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1420 Richard Flemmyng succeeded bishop Repington. He siien.v. was provided to this so by the Pope 20th Nov. 1419 7 , and consecrated 28th April ^io 1 : he obtained the temporalities 23rd May [420 69 , and made his profession to the archbishop by proxy the next day, and received itlie spiritualities of the .see 7 ", and in person 1st Dec. following 71 . In May 1424 the Pope promoted him to the archiepiscopal .see of York"-. The King's council (for his Majesty was in his minority) viewed with considerable displeasure this preferment, and nol only seized the temporalities of the sec of Lincoln, but compelled 1 Lemmj relin-
quish 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 th^ 31 e of Lincoln, to obtain a pardon for him in the next parliament, and to restore him to favour. The tem- poralities of the see of Lincoln were accordingly given back to him 3rd Aug. 1426"'. lb' died at Sleaford
67 Reg. Chichel. fol. 26. death of the very reverend father
,; " 1420. iv Kal. Mali incipit in God Henry, the last arch-
annus primus consecrationis re- bishop there ; and that to such
verendi patris et domini Ricardi translation the said Richard, late
Flemmyng Dei gratia Lincoln, bishop of Lincoln, fully con-
episeopi. Reg. Flemmyng. sents, wherefore the said church
89 Fat. 8 Hen. V. m. 24. of Lincoln is void ; by which
"" Reg. Chichel. fol. 26. voidance the temporalities of the
71 Ibid. said church of Lincoln appertain
72 The King, in a letter to the to us ; We will, of the advice bishop of Durham, chancellor of and assent of our council, and England, dated from Westmin- command you to make and ad- ster 24th May 1424, wrote : dress our several writs to the " Whereas we are credibly and escheators where those tempo- certainly informed that the holy ralities be, commanding them to father the Pope has translated seize into our hands the same the honourable father in God temporalities," &c. Orig. in Richard, late bishop of Lincoln, Turr. London.
from the cathedral see of Lin- 73 p a t. 4 Hen. VI. p. 2. m. 8. coin to the metropolitan church The Pope avoided the mortifica- of York, lately vacant by the tion of appearing to acquiesce in vol.. n. D
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