William Wittlesey.
SImon Islip was vncle vnto a young man named William Wittlesey,* 1.1 whom he caused carefully to bee brought vp, & directed vnto the study of the Canon law. Hauing at Oxford procéeded Doctor in that faculty, his vncle (that now was be∣come Archb.) sent him to Rome, that there he might both so∣licite all his causes, and also get experience by séeing the pra∣ctise of that Court. After he had stayed there a while, hée was called home and preferred by his vncle aforesaid, vnto the place of vicar generall, then to the Deanry of the Arches, the Archdeaconry of Huntingdon, the Parsonages of Croydon & Clyff, and lastly, the Bishopricke of Rochester. From Ro∣chester he was remoued to Worcester, (his vncle yet liuing and ioying much in this his aduancement) the yéere, 1363. From thence some say he was translated to London; but that I take to be mistaken. Simō Sudbury was Bishop of London before he came to Worcester, and so continued till that after his death he succéeded him in Canterbury. Thither this man was aduanced by the Popes onely authority presently after Simon Langham was made Cardinal, viz. the yéer 1368. At two seuerall synods hée preached in Latine very learnedlie; The latter of those sermons he could hardly end for sicknesse, wherewith he had béen so much troubled before, as for two yéers space he was faine to kéepe his chamber almost altoge∣ther. Not being able to resist the force of this tedious wea∣ring disease any longer, he paid the debt of his mortality. Oc∣tob. 11. (or as T. Walsingham hath Iul. 5) 1374. hauing con∣tinued in this sée almost 7. yéers. He was buried ouer against his vncle betwéen two pillers, vnder a faire marble toomb in∣laide