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 addressed by the pope as archbishop-elect, and allowed to retain his treasurership in London and all prebends and benefices which he has hitherto held. On 27 July 1256 Alexander issued a mandate to the two chapters, ordering them to accept his nominee. Henry III resisted the appointment for a time, and his subsequent acceptance of it was regarded by Matthew Paris as a sign of his falling dignity and influence. On 25 March 1257 Henry also restored to Fulk the deanery of Penkridge in Staffordshire, but only as it had been held by Archbishop Luke and saving the royal rights.

In 1257 Fulk was in England. He was present at the Mid Lent parliament, when, earl of Cornwall (1209–1272) [q. v.], bade farewell to the magnates on his departure for Germany (, Hist. Major, v. 625). On 25 May he officiated at Lichfield at the burial of the late bishop, Roger of Weseham (‘Burton Annals’ in Ann. Mon. i. 408). He received soon after a curious permission from the pope to ‘choose a discreet confessor’ (Hist. MSS. Comm. 10th Rep. v. 207). About July 1259 he received royal license to visit the Roman court (Cal. Doc. Ireland, 1252–84, p. 101). It was probably his personal intervention that led Pope Alexander on 4 Nov. to permanently annex the deanery of Penkridge to the see of Dublin, and in 1260 to augment its revenues by conferring on the archbishops in perpetuity the prebend of Swords in Dublin Cathedral (Cal. Papal Letters, i. 368, 371). He was still with the pope at Anagni on 13 April 1260, and during his absence some of his suffragans had attempted to prejudice the rights of his see (Hist. MSS. Comm. 10th Rep. v. 208). The justice of Ireland, William le Dene, also took advantage of his absence to infringe the liberties of the church and try ecclesiastics in secular courts (ib.)

On 16 Feb. 1265 Henry III urgently begged Fulk Sandford to undertake the office of justice of Ireland as deputy of his son Edward, its nominal lord since 1254. Ireland, being threatened by discord among its magnates, king and council deemed Fulk a useful and necessary agent in the preservation of peace (Cal. Doc. Ireland, 1252–84, p. 123). As the king and his son were then in the hands of Simon de Montfort, this may signify that Fulk's sympathies were with the popular side. But in May another letter makes it clear that it was only during the temporary absence of the real justiciar, Richard de la Rochelle, that Fulk assumed the government, and even then only as chief counsellor to Roger Waspayl, or if Roger refused the proffered office (ib. p. 125). Finally, on 10 June, the baronial party made Hugh de Tachmon bishop of Meath, justiciar (ib. p. 126).

About September 1265 Fulk received letters of protection till Pentecost (ib. p. 126). In the spring of 1267 he had safe-conduct while visiting the English court (ib. p. 132). On 11 and 12 April he procured from Henry III at Cambridge grants that he might enjoy all the liberties and rights of his predecessors (ib. p. 132). This probably means a reconciliation between Fulk and the victorious royalists. Fulk showed great activity and tenacity in safeguarding the rights of the church and of his see, and a large number of documents in the register called ‘Crede Mihi’ attest his zeal in increasing or rounding off his possessions and in driving bargains with his neighbours and dependents (Hist. MSS. Comm. 10th Rep. v. 213–19; cf. Hist. and Municipal Doc. Ireland, pp. 141, 142). He had disputes with the Dublin citizens, which he settled before the justice, Robert Ufford (ib. p. 182). He was in debt to the Florentine bankers (ib. p. 166). He died at his manor of Finglas on 4 May 1271 (Cartularies, &c., of St. Mary's Abbey, Dublin, ii. 290;, Commentary on Prelates of Ireland, Archbishops of Dublin, p. 6 [1704], wrongly dates the death on 6 May). He was buried in St. Mary's Chapel (apparently a foundation of his own), within St. Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin. After a seven years' vacancy, his see was filled up by [q. v.]



SANDFORD or SANFORD, JAMES (fl. 1567), author, apparently a native of Somerset, may have been uncle or cousin of (1565?–1629) [q. v.] One ‘Mr. Sandford’ was tutor from about 1586 to, third earl of Pembroke [q. v.] (cf. Ashmole MS. 174, f. 149). James was well read in classical and modern literature, and worked laboriously as a translator. In 1567 he published two translations with [q. v.], the London printer: the one was entitled ‘Amorous and Tragicall Tales of Plutarch, whereunto is