William Bradbridge

, or Brodebridge, was a Londoner born, but descended from those of his name in Somersetshire, was admitted Fellow of Magdalen coll. in 1529. and afterwards proceeding in Arts, was at length admitted to the reading of the Sentences, an. 1539. being then arrived to some eminence in the Theological Faculty. About the middle of March, 1 and 2 of Phil. and Mary, dom. 1554. he was made Prebendary of Lime and Halstock in the Church of Sali [•] bury, vacant by the death of one Rob. Bone, and in the beginning of Q. Elizab. shewing himself conformable to the discipline then established, was made Dean of the said Church in June 1563. void by the death of Pet. Vannes an Italian. In 1565. he supplicated the ven. Congreg. of Regents that he might be admitted Doctor of divinity, but whether he was really so, or diplomated, it appears not in the pubick Register, and on the 18. of March 1570. he was consecrated at Lambeth Bishop of Exeter; which See he laudably governed for about 8 years. He ended his days suddenly at Newton-Ferrers in Devonshire, on the 27. June, saith (f)(f) Fr. Godwin ut sup. int. ep. Exon. one, and another (g)(g) Joh. Vowell alias Hooker in his Cat. or Hist. of the Bishops of Exeter. the 29. July, in fifteen hundred seventy and eight,15 [•] 8. and was buried on the north side of the Choire of the Cath. Ch. of Exeter. To him succeeded in the said See Joh. Woolton, whom I have mentioned among the writers under the year 1593. and him Gervase Babington D. D. (descended from the antient Family of the Babingtons in Nottinghamsh.) who, while he was Chaplain to the Earl of Pembroke, assisted his Noble Countess Mary Sidney in her translation of the Psalms: For it was more than a Womans skill to express the sense so right, as she hath done in her verse, and more than the English or Latin translation could give her.