468 HEREFORD.
tody of the temporalities was granted 8th May 1538 to Hugh Corwen, and the spirituahties were taken into the hands of the archbishop on the same day^3_ His willj dated 8th May 1538, the day on which he died, was proved 20th March following. License to elect a bishop in the room of Edward Fox issued 5th Oct. 1538^^ ; in pursuance of which 1539 Edmund Bonner, LL.D., archdeacon of Leicester, was
30 H. VIII. elected 26th Oct., and obtained the royal assent to his election 27th Nov. 1538 s^. He was confirmed 17th Dec.^^, and had restitution of the temporalities 4th March 1538-9*^7; but he was removed to London be- fore consecration^^. A license to elect another bishop in the room of Edmund Bonner, translated to London, issued J3th Oct. 1539^^. 1539 John Skip, S.T.P., archdeacon of Dorset and Suffolk,
31 H. VIII. was elected 24th Oct. 1539 ; received the royal assent to his election 7th Nov.^^, and the temporalities on the 1 8th 91, He was confirmed on the 20th ^-, conse- crated at Lambeth on the 23rd of the same month, and enthroned 6th Dec. by proxy. He died 30th March 1552, and was buried in the church of St. Mary Mounthaw, London 93. His will, dated i8th March 155 1-2, was proved 9th April 1552. 1553 John Harley was consecrated at Croydon 26th May
7Edw. VI. 155394. but he did not enjoy his dignity long, as he
83 Reg. Cranm. ford, the advowson having been
84 Pat. 30 H. VIII. p. 2. m. 3. purchased by Ralph de Maid-
85 Ibid. stone, bishop of Hereford, about
86 Reg. Cranm. the year 1234. The church was
87 Pat. 30 H.VIII. p. 2. m. 3. burnt in the fire of London in
88 Pat. 31 H.VIII. p. 3. m. 9. 1666, and never rebuilt; and the
89 Ibid. m. 10. ^ Ibid. parish is annexed to the neigh-
91 Ibid. m. 9. bouring one of St. Mary Somer-
92 Reg. Cranm, fol. 254. His set. Maitland Hist, of London, consecration is not entered in fol. 1772, vol. ii. p. 1 142 b. The the Lambeth Registry. bishops of London and Hereford
93 The church of St. Mary now present alternately. Report Mounthaw, or de Monte alto, of the Commissioners, 1835, p. stood on Old Fish-street Hill, 660.
and was exclusively in the pa- 94 Rgg, Cranm. fol. 335. tronage of the bishop of Here-
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