49. Thomas Godwyn.
THomas Godwyn my déere and most reuerend Father,* 1.1 was borne at Okingham in Barkeshire, and brought vp first in the free Schoole there, then for a little while vnder one Doctor Lauton Deane of Yorke, who sent him to Ox∣ford, and so long as he liued (which was not past a two or three yéere) exhibited vnto him there. Hée béeing taken a∣way, it pleased God to prouide for him otherwise, by ray••ing vp friends, that procured him to be chosen fellow of Magda∣lene Colledge. Towards the latter end of King Edwards raigne forsaking that place, hée tooke on him the teaching of a frée Schoole at Brackley, directing his studies partly to diui∣nity, and partly also to physicke, the practise whereof in Q. Maries time (when hee might not bée suffered to teach any longer) maintained him, his wife and children honestly. He receiued orders, & his first spirituall preferments at the hand of Bishop Bullingham, then of Lincolne, after of Wor∣cester, in the beginning of the raigne of Q. Elizabeth. By her appointment he became first Deane of Christ church in Ox∣ford, in the 7. then of Canterbury in the 9. yéere of her raign, and lastly, Bishop of Bathe and Wels, being consecrate thereunto, Sept. 13. 1584. Hauing sate 6. yéeres, two mo∣nethes, and six•• dayes, he departed this mortall life, beeing a∣bout 73. yeeres of age, Nouemb. 19. 1590. at Okingham, the place where he was borne, and there lieth buried vpon the South side of the Chancell, vnder a marble; and néere vnto a monument (fixed in the wall) far more answerable vnto the ability of him that set it vp, then vnto the vertues & deserts of him, to whose memory it was erected. On it are engrauen