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��Thetford ; he was nominated by the King on Christ- mas-day 1085 n , and consecrated at Canterbury in 1086 >-'. 1 1. died in 1091.
��BISHOPS OF NORWICH. 1091 Herbert, surnamed Losinga i; from his skill in adu- WilLll. lation, from being abbot of Ramsey, purchased the bishopric of Thetford. On his return from Koine, (whither he had been to resign the Btaff and ring ho had acquired by simony, and which the Pope restored to him,) he removed th from Thetford to Nor-
wich, a town celebrated for its trade and populous- ness 44 . He died 22nd July (xi Oal. Aug.) 1 1 19 , and was buried in his own cathedral ". 1121 Eveeaed or Ebeeard, archdeacon of Salisbury, suc- 1 Hon. I. ceeded to the seo of Norwich, and was consecrated
1 2th June 1 1 21 '". lie resigned it in 1 145 ls . 1146 William, surnamed Trum s, prior of Norwich, was 1 Steph. consecrated bishop of Norwich in 1146 49 , and died
i6th Jan. (xvii Kal. Feb.) 1 174-5 50 . 1 1 75 John of Oxfoed, dean of Salisbury, was elected 26th ! lien. 11. Nov., and consecrated 14th Dec. (xix Gal. Jan.) 1 175 31 . He died 2nd June 1 200 '-.
��fago ;" also William Welson : " promovit clericum suum Wil- lielmum Bewfewe ad episcopa- tum East Anglia? post mortem Arfasti." Mon. Angl. torn. i. p. 407.
41 Flor. AVigorn.
42 Sax.Chron.etSim. Dunelm.
43 Herbertus eognomento Lo- singa, quod ei ars adulationis impegerat, ex abbate Ramesiensi emit episcopatum Thetforden- sem. Malmes. Gest. Reg. lib. iv. 338.
44 Ibid.
45 Flor. AVigorn. et Walt. Co- ventr. ; but, according to Sim.
��Dunelm., xi Kal. Feb. (22ndJan.) 1119.
46 See Brev. Chron. Norwic. MS. Cott. Vitel. C. 9.
4 " Flor. Wigorn. et Walt. Co- ventr.
48 He died 15th Oct. 1149. This bishop divided the archdea- conry of Suffolk, which extended over the whole of that county, into two archdeaconries.
49 Gerv. ad ann.
50 Ymag. Hist, et Contin. Flor. AVigorn.
5 * Rad. de Dicet. M Hoved. fob 458.
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