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officiated at the funeral of Edward IV., 27th April, 1483, being then Bishop of Chichester, to which See, anciently Selsey, he had been translated in *l477. Dr. Story was a witness of the creation of Prince Arthur as Prince of Wales and Earl of Chester, 29th November, 1490. (See Campbell's Materials, p. 541). The bishop, who practically re-established and endowed the Prebendal School and founded the beautiful Market Cross at Chichester, departed this life on the 29th January, 1502. His will was proved at Canterbury on the 27th of the following March.

The remains of the bishop were buried under a large incised marble on the north side of the altar, but some years afterwards the tomb was removed into the nave of the Cathedral.

The Register of Bishop Story within the Cathedral of Chichester, does not deal with any personal matters, appertaining to the bishop, from what Prebendary Bennett of the said Cathedral writes concerning it.

Efforts have not been wanting in order to ascertain particulars relating to the learned bishop during the time he was Master of Michael House. On application being made to the Registry of the University of Cambridge in March, 1907, the Deputy Registrar, Mr. B. Benham, placed himself in communication with Mr. W. Aldis Wright-Fellow of Trinity College, and his reply was as follows:-We have, unfortunately, no documents relating to Michael House except O'Conyngham's Survey, and some conveyances of property. What became of the rest I cannot imagine. They cannot have been all destroyed. One, I know, is in the Bodleian Library. It is mentioned in Warton's ''History of English Poetry." I wish I could help the enquirer. As will be presently seen, Dr. Story evidently held the benefice of All Hallows in London, and subsequently became confessor to Queen Elizabeth, (Elizabeth Woodville).

"The History of Framlingham" by Robert Hawes (begun by him) additions and notes by Robert Loder, 1798, states that "Edward" Story of the Diocese of York, Fellow of Pembroke College, acolythus, sub-deacon and deacon 1468, and president of St. Michael's Hostle (now Trinity College, Cambridge) Chancellor of the University of Cambridge, was Bishop of Carlisle from 1468 to 1477, and Bishop of Chichester from 1478 to 1502, installed Bishop of the latter city on the 27th June, 1478; also that in the year 1500, he gave a farm in Long Stanton and one in Haslingfield, both in Cambridgeshire, to Pembroke Hall. See Goodwin's Epistles, p. 309, and Hawes and Loder's "Framlingham" p. 214.

There was a schism between the White Friars and the Priests on which matter Dr. Story preached at St. Paul's Cross.

In Gregory's Chronicle, Camden Society (James Gairdner's Historical Collections, p. 229) the following item appears:- Maister Edwarde Story, person of Alle Halowys [in] the More and after Confessor unto the Quene Elizabeth, and after that Byschoppe of Carlylle, preached at Pouly's Crosse, and as moche as he myghte wolde have passefyde

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