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of Salisbury. His patron seems to have been Adam de Orleton/ 

 Bishop of Winchester, who in 1335 promoted him to the valuable 

 Rectory of Cheriton/ in Hampshire (to which it was his own fortune 

 afterwards to present a relative — John de Edindon — in 1347).' 



On the death of Bishop Adam de Orleton (William Devenish 

 having been at first named as his successor, but set aside by the 

 Pope), William de Edjaigdon was, by Royal favour, nominated to the 



' Adam de Orleton, Bishop, first of Hereford, then of Worcester, finally of 

 Winchester, is su|jposed to have been, by a sermon preached at Oxford, instru- 

 mental in Sealing the fate of King Edward II. He is also said to have been the 

 author of the ambiguous Latin sentence, " Edwardum occidere nolite timers 

 bonum est " : wliich, according to the way in which it is punctuated, either 

 recommends or forbids the murder of that king. Some one (probably Thomas 

 Fuller) translated it : — - 



" To shed King Edward's blood 

 Refuse to fear I count it good." 



A comma after " refuse," dissuades from the murder : after " fear," recommends 

 it. 



A similar mis-punctuation may, by the way, be mentioned, occurring in 

 Villani's Hist, of Italy. One Proveuzano Salvani of Sienna was told by an 

 enigmatical spirit, before an engagement : — " Thou shalt go fight conquer not die 

 in the battle and thy head shall be highest in the camp." Putting a comma 

 after "conquer," he read it: — " Thou shalt go, fight, conquer, not die," &c. ; but 

 putting it after " not," he went, was killed, and his head cut ofE and carried 

 through the camp (Gary's Dante, II., Notes, canto si.). 



2 In 14 Ed. III., A.D. 1340, " Wm. de Edindon, Parson of the Church of 

 Cherytou purchased 4 messuages, 65 acres of arable and 29 of pasture in Westbury 

 and Muleborne from Thos. Bracton (Add. MS., 24831, f. 14, and Hoare's West- 

 bury, p. 79.) 



^ This John of Edingdon is most likely the same who was Master of St. Cross 

 Hospital, near Winchester, 18th April, 1349, and Rector of Farnham, 1366, On 

 30th June, 1368, he was cited to appear in the Bishop's Court on a complaint 

 brought against him by the parishioners of Fernham, for having embezzled the 

 materials purchased by his predecessor, Archdeacon Inge, for re-building the 

 chancel of Fernham Chnrch. He was again cited (in March following, and once 

 more on 6th November, 1369), for neglecting to proceed with the repairs : being 

 charged also with having received from Bishop Edingdon the money bequeathed 

 by Archdeacon Inge for that pui-pose. A John of Edingdon was installed. 

 Prebendary of Chamberlain Wood, in the Church of St. Paul, 20th October, 1366, 

 and Eector of Woodham Ferrers, in Essex, 26th April, 1393. They were probably 

 all one and the same person, viz., the Archdeacon, who enjoyed this dignity iip- 

 wards of thirty years, and died at length in 1397. (Manning and Bray, Hist 

 of Sui-rey.) 



