The license to elect his successor was issued 28th Aug.3[1], and
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22 Ed. IIIJohn de Ufford or Offord, dean of Lincoln and chancellor of England, was nominated by papal provision; the bull is dated viii Cal. Oct. (24th Sept.) 1348, and was
published in the church of Canterbury 26th Nov. He, as elect of Canterbury, had a grant of the custody of the temporalities 27th Nov.[2] He obtained restitution of the temporalities from the king 14th Sept.[3], and died on the 7th of the following June[4], before he had received
either pall or consecration: it is perhaps for these reasons that Godwin does not allow him a place in the succession; and on the same ground Stigand and
Reginald Fitz-Joceline ought not to be reckoned in the catalogue. The prior and chapter of Christ Church, by letter dated 24th May 1349, inform the King of the death of John de Offord, their late archbishop, and pray for a license to elect another in his room[5]. The license to elect was issued 29th May[6].
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23 Edw. IIIThomas Beadwardin was appointed[7] by papal provision: the bull bears date xiii Cal. Jul. (19th June) 1349. He was consecrated at Avignon early in July, and the temporalities were restored 22nd Aug.[8]: he died 26th Aug., before he had been enthroned, and
- ↑ Pat. 22 Edw. III. p. 2. m. 2.
- ↑ Ibid. p. 3. m. 18.
- ↑ Ibid. m. 14.
- ↑ Ob. apud Totenhall. 20 Maii 1349. (Feed. torn. V. p. 662.) and was buried in the martyrium in his own cathedral.
- ↑ Letter in Tower of London
- ↑ Pat. 23 Edw. III. p. I. m. 6.
- ↑ He was elected by the chapter 29th Aug. 1348, pursuant to the congé d'élire which issued on the 28th of that month, after the death of archbishop Stratford, but the election did not take effect on account of the Pope having promoted John de Ufford to the archiepiscopate; upon the death of Ufford, the chapter, pursuant to the congé d'élire of the 29th of May, elected Bradwardin a second time, viz. 4th June 1349. Knighton, (col. 2600,) writing of him, says, "Famosus præ cæteris clericis totius Christianitatis, in theologia præcipue similiter, et in cæteris scientiis liberalibus."
- ↑ Pat. 23 Edw. III. p. 2.m. 14.
