70 WORCESTKK. He received the royal assent on the 14th, was confirmed on the 1 8th, and the temporalities were restored to him on the 20th of the same month "^. His Lordship is the present holder of the see. This bishopric is rated for first fruits at 944/. 1 75. ()d. The arms of the see are thus blazoned : Argent, ten torteauxes. D E A N S. The charter of foundation of this deanery by king Henry the Eighth bears date 24th Jan. 154 1—2. Henuy Holbeach, alias Raxds, the last prior, was constituted the first dean by the charter, dated as above ; and in 1544 he was made bishop of Ro- chester"^. John Barlow, A.M., was installed 20th June 1544, and deprived in Feb. 1553. Philip Hawfoud alias Ballard, last abbot o/Ecesham, was collated ist March 1553-4, and died in 1557. Seth Holland, A.M., warden of All Souls, Oxford, was installed 12th Aug. 1557, and deprived in Oct. John Peddek, S.T.13., had the Queen's patent for this deanery, dated ist Jan. 1559-60. He died 5th April 1571H1. Thomas Wilson, S.T.B., succeeded 4th May 157 1. Ho died loth July 1586, and was buried in the ca- thedral" - '8 Church Book, Home Office, lated to Rochester in 1544. "'•* He was consccrHted bisliop ** H^K- Wigorn. of Bristol, surt'ragan to Worccs- **^ Uymer, vol. xv. p. 563, ter, 24th March i.')37-8, (Reg. Reg. Wigorn. Cranmer, fol. 215.) and trans- '^'^ Ex Epitaphio.
