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 MDCCLXXXV.
 
 ADVERTISEMENT. 
 
 THE following Essay towards an Account of Suffragan Bishops in 
 England, drawn up by the late ingenious and reverend Mr. Lewis of 
 Margate in 1738, was presented to the Editor by Dr. Ducarel in 
 August last, together with Mr. Wharton's List of the Suffragan 
 Bishops, extracted bv that Gentleman from Wharton's MSS. at Lam- 
 beth, which were supposed to have been lost, till they were by him dis- 
 covered in the year 176/- 
 
 In the month of September, after Mr. Lewis's Essay had been some 
 time in the press, Doctor Ducarel received a Letter on the same sub- 
 ject from the reverend Mr. Pegge, F.S.A. ; which, by that learned 
 Antiquary's permission, is here added, to complete this curious subject, 
 of which very little notice hath hitherto been taken by any of our His- 
 torians. 
 
 March 5, 1785.
 
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 AN ESSAY 
 
 TOWARDS AN ACCOUNT OF 
 
 BISHOPS SUFFRAGAN IN ENGLAND, 
 
 OCCASIONED BY A 
 
 LETTER OF THE REV. THOMAS BRETT, LL. D. 
 
 PRINTED IN drake's ANTIQUITIES OF THE CITY OF YORK, P. 539. 
 
 BY THE LATE REV. MR. JOHN LEWIS, JM. A. 
 
 MINISTER OF IH.\RGATE, IN KENT. 
 
 WRITTEN A.D. 1738. 
 
 Abstract of the Reverend Dr. Brett's Letter to Dr. Dkake, 
 about Suffragan Bishops '. 
 
 ' 'T^HK Bishops Suffragan, thouirh they had foreign titles, were all 
 ' -■- Enirlishinen ; tiie original of them I take to have proceeded from 
 ' hence. JMost of tlie great ahhies procured Imlls from Home, to exempt 
 ' them from episcopal Jurisdiction ; and to he immediately suhject to the 
 ' Poj)e only. But, having occasion for episcopal offices to he performed 
 ' in their monasteries, to consecrate altars, chalices, vestments, and other 
 ' ecclesiastical f)rnamcnts, and to confirm iu)vices taken into their houses, 
 * thev found, li on such occasions they should apply to any diocesan 
 ' hishop, it would he taken as a suhmission to his jurisdiction ; and 
 ' therefore they got one of their monks to he consecrated a bishop with 
 ' some foreign title ('most commonly a title in Greece, or some part of 
 ' the Greek churchy, who could tlieretorc challenge no jurisdiction in any 
 ' part of England; though, with the consent of those who had jurisdic- 
 ' tion here, he might exercise any part of the episcopal function. And 
 ' the arciihishops and other hishops who had large dioceses, or \\ ho were 
 ' employed in secular allalrs, l)eing made lord chancillors, as Kemp was, 
 ' or lord treasurers, or the like, made these titular bishops their Suffra- 
 
 ' Written on occasion of :in ciKiuiry iiiacle l>y tlli^ gt-ntlemcn about Archbisiiop 
 Kemp's .SullViigans, from his Kcgi.sttr ; in orilt-r to illustrate the Life of that Prelate, 
 iluMi writing by the Ucv Mr. I'EciUF.. See Drake's Antuiuiiies of York, p. 539, 540 
 
 " gans, 
 
 iiZ3i)l±
 
 4 DR. BRETT'S LETTER TO MR. DRAKE, 
 
 " gans, to perform episcopal functions for thcin, which they could not 
 " perform themselves by reason of their secular employments, or some- 
 " times by reason of aij;e or infirmities, or the largeness of the cllo- 
 '' cese. That these Suffragans, though their titles were foreign, were 
 " all Englishmen, you may be satisfied from their names, and tlielr edu- 
 " cation in our universities ; for Wood ', in his Athenae, gives us an 
 " account of several such bishops educated at Oxford, as Thomas Woulf, 
 " Ejius Jjacedcemonensis ; of whom he sjieaks, vol. I. col. 650'-; John 
 '' Hatton bishop of Nigropont, col. O'.^b' ; Richard Wilson, who had 
 " after Hatton's death the same title, col. 656 ; John Young, bishop of 
 " Callipolis, col. 663 ; and several others. I could give you a catalogue 
 " of between thirty and forty such Suffragans, all Englishmen with 
 " foreign titles, whose names 1 have met with In Wood and other authors. 
 " But though our archbishops and bishops made such use of these Suf- 
 " fragans, Mr. Wharton, in his letter, printed at the end of Strype's 
 " Memorials of Archbishop Craimicr, tells us, that they treated them 
 " with contempt enough; and generally made them dine at their steward's 
 " table, seldom admitting them to their own. And yet these Suffragans were 
 " called Lords, as I find by some letters I have now by me in manuscript. 
 " At the Reformation, there was an act made, 26 Henry VIII. aj)polnt- 
 " Ing towns in England for the titles of Bishops Suffragan, as Dover, 
 " Nottingham, Hull, Colchester, Thctford, Ipswich, &c. to the number 
 " of twenty-six. And there have been several Suffragans since the 
 "Reformation to these English titles. Thus, in the year 1536, Tho- , 
 " mas Mannyng was consecrated bishop of Ipswich, John Salisbury of 
 " Thetford, Thomas Spark bishop of Bei'wick, and divers others in the 
 " reign of Henry VIII. And in 1552, in the reign of Edward VI. Robert 
 " Purseglove was consecrated bishop of Hull; and in 1566 ', the be- 
 " ginning of queen Elizabeth's reign, Richard Barnes was consecrated 
 " bishop oi Nottingha7n; and 1 592, John Sterne was created bishop of Col- 
 " Chester ; since which time I have not met with a consecration of ;i Bishop 
 " Suffnigan. There never was any settled maintenance provided for these 
 " Suffragans ; which is the reason, I suppose, why they have been 
 " dropped, though any bishop may have one that desires it. And if a 
 " bishop desires a Suffragan, he, according to the act of Henry VIII. is 
 
 ' Wood's words are these : " Whether he was ever of Oxoii, I have not yet seen 
 " any record lo prove it." 
 
 ' Probably the same that lies buried in the north isle of the choir, N° 2. Besides 
 this, there are many more in tlie Registers with fore gn titles, as Dromorensis, Pharcnsis, 
 PhiilopotfHsis, &c. 
 
 * Hegisir. Etcl. Kbor. i>ee the Life of Archbishop Parkei, by Strype, p. 240. 
 
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 ABOUT SUFFRAGAN BISHOPS. 5 
 
 " to present two persons to tlie king, who chooses one of them, gives 
 " him the title of one of the towns mentioned in the act, and orders the 
 " consecration. I find several of these Suffragan Bishops have been raised 
 " to be Diocesan ; and some of them, whilst they have continued Suffra- 
 " gans, have joined in the consecration of Diocesans. John Hodgeskin, 
 " who was Suffragan with the title oi Bedford, was one of the conse- 
 " crators of Archbishop Parker, and of no less than fourteen other 
 " bishops in several reigns, yet was never more than a Suffratran him- 
 -self." ^ 
 
 An Essay concerning Suffragan Bishops in England. 
 
 ^UFFRAGAN Bishops are properly the bishops of the province. 
 ^^ They were so called, according to bishop Lynwood, our canonist, 
 because archiepiscopo siijf'raguri et assistere tenentur, &c. Gretzer and 
 others thought the reason of this name was quod a metropolitano ad 
 synodum vocati suj[f'rugii jus habecnit ; vel quid absque nictropolitani 
 stiffragio consccrari mm poterant. The learned Du Fresne thought that 
 they were rather so called quasi metropolitanorum adjutores vet suffra- 
 ganei, maximc in consecrandis episcopis, quod soli J'acere non possunt 
 metropolitain. 
 
 But then there were others, besides these adjutors of the bishops, who 
 were styled Cliorepiscopi^, viz. titular bishops and co-operators or vicars 
 
 ' Melchior Canus culletli tlit'in aniuilar or ring bishops, liaply for that, whereas full 
 bishops liad botli ring and siall'wlien lliry were consecrated, wliich expressed their ju- 
 risdiction as will as their es[)oiisiiig to the chiircli; these Chorepiscopi had the ring 
 only. Dr. Field of the Churdi, Book V. c. 29. •Vtldcni nota ad Eadinerum, p. 143. 
 ed. 1623. 
 
 But 1 inuch question whether this will bear examining, since there were no sucii 
 officers as the Chorepiscopi after the ninth century, and the usage of the <lelivcry of a 
 ring and staff was a part of the fcuilal law, and introdiiced here by the Normans in the 
 eleventh century, al)oiit 200 years after ^ce Selden. ut supra. The ring was 
 anciently ust-il among Christians in espousals, and from thence transferred to bishops, 
 who were reckoned espoused to their churches. See Sclden's Uxxir Ilchraica, lib. II. 
 c. 25. Bingham's Orig. Eccles vol. IX. p. 3i0 ed 1722, 8vo. Thorc was this differ- 
 ence betwixt the Cliore|)istopi, or Bishops SnlVra^an, and Bishops. I . The Cliorepis- 
 copi were ordained or consecrated by unlv one bishop, or the bishop whose suffragan 
 
 he
 
 6 MR. LEWIS'S ESSAY 
 
 in the episcopal functions, who lived In the country and vlllag;es at a great 
 distance from the city church '. Their office was to preside over the 
 country clergy, and enquire Into their hehavlour, and make re|)ort thereof 
 to the city hishop : as also to provide fit persons for the inferior service 
 and ministry of the cimrch. And, to give them some authority, they 
 had the following privileges conferred upon them. 1. They were allowed 
 to ordain readers, suhdeacons, and exorcists, for the use of the country 
 churches ; hut they might not ordain priests nor deacons without the 
 special leave of the city hishop, under whose jurisdiction hoth they and 
 the country were. 2. They had a power to confirm those who were 
 newly haptlzed in country churches. 3. They had power to grant letters 
 dimissory to the country clergy who desired to lemove from one diocese to 
 another. 4. They had llherty to officiate in the city church in the pre- 
 sence of the bishop and presbyters of the city, which country presbyters 
 had not. 5. They had the privilege of sitting and voting in synods and 
 councils. But in the 9th century this order, by the pope's tyranny, came 
 to he laid aside in the Western church. 
 
 * But whatever effects the laying aside the Chore])iscopi might have 
 ' in other Western nations, there is no visible reason to believe, that 
 ' it had any influen'.e on the English church ; for that church was not 
 ' founded till the inconvenience of the authority exercised by the Chore - 
 ' piscopi was become visible, and provided against by the canons of the 
 ' Christian church ; and if I mistake not, that office was never received in 
 ' England till after the Xorman conquest^.' 
 
 It may Indeed be well doubted whether it was received there then ; 
 since the office of Suffragan Bishops ^ was not the same with that of the 
 Chorepiscopl. For though the ancient Chorepiscopi and these Suffragans 
 were in many things much of the same nature, yet in some repect these 
 latter were new both in name and thing. The Chorepiscopl had no dis- 
 tinct see of their own, but were only ordained to a part of tlse city bishop's 
 sees ; whereas these Suffragans were actually bishops of other sees, though 
 they did not reside upon them. They had their titles from places abroad 
 in j)artibiis injideliunt, in which (though there were fixed sees, and they 
 had been ordained to them,) they could not remain with safety, those sees 
 
 lie was, whereas a hisliop >.vas orJained by three bishups, or two at least. 2. A Chore- 
 piscopus had no see of his own. 3. His power was limited, and in many things inferior 
 to the power of the bishoj). In general he might do nothing without the coii-ient of the 
 bishop : and both the council of Ancyra and of Aiitioch discharge the Chorepiscopi 
 from ordaining presbyters or deacons, 5ixa t5 iTrnrxoVs, separately from the bishop. 
 
 ' Bingham's Orig. Eccles. vol. I. ° Ineti's Origines Anglicanae, Vol. II. p. 64. 
 
 ' The}' were no other than the Chorepiscopi of the primitive times. Godoiphin's 
 Repertorium Canonicum. p. 31. But this seems a mistake of this learned Civilian's. 
 
 being
 
 ON SUFFRAGAN BISHOPS. 7 
 
 being in the possession of the Turks ; and were commissioned bv such 
 bishops here in England, as were either so infirm as not to be able to go 
 about their (hoceses themselves, or were hindered from so doing bv their 
 attendance on parliament, or executing the great offices of state, to go 
 about and visit them in their stead ', to preach, celebrate orders, conse- 
 crate churches and nuns, and to execute such other things as were requi- 
 site to the episcopal office. Thus a writer of the fourteenth - centurv 
 represented them : Frcres, says he, hen made bis/iops, to ifo and piec/ie 
 and convert heathen men, and leave this ghost h/ office and be sujj'rugans 
 in England^. 
 
 ' Thus much is evident, that whereas neither the name nor the office of 
 ' these Suffragan Bishops are to be found in the canons or histories of the 
 ' English church before the Conquest, and but very little of them for 
 * above an age after ; from the latter end of the thii-teeidh, and tlie 
 ' beginning of the fourteenth cei\tury, down to the Reformation, our 
 ' histories are every where full with their names and offices ; and there is 
 ' scarce a registry in any bishop's office, that does not afford us light 
 ' enough to ascertain the names and the powers of their respective Suflra- 
 ' gan Bishops.' The learned Mr. Wharton promised, if he lived to finish 
 his jlnglia Sacra, to exhibit a perfect succession of these Suffragan 
 Bishops in almost all the dioceses of England, for about two hundred 
 years before the Reformation ; which seems a plain intimation that he 
 could not trace them higher, or liiid any of them here before that time, or 
 1340 '. 
 
 The occasions of Introducing these officers'* are said to have been the 
 same with those of settling arcli-presl)yters, or rural deans and arch- 
 deacons, viz. I. "^I'he laying aside tlie Chorcpiscopi in the Western part's, 
 33 taking too much upon them ''. 2. The public services ' which the dio- 
 cesan bishops were more strictly tied to, as the king's barons, in the 
 Norman times *^, .3. The separation of the ecclesiastical from the civil 
 courts, and the varietv of causes occasioned bv the subtleties of the canon- 
 ists, which made it impossible for the bishops to attend all the parts of 
 the ecclesiastical Jurisdiction. But this last seems a mistake, grounded 
 on a false suj)posltloii, that these Suffragans were commissioned to exer- 
 cise episcopal jurisdiction. 
 
 ' .See Appeiul. N" I. * About 1360. ' Objeciions of Freres, c. 19. MS. 
 
 ' He found one here acoiiUiry before, even in l'J40. Viil. .Anjjl. Sacr. vol. I. p. 349. L. 
 
 ' Bishop Stiilinj;tleet'» " Unties, &c. of the Parochial Clergy." 
 
 * Ecclesiastical Cases, vol. I. p. 146. 
 
 ' These (in the absence of bishops upon embassies, or in multiplicity of business) 
 did supply their places in mailers of orders, bul not in jurisdiciion. Godolphin's 
 Uepertorium, p. 30. * Inett's Grig. Anglic, vol. II. 
 
 In
 
 8 MR. LEWIS'S ESSAY 
 
 In the Manual according to the use of Sarum ', the Suffragan seems to 
 he called the Bishop's deputy, since, in the charge there given " to god- 
 " faders and godinoders," they are charged " to lerne the child, or se 
 " that he learned the Pater noster, Ave, and Credo, after the lawe of all 
 " holy churche, and in all goodly haste to he confermed of my lord of the 
 " diocese, or of his depute." 
 
 By courtesy were these Suffragans commonly called lords. Thus I 
 find it entered in a parish hook of accounts in the reign of Philip and 
 Mary: 
 
 " A reward given to my lord Suffragan's servants when the chalice and 
 " corpus cloth were hallowed, 4d." 
 
 But so were the Ahbots of Favreshani styled lords ; and so are the 
 Bishops of Sodor and Man to tliis day, though they have no barony. 
 
 By what the old English writer says, whom I mentioned before, one 
 would conclude, that these Suffragans were English friers or regulars. 
 They are generally represented by our historians as very ambitious, and of 
 strong passions for tlie things of this world. As therefore they had always 
 a fund of ready money, and could by that means make a powerful appli- 
 cation to the court of Rome ; it is no wonder that they took this opportu- 
 nity of the diocesan bishops' want of deputies to supply their places, to 
 gratify their ambitious and selfish dispositions. It appeared, that their 
 being titular bishops of foreign sees was sometimes a step to their being 
 promoted to one at home : their being deputies or suffragans of the dio- 
 cesan bishops served to strengthen the interest of their order ; and they 
 got something, besides being paid, I suppose, by the bishops for acting 
 as their deputies. 
 
 In the reign of king Henry VIII.* was an act made for the nomination 
 of Suffragans, and consecration of them. In the preamble it was ob- 
 served, that, since the beginning of that parliament, good and honour- 
 able ordinances and statutes had been made and established, for elections, 
 presentations, consecrations, and investing of Archbishops and Bishops of 
 this realm, with all ceremonies appertaining unto the same ; yet neverthe- 
 less no provisions had thitherto been made for Suffragans, which had been 
 accustomed to be had within this realm, for the more speedy administra- 
 tion of the sacraments, and other good, wholesome, and devout things, 
 and laudable ceremonies, to the increase of God's honour, and for the 
 commodity of good and devout people. By this act, 25 towns, and the 
 
 ' Fol. XXXNil. a. ed. 1554. ' 1534. 
 
 Isle
 
 ON SUFFRAGAN BISHOPS. 9 
 
 Isle of Wight, are nominated to be taken and accepted for sees of bishops 
 suffragans ' to be made in this realm, and in Wales -, viz. 
 
 } 
 
 Towns. 
 Thetford, 
 Ipswich, 
 Colchester, 
 Dover, 
 Guildford, 
 Southampton 
 Taunton, 
 Shaftesbury, 
 Moulton, 
 Marlboroiigli 
 Bedford, S 
 Leicester, J 
 Shrewsbury, 
 
 J 
 
 Diocese. 
 
 Norwich. 
 
 London. 
 Canterbury. 
 
 Winchester. 
 
 Bath and Wells. 
 Saruin or Bristol, 
 Exeter. 
 Sarum. 
 
 Lincoln. 
 
 Worcester. 
 
 Towns. 
 Bristow, 
 Penreth, 
 Bridgwater, 
 Nottingham, 
 Granthan), 
 Hull, 
 
 Huntingdon, 
 Cambridge, 
 Berwick, 
 St. Germans, 
 Isle of Wight, 
 Pereth, 
 Glocester, 
 
 Diocese. 
 
 Carlisle. 
 
 Bath and Wells, 
 
 York. 
 
 Lincoln. 
 
 York. 
 
 Lincoln. 
 
 Ely. 
 
 Duriiam. 
 
 Exeter. 
 
 Winchester. 
 
 LandafF. 
 
 Of these, Bristow- and Gloucester were soon after made the sees of 
 diocesan bishops : and it is observed of the others, that there were not 
 sees for suffragans in every diocese, there being provision made but for 
 18 or 19 of them at most. The king therefore was not obliged by this 
 act to give the suffragans a title within the diocese of the bishop who re- 
 commended him, since a bishop might want a suffragan of whose diocese 
 the act had taken no notice. But, generally speaking, the suffragans' 
 titles were given within the diocese where they were to act and assist the 
 
 ' As the kinj^ is iiololjiigccl to give tiic suffragan a title witliin ilie diocese of the bisho|j 
 who recommeiicls liim *, it being sufficient that the title be within the same province to 
 which such bishop bolongs t ; I could never see any great propriety in exhibiting 
 schemes of these suffragan sees ranged under the respective diocesan sees. Of these, 
 however, the neatest and most correct is that which Dr. Drake has given us in his text 
 of INlattii. Parker, p. 32, where the only alterations necessary are, first, taking Bristol 
 from Sali>bury diocese, and adding it to that of Worcester ; and, 2dly, altering Landa- 
 vensis into Menevensis; Penreih being undoubtedly in Pembrokeshire, in the diocese of 
 St. David's, the archdeaconry of Cardigan, and the deanery of Kmlyn : Parker, in his 
 own edition of 1372, is wild enough to the last degree. I,. 
 
 ' Here is not any for the smaller bishopricks of Rochester, Chester, Chichester, 
 Hprefonl, and Lichfield. The learned writer of tiie Clergyman's \ade Mecnm thought 
 Pereth to be in the diocese of Carlisle ; but this seems to be a mistake for Penrith, in 
 that diocese, mentioned before in the act. He has, I think, quite omitted Bristol, 
 which I suppose was in the large diocese of Lincoln, Bridgwater in that of Bath and 
 Wells, Siirevvsbury in the diocese of Worcester; and added Bridgenorih to the diocese 
 of Hereford, and I'ereth in he knew not what diocese. P. 47, Kvht 17 15. 
 
 * Gibson's Codex, p. 134. notewi. 
 
 t 2v> Henry VIH. cap. U. Sect. I. 
 
 bishop.
 
 JO MR. LEWIS'S ESSAY 
 
 bishop. The learned IVIr. Wharton siij)poses ' tliere were two acts of par- 
 liament made in tliis reign touching suftVagan bishops ; and intimated, 
 that alter the promulgation of the second act, the suffragan did not take 
 his title indifferently from any town mentioned in the act, but from some 
 one In the diocese where he was a suffragan. But that learned man 
 seemed to liave mistaken Q. I'Jizabeth's revival of this act, 1558, after 
 the repeal of it by her sister Mary, 1554, for a second act. 
 
 The occasion of the abovesaid act was, as has been intimated, tliat In 
 the act passed the year before", for electing and consecrating archbishops 
 and bishops within this realm, no provision was made for the electing 
 and consecrating suftVagans. By this act therefore it was ordered. That 
 no person should henceforth be presented to the see of Rome for the dig- 
 nity of archbishop or bishop ; but that, whensoever any presentment or 
 nomination shall be made by the king, &c. every archbishop and bishop, 
 to whose hands any such presentment shall be directed, shall, with all 
 celerity, invest and consecrate the person nominate. This, it is observed, 
 was done all this reign, till the establishment of a new form of consecra- 
 tion in the 3d year of king Edward VI. according to the form of conse- 
 cration in the Roman pontifical ; only, 1 suppose, with the omission of 
 the oath of Fidelity and Obedience there required to be taken to the pope, 
 which was utterly Inconsistent with that enacted to be taken to the king, 
 28 Henry VIII. However this be. It is plain that, by this act no direc- 
 tions were given for the presentment and consecration of suffragans. It 
 was therefore ordained by this other act as above, that, for the future, 
 every archbishop and bishop, disposed to have a suffragan, should name 
 two persons to the king, who should choose one, and present him to the 
 archbishop of the province for consecration. This, it Is observed, was 
 
 ' In Henry Wliartoii's letter of observations at the end of Strype's Memorials of Cran- 
 nier, p. 256, upon a passage in Strype belonging to the year 1537, we read ; " In the 
 " first act of parliament, made in this reign *, touching suffragan bishops, certain titles 
 " were appointed, to uhich the said suffragans should be consecrated, taken from several 
 " of the chief towns in England ; but it was not required, that the suffragan of any par- 
 " ticular diocese should take his title from some town in that diocese, but was left at 
 " liberty to take it from any town [in the province] mentioned in that act; which was 
 " accordin!;ly practised indifferently till the promulgation of the second actf concerning 
 " suffragans." This passage is here exactly transcribed ; except that I have added the 
 words included between brackets, and have also in the \ery beginning placed two 
 commas, one after parliament, another after reign, that that sense may be conveyed 
 which Wharton seems to have intended ; for most probably he only meant to insinuate 
 that the first act of parliament touching suffragan bishops was made in this reign, that is, 
 Henry Vllhh's. Accordingly, the two dates at the bottom, for further illustration, are 
 also added by me. L. ' 25 Henry VIII. 
 
 * Anno 1J34, 26 Henry VIII. t Anno 1558, 1 Eliz. 
 
 making
 
 ON SUFFRAGAN BISHOPS. n 
 
 making these suffragans more like the ancient Chorepiscopi, or hishops 
 of the country, to distinguish them from the proper hishops of the citv or 
 see: they being consecrated to officiate in the diocese, and having their 
 titles from some place in it, and not having any fixed see of their own. 
 And yet this was not always the case of these suffragans. For instance, 
 the bishop of I..ondon had a suffragan with the title of Bedford, in the 
 diocese of Lincoln ; the bishop of Ely another, with the title of Colches- 
 ter, in the diocese of London ; and the bishop of St. Asaph, for whose 
 diocese no suflVagan was jjrovided by the act, a tiiird with the title of 
 bhaltesbury, in the diocese of Sarum or Bristol ' 
 
 By the same act'-, it was farther enacted. That all such sufl'ragans, as 
 shall hereafter exercise the offices aforesaid, by the commission of the 
 bishop, for the better maintenance of his dignity, mav have two bene- 
 fices with cure ; any former act made to the contrary notwithstanding: 
 And that the residence of jiim that shall be suffragan over the diocese 
 where he shall have commission, shall serve him for his residence as suffi- 
 ciently as if he was resident upon any other his benefice. 
 
 This act the learned bishop Burnet and Mr. Joseph Bingham have re- 
 presented as an attempt made to restore the Chorepiscoj)i under the name 
 of Suffragan bishops. But this the famous Mr. Jeremy Collier', out of 
 a violent prejudice to the bishop of Sarum, which led him to oppose 
 almost every thing he wrote, right or wrong, thought fit to contradict. 
 He dcnieil that the Chorepiscopi, wliom he confounds with the suffra<'-ai\ 
 bishops, were put down from tlie 9th century, though it is matter of fact, 
 in which all learned men are agreed, that they were laid aside at that time. 
 It is certain Mr. Collier did not know what the Chorepiscopi were, since 
 he asserts that their character was full and entire ; whereas thev had not 
 the full and entire power of conferring orders, but were limited or confined 
 by their commissions to the exercise of such powers onlv as thev had 
 granted by tliem from time to time. He did not know what those suf- 
 fragans were, whose office, the act says, was customary in these kingdoms. 
 
 ' Tlie fact here referred to bears d uc in 1538, at wliidi time Bristol was not the title 
 of a diocesan, hut only of a sulfr.igan sec. .See Life of Archbishop Cranmer, by J. 
 Strypc, p. 7. L. ' § 7, S. 
 
 ' lie inoniions, from Wharton, one Peter Corbaricnsis as Chorcpiscopus, or sufi"ro"an 
 to .^tiphen bishop of London, i:J2y. But it has been shewn, that a Chorepiscopus and 
 sulTragan was not the same. By the likeness of ihcir nanus and or>!er, and iht-ir linjcof 
 living, one wonld be templed lo imagine that Peter de Corbarioaiid i'ciriis Corharien- 
 sis was the same man, ol whom the following account is given by Mnrimuth : " Ko^lem 
 '< anno 1328, Pelrns de Corbario, de ordine frairum minorum, qui dc consilio el auxilio 
 Ludovici ducis Bavariiu in civiiate Konuc in papain se fecit coronari ; Idem Pelrus anti- 
 papac eundem Ludovicum in regem Komuiiorum, contra stutum ecclesi:e coronavit. 
 l»ie antipapa car linaies, et alios olliciarius, fjuos \eiiis papa solebat habere, creavii." 
 
 Though
 
 in MR. LEWIS'S ESSAY 
 
 Though there was no distinct revenue provided for these suffragans, 
 settled by the act of Henry VIII. tliey had a very handsome mainte- 
 nance, being comnioidy dignitaries of the church, and possessed of very 
 considerable cures. 
 
 Thus Dr. Richard Rogers ', the last suffragan bishop of Dover, was 
 dean of Canterbury, master of Eastbridge Hospital, and rector of Chart- 
 Magna, to which he was inducted, January 19, loG/. 
 
 Archbishop Cranmer is said to have made a distinction between the 
 diocesan bishops and these suffragans, in his treatment of them at his 
 palace - ; in that whereas the former sat with him at his own table, the 
 suffragans dined at a table below his, which was called the Almoner's 
 table, at which sat the archbishop's chaplains, and all guests of the clergy 
 beneath diocesan bishops and abbats. This table was above the stewards 
 table, at which sat all other gentlemen. In a late account of these suf- 
 fragans ', we are told, that Mr. Wharton, in his letter printed at the end 
 of Strype's Memorials of archbishop Cranmer, tells us, that our arch- 
 bishops and bishops treated them with contempt enough, and generally 
 made them dine at their steward's table"*. But the letter itself shews, 
 that this is all fiction, and an abuse of the memories of our archbishops, 
 &c. and of Mr. Wharton himself. Though Indeed so far is dining at an 
 archbishop's steward's table from being thought even now a being treated 
 with contempt, that I have had the honour of dining there more than 
 once, when one or two diocesan bishops sat at the upper end of It. 
 
 The learned Mr. Collier observed very wisely, that there were actually 
 such prelates as these suffragans at the making the forementloned statute. 
 Yes, who ever denied it ? Robert King, abbat of Osney, and titular 
 bishop of Reonen, was suffragan to the bishop of I^incoln, 1541, and 
 made bishop of Oxford, 1542, and died 1557- But was he a Chorepls- 
 copus, ordained to any part of the diocese of Lincoln, or such a suffragan 
 as was appointed by this act ? Certainly no, as appears by his title. 
 
 ' He died May 19, 1597. 
 
 ' The words of Mr. Whartoirs letter, here referred to, are as follows : " In those days 
 " siift'ragan bishops, however usual, were treated with contempt enough, not wont to 
 " be admitted to dine at the archbishop's own table in the hall of the archbishop's palace. 
 " There were generally three tables spread in the archbishops hall, and served at the 
 "same time: The archbishop's table, at which ordinarily sate none but peers of the 
 " realm, privy-counsellors, and gentlemen of the greatest quality. The almoner's table 
 " at which sate the chaplains, and all guests of the clergy beneath diocesan bishops and 
 " abbots. The steward's table, at which sate all other gentlemen. The suffragan bishops 
 " then were wont to sit at the almoner's table." P. 25H. L. 
 
 ' Dr. Brett's Letter, printed above, p. 4. 
 
 ' Prcesente episcopo proprio nullum locum honoris habet episcopus suflfraganeus, sed 
 tantum sedet supra canonicos. Bauldry, Manuale Sacraruni Caeremoniarum, p. 444. 
 edit. Venet. 1673- 
 
 How-
 
 ON SUFFRAGAN BISHOPS. 13 
 
 However this be, it appears that, in contormity to this act, archbishop 
 Crannier, about 1540, had Richard Thoriiden, prebeudarv of Canter- 
 bury, for suffragan of Dover ; in which office he continued till his death, 
 1558. Whether anv one was appointed immediately to succeed him, I 
 do not know; but in 1568 archbishop Parker, according to the directions 
 of this act, recommended to the (jueen in writing, under his seal, Richard 
 Rogers, B. D. and .John Butler, LL.B. canon of Christ Church, Can- 
 terbury, vicar of Minstre in Tenet, and . . . . ; humbly supplicating her 
 majesty to nominate one of them, and grant him the style, name, title, 
 and dignity, of Suffragan of Dover. Her majesty, accordingly, by her 
 letters patent sealed with her privy seal, and dated May 12, nominated 
 Rogers, and commanded the archbishop to consecrate him thereto; and 
 about sixteen years after, Sej)tember 6, 1584, promoted him to the 
 deanery of Canterbury. On archbishop Grindal's death, 1583, Whitgift, 
 who succeeded him, granted Rogers a new commission to act as suftragari 
 of Dover; as I suppose archbishop Grindal had done on the death of 
 Parker. However this be, the commission ' empowered Rogers to cate- 
 chise and confirm the children of the diocese and province of Canterbury, 
 according to the reformed rites, and to ordain deacons and priests of those 
 of the same diocese and province, and such as brought him letters dis- 
 missory from other dioceses in the province; and to do all other things 
 pertaining to the pontifical office. 
 
 By this it seems as if, on the demise or translation of the diocesan 
 bishop, the commission given by him to the suffragan was void, and to 
 be renewed or not at the pleasure of the successor. Archbishop Whit- 
 sift's commission to his suffraean Rooers intimates as if he had authoritv 
 given to him by it to exercise this episcopal office any where in the pro- 
 vince as well as in the diocese of Canterbury ; perhaps by this was the 
 suffragan of an archbishop distinguished from the suffragan of a diocesan 
 or bishop of a province. 
 
 The famous Dr. George Hickes styled U'lmsvW Mpiscopus Suff'rogancus 
 'riietj'ordicnsia in the diocese of Norwich, and claimed and put in urc an 
 authority of celebrating orders in the diocese of London, and ordained 
 Lawrence Howel priest in his uratory in the parish of St. Andrew's Old- 
 bourne, two years after his commission was voided by the death of Dr. 
 William Lloyd, the deprived bis^hop of Xorwich. This was direcilv con- 
 trary to the practice ;ind usai;c of the suffragans of the bishops of flie 
 church of England ever since the fore-mentioned act was made : And an 
 honest and understanding man would therefore have scrupled making the 
 declaration recpiircd to he made in the ordering of priests, that " he 
 
 ' Appendix, N" II. a. p. Hi. 
 
 " thought
 
 !4 MR. LEWIS'S ESSAY 
 
 '' thought in his heart, that he was truly called to the order and ministry 
 " of Priesthode according to the order of this Church of England." 
 
 By the reformation of the ecclesiastical laws, no manner of notice is 
 taken of any bishops-suffragan ; only adjutors are ordered to he provided, 
 in case a hishop he ill of anv desperate distemper, or very aged. But it 
 seems a consideration well worthy of the goodness and wisdom of the pre- 
 late who proposed it ', for what causes these suffragans have heen so long 
 disused, and how far the revival of them would be serviceable to the 
 English church. One thing seems to make them necessarv in our larger 
 dioceses, and those in which the bishops themselves do not or caiW)ot re- 
 side ; and that is the due and regular performance of Confirmation, which 
 ought to be celebrated once at least every year ; and at such convenient 
 distances that people m.av easily resort to it": whereas, bv the manner of 
 its being performed now once perhaps in four or five years, and in so few 
 places, and at such great distances as 15 or 16 miles, the design of it is 
 in a manner lost. Nor is this all. The diocesan bishops are absent from 
 their dioceses, some altogether, and others the most part of the rear. 
 Their archdeacons follow their bishop's example ; and no wonder, since 
 the habitation or residence of many of them is at 200 miles distance 
 from their archdeaconries: whereas, if any regard was had to the church of 
 Christ, such learned and good men would be made archdeacons, as were 
 beneficed in the several archdeaconries, and lived with and among the 
 clergy whom they inspected. But this is unhappily prevented in the pro- 
 vince of Canterbury, by the archbishop's making so many archdeaconi'ies 
 his options, and disposing of them to his chaplains and favourites, how- 
 ever unqualified by their having cures at so great and unreasonable a dis- 
 tance from them. 
 
 Bv the canons of 1603, N° 35. 60. 135. suffragans are supposed as 
 then in being, and executing their office of conferring orders, confirming, 
 and visiting the dioceses of the bishops whose suffragans they were, and 
 as much a part of our ecclesiastical constitution as archbishops, bishops, 
 chancellors, commissaries, archdeacons, and officials \ But it has been 
 the fate of these canons hitherto to be defended or neglected, just as they 
 suited men's interests, or were agreeable or not to their passions. When 
 king George I. came to the crown, a sudden transport of heat and zeal 
 was shewn in defence of the 55th canon, because it seemed to justify the 
 inclination of the defenders not to pray for that prince, by men wiio took 
 no more notice of the obligation of the other canons, particularlv of canon 
 41, than if they were never made. 
 
 ' Codex, &c. ' See Appendix, No III. p. 18. ' Canon 135. 
 
 The
 
 ON SUFFRAGAN BISHOPS. 15 
 
 The 135th canon supposes suffragans to be entitled to take and receive 
 fees for causes incident to their office. If the taking these anv wise clashed 
 or interfered with those of the chancellor ', archdeacon, &c. one need not 
 wonder, that the suffragans were laid aside, let them have been of what 
 use they would. But even this canon is a proof of the observaticni just 
 now made, that these canons are observed yr not, as they suit the in- 
 terest or inclination of people. Bv it, it is provided, that ' no bishop, 
 * suffragan, chancellor, commissary, archdeacon, official, nor any other 
 ' exercising ecclesiastical jurisdiction whatsoever, nor anv register of any 
 ' ecclesiastical courts, nor any minister belonging to any of the said officers 
 ' or courts, shall hereafter, for any cause incident to their several offices, 
 ' take or receive any other or greater fees, than such as were certified to 
 ' the most reverend father in God, John -, late archbishop of Canterbury, 
 ' in the year of our Lord God 1597, 'i'^^ were by him ratified and ap- 
 ' proved ; under pain that every such judge, officer, or minister offending 
 ' herein, shall be suspended from the exercise of their several offices, for 
 ' the space of six months for every such offence.' 
 
 By the 136th canon, a table of these rates and fees is appointed to be 
 placed by the registers, in the registry, &c. a copy of which in the year 
 I67I was printed by the right reverend Dr. Anthony Sparrow, then lord 
 bishop of Exeter. 
 
 It is further provided by the 135th canon, ' that no fee or money shall 
 ' be received, either by the archbishop, or any bishop or suffragan, either 
 ' directly or indirectly, for admitting of any into sacred orders ; nor, that 
 ' any other person or persons under the said archbishop, bishop, or suffra- 
 ' gan, shall, for parchment, writing, wax, sealing, or any other respect 
 ' thereunto appertaining, take above ten shillings.' 
 
 ' By a paper in ilie Appendix, N" II. b. j). 17, it appears, tlie suffragan and arcli- 
 deacon joined in the execution of the bisliop's orders: tlie sullVagan signing first as ihe 
 superior officer. ' \VI)itgift. 
 
 APPKX-
 
 IS MR. LEWIS'S ESSAY 
 
 APPENDIX. N° I. 
 
 An extract from an instrument of Archbishop Peckham, requiring the 
 bishop of Lichfield, in consideration of his infirmities, to provide a 
 suffragan, 
 
 qui circumeat, praedicando, ecclesias dedicando, virgines consecrando. 
 
 ordines celebrando, parvulos confirmandoj et alia exequendo quae ad episcopale 
 officium requiruntur. 
 
 An extract from archbishop Cranmer's commission to Richard Yng- 
 woRTH, S. T. P. prior of the house of Langley Regis, suffragan of 
 Dover; 
 
 " ad confirmandum, sacri chrismatis unctione, pueros, quoscunque infra 
 
 civitatem et dioc' nostras Cant', et jurisdictioncs nostras, etecclesiae nostrae Cliristi 
 Cant' immediatas, acjurisdictionem nostram villseCalisiae, et Marchiasejusdem. — 
 Nee non altaria, calices, vestimenta, et alia ecclesia ornanienta qusecunque et ea 
 concernentia benedicendum ; locaque profana, si quae inveueris, de quibus te in- 
 quirere volumus, a divinorum celebratione legitime suspendendum. Ecclesias etiam 
 et coemeteria, sanguinis vel seminis efl'usione polluta forsan, vel polluenda, recon- 
 ciliandum, ecclesias et altaria noviter aedificata consecrandum : Omnes ordines mi- 
 nores quibuscunque civitatis. dioceseos, et jurisdictionum nostrarum praedictarum 
 ipsos ordines a te recipere volentibus et ad hoc habilibus conferendum ; ac etiam 
 oleum sanctum chrismatis et sacrae unctionis consecrandum ; caeteraque omnia et 
 singula quae ad officium pontificale in praemissis vel aliquo praemissoruni quovis vel 
 modo pertinent, vel pertinere poterunt, faciendum, exercendum, et expediendum, 
 tibi, tenore presentium ', committimus vices nostras et plenam in Domino po- 
 testatem. 
 
 N^II 
 
 a. 
 
 A commission from Archbishop Whitgift, to Dr. Richard Rogers, 
 dean of Canterbury, and Bishop Suffragan of Dover, 1583^. 
 
 Johannes, divina providentia, Cantuar' archiepiscopus, totius Angliae primus et 
 metropolitanus, dilecto nobis in Christo venerabili confratri nostro Ricardo Rogers, 
 episcopo suffraganco sedis Dover, nostrae Cantuar' dioceseos, salutem et fraternam 
 in Domino charitatem. Ad catechizand' et confirmand' pueros quorumcunque 
 subditorum utriusque sexus nostrae dioceseos et provinciae Cauntuar', juxta morem 
 et ritum niodernos ecclesiae Anglicanae in ea parte pie et salubriter editos et ordi- 
 
 ' Such commission as the bishop shall think requisite, reasonable, and convenient. 
 
 Codex Jur. Eccles. Anglic. Appendix. 
 * From the Register of Archbishop Whitgift. 
 
 nates ;
 
 ONSUFFRAGANBISHOFS. 17 
 
 natos; nee non sacros diaconatus et presbyteratus ordines quibuscunque subditis 
 nostrae dioc' et provinciae Cantuar,' et aliis personis literas dimissorias suorum dio- 
 cesanorum, et titulos sufficicntes exhibentibus, si cas habiles et idoneas tam mori- 
 bus et jEtate quam ctiani literatiira inveneris (super quibus conscientiatn tuani 
 coram Altissimo oneramus), nullumque alium leyitimum eis in ea parte obsistat 
 impedinientum, juxta et secundum morem et ritum ecclesiae Anglicanae in ea 
 parte pie et salubriter ordinatum et sancitum, conferendos, ipsosque et eorum 
 quemlibet ad hujusmodi sacros ordines admittend' et promovendum ; caeteraque 
 omnia et singula alia ad officium pontificale in praemissis, vel in aliquo praemisso- 
 rurn, spectanda et pertinenda. Et quae in ea jrarte necessaiia fuerint, seu quo- 
 modolibet requisita, fraternitati vestrae vices nostras committimus, et plenam in 
 Domino, tenore praesentium, concedimus facultatem. In cujus rei testimonium, 
 sigillum praesentibus apponi fecimus. Datum in manerio nostro de Lambeheth, 
 undecimo die mensis Decembris, anno Domini milesimo quingentesimo octoore- 
 simo tertio, et nostrae translationis primo. 
 
 N°II. b. 
 
 To our lovinge Frendc Mr. Buomkll (Vicar) of Minster in Thanet. 
 
 (All Original.) 
 
 Salutem in Christo. We have received letters from our very good lord the 
 archbishop of Cant' his Grace, whereby, accordyng to such directions as his Grace 
 hath from her niajestie and the Lords of her most honourable Councell, We are to 
 will, require, and charge you, that, calhng to yow the churche-wardens, side-men, 
 and others, such as you shall tliinke most convenient, you and they make a true, 
 plaine, and particular answere to these articles subscribed, and thei-eunt sett your 
 and their hands, and the same your answere yow send to us to Cant' at or before 
 the fourteenth day of January next. Dated the l2th of December, 1595. 
 
 Your very loving frcinds, 
 
 III. Dover, 
 ' Cha. Fotherbt. 
 
 What popish recusants have you within your parish ? of what estate, condition, 
 degree, or value in lyvclyhode, an<l whether tluy be howsholders or noe? 
 
 Whether knowe you any such Fopish recusants that be vagrants and fugitives 
 from their dvvellinge; and whether they wander, and to whom they cominonlie 
 resorte r 
 
 Whether have you anie sectarie recusants within your parish, of what estate, con- 
 dition, and degre in livelihood they be; and whether they bee housholdcrsor noe.' 
 
 ' diaries Fotherby was collatcil lo ihu arcluleaconry of Canterbury, Jan. 28, 1596, 
 Le Neve. But this is a mistake (as apprarii by Reg. Wliitgit't, part. II. vol. 26. b. (for 
 1594, when Ucilman was promoted to the see of Norwich, .luiic 10. 
 
 C Whether
 
 iS MR. LEWIS'S ESSAY 
 
 Whether knowe you any sectarie recusants that be vagrants and sumtimes from 
 their dwelling; and whether they wander, and to whom they commonly resort? 
 
 Wliether be anye indited by order of Lawe, and what penalties bene answerable 
 to her majestic ? 
 
 N III. 
 
 An extract of a letter written to the most reverend Dr. William Wake, 
 lord archbishop of Canterbury his Grace, concerning Confirmation, 
 May 14, \'J'24, with some additions. 
 
 You Grace will excuse my adding, on the account of your approaching 
 
 visitation, somewhat relating to that part of it, the confirming the youth of your 
 diocese. Of the abuses of this excellent institution, I have too often had occasion 
 to be very sensible, and in my narrow sphere have done all 1 could to remedy them. 
 But I am but one, and I see the current of my brethren and the people run strong 
 aoainst me. The common opinion is, that Confirmation is only having the Bishop's 
 blessing, and that children of any age are capable of that. Nay, it has been at- 
 tempted to be maintained to me, that a bare ability of saying or repeating the 
 words of the Church Catechism is all the qualification which our Church requires 
 for persons being admitted to confirmation. According to these false notions, has 
 your (irace abundance more trouble given you than needs, whenever your Grace 
 confirms. In pursuance of the first, that Confirmation is only being bishoped, 
 or receiving the bishop's blessing, or, as a poor ignorant old woman at Canter- 
 bury called it; " the bishop's polling the folks," because he laid his hands on their 
 heads, your Grace has those come to be confirmed who have many of them been 
 confirmed twice or thrice, and some every time your Grace or your predecessor have 
 confirmed in your diocese; because, as they say, they can't have a good thing too 
 often. Agreeable to the other, children in hanging-sleeves, who have no other 
 reason for coming than seeing a bishop, are presented to your (Jrace to be con- 
 firmed. This it is makes that Confirmations so tumultuous and disorderly, and so 
 very unlike a religious solemnity. 
 
 i have often had occasion to observe, that our common people have by tradition 
 too many of die principles of Paganism and Popery. Now, according to the 
 Manual in mum Saritni, Godfathers, &c. were ordered " to kee)) the children from 
 " fire and water to the age of seven yeres, and then in all goocilye haste to bring 
 " them to be confirmed of my lord of the dyocise, or of his depute." 
 
 Our canonist Lyndwood's gloss on the word pveros is, that by the word jmer 
 proprie inteUig'itur qui est major S'ptennio, sed minor 14 unnis. By the Trent 
 Catechism twelve years old is ordered to be the latest time, or oldest age of persons 
 to be confirmed, and it is intimated as if it had been usual for children to be con- 
 firmed before they were seven years old. And so Vicecomes cites Edmundus 
 Cantuar. in specula ecclesice, as affirming, that inj'ni quinque annos ad ultinium 
 pnstquum natus fuerit infans potest conjirmari. Though indeed any age almost 
 after they could speak might be sufficient then, when the children to be confirmed 
 were only to be learned by rote the Pater-noster, Ave, and Credo, in Latin; 
 
 and
 
 ON SUFFRAGAN BISHOPS. 19 
 
 and Confirmation was only tlie bishop's signing them with the sign of the cross, 
 and confirming them with the ointment of salvation. 
 
 But I need not observe to your (irace, that this can never be the intention of our 
 Reformed Church, which though it mention no 'age in i)articular,yethas sufficiently 
 intimated that they who are confirmed ought to be son'ewhat more than children, 
 that they should be come to years of discretion. Thus the very title of the order 
 of Confirmation runs : " The Order of Confirmation, or laying on of hands upon 
 " those that are baptized, and come to years of discretion." I'he exhortation to god- 
 fathers, &c. supposes the infant able to learn what a solemn vow, promise, and 
 profession, he hath at baptism made by them; and the solemn question asked them 
 by the bishop at their confirmation, "Whether they do, in the presence of God and 
 " of that congregation, renew the solemn promise and vow that was made in their 
 " name at their Baptism,"plainly supposes, that they know and are sensible what it is : 
 that they have learned what was promised and undertaken for them at their baptism, 
 and that not by rote or in an unknown tongue, as parrots and magpyes talk and 
 chatter ; but in such a manner as to understand and be sensible of the solemn vow, 
 promise, and profession, which was then made in their names by their sureties. 
 Were all who are admitted to confirmation thus qualified, I need not observe how 
 useful this ordinance would be, nor how many the good effects of it. But this 
 will never be, unless the bishops themselves interpose, and actually repel children 
 who come to be confirmed, or declare they will confirm none who are not come to 
 years of discretion. 
 
 I beg leave to observe further io your Grace, that it would very much contribute 
 to your Grace's ease, and the more solemn and orderly administration of this useful 
 and wholesome ordinance, if, as canon lxi. requires ministers to prepare children 
 or young persons for confirmation, and the Rubric orders that the curate of every 
 parish shall either bring, or send in writing, the names of all such persons within 
 his parish as he shall think fit to be presented to the bishop to be confirmed; so 
 care be taken that none be presented to your Grace but such whose names arc in 
 such lists. This I mention the rather, because experience has shewn me, that, for 
 want of this order, the minister is little regarded on these occasions, since they 
 know very well, they can get to be confirmed whether he approves them or not. 
 
 In the second council at Oxford it was ordered, that the parish priests should 
 frequentlyadmonish parents to bring their baptised children to confirmation, when- 
 ever they heard of the bishop's being near them. On this our canonist Lyiuhvood* 
 noted, that the common usage was, for bishops to aj)poiiit the j)laces were they 
 confirmed at such convenient distances, that no one should have occasion to go 
 above seven miles from their own homes to attend on them. 
 
 ' By the 1 r2ih canon, requiring all of tlie ape of sixteen to receive the Communion 
 at Kaster, one woulil imagine iliat it was thought, that under that a^e was not reckoneil 
 being come to years of discretion. ' P. 34. eil. O.xon. 1679 
 
 SOME
 
 SOME ACCOUNT 
 
 OF THAT SPECIE* OF 
 
 PRELATES FORMERLY EXISTING IN ENGLAND, 
 
 USUALLY CALLED 
 
 BISHOPS IN PARTIBUS INFIDELIUM." 
 
 in a letter from the rev. mr. pegge to dr. ducarel. 
 Dear Sir, 
 
 AN occasion was offered in a late Memoir, read at the Society of Anti- 
 quaries, April 23, 1/84 ', to say something of our Suffragan Bishops, 
 whose titles were borrowed from places in partibus hifidelium, commonly 
 called bishops in partihus, of which we find several before the Reform- 
 ation, that is, before the statute 26 Hen. VIII. by which these suffragan 
 or assisting prelates, now usually called coadjutors ", were all to take their 
 titles from places hei'e at home; the several places are therein mentioned. 
 But as the subject is not common, and the nature and employments of this 
 species of prelates may not be understood generally, or by all, and the mat- 
 ter moreover seems not foreign to the design of the antiquarian institution, 
 it may not be improper to resume it, and to treat itsomewhat more dis- 
 tinctly in a particular paper ; and this is proposed to be done in the follow- 
 ing diatribe. 
 
 The mode of proceeding appears to have been this. The diocesan who 
 wanted an assistant, or one of these Bishops in partibus, preferred his 
 petition to the pope, declaring the grounds and reasons of his application, 
 recommending the person by name whom he wished to have, and giving 
 him a laudable character. This we learn from the register of John Long- 
 land, bishop of Lincoln, where his lordship's supplication to Clement VII. 
 dated 13 May, 1529, in this behalf, is entered. The instrument being 
 short, I propose to annex it to this memoir^. The observations I make 
 upon it, are these. 
 
 ' And ordered to be printed in the Seventh Volume of the Archaologia. 
 ' The word in bishop Longiand's register, to be cited below, is coepiscopui. 
 ^ See p. 27. 
 
 1. The
 
 ON BISHOPS IN PARTIBUS INFIDELIUM. 31 
 
 1. The pope's leave and consent were in tliese times absolutely ne- 
 cessary. 
 
 2. The title beinj^ never once mentioned in the body of the prayer seems 
 to shew, that tlie designation and appointment of that rested eritirely with 
 his holiness ; and indeed well it might, as these suffragans had no ba- 
 ronies. 
 
 3. That though in this case the party was to be consecrated, ' ut in 
 ' causis praemibsis, cetcrisque, circa pastoralem curam i)ifra dioctsin meani 
 ' et alibi exercendis in exonerationem conscientise mese mibi suflFragari possit ;' 
 yet on other occasions there was a limitation. Thus, 15 July, 1533, 
 Thomas Swillington was appointed suffragan to bishop Longland, but his 
 district was conlincd to the two archdeaconries of Lincoln and Leicester'. 
 And the power of Matthew Makerell, A. 1535, extended no farther than 
 the archhdeaconrics of Lincoln and Stow-. 
 
 4. The investiture of Flalam, tlie person recommended by Longland 
 and prior of Newstede near Stamford, with the episcopal character, did not 
 require him to relinquish his station as a prior, or prevent his continuance 
 in religion ; since tliere is reason to think he remained in that post till bis 
 death *, and that he iuid doubtless a sul^prior to officiate for him in the house, 
 on all occasions of absence. Thus again, Robert Kynge, installed abbat of 
 Osney, A. 1541, was nevertheless a suffragan of l)ishop Longland, by the 
 foreign title of Reoneii, was actually consecrated before that year, and re- 
 mained such wiien he surrendered his monasteries '. All shewing, that 
 the profession of religion, as they called it, was by no means inconsistent 
 with the enjoyment of a prelacy vi part'ihus, were the parties in esteem 
 for their morals and learning. They had their respective houses, I appre- 
 hend, by commendaui '. 
 
 Now to avoid the trouble and expence of seeking to Rome, which also 
 took up much time, both the monasteries*' and the diocesans ' often em- 
 ployed Irish prelates to jjerform the necessary episcopal duties and offices : 
 The exempt monasteries, for those are what 1 now speak of, would also 
 call in any other l^jglisb bishop, but their own natural diocesan**. 
 
 At the time of the Reformation, a very material alteration, as one may 
 easily imagine, was made, in the business of apjiointiiig these cocpii^cupi. 
 
 ' Bishop Longland's Re-^isier, A. 1333. ' ll)i'i. \. 1535. 
 
 • Sec llie McliiKir on tlic W'inkburne iSeal. * Ibid. 
 
 • Tlius Kpisiopus Nia|)i)litaiius was comniendaior ol ilie priury of Christchurcii, 
 Hants. Biiriici, Rff. 1. p. 1 t8. 2d pajjinj,'. 
 
 • M. Paris, in Vit. p. 78. 82. Thorn, ("iiron. col. 2038. 
 
 ' Mein. o( Uo|r. de W'escliain, p. Hi). Thorn, Chroii. col. .203'J. 
 ' Thorn, Chron. col. 1!J35.'J119. M. Pari>, in Vit p. 78. 
 
 All
 
 22 MR. PEGGES LETTER TO DR. DUCAREL. 
 
 An act passed 26 Henry VIII. appointing towns in England for their 
 titles, as Dover, Nottingimm, Hull, &c. to the numher of twenty-six : 
 and there have heen several such suffragans with English titles since the 
 Reformation. But I shall concern myself no farther with these extraor- 
 dinary prelates, than to add the two following remarks from my late friend 
 Dr. Thomas Brett', and two instruments of Archhlshop Cranmer -'. 
 
 First, as to the mode of creating; if a Bishop desires a Suffragan, he, 
 according to the act of Henry VIII. is to present two persons to the king, 
 who chuses one of them, gives him the title of one of the towns men- 
 tioned in the act, and orders the consecration. 
 
 2. In 1592, John Sterne was consecrated hishop of Colchester, and 
 was the last we meet with. 
 
 As to the nature of these suffragans, whether of foreign or domestic 
 titles, Mons. Rapin and Mr. Wharton ^ represent them as Chorepiseopi ; 
 which certainly is not much amiss, though they were not exactly the 
 same, as may appear in the sequel. 
 
 The Chorepiseopi of the primitive church were such as performed the 
 episcopal function in country-places, as the name imports, whilst other 
 prelates resided and officiated in cities ■*. They were assistants to these 
 latter; for, as Mr. Bingham informs^, when the dioceses became en- 
 larged hv the conversion of pagans in villages '' at a great distance from 
 the city church, the urbical prelates appoii\ted and associated these adju- 
 tors themselves, who therefore were sometimes styled J^icarii' . They 
 dwindled at last into Archpresbyters and rural deans, so that their epis- 
 copal character was totally abolished ^. However, they continued long in 
 England ■', Lanfranc being the person that extinguished them here '". 
 Matters continued in this state, till about the year 1325, when, as Mr. 
 Wharton, who had penetrated deeply into this business, remarks, our 
 prelates in jiaitibus were first instituted". 
 
 The origin and occasion of this new establishment here, was, to be aid- 
 ing and assisting to the archbishops, and bishops with large dioceses, and 
 
 ' Drake, Eborac. p. 540. * Sirype, Mem. of Cranmer, p. 40, 4 I . of A|)pcnclix. 
 
 - 'Rapin's Hist. vol. I. p. 803. VVliarton, A. S. 1. p. 64. * Spelman, Gloss. 
 
 Bingham, Aiitiq. of Cliristian Cliurcli, lib. II. ch. 14. 
 
 ' They were termed Pagans, from Pagi, villages. 
 
 ' .Spelman, Gloss. The bisiiops in partibus were also called Ficarii. Thorn, Chron. 
 col. 2039. Wharton, A. S. I. p. 238. 791. *> Ibid. 
 
 ' Harris's Hist, of Kent, p. 4yi. Collier, Hist. I. p. 213. 
 
 " Collier, Hist. I. p. 213. 
 
 " Wharton, in Strype's Cranmer, p. 256 of Appendix, where he says, he could ex- 
 hibit a succession of the SuflVagan Bishops in question for about 200 years before the 
 Reformation. The first I have met with is A. 1325. 
 
 also
 
 ON BISHOPS IN PARTIBUS INFIDKLIUM. 23 
 
 also to perform all prolatical duties in exempt monasteries. Mr. Strype 
 observes, in re<^ar(l to the former, that I)elbre the Reformation, ' the 
 ' bishops diocesans, either for their own case, or because of their neces- 
 ' sarv absence from their dioceses, in ambassies abroad, or attendance 
 
 "'1 .... 
 
 ' upon the court or civil affairs, procured [them] to l)e consecrated, to 
 ' reside in their steads '.' And it is undoubtedly true, that in these 
 times, the great secular ecclesiastics, Archbisliops and Bishops, were often 
 en<rat;;ed in the high ofliccs of lord cliancejlor, lord treasurer, &c. and 
 Iretpicntly sent abroad upon endjassies ; they were subject moreover to 
 age and infirmities ; and some of their dioceses, as well as provinces, were 
 immensely large and extensive, as Lincoln and Lichfield, for example. 
 
 In regard to the monasteries; ' most of the great abbies,' savs Dr. 
 Brett, ' procured Bulls from Rome to excmj)t them from episcopal juris- 
 ' diction, and to be immediately subject to the Pope only. But having 
 ' occasion for episcopal offices to be performed in their moi\a'5teries, to 
 ' consecrate altars, chalices, \estments, and other ecclesiastical ornaments, 
 ' and to confirm novices taken into their houses, they found, if on such 
 ' occasions they should apply to any diocesan bishop, it would be taken as 
 ' a submission to his jurisdiction ; and therefore they got one of their own 
 ' monks to be consecrated a bishop, with some foreign title (most com- 
 ' monly a title in Greece, or some part of the Greek church), who coulil 
 ' therefore challenge no jurisdiction in any part of England ; though, with 
 ' the consent ol those who iiad jurisdiction here, he might exercise anv 
 ' part of the episcopal function-.' \ow as to procuring their own monks 
 to be ordained bishops, I have not found any instances of that, in such 
 authorities as I have had an opportunity of seeing} on the contrary, when- 
 ever the exempt religious houses wanted the service of a bishop, thev 
 would call in and use any other prelate, English, British ^, or Irish "*, 
 but their own, for fear this latter should make a precedent of the case, as 
 the learned doctor has stated, and found a claim of right, or ordinary ju- 
 risdiction u|)on it. Thus, when the Bishop of St. Asaj)li made chrism, and 
 holy oil, ill tlie great abl)ev of St. Alban's, Matthew Paris remarks 
 pointedly, ' eodem e])isco[)o nullatenus vices episcopi Lincolniensis gerente 
 ' in aliiiuo'.' The doctor, however, has verv riirhtlv oliscrvcd, that these 
 Sullragans, though they had foreign titles, were all iMigTishmen '. 
 
 ' Sirype, Lile iif CraniiuT, p. M,. and Dr. Breit's Loner in Drako's Fbor. p. 540. 
 
 ' Dr. I5ren, 1. c. 
 
 > M. Paris, p. 884. Uiiliaril l)isli()p of Bangor rosiJed tlieii at ."^t. All)anV>. 
 
 « Thorn. Cliron. inter .\ Script, col. 18J5. 2 119. M. Paris, in Vit. p. 78.82. 
 
 » M. Tans, in Vit. p. 82. • Stclnm, I.e. 
 
 The
 
 34 MR. PEGGE'S LETTER TO DR. DUCAREL 
 
 The next thing to be considered seems to be, what kind of offices these 
 coepiscopi were permitted to exercise, whence the true nature of their em- 
 plovment and constitution will he more fully developed. Their offices 
 may be ranged thus, from Mr. Strype '. 
 
 They confirmed children ; but Dr. Brett seems to understand bv this, 
 the confirminiT of novices taken into reli<>ious houses. 
 
 They blessed altars, chalices, vestments, &c. 
 
 They suspended profane and unconsecrated places, and reconciled pol- 
 luted churches and church-yards. Dr. Harris, who always wrote in haste, 
 gives it thus : ' To suspend from places and churches, and to restore to 
 * them,' applying it to persons; but in the original of Mr. Strype, 1. c. it 
 relates to places not consecrated, or profaned. 
 
 They consecrated and dedicated new churches or chapels. 
 
 They conferred the lesser orders, creating readers, subdeacons, exor- 
 cists, &c. 
 
 They made chrism and holy oil. 
 
 They baptized, blessed, and consecrated bells - ; but this is not men- 
 bv Mr. Strvpe ; probably because when Archbishop Cranmer's commis- 
 sion passed, from which he borrowed his account, this foolish ceremony 
 had ceased. 
 
 Lastly, they granted indulgences for a few days^. 
 
 The state and condition of our suffragans was not very variable ; they 
 wore the pontifical habit indeed upon occasions, as appears from the effi- 
 gies of Thomas Swlllington in the Winkburne seal, and were styled Lords*, 
 though, having no baronies or jurisdiction, they were not peers, or lords 
 of parliament. However, they had no voice in synods and councils ', as 
 their predecessors the chorepiscopi had''. They were limited often as to dis- 
 trict, having only certain archdeaconries out of many assigned them ', and 
 at and after the Reformation the commission by which they acted was re- 
 vocable ^, and this was but a natural consequence of their appointment by 
 their respective diocesans, and their enjoying no jurisdiction ; but whether 
 it was so more antlently with the Chorepiscopi may be doubted. Lastly, 
 though the Archbishop of Canterbury shewed his suffragan extraordinary 
 respect whenever he attended him, yet he was treated at the palace, as 
 Mr. Wharton expresses it, ivith contempt enough, being not admitted to 
 
 ' Strype, Life of Cranmer, p. 62. Appendix, N'XXII. ailding Dr. Hanis, Hist, of 
 Kent, p. 491. and M. Paris, in Vit. p. 82. 
 
 ' M.Paris, in Vit. p. 82. ' Wliarton, A. S I. p. 349. 
 
 ' Ur. Brett, I.e. ' Strype, ]\lein. of Cranmer, p. 285. of Appendix. 
 
 ' Mr. Bingham, i.e. ' See the Memoir on the Winkburne seal, ut supra. 
 
 • Strype, Mein. of Cranmer, N"XXII. of Append. 
 
 dine
 
 ON BISHOPS IN PARTI BUS INFIDELIUM. 25 
 
 dine at the archbishop's own table, but at the ahnoner's, or second table '. 
 Little Is known regard to the maintenance of these suffragans ; and yet one 
 cannot but suppose, that as they were designed to represent the person of 
 the diocesan and to act for him, some stipend adequate to their dlgnitv and 
 the support of that must have been assigned them. Nothing, however, of 
 this kind appears either in Longland's petition to the Pope, or Arch- 
 bishop Cranmer's commission to Richard Thornden- ; and therefore we are 
 left to imagine, that some private agreement, or stipulation, passed be- 
 tween the parties, the diocesan and suffragan, in resj)ect of the allowance; 
 and this, whatever it was, would certainly be increased by the perquisites 
 and presents, the suffragan would occasionally receive from those whom he 
 served and obliged with his episcopal functions. 
 
 Queen Mary, acting always in opposition to her father in religious mat- 
 ters, restored these bishops in partihits ^; but in the next reign they were 
 again suppressed, and the replaced English titles continued almost to the 
 end of that reion as we have seen above. 
 
 I should be hajipy, Sir, if I could here present you with a tolerable list 
 of the bishops in partihus; Dr. Brett speaks of a catalogue he could give 
 of between 30 and 40 suflfra<»:ans with forei<ifn titles ^. Air. Drake says, 
 the names of several of these subordinate prelates occur in the registers at 
 York, and wonders so exact a man as JNIr. I'orrc omitted taking a cata- 
 logue of them ^ : but the words of Mr. Wharton on this subject are still 
 more remarkable ; ' that if it pleased God to permit him to finish his 
 ' ylnglia Sacra, he should exhibit a perfect succession of sulfragan bishops 
 ' in almost all the dioceses of England, for about 200 years before the 
 ' Reformation ''.' This was written about l(jf)3, but a yearbeforc he died ; 
 so that, I fear, his labours on this head are entirely lost, and the damage 
 irreparable, as no one, I am persuaded, is at this time, so well (|ualified 
 to perform the task as Mr. Wharton was. And yet these suffragans were 
 doubtless men of some figure and consequence in their dav, antl had ob- 
 taineil a character lor prudence, sobriety, and learning, all which mav be 
 predicated, \\\t\\ some degree of certainty, of Robert Kvnge above-men- 
 tioned, who in X'lA'I was made the first blslioj) of Oxford for his great and 
 conspicuous merits. 
 
 The titles I have been able to recover are only these few. 
 
 Carhonirnsis IVtrus, J3-25. Thorn, Cliron. col. 2OJ.9. Tlie plaro must he in 
 lluiigiiry ; for tlic saiiie person, col. 20.']8, is called Pit 1 us ipisco/ius Jliin- 
 
 ' Wharton, in .*>trypc's Cranincr, p. a-iS. Dr. Brclt commits a sniall mist.nke here, 
 l)y seaiiii'^ him at tho iliinl, or steward's table. ' I'l'. I5ittt, I c. 
 
 • Harris, Ilist. of Kent, p. 491. ' Dr. llntt, I.e. 
 
 * Drake's Ebor. p. 53y. ' Strype, Craniner, p. 2 jC of Appcn.lix. .^ee p. 2S. 
 
 D garioe.
 
 26 MR. PEGGE'S LETTER TO DR. DUCAREL 
 
 oar'uc. lie was suffragan to Archbishop of Canterbury Walter Reynolds. 
 Thorn, 1. c. 
 Chalcedon. Matthew Makerell, abbot of Burlings, 1 535. Register of Longland 
 bishop of Lincoln, whose suffragan he was ; see before. He was to exer- 
 cise jurisdiction within the archdeaconries of Lincoln and Stow. Chalcedon 
 is in Bithynia. 
 CaUipolis. John Young, I517. Wood Ath. Ox. L 663. Gallipoli in Thrace. 
 Hungary, v. Carhoniensis. 
 
 Hippoliianeiis. John. Strype, Life of Cranmer, p. 37. 71. This is conceived to 
 be a corruption, and to mean Hippo in Numidia. Sec Appendix, p. 256. 
 Jofm. Suffragan to archbishop Edmund 1240. Ang. Sac. L p. 349- 
 Lacedemou. Thomas Woulf. Wood, Ath. Oxon. L col. 650. 
 Lydensis. Thomas Bele or Beel. Wood, ibid. p. 6G6. Judaea '. 
 Monyonensis. John Bell, bishop of Mayo in Ireland, as in Mr. Batteley's Cant. 
 Sacra, p. 602. where he is referred to A.D. 1403, a»d is the same whom 
 Dr. Harris, History of Kent, p. 491, corruptly calls Monyonensis. 
 Majorensis, or Megarensis. Thomas Vivian. Wood, Athen. L col. 649- Megara 
 
 in Greece. 
 Neapolitanus. John Draper, prior of Christ Church, Hants, surrendered his house 
 31 Henry VHL Burnet, Hist, of Ref. L p. 148. Willis, Mitr. Abb. H. p. 
 204. Geographers give us eight places of this name ; it was probably that 
 in Palestine. 
 Negropont. John Hatton. Strype, Cranmer, p. 37- Euboea. 
 
 Richard Wilson. Wood, Ath. L col. 656. 
 
 Navatensis. William Bottlesham,1382. Strype, Cranmer, p. 36. but this is thought, 
 by Mr. Wharton, to be a corruption of Landavensis. Ibid. p. 255. 2d 
 paging. 
 Philadelphia. Thomas Halam. See Memoir on the Winkburne Seal. 
 
 Thomas Swillington, July I5, 1533- Ibid. His jurisdiction was 
 
 limited to the archdeaconries of Lincoln and Leicester. 
 Reonens. Robert Kynge, first bishop of Oxford. Greece. Memoir on the Wink- 
 burne Seal. 
 Sidon. Thomas Chetham suffragan to Cardinal Pole. Harris, Hist, of Kent. p. 49 1 • 
 
 Thomas Wellys, living 151I. Wharton, Ang. Sac. I. p. 790. Strype, 
 
 Cranmer, pp. 36'. 58. and Append, pp. 255. Harris, p. 491. Wood, Ath. 
 I. col. GG4. 
 
 Christopher, I535. Strype, Cranmer, p. 37. 
 
 Syrinensis, or Syrimensis. John Thornden, alias Thornton. Wood, I. col. 654. 
 
 Sirmium. 
 Tynensis. Thomas Cornish. Wood, I. col. 650. an island in the Archipelago, Tine, 
 or Ten OS. 
 
 ' Round a bishop, cut in black strokes, on a white stone in the abbey church at Dor- 
 chester, in the county of Oxford, is this inscription : 
 
 Hie jacet d'us Joannes quo'dam p'oratus de ranton in com. Siaffordie, postea abbas 
 moil' de Dorcbestre, Lincoln dioces', nee non ep'us iidensis, cujus 
 
 He was prior of Dorchester about 1510. Willis, Mit. Ab. \\. 176. where the epitaph 
 is incorrectly given. 
 
 Upsal-
 
 ON BISHOPS IN PARTIBUS INFIDELIUM. 27 
 
 Upsallensis^. Siward, called a ChoreplscopuSj 104^. Harris, Hist, of Kent, p. 
 491. Sweden. 
 
 It is necessary here to remark, for a conclusion, that some suffragans 
 were ordained without any title, as I3ishops of the Universal Church, 
 such was Richard Martyn, Strype. Cranmer, p. 3/. Wharton, Ang. Sac. 
 I. p. 790- 64. These being limited to no diocese, could certainly exer- 
 cise their function, when required, in all places ; and the proceeding 
 seems to be much more rational than assigning a see in Partibus hrfide- 
 liuni. I am. Sir, your most obedient, humble servant, 
 
 Whittington, Sept. 10, 1784. j SaMUEJL PeGGE. 
 
 Extract from Bishop Longland's Memorandums, anno Domini 1529, 
 by favour of Messieurs Foster and Fardell, 1/84. 
 
 Sanctissimo simul ac beatissimo Patri et Domino summoque pontifici,. suis hu- 
 millimus atque addictissimus Johannes, Dei summa beuignitate, ct ip'ius gratis. 
 Lincoluiensis ep'us, felicitatem in Domino sempiternam, et subjectionem omni- 
 modam tant' sauctitati debitam, usque ad pedum oscula beatorum. Quoniain. 
 pater sanctissime, n'ra diocesis longe latcque diffunditur, adeo quidem ut cum per 
 ejus aniplitudinem, turn per varias insuper causas rationabijes, justas et graves, 
 sepissime nobis emergen tes -, sic intercsse non possumus et officio fungi, ut onera 
 singula buic eccriae u're consueta et debita sufticienter et plene psrimplere valea- 
 mus, et v'ra sanctitas ap'lica sua maxima benignitate ad supplicacionem episcopo- 
 rum in consimili negotio consuevit viros aliquot de quorum vita et honestate eidem 
 sanctitati constare poterit, in Coepiscopos atque suffiagancos ex eausis ejusccinodi 
 justis et legitimis promovere, non diffisus sum buniiliter, supplicanter, et ex in- 
 timis praecordiis beatissinie v're sanctitati verabilem et religiosum virum Tiiomani 
 Halam, priorem domus sive prioratus de Newstede juxta Stanfordiam, ordinis 
 sancti Augustini Lincoln' diocesis, moribus et sacrarum I'rarum scientia jireditum 
 ac pollentum com'endatissimum facere, buniiliter et devote supplicans, quatenus 
 eundum Tbomani priorem in sufTraganeum et Coepiscopum ex v'ra gratia sin"ulari 
 promovere dignetur vestra sanctitas, ut in eausis premissis ceterisque circa pasto- 
 raleni curam infra diocesim meani et alibi extTcendis, in cxonerationeui con- 
 sciencie mee, mihi sutfragari jjossit. Sique vestra sanctitas premissa bumilime 
 postulata concesserit, mibique jam in hac necessitate subvenerit, rem Deo gratani 
 eccl'a; Lincoln' pernccessariuni atque utilcm, et inibi imprimis optatam atque 
 utilem, et milii inqirimis optatam atque acoeptissiniam facict. Et ego quantas 
 possum vestre sanctitati gratias liabiturus sum, et fideliter ac semper oraturus, ut 
 ipsa vestra sanctitas diutissime felicissima vivat, atque eoclesie clavcs inter Cliristi 
 fideles in pace custodial et felicissiine gubernct. Dat' in eedibus meis Holhur- 
 nensibus juxta Londinum, tertiis idibus Maias. 
 
 ' In the north cross aile of Wells cathedral is an altar looiW, inscribed round the led<»e, 
 Obiit supradictus dominus Thomas Tinensis e|)'us tcrcio ilif mensis Julii, anno Dd- 
 
 mini MfccccXMi. cujus anime men. 
 
 ' I.ongland was at this time cunfessor to the king.
 
 ( 28 ) 
 
 *^* In Dr. Brett's " Account of Church-Government, and Gover- 
 noure," 2d edit. 1/10, pp. 242, 243, is a translation of Henry Wharton's 
 Latin in his 8vo " Hist. De Ep'is et Decanis Londinensib', &c." p. 124. 
 The passsage in the original ends thus : " De Petro [episcopo Corbanensi, 
 " seu (ut alibi did solet} Corbariensi] aliisque sedis Londinensis Cliorepis- 
 " copis, fusius posthac (Deo volente) agemus in opere peculiari de Chore- 
 " piscopis Angliae ; quorum successionem propemodum justam in singulis 
 " fere diocesibus contexui ; et in diocesi sane Liondinensi hand pauciores 
 " quam 28 (quorum Petrus fuit secundus) inter annos 1312 et 1540 isto 
 " munere perfunctos inveni." Upon which Brett had this observation : 
 " Now the collection made by this very learned and industrious Antiquary, 
 " as far as relates to the diocese of London at least, must needs be a con- 
 " tinned succession. For the space of time between the years 1312 and 
 " 1540 is but 228 years, in which time a succession of 28 Chorepiscopi 
 " will admit of but eight years continuance for each person in that office 
 " one with another. But this great man died so soon, that he lived not to 
 " publish this, and many other useful books he had designed for the pub- 
 *' lick." See Mr. Lewis's preceding Essay, for a passage occurring in 
 Wharton's Letter, above referred to, p. 256. See before, p. 25. All 
 that has been recovered on this subject is here subjoined.
 
 A LIST 
 
 OF THE 
 
 SUFFRAGAN BISHOPS IN ENGLAND, 
 
 DRAWN UP BY THE LATE 
 
 Rev. henry WHARTON, M. A * 
 
 AND 
 
 FAITHFULLY TRANSCRIBED FROM HIS ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPTS 
 
 IN THE 
 
 LAMBETH LIBRARY, AD. 1769. 
 
 Chorepiscopi DIocesis Cantuariensis. 
 
 Siwardus Ep'us Upsallensis, abbas Abendonise Eadsini archiep'i 
 
 Chorep'us (actus 1044- obiit 1049- Vide Aug. Sac. I. 
 
 lOG. 167. 55. 238. 791. S. 20. 
 Godwinus Ep'us S. Martini, obiit 1061, 7 id. Martii. Vide Angl. 
 
 Sacr. torn. I. p. 79S. 150. 390. 
 Anschitillus Ep'uin fuisse Somnerus conjicit Antiq. Cant. p. 30O. 
 
 Certe in concilio London' IO75. pioxinie post ep'os 
 
 ante omncs abbates subscripsit. 
 Robertus Ep'us Olomusensis 1221. S. 14S. F. II7. 
 
 Johannes Suffraganeus ep'us archiep'i Cant' 1240. I. 349- 
 
 Ep'us Moraviensis 1283. S. I51. 
 [LaurentiusdeS.Martino.] Ep'us Roffensis 1254- E. 104. 
 Walterus Ep'us Rosanensis I273. S. I48. F. II7. 
 
 Carbricus Ep'us Mathhotensis 1273. S. 148. F. 11 7. 
 
 Ep'us Clonfertensis suffraganeus in diocesi Cant' 1200. 
 
 F. 102. 
 
 ♦ List of Wharton's MSS. as numbered (1734) in the Lambeth Library. 
 Formerly, now. 
 
 A. 
 B. 
 C. 
 
 D. 
 
 E. 
 F. 
 
 577. 
 578. 
 579. 
 580. 
 581. 
 582. 
 
 Formerly 
 G. 
 H. 
 L 
 K. 
 L. 
 M. 
 
 now. 
 1052. 
 956. 
 583. 
 584. 
 585. 
 943. 
 
 Formerly. 
 N. 
 O. 
 P. 
 
 a 
 
 R. 
 
 s. 
 
 now. 
 959. 
 586. 
 587. 
 538. 
 539. 
 590. 
 
 Formerly. 
 T. 
 U. 
 W. 
 X. 
 Y. 
 Z. 
 
 now. 
 wanting, 
 wanting. 
 
 593. 
 
 593. 
 
 594. 
 
 595. 
 
 A.A. B.B. given by H. \V. to the Library of St. John's College, O.von.— D.D. F.F. and 
 K.K. wanting. 
 
 Johannes
 
 30 
 
 WHARTON'S LIST OF SUFFRAGAN BISHOPS. 
 
 Johannes 
 Rolandus 
 Petrus 
 
 Hamo de Hethe 
 Caesarius 
 
 Ricardus 
 
 [Job. Pascal!] 
 
 Benedictus 
 
 Johannes 
 
 Johannes 
 
 Ricardus 
 
 Johannes 
 
 Richardus 
 
 Johannes 
 
 Willelmus 
 
 Richardus Martin 
 Thomas Wells 
 Johannes Thornton 
 
 Richardus Yngworth 
 
 Richardus Thornden 
 Thomas Chetham 
 Richardus Rogers 
 
 Ep'us Landavensis 1312. L. 22. 4C3. 
 
 Ep'us Ardmacanensis 1323. S. I4S. F. 11 7. 
 
 Ep'us Corbaniensis 1324. F. I04. ab archiep'o tunc 
 
 postulatus a monachis Cant' sed non da[tus]. 
 Ep'us Roffensis 1333. F. 104. 
 Ep'us B. Marine de Rosis, suifraganeus archiep'i Cant 
 
 1349. F. 105. L. 19. 
 Archiep'us Nazarenus, suffragancus ejusdem 1349. F. 
 
 136. S. 26. 136. 
 Ep'us Landavensis 1348. L. I9. 24. 461. 
 Ep'us Bangorensis 1416. S. 30 
 Ep'us Dromorensis suffraganeus 1419. 1426. S. 30. 
 Ep'us Anchoradensis 1424. S.30. 
 Ep'us Roffensis 1435. 1452. S. 30, 
 Ep'us Olensis 1443- S. 30. 
 
 Ep'us Joppensis et prior de Comwell suffraganeus ar- 
 chiep'i Cant, f'uit ab anno 1471. Vide L. 82. 
 Ep'us Roffensis, suffraganeus archiep'i Cant' ab anno 
 
 1439 ad 14653 quando obiit in rectoria sua de Otte- 
 
 ford. Vide L. 80. 82. 
 Ep'us Insulensis, et rector eccl'se de Mersham, suffra- 
 
 neus archiep'i Cant' fuit ab anno 1465 ad 1467. 
 
 Vide L. 82. S. 29. 
 Ep'us Sidoniensis, suffraganeus archiep'i Cant' ab anno 
 
 1468. Erat ex ordine nigrorum canonicorum L. 82. ^ 
 Ep'us Dorobernensis ordinis Carniel. Suffraganeus •'. 2^._-, /,<: /./^ 
 
 archiepi Cant' fuit ab anno I469. *. 
 
 Sine certo titulo suffraganeus archiep'i Cant' Vide I. I 
 
 • 64. 790. S. So. 134. 31- 
 Ep'us Sidoniae suffraganeus archiep'i Cant. Vide I. 64. >^ 
 
 790, K. 228. S. 32. 
 Ep'us Syrymensis, suffraganeus Warhanii archiep'i 
 Cant'. VideO. 559. C30. 640. K. 228. R. 172. P. 
 
 111.116. /»«i«. «jj Z' ^WU ' v ^-«>*i . 
 
 Prior de Langley. Ep'us suffraganeus Dovorensis. 
 
 Vide R. 23. B. 358. F. 116. R. 172. S. 33. L. 759- 
 
 B.358. 
 Ep'us Dovorensis. Vide B. 360. O. 586. F. 134. S. 33. 
 
 B.360. 
 Ep'us Sidoniensis, suffraganeus archiep'i Cant'. Vide 
 
 B. 36I. O. 586. 
 Ep'us Dovorensis. Vide B. 381. O. 587. 
 
 Cho-
 
 WHARTON'S LIST OF SUFFRAGAN BISHOPS. 
 
 31 
 
 Chorepiscopi DIocesis Londinensis. 
 
 David 
 
 Petrus 
 Richardus 
 VVillelmus 
 Johannes 
 Johannes 
 Willelmus 
 ^WilHehnus 
 Johannes 
 Johannes 
 Johannes 
 
 f.ichaulus 
 olmh'iie't" 
 Johannes 
 Thomas 
 
 Jacobus 
 
 Thomas 
 
 Johannes 
 
 Georgius 
 
 Johannes 
 
 Richardus 
 
 Edwardus 
 
 Thomas Wolf 
 
 Johannes Younge 
 
 Thomas Bele 
 
 Thomas Chetham 
 
 Johannes Hodgskin 
 
 Johannes Holt 
 Johannes Sterne 
 
 • ^ 
 
 Ep'us Menevensis 1312. 1327. S, 2. 6. 
 
 Ep'us Corbariensis, obiit 1331. R. 158. F. 81. S. 6. 7, 
 
 Archiep'us Nazarensis I3G1. L. 379. 
 
 Ep'us Tornacensis, consecratus I385. L. 379. 
 
 Ep'us Derensis 1392. L. 379. 
 
 Eij'us Glasguensis 1393. L. 379. 
 
 Ep'us Basiliensis 1394. 1399. L. 379. 
 
 Ep'us Bangorensis 1418. L. 380. 
 
 Ep'us Surronensis 1417- 1422. L. 380. 
 
 Ep'us Dromorcnsis 1423. 1432. L. 379. 380. 
 
 Ep'us Lismorensis 1424- L. 380. 
 
 Ep'us Rofensis 1434. 1441 L. 380. 
 
 Ep'us Olensis 1436. 1446". L. 380. 
 
 Ep'us Clonfertensis 1443- L. 3S0. 
 
 Ep'us Rathburensis [vel Rathlurensis] I489. L. 380. 
 
 381. S. 134. [Vide VVaracum dePraesuhbus Hibern 
 
 p. 67.] 
 Ep'us Darensis 1491- L. 380. S. 134. 
 Ep'us Pavadensis 1492. L. 380. S. 165. 
 Ep'us Olenensis 1497. L. 381. 
 Ep'us Dromorensis 1497- L. 38 1. 
 Ep'us Majonensis 1499- L. 381. 
 Ep'usOlonensis 1501. L. 381. 
 Ep'us Calliponensis I503. L. 3SI. 
 Ep'us Lacedoemonensis, amotus circa 1510. R. 172. 
 
 L. 381. 
 Ep'us Callipolensis, consecratus I513. R. I73. L. 381. 
 
 382. 
 Ep'us Lyddensis, floruit 1520 — 1530. R. 172. L. 3S1. 
 
 376. 
 Ep'us Sidonicnsis, floruit 1530 — 1537. B. 3G1. L. 381. 
 
 F. 49. 
 Ep'us Bedfordensis, consecratus 1537. R. 23. I72. L. 
 
 376. L. 382. B. 358. 
 Ep'us Lyddensis, obiit 1540. R. 171. 
 • • • • consecratus 1592. B. 3G1. 
 
 Chorepiscopi Diocesls Wintoniensis. 
 Ep'us Neopolitanus. I539. R. 171. 
 
 Cho-
 
 3^' 
 
 WHARTON'S LIST OF SUFFRAGAN BISHOPS. 
 
 Chorepiscopi Diocesis Eliensis. 
 
 Willelmus 
 Willelmus More 
 
 Nicolaus Shaxton 
 
 Ep'us Panadensis 15 24. R. 171. 
 
 Ej)'us Colcestrensis, consecratus 1536. 1. 550. 676. 685. 
 
 R. 172. B. 357- 
 • • . 1547—1557. B. 3G2. 
 
 Chorepiscopi Diocesis Norwicensis. 
 
 Gilbertus de Norwico 
 Benedictus de Norfolcia 
 Thomas Pascal 
 
 - , »•» /. J'honias Edwardston 
 
 • '^..V *' «/ .Johannes Levcester 
 
 k^'^mf^ ^'''^^^.ilobertus 
 ^/V]|i^/i«»^^^Hobertus 
 
 , ^^ Thomas Scropes, aHas 
 ^^JTI^ Bradley 
 i*^T»*^- Johannes 
 
 Florentius WoUey 
 Edmundus 
 
 Underwood 
 
 Johannes Salisbury 
 
 Thomas Mannyng 
 
 Ep'us Hamensis, obiit 1287. F. ^^. R. 158. S. 14S. 
 
 Ep'us Cardicensis I340. R. 158. X «r?<'* 
 
 Ep'us Scutariensis I340. R. 134. I58. ;t 
 
 Archiep'iis . . . obiit 1396. R. I5S. 
 
 Archiep'us Smirnensis 1413 — 1423. L. fiOJ). G22. F. 00. 
 
 R. 158. s. 148. " — fSu/^u^ ^ 4h-^ ■!■ !)i 
 
 Ep'us Imelicensis 1424. L. 609. 613. 
 
 Ep'us Gradensis 1426 — 1446. L. Goy. 6'13. X .\(- dK . 
 
 Ep'us Dromorensis, 1450 — 1477- L.G13. F.99.R. 159- K 
 
 T.31. 
 Ep'us Roffensis 14GG — 1474. L. G22. 
 Clowchoriensis Ep'us 1478 — 14SG. L. G13. F. 116. 
 Ep'us Calcedonensis 1502. L. G09. 
 
 Ep'us 1531- L. Gil. K Utt^- 
 
 Ep'us Thetfordcnsis, consecratus I536. I. 419- R. I72. 
 
 B.357. 
 Ep'us Ipswicensis, consecratus I53G. I. 419. R. I72. 
 
 S. 154. B.357- 
 
 Johannes Stokes 
 Johannes 
 Johannes 
 Ricardus 
 Johannes Bell 
 
 Chorepiscopi Diocesis Lichfeldensis. 
 
 Ep'us Glascuensis 1321. I. 447. 
 
 Ep'us Triburiensis 1407. R. 17I. S. 156. 
 
 Ep'us Insulensis 1450. S. 156. 
 
 Ep'us Sodorensis 1452. S. 31. 15G. 
 
 Ep'us Dunensis et Conorensis I453. S. 31. 
 
 Ep'us Majorensis 1503. L. 466. F. 149. 157. 
 
 Chorepiscopi Diocesis Wellensis. 
 
 Sigfridus 
 
 Nicolaus 
 
 Johannes Grenlan 
 
 Nicolaus 
 
 Stephanus 
 
 Ricardus 
 
 Johannes 
 
 Ep'us ex Norvvegia ante Conquestum. I. p. ult 
 Ep'us Christopolitanus 1385. S. 47. 
 Ep'us Soltaniensis T401. L. 727. I. 57I. 
 Ep'us Chrysopolitanus I403. L. 727. 
 Ep'us Rossensis I410. L. 727. 
 Ep'us Katensis 1414 — 143G. L. 727. 
 Ep'us Olensis 1437 — 1443. L. 727. 
 
 Jacobus
 
 WHARTON'S LIST OF SUFFRAGAN BISHOPS. 
 
 33 
 
 Jacobus 
 Jacobus idem 
 Johannes 
 
 Johannes 
 Tlioinas Barett 
 Tlionias Cornish 
 
 Thomas Wolf 
 
 Thomas Chard 
 
 Johannes 
 
 Huj^o 
 
 Will, hnus Gilbert 
 
 Willelmus Finche 
 
 Ep'us Akadensis 144.S — 1451. L. 727. R. 17). 
 
 Ep'us Bangorensis 1453. 1454. L. 727. 
 
 Ep'us Tinensis 1459—1479- L. 727, 728. I. 574. R. 
 
 171. 
 Ep'us Hossensis 1479- 14S1. L. 728. R. 171. 
 Ep'us Enachdunensis 1482 — 1485. L. 728. R. 171. 
 Ep'us i'iiieusis i486'— 1513, L. 728. I. 575. R. I72. F. 
 
 1 J6'. S. 103. 
 Ep'us Larcdipmonensis I513. L. 728. I. 577. R. 172. 
 Ep'us Soliihriensis 1514 — 151f). L. 728. I. 577. B. 359. 
 Ep'us Majorensis 1519- L. 728. I. 577. R. 171. 
 Ep'us Midensis 1519. L. 7-^8 
 
 Ep'us Majorensis ir^i()~ir,2G. L. 72S. I. 577. R. I72. 
 Ep'us Tauntonensis, consecratus I538. I. 577. R. I72. 
 
 B. 35.9. 
 Ep'us .... obiit 1552. R. 171. 
 
 Alexander Barkeley 
 
 Chorepiscopi Diocesis Lincolniensis 
 
 ^Ifgarus 
 
 Elwmus 
 
 Osmundus 
 
 Gamaliel 
 
 Christiernus 
 
 Galfridus Grandefeide 
 
 Willthnus Egmunde 
 
 Thf)mas 
 
 Thomas 
 
 Johannes 
 
 Johannes Tynmouth 
 
 Mattheus Makarel 
 
 Robert us Kynge 
 
 Ex-episcopus llelmeamensis 1016. I. pag. ult. 
 
 Ex ep'us Helmeamensis 1025- I. 405. 608. 
 
 Ep'us ex SuL'dia loCO Vide Scriptor. Ang. XV. p. 514. 
 
 Ep'us Sodorensis, circa 1100 L. 173. iu^^^'i-.'. » -i^ ''^^ni.U'i 
 
 Ep'us ex Dania IO70. Vide Chronol. Sax. Gibsoni, 
 
 p- 176. __ j^ ri^'tu^f^ ^f-ilttii^ . Clt>:,ftu'Uj. '"Ai, ^u/'^^f / 
 
 Epus .... 1340. R. 158. ^ /'. ' "- ., ^ ff 
 
 'n 
 
 r^p us .... 1340. n. ijo. /-. . — ., iw 
 
 Epus Pissinensis, 1:^90. R. I5S. ^""^'^ ^^V\ iU-cu^i fa^ ^^ ./- i^i 
 
 Epus Enarhdunensis 1449. S. 3"or^/;^ /^,;^^ /^. P/^ <W4.////^ t/ //' ?/ 
 
 Ep'us Kathlurtnsis 1484. S. 134. ^ r • /. 
 
 Ej/us Callipolensis 1522. S. 32. 
 
 Ep'us Argosiensis obiit 1524. R. 172. S. I35. 
 
 Ep'us .... 1535. R. 171. 
 
 Ep'us Roveuensis 1539. R 172. F. 118. B. 35; 
 
 Chorepiscopi Diocesis Sarisburiensis. 
 
 Rodulphus 
 
 Ep'us 
 
 Godefridus 
 
 Ep'us 
 
 
 Ep'us 
 
 Robertus Petyt 
 
 Ep'us 
 
 Robert us 
 
 Ep'us 
 
 Johannes 
 
 Ep'us 
 
 Johannes 
 
 Ep'us 
 
 Henricus 
 
 Ep'us 
 
 Nicolaus 
 
 Ep'us 
 
 Johannes 
 
 Ep'us 
 
 de Norwegia 1050. L. 54. 
 Assavensis llf)'5 — 11 75. L. 54. 
 Menevensis I316'. S. 11 4. 
 Enachdunensis 1326'. S. II4. 
 Scnascopolensis I38S. S. 124- F. I59. L. 379. 
 Sodi-reuMs I390. S. 124. 
 (ilasguensis 139^. S. 120. 
 Enaclidmiensis I397. S. 120. 
 t'lnysopulitanus 140I — 1406'. S. 120. 
 Kailipolensis I407. S. 120. 
 
 E Willelmus
 
 WHARTON'S LIST OF SUFFRAGAN BISHOPS. 
 
 Willclmui 
 Johannes 
 Ricardus 
 Johannes 
 Johannes 
 Johannes 
 Robertus 
 Jacobus 
 Nicolaus 
 Ricardus 
 Jacobus 
 Simon 
 Jacobus 
 Augustinus 
 Johannes Bell 
 Willelmus 
 Johannes 
 Rogerus 
 
 Johannes Pynnock 
 Thomas Bickley, alias 
 Morley 
 
 Ep'us Solubriensis 1409. S. 121. 
 
 Ep'us Soltaniensis 1409. S. 121. 
 
 Ep'us Katenensis 1414 — 1438. S. 121. 123. 126. 
 
 Ep'us Ciconensis 1420. S. 123. 
 
 Ep'us Enachdunensis 1421. S. 123. 126. 12(). 
 
 Archiep'us Tuaniensis 1425. S. 123. 
 
 Ep'us Imelacensis 1435 — 1441. S. 126. 129. 
 
 Ep'us Akadensis 1443 — 1449. S. 129. 
 
 Ep'us Landavensis 1453. S. 133. 
 
 Ep'us Rosiensis 1454. S. I32. 
 
 Ep'us Bangoriensis I45I. S. 432. 
 
 Ep'us Connerensis 1459 — 1481. S. 132. 
 
 Ep'us Ardakadensis 1466. S. 132. 
 
 Ep'us Liddensis 1493 — 1499- S. 134. 
 
 Ep'us Mironensis 1501. L. 84. 466. F. I46. 
 
 Ep'us Saloniensis 1508 — 1517- S. 136. 
 
 Ep'us Argolicensis 1510. S. 135. 
 
 Ep'us Liddensis 1517. S. I36. 
 
 Ep'us Syenensis 1518— 1535-S. 136. 137. 
 
 Ep'us Marlebergensis, cons. 1537. R. 172. B. 358. 
 
 Chorepiscopi Diocesis Herefordensis. 
 
 Robertus 
 
 Johannes Warre 
 
 Robertus 
 
 Nicolaus 
 
 Matthaeus 
 
 Ricardus 
 
 Galfridus 
 
 Johannes 
 
 Robertus 
 
 Ricardus 
 
 Thomas Hartperry 
 
 Philippus Pinson 
 
 Radulfus 
 
 Thomas 
 
 Andreas Whitmay 
 
 Johannes 
 
 Ep'us Prisinensis 136O. L. 769. 
 Ep'us Cumanagieiisis 137 1. L. 769. 
 Ep'us Archiliensis 1386. L. 769. 
 Ep'us Dunkeldensis 1404. L. 769. 
 Ep'us Ebronensis, circa 1410. L. 769. 
 Ep'us Akadensis, circa 1430. L. 770. 
 Ep'us Kildarensis 1447- L.. 77O. 
 Ep'us Roff'ensis, circa 1475- L. 770. 
 Ep'us Menevensis . . . L. 77O. 
 Ep'us Olonensis, circa 1480. L. 770. 
 Ep'us Clonensis, circa 1490. L. 770. 
 Archiep'us Tuamensis 1503. R. 172. 
 Ep'us Ascalonensis 1504. L. 770. 
 Ep'us Lachorensis, circa 151O. L. 770. 
 Ep'us Chrysopolitanus, circa 1540. L. 
 Ep'us Panadensis, circa 1545. L. 77 1. 
 
 / / 
 
 Chorepiscopi Diocesis Carleolensis. 
 
 Johannes Kite 
 
 Archiep'us Thebanus et ep'us Carleol. factus 1521. 
 G. 152. 
 
 Cho-
 
 WHARTON'S LISl OF SUFFRAGAN BISHOPS. 
 
 35 
 
 Chorepiscopi Dlocesis Wigorniensis. 
 
 .Johannes de Monemutha 
 
 Anianus 
 
 Ciilbertus 
 
 Robertas 
 
 Robertas ^ • 
 
 Nicholaus 
 Willelnius 
 Johannes 
 Stephanas 
 Thomas 
 Richardus 
 Robertas 
 Johannes 
 ■ Jacobus 
 Henricas Holbeach 
 
 Ricardas 
 
 Willelnius 
 
 Robertas 
 
 Ricardas 
 
 Hugo 
 
 Georgius 
 
 Thomas 
 
 Donatas 
 
 Ricardas 
 
 Edwardus 
 
 Raduifus 
 
 Johannes 
 
 Andreas Whitmaye 
 
 Ep'us Landavensis 1297 — 139O. L. 699. S. 16"2. 
 
 Ep'us Bangorensis 1311 — 1313. L. 669. 
 
 Ep'us Enachdunensis 1313. L. 699. 
 
 Ep'us Clonfertensis 1322. L. 699. 
 
 Archiep'us Nazarensis 1350. L. 699. 
 
 Ep'us Presinensis 1373 — 1375. L. 699. 
 
 Ep'us Dunkeldensis 13.92 — 1421. L. 699. 
 
 Ep'us Pharensis 1395. L. 699. S. 162. 
 
 E'pus Triburiensis 1416. L. 699. 
 
 Ep'us Uofiensis I420. L. 6'99. 
 
 Ep'us Chrysopolitanus 1420. L. 699. 
 
 Ep'us Achadensis 1426. 1433. L. 6$9. 
 
 Ep'us Imelacensis 1433. L. 699. 
 
 Ep'us Clonfertensis 1443. L. 699. 
 
 Ep'us Achadensis 1443. L. 699. 
 
 Episcopus Bristoliensis 1540. L. 700. I. 550. R. i;^. 
 
 B. 358. 
 Ep'us Dunensis 1465 — 1479- L. 699. 
 Ep'us Sidoniensis 14S0. L. 699. 
 Ep'us Menevensis 1481. L. 699. 
 Ep'us Olonensis 1482 — 1491. L. 69$. 
 Ep'us Menevensis 1492. L. 699. 
 Ep'us Droniorensis 1497- L. 70O. 
 Ep'us Tincnsis I49S. L. 700. 
 Ep'us Imelacensis 1500. L. 70O. 
 Ep'us Olonensis I501. L. 700. R. I72. 
 Ep'us Callipolensis iri03. L. 700. 
 Ep'us Ascolonensis l.-,03 — 1523. L. 700. L. 84. 
 Ep'us Panadensis 1526 — 153I. L. 700. 
 Ep'us Chrysopolitanus I526 — 1541. L. 700 R. 172 
 
 B. 358. 
 
 Thomas Radcliff 
 Ricardus 
 Thomas Spark 
 
 Chorepiscopi Diocesls Dunelmensis. 
 
 Ep'us Dromorensis 1487. 1. 77S. R. 158. 
 Ep'us Naturensis, consecratus I513. L. 38 1. 
 Ep'us Bervvicensis, consecratus 1536. I. 783, 784 
 173, 174. B. 359. ^ 
 
 Chorepiscopi Diocesls Eboracensis. 
 
 R. 
 
 Augustinus Notyngham Ep'us Laodicensis 1310. R. I60. 
 I>avid Ep'us Recroensis 1315. R. J 73. 
 
 Roiandus 

 
 3(i 
 
 WHAHTONS LIST OF SUFFRAGAN BISHOPS. 
 
 Kolandus 
 
 Richardus 
 
 Robertus 
 
 Hugo 
 
 Oswaldus 
 
 Robertus Worsop 
 
 Galfridus 
 
 Thomas 
 
 Robertus 
 
 Willelmus de Northburge 
 
 Johannes 
 
 Johannes Greenlaw 
 
 Johannes 
 
 Nicolaus 
 
 Richardus Mesinus 
 
 Johannes 
 
 Johannes 
 
 Willelmus 
 
 Johannes Halton 
 
 Richardus Wylson 
 
 Willelmus 
 
 Willelmus 
 
 \\obertus Silvester, alias 
 
 Pursglove 
 Ricardus Barnes 
 
 Ex Archiep'us Armarhanus 1,32. R. I73. 
 Ep'us Serviensis 1370 — 1397. L 787. 
 Ep'us Donkeldensis 13S0 — 1384- L. 7S7. 
 Archiep'us Damascenus 1350. l\. 1 73. 
 Ep'us Candidicasinsis 1391 — 1397. L. 787. 
 Ep'us .... 1350. R. l6'i). 
 Ep'us Miliensis 13G) — 136'4- L. 787. 
 
 Epus M.gnatiens.s 1365. L 787. ^^, ^.^^'^a/^,.^-^«^iV 
 
 Epus Lambrensis 1366. L. 787. ^_^ '>/*■ ^ ' /;.V/<A"// *. 
 
 Ep'us Pharensis 1400. U. 173. L. 787. 
 
 Ep'us Lomerciensis 1418. L. 789. 
 
 Ep'us Soltaniensis 1421. R. 173- L. 787. 
 
 Ep'us Enachdnnensis 14 1 7 — 1420. ' . 789. 
 
 Ep'us Dromoronsis 1420 — 1445- I ^9- 
 
 Ep'us Dromoreusis 14()'o. R. 16O I.. 789. 
 
 Ep'us I'hilipolensis 145-2. H- 173 L. 789. 
 
 Ei/us Insuiensis 145'^ — 1463. L 7S9. ,, ,, <.-,.„,/ 
 
 Ep'us Dromorensis I463-1501. L. 789. ^^^^- tk^J^^^^'l^^'J'H- 
 
 Ep'us Nigropontensis l."»04. R. 173- L. 7S9. 
 
 Ep'us Nigropontanus I.515. \\. I73. 
 
 Ep'us Dariensis 1530. W. 173. L. 79I. 
 
 Ep'us Ascalonensis 1535. L. 791. 
 
 Ep'us Huliensis 1537, laSS- L. 791. B. 359- B. 
 
 Ep'us Nottinghamieiisis'l5C7 — 1573.L. 791. 
 
 Chorepiscopus Diocesis Landavensis. 
 
 Johannes Bird 
 
 Ep'us Penrethaniis, cons. 1537. f^- U2. B 35; 
 Chorepiscopi Diocesis Assavensis. 
 
 Ludovicus Thomas 
 Johannes Bradley 
 
 Ep'us Salopiensis, cons. 1537. ^- ^~^- B- 357- 
 Ep'us Shaftoniensis, cons. 1539- R- 172. B. 3f,9. 
 
 Chorepiscopi Diocesis Exoniensis. 
 
 Robertus 
 
 Ricardus 
 
 Ricardus filius Radulphi 
 
 Johannes Warre 
 
 Henricus 
 
 Henricus Nony 
 
 Johannes Dunnowe 
 
 Willelmus 
 
 Ep'us Leghlinensis 1 275. S. 71. 
 
 Ep'us Clonfertensis I324. S. 76'. 
 
 Ep'us Watert'ordensis 133S. S. 81. 
 
 Archiep'us Armachanus 1347. S. 86. 84. 88. 
 
 Ep'us Cumanagiensis 1355 — 1384. S. 87. 91, 92. 
 
 Ep'us Enachdunensis 1395 — 1398. S. <^%. 
 
 Ep'us Ardacheiisis 139(>. S. 93. 
 
 Ep'us Limericensis, obiit I489. S. 103. 
 
 Ep'us Solubriensis 1415 — 1417- ^^. d'i- 
 
 Ricardus
 
 WHARTON'S LIST OF SUFFRAGAN BISHOPS. 
 
 37 
 
 Ricardus 
 
 Willelmus 
 
 Johannes 
 
 Johannes 
 
 Jacobus 
 
 Jacobus 
 
 Rodericus 
 
 Johannes 
 
 Thomas 
 
 Johannes 
 
 Simon 
 
 Jacobus 
 
 Thomas Cornish 
 
 Augustinus 
 
 Thomas Vivian 
 
 Johannes Bell 
 Thomas Chard 
 
 Willelmus Faweli 
 
 Ep'us Catenensis 1417. S. 94. 98. 
 
 Ep'us Catenensis 1419. S. 94. 
 
 Ep'us Enachdunensis 1438. S. 98. 
 
 Ep'us Olensis 1442. S. 98. 
 
 Ep'us Akadensis 1450. S. 97, 98. 
 
 Ep'us Bangorensis 1454. S. 97. 101. 
 
 Ep'us Arlatensis 1455- S. 97, 98. 100, 101 . 
 
 Ep'us Clonfertensis 1447- S. 98. 
 
 Ep'us Enachdunensis I458. S. 101. 
 
 Ep'us Tinensis 1461. S. 101. 
 
 Ep'us Connerensis 1463. S. 101. 
 
 Ep'us Ardakadensis I478. S. 103, 
 
 Ep'us I inensis 1487 — 1498. S. 97. 103, 104. I07. 
 
 Ep'us Liddensis 1493- S. 104- 
 
 Ep'us Seltastiensis 1506. S. 107. 
 
 Ep'us Majorensis R. 172. Megarensis 15 18. S. 107, 
 
 108. 
 Ep'us Mironensis 1501. S. 84. 466. F. 146. 149. 
 Ep'us Soiubriensis 1512. R. 172. S. 105,106,107, lOS. 
 
 B. 359- 
 Ep'us Hipponensis 155O. R. 172. S. 63. 67. 77. IG7, 
 
 108. B. 360. 
 
 Johannes 
 
 Richardus 
 
 Caesarius 
 
 Robertus 
 
 Chorepiscopi Coenobiorum Exemptorum. 
 
 S. A L B A N I. 
 
 Ep'us Hertfertensis ante 1250. G. 646. anno 1244. 
 
 Paris, ]). 626. 
 Ep'us Bangorensis 1'254 — 12 ',9. G. 646. 
 Ep'us B. Mariae de Rosis 1349- L. 387. 
 Ep'us Lambrensis 1384. L. 387. 
 
 Willelmus 
 Rolandus 
 
 Johannes 
 Johannes 
 Robertus 
 
 Ricardus [Young] 
 
 S. E D M U N D I. 
 
 Archiej/us Ragusia; Medorum 127."). L. 73 
 Archiep'us Arniachanus 133j. L. 622. 
 Archiej/us Damascenus I344. L. 475. 
 Ep'us Surrontinus I414. 1-- 622. 
 Archiej/us Snivmensis I418. L. 622. 
 Ep'us Imelicensis 1430. L. ()22. 
 
 Chorepiscopus Diocesls Wkstmon'. 
 
 Ep'us Bangorensis 140I. L. 615. 
 
 Cho-
 
 38 
 
 WHARTON'S LIST OF SUFFRAGAN BISHOPS. 
 
 Chorepiscopi Diocesium Incertaruii). 
 
 Radulfus 
 Percevallus 
 Willelmus Alnwick 
 Henricus 
 
 Simon Akaclensis 
 Nicolaus de Neritono 
 
 'J'iiomas Crispolitanensis 
 
 Thomas Botyler 
 
 Tiiomas 
 
 Hugo 
 
 Galfridus 
 
 Johannes 
 
 Johannes Ricardus Blunt 
 
 Willelmus Gwaplode 
 Johannes Balsham 
 Johannes Hollen 
 Ricardus C'oventre 
 Robertus Hyitlesham 
 David Chirburius 
 Willelmus 
 Carolus 
 
 Johannes Bloxwych 
 Thomas 
 
 Willelmus How 
 Johannes Stanywell 
 
 Johannes Stanywell 
 
 Archiep'us Tarentasiensis 1258. S. 68. 
 
 Ep'us Nebiensis 1512 — 1332. F. 108. 
 
 Ep'us Invenaciensis 1330— 1332. F. lOS. 
 
 Ep'us Tanensis, Adainus Gabuleiisis, Johannes de 
 
 Montesono Abiensis 1345. F. 108. 
 Robertus Senascopolensis Ep'us I3S5. L. 379. F. I49. 
 Ep'us Davaliensis, Johannes Mundel, Archiep'us Tra- 
 
 pezuntinus 1391. F. loS, log. 
 Johannes Sorensis, Thomas Constantiensis, Ep'i I4OI. 
 
 ^ 727- . . 
 
 Ep'us Christinopolitanus post Johannis ep'i mortem 
 
 ^ f actus 1395. F. 109. 
 
 Ep'us Lamburtrensis 1362. S. 26. 
 
 Archiep'us Damascenus 1346. S. 86. 
 
 Archiep us Damascenus 1 . ,r^^^ c ^^ 
 
 Tp , 1 , J- Anno 1370. a. 90. 
 
 r>p us Ayobanensis J 
 
 " ^-1 
 
 SIS, 
 
 tri, J> 
 
 factiUOO. 
 F. 109. 
 
 Ep'us Aconensis postobitum Nicolai; Be-' 
 nedictus Nicolai ; ep'us Laodicensif 
 postobitum Martini; Stephanus Petr 
 ep'us Nathuanensis, post translat. Joh'is j 
 ad Soltaniensem. J 
 
 Ep'us Trerensis. S. I48. 
 
 Ep'us Archiliensis. S. 148. 
 
 Ep'us Islandiae 1427. L. 683. 
 
 Ep'us Ceriniensis. S. 148. 
 
 Ep'us Damascopolensis. S. 148. 
 
 Ep'us Dromorensis. R. 159. 
 
 Ep'us Artfordensis 1474. L- 754. 
 
 Ep'us Elnensis I477. L. 460. 
 
 Ep'us Holensis. S. 148. 
 
 Ep'us Panadensis 1505. S. 165. F. 14«. 
 
 Ep'us Aurensis I526. R. I72. 
 
 Ep'us Poletensis, abbas de Parshore I534. Y. 144. B. 
 361. 
 
 Ep'us Poletensis, obiit 1553. R. 178. 
 
 Episcopi
 
 WHARTON'S LIST OF SUFFRAGAN BISHOPS. 
 
 39 
 
 Eplscopl SuftVaganei sive Chorepiscopi In Anglia, ante Reformationem, 
 
 titulos acceperunt ; 
 
 Sive ab Arcliiepiscopatibus, atque ii erant, 
 
 N.B. Impressus est Romce 1514, 4to, liber cui litulus 
 Provinciale omnium eccl'arum Catliedralium 
 universi orbis (ex libro Cancellaria; Apos- 
 tolicae), una cum practica stilo et formis Can- 
 cellariiae Apostolicae, &c. 
 
 Ex hoc adnotavi nomina variantiaep'atuuni 
 sequentium ; et in ep'atibus, unicuiquesuam, 
 cui subjacet, metropolum assignavi. 
 
 yir?nachanus. 
 Casseliensis. 
 Duhlineusis. 
 Damascenus seu Damasco 
 
 poletisis. 
 Ragusice Medorum. 
 Heracleensis. 
 Smirnensis. 
 Nazarenus. 
 Thebamis. 
 Tarentasiensis. 
 Upsallensis. 
 Tuamensis. 
 Trapezuntinus. 
 
 Seu ab Episcopatibus, atque ii erant, 
 Vel in regnis viclnis, ut 
 
 W A L L I A. 
 
 Menevensis ib'm. 
 Landavensis ib'm. 
 Bangoriensis ib'm. 
 
 Assav, et Assoensis, et de S'c'o Asap, tres distinct! ep'atui (iunt in 
 d'c'o libro. 
 In Scotia ep'atus sunt omnes exenti ib'm. 
 
 SCOTIA. 
 
 S. AndrecE. S. Andreae, ordinis S. Augustini ib'm. 
 yjberdonetisis. Aberdoniensis ib'm. 
 
 Menevensis. 
 Landavensis, 
 Bangorensis. 
 Assavensis. 
 
 Argatheliensis, seu Lismorensis. Lismoren. ib'm. 
 
 Brechinensis ib'm. 
 Cathanensis ib'm. 
 
 Brccfiiniensis. 
 
 Cathaiiesiensis. 
 
 Dumblanensis. 
 
 Duukcldensis. Dunkeldcnsis ib'm. 
 
 Galluvidiensis, seu Candidacasensis — in Anglia, sub Archiep'o Ebor'; sic d'ct's lib'. 
 
 Glasciiensis. Glasnensis ib'm. 
 
 Insulensis, seu Sodorensis. Sordorensis ib'm. 
 
 Jiforuvicnsis, seu Elginensis. Moraviensis ib'm. 
 
 Orcadensis. Horcliadensis, sub Arch' Nidrosiensi, ib'm. 
 
 Rossensis. Rossensis, seu Rossimacensis, ib'm. 
 
 d'nus n'r' Sixtus IV. Papa iGcal. Sept. anno pent' I'.ecd'am S. An- 
 drea- in Scotia in Archiepalem erexit, et ei SiinVaganeos dedit om- 
 nes supradictos. ib'm. 
 
 Jubcrnensis. ib'm. HI BERN I A.
 
 40 WHARTON'S LIST OF SUFFRAGAN BISHOPS. 
 
 H I B E R N I A. 
 
 ^t/tarf^«*/.y Tuam. Achadensis ") ,■ - ... 
 
 Ai u J • ^ distinct! lb m. 
 Alacnadensis J 
 
 Alladensis Tuam. Aladensis ib'm. 
 
 Ardachadensis Armach. Ardakadensis ib'm. 
 
 ^rrf/e/7e«A'is. Cassel. Arpferrensis ") ,. ,. ..,, 
 
 \ f 1 • > disticti ID m. 
 Arotordensis J 
 
 C/onewjiA" Cassel. Cluanensis ") ,-,- . , , 
 
 a> distincti lb m. 
 onensis J 
 
 Clonfertensls Tuam. Clouferdensis ib'm. 
 
 Clonmacnoisensis Armach. omissus ib'm, 
 
 Clnchorensis Armach. Clochoiensis ib'm. 
 
 Connoreusis Armach. Converniensis^ 
 
 Connorensis >distincti ib'm. 
 
 Comarensis J 
 Corcagiens'is Cassel. Coikagensis ib'm. 
 
 Z)arew*j* Dublin. Dubhn. Caldarensis ") ,• ■ . .,, 
 
 D> distincti lb m. 
 arensis J 
 
 Derensis Armach. Dairriensis ib'm. 
 
 Dromoren.sis Armach. omissus ib'm. 
 
 Dtiacensis Tuam. Duacensis 
 
 17 11 • > distincti ib'm. 
 
 E.nacnaunensis J 
 
 Dunensis Armach. Lundunensis 
 
 Luguduneiisis >distincti ib'm. 
 
 Dunnensis J 
 
 Elphinensis Tuam. Elfinensis ib'm. 
 
 Fetiahorensis, sive Rilfenorensis Cassel. Funavorensis ib'm. 
 
 Fernens'is Dubhn. F'ervensis ib'm. 
 
 Imelaceiisis Cassel. Imehcensis ib'm. 
 
 Kilinorench, sive Triburnensis, Armach. 
 
 Laonens'is, sive Killalaonen.si.s, Cassel Laoniensis. 
 
 Leghlirierisis Dublin. Le^lunensis ib'm. 
 
 Limerkensi.s Cassel. Limeric vel Lumuniensis ib'm. 
 
 Lismorenv'is Cassel. Lismorensis ib'm. 
 
 Midensis Annach. >Jedensis ib'm. 
 
 Ossoriensis Dubhn. Osornensis ib'm. 
 
 Rapotensis Armach. Raclobenensis 1 i. • ■ , , 
 ^ D * ■ /■ distincti lb m. 
 
 napotensis J 
 
 Rossensis Cassel. Rossensis ib'm. 
 
 Waterfordensis Cassel. Watrafordensis ib'm, 
 
 Sodrensis vel Insulan', 
 M A N N I A, 
 
 Sodorensis seu Mannensis, sub Arch' Nidroaiensi ib'm. 
 
 Additi
 
 WHARTON'S LIST OF SUFFHAtiAN lilbHOPS. 41 
 
 Additi in dicto I^ibro. 
 
 Dwikaldeiisis. Armach. 
 Ergadiensis. Armach. 
 Dundaleelglacensis. Armach. 
 RatliJurensls. Armach. 
 Danlig'iorensis. Armach. 
 Damhensis. Armach. 
 Dunimarensis. Armach. 
 Glandibatensis. Dubhn. 
 Insulanus. Cassel. 
 Athajenais. Cassel. 
 Caritliagiensis. Cassel. 
 Derostulichilens'is. Cassel . 
 f^ivalacensis. Cassel . 
 Decelluhrlchensis. Cassel. 
 Deroscomensis. Tuam. 
 Decholomensis. Tuam. 
 Dechovatrensis. Tuam. 
 Dethelmundnachcnsis. Tuam. 
 Suaccensis. Tuam. 
 
 Vel in partibus exteris, ut 
 
 Abiensis — Aboensis in Suetiii sub Arch* Upsalensi. 
 
 Aconensis — sub Archiep'o Tirensi. 
 
 Anchnradensls — Anteradensis, sub Patriarcha Antiochenn. 
 
 Arch iliensis — [i 11 Nu m id ia.] 
 
 Ardinacanensh — Qre Ardagh. 
 
 Argosiensls seu Argoiic — sub' Arch' Corinthiensi. 
 
 Arliitetis'is. 
 
 Ascalouens'is — sub Patriarcha Hierosolymitano. 
 
 Aureitsls — in Africa sub Arch' Carthagiiiensi. 
 
 Aifoba n ens is — 
 
 Basiliensis — in Alamannia sub' Arch' Bisuntino. 
 
 Calcedonensis — [in Bithynia, sub Pair' Hierosolom'.] 
 
 Callijiolensis — sub Arch' Irachiensi. 
 
 Cardiceusis — Scardonensis in Sclavonia sub Arch' Spalatensi. 
 
 Cardie — sub Arch' Larissensi. 
 
 Ceriniensi.s — Coranna in Arabia sub' Arch' Bostrensi. 
 
 Chri/sopolitaniis — sen Christo — in Arabia sub Arch' Bostrensi. 
 
 Christnpol' — snli Arch' Phiilippensi. 
 
 Ciconetisis — [O'*-' Cicenen.sis, interfuit Concilio Pisano, A. 140.Q.] 
 
 Const a n t iensis — i n Si r i a . 
 
 Cnrbaricnsis — i n Croatia. 
 
 Cuniunagiensis. Comanas, in Lvbia sub Arch" Nazareno. 
 
 F Darnlievsis
 
 42 WHAIVrONS LIST OF SUFFRAGAN BISHOPS. 
 
 Davalie/iiis — sub' Arch* Atbeniensi. 
 
 Ebronensls — sub Fatriarcha Hierosolymitano. 
 
 Elnens'is — [Perpignan in Roussillon — vel Elanensh sub Fair' Hierosol.] 
 
 Ennclidtoiensh — in Hibernia sub Archiep'o Tuamensi. 
 
 Gabulemis — sub Patriarcha Antiochino. 
 
 (irafleiisis — in Norwcgia sub Arch' Nidrosiensi. 
 
 Hameit.sia [in Siria.] 
 
 Hertj'ertensis. f. Ardfert. 
 
 Hipponeiisis — in Lybia sub Arch' Nazareno. 
 
 Holen.sis — [in Islandia.J 
 
 Joppensis — in Siria. 
 
 Islandensis. 
 
 Juvenaclens'ts — in Apulia sub Arch' Barensi. 
 
 Katensis, seu Katcncnais. Cathaniensis in Siciha sub Archiep'o Montis regalis. 
 
 Lachoreusls — sub Arch' Aquisicensi. 
 
 Lamhrcnsis. [Qre Latnbiritanus, in Nuinidia.] 
 
 Lamhurgensis. 
 
 Lacedcemonetisis [in Peloponneso.] 
 
 Laodkensls — sub Patriarcha Antiochena. 
 
 Loinerclensis. 
 
 Lyddensis— suh Patriarcha Hierosolymitano. 
 
 Majnatknsis [Q. Magnetensis sub Archiep' Bracarensi in Portugallia.] 
 
 .ijajotierhsis, seu 3Jajoren\ in Palestina, sub Arch' Nazareno. 
 
 Muthhotenaifi [in secunda Theb'aide.] 
 
 Megarensis — sub Arch' Atbeniensi. 
 
 MUiensis. [in Nuniidia.] 
 
 Mironensis — Mirensis in Libia, sub Arch' Nazareno. 
 
 Nathuanensis. 
 
 Naturensis — sub Patriarcha C. P. 
 
 Nebiensis — Nubionsis in Corsica sub Arch' Januensi. 
 
 NeapoUtanus, in Siria. 
 
 Nigropontaiuis — sub Arch' Atbeniensi. 
 
 Oleihsin sou Olenensis, Olensis vel Olerensis, in Norwegia sub Arch' Nidrosieni. 
 
 Oluinusensis. Olonen' sub Arc. Patracensi in Graecia. 
 
 Panadensis seu Pavaden' sub Patriarcha C. P. 
 
 P/iarennis — Farensis in Sclavonia sub Arch' Spalatensi. 
 
 Philippolensis — Pharensis in Norwegia sub Arch' Nidrosiensi. 
 
 Piss'inemis — [sub Archie])' Rhodi.] 
 
 Poletensis — in Sclavonia sub Arch' Antibarensi. 
 
 Prisinemis. C). Pristinensis, in Servia.] 
 
 Rathhurensis — in Hibernia sub Arc' Armacbano. 
 
 Recreens'ts — [in Romania.] 
 
 Rosanensis — Rosensis in Sclavonia sub Arch' Ragufino. 
 
 Rovenensis. 
 
 Rhedoneiisis — in Britannia minore sub Arch' Turonensi. 
 
 Reonensis sub Arch' Atbeniensi. 
 
 Saloniensk
 
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 Saloniensis — sub Arch* Atheniensi. 
 
 Scutariensis — in Sclavoiiia, sub Arch' Antibarensi. 
 
 Sebastleusis — in Palestina, sub Arch' Caesareae. 
 
 Senascopolensis. Selencovallen in Siria, sub Arch' Apamiensi. 
 
 Serviensis — [sub Metropol' Thcssalonicensi.J 
 
 Sidoiiiensis — sub Archiep'o Tirensi, 
 
 Soltaniensis — Saltimi in Arabia sub Arch' Petracensi. Saltimi in Siria. 
 
 Soluhriensls. 
 
 Sorensin. Soranus in Campania subjectus immediate Sedi Romanse. 
 
 Sorensis in Sardinia sub Archiep'o Tauritano. 
 
 Surronensis , seu Surrentin'. 
 
 Syenensis. [Q. Sion, sub Archiep' Tarentasiensi.] 
 
 Syryinens'is — Sirmiensis in Ungjariii sub Arch' Colocensi. 
 
 Tinensis — in Sclavonia sub Arch' Spalatensi. 
 
 Tornacensis — [Tournay, sub Archiep' Cameracensi.] 
 
 Triburiensis, in Sclavonia sub Arch' Ragusino. 
 
 Trerensis. 
 
 FINIS. 
 
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