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YORK.


A congé d'élire, vice Robert Holgate, issued 19th Feb. 1554-5[1]; in pursuance of which

1555
1&2 P.& M. NICHOLAS HEATH, bishop of Worcester and chancellor of England, was chosen, and as elect of York had a grant of the custody of the temporalities 26th March 1555[2], and plenary restitution of them 17th Nov. following[3]. He had in the meanwhile obtained the Pope's bull of confirmation [4]. He was deprived in the beginning of the reign of queen Elizabeth [5]. The license to elect an archbishop in the room of Nicholas Heath is dated 25th July 1560[6]; by authority of which

WILLIAM MAY, LL.D., dean of St. Paul's, was elected, but he died 8th Aug. 1560, before he had received consecration [7], and

1561
3 Eliz. THOMAS YOUNG, bishop of St. David's, was elected in his stead 27th Jan. 1560-61, and confirmed 25th Feb. The temporalities were restored to him 4th March[8]. He died at Sheffield 26th June 1568, and was buried in York cathedral[9]. It was not until 1st April 1570, that the royal license issued to elect a successor to archbishop Young[10], in conformity with which,

1570
12 Eliz.

EDMUND GRINDAL, bishop of London and principal of

Pembroke hall, Cambridge, was elected archbishop of

    1555, was proved 4th Dec. 1556. Lib. Kitchin in Cur. Prerog. Cantuar.

  1. ↑ Pat. 1 & 2 Phil. & Mar. p. 1. m. 13.
  2. ↑ Ibid. m. 12.
  3. ↑ Ibid. m. 34.
  4. ↑ Dated xi Cal. Jul. (21st June) 1555 He received his pall 3rd Oct. following, and was enthroned by proxy 22nd Jan. 1555-6.
  5. ↑ The spiritualities of this archbishopric, on the deprivation of Heath, were taken into the hands of the chapter of York 3rd Feb. 1560. Nicholas Heath died at Chobham in 1579, and was buried there, but no memorial of him appears to have been there erected.
  6. ↑ Pat. 2 Eliz. p. 14. m. 6.
  7. ↑ Reg. Ebor. He is said to have been elected 8th Aug.—the day of his death.
  8. ↑ Pat. 3 Eliz. p. 9. m. 34.
  9. ↑ Ex Epitaphio.
  10. ↑ Pat. 12 Eliz. p. 7. m. 18.
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