The Print-collector's quarterly Volume 1 - Softcover

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1863 Excerpt: ...vel mutato, et sub eadem data. XXX.--DE MORTE W. DE HAMELTON CANCELLARII REGIS.1 Ex Eotulo Pat. 35Edw. L, m. 15. Memorandum quod die Mercurii proxima post festum Sanctorum Tiburcii et Valeriani, anno regni regis Edwardi, filii regis Henrici, tricesimo quinto, ante amoram diei illius, obiit Willielmus de Hamelton, Cancellarius cjusdem Regis, apud Abbatiam (1) This distinguished statesman and ecclesiastic--of whose official career a memoir may be found in Lord Campbell's Lives of the Chancellors, (vol. i, p. 183)--sprung from Hamelton, in the parish of Brayton, near Selby, in the West Riding of Yorkshire; and was the son of Adam de Hamelton, a person of gentilitial station there, and of Alice his wife. The Abbot of Selby was Lord of the Manor, and it is not improbable that the Chancellor may have received his education in that noble monastery, or otherwise profited in early life through its influence. It is certain, indeed, that, afterwards, they presented him to their church of Stamford in Northamptonshire. The first benefice which he appears to have obtained was the Rectory of Great-Oxenden, in the same county, which he held in 1265,49 Heury III. Early in the next reign we find him mentioned as a Clerk in Chancery. In 1267 he was presented by Sir William de Malbys to the Rectory of Hawnby near Helmsley, in Yorkshire; and, in 1284, he was Rector of a mediety of the church of Walkeringham near Gainsbrough. In 1281 his merits or his rising influence were recognised in his own county by his appointment to the Prebend of Warthill, in York Cathedral. In 1287 he became Archdeacon of York; and, after having also filled the office of Precentor of Beverley Minster, on the 7th of December, 1298, after the elevation of Henry de Newark to the Archbishoprick, he was unan...