[A.D. 1554-1559.] RICHARD PATES, said to have been consecrated Bishop of Worcester in 1534, after the deprivation of Ghinucci, and to have been then removed to make way for Latimer. The proofs of this, however, are not evident, although Godwin asserts that Pates was present at the Council of Trent, and there signed himself Bishop of Worcester. He was, at any rate, placed in full possession of the see on the translation of Bishop Heath to York in 1554. On Elizabeth’s accession he was deprived, and died at Louvain after a life of some vicissitude. The dates already given shew that five ex-bishops of Worcester, Pates, Latimer, Bell, Heath, and Hooper, were living at the same time. [A.D. 1559, translated to London 1570.] EDWIN SANDYS, President of Catherine Hall, Cambridge. [A.D. 1571-1576.] NICOLAS BULLINGHAM, translated from Lincoln. [A.D. 1577, translated to Canterbury 1583.] JOHN WHITGIFT. (See CANTERBURY, Pt. II.) [A.D. 1584-1591.] EDMUND FREKE, translated from Norwich. [A.D. 1593, translated to London 1595.] RICHARD FLETCHER, translated from Bristol. (See that Cathedral, Pt. II.) [A.D. 1596, translated to Winchester 1597.] THOMAS BILSON. (See WINCHESTER, Pt. II.) [A.D. 1597-1610.] GERVAS BABINGTON, translated from Exeter. [A.D. 1610-1616.] HENRY PARRY, translated from Gloucester. [A.D. 1616-1641.] JOHN THORNBOROUGH, translated from Bristol. (See that Cathedral, Pt. II.) [A.D. 1641-1650.] JOHN PRIDEAUX, was born at Stowford, in the parish of Harford, in Devonshire. His family, although entitled to bear the arms of Prideaux, was in poor circumstances; and the future Bishop became a candidate for the place of parish clerk at Ugborough, and was disappointed. A friend sent him to school for a short time; and he then travelled on foot to Oxford, where he was employed in the kitchen of Exeter College. In 1596, when his abilities had become known, he was admitted a member of the college, of which he eventually became Rector. In 1615 he was made Regius Professor of Divinity, and in 1641 became Bishop. “If I could have been clerk of Ugborough,” he used often to say, “I had never been Bishop of Worcester.” Bishop Prideaux was an unflinching Royalist, and excommunicated all in his diocese who took up arms against the King. He was of course severely treated in his turn; his palace was plundered, and he was obliged to sell his library as a last means of support. He died at Bredon, in Worcestershire, in 1650, in the house of his son-in-law, Dr. Sutton. An elegy on his death will be found among the works of the Cavalier poet Cleveland. A full account of Bishop Prideaux, with some interesting local anecdotes, is given by Prince in his “Worthies of Devon.”