sentences:  Stephens says he did this "to provide a strong fortress for himself and his successors against troublous times".Reade held a deer park, in Selsey, that was plagued with poachers so much so, that the incensed bishop issued a decree excommunicating the offenders by "Bell, book, and candle", and he ordered that the ritual should be performed at all churches within the deanery.Reade died 18 August 1385, and asked in his will to be buried at Selsey parish church then located at Church Norton before the high altar.