Anthony Dunstan

a Benedictine Monk of Westminster, received his Academical education in Glocester coll. in the N. W. Suburb of Oxon, in an apartment therein built for such young Monks of Westminster that were designed for the University. In 1525. he was admitted to the reading of the sentences, having a little before opposed in divinity in the School of that faculty, and in the year following he occurs by the name and tit. of Anth. Dunstan Prior of the Students of Gloc. coll. before-mentioned. In 1538. he proceeded in divinity, being then Abbat of the Benedictine Monks of Einsham near to, and in the County of, Oxon, and in 1545. he by the name and title of Anthony Kechyn the Kings Chaplain and Bishop elect of Landaff, received (a)(a) Pat. 37. Hen. 8. p. 5. the temporalities belonging thereunto, on the 8. of May the same year, being then about 68 years of age. He is much blamed by one of his (b)(b) Fr. Godwin ut sup. p. 641. successors in the See of Landaff for impoverishing his Bishoprick, accounted by some to have been before his time one of the best in England, and since to be the worst. He gave way to fate 31. Oct. in fifteen hundred sixty and three, 1563 and was buried in the Parish Church of Matherne (where the Bishop of Landaff hath a Palace) in Monmouthshire, after he had gone through several changes of times, and had taken the Oath of Q. Elizabeths Supremacy over the Church of England, which no Popish Bishop in the beginning of her reign did besides this man.