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1 55 l 'J I,N ^ ( ,)KY was appointed by the King 26th April Mw.vi. 1551 s1 . pursuant to .statute 1 Edw. VI., and the royal significavit to the archbishop issued the nexi day 84 ; he was consecrated at Croydon 30th Aug. fol- lowing 6 , and on the 23rd of May in the next year he was translated to Chichester 86 . The see was vacant nearly two years, when a conge 1 d'elire issued 19th March 1 553-4 s ~ '; in pursuance of which, 1554 Mat u hi. GaiFFiTH 88 , archdeacon of Rochester, was 1 Mar. elected, and received the royal assent :4th March 1553 4 89 . He was consecrated in St. Saviour's church, Southwark, 1 at Apr. following ' ,and obtained restitution of the temporalities on the [8th of the same month 91 . He died at his house in Southwark 2cth Nov. 1558, and was buried in St. Magnus ohuroh, at London Bridge'. His will, dated ;th <>et. [558, was proved
28th Aug. 1560. The conge d'elire, vice bishop Grif- fith, issued 2~th duly 1 .",59'"; hut it does not seem to have been acted on'", as a second one issued 22nd Jan. 3 following, in pursuance of which, 1560 Edmund Gheast or Gest, S.T.B., archdeacon of 1EK1. Canterbury, was elected 29th Jan. 1559-60; he received the royal assent 21st March'-' 6 , the arch- bishop's confirmation on the 23rd, was consecrated
��henceforth no bishop should hold win calls him Griffin.
any ecclesiastical benefice in com- b ' J Pat. 1 Mar. p. 1. m. 10.
mendam, except John Poynet, <j0 Reg. Cantuar.
elect of Rochester, because he 91 Pat. x Mar. p. 1. in. 21.
did not possess an episcopal pa- '-'- Strype, Memor. Eccl. vol.
lace. Strype, Memor. Eccl. vol. ii. p. 451.
ii. p. 220. 93 Pat. 1 Ehz. p. 6. m. 1.
82 Pat. 5 Edw. VI. p. 1. m. 40. 94 A Mr. Allen is said to have
83 Ibid. m. 38. been nominated to the see in
84 Ibid. I559> but he either died before
85 Reg. Cranm. f. 333. consecration or declined the of-
86 Pat. 6 Edw. VI. p. 1. m. 32. fice. Strype's Parker, p. 63.
87 Pat. 1 Mar. p. 1. m. 24. 95 p a t. 2 Eliz. p. 14. m. 30.
88 Gruffethe in the significavit, 96 Ibid. m. 6. Griffith in the royal assent. God-
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