Thomas Skevyngton

, was descended from a right ancient Family of his name living in Leicestershire, but whether born in that County I cannot justly tell; became, when young, professed in the Monastery of Cistercians at Merevale or Myrdvale in Warwickshire, instructed in Theological and other learning in S. Bernards coll. originally built for Cistercians in the north Suburb of Oxon, (being now S. Johns coll.) to which place he bequeathed on his death-bed twenty pounds towards its reparation. Afterwards he was made Abbat of Waverley, a house of the said Order in Surrey, and on the 17. of June 1509. was consecrated (*)(*) Godwinus ut supr. int. Episc. Bangor. Bishop of Bangor. Where, after he had sate several years much commended for the austere course of his life and great charity, he submitted to the stroke of death in the month of June or thereabouts, in fifteen hundred thirty and there. 1533 Whereupon his heart was buried in the Cath. Ch. of Bangor before the picture of S. Daniel, (whereon a stone was soon after laid with an inscription thereon shewing that it was the heart of Thomas late Bishop of Bangor) and his body in the Choire of Monastery of Beaulieu under a Tomb which he had erected nigh unto the place where the Gospel used to be read. In the See of Bangor succeeded John Salcot alias Capon Doct. of divinity of Cambridge, translated thence to Salisbury in 1529; where dying in the summer time (in August as it seems) an. 1557. was buried in the Cath. Church there, under a Tomb which he in his lifetime had provided and erected on the south side of the Choire.