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Coventry and Lichfield. A congé d'élire issued 7th Marcli 1618—19[1], in pursuance of which
1619 17 Jac. I. John Bridgeman, S.T.P., was elected 15th March 1618-19, confirmed in the church of St. Benet Paul's Wharf, London, 7th May, and was consecrated at Lambeth on the 9th of the same month[2]. He received the temporalities 28th May[3]. He died in 1652[4]
1660 12 Car. II. Brian Walton, S.T.P., was consecrated in Westminster Abbey 2nd Dec. 1660[5]. He died 29th Nov. 1661, and was buried 5th Dec. following in St. Paul's ca- thedral[6].
1662 14 Car. II. Henry Ferne, S.T.P., master of Trinity college, Cambridge, and dean of Ely, was consecrated in Feb. 1661-2, but sat only about five weeks. He died 16th March 1 66 1-2, set. 59, and was buried in St. Edmund's chapel in Westminster Abbey[7].
1662 14 Car. II. George Hall, S.T.P., archdeacon of Canterbury[8] was consecrated 11th May 1662. He died 23rd Aug. 1668, and was buried at Wigan in Lancashire.
1668 20 Car. II. John Wilkins, S.T.P., was consecrated at Ely-house in Holborn 15th Nov. 1668[9]. He died 19th Nov. 1672, and was buried 12th Dec. in the church of St.Lawrence
Jewry, London.
- ↑ 28 Pat. 16 Jac. I. p. 25 m. i
- ↑ Reg. Abbot. II. f. 7.
- ↑ Pat. 17 Jac. I. p. 13. Reg. Abbot. m. 2.
- ↑ He was compelled to retire from his palace on account of the times, and found an asylum at Moreton, in Shropshire, the seat of his son Orlando, then a rising lawyer, (and who subsequently filled the highest office in the law.) There he died in 1652, and was buried in the chancel of Kinnersley church. A bluish slab covers his grave with this dateless inscription : "Hic jacet sepultus Johannes Bridgeman, episcopus Cestriensis." His great grandson, sir John Bridgeman, bart, in 1719, placed another dateless memorial over his ashes. (A communication from the Rev. Dr. Oliver of Exeter.)
- ↑ Reg. Ebor.
- ↑ Ex Epitaphio.
- ↑ Ibid.
- ↑ He had a dispensation dated 24th Oct. 1662 to hold this arch-deaconry in commendam.
- ↑ London Gazette.
