VENN: M.A. 1540; B.D. 1548; D.D. 1557. Fellow of CLARE, c. 1540. Studied also twelve years at Oxford. R. of Hildersham, Cambs., 1551-6. R. of Duxford St Peter's, 1551. Chancellor of Sarum, 1558. R. of Brixworth, Northants., 1558. Deprived in 1559, for refusing the oath of supremacy. Retired to Flanders; became a Dominican and confessor to the English nuns at Bergen-op-Zoom. Vicargeneral of the English Dominicans, c. 1579. Author, Parlisment of Chryste, 1565. (Cooper, I. 419; D.N.B.; H. G. Harrison.)
He held Swinbrook by right of his Chancellorship of Sarum
Type | Name | Date | Office | Event | Location | Full Record |
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Appt | Heskyns, Thomas | 16/11/1558 | Rector | Institution | Brickelsworthe alias Bryckesworthe/ | View |