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.


Saturday, 21 June 2025

A letter signed by Queen Mary and King Henry


The BBC News website reported on the sale at auction of a letter from 1565 signed by Queen Mary of Scots and her husband and consort King Henry - usually known today by his original title. as Lord Darnley, rather than by his regal title or as Duke of Albany. . 

The article also has a link to an older report about the conservation of another letter, from 1546, sent in the name of the four year old Queen of Scots. It is in the archives of the Dukes of Argyll.



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