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 dom, and the two manors which he had bought of him five years before; and when two days afterwards he solemnly wore his crown in the cathedral, Lucy's name is absent from the long list of prelates, including his old enemy Longchamp, who took part in the ceremony (ib. pp. 246–7). When, in the vain hope of effecting a reconciliation between Archbishop Geoffrey and his chapter, Richard in 1198 commanded the attendance of both parties at his court in Normandy, Lucy, together with Bishop William of Worcester, was deputed to propose terms of compromise. After more than three months spent in futile negotiations, Lucy landed at Pevensey on his return, 17 July (ib. iv. 66; Annal. de Winton. p. 67).

Lucy took part in John's coronation, 27 May 1199. Sickness prevented his presence at the great council held by Archbishop Hubert at Westminster, 19 Sept. 1200 (, ii. 169;, iv. 90). He was one of the witnesses to the homage of William the Lion, king of Scots, to John, at Lincoln, 21 Nov. 1200 (ib. p. 141), and took part in the obsequies of St. Hugh in Lincoln Minster on the 23rd (ib. p. 143). The close of his episcopate was signalised by large additions to the fabric of his cathedral, to which he may have been stimulated by the sight of St. Hugh's choir and transepts at Lincoln, erected in the new Early-English style. In 1200 a tower, which is not identifiable, had been begun and finished (Annal. de Winton. p. 304;, Arch. Hist. of Winchester Cathedral, p. 37). In 1202 he instituted ‘a confraternity for the reparation of the church,’ to last for five complete years, by which the low eastern aisles and lady-chapel were erected, ‘the styles being early English of an excellent character’ (ib.; Annal. de Winton. p. 304;, p. 5). Lucy died 11 Sept. 1204, and was buried outside the lady-chapel he had caused to be built (, Angl. Sacra, i. 286).

That his character for practical wisdom and honesty stood high with his sovereigns is shown by the various delicate pacificatory missions with which he was entrusted. Henry II, a good judge of character, formed a high opinion of him. Under John and Richard he had to face endless corruption, and his quarrel with Longchamp imperilled his influence. Bishop Stubbs calls him ‘a good average bishop’ (Epp. Cant. Introd. p. lxxxi). He conferred a great benefit on his episcopal city by restoring the navigation of the Itchen from Southampton by means of an artificial channel, ‘trancheam quam fecit fieri,’ extending up to Alresford, where he constructed a large lake or headwater for its supply, reserving for the see the royalty of the river and the customs on goods entering the city by the canal, for which he obtained a charter from John (, Lives of Bishops of Winchester, i. 460;, Hist. of Hants, i. 2, 3, 293; , Historic Towns, Winchester, p. 105). In 1199 he also established a market at Alresford (Annal. de Winton. p. 252). The revenues of the priory of Lesnes (or Westwood), which had been founded by his father the justiciar on his retirement from public life, and where he died a canon in 1179, were augmented by him. 

LUCY, RICHARD (d. 1179), chief justiciary, is said to have come of a family that held lands in Norfolk, Suffolk, and Kent, and on doubtful authority (Testa de Nevill, p. 294) to have received Diss in Norfolk, either as part of his inheritance or for service, from Henry I; he certainly held it later. He maintained the cause of Stephen in Normandy against Geoffrey of Anjou, being in command of the castle of Falaise, and seems to have been recalled to England in 1140 (, Geoffrey de Mandeville, p. 49). In the later years of the reign he was sheriff of Hertfordshire and Essex, and appears as a baron, in virtue of the lordship of Diss, and as acting as a justice of the king. By the end of 1153 he probably held an exceptional position, and was chief justiciary, for by the treaty of Windsor, made at Christmas, he received the guardianship of the Tower and the castle of Windsor (Fœdera, i. 18). The following year he attested the charter granted to London by Henry II. For about thirteen years he held the office of chief justiciary jointly with Robert de Beaumont, earl of Leicester (1104–1168) [q. v.], and on the earl's death became sole chief justiciary. In the early years of the reign he was sheriff of Berkshire. When he was with the king at Falaise in 1162, Henry charged him to use his utmost endeavours to procure the election of Thomas the chancellor to the archbishopric of Canterbury; he returned to England, and persuaded the monks to obey the king's wish. He was one of the sureties for the king and his son bound for a hundred marks to secure the observance of the treaty made with the Count of Flanders in 1163. Archbishop Thomas believed that he, jointly with Joscelin de Bailleul, drew up the constitutions of Clarendon, produced in January 1164. In