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Chronicles of the Reigns of Edward I and II Volume 2

The Chronicles of the Reigns of Edward I and Edward II, Volume 2, comprising A Sorrowful Commendation on King Edward, the Life of Edward II by a Monk of Bridlington, Life of Edward II by a Monk of Malmesbury and Life of Edward by Thomas de la More, presents a rich collection of medieval English chronicles illuminating the political, military, ecclesiastical and social upheavals of the late thirteenth and early fourteenth centuries. The volume offers contemporary and near-contemporary accounts of the reigns of Edward I and Edward II, a period marked by war with Scotland, conflict between Crown and nobility, disputes over royal government, ecclesiastical tensions, rebellion, deposition and civil violence. Particular attention is given to the struggle surrounding Piers Gaveston, Thomas of Lancaster and the Despensers, as well as the turbulent final years of Edward II and the political circumstances that shaped the early reign of Edward III. These chronicles are especially valuable for their vivid narrative detail. They preserve speeches, political arguments, descriptions of battles and executions, accounts of parliaments and royal councils, reports of diplomatic missions, ecclesiastical controversies, prodigies and natural events, and contemporary judgements on the conduct of kings, magnates and churchmen. Written from differing institutional and regional perspectives, the texts reveal not only what happened but how medieval observers interpreted events, often through ideas of divine judgement, legitimate kingship, loyalty, treason and moral retribution. An important primary-source collection for readers interested in Edward I, Edward II, medieval politics, the Scottish wars, the baronial opposition, the fall of Edward II, church history and fourteenth-century England, Volume 2 provides an indispensable window into one of the most turbulent periods of the English Middle Ages.

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Bishop Walter Scammel -1286

On 9th September 1271 Bishop Walter Scammel was elected Dean of Salisbury.

Annals of Dunstable. In the same year died the bishop of Salisbury1, who had been blind for seven years; and the dean2 of that church succeeded him.

Eodem anno obiit episcopus Sarisburiensis, qui per septennium cæcus fuit; et successit ei decanus dictæ ecclesiæ.

Note 1. Bishop Robert Wickhampton, died on the 24th April 1284.

Note 2. Bishop Walter Scammel, died between 20th and 25th September 1286.

On 26th June 1284 Bishop Walter Scammel was elected Bishop of Salisbury.

Annals of Dunstable. In the same year Brother John [aged 54], archbishop of Canterbury, visited the diocese of Lincoln for the first time. And on the feast of Saint Luke [18th October 1284] he turned aside to Dunstable for the purpose of visitation. And since he found everything there in good order, because the bishop of Lincoln had quite recently visited that house, he nevertheless stayed there one night. And he received from that monastery for his procuration four marks; and he departed. Also, to a certain canon of Dunstable who had incurred irregularity, the said archbishop gave the cross, and by the authority granted to those signed with the cross absolved the said canon from that irregularity, provided that on the first expedition he should make redemption of it, so far as he might be able to obtain the money from his own chamber or also from his friends, without loss to the monastery. On the following Sunday [22nd October 1284] the said archbishop consecrated Walter Scammel as bishop of Salisbury, namely in one of the manors1 of that bishop near Reading. Also, the inspection of our privileges concerning the appropriation of churches the same archbishop then postponed."

Eodem anno, frater Johannes, Cantuariensis archiepiscopus, primo visitavit Lincolniensem diocesim. Et die Sancti Lucæ apud Dunstaple causa visitationis divertit. Cumque ibi omnia prospere reperisset, eo quod Lincolniensis episcopus quasi recenter domum illam visitasset, una tamen nocte ibidem pernoctavit. Et recepit ab illo monasterio pro procuratione sua quatuor marcas; et discessit. Item, cuidam canonico de Dunstaple, qui irregularitatem contraxerat, dictus archiepiscopus dedit crucem, et auctoritate cruce signatis indulta, dictum canonicum ab ipsa irregularitate absolvit. Ita quod in prima expeditione faceret inde redemptionem, quatenus assequi posset pecuniam a sua propria camera, seu etiam ab amicis, sine monasterii læsione. Dominica proxima sequenti dictus archiepiscopus Walterum Scamal in episcopum Sarisburiensem Salisbury, consecravit; videlicet, in quodam manerio ipsius episcopi juxta Redingges. Item, inspectionem privilegioleges as to rum nostrorum super appropriatione ecclesiarum, idem archiepiscopus ad tunc posuit in respectum.

Note 1. The manor of Sunning, aka Sunninghill, in Berkshire.

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On 22nd October 1284 Bishop Walter Scammel was consecrated Bishop of Salisbury by Archbishop John Peckham [aged 54]. See Annals of Dunstable.

On 4th January 1285 Bishop Walter Scammel was enthroned Bishop of Salisbury.

Between 20th and 25th September 1286 Bishop Walter Scammel died.