120 MORTUARY CHAPELS, LICHFIELD. 



Bishop Langton, who held the office of Lord Treasurer, died 

 in London on November 9th, 132 1 (not Nov. 16th, as stated 

 in the Anglia Sacra). Certain obsequies are recorded as 

 observed at Lichfield by the capitular body, reinforced by 

 twenty monks from Coventry (the other capitular body of the 

 see), who made a procession, preceded- by a cross and 

 chanting a Litany, from the Cathedral to S. Chad's Church 

 and back again. In September, 1323, there is an entry 

 of agreement between the Chapter and Bishop Langton's 

 executors, by which it was arranged that the Chapter and the 

 executors were to halve the costs concerning the finding of a 

 quarry {circa lapidicinum inveniendum) and of the raising of 

 stone pro fabrica capellce. Also that when it should become 

 necessary to dig out a new quarry, it should be quarried and 

 du : out in the names of Master Gilbert and his co-executors, to 

 whom restitution should be afterwards made by the custodians 

 of the Cathedral fabric. From this it appears that the 

 very selection of a quarry for the Lady Chapel was not de- 

 termined on until two years after the Bishop's decease. The 

 same source tells us that in September, 1334, Edward II. 

 gave a bond to the Chapter for payment of 257 marks, 

 9 shillings, held by him on loan from the late Bishop 

 for the purpose of the Scotch wars, being, in conjunction 

 with 904 marks, the amount bequeathed by the Bishop to 

 the Chapter for the Lady Chapel. The King assigns for 

 payment the feefarms of Oxford, Shrewsbury, Nottingham, 

 and Bridgnorth. Another entry, in September, 1335. shows 

 that the works were still in progress. Canon Blount states 

 in Chapter his readiness to restore to Gilbert le Bruere, as 

 Langton's executor, a cup which had been left in his pos- 

 session and the land of the quarry of Godputte, but asks 

 that something should be assigned to him for the diligent 

 care he has given to the (building of the) Chapel. The Chapter 

 orders 40s. to be paid him by Gilbert le Bruere on the arrival 

 of John de Langton (brother of the Bishop), his co-executor. 

 Gilbert le Bruere held the prebendal stall of Wolsey, in 

 this cathedral, from 1314 to 1331, when he exchanged it for 



