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��buried in the church of the White Friars, London '^5. His will, dated 23rd Nov. 1416, was proved 17th Jan. 1416-17^^. The conge d'elire vice Robert Mascall is dated 21st Jan. 141 7 's and
Edmund Lacy, S.T.P., canon of Hereford and dean of the King's chapel^ was chosen. He had a grant of the custody of the temporalities 8th Feb.^*^, and the King wrote to the Pope in his favour 17 th Feb-^^ The papal assent to his election was given 3rd March 1417"^, he was consecrated 18th ApriHi, and the temporalities restored to him ist May following^'^. In 1420 he was translated to Exeter^^.
Thomas Polton, LL.B., dean of Yorh^ the Pope's notary^ was promoted to Hereford by papal provision; the bull is dated Id. Jul. (15th July) 1420^^. He made profession of obedience 4th Nov., and obtained the temporalities on the 9th of the same month *^. In J 422 he was translated to Chichester ^s.
��35 Weever, p. 457. He wills to be buried in the cross aisle of the Friars CarmeUtes at Ludlow.
2^ Reg. Chichel. fol. 301.
37 Pat. 4 Hen. V. m. 9. The King's letter to the bishop of Winchester, chancellor of Eng- land, desiring him to issue a conge d'elire to the dean and chapter of Hereford, is dated from Kenilworth castle 19th Jan. In Turr. Lond.
38 Pat. 4 Hen. V. m. 3.
39 Ibid. m. 4.
40 Ibid. m. 6.
'*! Die Dominica xviii Aprilis 141 7 in capella hospitii domini Regis infra castrum suum de Wyndesore, et non in capella collegii ibidem, Henricus Can- tuar. archiepiscopus venerabilem virum dominum Edmundum Lacye sacrse paginae professorem
��ecclesiae Hereford electum con- secravit assistentibus Thomae Wigorn. et Stephano Meneven. episcopis in prgesentia domini Regis aliorumque quampluri- mum procerum et magnatum regni Anghae. Reg. Chichel. et Reg. Lacye fol. i a.
'12 Pat. 5 Hen. V. m. 27.
43 Pat. 8 Hen. V. m. 25.
Reg. Chichel. fol. 29.
45Pat. SHen.V. m. 12. The privy seal addressed to the chan- cellor, commanding him to re- store the temporalities to Tho- mas Polton, bishop of Hereford, whom the pope had provided to that see, is dated " En nostre host devant Melon le 22^ jour de Septembre Ian de nostre regne oytisme."
46 Pat. 10 Hen.V. mm. 10, i.
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