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'Here lyeth Robert Wyvil of happy memory, Bishop of the Church of Salisbury who for more
than forty-five years peaceably and laudably governed that see. He gathered together the
dispersed possessions of the Church, and, having so collected, as a vigilant pastor, he prudently maintained the same; for, among the least of his other benefits, he recovered, like an intrepid champion, the Castle of Sherborne to the said Church, which for two hundred years and more had been withheld therefrom by military violence. He also procured the restoration to the same Church of its Chase of Bere; and on the fourth day of September, A.D.1375, in the forty sixth year of his consecration, according to the will of the Most High, paid the debt of human nature in the said Castle. On whose soul may the
Almighty have mercy, in whom he trusted and believed'