It was at Exeter Cathedral that Stapeldon was finally laid to rest.
Footnotes
1 His own deed, dated Exeter, 25th February, 1323, states that his birthday occurred on the first of that month: ''prout ex parentum relatione didicimus."
2 Devon - W G Hoskins – p375 - Manor of Stapeldon, now a farmhouse, on the site of a 13th 14th century manor house.
3 Letters Patent - Westminster, the fifth Ides of March, in the eight year of the reign of King Edward (11th March 1314/15)
4 Register of William Stapeldon - p34
5 Statute of Winchester 1285 - Anyone who witnessed a crime shall make hue and cry, and that the hue and cry must be kept up against the fleeing criminal from town to town and from county to county, until the felon is apprehended and delivered to the sheriff.
6 Itinerary - Register of Walter Stapeldon - P547
7 Lawhitton anciently had been the occasional residence of the Bishops of Exeter - In 1261 there were some substantial religious buildings.
8 Edward II: The Murder of Walter Stapledon, Bishop of Exeter, 15 October 1326
9 Vita Edwardi Secundi
10 Reports and Transactions of the Devonshire Association – The Memoir of Walter Stapeldon -p450
11 ‘He was clubbed or hammered over the head (percusserunt in capite) and 'cruelly dragged' half-conscious through the churchyard into Cheapside, where a butcher whose name was apparently Robert of Hatfield beheaded him with a bread-knife' Kathyn Warner
12 Reports and Transactions of the Devonshire Association – The Memoir of Walter Stapeldon -p450