By the Rev. C. Soames. RE B56 
4 “ecclie parte vbi executoribus meis et Do- of Brystlesham,* of the order of S. 
_ mino Priori id congruencius fieri vide- Augustine, in the diocese of Sarum, of 
__ bitur tunulandus. which place I am, and have been for a 
q ; long time a Brother—my grave to be 
— made in that part of the said Church 
f the Arches, and obtained for him the Deanery of St. Martin’s, and a prebend 
in Lincoln Cathedral. He then became a favourite of Henry V., who made 
him successively Dean of Wells, Prebendary of Sarum, 1419, Keeper of the 
Privy Seal and Treasurer of England, 1432. By the interest of Cardinal 
Beaufort he was appointed Bishop of Bath and Wells. He filled the office of 
ancellor till 1450—a longer period’ than anyone since the Conquest had 
held the Great Seal. He was made Archbishop of Canterbury 1443, and died 
wt Maidstone 1452. See Diocesan History of Bath and Wells, and Campbell’s. 
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