Bishop of Rochester was not consecrated till A.D. 1058, and died not till 1075. But Siward the Chorepiscopus was consecrated A.D. 1043, and died Oct. 30, A.D. 1050, which was eight years before the consecration of the other Siward. Therefore these must be two different persons, and could not be the same as Malmsbury asserts. Nor does what he says of his ingratitude to Edsius, and his removal thereupon from his coadjutorship seem more probable. For though this Chorepiscopus died at his abbey of Abbindon, yet he continued at Canterbury to officiate for Edsius till his last sickness, and then was carried to his abbey about two months before his death. And the day of his death is registered by the monks of Canterbury in the same obituals where the days of the deaths of the archbishops are recorded. 3 Cal. Novemb. obijt Sywardus Episcopus.

1061. 2. Godwinus was Bishop of St Martin's in the suburbs of Canterbury1, where it is said that there was a succession of Chorepiscopi for 399 years, even from the time of Theodorus, the sixth Archbishop of Canterbury from Augustine, to the time of Archbishop Lanfranc, which was immediately after the Conquest. "For," (says the Consuetudinary of the Church of Rochester) "before the Norman Conquest the Church of Canterbury were wont to have Chorepiscopi dwelling at St Martin's, very poorly endowed with a small piece of ground lying near it, for food and raiment, whose bodies were there also buried, as their sepulchres still remaining do manifestly testify. These supplied the place of the archbishops while they were absent, and consecrated the sacraments of the Church. The last of which dying in the time of Lanfranc, that 1 Angl. Sacr. Vol. I. pp. 390, 798.

magnanimous prelate, desiring to provide himself of a vicar or substitute that should make a better figure, agreed with Gundulphus, Bishop of Rochester, that he should take the office on himself." But of all the Bishops of St Martin, Mr Wharton tells us, he could find the name of this Godwin only. The Saxon Annals of Peterburgh say that he died An. 1061. And in the obituary of St Augustine's, Canterbury, his death is thus registered, 7 Id. Martij obijt Godwinus Episcopus S. Martini.

1121. 3. William de Campellis, who was styled Episcopus Catalawensis', died Feb. 19, A.D. 1121, having about eight years before his death taken upon him the monastical habit, as Simon Dunelmensis tells us.

1139. 4. Audoenus was brother to Turstin, Archbishop of York, and had the title of Episcopus Eboracensis, being as we may reasonably suppose, Suffragan or Coadjutor to his brother, who designed to resign his archiepiscopal See to him, and to retire from the world. But before he could effect his purpose, Audoenus died, having first taken upon him the habit of a canon regular at Meretum, where he was buried A.D. 1139.

1217. 5. John, who had the title of Episcopus Archfertensis, found a great deal of employment in the abbey

1 Decem Script. col. 243, line 13.

2 Mat. Par. Vit. Abbat. S. Alban. p. 122. He is called Hertfortensis by Mat. Par. Hist. Ann. 1237, p. 439, 1. 56, and Hertfertensis, ibid. p. 742, 1. 50, obijt apud Stum Albanum 2o idus Oct. An. 1245, ibid. p. 690, 1. 20. Mat. Par. also speaks of other bishops of Hereford during this John's living at St Albans.

1245, Ob. Johannes Hertfertensis Episcopus. He is sometimes written Archferdensis, Harefordensis and Herefordensis. He frequently consecrated the Chrism and Altars in the Church of St Albans, where he lived about 30 years; and was a great benefactor to the Monastery. He was a foreign Bishop deprived of his See, and for that reason I suppose retired to that House. See Mat. Paris, p. 626, 1. 46, and Watts' Adversaria, on the place.

of St Albans, about the year 1217 and after. Dr Watts tells us, that in Spelman's MS. he is styled Episcopus Ardfortensis, and that in the Cotton MS. it is written Harefordensis, from which I should have concluded that he was Bishop of Hereford, but that I cannot find there was any bishop of that See named John before the time of John Breton, the great lawyer, who was not consecrated till 50 years after, viz. An. 1268. And from the year 1216 to 1235, during which time William, the Abbot of St Albans (who procured this John Archfortensis to perform episcopal functions within his monastery), governed that house, the See of Hereford was possessed by Hugh de Massenose, Hugh Foliot, and Radulph de Maydestone. The reason why I place this titular bishop as flourishing in the year 1217 (although Matthew Paris, from whom I have my account of him, does not mention in what particular years he exercised his functions amongst them), is, because it appears from that author, that he was there, and consecrated an Altar of the Holy Cross before that Abbot William had been at Worcester to see the translation of the body of St Wulstan', which the Annals of Worcester teach us was in the year 1218. Afterwards he consecrated another altar there to the honour of the Virgin Mary, and a bell called St Mary, and an image of the Virgin. He likewise consecrated the chapel of St Cuthbert, the church of Amphibalus, and several other churches within the jurisdiction of the Abbot of St Albans. It is probable that he was a monk of that house, for most of the titular bishops or suffragans before the Reformation, were, as I find, of the regular clergy.

1 Angl. Sacr. Vol. I. pp. 483, 484.

1240. 6. John, Suffragan to St Edmund, Archbishop of Canterbury', dedicated an altar to the blessed Virgin Mary, in the Chapel of the Hospital at Rochester, the last day of February, A.D. 1240. And gave an indulgence of 15 days to all that visited the altar on the anniversary of its dedication. What title this John had does not appear, nor any thing more of him that I can find.

1287. 7. Gilbert of Norwich was a white friar or Carmelite, in the house belonging to that order in Norwich, and was a Suffragan Bishop of that diocese, by the title of Episcopus Hamensis. In the obituary of that convent his death is thus registered, Frater Gilbertus de Norwico Episcopus Hamensis. Obijt Anno Dom. 1287, 9 die Octobris.

1332. 8. Peter, Suffragan to Stephen de Gravesend, Bishop of London, was styled Episcopus Corbanensis or Corbariensis and died Jan. 19, 1332. "He was," says Adam Murimuth3, "an exceeding good man of an excellent life and conversation. He supplied the place of many Bishops in the province of Canterbury, in conferring orders, dedicating churches, and all other matters belonging to the Episcopal function." Thorn tells us that this Hungarian Bishop, as he calls him, consecrated several altars in the monastery of St Augustine in Canterbury, A.D. 1325, as Vicar to Walter, Archbishop of Canterbury, by virtue of a general commission granted to him for that purpose. He styles him Petrus Carboniensis Episcopus. Mr Wharton

1 Angl. Sacr. Vol. I. p. 349.

2 Wever, Fun. Mon. p. 806.

3

1332, ob. Whart. de Episcop. Lond. p. 124, Decem Script. col. 2038, 1. 65.

promised to say more of him in his book De Chorepiscopis Angliæ, which it seems he intended to have published if it had pleased God to have granted him a longer life. He says also that he had collected almost a continued succession of Chorepiscopi in every Diocese; and no less than twenty-eight in the Diocese of London (of which this Peter was the second) between the years 1312 and 1540, i. e. in the space of 228 years, which, if they followed one another in a continued succession will allow little more than eight years to each Chorepiscopus. But it is probable there were two or perhaps more Chorepiscopi at the same time in that Diocese.

1361. 9. John Paschal1, Doctor of Divinity, a Carmelite of Ipswich, was a gentleman born in Suffolk of a family there remaining when Bishop Godwin wrote. He was educated in the University of Cambridge, and became Suffragan to William Bateman, Bishop of Norwich, by the title of Episcopus Scutariensis2. Now William Bateman came into that See A. D. 1343, and Paschal was made Bishop of Llandaff A. D. 1347. Therefore he must have been consecrated Titular Bishop sometime between those years. He was a man of great learning for those times, and left divers monuments thereof in writing behind him. He died A. D. 1361, and was buried at Llandaff.

1400. 10. William Bottlesham, as Mr Strype says, was in the Convocation House in London when that assembly was summoned against the Wicklivites, A.D. 1382,

Godw. Catal. of Bps. of England, edit. 1601, p. 427. Angl. Sacr. Vol. I. p. 414.

2 Godw. Cat. p. 531.

3 Memor. of Abp. Cran. p. 36; Append. p. 299. Godw. Cat. of Bps. of Eng. edit. 1601, pp. 400, 427. Angl. Sacr. Vol. I. p. 379.