YALE, Doctor Thomas

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• Name	YALE, Thomas
  Prefix	Doctor
  Birth	1526	Plas-Yn-Yale, Denbigh, Wales
  Gender	Male
  Burial	1577	London, Middlesex, England
  Death	Nov 1577
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  Father	ELISE, Dafydd Llwyd Ap ,   b. 1487, Plas Grono, Denbeighshire, Wales, England Plas Grono, Denbeighshire, Wales, Englandd. 1570, Denbeighshire, Denbeighshire, Wales (Age 83 years)
  Mother	LLOYD, Gwenhwyfar ,   b. Abt 1511, Llwynymaen, Wales Llwynymaen, Walesd. DECEASED
  Marriage	Abt 1530	Wrexham, Denbeighshire, Wales
  Family ID	F27909	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

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  Edward Irving Carlyle, "Yale, Thomas," in Sidney Lee, ed., "Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900," Vol. 63 (London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1900), 283. YALE, THOMAS (1526?–1577), civilian, born in 1525 or 1526 (Strype, Life of Parker, ii. 186), graduated B.A. at Cambridge University in 1542–3, and was elected a fellow of Queens' College about 1544. He commenced M.A. in 1546, and filled the office of bursar to his college from 1549 to 1551. He was one of the proctors of the university for the year commencing Michaelmas 1552, but resigned before the expiration of his term of office. In 1554 he was appointed commissary of the diocese of Ely under the chancellor, John Fuller (d. 1558) [q. v.], and in 1555 he was keeper of the spiritualities of the diocese of Bangor during the vacancy after the death of Arthur Bulkeley [q. v.] In that year he subscribed the Roman catholic articles imposed upon all graduates of the university. In November 1556 his name occurs in the commission for the suppression of heresy within the diocese of Ely, and he assisted in the search for heretical books during the visitation of the university by Cardinal Pole's delegates (Cooper, Annals of Cambridge, 1843, ii. 110). In January 1556–7 he was among those empowered by the senate to reform the composition for the election of proctors and to revise the university statutes (ib. ii. 129). He was created LL.D. in 1557, and admitted an advocate of the court of arches on 26 April 1559. In the same year he and four other leading civilians subscribed an opinion that the commission issued by the queen for the consecration of Matthew Parker [q. v.], archbishop of Canterbury, was legally valid (Strype, Life of Parker, i. 109). On 25 March 1560 he was admitted to the prebend of Offley in the church of Lichfield. In the same year he became rector of Leverington in the Isle of Ely, and was one of the archiepiscopal commissioners for visiting the churches and dioceses of Canterbury, Rochester, and Peterborough (ib. i. 144, 151, 152). On 24 April 1561 the archbishop commissioned him and Walter Wright to visit the church, city, and diocese of Oxford (ib. i. 205; Nasmith, Catalogus MSS. Coll. Corporis Christi in Acad. Cantabr. 1777, p. 186). On 28 June he was constituted for life judge of the court of audience, official principal, chancellor, and vicar-general to the archbishop of Canterbury, and in the same year obtained the rectory of Llantressant in Anglesey. In 1562 he became chancellor of the diocese of Bangor, and in May was commissioned by the archbishop to visit the colleges of All Souls and Merton at Oxford (Strype, Parker, i. 228). In 1563 he was on a commission to visit the diocese of Ely (ib. i. 258; Nasmith, p. 287). On 7 July 1564 he was instituted to the prebend of Vaynoll in the diocese of St. Asaph. In 1566 he was one of the masters in ordinary of the court of chancery, and was placed on a commission to visit the diocese of Bangor (Strype, Parker, i. 405, 509). In 1567 he was appointed dean of the arches, a post which he resigned in 1573, and was one of the commissioners for the visitation of the church and diocese of Norwich (ib. i. 493). By a patent confirmed on 15 July 1571 he was constituted joint-keeper of the prerogative court of Canterbury (ib. ii. 26). On Parker's death in 1575 he acted as one of his executors (ib. iii. 336), and Parker's successor, Edmund Grindal [q. v.], appointed him his vicar-general (Strype, Life of Grindal, p. 287). On 23 April 1576 he was placed on a commission for repressing religious malcontents (ib. p. 310). On 2 May he and Nicholas Robinson (d. 1585) [q. v.], bishop of Bangor, were empowered by Grindal to visit on his behalf the diocese of Bangor, and on 17 Aug. he and Gilbert Berkeley [q. v.], bishop of Bath and Wells, were in like manner commissioned to visit the church at Wells (ib. pp. 314–15). In the same year Yale represented to Grindal the need of reforms in the court of audience (ib. pp. 307–9). On Grindal's suspension in June 1577, Yale discharged his judicial duties for him, continuing to act until November, when he fell ill (ib. p. 343). He died in November or December 1577. He married Joanna (d. 12 Sept. 1587), daughter of Nicholas Waleron. For many years Yale was an ecclesiastical high commissioner. Some manuscript extracts by him entitled ‘Collecta ex Registro Archiepiscoporum Cantuar.’ are preserved among the Cottonian manuscripts (Cleopatra F. i. 267), and were printed in Strype's ‘Life of Parker,’ iii. 177–82. A statement of his case in a controversy for precedency with Bartholomew Clerke [q. v.] is among the Petyt manuscripts in the library of the Inner Temple. An elegy on Yale by Peter Leigh is preserved in the British Museum (Addit. MS. 26737, f. 43). [Cooper's Athenæ Cantabr. i. 379–80; Le Neve's Fasti, ed. Hardy; Strype's Life of Parker, 1821, passim; Strype's Annals, 1824, I. i. 472, ii. 115, 213, II. i. 170–2; Strype's Life of Grindal, 1821, pp. 179, 286; Newcourt's Repert. Eccles. Londin. 1708, i. 444; Rymer's Fœdera, xv. 781; Parker Corresp. (Parker Soc.), pp. 128–9, 300–1, 343–5, 370, 382–3; Lansdowne MS. 981, f. 93; Todd's Cat. of Lambeth MSS. 1812, p. 85.] ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Dictionary of Welsh Biography, http://yba.llgc.org.uk/en/s-YALE-PLA-1500.html THOMAS YALE (c. 1526 - 1577), ecclesiastical lawyer, third son of David Lloyd (Yale) by Gwenhwyfar Lloyd of Llwyn-y-maen (see under Edward Lloyd (1570 - 1648?), was educated at Queens’ College, Cambridge, of which he became Fellow (1544-67) on taking his bachelor's degree. Ten years after proceeding to M.A. (1546) he was admitted to minor orders (24 Sept. 1556) by bishop William Glyn, who inducted him to the rectory of Llantrisant (Anglesey) a few weeks later. He never resided there, qualifying instead for a legal career by becoming LL.D. (1557) and advocate of the court of Canterbury (1559)—in time to take a prominent part in legal arrangements for the appointment to Canterbury of Matthew Parker, who made him his chancellor, vicar-general, and judge of the court of audience, and used him as his right-hand man, sending him on many visitations, including two of Bangor (1566 and 1576)—the latter with Nicholas Robinson—and naming him as executor in his will. From 1562 to 1570 he was chancellor of Bangor diocese and from 1564 to 1573 prebendary of Faenol (S. Asaph), rated at 200 marks a year. He was Dean of Arches from 1567 to 1573, and on 12 July 1570 was made joint keeper, with Parker's son, of the prerogative court of Canterbury. When Grindal became archbishop in 1576 he consulted Yale and William Awbrey on the reform of the ecclesiastical courts, and on Grindal's sequestration, Yale administered the whole province till his fatal illness in Nov. 1577, when he was succeeded by Awbrey. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, lxiii, 282-3, and sources therein cited; J. E. Griffith, Pedigrees of Anglesey and Carnarvonshire Families (1914), 189; J. Y. W. Lloyd, History of the Princes, the Lords Marcher, and the Ancient Nobility of Powys Fadog, v, 136-44; A. N. Palmer, History of the thirteen country townships of the old parish of Wrexham, and of the townships of Burras Riffri, Erlas, & Erddig Being the fifth and last part of "A history of the town and parish of Wrexham" (1903), 216-20, 244-53; Thomas, A History of the Diocese of St. Asaph, 1912, 133; A. Ivor Pryce, The Diocese of Bangor in the sixteenth century being a digest of the registers of the bishops, A.D. 1512-1646 (1923), 15, 50; Venn, Alumni Cantabrigienses, I, iv, 486; N.L.W., Edward Owen Manuscripts at the National Library of Wales (Deeds), 43. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Jacob Youde William Lloyd, "The History of the Princes, the Lords Marcher, and the Ancient Nobility of Powys Fadog, and the Ancient Lords of Arwystli, Cedewen and Meirionydd," Vol. 5 (London: Whiting & Co., 1885), 139. II. Thomas Iâl, or Yale, D.C.L., Dean of the Court of Arches and Chancellor of the University of Cambridge, 1589. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Rodney Horace Yale, "Yale Genealogy and History of Wales," (Beatrice, NE: Milburn & Scott Company, 1908), 79. Thomas Yale, LL. D., Prebendary of St. Asaph, 7 July, 1564. Dean of the Arches, and Chancellor of Bangor. Dr. Yale, who was also Chancellor of Matthew Parker, Archbishop of Canterbury, died 1577. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Alumni Cantabrigienses Thomas YALE B.A. 1543/4 (1st in the ordo). 3rd s. of David (Lloyd ap Ellis), of Plas-yn-yale, Denbighshire. M.A. 1546; LL.D. 1557. Fellow of Queens', 1544-57. Proctor, 1552-3. Commissary of Ely diocese [Cambridgeshire], 1554. Adm. advocate, 1559. Preb. of Lichfield [Staffordshire], 1560. R. of Leverington, Cambridgeshire, 1560. R. of Llantrisant, Anglesey, 1561. Chancellor and Vicar-General to the Archbishop of Canterbury, 1561. Chancellor of Bangor [Caernarvonshire], 1562-70. Preb. of St Asaph [Flintshire], 1564-78. Dean of the Arches, 1567-73. Joint-Keeper of the Prerogative Court of Canterbury [Kent], 1571. Married Joanna, dau. of Nicholas Waleron. Died 1577; buried in St Gregory's church [London], near St Paul's Cathedral [London]. Will (P.C.C.). Perhaps brother of David (1555). (Cooper, I. 379; Burke, L.G. ; D.N.B. ; D. R. Thomas, I. 333.)