. The English Dominicans. Graunger, my chaplain aforesaid. By whosewitness I append my seal at Clatford, the thirteenth day ofthe month of August, one thousand three hundred and ninety-four, the fifth year of our episcopal consecration. ^ The Notary of Probate at Canterbury adds that : In thememory of man the custom is peaceably and continuallyobserved, rightly and lawfully prescribed, w^hereby the Arch-bishop of Canterbury for the time being receiveth from theeffects of each Bishop of St. Asaph, who sleepeth in the Lord,his pontifical ring, his best oblong seal, his best palfrey,riding-cloak,
. The English Dominicans. Graunger, my chaplain aforesaid. By whosewitness I append my seal at Clatford, the thirteenth day ofthe month of August, one thousand three hundred and ninety-four, the fifth year of our episcopal consecration. ^ The Notary of Probate at Canterbury adds that : In thememory of man the custom is peaceably and continuallyobserved, rightly and lawfully prescribed, w^hereby the Arch-bishop of Canterbury for the time being receiveth from theeffects of each Bishop of St. Asaph, who sleepeth in the Lord,his pontifical ring, his best oblong seal, his best palfrey,riding-cloak, saddle, bridle, and buskins which the aforesaidBishop hath himself used—wherefore theSe, all and every,belonging to the above-mentioned Lord Alexander, Bishop of ^ In 1399 Thomas Arundel, Archbishop of Canterbury, commanded thebishops of reg-ular clerg-y to appear in Parliament dressed in their reli-g-ious habits and not in costume of secular bishops. ^ Willis, Survey of S. Asaphs, p. 211, and Wills, , 2tZ [To face p. 120 1Ro\?al Contessors 121 St. Asaph, lately deceased, were received by the most reverendfather m Christ, my Lord Archbishop that now is. But it cannot be said that all these royal confessors andambassadors behaved quite as properly as they should havedone. Nicholas of Wisbeach was at one time a person ofsome standing, a Dominican friar in whom Edward II putvery great trust. As late as 1318 he was considered fit enoughto be sent by the King- to the Duke of Brabant to bring back agold cross and some jewels which Edward, his father, had lent(pawned ?) to John, late Duke of Brabant, and which wererequired for the coronation. The letters of recommendation tothe Provincial of France or to Bernard Guidonis speak highlyof Wisbeachs character.^ In February 1319 he returned fromthe Pope and was then spoken of as a religious man and ourbeloved in Christ, for whom the King petitioned the officeof Penitentiary.^ By 8 June there was evidently some sus-picion in
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