Navajo National Monument: Final General Management Plan; Environmental Impact Statement

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1870 edition. Excerpt: ...some censure by the removal of John Wicklifl'e from the headship of Canterbury Hall in Oxford, which was in consequence of the appointment having been Canterbury, and the king calls him his 'dear and' faithful friend.' (N. Fccdera, . iii. 932-070.) It is certain that he retained so much of the royal favour as to be permitted to hold various preferment at this time in England. Besides a prebend in the church of York, he was treasurer and archdeacon of Wells, and dean of Lincoln, his filling the latter place while a cardinal being the subject of a complaint to the parliament of April 1376. Rot. l'm-l. ii. 339.) It is stated that at this time he had applied for and procured permission to return to England, and that he projected the rebuilding of Westminster Abbey. But all his plans were frustrated by a paralytic stroke, which occasioned his death on July 22, 1376. He was first buried in the church of the Carthusian, monastery which he had founded in Avignon, and was three years afterwards removed to St. Benet's Chapel in Westminster Abbey, where his tomb still remains. He was a man of great capacity, wise, affable, temperate, and humble; and of his muui licence we have evidence in his benefactions to Westminster, so that it is probable that the ' railing hexameters' on his. translation from Ely to Canterbury--La-tcntur coeli, quia Simon transit ab Ely; Cujua in adventum flent in Kent millia centum, were rather the malicious effusion of an; individual enemy than the expression of popular feeling. (Godwin, 115, 261; Werner, 470; Le Neve, 6, 39, 44, 69; Angl. Sac. i. 46.) LANGLEY, or LONGLEY, Thomas (bishop Of Dt/rham), was descended from an honourable family in Yorkshire. He studied at Cambridge, and in his youth was a retainer of the house of..