47. Robert Waldby.
RObert Waldby Bishop of Chichester succéeded Thomas Arundell in Yorke.* 1.1 Being yet a yong man, hee followed Edward the Blacke Prince into France, where he continu∣ed long a Student, and profited so much, as no man in the Uniuersity where he liued (Tholous being notwithstanding an Oxford man also) might be compared with him for all kind of learning. He was a good Linguist, very well seene in Phi∣losophy, both naturall and morall, in Physicke, and the Ca∣non Law also; very eloquent, an excellent Preacher, and e∣steemed so profound a Diuine, as hee was thought méete to be the professor of Diuinity, or Doctor of the Chaire in the said Uniuersity. For these his good gifts he was much fauou∣red of the Blacke Prince first, then of K. Richard his sonne: and by their fauour obtained first a Bishopricke in Gascoign, (as Bale reporteth) but by an Antiquity that I ha••e seene; it appeareth he was first Bishop of the Isle of Man, whose stile is Episcophs Sodorensis, & his Epitaph saith, he was first prae∣sul Adurensis. From that first preferment whatsoeuer it was, he was translated, a. 1387. to the Archbishoprick of Dublin in Ireland; thence to Chichester, 1395. & the yeere following, be∣came an Archbishop once more, viz. of Yorke. There he sate not fully 3. yéeres but he died May 29. 1397 and was buried in Westminster almost in the middle of the Chappell of S.