Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae 1300-1541: Volume 4, Monastic Cathedrals (Southern Province). Originally published by Institute of Historical Research, London, 1963.
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'Archdeacons: Sudbury', in Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae 1300-1541: Volume 4, Monastic Cathedrals (Southern Province), (London, 1963) pp. 30-32. British History Online https://www.british-history.ac.uk/fasti-ecclesiae/1300-1541/vol4/pp30-32 [accessed 26 April 2024]
ARCHDEACONS OF SUDBURY
Henry de Bradenham ?-1308.
Occ. Jan. 1307 (CPL. 11 24). D. before Apr. 1308 (Reg. Salmon f. 27).
Alan de Ely 1308-1324.
Coll. 1 Apr. 1308 (Reg. Salmon f. 27). Archdcn. of Suffolk 1324.
Simon de Creake 1324-1329.
Coll. 16 Apr. 1324 (Reg. Salmon f. 106b). D. or res. before 17 Jan. 1329 (Reg. Ayremynne f. 33).
Firmin de Lavenham 1329-1346.
Coll. 17 Jan. 1329 (Reg. Ayremynne f. 33). D. before 31 Aug. 1346 (Reg. Bateman f. 56).
Gilbert de Marewell or Yarewell 1346-1348.
Coll. 31 Aug. 1346 (Reg. Bateman f. 56). D. before 12 Oct. 1348 (ibid. f. 73).
M. Richard Lyng D.Th. 1348-1349.
Coll. 12 Oct. 1348 (Reg. Bateman f. 73). Archdcn. of Norwich 1349.
M. Walter Elvedon D.C.L. 1349.
Coll. 27 Aug. 1349 (Reg. Bateman f. 106). Exch. archdcnry with Thomas de Winchester for precentorship of Hereford, 20 Nov. (Reg. J. de Trillek, ed. J. H. Parry (Canterbury and York Soc., viii) p. 406).
Thomas de Winchester 1349.
By exch. 20 Nov. 1349. Res. before 8 Dec. (Reg. Bateman f. 116).
Thomas de Methelwold 1349-1350.
Coll. 8 Dec. 1349 (Reg. Bateman f. 116). Res. before 3 Jan. 1350 (ibid. f. 129b).
Henry de la Zouche 1350-1361.
Adm. 3 Jan. 1350 (Reg. Bateman f. 129b), archdcnry had been reserved for him 24 Sept. 1348 (CPL. 111 273). D. before 11 Aug. 1361 (CPP. 1 320).
M. William Graa de Trusthope B.C.L. 1362-?
Coll. 7 Jan. 1362 (Reg. Percy f. 58). Occ. July 1363 (ibid. f. 65b). Occ. as archdcn. of Suffolk July 1365 (ibid.).
John Hambleton 1363.
Occ. 16 July 1363 (CPL. iv 33).
John de Lincoln 1384.
Hugh Sturmy 1384-1389.
Thomas Grene 1385.
Hugh Gaudeby 1388.
Royal gr. to Lincoln 8 May 1384 (CPR. 1381-1385 p. 408). Royal gr. to Sturmy 3 Sept. (ibid. p. 458). Estate of Grene ratif. as archdcn. 24 Nov. 1385 (CPR. 1385- 1389 p. 59). He had probably been coll. by bp., but dismissed in favour of royal candidates since k. had seized temps. of Norwich after the failure of bp. Despenser's Flemish Crusade, and retained them, Nov. 1383-Oct. 1385. Sturmy re-adm. to archdcnry 10 Aug. 1387 (Reg. Despenser f. 124). Gaudeby appears to have been coll. by bp., since 14 Nov. 1388 k. ordered arrest of all impugners of right of Sturmy to archdcnry; k. had recovered right of presentation against bp. Despenser and Hugh Gaudeby, clerk (CPR. 1385-1389 p. 555). Estate of Sturmy had been ratif. 16 Sept. (ibid. p. 506). Res. before 1 May 1389 (CPR. 1388-1392 p. 25).
M. Thomas Hetersete D.C.L. 1389-1398.
Royal gr. 1 May 1389 (CPR. 1388-1392 p. 25). Adm. 5 May (Reg. Despenser f. 137). Exch. archdcnry with Richard Maudeleyn for preb. of Ratfyn, Salisbury, and ch. of Gillingham, Wilts., 5 Nov. 1398 (ibid. f. 241).
Richard Maudeleyn 1398.
By exch. 5 Nov. 1398. Adm. 27 Nov. (Reg. Despenser f. 241b). Profession to bp. 7 Dec. (ibid.). Res. before 14 Dec. (ibid. f. 242).
M. Thomas Hetersete D.C.L. (again) 1398-1406.
Coll. 18 Dec. 1398 (Reg. Despenser f. 242). Estate ratif. 25 Apr. 1399 (CPR. 1396- 1399 p. 521). Res. before 12 Jan. 1406 (Reg. Despenser f. 329).
M. Eudo de la Zouche 1406-1414.
Roger Wodehele 1412.
Zouche coll. 12 Jan. 1406 (Reg. Despenser f. 329). Royal gr. of archdcnry to Wodehele 2 Dec. 1412 (CPR. 1408-1413 p. 455). Probably error, since estate of Zouche ratif. 6 Apr. 1413 (CPR. 1413-1416 p. 4). D. before 13 March 1414 (Reg. Courtenay f. 78b).
M. Thomas Rodburn Sch.Th. 1414-1429.
Coll. 13 March 1414 (Reg. Courtenay f. 78). Exch. archdcnry with Clement Denston for deanery of Tamworth, Staffs., 18 Apr. 1429 (CPR. 1422-1429 p. 532).
Clement Denston 1429-1452.
By exch. 18 Apr. 1429. D. before 24 May 1452 (Reg. Lyhart f. 64).
M. John Wiggenhall D.C.L. 1452-?
Coll. 24 May 1452 (Reg. Lyhart f. 64).
M. John Selot D.Cn.L. ?-1479.
Occ. 18 July 1462 (Reg. Lyhart f. 285). D. before 9 Sept. 1479 (Reg. Goldwell f. 70).
M. Nicholas Goldwell B.C.L. 1479-?
Coll. 9 Sept. 1479 (Reg. Goldwell f. 70). Occ. Feb. 1483 (ibid. f. 241).
M. John Jeffreys M.A. ?-1493.
Occ. 20 Jan. 1484 (Reg. Goldwell f. 244b). D. before 11 Nov. 1493 (PCC 3 Vox).
M. Thomas Shenkwyn B.C.L. 1493-1497.
Coll. 3 Dec. 1493 (Reg. Goldwell f. 173). D. before 5 Dec. 1497 (PCC 15 Horne).
M. John Finneys B.C.L. 1497-1514.
Coll. 14 Dec. 1497 (Reg. Goldwell f. 200). D. before 3 Apr. 1514 (Reg. Nix XIV f. 115).
M. William Stillington D.Th. 1514-1517.
Coll. 3 Apr. 1514 (Reg. Nix xiv f. 115). Archdcn. of Norwich 1517.
M. Thomas Larke D.C.L. 1517-1522.
Coll. 17 Feb. 1517 (Reg. Nix xiv f. 134). Archdcn. of Norwich 1522.
M. Richard Woleman D.Th. 1522-1537.
Coll. 9 Apr. 1522 (Reg. Nix xiv f. 173b). D. before 21 Sept. 1537 (Reg. Repps xvii f. 36b).
M. Miles Spencer D.C.L. 1537-1570.
Coll. 21 Sept. 1537 (Reg. Repps xvii f. 36b). D. before 2 March 1570 (Reg. Parkehurst f. 159).