The accession of such a prince might well be watched with interest; but Richard was as yet scarcely known in England. He had been born, indeed, either at Oxford or at Woodstock, and his nurse was a Wiltshire or Oxfordshire woman; but when quite a child he had been taken abroad, and had only visited England two or three times for a month or so since. Hence, although he was a fair scholar and a poet, it may be questioned whether he could speak a sentence in English. He had been educated, in fact, to be Duke of Aquitaine, and it was only since his brother’s death that he had been an object of interest on this side the Channel. No doubt changes were looked for; and in one respect change came, for very early he removed Glanvill from the office of Justiciar and made him pay a very heavy fine before he released him from custody. But this act was probably one of greed rather than of policy, for he wanted money, and did not speculate on statecraft. Glanvill, too, was bound on the Crusade, and was an old man whose days of governing were over. [Sidenote: Council of Pipewell. ] The same want of money led Richard, in a great council which he held at Pipewell in the month of the coronation, to sell almost everything that he could sell; sheriffdoms, justiceships, church lands, and appointments of all kinds. To the King of Scots he sold the release from the obligations which Henry had exacted in the peace of Falaise; to the Bishop of Durham he sold the office of Justiciar, or a share in it, and the county of Northumberland; to the Bishop of Winchester he sold the sheriffdom of Hampshire, and castles and lands belonging of old to his see. Many other prelates paid large sums to secure rights and properties which were their own, but which were deemed safer for the royal confirmation; and so great were the promises of money made to him that, if they had been fulfilled, he would have been richer by far than all the kings that were before him. He filled up the bishoprics with officers of his father’s court. York he gave to his half-brother Geoffrey the Chancellor; Salisbury to Hubert Walter, nephew of the Justiciar Glanvill; London to Richard the son of old Bishop Nigel of Ely the treasurer, and himself also treasurer and historian of the Exchequer. [Sidenote: Provision made for John. ] [Sidenote: Promotion of Longchamp. ]