Prolicionycion [sic]

¶ De Orientalibus episcopis willelmus ¶ Capitulum 54

OIt is knowen that the eeste saxons alwaye fro the begyn∣nyng to now were subget to the Bisshop of London But the Prouynce of eeste Angles that conteyneth Norfolke and suffolke had one Bisshop at donwyck The Bisshop heete Felyx and was of burgoyn and was bisshop xvij yere After hym thomas was bisshop fyue yere / After hym Boneface xvij / yere / Thenne bysy afterward was ordeyned by theodorus and rewlid the prouynce whyle he myght endure by hym self alone· After hym vnto egbertes tyme kyng of westsaxons an hondred / xliij / two bisshops rewled that / prouynce. one at donwyck & ano¦ther at elyngham / Netheles after ludecans tyme kyng of mercia lefte and was only one see at elyngham vnto the / fyfth / yere of

wiliam conquerour whan herfastus the / xxiij bisshop of the estre¦ne chaunged his See to Tetford. And his successour herebertus chaunged the See fro Tetford to norwiche by leue of kyng wil¦iam the Rede. the see of ely that is nygh therto the firste kynge harry ordeyned the ix yere of his regne and made subget therto Cambrigshyre that was to fore a parte of the bissoprich of Lyn∣colne And for quytyng therof he yaf to the bisshop of lyncoln a good toun callyd spaldyng