in shops. 249
archbishop 15th Jan. 1 4256 <J -, on which day the temporalities were restored to him'". He died about All Hallowtide in 1440. A conge d'elire vice bishop Welles issued 1 7 1 1 1 N < > \ . 1440 ' .
The archdeacon and chapter of Llandaff, by their letter dated the last da\ <>f Feb. 1440-1, inform the King of the death of John Walles their late bishop, and that they had postulated in hi> stead Nicholas Ashby, prior of Westminster, and they pray his Ma- jesty to assent thereto 95 . Notwithstanding this pro- ceeding <>f the chapter, the Pope had already pro- moted the same 1441 Nicholas Ashby, by bull dated (xiii Cal. Mar.) 17th Hen. VI. Feb. 144041 '"'. The King restored the temporalities to him 15th April following", and he made his. pro- fession of obedience to the archbishop :4th M;i\ He died in Aug. 1 45 cS . 1458 John HuNDKN, S.T.P., was appointed by papal provi- Uen.VI. s j ()I1 . ;,,,,! obtained the temporalities 2 5th Aug. 145S
He resigned his see about June 1476 ', and 1476 John Smith, S.T.P., was appointed thereto by the Edw.iv. Pope; he obtained license 17th July 1476 to be con- secrated without being obliged to go to Canterbury for that purpose. He received the temporalities 1 ith Sept. following-'; and died 29th Jan. 1477-8, and was buried in the chapel of All Saints, annexed to the church of the Friars Minors, London ; . [478 John Marshall, S.T.D., became bishop ofLlandaff by Edw.IV. papal provision 4 ; and obtained the temporalities from
��y-' Reg. Chichel. fol. 39. 9S Reg. Chichel. fol. 56.
9a Pat. 4 Hen.VI. p. 1. m. 12. " Pat. 36 Hen. VI. p. 2. m. 4.
94 Pat. 19 Hen.VI. p.i. m.16. ' Pat. 16 Edw. IV. p. 1. m. 10.
95 Orig. in Turr. Lond. Re- 2 Ibid.
ginald Boulers, abbot of Glou- 3 MS. Cott. Vitel. F. xii. 273.
cester, was offered the see on the Registrum eorum, qui sepeliun-
death of bishop Welles, but re- tur in ecclesia et capellis fra-
fused it. Willis' Llandaff, 216. trum minorum London.
96 Reg. Chichel. 4 The license for his conse- 9 ~ Pat. 19 Hen.VI. p. 3. in. 35. cration "extra ecclesiam Can-
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