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��Wells on Christmas day, and at Bath on the Epi- phany following. He died nth Dec. 1308, and was buried at Wells, on the 15th of that month ^0, un- der a stone in the body of the church near the pulpit". The prior and chapter of Bath, by letter dated 21st Dec. 1308, inform the King of the death of Walter their late bishop, and request the royal license to elect another bishop in his room^'-. The license to elect a successor issued on Christmas day 130813; and
'1309 John de Drokenesford, canon of Wells and chaplain
Sdw. II. to the Pope, was chosen 5th Feb. 1308-9. The royal assent to his election was given 23rd Feb. 1^, and the temporalities restored 15th May following 1^. He was consecrated 9th Nov. ^^ He died on Tuesday 9th May 1329 at Dogmersfield^^, and was buried at Wellgi^, under a handsome tomb in the south aisle at the upper end, in a chapel near St. Mary's^. The license to elect a bishop in his room bears date 23rd May 1329'-.
11329 Ralph of Shrewsbury was elected 2nd June 1329-^ ;
3d. III. he was confirmed by the archbishop 21st July, and the royal assent was given to his election and the
10 Reg. Winchelsey, Annal. death (3 Edw. III. N. 41) finds Burton. that James Drokenesforde is the
11 Willis Abb. vol. ii. pp. 374, brother and next heir to the 375' 376. bishop, and aged upwards of 40
'2 Lett. inTower of Lend. S. 149. years.
i;^ Pat. 2 Edw. II. p. I. m. 17. i^ Reg. Wellen. Rad. de Sa-
l"! Ibid. m. 15. lop. fol. 313.
15 Ibid. m. 6. The archbishop 1^ Willis Abb. vol. ii. p. 374, of Canterbury, by his letter 376, 377.
dated 15th May 1309, prays the 20 Pat. 3 Edw. III. p. i. m. 18.
King to restore the temporalities 21 Called also Ralph de Salo-
to John de Drokenesford, whose pia, Cartular. Bath. MS. in
election he had confirmed. Lett. Hospit. Line. fol. 114. On 12th
in Tower of Lond. S. 131. June the King wrote to the
16 Angl. Sacra, pars i. 568. Pope, requesting that Robert de In the Register of Henry Wood- Wj^dlle, canon of Lichfield, lock bishop of Winchester, Dro- should be promoted to this see, kenesford is said to have been (Rot. Rom. 3 Edw. III. m. 4,) consecrated in August 1309. but his Holiness nominated him
'7 An inquisition taken at his to Salisbury instead.
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