[A.D. 1375, trans. to St. David’s 1389.] JOHN GILBERT; was translated to Hereford from Bangor. In 1386 he was Treasurer of England.
[A.D. 1389-1404.] JOHN TREVENANT: sent on an embassy to Rome by Henry IV. in 1400.
[A.D. 1404-1416.] ROBERT MASCALL: had been a Carmelite friar at Ludlow; whence he proceeded to Oxford, and there, by his learning, attracted the notice of Henry IV., who employed him on various embassies. He built great part of the church of the Carmelites in London, where he was buried. Bishop Mascall was present with Bishop Hallam of Salisbury, at the Council of Constance, 1415, 1416.
[A.D. 1417, trans. to Exeter 1420.] EDMUND LACY. (See EXETER CATHEDRAL, Pt. II.)
[A.D. 1420, trans. to Chichester 1421.] THOMAS POLTON, Dean of York. From Chichester he passed to Worcester in 1426.
[A.D. 1422-1448.] THOMAS SPOFFORD, Abbot of St. Mary’s at York; to which monastery he returned in 1448, having resigned his see. “The record of his abdication is printed in Rymer’s _Fœdera_, vol. x. p. 215: in Wilkins’s _Concilia_, vol. iii. p. 538, is a writ of pardon for abdicating in favour of his successor, who was to allow him one hundred pounds yearly out of the revenues. The Pope testified by his bull that Spofford had expended on the buildings of his cathedral upwards of two thousand eight hundred marks[53].” No part of the cathedral itself can be of Bishop Spofford’s time; but possibly he erected the cloisters.
[A.D. 1449, trans. to Salisbury 1450.] RICHARD BEAUCHAMP. For this Bishop, one of the best architects of his time,--the superintendent of the works at St. George’s Chapel, Windsor,--see SALISBURY CATHEDRAL, Pt. II.
[A.D. 1451, trans. to Lichfield 1453.] REGINALD BOULERS, Abbot of Gloucester.
[A.D. 1453-1477.] JOHN STANBERY, translated to Hereford from Bangor. Bishop Stanbery was born at Stanbery, in the parish of Morwenstow, on the north coast of Cornwall; and bequeathed a “cross of silver gilt” to his baptismal church there. “He was bred,” says Fuller, “a Carmelite in Oxford, and became generally as learned as any of his order, deserving all the dignity which the University did or could confer on him. King Henry the Sixth highly favoured, and made him the first Provost of Eton; being much ruled by his advice in ordering that, his new foundation. He was by the King designed Bishop of Norwich, but William de la Pole, Duke of Suffolk, got it from him for his own chaplain, and Stanbery was fain to stay his stomach on the poor bishopric of Bangor, till, anno 1453, he was advanced Bishop of Hereford[54].” The Bishop was faithful to Henry VI. throughout his adversity, but was taken prisoner after the battle of Northampton, (July, 1460,) and was long confined in Warwick Castle. After his release he retired to the Carmelite monastery at Ludlow, and died there in May, 1474. He was interred in his own cathedral, in the chantry which he had built and endowed during his life. (Pt. I. § XIV.)