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obtained from the Englisli king.* He left a single
surviving son, Master John, a priest. Very prububly
by his first wife he hud had another or others, for it is
unlikely that one who was the fust-born and the
apparent heir would have been placed in the service of
the Church.
In the Chronicle of Lanercost there is told a legend
of Sir Philip which has this merit that in the narrative
he appears more as a real and living personage than he
does in the brief and formal notices of the (»llicial
records. Freely translated the story runs thus :
In this year (1295), between Pasch and Pentecost,
there departed this life an accomplishtd youth, John
by name, the only son and heir of Sir William de
Vesci. At whose death his instructor in chivalry, a
certain knight of Scotland, Sir Philip de Lyndesay^
son of Sir John, grieving sorely, fell into a strange
disease. For eight days, tossed with fever, he lay
upon his bed at Beverley and altogether lost the
power of speech. Paying no heed to those about him,
he seemed deprived of his outward senses. Yet daily
he ate ravenously the food ofl'ered him, and then, lying
back again, he remained as in a stupor. On the eighth
day, in pity of his wretchedness, appeared oj)enly to
him St Cuthbert, who, reproaching him for his negli-
gence, said :— " Thou has deserved the sickness that
has befallen thee, for thou hast abandoned to neglect
the place and hermitage wherein I lived of old, given
to me by thy progenitors, the chapel of Inippauym in
thy territory ; and what was intended for the abode of
holy things is turned into a stable for cattle. But
* Reg. Hon. de Morton, Vol. 11., pp. 17, ISi RobcrLiOu's Index, p.
10, No. 16; Reg. Mag. Sig. (Fol.), p. 17, No. 89.
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