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St John, Sir John (by 1495-19 Dec 1558 [HPT]): grandson Margaret Beaufort who prob. educ him; 1st son Sir John St John of Bletsoe and Sybil da Rhys ap Morgan; marr 1) by 1521 Margaret, da Sir William Waldegrave, Smallbridge, Suff, 2) Anne da Thomas Neville, Cotterstock, Ntht; many comms Bed 1523-; knighted 1526; jp Bed 1528-†; sheriff Bed and Buck 1529-30, 1534-5, 1549-50; by 1533 knight of body; princess Mary’s keeper 1536; major role in suppression of 1536 rising; fought in France 1543-4; did well out of dissolution of monasteries; MP Bed 1539 and 1542 (HPT 3, pp. 255-258); oc 16 Apr 1550 pat. rect Nutfield, Surr when Edward Heydon inst (Reg. Gardiner, p. 132); oc 28 Nov 1553 pat. rect Farley Chamberlayne, Hant when William Smith inst (Reg. Gardiner, p. 136); pat. 28 July 1555 Bletsoe, Bed (CRP, no. 2073); will 6 Apr 1558/prov 7 Feb 1559 (TNA, PROB 11/42A, fo. 353v PCC 45 Welles; BRS, 18, p. 271): of Bletsoe, Bed, son-in-law Edmund Elmes, execs to take £40 p.a. from manors of Penmark and Fonmon [Castle], Glam for 12 years to £480 total as per agreement with Sir Michael Fisher, deceased, to be distributed as follows: £40 to 2nd son John St John, £20 to natural son Charles, £20 to John son of Oliver St John, Frances Dennys, da’s da £50 and to Margery, Oliver’s da, £20 to natural da Cressida St John, Mary and Jane £12 p.a. to total of £168, Charles Gray £4 p.a. for 12 years, £26 13s 4d to rect of Bletsoe, Oliver St John res leg of £480, wife Anne household goods in mansion house of Abbots Ripton als Ripton St John, Hunt, divide plate with son Oliver, cattle to da Anne, she and Mary 400 marks, wife Anne £40 in Spanish money, sheep, leases of Thurleigh and Keysoe, Bed to son Oliver with corn and cattle, ovs: Francis [Russell], earl of Bedford, Henry [Parker] Lord Morley and John Sowche [Zouch], ten marks each (all qv); Bed real estate worth £226 p.a. (HPT)

St Leger, Sir Anthony (?1496-1559 [ODNB]): bro Arthur St Leger (qv); b. Ulcombe, Kent family seat since C12, oldest son Ralph St Leger and Elizabeth da Sir Richard Haut or Hart, Selvingbourne, Kent; well educ at home and by travel on continent; marr niece William Warham, abp of Cant; Cromwell’s svt and involved in dissolution of monasteries (ODNB); comm 1537 in Ireland with Sir Thomas Moyle (qv); abt June 1538 gent of privy chamber; knighted by 4 Feb 1539; escorted Anne of Cleves (qv) to England; sheriff Kent 1539-40; 6 times lord deputy of Ireland, most important periods 1540-48, 1550-1 and 15531-6; KG 25 Apr 1544 (ODNB); pat. 13 Feb 1545 vic Selling, Kent when Thomas Deve inst (LPLCR, fo. 394r); pat. 30 Apr 1558 Lenham, Kent (CRP, no. 2221); pat. 29 Jan 1559 Ulcombe when pres John Townesley (SVI, p. 131); pat. of William Walkeden (qv); very active suing for tithe (e.g., CCA, DCB Y.4.6, fos 11v-13r); will 27 Oct 1558/prov 1559 (TNA, PROB 11/42B, sig. 25r [ODNB]; PCC 25 Chaynay; BRS, 18, p. 271): ‘vague’, leaving sole exec to take care of it (ODNB); see AtC 1, pp. 192-96

Sentleger [St Leger], Anthony: boy, Cant cath, summoned 17 May 1556 visitation (CRP, no. 1564); almost certainly rel of last and next, possibly Sir Anthony († 1613; ODNB under last)

St Leger, Arthur: bro Sir Anthony St Leger (qv); prior of Leeds, Kent at dissolution (disp 12 Feb 1537; FOR, p. 86), pensioned on £16 p.a., no longer paid by 1544 (ex inform. Peter Cunich); inst 21 June 1537 rect Ulcombe, Kent on resig Thomas St Leger, A. St Leger, pat. (LPLCR, fo. 361v)–resig 20 Jan 1559 (Reg. Parker, p. 370), worth £16 5s 10d (VE 1, p. 95); coll 21 Feb 1538 rect Hollingbourne, Kent (LPLCR, fo. 364r)–† bef. 27 May 1569 (Reg. Parker, p. 847), tithe suit 30 June 1556 (CCA, DCB Y.2.17, fo. 237v), worth £4 8s 4d (VE 1, p. 74); appt at foundation 8 Apr 1541 2nd preb, Cant (L&P 16, no. 779.5)–resig bef. 6 Apr 1568 (Reg. Parker, p. 836), resident in 1560 (Reg. Parker, p. 637), paid stipend 1562/3 (CCA, DCc/MA 40, fo. 175r), 1563/4 (CCA, DCc/MA 40, fo. 242r), 1564/5 (CCA, DCc/MA 40, fo. 303v), income of £40 20 Dec 1543 (LPLCR, fo. 55r); grant 20 Oct 1553 to be absent from preb while bro deputy of Ireland (CPRPM 1, p. 72); abs 7 Apr 1555 schism, disp orders (CRP, no. 1183); disp Nov 1556 pluralism, preb and Hollingbourne (CRP, no. 1778a); present at confirmation Nicholas Runcone’s (qv) lease (CRP, no. 2321); bequest from Richard Parkhurst (qv); will (CKS, C.Act., vol. 7, fol. 27, 1569; BRS, 65, p. 117) which I have not seen; ‘presumably a good example of a “church papist”’ (Christopher Buckingham, ‘The movement of clergy in the dioc of Canterbury, 1552-1562’, Recusant history, 14 [1978], pp. 219-41, p. 237)

St Leger, Katherine, wife Sir John St Leger: da George Neville, 5th Lord Abergavenny and Mary Stafford, da 3rd duke of Buckingham;2 marr by 1535; at least 6 chil (HPT 2, p. 259 under husband); Lent disp 15 Mar 1555 (CRP, no. 1125a); husband (by 1516-93/96), of Annery in Monkleigh, Dev; MP Dartmouth 1555, Dev 1555, 1571, 1572, Arundel 1563, Tregony 1584; important role suppressing Sir Peter Carew’s rebellion; close ties to Mary’s sec James Bassett

Salcot or Capon, John († on or bef. 6 Oct 1557), bp of Salis: prob. from Salcot, near Colchester, Ess; monk of St John’s Abbey, Colchester, OSB, ord deac 16 May 1502 (Old DNB); aft. 11 years’ study BTh 1507 and 1512, DTh 1515 (GBΓ, pp. 56, 98, and 128); court preacher Feb 1516 and Mar 1517; 163 Feb 1517 abbot St Benet Hulme, Norf; secured opinions favorable to divorce from Cantab (Old DNB); elec (prob. hard-fought)4 16 Feb 1530 abbot Hyde, inst 235 Mar (Reg. Wolsey, pp. 99 and 180)–surrendered 30 Apr 1539 (ODNB), worth £9 15s 20d in 1536 (Reg. Gardiner, p. 156); preached 27 Dec 1531 at Gardiner’s (qv) enthronement at Winch (Reg. Gardiner, p. 1) and 23 Nov 1533 at Paul’s Cross v. Elizabeth Barton (ODNB); elec 23 Nov1533/30 Jan 1534 bp Bangor, roy assent 11 Apr, cons 19 Apr, temps 28 Apr-translation to Salis (F2 11, p. 5); abbot of Hyde, disp 15 Apr 1534 for Bangor (FOR, p. 1); elec 21 July 1539 bp Salis, enthroned by proxy 19 Aug (F3 6, p. 1)–†; allegedly made unusual number of grants of advowsons as bp (F3 1, p. ix), but common practice and Salcot’s not extraordinary; on comm that condemned Bradford, Saunders and Taylor (all qv) (Fox, [1570], p. 1699; [1576], p. 1450; [1583], pp. 1523-24); examined 5 accused heretics (Foxe [1570], pp. 2073 and 2254), some in company with John Brooke and William Geffrey (both qv); pres at Hooper’s (qv) trial 1555 and accused of persecution by Foxe (Old DNB); will 18

July 1557/admon 29 Oct to Henry Bretteyn bec died intestate (TNA, PROB 11/39): Henry Bretteyn, Geffrey (qv) and John Barnabe (execs), John Powell (qv), registrar, witn, residue divided among svts

Salisbury, John:6 oc 20 Dec 1543 minor canon, Cant cath when pd £10 p.a. (LPLCR, fo. 55r), still Baptist term 1553/4 (CCA, DCc/MA 39, fo. 3r), summoned 17 May 1556 visitation (CRP, no. 1564), still 1557/8 (CCA, DCc/MA 40, fo. 64v), 1558 (CCA, DCc/MA 40, fo. 87v)

Salisbury or Salusbery, John (1502/3-bef. 20 Oct 1573 [F3 7, p. 42]): usually said to have been from Den (ODNB excepted) perhaps by confusion with man of same name, squire of body to Henry VIII, made chamberlain (L&P 10, no. 385.18) of newly erected shire (27 Hen VIII c. 26) and brother of Sir Roger, sometime steward of Denbighland (L&P 11, nos 310 and 778); of Cant cath priory, ord subd 26 Mar 1513 (LPL, Reg. Warham, fo. 266v); Glouc Coll.7 1528, prob. still 1530 (BRUO2, p. 501);8 monk of Bury St Edmunds 1528, had access to Thomas Garrett’s heretical books (Foxe [1570], p. 1369); imprisoned prob. 25 Feb 1528-26 Mar 1529 when returned to Bury for 5 years (ODNB); elec 19 Mar [s.a.]9 prior Horsham St Faith, Norf (LPLCR, fo. 188r)–dissolution 27 Jan 153710 (L&P 12:1, no. 510) aft. recommended by Sir Richard Southwell to Cromwell as without other resources and Cromwell spared house in Sept 1536 (L&P 11, nos 327 and 484), as such cons 19 Mar 1536 suffragan bp Thetford (BRUO2 from Strype and HBC, p. 288)–depr Mar 1554, restored 1559 (BRUO2), as such comm to ordain 5 Mar 1563 (Reg. Parker, p. 420); oc 1 May 1537 commendatory abbot of Tichfield, Hant (L&P 12:1, no. 1108)–surrendered to crown ‘quinzaine of St Martin’ [?24 Nov]/18/28 Dec 1537 (ibid., 12:2, nos 1311.40 and 1274.5) when already pensioned (Knowles and Hadcock, p. 192), as such, als Thetford, disp 10 Nov 1537 for 3 bens (FOR, p. 114); Wriothesley’s client (ODNB); inst 2 Dec 1537 Middleton in Wherwell preb,11 Hant (Reg. Gardiner, p. 112)–depr 1554 (BRUO2);12 coll 20 Dec 1537 Ad Angdepr bef. 16 June 1554 (Pryce, pp. 8 and 13), restored 1559 (Gee, p. 271); appt 2 May 1538 at foundation 6th preb, Norwich (L&P 13:1, no. 1115.4)–pres 20 Aug 1539 dean Norwich (L&P 14:2, no. 113.24), reappted 7 Nov 1547, pardoned 7 Oct 1553-depr bef. 10 Apr13 1554, restored 1559-† (F3 7, p. 42), suspended at unknown date for pro-Roman sermon in Norwich, but retracted in 2nd sermon, both in LPL, MS 113, fos 69-83 acc. BRUO2; resig 1541 rect N. Creake, Norf for pension from

son of Sir Roger Townsend who then pres him to Claydon (Old DNB; Blomefield 3, p. 618), inst 8 June 1541 (BRUO2); comp 23 July 1541 rect Thetford, Norf15 £9, Roland Shepard, St Augustine Watling Street, tailor and John Holland, St Sepulchre, scrivener, surs (TNA, E 334/2, fo. 48r), if Thetford Peter, vac bef. 29 Aug 1555 (NRO, DN/REG 12/18, fo. 136r); pres by crown 2 Feb 1547 rect Lopham, Norfresig16 1554 (Blomefield 1, p. 235), comp 18 Feb £15 6s 2d, Thomas Godsalve and Alexander Mather, notary, both Norwich, surs (TNA, E 334/3, fo. 113v), re-inst 6 May 1554, duke of Norfolk, pat. (NRO, DN/REG 12/18, fo. 48v), comp 14 June, Anthony de Brigges, Harlow, Ess and George Crede, Grauncetor, Kent, gen, surs (TNA, E 334/4, fo. 165r)–resig bef. 29 June 1560 (NRO, DN/REG 13/19, fo. 32v); 15 Feb 1550 keeper of Norwich, ?shared with William Wakefield (LPLCR, fos 107v-108r and 108v-109r); frequently ord in Norwich in 1550s, incl under Edward VI, continued under Elizabeth aft. Bp Hopton (qv) did in person through most of 1558 (NRO, DN/ORR/1 (a), passim); marr Jane Barrett bef. 1554 when depr of all bens (ODNB); inst 6 May 1554 via proc rect Diss, Norf, [Henry Radcliffe (qv), 2nd] earl of Sussex, pat. (NRO, DN/REG 12/18, fo. 48v), comp 14 June for £30, same surs as for Lopham (TNA, E 334/4, fo. 165r), vac bef. 24 Mar 1572,17 commendam 1570 from Parker for it, bp of Man, Ad Ang and Thorpe on the Hill (see bel.) or vac bef. 14 Mar 1573 (NRO, DN/REG 13/19, fo. 189v; Blomefield 1, p. 17); inst 12 Aug 1554 via proc vic Redenhall with Harleston, Norfolk, duke of Norf, pat. (NRO, DN/REG 12/18, fo. 72v)–depr18 or resig bef. 1555 (Thomas Chetham, qv); pres 2 Sept 1555 [sic] rect Redyngale cum capella,19 Norwich dioc (CPRPM 3, p. 215), comp 29 Aug 1554 [sic] £18, bp of Norwich, pat., John Beckingham, St Michaels Crooked Lane, fishmonger and Edward Browne, Kingsland, Mdx, gen, surs (TNA, E 334/4, fo. 193r); comp 19 Nov 1554 chancellor of Linc £48 13s 4d, bp of Linc, pat., Edmund Billingford, Stoke Holy Cross, Norf, arm and George Sheffelde, S. Willingham, Linc, gen, surs (TNA, E 334/4, fo. 211r), instal 4 Dec by proxy, in person 11 Apr 1555 (LincCA 3, pp. 115 and 117)–, resig bef. 18 Jan 1566 (F3 9, p. 26), protested major residence 13 Sept 1555 (LincCA 3, p. 121), broke residence 20 Sept 1561-19 Sept 1562, oc 18 Sept 1565 (F3 9, p. 135), supervisor of choristers, etc 1556, mr of works 1558 (LincCA 3, pp. 135 and 156), [n.d.] marr and resident, 3 bens (CCCC, MS 97, fo. 93v); BTh20 bef. 1556 (Blomefield 8, p. 181 cited by BRUO2); 12 Mar 1557 comm with John Pope (qv) to confer special orders (CRP, no. 1903); ?inst21 12 Jan 1558 rect Caythorpe, Leic, Robert Carre, esq, pat.–resig bef. 19 Mar 1559 wrb Francis Babyngton (qv) (LincRO, Epis. reg. 28, fos 134r and 126r; LI2, nos 471 and 375); pres 31 Oct 1556 rect Thorpe-on-the-Hill, Linc, disp pres, pres again 18 Sept 1558 (LincCA 3, pp. 138, 146, 155), inst 30 Jan 1559,

D&C Linc, pat. (LincRO, Epis. reg. 28, fo. 127r; LI2, no. 386), vac bef. 15 Dec 1572 (LER, p. 1); with G. Hodson (qv) given advowson of St Leonard’s Hospital, Newark, Nott by bp 12 Feb 1559 (LI2, no. 691; LincCA 3, p. 165); pres 29 Mar 1558 vic Bitham Magna, Linc (LincCA 3, p. 148); ?inst22 7 Mar 1559 rect Waltham, Linc, John Bellewe, gent, pat. (LincRO, Epis. reg. 28, fo. 127r; LI2, no. 896 corrects his guess in no. 383 of Waltham on the Wolds, Leic), but sued in Queen’s Bench and lost possession (LI2, no. 896);23 ?inst24 18 July 1559 rect Fritton, Norf, duke of Norfolk, pat. (NRO, DN/REG 13/19, fo. 11r), vac bef. 23 July 1563 (NRO, DN/ REG 13/19, fo. 85v); inst 19 July 1559 rect Blofield, Norf-resig bef. 5 Aug 1562 (NRO, DN/REG 13/19, fos 11r and 72v); inst 16 Feb 1567 rect Trunch,25 Norf, Peter Reade, gen, pat. (NRO, DN/REG 13/19, fo. 134v), vac bef. 27 Oct 1571 (NRO, DN/ REG 13/19, fo. 172v);26 in network of religious conservatives by late 1560s when accused, prob. fairly, of mismanaging chapter estates; preached sermon attacking George Gardiner late 1569 and forced to retract by Bp Parkhurst (ODNB); cons bp of Sodor 7 Apr 1571 (BI, Reg. 30, fos 107v-112v); will 25 Sept 1573/prov 28 Oct (TNA, PROB 11/55, fo. 240v PCC 32 Peter; BRS, 18, p. 271): except for 2 gowns to svts estate to wife Jane Barrett; cf. AtC 3, p. 113 incorrectly saying degrees given 1, pp. 318-19 belong to next

Salisburye, Robert:27 ?BA 1534/5 (RUO 1, p. 178); coll 6 May 1554 rect Trottiscliffe, Kent (CKS, DRb/Ar 1/15, fos 78v and 81v), comp 23 May £9 2s 10d, John Weston, St Magnus, fishmonger and Hugh Dygges, St Vedast, goldsmith, surs (TNA, E 334/4, fo. 150r)–depr bef. [n.d.] Mar 1560 (CKS, DRb/Ar 1/15, fo. 104r; cf. Fielding, Rochester, pp. 289 and 520) but oc Nov 1561/24 Mar 156228 when unmarr priest, MD,29 resident, non-preacher (CCCC, MS 97, fo. 114v); priest, disp 15 Oct 1556 for it and rect Addington, Kent (CRP, no. 1737), in Addington to 1583 (Fielding, Rochester, p. 520 but this entry is exceptionally confused), worth 10 marks, 6s 8d deductions (VE 1, p. 110); inst30 10 Sept 1570 vic Ryarsh, Kent, Thomas Watton, arm, pat. (CKS, DRb/Ar 1/15, fo. 139v), vac bef. 21 Oct 1579 (CKS, DRb/Ar 1/16, fo. 23v); not:31 1) BA 1519, BTh 1534 (GBΓ, pp. 165 and 283), fell. JCC 1523-39 (AlC 4, p. 7); ord acol 12 Mar 1530 Linc (LincRO, Reg. 26, fo. 25v), deac 16 Apr 1530, priest 11 June 1530 London (LPL, Reg. Warham, fos 313v and 314r); preb of 5th stall, Roch at foundation 1541 (F2 2, p. 586)–† 10 Oct/10 Dec 1543 (F3 3, p. 66); 2) BCL 26 Mar 1566 (RUO 1, p. 257), of JCO, DCL 1579 (RUO 2:3, p. 86); inst 6 Aug 1580 rect Holland Magna, Ess (GL, 9531/13/1, fo. 198v), vac bef. 20 Dec

1589 (Newcourt 2, p. 333); † bef. 22 Mar 1586 holding rect Birling, Kent (CKS, DRb/Ar 1/16, fo. 27v)

Salter, John: inst 27 July 1555 vic Aston Rowant, Oxon, John ap Powell ap Janken, arm, pat. phv (OA, ODP d105, p. 162), comp 16 Oct 1556 £15 5s, John Stanye, Oswestry, Salop, mercer and Robert White, St Gregory Botolph Lane, clk, surs (TNA, E 334/6, fo. 38r); priest, Augustinian canon, house unknown, abs 18 Oct 1556 apostasy, disp orders & to hold Aston (CRP, no. 1742); 2 wills: 1) 26 [sic] Feb 1573/prov 5 [sic] Feb (formerly Bodl. MSS Wills Oxon., 185.173 [BRS, 94, p. 466], now in OxonRO): bur in Aston chancel, 20s dole at Aston and Stokenchurch,32 beds to svt Mother [Clark33] Cook, books to Reginald Skryvin (and horse), Christopher Alred [?Aldrede, qv] (and best gown) and Richard Herres (and best cloak), clks, remaining clothes to poor in Aston at discretion of Skryven, Allrede and Goodman Hester, 20s to my boy Thomas to go to Austin Bellson or Goodman Hester, cow to Thomas Steynie,34 all old iron to John Cowper, Skryven and Allrede, execs to profit of kinsmen Humfrey and Hugh Salter, John Bowyer and Hester ovs, Richard Hughes curate of Tetsworth, Oxon among witns; 2) 28 Feb 1573/prov 27 Oct (TNA, PROB 11/55, fo. 249v PCC 33 Peter; BRS, 18, p. 271): places: Aston Rowant, and Henley, Oxon, Wales, persons: ‘mother Clark’, Christopher Alred, Reginald Skreven, Thomas the boy, Goodman Hester, Robert Hester, William Spencer, John Bayre, his wife Eleanor, cousin Sir Richard, Mr Hopkins, Nicholas Belson, Richard Wheler, curate of Emrington, Mr Crippes, Mr Person of Cowell, Thomas Rowells, Fruwer of Stoken Church, Richard Loyd of Warw, John Capper, Robert Trever, Randall Lloid, Roger Slaney, Hugh, Howell Apmeredith, Mrs Belson, John Sewell, curate of Stoken church, Robert Cornnes (exec), Richard Lloyd, gent (exec), Richard Williams (exec), Christopher Alred [?Aldrede, qv], Goodman Bayer to have ‘my goods in keeping until my execs be come to the country’, legacies: cash (£25), doles (20s), debts due (£82 2s, 18 bushels barley, bond for corn), debts owing (£2 9s), livestock, clothing, household goods, ag pro, jewelry, horse

Salvin, Anthony: adm 1531 fell. University Coll., still 1538-9, elec mr 1 June 1557, vac bef. Dec 1558 (BRUO2, p. 503); BA 1528, MA 17 July 1531, sup BTh July 1546 (and see bel.) (RUO 1, p. 150); coll 10 May 1544 Norton preb, Dur (Reg. Tunstall, no. 215)–1548 (‘Tunstall’s priests’, p. 191); coll 23 Sept 1545 rect Winston, Durresig bef. 30 May 1559 (Reg. Tunstall, nos 235 and 369); BTh, chap, coll 13 Aug 1552 mrship of Sherburn hospital, Dur, still 28 Feb 1558 (Reg. Tunstall, nos 286 and 347); pres 9 Jan 1553 rect High Ham, Som-† (BRUO2); coll 12 Oct 1556 12th stall, Dur (Reg. Tunstall, no. 318), instal 16 Oct (Musset, p. 92)–resig bef. 13 Sept 1558 (Reg. Tunstall, no. 348), as such, proc 30 Oct 1556 (CRP, no. 1757a); coll 28 Apr 1558 rect Ryton, Dur-resig bef. 27 Dec 1558 (Reg. Tunstall, nos 339 and 365); coll 3 Sept 1558 11th stall, Dur (golden preb; ibid., no. 344), refused to sign 23 Sept 1559-depr 25 Sept (Musset, p. 84); coll 20 Dec 1558 rect Sedgefield, Dur, prob. rep. Robert Hyndmer (qv)–† (incorrectly) bef. 3 Aug 1560 (Reg. Tunstall, nos 362 and 386); depr 1559 vg Dur (BRUO2);35 ca. 1561 restricted as stubborn papist to Kirkby Moorside, N. York or anywhere in Yorks except York city (Gee, p. 182); on list

of suffering Catholics (Sander, DVM, p. 692); living 1570/1 (‘Tunstall’s priests’); prob. rel Richard Salwayn or Salvayn, BA 23 May 1527, MA 8 Apr 1530, BTh 1543, mr University Coll. 1547 (RUO 1, p. 147)

Sampson, Richard († 25 Sept 1554 [F3 10, p. 1]): prob. b. Berk, son Robert Sampson and Anne Chatterton (ODNB); LLB 150536 aft. 10 years’ study, LLD 1513 aft. 6 years’ study in Siena and Paris,37 explicitly in canon law 1520 (GBΓ, pp. 36, 109 and 185); 1513 Wolsey’s vg in Tournai (ODNB)38 where met Erasmus (qv/5) (Old DNB); adm39 20 Mar 1514 Drs Coms (Squibb, p. 132); 1515 on trade mission to Flanders with T. More and Tunstall (both qv); 1516 dean St Stephen’s, Westm and Chap Roy (ODNB); coll 3 Feb 1517 Ad Corn-resig bef. 8 Sept 1528 (F2 9, p. 17); inst 23 Apr 1519 S. Newbald preb, York (F2 6, p. 72)–resig bef. 12 Apr 1534 (BI, Reg. 28, fo. 84r) wrb R. Sparcheford (qv) (F2); incorp40 at Oxford 1521; mission to Spain 1522 where resident ambassador to early 1526; 14 Nov 1523 dean Windsor (Old DNB); coll 28 Mar 1527 Langford ecclesia preb, Linc (LincRO, Epis. reg. 27, fo. 5v), instal by proxy 5 Mar 1528 (LincCA 1, p. 87)–promotion to Chich41 (F2 1, p. 75); resig bef. 4 June 1524 rect Wheathampstead, Hert wrb Richard Pate (qv/5) (LincRO, Epis. reg. 27, fo. 232v); inst 18 June 152742 vic Stepney, Mdx, Sparcheford (qv), pat. (GL, 9531/10, fo. 24r)–resig bef. 31 Mar 1534 when coll rect Hackney, Mdx, rep. Sparcheford (qv)–promotion to Chich (GL, 9531/11, fos 27v and 36v), worth £20 (VE 1, p. 434) and when also resig Chiswick preb, London to Sparcheford (GL, 9531/11, fo. 27v);43 coll 11 Jan 1529 Ad Suff-promotion44 (F2 4, p. 34); Oratio quæ docet hortatur admonet omnes potissimum Anglos regiæ dignitati cum primis ut obediant (1533) in favor of supremacy (ODNB); pres 12/13 Mar 1533 Stotfold preb, Lichfield, inst 19 Mar, elec 21 Apr/19 May dean Lichfield, instal 20 Junepromotion45 (F2 10, pp. 57 and 7); oc 153546 Ad Taunton (F2 8, p. 17), vac bef. 10 June 1536 (see bel.); coll 16 Mar 1535 treas Salis, oc 1539, vac bef. 28 Sept 1540 wrb Thomas Robertson (qv) (F2 3, p. 21); attacked by Pole in De unitate (CRP, nos 85, 89 and 102; cf. Mayer, P&p, pp. 23-25, 29, 31, 38), Pole returned to offensive in preface to Edward VI (CRP, no. 601); elec 3 June 1536 bp Chich, cons 11 June, temps 15 June, enthroned by proxy 15 Aug-translation to C&L (F2 7, pp. 3-4); disp 10 June 1536 to hold ben with Chich, as long as former bp Robert alive, also disp same day to hold deanery of Chap Roy,47 Windsor, treas Salis, and Ad Corn (FOR, p. 69); bp of Chich, disp 20 July 1536 to hold dean London in commendam (FOR, p. 67), elec 24 July-depr bef. 3 June 1540 (F2 5, p. 7); involved in compiling Bishops’ Book; 1538 comm v. anabaptists; arrested 26/27 May 1540, pardoned

Aug; president of council of Wales 1543-8 (ODNB); elec 19 Feb 1543 bp C&L, temps 14 Mar-† 25 Sept 1554 (F3 10, p. 1); † at Eccleshall, Staff; wrote: In priores quinquaginta psalmos Daviticos familiaris explanatio (1539); Explanatio in D. Pauli epistolam ad Romanos atque in priorem ad Corinthos (1546); Explanationis psalmorum secunda pars (1548) as well as various MSS (ODNB)

Sanderson, William († bef. 3 Mar 1590):48 from Northum, matric 12 Nov 1549 sizar of ChCC (AtC 2, p. 79); BA 1553, MA 1555 (GBΔ, pp. 84 and 104); prob. fell. Pembroke 1553 (AlC 4, p. 17); clk, Dur dioc, disp 8 Mar 1555 orders (CRP, no. 1105e); ord priest 12 Mar 1555 by Leverous (qv) with disp from Pole and with William Cooke, Richard Woodward, Henry Lacy, Charles Fitzwater, George Bere or Byrry, Leonard Boulton, Goodlacus Cordall and Thomas Bellard (all qv) (GL, 9535/1, fos 46v and 45r); regent mr, signed 26 July 1555 Catholic articles (Mere, p. 176); 1555-61 fell. of ChCC (AlC); 1567-8 university preacher (GBΔ, p. 572); signed (Gee, p. 127); ?coll 7 Nov 1560 rect Sudbrooke, Linc (LI2, no. 992), still n.d. but perhaps 156149 when unmarr priest, educ, resident, non-preacher, only ben (CCCC, MS 97, fo. 65r), vac bef. 1576 (LER, p. 75 and note); inst 11 Aug 1569 vic Terrington St Clement, Norf, crown pat.–resig bef. 14 Apr 1574 (NRO, DN/REG 13/19, fos 154v and 202r); inst 27 Feb 157050 rect Terrington St Clement, Norf, George Gardiner,51 DTh, pat. phv by grant of William Sanderson’s execs incl Henry [Hastings, qv], earl of Huntingdon by grant ultimately of crown (NRO, DN/REG 13/19, fo. 159r)–† bef. 3 Mar 1590 (NRO, DN/REG 14/20, fo. 184r);52 preacher at King’s Lynn; 1572 comm for recusants in Norf; accused 1573 of numerous offenses incl praying that queen would establish true religion; hesitated to sign Whitgift’s articles 1583 (AtC)

Sandyn, Thomas († bef. 13 July 1566): pres 20 Jan 1558 rect Hope All Saints, Kent (CPRPM 4, p. 247), inst 22 Feb (CRP, no. 2183)–† bef. 13 July 1566 (Reg. Parker, p. 826)

Sapcote, Edward (ca. 1527-† 10 July/14 Nov 1578): ?signed53 comp for vic Carltonle-Moorland, Linc 1536 (LincRO, Epis. reg. 27, fo. 274v); leased 21 Mar 1545 rect Little Bytham, Linc by D&C Linc (LincCA 2, p. 98); proc in Linc 1551, 1554, 1557-59 (LincCA 3, pp. 69, 106, 108, 145, 154, 161); exec of Henry Sapcote,54 pat. Thomas Chamberlane, clk, rect Lea, Linc, inst 1554 (LincRO, Epis. reg. 28, fo. 109r; LI2, no. 155); 24 Aug 1555 prin registrar of Linc (LincCA 3, pp. 126-27), still 29 Mar 1562, at least his signature appears on list of ordinations then, if so keeping records much more carelessly than predecessor, e.g., no titles to orders recorded (LincRO, Epis. reg. 28a, fo. 30v); cr 12 Oct 1556 notary (CRP, no. 1728); oc pat. phv 15 Feb 1558 rect Copmanford, Hunt when John Watson inst (LI2, no. 454); provided titles to orders 4 June and 24 Sept 1558 to Thomas Corkar, John Chatte and James

Robynson, Chester dioc (LincRO, Epis. reg. 28a, fos 13v, 14r, 14v, 16r, 21r and 17r); 2 July 1558 granted lease rect Edwinstow, Linc on same terms as father (LincCA 3, p. 153); exec of John Pope (qv), as such, aged 35, testified 1 Apr 1562 to will’s validity; 1 Jan 1559 with Michael Dunning55 (qv) given advowson of Corringham preb, Linc by bp (LI2, no. 667; LincCA 3, p. 161), used when Richard Taylor inst 3 Feb 1571 (LER, p. 305; Reg. Parker, p. 303, incorrectly making Sapcote a citizen of London instead of Linc); 24 Feb 1562 proc for Edmund Knolles, MA (LincRO, Epis. reg. 28, fo. 208r; LI2, no. 1126 says 22 Feb); ?authenticated advowson of vic Thame from Linc regs at unknown date (but 1567-8?) (OA, ODP d105, p. 113); pat. Edward Chippingdale (by grant from Richard Barber, DCL by grant from Bp Watson) when inst 19 Sept 1571 Welton Ryval preb, Linc (LincRO, Epis. reg. 29, fo. 1r; LER, p. 1; cf. F3 9, p. 129); pat. as father’s exec of John Mason when inst 4 Oct 1571 rect Potterhanworth, Linc (LER, p. 5); will 10 July 1578/prov (PCC) 14 Nov (LincRO, LCC Wills various years, fo. 54r-v [BRS, 28, p. 275]; another copy PCC 42 Langley [BRS, 18, p. 273]): citizen of Linc, bur in cath under parents’ stone, leave disputed fees and charges to son Henry via George Chippingdill,56 Henry exec and res leg, bedding etc to da, £50 in gold (if have that much) to her husband Thomas Burnabie, £100 in gold to grandson, £40 to niece, plain gold hope ring each to Lord [?chief justice] Dyer, Mr Justice Monson, Robert Carr [?see ab.] of Sleaford, Linc, George Henneage, Robert Sapcote, Stephen Thumlbie [who also got Sapcote’s secret wishes later], and William Henneage, other rings incl one to Chippingdale worth 26s 8d, same ‘poesy’ on all, to hold his tenancy from me at same rent, £5 to Peter Ackland to buy a nag, another tenement at Budgate, large bequest to various svts, 10 marks to kinswoman, 10s dole in Braunton, Wellington and Waddington, all Linc, 10s to repair of St Benet’s, Linc, to son-in-law William Kelke bond worth £300, other bequests incl £20 to Thumlbie and Henneage; ?rel next57

Sapcote, Sapcotes, John: inst 22 Dec 1533 rect Buckland, Ess, Henry Sapcote,58 city of Linc, pat., John Broxolme (qv), proc (GL, 9531/11, fo. 25v)–resig bef. 22 Jan 1554 (GL, 9531/12/2, fo. 175v); sup for BA Oct 1537, BCL 1545 (RUO 1, p. 189); instal by proxy 21 Aug 1546 Centum solidorum preb, Linc, in person 19 Sept (LincCA 1, pp. 126 and 127), vac bef. 25 Mar 155059 or 1547, worth £4 9s 4d (F3 9, p. 52); pres 10 Sept 1547 Norton Episcopi preb, Linc, John Pope (qv) and Anthony Forster, Newark, Nott, gent, pats. phv, comp 18 Sept, instal 29 Sept (F3 9, p. 100)–resig bef. 2 Sept 1548 (LincCA 2, p. 26), worth £6 8s 10d (TNA, E 334/6, fo. 45r); comp 19 Apr 1548 Langford Manor preb, Linc £14 2s 7d, Henry Herdeson, St Dunstan in the West, pellipar (?skinner) and James Wallys, Barby, Linc [?Ntht], merchant of Staple, surs (TNA, E 334/4, fo. 7r), instal 5 May-resig bef. 2560 May 155761 (CRP,

no. 2009; LincCA 3, p. 141), leased preb 20 Aug 1550 for 50 years for £24 6s p.a. (LincCA 3, pp. 59-61), worth £15 14s in 1535 (F3 9, p. 79);62 ?rel last63

Saunders, Laurence: son Thomas Saunders, Sibbertoft, Ntht and Margaret Cave; elec 1538 from EtC to KCC; BA 1541, MA 1544; no record BTh (AtC 3, p. 113);64 comp 13 Feb 154465 rect Church Langton, Leic £43 16s, Edward Saunders,66 sjtat-law and Robert Saunders, gen, Flore, Ntht, surs (TNA, E 334/3, fo. 6r), inst 15 Feb, E. Saunders, Thomas Cave and Robert Chaunterell, pats., £16 pension to inc Polydore Vergil (qv/5) (LincRO, Epis. reg. 27, fo. 171v)–depr bef. 4 June 1554 (LI2, no. 763); appt ca. mid-1547 theology lecturer at Fotheringhay Coll., Ntht, aft. dissolution reader at Lichfield cath; marr there (Foxe [1583], p. 1494); coll 27 Aug 1552 Botevant preb, York (BI, Inst.AB. 1, fo. 201v)–resig bef. 19 May67 1554 (BI, Reg. 5/A, fo. 690r); coll 28 Mar 1553 rect All Saints Breadstreet (LPLCR, fo. 423r); arrested aft. meeting 14 Oct 1554 with Sir John Mordaunt who informed Bp Bonner (both qv) abt his preaching (Foxe [1583], p. 1494); condemned 30 Jan 1555 by Gardiner (qv) (Foxe [1570], p. 1655) possibly with comm from Pole (CRP, no. 1053); executed 8 Feb 1555 in Coventry (Foxe [1570], pp. 1665-66 and ODNB)

Saunders, Sir Thomas (by 1513-18 Aug 1565): son Nicholas Saunders of Charlwood, Surr and Alice, da John Hungate, [?Saxton], Yorks; adm 1527 Inner Temple; marr ca. June 1539 Alice, da Sir Edmund Walsingham, Scadbury, Chislehurst, Kent; 1540 solicitor of queen’s household; jp Surr 1541-58; MP Gatton 1542, Surr Mar 1553, 1558, Reigate Oct 1553; 1549 king’s remembrancer; knighted ca. 1550; 1553-4 sheriff Surr and Suss; only one transaction in ex-monastic property; cousin of Nicholas Sander (HPT 3, pp. 274-76); pat. 3 Sept 1557 Merstham, Surr (CRP, no. 2097); will 7 Mar 1564/prov 7 July 1566 (TNA, PROB 11/48; PCC 19 Crymes; BRS, 18, p. 273): places: Charlwood, Lorkynes and New Warren in Charlwood,68 Leigh, Reigate, Walton,69 Bechworth, Woodmansterne, Chipstead, Ewell, Buckland, Ridles[?down], John Mylle’s farm of Horley, all Surr, Flanshforde, Telvett, Skewls [unided], London Blackfriars, persons: father Nicholas, wife Alice Saunder (exec), her bro Thomas Walsingham, esq (exec), son Edmond (exec), chil (Walsingham, Thomas White and Margaret Sawnder), bro-in-law Sir Thomas White (exec), sis Brown, bro Henry Saunders, his widow (now John Lawrence of Ess’s widow), uncle Sawnder, John Mylle, rect Charlwood who teaches chil and plays organ, churchwardens, Richard Cottingham, Thomas Ellis, Edmond, Pope, Humfrey Morton, James Skynner, Sir Walter Mildemaye (ovs), John Carill of Warneham,

esq (ovs), John Skynner jr of Reigate, gent (ovs), Nicholas Sawnder, gent (ovs), legacies: cash (£24 13s 4d), annuities (£81 13s 4d), dole (40s p.a. and £40 to poor householders), ag pro, horses, livestock, jewelry, clothing, rings, household goods, plate, real estate, books: law to sons Edmond and Walsingham or son Thomas if they study law, ‘of Humanity’ and those in Latin and French divided between 3 sons, items of interest: profits from leases to wife for educ of chil in common law, says money to poor householders is acc. act of parliament [?Statute of Laborers] and in imitation of father

Savage, George (ca. 1530-† bef. 8 Oct 1602): son Christopher Savage70 and Anne Lygon71 and great-grandson Sir John Savage (Bp Bonner’s [qv] grandfather), b. Elmley Castle,72 Worc where †;73 of CCO 1550, sup for BA 1551, determined 1558 (RUO 1, pp. 217 and 347); deac,74 inst 29 Sept 1551 rect Sedgeberrow, Worc, Henry Langeston, both pat. (with Robert Hastings, Worc) and proc (WoRO, b. 716.093 BA 2648/9/(iv), p. 37), worth £12 8s (TNA, E 334/3, fo. 9r); subd, rect Sedgeberrow, lic 8 Sept 1555 to study (CRP, no. 1365); lic from Carlo Carafa 9 Jan 1557 for nonresidence (WoRO, b716.093-BA.2648/9(iv), p. 74); inst 14 Nov 1558 rect Seagrave, Leic,75 Anna Barkley (qv, prob. his aunt) (LincRO, Epis. reg. 28, fo. 128r; LI2, no. 395), as such in 1576, BCL (see bel.), worth £19 8s 11 1/2d, aged 46, unmarr, ord by pres bp of London,76 keeps hospitality at Seagrave and Saintbury, sometimes resides in both but marked non-resident in mar.,77 still 1585 when failed to produce disp for pluralism and claimed ord priest by bp of Glouc 5 Mar but del., still 14 Oct 1601 when had curate (Foster, Lincoln, pp. 40, 105, 215); LLB Louvain 1560, incorp Oxford 6 Feb 1575 (RUO 2, p. 377); inst 6 July 1560 rect Saintbury, Glos on depr William Dalbie (qv) (Reg. Parker, p. 196), crown pres Walter Jones (qv) but Parker rejected 1 Aug (Reg. Parker, p. 189), still prob. bef. 3 Mar 156278 when (incorrectly) layman, non-resident with [Henry] Lord Barkeley (qv), non-preacher,

2 bens (CCCC, MS 97, fo. 111v), still 10 Feb 1593, curate Richard Edmunds, BA (LPL, Carte misc 12, fos 113r and 114r); signed (Gee, p. 127); coll 1 Feb 1575 Ad Glouc with rect Dursley, Glos (GRO, GDR 27A, pp. 58-59)–† (F3 8, p. 47), as such signed [n.d.] (GRO, GDR 2A, p. 168), on comm for ecclesiastical causes 1574-, sat Apr-July 1575, Jan, Mar 1576, 9 sesssions total (Price, Commission, pp. 44, 79, 81, 85, 89, 100, 107), comm 1 June 1576 to visit dioc (LPL, Grindal’s reg., fo. 111r-v); claimed 14 June 1583 patronage Tetbury, Glos, but Lord Barkeley pres on next occasion (GRO, GDR 27A, pp. 128 and 131); will 24 May 1600/prov 28 Oct 1602 (TNA, PROB 11/100, fo. 156v PCC 63 Montague; BRS, 25, p. 367): places: Seagrave, Walton on the Wolds, Melton Mowbray, all Leic, Glouc city, Dursley, Sedgeberrow, Saintbury, all Glos, Linc cath, persons: son George, da Anne, bro John Savage (exec), Richard Daston (exec), Edward Cowper (exec), Francis Langston, ‘my curate’ Sir Fuks, George Huntley, Walter Wormewell, legacies: cash (over £100), annuity (40s), quarter’s wages to svts, doles (incl 2s to each almsman in coll.), clothing, books: all at Seagrave and Saintbury to son George, with the course of the civil law lent to Francis Langston, items of interest: yearly profits from lands towards better educ of chil, esp. George Savage, 6s 8d to repairs of Sedgeberrow bridge [maybe on route now A46], legacy of Edward Cowper in annex to will

Savile, Sayvell, William († 22 Sept 1567): ?inst 28 Feb 1548 vic Selmeston, Suss, Stephen Darell, pat. (WSRO, Ep/I/1/6, fo. 52v), worth £7 5s 7d (VE 1, p. 340); ?witn 9 Aug 1552 to will at Selsey, Suss (TSW, 4, p. 100); inst 16 Oct 1552 rect Crowhurst, Suss, Sir Nicholas Pelham (qv), pat. (WSRO, Ep/I/1/6, fo. 86r)–† 22 Sept 1567 (Reg. Parker, p. 269; cf. WSRO, Ep/I/1/7, fo. 27r), worth £10 (VE 1, p. 342); BA,79 inst 16 Sept 1556 vic Burwash, Suss, Pelham, pat. (CRP, no. 1684)–† (WSRO, Ep/I/1/7, fo. 30r); BA, disp 8 Feb 1557 for both (CRP, no. 1840); ?Pelham’s chap; his name may properly be Sackville, making him Pelham’s rel through his wife, perhaps son of Richard Sackville (HPT, 3, pp. 246-47)

Saxon, Saxton, Shaxton, Silvester (ca. 1540-91): subd, Linc dioc, disp 12 July 1555 orders (CRP, no. 1297e); inst 16 Apr 1558 rect Somerby, Linc (pts Kesteven) (LER, p. 228), still bef. 14/16 Jan 156280 when unmarr priest, resident, uneduc, nonpreacher, only ben (CCCC, MS 97, fo. 83r), still 1576 when sd ord 4 Apr 1556, worth £4 16s 5 ½ d, Robert Savell, pat., aged 36, marr, resides, poorly educ (LER, p. 195), still 1590 (Foster, Lincoln, pp. 79 and 150); will (LincRO, LCC Wills, 1591 ii, fo. 108r; BRS, 28, p. 276): marr, property in household goods and livestock

Saye, William (ca. 1505-bef. 31 May 1582): notary with Robert Johnson I (qv) 6 June 1536 of instrument certifying Bonner’s (qv) elec to Heref which authenticated at Heref (LPLCR, fo. 218r); sur 1546 for John Smith I and William Geffrey and 1547 for Hugh Curwin (all qv); notary of instrument for Bonner’s restoration 5 Sept 1553 (GL, 9531/12/2, fo. 57r-v); witn/notary 8 Jan 1554 to interrogation of John Hooper et al. by Gardiner et al. (BL, Harl. 421, fo. 36rff); notary of Oxford disputation 1554 (Foxe, [1570], p. 1592); 15 Nov 1554 notary, registrar of appeals from Admiralty to Chancery (CPRPM 2, pp. 35-36); sur 1557 for Thomas Hewet (qv); proc 20 Nov 1557 for Robert Burton (qv) (CRP, no. 2127); much abt proctorial and notarial activity 1559-60 in Reg. Parker, e.g., pp. 64, 66, 67, 74, 75, 102, 104, etc; proc in

PCC 14 Nov 1564 (TNA, PROB 11/47, fo. 232v); notary of Paget’s (qv) will (TNA, PROB 11/46, fo. 210r); 27 Nov 1567 proc for probate of Roger Strotye’s (qv) will; 15 June 1576 appt along with Christopher Smith, George Harrison, John Lewes, John Incent, Thomas Willett, Christopher Robinson (all qv), Francis Clerke, Edward Bigges and Peter Johnson, notaries and procs of the Court of Arches, as D&C Dur procs (DUL, D&C regs, B/BA/3, fos 125v-126r); proc for D&C Winch at elec Bp Watson 1579 (LPL, Grindal’s reg., fo. 54r), for D&C C&L at elec Bp Overton in 1580 (LPL, Grindal’s reg., fo. 59v); ?arms in dining room of Drs Coms where described apparently incorrectly as Curiae prerogativae judex (Squibb, p. 65); will 4 Mar 1582/prov 31 May, sworn out by son Robert, notary, as proc for Isabel (TNA, PROB 11/64, fo. 163r PCC 22 Tyrwhite; BRS, 18, p. 274): gent of Ickenham, Mdx, registrar in causes and delegations ecclesiastical, proc of Arches, aged 77, places: St Olave Jewry and Pater Noster Row, London, Great Rydinge, Burycrofte, Smiths Croft, Brokemeade, Cherycrofte [all unided], persons: wife Isabel (res leg and exec), sons and ovs (Robert, Edward Say,81 Thomas Say, Chancellor of Winch William Say,82 John Say), das and sons-in-law (Mr Shordiche, Mr Smith, Richard Lambe, Thomas Haydon, Jasper Hawks), bro John Saye, sis Goldsmith, cousins (Mary Shepard, Humphrey Abbott), svts (Isabel, Anne Longstrawe, John Hedger), ‘my clk’ Thomas Barker, Thomas Nelham and son Robert, widow Whelpleye of Ruislip, Mdx, Henry Kended,83 rect Ickenham, Edmond Smithe, Dr [Lawrence] Hussey (qv), legacies: cash (over £53 13 4s), doles, real estate (incl lease of moiety of rect Ickenham), rings, clothing, ag pro, debt of sis Goldsmith (40s) forgiven, debts owing (£102), marble tablet as monument, 10 loads of gravel for repair of Ickenham footbridge I built, parishoners of Ickenham owe me for building a new chapel, to give my family a pew; either he or his son cousin of Bp John Watson (qv)

Scot, Cuthbert, bp of Chester († 9 Oct 156484): from Lanc (ODNB); BA 1535, MA 1538, BTh 1544, DTh 1547 (GBΔ, pp. 536, 16, and 45); Dur dioc, disp 23 Feb 1536 orders (FOR, p. 44); elec 1538 fell. ChCC (ODNB); coll 28 Feb 1546 priest’s preb St Sepulchre chapel, York minster (BI, Reg. 29, fo. 24r and BI, Inst.AB. 1, fo. 157r)–dissolution when pensioned on 10 marks-promotion to Chester (BL, Lans. 980, fo. 225v); coll (apparently in person) 7 Mar 1547 rect Etton, E. York (BI, Reg. 29, fo. 24v and Inst.AB. 1, fo. 158r), vac bef. 8 Sept 1566 (BI, Inst.AB.2, part 2, fo. 64v); 30 Jan 1548 exhibited resig of Stephen Sager from Givendale preb, York (BI, Inst.AB, 1, fo. 167v); coll 21 Dec 1549 rect Beeford, E. York (BI, Reg. 29, fo. 31v and BI, Inst.AB. 1, fo. 178r), vac bef. 29 Sept 1576 (BI, Reg. 31, fo. 4r); appt 8 Dec 1553 mr of ChCC (ODNB); among delegation sent to dispute with Cranmer (qv) et al. when incorp 14 Apr 1554 DTh at Oxford (RUO 1, p. 224); comp 26 Apr 1554 Chamberlainwood preb, London £7 10s, bp of London, pat., George Depope,85 St Sepulchre, innholder and John More, Les Minories, gent, surs (TNA, E 334/4,

fo. 138v) and coll-promotion to Chester (but see bel.) wrb John Fuller (qv) bef. 28 Mar86 1558 (GL, 9531/12/2, fos 176v and 201r); among Catholic disputants at Oxford 1554 (Foxe, [1570], pp. 1591-92); v-c Cantab 1554 and 1555 (ODNB); examing ordinands in London 21 Sept 1555 with John Harpsfield, Richard Smith II, Richard Marshall, William Ermested and William Dalbie (all qv) (GL, 9535/1, fo. 35v); temps bpric Chester 24 Apr 1556 (F1 3, p. 258 from patent roll), prov 6 July (ASV, Arch. Concist., Acta vicecancellarii, 8, fo. 49v), full restitution 29 Sept (F1)–depr 26 June 1559 (Phillips, Extinction, pp. 107-108); ‘conscientious, resident’ and usually conducted ordinations in person (ODNB); disp 12 May 1556 pluralism rect Gosforth, Cumb, Etton,87 and Chamberlainwood preb (CRP, no. 1562), vac Gosforth bef. 10 Feb 1571 (BI, Reg. 30, fo. 101r); headed legatine visitors of Cantab early 1557 (Foxe, [1583], pp. 1956-64, esp. 1958 for Scot’s reply to oration of welcome and 1962 for his condemnation of Bucer [qv/5] and Fagius) immediately bef. and during which frequently preached (Mere, pp. 185, 190, 217, 218) and ord, on one occasion ca. 200 (ibid., pp. 191, 204, 222); comm John Daykn (qv) to exam Richard Snell (Foxe, [1570], unnumbered sheet at beginning of volume 1); preached 6 Feb 1558 at Paul’s Cross (Maclure, p. 200); oration88 in parliament ‘against the reformation and English liturgy’ (BL, Vesp. D XVIII. 3); participant in Westm disputation, bound in £1000 4 Apr (Old DNB); imprisoned 13 May 1560 in Fleet, still mid-summer 1561 (‘Prisoners’, pp. 48 and 52); bailed 1562 or 1563 and confined to vicinity Finchingfield, Ess (ODNB); ‘a rigid man, detained in the Fleet for some time’ bef. ‘went privately away beyond sea’ (Strype, Annals 1:1, p. 215); escaped to Louvain where † (Foxe, [1570], p. 2301); † in prison or in exile (Sander, DVM, p. 688)

Sebroke als Furley, Thomas: ord priest 21 Dec 1510 (BRUO2, p. 511); Seybroke, OSB, Glouc coll. bef. BTh 14 Feb 1522 (BRUO2, p. 511 and RUO 1, p. 123); bef. 1509 St Peter’s abbey, Glouc, prior of Bromfield, Salop (da house) by 1533 and at dissolution in 1540 when pensioned on £13 6s 8d, still in receipt 1555-6 (BRUO2, p. 511); 28 Feb 1537 preaching lic Heref dioc (Reg. Boothe, p. 372); 25 Nov 1540 preaching lic Worc dioc (WoRO, b716.093-BA.2648/9(iii), p. 29); pres by crown 5 Jan 1558 rect Coddington, Heref (CRP, no. 2153a)–resig 26 June 1562 (HRO, AL/19/15, Reg. Scory, fo. 5r), assessed at £3 18s 5d in 1536 (Reg. Boothe, p. 367); 1558-63 vic St Mary de Grace, Glouc; gave Bromfield John Damascene De fide orthodoxa (Paris, 1512) (BRUO2, p. 511)

Sedbar [Sedbergh (ODNB)], Adam (ca. 1502-26 May 1537): of Jervaulx, ord priest 15 June 1527 (BI, Reg. 27, fo. 214v); ca. 1533 abbot of Jervaulx (ODNB), as such denounced 11 July 1535 one of his monks for preaching v. supremacy (L&P 8, no. 1025.2); confirmation 18 Mar 1536 of elec abbot Premonstratensian house of ?Garwall89 [sic] (FOR, p. 48); threatened with death by Pilgrims of Grace Oct 1536 and took their oath; asssisted rebels Feb 1537; executed (ODNB); attainted 1539 with Pole (CRP, no. 268a)

Seger, Segar, Sudger, William († bef. 10 Feb 1560): Thomas [sic], clk, inst 2 Dec

1553 rect W. Dean, Suss, William Segar, pat. (WSRO, Ep/I/1/6, fo. 97v)–† bef. 10 Feb 1560 (WSRO, Ep/I/1/7, fo. 15r), worth £14 15s 4d (VE 1, p. 340), as such, BA,90 disp 9 July 1555 orders (CRP, no. 1282a)

Selbye, Thomas: boy, Cant cath, summoned 17 May 1556 visitation (CRP, no. 1564); lay clk 1573 when vouched for Dean Godwyn’s handling of patronage and testified had cooperated with him in playing ‘[Thomas; minor canon] Swift’s bro’ among choristers and charged to read articles of religion audibly in choir (Reg. Parker, pp. 908, 917 and 923-924)

Selbye, William: vic choral, Cant cath, summoned 17 May 1556 visitation (CRP, no. 1564); clk oc 1555/6 (CCA, DCc/MA 40, fo. 50r), 1557/8 (fo. 65v); Richard Selby among ten choristers oc 1557/8 (CCA, DCc/MA 40, fo. 66r); ?or last among lay clks 1558 (CCA, DCc/MA 40, fo. 87v); ?rel mr of choristers [and organist later] oc 1542/3 (CCA, DCc/MA 40, fo. 1v), still 1573 (Reg. Parker, p. 908), organist at 1576 visitation (LPL, Grindal’s reg., fo. 79v); ?chorister at 1589 visitation (LPL, Whitgift’s reg. I, fo. 222v)

Seman, John: ord subd 22 Dec 1554 with Lawrence Baker and Geoffrey Philipps (both qv), to title of manor of Shelton, Norf granted by Sir John Shelton, deac 8 Mar, priest 10 Mar 1555 all London, with James Clayton, Lawrence Baker, Geoffrey Philipps, Christopher Inkepen and Rhys Powell (all qv) (GL, 9535/1, fos 39r-v, 45r-v, 46v); Norwich dioc, disp 9 Mar 155591 orders (CRP, no. 1106e); ?inst 2 Sept 1558 rect Tibenham,92 Norf, Sir Richard Southwell, pat. (NRO, DN/REG/12/18, fo. 205r), this man coll 5 June 1560 rect Moulton All Saints, Norf93 when granted union with Tibenham (NRO, DN/REG 13/19, fo. 31v), still in Moulton 1566 (AlC 4, p. 37), vac bef. 24 Oct 1581 (NRO, DN/REG 14/20, fo. 70v); Moulton not mentioned when inst bef. 7 Mar 1562 rect Flordon, Norf, Robert Kemp, pat. and granted union with Tibenham (NRO, DN/REG 13/19, fo. 65v); on strength of conflicting diocs,94 not man of same name from Tring, Hert, adm 16 Aug 1546 from EtC at KCC, aged 17, fell. 1549-54 (AlC 4, p. 37), BA 1551 (GBΔ, p. 70), verses in collection on Bucer’s death (Martin Bucer, Scripta anglicana (Basel: Pietro Perna, 1577), pp. 907-908), MA 1554 (AlC; not in GBΔ nor AtC)

Serles or Searles, Robert (ca. 1495-bef. 26 Sept 1570): from Wye, Kent (see will); elec 2 Apr 1512 bachelor MerC, fell. 10 June 1513, vac 1524, various offices incl. sub-dean 1524 (BRUO2, pp. 510-511); BA 9 Feb 1512, BTh 26 Jan 1533 (RUO 1, p. 79); ord deac 21 Sept 1521 (BRUO2); inst 20 Dec 1524 vic Oxford St Peter’s in the East, MerC, pat. (LincRO, Epis. reg. 27, fo. 180r), vac Oct 1558 (BRUO2); oc 1535 vic Lenham, Kent, worth £13 15s 2d (VE 1, pp. 59 and 95)–resig bef. 16 July 1546 (LPLCR, fo. 401r); inst 16 Jan 1540 rect Whitchurch, Warw, Sir Edward Wotton, Mary Danett, widow and Anthony Coke, arm, pats. (WoRO, b716.093BA.2648/9(iii), p. 14)–† (WoRO, b716.093-BA.2648/10(i), p. 10); appt 1543 Six preacher, Cant cath (BRUO2), pd £20 20 Dec 1543 (LPLCR, fo. 55r), still Baptist term 1553/4 (CCA, DCc/MA 39, fo. 2v), still 1558 (CCA, DCc/MA 40, fo. 87v), as

such summoned 17 May 1556 visitation (CRP, no. 1564); active preacher 1542-3 and among leaders of Prebs’ Plot v. Cranmer (qv) (Ethan H. Shagan, Popular politics and the English Reformation [Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003], chapter 6); comp Aug 1552 vic Monkton, Kent (TNA, E 334/4, fo. 101v)–resig bef. 18 Dec 1561 (Reg. Parker, p. 786), worth £13 8s 4d (VE 1, p. 91); ca. 60 years old, witn v. Cranmer drawing on experience as Six preacher (‘Processus Cranmer’, pp. 506-507); will 28 Jan 1568/prov 26 Sept 1570 (CKS, PRC 17/41, fos 26-29): Catholic committal clause places: Wye, Monkton, Birchington chapel, Lenham, Brook, all Kent, Wytherston, Sylkes, Amynge and Grenefelde, Eastighe, Wyefelde, Eastgulles in Romney Marsh, Clerks Crofte, Rushefelde [all unided], persons: sis Rose Prowde (exec), Henry Prowde, cousins (ovs Robert Allard, William Payne, Thomas Stransham ‘the keeper of my treasure’), bro Thomas Searlys’ 3 das (Jane, Alice Hamond and Christian Boyes), godsons (John and Searlys Prowde, Searlys Hawke), Mr [Thomas or William] Kempe’s (qv) almshouse, William Trulove, Elizabeth Wood, svt of bro-in-law William Prowde (exec), Isaac Shytterden, son of Walter Shytterden, 2 of Howlett’s sons, Peter Hamon, Thomas Boy, Peter London’s da Cecily, Robert Mantle, Robert Payne, Mary Swanne, Michael Deryck’s widow, ‘Mother Parker’ of Cant, Alexander Hawker and wife Jane (execs), ‘bros and sis of Harbledown’, Kent same of St John’s, almshouse at St Mildred’s, svt John Morres, Mr [Robert] Collyns (qv), scholars of Oxford and Cantab intending to be clergy, Leonard Lamb, John Norden, Edward Master, Nicholas Bocher, John Ramsey, esq, John Cooke, gent, Robert Hall, John Dodd, John Chylton, Simon Wylde, Stephen Gyles, John Mylles (qv), John Howe, William Clyston, ‘Sir Cryar’ [?Thomas, qv], ‘dwelling with Sir Henry Cryspe in Thanet’ (qv), William Bett, clk, Thomas Twysden (qv), legacies: cash (£104), 20d to godchil in Kent and Oxon, doles, annuity (26s 8d for exec salary), 10s debt forgiven, plate, gowns, silver cross worth £12, real estate (rents exceeding £55 17s 8d total), books: Collyns’s to Clyston and Cryar and mine and scripture to Oxford and Cantab, books in house (execept Collyns’s) to Oxford, items of interest: parents bur. in Wye, keeping month’s mind, endowment of new almshouse in Wye

Sevyer, Thomas: pres 23 June 1553 vic Seasalter, Kent, D&C Cant, pat. (CCA, DCc Reg U3, fo. 3v), inst 19 Aug 1553 (LPLCR, fo. 423v) and comp £9 8s, John Okeden, Cant St Andrew, vintner and William Whitehed, Ivychurch, Kent, yeom, surs (TNA, E 334/4, fo. 125r)–depr bef. 23 June 1557 (CRP, no. 2049)

Seymour, Anne, duchess of Somerset: wife of next; da Sir Edward Stanhope, Rampton, Nott and Elizabeth Bourchier, descended from Edward III; 4 sons and 6 das; Edward (?1539-1621 became earl of Hertford) and Henry admiral at time of Armada; da Anne first marr John Dudley, duke of Northumberland (qv); often criticized for arrogance; imprisoned both times with husband, second time 18 Oct 1551 and not released until Mary’s accession (ODNB); Lent disp (CRP, no. 1103a); later marr Francis Newdegate, Hanworth, Mdx (ODNB); oc 1557 pat. rect Aystedd95 when John Longland inst (Reg. Whyte, p. 20); will 14 July 1586/prov 1 June 1587 (TNA, PROB 11/70): place: Cannon Rowe, Westm, persons: son Edward, earl of Hertford (res leg and exec), sons (Lord Henry Seymour, Beauchamp, Thomas), das Lady Mary Rogers and Lady Elizabeth Knightley, godda Anne Knightley,

nephews (John and Michael Stanhope), Lord Treasurer, svts (William Diconson, Richard Sannders), Richard Lancashire, John Tradd, ‘mother Gardener’, Margaret Ashurst, Anne Joanes, Mrs Audley, Jane Seymour, legacies: cash (£2202), £10 to poor students of each university, dole, annuities (£21), real estate, jewelry (incl. £30 pearl, various items w/ 2300 pearls, £80 chain, £60 gold chain, 1000 pearl rope, crystal jug, emerald ring), year’s wages to svts, plate, household goods, clothing, debt of nephew John (£40) forgiven

Seymour, Edward, duke of Somerset (ca. 1500-22 Jan 1552): son Sir John Seymour and Margery, da Sir Henry Wentworth; bro of next, of Jane Seymour, Henry’s VIII 3rd wife and of Elizabeth wife eventually of Sir William Paulet (qv); knighted 1 Nov 1523; 12 Sept 1531 esq of body; gent of privy chamber 3 Mar 1536; cr Viscount Beauchamp of Hache week aft. sis marr Henry; pc 22 May 1537; helped suppress Pilgrimage of Grace; cr 18 Oct 1537 earl of Hertford; prominent military man for rest of Henry’s reign (e.g., lord high admiral 28 Dec 1542); 1538 on jury for Henry Courtenay (qv), marquess of Exeter et al.; KG 9 Jan 1541; centrally involved in trial of Henry Howard, earl of Surrey; won Boulogne 5 Feb 1545; became increasingly close to John Dudley (qv) and Sir William Paget (qv); helped to destroy Howard family bef. Henry’s death when made 1 Feb 1547 lord protector and governor of Edward VI; cr 17 Feb 1547 duke; ‘authoritarian tendencies’; serious challenge from bro’s treason (see next entry) (ODNB); increasingly radical religious program under Cranmer’s (qv) leadership96 and prob. became evangelical; close to John Hooper (qv) and Pietro Martire Vermigli (qv/5) (ODNB); conducted Oct 1548 negotiations via Michael Throckmorton (qv/5) abt Pole’s return to England and sent mission by Pole May 1549 to which replied proposing disputation (CRP, nos 538, 544-545, 549); sent 12 Oct 1549 enormous and highly important justificatory letter by Pole (CRP, no. 555); published two translations of Calvin (1550); ‘bold measures of political, social, and agrarian reform’ as well as further expropriation of church property (large portion to Seymour himself), incl. dissolution of chantries (1547); ‘aggressive foreign policy’, esp. against Scotland; rebellions of 1549 damaged position; arrested 11 Oct 1549 and imprisoned when largely rep by Dudley; rehabilitated Apr-May 1550; failed to persuade Stephen Gardiner (qv) to submit; prob. had given up political ambitions by mid-1551 but arrested 16 Oct and imprisoned along with wife; found guilty of felony and may have been conspiring against privy council; executed on Tower Hill; income of £12,800 under Edward; built Somerset House (demolished 1776), ‘first major Italianate building project in early modern England’ (ODNB) and in line of descent of Pole’s new wing at Lambeth (Mayer, P&p, p. 329)

Seymour, Thomas (by 1509-49): 1548 conspiracy referred to in CRP, nos 545 and 555, p. 48; grew out of friction with last and flirtation with Princess Elizabeth; involved Henry Grey, marquis of Dorset (qv), William Parr, marquess of Northampton, Henry Manners, earl of Rutland (qv) and Thomas Wriothesley, earl of Southampton; may have intended to kidnap Edward VI and marry Elizabeth; arrested 17 Jan 1549, attainted 5 Mar and executed 20 Mar; denounced by Hugh Latimer (qv) for continuing to conspire to end (ODNB)

Shafton or Shaftoe, etc, Arthur: ord priest 30 May 1534 to title of Newminster abbey (Reg. Tunstall, no. 105); comp 15 Dec 1547 vic Stamfordham, Northum £13 8s 2d, Martin Turpyn, Whitchester, Northum and Thomas Bates, Bedlington, Northum and Lord Dacre’s household, surs (TNA, E 334/3, fo. 134r), inst 17 Dec, crown pat. (Reg. Tunstall, no. 266); disp98 31 Aug 1556 for it and rect [sic] Chollerton, Northum (CRP, no. 1666); inst 11 Sept 1556 vic99 Chollerton, crown pat. (Reg. Tunstall, no. 315), curate there 1563 while resident at Stamfordham (‘Tunstall’s priests’, p. 191), still Aug 1577 when failed to exhibit any documents (BI, Reg. 31, fo. 29v) and curate failed to appear (ibid., fo. 30r), still both Jan/Feb 1578 (J. Raine, ed., The injunctions and other ecclesiastical proceedings of Richard Barnes, bishop of Durham, from 1575 to 1587, Surtees Society, 22 [1850], pp. 30 and 31); 30 June 1578 exhibited Pole’s disp, rejected and depr Stamfordham (ibid., pp. 71-72n); will 30 Jan 1582/inventory n.d. (ibid., pp. cxv-cxvii): vic [sic] Chollerton, persons: his wife Agnes and son Clement, ‘his bro’ Robert Shafto, John Spoore, Mathew Shaftowe, son of Roger recently deceased, William Fenwick of Wallington,100 esq, Mark Shafto of Newcastle upon Tyne, Thomas Bates of Prudhowe, and Marmaduke Fenwick of Kirkharle, all Northum, ovs, legacies: lands previously conveyed to Robert Helme and Sampson Hudspethe for use of John Shaftone (res leg and exec), son of Jane Jobson,101 cattle, inventory totals £67 3s 4d

Share, John: rect Ingram, Northum, chap to Henry, earl of Cumberland, disp 28 Jan 1544 for 2 bens (FOR, p. 230); priest, abs & disp 25 Sept 1556 for Ingram and Uldale, Cumb (CRP, no. 1700); vac Ingram bef. Aug 1577 (BI, Reg. 31, fo. 32r)

Sharpe, George: pres by crown 23 May 1551 vic Wandsworth, Surr, comp 15 May (Reg. Gardiner, pp. 133 and 151), vac (†) bef. 2 Sept 1561 (HaRO, 21M65/A1/26, fo. 4r), worth £12 6s 8d in 1554 (WCA A 23, fo. 91v); pres by crown 28 Feb 1556 vic Battersea, Surr (CPRPM 3, p. 230), inst 7 Mar (CCA, DCc, Reg N, fo. 133r; SVI, p. 7), vac (†) bef. 6 Dec 1560 (Reg. Parker, p. 212); disp 13 Mar 1556 for both (CRP, no. 1514)

Sharpe, John (ca. 1528-?): inst 1550-1 vic Bilsby, Linc, crown pat. (LincRO, Epis. reg. 28, fo. 22v; LI1, no. 175), [re-]pres by crown 2 Mar 1557 (CRP, no. 1884a)– resig bef. 16 Oct (LincRO, Epis. reg. 28, fo. 136r; LI2, no. 493); ord102 acol, subd, deac and priest Buckden 4 June 1558, 2nd two to title of Roger Dalyson (qv) (LincRO, Epis. reg. 28a, fos 15r, 14r and 14v); inst 5 Apr 1560 vic Orby, Linc, Robert Monson, esq, pat. (LI2, no. 856), still bef. 14/16 Jan 1562103 when unmarr priest, uneduc, resident, non-preacher, 2 bens (CCCC, MS 97, fo. 86r), worth £9 19s 4 1/2d in 1576, aged 48, marr, resides, poorly educ (LER, p. 189), still 1585, ostler, ‘poor clk in Linc’, still 1594 (Foster, Lincoln, pp. 83 and 387), vac bef. 27 Apr 1597 (Foster, ‘Admissions’, p. 104)

Shawe, Anthony: b. Ravenstonedale, Cumb (see will); pres by crown 5 Aug 1557

rect Newick, Suss (CRP, no. 2078a), inst 13 Aug (WSRO, Ep, I/10/10, fo. 39r)–† bef. 2 May 1560 (WSRO, Ep/I/1/7, fo. 15v), worth £7 17s 8d (VE 1, p. 334); witn 6 wills at Newtimber 14 Aug-28 Dec 1558 (TSW, 3, p. 239); will 4 Feb 1559/prov 10 May ?1560 by oath Thomas Shawe (TNA, PROB 11/42B, fo. 126v PCC 16 Chaynay; BRS, 18, p. 278; noted in TSW 3, p. 236): Catholic preamble, bur in Newick chancel, books in rect of Edenbridge, Kent left in care of churchwardens so that curates may ‘instruct’ people, New Testament with exposition of Nicholas Lyra which the vic of Westerham, Kent104 has to John Amery, vic Fletching, Suss, 10s dole at Edenbridge, 10s-wages not paid me as vic of Westerham last quarterto be collected from present vic and given to church or highways, to Amery all books in the parsonage of Newick, study gown, tippitt and cap, cattle and household goods to Agnes Knyght my ‘keeper’, similar bequests to various other Knyghts, incl ‘to my mother Knyght’, black coat and best doublet to John Carter, clothes to Edward Meadcalfe; at Ravenstonedale where b. £10 total, poor £3 6s 8d; same to Lancelote Grene and family, same to Jane Fothergill, of 21s owed me by John Staundforde’s execs, 20s to his da Anne, other 12d to my godson, Thomas Spacherst (?) to pay 6 months of his 18 months of arrears to his son my godson, rest forgiven, same for Robert Bowyes’s 12 months owing, that both pray for my soul; res leg Thomas Shawe, also sole exec, apprentice for 1 more year in Holborne in London to shoemaker Scyente, if he dies, res. to Ravenstonedale, ten marks dole, same to Jane Fothergill; ovs: Mr. Richard Seleard, Robert Fullar, and John Cotte, tailor, 40s each; witns: William Baker, John Ferrell, John Dall (?) and John Smith, sr, Mr Felyard, if anything illegal in this, please amend, 20s to John ap Rice and wife in London, 12d to every godchild; monetary bequests total ca. £32

Shaxton, Nicholas (ca. 1485-5/9 Aug 1556): native of Norf, BA 1508, MA 1511, BTh 1520 and 1521, adm DTh 1531, cr 1533 (GBΓ, pp. 61, 84, 184, 254 and 274); ‘soon aft.’ BA fell. Gonville Hall (along with Edward Crome, qv), later vicemr (AtC 1, pp. 158-161 and 3, p. 115); inst 30 May 1517 vic Mattishall, Norf, Gonville Hall, pat. (NRO, DN/REG/10/16, fos 40v-41r); university preacher 1520 (AtC); among Anne Boleyn’s most important protégés (ODNB); suspected of heresy several times in early 1530s (AtC); pres by crown 23 Sept 1533 rect Fuggleston, Wilt (L&P 6, no. 1195.18); coll 3 Oct 1533 treas Salis (F2 3, p. 21)–promotion to bpric; pres 27 Apr 1534 canon Westm (L&P 7, no. 589.8)–promotion (Old DNB); Anne’s almoner by 1534 (ODNB); elec 22 Feb 1535 bp Salis, temps 1 Apr, cons 11 Apr-resig July 1539 (F2 3, p. 3), as such 20 Mar 1537 pat. rect Odiham, Hant when Thomas Parker inst, again 6 Nov 1538 when John Edmundes, DTh inst (Reg. Gardiner, pp. 109 and 112); strong supporter of vernacular Bible and preaching, but conduct as bp ‘prob. highhanded’ (ODNB); signed Bishops’ Book 1537 (Old DNB); relations with Cromwell (qv) always tense; marr bef. 1539; by 1542 found safety at Hadleigh, Suff with Cranmer’s help (ODNB); mr St Gile’s Hospital Norwich 1546-surrendered 6 Mar 1547 (Old DNB); backed Crome’s preaching in 1546 and denied real presence in own sermon; arrested and condenmed but persuaded to recant; sent unsuccessfully to persuade Anne Askew and presided over her burning; never retracted recantation and given new preaching license Nov 1546 (ODNB); abs 20 Mar 1555 (CRP, no.