Richard Betts (priest)

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Richard Betts was an Anglican priest.^[1]

Betts was Chaplain-in-Ordinary to King James I & VI.^[2] He was appointed Bishop of Kilfenora by letters patent on 19 September 1628,^[3] but who, when he arrived in Ireland and learned of the poverty of the see, declined the appointment and left without consecration.^[4]

Notes

↑ "Clare Places – Kilfenora: Historical Background". clarelibrary.ie. Retrieved 29 May 2018.
↑ Fryde, E. B.; Greenway, D. E.; Porter, S.; Roy, I., eds. (1986). Handbook of British Chronology (3rd, reprinted 2003 ed.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-56350-X.
↑ Moody, T. W.; Martin, F. X.; Byrne, F. J., eds. (1984). Maps, Genealogies, Lists: A Companion to Irish History, Part II. New History of Ireland. Vol. 9. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-821745-5.
↑ Cotton, Henry (1851). The Province of Munster. Fasti Ecclesiae Hiberniae: The Succession of the Prelates and Members of the Cathedral Bodies of Ireland. Vol. 1 (2nd ed.). Dublin: Hodges and Smith.

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[clarelibrary-1] "Clare Places – Kilfenora: Historical Background". clarelibrary.ie. Retrieved 29 May 2018.

[2] Fryde, E. B.; Greenway, D. E.; Porter, S.; Roy, I., eds. (1986). Handbook of British Chronology (3rd, reprinted 2003 ed.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-56350-X.

[3] Moody, T. W.; Martin, F. X.; Byrne, F. J., eds. (1984). Maps, Genealogies, Lists: A Companion to Irish History, Part II. New History of Ireland. Vol. 9. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-821745-5.

[4] Cotton, Henry (1851). The Province of Munster. Fasti Ecclesiae Hiberniae: The Succession of the Prelates and Members of the Cathedral Bodies of Ireland. Vol. 1 (2nd ed.). Dublin: Hodges and Smith.

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