BALDOCK, Ralph de, bishop of London in the reigns of Edward I. and II., was educated at Merton College, Oxford, became dean of St Paul's, was afterwards promoted to the see of London, and at last was made lord high chancellor of England. He wrote Historia Anglica, or a History of the British Affairs down to his own time; and A Collection of the Statutes and Constitutions of the Church of St Paul. The former, though it was seen by Leland, is not now extant; the latter is preserved in the library of that cathedral. Bishop Baldock died at Stepney, July 24, 1313.