Amazing Dog Tricks

Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Thomas Wolsey, Henry Beaufort, Robert Grosseteste, William Wake, Thomas Tenison, Walter de Coutances, Bishop of Lincoln, Alexander of Lincoln, Geoffrey, Archbishop of York, Thomas Watson, Robert de Chesney, Robert Bloet, Hugh of Wells, Thomas Barlow, Remigius de Fécamp, William Smyth, George Pretyman Tomline, Hugh of Lincoln, Thomas Rotherham, William de Blois, Christopher Wordsworth, John Russell, Richard Fleming, John Williams, Edmund Gibson, Philip Repyngdon, Richard Neile, Maurice Harland, Thomas Cooper, John Green, Henry Burghersh, Thomas Winniffe, Henry of Lexington, William Fuller, George Montaigne, William Alnwick, William Chaderton, Richard of Gravesend, Henry Holbeach, Marmaduke Lumley, William Shuckburgh Swayne, Edward King, Edward Lee Hicks, Simon Wilton Phipps, John Bokyngham, John Thomas Ii, Leslie Owen, William Barlow, James Gardiner, John Dalderby, Oliver Sutton, Robert Maynard Hardy, Frederick Cyril Nugent Hicks, William Atwater, Richard Reynolds, Benjamin Laney, Robert Sanderson, John Taylor, John Longland, Alymer Skelton, Kenneth Riches, William Gray, John Chadworth, Thomas Bek, George Pelham, William Wickham, John White, Nicholas Bullingham, John Gynwell, John Jackson. Excerpt: Alexander of Lincoln (died in early 1148) was a medieval English bishop of Lincoln and member of an important administrative and ecclesiastical family. He was the nephew of Roger of Salisbury , the Bishop of Salisbury and Chancellor of England under King Henry I . Alexander was also related to other ecclesiastics, including Nigel, Bishop of Ely . Educated at Laon , he served in his uncle's diocese as an archdeacon in the early 1120s. Unlike his relatives, Alexander did not hold office in the government prior to his appointment as bishop of Lincoln in 1123. After his elevation to the e...