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of Bath and Wells, onr dioce^n, upon this, and that the 

 Said father would favourably condescend to perfcct those 

 things vvhich in regard to tlie dispatch of the said election 

 are incunibent on Ins oflice. May the Most Iligli long 

 preserve your lordship for the rule of His holy Church. 

 Dated in onr Chapter llouse at Taunton, on the last day 

 but one of the month of March, in the year of our Lord 

 MCCCXLVi."^-' The Ijishop of Winchester in his letter to 

 his brother at Wells complies with this prayer, and, after 

 express niention of his licence having been obtained and 

 his assent given, desires his favour in behalf of the elect, 

 whom he praises as a man allowed by report to be " richly 

 endued with perfection of manners, sincerity of religion, 

 and other gifts of grace."t 



Page 41, note * add MS. Harl. 6965, p. 176. 



Page 45, line 28, read November, 1361, 



Page 45, line 29, read January, 1361-2, 



Page 45, line 30, add The licence to elect is dated at 

 Suthwerk on the 23rd of November, 1361, and the assent 

 at the same place on the 17th of January, 1361-2. The 

 Bishop in both of these instrimients uses very shnilar terms 

 to those with which the reader has just been niatle ac- 

 quainted, and in the former of thcna urgently presses upon 

 the attention of the Community the importance of the duty 

 which had devolved upon it.| 



Page 46, Zme 11, insert In a Perambulation between the 

 Counties of Somerset and Devon, ordered to be made on 

 the Ist of July, in the 41st year of Edward IIL, 1367, the 

 Prior of Taunton was aflSrmed to hold a certain croft at the 



* E Registr. Edyndon, tom. I., fol. 10b. 

 t E Eegistr. Edyndon, tom. i., fol. 11. 

 X Reg. Edyndon, tom. i., ff. 112b, 113b. 



