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Archaeologia Cantiana -  Vol. 1  1858  page 68

Autograph Letter of William of Wykeham.
By Charles Wyekham Martin, Esq., M.P.

of as he should please. And, if he found the King of England courteous and liberal as to his ransom, he was very willing that Wykeham should have this bishopric. The Duke, upon this, returned to France, and afterwards to England, where he entered into a treaty with the King for his ransom, showing at the same time his Bull from the Pope. The King, who loved "Wykeham very much, did whatever he desired. The Duke had his liberty on paying twenty thousand francs,1 and Sir William Wykeham was made Bishop of Winchester and Chancellor of England."2
   The latter portion of this narrative will receive still further elucidation from the following short extract from Lowth (p. 46), which shows more fully the issue of the rival pretensions of. the Pope and the King:—"However, in the present case it seems to have been agreed that each party should in some measure allow the pretensions of the other. Accordingly the Pope's Bull of July 14, 1367, before mentioned, in which he refers to the Bull of Provision, is nevertheless directed to William, Bishop elect of Winchester; and on the other hand, the King, in his Letters Patent of the 12th of October, 1367, by which he grants him the temporalities of the bishopric, acknowledges him Bishop of Winchester by the Pope's provision, without mentioning his election. He was enthroned in the Cathedral church of Winchester, by William de Askeby, Archdeacon of Northampton, by commission from the Cardinal-Archdeacon of Canterbury's Procurator-General, on the 9th of July, 1368, who acknowledges him Bishop of Winchester by election, confirmation, and consecration, without any mention at all of the Pope's provision."
   This brief sketch of the transactions of which the letter from William of Wykeham to Lord Cobham
   1 This is not correct; the sum was forty thousand crowns, as will be
seen afterwards. 
    2 Johnes's Froissart, iii. 385

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