Biography of Bishop Ralph Baines 1504-1559
Around 1504 Bishop Ralph Baines was born.
On 18 Nov 1554 Bishop Ralph Baines (age 50) was consecrated Bishop of Lichfield.
Henry Machyn's Diary. 18 Nov 1554. The sam day was consecratyd nuw [bishops], on bysshope of Brystow (age 59), and a-nodur byshope of Lycheffeld and Coventre (age 50).
Henry Machyn's Diary. 21 Jun 1559. The xxj day of June was v bysshopes deprevyd, the bysshope of Lychfeld and Coventre (age 55), and the bysshope of Carley (age 52), the bysshope of Westchester, the bysshope of Landaffh (age 87), and the bysshope of ( ).
On 18 Nov 1559 Bishop Ralph Baines (age 55) died.
Henry Machyn's Diary. On or after 04 Jan 1560. The (blank) day was bered doctur Bayne, late byshope of Lychfeld and Coventre, in sant Donstons in the west [Map].
Note. P. 221. Funeral of the late bishop of Lichfield and Coventry. Ralph Baynes, elected 10 Nov. 1554; also deprived 1559. He died some weeks before Dr. Oglethorpe, when his burial at St. Dunstan's, Fleet Street, was thus entered in the parish register: "1559, Nov. 24. Mr. Doctor Banes." Collectanea Topogr. et Geneal. vol. iv. p. 116.