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Yale, Thomas (1525/6-† bef. 3 Jan 1578): 3rd son David Lloyd ap Ellis (David Yale), Plas-yn-Iâl, Llanelidan, Den and Gwenhwyfar Lloyd of Llwyn-y-Maen (ODNB);1 nephew of Roger Elys, BCnL, adm 1529 Drs Coms (Squibb, p. 145); BA 1544, MA 1546, aft. 11 years’ study DCL 1557 (GBΔ, pp. 12, 34 and 120); fell. QCC 1544-57 (AlC 4, p. 486); comm of John Fuller as vg Ely 29 Oct 1554, 30 May 1556, early 1559 (CUL, EDR G/1/8, fos 26v, 32r, 36v); 1555 signed Catholic articles at Cambridge (Mere, p. 175); keeper of Bangor 1555 (NLW, SA/MB/14, fo. 9r); ord acol 24 Sept 1556 by William Glyn (qv) (The dictionary of Welsh biography down to 1940 [Oxford: Blackwell, 1959], p. 1110); inst 24 Sept 15562 rect Llantrisant, Anglesey (Pryce, p. 15), still 1561 when non-resident in London (Willis, Bangor, p. 265), oc ca. 1574-5, non-pluralist in Bangor dioc, in abp of Cant’s service, ord by bp of Bangor (LPL, Carte misc 13/49, fo. 8r)–† bef. 18 Mar 1576 (Pryce, p. 23, apparently mistake); Nov 1556 heresy comm in Ely dioc (ODNB), in Cambridge bef. 15 Jan 1557 (CRP, no. 1811); inst 29 Mar 1557 rect Walpole, Norf,3 Thomas Thirlby (qv), pat. (NRO, DN/ REG/12/18, fo. 167v); reader in civil law in Cambridge, Lent disp 15 Mar 1557 (CRP, no. 1906a); adm Drs Coms 10 Nov 1558,4 president 5 Oct 1567-3 May 1573 (Squibb, pp. 116 and 153); adm 22 Apr 1559 Arches (Squibb, p. 153); inst 25 Mar 1560 Ottley [sic; recte Offley] preb, Lichfield (ODNB), comp 31 Mar (F3 10, p. 50)–† (LRO, B/ A/1/15, fo. 68v); 1560 rect Leverington, Camb (AlC)–† bef. 3 Jan 1578 (CUL, EDR G/1/8, fo. 174r), tithed at 50s 1535 (CUL, EDR G/1/7, fo. 134r); co-comm 10 Jan 1560 vg of Cant but not off. nor dean of Arches given instead to Robert Weston II (qv) (Reg. Parker, p. 332); 10 Feb 1560 keeper of Oxford with Walter Wright and Lawrence Hussey (both qv), comm 24 Apr 1561 to visit dioc with Wright (Reg. Parker, pp. 245 and 683); 9 July 15615 comm for life as vg and auditor of Cant audience (Reg. Parker, pp. 375-7), called chancellor 5 Nov 1561 (Reg. Parker, p. 384)–†, incl e.g., at Abp Sandes’ elec to York in 1577 (LPL, Grindal’s register, fo. 18v); 13 Feb 1562 granted advowson Ad Totnes by Abp Parker by grant from bp Exeter (ECA, 3552, fos 169v70v), assigned to Sir ?John Whiddon bef. 5 June 1568 (DRO, EDRC 19, fo. 22v); vg, comm 16 May 1562 to visit MerC with John Kenall and John Warner (both qv) (Reg. Parker, p. 392); 1562-70 chancellor of Bangor (ODNB); visited Ely for Parker 1563 (CUL, EDR G/1/8, fo. 142r); 7 July 1564 precentor and Y Faenol [Veynoll] preb, StA (ODNB), still 11 Dec 1574 when failed to appear for episcopal elec (Reg. Parker, p. 896), vac 1578 (AlC), worth 200 marks (Welsh biography); 5 Oct 1567 off. prin. of Cant, comm revoked 3 May 1573 (Squibb, p. 116, quoting Irene Churchill,

Canterbury administration: the administrative machinery of the archbishopric of Canterbury illustrated from original records, 2 vols [London: SPCK, 1933], 1, p. 597 and Reg. Parker, p. 1058); visited Peterborough 1567 (CUL, Peterborough MS 13, fos 47r-8r); 12 July 15706 joint keeper of PCC (ODNB); with John Incent (qv) et al. proc for D&C York at elec Abp Grindal to Cant 1576 (LPL, Grindal’s register, fo. 2r); instal 21 May 1575 by proxy Sutton preb, Chich-† (F3 2, p. 54); 2 May 1576 comm to visit Bangor dioc; comm 157 Aug 1576 to visit B&W (LPL, Grindal’s register, fo. 87v-8r); † 1577, bur. in St Gregory by Paul’s (ODNB); will 11 Nov 1577/prov 19 Apr 1578 (TNA, PROB 11/60 PCC 16 Langley): places: property in Newbury [?Berk], Mdx, Ess, Oswestry, Salop, house in Yale;8 persons: wife Johanna (exec),9 Joseph (exec and 200 marks); ?Dr Haynes and Jane (niece) Haynes, bro Hugh (exec), nephew and heir Thomas, bro Roger (exec) and wife, sis Jane wife of Edward Treavor and chil, Davy Yale10 (exec and all bks except one each to Jones, Haynes and Lloid), Dr Jones (exec), William Mason, svt (exec, £40), bro-in-law Robert Lloid (?Dr Lloid) and wife (40s each), abp of Canterbury, Thomas Bromley, solicitor gen, George Bromley, atty of duchy of Lancaster, John Glascock and Thomas Owen (all ovs), Roger Kiverston (40s), Humfrey Eton (svt), Joan, da Edward Orwell, Thomas son John Tadcaster; leases in London, and of chancellor and chanter;11 ?rel David Yale, BCnL,12 inst 14 Jan 1505 vic Brakeley, Ntht (LincRO, Epis. reg. 23, fo. 245)

Yate, Lawrence († 1 July-3 Aug 1560): inst 18 Mar 1545 rect Hardwick, Oxon, William Fermor, esq, pat.–† (OA, ODP d105, pp. 13 and 207), comp 2 Apr 1545 £4 10s (TNA, E 334/3, fo. 48v); pres by crown 5 Jan 1557 rect Hethe, Oxon (CPRPM 3, p. 502), inst 3 Apr, crown pat.–† (OA, ODP d105, pp. 173 and 204); priest, disp 16 Feb 1557 for both (CRP, no. 1859); signed Elizabethan articles (Gee, p. 120); will 1 July 1560/ prov 3 Aug (OxRO MSS wills Oxon., 183.352; BRS, 94, p. 600): Catholic committal clause, bur in Hethe, 4d to Oxford cath, 3s 4d to Hethe and Hardwick, grain to all householders in both, 4d to all plowless households, 1d to all at funeral and month’s mind, 16d to each priest at same, 5s dole at Brackley, Ntht, Leicester and Dadington,13 2s dole at Fringford, Oxon, Stoke,14 12d dole at Cottisford, Oxon, 13s 4d dole at Steeple Aston ‘to be bestowed by my master and Mr Eastwycke’, year’s wages bonus to svts, bed to svt Elizabeth, sheep to Emma Heyford, livestock to Randall to be in custody of cousin, rect of Ardley, Oxon, 20s to each bro and sis and their chil 6s 8d, livestock to Anne Yate, Randall Yate’s da, 12d to godchil, 10s to cousin Richard Boyth, orphans in ‘town’ [?Oxford] 20s, ‘wayning’ each to Thomas Haddon and sis Katherine, 13s 4d to [George] Garard, priest, to pray for me, 10s to Alice Myssultun, 3s 4d to Clement, my master’s svt, 2s to Joan Tredwell, his svt, 12d to all other svts,

cousin John Yate, rect Ardley, res leg and exec, mr of Brasenose and William Haddon of Cottisford, ovs, 20s each, witns George Garard, priest, Harry Spraroson, Thomas Taylor, witns, inventory totals £58 7s 6d

Yeldard, Arthur (ca. 1526/1530 [ODNB]–2 Feb 1599 [Warton; ODNB says 1]): born Houghton-Strother-on-Tyne, Northum (Warton, pp. 384-93 citing Registr. prim. coll. Trin, fos 1v and 25]); chorister of Durham cath, ‘a master’ at Rotheram Coll. (Warton; ODNB, 60, pp. 782-3 says no evidence; Old DNB, 63, p. 313 notes supported by ‘usual references to those “MSS F. Wise,” which are not now, if ever they were, in existence’);16 adm 1544 sizar ClCC (Warton); BA17 Jan 1548 (GBΔ, p. 50); elec bef. 1550 fell. Pembroke Hall; MA 1552 (Warton); BTh 24 June 1563; DTh 15 Feb 1565 [sic] (Wood, Fasti, 1, cs 92 and 95); tutored Sir Anthony Denny’s sons at Pembroke, matric 27 Nov 1552 [dedication does not say this] and then travelled with them and emphasized his connection to them in dedication; stipend from Mary via Francis Mallett (qv) while at Cambridge (both acc. dedication to Mary, Dallanciae [‘Dilling in Flanders’] 12 Dec 1553 of trans of ‘Documenta quaedam admonitoria Agapeti diaconi’ in BL, Royal MS 7 D IV; quoted at length in Warton, pp. 386-8n); fell. 30 May 155618 TCO at foundation (Warton, p. 323); incorp MA 12 Nov 1556; appt first philosophy lecturer but given leave for absence; aft. 13 July 1557 tutored Sir Thomas Pope’s (qv) stepson John Basford or Beresford (Warton), rep. bef. 21 Dec (Hopkins, Trinity, p. 39); preaching lic. asked for him (CRP, no. 2325a); involved in composing college statutes; nom with Stephen Markes (qv) president TCO, adm19 26 Sept 1559 (Warton); disputed for the queen during visitation 1566; pres 12 Feb 1571 [sic] vic Great Waltham, Ess, crown pat. (Newcourt 2, p. 632; –1574 Old DNB), later granted advowson by queen when pres Robert Palmer 6 Oct 1585; Latin verses at end Lawrence Humphrey, Joannis Juelli Angli, Episcopi Sarisburiensis, vita & mors, eiusque verae doctrinae defensio (London, 1573; STC 13963); comm 1576 to revise university statutes; vc 13 July 1580; Latin verses 1596 for Sir Henry Unton’s funeral; † 2 Feb 1599 [‘Reg. prim., fo. 53’]; will 8 Jan 1599/prov 16 Apr [Actor. cur. cancellar. Oxon, reg GG, fol. 178], ‘contains nothing remarkable’, all to wife,20 except Magdeburg Centuries to college library (Warton); ODNB calls Wood’s pun about his pliant nature ‘libellous’, adds ‘no evidence that Yeldard ever acted against his conscience’ and quotes successor that he ‘lived a severe and religious life’; allegedly trans More’s Dialogue of comfort into Latin (Old DNB, 63, p. 313; Greek acc. Warton, p. 388 citing MS. F. Wise who said had seen)

Yonge, John (1514 [ODNB]–† 20 Apr 1581/26 June 1582 [will]): fell. 1536 SJCC; from Yorks, BA 1536, MA 1539 (AlC 4, p. 493), BTh 1546 with William Glynn (qv), initially not created DTh 1553 because refused oath, but as v-c granted degree 11 Oct 1553 (GBΔ, pp. 35 and 89); ord 13 Mar 1542 deac and priest (AlC); nom. 19 Dec 1546

fell. TCC with Glynn, Nicholas Morton, John Brooke, John Christopherson, John Orphinstrange, John Atherton, Richard Copley, Edward Taylor and Henry Wilsha (all qv) (L&P 21:2, no. 648.43); ?acted for Somerset 1548 in negotiations with Pole (CRP, no. 538); disputed on Catholic side at Cambridge June 1549 (ODNB); engaged 1550 in controversy with Martin Bucer (qv/5) over works printed in Bucer, Scripta anglicana (Basel: Pietro Perna, 1577), pp. 797-862; 1550 rect Alderton, Ntht-1556 (AlC); accused Feb 1551 of preaching against Edward’s religious policies; defended Catholic view of Eucharist in late 1551 (ODNB); may have translated Cranmer’s Defence vs. Gardiner into Latin in 1553 (Diarmaid MacCulloch, Thomas Cranmer. A life [New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1996], p. 535); v-c Cambridge 1553-4 (AlC), as such took major role in Catholic restoration (Foxe [1570], p. 1636); 1554 mr Pembroke Hall-depr 20 July 1559 for refusing oath of supremacy (AtC 1, pp. 427-8); university preacher 1554-5 with Glynn (GBΔ, p. 572); pres by crown 27 Mar 1554 4th preb, Ely (CPRPM 1, p. 230), inst 5 or 12 Apr (F3 7, p. 17)–depr bef. 22 Nov 1559 (CPREI 1558-60, p. 256; 21 Dec acc. Reg. Parker, p. 165); disputed with Cranmer et al. when 14 Apr 1554 incorp. DTh at Oxford with Glynn, Richard Atkinson, Thomas Watson and Cuthbert Scot (all qv) (RUO 1, p. 224); coll 24 Apr 1554 rect Stretham, Camb (CUL, EDR G/1/7, fo. 188r and CUL, EDR G/1/8, fo. 21r), tithed at 44s 1535 (CUL, EDR G/1/7, fo. 133v), vac bef. 24 Sept 1570 (CUL, EDR G/1/8, fo. 159v); coll 1 Dec 1554 rect St Margaret’s Fish St-resig bef. 2 Apr 1556 (GL, 9531/12/2, fos 184v-5r and 191r), worth £31 11s 8d (VE 1, p. 374); vic21 Halvergate, Norf, coll 24 Apr 155522 rect Rackheath, Norf,23 John Mynne, esq, Horton in Ebbesham,24 Surr, pat. as guardian of William Helme, heir of former pat. Anne Helme, granted personal union of bens (NRO, DN/REG/12/18, fo. 118r), resig Halvergate bef. 14 Jan 1559 (NRO, DN/REG 12/18, fo. 213r), vac Rackheath at least 6 months bef. 11 Nov 1562 (NRO, DN/REG 13/19, fo. 74v); 1555 regius professor of divinity (AlC) or 1556 (ODNB), as such, 13 Nov 1556 dedicated ‘Enarrationes in Joelis prophetae’ to Pole (CRP, no. 1771b); 30 Nov 1556 preached on restoration of primacy (Mere, p. 185); 1555-6 in comm with William Mowse (qv) to negotiate leases for Cambridge (GBΔ, p. 114); preached at Paul’s Cross 14 and 21 Feb 1557 (Maclure, p. 199); roy chap 14 Dec 1558 (Page, ‘Uniform’, p. 418); ca. 1561 prisoner in Woodstreet Counter (Gee, p. 185), bef. 1574 transfer to Marshalsea, 28 July 1577 to D&C of Cant, 18 Feb 1578 to Queen’s Bench, 1580 to Wisbech Castle; on list of academicians either dead or in exile25 for faith (Sander, DVM, p. 692); will 20 Apr 1581/prov 2626 June 1582 (TNA, PROB 11/64, fo. 307r): £10 and books in Wisbech Castle to svt Henry Crosse, clothes to prisoners there, £5 to Mr Mettam, prisoner, bedding there to nephew John Yonge,

world map to bro Gregory Yonge, he and nephew George Kirkbye, execs; wrote: 1) De schismate. . .liber unus (Louvain: John Fowler, 1573), reprinted Douai, 1603 (ARCR, 1, nos 1427-8); 2) earliest life of John Fisher (qv) acc. François van Ortroy, ed., ‘Vie du bienhereux martyr Jean Fisher’, Analecta Bollandiana, 12 (1893), pp. 97-287, pp. 200-201

Zulley, Soulley, Sulley, Hugh († 24 Aug-23 Oct 1570): ?oc Baptist term 1554 minor canon Cant cath (CCA, CCA, DCc/MA 39, fo. 23v); StA, ord acol and subd 28 Feb 1556 London to title of Robert Pylston, Bersey, Denb with Thomas Colier, J. Woodward, Robert Norwood (all qv) and George Lily (qv/5) (GL, 9535/1, fos 55r, 55v); pres 7 Aug 1557 mr St David next Kingsthorpe, Ntht hospital (CRP, no. 2079), inst 20 Aug (CRP, no. 2090; Bridges, Northamptonshire 1, p. 417),29 vac bef. 1576 (TNA, E 334/6, pt 2, fo. 20r); inst 13 Mar 1560 rect Harlington, Mdx, rep. Thomas Wood (qv), William Roper (?qv), pat. (GL 9531/13/1, fo. 114r)–† (GL, 9531/13/1, fo. 158v), farmed 4 Feb 1571 for £2430 (GL, 9531/13/1, fo. 70r); will 24 Aug/prov 23 Oct 1570 (TNA, PROB 11/52, fo. 206v PCC 29 Lyon): bur in Harlington chancel; most of goods to its poor, 40s to them moments after death, Richard Farrington of Harlington, exec