The succession of the bishops of England since the first planting of Christian religion in this island together with the historie of their liues and memorable actions faithfully gathered out of the monuments of antiquity. VVhereunto is prefixed a discourse concerning the first conuersion of our Britaine vnto Christian religion. By Francis Godwin now Bishop of Hereford.

70. Edmund Gryndall.

* 1.1IN the moneth of February following Edmund Gryndall Archbishop of Yorke was translated to Canterbury. This man was borne at Saint Bees in Cumberland, fellow first, then Master of Peabrooke Hall in Cambridge, of which U∣niuersity he was for one yeere one of the Proctors. A while he was chaplaine vnto Master Rydley Bishop of London, who preferred him vnto the seruice of king Edward the sixt. In the end of which Kings raigne, there was an intent that the said Bishop shold haue bin remoued to Durham, & it was thought that Master Gryndall should succéede him in Lon∣don. But the death of that good king disturbed the progresse of this platforme, and in stead of the expected honourable aduancement, forced him to a voluntary exile in Germany, where he liued all the ••aigne of Quéene Mary. Shee dying, and the late gratious Princesse happily succéeding, hee was appointed vnto the gouernement so long before intended, e∣lected thereunto Iuly 26. 1559. and enioyed the same about 11. yéeres, viz. vntill May 20. 1570. at what time he was re∣moued to Yorke. There he safe almost sixe yéeres; & as before is mentioned; was once more translated viz. to Canterbury. Two yéeres before his death he became blinde, and died at Croydon (where also he was buried on the south side of the Chancell) Iuly 6. 1583. béeing 64. yéeres of age, when he had continued Archbishop seuen yéeres and almost a halfe. In the place where hee was borne he founded a free Schoole, which he endowed with thirty pound land. To Quéenes Colledge in Oxford he gaue twenty pound land to maintaine a fellow and two schollers to bée taken out of his said Schoole: Hee gaue them also the greatest part of his books, and 87. ounces of plate, besides forty pound debt which he forgaue them. To Pembrooke Hall in Cambridge, hee gaue two and twenty pound land for the maintenance of a Gréeke lecter, of a fellow and two Schollers, to be likewise taken out of his Schoole. To them he also gaue some bookes, and forty ounces of plate. To Magdalen Colledge in Cambridge hee gaue fiue pound land for one fellow to bée taken from his Schoole: To Christs

Colledge there fiue and forty ounces of plate, To eight little Almeshouses in Croydon fifty pound to be bestowed in land for their reliefe: and lastly to the City of Canterbury an hundred pound of bée imployed vpon a stocke to set the poore on worke.

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  1575. Eliz. 18.