peace, an extensive patronage. Not only did he present to the many livings with which his see had usually been endowed, but he had as a rule the right to fill the stalls in his cathedral (if it were not a monastery) and often in several other collegiate churches as well. The bishop of Exeter, for example, appointed the canons of Bosham in Sussex and of Glasney in Cornwall in addition to those of Exeter itself; and the four archdeaconries of Exeter, Barnstaple, Totnes and Cornwall could be used by him to advance his kinsmen or his servants to places of rank and wealth. Elsewhere, the bishop of Lincoln had eight archdeaconries at his disposal and the arch
