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Gage, Sir John (1479-18 Apr 1556 [ODNB]): son of William Gage, Burstow, Surr and Agnes, da of Bartholomew Bolney, Bolney, Suss; marr Philippa, da of Sir Richard Guildford, Cranbrook, Kent, comptroller of roy household; esq of the body for Henry VII and VIII; French wars 1512-3 and 1522-5; jp Suss 1514, Surr 1528; various local comms; comptroller of Calais 1524; knighted by 1525; vice-chamberlain of the household 1526; MP Suss 1529; signed petition for divorce; comptroller of the roy household, constable of the Tower, pc Oct 1540; instal May 1541 KG; knight banneret 1544; appt June 1547 councillor to Edward VI and comptroller and chancellor of the duchy of Lancaster; constable of the Tower and lord chamberlain of the household at Mary’s accession (ODNB)–† (Machyn, p. xvii); captain of the guard against Wyatt Rebellion (ODNB); Lent disp 27 Feb 1555 (CRP, no. 1085); † Firle Place 18 Apr 1556, bur W. Firle, Suss; income at † £309 p.a. (ODNB); son, also John, fled with family to Low Countries (Sander, DVM, p. 704); will 12 Sept 1555 and 20 Feb 1556/prov 10 June 1556 [missing codicil] (TNA, PROB 11/38, fo. 49v): Catholic committal clause, places: E. Grinstead, Worthe, Maresfield, Uckfield, Framfield, Ringmer, Ripe, Chalvington, Chiddingleigh, Hellingleigh, Arlington, Willingdon, Little Horsted, Beddingham, W. Deene, Friston, East Deene, Litlington, Tarring [Nevill], S. Heighton, Denton, Bishopstone, East Blatchington, Seaford, Lullington, Alfriston, Berwick, Alciston, Selmeston, South Malling, the Cliff next Lewes, Lewes St Johns sub Castro, Lewes St Michaels, Lewes All Saints, Lewes St Peter Westout, Lewes St John Baptist, Southover, the two almshouses at Lewes, all Suss, Chich cath, Pevensey Marsh, Atcham, Salop, Burstow, Horne, both Surr, persons: sons (James, Robert, William and Edward Gage, res leg and exec), Edward’s son John Gage, James Gage, John Carell, esq (exec), Sir John Baker (qv) (ovs), vics of W. Firle and Atcham, Thomas Jeffrey, William Grynt, svts (Jasper Culpeper, John Peckden, Gregory Charlet, Christopher Porshet or Parishe, ‘old’ Lucas Kay, ‘old’ svt Lucas, ‘called Lucas Mores’, cook Richard Lucas), son Edward Gage’s svts, Thomas Gravesend, barber John Anderson, William Golbrand, Maude ‘the Idiot’, Thomas Bowerman, Thomas Denes or Denys, clk, John Fryer, MD (qv), George Leystand, clk, Gyles Haydock, James Haydock, John Fawknor, Richard Hayward, Christopher Parker, John Pellond, Thomas Taylor, Anthony Lonewell, William Hodgkyn, William Walter, Hugh Thornycroft, Jasper Culpeper’s man, Christopher Randall, William Grynt, John Bust, John Richer, Christopher Parker, James Haydock, Anthony Bornewell, Gregory Shalford, legacies: cash (£76 19s 3d), year’s wages to svts who came with me from the court, doles, annuities, real estate, coll. of Windsor, Garter mantle, rect Atcham (worth £11 5s p.a.), half tithes of a field formerly belonging to monastery to vic on site of dissolved house of Crabhouse, Norf,1 cloth, clothing, plate, linens, household goods, pair of sables, farming machinery, livestock, boats and nets, items of interest: bur. with wife Phillip [sic] in W. Firle, manor of Atcham received from crown in gift, has crown’s consent and Pole’s advice twice to use Atcham rect to found chantry in W. Firle, specifics abt its founding, bequest for prayers, extensive inventory of plate; ‘one of the main purposes’ (Potter) endowment of chantry in West Firle, Suss out

of profits of rect Atcham, Heref (David Potter, ‘Sir John Gage, Tudor courtier and soldier [1479-1556]’, EHR, 117 no. 474 [2002], pp. 1109-46, p. 1140 doubts that chantry founded but HPT 2, pp. 179-82 cites a chancery file [C142/110/144] which must mean at least first step taken; the loss of much of Pole’s legatine reg. for 1556 precludes any firm conclusion abt the second)

Gambon, John: Exeter dioc, adm 13 Nov 1539 fell. WinC, vac June 1546 (BRUO2, p. 226); comp 4 Nov 1546 rect East Woodhay, Hant £10, John Eston,3 Southwark St Olave, gent and William Barton, St Mary le Strand, Mdx, ‘browderer’, surs (TNA, E 334/3, fo. 102v), coll 6 Nov, vac bef. 9 May 1554 (Reg. Gardiner, pp. 126 and 148);4 comp 17 Sept 1549 rect Upham, Hant, vac bef. June 1550 (ibid., pp. 145 and 146); pres 20 Mar 1550 by next (qv) rect Weeke, Hant, comp 31 March £11 13s 1d, no surs (TNA, E 334/4, fo. 47r)–depr bef. 21 July 1554 (Reg. Gardiner, p. 140); ?coll 21 June 1555 rect Sutton, Ess-resig bef. 9 May 1556 (GL, 9531/12/2, fos 189r and 192r); inst 3 Feb 1558 rect Brightwell, Berk (CRP, no. 2175), vac bef. 10 May 1566 (W&SRO, D1/2/16, Reg. Jewel, fo. 17v) wrb John Bridges (qv); prob. rel Henry Gambon, vic Sandford † 8 Aug 1534 (LincRO, Epis. reg. 27, fo. 193v), ECO and WinC, will 1534 (TNA, PROB 11/25 PCC 15 Hogen)

Gardiner, Stephen (ca. 1495/8-12 Nov 1555 [ODNB]): prob. b. Bury St Edmunds, Suff, son John Gardiner, clothmaker; Cantab 1511; in Paris 1511 where met Erasmus (ODNB); LLB 1517-8 aft. seven years’ study, DCL 15215 (GBΓ, pp. 159 and 196), DCnL 1522; in Wolsey’s service 1524, with him to France 1527 (ODNB); resig bef. 16 Mar 1526 rect Glouc St Michael for £12 pension wrb Simon Heynes (qv) (WoRO, b716.093-BA.2648/9(i), p. 74); mr Trinity Hall 1525 where taught William Paget (qv) (ODNB)–depr bef. Feb 1552, restored 1553 (BRUO2, p. 227); oc 8 Feb 1526 Ad Taunton (L&P 4:1, no. 1926, p. 886), still 1529 (ibid., 4:3, no. 6047, p. 2698); oc Nov 15296 Ad Worcester (ibid., p. 2700); much involved in divorce, e.g. with Edward Foxe (qv) negotiations with Clement VII 1528; prin secretary to Henry VIII 1529-34, wrb Cromwell (qv) (ODNB); coll 1 Mar 1530 Ad Norf-promotion to Winch (F2 4, p. 30); coll 25 Mar 1531 Ad Leicester, £29 6s 8d pension to predecessor-promotion to Winch bef. 14 Dec 1533 (LincRO, Epis. reg. 27, fos 8r-v); nom Sept 1531 bp Winch (ODNB), prov 20 Oct (Eubel, p. 335), cons 3 Dec, temps 5 Dec, instal 27 Dec-depriv 14 Feb 1551 (F2 4, p. 47), restored Aug 1553 (F3 3, p. 80); resig bef. 22 Dec 1531 Teinton Regis preb, Salis (F2 3, p. 91);7 to France 1533 to announce appeal of pope’s judgement; ambassador to France 1535-8; chancellor of Cantab 1540-7, disputed pronunciation of Greek, reinstated under Mary I; English observer at Regensburg 1541;8 pc at formal establishment 1540-7, again under Mary; imprisoned 1547-8 and 1548-53; lord chancellor 23 Aug 1553 (ODNB); 8 Oct 1553 epis grant of advowson for next turn of preb in Exeter cath (ECA, 3551, fo. 297r); heavily involved in heresy prosecutions, e.g., of John Bradford, John Rogers, and Edward Crome (all qv); bur at Winch; wrote: De vera obedientia (1535), defence of John Fisher’s

(qv) execution (1535), Stephani Winton episcopi Angli ad Martinum Bucerum, de impudentia eiusdem pseudologia conquestio (Louvain and Cologne, 1544), Stephani Winton episcopi Angli ad Martinum Bucerum epistola, qua cessantem hactenus et cunctantem ac frustratoria responsionis pollicitatione (Louvain and Ingolstadt, 1546), In Petrum Martyrem Florentinum malae tractationis querela sanctissimae eucharistiae (1549-50), An explication and assertion of the true Catholique fayth (Rouen, 1551), Confutatio cavillationum (Paris, 1552), Exetasis testimoniorum, quae Martinus Bucerus ex sanctis patribus non sancte edidit (Louvain, 1554), Annotationes in dialogum Oecolampadii (ODNB); bib: J. A. Muller, Stephen Gardiner and the Tudor reaction (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1926); Muller, ed., The letters of Stephen Gardiner (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1933); Glyn Redworth, In defence of the Church Catholic: the life of Stephen Gardiner (Oxford: Blackwell, 1990)

Gardiner, William: Lent disp 11 Mar 1555 (CRP, no. 1111); almost certainly Copynger als Gardyner, b. 1523/4, of Old Fish St; rel or adopted by last who supported educ; adm 1535 WinC aged 12; adm 23 Mar 1537 NCO, fell. 23 Mar 1541, vac 1542; BCL 1541 [no evidence]; ca. 1544 in last’s service; in Tower with him 1549 and at trial 1551; left 1550 £10 and reversion of bailiwick of Wargrave by Gardiner’s bro William;9 monk of Westm, ord priest 17 Dec 1557 London (GL, 9535/1, fo. 67v)10

Garnett, Anthony: BA 1548, MA 1549; fell. BCO 1551 (RUO 1, p. 214); disp 22 Dec 1555 orders (CRP, no. 1469c); Carlisle dioc, ord acol and subd 29 Feb 1556, deac and priest 2 Mar (OA, ODP d105, pp. 84 and 86); mr BCO 1560-resig 1563; oc 1597 prisoner in Marshalsea debtors’ prison11

Gate, Alexander († bef. 23 Nov 1561): Premonstratensian of Beeleigh abbey,12 Ess, ord subd 23 Sept 1525 (with Hugh Glasier, qv), deac 24 Feb 1526, priest 26 May (GL, 9531/10, fos 157r, 157v and 158v); disp 4 Aug 1536 to hold ben wch (FOR, p. 67); inst 18 Dec 1540 moiety of Boswells in rect Springfield, Ess, Constance Tyrrell,13 widow of Sir Thomas Tyrrell, Heron, Ess, pat. (GL, 9531/12/1, fo. 141r)−† bef. 23 Nov 1561 (Reg. Parker, p. 785) or vac bef. 1573 (GL, 9531/13/1, fo. 170r), signed ca. 1560 (LPL, Carte misc 13/2/57, fo. 4v); pres 21 Jan 1555 rect Tolleshunt Knights, Ess (CPRPM 2, p. 253), inst 19 Mar (GL, 9531/12/2, fo. 187v), comp 21 Mar £14 19s 4d, Robert Eton, Springfield Bosvile, Ess and Thomas Forster, Hunsdon, Hert, gen, surs (TNA, E 334/6, fo. 11v)–resig bef. 21 July 1556 (GL, 9531/12/2, fo. 193v); roy chap, disp 21 Mar 1555 pluralism (CRP, no. 1139); inst 26 Jan 1558 rect Sandon, Ess, crown pat. (GL, 9531/12/2, fo. 199v), vac bef. 31 May 1567 (GL, 9531/13/1, fo. 142v)

Gates, Robert († bef. 15 Mar 1558): chap, inst 7 Feb 1534 vic Leysdown, Kent, St Radegund’s abbey, pat. (LPLCR, fo. 343r)–† bef. 15 Mar 1558 (CRP, no. 2199) wrb Robert Halman (qv), worth £10 10s (VE 1, pp. 67 and 97)

Gavit, Thomas: inst aft. 26 Feb 1543 rect Cumberworth, Linc (LincRO, Epis. reg. 27, fo. 79v); BCL,14 disp 27 Jan 1557 pluralism, it and rect N. Thoresby (CRP, no. 1820), 2nd vac (depr) bef. 17 June 1562 (LincRO, Epis. reg. 28, fo. 211r; LI2, no. 1147); Cumberworth vac 31 Oct 1561 by inc’s failure to pay tenths (LincRO, Epis. reg. 28, fo. 119v; LI2, no. 302); N. Thoresby worth £24 10s 10d in 1603 (Foster, Lincoln, p. 311); Cumberworth worth £11 0s 2 1/2d in 1576 (LER, p. 181)

Gayllon or Gaillon, John († bef. 27 Dec 1558): pres by crown 5 May 1556 rect Dunsfold, Surr (CPRPM 3 p. 111), inst 12 June (CRP, no. 1585), vac prob. bef. 22 Oct 1558 (CPRPM 4 p. 447), certainly bef. 30 Dec (†; Reg. Whyte, p. 24); comp 19 Nov 1556 rect Peper Harow, Surr 114s 8d, William Trusselowe, St Michael le Quern, merchant tailor and George Rigden, Peper Harow, yeom, surs (TNA, E 334/6, fo. 40r)–† bef. 27 Dec 1558 (Reg. Whyte, p. 24); disp 13 Feb 1557 pluralism (CRP, no. 1849)

Geffrey, William (ca. 1499-† 28 August 1558 [CRP, no. 2273]): oc Oct 1531 prin St Edward Hall, Oxford, still 1539 (BRUO2, pp. 230-231); BCnL and BCL 15 Feb 1533, DCL 1 July 1540 with Walter Wright (qv) (RUO 1, p. 169); ; inst 28 Aug 153815 by J. Blaxton (qv) rect Clayhidon, Dev, crown pat., comp 11 Dec 1546 [sic] £34 8s 5d, John Awbrye, St Michael Queenhithe, clothworker and William Saye (qv), surs (TNA, E 334/3, fo. 106v)–resig bef. 26 June 1549 (DRO, EDRC 14, fos 120r and 132r); prin Broadgates Hall in 1540-vac 24 July 1541; chancellor’s comm in 1540 (BRUO2 pp. 230-31) inst 14 Jan 1541 rect Brightwell Baldwin, Oxon, Thomas Parry, arm, pat. (LincRO, Epis. reg. 27, fo. 199r), vac bef. 21 Sept 1561 (OA, ODP d105, p. 208; BRUO2 says † citing Reg. King, p. 191); adm Drs Coms [n.d.] 1541 (Squibb, p. 148); apparently oc 1543 off. of Ad StD when defending a case at London (BL, Add. MS 38651, fos 68r-69v); sur 1 May 1544 for John ap Howell, vic Nantgoulle, Brec (TNA, E 334/3, fo. 13r); comp 24 Mar 1545 rect Llanwrthwl, Brec £8 13s 10d, William Cowyk, St Gregory next Paul’s Chain, gen, sur (TNA, E 334/3, fo. 47v), in coll. of Brec still 1549, worth £10 19s 3d, when aged 50 (Menevia sacra, p. 406)–† (NLW, SD/BR 2, p. 30; BRUO2 cites as if from ‘St David’s register’, but not incl); preb of Llan, proc for its D&C 1545 at elec Bp Kitchin (LPLCR, fos 310r and 311r); sur with John ap Ryce, Melan, Mon for William Thomas’s comp 22 Dec 1545 for preb, Llan (TNA, E 334/3, fo. 76v); roy chap, disp 21 Aug 1546 to hold two bens worth together less than £100 p.a. (FOR, p. 279); comp 28 Aug 1546 rect Ashstead, Surr £12 7s 9d, Cowick, notary, sur (TNA, E 334/3, fo. 97r), rep Robert Aston (qv)–resig bef. 24 Feb 1551 (LPLCR, fo. 120v); 1548 sur for Blaxton (qv); coll 30 Mar 1549 Ad Ntht (F3 8, p. 122 saying prob. resig when became chancellor of Salis despite fact that successor William Bynsley [qv] not oc until aft. Geffrey’s †), comp 6 Apr £96 12s 3d, William Saucey,16 preb of London and John Griffiths, precentor of Llan (qv), surs (TNA, E 334/4, fo. 25v); inst 30 Mar 1549 rect Castor, Ntht, vac bef. 1561 (Bridges, Northamptonshire 2, p. 502 citing Reg. eccl. Peterb.), D&C of Peterb claimed pat. of vic in 1600 (CUL, Peterb MS 13, fo. 109r), comp 6 Apr £47 7s 3d, David Lewes, and John Lewes and David Clapham (?all qv), all St Faith’s, procs of Arches, surs (TNA, E 334/4, fo. 25v); oc 24 Oct 1549 vg Peterb (NoRO, X956/1, fo. 30r); pat. 1552 with D. Pole of Thomas Bolte (both qv), again of Arthur Lowe at inst 2 Sept 1554 to Dernford preb, Lichfield (LRO, B/A/1/15, fo. 4r); mr in Chancery bef. Mar 1553 (BRUO2, p.