| Description | From: Richard Gardener, mayor of London, warden of the Mercers Company, London; Thomas Ilom, alderman of London, warden of the Mercers Company, London; Robert Tate, citizen of London, warden of the Mercers Company, London; Hugh Clopton, citizen of London, warden of the Mercers Company, London
To: William Sellyng, I, prior of Canterbury Cathedral Priory; the convent of Canterbury Cathedral Priory
They nominate Mgr Nicholas Goode, DD, who has been elected to the mastership of [Whittington] College by the president and fellows there, to the church of St Michael Paternoster Royal ('Sancti Michaelis in Riola'), London, which is under the immediate jurisdiction of the church of Canterbury. The benefice is vacant because Mgr John Collys, last master of the College, has been appointed to the parish church of All Saints Fonthill Bishop ('Fonten' Episcopi') [Wiltshire], Salisbury diocese. The wardens ask the priory to present Nicholas to Thomas [Bourchier], cardinal-priest of St Ciriac in Thermis, archbishop of Canterbury and papal legate. |