#Ernulf# came next in 1115; had been successively Prior of Canterbury and Abbot of Peterborough; built at both those places as well as at Rochester; famous for saintliness, and a great authority on canon law; perhaps best known generally by Sterne's comments in "Tristram Shandy" on the terrible excommunication curse contained in his "Textus Roffensis"; died in 1124. #John#, formerly Archdeacon of Canterbury; Bishop of Rochester in 1125; cathedral consecrated in his time; died in 1137. #John#, formerly Abbot of Sees; appointed in 1137; died in 1142. #Ascelin#, succeeded in 1142; active bishop, even visited Rome for the monks of his cathedral; died in 1148. #Walter#, chosen in 1148; the first bishop elected by the monks of the Priory of St. Andrew, the right being granted them by his brother Archbishop Theobald; formerly Archdeacon of Canterbury; died in 1182. #Gualeran#, appointed in 1182; formerly Archdeacon of Bayeux; died in 1184. #Gilbert de Glanvill#, consecrated in 1185; employed earlier by Becket on a mission to the Pope; quarrelled with his monks and helped Archbishops Baldwin and Hubert Walter (a friend of his own) against those of Canterbury; died 1214, before the Interdict was removed; buried at Rochester, where a tomb is shown as his. #Benedict de Sansetun#, succeeded in 1215; saw cathedral plundered, and great works in new choir; died in 1226. #Henry Sandford#; new choir entered in his first year, 1227; in a sermon at Sittingbourne said that the release from Purgatory, in one day, of Richard I., Stephen Langton, and a chaplain of the latter, had been revealed to him; died in 1235. #Richard de Wendover#, not consecrated till 1238; monks had to appeal to Rome, against the archbishop's claims, to get their election of him confirmed; died in 1250. #Lawrence de Saint Martin#, succeeded in 1251; appealed to Pope against a robbery of his see by Archbishop Boniface; at Rome for the canonization of St. William in 1256; died in 1274; his tomb (in the choir) has been described. #Walter de Merton#, appointed in 1274; before this, chancellor (1261-63; 1272-74) and justiciar; founded his college at Maldon, and afterwards transferred it to Oxford; drowned in the Medway in 1277; buried in the cathedral (north choir transept). #John de Bradfield#, a monk at Rochester; became bishop in 1277; died in 1283; buried in the cathedral (south choir aisle). #Thomas Inglethorp#, appointed in 1283; formerly Dean of St. Paul's and Archdeacon of Middlesex; died in 1291; buried in the cathedral (chancel). #Thomas de Wouldham#, Prior of Rochester, became bishop in 1292; died in 1317. #Hamo de Hythe#, appointed in 1319 after a delay caused by Pope's wish to nominate John de Puteoli; did much for church and renewed the shrines of St. Paulinus and St. Ythamar; died in 1352; tomb in the cathedral (north choir aisle). #John de Sheppey#, succeeded in 1352; treasurer of England, 1326-58; died in 1360; buried on the north side of the choir.