141.
*** Strype's Mem.

of Cranm.p.

141.
**** Fuller, Heylin, and Rymer.
v Stowe's Annals, p.

594 Several, to whom the same dignity was offered, refused it; because the other part of the king's promise, the bestowing of estates on these new noblemen, was deferred till a more convenient opportunity.

Some of them, however, as also Somerset, the protector, were, in the mean time, endowed with spiritual preferments, deaneries, and prebends.