PREBENDARIES OF BANBURY
Preb. valued c. 1535 at £46 6s 8d (Valor II 164).
Matthew Smith M.A. 1512-1548.
Coll. 2 Dec. 1512 (Reg. XXIII f. 29). Instal. 15 Dec. (A/3/4 f. 49). Preb. leased
out 6 July 1536 for 30 years at £56 p.a. (C.P.R. 1560-3 p. 494). Royal lic. 15
Aug. 1547 for bp. to gr. this preb. to Edward, duke of Somerset (C.P.R. 1547-8 p.
184). Probably d. 6 Feb. 1548 (commemoration of obit at Brasenose College,
Oxford) (Brasenose College Quatercentenary Monographs (Oxford, 1909) IV
15-16, VII 26-7; cf. CA 1547-59 p. 20).
Henry Parry 1548.
Pres. 25 Feb. 1548 by Edward, duke of Somerset (P.D. 1548/1). Instal. by proxy
21 June (CA 1547-59 p. 20).
The preb. of Banbury had passed from the duke of Somerset to the duke of
Northumberland by 8 Dec. 1551, when the latter sold it to the Crown (C.P.R.
1550-3 p. 117). Queen Elizabeth annexed it to the bpc. of Oxford (fn. 1) (Lincoln
Cath. Statutes III 656).
Footnotes
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According to Survey of Cath. II 140 this happened in 1589, but no confirmation of this has been
found. |