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of Christ Church
Cathedral, in 1310. It is questionable how active a role he played at the trial since he was in failing mental and physical health in his last years (after fifty years in the Crown's service he was clearly a very old man), and much of his work was deputised to his successor as Dean,
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chapters, with the full support of
Archbishop Ferings, a mild and conciliatory man. In a crucial concession, the Christ Church chapter was given the final say in the choice of Archbishop, and this became a permanent arrangement. Thomas retired from the Bench in 1303, presumably on grounds of age.
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he carried out at Christ Church
Cathedral, involving the expulsion of his former rival Prior Adam, suggests that he was still smarting from his humiliation at failing to become Archbishop. On the whole, however, he made a sincere effort to heal the bitter and longstanding breach between the two
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He died late in 1311, after years of failing health. Since he had been in
Ireland for some fifty years, and was described as being of "a great age" by 1300, he must have been well into his eighties when he died. He had been expected to take a leading role in the Irish proceedings against the
234:, the future Archbishop. This course had the full approval of Archbishop de Ferings, who had himself suggested to Chaddesworth that he might wish to appoint a deputy. An order survives from 1302-3 to pay his 20 marks as payment of his half-years salary as a judge.
93:. The various spellings of his name are versions of Chedworth, although in his early years in Ireland, he was usually called Thomas de Theddesden. In a deed of 1284 he refers to his parents and his brother Nicholas, to whom he was evidently close.
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On his return to Dublin, he was compensated with the additional office of Vicar-General to the
Archbishop, despite concerns about his age and failing health. He regularly deputised for the Archbishop during the latter's absences abroad. The stern
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from 1266 to 1284. He was the first known
Chancellor of the Irish Exchequer (appointed in 1270), and a judge of the Irish Court of Common Pleas. He failed twice to become Archbishop of Dublin, but was compensated with the office of
297:. Edward accordingly did not actively support Thomas' candidature, and he made no objection to de Ferings' election. Both Thomas and Adam, lacking powerful supporters, and after being threatened with proceedings for
100:, Archbishop of Dublin: he evidently returned to England for a time, then travelled back to Ireland with his household and goods in 1265. He had the title "magister", i.e Master? which indicates that he had a
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within the required period, which gave grave offence to the Pope. His failure on the second occasion was due to the existence of a rival candidate put forward by the
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for their election, which was bound to offend so formidable a ruler as Edward, even though Thomas has been a valued servant to both Edward and his father, King
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In 1284, shortly after he became Dean of St
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Thomas de Chaddesworth, de Chedworth or de Chadsworth
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