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 an account of the valuation of the Peter pence formerly payable to the Pope. [Transcribed and published by John Thorpe in 1787.] John of Westerham died in 1321.

[See "Thorpe's Custumale" (Preface.)]

JOHN KEMP,

CARDINAL,

"Grandchild to Sir John Kemp, nephew to Sir Roger Kemp, both Knights, was born," says Fuller "at Wye." He was educated at Merton College, Oxford, and was successively Bishop of Rochester, Chichester and London, and Archbishop of York and Canterbury. He became a Cardinal with the title of St. Balbine, and then of St. Lupine at Rome, so that his preferments, remarks Fuller, may be comprehended in the following verse made by Thomas Kemp, his kinsman. Bishop of London:—

Bis Primas, ter Presul orat, bis cardine functus.

In addition to this he was twice Lord Chancellor of England. He died 22nd March, 1453.

[See "Fuller's Worthies," Williams' "Lives of English Cardinals," and Hook's "Archbishops of Canterbury."]

THOMAS KEMP,

BISHOP,

Was nephew of the preceding. Like his uncle he was educated at Oxford, where he was proctor in 1437. He was consecrated by his uncle. Bishop of London, and continued in that See forty years. "Seeing," says Fuller,