CommentOrdained by Archbishop of Canterbury's dispensation:
'per litteras dispensaconis Rni. Patris dni Thome Cant. archiep. dimiss' et ad sacros ordines adispiscend licentiat'
in or before 1542.
Diocese was founded autumn 1541. Next ordination date is September 1542 and this is presumably Easter 1542 ordinations (Easter Sunday was 9 April in 1542).
Entry now lost in original manuscript: taken from transcript by W. Fergusson Irvine in Miscellanies relatiing to Lancashire and Cheshire: Volume the Fourth, Lancashire and Cheshire Record Society, vol. 43 (1902) |