[4] He was Master of St. Cross Hospital, near Winchester and a Canon of Wells Cathedral until 1493.

[6] Exceptionally, he held ecclesiastical posts prior to ordination: he was made a deacon in 1499 and ordained a priest on 5 March 1501.

From 1505 to 1508 he was bishop of St David's,[7] a post he obtained by forging a papal bull.

Sherborne does not seem to have been punished, and in 1508 was made bishop of Chichester, this time legitimately by a real papal bull.

[8] Sherborne was a patron of the artist Lambert Barnard, commissioning several series of paintings from him.