Wentworth" in Registro Eccle- : '" Reg.Cranborn.etAdam.Mu-
siae Cantuaria>. rimuth.
94 Pat. 12 Edw. III. p. i. m. 6. Clans. 12 Edw. III. p. 2.
95 Ibid. p. 2. m.31. m. 23. in dorso.
96 The King, 24th May 1338, " Ibid, et 13 Edw. III. p. 2. gave permission to the convent m. 11. in dorso.
of Canterbury to issue a license * Ad. Murimuth.
that Richard de Bynteworth, e- 2 Pat. i4Edw. III. p. 1. m.47.
lect of London, might be conse- 3 Adam. Murimuth.
crated " extra ecclesiam Cantu- 4 Histor. Roffens. p. 374.
ariae;" and the convent issued 5 Pat. 14 Edw. III. p. 1. m.47.
their license to that effect 6th 6 Ibid. m. 35.
of June, and the bishop elect 7 Reg. Eccl. Cantuar.
acknowledged it 9th June from 8 Reg. Islip. fol. 81.
his manor of Lopham in the dio- 9 Pat. 28 Edw. III. p.i. m. i.y
cese of Norwich. 10 Letter dated 23rd April,
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month 94 . He was confirmed at Otford on the 23rd, and received the temporalities 24th May 95 . He was con- secrated by Robert bishop of Chichester at Lambeth 12th July following, and enthroned the same day", on which day he also became chancellor of England 98 . He died 8th Dec. 1339", and was buried in his own cathedral on the 13th of the same month 1 . The conge dYliro vice bishop Bynteworth is dated 25th Jan. 1339-40 3 . 1^40 Ralph de Steatfoed, canon of Si. PauVs and nephew Ed. III. of John archbishop of Canterbury 3 , was elected 26th Jan. 1339 40 4 , and received the royal assent to his election on the 29th of that month 5 , and the restitu- tion of the temporalities 13th Feb. He was conse- crated at Canterbury on the second Sunday in Lent. 1 2th March follow Jul;- . His death took place at Step- ney on Thursday 7th April 1 354*. Fourteen days alter the decease of bishop Stratford, the conge dVlire to the dean and chapter issued 9 , and 1354 Michael de Noethbueg or Noethbrook, LL.D., Ed. III. archdeacon of Suffolk and canon of St. PauVs, was elected bishop 22nd April 1354, and was confirm- ed the following day by the archbishop of Can- terbury 10 ; but as both of these proceedings took
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