132 SACRIST’S ROLL OF LICHFIELD CATHEDRAL. 
40. One William de Stanford was appointed by Edward III. collector of 
the customs on wool at the port of London. 
41. Phillip Deverdon or de Everdon was Prebendary of Wellington 1298- 
1304. 
49. William de la Cornere was Bisbop of Salisbury, 1289-1292, and was 
previously a Prebendary of Lichfield. 
43. Thomas de Cantilupe was appointed Archdeacon of Stafford in 1265. 
In 1275 he was consecrated Bishop of Hereford. He died in Italy on August 
25th, 1282, and his body was brought back for interment in his own cathedral. 
He was a scion of the noble house of Cantilupe, of Ilkeston, in Derbyshire. 
Thomas de Cantilupe was the second son of Baron William de Cantilupe, 
seneschal of Henry III. He was a great pluralist, being at the same time 
Precentor and Canon of York, Archdeacon of Stafford, and Canon of Lichfield, 
Canon of Hereford, and held also eight parochial benefices. But he was 
famed for his great generosity and kindness to the poor, and was canonised in 
1320 ; his feast being kept on October 2nd. Baring-Gould’s sketch of his life 
is unworthy of the writer, and unfair to the saint. 
44. Diasper was a precious sort of rich stuff. From it is derived the 
word ‘‘diaper,” as applied to all variegated patterns on walls, ceilings, 
grounds, etc. 
45. Adam de Walton was Vicar-General of the Diocese, 1276-1290, and 
Precentor of the Cathedral, 1292-1303. 
46. Robert de Rothwell (spelt by error Radeswell in Harwood’s Lichfield), 
was Archdeacon of Chester, from 1289 up to his death on June 13th, 1314. 
47. Theobald de Verdon, who died in 1317, was a large landed proprietor. 
He not only possessed extensive estates in Staffordshire, but also various 
manors in Shropshire, Warwickshire, Leicestershire, Oxfordshire, Bucks., 
Wilts., Hereford, and Wales. JZng, post mort. 10 Edward II., No. 71. He 
was the second husband of Lady Elizabeth de Clare, foundress of Clare Hall, 
Cambridge, 
48. That is, Bishop Walter de Langton, who died in London, in 1321, but 
his body was brought to his own cathedral for interment. 
48a. Scaccatum, checked. Scaccarium, the Exchequer, is so called from the 
chequered cloth or board on which they calculated with counters. [Ludus 
scaccorum— Chess. | 
49. Sparham is a small village in Norfolk, near to Reepham. We have 
found mention made of one Peter de Sparham, in a family dispute, about 
somé land near Swaffham, in the year 1321. (Patent Rolls). 
50. Stragulatus—Diverso colore variegatus, dégurré. (D’ Arnis). 
51. Canapum, query a cord. Originally of hemp (cannabis or cannabum), 
Was this the cord for the Lenten veil? 
52. This would not be the celebrated Ralph Basset, the last Lord of 
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