Welsh Journals

leaving all his other effects to the Friars of Bangor, exclud- ing however his best bed starred with birds and one service of linen which he bequeathed to his nephew, Geoffrey. Alexander Bache was a friar preacher of Hereford, and confessor to John Hastings, second earl of Pembroke. After 1384 he was royal confessor, being appointed, however, bishop of St. Asaph 5 years later (i.e,, March 10th, 1390), still acting as confessor to King Richard II. He died in August, 1394. Thomas Bird or Brid was provincial about the year 1448. As early as 1438 he had been appointed bishop of Lismore, owing to a rumour that the bishop of that see was dead; he was not consecrated. He acted several times as ambassador, and in 1450 was nominated by Nicholas V. to the see of St. Asaph, but as Thomas Knight was already elected, Bird appears to have again escaped the mitre. cf for Bp. Hugh-Stubbs, Bef. Sac. Angl., pp. 40 and 179, ed. 1858; Godwin de Proesul, ed. Bichardson, ed. 1743 Gam's Series Episcoperun, ed. 1878, p. 180; Potthart Bejesta Pontificium. I. 863, No. 10155; Eubel. Ibid. 118, Dictionnaire Universel, Richard, ed. Paris 1760, p. 858. cf for Bache.—Palmer, Black Frs. of Hereford in Beliquary. July 1889; Godwin, Quétif & Echard, 8.8. Ord. Praed. I. 480; Bull, Ordinis Praed. ed. Bipoll H. 462 Gams 180; Eubel 118; Richard Ibid. cf for Bird.—Palmer. "Provincials of Black Friars of England," opusc., very scarce, p. 28, from the Arebeol. Journ. xxxv., 1878; "Hibernia Dominicana," by Bp. Thos. Burke, O.P., of Ossory, ed. 1762, p. 472; Gams 988 Godwin Stubbs (says Knight was Bishop;.