In this yeare the seuenth of Maie was Thomas Langlie consecrated bishop of Durham after the de|cease of Walter Skirlow.An additi [...] of Fran [...] Thin In which place he conti|nued one and thirtie yeares. He among other his be|neficiall déeds beautified the church of Durham for e|uer with a chanterie of two chapleines. Besides which for the increase of learning (wherwith himselfe was greatlie furnished) be built two schooles, the one for grammar to instruct youth, whereby in following time they might be made more able to benefit them|selues and serue their countrie: and the other of mu|sicke, wherein children might be made apt to serue God and the church, both which schooles he erected in a parcell of ground cõmonlie called The plaie gréene. To which buildings (for he was one that delighted much therein, and like vnto the philosopher Anaxago|ras supposed that there was not any more earthlie felicitie, than to erect sumptuous palaces, wherby af|ter their death the memorie of the founders might haue continuance) he added manie sumptuous parts of the palace of Durham. In the towne whereof he did also from the ground (of most statelie stone) erect a new gaole with the gate-house to the same, in that place where of old it remained, and then by iniurie of time fallen downe and consumed. This man inioied the sée of Durham almost the whole time of thrée kings, that is; about six yeares and six moneths in the time of Henrie the fourth, nine yeares and fiue moneths in the time of Henrie the fift, and fifteene yeares in the time of Henrie the sixt; during the go|uernment of all which princes, he was all his life time highlie estéemed and reuerenced for his singu|lar wisedome, and for the great authoritie he bare in publike, betwéene whome and the maior of New|castell arose great contention, about a bridge called Tinebridge in the towne of Gateshed or Goteshed, in Latine called Caput caprae. But in the yeare of our redemption 1416, and of Henrie the fift, the fourth, and of his bishoprike the eleuenth, this bishop had the recouerie thereof, as appeareth by the letter of at|turnie of the said bishop, made to diuerse to take pos|session of the same.

According wherevnto in the said yeare, possession was deliuered in the presence of these persons, whose names I thinke not vnmeet for their posterities cause to be remembred, being persons of good credit and of antiquitie, that is to saie, Iohn Lomelie, Rafe Ewraie, Robert Hilton, William Fulthrop, Wil|liam Tempest, Thomas Suerties, Robert Coniers. Cog|niers, William Claxton shiriffe of Durham, Ro|bert deOgle. Egle, Iohn Bertram, Iohn Widerington, and Iohn Middleton knights of Northumberland, Christopher Morslie, Will. Osmunderlaw knights of Westmerland; and also in the presence of these es|quiers, Robert Hilton, Robert Ewrie, William Bowes, Iohn Coniers, William Lampton the el|der, Iohn de Morden, William Lampton the yoon|ger, Hugh Burunghell, Iohn Britlie, William Bel|lingham, Robert Belthis, Henrie Talboies; Tho|mas Garbois, Iohn de Hutton, William Hutton, Thomas Cooke of Fisburne, and fiue others. This bishop also procured certeine liberties from the pope in the church of Durham, by vertue of which grant they which were excommunicate (and might not in|ioy the priuilege of any sacraments, in other places throughout the bishoprike) should yet baptise their children in a font of that church, in an especiall place appointed therefore, and also receiue the other sacra|ments there to be administred vnto them. He died the eight and twentith of Nouember in the yeare of our redemption 1437, and was buried in the church of Durham in the chanterie which he had before erec|ted. Before whose death at his manour of Holdon he builded all the west gates there of goodlie stone and lime, with the chambers thereto belonging on which he placed his armes.]