Note 887 — Chapter VIII · THE BISHOP.
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After the Conquest it did take place: Walcher bishop of Durham was made also count of the same in 1075, upon the capture of Earl Wælþeóf. Hist. Dunelm. Eccl. lviii. (lib. iii. cap. xxiii. p. 208). As late as the time of Richard the First, we find a successor of Walcher, Hugo de Pusac, purchasing the same county of the king, anno 1189. Ric. Divisiens. p. 8. One year later, Baldwin archbishop of Canterbury suspended Hugo, bishop of Coventry, because “contra dignitatem episcopalis ordinis, officium sibi vicecomitatus usurpaverat.” Rog. Wend. an. 1190. Coxe, iii. 18.