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1420 8 Hen.v. Richard Flemmyng succeeded bishop Repington. He was provided to this so by the Pope 20th Nov. 1419^[1], and consecrated 28th April 1420^[2]: he obtained the temporalities 23rd May 1420^[3], and made his profession to the archbishop by proxy the next day, and received ithe spiritualities of the see^[4], and in person 1st Dec. following^[5]. In May 1424 the Pope promoted him to the archiepiscopal see of York^[6]. The King's council (for his Majesty was in his minority) viewed with considerable displeasure this preferment, and not only seized the temporalities of the sec of Lincoln, but compelled Flemmyng relinquish his pretensions to the archbishopric; and, as a punishment for accepting that promotion without the royal permission, he was obliged to agree to certain humiliating conditions proposed by the council; and in return the council engaged to reappoint him to the see of Lincoln, to obtain a pardon for him in the next parliament, and to restore him to favour. The temporalities of the see of Lincoln were accordingly given back to him 3rd Aug. 1426^[7]. He died at Sleaford

↑ Reg. Chichel. fol. 26.
↑ 1420. iv Kal. Mali incipit annus primus consecrationis reverendi patris et domini Ricardi Flemmyng Dei gratia Lincoln. episeopi. Reg. Flemmyng.
↑ Fat. 8 Hen. V. m. 24.
↑ Reg. Chichel. fol. 26.
↑ Ibid.
↑ The King, in a letter to the bishop of Durham, chancellor of England, dated from Westminster 24th May 1424, wrote: "Whereas we are credibly and certainly informed that the holy father the Pope has translated the honourable father in God Richard, late bishop of Lincoln, from the cathedral see of Lincoin to the metropolitan church of York, lately vacant by the death of the very reverend father in God Henry, the last archbishop there; and that to such translation the said Richard, late bishop of Lincoln, fully consents, wherefore the said church of Lincoln is void; by which voidance the temporalities of the said church of Lincoln appertain to us; We will, of the advice and assent of our council, and command you to make and address our several writs to the escheators where those temporalities be, commanding them to seize into our hands the same temporalities," &c. Orig. in Turr. London.
↑ p a t. 4 Hen. VI. p. 2. m. 8. The Pope avoided the mortification of appearing to acquiesce in

[1] Reg. Chichel. fol. 26.

[2] 1420. iv Kal. Mali incipit annus primus consecrationis reverendi patris et domini Ricardi Flemmyng Dei gratia Lincoln. episeopi. Reg. Flemmyng.

[3] Fat. 8 Hen. V. m. 24.

[4] Reg. Chichel. fol. 26.

[5] Ibid.

[6] The King, in a letter to the bishop of Durham, chancellor of England, dated from Westminster 24th May 1424, wrote: "Whereas we are credibly and certainly informed that the holy father the Pope has translated the honourable father in God Richard, late bishop of Lincoln, from the cathedral see of Lincoin to the metropolitan church of York, lately vacant by the death of the very reverend father in God Henry, the last archbishop there; and that to such translation the said Richard, late bishop of Lincoln, fully consents, wherefore the said church of Lincoln is void; by which voidance the temporalities of the said church of Lincoln appertain to us; We will, of the advice and assent of our council, and command you to make and address our several writs to the escheators where those temporalities be, commanding them to seize into our hands the same temporalities," &c. Orig. in Turr. London.

[r73-7] t. 4 Hen. VI. p. 2. m. 8. The Pope avoided the mortification of appearing to acquiesce in

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