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in 1321 and served till 1325; between 1320 and his death in 1341 he frequently acted as
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Parliament he convened in 1328/9 was aimed at reconciling the rival factions among the nobility, and persuading them to control their followers, and had some short-term success. The dominant figure then among
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Ledrede, he emerged from the Kilkenny Witch Trials with his career undamaged and his reputation even higher than before. In his own time, he was
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befriend his relatives" advised that forty days must elapse before an arrest could be made. When the Bishop refused to be persuaded to drop the case he was arrested himself, almost certainly with the
Chancellor's connivance, and imprisoned for seventeen days.
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Chancellor to appear before his Court to justify putting his diocese under an
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to appear and make any charges they wished. While some witnesses did testify against Roger, the report of the commission was that he was a zealous and orthodox champion of the
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