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course possible that the bishop's birthplace may have been at one period in the York diocese, but now in that of Carlisle.

As to the arms of Bishop Story, it is more than probable that the Stories of Bingfield, Hexham, were of the same family as the bishop's. A Thomas Storye held lands in Bingfield as tenant, at a yearlie rent of 8s., v. Survey of Hexham Manor, p. 87, vol. iii., "History of Northumberland," edited by John Crawford Hodgson, F.S.A., 1899, published by Alexander Reid and Co., Limited, Newcastle-upon-Tyne. Thomas Storye was a copyholder in Wall Greaveship in 1608. This Thomas Storye, who appears to have had a second cousin Mark, was probably the son of Thomas Storye entered upon the Muster Roll of 1538.

According to the Athenæ Cantabrigiensis, the arms of Bishop Story were argent and sable, a pale counterchanged, three storks of the second.

There is no mention of the bishop in the Visitation of Yorkshire, by Richard Glover, "Somerset Herald," 1584-5, to which Visitation is added that of Sir Richard St. George, Knight, 1612. The Visitations of Cumberland and Westmorland, by Sir Richard St. George, contain not one Story entry. In Tonge's Visitation," 1530, the Arms of the Storey family, Northumberland, are given thus:-Quarterly, first and fourth per fesse; argent and sable, a pale counterchanged, on the first three herons of the second ; second and third paly of six, or, and gules on a chief argent, three lozenges of the second. The Storey crest is a heron sable; in its bill a snake gules.

A footnote says:- "Fo. 62b commences with a blank shield, of which the first and fourth quarters have been filled and blotted out. The nearest coat to the Storeys, in 'Glover's Ordinary,' is that of Arderne, while a similar coat to Arderne is that of Ellercar."

There is not anything genealogical in this last-named Visitation. The probability is that Bishop Story, whose will was proved in the Prerogative Court of Canterbury in 1503, copy of which is to be found in the Register Blamyre, Folio xxi., at Somerset House, had possessions outside his own diocese, and some of these possessions might easily be in the north parts. When Dr. Story was Bishop of Carlisle, he was several times appointed to treat with the Scottish Commissioners, very likely in respect to questions of ecclesiastical jurisdiction and secular matters in connection with the marches, East and West Eskdale, &c.

A few biographical notes may here prove synoptically appropriate at this juncture.

Edward Story, S.T.P., was admitted a Fellow of Pembroke Hall, Cambridge, about 1444; elected Master of Michael House (now Trinity College, Cambridge). In 1468, 8th Edward IV., he became Bishop of Carlisle, receiving the temporalities on the 1st September in the year named. His consecration took place in the following month at York (14th October). In 1471 he was appointed Chancellor of the University of Cambridge. He was Chaplain and Confessor to Queen Elizabeth (Woodville). He

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