Prebendaries: Gaia Major

Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae 1541-1857: Volume 10, Coventry and Lichfield Diocese. Originally published by Institute of Historical Research, London, 2003.

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'Prebendaries: Gaia Major', in Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae 1541-1857: Volume 10, Coventry and Lichfield Diocese. Edited by Joyce M Horn( London, 2003), British History Online, accessed November 27, 2024, https://prod.british-history.ac.uk/fasti-ecclesiae/1541-1847/vol10/pp41-43.

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PREBENDARIES OF GAIA MAJOR

Preb. valued 1535 at £5 0s 0d (Valor III 131).

Robert Neville B.A. 1529-1550.

Coll. 20 Apr. 1529 (B/A/1/14 i f. 27). D. by 27 March 1550 (York, Borthwick Inst, Reg. 29 f. 33; B/A/1/15 f. 49).

William Pye B.D. 1550-1557.

Compounded for first-fruits 25 June 1550 (P.R.O., E 334/4 f. 54). Pres. by Thomas Wriothesley, earl of Southampton, patron hac vice by virtue of gr. of next pres. made by Bp. Rowland [Lee]; instit. 3 July (B/A/1/15 f. 49). D. 3 Sept. 1557 (West Sussex R.O., Ep. 1/1/7 f. 9, margin; B/A/1/15 f. 15).

Thomas Glasyer 1557-?

Pres. by Sir Robert Broke, Henry Williams, clerk, and Richard Germyn, gentleman, patrons hac vice by virtue of gr. of next pres. made by Bp. Richard [Sampson] 26 Sept. 1550; instit. by proxy 18 Dec. 1557 (B/A/1/15 f. 15). (fn. 1)

John Bagshaw B.A. 1569-1590.

Coll. 20 June 1569 (P.R.O., E 331 COV.../3). Preb. of Colwich 1590.

Walter Marsh M.A. 1590.

Coll. 3 May 1590 (P.R.O., E 331 COV.../7). Res. by 4 Nov., or may have been removed by royal writ, as was of archdcnry of Derby (Lamb., Reg Whitgift I f. 490).

William Eame 1590-?

Coll. 4 Nov. 1590 (P.R.O., E 331 COV.../7).

Richard Browne 1605.

Instal. 5 (?) June 1605 (P.R.O., E 331 COV.../1). Preb. of Colwich in July.

John Fulnetby B.D. 1605-?

Coll. 9 Aug. 1605 (P.R.O., E 331 COV.../9). Instal. 10 Aug. (ibid., E 331 COV.../1).

Adrian Babington M.A. 1608-1625.

Coll. 31 Oct. 1608 (P.R.O., E 331 COV.../10). Occ. 17 Apr. 1621, when he leased out preb. for three lives at £5 p.a. (D30/2/1/5 f. 25). D. by 10 Aug. 1625 (burial, Cossington, Leics.) (PR Cossington, cited in Nichols, Hist. Leics, III 228; B/A/l/16f. 44v).

William Jeffrey M.A. 1625-1627.

Coll. 10 Sept. 1625 (B/A/1/16 f. 44v). Preb. of Offley 1627.

William Bayly M.A. 1627-1632.

Coll. 2 Oct. 1627 (B/A/1/16 f. 61). D. by 21 July 1632 (burial, Saffron Walden, Essex) (Essex R.O., PR Saffron Walden)

William Jeffrey M.A. (again) 1633-1642.

Coll. 30 Sept. 1633 (P.R.O., E 331 COV.../15). Instal. 4 Oct. (D30/2/1/6 f. 17). D. by 15 May 1642 (burial, Hamstall Ridware, Staffs.) (Lichfield R.O., PR Hamstall Ridware). (fn. 2)

Daniel Bayley M.A. 1660-1666.

Instal. 28 Sept. 1660 on mand. of Bp. Accepted [Frewen] (D30/2/1/7 f. 7v). Res. by 21 May 1666 (B/A/1/17 i p. 60).

Samuel Gardiner D.D. 1666-1669.

Coll. 21 May 1666 (B/A/1/17 i p. 60). Preb. of Offley 1669.

Roger Hayward M.A. 1669-1680.

Coll. 10 Aug. 1669 (B/A/1/17 i p. 77). D. 14 Nov. 1680 (ml, formerly Shrewsbury, St. Chad) (H. Owen and J.B. Blakeway, Hist. of Shrewsbury (London, 1825) II 240n); buried 17 Nov. (Salop R.O., PR Shrewsbury, St. Chad; D30/2/1/7 f. 58v).

Samuel Masters B.D. 1681-1693.

Coll. 18 March 1681 (P.R.O., E 331 COV.../22). Instal. by proxy s.d. (D30/2/ 1/7 f. 58v). D. 12 Sept. 1693 (Wood, Athenae Oxon. IV 385; B/A/1/18 f. 6).

Walter Horton M.A. 1693-1728.

Coll. 30 Sept. 1693 (B/A/1/18 f. 6). Instal. s.d. (D30/2/1/7 f. 106). D. by 7 Aug. 1728 (burial, Lichfield cath.) (Lichfield R.O., Lichfield cath. reg.).

William Browne M.A. 1728-1747.

Coll. 14 Sept. 1728 (P.R.O., E 331 COV.../31). Instal. by proxy 24 Jan. 1729 (D30/2/1/7 f. 189r-v). D. by 2 March 1747 (P.R.O., E 331 COV.../35).

William Adams M.A. 1747-1789.

Coll. 2 March 1747 (P.R.O., E 331 COV.../35). D. 14 Jan. 1789 (Gent. Mag. 1789, lix (1) 90; B/A/1/25 p. 93).

Sambrooke Higgins M.A. 1789-1823.

Coll. 29 Jan. 1789 (B/A/1/25 p. 93). Instal. 6 June (D30/2/1/8 f. 111r-v). D. by 25 July 1823(B/A/l/29p. 54).

Simeon Clayton M.A. 1823-1842.

Coll. 25 July 1823 (B/A/1/29 p. 54). Instal. s.d. (D30/2/1/10 pp. 32-3). D. 14 Dec. 1842 (Gent. Mag. 1843, new ser. xix 326; D30/2/1/11 p. 117).

Benjamin Hall Kennedy D.D. 1843-1868.

Instal. 25 March 1843 (D30/2/1/11 pp. 117-18). Res. by 28 March 1868 (D30/ 2/1/13 p. 70), on becoming Regius Professor of Greek at Cambridge and canon of Ely.

Footnotes

  • 1. Survey of Cath., followed by Le Neve-Hardy, gives Edmund Hare as succeeding Pye 3 Feb. 1559, but no evidence has been found for this. Both Survey of Cath. and Le Neve-Hardy omit Thomas Glasyer.
  • 2. Survey of Cath., followed by Le Neve-Hardy, gives Thomas Baddisley M.A. as adm. 22 Sept. 1642, but no evidence has yet been found for this. He d. by 15 May 1652 (burial, Eccleshall, Staffs.) (Lichfield R.O., PR Eccleshall - 'Thomas Baddeley').
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