A HISTORY OF CUMBERLAND 



the first award made by Gualo has not been found, though fairly accurate 



schedules could be compiled from the evidences of later history. The 



second distribution made by Pandulf the legate while Hugh was bishop 



and Bartholomew was prior, and the final agreement between Bishop 



Silvester and Prior Ralf, are happily on record by inspeximus in a Charter 



Roll of 1 290.* The unpleasantness of this thankless duty fell chiefly to 



the lot of Bishop Hugh. For this reason we can well understand the 



acrimonious language used by the author of the 'Chronicle of Lanercost' 



in reference to this bishop, for that anonymous scribe took the side of 



. the canons throughout the dispute, alleging that they were coerced by 



fear diO death into celebrating divine offices with the King of Scotland. 



When Bikhop Hugh met with a fatal accident at the abbey of Ferte in 



Burgundy on , his return from the Roman court in 1223, the chronicler 



saw in his deatH ..the just judgment of God for the expulsion of the 



canons and the fraudulent jdi.vision of their property.* 



The name of Walter Mauc:lerk will rank among the foremost of the 

 early bishops of Carlisle who have^ ( contributed by their exertions and 

 influence to the endowment of the biLhopric. As a young man he was 

 appointed one of the king's clerks in the -reign of John, 8 and was often 

 employed on the King's business in that andVJie succeeding reign. His 

 connexion with Cumberland commenced before his consecration as 

 bishop of Carlisle. He had been constable of Carlisle castle and sheriff 

 of Cumberland in 1222, and was engaged in that year v O n the special 

 business of the King in the district. 4 It is probable that h^ was a canon 

 of Carlisle as well as a canon of Southwell when he was elected to the 

 see in 1223, for the King intimated to the archbishop of Yoi r k that he 

 had not assented to the election, and until that assent was &iven the 

 archbishop was forbidden to confirm the choice of the canons. 8 During 

 his episcopate the division of the property between the bishopric and 

 the priory had advanced almost to completion. In 1244 Bishop Walter 

 made an important concession* to the prior and convent of ii-ertain 



rents made by G(ualo) cardinal of St. Martin's, papal legate, and their divisions made between tha bishop 

 and the prior and convent of Carlisle ' (Cal. of Papal Letters, i. 91). In 1 226, by order of the saml p 0pe) 

 another report was made on the local conditions of the ordinance (ibid., i. 112). 



i Charter Roll 18 Edw. I. (83) No. 26. The date of the first ordinance by Pandulf is about j 22O> 

 and the final agreement was made in 1249. Innocent IV. issued a bull, 17 January, 1248, on the Catena 

 qutstionis between Bishop Silvester and his chapter about the division of the possessions of the Cjhurch 

 of Carlisle (Add. MS. 15,356, f. 239 ; Cal. of Papal Letters, i. 256). 



Chron. de Lanercost, pp. 27, 30. Bishop Silvester, also concerned in the division of the prc^p ertVj 

 ' transit eciam sed horribiliter ex hoc mundo, equo lapsus et fractus cervicibus ' (ibid. p. 62). Mlttbew 

 Paris (iii. 333, ed. Madden) tells the same story that on 13 May 1254 this bishop died ' supinv ls cor . 

 ruens de equo et ossium dissolutis compagibus expirans.' Bishop Walter did not fare so badly, -hough 

 he had many troubles. 



a Rot. Lift. Claus. (Rec. Com.), i. 2ob. * Ibid. i. 49ob, 5O2b, 513. 



Chron. de Lanercost, p. 31 ; Cal. of Papal Letters, i. 57 ; Reg. of Abp. Gray (Surtees S^ )C i ety ) ) 

 134 ; Rot. Litt. Claus. (Rec. Com.), i. 56ob, 573b ; Pat. 7 Hen. III. m. ad. The profession of subj ect i on 

 made by Bishop Walter to Archbishop Gray of York is as follows : ' Ego Walterus, Carleolensis e i ectus 

 episcopus, profiteer sanctae Eboracensi ecclesiae, et tibi, Waltere, Ebor. archiepiscope et Angliae p r i maS) 

 et successoribus tuis canonice substituendis subjectionem et canonicam obedientiam, et propn a manu 

 confirmo et subscribe ' (Reg. of Gray [Surtees Soc.], p. 144). 



8 Bishop Walter's concession to the canons of Carlisle is recited in the Inspeximus charter Of 5 Edw. 

 III., the original of which still remains among the archives of the bishop of Carlisle. The deed w, s dated 

 at Carlisle on 3 April, in the twenty-first year of his pontificate. 



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