She kept, for instance, the see of Ely vacant nineteen years, in order to retain the revenue;[**] and it was usual with her, when she promoted a bishop, to take the opportunity of pillaging the see of some of its manors.[***] * Birch's Negot.p.

21.
** Strype, vol.iv.

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351.
*** Strype, vol.iv.p.

215.