The Endowment Memorial: By His Will to Encourage Learning and the Instruction of Youth; With Notes (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

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Eustace de Fauconberg, one of the sons of sir Peter, was conspicuous, in his time, apart from the lustre of chivalry. Fuller mentions that he was a native of Yorkshire, and that, during the reigns of king John and his successor, he became 'well fixed in the favour of prince and people.'2 Chief justice of the common pleas under the former monarch,s and treasurer of the exchequer under the latter,4 he was a privy councillor to both, and entrusted by them with repeated embassies to France.5 He was presented to the prebendal stall of Holborn in the cathedral church of St. Paul; and in the year 1222 was chosen bishop of London.6 In this capacity he attested the confirmatory grant, made two years later by Henry III, of the great charter of freedom.7 Bishop F auconberg died 3lst October, 1228, and was buried in St. Paul's cathedral, beneath a marble tomb, - one of those which escaped 'the storm of fatal destruction' in the second year of queen Elizabeth, and 'the shadows whereof'

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