Nicholas Proude was a Church of Ireland priest in Ireland during the seventeenth century.Handbook of British Chronology By Fryde, E. B;. Greenway, D.E;Porter, S; Roy, I: Cambridge, CUP, 1996 , 0713642556
Proude was educated at St John's College, Cambridge.Alumni Cantabrigienses: A Biographical List of All Known Students, Graduates and Holders of Office at the University of Cambridge, from the Earliest Times to 1900, John Venn/John Archibald Venn Cambridge University Press > (10 volumes 1922 to 1953) Part I. 1209-1751 Vol. iii. Kaile – Ryves, (1924) p403 He graduated BA in 1629 and MA in 1632. He held livings at Ballysheehan, Killenaule and Ballingarry He was appointed Archdeacon of Cashel in 1640"Fasti Ecclesiae Hibernicae: The succession of the prelates Volume 1" Cotton, H. p5 Dublin, Hodges & Smith, 1848–1878 and Dean of Clonfert in 1666; and held both offices until his death in 1669.
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