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Excerpt from Ecclesiastical Biography, Vol. 3 of 4: Or, Lives of Eminent Men, Connected With the History of Religion in England; From the Commencement of the Reformation to the Revolution; Selected and Illustrated With Notes
He was born in my native county of N orthumberland, and Sprung of the gentile pedigree of the Ridleys. One of his uncles was a knight, and another was doctor of divinity, who, by the name of Robert Ridley, was famous, not only at Cambridge, but at Raris, where he long studied; and throughout Eur0pe, by the writings of Polydore Virgil. At the charges of this doctor was our Nicholas long maintained at Cambridge, afterwards at Paris, and lastly at Louvain. After his return from the schools beyond the seas, he lived with us for many years in Pembroke Hall: but at length was called away from us to the bishop of Canterbury, whom he served faithfully and lastly, was raised to the dignity of a bishop. The town where he was born was called Willowmontiswich, now willowmont.-strype's Eccles. Memar.
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