David Pole

or Poole of noble race, as it seems, became fellow of Allsouls coll. in 1520. took the degrees of Civ. and Can. Law, that of Doctor being compleated in 1527. at which time being Archdeacon of Salop, he was much in esteem for his great sufficiencies in those Laws. Afterwards he was made Dean of the Arches, Archdeacon of Derby, and Chancellour of the diocess of Lichf. and Coventry. At length, upon the death of Joh. Chambers, being nominated to the See of Peterborough, was consecrated thereunto (c)(c) Ibid. in Godwin, inc. ep. Peterb. p. 594. on the 15. Aug. 1557. and on the 28. of January following had the temporalities thereof delivered (d)(d) Pat. 4. & 5. Phil. & Mar. p. 1: to him. In 1559. about the time of Midsummer, he was deprived of his Bishoprick, for denying the Queens supremacy, being then esteemed a grave person and a very quiet subject. Whereupon being committed to custody for a time, was soon after set at liberty, & Principis beneficio (as one (e)(e) Lanc. Andrews in Tortura Torti, &c. p. 146. tells us) in agro suo matura aetate decessit. He gave way to fate in the latter end of May, or beginning of June, 1568 in fifteen hundred sixty and eight, but where, unless near to S. Pauls Cathedral in London, or where buried I cannot tell. All his books of Law and Divinity, which were then at London and Peterborough, he gave to the Library of Allsoules coll. In the said See of Peterborough succeeded Edm. Scambler Bach. (afterwards Doct.) of div. a native of Gressingham in Lancashire, and Chaplain to Mathew Archb. of Canterbury, to which being consecrated 16. Jan. 1560. held in commendam with it the Prebendship of Wistow in the Church of York, and the first Canonry in the sixth stall in the Church of Westminster for the space of two, or more, years. He was a learned man, a zealous enemy against the Papists, yet an impairer of the honour, privileges, (f)(f) Sim. Gunton in his History of the Church of Peterborough, printed at Lond. in fol. 1686. p. 73. and revenues of the Bishoprick of Peterborough. After his translation to Norwych succeeded in Peterborough Dr. Rich. Howland Master of S. Johns coll. in Cambridge, who dying in 1600. was succeeded in the said See by Tho. Dove D. D. and Dean of Norwych, sometimes of Pembroke hall in Cambridge, and one of the first Scholars of Jesus coll. in Oxon, to which See Q. Elizab. (to whom he was Chapl. in Ordinary) prefer’d him for his excellency in Preaching, and reverend aspect and deportment. He dyed 30. Aug. 1630. aged 75 years, and was buried in the north Isle of the Cath. Ch. of Peterborough: over whose grave was a comely monument erected, with a large inscription thereon, but level’d with the ground by the Rebels, in 1643. He left behind him a son named Thomas, who occurs Archdeacon of Northampton 1618. having succeeded in that dignity, if I mistake not, Dr. Joh. Buckridge. In the See of Peterborough succeeded Dr. Aug. Lindsell Rector of Houghton in the Spring in the County Pal. of Durham, who, after he was elected to it, had restitution (g)(g) Pat. 8. Car. 1. p. 13. made of the temporalities belonging thereunto on the 20. of Feb. 1632. But being translated thence to Hereford (in Dec.) 1633. succeeded Franc. Dee D. D. who being elected to the said See of Peterborough, had the temporalities thereof (h)(h) Pat. 10. Car. 1. p. 10. given to him 7. June 1634. See more of him in the Fasti under the year 1603.