Around 1504 Bishop Ralph Baines was born.
On 18th November 1554 Bishop Ralph Baines [aged 50] was consecrated Bishop of Lichfield.
Henry Machyn's Diary. 18th November 1554. The xviij day of November dyd pryche at Powlles crosse [Map] the nuw bysshope of Lynckolne, doctur White [aged 44], late the warden of Wynchaster.
The sam day was consecratyd nuw [bishops], on bysshope of Brystow [aged 59], and a-nodur byshope of Lycheffeld and Coventre [aged 50].
Henry Machyn's Diary. 21st June 1559. The xxj day of June was v bysshopes deprevyd, the bysshope of Lychfeld and Coventre [aged 55], and the bysshope of Carley [aged 52], the bysshope of Westchester, the bysshope of Landaffh [aged 87], and the bysshope of ( ).
On 18th November 1559 Bishop Ralph Baines [aged 55] died.
Henry Machyn's Diary. On or after 4th January 1560. The (blank) day was bered doctur Bayne, late byshope of Lychfeld and Coventre, in sant Donstons in the west [Map].
Note. P. 221. Funeral of the late bishop of Lichfield and Coventry. Ralph Baynes, elected 10 Nov. 1554; also deprived 1559. He died some weeks before Dr. Oglethorpe, when his burial at St. Dunstan's, Fleet Street, was thus entered in the parish register: "1559, Nov. 24. Mr. Doctor Banes." Collectanea Topogr. et Geneal. vol. iv. p. 116.