Herbert Westphaling

sometimes a Student of Ch. Ch. was consecrated B. of Hereford, in 1585.1601-02. and departed this mortal life in the latter end of sixteen hundred and one; under which year you may see more of him among the writers. In the said See succeeded Dr. Rob. Bennet sometimes of Trin. coll. in Cambridge, Son of Leonard Bennet of Baldock in Hertfordshire, who was consecrated thereunto 20. Feb. 1602-03. By his last (i)(i) Ibid. in reg. Weldon, qu. 122. Will dated 3. Mar. 14. Jac. 1. he bequeathed his body to be buried in the Cath. Ch. of Hereford, and moneys for the erection of a Tomb of white Alabaster, with the picture of a man lying in a white Sheet upon an Altar of other stone, to be compassed about with strong Iron bars, after the example of other Tombs in the Church. Which monument was to be erected (as he saith) in the Church of the Quire, behind the seat of his Wife, and to be of the value of an hundred Marks, with this inscription thereon—Robertus Bennet S. Theol. Professor fidelis christi Minister, qui obiit… die….. an. 16…. He also gave 20 l. to the library of Trin. coll. in Cambridge, and 20 l. towards the building of the New Schools in Oxon. See more of him in the Fasti following, under the year 1572.