Thomas Halsay

, or Halsey, an English man, was conversant with the Muses in this Universitie for a time, but in what house or hostle for Civilians or Canonists I cannot yet tell. Afterwards travelling beyond the Seas, where, I presume, he had the degree of Doctor of Laws conferred upon him, he was made Penitentiarie of the English Nation in the Church of S. Peter in Rome, and the Popes Prothonotarie of Ireland. At length by the endeavours of Christop. Bainbridge Archb. of York and Cardinal, he was by the provision of P. Jul. 2. made Bishop (b)(b) [〈…〉] of Laighlin in Ireland, about the year 1513, but never lived, as it seems, to visit his See or abide there. In 1515 and 16. he was present at the council of Lateran, while in the mean time his Vicar general (Charles Cavenagh) managed his diocess. After his return into England in order to go into Ireland, 1519 he died in Westminster about fifteen hundred and nineteen; whereupon his body was buried in the Church belonging to the Savoy hospital in the Strand. Near his tomb-stone on the left side was Gawin Douglas Bishop of Dunkeld in Scotland buried (c)(c) [〈…〉] an. 1522. having been suddenly deprived of his life by the Pest. In the same year (1519) died also Joh. Imurily Bishop of Ross in Ireland, sometimes a Cistercian monk of Maur in the county of Cork, but whether he was ever of Oxon. I cannot tell. Sure I am, that several of the sirname of Immerley studied there in the time or age wherein Jo. Imurily lived.