Register of the rectors, fellows, and other members on the foundation of Exeter College, Oxford, with a history of the College and illustrative documents / by the Rev. Charles William Boase.

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1894
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Credit: Register of the rectors, fellows, and other members on the foundation of Exeter College, Oxford, with a history of the College and illustrative documents / by the Rev. Charles William Boase. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ing of his cathedral. The Fabric Rolls show that he was a benefactor to the amount of £i,8oo, an immense sum in those days. He soon obtained high place under Edward II, was a collector of the Tenth imposed on the clergy in 1318 (Close Rolls ii. 551, 555, 561); Treasurer 18 Feb. 13^^ and again 9 May 1322, after an interval of rest granted at his own request b In 1324 he held Cornwall against the chance of a French invasion; he accompanied young Edward to France 9 Sep. 1325 when the prince went to do homage for Guienne, and probably saw enough to convince him that Queen Isabella was plotting against her husband. He had remonstrated strongly with the King about the Despensers, but when the revolution broke out the bishop was left by Edward, 2 Oct. 1326, in charge of London, and was murdered in Cheapside 15 Oct. 1326. ‘ The bishop of Exeter, riding towards his inn in Eldedeanes-lane [Warwick Lane] for dinner, en- countered the mob and, hearing them shout “Traitor,’' rode rapidly to S. Paul’s for sanctuary, but was unhorsed and taken to Cheapside, stript and beheaded. William Walle, and John Padyngton his steward, met with the same fate. About the hour of vespers the same day the choir of S. Paul’s took up the headless body of the prelate and conveyed it to S. Paul’s but, on being informed that he died under sentence, the body was brought to S. Clement’s beyond the Temple, but was ejected; so that the naked corpse, with a rag given by the charity of a woman, was laid on a spot called ‘ Le Lawles Chirche ’ and, without any grave, lay there with those of his two esquires, without office of priest or clerk ^ ‘ 27 Sept. 1323. De custodia sigilli Scaccarii commissa,—The King having appointed Hervicus de Stauntone, Chancellor of the Exchequer, to execute the office of Chief Justice, by which he is not able at present to attend to the said office of Chancellor,—“Custodiam sigilli nostri Scaccarii predicti venerabili patri, W[altero] ExoK. Episcopo, Thesaurario nostro commisimus; habend. quamdiu nobis placuerit, percipiendo pro custodia predicta feodum consuetum. In cujus &c. Teste Rege, apud Skergill xxvij die Sept.”’ Rot. Pat. 17 Edw. II p. i, m. 16. ^ French Chronicle of London 52 (Camden Soc. 1844); see too Walsinghami.182; Leland Coll. i. 467; S. Paul’s Documents (Camden Soc. 1880) 51, 177? Stubbs’ Chronicles of Edward I and //i. pp. xcv, 316 ; ii. p. xcviii; Galfridus le Baker 23, 43, 198. For the grant of Cornwall see Rymer II. i. p. 569, and further mention of Stapeldon p. 19 (1307), 202 (1313) Stapeldon in France, 344 (1317) to the Pope against Stapeldon’s enemies, 422, 428, 448, 520, 564, 565, 574, 584, 605 for going abroad, 617, 627; 603 the Sheriff of Cornwall ordered to proclaim the truce, and 610 to arrest suspected persons. See Index to Rolls of Parliament, Pat. Rolls