Francis Mallet
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Francis Mallet (Mallett) (died 1570) was an English churchman and academic, and chaplain to Mary Tudor.
He graduated from the University of Cambridge, B.A. in 1522, M.A. (1525) and D.D. (1535), and became the last Master of Michaelhouse, Cambridge, in 1533.[1]. He had in this the support of Thomas Cromwell; Mallet became chaplain to Thomas Cranmer in the mid-1530s, and was chaplain to Cromwell in 1538.[2] Mallet was Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cambridge, in 1536 and in 1540. The college was dissolved by Henry VIII in 1546.
He became chaplain to the Princess Mary in 1544. Under Edward VI, he ran into trouble, for celebrating mass for Mary, in May 1551. He was confined to the Tower of London for a period.[3] He was later made Dean of Lincoln (1554[4]), by Mary as Queen. Around the time of her death, he was nominated (14 October 1558[5]) as Bishop of Salisbury[6], but was unable to take up the post, remaining Dean.
[edit] Reference
- Concise Dictionary of National Biography
[edit] Notes
- ^ The parish of Lancaster (in Lonsdale hundred) - Church, advowson and charities | British History Online
- ^ George John Gray, Athenae Cantabrigienses (1858), p. 290.
- ^ Whitelock, A. & MacCulloch, D., Princess Mary's household and the succession crisis, July 1553, The Historical Journal, Volume 50, Number 2, June 2007
- ^ John Foxe's Book of Martyrs
- ^ Bishops | British History Online
- ^ CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Salisbury
