William Downham

, received his first breath in the County of Norfolk, was elected Probationer of Magdalen coll. in July 1543. and in the year following he was made true and perpetual Fellow of the said house, being then Master of Arts. Afterwards he became chaplain to the Lady Elizabeth, who, when Queen, did not only make him the first Canon of the tenth stall in the collegiate Ch. of S. Peter in the City of Westminster, an. 1560. but in the year after Bishop of Chester; to which See being consecrated (a)(a) Fr. Godwin ut sup. Int. ep. Cestr: on the 4. of May 1561. had the temporalities thereof given to him (b)(b) Pat. 3. Eliz. p. 9. on the 9. of the same month. In 1566. he was actually created Doct. of div. and dying in Nov. in fifteen hundred seventy and seven, was buried in the Cath. Ch. at Chester, 157 [•] . leaving then behind him two Sons, viz. George Downham afterwards Bishop of London-Derry in Ireland, and John Downham Bach. of div. both learned and painful writers. In the See of Chester succeeded Will. Chaderton D. D. Master of Queens coll. in Cambridge, sometimes Margaret, afterwards the Kings, Professor of div. in that University, and Prebendary or Canon of the fourth stall in the collegiate Church of S. Peter in the City of Westminster. This learned Doctor was born at Nuthurst (c)(c) Reg. Dodsworth in collect. suis MS. in bib. Bod. near Manchester in Lancashire, being the Son of Edm. Chaderton (by Margery his Wife, dauof one Cliffe of Cheshire) and he the Son of Jeffr. Chaderton, both of Nuthurst. He died Bishop of Lincoln, leaving behind him one only daughter named Joane, begotten on the body of his Wife, named Katharine, dau. of Joh. Revell of London.