Henry Wilcocks

{{Short description|English priest}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} '''Henry Wilcocks''' [[Doctor of Civil Law|DCL]] was an [[England|English]] [[priest]] in the early [[16th-century]].<ref>[https://www.le.ac.uk/lahs/downloads/CocksvolumeLXVII-5sm.pdf University of Leicester]</ref>

Wilcocks was educated at the [[University of Oxford]].<ref>[https://www.british-history.ac.uk/alumni-oxon/1500-1714/pp1626-1654 Alumni Oxonienses 1500-1714,Widdis-Wilshman]</ref> He became Chief Moderator of the Civil Law School at Oxford in 1501 and an advocate of [[Doctors' Commons]] in 1511. He held [[Living (Christianity)|livings]] at [[Woodeaton|Wood Eaton]], [[Eynsham]] and [[Haseley]]. He became a [[Canon (priest)|Canon]] of [[Lincoln Cathedral]] in 1504, [[Vicar general]] of the [[Diocese of Lincoln]] in 1511 and [[Archdeacon of Leicester]] in 1515.<ref>{{cite wikisource |last1=Le NeveRoger de Saxenhurst |first1=John |last2=Hardy |first2=Sir Thomas Duffus |author1-link=John Le Neve |author2-link=Thomas Duffus Hardy |title=Archdeacons of Leicester |wslink=Page:Fasti_ecclesiae_Anglicanae_Vol.2_body_of_work_part_1.djvu/73 |series=Fasti ecclesiae Anglicanae |volume=2 |year=1854 |publisher=[[Oxford University Press]] |location=Oxford |pages=59–63 |wspages=65–69 }}</ref>

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