OCR Text |
Show The defcripti on of England. fberein tt tas ford,that the fee of THincbeffer bad litie there, builded the banitof fhe noxth fine of the not onelie bene thithoutbit pattor bp the {pace of fer nen peres , butalfo that bir turificion tvas farre greaterthan tio men were able tuell te gouerne; therefore from the fomerthuo, to tit , WHinchetter and Shirburne, thee other tere taken,therebythat fe was now dDiutded into flue parts; the latter three being @elles Lsirton,and Coral: this of Con bobdie of the church,and there lieth buried in the fame (as ¥ baue beene tnfopmed.) Certes this man was once cected, and thould bane bene archbifhopof Cantucburie in the rome of Reginald that diep 1313 bnoer Coward the fecond: but the pope frak trated bis election, fearing leat be mould baue ther wed bimfclfc moze affectionate totvards bts prince iwall baning bic fee thenat faint Patroks, not farre than to bis court of Mome; therefore he gaue Care from no2fh-Wlales bon the riuner Welmonth : be 10. tarburie to the bithop of Wlopcefterthen beting. Anw of Denon holding bis turiMdicion tn Deuonthire, Hirton,o2 Cridfoc: and the bithop of Welles bes ing allowed Dorlet and Warbihires for bis part, to furthermore, leat be Houta feeme altogither to ree tect the fato Zhomas and difpleate the king, be gaue bimin the end the bithopzike of Worcefter, theres into be entred 1317, azarry 31, being thurfdate (ag Aperteth by the regifter of that boute ) after long plee bolden for the aforefatd fe of Canturburiein goucrneandloke tute according to bis charge. Fir nallie,thefe tivo of Deuon and Comntwall being wnt: fed, the baluation thereof twas tared bp the f& of ome at fir thoufand ducats 02 flozens, which were the court of Rome , therein mot monie pid oftenck teulie paid at cuetie alienation; but erie bardlie preuaile. Thisis alfo notable of that fee, that fine J (as J gefle) fith that in my time, uberein all hings talians fucceeded ech other inthe fame , bpthe popes ate racked to the berte bttermof , ¥ find thatit is 20 proutfion; as Egidius, Syluefter, Egidius bis neyhue litle port) aboue fine hundzed pounds bpthe pare, (fox neyhues nright fap in thofe dates; Father hall 4 bicaufe bir tenths are butfittie. call pou bnele 2 And bneles alfo; Son & muf call Wath. Wath,adofle fe was fontetime at Teles,before thee neyhue) Julius de Medices, afterward pope Cle» Jobin the bithop there annered the curch of ath one ment,anp Hieronymus de Nugutijs, mten verie likes tottchic was 1094, bath Summerietthire onlie, lic,no Doubt, to benefit the conumon people bytheir and the valuationthereof in the courtof 4ome was dodrine. Some of thee being atthe firtt but pore foure bundzed ¢ thictie flozens: but in bir mateftics menin Rome, and pet able by felling all thep hadto baiks 3 find it fine bundzed thittic and thze pounds, make a round fummeagainta rainic date > came and aboutone od hillang : chic declaretha peecife firft into fauo2 with the pope, then into familfaritie, erainination of the eftate of that {ce . DF the erect, 3° finallie into o2ders; and from thence into the bet onof this bifhop:tke, mentioncd in the difcourfe of lfnings ofthe church, farre offiabere their parentage Creetter, J find the former afertion confirmed by could not eafilie be beard of, no: made knowne wuto another author, aid in fomewhat morela rge maner, thet neighbours. tebich J willalto remember, oncliebecauteit pleas Slocetter hath Glocetterthire onclie , therein Gia {eth me fonendat better than the tors before alles ate nine dDeanries, andto the number of 294 parif} ged outof the former twziter. This bithspzike (fatty Murches,as J findby gad recor. Wut it never paid be)twaserected 905, in acouncell holden amongthe ante thing to Rome, bicante if was ereaed byking Cetoifes, thereat king Coward of the wwetkSars Henrie the eight,atter he had abolithen the efarped ONS, aNd Pleatmond archbithop of Canturburie e anthozitic of the pope ,ercept im queene Maries,tfa Were prefent.3fo2 that pavt of the countrie bad bene 4° nite {uch thing were bemanded,as 9 donbt not but tt feuen peres without anie pattozallcure. Ano thers Wasi petts if morth perelie 3 I5 pounds , feanct foxein thiscouncell it was Agreed, that forthe tive nag thee pence, as the bokeo? firl frutts we bithopzttes (thereof one teas at Winehefter, anoe ther at Shireburne ) there thouia be fiue o2deined. ‘Hereford hath Wereforthire ano part of Sbzop! iberebp the people there might be aetane. fed, I5p this meanes JFrithftan the better inftuce thite,and it pato to omeat eucrie alienation 1800 was placedat win: bucats at theleat.butin mptimeit paicth wnto burnedimiden Veet, and Cthelme at Spirebuene, both of then bit mateffies cofers 7 68 pourids , ten Mhillings, tnto thy, being then oid. Shireburne allo futteinen ten the fub. pence,balfe pentefarthing. Jnthis fe there was a dinition 3 & that Werétane was made bifhop of ‘ bithop fometine Cridioc called o2 Deuonthire (tote fe was Dera of Compal, and Cadulfe of at iirton) Welles, vr John iwButen, bpon thome 19 the king then reigning ,bp likclihed for twant of fompetent maintenance ;bettoinen the kepingoe to home Warkihive ann Dortetthire were apoin ted. Aut now pou {ee thatalteration bis wardeobe,nbich beheld long tinte foith great be is made, by seer estion of the limits of theit prctent Woecelter, iucifice GHorcelker fometiame called 2p//Popatus Waris. (that't8,the bithopikeof the a 2 Wuiecies) hath Witoxcetter, ¢ part of Warwikethives. Sndbe, fore the bithopattie ofGlocettcr tas taken out of the HOUT,as his tegtfier faith.A tmonderfall pecferment that bithaps (onlbe peeferven fram the pulpit ta the cuffovie of toardzabes : but fucy twas the tintes SPeuerthelefie. bis bonszable cuttopic of that parse ts move folemnlic temembzea; than ante gon fers mon thatenct he made,which function perapuct fame,itpato to the pope tivo thoufandoucatsofgotp 6o tte beconunittes to his {uffragane ; fith bifyops ttt at cucric change of prelat thote dates bad.fo much bufiiette{rx the court ; that : but not-the Valuation hep coula notattendta dortrineann erbnatation. thereof isone thoutand foxtic ning pounds. feauen Lichefielo,shereonto Couentric tas added aici pence halfe penie farthing mp remembganee itl De deceiue me.) This te. (except {he timeofDenete the firtt vat the earnett fate of twas heounne either in Mobert Si. not long befode. the time, of Dea bidhop of that (ee,bath Sratforothire,Dacble hing the Wite,part of Stopthire, ano the-retk of weaciviher Sat-Sngics, aud Wofelus tuas the itt bids oftheres After tihome fucceeden Defoxt «then Catine Shite,that is boin of fubiecion toithe {ee of watozcels abo Wont The defcription of England. fo Chetker, and there helo itforatcatoir, whereby it caine to palle that the bithopsof Lidficlo were fora « 21 by hing Cogar, with the aforefatd bithopike,from -Aberice with moze than Itonlikke bolonetle he erpel tehile called béthops of Chefter. But Robert his fue, Lev the fecnlar preeffs, and fto2en with maonkes pro cello? not likeing of this. prefident , remoued bis uided from Abandune nere Drfor, by the belpe of chalte from Cyefter fo Couentrte , and there held it Codgar and Dunfane then metropotitane of cng obtletk he liued,eberebp the oziginall diutfion of the Land. ‘There was fometime agreuous contention bifgopzike of Lichfield into Wichefielb, heifer and betipeene Thomas Lilo bithop of this fee, aid the Couentric,doth callie appeare,although in mptime king of England, about the peate of Orees 35°55 Lichfield and Couentrie be vntted, and Cyeffer res Hhich F will here deliver out of an old record, becanfe mainethabithopzike by tt felfe. Wt patd the pope at 10 the matterisf parctallie penned bp fome of the bres eueriealtenation 1733forens,02(as fone olobokes -_-th2en ofthat houfe, infanour of the bifyop ; ¢ for that haue)3o00,agadroundfumme, but not without a 3 fas alfo abufed with the fame in the entrance tuff punifgment,as one faith, fith that anno 765, Cthereof at the firft into mp chronologic. Zhe blacke pulfe bifhop there biider Dita king of Mercta,would. prince fanoring one Kobert Stretton bis chapleine, bp bis helpe baue bereaued the archbifhop of Canturs a man bnlearned and not fwortbie the name of a burie of his pall,¢ (0 did in Bed Onder pope Wadzian, tlearke, fhe matter inent on fo farre, that that for holding the fame outill things were reduceddnto -_-loue, and fometthat elfe, of a canonof Lfchfield he their ancient fornte. Wefore the fime allo of bithop iwas chofen bifhoyp of that fee. Berebpon the pope br» ALangton,the peebends of this feelaiehere and there _derflanding that he was by bis Nuncio here in Cre abzoadin the citie,tabere the vicars alfo had anboule, 20 gland, fated bis confecration bp bis letters fo a of bitch this boneft bihop mifliked not a little for tinte,and in fhe meane feafon committed his eramis fundzie canfes;therefore be begantheir clofe,and benation to the arehbithop of Canturburte, and the bf foived fo much in building the fame, and pauing the {hop of Rochetter, {rho felf and dealt fo fauourablie frets , that bis hungrie kinfmen dip nota little -twith bimin golden reafoning, that bis Wwoothinete grudge at his erpentes, thinking that bis emptie {vas commenden fo the popes holineffe, sto Wome cofers fuoulo neuer mabe themgentlemen,for Hbich he gocth.Seing come to Rome the pope Himfelfe apa preferment the frends of moff bifhops gaped cars -pofed sim, and after fecret conference btterlie difas nefflie in thofe daics. king John teas fhe qreatett bleth his electon,till he bad pawued bp fabttantiall benefacto? bitte this fe; nert bnto Dffa; and it is cals argument and of great iueight before bim allo, that ledLtchficla , Qua? mortuornm campus, dicanfe of the 30 be tas not fo ightlie to be retecte hich kind of great Gaughterof chziffians made there (as fome reafoning fo well pleafed bis bolt : at Be mera write) order Dioclefian. Wowbeitinmytimethe bas -_plenstudsmeporestars, he was ma eof the bes luationthereof is 703 pounds, fiue thillings tivo nefice amd fo returneth into Cr pence, balfepenie, farthing, a fume derie narroty, hone, this bifthop being tn the kings pzefence tolo lic cait by that audito2 tbich tobe it fir in hanv, bim hotw be bad done he wif not tbat tn poeferring Drford hath Drforthire onelie, a verie pong fu rifdiction,erected by king YWenrie the eight, ¢ there in the time of queene Marte, one Coldwell twas bi: fo bimect a ‘manbnts fo highacalling. wtith thich fpeach the bing was fooffended,that be commanded bintout of b ‘uid fo auotd out of bis pretence. Inltke fhop,ttho(as J remember)wwas a Feluit,dtvelling it ben became fort the ladie Wake then dudhetle of Lancaffer, fans Rome, and moze conuerfant(as the conffant fame 4° ding by,and bearing the Ring bir coufine to gather twent)in the blackeart,than (hilinthefcriptures, bp the btthop fo roundlie, md thereto an old grudge and pet betwas of great countenance amongf the againtt him fo2 fome. other matter, doth paefentlie zomane monareds . tis laid that obferuing the picke a quarrel againtt bim about cerfeine lands cantons of bis order , he regarded not the fempoali- fhein his poffetiion, frbich he defended ¢ in the end tics of that fe : but % haue heard fince that he wifk obfeined again bir by ple and courte of latw per twell inough tat became of thofe commodities, for long alfo afore hapned in a part of bir houfe , for byone meane and other He found the fnetneffe of tbtch the accufed the bifhop,and in the end by berdict 354 pounds firteentefillings thee pence balfe penie, of tinelue men found that be tyas p2inie nto the pearelie growing to him, which tvas euentnough(if fact of bis men tn the faid fact, aberfore be was cone not to mud) for the maintenance of a frier toward 5, demned in mine hundzed pounds Damages, tihteh the dralwing outof circles, characters , ¢ lineaments be paid eneri¢ pene. 5 of imagerie wherein be twas palling filfnll, as the Heuer theletfe being fore qrieucd , that Hebhan fame then tent in Wome , and not wnbeard of in (as be faid) tozeffed ont fucha berdict again hint, Dyford. and therein packed bp aqueffat bir otone choile : he Clie bath Cambzingthire and the Fle of Clie. It taketh bis Ho2fle,coeth tothe court, ard there coms twas erected 1109 by Henrie the firit, being before a plaineth fo the king of bis great iniurie recetten at ric) and Wwealthie abbcie. Dne Heruie alfo was nrabde bifhop theré,as J haue found in a regiffer,be- longing fometine to that honfe being tranflated bir hands, But in the veliuerie of bis tale,bis fpeech twas fo blockith, ¢ termes fo enill fauozedlie (though maliciouflie)placed, that the king twke pet moze of from Wangor. Finallie it patd tothe pope at eucrie So fenfe totth him than before; infomudh that be led hime alfenation 7oco bucats,as the regiffers there do tes with himinto the partement boufe , for then twas fifie at large. Albcit that in mytime FZ find a note of that courtbolden, anb there before the lords accnfeo 21 34 pounds firtene fillings thee pence halfe penie farthingbole difme foined to thofeof allthebt thopriks in Crgland, do pelo pearelicto hirmaies fhies coffers 2 3 3 7 opoundsfirterrte Myillings thre bim of no finall mifoemeanoz toward bis perfon bp hw pude and threatening fpeeches. Wut the bithop -egerli¢ denicth the kings obicdions , tidy he fill a nouchcth bpon bis Hono; and in the end confirmeth pence halfe pertte farthing : therebyalfo the huge bis allegations by tnttneffe + teherebpon bets ban' fums of monié going ont of this lanw (0 the court of theo from fhe kings prefence during bis naturalt life bp berdia of thathoufe . gn the meante time the bucbeflehearing that was bone, the beginneth a in pilgrimage to Rone, inti Rinreougs | SPercin fer-hire . 3tiwas ereacn in the time of qeada king of the fouth Dercians , tchichlate. on this Gne He Honre doth in Core mealare appete:Ethelwold a: tertward bifhop of Ualinchefferbutlved the fir ff mo- the pare x lordthips anceftors {ante Py tvas Cobham, AND Dota? both of of Diuinitie and of the cancn latv, Sho, burin Ph prays Orace 656,atter thom Rellac frit; ters nafferie of Clie ponthe ruines of a nuntic then in new to be dealing with him: and in a boabling frate foe hurgs bands, howwbeit the fare boufe, whereof be bettoeene thefr fernants one of bir men was flaite: ect cathe, and confecraten.by the Scots, St bimfelfe was abbat was per forg deftreied by entmics,and heinlieuofhis old preferment rewarded for abich he was called before the magiftrat,as chtefe -aacee Marie Onto the fact. YSnt be fearing the eer amd the Cain Dita, rie ( ob(ch be builaca in and there gat amore pace Conttantine 3 the time of bis pontifica, Atent,and therein one Dinas was inffalied, about ‘aaie an Cnglithman facceve,this later being a Me of the baftard.,% wot not ppon that eccall' noe Peter bithopof thislee tranflaten bis ar 9 143 |