GEORGE HOOPER (1704-27), an old friend of Ken, was next offered the see, but he urged the reinstatement of the rightful pastor. Queen Anne offered to restore Ken to his bishopric, but he importuned Hooper to accept, and from that time ceased to sign himself by his diocesan title. Hooper had preceded Ken, in 1677, as Princess Mary's spiritual adviser at the Hague, where he had won her back to the services of the church, and he had also been with Ken at Monmouth's execution. Almost as lovable and holy, he was more learned than his friend. Hooper was succeeded by JOHN WYNNE (1727-43), EDWARD WILLES (1743-73), and CHARLES MOSS (1774-1802); all three were typical eighteenth-century prelates, rich and mostly non-resident. RICHARD BEADON (1802-24), was translated from Gloucester. GEORGE HENRY LAW (1824-45), a son of the Bishop of Carlisle, and brother of Lord Chief-Justice Ellenborough, was translated from Chester, and is said to have been an active prelate till his latter years. Hon. RICHARD BAGOT (1845-54) came to Wells as a place of retirement after the worries which he had gone through, as Bishop of Oxford, during the Tractarian movement. ROBERT JOHN, LORD AUCKLAND, was translated from Sodor and Man in 1854. At his death in 1869, he was succeeded by LORD ARTHUR CHARLES HERVEY, who died in 1894. The present bishop is DR G.W. KENNION, who was translated hither from the Australian diocese of Adelaide. [Illustration: PLAN OF WELLS CATHEDRAL.] TRANSCRIBER'S NOTES 1. Words and phrases which were italicized in the original have been surrounded by underscores ('_') in this version. Words or phrases which were bolded have been rendered in ALL CAPITALS. 2. Obvious printer's errors have been corrected without note. 3. Inconsistencies in hyphenation or the spelling of proper names, and dialect or obsolete word spelling, have been maintained as in the original. 4. The original of this text contains characters not available in the Latin-1 character set. These occur only in quotations from monumental inscriptions. The characters have been coded as follows. The notation [=x] means "letter x with a macron above." There are instances of macrons over i, u, m, n, o and x. The notation [)u] means "letter u with a breve"; it occurs twice. 5. The caret is used to show the superscript for abbreviations (i.e. Rob^t is Rob with a superscript small t in the original text, an abbreviation for Robert). If multiple letters are superscripted, they are surrounded by curly braces (i.e. w^{th}).