John Merick

was born in the Isle of Anglesie, educated in Wykehams School near Winchester, made perpetual fellow of New coll. in 1557. took the degrees in Arts, became one of the Proctors of the University in 1565. Vicar of Hornchurch in Essex, in 1570. and three years after Bishop of the Isle of Man on the death of John Salisbury. He yielded up his last breath in Yorkshire (as it seems) in Sept. or Oct. 1599 in fifteen hundred ninety and nine, and was succeeded in the said See by Dr. George Lloyd of Cambridge, (Son of Meredyth Lloyd, Son of Joh. Lloyd of Caernarvanshire) who was translated thence to Chester in 1604. This Joh. Merick left behind him a brother named Will. Merick, LL. D. and another called Maurice Merick, then M. of Arts, and certain letters concerning Ecclesiastical, and other, affairs, which I have seen in the Cottonian Library, under the picture of Julius, F. 10.