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This is, doubless, Geoffrey or Godfrey de Lucy, who, in 

 1 189, was the successor of Toclive in the Bishopric of Winchester. 

 He was son of chief justice, Richard de Lucy, and completed 

 and greatly enlarged the priory of Lesnes, or Westwood, in 

 Kent, which had been established by his father in 1178. In 

 this priory, Richard subsequently assumed the habit of a canon- 

 regular, and departing this life soon after, in 1179, was buried 

 in the chapter house there. This beneficent prelate, Godfrey 

 de Lucy, in the time of King John, had rebuilt the whole east 

 end of the cathedral church of Winchester, with the Lady 

 chapel, as far as that anciently extended ; and at his death on 

 4th September, 1204, was buried under a tomb of grey marble, 

 in the centre of his own works, opposite the entrance of the 

 Lady chapel. On his death, in the 6th John, his sister's son, 

 Robert Fitz- Walter, was admitted to the livery of such lands as 

 descended to him from his uncle, Geoffrey, Bishop of Winchester, 

 upon payment of 300 marks. This feudal lord, Robert Fitz- 

 Walter, not many years after, in 1215, was appointed general 

 of the baron's army, with the title of marshal of the army of 

 God and the church, and under his command, they eventually 

 extorted the Great Charters of Freedom from John, at Runny- 

 mede, a meadow by the Thames side not far from Staines. 



