Comment | Byrton, who was at Didmarton when he wrote his resignation, gave the following reason: 'I have lately received a dangerous fall from of my horse & am thereby discouraged to goe on with ye fatigue of ye School...'; he also sent the Chancellor of the Diocese his licence by the same bearer as the letter, Mr. Pearce (his successor, Edwardus Pearce, as the continuation of the letter makes clear). Byrton has resigned 'all my right & Tithe to ye aforesaid Schoole into ye hands of Mr Smyth, ye patron thereof'. |