James Brokes

, sometimes Fellow of Corp. Ch. coll. was consecrated Bishop of Gloucester about the beginning of the year 1554. and died about the beginning of Febr. 1559-60. in fifteen hundred fifty and nine; under which year you may see more of him among the writers. In the said See of Gloc. succeeded Rich. Chey [•••] Bach. of Div. of Pembr. hall in Cambridge, who being elected thereunto, had restitution made (n)(n) Pat. 4. Elizab. p. 10. to him of the temporalities belonging to it, on the 15. of Apr. 1562. and had at the same time liberty allowed to him to keep Bristow in Commendam. In the reign of K. Ed. 6. he was Archdeacon of Hereford, and dignified elsewhere. In Q. Mary’s time he was deprived of his spiritualities for being more addicted to the opinions of Luther than he ought. In the beginning of the reign of Q. Elizab. an. 1560. he was made by her the first Canon of the fourth Stall or Prebendship in the collegiate Church of S. Peter within the City of Westminster: Which dignity he keeping till 1562. was then succeeded by one Rich. Morley. After he had sate Bish. of Glouc. three years, he was incorporated D. of D. of this University, as he had stood in Cambridge. One of his Successors in the See of Glouc. named Godf. Goodman doth wonder (*)(*) In his Review of the Court of K. James, written by Sir A. W.—MS. p. 89. why his Master Will. Camden should say that the said Rich. Cheyney was Luthero addictissimus, whereas it was certain that he was a Papist, and bred up his servants Papists, as he had been informed by one of them, with whom he had spoken. He tells us also that it doth appear upon record in the Arches, that he was suspended for Popery, and died so suspended, and never would make any recantation. He was buried in his Cath. Ch. of Gloucester, but whether ever any monument was put over his grave, I know not.