praise it,' &c. In his episcopal office he behaved himself so well, that he was in great authority with 3 Kings, especially for his learning and experience in civil affairs; and had not death snatched him untimely away, would have succeeded Moreton in the See of Canterbury. He died in the beginning of 1501; and was buried in the Cathedral at Winton, near the tomb and shrine of St. Swithun. By his will he gave to the Priests of Clare Hall, Cambridge, considerable sums of money and £40. to the chest of that house. To every fellow of Queen's College, Oxon, 6s. Sd., and 40 marks to the eleemosynary chest thereof, besides a suit of vestments for a priest, deacon, and sub-dean, and 4 capes. He gave maintenance also to a chaplain, that should celebrate service for him and his parents, and all faithful deceased for the space of 100 years, in Appleby Church: which chaplain was to receive for his labour 8 marks yearly. To the Friars (the Carmelites) in Appleby 20 marks, to pray for him; besides several sums to the Friars of Oxon and Cambridge; and to Rowland Machel and Eliz, his wife, (sister to the said Bishop,) he gave several lands in Westmoreland, besides 200 marks. He built also the little room (which is now a large bay-window in the provost's dining room in Queen's College), with curious vaulting under it which vault is now no other than a portico to the College-Chapel. Over the said bay-window is carved in stone a musical note called a Long on a tun, which is the rebus for his sir-name; and out of the bunghole of the tun springs a vine tree, which, without doubt, was put for Vinton or Vinchester, he being then Bishop of that place."

"He left behind him a nephew named Robt. Langton, born also in Appleby, and educated in Queen's College, of where he was L.L.D. He died at London in June, 1524, and buried before the image of St. Michael, in the body of the church belonging to the charter-house, (now Sutton's hospital) near London. By his will (in offic. prærog. Cant. in Reg. Bodfield qu. 21.) he bequeathed to Queen's College £200, to purchase lands and make a school in Appleby, and what his benefaction was besides, as also that of Bishop Langton, you may see in Hist. and Antiq. Univ. Oxon. lib. 2. p. 123, sq.'

In the notes to Bliss's edition of Wood we have the following: "Thomas Langton was of Pembroke Hall,

of which see enough in Wren's MS. de Custod et Sociis Pembrock. Anno 1454, Thomas Langton, Carliolen. dioc. per. li. di. ordinatus Acolitus per Will. Dunkalden, ep'm, vice Will'i ep'i Elien. Regr. Elien. Thomas Langton procurator Senior Acad Cant. Anno 1462,

Lib. Proc. BAKER."

"Langton was admitted to the rectory of Allhallows, Bread-street, London, July 1, 1480, and to that of Allhallows, Lombard-street, May 14, 1482. Newcourt Rep. I. 245. He had also the prebend of North Kelsey, in Lincoln Cathedral, which he resigned 1483, on his promotion to the See of St. David's. Willis. Cath. Linc, p. 229." BLISS.

In Wood's Hist. Antiq. Ox. edit. Gutch, p. 147, appears the following note, which is directly at variance with Wood's assertion above: "Tho. Langton Epus Sar' confirmatus erat Præpositus Coll. Reg. [Ox.] p. Archm Ebor. 6 Dec. 1487, p. resig. Hen. Bost." ex auth. Regr. Rotheram. Now Wood has stated (vid. sup.) "In 1483, he being about that time provost of Queen's, was consecrated Bishop of St. David's;" whereas, it appears, he even had the Bishopric of Sarum before he became provost of Queen's. Richardson in a note to Godwin, p. 234, has the following remark, but quotes no authority:"Post translationem ad Episcopatum Sarum, fit Præpositus Collegii Reginensis, Oxon. A. 1489." In the list of the provosts of Queen's Coll. I also find the date of his succession placed at 1489, his predecessor being Henry Bost. The Athenæ therefore must, I conclude, be wrong.

Godwin, under the Bishops of ST. DAVID's, thus records him: " 74. Thomas Langton consecratus 1483. Sarisburiam primum translatus est anno 1485, ac Wintoniam postea. To this his editor adds, Provisus a Papa Jul. 4, 1483, Registr. Bourch, T. et J. C. D. licentiam habet consecrat. Aug. 23, 1483, Registr. Eccl. Cant." Under the Bishops of SARUM, thus: "30. Thomas Langton, L.L.D, in Menevensen Epiñ consecratus 1483, huc fertur translatus 1485, et huic Wintoniam 1493." His editor adds, "Huc translatus Papali authoritate 9 Feb, 1484. Professionem fecit apud Knott 25 April, 1485. Registr, Morton." Under WINTON thus: “56. Quando annum jam integrum sedes vacasset, transfertur huc ab Ecclesia Sarisburiensi T. L. qui anno 1483, in

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praise it, Menew consecratus, post biennium Sarisb' migraself so weintonia sedit annos 7; et Cantúariensis designatus especials ante translationem perfectam, peste correptus and h amo 1500. Capellam construxit ab australi have me sur Wint.; in cujus medio conditus jacet sub tumulo elegantissimo. Socius hic olim fuit b. Cantab., ac in ejus rei memoriam craterem leauratum ponderis 67 unc. Aulæ dedit verbis insculptum. Thomas Langton Wint. Pembrochianae olim socius, dedit hanc tassiam dem Aula 1497. Qui alienarit anathema sit." fadus, p. 234, " In MS. D. Hutton sic scripJan. Postulatio in Capitulo Cant. pro Epo in Cant. Arpo. qui ob. 27 die ejusdem Ecc. Cant.

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Obiit anno 1500, paulo ante 10 Oct. Qualia episcopatus Winton. a monachis at. Sede Archiepiscopali vacante, in manus sunt. Paucis ante obitum diebus ad ArchiCant. Johannis Morton morte nupera vacanest teste Chronico Londinensi; quod quidem mense Januario contigisse refert, errore

makes an observation which I have not met ere: "One Bishop Langton made of late tyme ace of work and lodging of stone at the west Haul," (i. e.) of Sherborne Castle.-Itin. 2. The same writer in the Collectanea 1. p. 116, adds, Laugton, Epus Wint. fundavit capellam B.

australi latere templi in cujus medio jacet

He hes buried," says Bishop Milner, "in Winton thal in the chantry he built at the east end, still er him, under an altar tomb which was originally y elegant, but which is now stripped of every other ornament for which money could be obHist. Wint. 2. p. 63. The last quoted writer a mistake in giving 1499 as the date of Bishop translation to Winchester. See his Hist. Wini. He should have said 1493.

XXIII. RICHARD FOX.

SUCCEEDED A.D. 1500, WoOD; 1502, GODWIN.-DIED A.D. 1528.

THE indefatigable Oxford antiquary has rescued from oblivion the following particulars, which may be found in his Ath. Oxon.

"He was born at Ropesley near Grantham, Lincolnshire; educated in grammar learning at Boston, in academical, for a time, in Magdalen College, Oxford, whence being transplanted to Cambridge, he became at length Master of Pembroke Hall there, Prebendary of Bishopston in the Church of Sarum, [after 1473, resigned 1485. -Hist. and Antiq. Sarum and Bath, p. 315.] and in Feb. 1485, of South Grantham in the same Church, on the resignation of Dr. Christopher Bainbridge. Having been a constant adherent to Henry, Earl of Richmond, against King Richard III., he was by him, when King of England by the name of Henry VII., made in the beginning of his reign one of his privy council, [being then L.L.D.] and nominated Bishop of Exeter in Feb. 1486. On the 24th of the same month, he had the custody of the privy seal conferred on him, and being elected to the said See, the King restored (Pat. 7 Henry VII. p. 2, m. 5.) to him the temporalties April 2, 1487. July 5th following, he had by the King's command (ib.) 20s. per diem allowed to him, to commence from 24th Feb. before mentioned; which was allowed to him, I suppose, as keeper of the said seal, and being elected afterwards to the See of Bath and Wells, had restitution of its temporalties made (Pat. 7 Henry VII, m. 14.) to him by the King, May 4. 1492. In 1494 he was translated to Durham, aud afterwards was elected Chancellor of the University of Cambridge; and being settled at Durham, he forthwith, out of a great hall in the castle there, took as much away as made a fair buttery and a pantry, even to the pulpits or galleries on each side of the hall, wherein the trumpeters or wind music [ians]

1485, Feb. 7, ep'us contulit Ric'o Fox L.L.D. preb. de Grantham australis, vacant. per resign. Xtopheri Bainbridge, et preb de Cherdestoke eidem Christophero. Reg. Langton, ep'i Sarum.-KENNET.

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used to stand to play, while the meat was ushered in; and on the wall which parted the said buttery from the hall, was a great pelican set up, to shew that it was done by him, because he gave the pelican to his arms. At length upon the death of Dr. Thomas Langton, he was elected Bishop of Winchester; the temporalties of which being restored to him (Pat. 16 Henry VII. p. 2, m. 13.) by the King Oct. 17, 1500, [he] was soon after installed with great solemnity. After he was settled there, he performed many acts of piety and charity, among which, was the foundation and establishment of Corpus Christi College; and dying in 1528, he was buried in the Cathedral Church at Winchester, on the south-side of the high altar."-Wood's Ath. Or. vol. 2 col. 730, edit. Bliss.

The learned editor adds the following notes: ["Ric. Fox, L.B. admiss. ad Vic. de Stepney 30 Oct. 1485, per mortem Ric'i Luke. Reg. Kennet.-Ric. Fox, L.B. secretar. Hen. reg. VII. Coll. ad preb. de Brounswode 26 Oct. 1485, per mort. Joh. Davison, quam resign. ante 11 April, 1487.-Dominus Ricardus Fox presbiter pres, per mag. Joh. Lylly prebendarium de N. Kelsey, ad vicariam de N. Kelsey, per resign. d'ni Joh. Sigrave, 23 Sept. 1504,* Reg. Smith, ep'i Linc.-Vide plura de Ric. Fox custode Aulæ Pembrochianæ apud Cantabrig. in Ricardi Parkeri Exɛ Cantab. MS. Collect. D. 300, p. 6.-Litera Fraternitatis per priorem et capit. Cant. concessa Ric'o Fox ep'o, 1503, 29 Aug. Reg. Cant. M. S. KENNET.-The best heads of Fox are a folio by Vertue, 1723; a mezzotinto, in 4to. by Faber."]

Anthony Wood, in his Hist. & Antiq. Coll. by Gutch, p. 382, tells us he was bornt in an obscure village in Lincolnshire, called Ropesley, four miles distant from Grantham, in an ancient house known to some by the name of Pullock's Manor. He was son of Thomas Fox and Helena his wife, both well esteemed for their honest life and conversation. Others also there were of his name and alliance in and about the same place, who were either

[* This Richard Fox could not have been the Bishop, for in 1504, he had been four years Bishop of Winchester, when it is not to be supposed he accepted a living.-EDIT.]

+ Ut in quibusdam notis de Vita Rich. Fox, hujus Coll. Fundatoris, per Thom. Greenway ejusdem Coll. presidentem. an. 1566.