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WORCESTER.

three days afterwards[1]; he was enthroned 9th June following. He was 5th July 1307 appointed by the King to go on an embassy to Rome, and he died on his journey thither, "apud Belvacum in Gallia," 17th Sept. 1307[2]. The congé d'élire, vice bishop Geynesburg, issued 17th Oct. 1307[3], and

PETER OF SAVOY was nominated by the Pope, and rejected by the King[4]; afterwards,

1309 2 Edw. II. WALTER REYNOLDS or RAYNALD, canon of St. Paul's, London, and treasurer of England, was elected 2nd Jan. 1307-8 by the chapter, yet nevertheless the Pope also issued his bull of provision in his favour. He had the temporalities restored[5] to him 5th April 1309[6], and he was consecrated on the 13th of the following October[7]. He became chancellor of England in 1310, and was sent to the council of Vienne in 1311[8], and was translated to Canterbury by papal bull dated 1st Oct. 1313[9]. On the promotion of bishop Reynolds to the archiepiscopal see of Canterbury,

1314 7 Edw. II. WALTER MAYDENSTUN or MAIDSTON[10] was provided to this see by papal bull 1st Oct. 1313, and had the temporalities restored to him 17th Feb. 1313-14[11]. He died on the continent in April 1317, and the

  1. ↑ Reg. Winchels.
  2. ↑ Reg. Winton. et Rot. Rom. I Edw. II. m. 10.
  3. ↑ Pat. I Edw. II. p. 1. m. 18.
  4. ↑ Upon this fact Le Neve has this note: "This is the first instance of the kind I have met with enough being to be found nominated by the King and set aside by the Pope."
  5. ↑ On 20th Jan. 1308 he obtained a grant from the King of the issues and profits of the bishopric of Worcester from the time it became vacant. Pat. I Edw. II. m. 21.
  6. ↑ Pat. 2 Edw. II. p. 2. m. 15.
  7. ↑ Reg. Cantuar.
  8. ↑ Claus. 5 Edw. II. m. 26. Mandatum est Roberto de Kendale constabulario Dovor quod venerabilem patrem Walterum Wigorn. Episcopum Cancellarium Regis ad instans concilium generale, securum passagium habere faciat. Dat. xxv. die Augusti. [1311.]
  9. ↑ Pat. 7 Edw. II. p. 2. m. 26.
  10. ↑ "Ann. 1313, die 1. Oct. Papa provisionis titulo dedit Episcopatum Wigorn. Waltero de Maydeneston, viro utique diffamato in Anglia de inhonesta conversatione et vita." Ad. Murimuth.
  11. ↑ Pat. 7 Edw. II. p. 2. m. 23.
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