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Bishops of Old Sarum. 



who duly accounted for the income of tlie see, the offerings at the 

 high altar at Whitsuntide, and the proceeds from the Rectory of 

 Saldeburne (Shalbourn), then in the hands of the king, on account 

 of a controversy touching the advowson of the same. 1 



Nor were matters much mended, when a successor was at last 

 appointed in the person of Hubert Walter, for it is questionable 

 whether, during the four years that he nominally held the see, he 

 resided at all in the diocese. In any case his history belongs rather 

 to that of the Archbishops of Canterbury — for he was advanced to 

 the primacy in 1194 — and it has been well told by Dean Hook. 8 



Hubert Walter, who is said to have been a native of West 

 Dereham, in Norfolk, was nephew, pupil, and confidential friend of 

 Ranulf Glanville, Justiciar of England and Prime Minister of 

 Henry II. Amongst others well able to befriend him, he seems to 

 have been brought under the notice of Baldwin, once Chancellor of 

 Sarum, who, after having held the see of Worcster, became in 1185 

 Archbishop of Canterbury. Through his interest with the king, 

 Hubert Walter was, about the year 1186, promoted to the Deanry 

 of York, in succession to Robert Boteville. 3 Three years afterwards, 

 the king, Richard I., within a few weeks of his accession to the 

 throne, at a council held at the Abbey of Pipewell in Northampton- 

 shire, nominated him to the see of Sarum. He was consecrated 

 shortly afterwards (October 22nd, 1189) by Archbishop Baldwin in 

 the Chapel of St. Catharine, Westminster. 



In the year 1190, within a few months only of his appointment 

 as Bishop of Sarum, Hubert Walter went, together with Arch- 

 bishop Baldwin and Ranulf de Glanville, to the Holy Land, to 

 join the king in his crusade for the recovery of " the holy sepulchre " 

 from the hands of the infidels. He was present at the siege of Acre, 

 where, within a short time, died both Ranulph de Glanville and 

 Archbishop Baldwin. By the latter he was appointed executor to 

 his will. He continued in the camp till the close of the siege, 



1 Magn. Rot. 31 Hen. II. 

 2 Hook's "Lives of the Archbishops of Canterbury, vol. II. 

 3 Le Neve Fasti, III., 120, calls him " Botivelein." 



