John Garvey

, was born, as it seems, in the County of Kilkenny in Ireland, took one or more degrees in the Reign of K. Edw. 6. he being then a Student in Oxon, but by the negligence of the Scribe his name is omitted in the publick Register of that time. Afterwards he retired to his Country, became Archdeacon of Meath, and in 1565. Dean of the Church of the Holy Trinity, commonly called Christ-Church in Dublin. Afterwards being made a Member of the Queens Privy Council there, was (a)(a) Jac. Waraeus in Com. de praesul. Hibern. edit. 1665. p. 252. promoted to the Bishoprick of Kilmore in Ap. 1585. with liberty then allowed him to keep his Deanery in Commendam. In 1589. he was made Archbishop of Armagh in the place of Dr. Joh. Long deceased: Whereupon being translated thereunto on the tenth of May the same year, had liberty given him to keep his Deanery then also. He departed this mortal life on the second day March in fifteen hundred ninety and four,1594-95. and was buried in the Church of the Holy Trinity before-mentioned, leaving then behind him a little thing of his writing intit. The Conversion of Philip Corwine a Franciscan Fryer, to the reformation of the Protestant Religion, an 1589.—Published in 1681. when the Phanatical party were big with hopes of satisfying their insatiable ends, under pretence of aggravating and carrying on the pretended horridness of the Popish Plot. He was succeeded in Kilmore by one Rob. Draper Rector of Trimm in Ireland, and in the See of Armagh by Henry Usher, whom I shall mention at large under the year 1613.