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Richard NYKKE Alias: Richard NIX Educated at TRINITY HALL, also at Oxford [ Oxfordshire ], and Bologna [ Italy ]. LL.D. S. of Richard, of Somerset . R. of Ashbury, Berkshire , 1473 . Preb. of Wells [ Somerset ], 1489 . R. of Chedbury, Somerset , 1489 . Archdeacon of Exeter [ Devon ], 1492 . Vicar-general of Bath and Wells [ Somerset ], 1493 . Preb. of Southwell [ Nottinghamshire ], 1493-8 . Archdeacon of Wells [ Somerset ], 1494-50 . Preb. of York [ Yorkshire ], 1494-1501 . Vicar-general of Durham [ Co. Durham ]. R. of Bishopwearmouth, Co. Durham , 1495 . Canon of Windsor [ Berkshire ], 1497-1501 ; and Dean of the Chapel Royal. R. of Higham, Somerset , 1499-1501 . Bishop of Norwich [ Norfolk ], 1501-36 . Belonged to the old Catholic party; opposed to Henry VIII's divorce and to the reformers. Died 14 Jan., 1535/6; buried in Norwich Cathedral [ Norfolk ]. Benefactor to Trinity Hall. ( Cooper, I. 56; D.N.B. ) | Richard NYKKE Approx. lifespan: 14551535 Richard NIX Educated at Trinity Hall also at Oxford, [Oxfordshire], and Bologna, [Italy], LL.D. s. of Richard NYKKE of Somerset , R. of Ashbury, Berkshire , 1473 Preb. of Wells, [Somerset], 1489 R. of Chedbury, Somerset , 1489 Archdeacon of Exeter, [Devon], 1492 Vicar-general of Bath and Wells, [Somerset], 1493 Preb. of Southwell, [Nottinghamshire], 1493-98 Archdeacon of Wells, [Somerset], 1494-50 Preb. of York, [Yorkshire], 1494-1501 Vicar-general of Durham, [Co. Durham], R. of Bishopwearmouth, Co. Durham , 1495 Canon of Windsor, [Berkshire], 1497-1501 ; and Dean of the Chapel Royal. R. of Higham, Somerset , 1499-1501 Bishop of Norwich, [Norfolk], 1501-36 Belonged to the old Catholic party; opposed to Henry VIII's divorce and to the reformers. Died 1535/6:01:14 ; buried in Norwich Cathedral, Norwich, [Norfolk], Benefactor to Trinity Hall ( Cooper, I. 56; D.N.B. ) |
Richard NYKKE Richard NIK Richard NIKKE Richard NIKKES Richard NIX Richard NIYX Richard NYCK Richard NYCKES Richard NYK Richard NYKE Richard NYKKES Richard NYX Approx. lifespan: 13751571 Updated from Venn I Somerset , . Son of Richard N., and his wife, Alice (Stillington); and probably a kinsman of Dr Robert STILLINGTON, bp of Bath & Wells. 'In what House in Oxon (where he had spent some years in study) he was educated it appears not' [A. Wood, Athen. Oxfordshire . ii. 744-5] Trinity Hall, sometime member, probably before 1473 Went abroad with his brother, Wm, and was a student at Ferrara, 1479 ; and later at Bologna where he was admitted D.Cn. & C.L., 1483:03 [R.J. Mitchell, in EHR, ii (1936), 277-8; G.B. Parks, The Engl. Traveller to Italy , , i. 629] R. of Ashbury, Berkshire , , adm. 1473:03:27 ; still in 1493 [Reg. Beauchamp, Sarum, i, pt i, fo. 172v; Magdalene College Ledger A, fo. 86v; Regg. Stillington and Fox, Bath & Wells (SRS), 96] obtained pap. dispensn to hold an additional incompatible benef. 1473:11:04 [CPL, xiii. 851] can. of Wells and preby of Yatton by 1488:05 ; vac. 1494:07 [Regg. Stillington and Fox, 151, 192-3; Cal. MSS. of D. & C. Wells (HMC), ii. 125, 136, 833] can. and preby of S. Crantock, Cornwall , , coll. 1489:05:09 ; still in 1492:06 [Reg. R. Foxe, Ex., fo. 119v; Reg. J. Morton, Cant., i, fo. 125] r. of Chedzoy, Somerset , , adm. 1489:09:24 ; vac. on promotion as bp [Regg. Stillington and Fox, 159; Regg. King and Hadrian, Bath & Wells (SRS), 66; CPR 1485-94, p. 291] can. and preby of Exeter, [Devon], , coll. 1491:11:03 [Reg. R. Foxe, fo. 121v] v. of Stokenham, Devon , , coll. 1492:01:05 [ibid. fo. 122] archd. of Exeter, coll. 1492:02:03 ; still in 1497 [ibid. fo. 122; Reg. J. Morton, Cant., i, fo. 121; Regg. King and Hadrian, 38; le Neve, i. 395] can. of Southwell and preby of Woodburgh, coll. 1493:02:15 ; vac. by 1498:01 [Reg. Rotherham, York xxiii, fos 104, 109v] archd. of Wells and preby of Huish, coll. 1494:07:10 ; vac. by 1500:12 [Regg. Stillington and Fox, 192; Regg. King and Hadrian, 85; Cal. MSS. of D. & C. Wells, ii. 136 bis, 161] can. ofYork and preby of Fridaythorpe, coll. 1494:07:30 ; vac. on promotion as bp [Reg. Savage, York xxv, fos 20v, 21v; York D. & C. Acta Capitul. 1427-1504, fos 216v, 224] r. of Bishop Wearmouth, Co. Durham , , coll. 1494:12:23 ; still in 1497 [Reg. Fox, Co. Durham , . (SS), 3-6, 52-5] can. and preby of S. George's Chapel, Windsor, app. 1497:11:29 ; vac. by 1502:01 [CPR 1494-1509, p. 125; S.L. Ollard, Fasti Wyndesor. 118] dean of the Chapel Royal, app. 1497 ; can. of Westbury-on-Trym, Gloucestershire , , and preby of Merymouth alias Holley, in 1498:10 ; still in 1499:10 [Reg. J. Morton, Cant., i, fo. 170; Regg. King and Hadrian, 38] r. of South Moulton, Somerset , , adm. 1499:09:02 ; vac. 1499:10 [ibid. 37, 41] obtained pap. dispensn to hold an incompatible benef. additional to Chedzoy and Bishop Wearmouth and the foregoing archdeaconries, canonries, and prebends 1499 [ibid. 38] r. of High Ham, Somerset , , adm. 1499:10:02 ; vac. on promotion as bp [ibid. 38, 60] bp of Norwich, by pap. provn, 1501:02:26 ; consecrated in England 1501:04:18 ; temporalities restored 1501:04:24 ; till death [C. Eubel, ii. 226; Stubbs, 95; CPR 1494-1501, p. 228; le Neve, iv. 25; Regg. Nykke, Norw. xii-xvi; Dunbartonshire , article, under 'Nix', by W.A.J. Archbold] Official and vicar genl in spirituals of bp of Bath & Wells, app. 1492:05:10 [Regg. Stillington and Fox, pp. xx, 174] Official and vicar genl in spirituals of bp of Durham, app. 1495:02:15 [Reg. R. Fox, Co. Durham , . pp. xxxi, 3-6, 8, 9, 13, 19, 20, 27, 29, 45, 52-5] Registrar of the Order of the Garter, app. 1496 . Active in the administration of his diocese until disabled by infirmity and partial blindness during the closing years of his life. For his visitations of the religious Houses in his diocese in 1514, 1520-21, and 1526, see A. Jessopp, Visitns of Diocese of Norw. (CS), 262-319. Annoyed by the interference of Cardl Wolsey in his diocese to settle a dispute between Norwich priory and the city, 1520 [Hist. of Norfolk . (VCH), ii. 252-4] Opposed to the kg's divorce and antipapal policy, but complied with all statutory measures taken to sever ties with Rome [LPFD Hy VIII, viii. 311] Severe in his actions against reformers, not sparing Th. Bilney, a member of his own college [J. Strype, Cranmer, i. 41-2] Reprobated in a letter to Abp Warham, 1530:05:14, the influx of printed books containing 'arronious opinions' from overseas, 'for if they contynue any time I thynk they shall undoe us all' [ibid. ii. 694-6] When nearly 90 yr of age and blind, was prosecuted in the King's Bench on a charge of praemunire for infringement of the privileges of the men of Thetford and condemned to the confiscation of all his property and his body at the king's mercy, 1534:02:07 [LPFD Hy VIII, vii. 21 bis, 23, 64, 70] in custody at the Marshalsea prison until he agreed to pay a fine of £10,000, 1534:02:19 [ibid. vii. 113, 128] Pardoned 1534:02:24, under act of parlt 25 Henry VIII, c. 29. For his dispute with the men of Lynn, see Six Town Chronicles, ed. R. Flenley, 87, 89, 113. His moral character aspersed by Alex. Neville, one of the secretaries of Abp Parker [Norwicus, 1575, p. 184] Summoned before the council in the Star Chamber 1535:01:31 ; excused himself attendance owing to infirmity [ Dunbartonshire ] d. by 1536:01:14 [le Neve, ii. 468] Buried in his cath. ch. on the S. side of the nave, between the 7th and 8th pillar towards the E. end. Rebuilt with stone vaulting the roof of the N. and S. transepts of the cath. after the fire in 1509 [Blomefield, iii. 546] Founded two fellowships for canonists and one for a civilian, and one scholarship at Trinity Hall [H.E. Malden, Trinity Hall , 94] Phil. Phasianinus, of Bologna, dedicated to him his Palaephati Scriptoris Graeca Opuscula de non credendis fabulosis narratis, 1505 . Owned: (i) Co. Durham , . Cath. MS. C.iv.3 (Piero Candido Decembrio's Latin transln of Plato's Republic with letters to and from Humphrey, duke of Gloucester) [Cat. MSS. Eccl. Dunelm. ed. T. Rud, 294] (ii) Lincoln Cath. D. & C. Libr. MS. B.6.10 (Peter de Alliaco, various tractates) [R.M. Woolley, Cat. MSS. Lincolnshire . Cath. Chapter Libr. 166-7] (iii) Cumberland , inc.1542 (J.A. Campanus, Opera, Rome, 1495 ); (iv) St John's College MS. 205 (Virgil, Opera ); (v) London , , Law Society MS. 105 g ( Registrum Brevium ); (vi) London , , Sion Coll. MS. L.40.2/L.5 ( Biblia sacra ); (vii) Colchester Mus., MS. 213.32 (Sarum Breviary); (viii) Norwich Central Libr. H.c.4 (B. Montagnana, Consilia medica, Venice, 1499 ); (ix) Ipswich Central Libr. (Th. Aquinas, In epistolas Pauli, Nuremberg, 1481 ); (x) Westminster Abbey Libr. F.2.20 (F. Cumanus, Consilia, Brescia, 1490 ); (xi) Glasgow, Hunterian Mus. T.5.19 (medical recipes in English); (xii) idem, U.5.9 ( Speculum flebothomiae ; and Jo. Arderne, Chirurgia ); (xiii) Lincoln Cath. D. & C. Libr. SS. 1-9 (Jo. Andreae, Novellae opus super sexto libro Decretalium, Milan, 1483 ; L. Pontanus, Singularia juris, Venice, 1475 ); (xiv) idem, C.1.13 (Baldus de Perusio, Consilia, Venice, 1491 ). Gave to mag. Robert DYKAR, 1522 : BM, Burney MS. 354 (miscellaneous canon law texts). An exor. of Jo. Lascy, can. of Wells, by whom bequeathed, 1493, three works on Cicero: (i) Epistolae 2<sup>o</sup> fo., altercacione ; (ii) De officiis, 2<sup>o</sup> fo. neque ulla ; (iii) De amicitia, 2<sup>o</sup> fo. -mo videretur [PCC, 7 Vox] The registers of his official acts (nos xiii to xvi in the Norwich series) are in the Old Chapel in the grounds of the Bishop's Palace, Norwich, Norfolk , [Appx] |