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secrated in the monastery of the Holy Trinity in London 9th Oct. 1244[1]. He died of the plague 12th May 1259[2], and was buried on the 25th of the same month in St. Paul's cathedral[3]. The license to elect a bishop in the room of Folk Basset is dated 24th May 1259[4], and the dean and chapter of London pray the King to assent to their election of
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Henry de Wingham[5], dean of St. Martin's, London, and chancellor of England[6]. The King assented to the election 29th June 1259[7], and made restitution of the temporalities 11th July[8]. The new bishop was consecrated by the archbishop of Canterbury[9] in
- ↑ His consecration was delayed for some time in consequence of the vacancy of the see of Canterbury. At length archbishop Boniface, though be was not himself consecrated, issued a commission for the consecration of Fulk in the cathedral of London, but the chapter of Canterbury revoked the commission, on the ground that it was a usurpation of their privileges by the archbishop, and Fulk was obliged to make a solemn protestation that his consecration out of the church of Canterbury should not be held to be a diminution of the privileges of the church of Canterbury. Autograph in Eccl. Cant.
- ↑ Chron. Joh. Textor. Matt. Paris's date is too loose to be relied upon: "Eodem anno 1259, ascendente sole Cancrum facta est hominum pestilentia, etc. … obiit in ilia peste mortifera dominus Fulco Londinensis episcopus." (Matt. Paris ad ann. 1259.) Fulco London. Episcopus obiit xii Kal. Junii. Continuat. Flor. Wigorn.
- ↑ Some say that he died 20th May, others on the 21st, and was buried at Fulham. Compare Matt. Paris, Matt. Westm., Chron. Job. Textor., Annal. S. Edmund., Historiola Lond., et Obituar. Paulin.
- ↑ Pat. 43 Hen. III. m. 9.
- ↑ He was elected bishop of Winchester in Jan. 1259, (Annal. Winton.,) but he refused the dignity, the King not approving of the election.
- ↑ Lett, in Turr. Lond. Nᵒ. 503.
- ↑ Pat. 43 Hen. III. m. 7.
- ↑ On the 18th of the same month he obtained a grant from the crown to hold with his bishopric all the ecclesiastical benefices he held at the time of his election. Ibid. m. 6.
- ↑ Henricus episcopus London, consecratus in ecclesia Beatæ Mariæ a Bonifacio archiepiscopo assistentibus Waltero Wygorn., Egidio Sarum, Simone Norwic, Waltero Exon., Rogero Cester., xvCal. Martii 1259. Reg. Cantuar. Eodem die, quo ipse consecratus est addidit in ultimo professionis suæ hoc verbum, salvo jure Londinensis ecclesiæ. Dominus archiepiscopus fecit ipsum reci-
