Richard Fox

, the worthy Founder of Corp. Ch. coll. in this University, of whom having made mention at large elsewhere, (d)(d) In Hist. Antiq. [〈◊〉] Oxon. Lib. 2. p. 227. 228. &c. I shall only say that he was born at Ropesley near to Grantham in Lincolnshire, educated in Grammar learning at Boston in the said county, in Academical for a time in Magd. coll. in Oxon, whence being transplanted to Cambridge, became at length Master of Pembroke hall there, Prebendary of Bishopston in the Church of Sarum, and in Feb. 1485. Preb. of South Grantham in the same Church, upon the resignation of Dr. Christop. Bainbridge. This person having been a constant Adherent to Henry Earl of Richmond, against King Rich. 3. was by him, when made King of England by the name of Hen. 7, made in the beginning of his reign one of his Privy Council, (he being then LL. D.) and nominated to be Bishop of Exeter in Feb. 1486. On the 24 of the same month, he had the custody of the Privy Seal conferr’d on him, and being elected to the said See, the K. restored (e)(e) Pat. [〈…〉] to him the Temporalities belonging thereunto, 2. Apr. 1487. On the 5. Jul. following, he had by the Kings (f)(f) Ibid. command twenty Shillings per diem allowed to him, to commence from the 24. Feb. before-mention’d; which was allowed to him, as I suppose, as Keeper of the said Seal: And being elected afterwards to the See of B. and VVells, had restitution of its temporalities made (g)(g) Pat. [〈…〉] to him by the King 4. May, 1492. In 1494. he was translated to Durham, and afterwards was elected Chancellour of the University of Cambridge, and being settled at Durham, he forthwith, out of a great vast Hall in the Castle there, did take 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-musick used to stand to play while the meat was usher’d in: And on the Wall, which parted the said buttery from the Hall, was a great Pellican set up, to shew that it was done by him, because he gave the Pellican to his Arms. When Dr. Richard Neile became B. of Durham, he took away part of the said hall at the other end, to enlarge the great Parlour, and yet the hall continued fair and large still. At length upon the death of Dr. Tho. Langton, he was elected B. of Winchester; the temporalities of which being restored (h)(h) Pat. 16. Hen. 7. p. 2. m 13 to him by the King 17. Octob. 1500. 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 C. C. coll. before-mention’d, and dying in fifteen hundred twenty and eight, 1528 was buried in the Cath. Ch. at VVinchester, on the South side of the high Altar. After him followed in that See Card. Tho. VVolsey, of whom I shall make mention anon.