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359: 612:(Cambrian Archaeological Association, 1927): "We have a Statute remaining of Bishop Thomas Fastolf, made 1358, & confirmed by King Rich. II, to enable ye Prebendaries severally to gather their share of ye Tythes with ye more ease & safety." 442:
Of Bishop Thomas Fastolf, who held the See from 1353 to 1361, practically nothing is known. There is no reason to suppose that any important work was initiated during this period, though it is possible that buildings begun by
420:. This work by Fastolf was published in Rome in 1475 under the name of Thomas Falstoli, providing a model for the reporting of secular cases in Italy and France, so that reports of cases became a feature of the European 438:
As Bishop of St David's for nine years, Fastolf appears to have presided over a period of quiet order, with no major new projects undertaken. A historian of the bishop's palace at St David's writes:
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In 1352 Fastolf's services in Avignon were rewarded with the bishopric of St David's. He resigned his seat in the rota, the English presence there being continued by
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between December 1336 and February 1337, constituting a journal of the debates among the first-grade auditors over some two and a half months, the
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Archbishop John Stratford, Political Revolutionary and Champion of the Liberties of the English Church, ca. 1275/80-1348
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during the 1260s, Fastolf is credited as the first who can be identified as reporting cases in the
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Fastolf gained various preferments at home as rewards for his services. In 1326 he was appointed
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on 9 June 1361 and died before the end of June. As he had requested in his Will, which was
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J. H. Baker, 'Fastolf , Thomas (d. 1361), canon lawyer and bishop of St David's'
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on 1 July 1361, his body was entombed "at the right hand of the image of the
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J. H. Baker, "Dr Thomas Fastolfe and the history of law reporting", in
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The history and antiquities of the parish of Saint David, South-Wales
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and later gained several other prebends. From 1340 to 1347 he was
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Monuments of endlesse labours: English canonists and their work
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of St David's, Robert of Grymeston of the church of
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Fastolf was one of three sons of Thomas Fastolf, of
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Freeman, 608:Edward Yardley, Francis Green, 1195:Burials at St Davids Cathedral 631: 615: 602: 589: 557: 544: 494:, and Phillip Dyer, rector of 216:and his first career was as a 1: 313:Lord Chief Justice of Ireland 258: 7: 205:from 1352 until his death. 10: 1216: 498:. No books are mentioned. 1047: 921: 810: 734: 685: 676: 668: 663: 322: 279:(died 1330), ancestor of 194:(died June 1361), was an 172: 162: 152: 140: 126: 121: 113: 105: 100: 90: 80: 72: 64: 54: 44: 37: 23: 541:accessed 5 December 2010 501: 451:In 1358, Fastolf made a 386:, and from 1347 to 1352 353:Archbishop of Canterbury 1180:Archdeacons of Coventry 529:(subscription required) 301:University of Cambridge 1185:Archdeacons of Norwich 449: 380:archdeacon of Coventry 367: 1106:Christopher Woodforde 655:Cambridge Law Journal 563:John Hamilton Baker, 455:, later confirmed by 440: 384:archdeacon of Norwich 361: 335:, with a seat in the 224:, which was then the 208:Probably educated at 1190:Archdeacons of Wells 1170:Bishops of St Davids 1039:Lord Francis Seymour 747:Richard de Spakeston 679:Bishop of St David's 580:George William Manby 484:St David's Cathedral 364:St David's Cathedral 287:, and Lawrence. His 275:. 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Index

Doctor
Bishop of St David's
Canterbury
St David's
Reginald Brian
Adam Houghton
Great Yarmouth
St David's
English
Roman Catholic
Alma mater
Cambridge
English
canon lawyer
Bishop of St David's
Cambridge
Doctor of Laws
canon lawyer
Avignon
seat of the Papacy
reporter
cases
papal
court
Rota
bishopric
St David's
Great Yarmouth
Norfolk
lawyers

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