Daniel Price (priest)

Daniel Price was Dean of St Asaph[3] from 1696 until his death on 7 November 1706.[1]

Daniel Price
Died	November 7, 1706[1]
Nationality	English
Occupation	Priest
Parent(s)	Thomas Price[2] (father)
Relatives	Sampson Price (brother)[2]

Price was born in Llanwnnog and educated at Trinity College, Cambridge.[4] He was ordained on 26 May 1678. He held livings at Westmill, Aspenden and Llansantffraed. John Aubrey noted in his collection of short autobiographies Brief Lives that he was a "mighty Pontificall proud man", and in 1656 that,

...one time when they went in procession about the cathedral church, he would not do it in the usual way in his surplice, hood, etc on foot, but rode on a mare, thus habited, with the Common Prayer book in his hand, reading. A stallion happened to break loose, and smelled the mare, and ran and leapt her, and held the reverend dean all the time so hard in his embraces, that he could not get off till the horse had done his business. But he would never ride in procession afterwards.[5][6]

References

1. "Willis' Survey of St. Asaph, considerably enlarged and brought down to the present time" Edwards, E. pp177/8: Wrexham, John Painter, 1801
2. Owen, Hugh; Blakeway, John Brickdale (January 1, 1825). A History of Shrewsbury, Volume 2. Harding, Lepard and Company. p. 212.
3. Fasti ecclesiae Anglicanae Vol.1 p82
4. Venn, John Archibald (1924). 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. (10 volumes 1922 to 1953) Part I. The earliest times to 1752 Vol. iii. Kaile – Ryves. Cambridge University Press. p. 396.
5. Aubrey, John (1982). Brief Lives. A modern English version edited by Richard Barber. Suffolk: The Boydell Press. p. 82. ISBN 0-85115-182-5.
6. Megarry, Robert. A New Miscellany-At-Law: Yet Another Diversion for Lawyers and Others. Oxford and Portland, Oregon: Hart Publishing. p. 297. ISBN 1-58477-631-5.