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WHITTLESEA (or
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WHITTLESEY),
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WILLIAM (d. 1374)  ,
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arch-
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bishop of
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Canterbury, was probably
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born in the
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Cambridgeshire
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village of
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Whittlesey . He was educated at
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Oxford, and owing principally to the fact that he was a
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nephew of
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Simon
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Islip,
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archbishop of Canterbury, he received numerous ecclesiastical preferments; he held prebends at
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Lichfield,
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Chichester and
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Lincoln, and livings at Ivychurch,
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Croydon and Cliffe . Later he was appointed
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vicar-
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general, and then
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dean of the
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court of
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arches by Islip . In 1360 he became bishop of
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Rochester, and two years later bishop of
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Worcester . In 1368
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Whittlesea was elected archbishop of Canterbury in
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succession to Simon
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Langham, but his
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term of
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office was very uneventful, a circumstance due partly, but not wholly, to his feeble
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health . He died at
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Lambeth on the 5th or 6th of
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June 1374 .

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