John Payne

, a Dominican or Black Frier, spent several years in the study of Divinity (of which he was afterwards Doctor) in the coll. of Dominicans in the south suburb of Oxon. Afterwards retiring to Ireland, was, thro several preferments, made Bishop of Meath by the Popes provision, and installed in the Choire there on the feast of St. Dominick (Aug. 4.) in 1483. In the year 1493. he was made Master of the Rolls in Ireland, being then much celebrated for his great charity and hospitality, and dying on the sixth day of March in fifteen hundred and six, 1506 (21. Hen. 7.) was buried in the Monastery of his Order at Dublin, or rather, as the (a)(a) Jac. War. [〈◊〉] p. 38. Historian of Ireland tells us, in the Church of S. Patrick there, where his monument, near the west door of that Church, was remaining in his time, with an inscription thereon.