Richard Mayhew

, or Mayo, received his first breath in Berkshire, in a Market Town, if I mistake not, called Hungerford, was educated in Grammar learning in Wykehams School near to Winchester, admitted true and perpetual Fellow of New coll. in 1459. and on the 28. March 1467. took holy Orders from the hands of George Archb. of York. Soon after he was elected one of the Proctors of this University, and in 1480. was made President of Magd. coll. by the Founder thereof W. Waynfleet, and about that time D. of Div. In the beginning of May 1501. he was made Archdeacon of the East-riding of Yorkshire in the place of Joh. Hole Bach. of Decrees, deceased, (who on the first of May 1497. was, from being Archdeacon of Clievland admitted to that Dignity on the resignation of Cornbull) and being installed Archdeacon of Oxon, on the 10. of the same month and in the same year, was sent into Spain to conduct the Infanta Katherine to England to be wedded to Prince Arthur. In 1503. he was elected Chancellour of this University, and in the year after, he being one of the Kings Council, his Almoner, and elected to the See of Hereford, had restitution (a)(a) Pat. 20. Hen. 7. p. 1. m. 26. made to him of the temporalities belonging thereunto, on the first of Nov. 1504. He paid his last debt to nature on the 18. of Apr. in fifteen hundred and sixteen, 1516 and was buried on the south side of the high Altar within his own Cathedral, near to the foot of the Image of the Glorious King and Martyr Ethelbert. By his (b)(b) In reg. Holder, Qu. 18. in Offic. prærog. cant. Will he gave to 50 Priests studying in the University of Oxon, six shillings and eight pence a-peice to pray for him, as also several books to New coll. Library. One Rich. Mayow Doctor of Decrees of this University, and Canon resid. of the Cath. Ch. of Exeter, died in the year 1500. whose Executor then was Thom, Harrys Archdeacon of Cornwall, but what relation there was between this Rich. Mayow (who was a Western man) and the Bishop before-mentioned, I know not. In the said See of Hereford succeeded Charels Bothe LL. D. of Cambridge; who, after election, received (c)(c) Pat. 8. Hen. 8. p. 2. the temporalities thereof 9. Feb. 1516. By his last Will and (d)(d) Ib. in reg. Holder. Qu. 25. Testam. proved 8. May 1535. he desired to be buried in the Cath. Ch. of Hereford juxta hostium ex parte boreali Ecclesiae, ubi construxi (as he saith) sepulchrum meum. After him succeeded in the said See Edw. Fox another Cantabrigian, who had the temporalities thereof restored (e)(e) Pat. 27. Hen. 8. p. 1. to him 4. Oct. 1535. This person who was an eminent Scholar of his time, was born at Duresley in Gloucestershire, educated in Eaton School near Windsore, admitted Scholar of Kings coll. in Cambridge, 27. March 1512. became Provost of it 27. Decemb. 1528. and afterwards the Kings Almoner, one of his Privy Council, and a great promoter of the Kings divorce from Q. Katharine, particularly in the University of Cambridge, where he, and Dr. Steph. Gardiner procured, with much difficulty and earnest engaging of themselves, the testimony of the Members of the said University for the Kings divorce before-mentioned, an. 1530. In Sept. 1531. he was installed Archdeacon of Leycester upon the resignation of Dr. Steph. Gardiner, and in Nov. 1533. he was made Archdeacon of Dorset on the death of Will. Bennet. About which time, or rather before, he had been Embassador divers times into France and Germany, and afterwards was secretly a favourer of the reformed religion, insomuch that Martin Bucer dedicated his Cemmentary on the Evangelists to him. He, the said Fox, wrote a book, De vera differentia regiae potestatis & Ecclesiasticae, & quae sit ipsa veritas, ac virtus utriusque. Lond. 1534-38. for which and other learned labours, as his Annotations on Mantuan, he is celebrated, and numbred among the learned men, by (f)(f) In Principum ac illustrium aliquot eruditorum in Anglis virorum encomii [•] , &c. Lond. 1589. qu. p. 63. Joh. Leland. There is also extant a short oration of his in the story of the Lord Thomas Cromwell, which you may see in the Acts and Mon, of of the Church, and other matters elsewhere. By his last (g)(g) In Offic [•] [〈◊〉] ut sup. in reg. Dingley, Qu. 25. Will and Test. made the 8. May 1538. and proved 20. March following, it appears that he bequeathed his body to be buried in the Church of S. Mary Hault in London, now called S. Mary Mounthaw, (de monte alto) the Patronage of which belongs to the Bishop of Hereford. After him succeeded John Skyppe D. D. sometimes of Gonvill coll. in Cambridge, who, after his election to the See of Hereford, had the Kings (h)(h) Pat. 31. Hen. 8. p. 3. consent to it, 7. Nov. 1539. He died in his house at Mount-hault in London in the latter end of the year (after or on the 18. March) 1551. Whereupon his body was buried near to that of his Predecessor Edward Fox before-mentioned.