James Turbervyle

, a younger Son of Joh. Turbervyle, son and heir of Richard, second son of William, first son of Sir Robert Turbervyle of Bere and Anderston in Dorsetshire Knight, (who died 6. Aug. 1424.) by Margaret his Wife, of the Family of the Carews, Barons, was born at Bere before-mentioned, which is now a little Market Town in the said County, educated in Wykchams School near Winchester, admitted true and perpetual Fellow of New coll. in 1514. took the degrees in Arts, that of Master being compleated in an Act celebrated in July 1520. and on the 8. of March following was elected the publick Scribe or Registrary of the University, on the resignation of Tho. Fykes M. A. and Fellow of the said coll. In 1529. he left his Fellowship, which he kept with his Scribes place, being then promoted to an Ecclesiastical Benefice, as he was soon after to a Dignity; and taking the degree of Doct. of Div. in another University, was incorporated here in 1532. In 1555. he being then Preb. of Winchester, and elected to the Episcopal See of Exeter on the death of Joh. Harman, was consecrated thereunto in St. Pauls Cath. Ch. in London (with Will. Glynn to Bangor) on the eighth day of Sept. the same year, and on the 21. of the said month had the temporalities of the said See delivered (t)(t) Pat. 2. & 3. Pb. & Mar. p. 1. to him, and there sate with due commendations for about four years. In 1559. (2. Elib.) he was deprived of his Bishoprick for denying the Queens Supremacy over the Church,Clar. 1562. and afterwards lived a private life saith (u)(u) Joh. Vowell alias Hooker in his Cat. of the Bishops of Exeter, in the 3 vol. of Holinsheds chron. p. 1309. b. one, and another (w)(w) The author of The execution of justice in England, &c. printed 1583. in oct. that he lived at his own liberty to the end of his life, adding that he was an honest Gentleman, but a simple Bishop, and a third (x)(x) Fr. Godwin in C [•] m. de Praesul. Angl. edit. 1616 p. 476. that he lived a private life many years and died in great liberty. But at length a fourth person, who comes lagg, as having lately appeared in print, I mean Richard Izack then Chamberlain of Exeter tells us in his Antiquities (y)(y) Printed at Lond. 1677. in oct. in the Cat. of the Bishops of Exeter, in the beginning of the book num. 34. of the City of Exeter (full of mistakes) that he died on the first of Nov. 1559. and in another (z)(z) Ibid. p. 127. place in the said book, that after his deprivation he lived a private life.