He died in 1171, and was buried in the Cathedral before the high altar. Rudb. Hist. Maj. Wint. Ang. Sac. I. The Bishop left certain writings behind him: one concerning the discovery of King Arthur's monument at Glastonbury, which took place while he was Abbot there; another concerning the state of his Cathedral. These MSS. appear to have been extant in the time of Harpsfield. IV. RICHARD of ILCHESTER*, alias TOCLIVE, alias MORE. SUCCEEDED A. D. 1174.-DIED A. D. 1188-9. King Henry, after having kept this see vacant for some years, as he also had others, at length, at the request, as Bishop Godwin says, of certain Cardinals, permitted in 1173 the Monks of Winton to elect Richard of Ilchester, and he was accordingly, as Le Neve records, elected May 1. This Bishop was born in the diocese of Bath, (Radulph de Dicet, col. 540,) at Sok or Sock,† (Regist. Drokensf. Ep. B. & W.) and became Archdeacon of Poictiers. He was confirmed October 1, and consecrated at Lambeth the 6th, 1174, ('ordinatus et consecratus,' Annales Wint. See also Le Neve's Fasti. p. 285,) by the Archbishop of Canterbury, together with Robert, Bishop of Hereford, and Geoffry Bishop of Ely. (Benedict. Abbas. Petr, in Vit. Hen. II. p. 93.) Bishop Toclive had pursued a different conduct from his predecessor, in the famous controversy between the King and Thomas à Becket, and had taken so active a part against the persecuted Prelate, as to draw on himself the sentence of excommunication. Radulph Dicet Ymag. But the death of the latter brought about that peace and uniformity of sentiment in ecclesiastical matters which he could not procure in his life time. Toclive, after his promotion to the see, was constituted in 1176 justiciary of Normandy, in the room of William de Traco, Bromt. col. 1116, and in the parliament held It was under this name that he was excommunicated. + About three Miles from Yeovil, Somerset. Mordon and Hanniton for the payment of 53 marks per annum, and procuring them a discharge from the pension of 10 marks, two wax candles, and 10lbs. of wax, paid to the Monks of St. Swythun for the house of St. Cross, by composition between them and the brethren of St. Cross, made in the time of the Founder and the Bishop, moreover out of regard to God, and for the health of the King's soul and his own, (and because the revenues of the Hospital were sufficient for the maintenance of many more poor, and ought not to be converted to other uses as Wykeham represents to the Pope), orders, that beside the number instituted by the Founder, 100 additional poor should also be fed every day in the same manner at the Hospital. This agreement is dated April 10, 1185, and was made at Dover in the presence of the King and attested by him. This new institution of feeding 100 additional poor was not of long continuance, it had, ceased long before Wykeham's time; and instead of it, by what authority I cannot say, was introduced the establishment of 4 Priests, 13 secular Clerks, and 7 Choristers, who were maintained in the Hospital for the performance of divine service in the Church. The 4 Priests dined at the Master's table and had each a stipend of 13s. 4d. and the whole allowance to each was valued at £3. 6s. 8d. per annum, the 13 clerks had each daily a loaf of wheat bread, weight 61 shillings and 8 pence, (i. e. 2lb. 74oz. nearly, *or almost 24lb.) 3 quarts of beer, and one mess of flesh or fish of the brethren was allotted to two of them, value 10d. a week; the 7 choristers had each one loaf of the common family bread, and one mess, or the fragments of the Master's table and common hall, so as to have a sufficient provision value 5d. a week, and were taught at the school in the Hospital."-Lowth's Life of Wykeham, p. 65-72, Bishop Blois sat at Winton between 42 and 43 years. "Constat quælibet Libra ex xxv. solidis. Et sciendum, quod quælibet libra de denariís et speciebus, utpote in Electuariis, consistit solummodo ex pondere xx. 3. Libra vero omnium aliarum rerum consistit ex xxv. solidis." Tractat. De Pond. et Mensuris, 31 Ed. I. in Cay's statutes at large. Quaelibet libra ex poudere xxv. solid. Libra vero aurí, argenti, electuariorum et hujusmodi Apothecar. Confectorum, consistit solummodo ex pondere 20 solid. Sterlingorum." Fleta lib. 2, cap. 12. "Una libra ponderat pondus xxv. solidorum legalium Sterlingorum." MS. 54 Hen. IfI. From the Report of the Committee of the House of Commons to inquire into weights and measures, 1758. He died in 1171, and was buried in the Cathedral before the high altar. Rudb. Hist. Maj. Wint. Ang. Sac. I. The Bishop left certain writings behind him: one concerning the discovery of King Arthur's monument at Glastonbury, which took place while he was Abbot there; another concerning the state of his Cathedral. These MSS. appear to have been extant in the time of Harpsfield. IV. RICHARD of ILCHESTER*, alias TOCLIVE, alias MORE. SUCCEEDED A. D. 1174.-DIED A. D. 1188-9. King Henry, after having kept this see vacant for some years, as he also had others, at length, at the request, as Bishop Godwin says, of certain Cardinals, permitted in 1173 the Monks of Winton to elect Richard of Ilchester, and he was accordingly, as Le Neve records, elected May 1. This Bishop was born in the diocese of Bath, (Radulph de Dicet, col. 540,) at Sok or Sock,† (Regist. Drokensf. Ep. B. & W.) and became Archdeacon of Poictiers. He was confirmed October 1, and consecrated at Lambeth the 6th, 1174, (ordinatus et consecratus,' Annales Wint. See also Le Neve's Fasti. p. 285,) by the Archbishop of Canterbury, together with Robert, Bishop of Hereford, and Geoffry Bishop of Ely. (Benedict. Abbas. Petr, in Vit. Hen. II. p. 93.) Bishop Toclive had pursued a different conduct from his predecessor, in the famous controversy between the King and Thomas à Becket, and had taken so active a part against the persecuted Prelate, as to draw on himself the sentence of excommunication. Radulph Dicet Ymag. But the death of the latter brought about that peace and uniformity of sentiment in ecclesiastical matters which he could not procure in his life time. Toclive, after his promotion to the see, was constituted in 1176 justiciary of Normandy, in the room of William de Traco, Bromt. col. 1116, and in the parliament held • It was under this name that he was excommunicated. + About three Miles from Yeovil, Somerset. at Windsor, in 1179, 25 H. II. he was constituted one of the itinerant justices for Hants, Wilts, Gloucester, Dorset, Somerset, Devon, Cornwall, Berks, and Oxon, and afterwards by the same king chief justice of England. Dugdale records that he was justice itinerant for Hants and Devon, 1179, 25 H. II. Orig. Jurid. Chron. Scr. p. 3, and Hoveden, fol. 337. He endeavoured to improve the charitable institution of his predecessor at Sparkford, viz. the hospital of St. Cross, (Lowth's Life of Wykeham) but afterwards seems to have founded another upon a similar plan at an equal distance from the city, on the opposite side of it, dedicated to St. Mary Magdalen. See Milner's Hist. Wint. vol. 1. p. 226. Gale, in his MS. records that he gave to the church of Winton the manors of Ham and Groel, as Richardson, p. 217 quotes. Rudborne says, "qui mannerium de Hamme redemit et de Cnoel emit et suæ contulit ecclesiæ." The latter adds, "Sedit annis 17." This is incorrect; he sat but 14 years; for there is no question as to his succession in 1174, and the only discrepancy as to the period of his death is whether it took place in 1187-8, or 9. He died according to Gervase and Ralph Dicetensis, Jan. 22, 1188. Westminster and Florentius say 1187. His epitaph 1189. He was buried in the north side of the high altar near the choir. M.S. Gale. 'Infra Winam,' Godwin. The following is the inscription: "Prasulis egregii pausant hic membru Ricardi Bishop Toclive is mentioned in the will of Henry II. Testamenta vetusta. I. p. 2. vis & p. 3. Richard de Gravenell having given to the Priory of St. Mary Overy the tithes of the manor of Tooting, Surry, and the advowson of the church, the grant was confirmed by Richard [Toclive] Bishop of Winton.-Manning and Bray's Hist. Surry, III. 373. V. GODFREY DE LUCY. SUCCEEDED A. D. 1189.-DIED A. D. 1204. Son of Richard de Lucy, chief justice of England. Had been Dean of St. Martin's, London, (R. de Diceto.) Archdeacon of Derby, (Gervase Chron. f. 1459,) Canon of York, (Bromt. f. 1156,) and Justice Itinerant. (Hoved. f. 337.) He was nominated by the King at Pipewell, Sept. 15, 1189, (Dicet Ymag.) consecrated at Westminster, in St. Catherine's Chapel, Oct. 22. (ib. and Hoved.) The most important and useful of Bishop Lucy's acts to the city of Winchester and the neighbouring country, was his restoring the navigation of the river Itchen, not only from the port of Northam, the old Southampton, as far as Winchester, but also to the very head of the river, (Trussel's MS.) in the neighbourhood of Alresford, where, by raising a vast mole or head, he formed a great lake, now called Alresford Pond, by which means a large tract of marshy land thereabouts was drained, and a reservoir of water provided for supplying the navigation. This expensive work, which shews the greatness of Bishop Lucy's genius, as well as of his beneficence, was not finished till the beginning of the following reign, when he obtained for himself and his successors the royalty of the said river from the above-mentioned lake down to the sea, which the latter still enjoy: also a charter for collecting certain duties on this navigation. He likewise purchased of the King the manors of Wargrave and Menes, for the benefit of his cathedral, which had belonged to it before they were alienated by the Conqueror, (Hoved.) and for himself and the future Bishops of this See, the custody of the royal castle, with the dignity and rights of EARL OF WINCHESTER. (Ib.) Of these, however, he was subsequently dispossessed by the King. "Dissaisivit Godefridum Wintoniensem Episcopum de Castello et comitatu Wintoniæ." Ib. Bishop Lucy however did not neglect the duties that more immediately belonged to his station. He completed and greatly enlarged the Priory of Lesne or Westwood, in Kent, which had been established by his father, and he performed such repairs and works in his cathedral here, as to merit being enrolled among its principal founders. |