ecclesiastic.... The bishop's robing most probably took place at
the priory close by, from whence the procession, forming in the
cloisters under the direction of Hugo de Basyng, prior of St.
Swithun's, would pass to the west door, where it would be joined by
the heads of the other monasteries in and near Winchester--Thomas
de Pechy, Abbot of Hyde, holding highest rank amongst them. Next
would follow long lines of monks clad in their robes of brown,
black, white, or grey, according to their order, and then many a
layman, gathered in from the country round to honour both Church
and State on this occasion. The great procession, gorgeous with
embroidered cope and many a rich vestment, with episcopal staff and
crozier both of prior and abbot carried aloft, must have formed an
imposing spectacle as it filed up the long nave of the cathedral,
thronged, doubtless, to overflowing by many citizens--for unusual
interest would be evinced by Winchester in this enthronement of one
long known to them, now Chancellor of England and certainly, next
to the King and Archbishop, the greatest man in the country."

As bishop, Wykeham found plenty to do, apart from his ecclesiastical
duties, in repairing his various palaces, and in housing the
predecessors of his Winchester scholars in a house on St. Giles's Hill,
until such time as he could give them fitting buildings and a chapel of
their own. But before Wykeham could see his schemes take an
architectural form, he was to suffer the loss of royal favour owing to
the death of the Black Prince and the rise into power of his enemy, John
of Gaunt. The bishop was charged with the misappropriation of a small
sum of money, and, judgment being given against him, the temporalities
of the see of Winchester were seized, and he was forbidden to come
within twenty miles of the Court. He retired to Waverley Abbey, of which
some picturesque ruins remain, near Farnham; and although on the King's