36 PAINTED GLASS IN MORLEY CHURCH, DERBYSHIRE. 



way, the Metropolitan of York sat in the Archbishop of Canter- 

 bury's lap. The Bishops present were amazed, and remonstrated 

 in vain, whereupon Richard's servants dragged Roger from his 

 resting place, stamped on him, beat him with their fists, and tore 

 to rags his Episcopal vestments ; whereon the Legate and the 

 Archbishop of Canterbury departed the place, leaving Roger pros- 

 trate on the ground."* Roger complained of his ill usage to King 

 Henry II., but that monarch only went into convulsions of laughter, 

 and an appeal to Rome succeeded no better. He was a great 

 benefactor to York Cathedral. St. William, his predecessor, does 

 not appear to have done much for his Cathedral during his life, 

 but after his canonization, great revenues resulted from the num- 

 bers of pilgrims who frequented his shrine ; and Archbishop 

 Walter Gray appears to have made good use of them in adding to 

 the Church. 



The Prior of Bridlington, who is represented on the same com- 

 partment with St. William, died on the 10th October, 1379. An 

 account of his life may be found in Butler's Lives of the Fathers, 

 Martyrs, and Principal Saints, as well as of St. William ; but St. 

 William's successor, Roger, is passed by with the remark that he 

 was an "unworthy man." 



How these three Yorkshire ecclesiastics came to be associated 

 together in a remotely situated Derbyshire Church, may, we think, 

 be gathered from the following facts : — We learn from Bufler,t 

 that St. William " was the son of Earl Herbert, and Emma, sister 

 to King Stephen." The Fitzherberts of Norbury were connected 

 by marriage with the lords of Morley.J Nicholas Fitzherbert, 

 of Morley, married' Alice, the daughter of Henry Bothe, of Aries- 

 ton, co. Derby ; Nicholas died in 1473. Henry Statham, of 

 Morley, married Anne Bothe, daughter of Thomas Bothe, of 

 Barton, co. Lancaster ; Henry died 1480. The Bothe family 

 gave two Archbishops to York ; firstly, William, from 1453-64, 

 and secondly, Laurence Bothe, 1476-80. From these intermar- 



* See Acts of (he Church, p. 44, by J. W. Joyce, M.A. Whittaker, 1886. 



t Lives of the Saints, Vol. VI., p. 155. 



X See Churches of Derbyshire, Vol. IV 7 ., p. 344. 



