anons, and the precentor is also
a minor canon.

#Thomas Thirley# (1550-54) owed his preferment to Norwich from
Westminster to Edward VI. Queen Mary, in September 1554, promoted him to
Ely. He was the first and only bishop Westminster has had.

#John Hopton# (1554-58) was chaplain to Queen Mary, and aided in the
persecution of the Protestants.

#John Parkhurst# (1560-75) is credited with having "beautified and
repaired" the bishop's palace.

#Edmund Freke# (1575-78) was translated from Rochester, and again to
Worcester in 1578.

#Edmund Scambler# (1585-94) was translated to Norwich from Peterborough.

#William Redman# (1594-1602).

#John Jegon# (1602-1617) was master of Benedict College for twelve
years.

#John Overall# (1618-19) was translated from Lichfield and Coventry; he
enjoyed the reputation of being the "best scholastic divine in the
English nation."

#Samuel Harsnet# (1619-28); translated to York in 1628.

#Francis White# (1628-31); translated to Ely in 1631.

#Richard Corbet# (1632) was translated from Oxford. Of him it was said
"he was a distinguished wit in an age of wits, and a liberal man amongst
a race of intolerant partisans."

#Matthew Wren# (1635-38); translated to Ely in 1638.

#Richard Montague# (1638-41); translated from Chichester.

#Joseph Hall# (1641-56); translated from Exeter. We have quoted in the
notes on nave from his "Hard Measure."

#Edward Reynolds# (1661-76).

#Antony Sparrow# (1676-85); translated from Exeter. He was the author of
a "Rationale upon the Book of Common Prayer," 1657.

#William Lloyd #(1685-91); translated from Llandaff to Peterborough, and
from thence to Norwich. He was deposed in 1690 for refusing to take the
oath of allegiance to William III.

#John Moore# (1691-1707); translated to Ely in 1707.

#Charles Trimmell# (1708-1721); translated to Winchester in 1721.

#Thomas Green# (1721-23); translated to Ely 1723.

#John Lang# (1723-27).

#William Baker# (1727-32); translated from Bangor.

#Robert Butts# (1733-38); translated to Ely 1738.

#Sir Thomas Gooch, Bart.# (1738-48); translated from Bristol.

#Samuel Lisle# (1748-49); translated from St. Asaph.

#Thomas Hayter# (1749-61); translated to London in 1761.

#Philip Yonge# (1761-83); translated from Bristol.

#Lewis Bagot# (1783-90); translated from Bristol.

#George Horne# (1791-92).

#Charles Manners Sutton# (1792-1805); translated to Canterbury in 1805.

#Henry Bathurst# (1805-