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ST. ASAPH.

had however already nominated another to the see in the person of

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Alexander Bach, S.T.D., a canon of St. Asaph. The bull which made him bishop is dated 28th Feb. 1389-90[1]; he received the spiritualities 6th April[2] and his temporalities on the 28th of that month[3]; and was consecrated 8th May following[4], His will is dated 14th Aug. 1394, and was proved on the 15th of the following month[5]. The license to elect a bishop in the room of Alexander Bach is dated 15th Sept. 1394[6]; pursuant to which,

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John Trevaur, who had been once before chosen by the chapter, was elected 19th April 1395[7]. The King ordered the temporalities to be restored to him on his doing fealty[8], and he obtained them 6th July following[9], and the spiritualities 15th Oct.[10] He was deprived in 1402[11],

Upon the deprivation of John Trevaur, David II. is
  1. Reg. Courtn. fol. 326.
  2. Whart. de Episc. Assav. p. 342.
  3. Pat. 13 Ric. II. p. 3. mm. 20, 15.
  4. Ex fide Job. Malvern. Monach. Wigorn.
  5. MS. Kennet.
  6. Pat. 18 Ric. II. p. 1. m. 22.
  7. On the vacancy at the death of bishop Child, in 1389.
  8. Pat. 18 Ric. II. p. 2. m. 17.
  9. Pat. 19 Ric. II. p. 1. m. 35.
  10. Reg. Courtn.
  11. Walsingham, p. 370. He did not, however, die until 1410. Browne Willis writes thus, in a letter to bishop Kennet, dated March 18, 1719: "I hope I have found out the death of John Trevaur, the repudiated bishop of St. Asaph. There is in the Infirmary Chapel of St. Victor's Abbey at Paris this inscription on a tomb, in memory, as I conceive, of him, for it could be no other bishop of the name of John, particularly Hereford the last bishop of Hereford having been dead six or seven years before, as appears by the date and probate of his will, and buried sumptuously in his own cathedral of Hereford. This must relate to John Trevaur bishop of St. Asaph, who, as I remember, went to Paris in behalf of Owen Glendour, to solicit forces of the French king, and so might lodge privately in an abbey, and there fall sick and be buried. 'Hie jacet reverend, in Christo pater Johannes Episcopus Hereford in Wallia, qui obiit An. Dni. 1410 die Veneris 10omensis Aprilis, cujus anima feliciter requiescat in pace. Amen.'"