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��COVENTRY AND LICHFIELD.

��was buried in the parish church there. The license to elect a bishop in the room of Richard Sampson issued 25th Oct. 1554'''; in pursuance of which

1554 Ralph Baynk or Raines, S.T.I'., was elected, and ob- iPh.LVMar. taiucd tlio royal assent to his election 10th Nov. 1554^^; on the iHtii of which month he was conse- crated "J, and the temporalities were restored to him 6th 1)00.""' He was deprived in Juno 1559, on the 24th of which month the fc;piritualities were seized into the hands of the dean and chapter of Canter- bury*^^. He died 18th Nov. in that year, at Isling- ton, and was buried in the churcli of St. Dunstan, London'^''. On the deprivation of Ralph Rayne, a conge d'elire issued 27th Dec. 1559 ^7> and

1560 Thomas Rentham, A.M., was elected 15th Jan.

2 Eliz. 155960'^, and obtained the royal assent 20th Feb. following-'. Ho was confirmed 23rd March, and con- secrated the next day -'^'. The temporalities were re- stored to him 6th July'". Ho died at Eccleshall in Staffordshire 21st Feb. 1578-9, and was buried in the chancel of the church there.

1580 William Oveiiton-, S.T.P., was elected loth Sept.

22 Eliz. 1,580, confirmed on the i6th, consecrated on the iSth of that month '>-, and installed uth Nov.^J He died in the beginning of April 1609^^, and was bu- ried at Eccleshall.

1609 George Abbot, S.T.P., dean of Winchester, was elected

7 Jac. I. 27th May 1609, confirmed and Dec, consecrated the

��81 Pat. I & 2 Phil. & Mar. p.i. m. 25.

^2 Ibid.

^"^ He was consecrated during the imprisonment of Cranmer.

8^ Pat. i&2Phil.& Mar. p. I. m. 25.


 * ' Reg. Cantuar.

^ Stow's Survey.

87 Pat. 2 Eliz. p. II. ra.8.

88 Bishops' Certificates.

^ Pat. 2 Eliz. p. II. m.8.

��^ Reg. Parker. I. p. 69.

91 Pat. 2 Ehz. p. II. ni.4.

92 Reg. Grindal. fol. 64. Ath. Oxon.

93 Bishops' Certificates.

9-1 Some say 9th April. In the chancel of the church of Eccleshall is a tomb bearing his effigies at full length in an epi- scopal habit, with an inscription under him.

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