Richard Ullerston DD (died August or September 1423) was a

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and Chancellor of

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. Ullerston was born in the

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. Having been ordained

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in December, 1383, he became a

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(1391–1403), holding office in the college, and proceeding to Doctor of Divinity and

of Oxford University in 1394. In 1408, he became Chancellor of the University and in the same year wrote at the request of the Robert Hallum,

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a sketch of proposed ecclesiastical reforms: "Petitiones quoad reformationis ecclesiae militantis", which is available online (see below). Ullerston wrote a commentary on the Creed (1409), one on the

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(1415), another on the Canticle of Canticles (1415), and "Defensorium donationis ecclesiasticae", a work in defence of the

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. At the request of Richard Courtenay he wrote a treatise, "De officio militari" 'On the military office', addressed to Henry, Prince of Wales. From 1403, Ullerston held the prebend of

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in Salisbury Cathedral, and from 1407 the rectory of Beeford in

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Ullerston's ''Petitiones quoad reformationem ecclesiae'': http://web.wlu.ca/history/cnighman/cc/Petitiones.pdf 14th-century births Year of birth unknown 1423 deaths Fellows of The Queen's College, Oxford Vice-Chancellors of the University of Oxford Chancellors of the University of Oxford English Roman Catholic theologians 14th-century English Roman Catholic priests 15th-century English Roman Catholic priests {{England-academic-administrator-stub