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"In a decent Monument on the South side of the Presbitery, Iohn Kempe, Archbishop of this See, lieth interred, who was borne at Wye in this County of Kent, brought vp at Oxford in Merton Colledge, where hee proceeded Doctor of Law. Hee was made first Archdeacon of Durham, then Deane of the Arches, and Vicar generall vnto the Archbishop Stafford. Not long after he was aduanced to the Bishopricke of Rochester, remoued thence to Chichester, from Chichester to London, from London to Yorke, from Yorke to Canterbury: he was first Cardinall of the title of Saint Balbine, and from that remoued to the title of Saint Rusine; all which his Ecclesiasticall preferments were comprehended in this one verse, composed by his cosin Thomas Kempe, Bishop of London. Bis Primas ter Praesul erat, bis Cardine functus. And to adde to all these honours, he was twice Lord Chancellour of England. He continued not here aboue a yeare and a halfe, but died a very old man, March 22. 1453. hee conuerted the Parish-Church of Wye into a Colledge of secular Priests." [1]


Footnotes:

[1] John Weever, Ancient Funerall Monuments (London: Thomas Harper, 1631), 228-229, [HathiTrust], [GoogleBooks].