Yorke was againe Treasurer of England in the fift yeare of Edward the third being An. Do. 1331. and enjoyed that place some part of Michaelmas Terme in the said yeare after whom came the Bishop of Norwich William Bishop of Norwich was made Treasurer in Michaelmas Terme in the fift yeare of Edward the third in which tearme there had beene three Lord Treasurers successively a thing seldome or never heard which office this Bishop kept all Michaelmas Tearme in the sixt yeare of Edward the third being in An. Dom. 1332. and somewhat more in the end yet yeelding that honour to another Robert le Ailstone being Lord Treasurer in the seventh yeare of Edward the third being An. Do. 1333. continued in the same office untill the tenth yeare of Edward the third being in An. Dom. 1336. which was about three yeares the same being a longer time then any other had possessed that place since the beginning of the raigne of the said King Henry Burwash Bishop of Lincolne was againe Treasurer the tenth yeare of Edward the third being in An. Dom. 1336. in which yeare as hath Scala cronicorum the King holding his Parliament at London was advised by his Counsell to prosecute his title to the Crowne of France Whereupon King Edward sent Ambassadors to the Duke of Bavier Emperor which had married the other sister to the Earle of Hannalt as King Edward the third had married one for surety of aliance and to retaine noble men about him with no small charge which ambassadors were Henry Burgwash Bishop of Lincolne and the Earles William Mountacute of Sarum and William Clinton of Huntington who returned to the Parliament at London with their answer well liked Of this man see more in the Chancellers being yet after his ambassage Treasurer for some part of the 11. yeare of King Edward the third Richard de Bury Bishop of Durham did enjoy the honour of Lord Treasurer in the 11. yeare of Edward the third hee was a man of great gravity and much esteemed of the nobility and gentlemen of the North. Of this man is more soken of in the Chancellers of England William de la Zouch borne of the noble house of the Lord Zouch was Treasurer of England in the 12. yeare of Edward the third in An. Dom. 1338. he being Bishop of Yorke was vicegerent to the King in the North parts in the 20. yeare of Edward the third and in An. Dom. 1346. at what time he tooke David Bruce King of the Scotts This man went to Rome and after a long contention between him and William Kelslye Kelsbie or Kelsey for all these different names are found in Authors touching the Archbishopprick of Yorke he was after two yeares thus spent consecrated Bishop of Yorke by Pope Clement the sixt after which this William in the 11. yeare of his Bishoppricke being long troubled with a grievous disease began the worke of a Chapell on the South side adjoyning to the Church of Saint Peters in Yorke where he purposed to bee buried but died before it was finished and lieth interred in the said Church before the Altar of Edward the confessor Sir Richard Sadington Knight was Treasurer in the fourteenth yeare of Edward the third being in An. Dom. 1340. There was one Robert Sadington living about this time of whom is more mention in the Chancellors of England but as yet I well know not whether they were both one man or noe sith Authors may misplace Robert for Richard as they have often done Robert Northborow being at that time as I judge Bishop of Coventry was Treasurer of England in the 14. yeare of Edward the third and in An. Dom. 1340. in which yeare hee was removed whom with the Chancellor the King ment afterward as after shall appeare to have sent into Flanders as Pledges for money that the King ought there After whom as I suppose that Sadington came in place A Bishop of Chester was Lord Treasure of England in the fifteenth yeare of Edward the third being in An. Dom. 1341. in which office he did not long continue Robert Perning or Pernicke was Lord Treasurer in the Easter tearme in An. Dom. 1341. being the fifteenth yeare of King Edward the third in which yeare also hee was made Chanceller and so continued both offices a while untill the sixteenth yeare of Edward the third as I gather by all circumstances of times records and histories who in the seventeenth yeare of Edward the third being An. Dom. 1343. as appeareth by the bookes of the Law being Chancellor delivered a record with his hands into the Court of the Kings Bench Of this man more is set downe in the Chancellers Roger Northborow as I take it being then Bishop of Coventry did honorably possesse the place of Lord Treasurer of England in the sixteenth yeare of Edward the third being in An. Do. 1342. Of whom thus writeth Matthew Parker in the life of Iohn Stratford Archbishop of Canterbury Ibi meaning at the Tower concilium initum est tandemque definitum ut Archiepiscopus episcopus Cicestrescis regni Cancellarius Coventrensis Thesaurarius una cum alijs satellitibus lictoribus deprehensi ad publicam custodiam rerum a se absente rege gestarum rationem reddituri ducerentur Mane accedunt satellites Lametham sed archiepiscopus ei pridie decesserat tum Londinum reversi Couentrensem Cicestrensem episcopos cum alijs designatis capiunt captos ad turrim deducunt c. William de Cusans being Lord Treasurer in the seventeenth yeare of Edward the third in An. Dom. 1343. continued in the same office all Michaelmas tearme in the eighteenth yeare of Edward the third and An. Dom. 1344. Betweene whom and Thomas Henley Abbat of Westminster was great contention about the Iurisdiction of the hospital of Saint Iames in the parish of Saint Margaret in Westminster which Hospitall is now a stately house belonging to the King and built by King Henry the eight called the manner of Saint Iames with a Parke walled about William de Edington Lord Chancellor and Treasurer of England Bishop of Winchester was Lord Treasurer in Easter Tearme in the nineteenth yeare of Edward the third being in An. Dom. 1345. in which office he continued untill the 32. yeare o the said King An. Dom. 1358. being 14. yeares Hee was so surnamed of the place where hee wa borne being the Towne of Edington in Wiltshire he was made Bishop of Winchester as some have about An. Dom. 1347. being about the 21. yeare of Edward the third This man chosen Bishop of Canterbury but yet never Bishop died as hath Walsingham in the fortieth yeare of Edward the third being in An. Dom. 1366. Iohn Bishop of Rochester was Lord Treasurer in the 32. yeare of Edward the third in An. Do. 1358. in which office hee continued in the 33. and 34. of the same King Simon Langham being of the Priory of Westminster made Abbat of that house was shortly after made Lord Treasurer
quondam episcopus hujus ecclesiae qui multa bona contulit ministris ecclesiae sancti Pauli Walter Merton Chancellor in Anno 44 Henry 3 being in Anno dom 1260. Nicholas of Elie made Chancellor by the Barons in Anno dom 1260 and Walter Merton displaced But King Henry the third disdaining to have Officers appointed him by his subjects did in the month of October following in Anno dom 1260. or rather 1261 deprive the said Nicholas and replaced the said Walter Merton Walter Merton Bishop of Rochester the second time made Chancellor as before appeareth John de Chesill Arch-deacon of London and Treasurer of England was made keeper of the great seale in Anno dom 1264 in Anno 48 Henry 3. This man was consecrated Bishop of London in Anno dom 1274 the third Kalends of May as hath Matthew Westminster he dyed in Anno dom 1279 the fourth Ides of February in Anno 7 of King Edward the first Thomas de Cantelupe borne of the noble house of the Lords Cantelupes the sonne of William Cantelupe and Millecent which as saith Leland drew her originall from the Countesses of Yorke being Arch-deacon of Stafford was Doctor and afterward Bishop of Hereford in Anno dom 1276 and before that made Chancellor after the feast of S. Peters Chaire in Anno dom 1265 being in anno 49 Henry 3 he dyed beyond the Seas comming from the Court of Rome in anno dom 1278 being in anno 6 Edward 1 or more truely as others have in anno 1283 being anno 11 Edward 1 whose bones were brought to Hereford Walter Gifford Bishop of Bath and Wels whom many doe call William did injoy the state of the Chancellor in anno dom 1266 being anno 50 Henry 3 he was translated from Bath to Yorke in anno dom 1259 being in anno 49 Henry 3 and dyed the 7 kalends of May in the xij yeare of his Bishopricke in anno dom 1277 being in anno 6 Edward 1 or as Nicholas Trivet in anno dom 1279. being the 7 yeare of King Edward 1. Geofry Gifford was Chancellor also in anno 51 Henry 3 being in anno dom 1267 This man was Bishop of Worcester about anno dom 1299 where he sate 34 yeares 4 moneths 4 dayes and dyed in the yeare 1304 being about the 32 yeare of King Edward the first John de Chesill was the second time honoured with the place of the Chancellor in anno dom 1268 being the 53 yeare of King Henry the third Richard de Middleton so surnamed of the place where he was borne was advanced to the Office of the Chancellorship in the said anno 53 Henry 3 in the moneth of July in anno dom 1268 and was also as appeareth by a Charter which I have seene witnesse to the same Deed in anno 54 Henry 3 who as farre as I can gather dyed in August in anno dom 1271 being anno 56 of the long governement of King Henry the third John de Kirby after the death of Richard Middleton was made keeper of the great seale in the said anno 56 Henry 3 It is very probable that this was the same John Kirby which after was Bishop of Elie and Treasurer of England Walter Merton the third time made Chancellor of England in Anno dom 1273 being the first yeare of the raigne of that famous Prince King Edward the first of that name He was Bishop of Rochester and founded Merton Colledge in Oxford and dyed the yeare of Christ 1278 being the sixt yeare of the raign of King Edward the first Robert Burnell the eleaventh Bishop of Bath and Wels after the uniting of those two Sees in one by Iohn de Toures in Anno dom 1272 was made Bishop of Bath in the yeare of our Lord as saith Eversden 1274 chosen Arch-bishop of Canterbury in Anno dom 1278 but rejected by the Pope He was Chancellor in Anno 2 Edward 1 in which place it seemeth that he long continued of whom thus writeth an anonymall Chronicle Dominus Edmundus Comes Cornubiae fundavit novum studium ordinis Cisterciensis apud Oxonias monachos de Thame primo ibidem introduxit dedit eis prima donatione Manerium de Erdington secit dedicare locum Abbatiae Tertij Jdus Decembris per Dominum Robertum Burnell eposcopum Bathon Wels Cancellarium regis posuit fundamentum novae ecclesiae eodem die Northosneiae This Bishop was required with the sonne of Edward the first and Gilbert de Clare Earle of Gloucester in the time of Edward the first to bee delivered for pledges for Lheweline Prince of Wales for his safe returne if he came to the parliament whereunto he was sommoned by the said King Edward In the time of this Chancellor the Court of Chancery was kept at Bristow This man dyed in Anno dom 1293 being Anno 21 Edward 1. John de Langton was made Chancellor of England in Anno dom 1293 being the 21 yeare of the victorius King Edward the first in which office he remained untill the death of the said King being in Anno dom 1302 He was made Bishop of Chichester about Annis 26 or 27 Edward 1. being in Anno dom 1298 or rather 1299 And in the said yeare 1299 he was before chosen Bishop of Elye but rejected by the Pope who made him Archdeacon of Canterbury From which Langton King Edward did take the great seale in the thirtieth yeare before said and delivered it to John Drokenford John Drokenford keeper of the Wardrope was made keeper of the great Seale in the thirtieth yeare as before in which office he continued from about the 15 day of August untill Michaelmas William de Grinefeild Deane of Chichester and Canon of Yorke was advanced to the place of Chancellor in Anno Dom. 1302. being about Anno. 30. Edward 1. which Office was given unto him at Saint Radigunds as saith Anonymus M.S. He was after chosen Bishop of Yorke in Anno dom 1303. who in the yeare of our Lord 1308 buried the body of the said King Edward the first in Westminster though the King dyed in Anno dom 1307. This Bishop dyed in Anno dom 1315 being about the sixt yeare of King Edward the second at Cawood after that he had beene Bishop nine yeares eleaven moneths and two dayes and was buried in S. Nicholus Porch at Yorke receiving his consecration at Rome in Anno dom 1305 after that he had beene there two yeares of Pope Clement This Greinfeild was a man very eloquent and pithie and Prudent in Counsell William de Hamilton Deane of Yorke was created Chancellor of England in Anno dom 1305 being the 33 yeare of that noble prince King Edward the first this William dyed in Anno dom 1307 being about Anno 35 of the said King at the Abbey of Fontnesse in Yorkshire being a man that well deserved of the Common wealth Ralphe de Baldocke chosen Bishop of London in Anno dom 1303 was confirmed at Titneshall by Robert of Winchelsey Bishop
Richard Earle of Arundell being returned out of exile with Henry of Bullingbruke Duke of Hereford and Lancaster and after King of England by the name of Henry the fourth was againe Chancellor and continued therein about two yeares being removed from that place about September in Anno 11 of Henry the fourth being in Anno dom 1410. Thomas Beauford Knight the sonne of John of Gaunt sonne to King Edward the third and brother to King Henry the fourth was made Lord Chancellor in Anno 11 of the said King being in Anno dom 1410 in which office hee remained not full three yeares but left the same office and was created Earle of Dorcet and lastly Duke of Exceter John Wakering Clerke Master of the Rolles was made keeper of the great Seale when Thomas Beauford left the office of Chancellor which Seale hee kept about the space of a Moneth for in January after that he had received the Seale there was a Chancellor created Thomas Fitzallen or Arundell Archbishop of Canterbury was the fourth time invested with the Chancellorship in Anno dom 1412. being in Anno 13. of Henry the fourth in which office he continued during the life of the said King who dyed in the fourteenth yeare of his Raigne and in Anno dom 1413. Henry Beauford Bishop of Winchester and after Cardinall in the time of Henry the sixt being Vnckle to King Henry the fift then reigning was the second time made Chancellor in Anno dom 1413. being in Anno 5 of Henry the fift in which place he remained untill the fift yeare of the reigne of the said King being in the yeare of our Lord 1417. Thomas Langley Bishop of Durham was the second time made Lord Chancellor of England in the said yeare of our Lord 1417 being the 5 yeare of that worthy Conqueror King Henry the 5 Which office hee received at Southwicke and continued in that honor as farre as I can learne by the space of six yeares or more whereof five yeares were fully ended in the life and death of the said Henry the 5 and the sixt yeare ended in the last of the first or beginning of the second yeare of King Henry the 6. Henry Beauford Bishop of Winchester before named was the third time made Lord Chancellor of England in the second yeare of the raigne of King Henry the sixt being about Anno dom 1423 or 1424 for the second yeare of that King fell partly in the one and partly in the other of the said yeares of our Lord. In which office he continued about the space of foure yeares untill he was made Cardinall in Anno dom 1426. John Kemp Bishop of London was made Lord Chancellor of England in the fourth yeare of that King Henry who in his youngest yeares was crowned first King of England and then King of France in Paris in which office he remained as I suppose about six yeares John Stafford Deane of Saint Martin and of Wels Prebend of Milton in Lincolne Church Bishop of Bath and Wells Lord Chancellor and Treasurer of England and Bishop of Canterbury was made Lord Treasurer of England in the moneth of February in Anno dom 1431 falling in the tenth yeare of King Henry the sixt he remained in that office untill John Kempe was againe made Lord Chancellor which was about Anno 6 of Henry the sixt And here I thinke it not unmeet to remember that some have noted William Wanfleet that was Bishop of Winchester and Chancellor of Oxford to be Chancellor of England when he built Magdalen Colledge in Oxford in Anno 25 Henry the sixt which possibly cannot be sith this Iohn Stafford held that office from the tenth of Henry the sixt untill the eight and twentieth of the same King which was eighteene yeares during which time they place this Wanfleet to be Chancellor of England which error I suppose they have committed in that they finding him Chancellor at the time of the building of his Colledge in the said 25 yeare of King Henry the sixt have taken him to be Chancellor of England when he was then but Chancellor of Oxford although indeed afterward he was Chancellor of England in Anno 35 of the said King as after shall appeare John Kempe Bishop of Yorke and Cardinall was the second time made Lord Chancellor in the 28 yeare of King Henry the sixt being in Anno dom 1450 in which office he dyed being Bishop of Canterbury in Anno do as saith Matthew Parker 1453 being the 32 yeare of the raigne of King Henry the sixt This man was first Bishop of Rochester next of Chichester thirdly of London then of Yorke where he sate sate 28 yeares and lastly he was Archbishop of Canterbury and Cardinall by the title of Saint Rufind which preferments are breifly expressed in this verse Bis primas ter praeses bis Cardine Functus Richard Nevill Earle of Salisbury the son to Raphe Nevill Earle of Westmerland and father to the valiant Richard Nevill Earle of Warwicke was after the death of Iohn Kempe by Parliament made Lord Chancellor in the 32 yeare of King Henry the sixt though others make it to be in the 33 yeare of the same King In which place hee continued not long for in the yeare following another was substituted and he remooved Thomas Bourchier brother to Henry Bourchier Earle of Essex Bishop of Elie and Bishop of Canterbury was made Chancellor in Anno 33 Henry 6 in which he remained much about 2 yeares in whose time as saith Matthew Parker about Anno dom 1461 was the Art of Printing invented at the Citty of Argentorat in Germany About which matter and especially for the exact and certaine time thereof many writers although their count about one time doe disagree yet at the inventing of that worthy thing were these verses composed in commendation of the same most excellent Art O faelix nostris memoranda impressio tectis Inventore nitet utraque lingua tuo Desierat quasi totum quod fundis in orbe Nunc parvo doctus quilibet esse potest Omnes Nunc homines igitur te laudibus ornent Te duce quando ars haec mira reperta fuit William Patan or Paten borne of a Gentlemanly Family being commonly called William Wanfleet of the place of his birth and being provost of Eaton and Bishop of Winchester was Lord Chancellor in Annis 35 36 37 of the unfortunate King Henry the sixt as have the Records of the Exchequor By which appeareth the error of those as I have before noted that mistaking the 25. of King Henry the sixt in which time hee was but Chancellor of Oxford for the 35. of the said King in which hee was Chancellor of England George Nevill the sonne of Richard Nevill Earle of Salisbury and brother to Richard Nevill Earle of Warwicke being made Bishop of Excester came to that See in Anno dom 1455. in which See he continued tenne yeares and was removed to Yorke in Anno dom 1465 hee was
of the Swan in the word Winchelsega thus terme Iohannes Chirchebius Episcopus Anguillarinus Regi a thesauris This man was Treasurer in the 16 17 and part of 18 of Edward the first in which yeare as it seemeth being part of An. Do. 1290. This Bishop died the 7. Kalends of Aprill after that hee had beene Bishop three yeeres some moneths and some dayes and was buried by Walpoole Bishop of Norwich in the Church of Elie on the north part of the queere before the Altar of Saint Iohn Baptist William de Marchia or Gulielmus Martius was Treasurer in Easter terme in the 18. of Edw. the first in which office he continued about 5. yeares was removed from that place in the 23. of Edward the first Peter of Leicester Baron of the Exchequer with the two Chamberlaines executed al functions of that office untill a new Treasurer was made this William de Marchia was made Bishop of Bathe and Welles in An. Do. 1293. being the 22. of Edward the first in which See hee remained almost 10. yeares and died in An. Do. 1302. being about the 32. of Edward the first was buried in the Church of VVells in the wall betweene the doore of the Cloister and the Altar of Saint Martin at whose Tombe in times past as the nature of that credulous age did hastily beleeve were many miracles done as some have left in memory to the following posterity VValter Langhstane Bishop of Lichfield and Coventry was made Treasurer after William de Marchia in 23. Edward the first in which office he continued as I gather during the life of Edward the first which fell in the 35. of his raigne being An. Do. 1307. and was then removed and imprisoned in the Tower with two men onely by Edward the second then comming to the Crowne because the said Walter Langstone had caused Edward the first to imprison and as some have to banish this new King for breaking downe the Parkes of the said Bishop During the time that this Peter de Willeby was under-Treasurer or Livetenant of the Treasury for the words be Locum tenens thesaurarij in 30. 31 and 32. Edward the first this Walter was made Bishop of Coventry and Lichfield in An. Do. 1295. being 23. yeare of Edward the first and the same yeare that he was made Treasurer he died about An. Do. 1321. being about the 14. yeare of Edward the second to which Bishop the Barons of Cobham were heires being descended from Margaret the Sister and heire of Iohn Peverell the Cosen and heire of this Walter Langhstane which Margaret was married to Sir William de La Poole of Ashby Knight from whom the Lord Cobham issue In this mans time of being Treasurer dyed King Edward the first for whom were these verses Dum viguit Rex valuit tua magna potestas Fraus latuit pax magna fuit regnavit honestas Scotos Edvardus dum vixit suppeditavit Tenuit afflixit depressit dilaniavit Walter Reynolds Schoolemaster to Edward the second Bishop of Worcester after of Canterbury and Chanceller of England was advanced to the place of Lord Treasurer of England in the first yeare of Edward the second being in An. Dom. 1307. after which in the yeare 1308. hee was made Bishop of Worcester he continued in the office of Treasurer untill some part of the 4. yeare of Edward the second at what time came in his place Iohn Sandall who was Livetennant unto the said Walter in place of the Treasurer as appeareth by many writs directed unto him by the name of Iohn Sandall Locum tenenti Willimi Episcopi Wigorniae Of him is more spoken in the Chancellors of England Iohn de Sandall being Clerke Scutifer Regis Chanceller of the Exchequer and Chanceller of England having beene before under Treasurer or Deputy for the high Treasurer came now in the fourth yeare of Edward the second to bee made chiefe Treasurer and entred into that office in Easter tearme about the beginning of the 4. yeare of Edward the 2. But in the yeare following which was in the fifth yeare of Edward the second hee gave place to another Hee was chosen Bishop of Winchester in the ninth yeare of King Edward the second being in An Do. 1316. Of whom thus writeth Anonymus M.S. Obierunt Episcopus Winton Elie viri sacra professione insigniti quorum primo successit Iohannes de Sandall Cancellarius Angliae vir cunctis affabilis necessarius communitati Secundo successit Iohannes Hothum scaccar regis vir si quidem scientiae penitus ignarus qui statim episcopatus ascenso culmine ad honorum pariter officij thesaurarij Rex in sui favorem sublimavit Walter Norwich Knight Treasurer in the 5. yeare of Edward the 2. and afterward in Easter tearme in the 8. yeare of Edward the 2. did on the third of October receive the office of Treasurership and tooke his oath before the Barons Chamberleynes of the Exchequer to behave himselfe well and faithfully in the same office which he had received by Letters Patents dated at yorke the 26. of September in the eight yeare of King Edward the second which he kept not long at that time Iohn Sandall was the second time Lord Treasurer in sixt and seventh yeare of King Edw. the second This man being Bishop of Winchester was Treasurer Of him see more in the Chancellers of England Walter de Norwich being Treasurer as before in the eight yeare of Edward the second did not long enjoy the same but as I suppose grave place to Iohn Drokensford Iohn Drokensford the 14. Bishop of Bath and Wells had as I have read the great seale delivered unto him and was also Treasurer of England but because I finde not as yet in what yeare although it were in the time of Edward the second I cannot set downe the certainety Of whom thus writeth the Register of the Bishops of Bath Iohannes Drokensford Thesaurarius 14. Bathon Episcopus post Walterum Haselshawes successit in Episcopatum Bathon annis 19. iste episcopatum pluribus aedificijs insignivit franchesias per regis episcopatus concessas non solum litterarie renovavit sed etiam ampliavit quo additationem exaltationem parentelae suae fere fuit aequalis praedicessori suo Roberto Bornell Welliae sepelitur ante altare sancti Iohannis Baptistae Iohn Hothum Bishop of Elie as is before noted out of one anonymall Chronicle obteyned the place and honour of Treasurership in the 11. yeare of Edward the second which hee did not long enjoy for in the Michaelmas Tearme in the the 12. yeare of Edward the second came William VValwaine Of this Iohn Hotham is mention made in the discourse of the Chancellers VVilliam VValwaine Treasurer of England in the 12. yeare of Edward the second about An. Dom. 1318. was as it should seeme for his negligence and unworthines removed at the Parliament at yorke in such sort as he possessed not that place as I