Simon Aleyn
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Simon Aleyn
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Simon Aleyn was a Canon of Windsor from 1559–63 He was educated in Oxford and graduated BA 1539, MA 1542. He was appointed: Vicar of Cookham 1553
Vicar of Strathfieldsaye 1559 He was also Vicar of St Michael's Church, Bray, Berkshire and, according to Thomas Fuller and Richard Brome, is the likely subject of the famous ballad, "The Vicar of Bray". He was also thought to be the subject of a subsequent comic opera of the same name, but that opera makes no mention of Aleyn, and its text indicates t
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Anglican Canon of Windsor, died 1565
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