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 came home in a salt-laden ship of twenty tons' burden.

At some time soon after 1488 (he was sheriff of Cornwall in 1489) Nanfan, as Cavendish says, ‘had a great room in Calais.’ Though some have said that he was only treasurer there, it seems certain that he was deputy (Letters … of Richard III and Henry VII, Rolls Ser. i. 231). He is mentioned as being at Calais in 1492, and in 1500 was one of the witnesses at a treasonable conversation of Sir Hugh Conway, the treasurer, of which John Flamank sent home an account. At Calais he was an early patron of Wolsey, who was his chaplain, and who through Nanfan became known to the king. He returned to Birtsmorton early in the sixteenth century, and died in January 1506–7. Wolsey was one of his executors. His widow Margaret died in 1510. He left no legitimate children; but a natural son, John, who went to Spain with him, took his Worcestershire estates.

His great-great-grandson, John Nanfan (fl. 1634), was grandfather of Captain John Nanfan (d. 1716) of Birtsmorton, Worcestershire, who was captain in Sir John Jacob's regiment of foot, and sailed in 1697 for New York, where, by the influence of the governor, Richard Coote, earl of Bellamont [q. v.], who had married Nanfan's cousin Catherine, he was made lieutenant-governor. On Bellamont's death in 1700 the government of New York devolved upon Nanfan till the arrival of Lord Cornbury in 1702. In 1705 Nanfan returned to England; he died at Greenwich in 1716, and was buried at St. Mary Abchurch, London. His wife was Elizabeth, daughter of William Chester of Barbados (, Chesters of Chicheley, pp. 172–3;, Worcestershire, i. 86, &c.; , Peerage, ed. Archdall, s.v. ‘Bellamont;’ , Hist. of America, v. 195; , New York, p. 84; Rawl. MS. in Bodl. Libr. A. 272, 289).

[Notes and Queries, 2nd ser. viii. 228, 294, 357, 5th ser. viii. 472, ix. 129; Letters … of Richard III and Henry VII, ed. Gairdner (Rolls Ser.), i. 231, 238, ii. 292, 380; Nash's Worcestershire, i. 86; Cavendish's Life of Wolsey, ed. Holmes, p. 7; Chron. of Calais (Camd. Soc.), xl. 50; Memorials of Henry VII, ed. Gairdner (Rolls Ser.), passim; Materials for the Hist. of Hen. VII, ed. Campbell (Rolls Ser.), i. 25, 38, 313, ii. 87, &c.; Maclean's Hist. of Trigg Minor, passim.]  NANGLE, RICHARD (d. 1541?), bishop of Clonfert, came of an old Irish family settled in Mayo and Galway, and early entered the order of the Austin Friars, from whom he received his education. He was subsequently created doctor of divinity, and became provincial of his order in Ireland. In 1508 his earnest solicitations led to the foundation of the Augustinian friary at Galway (, Hist. of Galway, p. 272). On the death of Denis More, bishop of Clonfert, in 1534, Rowland Burke was appointed his successor by papal provision; but Henry VIII, who had determined to assert his right as head of the church in Ireland, in 1536 appointed Nangle, who was recommended to him by Archbishop Browne as being ‘not only well learned, but a right honest man, and one will set forth the Word of God in the Irish tongue.’ Nangle, however, was expelled from the see, and forced to remain shut up in Galway ‘for fear of Burgh and his complices’ (, Letters and Papers of Henry VIII, i. 1052; Carew MSS.) Henry therefore directed the deputy, Lord Grey, to prosecute the intruder under the Statute of Provisors; but nothing was done, and Burke remained in possession of the see. Nangle died apparently in 1541, and Burke received Henry's assent to his election on 24 Oct. of the same year.

[Cal. State Papers, Ireland, 1509–73; Carew MSS. 1515–74; Letters and Papers of Henry VIII, ed. Gairdner, XII. i. 1052, XIII. i. 114, 1450; Lascelles's Liber Munerum, ii. 83; Ware's Ireland, i. 642; Mant's Church of Ireland, i. 153; Brady's Episcopal Succession, iii. 212; Cotton's Fasti, iv. 165–6; Froude's Hist. of England, iii. 425; Ruddiman's Galway, p. 272.]  NANMOR, DAFYDD (fl. 1400), Welsh bard, was a native of Nanmor, a valley near Beddgelert. From a poem by Rhys Goch Eryri (Gorchestion Beirdd Cymru, 2nd edit. p. 126) it appears he was a contemporary and neighbour of that poet, though possibly, as his successful rival in love, somewhat younger. Tradition has it that Rhys Goch gave Nanmor out of his estate of Hafod Garegog the holding subsequently known as Cae Ddafydd. His later years seem to have been spent in South Wales, where he sang in honour of the house of Gogerddan (Cardiganshire), and, according to one (not very trustworthy) account, won distinction at an Eisteddfod, said to have been at Carmarthen about 1443 (Cyfrinach y Beirdd, pp. 239, 240).

The poet (fl. 1440) of Maenor Fynyw, Pembrokeshire, is generally believed to have been his son (Iolo MSS. 315), though Lewis Dwnn gives a different parentage (Heraldic Visitations of Wales, ii. 284). Rhys had again a son who was a poet, and bore the name of Dafydd Nanmor (fl. 1480), and much confusion has naturally arisen from this duplication of the title. 