ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY 



right of presentation to a mediety of High Hoyland," and at Doncaster 

 (ii April 1268) settled the right of presentation to Badsworth.'* At 

 Doncaster (14 May 1268) a similar inquiry was made about Barnby-on- 

 Don ;*' and at Hooton Pagnell (28 November 1268) a disputed vacancy at 

 South Kirkby was examined." 



GifFard died 25 April 1 279." The chapter met 22 June, and elected their 

 chancellor, William Wickwane. The election was declared invalid and quashed 

 by Nicholas III, who provided Wickwane to the see, and consecrated him 

 at Viterbo ( 1 9 September) ." The new archbishop travelled homewards through 

 Kent with his cross erect. At Rochester it was broken by order of the 

 official of Archbishop Peckham ; and a second riot took place in London.*' 

 In his appeals against the claims of Canterbury and Durham, Wickwane 

 approached the curia with excessive humility, reminding one cardinal of the 

 zeal with which he had arranged the farming-out of a prebend belonging 

 to Napoleone Orsini,'" and congratulating Martin IV on his election with 

 exaggerated suavity.'^ If Wickwane swelled the flood of foreign preferment 

 to English benefices, he was earnest in his diocesan duties. Almost his 

 whole episcopate was spent in his diocese.''' He made several visitations 

 of monasteries: during May and June 1280 he visited seven houses 

 of regular canons in the archdeaconries of York and Nottingham.'* From 

 April to June 1281 he travelled through the archdeaconry of Richmond, 

 visiting religious houses and the chapters of the various deaneries.'* Passing 

 through Amounderness, Copeland, Kendal, and Lonsdale, he came to 

 Coverham on i June, and thence went through the deaneries of Catterick 

 and Richmond into Cleveland.'^ On his way to Hexham, he made a 

 disastrous attempt, in face of strong resistance, to visit the church of 

 Durham.'* He was more successful in a dispute over right of common 

 pasture with the men of Beverley, whose ringleaders interrupted his sermon in 

 the minster."' He laid the town under an interdict ; and forced the chief 

 offenders to make public penance.'* Other offenders were the intruding 



'^ York Reg. Giffard (Surt. Soc. cix), 21. " Ibid. 25. " Ibid. 27. 



^ Ibid. 28. »' Stubbs, Hist. Ch. York (Rolls Ser.), ii, 406. 



^ York Reg. Wickwane (Surt. Soc. cxiv), 305 ; Stubbs, Hist. Ch. York (Rolls Ser.), ii, 407. 



*' York Reg. Wickwane (Surt. Soc. cxiv), 178-83. Wickwane's letter to the pope is printed in Lett. 

 N. Reg. (Rolls Ser.), 60 seq.; see also ibid. 59, 60. 



^ York Reg. Wickwane (Surt. Soc. cxiv), 180. Napoleone, 'stirpis masculine memoriale magnificum et 

 tocius parentele predilectum flosculum,' remained for many years an incubus on the church of York. 



" Ibid. 191, 192. 



'* Evidence of dated documents in York Reg. Wickwane (Surt. Soc. cxiv). See chronological itinerary, ibid. 

 343-8. " Ibid. 1 30-48. 



'*Ibid. 116-19. WritingfromClaphamin Lonsdale on 4 April, he demands full details as to churches, chapels, 

 and vicarages in the western deaneries of the archdeaconry, the names of the clergy, their orders and the time and 

 place of their ordination, holders of pluralities, names of non-residents and of those who have delayed to take 

 priest's orders, patrons of churches, holders of pensions, vicarages which have ceased to be served, appropriated 

 churches, churches to be dedicated or reconciled, and cases of intruders into churches. With the last article 

 but one we may couple the statement of Stubbs {Hist. Ch. York [Rolls Ser.], ii, 408), that Wickwane ' maximam 

 partem ecclesiarum suae diocesis . . . suo tempore dedicavit.' 



" See note 92 above. 



^ York Reg. Wickwane (Surt. Soc. cxiv), 153-78. See also Graystanes, Hist. Dunelm. Scripores Tres. 

 (Surt. Soc), 58-69. 



" Lett. N. Reg. (Rolls Ser.), 66, 67. 



" There are many documents relating to this case in the register. The most important are the notice 

 of interdict which followed an appeal from the offenders to Canterbury (6 Aug. 1 281, York Reg. Wickwane 

 [Surt. Soc. cxiv], 109, 1 10), and the directions to the deans of Beverley and of the Christianity of York for the 

 reconciliation of the penitents (2 Nov. 1281, ibid. 14, 15, 40, 41). 



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