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VVIlliam Button 〈◊〉〈◊〉 of Welles and nephew [ 1267] to the former William Button, obtained this Bi∣shopricke the yéere 1267. A man so greatly ac∣counted of for his holinesse (saith Matthew Paris) as when Robert Killwardby Archbishop of Canterbury had licence of the Pope to take consecration at the hand of any Catholique
Bishop; he made choice of him, only in respect of his holinesse. He made many good statutes by which our Church is yet go∣uerned: Amongst other things, he ordained foure generall Chapter daies in the yeere, at which onely times, such things should be ordred as might 〈◊◊〉〈◊◊〉. It were greatly to be wished, that all other Churches were to obserue the same or∣der. He deceased in the moneth of Nouember 1274. Many 〈◊〉〈◊〉 people (especially such as were troubled with the tooth ake) were woont (euen of late yeeres) to frequent much the place of his 〈◊〉〈◊〉, being without the North side of the 〈◊〉〈◊〉, where we see a Marble stone, hauing a 〈◊〉〈◊〉 image grauen vpon it. He gaue vnto our Church the mannor of Bicknaller.