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learning, who "read the decretals at Oxford n and then "governed 

 ///(' schools " at New Sarum — by which I understand that he was 

 Chancellor (ad cujus officium pertinet scholas regere), who in truth 

 was elected Dean but declined the offered dignity. Then as 

 Treasurer, there was Edmund Rich (or Edmund of Abingdon), so 

 soon afterwards summoned from his prebend of Calne, where he was 

 caring for the interests temporal and spiritual of his flock, to fill the 

 chair of Canterbury, an Englishman in name, and race, and heart, 

 who had to wage a weaiy strife alike against Pope and King — our 

 second sainted Edmund, whose memory still seems fresh among us 

 from the chapel in the cathedral which can still be identified as 

 his, and the church of St. Edmund and its once noble foundation, 

 dedicated to him in this city. And then, in his Archdeacon of 

 "Wilts, who was also a Canon of his cathedral, he had Robert 

 Grosseteste, perhaps, in force of character, the greatest of them all, 

 soon called to be Bishop of Lincoln, and whilst there the rebuker 

 of Popes, the hammer and despiser of the Romans, whom neither 

 favours nor threats could cause to swerve one hair's breadth from 

 what he felt to be the path of duty. Besides these there were Robert 

 Bing'ham (his successor in this see) ; and Luke, described as the 

 King's Treasurer and Dean of St. Martin's, London ; and Martin de 

 Patteshull, afterwards Dean of St. Paul's ; and Elias de Derham, 

 described as "Rector" of the new church for twenty-five years from 

 its foundation, an office corresponding, it may be, with that of 

 " Magister Fabrica? ; " and Henry de Teissun, who had been the 

 delegate from the Chapter to the Pope, and brought from Rome the 

 bull authorising the translation of the Church ; and Philip, Abbot 

 of Sherborne, who, in virtue of his abbacy held a stall in the cathe- 

 dral, and who, though recently opposed to his diocesan, 1 had now 



1 Pliilip, Abbot of Sherborne (c. 1222-26), had entered on his abbacy without 

 the special authority of Herbert, Bishop of Sarum. There is a deed in " Osmund's 

 Register " by which he pledges himself that for the future no abbot of Sherborn 

 should be enthroned unless by the Bishop of Sarum, or by his special mandate. By 

 virtue of his office the Abbot of Sherborne held a prebend, (ita ut qui Abbas 

 fuerit locum in choro et capitulo obtineat) that of Loders being assigned 

 to him. Keg. Osmund, fol. xxvii. See Hutchins, Dorset, i., 377, 38-4. 



