_Thomas Scrope_, a Carmelite, was Bishop of this see[1] before the close of the pontificate of Eugene IV., who died in 1447. He was remarkable for the practice of almost incredible austerities, and it is especially commemorated of him that he had led an eremitical life for several years before he was summoned to the onerous duties of the episcopate. He subsequently was sent by Pope Eugene as apostolic delegate to the Knights of Rhodes; and Leland adds that "whatever he received out of his revenues or could get from rich persons, he bestowed among the poor, or laid out on pious uses". He resigned his see after his return from Rhodes, and acted as vicar-general of the Bishop of Norwich: he died at a very advanced age in 1491. We next meet with a Bishop of Dromore named _Richard Myssin_, a Carmelite, who on the 29th July, 1457, was advanced to this see, as appears from the Consistorial acts of Pope Callixtus III. (_Biblioth. Carmelit._, ii. 965). He was remarkable for the sanctity of his life, and for his great proficiency in learning. William Egremond was probably his immediate successor, being appointed to the see in 1462, as Herrera and the other Augustine writers attest.[2] The country, however, was so disturbed that this diocese had few attractions for an English bishop; and hence he abandoned it in 1467, and lived for many years as suffragan of the archbishop of York. His monument, erected in the cathedral of York, bore the following inscription:-- "Hic Egremond Will'mus Dromorensis Episcopus olim Marmore pro nitidis tectis utrinque mitris. Pavit oves Cithiso qui sub bis Praesule bino Atque lupi rabiem movit ab Aede trucem. Unguine quot sanxit pueros, quot Presbyterosque Astra nisi scirent, credere nemo valet. Ante prophanus erat locus hic quem dextra beavit Ejus, et hinc pro se dicito quisquis Ave". The next mention we find of this see is in a petition of the Archbishop of Armagh, Octavian de Palatio, addressed to Henry VII. about the year 1487, in which he writes that, "the fruits, rents, and revenues, as well spiritual as temporal (of Dromore), extend not above the sum of L40 of the coin of this your land of Ireland, which is less by one-third than the coin sterling; and that for the expense and poverty of the same, the see is void and desolate, and almost extinct, these twenty winters past and more, insomuch that none will own the said bishoprick or abide thereupon". Nevertheless, in that very year, 1487, George Brann was appointed to this see by Pope Innocent VIII. He had lived for several years in Rome as procurator of the Hospital of the Santo Spirito, and had also proceeded to Ireland to establish a branch house of that institute. He held the see till his translation to Elphin on the 18th of April, 1499.