Burnet says, in reference to these dissentients, that “they were very factious and insolent.” During the Episcopate of Bishop Vaughan, the cathedral was much repaired; he caused the bells to be re-cast and hung in the great tower; the west roof he had new leaded, and the timber work repaired. On his translation to London— George Lloyd, D.D., rector of Halsall, near Ormskirk, and bishop of Sodor and Man in 1509, was translated to Chester January 14th, 1604–5. He died at Thornton-in-the-Moors, near Chester, of which parish he was Rector, on the 1st of August, 1615, aged 55 years, and was privately buried in the choir of the Cathedral of Chester. Gerard Massie, B.D., was nominated to the bishopric on the death of Lloyd; but died before consecration. Thomas Moreton, S.T.P., son of Richard Moreton, of York, Mercer, born in that city, March 20th, 1564, and educated there and at Halifax. He distinguished himself by his extensive classical and theological attainments at Cambridge, and was elected a Fellow of St. John’s College. He became B.D. in 1598, and was presented to the rectory of Long Marston, near Tadcaster. In 1602 he rendered himself conspicuous by his fearless attendance on the sick during the prevalence of the plague in York; and becoming chaplain to Lord Evers, accompanied that nobleman, in 1603, in his embassy to the Emperor of Germany. On his return he was appointed domestic chaplain to the Earl of Rutland, and wrote the first part of the _Apologia Catholica_, in consequence of the merit of which Archbishop Matthews collated him to a prependal stall at York. In 1608 he graduated D.D., and was appointed chaplain to James I., from whom he received the deanery of Gloucester; and in the following year succeeded to the deanery of Winchester. He was a great benefactor to Winchester Cathedral. He was elected Bishop of Chester May 22nd, 1616, and was consecrated at Lambeth July 7th. With this see he held the rectory of Stockport, and diligently applied himself to reconcile popish recusants and scrupulous non-conformists to the church; and his success was noticed in the royal declaration in 1618. He was translated to Lichfield and Coventry March 6th, 1618, and advanced to Durham June 29th, 1632. He died at the house of Sir Henry Yelverton, Bart., at Easton Mauduit, Northamptonshire, September 23rd, 1659, aged 95 years, unmarried, and was buried in the parish church there, with a long epitaph recounting his preferments and sufferings. He endured, with much resignation, hardships, confiscation, and imprisonment. Clarendon mentions Bishop Moreton as being one of the “less formal and more popular prelates.”