Rowland Searchfield

, a Londoner born, was educated in Grammar learning in Merchant-Taylors School, admitted Scholar of S. Johns coll. in 1582. aged 17 years, or thereabouts: Afterwards he was made Fellow of that house, Proctor of the University, Doct. of div. and successively Vicar of Emley in Northamptonshire, Rector of Bowthorp in Gloucestershire, Vicar of Cherlbury in, and Justice of the Peace of, Oxfordshire. He was consecrated B. of Bristow 9. May 1619. upon the translation of Dr. Nich. Felton to Ely: which was made 14. March 1618. The said Dr. Searchfield died on the eleventh of Oct. in sixteen hundred 1622 twenty and two, and was buried near to the Communion Table at the upper end of the Choire of the Cath. Ch. of Bristow, leaving then one Son or more behind him, begotten on the body of his Wife, Mrs. Anne Huchenson of Rewley near Oxon. Over his grave was a stone soon after laid, with an epitaph thereon, but removed thence by Dr. Rich. Thompson Dean of that Church when he raised the Communion Table. In the said See of Bristow succeeded Dr. Rob. Wright, tho one Kevercher (as he is called) tug’d hard for it.