The Rectors of Manchester, and the Wardens of the Collegiate Church of that Town, Volume 5

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Chetham Society, 1885 - 208 pages
 

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Page 62 - ... became Bishop of Gloucester, and appointed Vaux his Chaplain. A. à Wood states that Vaux was ordained priest about the year 1540, which is an error. Ho went through the regular gradations of an Acolyte, Sub-Deacon and Deacon, and was ordained Priest in the Collegiate Church of B. Mary of Manchester by John Bird, Bishop of Chester, on Sunday next after the feast of St. Matthew the Apostle (September 2 ist), 1542. — Bishop Bird's Liber Ordinal. Lane. MS S. In 1547 he was " Incumbent Fellow of...
Page 63 - ... Manchester." (Lane. MSS., vol. xvi. p. 341.) In this year, 1556, he was admitted to the reading of the Sentences at Oxford, and was BD (Wood's Athen., p. 130.) In the 2 Edward VI., he was described as " one of the Priests Curates of the Parish of Manchester," having from the College an income of I2/.
Page 18 - Church and religious houses, although not the founders of any separate establishment. There was a sort of prescriptive payment of 45^., payable in 1478 by the Abbot of Whalley to the Sir John (Thos. ?) Pilkington, whose estates were forfeited after the battle of Bosworth ; but the services rendered for it to the Abbey are unknown. On the 20 April, 16 Hen. VI, Sir John de Pilkyngton appoints Henry and James de Smethurst to deliver seisin of his lands, &c, to Richard de Radclyffe, Rector of Wilmslow,...
Page 69 - Antw. 1574, printed again 1583l and 1599, &c. 8vo and I2mo. 2. An Instruction of the laudable Customs used in the Catholic Church. This in some editions is entitled, The Use and Meaning of Holy Ceremonies in God's Church. 3. Godly Contemplations for the Unlearned. These two last are printed with one, two, or more of the editions of the Catechisme.
Page 80 - Manchester college desired to relinquish it 'to be converted to some College in Cambridge who might hereafter send out S some preachers to inhabit that quarter, and also by the rest of the revenue maintain some students. If it please your honour to move her Highness to this alteration, I think you should do a good deed ; and where you were brought up for the first beginning of your study in St.
Page 90 - ... Margaret's Lectures, came into his place ; the ViceChancellor, and the Heads of the colleges, applying themselves to their Chancellor to allow the same person, whose letters ran to this tenor, " that Master Dr. Whitgift was MSS. ceci" minded by his Honour's licence and grant, for divers and j"?' " necessary considerations, to resign and give over his " Lecture in Divinity. And forasmuch as it was very ex...
Page 41 - My body to be buried in a new chapel in my Cathedral Church of Ely, or else in my new Chapel now in building at Manchester. I will that the Chapel be made for me to be buried and rest my bones in at the East end of my Cathedral Church, for the which I will 100 marks to be bestowed upon walls, iron work, glass, and covering, besides my tomb, on which tomb I will 40 marks be bestowed by the advice of Master Alday, Sir Ranulph Pole, and Sir John Claydon, my receiver: I give and bequeath to remain in...

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