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body. One thing was distinctly recognised, namely,
that each canon, residentiary or non-residentiar}-, had
an equal right to be called to the meetings of chapter,
and to take part in the deliberations and acts thereof,
as fratres et fiiembra cjusdem ecdcsice. No power was
to be exclusively arrogated by the residentiaries.
The arrangement of the stalls in the chapter house
bears its silent witness to the equality of the members
of the capitular body.
All are on the same level, all
precisely alike. There is not even a raised seat or a
loftier canopy for the Dean himself. He was simply
primus inter pares.
Lee's episcopate was further marked by the alienation
to the Crown in 1542 of the manors of Beverley,
Southwell, Skidby, and Bishop Burton. This was
done in exchange for lands which had belonged to
certain dissolved priories. It was an exchange not
altogether disadvantageous to the see of York, but
the alienation of episcopal property was an evil precedent,
which was carried out by his successor in a
very unscrupulous manner. Archbishop Lee was
buried in the minster.
He was succeeded by Robert Holgate, who was
originally a Gilbertine monk of Sempringham, in
Lincolnshire. He subsequently became one of the
king's chaplains, was promoted to the see of LlandafF
in 1537, and from thence translated to York in 1544.
A somewhat remarkable ceremonial took place in
Lambeth chapel when Holgate was made Archbishop.
It consisted in his investment with the pallium
by the hands of Cranmer. It was done in
the presence of the Bishops of Westminster and