49. Thomas Godwyn.
THomas Godwyn my déere and most reuerend father, was borne at Okingham in Barkshire, and brought vp first in the frée schoole there, then for a little while vnder one Doctor Layton Deane of Yorke, who sent him to Dreford, and so long as he liued (which was not past a two or thrée yéere) exhibited vnto him there. He being taken a∣way, it pleased God to prouide for him otherwise by raising vp friends that procured him to be chosen fellow of 〈◊〉〈◊〉 colledge. Towards the latter ende of king Edwards raigne, forsaking that place, he tooke on him the teaching of a free schoole at Brackley, directing his studies partly to diuini∣ty, and partly also to Phisicke, the practise whereof in Quéens Maries time (when he might not be suffred to teach any lon∣ger) maintained him, his wife and children honestly. He re∣ceiued orders and his first spirituall preferments at the hand of Bishop Bollingham, then of Lincolne, after of 〈◊〉〈◊〉, in the beginning of her Maiesties raigne that now is. By her gratious appointment, he became first Deane of Christchurch in Oxeford in the seuenth, then of Canterbury in the ninth yeere of her raigue, and lastly Bishop of Bathe and 〈◊〉〈◊〉,