Once I was a clever boy learning the arts of Oxford... is a quotation from the verses written by Bishop Richard Fleming (c.1385-1431) for his tomb in Lincoln Cathedral. Fleming, the founder of Lincoln College in Oxford, is the subject of my research for a D. Phil., and, like me, a son of the West Riding. I have remarked in the past that I have a deeply meaningful on-going relationship with a dead fifteenth century bishop... it was Fleming who, in effect, enabled me to come to Oxford and to learn its arts, and for that I am immensely grateful.


Monday 31 January 2022

Another relic of King Charles the Martyr


Having written yesterday about surviving relics of King Charles I the serendipity of the Internet yielded another in the form of an article in the Daily Express yesterday about a silver locket that contains what is described as part of a single strand of the King’s hair. It is interesting that the fragment is described by a label ( of what date?) on the locket as being hair of “S Charles”, so it was clearly seen very much as a relic to be treasured and venerated in the High Anglican tradition.



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