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Reference code
SJCR/SJAR/1/1/Metcalfe/2/10/3
Unique identifier
GB 1859 SJCR/SJAR/1/1/Metcalfe/2/10/3
Title
William Longforth: Ely & London
Date(s)
- 1519 (Creation)
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1 item, paper
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(fl.1514-1530)
Biographical history
William Longforth was Fellow and President of St. John’s College, and Vicar of Ospringe in Kent from September 1527. He also appears to have held positions as Vicar of St. James’s Church, Isle of Grain, Kent, between 1528 and 1530, and Vicar of St. Mary’s Church in Gillingham, Kent, from 1530. Prior to his ordination, Longforth was a student at Cambridge, graduating B.A. 1514-15; MA 1518. He died sometime in or during the years soon after 1530.
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Letter, n.d., `of our lady evyn', William Longforth to Nicholas Metcalfe re business assigned him at Ely in London; pleads for support to continue at the university.
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Note
Presumably `of our lady evyn' is the eve of Lady Day.
Alternative identifier(s)
Former Ref.
D56.35
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- Metcalfe, Nicholas (Subject)