202 Pofterne. 



friendly arrangement, shewing that, though not on terms with his 

 Chapter, he did not fall out with his family. Thus in 1384 one 

 Richard Durant is appointed to the living of Potterne. In the same 

 year John Erghum, the Bishop's name-sake, appears as Vicar. The 

 air of Potterne did not seem to suit him — if indeed he ever came 

 there — for a few months afterwards he exchanges with one Henry 

 Chapel, but whence the one came, or whither the other went, I can- 

 not tell you. Then in a little more than twelve months the first- 

 named Richard Durant again turns up as Vicar, in his turn once 

 more to be speedily superseded by William Codyer, showing himself 

 for the second time an accommodating locum tenens, and thus mani- 

 festing, it may be, canonical obedience to his diocesan. However 

 the translation of Bishop Erghum, in 1388, to the see of Bath and 

 Wells, stopped alike the quarrels at Sarum (about which there was 

 at length an appeal to Rome) , and any further friendly arrangements 

 touching the Vicax'age of Potterne. 



Bishop Waltham, his successor at Sarum, held the see only for 

 seven years : moreover he held at the same time the high office of 

 Lord Treasurer, having been previously Master of the Rolls and 

 Keeper o£ the Privy Seal. He could have found very little leisure 

 for his episcopal duties, and naturally enough committed them to the 

 care of suffragans, two of whom were Robert Hyrtlesham, with the 

 title of Bishop of Sevastopolis (Sebastopol), and John " Sodorensis 

 Episcopus,^' i.e., Bishop of Sodor. His knowledge of law, and the 

 influence of his high position, seem one or both to have secured 

 special privileges for his three manors of Lavington, Potterne, and 

 Woodford.' After this time we hear of the Hundred of Potterne 

 and Cannings. 



It has been thought by some that an important addition was 

 during the fourteenth century, made to the tower of the church, the 

 second stage of it seeming to be more of the early decorated period, 

 than the lower one, which, I presume to be of the same date as the 

 rest of the church, viz.. Early English. They would place the latter 

 at about 1 250, and the former about one hundred years later. If so, 



» Cal, Eot. Chart., i., 192. 



