temporalities restored to him 29th April[1]. He sat about twenty years[2], and then was sentenced to death for maintaining the protestant faith. The order for the warrant to be made out for his execution was dated 24th Feb. 1555-6, and signed by the Queen's own hand[3]; and he was accordingly burnt at Oxford 21st March following.
1556
3 P.& M.Reginald Pole, a Roman cardinal and legate a latere, was preferred by the Pope[4], and consecrated 22nd March 1555-6[5], having received the temporalities the day before[6]. He received his pall in Bow church the 25th, and was enthroned by proxy the 31st of the same month[7]. He died 17th Nov. 1558, ætat. 58, and was buried in his own cathedral[8]. The license to elect an archbishop on the death of cardinal Pole is dated 18th July 1559[9].
1559
? ElizMatthew Parker, S. T. P. was elected 1st Aug. 1559, obtained the Queen's assent 9th Sept[10], and again 6th Dec.[11] He was confirmed in Bow church 9th Dec, and consecrated on the i7th[12] of the same month; he had the temporalities delivered to him 2ist March following[13]. He died 17th May 1575,
- ↑ Pat.24Hen.VIII. p. 2. m. 15.
- ↑ He was committed to the Tower 15th Sept. 1553, and 3rd Nov. condemned for læse majesty.
- ↑ Pat. 2 & 3 Phil. & Mar. p. 2. m. 18. in dorso.
- ↑ By bull dated iii Id. Dec. (11thDec.) 1555. Reg. Pol. fol. i.
- ↑ Ibid. fol. 3.
- ↑ Pat. 2&3 Phil.&Mar. p. 1. m. 30.
- ↑ He was elected chancellor of the university of Oxford 6th Nov. 1556. Reg. Pol. fol. 22 a.
- ↑ His epitaph was only " Depositum cardinalis Poli."
- ↑ Pat. I Eliz. p. 6. m. I.
- ↑ Pat. 1 Eliz. p. 2. m. 1.
- ↑ Pat. 2 Eliz. p. 14. m. 6.
- ↑ Rituum et ceremoniarum ordo in consecratione reverendissimi domini Matthei Parker, archiepiscopi Cantuar. in capella infra manerium suum de Larabehith die Dominico 17o die mensis Decembris anno mdlix. Reg. Park. fol. 10.
- ↑ Pat. 2 Eliz. p. 14. m. 6.
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