#John Fisher#, having risen to the Chancellorship of Cambridge University in 1504, was then made, for his "grete and singular virtue," Bishop of Rochester; he and his patron, Lady Margaret, were great benefactors to Cambridge; a friend of Erasmus; opposed Henry VIII.'s divorce and the royal supremacy; made a cardinal just before he bravely and resignedly met his death in 1535. #John Hilsey# came then in 1535; formerly Prior of the Dominicans in London; one of Cromwell's commissioners, compiled at his orders a service book in English; exposed the miraculous rood of Boxley at St. Paul's Cross; died in 1538. #Richard Heath#, succeeded in 1539; had been Almoner to Henry VIII.; translated to Worcester, 1543; deprived for a time, but restored on Queen Mary's accession; Archbishop of York, 1555; Chancellor; held both the last appointments under Elizabeth, whose accession he proclaimed, but had to resign when the Act of Supremacy was enforced. #Henry Holbeach#, succeeded in 1543; translated to Lincoln in 1546; previously suffragan Bishop of Bristol, and Prior (later Dean) of Worcester. #Nicholas Ridley#, succeeded in 1547; translated to London when Bonner was removed in 1550; a famous Protestant, learned and pious; the story of his martyrdom with Latimer at Oxford, in 1555, is well known. #John Poynet#, succeeded in 1550; translated to Winchester, 1551; left England when Mary became Queen; died at Strasburg in 1556. #John Scory#, appointed in 1551; a great preacher; translated to Chichester in 1552; bishop of Hereford in 1559, when able to return from Friesland; died in 1585. #Maurice Griffith#, appointed after an interval of about two years; educated by the Dominicans at Oxford; formerly Archdeacon of Rochester; one or two Protestants were burnt during his episcopacy; died in 1558. #Edmund Gheast#, consecrated in 1559 and made Almoner to the Queen; transferred to Salisbury, 1571; died in 1578. #Edmund Freake#, succeeded in 1571; previously Dean of Rochester, and of Salisbury; Queen's Almoner in 1572; translated to Norwich in 1575, to Worcester in 1584; scandal at Norwich, his wife "will looke on him as the Divell lookes over Lincoln;" troubles with Puritans; died in 1590-91. #John Piers#, succeeded in 1576; Bishop of Salisbury, 1577; Archbishop of York, 1589; Lord High Almoner, 1576; employed and consulted by the Queen; died in 1594. #John Yonge#, became bishop in 1578; thought avaricious, but the annual revenue of his see shown not to exceed L220; died in 1605. #William Barlow#, succeeded in 1605; wrote other works besides his account, denounced as partial by the Puritans, of the famous Hampton Court Conference; translated to Lincoln, 1608; died in 1613.