Richard Rawlins

, was admitted Fellow of Merton coll. in the year 1480. and afterwards proceeding in Arts, he entred into the sacred Function. On the 19. Feb. 1491. he was admitted to the reading of the Sentences, left the coll. soon after, being then beneficed, and in 1495. proceeded in Divinity. In 1504. Oct. 1. he was admitted Subdean of York on the death of Edw. Cressacre, (in which Dignity he was succeeded by Dr. James Harryngton in Jul. 1507.) and in 1505. he became Archdeacon of Huntingdon in the place of Rob. Sherebourne promoted to the See of S. David. In 1506. he was made Canon of Windsore, and in the middle of June 1507. he was admitted Archdeacon of Clievland on the death of Joh. Raynolds LL. B. who died on the vigil of the Nativity going before. In Dec. 1508. he was admitted Warden of Mert. coll. being then also Canon of S. Pauls Cathedral, and in great repute for his learning. In 1512. he went with the King into France, and was present at the Siege of Turwin and Tournay, and in 1514. he was made Almoner to the said King in the place of Tho. Wolsey, and Archd. of Huntingdon. In 1521. he was deprived (†)(†) Reg. ptim. Act. coll. Mert. fol. 253. &c. of his Wardenship of Mert. coll. by the Archb. of Canterbury for many unworthy misdemeaners, the particulars of which are too large to be here set down; and soon after, because he should not be a looser, had the Bishoprick of S. David confer’d upon him, about the beginning of the year 1523. To which See being consecrated on the 26. Apr. the same (*)(*) Godwin ut supr. int. ep. Men [••] . year, sate there to the time of his death, which hapned about the beginning of fifteen hundred thirty and six. 1536 His immediate Predecessor in the said See was Edw. Vaughan of the University of Cambridge, who dying in Nov. or Dec. in 1522. was buried in the Chappel of the holy Trinity within the Cath. Ch. of S. David. Which Chappel he, a little before his death, had built at his own charge.