Excerpt from The Memoirs of Philip De Comines, Vol. 2 of 2
Thomas Rotherham, Bishop of Lincoln, was chancellor in February, 1475. He owed his elevation, says Lord Campbell, to his own merits. His family name was Scot, unillustrated in England at that time, and, instead of it, he assumed the name of the town in the West Riding of Yorkshire in which he was born. He studied at King's College, Cambridge, and was one of the earliest fellows on this royal foundation, which has since produced so many distinguished men. He was afterwards Master of Pembroke Hall, and Chancellor of this Uni versity. For his learning and piety he was at an early age selected to be chaplain to Vere, thirteenth Earl of Oxford, and he was then taken into the service of Edward IV. Being a steady Yorkist, he was made Bishop of Rochester in 1467, and translated to Lincoln in 1471. In 1480, he became Archbishop of York, and he received a cardinal's hat from the Form. In April, 1476, he was removed from the chancellorship, but reinstated in the office in September of the same year; and he con tinned chancellor and chief adviser of the Crown during the remainder of the reign of Edward IV. He was considered the greatest equity lawyer of the age. On the death of Edward IV., he delivered up the great seal; but though he did not take any active part in the struggles which ensued, he was so strongly suspected by Richard III., that he was detained in prison till near the end of this reign. After the battle of Bosworth he quietly submitted to the new government, but he was looked upon with no favour by Henry VII. He died of the plague at Cawood, iii the year 1500, aged 76, and was buried in his own cathedral. He was founder of Lincoln College, Oxford, and showed his affection to the place of his nativity by building a college there, with three schools for grammar, writing, and music. - cam1>bell's Lives of the Chan cellors, vol. I. Pp. 393-403.
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Of the delivering up the Duchy of Burgundy to the King. 147T. But to return to my history, and the continuation of these Memoirs, which, at your lordships request, my good Lord Archbishop of Vienne, I first began. Whilst the king was busy in subduing the towns and places above-mentioned in the marches of Picardy, his army in Burgundy was, to all outward appearance, commanded by the Prince of Orange ,(who is still living,) a subject and native of the province of Burgundy,but lately disgusted, and a second time become an enemy to Duke Charles, so that John de Chalon, the second of that name, Prince of Orange. In the 1475, the 8th of September, he did homage to Louis XI. for the said principality, as his father William had done; and the same day and year he did homage for certain lands lying in Dauphine, which the dauphin held from the king. Afterwards there was an arrest of Dauphin issued out against him, by which decree the said principality was forfeited, and annexed to the dauphin spatrimony for ever, because the said John had committed felony against the king. See F.M ktthibv s History of Louis XI. Book xl., p. 750. Vol.
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