ch was ultimately carried out. The only
change that has been made in the limits of the diocese is that, in the
year 1839, the county of Leicester was detached from the see of Lincoln
and joined to Peterborough.

As has been said above, the first bishop was =John Chambers=
(1541-1556). He was consecrated[35] in the minster on the 23rd of
October 1541, by Thomas (Thirlby), Bishop of Ely, Robert (Blyth), Bishop
of Down, last Abbot of Thorney, Suffragan of Ely, and Thomas (Hallam or
Swillington), Bishop of Philadelphia, Suffragan of Lincoln. Strype has
an account of his costly funeral. The two memorials to him in the church
had been erected by himself in his lifetime.

=David Pole= (1556-1559) is generally held to have been a relative (some
say a nephew) of Cardinal Reginald Pole. He was Dean of the Arches. He
was not consecrated till August 1557, and so held the bishopric less
than two years, being deprived by Queen Elizabeth in June 1559. He lived
quietly in London till his death in 1568.

=Edmund Scambler= (1560-1584) in the Roman index of books prohibited is
called Pseudo-Episcopus, no doubt because there was another Bishop of
Peterborough, Pole, still living. He alienated many of the lands and
manors of his bishopric to the queen and to her courtiers; and as a
reward he was translated to Norwich, where he died ten years later.

=Richard Howland= (1584-1600) was Master of Magdalene, and afterwards of
S. John's, Cambridge. He was present at the funeral of Mary Queen of
Scots. He was buried at the upper end of the choir, but no stone or
monument exists to his memory.

=Thomas Dove= (1600-1630) was Dean of Norwich. He was[36] "a lover of
hospitality, keeping a very free house, and having always a numerous
family, yet was so careful of posterity that he left a fair estate to
his heirs." He was buried in the north transept. "Over his body was
erected a very comely monument of long quadrangular form, having four
corner pilasters supporting a fair table of black marble, and, within,
the pourtraiture of the bishop lying in his Episcopal habit." This was
destroyed in 1643. There was a long Latin inscription in prose and
verse, and among the verses these occur:--

"Hoc addam: Hie illa est senio argentata Columba
Davidis, coelos hinc petit ille suos."

This monument was erected by the bishop's eldest son, Sir William Dove,
Kt., of Upton.

=William Peirse= (1630-1632) was promoted from the Deanery. He only
remain