T. STEPHENS.
Merthyr, Nov. 21. 1851.
[2] [Dayes' account of the above insurrection will be found in Kennett's History of England, vol. i. p. 595.—ED.]
Punishment of Prince Edward of Carnarvon (Vol. iv., pp. 338. 409.).
—MR. W. S. GIBSON will find further particulars of the offence and punishment of this prince in a paper by Mr. Blaauw on the recently discovered letters of Prince Edward, which is published in the second volume of the Sussex Archæological Collections. The offence appears to have been committed in May or June, 1305, and the minister was, as has been stated, Walter de Langton, Bishop of Lichfield and Coventry, the king's Treasurer, but in the letters called Bishop of Chester; a seeming discrepancy arising from the fact that the Bishops of Lichfield and Coventry were not unfrequently called Bishops of Chester at that period, which was two centuries before the present see of Chester was created.
W. S. W.
Middle Temple.
It may be as well to add a note to your two communications from MR. JOSEPH BURTT and R. S. V. P., that the Bishop of Chester, named by the former, is one and the same person with the Bishop of Lichfield and Coventry, named by the latter, as suggested by MR. FOSS; the two bishoprics being identical, and almost as often called by one title as by the other.
P. P. C.