N O R T H U M B E R L A N P, &c. 



The liberties of the county palatine of Durham were afcertaincd 

 by parliament, n Y^Hefir.y VJ, on a complaint being made in a 

 petition to the houfe of lords by biflapp Lan-fhy, of certain com- 

 miffioners fitting and making enquiry at Hortm-Pool in his coun- 

 ty palatine ; after many learned' pleadings iifed by the attorney 

 general, Sir William Earl, Knt. to prove, that his lordfliip ought 

 to have no county palatine, or liberties royal (qj. 

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In parliament-time, the bilhops of Durham and Carhjle were ex. 

 cufed their attendance, on fending procurators fufficiertcs, fufficient 

 proxies, as by their place they were to have' a vigilant eye to the 

 defence of the borders ; and in the writ for the parliament to 

 meet at V/ejlm'mfter under K.. Edward II, they \yere exprefsly inhi- 

 bited to be prefent otherwise than by proxies, worthy, fays the 

 record, of being reprefentatives in that great council of the 

 nation (rj. 



. ;; 3Dfh7ijf[-j ]ijf>.*nj;q loiodaibfr JI-C^VT =;ilT 

 The biftaop of Durham had a fuffragan, or an epifcopal coadju* 



tor, 28 K.. Henry VIH,'i536, whofe .fee was at Berwick upon 

 Tweed fs). 



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This biflioprick is rated in the king's books at 1821 /. i s. 5^. 

 and before the reformation was rated in the Pope's books at 

 2025 /. and paid for the pall 2000 /. (tj. Every clergyman on ad- 

 miflion into a benefice, paid one year's profits to the Pope, under 



(q) Sir Robert Cottm's Abridgm. of Records. 



. , , f '-, 'J':- . Incoac ; at ; oic-bios w.kii -ui^uwyj'.'. 



(r) Seldons Baronage of Engl. &c. ovo. Land. 1642. 



rfrd il'jLfl svj^ liiuorll :).: -,^fj t Ei.J40J,ui. . .. 



{ s) Rym. Feed. torn. xiv. p. 560. 

 Afla Regia, vol. iii. 8vo. p. 307. 



.(t) Godwin de Prefulibus Angliae, 



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