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ALCOCK, JOHN (c. 1430–1500)

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Originally appearing in Volume V01, Page 524 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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ALCOCK, See also:JOHN (c. 1430–1500) , See also:English divine, was See also:born at See also:Beverley in See also:Yorkshire and educated at See also:Cambridge. In 1461 he was made See also:dean of See also:Westminster, and henceforward his See also:pro-See also:motion was rapid in See also:church and See also:state. In the following See also:year he was made See also:master of the rolls, and in 1470 was sent as See also:ambassador to the See also:court of See also:Castile. He was consecrated See also:bishop of See also:Rochester in 1472 and was successively translated to the See also:sees of See also:Worcester (1496) and See also:Ely (1486). He twice held the See also:office of See also:lord See also:chancellor, and exhibited See also:great ability in the negotiations with See also:James III. of See also:Scotland. He died at See also:Wisbech See also:Castle on the 1st of See also:October 1500. Alcock was one of the most eminent pre-See also:Reformation divines; he was a See also:man of deep learning and also of great proficiency as an architect. Besides See also:founding a charity at Beverley and a See also:grammar school at See also:Kingston-upon-See also:Hull, he restored many churches and colleges; but his greatest enterprise was the erection of Jesus See also:College, Cambridge, which he established on the site of the former See also:convent of St Radigund. Alcock's published writings, most of which are extremely rare, are: See also:Mons Perfectionis, or the See also:Hill of Perfection (See also:London, 1497); Gallicontus Johannis Alcock episcopi Eliensis ad,frates suos curatos in sinodo apud Barnwell (1498), a See also:good specimen of See also:early English See also:printing and See also:quaint illustrations; The Castle of Labour, translated from the See also:French (1536), and various other tracts and homilies. See J. See also:Bass Mullinger's Hist. of the University of Cambridge, vol. i.

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