¹ Hougham (Lincs.).

² Doubtless the Thomas Topliff, Lincoln dioc., who obtained a papal dispensation in 7 Julius II (1509–1510) permitting his ordination despite a defect of his left eye; CPL, XIX, no. 2067 (rubricella of lost letter).

³ Cranham (Essex).

⁴ = Appendix 4. 29.

⁵ Not the John Taylor, DCnL (of Oxford University), rector of Shottesbrook (Berks.) and of Bishop's Hatfield (Herts.) by 1504, and canon of Lichfield, commissioned as a papal judge delegate on 5 January 1512 and again on 30 April 1516: CPL, XVIII, no. 381; XIX, no. 856; XX, no. 745; (also BRUO, 1501–1540, 559–560).

⁶ Probably not the William Williamson, BCnL (possibly of Cambridge University) and vicar of Cratfield (Suff.) by 1504, in CPL, XVIII, no. 305 (cf. BRUC, 641).

⁷ = Appendix 4. 32.

⁸ Probably not the John Harrys, St David's dioc., who obtained a papal dispensation in 6 Julius II (1508–1509) to hold a plurality of incompatible benefices (CPL, XIX, no. 1819).

⁹ Missenden Abbey (Bucks.), OSA.

¹⁰ = Appendix 4. 33.

¹¹ = Appendix 4. 30.

¹² Wanborough (Wilts.).

¹³ Arbury Priory (Warwicks.), OSA.

¹⁴ Perhaps the John ap [patronymic omitted], St David's dioc., who obtained a papal dispensation in 6 Julius II (1508–1509) to hold a plurality of incompatible benefices (CPL, XIX, no. 1820).

¹⁵ Possibly the John Symson, cantarist at the altar of Holy Cross, St Anne, and St Anthony, York Minster, who obtained a papal dispensation on 18 April 1507 to hold three incompatible benefices; CPL, XVIII, no. 828.

¹⁶ Knaresborough (W. Yorks.).

¹⁷ Perhaps the John Robinson, BCnL, rector of Eastham (Worcs.), Hereford dioc., who had been granted a papal dispensation under Alexander VI (1492–1503) to hold an additional incompatible benefice, by virtue of which he obtained the vicarage of Overbury (Worcs.), Worcester dioc., and was granted a further papal dispensation on 19 November 1508 to hold a third incompatible benefice (CPL, XIX, no. 121). Possibly the same John Robynson, Durham dioc., who was fellow of Balliol College, Oxford, in 1497, and still in 1511; BA of Oxford University in 1497 and BCL by 1504; and ordained as priest on 25 March 1497 (BRUO, III. 1581).

¹⁸ Marcross (Glamorg.).

¹⁹ Doubtless the John ap Ieuan, BCnL, Llandaff dioc., perpetual vicar of St Mary's par. ch., Cardiff (Cardmia), Llandaff dioc., who obtained a papal dispensation on 10 December 1511 to receive an additional incompatible benefice and be absent from any of his benefices while resident in another or the Roman curia or studying at a university; CPL, XIX, no. 662. Perhaps the John ap Ieuan, Llandaff dioc., who obtained a papal dispensation in 5 Leo X (1517–1518) to hold a plurality of incompatible benefices, and received a papal commission in 8 Leo X (1520–1521) by virtue of an appeal to Rome; CPL, XX, nos 1139, 1424 (rubricelle of lost letters). A John Johnson was BCnL of Cambridge University by 1510–1511 and DCnL by 1513–1514 (Venn, II. 478). Not the John Jevan, St David's dioc., who was BCn & CL of Oxford University by 1476 and held a canonry of Abergwili (Carmarth.) from 1480 (BRUO, II. 1016).

²⁰ Longstock (Hants.).

²¹ = Appendix 4. 37.

²² Probably not the Richard Carter, BCnL, rector of Rodney Stoke (Somerset), Bath and Wells dioc., who obtained a papal dispensation on 3 June 1511 to hold an additional incompatible benefice; nor Richard Carter, Coventry and Lichfield dioc., who obtained a papal dispensation in 3 Leo X (1515–1516) to hold a plurality of incompatible benefices: CPL, XIX, no. 483; XX, no. 975 (rubricella of lost letter).

²³ Layston (Herts.).

²⁴ Doubtless Ralph Sneyd, son of William, of Bradwell Hall (Staffs.), who was BCL of Cambridge University by 1504–1505 and DCL by 1511–1512; Advocate of Doctors’ Commons from 1 December 1514; rector of Tatenhill (Staffs.) in 1528; admitted as canon of Lichfield and prebendary of Bobenhull (Warwicks.) on 28 January 1529, till death; rector of Higham (Leics.), 1535–1553(?); and died before 8 October 1549 according to Fasti, but not before 1553 according to Venn (Venn, IV. 118; Fasti, X. 24).

²⁵ Richard Foxford was admitted as BCL of Oxford University in 1514, incepted as DCL on 2 July 1526, and was DCn & CL by 1531; was collated as canon of St Paul’s, London, on 23 December 1530 and admitted as rector of Harlington (Middlesex) on 5 January 1532, both till death; served as proctor in the Chancellor's Court, Oxford, in 1514 and was admitted to the College of Advocates, London, on 29 October 1526; was chancellor and vicar general of John Stokesley, bishop of London, in 1531; and was dead by August 1533 (BRUO, 1501–1540, 214).

²⁶ Presumably not the Richard Fowler, Lincoln dioc., who obtained a papal dispensation in 1 Leo X (1513–1514) to hold a plurality of incompatible benefices; CPL, XX, no. 781 (rubricella of lost letter).

²⁷ Menheniot (Cornw.).

²⁸ Thomas Mede incepted as MA of Oxford University on 2 July 1509; was fellow from 1503 and rector from 1514 of Exeter College, Oxford, resigning both positions in 1518; was admitted as vicar of Menheniot (Cornw.), presented by Exeter College, on 3 November 1517 and rector of Dolton (Devon) on 19 October 1525, both till death; and was dead by February 1530 (BRUO, 1501–1540, 393). He doubtless obtained his second benefice (Dolton) by virtue of the dispensation above.

²⁹ Evesham (Worcs.).

³⁰ Drewsteignton (Devon).

³¹ John Stevyns, Exeter dioc., incepted as MA of Oxford University on 9 February 1512, supplicating for BTh and DTh on 5 February 1532; was fellow of Oriel College, Oxford, 1509–1521; was ordained as priest on 12 April 1513; held various ecclesiastical benefices, including an Exeter canonry by 1531, and was still rector of Drewsteignton in 1535; and died on 21 March 1560 (BRUO, 1501–1540, 540).

³² Folkton (E. Yorks.).

³³ Wem (Salop.).

³⁴ M. John Dacre, here designated BCnL, was probably a graduate of Oxford University; was still rector of both Folkton and Wem as well as master and rector of Greystoke College (Cumbd.) in 1535, the latter till death; was ordained as priest on 8 March 1533 and admitted as rector of Morpeth (Northd.) in 1532, till death; and was dead by May 1567 (BRUO, 1501–1540, 673). Probably the John Dacre, Carlisle dioc., who obtained a papal dispensation from defect of age in 8 Leo X (1520–1521), amplifying upon an earlier one, to hold a plurality of incompatible benefices; CPL, XX, no. 1528 (rubricella of lost letter).

³⁵ Merton Priory (Surrey), OSA.

³⁶ = Appendix 4. 38 (where this is dated 12 December 1525).

³⁷ Not the Thomas Hunter, canon of Dunkeld, commissioned as papal judge delegate before February 1506; CPL, XVIII, nos 548, 885.

³⁸ Probably not the William Johnson, Lincoln dioc., who obtained a dispensation in 5 Julius II (1507–1508) to hold a plurality of incompatible benefices; CPL, XIX, no. 1735 (rubricella of lost letter).

³⁹ Probably not the John Morris, vicar of Castle Cary (Somerset) in 1516 (CPL, XX, no. 636).

⁴⁰ The master and confraternity of SS. Christopher and George, York, obtained a papal grant on 1 October 1512 at the request of Christopher Bainbridge, Archbishop of York and cardinal priest of Santa Prassede, which amplified on previous papal grants to have a portable altar by licensing them to have masses celebrated at it before day-break and granted the confraternity's members who visited the chapels of SS. Christopher and George in York or three altars in churches outside York on the feasts and octaves of those saints, the BVM, Easter and Pentecost the same indulgence that they would have gained by visiting Rome (CPL, XIX, no. 714).

⁴¹ John Chambre occurs as Master of St Anthony's Hospital, London, in 1521–1522, and Anthony Baker in 1541. The hospital was founded in 1254 by brothers of St Anthony of Vienne to care for twelve poor men and the sick; VCH (London), 581–584.

⁴² See also 88 below and Appendix 4. 44.

⁴³ William Bowerman, clerk of Exeter dioc., was BCL of Oxford University by 1511; was ordained as priest on 20 December 1511; held numerous ecclesiastical benefices, including a Wells canonry by March 1523 and sub-deanery of Wells by March 1534, still in April 1554; was a notary public and appointed as registrar of Bath and Wells dioc. on 20 April 1515, still in January 1522; he also served as deputy of the vicar-general of Bath and Wells dioc. (along with Robert Bysse above) in April 1528, still in April 1529, and commissary of the same in December 1533; and was dead by February 1572 (BRUO, 1501–1540, 63–4; Reg. Clerke ed., nos 2, 4, 46, 103, 139, 307, 334, 353, 389, 425, 470, 665). Probably the William Bowerman, Bath and Wells dioc., who secured a papal dispensation in 7 Julius II (1509–1510) to hold a plurality of incompatible benefices; CPL, XIX, no. 2239 (rubricella of lost letter).

⁴⁴ Trull (Somerset).

⁴⁵ Coln St Aldwyn (Gloucs.).

⁴⁶ Monks Eleigh (Suff.).

⁴⁷ Thomas Mosgroff, Coventry and Lichfield dioc., was fellow, 1511–1524, and sub-warden in 1521, still in 1524, of Merton College, Oxford; incepted as MA of Oxford University on 20 February 1514 and was admitted as DM on 23 March 1523 and BTh on 4 August 1524; was lecturer in astronomy at Merton College in February 1517 and Cardinal Wolsey reader in medicine at Corpus Christi College, Oxford, in 1523 and 1524, attending as physician on Edward Stafford, duke of Buckingham, in 1519; was admitted as rector of Monks Eleigh on 23 August 1524, vicar of Coln St Aldwyn on 12 July 1524, rector of Stisted (Essex) on 6 January 1526, and vicar of Braintree (Essex) on 19 January 1527, holding the latter three benefices till death; and was dead by September 1527 (BRUO, 1501–1540, 406–407). He perhaps obtained Stisted by virtue of this union.

⁴⁸ Earl's Colne Priory (Essex), OSB.

⁴⁹ Despite this grant Robert Abell was Prior of Earl's Colne from June 1526 till its dissolution in June 1536 (Heads of Religious Houses, III. 107).

⁵⁰ Perhaps the John Smyth, clerk or layman, possibly of Canterbury dioc., whom Joan Gere, laywoman, possibly also of Canterbury dioc., claimed as her husband in litigation before various auditors of causes of the archbishop of Canterbury, one of whom tried to enforce the supposed marriage; John appealed against his judgement to the papal curia, which commissioned papal judges delegate on 11 July 1509 to decide the case; CPL, XIX, no. 251.

⁵¹ Probably not Thomas Longe, Salisbury dioc., rector of Malmesbury (Wilts.) by 1504–1505 and perpetual vicar of an unspecified parish by 1507–8, who obtained various papal dispensations under Julius II (1503–1512); CPL, XIX, nos 1136,1598, 1860 (rubricelle of lost letters).

⁵² Probably not the Thomas Payn, Canterbury dioc., who obtained a papal dispensation to hold a plurality of incompatible benefices in 1 Leo X (1513–14); CPL, XX, no. 861.

⁵³ Not the Henry Horneby, clerk, DTh of Cambridge University; master of Peterhouse, Cambridge; secretary of Lady Margaret Beaufort and one of her executors who petitioned for papal approval to refound St John's Hospital as St John's College, Cambridge, granted on 24 June 1510; and who died in 1518 (CPL, XVIII, nos 55, 63; BRUC, 313–314).

⁵⁴ Mablethorpe (Lincs.).

⁵⁵ Settrington (E. Yorks.).

⁵⁶ M. Ralph Bulmer was rector of Settrington in 1525–1526, still in 1535, and probably a graduate of Oxford University (BRUO, 1501–1540, 666).

⁵⁷ St Abel the Martyr par. ch., Machen (Monmouth.).

⁵⁸ On 10 September 1505 a bull of Julius II similarly authorized Thomas Warner, BCL, to unite his prebend of Warthacwm (Monmouth.), Llandaff dioc., with his parish church of Wytham (Berks.), Salisbury dioc. (CPL, XVIII, no. 512). Roger Gruffudd was prebendary of Warthacwm and canon of Llandaff by 1535 (Fasti, XI. 30). Probably the Roger ap Gryffyth, rector of Machen, Llandaff dioc., who obtained a papal dispensation on 25 June 1511 to hold an additional incompatible benefice (CPL, XIX, no. 570), and hence likely to be the beneficiary of the union authorized by Cardinal Wolsey above.

⁵⁹ Batcombe (Somerset).

⁶⁰ = Appendix 4. 44. See also 67 above.

⁶¹ Possibly Rose Ash or Ashreigney (both Devon).

⁶² Ayot St Peter (Herts.).

⁶³ Banbury (Oxon.).

⁶⁴ Probably Lowesby (Leics.).

⁶⁵ Possibly the same as James Smythe alias Lyne in Appendix 4. 41.

⁶⁶ Lewes Priory (E. Sussex), OSB (Cluniac).