Thomas Langton elected Archbishop of Canterbury

1500. 1501  January 22nd. Thomas Langton was elected Archbishop of Canterbury.
      

1501 January 27th. Thomas Langton Archbishop of Canterbury. died of the plague before the confirmation
of the deed. He was buried in a marble tomb within 'a very fair chapel' which he had built south of the lady-chapel in Winchester Cathedral. Before his death he had given 10 shillings towards the erection
of Great St. Mary's Church, Cambridge, and in 1497 a drinking-cup, weighing 67 ounces, called the 'Anathema Cup,' to Pembroke Hall. This is the oldest extant hanap or covered cup that is hall-marked. By his will, dated January 16th.1501, Thomas Langton left large sums of money to the priests of Clare Hall, Cambridge, money and vestments to the fellows and priests of Queen's College, Oxford, besides legacies to the friars at both universities, and to the Carmelites at Appleby-in-Westmorland. To his sister and her husband, Rowland Machel, lands (probably the family estates) in Westmorland and two hundred marks were bequeathed. An annual pension of eight marks was set aside to maintain a chapel at Appleby-in-Westmorland for a hundred years to pray for the souls of Thomas Langton, his parents, and all the faithful deceased at Appleby-in-Westmorland.