Bernard Adams

was born in Middlesex in the diocess of London, admitted Scholar of Trinity coll. in 1583. aged 17 years; fellow five years after, and when Master of Arts he went into Ireland; where by the favour of the Lord Lieutenant he was consecrated Bishop of Limerick in Apr. 1604. In the year 1606. he, by a dispensation kept the See of Kilfenore with it, to the year 1617. at which time he voluntarily resign’d it. He bestowed much money in repairing the Church of Limerick, and in the adorning it with Organs and several Ornaments, as also in repairing the house belonging to his See, besides other moneys for pious use.1625-6. He died (a)(a) [〈…〉] p. 189. on the 22. of March in sixteen hundred twenty and five, and was buried in the Cath. Ch. of Limerick, where was a monument soon after erected to his memory. In the said See succeeded Francis Gough commonly called Goffe, whom I shall anon at large mention.