19. Iohn Bokingham.
IOhn Bokingham kéeper of the priuy Seale, by the helpe of [ 1362] his purse and the kings instant request, with much adoo shouldred into the Bishopricke of Lincolne the yeere 1362. This man is said to haue beene very vnlearned, and it may be so. But certaine it is, that one Iohn Bokingham liued about those times a Doctor of Diuinity of Oxford, a great 〈◊〉〈◊〉 man in scholasticall Diuinity, as diuers workes of his yet extant may testifie: and for my part I thinke this Bi∣shop to be the man. The yeere 1397. the Pope bearing him some grudge, translated him perforce from Lincolne vnto 〈◊〉〈◊〉, a Bishopricke not halfe so good. For 〈◊〉〈◊〉 hart he would not take it, but as though he had rather haue no bread then halfe a loafe, forsooke both and became a monke at Can∣terbury.