John Davenant (1576-1641)
He bought the advowson of Newton-tony, Wilts, which he gave to Queene’s College762, Cambridge—quaere if not others.
He hung the choire of Sarum with purple velvet, which was plundered in the sacrilegious times.
Notes
760John Davenant, episcopus Sarum: his epitaph made by bishop Pierson761.