terred in the south aile of the cathedral, near the last two bishops. The inscription, in Saxon characters, is still legible. OLIVER SUTTON, another Dean of Lincoln, was consecrated May 19, 1288; he died suddenly, while at prayers, November 13, 1299, and was buried in the cathedral, near Bishop Wallys. JOHN DE ALDERBY, chancellor of this diocess, was consecrated June 12, 1300. He was a man of exemplary piety, and esteemed a saint by the common people; who, after his death, which took place January 5, 1319, paid their devotions at his tomb and shrine, which were erected in the largest south transept of his cathedral, to which he had been a great benefactor by building. Mr. Gough says, "Both are now gone, being taken away in Le land's time, nomine superstitionis; but Browne Willis shewed the Society of Antiquaries a drawing of the shrine in 1722. The three stone pillars that supported it remain, having on their tops a kind of embattled bracket projecting, perhaps to support a candlestick." Mr. G. also relates, that in making a vault a few years since, the workmen accidentally broke into the stone grave of the saint, whence a patten, and some other articles, were stolen by the mason, and George Hastings, then verger; the latter was tried for the theft, and acquitted, but was dismissed from his situation; and the patten was deposited in the vestry. On laying the new pavement, in 1782, the grave was again opened, and finally covered with blue slabs taken from the old pavement. THOMAS BEAKE, or Le Bek, canon of this church, was elected to the see January 27, 1319, but died in a few months, before he took possession, and was buried in the upper cross aile of the cathedral, without any monument. HENRY BURWASH, or Burghersh, prebendary of York, and brother to Bartholomew Lord Burghersh, was by the interest of the latter advanced to this see, and was consecrated at Bologne, July 20, 1320. He was a strenuous opposer of Edward the Second, to whose deposition he was instrumental. In the next reign he was Chancellor of England. Accompanying the king and queen to Flanders, he died at Ghent, or Gaunt, December 1340. His body was brought to England, and interred near the east end of his cathedral, where a monument was erected; of which Mr. Gough has given a plate*, and describes it as having "his figure in freestone, recumbent on a slab, bordered with roses and lions heads, with angels at his head, a lion and griffin at his feet. The point of his mitre is broken off; on the front of it a winged lion. He has on a rich robe, flowered with roses in quatrefoils and plain quatrefoils, and rich flowered shoes. On the north side, in five arches, ten sitting figures, in hoods and religious habits, praying, with a book on a desk between each pair; but only two have heads." THOMAS BEAK, or Le Bek, prebendary of this church, a relation of the former bishop of the same name, was consecrated July 7, 1342; died Feb. 1, 1346, and was interred in the upper north transept of his cathedral. JOHN GYNEWELL, Gindwell, or Synwen, prebendary of this church, and Archdeacon of Northampton, was consecrated in 1347; died August 4, 1362, and was buried in his cathedral, to which he had been a considerable benefactor, by building the chapel of St. Mary Magdalen. JOHN BOKINGHAM, or Buckingham, Archdeacon of Nor thampton, and Dean of Lichfield, was consecrated June 25, 1363. In 1398, the Pope, on some umbrage given, translated him to Lichfield, which was not half so valuable a see. This he disdain ed to accept, and retired to Canterbury, where he ended his days among the monks of that cathedral. HENRY BEAUFORT, Dean of Wells, and half-brother to Henry the Fourth, was consecrated July 1398. In 1404, he was translated to Winchester, where he presided forty-three years. He was Chancellor of Oxford, several times Chancellor of England, and created a Cardinal by the Pope. He died April 11, 1447, and was buried in Winchester cathedral, where a stately monument was erected to his memory. PHILIP REPINGDON, Abbot of Leicester, and Chancellor of Oxford, was consecrated March 29, 1405. He was a learned man, a great writer, and a cardinal. Preferring a life of retire ment, mment, he voluntarily resigned his bishopric, in May 1420, and lived privately. He died about 1423, and was buried in the south aile of the cathedral, where a marble tomb, with a brass plate, and the following inscription, serve to perpetuate his memory;→ "Marmorea in tumba, simplex sine felle columba, RICHARD FLEMING, Canon of York, was consecrated in 1420. He founded Lincoln College, Oxford; and was so much in favour with the Pope, that he translated him to York in 1429; but this being opposed by the king and the chapter, the bishop returned to his former see. He died at his palace at Sleaford, Jan. 25, 1430, and was interred in a chapel which he built on the north side, near the eastern end of his cathedral. In the chapel is an handsome monument, with his figure in freestone, pontifically habited, and beneath is a stone figure of a skeleton in a shroud. WILLIAM GREY, or GRAY, was consecrated Bishop of London in 1436, and of Lincoln in 1431; this see being then as much superior in value to London as it is now inferior. He died at Buckden, in February 1435, and was buried in the upper lady chapel of this cathedral. No memorial remains of him. WILLIAM ALNWICK, Bishop of Norwich, succeeded to the see of Lincoln September 1436. He was a considerable benefactor to both these cathedrals; of the latter he built the stately porch at the great south door, and of the former the west front. He also erected the castle gate and chapel at Lincoln. Dying December 5, 1449, he was buried in the nave of the cathedral, near the western door. MARMADUKE LUMLEY, Bishop of Carlisle, where he had presided twenty years, was translated to Lincoln 1450. He died Rr 3 * Gough's Sepul. Monts. Vol. II. pt. 2. p. 76. the the following year in London, and was privately buried in the Charterhouse, or Chartreuse Monastery, there. f JOHN CHADWORTH, Archdeacon of Wilts, succeeded to the see of Lincoln in 1452: died November 23, 1471*; and was interred in the south aile of this cathedral, where a marble monument was raised to his memory, with an engraved brass, having a long Latin inscription. This prelate was a native of Glocestershire, and made master of Queen's college, Cambridge, in 1446. THOMAS SCOTT, known by the name of Rotherham, Bishop of Rochester, Chancellor of Cambridge, Keeper of the Privy Seal, and Lord Chancellor, was translated to Lincoln in 1471; and thence to York in 1480, when JOHN RUSSELL, Bishop of Rochester, was translated to this see. He was the first fixed Chancellor of the University of Oxford; as before his time the office was filled by annual election. This prelate was Lord Chanceller in the time of Richard the Third, and is highly spoken of for learning and piety, by Sir Thomas More, in his history of that king. He added a chapel to the cathedral, and built great part of the episcopal palace at Buckden, in 1480. He died at Nettleham, Jan. 30, 1494, according to the register of that church; and was buried in the cathedral. Near the south door of the chanter's aile is an altar tomb, and surbased arch, with a chapel behind it, dedicated to St. Blase. WILLIAM SMITH, Bishop of Lichfield and Coventry, was translated to Lincoln, November 1495. While Chancellor of the University of Oxford, he laid the foundation of Brazen-nose College, but died before he had finished it, Jan. 2, 1513; and was buried near the west door of the cathedral. His Will contains many curious bequests of vestments, books, &c. to the chapel of Brazen-nose college. THOMAS WOLSEY, dean of this church, was consecrated bishop, March 26, 1514; but being in high favour with the Pope Mr. Gough has it, "Dec. 1, 1471." and and the King, he was within a few months translated to the Archiepiscopal See of York, and afterwards advanced to the dignities of Cardinal and Lord Chancellor, in which characters he stands particularly distinguished in the annals of this kingdom. WILLIAM ATWATER, Dean of Salisbury, and Chancellor of Lincoln, was consecrated, Nov. 12, 1514; died at his palace at Woburn, Feb. 4, 1520; and was buried in the nave of this cathedral, where was a marble tomb, with an inscription on a brass plate. JOHN LONGLAND, Dean of Salisbury, was consecrated May 3, 1521. He was esteemed a man of great learning, and a popular preacher; but generally blamed for taking advantage of his situation, as Confessor to Henry the Eighth, to promote the divorce between that monarch and his Queen Catherine. This prelate greatly improved the palace at Woburn; and built a chapel in the cathedral, in imitation of Bishop Russell's, with a similar tomb for himself; but dying at Woburn, May 7, 1547, he was privately interred in Eton College chapel. In his time King Henry seized on the treasures of Lincoln cathedral, and forced the bishop to surrender part of his lands. HENRY HOLBECH, D.D. who, for his pliant concurrence in the arbitrary measures of Henry the Eighth, had been advanced to the See of Rochester, and was thence translated in 1547, 1 Edward the Sixth, to Lincoln, on condition that he should give up the episcopal estates, to which he readily agreed; and before he had been a month in possession, he confiscated in one day all the principal manors annexed to the see. The list may be seen in the patent, printed in Rymer's Fœdera, Vol. XV. p. 66. By these alienations, this bishopric, from one of the richest, became one of the poorest in the kingdom; and its remaining revenue was rendered still more insignificant, by its consisting only of the impropriations of small livings. He also gave up for ever the episcopal palace at London, and whatever else the court required, leaving his successors no other residence than the palace at Lincoln. In the first year of his translation the spire of the Rr 4 cathedral, |