11 Jan 1612: Griffith Williams of Treflan near Caernarfon, peppery pamphleteering future Bishop of #Ossory instituted to the rectory of St. Benet Sherehog #London #otd (eebo)

10 Jan 1560: following Elizabeth I's accession, John Bale former #Carmelite, then evangelical #Protestant, polemicist, playwright, antiquarian & bishop of #Ossory is made a canon of #Canterbury cathedral #otd (CUL/BM)

He never went back to #Ireland which he’d fled under Mary I.

14 Dec 1585: Nicholas Walsh Bishop of #Ossory & a translator of the #Bible to #Irish #Gaeilge is stabbed & killed by James Dullard #otd

The bishop had cited Dullard for adultery in his consistory court at #Kilkenny

21 Nov 1495, b. John Bale, Carmelite, radical reformer, Edward VI’s bishop of #Ossory, playwright, antiquarian, multiple exile.

A man with a sharp Pen, a whirlwind mind.