1426. Philip Morgan, Bishop of Worcester. Died 1435.
1438. Louis de Luxemburg, Archbishop of Rouen. Had been Chancellor
of France and Normandy. Afterwards Cardinal.
1444. Thomas Bourchier, Bishop of Worcester; translated to Canterbury
1454. Cardinal, 1464.
1454. William Gray, D.D., Archdeacon of Northampton. Chancellor of the
University of Oxford. Lord Treasurer. Bishop Gray altered some
of the aisle windows of the Presbytery.
1478. John Morton, LL.D., Master of the Rolls. Archdeacon of Winchester.
Lord Chancellor, 1479. Translated to Canterbury, 1486.
Cardinal, 1493.
Bishop Morton was the first to attempt to drain the Fens; hence
"Morton's Leam," a drain extending from Guyhirn to Peterborough.
1486. John Alcock, LL.D., Master of the Rolls. Bishop of Rochester;
afterwards of Worcester; translated to Ely. Founder of Jesus
College, Cambridge. Bishop Alcock built the elaborate mortuary
chapel in which his remains lie buried, and much of the Episcopal
Palace at Ely.
1501. Richard Redman, D.D., Bishop of St. Asaph; then of Exeter.
1506. James Stanley, D.D., Archdeacon of Richmond; Precentor of Salisbury.
1515. Nicholas West, LL.D., Chaplain to King Henry VII. Dean of
Windsor. Built a chapel bearing his name.
1534. Thomas Goodrich, D.D., a zealous promoter of the Reformation.
One of the revisers of the Translation of the New Testament. Lord
Chancellor, 1551. Built Gallery of the Palace.
1554. Thomas Thirlby, D.D., Bishop of Westminster; translated to Norwich;
thence to Ely. Dispossessed for refusing the oath of supremacy
to Queen Elizabeth, 1559.
1559. Richard Cox, D.D., Dean of Christ Church, Oxford, and of
Westminster. Died 1581.
_The See vacant Eighteen years._
1600. Martin Heton, D.D., Dean of Winchester.
1609. Lancelot Andrewes, D.D., Bishop of Chichester. Translated from Ely
to Winchester, 1619. Author of the celebrated Book of Devotions.
1619. Nicholas Felton, D.D., Bishop of Bristol. One of the Translators
of the Bible.
1628. John Buckeridge, D.D., Bishop of Rochester.
1631. Francis White, D.D., Bishop of Carlisle; then of Norwich.
1638. Matthew Wren, D.D., Bishop of Hereford; thence translated to
Norwich; thence to Ely. Bishop Wren was confined in the Tower for
18 years, in consequence of his firm support of the Royal Authority.
1667. Benjamin Laney, D.D., translated from Peterborough to Lincoln;
thence to Ely. Bishop Laney bequeathed an estate to trustees for
putting out youths as apprentices.
1675. Peter Gunning, D.D., translated from Chichester.
1684. Francis Turner, D.D., translated from Rochester. Bishop Turner
was one of the seven bishops committed to the Tower, and was
deprived, as a non-juror, in 1691. Died 1700.
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