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Amongst them we read 



t EOBERTUS STIOHILL EPISCOPUS. 



He bequeathed 200 pounds sterling'^^ for the purchase of wood 

 and peat for the benefit of Greatham Hospital. Bishop Kellawe^^* 

 records that, in 1312, King Edward issued a writ to Bishop 

 Eichard touching the complaint of the Commonalty of Durham, 

 respecting the tallage. Edward ordered an enquiry into the 

 customs of former days, specifying those of Roberti de 

 Stychehulle. 



Bishop Eichard had also a unique experience. ^^* During an 

 investigation, in 1338, into the Hospital of Shirburn, a juror, 

 (probably the oldest inhabitant), called Henricus de Burton, 

 told how he had seen five vicars instituted there, and that the 

 first of them was "Eobertus de Stichell, monachus, episcopus 

 Dunelmensis." 



The Seal of Bishop Stichell is engraved in Surtees' Durham, '^^ 

 and again in Priory of Finchale.^-^ 



'23 Reg. Palat. Dunelm (Surtees' Society) Vol. i., p. 318. 

 12* Do. Vol. n., p. 864. 



125 Do. Vol. III., p. 266. 



'26 Surtees' Uurham, Vol. i., Plate II. 

 1^' Priory of Finchale (Surtees' Society) Appendix, p. xxv. 



