28 Anniversary Address. 



to Border warfare and the blessings of peace. "^ As a 

 practical suggestion, he advises churchmen to allow the 

 disinherited to redeem their lands at a fixed and moderate sum. 



Bishop Stichill, keeping to the promise of his youth, was 

 rather a facetious old gentleman — in spite of early lessons 

 when he "nirais levis fuit." It stood him in good stead 

 when he was making Howden, in Yorkshire, into a collegiate 

 church."'' He reconciled the parties who felt aggrieved by 

 the following humorous comparison. If one set before him 

 a sucking pig without any condiment, he would eat it for 

 all that ; he would have been better pleased with the addition 

 of a condiment. So he laughingly remarked to the disputants 

 — "You wish to have the pig without any condiment. If 

 it please you, it pleases me."^'* 



He was withal firm in maintaining the privileges and 

 pertinents of his office. On one occasion he appropriated the 

 fishing ground of Eyse worth, which was claimed to be common 

 to Warenmouth, Bamborough, and the neighbourhood. He 

 actually imprisoned a certain Gregory, Adam de Lucker and 

 Gilbert Hoge, whom he found fishing there, in evident 

 assertion of what they regarded to be their rights."® 



He died at Arbipellis, in France, 4th August 1274, on his 

 way home from the Fourteenth General Council of the Church, 

 which had been held at Lyons. He was buried at Arbipellis, 

 his heart only being brought back to Durliam,^-" and deposited 

 in the Chapter House, where his seals of office were broken. ^-^ 



In "A Description or Breife Declaration of all the Ancient 

 Monuments, Eites, Customes .... of Durham, ^^^ written in 

 1593, there is contained a " Catalogue of the Bishops of Durham, 

 . whose bodies ar found buryed in the Chapter House of Durisme, 

 as appereth by ther names ingraven upon etone, with the signe 

 of the crosse f annexed to every one of the said names." 



"' Historical Papers and Letters from the Northern Registers (Rolls) 

 1873, p. 15, No. XII. 



"' Tres Scriptores, p. 147. 



"" History of Northumberland by Coanty Historical Committee, 1893, 

 Vol. I., p. 195. 



"9 Hundred Rolls, Northumberland (Hodgson) Vol. ni., Sect, i., p. 95. 



'^0 Surtees' Durham, Vol. i., p. xxix. 



121 Wills and Inventories, (Surtees' Society), Part i., 1832-3, p. 12. 



1'^ Surtees' Durham, p. 47, xxvi. 



