John Bullyngham

, received his first breath in the County of Gloucester, was elected Probationer of Magd. coll. in July 1550. being then Bach. of Arts, and intimate with Julius Palmer the Protestant Martyr, (whose story he hath written in a large letter dated from Bridgnorth about 1562. for the satisfaction of Jo. Fox when he was in writing his English book of Acts and Monuments) &c. but before he took the degree of Master, he left the University, (Q. Mary being then in the Throne,) and retired, as it seems, beyond the Seas, where continuing mostly all her reign, returned when Q. Elizabeth succeeded, became well beneficed, and in 1567. was made Archdeacon of Huntingdon, but in whose room, unless in that of Anth. Draycot, I know not. In 1568. he compleated the degree of D. of div. in an Act celebrated on the twelfth of July, and two years after was made Prebendary of Worcester in the place of Libbeus Byard deceased. In 1581. Sept. 3. he was consecrated (f)(f) Fr. Godwin ut sup. int. ep. Glouc. p. 591. Bishop of Glocester; about which time he had the See of Bristow given to him in Commendam, but that being taken away from him in 1589. the rectory of Kilmington alias Culmington in the dioc. of Wells was conferr’d on him, in Jul. 1596. He paid his last debt to nature about the 20. of May in fifteen hundred ninety and eight, 1598 and was buried, as I suppose, in the Cath. Ch. of Glocester. Whereupon his rectory was bestowed on Rich. Potter, father of Franc. Potter, author of the Interpretation of the number of 666, &c. as I shall tell you when I come to him in the next volume of this work, and his Bishoprick on Godfrey Goldsborough Doct. of div. of Cambridge.