Henry (Bawle) Ball (abt. 1554 - bef. 1603)

Born about 1554 in Lichfield, Staffordshire, England

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Biography

Henry Ball was educated at New College Oxford which he entered in 1571. He was awarded a BA degree on 28 Feb 1575/6, an MA on the 27 Oct 1579, and a Bachelor of Divinity on 4 July 1588.

He was precentor (i.e. a minor canon who administers the musical life of a cathedral) and a prebendary of Bursalis in 1582 at Chichester Cathedral, where his uncle Edmund Weston was prebendiary of Gates from 1561, warden of the Hospital of a SS James and Mary from 1567 and resident from 1569 until his death in 1570.^[1]Henry was licenced to preach and appointed Rector of Ulcombe in Kent on 2nd August the following year. He is again recorded as Precentor of Chichester in 1587 when he became a prebendary of Owinge. On 20 Jan 1593 he became a resident Canon at Chichester Cathedral Henry was awarded a Doctor of Divinity on 4 July 1594 and made an Archdeacon 14 Apr 1596 until his death. ^[2]

He married a Mary (possibly Rogers) c1575 in Lichfield. He wrote his will on 20th March 1602 leaving everything to his wife 'Marie' whom he also made executrix. The Will was proved in London by his widow on 31st May 1603. Two of the witnesses to his will were Rev. John White and Josias White.

Sources

1. ↑ http://db.theclergydatabase.org.uk/jsp/persons/CreatePersonFrames.jsp?PersonID=79385
2. ↑ http://db.theclergydatabase.org.uk/jsp/persons/DisplayPerson.jsp?PersonID=38039

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