SUNDAY SUPPLEMENT: Reginald Peacock was consecrated as a bishop in a service conducted in the Archbishop’s palace in Croydon, but had to survive a show trial and ritual humiliation on the streets of Medieval London, as DAVID MORGAN writes
A tolerant man: Bishop Reginald Peacock was prosecuted for expressing his views
The Oxford English Dictionary gives the first known use of the phrase “by word of mouth” in writing as 1456. The person attributed with that first use was Reginald Peacock, a bishop, writer and theologian.
On the June 14, 1444, a consecration service was held in the chapel at the Archbishop’s Palace in Croydon. The Archbishop of Canterbury, John Stafford, was the officiant, assisted by Bishop John of Rochester, Bishop Thomas of Norwich, Bishop Thomas of Bath and Bishop Richard of Ross.
The clergyman who they were consecrating into a new job was Reginald Peacock. He was to be made Bishop of St Asaph’s, in North Wales.
Stafford was still relatively new to his post, having been appointed the summer before, succeeding Henry Chichele, the Archbishop who welcomed King Henry V and his soldiers back home after the Battle of Agincourt in 1415. Continue reading
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