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Originally appearing in Volume V03, Page 610 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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BECKINGTON (or BEKYNTON), THOMAS (c. 1390-1465)  ,
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English statesman and prelate, was born at Beckington in Somerset, and was educated at Winchester and New College, Oxford . Having entered the church he held many ecclesiastical appointments, and became dean of the Arches in 1423; then devoting his time to secular affairs he was sent on an
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embassy to
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Calais in 1439, and to John IV., count of
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Armagnac, in 1442 . At this time Beckington was acting as secretary to Henry VI., and soon after his return in 1443 he was appointed lord privy seal and bishop of Bath and Wells . The bishop erected many buildings in Wells, and died there on the 14th of
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January 1465 . The most important results of Beckington's missions to France were one Latin journal, written by himself, referring to the embassy to Calais; and another, written by one of his attendants,
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relating to the journey to Armagnac . Beckington's own journal is published in the Proceedings of the Privy Council, vol. v., edited by N . H . Nicolas (1835) ; and the other journal in the Official Correspondence of Thomas Bekynton, edited by G . Williams for the Rolls Series (1872), which contains many interesting letters . This latter journal has been translated into English by N . H . Nicolas (1828) .

See G . G .

Perry, " Bishop Beckington and Henry VI.," in the English
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Historical Review (1894) .

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