FIELD
,
THEOPHILUS
(
1574
-
1636
),
bishop
;
b.
1574
. He was
bishop
of
Llandaff
1619-27
,
S. Davids
,
1627-35
, and
Hereford
,
1635-6
. His somewhat notorious career is recounted in the
D.N.B.
His name is included in the present volume merely because it was he who lent ‘
The Book of Llandav
’ to
John
Selden
(
Field
was the last
bishop
to write his name in that book); thus it was that
Llandaff
never recovered the manuscript, which passed from
Selden
to his
executor
John
Vaughan
(q.v.)
of
Trawsgoed
, thence (by marriage) to the house of
Llannerch
and
Gwysaney
(
see
Davies-Cooke
family,
Gwysaney
), and so eventually to the
National Library of Wales
(
N.L.W. Jnl.
,
Summer 1946
, 123-4). He d.
2 June 1636
.
Author:
Emeritus Professor Robert Thomas Jenkins, C.B.E., D.Litt., Ll.D.,
F.S.A., (1881-1969), Bangor
