Babthorpe, Robert (1544-1571)

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VENN: BA 1521/2; MA 1525 as Babshot; BD 1532/3; DD 1539. Son of William of Babthorpe. On 'Caput'** 1539-40 and otherwise employed on university business; fellow ST JOHN'S Cambridge 1524; one of these names at King's Hall 1534-44; R of Kirk Deighton, Yorkshire 1537 (?)-70; prebendary of York 1544; sub dean 1548-70; died 1570 (Vis. of Yorks 1584).

** could mean he was present on the family estate at Osgodby (where he was born).

He came from a landowning Yorkshire family of zealous Roman Catholics; they remained papists and were many times fined and punished which lead to them having to give up their lands early in C17. Robert however swore the Oath of Supremacy in 1559. Various internet sites give small glimpses of his history - e.g that he appears to have been a Benedictine monk; prebendary at Beverly Minister before its dissolution holding a chantry certificate.

The Ashwell entries in Rutland appear to fit - patron of living (Palmer) was closely connected in Yorkshire with William Babthorpe, Robert's father, who presented him to Ashwell in 1529 - Archdeacon Iron's Notes (www.rutlandhistory.org/irons/dft/dft-ashwell.pdf) have entries for Robert Babthorpe at Ashwell between 1562 and his death in 1570/1 remarking that he was non resident the whole of the time he was beneficed there.

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