144 BATH AxND WELLS.
1541 William Knight, LL.D., archdeacon of Richmond and 33H.VIII. Chester^ and dean of the collegiate church of Leicester^ was elected: he was confirmed 19th May 154T, and consecrated on the 29th of the same month '^7, The temporahties were restored to him the next day^^. He died 29th Sept. 1547 at Wivelscombe, and was buried there 9^. 1548 William Barlow, bishop of St. David'^s, was translated 2 Edw. VI. to the see of Bath and Wells in Feb. 1547-8 ^9*, but he resigned it in 1553. On queen Mary's accession to the throne, a license to elect a bishop vice William Barlow resigned, was issued 13 th March 15534^ ; in pursuance of which 1554 Gilbert Bourne, S.T.D., archdeacon of Bedford^ was I Mary, elected 28th March 1554; on which day he received the royal assent-. He was consecrated ist April following in the church of St. Saviour, South wark-', and received the temporalities on the 20th of the same month ^. He was deprived by queen Elizabeth in the ist year of her reign on his refusing to take the oath of supremacy. He died loth Sept. 1569 at Silverton in Devonshire, where he was buried^. A conge d'elire on the deprivation of Gilbert Bourne issued nth Jan. 1 559-60 ^ and J560 Gilbert Berkeley was elected 29th Jan. 1559-60; 2 Eliz. ceived the royal assent to his election 20th March ; was confirmed on the 23rd of the same month, and consecrated the next day at Lambeth 7. The tempo- ralities were restored to him loth July in the same years, fj^ died 2nd Nov. 158 1, and was buried at
97 Reg. Cranm. fol, 261. 269. ' " I cannot," says Browne
9S Pat. 33 H. VIII. p. I. m. 27. Willis, "after the most diligent
99 MS. Coll. Trin. p. 90. enquiry, find where this bishop,
99* Vigore literarum patentium who recovered the best estates
Edwardi Sexti Feb. 3. 1548. this see enjoys, has any memo-
1 Pat. I Mar. p. i. m, 24. rial or tomb for him."
2 Ibid. m. 22. 6 Pat. 2 Eliz. p. 14. m. 30.
3 Reg. Cantuar. 7 Reg. Parker, fol. 74.
'^ Pat. I Mar. p. i. m. 22. ^ p^t. 2 Eliz. p. 2. m. 4.
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