Education
He graduated Master of Arts
He graduated Master of Arts
He was a native of Somerset. He was admitted a scholar of Corpus Christi College, Oxford, 10 March 1528, was elected a probationer fellow there on 13 October 1531, and two years later a full fellowship in 1534, Bachelor of Divinity in 1542, and Doctor of Divinity in 1546, having about that time subscribed the thirty-four articles He became chaplain to Edmund Bonner, bishop of London, who collated him on 9 July 1548 to the prebend of Twyford in Street Paul"s Cathedral.
In 1549 he distinguished himself in a public disputation with Peter Martyr, held in the divinity school at Oxford.
After the disgrace of Edward Seymour, 1st Duke of Somerset Chedsey inveighed openly at Oxford against the reformed doctrines, and in consequence was, by an order in council of 10 March 1551, committed to the Marshalsea for seditious preaching. He was imprisoned till 11 November 1551, when he was moved to the house of Thomas Goodrich, Bishop of Ely.
On the accession of Queen Mary he regained his liberty and received several marks of royal favour. He was presented by the queen to the living of All Saints, Bread Street, London.
A few days later Bonner collated him to the prebend of Chiswick in Street Paul"son
And by letters patent, dated 4 October the same year, he was appointed a canon of the collegiate chapel of Saint George at Windsor. On 28 November 1554 the lord mayor and aldermen in scarlet, and the commons in their liveries, assembled in Saint Paul"s, where Chedsey preached in the presence of the Bishop of London and nine other prelates, and read a letter from the queen"s council, directing the Bishop of London to cause Te Deum" to be sung in all the churches of his diocese, with continual prayers for the queen, who had conceived. On 10 October 1556 he was collated to the archdeaconry of Middlesex, and by letters patent, 18 June 1557, he was nominated by the king and queen to a canonry of Christ Church, Oxford.
In 1558 he was preoccupied in heresy-hunting, and was admitted to the vicarage of Shottesbroke, then in the diocese of Salisbury, on the presentation of King Philip and Queen Mary.
He was admitted President of Corpus Christi College on 15 September 1558. But he was removed next year by the commissioners sent by Queen Elizabeth to visit the university.
At length he was deprived of all his preferments as a recusant, and was to the Fleet Prison in London. He appears to have been living in 1574.