BISHOPS. 437
15499. His will, dated 30th July 1549, was proved 1 6th Dec. following. 1550 John Hoopkr was appointed by the King 3rd July 4 Edw.vi. 1550 10, pursuant to statute i Edw.VI. chap. 2., but he was not consecrated until 8th March 1550-51 ic* ; the significavit to the archbishop was dated only the day before that event ^^ ; and on the 26th of the next month, by his charter of that date, ho gave up and resigned his bishopric and see to the King^-, who, by the ad\'1cc of his council, had determined to dissolve the bishopric of Gloucester, and to amalgamate it with that of Worcester, out of which it had been taken by king Henry the Eighth '3; and his Majesty having deprived Nicholas Heath of the see of Worcester, conferred it on John Hooper, 20th May 1552^^, by the title of bishop of Worcester and Gloucester. Soon after the accession of queen Mary to the throne, she deprived all bishops of their sees who maintained a different faith to her own, and among them John Hooper 1^, and reinstated those who had been ousted by her protestant brother. She also, 19th March 1553-4, issued her conge d'elire to the dean and chapter of Gloucester to elect a bishop to their see forthwith 16.
1554 James Broks, ^JY.V., master of Balliol college^ Oxford, I Mar. I. was elected ; he was consecrated in the church of St. Saviour, Southwark, Tst April 1554, and received the temporalities 8th May ^ 7. He died before 25th March 1558, and was buried in his own cathedral 1^. John Bovvsher, as " episcopus nominatus," had, 25th Oct. 1558, the custody of the temporalities of this
9 Reg. Cranmer. '-5 He was burnt to death at
'0 Pat. 4 Edw. VI. p. I. m. 12. the stake 9th Feb. 1554-5, before
10* Reg. Cranmer, fol. 332. the west-end gate of Gloucester
11 Pat. 6 Edw.VI. p. I. m. 40. cathedral.
12 Claus. 6 Edw.VI. p. 3. Nos. I6 Pat. i Mar. p. i. m. 24. 27, 15. 17 Ibid.
13 Pat. 6 Edw.VI. p. I. m. 30. i^ Rgg. Cantiiar.
14 Ibid. Nos. 34, 14.
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