550
��COVENTRY AND LICHFIELD.
��and was buried in Lichfield cathedral. The conge d'elire, vice bishop Langton, is dated 22nd Nov. 7321 1^. 1222 Roger de Northburgh or Norbrige^^, archdeacon
i5Edw. II. of Richmond, was appointed by the Pope, and had the temporahties restored to him [2th April 1322 17. He was consecrated 27th June in that year, and made profession of obedience 3 ist Aug. following. He died 13th Dec. 1358 1^, and was interred in Lichfield cathe- dral 1^. This prelate was appointed treasurer of the exchequer 2nd March 1328-0, The license to elect a successor to Roger de Northburgh is not enrolled. 1360 Robert Stretton, LL.D., however succeeded ; he
34Edw.IIl. was elected by the chapters of Lichfield and Coventry, and obtained the royal assent ist Jan. 1358-9-1. He made his profession of obedience 6th Feb. ; but the temporalities were not restored to him until 19th Sept. 1360-'-. In the mean while, 22nd April 1360,
��throne, bishop Langton was im- prisoned and his temporahties seized into the King's hands 20th Sept. 1307 (Rot. Fin. i Edw. II. m.i6. et Claus. i Edw. II. mm. 6, 7. dorso). Upon being re- stored to favour through pope Clement's interference, the tem- porahties were given back to him 3rd Oct. 1308. Claus. 2 Edw. II. m. 15.
1-^ Pat. 15 Edw. II. m. 10.
16 The King wrote to the Pope 30th Nov. 1 32 1 recommending that Robert Baldok, archdeacon of Middlesex and canon of Lich- field, should be preferred to the vacant see of Lichfield and Co- ventry, and again 22nd Dec. fol- lowing on the same subject (Rot. Rom. et Franc. 15 Edw. II. mm. II, 12), and yet 4th Jan. following, he again wrote to the Pope in the following words : " Per literas venerabihs patris
��domini L. Dei gratia, Sanctse Mariae in via Lata diaconi cardi- nalis, de voluntate vestra nobis, ut credimus, directas, didicimus quod, ad nostri instantiam nec- non et ob honorem nostrum et regni nostri utilitatem, dilectum clericum nostrum, magistrum Rogerum de Northburgh, archi- diaconum Richemund, in episco- pum et pastorem ecclesiarum Coventr. et Lichfield, jam va- cantium, preefecistis &c." Rot. Rom. et Franc. 15 Edw. II. ra. II.
17 Pat. 15 Edw. II. p. 2. m. 21.
'8 Walsingham (p. 167) places his death in 1359, which must be incorrect, as his successor re- ceived the royal assent ist Jan.
1358-9-
'9 Reg. Islip. fol. 220. 20 Pat. 2Edw.in. p. I. m. 16. 2' Pat. 32 Edw. III. p. 2. m. 4. 22 Pat. 34 Edw. III. p. 2. m. 13.
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