82 LINCOLN.
AY ii i.i wi Hiioi k i bhubst Stonehouse, LL.D., the pro- sent holder of thie dignity, was collated 14th Sept. 1844, vice Henry Vincent Bayley.
This dignity is rated for first fruits at :;,/. 17*. S\d. '
��PRECENTORS.
Guebno was the first that enjoyed this proferment, being instituted by the founder, bishop Remigius, about ic -
II \ 1 rn enjoj ed it about 1146 41 .
Rogeh pi Derbi held the office about 1 14s 5 -.
Richard D'Ai mum held it aboul 1 156 ' ' and in 1 1 11.- was also archdeacon of Lincoln.
\\ v. 1 1 1 i. M \ri from this dignity was remored to the
archdcacciiirv nf Oxford in in/)".
William i>i Bleys, tubdean of L was substi-
tuted in Mape's place in 1196, and in 12c; he was made bishop "I this w 1
Petes di Rupibus held the dignity in ] 103 and 1 204 ' he held it in 1 206, and became bishop of Winchester,
Geoffrei m Defing enjoyed it in 1211. and died
about 1 224 i: .
John p ssed it in 1226 48 and 1234.
William m Bldnd held it in 1243 and 1:4
P] 1 1 1; d] A 1 mi am held it in 1 25c
Robert ii Bedford was precentor during the episco- pacy of Henrj Lexington, between 1253 and 1258.
William di Lessington or Lexington from tin- dignity was made dean of this cathedra] in [263* 1 .
��:t; ' Ecton, p. 167. Pat. 6 Job. p. 43. m. 11.
- " Angl. S b ii. p. 695. 4 " Chron. < ten. MS. Cott. p.
41 Ibid, ei Hen. Huntingdon. 17.2.
1 tol. Abbat. de Thame. Mod. AngL torn. ii. p.88l.
MS. Ckrtt. Julius, vi, vii. f. 235. 4 '-' Reg. M gn. MS. f.ia.
< !artul. ut supra. [bid. para ii. p. 35.
44 R. de Dicet. col. - M Chron. Osen. MS. Cott. f.
Ibid.
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