Michael Northburgh
Whilst archdeacon he became Rector of Pulham St. Mary (1341) and acquired many canonries.[2] Northburgh was elected Bishop of London on 22 April 1354 and consecrated on 12 July 1355.He bought land from Sir Walter de Manny and by his will left £2000 'for the foundation of a House according to the ritual of the Carthusian order in a place commonly called "Newchirchehawe", where there is a church of the Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin Mary.Northburgh accompanied King Edward III of England on the English expedition to France which included the Battle of Crécy (1346) and acted as royal clerk, writing an eyewitness account in a newsletter from the English camp, and giving the French casualties as 1,542 "without reckoning the commons and foot-soldiers".[4] In his will he left valuable books and artifacts to the illegitimate Michael Northborough, a future Archdeacon of Colchester.