Templarius whom some will have Treasurer but this man is more spoken of amongst the Chancellors William Haverhull a Cannon of Pauls Church in London was made Treasurer to King Henry the third in An. Dom. 1240. being the 24. yeare of the raigne of the said King Henry in which place he continued in the 28. yeare of the raigne of King Henry the third being in An. Do. 1244 he dyed at London in An. 1252. being the 36. yeare of the raigne of King Henry the third as saith the addition to Matthew Paris fol. 1128. After which the said Author fol. 1226. laied his death in the yeare 1256. being the 39. yeare of King Henry the third such error is crept into Histories by the negligence of the transcriber but I suppose the first note of his death to bee the truer because the same is confirmed by Matthew West speaking in the said yeare 1252. of the death of this man for whose Epitaph these following verses were made Hic jacet Haverhulle jaces protothesaurarie Regis Hinc Haverhulle gemis non Paritura talem Fercula culta dabas empyrea vina pluebas A modo sit Christus cibus esca tibi I have also read a note of one William Haverhull which might be this man which saith that William Haverhull the sonne of Brithmarus de Haverhull gave houses in Cheapeside to the Abby of Westminster and that one Thomas de Haverhull was the sonne and heire of William Haverhull Richard de Barking Abbat of Westminster as witnesseth the lives of the Abbats was one speciall Counceller to Henry the third Chiefe Baron of the Exchequer and Treasurer of England who I suppose did follow William Haverhull for his death which happened on the 23. day of November in the 30. yeare of King Henry the third in An. Dom. 1246. after that he had beene Abbat 24. yeares must needes prove him to be Treasurer before Phillip Lovell yea and peradventure which is most likely before Hugh Pateshall yet Matthew Paris speaking of the death of Haverhulla wil needs have Phillip Lovel to succeed William Haverhul as after shall appeare This Richard de Barking was buried in Westminster Church before the middle of the Altar in our Ladies Chappell in a tombe of Marble which after in the time of William Colechester Abbat of that place was pulled downe by Fryer Combe a sacrist of that house of Westminster who laid a faire plaine Marble stone over him with this present Epitaph thus inscribed Richardus Barking prior postinclitus Abbas Henrici Regis prudens fuit ille minister Hujus erat prima laus insula rebus opima Altera laus eque Thorp census Ocham decimaeque Tertia Mortone castrum simili ratione Et regis quarta de multis commoda charta Clementis festo mundo migravit ab isto M. Domini C. bis xl sextoque sub anno Cui detur venia parte pia vergo Maria. Philip Luvell or Lovell was in this order advanced to the office of Treasurer as appeareth by the words of Matthew Paris upon the death of William Haverhull Et cum crederetur quod Dominus Rex Iohannem Franciscum officio Wilhelmi which was Haverhull subrogaret fabricatis rumoribus quod idem Iohannes in partibus remotis Angliae Borealibus ut contra quosdam religiosos plantaverat obiisset constituit Dominus Rex Philippum Lovell clericum virum prudentem foecundum generosum in loco memorati Wilielmi suum thesaurarium quod factum est apud sanctum Albanum procurante ut dicitur Iohanne Mansell amico Philippi speciali This man was Treasurer in the 35. and so untill the 42. yeare of Henry the third and was in the same yeare deposed by the Barons Hee dyed at Hamesley in An. Dom. 1259. whose executors were Philip Lovell and Robert de Mercenton But his goods after his death the King commanded to be confiscate Matthew Paris and Matthew Westminster mention who were the Queenes Treasurers about that time thus obijt Walterus de Brudellejusdem Reginae thesaurarius which hee placeth in An. Dom. 1255. being the 39. yeare of King Henry the third Of the second person Chacepore thus writeth Matthew West in An. Dom. 1254. Veniens autem Rex ad mare nec ventum habens prosperum apud Boloniam moratus est invitus vbi obijt Petrus Chaceporc natione Pictavensis Reginae thesaurarius Regis clericus consiliarius specialis These two Treasurers of the Queenes are supposed by some but not rightly to have beene the Kings Treasurers Iohn Crackhall Archdeacon of Bedford was Treasurer in 42 43 44. yeares of Henry the third to whom the King in the 44. of his raigne being in An. Dom. 1260. gave a Prebendary wherein being invested he was from thence removed by a former collatiō therof made to one Iohn Le Gras. The same Crackhall after died the same yeare at London Iohn Abbot of Peterborough was by the Barons in the 44. yeare of Henry the third made Treasurer as the other Officers of the King also were Nicholas of Ely was then made Chanceller and Hugh de Spencer chiefe Iustice which Office of Treasurership this Iohn continued in the 46. yeare of Henry the third 1262. Nicholas de Elic so called because he was Archdeacon of Elie was Treasurer to the King in the 47. of Henry the third being the yeare of our Lord 1263. whereof I have seene this note of Record Memorandum quod in Crastino Paschae Anno 47. Hen. Regis 3. in praesentia Rogeri le Bigot Comite Norfolke Mareschalli Angliae Hugo le Bigot Arnoldi de Berkeley Baronis de scaccario magistri Iohannis de Chisull Cancellar regis c. recepit Magister Nicholaus archidiaconus Eliensis Thesaurarius subscripta in Thesauraria domini regis c. This man as before appeareth had beene Chanceller of whom is mention made in the catalogue of the Chancellers Thomas Wimundham This man being chiefe Chanter of Lichfield was by the Barons in An. Dom. 1258. in the 41. yeare of King Henry the third made Treasurer at the Exchequer at the Seale or place where the Writts be sealed with greene waxe after which hee was Treasurer to the King in the 50 51 and 52. yeares of King Henry the third Iohn Chisull sometime Chanceller was Treasurer in the 54. yeare of Henry the third being about An. Dom. 1269. He was Deane of Pauls chosen Bishop of London in An. Dom. 1273. and consecrate to that place in the yeare of Christ 1274. in which place he continued about five yeares and died in An. Dom. 1279. being in the seventh yeare of the raigne of the victorious Prince King Edward the first of that name See more of this Chisull in the Chancellors Phillip de Elie was treasurer as appeareth by the Records of the Exchequer in the 56. yeare of King Henry the third and in the first yeare of King Edward the first partly falling in the yeare 1272. and 1273. Ioseph de Chancy whom
because I know not his surname Philip Chancellor to King Stephen about the fourth yeare of his raigne being in Anno dom 1139. witnesse to many Deeds which King Stephen made to the Monkes of Elie and to Nigellus the Bishop of that See Reinold Abbat of Walden whom I have seene in one anonymall briefe Chronicle M S to be termed Chancellor but in what time he lived or what other name he had I doe not yet know but by the course of the history much about this time John Chancellor of England in the time of King Henry the second Thomas Becket made Chancellor as some write in the first yeare of the raigne of King Henry the second others say in the fourth yeare but the best authours agree that he gave over the Seale in Anno dom 1162 being in the eight yeare of the victorious Prince King Henry the second against the will of the Prince he dyed in Anno dom 1170. Ralphe Warnevile Archdeacon of Roane and Treasurer of the Church of Yorke was made Chancellor about the yeare 1173 being in Anno 8 Henry the second Of this man speaketh Matthew Paris and Matthew Westminster Walterus de Constantijs Archdeacon of Oxford Bishop of Lincolne in Anno dom 1182 from whence he was advanced in Anno dom 1184 being in Anno 31 Henry the second unto the Arch-bishopricke of Rome Geofry the bastard sonne to King Henry the second after he had surrendred the Bishopricke of Lincolne whereof he was never consecrate Bishop but kept the place and received the revenues was made Chancellor much about Anno 26 Henry the second in Anno dom 1181. William Longchampe the proud Bishop of Elie Legat of England for the Bishop of Rome cheife Iustice of the South and West parts of England Deputy of that part of the Realm when Richard the first went to the warres of the holy Land was made Chancellor in Anno 1 Richard the first being in Anno Dom. 1191 of the sumptuous feast of whose inthronization thus writeth Ferthulphus or Ferculphus by the way of comparison Praevisis alijs Eliensia festa videre Est quasi praevisa noste videre diem He dyed in the yeare of Christ 1197 going to Rome in the Abbey of Pimie being of the Charterhouse order about which time in Anno 6 Richard the first there was a Vice-chancellor called Malus Catulus Eustachius Deane of Salisbury was Chancellor of England being elected Bishop of Ely in the third Ides of August in Anno dom 11â—6 being in Anno 9 Richard 1 Of whom thus writeth Matthew Parker in the life of Hubert Archbishop of Canterbury contrary to that which others affirme writing that Eustachius succeeded William Longchampe in the Office of Chancellor and in the Bishopricke of Ely The words of Matthew Parker in the life of Hubert be these Hubertus deposito magistratu civili ecclesiae curae totus vacabat consecravitque postea Robertum de Solopesbi episcopum Banchorensem Eustachium qui in cancellarij munere ei successit Eliensem episcopum VVestmonasterij debita accepta ab utroquesubjectionis professione Hubert Walter or Walter Hubert for such a transmutation of the name is used by authors being first Bishop of Salisbury and then Archbishop of Canterbury was made Chancellor shortly after the Coronation of King John which was in Anno dom 1199 at what time a certaine Nobleman saide unto him in scorne I have often seene of a Chancellor made a Bishop but I never before saw an Archbishop made a Chancellor Simon or rather Hugh of which is more hereafter Arch-deacon of Wels in the first yeare of King John after as I suppose that Hubert had left the Office being so disgraced and abased as he thought was witnesse to a Deed in which King John granted to the Cittizens of Yorke a guildhall hanse and other liberties as I have seene noted in the Copy of the same Charter for which cause I have set it downe as another man although in truth I am fully resolved that this Simon and the Hugh following were all one person leaving it yet for every mans Iudgement Hugh de Wels Archdeacon of Wels witnesse to the Deed in which King John in the sixt yeare of his raigne confirmed to the Monastery of Westminster Gistslep or Islep in Oxfordshire in which house Edward the Confessor was borne he was made Bishop of Lincolne about Anno 10 of the raigne of King John in Anno dom 1209 and dyed in the yeare of our Lord 1235. Walter Gray chosen Bishop of Chester in anno dom 1210 was Bishop of Worcester and after Bishop of York a man of extream age was made Chancellor in the seaventh yeare of King Iohn as one anonymal Chronicle saith to hold that Office during his life Others say that he was made Chancellor in anno dom 1209 being the tenth yeare of King John after Hugh de Wels. But I suppose hee surrendred that Patent to hold it during his life when he came to be Bishop of Yorke Richard de Marischo whom Mathew Paris termeth Tholenarius as it were Toll-gatherer or Treasurer if you list being Archdeacon of Northumberland was Chancellor in the fourth yeare of King John as appeareth by a Deed that I have seene and further he was made Chancellor in Anno 15 of King John in which Office he continued to the 17 yeare of the said King and as some do write during King John his life and died about the kalends of May in Anno dom 1226 in Anno 10 of the long raigne of King Henry the third as some have but the Booke of Durham saith that he was made Bishop of that See by Gwado the Legat and consecrated by Walter Gray Bishop of Yorke in Anno dom 1214. being about Anno 16 of King John and dyed sodainely at Peterborough the first day of May in Anno dom 1226 being the t nth yeare of King Henry the third after that he had beene Bishop of Durham nine yeares For whom this formall Epitaph was made Culmina qui cupi tis laudes pompasque sui tis Et sedata si t is si me pensare veli tis Qui populos regi tis memores super omnia si tis Quod mors immi tis non parcit honore poti tis Vobis praeposi tis similis fueram bene sci tis Quod sum vos eri tis ad me currendo veni tis Ralphe Nevill was confirmed Chancellor as it seemeth by the whole consent of the Nobility in Anno dom 1226 being about Anno 10 Henry 3 after which he was made Bishop of Chichester in Anno 11 Henry 3 being in Anno dom 1227 or as hath Mathew VVestminster he was made Bishop of Chichester in Anno dom 1223 being before Chancellor after which the King in Anno 22 of his raigne offended with Nevill tooke from him the great Seale and delivered it to Geofry of the Temple as hath Mathew Paris and Iohn de Lexington although that the said Nevill remained still Chancellor
anno 4 Edward 3 who being sent in the sixt yeare of his raigne in anno dom 1332 Ambassador beyond the Seas about the affaires of the King and Kingdome did not like Cardinall Woolsey the Chancellor in the dayes of King Henry the 8 presumptuously carry the great Seale with him beyond the seas but left the same in his absence with others who both could and would answere the well or evill using thereof whiles he was in France This man continued in the Office untill the Eight yeare of Edward the third Richard de Bury otherwise called Richard de Angervile being borne in a little village besides S Edmundsbury commonly cald the Bury Abbey was so surnamed Bury of that place had to his Father Sr. Richard Angervile Knight This man being first kept at schoole by his Vncle Sr. Iohn VVillobie Priest was afterward Treasurer of England Chancellor and Bishop of Durham to which place of Chancellor-ship hee was advanced in the yeare 1334 being in anno 8 Edward 3 which office he received by the Kings gift at VVestminster in which yeare he was inthronized being first consecrated Bishop in anno do 1333 in the Bishoprick of Durham by William Cowton Prior of Durham He kept the See 11 yeares two moneths and twelve dayes and died in the yeare 1345 and was buryed in the South angle of the Church at Durham John Stratford the second time Lord Chancellor being now Archbishop of Canterbury was installed therein at York in anno dom 1335 being the ninth yeare of the Raigne of King Edward the third Robert de Stratford or Strafford as some have written but as I thinke corruptly being Archdeacon of Canterbury which Office was first ordeined by Anselme Archbishop of the said Citty was made Chancellor of England on the 24 day of March anno dom 1336 being in anno 11 Edward 3 He was after made Bishop of Chichester desiring to be remooved from that office of Chancellorship which was granted unto him Whereupon he surrendred up the Seale unto the said King Edward 3 in the 12 yeare of his Raigne being in anno dom 1338. Richard de Bintworth chosen Bishop of London and confirmed by John Stratford Archbishop of Canterbury at Oxford the tenth kalends of Iune 1338 was at Waltham advanced to the honour of Lord Chancellor in the moneth of July in the said yeare 1338 being the 12 yeare of King Edward the third John Stratford the third time Lord Chancellor of England in which Office he did not long continue Robert Bishop of Chichester being the foresaid Robert Stratford was againe made Lord Chancellor of England in Anno dom 1340 being anno 14 of the raigne of Edward the third who was put out of that Office and should with the Treasurer of England have beene sent into France for a pledge for the payment of certaine sommes of money Robert de Bourchier borne of the honourable house of the Lord Bourchiers was in the Towre of London made Lord Chancellor of England in December in anno 14 Edward 3 being in anno dom 1340 though some say hee was made Chancellor in anno 15 of the saide King Robert Perning Pernicke or Pernwicke also Treasurer of England was made Chancellor of England in anno dom 1341 bing in anno 15 Edward 3 he dyed in the yeare 1343 being in anno 17 of the said King This man was a Serjant in the third yeare of Edward the third when he began to plead as a Serjant in which he continued untill anno 11 Edward 3 and was after that Iustice Treasurer and Chancellor and dyed in the common plees being Chancellor sitting and arguing amongest the Iustices as appeares in the Law books of those yeares of Edward the third of whom is last mention made in the 17 yeare of Edward the third where hee is named Chancellor Robert de Saddington Knight was invested with the dignity of Lord Chancellor after the death of Perning in anno dom 1343 and in anno 17 Edward 3 He was elected to be Bishop of Canterbury and so was installed but never received the Pall. There was also one Richard Saddington Knight Treasurer of England of whom I have spoken in my discourse of the Lord Treasurers John Offord or Vfford Deane of Lincolne was made Chancellor of England in anno dom 1345. being anno 19 Edward 3 Hee dyed in the moneth of May in anno dom 1349 being the 23 yeare of the Raigne of that victorious King Edward the third John Thorsby Bishop of Worcester Archbishop of Yorke and Cardinall was installed in the seat of the Lord Chancellor in anno dom 1349 being anno 23 Edward 3 who at his great suit was discharged of the Office of Chancellor by delivery of the great Seale in November in anno 30 of the said King being in anno dom 1356 after hee had kept that place almost by the space of 7 yeares He in the 10 yeare of his Bishopricke on the third kalends of August beganne the frame of the Quire in S Peters Church in Yorke and laid the first stone thereof to which he gave an Hundred poundes He dyed at Thorpe and was buryed at Yorke in anno dom 1363 or as others have 1373 after that he had beene Archbishop one and twenty yeares and one and twenty dayes William de Edington Bishop of Winchester Lord Treasurer of England was made Chancellor of England in November in anno dom 1356 in anno 30 of King Edward the third Simon Langham Abbat of Westminster Bishop of Elie Archbishop of Canterbury and Treasurer of England was made Lord Chancellor in February in anno dom 1363 being the seaven and thirthieth yeare of the governement of King Edward the third Of this Simon were these verses made when he was removed from Elie to the Bishopricke of Canterbury Exultent caeli quia Simon transit ab Eli Cujus in adventum flent in kent millia centum Of whom also because he richly endowed the Abbey of Westminster with great gifts of singular cost and value a certaine Monke compiled these verses Res es de Langham tua Simon sunt data quondam Octingentena librarum millia dena Of this man is more spoken in the following discourse of the Lord Treasurers of England William de Wickeham so called of the place of his Birth whom Leland maketh Treasurer of England which by any possible meanes cannot be so for any thing that I can yet learne This man being Bishop of Winchester and advanced to that place in anno dom 1367 in anno 41 Edward 3 in which place he sate seaven and thirty yeares was sometime keeper of the privie seale and made also Chancellor of England in Anno dom 1367 being the 41 yeare of Edward the third in which Office he remained about foure yeares and in March in the yeare 1371 being the 45 of King Edward the third did deliver up the great Seale to the King at Westminster Hee was buried in the body of Winchester Church which he new built
his raigne by his Letters Patents to confirme the said house to the said William and his successors Masters of the Rolles And whereas by the Patent of Edward the third the Master of the Rolles was appointed and installed in that house by the Chancellor it is to be noted that the same manner of induction and instalment continued as long as the Master of the Rolles was of the Clergy as I have seene set downe by others and as the Presidents of those instalments and the Writts themselves extant of record doe well prove Sir Richard Scroope Knight Lord of Bolton having beene Lord Treasurer in the time of the deceased King Edward the third was now in October about the latter end of the yeare 1378 or the beginning of the yeare 1379. being the second yeare of the after deposed King Richard the second made Lord Chancellor and had the great Seale delivered unto him who in the third yeare of the said King at a Parliament did surrender up his office Of this man is more set downe in the discourse of the Treasurers Simon Sudbury so surnamed of the place of his birth but by descent called Tibold the sonne of Nicholas Tibold descended of a gentleman like race dwelling at Sudbury in Suffolke This Simon was Archbishop of Canterbury and made Chancellor about the yeare of Christ 1380. in the third yeare of Richard the second and was by the Rebells beheaded in the Tower of London in the fourth yeare of the disquieted government of that unfortunate but valiant King Richard the second After whom in the fifth yeare of the said King was R. Bishop of London whereof I have seene and taken a note which Bishop was as I conjecture and have some authority to prove Robert Braybrooke which followeth and was made Chancellor againe after Sir Richard Scroope R. Bishop of London Chancellor the fifth yeare of King Richard the second at which time Robert Braybrooke was Bishop of London Sir Richard Scroope Knight Lord of Bolton made Chancellor againe about the latter end of November by the Lords of the Parliament as I take it in the fifth yeare of the raigne of King Richard last mentioned and was the yeare following being about Anno dom 1383 againe deposed from his office and the King receiving the seale kept it a certaine time and therewith sealed such grants and writings as pleased him and in the end delivered the same to Robert Braybrooke Of this man see more in the Treasurers Robert Braybrooke Bishop of London made Lord Chancellor in September following the moneth of July when Sir Richard Scroope was deposed was advanced to that dignity on S. Matthews Eeve in the sixt yeare of the raigne of the said King Richard the second in which he continued not longer then the March following as hath Anonymus M.S. he was consecrated Bishop of London the fifth of January Anno dom 1381 he dyed the 17. of August in Anno dom 1404 being the fifth yeare of King Henry the fourth Michael de la Poole or at Poole as hath Thomas Walsingham was made Chancellor in the moneth of March in Anno 6. of the said King Richard the second and was made Earle of Suffolke in the ninth yeare of the said King being after deposed from his office of Chancellorship at his owne and earnest request in the tenth yeare of the said King This man having fled the Realme for that he was pursued by the Nobility dyed at Paris in Ann. 13. of Richard the second being in Anno dom 1389 of whom that worthy Poet Sir John Gower living at that time in his Booke intituled Vox Clamantis composed these verses Est comes elatus fallax cupidus sceleratus Fraudes per mille stat Cancellarius ille Hic proceres odit eorum nomina rodit Morsibus a tergo fit tandem profugus ergo Sic Deus in caelis mala de puteo Michaelis Acriter expurgat ne plus comes ille resurgat Thomas Arundell of the noble house of the Earles of Arundell was first Bishop of Elie and then of Yorke and lastly of Canterbury he was made Lord Chancellor of England in Anno 10 of the raigne of the unfortunate King Richard 2 which was about Anno dom 1386 in which office he remayned about two yeares William Wickham was againe made Lord Chancellor of England in Anno 12 Richard 2 but was in the end remooved from thence in September in the 15 yeare of the troublesome governement of the said King Richard Thomas Arundell aforesaid was the second time created Lord Chancellor of England in the saide 15 yeare of Richard 2 in place of William Wickham in which office he remained about five yeares and was deposed and banished the Realme in the 20 yeare of the said King Richard John Scarle Scirlee or Serle Master of the Rolles of the Chancery and Keeper of the great Seale hee was Chancellor or in the place of Chancellor in the first yeare of the raigne of King Henry the fourth being in Anno dom 1399. Edmund Stafford Keeper of the Privie Seale Bishop of Excester and sometime Bishop of Rochester and lastly Bishop of Yorke and borne of the noble house of the Staffords was made Lord Chancellor of England about the moneth of March in Anno dom 1400 being about the second yeare of the usurping King Henry the fourth in which Office hee continued untill Anno dom 1403 being in Anno 4 of the said King Henry the fourth he being Keeper of the Privy Seale was made Bishop of Excester the 20 of June in Anno dom 1395 being the 21 yeare of Richard 2. Hee was consecrated at Lambeth and kept the See of Excester three and twenty yeares Hee increased two fellowship in Stapletons Inne in Oxford reformed the Statutes of the house and called it Excester Colledge Hee died the fourth of September in the seaventh yeare of King Henry the fift being in Anno dom 1419. Henry Beuford the son of John of Gaunt by Katherine Swineford made Bishop of Lincolne in Anno dom 1398 as hath Ypodigma was advanced to the dignity of Chancellor in Anno dom 1403 being the fourth yeare of King Henry the fourth his elder Brother by the daughter of the Earle of Hereford in which office he was in the fift yeare of King Henry the fourth and sixt of the same King as our Chonicles doe remember he was made Bishop of Winchester in Anno dom 1404 being the fift yeare of King Henry the fourth Thomas Langley Priest and Bishop of Durham was at Westminster made Chancellor in Anno dom 1405 being in Anno 6. of Henry the fourth in which office he continued as far as I know untill he was made Bishop of Durham which was on the 7. of May in Anno 7. of King Henry the fourth being in Anno dom 1406 he was Bishop one and thirty yeares and dyed in Anno dom 1437 being the 16. yeare of King Henry the sixt See more following Thomas Fitzalen brother to
divers other Priests standing round about them After his installation he returned to the dispatche of the affaires of the Kingdome committing the charge of his Bishoppricke to one Ralph sometime a Moonke of Glastenbury and now become an Apostata Great contention was betweene this man and King Stephen Hee bought the Treasurership for the Summe of Foure Hundred Markes of Henry the second for his sonne Richard filius Nigelli or Fitz Neale otherwise called Richard of Elie. He governed the Bishoppricke Sixe and Thirty yeeres as some say and builded Saint Iohns Colledge in Cambridge Trivet affirmeth that he died in the yeere of Christ One Thousand One Hundred Sixty and Nine and the Fifteenth of King Henry the second after that he had governed Sixe and Thirty yeares he was honorably buried in the Church of Saint Ethelred of Elie before the Altar dedicated to the Holy Crosse Richard of Elie or Fitz Neale sonne of the said Nigellus Bishop of Elie was made Treasurer to King Henry the second by the purchase of his father Nigellus when the King went to the warres of Tolous Of whom the Historie of Elie writeth That after the buriall of Nigellus his Father this Richard being also an enemy of the Church of Elie as his father had beene before made hast to passe over the Seas to King Henry the second fearing that some evill would be prepared against him if the Church should have sent any other thither before him At whose comming to the King he accused the Monkes of many things and did therewith so edge the King against them that the King sending into England charged by Wunndrus one of his Chaplens that the Prior of Elie should bee deposed and the Moonkes with all their goods to be proscribed banished This man being Treasurer to King Henry the second the Treasure of the said Henry the second at his death came unto One Hundred Thousand Markes notwithstanding the excessive charges of the King many waies Which Richard being Bishop of London by the name of Richard the Third and the Kings Treasurer was chosen to that See in the yeare of our redemption One Thousand Eightie and Nine beeing the first yeere of King Richard the first and was consecrated Bishop at Lambeth by Baldwine Archbishop of Canterbury in the yeare of Christ 1190. He died the fourth Ides of September in the yeare of grace 1198. being the Ninth yeere of King Richard the first William of Elie being of kinne to the last Richard Bishop of London was Treasurer to King Richard the first and to King Iohn To which William then Treasurer Richard his kinsman the Bishop of London An. Do. 1196. being the seventh yeere of the raigne of Richard the first and the said number of yeares of the governement of the said Richard in the Bishoppricke of London did give all his houses in Westminster which the said William did long after give to the Abbat and Moonkes of Westminster as by the Charter thereof appeares in this sort abridged Vniversis Christi fidelibus ad quos praesens scriptum pervenerit Gulielmus de Elie quondam Regum Angliae Thesaurarius salutem Noverit universitas vestra me dedisse c. Deo Monachis Westminster c. pro animabus Richardi Iohannis Regum Angliae pro amima Richardi London Episcopi c. Domos meas curiam cum pertinentibus in villa Westminster c. quas habui ex dono Richardi Episcopi London quae sunt de feodo Westminster c. Testis Eustachius Fauconbridge Domini Regis Thesauraius c. He dyed in the yeare of Christ One Thousand Two Hundred Twenty Two being the Sixt yeare of the long reigne of King Henry the Third As noteth Matthew Paris and Westminster who write that then Objit Gulielmus Eliensis Angliae Thesaurarius A Deane of Pauls was Treasurer to the King as appeares by Matthew Parker in the life of Hubert Archbishop of Canterbury writing after this manner Eodem tempore which was a time between the creating of Hubert Archbishop of Canterbury in the yeere of Christ 1194. being the sixt yeere of Richard the first and the death of the said Richard the first which fell in the yeare of Christ 1199. Ecclesiae Paulina Decanus aerarij regi custos fuit sive ut vocant Thesaurarius and so goeth on with a discourse of his miserable death Walter Gray Bishop of Worcester whom some call Treasurer in the Eleventh of King Iohn Geffery Archdeacon of Norwich Treasurer to King Iohn who forsooke his Master the King beeing excommunicated by the Pope as writeth Matthew Parker in the life of Stephen Langton Archbishop of Canterbury in these following words Inter quos meaning the Bishops which durst not openly publish the excommunication of the King but secretly cast libels about the high waies which gave notice thereof quam ad fiscum Regium Gaufridus Norvicensis Archidia conus negotijs regijs intendens sedisset coepit assidentibus exponere excommunicationis sententiam in Regemjam latam affirmavitque non esse tutum Capellanis Ecclesiasticis dignitatibus beneficijsque affectis servire Regi amplius Ideoque aulam deserens ad Ecclesiastica beneficia quae Regis servitio acquisierat secessit Rex hunc tam proditorie a se deficientem per Willielmum Talbot Militem prehendi ad se reduci fecit cumque in publica custodia servatum donec sive paenae siue conscientiae taedio pertaesus vitae fuit expiravit detinuit whose manner of death is in this sort set downe by Mat. Paris Pag. 305. that he was committed to prison Vbi post dies paucos Rege praefato which was King Iohn jubente capa indutus plumbea tam victualium penuria quam ipsius capae ponderositate compressus migravit ad dominum Much about this time as I suppose which was An. Do. 1209. being about the Eleventh yeere of King Iohn the Chequer was by the King removed from London to Northampton in hatred of the Londoners untill Christmas Iohn Ruthall Custos Officij Thesaurarij as is proved out of the Records of the Exchequer had that office the third yeere of Henry the third in the yeare 1219. Eustachius de Fauconbridge a Iustice to receive fines Chanceller of the Exchequer and Treasurer to Henry the Third was by the Bishop of Rochester consecrated Bishop of London in An. Do. 1221. being the fifth yeare of King Henry the Third which Eustachius in the yeere 1222. with the Deane and Chapiter of London had great suites against William Abbat of Westminster he was Treasurer in the third yeere of King Henry the third being about An. Do. 1219. he died the day before the Kalends of November in An. Dom. 1228. being the 13. of King Henry the third and is buried on the south side of the Queere of Pauls besides Henry Wengham under a faire Monument of Marble over whom on the wall is this inscription Hicjacet Eustachius de Fauconbridge quondam Episcopus hujus Ecclesiae
conceive above halfe a yeare for in the same twelfth yeare came the Bishop of VVinchester Iohn Stratford Bishop of VVinchester upon the removing of VValwaine was in the 12. yeare of Edward the second admitted into the office of Treasurership untill the King should otherwise determine Which Bishop found out in the Treasury above Twenty nine Pound Seventeene shillings eight pence which might bee the cause of displacing of VValwaine who had over prodigally dispersed the Kings Treasure VValter Stapleton Bishop of Exeter was Treasurer in the 13. yeare of Edward the second An. Dom. 1319. In which I suppose he contynued untill the 15. yeare of Edward the second An. Dom. 1321. VValter Norwich Knight was the Third tyme made Treasurer which place he enjoyed in 15. Edward the second An. Do. 1321. or thereabouts VValsingham saith that in the second yeare of Edward the third Obijt VVilliam de Norwich Roger Northborrow Scutifer or keeper of the seale being taken by the Scots at the battell of Banocsbourne about the seventh yeare of Edward the second in An. Do. 1313. was also Clerke of the Wardrobe and Treasurer in the sixteenth yeare of Edward the 2. being in An. Dom. 1322. Of whom thus writeth one Anonimall Cronicle M.S. An. Do. 1321. Obijt VValterus de Langtone Episcopus Cestren cui successit in episcopatus honore per viam impressionis ambitionis Rogerus Northburgh Clericus de regis garderobia sibi regis in cunctis faventibus auxilio voluntate I have read of one Godfrey of Northburgh Bishop of Chester that died in thirty three yeare of Edward the third being in An. Do. 1359 which perhaps should bee this Roger Northborow Godfrey being by the transcriber placed in stead of Roger but I will not at this time define any certainety thereof although I finde another note of one Roger Northburgh consecrated Bishop of Coventry and Lichfield in An. Dom. 1321. who sate in that See 38. yeares which 38. yeares added to the other in which this Roger was made Bishop doe make up the number of 1359. in which it is said that Godfrey Northborow died VValter Stapleton Bishop of Exeter the second tyme Treasurer in the 18. yeare of Edward the second and before was removed in Easter Terme in the same yeare In which Easter Terme was VVilliam Bishop of Yorke also made Treasurer as is proved by the Pell of Exitus that Terme being thus intituled De Termino Paschae An. 18. Edw. 2. tam tempore VV. episcopi Exon quam VV. archi-Episcopi Eborum This Walter being elected to the Bishoppricke of Exeter in An. Dom. 1307. did sit in that place twenty yeares and was beheded at the comming into England of Queene Isabell to depose Edward the second in the yeare 1326. The cause of whose beheading was for that hee had procured the banishment of the said Queene Isabell and of her sonne Prince Edward VVilliam Melton Archbishop of Yorke made Lord Treasurer in Easter Terme in the 18. yeare of Edward the second kept the same office untill the deposition of himselfe from that place and of his Master from his Kingdome in the twentieth yeare of the said Edward the second and then gave place to Iohn Stratford Iohn Stratford Bishop of VVinchester was the second time made Treasurer of England in the 20. yeare of the deposed King Edward after the death of VValter Stapleton This Iohn the 14. day of November in the twentieth yeare of Edward the second comming into the Exchequer brought thither the Kings patent or open Writ or commandement under the seale of Edward the Kings eldest son to witnes his election creatiō to that place of Treasurer the tenor of which writt I have thought good to set downe because it was done by the son in the fathers name and under the Teste of the son the father yet being King in shew but the sonne indeede as governer of the Realme which title hee enjoyed untill that hee most unnaturally by the malice of his mother the ambition of himselfe and the flattery of his followers had deposed his father The tenor of which writt was in these words as followeth Edwardus Rex Angliae dominus Hiberniae baronibus camerarijs suis de scaccario suo salutem Quum pro eo quod venerabilis pater VV. archiepiscopus Eborum nuper thesaurarius scaccarij praedicti circa diversa negotia in partibus borealibus est occupatus quo minus intendere possit ad ea quae ad officium illud in dicto scaccario pertinent exercenda Constituerimus venerabilem patrem Iohannem Wintoniensem episcopum tenentem locum thesaurarij scaccarij praedicti quousque de officio illo aliter duximus ordinandum Percipendo in eodem officio dum illud sic tenuerit feodum consuetum prout in literis nostris patentibus episcopo praefato inde confectis plenius continetur Vobis mandamus quod ipsum episcopum ad officium admittatis ei in his quae ad officium praedictum pertineant intendatis in forma praedicta Teste Edwardo filio nostro primogenito custode regni nostri apud Hereford Sexto die Novembris anno regni nostri vicessimo Adam Tarleton or de Orleton borne in Hereford-shire being Decretorum Doctor was made Bishop of Hereford by the Pope at Avinion in An. Dom. 1317. about the 10. or 11. yeare of Edward the second being hee that made the Sermon for the deposition of King Edward the second and wrote the amphibologicall Epistle for the death of the King conteyning these words Regem occidere nolite timere bonum est which hath by a comma or point made at Timere one sense and by a comma made at Nolite another sence Which Adam was made Lord Treasurer in the first yeare of Edward the third being in An. Dom. 1326. in which office he continued not long for in the Easter terme of the said King came Henry Bishop of Lincolne This man was made Bishop of Winchester in An. Dom. 1335. being the ninth of Edward the third in which seate he sate 12. yeares The death of which Adam who gave Hemingfield parsonage to the Church of Hereford Sir Thomas De la More doth most plentifully set forth Henry Burwash Bishop of Lincolne descended of the Lord Burghurst his Family called Lord Burwash was Lord Treasurer in Easter terme in the first yeare of Edward the third being in An. Dom. 1327. in which office he continued untill 2. yeare of Edward the third and was afterwards removed Thomas Bishop of Hereford injoyed the honorable office of Lord Treasurer in the third yeare of Edward the third being in An. Dom. 1329. but in the yeare following another came in place Robert Woodhouse possessed the roome of the high Treasurer of England in the fourth yeare of Edward the third being in An. Dom. 1330. And was also Treasurer some part of Michaelmas terme in the fift yeare of Edward the third who in the yeare following did give place to another William Archbishop of