ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY 



secration did not take place until two years after his election ; he survived 

 it little more than a year," and the chapter, early in November 1299, elected 

 Thomas of Corbridge, sacrist of St. Sepulchre's/*' He was consecrated by 

 Boniface VIII on 28 February 1299-1300/* His journey home gave rise 

 to a wrangle with Archbishop Winchelsey/* Then the convent of Durham 

 besought his aid against Bishop Bek,^° and at Beverley he deprived the 

 pluralist provost, Aymo de Carto, and resisted the attempts of the king to 

 restore him/' The king, during the recent vacancies of the see, had granted 

 dignities and prebends to several foreigners and non-residents. Corbridge's 

 preferment in St. Sepulchre's, and his prebend, had been given to John Bush ;''^ 

 while the pope had granted the sacristship to an ItaHan. The latter did not 

 live long, and is said to have repented his non-residence on his death-bed. 

 Boniface gave the nomination to Corbridge, who appointed Gilbert Segrave, 

 a. canon of Lincoln, disregarding the royal candidate. Edward I confiscated 

 the temporalities of the see, retaining them till Corbridge's death.'* Corbridge 

 thus suffered for a courageous attitude towards abuses of patronage. In two 

 churches of the chapter of York, Weaverthorpe and Burton Leonard, he 

 ordained vicarages ; '^ in Myton-on-Swale and Overton Churches, both appro- 

 priated to St. Mary's Abbey, and in East Witton, appropriated to Jervaulx.™ 

 Nafferton Church was appropriated to Meaux Abbey in May 1303, and a 

 vicarage ordained ; but a final ordination was made the year after by Arch- 

 bishop Greenfield." 



Corbridge died at Laneham-on-Trent 22 September 1304, and was 

 buried at Southwell." The chapter elected the king's chancellor, William 

 Greenfield, Dean of Chichester, who had been a canon of York.''' Owing to 

 the disturbed state of the papal succession, it was not until January 1305—6 

 that the archbishop-elect was consecrated at Lyons. On his return he 

 had to buy the temporalities of his see from their guardian,'* and when 

 he sent his servitium camerae to Rome at Christmas he was obliged to 

 request time for further payments." Almost at once he was called upon to 

 defend the Scottish border against Robert Bruce, who had been crowned at 

 Scone in March 1305—6.''' Fugitives from Scotland took refuge in the north 

 under pressure of war and poverty. A nun of the dispersed house of Cold- 

 stream was suffered to live in an anchorage at Doncaster.'^'' Danger united 

 Greenfield and his suffragans closely. On 29 May 131 1, Richard of Kellawe, 



" Newark was elected 7 May 1296, consecrated 15 June 1298, and died 15 Aug. 1299 (Stubbs, 

 Hut. Ch. York [Rolls Ser.], ii, 410) ; York Epis. Reg. Newark, fol. 20 d. 



*^ Cal. Pat. 1292-1301, p. 455. 



" Stubbs, Hist. Ch. York (Rolls Ser.), ii, 41 1. " Dixon and Raine, op. cit. 357. 



'° Lett. N. Reg. (Rolls Ser.), 144, 145. 



"' Ibid. 166, 167. " Ca/. Pat. 1292-1301, p. 512. 



^ Stubbs, Hist. Ch. York (Rolls Ser.), ii, 41 1, 412 ; cf. Dixon and Raine, op. cit. 356. 



" Lawton, Coll. 281, 552. ' ™ Ibid. 449, 452, 574. 



" Ibid. 306. Ducarel's Repertory in Lawton, op. cit. 600, 601, gives several references. 



" Stubbs, Hist. Ch. York (Rolls Ser.), ii, 41 z, who gives the year wrongly as 1303. 



" Ibid. 413. Greenfield, a relation of Giffard {York Reg. Giffard, [Sur. Soc. cix], 121), was promoted 

 by him to canonries at Southwell and Ripen (ibid. 67, 92, 271). 



'* 21 Mar. 1305-6. The temporalities were estimated at ^£3,134 19/. t^d. {Hist. Ch. York [Rolls Ser.], 

 iii, 235 seq.). 



" Lett. N. Reg. (Rolls Ser.), 179 seq. 



" Ibid. 180. Greenfield told Clement V (ibid. 177, 178), in a letter from Newcastle 20 Oct. 1306, 

 that he had been inquiring about the relics at Scone. 



" Ibid, i, 1 69 seq. 



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