Edmund Audley

Son of Jam. Tuchet or Touchet Lord Audley by Alianore his wife, was educated in Academical learning in Lincoln coll. as it seems, to which afterwards he was an especial benefactor, took the (*)(*) Reg. congreg. Aa. fol. 125. a. degree of Bach. of Arts in 1463, but whether that of Master, it doth not appear in the reg. of that time, which is imperfect. In Janu. 1471 he became Preb. of Farendon in the Church of Lincoln, upon the resignation of one Rob. Skyllington, (or rather Stillington) and in the month of Oct. 1475 Preb. of Codeworth in the Church of Wells, on the death of Mr. Will, Fulford. On the 25. Dec. the same year, he, under the title of M. A. became Archdeacon of the East-Riding of Yorkshire on the death of Joh. Walker LL. B. and had other preferments in other Churches confer’d upon him. At length being promoted to the See of Rochester, his Archdeaconry was bestowed on a certain noble man named Edw. Pole, installed therein 15. Oct. 1480. who being made Archdeacon of Richmond, (upon the consecration of John Shirwood B. of Durham) was installed therein 6. Jan. 1484. So that thereupon resigning his Archdeaconry of the East-riding of Yorksh. Will. Poteman (sometimes Warden of Alls. coll. as I guess) was installed on the 16. of the same month in the same year, who dying 25. March 1493. Hen. Cornbull succeeded him. Afterwards Edm. Audley was translated to the See of Hereford upon the death of Thom. Myllyng, (sometimes a Student among the Benedictines of Gloucester coll. in the Suburbs of Oxon,) the temporalities of which were (e)(e) Pat. 8 Hen. 7. p. 2. m. 2. given to him 26. Dec. 1492. and from thence to Salisbury, the temporalities of which See also were put (f)(f) Pat. 17. Hen. 7. p. m. 10. into his hands on the 2. of April 1502. and about that time was made Chancellour of the most Noble Order of of the Garter. In 1518. he (g)(g) Vide Hest. & Antiq. Univ. Oxon. lib. 2. p 161. b gave 400 l. to Linc. coll. to purchase lands for the use thereof, and about that time bestowed upon the said house the Patronage of a Chauntry which he had lately founded in a Chappel built by him in the north part of the Choire of the Cath. Ch. at Salisbury. He also was a Benefactor to the reparation of the Congregation-house (sometimes a Library) on the north side of S. Maries Chancel in Oxford, to the erection of that curious piece of workmanship, the stone Pulpit, in the said Ch. finished 1508. (at the bottom of which were his Arms, a Fret impaled by the See of Sarum) and gave 200 marks for the supply of Chichleys chest (belonging to the University) which had before been robb’d of its treasure. But whether he built the choire or chancel of S. Maries church, or gave the old Organs (as a certain (b)(b) Fr. Godwin in Com de praesul. Angl. edit. 1616. p. 407. author is pleased to tell us) I find it no where to appear. At length departing this mortal life, in a good old age, at Ramsbury in Wilts, 1524 on the 23 of Aug. in fiveteen hundred twenty and four, was buried in the chappel before-mention’d, built by him in honour of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary, within the cath. ch. of Sarum: to the reparation of which cathedral he bequeathed threescore pounds. After his death Laur. Campegius Cardinal of S. Anastasius was made Bishop of Salisbury, but whither he, (being almost continually absent) or any of his Successors till the time of Dr. Seth Ward, an. 1671. were ever chancellours of the order of the Garter, in doth not appear.