Reginald Pecock
Reginald Pecock (or Peacock; c. 1395– c. 1461) was a Welsh prelate, scholastic, and writer. Life Pecock was probably born in Laugharne and was educated at Oriel College, Oxford. Having been ordained priest in 1421, Pecock secured a mastership at Whittington College, London, in 1431 where he was also parish priest of St. Michael Paternoster Royal, the adjacent parish church. On 14 June 1444 he was consecrated as Bishop of St Asaph,Fryde, et al. ''Handbook of British Chronology'' p. 296 and translated as Bishop of Chichester on 23 March 1450.Fryde, et al. ''Handbook of British Chronology'' p. 239 In 1454 he became a member of the privy council. He wrote books of both a pedagogical and polemical nature. His pedagogical books, in which he proposes a wholly new catechism include ''The Donet'', ''The Follower to the Donet'', and ''The Rule of Christian Religion''. He joined the debate on Christian doctrine in his ''Repressing of Over Mich Wyting'' laming''the Clergie'', 1449, a ...
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Bishop Of Chichester
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