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GOODRICH, or GOODRICKE, THOMAS (d. 1554)

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Originally appearing in Volume V12, Page 238 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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GOODRICH, or GOODRICKE, See also:THOMAS (d. 1554)  , See also:English ecclesiastic, was a son of See also:Edward See also:Goodrich of See also:East See also:Kirkby, See also:Lincolnshire, and was educated at Corpus Christi See also:College, See also:Cambridge, afterwards becoming a See also:fellow of Jesus College in the same university . He was among the divines consulted about the legality of See also:Henry VIII.'s See also:marriage with See also:Catherine of See also:Aragon, became one of the royal chaplains about 1530, and was consecrated See also:bishop of See also:Ely in 1534 . He was favourable to the See also:Reformation, helped in 1537 to draw up the Institution of a See also:Christian See also:Man (known as the Bishops' See also:Book), and translated the See also:Gospel of St See also:John for the revised New Testament . On the See also:accession of Edward VI. in 1547 the bishop was made a privy councillor, and took a conspicuous See also:part in public affairs during the reign . " A busy See also:secular spirited man," as See also:Burnet calls him, he was equally opposed to the zealots of the " old " and the " new See also:religion." He assisted to compile the First See also:Prayer Book of Edward VI., was one of the commissioners for the trial of Bishop See also:Gardiner, and in See also:January 1551–1552 succeeded See also:Rich as See also:lord high See also:chancellor . This See also:office he continued to hold during the nine days' xeign of " See also:Queen Jane " (See also:Lady Jane See also:Grey); but he continued to make his See also:peace with Queen See also:Mary, conformed to the restored religion, and, though deprived of the chancellorship, was allowed to keep his bishopric until his See also:death on the loth of May 1554 . See the Dict . Nat . Biog., where further authorities are cited .

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