[3] Translated to Ely. [4] Translated from Coventry and Lichfield. [5] Translated to Durham. [6] Translated from Salisbury. [7] Translated to York. [8] Translated from London to Salisbury, and thence to Bath and Wells. [9] Translated to Canterbury. [10] Translated from Exeter. [11] Translated to Durham, thence to Winchester. [12] Translated from Exeter. [13] Translated from Hereford. [14] Deprived for a conspiracy against Pope Leo the Tenth. [15] Held in plurality with York. [16] Exchanged for Durham. [17] Translated from Saint David's. [18] Deprived on the accession of Queen Mary and reappointed to Chichester under Queen Elizabeth. [19] Deprived on the accession of Elizabeth. [20] Father of Francis Godwin the historian, Canon of Wells and afterwards Bishop of Llandaff. [21] Translated to Winchester. [22] Translated from Saint David's. [23] Translated to London and thence to Canterbury. [24] Translated from Rochester. [25] Translated to Winchester. [26] Translated from Peterborough. [27] Translated to Winchester. [28] Deprived for refusing the oaths to William and Mary. [29] Translated from Saint Asaph. [30] Translated from Saint David's. [31] Translated from Gloucester. [32] Translated from Carlisle. [33] Translated from Oxford. [34] Translated from Sodor and Man. [35] Resigned. Died 1870. HISTORY OF THE CATHEDRAL CHURCH OF WELLS. LECTURE I. The subject which I have chosen for this course of lectures is one which must always have an interest beyond all others for us who live in this city and neighbourhood. In every place which boasts of a cathedral church, that cathedral church is commonly the chief object of interest, alike as its present ornament and as the chief centre of its past history. But in Wells the cathedral church and its appurtenances are yet more. Their interest is not only primary, but absorbing. They are not only the chief ornament of the place; they are the place itself. They are not only the centre of the past history of the city; their history is the history of the city. Of our other cities some can trace up a long history as cities independent of their ecclesiastical foundations. Some were the dwelling-places of Kings in days before England became one kingdom. Some have been for ages seats of commerce or manufactures; their history is the history of burghers striving for and obtaining their freedom, a history which repeats in small that same tale of early struggles and later abuses which forms the history of so many greater commonwealths. Others have a long military history; their name at once suggests the memory of battles and sieges, and they can still show walls and castles as the living memorials of the stirring scenes of bygone times. In others even the ecclesiastical pre-eminence of the cathedral church may be disputed by some other ecclesiastical building. The bishoprick and