[559] Some have thought that the bishop’s town house stood by the Fort, and that the said stones might belong to that edifice, which must be a mistake, as it appears, from old records, that that house stood by St. Nicholas’s chapel to the west, which must be about where Dr. Redferne or Mr. T. Allen’s house now stands.—That the bishop had a house here in the time of Henry III. appears, according to Parkin, from Plita Corona apd. Lenn, 41 of that reign. “This same house seems to be alluded to afterwards, in Plita Assis. Norw. 4. Hen. IV. when it was found, that John Wentworth, mayor of Lenne Episcopi, and the commonalty, had unjustly disseized Henry, bishop of Norwich, of his free tenement here, 100 acres of land, and 20 acres of pasture, he being seized of it in right of his church,” &c. From this it would appear, that Wentworth was not on good terms with the said bishop, which may account for his competitor, Pettipas, advising his friends to seek his lordship’s interference; and it appears from his Letters, that the bishop was favourable to him and, hostile to Wentworth.—Parkin 155.—also Mr. K’s MS.
[560] Parkin 141.
[561a] Parkin, 152.
[561b] Ib. 165.
[562] Parkin, 125.
[563a] The author is sometimes ready to suspect that the two anchorages, mentioned in some of the foregoing pages, were in fact no other than the lodges or retreats of some anchorets, though he has there given the word a different explanation. (see p. [507].)
[563b] Parkin, 142.
[564a] Beaut. of England, xi. 23.
[564b] Parkin, 140.
[564c] See p. 453.