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A14573	A catalog of the bishops of Excester with the description of the antiquitie and first foundation of the Cathedrall church of the same. Collected by Iohn Vowell alias Hoker, gentleman.	Hooker, John, 1526?-1601.	1584 (1584)	STC 24885; ESTC S102101	32,358	40

the monasterie of Plimpton and placed therein regular Canons in his latter daies he waxed and became blind and yet notwithstanding for his wisedome the king sent him in embassage vnto Pope Paschalis the second wherein he so wiselie dealed and so discréetlie behaued himselfe in his message that he made a reconciliation betwéene the Pope and the King and returned with great praise and commendation Not long after his returne and hauing small ioie of the world he gaue ouer his Bishoprike and became one of the religious canons in his owne house of Plimpton where he died and was buried he was Bishop about twentie yeares RObert Chichester Deane of Sarisburie was consecrated Bishop vnder Anselmus Archbishop of Canrtuburie anno 1128. and the xxviij yeare of king Henrie the first he was a Gentleman borne and therefore estéemed for his zeale in religion wherein he was verie deuout according to those daies and thinking his laboures to be best emploied that waie did eftsoones go in pilgrimage sometime to Rome sometime to one place sometime to an other and euer he would bring with him some one relique or other He was a liberall contributor to the buildings of his church In his time was founded and builded the Monasterie of S. Stephens in Launceston and furthered by Reynold Earle of Cornewall but vnto it this Bishop was an aduersarie not for misliking the worke but for feare of an intrusion vpon his liberties Likewise at this time was builded the Priorie of S. Nicholas in Excester by the Abbat of Battell vnto which Abbie this Priorie was a cell In this mans time also king Henrie made William Rideuerse a Normaine and his kinseman Earle of Deuon and therewith the Lordship of Twifordtone and the honor of Plimpton togither with the third pennie of his reuenues in Deuon which in the whole was then xxx marks whereof this Earle had ten Also in this mans time king Henrie died and king Stephen entered and tooke vpon him the crowne whereof ensued great warres This Bishop after that he had occupied the place xxij yeares died and was buried in his owne church But the moonke of Westminster writeth that he should be Bishop xxvij yeares and died in the yeare 1155. but he neuer sawe the recordes of this church which are to the contrarie RObert VVarewest Nephew to William the Bishop of this church Deane of Sarisburie was consecrated Bishop by Theobaldus Archbishop of Canturburie anno 1150. he nothing degenerate from the steps of his predecessors but was altogether of the same bent and disposition In his time king Stephen died and Henrie the second was crowned king This Robert after that he had occupied this sea nine yeares or there about died and was buried at Plimpton by his vncle BArtholomeus Iscanus otherwise Bartholomew of Excester was consecrated Bishop of Excester vnder Theoldbald Archbishop of Canturburie anno 1159. he was called Iscanus of Isca which is one of the ancientest names of this citie He was a meane citizens sonne but being verie apt vnto learning his parents and fréends kept him to schoole and he so well profited therein that he came and prooued to be a verie well learned man and being Bishop he wrote sundrie bookes as of Predestination Fréewill Penence and others of all men he could not brooke nor fauor Thomas Becket Archbishop of Canturburie for his contempt and disobedience against the king for the which he sharpelie improoued rebuked and inueighed against him openlie in the parliament house holden at Northampton and with such effectuall reasons and pithie arguments he did so temper the same that the whole parliament relied vnto his iudgement and opinion herein against Thomas Becket And after his death such was the grauitie modestie and wisedome of the man that he was speciallie chosen to be Embassador for the king vnto Pope Alexander the third and so wiselie and with such discretion vsed the same that notwithstanding his cause and message had manie aduersaries yet he reconciled the Pope and the king obteined the good will and fauour of the Pope and brought his message to good effect This Bishop was in great familiaritie and acquaintance with Baldwin of Excester his countriman now Archbishop of Canturburie who was a poore mans sonne in this citie but for his learning aduanced to this estate In this Bishops time about the yeare of our Lord 1168. William Fytzralph a citizen of this citie founded a cell for moonks within this citie and dedicated the same to S. Alexius which not long after was vnited to S. Iohns within the East gate of the same citie In his time also Reynold of Courtney a nobleman of Normandie the sonne of Elorus the sonne of Lewes named Lewes le grosse king of Fraunce came into this land and married Hawise daughter and heire to Maud the daughter and heire to Adelis sister and heire to Richard de Briono the first Vicecount of Deuon and in hir right was Vicecount of Deuon This Bartholomew after he had béene Bishop about xiiii yeares anno 1184. died but where he died and where he was buried it dooth not appeare In this Bishops time about the yeare 1170. one Iohannes Corinienses a Cornish man borne was a famous learned diuine he was a Student at Rome and other places in Italie and by that meanes grue into great acquaintance with Pope Alexander the third he wrote diuers bookes and namelie one De incarnatione Christi against Peter Lombard who affirmed Quòd Christus secundum quod homo est aliquid non est and this he dedicated to Pope Alexander IOhn the Chaunter of the cathedrall church of this citie was consecrated and installed Bishop of this church anno 1184. he was well reported for his liberalitie in continuing the buildings of this church wherein he was nothing inferiour to his predecessors In his time king Henrie Fytzemprise died and he himselfe hauing béene Bishop about sixe yeares died anno 1191. HEnrie Marshall Archdeacon of Stafford the brother to Walter the Earle Marshall of England was consecrated Bishop by Hubert Archbishop of Canturburie anno 1191. he finished the building of his church according to the plat and foundation which his predecessors had laied and that done he purchased the patronage and Lordship of Woodburie of one Albemarlie which he gaue and impropriated vnto the vicars corall of his church In this mans time anno 1201. one Simon Thurnaius a Cornish man borne brought vp in learning did by diligence and studie so prosper therein that he became excellent in all the liberall sciences and in his daies none thought to be like him he left Oxenford where he had béene a studient and went to Paris and there became a priest and studied diuinitie and therein became so excellent and of so déepe a iudgement that he was made chéefe of the Sorbonistes at length he became so proud of his learning and glorified so much therein that he would be singular and thought himselfe to be another Aristotle and so much he

tooke the other and was consecrated Bishop of Excester vpon the tenth of March 1370. being the feast daie of Nereus and Achilles William of Worcester then Archbishop of Canturburie This Thomas was a man verie well learned and experted both in ecclesiasticall matters and in politike gouernment and in both these respects greatlie reuerenced and estéemed and for that cause at the parliament holden at Westminster in the tenth yéere of K. Richard the second he was chosen to be one of the twelue péeres of the realme vnder the King he was a benefactor to the Calenderhaie of the vicars chorall of his own church and performed and supplied in buildings and otherwise what his predecessors had left vndoone and hauing béene Bishop xxiiij yéeres he died the third of December anno 1394. and was buried in the North side of the bodie of his owne church EDmond Stafford vpon the xx daie of Iune anno 1395. was consecrated at Lambhith by William Courtwaie Archbishop of Canturburie he was borne and descended of noble parentage being brother to Ralph Lord Stafford created Earle of Stafford by K. Edward the third he was both wise and learned for his wisedome he grewe into great credit with the king and was both of his priuie counsell as also Lord Chancellor of England At the parliament holden at westminster the xxj yéere of K. Richard the second he being then speaker of the higher house made a verie learned and pithie oration to prooue the absolute authoritie of a King his theme was Rex vnus erit omnibus and hauing discoursed at large of the authoritie of a king did conclude Quod potestas regis esset sibi sola vnita annexa solida and whosoeuer did by anie meanes impeach the same Paena legis meritò esset plectendus And for the furtherance of good letters he did increase two fellowships in the colledge of Stapledons inne in Oxford reformed the statutes of the house and altered the name of it and called it Excester colledge After that he had continued Bishop in much honour about xxiij yéeres he died the fourth of September being the seuenth yéere of King Henrie the fift and lieth buried in his owne church in a verie aire tombe of Alablaster IAmes Carye Bishop of Chester being at Florence when newes was brought to Pope Martin the fift of Bishop Staffords death was then and there made Bishop of this church anno 1419. and also consecrated but long he enioied not his office for there he died and was buried EDmond Lacie Bishop of Hereford was translated from thence vnto this church in the feast of Easter and in the eight yéere of king Henrie the fift anno 1420. he was a man verie deuout and religious but subiect to flatterers who carried him to their pleasure he was a liberall benefactor to the vicar of Calenderhaie great contentions were betwéene him and the citie for liberties which by arbitriment were compounded he founded the chapter house in his owne church He was a professor of diuinitie and very well learned for in the second yéere of his Bishoprike being the ix yeare of the kings reigne there was a parliment holden at Westminster in which great complaints were made against the loose and dissolute life of the religious men and especiall the blacke moonks And this matter being brought to the conuocation house this Bishop as chéefe prolocutor of that assemblie did make a verie learned and a pithie oration before the king then of purpose present and the whole cleargie much lamenting that the religious men were so far straied from the rules of their professions and the holinesse of their predecessors And when he had at large discoursed the same he deliuered vp certeine articles in writing praieng for reformation which his spéeches were so effectuallie vttered and his articles so effectuallie penned that both the king and the clergie did not onelie with great liking and allowance praise and commend the same but also tooke order that there should be a prouinciall Councell called out of hand for a reformation which was then promised but not performed by reason of the kings death which not long after followed but yet in the waie of good spéed it was then concluded and agréed that euerie third benefice being of the gift of anie of the prelats or of anie monasterie should from thencefoorth for seauen yeres be giuen to some scholar of Oxenford or Cambridge This Bishop after he had liued xxxv yeares in this Bishoprike died and was buried in the North wall of the quier in his owne church After whose death manie miracles were said and deuised to be doone at his toombe wherevpon great pilgrimages were made by the common people to the same GEorge Neuell succéeded Edmond Lacie and was consecrated in the feast of S. Katharine anno 1455. he was of a noble parentage being the second sonne of Richard Neuell Earle of Sarisburie he finished and ended the chapter house which his predecessor had begonne And after that he had béene Bishop about ten yeares he was remooued to Yorke and made Archbishop there anno 1465. IOhn Bothe after the translation of George Neuell to Yorke was consecrated Bishop vnder Thomas Burscher Archbishop of Canturburie vpon the xxij of Februarie anno 1466. He was by profession a Ciuillian and a Batcheler of the same he gouerned his church verie well and builded as some suppose the Bishops sea in the quier but being wearie of the great troubles which were in this contrie betwéene king Edward the fourth and the Earle of Warwike he remooued from hence to his house of Horsleigh in Hamshire where in the twelfe yeare of his Bishoprike he died vpon the fift daie of Aprill anno 1478. and lieth buried at S. Clements in London PEter Courtnaie immediatlie after the death of Bothe was presented to this Bishopricke and consecrated by Thomas Archbishop of Canturburie in Nouember anno 1477. at S. Stephens in Westminster he was the sonne of Sir Phillip Courtnaie of Powderham his mother was named Elizabeth daughter to Walter Lord Hungerford he for his wisedome and good behauiour was in great credit and fauour with king Henrie the seauenth by whose meanes he was translated from this church vnto Winchester in the ninth yeare of his being Bishop here and in the fift yeare of his being there he died vpon the xx of December anno 1491. and lieth buried in his owne church He finished the North tower of S. Peters and gaue the clocke bell which is in the same and which beareth the name Peter RIchard Fox vpon the remoouing of Peter Courtnaie was consecrated Bishop of this church vnder Thomas Archbishop of Canturburie 1466. he was a verie wise man and in great credit and estimation with king Henrie the seauenth vnto whom he was a faithfull counsellour and of his priuie Councell with whom he acquainted himselfe at Paris when he was there a student For king Henrie then Earle of Richemond being at Venice and aduertised how the