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Venn: Matric. sizar from Michael House, Michs. 1546; Scholar, 1548; B.A. from Trinity, 1550-1; M.A. 1554. Fellow of Trinity, 1552. LL.D. (from some foreign university). Ord. deacon (Ely) July 7, 1560. V. of Minster, Isle of Thanet, 1557. Archdeacon of Suffolk, 1559-75. R. of Witnesham, Suffolk, 1560-77. Canon of Norwich, 1561-70, ejected for not being in orders. Adm. advocate of the Court of Arches, Oct. 4, 1567. Went to Louvain, c. 1575 and ultimately to Rome. Occurs in a list of fugitives for religion, Jan. 20, 1576-7. Ord. (R.C.) 1578; 'Lincolniensis.' (Cooper, I. 384.)