HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS 



CONCERNING THE 



RIGHT REVEREND FATHER IN GOD, 



JOHN AY L M E R, 



SOMETIME 



LORD BISHOP OF LONDON. 



CHAP. I. 



His birth, education, and preferments ,- exile and return. 

 Made Archdeacon of Lincoln. 



-DISHOP Aylmer (of whom this ensuing book must treat) The name 

 bore a name variously written ; sometimes Aylmer, some- of Aylr 

 times Ailemare, (and so I find it written by the learned int.MSS.D. 

 Camden Clarentieux in one of his books of heraldry,) Jf^r g Mil 

 sometimes Elmer, sometimes ^Elmer, with the Saxon diph- ciaren- 

 thong, (and so he wrote himself,) contracted, as it -seems, 

 from the Saxon name Adelmar, or Ethelmar ; for that the 

 name is Saxon is undoubted. And in the catalogue of the 

 Bishops of Sherborn in the Saxon times, viz. anno 1009, 

 we have one of the same name. 



He was one of the excellent Bishops made choice of by 

 Queen Elizabeth to assist in the government of the Church 

 of England; and placed in one of the chief sees thereof, 

 being to superintend ecclesiastical matters in the chief me 

 tropolis of the realm, the city of London, with the diocese 

 thereof. 



He was a gentleman bv birth, of the ancient family of Hls extract 



and birth. 



