Richard Betts (priest)

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Richard Betts was a Seventeenth Century 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

  1. ↑ "Clare Places - Kilfenora: Historical Background". clarelibrary.ie. Retrieved 2018-05-29.
  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.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
  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. Volume 9. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN   0-19-821745-5.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
  4. ↑ Cotton, Henry (1851). The Province of Munster. Fasti Ecclesiae Hiberniae: The Succession of the Prelates and Members of the Cathedral Bodies of Ireland. Volume 1 (2nd ed.). Dublin: Hodges and Smith.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)


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