_Hugh Oldham, Bishop of Exeter_ (Vol. vii., p. 14.).--Hugh Oldham bore for
his arms, Sa. a chevron or, between three owls proper on a chief of the
second, three roses gu. (See Isaacke's _Memorials of the City of Exeter_;
and also Burke's _Armory_, under the name _Oldom_.) I have endeavoured to
find some pedigree or particulars of his family, but as yet without
success. The following Notes from what I have collected may, however,
assist J. B. in his inquiries. He was of Queen's College, Cambridge, and
chaplain to the Countess of Richmond (King Henry VII.'s mother), and by her
interest was installed Bp. of Exeter, April 3, 1507. He was a great
benefactor to Brazenose College, Oxford, and joint founder (with Richard
Fox, Bishop of Winchester) of Corpus Christi. He also founded and endowed a
school at Manchester, for educating boys in good and useful literature. He
died June 25, 1523, under sentence of excommunication, in consequence of an
action at law then pending between him and the Abbot of Tavistock; but the
Pope's sanction being obtained, he was buried in a chapel built expressly
for the purpose, at the upper end of the south aisle of his own cathedral.