Men of Kent and Kentishmen/Edward Lee
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Edward Lee,
ARCHBISHOP OF YORK,
Was a native of Lee Magna, where he was born in 1422. He was educated first at Oxford, then at Cambridge. His learning and talents recommended him to Sir Thomas More and the King, Henry VIII., who sent him on several embassies. In 1529 he was made Chancellor of Salisbury, and two years later consecrated Archbishop of York. He died in 1544. He wrote several treatises in defence of the Catholic doctrines against Luther and Erasmus, the Manuscripts of which are preserved in the Harleian and Cottonian Libraries.
[See "Wood's Athenæ Oxon." by Bliss; Moris "Life of More," and "Strype's Cranmer."