[A.D. 1721, translated to Rochester 1731.] JOSEPH WILCOCKS. Bishop Wilcocks held the deanery of Westminster with the see of Rochester. The western towers of Westminster Abbey were built during his rule. [A.D. 1731-1733.] ELIAS SYDALL, translated to Gloucester from St. David’s. With Gloucester he held the deanery of Canterbury. [A.D. 1735-1752.] MARTIN BENSON. In 1741 Bishop Benson re-paved the choir of the cathedral, and added pinnacles to the Lady-chapel. [A.D. 1652, translated to Worcester 1759.] JAMES JOHNSON. In 1774 he was killed by a fall from his horse, at Bath. [A.D. 1760-1779.] WILLIAM WARBURTON, whose name is better known than that of any other prelate who has filled the see; and who was not the least remarkable among the men of letters of the eighteenth century. Warburton was the eldest son of an attorney at Newark-upon-Trent, and was born there, Dec. 24, 1691. He was educated at Oakham, in Rutlandshire, and was intended for his father’s profession, which he followed for a short time. He left it for the Church, however, and was in Orders in 1728, when his patron, Sir Robert Sutton, gave him the rectory of Burnt Broughton, in Lincolnshire. Here he remained for some years, and wrote here the first part of his “Divine Legation of Moses,” which procured him an introduction to the Prince of Wales, who made him one of his chaplains. In 1746 he was chosen Preacher at Lincoln’s Inn, and in 1757 became Dean of Bristol. In 1760 he was raised to the see of Gloucester, and died at the palace there, aged 81, June 7, 1779.