Owen Ogelthorp

, the third natural Son of Owen Ogelthorp of Newton-Kime in Yorkshire, Son of John Ogelthorp of Ogelthorp in the said County, was born at Newton-Kyme before-mentioned near to Tadcaster, admitted Fellow of Magd. coll. about 1526. and in 29. he proceeded in Arts, being about that time in holy Orders. In 1533. he was Proctor of the University, and on the 21. of Feb. 35. he was elected President of his coll. having a few days before taken the degrees in Divinity. About that time he was constituted one of the Canons of the coll. at Oxon founded by K. Hen. 8. on that of Cardinal Wolsey; in the year 1540 he was made Canon of Windsore in the place of Will. Tate LL. D. deceased, and in 1544. he was presented to the Church of S. Olave in Southwark. In 1551. he did undergo with great honor the Vicechancellourship of this University, and in 1553. Oct. 31. he being then Rector of Newyngton and Haseley in the Dioc. of Oxon, was elected again President of the said coll. (having resigned that place about an year before to make room for Dr. Walt. Haddon) and in the same year he was made Dean of Windsore. In 1554 he (o)(o) Pat. 1. & 2. Phil. & Mar. p. 14. was constituted Registrary of the most Noble Order of the Garter, to execute it by himself, or a sufficient deputy, with the fee of 50 l. per an. allowed him for it. Which office he kept, while he was Bishop of Carlile, during the time that Dr. Hugh Weston his Successor was Dean of Windsore. About the month of Apr. 1556. he was consecrated Bishop of Carlile, and in the latter end of 1558. when Heath Archb. of York, and all the rest of the Bishops refused to Crown Q. Elizabeth, (the See of Canterb. being then void,) he, with much ado, was obtained to set the Crown on her head. For which fact, when he saw the issue of that matter, and both himself and all the rast of his Sacred Order depriv’d, and the Churches holy Laws and Faith, against the conditions of her consecration and acceptation into that Royal Room, violated; he sore repented him all the days of his life, which were for that special cause, both short and wearisome afterwards unto him. Thus Dr. Will. Allen in his Answer (p)(p) Printed beyond the Yeas about 1583. in oct p. 51. 52 to the Libel, intit. The execution of justice in England. The said Dr. Ogelthorp was deprived of his Bishoprick about Midsomer in the year 1559. and about the beginning of the next year died suddenly of an Apoplexy; 1560 otherwise, had he lived, ’tis thought the Queen would have been favourable to him. He founded at Tadcaster before-mention’d a Free-School and Hospital dedicated to our Saviour Jesus Christ, called, The School and Hospital of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ of Tadcaster. The School is endowed with 40 l. per an. and the Hospital with revenues for 12 poor People, each to have one shilling every week. In the beginning of Ch. 1. there were but six in pay; how many now I know not. The said Bishop built a fair house in Headley upon Bramham in Yorkshire, where there is a memory by verses and his Arms, over the door, I think, yet remaining. After his deprivation and death, Bernard Gilpin the northern Apostle was designed to succeed him in Carlil [•] , but vhe refusing, tho much pressed to it, the Bishoprick was confer’d on one Joh. Best a learned and pious man.