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1497 Richard Fits-James, warden of Merton college, Ox- 12II.VII. ford, obtained 17th May 1497 the same permission of receiving consecration out of the church of Can- terbury ". He was translated to Chichester in 1504 s8 .
1504 Jonx Fishi.h, S.T. P., mathr of Queens' college, Oam- ioii.vn. bridge, was promoted to this see by bull, dated 14th Oct. 1504. He obtained a license 22nd Nov. 1504 to be consecrated elsewhere than at Canterbury , and was consecrated 25th Nov. Ho was deprived of his bishopric for refusing to acknowledge the King's su- premacy in Jan. 1534 5j but was created a cardinal 21st May following, lie was beheaded 22nd June in that year, and buried in the churchyard of All-IIal- lows, Harking.
1535 John Hilskt, S.T. P. , prior of the Dominicans or Black 17 H. VIII. Friars, having been elected and confirmed, was conse- crated 1 8th Sept. 1535 61 , and the temporalities were restored to him 4th Oct. 1535 ,: . He died in 1538. A royal license to elect a bishop in the room of John Hilsey issued 26th March 1540 63 ; in pursuance of which,
1540 Nicholas Heath, S.T. P., archdeacon of Stafford, was 31II.VIII. elected 26th March 1540, and obtained the royal as- sent on the 31st of the same month 64 . He was con- firmed 3rd April, and the next day consecrated at St. Paul's cathedral. London 6 '; on the 14th of that month the temporalities were restored to him 66 . On 22nd Dec. 1543 he was elected to Worcester 6 ', and thence
��57 Reg. Cantuar. Lambeth Register.
58 The spiritualities of this see 62 Pat. 27 Hen. VIII. p. 1. m.8. were given over to the archbishop 63 Pat. 31 Hen. VIII, p. 7. m.5. of Canterbury 20th Feb. 1503-4. 64 Ibid.
59 Reg. Wareham, fol. 9. 65 Reg. Cranm. ff. 255 et 259. 6 <> Reg. Cantuar. Reg. Fish. f. 66 Ibid. See also Pat. 35 Hen.
40. VIII. p. 13. m. 16. relative to the
61 Reg. Fisher, fol. 183. His restitution of the temporalities, consecration is not entered in the 67 Reg. Cranm. f. 287.
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