=John Thomas= (1757-1761), Bishop of Peterborough 1746, and afterwards Bishop of Winchester, was married four times, and is reported to have said that he had killed three wives by never contradicting them. =Robert Hay Drummond= (1761) was translated to the Archbishopric of York four months after his appointment to Salisbury. He preached at the coronation of George III. =John Thomas= (1761-1766), elected Bishop of St. Asaph in 1743, but consecrated to Lincoln, was eighty years old when translated to Salisbury. =John Hume= (1766-1782), Bishop of Bristol 1756, Bishop of Oxford and Dean of St. Paul's 1758. =Shute Barrington= (1782-1791), translated to Durham. Excepting Bishop Wilson, his fifty-six years' tenure of office is the longest in the Anglican Church. He died in 1826. =John Douglas= (1791-1807) was present as an army chaplain at the battle of Fontenoy, in which he very nearly took an active part, but was so laden with valuables left in his care by officers, that he was compelled to refrain and be content to remain a non-combatant, and remove his treasures to a safe place. As author of "The Criterion, or Rules by which True may be distinguished from Spurious Miracles," 1754, and many other books, he established for himself a sound literary reputation. Made Bishop of Carlisle in 1787, and translated to Salisbury in 1791; he was also Dean of Windsor from 1780 to his death, when he was buried in St. George's Chapel. =John Fisher= (1807-1825). Exeter, 1803, Preceptor to Princess Charlotte. =Thomas Burgess= (1825-1837). St. David's, 1803. =Edward Denison= (1837-1854). Brother of a late Speaker of the House of Commons, Viscount Ossington. =Walter Kerr Hamilton= (1854-1869). Author of a "Letter on Cathedral Reform," which followed his exhaustive contribution to the Cathedral Commission Reports, 1853. =George Moberley= (1869-1885). Head Master of Winchester, 1835-1866. =John Wordsworth= (1885). [Illustration: BRASS OF BISHOP WYVILLE (_see_ P. 66).] FOOTNOTES: [10] 14th May, 1228. _Vide_ "Hist. Dunelm. Script.," App. lii. [11] Others say Tarrant Monkton. [12] This statement is open to doubt. THE CLOSE AND CHURCHES.