Foster gives: BA (disp. 2 Mar.) 1518/19; BISHOP OF GLOUCESTER 1550-54 and of WORCESTER 1552-3; burned to death at Gloucester [Foster gives wrong date as 9 Feb. 1553/4, when it was 9 Feb. 1555.] See Ath. i, 222; Lansdowne MS 980.ff 171, 173, 175 & DNB
Numerous other sources. Fasti gives presented to see of Gloucester by king [Ed. VI], no election 1550; consecrated, and enthroned (proxy)in 1551; 1552 king presented both sees - Gloucester amalgamated with Worcester to Hooper 1552. Deprived by commission of Mary I - of Worcester as predecessor wrongly deprived and of Gloucester as married.
Belived to have held sinecure of rectory Liddington, Wilts prior to becoming bishop and is probably John Hop rector 1550
Type | Name | Date | Office | Event | Location | Full Record |
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Libc | Hop, Johannes | 14/07/1550 | Rector | Ludyngton/ | View |