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��on the morrow of the Feast of St. Thomas the Mar- tyr 95 (30th Dec.) 1253 '"'- ;uu ' proceeded to the King, who was then in Gascony, to be presented to him"". He was confirmed by tlie archbishop of Canterbury, then abroad with his majesty, z8th March 1254 and obtained the royal assent 1st April". His eon- cration also took place abroad 17th May 1 . He died 8th Aug. ; \i Id. An- 1258 at Netlinton, and was buried in Lincoln cathedral' 2 . The license to elect bishop Lexington's succ< ssor is dated 24th Aug. 1 258 ', and 1258 liiciiAiti) 1 de Gravesende, dean of Lincoln, was 4aH.HI. ehosen 30th Sept. [258*, and had the royal assent 13th Oct. 1 2 5S '. The temporalities were restored to him on the 17th of the same month?, and he was consecrated 3rd Nov. following 8 . He died (xv Cal. Jan.) 1 8th Deo. 1279 9 , and was buried in Lincoln cathedral. i'ho commission to the guardian of the spiritualities bears date v Id. Jan. (9th Jan.) 1 280-1. The license to elect a bishop in the room of Richard Gravesende is enrolled 1st Jan. J279-80 1 .
��Hereford ; but the chapter re- fused to comply on account of bis being a foreigner and not un- derstanding English, and more- over his being a very negligent bishop in the see over which he already presided.
In the Annales Winton. the election of Lexington is placed 1 ;th May.
96 Mart. Line, fob 5.
" Matt. Paris, et Matt. West.
98 Ibid.
99 Pat. 38 Hen. III. m. 4.
1 xvi Cal. Junii consecratus est in episcopum Lincolnien- sem electus Henricus de Lex- intona ab archiepiscopo Can- tuariensi Bonifacio in partibus transmarinis. Matt. Paris, ad an. i2,-,4.
��- vi [dus August] obiit episco- pus Lincolniensis, Henricus de Lexintona, apud Netlintoniam manerium suum (piod parutn distat a Lincolnia; et sepultum est corpus defuncti venerabiliter in cathedrali ecclesia Lincoln. (Matt. Paris ad an. 1258, et Line. Mart, fob 5. J Some writers place his death 18th Aug. 1258.
3 Pat. 42 Hen. III. m. 2.
4 God\vin,follo\vingMatt. Paris, erroneously calls him Benedictus.
6 Matt. Paris, ad ann. 6 Pat. 42 Hen. III. m. 2. " Ibid.
8 Reg. Peckham. fob 165.
9 Mart. Line, fob 6, et Reg, Decan. Lincoln, pars i. fob 56.
J o Pat. 8 Ed\ I. m. 27. '
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