Henry Wright Phillott

Hereford Henry Wright Phillott

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1888 Excerpt: ... window of the cathedral was erected by William Lochard, the precentor. Richard Beauchamp, archdeacon of Suffolk, held the see for two years, 1448-1450, and was translated to Salisbury. His successor, Reginald Buller, or Bowlers, abbat of St. Peter's, Gloucester, held the see for two years and three months, and was translated to Lichfield 1450-1453, but was buried in Hereford Cathedral. The next bishop, John Stanberry, or Stamberv, 1453-1474, was a native of Devonshire, or perhaps of Morwenstow, in Cornwall, for it was there that he was baptised. He was a Carmelite friar at Oxford, and bore so high a character for ability and learning that he was chosen by King Henry VI. to be his own confessor and the first Provost of Eton. The king intended to give him the bishopric of Norwich, but was persuaded by the Earl of Suffolk to give this to his chaplain, and having been made Bishop of Bangor in 1448, he was, after five years, translated to Hereford. Retaining his office as confessor, he attended the king during the civil wars, and with him was taken prisoner at the battle of Northampton, and confined for some time in Warwick Castle. He died as he had begun life, among the Carmelites, but whether in Ludlow or London is not quite certain, and was buried in his own cathedral. An effigy in alabaster of singular beauty was placed there to his memory, and a brass plate with an inscription in Latin verse on the wall not far from it, both of them near the chantry chapel which he had founded, and which is still known by his name. He also gave out of the palace garden land for building a habitation for the vicars choral, which appears to have been completed in 1475. Thomas Mylling or Milling, 1474-1492, was first a monk of St. Peter's, Westminster, of which abbey he after...