Note 451 — BOOK THE FOURTH.
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John Morton, born at Bere, near Blandford, in Dorsetshire, was originally Rector of St. Dunstan’s Church in London. He was appointed Bishop of Ely on the 8th of August, 1478, translated to the see of Canterbury on the 9th of October, 1486, and created Lord Chancellor on the 8th of August, 1487. Pope Alexander VI. made him a cardinal in 1493; and he died at Knole on the 21st of September, 1500.