Robert Sylvester

was a northern man born, but whether a secular, or of any religious Order, I cannot tell, nor whether justly he took a degree in this University. Certain it is, that being made Suffragan Bishop of Hull under the Archbishop of York, was made Prebendary of Langtoft and VVistow in the Church of York, 1541. and in 1549. January 31. was installed Archdeacon of Nottingham, on the death of Cuthbert Marshall D. D. who had succeeded Will. Fell D. D. in that dignity, in Jan. 1527.Clar. 1552. He either died in the beginning of Q. Maries reign (1553.) or was deprived, because then, or soon after, I find one Rob. Pursglove to occur by the title of Bishop of Hull, as I shall at large tell you under the year 1579.