, residentiary and chancellor of Wells, was born at Holt-castle, on the borders
, residentiary and chancellor
of Wells, was born at Holt-castle, on the borders of Wales.
He went to Oxford about 1503, took a degree in arts in
1507, and the year after was elected fellow of Oriel-college, on the foundation of bishop Smyth, being the first
elected to that fellowship, and was himself a benefactor to
this college at the time of his death. Afterwards he took
orders, and was reputed a noted preacher in the university
and elsewhere. In 1519 he was admitted to the reading
of the sentences, and was promoted afterwards to be canofi
of Salisbury, Wells, and Bristol, and residentiary, and in
1554 chancellor of Wells. He was also vicar of St. Cuthbert’s church, in Wells, to which he was admitted Oct. 3,
1543. During the commencement of the reformation in
the reigns of Henry VIII. and Edward VI. he behaved
with singular moderation; but when queen Mary succeeded, he threw off the mask, and appeared what he
really was, a violent Roman catholic. He died in the beginning of 1560, and was buried in the cathedral of Wells.
He published a volume of “Sermons fruitful, godly, and
learned,
” Loud. Resolutions concerning the Sacraments,
” and “Resolutions of some questions relating to bishops and priests, and of other matters
tending to the reformation of the church made by king
Henry VIII.
”