John Aylmer, Bishop of London

Not the son of John Aylmer & Frances Aylmer

May be a clue to identity of John Aylmer's mother -
John Aylmer's will (TNA PROB 11/84) 22 Nov 1594
Executors: cousin Richard Vaughan D.D., eldest son Samuel Ailmer, son Theophilus Ailmer, Archdeacon of London, and son-in-law William Lynche gent...

Bishop Richard Vaughan Born c. 1550, second son of Thomas ap Robert Fychan of Nyffryn, Llyn, Caernarfonshire. He was educated at S. John's College, Cambridge (B.A. 1574, M.A. 1577, D.D. 1589). Shortly after 1577, he was appointed chaplain to John Aylmer, bishop of London, who is said to have been related to him (Baker, Hist. of St. John's College, Cambridge, 255).

- 'Post felices apud nos bonarum literarum et studiorum progressus venit in familiam Jo Aylmer episcopi Lond ei vel affinitate vel sanguine conjunctus donatus ab eodem canonicatu in ecclesia Paulina Nov 18 1583 fit deinde'

Translates as - After the happy progress of good literature and studies with us, he came into the family of Jo Aylmer, bishop of London, and was given to him either by affinity or by blood.
TPD 17/5/24

Shown in Visitation of Hertfordshire - family tree of his son Theophilus Elmer as the son of John Of Norfolk.
A family tree also in the Lincolnshire Pedigrees https://archive.org/details/lincolnshirepedi01madd/page/n137/mode/2...

He received his first breath in the county of Norfolk about the year 1521 For in 1581 I read him in one of his letters calling himself homo sexa genarius ie a man of threescore years of age Born according to Dr Fuller at Aylmer Hall in the parish of Tilsley as he saith the Bishop's nearest relation informed him mistaken I suppose for Tilney in the same county for as for Tilsley there is scarce such a town in England In the neighbouring county of Suffolk within four miles of Ipswich there is a very fair house called Claidon Hall now or late in the possession of the Aylmers His elder brother was Sir Robert Aylmer of Aylmer Hall aforesaid whose ancestor was High Sheriff of that county of Norfolk in the time of Edward II Aylmer though he took his degrees of divinity in Oxford had his first education at Cambridge but when admitted and under what tutor and in what society I am to learn whether in Bene t or Gonvil hall where the Norfolk youth commonly studied or Trinity hall entered there by the fame that Bilney formerly of that house bore who much conversed and carried a great stroke among the people of Norfolk But these things are uncertain Grey Marquis of Dorset afterwards Duke of Suffolk took a liking to him from a child going to school and entertained him as his scholar and exhibited to him when transplanted to the University

Historical collections of the life and acts of John Aylmer, Lord Bishop of London, in the reign of Queen Elizabeth

John Strype 1821 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Two forms of prayer of the time of Queen Elizabeth. Now first reprinted. [lost 200 years] Corporate Author: Church of England. Cambridge, At the University Press; 1876.

A necessarie and godly prayer appoynted by the right reuerend Father in God John, bishop of London to be vsed throughout all his dioces vpon Sondayes and Frydayes, for the turning away of Gods wrath. As well conserning this vntemperate wether and raine, lately fallen vppon the earth ... 1585.

https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=nyp.33433081653994;view=1up;...

https://archive.org/details/historicalcollec00stryuoft/page/n23/mod...

John Aylmer

• Birth: 1521 - Aylmar Hall, Tierney, Norf., England
• Death: June 3 1594 - London, London, England
• Father: John Aylmer
• Mother: Unknown
• Wife: Judith Bures King

John Aylmer (Ælmer or Elmer; 1521 - 3 June 1594) was an English bishop, constitutionalist and a Greek scholar.

family

Doug Bedell said, "John Aylmer(1535-1594) was named Bishop of London by Queen Elizabeth I in 1568, he is buried is St. Paul's Cathedral, London. He married Judith Bures(h) and they had 9 children: SAMUEL, Theophilus, John, Zacharia, Elizabeth, Judith, Nathaniel, Tobell(?), and Edmund."

biography

From John Aylmer, Bishop of London

JOHN AYLMER, English divine, was born in the year 1521 at Aylmer Hall, Tivetshail St Mary, Norfolk. While still a boy, his precocity was noticed by Henry Grey, Marquis of Dorset, afterwards Duke of Suffolk, who sent him to Cambridge, where he seems to have become a fellow of Queens' College. About 1541 he was made chaplain to the Duke, and tutor to his daughter, Lady Jane Grey.

His first preferment was to the archdeaconry of Stow, in the diocese of Lincoln, but his opposition in convocation to the doctrine of transubstantiation led to his deprivation and to his flight into Switzerland. While there he wrote a reply to John Knox's famous Blast against the Monstrous Regiment of Women, under the title of An Harborowe for Faithfull and Trewe Subjects, &c., and assisted John Foxe in translating the Acts of the Martyrs into Latin.

On the accession of Queen Elizabeth he returned to England. In 1559 he resumed the Stow archdeaconry, and in 1562 he obtained that of Lincoln. He was a member of the famous convocation of 1562, which reformed and settled the doctrine and discipline of the Church of England. In 1576 he was consecrated Bishop of London, and while in that position made himself notorious by his harsh treatment of all who differed from him on ecclesiastical questions, whether Puritan or Papist. Various efforts were made to remove him to another see.

He is frequently assailed in the famous Marprelate Tracts, and is characterized as "Morrell," the bad shepherd, in Spenser's Shepheard's Calendar (July).

His reputation as a scholar hardly balances his inadequacy as a bishop in the transition time in which he lived. He died in June 1594.

Excerpted from:

•       Encyclopedia Britannica, 11th Ed. Vol III.
•       Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1910. 73.

Books for further study:

• Strype, John. Historical Collections of the Life and Acts of the Right Reverend Father in God, John Aylmer. Franklin Reprints, 1974. Available Free at archive.org Sources

1. Southside Virginia Families, Volume 2  By John Bennett Boddie. Page 122. "FOLIOT of YORK COUNTY." The Rev. Edward Foliot was a son of Sir John Foliot & his wife, Elizabeth Aylmer, daughter of Rt. Rev. John Aylmer, Bishop of London.

Links

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Aylmer_(bishop)_
• http://genforum.genealogy.com/elmore/messages/225.html

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Birth: 1521 Death: 1594

Bishop of London to Queen Elizabeth I, and an constitutionalist and a Greek scholar. He studied at Queen's College, Cambridge, and in 1549 became tutor to the 12-year old Lady Jane Grey, later famously to be Queen of England for nine days. He was Bishop of London from 1577 to 1594.

Family links:

Children:

 Samuel Aylmer (____ - 1635)*

Burial: Saint Paul's Cathedral London Greater London, England

Created by: julia&keld Record added: Nov 14, 2010 Find A Grave Memorial# 61607405 ______________________

Church Church of England Diocese Diocese of London Elected c. 1576 Reign ended 1594 (death) Predecessor Edwin Sandys Successor Richard Fletcher Other posts Archdeacon of Lincoln 1562–1577 Archdeacon of Stow 1553–1554 & 1559–1562 Orders Consecration 1576 Personal details Born 1521 Tilney St. Lawrence, Norfolk Died 3 June 1594 Nationality English Denomination Anglican Profession Scholar Alma mater Queens' College, Cambridge

He was born at Aylmer Hall, Tilney St. Lawrence, Norfolk. While still a boy, his precocity was noticed by Henry Grey, 3rd Marquess of Dorset, later 1st Duke of Suffolk, who sent him to Cambridge, where he seems to have become a fellow of Queens' College.[2] About 1541 he was made chaplain to the duke, and tutor of Greek [3] to his daughter, Lady Jane Grey. His first preferment was to the archdeaconry of Stow, in the diocese of Lincoln, but his opposition in Convocation to the doctrine of transubstantiation led to his deprivation and to his flight into Switzerland. While there he wrote a reply to John Knox's famous Blast against the Monstrous Regiment of Women, under the title of An Harborowe for Faithfull and Trewe Subjects, etc., and assisted John Foxe in translating the Acts of the Martyrs into Latin. On the accession of Elizabeth he returned to England. In 1559 he resumed the Stow archdeaconry, and in 1562 he obtained that of Lincoln. He was a member of the famous convocation of 1562, which reformed and settled the doctrine and discipline of the Church of England. In 1576 he was consecrated Bishop of London, and while in that position made himself notorious by his harsh treatment of all who differed from him on ecclesiastical questions, whether Puritan or Roman Catholic. Various efforts were made to remove him to another see. He is frequently assailed in the famous Mar prelate Tracts, and is characterized as "Morrell," the bad shepherd, in Edmund Spenser's Shepheard's Calendar (July). His reputation as a scholar hardly balances his inadequacy as a bishop in the transition time in which he lived. His Life was written by John Strype (1701). [edit]Works

"Aylmer, like John Ponet and Stephen Gardiner before him, is an important figure in the story of the reception of classical mixed government in Tudor England." [4] John Aylmer wrote his work An harborowe for faithful and trewe subiectes (1559), to defend the female monarchy of Elizabeth I associating "the rule of boyes and women, or effeminate persons" and on another basis; "that cytie is at pits brinks, wherein magistrate ruleth lawes, and not the lawes the magistrate: What could any kyng in Israell do in that common wealth, besides the pollycie appointed by Moyses?". His effort to familiarize his fellow countrymen with the "strange and alluring vocabulary of politics", introducing them to the classical forms and terminology, must be viewed as secondary to this primary goal. Aylmer nevertheless described England as not "a mere monarchy, as some for lack of consideration think, nor a mere oligarchy, nor democracy, but a rule mixed of all these." 1 He goes on to say that in the mixed state, "each one of these have or should have like authority." He argued that in the king-in-Parliament, or, in Elizabeth's case, the queen-in-Parliament, was not the "image" of a mixed state "but the thing in deed." It was in Parliament that one found the three estates: "the king or queen, which representeth the monarchy; the noble men which be the aristocracy; and the burgesses and knights the democracy." As he says, "In like manner, if the Parliament use their privileges: the king can ordain nothing without them." Parliamentary restraint of a queen's feminine vices would, according to Aylmer, ameliorate the disadvantages of female monarchy. His work, particularly his characterisation of England as a mixed monarchy, would be important to later English constitutionalists.

The Right Reverend Dr John Aylmer JOHN AYLMER, English divine, was born in the year 1521 at Aylmer Hall, Tivetshail St Mary, Norfolk. While still a boy, his precocity was noticed by Henry Grey, Marquis of Dorset, afterwards Duke of Suffolk, who sent him to Cambridge, where he seems to have become a fellow of Queens' College. About 1541 he was made chaplain to the Duke, and tutor to his daughter, Lady Jane Grey.

His first preferment was to the archdeaconry of Stow, in the diocese of Lincoln, but his opposition in convocation to the doctrine of transubstantiation led to his deprivation and to his flight into Switzerland. While there he wrote a reply to John Knox's famous Blast against the Monstrous Regiment of Women, under the title of An Harborowe for Faithfull and Trewe Subjects, &c., and assisted John Foxe in translating the Acts of the Martyrs into Latin.

On the accession of Queen Elizabeth he returned to England. In 1559 he resumed the Stow archdeaconry, and in 1562 he obtained that of Lincoln. He was a member of the famous convocation of 1562, which reformed and settled the doctrine and discipline of the Church of England. In 1576 he was consecrated Bishop of London ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Historical collections of the life and acts of the Right Reverend Father in God, John Aylmer (Burt Franklin research & source works series. Philosophy & religious history monographs, 147) Unknown Binding – 1974 by John Strype {I have in this book shewn to the world one of these sin gular men, m'z. Queen Elizabeth's third Bishop of London. Within whose diocese lay both the Court, Westminster Hall, and London, the great ~metropolis of the nation: and by whom the Archbishop of Canterbury passed all his injune tions and mandates to the rest of the Bishops and Clergy of his province. And therefore we may reasonably look for mat ters of great moment to be occasionally recommended to this Bishop in this busy reign, and to fall into the accounts we give of him.} ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Of the many Aylmers who have had a significant role in religious life, the most prominent was surely John Aylmer, Bishop of London to Queen Elizabeth I, from 1577 to his death in 1594.

Birth and early life

John was born in Norfolk in 1521 or possibly 1520. Birthplace, however, is a subject of some uncertainty.

Wikipedia, bless it, has the birthplace as Tilney St Lawrence, a village of north Norfolk, south of the Wash, and these references give the place of birth as Aylmer Hall in that vicinity, this having been the family home for generations. Another possibility is the nearby Tilney All Saints.

There may be a stronger claim for Tivetshall St Mary in south Norfolk, north of Diss. The presently-named Walk Farm was until the early twentieth century known as Aylmer’s Hall, and had been since it was built in the late fifteenth century. The Cambridge alumni database, which present resident of Walk Farm Liz Chubbock has researched for me, states his birth place as “Aylmer Hall, Tivetshall, Norfolk”. The Oxford DNB has him as “descended from the Norfolk branch of an ancient family long established in Tivetshall St Mary”, though this is not quite the same as saying he was born there.

But to confuse matters even more, a local history group in Wacton, the next parish north of Tivetshall St Mary, tell me of village ‘folklore/myth/legend/story/fact’ of his birth at Wacton Hall, though “this may not have been grand enough to have been the dynastic home of a wealthy family”. This too changed its name – from Aylmer Hall, this time – in the twentieth century, at least as recently as 1906! Maybe Nortfolk villagers got tired of spelling Aylmer … The Wacton village sign commemorates him, encased in a barrel – perhaps a refernce to his exile, see below.

Wherever, he would have been baptised at the local church, but which one is therefore a matter of some speculation.

He studied at Queen’s College, Cambridge, and in 1549 became tutor to the 12-year old Lady Jane Grey, later famously to be Queen of England for nine days. She found him the opposite of her strict parents; he, some say, fell in love.

Into exile – and back again

John became Archdeacon of Stow, Lincolnshire, in 1553, but like many non-Catholic churchmen fled to exile during Queen Mary’s reign. Here he lived principally in Strasbourg and Zurich.

Returning after Elizabeth’s accession in 1558, he soon became noticed, and secured the Archdeaconry of Lincoln in 1562.

He was a proud Englishman, writing in 1559:

   “Oh if thou knewest thou Englishmen in what wealth thou livest, and in how plentiful a country: Thou woldst VII times a day fall flat on they face before God and give him thanks that thou ws born an Englishman, and not an Italian, nor German.”

(Quoted in Asa Briggs’s “A Social History of England”)

In that same year, he published a devastating critique of Knox’s ‘Monstrous Regiment of Women’. This was not to say he was a feminist. He was to preach – allegedly before Queen Elizabeth herself – that women were:

   “of two sorts, some of them wiser, better learned, discreeter, and more constant than a number of men; but another and worse sort, and the most part fond, foolish, wanton flibbergibs, tatlers, triflers, wavering, witless, without council, feeble, careless, rash, proud, dainty, nice, talebearers, eavesdroppers, rumour-raisers, evil-tongued, worse-minded, and in every way doltified with the dregs of the devil’s dunghill.”

Lincoln was (and is) a major diocese, and with his undoubted intellectual abilities and appropriate (for the time) religious certainty, promotion may have been no surprise.

Promotion to London

John Aylmer became Bishop of London in 1576. It seems alas to have been an over-promotion.

The fault was not in his intellectual capabilities: he was a talented linguist and a formidable logician, and when challenged as misappropriating church funds he marshalled all the books in perfect order to defeat the argument. As the Dictionary of National Bibliography admits, John “deserves to be commended for his attachment to learning and for his discerning patronage of scholars”.

The fault was in his nature. Bishop John used judicial process to keep both Puritans and Catholics at heel, sought to strangle the newly-reborn Cambridge University Press – the publishing house of his own alma mater – and ostentatiously played bowls on the Sabbath. The DNB minces no words:

   “[his] arbitrary and unconciliatory disposition comes frequently into unpleasing prominence … Both from his views and temperament, Aylmer was ill-qualified to fill the episcopal office in the trying times in which he lived.”

He seems to have recognised that his personality was overstretched, and tried to escape to the quieter sees of Ely, Winchester, and Worcester (the latter at Elizabeth’s personal request), but to no avail.

Yet John’s significance to the still-young Protestant state can hardly be under-estimated. Militantly anti-Catholic, he has been reported as “[assigning] to Queen Elizabeth the messianic task of destroying Antichrist in Britain”. (See the Alchemy website).

As one of the commission that examined whether England should adopt the Gregorian calendar, as had the rest of Europe, he was influential in ensuring that it would not do so for another two centuries – apparently, because English Protestant theologians could not countenance adopting a measure approved by a papal bull.

Marriage, line and burial

John married Judith Bures, of a notable Suffolk family, and with her had ten children. One (unnamed) daughter made an apparently unsuitable match in Adam Squier, a Staffordshire rector, who John made Archdeacon of Middlesex – another case, it seems, of ecclesiastical over-promotion. (See the records of the Cumnor Historical Society).

Another daughter, Elizabeth, made it seems a better match in Sir John Foliot, of Pirton Court, near Pershore in Worcestershire. Through them ‘Aylmer’ persisted as a Midlands forename – it is an area with few Aylmer connections otherwise – for example their son Aylmer Foliot (picture 3, age 15), later of Blakesley Hall, Yardley, Warwickshire. I am indebted to the Birmingham City library service for this information. Another son, Edward (1609-90), studied at Oxford and was known to have lived in America.

A further American link comes from my US correspondent Lena Elmer, a descendant of Bishop John through his son Theophilus. Edward Elmer (note the corruption), the eighth son and fifteenth child of Theophilius, came to the new world on the ship Lyon with his wife and two children.

Bishop John was buried at St Paul’s Cathedral, and granted an inscription (no longer visible) that gave no praise. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Bishop John Aylmer aka Elmer Born about 1521 in Tivetshall St Mary, Norfolk, England Husband of Judith (King) Aylmer — married Father of Catherine Aylmer, Samuel Aylmer, Tobel Tobias Aylmer, Edmund Aylmer, Judith Aylmer, Theophilus Aylmer, John Aylmer, Elizabeth (Aylmer) Foliot, Zachariah Aylmer and Nathaniel Aylmer Died 5 Jun 1594 in London, England John was born about 1521 in Tilney St. Lawrence, Norfolk. His schooling was at Cambridge, due to his patron Henry Grey. He would later be installed as Henry Grey's personal chaplain and tutor to his children, notably Lady Jane Grey.

He passed away in 1594 while serving as Bishop of London.

Name

John Aylmer [1][2][3]

Other forms of his name: Ælmer or Elmer [1][3][4]

Birth

About 1521 at Aylmer Hall in Tilney St. Lawrence, Norfolk, England [2]

Marriage

Judith King, a lady of Suffolk [1][2]

Children

Children of John and Judith: [1]

Samuel Aylmer [2] Theophilus Aylmer [2] John Aylmer [2] Zachariah Aylmer [2][3] Nathaniel Aylmer [2][3] Tobel Tobias Aylmer [2] Edmund Aylmer [2] Catherine Aylmer [2] Judith Aylmer [2] Elizabeth Aylmer [2]

Title

D.D. (Doctor of Divinity) [2][3] of Aylmer Hall [2] Bishop of London [1][2][3] Lord Almoner [2][3] Archdeacon of Lincoln [2][3] Aylmer of Revesby [2]

Timeline

I can't locate the source "Cooper, II. 168; D.N.B." D.N.B. is likely Dictionary of National Biography.

1521 Birth at Aylmer Hall, Tilney St. Lawrence, Norfolk, England 1540-1 Bachelors of Art, Queens College, Cambridge [3] 1545 Masters of Art, Queens College, Cambridge [3] Tutor to Lady Jane Grey [3] 1541 Rector of Rodney Stoke and Stoke Gifford. [3] 1543 Vicar of Wellington, Somerset, England. [3] 1543 Prebendary of Wells, Somerset, England. [3] Before 1547 Married Judith King of Suffolk, by whom he had a large family. 1547 Birth of 1st son, Samuel at Tilney, Norfolk, England. 1549 Birth of 2nd son, Theopilus in Norfolk, England. 1553 Rector of Market Bosworth in Leicestershire, England. 1553 Archdeacon of Stow, Lincolnshire, England. [3] 1553 Retired to Strassburg and Zurich, under Queen Mary. 1557 Birth of son Tobel Tobias, Tilney, Norfolk, England. 1558 Returned to England. 1559 Birth of son Edmund, Tilney, Norfolk, England. 1561 Birth of daughter Judith, Tilney, Norfolk, England. 1561 Rector of Cossington, Leicestershire, England. [3] 1562-1577 Archdeacon of Lincoln, Lincolnshire, England. [3] 1563 Birth of daughter Elizabeth at Lincoln, Lincolnshire, England. 1565 Birth of son Theophilus at Lincoln, Lincolnshire, England. 1568 Birth of son John at Sibsey, Lincolnshire, Englandmap. 1572 Doctor of Divinity, Queens College, Cambridge [3] 1573 Incorp. at Oxford 1576 Birth of son Nathaniel at Leicestershire, England 1577-94 Bishop of London [3] 06/03/1594 Died. Buried in St Paul's. [3]

(Cooper, II. 168; D.N.B.)

Death

3 June 1594 in Greater London, England [2][3][1]

Burial

6 June 1594 St. Paul's Cathedral in Greater London, England [1][2][3][4]

Sources

Stephen, Sir Leslie, Dictionary of National Biography, 1921–1922, 22 volumes London, England: Oxf. Ancestry.com, Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2010. This collection was indexed by Ancestry World Archives Project contributors.

Text from volume 1, page 753: AYLMER, JOHN (1521-1594), bishop of London, whose name, contracted from the Saxon Æthelmær, also appears as Ælmer or Elmer, was born of an ancient family long resident at their ancestral seat of Aylmer Hall, in the parish of Tivetshall St. Mary, Norfolk. When a schoolboy he attracted the notice of Henry Grey, marquis of Dorset, and afterwards duke of Suffolk, by whose liberality he was sent to be educated at Cambridge. He proceeded B.A. in 1541, and, shortly after taking orders, was installed by his patron as his private chaplain and tutor to his children at Bradgate in Leicestershire. In his latter capacity he became the instructor of Lady Jane Grey, whose testimony to his merits as one who taught 'gently,' 'pleasantly,' and 'with such fair allurements to learning,' is preserved in the well-known story told by Ascham (Scholemaster, ed. Mayor, pp. 33-34).

Text from volume 1, page 754: Shortly before his death, however (3 June, 1594), Aylmer expressly intimated his hope that Bancroft might succeed him (MSS. Baker, xxxvi. 355). He was interred in St. Paul's Cathedral, but the 'fair stone of grey marble' which marked the place of his internment no longer appears. The inscription, which was altogether free from fulsome eulogy, sententiously recorded that he

Ter senos annos Præsul; semel Exul, et idem

Bis Pugil in causa religionis erat.

He married Judith Bures, a lady of Suffolk, by whom he had seven sons and three daughters. Of them, one (Samuel) was sheriff for the county of Suffolk; another (John) was knighted, and resided at Rigby in Lincolnshire.

The Harleian Society The Publications of The Harleian Society., established A.D. 1869.

Text from volume 50, Lincolnshire Pedigrees, page 53: John Aylmer of Aylmer Hall, Tilney, Norfolk: John Aylmer, D.D., tutor to Lady Jane Grey; Bishop of London 1576; Lord Almoner, elected 12 March 1557; was Archdeacon of Lincoln 27 Oct. 1565; purchased the manor of Revesby about 8 May 32 Eliz., 1590; died 5 June 1594, æt. 73; funeral ceremony 26 June.

Text from volume 44, Sir William Musgrave, A General Nomenclature and Obituary, page 74: Aylmer, John, Bp. Of London 1576. 3 June 1594, æt 73. (Hack Epit. 172 ; MSS.; Neve's Fasti, 180 ; Fuller's Worth, 248.)

Text from volume 44, Sir William Musgrave, A General Nomenclature and Obituary, page 74: Aylmer, John, of Aylmer Hall, Norfolk, Archdese. of Stow and Linc.. 82 Bp. London. 1594, æt 73. (Engl. Worth. 516 ; (Carter's Camb. 387.)

Ancestry.com, Oxford University Alumni, 1500-1886, [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2007.

Original data: Foster, Joseph. Alumni Oxonienses: The Members of the University of Oxford, 1715-1886 and Alumni Oxonienses: The Members of the University of Oxford, 1500-1714. Oxford: Parker and Co., 1888-1892. Original text: Aylmer, John (Elmer), archdeacon, B. & D.D. 10 Oct., 1573, after 20 years in theology; fellow Queen's Coll., Cambridge, B.A. 1541, M.A. 1545, tutor to Lady Jane Grey, rector of Rodney Stoke and Stoke Giffard 1541, vicar of Wellington, Somerset, 1543, preb. of Wells 1543, archdeacon of Stow (in Lincoln) 15 June, 1553, deprived within a year, held it again 1559, rector of Cassington, co. Leicester, 1561, archdeacon 1562 and preb. of Lincoln 1564, bishop of London 24 March, 1576-7, queen's almoner, died 3 June, 1594, buried in St. Paul's Cathedral, father of Nathaniel and Zachary. See Ath., ii. 832; Cooper, ii. 168; & Foster's Index Ecclesiasticus.

Ancestry.com, London, England, Baptisms, Marriages and Burials, 1538-1812, [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2010.

Original data: Church of England Parish Registers, 1538-1812. London, England: London Metropolitan Archives. London Metropolitan Archives, St Gregory by St Paul, Composite register: baptisms 1559 - 1627, marriages 1559 - 1626/7, burials 1559 - 1627, P69/GRE/A/001/MS10231 Original text: Name, John Elmer; Burial Date, 6 Jun 1594; Parish, St Gregory by St Paul; County, London; Borough, City of London; Record Type, Burial; Register Type, Parish Register.

Links

http://interactive.ancestry.com/1624/31281_A101615-00157/7040833?ba...

http://interactive.ancestry.com/8942/RDUK1500_0004-0064/403399?back...

http://interactive.ancestry.com/1981/31205_Vol22-00409/87282?backur...

Notes

The birth location from Stephen, Sir Leslie, Dictionary of National Biography, lists the birthplace as Tivetshall St. Mary. This must be inaccurate.

Additional sources and notes from merges

These need to be properly filed, your help would be greatly appreciated.

https://familysearch.org/wiki/en/England_Domesday_Book,_Monastic_Cartularies,_Hundred_Rolls,_Valor_Ecclesiasticus,_Parliamentary_Surveys,_National_Farm_Surveys_(National_Institute) http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?indiv=1&dbid=5949&h=5070... http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?indiv=1&dbid=5908&h=8006... http://interactive.ancestry.com/1624/31281_A101615-00157/7040833?ba... http://interactive.ancestry.com/1624/31281_A101615-00157/7040833?ba... http://interactive.ancestry.com/1981/31205_Vol22-00409/87282?backur... https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1301881 https://www.britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/en-226252-aylmer-s-hall-wa...

Sources checked and not used

[This source states wife and children of Bishop John Aylmer] http://interactive.ancestry.com/1900/31854_A012568-00013?pid=23890&... This link leads to an Ancestry file which will not be available to everyone. It's actually a copy of information found elsewhere: Original data: Frank Watt Tyler. The Tyler Collection. Canterbury, Kent, England: The Institute of Heraldic and Genealogical Studies. 71 Volumes. The actual file is that of George Elmer, dated 1726, 200 years after the birth of John Aylmer. It does show the link back to John Aylmer from "Visitation of Hertfordshire 1572-1634."

Footnotes

↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 DNB ↑ 2.00 2.01 2.02 2.03 2.04 2.05 2.06 2.07 2.08 2.09 2.10 2.11 2.12 2.13 2.14 2.15 2.16 2.17 2.18 2.19 2.20 PHS ↑ 3.00 3.01 3.02 3.03 3.04 3.05 3.06 3.07 3.08 3.09 3.10 3.11 3.12 3.13 3.14 3.15 3.16 3.17 3.18 3.19 3.20 3.21 OUA ↑ 4.0 4.1 LBMB