54 The Will of Thomas Polion, Bishop of Worcester, A.D. 1432. 
urgent letters of safeguard addressed not only to kings, princes, and 
dukes, but to all governors of forts, cities, and camps, and even to 
people of every rank and condition in every country through which 
he might pass.” That he contemplated the possibility of being 
Correction to be bound up Page 55, Vol. xxvi. 
I am indebted to the Rev. W. A. Merewether for the correction of an inaccuracy 
in the note on John Stafford, p. 55 of the present volume. 
as a son of the Earl of Stafford, by Lady Ann Plantagenet (on the authority of 
Lord Campbell, in the Lives of the Chancellors). 
predecessors in the Chancellorship—Edmund Stafford, 1396 and 1401 to 1403. 
Dean Hook, in his Lives of Archbishops of Canterbury, describes him, also 
incorrectly, as the son of Elizabeth, wife of Sir Humphrey Stafford, of the Silver 
Hand. John Stafford was of a Wilts family, being a son of Sir Humphrey 
Stafford, of Southwick, in the parish of North Bradley, near Trowbridge. In 
a chapel attached to the Church of S. Nicholas, in that parish, is the tomb of his 
mother, Emma Stafford, who died at Canterbury, 5th September, 1446, and was 
brought there for burial. The register of Canterbury Cathedral records in its 
list of obits there celebrated, “4 non. Sept. Emma Stafford, mater Dni Johannis 
Stafford Archpi.” The Archbishop is said to have succeeded in 1443 to some 
lands at Blunsdon in this county, on the death of Robert Andrews and his 
widow. For a description of the tomb at North Bradley, and a discussion 
respecting the lady’s name and position see Jackson’s Aubrey, p. 347-9, and 
W. A. M,, xiii., p. 294-5, and Notes and Queries, 4th S., vii., June, 1871, p. 500. 
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Stafford’s appointment as Chancellor was in the reign of Henry VI. 
April 27th, 1892. 
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beate marie eiusdem piisseme genitrici 
corpusque meu ecclesiastice sepulture 
vbi misericors Deus cuncta disponens et 
forsan extra regnum me subtrahi ab 
hac Juce voluerit, Qd si adintra discedam 
in ecclia Conventuali de Brystelesh*m 
ordinis sancti Augustini Sarum dioc 
euius loci confrater sum et a temporibus 
eram meam eligo sepulturam in ea ipius 
C. Soamss. 
firmus 2 1vave wry SUUL LO MOU aud LUE 
Blessed Mary, His most pious Mother ; 
and my body to be buried according to 
the rites of the Church wherever the 
merciful God, who disposes of all things 
may think fit that I should depart this 
life, and perhaps that may be out of the 
kingdom, But if I should die within 
the same, then I choose that my burial 
shall take place in the ConventualChurch. 
He is there described 
This was true of one of his 
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