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DEAN AND CHAPTER OF RIPON. 293
ries in 1546, and in the same year Archbishop Holgate
granted to Sir Ralph Sadler^ the next presentation
to the prebendal stall of Stanwick in the church of
Ripon— an arrangement which was ratified by act of
chapter under the presidency of Marmaduke Bradley.
Henry VIII., as we may also infer, did not contemplate
the suppression of the collegiate church of
Ripon. In the same year in which the act was
passed for the dissolution of chantries, collegiate institutions,
Sec, he made a grant to the Archbishop of
York for the time being of the patronage of the hospitals
of St. Mary Magdalene and St. John Baptist at
Ripon, and of all the prebendal stalls in its minster,
together with full power to visit and reform abuses.
It would also seem that the monarch intended the
president of the chapter to have the title of dean,
the body of canons or prebendaries having the designation
of " Dean and Chapter " given to them in this
grant.
Excepting as is hereinbefore mentioned, no progress
was made with regard to the reformation of the
public offices of the Church.
Henry clung to the last
to the ancient ritual, and, as is well known, his will
bears testimony to this fact. But the men of the New
Learning were biding their time, and it was not long
in coming. Henry died on the 28th January, 1547,
and Edward VI. was not long on the throne before
See " Ripon Chapter Acts " (App.), p. 351-4 [Pub. Surtees
Soc] Sir Ralph Sadler's name is well known in connexion
with his " State Papers," published in 1809, with a Memoir by
Sir Walter Scott.
' Cf. Drake (App.), p. xciv.