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Babington, Francis († Dec 1569):1 18 Apr 1517 elec Oxford proc (Wood, Fasti 1, c. 152); MA 16 July 1554,2 BTh 9 July 1559, DTh 19 Feb 1560; resig Lady Margaret Professorship of Divinity 16 Dec 1562; fell. ASC; mr BCO 1559;3 rect LCO 1560; v-c 1560-61 (RUO 1, p. 225 citing Wood, Fasti and AtC 1, p. 557); MA, inst 1 Dec 1556 dean of arts, ASC (CRP, no. 1779); MA, C&L, ord priest London 19 Dec 1556 to title of ASC fell. (GL, 9535/1, fo. 58v); ?clk,4 inst 265 Nov 1557 rect Adstock, Buck, Sir George Vernon, pat. (LincRO, Epis. reg. 28, fo. 135v; LI2, no. 484), vac bef. aft. 20 Aug 15616 (CCCC, MS 97, fo. 55v) or resig ‘abt this time’, i.e., 1560 (AtC);7 ?inst 4 Feb 1559 rect Aston, S. York (BI, Inst.AB.1, fo. 46r), depr 10 Jan 1565 for non-payment of tenths when Sir John Darcy, Lord Darcy, pat. (BI, Inst.AB.2, part 2, fo. 41v); prof of holy writ [i.e., Lady Margaret Professor of Divinity], adm 5 Aug 1560 rect LCO rep. Henry Henshaw (qv) (LI2 no. 928), still 30 Dec 1564 (RUO 2:1, p. 240), as such held ‘annexed’ rect Twyford, Buck (AtC);8 comm Oxon. 1561 (Wood, Fasti 1, col. 159); inst via proxy 22 Apr 1562 rect Holsworthy, Dev,9 crown pat-vac by flight of inc bef. 27 Nov 1563 (DRO, EDRC 18, fos 76v and 84r); chap to earl of Leicester and preached funeral sermon for Amy Robsart (AtC); on list of DThs having lost bens or gone into exile (Sander, DVM, p. 700); some books in LCO, but most at Stonyhurst incl two inscribed as donated to Linc in 1559;10 DTh, oc aft. 20 Aug 156111 rect Milton Keynes, Buck when unmarr priest, non-resident, unlic preacher, two bens

(CCCC, MS 97, fo. 59v), from 1560 (AtC), depr [blank] bef. 1564-5 (LincRO, Epis. reg. 28, fo. 66r; LI1, no. 364); depr 1565 and went abroad, † Dec 1569 (AlC); Wood, Annals 1562 (acc. Old DNB)

Babyngton, Francis: from Leic, matric pensioner from ChCC 1544 (AlC 1, p. 62); BA 1548-9 (GBΔ, p. 55); elec 20 Mar 1551 fell. SJCC, still 1558 (see bel.);12 MA 1552 (GBΔ, p. 79 and AlC 1, p. 62 which then incorrectly says he migrated to Oxford); signed 26 July 1555 Catholic articles (Mere, p. 176); MA, inst 6 Nov 1556 vic Aldworth,13 Berk, SJCC, pat. (CRP, no. 2120 and Thomas Baker, ed. J. E. B. Mayor, History of St John’s College Cambridge [Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1869], 1, p. 380, from the Coll. Reg. The Thick Black Book)–resig bef. 27 Nov 1579 (W&SRO, D1/2/17, Reg. Piers, fo. 5r), as such, MA, SJCC, ord subd at Buckden 17 Sept 1557, deac ?18 Dec (LincRO, Epis. reg. 28a, fos 8v, 12r), priest 5 Mar 1558 London to title of Aldworth (GL, 9535/1, fo. 70r);14 clk, inst 19 Mar 1559 rect Caythorpe, Linc,15 Robert Carre, pat.,16 rep. John Salisbury (qv) (LincRO, Epis. reg. 28, fo. 126r; LI2, no. 375), as such (with John Batty, qv) 10 Aug 1587 on inquiry into advowson (LincRO, Add. reg. I, fo. 97r), still 1594, vac bef. 1597 (Foster, Lincoln, pp. 380 and 173); disp 22 Nov 1560 pluralism for both (LER, p. 139), office case 7 Sept 1576 for nonresidence in Caythorpe (LER, p. 139), worth £20 11s 10 ½d in 1576 (LER, p. 201), had curate there in 1580 (LER, p. 216) and 1583 (Foster, Lincoln, p. 373)

Bachelor, Robert: ?from Amersham, Buck, adm 12 Aug 1524 scholar at KCC from EtC, aged 18, fell. 1527-9, ‘conduct’ 1530-45 (AlC 1, p. 105); ?of Ossington [sic], Nott, ord acol 28 Mar 1528 (BI, Reg. 27, fo. 215r); ?of Uffington,17 Linc ord unben priest 7 Mar 1530 [sic, but prob. 1529] to title of monastery of Rufford (LincRO, Epis. reg. 26, fo. 24v); ?OFM of Beaumaris, disp 10 Sept 1538 to hold ben wch (FOR, p. 164); pres 24 June 1557 vic Wexham, Buck, crown pat. (CRP, no. 2050), inst 27 Jan 1558 (LincRO, Epis. reg. 28, fo. 142r; LI2, no. 571), bond same date (LincRO, F.L.H.I, p. 52), vac bef. 8 Jan 1561 (LincRO, Epis. reg. 28, fo. 65r; LI1, no. 355; LI2, no. 1009 says vac by †); will (which I have not been able to see) acc. BRS 114, p. 18: Bachelar, 1559 Buck RO, D/A/We 13 77; D/A/ Wf 5 16

Bacon, John: ?Carmelite friar, Oxford convent 1534, still at dissolution 1538, ord acol 1534 (BRUO2, p. 19), this man Bacons, Carmelite of Oxford, disp 31 July 1538 to hold ben wch (FOR, p. 145); instal 11 Apr 1554 3d stall of Westm, in place of Edward Keble acc. F1 3, p. 351 but recte John Baker, BTh (qv); pres 30 Apr 1558 rect Pusey, Berk (CPRPM 4, pp. 356, 608 and 605 where it and Pewsey, Wilt apparently treated as interchangeable), clk, inst 4 May 1558 crown pat. (CRP, no. 2223), vac bef. 1 Oct 1603 (W&SRO, D1/2/19, fo. 13r)

Bacter, John: exhibited 20 Aug 1556 Pole’s disp for possession rect Rotherfield, Surr (WSRO, Ep/II/9/1, fo. 107v), clk, inst 4 Sept, Sir Henry Neville, Lord Abergavenny (qv), pat. (CRP, no. 1673), tithes farmed as of 31 May 1557 (WSRO, Ep/II/9/1, fo.