[A.D. 1497-1498.] JOHN DE GIGLIIS, a native of Lucca, the Pope’s collector in England. He was already Canon of Wells and Archdeacon of Gloucester. [A.D. 1498-1521.] SILVESTER DE GIGLIIS, nephew of his predecessor, and, like him, Papal collector. [A.D. 1521-1522.] JULIUS DE MEDICIS, uncle of Leo X., afterwards himself Pope Clement VII. He was made “perpetual commendator or administrator of the see of Worcester” by Papal bull, and resigned voluntarily in the following year. [A.D. 1522-1535.] JEROME GHINUCCI, succeeded by papal provision, but probably with the consent of Henry VIII., to whom this last of the Italian bishops of Worcester was of great service. He was employed on many embassies, both to Spain and Italy, and laboured much in both countries to procure from their universities and theologians opinions in favour of the King’s divorce. After Wolsey’s disgrace, however, and the marriage with Anne Boleyn, the Bishop fell into disfavour, and was removed from his see by Act of Parliament in 1535, as “an alien and non-resident.” At the same time Cardinal Campeggio was removed from Salisbury. During this foreign occupation of Worcester the affairs of the see were administered by suffragan bishops, of whom several will be found recorded in Mr. Stubbs’ _Registrum Sacrum Anglicanum_, Appendix V. [A.D. 1535, resigned 1539.] HUGH LATIMER. The life of this most vigorous reformer belongs so completely to the history of his time that only the principal events in it can be mentioned here. Latimer was born at Thurcaston, in Leicestershire. The passage from his sermons in which he describes his father’s condition has been often quoted:--“My father was a yeoman, and had no lands of his own; only he had a farm of three or four pounds a-year at the uttermost, and hereupon he tilled so much as kept half-a-dozen men; he had walk for a hundred sheep, and my mother milked thirty kine. He was able and did find the king an harness with himself and his horse, whilst he came unto the place that he should receive the king’s wages. I can remember I buckled his harness when he went to Blackheath field. He kept me to school, or else I had not been able to have preached before the King’s Majesty now. He married my sisters with five pounds, or twenty nobles, a-piece; so that he brought them up in godliness and fear of God. He kept hospitality for his poor neighbours, and some alms he gave to the poor; and all this did he of the same farm where he that now hath it payeth sixteen pounds by the year or more, and is not able to do anything for his prince, for himself, nor for his children, or give a cup of drink to the poor.”