John Boothe (Booth, Bothe, Bowth, or Boyth; c. 1495 – 1542) was an Anglican priest in the 16th century.^[1]

He was the second son of Roger Booth, of Mollington, Cheshire.^[2] He succeeded to the Mollington estates on the death of his elder brother, Thomas Booth, in 1528, when he is described as being thirty-three years of age.^[2] He was educated at Brasenose College, Oxford,^[2] where he graduated with a BA in 1512 and a MA in 1516.^[3] Booth was collated to the archdeaconry of Hereford on 29 January 1522 o.s. (1523 n.s.).^[2][4] He died on 15 August 1542,^[2][4] and his niece, Agnes Booth, daughter of his brother, Charles Booth, was found to be his heir then aged nine years.^[2]

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• Aylmer, Gerald; Tiller, John, eds. (2000). Hereford Cathedral. London: Hambledon Press. p. 247. ISBN 1-85285-194-5.
• Foster, Joseph, ed. (1891). Alumni Oxonienses 1500-1714. Oxford: University of Oxford. pp. 142–170.
• Irvine, William Fergusson, ed. (1896). A collection of Lancashire and Cheshire wills not now to be found in any probate registry. 1301–1752. The Record Society of Lancashire and Cheshire. Vol. XXX. London: Wyman and Sons. pp. 77–78.
• Le Neve, John; Hardy, Sir Thomas Duffus (1854). Archdeacons of Hereford . Fasti ecclesiae Anglicanae. Vol. 1. Oxford: Oxford University Press. pp. 481–482  – via Wikisource.

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