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Waddington, Christopher († bef. 17 June 1569): priest, inst 13 July 1557 rect Langley, Kent (CRP, no. 2063)–† bef. 17 June 1569 (Reg. Parker, p. 852), worth £6 19s 8d (TNA, E 334/4, fo. 144v); resig1 bef. 30 Oct 1566 vic Sutton Valence, Kent (Reg. Parker, p. 826), worth £7 9s 6d (VE 1, p. 95)

Wade, Guy: will 26 Aug 1557/prov 18 Oct (TNA, PROB 11/39, fo. 303r PCC 40 Wrastley; BRS, 11, p. 546): of London and Stondon, Hert, esq; £9 to household svts, execute agreement with Richard Wetherall for marr between Barnaby Whetherall, Richard’s cousin, and svt Elizabeth; bro-in-law William Pickeringe £10;2 ‘right, honorable, and good Mr Sir John Baker [qv]’, hoop fine gold, value 40s; bro[-in-law; Thomas, qv] and sis Argall, hoop of fine gold, value 40s; wife Katherine, and Samuel, son and heir, res legs; lands in Stondon to Katherine, then to Samuel; if Samuel dies with no heir, land to Pickering and pays Katherine £300; if son dies, goods and chattels to wife; execs: Katherine, Samuel, and Pickering; probate approved by Pole 28 Oct 1557 (CRP, no. 2115)

Wadham, John: not further identified, pat. with J. Tregonwell (qv) 20 Nov 1557 Alton Borealis preb, Salis (CRP, no. 2127); 1)3 from Catherston, Dor; BCL 1 Aug 1524; nom June 1527 by Wolsey principal Peckwater Inn and Vine Hall, vac June 1530; principal St Edward Hall in 1529 (BRUO2, p. 599); 2) adm May 1533 Inner Temple; captain 9 Aug 1550 Sandisfoot Castle; MP Melcombe Regis, Dor 1553, Weymouth, Dor 1554; 1558-† recorder of Lyme Regis (HPT 3, p. 532); will 12 Jan 1584/prov 2 May (TNA, PROB 11/67 PCC 2 Watson; BRS, 25, p. 430): bur near father in Whitchurch,4 6s 8d to vic for tithes, £10 to church, 20s to poor, 6s 8d to every church where has lands and 13s 4d to poor of each, poor of Lazarhouse next Bridport 3s 4d, its poor 13s 4d, 53s 4d to repair of causeway between Chideock and Bridport, £200 da. Mary, da. Margaret £300, son George keep until their marriages and provide for them, son John land and £12; 3) pat. 1552 of Walter Wright (qv) in rect Silverton, Dev,5 of Merrifield, Som,6 again 7 Aug 1561 when George Carew (qv) inst (Reg. Parker, p. 682); oc 1572 pat. rect Ermington, Dev (DRO, EDRC 20, fo. 8r); will 1 Apr 1577/prov 10 Mar 1578 (TNA, PROB 11/60 PCC 13 Langley; BRS, 18, p. 322): places: bur in St Katherine’s aisle of Ilminster, 6s 8d to Wells cath, 10s to Ilminster, 40s dole there and in Taunton, Ileton, Langport, both Stocklynches, Chard, 20s to those of Isle Abbotts, Drayton, Staple, Ayshell, Currymallet, Whitlackington, Peckington, Barryngton, Shepton, Currywell, Ilbrewes, Hatche, Donyett, Broadway, Combe St Nicholas, Buckland, Bere Crokeham, Bycknell and Curland, Finched, 10s dole in Swellson and almshouses

of Taunton, Langport, Brewton, Honnyngton, Bereport, 40s to prisoners in Ilchester gaol, 6s 8d to Ileton church, £3 10s to making causeway in forest between Ayshill and Hatch, all places thus far Som, persons: wife Jane, son Nicholas (res leg and exec), das Dorothy and Margaret and her husband Nicholas Martin, their chil (including Elizabeth Martin), da Florence Farryngdon, her son John Wyndham, son Sir John Yonge, his chil (Robert, Jane, Margaret Yonge), Eliss Wheadon of Branscombe, Dev, late Sir Giles Strangewayes, his chil (John, Anne, George, Nicholas and Elizabeth Strangewayes), svts (John Moore, John Bobye, William Gibbes, Philip Langforde, John Darte als Harte, Margaret Cantlooe, John Baker the elder, John Baker the younger, William Worth, John Halstaffe, John Hatchins, son Nicholas Wadham’s svt John Baslie, widow Elizabeth Waylond, Dorothy Baker, William Pynnye, Sir Amyas Paulett (ovs), Sir John Yonge (ovs), Sir Henry Porteman (ovs), Humfrey Walronde, esq (ovs), legacies: cash (£225 13s 4d), quarter’s wages to svt Cantlooe, year’s wages to svts, doles (£36), 40s to prisoners of Ilchester, household goods, 6 silver cups (worth £5 each), livestock, jewelry, real estate (Branscombe, Chilson Downe, Chilson lease, Wyelande, grounds and farm of Edge, together with other property in that parish held by indenture from D&C Exeter, common pasture between Bunckcombeshead and Stewers Yate, all pastures in Swetcombe woods), £20 to da. Dorothy, ag. equipment to wife, silver cups worth £5 to each of Strangeways’s five children, same to three chil of my son [?in-law] Sir John Yonge, same to chil of son-in-law Nicholas Marten, various bequests to svts, some large, incl income from manor of Silverton, Devon, £40 to svt Margaret Cantlooe

Waldegrave, Sir Edward (1516/17 [HPT]–† 1 Sept 1561 [memo attached to will]): 1st son Sir John Waldegrave, Ess and Laura da John Rochester, Terling, Ess and thus nephew Sir Robert Rochester (qv) (HPT 3, pp. 534-5); for £821 3s 9d granted 16 June 1546 manor Borley, Ess (A. I. Doyle, ‘Borley and the Waldegraves in the sixteenth century’, Transactions of the Essex archaeological society, new ser., 24 [1951], pp. 17-31, p. 22); marr by 1551 Frances, da Sir Edward Neville, Aldington, Kent; by Aug 1551 gent of Mary’s household when ordered with Sir Francis Englefield (qv) and Rochester to prevent her hearing mass, imprisoned for 2 months for refusal-July 1553; pc Aug 1553-17 Nov 1558, regular attender; MP Wilt Oct 1553, Som both 1554, Ess 1558; leader of opposition to Spanish match with Stephen Gardiner and Sir Edward Hastings (both qv); 4 Nov 1553 receiver gen duchy Corn; helped to secure Pole’s return; 26 Feb 1555 partner in Merchant Adventurers (Doyle, p. 24); cooperated with Bp Hopton in investigation of heresy (Foxe [1570], p. 2240); heresy comm 1557; chancellor duchy Lancaster 22 Jan-25 Dec 1558 (HPT); dedicatee of Robert Wingfield’s ‘Vita Mariae reginae’, 3rd on his list of Mary’s household at Kenninghall in 1553 aft. Rochester and Sir Henry Jerningham (qv) (VMR, pp. 196 and 204); knighted at Mary’s coronation (HPT); oc 10 Mar 1557 pat. rect Barley, Hert when pres Thomas Randolson (GL, 9531/12/2, fo. 197r); 4 Oct 1558 among ovs Pole’s will (CRP, no. 2286); oc 16 Jan 1559 pat. rect Great Munden, Hert, when Christopher Rookes inst, rep. George Bullock (qv) (Reg. Parker, p. 173); oc 2 Aug 1561 pat. rect Burley, Ad Mdx7 when William Cowper inst (GL, 9531/13/1, fo. 121v); imprisoned in Tower 20 Apr 1561 (‘Prisoners’, p. 49) where bur (HPT); monument erected by wife (Doyle, p. 27); famous Catholic noble imprisoned for faith (Sander,

DVM, p. 700); much real estate, concentrated in Ess and north Som (HPT); will 14 Sept 1559/prov 3 Sept 1561 (TNA, PROB 11/44, fos 231v-5r PCC 29 Loftes; BRS, 18, p. 323): of Borley, Ess, preamble emphasizes stewarship of his property, Catholic commital clause, monetary legacies: £40 dole in Borley and Sudbury, Suff, £4 contingent annuity to bro Robert, £5 annuity to bro John, £5 annuity to sis Anne or £100 at marriage, £12 total to svt George Mannocke, 400 marks each to 3 das plus 100 more to Mary if marries good friend Sir Giles Alington’s heir, £20, year’s wages bonus and 40s to all svts, 20 marks persons: grandfather Edward Walgrave, esq, father John Walgrave, esq, bro Robert for whom bought marr to da of George Foster, esq, bro John Waldegrave, sis Anne, wife Dame Frances (res leg and sole exec), son Nicholas Waldgrave, svt John Gennyns in Sudbury, das Mary, Katherine and Magdalen, meant to leave much property temporarily to ‘my loving friend’, blanks left filled up by memo ‘three or four days’ bef. death with Anthony Browne, justice of Common Pleas (supposed to complete will), Sir Francis Englefield, Sir Thomas Cornwallis, Sir Robert Rochester (all qv), John Throgmerton, esq, sis[?in-law] Abell, svt William Awdwyn, Edmund Browne, Florens Shergate, svt (apparently receiver) Thomas Parker, John Frier, MD (witn), places: manors of Chewton, Spaxton, Littellton Whethell [?High Littleton or Wheathill], East Lydford, Welesly [sic], Woodford [?recte Dev], Dulcote and Radstock, all Som (acc. testator), Borley, Navestock (and leases of their rectories; bequest to build new parsonage at Borley) and Molehall, all Ess (acc. testator), Pinhoe, Dev, E. Mersea, Ess (worth £16 p.a. clear), bailiwick of Lavenham park, house in North Street, Sudbury

Walderton, Waldron, etc, John: ord priest Salis 15 Apr 1525 to title of Barlinch priory8 (W&SRO, D1/2/15, fo. 56r); ord unben subd 11 Mar 1525 at Thame to title of chap of Hayes [Heighes in Exeter castle; see John Rise] (LincRO, Reg. 26, fo. 17r); ?clk, inst 13 Dec 1513 via proxy Kerswell preb in chap of Exeter castle,9 Katherine, countess Devon, pat. (DRO, EDRC 13, fo. 53v), still 1536 when worth £2 13s 4d (Oliver, Antiquities, 2, p. 160); BA 25 June 1522 (RUO 1, p. 125); inst 16 June 1531 vic Bampton, Dev, Buckland abbey, pat. (DRO, EDRC 14, fo. 54v), vac (†) bef. 30 July 1558 (DRO, EDRC 18, fo. 38r; Oliver, Antiquities 1, p. 171 says on Walronde’s death); comp 10 Sept 1555 vic Combe Raleigh,10 Dev £18, John Waldron, Tiverton11 and Robert Northcoote, Crediton, Dev, clothiers, surs (TNA, E 334/6, fo. 31r), inst 25 Oct, Sir John More, pat. (DRO, EDRC 18, fo. 3r), vac bef. 3 June 1558 (DRO, EDRC 18, fo. 36v); disp 8 Mar 1557 Bampton and Combe Raleigh (CRP, no. 1891); ?member major family of Bovey House (Beer, Dev) and Bradfield (Uffculme, Dev) (Bridget Cherry and Nikolaus Pevsner, Devon [New Haven: Yale University Press, 2002; 2nd ed.], pp. 190 and 197), bens about equidistant to NW and SE of both

Walkeden, William (?ca. 1526-bef. 4 Mar 1612): ord acol and subd 22 Sept 1554, Oxford dioc, deac 22 Dec to title of Robert Collyers, Darlaston, Staff, arm, priest 9 Mar 1555 (OA, ODP d105, pp. 77, 78, 81); deac, C&L, disp 6 Mar 1555 orders (CRP, no. 1098); inst 27 Aug 1558 Whittington and Berkswick preb, Lichfield (LCA, D&C, Act book 4, fo. 163v), vac (†, but mistake) bef. 4 May 1559 (Reg. Parker, p. 223),

quare impedit in favor of Sir William Paget (qv) 23 Jan 1560 when Thomas Paget (qv) pres and inst 4 Mar, comp 5 Mar, Walkenden oc. 21 Sept 1560 when leased preb to Paget for 99 years (F3 10, pp. 73-4);12 oc ca. 1558 rect Clifton Campville, Staff, still 1592, scholaris ruralis, honest life, ord priest by Bp King of Oxford, inst by Ralph [Baynes], preaching lic from Abp Whitgift (LPL, Carte misc 13/37, membrane 8v), resig ?1607, scholaris ruralis et praedicator publicus (1604), signed 1559,13 pluralism disp 25 Jan 1561 (Landor, pp. 68-9), ‘legitimately vac’ bef. 26 Oct 1566 (LRO, B/A/1/15, fo. 47r), oc 27 Sept 1572 when da. baptized, bur 14 Mar 1612 (Shaw, Staffordshire 1, pp. 398-9 quoting extracts from lost parish reg.), again in Robert Hill’s (qv) will dated 1573 when had Hill’s Opera of Lyra, in 1533 worth £25 (LRO, B/A/17/1, fo. 8r); ?inst 18 Dec 1560 rect Yelvertoft, Ntht, crown pat. (Reg. Parker, p. 201), still bef. 10 Dec 157614 when quinquagenarius-mediocris erudicionis in lingua lat. et Theol. conformis (LPL, Carte misc 13/56, p. 7), oc 1588 (Longden 14, p. 123 citing Misc Bk 9); threatened 3 Jan 1561 by Bp Bentham for ‘evil and papist stuff. . .uttered in his sermon’, not Bentham’s chap but ‘hangs on me otherwise’ (‘Bentham’s letter-book’, p. 192); ?oc 1568 at Hart Hall, Oxford (RUO 2:2, p. 29); left all books by cousin Thomas Slany (qv)

Walker, Christopher: ?inst 28 June 1554 rect Harmondsworth, Mdx, Paget (qv), pat. (GL, 9531/12/2, fo. 180v), vac bef. ca. 9 July 1563 (GL, 9531/13/1, fos 32v and 28r); inst 15 Dec 1557 rect Sopworth, Wilt, crown pat. (CRP, no. 2149), vac bef. 6 Oct 1580 (W&SRO, D1/2/17, Reg. Piers, fo. 7r); inst 20 May 1573 vic Chipping Norton, Oxon, D&C Glos, pat. (Reg. Parker, pp. 1005 and 1075), vac well bef. 16 June 1581 (LPL, Grindal’s register, fo. 370r-v)

Walker, James († bef. 28 July 1557): chap, inst 3 May 1536 rect Bintree, Norf, Oliver St John, arm, pat. by grant of Henry Parker, Lord Morley (qv) (NRO, DN/REG/10/16, fo. 12v); inst 6 Apr 1538 rect Bletneshoo [?Bletsoe], Bed, Sir John St John, pat. (LincRO, Epis. reg. 27, fo. 267v)–† bef. 28 July 1557 (CRP, no. 2073)

Walker, Robert: cr 19 Apr 1556 bedel of Arches (CRP, no. 1547); oc 23 Mar 1560, much involved in epis elections at London (Reg. Parker, pp. 89, 93, 96, 102, 108, 119, 122)

Walker, William: ?BCL 19 Nov 1531, fell. ASC 1532 (RUO 1, p. 166); ?notary, oc 5 May 1540 registrar for commissary in Ad Oxon (LincRO, Epis. reg. 26, fo. 294v); doing most of work in PCC mid-1555, 6 June 1556 Thomas Argall’s (qv) deputy as registrar, still 21 May 1558 (TNA, PROB 29/9, fos 54r, 127r; TNA, PROB 29/10, fo. 62v); oc 5 May 1558 William Cooke’s deputy as comm of PCC but disappears aft. M. Clynog’s (qv/5) appt (TNA, PROB 29/10, fo. 54r); adm 9 Nov 1558 proc of Arches (CRP, no. 2305); notary, Blaxton’s sur (qv); Argall’s legatee; witn 18 Apr 1562 to confirmation of Bp Cheyney (qv) (Reg. Parker, p. 117); will 11 June 1566/prov 9 Oct (TNA, PROB 11/48; PCC 26 Crymes BRS, 18, p. 324): places: Chigwell, Cleyberye,

Stratford Langthorne, all Ess persons: sis Margery, her sis, mother, sons (Richard, Thomas, res leg and exec William, Francis), son-in-law William Osborne (ovs), bro-inlaw Edward Brooke, London haberdasher (ovs), nephews (John and James Osborne), kin John Dyos, London grocer, Master Penington, legacies: cash (over £170), doles, livestock, household goods, plate, items of interest: if son Richard pays £40 he owes according to lease contract of Cleyberye, he is forgiven £20 debt for cattle, Dyos owes £42 of £157 of my plate which he sold (£15 ‘received of him’ at Stratford Langthorne ‘at Master Penington’s hand’, £100 ‘received with a heavy condition’) and at least £30 of plate, £17 forgiven if enters bond with execs for rest

Wall, Hugh: pres 10 Aug 1547 rect Haresfield, Glos, inst bond 16 Sept (GRO, GDR 1B, p. 5), inst 15 Sept, Richard Pauncefote, Haresfield, pat. (GDR 2A, p. 21), comp 16 Oct £12, William Robynson, St Mary Milk St, clothworker and Humfrey Richards, Tewkesbury, Glos, mercer, surs (TNA, E 334/3, fo. 130r)–† bef. 16 Aug 1570 (GRO, GDR D1, 201, although only † inc) or 19 Jan 1570 (GRO, GDR 27A, p. 11),15 in 1551 non-resident on ben16 at Oxford (‘Hooper’s visitation’, p. 105), still as of prob. bef. 3 Mar 156217 when unmarr priest, moderately educ, resident, non-preacher, 2 bens (CCCC, MS 97, fo. 110r); ?1 Oct 1553 roy chap, again 14 Dec 1558 (Page, ‘Uniform’, pp. 417 and 418, no given name); pres 24 Aug 1558 rect Notgrove, Glos, crown pat. (CRP, no. 2272a), inst bond 30 Aug (GRO, GDR 1B, p. 15), still prob. bef. 3 Mar 156218 when unmarr priest, moderately educ, non-resident in Haresfield (CCCC, MS 97, fo. 112v), vac19 bef. 11 Oct 1577 (GRO, GDR 27A, p. 94); coll 23 Aug 1561 Nonnington, preb Heref (HRO, AL/19/15, Reg. Scory, fo. 4r), instal in person 26 Aug (HCAB 7031/1, fo. 164v) rep. John Amynde (qv), vac bef. 10 Jan 1572 (HRO, AL/19/15, Reg. Scory, fo. 15r)

Wallop, Sir John (bef. 1492-† 13 July 1551 [ODNB]): oldest son Stephen Wallop and Ashley, da Hugh Ashley, Wimborne St Giles, Dor; sailor and soldier; knighted 1512/1513; marr 1) aft. Sept 1513 Elizabeth († 1516) da Sir Oliver St John, Lydiard Tregoze, Wilt, 2) 8 June 1530 Elizabeth da Sir Clement Harleston, S. Ockendon, Ess; 1st diplomatic mission 1515; fought in Ireland 1520-22; 31 Mar 1524 marshall of Calais; gent of privy chamber 1526, removed under Edward VI (ODNB); with Pole engaged 1530 in efforts to gain favorable opinions on divorce at Paris (CRP, no. 56); 23 June 1530 lieutenant of Calais; opposed Henry’s divorce; resident ambassador in France 11 Sept 1532-mid-1537, again Oct 1540-Feb 1541 (ODNB), as such neutralized by Pole as agent in English efforts to kill or capture him (CPEC, VII, pp. 308-9); oc 1 Aug 1537 pat. rect Overwallop, Hant when Bennet Harward inst, still 10 Apr 1541 when Richard Chaterton inst (Reg. Gardiner, pp. 113 and 116);20 jp Hant 1538-† (ODNB); oc 17 Sept 1539 pat. rect Farleigh Wallop, Hant when Richard Frye inst (Reg. Gardiner, pp. 114); close to Lord and Lady Lisle (qv) at Calais and took conservative side in religious troubles 1539-40; suspected by Henry in 1540-41 and

examined esp. over treasonable correspondence with Richard Pate (qv) when admitted guilt and pardoned 21 Mar 1541; again captain of Guînes, still under Edward VI; KG 18 May 1544; fought in France 1544; on good terms with Sir Thomas Wriothesley, but kept John Dudley’s (qv) support aft. Somerset’s (qv) fall; † at Guînes; left one of largest estates in Hant (ODNB); will 22 May 1551 (TNA, PROB 11/34, fo. 24r)

Walpoole, Thomas († bef. 14 Jan 1558): ?chap, inst 27 Feb 1554 rect St Margaret Pattens, Sir Thomas White, mayor of London, pat.–resig bef. 2 July (GL, 9531/12/2, fos 174v and 180r); inst 4 July 1554 vic Pinchbeck, Linc, Robert Walpole,21 gent, pat. (LincRO, Epis. reg. 28, fo. 111r; LI2, no. 183), comp 19 July £36 5s 9d, Richard Farrande, St Michael Cornhill, draper and Arthur Walpole, Clement’s Inn, gen, surs (TNA, E 334/4, fo. 180v)–† bef. 14 Jan 1558 (LI2, no. 465); disp 21 Aug 1555 for it and rect Stickney, Linc (CRP, no. 1351); Stickney complicated, since at least 3 overlapping pres, Simon Leves on 10 July, also by Robert Walpole (LI2, no. 535) and within a few months crown pres 2 more men, on unknown grounds: John Backhowse on 2 Sept 1555 and John Foster 16 days later, by which time Backhowse had apparently died (CPRPM 3, pp. 215 and 216), but vac (†) bef. 14 Jan 1558 (LincRO, Epis. reg. 28, fo. 133v; LI2, no. 465) makes it likely that Walpoole gained inst, worth £13 11s 3d in 1576 (LER, p. 190); ?inst 29 Nov 1557 rect St Olave Hart Street, Sir William Windsor, Lord Windsor, pat.–† bef. 25 Nov 1558 (GL, 9531/12/2, fos 199r and 204r)

Walselyn, John: inst 1 Aug 1554 vic Rainham, Kent, crown pat. (SVI, p. 103 from CCA, Reg. N, fo. 76), still 1 July 1557 (CRP, no. 2051)–resig bef. 15 Oct 1562 (Reg. Parker, pp. 405 and 797), worth £12 16s 2d (TNA, E 334/3, fo. 125v) making it difficult to see how it funded £30 in pensions

Walsh, Nicholas († 14 Dec 1585): son of next, born Waterford; studied at Paris and Oxford (AtC 1, pp. 515-6 and 3, p. 121); scholar, disp 2 May 1555 orders (CRP, no. 1204b); BA 1563, MA 1567; 1571 chancellor Dublin cath; introduced typeface for printing in Gaelic; began 1573 translation New Testament into Gaelic (AtC); appt 23 Jan 1578 bp Ossory, cons Feb (HBC, p. 403); murdered 14 Dec 1585; bur Kilkenny cath (AtC)

Walsh, Patrick: from Ireland, adm scholar 1532 BCO (BRUO2, p. 604, part of entry mistakenly attached to that for Henry Welsh [qv]); BA 5 Feb 1532, MA 29 Mar 1535, sup BTh June 1545 (RUO 1, p. 168); pres 9 Mar 1547 dean Waterford (BRUO2); nom 9 June 1551 bp Lismore-Waterford, cons 23 Oct 1551-† 1566 (BRUO2, p. 604 citing no evidence for †), bp 1551-1578 (HBC, p. 407); disp for deanery and rect Agher, co. Meath, vac 15 June 1566 (BRUO2); father of last

Wardroppe, John: oc 1536 vic Farnham, Hant, worth £8 12s 6d (Reg. Gardiner, p. 160), vac bef. 7 Dec 1556 (Reg. Whyte, p. 18); comp [n.d.] Oct 1556 rect Alverstoke, Hant, £19 3s 3d, Thomas Barnham, St Edmund Lombardstreet, draper and Thomas Whyte, Farnham, Surr, gen, surs (TNA, E 334/6, fo. 37r and Reg. Gardiner, p. 149), vac (†) bef. 10 Aug 1560 (Reg. Parker, p. 209); abs & disp 6 Aug 1556 for it and rect Boarhunt, Hant (CRP, no. 1637), vac bef. 17 Feb 1565 (HaRO, 21M65/A1/26, fo. 18r)

Ware, Thomas: Ware, by proc Christopher Smith, 28 Aug 1555 exhibited to Stympe, surrogate of Harvey (all qv), vg of D&C Cant., pres rect Murston, Kent from William Cromer, esq and Stympe ordered William Stapleford (qv) to defend claim [in CC

of London; SVI] to ben by 4 Sept (CCA, DCc, Reg N, fos 89r-90v; SVI, p. 88), pretending such, MA,22 disp 1 Feb 1557 for another ben (CRP, no. 1830), but may never have been inst since Simon Clarke als Murston inst 15 Oct 1561 on death Robert Howe (Reg. Parker, pp. 388 and 784), worth £10 14s 2d (VE, 1, p. 97)

Warham, William († bef. 30 Aug 1557): coll 14 Dec 1511 rect Orpington, Kent (LPL, Reg. Warham, fo. 344r), still 13 April 1554 (SVI, p. 67)–† bef. 30 Aug 1557 (CRP, no. 2094; prob. depr under Edward VI acc. Fielding, Rochester, p. 565; cf. p. 207 and p. 389 where Richard Drylande given both as rect 1541-8 and † 1543), worth £30 14s 4d (VE, 1, p. 115), as such June 1554 pat. rect Hayes, Kent (SVI, p. 57 and TNA, E 334/4, fo. 169r, but see bel.), pat. vic Orpington 6 July 1554 when Christopher Thompson inst (SVI, p. 95), competing pres of Henry Banyster 24 July 1554 (CPRPM 1, p. 494), rect Orpington leased to countess of Bridgwater and then to Edmund Knight aft. her attainder (L&P 17, no. 137.31); oc 28 July 1513 Ad Cant (F2 4, p. 9), lic 10 Feb 1534 to neg pension, resig bef. 10 Mar 1534 for £60 [sic] pension (LPLCR, fos 343v and 347r-8r), worth £103 (VE, 1, p. 90), pd £40 [sic] pension by N. Harpsfield (qv) from 31 Mar 1554 (SVI, p. 24); coll 29 Nov 1515 Brownswood preb, London, vac 1516 (F2, 5, p. 22); coll 29 Apr 1516 Newington preb, London (GL, 9531/9, fo. 66r)–† bef. 24 Nov 1557 (F3 1, p. 47), one portion farmed 1 Sept 1541 for £16, another 20 Dec 1546 for £17 (GL, 9531/12/1, fos 127v-9r), both confirmed 17 Dec 1550 (GL, 9531/12/2, fos 8r-9v); oc Sept 1516 Exeter preb (F2 9, p. 62), proc Aug 1524 for various D&C acts (ECA, 3551, fo. 20r), oc 13 Jan 1525 (ECA, 3551, fo. 24r)–† bef. 2323 Nov 1557 (DRO, EDRC 18, fo. 26v); coll 4 Oct 1516 rect Hayes, Mdx (LPL, Reg. Warham, fo. 361r)–† (CRP, no. 2108), as such licensed 18 July 1537 to remain overseas studying24 and to continue non-resident on return (L&P 12:2, no. 411.32), worth £40 (VE 1, p. 434); enthroned Wolsey at Winch via proxy (Reg. Wolsey, p. 7); oc Dec 1538 at Cologne acc. Thomas Theobald who intended to meet him abt ‘permutation of a preb’ (L&P 13:2, no. 1034), still (?again) as of 15 Oct 1544 when written by Paget (qv), reply in Stephen Vaughan’s hands bef. 19 Oct (L&P 20:2, nos 597 and 618); coll 15 May 1520 provost Wingham, Kent (LPL, Reg. Warham, fo. 370r)–resig bef. 9 Mar 1534, £20 pension (LPLCR, fos 343v-44r and 348v-50r), possibly worth £66 6s 8d (VE 1, p. 36); coll 24 Sept 1526 rect Shoreham, Kent-resig bef. 31 Jan 1527 (LPL, Reg. Warham, fos 391v and 395r), worth £34 9s 8d (VE 1, p. 114); coll [n.d.] Sept 1527 rect Wrotham, Kent-resig bef. 12 Apr 1532 (LPL, Reg. Warham, fos 394r and 414r), worth £50 8s (VE 1, p. 114); oc 25 Nov 1531 pat. of Sandwich St Clement, Kent when John Atkynson inst (LPL, Reg. Warham, fo. 405v); coll 5 Apr 1532 rect Harrow on the Hill, Mdx (LPL, Reg. Warham, fo. 415r)–resig bef. 21 July 1537 bec of pres to deanery of Chester-le-Street, Dur (LPLCR fo. 362r), allegedly25 as such wrote Cromwell 26 May 1540 from Coley26 (L&P 15, no. 711); ?n.d., Mr Wareham, parson of Tring, Hert, nephew of Abp Warham (LincRO, Epis. reg., 26, fo. 94r-v, quoted in Bowker, Lincoln under Longland, p. 46); see Thomas Wells for various grants of advowsons from Warham to him

Warner, Sir Edward (1511-7 Nov 1565): son Henry Warner, Besthorpe, Norf and Mary, da John Blennerhassett, Frenze, Norf; marr 1) Elizabeth da Thomas Brooke, 8th Lord Cobham widow Sir Thomas Wyatt I, Allington Castle, Kent, 2) Audrey da William Hare, Beeston, Norf; by 1537 member roy household, esq body by 1552; profited greatly from Dissolution; lieut Tower Oct 1552-July 1553 when held for Lady Jane, co-lieut Nov 1558-63; professional soldier, fought in Netherlands 1543 and Scotland 1544 when knighted 18 May; MP Grantham 1545 ([Henry Manners, qv], earl of Rutland, pat.), 1547, both 1553 (supported Protestant positions; called Calvinist by ODNB), Great Grimsby 1559, Norf 1563; rapid advancement under Edward VI; 25 Jan 1554 to Tower, released 18 Jan 1555, pardoned 2 July (HPT 3, pp. 550-51); of London, Lent disp 18 Feb 1555, again 25 Feb 1557 (CRP, nos 1078b and 1878); will 22 Oct 1565/prov 17 May 1566, proved by oath of Robert Warner and John Bleverhasset in presence of proc of Lady Etheldrede Warner and William Bleverhasset (PCC 12 Crymes; BRS, 18, p. 327): places: Horton, Romney Marsh, Plomsted, Chartham, all Kent, Southcreake, Norf, Thorpe, Linc, Bagthorpe and Barner, Monks Manor in Great Massingham, Westrudham, Antwerp, London, Posthall in Burneham, Wighton, Norwich, Burnehame de Pedall, Burnham Westgate, Erpingham, Besthorpe, Marie Mawdlin’s in old Fish Street, Attleborowegh, Polsted Hall, Orpingham, persons: wife, wife’s das (Mary and Ellen Hubberd), Henry Hubberd, bro Robert Warner, sis Raynbowe, nephew Henry Warner, niece [sic] Benjamin, niece Elizabeth Raynbowe, cousins (John Bleverhasset, William Bleverhasset, William Hayssett, Renold Greye, Arthur Dawbeney, Christofer Dawbney), Lady Etheldrede Warner, Martin Hastinges, Robert Harrison, John Worleye, esq of Ntht, Lady Tirwhitt, Arthur Wyatt, Warrham St Leger, esq, the Duke of Norfolk, Lord Cobham (qv), Robert Roper, George Leeds, curate, legacies: cash (over £759), half year’s or quarter’s wages to svts, annuities, ag pro, livestock, horses, implements of husbandry, plate (1000 oz to wife alone for dowry), jewels, rings, household goods, andirons, clothing, ‘a dozen escutcheons’, real estate, debts owing (over 200 marks), books: chronicles of kings to nephew Henry Warner, items of interest: debts owed (£650) to be paid off with debts owing (£346 6s 8d) plus £300 13s 4d (‘the which I have appointed of other my revenues and borrowed of my mother’), portrait from the parlor of Plumstead, 10 marks for stone to be engraved with death date and three escutcheons of arms’

Warner, Elizabeth († 1560): first wife of last; Lent disp 18 Feb 1555 (CRP, no. 1078b); † Aug 1560 and bur in Tower (Machyn, p. 241 cited in Old DNB); one son Edward, predeceased father (Old DNB)

Warner [?or Warren], John († 15/26 Mar 1565 [will]; 21 Mar [ODNB]): born Great Stanmore, Mdx (ODNB); adm 1520 fell. ASC, vac 1536, coll 3 June 1536 warden-13 Jan 1556, re-coll 24 Jan 1559-† (BRUO2, pp. 607-8), as such and chap to Lord Parr, disp 7 Jan 1540 for 2 bens (FOR, p. 204), still 10 July 1555 (CRP, no. 1287)–† (Reg. Parker, p. 812); BA 9 Nov 1520, MA 3 Apr 1525, MB and adm to practice 30 June 1529, MD 12 July 1535 (RUO 1, p. 111); public reader in medicine at Oxford bef. Oct 153527 and regius professor of medicine bef. 22 Mar 1536 (L&P 10, no. 520),28 but

not well thought of as physician and performed no duties aft. June 1550 when lic to go overseas with Sir John Mason (qv), although owned medical books;29 disp 7 Mar 1537 orders (FOR, p. 89); inst 8 July 1538 rect Northmoor, Oxon, William Petre (qv), DCL (LincRO, Epis. reg. 27, fo. 197v)–resig bef. 20 Aug 1544 (OA, ODP d105, p. 10); inst 22 Dec 1539 rect Great Houghton, Ntht, Sir George Throckmorton,30 pat. (LincRO, Epis. reg. 27, fo. 141v)–resig. 15 Apr 1550 via proxy (NoRO, X956/1, fo. 32r); roy chap, disp 23 May 1544 for 3 bens (FOR, p. 239); inst 2931 May 1544 rect Lower Heyford, Oxon, James Edmunds, pat. phv (OA, ODP d105, p. 8) and comp £9 11s 8d, self and Thomas Marten, St Andrew, butcher (TNA, E 334/3, fo. 16v), vac bef. Dec 1563 (BRUO2); inst 4 Mar 1546 rect Elmley, Kent, Nicholas Bullingham, pat. phv (LPLCR, fo. 399v), comp 5 Mar £4 10s, William Dennys, provost of QCO, sur (TNA, E 334/3, fo. 82v)–† (Reg. Parker, p. 819); inst 30 Apr 1547 Ealdstreet preb, London, Mason, pat. phv (GL, 9531/12/1, fo. 166v) and comp £5 4s 3d, Thomas Marten, All Hallows Breadstreet, butcher, sur (TNA, E 334/3, fo. 119v)–† (GL, 9531/13/1, fo. 140r); comp 7 July 1547 Ad Cleveland £32 8s 7d, Richard Mayster and Otto Powlewhille, both CCO, surs (TNA, E 334/3, fo. 125r), coll by proxy 9 July (BI, Reg. 29, fo. 25v and BI, Inst.AB.1, fo. 164r)–resig bef. 31 Mar 1564 (BI, Inst. AB.2, part 2, fo. 31v); pres 3 Dec 1549 rect Flamstead, Hert (CPR 1548-9, p. 248); inst 7 Dec 1549 rect Harrietsham, Kent, ASC, pat. (LPLCR fo. 410r)–† (Reg. Parker, p. 811); pres 21 Jan 1550 3rd preb Winch, inst and instal 15 Mar32-resig bef. 22 July 1554 (Reg. Gardiner, p. 132; F3 3, p. 92); pres 3 Oct 155333 1st preb Ely (CPRPM 1, p. 323), inst 20 May 1554 (SVI, p. 44)–† (F3 7, p. 15);34 inst 10 Mar 1554 via proxy Uffculme preb,35 Salis, Mason, pat., instal 19 June (F3 6, p. 80)–† (W&SRO, D1/2/16, Reg. Jewel, fo. 13v), as such pres John Rondell to its vic bef. 11 Mar 1556 and John Seagar bef. 15 July 1558 (W&SRO, D5/1/2, fos 7v, 8v); v-c of Oxford 1554 and 1559-60 (BRUO2); with Robert Morwent and Owen Oglethorpe witn 28 Mar 1555 conveyance of property for Sir Thomas Pope’s new TCO (all qv) (Hopkins, Trinity, p. 21); adm 5 May 1555 Drs Coms (Squibb, p. 152); inst 28 Oct 1555 Welton Westhall preb, Lincoln (LincCA 3, p. 123)–† bef. [n.d.] 156536 (LincRO, Epis. reg. 28, fo. 7v), [n.d.] unmarr priest, lived in Oxford, non-preacher (CCCC, MS 97, fo. 94v); inst 14 Oct 1557 rect Hayes, Mdx (CRP, no. 2108)–† (Reg. Parker, p. 812); pres 17 Aug 1559 dean Winch, crown pat., instal 15 Oct37 (F3 3, p. 84)–† (HaRO, 21M65/ A1/26, fo. 10r); adm 17 Oct 1561 Roy Coll. of Physicians (BRUO2); comm 16 May 1562 to visit MerC with Thomas Yale and John Kennall (both qv) (Reg. Parker, pp. 684-717 incl. acta); gave ASC Mesue cum expositione Mundini (Lyons, 1525), Galeatius de S. Sophia, Opus medicinae (Hagenau, 1533) bound with Liber Rasis ad Almansorem (Venice, 1508), L. Fuchsius, De natura stirpium (Basel, 1542) and latin Euclid (Basel, 1537) (BRUO2); will 15 Mar 1565/prov 26 Mar (TNA, PROB 11/48,

fo. 75r PCC 11 Morrison; BRS, 18, p. 327): if die at London, bur in Great Stanmore church or churchyard,38 if at Oxford, in ASC; places: BCO, ASC, Eaton Hastings, Oxon, NCO, Redbourn, Ilstrede als Ilstrete [unided], Aldenham near Barham Wood, all Hert, Warwick Lane in London, Harrietsham, Lenham, both Kent, Beggar’s Lane and Hidestreet, both Winch, Wilshamstead, Bed, persons: sis Helene and husband Thomas Norwood, their da Agnes, svts (John Piernney, John Rankyn, John Skarlet, Otis Polewhele, Mother Ales and du Thomas Coxe, William Woodosone, Elys Davye, Nicholas Finche of Redbourn, Hert, John Sutton), former svt Thomas Whytton, now svt to ‘Lord President of Wales’, Richard Owens, Sir John Mason, Master Robert Cresswell, John Garbrandhartes [Garbrand als Harks] of NCO,39 his sis Martha, Robert Bredsale, Richard Wynslade, William Warner, his bro svt Thomas Warner, Nicholas Fynche, John Watson (qv, John Watson II), Ad of Surrey (exec), Otis Polewhele (exec), Nicholas Fynche, his former svt Margaret Roffe, Nicholas St Leger, esq, John Bridge, merchant tailor, Elizabeth Milward, godson Edward Milwarde, legacies: cash (over £225), household goods, real estate, if svt Rankyn pays £6 debt, another £5 debt forgiven, items of interest: to BCO (£20 to common use, 6s 8d to master, 3s 4d each to current fellows, 20s to current scholars), to ASC (£10 for repairs if bur there, goblet unconditionally, 3s 4d to up to 40 fellows and ‘likewise to the chaplains’ of ASC, 20d each to resident choristers and svts of college)40

Warren [or Warner, but not to be confused with John Warner, MD (qv)], John († bef. 13 Oct 1558):41 acol, inst 14 May 1525 rect Walesby, Linc, Elizabeth Warren, widow and exec of John Warren, Uffington, Linc, pat. (LincRO, Epis. reg. 27, fo. 29v)–† (LincRO, Epis. reg. 28, fo. 129v; LI2, no. 412) and see will; ?vic Worstead, Norf,42 chap to Cranmer,43 disp 8 Aug 1535 for another ben (FOR, p. 30); thus possibly oc 1538 rect Wingham, Kent, legatee of man of same name provost of Wingham Coll., Richard Parkhurst (qv) among execs, Christopher Hales, mr of rolls, ovs, bequest to John Hales, baron of Exchequer (will 27 Apr 1538/prov 8 July [TNA, PROB 11/27]); ?Waryner, DTh, inst 13 Aug 1544 Beckhampton chap, Avebury,44 Wilt, William Button, gen, pat. (W&SRO, D1/2/16, Reg. Capon, fo. 20r-v); BTh, pres 2045 May 1554 8th46 preb,47 Cant cath, inst and instal 21 May (F3 3, p. 30 and SVI, p. 25) via proxy-† (F3); 6 Nov 1555 proc of D&C Cant at London synod (CCA, Reg. V1, fo. 27r48); among heresy comms who condemned John Lomas, Agnes Snoth, Anne

Albright, alias Champnes, Joan Sole and Joan Catmer, burned 31 Jan 1556 in Cant (Foxe [1583], p. 1859); on quorum Cant heresy comm 25 Apr 1556 (CRP, no. 1549b), as such sat 7 Dec 1556 with Collens, Fawcet and Thornden (all qv) (BL, Harl. 421, fo. 103r), again comm 28 Mar 1558 (CRP, no. 2207); will 16 Sept 1558/prov 13 Oct49 (TNA, PROB 11/41, fos 116-17): elaborate funeral arrangements, cup to be converted to chalice, 10s to preacher at funeral, £7 dole at funeral, £4 at month’s minds, £4 doles at Walesby and Lifton, Dev, 40s each to 3 svts (incl. William Pickering, who also got 20 wethers, or £4), bros Gregory (plate and gelding in Cant), Barnaby (10 marks, yoke of oxen, best cart horse, best wayne, etc.) and Rowland (silver salt, 60 wethers and 4 kine), £4 to nieces Elizabeth, Joan and ‘another sis of theirs’, £4 to Sis Capon’s50 chil, £13 6s 4d to cousin Anthony Barker (exec, 20s), William Barker, kinsman, merchant in London, 20 quarters barley or £4 at execs’ discretion and yoke of oxen or another £4; gowns to [Richard] Fasset (exec, 20s) (qv) and some books plus kitchen equipment and residue household goods, theology in Cant to cousin William Warren except those to Fasset, 40s stipend to scholar Whose, withdrawn for absence, material for canopy for sacrament to Christchurch priory, residue to charity, witns Collins (a gown), William Darrell (qv) and William Wylson

Waryner, Thomas: 1555/6 among 10 choristers, Cant cath (CCA, DCc/MA 40, fo. 50r), summoned 17 May 1556 visitation (CRP, no. 1564); minor canon 1560, 1570, 1573 (Reg. Parker, p. 631, 535, 908)

Watkyn, David: Llandaff dioc, ord 5 Apr 1522 priest Heref to title of Usk priory (Reg. Boothe, p. 312); oc 1535 vic Llanwarow, Monm, worth £4 19s 6d (VE 4, p. 356); pres by crown 1 Oct 1554 rect Welvesnewton, Monm (CPRPM 2, p. 251), competing pres 6 Mar 1556 (CPRPM 3, p. 230), ?vac bef. 20 Aug 1558 (CPRPM 4, p. 449), impropriated to Usk priory, worth £9 8s (VE 4, p. 368); disp 11 Oct 1556 for both (CRP, no. 1724)

Watson, James († bef. 9 May 1560): inst 13 Dec 1533 rect Hatherop, Glos, Gloucester abbey, pat., eight marks’ pension to inc (WoRO, b716.093-BA.2648/8(ii), p. 78 and 9(i), p. 141), still 1535 when worth £10 11s 0d (VE 2, p. 445), still 1551, called Walton, could answer to articles mediocriter (‘Hooper’s visitation’, p. 113)–† bef. 9 May 1560 (GDR, D1, 144); pres by crown 19 Nov 1554 rect Daglingworth, Glos51 (CPRPM 2, p. 252), comp 6 July 1555 £7 9s 5d, Thomas Watson,52 Daglingworth and John Rede, Inner Temple, gen, surs (TNA, E 334/6, fo. 28r), pd 1st instalment 28 Feb 1556 (TNA, E 334/6, pt 2, fo. 40v), vac bef. 14 Feb 1562 (GRO, GDR 1B, p. 18) when held by William Watson, MA ‘in ecclesia cathedrale London’53 (CCCC, MS 97, fo. 109r); disp 3 Jan 1557 for both (CRP, no. 1807a); will 14 Oct [year damaged]/prov 6 July 1560 (GRO, 1560/84): bur in chancel with uncle, 3s 4d to maintenance, 12d to each house in parish without plow, 8d to each house in Colne St Aldwyns, Glos, 20d to godchil, £3 to da, ill. amount to Thomas Watson, ironmonger, cows to his two chil with me, bed and barley to John Watson of Cirencester, £5 to godchild James

Watson, cart, featherbed and ewes to cousin William Watson of Aunton, cart and best gold ring to William Foriste [?or Souse as bel.], household goods to Margaret Foriste, sheep to Robert Lapworth, 12d to each household in Daglingworth without plow, 20s to each of bro Richard’s chil with my sis Dorothy, 40s to Thomas of Cirencester’s son John Watson to support him at school, 13s 4d and yearling to Jane Watson, 20s to John Watson of Cirencester’s chil, 12 bushels of barley to [damage] Prestwood, same to Thomas Roberts, silver spoon each to bro Thomas’s chil Robert, Elizabeth and Frances, same to cousin William Watson’s chil, 40s to Mr Grene at Oxford, 40s and gown to cousin John Watson, priest, 40s to poor of Cirencester, ill. to parson of Cottes,55 Thomas Watson to rent my sheep to pay bequests, John Watson, clk and Thomas Watson res. legs, bro Thomas Watson and William Souse ovs; uncle of Thomas Watson of Stratton, Glos, bro of John Watson (next entry) to whom [Thomas] conveyed £5 for another Thomas Watson’s chil with James

Watson, John (ca. 1520-† 23 Jan 1584 [F3]): at least 2 clergymen of name made their careers largely in the diocese of Winchester. Thomas Watson of Stratton, Glos, distinguished in his will between 1) his bro the Ad (of Surr, later bp of Winchester and correct man) and 2) his cousin, chanter of St Cross, to whom Bp Watson also left bequest, who may be rect Winchfield, Hant (as the bp also was), or if not a 3rd man certainly rel these two. 1 or 2 acted as proc for Thomas Watson’s wife at the probate of his will (dated 20 June 1567/prov 15 Feb 1571; TNA, PROB, 11/53, fo. 35r PCC 5 Holney; BRS, 18, p. 329). Prob. not rel 3)56 who found preferment mainly in the diocese of Lincoln; born57 at Evesham, Worc (see will); son Thomas Watson and wife Agnes, née Weekes (ODNB); nephew of last; sup BA June 1539, MA 9 Feb 1545, fell. ASC 1540, still 1552 (and 1558; see bel), matric Louvain 11 June 155458 (RUO 1, p. 194 and BRUO2, p. 610); pres by crown 9 Dec 1551 11th preb Winchester (Calendar of patent rolls, Edward VI, 5 vols [London: HMSO, 1924-1929], 1550-3, p. 53), inst 14 Dec (Reg. Gardiner, p. 134), instal by proxy, vac 23 June/25 Nov 1558 (F3 3, p. 104); pres 12 Apr 1554 rect Kelshall, Hert, inst 23 Apr, crown pat. (LincRO, Epis. reg. 28, fo. 94v much info now missing; LI1, no. 565)–promotion to Winchester bef. 14 Oct 1580 (LER, p. 71; BRUO2 says 1578; may be no. 3); comp 25 Apr 1554 rect Winchfield, Hant, inst 27 Apr, Sir John Mason (qv), pat. (Reg. Gardiner, pp. 148 and 138), worth £8 16s 1d in 1536 when Robert Watson inc (ibid., p. 158), vac bef. 15 Feb 1561 when John Watson (see bel) inst (Reg. Parker, p. 212), as such ord subd 12 June 1557 at London with Robert Hixe, John Robynson, Lawrence Giles and Adam Nelson (all qv) (GL, 9535/1, fo. 64r-v); pres by crown 15 June 1557 rect Abingdon St Nicholas, Oxon (CPRPM 3, p. 501), vac bef. 30 June 1580 (W&SRO, D1/2/17, Reg. Piers, fo. 6r); lett. dim. 28 Aug 1557 (WoRO, b716.093-BA.2648/9(iv), p. 67); coll 7 Feb 1558 chancellor of St Paul’s (GL, 9531/12/2, fo. 200r)–promotion 1580 (F3 1, p. 19), as such rect Boreham, Ess, farmed 16 Nov 1573 for £12 and 23 Jan 1577 tenement in Hammersmith incl chancellor’s house for 15s (GL, 9531/13/1, fos 75r-v and 80r-v); subd [called Thomas in marg.], Glos dioc, disp 23 Sept 1558 orders

(CRP, no. 2283); Glos dioc, ord deac in London 23 Sept 1558, priest 11 Mar 1559 to title vic Lewknor, Oxon (GL, 9535/1, fos 75r and 80r), vac Lewknor bef. 7 Apr 1576 (LPL, Grindal’s register, fo. 346r); pres by crown 17 Aug 1559 mr St Cross hospital, Winchester (CPREI, 1558-60, p. 26)–resig bef. 7 Apr 1583 (HaRO, 21M65/A1/27 [Reg. Watson], fo. 10r; † BRUO2 citing VCH Hant, 2, p. 197); instal 26 Aug 1559 1st preb Winchester, crown pat. (F3 3, p. 90; BRUO2 treats as reinst to 11th preb which is mistakenly identified as 2nd); pres by crown 7 Nov 1559 Ad Surr (CPREI, 1558-60, p. 4), inst 16 Nov on depr Edmund Mervyn (qv) (SVI, p. 124)–resig bef. 13 Feb 1573 (HaRO, 21M65/A1/26, fo. 96r), as such pat. of Daniel Craster inst 15 July 1569 vic Farnham, Surr (HaRO, 21M65/A1/26, fo. 73r); proc for D&C Winchester at elec Bp Horne 1560 (Reg. Parker, p. 104); inst 16 Apr 1568 rect South Warnborough, Hant, Dame Agnes White, widow, pat. (HaRO, 21M65/A1/26, fo. 70r)–resig bef. 1 Sept 1581 (HaRO, 21M65/A1/27 [Reg. Watson], fo. 6r); coll60 1 Dec 1568 vic North Walsham, Norf (NRO, DN/REG 13/19, fo. 147v), vac61 bef. 23 Apr 1584 (NRO, DN/ REG 14/20, fo. 105v); pres 9 Feb 1573 dean Winchester (RUO 1, p. 194 says 1570), inst 13 Feb (HaRO, 21M65/A1/26, fo. 96r), instal 14 Feb (F3 3, p. 84)–resig bef. 14 Oct 1580 (LPL, Grindal’s register, fo. 425v); inst62 16 Feb 1574 rect Wroughton, Wilt, vac bef. July 1575 (BRUO2 from W&SRO, Reg. Gest, fos 5r and 7v); coll63 26 July 1575 rect Allsford64, vac bef. 5 May 1581 on promotion (HaRO, 21M65/A1/27 [Reg. Watson], fo. 4v); MD Oxford 27 July 1575 (ODNB), may be mistake since RUO 2:3, p. 54 says had studied medicine for 20 years but see bequest of medical books bel.; June 1579 co-exec of Bp Horne (ODNB); elec 29 June 1580 bp of Winchester (LPL, Grindal’s register, fo. 55v), cons 18 Sept (LPL, Grindal’s register, fo. 58v)–† 23 Jan 1584 (F3 3, pp. 80-1); prob. co-keeper of Winchester 6 July and 18 Nov 1579 (LPL, Grindal’s register, fos 408r-9r and 412v-13v); accused of leniency to recusants, but prob. unfairly (ODNB); will 23 Oct 1583, 22 and 23 Jan 1584/prov 22 June by oaths of John and Thomas Watson (TNA, PROB 11/67 PCC 1 Watson, excerpts in BRUO2): bp of Winch, places: Winch and the Soke, Evesham (where b.), Bengeworth, both Worc, Aunton,65 persons: bro William Watson (ovs), his sons (exec John, exec Thomas and William Watson), bro Robert Watson’s da Agnes Watson, Thomas Watson of Stratton,66 sis Smith, her chil (incl William Smith ‘who is with me’ and William Smith, scholar ‘in the college’ [prob. Winch]), bro-in-law William Harward, his wife and chil, bro Thomas Harward, his chil (incl Thomas Harward), bro and sis Venor, their chil (incl Thomas Venor of WinC67 and Richard Venor), bro and sis Howse, their chil (incl John Howse), bro and sis Hopper, their chil (incl Robert Hopper), Robert Heye, apprentice in London and son of late sis Heye, sis Heye’s other chil (John, two das), cousins (William Say [qv], Symon Trippe, William Harwarde, Aucret, Richard Venor), cousin John Watson, bro of St Cross, cousin John Watson, parson of Winchfelde [see

bel.], his bro Henry Watson, the bailiff of Evesham, Nicholas Beane, William York, Thomas Warnen, preb William Harward,69 Henry Watson, Richard Smith, Dr Byllson [Thomas Bilson] (ovs), Thomas Flemynge (ovs), Edmond Downing (ovs), William Badger (ovs), Walter Cheyny of St Cross, the D&C of Winch, Anthony Mason, bro’s da’s husband Leonard Paige, Francis Walsingham, knight and queen’s prin sec (ovs), Francis Mylls, Ethelbert Burdett, Dr [Robert] Bennet, legacies: cash (over £750), year’s or quarter’s wages to svts, 10s each to 13 poor bretheren of St Cross, 2s to ‘every poor body of the Hundred Hall’, charity (incl to poor scholars and endowments for work), annuities, real estate, plate, horses, saddles, clothing, household goods, debts (approx. £150) forgiven, books: all medical books to Mr Trippe, he to give some of the books to students, £40 to D&C of Winch for books for library, items of interest: bur. in cath, £40 to ASC, £20 to University of Oxford, setting up endowments for poor in Evesham, one in Bengeworth, £40 to repairs of road between Otterborne ‘and the hill toward Compton’, in trust to Badger; £530 dilapidations successfully claimed by successor (ODNB); not: 1) cousin of no. 1 and his bro Thomas of Stratton, Glos, as chanter of St Cross, Winchester 2) inst 15 Feb 1561 via proc rect Winchfield, Hant, Mason, pat., rep. no. 1 (Reg. Parker, p. 212)–† bef. 6 Sept 1595 (LPL, Whitgift’s register II, fo. 272r); † bef. 18 Nov 1595 holding rect Over Wallop, Hant (LPL, Whitgift’s register II, fo. 273r); 3) inst 27 Aug 1560 Langford Manor preb, Lincoln, via proc, John Watson, London, gent, pat. with Gavin Hodson (qv) by grant from Bp Watson (qv) of Lincoln of 26 Oct 1558 (LI2, no. 943 and F3 9, p. 79), instal by proxy 31 Aug, vac by depr 12 Oct 1574, but oc. Sept 1575 and as late as 26 Aug 1611 when identified as layman (F3 9, pp. 79-80), [n.d.] no orders, unmarried, non-resident, little known (CCCC, MS 97, fo. 95r), possibly this man pres by crown 24 Sept 1555 vic Digby, Linc. (CPRPM 3, p. 216), vac (depr) 1563 (LI1, no. 63); ?inst 15 Feb 1558 rect Copmanford, Hunt, Edward Sapcote, exec of Henry Sapcote, pat. (LincRO, Epis. reg. 28, fo. 133r; LI2, no. 454), nothing further in any Fosters, ?this man, Linc dioc, ord acol, subd and deac (2nd two to title of Michael Dunning, qv) at Buckden 4 June 1558 (LincRO, Epis. reg. 28a, fo. 13v)

Watson, Robert I: subd, C&L, disp 21 Dec 1555 orders (CRP, no. 1469b); ord subd 21 Dec 1555 London to title of pres to parish of Longford, Derbys70 (GL, 9535/1, fo. 53r); ?inst 21 Dec 1558 rect Preston upon the Weald Moors, Salop [NE, p. 392], William Chorleton, Wombridge, Salop, esq, pat. (LRO, B/A/1/15, fo. 20v), worth 54s in 1554 (TNA, E 334/4, fo. 203r)

Watson, Robert II: pres 10 April 1557 vic Ab Kettleby, Leic (CRP, no. 1941a), inst 11 May (LincRO, Epis. reg. 28, fo. 138r; LI2, no. 518), still bef. 20 Feb or bef. 20 Mar 156271 when unmarr priest, educ, resident, only ben (CCCC, MS 97, fo. 54r), ?next pres [Julius Watson, vac by resig] 27 Feb 1577 (LincRO, P.D. 1577/1; LER, p. 319), worth £40 in 1554 (WCA A 23, fo. 26r)

Watson, Thomas (1513-Sept 1584): born Nun Stinton nr Sedgefield, Dur (AtC 1, pp. 491-4 and 3, p. 122); educ SJCC, fell. 1533 (ODNB); BA 1533, MA 1536 (GBΓ, pp. 267, 268, and 306), BTh 1543, DTh 1554 and note in margin that preached 1558 for ‘Dr [George] Bullock’ (qv) (GBΔ, pp. 6 and 98); 1543 chap to Bp Gardiner (qv) who

coll to 2 [unnamed; prob. next and Buckminster, 2nd doubtful] bens (ODNB); comp 22 Sept 154572 rect Wyke Regis, Dor-resig bef. 7 June 1554 (DI, 6, p. 131); 1547 vic Buckminster, Leic (AtC);73 ?inst (apparently in person) 4 Jan 1548 vic Helmsley, N. York (BI, Inst.AB.1, fo. 166r)–resig 20 Feb (BI, Inst.AB.1, fo. 168r and Reg. 29, fo. 26v);74 possibly on this trip preached sermon almost judged treasonous (ODNB); comp 15 Nov 1549 rect Overton, Hant (Reg. Gardiner, p. 145)–promotion to Lincoln (Reg. Whyte, p. 21); imprisoned with Gardiner 1550-1 (ODNB); argued for real presence in discussion at Richard Morison’s (qv) house Dec 1551 (Old DNB); Gardiner’s chap, preached 20 Aug 1553 at Paul’s Cross (Foxe [1570], p. 1634); sent 25 Sept 1553 by Gardiner to visit Cambridge when adm mr of SJCC-resig May 1554 (ODNB); disputed with John Philpot and Richard Cheyney (qv) at 1553 convocation (Foxe [1570], pp. 1576-77); inst 18 Nov 1553 dean Durham-resig bef. 23 July 1558 (Reg. Tunstall, nos 295 and 346), but oc 5 Aug 1558 (Musset, p. 1) wrb Thomas Robertson (qv); preached 2 Lent sermons bef. queen 1554 (see bel.) (ODNB); disputed Apr 1554 with Cranmer et al. at Oxford (Foxe [1570], pp. 1591-93 and 1618-21) when incorp 14 Apr DTh (RUO 1, p. 224); preached ca. 17 Feb 1556 at prorogation legatine synod (ASV, Concilio 8, fos 83r-9r [78r-84r old foliation] and CRP, no. 1496); pres 28 Aug 1556 rect Bechingwall75 (Old DNB from Rymer); temps 24 Dec 1556 bp Lincoln (F3 9, p. 2), prov 24 Mar76 1557 (ASV, Arch. concist., Acta vicecancellarii, 8, fo. 78v, incl grace for quarter of expectatives, copy in LPLPR, fos 8v-9r; cf. ASV, Acta vicecancellarii, Acta misc., 33, fo. 252r-v), 14 Aug comm to cons (CRP, no. 2085), cons 15 Aug (LPLPR, fo. 10r), 16 Aug spiritualities restored (CRP, no. 2088), 10 Oct enthroned by proxy, in person 15-16 Oct (LincCA 3, pp. 143-4), temps 9 Dec, depr 26 June77 1559 (Phillips, Extinction, pp. 107-8); among legatine visitors of Cambridge early 1557 when preached 31 Jan against Bucer (qv/5), again 6 Feb (Mere, pp. 213 and 217) also 2 Feb (acc. Foxe [1570], p. 2150); preached at London 27 Mar 1557, and 4 and 22 Apr (ODNB); commendam 29 May 1557 for Durham and Lincoln (CRP, no. 2021); preached 20 Feb 1558 at Paul’s Cross (Maclure, p. 200); participant 1559 in Westm disputation [Foxe (1583), p. 2119] when imprisoned 3 Apr, released 26 July, imprisoned again 26 June 1560, released to various bps bef. return to Tower Jan 1565, released 5 July 1574 to half-bro (ODNB); proposed as abp of York ca. 1561 (Bayne, Anglo-Roman relations, p. 283); ‘altogether a sour and morose man’ lived 24 years, finally at Wisbech (Strype, Annals 1:1, p. 214); either imprisoned or in exile for faith (Sander, DVM, p. 688); complained of by privy council 24 June 1577 and committed to Bp Horne’s custody (ODNB); corresponded with seminary at Douai (Old DNB); sent bef. 11 Aug 1580 to Wisbech Castle; † bef. 27 Sept 1584 (ODNB); wrote: ‘Absalom’, now lost (Old DNB); Twoo notable Sermons, made the thirde and fyfthe Fridayes in Lent last past, before the Quenes highnes, concerninge the reall presence of Christes body and bloude in the blessed Sacrament: and also the Masse, whiche is the sacrifice of the newe Testament ... (London: John Cawood, 10 May 1554;

RSTC 25115); Holsome and Catholyke doctryne concerninge the seuen Sacramentes of Chrystes Church, expedient to be knowen to all men, set forth in maner of shorte Sermons to bee made to the people ... (London: Robert Caley, June 1558 with two later eds; RSTC 25112); R. U. Smith, ed. and trans, ‘An unpublished translation by Bishop Thomas Watson of a spurious sermon of St Cyprian of Carthage: introduction and text’, Recusant history, 21 (1993), pp. 419-50; see Bridgett and Knox, pp. 120-207

Watters, Richard: ?acol, Heref dioc, lett. dim. 28 Mar 1537 (HRO, AL/19/13, Reg. Foxe, fo. 20r-v); ?pres 18 May 1543 vic Norton Canon, Heref, D&C Heref, pat. (HCAB 7031/1, fo. 89v no. 684), £5 assessment 1536 (Reg. Boothe, p. 365); pres 11 Nov 1557 rect Welsh Bicknor, Glos (CRP, no. 2121c), worth £4 6s 8d in 1536 (Reg. Boothe, p. 368)

Weale, John († 16 June/23 July 1569 [BRUO2, p. 612]): inst 4 June 1541 rect St Mildred’s Poultry, Richard Pollard, esq, pat. (GL, 9531/12/1, fo. 144r)–† (GL, 9531/13/1, fo. 153v), as such, roy chap, disp 10 May 154378 for it and another ben (FOR, p. 233), worth £18 13s 4d (VE 1, p. 376); inst 1079 May 1543 rect All Hallows the Great, crown pat. (GL, 9531/12/1, fo. 152r), comp 11 May £37 14s 2d, Richard Elricke and Nicholas Small, clothworkers and William Hawkes, haberdasher, all All Hallows, surs (TNA, E 334/2, fo. 148r), as such plaintiff in tithe suit vs Richard Clerk or Yerley (CRP, no. 1811a), still ca. 9 July 1563 (GL, 9531/13/1, fos 29v and 28r)–† (GL, 9531/13/1, fo. 152r); BTh Cantab from Oxford, adm 21 Feb 1550 [sic] Drs Coms (Squibb, p. 150); roy chap, 1553-4 BTh80 at Cambridge aft. 10 years study Oxford at same time as John Christopherson and George Bullock (both qv) (GBΔ, p. 96); inst 14 Dec 1558 Chamberlainwood preb, London-† bef. 2 July 1569 (F3 1, p. 27); inst 22 Apr 1564 rect Brown Candover, Hant, Paulet, marquess of Winchester (qv), pat. (HaRO, 21M65/A1/26, fo. 17r)–† (HaRO, 21M65/A1/26, fo. 79v); will 16 June 1569/ prov 23 July (GL, Consistory reg. Bullock, fo. 114 acc. BRUO2)

Webbe, John I: BA 4 Feb 1541, BCL 1547 (RUO 1, p. 200);81 inst 31 May 1554 vic St Veep, Corn, William and Dorothy [Courtenay; fo. 4v] Cavell, pats. (DRO, EDRC 16, fo. 20r), comp 12 July £4 10s 5d, Nicholas Southcote, mercer and John Crosse, leatherseller, both St Margaret in Lothbury, surs (TNA, E 334/4, fo. 178r), vac bef. 21 June 1560 (DRO, EDRC 18, fo. 60v); inst 15 Sept 1554 vic Pelynt, Corn, duke of Norfolk, pat. (DRO, EDRC 16, fo. 28r), comp 7 Dec £16 2s 7d, Hugh Trevenyan, Carhays, Corn, esq, and Richard Trevenyan, Middle Temple, gen, surs (TNA, E 334/4, fo. 215v); disp 16 Sept 1556 for both (CRP, no. 1687); ?will: BRS, 56, p. 354: St Veep, 1574 (destroyed)

Webbe, John II (by 1516/17-1557): prob. son John Webbe and Joan da of John Hobard, both of Sandwich, Kent; ?BA 3 July 1514,82 perhaps start of long connection to William Roper83 (qv), certainly contemporaries at Lincoln’s Inn (HPT 3, pp. 564-5); present at Thomas More’s (qv) trial and reported to Roper on it (R. S. Sylvester and D. P. Harding, eds, Two early Tudor lives [New Haven: Yale University Press, 1962], p. 250); 1537 steward Faversham, Kent, auditor 1540-4, jurat 1555, mayor 1556-†;

1545 with Roper sur for Thomas Wells als Ferman (qv); MP Dover Oct 1553 and both 1554 (Sir Thomas Cheyney [qv], pat.); jp Kent 1554; closely linked to Roper in local administration; acted 1554 with Cyriac Petit (qv) against rebels at Dover, same year two bought remainder of lease of Boughton under Blean (HPT); ca. 2 Mar 1555 with Petit and William Oxenden (both qv) examined John Bland (Foxe [1583], p. 1669); heresy comm84 25 Apr 1556 (CRP, no. 1549b); will 28 Dec 1556/prov 9 Mar 1557 (TNA, PROB 11/39 PCC 8 Wrastley): if bur in London, William Perryn to preach and OPs of Smithfield to attend, masses and 5 marks dole at Faversham, 40s at annual memorial, 30s to its vicar,85 interest in Ospringe rect and custody son Germain (who got rest of Webbe’s cash in his godfather’s hands and other bequests worth £350) to wife Alice (and household goods, horses, cattle at Luddenham, Kent and elsewhere, various leases, 400 marks in cash, etc), endowment of chantry at Faversham, £10 of £30 debt from bro Thomas Gate forgiven, balance to his wife and chil, ‘my gossip’ Germain Cioll (horse and £10; ovs)86 and John Cioll, ring to John Drylande (?Driland, qv) the elder as per agreement, gown to uncle Aldye [?John Aldey, qv] to pray for me and to cousin Henry Aldye, Mr Wells and Mr Wade, ‘my master William Roper’s chaps’ all theology books, svt Rastell (horse), bro Gyllard and Anne Gyllard, bailiff of Faversham, Robert Colwell, my clks John Ewer and Richard Beste (new sword, etc), to divide all law books, old svt George Nicholson, John Pullen (old study gown), Mr Johnson, clk87 of Faversham, Mrs Conyngsey, svt Annys, Father Foster, John Holmes, John Welchman and kitchenboy Robyn, son’s nurse Alice Palmer, Widow Webbe of Cant, cousin Elizabeth Mote and husb and chil, res legs and execs Roper, William Rastell and Richard Heywood,88 Petit, ovs, John Edwards of Dayington, John Smelte; following in Foxe under George Webbe, but possibly mistake for this man: Bland taken before Sir John Baker, Master Petit, Master Webbe, whom Bland did not know (Foxe [1563], p. 1223, [1570], p. 1847, [1576], p. 1581, [1583], p. 1668); Bland in Cant castle until 2 Mar when taken to the chapter house of Cant cath to Thornden, Collens, Mylles et al. (all qv), then to Oxenden, Petit, Webbe and Hardes (Foxe [1563], p. 1224, [1570], p. 1848, [1576], p. 1581, [1583], p. 1669)

Webbe, Thomas: ?in Cant cath accts 1553/4 (CCA, DCc/MA 39, fo. 6r); boy, summoned 17 May 1556 visitation (CRP, no. 1564)

Webster, William: oc CCCO 1550, MA 17 July 1553 (RUO 1, pp. 220 and 356); witn 1 Dec 1557 to Hospitallers’ restoration (CRP, no. 2133)

Weldon, Thomas: son and heir of Edward Weldon,89 sometime pat. of Shottesbroke,90 Berk, oc 5 May 1558 crown ward (CRP, no. 2224); not: man91 or men of same name pat. Cookham, Berk, 1553 when pres Simon Alleyn (W&SRO, D1/2/16, Reg. Capon,

fo. 53v), still when pres William Moyle inst 8 Nov 1559 (SVI, p. 36), still 18 Apr 1580 when pres John Leese (W&SRO, D1/2/17, Reg. Piers, fo. 6r)

Wellisburne, John (by 1498-11 Apr 1548): son of Thomas and Margery da Thomas Poure, Bletchingdon, Oxon; educ ?Etc and ?KCC; nephew Sir Robert Brudenell, chief justice of common pleas (HPT 3, pp. 575-7); June 1519 page of privy chamber, 1520 groom, expelled 1526, restored 1528, gent June 153192-† (ODNB); involved 1529-30 with Pole in seeking opinion on Henry’s divorce from university of Paris (CRP, no. 54);93 various keeperships and minor offices; 1538 keeper site Abingdon abbey aft. suppression; MP Oxon 1539 (Cromwell [qv], pat.); jp Ntht 1539-†, Berk and Oxon 1541-†; fought in France 1544 where knighted 30 Sept; chantry comm Berk and Hant 1546; assessed 1546 on £200 in lands; marr Feb 1546 Elizabeth da of one Lawrence, Fulwell, Oxon;94 will Mar 1548: persons: son John, illegit son Arthur, wife, exec, svt Anthony Arden or Ardern, John Eyston, Sir Maurice Berkeley95 and George Gifford96 (HPT)

Wells, John († bef. 16 July 1571): priest, inst 27 Jan 1557 vic E. Malling, Suss (CRP, no. 1819)–† bef. 16 July 1571 (Reg. Parker, p. 875), worth £10 16s 4d (VE 1, p. 116)

Wells als Ferman, Thomas: of St Gregory’s nr Cant, disp 31 Dec 1536 (FOR, p. 83); comp 28 Nov 1545 chantry in Cant St Dunstan, £7 4s, William Roper,97 Chelsea, Mdx and John Webbe (both qv), Faversham, Kent, surs (TNA, E 334/3, fo. 74r); Augustinian canon, abs 6 May 1555 leaving monastery (but not apostasy), disp hold ben (CRP, no. 1210)

Wells, Thomas (ca. 1467-?bef. 30 July 1524): from Alresford, Hant, adm Dec 1478 scholar WinC aged 12; adm 5 Jan 1483 fell. NCO, declined elec as warden 1520; BA 1488, DTh of Turin 1503, sup for incorporation at Oxford 20 Nov 1510 and 21 Feb 1521; ord priest 31 Mar 1498; inst 31 Jan 1500 rect Heyford Warren, Oxon, NCO pat., vac bef. Mar 1506; inst 10 Apr 1506 rect Eynsford, Kent, vac 1514 (BRUO1, pp. 2008-9), as such pat. of its vic as of 2 Sept 151998 when John Stodard inst (LPL, Reg. Warham, fo. 368v); inst 26 Oct 1506 rect Harlington, Mdx;99 inst 9 Dec 1506 Ilton preb, Wells-† (F2 7, p. 55); pres 27 Mar 1508 canon of Tamworth, Staff and preb of Wilnecote (BRUO1); pres 18 Mar 1508 Wightring preb, Chich, coll 29 Mar-move to Coleworth (F2 7, p. 49), worth £20 (VE 1, p. 300); coll 20 Apr 1508 rect Chartham, Kent, vac bef. Apr 1514 (BRUO1), in 1535 worth £41 5s 10d (VE 1, p. 92); resig [n.d.] archpresbytery of Ulcombe, Kent on coll 14 Aug 1511100 chancellor of S. Malling, Suss, although transaction not completed until 27 Mar 1512 (LPL, Reg. Warham, fos 347r-v and 344r), as such pat. of Thomas Gybbys inst 2 May 1522 (ibid, fo. 374r); coll 26 Oct 1513 rect St Leonard Eastcheap-resig bef. 17 July 1516 on promotion [to

Midley] (see bel.) (ibid, fos 352r and 361r), in 1535 worth £25 10s (VE 1, p. 370); inst 31 Mar 1514 vic Lydd, Kent (ibid, fo. 353r), in 1535 worth £46 13s 4d (VE 1, p. 94); coll [blank] May 1514 rect Crayford, Kent-† (LPL, Reg. Warham, fos 354r and 382r), in 1535 worth £35 13s 4d (VE 1, p. 115); coll 7 Nov 1515 Crantock preb, Corn-† (BRUO1); inst 4 July 1516 rect Midley, Kent, William Potkyn pat. phv by grant from John Cheyney, esq-† (LPL, Reg. Warham, fos 360v and 383r), in 1535 worth £30 (VE 1, p. 94); coll 7 Nov 1517 Coleworth preb, Chich-† (F2 7, p. 18); called by Erasmus (qv/5) Abp Warham’s humanissimus oeconomus101 in 1520 (BRUO1); oc 23 Sept 1522 pat. with John Alefe by grant from William Warham, Ad Canterbury (qv) of rect Hackington, Kent when John Haryson102 inst (LPL, Reg. Warham, fo. 375r); oc 23 Apr 1523 pat. with Alefe by grant from Warham of vic Lynstead, Kent when John Wryght inst (ibid, fo. 377r); DTh, † bef. 30 July 1524 (but see bel.) holding Crauthorne chantry, Hope rect103 (CRP, no. 1919, from LPL, Reg. Warham, fo. 381v), John Cheyney then pat. and it a Cheyney family ben, e.g. SVI, p. 38; ?1505-11 bp of Sidon, suffragan of Cant. (Eubel, p. 344), as such, coll 15 May 1519 rect Woodchurch, Kent (LPL, Reg. Warham, fo. 368r); coll 7 Dec 1525 rect Adisham, Kent (ibid, fo. 385r), but inst may not have taken effect bec 29 Mar 1526 Aleffe resig as rect paying a pension to Rogeri Woodward the inc bef. Welles (ibid., fo. 390v); the matter concerned Cheyney bec of a dispute over the advowson with Andrew Lord Windsor, see the inquiry (conducted by Robert Colens, qv) ended 11 Oct 1524 (ibid, fos 386r-7v)

Welsh, Edward: of Bermondsey, Surr, 22 Dec 1554 confirmed advowson of one of Heref and Salop Ads (HCAB 7031/1, fo. 136r), another such of All Saints, Heref 1581 (HRO, HD6/24, loose pres. deeds); pat. 13 Aug 1556 Rotherhithe, Surr (CRP, no. 1642); gent, ovs of William Astel, St Saviours Southwark 26 June 1568 (LMA, ‘Archdeaconry court of Surrey will abstracts’, 15, no. 392)

Welsh, Henry (ca. 1522-bef. 10 Apr 1559 [F3]): from Worc, adm 22 Jan 1536 CCC scholar aged 14 yrs 9 months, probationary fell. 17 Aug 1543, fell. 1545, vac bef. 1555 (BRUO2, pp. 603-4); BA 13 Nov 1542, MA 11 July 1545, BTh 5 May 1554 (RUO 1, p. 203); ord exorcist 19 Dec 1534 (with William Goodeknappe and John Pollard, qv) (LincRO, Epis. reg. 26, fo. 41r); ord subd 24 Feb 1548, deac 17 Mar, priest 31 Mar (OA, ODP d105, pp. 56, 58, 59); ?inst 23 Nov 1540 by proxy rect Grafton Flyford, Worc (WoRO, b716.093-BA.2648/9(iii), p. 28); pres by crown 22 Apr 1554 rect Mottram in Longdendale, Ches (CPRPM 1, p. 276), but apparently failed to take effect since Richard Hide, allegedly inst 1547, † holding bef. 4 June 1575 (Ormerod 3, p. 855 and CRO, EDA 1/1, fo. 7r), worth £28 19s 3d (TNA, E 334/3, fo. 118v); comp 15 June 1554 rect Hanbury, Worc £26 17s, no pat. given, Anthony Rotseye, St Lawrence Jewry, gen and Henry Garret, Fleet Lane prope London, haberdasher, surs (TNA, E 334/4, fo. 165v), vac bef. 1559 (William Northfolk, qv); pres by crown 26 June 1556 Nonnington preb, Heref (CPRPM 3, p. 111), instal in person 4 July (HCAB, 7031/1, fo. 147v)–apparently removed via court action bef. 21 May 1558 (cf. John Amynde ab.), assessed at £11 13s 4d 1536 (Reg. Boothe, p. 364); pres by crown 7 Oct 1558 rect St Andrew Holborne (CPRPM 4, p. 448), if inst vac ca. 1560 (LPL, Carte misc 13/2/57, fo. 2r), worth £15 13s (VE 1, p. 371); pres 8 Nov 1558 Bishops preb,104

Heref (CRP, no. 2304c), inst 15 Dec, crown pat. (SVI, p. 58), instal 26 Dec via proxy (HCAB, 7031/1, fo. 153v)–† (SVI, p. 58; not listed in Havergal, p. 68), no assessment in 1536; instal 4 Jan 1559 S. Newbald preb, York-† bef. 10 Apr (F3 4, p. 49)

Wendon, Nicholas: matric Nov 1546 sizar of Michaelhouse (AtC 1, p. 384); BA of TCC 1551; 1552 fell. TCC; lived at Lounde, Suff (AlC 4, p. 365); MA 1554 with George Ausope (qv) (GBΔ, pp. 69 and 94); signed 26 July 1555 Catholic articles (Mere, p. 176); Linc dioc, license 20 Apr 1557 to study (CRP, no. 1949); coll 30 Sept 1557 rect Minster-in-Thanet, Kent, pension to John Wilbore (qv) (CRP, nos 2102 and 2098), as such declared contumacious 19 Sept 1560 for failure to appear at visitation, depr bef. 20 Oct 1561 aft. failed to show cause for possession (Reg. Parker, pp. 644 and 784), worth £33 3s 4d (VE 1, p. 35); inst 17 Apr 1559 Ad Suffolk, George Themilthorpe, pat. phv (NRO, DN/REG/12/18, fo. 219v), lic 26 Nov 1566 to be abroad for health, ‘apparently depr’ soon aft. appearance 29 Jan 1576105 on list of fugitives (F3 7, p. 48); inst 26 June 1561 rect Witnesham, Suff, pat. ill. on film (NRO, DN/REG 13/19, fo. 51v), failed to comp by 1564 (NRO, DN/SUN/3/, fo. 105r), vac bef. 13 June 1577 (NRO, DN/REG 14/20, fo. 15v); pres 27 June 1561 6th preb, Norwich, crown pat. (F3 7, p. 59), inst 4 July (NRO, DN/REG 13/19, fo. 52r), still 1564 (NRO, DN/SUN/3, fo. 105r), in chapter 5 Apr 1570, ‘apparently depr shortly aft.’ 29 Jan 1576, certainly bef. 10 Nov 1576 (F3 7, p. 48, citing Strype, Annals 2:2, p. 596; ejected 1570 for lack of orders acc. AtC 1, p. 384); George Gardiner, preb106 reported 18 July 1567 at visitation of Norwich cath that had seen Wendon 2 years ago, non-resident, not a ‘minister’, ‘and went not in priestly apparel, but in a cloak with a Spanish cape, and a rapier by his side, was no priest, and lived at Louvain’ (Strype, Parker, book 3, p. 247 summarizing book 4, p. 88 from Baker’s MSS in SJC); IUD of a foreign university,107 adm 4 Oct 1567 advocate of Arches (AtC), but mistake because no subscription (Squibb, p. 157); lic again Feb 1573 to be abroad for health; at Padua 1574 (Woolfson, p. 282); inst 15 Nov 1570 rect Tawstock,108 Dev, William Barnabye, esq, pat. by grant from earl of Bath (Reg. Parker, p. 317)–depr bef. 4 June 1577 (DRO, EDRC 20, fo. 37v); ‘Edmund Windam’ (acc. John B. Wainewright, ‘Dr Gee’s second list’, Downside review, 16 [1911], pp. 292-307, p. 306) on Sander’s list of lawyers imprisoned or exiled (Sander, DVM, p. 700); 1572 at Bruges; ‘great papist’, 1575 to Italy; ord priest 23 Feb 1578 Cambrai109 where had preb; 1580 at Rome; 10 Nov 1582 arrested there with Nicholas Morton (qv) and others (Old DNB); † ca. Dec 1589, prob. in a Spanish camp in the Netherlands (Wainewright)

Wendy, Thomas (1499/1500 [ODNB]110-11 May 1560): 2nd son Thomas,111 Clare, Suff (Old DNB from MS source); BA 1519, MA 1522, incorp MD of Ferrara 1527 (GBΓ, pp. 165, 200 and 230); 1519-24 fell. Gonville Hall; roy physician Henry VIIIElizabeth (AlC 4, p. 365), appted for life Mar 1547 (HPT 3, pp. 579-81), oc 8 Feb

1555 Mary’s physician (CRP, no. 1064); pat. St Dunstan’s in the West 5 Feb 1535 when pres Richard Lyst (GL, 9531/11, fo. 35v); disp 1538-9 from lecturing; noble and roy clientele, esp. Henry Percy, 5th earl Northumberland; marr 1) by 1541 Margaret da one Butler, 2) 13 June 1552 Margaret da John Porter, London; June 1541 bought manor Haslingfield, Camb, William Paget (qv) (to whom close) among feofees, made principal residence; ?Protestant in 1540s; visitor of Camb 1546 and 1559; jp Camb 1546; ?involved in Stephen Gardiner’s (qv) plot against Katherine Parr;112 4 May 1548 granted by bp Heref capital messuage in London113 (HCAB 7031/1, fo. 98r); bought much ex-chantry land and later buildings of Barnwell priory; fell. 22 Dec 1551 coll. of physicians, elect 1552; MP St Albans Apr 1554, Camb 1555 (HPT); with Thomas Huys (qv) et al. with authority from Pole’s visitors of Oxford adjudicated disputed admission to MD of Simon Ludford and David Lawton;114 attended Mary on deathbed; by 1559 president Gonville Hall (HPT); 61 at † (ODNB); bur 27 May 1560 Haslingfield; prob. his nephew and heir of same name115 donor of MS of ‘Ro:Ba’ life of More to Balliol (Remarks and collections of Thomas Hearne, 11, H. E. Salter, ed., Oxford historical society, 72 [1918], p. 112 and R. A. B. Mynors, ed., Catalogue of the manuscripts of Balliol College, Oxford [Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1963], pp. 284-5, MS 266 ‘ex dono Thomae Wendy equitis aurati’ [Old DNB]); will 12 Feb 1560/prov 18 June (TNA, PROB 11/43): protestant preamble, places: Haslingfield, Chatteris, Dytton Vallas,116 Eversden, Barrington, Whitwell, Cotton, town of Cambridge and Grantchester ‘in liberty of the same’, Barnewell als Barton, all Camb, Elsworthe, Tuffley, Glos, Great Chishell, Little Chishell, both Ess, Kingsbury, Heref, Scales,117 Mynchins [unided], persons: wife Margaret (res leg and exec), wife’s chil (incl Richard Atkins, also called son-in-law), bro John Wendy, nephew Thomas Wendy, cousin Dauntser, late Thomas Atkins, esq, his das (Elizabeth, Mary and Katherine Atkins), his bros (Richard and William Atkins), Mr Rayes, Lord Thomas [Percy, qv], earl of Northumberland, his uncle my late mr, Henry earl of Northumberland, Lord and Lady Paget, their sons (Thomas and Charles Paget), Griselde Paget, remaining Paget chil (all Pagets, qv), Lord Paget’s man Thomas Newton, Chief Baron Mr Justice [Antony] Brown [sgtat-law, qv], Mr Justice Weston, ‘my good mr’ Sir Henry Percy, Sir Humfrey Ratcliff, Stephen Hadnoll, Mr Parkinson, Mr Purslowe, Roger Coys [?Caius], gent, Steven Hadnoll, Darley, James Bedle or Bedill, gent, his wife ‘my gossip’, their son (godson), Nicholas Purslowe of the Inner Temple, unnamed poor kin, ‘one Awrelius of Vennis’ whose father was Baptista, a bookbinder sometime of Venice at the sign of the anchor in the Miseries, heirs of Thomas Hatley of Harleton, Camb, Lady Carnaby, George Otney’s wife, vic of Haslingefield, ‘old’ wife’s svt Mistress Frier of Godmanchester, Camb, Bitesone, sometime resident of Haslingefield, Sir Robert Brooke, late lord justice of the Common Pleas, John Newdigate, esq, George Frevell, esq, mr and fells of GCC, late John Coxall, old svt Richard Cacke of Haslingfield, legacies: cash (over

£350), annuities, charity, leases, real estate (incl lands of dissolved Barnwell Abbey [sic]), plate, all arras at Mr Rayes’ house in Cambridge, 2 20 mark gold chains, rings, clothing, horse, debts of Pagets (£100) and Otney’s wife (40s) forgiven, £60 debt owing from Richard and William Atkins, items of interest: bequests for prayers, £10 for repairs of church of Haslingfield and highways, incl. real estate of late chantry of Cambridge Great St Mary, JCC claimed 3s rent charge and Benet Coll., Cambridge claimed 2s 8d rent charge, both charges pd, mr and fells of GCC to grant advowson of Haslingfield to heirs, heir to pay £10 p.a. to GCC, compensation to persons from whom took land by enclosure, admon 3 Mar 1571 to wife Margaret bec. no other rels wished it

West, Peter († bef. 3 Sept 1557): inst 15 July 1542 rect Sapcote, Leic, William, John and Christopher West, pats. (LincRO, Epis. reg. 27, fo. 170r)–† bef. 27 Sept 1557 (LincRO, Epis. reg. 28, fo. 136v; LI2, no. 497), worth £10 11s 10 1/2d in 1576 (Foster, Lincoln, p. 37); priest, abs & disp 12 Feb 1557 it and rect Husbands Bosworth,118 Leic (CRP, no. 1847), vac (†) 2nd bef. 3 Sept 1557 (LincRO, Epis. reg. 28, fo. 140r; LI2, no. 542), worth £24 15s 7 1/2d (LER, p. 157)

West or Westus, Thomas: Westus, oc Baptist term 1553/4 minor canon, Cant cath (CCA, DCc/MA 39, fo. 3r), summoned 17 May 1556 visitation (CRP, no. 1564), still 1557/8 (CCA, DCc/MA 40, fo. 65r); pd 23s 4d 1557/8 for ‘ordinal for the choir’ (CCA, DCc/ MA 40, fo. 71r)

Weston, Hugh (ca. 1510-7/8 Dec 1558 [ODNB]): born Burton Overy, Leic; BCO (ODNB); elec 21 Apr 1529 exhibitioner, St Mary Hall, vac bef. Oct 1531; BA 18 July 1530, MA 17 Feb 1533, BTh 2 May 1539, DTh July 1540 (RUO 1, p. 161); fell. LCO 1532, vac 1538; king’s scholar in 1537, elec 8 Jan 1539 rect (BRUO2, pp. 616-17), inst 11 Jan (LincRO, Epis. reg. 27, fo. 197r)–ejected 13 Aug 1556 by Pole’s visitors (BRUO2), as such ord ben subd 1 Mar 1539, deac 22 Mar, priest 27 Mar 1541 (LincRO, Epis. reg. 26, fos 59r and 60v); inst119 3 Feb 1541 rect Petsoe with Ekeney chap, Buck,120 Thomas Gyfford, esq, pat.121 phv by grant from SJCO (LincRO, Epis. reg. 27, fo. 224r)–† (LI2, no. 657); comp 5 Sept 1541 rect St Nicholas Olave £8 7s 6d, John Burget, St Olave Silverstreet, MD and Robert Wistowe,122 St Michael Woodstreet, grocer, surs (TNA, E 334/2, fo. 55v), inst 25123 Sept, vac bef. 1546 (BRUO2 citing Hennessy but neither in GL, 9531/12/1); Lady Margaret professor of divinity ca. 1542-ca. 1551 (T. H. Aston, ed., The history of the university of Oxford, 3, The collegiate university, ed. James McConica [Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1986], p. 328), but see record of payments from Augmentations 1542-53 (ibid., p. 349n); coll 19 May 1544 rect St Botolph Bishopsgate124 (GL, 9531/12/1, fo. 155v), comp 20 May £18, Robert Toye and John Cawood (qv), stationer, both St Faith’s, surs (TNA, E 334/3, fo. 15r)–†125 (GL, 9531/12/2, fo. 205r), farmed its gardens 23 June 1548 for

40s 8d to John Strelley, citizen and vintner of London (GL, 9531/12/1, fo. 121r), as such disp 1 Apr 1547 for 2 bens (FOR, p. 292); coll 17 Oct 1545 Ad Corn (DRO, EDRC 14, fo. 118r; 1547 in F1, 1, p. 399)–certo modo vacante at John Rixman’s (qv) pres 1554, worth £50 6 3d;127 1547 cancellarius natus Oxon. (Wood, Fasti 1, col. 124); comp 18 Mar 1547 rect Burton Overy, Leic £16 9s, Robert Reynes, St Vedast, goldsmith and Thomas Morryson, St Olave Silver St, surs (TNA, E 334/3, fo. 116r), inst 21 Mar 1547,128 John Holme, pat. phv (LincRO, Epis. reg. 27, fo. 174v)–?† (see will); arrested Sept 1549 in Leic and released to Cranmer but refused to conform (qv) (ODNB); adm 16 June 1552 Drs Coms (Squibb, p. 151); pres 14 Sept 1553 dean Westm, crown pat. (F3 7, p. 69), instal 18 Sept (WmCA, no. 139), still 10 Nov 1555 (GL, 9531/12/2, fo. 122r)–dissolution 25 Sept 1556 (CRP, no. 1698), attended chapter meetings regularly, rel William Weston (later exec, see bel.) granted 24 Oct 1553 collectorship in London, H. Weston granted 3 Mar 1554 advoswon of Islip, Oxon (see bel.) (WmCA, nos 140ff., 143, 147); 1 Oct 1553 roy chap, still 1557 (Page, ‘Uniform’, p. 417); elec 16 Oct 1553 prolocutor of southern convocation (ODNB), oration published as Oratio coram clero (London: A. [sic] Cawood, 1553; reprinted in Strype, EM 3:2, pp. 182-9); preached 22129 Oct 1553 at Paul’s Cross announcing disputation with Protestants in convocation (Maclure, p. 196); coll 22 Jan 1554 Ad Colchester-depr bef. 15 Oct 1558130 (GL, 9531/12/2, fos 42r, 174v, 203r), worth £50 (Oxley), 16 Mar 1554 leased its property in St Benet Fink for 80 years for £4 (GL, 9531/12/2, fos 84v-5r); at Sir Thomas Wyatt II’s (qv) execution 11 Apr 1554 accused him of lying (Foxe [1570], p. 1587); Apr 1554 head convocation’s representatives at exam of Cranmer et al. and pronounced condemnation (BRUO2 and ‘Processus Cranmer’, p. 513), presided over disputations (Foxe [1570], pp. 1592-1627) and prob. urged executions (ODNB); inst 20 Apr 1554 rect Islip, Oxon, D&C Chich [i.e., William Pye, qv], pats. (OA, ODP d105, p. 151; WmCA, no. 147)–† (SVI, p. 64), worth £16 10s 7d (Oxley); 1554-5 incorp at Cambridge DTh from Oxford (GBΔ, p. 107); with Henry Cole (qv/5) Gardiner’s deputies for depr of Alexander Bull, minor canon of Westm whom restored to sacerdotal functions 12 Mar 1555 (GL, 9531/12/2, fo. 82v); pres 2 Apr 1555 rect Cliffe at Hoo, Kent (ODNB), comp 27 Sept 1555131 £45 (TNA, E 334/6, fo. 31v), inst 25 Oct (CCA, DCc, Reg N, fo. 91r)–† (BRUO2 without source); involved in John Bradford’s (qv) exam incl 5 Apr 1555 when said had been delayed by necessity to ‘withstand’ monks from entering Westminster (Foxe [1570], pp. 1801-2); signed 26 July 1555 Catholic articles at Cambridge (Mere, p. 175); at Philipot’s 11th exam 30 Nov 1555 (Foxe [1570], pp. 1986-92); appt 8 Nov 1556 dean Windsor-depr for adultery Aug 1557 (BRUO2), but still dean 23 Dec 1557 (Henry Bryther, qv), worth £158 6s 8d (Oxley); 5 Jan 1557 register of Garter (ODNB); attempted to appeal to Rome against depr but arrested and sent to Tower; released 3 Dec 1558 and † 8 Dec in friend’s house in Fleet St, bur same day in Savoy (see will)

(Old DNB); suffered a ‘loathsome and infamous disease’ and ‘ordinarily branded with a beastly nickname not befitting modesty to express’ (Sir Simonds D’Ewes, The primitive practise for preserving truth, or, An historicall narration shewing what course the primitive church anciently and the best reformed churches since have taken to suppresse heresie and schisme [London: printed for M. S. by Henry Overton, 1645; Wing D1252], pp. 36-7);133 Wood (Fasti 1, col 296) recounts 2 attacks on him for adultery but calls them ‘brutish language’; ‘one of the best preachers and orators of his time’ (Old DNB prob. citing Leland acc. Wood); acc. Foxe had Weston not died suddenly, would have ‘disclosed the purpose of. . .the cardinal [Pole], which was to have taken up King Henry’s body at Windsor, and to have burnt it as many thought’ (Foxe [1570], p. 2301); will 26 Nov 1558/prov 14 Apr 1559 (TNA, PROB 11/42B, fos 55v-6v PCC 7 Chaynay): bur Savoy, detailed funeral arrangements including masses at Windsor, LCO and BCO, many bequests to poor, some by name, essequies at Burton [Overy], Leic and his rect of Cliffe at Hoo, Kent, 5s to Mr [John; BRUO2] Langdon, monk of Westminster, 40s to [OFMObs] friars of Greenwich, and to Charterhouse at Sheen, bridge between Kibworth and Glen [Magna], Leic £4, 40s to ‘friars of London’ (i.e., Blackfriars?), vestment in Parson Wether’s keeping to Burton church, for bro Nicholas and John Weston all horses and harnesses, beds, £100, to Heyborn for all things, 20 nobles, Vincent Maister, [?William] Winter’s svt, £3 6s 8d, Roger Masse, rect of the town [?Burton Overy], £3, gowns, jacket, execs: William Weston, William Wynter, Rauff Chamberleyn, £10 each, Sir John Borne, £10, ovs John Weekes £20, res to poor; almost certainly rel Robert Weston, BCL 23 June 1558 (RUO 1, p. 235), inst 7 May 1560 rect Carlton Curlieu,134 Leic, Nicholas Weston, pat. (LI2 no. 868), comp 9 May, still bef. 20 Feb or bef. 20 Mar 1562135 BCL [sic], unmarr deac, educ, resident, non-preacher, only ben (CCCC, MS 97, fo. 50r)–† bef. 11 Aug 1576 wrb Hugh Weston,136 son of Nicholas, pat. (LER, pp. 38 and 266; LincRO, P.D. 1576/20), ?this Hugh inst 5 May 1569 vic Latton Bush, Ess, James Altham, esq, pat.–† bef. 6 Dec 1580 (GL, 9531/13/1, fos 149v and 200r); not rel. next 3

Weston, James (ca. 1525-89 [HPT]): 4th son John Weston, Lichfield (P. W. Hasler, ed, The House of Commons 1558-1603, 3 [London: HMSO, 1981], p. 605 and ‘Bentham’s letter-book’, p. 145n); clericus sive scholarus137 [‘clk or scholar’], C&L, cr 2 Feb 1555 notary (CRP, no. 1059); bro Robert Weston II (qv), chancellor of C&L at same time as he registrar, for whom acted as business manager; registrar of Lichfield 1561-89, caught 1561 approving simoniacal candidates for institution (‘Bentham’s letter-book’, p. 231 and Rosemary O’Day, ‘The role of the registrar in diocesan administration’, in F. Heal and R. O’Day, eds, Continuity and change: personnel and administration of the Church of England, 1500-1642 [Leicester: Leicester University Press, 1976], pp. 77-94, pp. 84 and 90-1); notarial device and identification as registrar top left corner LRO, B/A/1/15, fo. 1r; marr [n.d.] Margery, da Humphrey Lowe; later [than 1562] chancellor of C&L; bailiff Lichfield 1562-3 (HPT); described by Bp Bentham 10 Nov

1564 as ‘godly and zealous’ and knowledgable about which JPs reliable in religion (Landor, p. 368); oc 1571 pat. of Richard Aston (qv); pat. of Richard Barber, DCL, inst 4 Aug 1574 treas Lichfield (F3 10, p. 18); June 1580 comm for musters; MP Lichfield 1584 (HPT); will 2 May 1589/prov 24 May, Francis Clark, notary (TNA, PROB 11/73, C.1329): the elder, of city of Lichfield, places: Sawley preb, Burrowfordes, Broadhayes in the lordship of King Bromley, Handsacre, Staff, Armytage, Knolle, St John’s Ermer [?], persons: late wife, sons (James and exec Simon Weston), da Alice (exec), two unnamed das, two sisters, bro Christopher, bro Lowe (ovs), cousin Bardell (ovs), son-in-law Humfrey Wells (ovs), John Mytton, esq of Weston, Robert Sert, Raphael Massey, Robert Temple, legacies: cash (over £21), annuity, rings, gold chain, plate, items of interst: bur w/ wife in St John’s Ermer, real estate and other property sold (incl lease of Newlandes), quare impedit against John Hudsonne over Sawley preb to be pursued; most property sold to pay for das and quare impedit over Sallow138 preb, inherited139 from bro, but will not very detailed (O’Day, ‘Registrar’, pp. 84 and 90-1)

Weston, Robert I († bef. 6 Oct 1539): inst 25 Mar 1503 vic N. Petherwin, Corn, Tavistock abbey, pat. (DRO, EDRC 12:2, Reg. Arundell, fo. 10r); inst aft. 23 July 1505 vic Chudleigh, Dev (Oliver, Antiquities 1, p. 25)–resig bef. 18 Sept 1508 (DRO, EDRC 13, fo. 25v); chap, inst 8 Sept 1508 rect Islip, Oxon, Westm abbey, pat. (LincRO, Epis. reg. 23, fo. 361v); coll 8 Nov 1509 Crantock preb, Corn (DRO, EDRC 13, fo. 36r), vac bef. 1535 (Oliver, Monasticon exon., p. 59); inst 5 Nov 1511 rect St Dominic, Corn, dean of Exeter, pat.–resig bef. 9 Dec 1516 (DRO, EDRC 13, fos 45r and 68r); BCn&CL,140 inst 15 Mar 1512 rect Budleigh Salterton, Dev, Polsloe priory, pat. (ibid, fo. 46v)–resig bef. 2 June 1517 (ibid, fo. 70r); coll 18 Aug 1513 vic Nymet Episcopi, Dev-resig bef. 15 July 1514 (ibid, fos 52v and 57r); inst 15 July 1514 rect Ashprington, Dev, Totnes priory, pat.–resig bef. 3 June 1515, reinst 1 June 1518 (ibid, fos 57r, 61r, 76v)–resig (to Richard Weston,141 prob. his successor as subdean of Exeter, see bel.) bef. 4 Dec 1523 (DRO, EDRC 14, fo. 17v); ?chap, resig bef. 18 Aug 1514142 rect Bolas Magna, Salop (LRO, B/A/1/14 (i), fo. 46v); coll 18 Apr 1515 Exeter preb (DRO, EDRC 13, fo. 60r), distributions 1517-18 to 1538-39 (ECA, 3707); coll subdean 28 Apr 1518 (DRO, EDRC 13, fo. 76r)–† bef. 6 Oct 1539 (DRO, EDRC 14, fo. 98v; cf. ECA 3552, fo. 12r), steward fabric 1524, 1534, 1535 (ECA, 3551, fos 15v, 87r, 91v), steward common chest 1525, 1526, 1530, 1531 (fos 21r, 27v, 60r, 66r), proc twice 1534 (fos 89r and 91r); coll 3 June 1515 vic Paignton, Dev (DRO, EDRC 13, fo. 61v)–† (DRO, EDRC 14, fo. 99r); coll 1 June 1517 rect Morchard Bishop, Dev [(DRO, EDRC 13, fo. 70r and Oliver, Antiquities 3, p. 49)–resig bef. 1 June 1518 (DRO, EDRC 13, fo. 76v); resig bef. 21 June 1517 Prescombe preb, Crediton, Dev (DRO, EDRC 13, fo. 70v); inst 20 November 1523 vic Brixham, Dev, Totnes priory, pat.–resig bef. 10 Nov 1528 wrb George Carew (qv) (DRO, EDRC 14, fos 17v and

38v), worth £36 6s 8d in 1554 (WCA A 23, fo. 137r), 17 Dec 1554 £47 8s 5d (TNA, E 334/4, fo. 217r); inst 28 Feb 1526 rect Chagford, Dev, John Copleston of Copleston, esq, pat. (DRO, EDRC 14, fo. 27r)–† (ibid, fo. 98v); oc vg Exeter 19 Dec 1532 (DRO, EDRC 15, fo. 7v), but D. H. Pill cannot be correct that he was appt again bef. 28 Dec 1552, nor that he was first layman appointed (‘The administration of the diocese of Exeter under Bishop Veysey’, Reports and transactions of the Devonshire association for the advancement of science, literature and art, 98 [1966], pp. 262-78, p. 277 citing EDRC 16 w/o fo.); many other Westons in add. to those bel., incl feofees of Colyton, Dev

Weston, Robert II (by 1522-20 May 1573): 3rd son John Weston and Cicely Neville143 of Weeford, Staff, younger bro of Richard Weston, justice of common pleas, father of John Weston, DCL, canon of CCO and Alice, marr Hugh Brady, bp of Meath and Sir Geoffrey Fenton; adm 1536 fell. ASC (Wood, Fasti 1, c. 151 and note); BCL 17 Feb 1538, sup for DCL 1546, adm 20144 July 1556 (RUO 1, p. 189); adm 1546 principal Broadgates Hall, vac 21 Nov 1549 (BRUO2, p. 618); deputy regius prof. of civ law 1544, 1546, 1550-3 (John Barton, ‘The faculty of law’ in J. K. McConica, ed., The history of the university of Oxford, 3, The collegiate university ([Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1986], pp. 257-93, p. 287, but also says appt 1553 [p. 264 citing CPRPM 1, p. 395]); appt late 1551 chancellor of Exeter-Sept 1553; MP for Exeter 1553 (HPT 3, p. 592); adm 1 Oct 1556 Drs Coms, oc 25 Oct 1560 president-resig 8 Aug 1567 (Squibb, pp. 116 and 152); adm 13 Oct 1556 advocate of Arches (CRP, no. 1732); MP Lichfield 1558 and 1559 (HPT); appted off. prin 11 Jan 1560 and dean of Arches 12 Jan145 (Reg. Parker, pp. 334-5), still 2nd 8 May 1563 (GL, 9531/13/1, fo. 14v), 1st 17 June 1566 (Reg. Parker, p. 453); proc 18 Jan 1560 for both bp-elect and D&C Lincoln (Reg. Parker, p. 80); visitor of southern province and C&L early in Elizabeth’s reign (Gee, pp. 101 and 159); considered as delegate to Council of Trent in 1560 (ODNB); oc 5 Aug 1560 vg C&L but almost always sat by deputy, rep. bef. Jan 1566 (LRO, B/A/1/15, fos 29v and 42r); witn in PCC 14 Nov 1564 (TNA, PROB 11/47, fo. 232v); appt June 1566 dean Dublin cath-† (BRUO2); appt 10 June 1567 lord chancellor of Ireland rep. Hugh Curwin (qv), sworn in 8 Aug (ODNB); ?inst 12 Nov 1569 vic Walsall, Staff, George Charson, pat. (LRO, B/A/1/15, fo. 64r)–resig bef. 12 Mar 1574 (LRO, B/A/1/15, fo. 67r; Landor, p. 298 gives him an MA); pres 30 Jan 1570 dean of Wells, crown pat.–†, as such automatically granted residence (F3 5, pp. 5 and 104 but see ODNB); ‘moderate Protestant allied with Hugh Brady’;146 † at Dublin (ODNB); gave ASC Guillaume Budé, In pandectis (Paris, 1532) (BRUO2); allegedly no decision ever reversed (Wood, Fasti, 1, c. 151); will 2 May 1573/prov 18 July (TNA, PROB 11/55 image 250 PCC 25 Peter acc. BRUO2): wife Alice sole exec and res leg, leases of Isleworth, Mdx and Twickenham rects, advowson of treasurership and Sawley preb, Lichfield, which bro James Weston (qv) has, lease of Stone rect to da Awdie, also in James’s hands and £100 towards marr, son John lease of Weeford preb, Lichfield, lease of St John’s mansion house and grounds, lease of John Wright’s house in Freeford147 and lease of preb let to Bulbington, all in bro James’s possession,

to da Alice, wife of Bp Brady all hangings in great chamber of St Pulchers, 2 angels each for token to nephew and niece Luke and Elizabeth Brady, to my sis Ball lease of tenement in Brentwood and of Helsmore, 200 marks to younger da Elizabeth at marr, all books to cousin John Ball (among witns), £6 to William Lawe and wife, £4 to svt, £40 owed to Jane Dunne; see HPT 3, pp. 592-93

Wetherall [Wederall], William: pres 28 Feb 1549 rect Laneham, Nott, Anthony Hawmound, Scardingwell, W. York, pat.–bur 8 May 1566 (Train, North Nottinghamshire, p. 109); pres 30 Nov 1553 rect Epperstone, Nott (BI, Calendar of Admissions papers, incorrectly giving 1552/3 for year of inst), inst 31 Jan 1554 by Dakyn, Sir Thomas Neville of Holt (both qv), Leic, pat. (BI, Inst.AB.1, fo. 208v), inst again 5 May 1554, Neville pat. phv by grant of John, Lord Scrope (BI, Adm 1553/10; Register 5/A, fo. 689r; Calendar of Admissions papers says ‘Epston’, missing horizontal stroke through tail of ‘p’; cf. Dickens, p. 33 and Train, Central Nottinghamshire, p. 49), comp 4 June £11 15s 6d, Edmund Sleighe, Laneham, yeom and Richard Halle, Swanby, Nott, gen, surs (TNA, E 334/4, fo. 158r), vac bef. 21 Sept 1566 (BI, Inst.AB.2, part 2, fo. 65r); priest, abs & disp 15 May 1557 for both (CRP, no. 1987); failed to appear for either at 1559 visitation (RVAB, fos 149v and 151r); will 1566 (brief summary in Cross and Vickers, p. 110): most prop to rels but also to Markham family, inventory £70 4s, no Yorks ties

Wethered, Thomas: clk, inst 3 Nov 1557 rect Eaton Hastings or Water Eaton, Berk (CRP, no. 2118), disputed pres (cf. John Kenall), de iure vacante 9 Dec 1575 (W&SRO, D1/2/17, Reg. Gest, fo. 8v)

Weysley, Thomas: Kildare dioc, disp bef. 3 Apr 1557 orders (CRP, no. 1933a); ord subd 3 Apr 1557 (OA, ODP d105, p. 93)

Wharton, Anthony († bef. 27 Aug 1557): MA 17 July 1553 (RUO 1, p. 221); pres by crown 14 June 1554 rect Offkerque in the Marches of Calais (CPRPM 1, p. 91), inst 18 June (CCA, DCc, Reg N, fo. 72r-v; SVI, p. 23)–† bef. 27 Aug 1557 (CRP, no. 2092)

Wharton, Nicholas: oc 1550 12 clk Cant cath (CCA, DCc/MA 40, fo. 21r), 1553/4 (CCA, DCc/MA 39, fo. 4r), 1555/6 (CCA, DCc/MA 40, fo. 50r), still 1557/8 (CCA, DCc/MA 40, fo. 65v), 1558 (CCA, DCc/MA 40, fo. 87v); vic choral, summoned visitation 17 May 1556 (CRP, no. 1564)

Wharton or Parfew, Robert († 22 Sept 1557 [ODNB]): als Purefoy, from Warblington, Hant148 (AtC 1, pp. 171 and 550; ODNB calls his origin ‘obscure’); BTh 1525 (AtC); ?studied at Gloucester Coll., Oxford (ODNB); Cluniac monk, oc 1 Sept 1525 abbot of Bermondsey (ODNB); elec 8 June 1536 bp St Asaph with commendam for abbey to dissolution 1 Jan 1538 when pensioned on £333 6s 8d, temps 21 July-promotion to Hereford (ODNB and F2 11, p. 39); visited dioc but often at court, e.g., for Cleves marr; signed Bishops’ Book (ODNB); revised translations of 1 and 2 Timothy and Titus and Philemon; signed decree of nullity of Cleves marriage (AtC); jp Surr, 1542 Worc and Glos, later Salop, Heref, Ches and Staff; appted 22 Apr 1543 council of Wales, again 1551 (ODNB); ‘called’ bp St Asaph, abs 17 Mar 1554 schism, abs 18

Mar as bp Heref and by implication perhaps prov by Pole, nom 19 Mar or 5 Apr (CRP, nos 834, 836 and 848), temps 24 Apr (HBC, p. 251), enthroned 9 May (S. E. Lehmberg and Gerald Aylmer, ‘Reformation to restoration, 1535-1660’, in Gerald Aylmer and John Tiller, eds, Hereford cathedral, a history [London: Hambledon Press, 2000], pp. 87-108, p. 91),151 papal confirmation 6 July (ASV, Arch. Concist., Acta vicecancellarii, 7, fos 215v-16v); will 30 June 1555/prov 21 Jan 1558 (TNA, PROB 11/40): Perfey, places: Heref cath, Witbourne, Heref persons: bro Richard Perfey, his ‘natural’ chil, sis Agnes’ ‘natural’ chil, kin and Oxford scholar John Perfey (exec), William Perfey, his chil (res legs Katherine, John and Jane ‘born in Flintshere in Northewalles’), chaps (John Cuthbert, John ap Hoell [?see Griffin William’s will]), Edward Welshe (qv), John Hereford, gent (ovs), Maurice Birchinshawe, ‘old svts’ (Thomas Greene, Hugh Blasse), svts (Christopher Fowler, John Trevor, Christofer Barbor, Jonson, brewer John Chamber), ‘those that have but their liveries yearly’ (John and William Sondamore [sic; Scudamore], Bentley of Bridgenorthe, ‘the Registrar’), legacies: cash (over £420), year’s wages to svts, charity (£45), to successors at Her (mitre and crosier), to Hereford cath (copes, one of gold cloth, vestments, altar cloth, hearse cloth, gloves w/ rubies, two gold rings w/ stones, mitre, crosier), cup from Thomas Edgar, horses, harnesses, clothing, items of interest: observing month’s mind, debts under 40s forgiven for prayers

Wharton, Sir Thomas (1520-14 June 1572 [ODNB]): 1st son Thomas Wharton, 1st Baron Wharton and Eleanor, da Sir Brian Stapleton, Wighill, N. York (ODNB); MP ?Cumb 1542, 1545, 1547 and Oct 1553, Hedon Apr 1554, Yorks Nov 1554, Northumb 1555, Northumb or Yorks, 1558; by 1542 in Sir Anthony Browne’s service;152 also in father’s employ in west marches; knighted 23 Sept 1545; marr May 1547 Anne da Robert Radcliffe (qv), 1st earl of Sussex; jp Cumb and Westmo 1547-8, 155458/9, Westmo alone 1564, W. York 1547; sheriff Cumb 1547-8; chantry comm 1548; by 1552 ?steward Princess Mary’s household;153 with her at Kenninghall and Framlingham July 1553; pc by 21 Aug 1553-58, regular attender; member coun in the north Sept 1553-Apr 1561; master henchmen 26 Oct 1553-Dec 1558; chief steward, crown lands E. York Oct 1553-?†; prob. favored Spanish match; Spanish pensioner and Philip godfather to his heir; attended June 1555 John Hooper’s (qv) trial (HPT 3, pp. 599-601); witn 25 Mar 1556 to Pole’s receipt of pallium (CRP, no. 1524); to West March July 1557; bought ex-monastic property 1558; wife prob. member Mary’s privy chamber; indicted June 1561 with Sir Edward Waldegrave (qv) et al. for hearing mass; to Tower but submitted July; July 1564 reported as ‘evil of religion’; succeeded 23154 Aug 1568 as Baron Wharton; failed to act against Northern Rising 1569 (HPT)

Whetley, Whithey, Richard: clk, inst 22 Dec 1556 rect Sedlescombe, Suss (CRP, no.