secrated on Whitsunday, the 17th of the same month[1], and enthroned 29th Nov. He died in 1314. The license to elect a bishop in the room of Leolinus is dated 18th July 1314[2], and accordingly
1314
8 Edw. II.David ap Blethin, a canon of St. Asaph, was chosen, and received the royal assent to his election 7th Sept. 1314[3], and the temporalities 1st Nov. following[4]. He was consecrated 12th Jan. 1315[5]. He appointed Thomas de Capenhurst and Stephen de Ketylbi his parliamentary proxies in the year 1340[6]. The day of his death is not known.
1352
26 Edw. IIIJohn Trevaur appears to have succeeded to David ap Blethin[7]. He was consecrated at Rome in the year 1352, and made his profession of obedience at Canterbury 24th March 1352-3[8]. He died at the beginning of Feb. 1357[9].
1357
31 Edw. III.Leolinus ap Madoc ap Elis, dean of St. Asaph, was elected bishop by the chapter, and also nominated by
- ↑ Reg. Cantuar.
- ↑ Pat. 8 Edw. II. p. 1. m.29.
- ↑ Ibid. m. 25.
- ↑ Ibid. m. 15.
- ↑ Reg. Cantuar. The letter from Gilbert bishop of London, dated 15th Nov. 1314, in which he summons the bishop of Salisbury to be present at the consecration of David ap Plethyn, canon of St. Asaph, elected as bishop of St. Asaph, which is to take place at Canterbury on the Sunday next after the feast of the Epiphany, is recorded in Reg. Gandav. at Salisbury.
- ↑ Letter in Turr. London.
- ↑ Godwin incorrectly makes Ephraim the successor of David ap Blethin. He derives his authority from the Cambrian Annals, in which there is a double mistake; first, in writing Ephraim for Abraham; and secondly, in the date of the death of that prelate, viz. 1332 instead of 1233. Godwin also makes Henry the successor of Ephraim, and states that a record exists in the Tower which proves that fact; but there, Henry bishop of St. Asaph is written by mistake for Henry bishop of St. David's.
- ↑ Memorandum, quod lecta fuit et facta professio per ven. patrem ac dominum D. Johannem Trevaur episcopum Assavensis ecclesiæ, in curiâ Romana consecratum, in ecclesiâ Christi Cantuar. coram summo altari dictæ ecclesiæ 24 die mensis Martii, anno mcclii. in primo adventu suo, &c. Reg. Eccl. Cantuar.
- ↑ The custody of the temporalities was granted to David Englefield, from 3rd Feb. 1357 to 5th Nov. following. Reg. Islip.
