 Abt 1520 - Bef 1548 (~ 28 years)
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| Name |
Harpsfield, Alice |
| Born |
Abt 1520 |
Of St Mary Magdalen, London, England  |
| Gender |
Female |
| Died |
Bef 1548 |
England |
| Person ID |
I05404 |
My Genealogy |
| Last Modified |
20 May 2015 |
| Family |
Barnes, Richard, b. Abt 1520, England , bur. 24 Apr 1598, Mercers Chapel, London, England (Age ~ 78 years) |
| Married |
Abt 1540 |
England |
| Children |
| | 1. Barnes, Anne, b. Abt 1540, England , d. Aft 1578, England (Age ~ 39 years) |
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| Family ID |
F01400 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
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| Notes |
- BIBLIOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARY OF THE ENGLISH CATHOLICS.
FROM THE BREACH WITH ROME, IN 1554,, TO THE PRESENT TIME.
"A whole compos'd of parts, and those the best,
With every various character exprest."
Dryden, Epistle to Sir G. Kneller.
BY
JOSEPH GILLOW.
VOL. III.
BURNS & OATES.
LONDON:
GRANVILLE MANSIONS,
28 ORCHARD STREET, W.
NEW YORK :
Brothers to Alice?? John born 1516
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7. History of the Divorce, MS., ascribed to him by Le Grand in his answer to Dr. Burnet, was more probably the work of Dr. Nic. Harpsfield.
Harpsfield, John, D.D., born in Old Fish Street, in the parish of St. Mary Magdalen, London, was the grandson of Nicholas Harpsfield, Esq. This gentleman in 1472 was in the custody of Bishop Wayneflete, and detained in the episcopal prison of Wolvesey Castle, having been indicted and convicted of homicide, and subsequently claimed from the king's prison as a clerk by the bishop, in accordance with the ecclesiastical laws, as entitled to the benefit of clergy. The offence was committed at Windsor Castle on Aug. 21, 1471, and the bishop's com mission for his purgation and delivery from Wolvesey prison is dated Aug. 29, 1472, so that he probably obtained his release before the close of the year.
John Harpsfield studied his classics with his younger brother Nicholas, at Winchester School. Thence removing to New College, Oxford, he was made a fellow in 1534, and completed his degrees in arts. Afterwards he was appointed chaplain to- Dr. Bonner, Bishop of London, and being inducted into a good benefice in that diocese, resigned his fellowship about I550 In the beginning of Mary's reign, having been created D.D., he was promoted to the archdeaconry of London, about 1554, in the place of John Wymsley. In 1558, shortly before the queen's death, he was made dean of Christ Church,
Norwich, the former dean, John Boxall, having other duties to- perform.
When Elizabeth ascended the throne Dr. Harpsfield was obliged to resign his deanery to John Salisbury, suffragan of Thetford, in I560. He was then committed prisoner to the Fleet, where he remained about a year, when he was discharged upon finding surety that he should not act, speak, or write against the established church. The remainder of his life was spent in great retirement and devotion in the house of one of his relations in St. Sepulchre's parish, where he died, Aug. 19, 1578.
He was buried in the parish church, as appears from the letters of administration taken out by his nearest relative, Anne Worsopp. It was probably at this lady's house that he resided. She was the widow of John Worsopp, gent, and daughter of Richard Baron, Esq., citizen and mercer of London, by his wife, Alice Harpsfield. This Baron's father, Peter, of Saffron Walden, co. Essex, was a serjeant-at-law, and was drowned in the Thames.
Wood, Athena Oxon., ed. 1691, vol. i. ; Dodd, Cli. Hist., vol. ii. ; Maitland, Reformation; Tablet, vol. xlvii. p. 536; Harl. Soc., Visit, of Lond., 1568.
.....Harpsfield, Nicholas, D.D., confessor of the faith, a native of London, was, like his elder brother John, educated at Winchester and New College, Oxford. After serving two years' probation at the latter, he was admitted true and perpetual fellow in 1536, about which time he commenced to study civil and canon law, in which he rose to great eminence. In 1544, being then bachelor of civil law, he was elected principal of White Hall, and two years later, in 1546, he was appointed king's professor of Greek by Henry VIII. During the reign of Edward VI. he was in exile, but returned when Mary succeeded to the crown. In that year, 1553, he took the degree of LL.D., resigned his fellowship, and practised in the Court of Arches. In 1554, being then prebendary of St. Paul's, he was appointed archdeacon of Canterbury, in place of Edmund Cranmer, brother to the archbishop, who was deprived on account of marriage.
He became judge of the Court of Arches, and also dean of the peculiars of Canterbury in 1558, having been made a prebendary Nov. 1, 1558, just before the queen's death. After the accession of Elizabeth, Dr. Harpsfield was one of the seven Catholic divines elected to defend the Catholic cause against the Protestant party in a conference devised to give an appearance of fairness to the intended subversion of the ancient faith. Immediately afterwards he was committed prisoner to the Tower for his refusal to acknowledge the ecclesiastical supremacy of the sovereign, and there he was kept during the remainder of his life. The date of his death has been variously stated, but from some obituary notices written by a contemporary in a psalterium in the library of Exeter College, Oxford, it appears that he died Dec. 18, 1575.
1543 HARPSFIELD STE LONDON (ST NICHOLAS ACONS) LONDON
John Harpsfield, a grand zealot, for the Roman Catholick religion, was born in the parish of St. Mary Magdalen in Old Fishstreet, London, was educated at Wikekam's school near Winchester, thence admitted perpetual fellow of New college in Oxford in 1534, and having taken his degrees in arts, entered into holy orders, was made chaplain to Bonner Bishop of London, whose cruelty he much followed; it being observed, that as Bonner was the most severe of all bishops against hereticks, (as they were then called,) so was his chapIain, of all archdeacons, which was the reason he deservedly fared the worse for it at the restoration of the Protestant religion by Queen Elizabeth,
About 1551, he quitted his fellowship, having then taken his degree of bachelor of divinity, as he did that of doctor, April 20, 1554, in which year his patron Bonner collated him to the archdeaconry of London ;3 and on the 4th of May following, to the c hurch of Ladgate ; and the 26th of the same month, to the prebend of liolbourn in the church of St. Paul.
In 1558, May 16, he was nominated by Philip and Mary niw of Norwich; * and about the same time, resigning his church of St. Martin Ludgate, was collated to the rectory of Laingdon, with Basilden chapel in Essex; and on the 10th of Dec. following, to the prebend of JWapabury, in the said church of St. Paul; of all which preferments, he was deprived by Queen Elizabeth, and was committed prisoner to the Fleet, where he laid above a year, and was then released upon security given, that he should not act, speak, or write, against the doctrine of the church of England, which engagement he strictly kept; upon this, retiring to the house of a near relation of his, that dwelt in St. Sepulcre's parish, in the suburbs of London, he spent the remainder of his days, in great retiredness and devotion, and dying there in 1578, was buried in that parish church.
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