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E properties these deeds
acknowledge include that portion of the city--one
fourth--in which the close was situated;
and within this area were comprised the church itself, the episcopal
palace, and the residences of the canons. The original grant of this
land was made by William, Earl of Arundel, in 1147,

who bestowed it among other things as compensation "for the damages
which I once did to the same church."
Hilary was Bishop of Chichester during that historic period when
Becket opposed Henry II. He attempted, like the rest of the bishops,
to heal the breach; and Tennyson, in "Becket," adopting a phrase he
used, makes him say to his Primate, "Hath not thine ambition set the
Church this

day between the hammer and the anvil ... fealty to the King, obedience
to thyself?" He went to Sens, to plead as an advocate on
the king's behalf before Pope Alexander III. and the French king. The
result of this meeting was that England was placed under the ban of
excommunication. But Henry
replied by declaring
that the property of all who acted upon it should be confiscated and
themselves

banished. The bishop was involved also in a local contest
with the Abbot of Battle, who refused to consider himself subject to
his episcopal jurisdiction. After Hilary's death in 1169 the revenues
of the see were for four years appropriated to his own uses by the
king, who late in the year 1173 appointed #John Greenford#
(1174-1180), who was Dean of Chichester, to the vacancy. The
bishop-elect was not consecrated until, in 1174, he, with three more
nominated about the same time, had

done penance before Becket's tomb at Canterbury. Little is known of
him except that he attended some ecclesiastical councils. The
episcopate

of #Seffrid II.# (1180-1204) introduces an important period of
activity, during which great alterations were made in the fabric of
the cathedral. #Simon Fitz Robert#, or #Simon of Well
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