Talk:Richard Whiting (abbot)

Derek Andrews 00:18, 12 October 2007 (UTC)

Untitled
I have upped the importance.Harrypotter (talk) 00:22, 9 March 2008 (UTC)

Last Abbott
I put in the capitilisation of Last Abbot as it also relates to such people as Hugh Farngdon, Last Abbot of Reading and Thomas Marshall, Last Abbot of Colchester. Cousins uses this capitalisation, which seems to me to be fair considering that these encumbents were themselves decapitalised to become Last Abbots.Harrypotter (talk) 14:44, 9 March 2008 (UTC)

Problems
(i) Ref 2 is a dead link

(ii) It supports (presumably) the statement that Whiting was ordained deacon in 1366 and priest in 1388

but this can't possibly refer to the subject of this article!

Ref ! has:

He was ordained deacon in 1500 and priest in 1501

which is somewhat more believable

(iii) According to this document he was beheaded and quartered, not hd&q: 530. J. LORD RUSSELL to [CROMWELL]. https://www.british-history.ac.uk/letters-papers-hen8/vol14/no2/pp185-196

86.162.138.203 (talk) 19:42, 15 November 2015 (UTC)
 * Thanks I have corrected the dates using ref 1.&mdash; Rod talk 19:26, 4 January 2016 (UTC)

Treason or Robbery?
"..The king had him hanged, drawn and quartered after his conviction for treason for remaining loyal to Rome." ["The precise charge on which he was arrested, and subsequently executed, remains uncertain"] "..he was convicted of "robbing Glastonbury church".

So, which is it? JF42 (talk) 08:57, 6 November 2022 (UTC)

unreliable sources section
one of the references is not accepted academic history and the other two cannot be found using google or bing search. need URLs and page numbers would help improve this section. Schyler ( exquirito veritatem bonumque ) 16:11, 30 May 2023 (UTC)