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Wells s. His will is in the Prerogative Office, Lon- don 9. I The see was 'vacant nearly three pears.
1584 Thomas Godwin 10, S.T.P., dean of Canterbury, was
26 Eliz. elected loth Aug. 1584, confirmed Sept. i ith, and
consecrated on the 13th of the same month i'. He
died 19th Nov. 1590 at Okingham in Berkshire, in
the 73rd year of his age.
The see was vacant upwards of two years. A license to elect a bishop of Bath and Wells was issued 16th Jan. 1592-3^'^. 1593 John Still, S.T.P., archdeacon of Sudbury, Margaret 35 Eliz. professor of divinity., and master of Trinity college, Cambridge., was elected 3rd Jan. 1592-3 ; obtained the royal assent 7th Feb.^^^ vvas confirmed on the loth of the same month, and consecrated the next dayi"*. The temporalities were restored to him 23rd March^^. He died 26th Feb. 1607-8, and was buried at Wells, aged 6'^'^^. His will is in the Prerogative Office, London 17. 1608 James Montague, S.T.D., deayi of the Chapel Royal, ) Jac. I. was elected 29th March 1608; confirmed i5th April, and consecrated on the 17th of the same month "^. He was translated to Winchester 4th Oct. 1616^9.
I1616 Arthur Lake, S.T.P., dean of Worcester, was elected Jac. I. 17th Oct. 1 61 6, confirmed 6th Dec, and consecrated on the 8th of the same month 20, He died 4th May 1626, and was buried at Wells -'. His will is in the Prerogative Office, London-^.
8 Reg. Berk. i-^ Pat. 35 Eliz. p. 8. m. 30.
^ Darcy 43. '^ Reg.Bancroft.et Ex Epitaph.
I*' He was the father of Fran- 17 Widebank, 33.
cis Godwin bishop of Llandaff, i^ Reg. Bancroft, fol. 68. and
the author of ' De Praesulibus Camd. Annal. Jac. I.
Anglise Commentarius.' '^ Reg. Abbot.
11 Reg. Whitg. fol. 13. 18. 20 Rgg. Abbot, pars i. fol. 78.
12 Pat. 35 Eliz. p. 8. m. 30. and Camd. Annal. Jac. I.
13 Ibid. 21 Reg. Abbot. '* Reg. Whitg. pars 2. fol. 13. 22 Skinner, 99.
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