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Abell, Thomas († 1540): Norw dioc, ord priest London 5 June 15121 to title of Rewley abbey (GL, 9531/9, fo. 175r); chap, BA 4 July 1513, MA 30 June 1518 (RUO 1, p. 86); MA, inst 11 Sept 1522 rect Berkhampstead, Hert, Katherine of Aragon, pat. (LincRO, Epis. reg. 27, fo. 232r)–resig bef. 28 June 1530 (Richard Barker, qv), worth £20 in 1526 (Subsidy, p. 172); chap to Katherine bef. 1527 (BRUO2, p. 1); inst 23 June 1530 rect Bradwell, Ess, Katherine, pat. (LPLWR, fo. 316r and GL, 9531/10, fo. 165r), vac bef. 25 Apr 1534 (GL, 9531/11, fo. 27v); wrote Invicta veritas ([Luneburg; fictitious imprint], 1532) in her defense; preached same (BRUO2); 31 June 1532 wrote against Boleyn marr (CRP, no. 62); inst 12 Nov 1533 rect Whipsnade, Bed, Merton priory, pat., 46s 8d pension to inc (LincRO, Epis. reg. 27, fo. 265v); imprisoned in Tower for misprision of treason connected to nun of Kent; executed 30 July 1540 for denying supremacy (BRUO2); see ODNB

Acworth, George (ca. 1534-81/86 [ODNB]; ca. 1592 [Woolfson]): matric 12 Nov 1548 at Peterhouse, fell. 1553-62 (L. Graham H. Horton-Smith, George Acworth [N.p.: Privately Published, 1953], p. 7); BA 1551, MA 1555, DCL 15612 (GBΔ, pp. 51, 103 and 149); regent mr at Cantab, 26 July 1555 signed Catholic articles (Mere, p. 176); wrote Pole from Padua 1 Dec 1558 citing Cyriac Petit (qv) as reference (CRP, no. 2313); consiliarius of English nation at Padua 1558-9 (Woolfson, p. 206); with Matthew Parker’s pat. 16 May 1559 public orator of Cantab (Horton-Smith, p. 7), as such gave speech 30 July 1560 at rehabilitation of Martin Bucer and Paul Fagius (in Martin Bucer, Scripta anglicana [Basel: Pietro Perna, 1577], pp. 936-40); pres 23 Sept 1559 rect Aston Flamville, Leic (SVI, p. 4), inst 24 Apr 1560, Sir Henry Grey, proc and pat.3 (LI2 no. 862), vac bef. 20 Nov 1564 (Horton-Smith, p. 10) or bef. 1571 (Foster, Lincoln, p. 101); inst 6 Feb 1560 Northmuskham preb, Southwell (BI, Inst. AB. 1, fo. 57r)–DCL, resig bef. 74 May 1566 (BI, Reg. 30, fo. 11v); coll 7 Feb 1561 rect Freckenham, Suff, but Bp Geste (Horton-Smith, p. 10)5 15 Apr 1562 lost quare impedit suit to Sir Thomas White and Acworth lost pres (Reg. Parker, p. 788); bef. June 1561 vg of Winch (Horton-Smith, p. 7), still 1564 (HaRO, 21M65/A1/26, fo. 17r), vac bef. 21 Jan 1569 (ODNB), and as Bp Horne’s comm visited various Oxford colls (Horton-Smith, pp. 7-8); adm 23 Feb 1562 Drs Coms (Squibb, p. 155); adm 16 Nov 1562 advocate of Arches (Reg. Parker, p. 399; not in Squibb); ?MP Hindon, Wilt 1563 (P. W. Hasler, ed., The House of Commons 1558-1603, 3 vols [London: HMSO, 1981], 1, pp. 327-328; cousin of same name acc. Horton-Smith and ODNB); marr 24 Nov 1564 Horne’s da, possibly Parker’s niece (Horton-Smith); 22 Mar 1566 incorp DCL at Oxford (Wood, Fasti 1, col. 175); into Parker’s household ca. 1570 (Horton-

Smith, p. 8) where collaborated on De antiquitate britanniae ecclesiae (London: John Day, 1572), major moment in villification of Pole in England, Acworth prob. contributing sections on Pole’s experience in Italy and its effect, as well as opening life of St Augustine of Cant; prob. stayed with Parker to abp’s death (Horton-Smith, p. 8); wrote De Rom’Anarchia (London: John Day, 1573) in reply to Sander’s DVM (Horton-Smith, p. 8); witn 9 Mar 1572 cons bp of Roch, 13 Dec 1573 bp of StA (Reg. Parker, p. 900) and 15 Apr 1575 bp of Llan (Reg. Parker, pp. 330, 900 and 904); comm 25 Sept 1573 with Bartholomew Clarke to visit Cant cath7 (Reg. Parker, pp. 910-13); inst 24 May 1575 rect Wroughton, Wilt, Bp Horne, pat., vac bef. 1580 (Horton-Smith, p. 10), as such disp 4 [sic] May 1575 to hold add. ben (Wood, Fasti 1, col. 175n6); late 1575 vg and off prin to Adam Loftus (qv), abp of Dublin (ODNB); eccl comm 18 Mar 1577-depr 13 Apr 1579, reappted 10 Apr 1581 aft. conflict with Loftus (Old DNB for him); abt then vg Armagh (Horton-Smith, pp. 10 and 12)

Acworth, Thomas and Anne: parents of last; father 2nd son of George Acworth (by 1482-1530)8 of Toddington, Bed, MP for Bed 1529; 1533 freeman of Merchant Taylors’ Co., mr 1559 (Horton-Smith, p. 7); of St Augustine Watling St, sur 1546 for William Pollard (?qv); marr ca. 1533 Anne [surname unknown] (Horton-Smith); wanted George taught Latin for business reasons but agreed to send him to Cantab, mother wanted him to study common law (CRP, no. 2313)

Adams, Thomas: clk, inst 23 May 1557 rect Thorpe Thomas [Catthorpe], Leic (CRP, no. 2008a), pres 24 May 1557 (PRO, C66/910, m. 25; CPRPM 3, p. 365), still bef. 20 Feb or bef. 20 Mar 15629 when unmarr priest, moderately educ, resident, no preacher, sole ben (CCCC, MS 97, fo. 51r); vac bef. 12 Mar 1574 (LER, p. 292), worth 111s 4d (VE 4, p. 185)

Adams, William: als Boucher, wheelwright of Steeple Bumpstead, Ess (GL, 9531/12/2, fos 157r-8v; cf. CPRPM 3, p. 516); pardoned heretic 3 July 1556 (CRP, no. 1593); ?will 12 Jan 1581/prov 4 Sept 1582 (TNA, PROB 11/64, fo. 275r PCC 36 Tyrwhite; BRS 18, p. 2): als Tasker, Walthamstow, Ess

Aldey, John: ?son of Thomas Aldy of Sandwich St Peter, Kent will prov 20 July 1517 (Kentish wills, p. 15); ?Cant dioc, ord acol 26 Mar 1513 (LPLWR, fo. 266v); ?chap, inst 25 Mar 1525 Deepden chantry, St Osyth abbey, London, pat.–resig bef. 3 Dec 1527 (LPLWR, fos 384r and 394v); priest, coll 2 March 1557 rect Cant St Alphege (CRP, no. 1884), vac bef. 2 Jan 1561 (Humphrey Churden, qv), worth £8 13s 4d (VE 1, pp. 28 and 90); ?leg. of John Webbe II

Aldrede, Christopher (ca. 1540-?): of Leeds, W. York, aged 18, adm 11 Jan 1557 poor clk Lincoln cath (LincCA, 3, p. 139); pres 26 July 1557 Great Stourton, Linc (CRP, no. 2072b), vac (resig) bef. 28 Mar 1561 (LI2, no. 1035); depr bef. 9 Nov 1574 vic Lewknor, Oxon (Reg. Parker, p. 1010); leg. and exec of John Salter (qv)

Aldrich, Robert, bp of Carlisle († bef. 20 Nov 1556 [admon] or 5 Mar 1556 [CRP, no. 1676; BRUO2 without source]; 5 May [F2, 6, p. 99]): b. Burnham, Buck, adm 1507 KCC from EtC, fell. 1510, vac 1528 [BRUO2, p. 4]; BA 1512, MA 1515, BTh 1517 [GBΓ, p. 147] (AlC 1, p. 14); headmaster of EtC 1515-21 (AlC), provost 17 Mar 1536-29 Dec 1547 (BRUO2); ord 5 Apr 1522 priest London to title of fellowship (LPLWR, fo. 297); University preacher 1523 (AlC); on comm 1526-7 (with Hyndmer,

Crome and Cranmer, all qv, et al.) abt accounting at Cantab (GBΓ, p. 226); coll 18 Apr 1528 vic Stanton Harcourt, Oxon-resig bef. 21 Feb 1532 (LincRO, Epis. reg. 27, fos 185r and 191v); coll 18 July 1528 Centum solidorum preb,10 Linc (LincRO, Epis. reg. 27, fo. 6v), instal via proxy same day (LincCA, 1, p. 97)–resig bef. [n.d.] 1529 when coll Decem librarum preb (LincRO, Epis. reg. 27, fo. 7r), instal 6 May (LincCA, 1, p. 117)–promotion to Carlisle (LincRO, Epis. reg. 27, fo. 13r), worth £10 (LincCA, 2, p. 189); at Oxford 1529 and 1530, good friend of Erasmus (BRUO2); incorp 8 Apr 1530 DTh Oxon., from Cantab 15 Apr (RUO 1, p. 159; BRUO2 incorrectly gives 8 Apr as date for both, AlC 1529 for incorp); pres 3 Jan 1531 rect Cheriton, Hant (BRUO2) rep. Thomas Lupset (qv), still 1536 when worth £66 2s 6d, vac bef. 27 Nov 1542, curate oc Christmas 1541 (Reg. Gardiner, pp. 165, 143 and 178); preached bef. king Lent 1531 (BRUO2); coll 30 Dec 1531 Ad Colchester, £10 pension to bp11-resig bef. 1 Oct 1537 (GL, 9531/11, fos 16v and 39v); chap to Bp Longland bef. 1534 (BRUO2); inst 312 May 1534 canon of Windsor-promotion (BRUO2); 17 May 1534 registrar of order of Garter-promotion (BRUO2); inst via proxy 8 Mar 1535 rect Welford on Avon, Warw, vac by depr Nicholas Wilson (qv), Tewkesbury abbey, pat. (WoRO, b716.093-BA.2648/8(ii), p. 92 and 9(i), p. 161), vac bef. 15 Mar 1538 (WoRO, b716.093-BA.2648/9(ii), p. 29); on comm that wrote Bishops’ Book, but supported Act of Six Articles (BRUO2); nom 19 July 1537 bp of Carlisle, roy consent 9 Aug, process of installation follows (BI, Reg. 28, fos 129v-32v); as bp pat. of Henry Aglionby, DTh 1541 (LincRO, Epis. reg. 27, fo. 77v); difficulties with tax collection;13 encomium from John Leland (Wood, 1, col. 234); pres at trials of John Hooper, Rowland Taylor, John Rogers (all qv) and others (Foxe acc. BRUO2); among examiners of Rogers 28 Jan 1555 (Foxe, 1563, pp. 1026-28); † 5 Mar 1556 Horncastle Manor, Linc (BRUO2); will, admon 20 Nov 1556 (TNA, PROB 11/38, fo. 157v PCC 23 Ketchyn): places: Carlisle cath, persons: Thomas Tallentyer, Sir Edward Demoke [Dymoke] (exec), Robert Aldredge of Burneham, [Buck?] (exec), svt William Spencer (exec), Ralph Sacheverell, Horncastle (exec), Lancelot Salked or Sawlkefeld, dean of Carlisle (ovs), Edward Losche, parson of Maram [?Marham, Norf, not in Blomefield 7, p. 383; apparantly not Marsham (Blomefield 6, p. 289)] (ovs), Cuthbert Bewley, John Aldrege, Robert Deyne of Windsor, Berk, John Correy [?Cowey] of Horncastle, Linc, legacies: chapel stuff, mitre, crosier staff, gloves, chalices, items of interest: will says bur. in Carlisle cath, but AlC says at Horncastle, Linc; wrote: ‘Epistola ad Gul. Hormannum’;14 ‘Several resolutions against the sacraments’ and other such abt Henrician reformation (Wood cited from Burnet’s texts); see DNB, 1, pp. 252-3; AtC 1, pp. 142-3; ODNB

Aldridge, Richard: ?b. at Stanton St John, Oxon, adm 13 Aug 1547 KCC from EtC, aged 17, left 1549 (AlC 1, p. 14), ?this man Oxford dioc, ord subd London 13 Mar 1557

to title of £4 granted by Richard Aldridge, rect Armesfold, Westmor (GL, 9535/1, fo. 60r), ord deac 4 Apr 1557 to title of £4 annuity (OA, ODP d105, p. 94); certainly pres 4 July 1558 rect Byford, Heref (CPRPM 4, p. 231), inst 6 July (CRP, no. 2259), still ca. 1576,16 BTh,17 worth £7 20d, John Garnons and John Berrington, arm, pats., preacher, non-resident, had curate who also vic Mauncell Gamage (LPL, Carte misc 12, fos 55v-6r), ?re-pres 19 Apr 1578, crown pat. (HRO, HD6/27, loose deeds), inst 3118 Apr 1578 rect Bidford [sic]19 (HRO, AL/19/15, Reg. Scory, fo. 39r); ?inst 25 May 1558 vic Witney, Oxon, Edmund Stuard (qv), rect Witney, pat. (OA, ODP d105, p. 182), perhaps resig bef. 26 Mar 1562 (Reg. Parker, p. 247), ?this man inst 26 June 1564 vic Bicester, Oxon, Lady Anne Chamberlain, pat.–resig 11 Aug 1565 (OA, ODP d105, pp. 225 and 231-232), prob. same man inst 13 Aug 1565 rect Fringford, Oxon, John Bodne, et al., pats. (OA, ODP d105, p. 232), depr bef. 10 Aug 1574 (Reg. Parker, p. 1009); 15 Oct 1558 declared contumacious in CC Glouc (GRO, GDR 14, p. 80); oc bef. 3 Mar 156220 rect Great Rissington, Glos when unmarr priest, educ, resident, preacher, no other ben (CCCC, MS 97, fo. 112r), still 10 Feb 1592, BTh (LPL, Carte misc 12, fo. 113r); instal via proxy 13 Nov 1559 Withington parva preb, Heref, still 1565 (HCAB, 7031/1, fos 155r and 206v [no. 1233]; Havergal, p. 89 1559-?), still ca. 1576,21 BTh, non-resident, also rect Byford, preb worth £3 5d,22 preacher (LPL, Carte misc 12, fos 76v-7r)

Alen, Sir Christopher († bef. 2 Feb 1556): ?in Padua with Edmund Harvel 1548 (Woolfson, p. 246); marr Paget’s da Etheldred (both qv); Sir Christopher Aleyne, pat. rect S. Otterington, N. York oc 1 June 1554 when Edward Wllye [sic] inst (BI, Reg. 5/A, fo. 691r; Dickens, Marian reaction, 1, p. 35 making name Ullye); abs 26 July 1555 schism (CRP, no. 1318), with Sir Henry Lee (qv) and the Pagets (qv), ergo this man’s son Henry left £100 by Henry Paget (qv); reported as sound in relig by Parker ca. 1563 (Mary Bateson, ed., ‘A collection of original letters from the bishops to the privy council, 1564’, Camden miscellany, 9, 2nd ser, 53 [1895], p. 58); will23 30 Jan 1556/prov 2 Feb 1556 (TNA, PROB 11/37, fo. 302v PCC 41 More; BRS 10, p. 7): of Littelburie [prob. Little Tilbury; cf. Henry Paget], Ess, citizen and merchant of London, merchant of Calais Staple, goods in thirds: to wife; chil Giles, George, John, Ralph, Edward, Anthony, Katherine and Mary; to svts and twenty-four poor, lands in Thaxted, Finchingfield and Thundersley, Ess and those bought from Thomas More, mercer of London and Edmond Mordaunt, gent to son Ralph, he to pay twelve marks for three years to two trustees for poor in Thaxted, half of residue to Giles Allen and half to wife Dorothy, execs: Giles Allen and Richard Barnard of Lindsell, Ess, ovs: Richard Tiboll, gent, William Clarke, ironmonger and Thomas Brent, scrivener and citizen

Alen [Alyn], John (1476-28 July 1534): Gonville Hall Cantab 1491-5; BA 1495, MA

1498; fell. Peterhouse 1496-1504/5 (ODNB); rect Hoo, Kent 1496-1500 (Fielding, Rochester, p. 314); oc 1497 chancellor of London (GL, 9531/12/1, fo. 58v-60r); mr Cobham Coll., Kent 1498-1502 (Fielding, Rochester, p. 314); 1499 comm to Richard FitzJames, bp Roch; ord priest 25 May 1499 (NLW, B/BR/1, fo. 17r; Humphreys’s notes in Wood 1, cols 77-8); rect Deptford, Kent 1500 (Fielding, Rochester, p. 314); Abp Warham’s proc at papal curia 1502/3-1513/14; at EHR 1502-expulsion 1511 by Cardinal Bainbridge for contention (BRUO1); coll 4 Apr 1503 Asgarby preb, Linc (LincRO, Epis. reg. 23, fo. 20v)–resig bef. 28 Sept 1528 (LincRO, Epis. reg. 27, fo. 6v); inst 6 July 1503 vic Chislet, Kent (NLW, B/BR/1, fos 22v-3r), worth 30s 6d (VE 1, p. 35); bull 12 Apr 1505 uniting Chislet with Leicester St Margaret preb, Linc,25 and of pluralities 13 Feb 1503 (LincRO, Epis. reg. 27, fos 149v-50r); coll 18 Aug 1505 Westbury-on-Trym preb (BRUO1, pp. 20-21); DCL and DCnL of foreign university 1508 (ODNB), incorp 1523 at Cantab (GBΓ, p. 208), 9 Mar 1526 at Oxford (RUO 1, p. 143); coll 3 Jan 1508 rect Sundridge, Kent-resig bef. 26 Sept 1528 (LPLWR, fos 332r and 396v), worth £22 13s 4d (VE 1, p. 114); coll 2 June 1508 archpriest Calipalen.26 (NLW, B/BR/1, fos 22v-3r); bull 19 June 1508 uniting Sundridge with Westburyon-Trym (NLW, B/BR/1, fos 22v-3r); coll 25 or 29 Jan 1511 or 1512 rect27 Monks Risborough, Buck-resig bef. 26 Sept 1528 (LPLWR, fos 344v and 396v; alternative dates in NLW, B/BR/1, fos 22v-3r); coll 6 Mar 1511 rect Aldington, Kent-resig bef. 29 Mar 1512 to Erasmus (qv/5) (LPLWR, fos 342r and 344r); ?inst 6 Dec 1515 rect Highampton, Dev, Robert Cary, arm, pat. (DRO, EDRC 13, fo. 64v); coll with papal disp 1 Mar 1516 rect S. Ockendon, Ess (GL, 9531/9, fo. 65r), still 1526 (GL, 9531/12/1, fo. 52v), bull from Wolsey of unification with Asgarby preb 13 Feb 1517 (CUL, EDR G/1/7, fos 36r-7r); adm 3 June 1519 Drs Coms (Squibb, p. 137, ‘Aley’ but cf. F. D. Logan, ‘Doctors Commons in the early sixteenth century: a society of many talents’, Historical research, 61 [1988], pp. 151-65, p. 164); appt 1519 commgeneral by Wolsey (ODNB); resig bef. 27 May 1521 rect Burghwallis, W. York on £10 pension (BI, Reg. 27, fo. 55r); with Thomas Cromwell (qv), organized 1524 suppression of lesser monasteries for endowment of Wolsey's colls at Oxford and Ipswich, Suff (ODNB); awarded possession 11 July 1524 vic Madley, Heref, assessed at £12 in 1536 (Reg. Boothe, pp. 164-6 and 365); inst 19 Nov 1524 vic Aldbourne, Wilt, Amesbury convent, pat. (LPLWR, fo. 309r); inst 5 Aug 1525 rect Llaniestyn, Caern, prob. letter of induction 17 Sept (NLW, B/BR/1, fos 22v-3r and 17v); coll 12 Jan 1526 Reculverland preb, London-promotion to Dublin (GL, 9531/10, fos 21v and 29r); 1526 Wolsey’s legatine visitor of Wimborne Minster (CRP, no. 45); inst 18 June 1526 via proxy Anthony Hussey (qv) vic Little Wilbraham, Camb, Sir Richard Fowler, pat., with disp from Wolsey for Monks Risborough of 3 June 1526, inst

disputed 9 July and Alyn then re-inst (CUL, EDR G/1/7, fos 36r-37r), tithed 1535 at 39s 8d (CUL, EDR G/1/7, fo. 134v), subsidy assessment 1541 35s 8d (CUL, EDR G/1/7, fo. 137r); inst 18 June 1526 Normanton preb, Southwell Minster-resig bef. 12 Oct 1528 (Southwell minster, p. 152), bull 20 June 1526 from Wolsey of unification with rect Gaulby, Leic (LincRO, Epis. reg. 27, fos 149v-50r) to which inst in person 10 Jan 1527,29 Thomas Alen, Raleigh, Ess, pat.–resig bef. 4 June on pension of £10 from successor he pres30 (LincRO, Epis. reg. 27, fos 149v-50r and 150v-51r); coll 13 Mar 1527 precentor of St Mary’s, Southampton-promotion (BRUO1); instal 10 Mar 1528 Exeter preb held by John Briggs via proxy T. Southern (qv), coll 1331 Mar-resig via proxy T. Michell (qv) bef. 18 Nov (ECA, 3551, fos 48r and 54v and DRO, EDRC 14, fo. 35r); prov 3 Sept 1529 abp Dublin (Eubel, p. 188),32 cons 13 Mar 1530-†; appt 19 Sept 1529 chancellor Ireland, vac July 1532; vice-legate in Ireland 1529Wolsey’s fall; fined £1466 13s 4d for offences against statutes of praemunire and provisors, general pardon 7 Feb 1532; murdered by Silken Thomas, earl of Kildare (BRUO1); author of treatises ‘Epistola de pallii significatione activa et passiva’, ‘De consuetudinibus ac statutis in tutoriis causis observandis’ (Wood) and legal opinion on visitations (BL, Royal 11 B.xi acc. BRUO1); mistakenly assigned following which belong to a man als Carver († 1516; F2 5, p. 13): Ad Mdx 1496-1515, since this man † bef. 11 Aug 1516; chantry chap All Hallows Barking 1476-?; rect Great Hadham, Hert 1478-1515 (?); Portpool preb 1484; Nesden preb 1484-97; Ad York 1504-15; Weighton preb, York 1506-9; preb chap of St Mary and Holy Angels, York, 1509-15; Strensall preb, York 1509-15 (Oxley, Ess, p. 272) to whom should also be assigned33 coll 27 Nov 1500 N. Kelsey preb, Linc, vac bef. 17 June 1504 (LincRO, Epis. reg. 23, fos 17v and 22r)

Alkynson [sic] or Atkynson, Marmaduke († bef. 9 Jan 1573): Atkynson, of Acklam,34 E. York, ord priest 11 Mar 1536 at York to title of Kirkham priory (BI, Reg. 28, fos 193r, 188r, 190r and 195v); inst 28 Apr 1540 vic Wharram Percy, E. York,35 crown pat. (BI, Reg. 28, fo. 35v)–resig bef. 25 Oct 1554 (BI, Adm 1554/51; cf. Reg. 5/A, fo. 696v), sued 11 June 1555 by new vic (BI, Cons.AB 20, fo. 338r), similarly elaborate case as over Baynton bel. (e.g., fo. 444r); inst 2 Nov 1549 rect Thornton-le-Dale or in Pickeringhith, N. York, Leonard Boynton, pat. phv, swore oath renouncing papal authority in person (BI, Reg. 29, fo. 31r and Inst.AB.1, fo. 176v), Henry Holgrave petitioned 14 Mar 1555 for inst, but act cancelled (BI, Inst.AB.2, fo. 19v), Atkynson and Sir Richard Cholmeley sued 31 June 1554 for repairs to mansion house (BI, Chanc.AB 7, fo. 61v)–resig 19 Oct 1569 (BI, Inst.AB.2, part 3, fo. 49r), worth 40s (VE 5, p. 145); 31 June 1554 appeared in Chancery with pres rect Bainton super Waldam,

York dioc, Simon Arundale, pat. by grant from Sir Francis Bigod (qv), William Daniell also appeared and pres Thomas Launte (BI, Chanc.AB 7, fo. 60r-v), comp 11 Oct 1554 £32 3s 2d, worth £35 14s 8d, Sir Richard Cholmeley,37 pat., Henry Both and John Pollard, monyers, and William Newcocke, all York city, gen, surs (TNA, E 334/4, fo. 202v), worth £40 (VE 5, p. 140)–† (BI, Reg. 30, fo. 74r); sued 14 Feb 1555 as rect Bainton and Thornton by William Danyell, arm, Atkynson appearing for himself aft. initial proc (BI, Cons.AB 20, fos 250r, 252r, 274r), 31 Jan 1556 roy order for Cholmeley’s arrest (BI, Chanc.AB 8, fo. 7v), case still running 14 May 1557 (fo. 170v)–† bef. 9 Jan 1573 (BI, Inst.AB.3, fos 21v-2r), as such signed 1562 articles 5 Oct 1571 (BI, Inst.AB.2, part 3, fo. 145r); priest, abs & disp 29 Aug 1556 pluralism (CRP, no. 1665); inst 20 Oct 1569 rect Huggate, E. York, Thomas Rayner, Barton on Humber, Linc, pat. phv with grant of 21 Oct 1539 from St Mary Abbey, York (BI, Inst.AB.2, part 3, fos 49v-50r; cf. BI, Reg. 30, fo. 48v), successor resig almost immediately (BI, Inst.AB.2, part 3, fo. 53v; Calendar of Admissions papers; Dickens, Marian reaction, 1, p. 38, from Reg. 5A, fo. 664v [old foliation])

Alkynson [Atkynson], Thomas († 1571): MA 29 July 1555 (RUO 1, p. 228); fell. LCO ord acol 21 Sept 1555 (OA, ODP d105, p. 82); disp 13 Dec 1555 orders (CRP, no. 1460b; note of disp in GL, 9531/12/2, fo. 54r); ord subd London 20 Dec 1555, specially deac 22 Dec by William Walsh (qv/5) using Pole’s disp along with T. Davies, J. Glover and W. Pomerell (all qv) (GL, 9535/1, fos 53r and 54r), priest 29 Feb 1556 (OA, ODP d105, p. 85); pres by crown 28 Nov 1559 Stillington preb, York,38 inst 8 Mar 1560 (BI, Inst.AB. 1, fo. 59v), instal via proxy 11 Mar, in person 8 July (F3 4, p. 55)–† bef. 20 Feb 1573 (BI, Reg. 30, fo. 83r; cf. BI, Inst.AB.3, fo. 22r noting his death bef. 25 Feb; see also BI, Inst.AB.2, part 3, fo. 106v; F3 gives † 9-23 Sept 1571); ca. 1561 imprisoned in Woodstreet Counter (Gee, p. 185); lecturer 1563 in natural philosophy at Oxford (at least acc. RUO 2:1, p. 97); proc39 16 Jan 1562 at inst Overhall in Norwell [or Norwell Overhall] preb, Southwell (BI, Inst.AB.2, part 2, fo. 8v); sat as judge in CC 29 Mar 1571 (BI, Inst.AB.2, part 3, fo. 107r); will 9 Sept 1571/no probate but F3, 4, p. 55 says 23 Sept from same source as will (YCW, 1, pp. 112-19): many chil, inventory lists 2 bibles and 28 other books

Allen, Henry: ?Chester dioc, ord acol and subd 20 Dec 1553, deac and priest 21 Dec London to title of £10 p.a. on Fobbing, Ess, with George Bullock, Roger Jones, Nicholas Morton and John Christopherson (all qv) (GL, 9535/1, fos 16v, 17v, 18r, 19v and 20r); priest, inst 7 Jan 1558 Musgrave, Westmo, James Warcoppe, pat. (CRP, no. 2154); ?inst 1569 vic Harrold, Bed, Thomas Swinton, grocer, London and wife Margaret, pats. (LincRO, Epis. reg. 28, fo. 78v; LI1, no. 450), bond 21 May 1569 (LincRO, F.L.H.I, p. 109), vac bef. 17 June 1573 (LER, p. 57)

Allen, Robert († bef. 27 Feb 1562): proc 17 Feb 1558 for James Ingram (qv) (CRP, no. 2181); 18 Dec 1559 proc for D&C Chich with Thomas Willett, William Saye, John

Incent, Christopher Smith, Christopher Clarke (all qv), et al. (Reg. Parker, p. 75); proc 16 Nov 1560 for Robert Crofte at inst vic Harbury, Warw (Reg. Parker, p. 673); witn 11 June 1561 to exemplification (Reg. Parker, p. 374); will 22 Nov 1561/prov 27 Feb 1562 (TNA, PROB 11/45, fo. 37r PCC 6 Streat; BRS 18, p. 4): Catholic preamble, proc of Arches, places: St Faith’s, Ashewell, Hert, Hackney, Mdx (where b.), persons: wife Joyce Allen (exec), son Ralph, das (Jane and Margaret), bro-in-law John Clerke (qv) and wife, wife’s late husband Mr Dogget, a bookbinder Sheres, William Waller the younger, Mr Argall (qv), Mr [Christopher] Hawkes (qv?), late rect St Faith’s, chil of Anthony Pecke, procs of the Arches, legacies: cash (£7 10d), annuities (£5), doles (40s), household goods, real estate, plate, jewels

Allen, Thomas: prob.40 Allyn, inst 1554-5 vic Whaddon, Buck, NCO, pat. (LincRO, Epis. reg. 28, fo. 71v; LI1, no. 409), comp 12 July 1555 £9, Thomas Dycher, Newport Pagnall, Buck and Thomas Davies, St Mary Abchurch, haberdasher, surs (TNA, E 334/6, fo. 29r), pd 1st instalment 16 May 1556, 2nd 19 June (TNA, E 334/6, pt 2, fos 44r and 45v), vac bef. aft. 20 Aug 156141 (CCCC, MS 97, fo. 62r); inst 15 July 1557 rect Beachampton, Buck, Robert Pyggot, arm, pat. (CRP, no. 2065), worth £12 13s 4d in 1522 (Chibnall, p. 43), vac bef. 9 Mar 1559 (LincRO, Epis. reg. 28, fo. 149r; LI2, no. 696)

Allen, William (1532-94): supposedly recommended by Pole as fell. of TCO (CRP, no. 2325g in the Addenda to this vol.); bib: Eamon Duffy, ‘William, Cardinal Allen, 1532-1594’, Recusant history, 22 (1995), pp. 265-90; Wood 1, cols 615-23; Fathers of the London Oratory, ed., The letters and memorials of William Cardinal Allen (1532-1594), with historial introduction by T. F. Knox (London: David Nutt, 1882; reprint Ridgewood, NJ: Gregg, 1965)

Alleyn or Allin, Alyn, Robert: inst 28 Dec 1554 vic Slipton, Ntht, John, Lord Mordaunt, pat., next inc 1670 (Bridges, Northamptonshire 2, p. 253); inst 8 Feb 1557 rect Moulsoe, Buck, Lord Mordaunt, pat. (CRP, no. 1839)–† bef. 1568 (LincRO, Epis. reg. 28, fo. 65r; LI1, no. 357), worth £18 (VE 4, p. 243), Mordaunt pat. w/ income of £22 and rect receiving £13 6s 8d in 1522 (Chibnall, p. 316), still oc aft. 20 Aug 156142 when unmarr priest, moderately educ, lived in Slipton, non-preacher (CCCC, MS 97, fo. 58v); disp 10 June 1557 pluralism (CRP, no. 2037)

Amery, John:43 inst 22 Feb 1557 vic Fletching, Suss, Elizabeth Jennyns (qv), pat. (CRP, no. 1871), worth £13 6s 8d (VE 1, p. 340); left New Testament by Anthony Shawe (qv)

Amgill, James: scholar, Chester dioc, disp 2 Nov 1555 orders (CRP, no. 1420a) with William Nicholson (qv); ?Amgell, matric pensioner from ChCC 1555; ?1564-72 minister at Sheffield, W. York (AlC 1, p. 28)

Amynde [Meend; A Mynde; de Mynde; de la Meynde; Mende], John: ord priest 20 Sept 1522 to title of Aconbury nunnery44 (Reg. Boothe, p. 313); chap, inst 14 Dec 1540 rect Bagendon, Glos, John Savage, pat. phv by grant of Robert Sadler and Thomas Marshall, chantrists in Cirencester St John (WoRO, b716.093-BA.2648/9(iii), p. 29), still 1551 when knew location of 10 Commandments but could not repeat, although

could repeat articles of faith (without scriptural proof) and the Lord’s Prayer, Sir John Thynne then pat. (‘Hooper’s visitation’, p. 111), vac prob. bef. 3 Mar 156245 (CCCC, MS 97, fo. 109r); inst 18 May 1558 Nonnington preb, Heref, Thomasina Thomas (qv), pat. (CRP, no. 2236; 21 May in F1, 3, p. 518), instal 13 June, 26 Aug in person (HCAB, 7031/1, fos 151v and 152r; cf. Havergal, p. 77)–† bef. 26 Aug 1561 (fo. 164v) wrb Hugh Wall (qv), assessed at £11 13s 4d in 1536 (Reg. Boothe, p. 364), farmed preb 30 Aug 1560 (fo. 160v), as such did not participate in elec new bp 1559 (Reg. Parker, p. 60)

Andrew, William: request for arrest (CRP, no. 2214a); will 12 Jan/prov 6 Feb 1569 (TNA, PROB 11/51, fo. 33v PCC 5 Sheffeld; BRS 18, p. 6): William Andrewe, citizen and vintner of London, places: St Dunstan in the East, Barkway, Hert persons: Vintners’ Company, sis Rose Allen, her chil (William, Edward and Joan), sis Smedley, Thomas Bilton, his chil (Thomas, John and Jane), wife Dorothy (exec and res leg), John Bewell, William Mosse, William Billton, his chil (William, George and Elizabeth), Thomas Gyles (to help exec), legacies: cash (£30), svts 10s each, doles £4, annuity £3, household goods, real estate (houses in Barkway and Tower Street)

Angell, John († Aug 1568): ?‘other priest’ of St Peter the Great, Chich, 1534 (TSW, 1, p. 348); ?exec and leg. of John Champion, canon residentiary of Chich, 1537 (TSW, 1, p. 307; no such in F3); ?comp 11 Sept 1541 vic Bersted, Suss £???,46 no surs (TNA, E 334/2, fo. 55r)–resig bef. 11 May 1552 (LPLCR, fo. 420v); comp 14 May 1544 Bignor chap, Suss 35s 3d, John and Thomas Harrys, St Sepulchre, clothworkers, surs (TNA, E 334/3, fo. 14v); member of roy chapel 8 Aug 1553, 17 Sept 1553, 13 Dec 1558 and 15 Jan 1559 (Page, ‘Uniform’, p. 414); inst 12 Dec 1554 Heathfield preb, Chich, Edward Darell, pat. (WSRO, Ep/I/1/6, fo. 102r), instal 9 May 1555, Sir Nicholas Hicket, proc (Peckham, no. 544), comp 12 July 1556 £8 17s, Thomas Harrys, Blackfriars, clothworker and Richard Jugge, St Faith’s, stationer, surs (TNA, E 334/6, fo. 36r)–† bef. 30 Aug 1568 (Reg. Parker, p. 277; Peckham, no. 703; cf. F3, 2, p. 35); scholar of Michaelhouse, fell. King’s hall, receiving annual pension of £2 4s 4d in 1555;47 roy chap, ded to Mary The agreement of the holye fathers and doctors of the churche upon the cheifest articles of the Christian religion ... very necessary for all curates (ibid., pp. 173 and 550; London, [1555?] RSTC 364) (AtC 1, p. 173); resig bef. 11 Sept 1556 vic Pevensey, Suss (CRP, no. 1677), worth £18 7s 8d (VE 1, p. 341); roy chap, pres 24 Sept 1557 hospital of St Katherine, Bedminster, Som (CPRPM 4, p. 143), already on 19 Aug (CPRPM 2, p. 203), comp 20 Dec £19 12s 1d, John Wythe, St Michaels Pater noster, haberdasher and Thomas Harrys, St Martin’s Ludgate, clothworker, surs (TNA, E 334/4, fo. 217v)–† bef. 23 Aug 1567 (SRO, D\D\B Reg 15, fo. 25v); will 8 Aug 1568/acknowledged 13 Aug/prov [n.d.] Aug (TNA, PCC 20 Babyngton [PROB 11/50]; BRS 18, p. 6): clk, subdean of roy chapel, Calvinist preamble, places: St Katherine’s hospital (where mr and ‘where he remains’), persons: Thomas Harward, youngest son of late Francis Harward (qv), proc of the Arches, clk of the Admiralty, Roger Parker (exec and res leg), his chil (Elizabeth Parker, Frances, Lewis and William), [Gabriel] Goodman, dean of Westm, Edmond Harward, scholar at Winchester, bros at Savoy, clothing, legacies: cash (£40 10s),

£3 bonus to svts, doles (100s, incl in Savoy and poor almsmen of St Katherine’s), household goods, lease of chamber ‘where I now lie’ in Savoy, plate, books: St Augustine and Chrysostom to Edmond Harward

Annable,48 John: scholar, Linc dioc, disp 29 Jan 1557 orders (CRP, no. 1824a); ord deac London 12 June 1557 to title of William Walgrave, John Walgrave and John Greene, Partney, Linc, gens (GL, 9535/1, fo. 65r)

Anson, John: London dioc, ord acol and subd 13 Mar 155749 to title of Edward Nevell, arm (GL, 9535/1, fos 59v, 60r); subd, London dioc, disp 19 Mar 1557 orders (CRP, no. 1913a); 1)50 Hansome or Handsome, matric 1560 sizar from Peterhouse; BA 1563, MA 3 May 1566, BTh 8 May 1573 (pres by John Whitgift), DTh 18 May 1583 (GBΔ, pp. 163, 195, 265 and 367);51 ord 2 June 1570 deac, 21 Dec 1572 priest; 1573-4 Lady Margaret professor of divinity; 1574 vic Chesterton, Camb (AlC 1, p. 300), vac bef. 13 Sept 1585 (LPL, Whitgift’s Reg. I, fo. 315r); inst 22 Jan 1577 vic Stamford All Saints, Linc, bp pat. by lapse (LER, p. 18), still 1602 when had no curate and resided on Nassington (Foster, Lincoln, p. 238); instal via proxy 1 Feb 1577 Nassington preb, Linc (rep. Whitgift),52 comp 16 Nov 1577-† bef. 15 May 1618 (F3 9, p. 97 and LER, p. 310), as such pat. of Ambrose Vincent (LER, p. 27); inst 7 Feb 1583 rect Irnham, Linc, as such lic for pluralism 27 Jan 1583, curate in 1585, 1594 and 1604, still 1607 (Foster, Lincoln, pp. 71, 381, 398 and 416); buried 1618 at Nassington, Ntht; will PCC 1618 (AlC); 2) Hansome or Handson, matric 1560 pensioner from Magdalene Coll. Cantab; BA 1565, MA of Trinity [AlC] 1568 (GBΔ, pp. 184 and 212); university preacher 1575; preacher at Bury St Edmunds, depr 1581 for nonconformity (AlC 1, p. 300); will53 31 July 1600/prov 10 Mar 1601 (PROB 11/97): rect Stoke Bruerne, Ntht, places: Wethersfield, Ess (where b.), Stoke Bruerne, Weston Turvill, Buck, persons: da Suzan, bro Edward Anson, his chil (Edward, Thomas, Jane and Rebecca), niece Ellen Anson (res leg and exec), John Anson, sis Anne Carder, sis Ann’s chil, son-in-law Richard Rawbone, John and William and Samuell Rawbone, grandda Suzan Rawbone, Ciceley Nedeler, Thomas Needeler of Farthingstone, Ntht (ovs), his chil, Suzan Southam, godson John Needeler, Thomas Anson the elder of Lanham [Langham], Suff, svt John Cooke, Henry Lord Windsor of Bradenham, Buck, Henry Allen, esq of London, James Stephenes of Burton Upon Hill, Glos, Richard Stubbes, proc of the Arches (ovs), legacies: cash (£287 13s 4d, 40 nobles), doles (£8 6s 8d), owes £229 for rent of Weston Turvill, rings, clothing, books: all to Samuel Rawbone

Ausope, Hawsope, Hawsopp, Alsopp, Awsopp, George († bef. 28 Sept 1561 [admon]): matric 1546 pensioner from SJCC; 1551-61 fell. of QCC; ‘C.54 of St Giles’s, Cantab’ (AlC 2, p. 338); BA 1551 with Thomas Colier (qv), MA 1554 with Nicholas Wendon (qv) (GBΔ, pp. 70 and 94); member of Cantab university Senate, 26 July 1555 signed Catholic articles (Mere, p. 176); appeared spontaneously during legatine visitation, ordered to bring in books (Mere, pp. 217 and 221); subd, Ely dioc, disp 3 June 1557

orders (CRP, no. 2034a); ord deac and priest 12 June 1557 with John May (qv) (NRO, DN/ORR/1(a), fo. 87r and v); incorp at Oxford as MA of Cantab 29 July 1560, with John Lakyn (qv) (RUO 1, p. 243); MA, admon 28 Sept 1561 to John Igulden (qv), transferred to sis Anna Lodge 4 Oct (CUL, CUArchives, UNIV/VCCt, VC Wills II)

Appley, Robert (ca. 1509-ca. 1566/7): ord 11 Apr 1527 relig acol of Kirkstead abbey, subd 7 Mar/Apr [sic, but impossible; prob. 17 Apr] 1529, deac 8 Apr 1531, priest 30 Mar 1533 (LincRO, Epis. reg. 26, fos 21r, 24r, 28r and 30v); disp to leave Kirkstead at suppression 4 May 1537 (FOR, p. 96); inst via proxy 9 July 1556 vic Beckingham, Nott (BI, Inst.AB.2, part 1, fo. 26r), absent in visitation of 1559 (RVAB, fo. 151v), vac (†) bef. 25 Mar 1567 (BI, Inst.AB.2, part 2, fo. 54r); priest, OCist house of Kirkstead, Linc dioc, abs 20 Oct 1556 apostasy, disp orders, to hold Beckingham (CRP, no. 1746); bequeathed 24 Oct 1557 an additional annual rent of 20s beyond the 40s already granted out of Hugh Thornhill of Saundby’s lands at Beckingham (NCW, 2, p. 2)

Appowell [sic], Roger († bef. 19 Mar 1574): priest, coll 28 Jan 1557 vic Waltham, Kent (CRP, no. 1821), comp £6 19s 9d (TNA, E 334/3, fo. 38v)–resig bef. 31 May 1567 (Reg. Parker, p. 831); inst 25 Mar 1560 rect Broke, Kent, D&C of Cant, pat.–called George, † bef. 19 Mar 1574 (Reg. Parker, pp. 770 and 1114), worth £7 7s (VE 1, p. 39 and 92); allegedly held add. ben outside Cant dioc (J. I. Daeley, ‘Pluralism in the dioc of Cant during the administration of Matthew Parker, 1559-1575’, JEcclH, 18 (1967), pp. 33-49, p. 41) but this would appear to be either a mistake or Appowell then had more than two bens

Ardern [Arden, Ardren, etc], Thomas (ca. 1517-† bef. 8 Sept 1581 [will]): BA 8 Feb 1537, MA 7 July 1539 (RUO 1, p. 186); from Oxon, LCO fell. bef. 1538, still 1546, theologus of Christ Church in 1547, still 1550; rented room in ECO 1552 (BRUO2, p. 12); MA, fell. of LCO, ord priest 4 Apr 1545 (OA, ODP d105, p. 32);55 inst 7 July 1551 vic S. Stoke, Oxon, D&C of CCO, pat.–resig bef. 2 Dec 1556 (OA, ODP d105, pp. 139 and 172); comp 20 June 1554 rect Hartlebury, Worc for £27, bp of Worcester, pat., John Harford and Henry Vynes, surs (TNA, E 334/4, fo. 169r)–depr bef. 5 Sept 1561 (WoRO, b716.093-BA.2648/9(iv), p. 83), as such proc to convocation 25 Dec 1558 (WoRO, b716.093-BA.2648/9(iv), p. 77), indenture 14 Jan 1559 with Richard Pace (qv) for its farm (WCA, A7(2), fo. 47r-v); instal via proxy 25 May 1556 Weighton preb, York, in person 3 Feb 1560, vac bef. 24 May 1562, possibly depr (F3, 4, p. 63), failed to appear in 1559 visitation (RVAB, fo. 19v); pres 12 Sept 1557 Bartonsham preb, Heref (CRP, no. 2098a), patent of pres bef. 24 May 1558 (CRP, no. 2238a; date missing in HRO, HD6/27, loose deeds), BTh,56 inst 24 May via proxy (HCAB, 7031/1, fo. 151r), in person 26 Aug (fo. 152r; Havergal, p. 58 incorrectly gives 1559), as such cited 28 June 1559 to appear for bp’s elec but did not (Reg. Parker, p. 60), granted 30 Oct 1558 canon’s house nr cemetery formerly occupied by Richard Sparcheforde (qv) (CPRPM 4, pp. 445-6), possession disputed by Ad Heref Robert Crowley,57 case taken to roy courts 31 Aug 1560 (HCAB 7031/1, fo. 160v), depr 16 June 1562 (HCA 2794;58 cf. HRO, AL/19/15, Reg. Scory, fo. 5r) wrb John ap Owen

(qv), assessed at £17 17s 8d in 1536 (Reg. Boothe, p. 364); coll 30 Nov 1558 3rd preb, Worcester (WoRO, b716.093-BA.2648/9(iv), p. 75, name never given; F3, 7, p. 119 says left blank), 3rd in order of precedence 1560 (WCA, D366, fo. 20v)–depr 10 July 1560 with William Northfolk (qv) on Bp Sandys’s initiative for which criticized by Abp Parker (D. MacCulloch and P. Hughes, ‘A bailiffs’ list and chronicle from Worcester’, Antiquaries journal, 74 [1995], pp. 235-53, p. 249 and Sandys-Parker, 24 Oct 1560 in John Bruce, ed., Correspondence of Matthew Parker [Parker Society, 33 (1853)], pp. 124-7), as such participated 23-5 Nov 1559 in Sandys’s elec (Reg. Parker, p. 73), treas 1560 (WCA, A211b) rep. Northfolk; on list of suffering Catholic cath dignitaries (Sander, DVM, p. 692); ‘John Arden’, formerly preb of Worcester, among ‘certain evil-disposed persons. . .which lurk so secretly that process cannot be served upon them’ and ‘supported in Hereford’ (Gee, pp. 183-4); will 19 May 1580/prov 8 Sept 1581 (TNA, PROB 11/63, fo. 259v PCC 33 Darcy; BRS 18, p. 11 mistakenly adding Lydbury, Heref): clk, places: Kenchurch [?Kenderchurch or Kentchurch, Heref, NE, p. 130; Kenchurch where John Scudamore was, qv in John Blaxton’s entry], Worc, Heref, Hartlebury, persons: bros (John and Richard Ardern), Richard’s wife, godson and nephew Thomas Rawlinges (res leg and exec), James Yayden59 (res leg and ovs), Thomas Yayden, bro-in-law Yayden and wife, Yayden’s sis Sibill Bawghe, bro-in-law Younge and chil, mother-in-law at Henley-upon-Thames, cousin Smith at Windsor, Henry and Elizabeth Crosse’s chil, Elizabeth Ballard, Mr Elton and wife, niece Daniel, Flower, John Scudamore60 and wife Margarett, James Scudamore, svts (Elianor Willmott and Anne Miller), Phillippe Watters, legacies: cash (£23, 3 ½ angels, two gold pieces, multiple 40s), doles (£6), rings, clothing, books, clavichord, plate, household goods, horse, virginals, books: ‘service book in

the great volume’ to John Scudamore, ‘small service book in two volumes’ to James Scudamore, items of interest: virginals to Elton; ‘very likely’ rel Edward Arden of Park Hall, Warw [see Old DNB] (Wainewright, ‘Prebendaries’, p. 206), but no good reason for this conjecture

Argall, Thomas (ca. 1500-bef. 15 Aug 1563): son of John and Emme Argall, b. Lambeth, Surr;61 oc Jan 1525 private clk to John Barret, registrar PCC (Alsop); 30 Mar 1527 signed receipt to Bp Boothe for £10 payment to Wolsey for exercise of jurisdiction (Reg. Boothe, p. 189); assoc with John Cockes, mr of the PCC, etc by Oct 1529 when called Warham’s scribe; notary in Winch dioc (Alsop); proc for Thomas Bedell at inst 15 May 1531 (LPLWR, fo. 405r); registrar PCC 1534 (Alsop); grant of next pres 23 Feb 1536 Ashby [?cum Fenby, Linc] from Thornholm priory to Bedell and Thomas Argall (LincRO, P.D. 1536/3); counter-signed with Bedell, John Tregonwell and Hussey (both qv) pluralism disp 5 June 1537 (GRO, GDR 2A, p. 17); Winch dioc, notary 7 July 1540 with Hussey of nullification of Cleves marr (LPLCR, fo. 156v and BI, Reg. 28, fo. 142v); granted 21 Mar 1542 with Thomas Godfrey office of remembrancer of first fruits and tenths in Exchequer upon surrender of patent as keeper of books etc in Court of First Fruits and Tenths when protégé of Sir John Baker (qv) (Carter, ‘Taxation’, pp. 64 and 67 and CPRPM 1, p. 12; Alsop, pp. 229 and 232)– dissolution (CPRPM 1, p. 6); by 1544 marr Margaret, da John Tallakarne, Cambrose, Corn, proc of Arches (Alsop, p. 232); St Faith’s (1544), notarial sign (GRO, GDR 1B, doc 1, missing); Godfraye receiving comps 20 July 1555 (TNA, E334/6, second section, fo. 1r), no sign of him in TNA, E 334/2, but book kept somewhat differently; signatory with Godfrey of roy letter to Rochester, 8 Oct 1554 (CKS, DRb/Ar 1/15, fo. 81r), again 1 July 1560 (CKS, DRb/Ar 1/15, fo. 103v), 12 Feb 1562, 28 Nov 1563, Godfrey signed alone 28 Nov 1564, again 1566 (NRO, DN/SUN/3, fos 87r, 92r, 122r, 127v); with William Cooke (qv) in PCC 15 Jan 1555 (PROB 29/9, fo. 1r), registrar (PROB 29/10, 12v), again 26 Feb 1558 (fo. 30v), Argall back on 13 June (fo. 78r), sitting in Argall’s house and Upton’s (qv) presence (78v), coram Argall (99v), still registrar 20 Oct 1558 (111v), 16 Feb 1559 (fo. 168v, etc), as such witn 17 Dec 1559 to Abp Parker’s cons and 21 Dec 1559 to Bp Grindal’s (Reg. Parker, pp. 33 and 53), 30 Oct 1558 Clenock, Darbyshire, Walker (all qv), Argall (116r), sitting 4 Nov 1558 with Cole (qv), dean of London and comm (120v); authenticated TNA, C85/207 no. 6 (1527); as notary of PCC and keeper of reg. of PCC one of notaries for Pole’s cons as abp (TNA, PROB 11/38, fo. 2v); registrar of PCC, one of mrs 28 July 1556 of Jesus gild in St Faith’s (CPRPM 3, p. 275); 27 Oct 1556 grant of lands worth £10 p.a. to be assigned by court of wards (CPRPM 3, p. 512); ?gen, ordinary pat. vic S. Stoke, Oxon by grant from D&C of CCO oc 2 Dec 1556 when granted advowson phv to Thoms Wyllyams, Oxford (OA, ODP d105, p. 172); license 19 May 1557 to grant property in Kent to Ciriac Petit (qv) (CPRPM 3, p. 379); counter-signed roy letter of 6 July 1557 in ECA 3552, fo. 126v; archiepis. notary 9 Mar 1558 and legatine notary 20 July 1557 (CRP, nos 2194a and 2070a); left ring worth 5 marks by Hussey (qv) (PROB 11/43, fo. 403r); will 15 and 29 July/prov 30 Aug 1563 (TNA, PROB 11/46, fo. 237r, PCC 31 Chayre; BRS 18, p. 11): gent of London, registrar of the PCC, Catholic preamble, places: Bethleham, Barking, Ess, rects (St Michael in the Querne,

St Faiths, St Martin Ludgate), manors (Walthamstow, Singleborough, Buck Imberhorn and Sharnfolde [both unided], both Suss, Bincombe, all Dor, Widecombe [?Som but will says in Dor], Woborne [unided, also said to be Dor], East Sutton and Denstede [unided], Kent), Frannces als Lowhall [unided], Ess, Tolpuddle, Dor, rect of Tenterden or Tinterden, Ebony, both Kent, Basingstoke, Hant, Hanslope, Buck, Sutton, persons: mother Eme Argall, wife Margaret (res leg and exec), da Anne Argall, sons (Richard, John, Rowland, Gabriell and Edmond Argall), son Laurence Argall [successor as registrar of PCC (Reg. Parker, p. 136)] and wife Joan, nephew John Barret, John Goodchilde, Christopher Clarke [Clerk, qv], Laurence Sherif, advocates and procs of the Arches, svt William Dykdale, clks (John Cockes, William Bretteyne, Anthony Belaces), widow Joan Ashley, Richard Barthlott, MD, Sir Robert Brooke, Sir Richard Sackevile, Richard Baker, esq, John Draner, esq, ‘my lord’s grace’ abp of Cant., ‘old svt’ and William Walker (qv), proc, svt Peter Johnson (qv, in Robert Johnson I) [?prin registrar of bp of London], George Harrison (qv) Thomas Upton (qv), legacies: cash (over £650), doles (incl to Bridewell hospital), 20s to svts, annuity, real estate, coal, fish, clothing, ring, advowson of Bincombe, piece of plate, items of interest: dole for prayers, £5 bequest out of revenue of Cant audience court, several values for property listed, registrarship of PCC to son Lawrence

Armidell,62 Christopher: proc 21 May 1558 for John Amynde (qv) (CRP, no. 2236); 15 Feb 1560 for John Watson (qv) at inst rect Winchfield (Reg. Parker, p. 212)

Arnold, John († bef. 15 Aug 1580; LincRO, P.D. 1580/4): ord in Linc 1532 (LER, p. 184);63 ord deac 20 Sept 1533 (LER, p. 237);64 ?of Kirkstead, Linc, ord unben priest 30 May 1534 to title of ill. [but perhaps Kirkstead abbey] (LincRO, Epis. reg. 26, fo. 40r); inst 13 Feb 1548 rect Saltfleetby St Peter, Linc (LER, p. 237), comp65 11 Feb 1554 for £4 5s, James Smith, Inner Temple, arm, sur (TNA, E 334/4, fo. 3v)–† 19 Aug 1580 (LER, p. 26); pres 24 June 1555 vic Skidbroke, Linc (CPRPM 2, p. 253), comp 28 June £10 13d, Reginald Newcombe, Moreby, Linc, gen and William Nelson, Southwark St Savior, pursemaker, surs (TNA, E 334/6, fo. 26r), inst 27 July (LincRO, Epis. reg. 28, fo. 101r; LI2, no. 41), pd 1st instalment 23 Apr 1556 (TNA, E 334/6, pt 2, fo. 42r), still bef. 14/16 Jan 156266 when unmarr priest, ‘moderately educ’, resident in Saltfleetby (CCCC, MS 97, fo. 88r), vac bef. 15 Jan 1569 (LER, p. 237); disp 2 July 1555 pluralism (CRP, no. 1267); signed Elizabethan articles (Gee, p. 124); will 31 July/prov 16 Nov 1580 (TNA, PROB 11/62, fo. 367v PCC 46 Arundell; BRS 18, p. 11): clk of Saltfleetby St Peter, persons: wife Joan, bro James, Agnes Barkworthe, da of Robert Barkworthe, John, Gen and Hester Hill, George Hill (res leg and exec), Thomas White the younger, Johnson of Donnynton [?Donington-onBain, Linc], Richard Ousbye, John Fyshe, William Blanchard of Mablethorpe, Linc, William Cowper, Richard Blanchard, Richard Breoghte, Goode’s chil, the baliff of Burwell, Linc Henry Northfolke, Roger Rowthe,67 the parsons of Panton [John Held, inst 22 Oct 1552 (LER, p. 120)–12 Feb 1583 (p. 31)] and Awthorpe [Simon

Lyme or Lynne, inst 6 Nov 1561 (LincRO, Epis. reg. 28, fo. 17r; LI1, no. 1561, still 1585 (Foster, Lincoln, p. 85)], John Sluite, John Forth, clk at Gainsborough, William Claskyt, parson of [?Little] Cawthorpe, legacies: multiple 3s 4d, real estate, livestock, household items, plate, horses, ag pro, debts owed £27 2s 10d (to Donnynton, Ousbye, Fyshe, Blanchard, Cowper, Blanchard, Breoghte, Goodes chil, bailiff of Burwell, Northfolke), debts owing £5 15s 4d (Rowthe, parsons of Panton and Awthorpe, Sluite, Forth, Claskyt)

Arscott, Halnetheus (Halnight, Halnath or Alnet) († bef. 6 Mar 1537): oc 1498-1504 proc in Oxford chancellor’s court; BCL bef. 1500; inst 8 May 1502 prin Peckwater Innresig 14 Apr 1505; ord subd 23 Dec 1503 to title of Rewley Abbey, deac 23 Mar 1504, priest 6 Apr 1504; witn 1504 with William Burghill (see J. Blaxton) (W. T. Mitchell, Registrum Cancellarii 1498-1506 [Oxford Historical Society, n.s., 27 (1980)], pp. 28, 48, 83 and 214); sup 20 Nov (W. T. Mitchell, Register of congregations 1505-1517, 2 [Oxford Historical Society, n.s. 38 (1998)], p. 311); inst [no month nor day; BRUO gives 13 Jan 1505] 1504 rect Ashwater, Dev, William Sylke [precentor of Exeter cath and vg], pat. phv-resig bef. 8 May 1519 for 10 mark pension (DRO, EDRC 13, fos 3v and 80r); BCnL bef. 1507, aft. 15 years study at Oxford and elsewhere sup DCnL, disp BCL and BCnL 20 Feb 1514 (BRUO1, pp. 47-8; RUO 1, p. 89 gives 1513 for last); inst 2568 May 1507 rect Langtree, Dev, Giles, Lord Daubeney, pat., pension to inc [amount blank] (DRO, EDRC 13, fo. 11v)69-resig bef. 27 Apr 1536 (DRO, EDRC 14, fo. 82r); oc 20 Nov 1513 off. bp Exeter (Mitchell, Register of congregations, 2, p. 311); inst 25 Aug 1515 rect Cheriton Fitzpaine, Dev, Humphrey Callwodlegh in right of wife Edith, pat. (DRO, EDRC 13, fo. 63r)–† (rep. by Thomas Reynolds, qv) (DRO, EDRC 14, fo. 87v); BC&CnL, coll 6 May 1519 Exeter preb-† bef. 6 Mar 1537 (DRO, EDRC 14, fo. 87r; F2 9, p. 63), distributions 2nd/4th quarters 1518-final quarter 1537 (ECA, 3707), steward fabric 1522, 1523, 1530, 1531, 1536 (ECA, 3551, fos 3v, 8v, 60r, 66r, 94v), of common chest 1524, 1525, 1532, 1533 (ECA, 3551, fos 15v, 21r, 78r, 82r), regular attender at chapter meetings (ECA, 3551, passim); 10 Jan 1523 w/ Thomas Michell (qv) visitor epis peculiars (ECA, 3551, fo. 10v); inst 13 Feb 1523 rect Dunchideock, Dev aft. exhibition of two bulls of plurality (no details), Ralph Slader, pat., £4 pension to inc-† (DRO, EDRC 14, fos 15r and 92v and Oliver, Antiquities 2, p. 11); pres by D&C Exeter 11 Apr 1526 rect Exeter St Petrock (ECA, 3551, fo. 31r), inst 24 Apr-resig bef. 9 May 1528 for £13 6s 8d pension (DRO, EDRC 14, fos 27v and 37r; ECA, 3551, fo. 49v); 29 July 1527 present for Pole’s elec as dean Exeter (CRP, no. 48); proc for William Gwyn at inst to preb 3 Feb 1532 (ECA, 3551, fo. 79v); est 23 Feb 1537 obit for him and Richard More, DCnL,70 treas of Exeter cath funded in part by ten mark annuity out of ex-abbey of Cliff/Clive71 (ECA, D&C 2428), not finally ested until 18 Jan 1541 by Arscott’s execs (ECA, D&C 2432)

Arundell, Margaret, widow of Sir Thomas († 1571 [Oliver]): da and co-heir of Edward, 3rd son of Thomas, duke of Norf; bur. Tisbury, Wilt (Oliver, Collections, p. 76); sis of Queen Katherine Howard (Old DNB s.n. Thomas Arundell); 15 Mar 1557 Lent disp

(CRP, no. 1906b); pat. 16 Aug 1566 rect Compton Abbas, Dor, sued over in 1561 (Reg. Parker, pp. 967 and 960); Sir Thomas Arundell, son of Sir John of Lanherne, first to settle at Wardour (which bought from Sir Fulke Greville); comm suppression monasteries in West country; steward Shaftesbury abbey; arrested 16 Oct 1551 in Seymour conspiracy; executed 26 Feb 1552 (Oliver, Collections, pp. 75-76 and Old DNB); receiver of duchy of Corn, ‘a prime mover’ against Somerset and then entered Mary’s service and tried to make her regent (Susan Brigden, ed., ‘The letters of Richard Scudamore to Sir Philip Hoby, September 1549-March 1555’, Camden miscellany, 30, Camden 4th ser., 39 [1990], pp. 67-148, p. 107); John Hooper sometime his steward whom sent for examination by Stephen Gardiner (Foxe, 1570, p. 1674)

Ascham, Roger (ca. 1515-23 Dec 1568 [ODNB]): 3rd son of John, steward to Lord Scrope of Bolton, b. at Kirby Wiske, N. York (AlC 1, p. 43); educ (with John Christopherson, qv) in household of Sir Humphrey72 Wingfield at Ipswich (VMR, p. 185); 1534-54 fell. SJCC; public orator 1546-54 (AlC); BA 1534, MA 1537 (GBΓ, pp. 278 and 315); early 1540s client of Abp Lee; tutor to Elizabeth 1548-resig Jan 1550 but often not in residence; 1550-52 secretary to Richard Morison (qv) on embassy during which time drafted political history modeled on Machiavelli; 7 May 1554 Latin secretary to Mary (ODNB); friendly with Pole although wrote unpublished theological attack on him; ordered to trans Pole’s oration to parliament for transmission to Julius III; agreed in esteem for Johann Sturm (Lawrence Ryan, Roger Ascham [Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1963], pp. 199, 208, 210); pres Pole copy of Osório’s (qv/5) De nobilitate civili (CRP, no. 1182); Pole allegedly told him had spent 2000 gold pieces searching in Poland for Cicero’s ‘De republica’ (J. A. Giles, ed., The whole works of Roger Ascham, 2 vols [London: J. R. Smith, 1864-5; 2 vols], 1, pp. 445-6); also very close to Priuli (qv/5) (Jerónimo Osório, Opera omnia, 3 vols [Rome: Ex Bibliotheca Georgij Ferrarij, 1592], 1, p. 1143); 1 June 1554 marr Margaret Howe (ODNB); pres 5 Nov 1559 by crown Wetwang preb, York, instal 11 Mar 1560-† (F3 4, p. 65), but not adm until 20 June 1566 (ODNB); 1562 MP Preston, Lanc; † 30 Dec 1568 (AlC); wrote Toxophilus (1545), treatise on archery and The Scholemaster (prob. finished 1563, published 1570; ODNB); see Old DNB

Aske, Robert: little known bef. leader of Pilgrimage of Grace (Old DNB); attainted with Pole (CRP, no. 268a)

Aspelan, Rorick als Roger: with Pole in France and Cambrai [in 1537] (L&P 14:1, no. 516); client of Gerald Fitzgerald (qv/5) seeking Pole’s protection (CRP, no. 232a in the Errata/Corrige to this vol.), captured Mar 1539 with Robert Moore (qv) carrying letters to Rome, one from bp of Derry to pope complaining of English deputy’s depredations (L&P 14:1, no. 455 and 13:2, no. 1164); attainted with Pole (CRP, no. 268a)

Astell, John († bef. 16 Feb 1557): BA 21 July 1523 (RUO 1, p. 126); inst 28 May 1524 rect Sawtry All Saints, Hunt, Edward, gen and Emma Watson, Lyddington [Rutl], pats. (LincRO, Epis. reg. 27, fo. 233r)–† bef. 16 Feb 1557 (CRP, no. 1858)

Astley [Ashley], Geoffrey († bef. 27 July 1579): ?Astley, ord 25 May 1521 sec acol, subd 7 Apr 1522 at York to title of Whalley abbey (BI, Reg. 27, fo. 194v), ord 13 June 1522 sec deac, 20 Nov 1522 sec priest to title of Whalley abbey (orders besides subd in LRO, B/A/1/14 (ii), fos 141r, 149r and 151v); inst 22 June 1541 rect Snave, Kent, Walter Hendle, arm, pat. (LPLCR, fo. 385r), comp same day £17 8s 11d, Thomas

Hendle, Otham, Kent, gen and Rich Morden, Cranbrook, Kent, gent, surs (TNA, E 334/2, fo. 107v); inst 29 1551 rect Shadoxhurst, Kent, crown pat. (LPLCR, fo. 413v), comp 31 Jan £6 17s 8d, William Southland, Hope, Kent, yeom and Adam Hasellome, Cranbrook, Kent, yeom, surs (TNA, E 334/4, fo. 68r)–depr bef. 21 July 1557 (CRP, no. 2072); inst 3 Sept 1554 vic Newchurch, Kent, Anthony Hussey (qv), pat. phv by grant from Martin Tyndale, rect73 (CCA, DCc, Reg N, fo. 76r; SVI, p. 89), comp 10 Nov £17 16s 4d, Tyndale, pat., Stephen Cowper, Tenterden, Kent, husb and John Fenn, Snave, Kent, husb, surs (TNA, E 334/4, fo. 209v)–resig bef. 4 Dec 1576 (LPL, Grindal’s Reg., fo. 513r), as such 4 tithe suits 9 June 1558 (CCA, DCB, Y.2.19, fo. 83r-84v), maybe a 5th (fo. 85v), another 29 Oct 1555 (CCA, DCB Y.2.17, fo. 196v), signed 1562 articles 26 Sept 1571 (Reg. Parker, p. 613);74 inst 1 Dec 1557 rect Castle Camps, Camb on depr inc, dowager countess of Oxford (qv Anne de Vere), pat.–† bef. 27 July 1579 (CUL, EDR G/1/8, fos 36r and 176r), tithed at 32s 5d 1535, assessed 29s 2d for subsidy 1541 (CUL, EDR G/1/7, fos 134v and 137r)

Aston, Richard: pres 5 Nov 1558 rect Clifford, Glos (CPRPM 4, p. 447), clk, inst 17 Nov (CRP, no. 2310), still prob. bef. 3 Mar 156275 when unmarr priest, moderately educ, resident, non-preacher, no other ben (CCCC, MS 97, fo. 111v), vac (resig) bef. 20 Dec 1575 (GRO, GDR 27A, p. 63); possibly rel next who certainly had rel named Richard

Aston, Robert: priest,76 C&L, living in London, abs 6 Aug 1555 marr (CRP, no. 1333); a number of possibilities of which best prob. († bef. 10 July 1578; 1577 acc. ‘Bentham’s letter-book’, p. 193n): inst 16 Sept 1530 vic Sandon, Staff, Robert Berisford and William Glossupe, pats. phv (LRO, B/A/1/14 (i), fo. 28r), worth £7 (LRO, B/A/17/1, fo. 4v), still 1535 (BL, Harl. 594, fo. 139v)–depr bef. 6 July 1554 (LRO, B/A/1/15, fo. 4r), worth £7 10s (TNA, E 334/4, fo. 174r), restored ca. 1560 (Landor, p. 195)–† bef. 10 July 1578 (LRO, B/A/1/15, fo. 69r); inst77 2 May 1542 rect Ashstead, Surr [sic], Sir Edward Aston,78 pat. (Reg. Gardiner, p. 118), comp 3 May 1542 £12 7s 10d, William Astin, Wolverhampton, yeom and Ralph Smyth, Sandon, Staff, yeom, surs (TNA, E 334/2, fo. 99v), vac bef. 29 Aug 1546 (William Geffrey, qv); comp 14 July 1546 rect Mucklestone, Staff £18 3s 3d, George Smythe, Rugeley, Staff and Robert Alen, Euston, Staff, surs (TNA, E 334/3, fo. 93r), inst 22 July,79 Robert Morgan, Mucklestone, pat. (LRO, B/A/1/14 (iv), fo. 47r)–depr bef. 21 Nov 1554 (LRO, B/A/1/15, fo. 4v), restored ca. 1560 (Landor)–† bef. 27 May 1579 (LRO, B/A/1/15, fo. 68v); articles for depr (1553) on mass list in BL, Harl. 421, fos 59r-61v, specifically charged as rect Mucklestone and vic Sandon with marr to Elizabeth Erdeswyke of Mucklestone from 1546-53 (fo. 60r; Strype, EM 3:1, p. 169); apparently incorrectly said by Foxe to have been depr 1556 (Foxe, 1563, p. 1548); signed Elizabethan articles in C&L

(Gee, p. 120); inst 28 Mar 1561 Freeford preb, Lichfield (worth £20), William Devorox,81 pat.–resig bef. 4 Feb 1576 to Richard Aston (LRO, B/A/1/15, fos 32v and 67v); confidant and collaborator of Bp Bentham, called surveyor, involved 1561 in investigation of James Weston’s corrupt practices as well as Bentham’s efforts to eject Thomas Bolte (qv) from collectorship (‘Bentham’s letter-book’, pp. 198-200, 232)

Atherton, John:82 BA 1540 (GBΓ, p. 342), MA 1545 (GBΔ, p. 23); nom. 19 Dec 1546 fell. TCC with William Glyn, Nicholas Morton, John Brooke, John Christopherson, John Orphinstrange, John Yonge, Richard Copley, Edward Taylor and Henry Wilsha (all qv) (L&P 21:2, no. 648.43); coll 25 Sept 1548 vic Hatfield Broad Oak, Ess (GL, 9531/12/1, fo. 171r)–resig bef. 20 Mar 1554 (GL, 9531/12/2, fo. 176r); inst 11 Apr 1552 vic Aldingbourne, Suss, D&C of Chich, pat. (LPLCR, fo. 131v)–depr bef. 20 Sept 1554 (WSRO, Ep/I/1/6, fo. 103r), worth £27 (VE 1, p. 299); pres 8 April 1553 vic Westdean, Suss (Peckham no. 520), ?depr bef. new pres 20 July 1554 (ibid., no. 532), certainly bef. 23 Oct (WSRO, Ep/I/1/6, fo. 101v), worth £14 15s 4d (VE 1, p. 340); priest, Chich dioc, abs 11 July 1555 marr (CRP, no. 1291); inst 23 July 1555 vic Eastbourne, Suss, J. Smith [VI, qv], cath treas, pat. (WSRO, Ep/I/1/6, fo. 107r; cf. WSRO, MP 1095, p. 185), still 9 April 1556 (TSW 1, p. 112), rep. bef. 1559 by Augustine Curtis (qv), worth £26 20d (VE 1, p. 340); inst 18 July 1556 rect Folkington, Suss, Sir Richard Sackville,83 pat. (WSRO, Ep/I/1/6, fo. 113v; cf. MP 1095, p. 186), vac bef. 13 Feb 1570 (Reg. Parker, p. 273), worth £12 (VE 1, p. 340); inst 28 Apr 1558 rect Waldron, Suss (WSRO, Ep/I/1/7, fo. 4v; cf. MP 1095, p. 192), still 8 Aug 1558 (TSW 4, p. 284), worth £13 4s 6d (VE 1, p. 340); inst 24 Jan 1559 vic Rye, Suss, Sir Richard Sackville, pat. (WSRO, MP 1095, p. 195 from CCA, Reg U2, fo. 42; SVI, p. 108)–resig bef. 10 June 1564 (WSRO, Ep/I/1/7, fo. 22r), worth £42 13s 5d (VE 1, p. 345); coll 28 May 1562 Consumpta-per-Mare preb, London (GL, 9531/13/1, fo. 124v), oc 30 Dec 1592-† bef. 27 June 1598 (F3 1, pp. 29-30); coll 28 Dec 1562 rect Thorley, Hert-resig bef. 20 Apr 1573 (GL, 9531/13/1, fos 128r-v and 171v); inst 13 Jan 1563 rect Leaden Roding, Ess, crown pat, vac (resig) bef. 26 Nov 1571 (GL, 9531/13/1, fos 128v and 164r); inst 17 March 1570 vic Lastingham, N. York, Robert Atherton, gen, pat. (BI, Inst.AB.2, part 3, fo. 57r; BI, Reg. 30, fo. 50v)–† bef. 30 Mar 1598 (BI, Inst.AB.3, fo. 299r), as such signed 1562 articles 15 September 1571 (BI, Inst.AB.2, part 3, fo. 126v); inst 17 May 1572 rect [sic] Gilling in Cleveland [Gilling East (OS)],84 N. York,85 Sir William Fairfax, pat. (BI, Reg. 30, fo. 75v and Inst.AB.3, fo. 7r)–† bef. 26 July 1598 (BI, Inst.AB.3, fo. 302v); will 29 Mar 1598/prov 5 Oct 1598 (BI, Reg. 31, fo. 138r): MA, vic [sic] of Gilling, £10 to bro Thomas Atherton, £20 to ‘my da Atherton’s son’, £10 to son John Atherton, gown and bed plus full child’s portion already received to da Alice Gilman, 7d to all godchil and wife’s, 12d

to each svt, if child’s portion to sons Andrew and John Atherton more than the £30 son Thomas has already received, his portion to be brought up, sons res legs, Andrew and John execs

Atkinson, Edmund († 1570): ?wrote 1539 from Malta to Sir William Sayllsbery and George Kebull (L&P 14:2, nos 373-4), this man svt of Sir William Tyrrell, Hospitaller, in England 1540 (L&P 15, no. 522; index also makes him Hospitaller but this seems unlikely, esp. if the corr man); ?oc 31 Dec 1540 in garrison of ‘Great Castle on the Downs’ (L&P 16, no. 372); ‘Mr Secretary’s’86 svt, sent with Michel de Livre to Spain 20 Feb 1543, returned quickly with letters from Bonner (qv) (L&P 18:1, nos 181, 406, and 471); appt 20 June 1544 Hammes pursuivant (L&P 19:1, no. 812.73); appt 28 Sept 1545 Bluemantle pursuivant at Sir Thomas Audley’s nom (L&P 20:2, no. 496.62 and 20:1, no. 1210); Soms herald 1550-70;87 Dec 1555 carried letters from Morone (qv/5) to Pole (CRP, nos 1450, 1458 and 1459)

Atkinson, Richard († bef. 7 Sept 1556): from Ripley, N. York, elec from EtC to KCC 1527; BA 1530,88 MA 1535, BTh 1542, DTh 1545; Lady Margaret preacher 1545 (AtC 1, p. 161 and 3, p. 67); pres 13 July 1547 rect Stour Provost, Dor (KCAR, 3/3/1/1/1, fo. 267r), comp 18 Sept £14 12s 3d, John Story, DCL and Robert Warmington, gent, both St Faith’s, surs (TNA, E 334/3, fo. 129r)–†;89 coll 25 Oct 1553 provost of KCC (AtC)–† bef. 30 Sept 1556 (CRP, no. 1707); disputed with Cranmer, Ridley and Latimer (AtC) when incorp 14 Apr 1554 DTh Oxon. (RUO 1, p. 224); signed 26 July 1555 Catholic articles (Mere, p. 175); † of plague ca. Sept 1556, King’s notified Mary 7 Sept (AtC); wrote ‘Commentarium in priorem epistolam ad Corinthios’ (Cant cath library) (AtC);90 will 23 July 1556/prov 1891 Sept (KCAR, 3/3/1/1/1, fos 370v-71v): Catholic preamble, bur in ‘new church’ if die in Cantab, funeral mass, 3s 6d to all priest fells. in attendance, etc, 40s dole at Stour Provost, 20s at Much Mundyne92 by curate Richard Benet, gown and 40s for quarter’s wages, chalice and paten to Coll., Opera Bernardi and Opera Arborei to coll. library, Opera Justini Martyris to bp of Chester [Cuthbert Scot, qv], Opera Nazianzeni to Dr [Henry] Harvey (qv), Opera Cipriani to Christopherson (qv), one book each to Mr Whynke [vice-provost] and [William] Whytlooke (Whitlocke, qv), bed, bedding and 40s to [unnamed] sis, 20s to her da Elizabeth, 10s to each son, 20s to William Hankes, the younger, 26s 8d each to svts John Darke and John Karter (both witns), 6s 8d to kitchenboy George, 6s 8d to Brian Atkynson and 3s 4d to Richard Everyngam and to William Hankes, the elder and to coll. laundress, pawned spoons returned to Mrs Haynes but still owes execs 13s

4d, 40s to poor rels in Ripley and Hamstnett, bro Peter’s debts forgiven and to pay £3 to William Hudson when apprenticeship completed, res leg and exec with sis Mawd Hudson and Hudson, 20s each, ring to William Dauncer of Cantab

Atwood, Griffin: ?in Cant cath accts 1553/4 (CCA, DCc/MA 39, fo. 5v); summoned 17 May 1556 visitation, scholar KSC (CRP, no. 1564)

Auttinge, Ralph: with Gabriel Pawlyn (qv) pat. vic Steventon, Berk by grant from Westm abbey aft. 23 Jan 1531 (W&SRO, D1/2/15, fo. 24v), again 6 Dec 1557 (CRP, no. 2136), 16 Dec 1558 (SVI, p. 120)

Awstyne or Augustyne, William: ?comp 15 May 1552 rect Chalbury, Dor (DI, 2, p. 114), inst 1551 (Nightingale, p. 161), vac bef. 27 Oct 1556 (TNA, E 334/6, fo. 38v), worth £7 10s 1d (VE 1, p. 270); inst 6 Nov 1553 rect Sharncote [Sernecott; Cernecott mar.; Sharncote or Shorncott, Wilt now Glos (SE, p. 548)], earl of Pembroke (William Herbert, qv), pat. (W&SRO, D1/2/16, Reg. Capon, fo. 63v), vac bef. 22 July 1566 (W&SRO, D1/2/16, Reg. Jewel, fo. 18r), worth £4 7s 6d (LPL, Whitgift’s Reg. I, fo. 394r); comp 12 Apr 1555 rect ‘Sentcok’,94 Wilt 88s 6d, John Brownyng and John Corbyn, St Dunstans in the West, merchant tailors, surs (TNA, E 334/6, fo. 15v); inst 30 Aug 1556 rect Stanton St Quinton, Wilt, Sir Henry Long95 by grant from Lord Dacre of the South, pat. (W&SRO, D1/2/16, Reg. Capon, fo. 72v)–resig bef. 30 July 1574 (W&SRO, D1/2/16, Reg. Gest, fo. 4v), as such sequestration for repairs (W&SRO, D1/43/2, fo. 21v) bef. 5 May 1556 (W&SRO, D1/39/1/1, fo. 86ar); disp 15 Oct 1556 pluralism for both (CRP, no. 1739); ?instal 7 Jan 1561 Highworth preb, Salis, via proxy (SCAB 14:2, p. 127), apparently vac bef. 6 Apr 1562 but perhaps not until 15 Dec 1571 (F3 6, p. 49); will 5 Oct 1584/prov 9 June 1586 (PROB 11/69): clk, resident canon of Wells Cath, Som, place: Christian Malford, Wilt, persons: wife, das (Margaret, Barbara and Judith), son-in-law John Sawnders (res leg and exec), grandda Joane Welshe, sis Joan, Phillipp Welshe (poss. exec), Adrian Hawthorne, D&C of Wells, mayor of Christian Malford, Mr Brampstow, widow Myles, Tomasina Jones, wife of Dr Jones of Wells and svt John Atwell, godda Hester Jones, Frances and Robert Owen of Wells, their da (godda), Dorothy Bisshopp, wife of John, William Smith, son of John Smith the elder, godchild Mr Atwoode’s child, John Dane, Mr Pawle and wife, William Stokes (poss. exec), William Jones, DCL, resident of Wells cath (poss. exec), William Smith (poss. exec and ovs), William Jones, DCnL (ovs), legacies: cash (£32 13s 4d), doles (£13, cloth), £40 debt as bequest, household goods, plate, real estate, ring, clothing, items of interest: bur. next to Hawthorne in choir of the cath church, 6s 8d to repair church of Christian Malford, £20 to clothiers of same to employ poor as in Brampstow’s will, everything from book of remembrances in pawn to be redeemed, Atwell bequest ‘in payment for his writing for me’

Ayland, Nicholas (ca. 1542-† 14 Jan 1608): b. London, elec from EtC to KCC, adm scholar 25 Aug 1559, fell. 26 Aug 1562 (AtC 2, p. 466); BA 1564 (GBΔ, p. 172); pres 8 Nov 1558 Pratum Majus preb, Heref, crown pat. (CRP, no. 2304d), pres (again?) 5 Dec 1558 (SVI, p. 58), instal 26 Dec 1558 via proxy (HCAB, 7031/1, fo. 153v), prob. rep. William Geffrey (qv), cited 28 June 1559 to participate in elec of bp but did not (Reg. Parker, p. 60), vac bef. 9 July 1560 (Bannister, p. 13; not in Havergal, p. 82),

assessed at 4s 4d without small commons in 1536 (Reg. Boothe, p. 364); wrote Latin verses on restoration of Bucer and Fagius 1560 (AtC 2, p. 466); pres 31 Mar 1564 rect Coltishall, Norf, KCC pat. (KCAR, 3/3/1/1/2, p. 92), inst 8 July (NRO, DN/ REG 13/19, fo. 107r)–† 1607 (Blomefield 6, p. 310), vac (†) bef. 4 Apr 1608 (NRO, DN/REG 16/22, fo. 17v); inst 23 Aug 1569 rect Great Hautbois, Norf, duke of Norf, pat.–resig bef. 6 Mar 1572 (NRO, DN/REG 13/19, fos 155r and 168v); inst 26 June 1571 rect Horstead, Norf, crown pat96 (NRO, DN/REG 13/19, fo. 170r), vac (†) bef. 4 Apr 1608 (NRO, DN/REG 16/22, fo. 17r); † 14 Jan 1608, bur Horstead (AtC)