Ancient_and_modern_York_a_guide

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ANCIENT AND
John Thoresby; in the time of this bishop, the Pope to put an end to
disputes, made the archbishop of, York primate of England, and the archbishop
of Canterbury of all England.
Thomas Arundell : this archbishop filled the office of Lord High Chancellor
of England.
Robert Waldby, a native of York, was celebrated for his learning.
Richard Scrope was beheaded fot rebellion.
John Kempe the son of humble parents in Kent, was Lord High Chancellor
of England, and a cardinal of the See of Rome.
Thomas Scot De Rotheram was Lord High Chancellor ; but was afterwards
committed to prison. He died at Cawood of the plague.
Thomas Savage is described as an accomplished courtier and inveterate
sportsman. C/iristopher Bayribrigge, was sent as English Ambassador to Rome and was
created a cardinal. He was poisoned at Rome by his steward, an Italian priest,
whom he had struck in a moment of anger.
Thomas Wolsey, cardinal, Lord Chancellor of England, &c. &c.
Edward Lee was concerned in the insurrection known as the "pilgrimage
of grace," to restore the Roman Catholic religion.
Thomas Young was the first protestant archbishop of York.
Edwin Sandys was imprisoned by Queen Mary for preaching in defiance of
Lady Jane Grey's title to the throne ; and was afterwards one of the prelates
who argued with the Roman Catholics before parliament.
John Piers was a man of great learning, and was admitted to the friendship
of Queen Elizabeth.
Richard Slerne was chaplain to archbishop Laud and attended him at the
scaffold. During the Commonwealth he was obliged to keep a school for his
maintenance. He wrote a treatise on Logic ; and was one of the translators of
Polyglot Bible.
John Dolben was an ensign in the royal army and received wounds during
the seige of York and at the battle of Marston Moor.
John Sharp signalized himself by his bold defence of the reformed faith in
the reign of James the second ; whose arbitary proceedings he successfully
resisted. He was created a privy counsellor and. Lord Almoner in the reign of
Queen Anne, and was said to have dissuaded her majesty from giving a bishoprick
to Dean Swift.
WiUiam Marhham, who was born in Ireland, was thirty-one years the arch
bishop of York ; having been successively head master of the semenaries of
Westminster and Christ Church, and bishop of Chester. He was chaplain to
George II. and George 111. ; and by his assistance the churches of York, Ripon
and Southwell were extensively repaired. He died in his eighty-ninth year,
universally beloved, and was buried in the cloisters at Westminster Abbey,