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EXETER.

Adam Travesse succeeded More, but resigned it immediately for a pension.

{[sc|John Ryse}} was collated 10th Jan. 1517-18[1]. Ob. 5th May 1531.

Thomas Southern or Sotheron was collated 8th May 1531, and died in 1557[2]. His will, dated 30th May 1556, was proved 24th July 1557.

Nicholas Wotton was installed 5th June 1557[3].

John Blaxton was installed 26th March 1558, per resign. Wotton[4].

Richard Tremayne was installed 10th Feb. 1559-60, per deprivat. Blaxton[5]. He became archdeacon of Chichester. His will was proved 15th Dec. 1584.

Robert Lawe, A.M., archdeacon of Barum, was collated 3rd Dec. 1584, per mort. Tremayne[6].

Robert Hall, A.M., was instituted 25th June 1629, and installed 17th July, per mort. Lawe. He died 29th May 1667, and was buried in the cathedral[7], ætat. 61. He was also archdeacon of Cornwall.

Baldwin Acland, S.T.B., was instituted 10th June, and installed 14th June 1667, and died 27th Aug. 1672[8]; and was buried at St. Mary Tedborn, in the county of Devon, where he was rector, ætat. 64.

Edward Cotton, archdeacon of Cornwall, was installed 31st Aug. 1672, and died 2nd Nov. 1675[9].

Nicholas Hall was installed 17th Nov. 1675. He died 25th April 1709, and was buried at Faringdon, in Devonshire[10].

Offspring Blackall, bishop of this see, accepted this dignity in commendam June 1709[11]. Since his time the succeeding bishops have held this dignity in commendam.

This dignity is rated for first fruits at 32l. 17s. 3½d[12].


  1. Reg. Oldham.
  2. Reg. Voysey.
  3. Ath. Oxon. vol. i. p. 642.
  4. Reg. Exon.
  5. Ibid.
  6. Reg. Exon.
  7. Ibid.
  8. Ibid.
  9. Ibid.
  10. Ibid.
  11. Ibid.
  12. Ecton, p. 102.