In 1691 Lancelot Blackburne became a Canon of Exeter, and in 1705 Dean of Exeter
On 10th December 1658 Lancelot Blackburne was born.
On 25th September 1681 Lancelot Blackburne (age 22) was ordained a deacon at Christ Church by John Fell (age 56), Bishop of Oxford, and travelled to the West Indies.
On 2nd September 1684 Lancelot Blackburne (age 25) and Catherine Talbot were married at the Savoy Chapel Royal [Map].
Before 1685 [his brother-in-law] Bishop William Talbot (age 26) and Mary Stoughton were married.
In 1699 [his brother-in-law] Bishop William Talbot (age 41) was appointed Bishop of Oxford.
In 1715 [his brother-in-law] Bishop William Talbot (age 57) was appointed Chancellor of the Order of the Garter.
Abbot John Whethamstede’s Chronicle of the Abbey of St Albans
Abbot John Whethamstede's Register aka Chronicle of his second term at the Abbey of St Albans, 1451-1461, is a remarkable text that describes his first-hand experience of the beginning of the Wars of the Roses including the First and Second Battles of St Albans, 1455 and 1461, respectively, their cause, and their consequences, not least on the Abbey itself. His text also includes Loveday, Blore Heath, Northampton, the Act of Accord, Wakefield, and Towton, and ends with the Coronation of King Edward IV. In addition to the events of the Wars of the Roses, Abbot John, or his scribes who wrote the Chronicle, include details in the life of the Abbey such as charters, letters, land exchanges, visits by legates, and disputes, which provide a rich insight into the day-to-day life of the Abbey, and the challenges faced by its Abbot.
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In 1715 Lancelot Blackburne (age 56) was appointed Archdeacon of Cornwall.
On 23rd April 1715 [his brother-in-law] Bishop William Talbot (age 57) was appointed Bishop of Salisbury.
In 1716 Lancelot Blackburne (age 57) travelled to Hanover as the personal chaplain to King George I.
In 1717 Archdeacon Lancelot Blackburne (age 58) was appointed Bishop of Exeter.
In 1718 [his brother-in-law] Bishop William Talbot (age 60) was appointed Dean Chapel Royal.
In the year 1719 William Borlase (age 22) was admitted, by Lancelot, Bishop of Exeter (age 60), to déacon’s orders, and by the same ordained priest in 1720.
In 1722 [his brother-in-law] Bishop William Talbot (age 64) was appointed Bishop of Durham.
In 1723 Bishop Lancelot Blackburne (age 64) was appointed Lord High Almoner which office he held for life.
Jean de Waurin's Chronicle of England Volume 6 Books 3-6: The Wars of the Roses
Jean de Waurin was a French Chronicler, from the Artois region, who was born around 1400, and died around 1474. Waurin’s Chronicle of England, Volume 6, covering the period 1450 to 1471, from which we have selected and translated Chapters relating to the Wars of the Roses, provides a vivid, original, contemporary description of key events some of which he witnessed first-hand, some of which he was told by the key people involved with whom Waurin had a personal relationship.
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In 1724 Bishop Lancelot Blackburne (age 65) was appointed Archbishop of York.
On 9th June 1726 [his wife] Catherine Talbot died.
On 23rd March 1743 Archbishop Lancelot Blackburne (age 84) died at his home in Downing Street.
Letters of Horace Walpole. [11th December 1780] I believe, Sir, that I may have been over-candid to Hogarth, and fail his spirit and youth and talent may have hurried him into more real caricatures than I specified . yet he certainly restrained his bent that way pretty early. Charteris403 I have seen; but though Some years older than you, Sir, I cannot say I have at all a perfect idea of him: nor did I ever hear the curious anecdote you tell me of the banker and my father. I was much better acquainted with bishop Blackbourne. He lived within two doors of my father in Downing Street, and took much notice of me when I was near man. It is not to be ungrateful and asperse him, but to amuse you, if I give you some account of him from what I remember404. He was perfectly a fine gentleman to the last, to eighty-four; his favourite author was Waller, whom he frequently quoted. In point of decorum, he was not quite so exact as you have been told, Sir. I often dined with him, his mistress, Mrs. Conwys, sat at the head of the table, and Hayter405, his natural son by another woman, and very like him, at the bottom, as chaplain: he was afterwards Bishop of London. I have heard, but do not affirm it, that Mrs. Blackbourne, before she died, complained of Mrs. Conwys being brought under the same roof. To his clergy he was, I have heard, very imperious. One story I recollect, which showed how much he was a man of this world: and which the Queen herself repeated to my father. On the King's last journey to Hanover, before Lady Yarmouth came over, the Archbishop being With her Majesty, said to her, "Madam, I have been with your minister Walpole, and he tells me that you are a wise woman, and do not mind your husband's having a mistress." He was a little hurt at not being raised to Canterbury on Wake's death, and said to my father, "You did not think on me: but it is true, I am too old, I am too old." Perhaps, Sir, these are gossiping stories, but at least they hurt nobody now.
Note 403. The notorious Colonel Francis Charteris, to whom Hogarth has accorded a conspicuous place in the first plate of his Harlot's Progress. Pope describes him as "a man infamous for all manner of vices," and thus introduces him into his third Moral Essay:
"Riches in effect,
No grace of Heaven, or token of th' Elect;
Given to the fool, the mad, the vain, the evil,
To Ward, to Waters, Chartres, and the devil!"
He died in Scotland, in 1731, at the age of sixty-two. The populace, at his funeral, raised a great riot, almost tore the body out of the coffin, and cast dead dogs, etc. into the grave along with it.-E.
Note 404. See the note to vol. i. p. 314, letter 101.-E.
Note 405. For a refutation of Walpole's assertion, that Bishop Hayter was a natural son of bishop Blackbourn's, see vol. ii. p. 100, letter 39.-E.
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