cathedral, reputed higher than that of Salisbury, fell down. He died Aug. 2, 1551, and was privately buried in the cathedral.

JOHN TAYLOR, dean of this church, was advanced to the bishopric, June 26, 1552; but, being a zealous protestant, waş deprived of his see by Queen Mary.

JOHN WHITE, Prebendary of Winchester, and Warden of Wickam's college there, was consecrated bishop of Lincoln, April 1, 1554. In 1556, he was translated to the see of Winchester.

THOMAS WATSON, Dean of Durham, and Master of St. John's college, Cambridge, succeeded to this see, being consecrated, Aug. 15, 1557. He obtained restitution of part of the plate and other ornaments of which his cathedral had been deprived; and also procured for the see several estates, instead of those which had been surrendered by Bishop Holbech, and the patronage of many benefices, which had belonged to religious houses, but on the dissolution was vested in the crown. On the accession of Elizabeth, and the re-establishment of the reforma→ tion, Bishop Watson, being a strenuous papist, was deprived of his see, and committed to close confinement in or near London, for twenty years, when he was removed to Wisbech, where he died,

in 1584.

On the deprivation of Bishop Watson, NICHOLAS BULLINGHAM, archdeacon of this church, was consecrated bishop, January 21, 1559. Having surrendered all that his predecessor had obtained for this see, he was translated to that of Worcester in 1570. On the 24th of February, in the same year,

THOMAS COOPER, Dean of Oxford, was consecrated, and translated in 1583 to Winchester, where he died, April 29, 1594.

WILLIAM WICKHAM, dean of this church, succeeded Bishop Cooper in the see, December 6, 1584, and in that of Winchester, February 22, 1594; but died June 11, following, before he had taken possession of the latter bishopric. He was buried in the church of St. Mary Overy, in the borough of Southwark.

WILLIAM CHADERTON, Bishop of Chester, was trauslated

to

to Lincoln, April 5, 1595; died April 11, 1608, and was obe scurely buried at Southoe, within a mile of his palace at Buckden.

WILLIAM BARLOW, Bishop of Rochester, was removed thence to this see, July 21, 1608; he died September 7, 1613, at his palace at Buckden, where he was privately interred.

RICHARD NEALE, who had been Bishop of Rochester, and afterwards of Lichfield and Coventry, was translated to Lincoln, in 1614. He was removed to the see of Durham in 1617, to that of Winchester in 1627, and lastly to York in 1631.

GEORGE MONTAIGNE, Dean of Westminster, succeeded Bishop Neale in the see of Lincoln, Dec. 14, 1617, whence he was translated to London 1621, thence to Durham, and afterwards advanced to the See of York.

JOHN WILLIAMS, Dean of Westminster, and Lord Keeper of the Great Seal, was consecrated bishop of Lincoln, Nov. 17, 1621. He contributed largely to the repairs of the palaces at Lincoln and Buckden. In 1641 he was translated to York.

THOMAS WINNIFFE, Dean of St. Paul's, was consecrated, February 6, 1642. In the civil commotions of the ensuing years, his palaces were destroyed, and all the revenues and temporalities of the see sequestered and plundered. On which he retired to Lambórn, where he discharged the duty of a parish -minister, died September 19, 1654, and was there buried.

On the restoration of monarchy and episcopacy, ROBERT SANDERSON, prebendary of this church, was consecrated, October 28, 1660; but enjoyed his dignity only two years, dying January 29, 1663. He was buried in the chancel of Buckden church. Though a man of universal learning, he was particularly skilled in antiquities and heraldry, and assisted Sir William Dugdale in his ecclesiastical researches.

BENJAMIN LANCY, Bishop of Peterborough, was translated to Lincoln 1663, and thence, in 1667, to Ely, where he died, January 24, 1674, and was buried in that cathedral.

WILLIAM FULLER, Bishop of Limerick, in Ireland, suc

ceeded

ceeded to this see in 1667. Having devoted much time and money to the ornamenting his cathedral, he died, April 22, 1675, and was interred behind the high altar, where a monument was erected to his memory.

THOMAS BARLOW, Archdeacon of Oxford, was consecrated, June 27, 1675. Being a rigid Calvinist, and consequently no friend to episcopacy, he never personally visited any part of his diocess, nor was ever at Lincoln; on which account he was commonly called Bishop of Buckden, where he chiefly resided. He was also remarkable for his temporizing conduct at the révolution; though apparently zealous for King James while on the throne, yet on his abdication, no one took a more decided part against him, or was more forward in ejecting the clergy who scrupled to take the oaths. He died October 8, 1691, and was buried in Buckden church.

THOMAS TENNISON, Archdeacon of London, was conse crated, January 10, 1692. In 1694 he succeeded Dr. Tillotson as Archbishop of Canterbury; died at Lambeth palace, December 14, 1715, and was buried in the parish church there.

JAMES GARDINER, sub-dean of this cathedral, was consecrated March 10, 1694; departed this life March 1, 1705, and was buried in the cathedral, under a raised marble monument.

WILLIAM WAKE, Dean of Exeter, was consecrated October 21, 1705; and on the death of Dr. Tennison, in 1715, was advanced to the Archiepiscopal see of Canterbury.

EDMUND GIBSON, Archdeacon of Surrey, succeeded to this see by the special recommendation of his immediate predecessor, Bishop Wake; was consecrated February 12, 1715, and translated to the see of London in 1723.

RICHARD REYNOLDS, Bishop of Bangor, was translated to Lincoln 1723; and died January 15, 1740.

JOHN THOMAS, Bishop elect of St. Asaph, was translated to the see of Lincoln in 1740, and thence to that of Salisbury in 1761, when

JOHN GREEN, dean of this church, succeeded to the bishopric