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Adam Hemlington
ADAM HEMLINGTON (HAMELYNGTON, HAMLINGTONUS, HEMELENDUNUS, HELMYNGTON, -US, HEMLYNGTON, HEMLYNTON, HEMPLYNGTON, HEYMELTON, HEYMOLTON)
Joined in Norwich and studied at Oxford. He was given the title baccalarius when he preached before the king at Pontefract on the Feast of the Assumption 15 Aug 1403 for which he received 26s. 8d.[1] Magister by 4 March 1414 when he was present at an inquiry by the Congregation of the University of Oxford into the spread of heresy.[2]
John Bale claims that Hemlington incepted as a D.Th. at Paris also. However, his name does not feature in any of the records of Paris University so probably he taught in the Carmelite studium generale in Paris: this would have been after 1418 when the city was under English control.[3]
He had returned to Norwich by 1 April 1421 when he was appointed a spiritual director for Lady Emma Stapleton, a recluse.[4] On 18 Dec 1422, 24 marks were payable to him through Alexander de Ferentinis, the king’s Italian banker in London.[5] In his Catalogus, Bale claims Hemlington died in Norwich which is likely, but his name is absent from Bale’s list of burials there and Bale’s earlier notes are unaware of where he died.[6]
Lost work:
1. Varii sermones (quorum unus incipit): “Petite ut gaudium vestrum sit plenum Johannis .16o. Ex summa Aristotelis primo Methaphisice cui concordat Augustinus .13o. De trinitate cao. 8o.” Bale records seeing a copy.[7]
The following titles, later additions without incipit, are probably Bale ‘inventions’.
2. Questiones ordinariae, Li. 1 [Harley 3838, fo. 89v].
3. De actu Parisiensi, Li. 1 [Bale, Catalogus, II, 62].
Bibliography:
Bale, Summarium, fo. 248; Bale, Catalogus, II, 62; Emden, B.R.U.O., 906; Leland, De viris illustribus, no. 494; Zimmerman, Mon. Hist. Carm., I, 407; Pits, De Rebus Anglicis, 605; Sharpe, Handlist, 16; A. Staring, “Adam Hemlyngton”, D.H.G.E., XXIII, 981; Tanner, Bibl. Brit.-Hib., 373; Villiers, Bib. Carm., I, 1; Marie-Joseph du Sacré-Coeur, O.C.D., “Nouvelle Bibliothéque Carmélitaine”, Études Carmelitaines, VIII (1913) 9-10.
References:
- ↑ [T.N.A., E101/404/21, fo. 36v: in Codling, D. A., “The Kingly Style of Henry IV: Personality, Politics and Culture”, Ph.D. Thesis, Royal Holloway (2004) 168].
- ↑ [Reg. Repingdon, Lincoln, fo. 151v; Snappe’s Formulary, ed. H. Salter (Oxford Hist. Soc., 1924) 184].
- ↑ Bodley 73, fo. 36; Selden supra 41, fo. 374.
- ↑ Harley 1819, fo. 197v
- ↑ C.C.R., 1422-1429, 484.
- ↑ Bale, Catalogus, II, 62.
- ↑ Bodley 73, fo. 205.
Richard Copsey, O.Carm.