCA, DCc, Reg N, fos 75v-76r; SVI, p. 63) and comp £26 14s, John Frankes, St Botolph Aldersgate, brewer and William Wood, Shere, Surr, linendraper, surs (TNA, E 334/4, fo. 197r)–resig bef. 29 May 1557 (CRP, no. 2022); comp 27 June 1555 rect Wickhambreaux, Kent £26 12s 4d, Edward Braye and John Mabanke, Shere, Surr, surs (TNA, E 334/6, fo. 25v), inst 23 July, John Ambrose, pat. phv by grant of Sir Anthony Browne, lord of manor (CCA, DCc, Reg N, fo. 87r; SVI, p. 137), pd 1st instalment 19 June 1556 (TNA, E 334/6, pt 2, fo. 45v)–resig bef. 19 Sept 1560 (Reg. Parker, p. 775); comp 28 June 1555 rect Shere, Surr £23 9s 1d, same surs (TNA, E 334/6, fo. 25v), pd 1st instalment same time as Wickhambreaux, oc16 mid-1562 BA,17 unmarr, well educ, resident, non-preacher, also held rect Abinger, Surr-resig 1603 (‘Surrey incumbents’, p. 105)

Lathum, Ralph: clk of Chester dioc, disp 28 Mar 1557 illegit (CRP, no. 1927b); ?BA 21 Jan 1559, MA 18 Feb 1566, sup for BCL 20 Apr 1569 of BrCO; ?another man fell. BCO 1560 (RUO 1, p. 238); ?MA, 14 June 1572 granted advowson of Roxley, Linc by Edward, earl of Rutl (LER, p. 246)

Latimer, Hugh (ca. 1485-16 Oct 1555 [ODNB]): son of Hugh, Thurcaston, Leic; Cantab at 14 (Foxe [1583], p. 1730); BA 1510 or 1511 (AtC 1, pp. 130-35 and 3, p. 100); fell. ClCC 2 Feb18 1510; MA 1514, BTh 1524 (ODNB); ord ben subd 24 Mar 1515 Peterb, deac 7 Apr Linc, priest 2 July Lyddington,19 Rutl (LincRO, Epis. reg. 25, fos 112v, 114r and 115r); part of White Horse discussion group but gradual conversion to evangelical views; lic 1522 to preach anywhere in England; preached frequently at Cantab, usually causing disruptions; preached at Windsor Castle 1530; rect W. Kington, Wilt, Jan 1531 where resident; charged in convocation 11 Mar 1532 that had attacked purgatory, prayers for dead, intercession of saints, pilgrimages, fasting, and veneration of crucifix and other images, exc, imprisoned Lambeth, released Apr; major preaching campaign at Bristol 1533 when attacked by Nicholas Wilson (qv) et al. (ODNB); congé d’élire 9 Aug 1535 bp Worc, cons 23 Sept, temps 4 Oct-resig 1 July 1539 (F2 4, p. 58) when granted 100 marks p.a. and aft. attacking Act of Six Articles; prevented from preaching for rest of Henry’s reign; as bp promoted preaching and iconoclasm with help of chap Rowland Taylor (qv) but also poor relief; centrally involved in Great Bible (1539); imprisoned in Tower 1546-7; major preacher in Edward’s first years; retired from court Mar 1550 aft. final series of sermons (with James Courthope, qv) defending support of universities; preached several sermons at Grimsthorpe, Linc to household of Katherine Brandon (later Bertie), duchess of Suffolk; chap at Edward VI’s funeral; arrested for sedition 13 Sept 1553; 26 Sept 1555 comm for trial (CRP, no. 1385); in same cell with Cranmer, Ridley, and John Bradford (all qv) Jan 1554; burned 16 Oct 1555 with Ridley (ODNB)

Latimer, William (ca. 1460 [Old DNB]–bef. 17 Oct 1545 [will]): son of John Latimer (will);20 from Worc dioc,21 BA, adm 1489 fell. ASC, vac by 1497; studied at Padua ca.