Richard Ingworth or Richard Yngworth, prior of Langley, was appointed Bishop of DoverJones-Baker, D. Hertfordshire in History Hertford: University of Hertfordshire Press, 2004 under the provisions of the Suffragan Bishops Act 1534 in 1537,From: 'Friaries: King's Langley priory', A History of the County of Hertford; Vol. 4 (1971), pp. 446-451. Date accessed: 31 December 2008. a post he held until his death eight years later.John Foxe's Book of Martyrs As Bishop of Dover, Yngworth acted as the agent for Henry VIII and Thomas Cromwell in obtaining the surrender of the friaries; as part of the suppression of the monasteries, nunneries and friaries of England and Wales.
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