An abridgement of the book of acts and monuments of the ChurchAn abridgement of the booke of acts and monumentes of the Church

In the days of this Lanfrancus, Archb. of Canterbury, anno 1076. §1076divers bishops seats were altered from townships, to great cities:¹ as, of Sealesey, to Chichester: out of Cornwall, to Exeter: from Welles, to Bath: from Shireburne ⟨p. 135⟩to Salisbury, from Dorchester to Lincoln, from Lichfield to Chester. Which bishopric of Chester, Robert then B. reduced from Chester to Coventry. Likely it is also, that the sea of the archbishop was translated from Dover to Canterbury, or that Canterbury in old time had the name of Dorobernia: as doth by diverse testimonies appear.

In the daies of this Lanfrancus, Archb. of Canterburie, anno 1076. §1076diuers bishops seates were altered from townships, to great cities:¹ as, of Sealesey, to Chichester: out of Cornwall, to Exceter: from Welles, to Bath: from Shireburne ⟨p. 135⟩to Salisburie, from Dorcester to Lincolne, frō Lichfield to Chester. Which bishoprike of Chester, Robert then B. reduced from Chester to Couentrie. Likely it is also, that the sea of the archbishop was translated from Douer to Canterbury, or that Canterbury in old time had the name of Dorobernia: as doth by diuerse testimonies appéere.

1. 1Bishops seats altered from from towns to great cities.Bishops seates altered from from townes to great cities.

In the 9. year of this kings reign, by the procurement of Lanfrancus, was a council holden at London: where among other things it was first enacted,