[3] However, his title was mostly honorary after his election as a bishop in 1217, for he no longer attended court all the time, and Ralph Neville, who had custody of the king's seal, did most of the actual work of the office of chancellor.

[5] His election had been promoted by the papal legate, Guala Bicchieri, and his consecration was performed by Archbishop Walter de Gray of York at Gloucester.

[1] In 1224, when Fawkes de Breauté kidnapped a royal justice and held him in Bedford Castle, Marsh voluntarily contributed to the carucage that had been voted by the clergy of the ecclesiastical province of Canterbury, even though he was a member of the province of York.

[6] Marsh continued the quarrel between the cathedral chapter and the bishops over the revenues and rights of the monks.

[1] Marsh died on 1 May 1226,[4] quite suddenly at Peterborough Abbey while on his way to London for a hearing in the lawsuit between the monks and himself.