¹ The Hospital of SS John the Baptist and John the Evangelist, Northampton (Knowles & Hadcock, 328, 380).

² This letter follows in Reg. Fox, 5, fol. 53r–v, a bull of Leo X dispensing Sidenham to retain Shorwell vicarage or receive and retain any other incompatible benefice as if he were promoted to priest's orders, to be absent from any of his benefices while resident in another or the Roman curia, and not to be promoted to holy, even priest's, orders by reason of any of his benefices for seven years provided that he became subdeacon within the first two of these years; dated at Santa Severa, Porto dioc., 22 November 1520. Both these letters follow at fol. 52v Bishop Richard Fox of Winchester's citation of Sidenham dated 31 October 1523 to explain why the fruits of his vicarage ought not to be sequestrated because of his non-residence.

³ Robert Tregonwell was fellow of Corpus Christi College, Oxford (1517–1522), and incepted as MA of Oxford University in June 1518; took deacon's orders on 17 December 1519; was vicar of St Austell (Cornw.) till death and held various other ecclesiastical benefices, including a canonry of Exeter by 1537 and the chancellorship of Wells by 1542; was chaplain to Henry VIII in 1540 and was dead by January 1543 (BRUO, 1501–1540, 576).

⁴ Doubtless there was only one letter, it further dispensed Tregunwell to receive and retain an additional incompatible benefice (as 6 below), and Wolsey's residence was that near Westminster usually specified in the dating clause of his letters. The same vicar general admitted Tregunwell as vicar of St Austell (de sancto Austolo), Exeter dioc., on 14 April 1522, the same date as above (Reg. Veysey, 1, fol. 11v).

⁵ Preceding the letter it is recorded that on 10 July 1524 John Hunte, chaplain, exhibited before M. Richard Tollet, DCL, the bishop of Exeter's vicar-general-in-spirituals, this letter described as ‘certain letters’ of Cardinal Thomas [Wolsey] sealed with his great seal (videlicet cera rubia caps(ula?) canapi circumdata cum cordulis canapis pendentibus) and lacking any suspect features; the same vicar general admitted dom. John Hunte, chaplain, as perpetual vicar of Modbury (Modbery), Exeter dioc., on the same date (Reg. Veysey, 1, fol. 21r). Following this letter in Reg. Veysey, 2, fols 40v–41r, another entry records that Hunte exhibited before Tollet ‘certain apostolic letters’ with bull attached and lacking any suspect features, and recites a letter of Clement VII authorizing John Hunte, rector of Zeal Monachorum (Zele Monachorum) par. ch., Exeter dioc., to unite with that church Cadeleigh (Cadelegh) par. ch., Exeter dioc., without diocesan licence, dated at St Peter's, Rome, 13 April 1524 (in margin: ‘Alia bulla dispensacionis eiusdem domini Iohannis Hunte’).

⁶ As a scholar from Eton, aged 17, Boston was admitted on 4 April 1506 to King's College, Cambridge, where he was fellow 1509–1521; he was MA of Cambridge University by 1514; was ordained as priest on 18 September 1518; vicar of Broad Chalke (Wilts.), his home village, by 1521; and died c.1558–1559 (Venn, I. 184).

⁷ Probably the same Richard Egerton, Coventry and Lichfield dioc., who obtained a papal letter authorizing the union of two of his parochial benefices for life in 2 Leo X (1514–1515); CPL, XX, no. 915 (rubricella of lost letter).

⁸ Perhaps the Francis Pollarde, BA of Oxford University by 1512; fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford, from 1507 and still in 1512–1513; and cantarist of the first chantry, called Kalendars, in All Saints’, Bristol, from 27 April 1528 (BRUO, 1501–1540, 455).

⁹ Not otherwise known as a graduate of Cambridge or Oxford universities since neither Venn; BRUC; BRUO; nor BRUO, 1501–1540 list him.

¹⁰ Probably the John London, scholar of Winchester College from 1497; scholar (from 1503), fellow (1505–1518), and warden (1526–1542) of New College, Oxford; DCL of Oxford University, having incepted on 28 February 1519; a member of the College of Advocates, London, from 1519; bishop of Lincoln's commissary in Oxford archdeaconry by 1521; ordained as priest on 14 June 1522; notary public by 1533; the King's visitor in Lincoln diocese, 1537–1518; and holder of numerous ecclesiastical benefices, including canonries at York, Lincoln, Chichester, Salisbury, and St George's Chapel, Windsor, the mastership of St John's Hospital, Wallingford, and deanship of Oseney, Oxford (BRUO, 1501–1540, 359–360).

¹¹ Richard Pates was nephew of John Longland, bishop of Lincoln; admitted to Corpus Christi College, Oxford, aged 18, on 1 June 1522; determined as BA of Oxford University in 1524, supplicating for BTh there in 1536; holder of numerous ecclesiastical benefices, including canonries at Lincoln, St Paul's London, and Wells, and the bishopric of Worcester (1541–1559); Henry VIII's ambassador to the court of Emperor Charles V, 1533–1537 and again in 1540; and died on 5 October 1565 (BRUO, 1501–1540, 435–436).

¹² This entry adds that the proctor also exhibited a papal letter, dated 13 April 1526, authorizing Pate to unite Great Haseley (Hasley) par. ch. with his canonry and prebend of Cropredy, and another dated 1523 dispensing Pate to retain three incompatible benefices provided that two were parish churches. Another entry also dated 16 March 1526/7 follows in Reg. Fox, 5, fols 123v–125v, recording Pate's resignation of his Lincoln canonry and Cropredy prebend in exchange for Winchester archdeaconry. He was collated as canon of Lincoln on 4 June 1524 and to the Lincoln prebend of Cropredy on 25 September 1525, exchanging the latter for Sanctae Crucis prebend in March 1527, when he was also admitted as archdeacon of Winchester; he was admitted as rector of Great Haseley (Oxon.) on 18 Sepember 1525 (BRUO, 1501–1540, 435).

¹³ See 11 above.

¹⁴ M. Maurice Brekynshall (Birckinshawe) still held this prebend in March 1524 and in 1535 (Fasti, VIII. 47).

¹⁵ Probably not the William Bettes noted in BRUO, 1501–1540, 47, and Venn, I. 146; or William Walsingham alias Bett, Norwich dioc., in CPL, XX, no. 1418.

¹⁶ An entry preceding this bull in Reg. Fox, 5, fol. 63r, records his collation as rector of Cullesdon on 2 February 1523/4.

¹⁷ Probably not the Richard Clerk, Lincoln dioc., recorded in CPL, XIX, nos 1246, 1550.

¹⁸ Recorded in the section of the register concerning Coventry archdeaconry.

¹⁹ Possibly the William Marshall’ alias Baker, Coventry and Lichfield dioc., who obtained a papal dispensation on 9 January 1516 to receive a benefice on reaching his nineteenth year and becoming a clerk, and an additional incompatible benefice on reaching his twentieth year, and to be absent from any of his benefices while resident in another, the Roman curia or a university (CPL, XX, no. 550); cf. Appendix 3. 128. A William Marschall, rector of Todwick par. ch. (W. Yorks.), York dioc., was granted a papal dispensation on 16 April 1507 to hold an additional incompatible benefice (CPL, XVIII, no. 720).

²⁰ The same letter occurs without these subscriptions in Reg. Ghinucci, 2, pp. 176–177, where the supplicant's surname is spelled ‘Molente’ and Blackland, ‘Blackeland’.

²¹ Poughley Priory (Berks.) was suppressed by Wolsey in 1525 for its assets to be converted to the use of the Cardinal's College at Oxford (Knowles & Hadcock, 143, 171); cf. 22n John Devynyshe had been a canon of Bradenstoke Priory (Wilts.) before his election as prior of Poughley in 1521 (Heads of Religious Houses, III. 507); by 1525 John Somers appears to have succeeded him as prior (see 20n).

²² Probably John Somers, the last prior of Poughley Priory, who surrendered the priory at its dissolution on 14 February 1525, and presumably not the same person as John Devynyshe, also prior of Poughley, as Smith speculates (Heads of Religious Houses, III. 507; see 19 above).

²³ Following this letter in Reg. Fisher, fols 124r–125r, is a notarial procuratorium of Thomas Thebalde constituting a proctor to receive a benefice on his behalf, dated at St John's College, Cambridge, 17 February 1524/5; and at fol. 125r an entry recording the institution of Thomas Thebot, scholar, as perpetual vicar of Kemsing (Kempfynd) par. ch. with the chapel of Seal (Seale), Rochester dioc., on 24 February 1524/5.

²⁴ Daventry Priory (Northants.) was a Cluniac house suppressed by Wolsey in 1525 for its assets to be converted to the use of the Cardinal's College at Oxford (Knowles & Hadcock, 96, 99); cf. 19n. As its prior Colyns was elected in 1515, surrendered the priory on 16 February 1525 at its dissolution, and resigned four days later; he became master of St Bartholomew's Hospital, Smithfield, on 6 April 1525 (see 23n below) and died on 25 June 1528 (Heads of Religious Houses, III. 235–236).

²⁵ As a monk of Glastonbury Abbey (Somerset) he was granted a papal dispensation on 20 August 1512 to hold a secular benefice with or without cure of souls, and obtained a papal indult on 4 April 1513 licensing him to be absent from any of his benefices while resident in another, or in his monastery, the Roman curia or a university (CPL, XIX, no. 866; XX, no. 40).

²⁶ Following this letter in Reg. Tunstall, fol. 86r–v, are the sentence of Geoffrey Wharton, DCnL, vicar-general-in-spirituals of the bishop of London, confirming the election of Colyns as master or custos of St Bartholomew's Hospital, West Smithfield, London; Colyns's oath of obedience as confirmed master-elect to the bishop; acta for confirming his election and the vicar general's mandate for installing him as master-elect, dated 6 April 1525.

²⁷ Probably not the Robert Danell, advocate of the Court of Arches in 1511 and DCn & CL by 1512 (CPL, XIX, nos 549, 870).

²⁸ = Appendix 2. 9. This follows an entry in an ordination list recording Gwilym's promotion to the priesthood on 23 September 1525, under letters dimissory and this dispensation, to the title of St Mary's Priory, [OSB], Usk, Llandaff dioc.

²⁹ Presumably the Thomas Mallette who determined as BA of Oxford University in Lent 1524 and was admitted as rector of North Wraxall (Wilts.) on 22 November 1525 and rector of Charlynch (Somerset) on 4 November 1526 (BRUO, 1501–1540, 374, 689).

³⁰ The text ends reciting Cooke's petition seeking a benefice to support his study of letters.

³¹ Probably not the same man as William Here alias Morgan, St David's dioc., recorded in CPL, XX, no. 1194.

³² = Appendix 2. 14 (which dates Wolsey's letter dispensing him 14 August 1525).

³³ Probably not the same man as John Ieuan, BCnL, in Appendix 2. 29.

³⁴ = Appendix 2. 18 (which dates Wolsey's letter dispensing him 26 August 1525).

³⁵ Thomas Sylke determined as BA of Oxford University in 1523, incepting as MA on 2 July 1526, and was in priest's orders by January 1526. He held various ecclesiastical benefices between 1539 and 1574, including the provostship of Kalendars in All Saints’, Bristol, and a canonry at Bristol (BRUO, 1501–1540, 552).

³⁶ A note preceding this entry in Clerke's register records that on 28 October 1525 Thomas Silke, BA, acolyte, Worcester dioc., ‘sufficienter dimissus’ by his bishop, sought promotion to subdeacon and deacon's orders to the title of the house of white nuns of ‘Whitston’ [Whistones Priory, OCist], Worcester dioc., by virtue of this letter of Cardinal Wolsey as legate a latere, and that he was promoted to these orders on Sunday, 29 October.

³⁷ = Appendix 2. 35. Appended to the record of the visitation conducted on 9 September 1527 when presumably this dispensation was exhibited to justify Stavart's non-residence; noted by Houlbrooke, 185.

³⁸ = Appendix 2. 61. This appears in an ordination list dated 24 February 1526.

³⁹ Probably the Ralph Bolland or Bollam who was MA of Cambridge University by 1507, DTh by 1520–1521 and University Preacher in 1510–1511, and who was possibly the ‘Mr Dr Bowlam’, rector of Yate (Gloucs.) before 1532 and non-resident at the episcopal visitation in 1551; he died c.1552 (Venn, I. 174).

⁴⁰ Henry Willoughby was admitted as BA of Oxford University on 15 July 1528; in priest's orders by December 1527; admitted as rector of All Saints’, Cricklade (Wilts.), in 1525, remaining so and rector of Wylye (Wilts.) till death; and died in 1581 (BRUO, 1501–1540, 631). He was not admitted to Wylye rectory before June 1515 when Thomas Martyn held it by papal dispensation (CPL, XX, no. 486).

⁴¹ An entry in an ordination list dated 17 March 1525/6 records that James Smythe, Worcester dioc., was promoted as subdeacon to the title of the house of St John, Wells, and had been dispensed from defect of birth and ‘sufficienter dimissus’ by the Reverend father Thomas, lord Cardinal of York, as legate a latere ‘sub tenore infrascripto’ (Reg. Clerke, fol. 118v). An entry in an ordination list dated 26 May 1526 records that he was promoted as priest to the title of St John's Hospital, Wells, ‘dispensative dimissus ut patet in precedentibus’ (Reg. Clerke, fol. 121r). Possibly the same man as James Lome in Appendix 2. 104. Probably not the James Lyne, canon of Dunkeld by 1510, in CPL, XVIII, no. 61.

⁴² This appears in an ordination list at fol. 59r–v including an entry recording Duke's promotion as subdeacon and deacon, both to the title of St Mary's Abbey, Vale Royal, OCist, Lincoln dioc., on 31 March 1526.

⁴³ = Appendix 2. 88; see also 69 below. Robert Bysse, Bath and Wells dioc., was fellow of All Souls College, Oxford, from 1502, still in 1517. He supplicated for DCL at Oxford University on 10 December 1507; this doctorate was incorporated at the Roman Curia on 2 November 1513; and he supplicated for DCnL at Oxford University in 1518 and 1519 after thirteen years of study in canon law, being dispensed in 1532. He was ordained as priest on 6 June 1517 and held several ecclesiastical benefices, including Batcombe rectory (Somerset), from 5 September 1524 till death, and canonry at Wells by 1536. He was appointed as vicar general of John Clerk, bishop of Bath and Wells, on 4 June 1524, and was the vicar general's deputy in 1527. He was dead by April 1547 (BRUO, I. 335–336; Reg. Clerke ed., p. x, nos 178, 184, 188, 255, 294, 322, 339–340, 343, 460, 575, 647, 939).

⁴⁴ He was BCL of Cambridge University by 1522–1523; he was perhaps second son of Sir William of Skevington (Leics.), Lord Deputy of Ireland, and possibly rector of Seaton (Rut.) and rector of Glaston Hill (Hants.?) till 1554, when he died (Venn, IV. 84).

⁴⁵ Following this entry in Campeggio's Register is a letter of Thomas [Vivian], bishop of Megariensis (Megara, Greece), stating that on 17 March 1525/6 he ordained Potte as priest under this dispensation in the conventual church of St Mary Overy, Southwark, Winchester dioc., with a note authenticating the letter's seal as that of Thomas [Vivian], Prior of Bodmin (on whom see Heads of Religious Houses, III. 383).

⁴⁶ Perhaps the Henry Marshall admitted as BA of Oxford University on 11 July 1520; rector of Ickleford (Herts.) in 1526; and admitted as vicar of Pirton (Herts.) on 1 May 1526, vacating this post in April 1530 (BRUO, 1501–1540, 380).

⁴⁷ John Alen, London dioc., born in 1476, entered Peterhouse, Cambridge, in 1495, becoming fellow, 1496–1504; incepted as MA of Cambridge University in 1498; was DCn & CL of a foreign university by 1508 and obtained a grace to incorporate this doctorate at Cambridge University in 1522–1523. He was dispensed for ordination to the priesthood below the canonical age on 8 March 1499 (see n. 48 below) and ordained as priest on 25 May 1499. He held numerous ecclesiastical benefices including Chislet vicarage (Kent) from 1503; Sundridge vicarage (Kent), 1508–1528; the rural deanery of Monks Risborough (Bucks.), 1512–1528; South Ockendon rectory (Essex), 1516–1526; Calipolis archdeaconry from 1518; canonries at Lincoln (1503–1528), Westbury-on-Trym (from 1505, still in 1508), Southwell (1526–1528), St Paul's London (1527–1528), and Exeter (1528); and was provided as Archbishop of Dublin on 3 September 1529, till death. He was also chaplain of the English Hospice at Rome by 1502 and its acting warden, 1504–1511; legatine commissary of Cardinal Wolsey, 1523–1529; and Chancellor of Ireland, 1528–1532. He was an unpopular agent of Wolsey and fined £1466 13s 4d on the latter's fall in 1529 for offences against the statute of praemunire; he complained of his impoverishment to Thomas Cromwell in 1532, after being pardoned as Wolsey's commissary and chancellor of Ireland. He was murdered on 27 July 1534 by Irish rebels following Lord Thomas Fitzgerald (BRUC, 8–9, 669).

⁴⁸ This list, beginning in Reg. West, fol. 36r, also refers to the following items: (1) ‘litteras propter defectum etatis’ dated 8 March 1499/1500; (2) ‘bullam apostolicam trialitatis’ dated at St Peter's, Rome, 11 February 1503/4; (3) ‘bullam unionis’ of Chislet (Chestlett) vicarage, Canterbury dioc., to canonry and prebend of (Leicester) St Margaret's in Lincoln cathedral, dated at Ostia (Ostre), 12 April 1505; (4) ‘bullam unionis’ of Sundridge (Sindrig) ch., Rochester dioc., to canonry and prebend of Westbury(-on-Trym), dated at St Peter's, Rome, 19 June 1508; (5) ‘bullam apostolicam unionis’ of South Ockendon (Sowthwokyngton) par. ch., London dioc., to canonry and prebend of Asgarby (Askerbye) in Lincoln cathedral, dated Florence 7 February 1515/16. The list follows a memorandum dated 8 June 1526 on fols 35v–6v that M. Anthony Husye appeared on behalf of Sir Richard Fowler, patron of Little Wilbraham par. ch., before Nicholas West, bishop of Ely, exhibiting these papal privilegia and dispensations as well as letters of presentation to that church in favour of Alen, and that West empowered his commissary general or official M. Robert Clyff to inspect the privilegia and dispensations. The union of Chislet with Leicester St Margaret's prebendary authorized by item 4 was not acted on since Alen was not admitted to the prebend (BRUC, 8). Item 3 (dispensing him to hold three incompatible benefices and be absent from any of them) was copied into the Vatican registers, where it is dated 13 (not 11) February 1504, and items 4 and 5 were copied into the Lateran registers (CPL, XVIII, no. 142; xix, no. 858; XX, nos 582, 621).

⁴⁹ Possibly the William Breton admitted to incept in Arts at Cambridge University in 1486–1487, becoming MA, who was chaplain to King Henry VII in 1485; master of St Katherine's College by the Tower of London from 1485; vicar of Dullingham (Cambs.), 1488–1534; and vicar of Bottisham (Cambs.), 1534–1535 (BRUC, 92).

⁵⁰ Her place of origin is named in the margin only.

⁵¹ Recorded in the section of the register concerning Derby archdeaconry.

⁵² Possibly Thomas Waterman, BCnL of Cambridge University by 1515–1516 (Venn, IV. 346).

⁵³ Roger Stockley, Coventry and Lichfield dioc., was fellow (1506–1520) and warden (1534–1536) of All Souls College, Oxford; incepted as MA of Oxford University on 2 July 1509; was ordained as priest on 21 May, 1513; held numerous ecclesiastical benefices, including the prebend of Itchen Abbas in St Mary's Abbey, Winchester, to which he was admitted on 30 October 1522, till death; and was dead by January 1558 (BRUO, 1501–1540, 541).

⁵⁴ This letter precedes in Reg. Fox, 5, fol. 118r–v, an entry recording the collation of Roger Stocley, MA, as rector of Alresford par. ch., Winchester dioc., subject to payment of an annual pension of £16 13s 4d to M. Ralph Lexton, the former rector, for life, on 29 December 1526; and a note on fol. 118v that on the same day Stocley exhibited to Bishop Richard Fox of Winchester two rescripts of Clement VII, the first for plurality and the second for the union of Warnford par. ch. to Itchen Abbas (Ichyn) prebend in the nunnery of the BVM, Winchester, and this letter of Cardinal Wolsey, legate a latere, for the union of Brightwell par. ch. to the same prebend. The two papal ‘rescripts’ are then recited: a bull of Clement VII (on fols 118v–119r) dispensing Roger Stocley, MA, rector of Warnford par. ch., Winchester dioc., to receive and retain an additional incompaible benefice and be absent from any of his benefices while resident in another or the Roman curia or studying at a university, dated at St Peter's, Rome, 27 November 1523; a bull of Clement VII (at fol. 119r–v) authorizing Roger Stokley, clerk, prebendary in the nunnery of the BVM, Winchester, OSB, to unite Warnford par. ch., Winchester dioc., to his prebend, dated at St Peters's, Rome, 9 February 1523/4. Wolsey's letter above then follows. Roger Stockley was collated as rector of Warnford (Hants.) on 2 May 1523, till death, and admitted as rector of Brightwell (Berks.) on 20 April 1524, which he was still in 1553, and licensed to exchange one of his four incompatible benefices on 13 February 1540; he also held Alresford rectory (Hants.) till death (BRUO, 1501–1540, 541).

⁵⁵ Either Fisherton Anger or Fisherton Delamere (both Wilts.).

⁵⁶ See 62 below.

⁵⁷ Recorded in the section of the register concerning Salop archdeaconry.

⁵⁸ Robert Josopp was BA by 1515 and BCL by 1527, probably of Oxford University; was ordained as priest on 3 March 1515; was admitted as rector of Kimcote (Leics.) on 28 February 1516, rector of Ditchampton in Wilton (Wilts.) on 18 March 1527 (until 1530), and vicar of Tolpuddle (Dorset) on 14 June 1530, which he was still in 1535; and was also vicar of Glen Magna (Leics.) in 1544 (BRUO, 1501–1540, 685).

⁵⁹ This follows an ordination list including an entry recording the promotion of Clappe, deacon, Bath and Wells dioc., as priest to the title of Abbey ‘de bene dona’ [probably Bindon Abbey, Dorset], OCist, on 20 April 1527.

⁶⁰ On the latter place-name see n. 55.

⁶¹ See 58 above.

⁶² This follows an ordination list including an entry recording Baron's promotion as priest to the title of ‘Myddelton’ monastery [presumably Milton Abbey, OSB, Dorset], Salisbury dioc., under this dispensation on 15 June 1527.

⁶³ ? = Appendix 3. 153. Richard Pescod of Newton Valence (Hants.) was admitted to Winchester College as scholar, aged 10, in 1494; to New College, Oxford, as scholar on 9 April 1502 and as fellow in 1504, resigning by August 1506; and to Winchester College as fellow in 1508, probably till death (certainly still in 1527, as above). He was rector of Shaw (Berks.) till death, dying by March 1533 (BRUO 1501–1540, 444). The validity of this dispensation was contested by the Winchester consistory court in June 1527; see p. 25.

⁶⁴ A false start for this entry breaking off at this point, after three lines, occurs in Reg. Blythe, fol. 47r (in the section of the register concerning Salop archdeaconry), naming the addressee as ‘Planknay’ and marked ‘vacat’ in the margin. George Plankney entered Merton College, Oxford, in April 1523, becoming fellow (1524–1527), and incepted as MA of Oxford University on 8 April 1527; was rector of St Mary Arches, Exeter, in 1535, till death; was collated as vicar of St Gwinear (Cornw.) on 19 July 1535 and canon and sacrist of Glasney (Cornw.) on 26 February 1537, vacating these posts in December 1535 and July 1537 respectively; and died in August 1537 (BRUO, 1501–1540, 451).

⁶⁵ Following this letter in Reg. Fisher, fol. 141v, are James Robert's littere ordinum recording his promotion as subdeacon and deacon on 15 September and as priest on 21 September 1527 by virtue of this dispensation; he is said to be of ‘Bremhley’ (?Bromley, Kent) in the margin.

⁶⁶ He was BCnL probably of Oxford University and rector of both Matlock (Derbys.) and Bonsall (Derbys.) by 1535 till death; his other ecclesiastical benefices included a Lincoln canonry; and he died in 1545 (BRUO, 1501–1540, 687). Probably the Thomas Lyliwe, Lincoln dioc., who obtained a papal dispensation to hold a plurality of incompatible benefices in 8 Leo X (1520–1521); CPL, XX, no. 1380 (rubricella of lost letter).

⁶⁷ Recorded in the section of the register concerning Derby archdeaconry.

⁶⁸ Probably not the Richard Cheppard [sic], perpetual vicar of Charing par. ch. (Kent), Canterbury dioc., who obtained a papal dispensation on 17 January 1516 to hold an additional incompatible benefice; CPL, XX, no. 553.

⁶⁹ Recorded in the section of the register concerning Chester archdeaconry.

⁷⁰ Recorded in the section of the register concerning Chester archdeaconry.

⁷¹ Probably not the William Rede, Lincoln dioc., recorded in CPL, XIX, nos 1727, 1743.

⁷² John Howden, OP, DTh of Oxford University, was appointed by papal provision as bishop of Sodor and Man in 1523 and vacated the see by February 1530 (BRUO, 1501–1540, 301; Eubel, Hierarchia catholica, III. 302).

⁷³ Probably not the John Wylcolck, York dioc., recorded in CPL, XIX, no. 1298. Not the John Wylcokk’, MTh (of Cambridge University), in CPL, XX, no. 164, who had died by December 1514 (cf. BRUC, 639; BRUO, 1501–1540, 628).

⁷⁴ Probably the Nicholas Harris admitted as BA of Oxford University on 13 July 1528 (BRUO, 1501–1540, 270).

⁷⁵ This follows an ordination list including an entry recording the promotion of Holland, deacon, Worcester dioc., as priest to the title of Maiden Bradley Priory, [OSA], Salisbury dioc., under letters dimissory and this dispensation, on 20 February 1528/9.

⁷⁶ Ralph Whitehede, Coventry and Lichfield dioc., was fellow of King's Hall, Cambridge, 1500–1519; its seneschal, 1502–1503 and 1513–1514; and BA of Cambridge University, obtaining a grace there in 1503–1504 that study in Arts for six years, civil law for three and canon law for two suffice for entry in civil law. He was ordained as priest on 12 March 1502; held numerous ecclesiastical benefices, including canonries at St John's Chester, Lichfield, and Gnosall (Staffs.); and was admitted as chancellor of Lichfield on 21 July 1520, till death. He was dead by March 1535 (BRUC, 634–635). Doubtless the Ralph Whitehead, Ely dioc. (which included Cambridge), who obtained a papal dispensation in 1 Leo X (1513–1514) to hold a plurality of incompatible benefices; CPL, XX, no. 833 (rubricella of lost letter).

⁷⁷ ? = Appendix 3. 166. Recorded in the section of the register concerning Coventry archdeaconry. On fols 16v–17r also in this section follows a letter of Clement VII licensing Whitehed as canon of Gnosall, Coventry and Lichfield dioc., BCn & CL, to hold Brinklow (Brynklow) par. ch., Coventry and Lichfield dioc., in union with his canonry and the prebend of Chilternall (Chylturnhall); dated at Bologna, 27 March 1536 [recte, 1526/7], with a notary's mark certifying this as a copy of the original. He was admitted as prebendary of Chilternhall, in Gnosall, on 12 May 1527, till death (BRUC, 635); Emden does not record Brinklow among his benefices.

⁷⁸ The Franciscan Observants had six houses in England: Canterbury; Greenwich; Newark; Newcastle-upon-Tyne; Richmond; Southampton (Knowles & Hadcock, 230–231).

⁷⁹ This follows an ordination list on fol. 66v including an entry recording Storke's promotion as priest under this dispensation to the title of Vale Royal [Abbey, OCist], near(?) Oxford, on 18 September 1529; Thomas Candell is recorded in the heading to this list as a notary present at the ordinations recorded there. Probably not the John Storke (diocese unspecified) who obtained a papal dispensation in 1 Leo X (1513–1514) to hold a plurality of incompatible benefices; CPL, XX, no. 839 (rubricella of lost letter).

⁸⁰ York Minster, Wolsey's archiepiscopal see, was dedicated to these saints. I am grateful to Dr Patrick Zutshi for bringing this document to my attention and to Andrew Gansky of the HRC for supplying photographs of it.

⁸¹ Possibly John Nabs, BA of Cambridge University by 1526–1527 (Venn, III. 232).

⁸² ? = Appendix 3. 144.

⁸³ Recorded in the section of the register concerning Salop archdeaconry.

⁸⁴ The Italian Franciscan Nicholas de Burgo probably joined the convent of the Oxford Grey Friars in c.1517; was appointed as public praelector of theology in Cardinal College, Oxford, in 1525, resigning by 1535, and lector in divinity in Magdalen College, Oxford, in 1525–1526, still in 1529–1530; was BTh of Paris, incorporated at Oxford University on 18 February 1523, and incepted as DTh at Oxford on 11 August 1524, after seventeen years of study in theology and seven years of lecturing at Oxford. He obtained letters of denization on 25 January 1530; was admitted to the canonry and prebend of Timsbury in Romsey Abbey (Hants.) on 31 January 1530 by virtue of this dispensation, and still held these in 1536; and helped in the search for Henry VIII's papal divorce. He left Oxford in 1531 for the London Grey Friars before returning to Italy. Styling himself “Nicolaus Florentinus” he wrote a letter to Henry VIII on 20 October 1535, after his return to Italy, referring to his fellowship at Oxford and benefice in England of £25 a year which he hoped to retain (BRUO, 1501–1540, 85–86; Letters and Papers, IX, no. 645; Reg. Wolsey (Winchester) ed., pp. 63–65, on his admission to Timsbury prebend).

⁸⁵ Probably the same letter as 55 above.