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 ■360 OEIGINAL DOCUMENTS. place uutil after the commencement of the following century. The dedi- cation of the two altars, therefore, at Nether Cerne, attributed to Bishop John, 1396, according to Hutchius, must have been the act of his prede- cessor Henr3 We may observe also that this John, who administered holy orders at Waltham, on Dec. 23rd, 1402, was, within a month of that date (as stated by Ware) succeeded by John Brit, on Jan. 24th. This seems an incredibly short space of time, after the death of one prelate, for the appointment, confirmation, and consecration of his successor : one would be inclined to suspect some error, and to think that John Twillow, and John Brit, may have been one and the same person. After the lapse of some years, I find John Boner, Bishop of Enachdune, Provost of the College of St. Elizabeth, near Winchester, which stood in the meadow of St. Stephen, opposite the great gate of the Castle of Wolvesey. The following is the heading of a computus of that house, preserved among the archives of Winchester College : " CoUeo-ium Sanct^ Elizabethee prope Wynton : Yisus status ejusdem Colleo-ii, tempore Joannis Boner, Episcopi Euachdunensis, ac Prsepositoris ibidem, ad festum Sancti Michaelis Archangel!, A.R. HenriciVP". vicesimo." (a.d. 1441.)^ The annual stipend of the provost, according to the same roll, was 4?. The history and succession of sufi"ragan bishops present a subject of research which deserves the notice of the antiquary. The lists compiled by Wharton, published in the " Bibliotheca Topographica," with the disser- tations by Lewis and Pegge on suft'ragan bishops in England, are doubtless capable of much enlargement and correction. Mr. T. Dufl'us Hardy pro- poses to give with his new edition of Le Neve's Fasti, a revised and amplified list, formed upon the groundwork laid by Wharton. Mr. Hardy would thankfully receive any additions noticed by those who may have access to episcopal registers or chapter monuments. His useful and arduous undertaking may well claim their friendly assistance. W. H. GUNNER. ' Dr. Cotton, Fasti, vol. iv. p. 55, men- Dorset, in 1422. In Wharton's lists he tions this bishop as " John Connere (Con- occui-s in 1421 amongst the''Chorepiscopi " nery or Bonnere ?) " advanced to the see of Salisbury, and in 1438, amongst those in 1421 : he was rector of Cheddington, of the see of Exeter.