William Snow (priest) explained

William Snow (sometimes Snowe) was the inaugural Dean of Bristol.^[1]

The last Prior of Bradenstoke, Snow was granted a Crown pension on 24 April 1539^[2] and was Dean from 1542 to 1551.^[3]

Notes and References

1. http://www.british-history.ac.uk/fasti-ecclesiae/1541-1847/vol8/pp15-19 Profile
2. David M. Smith, The Heads of Religious Houses: England and Wales, III. 1377-1540, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2008, p. 386
3. Martin Heale, ‘’The Abbots and Priors of Late Medieval and Reformation England’’, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2016, pp. 313, 378.