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WALDEN, ROGER (d. 1406)

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Originally appearing in Volume V28, Page 254 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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WALDEN, See also:ROGER (d. 1406) , See also:English See also:prelate, was a See also:man of obscure See also:birth, little or nothing, moreover, being known of his See also:early years. He had some connexion with the Channel Islands, and resided for some See also:time in See also:Jersey; and he held livings in See also:Yorkshire and in See also:Leicestershire before he became See also:archdeacon of See also:Winchester in 1387. His days, however, were by no means fully occupied with his ecclesiastical duties, and in 1387 also he was appointed treasurer of See also:Calais, holding about the same time other positions in this neighbourhood. In 1395, after having served See also:Richard II. as secretary, Walden became treasurer of See also:England, adding the deanery of See also:York to his numerous other benefices. In 1397 he was chosen See also:archbishop of See also:Canterbury in See also:succession to See also:Thomas See also:Arundel, who had just been banished from the See also:realm, but he lost this position when the new See also:king See also:Henry IV. restored Arundel in 1399, and after a See also:short imprisonment he passed into retirement, being, as he himself says, " in the dust and under feet of men. " In 1405, through Arundel's See also:influence, he was elected See also:bishop of See also:London, and he died at Much Hadham in See also:Hertfordshire on the 6th of See also:January 1406. An Historia Mundi, the See also:manuscript of which is in the See also:British Museum, is sometimes regarded as the See also:work of Walden; but this was doubtless written by an earlier writer. See J. H. See also:Wylie, See also:History of England under Henry IV. vol. iii. (1896).

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