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RUSSELL, JOHN (d. 1494)

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RUSSELL, See also:JOHN (d. 1494) , See also:English See also:bishop and See also:chancellor, was admitted to See also:Winchester See also:College in 1443, and in 1449 went to See also:Oxford as See also:fellow of New College. He resigned his fellowship in 1462, and appears to have entered the royal service. In See also:April 1467 and See also:January 1468 he was employed on See also:missions to See also:Charles the Bold at See also:Bruges. He was there again in See also:February 1470 as one of the envoys to invest Charles with the Garter: the Latin speech which Russell delivered on this last occasion was one of See also:Caxton's earliest publications, probably printed for him at Bruges by Colard See also:Mansion (see See also:Blades, See also:Life of Caxton, i. p. Vii, ii. 29-31). In May 1474 he was promoted to be keeper of the privy See also:seal, and retained his See also:office even after hisconsecration as bishop of See also:Rochester on the 22nd of See also:September 1476, and See also:translation to See also:Lincoln on the 9th of September 1480. As a trusted See also:minister of See also:Edward IV., he was one of the executors of the See also:king's will; but o1, the 13th of May 1483 he accepted the office of chancellor in the See also:interest of See also:Richard of See also:Gloucester, apparently with See also:great reluctance. He retained the great seal till the 29th of See also:July 1485. Russell was above all things an See also:official, and was sometimes employed by See also:Henry VII. in public affairs. But his last years were occupied chiefly with the business of his See also:diocese, and of the university of Oxford, of which he had been elected chancellor in 1483.

He died at Nettleham on the 3oth of See also:

December 1494, and was buried at Lincoln See also:Cathedral. See also:Sir See also:Thomas More calls Russell " a See also:wise manne and a See also:good, and of much experience, and one of the best-learned men, undoubtedly, that See also:England had in hys See also:time." Two English speeches composed by Russell, for the intended See also:parliament of Edward V., and the first parliament of Richard III., are printed in See also:Nichols's Grants of Edward V. (See also:Camden See also:Soc.). Some other writings of less interest remain in See also:manuscript. For contemporary notices see especially More's Life of Richard III., the Continuation of the Croyland See also:Chronicle, ap. See also:Freeman Scriptores, and See also:Bentley's Excerpta Historica, pp. 16-17. See also See also:Wood's See also:History and Antiquities of the University of Oxford, and T. See also:Kirby, Winchester Scholars, and See also:Annals of Winchester College. There are See also:modern See also:biographies in See also:Campbell's Lives of the Chancellors, and See also:Foss's See also:Judges of England. (C. L.

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