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Radcliffe, Henry, 2nd earl of Sussex (ca. 1507-17 Feb 1557 [ODNB]): son of next; marr 1) bef. 21 May 1524 Elizabeth, da Thomas Howard, 2nd duke of Norfolk with whom had Thomas Radcliffe (qv) and 2) by 21 Nov 1538 Anne, da of Sir Philip Calthorp but she an evangelical and accused of sorcery 1552 and fled aft. Mary’s accession when divorced; KB at Anne Boleyn’s coronation; fought in France 1544; 1551-3 joint lord lieut Norf (ODNB); important early supporter of Mary and her commander-in-chief (VMR, p. 208); pc 17 May 1553; KG 1554; opposed Spanish match; Lent disp 31 Jan 1555 (CRP, no. 1057); lord lieut Norf and Suff 1556; encouraged Bp Hopton’s (qv) pursuit of heresy in Norwich; pat. of John Salisbury (qv); † at Cannon Row, Westm (ODNB)

Radcliffe, Robert, 1st earl of Sussex (1482/3-26/27 Nov 1542 [ODNB]): son of John Ratcliffe, 6th Baron Fitzwalter (executed 1496) and Margaret; marr 1) bef. 1507 Elizabeth Stafford, da of 2nd duke of Buckingham with whom had last, 2) by 1 Sept 1532 Margaret Stanley, da of 2nd earl of Derby with whom had da Anne marr Sir Thomas Wharton (qv), and 3) 14 Jan 1537 Mary, da of Sir John Arundell, Lanherne, Corn; restored 1509; friendly with Henry VIII; KG 7 May 1524; 18 July 1525 viscount Fitzwalter (ODNB); oc 22 Aug 1525 pat. rect Hemingby, Linc when Robert Marram, MA inst (LincRO, Epis. reg. 27, fo. 31v); supported divorce; cr 8 Dec 1529 earl (ODNB); ca. 1530 discussed roy policy with Pole (CRP, no. 245); important role suppressing Pilgrimage of Grace (ODNB); oc 11 Jan 1538 pat. rect Lexden, Ess when Roger Gorstelow inst (GL, 9531/11, fo. 41v) (see Gorsiloo [?Gorstelow], Richard at end); failed to secure stewardship of roy household 1539 when made chief steward of duchy of Lancaster instead; great chamberlain of England 3 May 1540; ally of Thomas Howard, 3rd duke of Norfolk (qv)

Radcliffe, Thomas, Viscount Fitzwalter (to 1557), later 3rd earl of Sussex (1526/71583 [ODNB]): oldest son of Henry Radcliffe (qv); perhaps educ in Gardiner’s (qv) household; fought in France 1544; marr 1) prob. 1545 Elizabeth, da of Sir Thomas Wriothesley and 2) 24 Apr 1555 Frances, da of Sir William Sidney; MP Norf 1549; with father witnessed diversion of succession to Lady Jane but among first to join Mary (ODNB); fought against Wyatt II (qv); at Brussels 20 Feb 1554 as English ambassador to emperor but without comm to Pole (CRP, no. 809); immediately aft. to Spain to get Philip’s ratification of marr treaty; became his favorite (ODNB); witn to Pole’s cons as abp 22 March 1556 (CRP, no. 1521); ca. 24 Mar-ca. 7 Apr 1556 again at Brussels (Gary M. Bell, A handlist of British diplomatic representatives 1509-1688 [London: Royal Historical Society, 1990], p. 56); one of Philip’s chamberlains, still in office at Mary’s † (RMT, p. 207); lord deputy of Ireland 1557-65 (ODNB); allegedly made fool of Henry Cole (qv/5) at beginning of Elizabeth’s reign; oc 28 June 1560 pat. rect Billingford, Norf when Robert Seman inst (NRO, DN/REG 13/19, fo. 32v); Anthony Russhe (qv) his chap; returned to Elizabeth’s court where allied with 4th duke of Norfolk and showed frequent hostility to Robert Dudley; president of council of north July 1568; caught up in plot to marry Norfolk to Mary Queen of Scots; rallied support against Northern Rising 1570; pc 30 Dec 1570; close to William Cecil (qv);

‘no visible ideological commitment’ despite ties to Catholic nobles and ‘religious views coolly neutral’ (ODNB); see AtC 1, pp. 462-70

Ramridge, John: Linc dioc, elec 25 Feb 1527 bachelor MerCO, fell. 1 Aug 1528, vac. Feb 1539 (BRUO2, pp. 472-73); BA 5 Apr 1527, MA 18 July 1530 (both with Richard Smith II, qv), BTh ?1538, DTh 16 July 1542 (RUO 1, p. 145); inst 7 Feb 1539 rect Coventry St Michael, Warw, John Chamber, MD, pat. (LRO, B/A/1/14 (iii), fo. 16v and Dugdale, Warwickshire, p. 114)–resig bef. 17 Mar 1553 (LRO, B/A/1/14 (iv), fo. 43v); comp 30 Mar 1541 rect Hockliffe, Bed £14 16s 6d, Thomas Massye, Westm, gent and Henry Adams, St Mary Aldermary, clothworker, surs (TNA, E 334/2, fo. 22v), inst 1 Apr, Chamber, pat., Thomas Lovell (qv), MA, proc (LincRO, Epis. reg. 27, fo. 269v), vac1 bef. 1559 (Foster, ‘Benefices. . .Bedford’, p. 150); inst 9 Jan 1548 rect Garsington, Oxon, Edward Aupart,2 girdeler and Bernard Cope, goldsmith, citizens of London, pats., re-inst 19 Jan 1549, John Gwynneth (qv), vic Luton, pat. as Aupart’s exec-resig bef. 3 May 1557 (OA, ODP d105, pp. 127, 129, 174; cf. Richard Hayward ab.); coll 22 Mar 1549 Pipa Parva preb, Lichfield (LRO, B/A/1/14 (iv), fo. 48r), comp 2 Apr 24s, John Ramridge, St Mary at Bowe, mercer, sur (TNA, E 334/4, fo. 25r), inst 10 Apr (LCA, D&C, Act book 4, fo. 155r)–resig bef. 22 Dec 1551 (see next entry), worth 28s 4d in 1533 (LRO, B/A/17/1, fo. 13r), pres 25 Sept 1551 by bp to canonical house between Canon Walker’s and recent coll., formerly Stephen Sagar’s (LRO, B/A/1/14 (iv), fo. 49v), no evidence took up residence (F3 10, p. 80); inst3 17 Dec 1551 Hansacre preb, Lichfield, Richard Walker, canon residentiary, pat., when resig bef. 22 Dec Parva pipa (LRO, B/A/1/14 (iv), fo. 49v)–resig bef. 3 Apr 1554 (LRO, B/A/1/15, fo. 3r), worth £14 (TNA, E 334/4, fo. 175r); oc 1 Oct 1553 roy chap, still 14 Dec 1558 (Page, ‘Uniform’, pp. 417 [called Ramsbridge] and 418); elec 284 Mar 1554 dean Lichfield (LCA, D&C, Act book 4, fo. 160r), comp 30 Mar, instal 2 Apr-depr ca. 1559, worth £400, plus £50 for annexed Brewood preb (F3 10, p. 5, citing Sander, DVM, p. 226 for depr); pres 10 May 15545 4th preb, Westm (CPRPM 1, p. 305), instal 12 May (WmCA, p. 101)–dissolution (CRP, no. 1698); pres 12 June 1554 rect Husbands Bosworth, Leic (CPRPM 1, p. 91), comp 14 June £50 6s 4d, Robert Duckett, St Margaret Pattens, grocer and Thomas Cokkes, Nailstone, Leic, gen, surs (TNA, E 334/4, fo. 165r); inst 12 May 1557 rect Milton Bryan, Bed (CRP, no. 1981), replacing Richard Hayward (qv)–resig bef. 10 Mar 1559 (LincRO, Epis. reg. 28, fo. 149v; LI2 no. 700); pres 26 Oct 1557 rect Longford, Derby (CPRPM 4, p. 355)–depr bef. 20 July 1560 (LRO, B/A/1/15, fo. 31r), worth £6 2s 8d in 1554 (TNA, E 334/4, fo. 175r); inst 3 Aug 1558 rect Eversholt, Bed, Fulk Merton, gent, pat. (LincRO, Epis. reg. 28, fo. 144r; LI2, no. 604), legally vac bef. 19 Mar 1560 (LI2 no. 850); pres 28 Oct 1558 ad Derby (CPRPM 4, p. 119), inst by proxy 23 Nov 1558 (LRO, B/A/1/15, fo. 19v)–depr ca. 1559, vac bef. 17 Nov (F3 10, p. 10 citing Sander [see bel.]); 8 Apr 1561 said mass in Sir Edward Waldegrave’s (qv) house (John B. Wainewright, ‘Deans deprived under Queen Elizabeth I’, Downside review, 29 (1910), pp. 49-55, p. 53), imprisoned 20 Apr 1561 in Tower (‘Prisoners’, p. 49); to Fleet by June (BRUO2, no source); ca. 1561 ‘lately punished’, ordered to attend services

(Gee, p. 181); matric 4 Apr 1564 at Louvain; murdered 21 May 1568 by thieves at Hever when carrying 20 gulden from Thomas Goldwell and Seth Holland as execs of Richard Pace transmitted via Henry Pyning for Robert Taylor (all qv, 1st 2 and 4th in vol. 5) (Christian Coppens, Reading in exile: the libraries of John Ramridge (d. 1568), Thomas Harding [d. 1572] and Henry Joliffe [d. 1573], recusants in Louvain [Scottsdale, AZ: L P Publications, 1993], pp. 13-14); bur at Mechlin (Henry De Vocht, ‘John Ramridge, exul pro fide catholica’, Sacris erudiri, 7 [1955], pp. 367-80, p. 374 giving now lost tomb inscription); estate incl abt 450 books,6 incl some on loan to Cuthbert Vaux and Nicholas Sander (also exec), as well as pictures and mappa mundi, estate auctioned for 303 Rhenish gulden (Coppens, p. 13 and De Vocht, p. 375); sold Bernard, Opera (1527) and Johannes Justus Lanspergius, Sermones (1539) to David Pole (qv) (BRUO2); on list of deans suffering as Catholic (Sander, DVM, p. 690); may have written some of anon. tracts among his books (De Vocht, p. 369)

Randolph,7 Randalf, Thomas (1522/3-8 June 1590 [Wood, 1, c. 564]):8 son Avery Randolph, Baddlesmere, Kent, and Anne, da Sir John Gaynsford, Crowhurst, Surr (ODNB); KSC bef. 1542, exhibitioner at Oxford maintained by D&C Cant (BRUO2, p. 474); sup9 for BA Oct 1545 (RUO 1, p. 211); BCL bef. 5 Apr 1548 when lic as notary, sup for DCL 7 Oct 1566 (RUO 1, p. 214 and FOR, p. 309) and 7 June 1575 (RUO 2:3, p. 53);10 adm 21 Nov 1549 prin Broadgates Hall-resig 14 Oct 1553 (RUO 2:1, pp. 284 and 285), as such complained of 9 June 1550 by Thomas Darbyshire (qv) and 10 other scholares (RUO 2:1, p. 284); student of ChCO 1548,11 still 1552 (BRUO2, p. 474), given permission to study overseas during Mary’s reign (S. E. Lehmberg, The reformation of cathedrals: cathedrals in English society, 1485-1603 [Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1988], p. 132n, citing CC Archives, Act Book, 15491619, fo. 89); sheltered John Jewel at least until early 1554; ‘conventional travelling gent’ rather than Protestant exile when subsidized by father (see bel.); apparently mainly in France where occasionally used by Nicholas Wotton (qv) (ODNB); inst by proxy 25 Feb 1556 rect Benefield,12 Ntht, father, pat. phv (SVI, p. 8)–resig bef. 18 July 1557 (CRP, no. 2067); MP Jan 1558 St Ives as client13 of Francis Russell, earl of Bedford (qv) or New Romney as client of Sir Thomas Cheyney14 (qv); made rest of career as diplomat esp. in Scotland; by early 1570s built up landed base in Kent where became JP 1573 and bp of Roch’s steward; May 1567 mr of posts; 1572 chamberlain of exchequer; mission to Russia 1568-9; again in Scotland and France 1570-6; attended 1572 parliament (ODNB) when also listed as member of Broadgates Hall (RUO 2:2, p. 31); marr 1) 1571 Anne da Thomas Walsingham, Chislehurst, Kent hence rel to Sir Francis Walsingham and 2) prob. 1572 Ursula, da Henry Copinger, Buxhall, Suff; developed increasingly radical religious views and earlier ties to

Scottish monarchomachs esp. George Buchanan whom had known in Paris; again in Scotland 1578-87; MP Maidstone 1584, 1586 and 1589; close association with William Davison, clk of the privy council whose disgrace aft. Mary Queen of Scots’s execution prob. prevented a knighthood for Randolph; will 1 Apr 1589 when worth at least £2500; bur St Peter Paul’s Wharf (ODNB)

Rawlins, Thomas: oc Baptist term 1553/4 clk, Cant cath (CCA, DCc/MA 39, fo. 4r), 1555/6 (CCA, DCc/MA 40, fo. 50r), 1557/8 (CCA, DCc/MA 40, fo. 65v), 1558 (CCA, DCc/MA 40, fo. 87v); vic choral, summoned 17 May 1556 visitation (CRP, no. 1564)

Raynold, Michael (1515-?): from Pinhoe, Dev, adm 1528 WinC scholar, aged 13; adm 12 Sept 1533 NCO scholar, fell. 1535, vac bef. 1539 (BRUO2, p. 478); disp 17 Nov 1537 orders (FOR, p. 115); ord priest 2215 Dec 1537 (LincRO, Epis. reg. 26, fo. 56r); inst 16 Dec 1537 rect Pinhoe, Dev rep. next (DRO, EDRC, 14, fo. 91r), lic 1 Dec 1537 to neg pension with him (DRO, EDRC 15, fo. 72v), of £4 (Oliver, Antiquities 2, p. 128)–resig bef. 11 July 1556 (DRO, EDRC 18, fo. 11v), worth £14 13s 4d (VE 2, p. 309); 22 Aug 1538 proc for next at instal preb Exeter (ECA, 3552, fo. 11r); appted bp’s chap 10 Dec 1541 when disp for plurality from Cranmer read in together with inspeximus (DRO, EDRC 15, fos 106v-107v); inst 1541 rect Kemerton, Glos [?rep. next], vac 1560; bef. 1551 rect Treddington, Glos, vac 1560, Bonner’s chap (Baskerville, ‘Convocation elections’, pp. 13 and 20, but no evidence so possibly mistake for Veysey); pres 14 Aug 1558 rect Lokking,16 Salis dioc (CRP, no. 2270a); prob. younger bro next (see his will) and rel Richard Reynolds (qv)

Raynold [Reynolds], Thomas († 20 Nov-1 Dec 1559 [will]): BA either 28 Feb 1519 or 25 Feb 1522;17 MA 5 or 9 July 1521; BTh 28 June 1536, DTh 13 July (RUO 1, p. 107); from Pinhoe, Dev, 1525 probationay fell. MerC; bef. 1530 canon primi ordinis Cardinal Coll. (BRUO2, p. 479, 2nd man); inst 20 Apr 1530 vic Pinhoe, Dev, St Nicholas priory, Exeter, pat.–resig bef. 16 Dec 1537 wrb last (DRO, EDRC 14, fos 49v and 91r), for pension of £4 (Oliver, Antiquities 2, p. 128), worth £14 13s 4d (VE 2, p. 309), as such disp 13 Jan 1537 for 2nd ben and non-residence (FOR, p. 85); in Paris ca. Apr 1535-ca. June 1536 when used by Honor Plantagenet (qv) to arrange educ of her son James (Lisle letters 3, pp. 113 and 125 and nos 555, 559, 561-564, 565a, 567), recommended by her to John Chamber, MD, through whom got roy chap bef. 17 July 1537 (ibid., 4, nos 982-3); inst 1536 rect Kemerton, Glos (Lisle letters 3, p. 131 without source), vac bef. 1541 (see last entry); pres 13 June 1537 rect Cheriton Fitzpaine, Dev (L&P 12:1, no. 191.16), inst 21 June (DRO, EDRC 14, fo. 87v)–† (DRO, EDRC 18, fo. 46v); coll 22 Aug 1539 preb Exeter held by Richard Duck (DRO, EDRC 14, fo. 98r), instal same day by proxy Michael Raynold (qv)–†18 (Reg. Parker, p. 216), protested for residence 9 Mar 1543, completed 8 Mar 1544 (ECA, 3552, fos 11r, 24v and 29v), distributions from 3rd quarter 1542-3 (with a

few quarters missed; ECA 3707), 17 Jan 1545 supervisor of organs (ECA, 3552, fo. 34v), steward fabric 1548 (ECA, 3552, fo. 47r), steward com chest 1549-50 (ECA, 3552, fos 50r and 51r), 2 Mar 1555 house granted to another canon (ECA, 3552, fo. 62r), granted days 25 July 1555 (ECA, 3552, fo. 65v), protracted dispute with chapter over distributions while absent as v-c of Oxford (ECA, 3552, fos 82r and 86r120r), irregular attender at chapter meetings; comp 28 Jan 1540 rect Ditcheat, Som (BRUO2), worth £46 4s 10d (VE 1, p. 152); coll by proxy 2 Nov 1540 N. Newbald preb, York, instal by proxy 5 Nov, in person 26 Sept 1541 (F3 4, p. 48)–depr bef. 1 Apr 156019 (BI, Inst.AB. 1, fo. 63r); pres 27 Mar 1541 Pytt portion, Tiverton, Dev, crown pat. (L&P 16, no. 678.52), inst 9 Apr (DRO, EDRC 14, fo. 104r)–prob. † (DRO, EDRC 18, fo. 56v); pres by crown 26 July 1543 rect Holsworthy, Dev (L&P 18:1, no. 981.100) and comp £28 16s 4d, John Burges, Aldermanbury, MD and Richard Johns, teacher in Paul’s School, surs (TNA, E 334/2, fo. 158v), inst 3 Aug, replacing George Coates (qv) (DRO, EDRC 14, fo. 111r)–depr bef. 28 Jan 1560 (Reg. Parker, p. 218); king’s scholar, pres 28 Nov 1544 11th stall, Westm (L&P 19:2, no. 690.63), instal 1 Feb 1545 (F1 3, p. 358 but not F3 7, p. 81)–dissolution (CRP, no. 1698), signed reg. beginning 3 Feb and fairly regularly first half 1545, again mid-1547, sporadically in 1548 when appted 15 Dec receiver, June-July and Dec 1549, Jan 1550, Oct 1551, Sept 1553 (once), May and Oct 1554, for last time Feb 1555 (WmCA, nos 34-36, 38-41, 52, 55, 59-62, 64, 66, 74-75, 78-79, 82-84, 88-90, 91, 98-101, 117, 141, 154, 157, 163); 30 Nov 1544 co-grantee of advowson rect Stokeinteignhead, Dev when John Donne (?qv) pres (ECA, 3551, fos 170v-171r); adm 22 Dec 1545 warden MerC-depr 4 Sept 1559 (BRUO2), as such pres bef. 10 Nov 1556 John Raynshaw rect Lapworth, Warw (WoRO, b716.093-BA.2648/9(iv), p. 51); 6 Aug 1546 co-grantee of advowson of preb in Exeter cath (ECA, 3551, fo. 195r); 9 Dec 1551 with J. Blaxton and William Luson (see Blaxton’s entry for both) procs for Richard Harford (see Hugh Curwin’s entry) (HCAB 7031/1, fos 112v-113r); 1 Oct 1553 roy chap, still 14 Dec 1558 (Page, ‘Uniform’, pp. 417 and 418); pres 4 Feb 1555 dean Exeter on Pole’s resig (CPRPM 2, p. 225), elec 9 Feb (BRUO2)–depr bef. 20 Jan 1560 (Reg. Parker, p. 214), as such pres bef. 4 Sept 1556 William Thackwra vic Collaton, Dev (DRO, EDRC 18, fo. 12r); Oxford v-c 1557, rep. ca. 16 Dec by Thomas White (qv) (Wood, Fasti 1, c. 152); 16 Feb 1556 with Turberville, Blaxton, Rixman and Southern (all qv) and 3 other clks on quorum of heresy comm for Exeter dioc (Wilkins, Concilia, 4, pp. 140-42); bef. 15 Aug 155720 with Blaxton and Turberville examined and condemned Agnes Prest (Foxe, [1576], pp. 1943-44; [1583], pp. 2049 and 2148); temps 7 Nov 1558 as bp of Heref (CPRPM 4, p. 469)–depr 1559 (HBC); imprisoned in Marshalsea where † 24 Nov 1559 (BRUO2 citing Sander’s report to Morone in Pollen, pp. 13-14, but none of this information found there); † in prison aft. Tunstall21 (Foxe [1570], p. 2301); 13 Mar 1559 gave MerC £10 and Lucian’s works in Greek (Florence, 1517), Aristotle, Metaphysica (Paris, 1515), Antonio Andrea Questiones novissime (Venice, 1513), Johannes Canonicus, Super octo libros physicorum Aristotelis (Venice, 1505)

and Pliny the younger, Historia mundi (Basel, 1535) (BRUO2); alleged to have gone to London to comfort others and surrendered voluntarily, part of Sander’s encomium to Morone of ca. May 1561 (far longest) of him among 4 deans who died in prison, example to rest of determined martyrdom (Pollen, pp. 13-14) and on his list of deans suffering as Catholic (Sander, DVM, p. 690); will 20 Nov 1559/prov 1 Dec, grant of admon 10 Nov 1562 to Walter Mugg (TNA, PROB, 11/42B, fo. 494r PCC 62 Chaynay; BRS 18, 260): places: city of Exeter and suburbs, Cheriton Fitzpaine, Pytt in Tiverton [in Emden but not SE], Holsworthy, Pyn [?Pinhoe], all Dev, Ditcheat, Som, persons: Walter Mugg, bedesman [partially ill.] in city of Exeter and suburbs, bro Richard, his chil (Jerome, Edmunde, William, James, John, Joan, unmarr das), bro John and wife Elizabeth, their das (Jane, 2 sis), bro William, his da Agnes, bro Michael [see last], priest, John Raynold, svts (Roger Hall, Gilbert Blake, Hugh Barton, Pest[illeg], White, Hortopp, Christopher, Milwod, Edmund Olde, Robert Darker, Thomas Mirrifild, Kelly, Margery Hyll, Margaret), Cypian [sic] Rawlinge, Spencer’s [?] son of Exeter, Sir Neale, Sir Pate, Mr Hopkins, Rowe, fell. of Oriel Coll., Mr Jierom, Mr Markes, Mr Edrig of Oxford, John Anthonye of Exeter, Mr Wolcott, John Wikes, former svt Thomas Jacobe, John Brogden, Blaxton (qv) (ovs), witn Edmond Boner [Bonner; qv], legacies: cash (approx. well over £315), £12 to poor kin on mother’s side, 12d to every bedesman [partially ill.] in Exeter and suburbs, 6s 8d to godchil, doles (over £15, incl almshouse of Wynnerds St Rocks Lane, St Anne’s Chapel, house at Eastgate Street, Belluters gate, and St Peters Cloister), bedding, goblet, books, clothing, horses, plate, £4 paid out of Martin’s debt, rest forgiven, debts of Estbroke and Barton (£4 3d) forgiven; ?rel Wm Reynolds adm 25 Sept 1528 collector of D&C rents in city of Exeter (ECA, 3551, fo. 53v); prob. rel Richard Reynolds (qv)

Rede, Edward († Sept 1567): pres 9 Jan 1557 rect Hareby, Linc (CRP, no. 1809a), still bef. 14/16 Jan 156222 when unmarr priest, somewhat educ, resident, non-preacher, only ben (CCCC, MS 97, fo. 85r), worth 102s 10d in 1554 (TNA, E 33/4, fo. 158r); will 2 Sept 1567/prov 10 Sept (LincRO, LCC Wills 1567, fo. 88r-v; BRS 28, p. 264): bur in chancel, 2s to poorbox, 8d to Lincoln cath, 20d to Thomas Wright, Thomas Travaine, Oliver Wyttonne, Widow Farnesley and Jennet Tasker, barley to Robert Read, cow at Claxby, Linc to John Cussen, 4d to each godchild, Helen Dentonne best cow and bed, dishes, furniture, grain, chickens, geese and wages, 10 marks to nephew John Hoppen and his son, Thomas Atkinson, rect of Gretham23 to see both paid, 40s to him, 3s 4d to svt William Shaw plus wages, residue to Robert Frost, rect of Bolingbroke,24 exec, also witn

Rede, Innocent: coll 20 Dec 1546 Chardstock preb,25 Salis (W&SRO, D1/2/16, Reg. Capon, fo. 32v), instal 23 Dec by proxy (SCAB 14:2, p. 37), comp 17 Mar 1547 £16 19s, John Southcott, Middle Temple and Thomas Bough, St Faith’s, surs (TNA, E 334/3, fo. 115v)–resig bef. 29 Mar 1564 (F3 6, p. 32); abs minor orders under age and schism (CRP, no. 1356)

Redworth, Richard: oc Christmas 1541 curate of Southwark St George (Reg. Gardiner, p. 182); inst 9 May 1554 rect Carshalton, Surr, Sir William Goring, pat., comp 13 June (Reg. Gardiner, pp. 138 and 151); resig bef. 14 Oct 1556 vic Whitchurch, Buck

(CRP, no. 1736), worth £8 17s in 1603 (Foster, Lincoln, p. 269); ?inst 30 May 1560 rect Warlingham, Surr on † of John Sympson II, Robert Harris (both qv), pat. (Reg. Parker, p. 207); ?MA,26 inst 1 Aug 1560 rect Farleigh, Surr (also on Sympson’s †), MerC, pat. (Reg. Parker, p. 209), vac († another man) bef. 11 June 1594 (LPL, Whitgift’s reg. II, fo. 242v)

Reyner, Thomas († bef. 13 Apr 1574): BCL 1528 with George Lilborne (qv) (GBΓ, p. 232); of St Ives, Hunt, ord unben priest 11 June 1530 to title Chatteris abbey27 (LincRO, Epis. reg. 26, fo. 27r); inst 20 Nov 1533 vic Southill, Bed, Newnham priory, pat. (LincRO, Epis. reg. 27, fo. 266r), vac bef. 1 Dec 1555 (Thomas Story, qv) but resident there in early 1560s (see bel.); oc 3 June 1542 comm and off. of ad Bedford (LincCA 2, p. 64), still 1554 when pres Tobert Thewold vic Milton Harnes, Bed (LincRO, Epis. reg. 28, fo. 101v; LI2, no. 48), still 28 Mar 1555 (TNA, E 334/6, pt 2, fo. 13r); ?inst aft. 3 June 1542 rect Ashton Flavell, Leic (LincRO, Epis. reg. 27, fo. 170r)–depr bef. 23 Sept 1559 wrb George Acworth (qv) (SVI, p. 4); inst 8 Feb 1557 rect Meppershall, Linc (CRP, no. 1838)–† bef. 13 Apr 1574 wrb Richard Reyner or Rayner (qv) (LincRO, P.D. 1574/42), Lord Mordaunt, pat. (Foster, ‘Beds’, p. 154); instal 1 Sept 1555 by proxy Bedford minor preb, Linc (LincCA 3, p. 120), still ca. 1562 when unmarr priest, resident in Southill, 2 bens (CCCC, MS 97, fo. 94v), oc Sept 1572-† (F3 9, p. 38)

Reynolds, Richard († 1535): prob from Pinhoe, Dev;28 BA 1506, MA 1509, BTh 1513; fell. 1510 CCCC; entered 1513 Syon abbey; left it 94 books; introduced Sir Thomas More (qv) to Elizabeth Barton, nun of Kent; allegedly urged Sir George Throckmorton prob. in 1532 to continue to support Katherine of Aragon; to Tower shortly bef. 20 Apr 1535; tried 28 Apr; executed 4 May (ODNB); Thomas Starkey (qv/5) told Pole had tried to persuade him to accept supremacy and that Reynolds had killed himself for superstition (CRP, nos 76 and 115)

Reynolds, Thaddy: als McGranyll, Ardagh dioc, ord priest 21 May 1524; BCL bef. 1524, BCnL 18 Feb 1528, IUD bef. 1540; coll 2 Sept 1534 vic St Peter’s, Clonard, co. Meath (BRUO2, p. 478); prov 11 Nov 1540 bp of Kildare when held 3 other [unnamed] bens29 (Eubel, p. 185), vac bef. 30 Aug 1555 (Thomas Leverous, qv/5), as such accepted supremacy and recognized by crown as abp of Dublin’s suffragan but not as bp of Kildare; prob. presided 3 July 1548 with Robert Luttrell at synod of Armagh (BRUO2); vac Galtrim bef. 10 July 1555 (Robert Luttrell, qv)

Rice, John ap († bef. 14 Feb 1558): many men of this name incl others in Salis dioc now; ?BCnL 8 July 1532 (more or less with William Geffrey [qv] and see bel.) (RUO 1, p. 169); ?inst 28 July 1548 vic Wilsford30 (rep. Roland Swynborne, qv), Bp Salcot (qv), pat. by lapse (W&SRO, D1/2/16, Reg. Capon, fo. 39r); inst 30 July 1555 Gillingham minor preb, Salis, Thomas Sowth, W. Amberbury, Wilt, pat. (W&SRO, D1/2/16, Reg. Capon, fo. 67r-8v; F3 6, p. 43: 31 July), instal 23 Aug (SCAB 14:2, p. 90)–† bef. 14 Feb 155831 (CRP, no. 2180); ?substitute for Geffrey in CC 28 Apr 1556 (W&SRO, D1/39/1/2, fo. 58r)

Rice, Roland: 1541 vic E. Malling, Suss (Fielding, Rochester, p. 188)–depr bef. 27 Jan 1557 wrb John Wells (qv) (CRP, no. 1819), worth £10 16s 4d (VE 1, p. 116)

Richard, Ricarde or Richarde, John: pres by crown 10 Apr 1554 4th preb, Norwich, inst by proxy 23 Apr-† bef. 2 Nov 1558 (F3 7, p. 55 citing bur at Westm); pres 10 May 1554 2nd stall, Westm (F3 7, p. 72), instal 12 May (WmCA, p. 101)–dissolution (CRP, no. 1698), fairly regular attender in 1555 (ibid., nos 163, 167-170 and 173); portrait may survive (WmCA, p. xliii)

Richards, Henry: clk, inst 8 Nov 1557 vic W. Tarring, Suss, William Bradbridge (qv), pat. phv (CRP, no. 2121), vac bef. 2 Sept 1567 (Reg. Parker, p. 845), worth £8 13s 4d (VE 1, p. 311)

Richardson, Christopher († bef. 7 June 1558): pres by crown 12 Mar 1554 vic Sittingbourne, Kent (CPRPM 1, p. 357), inst 8 June (CCA, DCc, Reg N, fo. 71v; SVI, p. 117), comp 13 June £9, Thomas Gooddye, St Mary Somerset, fruiterer and Richard Smythe, St Dunstan’s in the East, cooper, surs (TNA, E 334/4, fo. 164v)–† bef. 7 June 1558 (CRP, no. 2246), tithe suit [June 1556] (CCA, DCB Y.4.6, fo. 63v) and sued 15 July 1556 for defamation by Alice Snoth (qv) of Sittingbourne (CCA, DCB Y.4.6, fo. 64v); admon 1558 (Cant Ad Actbook, 13, fo. 29 acc. BRUO2; cf. BRS 50, p. 401); 1)32 BCnL 1514 (AlC 3, p. 451); allegedly inst 16 Sept 1532 rect St Martin Pomary,33 Smithfield priory, pat.–resig bef. 11 Mar 1539 (GL, 9531/11, fos 19v and 46r), worth £12 7s 4d (VE 1, p. 373); 2) QCO34 lecturer in logic 1542, still 1544, fell. University Coll. 1545, BA 20 Mar 1542, MA 8 Feb 1546 (BRUO2, p. 485); oc 1548 Taylors stipendary (£2 13s 4d), Oxford St Martin, 29 years old, ‘well learned’ (Rose Graham, ed., ‘The chantry certificates’, Oxfordshire record society, 1 [1919], pp. vii-56, p. 13); 3) chap, inst 12 May 1532 rect Saltfleetby St Peter, Linc, Sir William Ascugh [Askew] and Martin Richardson, merchant of the Staple, pats. phv (LincRO, Epis. reg. 27, fo. 56r-v), vac bef. 13 Feb 1548 (John Arnold, qv), ?this man inst 6 Aug 1538 rect Swallow, Linc, George St Paul, pat. (LincRO, Epis. reg. 27, fo. 67v)

Ridge, Edward: of Isleham, Camb (AlC 3, p. 457); BA 1545, aft. 7 [sic] years study postBA, BCL 1555 (GBΔ, pp. 21 and 105 and AlC); cr 18 March 1555 notary, TCC (CRP, no. 1131)–† (will); signed 26 July 1555 Catholic articles at Cantab (Mere, p. 175); will 27 and 28 May 1582/prov 15 June (TNA, PROB, 11/64, fo 187v PCC 25 Tirwhite; BRS 18, p. 262) places: Hawskhead, Colthouse, both Cumb, Eskwaterffoote [unided], Swynsnesse [unided], TCC, persons: bro James Rigge and son William, bro Alexander Rigge and sons (Edward, William and James Rigge), bro-in-law Robert Braythwate and son William, wife of William Braythwate of Satterhowe [?Satterthwaite, Cumb], sis’ sons (Thomas, William and Christopher Braythwate), late Margaret Braythwate, Roland Braythwate’s das (Agnes, Isabel and Elizabeth Braythwate), John Braythwate, cousins (Robert Rigge of Roger Ground, Cumb, William Sowrey, John Sowrey), kin in Little St Bartholomew’s and Cantab, William Foxton, alderman of Cantab (exec), John Elrowe’s das Agnes and Eleanor Elrowe, Christopher Braythwate, Brian Makrell of Kendall, Cumb, George Makrell of Skelloth [?Skelwith Bridge, Cumb], Leonard Benson, William Satterforthe, Roland Nicholson, Thomas Manser, Mary Mayes, kin of Goodwife Awdrye of Fulmer, Buck, Elizabeth Chamberleyne, svt to Goodman

Awdrye, Goodman Swannes of Newton, [?Camb], John Fuller of Foxton, Camb, Christopher Raie, ‘a mother Alexander in St Clement’s churchyard’, widow Baynes of Cantab St Clement’s, ‘the widow dwelling under my chamber or office of the reg.’, Richard Moodye, ‘mine host Tooley his maid’ Mary Pomfrett, ‘a young fell. Trowghte’, ‘host’ Raye’s svt William, widow Awdrie, Arthur Charleton’s chil, deputy Thomas Hopkyns, notary (deputy as registrar of ad Ely), John Fryckley of JCC, John Norcott, John Smithe, notary, Dr Randall, ad of Ely [John Parker, F3 7, p. 13] (ovs), dean of Ely [Andrew Perne, qv] (ovs), Dr [Henry] Harvey (qv) (ovs), Mistress Foxton, Mistress Fuller, Goodwife Swanne, widow Fuller, William Fuller, Mary White, ‘host’ and ‘hostess’ Wood, Thomas Tooley, legacies: cash (over £8 13s 8d plus £120 distributed to persons in ‘north parts’), 6s debt to TCC, doles, clothing, rings, items of interest: £20 to highway repair between Colthouse and church of Hawkshead and at bridge at Eskwaterffoote, debts owing possibly totaling £40, Ridge collector of the ‘Ely farthing’ and other rents of Ely cath and deputy for dean of Ely ‘with the fees thereof’ 4 marks p.a., Fryckley appt to be deputy and gets prin registrarship of ad Ely, to pay £12 p.a. for the office to Foxton, Norcott and Smithe in line for job, a hospital set up in Camb with some of the proceeds of his office

Ridge, Richard (ca. 1498/1500-16/20 Aug 1558): ?BA 30 June 1516, MA 20 Feb 1520 (RUO 1, p. 99); C&L dioc, possibly ca. 1519 foundation fell. BrCO (RUO 1, p. 345), vac bef. 1533 (BRUO2, p. 485); canon of Canons Ashby,35 Ntht, ord 8 Mar 1516 relig subd (LincRO, Epis. reg. 25, fo. 117r); ord priest 24 Sept 1524 to title of Rewley abbey,36 Oxon (GL, 9531/10, fo. 155v); inst 27 Oct 1533 vic Alconbury, Hunt, Merton priory,37 pat. (LincRO, Epis. reg. 27, fo. 242v), vac (depr) bef. 2 May 1554 (LincRO, Epis. reg. 28, fo. 123r; LI2, no. 339); 1534 abbot of Nutley, Buck38 when signed oath of supremacy and at surrender in 1538 when pensioned on £100, still pd 1553 (ex inform. Peter Cunich), disp 10 Feb 1539 to hold ben wch (FOR, p. 174); comp 20 July 1542 rect St Vedast Foster Lane £29 10s 3d, Henry Russell, Malverne parva, Worc, arm and Edward Ridge, St Brigid, gent39 (TNA, E 334/2, fo. 158r) and coll (LPLCR, fo. 389r)–resig bef. 16 Nov 1550 (LPLCR, fo. 412v); vic Eltisley, Camb 1543 (Bridges, Northamptonshire 2, p. 129) but prob. mistake for comp 14 Apr 1543 vic Cholsey, Berk £16 12s 8d, William Bromleye, St Dunstans in the West, gen and Ridge, surs (TNA, E 334/2, fo. 142v), inst 16 Apr, crown patronage (W&SRO, D1/2/16, Reg. Capon, fo. 14v), pres again 19 Nov 1556 (TNA, C66/910, m. 28; CPRPM 3, p. 367)–† (CRP, no. 2291a; Robert Gooddaye, qv),40 worth £20 in 1554 (WCA A 23, fo. 103v); chap to Anthony Kitchin (qv), disp 14 Mar 1549 for 2nd ben (FOR, p. 318); called John Rudge [sic], inst 22 Mar 1550 rect Walgrave, Ntht (Bridges, Northamptonshire 2, p. 129), comp 28 Mar £19 19s 9d, Henry Busshe, St Margaret Moses, skinner and William Phillips, All Hallows Breadstreet, salter, surs (TNA, E 334/4, fo. 47r)–resig 26 Oct 1553 by proxy (NoRO, X956/1, fo. 45r); Augustinian canon, abs 22 Feb 1557

schism & apostasy, disp to hold ben (CRP, no. 1870); 2 wills, 23 Apr 1557 and 16 Aug 1558/prov 20 Aug, admon 8 Feb 1559 to Agnes Ridge, 2nd in part necessitated by bro Roland’s death (TNA, PROB, 11/40 PCC 37 Noodes; BRS 11, p. 447): Catholic committal clause in 2nd, bur wherever die (in chancel of Cholsey and 6s 8d for its repair in 1st), 3s 4d to its high altar, auto. list of bequests in my house at Cholsey (2nd), 40s dole at bur and month’s minds, cousin Thomas Kerry and sis Agnes Ridge to replace me as exec of bro Roland of Grendon Underwood, Buck, also res legs, 20s to Thomas Maskall for his help, earlier wills revoked;41 witns: James Roo, clk, Roger Pynder, Thomas Maskall, Edward Lutwiche, Anthony Fryer, 20s to godson Richard Maskall, 40s to Richard Prentys, £5 to William Sharpe who signed along with Pynder and Fryer

Ridley, Nicholas (ca. 1502-16 Oct 1555): b. nr Willimontswick, Northum, rel Cuthbert Tunstall (qv); early career formed by father Christopher and his bro Robert Ridley, Tunstall’s secretary; ca. 1518 entered Pembroke Coll., fell. 1524, mr 1540; BA 1522, MA 1525; also studied at Paris and Louvain (AtC 1, pp. 135-38 and 3, p. 111); BTh 1537, DTh 1541 (ODNB); Cranmer’s chap 1537; coll 1342 Apr 1538 rect Herne, Kent (AtC); appt 5th preb, Cant at foundation (L&P 16, no. 779.5)–promotion to Roch with commendam for preb-resig bef. 25 July 1550 (F3 3, p. 24); threatened by Gardiner (qv) abt time of Prebs’ Plot (ODNB); pres 13 Nov 1545 8th preb, Westm (L&P 20:2, no. 910.35), inst 15 Nov, held in commendam-resig bef. 6 Mar 1553 (F3 7, p. 78); persuaded Edward Crome (qv) to recant 27 June 1546; converted Cranmer (qv) to spiritual view of eucharist (ODNB); elec 4 Sept 1547 bp Roch, cons 25 Sept-translation to London (F3 3, p. 50); among visitors of Cantab University 1549; helped with 1st Prayer Book; on comm for reform of canon law (Old DNB); translated to London 24 Feb/1 Apr 1550-5 Sept 1553 when Bonner (qv) restored (F3 1, p. 1); visited almost immediately; induced John Hooper (qv) to drop opposition to vestments (ODNB); coll John Bradford and John Rogers (both qv) to London prebs (Old DNB); resig43 bef. 5 Sept 1552 vic Soham, Suff (NRO, DN/REG/12/18, fo. 31r); interview with Mary in 1552/3 when she refused to consider supporting evangelicals; strongly supported Lady Jane Grey; among first arrested; with Cranmer and Latimer (qv) engaged in Oxford disputation Apr 1554; 26 Sept 1555 trial committed to panel of bps (CRP, no. 1385); executed at Oxford (ODNB); posthumous works in Old DNB

Ridshawe, Redshawe, Anthony (prob. † 1564): chap, inst 17 Oct 1539 vic Riseley, Bed, Thomas Blenkensope, pat. phv (LincRO, Epis. reg. 27, fo. 269r), vac bef. 16 Nov 1558 (LI2, no. 644); ?depr bef. 5 Apr 1554 vic Cocking, Suss (WSRO, MP 1095, p. 181 from Ep/I/1/16, fo. 99), worth £13 6s 8d (VE 1, p. 325); inst 8 Apr 1554 [sic] vic Raunds, Ntht (NoRO, X956/1, fo. 49), pres 2 July 1557 crown patronage (CRP, no. 2055), vac (†) bef. 19 Sept 1564 (NoRO, X/956/1, fo. 104r), witn to 2 wills in 1558 and 1560 (Longden 11, p. 157; Bridges, Northamptonshire 2, pp. 187 and 375), oc 11 Oct 1558 (Longden 16, p. 168 citing Inst bk 1, fo. 207) and 30 Aug 1561 (Bridges, Northamptonshire 2, pp. 187 and 375), worth £10 6s 6d (TNA, E 334/8, fo. 45v); inst

29 Mar 1558 rect Pilton, Ntht, Maurice Tresham, arm, pat. (NoRO, X/956/1, fo. 68r; Bridges, Northamptonshire 2, p. 375)–† bef. 27 Feb 1564 (NoRO, X/956/1, fo. 101r), but may also have resig either bef. 1 Mar 1561 (Reg. Parker, p. 681) or bef. Apr 1559 (Longden 16, p. 168 citing Inst bk, fo. 81); inst aft. 29 Mar 1558 rect Great Catworth, Hunt-† bef. 1563-4 (LincRO, Epis. reg. 28, fos 126r and 89v; LI2, no. 373 and LI1, no. 526)

Riley, Henry (ca. 1515-86 [BRUO2]): from Lanc, adm 6 Aug 1532 CCC scholar aged 17 years 7 mos, probationary fell. 10 Jan 1536, fell. 1538, vac bef. 1546; BA 4 Feb 1534, MA 2 July 1537, sup BTh 8 Feb 1544; university preacher 1st Sunday in Lent 1544; fell. EtC 26 Aug 1546, prob. depr 1554 (BRUO2, p. 497); ord priest 22 Mar 1539 (LincRO, Epis. reg. 26, fo. 59r); ?inst 14 Oct 1537 rect Wilmslow, Ches, Edmund Trafford, pat. (LRO, B/A/1/14 (iii), fo. 36r)–resig bef. 31 May 1542 (Ormerod 3, p. 595; cf. ‘Compositions’, p. 394); ?comp 20 June 1542 chantry in Manchester (‘Compositions’, p. 407); fell. coll. church of Manchester at refoundation 26 March 1557 (CRP, no. 1924); inst 1 Jan 1560 canon of Windsor-† (BRUO2); coll 20 July 1564 Gillingham major preb, Salis, instal 12 Aug, adm to residence 17 Aug, oc 19 Oct 1577, still 22 Sept 1571, vac bef. 1586 (F3 6, pp. 42 and 96); pres 2 July 1565 rect Stratfield Saye, Hant (CPREI, 1563-66, p. 317), inst [prob. 21 Mar 1565], crown pat. (HaRO, 21M65/A1/26, fo. 10r)–† bef. 24 Sept 1586 (HaRO, 21M65/A1/27 [Reg. Cooper], fo. 7v)

Ringrose, John (ca. 1533-bef. 13 May 1594): son of Richard, Cold Ashby, Ntht, carpenter (Longden 11, p. 207); scholar, disp 5 Sept 1555 orders (CRP, no. 1363a); inst 9 Feb 1560 rect Pitsford, Ntht, Augustus Cryspe, pat. (Reg. Parker, p. 199), oc 1561 (Bridges, Northamptonshire 1, p. 463, citing par reg.)–† (ibid., pp. 95 and 463; not in NoRO, X/956/1); inst 14 May 1562 vic Weedon Bec, Ntht (NoRO, X/956/1, fo. 95r), still45 1576 when aged 44, resident in Weedon, also held Pitsford, celibate [sic], priest, learned in Latin and theology, Augustine Chrispe, gen, pat. of Weedon (LPL, Carte misc 13/56, p. 7)–resig 1586 (Longden 11, p. 207), certainly vac bef. 26 May 1596 (LPL, Carte misc 13/65); bur 13 May 1594 Pitsford (Bridges, Northamptonshire 1, p. 463, citing par reg.), 6 chil, 1 also clergyman,46 father bequeathed lease of house he [ambiguous whether son or father] lived in 1570 (Longden 11, p. 207)

Rise, John († bef. 7 May 1531 [F2 9, p. 12]): 1 of 3 men of this name whose careers in Exeter dioc overlap; lst 5 bens cannot be assigned certainly although they may all belong to no. 1, the corr man: oc 21 May 1492 Ottery St Mary preb,47 Dev (Reg. Morton 2, no. 280)–resig bef. 19 Dec 1517 (DRO, EDRC 13, fo. 73r); coll 26 July 1497 rect Hadleigh, Ess (Reg. Morton 1, no. 677); resig bef. 7 Aug 1506 vic Newlyn, Corn (DRO, EDRC 13, fo. 8v), bull of plurality 1 Apr 1505 for it and 2 other bens (DRO, EDRC 13, fos 142v-143r); chap, inst 21 May 1516 rect St Martin by Looe, Corn, John Rowse, exec of Walter Smart, pat. phv (DRO, EDRC 13, fo. 66r); 1) BCL,48 oc bef. 1 June 1492 preb Exeter (Reg. Morton 2, no. 276; coll not in DRO, EDRC 12:2)–† bef. 8 May 1531 (ECA, 3551, fo. 69r and DRO, EDRC 14, fo. 54r), distributions from 1507 (full year), 1508 (2nd quarter), 1509 (1st three quarters), not in 1510, 1512 (2nd

quarter), 1513 (1,2,4), 1-3 1514, 1515-3rd quarter 1532-3 (ECA, 3707), he and R. Tollett (qv) alone made coll 21 Jan 1523 (ECA, 3551, fo. 12v), replaced as regular president bef. 18 Nov 1528 (ECA, 3551, fo. 54v); coll 10 Jan 1518 treas of Exeter (DRO, EDRC 13, fo. 73r), still 31 July 1528 (ECA, 3551, fo. 59r)–† (F2 9, p. 12), as such present for Pole’s elec as dean of Exeter (CRP, no. 48); coll 17 Mar 1517 rect Stokeinteignhead, Dev-resig bef. 16 May 1519 to John, jr (DRO, EDRC 13, fos 69r and 80v); rebus a brush of twigs preceded by stick for ‘I’ or ‘J’ on stone screen front of Speke chantry (chapel of St George, Exeter cath) in upper tier of panels ab. angel holding shield w/ treas’s arms, must date 1518-9, same time as rebus on mantlepiece in Vicars’ choral hall restored by him (Ethel Lega-Weekes, ‘Ryse’s rebus in hall of vicars choral and in cathedral’, Devon and Cornwall notes and queries, 8 [1934-5], pp. 78-80); 2) John, jr, son of last († bef. 13 Feb 1548): warned 23 Nov 1523 to reside in Stokeinteignhead (DRO, EDRC 15, fo. 27r); pres 24 Dec 1524 by Brerewood (qv) vic Thorverton, Dev (ECA, 3551, fo. 24r), inst 16 Jan 1525 (DRO, EDRC 14, fo. 23v), vac (†) bef. 7 June 1548 (DRO, EDRC 14, fo. 129v); inst 16 Jan 1546 rect Exeter St Kieran, D&C of Exeter, pat.–† bef. 13 Feb 1548 (DRO, EDRC 14, fos 119r and 129r), comp 27 Jan £5 6s 6d, Philip Frear, vic Dean Prior, Dev, sur (TNA, E 334/3, fo. 79r); † holding preb or chap of Heighes infra castrum, city of Exeter, marquess of Exeter, pat. (DRO, EDRC 14, fo. 54r), rated in 153649 subsidy at 74s 9d (DRO, Chanter Reg. 15, fos 86r-99v), in 1548 worth £10 10s 7d (Snell, Chantry. . .Dev, p. 16); 3) († 25 June 1519):50 prior of Plympton, Dev, inst 26 June 1512 vic Maire,51 Exeter dioc, William Forestuo [sic] pat. by grant of Plympton priory-† 25 June 1519 (DRO, EDRC 13, fos 47r and 81r), prob. this man inst 19 Jan 1511 vic Dean Prior, Dev, Plympton priory, pat.–resig bef. 29 June 1512 (DRO, EDRC 13, fos 42r and 47r)

Rise, Louis: inst 19 June 1556 vic Bassaleg, Mon, John Broxolme, pat. (CRP, no. 1587), still 1560 when also rect Machen, Glam where resident (Willis, Llandaff, p. 211), vac (†) Machen bef. 5 Aug 1582 (LPL, Whitgift’s reg. I, fos 219v-20r)

Rixman, John (?† 1557):52 from Dev, BA 7 Feb 1521, MA 17 July 1525, sup for BTh May 1532;53 fell. Oriel Coll. 21 Nov 1521 (RUO 1, pp. 117 and 345); pres by D&C Exeter 10 Sept 1530 rect Trevalga, Corn (ECA, 3551, fo. 66r), inst 11 Sept (DRO, EDRC 14, fo. 51r)–resig bef. 13 July 1538 (ECA, 3552, fo. 10r; cf. DRO, EDRC 14, fo. 93v); coll 22 Dec 1537 vic St Enodoc, Corn (DRO, EDRC 14, fo. 91v)–resig bef. 21 Nov 1557 (DRO, EDRC 18, fo. 26v), 28 March 1545 granted its advowson by bp (ECA, 3552, fo. 36r); inst 13 Mar 1540 rect St Clement Danes, bp of Exeter, pat. (GL, 9531/12/1, fo. 138v)–† bef. 20 Dec 1557 wrb Ralph Jackson (qv) (GL, 9531/12/2, fo. 199v), farmed 8 Jan 1556 some of its property to James Basset, gent of privy chamber54 for 40s (GL, 9531/12/2, fos 116v-117r); comp 15 July 1544 for preb Exeter last held by Thomas Thornham £3 12s, John Chuntrell, St Michaels in the Quern, vintner and Thomas Anderson, All Hallows the less, fishmonger, surs (TNA, E 334/3, fo. 23r), coll 26 July (DRO, EDRC 14, fo. 113r), instal 30 July, 25 Oct protested residence (ECA 3552, fos 30v and 31v), 29 Nov 1544 settlement by epis

intervention of dispute with D&C over house (ECA 3552, fos 33v-34r), distributions 2nd quarter 1544/5-1st quarter 1558/9 (†), steward fabric 1549-53, 1555 and 1556 (ECA, 3552, fos 50r, 51r, 55r, 56v, 57r, 64r and 66r), steward common chest 1548, 1553-4 (ECA, 3552, fos 47r, 57r, 58v), granted days 25 July 1555 (ECA, 3552, fo. 65v); 19 June 1546 demanded portion of Stoke Wood by right, but told could have only canonically due portion (ECA, 3552, fo. 42v), 24 July 1550 granted manor of Colyton and Ballallor (?) (ECA, 3552, fo. 54v), 9 Aug 1550 granted mansion at St Ives (ECA, 3552, fo. 55r), 22 Sept 1553 proc to convocation with H. Morgan (qv) (ECA, 3552, fo. 59r), fairly regular attender at chapter meetings (ECA, 3552, passim); 12 June 1547 co-grantee with Morgan and T. Southern (qv) of advowson phv of preb in Exeter cath which apparently used to pres J. Blaxton (qv) (ECA, 3551, fo. 218r-v); inst 15 Feb 1550 by Blaxton vic Berry Pomeroy, Dev, crown pat. (DRO, EDRC 14, fo. 135r)–† bef. 13 Dec 1557 (DRO, EDRC 18, fo. 27v); pres by crown 27 Apr 1554 1st stall, Bristol, inst 16 June-† (F3 8, p. 21); inst 23 Sept 1554 ad Corn, John and Anne Tusser, widow and administrator of William Body,55 pats. (DRO, EDRC 16, fo. 29r), ?vac bef. 2 Mar 1556 (ECA, 3552, fo. 65r); inst 23 Sept 1554 vic Brixham, Dev, crown pat. (DRO, EDRC 16, fo. 29r)–† bef. 16 Dec 1557 (DRO, EDRC 18, fo. 27v); inst 10 Jan 1555 precentor Exeter, Anthony Harvy arm, pat. (CCA, DCc, Reg N, fo. 118v), comp 20 Feb 1556 £89 14s, William Rixman, St Michael Cornhill, clothworker and Richard Vale, St Clement Danes, yeom, surs (TNA, E 334/6, fo. 34v), moved 1555/6 to 2nd spot in precedence (i.e., precentor; ECA, 3552, fo. 62r), 25 July 1555 conceded days (ECA, 3552, fo. 65v), 17 Aug 1556 agreed to £26 13s 4d pension to G. Carew (qv) (ECA, 3552, fo. 76r); 16 Feb 1556 with Turberville, Blaxton, T. Raynold and Southern (all qv) and 3 other clks on quorum of heresy comm for Exeter dioc (Wilkins, Concilia, 4, pp. 140-142); comp 20 Feb 1556 Ilton preb, Wells £139 14s, same surs as for precentor (TNA, E 334/6, fo. 34v), coll 25 Feb (SRS 55, no. 808), vac bef. 25 June 1558 (John Boxall, qv); involved 20 March 1556 in Thomas Reynolds’s suit (CRP, no. 1915a); † Dec 1557 (F1 1, p. 412); will 1 June 1556/admon 23 Jan 1558/9 (TNA, PROB, 11/ 42A): apparently Protestant committal clause,56 precentor of Exeter, places: Magdalen house, Eastgate, Exeter St Edmond’s on the Bridge, persons: William Say (qv), proc, svts (George Juttsham, Alexander Torker, James Arthure), Edmond Sture, esq, clks (Blaxton [qv], John Hollwill, John Dotyn), legacies: cash (£39), half-years wages to svts, doles, items of interest: dole for prayers, profits from chantry lands towards prayers, residue of profits to an obit in Exeter St Edmond’s on the Bridge for charity in city of Exeter and suburbs

Robert, William († bef. 16 June 1562 [F2]): b. Llanbedrog in Llyn, Caern, son of Robert ap Llywelin ap Ithal (BRUO2, p. 487); BCL 3 Mar 1522, BCnL 17 May 1534 (RUO 1, p. 123); coll 6 Apr 1524 ad Merioneth on resig William Glynn (qv) (NLW, B/BR/1, fo. 16v)–† bef. 16 June 1562 (F2 11, p. 11),57 as such abs and disp 12 Oct 1556 pluralism, rect Llanbedrog,58 chap of Llangian and Llanvjhengel [sic] and Gwerthir59 (CRP, no.