Walter de Wetheringsete was an

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medieval

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and university

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. Walter de Wetheringsete was a

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. He was elected as

Chancellor Chancellor () is a title of various official positions in the governments of many countries. The original chancellors were the of Roman courts of justice—ushers, who sat at the (lattice work screens) of a basilica (court hall), which separa ...

of the

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by 8 November 1302.

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