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Venn: son of Roger of Shrigley, Cheshire; of Lichfield diocese; BA 1511/12; MA 1515; BD 1521; DD 1526; fellow of JESUS 1512; University preacher 1520; ord. deacon (Ely) 20 Oct. 1516; priest 20 Dec. 1516; prebendary of York 1532; prebendary of Southwell 1535; chancellor of York 1537-60; died July 1561; will (Dean and Chapter of York) 1561; from will of James Downes of Wickham Breux, Kent 1529 'Mr Geoffrey Downes of Jesus College to pray for my soul and the soul of Mr Geoffrey Downes'; Cooper I, 210; A. Gray; Wood's Fasti I, 190.
See "Prebendaries deprived under Queen Elizabeth" by John Wainewright, in Ampleforth Journal 17:2 (1912) (www.monlib.org.uk/paper/aj/aj1912prebendaries.pdf - accessed 12 Dec. 2106 )- which states "Prebendary of Gloucester (Morton) deprived of all his offices in 1561 and died soon after". Prebend of Moreton and Whaddon was a prebend of Hereford not Gloucester although located in Gloucestershire.