John Favour (died 1624) was an English

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Life

Favour was born in

Southampton Southampton () is a port city in the ceremonial county of Hampshire in southern England. It is located approximately south-west of London and west of Portsmouth. The city forms part of the South Hampshire built-up area, which also covers Po ...

, and was sent to

Winchester College Winchester College is a public school (fee-charging independent day and boarding school) in Winchester, Hampshire, England. It was founded by William of Wykeham in 1382 and has existed in its present location ever since. It is the oldest of the ...

, whence he was elected probationer fellow of

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, in 1576, and in 1578 was made complete fellow. In April 1584 he took the degree of

LL.B. Bachelor of Laws ( la, Legum Baccalaureus; LL.B.) is an undergraduate law degree in the United Kingdom and most common law jurisdictions. Bachelor of Laws is also the name of the law degree awarded by universities in the People's Republic of Chi ...

, proceeding

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on 5 June 1592 (Wood, ''Fasti Oxon.'' ed. Bliss, i. 258). In January 1593–4 he became vicar of Halifax, Yorkshire. In August 1608 according to Thoresby, but in March 1618 according to Wood, he was made warden of St. Mary Magdalen's Hospital at

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, Yorkshire. He was made prebendary of Southwell in 1611 and of

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, York, in 1614. In March 1616–17 he was collated to the prebend of

Driffield Driffield, also known as Great Driffield, is a market town and civil parish in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England. The civil parish is formed by the town of Driffield and the village of Little Driffield. By road, it is north-east of Leeds ...

and to the chantorship of the church of York. He was also chaplain to the archbishop and residentiary. Favour died on 10 March 1623–4, and was buried in the chancel of Halifax Church, where on a pillar on the south side of the choir is an inscription to his memory (Watson, ''Hist. of Halifax'', pp. 377–8). He married at Leeds, on 12 November 1695, Ann Power, probably the daughter of William Power, rector of

Barwick-in-Elmet Barwick-in-Elmet (pronounced ''Barrick-in-Elmet'') is a village in West Yorkshire, east of Leeds city centre. It is one of only three places in the area to be explicitly associated with the ancient Romano-British kingdom of Elmet, the others ...

, near that town.

Ralph Thoresby Ralph Thoresby (16 August 1658 – 16 October 1725) was an antiquarian, who was born in Leeds and is widely credited with being the first historian of that city. Besides being a merchant, he was a nonconformist, fellow of the Royal Society, diar ...

, ''Ducatus Leodiensis'', ed.

Thomas Dunham Whitaker Thomas Dunham Whitaker (1759–1821) was an English clergyman and topographer. Life Born at Raynham, Norfolk, on 8 June 1759, he was the son of William Whitaker (1730–1782), curate of Raynham, Norfolk, and his wife Lucy, daughter of Robert Du ...

, p. 258

Works

Favour published "Antiqvitie trivmphing over Noveltie: Whereby it is proved that Antiqvitie is a true and certaine Note of the Christian Catholicke Church and verity, against all new and late vpstart heresies aduancing themselues against the religious honour of old Rome", &c., pp. 602, London, 1619. From the dedication to Tobie Mathew, archbishop of York, it appears that the work was begun by the author when he was "threescore yeares old" at the desire, and carried on under the encouragement, of the archbishop. As an instance of the ignorance of the people when the Bible was withheld from them by the "Romanists", he relates at page 334 a story of a woman who, when she "heard the passion of Christ read in her owne tongue", wept bitterly. "After some pause and recollection of her spirits, she asked where this was done, & when: it was answered, many thousand miles hence at Ierusalem, and a great while ago, about fifteene hundred yeares. Then (quoth she) if it was so farre off, and so long ago, by the grace of God it might proue a lye, and therein she comforted her selfe."

References

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