corrector of the then reputed heretickes,Ve Fox Martyrs Vol. 1 595. Ve there for his proceedings there and note that his effigies is transferred thither out of the orig[ina]ll Register book. Ve. of sentence it selfe it was a cleere matter of tenure. 2 H. 4. 10 b. a note of a c[a]s[e] between him & Hanford Justice touching a prohib[itio]n. in 14 E. 3. [Ve Lord Hollis Juris[dicti]on of the peers pag. 50] Sr. Edw. Coke in his chapter of the chancery citeth the first decree that euer he observed & in the m[ar]gine he sayth that William Courtney sonn of H[ugh] Earle of Deuon was then B[isho]p of Cant: & Lord Chanc[ello]r 4 Just. 83 in his Just. 553 he seemes to contradict it. But I doe find in Mr. Seldens Catalogue of the Chancery that he was Lord Chancellor when B[isho]p of London by 4 Ric. 2. but according to the Catalogue he did not long continue in the office & therewith agreeth Sr. Wm. Dugdale and they both cite the Records for it although Philpot in his Catalogue of Chanc[ello]r[s] be to the contrary & by him it should seem that the then B[isho]p of London who was Lord Chanc[ello]r was Braybroke whose body was found to be in a maruellous manner nothw[i]thstanding the great length of tyme and exposed to veiw out of the Ruines of Pauls Church after the dreadful conflagration of London & was seen by me and by multitudes of others. against whome he obtained strict Comissions in Pat. 6 R. 2 pt. 1 & Pat. 8 R. 2 pt. 1 & Pat. 17 R. 2 pt. 2 m. 6 R. 2 in Esch. 20 R. 2 no. 17Cott. Abr. Ve. 16 R. 2 no. 20 His admirable p[ro]testation in Parl[iamen]t ag[ains]t the popes authority. Ve. Jurisd. Parl. Vind. Pag. 90. Ve Pryn Regn. Parl. pt. 4 fo. 826 in m[ar]gine. The Apparitor of the Archb[isho]p serving a citation at Toppesham in Deuon ag[ains]t the B[isho]p of Exon forced to eat the citation & seale thereof for w[hi]ch the B[isho]p of Exon seriously & severely punished a[n]no 1390. Ve MS. Trin. 20 E. 34.b. un Nota. Sr. H. Spilm[an] Verbo. Concellar followeth the same guess as P. but the Record of Parlt. putteth all out of doubt 5 R.2 no. 2 w[he]n Wm. Court. elect & confirmed Chancellor of England declares the causes of the Parliam[en]t. Fuller out of Walsingham who was born before the other was buryed conierbis this Archb[isho]p was a Cardin[a]ll & cites Ci[t]acon. & occupier (to proue it) who say that a B[isho]p of London was about that tyme Card[ina]ll but mistake Adam for Wm. Full. Worthyes 252. He lyeth entombed in the Cathedrall Church att Canterbury on the south side of the late famous shrine of Thomas Beckett aboue the high Altar. Jut Ichnograph Monast. Angl. 1. Fo. 18, 19. Ve. plura de v. in scriptdecem tit. Willielmus Courtney & c. judice ve. fo. Supiori in m[ar]gine B. Devon Iuratores dicunt sup sacramentu. suum quod Willielmus de Courtneye nup Archiepiscopus Cantuariensis obiit die lune ppine.In 11 R. 2 this Archb[isho]p made the memorable p[ro]test for the clergy touching their absence from the parliament in cases of treason, w[hi]ch see Cott. Abr. fo. 322. Ve also 4 Just. 45. Jan. Angl. 95. 2 Inst. 586 Seld. Pirb. Bar. 121 Seld. Tit. Hon. 582 and the late treatises written upon the reviving of the question in the case of Tho: Earl of Danby in the tyme of Car. 2. ante festum Sancti Petri ad vincula sine herede de corpore suo exeunte & quod Edwardo Courtnei fratre euisdem Willielmi filiorum Hugonis Courtney nup Comitis Deuon & Margarete uxoris eius exiit Edwardus Courtney qui nunc est Comes Deuon & quod est filius et heres dicti Edwardi & estatis 40ta annorum & this William dyed siesed of diuers lands which descended to this Edward as his cousin & heire.