| 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 Edward Lupton, graduate in theology, whom the president and fellows of [Whittington] College have elected to the mastership there, to the church of St Michael Paternoster Royal ('Sancti Michaelis in Riola'), London. The benefice is vacant by the death of Mgr Nicholas Goode, last master of the College. The wardens ask the priory to present Edward to Thomas [Bourchier], cardinal-priest of St Ciriac in Thermis, archbishop of Canterbury and papal legate. |