FLEMING, RICHARD (c. 1360-1431), bishop of Lincoln, and founder of Lincoln college, Oxford, was born in Yorkshire of a good family, and educated at University college, Oxford. He was made prebendary of York in 1406. Becoming an ardent Wycliffite, he incurred the censure of Archbishop Arundel. He afterwards became one of Wycliffe's most determined opponents, and to him was entrusted the execution of the decree of the coun cil for the exhumation and burning of Wycliffe's remains. Before 1415 he was rector of Boston, Lincolnshire, and in 1420 became bishop of Lincoln. In 1423 he attended the councils of Pavia and Siena, and on his return, the see of York being vacant, the pope conferred it on Fleming; but Henry V. refused to confirm the appointment. In 1427 Fleming obtained the royal licence em powering him to found a college at Oxford for the training of disputants against Wycliffe's heresy. He died at Sleaford on Jan. 26, 1431.