John Byrde

was made Bishop of Bangor in 1539. and translated thence to Chester in 1541. but deprived of that See by Qu. Mary for being married, in the year 1553. He paid his last debt to nature in fifteen hundred fifty and six; 1556 under which year you may see more of him among the writers. In the said See succeeded George Cootes, of whom I have made mention before, but died about an year before Byrde.