d'élire, vice archbishop Stafford, issued 1st June 1452[1]; nevertheless the Pope promoted
1452
?? Hen. VIJohn Kemp, archbishop of York and a Roman cardinal, to this see, by bull dated at Rome 21st July 1452'[2]; he obtained restitution of the temporalities 6th Sept.[3] The bull of his translation arrived at Canterbury 21st
Sept., and the next day was read in the chapter; he received his pall on the 24th of the same month, and was enthroned 11th Dec. following. He became chancellor of England in 1452; and died 22nd March 1454[4], and was buried in his own cathedral[5]. The license to elect vice cardinal Kemp issued 9th April
1454[6].
1454
?? Hen VI. Thomas Bourchier, bishop of Ely, was elected to this see 22nd April 1454; received the Pope's bull of confirmation 22nd Aug.; had the temporalities restored to him the same day[7]; and was enthroned 26th Jan. following. He was constituted chancellor of England in 1455[8], and a cardinal in 1464[9]. He died at Knole 30th March 1486, and was buried in his own cathedral[10]. The congé d'élire, vice archbishop Bourchier, bears date 13th June 1487[11] . The Pope however had already appointed
1486
?? Hen. VIJohn Morton, bishop of Ely and chancellor of England, 6th Oct. 1486[12]. The custody of the temporalities was
- ↑ Pat. 30 Hen.vi. p. 2. m.26.
- ↑ Reg. Kemp. fol. 210.
- ↑ Pat. 31 Hen.vi. p. i. m. 25.
- ↑ The custody of the temporalities was granted from 25th June 1454. Pat. 32 Hen. VI. p. 2. m. 19.
- ↑ Lib. Joh. Stone MS. He was cardinal of S. Rufine. He is called in Ciacon. Vit. Pontif. "Presbyter cardinalis tituli Sanct. Balbine."
- ↑ Pat. 32 Hen. VI. m. 17.
- ↑ Ibid. m. 15.
- ↑ Claus. 33 Hen. VI. m. 9. in dorso.
- ↑ Ciacon. Vit. Pontif. torn. ii. col. 1097.
- ↑ "Hie jacet reverendissimus pater et dominus D. Thomas Bourchier,quondam Sacrosanctas Romanæ Ecclesiæ S. Cyriaci in Thermis cardinalis,et archiepiscopus hujus ecclesiæ, quiobiit trigesima die Martii i486, cujus anima propitietur Deus." Ex Epitaph.
- ↑ Pat. 2 Hen. VII.
- ↑ Reg. Mort. fol. i.
