Athenæ Oxonienses. The History of Oxford Writers. Vol. 1, p. 627

William Gifford

, the Ornament of the English Catholicks of his time, was sometimes a Member of Lincoln coll. but took no degree in this University. Afterwards retiring beyond the Seas, he became thro various preferments Archbishop of Rheimes, in 1622. He paid his list debt to nature in sixteen hundred twenty and nine, 1629 under which year you may see more of him among the writers. In the said Archbishoprick succeeded Henry de Loraine Son of Charles Duke of Guise, as I have before told you.