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notification of his election was immediately sent to the King 96, and he obtained the royal assent ist March ^7, and that of the chapter of Canterbury on the 1 2th (the archiepiscopal see being then vacant) ; on the 1 9th of the same month the temporalities were restored to him^"*, and he was consecrated by Richard bishop of London on Whitsmiday99 (17th May). He died 1 ith June 1302, and was buried at Wells in the south wall of the transept near the cloister door, under a handsome monument with his effigies on it^ The dean and chapter of Wells and the prior and convent of Bath by their several letters dated 22nd and 23rd June 1302 inform the King of the death of William their late bishop, and request him to issue his license for a new election'-; and king Edward wrote to the chancellor on the 29th of that month to issue the writ of election -^ The license to elect his successor bears date 29th June 1302^. The prior and chapter of Bath by their letter dated 11th Aug. 1302 pray the King's assent to their election of ^ 1302 Walter Hesselshagh ovHaseIjShawe, dean of Wells, 30 Edw. I. who was elected on Tuesday next after the feast of St. Peter ad Vincula (7th Aug.) 1302*'. He received the royal assent on the 13th of that month 7, and his temporalities 12th Sept.*^ He was confirmed by the archbishop nth Sept., and consecrated on the Sunday after the feast of All Souls (4th Nov.)^; enthroned at
96 Lett, in Tower of London, dated pth Aug. 1302.
No. 1812 1815. 7 Pat. 30 Edw. L m. 13.
97 Pat. 21 Edw. L m. 21. ^ Ibid. m. 8. The archbishop
98 Ibid. m. 20. of Canterbury wrote to the King
99 Reg. Cantuar. et Wellen. nth Sept. 1302, praying his
1 WilUs Abb. vol. ii. p. 374, majesty to restore the tempo- 375. rahties to the bishop, as he had
2 Lett, in Tower of Lond. S. confirmed the election. Lett, in 193 and 194. Tower of Lond. S. 117.
^ Ibid. S. 195. 9 Angl. Sacra, pars i. p. 567, e
4 Pat. 30 Edw. I. m. 29. Reg. Eccles. Cantuar. On Sun-
^ Lett. in Towerof Lond. S. 113. day 28th Oct. according to the
^ Lett, in Tower of Lond., Annals of Worcester.
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