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Excerpt from Visitations of Churches Belonging to St. Paul's Cathedral, 1249-1252: Edited From Original Manuscripts
The venerated Bishop Roger Niger, canonised by popular acclamation, had passed to his rest on Michaelmas Day, 1241. For three years the Sec of London was allowed to remain vacant, and was at length filled by Fulk Basset, a nobleman of old Norman blood, of whom Dean Milman has much to say in his Annals of Fulk, Lord Basset, of Wycombe, was a baron by tenure. He had been Provost of Beverley and Dean of York, and was consecrated Bishop of London in. 1244. He was a firm supporter of the national party, and certainly no lover of the proud prelate who ruled the province with a rod of iron. Boniface, a son of Thomas, Count of Savoy, was enthroned at Canterbury on All Saints' Day, 1249; Queen Eleanor of England, daughter of his sister Beatrice (herself the mother of four queens), was present at the gorgeous ceremonial.c He soon resolved to make a visitation of his province, a scheme which encountered a determined, though useless, resistance. AS part of his plan, he gave notice that he would visit St. Paul's Cathedral. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
