Career
Following this advancement he was promoted to other posts:
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- "Canon and prebendary of the collegiate church of St. Stephen in Westminster Palace (until 1539);"; 1526 Collated: Warden of the church of Stratford-Upon-Avon, Preceptor of the hospital of St.Wulstans, Magister, Bachelor of Civil law, acta capitularia (Chapter act book) Coventry & Lichfield diocese 1528 Collated: Doctor of Canon law, Lincoln Cathedral, Doctor of Civil law, St. Pauls, Rector of Gloucestershire, Weston-sub-Edge, Lichfield, Southwell and St.Paul’s, Cathedrals 1529 Collated: Magister, Doctor of Civil law Gloucester, 1539 Collated: Archdeacon of Gloucester.
Wolsey, would appoint Bell to the membership of the Legantine court of audience, where in 1523, he examined William Tyndall on charges of heresy.
One such mission was to secure a religious and political relationship with the Lutheran Princes in Germany. While abroad Bell was made LL.D of some foreign university, in which his degree was incorporated at Oxford in 1531.
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