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loth April 16026. The conge d'elire, vice bishop Westfahng, issued 7th Jan. 16023.
1603 Robert Bennet, S.T.D., dean of Windsor^ was nomi- I Jac. I. nated by the Queen 7th Jan, 1602-3, and elected on the 15th of the same month. He received the royal assent 7th Feb. 1602-3^, ^^^ confirmed on the 19th of the same month, and consecrated the next day at Lambeth^. The temporalities were restored to him [4th May following i^'. He died 20th Oct. 161 7, and was buried in Hereford cathedral". His will is in the Prerogative Office of Canterbury i'*. The license to elect a bishop in the room of Robert Bennet is dated 8th Nov. 16171-^.
1 617 Francis Godwin, bishop ofLlandaff^ was translated to IS Jac. I. Hereford by the King's desire loth Nov.^^ jJe was elected 13th Nov., and received the royal assent 24th Nov. 16171^., and the archbishop's confirmation the 28th of the same month 1^. The temporalities were restored to him 20th Dec.i^ He died in April 1633, and was buried in the parish church of Whitbourne on the 29th of that monthly. The license to elect a bishop in the room of Francis Godwin is dated 23rd Sept. 1 633 IS William Juxon, LL.D., dean of Worcester^ was elected bishop of Hereford, and obtained the royal assent 3rd Oct., and restitution of the temporalities 7th Nov.^^ ; but before consecration he was translated to London, upon which Godfrey Goodman, bishop of Gloucester^ was elected to the see of Hereford ; but he refused it, and
��6 Montague, 12, ^^ Camdeni Annales ab anno
7 Pat. 45 Eliz. p. 4. 1603 ad ann. 1625.
8 Ibid. p. 8. 14 Pat. 15 Jac. I. p. 25. No. 5.
9 Reg. Whitg. par. iii. fol. 65. ^^ Reg. Abbot, fol. 106.
10 Pat. I Jac. I. p. 8. 16 Pat. 15 Jac. I. p. 25. N. 4.
11 Ex Epitaph, et Reg. Abbot. 17 Parish Reg. of "Whitbourne. 11* Welden, 122. 18 Pat. 9 Car. I. p. 14. N^. i.
12 Pat. 15 Jac. I. p. 25. No. 6. ! Ibid. N"". 2, i.
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