Deans

Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae 1300-1541: Volume 8, Bath and Wells Diocese. Originally published by Institute of Historical Research, London, 1964.

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DEANS

Note: The prebend of Wedmore Prima was attached to the deanery.

Walter de Haselschawe ?-1302.

Occ. 8 Aug. 1299 (CPR. 1292-1301 p. 472). Bp. of Bath and Wells 1302.

M. Henry Husee 1302-?

El. 1302 (Wharton 1 589).

John de Godeley ?-1333.

Occ. 18 Dec. 1305 (CPL. 11 7). D. before 9 Feb. 1333 (Reg. R. de Salopia 1 137).

Richard de Bury or d'Aungerville or de Sancto Edmundo 1333.

Lic. el. sought 9 Feb. 1333 (Reg. R. de Salopia 1 137). Gr. 11 Feb. (ibid.). Adm. by bp. 20 Feb. (ibid.). Bp. of Durham in Oct.

M. Wibert de Lutleton B.C.L. 1334-1335.

M. Robert de Stratford M.A. 1334-1336.

Walter de London 1335-1349.

Robert Mortimer 1337.

El. of Lutleton as dn. notified to bp. 22 Apr. 1334 (Reg. R. de Salopia 1 166). Bp. cited opposers of el. to appear 11 June (ibid. pp. 166-7). Prov. of Stratford to deanery 6 Aug. (CPL. 11 402). Petition by chapt. at Wells to curia on behalf of Lutleton 16 Jan. 1335 (Cal. MSS. D. & C. Wells 1 235). Royal gr. of deanery to London before 20 Jan. (Reg. R. de Salopia 1 183-4). Lutleton d. before 20 Aug. (Cal. MSS. D. & C. Wells 1 236) and Stratford obtained archdcnry of Canterbury 1336 and res. claim to deanery. Profession to bp. by London 14 Oct. 1336 (Reg. R. de Salopia 1 277). Mortimer occ. as dn. 4 June 1337 (CCR. 1337-1339 p. 135). Probably a scribal error since he was then archdcn. of Wells. London occ. as dn. at d., before 25 Jan. 1349 (CPP. 1 145).

M. Thomas Fastolf D.C.L. 1349-1350.

Prov. 25 Jan. 1349 (CPP. 1 145). Res. before 28 May 1350 (ibid. p. 197).

M. John de Carleton D.C.L. 1350-1361.

Prov. 28 May 1350 (CPP. 1 197). D. before 27 Aug. 1361 (Cal. MSS. D. & C. Wells 1 263).

William de Cammel 1361.

M. William de Loughteburgh D.C.L. 1361.

M. Stephen de Pempel D.C.L. 1361-1379.

M. Thomas de Paxton D.C.L. 1362.

Lic. el. gr. 27 Aug. 1361 (Cal. MSS. D. & C. Wells 1 263). K. recommended Loughteburgh as dn. 6 Sept. (ibid. p. 264). Chapt. replied, 28 Sept. that Cammel had already been el. (ibid.). Cammel refused appointment (ibid.) Chapt. convened for el. 13 Oct. (ibid.). El. of Pempel 3 Nov. (ibid.). Request for conf. by bp. 4 Nov. (ibid. p. 265). Paxton prov. before d. of pope Innocent VI, i.e. before 12 Sept. 1362 (CPP. 1 395). Petitioned pope Urban V for conf. of prov. 11 Nov. (ibid.). Did not obtain possession of deanery, Pempel d. as dn. 2 Feb. 1379 (Cal. MSS. D. & C. Wells 1 281).

John de Fordham 1379-1381.

Lic. el. gr. 11 Feb. 1379 (Cal. MSS. D. & C. Wells 1282). El. 22 Feb. (ibid. p. 283). Request for bp's conf. of el. 4 March (ibid. p. 284). Mand. to install 9 March (ibid. p. 287). Bp. of Durham 1381.

M. Thomas Thebaud de Sudbury D.C.L. ?-1396.

Occ. 2 Jan. 1384 (Cal. MSS. D. & C. Wells 1 293). D. before 16 Oct. 1396 (CPR. 1396-1399 p. 34). (fn. 1)

M. Henry Beaufort M.A. 1396-1398.

Royal permission to execute prov. to deanery, 20 Dec. 1396 (CPR. 1396-1399 p. 46). Royal gr. 5 Jan. 1397 (ibid. p. 49). Bp. of Lincoln 1398.

Henry de Minutulis Card. pr. of S. Anastasia. 1398-?

Prov. 27 Feb. 1398 (CPL. v 112).

Nicholas Slake ?-1401.

Thomas Tuttebury 1401-1410.

Thomas de Stanley 1402, 1403.

Slake occ. as dn. 9 Oct. 1398 (CPR. 1396-1399 p. 426). Prov. 25 Jan. 1400 (CPL. v 284). Tuttebury coll. by abp. 24 Feb. 1401 (Lamb., Reg. Arundell I f. 279). Comm. appointed by abp. to enquire into claims of Slake to deanery (ibid.). Mand. to install Tuttebury 26 Nov. (Reg. Giffard and Bowet p. 21). Royal gr. to Tuttebury 19 June 1402 (CPR. 1401-1405 p. 101). Royal prohibn. 14 Sept. to chapt. at Wells against persons acting contrary to royal statutes, 25 Edward III and 13 Richard II (ibid. p. 136). Stanley then claiming deanery by prov. against claims of Tuttebury, k's clerk (ibid.). Stanley had been lately prov. 23 Apr. 1403 (CPL. v 534). Did not obtain possession as Tuttebury d. as dn. before 3 Apr. 1410 (Reg. Bubwith 1 78).

M. Richard Courtenay B.C.L. 1410-1413.

Lic. el. sought 3 Apr. 1410 (Reg. Bubwith 1 78). Gr. 10 Apr. (ibid. 11 466-7). El. 26 May (ibid. p. 472). Mand. adm. 19 June (ibid. pp. 474-7). Bp. of Norwich 1413.

Thomas Karneka 1413.

Deanery reserved for Karneka 28 June 1413 (CPL. vi 433). D. as dn. before 25 Sept. (Reg. Bubwith 1 147).

M. Walter de Medeford B.Cn. & C.L. 1413-1423.

Lic. el. sought 25 Sept. 1413 (Reg. Bubwith 1 147). El. conf. 8 Nov. (ibid. II 480). D. before 14 July 1423 (Som. Med. Wills 1501-1530 pp. 320-5).

M. John Stafford D.C.L. 1423-1424.

Lic. el. gr. 28 July 1423 (Reg. Bubwith II 484). El. conf. 9 Sept. (ibid. p. 483). Bp. of Bath and Wells 1424.

John Forest 1425-1446.

Lic. el. sought 20 July 1425 (Reg. Stafford (Bath and Wells) 11 284-5). Gr. 1 Aug. (ibid. p. 285). Comm. by bp. 18 Nov. to confirm el. (ibid. p. 286). Mand. to install 19 Nov. (ibid.). D. 25 March 1446 (Reg. Bekynton 11 430). (fn. 2)

M. John Delaberd B.Cn.L. 1446.

M. Nicholas Carent Lic.C.L. 1446-1467.

Lic. el. sought 28 March 1446 (Reg. Bekynton 11 432). Gr. 1 Apr. (ibid.). Delaberd received royal gr. of pardon, 30 May, for accepting prov. to deanery (CPR. 1441-1446 p. 447). Gr. lic. to sue for title 16 July (ibid. p. 442). Carent el. dn. by chapt. 22 Aug. (Reg. Bekynton 11 430). Conf. by bp. (ibid. pp. 430-3). Complaint by Delaberd 3 Oct. that unable to obtain possession of deanery (CPL. viii 273-4). Bp. protested, 17 March 1447, that Delaberd had never exhibited prov. to deanery (Reg. Beyknton 11 434). Prov. to bpc. of St Davids in Sept. Carent d. before 2 Nov. 1467 (PCC 20 Godyn), but must have res. earlier in the year. (fn. 3)

M. William Witham D.C.L. 1467-1472.

Occ. 26 July 1467 (Cal. MSS. D. & C. Wells 11 685). D. before 28 Sept. 1472 (Reg. Stillington p. 94).

M. John Gunthorpe 1472-1498.

Lic. el. sought 28 Sept. 1472 (Reg. Stillington p. 94). Gr. 5 Oct. (ibid.). Assent of bp. to el. 19 Jan. 1473 (ibid. p. 96). D. 25 June 1498 (Reg. King p. 85).

M. William Cosyn Lic.C.L. 1498-1525.

El. 20 Dec. 1498 (Reg. King p. 85). Conf. by bp. 15 Apr. 1499 (ibid. p. 86). Instal. in person 8 June 1502 (Cal. MSS. D. & C. Wells 11 167). Res. c. Dec. 1525 (L. & P. IV i No. 1790). (fn. 4)

M. Thomas Winter 1525-1529.

El. of Winter requested by card. Wolsey, 28 Nov. 1525 (L. & P. iv i No. 1790). Chapt. replied that deanery would be vac. by Christmas (ibid.). Occ. as dn. 12 Apr. 1529 and 30 June (ibid. ii No. 2054).

M. Richard Woleman D.Cn.L. 1529-1537.

Occ. 1529 (L. & P. iv iii No. 6047 p. 2697). D. before 19 Sept. 1537 (ibid. xii ii No. 720).

Thomas Cromwell 1537-1540.

Lic. el. sought 23 Sept. 1537 (Cal. MSS. D. & C. Wells 11 247). El. of Cromwell conf. by bp. 26 Sept. (L. & P. xii ii No. 753). Executed 28/29 July 1540 (T. Holingshed, Chronicles (1807) 111 817; L. & P. xv No. 926).

William Fitzjames or Fitzwilliams 1540-1548.

Lic. el. sought 2 Nov. 1540 (Cal. MSS. D. & C. Wells 11 252). Gr. 3 Dec. (ibid. pp. 252-3). Res. before 7 Jan. 1548, then called Thomas (CPR. 1547-1548 p. 192).

Footnotes

  • 1. The k. tried to secure the el. of Guy de Mona as dn. (Anglo-Norman Letters and Petitions ed. M. D. Legge (Oxford, 1941) pp. 238-9). Le Neve-Hardy states that he was el. on 10 Aug. 1396 but no evidence has been found for this.
  • 2. 6 July is given in the Canterbury obit (Lambeth Palace MS. 20 f. 198b) as the date of d. of John Forest, dn. of Wells, but the Wells register seems the more accurate source.
  • 3. There is no evidence that Henry Webber was dn. for a short time after the d. of Carent (Wharton 1 590). There has possibly been confusion because a Henry Webber was then dn. of Exeter, 1459-1477.
  • 4. Polydore Vergil occ. as dn. of Wells 1 June 1515 (L. & P. 11 i No. 546). This is probably a scribal error since he was then archdcn. of Wells.
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