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GOODMAN, GODFREY, second son of Godfrey Goodman, Ruthin, Denbighshire, Chapter Clerk and Registrar, Westminster Abbey, and his second wife Jane, third dau. of Simon Croxton (or Cruxson), citizen and mercer, London, and of Merllyn, Ruthin; nephew of Very Rev. Gabriel Goodman, Dean of Westminster; b. 28 Feb 1582/3; adm. 1592; chorister; QS; elected head to Christ Church, Oxford 1599, adm. scholar 1600; BA 1603/4; MA 1607; BD 1614 (incorp. Oxford 11 Jul 1615); DD 1619; ordained deacon (Bangor) 1 Nov 1603, priest (London) 20 Dec 1606; Rector of Llansannan, Denbighshire (first portion) 1603-5; Vicar of Stapleford Abbots, Essex 20 Dec 1606 - Jun 1620; Rector of Llandyssil, Montgomeryshire 1607-15; Rector of Llansannan, Denbighshire (second portion) 1615-6; Rector of Ysceifiog, Flintshire 1616-21; Canon of Windsor from 20 Dec 1617, apparently dismissed or suspended c. 1639 but no successor was appointed and Goodman may have remained in office de iure until death; Rector of West Ilsley, Berks., 19 Jun 1620-46, sequestered; Dean of Rochester 4 Jan. 1620/1 -5; Rector of Llanarmon-yn-Ial, Denbighshire 31 Jul 1621- Jan 1625; consecrated Bishop of Gloucester 6 Mar 1624/5; reprimanded by Convocation for a sermon on the real presence 1628; charged with ritualistic practices by Prynne and others; Rector of Kemerton, Gloucs., 22 Sep 1631 – Oct 1636; his election to the see of Hereford annulled by the advice of Laud 1633; refused to sign the new canons of 1640, and was deprived “a beneficio et officio” by the two houses of Convocation 9 May 1640; committed to the Gatehouse, but released on signing the canons and restored to his see 10 Jul 1640; imprisoned in the Tower by order of the House of Commons in winter of 1641-2 for having signed the canons; his palace at Gloucester was sacked 1643; spent the last few years of his life in poverty in London; he stated in his will that he had always been “most constant … in all the doctrine of God’s Holy Catholick and Apostolick Church, whereof I do acknowledge the Church of Rome to be the Mother Church”; author, The Fall of Man, 1616, and other works; see G. I. Soden, Godfrey Goodman, Bishop of Rochester 1583-1656, 1953; d. unm. 19 Jan 1655/6. DNB.
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International Standard Archival Authority Record for Corporate Bodies, Persons and Families - ISAAR(CPF) 2nd edition
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Users should note that the information recorded here that is not to be found in the first two volumes of the Record of Old Westminsters and its first Supplement has been assembled from various published and manuscript sources by Hugh Edmund Pagan MA FSA, and all new resulting text is his copyright, © 2014.
The Record of Old Westminsters: A biographical list of all those who are known to have been educated at Westminster School from the earliest times to 1927, Volumes 1 & 2, compiled by G. F. Russell Barker and Alan H. Stenning, London, 1928.