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.
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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.
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Godwin, Francis, 1562-1633.
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[1625?]
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Bishops -- England.
Great Britain -- Church history -- Early works to 1800.
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"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." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A01804.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 11, 2024.
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51. Ralfe de Baldocke.
* 1.1BY the consent of the whole Chapter, Ralfe Baldocke their Deane was then chosen Bishop vpon Saint Mat∣thias day following. Howbeit hee might not haue consecra∣tion till the Pope had confirmed the election, for that thrée Canons lately depriued from their Prebends by the Archbi∣shop, being excluded from the election, had appealed from the same vnto the Pope. By the commandement of the Pope (Clement 5.) he was consecrate at Lyons, Ianuary 30. 1305. by ••he hands of one Petrus Hispanus, a Cardinal•• He was ve∣ry well learned, and amongst other things, he writ (as Bale recordeth) an history or Chronicle of England in the Latine
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tongue. In his life-time he gaue two hundred ••orks toward the buliding of the new work of the chappell on the East ••nd of his Church, now called the Lady chappell, and in his will bequeathed much toward the finishing of the same. And here by the way it shall not be amisse to note, that in digging the foundation of this building, there were found more tha•• an hundred heads of cattell, as oxen, kine, &c. which seemeth to confirme the opinion of those that thinke the Temple of Iupi∣ter was situate in that place, before the planting of Christian religion, tooke away those Idolatrous sacrifices: whereof we shall ••est more assured, if we read the life of S. Gregorie, lib. 2. cap. 37. and the 71. epistle of his ninth booke. This Bi∣shop was brought vp at Oxford in Merton Colledge, died at Stell, Iuly 24. 1313. and lieth buried vnder a flat marble in the said chappell.