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��died 2oth June 1345-, and was buried in his own cathedral '^

On the decease of the last named bishop, the license for the election of his successor issued 28th June 13454, and Alan de Walsinghara, prior of Ely, was elected, but his election was set aside by pope Clement VI. in favour of 1345 Thomas de Insula or de Lisle ^, S.T.P., a friar

igEd.IlI. preacher^, who was consecrated at Avignon by Cle- ment VI. in July 1345. The temporalities were re- stored to him ]Oth Sept. following"; but he did not make his profession of obedience to the archbishop until 9th Sept. 1348'". He died in exile-' at Avignon 23rd June 1361''^', and was buried there ^^ The license to elect a bisliop in the stead of Thomas de Lisle bears date 24th July 1361 1- ; but pope Innocent VI. commenced the translation of Reginald Brian, bishop of Worcester, to the see of Ely, but he died (loth Dec. 136 1 ) before the translation could be per- fected ; and John Bokingham, afterwards bishop of Lincoln, was then elected by the monks, but was re- jected by the Pope, and 1362 SiMox Langham, ahhot of Westminster'^ ^^ was promoted

36 Ed. III. to this see by the Pope's bull dated loth Jan. 1361-2. He received the spiritualities 26th Feb. following^*. and 1 9th March he did his fealty to the king, and the

��'^ The monk of Ely incorrectly places the death of bishop Mon- tacute 20th June 1344.

^ Angl. Sacra, pars i. p. 652.

4 Pat. 19 Edvv. III. p. I. m. 3.

s Called also Thomas deLylde.

" Ex Orig.

' Pat. ipEdw. III. p. 2.m. 14.

^ Reg. Cranborn.

9 He was deprived in 1357, and the temporalities seized into the King's hands, and the spiri- tualities taken into the archbi-

��shop's, i2th July 1361. Reg. Islip, fol. 235.

^J IX Kalend. Julii in Festo Depositionis S. Virginis Ethel- dredae et vigilia Nativitatis S. Joiannis Baptistae in curia obiit Avinionensi A.D.1361. Monach. Ehens. Hist.

" Angl. Sacra, pars i. p. 662,

12 Pat. 35 Edw. III. p. 2. m. 4.

'^ The inscription on his tomb calls him also "Elect of London."

'4 Monach. Eliens. Hist.

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