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years, and is noted, as Godwin tells us, as "the
greatest housekeeper of any archbishop that ever sate
in York before him. For proofe whereof it is alleaged
that he spent usually in his house of claret wine
onely, 80 tuns." He 1 was noted also in another way.
The spirit of the warrior-bishops who commanded
armies in the field still survived in him. In 1417
Berwick was beleagured by the Scots, who took
advantage of Henry V.'s absence in France. Troops
were hastily gathered together for the relief of the
place, and though Bowet was so infirm that he was
unable to mount a horse or act as a leader, he insisted
on being carried in a litter, accompanied by many of
his clergy, along the lines of the army, when disposed
in battle array, to encourage them by his voice and
presence to repulse the enemy. He died at Cawood,
in 1423, and was buried at the east end of the minster
of York.
Kemp was the next who filled the archiepiscopal
chair. He had previously held the sees of Rochester,
Chichester, and London, and was translated from
York to Canterbury. He was twice created cardinal,
on diiferent titles. His various preferments were
tersely summed up in the line
" Bis primas, ter prases, et bis cardim functus^
His successor, Booth, was followed by George
Neville, brother of the great Earl of Warwick, so
often called the king-maker. He stands on a bad
eminence, as an example of the extraordinar)- abuse
of church patronage which prevailed in favour of
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"Godwin's Catal.,'" p. 6o~.