assent on the 21st[1] was confirmed in the church of St. Mary-le-Bow in Cheapside, London, on the 28th, and consecrated there on the 31st of the same month[2]. The temporalities were restored to him 6th July following[3]. He died 22nd Nov. 1694, and was buried in the church of St. Lawrence Jewry, London[4].
1695
? Will. III.Thomas Tenison, bishop of Lincoln, was nominated by the King in council 6th Dec. 1694[5]; and having been elected, received the royal assent on the 31st of that month[6]; he was confirmed 16th Jan. 1694-5[7]; the temporalities were restored to him 1 8th Jan. 1694-5[8]; and he was enthroned 16th May following. He died at Lambeth 14th Dec. 1715, and was buried in the chancel of the parish church[9].
1716
? Geo. I.William Wake, bishop of Lincoln, was nominated by the King 17th Dec. 1715, and was confirmed 16th Jan.
1715-6[10]. He died 24th Jan. 1736-7, in the 79th year of his age, and was buried at Croydon.
1737
?? Geo. II. John Potter, bishop of Oxford, was nominated by the King in council 9th Feb, 1736-7[11]; and having been elected archbishop of Canterbury in February, received the royal assent on the 19th of that month[12]: he was confirmed on the 28th of that month, and received the temporalities 7th March following[13]. He died 10th Oct. 1747, and was buried at Croydon.
- ↑ Church Book, Home Office.
- ↑ Reg. Tillot. fol. 9.
- ↑ Church Book, Home Office.
- ↑ Reg. Cantuar. With this epitaph: "P. M. Reverendissimi et sanctissimi præsulis Joannis Tillotson archiepiscopi Cantuariensis, concionatoris olim hac in ecclesia per annos 30 celeberrimi. Qui obiit 10 Kal. Dec. 1694. Ætat. 64."
- ↑ Church Book, Home Office.
- ↑ Ibid.
- ↑ Reg. Tenis.
- ↑ Church Book, Home Office.
- ↑ Bishop Kennet, in a manuscript note to sir Thomas Phillipps's copy of Le Neve, states, that "No archbishop having been buried at Canterbury since the Reformation, the papists have made a story that no heretic archbishop dares to be there buried, nor would the holy ground receive him."
- ↑ Reg. Wake.
- ↑ Church Book, Home Office.
- ↑ Ibid.
- ↑ Ibid.
