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Open question
Open: identity of 'mr. Warford' and the advowson (CCEd unexhausted)
The clergyman 'mr. Warford' whom Mrs. Gurney presented in 1627 is unidentified: no Warford of any spelling appears in Venn's Alumni Cantabrigienses (to 1751), and none in Foster's Oxford register beyond too-early Bristol men. The Norwich diocesan institution registers (the Clergy of the Church of England Database) are the remaining route, and his institution would name the Gurney-held advowson.
Why this conclusion
- Depends on Evidence 1627 Gurdon–Winthrop letter: 'mrs. Gurny' presents through the Court of WardsThe open Warford identity is raised by, and turns on, the 1627 letter.
- Required by Open question Did John emigrate through the Gurdon-Winthrop Court of Wards network, or merely out of the same county?The same Norwich institution-book search that would identify the 1627 clergyman Warford would document the wardship presentation.
Qualifications and conflicts
- Qualified by Evidence Blomefield: the Gurney-held West Barsham living, its 1603-1743 institution gap, and the excluded Norfolk livingsBlomefield locates the presentation at the Gurney-held West Barsham living and shows why its 1627-28 institution is invisible there, narrowing the open Warford search to the Norwich diocesan institution books and pointing to the Crown (Master of the Wards) as the likely patron of record during Edward's minority.
Sources
- John Venn and J. A. Venn (comps.), Alumni Cantabrigienses: A Biographical List of All Known Students, Graduates and Holders of Office at the University of Cambridge, from the Earliest Times to 1900 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1922-1954); consulted via the online ACAD database (A Cambridge Alumni Database)., Alumni Cantabrigienses, Part I (to 1751): no Warford of any spelling
- Joseph Foster, Alumni Oxonienses: The Members of the University of Oxford, 1500-1714, 4 vols. (Oxford: Parker & Co., 1891-1892)., Alumni Oxonienses 1500-1714: only Elizabethan Bristol Warfordes, too early
Topic file location: Origin — wardship and patronage network
Technical details
- Research item:
G13-RI-000085 - Graph revision:
244 - Machine-readable JSON:
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