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Excerpt from Register of the Rectors, Fellows, and Other Members on the Foundation of Exeter College, Oxford: With a History of the College and Illustrative Documents
He soon obtained high place under Edward II, was a collector of the Tenth imposed on the clergy in 1318 (close Rolls 11. 551, 555, Treasurer 18 Feb. 135-3 and again 9 May 1322, after an interval of rest granted at his own request 1. In 1324 he held Cornwall against the chance of a French invasion he accompanied young Edward to France 9 Sep. 1325 when the prince went to do homage for Guienne, and probably saw enough to convince him that Queen Isabella was plotting against her husband. He had remonstrated strongly with the King about the Despensers, but when the revolution broke out the bishop was left by Edward, 2 Oct. 1326, in charge of London, and was murdered in Cheapside 15 Oct. 1326. The bishop of Exeter, riding towards his inn in Eldedeanes-lane [warwick Lane] for dinner, en countered the mob and, hearing them shout Traitor, rode rapidly to S. Paul's for sanctuary, but was unhorsed and taken to Cheapside, stript and beheaded. William Walle, and John Padyngton his steward, met with the same fate. About the hour of vespers the same day the choir of S. Paul's took up the headless body of the prelate and conveyed it to S. Paul's but, on being informed that he died under sentence, the body was brought to S. Clement's beyond the Temple, but was ejected; so that the naked corpse, with a rag given by the charity of a woman, was laid on a spot called 'le Lawles Chirche' and, without any grave, lay there with those of his two esquires.
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