ⁿ Ibid. p. 57. It appears by Bishop Hatfield's Register, that he was cited to reside March 6th, 1372. He appears to have been instituted on the presentation of King Ed∣ward III. on account of the vacancy of the see of Carlisle, the last of August 1374, as we learn from the same register, p. 78.

He occurs as vicar of Newcastle in 1378.—Blome's Norfolk, vol. i. p. 620.

In the above bishop's register, p. 152, is the following: "Commissio episcopi ad com∣pellend' parochianos ad solvend' 5 marcas Episcopo Letchlinensi suffraganeo episcopi pro reconciliatione ecclesiae Sancti Nicholai Novi Castri 8 Januar' 1378."

I know not what authority the MS. Life of Barnes has for saying, that Wickliff, the famous reformer, "had been long since at Newcastle upon Tyne."—He was born about the beginning of the 14th century, at Wickliff, in Yorkshire, and died 31st December, 1384.