Richard Dean of Christ CHurch College 1553  Martial Marshall

• General Notes
  • RICHARD MARSHALL: JOHN MORREN.— The 'D.N.B.,'
    xxx vi. 269, states of Richard Martial (
    or Marshall) that he "died, presumably
    in prison, some time in 1563." In this it
    follows Strype, 'Ann.,' i. ii. 49.
    The 'D.N.B.,' xxxix. 170, also says that from
    the year 1561 nothing is known of John Mor-
    ren (Murren, Morwen, Moring, or Morven).
    In both these statements the ' D.N.B.' is in
    error. On 21 February, 1567/8, the queen
    wrote to the Sheriff of Lancaster to apprehend
    and commit various deprived priests,
    and among them "Murrey, chaplen to Boner,
    late Bushop of London," and " Marshall, ones
    Deane of Christchurch in Oxford " (' S. P.
    Dom., Eliz.,' xlvi. 32). On 31 July and
    4 October, lf>G8 (Gillow, v. 62, 63), John
    Molineux confessed that "
    Vawse, Murren, M'shall, Peele, Ashbrooke,
    Priests, have been at his house, and there have
    been enterteynccl for a night or two or a meale or
    two, some whin the space of iii yeres, some w''in
    the space of theis two yeres now last past, and
    some sithenee."— ' S. P. Dom., Eli/.,' xlviii. 3U, ix.
    Cf. Chetham Society, X.S., vol. iv. pp. xlviii-xlix.
    At that date, then, all parties regarded
    both Marshall and Morren as alive, and if
    Marshall's recantation printed by Strype is
    genuine lie must have repented of it. John
    Morren was alive and imprisoned in Salford
    Fleet in 1584 (cf. 'S. P. Dora., Eliz.,'clxvii. 40), "
    condemned according to the statute for xii
    monethes absence."