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Master of the Rolls is in Master.
In May 1286 Bishop John Langton was appointed Master of the Rolls.
On 20th January 1334 Michael de Wath was appointed Master of the Rolls.
In 1462 Bishop John Alcock (age 32) was appointed Master of the Rolls.
In March 1472 Cardinal John Morton (age 52) was appointed Master of the Rolls.
On 4th January 1479 Bishop Robert Morton (age 44) was appointed Master of the Rolls.
On 13th November 1485 Bishop Robert Morton (age 50) was appointed Master of the Rolls.
From 5th May 1492 to 13th February 1494 Bishop John Blythe (age 32) was appointed Master of the Rolls.
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The Chronicle of Geoffrey le Baker of Swinbroke. Baker was a secular clerk from Swinbroke, now Swinbrook, an Oxfordshire village two miles east of Burford. His Chronicle describes the events of the period 1303-1356: Gaveston, Bannockburn, Boroughbridge, the murder of King Edward II, the Scottish Wars, Sluys, Crécy, the Black Death, Winchelsea and Poitiers. To quote Herbert Bruce 'it possesses a vigorous and characteristic style, and its value for particular events between 1303 and 1356 has been recognised by its editor and by subsequent writers'. The book provides remarkable detail about the events it describes. Baker's text has been augmented with hundreds of notes, including extracts from other contemporary chronicles, such as the Annales Londonienses, Annales Paulini, Murimuth, Lanercost, Avesbury, Guisborough and Froissart to enrich the reader's understanding. The translation takes as its source the 'Chronicon Galfridi le Baker de Swynebroke' published in 1889, edited by Edward Maunde Thompson. Available at Amazon in eBook and Paperback.
Letters and Papers Foreign and Domestic Henry VIII 1509. 11th June 1509. 44. John Yonge (age 44), Ll.D. Confirmation of grant, 22 Jan., 23 Henry VII., of the office of keeper or master of rolls, books and records of Chancery, with the house of the Converts to dwell in, a tun of Gascon wine annually, &c. Del. Westm., 11 June, 1 Henry VIII. S.B. (countersigned: Will'mus Cantuar., T. Surrey, Oxynford, C. Somerset., Thomas Rowthale.) Pat. 1 Henry VIII, p. 2, m. 5. [165.]
On 12th May 1516 Bishop Cuthbert Tunstall (age 42) was appointed Master of the Rolls.
On 16th January 1542 Robert Southwell (age 36) was appointed Master of the Rolls which position he held until 1550.
Wriothesley's Chronicle [1508-1562]. 16th January 1542. This yeare, the 16th daye of Januarye, 1541 [1542], beganne the Parliament at Westminster, and that daye was masse of the Holy Ghost, the Kinge rydinge from his pallace at Westminster in his Parliament robes, with all his lordes spirituall and temporall in theyr robes, and so rode to the church of St. Petersc; and that daye the Kinge made knightes in the Parliament Chamber, Mr. Robert Southwell, Mr of the Rolles, and Mr. Pollard (age 37), the King's Rememberancer.
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In 1553 Nicholas Hare (age 69) was appointed Master of the Rolls.
In 1603 Edward Bruce 1st Lord Kinloss (age 55) was appointed Master of the Rolls.
In 1611 Edward Phelips (age 54) was appointed Master of the Rolls which office he held until his death in 1614.