Storeys of Old.

Thomas Dacre, William Beveriey, Ric. Holmes and Rdc. ffacet are certainly north country names. Thomas Dacre would be a grandson of the old Lord Thomas of that name, mentioned by Sir Thomas Musgrave in a report to Lord Burghley in 1583. He was Warden of the Marches. (See Border Papers.)

The Bishops of Chichester had an episcopal residence in Amberley in Norman times. (See Horsfield's Sussex, vol. ii., p. 158.)

Archdeacon Bouchier, in a letter to Bishop Nicholson, of Carlisle, writes as follows on Dr. Story: - "As for Bishop Story I persuade myself that he left some remembrance and considerable benefaction either to the see, church or city of Carlisle; otherwise it is the only place to which he had any relation whereunto he was a benefactor. I find by Bishop Wren's Account, or a 'History of the Fellows of Pembroke Hall,' that Edward Story was a north country man, but the place is not set down. He died January 29th, 1502. Probably this bishop might be descended from one of the many families on the borders in Cumberland that bear this name." (See Jefferson's Carlisle, p.207.)

It is not improbable that owing to the feuds prevailing among the border families - the Grahams, Armstrongs, Elliots and Stories - the bishop did not care to bring out into prominence his family and birthplace. I quite believe descendants of his line were settled at Arthuret.

Mr. Robert Killinghall, Prior of Carlisle, bachelor of decrees, and Richard Morgan, were both appointed vicars general by Archbishop Nevile, of York, during the vacancy of the see of Carlisle. The Registers to be restored to Bishop Story. Testa Ebor, vol. iii.

Johannes Story, Acolitis, is mentioned in the account of the election of William Bywell to to the Priorate of Hexham, 1476. See "Memorials of Hexham Priory" - (Surtee's.)

The will of Bishop Story, which, as we have already seen, was proved in the Prerogative Court of Canterbury in 1503, was not filed. The copy, however, in the Blamyre Folio xxi. in Somerset House, is a fairly neat one; the chirography is extremely small, and, owing to old forms being prevalent and numerous abbreviations, the latinity is not always clear; one word might easily be taken for another, and the reading seem correct Then, again, the will is somewhat indistinct in many of its lines. It is intended to give the full text of both will and codicil with translations in the appendix. The kind consent of one or two gentlemen to aid in the perusal of the more peculiar idioms of these documents has been availed of in order that the fullest accuracy may be ensured. It has been a difficult task to ascertain which church of All Hallows in London and district Dr. Story was Rector of prior to his elevation to the see of Carlisle. Many works were searched, and subsequently various London clergymen applied to for the information desired. The Bishop of London and his secretary (Mr. R. G. Averill),