Thomas Pursell

, whose place of Nativity is as much unknown to me as the House in Oxon wherein educated, became Bishop of Waterford and Lismore in Ireland about 1486. and soon after took care that all (c)(c) Ibid. p. 199. the ancient charters of Lismore should be transcribed into a Register or Leiger-book; which book remaining with his successors till 1617. was by accident then burnt. He gave way to fate in fiveteen hundred and seventeen, 1517 but where buried. I know not. In my searches (d)(d) In [〈…〉] it appears that one John, Bishop of Waterford, was Rector of Bawdrob or Baudripp, in the Diocess of Bath and Wells, in January 1482. (22. Ed. 4.) whom I take to be predecessor to Thom. Pursell, tho not mention’d by the Author of the Com. of the Irish Bishops.