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PROVOSTS OF ORIEL.

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VIEW BY bekeblock, 1566. [Facsimile from Hea me.]

VISITOR-THE QUEEN.

PROVOSTS.

1. Brome, Adam de, provost 21 Jan., 1325-6, appointed by the king; sometime one of the clerks in the chancery, rector of Hanworth, Middlesex, 1315, chancellor of Durham 1316, archdeacon of Stow in Lincoln 1319, vicar of St. Mary, Oxford, 1319 ; died 16 June, 1332, buried in his church.

2. Leverton, William de, M.A., provost 27 June, 1332 ; died 21 Nov., 1348.

3. Hawkesworth, William de, M.A., provost, confirmed 20 Dec, 1348; D.D., fellow of Balliol and afterwards of Queen's ; died 8 April, 1349, buried in St. Mary's chancel.

4. Daventre, William de, M.A., provost 1349; rector of Pitchcott, Bucks, 1349-69; died June, 1373.

5. Colyntre, John de, M.A., provost 8 July, 1373; died about 1385.

6. Middleton, John de, D.D., provost, confirmed 26 Feb., 1386-7 ; canon of Hereford ; died 27 June, 1394-

7. Maldon, John de, M.A., provost 3 July, 1394; student in divinity and bachelor of physick ; died in Jan., 1401-2, buried in St. Mary's church in our lady's chapel there.

8. Possell, John, M.A., provost about March, 1401-2; died, Sept., 1414.

( — ) [Rote, John, elected provost and confirmed 17 Nov., 1414, but resigned his claim 14 Feb., 1414-15. ]

9. CorfFe, William, D.D., provost 16 March, 1414-15 ; an orator for the English nation in the council of Constance ; died about Sept., 1417.

( — ) [Garsdale, Richard, elected provost and confirmed 30 Oct., 1417 ; but on appeal was removed arid succeeded by Thomas Leyntwardyn.]

10. Leyntwardyn, Thomas, M.A., provost; chan- cellor of St. Paul's 1401 ; died 1421.

11. Kayle, Henry, M.A., provost 3 Dec, 1421 ; fellow Exeter 1407 ; died about 1422. See Boase, Reg. Coll. Ex. 14.

12. Herry, Nicholas, M.A., provost, confirmed 29 Jan., 1425-6 ; died 1428.

13. Carpenter, John, D.D., provost 1428, re- signed 1435 ; chancellor of the university 1437 and 1443 ; canon of Lincoln 1426, master of St. Anthony's hospital, London, bishop of Worcester 22 March, 1443-4 ; died at Northweek, buried at Westbury, near Bristol, about 1476, where he re- built the college.

14. Lyhert, Walter, M.A., provost 3 June, 1435, re- signed 28 Feb., 1445-6; B.D. (son of a miller at Lanteglos by Fowey, in Cornwall) ; fellow Exeter 1420-5 and of Oriel 1425 ; principal of St. Martin's Hall ; rector of Nettleton, Wilts, 1434-41, bishop of Norwich 1446, until his death at Norwich 17 May, 1472, will dated 14th, buried in his cathedral. See Boase, Reg. Coll. Ex. 16.

15. Halse, John, B.D., provost 24 March, 1445-6, resigned 4 March, 1448-9 ; 2s. John, a judge of common pleas and of the king's bench ; fellow Exeter 1423-7, proctor 1432 ; archdeacon of Nor- folk 1449-59, and of Norwich 1456, canon of St. Paul's 1455, refused the bishopric of Exeter, was dean 1457-9, bishop of Lichfield and Coventry 1459 ; died 30 Dec, 1490. See Boase, Reg. Coll. Ex. 17.

16. Sampson, Henry, M. A., provost 1449; resigned 1475 ; principal of St. Mary Hall 1438.