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Hungerford in Berkshire also has ancient links to the Duchy, the manor becoming part of John O'Gaunt's estate in 1362 before King James I passed ownership to two local men in 1612 (which subsequently became Hungerford Town & Manor). After the death of his elder brother, Edward, the Black Prince, John of Gaunt became increasingly powerful. He contrived to protect the religious reformer John Wycliffe, with whose aims he sympathised. Many critics of the Reformation, including Thomas More, associated Protestants with Lollards. Protestant leaders, including Archbishop Cranmer, referred to Lollardy as well. The similarity between Lollards and later English Protestant groups such as the Puritans and Quakers also suggests some continuation of Lollard ideas through the Reformation.

Thomas Arundel (1353-1414) was Archbishop of Canterbury in 1397 and from 1399 until his death, an outspoken opponent of Lollardy during the English Reformation. Believing in a lay priesthood, the Lollards challenged the Church’s ability to invest or deny the divine authority to make a man a priest. At first, Wycliffe and Lollardy were protected by John O'Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster and son of Edward III and anti-clerical nobility, who were most likely interested in using Lollard-advocated clerical reform to create a new source of revenue from England’s monasteries. Edward III, as the virtual ruler of England during Richard's minority, he made some unwise decisions that led to the Peasants' Revolt in 1381, during which the rebels destroyed his Savoy Palace. On Arundel's advice, Henry was the first English king to allow the burning of heretics, mainly to suppress the Lollard movement.

A younger son of Richard Fitzalan, 10th Earl of Arundel, he held the title of Archbishop of York from 1388 before being moved to Canterbury in 1397. However, he was exiled by King Richard II of England, and his tenure was interrupted by that of Roger Walden. On the accession of Henry IV, Roger Walden, his successor in the primatial see, was declared a usurper, and Arundel restored, 21 October 1399, Walden being translated to London.

When the Duke of Exeter was executed by Henry IV he gave Arundel back to the FitzAlan line. He married the daughter of John of Portugal, and they were the first members of the FitzAlan family to be buried in the chapel built by the third Earl. The FitzAlans also had significant parts to play in the Hundred Years' War. The seventh Earl was nicknamed the 'English Achilles', standing over 6ft tall and proving himself a very successful soldier. After the Battle of Beauvais he had his leg amputated, and he was buried in the FitzAlan Chapel. The FitzAlan line stopped when Mary, daughter of the twelfth Duke, married Thomas Howard, 4th Duke of Norfolk. The crown seized Arundel upon his execution for conspiring to marry Mary I of Scotland, in 1572.

Arundel Cathedral is a Roman Catholic cathedral in West Sussex, England. While Arundel Castle has been the seate of the Howards' ancestors since 1102, Roman Catholic worship was suppressed in Arundel and elsewhere in England by the Conventicle Act of 1664. The Conventicle Act of 1664, 16 Charles II c. 4, was an English statute that forbade religious assemblies of more than five people outside the auspices of the Church of England. This law was part of the programme of Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon, to discourage nonconformism and to strengthen the position of the Established Church.
Thus, all churches and cathedrals in England were transferred to the Church of England in the period before the Catholic Emancipation Act of 1829. Situated in the South East of England the Diocese encompasses a large number of villages and smaller towns, as well as highly populated parts of Surrey, central Sussex and the coastal region running from Chichester to the Kent border.

Boxgrove Priory, in the village of Boxgrove in the Chichester of West Sussex, was founded in about 1066 by Robert de Haye, who in 1105 bestowed the church of St. Mary of Boxgrove upon the Benedictine Abbey of Lessay, a commune of the Manche departement in France. In about 1126 upon the marriage of Roberts daughter Cecily, to Roger St. John the number of monks living at Boxgrove was increased from the original three to six, and by 1187 there were a total of fifteen. The nineteenth monk was added to the priory in about 1230 by William de Kainesham, Canon of Chichester.

The patron saint of The City of Chichester is Saint Richard of Chichester, bishop of the See of Chichester in the thirteenth century. Chichester cathedral is dedicated to the Holy Trinitity and contains a shrine to Saint Richard. Richard of Levick was Bishop of Chichester. His shrine in Chichester Cathedral was a richly-decorated centre of pilgrimage which was destroyed in 1538. Having returned to England some time after Edmund's death in 1240 he became vicar of Deal and chancellor of Canterbury for the second time. In 1244 he was elected bishop of Chichester, being consecrated at Lyons by Pope Innocent IV in March 1245, although Henry III refused to give him the temporalities of the see, the king favouring the candidature of Robert Passelewe (d. 1252). In 1246, however, Richard obtained the temporalities. The new bishop showed much eagerness to reform the manners and morals of his clergy, and also to introduce greater order and reverence into the services of the church. His term of office was also marked by the favour which he showed to the Dominicans, a house of this order at Orléans having sheltered him during his stay in France, and by his earnestness in preaching a crusade. He died at Dover in April 1253. Saint Richard’s feast day is April 3.

But the Boxgrove city centre stands on the foundations of the Romano-British city of Noviomagus Reginorum, capital of the Civitas Reginorum, and near to the Roman Palace of Fishbourne. According to the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle it was captured towards the close of the fifth century, by Ælle, and renamed after his son, Cissa. It was the chief city of the Kingdom of Sussex. The city streets have a cross-shaped layout, inherited from the Romans: radiating outwards from the medieval market cross lead the North, South, East and West shopping streets.