Antiquities of the city of Exeter collected by Richard Izacke ...

Regna Regum 1. Q. Elizabeth. An. D. 1559.

Mayors and Bayliffs

• Robert Midwinteo
  • John B••r••more
  • John Woolcott
  • James Walker
  • Hubert Colwell
  • William Chappell

Upon the death of John Paramore late Receiver General of the City, John Woolcott was elected in his stead to supply that Office for the residue of the year.

Presently after the Coronation of Queen Elizabeth, Bishop Turbervil was deprived of his Bishoprick, and committed to prison.

William Alleigh born at Wickham in the County of Buckingham, and bred first at Eaton, then in King's Colledge in Cambridge, whence he was preferred and became Le∣cturer in St. Pauls, London (an ancient Office founded in that and many other Ca∣thedrals

to read Divinity) whose learned Le∣ctures are extant in Print, was afterwards consecrated 14. Julii, Bishop of this Diocess, and being accompanied with the Earl of Bedford came hither, and at the Broad-gate by the Mayor and his Brethren was courte∣ously received.

The Queen out of the great respect she had to this Bishop, sent him yearly a silver cup for a New-years gift.

This Mayor very much opposed this Bi∣shop when he brought a Commission to be a Justice of the Peace within the said City, contrary to the Charters and Liberties thereof.

The troublesome suits in Law between the Corporation of Merchants and the Freemen hereof now began.